In The Booth with Shawn Booth
You may know Shawn Booth from The Bachelorette, you may know him as a fitness guy who owns a gym in Nashville, or you may just know his dog, Walter.
Tune in as Shawn sits down with people from all walks of life: artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, military personnel, badass moms, fitness professionals, and everything in between. You'll hear motivational stories, healthy habits that lead to success, relationship tips, and more.
However you know him, you'll get to know the real Shawn and his guests right here on In The Booth.
In The Booth with Shawn Booth
The Greatest Reality Show of All Time?
Are we watching the greatest reality show of all time right now?! Shawn & SamCat seem to think so. Our diverse listener base from Slab City, California to Washington D.C., and Colorado Springs, Colorado gets a slice of the everyday laughs and front row seat as they tackle the serious and surreal world of current events.
An attempted assassination on Trump sets the stage for exploring conspiracy theories and public reaction. They discuss how these dramatic events shape political opinions and the election atmosphere, making sense of the bizarre reality-show-like moments that punctuated the RNC, complete with celebrities and unexpected drama. They reflect on the humanizing impact it had on the political landscape and public perception. From the extreme actions of both political sides to the media's role in amplifying division, they dive deep into the convoluted state of public discourse. Nostalgia hits as they reminisce about simpler political times and SamCat proposes an innovative idea for voting which might save the world!
Ending on a lighter note, Shawn & SamCat rank their all-time favorite reality shows! Tune in for a blend of humor, insight, and definitely not a political podcast but thought-provoking discussion that promises to keep you engaged from start to finish! Team on 3!
we are back in the booth. I'm sean booth and thank you guys for tuning in. It's been a while. We're excited to be here and maybe you are in slab city, california, today. Maybe you're listening in washington dc or maybe you're out in Colorado Springs, colorado. Thanks for having us on your radio waves this morning. We're in Nashville, tennessee, and to my left she is wearing flip-flops and a shirt that buttons down with matching shorts. It's a matching set. We've got set Kat on the set.
Speaker 3:Okay, that was a lot of alliteration for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that kind of looks like a Charlie Sheen shirt, to be honest.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, I will take that as a compliment. Matching sets are in. Matching sets are the fact that you said matching set. Even if they don't see me, women, at at least, will be able to picture that in their head.
Speaker 2:I think they're going to picture yoga pants and a sports bra. That's the only matching set that I know. Well, that's because you work in a gym, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:Matching sets. Just imply that they match and they came together. That's that's it. Okay, whatever variation of that if you will, all right. Okay, whatever variation of that, if you will All right.
Speaker 2:Well, we're back. We took a little vacation, a little hiatus. It feels good to be back in studio here. And, sam Cat, what have you been doing lately?
Speaker 3:Honestly, I have been off the road the most I've been off the road since the fall of 2022.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 3:I've enjoyed it. I've been doing a lot of house projects. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but it's pretty exciting and it's really freaking cool to build things or to like see things come to life and something that you own and then I know that I can use for forever. And it's kind of relaxing to know that I'm not going to move out because my lease is ending and I have to like I never feel like I really invested in apartments when I didn't own and now I feel like I really can. It's a cool feeling.
Speaker 2:It's a good feeling.
Speaker 3:I am turning into an old woman for sure.
Speaker 2:That's right Getting that equity.
Speaker 3:I love it. Yes, equity, but also just I'm trying. I'm terrible. I feel like you're probably not good at this either, but do you have a green thumb?
Speaker 2:You see these hands, Sean you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:These rough manly hands.
Speaker 2:I've got a. I'd grade my thumbs a C.
Speaker 3:I want to be better and I am really trying to learn better and I think that I've made a little bit of progress. But I am by no means good and I just want. I want to have a garden. It doesn't have to be huge, just like a little garden. I want to have plants that are thriving. But I'm just, I'm not good yet. I'm working on it, I follow the directions and I kill everything.
Speaker 2:Did you say green thumb, yeah green thumb.
Speaker 3:Okay yeah, green thumb.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're talking about planting. Yes, okay, I was thinking that we're talking about just being a handy thumb in general, handyman.
Speaker 3:No, I'm handy.
Speaker 2:No, my green thumb is probably a D minus.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay. Well, I'm a little better than you, but not by much. But I mean handy. Yeah, sure, I'm making that up as I go. Being crafty, being creative, I love that. But the green thumb portion of making a house a home and having things that are alive, in your home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, still working on that. I'll report back. I uh, every plant that I have in my house dies instantly. I mean, well, I had a snake plant that lasted almost three, four years just died this past month. Um, and those are the easiest ones to maintain okay, I, I want to.
Speaker 3:I want to talk to whoever said that, because I have had two snake plants now and my second one is on its way out. They're like oh, with your lifestyle, you should just get a snake plant. You can almost just ignore it and it will be fine you want it once a month okay, I do, I do all.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm saying. I follow the directions right now. My snake plant there's one vertical, the remainder are horizontal. Yeah, I've, I've changed the windows, I've like the light exposure, I've watered it less, I've watered it more. I've done all of the the tiktok tricks and trends. I can't keep anything. I'm working on it. But the snake plant and the succulents that everybody says, oh, it's so easy. No, yeah. I have other plants that are thriving that are neither of those categories and they're doing better. So riddle me that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm right there with you. The snake plant is currently out on the porch. Try to revive it. Um and not yeah, might throw in some Viagra at the bottom of the soil. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3:It works for me, it'll work for him.
Speaker 2:Dad jokes, but I feel like as I get older I should become handier, especially if I have a kid. So it's like my dad is the most handyman in the world, where he literally flies down here to help me with projects. He flew down here well last week, but before that a few months ago just, uh, do stuff around megan's house. Yeah, and we talked about that, but it's like at what age I'm like still waiting to just all of a sudden know how to do everything nope, I.
Speaker 3:there is a audio trend. I mean it's not a trend anymore, but I like an audio from memes, gifs, reels, whatever you're gonna make with it that talks about just like if you're not rich, you don't have the luxury of not knowing how to be handy. Like if you have to repurpose all of your stuff that you already have because you can't afford a new coffee table. Well, you got to start somewhere. Like you got to learn it. There's no magic pill, there's no age that all of a sudden you wake up and know how to do things, and I feel like I listened to that and it inspired me. I was like you know what? Who cares if I ruin this bedside table that I've had since college? Well then, okay, but I might as well try and guess what. I fucking dominated it and it looks great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you did restained.
Speaker 3:it did the whole nine, got new hardware on it. It looks beautiful in my living room right now and I was proud.
Speaker 2:Did you make a tick tock video of the process? No, I didn't. Okay, you should have.
Speaker 3:Maybe next time.
Speaker 2:Well, if you haven't heard, a lot's been going on in the past couple weeks.
Speaker 3:Which category?
Speaker 2:I feel like right now we are in a front row seat to the greatest reality television show of all time. Like the last couple weeks will go down in history, yes, there will be books, there will be movies and it all comes down to the 2024 presidential campaign and race.
Speaker 3:What an interesting time we are living in a full episode of Black Mirror.
Speaker 2:A full, full episode and we're not political. We're not a political podcast. We're not afraid to talk about anything. We're going to talk about it just to see what's happened here in the past two weeks. Sam Gat Two weeks ago, not even Okay. President Trump attempted assassination, Correct Within a millimeter of his life.
Speaker 3:Correct.
Speaker 2:Where we've seen the videos. If he didn't turn that way, he wouldn't be here right now, and I truly believe that the country would probably be in a civil war.
