Set & Centered

European In The Fish Tank

Mark & RJ Season 1 Episode 16

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We bring Rob on from Arizona and immediately get hit with peak brother energy, tech chaos, and a fish tank that sounds way too much like a bathroom. Along the way we check on Maggie, relive listener nicknames, argue about a movie quote poll, and somehow end up on AI actors and online privacy.

In this episode:
• Maggie update and small routine changes that help 
• Rob’s long teased full guest appearance and instant technical drama 
• Cindy’s comments plus the origin of “The Tinkler” 
• The “Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner” poll and why Mark gets salty 
• Arizona heat vs everyone else’s weather bragging rights 
• Val Kilmer and the idea of an AI generated performance 
• Debating action stars and what even counts as acting 
• Star Trek cast music rabbit hole and surprising deep cuts 
• A Smithsonian connected portrait story and tracking down the artist 
• Europe travel talk and the toilets debate 
• Browser pop ups plus device cleanup when you borrow a computer 
• Incognito mode myths and what real privacy tools do 

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Welcome Back And Maggie Update

SPEAKER_00

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Centered. I'm RJ.

SPEAKER_02

I'm Mark.

SPEAKER_00

How's it going, Mark?

SPEAKER_02

I'm doing good. How are you doing, sir?

SPEAKER_00

Not so bad. Uh, we have finally he's clawed his way onto the show. Rob is joining us live from Arizona.

SPEAKER_02

Hey everyone. Welcome. How you doing, Rob? Hey Mark, how you doing, bud? Good. I'd like to say I miss you, but I don't. Feelings mutual, I guess. Got it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Dang. It's right out the gate, huh?

SPEAKER_02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, yeah. So first things first, Mark. How's Maggie doing?

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Maggie's doing fine. Uh, we're giving her more time in the uh when she first wakes up to get ready to move, you know, without trying to move her. And then right after she drinks or eats, like I talked about, she we make sure she goes outside. But other than that, she seems to have sprung back a little bit, which makes my life happy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's great. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah. Um, which was, I think, very considerate of me to just ask about that right off the top, but also kind of rude to not even spend any time introducing our guests.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, it's like they didn't, they don't they don't care about our guests, they like his son better.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I mean, he did set a pretty high bar.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, the stats really show that. Yeah, everybody mentions it.

SPEAKER_00

Who's everybody? Is this like a Trump thing? Oh, people people are talking about it.

SPEAKER_02

You know it, I know it. Everybody knows it. All seven people in my head. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's a real bunch of sons of bitches in there. Um, yeah. Yeah, so Rob is my brother Rob, uh who's I think he's been name checked on pretty much every episode. If you're if you're familiar with the podcast and you listen uh regularly, then um you're probably familiar with Rob. But for those who aren't, um he uh it's my younger brother who lives in Arizona. Um I think he's peeing right now. What the fuck is that?

SPEAKER_02

I think so too. I was gonna ask a fish tank. It's a fish tank. Good God. Jesus Christ. He's filling the fish tank. Well, get that off the table real fast. Yeah, well, yeah, he's over there filling the fish tank. It must be a low fish tank with the height of Rob.

SPEAKER_03

It is looking pretty low right now. Oh, come on, man.

SPEAKER_00

Oof. Oof. Oof. Um, yeah, I was I'm glad it's a fish tank. I was gonna say, at least, you know, I'm a professional, so at least I have the decency to just upend the whole show and just stop having it for like five minutes at a time whenever I need to pee.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah. Uh, and just to mention on that one, uh, did you see Cindy's comment on our YouTube?

Rob Joins And The Fish Tank Panic

SPEAKER_00

Uh I I can't get out of it. She's just can't get out of my head that he's it really sound why does it sound like that?

SPEAKER_02

I thought fish tanks made like unplug it, Rob.

SPEAKER_00

Are the fish gonna die?

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, they just they'll be fine without air for a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

What is oh, it's an air thingy.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's the it's the air when the water comes in, I think with that one maybe through the back, then it it drops down into the tank, but it's low, so then it gives you the toilet effect.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my god. Okay, so yes, I was just looking for a yes or no, thanks. Um I don't know how to do that. Yeah, I know. Yeah, Cindy. Are you still there, Rob?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I just made it worse. It's it's way worse.

SPEAKER_00

I was like, is this I was thinking, is the microphone connected to the the fish tank? And he turned that off and dropped his audio.

SPEAKER_02

He's got it set up on the toilet tank. He's he's backwards facing on the toilet right now.

SPEAKER_03

That's my debut. I gotta speak from the throne, bro.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_03

Um I thought you said from the throat.

SPEAKER_00

That's what I thought he said too. What did you say?

SPEAKER_03

Throne. No, the throne. Throne where Elvis died.

