[00:00:00] 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 Lena. We discuss various pop culture topics and air it down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. We're gonna set foot on the boat. We put them into a sweet 16 style tournament. We already each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what catcher do we use when we decide to step foot on the boat?
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you wanna tell em what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Absolutely. Sometimes there's a person that is born with a vision, a special, magical, artistic vision where they'll look at stuff and they'll be like, hey, you see what I'm looking at right here? Wouldn't it be radical if there's something really big here that would make people go, huh? Or, wow, I'm gonna build that. And then they do build it, and then that's what we're talking about. Or sometimes people just find this shit. Like they're walking through the woods and they're like, damn, it's wet over there. And then they go there and there's so much wet.
Can you be the first person who found a waterfall? Probably had a lot of stuff going on, dog.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: That had to be. That had to be like one of the first religious experiences, right?
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah, of course.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Like, you once again, in. In our head canon, that, like, one person came to consciousness had not been exploring any of this. Just like one day. I think I'm a human now.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: All right. Yep. Absolutely. Walking around, I was like, man, this water is pretty. What the fuck?
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Like, that would be you.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: That you.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: You probably couldn't get higher than that guy did that day. Like, you can do as many drugs as you want, but if you were the first person to discover a waterfall without ever conceptualizing. Cause that's the thing we tell babies and children about waterfall. So by the time they see it, they, conceptually at least are like, oh, I've heard of this. But if you were like, the first one just walking through the rainforest in, especially down in like the, like, South America where they have those, like, ones that are like 600ft tall.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: And they're just bouncing down like five different waterfalls. How could you might die?
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Or for this example, Niagara Falls. The first person that found Niagara Falls. That thing's huge. It's huge.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: Powerful, powerful. You're just sitting there like, wow.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: The end. Okay, second question. Nick. I know the first time I saw a waterfall in a video game, and I went to it, and behind it, there was a cave. The first person who went through a waterfall and found a cave back there. Oh, my God, dude.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: As long as there wasn't something hiding in that cave, waiting for it, that's where it came.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Camps out.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: That would have been terrible. That would have been. You would have gone from, like, the dopest to now the scariest thing all in.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: It's like a boss battle.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: It's true, man. That would have been nuts.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Dude, if I walk through a waterfall into a cave, and there's a big bear back there, and the bears, like, I'm like, he's protecting treasure.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: Like, yeah.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: If I beat that bear in combat, that's how I get the magical scroll.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's very true. There's only one way to see. Even in. Even in the most primitive of brains. Like, there's no way there's not something bad behind that, then, huh? There's no way. I gotta get there.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: I gotta get it.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Couldn't get higher. Couldn't get higher. And here we are, folks.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Talking about the great american monuments. And here we have in the fourth seed, Statue of Liberty slash Ellis island. It's all kind of the same thing. Going up against the 13 seed, the Hoover dam, and they have the five seed, Niagara Falls. Going up against the twelve seed, the St. Louis arch. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:03:21] Speaker B: Let's start with the Statue of Liberty in the Hoover Dam. Do you think the French ever get, like, big regret of giving us the Statue of Liberty? Cause it's so iconic. They're like, man, we probably should have kept that. Like, people are really into this thing.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Like, you. It had to be that thing where you're giving. It's like, you got a bunch of gifts for Christmas, and you're like, eh, I don't really want this. Do you want that? You could take. My mom got it for me. I don't really care for it. And then you see, like, it's like, some decoration. And they put it up in their house and, like, ties their whole room together. You're like, yeah.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: What the.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Well, I didn't know it could look like that, though.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: Just. It ties the room together. Everyone's like, dog, have you seen Chris's new piece of art? That thing's. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. He told me he got it for free and that he had an art appraisal person over at his house, and they appraised it at $3 billion.
What?
[00:04:12] Speaker A: And then you're like, hey, could I get it?
[00:04:14] Speaker B: My mom got that for me from a fucking garage sale. It's worth $3 billion.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Yeah, but then you take it back to your house and then have it appraised there. They're like, no, it's worth $3. There's something about it has to be there. But you're just like, but is mine?
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I think you gotta have regret when you give someone a present that big that. That.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: And I don't even know really what we did. Was this over the French America? No, we were. Yeah, french american war is actually named after that because we were fighting with the, um. No, that was about Canada, man. I gotta retake my history class either way. Why do we have it post world War one?
[00:04:50] Speaker B: I think. Is that what it was?
