Episode Transcript
[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 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 anyone 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 who steps foot on the boat?
[00:00:41] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell them what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:44] Speaker B: Absolutely. We're talking about what we got to get out on these streets and buy presents for people. Sometimes you know them well, sometimes you don't. But you got to get them a gift. Otherwise everyone's going to laugh at you and call you a poopy pants. Do you want to be called a poopy pants? Not on our watch. Not on our watch. You're going to kill it if you listen to this. You'll figure it out.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Definitely not. That's what we're here to help with, folks. We're here to help you with all those gifts to give to those friends, those family members, those colleagues that you're like, man, I don't even know what to do. Although, to be fair, you are pushing it, aren't you? You are getting real close to the deadline. Maybe past the deadline.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: I think you're past the deadline at this point.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Well, maybe for next year. It's never too early. Hey, do you know that you fucked up really bad?
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Maybe you have a friend's Christmas coming up on this weekend.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: This is your chance.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: It's your final chance. Redeem yourself.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: And obviously you can see it because you can see my screen. I did realize the group C did drop on Christmas.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: So merry Christmas for those who post. Merry Christmas. Didn't say it in the episode.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: First of all, this is for all year. This is birthday presents. Christmas presents.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Kwanza. What's that? The opening of Six Flags. A new Six Flags opens up. Get your friend again.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: Got to get gifts for that. Yeah, it's a special occasion. It's a special occasion every time. So here we are, folks, in group D, where we took our list of 16 gifts, gave them to our bracketologists, they kicked it back to us. We put that into four different groups, and then we'll settle this in the final four on Friday. But here we are in group D. We got to figure out that last champion. We have the three seed socks going up against the 14 seed candle, and we have the six seed cookies going against the eleven seed high fives. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Are they still making new theme parks? I have never. Like, when was the last time you heard about a theme park being erected?
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Space out here.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: From square one.
[00:02:44] Speaker A: So because you mentioned Six Flags, I do know there was one in either, like, Qatar, Dubai, or the UAE. They opened one, but, like, that's where it's happening in. No, I think in North America. I don't think that we're tearing down land to build up because, man, do you really think about the space that one of those things takes up and how much equipment? It's a wild thing that we got them to begin with.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: Absolutely. But no one's got the cajones, the sheer force of will, to build a new theme park across the street from Valley Fair.
[00:03:19] Speaker A: Right. And just do it. Let's do it.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: Fucking come to it. Yeah. I want to see theme park wars, dude.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: I mean, it is wild that when you think about the fact that Orlando has so many, maybe like three or four real. Right? In Orange county in California, you have Disneyland, you have a universal studios, but you also have Knottsbury Farms. A jam company got in on the game. We're like, you know, we could definitely put up a roll. We could put up a couple roller coasters to help advertise our jam products.
[00:03:52] Speaker B: All right.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: What would be a proper country? Is all I'm going to say.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: We used to be a proper country. I was going to say what would be a more ridiculous company to start a theme park. But I think Knoxbury Farms did it.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: They did it.
[00:04:03] Speaker B: I don't know who's going to top it.
What about Marlboro land?
In this day and age?
[00:04:10] Speaker A: I guarantee you there had to have been plans in the 1980s, and then they had to go to trial for people being like, hey, you guys lied to us. And you definitely lied and made it seem like these weren't killing us, but you knew the whole time they were killing us. I'm like, what? Not us. Not the battle industry.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: What if Marlboro land exists and they make the roller coaster hold? Their whole thing is the roller coasters. The fastest, biggest, best in the world, right? These roller coasters are obscene. And they get, like, top scientists, NASA people to work on this and make these the most extreme balls to the wall roller coasters in the world. But you have to smoke the whole time you're in the park. Would you?