SPEAKER_00

Uh-huh. Um he actually fell off. Jesus Christ. I was trying to do an introduction here. Okay. So oh yeah. Uh so younger brother lives in Arizona, peas boys on podcast. Um he he's uh I will say that he's been a huge fan of the podcast from the beginning. Um, very supportive of it. He's listened to every episode, and I when I say that about Rob, it's true, unlike his son, who's a liar. He's like, Oh yeah, I totally listen to all of them, and they're great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Did you get through that one, Robbie? Which one? Which one? When does mine err?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Have you heard the theme the theme song? Uh yeah, I heard it a long time ago. Oh, okay, it's at the end of every episode that you always okay. Oh, yeah, the B movie. Um but no, uh seriously, like Rob's been uh very supportive and very interested, and uh have to give him props and um say thanks because in the in the very beginning he gave us some very uh good constructive feedback. Um which uh we think that's not what you said. What did I okay, what what did I say?

SPEAKER_02

He said that little fucking brother of mine has nothing but complaints about this thing and that we need to change stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well I mean potato tomato, okay.

SPEAKER_03

So yeah, but he he that's in the beginning, but as soon as he has to ruminate or at least digest it for a little bit, and then he's like comes to his senses. Unlike you, Mark, who has taken obviously none of my advice. Yep. No, why would I take your advice? You don't know what you feel about podcasting, right?

SPEAKER_02

No, but as soon as you can look me eye to eye, then we'll talk. All right, when you're in your casket, we'll we'll have a chat, okay?

SPEAKER_03

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02

Uh that'll be that'll be next week, buddy.

SPEAKER_00

Um Rob, so you're clearly not a professional podcaster like like Mark. You need to keep a consistent distance with that mic, bud.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, my bad.

SPEAKER_00

You're going back and forth and back and forth, and it's fucked, you know. But you're yeah, hey, it's all part of the learning process.

SPEAKER_03

He's rocking back and forth. Can we scrap this one, boys, and start over?

SPEAKER_00

Uh nope.

SPEAKER_03

No, uh-uh.

SPEAKER_00

We don't we don't we don't do that. It's like if it's if the episode is just terrible in a total tailspin, it's just like, well, grab a shoot or something, I'll see what we can do. We're in it. All right, so yep, that's Rob. But I mean he's wanted to be on it for a long time. Um, and actually, uh this is the first time you're on it for a full episode. So I I I I I went to put together a clip, like kind of a clip reel of all your time on the podcast before. Um, and then I went to uh export it as an audio file and there wasn't enough duration of audio to make an audio file.

SPEAKER_03

So I'll be honest, I was I was I had a little bit of a uh a voice in the back of my head saying he might pull another fast one on you, buddy, preparing for like the last hour and a half for this whole thing for you to go, all right, and that's the show.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we that was uh original. Yeah, we we certainly talked about that. Uh but what do you mean? Hold on, preparing for an hour and a half. This is interesting. So uh you you prepare more than Mark ever has for any show. Um so what did you prepare? Like notes, a bio?

SPEAKER_03

As soon as I got off the phone call from you asking if I had the availability to be on the podcast tonight, I immediately ran through the house screaming at everybody, saying, All right, we got a DEF CON 4 guys, like it's time, you know, like D-Day is here, and we're about to storm Normandy, so I'm pushing the kids down on the ground, getting out of my way. I'm trying to get Robbie's computer fired up. It was uh it was a bit of an ordeal.

SPEAKER_02

So you're uh Yeah, you can really tell we're interested. I am Jesus.

SPEAKER_00

That's I I'm interested, Mark.

SPEAKER_02

Jeez, I was just I just can't believe that he had pushed down Kai.

SPEAKER_00

He didn't. It's called a it's called a joke.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, oh I don't get those.

SPEAKER_00

Uh you don't make them either.

SPEAKER_03

Got him.

SPEAKER_00

Uh yeah, it's called a joke. Uh your jokes are like, well, I'm just gonna say a movie clip whenever they're silenced.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, do we want to talk about movie clips there, uh, Mr. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00

Well, hold on. Let's sure I'd love to. I'm not sure which ones you're talking about, but I'd love to. But let's go back to what you said before. Yes, about Cindy's comment.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah, Cindy uh said that we now need to call it uh a new name. RJ and Mark and Mr. Tinkles.

SPEAKER_03

Is that me? Am I Mr. Tinkles? Oh no, it's RJ. Yeah, RJ's Mr. Tinker. It's RJ's take it back to it.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, yeah, did you not listen to the latest episode yet?

SPEAKER_03

I was listening to it. Yeah, I was listening to it uh as I was waiting desperately for you to send me the link.

SPEAKER_00

That was part of your preparation. Yeah, hour and a half to get to get caught up.

SPEAKER_03

I'm a consummate professional, boys.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, you are. Did you did you finish it?