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Okay. But, like, also love that we.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: I.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: To my knowledge, the Americans have not gifted back anything.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Never.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: We might have sent a thank you note, maybe, and I don't even know if that's true. Eisenhower might have been busy. I don't know. Or Roosevelt. Whoever it was at the time was like, I would love to get that out, but I felt busy. We got this whole new deal thing going down. It's just taking up a lot of time.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: We'd like to get you on record saying thank you to the French. Absolutely not. I will not be on record saying that.
[00:05:22] Speaker A: I'm not a chance. No, you're not going to get that from me.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Going up against the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam. Not only is it majestic, not only do we have a really cool GoldenEye level that takes place on the Hoover dam, not only do we get a really cool ending of Austin powers that involves the Hoover Dam, it is responsible for Vegas. It powers that whole piece. It gives it all water. Without the Hoover Dam, we don't have the true empire of sin that is.
[00:05:47] Speaker A: Las Vegas, and you're 100% right. But to that point, I want to say that I've had many opportunities now, because I've gone to Vegas a handful of times every chance. There is no lack of people trying to get you to go see this dam when you are in Vegas. They're like, hey, it's just right up the road, this modern marvel, this thing that was once again done at an age when it's almost hard to imagine they could calculate how to do it right. It's so impressive, this feat of engineering, and it's just right up the road. You could take a helicopter. How cool would that be? You'd be like a billionaire flying in your helicopter to go see the Hoover dam, and it's only $100. You're going to waste $100 at the casino?
[00:06:29] Speaker B: And I'm like, yeah, but there's drugs, alcohol and casino here. Yeah, we not understand what it is here. Okay, here's what it is, Nick. I love that the French gave us this big thing. I think I got a lock in the Statue Liberty. The Hoover dam is giving us sin and it's giving us power. But you know what? Mankind finds a way. Like, we would have sin in the desert. You know, I played fallout new Vegas. After the bombs are dropped and everything's destroyed, they still managed to provide sin in the desert.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Yeah, don't worry about it. It comes up. It comes.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: I mean, it's. It is truly wild. It is incredible. And, like. I know. Shout out to everyone who gets to throw stuff off of it. I think this is the one that people are allowed. You get to go and throw things down it. And we've gotten to do a lot of really cool YouTube videos. So shout out. Shout out to the YouTube community in the Hoover Dam for allowing for that. Some pretty sick stuff there.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Spin the ball, and then the ball gets all willy nilly with it. That's pretty fun to watch. Yeah.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: Well, you think it's going to go out, but really, there's a weird pressure that pushes into it. It creates its own pull, and it's cool stuff. But the Statue of Liberty is iconic.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Like.
[00:07:36] Speaker A: Like I said, I. I could go to the Hoover dam so many times. Never been, don't care. Statue of Liberty.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Right.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: I.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Awesome.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Have to go see. Have to. Right. All right, next up we have the five seed Niagara Falls going up against the twelve seed, the St. Louis arch. Cody, can I ask you something?
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: How much does it go against the Niagara Falls that we have to share it with Canada.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: And.
[00:07:59] Speaker A: And everyone knows Canada actually has the better view.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Thank you. And the better side.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: Canada got the better of this. And the fact that we haven't fought a war over it kind of makes me feel less american like that we weren't just like, hey, we're going to take the whole falls. Like, we can't take the whole falls. We're going to take the whole falls.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: Like, yeah, in this economy, we're taking the whole thing.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: We're taking the whole falls. You guys don't get.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: I think that's probably because Canada was like, no, you can come over here and look at it whenever you want for free.
Okay. Okay.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Trying to avoid.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: No.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: I would be the new president. That would be like, we're taking the whole thing.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: I don't. That's your first order of business, is to go fuck with Canada. It's like, Nick, we got a lot of stuff going on. The economy's in the shit. A lot of people worried about fascism. We got stuff going on in Ukraine, Russia, conflict. China's getting no dog. These Canadians are at a. Too easy for too long.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: They just get to have the best part of Niagara Falls. No, that's ours. That is for sure american.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: If I.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: If I were to redraw America's lines, I would include the whole Niagara Falls. I don't know who get. Who succeeded this to who ceded any of this land to the Canadians. Coward. Absolute coward. I'm taking it back.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: I respect that.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: I also respect the fact the person who made the St. Louis arch, whose name is forever lost to history, no one knows who.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: There's no way to find built.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: There's no way to recognize this. And I've seen it. I've been in the arch. I've experienced both these things. But I've been up in the arch. I'm like, wow, this is beautiful and inspiring, and it looks great. You can see right into the baseball stadium. That's pretty cool. But at the end of the day, why, like, what is it? It doesn't do anything. It doesn't give me anything.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Can I tell you something?
