128 | Glizzy or Isn't He?

When you tell someone they’re “too much”, what are they “too much” of?
What makes a grin a shit-eating grin? After we answer these classic quandaries, we move on to some circle-back/follow-ups, including two #PochPrompts from recent episodes: Noodlescopes and Glizzy edification. 

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Transcript

Matt: 0:00

Eric, I don't know about you, but I'm one of those people that like if you're in a restaurant and you're talking to somebody, but there are TVs going. I can't not, my eye is just naturally drawn to the TV. Like glued to whatever is happening in that moment. It's a constant battle for me to be like, keep my eyes here, and I'll look up, but like I'm not paying attention, especially now it's football season. We all know I hate football. I'm not fucking watching it.

Eric: 0:25

So, but like I still want to see what's happening on the magic box.

Matt: 0:29

I can't not see it. And I feel like it's similar with phones. Like if somebody's in the row in front of you, uh a row in front of you, and I don't know, an audience of some kind.

Eric: 0:40

Yeah.

Matt: 0:40

And you see their phone, like you're kind of taking a peek.

Eric: 0:43

Are you like, right? Yeah, no, it that it's why if I'm if I'm the one with the phone, if it's like we're we're waiting for the previews to start, and I'm just sitting there like doing whatever on my phone, just killing some time. I never open anything that I'm not okay with, like people in five or six rows behind me also seeing.

Matt: 1:02

Yeah, that I think that's important because I'm gonna be looking. Yeah, I'm gonna be looking. And also, you better not be doing it at once the previews begin and any other time in the movie theater. I'm not a fucking savage, no. Because I'll I'll be upset with you.

Eric: 1:18

The previews are the best part of the movie. Why would I want to?

Matt: 1:22

I I just the phones and movie theaters. I see I I have a hard time even not uh killing anybody. I say all that to say recently Lindsay and I were at a concert.

Eric: 1:33

Okay.

Matt: 1:34

Who who were you seeing? It was during uh the Outlaw Music Festival when uh with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan and uh Cheryl Crow and a bunch of other people. And it was, I think, during Bob Dylan's set, which I can't I don't want to get into, I don't want to derail myself, but it was fucking awful. And Bob Dylan owes me money. Um he owes me, he obscured his face. He did it all in darkness. He didn't it was bad. It was off.

Eric: 2:07

Matt's up there in the balcony. Show me your face.

Matt: 2:10

I was I fucking paid for you, Bob. I'm and I'm looking I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna listen to Bob Dylan, but I'm mad at Bob Dylan. We have beef. Okay. You heard it here first, folks. This is the start of a fresh beef. Fresh beef, me and Bob. So there I am. I'm sitting there, and the guy next to me, he he's got his phone out. He's looking at things. Directly next to you? Directly next to me. Okay, okay. And so, you know, he's got it out for a while, and I'm Lindsay's to my right, this man's to my left. Sorry, clowns to the left of you, wife to the right. Correct.

Eric: 2:44

Okay.

Matt: 2:45

So I'm not trying to like look at this guy's phone.

Eric: 2:48

No, if they're next to me, I out of politeness, I'm like, I'm not gonna be like craning my head. I also don't want to get caught. Like I also don't want to get caught.

Matt: 2:56

But you know, at one point I'm going to put my beard down in the cup holder in front of me. And so on the way back, my eye happens to catch what he's looking at. And what he's looking at is his uh library, his photo, his reel, you know, the the photo reel. And Eric, he starts going through a collection of nudes. Okay, and those nudes, and I have to stress this, are of himself.

Eric: 3:26

Okay, that that was gonna be my first question. Please continue.

Matt: 3:30

He was selecting a nude from a collection of nudes from his portfolio. Yes, as if he was selecting a g a gif uh from a secret collection of favorite memes that he wanted to send. Uh he was going through for the best possible photo of his penis. Yeah. And I am stuck because obviously I want to tell this to Lindsay.

Eric: 3:57

I want to be like, there's not like there's look at this guy's dick, but like, hey, you should know that I'm I'm seeing this guy go through his greatest hits.

Matt: 4:06

And I didn't know how to handle this. So at a certain point, um, the guy is right next to me, and I like pull my phone and put it between Lindsay and I's chairs and just like type man nudes. And luckily, Lindsay understood. So I want to know what's the what would you have done in this situation?

Eric: 4:37

We can hold two things to be true. God, can we? Thing number one all bodies are beautiful, everyone is gorgeous. Skip it. Two skip ahead. Two not at the Bob Dylan concert. Come on. Not at the Bob. This is this bro. This was a very similar thing where it's like, it's like, I don't want to, I don't want to shame anybody. It's not about shame, it's but it's about like, hey, buddy, you're surrounded on all sides by people of all ages and and flavors of life and and dispositions. A, I should hope he takes no offense if if if he notices anybody looking at because he's the one waving his dick in the wind. I would think he's because there's no and and sorry, if you're at a concert that packed and surrounded by people, you are waving your dick in the wind. Because like I we're we're in close quarters, dog. Again, don't open anything you don't want five or six rows of people behind you to see. But what I would have done, and what I'm I I understand why you didn't. Oh boy. But but and this is I'm saying this if if if I was glancing over like you were, and like let's say something happened, he just happens to look right at you and see your eyes looking at his phone and the jig is up. I would have just taken a B. Nah, you should have gone with that one. Good angle.

Matt: 6:08

Great lighting on this one. Yeah. Really gets the sack. Ooh. And welcome yet again to You Didn't Ask For This. It is the podcast that answers life's least pressing questions. And my name is Matthew Shea. And my name is Eric Poach. Eric Poach, tell me how you are, and tell me right now.

Eric: 6:46

Oh man, I am I am good. Had a we were talking about this before the show. I had a long week. Too long. Too long. Tired, boss. Um, but today uh it's a lovely Sunday, beautiful weather. Had some folks craft in in my house earlier doing a little craft day. Yeah, like in earlier, some some folks were playing folk music on their porch, and I was drifting through the windows. It's a very lovely Sunday. Nice. Got to hit up a coffee shop before we got in here. I'm doing swell. How are you doing, baby?

Matt: 7:20

I'm doing just fine. I'm doing just fine. You know, we were also we also had some some folks over at the house here, so we had some entertaining going on and the uh, you know, dealing with dealing with with with what comes with hosting. Uh it it was also a bit of a week for me. Uh in preparation for said company, I was cleaning the bathroom, uh the guest bathroom, and whilst scrubbing the wall, several tiles just collapsed. Oh my. And it revealed that behind it, the backing board, and I do mean board, because it's been there since the 70s and it's fucking wood cardboard piece of shit. It's all fucking wet, it's all rotted out, and uh, it became very apparent very quickly that the entire shower was secretly rotting behind it. So now we have to do essentially an emergency renovation of the bathroom. Um we were not exactly planning on doing a new bathroom, but here we are. Here we are. It is what it is, and we are where we are. We are where we are. So it was also a long week for me. So I am excited because I am here with one of my bestest boys. And we're gonna answer some questions. We're gonna have some yucks, you sweetie. We're gonna yucks. We're gonna have some yums, and then we're gonna end. We got some items to circle back and follow up with. We've got some items in the thought line, we got some items that have been asked of us, and we're just gonna we're gonna touch on some topics that need a little retouch. Just a just a touch, just to see how it feels. It's been a minute since we did a circle back follow-up, so we we got to. Got to. Got to. But first, we got real questions to answer. Yeah, we got real matters of business.