SPEAKER_03

Uh uh No. Okay, well, like 10 minutes left. I got like 10 minutes. Come on.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no. It's uh I'm actually uh I'm not putting you on the spot so much as uh did you get to the part about Maggie yet?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, I did. That that was the more important thing because I read the description. I see and so I was kind of fast forwarding through the boring Mark talking parts and then uh got to the important Maggie piece.

SPEAKER_00

There you go. Okay, so yeah, that's that's why I wanted to ask about her right off the bat. Um uh so yeah, she Cindy said Cindy said, Glad you got the new Mar Newman thing figured out. She said, I'm a sucker for a good Swayze movie. And then she said set and centered featuring RJ Markin' special appearance, The Tinkler.

SPEAKER_02

The Tinkler. Okay, so I fucked it up.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you did. And also, um I you know, I love Cindy, I love her comments. She's far and away the most engaged uh listener we have. Um she didn't come up with the tinkler, you did, don't you remember that?

SPEAKER_02

Well, yeah, because every time you take a break and leave me alone, I just talk about it. Well yeah, tinkler and everything else.

SPEAKER_00

Not every time. The last time you said uh the last time you said uh you said marking the tinkler.

SPEAKER_02

I don't remember that, but okay. All right, well I'll take it.

SPEAKER_00

Read the transcript of your own show, maybe. I don't know what to tell you.

SPEAKER_03

He doesn't even listen to it when he talks about it.

SPEAKER_00

He barely even does it.

SPEAKER_02

I turn it on to for Maggie to listen to since she can't hear.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's good because I put her Yeah, well, I guess I was gonna say put her to sleep according to the vodka queen. Um Jesus. What?

SPEAKER_02

Oh well, and yeah, that and then uh Cindy said that she had a nickname for herself, but I don't know if we should really use it.

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna let um that's that's up to you, man. I mean, I don't know her. It's tequila tits. Oh god. Oh, we definitely should use it. I mean, we it's been used because I don't edit, but I mean it's there now, but oh I love that. Tequila tits.

SPEAKER_03

You only know who the next guest is gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

Your wife? Yeah. Your wife. Or are you talking Brian's wife?

SPEAKER_03

Tequila tits.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, tequila tits. Uh yeah, yeah. Oh, Brian's listening to the podcast now. Did you know that? He probably he is, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, he listened to one that I know of, so that's a half more than Robbie. Correct. That's true. Well, no, he Robbie's listened to his own exactly one episode, correct? And he was just like not too thrilled about Rob was telling me like he put it on, you know, and I think Robbie came in maybe 12 minutes or something into the show, and Rob Robbie just like stiff ass barring, like, where's the part with me?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we're we're driving, taking him to school in the morning, and I was like, it was Wednesday when it released. He's like, Oh, I think the podcast came out today or comes out today. So I was like, Let me check. And sure shit, it was there. So we started listening to it, and not three minutes into it, he I'm like, What do you think? He's like, uh, can you fast forward to the part where I come in? Yep. It's like okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, uh a couple things I'll say about that. One, um, I'd sent him a screenshot at midnight oh three when it was published because he insisted let me know. Uh and then two, when I talked to him on the phone before it was published, uh huh, I I I think I asked him like what the Oh, don't you have like, are you subscribed on Spotify or whatever? He's like, I think so. I'm like, uh-huh. I mean you should at least be subscribed. He's like, I don't really listen to podcasts. And I'm like, I I I go into my thing. Well, no, it's it's worse than that. I go into my thing. I'm like, it's I get it. They're not for everybody, Robbie. You know, blah blah blah. And I he's like, no, it's just they're boring.

SPEAKER_02

But you were on one.

SPEAKER_00

Cool, bud. Uh well, I'll let you know when your show comes out. I'm sure at the end of it, as soon as the the like the music star roll at the end, he's just like, oh cool, hit stop on you know, uninstalled this podcast playing app. He's like, done with that.

SPEAKER_02

You know what I'm picturing? What? Him sitting in the Jeep with the headlights on, pointing at the trailer at your place. That was a golf cart. Because he was upset and waiting for it, and then it wasn't exp exactly what he was thinking about.

SPEAKER_00

Uh probably, yeah. It was a golf cart. You remember that, Rob? No, I have to refresh my memory. It was it was one night. I don't know. He was he wanted to go do something. I don't know, but it was nighttime. So maybe he wanted to go frog, frog gigging or gigging, whatever you guys do with frogs. But and we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, just like a couple minutes, right? And we ended up talking, you know, for I don't know, 20-30 minutes. Like an actual conversation. And so he starts driving around the golf cart, driving past the deck with all the bright headlights on the deck. He'd blind us, drive by a few times, we were ignoring him, and he's driving up from the pond, and he's the headlights are flashing. And I'm like, I'm like, I said to Rob, I said, Do you think it's possible? I said, I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Like, do you think there's a short in the headlights? He's like, Oh no, he's definitely doing that on purpose.