[00:04:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Yes, I would. But also, I think just the idea that as almost like a form of, say, let's say, when they went to court, right. And had to make penance.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: Right.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: And pay out. And that's why we have truth for anyone who remembers the. I don't know if they're still doing it for the kids, but anyone who is Cody and I age knows about truth. And all the commercials they would do about anti smoking, all those anti smoking campaigns were paid for by the money the tobacco industry had to give because they lied about knowing that by saying that these don't kill you. And they knew the whole time. So, anyway, if the US had been way more radical and been like, hey, instead of a campaign that did prove to be effective and did help, people did make it. So I think of our generation, much less people smoke. Instead of doing that, we're like, you guys got to build a dope ass theme park.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Like, hey, you guys. Hey, you got to make it up to us. You got to give us something cool. And they're like, all right, what if we did theme park? We're like, nailed it. Way to go.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Mandatory smoking.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: And then I'm like, because it is one of those things where it's mean. It did help. And smoking is bad for you. It is.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: But I fucking.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Hey, it ain't stopped China. It ain't stopped France. Everywhere else in the world smokes like, fucking. Okay, so, like, what are we doing, people? I'm kind of on that tip. Like, I don't know. You make your own decisions. I'd rather have a dope theme park.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: I think I'd go to Marlboro World just for the fact that I don't think they would. Since it's mandatory smoking, they wouldn't allow anyone in that wasn't old enough to smoke. So there you go. An 18 plus theme park.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Are you kidding me, man? If that wouldn't get kids started on smoking earlier that, I don't know what would. It's like the day you turned 18, it's like a rite of passage. Everyone just goes to, like, a Marlboro land, gets their first pack of smokes, and just so they can go on rides.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah, you got to get in, dude. This ride is called the cowboy killer. It'll take you down. Let's go. I love it.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Do it.
The black lung.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: The black lung. Are you kidding me?
[00:06:49] Speaker A: There's so many good, man.
It's probably fine now. I think Marvel. Everyone knows they're bad now.
Let's call Cody. Nine. Let's get marvel Land going, though. Okay. We'll figure something out for you folks. Here we are in group D. 1 second.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: If we designed a roller coaster for marble. Sorry. We designed a roller coaster for marble land, me and you, right? We drop a roller coaster and they have to build it.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:14] Speaker B: How many runs of the roller coaster does it take before somebody does die? Because we are not engineers.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Well, at some point, I feel like if you're going to Marlboro land, much in the same way that if you decide to smoke, you are taking your life in your own hand and you're making a decision about your life and the length of it.
I think it's got to be one of those things where, like, yo, well, you didn't think that these roller coasters might die. You might die on one of these things. Like, let's say it's one in a thousand, right? A thousand runs. Only one person dies. Yo, that's kind of the rit. You got to expect. This ain't Disney World. This ain't Marlboro land Berry farm. This is Marlboro land, dude.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: Fuck.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Like, what did you expect? Yes, someone's going to die at some point, and I love that. That would be the press conference. Is there any more?
It sucks for them, but you came to Marlboro land, dude. You didn't think you might die here.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: And then you have people out, like, so you're talking to your friends, like, I'm going to take a smoke break. Oh, you smoke? Not a lot of people already smoke. It's like, yeah, so you've been to Marlboro land? I don't smoke like that.
That's a got.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Do you remember back? Because Marlboro would, like. It used to be a thing where if you smoke so many packs, you could get, like, a cool Marlboro jacket.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: I think I had a Marlboro backpack one year because my parents turned in their things for it.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: This is not shocking at all, bringing.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: That shit to school.
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Honestly, though, it is one of those things, man. Marvel helped out a lot of kids get backpacks, gave a lot of kids backpacks because the parents like, I mean, I could buy you a backpack or I could buy a carton, and now they can do both.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: They can do both.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: So you're like a kid who's like, dad, I need a jacket. All right, well, hold on. I think. How many of these I got? All right. If I smoke two more cartons, I think I got enough to get you a jacket, kid.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, man. I love that.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: I love that. I love that. Once again, we used to be a proper country.
I think I already said all the stuff. Everyone knows what we're talking. Which one?
