S1E1: Gabby Gooses

It starts with a laugh and a question you’ve probably never said out loud: why do bookstores make so many people need the bathroom? From there we spiral—joyfully—into the strange science of scent, comfort, and memory, and how places like Barnes & Noble and Tandy Leather flip switches in our bodies and brains. The smells we love aren’t just nice; they rewire how we feel and what we do.

We also ride the high of a life-changing Sleep Token concert and map out a plan to catch Ghost on tour, nerding out about stagecraft, setlists, and the quiet details that make a show feel like a ritual. Music becomes family language too: kids rename tracks (“the arm song”), parents negotiate what’s kid-safe, and we revisit the wild soundtrack of early 2000s school dances. It’s funny, nostalgic, and a little revealing about how taste is taught, not just found.

On the craft side, leatherworking is booming, and the smell alone could be a therapy session. We talk custom orders, the comfort of making, and why a simple cord keeper can become a fidget talisman. Then we dig into focus: Kraken Intense Focus as a jitter-free nudge and the Legion community that surprised us with how warm and non-toxic it is. Cosplay threads, gamers, creators—the kind of Discord that actually feels like a living room.

We wrap with what’s next: dragons, holiday lore weird enough to deserve a spotlight, a Christmas movie hill we’re ready to die on, food hot takes that may start wars, and the dad episode we’re both terrified and thrilled to record. New episodes now drop on Wednesdays, and the goose energy is officially honking. If you laughed, learned something, or felt seen, share this with a friend who needs a smart, silly listen. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us your strangest store-trigger story—we’ll read the best ones on the show.

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open: The Bookstore Bathroom Mystery
• 1:32 Disclaimer And Recording Reset
• 2:22 New Studio Name And Vibes
• 4:15 Mic Sensitivity And Sound Gags
• 7:18 Doritos, Jake, And Nine-And-Three-Quarters
• 9:09 Sleep Token Concert Afterglow
• 13:33 Stage Design, Black Panther Vibes
• 16:20 Ghost Tour Plans And Setlist Dreams
• 20:30 Kids, Music Associations, And Timing
• 24:05 Pop Lyrics, Misread Meanings, And School Dances
• 28:20 Leatherworking Boom And Smell Comfort
• 32:40 Store Scents And The Barnes & Noble Effect
• 36:10 TJ Maxx Urgency And Odd Bookstores
• 39:15 Daytime Recording And Leaf Blowers
• 40:50 Upcoming Topics: Dragons And Holiday Lore
• 44:10 Princess Bride Devotion And Future Guests
• 47:32 Food Hot Takes And Krampus Plans
• 49:20 The Dad Episode And Conspiracy Bait
• 52:00 Peanuts At Texas Roadhouse Joy
• 54:10 Kraken, Focus Shots, And The Legion
• 59:20 Non-Toxic Community And Real Results
• 1:02:30 Promos, New Products, And Joining Up
• 1:05:20 New Release Day And Support Ask

Transcript

SPEAKER_03: 0:00

There's the there's an actual study, like it there's something about those stores. I don't know if it's the smell of the books, so you're you feel relaxed, but your system relaxes to the point where you're like, mm, I gotta find a bathroom.

SPEAKER_01: 0:14

Okay, as soon as we're done with this recording, I'm immediately going online and I'm finding the crackpot conspiracies on that. Because if there's actual studies that are being done, like why does this happen? Also, I was like, there is some crackpot out there. It's just like the government's turning the frogs gay and making you shit yourself in the bookstore. Like, I need to find that. I need to find Alex Jones' take on why you have to piss every time you go into a bookstore. I need to absolutely need that.

SPEAKER_03: 0:41

I I should I should clarify, it's not necessarily you have to pee, it's you have to poop. It's very specific.

SPEAKER_01: 0:50

Even better! That's even better. That's so much funnier. I don't know why making someone poop is funny than making someone have to pee, but it is funnier. And I need to see Alex Jones losing his fucking mind off of why Barnes Noble, why the nonfiction section moves your bowels like you sing bolt. I need to see this. I need to see this in my life. Cause that's that's completely ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03: 1:31

Before we begin today's episode, we would like to share a quick disclaimer. The views, opinions, and statements expressed by the hosts and guests on this podcast are their own personal views and are provided in their own capacity. All content is editorial, opinion-based, and intended for entertainment purposes only. Listener discretion is advised.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_03: 2:01

All right, we we're recording now.

SPEAKER_01: 2:03

We are recording now. That's how that happens when you push a little button and there's a little red dot there.

SPEAKER_03: 2:09

It's been a while. It's been a while. Hey, uh, guess what? Huh. Right. We are officially recording under the silly goose studio.

SPEAKER_01: 2:30

I think it should be crazy Cobra Chicken, but Silly Goose also works.

SPEAKER_03: 2:34

Well, we're stuck with the name. We can't change it now.

SPEAKER_01: 2:38

I think I am the one who came up with Silly Goose, aren't I?

SPEAKER_03: 2:43

I don't know. I think it kind of morphed. It was. God, we came up with so many different names.

SPEAKER_01: 2:50

I'm kind of upset. Listen, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I reg regret the goose's is or the silly goose, also the kind of fun shit and whatnot. But I'm a little upset we couldn't get junk drawer, because that's kind of what it is. It's just like a fucking, you know?

SPEAKER_03: 3:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 3:05

Because like that's kind of what it is. It's whatever the fu whatever the hell is in there, whatever's left over, is just I don't know where to put it, just throw it in a fucking drawer. That's us.

SPEAKER_03: 3:15

Yeah, and I can't remember. I think that was already taken, and it didn't score high on whatever little I don't know, metric thing that I ran.

SPEAKER_01: 3:28

My SAT scores got it.

SPEAKER_03: 3:33

So how does it feel to be in our new skin? Our new our new goose suits.

SPEAKER_01: 3:39

Goose suits? How's it going? Uh would would you um would you prefer a lie or the truth?

SPEAKER_03: 3:45

It doesn't feel any different.

SPEAKER_01: 3:50

Emotionally, it feels uh it it genuinely does feel um I don't know, bet I don't want to just so just you know give a fucking bullshit strawberry pop-tart answer that it feels better. But kind of like what we talked about before, I feel more a part of this now. Like this is this is mine, I would say. As to where the other one was like yours and theirs, this is mine. So there is a little bit of a of a there is a genuine um emotional difference. Yeah, physically, um, I'm about three-quarters of the way through my big ass drunk coffee, so Papa got a poo. Cut that out.

SPEAKER_03: 4:36

There is no farting into the mic.

SPEAKER_01: 4:38

No, there's not.

SPEAKER_03: 4:39

No, there's nothing these microphones are way too sensitive for that.

SPEAKER_01: 4:42

Yeah, no. I don't, by the way, that's just a joke. I don't know why I said that.

SPEAKER_03: 4:47

It's just so uh yeah, the the let's talk about the new mics. They are so freaking sensitive.

unknown: 4:56

Only like a lot.

