S2E1: Waffle House, NASCAR, and Deep-Fried Butter

Season two starts the only way we know how: a little unhinged, a little heartfelt, and way too honest about how close we can get to burnout before we call it a “season.” We talk about why the social media game is exhausting for podcasters and small business creators, and how recording something for the internet can turn a quick, satisfying project into a full production with angles, shots, sound, edits, and endless second-guessing.

Then we pivot into America with Fourth of July energy and a point we refuse to blur: we can love our country and still criticize our government. What we’re chasing is American culture, American people, and the bizarre, lovable stuff that feels unmistakably U.S. right now. The surge of international visitors and soccer fans becomes a bright spot, like a great American sleepover where strangers trade curiosity instead of contempt. We talk about how the melting pot actually looks on the ground: messy, funny, and full of unexpected warmth.

From Waffle House to county fairs, deep-fried everything, 18-wheelers, pickup trucks, tailgating, NASCAR, fireworks tents in random fields, and the way we “Americanize” pizza, tea, and even the word football, we build a running list of icons that make us laugh because they’re true. Along the way we detour into baseball nostalgia, hockey chaos, pro wrestling as peak American theater, and the one name we’ll always defend as a national treasure: Dolly Parton. We close with the country’s underrated beauty, West Virginia pride, and why “Country Roads” still makes people sing.

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Disclaimer And Season Two Kickoff

SPEAKER_11 0:14

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_09 0:39

Welcome back to the Silly Goose Society, season two. Let's fuck this pig. Or whatever they did on Black Mirrors.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

They did what to pigs? Wasn't there some type of a show that was like fucked up? Like a blackmail, like the politician to fuck the pig on live TV.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Oh, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

That's some show.

SPEAKER_08 1:06

That's some show.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Well, I mean, hell of a way to start season two. Can you play season two? Yay, we made it.

SPEAKER_09 1:16

I I just kind of love how I was like, yeah, yeah, season two. We didn't plan to have seasons. We didn't plan like, okay, this is gonna be the end of this, and then that. We literally just eh, fuck it. Honestly, let's face it. Let's all right, let's be real. We end our seasons when we are like right at the end of our rope of burning the fuck out. And we're like, let's take a break. Call it a season. Because right now we're we're two for two.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:43

We're two for two.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Yeah, and I would say, you know, like I think I think it's good to take a couple weeks, uh, like a little bit of a break every now and then, because it does get to be a lot.

Burnout, Breaks, And Social Media

SPEAKER_07 1:58

It does.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

And this break, this break has been good for me. And I will also say, like, I have I have almost like taken a full break from like social media. I know that we you know, like, we still send like reels back and forth and like in our group. Um yeah, but like for the most part, like I I just haven't been um as engaged in social media for the last few weeks as I normally am, and it's been kind of nice, I have to say.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Yeah, yeah, no, same same.

SPEAKER_09 2:40

I realized that I gotta kinda ease back into it because now that everything is like for the most part settled and okay and good and shit like that. It's like, alright, I gotta kinda get back on some of my bullshit. So I've been posting on social media again recently, and I'm like, whoa, cowboy, pump the brakes, like try not to we just got back. Don't fucking burn yourself already, okay?

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Yeah. So it's a lot. It's a lot to I mean like I feel like you might uh maybe doing a little bit double duty, so you're doing this and then plus your own content. It's a it's a lot.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

I'm doing quadruple duty.

SPEAKER_09 3:27

I have my two I have my two social medias, which are they're both me, but let's face it, they are Jekyll and Hydes of me. True. They're two personalities. True, yeah. I have I mean it's just I got the stuff with legendary also.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:49

It's just social media. It's almost social media.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot.

SPEAKER_09 3:54

I mean, I've just like left in the fucking reads. I've just like left the fucking gym in the reads.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh my god, I almost forgot about that.

SPEAKER_09 4:06

Yeah, I feel horrible about that, honestly. I feel like I've just like everything just got so fucking like chaotic and psychotic and whatnot.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Yeah, a lot going on, like a lot, a lot.

unknown 4:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 4:19

So it was the easiest thing to like step away from because it wasn't so massively established. Like I didn't have like a full book.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 4:29

So it was easy for me to just kind of like, okay, I'll get to that when I can fucking breathe.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Right. Right. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And it's just, you know, I think for for me, you know, it's like working a full-time job, then we do this, and then it's editing, it's doing the clips, posting social media, making sure that you're trying to, you know, I I hate this whole social media game. I really do. You have to do it to some degree in order to make this work, you know, to get anywhere. You have to play the social media. And I hate it. I hate it so much because like I can't figure out the algorithms. I it's like the the everything's constantly changing. We can have a banner week social media-wise, and then it just tanks for no reason, and like I don't know. Yeah. So I the only thing I know is just to stay consistent and try to, you know, post on this day and this day and this day, and now we're trying to do like the filler stuff um in between there, but I feel like I'm ready to get back into it.

SPEAKER_10 5:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Me three weeks ago was like I just I just didn't want to like I was fine to record, but I didn't want to do the other stuff.

SPEAKER_09 5:55

You didn't want to do any other fucking which is like which I'm still trying to like find my groove again, like my sweet spot between um like content and actual like goods, you know, because I want to use the social media for the leather goods and everything that I do. But I don't remember if it was you or my therapist or whoever the fuck it was, like I you saw it on one of my lives. I can make a bookmark in what is it, three minutes and forty something seconds. Literally from taking the big piece of leather every step of the way from soup to nuts, but if I have to record it and post it, yeah, you gotta add one more digit there. Like it's not uh it's not a three-minute thing anymore, it's a 30-minute thing, it's a 40-minute thing, it's a fucking hour to make a bookmark because angles and shots and sounds and this and the other. And I was just like, fucking Christ, man.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

Yeah, yeah. And that's why like I don't think I not that I I don't have anything to like, I don't have any wares to pedal. But I just when I when I look at like and especially now that I kind of more um I'm closer to like all that it takes for you to do what you do, and I kind of get that inside glimpse of like making that type of content, you know. Um I don't know how people do it. I I would not want to have that life where you are constantly having to record every, you know, all this stuff and then and then post it and then stay consistent with that. Like, God bless you for doing it, because you know, like I I post my cat and maybe some amount of photography, and that's like that's it. Like I don't I I just don't I I can't I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 8:01

But you probably do a lot more you're more in depth with social media for podcasts, not just your personal. I'm trying to use it. I'm not using it so much for my personal, I don't use my social media for my personal life, I use it for my business.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

Yeah, anyhow, now that we Yeah, I was gonna say, I would just look at the time and I was like, my god, we were supposed to be talking about America.

SPEAKER_10 8:32

America!

Loving America Without Loving Government

SPEAKER_10 8:34

Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

I wish I could insert an eagle scream or what they what the the Yeah. Which is actually a hawk. They always, it's like the eagle scream, the typical eagle scream, which is actually a hawk.

SPEAKER_09 8:51

It's usually a hawk. Have you ever have you actually ever heard a real eagle?

SPEAKER_02 8:58

Yeah, no, no, no, they don't sound anything like that.

SPEAKER_09 9:01

It is the most American thing you could fucking think of.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 9:07

It is the most American fucking sound. That's the only way. And that's not me being like, okay, what does it sound like? NASCAR, Budweiser, and Keith Urban. Like, no, it's not, no, that's not what a fucking eagle sounds like. An eagle is just you just you cry a little bit on the inside. Happy tears, but it's Yeah. It's the sound of America, god damn it.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

But I love that we, you know, took this break and we're coming back um first part of July, leading into July 4th. 250 years of American history. This science project of a nation that that was at the time like one of the greatest governmental. Like it was it was an exp it was an experimental government.