SPEAKER_03

I'm like, damn, but yep, gets what he wants, and he gets his point across. Yes, yes, he does, so I'll give him that.

The Movie Quote Poll Breakdown

SPEAKER_00

Uh okay, Mark, let's go back. Now that we've gone back 18 times to try to whatever. Movie clips. What'd you say? You want to talk about movie clips?

SPEAKER_02

Um, I was uh I looked at the link that you had sent me, uh the the poll for the setting centered on uh you know nobody puts baby in a corner. Sure. And I um the absolutely was two votes. Uh imagine that it was you and Rob. Yeah. And on the no, there was seven votes. There's 70% said no that it wasn't enough.

SPEAKER_00

Uh well, okay. Hold on. Let's let's go to the tape. I'll pull it up again.

SPEAKER_03

There's stuff in the ballot box.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, we you know, this is we play a clean game here. Um shit, how the foul there it is. Now you go oh yeah, to this thing.

SPEAKER_02

I'm surprised Ryan don't have to tinkle with all that water noise in the back.

SPEAKER_00

It's driving me crazy. Um all right, so I see what you're getting at, Mark. Um but you still uh you're wrong. So the poll you're talking about was the one on Facebook.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Okay. That's it, okay. What the hell?

SPEAKER_03

What the sorry, I was checking the poll and I'm sorry. Apologies.

SPEAKER_02

You were checking the poll. Is my scripper up next?

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so you you made a point to bring this up, and then I just checked and I said, Oh, you were looking at the Facebook poll, and that's all you had to say is okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I I'm not gonna fight it. I just wanted to bring it up, be an asshole.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you should fight it if you feel like you're being, you know. No, uh-uh. Don't you want me to elaborate on what when I I just said it's the Facebook poll you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02

Right. But I don't know what what other poll was there that I didn't see.

SPEAKER_00

The YouTube poll.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, the YouTube poll. I didn't see that one.

SPEAKER_00

Well, two people did.

SPEAKER_02

Because you know, we only have we we only have one listener on YouTube, old tequila tits.

SPEAKER_00

Tequila tits. Uh I don't know if she voted though. I mean, I don't I don't know if I can tell. But um No, I I don't think she did. Okay. Well, two people. Jesus. Yeah. Did you hear that? Did you hear this bit when you were fast-forwarding through the last episode, Rob, with the poll?

SPEAKER_03

And after Yeah, the tiebreaker goes to the the pole master.

SPEAKER_00

And so I'm gonna get a second opinion here. Like, was he because he's doing it again right now, he won't admit it. He was pissed, wasn't he, that he lost the poll?

SPEAKER_03

Uh um I almost so yes, that was my initial intuition or my initial thought, but I maybe his he did say that his his mind's on other things, and I think it's more maggy.

SPEAKER_00

I agree with that. I totally agree with I in retrospect, and I didn't know that at that point. I agree. But now, yeah, here's what I'm saying. All right, I'm hearing it again. He's I think you're pissed, Mark.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he's acting a little edgy. So?

SPEAKER_01

No, fuck you, you're acting edgy.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, fuck you guys. I'm done. Just make it the fucking RJ and Rob show. I'm leaving. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_03

That didn't take long.

SPEAKER_02

No, that was real quick. I had like Yeah, that's what I've heard about you, Rob.

SPEAKER_03

It doesn't take uh well, yeah. Come on.

SPEAKER_00

Too easy.

SPEAKER_03

Don't call me shortcomings for nothing.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, that's Mark's name.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00

I'm fault. I'm false and he's shortcomings. The show about our faults and shortcomings. Oh gosh. Okay, Mark. Um look, here's the deal. Um you're pissed about it, and that's fine. Yes. Yes. Oh, you're actually gonna admit it. That's cool. Um here here's the thing. Uh there is a poll on YouTube and there was a poll on Facebook. And I voted no. Or I'm sorry, yes, in both of them. Uh you had I I think you uh I think you called in some some people uh to pump your vote, um if I'm honest.

SPEAKER_02

Definitely on maybe I might have I might have posted it on Facebook excuse me, I gotta scroll forward. I might I might have posted it on Facebook.

SPEAKER_00

Which is that's fine. Yeah, yeah. So uh here's the thing is and I get that you were not really on your A game on the last episode because you had things on your mind. But when I pulled up the polls, I pulled up both of them side by side. I saw that potentially you'd won the one on Facebook, and uh the YouTube one was tied at at one vote each, and so that's all I mentioned because I was trying to bait you into you know being like, come on, there's more babies and we were gonna you know it's gonna be a funny thing. Uh but you gave up too easily. Um, and so you almost did again tonight. So, alright, so let's talk about the poll. Uh the unofficial poll because YouTube almost no, I'm just kidding. All right, so Mark is correct that the poll on Facebook. Um the question again is is Mark using nobody puts a baby in a corner too much? Uh the options were yes, yep, absolutely, for sure, totally, and no. So we got one vote for yes, two votes for absolutely, and seven votes. 70% of the vote for no. So you you win.

