[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to friendly competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lean, to 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 step foot on the boat, we put them into a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use when we decide to step foot on the boat?
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: Yes, I do. Are you a scared little baby out there in the streets, in the dark, cold streets? Do you have someone that you really care about? You need to get them a gift, but guess what? You don't fucking know what to get them. Because it's hard. It's hard. Capitalism got us out here feeling bad. Not, you got to get something super expensive. You got to get something hard and rare to find. No, we're going to help you. We're going to teach you what is the best gift to get that somebody.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: What is, I think especially as you get older, right? As we get older, getting gifts for people is so much harder.
I have a niece, dog. I could come up with 100 gifts for her off the rip right now and feel confident in giving it to her. Coming up with gifts, though, for your partner, your best friend, like a coworker, because you know you got to do that shit. I'm like, I don't, man. What do you get adults? And that's what we're here.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: What do you get adults who can take care of themselves, right? They don't need anything. Nobody needs anything anymore.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: But, yeah, like you said, capitalism got us out here being like, I got to get you something. How will you know that I truly love you? How will you know that I care about you if I'm not?
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Because I say it. Because I do say it. No. Right, exactly.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: I tell you all the time, I love you.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Not enough.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: Do you, though?
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Is it, in this economy?
[00:01:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Enough.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: No.
Come on, now. So here we are, folks. We're here in group A of the best gift to get for your adult friends, acquaintances, whatever.
We make our list of 16. We send it to our brachatologists. They send it back to us, and then we go through the four groups until we get to our final four. And here in group A, we have the number one seed, a good old sentimental gift going up against 16 seed, a homemade gift. And then we have the eight seed fancy candy going up against the nine seed trinkets. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:02:40] Speaker B: Sentimental versus homemade. Here's the thing with homemade gifts. Homemade gifts are great until you get to. Once you get to, like, 14. Right? Now, here's.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: You're saying the age of 14 or the amount of 14 homemade gifts the.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: Age of 14, you're no longer allowed to do homemade gifts unless you have a skill.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Right?
[00:02:59] Speaker B: I have friends who are very good artists who can crochet, who can knit, who can make things. They're allowed to do homemade gifts because their homemade gifts are good. Nick. Nick is not allowed to do homemade gifts because there'll be a ceramic bowl that he forgot to glaze and I don't want now, in other words, if you have good skills, homemade gifts are a great get out of jail free card. But if you don't, you're just giving people trash. And never give people trash.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: That is so true. I was thinking.
I'm right now looking at our good friend and listener, Teresa. Shout out, Teresa.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: She has a little store fantasy flair by Teresa.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: Go check it out. Go find that shit on Facebook. She's great. And the first time I met her, she makes these really great crochet. I don't want to call it a bobblehead, but that's the best word I have. And she made me a crocheted Dominic toretto. I love this thing. It sits on my Dominic Toretto shrine lego charger.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: It's a shrine to Dominic.
[00:03:55] Speaker A: My shrine. That's another way to phrase it. And it's great. But you're 100% right, Cody, because she can do that. She should out here this also, too, though, as the gift giver, because once again, my wife is also someone who is very talented, very creative, can make things, and has made me really great gifts. And it feels like it really comes from the heart. So then I feel like I got to show up with that, right? I can't just get her her favorite makeup kit. I can't get her a great set of makeup brushes because it's like, look, she poured her heart and soul into this. And I went to Sephora and dropped $25. But then I'm trying to make something homemade. And you're right. What I gave you was essentially garbage.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: It's just garbage, dude.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Just garbage. And as I'm making it, I'm like, this is garbage. Or it's me starting getting, like, a crochet kit. They make those wobble kits where it's like, the hard part is done for you making the initial ring. And so you can just learn to crochet. And then, like, I made you a bird. It's your favorite bird. And it's like, this don't look good. This ain't it.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: This kit is designed for babies to make crochet. You did a baby thing. And we're adults. That's the problem. We can't do homemade love gifts from our wallet. That doesn't work.
That's why you do what I do and you go to fantasy flair by Teresa and have her make homemade gifts for you from her art.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: Exactly. How does that work? Can we count? Does it then shift into sentimental? Right? Like, let's say I. Let's say I never met Teresa, which would be a shame because she's a wonderful person.
But let's say, cody, you go to Teresa and you say, hey, Teresa, my budy loves fast and the furious.
Could you please make it Dominic Toretto? And you give it to me. Is that now sentimental?