SPEAKER_09 9:57

It wasn't ever actually experimental. Okay, that will what are you just like, oh it's like ah, but alright, I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy. I'm just let's just get it out of the way. I love my country very, very much. Uh I will describe one of my favorite memes I always see around the 4th of July. Me talking about my country. It's a picture of Macho Man Randy Savage when he did the 4th of July Royal Rumble, or he's star spangled, banner, coked out like a motherfucker. Me talking about my country, me talking about my government, V for vendetta. Like founding father's this, the American people that, so on and so forth. But we need to, we just need to be honest with ourselves. There's a very big before we get too much into this, and if we get any type of like hate comments or bullshit on people, at least I please correct me if I'm wrong on this one. When I say I love my country, I mean I love my country, not my government. Yeah, I think there's a very big difference between the American culture and the American people and the American government.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Yes. Yes. I think, yeah, government in any country is these days, no matter what, is fucked up. There is there is no non-corrupt government. So yeah, when we are talking about America, we are talking about we the people. We are talking about our American culture, things that things that have like what what did I say? Like, I have a list of things that are like are have been so Americanized, like, like we took something and Americanized it so hard that it is synonymous now with America.

World Cup Visitors Meet U.S. Chaos

SPEAKER_02 11:44

And and that's just that's part of the and it I will say I also think that the um World Cup, um, the soccer, the football, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, yeah. It's soccer.

SPEAKER_08 12:02

We're in America.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

The Scots being in Boston and that whole the that whole thing, like all of these people coming into America and and taking the social media and like going to Walmart and being overwhelmed, seeing Buckys, going to a Waffle House at one A.

SPEAKER_09 12:21

Seeing the seeing Steve don't go into the Waffle House. That's my favorite thing has been Europeans. They literally the legitimate TSA and like the government is putting out on Twitter and it's saying that like put your ranch in your fucking checked bag.

unknown 12:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 12:39

Put your ranch in your check. I I genuinely love that because I don't think I've seen one I haven't seen one negative thing coming from the the thousands of guests that we've had over these past weeks with having the World Cup. And they're all over the country. They're not just in the areas where the games are, they are all over the fucking country, which I think is absolutely because so it's it's kind of cute when you talk with people when they're from like different countries, like, oh hey, we were visiting here. Like they're staying in like New York. Like there's people that were kind of like exchange friends, oh my family's coming in and they want to go to New York. He goes, Yeah, they were they were asking me, I was like, oh, hey, like, can we see Miami too? It was like, let's just go to Los Angeles. No, no, no, no, no, no. This country's a lot bigger than you than you think. This country's a lot bigger than you think, which is wild to me.

SPEAKER_02 13:31

That's the thing that always cracks me up is that anyone that comes to this country from Europe, they don't realize how big this country is.

SPEAKER_09 13:45

It's fucking huge, but then also I'd in that same retrospect, and if you if you need to cut this bit out, it's totally fine because it's semi-political. I saw a meme the other day. It's just for me, it's like how small Europe is. It's an entire continent, but it is like it's barely even half the size of the United States. Or someone was just like, oh, people they don't understand like why it's so important that so many countries are like so that are freaking out about the um the war in Ukraine and in Russia. And when he goes, like, let me put into perspective for you. Picture this. For Americans, let's just put it into perspective for you. The reason why all of Europe is freaking out over that war is because, like, imagine living in LA and you hear that Dallas is bombing Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:38

Like, that's like to us, it's like, oh wow, that's all in the same country. He goes, Yeah, it's all in the R same country, but that's like that's literally all of Europe. Like I said, Spain is Los Angeles. And fucking, yeah, like, oh no, it was my bad, it was the other way. Yeah, whatever. But yeah, then it's Dallas, Texas, and so that's still do you still have a third of the country left.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:59

And you're already at the end of Europe. Europe is like the size of two-thirds of the continental US. That's not even Alaska. It's just the continental US. Alaska itself is the size of like 90% of Europe.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Yeah. There's been two two things that I've seen that it really, I think, encapsulates everything. One is people calling this the great American sleepover, you know, and two, people saying this is what it's like when you get to be with the cousins that you like to have fun with, but your parents hate each other.

SPEAKER_09 15:31

That's amazing. Oh my god. I that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

Like and you and you finally like get to, you know, party and hang out with the cousins that you love, but your parents hate each other. I think that just encapsulates the experience that we're we're seeing. And I think it's I think it's come at the most perfect time. It really has, because I think that we have not to get, you know, again, political or whatever, but with I I I hope what comes out of this is people realize that it's the politicians and the media that wants to keep everyone, not just people in this country, but people around the world separated.

SPEAKER_09 16:21

They're trying to isolate, they're trying to isolation.

SPEAKER_02 16:23

It's like, oh, it's the number we're the better and the like the people just want to get along. We just want to go and have a good time and drink Boston Dry and learn the Nordic um drum rowing.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

We you know, it's just like when you see what's happening and you you see like, yeah, these two teams from two different countries are going against each other, but they're they're supporting each other's fandoms in in the streets, and and they're all wearing their teams' jerseys, but they're drinking a beer together. Like, yeah, that is so fucking American when you think about it. And I think I think we've forgotten that. I think we have absolutely forgotten that there is more love between people in this country than what separates us, and it's there's it's a very selective people are there, they're so much more alike in the best ways.

SPEAKER_09 17:32

Yeah, they're so much more alike in the best ways than we are different in the worst. Which is uh it's just I I as we were doing this, we were taking we you know, we post on social media

The Melting Pot And Cultural Remixing

SPEAKER_09 17:43

a couple times. I was hitting up some of my friends, I shared it and they would message me and whatever. It's like, I want to know what people's favorite things about America or some of the what's the most American thing you can think of, and also that kind of fun stuff. You know, seriously, not just like, oh, shitty healthcare, like duh. Come on. Yeah. Let's have some fun. Come on, let's let's get something real here. Don't be annoyingly, you think you're edgy cute. Um almost everybody says um diversity. Like, there's so much, like I was sitting there, I was thinking those like, what's the most uh eating this and doing that? No, wait, that's a that's that's from that culture, and that's from that culture. We have our own stuff, we have our own things that we have done and invented, and also that kind of punch it, but I'm like, you know, I said this was like think of something more American. You know, it's like either at a backyard barbecue, you got a CCR blasting, you got a cold beer and a hot dog. Well, beer and a hot dog, that's German.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 18:49

So it's like, okay, so I'm during German foods. He goes, okay, but we got that one. Okay, CCR is an American band, and barbecues is probably some other fight. It's probably like Tibetan for all I fucking know. Um, so there's always it's like, but that's okay, you all of those together, and it creates another a different memory. It's like taco too. What am I talking about? Taco Tuesday. That's we're talking about technically Tex-Mex food. Tacos are Tex Mex.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 19:14

So it's like, but same thing, but but we but like you said, he goes, we take stuff from other, you know, because people bring their cultures, their lives, uh their everything, you know, their countries are being represented here. And so they share it and with this person, that person, and people, they just they just think you have that freedom to think, to question, to innovate, to change. And so you come up with like Taco Tuesday and Korean fusion tacos. And like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 19:45

There's nothing Korean about tacos, there's nothing Mexican about Korean food, but only in America can you find a fucking Korean taco. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's just and that's what's been happening these last few weeks. We've been having a you know uh like a hodgepodge smorgasbord of international love and fun. Yeah. That's that's what has been happening.

SPEAKER_09 20:14

It is the Yeah. Yeah, it's buffet.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

It's been a it's been a it's been a buffet buffoonery. Ah yes! That's what I was trying to say. A buffet of buffoonery.

