Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:04 Good morning slash afternoon slash whenever it is, you're gonna be listening or watching this. This is Snorkeling with Narwhals. I'm your host, Brian McKay, and for the first time ever, which ever is 2, 3, 3 episodes. This is the third. We have a guest host. It is my good friend Ronnie Cox.
Speaker 2 00:00:22 Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 00:00:24 Yes. Um, part of what we wanted to Yes, yes. No, <laugh> part of what we wanted to do with this show was have guest hosts, so I didn't get stale cuz I mean, I, I think I'm pretty entertaining, but I can get boring. So pretty quickly. Pretty <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:00:38 Thanks. You're
Speaker 1 00:00:39 Welcome. Yeah. Ronnie's a harsh critic. He watched our first video and he tore it apart, but I
Speaker 2 00:00:44 Think it was the first one to watch it.
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Well, besides us, I think, uh, me and Eric,
Speaker 2 00:00:48 Who is, no, I actually saw it before you guys finished waking It
Speaker 1 00:00:52 <laugh>. Somehow,
Speaker 2 00:00:53 Somehow, somehow. Magically.
Speaker 1 00:00:54 Magically. So, yeah. Um, what we're gonna do today is it's gonna be kind of different. It's basically weird. It's more ad-libbed. It's not as structured as the past two have been. It's more basically just me and Ronnie talking about things that have happened in our, what we've
Speaker 2 00:01:09 Like years. Well, yeah. Let's start with, um, I guess introduce me a little bit, but Yes. Um, so the story of, I guess start with how we met. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1 00:01:17 Well, it started, this is what,
Speaker 2 00:01:19 Three years ago? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:01:20 Um, I was a junior here at Baron would've
Speaker 2 00:01:24 Been my first semester. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:01:25 Yeah. And it kind of just happened, like, there was no like, definitive time where we met.
Speaker 2 00:01:31 No, it wasn't like we had two had friends like, hi, I want you to meet my friend. It was like, it just kind of happened organic.
Speaker 1 00:01:36 Right. What happened was we both kind of hung out with the same group of people. Right. But just like, at separate times and in separate ways.
Speaker 2 00:01:45 Yeah. Mutual friends.
Speaker 1 00:01:46 Right. And so that semester, our group of friends like hung out kind of in the basement of, of the Reed building. Right. Which is like our student union. Right. And what it ended up happening was like, we just kind of met like somehow through there and Oh. Um, we eventually just, you know, became friends. Les. Like, we were never like super close friends.
Speaker 2 00:02:08 No. And it, it, I mean, you're making it sound super lame, but it wasn't
Speaker 1 00:02:12 <laugh>. There was no awesome
Speaker 2 00:02:13 Story. It wasn't, there's no awesome story too. We just kind of met. That's
Speaker 1 00:02:15 For when Cody comes on the show.
Speaker 2 00:02:17 Yeah. We, how we both met Cody was a very interesting
Speaker 1 00:02:20 Story show, but that is a topic for another day.
Speaker 2 00:02:22 Yes. Um,
Speaker 1 00:02:23 I shouldn't have even brought it up, but that is a topic
Speaker 2 00:02:25 For another day. But we got, we got close when you started working at, uh, the
Speaker 1 00:02:28 Cart. Yes. Um, as I've mentioned before, I work at a food cart here at Barron. I just sell coffee and bagels and donuts and stuff like that. And Ronnie had class in there, so, you know, he would come by every
Speaker 2 00:02:38 Day. Well, no, I had a class in the next building and I would either be late to class getting breakfast at the cart or I'd be leaving class early and going to the cart because there's, I I hated that class. It was an 8:00 AM It was
Speaker 1 00:02:52 Terrible. Isn't a freshman bio class?
Speaker 2 00:02:54 It was a freshman bio as a so, or as a junior. That sounds cool. It was just, and the professor was not very good. It was not a good, it was, it was, she was a boring professor at very early in the morning and
Speaker 1 00:03:05 Were much more entertained. We, who it is for, you know, kindness. I guess
Speaker 2 00:03:09 We'll call her Shelly, the professor. Mrs. Shelley.
Speaker 1 00:03:12 Mrs. Shelley. All right. Um, Mrs. Shelley,
Speaker 2 00:03:14 Mrs. Shelley was not a good professor,
Speaker 1 00:03:15 But this all like, I think our friendship may or may not have been fully cemented the day that you came by and you weren't sure if you should go to class.
