Eden
00:10-00:14
Welcome back to the Middle of Culture. I am one of your hosts, Eden.

Peter
00:14-00:17
And I am one of your other hosts, Peter.

Eden
00:17-00:29
My face is looking extremely egg-like today for whatever reason in the zoom call, dear listeners. I have the blurred background on and for some reason that makes my face look extra eggy. I had to turn it off.

Peter
00:29-00:33
Well, it aggr I was gonna say it aggressively blurs.

Eden
00:29-00:30
How you doing, Peter?

Peter
00:33-00:41
So like the the The webcam that I'm using, it's an Insta360 something something.

Eden
00:34-00:36
It does.

Peter
00:41-01:11
And it applies a real subtle. background blur effect so that it what they're trying to mimic is say like an actual camera lens with a focal point so that you get Right, so you get a little bit of that bouquet effect behind me that I get like like if I t if I if I was facing the other direction And I was recording with my Sony ZV E10 Mark II with its Sigma 1850 lens on.

Eden
00:52-01:32
I was gonna say like actual focal points. It works It's true.

Peter
01:12-01:31
That gives me, because it's an actual glass, you know. zoom lens. That gives me the same sort of bouquet effect, but it's a little like this, you can every once in a while you can see the little fuzziness around my head where it's doing the digital effect, but But but like Zoom, when Zoom does it, Zoom does it aggressively.

Eden
01:32-01:41
I was holding up a a glass earlier and it was trying to decide which part of the glass to not obscure. And so it just looked like nonsense. Zoom, am I right?

Peter
01:41-02:27
Zoom, you are right. Uh but no, you asked how I was doing. I am doing. It is it's been a good couple of weeks, it's been a stressful couple of weeks. On the one hand, Alex, my oldest son, is home from his mission. He came home a week ago today. That was super exciting. It was a ton of fun to uh to to see him again. And it's been fascinating seeing how he's changed in some ways. He has grown a lot. In other ways, he kind of seems like he's still the same kid. He's had a couple things this week, and bless his heart, I don't think he's been on time for a single one of those, and that's just the way Alex is.

Eden
02:18-03:42
Sure Oh see, I was like, You're not taking Monday off?

Peter
02:27-03:39
But uh but no, it's been good. And so we've had some time with him. We have the wedding coming up this Saturday. We head down tomorrow night. We've all got a few a handful of rooms in a hotel. And then we'll go up to the spruces campground up Big Cottonwood Canyon. That's where the ceremony is. There is there's a marathon coming out of Big Cottonwood Canyon that morning. So So we're telling some people, hey, you may want to go the Parley's Canyon Park City route and come around the backside. Um Hay Hayden has been in communication with the the marathon people and and they're saying that really i it should be pretty much cleared out by like nine o'clock, but you know, hard to know for sure. So it's gonna be an adventurous couple days. We gotta go up, do that, and then we've got to hightail it back up to Pocatello for the Reception up here that night. And then Alex speaks on Sunday, so we'll have people all here for that. Uh and then I go back to work on Monday. And there's a little part of me that actually thinks I might be looking forward to going back to work.

Eden
03:42-03:44
I would be taking Monday off.

Peter
03:44-03:55
Well, I I you know I I took last Thursday and Friday off, so I kind of had I took like a week and two days off and I don't know.

Eden
03:54-04:05
Yeah Yeah in you yeah especially in your profession because like then other people have to like fill in the gaps while you're not available, all these sorts of things.

Peter
03:55-03:57
That's a lot. It's just for it's a lot for me.

Eden
04:05-04:16
It makes sense. You don't have a bullshit job like I do, so it's a little harder for you to take time off. Have you ever read that David Graeber book, Bullshit Jobs? It's pretty good.

Peter
04:16-04:18
No, no, I have not.

Eden
04:18-04:56
It's a really, really good critique of the modern uh economy and the way that we create busy jobs and that they are often some of the better paid, better compensated, e like more desirable jobs, but that fundamentally there's not a whole lot of productive worth to what they're like, you know, adding to adding to society, adding to the world. Um And, you know, when I'm feeling generous towards my job, I call it an email job. And when I'm feeling ungenerous, that's when I call it a bullshit job.

Peter
04:57-04:58
There you go, there you go.

Eden
04:58-05:16
Sometimes, sometimes you feel like you do good work. Sometimes a faculty member reaches out and says, Oh, I want to give my students your training course because I've looked for other things and nothing quite matches up to it. Nothing's as good. And I'm like, oh Thank you, Kelly. That makes me feel so good about my job.

Peter
05:16-05:17
Right.

Eden
05:16-05:21
But then there are other days where you're like, no, this is all pointless. What are we doing? What is it? What are any of us doing here?

Peter
05:22-05:25
Uh, you know, I think we can all ask that sometimes.

Eden
05:25-05:34
You know, ain't that the truth? Uh anyway, what you uh what you been up to? Anything fun? I mean you've been busy, so I can't imagine you've had a lot of time to check stuff out.

Peter
05:32-05:35
Yes.

Eden
05:35-05:38
What you what you been looking at?

Peter
05:35-07:31
No, no Uh reading, I've just been rereading or not rereading. I have started again reading Tiny Experiments by Anne Lar Le Kumpf. I'm liking that book. It resonates with me and where I'm at right now in my life. And and in a lot of ways resonates with this whole experiment that I have with Imperfect Practice Site and Channel and everything. And so It's it's encouraging to read that because it kind of makes me feel like, oh, I'm not just wasting my time. Sometimes I feel like these other things that I'm doing that are not related to medicine are kind of just me wasting my time. And then I read this book and I go. No, this is me being creative and and and finding ways to fulfill myself that are not directly tied to. to to my job as a as a doctor because I'll tell you what, I have seen a lot of doctors who put all of their identity into that and they're kind of sad, pathetic people. Just honestly, they really are. And I think that's uh I think that's almost anybody who puts it regardless of what your job is, if if all of your Sell your identity and your self-worth is locked up in your profession, I think you're gonna be pretty unhappy, whether you realize it or not. you're leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. And so so it's been good to read that and go, no, this is this is okay. I can keep playing around and experimenting and I'm learning some new skills. And You know what? Final Cut Pro is a pretty cool video editing app. And I'm sure that there's lots of people who are gonna say, oh no, DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere, and you know what? Suck it. I'm sure those are fine as well. But it's like For what I'm doing, Final Cut Pro is more than adequate enough, and it's kind of fun learning a new skill and learning how to use a new tool, which I'm really enjoying.

Eden
07:31-07:50
Also, two two things I want to add to your your conversation here. Uh number one, I do hate how in modern society, but specifically, I think, explicitly American society, the first question you ask someone when you meet them for the first time is what?

Peter
07:50-07:51
Oh, what's your job?

Eden
07:50-07:51
And what do you do?

Peter
07:51-07:52
What do you do?

Eden
07:51-08:42
Yeah, what do you do for work? And like, on what planet does that matter when I'm not at a conf if I'm not at a work conference and I'm not finding out, I'm not asking that question to find out What is your particular job title and location so that we can figure out how and where we could interface with one another? Outside of that What do I need to know about like what does that tell me about you as a person? But that is what we default to because we live in this hyper-individualist capitalist society. Where the focus is on how you're making your money and then not and and w how you define yourself by how you make that money, rather than talking about who am I as a person. And so the job comes to subsume all those other parts of your personhood. And that becomes like for many people, I think the first thing that you are.

