amazon.com and t public parental discretion is advised 0:19 but definitely we are just our schedules are so busy it's hard to be a [ __ ] up as much as we use not as much gaming as we 0:25 used to no yeah we could actually thank the partly to the 0:32 uh growth of the family and other shows too absolutely because generally 0:38 as show runners outside of just the main flagship you know we if we if we do the flagship then we do 0:43 another episode that's at least two nights we're drinking you know what i mean like it's like you know 0:49 you know and then having a cold one while you're editing helps ease the pain sometimes too so you kind of see this 0:55 going i just recorded like the other night i don't need to go too hard yeah exactly there's just like mine sort of 1:00 like yeah i'm gonna leave i'm a little low-key this one after seven years 1:06 seven years and also with all the other shows that takes a little bit of the pressure off of this is the only time i get to be on 1:13 gui it's like you have your own shows you have other shows that you can get yeah so it's not as much of a oh i only 1:19 get to do this once every like four months let me [ __ ] park 1:24 once every couple months and then also every week well and you even brought up the point 1:29 where like the first 80 episodes now and this is back in the day when we were recording every week every week so 80 1:36 episodes hours six people yeah dude we had it easy he had ahead of that 1:42 [ __ ] oh yeah true that's why it took me 16 [ __ ] hours ever i don't know how 1:48 that's you know i mean it ended up being well worth it because of the the network that we created together and like all 1:54 the episodes that we've done all the cool [ __ ] we've been able to do and also it did give me the opportunity to get my 2:00 day job into the podcast industry so it's true there's true a lot of good that came from it but i also look back 2:05 at every week 16 hours of editing and it still sounded like garbage when i was 2:10 done and it was your garden but it was goddamn garbage god damn it and obviously garbage that's like you know 2:16 hardcore criticism because if you go back and listen they don't dude i've heard some current podcasts that sound way [ __ ] worse oh first and that's 2:23 not [ __ ] on anybody creating i'm just saying like if we're really going to go down nitty-gritty with the qual you know 2:32 that's just facts anybody can listen to that and see a difference i'm not just cheating on it i still hear shows where it sounds like you're talking down a 2:38 hallway for somebody you know quality sounds let's get at least one of the like maybe two things that we actually 2:44 have formatted on this episode is the introduction here before we know a free play if unfamiliar free play 2:49 true can you is a time for us to just be able to kind of wax poetic and talk about whatever 2:55 whatever we want to there is no subject batter at hand so we are just all tan gentle as [ __ ] and we do this a couple 3:01 times a year usually uh the beginning of the year and uh also for our anniversary 3:07 which yeah if you are a long time listener knows april 20th 4 20 man 3:13 unintentional but very appropriate um 3:23 but i remember when we recorded it and it was like two weeks before and i was like i gotta get [ __ ] editing that's perfect 3:30 right i mean the only closer on the nose date you could have had was you know may 4th 3:35 i mean that's the only other day right right may 4th yes so uh 3:42 nonsense for seven years whereas some people 3:49 uh have a doctorate in seven years of their life uh that they have applied themselves to school 3:56 and learning and uh becoming a doctor i have 4:01 uh recording the people talking about their penises yeah right yeah and star wars and star wars we together have uh 4:08 filled i don't know how many buckets of dick jokes um in the seven years i think we're at dumpsters now 4:15 oh see i was even going to say tubs but dumpsters is totally a little tough number one [Laughter] 4:23 [Music] apple just this once let us use that as 4:28 a title please can you put like an asterisk in there something yeah something that would be 4:34 open so this is our this is our seven year 4:40 anniversary free play episode of geek some of the influence so be prepared it's gonna get weird man and it's gonna 4:46 go oh yeah but uh you know what that's the way we do on a free play it's the way we roll man reminiscent of the old 4:52 days on this episode geeks on the influence welcome 5:06 so you better join us 5:14 [Music] 5:20 don't forget about the fart jokes they will never farts are still funny first will always be secondary though i mean 5:25 oh my fair yes i believe i never get tired of the fact that i have a letter 5:30 uh in the studio from senator mark warner yep yeah you do 5:36 celebrating our achievements as a podcast our art form yeah our art form yes 5:42 yes proper terms please we just talk about jerking each other off dry like under 5:47 the table try jacks yes 5:58 that's right that's right i'm aware i know my niche affair 6:10 the senator hadn't ever listened to a single second of the show no no he probably got one of his like 6:16 [ __ ] what are their handwritings doing today to be like hey this show won like a thing go check him out and he was 6:22 like okay and he listened to it and was like i'm not going to say a goddamn thing 6:28 it was probably another one actually listen to it it was probably an unpaid intern even that was just like oh i know who these 6:34 guys are [Music] and just totally pass it off 6:40 oh [ __ ] the uh the panel for this uh seven year anniversary episode is all show runners 6:46 all people that have been here since uh pretty close at the beginning at least yeah um if not the beginning and uh half 6:52 their own shows have helped build this out to being one tire fire to many many 6:58 sm all so tire fighters a dumping yard of tire fires it's 7:03 it's a whole we're like the tire fire from the simpsons the big old mountain firefighters say we're just like killing the ozone 7:10 with the amount of tire fires we have yes yeah yeah we're at least killing people's patients or brain cells sense 7:17 of wonderment sense of wonder it's just hope for the future 7:24 but uh the panel that we're looking at hey i resemble that remark on my show you resemble the geek father that's 7:30 right uh mr scotty p is here hey hey guys we're in i'm some gui uh i did the 7:36 typical dad thing and was just like guy yeah right you know i'm the dad and the 7:42 bleachers you know you're a cheerleader yeah no the dad in the bleachers is like what the [ __ ] ref are you blind 7:48 you're [ __ ] well wait until the second half of the