SPEAKER_09 20:26

You gotta be quicker than that. It's just it's been but everyone says it goes, it is it's it's the melting pot. It's the it's just the fact that you can't come here and you know, like you can't come here and do what you want, but still retain who you are.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:45

You have that you don't have the oppression of other things.

Fourth Of July Baseball And Box Seats

SPEAKER_09 20:48

Um, but also going back on the real quick, I gotta kind of flex and brag a little bit here, because I don't always win shit, but at my new job, we're one of the sponsors or whatever the hell it is. They do a shit ton of giveaways, and every month they give away tickets to the local um uh baseball team, you know, the minor leagues kind of team that we got here.

SPEAKER_08 21:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 21:13

But since they're that one, they're like the big sponsor for it. They get like the really nice like seats and shit, and all these other things like so on and so forth. And I won this this go-around. So I got so I got the email today that I won the four tickets. Girl.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Box seats. Oh, I'm telling you, box seats at a at a at a game. You gotta get that in seven.

SPEAKER_09 21:41

On the fourth of July.

SPEAKER_10 21:43

Oh box.

SPEAKER_09 21:45

Free beer. There's free food and beer. Oh, you are the coldest of beers, the hottest of the beer. The coldest of beers, the hot, yeah, because of the erection that. Lasted more than 17 hours.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Like, you're gonna need to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_09 22:04

Think of something more American than a cold beer and a hot dog at a fucking ball game in the summertime.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

On the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_05 22:12

On the fucking 4th of July.

SPEAKER_09 22:14

Now, I can either confirm nor deny, but did I on on lunch break talk with my wife and get us matching American flag shorts for this event? Maybe, maybe not.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

But I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_09 22:34

Like so fucking. And honestly, Mark is just as excited because I got four tickets take. You know, Juniper is so young she just needs a ticket, she goes for free or whatever. So I was like, Mark, I got an extra ticket. And without Bat and I was like, fuck yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Yeah. Yeah. That's that's gonna be. I was gonna say, you gotta, yeah. Yeah, that's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_09 22:58

Yeah. And that's what Mark said was one of his favorite and most American things he could think of. Baseball. This dude fucking loves this dude fucking loves baseball.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

I will say I I cannot watch baseball on TV. I like nothing dries me up faster than watching like a baseball game on TV. But going to a stadium to see a baseball game.

SPEAKER_09 23:25

Like I said, it could even be mine. You can be visiting family in fucking East Bum Fuck, Pensacola, Oklahoma shit. And you can go see, you know, the who's he what's it dirt bags, yeah, based on the what's their names, you know, mighty claws. Who gives a shit? It's fucking live sports. Like it's the it doesn't beat, it doesn't get better than that. Yeah, absolutely doesn't get better than that. Yeah, one of one of my happiest moments. Same thing, another amazing, like just bit of America. This is what America is. My very, very first ball game was with my father, my godfather. I don't know if every MLB team does this or just the Yankees. I only heard of Yankees doing Old Timers Day, where they got a bunch of the retired dudes, they kind of come out and like before the game starts, they play like three or four innings, like dudes that have retired. Just to put into perspective, for those of you who know this or what you know this name. For three innings, my tenth birthday, 20 some odd years ago, I got to see Yogi Fucking Berra.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_09 24:39

My very first ball game, Yogi Berra, puts on the fucking mid gears up, squats down, and plays but I was like, this is I'm getting chills just talking about that. My very, very first ball game was the New York Yankees. And I got to see Yogi Berra fucking play.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

That was Deja Vu all over again.

SPEAKER_09 24:57

That was pretty goddamn awesome. Pretty goddamn awesome.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

Yeah, yeah, I have to say that's pretty good. That's pretty good. What we what we get at the Penn or the Pirates game, sorry to say the Penn game, Pittsburgh Pirates, um, we have um pierogi races where we have people who dress up in pierogi costumes and then race.

SPEAKER_09 25:22

I love it. I I I fucking I love it. Yeah, no, I I have to agree with Mark. Maybe just because we're kind of going off of euphoria, I'm just going off the euphoria from the day and also that function, but like baseball is just fuck it, it's a fuck, it's fucking American, dude.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

It is. It is.

SPEAKER_09 25:39

I don't care for it as much as there's very, very few sports that I give any kind of a shit about. Um, but I'll go to any one of them. But there's something different. I think the only sport that beats live baseball.

Why Hockey Crowds Feel Primal

SPEAKER_09 25:54

I'll even say I will if I had to take like whatchall, if if I had to alright, you can only see one sport live for the rest of your life. I know we're going out by baseball right now. The only sport that beats baseball live is hockey. Oh, I mean, the only sport that beats that's the only sport that beats, but I'll take I'll take baseball over football. But I'll watch football and I enjoy football more than baseball, but I'll go to a baseball game before I go to a football game. There's just so there's a it's a it's a very different energy. It is such a different I think.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Baseball is very laid back. I think for football games there's more of an electricity in the air. But the pet the most electricity you will ever feel um in a crowd is an NHL hockey game.

SPEAKER_09 26:53

It's hockey. It's it's hockey. It is the greatest live sports you will ever. Oh, I think that's I think you're right. That's that's it. When you go to a baseball game, you're relaxing because like it's baseball. This is oh man, I'm at the ballpark, the sun is shining, this is gonna be great. Hockey's like, I'm gonna see some fucking blood. Like, you go there ready for it. And it's just everyone has turned up to a thousand. It's so fucking loud.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Nothing gets me more amped up than seeing a fight break out in the boy aquarium. I I just it it it taps it tapping. It taps something primal in me, and I'm just like Oh, it taps something in you. I love fist fights, and I love like when they just they're so passionate about it. And like, so here in in my town, we have um we have a um wheeling nailers, so it's like um I don't I don't know, like it's it's kind of the equivalent of like the minor leagues. Well, it's a minor league. Yeah, it's your look. Yeah. But they're they're they feed into the po the um penguins.

unknown 28:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

And um but the speed difference always gets me going to a minor league game versus uh like a a um a pen or why do I keep saying yeah, pens game.

SPEAKER_08 28:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

See, we have the pirates, we have the we have the steelers, and we have the penguins. That's a that's a that's a lot in one city.

SPEAKER_05 28:45

That's a whole lot of pee.

SPEAKER_02 28:47

That's as it is. Um, but the speed difference is amazing. Like I I have never been to the game. So fucking fast. Oh, yeah. Never been to an NHL game. I want there's I want to go to go. You've got to go.

SPEAKER_09 29:01

I'm doing I'm doing everything I can in my power that now that I'm working and I'm making pretty damn okay money now. I'm not making a lot of money, but making a lot more than I have the past year and a half, anyhow. Um we have r really, really good friends of ours. They are massive hockey fans, but they were born and raised in Southside, Chicago. So they're Blackhawks fans. And fucking, this this is Red Wings territory, baby. Yeah. And so like that's the I want to go with them. I don't care where it is, I'd love for it to be in Detroit because my best friend back home, he's a massive Red Wings fan. So if I get to see the Red Wings in Detroit before I that's the only reason why I want to go there for that. But um, I want to go to a fucking Blackhawks Red Wings game. So fucking bad. I want that to be my first NHL game.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 29:54

So bad.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

I'm telling you, I it was a few years ago when the um penguins were in the the playoffs, um and I got to see a playoff game. Holy shit. Now that was even a whole other level. That was a whole other level, and I'm trying to think of who the hell they were playing with. I'll never forget this. I lucked into like really good seats, lower level seats. Um, we were like right at the top of the glass. That's how low we were. Um and whatever team, whatever team they were playing, their thing was that they would always throw fish, they would smuggle in fish and throw it on the ice. And I can't think I cannot make sense. I cannot think of what the team were. They're they're just their fan base are kind of like just real nasty. Um, but I I actually saw I saw a guy smuggled in a fish in his pants, rush down. I mean, like, like we're in section whatever it was, 100, whatever. Um, so I'm like to the left of that section, you know, there's those seat, there, the, you know, the stairs on either section. He's he's to the right. He's to the stairs of the and like I I saw him run down, I saw him throw it, I saw them, like the fans like tackled him and carried him up the stairs. It was it was something. I will never forget that moment. I will never forget that moment. Yeah. They threw a fucking fish on the the rink in mid-game. Like it was like mid-play they were doing this stuff. Like it's just the it's that's crazy. And that's like another thing. Like oh, I was just gonna say that's good. That's just like another thing that you know, hockey is an international sport, it is it is not from America, but it's one of those things where we've taken it and it's it's a very American thing. Like hockey is a very American thing.