Peter
08:42-08:44
Yeah, you're not wrong.

Eden
08:43-09:09
Before any of the other things that I think are probably more important, like are uh where who are you in regards to the family around you? You know, what other communities might you belong to that might honestly bring you more joy, happiness, and meaning than your job does because the thing is is we all talk about our jobs all the time and most of us don't like our jobs that much. And even if we do, and even if we do, I like my jobs.

Peter
09:06-09:11
It's so true.

Eden
09:09-09:13
I like both my jobs. This is the best jobs I've ever had in my life.

Peter
09:11-09:15
I mean, yeah, I l I love my job too.

Eden
09:13-09:20
And still And still, it's not what I should talk about the first time I'm meeting someone.

Peter
09:20-09:24
Yeah, totally fair.

Eden
09:21-09:24
But that's just that is what's ingrained in us as a society.

Peter
09:25-09:27
It really is, it really is.

Eden
09:26-09:32
My my second point. Don't learn Adobe Premiere. Fuck Adobe. Don't give Adobe any money.

Peter
09:32-09:46
No, that's You know, I I I'm great with that.

Eden
09:32-13:10
If you want to learn Adobe Premiere, you pirate that bitch. Do not give Adobe one red cent 'Cause they are criminals who deserve to be driven to the edge of extinction and made bankrupt. That's all Short You're early if you say you were not like head over heels for Amy Lee after that song came out.

Peter
09:46-14:09
I'm totally down with that. I I don't think that Adobe would have ever been in the question. I know that DaVinci Resolve has gotten a lot more popular, and DaVinci Resolve has a fairly robust version of it that's free. The big thing for me was as faculty at the local university, because I'm adjunct faculty there, I was able to get the Apple education package, which Honestly, it is a kind of incredible deal. It was $199 and it was final cut motion. Um logic and one or two other things that if you bought them all individually are $199 to $299. But yeah, if you're like you're a student, You're an educator, your faculty, or, and this is how loose Apple is with it, if you're a parent or a family member of someone who's a student or one of those things. They're like, sure, you can totally get it for the education price, which again, $199 for like five programs. And it was just like get 'em, you own 'em, no subscriptions, no nothing. I thought that was a pretty fair way to go about it. And so I was like, plus, you know, again, I'm editing on Apple stuff, I'm recording on Apple stuff and Final Cut because Apple makes it. It it works just it writes to the metal. It works with especially their newer processors and takes full advantage of that stuff. So I think it's I'm I'm I'm having fun learning how to edit. video and and do stuff in in this modern era. But you know, other than that, we've still been watching a little bit of Taskmaster. when we have chance just because I think it's a fun show. And and no games yet. I keep telling myself I'm gonna start playing a game and then I can't decide what to play. But there have been a couple music things that came out in the last couple of weeks that were I think are worth mentioning. Um the band In Mourning. is kind of a melodic death metal band. They released an album called The Immortal. It's great. It's really good. It's the best in-mourning album ever. I think for me, melodic death metal, it was sort of the first type of death metal that I really started to get into because of the more melodic nature of it. And It was kind of a good, how would, you know, I guess I just call it was a good gateway drug to the death metal world. Um, but a lot of times now the the point I've hit Melodic death metal can be a little toothless if they lean into the melodic side too much. And so I think In Morning on this album balances it pretty well where it doesn't feel toothless, it still feels like it's got some some heft, some some grit to it, some some bite. But it's also it's a really good album. And the other thing that I'll mention is the single End of You. Uh End of View is a collaboration single between Amy Lee of Evanescence, Poppy and Courtney LePlant of Spiritbox. Um big fan. I always you know, I was thinking about this and I'm like, if you were around when Bring Me to Life came out by Evan Essence and was in that Daredevil soundtrack and stuff, and you didn't like it, I think you're mighty I think you're full of shit. Yeah, I mean everybody was. And I think with decent reason, she's got a great voice, and it was it was an incredibly slick song and So I I love Courtney LePlant. Obviously, Spirit Box, I've talked about them here on the podcast before. I think they're a great band. I really like what they do. And I've found Poppy's most recent album, especially, that I think she's leaning more into the metal side. I think it's interesting. I like her. I think she's got a interesting I don't know. There's there's there's a s it's in it's very, as her name would sort of suggest, it's very pop-centric music. But there's this underlying there's an underlying darkness to it that I think interests me. And so having all three of these together, uh, it's a great song. It was very cool and I've been excited and enjoying that a lot. But that's about it for me. What about you?

Eden
14:10-15:01
Um keeping myself busy. Um been reading a fair amount. Um I finished Azumanga Dayo, which I talked about last time. Still a delight. I did really enjoy it. It's one of those ones that like, as I finished it, I was like, I understood why it has its place as one of the like a seminal slice of life books. It's very good. Despite the Problems that I mentioned last episode continuing to some degree. You saw a lot less maybe of them, uh, but they did continue. Uh, it remained a very, really good show. Um Some other things that I have been up to. Oh, here's an interesting thing. You probab d when you're playing physical media like to watch in your house, what do you play it on? Like if you have a DVD or a Blu-ray, what are you sticking it into?

Peter
15:01-15:17
I'm not anymore. I mean, we literally because we were hooking up an Apple TV and the Switch too, but still wanted to have the Switch be able to be plugged in. We completely have disconnected and stored our Blu-ray players.

Eden
15:17-15:19
Oh, okay.

Peter
15:19-15:41
So No.

Eden
15:19-15:46
I mean that's fair Yeah, I I don't use them much these days. I use them more than I used to, um, because I don't know if I mentioned it here, but like someone at the comic shop just donated to us like six enormous boxes full of anime DVDs and Blu-rays. Did I talk about that here? Well, I took home a whole lot of it. I picked through and I was like I I picked most everything I thought would be interesting to me.

Peter
15:41-16:07
There you go No, in fact that's funny because That's like the one thing that I do.

Eden
15:46-16:05
So I've been slowly but surely starting to chip away at some of these things. Um, but these are all on physical media then. Um and and part of me thinks, oh, maybe I should digitize them somehow. But I don't of course my computer doesn't have an optical drive. It's 2025. Of course my computer doesn't have an optical drive.

Peter
16:07-16:16
I I've broken out the USB optical drive more often than I've plugged a Blu-ray or a DVD into an actual dedicated player.

Eden
16:17-17:18
Yeah. Um but anyway, uh so the other day I sat down Because I wanted to watch The Vision of Escaflone, which is a show I've been to watch for years. It's a 1990s Isekai mech fantasy show. It's basically what if Sailor Moon No that what if uh, you know, Magic Knight Ray Earth, except the girl is not the protagonist. She's like mostly there to be a damsel. It's not as It's not as good as Ray Earth, let's be straight. Like I think Ray Earth is very good. Um and conceptually I don't feel like Escaflone is as quite as rich. However, it looks great. Um, but I s so I sat down to watch it the other day and I was like, while I'm watching this, why don't I ride, you know, the exercise bike? You know, two th two birds, one stone, get a little bit of a workout in while I'm watching this show And at this point, when I watch physical media, I almost always watch it on my Xbox Series X because the Blu-ray player on the PS5 is very quiet.