Speaker 2 00:03:26 Oh, yes. Oh
Speaker 1 00:03:27 Yes. The, and so we had a
Speaker 2 00:03:28 Discussion. I was running late for class. Yeah. And it was one of those days where like, it didn't really matter if I was at class, so I stopped to get breakfast. Yeah. And we started talking about, well, whether I'm not should end up like going to class because I'm so late already. Right. I might as well not go. And by the time we had finished discussing whether or not I should go to class,
Speaker 1 00:03:51 We spent half, which we had an
Speaker 2 00:03:52 Hour, we spent a half an hour talking about whether or not I should go to class debating it. And we got to the point where I decided, yes, I should go to class. But then it had been a half an hour late class was almost over at that point. So there was no, and then we decided not to go. So that was probably the most first, first the first most, the most first interesting con the most first, the first most interesting conversation we had, the first interesting conversation we had, get rid of the word most. That doesn't need
Speaker 1 00:04:15 To be, but that is far from the most interesting experience. I can't even talk about this without laughing. That is far from the most interesting topic that we ever discussed, or the most interesting experience that we ever had. Yeah. This is something that has affectionately become known solely as the story. And so that's what we'll talk about next. So we're gonna start kind of a new segment today. I don't know if this will just be recurring for when Ronnie comes on or if I'll use it on my own. I have no idea at this point. We'll figure that out as we go. As we tend to do it is called Cart Talk, kind of a spoof. You came up with it of the NPR show. Yeah, it's my idea. Car Talk, because I work at a food cart. Get it. Get
Speaker 2 00:05:03 <laugh>. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:05:05 No, but the idea is basically just talking about stuff that happens at the cart that I work at. Because for the most part, overall it's a pretty boring cart. Like, not a lot actually happens there. When things do happen at the cart, they're, they can be ridiculously interesting and awkward and terrible at the same time. So yes, we are going to tell you the story.
Speaker 2 00:05:30 The story, the great debacle.
Speaker 1 00:05:33 I also, another name. Yeah, another name is the, the Great Relationship fail of October, 2015. Because this all happened within one month.
Speaker 2 00:05:42 Wait, you're implying that there was more in 2015, there was other debacles with
Speaker 1 00:05:46 Relationships? No, this is the only one.
Speaker 2 00:05:48 Okay. So just 2015.
Speaker 1 00:05:50 All right. So how it started,
Speaker 2 00:05:53 Well, at the cart, was that the cart? Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:05:55 When I, when I got this job within like the first month that I worked here, uh, a girl would come by the cart. She always got like the same thing and we would just chat, you know, nothing crazy, nothing special. She was really cute though. And so I was like kind of flirting with her. Um, I didn't think anything would ever actually come of this.
Speaker 2 00:06:15 And you gotta understand that this is not the only cute girl that visits
Speaker 1 00:06:19 Brian at the, there are
Speaker 2 00:06:20 A lot of, there are a lot of cute girls. But I mean,
Speaker 1 00:06:23 Well, you know, we're, we're a campus that has very comparatively few like women as opposed to men. So
Speaker 2 00:06:30 Apparently they only actually accept the attractive ones.
Speaker 1 00:06:32 Maybe apparently, I don't know. Or
Speaker 2 00:06:34 At least the only the attractive ones come to see you.
Speaker 1 00:06:36 Well, I'm just gorgeous. So that's, that's probably part
Speaker 2 00:06:39 Of what it's <laugh>. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:06:40 Um, so what ended up happening was, you know, we would, it was like over the month, like she would come, we would, she would talk, you
Speaker 2 00:06:47 Know, and we'll, we're, we're going to use, um, the name Raquel, Raquel to just to, to refer to her. So Raquel was,
Speaker 1 00:06:52 Because Ronnie could not remember what her name was. I
Speaker 2 00:06:54 Couldn't, I could never
Speaker 1 00:06:54 Remember her name up with Raquel. So that's a, that's a good pseudonym we're gonna use. Uh, what ended up happening in October, like early October, she came by, and I didn't notice this until the next day. She had left her phone number on one of like, it was actually my cutting board where I keep my breakfast sandwiches and it was under the tarp. So I never noticed it until the next day Eric is moving something, which I probably shouldn't have pointed out. <laugh>. Oh, I started like laughing at the camera. No. So she, she left
Speaker 2 00:07:28 Her number. Okay. You got like super serious. Like, you just, you started thinking about this and like, it's been a while now. It's been like five, what, five months
Speaker 1 00:07:34 Now? I think it was five months from the day that a certain event took place, which we'll get to. Um,
Speaker 2 00:07:40 Oh, okay. So it's, the rest of it's been like five months.