show yeah because wait is it gonna be on at us like what 7:53 does that mean right yeah we i could be yelling at the window 7:59 [ __ ] where the [ __ ] are your dad jokes that there you go yeah i'm looking at 8:04 you there you go where are your dad jokes i haven't bothered any children don't yet are you are you any daddy are above what my 8:12 expectations should be as a man with no children that i don't know are you requesting dad jokes from him they will 8:19 come out no matter what don't no question i don't know what you got we have to build the show okay yeah god i 8:26 don't think we should okay we should not build the show on the back of my puns like that 8:31 well that's where we got our start seven years ago so why not finish this [ __ ] oh that is true so that was the running gag 8:38 for years what the [ __ ] happened dude right come on man everyone's crushing it but you i just stopped giving a [ __ ] really 8:45 i mean it's not it's not a deep mystery he he totally made that turn of you 8:50 [ __ ] do it yeah pretty much that's that's what happened and we do the the father's like i'm the only non-father 8:57 sitting here at the stable right now that's true so there were enough fathers that were regular had their own shows 9:02 and everything that it was just like they're the ones that need to carry on my legacy is that 9:08 no honestly dear your puns your dad jokes come honestly as being fathers mine came from like severe pikmi energy 9:15 and as i got older as i got older i stopped wanting to be picked i was like man wasn't it great 9:21 when i was the last one picked a kickball like that was great i might even sit i might even sit out [ __ ] yeah sit i made it i made it uneven so like 9:29 they just let me say i'll be a [ __ ] binge warmer picking flowers making like just 9:35 chasing butterflies don't be a [ __ ] hippie don't be a [ __ ] hippie but 9:41 another father though not on geek fathers yeah he's on every other show besides this one uh but he used to be on 9:47 father's day father too you've been on geek father as well yeah it's like the old uh bugs bunny cartoons where he's 9:52 the pitcher and the catcher and the batter in the first baseman and the outfielder uh that is for gui we've got [ __ ] you hunter here what's up [ __ ] 9:59 from uh from the mouse madness in beautiful disasters yes yes yes so and again key fathers and a few other 10:04 ones yeah yeah you helped me start the the co-hosting aspect of geek father i would 10:10 like to show up sometimes just [ __ ] with you and try to divert the subject that you told me specifically we were supposed to stay on true just as that is 10:16 shitty giggles but no yeah i i tried to lay down the law and then it was like well [ __ ] already there wasn't so 10:22 much there was one time where kylie decided before he came in the room we're gonna just [ __ ] with you and try to 10:27 divert it to a different direction oh i know how much you squirm and i believe that episode the next week you had a 10:32 disclaimer before the episode probably yeah probably 10:38 well i mean it's a different realm man that's right it's a different realm 10:43 so um finally my uh partner in crime here my uh 10:49 the the butter to my bread that's right he butters you like the 10:55 white bread think about it yeah yeah you wonder 11:04 my partner on the uh running the network and on the show mr lowdown brown macgyver is here what's going on 11:10 everybody we just uh we're in the process of making we're rebooting jungle fever uh 11:16 look out for that in the glistening summer of 2023. it will be uh 11:21 available at no cinemas but but but we did get a sponsorship 11:27 from a said cocoa butter uh manufacturer so that will be heavily displayed in the movie so i like how i 11:35 like cocoa butter and it burns not for me and i don't know if it was intentional 11:41 but i totally saw the pelvic thrust when you were like in cocoa butter oh yeah but yeah yeah that's probably not on 11:46 video so [Laughter] my uh accents are unnoted remember when 11:51 we did that for like right also that was like [ __ ] four years 11:57 ago yeah when we were not as i feel like we were a lot more uh people would like watch us more now now for 12:04 sure you know right it was like a webcam like a low quality webcam that was 12:10 taped to the wall so the other one was a tablet or something no that was to start with a 12:16 tablet that i literally screwed that i ripped with like yarn okay okay 12:22 i forgot like samsung galaxy tablet that i i hung 12:28 by with yarn from the closet door right uh so that it would kind of get what at 12:35 one point you had both though because you had the you had two angles for the video that's when i went to webcams yeah i was just both like okay 12:41 yeah we're both on camera and it's like yeah the the fuzzy distant people on the video right 12:47 are available and the man who missed his calling as a cinematographer 12:53 and in this room as we speak now there is not only is it well lit but there's like 12:58 tons of like lighting stuff around because i'm starting to do like video stuff yes because jungle fever yeah what 13:04 the [ __ ] duh i just said that what do you what do you think it's gonna be low lit yeah 13:10 well if i'm in it it should be yeah but they'll just see me they'll just see like me and then just like like white 13:16 flashes here and there you just see yeah like just a vague uh alabaster skin 13:22 grunting noise well the the fact that you also described it as glistening so it's a glistening aloe vera skin yeah 13:29 you're a cocoa butter i'm just just flop sweat 13:36 [Laughter] 13:41 check out geoidpodcast.com for all the shows we mentioned all the other shows on the network this show rate review 13:47 subscribe all that cool stuff and uh also this will be coming out in the 13:52 month of april uh i hope uh that's the plan and uh for april uh 13:59 reviews number four good uh is the hashtag and that's a podcaster.com a place that was dumb enough to hire me is 14:07 uh doing a thing where they're actually contributing uh 25 cents for every review that they get on the entire platform for the month of april 14:14 for um a non-profit that feeds refugees leaving ukraine so it's um 14:21 more uh important than the actual review is the fact that it's actually that review is gonna help feed 14:27 people that really need the help absolutely yeah and if this over top of [ __ ] can just you know give to a needy 14:33 cause uh there you go yeah right it makes it worth it yeah makes it all worth it hearing long conversations about dry hand jobs 14:40 helps feed children it's going to a good cause yeah that's a good cause the oxymorons are the worst yeah 14:46 