SPEAKER_09 32:14

Oh, that it is. I backpedaling another couple episodes. We were talking about time travel. If I had a time machine, what I would do, I would do everything I could in my power to go back to that what the hell was the game? US vs Canada. I think it was just an exped ex exhibition. Right? And it was like right around the election. No, it was like right after the election. It was like right at when everything was really starting to turn up because of American politics, and a lot of fucked up shit was really starting to happen, was starting to go down, and so on and so forth. And so USA is playing in Toronto. The USA men's hockey team is playing the Canadian hockey team at just a whatever the hell game, right? And the Canadians were oh, it was horrible. Like there was stories of like American fans getting like berated and shit, like thrown at them and whatnot. Like just the amount of like just like disrespect and like anger and frustration that Canadians were you know going against Americans, and like during the you know, they played the national anthems of both countries, the visiting one goes first, and the away is there, then the American National Anthem starts playing, and the boo and the hissing, and they're throwing shit on the ice, and they're throwing shit at the players, and like absolutely just like just despicable behavior. The second that puck hit the fucking ice, hell on earth ensued. The i the puck hit the ice, and it's the two captains there. The American captain just fucking decks the Canadian one. That set the tone that set the tone for the night. Not only did we physically beat the unholy fuck out of the Canadians that night in Toronto, but they won like four to one or like three to one. We the dog shit out of them.

SPEAKER_02 34:21

And that's all walloping in uh hockey.

SPEAKER_09 34:24

And let's face it, against Canada too. Canada is like real fucking good at hockey. So like they were just, and there was like interviews afterwards, and they were just like, listen, do I agree with our politics? Absolutely not, but like you're fucking with my country, dude, and I'm not gonna fucking stand for that. And that's that's what the American captain said. And they just he said as soon as that puck dropped, he fucking just decked him. He like threw the stick down and just bam! And the amount of fights, the blood, there was blood all over the fucking ice by the end of the night. It was the one brutal hockey games I've ever seen. Needless to say, and there was like two more games they had to play, too. They postponed the there was supposed to be like three nights in a row. They postponed the second night because they were like, alright, let's all calm the hell down. We're sorry, bud. We don't like your guy. And they're like, we don't like him either. Shut the fuck up, let's play the game. Everything was much more respectful, and there was a lot more good sportsmanship, the other two games. But that first game was just I love it. It was an ass kicking on a biblical fucking level. It was biblical. Oh, I was fucking biblical, mate. Like, it was.

unknown 35:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:37

Oh, and yeah, that one thing I was gonna backpedal. And really quick on that one, the last bit of the hockey things. I'm just saying, you're coming out in November, right?

SPEAKER_02 35:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:46

Friday and Saturday, there's home games of our local team.

SPEAKER_10 35:50

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:53

Yeah, we gotta go. New Mexico goatheads are playing the Kalamazoo K-Wings.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

Yeah, we gotta go.

SPEAKER_09 35:59

Yeah, we'll talk more about that later. But anyhow, you guys.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Yeah,

The Most American Things List

SPEAKER_02 36:02

yeah. I do. So I one of the things that I've been doing uh since we were took our little break is I've been thinking a lot about this um this episode. And so I started compiling a list. A lot of this I was helped out along the way from just paying attention to all of the stuff that the our our um international brothers and sisters have experienced since being here. But I have a list of things that I think are the most American American things that we've ever Americanized. Are you ready for this?

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Waffle House.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

Alright. Top of the list, the county favorite.

SPEAKER_09 36:49

Now, is this like what you feel is like the the most, or is it just a list? You there's no specific order.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

There's no specific order, no. Okay. Um these are just like things that I've just been jotting down as I've either seen them or been thinking about them. So uh was thinking about all of the county fairs that we have, and we have the big you know, county the the like the national county fair, um deep fried butter. We will deep deep fried butter, deep fried Oreos, anything that we can deep fry, we will deep fry them.

SPEAKER_09 37:30

Um the Northeast, they have the big E. That's it's exactly that. It's just all the states that get together thing. There's one specific place it says F it we fry. That's the name of it. And it's like the big, big establishment. Um they have like 87 things that they serve there and they fry it all.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 37:48

It's all battered and fried.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

So another one is our 18-wheelers. I've noticed that like a lot of people in Europe, they're not used to our transportation system. Tractors. Which got me also thinking about pickup trucks, truckers, but pickup trucks, and there's nothing more American than a pickup truck pulling or towing another pickup truck.

SPEAKER_09 38:16

Yeah, that's just man, if there's one thing that I just love, there's just something about it. I know you see I fucking sound like a hundred thousand of these reels, but it's like an older truck, just like the windows down, you put like a cassette in, the windows down, it's the bench seat, there's no back seats, it's just the bench seat. Yeah, like there's just the half cab where you gotta like lean this the thing to, and it's just like a dude in like it's fucking dresses like me, he's in like a fucking like white like crop top, good fit pair of boots or whatever, and like just like laid out, like Fleetwood Mac is playing, and they're just like cruising around. Yeah, it's like kind of sunset y out. Something about that, man. Like, that's just uh I'd love to do that. I can't drive, but I would love that. So 70s pickup truck, like an 80s pickup truck.

SPEAKER_02 39:09

Oh yeah. Oh man, see, you've tapped into like I don't know if you know like my love of trucks, like I love pickup trucks, and it's specifically like I like the um the pickup trucks from like the 50s into early 60s.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

I love old. I love old.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

But then like they kind of like lost something, but then you get into like the mid-70s to like the mid-80s.

unknown 39:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:43

Um like the the they're like the boxy kind of like there's a specific look to a pickup truck from that from that like decade. I love like the old the old Broncos from like the 80s.

SPEAKER_09 39:59

Oh, don't get me start. Don't get me started on an 80s Bronco. Oh god, I'd do some I'd do some fucked up shit to own a Bronco, an old Bronco, where it is the size of like a goddamn space shuttle, but it had the two captain chairs at the front, and you had to fucking pull the lever and see what the slide code lean forward for you to jump into the back. Oh my god. Oh, I'd do anything for one of those fucking things, man.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Alright, so keeping with with trucks, there's nothing more American than monster trucks. Going to a monster truck rally.

SPEAKER_07 40:30

What? Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:34

Yeah, monster truck rally. Um bacon wrapped anything. We will we will wrap bacon around just bacon.

SPEAKER_09 40:42

Just American bacon. Anything we do with it.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

Yeah. Um gun raffles at church picnics. Gun raffles for the American.

SPEAKER_09 40:49

Let's just face it. Let's just go ahead and be at the It's a hot topic. It's a hot bump, but let's just goddamn face it.

SPEAKER_02 40:55

Gun raffles.