Speaker 1 00:07:43 Oh
Speaker 2 00:07:43 Yeah, definitely. Okay. So,
Speaker 1 00:07:45 So we're
Speaker 2 00:07:46 Like, this is
Speaker 1 00:07:46 Funny. Now we're like losing this entire train of thought. <laugh>, she left her phone number and then she came by, we talked, I think I had told you this before. Yeah, yeah. Anything had really happened. And so we were talking and then we just started texting. Um, we may or may not have have kissed that day. Um, which I'm, I think I'm, that's the first time I've ever revealed that to most people that would be watching this. But then I was like, this was a bad idea. I didn't think this through. Um,
Speaker 2 00:08:15 Well, the entire time you kept asking me for advice because Yes, not only, not only have I been in a lot of different relationships, but I've also at the same time was also entering into a relationship. Yeah. So like Taylor, those two relationships. Yeah. We were like, at the same time, both like meeting girls and we were both talking about it and we were, we'd get together and we'd, and we'd gossip with each other. Um, and we'd do that. We'd do, Hey, that's just, just like that, um, <laugh>. Um, and uh, and you kept asking me and I was like, I'm like, and I met her. You introduced me to her mm-hmm. <affirmative> and it just didn't seem,
Speaker 1 00:08:47 It seemed normal for No.
Speaker 2 00:08:48 Didn't
Speaker 1 00:08:49 You didn't, it didn't seem normal.
Speaker 2 00:08:50 Didn't, no, she was weird. Okay. She was very, very strange. Um,
Speaker 1 00:08:53 Well, and for like, for for a week, I tried to not like, do anything with this. Cause I'm very particular about who I'm in a relationship with, which is probably why it never happens.
Speaker 2 00:09:03 Yeah. But at the same time, every time I tell you, Hey, you know, you should probably like not go into this, you kept going into it.
Speaker 1 00:09:09 Yeah. Which is a terrible thing to do. I'm, I'm horrible. If
Speaker 2 00:09:13 A friend gives you relationship advice, listen to him or her.
Speaker 1 00:09:19 Um, so I, I fought this for like a week and then eventually we started dating, which lasted approximately four days.
Speaker 2 00:09:27 Four full days. Four
Speaker 1 00:09:28 Full days. They were great. Wow. Wonderful times. Um, really? No, they were okay.
Speaker 2 00:09:34 <laugh>. Um, ouch. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:09:36 Which we went to a movie at here at Barron
Speaker 2 00:09:41 Friday. Oh yeah. That was the Friday that I was supposed to meet him.
Speaker 1 00:09:43 Ronnie and his girlfriend were supposed to be at this
Speaker 2 00:09:46 Movie. I was supposed to go to the movie and about 45 minutes before I was supposed to meet him at the movie, I decided I didn't want to go. And so we just totally ditched
Speaker 1 00:09:55 Him. Yeah. But totally. But your reasoning was that your girlfriend was sick, which was not
Speaker 2 00:09:59 I didn't, I mean No, no. She was sick. She had a bad cold. Okay. She, she was not feeling good. She didn't want to go. But I just didn't want to go see that. Like, I didn't want, it was can
Speaker 1 00:10:09 You Inside out's a fantastic movie. I you
Speaker 2 00:10:11 Still haven't seen Inside Out.
Speaker 1 00:10:13 Well, anyway, um, the next day I found out that Raquel already had a boyfriend and had failed to tell me this. Now there were some signs that I probably should have noticed, but
Speaker 2 00:10:26 There were several
Speaker 1 00:10:27 Dozen, it's one of those one I was rationalizing, I'm sure. And two that like, you don't assume this about someone. No,
Speaker 2 00:10:34 No.
Speaker 1 00:10:35 Like that's, you, you don't, you don't go into that. Like, unless you have like hard evidence that this is going on.
Speaker 2 00:10:41 Right.
Speaker 1 00:10:41 So it exploded on, I think it was October 24th, which today is the five month anniversary we were filming on March 24th. Yeah. I don't know when this will be posted, so that's why I mentioned it. But that's the story. I have not
Speaker 2 00:10:53 Did the video. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:10:54 Yeah, I know <laugh>. Um, I have not seen her since then.
Speaker 2 00:10:59 Um, I have,
Speaker 1 00:11:00 Yeah, you told me you saw her. So she, we, we both agreed that she should probably not come by the cart for the foreseeable future <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:11:08 Um, so wait, she was banned for you? You
Speaker 1 00:11:11 It was a mutual ban. Spanish.
Speaker 2 00:11:13 You told her not to come back?
Speaker 1 00:11:14 Yeah. Well I think it was, there's no way It wouldn't be awkward.
Speaker 2 00:11:18 Well, and you're the only person who works at the car,
Speaker 1 00:11:20 So Yeah. It's not like she, you know, that's probably bad business wise. I just like banished a customer. <laugh>. But I mean, in all honesty, like there's no way, it wouldn't have been weird.
Speaker 2 00:11:30 Right. It would've, it wouldn't have been very good. And she can, I mean, she can go to other place on campus to
Speaker 1 00:11:34 Get food. Right. Um, eventually, I don't know, maybe at some point I'll see her again and we can actually discuss this and like, at least, I don't know.