well i mean think about back on episode 50 was it ever this could lead to a review to feed 14:53 starving children about the show in the beginning that any 14:58 of us thought was going to do anything being for a good cause in any way i feel like there's nothing about the 15:04 show well all right i'll change it i was going to say i feel like there's never been like a a main thing about about the show that 15:10 was like geared towards bettering humanity but our motto is level up never punched down yeah so yeah i'll take that 15:16 back we'll talk trash we'll have fun with it we'll tease each other but everybody's allowed in the room like it 15:23 doesn't matter where you come from or even the level of geek them that you have right true it's supposed to be a conversation celebrating fandom so 15:30 there's no gatekeeping [ __ ] here i mean i feel like when it started to actually get kind of 15:35 serious when i mean we hit into covid and like we started donating to help 15:41 people out you know and actually bringing stuff up like before that's like you know kind of you know whatever we get from amazon 15:47 helps with equipment with that and there's that period of time where it's like shit's [ __ ] real like 15:52 oh yeah um if you help like we're gonna help people that like are kind of [ __ ] right now in this 15:58 situation yeah like so we actually were pushing for a good cause yeah like for real yeah 16:04 it's true yeah and yeah we've helped out with a couple fundraisers here and there like over the 16:09 years but it's all also one of those things that i don't know if it's just a richmond thing or just our group of friends but 16:15 or maybe just that punk rock ethos i'm gonna say it's also a richmond thing yeah it's original thing where it's like it fits in the same like it's a 16:23 combination long enough this used to be a sketchy as [ __ ] dirty city and it's kind of cute 16:30 it's starting to just turn around a little bit a little bit i was like five shootings last week right like down your 16:36 street right not in your like i was right outside your neighborhood not like next door but no but like in my neighborhood 16:43 yeah six blocks that way closer to mcv excuse exactly yeah well i'm just saying yeah it's not entirely non-sketchy now 16:50 but it's it's that decided to be less sketchy than it used to be oh yeah we're not throwing the cap in anything i think it's a lot of stuff not sketchy it's 16:56 gotten that's good it's got the e off of it yeah there is when i say that in description that is a difference yeah 17:03 you know if i say sketch versus sketchy it's like absolutely sketchy i'm going to get the [ __ ] out of here sketchy just don't park your car in 17:10 certain yeah exactly exactly not anywhere in the area sketchy just normally means that it's a town that has 17:16 a lot of like uh lower income people living in it and that was definitely true to richmond there was a 17:21 whole vice article that was written back in like 2005 or something that's [ __ ] hilarious you could find it online where 17:27 it's like richmond is the town where like you don't have to try to do anything and you're still going to like 17:32 flourish here because like nobody cares you can just work like a 8 hour like cooking job and then just on 17:39 your days off get a cheap 12 pack of pbr and go to the river and just like drink 17:45 all day and people are like that sounds like an amazing day and you're like it really was and that's just your life that would be stupid that really sounds 17:51 like a lot of my years in the 20 my 20s no i'm gonna say like i've definitely lived that holy [ __ ] 17:57 yeah yeah but they're like yeah you don't have to make a million bucks to live in richmond you can just like barely get by but you know it's just 18:03 that kind of culture where you can find stuff to do that's not expensive and kind of do it now let me throw it out 18:09 there too because at one point just to show well mine and hunter's age because i i'm not gonna be the only one 18:14 thrown under the bus about talking about agents damn the baby again on this episode [ __ ] you yeah right the old [ __ ] for that but 18:21 i remember back when we were around even our early 20s still i 18:27 i say decent decent two-bedroom apartment was still like four or five hundred bucks 18:32 depending on where where you were and you're you're also talking about the fifth city days oh very much so the the heyday of the 18:39 punk rock hardcore richmond yeah richmond used to be called fist city because it was just the at one point it 18:45 was like you had dc about 10 years before that and like it seemed to like just you know [ __ ] rolls 18:51 downhill come come down to richmond literally but 18:56 well we just dumped like how many gallons in the river last year yeah we don't talk about it about that i said 19:02 we lost count you're talking about the wrong numbers there man all right no but i mean 19:08 about rough yeah we're wealthy ten years after that richmond really you know late like 99 into the y2k era like really 19:14 during the 80s we had a lot of stuff coming down from dc like bandwise and the way it was and richmond was even 19:20 probably poorer then too you know very much so but the later 90s 19:26 when it was basically going into the next revival of whatever the next level of punk rock the 19:32 music scene and stuff like that was when hunter and i were basically like or you know later teenagers and stuff like that 19:38 it was cheap as [ __ ] to live in i mean and you would you would have a place with like three or four roommates and 19:44 everybody was paying maybe a hundred to two hundred bucks a month for rent i mean i remember you changed i remember 19:49 when there was a certain fan apartments where the uh walk-in closet um was changed from a walk-in closet to another 19:56 bedroom if if need be absolutely like you can basically fit a mattress and however you store the clothes and that 20:02 one small dresser and just like uh and they would work out you know when they could go to their room or not so yeah 20:09 but there was a time where there i mean the cost of living in richmond has increased dramatically oh very much so 20:15 um over the years and there was a point where it was very affordable for me to live my own yeah i went right yeah and that was 20:21 the first studio room that we had mm-hmm yep so moved out and i took over his room as the studio room for gui and it 20:28 was [ __ ] great and i'm like this isn't really that hard like i can i can not make it a million bucks but i can 20:33 afford to live here well do this and do things like you still went out of town and did stuff and then all of a sudden the cost