SPEAKER_03: 4:58

Only like a lot. Yeah. So when we first got these mics and we were playing around with them, he do do you do you have do you have the thing near you that you I can go I can go get it.

SPEAKER_01: 5:15

It's like just yeah. Stand by. It's what you do, and we're back.

unknown: 5:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 5:24

So you ready? We were wait, so we were testing the sensitivity of the mics, and he does this sound. Do your sound. And my exact response was, oh, is that a zip tie?

SPEAKER_01: 5:49

Like, instantly. Like, let's just put it this way. It went like this. Let's just let's just pretend right now, right? This sound is not a piece of cheese being opened, but she acted like a fucking retriever, like, ooh, ooh, go find a car, get some snacks. Like, that was the energy she brought to was that a zip tie? And I'm like, for the love of Christ, start seeing another therapist. For the love of God. Up your meds and get another therapist.

SPEAKER_03: 6:22

It was it do you want to tell them what it is?

SPEAKER_01: 6:27

It is um a uh the thing where it's a comb. It's a it's a hairbrush. It's a comb, comb, it's a comb, not a brush.

SPEAKER_03: 6:34

The the teeth of a comb.

SPEAKER_01: 6:36

Yes. See? There you go.

SPEAKER_03: 6:44

I swear it sounds just like a zip tie.

SPEAKER_01: 6:46

I a little bit. Through the microphone, I you know, because I hear everything through the headphones as we're doing this, and it sounds very different, very sensitive. So yeah. I uh I get that.

SPEAKER_03: 6:57

Yeah. And I have to be very careful with my water bottle now.

SPEAKER_02: 7:02

Oh fucking water bottle.

SPEAKER_01: 7:05

Yeah, because it sounds like yeah, you're one of those fucking people, like, don't get me wrong, I get it. I get it, I fucking get it. Yeah, save space in your garbage can and all this other bullshit. But you can't just like put the fucking water bottle down and crush it up when we're not recording? Like, what the fuck? Like, oh my gosh. Shoutouts to Jake on this one. But it's like, all right, guys, let's play video games. Okay, cool. Let me get my fucking Doritos. Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. And then not only that, but it's Doritos too, so now he's like in here with the microphone and just fucking chowing. And I'm like, bro, Jake, I'm gonna cut the rest of your fingers off. Swear to God. For those of you who don't know, my friend Jake is not the brightest sandwich at the picnic. Um and uh the snowblower was clogged one year, so he decided to stick his hand down there to unclog not all of his finger, just the tip of his pinky. So now we joke because they're big Harry Potter fans in this family. Um they joke that nine and three-quarters, they call him. There is, I don't care what anyone says, the greatest picture in existence. They took a family trip down to Harry Potter World. He is at platform nine and three-quarters. He is standing under the sign and he has his hands up with just this doofy face ever. Oh, that's awesome. It is the greatest picture that exists. Because my buddy, I it's just because he just has that, like I said, he just has that hoo-yuck kind of face. Like as he's standing under with his nine and three-quarters fingers. I love it. I fucking love it so much.

SPEAKER_03: 8:51

That's awesome. That's awesome. Um, you know, one thing, just very briefly, that we never talked about. And it was like the biggest thing that's happened to me all year. Can we talk for like five minutes about this?

SPEAKER_01: 9:14

I'll talk for as long as you want to talk about whatever.

SPEAKER_03: 9:17

The sleep token concert.

SPEAKER_01: 9:19

Yeah, yeah, go for it.

SPEAKER_03: 9:22

Oh my god. I'm telling you, Kyle, I've been to some concerts. That was the most amazing experience I've ever had in my entire life. Like, there's like, you know, the birth of my daughter, and then that concert for me.

SPEAKER_01: 9:46

I can no, I I could definitely see that.

SPEAKER_03: 9:48

It was, it was so oh, and I was so close. So we were on the side of the stage we were on, um, I was so close to two. So close. Like I don't I don't I'm really bad at measurements. I don't know how many yards or feet away from him, but I could s I could see every little movement that he was doing. And you know that I'm obsessed with his drumming. It was right, rightfully so. It was it was just so good. So good.

SPEAKER_01: 10:27

Their stage setup is a little bit different. They're not like your traditional band that has just the drummer dead center. Like he's off to the side.

SPEAKER_03: 10:34

He's off to the side up in like this like elevated, like little grotto.

SPEAKER_01: 10:40

Um like what is it? It's like a rock wall kind of thing that looks right. So it's like Yeah. So it's like, I know I I know I I'll probably have one friend who'll get upset with me for talking about sleep token right now, but we love him anyway. Anywho, their stage setup is like pretty fuck I think that's pretty fucking cool. Like they have like if anyone hasn't seen it, you know what my brain immediately went to when I saw it? I swear to God. In Black Panther, the cave where they have like the ritual of like who can challenge you know, the challenge day.

SPEAKER_03: 11:13

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 11:14

That's literally what it made me think. And so like where they fight is where like Vessel is like singing, like the main floor whatever, and then everyone else was on like the different like levels. Like, that's what I kind of felt like. Like you had the saxophone guy over there, you had the drummer over there, you had the backup singers over there, and also the kind of function. It just it made me think of that, but like really pretty with like lights and shit.

SPEAKER_03: 11:33

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was it was amazing. And shout out to Kylie. I mean, she was like the perfect um concert buddy. I mean, she was I I think the only other person that I probably know of that's like loves them more than me was Kylie. And uh it was it was just great. It was just great. I know we like kind of built it up over the year, but I wanted to just say that it happened and uh history was made. I I left I left there a changed woman.

SPEAKER_01: 12:12

I I just and like I said, still no one is happier for you than I mean, probably you, but still, you know what I mean. I was so excited, so happy that you did get to that you got to go, that the journey, the venture, pilgrimage, whatever funny fucking words you want to use to describe doing it, whatever. I thought it was I I was so fucking happy for you that you got to go and see it all. And the other thing that I really loved too, that I just left was Kylie's concert like attire. Fucking hilarious. Fucking hilarious. Like she posted a picture about it just like it was what was it? It was like uh my my ritual outfit or whatever, and like everyone else in like, you know, it's just like everyone was in like, you know, you guys are like sending pictures and showing this one and like videos and clips. There's this personal, you know, like a typical concert. All black, all black, all black, fishnets, all black, all black, dressed like the band. There's people with like fucking, you know, I always forget the name of it, but the fucking shoulder armor, kind of like what he wears and cloaks and masks and stuff. And then she's in like, she looks like she's like a backup from like lollipop chainsaw with like her hair and fucking pigtails, a fucking skirt, and like white and like pastel pink, and like all this other shit. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03: 13:26

Her shirt was like strawberry shortcake.

SPEAKER_01: 13:28

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, something like that. It was fucking hysterical. It was like that honestly, the two of you guys sitting next to each other, it makes me think of like that meme where it's like that all black house and then like that purple and pink house where it was just like my music taste, also my music taste, or it's you know what I mean? Like, I just you guys hit the picture if you guys are like, yay, we're going, and I'm just like, this is fucking hysterical. Yeah, it's fucking hysterical. With Wednesday Adams and What the Fuck's Your Name. It's them. That's what I saw. And it was just this is good time.

