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going to talk about the weirdest. What are the weirdest sports for around the world?
No idea. There's, Mom, Caper tossing is kind of weird. I guess it is, but I like Caper tossing,
so... Well, you're weird anyway. I think you like to make it participial. Yeah,
make, mainly. Yeah. Crowling's weird. Curadh, that is a good one. Yeah, I just thought
about one. Highlight is kind of weird. Yeah. I think that isn't that what Tron was based on.
Yeah. Yeah. There's some strange sports around there, but I mean, people probably think
football is weird for other countries. Football with two O's or football with a U-Long
Lodge. I heard a buffalo just went through. Yes, I'm kidding. Football with two O's. With
two O's, okay. Yeah. If you think about it, I mean, like, the scoring doesn't make sense.
You had six points for a touchdown, a point for, you know, and if you kick a field goal,
you get three points for that. If you get tackled in the end zone, then it's a safety, you know.
I never thought the pointing was weird because I don't understand it anyway. Yeah, that's
it is weird. I mean, you get a point for this, you get a point for that. That's how most
sports are, but football doesn't have a weird scoring. Well, I did do a good goal on
this one. Okay. And two came up. The first is wife carrying. That's probably something
done in the Midwest and in it. I didn't pay attention to where it was, but it's basically
men racing while carrying their wives. Why would you do that? I don't think I would have
any trouble carrying my wife. You don't have one. So that sport excludes us right from
the start. Yeah, exactly. And the other one is coconut soccer. That would hurt. I would
think your foot. It's even worse than you think. Mine. They soak the coconuts in kerosene for
a week, and then light them on fire and play soccer with it with their bare feet. That's
stupid. Yes, it's stupider than wife carrying. That is. Wow. Okay. I can't imagine. I have an
idea. Just listen to me. Hear me out. That's crazy. Why would you? First off kicking me.
And drunk people must have been in this. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's can play off. Yeah.
That's pretty bizarre. But I mean, if that's a culture you grew up with, I mean, it probably
seems normal. Yeah. It's like the Aztecs or the Mayans. I don't know which would play
a game kind of like soccer. I would, but yeah, they would use the beheaded skulls of their
enemies as the, as the ball. That's disgusting. It's kind of, yeah, that's, yeah, that's kind
of a man's course. But I guess if that's your culture, you think that's normal. Yeah. Yeah.
The gladiatorial games were gross. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, its people killing each other.
But yeah, that's, I don't know. I guess, like I said, if you grew up, if you grew up doing
it, I guess it's going to be that weird, you know, so you take it, maybe just to pack and
be like, well, maybe you shouldn't be beheading people and kicking their head around. So, I just
can't imagine kicking, some, getting your foot caught in their mouth while you're kicking. I mean,
yeah, no, no, I'm good. What is the worst job people have actually done? You probably would
get an answer. It is. I can't imagine cleaning like porta-pots. That was my, that was my answer,
honey-dipper. Is that what they call honey diversion? Yeah. And they also pump the sweet jet of
septic tanks. Just the fact that you're doing a bit letting it sit there for that long. No,
much stomach just turned into the job. The job that has to be done, and I bet they get paid
really well for that. Do you have to pay me? Can you imagine what they smell like when they
get on some work? They're really not enough showers in the world. Yeah, they're, I'm talking about seeing
literally the worst side of you. So, if we have any listeners who are honey-dippers, we can get in touch
with us. We'd like to know how your day ends. Tump it a lot of shit. That's, I've been to too many
concerts, an outside festival, and see what happens. Two porta-pots are the grossest thing known to man
after a day at a concert. People are just filled with human beings too. People are porous when
they're drinking and being at concerts. No, no. I've never been to a concert. Do they have a
vomitorium? Anywhere you can find, I mean pretty much, but people, for some reason, people do go into
the toilet since they're a while, but it never seems a lot to pin that. That was a loaded question.
I know. A vomitorium is the exit. Where you go out, where you lead. Oh, okay. Yeah. I guess so.
I do have another job that I've done about for some time, but it's not, it's not a terrible job,
but it's weird. What is it? A bun hole sniffer. Bone hole sniffer. But I smell like people's broken bones.