Peter
17:13-17:44
Sure. Oh Sure.

Eden
17:19-17:51
Why? I don't know, but it is significantly more quiet than anything else that you would do on your blue on your uh PlayStation. So you would have to crank the volume if you were using the PlayStation as a Blu-ray. And this is a known thing. Everyone talks about it. If anyone, if you talk with anyone about PS5 using PS5 as a Blu-ray player. But I got this Series X right there. It also plays Blu-rays, so I've used that primarily for Blu-rays ever since I got the Series X and realized that the PS5's not great for volume reasons.

Peter
17:44-17:45
Right.

Eden
17:51-18:56
Um, and it works great for Blu-rays, works great for 4Ks, you know, all those sorts of things. I throw the DVD in there. And I start getting some really, really weird jitteriness whenever the picture is moving. And so I was like, is something wrong with the player or is something wrong with the DVD? Um, and I didn't think something would be wrong with the player. I've played dozens of discs in the Xbox before. I didn't think it could possibly be the player. Um But eventually I was like Before I write this whole thing off, and I'm like, maybe it's just, you know, this is old DVD. This is a very this is an old first pressing DVD of Escaflone from like 2003, 2004. Maybe it's just old. It's a DVD, not a Blu-ray. Maybe it's just old. But I'm like, let's try the PS5. So I boot up the PS5. And first of all, it screams at me that I have not turned it on in six months. And when I did turn it off, it was not properly shut down beforehand. So it first it screams at me about, you need to shut me down.

Peter
18:53-18:58
Oh dear.

Eden
18:56-19:05
And then it's like, I need to install a thousand updates. So I let it install its million updates and I'm sitting there thinking, I just wanted to ride a bike and watch a show, guys.

Peter
18:59-19:00
Uh huh.

Eden
19:05-19:37
This is taking 15-20 minutes before I'm even gonna be able to start riding the bike and watching the show. But eventually I get it updated, I throw the disc in there, and it works just fine. So it's a weird. I'm not sure. I need to test out the Series X with other DVDs, standard def discs, and see if something is wrong with the entire codec that they use for playing standard def, or if it's whatever reason it doesn't like. Escaflone. It's weird.

Peter
19:36-19:39
Yeah.

Eden
19:37-19:40
It played perfectly fine on the PS5.

Peter
19:39-19:41
Interesting.

Eden
19:40-19:43
It was real weird. Anyway, uh Escaflone is cool.

Peter
19:42-19:43
That is weird.

Eden
19:43-20:15
I've watched the first couple episodes of that. It's pretty fun. I can I intend to continue watching it and writing the stationary bike while doing so. Um let's see other th oh also the bad movie bros convened over Google on Sunday. to watch mayhap one of the worst movies I've ever watched in my life. While I was watching it, I thought to myself, should I make Peter do this? And it was so dire, it was so dire that I knew I couldn't do this to you.

Peter
20:09-20:15
Oh boy.

Eden
20:15-20:20
And the only reason I was able to survive how bad this film was.

Peter
20:16-20:51
Wow Oh my gosh, I listened to the um the uh uh flop house episode about this and it just wow.

Eden
20:20-20:52
was because I was watching it in a Google Hangout call with five other people. So we were constantly clowning on this sucker. And I also built about half of the Cubele model while doing it. So I was not paying attention and making jokes and japes with my friends while watching the 2025 War of the World starring Ice Cube. Do they already have a flop house out for it?

Peter
20:52-20:55
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's it was amazing.

Eden
20:55-21:01
I haven't been a flop house listener for years, but I might just have to go re-subscribe to listen to this thing.

Peter
21:01-21:32
You know what I'll say about the flop house briefly is it's one of those I am sort of a podcast completionist for most podcasts. But Flap House is definitely one where I I will take a peek and if it's a movie that I don't know anything about and I'm not interested, I have no problem deleting it and moving on. But it's one of those I keep it, I keep subscribed because I'll open it, you know, every two weeks. I I don't ever really listen to the minis, but I open it every two weeks and I look at it and I go, is this a movie I want to hear them talk about? And yeah, I think actually War of the Worlds was the last one I listened to.

Eden
21:32-23:43
Well, I'm sure they had a lot to say about how bad that movie was. And dear listeners, you can go listen to their podcast for a more in-depth discussion about how bad that movie was. But just let me tell you, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. And I've seen some bad movies, folks. I've seen, I know from bad movies. But this one really was just abysmal. For those of you who might not know anything about this film, you should go watch the trailer at the very least so that you can know what you're getting into with this film. But they made this movie. This is a this is a studio production released by Universal Pictures again starring Ice Cube. You know, Ice Cube? F the police ice cube And he is playing a guy who works for the NSA as like one of the top-level hackers and intelligence agencies uh agents. And what that means is that the entirety of this movie is shot from the computer screen that he's using. And so it is constantly him on webcam because he has his webcam open even when he's not in a call, I guess, which that's a choice, guys, but uh it's not the choice I would make, bud. Um, and he is stalking his children while he's at work using government assets to stalk his children. He is berating his soon-to-be son-in-law because he's a good, useless, good do-nothing Amazon delivery driver. uh which plays a prominent plot point later in the film that his soon-to-be son-in-law is in fact an Amazon delivery driver Because there is oh my god, it's so fucking bad. Um it the aliens show up, they start reckon things. In this one, in this uh take on War of the Worlds, the aliens are there because they feed on data. So they're going to all of the data centers and gobbling up everyone's data. And which of course deletes it. So I personally I'm watching this and I'm like.

Peter
23:42-23:43
That's incredible.

Eden
23:43-24:41
Send them in. Let's go. Let the aliens eat all my data. Let's go back to the Stone Age. I'm ready. I'm ready for Stone Age life again. I don't want to be here anymore. But anyway, they're eating all the data. And at one point, they figure out a like virus that they can feed the data. Don't worry about it. It's stupid. And of course, this whole movie is then real time because it's all just from his computer screen basically. Um, so the whole thing takes place over the course of like ninety minutes or whatever, and shenanigans ensue, the whole world basically gets fucked up by these tripods. But they figure out that they can put a Trojan horse program in the government's surveillance thing. Because it's the government's surveillance program. that the government turned on that causes the aliens to be like, ooh, yummy data, and come attack the Earth. Um so they decide It's so stupid.

Peter
24:38-24:43
Oh my gosh. Okay, sorry, keep going.

Eden
24:41-24:53
It's so stupid, Peter. Here's the thing. You should watch it, but make sure you have a large group of people to clown on it with. Do not watch it alone. It's so bad, but it's worth watching with other people and making fun of it.

Peter
24:51-25:19
I mean I Or or I'm like loaded in VLC and just like crank the speed up Right.

Eden
24:53-26:40
Put it on while you've got people in the house, have a bunch of food, have a puzzle out on the coffee table, and make fun of it. That's great. Don't try to pay attention to it. I mean if you really want to see what's happening, put it to two three times speed and see what happens. Watch that 90-minute movie in 30 and it'll be a delight. Um so anyway, there is a this is again crucial plot point. He needs to get a USB drive. And of course he doesn't carry who carries a USB drive anymore? To which he's on a video call with his daughter. And her boyfri her baby daddy, who is her fiance Amazon truck driver, who is with the daughter because she got injured and he was directed to her by the dad or whatever. It's stupid. So he has to order on Amazon a USB drive so that his son-in-law can use the Amazon drones that can only be turned on once an order needs to be delivered. So he has to order the USB drive from Amazon. So then his son-in-law turns on the drones so you can see some of the worst special effects you've ever seen in your life. as they fly this drone past these tripods. It's truly like the asylum level bad special effect. It's some of the worst special effects I've ever seen in a movie altogether, much less a studio-released universal picture. Um, but yeah, so the the heroic Amazon delivery driver saves the day by driving his drone so well. That's the sort of film we're talking about here.