Speaker 2 00:11:41 I don't really under How do you, like, how do you discu how do you rationalize,
Speaker 1 00:11:44 How do you,
Speaker 2 00:11:45 How do you discuss this? I'm just, sorry. I had had such a stressful like couple weeks. I totally forgot about my boyfriend. How do you, I mean, it blew up. Where do you, where do, do you, like how do you
Speaker 1 00:11:54 Fix that? It was as I, I actually referred to it as a spontaneous combustion of a relationship. I don't know if it was even really a relationship or if you can call it that
Speaker 2 00:12:04 The facade came off of it and you could kind of see just how
Speaker 1 00:12:07 Ronnie and his girlfriend are still doing.
Speaker 2 00:12:09 Well, we are still doing well.
Speaker 1 00:12:10 So at least one of us like, hi
Speaker 2 00:12:12 Jamie. She's probably not gonna watch this. I'll make her watch
Speaker 1 00:12:14 It. Yeah, I was gonna say, why wouldn't she be watching it? You're on it. Um, so that's the story. Um, my relationship life since then has gone back to how it was beforehand, which is non-existent. Non, yeah. I'm still working on it. Um,
Speaker 2 00:12:29 Work in progress.
Speaker 1 00:12:30 Work in progress. It's better working.
Speaker 2 00:12:32 It's an optimistic way to look at
Speaker 1 00:12:33 It. It's been a work in progress essentially for 22 years minus like three weeks. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:12:40 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:12:40 What are we talking about next? Um, I don't even remember.
Speaker 2 00:12:48 <laugh>. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:12:49 We are back. Um, so Ronnie, after I divulged my Yes. Weird story. You wanted to talk about how you met Jamie.
Speaker 2 00:12:58 Yeah. Well, we talked about how you met your Raquel.
Speaker 1 00:13:03 I have,
Speaker 2 00:13:04 I don't know how to refer to it. I don't the, the, yeah. So, and I, I mentioned how at the same time I met my girlfriend now and we were talking, uh, between segments and it's actually a really great story as well. Do you think so? I think it's a good story.
Speaker 1 00:13:19 It's not bad. It's
Speaker 2 00:13:20 A
Speaker 1 00:13:20 Cute story. It's cute. I'll give them
Speaker 2 00:13:22 That. It's cute. Um, so the, yeah. This is very much, uh, contrasted. Yeah. Against what
Speaker 1 00:13:28 You just said. It was a tale of two relationships.
Speaker 2 00:13:30 Yeah. Um, I was on a retreat, fall retreat with, uh, one of the groups on made on campus. And she was from another school who was also there. And in the first like main uh, session we were sitting down to talk. And I walk in and I sit down and I hear this voice behind me go, oh great. Why do I always have to sit behind the tall
Speaker 1 00:13:53 Guy? Wow. That is, that is literally like the beginning
Speaker 2 00:13:56 Of a movie. Yeah. It literally, because the literally the first thing she said to me was, she insulted me, <laugh>. And I, so I'm like, she didn't, I guess she didn't think she said it out loud. She didn't think I would hurt her. So I turned around and I actually turned around and apologized. Cuz I mean, I, I don't, I'm quite a bit taller than most people. I'm not as tall as,
Speaker 1 00:14:14 I don't think you're that
Speaker 2 00:14:15 Tall. I mean, I'm six two, I'm pretty tall. Oh.
Speaker 1 00:14:18 I'm like five nine.
Speaker 2 00:14:19 So I'm pretty tall. But, um, so I apologized and I saw her around a few times and I saw her later that night. Um, there was a dance. And then the next day we were out playing a game in the, in the, the like in the woods at the campground that we were at and actually was running. It was like a tag-based game I was running and I tore something in my leg and like hit the ground because I
Speaker 1 00:14:48 Laugh.
Speaker 2 00:14:49 <laugh> <laugh>. You weren't there, there, unfortunately. You
Speaker 1 00:14:51 No, I was not there. I would've, I would've laughed before I knew
Speaker 2 00:14:54 What happened. Well, and that's what everybody did because they thought that I had like, was faking like, I was pulling like a soccer leg to like get out of getting tagged. And like, nobody believed me. Nobody believed me. And so like, I'm laying there like literally just lying there and pain painting. Everybody just walks away. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And, um, Jamie comes over and she like, she's like slightly concerned cuz she, she still thinks that I was faking it, but she wants to check
Speaker 1 00:15:20 You refer to this as she was Florence Knighton. Galing.