What the hell is that? It is somebody who, in the wine industry, they take the cork out of the
cask and smell it to see if the wine has gone sour or not. Okay, well, that's not that bad. The cork
has called it a bun hole. Okay. Okay. That's not, I mean, that's not too bad. So, it's just a weird name.
Yeah. All right. What are the most ridiculous fan series? I have a couple. Okay. One is that
the Flintstones and the Jetsons take place at the same time period. Hmm. How is that with them?
It's sometime in the distant future where the high society people live in the clouds and the
low society people live in caves. Okay. So, I could see, I could see how people would come up with that.
I think both shows were a Hanna Barbarra, so they're both done by the same people and they kind of look
similar. Yeah. So, like a class system, like a caste system. I think that's an interesting theory.
It is. Yeah. It's an interesting commentary on society. True. And thought about that.
I mean, you know, who would you want to be? Or would you want to be the Flintstones or would you want to be the Jetson?
Don't lie. I mean, you'd want to be a Jetson. Yeah. I suppose so. Yeah. So, sort of. I don't want to be around all those
tiny stores. Little lizards, I don't like them. I don't need to be around big ones. But you don't have
any fan, not even in sports. Oh, there's a ton of sports, but a lot of them are broken. Like
Chicago cubs would never win a World Series because the curse of the goat.
You've mentioned something about a green wall before. Green wall. It's just a green monster in
Fenway Park. So, they call it because it's a like Kerst or something. No, no, it's just, it's a,
it's basically it's down the left field mine. I'm going to sport out on you.
Down the left field line in the baseball field. It's a short and field because it's in the middle of
the city. They put up a wall to make it harder to get home run. So, it's a, it's harder, but it's a
basically, big green wall. It doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory. Well, there was a curse of the
babe and that was because the Boston Red Sox traded papers back in the day and the Boston Red Sox
were never going to win a World Series, but they booked that in 2004. So, I do hear that. I was
worried. I know, I was so happy though. I was very happy. There's all sorts of silly fan conspiracy
in sports. There's, I mean, there's for every team probably has some sort of pants here. So
but the, the, the cub one is pretty interesting. It's, I think it's, how does it go? There's two teams
in Chicago. There's white socks in the Chicago cops. And the curse of the goat, which is now broke,
but basically, the guy on the back of this goat, he was really well off. I think he was an owner of
the cubbies or, or it's something like that, but he would bring his coat to the baseball games.
And he was allowed to bring the goat to the cubs' wriggly field and what he did is he bought it and
went to go eat on the field and curse the field to the point where the cubs weren't ever going to
win a World Series. Well, they broke that back in. Calvin, am I losing my voice? That'd be a shame for you.
Again, 2000, I don't know, it was a few years back, but they finally broke that curse.
They don't have cheerleaders in baseball. So, they don't have to worry about them grazing on the
infield. No. No. That's probably one of the little birds points out there.
But yeah, there's too many fans here who's out there to really, what else do you have? What are those
areas? Oh, that's it. I figured you might have more. So yeah, I mean, trying to think of any really
ridiculous ones. There's that Kirk and Spock were actually lovers. I've never heard of that. Yeah,
they call it K.S. K.S. Kirk and Spock. And do you actually believe that?
There's lots of fan fiction around that idea. Really? That's weird. That's very weird.
Kirk was born in alien women, that's the whole thing. I mean, did Spock ever get laid?
He divorced his wife for Kirk. Probably. Yeah, I don't know, that's kind of strange.
What are the weirdest superstitions? There's got to be a bunch of men's sports. Oh, yeah,
baseball's one of them. Basically, never crossed the line. You know, step on the line. People. What line?
To the infield. The line's going to stay off of the field. Now you stay off the line. You can step
over it. Or around it. You can step on it. Or you'll break your mother's back. Yeah. Yeah.
baseball. Baseball's full of superstitions. I mean, there's players that will wear the same
jock strap that never like for the longest time. They just won't clean it, nothing, just stuff like that.