Eric: 9:11

Uh, shall I take the first one? I wish you would. Okay. This one comes from um Aaron from the Discord. And Aaron asks, when you tell someone there, quote, too much, end quote, what are they too much of? Mm-hmm.

Matt: 9:31

This is good because it has the too much thing has really catapulted in, say, the last decade, maybe.

Eric: 9:38

Yeah, yeah. It's really come into its own. Matt, when you tell someone, let's let's do a little exercise. I'm being too much. Tell me I'm too much.

Matt: 9:46

Well, I feel like I would actually, in this day of age, be in like, you're you're a little extra. Okay, I feel like the kids say. Yeah. Okay. But who knows what they say. They say all the other. Or they'd say six seven. They say six seven. They'd say skibbity Ohio Riz. And and I really need Skibity to get in the word of the year. No, Skibbity, Skibbity is can't be word of the year. Corpo cuck needs to be word of the year.

Eric: 10:14

I can see both sides of it. You can't. I just see my side. Playing both sides of it. Playing both sides. But yeah, but but but let's pretend for a second that you weren't you didn't have your finger as fucking buried in the pulse of of the culture as you did. Thank you. And you were to tell someone they're being too much. I'm being too much right now. Go. Eric, you're Eric, you're being too much. Okay, so you you you lean in like it's it's a it's a you you're you're looking out for the homie by hitting them with a bit of oh like doing too much. You're okay.

Matt: 10:46

You're doing too much, you're being too much, you're encompassing too much.

Eric: 10:52

See, in my schema, oh in my in the zeitgeist of my family. What a noise your throat made just now. Uh yeah, I did a little ribbet almost, like a like a toad. Yeah, oh yes. Don't know where that came from. Hippety hop. But my family, we would be more in like it, it's it's in response to someone like being funny, but like in a way that subverted your expectations. Like, like, like, oh, they went there. So you're like, you're like, oh, you're too much.

Matt: 11:22

Oh, okay. Very interesting. Too much. I do think those are two different interpretations.

Eric: 11:28

Yeah, it's a very flexible phrase. So like the context really matters, but but I think we can agree that there's there's a positive, like, oh, you're too much. There's like a good, there's like a like an like it's like complimentary almost, or like a ooh, you, and then there's a bro.

Matt: 11:45

Yeah, one is like a warningslash condemnation, and one is a uh you are too much for me to handle. But I feel like that could turn savage as well. I feel that could easily be delivered often by someone who's saying it sarcastically. Oh, you you are too much, Eric. You are too much. What a fucking idiot. You know what I mean?

Eric: 12:12

Yeah. That's it. The the general theme I sense overall, though, is it seems to be a general lack, like, hey, you're letting too much out of your brain hole right now. Like you're you're you paradoxically, you're too much when you don't have enough filter on in that moment.

Matt: 12:31

So is it too much of you, of your opinions, of your thoughts?

Eric: 12:37

I think it's too much almost too much stream of consciousness, almost. Like, hey, you're saying all the things that are popping into your head right now. Pop a pop a filter on there. Pop a filter, but get in there. Turn one of them filters on. Yeah, it's lit up too much. Um, yeah, it it it's it's there's too much uh too much firing off of the hip. Firing off of the hip. I feel like in any case, it's almost like you're firing off of the hip.

Matt: 13:06

Yeah, I think because it does seem personal, like you're being too much. When if I were to say that to you, hey, just word to the wise, you're being a little much right now. I feel like you're being a little much right now is you're sort of saying you are dominating the conversation, or you are you're you're you're like a tidal wave coming in on a small beach and people are drowning. Not enough reading the room.

Eric: 13:38

Not enough reading the room. Yes, not not enough reading the vibe. It's it's happening in a social setting, I feel like, most of the time. Like on a one-on-one conversation, I I rarely, if ever, am gonna be like, hey, a bit much right now. Um, unless the person is like, you know, I'm having a conver a one-on-one with someone and they decide to start like screaming at me or something. But but like other than that, like I don't care. I'm like, go off king, but it's when we're in a social state, it's when you're aware of like the the impediment to the vibe that is incurring, yes, and the person causing that impediment is not. Yeah, I think that's what it is, right?

Matt: 14:14

Like you, if if we have a soup, if the vibe is a soup, vibe vibe is a soup, I'm with you. We're soup. If if the soup is a vibe, you have added suddenly a nice little sprinkle of salt, a little sprinkle of salt. And the fucking top just came off. You're dumping salt in here, you're being too much. Too much, too much, too much, back it up because now we have to recalibrate the vibe, recalibrate the soup, mix the soup again.

Eric: 14:44

And that is that is exhausting. That's exhausting.

Matt: 14:47

We're masters of it.

Eric: 14:49

Culinary labor. It puts the impetus, like it's a warning, like, hey, help me help you help us all because you're about to you're you're about to step over the line. When I'll bust out the too much of like, hey, you're too much, right? It's like, look, you haven't done anything like unforgivable yet. Yet, but you are on the road to sin. And I don't want to have to pick up these pieces. I don't, I don't, I don't, it will be on me to restore balance to the vibe, and I really don't want to do that. I don't have the spoons.

Matt: 15:23

Yeah, the you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and you think you're delivering some interesting knickknacks, some nice anecdotes. You're not. You're not.

Eric: 15:35

Now, Matt, can I ask you a raw fucking question? A raw question. Raw. All right. Slip the rubber off and similar sound to it. In a similar vein, you and I are those people who like in those situations and the vibe has been tarnished. No one's like, oh, Matter, Eric, have to repair the situation. It's but it's kind of an unspoken like like when you're when you're the I'm trying to think of a non-conceited way to say, like, easily one of the most charismatic people in the room. Um, A, it's exhausting. You're like, oh fuck, I gotta maintain this vibe, gotta keep it going. But B, how often do you find yourself in the position when someone's showing their ass and multiple people are taking notice? How often have you been the one where someone's like, hey, can you go say something to him? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I've been in I've been in that position. And it's and A, and that was what the point I was getting to is not only is restoring balance to the vibe exhausting, it's exhausting just having to like, oh fuck, I have to say something.

Matt: 16:42

Because now you are also doing social labor. Yes. Because you you have to say something, and you are if you've been asked to, hey, can you go deal with this? You have been asked to handle an uncomfortable situation. Yes. And the person knows that it's uncomfortable because they're your friend or they're your date or whatever it might be. They're your dad. Who knows? You, but now you have to go over and you don't want to cause a fight with this person. You don't want to make them feel weird. Oh no, I'm gonna do it so masterfully, but I don't want to. Eric, I'll be honest with you. I think you are asked to do this probably more often than I am. I think that's true. Because I I can't think of the last time somebody did that at like a gen general party, other than if somebody was like, like, I think when I do it, it's something I volunteer. Like if somebody was, I don't know, upset or like had a freak out about something, and I could see myself being like, you know, I'll I'll go talk to them. Yeah, you know, like you would be amazing at it. Like you would be so good at it. I'm gonna go smooth this over. That I've done. I don't I can't remember the last time somebody was like, hey, can you go talk to what's her name over there and just you know, smooth this out? Tell them they're being a little obnoxious. Yeah. No, I don't I can't I can't recall that. But you seem to have a number of examples right up at the top of your brain there. So give me one. They're they're tell me who was being too much and what you did to correct them. I the docs your friends.