of living increased pretty 20:40 dramatically where at that point i'm like this is great i'm never having a roommate again i'll live with like a partner that's great but like a roommate 20:46 never doing that again and then a couple years later found myself looking for a place to live went [ __ ] i need to really 20:53 wait we'll see that was around because you um even that house uh still was one of those little 20:59 niches where it was owned by someone personally it wasn't through a management company 21:04 and stuff like that that's where at one point jennifer and i got lucky where even the house where before we 21:10 bought you know actually grew up and actually bought a house um the the rent that we paid there was fine 21:17 we still had a usually had a roommate for most of the time we lived there just to make it easier could we have 21:23 gotten by by ourselves sure but it was just like even then you're just like [ __ ] it's going up 21:28 which was part of the reason why we were like let's just buy a house and even if we have to do the maintenance ourself 21:33 it's almost cheaper yeah yeah you know and that's how bad you know a lot of stuff has gotten i mean yeah buying a 21:41 house now no oh it won't be cheaper no this was almost a decade ago that we bought the house so you know you bought 21:47 it the right time exactly exactly i will say one of the advantages with your roommate moving out is is that i believe 21:53 the setup prior to having that room was the living room um 21:58 mike's kind of next to certain easy chairs and other couches yeah and once you had that room 22:05 it did kind of seem a little more as a actual setup instead of all right now sit in 22:11 this chair but don't lean back too far the mic will be here and hold it yeah make sure you had a table and mike's 22:17 that was god those ricky kind of stages right it started to feel kind of more of a it 22:23 got more formal like okay this is an actual thing yeah this isn't just like every week i pull out all these cords 22:30 and microphones sit on this side of the couch and you're on the other side like there was actually a person with windows facing a busy road 22:37 right we have to pause whenever we hear an ambulance come by do you remember that oh i always was against that because i 22:43 thought it added an aesthetic to it it's like this is how [ __ ] good we are right now in the [ __ ] living room 22:49 mic stands because they're like yeah it's ambience right i'm just 23:00 of course but that that's when the the shows actually or the well there's still is just the show got so formal when we 23:07 moved into the other room and i'll never forget when you first put the shield the sound shields up over the mics okay they 23:12 were all hours yeah the flowers they were just all like kind of peeking over at each other like flowers man jesus 23:19 not in the know either not hearing comments about it from that's like a million years ago about this after this releases because 23:25 [ __ ] man oh we gotta have reference for sure yeah so there's these like 200 um 23:31 things that you can buy that attached to your microphones that um that has like the egg foam and on the inside it's 23:36 basically like mini walls yeah like a mini like singers use yeah vocals especially if you have a room that you 23:42 can't do any kind of sound proofing to it exactly uh get more of that non-echoey sound um 23:49 for cheaper than it would cost to like treat an entire room so i was like i can do that 23:54 and then i was like you know what i can use instead of like buying the 200 things i can just get 24:00 lamp shades and 24:08 and then they already have the thing that i can screw into the base of the the phone and the thing is i made it work 24:13 it did and it did help but it was like so incredibly bulky and weird and hard to 24:19 deal with and see each other over everybody who came in that wasn't like straight up just gui 24:26 look would like what the [ __ ] oh yeah sorry i talk into the lampshade 24:33 i will say that reinforce the hand raising yeah because that was the only way you could tell who was trying to say 24:38 over here you were like what and you see a hand go up you're like i think that's steven 24:44 over there oh my god our shortest uh panelists were not having it oh no 24:51 which you are among as well i mean i'm short but like we definitely have much shorter than me oh absolutely 24:57 before that happened wasn't our last like living room episode the batman episode we did remember when you we had 25:03 that couple on remember that it was i thought it was like this dude his girlfriend andreas 25:08 yeah no andre i thought that was his girlfriend that came on she wasn't on the episode she was kind of just chilling oh she you know i think she 25:14 came here yeah no she wasn't on the episode okay yeah yeah yeah yeah i think that was like one of the last 25:19 two or three before moving out right around the living room so that was a fun episode though the last main episode i 25:25 remember doing in the living room which was one that only my wife has been on two was uh the kevin smith episode of the 25:32 two-parter i did for kevin smith um with his q a when he was in town at that time that was a good q a oh that 25:38 was such a killer q a yeah he was like loved it he was basically like no [ __ ] do it yes 25:45 and then hobbit was like have you heard of guar bar why don't you hang out at guar bar because wasn't that when you were trying 25:51 to get the interview with him i didn't get a mic so it was definitely not that was a dude that was uh what's his face 25:56 well someone was doing it for you was it ballsack that actually was doing it okay it was up in the balcony 26:03 it was somebody from guar or yeah it was right no no it wasn't dirks it was um oh beefcake sorry beefcake yeah oh okay 26:10 okay all right there goes my richmond card sorry i was gonna say all right i knew i i knew i wasn't wrong i'm like that's not balls like it's beefcake 26:16 beefcake yeah sorry but yeah i remember just remember that when i heard the voice and i was like that's a different car 26:31 but then later on we actually did get a shout out in a way from mr smith which i still oh i think i opened my child to 26:38 carlton for making that happen that's on my google drive i will never lose it it's just not it's very every once in a while i just listen to it and watch it 26:46 because it's just fun yeah yep seriously that was awesome yeah mad props to carlton for it was the most sure so yes 26:52 love you for that the audio on the front of this episode i don't give a [ __ ] right yeah that was a big highlight 26:58 for gui i mean that carlton like that was seriously that