SPEAKER_09 40:58

Just guns. Yeah. Guns. It's some of the most American shit ever. Now what's he said? We're not getting political, we're not going too deep into this one. But fucking guns. When done right and safe and properly, they are some of the coolest. They are so much fun. They are so fucking cool. I so fucking cool.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

I am a member of our local gun club. Um but I will say they're really big in conservation, like nature conservation. Um, that's one of the things that I like about them. Um so it's it's more of like geared toward conservation and hunting, but they have a they have an outdoor um practice thing range. I don't even know what they're called, range. But oh my god, I love I love going out there um just to shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:56

You shoot a pile of dirt, who cares? You made a lot of bang, and it was fucking cool, man. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

I want to I one of these days, I want to go out somewhere way out in the country, somewhere, somebody, somebody that's listening to this, please make this experience happen for me. I want to shoot tannerite so bad. And like blow up blow up a hillside. I want to shoot tannerite so bad. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

You want to talk about America.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Um, okay, what else do I have here? Um, tailgating, six hours before any type of event. Tailgating, anything.

SPEAKER_09 42:40

Football, we would tailgate we would tailgate my cousin's dance recitals.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

Shit, for uh WVU football games, they tailgate for the tailgate parties.

SPEAKER_08 42:54

Like yeah, that's what you're supposed to say.

SPEAKER_09 42:56

That's called pregame, baby.

SPEAKER_02 42:57

Yeah, pre-game, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 42:59

No more pregames like the US of A, baby.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

The other thing that speaking of sports, that I think is besides baseball, which is the most American sport that I can think of that we have ever birthed into this world,

NASCAR, Flags, And Fireworks Tents

SPEAKER_02 43:19

NASCAR.

SPEAKER_09 43:22

Yeah, stock car racing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:26

Which had its had its beginnings in moonshine running.

SPEAKER_09 43:30

Yep, the fucking run runners and the moon running. I love that. So that's once again breaking the law, fighting the establishment, very fucking American.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

Very fucking American.

SPEAKER_09 43:41

But I mean we could take a felony and turn into a fucking advertised sport.

SPEAKER_02 43:46

Right. And I know like, you know, Europe has like the Formula One racing and stuff, but there is a massive difference between Formula One racing and NASCAR racing.

SPEAKER_09 43:59

It's too fast. Formula one's too fast.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

It's NASCAR is like that's pretty fucking American.

SPEAKER_09 44:07

Um exactly that's what happens when you take like cute Ferraris and Hondas and all other kind of bullshit, and then you just like pour some Budweiser on it. Boom, you get fucking NASCAR. Like that's what you get. They stop drinking fucking espresso martinis and like Merlot's and they start shotgunning courses and then you fucking you get NASCAR. Like that's it. Like you've seen those. You said just look at the drivers. Look at the difference of when like NASCAR started. Look at like Richard Petty in his fucking era, okay? And look at like the Andretis. Look at the bastards. You need to tell me. Come on. Which one of them knows what they're doing down there? You know exactly who is doing something, who was doing it right down there.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 44:46

You need to tell me you you don't think you can look dead in the eyes. All Dale Earnhardt would have to do is just like give you a look and you just blew your load. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 44:54

Right.

SPEAKER_09 44:55

It was like goddamn man.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

Yeah, a hundred percent. Um the okay, here's two things. I think they kind of go hand in hand here. Um, so I'm gonna mention them both, and then you can go off on them because I know you will.

SPEAKER_04 45:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

Um like American flag, anything, bald eagle t-shirts sold at truck stops anywhere across the country or at Walmart. Also, fireworks purchase from a tent in a random field. Um that's pretty fucking American.

SPEAKER_09 45:37

The more the more disconnected buying American flag and eagle clothing could be, the better it is because the tapier it is. It's so exactly. Oh yeah, just the obnoxious pride that no one has like Americans around the 4th of July Memorial Day, they have more flag pride than Puerto Ricans from New York have. I'm just gonna go ahead and fucking say it. That's all love and respect. I that is the most admirable amount of pride for your culture that you have. That's not me talking shit. That's me showing love and respect. But around an American holiday, you guys, you guys play second chair to the fucking Americans. They will American flag the fuck out of anything just for like 36 hours. And now it's, oh, it rains, so like next weekend we gotta have the cookout. You get it carries over. You wear it that day, but then you can wear it again, and then you never wear that fucking outfit ever again.

unknown 46:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 46:42

You get like the you get the you I you want to I almost bought instead of those shorts? I was like, alright, I gotta get some dumbass American flag shit for this one, right? I almost bought like the overalls. They got like the short overalls. I almost got I almost got those. I was not getting the um this.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

Oh my god, how cute that would be is if all of you all like you, Lauren, and the girls all had like matching.

SPEAKER_09 47:11

We did get them. Uh they have, you know what? I won't tell you. You will see the pictures of what they will be wearing. We will be in American flag shorts, and they will be in but we got them from Carter's.

SPEAKER_02 47:22

Oh god, all you had to do is say Carter's. From Carter's.

SPEAKER_09 47:26

Unless you put it this way, it's Carter's, and the brand we bought was Oshkosh.

SPEAKER_05 47:30

So get ready for that one.

SPEAKER_09 47:33

I'm a little proud I found it in their sizes. Anyhow, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:37

Shit, how many thought you had to say?

SPEAKER_09 47:41

I'm not brave enough. I'm not brave enough.

SPEAKER_02 47:43

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_09 47:44

Um if I say an accent, because technically that's Spanish, but still.

Pizza, Sweet Tea, And Stolen Football

SPEAKER_02 47:51

So I have um a couple food-related things, and I'm gonna say them all at the same time. Um well versus Well that I didn't that's not on my list, but yes, good point. Uh the phrase hold my beer. Hold my beer 64 ounce gas station sodas.

SPEAKER_09 48:11

Oh, the mega golf.

SPEAKER_02 48:14

Competitive barbecue.

SPEAKER_09 48:16

Competitive hot dog eating.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

That's and cheeseburgers with onion rings, cheeseburgers stuffed with everything. I think I don't know exactly like where hamburgers and cheeseburgers were birthed.

SPEAKER_09 48:34

New I don't Haven, Connecticut.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

But they're like the way that we treat those sandwiches.

SPEAKER_09 48:44

Yeah, the burger.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

That's pretty that's pretty American.

SPEAKER_09 48:48

I will I will say that I I stand by this though. If I have the choice between the burger or the glizzy, I am taking, I don't care how this sounds, I am taking all the glizsies to the face any given day and twice on Sunday. I want hot dogs at the backyard barbecue before I want a burger at the barbecue.

SPEAKER_02 49:08

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 49:10

I just something about the hot dog, you know? Just something about it, man.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

So, and I have a couple things that we have taken from other countries, but Americanized the shit out of. America. So, well, yeah, America.

SPEAKER_09 49:29

America itself.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 49:31

America.

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Uh okay, pizza. Pizza, you know, the Italian, right? No, we take them, we stuff them with five different meats.

SPEAKER_09 49:42

Then Italian.

SPEAKER_02 49:43

And then, but we stuff them with all kinds of stuff, cheese in the crust.

SPEAKER_08 49:49

We stuff cheese in the crust.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

Right. With ranch dressing and we have Americanized pizza. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 49:57

Um buffalo chicken pizza.

SPEAKER_02 50:00

Fucking buffalo wings! Fucking buffalo wings!

SPEAKER_06 50:05

Fucking love wings.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

Anyhow, press the feedback. Yeah. Um, tea. Tea is a very British thing. What did we do?

SPEAKER_09 50:12

And then the South said, hold them a beer, get rid of the leg, not gonna need anymore. Here's some diabetes. We're gonna sweet the fuck out of your shit.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

Sweet tea, but also, you know, dump it in the harbor just out of spite. That's pretty American.