Eric: 18:21

The the common ones, look, I'm very fortunate to say that like it doesn't, it hasn't happened a lot in like recent years, mostly because the company I keep tends to be very chill. Like, even though we're a bunch of punks, artists, what have you, we we we tend to be around quality human being. We don't have that many squeaky wheels in the fucking mix. Could it be the horrible truth? Are you the squeaky wheel, my friend? Oh my god, do am I the boy that needs to come get got?

Matt: 18:50

Is the call coming from inside the friend group?

Eric: 18:52

Oh my god. Uh, I live in perpetual terror of that. Uh well, I'm glad to stoke those flames. Oh, yeah. Well, no, it was because like before I got diagnosed with ADHD, I was just always that kid who was was suddenly talking, like was you'd be in a conversation with a party, and at some point I I went from just talking to shouting everything I'm saying. Like, like no volume control. And they'd be like, Hey, Eric, you're being like, I I I have to You're being too much. You're being too much. You gotta, you gotta quiet. You gotta like, oh, I'm so sorry. I just got so excited about the thing. And that that turned into an adulthood of constant paranoia of like, am I talking too loud? Am I sorry? Am I too much? Is it combined with six and a half foot person? Yeah, um, I take up a lot of space. I'm I am I live in perpetual terror of being in anyone's way ever or in any way an inconvenience. But that is also what what comes to the benefit of like, hey, you gotta go talk. I think that that's why I I like in in in like college, in like a little few my mid-20s and stuff. If there was someone showing their ass at a party, they would they would have me go talk to them because A, I was gonna be super nice about it. I was gonna be like, I was gonna be really chill about it. I wasn't gonna meet them where they are. Yeah, I'm gonna meet them where they are. I'm not gonna fucking, I'm not gonna escalate. And and but it does help that I I usually tower over whoever the fuck it is. So it makes it a lot easier to agree with the things I'm oh, so you you like to intimidate them into silence. I think that's why I get asked. Is there like, hey, you can't do it? Oh, you think that's why you get asked. You're gonna I would scary man. I would I would get pulled a lot for the hey, like, girl comes over, like, hey, some dude is like will not stop like harassing me. Not not even harassed, but like this dude is not getting the message that like no one does. He keeps trying to make like small to like can use. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Matt: 20:45

And that's what that's what I mean by harassment. Oh, yes. Somebody ain't getting the hint.

Eric: 20:50

You know, harassment. Like, yeah, they're not reading the room.

Matt: 20:54

So you gotta go over there with your with your karate in your back pocket.

Eric: 21:00

And that's what that's what I mean like.

Matt: 21:01

Boy out the black belt, get it on.

Eric: 21:04

There's no huge fun stories here because like all the time it was just me going over, like it would be me going over to a dude like, hey man, yo, I fucking love those shoes, dude. Like, tell me, like, I would I because usually they were shit faced, so it's real easy. It's like jingling keys, like, yo, dog, tell me about your fit, walk over here with me. And then just giving a meaningful glance to the person over show, like, and here's your here's your window of opportunity. Go to get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here or go about your life. You shouldn't have to do anything in this equation. I'm just gonna go talk and and and and usually it stops there. I I did I ever tell you I Matt, I did a shift as a bouncer once.

Matt: 21:44

Eric, forget this question. Tell me about this immediately. No, no, you have not told me about when you did a shift as a bouncer. Oh no, I'm obsessed.

Eric: 21:55

You're you're okay.

Matt: 21:56

Strap in, folks.

Eric: 21:58

Let me set the stage. This is like mid-20 teens. So this is like this is probably around like 2010. 20 teens? What the hell did you just say? Like 2014, 2015, 20s.

Matt: 22:09

Mid-20 teens. I thought you were giving me an age, and then you yeah, my 20 teens.

Eric: 22:14

I'm 2016, dog. It's like, what are you saying?

Matt: 22:19

This makes a lot more sense. I'm the youngest old man you'll ever meet. Were you 15 or 25? I don't understand. Um, 15-year-old Eric Poach bouncing at a club.

Eric: 22:29

I was not a girl, not yet a woman. Aren't we all? Aren't we all? But I was asked, uh, a buddy of mine would do was a bouncer at a club in Baltimore. I may have mentioned this club before. It was called Orpheus. It was a goth club in Baltimore. And Matt, when I say goth club, that is such an all-encompass, like it was like industrial music, goth, rave stuff, but always kind of defaulted back to like alternative culture stuff. So, Matt, one day, mind you, I'm in my I'm in my mid-20s. My buddy calls me up. He's like, hey, we need another bouncer for this event. I'm working at Orpheus tonight. Would you, A, would you like to come help me? They'll throw you a few bucks. You're really just gonna be like this this friend of mine, by the way, is another fellow giant. So he's like, our job is literally just stand there and be a deterrent because we're huge. And and it and it's it's it really is that simple. It was a small club, like this, this club was basically built into a townhouse.

Matt: 23:34

I think I I think I know the one that was it was right in front of Eurydice, right? Yes, yes.

Eric: 23:39

Thank you, thank you. It was in in Greek town, not not Greek town, uh Little Italy. There we go. Uh oh, you motherfucker. I I just got the joke. There is a restaurant named Eurydice in Baltimore that fucked me up. Is there really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There, it's either like a Greek restaurant or a strip club. I can't remember.

Matt: 24:00

I thought, Eric, I gotta be honest, I thought you were yes-anding so good that I was like, I don't know if people are gonna know that was a joke.

Eric: 24:09

Are they gonna realize the the kind of meta humor we're laying down right now?

Matt: 24:13

Because Eric is so he's just so literate and he's so with it that like he just yes-and me, and people aren't gonna keep up. But like, no, I lost you.

Eric: 24:25

I also lost you. You lost me, and I and and but that was such a good joke.

Matt: 24:30

And this is Eric, this is Eric looking back at me and ruining everything.

Eric: 24:37

Uh, and then my head got chopped off. So that that happened in the math. Um, but to say, but yeah, no, you were so smooth with that that I thought I legitimately was like, oh yeah, like that. I I I think there is a business called Eurydice. I was like, yeah, yeah. And but no, the Orpheus is in Little Italy, so that sounded like on in like near Greek town and stuff too. So it sounded on brand. But all that to say, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, sure, I can come. He's like, cool. Here's the event we're gonna be working. It's a made cafe. Sorry? There it is. I was I I I knew. Sorry, a made cafe? A made cafe, Matt. All right. It's a it's an anime dweeb thing. Because they would like again, they would post all these alternate events. There's a thing in Japan, they're called made cafes, where there are cafes you go to, you get coffee, tea, whatever, but all of the coffee and tea is served by you by like waitresses who are wearing like cute anime made outfits. Got it. And and it's like it's like a whole like like people don't go for the pastries. They they go they go for the pasties. They they go for the pasties, they go for the for the for for the cute waitresses who are serving them whatever this is. Yes, it's an anime hooters, I got it. It's an it's anime hooters. Um, so he's like, yeah, we're you we're gonna be bouncing that he's like, and obviously he's like, this is for this is like uh there was an anime convention going on around the same time. The the club was hosting this like tertiary event to the anime convention. We're like, we're gonna have a maid cafe and and blah blah blah. So he's like, Yeah, so you're gonna have a bunch of like girls dressed as maids serving um like tea and stuff to people upstairs, and they're all anime dweebs, so we just want to make sure that they that they comport themselves and are like respectful. Like, okay, cool. And I'm happy to say it was a real chill gig. I just stood at the top of the stairs, they did, they did their whole their whole thing, everyone was safe. I think there was one dude we had to ask to leave, but that was because he was downstairs at the bar, shit faced. And then me and my buddy just be like, Hey, we're gonna walk you out. And he kind of ran his mental calculus and said, Yeah, yeah, you are. And then we just walked him out. But the but the cute thing is at the end of the night, we we worked the shift, and like it was just like five hours of just standing in one place with my arms folded, just chilling, making sure everything's okay, walking over to occasionally. Uh dress code for the club is black slacks, black button-up shirt, red tie. Classic bouncer look. Classic bounce. I I think I might have also had suspenders going. I was going for if I'm gonna be a bouncer, I like to be a classy bouncer. Where the I I like to think they're white suspenders.

