In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and reminisce about growing up in a small town in Ohio. We talk about how technology has changed the way we live our lives and what it s like to grow up in the 90s and early 2000s. We also talk about what it was like to move to a new city for college and how it s still hard to get a job in a big city like LA. And of course, we play a game called "Who's Calling" which is a game where you answer the phone and try to figure out who s calling. If you like the game, please HIT SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you get your podcasts. You can also join the conversation by using the hashtag , and tag and to be featured on the next episode! if you like what you hear, please leave us a review and tell us what you thought of this episode and what you think about it in the comments section below! tag=2894607&name=The_thing&ref=a&qid=2895607&refref=the_thing_id=2795607 Brian and Maren talk about moving away from Ohio and how they grew up in small towns and moving to Los Angeles, California, and the challenges they had to deal with in order to get their lives to start a new jobs and a new life in the big city, and how to break away from the monotony of being stuck in the same old life. Thank you so much for being so open and honest and being open about their life and being willing to talk about it all the hard times they have had to grow and open up their minds to new opportunities. . thank you for being open and letting us know that they are open to new ideas and being vulnerable and open about it. Thank you for letting us talk about things like that. We appreciate it. , we really appreciate it! Brian & Maren Maren xoxo, Brian xo XOXO, - Brian - & Chris <3 (p. (and Maren's podcast CHEER! ( ) Thanks for listening and supporting us with your support and support us in this episode. - Thank you, Brian
00:02:04.000If you have one in your basement or your garage, plug that shit in and just listen to the messages of your life from, what, seven years ago or something like that.
00:02:49.000Yeah, I felt trapped when I was there because you don't make a lot of money when you live in Ohio for the majority of people, or at least the class I was in.
00:02:57.000I was just working job to job, getting laid off, you know, whatever, to do another job.
00:03:02.000And it was just like, wow, $13 an hour, ooh, $14 an hour, something like that.
00:03:07.000But I didn't have enough money to move or go to California.
00:05:26.000And, you know, forensic medicine, the idea of, you know, solving crimes and, you know, checking people's corpses and shit, like that Dr. Michael Badden.
00:05:47.000The idea, just the possibility, and I know this is not the case with these doctors, and I know it's most likely not the case with 99.9% of the morticians.
00:05:56.000But the fact that there's like the 1% that would enjoy fucking their bodies and moving them around and smacking them and putting on little shows for himself.
00:06:06.000That Sam Kinison bit, that made me pee my pants the first time I heard it when I was a kid.
00:06:13.000That bit got me to think about doing stand-up comedy.
00:06:17.000That bit, and it wasn't even told by Sam Kinison.
00:06:20.000It was told by a girl that I worked with.
00:06:22.000I was working at this health club, and this girl came in, and she was just fucking laughing.
00:06:26.000She was like, oh my God, that heavy Boston accent.
00:06:29.000I saw fucking this guy on TV, Sam Kinison.
00:10:16.000What she said about Bruce Willis and Charlie Sheen being really similar, because they were both big in the 80s, and now they're having their old slots filled by Ashton Kutcher.
00:11:50.000But when you're hearing her tee off on Mike Tyson, she was talking about Mike Tyson having a slut tattoo on his face that Mike and Ben don't know whether to punch him or to finish on him.
00:19:26.000Or How I Met Your Mother or something?
00:19:28.000Him and Duncan were talking about it the other night, and I haven't seen it.
00:19:35.000Well, in all fairness, a lot of those takes could have very easily have been second and third takes of a scene that you do in front of a live audience, and they just don't get a laugh.
00:19:46.000I think he had somebody go in and just remove it.
00:19:50.000But I'm saying, you know, sometimes you have to do a scene, you know, if you're doing like a live sitcom in front of an audience, like on news radio, we would fuck up or, you know, we would have to do something over again because they wanted to rewrite something.
00:20:01.000And so we would do the same scene several times.
00:22:49.000It's only when someone has awesome control over things, like when one person's artistic vision can truly shine through, like the South Park situation.
00:22:58.000Those guys are so awesome that no one fucks with them, so they just do their shit, which is why their show is so fucking brilliant.
00:23:07.000It's like there's no more clear point of reference.
00:23:12.000If you're thinking about one prime example of a show where you can tell the artistic minds behind it don't have any influence by anybody else, it's South Park, right?
00:23:22.000It's because it's such a money juggernaut.
00:29:11.000Windows 8 is in the house, bitches, and the startup time's quicker than ever.
00:29:16.000I was watching something online where they were showing how quick the startup time is of Windows 8. And from the time you press the button, 8 seconds!
00:29:25.000And Windows 8 starts up and it's like really quick.
00:30:35.000It tricked itself as a Windows virus protection.
00:30:41.000So on top of it, it was like saying, here's the way to get this off your computer.
00:30:45.000Click here to buy this virus scanning software.
00:30:48.000And so then now you're giving your credit card information and sending your shit just to get some fucking thing to unlock on your computer to get your computer back.
00:31:37.000I'm trying to find it because it's so ridiculous.