SPEAKER_03: 14:04

I brought the black cat energy, and she was uh the the colorful golden retriever.

SPEAKER_01: 14:10

No, she was like a parakeet. That's a big difference. She's a fucking parakeet. She's a parrot.

SPEAKER_03: 14:16

Oh gosh. But like she so she got to the hotel. She, you know, her flight came in uh super early, and so I was, you know, late getting there. And and uh, but it was just like, you know, I knocked on the door, and uh she just opened the door and it was like immediately like we'd known each other for a hundred years, big old hugs, like there was no awkwardness, no like it didn't feel like I was meeting her for the first time. It it really felt like I was meeting an old friend, like seeing an old friend again. It was it was like the it was just the best. She's a sweetheart.

SPEAKER_01: 14:59

She's a fucking sweetheart. We love her.

SPEAKER_03: 15:00

Yeah, yeah, we do. But uh yeah, so that's kind of how I'm ending the year.

SPEAKER_01: 15:09

What a way.

SPEAKER_03: 15:11

What a way.

SPEAKER_01: 15:14

No, that's that's yeah, that that's dude. I'm so yeah. Even you just bring it up, and I'm just I still just like, you know. Whatever. Just think about like, yeah, like it's how happy I was for you, excited for you, because like, man, let me tell y'all, that was a fuck that was a journey itself.

SPEAKER_03: 15:33

Oof. But I digress. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01: 15:39

And now we have to do now we have to do what we can, because another band that is very beloved to us, yes, a bit more beloved, a bit more beloved to I enjoy this band more than Sleep Token. Don't get me wrong, I like Sleep Token, I enjoy them so on and so forth. But fucking Ghost is going back out.

SPEAKER_02: 15:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 16:01

I fucking love ghosts so much. Yeah. They're not coming to they're not coming to my state. I don't think they're not going to your state either.

SPEAKER_03: 16:09

So we gotta try to so there's a couple of little drive from you and a two-hour drive from me.

SPEAKER_01: 16:20

That's true. Uh yeah, no. Uh I would fucking love to see. I I haven't seen I saw uh Ghost a while ago. Long time ago, when they headlined Mayhem Fest. It was the one and only time I saw them. Many moons ago. And uh I I want to say, I keep forgetting the names of some of their albums. Please don't yell at me. Um, but it was the album when they um with uh Cerise is on it. So that's we're talking uh fucking um Cerise. He is um it's probably my favorite album. I think Mummy Dust is on that one. It's fucking great. I love that album.

SPEAKER_03: 17:08

I'm telling you, like talk about uh a spiritual experience. If I ever got to see them play Cerise live, that would be that would be a spiritual experience for sure.

SPEAKER_01: 17:22

I'm I'm pretty sure, don't quote me on this one, but I'm pretty sure that song is on there never goes away. Like, you know, the every Everyone knows when there's like a new album that comes out, yeah, you gotta play a bunch of stuff off the new album, but then you know you play the songs that everyone wants to hear. I'm pretty sure that's one of like the four that they will always play. I don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure. Because I want to say they always play the same. Like, whenever you go to see Ghost until you till the end of time, you're going to get um. I want to say they've been ending the show the same way every single time since they had these songs. They do um I think it's like Mummy Dust, Kiss the Goat, Dance Macabre, Square Hammer. Like those are the last four songs of the night for like a long time, I want to say. At least the past like three or four tours. Um and you know, and then they change a couple of them, and you're always gonna get Mariana Cross now because that song, that song I feel is the reason why they are so known and they blew up over the because one person got a hold of that song on TikTok and they just ghost was fucking everywhere.

SPEAKER_03: 18:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 18:37

Everywhere.

SPEAKER_03: 18:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 18:39

Don't get me wrong. I fucking love that song. Uh, but it's like, yeah, it just that's all you gotta do. You just gotta get on one trendy TikTok and then everything. Anywho, um Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 18:53

So yeah, I'm still uh scheming and planning and keeping my fingers crossed that uh something will work out.

SPEAKER_01: 19:03

Yeah, yeah, no. A buddy of mine's a really, really big fan of the band, and I've been talking with him about it. He goes, like, hey, if you own, you know, you want to go to this one, you want to go to that one? And I was just like, bro, you pay for me to go there, and I'm that's the problem. It's not getting there. He was like, I can get us tickets and so on and so forth. So I know that like there's a high possibility that the ticket isn't the problem. It's just the getting there. Because like shit costs money, and well, you don't got any. It's hard to do shit. It's hard to do shit. Right. And when you have and when you have two kids, you gotta make sure taken care of.

SPEAKER_03: 19:39

Right.

unknown: 19:39

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 19:40

But honestly, that's that's honestly that's the easy part. The kid, believe it or not, the kids are the easy part in this equation.

SPEAKER_03: 19:47

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 19:48

Which is wild to me. But we'll find out in the case.

SPEAKER_03: 19:53

I love the fact that uh your your little one that's you know, can can uh you know, amble around and speak, um loves uh ghost and sleep token.

SPEAKER_01: 20:12

It's just music in general. I think it's really cute because it's like she can associate certain things with certain songs and whatnot. I think we talked about it uh I think it was the other one of the episodes or maybe one of my lives or something like that one. But when she says certain things, once the first time she hit me with this one, she comes running over to me, she goes, Papa, pop, I want to listen to the arm song. It's like the arm song. So I'm gonna listen to the arm song. I was like, What? Oh, okay, yeah. So I put like on the hokey pokey, you know, you put your arm in, your arm out. I was like, oh my gosh, she's like, no, the arm song. I was like, yeah, your arm in. I saw like a skip ahead of the part. She goes, no. And then she just starts going, um around me. Um she just starts hugging herself and like bopping around, and I'm like, oh my god, she wants me to put on sleep token. Okay, absolutely. So let's do that one. And then um perfect. So she did that, that was one of them. Um when she's when she says she wants to listen to music, she says she wants to dance, and she put on her dancing shoes. And I put on my dancing shoes. When she says she put on her dancing shoes, she wants to listen to Dance McCabre.

SPEAKER_03: 21:22

Oh cool.

SPEAKER_01: 21:23

Because they released like the the whatcha call it of um the audio for their uh for the movie, or the movie action might be released now too, but right here, right now, released their like live video. They did like their performance video that they did. And I think I think it's that one, but it's one of their live versions of that song. It's like my favorite version of that song. And so if I go to play it, I play that one. And Papari Mertos, he has a uh he has a little intro that he does. He uh you know he's getting the crowd going and goes like he says something along the lines of like, Did you bring your dancing shoes? I hope you have your dancing something about dancing shoes, right? And then they start playing the fucking song, right? And she loves it, and it's just like if you don't know the song, it's one of the catchiest fucking boppy songs ever. And she'll start just like jumping around and dancing, also the kind of fun shit to that one. I love it. That's great.