Speaker 3:I was going to ask you what do you think? Because I mean, I don't want to let my imagination run too wild, but if the outcome wouldn't have been him surviving, what do you really think? There would have been a civil war?
Speaker 2:I think it would have been absolute chaos. I think every single gun store that following day would have been sold out and I think work would be on pause. And I heard a political expert say that that bullet missing him saved America for like the next 40 or 60 years something crazy like that. The outrage of what would have happened would have been astronomical, of what would have happened would have been astronomical.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean. Yes, I agree with him. I don't know why 40 to 60 years was the exact numbers he gave, but that was a little once I really started to think about what could have happened. I had to kind of check out for a bit, because it was terrifying and okay to go back to being handy and to having a garden and all this stuff. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I need to be able to provide for myself. And like what if I mean I know I'm going way far, but like if something like that could have happened would have been chaos, you would have been locked down. It would have been maybe some version of another pandemic. What about food? What about heat? What about this? Like I didn't have any of these things and it's like I don't want to be a doomsday prepper but at the same time, do I really want to be caught out in the middle of the worst storm of my entire existence with nothing Right? Like that would be on me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we don't know what would have happened, but I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't have gone back to normal Monday morning to work.
Speaker 3:I think we can all agree on that that's a terrifying thing to really think about.
Speaker 2:Terrifying that close, and then we could talk about that whole thing for the entire episode. There's obviously like let's put on our tin foil hats the conspiracies with that.
Speaker 2:How the hell do you let that kid, who looks like he's been in his basement playing Dungeons and Dragons his whole life uh, 130 yards within the most powerful man in the world to get off a shot? It's insane. We know we now have videos that he was identified as being sketchy an hour before he was identified as a threat, 10 minutes before they still let him out on stage and the sniper apparently had him in his range, like all that stuff. I think he had a little help and I also think that we are never gonna know the truth. It's gonna be like jfk we'll never find out what actually happened I agree.
Speaker 3:I think that we are so good at well humans in general, I feel like, are so good at believing what they want to believe that it almost doesn't even matter what the facts are, because it's the way it's painted. So we could look at the same situation and see and read all the same facts, but our interpretation of, oh well, he didn't really mean that, oh, there's no way they would let him do that, because I like intrinsically believe that they would never let that happen. I'm not saying that I do.
Speaker 2:And I'm not saying that I don't.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying that, like the human, this is, this also feels beyond a reality show. But isn't a reality show also just a psychological experiment?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like I just feel like so much emotion and life experience and whatever they've been brought up and what they're subjected to, what they consume, who they follow If they've been brought up and what they're subjected to, what they consume, who they follow if they've even looked at any of the evidence or looked at any of these facts that you've listed all play into like the entirety of this election campaign and that is, I feel like, why we're so divided.
Speaker 3:There's so much emotion and just not a lot of facts being looked at, a lot of facts being interpreted. If that even makes being interpreted, yeah, if that even makes sense, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you know what I mean? Am I making sense? Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:I just feel like it's strange to see the exact same thing as someone else next to me and they're just like oh well, obviously it's this, this and this, where I think almost the exact opposite in my gut instinct and I'm like, wait, yeah, I mean, and you could be right, and I just never thought of it that way and I just feel like this whole election process has been an experiment right in that yeah.
Speaker 2:And then people who are like it was staged. I'm like how do you actually believe that it was staged? The best sniper in the history of the universe could not have made that shot and guaranteed that it would just clip his ear.
Speaker 2:All right, his ear just as a piece of your body, and oh yeah, by the way, we're just gonna have innocent civilians killed in the process, which is the worst part about all of it, right? So for anybody to argue that at stage, I'm like you need to just take a step back and maybe look at the whole thing. I know there's a lot of sketchy things going on, but that is seems like it's impossible to do, like maybe if I was standing this close to you with a gun, I could clip your ear yeah, let's not try that we're not gonna try it, no, but uh, I mean there's videos of bullets going everywhere and now you got theories of a second shooter and I mean it's, it's just a whole mess, but again we'll never know.
Speaker 2:And america was literally saved by a millimeter okay, so then after that, what happened?
Speaker 3:so that was two weeks ago two weeks ago, it's old news by now yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:After that we then have the RNC.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, brother.
Speaker 2:And we have Hulk Hogan, which I was going to say. You got Hulk Hogan on stage ripping his shirt off and America's going wild, Like what is going on right now. It's a reality show.
Speaker 3:Exactly that's what I'm trying to say we are in a black mirror.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I did not watch the rnc. I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I did, but obviously I saw the clips that everybody saw on social media uh, between hulk hogan and then also amber rose.
Speaker 3:Amber rose did great, okay, I what a surprise guest though uh, someone who's in the past been like violently opposed to anything, yeah, even republicans, not even trump. Um, I guess it just goes. I don't know, maybe that was just in the script of this reality show they're writing for us I have no idea um, I was very surprised. I wasn't as surprised to see hulk. I mean, that seems pretty on brand yeah, no and then, who else did you list, uh, daniel white, who was?
Speaker 2:like screaming into the mic.
Speaker 3:He was fired up he, he was fired up up there. He's dana white, so that one didn't surprise me, I guess, is what I'm saying. I'm like, yeah, that that I was also just thinking about the people in this country that have been wearing ear bandages for the last two weeks. Those are my favorite, that's crazy the extras, extras that they paid to say it is wild. I mean it's, I think it's funny. Yeah, I'm like OK, guys, you do you. If that makes him feel better than sure Sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know like what are they Are you wearing a bandage on your ear.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, carol, you wear that bandage. And then we'd be like, oh ear, and then you were wearing a bandage. And then people in town were just like, yeah, did you hear? Sean Booth got shot? He's wearing a bandage. What a pussy.
Speaker 2:That's what I mean. The dude got shot. He can't win it was only because of his trump it was like man, you can't win. Talk about the thickest skin. Oh my, he's got to have the thickest skin in the world.
Speaker 3:I don't know how he does it Well, and not only him, but his family, his children, his like. Think about I mean, yeah, you have a close relationship with your dad. I mean, yeah, you have a close relationship with your dad, I have a close relationship with my dad. There's plenty of people in the world who do not, and it's just like imagine having to take the heat of everything because of what your dad does and you know what.
Speaker 3:Maybe they agree with everything he says and they also have thick skin. I don't know them Right, but I am not envious of them. That's a tough, tough place and it's not like Trump is a very incognito last name, like you could slide in and nobody would notice. Right, literally internationally now yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think that that's why it was such a huge deal for him, because he has been obviously criticized more than anybody in the planet for eight years. Right, he has been coined Hitler and, like one of the first things I thought of when he got shot, I'm like this is because of the media things I thought of when he got shot I'm like this is because of the media.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is because of the media and the attacks that they've had on him for years and years that it's come down to this where he almost got shot in the head, where I think a lot of people who are rational were able to take a step back when and they were just like like their heart I mean democrats, republicans, your heart sinks when you hear, holy shit, trump just got shot. I think people were able to step back and be like, oh, he's human and also, by the way, the dude has been through hell and back and he's still there. That's where I think he got a ton of support after that, because people were able, just for a minute, even if you're a Democrat, most of them were like, holy shit, like that. Okay, we crossed the line.
Speaker 3:Yes, of them were like holy shit, like that. Okay, we crossed the line. Yeah, yes, I mean I have a lot of see. I saw the aftermath on social media of it kind of being a mixed bag, though there were so many people. They're like oh sorry, I don't feel bad for this man that's inside of violence and now all of a sudden he's getting reaping what he sowed. It's just like a lot of very disconnected, like very not human, like how you're saying so weird.