Matt: 27:27

Ooh, that I'm I'm putting those. That would be a good loot. And you had a you had a fedora with like a white ribbon on, a black fedora with a white ribbon. You uh basically I look like Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. I was about to say, I I want you, I want to picture you as a Dick Tracy villain. Uh love it.

Eric: 27:45

Uh but uh but at the end of the night, this was adorable. Um uh at the end of the night, we we also walked all of like all the girls who were like the the the maid waitresses for that evening. We all me and my buddy also took took shifts, walking them all to their cars at the end of the night and stuff like that. But but uh before they all left and packed up their stuff, they're like, Thank you so much. Do you want any like of the little? I was like, they showed me their menu. Like, do you want a free treat from the menu? I was like, Yeah, I'm fine. They brought me those little noodle, clear noodle dish. It was like candy noodles in a little thing, and I had a little fruit drink. I was like, this is so nice, thank you. And they're like, Thank you. And then that was not it was the most lo-fi bouncer experience I could have ever had.

Matt: 28:30

I think the only way you could have maybe even made it more lo-fi was when you kick that one guy out. You just went up to him and said, Hey, brother, you've been a little too much. You did you pay too much? There that that's me bringing it back to the question. Nice. I think, but I think that is what it is, right? It is like you are the two you you have gone too far with whatever it is. That guy went too far in his cups. Too much, and he became too loud, he became too whatever he was doing. Too much of your inside is coming outside. Too much of your inside has made its way outside. Too much, dial it back. And now we gotta put you down. Yeah. Socially. Socially and headlock. I think we answered the question, Eric. I think we nailed it. I think we nailed it. Too much of your inside coming to the outside, and that leads me to ask, what makes a grin a shit eating grin? And that comes from me. That's an authentic question.

Eric: 29:25

Matt Shea off the dome. What makes a grin a shit eating grin?

Matt: 29:29

I think there's an intent behind it. I think there's a message that comes with the grin that says, like, sometimes I feel like it's a fuck you. And sometimes sometimes it's like a I gotcha. I gotcha, and I know I gotcha.

Eric: 29:47

Yes. There and yeah, there are multiple layers of meaning in this. It's like all contextual, because I've also heard shitting and grin to describe like someone who's just like usually if they're if they're a little drunk, a little Little high, like they're they're they're just like happy and stupid at that moment, and there's like got a big shit eating grin on their face. Like they're just they're just cheesing, as the kids would say. But a shit eating grin in the context that you're describing is the one I've always liked. That's been like my this guy was a fucking shit eating grin.

Matt: 30:18

There's like a twinkle in the eye as well that says, like, something nefarious is going on inside that brain of yours. Like you're eating well, well, well. Yeah. A shit eating grin goes perfectly with well, well, well. Or like if you told somebody not to do something and then they got hurt or something and they come back and you're like, how'd that go? You know, like just that little like, you're wrong, I'm right, and I know it. And I'm gonna express it with like a real tight corner of both my both sides of my mouth, and just be like, hey, I gotta have teeth.

Eric: 30:58

Gotta gotta have teeth. Toothy grin. And it and it's it meets the your eye, like you said, sparkling. I'm like if I have a shit eating grin on, I like my my eyes are happy, sparkling.

Matt: 31:09

I think I think the the what really makes the shit eating grin is the eyes are saying something else. Yes. Your grin is saying one thing and your eyes are saying something else. But there is, it's like a Schaden Freudian delight that's within you.

Eric: 31:25

It lends itself very well to malicious compliance. Yes. Like, oh, you told me to do this. Hey, did that thing you're gonna do? Oh, I can't I can't do that. Why?

Matt: 31:35

Because you told me I couldn't, you know. Oh, sorry. Hey, can you do this thing? Oh no, sorry, I'm already doing the other thing you asked me. Oh, sorry.

Eric: 31:45

I am the manager.

Matt: 31:47

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It goes perfect with a oh, you want to speak to the manager? Let me get him. Do a 360. Hello, I'm the manager. Yeah. That's a perfect deployment of because I do think I'll say this. I think when I want to, I got a good sheet shit eating grip. Oh yeah. I think I think I can I can flash you a real malicious shit eating grip. And I do at work all the time.

Eric: 32:15

Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I most of my my meetings at work are over the the job that requires me to be in the office every day. Um, all of our meetings are on Teams. Um God. But I I I can vocally convey a shit eating grin. Like, you know, you know what I mean? Like, like there's a tone you can take when you're explaining something to somebody who just tried to make you look bad, and then you pull the Uno reverse on them. Yep. I can put a shit eating grin into that tone.

Matt: 32:44

It and in the Teams call, in the Zoom call setting, it's the grin you do when you go, Oh, what about this? Like you're leaning in to say, what about this? You say your piece, and then your natural response is to lean back and watch silence. Yep. Watch the dominoes fall. Like that's what it is. That's what it is.

Eric: 33:07

Now it's a checkmate. It's a checkmate. It's a, it's a you can't, it's like, can't touch this. I'm ooh, I that's another thing. It's specifically with kids, kids will pop out shit eating grins when they're when they're doing something that they know they can't get in trouble for, but is pissing you off nonetheless.

Matt: 33:26

Yes, or they'll do something when they s that when when they call you on some sort of hypocrisy. Like being like, hey, you can't you can't you can't be doing that. Don't be yelling at the video game because you're upset, but you yell at the football game all the time, Dad. It's that, yes, it's that yes, fuck it to it's something that elicits the response in the underperson that is fuck you, God.