SPEAKER_02: 22:14

That's great. I do Crazy Train.

SPEAKER_01: 22:18

I want to listen to Rock and Roll. She wants to listen to Crazy Train. And so on. It just it goes. She has a little, she has specific, like, uh I don't know. She has specific ways of saying she wants to listen to certain songs because she doesn't know the names of the songs yet.

SPEAKER_03: 22:34

Yeah. No, that's I I love it when kids like latch onto something and they have their own title. They have their own it's their own words for whatever song.

SPEAKER_01: 22:47

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The arm song, that was that was peak for me.

SPEAKER_03: 22:51

Yeah. I just hold it.

SPEAKER_01: 22:54

I get worried if there's other songs that she like hears and latches on to. I make sure there are there are right now because she is at that age, I'm starting to be very, very careful. I mean, I have been for a while, but now I'm very careful with like certain, you know, you know, obviously with like certain things that like you know, like I watch around here and we do and we say and we listen to. I'm definitely the I'm definitely the type of person who's like, there's no such thing as bad words, just weak people. Yeah. So you know, there there's certain levels you don't want your, you know, you want your kid to have class. So you don't want them being like gross or whatever and like swearing like crazy, but at the same time though, like I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna fucking punish her if like she trips and she hits her knees and she goes, oh fuck. Like, I'm not gonna punish her for that. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 23:41

Yeah, yeah. They're words, and you're and uh, you know, it's a it's a lesson you have to learn. There are time that there are certain words that are appropriate at certain times, and it's not even just like curse words, it's there's all kinds of words that are appropriate at different times. So it's good, it's a good lesson for him.

SPEAKER_01: 24:02

Exactly. Profanity is like comedy, it's all about the timing.

SPEAKER_03: 24:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 24:07

It's all about the timing and the execution. But um, so like there are certain um I don't give a shit. I'm still watching Lord of the Rings runner. I'm gonna fly fuck. She loves Lord, she loves Lord of the Rings. She loves Lord of the Rings. She really does. She'll say she wants to do that one. And I know I'm probably upsetting a lot of people when I say this one. I think her favorite right now is Desolation of Smog. Because because there's a fucking dragon in it, and to her, a dragon is just a flying dinosaur. So dragons, so she's like, fuck you. She wants to watch the dragon one. She's like, I want to watch Lord of the Rings. Which one? The dragon one. I was like, you know what? Out of those three movies, that one's my favorite, so why not? Anywho. So, yeah, no, she definitely loves Lord of the Rings, and she'll like sit there and she'll just like lock into it for the most part. But um, I I don't know. I can't uh what is it? Like uh like like Rick and Morty. I'm not gonna watch Rick and Morty around her because that's one that's not a kid show, but it's a cartoon, and I don't want her to think, oh, because it's a cartoon, I can watch this, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 25:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 25:09

So shit like that. Um But yeah, no, then there's also some songs say I don't need her latching on to certain, you know. Let's just put it this way. I don't want to listen to songs that I would use in any of my TikToks. I don't want to listen to any of those songs around her too much because I don't need her to latch on to some of those, and you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 25:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 25:28

And yeah. Um like I don't need her trying to come up with with a word, a way to associate with like like provider or something like that.

SPEAKER_03: 25:37

Or like yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 25:40

Papa, let's listen to the mouth song. The what? The mouth song. What southbound? Like, not happening. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like I just no, it's bad stink.

SPEAKER_03: 25:50

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I had a couple of those moments.

SPEAKER_00: 25:59

Do tell.

SPEAKER_03: 26:00

Oh, uh, well, I was trying to think of the name of the song. It was a Britney Spears song, and I think it I'm trying to remember what album it was. Um was it a circus album or something? Uh there was a song on there, something like Leather and Lace. Something like that. And yeah, Maddie latched onto that, and she would get in the car, and she would be sometimes it was the George Monkey music, which which was the soundtrack to um the I think it was like the live action Curious George.

SPEAKER_02: 26:40

Uh-huh. Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 26:41

Um, you know, Jack Johnson did that whole and then like anything Jack Johnson, yeah. It's kid friendly, you know, whatever. It's like raffy. And then uh then she would she would ask for the the I'm trying to think remember what she called it. Um she may have called it like the the leather leather song or something. And I was like, oh shit. Yeah, played that one. Like, and then I think I only played it like once, maybe twice or something, but she latched on to that song. She she I mean, you know, just sometimes catchy song, but yeah, so that's the thing.

SPEAKER_01: 27:22

They make it catchy, and I was just like, you know, it shit's gonna catch on, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03: 27:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 27:28

And uh that's that's pretty fucking funny. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. What was the um oh shit? There was uh what was I gonna say? Oh, that's what it was, yeah. It was like associating and things like that. It's just I love how there's like you know, there was that wave of like the late 90s into like the early 2000s, or maybe it's just when I can remember it, because obviously music is all there's always been songs that have um different meanings and whatnot. Not every song is like not every song is like Freak Alique by Petey Papa, where it's just in your fucking face, like what the fuck the song's about. Right.

SPEAKER_03: 28:11

You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 28:13

So like, and yeah, then there's uh fuck, even Made for Loving You by Kiss. That's very in your face what that song's about, you know?

SPEAKER_03: 28:20

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 28:21

There's plenty of them. It was like, oh, the you know, I was like, oh, this song's about this. It's like actually no, it's about getting, you know, it's like, oh, this song's about like overcoming obstacles. And I was like, no, this one's about coming over obstacles and getting fucking railed, but close, you know what I mean? Not every song is like that, but I feel like in the late 90s until like maybe like 2000, like two, 2003, there was just so many of them, and it was like so many like pop stars like Britney Spears and Christine Aguilera and Yada Yada. So it got so like the pop music of the day, I feel got that really bad stigma that it's just filth and trash and it's all about sex and whatever, and things like that one. Cause I'll never forget this. It was so fucking funny that I don't even remember who the hell it was that did this. I can't remember the rapper that did the song, but there was the song Do Ya Chain Hang Low. Because once again, from like the 2000s to the 2010s, yeah, that was you know, hip-hop evolved, music evolved, music changes, hip-hop evolves, hip-hop changes, you know. So there was like there was gangster rap in like the 90s, and it was just like hardcore and it was violent, and like fuck the police and straight out of Compton and so on and so forth, right? And then there was then we kind of transitioned to that, then it was transitioning to like exactly. Then we had things like um Candy Shop, Magic Stick, PMP. Then we had a lot of sexually charged, yet anything by Pretty Ricky. So, and then there was the then there was rap music about like just being. Rich and just like bawling the fuck out, like having like millions and millions of dollars and buying cars and popping bottles, all this other fun stuff, and about your jewelry that you had and shit. So this song was legit about this dude. Like that was the that was the thing, that was the trend, that was the fad, that was the style. Dudes were in like 2XL, even though they were like a men's medium. They were in a 2XL white T extra long. Right? Remember that?