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Candles.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: Socks versus candles. Let's do it. I think candle has the most obvious negative, right? Don't get a stinky candle. Don't get a bad smelling candle. Look at what your friends have in their house and then go based on that. But outside of that, I like candle in the same way I like. Not in the same way I like book. Book makes me feel smart. But I'm like, okay, you're trying to give me a pleasant at home experience.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: I want to be on the record of saying I love both of these gifts. I think these are good gifts. Money, good gifts. These are good, solid gifts. You give me a funny set of socks with, like, the rugrats on there. Sword fight and reptar. That's good. I'm going to wear those.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: I'm going to wear them, dude. I'm even like, go to Rei and get me just a nice. I'm talking. They're going to be like, $15 for, like, one pair of wool socks. I will wear them. Shits out, dude. You are fine. This is not. Yeah, don't give me a six pack of Haynes ankle socks. But that's not. What we're talking about is my sister.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: In law got me an advent calendar of Nickelodeon socks one year. Dude, those socks have been fucking making. They've been doing it. They've seen the truth. So have I.
[00:10:23] Speaker A: Because.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: But a candle makes your whole house smell good. If my house smells like cinnamon buns because you gave me a candle, whenever I smell cinnamon buns, I'm going to think of you for the rest of my life.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: Right. That's a powerful 100%.
Is the downside of candle legitimately. Just.
You got a stinky candle. Like, you got the wrong smell. It's one of those things you kind of believe in your own experience is very similar to everyone else's. But then they're making so many candles out here and selling them that I'm like, I would never have that in my house. Are you joking?
[00:10:55] Speaker B: Yeah, there's somebody out there is getting, like, pork candle. Somebody wants that.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: I guess I was maybe thinking, like, bergamum is one that I don't fuck with as a smell. Like, if I see, like, bergamum, those are smells I don't like. I'm not a big fan of.
Even lavender doesn't really.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: I want my smells to be sweeter.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: I like warm. Yeah. I like warm earth. Like you said, like a sweet. Like you said cinnamon. I like it. Amber, oak. Oak.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: I like beachy, I like rummy, I like sweet.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Like, okay, so that's where we would differ, because I get to a certain point with sweetness where I'm almost like, nah, nah.
The ones that literally, to me, smell like suntan lotion.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Oh, I don't like those. But if you give me a sugar cookie, I'll fucking burn.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: That's where I'm probably out.
You're probably meeting me now, where I'm out, I'm like, there's good.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: But now, does that mean the socks have that same level? Is there something in the sock area that we're out? I can't think of a pair of socks I wouldn't wear. You could get me a pair of socks that had the golden girls on there and they're playing gin rummy with the cast of Star Trek, and I would fucking love that.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: Well, that's very cool and very specific.
Let's just go with. I mean, I'm not saying like a Haynes, but let's say. Because obviously, like you said, you can get very fun and kooky socks that have cool designs or whatever. That's great. You can do very nice hardy wool socks, especially for people in the cold. But, like, okay, let's say business socks, right?
Like, good ones. Like, let's say you go to a men's warehouse and they've got a three pack. It's like $30 or whatever of really nice, but just nondescript. There's a gray one, a blue one, and a black pair of socks, but they're nice dress socks.
Where do you see that on the scale of bad candy?
[00:12:48] Speaker B: That's great.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: You're still up there. Okay.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: I still love that because I need those. I need those socks, but I got to have business buy that. I don't want to buy them.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's a great point. I think this is one of the very few gifts where it's like, you, in theory, saved me $30. Now with the candle, you didn't really save me money because, a, I got candles. B, I'm going to get a candle, it's fine. But when you get me socks, I think that's the one thing that people don't understand. People are anti giving socks or something like that. Don't get people underwear. That's different. I don't want you thinking about what's underneath my pants. I don't need you there. That's for my wife. Okay. That's for her. But socks, you've now saved me money instead of having to go buy, like you said, some nice dress socks. You're right. You do need them.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: I think these are both great, but I think I got to go. Socks, candle. You run the risk. There is a gray area in there.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Where you could fuck up, and it wouldn't be that. Like, I could totally buy a candle. Be like, I love this candle. I'm smelling it. I'm in it. I'm fucking vibing it. Nick wouldn't like so shit.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Right? Exactly. You're like, oh, I think I know my friend. I think I know my friend. We probably like similar stuff. Wow. It sounds like you and I are like, maybe we have a Venn diagram that has some overlap, but we ain't perfect circles.