Speaker 2 00:15:23 Yeah. That like when, well, <laugh>, so she comes over and she's like really nice to me and I'm like, wow, she's so nice. Everybody else will being a jerk. And she gets some of my friends to come over. They bring my car and they like take me and they give me some ice and stuff. And she's like helping taking care of me and like all my friends around. And then there's this cute girl who none of my friends know. And like, everybody's kind of ignoring her because they don't know who she is. Yeah. But she's trying to help me and like, she's bringing me, like, she brought me some medicine and like some ibuprofen I ended up, I actually went to the emergency room a couple days later. They had no idea what was wrong with me. Like one doctor said, I had like pulled something and like the other one had said like, I had like broke my arm. Like, they were like your arm. They were like so far off base.
Speaker 1 00:16:05 So this reminds me, have you ever played the game Medal of Honor? No. All right. I remember the original one for like, the original PlayStation. This is, this isn't really morbid. I don't think if you would shoot, like you could shoot someone in the leg and they'd be like, <laugh>. So that's just what you made me think about
Speaker 2 00:16:23 That. Well, yeah. I mean, and the doctors were crazy about it, but, um, she was like really sweet and like, she was really nice and I'm like, wow, this girl's like amazing. And I got to hang out with her a little bit more on that weekend. And we, I taught her how to play poker and she really could have cared less, but she was like okay with it because like, I was there with her and it, so she was like, she's being really sweet. And we actually went back to campus and I ended up texting her and asked her to go out for coffee and we got coffee and we stayed up. We, I went over to her, her dorm and we stayed up until like three o'clock in the morning watching Retten link together.
Speaker 1 00:16:58 Ret and Link gets name dropped a lot on this show. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:17:01 <laugh>. Uh, but yeah, and that, I mean, and that was like when we first like really connected and then we started dating that Saturday. So like,
Speaker 1 00:17:09 It was re was like, it was almost synced up too.
Speaker 2 00:17:12 We had met like in about a week, a little bit over a week after we met we were dating. Yeah. And we've been dating for five
Speaker 1 00:17:18 Months ago. Five months <laugh>. Yeah. From, from almost
Speaker 2 00:17:21 Today. Um, a week? No, it was, um, 17th. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:17:26 I think a week.
Speaker 2 00:17:27 17th. Sorry, <laugh>. Sorry if I'm wrong on that date, but I
Speaker 1 00:17:31 Yeah, you probably should not have admitted that on air. You weren't sure
Speaker 2 00:17:36 <laugh>? No, it's 17th <laugh>. It's, it's hard because there's so many of those days that happened right in a row. Yeah. Is
Speaker 1 00:17:43 That like
Speaker 2 00:17:43 October 14th, the 18th,
Speaker 1 00:17:45 The
Speaker 2 00:17:45 Ninth? Yeah. Everything happened like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right there in the, the middle of October birthday. Your
Speaker 1 00:17:50 Birthday. He brought me a 12 pack of Mountain Dew Voltage I did for my birthday. And I wasn't sure if it was like for my birthday, if it was like a consolation thing.
Speaker 2 00:17:59 Like if I was like giving it to him to make him feel better about the, which
Speaker 1 00:18:02 Mountain? Mountain Dew does make me very happy.
Speaker 2 00:18:05 That's, that's not healthy.
Speaker 1 00:18:07 It's not at all. I know that I'm, I had a bottle of water here at some point. I did. I threw it down. I was done with it. Oh, it was flavored. But <laugh>, that's what I'm going for. So, yeah. Um, we're bad at transitions.
Speaker 2 00:18:22 No. This is so awkward. Transition now.
Speaker 1 00:18:25 Awkward transition. We're gonna be talking about movies.
Speaker 2 00:18:32 We were talking about movies earlier before the show started. Yeah. And I actually just finished re-watching for like, the eighth time the Hobbit movies.
Speaker 1 00:18:41 And you say Mountain Dew is not healthy <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:18:45 No. And I, I usually don't watch 'em all at once. I'll watch like one movie here and they've been playing them a lot on TV and the Lord of
Speaker 1 00:18:50 The Rings. Well I watch Rocky, the Rocky movies whenever they're on, so I can't talk.
Speaker 2 00:18:54 Right. Um, and, and I said, you know, the more that I've watched the Hobbit movies, like at first I was like, wow, these really don't like, cause I've read the books before mm-hmm. <affirmative> and I'm like, I was like one of those like stereotypes. They're like, oh, I like the book better. Yeah. Because they, they changed a lot. And the more I've watched the Hobbit movies though, I really feel like they've in like the more, the more you watch 'em, the better they get.
Speaker 1 00:19:16 And I countered very angrily. Not it was, I wasn't angry to begin with, but then I kept getting more into this. Yeah. The Hobbit movies disappoint me on so many levels. One, they are just far, far inferior. They are way worse than
Speaker 2 00:19:36 Two. Well, specifically two.
Speaker 1 00:19:38 Two is good
Speaker 2 00:19:38 To the Lord of the Rings though.