[00:05:48] Speaker B: That's cemental.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Okay, so we're saying that homemade.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Homemade.
From you by you. My wife can't make a homemade thing because she's also very talented. God damn these talented women.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Do you have one guy? Can you think of, like, one dude who makes something? It could be anything that you're like. That would be a gift.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Or, like, my friend Alex dabbles in everything. And I'm sure he could make us a homemade gift. That would be radical.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: He would come up with something weird. It'd be like a bottle opener. Electric bottle opener. That works in the weirdest way that you've ever seen. And it wouldn't look pretty, I don't think. But it would definitely be worthy of being on a table. Like, look, you got to see this shit.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: So he's the dad from honey, I shrunk the kids.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: He's the dad from honey, I shrunk the kids. Exactly.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Got all these weird inventions and shit that he's like, no, check this out, though. It opens a bottle, you're like, okay, let me watch. Yeah, I get you.
[00:06:40] Speaker B: I think we have to caveat the rest of the conversation with if you can do homemade, well, homemade is going to win this bracket no matter what. But we're talking for people who can't.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Well, we'll talk more about that because there is something to be said. And this isn't dunking on the gifts that I've gotten that were homemade.
All right. Like sentimental, right? So let's talk about sentimental then. Sentimental, you know, is that gift that you're giving to a friend or a partner, whoever that. Clearly, the value of the gift isn't as important as the memories of the gift. Right?
[00:07:10] Speaker B: Exactly. Like last year for Christmas, I got Nick a pin from Sonic and Mario at the Olympics from 2007 or eight, whatever.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Well, it had to be an Olympics, so 2008, right?
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Yeah, Olympics. And it was like, I bought it. It wasn't super expensive, and I gave it to Nick. And that seems like a weird gift, but the first night me and Nick hung out, we stayed up all night playing Mario and Sonic at the Olympics 2008. Right?
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
Hey, do you want to come over to my house and just kick it and. Sure, man. Of course. That was our first true hang all night all. We did sundown, sun up. Played Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. Record holders. By the way, you are talking to gold medalists.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: We hold every single world record, so I don't want to.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: On my game of Sonic. Ain't no one. Peach ain't winning shit. Bowser ain't got nothing. Tails, get the ain't. We are the gold medalists in that world. We are the truly. It's on my denim vest now. It will never come off. It is one of those things that you're just stuck there in awe of it, and that's great. It was a great gift. I love it. I treasure it. Here's the only problem I have with sentimental gift. You and I didn't agree we were getting sentimental gifts.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: You were.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Year. That same year, last year, I got Cody a shoe cleaning kit because I know he's been getting into the sneaker game. And I was like, you know, he. And he's a person I respect that wears those sneakers out. So you got to make sure that you keep them fresh.
I want to be clear. I don't think I gave you a bad gift, but the level at which even maybe, value wise, mine might have been more expensive, but we didn't talk about doing that. And so you just are stuck there giving a very decent gift and just being like, oh, so gift giving is a competition.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Exactly. You lost.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Oh, by a mile. I mean, it's like everyone else playing it. It's like all those other characters in Sonic and Mario. I'm them and you're us.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Just so far ahead in the 100 gold medals.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: Dude, just dripping.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Dude. I can't walk past a body of water because if I fall in, I'm going to drown. With all this gold around my neck.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: There'S no way I'm swimming out of there. And it's just me sitting there being like, I trained for a very long time I thought I was decent.
And yet you blew.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Okay, so sentimental is the problem with sentimental is it's a dangerous game. You could set the bar too high for yourself in the future and also make people feel bad in the moment. That's what we're trying to do.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: Right?
And I'll say my wife is also a great sentimental gift giver. And it makes every holiday a nightmare for me. And it's not that I don't think that I couldn't get to sentimental. I've given great sentimental gifts. Right. It's just that I myself am more of a practical gift giver. I'll say that I'm a big, like get you something that you could. I'd rather when you use this thing. I like the idea that you'll think of me. Right? Like anytime you got to get a little dust, little dirt off those Air Force ones, you go to your kit and you're like, man, I'm glad Nick got this from. Right.