SPEAKER_04 50:29

Not out of spite, it's because of taxes.

SPEAKER_02 50:31

Well, it it wasn't a good idea.

SPEAKER_09 50:33

That was one of my favorite shirts. That was one of my favorite shirts I ever owned from one of my Abercrombie days. It was at our fourth, every now and then we would have one good graphic tea, and the one that we have was for men's and women's, and it's a party in the USA, and it was a it was the picture of the Boston Tea Party.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

Nice.

SPEAKER_09 50:56

It was one of my favorite chairs I ever owned from that store.

SPEAKER_02 50:59

Nice. And then we took the name of one of Europe's greatest sports, football, and we made it into a sport where nobody uses their feet.

SPEAKER_09 51:14

Except one guy.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

Except one guy, exactly.

SPEAKER_09 51:21

We took football and made it football. We actually made an insane amount of contact in it. And then Tom Brady. The rest is history.

SPEAKER_02 51:33

Ugh. Fuck Tom Brady. Anyway.

SPEAKER_09 51:36

I would.

SPEAKER_02 51:37

I you know, there's Don't even get me started. Nah, I'm not, I'm not gonna ruin this episode with my hate of Tom Brady.

SPEAKER_09 51:47

You can cut this out. It's okay, I promise you.

SPEAKER_02 51:49

Fucking cry, baby.

SPEAKER_09 51:51

You can cut this out, it's okay, I get it. But please don't lie to me. The man's handsome. He's a terrible person. He's a handsome. He's a handsome.

SPEAKER_05 52:03

He got better working with age. He really doesn't.

SPEAKER_08 52:05

Like fine wine. I don't I don't care if it's plastic surgery. He doesn't. I don't care if it's plastic surgery.

SPEAKER_02 52:10

He does it. He never has done it for me. No.

SPEAKER_08 52:14

Really? Not even a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

Not even a wiggle? No. No, not even a wiggle. No. No. It's the same thing, like I've told you about that real tall actor. I can't think of his name. Played Reacher. Like he doesn't do it for me. He doesn't do it for me.

SPEAKER_05 52:30

He's too big.

SPEAKER_02 52:31

Like I don't. Like, yeah. There's just certain people. Like, they don't. I recognize that they're probably, I understand where people find them handsome, but me personally, they don't do it for me.

SPEAKER_09 52:45

You understand that they're conventionally attractive, but for you, it's not your opinion. I have no idea what you made me think of this. But there's one more thing that I feel like we've taken for sure, and our very specific spin on it is glorious.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

Oh god, I thought you were gonna say something else. Go ahead.

Wrestling As Peak American Theater

SPEAKER_09 53:04

Wrestling.

SPEAKER_02 53:05

Ah.

SPEAKER_09 53:06

The WWE. The WWE. Smackdown. Raw. All that other. Like. Now I know you're I'm just gonna say this. I know I'm gonna hit this one. I know you're a little bit older than me.

SPEAKER_02 53:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 53:24

But the era that I know of wrestling was like right at the end of what it was right before, and then all of the attitude era. Like Stone Cold, The Rock, The Undertaker, Kane, when John Cena started, Kurt Angle, technically Macho Man, and like Hogan were still around, also that kind of shit, but like Mankind. So all of that. So The Undertaker, when he was the Undertaker, and then he traded in the giant trench coat and the hat, and he started wearing denim and riding a motorcycle and Lint Biscuit was there, like all of those years, and then back to his like Angel of Death persona. Like the entire career of The Undertaker.

SPEAKER_02 54:11

I'll have to take your word for it. Because literally the only thing I know about wrestling, wrestling, wrestling, whatever you want to call it, WW is literally just uh vines and memes. That's that's oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 54:25

Same thing. We weren't allowed to watch it, but we but like those cousins, not that the parents hated each other, but it was just like you know, it was just different, you know. Those are the cus- you know, it's pretty much we were the only cousins that didn't watch it. And uh, you know, all the other ones are like obsessed with when we were hanging out, they would always talk about we play the games and we do this and we do that, and we watch it, we'd sneak it and watch it, also that kind of shit. Oh, it was God, he's a real he's a real pain in the ass and like a real piece. I feel like he's a real piece of shit right now, but there was nothing more impressive than when The Rock had a match. Not because of like his actual like wrestling, but all of his crowd and ring work and all of his shit talking was unbelievable. Because it was all ad-libbed. You there was no way to fucking prepare something, you just only knew who your adversary was and who you had to kind of think about, make some fun of. Yeah, it was it was nothing short of absolute fucking art was to watch the rock with a microphone and just talk shit for like eight minutes. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

Man, I I will you know, I I have another friend who is absolutely insufferable about wrestling. The only other thing that I know about wrestling comes from him, and that's Scott. Like, he is like Hell yeah, I don't know, I don't know a bigger fan of of that whatever you want to call that dramatic fighting um than Scott. And I will say the closest he ever got to me like being a little bit interested in it is there was there was an I d I don't know his name, but he was a wrestler who had a thing where he it was like like a Mr. Rogers neighborhood, but then it would turn into like this horror thing. It was like a whole shtick. Um and like I was like, okay, like I could fuck with this. Like it was so it was so like it was so well done, you know, like I and I still like he died. I was like, well, whatever happened to the guy, you know, I haven't you haven't shared. And he was like, Oh, he died. And there's a woman who's like British, who's like very British and like posh, but she has the most insane insults for people. I have no idea what her name is. Um now that like that is intriguing me, but not enough. I just God bless you. I mean, like, not gonna yuck anybody's yum on that, but I will say, yeah, it's pretty American.

SPEAKER_09 57:14

If you ever just need good old fashioned entertainment, just look up some of Macho Man's interviews. That's all I gotta say about it.

SPEAKER_02 57:21

Oh, no, no, no. Now that I do like again, I know of him because I've seen like all the clips and all the memes and all of the like you know, like the highlight reel of that man. Like I am aware of it, yeah. Oh, I find that. Like, and I am aware of like who Hulk Hogan is, and I'm aware of like there's wait, is Randy Savage the same as Macho Man? They're the same person.

SPEAKER_09 57:49

Macho Man, Randy Savage, Macho Man was his yeah, that was his.

SPEAKER_02 57:52

Is he the one that goes woo?

SPEAKER_09 57:54

Nope, that is the uh that is uh Ric Flair.

SPEAKER_02 57:58

Woo! Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_09 58:00

So that that's the only thing I know about him is the dude who did an insufferable amount of cocaine.

SPEAKER_02 58:06

Okay. Uh yeah, that's see, and that's like I know like bits and pieces of just like pop culture lore, you know, just that kind of stuff, but yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't know. You're you're you're speaking a totally different language.

SPEAKER_09 58:22

Yeah, no, just just trust me, Macho Man was Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 58:30

But um yeah, that's that's all that I had as as a list that that I could think of.

SPEAKER_09 58:36

Rock and roll.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 58:38

Some of the some of the great bands are, you know, from across the pond, don't get me wrong. It's like, yeah, we got Zeppelin, we got Ozzy, we got, you know, fucking I mean ACDC down in Australia, the fucking Beatles, I guess. Um Sabbath. I get it, but like Rock and Roll was invented in the United States. Like it's like an America, man. Yeah. Fucking like Elvis Presley, Little Richard. That's like where rock rock and roll started. It was all it's also nuts to see like how much it's like changed. But then you have, you know, then you have Fleetwood Mac, you have Bob Seeger, you have the Eagles, you have CCR, like, come on.

SPEAKER_02 59:20

I honestly I can't think of the. To me, when I think of like a solid like American band, I always think of CCR.