[00:14:01] Speaker B: Well, after doing this season, we might not even be friends anymore.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: Well, right? It's amazing. We've gotten each other gifts that we both have liked, so that's incredible.
Apparently, we did not know the tightrope we've been walking this whole time. Yeah.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: It's so scary and so dangerously close.
[00:14:18] Speaker A: But that's why we're doing this season, isn't it? It's not just for us, but everyone knows about this tightrope, and now we're trying to help you be like, okay, what can be more surefire? Let's try to get down. What is that thing that maybe is almost the least risky but still a high reward item? And that's what we're here to do, folks. That's why we're here. All right, next up, I'm moving socks on with you as well. Next up, we got cookies. Going up against high fives. High five is basically. I will say this. This is the agreement between you and a friend that maybe money's tight. Maybe me and my sister are like this because we're like, we'd rather spend the money on our mom. Instead of putting money towards each other, we'd rather. Instead of doing that $50 on each other, we'd rather just put that extra money towards the pot for our mom or our significant others. So, her and I, we do high fives for Christmas every year. We high five. Say, I love you. That's it. Cookies. I'm going to say, generally, when I put this in here, you can do your own opinion, Cody, but I kind of think I did consider this to be like a home baked good.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought baked goods. Home.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. I mean, cookies. Baked goods. Okay. We'll say there like a home baked good as this.
What comes to mind, Cody, now that I know you, though I do know, fundamentally, there is no world where you would be okay with a high five.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: There is a world where if it's a money tight situation and we both agree to high fives, I'm totally fine. As long as it's made clear that it's high fives.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: I need to know.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: That is.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: It has to be abundantly clear, fundamentally going to lean towards cookies. Or instead of a high five, Nick, what if I just wrote you a.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: So maybe. Maybe we just put in maybe this on the. To. On the fly here. Maybe it's that, like, free gift, right? Like something that is and not that you like. Once again, we already talked about homemade, so this isn't. We're talking, like you said, a nice.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Right. What if I'm at Nick's house for Christmas, right? And he looks at me and I toss him a beer and a. That's. I've got him a. Just. I'm just hooking him up.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. It's not beer that you brought as a gift for me. It's like you went to my fridge, or your fridge grabbed two beers, and like, here you go, budy. Merry Christmas, and we just cheers on a beer. That's what the season's about. About. It's.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: As long as it's understood. I love that. But damn it, dog, I want some cookies. I want chocolate. When someone makes homemade cookies and brings me one of those little tins. One of the tins, and you open it up and it's homemade cookies in there.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: Here's the thing, too.
I feel like people would want to say, like, well, what if the cookies suck, man? If you're handing out cookies as your gift, you know, these things slap.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: They don't.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Maybe one of the cookies, and maybe you're trying a new recipe, and that's not hitting. That's not going to be in the box next year.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: If you're making a blend. Yeah. You got to throw in the wild card every once in a while, see if anything makes the roster but shit.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Right? Because my wife and my mother in law do this. They are big. They make a bunch of truffles and various cookies.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: One year, I showed up, and I didn't know that, and I accidentally ate way too many. And Kellyanne was not pleased.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: Dude. No. We just remembered. I totally forgot about that until recently. And I did it again. Cody. Here's what happened. So here's what happened is my wife and her mom make cookies, and some of them need to be in the fridge, and some get left out on the counter because they don't need to be temperature controlled, right? Mostly it's like the chocolates go in the fridge and the other ones go on the countertop. So last year, Cody came over to the house, and Cody and I. And it is legal to do. But you're not cops. We know you're not cops. We ourselves, indulged in a little bit of marijuana, and by a little bit, we were out of our minds watching the Muppet movie. We watched the Muppet for you, by the way. We did this for you to do the Christmas movie bracket, which go back and listen to if you're trying to figure out what best Christmas movie. Well, once again, it is past Christmas now, but it's always a good time to watch them up at Christmas movie.