My grandparents, for my wedding, bought me an incredibly nice german knife set. And every time I grab a knife out, I think about my grandma. And that's beautiful. I love that.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Every time you pull out a knife, you think about your grandma.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Every time I'm stabbing people, I'm thinking about grandma doing this for you. Grandma. And I did make sure she put her prints on that knife. And I always wear gloves when I cook. So whenever that knife gets.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Cook a lot of hot stuff. Cook a lot of hot things. I want to get it out of my hands.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Exactly. And so if that knife ever gets discovered and people want to figure it out, well, sorry, grandma. I'm also going to be thinking about you while you're in court in jail for all those bodies that you're so.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Old though, because they'll be lenient because you're so old.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: You're so old.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: Okay. How old would it someone have to be before you'd let them get away with murder? Like it's straight up.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: Okay, grandpa, that man. To be clear, I think what's important to say here. I want to. Just so that you and I are the same page. It's not that they killed them in their twenty s and now have been discovered.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: No, you killed that person.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: Current day grandma, 80 years old, just murked up some dude because they took her parking spot and she really needs to be close to the entryway guys. They won't give her disability, the disabled parking permit.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Her leg hurts.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: It hurts, dude. It's hard. And so then you swooped in took the spot that she had been sitting on waiting for. So then she comes up and murks you in the parking lot.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Yeah, she's 80. What do you get? You got also, woman in jail.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: You didn't fight back. I feel like that would be my. As the lawyer trying to talk.
Why didn't they fight back?
[00:12:05] Speaker B: Why didn't you WHOOP that grandma? Dude, if an eight year old grandma comes up with me and tries to murk me in a parking lot, I'm going to beat that ass.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: Right? They start walking up to me with their knife shaking in their arthritis ridden hand.
Nah, dog, I'm a WHOOP your ass. Grandma. You changed the paradigm. Now I can fight you. You've now made it okay for me to punch you. Unless that was the setup the whole time. And now I'm going to jail. My grandma's cunning. Y'all be on the lookout for my grandma. She might be out here.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: I haven't checked in on her in a minute. She could be anywhere in the continental United States. Trying to get lucky in homemade gifts, dude. Because I think sentimental is a dangerous path to walk under normal gift giving circumstance.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree.
What I think needs to happen is whoever you're giving gifts with make an agreement that every third year, we're going to go sentimental. Exactly. So that way, when we both go sentimental, at least the competition is even. And then it's more about, like, who got the deeper, who does.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Nick has to make this a competition.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: I don't mean to, but am. That is what happens, okay? Gift giving is a competition. Don't ever let anyone tell you it isn't. It is. Otherwise, you wouldn't be disappointed. If gift giving was just a thing we did, then there would be no disappointment. But because it's a competition, you lose. So you're disappointed.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: And no one likes losers.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: No one. And that's my wife. When we went upstairs that night, just, like, looked at me with disgust. Think about what Cody got you. You got him a fucking shoe cleaning.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Heard. I heard you crying. I didn't know why, but.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: It was a hard night. It was a hard night because she's like, you're not the man I thought I married. Look what Cody's out here doing. And you thought, shoe cleaning kit. That's what you thought?
[00:13:55] Speaker B: I do like that kit, though. It does help a lot. What's it got?
[00:13:58] Speaker A: I thought it was great, but you can't beat, like, hey, you remember the first time we ever hung out? Like, one of those moments that forever will solidify and it's like, yeah, man. I'll never forget that, ever. That will go down in my mind as, like, one of my all time.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Now you won't, bitch, because I got you.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Of course you won't, because now you got a physical memory of it, you motherfucker.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: All right, we got fancy candy, eight seed going up against a nine seed trinket. This is incredibly difficult because I'm a fan of trinkets. I like to have things to diddle van, and a trinket is anything you don't need. I, for example, on my desk, have a giant D 20 made out of steel that weighs, like, three pounds. Don't need that. That's a trinket. I've got Mario stuffed plush. Don't need that. That's a trinket.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: Those are trinkets. I would say another good measure of this. Any funko pop, that's a trinket.
Anything that you discover on a list from, like, a Buzzfeed, the New York Times, any of those lists that are just like, what do you get the person who works from home every day? Those are trinkets. For the most part, those are trinkets. It's something that the person, you know, would likely not have, but it's because they didn't want to buy it. Sometimes. This is good. There are good trinkets. There are shitty trinkets, but it is something that is completely unnecessary. Their life will not be impacted, really, at all if you get them a cup warmer that keeps their coffee warm. Cool thing to get great plugs into USB. But they're like, oh, okay. I mean, I usually just drink my coffee right away. Although Cody.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Okay. Holy.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Oh, I got to write that down. I got to write that down for Cody because he is Mr. My coffee gets too cold. I don't have the perfect temp. Maybe if I get you that warmer, you can have perfect coffee all the time. I'm going to write that down.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Write that down. I'll talk while you write that down. So the issue I have with trinkets is you are taking a wild swing on a trinket. So if it hits, it hits, and it's great. I have gotten so many cool trinkets that I love that have adorned my desk. They're all gifts, right? But if you don't do good with the trinket, you've essentially given me garbage that. Now, not only have you given me garbage that I don't need, you've given me garbage that in some way I have to display. I was just saying, welcome to my office. Look at this trash, right?
