Group A Funny Phobias

[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast discovered the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my coast and best friend, Cody Lena. 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 he gets a foot on the boat, we put him 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 steps foot on the boat? [00:00:40] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season? [00:00:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. A season so nice. We're doing it twice, baby. We are doing phobias part two. Electric boogaloo. Make it rain. Make it storm. These are the fears, though, that. [00:00:59] Speaker A: I think if I know us, Cody, I know that this is actually going to turn the other way and these will be the fears that we're. No, no. Each one of these totally normal. If you have this, you are right. And please understand that you are in the right. Everyone around you doesn't deal with, this is bad and you are true. You are pure. [00:01:18] Speaker B: Same thing. I thought the energy we would come into this, we're going to look at it and be like, this doesn't make any sense. So maybe we're wrong. We have to figure out. We got to figure out why this is a legit fear. What do you know that we don't know? [00:01:31] Speaker A: There's no way. We can't talk ourselves into this. There's no world. [00:01:35] Speaker B: So welcome to competition. You're going to be leaving this season, this one here with a bunch of brand new problems. Call some betterhelp therapists because you're going to need them this season. [00:01:46] Speaker A: Sponsored by Betterhelp. Actually our first ever sponsorship deal. And Betterhelp asked us specifically. They heard the phobia season. They're like, get those boys on the horn. Hey, big guys. Why don't you guys do phobias again? And remember how you were joking about how you do another one? But it'd be the weird, silly. Yeah, yeah. Follow that thread. Take it all the way, though. [00:02:07] Speaker B: Pull it. Pull in that thread and see what. Dude, I'm not lying. I did a little preliminary research for this one and I've already gotten calls from NASA and from the FDA asking me to stop my research. [00:02:19] Speaker A: You've gone too far. [00:02:21] Speaker B: I've gone too far. We're onto something. Yeah. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Oh, there's no doubt. And here we are, folks. We're in group A of what I guess we'll call silly phobias. Weird phobias and we have the number one seed, chorophobia, the fear of dancing, going up against the 16 seed lacanophobia, the fear of vegetables. On the other side here we have the eight seed pogonophobia, the fear of beards. And we have the nine seed paternal phobia, the fear of feathers. Cody, where do you want to start? [00:02:54] Speaker B: Let's start with the fear of dancing and the fear of, what can we say? [00:03:00] Speaker A: Fear of vegetables is the most like, so a kid lied and got all the way, right. [00:03:05] Speaker B: They went all the way to the top. [00:03:07] Speaker A: The most charismatic child was like, hey, I can't have, like, that kid just learned about arachnophobia that day, right? And they were like, okay, so we can have fears of things, right? So the mom brings out, has some peas and carrots, and he's just like, I'm afraid of that. Actually. I don't like it. And they're like, you're not afraid of it, Johnny, you have to. He's like, I'm afraid of it. Throws a fit and then goes, sees a psychologist. That psychologist, brand new to the game, fortunately enough for the kid. He's like, the guy's like, fresh out of college. So he sees this kid, he's like. [00:03:40] Speaker B: This is my ticket, dude. [00:03:41] Speaker A: This is exactly. [00:03:43] Speaker B: I'm about to blow this wide open. Yeah. [00:03:45] Speaker A: It's a confluence of events where opportunity. [00:03:49] Speaker B: I think you're half right. I think everything happened the way you described it until he sat down with the therapist as soon as the parents left the room. He's like, I'm going to get down to the bottom of this. The therapist, it's just the kid and therapist. The kid's like, I'm really scared. He's a cut the bullshit, kid. I know you're not scared of vegetables. Phobias. We made phobias up to sell things, and you're my meal ticket. So we're ride or die on the rest of this. Okay? I know it's bullshit, and you know it's bullshit, but nobody else that does not leave this room. [00:04:15] Speaker A: And you're going to live this one out. [00:04:17] Speaker B: You're going to live this one out. I've met some adults who, their eating habits would lead me to believe they are afraid of vegetable. [00:04:24] Speaker A: At some