Baseball's full of superstitions. Very superstitious sport. Players will get on like hitting streets
and they'll have the same meal before every game. Yeah, greatest enclosures follow the same thing.
They did the day before to a tee. So, yeah, baseball's very superstitious. How about you? You got any?
The weirdest one I can think of is that having a black cat cross your path is a bad luck.
I just think the cat's trying to get somewhere. Yeah, that's well, and it's bad for black cats
people. People won't adopt them. Yeah. I mean, they say there is a black cat that won't like a
really or a time being adopted. I think they're pretty. But people view them as bad luck.
Yeah, just don't get that. In fact, during the dark ages, was it the bubonic plague?
Was caused by fleas, was spread by fleas that were carried on the backs of rats and mice.
And it was mainly because people thought cats were evil and would kill them and it was nothing to kill
the rats. That's saying what happens. My cat is good.
Yeah, but there's weird superstitions all over the place. Don't walk under a ladder.
Well, that's just common sense. Especially if somebody's on the ladder.
No, no, it's a little thrilling. It makes things exciting.
But I mean, what else is there? Don't open an umbrella in doors.
I don't get that either. When I use my umbrella and I get to work or get home,
I open the umbrella and let it dry out because if you don't, you'll get mellowly.
I'm loving it. You got seven years of bad luck for me. How many of you do that?
So, but yeah, there's just, I think superstitions are weird just in general.
I mean, yeah, not much science to it. No, not at all. What was the most outrageous advertising fail?
Okay. There was a few years ago a documentary on TV about Timothy McFay
when he did the Oklahoma City bombing. Okay. He bombed the Fred Murrow Federal Building.
And it was a pretty interesting documentary. And it was broadcast on local TV.
It wasn't a national broadcast. It was, it was like the anniversary of the bombing or something like that.
And it was on local TV. And they had an advertiser who was advertising fertilizer.
That's, yeah, that's you remember that? And remember you told me about that.
Well, I commented the time somebody should have lost their job with that.
And considering that was the main source of the explosion, yeah, it was fertilizer.
Yeah, he put diesel fuel in fertilizer and put a detonator in it and put up a van.
Wow. That's poor taste. Very, very. Very tone deaf.
Right. Maybe it was the only advertiser they could get. I don't remember any other ads, but
I was just so flabbergasted that he did that. He turned them down, man. You don't, yeah.
I was about to say something terrible. And I'm going to take it back.
I get a lot of trouble. So, I'm trying to advertise for others right after showing the Holocaust.
You don't do it. So, yeah, there's, I can't think of any, but that kind of takes the key.
I know. I guess maybe trying to advertise food during the Jeffrey Gamer documentary.
But none that you actually know of. None that I get. None that I know.
So, I'm planning to film right now. But yeah, I'm still worried about that one.
What are the most ridiculous games and apps? I'll answer this first. All of them.
That's I'm going to say that. Yeah. Very few of them serve any purpose whatsoever.
Anything. I mean, I think they're just mostly time killers to be honest with you.
I remember when the iPhone first came out and they decided to have an app store where you could buy
apps. And one of the very first apps that came out cost $6,000. And it put a picture of a diamond
on your phone. Yeah, you told me about that, I believe. Yeah. And it was, it was the, the idea was that
only certain people could afford to have that diamond on their phone and they could brag about it.
That's so stupid. Go take a picture of a diamond and put it on your phone because that's
about what it's worth. That's so stupid. I think that was one of the first ones to be removed from
the app store too. I'm good. But can you imagine how many people actually went and bought it?
That's people who bought iPhones. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember when they came out,
they were all they had, you know what I mean, I looked at Gamble and then they were like, why,
you know what I mean? There was no reason for it. But people still buy them now even though they're
like, it's just, they're considered like a generation or two by Samsung phones. Well, I believe my mother
has one. I think. No, but does she? I think so. And I think I encouraged that because they're,
they're dead simple. Yeah. I mean, my mother can figure out an iPhone. Yeah. They're supposed to be,
I mean, all Mac products are supposed to be very user friendly. I don't know how to use them
and I don't care to learn how to use them. I don't want to be that person. But I mean, people are
either Mac users or they're not. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, they have excellent security
from, you know, from what I understand. We take them into the bar shop and they're not the phones with
like other Apple products and they're a pain in the ass. They're an absolute pain in the ass that
take in and jack and people walk in and log out and I'd prefer if we didn't touch them at all. But
I'm not the boss. Why? Why is it a pain? Well, because most of the people, people who get their
passwords and then they just, you want to get them to do a factory reset without anything, can't you?