[00:16:19] Speaker A: And honestly, I wish you would have given me then at some point, you need to also buy me a shelf so I can put all of.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: All the trash on one shelf.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: On one shelf. Because that's where it goes. Because I'm not going to use it.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: What if you get it wrong, too? So people know me, and they know I'm into stuff, right? I'm into wrestling. I really like super Mario, that kind of thing. But what if you're like, oh, he's into games. He's really into games. Maybe he'll like this. And you get me some sort of, like, elden ring character, right? I fucking hate elden ring. So now I've got this Elden ring character, and it's completely off brand. What am I going to do with this? Now? Someone's going to come in here, I'm doing an important business meeting in my office, which happens all the time. People are going to be like, oh, you're an elder ring. They're going to start talking to me. They're going to try to form a connection. Now I can pretend.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's a tricky thing now. Fancy candy. So my mom worked with this woman, and every year, this woman, while I was in high school, gave me, like, a 24 pack of Ferrero Rochers. And I'm telling you right now, I was like, that is one of those candies that you are like, I didn't know she was a billionaire. 24 of them for me, poor people.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Don'T get Ferrero Roche.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: It's wrapped in gold, folks. And I know it's not actual gold leaf, but I'm pretty poor. I don't know this. We don't get Ferrero Roche.
Even when it would be on, because I worked at target and there would be the know in the checkout lane. There's know. And you got your poor people ones like your Reese's and your Hershey's. Those at the time, like, a dollar, a three pack of three little Ferrero shades was still, like, $3. It came in a plastic container. It was really well done. So I was like, well, I'm never going to get those.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: And then in this economy, she gets you 24 of them. Marry her, Nick. Marry that woman.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: I tried.
She was well into her seventy s at that. Even better, dude.
[00:18:14] Speaker B: Now you just got to wait that shit out.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: Obviously, she's loaded, so, yeah, I should have.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: And she's into you.
No one drops $14 million on Ferreira Roche.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: They're not into somebody for their friend's 16 year old child. If they're not trying to be like, hey, at some point, that is my man. Maybe my mom was, like, setting me up. It's like, all right, keep adorning him with gifts. And upon his 18th, once the sun rises on his 18th birthday, he is yours.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Dude, you should have fucking did it. That's the thing I'm saying. Fancy candy always hits. I love getting candy from different countries, all that stuff. That's great.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: I'm going to eat it.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: I'm going to mutch it. It's going to be good. That's like playing t ball when you go for the trinket. You could hit a home run. You could change someone's life. You could give me something that'll always be on my desk, and I'll look at every day and think about you every day, or you give me something that's going to make me look like a fucking idiot, and you're the reason I lose the big merger.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Right? And it's one of the trinket.
It either feels like you really know them or you just, once again, were listening to a podcast. I was like, go to uncommon goods. And you just looked like, oh, that's interesting. Or you were on someone's etsy shop and you're like, I'll just get that. Yes, I'll just go get that.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Etsy stuff's all trinkets. And the only time you can be guaranteed it's a banger is if you go to fantasy flare by Teresa on Etsy. Other than that, you're rolling the dice every time.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: Every time. And, yeah, you're just, nick, Nick, 1.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Second aside, fancy candy, I think. Wait, we'll get to that. How much are we going to charge Teresa for this episode?
[00:19:42] Speaker A: I think we do a shark tank deal where we get, I'm thinking we go like 5% of all future products in perpetuity.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:50] Speaker A: And then if she doesn't agree, because she doesn't know we're doing this right now, she is not aware.
[00:19:55] Speaker B: She has no idea.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: We'll call her up after this. Say, hey, we want to let you know we really put in an effort to kind of promote you. We really did.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: Fucking canvas. Yeah.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: And you didn't ask us to do that. And that might be the gift in of itself, but really what we're trying to say here is if you don't agree to a 5% perpetuity cut for each of us. So 10%?
[00:20:14] Speaker B: 10% total.