Eric: 33:55

Yes. Uh prime example, going back to karate daycare. Oh, yes. One day I was watching the kids spar, and when we watched kids spar, all the kids sit in a big circle around like around the gym and like watch and attentively. And and then I'm their you know, their instructor. I'm circling the fight, the the the fight, the sparring as it's happening, and and like just giving them notes that they're gonna be able to do. Not the sensei. Not the sensei. No, no, no, no. We didn't use the term sensei. It's uh because sensei is a Korean not sorry, sorry, sorry. Uh sensei is a Japanese term. Uh Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. We just yeah, we uh we would just but that said, in in American Western martial arts, there's so much cross-contamination culturally between all the martial like it all bleeds together. So you'll you'll find taekwondo schools that call people sensei. We just went by Sir. It was it was like I was Mr. Eric, and uh like they would refer to me as Mr. Eric or Sir, like when there was a yes, sir, no sir, blah, blah, blah. Well, we've all learned some actual knowledge here today, haven't we? But one day I'm I'm watching the sparring thing and and and and I'm giving notes. I'm like, hey, okay, keep your hands up. Remember to breathe. Don't forget to breathe. You die if you don't breathe. Uh, because you'd be surprised by how well the many people, when they're in a fight, their first impulse is just hold their breath the whole time. Oh, and they wonder why they fall over. And then I but I hear a voice down from around the the space of my knee, and and I just one of the kids going, Mr. Eric, and I'm like, Oh no, I'm watching. Mr. Eric, I'm like, what? I'm like, what? And I like you get down, like, what? What is it? Everything okay? And this kid looks me dead in the eye, he's like 10 or 11 years old, looks me dead in the eye, he says, Tell him to sweep the leg. I'm like, what? And he's like, tell him to sweep the leg. And I just look at him like, are you quoting the karate kid at me? And he looks me dead in the eye with a shit eating grin and says, quote, is that a problem? I'm like, I was like, ooh, and he knew it was like I couldn't do anything about it right now because I'd have to watch this. It was like funny. I was like, you made me laugh. You're doing push-ups after this.

Matt: 36:13

I was gonna say, clear those other kids out of the way. Yeah, I'm sparring with you now. Yeah, you're taking me now.

Eric: 36:19

Come here, Billy. It was so funny. God, I could it was one of those I couldn't even be mad because it was funny. That's why he had a shitty grin on, because he knew he got me.

Matt: 36:26

He's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, because he caught you off guard. Oh, he caught me off guard. I thought for a second, where you were going with that is he was gonna be like, Come here, come here, come here. And you're gonna lean down and he'd go, remember to breathe. That's what I thought you were setting up.

Eric: 36:41

The kid who said it, I he was he was he was one of a pair of twins, and those boys were funny as shit, and they knew it and would pop would 100% be something they say to me. They were very, very, very funny. I think that's part of it too.

Matt: 36:56

Like, I think you could the non-malicious shit eating grin can come out when you I don't know, you do something and you fucking nailed it. Like, if you I don't know, I don't know, if you're like belting out a song in like a cabaret or whatever, and you know it was good, and people are clapping, and you're like, thank you, thank you. But like you got the lips pulled back that say, Yeah, you're right, it was fucking great.

Eric: 37:25

When my nephew challenges me to a game of Smash, I'm like, oh Smash Brother, what game am I holding the controller right? And and just obliterate him.

Matt: 37:36

Good game. Oh, um, good game. If it's no problem, are you interested in Kirby? Can I be Kirby? Oh, can I play? Oh, he looks fun. He looks cool. What's he do?

Eric: 37:49

He looks fun, huh? Yeah, and then you just destroy him. Oh, when I press this button, you're it doesn't hit me. Oh, that's cool. I can just keep doing this, and that's wild.

Matt: 38:00

So if I just hold the shield up, it just it you deplete your energy. Oh, interesting. And I can just suck you and poop you out the fucking back of this map. You never step to me on high rule. I fucking learned the old magic when it was new. Do not quote the deep smash to me, witch. Do not Falco punch me, you interloper. I know all of Link's moves.

Eric: 38:33

You merely adopted Kirby. I was born to it. I was sucked into him. Molded by it. I didn't play Ultimate till I was a man.

Matt: 38:46

Oh no, I'm falling. What's this? I can jump twice. Oh, who knew? Flip you off the dock.

Eric: 38:53

Oh, if you press this button, he does a little emote. That's cool. I'm gonna be doing that a lot. That didn't demoralize you, did it?

Matt: 39:01

Oops. Oops.

Eric: 39:02

I love how hard we're bragging about beating children so fucking hard.

Matt: 39:08

I'll just stand here.

Eric: 39:10

Oh, you stepped on that mine I dropped. I forgot all about it. But now my nephew gets to bust out the shit eating grin because my nephew is a fucking freak of nature athlete at everything he attempts. He plays all sport. Uh so we'll be in the backyard at a barbecue playing cornhole, and he's like, Oh, yeah, here, keep you gotta keep your wrist straight, Uncle Eric. Just like dunk it in, and I'm like giving me the shit eating grin.

Matt: 39:32

Got him. And he was like, Yeah, but let's go play N64 again, you old hag.

Eric: 39:38

Here, I'll walk you across the porch, grandpa. Yeah, you bag of dicks. Pick up them.

Matt: 39:43

And I think it was rude he called you that.

Eric: 39:46

I know. That's why I'm like, pick up them sticks.

Matt: 39:48

Pick up them stick? Are you playing pickup sticks? What are you doing?

Eric: 39:52

No, that's what you say. When you when you're about to whoop someone's ass at any video game, you tell them to pick. We've talked about this. Pick up them sticks. Oh, oh, I see. Control stick. Yeah, control stick. No, I got it. No, I got it. But uh yeah, shit eating grins. Shit eating grins. Quick quick post note why shit eating? Yeah. How did we get to the shit eating? I think that was actually the question. What makes a grin a shitty? No, no, we answered the question. No, we answered the actual question. Why shit eating? It's the smile of someone who could who is so satisfied with themselves they could eat shit and ask for seconds. Do your worst. They've already won. That's that in my mind, that's what it is.

Matt: 40:29

One, I've just Googled it, and there is an this is from the fucking AI overview, goddammit. But it does say etymology, it it might come as a contraction of the phrase, and you tell me if you've heard this, Eric, grinning like a possum eating shit.

Eric: 40:50

Huh.

Matt: 40:50

Never in all my days. Have I been all my days, all my years. Yeah. The phrase eat shit itself, a vulgar insult, likely became associated with a type of smile showing humiliation or disgrace, with the insult then evolving to describe a sly or smug expression. I think in a way, the eat shit, maybe that's it. Maybe that is it, in the sense that if I'm giving you a shit eating grin, it is causing you to look at me feeling like you want to tell me to go eat shit.

Eric: 41:25

I get I get down with that. Yeah. Eat shit, motherfucker.

Matt: 41:29

Let's see what let's see what Urban Dictionary has to say about it. Someone's gonna be eating shit. And it's not me, and there ain't no possum here. Uh the number one definition on um Urban Dictionary is noun, a shit-eating grin is a very wide and to the outside observer, stupid looking grin, usually showing smugness, self-satisfaction, or inner humor. The term is most often seen in the expression wipe that shit eating grin off your face, usually said by the aforementioned outside observer. This observer-based definition makes shit eating grin the negative counterpart to you look like the cat who ate the canary. What? Are two options eat canaries or eat shit. While the two expressions describe the same grin, they have different connotations. The definition has nothing to do with the term shit eater. Okay? Okay. Well, I think we'll never know. Who can say? I mean, I think it's buried, but I do think it is some somehow related to the like shit, like go eat shit expression. Like, if I'm interpreting what you're saying as a shit eating grin, it's because I want you to go eat shit.

Eric: 42:40

Yes.

Matt: 42:41

With that dumb fucking grin of yours.

Eric: 42:43

That's why I'm so happy, because you're gonna be eating poopy and I'm not.