SPEAKER_02

Or I go to school, that still means I lost.

SPEAKER_00

What the hell does that mean?

SPEAKER_02

Anyway, on to the next subject. No, no, no. What do you mean? Yeah. I'm done with this one.

Arizona Heat And Everyday Catch Up

SPEAKER_00

Okay, great. What's the next subject?

SPEAKER_02

Jesus.

SPEAKER_00

I know. Rob, remove Rob, what's next?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Rob.

SPEAKER_03

What do you up to, Rob? Just you know, just enjoying this uh beautiful weather out in Arizona.

SPEAKER_00

That's what you have on your prep.

SPEAKER_03

I wasn't actually I wasn't given in a an itinerary or an agenda or anything, so I'm kind of cold here, guys.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, I know. Um what'd you say, Mark? Sorry.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna get in trouble on two sides.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So nope. Uh oh god, I miss those days. Um, so Yeah, you said it is fucking hot. Like what Brian was telling me. Um it was like a hundred or something already in Tucson.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's it it's been uh hundred, it was like a hundred plus, hundred and five, I think uh 106 or 108 Friday and Saturday. It was it's been a scorcher.

SPEAKER_00

Too much. Wow. How's the weather up there, Mark?

SPEAKER_02

Um it was a beautiful 61 degrees today, but other than that, we're supposed to have rain the rest of the week.

SPEAKER_00

That's nice. 61 was the high. That was the high of 61. Fantastic. That sounds great. It was what's the side about Bud?

SPEAKER_03

No, I thought just felt like he was rubbing it in. That's all.

SPEAKER_00

No, I'm surprised he's not actually. Um, no, just rubbing it out, Rob.

SPEAKER_03

Jesus. You know, it's a family show. My kids listen to this. Well, they don't sometimes. Kind of. All right, not at all.

SPEAKER_00

Um I mean, we did clean jokes last time. That was, you know, that was family friendly, kinda. Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, you did the Firefly joke. That's right.

Val Kilmer AI Movie News

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. It's a real glow getter. All right. You don't want to talk about movie clips? Okay. Or wait, that was your movie clip thing, sorry. Um, speaking of movie clips or movies in general, uh so there Val Kilmer is making a new movie right now, and it's coming out next about a year, year and a half, which I think is great because Val Kimner.

SPEAKER_02

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he's Val Kilmer. Oh my gosh. He's he was in Top Gun, and then he was in Heat, and he was in the Saint. Val Kilmer. You know Val Kilmer, right, Rob?

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, see?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he died six months ago.

SPEAKER_00

That's beside the point.

SPEAKER_02

Um I wonder if he can talk in this one. He can.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, it was like a year ago, by the way.

SPEAKER_02

Uh alright, here we go.

SPEAKER_00

I know April 1st. All of us are like who can?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, April 1st.

SPEAKER_00

April 1st?

SPEAKER_02

You're quick with that phone, Rob. Oh no shit.

SPEAKER_00

Dang, that was really fast. Uh you're actually wrong though. It was April 1st, 2025. So um what did you hear me say? Doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03

That's like Ryan's that's Ryan's shtick. It's like even if you're right, uh, you're wrong a little bit. It was actually April 1st, 2025.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Well, uh my shtick is more it's a little bit that. Uh it's also a little guy, don't listen. This happens a lot with Mark. He'll be like, what's that thing? And he'll tell me, I'm like, I shut up, hold on, I'm looking at up. Oh no, no, no, it was this thing. Okay. It's like it's like magic man all over again. That was hilarious. Uh no, so uh he is actually starring, he's making a movie right now. Um get this. Uh they're it they're AIing him.

SPEAKER_01

What?

SPEAKER_00

They're gonna it's gonna be all AI. Okay. I'm not making the movie, Mark. Okay, so don't yell at me. I'm just telling you an interesting factoid.

SPEAKER_02

Interesting. Yeah, it's a good factoid.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he um so he actually was cast in the movie like five years ago or six years ago, you know, whatever, and it didn't end up getting made till now. And I guess his family, like whatever, daughter or somebody, like, you know, signed off on permission for them to use his likeness, and that's all gonna be uh generated by AI the video and the audio.

SPEAKER_02

Are they gonna have like um are they gonna have Chuck Norris in it too?

SPEAKER_00

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know what he just died. We might we might as well AI his ass in there too.

SPEAKER_00

Uh Val Kilmer was a good actor, though.