SPEAKER_09 59:34

You have to. They are, yes, they are.

SPEAKER_02 59:38

Quintessential, like an American sound, I think.

SPEAKER_09 59:41

Anything that has to do with Vietnam, get ready for some CCR.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

Yes, and I'm telling you, you gotta watch that, you gotta watch that uh I God, I can't think of the name of the movie, but it's on Hulu right now, and it's about the Vietnam War, where uh uh uh some people went up missing, and so they send in um a bunch of people to go find them, but they encounter dinosaurs in the jungles of Vietnam.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:15

I have got to I have to watch that. It is so good.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:20

You have to watch it, and it's um uh Jason Stackhouse is in it. I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:30

And um sold sold twist my arm.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:33

And and there's there's this woman, she's a she's a doctor, and she has this uh incredibly uh yeah, it's some kind of it's it's a very poorly acted Russian accent or like Eastern European, Ukrainian kind of accent. Um and it took me forever. I'm like, I'm like one of these people, like if I see I like half if I think I know who they are in a movie, like I have to figure it out or have to look it up on IMDb. Yeah, like I know, I know, you know. Um Trisha Helfer is in it, who was six in Battlestar Galactica.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:20

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:22

So she's in it. And it's just it's so bad, but it's actually kind of good. Like it wasn't bad. It was it's a B-grade movie, but it's not that bad. Like I've seen worse. Um, but yeah, yeah, lots of CCR in that movie.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:43

Hell yeah. I mean, you have to. It's a VR movie. You have to.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:47

Yeah. Just come. And and I will say there is a point in the movie that you can tell where their CGI budget ran out. Because like at the beginning, like, it's not that the graphics aren't that bad, but then you can see them like degrade over the life of the movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:07

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:08

Like they get really bad. But anyway.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:14

Another thing too is just uh honestly, just like our Hollywood television, things like that. Like American blockbuster movies, so everything from yeah, our modern, are they a melting pot of all sorts of other, but let's face it, like you know, we'll just say like the Marvel movies, Star Wars, Star Wars is American. Um so it's like, yeah, they have actors from all over the world, but you know, it was two American, you know, it's two American writers, directors, and so on and so forth. They give us things like that. When you know you have the Marvel movies, big budget, things like that. But also, you know, like people say that the golden era of screens, The Wizard of Oz, you know what I mean? Shit like that. Breakfast of Tiffany's, Casablanca, The Godfather, shit like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:02

Abbott and Costello.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:04

Abbott and Costello. Lucille Ball.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:06

Lucille Ball, absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:08

I love Lucy, is still one of the funniest fucking TV shows. Oh, it is. Oh, for everything forever.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:17

It is. Um I have to I we cannot end this episode without saying one name in particular that is as an American story legend icon as you will ever get in any lifetime throughout the history of this country. I will die on this

Dolly Parton And American Integrity

SPEAKER_02 1:03:41

hill. But Dolly Parton.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:43

Hey, Dr. Alan Poe, you're right. Dolly Parton. She's Dolly Parton, Betty White. That's like just the fucking standard. I can't tell you how many I I can't tell you how many books we have of that organization that she started that she has. What is it, Dolly's library, whatever the fuck it is? Thanks to Dolly Parton, my girls get a book every month. Like, free. Just sign up, tell me their ages. Here's a book. I mean that's be that's such a beautiful thing. You know, how many times have I sent that reel of uh that little boy at the at the parade, and that kid is losing their goddamn and the thing is that the the captains always like at first I was like, yo, calm down, little man. Then I saw why he was screaming. I was like, you know what? He wasn't doing enough. Turn up a little bit more. I mean, and how it just the uh the un the overwhelming euphoria that child felt seeing her and then her seeing him, oh my god, it was it's beautiful, it's a beautiful yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:48

But just uh just her story, I think, is quintessential American, you know. Um her Appalachian roots, you know, just very humble beginnings, very rags, rags to riches, and i it's it's just and the important thing about it, not just the rag to riches and pulling herself up and getting her out of this.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:12

I think keeping her integrity.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:14

Yeah, 100%. So yeah, I think we have some things planned for July to keep this theme going, talking about the wild and the wacky things that I'm so amped for one episode.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:31

The episode that I have planned, I am so fucking amped for that, because you just absolutely hit that topic on the head. The wild, the wacky, and he's not even American, but god damn it, yes, he is.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:47

Oh god.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:49

Oh, I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:51

I have no idea. You're gonna keep it you're gonna keep it a secret, right? You're gonna hit me with that.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:58

I just

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

No, no, I don't want to know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:08

It was someone from the Revolutionary War. Oh. Technically he wasn't American. But God damn it, he became American. He became America.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:19

I love it.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:20

I I I f I fucking I love it. He's one of my absolute favorite, like American historical figures. Fuck Edison, fuck fuck Ben Franklin, every other founding father. They can all eat absolute dog shit compared to this guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:38

Okay. I know we're going to have Scott on because like Scott John Dan Steve. What?

SPEAKER_04 1:06:48

That's a Bob's Burgers joke. Proceed.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:50

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:52

But you put your identity in the pub where the beer is.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:56

But yeah, Scott's gonna come back and with his big fucking trivia brain, he is going to uh talk about some of the crazy stupid facts that he knows about some American things.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:15

That's the thing I love about Scott so much is because like the am I thinking between him and I we know everything that means nothing.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:27

Like the thing that you like the thing that you and Broccoli Cheddar used to say, like if me and Theo Vaughn ever had a conversation, so much would be said, but nothing would be said.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:36

I feel a little bit like that with I feel a little bit like that with Scott and I. We can do an entire we can do an entire run of encyclopedias. You can read it all, and you will not learn one fucking thing you will ever use in your entire life, which you will have a cornucopia fuckery of knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:59

The thing that cracks me up about Scott is that like he has to know so much because he does trivia, you know, like he competitively does trivia. Um and you have to know so many just little facts about everything, and the more ridiculous a fact is, is exactly probably the kind of question you're gonna be asked. So you have to know all of the wild and wacky statistical facts and just stuff about people, and he it just never ceases to amaze me that um he'll just be talking about something and be like, oh yeah, yeah, you you know who else is famous for that? And just pull out a fact from literally like the crack of his ass, and I'm just like, what?

SPEAKER_09 1:08:52

Like, you know who else is a phenomenal?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:55

Hitler. It's just yeah, so I can't wait. I you know, like no preparation for this. We're just gonna have a Gabby Goose session with him, and it should be entertaining at the least.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:12

It was one of my favorite, like grip it and rip it episodes we did, learning about Tych O'Brahi and his fucking moose.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:20

Yeah. Yeah, see, and that's the stuff like I learned about Tycho Brahe from him, and I'm just like, I'll never forget. Like, we were on the phone, like, I want to say, like, he was telling me the story over like a course of an hour, and I was riveted. I was like, tell me more, tell me every little detail that you can. And then I went and had to do like independent research because I wanted to know what happened to Jepp, the the captive midget that he had.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:51

His pool boy.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:53

Yeah, like I had to know what happened to poor Jepp, and uh yeah, so it's just it's that type of little little bullshit knowledge that cracks me up. I love it. I love it so much.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:07

I just I stand I stand by what I say with that episode. Can you imagine the fucking sound a moose falling down the stairs makes? I still think about that from time to time. I sh I shit you not. At least once a month, I just sit there and think about that fucking moose died when it fell down the stairs. Any idea how big a fucking moose is? Do you have any idea how big those stairs had to be for a moose to fall down Fucking what, my guy?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:40

A drunk moose at that.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:42

Do you have any idea how much booze that fucking thing had to drink?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:46