was [ __ ] amazing and it was like just it was the most kevin smith 27:04 way kevin smith could do that right because just by adding the i lot he lied at the end i'm like no dude that's 27:10 [ __ ] brilliant because no matter what we talk about we're definitely not friends unfortunately and i say that seriously 27:16 we're not friends with kevin smith no no we're not related to anything he does with smodco vosku or anything 27:22 but his diy ethos is like legendary right in the 27:28 independent universe i mean you know exactly with talk about podcasting he was very 27:34 early on in the build-up of podcasts i mean like if you when you think when you talk about kevin smith i mean like 27:40 obviously people jump director movies but the next step he did was podcast 27:45 podcast and he did it when it was nothing like you had whatever 27:50 it is now yeah no like two years ago was a tenth of what it is yeah like yeah just saying 27:55 so he kind of jumped on there and built up what this industry is and it was basically him and scott mosher yeah basically getting on there 28:02 going well we're not making a movie right now so let's sit around and i'm going to smoke a joint and yeah let's talk about what i remember getting an 28:08 ipod and like starting to check out some of the you know what podcast they had and going oh [ __ ] 28:13 kevin smith and it was very early in the spot right yeah absolutely checking that out checking out marc maron checking out 28:20 douglas movies things like that these early ones that before now there's a 28:25 [ __ ] ton of podcasts and kevin smith's one of the forefathers of it because it goes into uh not only the way kevin 28:31 smith started making with making movies but what attracted a lot of us 28:36 to be where we are now too is where it was such a independent i'm not having to pay for [ __ ] you can do it on your own 28:44 you can do it with friends you don't have to have some weird like sponsorship 28:49 backer to do anything i mean these days you have to have it to grow to a certain extent 28:55 but we've always made the joke that we'll keep doing this even when the wives and partners unplug the mics and we'll still 29:01 be talking [ __ ] to each other oh yeah with us you know it also i mean in part 29:07 of it it's the uncensored like you know kevin smith everything everything 29:14 everything he's done but before we started the podcast i mean like you know it was just this uncensored i mean obviously but that was 29:20 the feeling with a line that was that was appealing when you listen to it yeah it was like oh you're listening to radio except they're like 29:26 oh [ __ ] you eat a [ __ ] and you're like yeah and you don't you at the time you can turn on the radio 29:32 and listen to anybody say eat a [ __ ] [ __ ] but you could put on a podcast and they're going to tell each other and it was like exactly yeah you were you you 29:38 you're used to that in like r-rated or unrated films right especially if you know with kevin smith films right yeah 29:44 but i mean give me was it clerks randall just lists off how many [ __ ] important videos you know but that's like yeah yeah once you hear that come 29:51 across just your airwaves well it's totally different than watching it in an article there was already an appeal 29:56 because i had already started watching the evenings with kevin smith which is just his q and a's yeah he released them out on dvds so those came out prior to 30:04 his podcast but then you're like oh also if you like that here's a podcast him 30:09 doing the same thing just shooting [ __ ] with scott moser oh yeah except you're not having to [ __ ] pay for it it's 30:14 just there yep yeah dude i found the video oh i'm gonna play the audio real quick for everybody 30:22 hey man it's me kevin smith this is me wishing a happy fifth birthday to the good folks of geeks under the influence 30:28 man i record a lot of podcasts myself but when i'm not doing that i listen to geeks under the influence he lied 30:36 all the smirk dude i know yes yes that was two years ago yep uh we got a little over two years 30:43 ago two years ago it was pretty covered yeah it was right but yeah that was like that last year before all the [ __ ] no 30:49 it's like right now it was right right before early 2020. it was i think february of uh of that year was it oh 30:55 because that happened and then we had galaxy con which is always marked as the weekend before the dark like before the 31:01 dark times the weekend before tom hanks let's test the positive right just say that 31:07 literally a minute tom hanks test deposit for covid is when [ __ ] shut the [ __ ] down as 31:14 soon as they said tom hanks oh oh whoa whoa whoa 31:25 [Laughter] let's be perfectly honest i mean what scandals do you know for tom hanks so if 31:31 something serious like that happens you're like what whoa hold on yeah i'm just saying thanks yeah uh i remember 31:37 being at the theater on a monday when they now said and by [ __ ] thursday we were told we're shutting the [ __ ] down 31:43 all right like it was that quick from monday news to thursday we're not gonna 31:50 have the theater open for a little while that like that kind of [ __ ] yeah amy bogart and i had been dating for like 31:56 eight months when everything shut down yeah um which actually as far as timing goes i 32:03 feel for a lot of new relationships that they have been dating for like ah and then covet [ __ ] happen 32:09 do you hang on to that or do you like hang out together do you hang out separately like all the challenges of 32:16 that we had enough time together before then that we're like we yeah we we like yeah we're good 32:22 we're right i like each other yeah we also had friends though like um stephen who uh actually started dating 32:28 during some of the coveted quarantine time and he now lives with his lady mm-hmm 32:34 you know so it's it was a weird time what about what about those relationships that are 32:39 just hanging by a thread right before it should happen and you go dude i'm i'm 32:44 gonna be moving out on the 15th and on the 12th like everybody please stay in your home so you go uh-huh oh no oh yeah 32:52 all right that's gonna suck for like maybe it's just for like a couple weeks that's what they said it comes with that movie actually where it was like 32:58 all of you you're all pieces of [ __ ] and then you realize oh the door's oh it's a timed ex entry door right yeah 33:05 how are you oh whoa whoa but you're like i just you're in something but you're in that situation where you're like just 33:11 two weeks and they said two weeks and then oh [ __ ] should be under control oh another month okay fine and then you're 33:17 six