Matt: 42:47

There you go. I think we nailed it. I think we nailed it. I think we covered it from all angles, and I think we did a grand old job. Bury it. Now, Eric, we have some things to circle back to. We have some things to address. Okay. And I'm afraid you were at the center of both of them. Great. Now you had the option to listen to these voicemails, but I know you didn't. No. So I'm just gonna play them for you cold. Come in raw. A while back, you asked people to phone in when they first heard the term glizzy. Tight. And the only person to take us up on that was, of course, Zachy D. Zachy D, the gliz boy for me.

Zack Deuce: 43:33

Oh, hey. Uh Zach from the kneecap. And um, you guys are just some glizzies. And I was prompted. My poach. I got a poach from the when I first learned about glizzy. Being up in New England, I'm at least three decades behind everybody. Um I don't know what the fuck is. I learned about it from you, I guess. I don't understand why it's called Glizzy, but you guys reference it for you. I don't understand it. Anyway, that's that's you. You guys educated me about it. I feel cultured. I have been cultured, but I'm cultured. Thank you. Thank you for my poach prompt. Alright, continue, continue on with your episode. Bye-bye.

Eric: 44:34

Hashtag Poach Prompt. Hashtag Poach Prompt, hashtag glizzygate2k25, hashtag glizzy or izany. I it is a privilege to be on the cutting edge of culture.

Matt: 44:49

It seems but I think Zach has proved that, that you are ahead of the curve, but yet you mock I'm in the trenches. You choose to mock me for not knowing the term glizzy a year and a half ago or whenever it was. Well, Matt, we don't live in New England.

Eric: 45:03

You have no excuse. Oh, Eric. That was that was Zach's excuse. He lives in New England. New England. Named after one of the oldest places ever, as far as I can reckon.

Matt: 45:16

But but implying a new and hip version of it. New and hip. It's a new oldness. It's a new oldness. It's like a it's like a a retro fit that's brand new. It's tomorrow's future, yesterday. It's the ripped genes of states.

Eric: 45:34

It's the jinko state.

Matt: 45:38

Yes.

Eric: 45:39

They are jingo politics. They have jinko politics. Oh, Eric. Got 'em. Got 'em. Jinko and New England.

Matt: 45:45

Got 'em.

Eric: 45:46

Got 'em. Uh, yeah. And no, it may, it makes sense to me that, especially in New England, that they they probably don't conglesize. It's a very, it's a, it's a more West Coast thing. It's a term that originated, I believe, don't at me. I believe it originated in Chicago in reference to their hot dog. It just refers to a hot dog. Yeah, it's just a regular hot dog. I'll say it, I'll say what I said back then when I was in Chicago for Riot Fest. We were walking back to our Airbnb. There was a little mob of of like 11-year-olds in front of us, and their leader said, Yo, let's go get some glizzies, and they're all like, Yeah. That's how I know I live on the edge of the culture. Oh, that's how you do it. My fingers eternally pressed to the pulse.

Matt: 46:28

You are pressed to the pulse. And I like this term that Zach has has thrown out of uh Poach Prompt, because there was another one recently that I don't know if you remember, but Poach, you did prompt our listeners for another submission, and once again, the only taker was Zach Deuce. So here's Zach Deuce again.

Zack Deuce: 46:51

Oh, hello, uh Matthew and Eric from uh and all the other things that are important right now. Eric D the one for me. Uh yeah, for me. That is my dry color routine. Give me my dry color routine or that would hopefully explain a lot. Maybe it won't. Maybe I'll just fill the crowd in mystery. But Eric P, you're the one for me, and I rely on your infinite wisdom. Okay, bye-bye.

Matt: 47:39

Yes, that's right, Eric. You told people they could call into the thought line and you would read their noodle scope to them.

Eric: 47:48

Yes.

Matt: 47:49

And Zach Deuce has has obliged. He's answered the poach prompt not once, but twice, and try colored routine, Eric. What is the horoscope?

Eric: 48:01

Uh, first, I'd I'd like to welcome everyone to the new segment, Beyond the Nudes. Beyond the nudes. And you can hit it, hit it with a bum.

Matt: 48:09

Almost like a that's all I know.

Eric: 48:20

That's a shit eating grin.

Matt: 48:21

That's all I had up on the on the old uh the old uh uh soundboard there.

Eric: 48:26

So so Zach, my child, um sweet baby boy. Come come in come into my come into my wagon uh and I will read your come to my wagon. Uh the tri-colored rotini, as you, as you pointed out, it is a it is a sign that calls to the sense of wonder within us. It starts it starts as children. We're drawn, we're it's the pasta we are we find ourselves all drawn to. We ask Mama, Papa, why? Why? It's the it's the inquisitiveness of a child asking why is this rotini different color from that rotini? And why doesn't the spaghetti have these colors? It's a sign of inquisitiveness. It is also a sign because I want you to remember it's a sign of openness to new experience. It's a sign of letting others in because the tri-colored rotini, as we all know, is the pasta of grandma's pasta salad. It is the pasta salad pasta. So it's about a journey of bringing others to you, like olives, feta, a dressing of some kind, maybe red onion. Where unlike other pastas, you are not in and of yourself the dish. You are part of an amalgam. You are you are yet you are somehow the base. You are the stick by which the other ingredients are measured. So this is about opening up, letting others in and uplifting each other. A rising, a rising tide lifts all routinis. Um, so as you move forward into as 2025 begins to come to a close, 2026 is going to be about looking forward, but also looking back in that sense of nostalgia for the tricolor routine, refining that childhood wonder and inquisitiveness and opening yourselves up to grandma's pantry and letting letting that Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You do not need to be opening up grandma's pantry. You open up grandma's pantry, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta go back to your roots. You gotta go back to the to this is what's very vulgar what you're saying. This is what we would eat on on Sundays after church when when when Yaya would make us pasta salad. You don't have a ya ya, nor do you go to church. No, but we all like children of the eye of the routine, we do have the celestial that was that was a Jawa.

Matt: 51:07

That was my impression of a gjawa.

Eric: 51:10

Uh also I see jawas in your future. I see a sand crawler. Eric, what what uh honestly, an incredible bullshit job you just did. And the eye is closed. Okay. Sorry, where did I go? I don't know. You disappeared. Oh, sorry, I just it it when it when it comes on me.

Matt: 51:28

You disappeared like a like a spaghetti sinking into Marinera. I was spiraling, some might say. Some might say you were spiraling.

Eric: 51:37

God, he is in the fucking drift, folks. Oh, sorry, sorry, residual vibes. I'm I'm I'm back.

Matt: 51:43

So if you if you I assume the offers are still open. Uh oh yeah, send them all my way. This has been beyond the nudes. This has been beyond the nudes. Uh, we'll need a couple to do another beyond the nudes. We can't just rely on Zach Deuce. So send them in, 410-929-5329. That's the number for the thought line. Send in your nudes. Nope. Send them in, folks. Nope. Nope. Caught them if you got them. I caught it too late. Don't send them slurp them if you got them. It's just a voicemail box. You can't send them to us, but you could call the thought line and describe your naked visage visage. That would be acceptable. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We won't play it on the show.

Eric: 52:24

No, but we'll we'll just be like, hell yeah.

Matt: 52:27

We'll listen to it. We'll take it in. We'll draw it like Jack Dawson.

Eric: 52:33

Well, we'll paint you like one of our French girls. We'll paint you like one of our French girls. One of our French girls had like uh like an astigmatism.