00:31:42.000But Apple's sucking a dick lately, so I might be going back to PC. I just got that Final Cut Pro, and I had to pretty much relearn everything, and now I feel dumb because it's so...
00:31:50.000Yeah, but that's just one program, though.
00:31:54.000Well, that's one of their main programs.
00:31:56.000They pretty much decided to take their main program.
00:31:58.000Well, why would you be mad at all of Apple because of one goofy ass program?
00:32:02.000Well, I mean, if that's the direction they're going where they're like making everything more, I don't know, like friendly or easy looking or, you know, simple cut and paste.
00:32:14.000The old Final Cut Pro is pretty much you can do anything you want.
00:32:19.000You have to do backward steps and do all this extra bullshit just because it looks pretty.
00:32:24.000Listen to how crazy this answer is to how many computer viruses there are.
00:32:28.000It's not exactly known, but most likely in the millions.
00:32:33.000The real problem is that new ones pop up every day.
00:33:56.000I won't even give them my phone, they keep trying to get for my Gmail a phone number, and I'm like, what the What the fuck do you need my phone number for?
00:35:07.000It looks like my bedroom, and it could be my dick, but the dick has this weird black helmet on it, and it looks ridiculous if you really think that's my dick.
00:36:14.000Do you think they would, though, if you hadn't?
00:36:17.000Like, if you hadn't banged her in six, eight months, say, and she started dating someone else, do you think she would remember your, like, be able to identify your dick?
00:36:27.000Depends on what kind of a show your dick puts on.
00:38:40.000It was like there were so many people drunk.
00:38:43.000Here's one of the things that our driver was the coolest fucking guy, this dude Jeff.
00:38:47.000and Jeff took us around and Jeff was talking to us about how he could only live in New Orleans because he had lived outside of New Orleans only for a little bit and he got in trouble with a cop because he's talking to the cop about something and he was drinking a beer on the street.
00:39:02.000The cop was asking him where he's coming from and he didn't know that you're not allowed to drink beer on the street.
00:39:06.000Because in New Orleans, you can drink beer anywhere.
00:39:09.000You can just drink beer on the street.
00:39:10.000So while he's talking to the cop, he said he opened up a second beer and started drinking that.
00:40:07.000That's the problem with, I fly in somewhere, it's like, boom.
00:40:11.000First thing, I gotta go do the weigh-ins, and then my comedy show, and then in the morning, I get up, I work out, I do the UFC. There's no time.
00:40:18.000Really, for too much sightseeing, unfortunately.
00:40:20.000It's the greatest job in the world, but there's no time for a lot of shit.
00:40:24.000But we did get to go down the French Quarter.
00:40:25.000We walked around Bourbon Street, and like, this is crazy.
00:45:08.000So I called my friend from his wife's number, his newly ex-wife's number, and I would make jokes about wanting to bang his wife all the time and stuff.
00:45:17.000So I call him in the middle of the night, and I think I was telling him that I was going to go out on a date with her, and I wouldn't really tip my hat on whether I was joking or not.
00:45:29.000So I call him in the middle of the night from what looks like his wife's number, and I use a voice disguiser to kind of sound like a girl.
00:45:37.000And basically, I tell him that it's his wife.
00:46:56.000And it'll even say, well, yeah, obviously, if it's Red Band, if you put in his number, his picture comes up on your phone or however it rings when he calls.
00:48:12.000I mean, it seems like there would be some sort of a weirdo terrorist law to protect you against shit like that.
00:48:20.000I think it falls in the same categories like if you write a letter saying that you're writing it from the White House on the returns label.
00:48:43.000There's an app that you can buy that's a voice recorder.
00:48:45.000It is called Recorder on the App Store.
00:48:48.000And it's the same kind of idea where you put in your credit card information and then it filters the call through this app or something like that and it records it for you.
00:48:57.000So you can record phone calls using your iPhone.
00:49:53.000Well, you're the guy who should probably look into it.
00:49:56.000Yeah, well, I just found out about it.
00:49:58.000There's a lot of apps that have like, you know, for celebrities, they'll have like the Britney Spears fan app, where it's just like information about Britney Spears, and that's probably what it is.
00:50:06.000It's probably something like that, where it's like a joke.
00:53:33.000He said something about that the terrorist, like, 9-11 was kind of like, we've been fucking with people.
00:53:42.000It's like, you know, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
00:53:44.000I don't remember exactly what he said.
00:53:45.000But he was like, well, you know, we've done fucked up shit, too.
00:53:49.000You're not supposed to say that, though.
00:53:51.000No, he got a lot of shit, but I think it's overblown, which is, you know, like the Tracy Morgan thing, there's just always something with enough buzzwords, like 9-11 or faggot, where the news can latch onto that and just keep everybody like, oh, look over there, you know, while they're, like, fucking stealing all their money.
00:54:09.000It's amazing that the other thing that we accept pretty openly is that in times of war, you're not supposed to do anything that's going to possibly damage a soldier's morale or upset the way they look at things.
00:54:24.000You're not supposed to say things that would possibly upset them.