Speaker 3:That is tough for me to look at. Like I said, I feel like I start doom scrolling and then I have to just like kind of check out for a bit. But the thing that killed me were people who had no remorse for the person who was there at the rally and they were like oh sorry, I don't care that someone caught a stray bullet who was supporting this man and I'm like that's tough for me to listen to I'm like that dude also passed away covering his wife and child to stay safe, like talk about a protector and someone who is obviously a prominent part in that family household that is now forever altered.
Speaker 3:And you go on the internet, you keyboard warrior, and just be like, oh well, sorry, I don't feel bad for this guy. It's like, okay, well, what about his daughter that now no longer has a father?
Speaker 2:right and a firefighter.
Speaker 3:So that guy if your house was burning down.
Speaker 2:You wouldn't want him showing up to protect you because he would protect you in a second and he wouldn't think about if you're a democrat or republican or at least you would hope, not.
Speaker 2:I mean, we don't know the guy, but I'm saying yeah chances are he'd show up and do his job for you and his daughter and his wife had to sit there and watch while it took like 10 minutes, obviously all the chaos going on. He just got shot in the head. He's laying there in the bleachers. You have some guy who's trying to administer cpr and the daughter and the wife are just sitting there in complete shock what do you do?
Speaker 3:I don't want to know, I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I'm starting to feel weird yeah, awful so it's awful it's awful so that happens, but you got the rnc wait wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3:I gotta go back. One more thing, because you said like the humanization of like wow, this guy got shot made him have all of this rushing in support. And I agree. But I'd like to take it one step further because I think the real hook line sinker was when trump stood up bleeding fight, put his arm up in the air, american flag in the back social security on him. Like even Mark Zuckerberg said damn, damn, yeah, that's a badass photo. And I'm like yeah that was, that was historic.
Speaker 3:I mean, I know, that sounds so dumb to say like that was historic, but like that will be in history books for the remainder of well, if we have any earth left, probably the most popular photo of all time.
Speaker 2:When it's all said and done, I don't I can't think of any. Think of another photo, I mean historically. If you're talking about top five photos, you would obviously have like the twin towers going down getting hit by a plane.
Speaker 3:George Washington on the boat.
Speaker 2:Is that a real photo? Is that a drawing? Oh, I don't know. Well, I mean, isn't?
Speaker 3:it. It's a drawing, yeah, but I I mean, but I'm saying that it's like yeah that was all over history books when we were growing up right.
Speaker 2:What's another photo? Can we think of one? Please don't quiz me right now in public the berlin wall, maybe jfk, but anyways, yeah, we all can agree that that would be one of the most famous yeah photos of all time but I think that also got him a lot of support 100 truly just the photo.
Speaker 3:But I it's not just the photo, it's the fact that the dude just got shot stood up and was still like let's fucking ride immediately.
Speaker 1:It was like wait, give me my shoes, give me my shoes.
Speaker 2:That was a funny part. Wait, wait, wait, what I don't know? No, no, you can hear the whole converse, not the whole conversation I haven't seen he's like getting up like come on, let's go, like, wait, wait, let me get my shoes, give me my shoes, and then he's like telling secret service to stop because they were like trying to get him the hell out of there.
Speaker 1:He's like wait, let me get my shoes then. He's like hold on, wait, and like parts him over, moves him over, and he's like okay, well you know Say what you want about the guy, but he's always going to be himself.
Speaker 3:That's a very Trump follow-up. He can't help himself.
Speaker 1:The promo machine, thing he does he cannot help himself.
Speaker 2:Oh, he knew in that moment that was a fantastic advertisement, capitalize. Yeah, he talked to the photographer like. I thought he was saying fuck yeah, so did I.
Speaker 3:I was like fuck you, fuck you, that would have been even crazier, it would have been awesome. I mean at this point the reality show is getting super deep. Why not just add in some curse words on stage?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think he knew in that moment for sure.
Speaker 1:Because that's like you knew where you were, because I was born after 9-11, so I wasn't alive for that.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, damn what that. I'm sorry damn what, yeah, I was born in 2002.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like I will always remember where I was, yeah, your mother's womb.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not talking about 9-11 I'm talking about this, oh okay, yeah. Yeah, I got a text from buddy dusty mcnab.
Speaker 3:He's like trump, just got shot I was like I thought it was a joke. I know that sounds terrible, but I thought it was a joke. Or I thought someone was just that's all I mean.
Speaker 1:That's what I thought. I thought it was like some conspiracy bullshit on twitter or something, because I was at the pool drinking so I'm drunk, yeah. And then me and my friend were going back up to my apartment to play xbox we're gonna play madden. My dad called me like yo. They just shot trump in the head and I was like dad to get off twitter, stop. He's like I'll turn on the news and I turn on the news and I was like what a different 30 minutes saturday for he was at the pool going to play Xbox.
Speaker 2:I was literally in locks, his nursery room changing a diaper. I feel old, Damn. Those are the days.
Speaker 3:You were probably drunk at the pool when a nine 11 happened, though, so I was in high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was drunk in Myrtle beach when um they captured. Oh no, was it Osama? They didn't capture him, they just killed him. Yeah, no, Saddam Hussein. No, no Osama bin Laden.
Speaker 3:When they shot him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alcohol, myrtle Beach, you know it was literally on all the bars and it was like at night. When he came out and announced it they started playing Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. It was a fun moment.
Speaker 3:There are a few songs that I feel like really unite the country and Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus is one of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were at the bar. We were at neighbors down the street and every TV in the bar was all Fox News, of course, and it was all watching that. And I've never been in a restaurant as packed as that one was, that it was as quiet as that one was. Yeah, I mean, the waitresses were like whispering. That's crazy. It was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 3:Well, it's a monumental moment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, he survived, America survived, and he was a little more humanized. And even at the RNC, when they're showing like obviously it is, you know it's political theater you have the granddaughters and they're sitting on his lap and all that and I was like oh, yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3:It's a publicity statement, exactly.
Speaker 2:But you're also like yes, he is somebody's grandpa, I know he is somebody's dad, yep, and he almost just got killed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's crazy. I think we are so desensitized to just I mean even just the comments that people make about him like you're saying, like the thickest skin ever. Just imagine if someone said the things they say to him to you. I would not recover if he said that to my face.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, like he don't care.
Speaker 3:No, I know, and he's the perfect man for the job, then yeah exactly. Because, like Godspeed, yeah, a perfect man for the job.
Speaker 2:then because, exactly like godspeed, yeah, there's not many people that could withstand the turmoil and the constant negativity, and just yeah, good for him and one thing I felt like after he got shot and that photo's going around and everybody's showing support, I felt like it was uh gave the green light for a lot of closet trump fans to come out like, because then you start seeing it everywhere.
Speaker 2:Everybody's posting it and like that was kind of like oh shit, people aren't afraid now to express what they believe in or who they're rooting for, because a guy almost died.
Speaker 3:So hold on. I also have a question for you and this is just your opinion, because I don't think you can ever actually have a fact about it, but I think everybody kind of if you are predominantly liberal, no problem talking about your political beliefs and everything that you align with, but if you are more conservative, why is it that they're afraid to talk about it?
Speaker 2:because the left extreme, left side are so cancel culture. So if it's and the funniest thing is it's like the democratic party is supposed to be the most inclusive party the party of democracy, yeah, and we accept and invite everybody, unless you think, you don't think like us, and then we were going to burn you at the stake yeah, and that's.