Nope. That's stupid. Not an Apple product. Basically, if you don't have the security systems and
stuff like that set up, you cannot, and you're not the owner, you cannot do absolutely anything. They're
pretty basically boat anchors. They ought to have a big reset button on them somewhere. They don't,
they're worthless. Pretty much. Because you just sort of weigh in by another one. Damn, pretty much.
That's what people think. Apple probably likes that. Yeah, well, of course. Yeah, I mean,
that's why you can, you know, think I'm as is. So, um,
but all right, what are the most bizarre YouTube channels? Oh, it's the first.
Well, I don't watch YouTube. You do. Do you like like I'm on YouTube all the time? I watch like two
things on there. Well, no, I watch video game reviews on there just because it gives me an idea of
I'm going to get the video. Okay. Well, that's covered in this question. Okay. You might think it's
ridiculous. Okay, we're not going to throw rocks at people's glass houses. Okay. We need to just
listen to the whole podcast about yeties on the way to and from the grocery store. Okay. So,
careful where you throw stones. No, I do that just because it gives me an idea of if I want to
get the game on. But there's a lot of weird stuff on YouTube. I think the weirdest is fake animal
rescues. I've never even heard of that. They actually do. Apparently animal rescue videos, you know,
where they get a cat out of a tree or something are very popular and get lots of views. So, people
fake them. They stick a cat up a tree and that's me. Yeah, it's an often I guess it's the same animal
over and over again. Yeah, that's wrong. That's very wrong. Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine doing that
to our cats. No, that's not cool. Put the cat through traumas of people or people or idiots can get
some sort of an enjoyment out of it. Oh, well, I guess it's a nice wholesome feeling of they rescue
you to catch, but when it's fake, just the to get more views. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. Glad I wouldn't
see any of those views. But yeah, no, yeah, there's, I mean, what else do you think? Because are YouTube
channels all of them? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the only time I ever watched YouTube was when I first got
the field recorder and I wanted to see some videos on how to, how to use it. Oh, okay. Did you learn a lot?
I think I learned more by reading than I did by any of those videos. Hmm. Got.
What was the most ridiculous product review you've ever seen?
I could have told you the last time I even looked at a product review. I know you will get them all
the time on Amazon. So, you probably better answer that. Maybe they have them on YouTube.
Smart ass. Um, I don't know. You'd probably be better than this.
The one that I see multiple times is somebody who gives a product a one-star review
because it's a product that requires batteries and there were no batteries that came with it.
So, people are pissed about it and they give it a one-star review for that. Wow.
Most things don't come to batteries. Even if they need them. Why, they always put batteries not
included. Mm-hmm. And so, people get pissed about saying to your poor review. Yeah. They give them a
one-star review. Well, if I was to manufacture that product or just so that review way,
I don't think they can do that. Oh, I know. I know. Yeah, I mean, the bad thing is I could see people
doing it. But I imagine it would be-- It wouldn't cost them anything and it costs the company a lot to
have a one-star review that brings their average down. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and that's, um, that's silly.
Um, but I imagine most of the reviews, the product reviews on Amazon are probably pretty done in the first place.
Yeah, and there's a lot of five-star reviews that just are obviously been bought. Really?
Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it's like they took the words off the box. Oh, really? Yeah, that's good.
Hmm. Okay. What was the worst fashion trend of all time?
High-water pants. Yeah. There's thousands of them. I can't really imagine
PI Baehr disease. Hmm. Sometimes with actual Baehr hives. Hmm.