point, you're like, it'd make more sense. And I would feel better watching the way you eat if I knew that there was some underlying issue why you won't have. It's when someone, and I understand, like, when you're a kid, this makes sense because they're stinky, and they make you cry. But, like, onions, as an adult, I'm sorry. Especially if they're cooked. If it's cooked onions in something, I won't hear you. I will not listen to you. You're wrong. There's no problem. You will be able to eat it. You will not choke. You will not die. I'll give you raw onion can be powerful, and that can be a taste thing. So I'll hand that one to you especially. And I would even toss this to most vegetables. Dude, cooked vegetables in a stew, in a chili, in something. No, we're not listening to this anymore. [00:05:15] Speaker B: Absolutely no. And if you say that I have people I respect and admire, and if they're like, I don't do onions, gone. It's all gone. You could build up a legacy, a lifetime of respect from me. You could be the smartest, most handsome, most charismatic. I could aspire to be you. I could live my whole life following your footsteps. And if you're like, no, I'm not a big vegetable guy, like, oh, vegetables are gross. [00:05:39] Speaker A: I lose all of it on. They're just needed. Also, and let me be clear. I want to make a distinction here, because if you tell me, oh, is there onions in that? And I'm like, yeah, I always make my chili with onions. Okay, no worries. It's not my favorite, but it's totally fine. And you eat it, we're good. But if you go, hey, are there onions in that? And then I'm like, yeah. You go, ucky, no, I can't. And you push it away like a petulant child. I can't eat, Nick. [00:06:07] Speaker B: No, no, Nick, I think we're looking at this wrong. You're absolutely right. But what if they go, are there onions in that? And you go, oh, yeah. And they go, oh. And then they run. I might still have respect for you. I might be like, what? [00:06:22] Speaker A: This is the question, okay? Fear of vegetables. [00:06:24] Speaker B: We're looking at this as a spoiled kid who doesn't like onions. Stop. We got to get out of that mindset. [00:06:30] Speaker A: We got a legitimate fear. Real fear. Obviously real. Okay, so is this the same. Is this the same as if I take you, blindfold you, and then drop you off in a farmer's market? Is this the same as me putting a claustrophobic person in a coffin? Because I know I should believe it's like, yes, these are both dangerous situations for them, but I'm having troubles. I got to be honest. I'm having trouble seeing one as legitimate. [00:06:59] Speaker B: And the other one is like, I think if there's any sort of fear that'll make you sweat and make you freak out while you're watching veggie tales, you're not a strong person. Okay, start there. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Let's go back. I don't even think it was vegetables that little Johnny didn't want to deal with. I think it might have been veggie tales. He's like, this is trash. There's so many good cartoons, Mom. I get it. We're Christians. But there's got to be some middle ground between the satanicness of SpongeBob squarepants and the holiness of veggie tales. Where's Bugs Bunny at? He seems to have been cleared by the. [00:07:38] Speaker B: Nah, dude. He dresses in women's clothing. He's way on the satanic. [00:07:42] Speaker A: You're right. Dang it. All right, so maybe it is. [00:07:44] Speaker B: Here's the thing. Once you animate something, it becomes sin. [00:07:48] Speaker A: It's fair. I mean, it's true. It's what we know to be true. Because the Lord, he didn't draw. Look at the whole Bible. This is real. [00:07:56] Speaker B: There's no drawings in there. [00:07:57] Speaker A: There's no drawings in the entire Bible. And Jesus never drew anything. [00:08:01] Speaker B: Never once. [00:08:02] Speaker A: He never once he was a carpenter. [00:08:04] Speaker B: He made sure he didn't even measure stuff on the wood. One shot. [00:08:07] Speaker A: That's how he was perfect. He's like, oh, well, I'm never going to draw because that's the Satan's work. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Idle hands do art, and art is Satan's. Basically, if you do art, you are jerking off Satan. Yep. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Actively, actively, actively in love with so. And that means veggie tails too, by the way. That's the thing. They made veggie tails. Veggie tails was a trick on Christians to get children into Satan. And a lot of you fell for it, like your kids now, who? For all of you hardcore conservative parents who are wondering where you went wrong with your child and why they don't want to come to Thanksgiving and Christmas and spend holidays with you. It's not because you were so hardcore on them. And no matter what, everything they did was wrong in the eyes of God. It's your fault. Veggie tales is an animation. And as you know, you knew it in your heart too, didn't you? When you really think back on it. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Every time you saw that cucumber, you're like, that's pretty phallic, isn't it? [00:09:03] Speaker A: That's weird. Oh, it's weird that it's a tomato and a cucumber. When put side by side, what would their profile look like from the. Oh. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Huh? [00:09:13] Speaker A: Think about it. It's your fault, okay? It is your fault. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Imagine that we haven't even talked about the fear of dance, Nick. The fear of something so joyful. When I see dance, I have a lot of, like. That's inspiring. That's beautiful. Jealousy. A lot of the times, I'm not a very good dancer, when I see people with those moves, I feel a lot of things. I've never seen someone fucking moonwalk and got scared. [00:09:39] Speaker A: I could see, okay, but imagine if someone did the moonwalk and you weren't aware the moonwalk was about to occur the first time. Because that's the thing we try to look in a little bit, like, how does this fear even exist? And a lot of times it has to come from something traumatic happened right around this issue. So imagine you just got your ass whooped, right? Beat down. And then the dude who whooped that ass just moonwalked away from you, back into the crowd. You couldn't watch the moonwalk again. [00:10:13] Speaker B: What if you. Okay, what if you went to school in the bad neighborhood where everyone was practicing capawera, the deadly, sexy style of fight dancing? Yeah. Every time you went to school, you just got fucking. They just stepped up to you every time and just beat your ass with their fancy dance moves. And then Brazil took your lunch money. Brazil's tough, baby. [00:10:35] Speaker A: The streets of Brazil are hard, dude. Wouldn't that be wild? If this is something where we're obviously thinking with a very western, american centric thought on these. But you are right if one of your primary combat systems is a loosely based around dance. [00:10:52] Speaker B: Oh, what if your parents are really into musical theater, right? So you grew up watching this stuff, and one of the first core memories you have is watching the sharks and the jets have a dance battle at each other and everyone dies. Obviously. I don't remember the whole play, but I'm pretty sure everyone does die. [00:11:10] Speaker A: It's one of the most graphic. It was one of the most graphic depictions on stage in theater of all time. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Remember, they went to court because people thought they were actually killing actors early. [00:11:21] Speaker A: It was very early. Yeah. [00:11:23] Speaker B: So you watch that because your parents are really into musical theater. So the shark's just coming at it. So now anytime you see someone start to dance, you're like, oh, wow. Shit. Yeah. This is how it. [00:11:33] Speaker A: The. If your only experience with dance was west side Story, and then you got. And then you went to your middle school dance, and we're like, no. [00:11:41] Speaker B: What are you all doing. [00:11:42] Speaker A: I didn't know this was a death march. [00:11:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Your only experience with dance is a very graphic west side story. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Okay. Why would you let your kid watch that version? Okay. I think I'm going with the fear of vegetables seems more legitimate to me. [00:11:57] Speaker A: A lot of vegetables in the world. So I can see what I'm struggling with with vegetables is, I don't understand. Where does the fear set in? Right. Is it the physical look like you couldn't look at vegetables without going into cardiac arrest? Is it that you can't eat vegetables because the taste is yucky or whatever? Dance. There's something about watching someone be so free that I could see as being almost possession. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Right. That's what it is. That's why they're scared of losing themselves to the rhythm, right? [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yes, in a way. So I think that to me, I can watch some dance and be like, wow, this person's so taken by it that the only explanation is Satan. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:46] Speaker A: Especially when you're a white like us, where we would love to move so freely. We wish that these joints were as well lubricated and could just do body rolls. And I'm watching Usher's halftime performance being like, God, look at this guy. He's crushing it. Everything he does is like water. I look like a connects character trying to individually move each part. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he's just Adonis. I totally understand. What are you walking into? [00:13:13] Speaker A: I'm going to go dance. I'm going dance. [00:13:15] Speaker B: What vegetables? We have to settle this. [00:13:16] Speaker A: All right. You are okay with. [00:13:17] Speaker B: The american moticone of 2004 is brought to you by random.org. Low seed gets to call it. That's me with the 16 seed. Nick, we got bush, baby. Okay. Facing up. Okay. I'm going to go with John Carrey because I think George Bush would embrace the dance. I think he grew up in the footloose town. [00:13:37] Speaker A: I think George Bush can dance, actually. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:38] Speaker A: I think he's like. I think when the party's breaking down and people are getting to a circle, he taps in and he does the same five moves he's always done. But it's like John Cena where, like. But when it goes, you're like, I'm not mad about it. [00:13:53] Speaker B: He only does it once or twice a year, so it's just enough time that you forget about it. [00:13:57] Speaker A: All right, George Bush. George Bush, moving on. [00:14:00] Speaker B: So that means you have dance wins. God damn it. [00:14:02] Speaker A: All right, next up, we've got pogonophobia, the fear of beards going up against paternophobia. The fear of feathers. So something kind of bristly, tickly, coming off of a body, and you don't want it anywhere near yours. [00:14:21] Speaker B: This is a sex thing, Nick. What? Okay, let's be clear. [00:14:26] Speaker A: This is a sex thing. There is nothing here. Some people are like, well, maybe you were hurt or physically assaulted by someone with a beard. That's. [00:14:39] Speaker B: No. [00:14:39] Speaker A: Now let's move that one out the door. Maybe you were attacked by birds. Have been. We're going to move that out the way. No, this is a sex thing. And this is what? To be fair, I would say I have pocketophobia. I'm like, I don't want a beard on me. [00:14:54] Speaker B: You have a beard. [00:14:55] Speaker A: If I was in the middle of sex and a beard got on me that wasn't my own beard, I would freak the fuck out. [00:15:02] Speaker B: I understand, Nick. I'm trying to figure it out. I got a lot of things on. [00:15:04] Speaker A: My mind right now, and one of. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Them is, is the fear of feathers. Are you afraid of birds or birds? [00:15:10] Speaker A: Fine, right? Because this thing is technically covered in your. Do you. [00:15:19] Speaker B: I assume birds have got to be, like, the messengers of death. Like, death incarnate themselves. These bird winged assassins. Is that why you're afraid of feathers? Because it's like they're hunting you? Hey. [00:15:29] Speaker A: I mean, mate. And it's like a calling card. Like the bird leaves a little feather behind to be like, hey, now I'm coming for that ass, dude. [00:15:38] Speaker B: I get it. Because if I'm already afraid of birds, right, I don't find feathers very often, but sometimes I do. And if I had an innate fear of birds and I found a feather, I'd look around, be like, oh, shit. [00:15:48] Speaker A: I don't want to completely kill this one, but I think I figured out where it comes from right away. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Okay, do it. [00:15:53] Speaker A: So we used to have a bunch of down, right? I mean, we still do. People make things out of down, right? So feathers, back in the day, the only way to do that is you had to kill that animal. It's never easy. It never goes, well, so violently. And then you had to boil it alive, or not alive, but boil it to. Then take the feathers off to loosen them up to make down product. I have to imagine that your brain just transposed, like, hey, this incredibly violent act is all for these feathers. I don't like this at all. And I don't like these feathers anymore. [00:16:30] Speaker B: Okay, well, there was nothing there. [00:16:32] Speaker A: All right, so you were like, yes. [00:16:33] Speaker B: That'S probably what it was. Probably, right? But then we got the fear of beards, which is men be bad. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Hairy men be bad. [00:16:41] Speaker B: Actually, no, there's something here, because every time we go to a parallel universe in documentaries like Futurama or anything else, anytime the evil people do have beards and mustaches. [00:16:53] Speaker A: Cody, can I point out to you, then, you are mustachioed. [00:16:56] Speaker B: I am mustachioed. [00:16:57] Speaker A: I'm bearded. Are we the dark universe version of ourselves, then? [00:17:01] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I'm in my dark era. Taylor Swift's inspired me to switch it up. [00:17:05] Speaker A: You're on your villain. [00:17:06] Speaker B: I'm in my villain arc. Yeah. But I also assume since I've been so inspired by two swift. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Since I've. [00:17:13] Speaker B: Been so inspired, that I must also, in my parallel universe, the evil one is also inspired to be good. So we just did a swap. A hot swap. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah, just a classic. It's one of two streams crossed. Now you're both going on different paths. [00:17:27] Speaker B: But, yeah, we didn't talk about it. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Okay. Here's the thing about beards, though. You're right. There is the classic example that you're talking about. But then there's Santa Claus. Right? Like, he's got to be. Okay, can we do a quick give the nicest. This specifically says beard. It doesn't say mustache. So I feel like we have to honor that, because I feel like fear of mustache might be its own thing. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Yes. [00:17:55] Speaker A: Give me your nicest bearded man and then the worst bearded man you can think of. I'm going to go santa as the nicest. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:08] Speaker A: I think that's a fair easy one. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Does alan rickman's character in diehard have a beard? I'm getting that guy's. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, he does. Hans gruber. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Hans grubes gruber. Yeah, I'm going to go with hans gruber. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Hans gruber is the. [00:18:23] Speaker B: Hans gruber is the bad beard man. [00:18:25] Speaker A: And honestly, not even that bad. So to that point, then, I don't think you have a leg to stand on. [00:18:35] Speaker B: We've. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Society is telling you, generally speaking, hey, our best guys are bearded right now. I mean, the amount of sexy beard content that's in the world right now, it makes me hard to believe that you can truly have this. [00:18:52] Speaker B: You can't be afraid of this. Look how sexy these men are. I like how soon as it involves you, it becomes a fear that's impossible to have. Look at how sexy these beards. Every single bearded man on earth is an adonis. If you could look at me and be afraid. I don't believe it. [00:19:07] Speaker A: There's nothing here. [00:19:08] Speaker B: Nick's face is clearly like he's trying to use all these other people, but he's talking about himself. I'm not dumb. [00:19:16] Speaker A: I just can't see it. [00:19:17] Speaker B: I think you're fool. I don't understand, man. [00:19:19] Speaker A: I don't know what you're talking about. Beards. No, you can't have it. I'm going to go feathers because. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Feathers. [00:19:26] Speaker B: For. [00:19:27] Speaker A: There is something I would say. I'll put it this way. If you were to leave one of the things. If I were to leave a weird beard hair behind as a calling card versus a feather, symbolically, one looks like a pube, the other has connotation. If I leave a black raven's feather, that's way better. If you come home, Cody, and in your key, where you're supposed to put your key to open your door, I inserted a black raven's feather. Tell me that that's not a great start to a novel. [00:20:06] Speaker B: I've been marked by someone. I've been marked by some secret society, and I need to know why. [00:20:10] Speaker A: Something's up. [00:20:12] Speaker B: No, there's no question my mind that something is afoot. [00:20:14] Speaker A: But if I just put a beard hair on top of your doorknob, you're like, how the somebody put their balls. [00:20:20] Speaker B: On my doorknob and leave a pub here? [00:20:22] Speaker A: Messed up, man. [00:20:23] Speaker B: That's really fucked up. Yeah. I got to go with feathers, too. Feathers are. There's something beautiful, mysterious, sexy and terrifying. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Whereas, like, beards. No, because all those men are Adonis's, as you've said already. I didn't say you did. All right, so we have here the number one seed, chorophobia, the fear of dance going up against the nine seed paternophobia, the fear of feathers. Dude, both these things talk about peanut butter and jelly right now. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Dude, I like it. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Two great tastes go great together. [00:20:56] Speaker B: You're in the mall, 2013. It's very important. It's 2000. [00:21:00] Speaker A: And I know. I feel like I know where this is going, but continue. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Yeah. You're just trying to eat your Aunt Andy's pretzel. All of a sudden, a fucking flash mob breaks down and they're dancing. They're pop locking. Someone that's sitting at a table right next to you gets up and starts hitting the robot. This has got to be a living hell for you. [00:21:15] Speaker A: That has to be. And is that where it started from? Right. We don't know when these fears started. There's no proof. There's no written down. There's not the first person who ever had this. So I would easily put it out because I would say that was a phobia of mine as well, is just being in an open space and being like, at any fucking moment, a flash mob could break out. And now I'm going to look like the asshole caught in the middle just trying to get out of their way. So it's like, I know, hey, go do your thing. Please go do your thing. I just need to leave then. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Do you ever get hit with a flash mob drive by? [00:21:50] Speaker A: No, I don't. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Once in my life, I was there and it's as bad as you fucking think it is. Dude, we were in the lunchroom at college. I was just sitting there eating, mind my own business, and all of a sudden, like 30 people stand up and start singing and dancing, and I'm just trying to eat my pizza. [00:22:09] Speaker A: I think they should have immediately, the first time we saw a video of them on YouTube, they should have been banned in all high schools and college campuses because who was going to do it? Oh, the drama kids. Theater kids. [00:22:23] Speaker B: Who? [00:22:23] Speaker A: This has been their. They must have woken up the day they saw a flash mob video and been like, my life's work. This is all I've ever wanted out of life, is to be able to break out into song and dance amongst my peers. And they were like, we are so fucking excited. I would have, as a principal, would have immediately saw one of those videos, like, cut that noise. We ain't doing that shit at all at this school. I'm not letting you dorks have your moment. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Nick, it just happened for real. I get the fear of dance. I get it, I get it. I understand. The flashback will be nightmare. Can you imagine watching any musical you've ever seen and everyone just starts singing and dancing? There's two things that are going to happen in this situation, all right? One, everyone's going to start singing and dancing, except you. And you're going to look like idiot and you stupid, and it's going to be terrible and you'll feel awful or you're going to get possessed by the rhythm and you're going to start singing and dancing and lose all control, just. [00:23:18] Speaker A: Moving along with them. And you're like, yeah, why? And then you have to look at yourself afterwards and be like, what happened? Did you know the routine? No, I felt taken over. [00:23:30] Speaker B: I'm locking in the fear of dance, dude. This is legitimate now. I totally understand. There's no way a musical situation breaks out and the ending is good. [00:23:39] Speaker A: I like the meta ness of this is that it's actually a fear that only exists in musicals, that this fear is a very real fear in a musical universe, because you're constantly wondering, because I have to imagine as a character in those, you're constantly wondering if you just miss rehearsal one day. We all have missed school for a day for illnesses or whatever. You've been out for a few days, and then you come back, and then all of a sudden, you show them, people are doing, is this what you guys learned while I was gone? Oh, man. It really feels like someone should have written this down on the what I missed page. [00:24:14] Speaker B: Okay. I don't think they rehearse. I think that their bodies are possessed by the spirit of the rhythm, and they don't have a choice. And that's why you're in high school. You're at your locker getting your books for math class, and all of a sudden, you hear down the hallway, a locker slam, and it gets really quiet. He goes, no, Becky, we're done. And then you hear lockers like kung chicken chick kunk. And you're like, no. And then the rhythm ticks you over. You drop your math book, and you're slamming your locker along with the feet, and you start dancing. This is terrifying. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Nick, I hear you, and I just want to give some attention to the other competitor in this situation, because, once again, I feel like feathers. Because I'm also thinking about the fact that we used to write with feathers. What if someone wanted. Because when you used to have to sign your signatures in blood, right? Your marriage certificates, your deeds of house, all those things that they used to make you sign in blood before we eventually were like, oh, it's not that big of a deal. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I get it. [00:25:20] Speaker A: I would just hate to be some rich guy's ink. [00:25:22] Speaker B: Well, it's full blood. [00:25:24] Speaker A: I just lay on his desk, and he just pokes me. [00:25:27] Speaker B: That's how it's got to be so fresh. [00:25:29] Speaker A: Nick, I want the best blood for this. [00:25:31] Speaker B: I'm just saying, you're walking down the street, you just got a fresh hot dog in New York City. You're there on, right? And you all of a sudden, it gets a little quieter, and you hear a honk, like. And a bird flies by. Go. And it's bird. And you're like, no. And you start stomping along to the rhythm. You throw your hot dog on the ground because you need your hands. You lost that perfectly good hot dog. You have no control over. What's about good hot dogs. A bunch of dogs start walking down the street going. And you're like, oh, my God. That'd be actually cool. [00:26:09] Speaker A: That would be sick. That would be sick. Here's my problem with flash mobs, though, and I just feel like you're giving them so much credit. [00:26:15] Speaker B: No, this is not a flash mob, Nick. This is. [00:26:17] Speaker A: I understand, but we don't live in a musical universe, Cody. That's why I'm having. I want to go with you. And I probably will, but I can't act like this is a real thing that is currently happening. [00:26:28] Speaker B: It could happen, though. We don't know how it. We. [00:26:31] Speaker A: It is wild that for just one year, luckily, it died out. Apparently, people just. Rehearsal schedules got booked up, doing too many flash mobs in a week and didn't see their families anymore because they were so addicted to flash mobs. But the audacity that now I have to watch you do your stupid thing that it's like, and I'm compelled to because I'm like, these fucking idiots. But now I feel like I'm giving you something that you want. But how do you express to someone, I'm watching you because I despise you. We need to get a better system. Maybe if I just put my thumb down the entire time. Is that how you could do it? [00:27:08] Speaker B: I'd like that. They'll know that because that's negative. [00:27:11] Speaker A: That's pretty harsh, actually. I would just realize if I did karaoke and someone, just as I'm doing my song and I think I'm eye. [00:27:18] Speaker B: Contact with you the whole time, thumb. [00:27:19] Speaker A: Down, just nodding their head like, no, this is not okay. And I'm like, damn it. All right. I mean, corophobia. Yeah. Maybe footloose. Pastor was right. There's something dangerous about dance. There's something about it. I mean, not to mention that we all know that what dancing leads to. Yeah. First you're dancing vertically. Pretty soon you're dancing horizontally. [00:27:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you can't control your limbs. As like, I don't know, a woman drives by on a motorcycle, singing about how she can't get into law school, and you're dancing and you don't want to be. Nick, this is a real thing. [00:28:01] Speaker A: I just want to be clear. In the next round, I'm not going to let you use musical universe. You're going to have to work harder. You can't just bulldoze with this and paint with this only color. But I agree with your conceit. Your math is correct. You've proven the formula. Now, I do need you to prove that gravity works in other situations as well. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:28:26] Speaker A: And that is it, folks. Chorophobia moving on to the final four. Thank you 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. [00:28:46] Speaker B: Absolutely. Follow us on all our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Just look up at friendlycompod. If you have an idea for a whole 16 team tournament you'd like to see us do, email us to us at [email protected]. [00:28:58] Speaker A: As always, shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff. And over to bandcamp, type in Charizard. Replace those vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. Group B coming out on Wednesday. But until then, I've been Nick Carey. [00:29:12] Speaker B: And I'm Cody Lena. See you on the boat.