Speaker 2:That's why I think you know a further discussion. I think the Democrats, the extreme left I got plenty of friends who are Democrats. I got family members who are Democrats. I'm from Connecticut, all right. I feel like the extreme left. They're the ones that are going to lose this election because of how crazy they've been the past four years. And I feel like it's an awakening. Now I feel like people aren't afraid to talk about their support for Trump. Now I feel like everything that's going on and even Democrats I mean you just sat here before the show we said we know a lot of liberal people who are like, yeah, I'm voting for Trump.
Speaker 2:Like oh yeah, okay, it's getting so outrageous and it went so extreme left, left, left that now it's swinging back.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:That's what I believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I mean, I just am very I. I love asking people about not necessarily what they align with, but why. And some people take that as a what do you mean? Why? Obviously because da, da, da and I'm like okay, I wasn't trying to attack you, but when I ask conservative people that, it's always like a guarded response, it doesn't even. I don't even mean on social media, I mean just in life, like my conservative friends almost have a harder time not articulating why they believe something. Don't get that mixed up. They know why they believe something, but saying it out loud in public, in mixed company, Because they've been made to feel bad.
Speaker 3:Sure yeah, and I, I agree with you. I mean, I think, the media.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's feel bad.
Speaker 3:Sure, yeah, and I, I agree with you. I mean, I think the media, yeah, I mean it's so bad, yeah, it's, it's tough, but it's been an interesting my own personal experiment that I've had, just asking people, because, also not for nothing, but I'm still learning. So what if you see something differently, like I was saying earlier, so different that I'm like, oh, I never thought of it like that and it could change my mind on whatever we're talking about. I hate that. If you ask the question why, like, oh, do you support whatever is on this political ballot? Sure, why, all of a sudden that's like I'm attacking you, what?
Speaker 2:do you mean why?
Speaker 3:And it's like dude, whoa, I just was wondering why. Because if you feel this way and here the other thing is if that, if you're like, the only reason I want to vote for joe biden or someone on the left is because of how much I hate trump, that's also a valid answer. It's your own choice. So if you want to say that, just say it. But they won't say that. No, so exactly, it's just been. I've tried to be I mean, I would consider myself very in the middle. I always have been. I see, I see and try and absorb and learn from both sides and everything. But I just feel like it's become harder and harder to even be in the middle.
Speaker 3:Then all of a sudden it's like you don't stand for anything and I'm like holy shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Now, I stand for nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, I can't keep up with this, so it's. I don't know Next what happened after the RNC Moving on. It's a crazy time.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, yeah. So then, in this reality show episode, three, Episode three yes, okay. Episode three. You have Joe Biden, who's had who got the most votes in the history of any election, the man of the people and all of a sudden, sudden, the higher up people literally bring him out back and put him down behind the shed I mean right in front of our face listen, you might be wearing a tinfoil hat, but you also might not be, and we, I think, also will never know well, I'm not saying he's dead, but also there's reports that he actually might be dead because we haven't seen him in a week.
Speaker 2:but he went from being the most popular president, right, he got the most votes in the last election and again the party of democracy. And then they the a handful of people took the vote. You know the president that everybody voted for and said, yeah, you're not running anymore and we're going to handpick who is running, which I think, if you are the Democrat, I mean from either side that's kind of messed up. Try and argue that it's not. What's the argument that that's not messed up?
Speaker 3:and argue that it's not. What's the argument? That that's not messed up? I I mean everybody has said. Well, from what I've read on the internet is that they saved democracy.
Speaker 2:That's been the tagline that I've seen really been running around and the whole reason that everybody was hating on trump and one of the reasons why he almost got killed was because Biden and all the Democrats were saying that he was ruining democracy.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, no, no, a threat to democracy, a threat to democracy.
Speaker 2:Let's put a target on him.
Speaker 3:All over the place. And then and then they shot him and they were like whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. We didn't mean that much of a threat and it's like all right, but speaking of that democracy thing.
Speaker 2:Never mind that, we're going to just do what we want to do. It almost feels like now, and this is why it's just so crazy. I feel like I don't know how to correlate it to something, but I'm thinking in my head like you're watching something happen. Maybe it's like the dumbest criminals. Or, you see, like somebody recording a video and they don't know that you're watching.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Right, like somebody's in the parking lot just recording and whoever's doing. Whatever they're doing, they don't know. I feel like that's at least how I feel right now. We're most Americans. We're just sitting back and it's like we know everything you're doing right now. Sure, we know what's going on Like. For years, you guys have lied to us, trying to say that Joe Biden is, he's fit and he's mentally sharp, and any time that anybody would question that you would get so much hate you would get.
Speaker 3:You would hear that oh, those videos were fake. Well, Trump is only three years younger than him. I'm like okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, the dude can't talk. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter how old he is.
Speaker 3:And I do think that the biggest exposure that kind of got this ball rolling, which I could be incorrect, but this is my opinion.
Speaker 2:Don't come for me the debate. Yeah, of course, because all of a sudden everybody was like, oh my gosh, and that was a setup.
Speaker 3:Let me put my tinfoil hat back on. Okay, wait, set up for what to start this whole ball rolling.
Speaker 2:Yes, they knew how bad he was, they knew he wasn't gonna do well, they put him on stage. And now, after he's on stage for a couple hours, the same people who were defending him for years are the same people in the media saying he needs to go. He needs to go, see, he needs to go Now. All Americans can say that and they can all support him leaving.
Speaker 1:That was also the earliest debate ever, like the earliest before the election that's ever happened. And his team his team is the one that wanted it. Interesting Because they came to CNN or whoever hosted it, and gave a bunch of crazy rules that they didn't think Trump would say yes to. So they could be like. We tried to debate him but he said no. Like mute the mic and all this other.
Speaker 3:Like no crowd In true Trump fashion. He was like hold my beer, I'll be there.
Speaker 2:I don't know why he has a southern accent now, but yeah, okay, yeah, okay. So I think that that was a setup. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I didn't know about the timeline.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the earliest it's ever been.
Speaker 1:Okay Right.
Speaker 3:I try and be educated so I don't sound like an idiot and I can form my own opinions. But it is so draining to me that I also try to not be just doom scrolling all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I want to be an educated American. I hate when people are like, oh, just stick to, you know, running your business doing your podcast, sean, oh, just stick to modeling or whoever's voicing their opinion about politics, because that is silly to me. Politics affect all of us, grand sweepingly, and it doesn't matter where you stand, if you live in this country, it affects you. So why are you telling people who have a public platform Just stick to what you do? It like oh, what do I do? I'm a human, so I'm gonna stick to being a human, so go fuck yourself.
Speaker 2:If I believe that the sky is purple, I can say that because that's what I believe and that's why we live in this country you also pay taxes and it's like my business is dependent on how the economy runs, like all this, which is your livelihood, which then directly affects your family within, affects your son, which affects your, which affects your mental health.
Speaker 3:It's like the whole thing. Oh, just stick to like. You know Dave Portnoy, love him or hate him, he's outspoken and opinionated and he's not afraid to say whatever the fuck he thinks. And you know, he started a video that was just like all these people keep telling me to stick to pizza reviews. He's like no, fuck you. And then I can't help but agree with that. Yeah, because by no means am I ever going to be as famous as Dave Portnoy. Hopefully that sounds like a nightmare, but he's right. Yeah, and he's a businessman.