months later you're like [ __ ] me like because that [ __ ] the updates weren't positive like okay 33:24 um so remember how we said two weeks and you could possibly know and just kept adding and adding so 33:31 in that situation yeah how many how many times were people signed on the dotted line and submitted into the lawyers and 33:36 was like i'm you know like you said like i'm moving out and then they're like no you can't [ __ ] do [ __ ] we didn't i 33:42 would say we did look out in a situation where we were able to adapt using zoom and [ __ ] like that too very much so huge 33:48 that was definitely trial and error for sure kyle 33:55 yeah the nature of podcasting is has always 34:02 been something that had to be adaptive i mean that's just true 34:07 the idea that you're you're farming like uh entertainment from anybody that is 34:13 willing to put a microphone in front of them and post it onto right the aggregators the podcast aggregators um 34:19 the environment necessitates evolution it requires people to learn 34:25 how to adapt and how to change like um improve the quality of their shows 34:30 get better equipment learn how to put some nuance on to the the tags that 34:35 you put on to your your uh episodes before you send it out post and all that yeah sometimes maybe just 34:41 help you know show a fellow showrunner how to properly use a microphone that says she should already know 34:47 that they've had for a year okay but oh my god um hey person i'll just come over 34:52 to say it [ __ ] kyle kyle don't no you don't talk in that part of the mic you've had that mic for a year dude 34:58 i still say before we record geek fathers these days i still sit there and go don't suck to mike's dick when we're 35:04 doing soundcheck [ __ ] but i do remember a certain other show that there were 10 episodes 35:10 recorded before they realized they were recording on the laptop oh 35:17 one of my favorite moments is the utter realization that we had wasted our time 35:23 sucking the microphones [ __ ] just to realize that the laptop was recording us yes that was a 35:29 amazing terrible amazing realization's face 35:34 was blind like oh no yeah that like that was funny come 35:40 back from this and it was a simple gesture that you did you said hold on and you just tap three 35:47 times and we realized holy [ __ ] there's no tapping showing up on the 35:53 [ __ ] laptop and that's what i think roots the first five minutes of that episode is him just 35:59 apologizing for the fro the prior 10 episodes i remember we just can't get to the sound just as i 36:06 remember hearing that yeah for some reason we're trying to get this to sound right and it's just not working yeah you're absolutely right yes 36:12 everybody in the early days of discovery madness came along way later so uh we 36:18 just learned everyone else is [ __ ] up early days of well when it was geek father when i'm 36:24 sitting there i'm doing something like hobbit check check hobbit check it 36:29 when we started gui um i mean talking about like from the most oppressively 36:35 bad starting points it's like okay cool we're gonna do a two-hour show once a week six people 36:41 all drunk one room mic [ __ ] joke yeah right that sounds like 36:47 a tournament like i've posted that in like uh facebook groups on facebook and [ __ ] where it's just podcasters talking 36:54 and i've they're like what would you never do again i'm like six panelists 36:59 two hours all drunk and the people responding it's all the 37:05 laugh things like jesus christ no i'm not jo i'm not joke no no no go back and listen 37:11 go get the zip file with the first 42 episodes i was about to i was about to say how many episodes did this if i'll have before it was 41 37:17 41 well 40 one is like lost and forgotten one is lost 40 episodes 37:23 waiters robot dong is that in the zip file no episode one the first one that is in the zip file so 41 episodes 42 is the first 37:30 one 42 hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is the first episode actually posted like 15 or 16 we're like we're gonna go 37:36 ahead and take that first episode off i remember when i started my well i'll 37:43 say like again because i know we talked about every anniversary doctor who was my first episode that was still like six months after it 37:50 happened that was still the joke of yeah we got to get rid of that vader dong [ __ ] yeah man [ __ ] no no uh but it was 37:57 there it was a funny episode well they're like the first 41 if you haven't caught that in 38:03 previous episodes is that we were using an old board we the audio was not great 38:10 no uh dude are you still drinking pumpkin beer i had found the back of the fridge yes 38:16 they have a shelf life bro that is way past oh i checked it oh god i got two weeks oh that's disgusting wow i'm sorry 38:23 that must have been like the last batch that came out of whatever pumpkin bottle pumpkin beer oh i got [ __ ] to be late 38:28 middle of you remember that was that i i didn't get it till december this was shipped for my sister oh that's yeah 38:34 yeah but it's april yeah and that's back in the fridge yeah 38:40 oh pumpkin beer that said yeah i mean i don't yeah seriously i disgusted facebook at him like trooper yeah 38:47 dude do it done but with those early episodes the the reason why they're not on it it's 42 38:52 is the first episode that you see on our stream is because uh they are bad um they are not 38:59 the like later parts of the 30s plus are listenable they're not very good quality but they are you can listen to them you 39:05 can understand what we're saying and stuff um but the last thing you want is for somebody to be turned on to a show oh 39:12 you got to listen to show and then they check out an early episode and they're like oh wow this sounds like a bunch of raccoons banging on trash 39:18 yeah isn't it hilarious 39:23 like in the background who actually whenever they are suggested or come across one uh a show that they 39:31 want to listen to starts at the beginning actually a lot of people i do not no i don't i've i've 39:36 done it some will check out current episodes and then if they like that then right yeah right so you really think 39:43 about that current episode yeah but then you see the transition that they've actually 39:48 put work and effort into progressing yep like i have i have done that maybe not all the way back to the first but like oh with the first year you know what i 39:55 mean and like oh wow i'm gonna go back and listen to new ones i like your [ __ ] this sounds like it also depends on that 40:01 it depends on the show as well because sometimes you know if you listen to more recent stuff they have certain ongoing 