[00:20:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it'll be a massive bleep over every time we say the name.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: We'll take it off the back end, too, so she can do it after taxes. Like, we won't double.
[00:20:24] Speaker A: Of course. No, we're friends here. We're all friends here.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Okay, good. Yeah, I'll text her. I'll write the contract up right now. So what I'm going to say is, my vote is fancy candy moves on to the next round. It's always effective. It's always good. No one's getting mad about it, but if you're personally buying me a present, roll the dice on trinkets all the time. I know I went hard on it, but I love shitty trinkets that are off brand. Dude, are you kidding me? If I had something on my desk, if someone came in and I had a giant sailor moon poster and they were like, oh, you're into Sailor Moon? I'd be like, no.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: That person knew. I do watch some anime and we're like, sailor Moon's big, right?
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know what? I love that.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: I will say that same. The Christmas we've already told you all about, where I got in the shoe, clean kidney, got me the pin. We both were like, if I hadn't thought of this, you were getting a tech deck.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: We did say that.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: And both at the same time. It's like, yeah, I didn't know. I was just kind of thinking I might get you. And we both just said tech deck, and we were.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Good.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: So once again, that could hit. If I had a tech deck, right, that's all I'd be doing. I'd just be doing, like, Ollie's with my tech deck, but also for trinkets for me. If you're listening to this and you're thinking, like, what kind of trinkets does Nick? What Nick doesn't need is more like fidget stuff. I get it. I have ADHD. Thank you all for caring genuinely about that. Family, friends, all that. I do not need any more fidgety hand stuff. I'm good. We're fine.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: Actually.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: It ended up being poker chips. You all fucked up bad. It was poker chips that I got when I was 16. Those have been my best fidgets. But thank you all.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: So I'm not getting fancy candy.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: I'm with you here. I think fancy candy, I'm down for mooming it on. But I agree with you, Cody, that this is as far as the bar goes. The bar for fancy candy is so.
And I don't want to say thoughtless, but that woman, very sweet.
I think. I think it's fine to say that.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Your previous wife or your lost.
Yeah. Yeah.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: My one true Colleen. And so she would get, like, she didn't know I liked Ferrero Roche. She didn't know that at all the first time my mom came home and brought it to me.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: In her defense, you also didn't know you liked Ferreira Roche because you've never experienced. True. Well, 100%.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: 100%. So that turned out very well. Right. But for me, another type of fancy candy that gets brought out a lot is, like, a very nice, decadent dark chocolate with salt from the dead sea sprinkled on top. If you got me that awful, throw it away. I hate dark chocolate. I hate dark chocolate. The darker, the worse. I know there are some people who want, like, a 90% cacao, and I'm like, disgusting.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Here. I get what you're saying, but this is why fancy candy, especially for me, works so great. You can always get me fancy candy, because if you get me that dirty dark chocolate stuff that I don't like either, I'm right there with you on that. My wife is a fucking fiend for this nasty stuff.
So you're going to take the regift it to your wife or just give it to your wife? Hell, no. I'm going to trade. We have a very elaborate economy set up in this house, and if she wants that dirty dark chocolate, she knows she's got to earn it. She knows. Yeah.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: Hanging out at Cody's house is a lot like going into a market in the 15 hundreds. It's a lot of bartering for goods and services. It's a lot of like, hey, Cody, can I have a beer? And he's like, yeah. Can you do the dishes?
Yeah, I guess I could do.
I felt like I could just had a beer, but I guess I'll do that for you if that's how I earn my beer.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Put a dollar in the.
[00:24:13] Speaker A: It's like. Or do you have a beer yourself that you could put in the fridge then to replace the beer? You're like, no, that's not why. Just do the dishes, Cody. One time, Cody came home, and I got there before him, and he just saw me, like, sweep. I was sweeping up. I'd already dusted the whole house. And then he looked at me, and he was like, you can have yourself six beers, my good sir. And I was like, I felt like, this is eight beers, if I'm being honest.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Now he's being mean to me. I looked at him, and I said, we getting drunk tonight, boy.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah. But then I got to six beers and you started looking around like, did you dust that well?
[00:24:46] Speaker B: So I think fancy candy's floor is.
You can't go wrong with fancy candy. Well, that's what got it here.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: Here's what I like that you did bring in. Do what about the regiftability of a gift, because that's the thing, right? Homemade has no regiftability.