SPEAKER_02

He was. He was As Deep as the Grave is the name of the movie.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, cool. Yeah, well, is Chuck Norris in that? No. Okay. Uh Chuck Norris is a terrible actor. Um and I'll I stand by that.

SPEAKER_03

Question though. Chuck Norris or Steven Segal?

SPEAKER_00

Chuck Norris. Oh no.

SPEAKER_02

Steven Segal, there's a lot of push in there. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03

He has packed on the pounds, that's for sure. Oh, is it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, he's huge. Okay. Um easy, buddy. Easy. He's almost as big as Mark.

Action Star Debate Gets Personal

SPEAKER_00

You really want to poke the bear tonight? Yeah, poke the bear. Poke it. I think the bear forgot his honey part. So you know, cranky. Um, who are the options?

SPEAKER_03

Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris. Which which one's a better actor?

SPEAKER_00

Uh God, they're both terrible.

SPEAKER_02

How about Van Dam? Ooh, you gotta throw him into the mix, too, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that way Ryan will pick one.

SPEAKER_00

Jude Law, is that what you said? Uh Jude Law.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there you go. Wow, good. Yeah, Jude Law Jude Law it is.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it starts with a J, Justin, Jude, who cares?

SPEAKER_00

You know, uh I'm gonna I can't really think of a lot of Steven Zagal's performances. Um, I just know I've I've watched a lot of episodes of Walker Texas Ranger.

SPEAKER_03

So it's a bit of a stretch to call them performances, but okay.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Walker Texas Ranger is a rough show. He uh Well, yeah, but it was what, the 80s? That was the 90s. Um, yeah, I mean, even even by those standards though. Like, he does this thing. I had to stop watching eventually. It's probably just an autism ADD thing that most people wouldn't care about. But he does this thing where he like has these pause inhales when he's talking. He's like, I'm here from the Texas uh trooper's office, and I'm here to look into this murder. It's like, oh god, shut up.

SPEAKER_03

Like you smoking a cigarette, but not.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's like I'm I I'm I'm really exaggerating it. It's more subtle. It's just like, yeah. I think it's his like uh whatever, his patter. I don't know, he's trying like this is how I act. It's like uh, you know, Jeff Goldblum. I say that his his method of acting is just acting like he's just he's always acting like he's trying to remember it's not his lines.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. He acts like uh William Shatner sings.

SPEAKER_00

You got a problem with the chat?

SPEAKER_02

I don't have a problem with the chat, but I've heard his songs.

SPEAKER_00

I I didn't even know he sang.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, him and him and uh Leonard Nemoy. Uh they both had an album.

SPEAKER_00

Together, that's so weird. Why? No, it's separate. Okay, well I don't know if that makes it better or not. Um who's your favorite Star Trek performer turned singer, Rob It's gotta be the dude that was data. Oh, Brent Spiner. Does he sing? Oh, he does. He does standards and stuff, yeah. He's good.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he really is. It's a hell of it. I can't believe I pulled that one out of my ass.

SPEAKER_00

Uh good job.

SPEAKER_03

It's a miracle you can pull out of your ass. Well, that's big enough.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Always need a flared bass, though. That's important.

SPEAKER_03

I don't need more socks. Holy Christ.

SPEAKER_00

He's worse than you. He's not even he's not even on the podcast right now, Mark. He's like on his phone.

SPEAKER_03

He doesn't believe me.

SPEAKER_00

He missed a whole. No, I wouldn't believe him either. So what kind of what what kind of how many songs or albums or whatever did he make? I think they each made one. Frantic typing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh uh, you should have you should have Robbie in there as like associate producer to look shit like this up, you know?

SPEAKER_03

Uh a lot, actually. Oh my god. Oh yeah, you did. Like eleven no, thirteen. Albums?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Oh my god, I'm totally gonna listen to this shit tonight. I don't know why. I don't know why I would want to do this to myself.

SPEAKER_02

William Shatner, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Star Trek Singers And Deep Cuts

SPEAKER_00

Uh, is it okay? I will.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna. That would be Oh, you know, Nichelle Nichols also sang with it on an album with Duke Ellington. She was hot. You know that I actually have a little thing that you don't know. So a friend of ours, her mom is a painter.

SPEAKER_00

That's not a very interesting painting.

Smithsonian Art And Nichelle Nichols

SPEAKER_02

But she painted uh she painted Nichelle Nichols uh portrait on she just literally painted it on the glass of the frame of the picture, and it's now in the Smithsonian. That's cool. Wow. Uh yeah, they they came to her house in Vancouver, uh wrapped it all up. The Smith Smithsonian did wrapped it all up and everything and sent it back to the Smithsonian.