[00:17:58] Speaker B: The spirits in you.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And especially if you get some of that good green in you, it's still a great movie to watch any time of the year. So my brain in that moment, and I did the exact same thing this year, too. My brain in that moment said, fridge cookies are clearly her saying, don't touch them. Don't eat them. Counter cookies. How are you going to put cookies on the counter?
[00:18:19] Speaker B: And they don't for the house? They ain't for all of us. How are you going to do that?
[00:18:24] Speaker A: Doesn't make sense. Those rules don't apply. This is my home. Those are my counters.
I'm eating the cookies that are on the counter.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: They're so good. She makes such good cookies.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: She does.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: And then you pop. You can't stop.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: So last year, Cody, and we ate half the batch, easily half the batch of cookies. And she came home, and it was one of those situations where you can't even be that mad because she saw the state that we were in, the euphoria the cookies did bring us.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we were happy.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: And my logic made just enough sense that she was like, God damn it. All right, I got to hide these. And then a year of time passed, and she forgot. And then she saw me once again, indulged in a little bit of THC, and I'm just at the countertop, cracked open the box and just start ripping them. She's like, nick, those are not for you.
And I was like, then stop putting them on the counter.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: That's where they live. I'm looking at cookies, dude, we got to have cookies. I love high fives. I love the spirit of it. A cheers and merry Christmas. It's perfect. It's a good gift. But right now, I'm feeling we're here.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: To talk about gifts, and this also does the one thing about high fives is that this does mean you do. One of you has to have a conversation about how broke you is and being like, hey, I'm really not trying to get you anything. And then be like, oh, that's cool. Thanks, man. All right.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Especially, too, what if you're in that situation, you already got them something and now you're like, oh, yeah, no, I get it, man. That's cool. That's cool. Okay. Save it for next year.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: Lock it up. I'm not going to cookies. It's got to be cookies, dude.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: All right, I'm with you. All right, we got socks and cookies. Now, this does seem like two things that I'm having troubles finding that much of a negative, I guess.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: No, they're both great.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: Definitely don't. I mean, don't you dare do storebought.
I'm not even going to put that as a negative because I think we're all adults here and I don't want to insult any of our intelligence. I think we all understand if you're trying to bring me some storebought cookies and you just take storebought and put them in, like, a tray or something. Dog, we all know what storebought tastes like.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: I think storebought is bakery. Cookies are different. You can go to a cookie shop and give me those cookies. That counts.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Oh, let's talk about that then. Like, your crumbles.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Your crumbles. Your cookie town, your little independent cookie. Yeah, you get me those. That counts.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: Okay.
All right. I can see that specifically crumble is one of those where it's like, I feel like if I'm not eating that shit fresh, them don't have a long shelf life. They're designed to be eaten gooey, not as a cookie, in my experience.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: My problem is I need the socks, but I want the cookies.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Okay. Do you want to be a good friend or do you want to be a cool friend? All right, so the socks are coming from the good friend. The good friend is going to get you socks that are nice. They're going to last forever. You're going to think of them all the time. I put those Nickelodeon socks on. Years later, I still think about my sister in law. The cool friend is going to give me some of them damn cookies, though.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: I agree with you. I think here's the problem, though. As someone who is not. I'm not the baker. I'm so grateful that I have my wife who knows how to do this and that she can just put my name on the card and says, from Nick and Kellyanne, here's a wonderful tray of cookies or tin of cookies. And I get to get the credit without having done it. I love it and I love giving them. But if you were like, hey, Nick, I need you to bake seven different types of cookies over a weekend to hand out, I'm like, I don't think y'all gonna want them. No, that ain't me. And then I don't know how I'd feel about going to a crumble. I think crumble is just the easiest. It's pretty accessible. Or like you said, your local.
Like, I don't know how to present, like, I don't know how to present that as a gift. Right?