Speaker 2:He has a very large Well, I was thinking this yesterday because I love Portnoy. I've always been a fan since he started Barstool back in New England when I was a young pup back in college. But I'm like it back in college, but I'm like it's probably easier, easier for him to express these opinions and talk now that he's got hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank 100 right like if it was oh yes, before bar still got those big deals, he wouldn't be able to do it absolutely now that he's, you know, mid 40, he's almost, is he almost 50 years old?
Speaker 3:he's probably older than that, I'll look it up no, he's not older than 50, you child born in 2000 46 I bet 46, 47, 47 47.
Speaker 2:He's three years from 50, so it's like he's got all the money in the world.
Speaker 3:He's set, his family set and yeah, and I love, I love his he ended the video that I'm talking about with.
Speaker 3:If you can prove me wrong, I will buy you a boat, a yacht and I'll be your captain, yeah and I'm like that's such a flex, that's such a douchebag thing to say, but also I get it, I agree with it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I love them or hate them. Who? It doesn't even have to be dave portnoy. If someone has an opinion and something to back it up and the reasons why and they're passionate about it, like I respect it. Yeah, even if I disagree with them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just love people who have a backbone and stick with it Instead of just saying what appeals to the masses or what makes them look good and get some out of cancel culture and all that shit. Like no, I love when people come back and they're like, um, you need to apologize because you said X, y, z, and they come out and they say, yeah, I said it, yeah and yeah, that's what they meant. At least I know where they stand now so I can make an educated decision to either support them or not.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:But when it's like wishwashy and we're just doing whatever the script says, how am I supposed to make an educated decision for myself, for my business, for my family, for my son, for all this stuff that you're talking about Like, go fuck yourself.
Speaker 1:Anyways, and I will say I don't like Joe Biden. I've never voted for him, but I do feel bad for the human Joe Biden through all this. Yeah, of course, because he dedicated whatever side doesn't matter his whole life to politics, which isn't the funnest job. Finally got the job he wanted, probably later than he would have wanted. Probably didn't enjoy it at all.
Speaker 1:And then everyone kept telling you you're going to do it again, you're going to do it again. And then, the moment you fuck up, everyone turned their back on you and said, no, get out of here, get out of here, get out of here. That's politics, that's fine, and they paraded him around and made him look. So Like when you go back, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you go look back and you think of Joe Biden. The moment yeah, the moment shit hit the fan, everyone was like see, yeah, we're good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that sucked well, and it sucks. Like you're saying, he has had an insanely long career in politics and like, right at the end got tarnished.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sucks yeah, that's tough because he obviously doesn't understand or grasp everything that's going on. So it's so sad to watch and for sure the human and I'm like I feel really bad for that guy. Where's his family and that's going on. So it's so sad to watch and for sure the human in him like I feel really bad for that guy. Where's his family and that's why everybody's like Jill Biden wants to be the president.
Speaker 3:Did you see her reaction after the debate there?
Speaker 2:was a clip of her. She's like Joe did really good. You knew every question. I'm like what is he?
Speaker 3:four, that's the way I talked to your son, a literal baby. Yeah, I was just like what is she doing? What is she doing? What is she doing? What is she doing? Stop, stop, stop jill yeah like, and it could have been a congratulatory. Like I'm so proud of you as your wife, like you did great. Why was she screaming into the microphone like it was the youth jamboree 19? Like what? Joe, you answered every question which is the point of a debate.
Speaker 2:Jill, yes, he's the literal person of the united states person in the entire world that's crazy yeah, so you feel terrible for him because, he doesn't want to do this right now.
Speaker 3:He's I mean, he's the guys on his all I hope right now is that joe biden is somewhere shirtless with his pants undone, with whatever scotch he enjoys, just chilling. Yeah, like, let him chill, let him enjoy whatever time he has left, which apparently tinfoil people are saying that's zero, because it's already gone just like let the dude chill yes, just let him chill out I don't know for sure.
Speaker 3:The memes about it have been pretty hilarious the internet is still undefeated, I have to say there's like memes that, like Joe Biden's, going to be devastated when he hears about this. They're like does Joe know Even?
Speaker 2:Trump is like hey, guess what? Today's a new day. Joe doesn't remember saying that yesterday, so he's still in the race. Like Trump is making ridiculous comments about it.
Speaker 3:Oh, Trump, that man so yeah, that's episode four.
Speaker 2:Joe Biden, put down behind the shed by his own people, literally just said and then we're going to take Kamala.
Speaker 3:It's just so convoluted and I feel like it's so chaotic now that you don't know what to believe that I just feel like both sides are just being robbed of what a political or, I'm sorry, a presidential election is supposed to be. It's just there's so many episodes here in this reality show that it's just it's hard to focus on the facts, yeah, and the plans in the future and all that stuff, or at least for me.
Speaker 2:A lot of people say Barack Obama still run the country. I saw I've seen those memes too, but it just feels, at least for me.
Speaker 3:A lot of people say barack obama's still running the country, for I saw I've seen those memes too but it just feels like defeating for me. It's like what's the point of me even trying?
Speaker 2:if I don't feel like anything is authentic anyway well, that's what I think the main issue comes down to. No matter who's running this or whatever, it just feels like the american people are just kind of getting the run around, yeah, from the very top and it's like we're all catching on and it just seems icky, it doesn't seem right and it's confusing and it's confusing it is confusing and it's just.
Speaker 3:I mean, like I said, I want to be an educated voter and I want to have my own thoughts and opinions, but it's tough to weed through all of the extracurriculars right now. That's a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, godspeed to us in our country you guys are older than me thank you, we know but, like I, the only election before, like I remember this one, the last one, the hillary trump. Then the only election before that I remember was I think it was like mccain and obama yeah, and that one to me wasn't, as None of them were Like when did it flip from like being like Trump and Hillary, everyone could have cordial conversations.
Speaker 2:Trump and Hillary. It wasn't like this, was that what? Yes, oh, it was over 2016. I was literally counting down the days for those debates for pure entertainment, like setting the TV up, and those two debating was outrageous and hilarious.
Speaker 3:Debating was outrageous and hilarious. There's a clip going around from the presidential debate of 2012 between Mitt. Romney and Obama, and it's just like the most cordial. Mitt congratulates Obama on his wedding anniversary Like thanks for spending your night with me, I know this is exactly where you want to be Just like super cordial, super like conversational, respectful.
Speaker 2:And guys in their mid 40s 50s yes. Yeah, youth youth.
Speaker 3:We forgot about that as well uh, yeah, that's long gone, but I would say it's.
Speaker 1:2016 is when everything like culturally though, like even back then, like you could have changed everything yeah, but before that, like people didn't disagree as harshly as I mean they're still right, like way left, way right. But it was still like it wasn't.
Speaker 2:People were getting shot over who they're voting you could say if you're a republican or democrat without judgment, like I, remember being in school, real young um, when it was clinton. And who would clinton go against? No, who did bush go against?
Speaker 3:I was a child doing gymnastics, not paying attention to. No, it was clinton and gore clinton gore ticket defeated.
Speaker 2:Republican incumbent hw gore, what gore was the vp right, yeah, and who did they go? They go against george bush and vice president dan quail dan quail?
Speaker 3:isn't he the one who shot, or got shot or something on like?
Speaker 1:a hunting trip. That was in 1992. Are you talking about quail hunting? No, didn't al gore shoot someone or something on like a hunting?
Speaker 3:trip. That was in 1992. Are you talking about quail hunting? No, didn't Al Gore shoot someone, or something like that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, al Gore did not shoot anybody.