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: Right now, and this is not a bit. I genuinely mean this. The St. Louis arch is my favorite national monument.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: What?
[00:09:34] Speaker A: Because. For. For some of the reasons you just mentioned that it's insane, that it's just like.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Why?
[00:09:41] Speaker A: Because people like, what they'll tell you is, well, it's the gateway to the south, right?
[00:09:45] Speaker B: It's.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: This is where, you know, Oregon trail started.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: This place where. It's not where manifest destiny began.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: It's where nothing started.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: No, it's.
[00:09:54] Speaker A: Nothing started in St. Louis. St. Louis was a real town, right? That was important to the french trade up and down the. The Mississippi. But, like, that wasn't where, like, Lewis and Clark were like, let's get Poppin and say they've been doing shit the whole time.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: The.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: The fact that St. Louis was just, like, looking around, had this park, and was like, how do we get more people? And, like, one guy's great idea was like, we could put in arch.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: But what is it? What's it for?
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Well, it's like a gateway.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: So we'll put it on both sides of the river, then, because one side of the. That river directly cuts St. Louis down the middle. So one side's Illinois, one sides Missouri. And then Missouri was like, well, no, we're going to keep the whole thing.
[00:10:34] Speaker B: Well, here's. Dude, I respect that. What if the guy was like, we'll just say, yeah, we'll build the arch, and we'll say, like, this is where, you know, the gateway to the, you know, manifest destiny started. The Midwest. Like, everyone started here when they, you know, settled all of the planes. Someone's like, that's not what happened. Yeah, but, like, people don't read books. Yeah, like we call it. Yeah, like, you see? What are they gonna do?
[00:10:56] Speaker A: Perfect. We're gonna call it the gateway to the south. And like, boom, done. Like. And everyone's like, I guess.
[00:11:03] Speaker B: I guess. And people will be in St. Louis.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Like, this is the south. And you're like, it's not. But like, well, the arch or anything south of the arch. Like, you know what? I can't even argue there.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: You know what? They just decided their own reality. And I both fear and respect that. I love it.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: I. And I, once again, from it, not even just from this story, I love standing. I love looking at it. I truly. I could look at the St. Louis arch for days.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: I've. I've.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Every time I get there, I get a hotel and I make sure it has arch view, and I just get to look at. Because also, let's be clear, St. Louis, not a great town. Not much else to do in this city.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: There isn't. I've been St. Louis multiple times. Not my favorite place on earth. I would say. He's all right.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: City museum's great. Love the food. Love the food. Y'all are crushing it, Nelly. But I don't got Nellie there that often anymore.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Remember when we were there that one time and they kept that radio station, kept calling Nellie about the weather and shit? Yeah. Like, you would do their hourly check in with Nellie, and we were like, what is going on?
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Because he's like, it's St. Louis. This is how we replace dude. I I. The Niagara Falls is gorgeous, right? Like, it is there. It's powerful, it's majestic. It is iconic. It's so big. But I think I see what you.
[00:12:18] Speaker B: I'm mocking in the Niagara Falls.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: I've been there.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: It left me with, like, feel. Also, looking at Niagara Falls, there's always something. There's water flowing. Maybe someone's gonna go over in a barrel. There's always that boat down at the bottom. Maybe someone's gonna fall off. That I know. No, one's gonna do any of these things, but at least my imagination can wonder. But, like, when I'm looking at the arts, it's like, wow, that's it. It's there. Don't do anything.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: And I hear you on this, and I. And I won't be a dick outside of this round.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Hey, man, lock it in. If you feel it in your heart, lock it in. This is not a dick. This is. I love it. We have to account for this. We have to account for these feelings people have.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: I love this damn thing.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: I wonder.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: See, the thing I don't know about St. Louis is right. Like, we're from. We're from South Dakota. We have Mount Rushmore. I. I truly feel my bones. I would fight for Mount Rushmore, even though I don't necessarily love the state. But I'm like, this is. This is our shit. Don't you ever. If anyone says something negative, mountain. Mount Rushmore. I treat it like it's like. Like a sibling where I'm like, hey, I can talk shit about it, but you can stop it. Like. Like it's just rocks on faces.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: But it's actually fucking cool. So shut the fuck up.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Like, but with the St. I wonder, do St. Louis ride for the arch? Like, do you think?