A shit ton.

unknown 1:10:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:48

A metric shit ton, man. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:53

Alright, well we need to wrap this up. I don't even know what. Oh, okay. Yeah, we do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

Fuck off. America. No, America. Don't you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:06

That's it. That's our sign off. Thank you for sticking around for this episode. Again, there's I think we have said it multiple times throughout this episode. There's there's a lot that we can talk about for our country's 250th year that hopefully makes you think about some of the positives about just what it is to be American and help separate the political stuff from the culture. And you can be proud of where we are as far as people. That didn't make sense. But you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:56

It made about as much sense as half the other shit that we do.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:59

Yeah, it's true. So anyway, uh we're

What We’re Planning Next For Season Two

SPEAKER_02 1:12:06

back. We're back. Season two, episode one. Um, like, listen, do all the things, pay attention to our social medias, um, join our Discord, do all the things. Uh we have a whole new year planned. Do do we Yeah, I mean, it sounds good. It sounds good that we have things planned out, but uh, you know.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:36

We have things planned, people.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:38

We have Yeah, we have we have some we have some I don't know what you call them, like wish list episodes that we want to do. I know you have several.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:50

It's not wish lists, it's shit that's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:52

It's shit that's gonna happen. You guys do. Get ready for more World War II stuff. I'm just telling you all.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:59

Hey, hey, you beat me by that. You were just like, any of the stuff you want to do goes, listen, these people are gonna learn way too much about World War II.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:08

They're gonna learn weeeee too fucking much. It's gonna get bad. Just when you thought it was bad enough, it's gonna get so much worse. That's just what they told you. Wait till you learn the shit they don't tell you.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:20

But just think, in a couple months, we're gonna be heading into spooky season. And that's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:27

Spooky season 3-6. 3-6 what? 365? 369. Damn shit, fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:33

Let's talk it to me one more time. Hello.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:37

Hello to the window.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:38

Hello.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:38

I just see Betty White now. To the window. I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:41

To the window.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:42

Oh no, Sandra Bulk singing that with Betty White. You know what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:45

Yeah, yeah. Iconic scene.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:47

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

Country Roads And West Virginia Pride

SPEAKER_09 1:13:50

Oh, there was one more thing I wanted to say. Oh, I believe. No, no, it's okay. What? I'll I'll do I'll just I'll do the bit I was gonna I was gonna do the I'll do the whole bit on the next episode. I was like, hey, remember the last one?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:06

And thing I didn't say. One more thing everyone said they loved about the country so much. We have it we have our moments.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:15

It's very pretty here.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:18

It has its moments.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:22

There's some I d had to do the drive to I've had to go to Connecticut a couple times these past few weeks that we were at. It just it's got its moments. It's very it's very pretty. There's there's nice things.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:34

But some would say it's almost heaven.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:41

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:50

Yeah. Yeah. That's been very heartwarming to hear uh, you know, like at these games that are happening in our country right now, the international crowd, like people taking that song and singing it in celebration of America. That's been very, very heartwarming.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:16

Did I send you the like all the like there's a massive, it was like Reddit or Twitter or one of the fucking social medias where it was just like the same thing. It was like a bunch of people, it was just like I think it was like Germans because like there's a lot more mountains in Germany than people think and like Switzerland and shit like that. It's like almost all mountain. Um they were just like listen, we have mountains, but like yours are like so much better over here. Oh my gosh. And they were just like, they were actually like, oh my god, like we heard the song, we love the song, but like we actually get to see it now. Like there was an entire thread about like which I'm sorry. I know it's your state, very proud of your state, it's a very pretty state, but like to a lot of the rest of America, the fact that they're losing their minds over how beautiful West Virginia is is kind of making me laugh, like a little bit. Yeah, because there is there is a stereotype of what West Virginia is.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:17

Yes, and it's a stereotype that I fight tooth and nail all the time.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:22

It's a horrible stereotype, yes. Um because like I said, you take all that kind of BS out, it goes, it is a very beautiful state because I think a lot like it. It is mostly mountainous. It's very mountainous.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:34

It is, and like West Virginia is the only state that the Appalachian Mountains are like start and end, you know, like the whole state encompasses the Appalachian Mountains. It's the only state that it it's continuous through the whole state. And it's just it's it's awesome. It's it's just this state is so beautiful, and the people of this state have so much heart and so much pride, and yeah, we have problems, and we have we have so does every state. We have pot we have true poverty, and we have a lot of a lot of you know just our our state has been fraught with, you know, a history. Um, but I will always be a proud West Virginian and and I will fight tooth and nail to anyone that wants to bring their stereotypes to me because what is it, yellow and blue through and through or some horseshit like that?

SPEAKER_09 1:17:45

Or is that just like with people who go to like West Virginia?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:48

Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's you know, yeah, blue, the blue, blue and gold, you know, the ages.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:55

Blue and gold. That's it, gold and blue. Yeah, never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:57

Yeah, you know, mountaineers are always free. Um, and this state, the way the state was even birthed was an American spirit, you know. Um, you know, we we pulled away from Virginia because we weren't playing their politics.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:17

And have you fucking seen those people? Jesus Christ. We've fucking seen them. I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:23

It's just, you know, this there's just there's just a lot of heart in this state and a lot of beauty and a lot of good things. Um and yeah, we have, like I said, we have our problems just like every state. But to to just know that as you know, and people want to argue whether Country Roads is about West Virginia or not, I will I I defer to John Denver, who himself has said yes, this is a song about West Virginia.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:55

Who the fuck is um he literally screams West Virginia like seven times in the fucking songs?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:01

Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:02

Yeah. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_09 1:19:05

Um It's about the duality to man and the sanctity of love. No, it's not about fucking West Virginia.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:10

I I think I saw like a TikTok of this lady saying that it was actually written about Maryland, and I'm like, the fuck it was and like it they changed the original lyrics, was um not the fucking I don't know, I don't know. I I just listened to part of her drivel, and I was just I think my comment was, What is wrong with you? Um but it is it is our state song, it is our adopted state song. You cannot go to anywhere at WVU and not hear that song. They sing it after every sporting event, graduation, any special event at that school or in this state, you will hear that song. And uh it's just been heartwarming to hear that song being sung um in other parts of the country by Americans, by our international friends. It's just it's it's been really nice. It it chokes me up a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:12

It was a f I'm telling you, it was a motherfucker of a thread about like Europeans losing their fucking minds over West Virginia. Losing their fucking minds.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:23

I'm telling you, when when I was went to Ireland, um, like anytime, you know, we were with a tour group, and anytime people found out like we were from West Virginia, people they would get so excited because like the song John didn't like the people of Ireland and Scotland love that song for some reason. And I will say that like West Virginian I know this is getting long, um, but I understand having gone over there why a lot of the Scottish and Irish settled in West Virginia and the Carolinas because they understood the landscape. The they understood the Appalachian Mountain landscape because the Appalachian Mountains technically end in um Scotland and Ireland. Um so you know it uh they they I it the landscape is so reminiscent of you know their country, and uh they they just have always embraced the song, and I love that they get to come over here and experience West Virginia.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:42

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:44

And as you will say, that's what it That's my mama.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:49

That's my mama.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:50

Yeah. Whatever the fuck you say all the time.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:56

I say a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:59

A lot of stuff about a lot of things.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:01

I think a lot of stuff about literally nothing. So much about absolute nothing.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:07

Stuff, Lori. Thanks. Thanks. All right, thanks for

Happy Birthday America And Sign Off

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

listening. Uh this is Silly Goose One signing off.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:18

Hey. Happy birthday, America, you goddamn beautiful bitch. Here's a two fifty more.