Speaker 3:Somebody shot someone on a hunting trip.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, okay, in the 90s, or like at least in the early 2000s, something very vague in my memory. Ah, who's that old guy? And it was a vice president wasn't out.
Speaker 3:Gore whale hunting booth that was in 1992 anyways, what was your story about remembering when you're really young?
Speaker 1:as a kid dick cheney, yes in 06.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember being in school as a kid and they'd have like posters and you get to color them in. It was like a elephant for republicans or a donkey right for democrats and like we'd all like kind of just color them in, and it was during the election and people were saying who they liked and obviously not having any clue about politics.
Speaker 3:Sure, it was way more um, respectful yeah until trump came in well, yeah, that guy, he, yeah, he has done quite a remix. I do feel like I wish there was almost along the same lines, where you're just like coloring and you're learning the facts of both sides. There are quizzes out there that you can answer questions, like they'll ask you political based questions and you can respond how you think and at the end, it tells you what you are you should vote for yeah which you know what.
Speaker 3:That's a place to start if you feel super inundated with information and it's like not a nameless faceless opponent, no names or any political party affiliation. And it's like not a nameless, faceless opponent, no names or any political party affiliation, and it's just like here are the facts. What do you think about this? Would you want it to be this way or this way? And I think that is what should be at the ballot.
Speaker 2:I think you should answer it. I think you just solved the world's problems. Sam Kat, I think you walk up to the machine. You take a quiz. No, you take a full-blown test and you can study for it as much or as little as you want, but based off the way you answer your question, whoever fits that candidacy candidacy bill is the next. Whoever?
Speaker 3:yeah it votes for you. It goes. You just voted for joe biden, you just voted for sean booth, like whatever it may be. I feel like it would take a lot of the riffraff out of it and it would kind of pull the power that media and all of this shit has over us. Yeah, cause that's truly. I mean. I know I keep repeating myself, but like it's all I want. I want to not be confused, I want to know and I want to make an educated decision for myself, for my future, for the future of the country, for my invisible children that I don't have, and I just feel for my invisible children that I don't have.
Speaker 2:And I just feel For your eggs that are freezing right now, for my eggs that are freezing.
Speaker 3:They're just sitting there chilling, waiting to be part of this world, and it's like I just wish there was an easier way to get through the riffraff. And it feels defeating at this point that it's just never going to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's never going to happen.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a wild few months here but, oh my gosh, do you think it'll ever go back, like even like, if trump wins again and he's done, he can't go again. Do you think it'll ever go back to how it used to be, or you? Think now it's over now. Now it's, we're going on this path and this is what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3:I don't think it'll be anytime soon, but I think yes I think it'll kind of swing back.
Speaker 2:It's a little more, I don't know, depends. See what happens, like you said. Have you ever?
Speaker 3:seen the movie idiocracy? You should watch it, because we are. It used to be funny and it's getting wildly close. Have you seen idiocracy? No, that's your homework. Okay, put it this way back when they made the movie, they were trying to think of, like what the most hideous, dumbest shoes they could feature in this movie that like, oh my god, no one would ever buy them. Flash forward, they are crocs, yeah, and so that's just like a little preface.
Speaker 3:It's basically the evolution of time and the fact that, like a smart, educated, high IQ person, focused on career and all this stuff and ended up not procreating and then they waited too long and then they didn't have any babies, all at the same time that Jim Bob, who lives in the middle of nowhere with the IQ of four, has had sex with every person from here to Timbuktu and now has rapidly procreated and eventually the entire world is now an idiot, because the idiots kept procreating and the smart people were just focused on what was in front of them. I don't know. I wouldn't say it's a good movie, but it's an alarmingly close potential prediction that I don't think we want to come true. But it used to be funnier, now it's a little eee, a little close.
Speaker 2:Getting close.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then the final episode of our reality show, Final Secret Service just for the past two weeks.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay. Yeah so I'm very. I didn't know any of this. You guys were the ones talking about this when I walked in here. I don't know any of this next episode, so you got to take this away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the head lady of the Secret Service, kim Shaddle. Is that how you say her name? Cheadle Cheadle. She sat in front of Congress yesterday and they fucking tore her apart.
Speaker 3:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:Like I mean, went at her Trying to get any type of information, any answers from what happened, demanding at her trying to get any type of information, any answers from what happened, demanding that she resigns. Uh, both sides of the aisle, obviously there was a major failure, a breakdown to let somebody who watches dungeon and dragons in his basement, 130 yards close to the president, and they're trying to get answers, and so she had to sit under oath and um, they all went at her and then one lady was literally like we have, I have five minutes to talk to you. Do you want to take this five minutes to draft your resignation letter?
Speaker 3:oh, she goes no wait, they said that to the head of secret service yeah, so the girl's going at her. The girl's like oh it was all right, I gotta look at this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll send you a clip, this one lady was like these are are only yes and no questions going forward. She's like okay, and then she starts drilling her and the lady literally goes you're so full of shit.
Speaker 1:You're so full of shit right now. She said something, she answered some questions. She goes that's bullshit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was wild dude and the Secret Service lady who's sitting there will not answer anything.
Speaker 3:will, will not give the simplest answers, and it's been nine days and she will not say anything.
Speaker 2:Why do you think that is uh still under investigation?
Speaker 3:it's like well and why are you here talking to?
Speaker 2:us exactly. So, anyways, they had to subpoena her to get her there, and then today she finally resigned.
Speaker 1:She had so much pressure, like she is just gone one guy because she used to work at pepsi, who owns like doritos and shit and some guy I guess. He did like he stayed, he lives in like texas and they'll know where. She like staged the shooting and like got real mad about it. He's like I did 10 shots and nine of them would have killed him. The other one hit him in the ear and he got super pissed and he's like go back to guarding doritos of course a man in texas did that, I mean it was bad, dude, it was bad yeah but I don't take that whole little system they do.
Speaker 1:I just feel like that setting is very unproductive anyway, because everyone's up there trying to get slam dunk roast for instagram and shit. Like exactly it's very unproductive. And then you get someone like that who's gonna go there and she's gonna say, oh, like they'd be, like they'd ask her a question. They'd ask her really simple stuff, dude, yeah, they'd be like what time did the first shots happen?
Speaker 1:right, you can we know that yeah like it's on the tv when it happened and she's like oh, still under investigation, still under investigation. Or I'd have to ask the fbi. They're the ones doing the criminal.
Speaker 3:She didn't want to be there. She was subpoenaed. No, they made her.
Speaker 1:She apparently they asked her to go. She said, no, we're gonna subpoena you then.
Speaker 2:So then you have to go like simple questions like do you think that they should have been allowed within 130 yards or do you think donald trump should have been notified? And she's like we're still under like anything like any common sense questions, like she would have gained so much more respect, at least for me, if she was just like yeah, sure, just be honest, like yeah, just tell us what happened tell us, give us something, because now it just looks so fishy and you have all these investigations and again we'll never know yeah, because they were like well, because she'd be like.
Speaker 1:She kept being like, oh, the fbi is doing the fbi, the fbi, and they're like all right, well, who at the fbi? Do we need a subpoena to get?
Speaker 3:here. Yeah, well they're like oh, I can't give out names and they're like all right because it's I just feel like it's, you know, protecting what's within their I don't know and in that situation my empathetic side is like, oh my gosh, that's just a human Like we were talking about. That's so bad. But then the other side of me is just like, yeah, but you also chose this job. Yeah, I mean, you knew what it was and you signed up for it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, you didn't know this was going to happen. Well, hopefully you didn't know this was going to happen.