Peter
26:40-26:41
I love it.

Eden
26:40-26:54
Like just literally slobbering all over Amazon. And you're like, of course this is an Amazon original. Did they not expect everyone to clown on this? Because they have. I think it's like a four percent on Rotten Tomatoes right now. And honestly, I'm shocked it's above a zero.

Peter
26:54-27:33
I mean, here's the fun thing is so so I went to look at IMDb. And on IMDb, it has two and a half stars. Be because there are some 10-star reviews, I'd like to read briefly a few of these. Modern art, I have never seen a movie this entertaining in my life. The director systematically understands how nothing works, which just isn't possible. You know how they say it's impossible to get every answer wrong on a test? unless you know all the answers. Yeah, that's this movie. Zoom and enhance the movie 10 out of 10.

Eden
27:33-28:18
It's well It was truly abysmal.

Peter
27:33-28:15
Uh oh, here we go. Here we go. Academy or we take it to the streets. Most underrated movie this year. Don't listen to the hater. This movie will take you on an adventure. You will cry, you will laugh. Most importantly, you will learn to love again. phenomenal performance of the year by Cube. He will pull at your heartstrings the way he deals with his children. The CGI will make you feel as if you're watching something from the future. The cast is unbelievable and work so well with each other. They have a chemistry that can only be built over time. You will go on a journey with each other. I would say Cube's performance reminds me of Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's the kind of role you can tell Cube pooped his heart into. They they said pooped. I cannot wait to see what kind of adventure we take in part two.

Eden
28:19-28:39
It was one of those things where as you're watching it, you're thinking Wow, I sure hope they row you a big check, Evil Longoria, because what are you doing here? It's bad. It's real bad. But I it was a delight to watch with my friends. I'll tell you that much And I got the left arm and one of the legs of the Kubele built during the uh happenings of the film.

Peter
28:32-28:34
There you go. There you go.

Eden
28:39-32:25
So it worked out great. Um, I don't know if there's anything else to mention. I've been reading books. Um I could talk about Yuritama another time. Uh, because I need to read another book of it. But let's just say I will I'll briefly mention Yoritama. Uh Yoritama from Tribe or from Third Wheel to Trifecta is the subtitle of this book. Um it's a very stupid book. Um where basically the premise is there are these two girls in high school who are the most accomplished, beautiful, smartest girls in the whole high school. They've been friends since like kindergarten. And everyone in their high school ships them together. Everyone in the high school calls this couple of girls the Sacrosanct. and has like real life shipping, you know, fix that they write about how these two girls are in love with each other. And no one wants then like no one's friends with them because they all just see them as these these untouchable icons, these that that they are not humans, but that they are archetypes of human rather than than living, breathing flesh beings. But then there is this girl who's the main character who's a dummy. She accidentally gets into the school that is it's it's like a high-performing only girls-only school. She gets in by taking her pencil on the exam on the entrance exam, spinning it, and whatever side of the pencil is facing up, she would mark that bubble. And somehow that was enough for her to get a good enough grade to go to the school that she's patently unqualified for. So she's a goober. But regardless, She meets these two girls on the first day of school and starts talking to them because she doesn't have any history with them. She didn't go to junior high with them. Uh she's like a normal person. And so suddenly she becomes friends with both of them, and everyone is kind of annoyed that she is she is uh interrupting the sacrosanct as they all watch from afar as these two girls rule. Um, but then this new goofy girl is there. And then one day she has plans with each of them separately. She's gonna study with one of them and then go out for like uh, you know, dinner with the other one, just like as friends or whatever. She goes to study with the one girl, and the one girl confesses her love and kisses her. And so she's like, okay, I'll date you And then she goes out to dinner with the other one. She confesses her love and kisses her. And so she goes, okay, I'll date you too. And so suddenly she gets home and she's like, oh no, I told the two most beautiful girls in the world that I would date them, and that I'm dating both of them now. What am I gonna do? Uh I guess I have to two-time them. And so she spends the rest of the book trying to figure out how to maintain these two relationships without the other two the other one figuring out about it. The head of the school, like um fan club of these two girls kidnaps her and tries and tries to figure out, what are you doing? Why are they not in the same like why are they acting weird to each other in public. And it's because they're both in love and dating this other girl. Anyway, they figure it all out. She eventually is like, I have to come clean. So she takes them to an amusement park, the three of them. They have fun. They get on the uh Ferris wheel. And on the Ferris wheel, she finally confesses to the both of them. I'm so sorry. You both confessed, and I said yes to both of you. So for the past few weeks I've been dating both of you. And they both just look at her and they're like, Yeah, we knew. Like we both knew we were gonna do it. And so we both just I get We both expected one of you us to go first and you to accept the one and the other person to get turned down, but then you accepted us both and we're like, okay, I guess this is how it's going now. And so the book ends with her dating both of them. Um and there's three other books in the series, so I don't know where it goes from here.

Peter
32:25-32:42
Wild I'm excited.

Eden
32:25-32:42
But uh we'll see. It was it was a a roller coaster. Um and not just cause there was a Ferris wheel at the end, not an amusement park. But uh we'll see. I'm excited to read more Anyway, uh I think it's time to move on to our main event for today, which is gonna be real stupid, dear listeners.

Peter
32:43-32:53
I don't really know what's coming. Eden, Eden is helping me out in the midst of my extremely busy and stressful week. So it's a surprise for all parties involved except for them.

Eden
32:53-33:14
And basically, I wanted to do something that required no effort and would be stupid. Um, and so that is what we have here. I have a series of would you rather lists and we're just gonna go and pick some good ones, and if they suck, then we'll move to a different list, and if they're good, then we'll keep going down that list. Um, and we're just gonna talk about some would you rather scenarios as a joke.

Peter
33:13-33:26
Okay Oh yeah.

Eden
33:15-33:31
Especially because the first one I found is from an ep uh website which I bet is just the best website in the world called Mantelligence. I have never heard of this website? I bet it sucks. I bet it's the worst place in the world.

Peter
33:31-33:33
I don't know, I'm excited.

Eden
33:32-33:35
Um, but We'll see how bad it is.

Peter
33:33-33:36
I want to test out my Mantelligence.

Eden
33:35-33:52
Let's just say their top editor's pick is Riz meaning context usage and why Gen Z is obsessed. I'm sorry, if you need to read an article with an AI-generated image called Riz meaning to figure out what Riz is, it's not for you. You don't get to know.

Peter
33:51-33:53
It's true. It's true.

Eden
33:52-33:53
You don't get to know.

Peter
33:53-33:56
Even even I.

Eden
33:53-33:56
Also, it's the most straightforward. Go ahead.

Peter
33:56-34:06
I was just gonna say, even I, the nearly 50-year-old man, heard Riz and in the context went. Okay, I see where that came from. I gotcha.