Matt: 52:41

Absolutely. Now we do have a circle back follow-up. This one is ancient. It it's from the deep, the deep web. Oh I pulled it out with I had to go into the archives with a with a lantern and take it out of the catacombs, the question cooms. Nice. And it comes from at Sarah Feldman on Instagram who asks if there were scouts for adults, what would be the patches?

Eric: 53:08

That risk.

Matt: 53:09

Yeah, we we of course have spent a good grand old amount of time talking about various uh uh things related to the Boy Scouts and uh you know my Eagle Scoutum.

Eric: 53:24

There it is.

Matt: 53:25

But the Patches for adults.

Eric: 53:28

That's where we're at. That's what we're trying to solve for.

Matt: 53:32

Oh man, in this day and age, I would say uh do you think they're for like adult tasks or adult op because like that's not all merit badges. Merit badges are not just like kids stuff, no, but it is stuff like emergency preparedness, basketry, the essentials.

Eric: 53:52

I so I think whereas Boy Scout or as scout patches are for demonstr gen not exclusively, but often for demonstrating a level of competence at preparedness. At a new skill. At a new skill, I think the adult badges should be surviving adulthood. Like you like like like uh like you you get a you you get a uh a uh are they just adult based?

Matt: 54:21

Like yeah, as opposed to like uh archery or you know citizenship in the community, both of which real merit patches, it might be something like uh car rental badge, rented my first car.

Eric: 54:38

Tax paying, got the deposit back badge.

Matt: 54:42

Got the deposit back badge. Uh it could be something like um air filtration expert, which means you learned how to change an air filter. Built a deck, that's a badge.

Eric: 54:56

Built a deck, that is very advanced. That is is is it it is it is one of those things where all the skills involved are relatively simple, but it is involved. It is in it obviously, it's very involved. People make a whole bitch. If you get your medical card, if you get your medical weed card, that's a merit badge.

Matt: 55:14

Medical card it becomes uh an instant merit badge. Yes. That you because you had to earn that. You did.

Eric: 55:21

Yeah.

Matt: 55:21

You go through the in a way, a driver's license is like an adult merit badge.

Eric: 55:26

It's your first merit badge. Yeah, it's your first merit badge.

Matt: 55:29

Yeah, yeah. Getting married is is an is a badge.

Eric: 55:33

If you get married like all badges, it's optional. You have a joint filing badge, but it's like one, it's like a best friend's patch, but like you each have one half of the joint filing patch.

Matt: 55:44

Absolutely, yes.

Eric: 55:45

The perhaps lawn mowing. Lawn mowing, uh I I I I would put lawn mowing, I would put uh harvesting badge for your garden. World War II interest badge.

Matt: 55:59

Oh man. When that phase hits you, that when that comes over you, as it does, as it will for all middle-aged male identifying humans. Prostate check badge.

Eric: 56:10

Prostate check badge. That'll be us soon.

Matt: 56:13

I had a doctor basically be Oh, yeah, all up in your guts. I had a doctor ask me not all that long ago, if I wanted him to check my prostate. And he was like, I don't think anything's wrong with it, but I can knock it out if you want to check the box. And I was like, Well, if you don't think anything's wrong with me, keep your fingers to yourself, is basically what I said to the mayor. Keep keep that lube drawer closed.

Eric: 56:45

God, keep it to yourself, keep it to your key, hold on. I think there should be bad, there should be merit badges for emotional labor type stuff. Like uh still friends with my ex badge.

Matt: 56:59

Oh, yeah.

Eric: 57:01

On friendly terms with my ex-badge.

Matt: 57:02

Friendly terms with the amical, amicable badge. Amicable breakup badge. Amicable breakup badge. God finished the novel you were writing. Don't have to publish it. Just have to be a badge.

Eric: 57:16

Teeth cleaning badge. Teeth cleaning badge, Eric? Like going to the dentist regularly. It's hard for some folks, Matt. I guess it is hard for some folks. It's hard for some folks.

Matt: 57:26

It's hard for some folks. I was gonna say, are you one of those folks? I'm one of those folks. You're not going every six months? No. Eric, you gotta be going every six months. I know, bro. Those teeth, you're 35, those teeth are about to fall out. I take good care of my teeth. I just haven't been to a dentist.

Eric: 57:39

Oh, yeah. How often you flossing? Every single goddamn day. Really? Yeah. That's very impressive, Eric. Oh, yeah. I've it I can't remember how, but like, this is like seven or eight years ago. I was just like, I floss now. And then I just made myself do it long enough, and then it just became second nature.

Matt: 57:55

I got I was really in the habit of doing it like every other day, and then I got this like nasty cut on my finger, and I couldn't like hold the, you know, like I couldn't really do it. So I was like, I'll take a few days off, and I haven't gotten back into the the rhythm. But Lindsay and I just upgraded our toothbrush game to the to the Sonicares. Nice, they mean and let me tell you, they mean business. Yeah, it's like a fucking car wash in that mouth now. Oh, yeah. It's nice, but it's intense.

Eric: 58:23

Sounds like it.

Matt: 58:24

It is a little intense, but it does leave you with the like, I do feel like my teeth are dentist clean.

Eric: 58:30

Okay.

Matt: 58:31

Yeah. I want a mosh pit badge. Of course you do. I want a mosh pit badge. Of course you do.

Eric: 58:37

I want uh for for for my psychonauts who listen to this show. Um, I I think there's a whole other category of merit badges are stuff you've accomplished while on psychedelics. Talk to my parents on the phone for 20 minutes badge. Oh, that's just a whole other series of badges, though.

Matt: 59:00

Yeah, those aren't adult badges, those are psychedelic badges. Those are feats you've accomplished in a certain mindset, in a certain plane of existence. Yes. Yeah. So there you go, Sarah. There's some options for you as an adult. Have some badge for you to earn. Now, this next question uh came from the Discord from Aaron. Circle back follow-up to sick semperfiles. What does sick semperphilanis mean? Eric, you want to tackle this one?

Eric: 59:30

Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and say I can't remember the context, but I'm gonna guess. Why don't you guess the context? Had to do with Rexum. Were we referring to Phil, the the the manager of Rexamea Phil? Phil Parkinson. Yeah.

Matt: 59:45

No, it had to do with Puxitanny Phil, Eric. Oh, yeah.

Eric: 59:56

The guy probably yells sick semper Phil Ranis.

Matt: 1:00:00

Phil Ranis or some shit like that. Thank you very much. So what does it mean? What we I what he's saying, I think, is we said the phrase sixemper Phil Ranis.

Eric: 1:00:12

Yeah.

Matt: 1:00:13

And did not actually uh describe what that phrase means. Thus always to Phil. Thus always to Phil.

Eric: 1:00:23

I think is Thus always to Phil and Phil, and it'll just show it it's the flag, Six Semper Phil Ranis, thus always to Phil, and shows Phil poking his little head out of his hole and absolutely fucking thriving. Because Six Semper Tyrannis is what we were parodying, Eric. Thus always to tyrance, which was famously shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln and leapt to the stage and broke his ankle.

Matt: 1:00:46

Well, perhaps even more famously uh shouted by Brutus after killing uh Game Caesar, which was in fact what John Wilkes Booth was uh referencing because he's a tryhard.