Speaker 2:What? I would have been gone 10 minutes after it happened. I would have set it all up and be like I'm out, you can't there's no coming back. Yeah, you're done.
Speaker 3:I would have made an announcement I fucked up, this is my responsibility. Like yeah, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's an important job.
Speaker 1:They were like like did you call president trump after and apologize? And she was like yeah. She's like they're like how long do you wait? And she's like oh, I don't know the timeline, I don't know the timeline, I don't know the timeline Like, how long did you wait? Like you're under oath, was it 72 hours? And she's like yeah, it was 72 hours. Like you waited three days, yeah, and she just got ripped.
Speaker 2:Like the last president that got shot, was it Reagan 40 years ago? Assassination attempt.
Speaker 3:He obviously survived. But that director of the Secret Service is to keep them safe correctly and they did not do that.
Speaker 2:But shout out to the guys on stage and the women who just that's. Their job is to be a human shield. Yep, with bullets still flying over your head, that's crazy. I don't want to think about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, gives me the chills.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the greatest reality show on TV right now.
Speaker 3:Stay tuned for next week's episode. I'm sure we'll have something else. Come in the doors here.
Speaker 2:I am 50 minutes in.
Speaker 3:We just talked 50 minutes about the state of our world just burning I guess we are a political show now after that, but, like I said, politics is directly affecting our lives. Yeah, I don't feel like I'm not claiming any sides right now.
Speaker 2:I don't know where I am. I'm in the middle and I'm very confused. In the tornado I mean yeah, you weren't here for that.
Speaker 3:When I sat with tommy, she kind of like gave me a quiz and I was like, yeah, I agree with a lot of stuff on the left and I agree with a lot of stuff yeah, but now I can, yeah, definitely say my only goal, though, is to just not be I'm probably gonna get roasted for this, but just like not be an emotional voter, and I because I know emotions are a part of it and like, naturally I feel some way, but I just want to make sure that I'm making like an educated decision not just like, oh god, like, like I don't want to. I want to make a decision, not a reaction right.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what they, that's what they want you. They want you to make a reaction, which is why they say exactly stuff about exactly it's not even true that's like the extra additives in the script here of this reality show, and I'm just like that is truly.
Speaker 3:My goal is. I want to make a decision, not a reaction.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So maybe emotional is the wrong word, but I'm a woman, so we have those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:It's getting tougher and tougher by day, but we shall see. We shall see. Stay tuned. Let's go lighthearted.
Speaker 3:I would love to. I'm sweating.
Speaker 2:Top four final four favorite reality shows of all time, Not including this one.
Speaker 3:Besides the one I'm living.
Speaker 2:Okay, cool, cool cool Number four, here we go, samcat's favorite reality shows ranked from four to one okay, one being the best.
Speaker 3:My number four, yeah, is a bit of nostalgia, because I I do have to preface this with, like, I don't really watch a lot of reality tv. I think it rots your brain, okay, and I mean that, um, not all but just some, but I think that back in the day when I was in high school, I was obsessed with so you think you can dance.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That was my favorite show.
Speaker 2:For an extended period of time Right what ryan?
Speaker 3:no, that was a singer, ryan seacrest no, no what are you?
Speaker 2:saying okay, keep going um anyways, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 3:First of all, I love to dance. I'm nowhere near good enough to ever be on a dancing reality show by any stretch of the imagination, but it just also has a level of nostalgia for me because it was just my favorite show in high school. My friends used to come over and we would watch like binge watch it back when you had to be on demand and DVR and TiVo to fast forward through the commercials type thing. But I feel like for years I was obsessed with that show.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a good one. There was a dance show on MTV. I swear this guy's name was Ryan. He was a backup dancer for Britney Spears. Surprised you don't remember it.
Speaker 3:I don't know.
Speaker 2:It was great.
Speaker 3:I do know who Ryan Cabrera is, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had the spiky hair. Okay, that's your number four. Number four, I'm just going to get out of the way. I'm going to say the Bachelor, Bachelorette, Great show. Obviously it's very successful.
Speaker 3:Not's a reason why it's been around for 30 plus years talk about a social experiment yeah, number three okay, but number three also nostalgic, and I just feel like it was always on on sunday nights. So I feel like my family and I just like watched it and it has led to my love for home renovations, like we talked about at the beginning. But extreme home makeover, yeah, when they would choose families that needed whatever help and then they would go in and build the house in seven hours. I still don't know how they did that. You remember it was like they would send them on a vacation for four days and they'd come back with a completely new home.
Speaker 2:It happened the town next to me. These kids I played basketball against in Suffield, a mile down the road what yeah?
Speaker 3:I would love to be on set for that show too, because the logistics do not add up in my head. And yet they did it every week, like were they lying about the timeline. Can you build a freaking house in four hours?
Speaker 2:can renovate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, they would like. I mean yeah, I guess a lot of them are renovations, but I just feel like they'd be scrambling. They're like the family's gonna be home in 30 minutes and like they don't have an island in the kitchen I know and I'm like this is like this timeline yeah and that's where my misjudgment of how handy I was, I guess started I was a big a and e guy right, yeah, that's uh that's still hgtv, oh hgtv okay, I got into a big phase with those as well.
Speaker 2:Great show number three I'm gonna um take a step further from the bachelor bachelorette. I'm going to tequila. That's a throwback.
Speaker 3:Speaking of, rotting your brain.
Speaker 2:That was a dating show. Oh my gosh in the Rock of Love.
Speaker 3:Remember those were like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but Tequila had guys and girls. Yes, In one house.
Speaker 3:And she was a bisexual. Yes, well, that's how guys and girls work. Yes, thank you for saying that to me.
Speaker 2:Well, that's how guys and girls work. Yes, yeah, I do remember that. That was damn. Yeah, that's when we were a proper country, that's when things were going good in america.
Speaker 3:I forgot about tila tequila. That took me back yeah yikes.
Speaker 2:Okay, my number two is the challenge yeah, those are always good, the old ones, though, not the new ones I agree.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like back in the day when it was just like a bunch of mixture, like road rules, real, yeah real world, whatever, yeah um true challenge, because also I feel like I could have been on that show yeah, I wanted to be on that show that would have been dope you should.
Speaker 2:Road rules are real yeah, the challenge, I could do that one.
Speaker 3:I just feel like they were creative. It had like just the right amount of drama, but it was just like physical fights basically, but it was just like so impressive when the girl who weighed 100 pounds and like nobody bet on her somehow beat the guy. Like I love the drama of that. It was organic. I feel like it wasn't scripted. I feel like that was real yeah, like you can't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those emotions are running high with those guys, hell yeah yeah well, I mean, who knows what they're doing off camera in order to be pumped to beat their opponent in like a sand pit that's on fire while they have a tire around their neck and you're like what? I would love to do that and I would love to come up with a challenge. Yeah, like something that would be implemented into the show, like, oh, let's see if you can do this, because those people are also creative props to those writers very creative.
Speaker 2:I love it. Yeah, I think that kicked off.
Speaker 3:Uh, reality tv, the real world and then you would just be able to go back to your house with your friends and just like, drink and swim and hang out and have the best time. And then tomorrow you wake up and have to like do another competition, sign me up, yeah.
Speaker 2:Not a bad deal.
Speaker 3:Not a bad, and they make a lot of money off that and they all fall in love.
Speaker 2:It's just a whole big thing. Number two I had only because I'm watching it right now.
Speaker 3:no, idea what that is Elona's great. What is it?