Eden
34:06-34:13
It's in fact the most straightforward possible uh piece of like slang.

Peter
34:13-34:15
Yes.

Eden
34:13-34:16
It's just the middle of the word charisma. We all know what this means.

Peter
34:15-34:16
Correct.

Eden
34:16-34:22
Anyway. Alright. Here we're gonna do some would you rather especially part of the reason I picked this one.

Peter
34:19-34:30
I think I just want to say I I just wanna say I think that instead of Riz, they should have picked they should have chosen the last part of the word and gone with SMA.

Eden
34:22-34:23
Oh go ahead.

Peter
34:30-34:36
Because I like to tell somebody, you've got real small, because that sounds gross.

Eden
34:31-34:41
Yeah You're sm you're smotting her you're smotting her up. You can't do it.

Peter
34:40-34:43
You're sm you're smiling up.

Eden
34:41-34:44
That's the problem. You can't turn it into a gerund very easily.

Peter
34:43-34:46
Smart smallin' her up.

Eden
34:44-34:46
Riz Riz is an easy gerund.

Peter
34:46-34:50
It's true You could just go with sming.

Eden
34:47-34:49
Rizzin' her up. But smotting her up?

Peter
34:50-34:52
You could sming. You're sminging her up.

Eden
34:51-34:53
Sming. Sming in her.

Peter
34:53-34:54
Smeing.

Eden
34:53-35:01
I hate this. That sounds like a slur. That sounds like you're saying a slur. I don't care for it. All right.

Peter
35:01-35:05
I didn't think before I said anything just now, so let's go for it.

Eden
35:01-35:28
Um It's all good. We're just uh we're just spitballing here. We have some uh some contents here, like the best Conversation starters. Here's the one I'm most excited to get to. There's a series of them called For a Girl. So these are the ones that you would ask a girl who you're trying to riz up. So I'm excited to get to those and see what the would you rathers about a girl would be.

Peter
35:24-35:29
Okay. Yeah.

Eden
35:28-35:32
I have no I have not looked past the contents to see how bad these are.

Peter
35:33-35:33
Okay.

Eden
35:33-35:42
Um, but let's see. Uh some of these are stupid questions. Would you rather have to wear formal attire or pajamas all day every day? That's not a question.

Peter
35:41-35:46
That's not a question.

Eden
35:42-35:47
Anyone who picks formal attire anyone who picks formal attire is a psychopath.

Peter
35:46-35:49
Or full of shit.

Eden
35:48-35:52
Yeah, we're a liar. Like, no one wants to wear a tux every day.

Peter
35:49-35:50
Or a liar.

Eden
35:52-35:57
You're picking pajamas, even if you feel underdressed. Give me a break. And I understand.

Peter
35:56-35:56
Correct.

Eden
35:57-36:08
I live in the Midwest. Everyone's underdressed literally at all times here. I go to events where people should be dressing up, and you see people in cargo shorts, and I think to myself, Iowa, put some clothes on.

Peter
36:10-36:57
I go to a job a professional job where every day the first thing I do when I get into my office is change into a pair of what are essentially pajamas What Yeah.

Eden
36:11-36:59
And yet That's true. To be fair though, I do work in a job that's fairly low key when it comes to uh um dress code, which I am grateful for because apparently the tyrant who used to run the department that I'm in up until like twenty twenty or whatever would not let you wear sneakers to work. To work at a cubicle in IT at a university? You can't wear sneakers? Excuse me. No, I am only wearing sneakers I pull out the non-sneakers when I'm going to a conference. And other than that, it's oops all sneakers o'clock.

Peter
36:57-36:58
Right.

Eden
37:00-37:08
Don't worry about the times I sometimes wear crocs. It's not a big deal. It's no big deal. Uh anyway, that's a stupid one.

Peter
37:08-37:08
Yep.

Eden
37:08-37:17
Um Many Oh here's a good one I think I know the answer to this one because I have one that it feels like the definitive correct answer to me.

Peter
37:09-37:10
All right, let's get some more.

Eden
37:17-37:20
Would you rather be too hot or too cold all the time?

Peter
37:20-37:22
I would rather be too cold.

Eden
37:22-37:28
You can always put on more clothes. This is what I say every time people ask me, do you prefer it hot or cold?

Peter
37:24-37:25
Correct.

Eden
37:28-37:35
I can always put more layers on. I can only take so many off before I get in trouble.

Peter
37:30-37:38
Yes. Or I mean you get down to the skin suit and there's nothing left.

Eden
37:38-37:41
This is what I'm saying. That's the in trouble part.

Peter
37:40-37:44
Yep, a hundred percent. Nope, too cold for sure.

Eden
37:43-38:01
Oh, here's a good one because I don't know that I have a good answer for this one. Would you rather have a freakishly huge smile or a freakishly small nose? I don't know I don't those both suck. That's a good my favorite kind of would you rather or when you're like both of these are nightmare scenarios to be.

Peter
38:01-38:06
I think I'd rather have the small nose.

Eden
38:04-38:07
See, I was gonna say big mouth.

Peter
38:06-38:08
Okay, okay.

Eden
38:07-38:12
Why why small nose? Why small nose? My glasses would fall off if I had a very small nose.

Peter
38:12-38:39
I don't wear my glasses except I have a pair of like readingslash computer glasses on right now that I could do just fine without. I I don't know. I feel like So I I have a bit of a complex about my mouth. I growing up was always told that I I was made fun of back in the day for having, as we would now refer to them as full lips.

Eden
38:29-39:03
Okay. Yeah, we both do That makes sense.

Peter
38:41-39:02
And so I was always a little self-conscious of that. And now, as I have gotten older, I jokingly say that I must have had a stroke at some point in the past because my smile is slightly uneven. And so I look at that and I go, big lips, slightly uneven smile, and now you want to exaggerate all that? I'll take the itty bitty nose. Thank you very much.

Eden
39:03-39:06
Um, I think I'm taking a big mouth though.

Peter
39:06-39:09
There you go.

Eden
39:06-39:11
Just 'cause I don't want a very small nose. Because I wear I do wear glasses. That's all I have ever worn.

Peter
39:10-39:23
You do, you do It's been a hot second then.

Eden
39:11-39:25
I have not worn I have not worn contact since The day I got married? Maybe our wedding reception. I think that was the last time I wore it, was our wedding receptions. So that's been almost 15 years now since I've worn contacts.

Peter
39:24-39:29
Yeah. Yeah, that's a bit.

Eden
39:25-39:35
So I'm a I'm a glasses kid. That's what happens when you were a contacts kid and then the girl you're dating is like, I think you look cute in glasses. And then you go, I'll never wear contacts again.

Peter
39:35-39:37
There you go, that's what happens.

Eden
39:37-39:49
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Alright, here's a good one for you. Would you rather have to announce to everyone around you whenever you have to fart? Or would you rather have to pee your pants every day?

Peter
39:49-39:55
Oh, I'll announce when I'm gonna fart, hands down.

Eden
39:52-40:11
I'll absolutely announce what I'm gonna fart. I don't wanna piss my pants Yeah.

Peter
39:56-40:27
I mean And I it's not quite the same, I guess, in public, but I'd still be more comfortable in public announcing when I had to fart rather than piss at my pants. But it's like we have a rule at home that it's like you can fart as long as you own it. So We'll just rip it at home and be like, that was me. That was me. I was I was with a group of men helping move somebody the other day and I ripped a real juicy one in the garage and It was potent and somebody asked who ripped ass and I was just like, that was me. I'll I'm just gonna own that one.