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Yes. So the risky run when you bring cookies as the gift is, it becomes, especially if it's a group outing, it becomes a part of the, it's like, I brought cookies for everyone, but I didn't. I brought it for Nick. Nick's cookies. But I can't say that I can't give you cookies. And you open them up, put them on the table, and then when someone eats the cookies that are on the counter where cookies you're supposed to eat are, I can't be upset when they eat the cookies.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: Hey, Cody. Now all I want, all I want from you is for you to get.
I'll come down to Sioux Falls for this. I get it. It's harder for you to come up here. I will come down to Sioux Falls, I want you to get me cookies. I want you to write on the box, Nick's cookies. And anytime you see someone open it, I want you back. Get the fuck away from.
Hey, those are your cookies. Those are Nick's cookies. Your name Nick? Yeah. If it ain't, get the fuck away from them.
Would. I would love that energy as a gift.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: I could do that for you, no problem.
[00:23:12] Speaker A: That would be very fun. But that's the thing, right? Could you imagine too? Let's say it's Christmas day, but you wrapped up a box of like, crumble cookies a week ago and just put them under the tree.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: That's not the same.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it's got to be like, you got to deliver them day of.
Once again, I really enjoy being able to be a part of a family that gives cookies, but I think safer bet one quick and it's not going to change my mind a ton. But is this pretty male centric? The sock game? And is there a female equivalent we can add into this?
[00:23:52] Speaker B: Women get socks. Catherine's got a lot of cool socks. She's gotten socks as gifts.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Do they wear socks? Do they want? But a lot of times my wife wears shoes that don't always require a mean. I think I'm still going sock on this.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: I think it's got to be sock. I mean, we might be boing all over that.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: I think let's do. We'll do our research like we say we do. We'll talk to our wives, and we'll see, is there an equivalent? We can also then add in and say, for women, the equivalent is this. But that one clothing item, that is annoying.
You don't always want to spend the money on for yourself, but when someone does, you're like, oh, I want to say a hair accessory is like, maybe the female equivalent.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: I mean, we don't have jewelry on here. We don't have things like that that men usually don't get.
[00:24:37] Speaker A: But, yeah, that's.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Socks is a universal thing.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Maybe.
I guess what I'm saying is, I don't know if the excitement is the, like, I feel like my wife.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: Socks are cool, then you're excited, and that's gender fair.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: That's fair. I'm going socks on. It's. I think socks has got to be.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: If I got Catherine a really cool pair of space jam socks, I think.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: She would enjoy just.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: I'm not getting socks, dude.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Like I said, my lady, just. But that's why I'm like, well, if I got her a really nice pair of wool socks. But I feel like that's almost one of those gifts where, for her, it'd be like, the appreciation comes in much later down the road, not day, because, like I said, I'm a practical gift giver. I'm like, you don't need these socks. I know you.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: I'm locking it in, dude. Although I won't take cookies. I will take cookies if they're fresh.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Yes.
Great cook. Well, we got your tin for you. You're going to get your cookies this year.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: I'm so excited. I didn't get any that other year.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Because I ate too many. You ate too many cookies.
It's not just you. We ate too many cookies and ruined so many people did not get the cookies that they may have wanted, because Cody and I did. It was great. We just remembered.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: You know what, Kellyanne? I'd fucking do it again.
[00:25:48] Speaker A: Do it again. I would do it again. Come on up. Come on up. It's fun. I think it's hilarious. Let's do it. All right, folks, we're going to move socks into the final four. Now we got all four. We got our group, ABCD champions. That means we got a final four Friday coming up. Look out for that. But thank you all so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want to watch 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, please. Give us those five stars.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Absolutely. Follow us on all our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Just look at friendly comp pod if you got crappy presents for Christmas because people didn't listen to this because we put it out late. Sorry. Go to fantasy four by Teresa. Look at her stuff because it's cool and see what you could have got.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: There it is, as always, shout outs to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff. And over to bandcamp. Type in Charizard. Replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. Like I said, got that final four Friday coming up. But until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See you on the boat.