SPEAKER_03: 30:28

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 30:29

Oh fun shit. And long motherfucking chains. Yeah. Long motherfucking chains. Literally, like whatever medallion you had was literally like at your belly button or like your crotch and the chain, all the right. So the dude wrote a song, Do Yo Chain Hang Lout, and it was about his necklaces and his jewelry and whatever. And my parents were like, Stop listening to that bullshit. He's singing about his dick. And we're like, no, he's not. He's singing about his fucking necklace. My dad's like, I'm older than you, I know music. And I'm like, hey dad, listen to the fucking song. He was like, no. And I'm like, I'm gonna keep listening to it. And then like they finally listened to it, and he was just like, the song sucks. It goes, yeah, it does suck, but it's not about his dick. Leave me alone. I was dad's like, oh my. I think I actually had the voice. Like, you really think I'd be listening to songs about dicks? I was like, maybe my brother Ray, but not me. Jesus Christ, man.

SPEAKER_03: 31:25

Oh yeah. God. Early 2000s. It was kind of a wild time for music in general.

SPEAKER_01: 31:32

It was just a wild time for life. I all I gotta say is that's fun. I was in middle school. Middle school. You know? Like, like you're still like like a little kid? Like a little kid, like a little little little preteen, big teenager kind of stuff. School dances, and they are blasting the most wild. Like I'm talking little John and the East Side Boys.

SPEAKER_02: 31:58

Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 32:00

So we're talking uh Ghetlow, Let's Go, Freak a League, Grind On Me, uh Hotline, um, you just name it. You just like the filthiest songs ever. They're playing at fucking middle school middle school dances.

SPEAKER_03: 32:18

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01: 32:18

See, I I was never allowed to go to the Missy Elliott, work it, blasting like a motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03: 32:25

See, I missed all that. I was never allowed to go to a school dance.

SPEAKER_01: 32:28

Exactly. And now look at the two of us. Look at you and your life, look at me and my life. I went to public school and dances. I went to public school and school dances.

SPEAKER_03: 32:40

I went to public school, but grew up in a cult. Yeah. Exactly. Oh shit. So uh transition a little bit. You've been um you've been busy with your uh your your leather working is taking off. So fucking busy. Very busy.

SPEAKER_01: 33:04

So fucking busy. The best kind of busy. I don't want to make it sound like I'm ungrateful or like whatever, like I'm literally doing this to myself, but so fucking busy. Like, I I don't know what it was. I don't know, maybe I wasn't expecting it to get to take off. Like it did.

SPEAKER_03: 33:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 33:22

Um, I mean it hasn't like blown up, blown up, but like I'm busier than I thought I would be. Like I'm getting more I'm getting more custom orders than um like what I like what I have on my website and like in my stock. Which is great because um I charge more for that. Don't get me wrong, but uh but it's like oof, it's you know, I I wish I almost wish there was a couple of things that would come through that. Okay, I just have to package stuff up and send it out. It goes, no, I have to like make this whole thing.

SPEAKER_03: 33:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 33:58

Which I love doing. I I sound like I'm being an ungrateful shit with first world problems, but no, it's been good.

SPEAKER_03: 34:04

You've done some trade shows, right? You've done a couple of trade shows. You're getting your getting your name out there. Yes, you've got the website up and running. It's exciting. It's exciting to see that kind of start to take off. I knew, I knew it would. I I think I probably had more confidence in you than you did, but oh million, oh million percent.

SPEAKER_01: 34:25

Almost anyone has more confidence in me. Even Debbie Downer has more confidence in me than I do.

SPEAKER_03: 34:30

But like every I know I've I've uh gotten some pieces. Um I got my mom a um a bookmark um to go with her outlander books. Um she loved she loved the um, it was the green um bookmark and it had like the little Celtic symbol and stuff in it.

SPEAKER_02: 34:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 34:52

And uh yeah, like everyone that I talk to is like super, super stoked and loves the quality and yeah, it's good. It's good stuff. Although I have a small confession.

SPEAKER_00: 35:06

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_03: 35:07

So I and I catch myself doing this just like you know how like you'll just randomly like fidget or something, you know, with stuff, and you don't sometimes realize that you're doing it. But that cord keeper that I bought, I have a habit of like flicking that open and then just like smelling the leather. I just need like I need a um I need a bag of your like I don't know, like your cuttings or things that you would normally throw away. I just need like that shredded and like oh the remnants, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the remnants, like a like a leather potpourri.

SPEAKER_00: 35:52

A leather potpourri.

SPEAKER_03: 35:54

Yeah, yeah. There's something about yeah, that that that sm I love that leather smell. It's like I don't know, it's like it's it's like a comfort thing. I don't know. It's it's just a weird, it's like a weird comfort thing.

SPEAKER_01: 36:08

Yeah, something about it. It's not exact, it's just it is one of my favorite um that is one of my favorite parts of the of the craft of the trade, whatever you want to call it. Is it is just an amazing smell. Whenever I have to go to uh Tandy Leather.

SPEAKER_00: 36:25

Shout out to Tandy Leather, one of the motherfucking other.

SPEAKER_01: 36:28

Um whatcha call it? I just I I walk in the door and I just kind of like I you know, uh whatcha, my uh whenever we walk in the door, I was like, all right, what are you looking for? And I'm just kind of standing there in like the door really quick. So he goes, like, do you know what you need to get? So I know what I need to get. I was like, alright, so let's go to it. I was like, no, I know exactly where it is. Just give me a second to smell. I'm just like it really is. Like, could you just walk just picture that? Just walk into a fucking building that's pretty much open, and it just every square inch just smells of leather, and it's fantastic. It's just I fucking love it so much. I love that fucking place.

SPEAKER_03: 37:08

But see, and that's why, like, you know, like it's I get the same feeling when I look like walk into like a a Lowe's.

SPEAKER_01: 37:16

Oh my god, yes, thank you. Like fucking hardware stores, man.

SPEAKER_03: 37:21

Yes, yeah, there's just this smell, and I'm like, oh, this is I also get the the same feeling when I walk into like a staples. There's like office supplies, yeah. Office supply, like, you know, it's like the it's yeah, there's just like and for me, um, even though I'm not a reader or whatever, a bookstore.

SPEAKER_01: 37:43

A bookstore, bring me to Barnes and Noble, I can just stand there and then just smell Barnes and Noble. Like, I'm I'm totally on board with that one. Just books in general, just book smell, old book smell, new book smell.

SPEAKER_03: 37:58

Do you know that there was a uh study? I wish um I wish Scott was here because he knows all about this study. He he told me about this.

SPEAKER_01: 38:07

Um of course he would know about a weird fucking obscure study.

SPEAKER_03: 38:10

Right. So uh with um like bookstores like Barnes and Noble and um you know all these, there is a very specific phenomenon that happens to people when they go into those stores that they have to use the bathroom. There's the there's an actual study, like it there's something about those stores. I don't know if it's the smell of the books, so you're you feel relaxed, but your system relaxes to the point where you're like, I gotta find a bathroom.