Eden
40:26-40:37
Yeah, that's you know, Yeah, uh there's a lot of these where there's a clear objective right answer.

Peter
40:27-40:33
Yeah. I'm I'm owning my farts. I'm announcing it rather than just pissing in my pants.

Eden
40:37-40:47
Like announcing a fart is so much better than pissing your pants. There's another one here that says, Would you rather fart really loud or poop your pants silently? Fart every time. I don't want to shit my pants.

Peter
40:46-40:51
Hey guess what? I've shit my pants multiple times in my life.

Eden
40:49-40:52
I have two. I don't want to do it again.

Peter
40:51-41:00
Like I don't want to either. It's not a medical condition, people. It was called living in a third world country with amoebas and that sort of stuff. Anyway.

Eden
40:59-41:04
To be fair, the last time I did it when I was as a kid, but it scarred me for life.

Peter
41:00-41:26
Uh Oh no. So I have this classic story that anybody who knows me at work for more than a few minutes will hear, and it involves me Being violently ill my chief year of residency and barely making it out to the scrub sink before I started violently vomiting in it. And then because of the vomit, I was just like shit in my pants. So that's my last time.

Eden
41:25-41:32
Fun times. Fun times for everyone. My last time was when we were at Uncle Ken and Aunt Lisa's house.

Peter
41:32-41:33
Okay.

Eden
41:32-41:44
And it was when Do you remember when for some reason they lived in like a family member's place for a little bit and it had like a really big hill in the back?

Peter
41:41-41:44
I remember the hill in the back.

Eden
41:44-42:02
Well, we were out there like hanging, like everyone, all the cousins were out there playing, and I needed to poop, but I didn't want to go inside, and the house is really far away. Oops, we all know what happened. I was eight or seven or whatever. So then I had to go inside and tell mom and dad that I had done that. It was the most embarrassing thing. It was not good.

Peter
42:02-42:06
Oh gosh, no, I've done it much more recently than that in my life, so you know.

Eden
42:06-42:13
Well, there you go. All right, we are moving on to uh funny things you would you rather questions to ask a girl.

Peter
42:13-42:14
Okay, let's hear him.

Eden
42:13-42:21
I don't know that we will answer any of these because they're dreadful. But we're going to all right.

Peter
42:18-42:21
Well, I might try. I'm gonna try.

Eden
42:22-42:30
Uh then the first one is would you rather eat the same mail for the meal for the rest of your life or never use Instagram again?

Peter
42:33-42:34
Um, yeah.

Eden
42:34-42:41
Those two things don't feel equivalent to me. As a person who already doesn't use Instagram, those don't feel equivalent.

Peter
42:41-42:52
No. I mean, as okay as I would probably be eating the same meal I'd still probably rather eat a variety of meals and just say forget Instagram.

Eden
42:52-43:09
That is my eating the same meal every day is my nightmare. You could say, would you rather eat the same meal for the rest of your life or lose your left arm? And I'd be like, chop it, baby. I'm not eating the same food for the rest of my life. You take that arm away from me.

Peter
43:07-43:09
Yeah.

Eden
43:09-43:13
Fuck it.

Peter
43:10-43:14
Yeah, no, take social media away. Insta's gone.

Eden
43:13-43:14
Yeah.

Peter
43:14-43:29
I'm fine with that Oh yeah.

Eden
43:15-43:34
It's uh You don't even need to tell me I have to eat the same food for the rest of my life in a threatening manner. You should probably just take all social media away from me, for goodness sake. Especially, especially the last two days. I have had to be buttoned up on social media, dear listeners, after seeing so many people get fired because of the happenings.

Peter
43:30-43:30
Oh yeah.

Eden
43:35-43:58
Buttoned up. I made I was in a friend's Discord and I made an em uh like a little emoji that I just started tagging things in the Discord because I saw it somewhere else. that was don't say anything to get this discord subpoenaed and I just kept posting that on things and then people would quietly delete things they had said when I was like don't you say something to get this discord subpoenaed come on This is not as private as you think it is.

Peter
43:55-44:00
That's you know, that's that's a that's a good way to think of it.

Eden
44:00-44:06
And now I have that set as an emoji in that in that uh Discord so I can use it whenever I need to.

Peter
44:06-44:12
Perfect.

Eden
44:07-44:12
All right, here's the next one that I'm really curious to see what you would have to see to say, Peter.

Peter
44:12-44:20
Okay Oh boy.

Eden
44:12-44:18
Would you rather wear a push-up bra all day long every day, or stiletto heels all day long every day?

Peter
44:20-44:25
I don't think I could balance on the Stiletto heels, so I guess my moves are getting pushed up.

Eden
44:24-44:47
I don't know that I could either. I don't know that I could either This one I don't want an answer to, but it is definitely like uh this is what you say after you've asked a few of these and you're trying to move things a little more towards the bedroom. Would you rather make love with the lights off or the lights on? Excuse, that's not a good would you rather? That's a boring would you rather? That's a sexy would you rather.

Peter
44:46-44:49
Yeah. That's that's a dumb one.

Eden
44:47-44:56
That's boring. Um would you rather give up shopping for six months or give up emoji for six months?

Peter
44:56-45:04
Oh my gosh, I think I'll give up Yeah.

Eden
44:58-45:16
Goodbye forever shopping. No kidding. Imagine. These are terrible. These are terrible Would you rather give up your computer or your pet? Neither. Go fuck yourself, Mantelligence. Oh, here's a good one. Would you rather have a cookies or french fries, Peter?

Peter
45:16-45:20
Uh I'd probably rather have French fries. I generally like savory more than sweet.

Eden
45:21-45:31
Me too. And this French fry, like, I like potatoes. Potatoes, maybe the greatest starch in terms of any way you prepare them, I'm pretty happy with it.

Peter
45:31-45:33
Versatility, just absolute versatility.

Eden
45:31-45:41
But the hot the French fry may be the best way to prepare the potato. It's very good Again, so many of these are dumb.

Peter
45:41-45:48
Okay, well so I've got some for you.

Eden
45:41-45:47
Would you rather give up alcohol for a year or your smartphone for a month? Uh alcohol for a year.

Peter
45:48-45:52
I went into now this is this is an experiment.

Eden
45:49-45:50
Please.

Peter
45:53-46:02
This is unfiltered. This is from Anthropics Claude. I said, make me a list of Make me a list of humorous would you rather questions.

Eden
45:57-46:00
Oh God, go fuck yourself.

Peter
46:02-46:05
I'm trying, I want I I thought I'd see what Cloud came up with.

Eden
46:02-46:04
Okay, Claude.

Peter
46:05-46:06
So here we go.

Eden
46:05-46:09
Claude is Claude is my mortal enemy, so let me hear what my mortal enemy has to say.

Peter
46:10-46:19
Would you rather have to announce everything you're doing in a dramatic movie trailer voice, or only be able to whisper for the rest of your life?

Eden
46:19-46:23
I already announce everything I'm doing in a dramatic movie trailer voice.

Peter
46:23-46:28
I mean, I want that.

