Group A Best Breakfast

[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lina. We discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before we get some foot on the boat, we put him into a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what can you ooze when he decides steps foot on the boat? [00:00:40] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell him what we're talking about this season? [00:00:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. Nick has created my own personal hell, and he has put me into it. He surprises me with an early morning text saying, hey, we should record when we weren't planning on it. So then I didn't have time to eat breakfast. I show up and we're talking about best breakfast food. So now I got to sit here for the next 4 hours hungry as hell, talking about things I wish I had. Thanks, Nick. Thank you for that. Thanks for aligning the stars in such a way. [00:01:07] Speaker A: I've never, I don't think most people would consider me to be, you know, like, machiavellian, plotting, planning, so precise with how I can cut you down and destroy your empire. And I'm going to tell you, all cards on table, this has been three years in the making. I. Because I'm not that good at it. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Because Nick never once has Nick texted me saying, hey, we should record today on a day we haven't scheduled, week ahead to record. And two, we should do it earlier than usual. This isn't Nick at all. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Three years. And I know, and I hope that through the course of this recording, as we go through and we record our four episodes today, I hope we see the destruction of you, of your psyche, of your spirit, of your soul, until eventually I have to narrate you going out samurai style. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:01:57] Speaker A: Giving yourself, dude. It's good. [00:02:00] Speaker B: It's good. This is exactly what's going to happen. I'm going to go upstairs. It's going to be probably 02:00 in the afternoon. And I'm like, Kathryn, we're going to get breakfast now. And she'd be like, I just ate lunch. And I'd be like, shut up and get in the car. We're going to breakfast now. [00:02:12] Speaker A: And she's like, you don't talk to me like that, Cody. That's not okay. And then there we go. Boom. I finally. I've broken you down. This is. [00:02:21] Speaker B: That's the long con. [00:02:22] Speaker A: This is. For the first time, we ever met? When I mentioned, like, oh, where'd you get your cool may shirt? Because nowhere else in the world had the band may t shirts. He's like, I don't know, man. The Internet. [00:02:33] Speaker B: That was the first thing I saw. [00:02:35] Speaker A: It was. And I've never. And that was pretty rude. I was just trying to be friendly with you, man. I was just trying to be friends, and I've never forgiven this. And so this is my. This is my deep con. Like, everything I've ever done has been towards this moment. So fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. I ruined your life here, and we're gonna end. [00:02:55] Speaker B: It's the long con, and this is the way to do it. Dude, I really. I respect what you've done. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Thank you. 15 years of friendship all for this, folks. Here we are in group a, like Cody said, made a list of the 16 best breakfast items, sent that to our bracketologists. They kicked it back. We're gonna go over this in four different groups. Here we are in group until we get to our final four. And here we are in group A, where we're going to talk about the number one seed steak and eggs going up against the 16 seed cereal. And then we have the eight seed eggs benedict going up against the nine seed pastries. One thing to note about this bracket, just to be clear, is that you can assume everything is allowed to have a potato and meat side along with it. Just. Just want to get that out there. Unless it's. Unless it doesn't make sense. But, Cody, where do you want to start? What is right now out of this list? What do you want? [00:03:52] Speaker B: Let's start with steak and eggs and cereal. Nick, here's the thing. [00:03:55] Speaker A: The most number one seed that's maybe ever number one seeded in a bracket. [00:04:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, my God. They're there. But I know who I am when I'm eating cereal. I I don't come from much. Right? I'm a man of meager upbringing, and I've carved out this little kingdom for myself. And when I eat cereal, I belong here. I understand. Who the fuck do I think I am when I get steak and eggs? Dude, who fucking died and made me king, that I deserve steak and