40:06 gags or jokes that definitely would not fly back in some of the earlier episodes and stuff like that 40:12 so it's it's all it all depends on the show and who's doing it it's funny though that when i look at places where it has like 40:19 an aggregation of like how many episodes i've been on for stuff and like like podcaster you have a creator profile 40:24 there and it says how many episodes that i'm either an executive producer on or the other day and stuff and it's like 40:31 it's like 800 something and i'm shocked it's not a thousand honestly 40:36 well yeah but i also have to remember to add 41 to that because it's not on the stream yeah 40:42 841 thank you very much you're right um but it's at this point that i think we have broken for gui alone 40:50 um on the number of hours uh we are past a month where it takes more than a month 40:56 to listen to non-stop for one month if you listen to from just the streaming ones so it's more 41:02 than that if you count in the first 41 um it takes more than a month to listen to all the audio there you go it's 41:08 almost 24 7. 24 7. yeah so start downloading now and when you have to hide in the bunker during the apocalypse 41:14 you have at least a month of entertaining you are yeah there you go and then like when the fallout just 41:20 drops and then they we somehow meet they'll be like savior they just like recognize our voice 41:26 they're like right oh they're like you're the all father is that where we do the classic scene of 41:32 like walking up over the hill and we're all just like an apocalyptic mad max gear yeah and they're like the saviors 41:38 they'll make us laugh again [Laughter] and he's like shut the [ __ ] up 41:52 you guys were [ __ ] drinking and i wanted to know 41:57 how did the beer taste what i wanted to know you said here you go 42:02 we will join you and now we will not die 42:08 here we go number one number one that joke number one that's right the church of 42:13 gui [ __ ] nightmare why is that not been a shirt yet hobbit right i mean i guess 42:19 for the anniversary why not let's make it to church and i will totally pay to for you to rip off scientology 42:26 for that oh my god 42:40 that's all they spend their money on but anyway on that um let's take a break uh when we come back again just more 42:45 [ __ ] nonsense with some what we're drinking 42:50 we will be back in just a minute but before we 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the years i wanted to make sure that you 44:45 know as our listeners are the most important part of this podcast you are the most important member 44:51 of this little gaggle of weirdos that we've cultivated over the years so thank you 44:57 and we appreciate it and back to our show we're back for uh the last little bit of 45:04 this first part of geeks under the influence uh we are splitting this into two episodes so instead of a guy nights 45:11 you're getting a full second episode of uh debaucherous uh gui i i i farted a 45:19 little bit when you came in with that man it was like wow that was very sharp that was very 45:24 morning we're back who cares i don't come into the meeting it's on 45:30 sunday morning god damn it yes i'm calling k-rock and 45:36 gonna sell that [ __ ] to them so hard the meaty mitts i like it you just need that 45:42 noise [Laughter] 45:47 uh anyway uh yeah we're instead of uh doing this as like the midway uh we ran 45:52 late anyway we are cutting this after the what we're drinking which is amazingly anticlimactic 46:00 getting into the uh the meat of the second half on a totally different episode that you will get next 46:05 week so uh for what we're drinking uh there are no shares because [ __ ] it we're going old-school days for 46:10 anniversary yeah but we do have some uh points to 46:16 bring up uh first off one mentioned earlier was that hunter's drinking pumpkin beer in april that's right 46:22 that's gotta taste like that tastes like [ __ ] fresh i that's your opinion i like it so yeah 46:28 but it hasn't expired yes it's also only an inspire in my stomach it's also on tap's opinion so i'm yeah okay but on 46:35 the same end also is that as we're talking about his pumpkin beer being expired literally in the stairwell 46:41 of the studio is a pumpkin that has been there since the second week of october that it's 46:47 still pristine as [ __ ] there's no mold on it after that it's been there that's crazy the whole 46:53 time we had two the second one uh left us last month 47:01 it was toiled off to that uh that uh off the mortal coil into pumpkin heaven 47:07 last night a great big pumpkin patch in the sky yeah i wouldn't move jeez i wouldn't move that pumpkin because the 47:13 bottom might completely be right out it looks really nice smell that you would [ __ ] smell that like done the 47:19 detective work of like my head down near the bottom looking at it and sniffing and like no this is can i get a picture 47:25 of that like a little video like well hey baby it smells well we'll message amy that one to be like let us 47:31 know when he checks the pumpkin again she'll be at the top of the stairs like he he records you just see that random 47:37 flash and you look it up going should you use your phone holder against you you won't even see here just be sure to be like holding it like this around 47:42 the door the doorway how's the pumpkin honey yeah [Laughter] 47:48 like you said it was our video equipment yeah well then we got but no that'd be good because then we'd get her reaction 47:54 as you say oh i think it's done honey no yeah right yeah that'd be awesome but 47:59 how the [ __ ] is that thing not i don't know man like yeah the fact that it is mid to late april and i still have a 48:06 pumpkin from mid-october that is pristine can i make it a year i would say i don't know 48:12 that stairwell is going to get warm yeah the the first really hot day is when 48:17 that goes and looks like the face of the the nazi and 48:23 i was gonna say it's just gonna melt and like glue to get you know oh that's gonna smell so bad yeah 48:30 i bet it's insides are already like rotted it's just the shell refuses to go yeah it's like just black somehow the outer skin got 48:36 hot like super hard for whatever reason and what are you doing that pumpkin that is between me and the pumpkin 48:44 if you coat it it acts like wax exactly like a lacquer yeah all right let me check your diet bro 48:51 it's a lot of fiber i don't know if fiber will do that no i don't think it 48:56 does i don't know what what you think is fiber but 49:02 just eat glue sticks like popsicles oh yummy all right 49:09 the next one i'll point out is that scotty p thematically along with his uh gui t-shirt