SPEAKER_01: 38:46

Okay, as soon as we're done with this recording, I'm immediately going online and I'm finding the crackpot conspiracies on that. Because if there's actual studies that are being done, like why does this happen? Also, I was like, there is some crackpot out there. It's just like the government's turning the frogs gay and making you shit yourself in the bookstore. Like, I need to find that. I need to find Alex Jones' take on why you have to piss every time you go into a bookstore. I need that, I absolutely need that.

SPEAKER_03: 39:13

I I should I should clarify, it's not necessarily you have to pee, it's you have to poop. It's very specific.

SPEAKER_01: 39:21

Even better. That's even better. That's so much funnier. I don't know why making someone poop is funny than making someone have to pee, but it is funnier. And I need to see Alex Jones losing his fucking mind off of why Barnes and Noble, why the nonfiction section moves your bowels like you sing bolt. I need to see this. I need to see this in my life. Because that's that's completely ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03: 39:49

Yeah, and I can't, I swear I think that they have like a name for it, and I cannot think of it. I'll I'll uh I'll I'll get all of uh Scott's research and and forward it to you.

SPEAKER_01: 40:03

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful. I love that's that's that's the type of information that I'm here for. That's the type of like studies, like this is the content that we're after, right? This is the content, this is the silly goose shit I need.

unknown: 40:20

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 40:21

This is what I need. I need very serious and dark events that we make way too many fucking jokes about, and I need studies of why people poop in bookstores. This is my calling, this is why I was born.

SPEAKER_03: 40:36

Yeah. Now, for me, I will say, because Scott and I, we've talked about this quite often um because I have that same effect, uh, not that I have to go poop or anything, but um, but every time I go into like a TJ Maxx, uh-huh, I have to pee every single time. And I have to like make a I walk into the store, you know, mill around, you know, the different sections. I can get through like two sections, and all of a sudden it's like a prairie dog. I like put my head up and I'm like, oh, where's the bathroom? Every single time. And and I think that's like how we got started on this. And he was like, Well, you know, there's a study about Barnes and Noble. Uh, yeah. It's a weird, it's a weird thing what what stores will do to you.

SPEAKER_01: 41:28

We're just gonna leave that at that.

SPEAKER_03: 41:30

And different stores elicit different reactions, different stores, different reactions, different body functions happening.

unknown: 41:40

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 41:41

Different memories of scratchy carpets. Never mind.

SPEAKER_03: 41:44

Yeah, yeah. I I side note, I have recently discovered that there's a very specific bookstore in Weirden that all kinds of interesting things happen at the bookstore. And you can buy like a$12 ticket. It gives you access, like all day access, to this bookstore. To the glory hole? To the to the back rooms, to the theater, to the to the to the glory hole, to the spank banks, to the come on.

unknown: 42:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 42:20

I really had no idea that these things actually existed.

SPEAKER_01: 42:24

Like I'm sorry, do you hear the leaf blower that's happening outside?

SPEAKER_03: 42:26

I do hear the leaf blower, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 42:28

Oh shit. Okay, hold on. I am so sorry for that. I I don't even know how to God damn it.

SPEAKER_03: 42:33

No, it's alright. It yeah, we can probably scrub it out.

SPEAKER_01: 42:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 42:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 42:37

So Did you know those actually existed?

SPEAKER_03: 42:40

No, I had no idea. I had no idea. No idea. And uh yeah, so I have a um I have a a friend who is is gay. And um, so he he tells me about like he's like educating me on like the bathhouses that are in Pittsburgh and like all the like there's like he just came back from Palm Springs and there was like there's like very specific like hotels that cater to like certain things, and I'm like, had no idea. Like I'm I am I am so so like straight and white, had no idea any of this stuff, any of this stuff like actually occurred. Like I thought that was like just in the movies, like an eyes wide shut kind of thing, like that like a movie, but yeah, absolutely not. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. So yeah, um leaf blowers. So so just so people know, we we typically record at night, but like I had the day off today, and you had some extra time this morning, and we were just like, okay, so let's just go ahead and record. So this is kind of like a uh instead of a midnight musing, this is a early morning musing. And uh yeah, you've got you've got yard work going on.

SPEAKER_01: 44:16

Yeah. Yeah. They kind of suck.

SPEAKER_03: 44:22

So maybe somebody will find that to be very ASMR.

SPEAKER_00: 44:27

Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 44:29

Um I know uh a couple things before we go. I know that um we have some things planned. I know we want to we want to talk about dragons.

SPEAKER_01: 44:43

And actual dragons, not dragon D's nuts on your face. Actual dragons.

SPEAKER_03: 44:47

Actual dragons.

SPEAKER_01: 44:49

But let's face it, we probably will be talking about dragon never mind.

SPEAKER_03: 44:54

Um we've got some, we wanna, we wanna bring out some holiday lore. I know one of the things that we're looking for is if you have uh or you either have or you know of any just like weird batshit crazy kind of traditions. Like, you know, the family down the street, like they have this weird tradition where, you know, you know, at midnight, I don't know, at Christmas, they, you know, set a nativity scene on fire. I don't know. You know, they they just do something completely batshit crazy. We want to know about them because we want to talk about it.

SPEAKER_01: 45:36

Yeah, the holiday pickle doesn't count. That's not crazy, that's just yeah, no, no, no. The holiday pickle doesn't count.

SPEAKER_03: 45:42

No. We're talking like just the weirdest holiday tradition you've ever heard of, or that you do. And if you do a weird holiday tradition, we might have you on. We would we would love to have you on to talk about it and dissect it.

SPEAKER_01: 46:02

Yeah, if you're telling me that like if you tell me that like for whatever reason on Thanksgiving, not on Thanksgiving, on Christmas, you guys like sacrifice a goat dressing like the pink bunny suit with like a hammer, you best believe your ass is gonna be on this fucking podcast. Like, if you're dressed like the fucking kid from a Christmas story and you look like Vinny Jones from fucking Midnight Meat Train and you're just fucking cleaving away at a goat, you're yeah, get ready to be on a fucking podcast. Like, I need I have so many questions. I need all of the answers.

SPEAKER_03: 46:30

I know uh one thing that I want to do is uh I want to have an episode where we talk about there's a very specific movie that I will die on a hill, that it's a Christmas movie, so we will debate that. We'll need we'll need to have to talk about that.

SPEAKER_01: 46:49

We'll need to find people who actually have valid reasons against it being a Christmas movie, and they have to be on because we can't because we both have the same opinions on that movie, so we can't, you know, we need to have a little back and forth with somebody.

SPEAKER_03: 47:04

True, true, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 47:07

We're both the same exact way.