SPEAKER_00

Was it uh did did did she paint her like you know in that one? Not in Star Trek. Oh you know that one I'm not in Star Trek, yeah. No, not that, like the one Star Trek where she was like naked and you know stuff still turned Shatner down? Anybody with me on this? No, no, really? Uh okay. Well, she's hot, was hot. I don't know. She might be dead. Yeah, I don't know. She is. Okay. Cool. That's that's how do we get here? I have Shatner sings. Shatner. Why did that come up? Oh, because we're talking out of left field. Well, yeah, it was a little bit, but we were talking about obscure celebrities. You know who's really big, like singer-wise. Oh my god, Leonard Nemoy, the ballard of Bilbo Baggins. Bet your fucking ass I'm gonna listen to that later.

SPEAKER_02

Um you better trade those menthols for something else to be able to listen to that.

SPEAKER_00

That bad, huh?

SPEAKER_02

That bad.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. So, um, I was gonna say, well, I want to back up. So this it was your mom's friend? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02

No, it was just a friend of ours's mom.

SPEAKER_00

A friend of yours. Oh yeah, yeah. So was she a prolific painter? Yes. Uh really? Like, yeah, can we look her up? Can we say her name?

SPEAKER_02

I will I will have to look up her name because her daughter is married to our friend, so I'll have to look her up. Look up her name.

SPEAKER_00

Does she still paint stuff?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, every year she takes a member of the family and that's a male and paints them as Santa Claus, and it is so cool.

SPEAKER_03

How are you not the subject every year?

SPEAKER_02

Who me? Yeah, you think he was talking to me? Because I'm the Santa Claus that goes, fuck you, little kid. You ain't getting that. I don't think Santa should say fuck you, little kid, but that's why they won't ever paint. Okay. Um, my co-producer over here uh just told me her name is Robin Damore. D-A-M-O-R-E.

SPEAKER_00

D-A-M-O-R-E. And that's Robin. Yes. With an R? Yes.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Look this up. Maybe we can uh I mean Robin Dam. Oh. Artist. Oh, cool. Using light and shadow to capture life's fleeting magic. That's the quote on her uh thing on our website. Right there, boom. Nachelle Nichols, right there on uh Robin's page when you first pull it up. That's cool paintings. Wow. Well, that's awesome. I'm glad you oh, hold on. Santa's oh, those are cool. Yeah. Wow. So are all of the Santa paintings of people she knows, or just some of them, or how does that man she knows a lot of Santa's. Alright.

SPEAKER_03

It's gotta be Mark in 2008.

SPEAKER_02

I haven't even looked it up, so I'm the bad one here.

Europe Toilets And Navy Travel Jabs

SPEAKER_00

I was gonna mention the Hoff.

SPEAKER_02

The Hoff?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Robert Hasselhoff? Yeah. Yeah, like bad actors who had very successful. Yeah, actually, I don't know if Leonard Nimont and Shatner were successful singers or not. But uh Hasselhoff is huge in in Europe. In Europe, yeah, yes. Sounds like Rob's in Europe right now. Hear that in the background?

SPEAKER_02

It does. Everybody's peeing on the street because they can't figure out how to use that toilet.

SPEAKER_00

What does that mean? Is that a Europe crack?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because the they don't have regular toilets. A lot of places don't have regular toilets like we do. They just have that porcelain on the floor that you step your feet on.

SPEAKER_00

Europe.

SPEAKER_03

I'm really sorry to all of our European listeners right now. Mark doesn't know what he's talking about.

SPEAKER_00

I well, I here's what I'm gonna say about that is before I go there, I want to clarify a little bit. Because Europe's kind of big. Like that's kinda sort of a broad brush, don't you think? All of Europe?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Uh Italy, France, Greece.

SPEAKER_00

Are you naming all the countries in Europe right now?

SPEAKER_02

All the ones that I've been to.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, okay. Yeah, that's fair. He totally just like dunked right on us, Rob.

SPEAKER_03

Surprised they have planes big enough. Oh, Jesus Christ. I was on an aircraft carrier, Robert, there it is. There it is. There it is. Mark craft carrier.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, but I did fly on a C-130 back, so that's pretty simple. That was big enough.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um, yeah, I was like, okay. See, when he said I've those are all the places I visited, I immediately realized he was talking about his navy career. And you know, I was I was fixing to give some respect and deference to that, and Rob's like, oh, airplane big enough. Boom.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you for your service, Mark. Go fuck yourself. Yeah, fuck you too, you little bastard.

SPEAKER_00

You two should have your own podcast.

SPEAKER_02

Oh god. We need somebody to mediate and connect the audio. That too. Yeah, that too. Yeah. I was surprised today I was able to hook it up all by myself with no issues. You're right, you did. See, even Ryan's surprised.

SPEAKER_00

Uh well, I now that you mention it, I am. I'm surprised and happy. Um I kind of got uh I think I would have complimented you, obviously, before we started recording, but uh, we got sort of sidetracked with Rob because he couldn't figure out how to use his son's computer.

unknown

Yeah.