Eric: 1:00:58

Yeah. Ours is a nice one. Ours is a nice one. We want the best for Phil. Thus always to Phil, not being assassinated.

Matt: 1:01:06

Yeah, well, I obviously didn't want it. I think in the episode, I would I I in the usage of six semper tyra Phil Rannis, I think it was said as if this is what the assassin would yell after killing John uh killing Puxa Tawani Phil.

Eric: 1:01:26

Because someone's swinging for puck puxtawny Phil. They're a John Wilkes booth in that they're a tryhard, they're they're over dramatic, they're they're they're a little little little weepy cry piss baby.

Matt: 1:01:37

Yeah, absolutely. Don't come on to and it listen, if you're gonna come for Pennsylvania's favorite son and kill a living legend, uh, an ancient being who has never died. No, no, just deathless, deathless groundhog with a frankly a thankless task. Yeah.

Eric: 1:02:01

And this is coming from Pennsylvania's second favorite son. So, like That's right. He's coming correct.

Matt: 1:02:07

That I'm not even talking about uh Gus, Pennsylvania's second most famous groundhog.

Eric: 1:02:13

No.

Matt: 1:02:14

Uh and spokesman of the Pennsylvania lottery. That's just for you, Eric, because I I don't know if you're aware of the marketing campaigns that have been going on for decades now with Gus, the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania, uh, talking about the Pennsylvania lottery.

Eric: 1:02:32

And is the whole bit that he's the second most famous?

Matt: 1:02:34

Yeah, and he'll be like, here's the scratch off. Who are you? I'm Gus, the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania.

Eric: 1:02:40

It's such a good bit. It's such a bummer, it's for gambling, but hell yeah, that's a good bit. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's clever marketing.

Matt: 1:02:47

It is clever marketing. And they they put him away for a while, they put him on the shelf, and only in the last like three, four years they brought Phil back. Pennsylvanians rejoiced. We rejoiced. The savior returned.

Eric: 1:02:59

But yeah, that's where we're at with it. We want the best for Phil. We're not saying thus, thus always to Phil and stabbing Phil. No, we're saying thus always to Phil. Phil is thriving. Phil is Phil is radiant, and in the background of this flag, there's like a would-be assassin just getting tackled to the ground and peppered and pepper sprayed by by Phil's bodyguards. Yeah, absolutely.

Matt: 1:03:22

Absolutely.

Eric: 1:03:23

The members Phil should have a Secret Service detail if you don't have already the inner circle.

Matt: 1:03:27

Okay, good. Eric, I am very concerned that you are not up on the lore of Puccani Phil as much as I need you to be. Well, because I know he's and one day we're gonna do a daft and afraid of going to see Puxitani Phil. Oh, hell yeah. And what is the location, Eric? Puxitani Phil lives where?

Eric: 1:03:45

Damn, I thought it was gonna be Puxitani, Pennsylvania.

Matt: 1:03:48

Well, it is Puxitani, Pennsylvania, but specifically in Lancaster? Gobbler's Knob, Eric. It's Gobbler's Knob. My goodness. Sorry, it was on the tip of my knob. Now gobble that. Yes, it's Gobbler's Knob, I'm afraid. Gobbler's Knob.

Eric: 1:04:06

It is the home of Puckstoniphil. Once again, establishing Pennsylvania has the coolest town names. Although, although, really, if we're if we're it's not a town, Eric.

Matt: 1:04:15

It's where it is where he lives. His little hillock. It's his little hole. Yeah. Except it except he doesn't really live there most of the year. He goes there the night of Groundhog's Day. But the rest of the time he lives in the like the inner circle museum or wherever he lives.

Eric: 1:04:32

He lives in the lap of luxury.

Matt: 1:04:34

He does live in the lap of As he should. Yes. And then he then he gets placed there the night of his terrible burden.

Eric: 1:04:42

Of his grim work. Of his grim purpose. Why do they come to me? Year after year I have to come to face my oldest foe.

Matt: 1:04:54

My shadow.

Eric: 1:04:56

It is not me they should be seeing. They should see what lies beneath.

Matt: 1:05:01

Yes, that and not many people know that that's what Phil sounds like. And what when Phil comes out and he looks around and those stage lights hit him, making it impossible for him to see anything other than his shadow. And he looks down and says, You, you back again.

Eric: 1:05:17

And because of all the angles of the lights, there's like ten shadows around him. So many of them said on all sides.

Matt: 1:05:23

Six weeks more. And then they say, He's spoken. He has spoken. And she like passes out, and they have to like cart like rest now, Phil. Rest now. Rest now. Sweet prince. Yeah, so that's uh that's where we're at. That's where six semperphilanis every thus always to that. Thus always to to Phil, and thus always to this episode. Yeah. Because I do think that'll about do it for yet another hit edition.

Eric: 1:05:52

Matt?

Matt: 1:05:53

Eric. Continue. I cut you off. I'm so sorry. If you didn't ask for this. Matt! Yeah, Eric. Give him the business. I'd love to. We would need some questions from you. We would need. I said. And we do. We would and we do. We need those questions. Submit them to us at you didn't ask for this at gmail.com. That's all spelled out. Or you can send it to us on the various social media platforms at you didn't ask pod. That's the letter you didn't ask pod. I'd start with Instagram, personally. Or you can submit those questions to us directly through the Discord. And you can join the Discord over at patreon.com slash you didn't ask for this. One dollar a month gets you in the Discord. Four dollars a month gets you access to All Tangents. There he is. It's our monthly bonus episode where we tell personal stories, we answer more in-depth questions, we do all kinds of fun shit. We get weird that we simply can't handle on the main flagship production.

Eric: 1:07:00

Doesn't it feel really important when we put it like that?

Matt: 1:07:05

I said flagship. Oh my god. And it gets you a 20% discount on all your daft merchandise over you didn't ask for this dot com slash shop. New website is still coming soon. I'm working on it. I've been very busy.

Eric: 1:07:19

We're gonna feed it.

Matt: 1:07:21

I've been busy, folks. I've had other stuff. Leave him alone. My shower collapsed. Back off of him. Back off of me. I still haven't killed the mouse. He had wood in the wet place. The wet place was on the wood. Too much. My wood was wet. His wood was wet. My wood was wet, and I'm sorry, I am being a little much. A little too much. So for all of us here, you didn't ask for this. My name is Matt Shea. My name is Eric Poach.

Eric: 1:07:53

And listen, you didn't ask. What do they so you know how you know how like there are files in government they're like protocols that get activated in the event of certain things? Like if like the United States government has files like here's here's what we do in the event of a zombie invasion. Yeah, yeah. Are there files like that for Phil? Like, do they have like because I was just thinking, what happens if Phil just of ripe old age and and never ending blitz? Don't you say it. But what if there are Eric speaking? Are there cont are there Phil tingencies? What would it even be, Eric? Oh man, you know they have like a puppet at the ready. Like they do a quick weekend at Bernie's a little a little a little bit.

Matt: 1:08:40

For you to even suggest that they would have a puppet, that it would be possible for Phil to die. I I am in disbelief of you. That's what we're gonna that the the credit music's about to play, and I want you to answer me this. You happy with that? That's all right.

Eric: 1:09:04

Like a groundhog.

Matt: 1:09:10

I I like that we were both staring each other down to see who would break the silence first.

Eric: 1:09:32

Do not quote the deep smash to me, witch.