SPEAKER_03: 47:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 47:08

We are gonna do another uh there is another episode. I don't even know if I've told you this yet or not. Um, but honestly, because I think I've mentioned it before, but doesn't matter. Um, we are gonna have another lovely special guest on, and we're gonna talk about in her eyes, um I I'm pretty sure she thinks it's the greatest movie ever made, and it's a beloved family timeless classic that just there's so I think what makes what continues to make that movie so great, not just that it it it refuses to die in pop culture, there's always one little breadcrumb of that movie, but then you learn so much more about like the backstories and like the filming of it, and it just makes you love that movie so much fucking more. At least for me it does.

SPEAKER_03: 47:58

Can you can you say the name of the movie?

SPEAKER_01: 48:00

Princess Bride.

SPEAKER_03: 48:03

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 48:05

Yeah, my my one of my closest and bestest and dearest friends in the world. Um, that movie is that movie is her everything. That movie is her sleep token.

SPEAKER_03: 48:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 48:16

Um, and yeah, no, there's just so much about that movie. Like we talk about it all the time. Just we we fucking love that movie so much. Yeah. And same thing, she knows anything and everything, not just like she could probably quote the whole movie from beginning to end, but the little Easter egg behind the scenes kind of almost like she was a part of the um like a part of the actual production.

SPEAKER_03: 48:41

Oh wow. Yeah, we have I I love that movie. It's it's I don't know anyone that doesn't love that movie, actually.

SPEAKER_01: 48:48

I only exactly I only know two people. I know people who have seen that movie and people who haven't seen that movie. Because I can't say people who like it or don't like it, because if you've seen it, you fucking if you don't love the movie, you at least enjoyed yourself. Like you don't not like that movie.

SPEAKER_03: 49:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 49:05

It's it's just great. But like, oh yeah. I'm very excited for that.

SPEAKER_03: 49:09

I mean the R O U S Shah.

SPEAKER_01: 49:20

There's a couple other people, yeah. No, yeah, but we got that, we got those ahead.

SPEAKER_03: 49:24

Um we have to do a food episode because there's some there's some things we need to clear the air on.

SPEAKER_01: 49:31

That one I'm already calling it, I'm calling it um hot cake, hot takes.

SPEAKER_03: 49:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 49:36

That's what we're calling that one.

SPEAKER_03: 49:38

Yeah.

unknown: 49:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 49:39

Gotta clear the air. And we have a guest for that one too.

SPEAKER_03: 49:41

Yeah, we we have some very specific food shit we need to sort out. Uh yeah. And uh, I know I want to talk about Krampus. Clear. Talk about Krampus. We gotta bring the spooky to to the seasons. Um, I really, really, I know we've talked about it. Man, I really want to do a dad episode. We've got to get our dads on.

SPEAKER_01: 50:11

I'm telling you, this is what we do.

SPEAKER_03: 50:13

It has to happen.

SPEAKER_01: 50:14

What we do when we do that, if and when we do that episode, I I'm so serious. I just want to like get them on the mic, you know, it's like, oh yeah, these are our dads, so and so forth. And he goes, and I'm just gonna go the moon landing and then bounce, and then just fucking like run away.

SPEAKER_00: 50:27

Or like the moon, or like the moon landing was fake.

SPEAKER_01: 50:30

And just run for the fucking hills. And just head for the hills.

unknown: 50:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 50:36

And if my dad doesn't immediately chase me with a fucking butcher's knife, maybe he'll stay around and talk about it.

SPEAKER_03: 50:44

Yeah, yeah. No, we it's it's just it just has to happen. It has to happen. I have a feeling like our dads are gonna become friends after that episode, because I I really do.

SPEAKER_01: 50:58

I I really do. It's just so funny. Yeah, I'm telling you, whenever whenever we talk about the dad episode, you mentioned your dad, or whatever dads are brought up, we're having the conversation. I just think of that fucking clip you sent of your dad after Texas Roadhouse with the peanuts. He was like, Oh my god, we made out like freaking bandit. Like it was the sweetest, most purest video. He's got his little accent. He's so happy. I don't think I've ever seen a heterosexual man so happy over so many nuts in his face. Ever. He was so he had like a toy, like an innocent twinkle in his eye. It was we made out like a freaking bandit. It was, I love it. That video lives rent-free in my head. I swear to God.

SPEAKER_03: 51:46

So yeah, we yeah, yeah. He he loves going to that restaurant and getting his little pack of peanuts. And if he can squirrel- My dad too! If he can squirrel away like an extra pack or an extra couple packs, like and and and I will, I, and I will say, there's probably on their kitchen counter, uh, I would say at least six of those bags are just laying there. I love it so much. Yeah. Man is obsessed with his uh peanuts from Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse, yeah. Some people go for the rolls, he goes for the peanuts.

SPEAKER_01: 52:26

He goes for the peanuts. I'm I need to dude, he it was probably a tough time for him, and he probably fell into a little bit of a depression when they took away the barrels and whatever. And now you just got the packs of them. I can I can see the okay.

SPEAKER_03: 52:48

No, so the last thing that I wanted to talk about is something that um I am now involved in. You've been involved in for quite a while. The mafia, yes. The mafia. Um, yeah, just yeah, yeah. So you better listen to us or we're gonna send people. Um, no, the um Hello? It's Joe Fucking Pesci.

SPEAKER_02: 53:16

Anyway.

SPEAKER_03: 53:17

The um, you know, the Kraken and the you know, intense focus and all of that. Um, I just want to talk a little bit about that since, you know, I've been kind of brought in to the fold.

SPEAKER_00: 53:36

One of us.

SPEAKER_03: 53:37

One of us. So, um, and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna put some uh codes and stuff in. Um you'll you'll notice them in the show notes, and um and it it really is. So, Kyle, do you want to talk about the product a little bit and then why? I can tell I can tell why I enjoy the products, but I think it hits you a little differently.

SPEAKER_01: 54:08

Alright, I'll do my best so that Randy doesn't yell at me.