Speaker 1 00:19:40 Yeah. Um, yeah. The Lord of the Rings movies were so much like, I'm, I'm just talking here about like how they were made so much more well done then The Hobbit movies. I just think they waited too long to make the Hobbit.
Speaker 2 00:19:55 And how does that even affect it? Because I really think that the more that I've watched the movies, the more that I have found that the Hobbit movies, I prefer the Hobbit movies to the Lord of the Ring series.
Speaker 1 00:20:04 I think at that point Peter Jackson probably just didn't care anymore about it.
Speaker 2 00:20:09 No, because not even, I mean, not even just the quality of the directing, but the quality of the acting is a lot better in the, in the Hobbit movies. I would take Bilbo Bains over Frodo every day. If you watch the Lord of the Rings movies, the acting Isto proto is just like all the time. He's said all the time he's sad. He's just kind of moping around. I mean Sam is literally, Sam literally has to drag him to Moreor.
Speaker 1 00:20:35 Yeah. And Sean asked in his,
Speaker 2 00:20:37 And the whole time he's like, push, he has to keep pushing Schmiegel off of him. All he does is take him there. Sam does all the work. But Billbo like Billbo gets in there. That's nothing to do. Do with that Acting Bilbo's a boss acting
Speaker 1 00:20:48 Though. Yes.
Speaker 2 00:20:49 Well it does. Part
Speaker 1 00:20:50 Of it that's more the character. What I, my thing with the Lord of the Rings is that the characters are so much more developed. The Hobbit has like 50 million dwarves who have like rhyming names and you don't even learn anything about it. But
Speaker 2 00:21:03 That's the same way in the book. Have you read the book? No.
Speaker 1 00:21:04 You've not
Speaker 2 00:21:05 Read
Speaker 1 00:21:05 The Hobbit. They kept that the same in the
Speaker 2 00:21:07 Book <laugh>? No. In the book. They changed
Speaker 1 00:21:09 Everything.
Speaker 2 00:21:09 The first time I read The Hobbit I was probably like 14 and I kid you not, I literally had to read it twice before I understood that there were 13 dwarves because I got so confused because I, there all the names are so alike and when you're reading a book and you can't like put the names to faces Yeah. That like, and they just are talking to people. It's so hard to keep track of who they're talking to
Speaker 1 00:21:31 And balling and fallen
Speaker 2 00:21:33 And Exactly. Anden and, and feeling and Keely
Speaker 1 00:21:36 Like, and that's the thing, they all rhyme.
Speaker 2 00:21:37 All the names Thor and, um,
Speaker 1 00:21:41 Biff Biffin and
Speaker 2 00:21:42 Boer, Biff b the dad, the Thor. And then his dad was Thro Thor. And then it was like Train.
Speaker 1 00:21:49 Yeah. It's like who is naming these people
Speaker 2 00:21:51 And they're all like the, almost the same and it gets very confusing.
Speaker 1 00:21:54 But no, what else, what other things were, what other movies? Um, we were talking about. I was talking to to Eric about this too.
Speaker 2 00:22:00 No, I'm not done. I'm not done
Speaker 1 00:22:01 With, I'm done with,
Speaker 2 00:22:02 I'm Not Done with Hobbit. The Hobbit. Well we, one of the things we were talking about earlier was the transition at the end of the second movie.
Speaker 1 00:22:08 Oh it was terrible. It was, we both
Speaker 2 00:22:09 Agreed on that. We agreed on that. But when you watch them together, I feel when you watch 'em back to back and it really puts 'em together pretty seamlessly. Yes. If you were seeing them in the theaters, I can see how you would've like, felt like let down the end of the movie. But when you really watch 'em all together, the story does come together pretty well. Hmm. And yeah, they added a lot of extra storyline with the, um, a Zog and the whole or
Speaker 1 00:22:37 Story and the ever beautiful Angeline Lilly playing to
Speaker 2 00:22:42 <laugh> Oh yeah. The, the love story. But at the same time, a lot of those, those ideas really did pour into more of the story. Like if in to with Tori's thing at the very end where she's like, why is this feels so bad?
Speaker 1 00:22:56 Because it was real.
Speaker 2 00:22:57 Right. But but that goes back into Lego's mother and how the, the father really feels towards the mother and how he feels for that longing for her. It ends up pouring back into the plot. And I feel that it, you know, in a lot of ways Yeah. It was, it it, it's not the same as the Lord of the Rings, but the Lord of the Rings have had time to like to sit and to be watched and watched and watched and watched. And you've seen, how many times have you seen the Lord
Speaker 1 00:23:20 Of the Rings countless at this point? Countless
Speaker 2 00:23:22 Point.
Speaker 1 00:23:22 So like, it's mostly cuz other people in my house are watching it. I, I don't go outta my way to watch it.