The one that just floors me is people walking around with their pants down below their hips and
their underwear exposed. Yeah. Yeah. And you think, oh, you know, that was something on YouTube. But
no, people actually do that. Oh, they do, I see it. And they have to walk like crabs to keep their
pants from-- It's just pathetic. I see it all the time. It's not just stupid, it's pathetic. The
funniest is when you see like videos where the cops are chasing them. Oh, God. That's funny. Talk
about rescues. But no, and I don't see the point. Why? Are you that proud of your underwear? Like,
I just don't get it. I don't-- And you know they just-- they want you to challenge them on it. Yeah,
it's just-- I just honestly look at them and just shake my head to the whole, like, get off my yard.
But it's by a fucking bell. I'm sorry. Well, I think they-- the one time that I did see it,
he was wearing a pillow. Yeah, well, I don't know how else you could-- It's-- well, you see them,
they're walking around, they're holding their pants up to take, like, you know, you don't have like one
hand on their pants. They'll hold it up. And it's like-- That's just extra work. Yeah, why?
Yeah, I just don't get it. Yeah, I think you took-- I think they're trying to make a statement,
and that statement is, I'm stupid. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we sound like a bunch of crotch and white guys.
And teenagers who walk around with their shoes untied. Yeah.
I think they want people to say, "You're a shoeser, aren't I?" Yeah, I know. Yeah, when good trip and--
I guess when you're a teenager, you can recover from broken bones, but-- Yeah.
Don't see old people walking around with their shoes untied. Well, maybe they're already tripped
in the tons of pits their head to run. I forgot how to tie the shoes. So, yeah. Yeah, this--
I think you took the cake with that fashion trend, I think. Yeah, I think you need a little lead.
So-- Just people wanting to call them out on it? Yeah, it's-- Yeah.
So, the parade going on outside today. Yeah, that's-- All right. What are the most cringe-worthy
wedding photos and stories? Okay, there was a case. I don't know this personally. I just read about it
somewhere. A guy wore a killed at his wedding and decided to go regimental. So, he wasn't
wearing anything. He was wearing no underwear and got skid marks on the wife's dress during the photos.
Wow, that's pretty bad. On so many levels. Wait for your ass, bro. I mean,
my god. Especially of me, you know you put yourself in that position. Take care of yourself. Clean up.
One of it was on purpose. So, we got married and divorced on the same day. Exactly. I'll show you.
That's-- Yeah, that's-- That's a good man. I don't know anything I could take that with.
I don't really know any really bad cringe-worthy stories about that, really. I remember--
Well, it's not cringe-worthy, but it's-- One of my-- I was the best man in my friend's wedding.
And he's been married. He's still married for years now. He's got two wonderful kids and a lot.
But we stole his shoes before the wedding. And he had like, like shoes, like salt on the bottom of it.
And they did this whole religious ceremony at one point. They had to get down on their hands and
he's a prey. And we stole his shoes. And on the bottom of his shoes, we got weight and they all polished.
And hand-wrote helped me.
On the bottom of our shoes. So, when they got down the prey in the middle of the congregation,
everybody started snickering. As you could see, it was helped me. And it was so freaking
funny because he found that beforehand. And he was out in front of the church trying to scuff it all,
but it was all their permanent. They were not-- it was not coming all. And them and his wife
took both. And she leans back. And it was my idea. She knew it was me. She leans back and she sees it.
She was pissed. Because that means you can see the video of the wedding, the video. And you see
her lean back and then you shoot daggers at me. I couldn't hold it in. And the look of embarrassment on
his face was priceless, too. Like, I'm sorry. I don't know. I guess I'm gonna flip this right up to my life.
It was very-- it was classic. It was a classic kind of prank.
That's why we didn't invite anybody to our wedding. Exactly. That was a good prank, though. I was proud of
that one. So, do you ever need, besides the Skid mark story? No. I haven't been to that many weddings,
anyway. Yeah. Well, I guess that's it for this week. So, it's your favorite joke.
What kind of sneeze is made of leather? I have no idea. What kind of sneeze is made of leather? A shoe?
Don't get it. That's even a bit funny. You're the good joke. I knew you were gonna say that.
A shoe. Oh, okay, now I got it.
Oh, okay. I'm glad I invited myself. Oh, my. You love doing that today. You absolutely love it.
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