SPEAKER_03: 54:10

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01: 54:11

Well, listen, I can't talk without swearing blood, so fucking deal with it. Legendary supplements, our flagship, uh Yeah, flagship, is that the word we use? Uh product we have is uh Kraken Intense Focus. Think of like a five-hour energy, but kind of like works. So it's not it's not like an energy drink or like an energy supplement. It's not designed to like, you know, give you the super, you know, you're not you're not gonna jitter, there's not an insane amount of caffeine in them. They're literally like they're is they're essentially they're like a shot. They're like one, two ounces, maybe something like that, like little tiny little b bottle boys like that. And I forget the big scientific name, but they're like uh they mess with the nootropics, not mess with, but they trigger the nootropics in your brain. So the nootropics are the little focusing parts of your brain, the little connections and people with all sorts of other PhDs and ADHDs and L C Ds and LSDs and other letters past their name will be able to explain it better. But it's what helps you um focus, pay attention, lock in as we say, whatever you wanna whatever words you wanna use for that one, because clearly I need some because I can't shut the fuck up. Um But what's one thing that dragged me what what's one thing that really dragged me to the company Fuck it. I've told Randy this like a hundred thousand times and he hasn't told me not to say this, so I'm just going to. I'm gonna be honest, when I first heard about the company, I want to say they reached out to me. It was through social media. Um they reached out to me, I reach out to them, it doesn't matter. Um I was just kind of starting getting into like really like using my social media and also the kind of fun stuff, and I was just like, hey, this company, want to be a part of this and do this one? And I was like, cool. Best case scenario, I get a bunch of free shit. Worst case scenario is we don't give out free shit and have a good day. So that's literally wh why the conversation started with them. And there was so much of like I don't want to say like a screening process, but there really was like an interview. Like I met with there was like a video call with like the owner, Randy, and with the other people. And you know, the other people that he had, you know, has running and whatnot. So like you genuinely are like there was so much of like being a part of their community and actually like being a part of their company, not just not just a fucking cog in their machine, not just someone to help them out with this one. They genuinely give a shit. And so the fun the funny thing I'm trying to coin with the company right now is you come for the Kraken, but you stay for the Legion. That's what like the like they're uh that's what it is. It's it's it's the legendary the legendary Legion, I think, is the other um it's the unsung hero of the um of the company. Because the products products sell themselves. They're either gonna sell or they don't. So I don't go super crazy like I promote, you know, I yeah, I talk about it, I promote it, whatever I you know, that I love the products and I use them myself, like I'm a mother, because I feel that they generally do work. But the unsung hero, the reason why I stayed is because of is because of the Legion, is because of the community they have built, brought together of like the uh someone put it together the other someone said it the other day, the uh it's like the child and misfit and toys, but for like streamers, gamers and nerds.

SPEAKER_03: 57:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 57:40

Uh it's like the outcasts and you know, pe you know, these and you know, the go, it's the weird kids, this, it's that, it's the nerd, it's the tabletop gamers, it's the sh like it's the streamers, it's the cosplayers. They all have their place to belong.

unknown: 57:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 57:53

Everyone is seen, everyone's heard, there's nothing. Yeah, I can't I cannot speak high enough of the Legion and the community that they've built.

unknown: 58:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 58:02

I'll stop getting all Sally Sob stories on that one.

SPEAKER_03: 58:05

Um Well, and and I will say, you know, like as somebody that's come into, and I haven't been like super active, I I lurk more than than anything, but I will say that um, and I've been a part of, you know, several Discord communities, and you know, people will often tell you that there's a lot of like toxicity and dysfunction that you find in Discord, right? And so a lot of people like are leery. I will say that the Legion is probably one of the most non-toxic environments I've ever seen. Everyone is so kind and welcoming with each other, encouraging, um, very uplifting. It is it truly is a place where people can find a comfortable um home on the internet for the things that you're into, you know. Um I I love the the sections, you know, people show off their cosplays or talk about, you know, what they're what they're planning, and you know, people really get into those conversations and you know, just the just the gaming and it it really is such a uh cool environment to to be a part of. Um and I will also say, you know, one of the things, you know, and and knowing Kyle, um, and I and I had met Randy through through Kyle um and started seeing like the advertisements and stuff for the product. And I am one of these that energy drinks typically don't work on. They're high in caffeine, high in sugar, and for whatever reason, I have like this. This adverse reaction to high levels of caffeine. I get sleepy. Um, it it it will put me to sleep. Um so you know, I heard his kind of pitch in all of this, and I tried it, and it really, it really does um, you know, like help you focus. I mean, I I can't, I don't know the science behind it, and I don't know like all the ins and outs. I just know that for somebody who typically can't do energy drinks, I can do this and it and it really works. Um, I use it at work. Like if I have to go into like an intense meeting or something that I really, you know, like I'm doing reporting or something that I have to really focus on. Um, I will do one of those and and it and it really helps. Um I've taken it when, you know, like I've had a late night gaming, you know, but if you're a gamer, you definitely I think should try this um to try this product. Um they have a lot of new things coming out, and uh, and and so you're you know, I I think one of our things that we want to is it we're not officially um sponsored by you know the the the company, but we're both involved um in in this to to different degrees, and we have codes that we can give out so you can get discounts on products and try new products. So you'll be seeing and hearing more about um Kraken as we um or the uh legendary products, you know, all of all of the different stuff um as we move forward as silly gooses is.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:51

Silly gooses is yeah, yeah. I don't know when we're looking to air this one or dry this one, but like we got, I think we still have the uh no, because the game launches today slash tomorrow. So I think the the Call of Duty sale promo we were doing is gonna go is gonna be gone, but get ready for like the Black Friday sales that we're gonna do, because we gotta compete with a lot of other companies. So get ready for us to definitely show our hand on that.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:22

Uh they said it's uh uh hopefully restock of the grape and the watermelon pretty soon. It said new products, so the candy is in the final stages of the beta testing, I want to say. So we should be getting officially launching the candy relatively soon. Um I have to be as vague as possible, I think, because I don't a hundred percent know what I'm allowed to and not to talk about.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:44

Right. But there but there's some exciting new products coming out. There really is, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:50

Oh no, I know I can talk about I know I could talk about the candy because it's out there. Like to like we had the beta samples like on the website um for sale. Um yeah, just get ready for some fun ass shit, homies.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:03

Yeah. And you know, if you're interested in joining the community, um just you know get a hold of one of us and we can get you all the details on how to how to join a really cool all-in-one hodgepodge of people in their interests.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:24

Listen, if you listen to our podcast and you like us, trust me, you'll fit in.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:29

You'll you'll fit in. Unless you're a dick, because then we'll kick you out.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:33

Yeah, no dicks allowed.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:35

Well, I wouldn't say that, but like just don't be a satchel of Richards.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:41

That's what I mean. Well, yeah. Don't be a jerk.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:45

Thank you, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:03:51

Well, folks, there you have it. This is our first official uh episode of the new name. We just wanted to come in and and just kind of uh chit-chat and have a like a low-key, nothing splashy. Uh, we have some topics coming up that we hope you stick around for. Um, we're excited just about this new chapter. We hope you are too. It feels good to get back behind the mic. It'll feel good to, you know, start releasing some new stuff. Um we plan to release new episodes now on uh Wednesdays. So you can look for that. Uh a small little change we were releasing on Mondays, but we're gonna be changing to releasing every uh new episodes every Wednesday. Um, and then you know, talk to us on our socials. Um, come in and engage with us. Um, drop us likes, follows, shares. The best thing that you can do for us um is just to let other people know. And that's something that you can do for free. It doesn't cost anything but a couple moments of your time just to uh forward an episode to somebody that you think would enjoy listening to us, and uh we would you know greatly appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:20

And if not, go fuck yourself.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:26

There's that too.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:28

Yeah, you know, chew big red or fuck you, you know?

unknown: 1:05:31

Right.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:34

So I guess silly goose signing off, saying goodbye. I don't know, Kyle, have you worked out a new sign off? Oh god, is that gonna be every episode?

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:48

Every episode. And it's gonna be it's gonna be like Mark Campbell's Joker laugh. It's never the same. He improvs it every time, every obnoxious honk, every episode. Nice.

SPEAKER_03: 1:06:00

All right, with that, bye everybody.