eggs? [00:04:26] Speaker A: This is why I can't order it. Cause I worry the waitress is gonna say that, oh, big spender over here. Oh, we got a celebrity in the house at a Denny's, where they are serving you steak that is essentially glued together pieces of meat that they're like. [00:04:43] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:04:43] Speaker A: It looks like a steak. Yeah, that's close. Enough. Like, these are never the. You couldn't go to, like, a nice, high end, quality Ruth Chris Steakhouse. And for breakfast they'll be like, yeah, we're serving, of course, steak and eggs. Like, no, we're not. We're not gonna use our great steak and pair it with just a side of scrambled eggs. The fuck is wrong with you? But, like, but if I go to a Denny's and I see it, I'm like, there's no way I could afford this. [00:05:09] Speaker B: But it's got this. Yeah, but it has this air about it. Like, steakhouse. Steak and eggs, man. It's like, it's the number one seed. And we're both like, okay, yeah, well done. Get the number one seeds. Has anyone ever fucking eaten it? [00:05:18] Speaker A: Yeah, right? Does anyone know anyone ever actually eaten it? [00:05:22] Speaker B: I've done steak and eggs. At one time. I remember getting steak and eggs. I was like, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna fucking. Guys, it's a big fucking piece of meat with an egg on it. I don't know what to tell you. Why have you put it on this pedestal? [00:05:33] Speaker A: I feel like it's stepdads or, like, it's like mom's boyfriends or the people who eat steak and eggs to, like, really show off. Like, no, I'm doing all right, you guys. No, why don't you, you know, why don't you bring your kids out and we'll do. We'll go to Denny's. I'm happy, and I'll pay. No, I'd love to. I'd love to meet your kids. And you go there, and then you're like, I don't know. I'll have a grand slam. And he's like, I'm gonna have the steak and eggs, please. Extra steak, extra eggs. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. [00:05:58] Speaker B: I'm doing all right. I'm banging your mom, and it's okay. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, you're just like, oh, oh. Is that not everyone else's example? Is everyone else, like, I didn't. That's not the situation. I would have maybe said, like, a trucker, like a nice long haul. [00:06:11] Speaker B: When you order steak and eggs, you're basically saying, hey, kid, you're gonna want me around for your second Christmas. You know? [00:06:16] Speaker A: Like, I deserve you a fat dog. You're gonna get that megazord this year, kid. If you. Hey, if you're not. If you're not addict to me in front of your mom, you gonna get that megazord, child. I promise you. [00:06:26] Speaker B: This. Hey, hey, bro. If you wing man and help me hit, I'm gonna hook you up, bro. I got steak and eggs money. I got steak and eggs money, dude. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Got that steak and eggs. My kids, you ain't never seen. Seen a Christmas like this before. Just gotta let it go down. Okay. [00:06:40] Speaker B: I got a lock in cereal, though. Steak and eggs, dude. I'm convinced. I've only had it once. And I think I was the only one that ever ordered it. Like, all these restaurants are just waiting for somebody that's not a divorced dad to do it. [00:06:52] Speaker A: I've only. The only time I've ever had it is at my house. Cause I've then been like, I've looked in my. Been like, oh, got some leftover steak from last night, I guess I'll whip up some eggs along the side of. And I will say it's tasty. Like steak. I get why. [00:07:09] Speaker B: I mean, I like steak, but, like, the last thing I want is an egg. With it, I don't need. What are we doing here? Same steak for dinner. [00:07:17] Speaker A: It is so clearly just a way to. Yeah. Like, flex for no reason. Breakfast. Didn't need a flex. And then steak and eggs was like, well, just in case. [00:07:27] Speaker B: Just in case. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Just a kid. Could you. Oh, my God. I just couldn't even imagine if I was sitting with, like, a group of friends. And it's like, we're all there for a brunch. Everyone's having a good time. Someone's like, yeah, um, okay, can I get a mimosa? And I'm gonna do the eggs, Benny. Thank you. That sounds so good. And then the next person's like, uh, yeah, black coffee, steak and eggs. I'd be like, what? [00:07:47] Speaker B: Which one of us are you? Try. Who are you trying to sleep with at this stage? [00:07:51] Speaker A: Whose mom are you trying to hook up with here? Now? I just stand about the table and I'm like, you're not fucking my mom, dude. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I grabbed his coffee and spilled his face. Leave Rhonda alone. I got your back, by the way. If I've ever had that take you. No, no. [00:08:06] Speaker A: Any of that. Anybody goes down quick like that. Okay. Yeah, no, I'm with you here. It's you. Steak and eggs is. Is a dream. It's a luxury. It's something that I, to this day, I can never aspire to. It's the same as. It's one of those things. You're like, I'll just never be able to afford that. The minibar at the hotel, we just grew up, so we just grew up poor enough that there's just things. Thank God my phone now has the Internet and I don't have to log into it like you did on, like, a flip phone where you're like, yep, I gotta burn this thing. I'm so sorry. I ruined my family's financial future. I accidentally clicked the Internet button on my cell phone, and now I've ruined. [00:08:43] Speaker B: Now none of us are going to call it. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I made a mistake. I'm so sorry. Yeah, no serial has to move on. We'll talk about it in the next round, where it will go up against either the eight seed eggs Benedict or the nine seed pastry. Cody, I have a question for you. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. [00:09:03] Speaker A: How good do you have to be as a chef that you can be a traitor to a new, inspiring country? And they're so like, yeah, I mean, that dude sucks. But he did make that sick egg. That sick egg dish. Homeboy did. Hey, man, the treason sucks. That. That sucks, man. We really thought he had our back, but, man, he had that sauce that he put on. I love that shit, dude. [00:09:27] Speaker B: We can call it. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:29] Speaker B: Benedict Arnold. And then the history books. There's, like, a little asterisk there. And when you go to the back and read it, it's like, dog did make fire breakfast, though. Like, everybody. He was sleeping with all the founding father moms. He was so easy for him. [00:09:42] Speaker A: If anyone dare tell you that this man. You can say a lot of bad things about Benedict Arnold, and most of them are true. But you will know yourself a liar if they tell you. He wasn't really great at breakfast, though. Like, he never really put together a good meal. That's a lie. This is one thing that man could. [00:09:57] Speaker B: Do between eggs Benedict and pastry. They do have one thing in common, right? And that is I do like them both for breakfast, but I almost never will make them at home at all. [00:10:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I know these are outside of the home. I don't even know. I don't. I still am sure I'm missing, like, five different tools to make eggs Benedict. I'm like, I must not have all the equipment to do this yet. I'm looking around like, I don't think I have it yet. I don't know. [00:10:22] Speaker B: I don't know what special equipment you need to make eggs Benedict, but I assume it's expensive. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Expensive. [00:10:27] Speaker B: And that it is NASA grade. [00:10:28] Speaker A: And I'd have to go to, like, France. Like, I have to first go to France. I do have to take, like, a culinary class. Like. Like, I don't have the time to whip up eggs Benedict at the house. Like, we're just gonna. We'll go out for eggs and same with pastry, right? Like you said, like, I don't have time to be folding all those layers of dough with a nice pad of butter, and I gotta fold that pat into it. No, I don't have time. [00:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah. I had family members ask if I'm ever gonna make croissants. And I'm like, I don't know, do you want to pay for me to quit my job? [00:10:57] Speaker A: Right. [00:10:57] Speaker B: A full time job, right? [00:10:59] Speaker A: Are you gonna pay for all me to go to cordon Bleu and learn the art, the dark arts of pastry making? [00:11:06] Speaker B: Because I. [00:11:07] Speaker A: This. And also, too, these are one of those things that, like, I feel like even if you. A lot of times, people want to say, like, oh, God, you just can't beat home cooking. You know that? You just can't be. I'd rather. I'd rather have it made in front, you know, at my house. I know what's going into it, and I don't have to worry about, you know, paying too much. Nah, man. You pay money for good eggs Benedict and a good pastry. Like. Cause you ain't good. You're not gonna both worth it. [00:11:31] Speaker B: No, they're a good eggs Benedict, dude. I will drive 45 minutes to a brunch spot just for an eggs Benny. Easy. [00:11:39] Speaker A: No, straight up. I. If I'm in San Diego, there's a place that does actually. Okay. Technically it is. It's like a. They do you steak, but instead of the ham. But they there eggs Benny. I will. Like, when I'm in town, people like, it's not that. Like, they're like, it's overall not. It's an okay place. But I'm like, no, that eggs Benny, for me, that's. That's where it's at. Like, I gotta have it. I got to. It's so good. But here's the thing. It's like, how many? I don't even want to say. In a year. In a five year period, Cody, in a five year period, how many eggs Benedict's are you having? [00:12:13] Speaker B: Five? [00:12:14] Speaker A: Like, is this one a year? Did you get rid of it? [00:12:16] Speaker B: I like a one a year guy. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Grinned through five of them, and you're like, oh, yeah, I haven't had them since. [00:12:21] Speaker B: That's the thing. Yeah. So I'm gonna say, like, when I want eggs Benedict, I will stop at nothing to get a good eggs Benedict. I found out where they are, but I don't I'm not gonna do it, like, a lot. It's not a craving that hits me a lot, but pastries. I'm down in these bad boys all the time. Sometimes, Katherine, take out your phone. Sometimes I'll sneak to bread Smith and get myself a little treat. You know, just little on the way. Just on the way. That's right next to one of my accounts. I gotta stop in and make sure everything's fresh. [00:12:49] Speaker A: Just see what popped out the up. Hey, what just came out? Yeah. Yeah. Two of those. Oh. For you and Katherine? [00:12:55] Speaker B: Sure. Yeah, yeah, sure. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:12:58] Speaker B: No, of course. [00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah, no, of course. Yeah, for sure. I don't. [00:13:01] Speaker B: I. This is obviously a joke. I don't have secret cinnamon roll treats without telling my wife. Why would I do that? [00:13:07] Speaker A: Why? What's wrong with your eye, Cody? You keep it. Just one eye just keeps split. Fluttering at me. Really big, though. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Having a stroke. [00:13:14] Speaker A: Oh, okay. That's what that is. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Don't worry about it. Just a stroke. So here's the problem, though. Do we put eggs Benedict? [00:13:21] Speaker A: What? [00:13:21] Speaker B: Oh, my God, Nick, I'm having a realization. Are eggs Benedict and steak and eggs both on the pillar for no reason. And we put them on these pedestals. These pedestals of wealth that we shouldn't have. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Like, it is. It is like if these left a menu, you would. It's funny. Cause it would leave a hole. Like, there's something about if I go to a diner and I don't see steak and eggs or, like, eggs Benedict. I don't trust this place. But I have no intention of ordering those items. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, no, I need to know that you're. That you. That you could make them and that you have the ingredients to do that. Cause that says something about maybe where you're getting your produce from, I guess, or something. I don't know. [00:13:59] Speaker B: It speaks to me as a person that you can do, that you value. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Yourself, maybe that you. That you aspire to a higher level. But I really do just want, like, you just toss on some french toast for me. Thank you so much. That'd be great. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Nick, I think I'm going to say this. Cause no one's ever said it to me. You're good enough for eggs Benedict and steak and eggs, my dude. [00:14:20] Speaker A: Cody, hold on. I. I want to. I want to take that in, but now I want you to hear it. So just now I need you to listen. Cody, you're good enough for steak and eggs or eggs Benedict if you want it. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Jesus Christ, man. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Feel that cry over here. I want you all. I want everyone to go into a mirror, and you go look in that mirror, and you tell yourself, I'm good enough for steak and eggs and eggs Benedict. If you're listening, it is at most $3 more. [00:14:49] Speaker B: Nick, shut up for a second. Hey. Hey, listener. You're good enough. [00:14:54] Speaker A: Good enough. [00:14:54] Speaker B: We're proud of you, and you deserve steak and eggs and eggs Benedict. [00:14:58] Speaker A: You worked really hard this week. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:59] Speaker A: And you're hungry. Okay. You're hungry. [00:15:02] Speaker B: So, so fucking ugly. [00:15:04] Speaker A: And, you know, it's going to feel really okay. That's okay. I do want to mention that because we. I feel strongly. I feel strongly about pastry. I think pastry supported me much more in my life, obviously. But what do we want? Is there anything to be said about the fullness factor? [00:15:20] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Right. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Here's my problem with pastry. I don't know what I'm supposed to, like, if there's pastry, do I take one? But one's not gonna fill me up. I can't take two. Like, if I order two croissants, the guy, the waiter's gonna be like, oh, you have someone coming. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Like, well, what am I gonna do? Different between the. Like, that's the thing, too, is it's always like. And if he. Even if we've done Cody, I think we've done this. There's a great patisserie in my. In my neighborhood or in my neighborhood. I think we had. I think we took you there. [00:15:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we did. We all got different stuff and cut it all. [00:15:52] Speaker A: We all loaded up on pastries, and so we're all like, everyone's getting a bite of everyone's, and we're all trying a bunch of them. At the end of the day, I'm not full. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Yeah, we went to an early lunch, if I recall. We dropped off the lives at me and you then went and ate. [00:16:06] Speaker A: So, like, right at the next. At the next spot we go to, like, hey, does this place have, like, food, though? Cause I could maybe. I could nibble on something if we maybe get a small plate of something or. Or I could just get a full plate for myself. Cause I'm fucking starving. [00:16:19] Speaker B: There's no mess around. You get eggs Benedict. That's a meal I. That I eat the eggs Benedict. I don't have to eat eggs Benedict and a pastry. I don't get two pastries. I don't have to get crazy with it. I just eat the food in front of me. [00:16:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I still. The problem is, is that this is. We are having the right conversation, but for the wrong champion. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, at the end of the day, pastry has been there. So, like, we've said croissants, but you could include in their strudels. You could include in their bear claws. You can include in there, like, little. The popovers. We are pastry. The world is open to you in this moment. And so many of those, while not being filling for me. And I. It's hard for me to say that that makes a complete breakfast. I am ecstatic. If I saw if, like, if that's what I saw, if I walk in and on a buffet line, there's just some little strudels that are like, hey, just grab a cup. Grab yourself one. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. [00:17:17] Speaker B: I understand what you're saying, and I'm going to disagree with you. And I'm locking in eggs Benedict because I thought of it this way. If I, like, I'm going. We're getting. Going to bed, right? And someone's like, hey, in the morning, don't worry. I got breakfast. We can go out. I got the spot for breakfast, right? It's my favorite. Blah, blah, blah. And then we get to a pastry place. I feel like I was lied to. [00:17:34] Speaker A: This is okay. [00:17:36] Speaker B: At some point, this is no longer. This is a breakfast food, but it doesn't feel like a breakfast. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Hey, coach, do you want to talk shit about the fun weekend I thought we had? So that's what you're. Oh, cool, man. [00:17:47] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:17:48] Speaker A: That's. [00:17:48] Speaker B: No. [00:17:48] Speaker A: Just say that out loud in front of everyone. Like, hey, if you take me to. As I just told everyone, that's what we did, you know? If you do that, go fuck yourself. [00:18:00] Speaker B: That lame ass time Nick was talking about, I fucking hated it. So here I am. [00:18:05] Speaker A: So for that, I'm definitely not going with pastry. Probably one of the worst days of my life. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Hated it. [00:18:12] Speaker A: And I've been to the funerals of my family members. Okay. [00:18:15] Speaker B: I buried my loved ones. I'm not kidding, Nick also. We fucking. We deserve it. [00:18:22] Speaker A: No, and I. And I needed to hear that, though. Like, I needed. I needed to hear that today of all days, this day, I needed that. So thank you. Well, we will settle this the only way we know how, with the american voting coin of 2004, as brought to you by random.org. we got John Kerry facing up, which means George Bush is on the other side. Low seed gets picked. That's going to be me with pastry. I got to go, man. This is tough because I'm like, John Kerry is a big. A Benedict boy. Yes, he's a little Benedict boy. And Bush. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Bushel down a half dozen donuts, easy. [00:18:57] Speaker A: Oh, these aren't donuts. Donuts are coming up. I want to be. Those are special. We say those are being saved. But. But, but he gets down. He gets down on. On a. On a strudel. Ooh. All right. A turnover, love. Turnover. All right, we're going to flip. [00:19:11] Speaker B: Can you turn it down? I turn over George Bush. [00:19:16] Speaker A: All right, pastry. Moving on into the next round where it's going to go up with cereal. Cereal is g dog. [00:19:26] Speaker B: We did, for the record, we did do a whole season on best cereal as well. Go listen to that. And we're not gonna. We don't talk about specific cereals. That's why we've already talked about it. [00:19:35] Speaker A: We've done this. And go check it out. Shout out, film fawn, as well. They were on that season. Talking about that with us. Gave us the list. And serial is like, that is your childhood best friend, isn't. You're right. Or not. It is. There's never been. It's one of the very few things in life I feel like I couldn't say no to. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Serial is the ultimate tracker of the economy for me. When I go to cereal aisle and I see the boxes are getting smaller and everything's $9 for a box, I just. How I know we used to be a proper country. [00:20:05] Speaker A: It's not fair that that one feels when you're, like. When people talk about, like, attacks on the poor. [00:20:10] Speaker B: That's it, man. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Charging cereal is egregious. You cannot. Okay, that's not. Okay, that's not fair. [00:20:18] Speaker B: I don't have anything left. All I have for my childhood is cereal. Okay? If I want to eat Reese's puffs, let me eat goddamn Reese's puffs. Puffs. [00:20:25] Speaker A: It's the one thing you give me. It's the one indulgence I should be allowed left when it's all said and done and you're taking it away from me. How dare you? [00:20:34] Speaker B: As a country, the 1% is doing this to us. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Well, this is. I mean, because they want to start the war. They want to start the poverty. [00:20:40] Speaker B: They do. You know, they're coming. And cereal. Cereal is the. Oh, this is the canary in the coal mine, people. You got to be watching cereal prices. [00:20:47] Speaker A: That's got to know about it, because this is how they're going to get us against each other. It's going to be. They. They want to start in cereal aisles. You know, just two poor people look, complaining about it and then all of a sudden they just fight. You know, it's just going to go down. And then from there, everyone thought it was going to be a race war. No, no, no, no. This, this starts over cereal, guys. This, this has everything to do about being poor has nothing to do with that. So it's tough, right? Like, I feel, I feel so strongly about cereal, but I, like, let's be very clear, I am never going to be at a restaurant and order cereal. [00:21:24] Speaker B: Absolutely not. Like if I'm at a hotel and they've got like, I'm not doing the cereal no matter what, I'm not doing cereal. [00:21:31] Speaker A: I'll do the, I'll do the whack ass pastries there over the cereal. You know what I'm saying? [00:21:36] Speaker B: They could fucked up though, cuz I'm over at my seat like cereal as an option at like a buffet or something. Like fuck that. I'm gonna get my money's worth. I'm gonna go get a big penny or something. But if I want to get my money's worth, I should be stealing the cereal. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I just gold that they're just leaving. [00:21:50] Speaker B: In loading my pockets with this thing. The only thing I'm investing in in the future is Lego and cereal. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Because only two things that go up at the rate of gold. The only things that appreciate the rate of gold. I'm telling you, I've been say, I've been saying this for years. Go back and listen to those episodes I've been talking. I've been on this tip for a minute. Here's where I think, what? [00:22:16] Speaker B: Well, here's the problem. Help me if I'm wrong, but both of these are not like the best breakfast thing, right? I'm not happy here. I'm not happy here. [00:22:25] Speaker A: See these choices with one I am and one I'm not. So cereal, I do consider still to be a full breakfast. Cause I do. I can get decently full off of like two good bowls. I think. At this point, though, cereal has transitioned now outside of breakfast and is more of like a snack and it's more likely to be dinner than it is breakfast. I'm like, I don't have time in the morning to eat a full bowl of cereal. Like that's gonna take forever. But I can pour a bowl of cereal and put on some YouTube. Yeah, I can do that in the evening. If I'm like looking around, I'm like, I'm not fucking cooking today. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Here's. I think my heart is going pastry. Because again, if I'm in the situation where I go to visit my friend and he's really shitty, and he takes me to a fucking pastry place, at least he took me like, he takes me to a cereal place. We got issue. [00:23:15] Speaker A: You don't think. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Step back. Step back. I need you to step back from that, because I want you to rethink what you just said. Because I. The math is right, but the formula is wrong. Here's what you're missing. Imagine if I took you. Cause you're talking about me. So let's be clear. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Imagine I'm like, hey, man, I got this new breakfast spot. It's going to be sick. And I take you to, essentially, the Willy Wonka of cereal. Cause if you're going to make a cereal bar, let's be clear. You can't just have, like, dusty ass hotel buffet looking motherfucker. This thing better be decked out, lined up tubes of all the cereals you could want. And you can go, you can mix up your cereals. They got all different types of milk. They got all different types of add inside. You could go nuts. You really. [00:24:06] Speaker B: I do not like this idea. No. [00:24:07] Speaker A: Why? I need you. [00:24:08] Speaker B: I need you to. As soon as I see the cereal in the tubes, they could guarantee that it was fresh that day. My brain will not allow it. This is all ten year old cereal. No one's ever used any of it. I can't. [00:24:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Okay. You have a thing about old stuff. You couldn't see it freshly poured. Yeah. You have this? [00:24:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Nope. As soon as you're like. And it's all you want. No. And also, I don't like to mix shit, so, like, oh, you could mix all these. I don't want. Just give me cinnamon toast crunch and leave me alone. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, that. That's fair. I hear you. I. I gotta go. Cereal has been too much of a homie for me not to ride for it. [00:24:43] Speaker B: I understand. I gotta lock in pastry. I think it's, uh. It's an elevated cereal experience. [00:24:50] Speaker A: It's an elevated cereal. Yeah. I believe that was the init when they made croissants. They were like, hey, you guys, we've elevated the serial experience. Please come over here. All right, well, we will settle this the only way we know how. Once again, with the american voting coin of 2004, George Bush is facing up. John Kerry's on the bottom, low seed. Still me with that 16 seed. I'm going. George Bush again. That's a serial boy, you can't tell me homeboy wasn't in, like, the war room just having a bowl of frosted, you know? [00:25:19] Speaker B: Dude, I don't know if you follow him on instagram, but he. Every time one of our new episodes comes out, he listens to it while on his porch. He drinks lemonade and has a bowl of cereal. It's pretty. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Did you see the flip? Because I flipped. Yep, that's my cereal. [00:25:32] Speaker B: Here we are. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Sorry, I shouldn't. I should have waited till you were done. I apologize. I was just so excited. [00:25:36] Speaker B: I get it. [00:25:37] Speaker A: The energy of the flip. And I was like, if I wait any longer, I'm going to give the energy. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Yep, you got it. [00:25:42] Speaker A: All right, cereal gonna move on into that final four, and that is it for us, folks. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about chaboys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend. Tell a friend, wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that, subscribe and give us those five stars wherever you can. [00:26:07] Speaker B: Absolutely false. On all of our social media, you can watch well, just like Bush does. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Just look up at friendly compote. If you don't have a 16 team tournament you'd like to see us do, email those two competition. Podcastmail.com. [00:26:20] Speaker A: As always, shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff? Head over to band camp. Type in Charizard. Replace the vowels with sixes. That's going to be it for us, folks. We got Group B coming out on Wednesday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey. [00:26:37] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See you on the boat.