Eden
46:23-46:46
Half the time when I'm cooking in the kitchen, I'm like, esta noche in Telemundo, my staff. Like There you go.

Peter
46:31-46:48
I'm just imagining it I don't know how different it would be with if I was at work because I always have somebody following me around so I just have to be like, I must go take a piss. I shall be back. That just feels like my daily life.

Eden
46:46-46:51
I'm going to use the bathroom.

Peter
46:49-46:53
It is time to defecate Okay, okay, here we go.

Eden
46:52-46:54
You know, I'm for it.

Peter
46:53-47:00
Would you would you rather have fingers as long as legs or legs as short as fingers?

Eden
46:54-47:15
Let's be another one. Okay. Okay, you got me. That's a good one. That's a real good one. Um I'm imagining both, and they're both nightmare scenarios.

Peter
47:14-47:16
Yes, they are.

Eden
47:15-47:24
I'm not gonna lie. I think it's I think it's leg f I think it's leg fingers.

Peter
47:22-47:31
That's what I think too. I wanna just like a normal size torso, itty bitty teeny little legs, but you can actually do stuff.

Eden
47:25-47:27
I think it's like fingers.

Peter
47:31-47:38
If you had fingers as long as legs, you would be so yeah. Okay, here we go.

Eden
47:38-47:40
Well, that's a rough one.

Peter
47:38-47:47
Yeah. Okay. Would you rather sweat maple syrup or have your tears taste like hot sauce?

Eden
47:47-47:55
I guess the tears because I sweat more than I cry, and I would not want to have sticky sweat.

Peter
47:50-48:01
That's the same thing I'm thinking. And like And can you imagine the the bugs you would attract?

Eden
47:56-48:24
Sweat's sticky enough on its own. Yeah, it'd be real brutal Um I'm flying, yeah, I'm flying.

Peter
48:03-48:30
You'd just be covered. You'd be covered in bugs. Alright, this is in the embarrassing superpowers category it gave us. Would you rather be able to fly, but only while screaming at the top of your lungs, or be invisible, but only when you sneeze? I'm flying, man. Come on. If I can fly and all I gotta do is just scream, I am soaring through the air the whole time. Are you kidding me?

Eden
48:30-48:36
I mean you'd be doing that regardless.

Peter
48:32-48:36
If I could fly, everyone would know about it.

Eden
48:36-48:41
Yeah. You're screaming regardless because you're flying, so yeah.

Peter
48:39-48:41
Hell yeah.

Eden
48:41-48:46
I don't sneeze often enough for that. That invisibility is not long-lasting enough to be of any use.

Peter
48:47-49:04
Exactly. Okay. Would you rather have the ability to read minds, but only when people are thinking about sandwiches. Or be able to time travel, but only to awkward moments from your past.

Eden
48:58-49:09
Okay. Well, I don't want to go revisit the awkward moments of my past, so I guess I'm hearing a lot of sandwich thoughts.

Peter
49:09-49:13
I mean, you'd be able to know what people really feel about sandwiches.

Eden
49:13-49:19
The thing is I already mostly know what people think about sandwiches, and that is, yay, sandwiches.

Peter
49:18-49:34
That's exactly right. Okay, final one in the embarrassing superpowers. Would you rather have super strength? But only in your pinky fingers, or super speed, but only while moving backwards.

Eden
49:34-49:42
I get really good at running backwards.

Peter
49:36-49:42
Yeah. I think I'd like I think it'd be a blast to have the strength in the pinky finger.

Eden
49:42-49:59
Yeah, I could see You're like those dudes who get really good at punching where they like move like one hand width away and then they can still like bust through things, except you're doing it with just your pinky pink.

Peter
49:42-50:03
Just to be kind of unassuming, and then all of a sudden you whip out your pinky and you're like, take that, sucker. Yep. Yep. Okay, we got some food fiascos.

Eden
50:01-50:03
Okay, I can catch the vision.

Peter
50:03-50:05
We got some food fiascos.

Eden
50:03-50:04
Let's hit me.

Peter
50:05-50:09
Would you rather have pizza hands or donut feet?

Eden
50:09-50:14
Um donut feet, because I could cover them up and not deal with it. I would need my hands to still be usable.

Peter
50:14-50:37
Yep, I agree. I agree. Would you oh here's an here's a good food one for you. Would you rather only be able to eat foods that start with the last letter of your most recent word you spoke? Or have every meal taste like your least favorite vegetable? I'm totally going with the first one. At least you get some variety.

Eden
50:35-50:43
I'm going with whatever food. Yeah, I'm going with what I mean we already talked about how I want to have decent food. So yeah.

Peter
50:43-50:53
All right, last food fiasco one. And I already know my answer. There's a definitively right answer here, I think. Would you rather burp glitter or hiccup bubbles?

Eden
50:49-50:55
Okay. Hit the bubbles.

Peter
50:54-50:56
Oh no, burp and glitter, man.

Eden
50:55-50:56
That's fun.

Peter
50:56-51:04
Burp and glitter. Can you imagine? Because I I am a very I'm very skilled at the belching. I'm good.

Eden
51:03-51:04
Yeah, this is true.

Peter
51:04-51:08
I have real real resonant solid burps.

Eden
51:04-51:06
I know this about you.

Peter
51:08-51:28
And just imagine every time I just do one of those, just like a s of just this spoon spum of glitter just going into the air. I love that. That makes me happy. I could go dance to the Pink Pony Club and I could burp and everybody would be happy. But again, if you got the hiccups, see, I think the thing is, is I enjoy burping and I hate hiccups.

Eden
51:28-51:38
Yeah, well see I'm thinking which is less uh less disruptive of my life and I hiccup far less often than I don't even burp that often. But I hiccup less often than I burp.

Peter
51:36-51:37
Oh, I burp all the time.

Eden
51:38-51:45
I'm not a big burper.

Peter
51:40-51:44
Yeah. All right. Couple more here. Oh yes, you got something.

Eden
51:44-51:50
Okay, I I do have a couple other ones when you're done. I found a a very good one on parades list.

Peter
51:50-52:07
Okay, I've got I've got three I've got three social nightmares is the category it gave us. Would you rather accidentally send every text to your mom or have every lie you tell be announced by a tiny marching band that follows you around?

Eden
51:57-52:14
Okay. I mean, I'm blowing up mom's phone, sorry to her, but I'm not sending anything sensitive in my text. Sorry about your phone, Mom.

Peter
52:13-52:15
I don't either.

Eden
52:14-52:15
I'm blowing it up.

Peter
52:15-52:39
I'm just like mom's gonna get a whole bunch of texts that she's like, uh what All right, so so here's a better version of the formal slash pajama question that your list had.

Eden
52:19-52:33
You find out how many times a day I send to my wife, hey, I love you. Good luck for you. You get to see or hear me say, what time are you done with that bookmobile shop? When are you gonna be home? Cause I can't remember your schedule.

Peter
52:40-52:46
Would you rather have to wear a tuxedo to bed every night or pajamas to every formal event?

Eden
52:40-52:55
Okay. Well, I don't go to formal events, but I don't want to wear pajamas to a formal event, so I don't know. That's a good one.

Peter
52:55-53:09
See, I will take the comfort while I sleep over pajamas at the formal event every single time. I'm wearing pajamas and everybody else is in tucks. And I got a pair of black basketball shorts and a ratty old scrub top, baby.