Speaker 2 00:23:27 But the more you watch The Hobbit, I really think that the more you watch it, the better it'll
Speaker 1 00:23:31 Get. What if I just refuse to
Speaker 2 00:23:33 Well then you're not worth watching it.
Speaker 1 00:23:35 We'll
Speaker 2 00:23:36 See. Wait, that doesn't make any
Speaker 1 00:23:37 Sense. I would rather watch the Rocky series.
Speaker 2 00:23:41 Well, the new the new Superman, we were gonna talk about this. We wanted to Yeah. Is the, the new Superman comes out this weekend. And
Speaker 1 00:23:48 Can you do Batman,
Speaker 2 00:23:50 <laugh>? It's, um, well both, yeah. Su Bat Bat Batman versus Superman comes out. How do you think that this, um, in is kind of, how do you feel about this movie that's coming out?
Speaker 1 00:24:02 Um, I don't like, I don't know. I'm not a huge Superman fan to begin with.
Speaker 2 00:24:08 Okay, so you're team Batman? Yes.
Speaker 1 00:24:10 Oh, okay. However, Superman.
Speaker 2 00:24:12 But you enjoyed Man of Steel,
Speaker 1 00:24:13 Right? It was Okay. I didn't. Okay. I have no feelings really. One way or the other, except Superman dates. Lo Lane, lowest Lane is played by Amy Adams. And I love, and Amy Adams is beautiful.
Speaker 2 00:24:26 Raquel was not
Speaker 1 00:24:27 A redhead. Raquel was not a redhead, um, <laugh>. So if I were in this situation, I would rather be Superman
Speaker 2 00:24:33 <laugh>. Okay. But, but just in general for the, like the movie coming out, maybe relating it back to the, the Marvel series and they're doing the Dawn of the Justice Sleek now. Yeah. How do you, like what are you, how, what are your feelings
Speaker 1 00:24:45 On that? I don't know that this DCU universe is gonna go over well. Um, Marvel I think did it well.
Speaker 2 00:24:52 Okay. And how did they do it better than DC
Speaker 1 00:24:54 Could do it? It kind of just developed naturally. I think. Like they made Ironman, they made the Incredible Hulk and It
Speaker 2 00:25:00 Hulk came away before?
Speaker 1 00:25:01 No, that was the first Hulk. Oh, that was Eric Ban a Hulk. That's not even considered in the same series. Oh really? Okay. Yeah. It's kind of like they just rebooted it. Right. Um, so it kind of just built naturally where like, you know, when the Avengers came along, it made sense cuz they had made the other movies. This one, it's like, and they probably were building the Avengers universe, like with that goal with each movie. Right. But with DC it's like, we know they're doing that now. Like it seems so obvious. Like it's like they're just trying to get these movies out mm-hmm. <affirmative> so that they can make a Justice League
Speaker 2 00:25:33 Movie. Right. And well, and actually I'm going back to what you said there about them planning it. I believe at the end of the Hulk movie there is a,
Speaker 1 00:25:39 Uh, uh, Robert Johnny Jr. Appears Robert
Speaker 2 00:25:42 Diane Jr. Appears and talks about the Avengers
Speaker 1 00:25:44 Initiative and at the end of the first Iron Man, Samuel L. Jackson appears. Right.
Speaker 2 00:25:49 So from
Speaker 1 00:25:49 The very beginning. So it was
Speaker 2 00:25:50 Planned. Right. So, so from the very beginning they were planning that, but, but
Speaker 1 00:25:53 We've never really seen, you
Speaker 2 00:25:54 Don't think that it's gonna work as well?
Speaker 1 00:25:55 No, because I think a lot of the thing with the Marvel universe is that we'd never seen anything really like that. That took like separate superhero series really. Right. And made like a big crossover, which the Avengers was a huge crossover. Um, and so now we know that that's what DC is trying to do.
Speaker 2 00:26:14 Well, but at the same time, when you look at the way that the Marvels movies have been done, they kind of did it almost like a shotgun blast. Like they, every, everybody gets their own movie. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And then kind of at the same time, there's also gonna be Avenger movies in here. Yeah. And they're gonna be kind of like skipping around in the storyline. And we're gonna like, first we're gonna look at this, this, this superhero, and then we're gonna, but like right after that, we're gonna go look at this superhero and then here and like skipping around. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> what if for the DC universe rather, they're going to keep it as one single line. And that's why, why for rather than doing just a Batman movie on his own, which has been done a lot recently, starting with a movie that keeps Superman and brings in more characters. Whereas, so maybe the next movie they'll just bring in more characters skipping us, I guess. The spinoff films. Yeah. And just sticking to like, just the main,
Speaker 1 00:26:59 I don't know. I just, it, and I'm not a very good critic. I am, I follow the crowds a lot, but I don't know that it'll work just because like they're putting Oh, <laugh>. Um, they are putting, they're doing so many, like, they're putting so much like so many things and the
Speaker 2 00:27:18 Swimmer here have been done a lot recently. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:27:20 And it's just like, I hate how they're just throwing every character in there and even if it's just a cameo into Batman versus Superman. Really? Okay. Like, I don't, like, it's just like they're trying to rush it so fast and like we're trying to rush the end of this segment <laugh>. Um, but when we are back, we will be ending the show. That's my William Shatner voice unintentionally. But we'll be back.