[00:13:27] Speaker B: I'm sure they rep the arch hard. You got it. I would throw it up, dude, that's like their game sign. They throw it up.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: It's a terrible one, by the way. Cause we've also used that for. Cause it's just putting your arms over your head. I'm like, well, that's an o, dog. No, it's arch. No, it's an arch.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: Maybe I'll give you an a if you're doing the YMCA, but it's a bad one. No, it's arch. Throw it up.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Arch, dog. It's literally an arch. Like, it's. No, sorry, but I love this.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Damn.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: I am in that way. Stick to your guns in that way. That, like, a monument is actually supposed to, like, leave you for 1 minute in awe. That what. That's what it does for me.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: So.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: All right, well, we'll settle this the only way we know how. The american voting coin of 2004 is brought to you by random.org. Low seed gets to pick which is going to be chaboy. So I got George Bush or John Kerry.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: I'm going to.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: I'm going to go George Bush. Because Nellie was famous then. George Bush.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Okay. All right. The arts going up against the statue of Liberty, dog. The Statue of Liberty is blue, but it should be copper, right? Yes.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the rust. So it's the rust of, like, when our oxidation. Whatever.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I get.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: But, like, just. But, yeah, it turn it. When we got it, it was, like, copper or bronze or copper. Yeah, it's copper. Who does it like that? So it was just. It was just brown and shiny, which, like, what a what? Like, I want to see that.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: It's not fair.
Like, clean the damn thing. It's either one of those things. We're like, if we do decide we have to clean it, then someone was like, well, if we clean it and really start showing it off, we're gonna have to thank the French for it. Like, we. Like, we just set it up, and we set it up, and we've been making a lot of money off it, but if we pretend like we're not into it, the French can't be that, man.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I went. I've been to the Statue of Liberty. I've been on Ellis island, and it's, like, very short. It's, like, very quickly acknowledged. Like, by the way, it's from the French. And then, like. And then we move into the greatest story about american immigration.
But you're right. If we took the time to care for it and be like, wow, it was really noble of the French to give us this beautiful masterpiece that stands for all this. We're just like, nah, man. Thanks, France. We're just gonna put it on this island.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: I don't know. We don't want to look at it.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: It's whatever. Yeah, we're not putting it in mainland, that's for sure.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: What do you think?
[00:15:39] Speaker A: We're just gonna go put this in Times Square? No, it's a weird statue.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Put it this way. Let's put it back. Let's, like, think about this from a different perspective. Okay? If you. If you've been sleeping for days, rough travel ahead, right? You've been. It's just been really rough on your body and on your family and your life, and you open your eyes and you see the Statue of Liberty, you get hope, you get the american dream. You get all these things. Like, you get to start a brand new life. If you open your eyes and see the St. Louis arch dog, you about to go hiking for a long time. Like, still lots of hiking. I just, like, build a farm. Fuck that.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: I just imagine the idea. Cause, like, the arch is newer, right? So. Yeah, but just imagine if you're floating down the Mississippi, you're coming down off of where? Like, from Minnesota. Down to St. Louis on the Mississippi, and like. Like you said, you're tired, and you wake up, and you look out, and there it is. Some arch that does not go over the river.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: It really doesn't. We cannot stress this enough.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: Just off to the side. And if there wasn't, like, a massive city, that you would just be like, the. Is this about.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Well, this is.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: Well, they call. They say that this town is the gateway to the south.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Okay. Have you seen the.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Said that.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Nick, have you seen the news? Oh, you love arches. Have you. You seen the new Sioux Falls arch?
[00:16:52] Speaker A: No, what?
[00:16:53] Speaker B: We built one. We built what's called the arch of dreams. It's very large. It goes over the river. Yes. It comes to two points, and the points don't touch. So they're like two independent arches that are, like, an inch away from touching. So it's technically two separate things.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Kind of hate. That kind of bothers me. But I also can see. I can concede that there is some symbolism there of. Of that. It's not my favorite thing, though.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: I'm just saying. We. We just out did the St. Louis arch.
[00:17:20] Speaker A: You really did, though. I'm pulling it up right now. We should have just done this. The arc. The arch of dream.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: That's what they call it, too. It's so wild. It's.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: I mean, I'm looking. It's not bad.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: It's.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: No, I mean, it's not the St. Louis arch.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: You know, it's not huge. It's not. But you could live in the St. Louis art.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: You could.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: Okay. Would you rather live in the St. Louis arch or live in the Statue of Liberty? Damn post apocalyptic scenario. One of these becomes your base. This is where, when people come to the area that you control. Next, domicile, Nick's streets. This is your layer.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Well, you go. I mean, just strategically, you'd want the Statue of Liberty, right? Because you. Now you get an island.