Eden
53:09-53:22
Brother, you are. You might be have grown up in Utah, lived on the East Coast for a while, and lived in Idaho for a long time now. That's Iowa core, baby. That's some corn sweat life right there.

Peter
53:20-53:26
Yes Uh all right, last one.

Eden
53:23-53:34
Hashtag corn sweat life I think Froghorn sneeze.

Peter
53:26-53:32
Would you rather have a laugh that sounds like a car alarm or a sneeze that sounds like a foghorn?

Eden
53:34-53:37
My sneezes are already really loud and funny. Uh make 'em funnier.

Peter
53:36-53:40
Yeah, me too. Foghorn Sneeze sounds great.

Eden
53:40-53:46
Although a car alarm laugh would be great for pranks.

Peter
53:44-53:46
Yes, it would. That's true.

Eden
53:46-53:47
That could be fun.

Peter
53:46-53:49
Good point. All right, let's hear what you got.

Eden
53:49-54:01
Here's a good one for you. Who would you rather have play you in a bio pick? Danny DeVito or Danny Trejo See, I I don't think I'm going DeVito.

Peter
53:57-53:59
Oh, I want Danny Trejo.

Eden
54:01-54:04
So we can both be in each other's biopics that way.

Peter
54:03-54:20
I mean, I was totally thinking DeVito, and then you said Danny Trejo, and I was just imagining Danny Trejo being a urologist. And like doing somebody's prostate exam. And I think that just I'll never that that that's an image that's now seared into my brain.

Eden
54:19-54:20
I can see it.

Peter
54:20-54:21
Yeah.

Eden
54:20-54:23
Machete 3, Machete the Urologist.

Peter
54:23-54:25
That's right.

Eden
54:23-54:26
Let's make it happen. Come on, Robert Rodriguez, make it happen.

Peter
54:25-54:27
Totally, totally.

Eden
54:27-54:36
Here's another good one. Would you rather have skin that changes color based on your mood? Or tattoos appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday?

Peter
54:35-54:43
Oh my skin's changing color. Because the tattoos would be so boring My tattoos would be so boring.

Eden
54:41-54:43
Yeah, they would.

Peter
54:43-54:54
I mean, at least and and honestly, uh while my mood changes, I'm a f fairly And I say this and somebody's gonna who knows me is gonna call me on this.

Eden
54:43-55:12
They would Yeah, that's fair.

Peter
54:54-55:13
I'm a fairly mood-stable person. Uh while I have my ups and downs. They don't tend to fluctuate rapidly. So it's like I'd just be one color for quite a few days and then it would gradually ease in another direction and that kind of thing. So Yep.

Eden
55:12-55:16
That's very, very fair. Here's kind of a philosophical one.

Peter
55:16-55:17
Okay.

Eden
55:16-55:30
Um, would you rather die in 20 years with no regrets or live to 100 with a lot of regrets? I'd rather die I'd rather die tomorrow with no regrets than live to a hundred with a ton of regrets. Are you kidding me?

Peter
55:29-55:52
Yep, 100%. I I'll take the 20 years because I do want to see, you know, my kids grow up and and start having kids of their own. So so Yeah, I would, yep, 100%.

Eden
55:38-55:50
I mean I yeah, I wanna I'm li I'll take twenty years too, but I'm just saying if the If the question was die tomorrow with no regrets or live to 100 with nothing but regrets, I'm like, goodbye. I'm out tomorrow.

Peter
55:52-56:05
I would still here's the thing. I have realized and a lot of this is the the job I'm in. People are have an unhealthy fear of death.

Eden
56:04-56:05
Yeah.

Peter
56:05-56:22
And I often think that the amount of death I have been exposed to over my career has made me less fearful of it. And so I think that's where that's where I look at that and I say I I mean I've already told everybody.

Eden
56:17-56:18
That's fair.

Peter
56:23-56:41
My wife knows, and I'll make sure I have advanced directives and all that good stuff. But like once I get to like 70, 75, I just like I joke about wanting to be what I call a DNH. Do not hospitalize. If something happens to me, just let me go. Don't don't don't string me along.

Eden
56:42-57:07
I agree with you. I don't I I understand the impulse of like people wanting to live longer and being scared of death But I just don't feel it. Like, especially if once I get older, if my body starts working less well, like it starts doing what happens to all of us and starts to deteriorate. I don't wanna live through decades and decades of that.

Peter
57:07-57:12
And I worry more about what happens when if when slash if my mind starts to go.

Eden
57:12-57:13
Me too.

Peter
57:13-57:16
That's where I really, really don't want to be around for that.

Eden
57:13-57:15
Me too.

Peter
57:16-57:17
Please, no.

Eden
57:17-57:24
No, me neither. Well, to not end on a bummer. I have one final one for us.

Peter
57:24-57:25
Okay, okay.

Eden
57:24-57:26
That was good. It was introspective.

Peter
57:25-57:31
I was gonna say that that was a good final one to end on if we want to end philosophically, but it's a little heavy.

Eden
57:31-57:42
No, I got I got a funny one for us. Would you rather end every phone call with I love you or accidentally call your partner the wrong name during a fight? I'm saying I love you to every single phone call.

Peter
57:41-57:45
Oh. I guess I am too.

Eden
57:44-57:46
I'm saying I love you to every single phone call.

Peter
57:45-57:48
Yeah.

Eden
57:46-57:48
Come on, that's no big deal.

Peter
57:48-57:53
I mean, that could be a little uncomfortable at work, but that's okay.

Eden
57:54-57:56
For me too, but I'll do it. I'm fine with it.

Peter
57:57-58:00
Yeah.

Eden
57:59-58:00
It just becomes your gimmick.

Peter
58:00-58:01
That's true.

Eden
58:00-58:02
Everyone's just like, oh that Dr.

Peter
58:01-58:05
That's your thing That's true.

Eden
58:02-58:09
Jones, he's always telling everyone he loves him. That's your gimmick. Anyway.

Peter
58:06-58:09
Oh, those were funny. I appreciated that. That was a good laugh.

Eden
58:09-58:32
I hope this was fun, uh dear listeners. I just saw a An absolutely cursed one to which there is no good answer. Would you rather have a South Park themed wedding or a family guy themed funeral? And that is the most cursed thing in the world. I will leave that question to you, dear listeners. Think about it. South Park wedding, family guy funeral. No matter who wins, we lose.

Peter
58:31-58:34
That's true. That's true.

Eden
58:34-58:40
We'll be back in a couple of weeks. uh with a new episode. Um Peter's kid will have gotten married by then.

Peter
58:40-58:41
It's true.

Eden
58:40-58:42
So what is time?

Peter
58:41-58:45
I'll have some I'll have some brain cells to spare.

Eden
58:44-58:47
You're gonna have a kid in love.

Peter
58:47-58:48
I know.

Eden
58:47-58:48
What?

Peter
58:48-58:50
I know. It's weird.

Eden
58:50-58:51
What is time?

Peter
58:50-58:51
It's weird.

Eden
58:52-59:12
Anyway, we'll be back in a couple of weeks. And uh if you want to leave us a review, leave us a review. If you want to leave us star ratings, leave us a star rating. If you have any questions, feedback at the middle of culture. com, write us a message. You tell us which you would have, a South Park wedding or family guy funeral. And uh until then, we'll see you later.