that he's wearing is also 49:14 is his gui hat oh my god dude all you're missing is the [ __ ] foam 49:20 hand yeah you just you are that should be next on our merch no it shouldn't be you are like one step away from being 49:25 garth and wayne's world was like i don't know i just don't understand 49:40 [Laughter] you're being thematic uh yeah in a way 49:45 yeah uh with i made one fuck-up statement 49:50 oh man for like six years old yes remember i said we need to bring back 49:55 that [ __ ] koozie design and the creator was on the last last episode i was like man because that's 50:02 i'm a fan of the ones we have now i mean yeah not just because i created it because it's definitely ref it definitely is a hard reference to the to 50:08 the show sure and the whole segment but like that original one just god damn it it was so good so it was yeah anyway but 50:13 yeah uh you're drinking the yingling yes sir yeah classic yingling lager the east coast local original oh no hold on hold 50:20 on you're like yingling really yeah it's local what east coast local regionally 50:28 [ __ ] oh it takes less than a day you got to give a crumb though that's sure yeah 50:34 like he's a [ __ ] [ __ ] east coast local it's less than a day drive to the 50:39 brewery and where they make it you know that's sluglish no no no 50:45 no no steven you are actually drinking an east coast local i am i'm a local local i'm drinking a beer from bingo 50:52 beer co uh in richmond virginia which i am digging this local yeah that's actually lovely yeah actually but 50:58 bingo has been putting out some killers they opened up it's funny so the name they actually 51:05 bought a bingo location that location right bingo nice very old bingo hall yeah yeah um so hence the name but yeah 51:12 this is their free space this is their hazy pale ale india paleo excuse me it's a single so it's only 6.3 but they have 51:19 a really good lager a really good dark lager really good brown ale i mean i've i've got a i think i've got some of the 51:24 log one the loggers at home see i love the original i love their standard logger but whenever they release that 51:29 dark lager oh my god yeah my giblets because because as a parent i take my kids to bingo beer company for video 51:36 games and beer they don't drink the beer i do i'm glad you were like they do 51:41 they do cut that [ __ ] off at a certain time though because we were out and about we went to eat somewhere and we wanted to go into bingo afterwards and 51:48 mike was with us and they're like oh i was like hey man can he come in and he's like uh after and had this done the dots no we do we 51:54 do like sunday afternoons or something yeah yeah yeah oh yeah the kids can have fun and pop 52:00 get up all the trunks are out yeah nothing like watching daddy drink kids she's a skateboard young kid hey good 52:06 let me get a beer and we'll go play ninja turtles [ __ ] it yes you know and uh 52:11 i'm drinking a uh bourbon and ginger uh as as taught to me by uh the the crump 52:18 uh is that you put a little bit of bitters a little bit of lime in with your bourbon and ginger and it's a tasty little treat i am not doing a jim beam 52:25 i'm doing benchmark which has been my go-to just like mixer uh i gotta say yeah i i'm enjoying that 52:31 because i got i didn't get the the bigger bottle uh but i got a small ball just to try because it was more like a like a comparison mm-hmm and honestly 52:39 like man i'm i'm not digging jim beam as much as i used to as far as for like a standard like mixer yes there's like a 52:45 sweetness on the back end oh there it is yeah but i used to like it i don't like it anymore well as your palette 52:51 grows as you get older changes as you get older there are certain things that you just don't enjoy as much and nothing against jim beam because i was no it's 52:57 like [ __ ] being if it's there i'm gonna [ __ ] drink it i've still got some at the house too i mean i buy it for the house like but for 53:02 the house like i don't know man like i just i'm not into it like i was and it was like the go-to 53:08 standard for me like [ __ ] jack daniels i was jim beamo yeah i think i think i saw that black cherry for my birthday this last year oh yeah the flavored stuff 53:14 yeah the fire i'll still [ __ ] with because that's supposed to be sweet yeah [ __ ] you fireball get jimmy my birthday 53:19 my birthday last year we we at one point really didn't care while we were drinking yeah yeah that happens yeah 53:25 that happens that makes for a really bad hangover though uh it was even though it was a super hot day i was drinking 53:31 plenty of water and actually woke up pretty well the next day oh cool yeah so i was my old age i was smart because 53:38 also the old age with hangovers it's just like yeah and especially with two well for i should say normally with kids 53:43 but the parents had the kids for the weekend i know we're most of the way through what we're drinking but i forgot to play the the intro so 53:50 hey we're [ __ ] drinking we're getting drunk 53:56 you want to know well here you go hey we're drinking 54:01 we're getting drunk i was less for me to worry about later i would just do it now i figured you would 54:07 play the bow version as well for this episode yeah yeah yeah it hasn't only left like for like i think two episodes 54:13 and then yeah because it didn't fit with like the spooky yeah right right but on that uh 54:19 that this is the end of the first part of two of the gy free play uh 54:24 anniversary episode so thank you so much for listening to this [ __ ] garbage and uh and be in store for more uh next 54:32 week for another episode of uh the silliness uh where we're continuing this so we're just going to get more drunk 54:38 and more silly entire fire uh stories from our time this tire fire doesn't burn out no it does not no yeah 54:45 uh it'll fade away about midnight for me okay fair and hopefully we'll be done well 54:51 before that but absolutely yeah um so here we go thank you so much for listening uh i'm mike the hobbit join us 54:56 or die shut the [ __ ] up for now hobbit join us 55:05 [Music] 55:12 guipodcast.com [Music] 55:19 i want dry jack coming straight from the mouths of madness i'm lowdown i'm fu hunter do you 55:25 love heart we [ __ ] do so this is podcast dedicated to all things in cinematic horror we're talking movies 55:31 television composers special effects artists we're going to [ __ ] cover it so if you love more embrace the madness 55:41 my name is amy beaugaard and i'm mike the hobbit and we are the host of deeply upsetting where we use our expertise to 55:47 answer your most upsetting 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