[00:25:04] Speaker B: Yes. Unless you get something so well made, all fantasy floor by Teresa, then you can't. But you wouldn't want to because it's so good.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: But then, once again, now, that gift, when you regift, it has to be almost on that sentimental tip, though, right? You got to be giving it to the right person.
We actually have in our house because of certain gifts we get from various family members. We have a box of just gifts we did not want. This is mostly a box of trinkets, as you can imagine. But it's one of those things where then we're like, oh, you have like a white elephant at work. Go to the box, right?
[00:25:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: Oh, hey, it's so and so's birthday. We'll check the box, see if there's anything in there. Right?
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: Homemade. That's a big swing. If I'm handing you something that was homemade for me, probably has my name on it. I'm just trying to scratch it off with a knife, get my name off there. They'll never know. They'll never know it was for me.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah. I think I got to lock in fancy candy. I think it's such a low barrier of entry. It always seems thoughtful, like, oh, you got me something that's half the battle. And homemade, I don't have any skills. If you have skills, like I said before, this is the automatic champion of the bracket. But for normies like us, people on the streets every day, we don't have that. We don't have that dog in us, dude. That dog in me is marma. It trips around and eats pie. I don't have a talented dog and.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: I have sandler, and you know how that goes. So he ain't, here's my biggest problem with fancy candy, and I do think I'm still probably going to have to go with it because I just truly cannot, I can't be the guy who's calling to get homemade gifts for people because it ain't going to be me. They ain't going to be homemade from me. My biggest problem with fancy candy, though, and maybe we'll just talk about it in the final four is like, I did have that Christmas where my dad. That was like, most of Christmas was just candy, right? And you're just like. So we didn't try.
There can be some thoughtfulness, right. But it almost feels like you stumbled into the thoughtfulness. Right.
If you got them that dark chocolate with that sea salt, and they're like, oh, my God. How did you know? I've been to Israel. That's amazing. Thank you. I've been in the dead Sea. This is so great. You're like, yup. Uh huh. That's what's up. I did know that. I did know that.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: If you're lucky in fancy candy, I think we'd lock it in. And we will address this in the final four because it has weaknesses. It has a lot of weaknesses. I think it's always available on the team. It's always got a spot on the roster.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Well, and it's one of those things, too, where, especially if we talk about going to find it, right. This is one of those things, like, all you got to do is just get into target, get into your local target, get into your local high v.
[00:27:48] Speaker B: Even some of the better gas stations. Right?
[00:27:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And just go find that really nice. Can I say, though, Cody, what is the amount, though? Right? What do you think is because you have to make it a gift, right? I'm saying, if that woman only gave me that little pack of three Ferrera Rochers, what are we doing here?
[00:28:08] Speaker B: You know she doesn't want to marry you, right?
[00:28:10] Speaker A: Exactly. I don't feel any desire to be betrothed to this woman. 24, though. Damn. We hit the number.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Exactly. I think that's what our research. We're going to have to figure out what that is.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: All right, we'll get in there. We'll get in those shops, and we'll see, like, okay, does this feel like enough of the candy? Because at some point, too, you're mean. I like sweets, but I'm like, damn, you trying to. I'm going to eat all this unless it is a bot. My wife gets me this for me, so, I mean, anyone else can get it for me because I will eat them all day because we found them in Ireland. Horribo makes these strawberry candies, and they're, like, flat. It is the perfect texture for gummies. Every single time that shit bangs so hard so that I would forever get. You could get those for me forever, and I'll never get sick of them. All right, fancy candy. You're moving on to the final four, and that is it for us. Folks, thanks so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about your boys, 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, please.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: Absolutely. Follow us on all of our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Just go at friendlycompod. If you have an idea for a whole 16 team tournament you'd like to see, well, you can email us to us at
[email protected], and if you don't know what to get someone for Christmas, you can go to fantasy four by Teresa. She has an etsy shop. I think she has a normal Facebook store. You can go there and get so much good stuff.
[00:29:33] Speaker A: Get that. Get that from her. Her use promo code. I'm just kidding. I don't even know. I would hate to do that to her. Hey, everyone just keeps saying that the promo code you guys gave out doesn't work and I didn't approve that.
[00:29:44] Speaker B: Use promo code. BfFs.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Yeah, there it is.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: Best forever.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Bfcp.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: Bffcp. There it is.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: I'll talk 100% off your order.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: No, we'll figure something out. T bird will hook us up.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff? Head over to bandcamp. Type in Charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. We got a new episode coming out on Wednesday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See you on the boat.