[00:17:56] Speaker B: So you at least have.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: You have. You have maybe what has got to be one of the best crows nests. Like sniper positions in.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah, you ain't sneaking at your liberty.
[00:18:05] Speaker A: Yet in the torch. I'm just up there just sniping anything. I got 360 view.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Okay, you got that? But then you got me. I'm. I'm in the arch, right? I. All. St. Louis is mine. When you come to. When you come to this part of town in the post apocalyptic revolution and you need to get oil for your giant war machine, you got to come negotiate with Cody, baby. He's in the top of the arch. I'm just saying it feels like it'd.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: Be very easy to just float on by. Just.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: See you there.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Goodbye. I get it. I'm saying I think the arch is better for a post apocalyptic scenario because you're truly staking your claim is king.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: You know, my fear would be. And I don't know how possible this is, I. I cannot stress how big this thing is. It really does make you feel very small. But my fear was that if I lived at the top of the arch, at some point they would just try to knock it over, like, just hit it from the sides in such a way that it would, like, eventually teeter and wobble over. And that would be not my favorite way to go.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely not.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: Personally, I'd like to stand. I'd like to stand with two. Two machine guns in each hand firing off the top of this. Of the Statue of Liberty as, like, helicopters and, like, fighter jets are, like, blasting me, and I'm just like.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: I think also there's a really cool post apocalyptic spray paint that you could do on the Statue of Liberty to make it look fucking badass.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Oh, you know, dude, that would be nothing. Joker on it or the Joker paint on those.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: Some ziggy stardust stuff with the eye. The star eyes and stuff. Let's go, baby.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: No, Joker.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: No, we're definitely not. We're not doing her.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: David Bowie.
[00:19:39] Speaker B: Are you kidding? Okay, first of all, you'd rather.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: I'm not wasting my time. I'm gonna honor a british dude with an american monument.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: No.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: Get the fuck out.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Yeah, that was given to you by the French. Fuck off, dude. Here's the deal, okay? Yeah, you could joke. Arise, the Statue of liberty. If you're a 13 year old boy who's still into that shit, we're on the next level, Nick. We're trying to send a message. We're not trying to say, oh, look at me, I've been twisted by society.
No, dude, we're trying to say I'm a strong message.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: What's the message? Oh, that I'm. Oh, is the message that I'm. That I'm flamboyant?
[00:20:10] Speaker B: You're basically.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: That is what the statue of America would represent right now in America. It's just a bunch of. Bunch of flowy femme boys who just. Who don't care.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: No, Nick, what you're saying by putting all of that stuff on is you're saying, I'm a huge fan of about 10% of prog rock music, and I want everyone to know about it. I want everyone to know that most of David Bowie's stuff is not for me, but his hits are pretty good. But I do like that.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: I will say in all of this, I got to go with the Statue of Liberty. Just like you said, that immigrants coming in and seeing that, that's something that they're telling you about on the other side of the world, right? And then you'll see there's a statue, and that's how you know you've made it to America. And it's just like. And then when you're on Ellis island, you think, like, literally the millions of, like, people that had to get through this point and now, like, make up, you're like, I mean, Nick, when you're.
[00:21:04] Speaker B: At the arts, you can think about how that one guy call this shot and say, fuck it. We're the gateway.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: Now, the most american it one I do think represents America more than the other one because we're not super friendly to immigrants anymore. When we used to be like, get on in here. I mean, you gotta. You gotta. Let's make fun of you for a little bit. That was the other part that I.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: Don'T think we agreement that we had, and it worked out great for everybody.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: The Irish were fine. They're still here.
All right, we will move the Statue of Liberty on to the final round. And that is it, folks. We got our group B champion. We already have a group a champion. Go listen to that episode. And we got next week to figure out C and D. But thank you so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about Chabois, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, whoever listening to this, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and give us those five stars, please.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Absolutely. Follow us on all of our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, just go unlycompod. If you had an idea for a whole 16 team tournament you'd like to see us do, email those two as a friendly competition
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[00:22:14] Speaker A: That's exactly true. As always, shout out to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff, over to band camp, type in Charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. We got group c coming out on Monday, but until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: See you on the boat.