Speaker 2:You get dropped off. There's 10 people and they go-.
Speaker 3:Dropped off where.
Speaker 2:Exactly In the absolute middle of nowhere in the woods. You get dropped off on a helicopter, on a boat and you have 10 items that you can bring with you. I'd be dead in the first 30 seconds Okay, so you wouldn't win and the last man, or five hundred thousand dollars, but they don't know who's dropping. So it's the hunger games, basically, without having to kill people, but they have to hunt, obviously, and the winner is usually there 70, 80 days, and so you just go days.
Speaker 3:I thought you're gonna say hours no 70 hours.
Speaker 2:I'm like no, you go there, you build, uh, a cabin, um with. Again, you can only bring 10 items. And then you have to fend for yourself and you bring, they have all the camera equipment set up and you record yourself. So you don't have any interaction with any humans and you have a walkie or like a phone. In case there's emergency or if you want to tap out, you call it and they say I'm done and they pick you up and then you just go as long as you possibly can how long do you think you'd actually last realistically, realistically bullshit I would probably right now, last, maybe, uh, a week a few days a few days, I don't know I eat a lot.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. That's. That's how they all, all these people. They'll gain like 70 80 pounds. They'll be overweight and they just lose it because they are dependent on what they catch. They'll go days without getting stuff right they're always next to water, so they always have to try and make their own fishing rods. They'll like set up. They'll make little nets. Uh, they all bring a bow and arrow. You get a certain amount of arrow.
Speaker 3:So they're like do you choose the 10 items you get or they give you 10?
Speaker 2:items you choose, but by now it's been around for many seasons, so they all know the best items to bring A tarp, a fire starter, bow and arrow axe. Yeah, I give you four days. Four yeah, one yeah.
Speaker 3:I give you four days for yeah, one full day of like adrenaline.
Speaker 2:I just want to be able to kill anything.
Speaker 3:I'd be able to kill fish, but if I saw animals out there, you would be able to if that was how you were going to live.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Them are you baby.
Speaker 2:Like one guy one season I watch. He killed maybe it was a, a, a moose and dude won. He took all the meat and he built his own little smokehouse and he just had all this meat he was like I'm actually on vacation, are you guys?
Speaker 3:yeah, I'm getting paid for this. Did I win?
Speaker 2:most people go completely crazy yeah, because they all have families and they all, like you, can't talk to anybody.
Speaker 3:So you're talking about months of just and also, do they know if you're alive, like I would hope that the producers check in and they're like, hey, your husband's still okay, he's just out of he made a meat house out here, so he's going to win, but like do they get to check in Not the contestant but the families?
Speaker 2:I would hope yeah, the families probably check in with the production company but also, like some people, end up having to leave because they're like there's been, oh are there been people who yeah, you don't want to get an infection and die. You eat like something wrong and they're throwing up and shitting themselves all night and they're like I'm going to die of dehydration. I have to get off this Island and it's just, you just go into and it's also gets to the winter time, so you're completely freezing.
Speaker 2:It's wild. It's cool, though, like the winter they always have. Like the last couple weeks they'll send out, like once every few days, uh, doctors that check these people and those some people. They're like you gotta go because you're gonna die, because your body is literally starting to eat itself and eat the its organs for food, so they'll at least they do that yeah, they check them out, but like the winter, always they're like the winner, always, like they always do like little interviews too.
Speaker 2:The producer yeah and they'll have like the, the wife or something walk up behind the winner, like they'll just turn around and their wife's standing there. It's like you won yeah but like good sad great, yeah, that's my number two damn, that's your number two.
Speaker 3:I can't even imagine what your number one is. Um, I feel like yours is really serious and now my. My number one is mostly a joke, but also just holds a special place in my heart is Pimp my Ride. Wow, because Exhibit used to just like find a single mom of four children and she'd be like you know what I really enjoy popcorn once every. You know three months when I watch movies with my kids.
Speaker 2:Let me build a popcorn machine.
Speaker 3:And then you'd be like, okay, let's see what we did here was we put a personalized popcorn maker in your trunk. And she's like this girl has four kids and you put a popcorn maker in her trunk.
Speaker 2:It was so stupid, but so good.
Speaker 3:Yes, but it was so entertaining because you're just like what are they going to come up with now? You probably don't even know what I'm talking about because that was in the early 2000s and I don't.
Speaker 3:I mean, I think that show has been gone since like 2007, 8, a while, I mean. But once you turn it on you couldn't turn it off. It was so interesting, it was so bad that it was good. Basically, people would have shitty cars and, like their friends or themselves, would nominate them to pimp my ride for like a car makeover.
Speaker 3:And at no point was anything ever like within the scope of being usable yeah it was like they come out and be like neon lights and like the trunk would open and steam would come out, but like nothing would be helpful for the actual vehicle that you're driving and I just feel like pure. That was pure entertainment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3:That was good time. That was a good one. It was a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever happened, my number one I don't know when is he. He might need his ride.
Speaker 3:I was like I don't, I don't know, I haven't heard from him.
Speaker 2:Uh, my number one. I had the first 48.
Speaker 3:That's uh, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:I used to watch a lot of that. Yeah, that's a and E. Back in high school that was yeah, there's a murder. It was always like Detroit, you know, falling around the homicide unit and they were supposed to find the murderer within the first 48 or the first. You have 48 hours to have the best chance of finding who killed somebody.
Speaker 3:Anything after 48 hours or isn't it like missing people too? Yeah like you have the best chance to find them in the first 48. If you don't find them in 48, it's like well you know if we're ever gonna find them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's uh, I was. Ooh, maybe I want to be like an investigator.
Speaker 3:Not everybody is Liam Neeson, though.
Speaker 2:No, that's very true.
Speaker 3:There's that.
Speaker 2:There is that Pimp my ride, here we go, we are back.
Speaker 3:I'm going to go home and watch more episodes of it. That's also your homework, I'll do it. He's like, yeah, we'll do it. Turn off the reality TV show we're living in and put on that one, just to feel a little sense of calm.
Speaker 2:Exactly. That's all we're here for Give you a little sense of calm.
Speaker 3:Yes, let's keep it lighthearted, let's keep life lighthearted. Because if we don't have each other, what do we have?
Speaker 2:What do we have, SamCat, if we don't?
Speaker 3:have each other A lot of riffraff, not good shit.
Speaker 2:Not good shit. Thanks for tuning in. We'll Okay, we're going to try. We're going to keep this thing going. Life's been busy, but we're going to try. You're home for how long?
Speaker 3:I'm home. I have, like I'm on the back nine for the year. I have a few weeks here and there that I'm a little busy, but for the most part I'm chilling, cruising in. You're the one that's been in my A. Yeah, yeah. Literally someone DM me, Sean. I was like bro, I don't know, Like if you've seen him let me know. I don't know and you're like, sorry, I've been a little busy. I'm like it's been four weeks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:The only reason I knew you were still alive was, quite literally, instagram and Dre.
Speaker 2:Still alive, yeah.
Speaker 3:You, you have color in your face and everything.
Speaker 2:So obviously you've been having a good time. I got a full beard too. Okay, it's great yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I see that that's good, though you don't like that.
Speaker 2:No, I like it, oh, okay.
Speaker 3:I was going to say don't shave it off just because it's gray.
Speaker 2:Don't be that big of a man. No, no, no, I love it. I don't let it go, gray. It's just crazy that it happened in one year.
Speaker 3:Well, what has changed in the last year for?
Speaker 2:you Sean. ©. Bf-watch TV 2021.