Speaker 2 00:27:48 So what have you learned? Uh, I guess we're gonna talk about what we've learned. Yes. What did you learn about your experiences with Raquel?
Speaker 1 00:27:53 Well, one, um,
Speaker 2 00:27:56 There's more
Speaker 1 00:27:56 Than one thing. There's a lot I learned
Speaker 2 00:27:58 <laugh> you learned
Speaker 1 00:27:58 A lot. One, I should not just follow my gut emotion because
Speaker 2 00:28:03 Yeah. There's a lot more two relationships than just good thing.
Speaker 1 00:28:07 Um,
Speaker 2 00:28:08 Never trust
Speaker 1 00:28:08 Her instincts. Never trust your
Speaker 2 00:28:10 Trust, your
Speaker 1 00:28:10 Instincts. Never don't, people always say to listen to your heart. Um, your heart is deceitful above all things.
Speaker 2 00:28:17 Listen to your heart, but like, like,
Speaker 1 00:28:19 You know, listen to your heart. I guess.
Speaker 2 00:28:20 Take what it says with a grain of salt. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:28:21 Don't just like blindly follow your heart <laugh>. So that's not necessarily a good idea. Yeah. Also, which I never mentioned in the, during the story. If you hear snow patrol playing in your head while certain like, you know, while this relationship is developing, you probably should back away. It's kinda like Jumanji, when drums start playing <laugh>, something bad is probably gonna happen.
Speaker 2 00:28:42 And listen to your friend's advice.
Speaker 1 00:28:45 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:28:45 Even if it's bad advice, listen to
Speaker 1 00:28:48 It. Well Ronnie, what have you learned in your relationship?
Speaker 2 00:28:52 I learned story learned. Um, I learned how to have a good relationship.
Speaker 1 00:28:56 That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 00:28:58 Yeah. Actually, if, if a girl is gonna take care of you, she's a good girl.
Speaker 1 00:29:01 Yeah. Generally
Speaker 2 00:29:03 Not like good girl. Like, but like she's a good
Speaker 1 00:29:06 Person.
Speaker 2 00:29:06 Yeah. She's a good person. <laugh> date, someone who's a good person. Dates,
Speaker 1 00:29:10 That's,
Speaker 2 00:29:11 That's what I've learned Date. Someone who's a good person.
Speaker 1 00:29:13 Moral of this episode date. Someone who's a good person. Also. Ronnie is wrong about The Hobbit. No. But what did we learn from our movie fight? I
Speaker 2 00:29:20 Guess Go watch movie fight a different YouTube video. Um, about like
Speaker 1 00:29:25 People review
Speaker 2 00:29:26 'em, somebody who actually knows what they're talking about. We have no idea what we're talking about when the movies, this is all our opinions. We're Wing slash what other people have said mm-hmm. That we're just repeating. So go watch somebody else's video and
Speaker 1 00:29:39 Um, try to figure out Yeah. Your opinion from that. I guess <laugh>. Eric, have you learned anything about anything from today? No, not all. <laugh>? No. Well, Ronnie, we have loved having you on this episode. Have you? However, we will have to see how it looks.
Speaker 2 00:30:00 Is this a job interview? And I didn't even
Speaker 1 00:30:01 Know it kind of <laugh>. We'll have to see how it goes when we edit the, the video and how it looks conditionally. We will like to have you back next week.
Speaker 2 00:30:10 We'll see. We'll see if I have the time for you and for you.
Speaker 1 00:30:14 We'll see how it is.
Speaker 2 00:30:15 Not you, the camera. I was pointing at the camera. <laugh> the audience talk, not talking to you.
Speaker 1 00:30:19 So we're gonna see how this edit turns out because honestly, in a good way, this is like our most haphazard episode.
Speaker 2 00:30:26 Yeah. But a lot of things have changed in this episode, so we'll just kinda wait and see how things, we'll see how it play out.
Speaker 1 00:30:31 It was really random and I loved it. Yeah. Also, I've said this in the behind the scenes. I'm just gonna say it once for the camera. I'm getting a real Ryan RCI vibe off of, off of myself. So go look him up. He's on ESPN n he's phenomenal. But I guess that's it. So, all right. Good morning, good afternoon, whenever it is. You're gonna be watching and listening. Good night. Um, have a good one.