Browsers Pop Ups And Computer Cleanup

SPEAKER_03

How uh how many people? All the porn.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I was yeah, that that was a lot. That was half the battle.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You just like you had to clear the cache and all the cookies and stuff on this browser before you could use it.

SPEAKER_03

Legitimately, when I fired this thing up, he was like, uh, just so you know, there's gonna be a lot of pop-ups when you start it up.

unknown

Fuck.

SPEAKER_03

I was like, oh no, what did you do?

SPEAKER_00

What did he do? What does he mean pop-ups?

SPEAKER_03

Um, I mean, he's got like 13, literally 13 different internet browsers. So I like one of them that pops like 137 duck duck go, edge, wave, a bunch of shit I've never even heard of.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, like different, not just like Windows, like different different types of browser, like different software.

SPEAKER_03

Different, yes. Wow, different software. I well, I I think because he's corrupted so many of them, he's had to go down the list to find new ones.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh, that is so weird. Yeah. Okay. So those all did they all open like when your computer started? Is that what he meant? Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. And where where did they go?

SPEAKER_03

Well, one of them, the main one, which is Edge, that one was just stuck in a uh like frozen in a very small screen. So um, and it had like 13 windows already active in it. So yeah, it was weird. I had to I had to do a lot a lot of cleaning up before I could get the audio situation.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, did you hear what Mark just dropped, but did you hear what he was saying before he dropped? The keyboard? Yep. Because he said you had to do a lot of cleaning up on the computer before you could use it.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, jeez. You know, I gotta give it to him. If it's uh, you know, if it's in that realm, he's right on it.

SPEAKER_00

Uh what realm? Oh, Mark's innuendo. Yeah. Oh, I know. He's uh he's got the specialty, if you will. Um yeah, so so not so a lot of pop-ups and nonsense and crap, but you you didn't have to navigate through any porn to get to clean feed.

SPEAKER_03

Shockingly, no.

SPEAKER_00

Good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'm not I'm not I'm also not gonna go looking for stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, and and yeah, I know. Uh just thank god that because you know, if it were well, I'm not gonna mention names, but you and I both know somebody who uh probably would have that as their desktop wallpaper. You know, you wouldn't have to go search high and low. Yep.

unknown

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

Mark, you back? Yeah, I'm back. Okay, cool. Uh last thing Rob said before you dropped was I had to do a lot of cleanup on this computer before I could use it.

SPEAKER_02

I know when I said the keyboard or the on the or the internet, and then it was I didn't get that, that part didn't go in.

SPEAKER_00

You were smited.

SPEAKER_02

I was smited.

SPEAKER_00

I was smote. Froppy's probably he's probably like set something up on his computer, you know. He's probably building his own AI in there. We're all fucked anyway, and one of the things is like it just detected that Mark was dissing him. It's like, boom, you're out.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, feed nobody's gonna clean my feet, damn it. Clean your feet. Feed.

Incognito Mode Privacy Myths

SPEAKER_00

Oh. Yeah, well, right. Nobody should have to. This is my thing. We've talked about this, uh, you and I, and like like me and Brian, we have like a dead man switch situation with our phones. It's like, no, nobody should ever see. You say feed, nobody should ever see what's in my phone or my feed or anything. Just like, you know, lock it down.

SPEAKER_02

Yep, coy and I have the same same thing.

SPEAKER_00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02

You you what about you, Rob?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I don't look at that kind of stuff, you perverts uh Christian man. You can tell by the way he said it that he's full of shit.

SPEAKER_00

I know.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

A little bit uh No, I just you know what?

SPEAKER_03

I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dignify that. I'm not gonna perjure myself. I'm not gonna perjure myself all over there.

SPEAKER_00

Let me ask you a question, Rob. Well, actually, I'll ask both of you. Um I'll start with Rob. When you do have stuff like that, even though it's your device and it's locked, do you still use like an incognito tab?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, well damn it. So I don't have a VPN set up, and uh and Arizona's got similar uh loss to as Texas does. They banned the porn out there?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so that sucks. Yeah. Well, so that was a really okay. Mark?

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, me too. I don't know why, right? Yeah. Does it really do anything? It just all what it does, it just it just pr doesn't um put the history on your device. Uh it does absolutely nothing for uh privacy and your identity and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03

It's just does it does it cache or it doesn't cash or anything, huh?

SPEAKER_00

Not on your device, yeah. So the history wouldn't be there. But like, you know, there's no it doesn't give you any privacy or anything. Um, it's just kind of like so when like for an example uh on on my devices, um if I didn't do that, then every time I went to type galin zip block bags, G A, suggestions for my history would be alarming. That's a joke about the word gay, Mark.

SPEAKER_01

I know Robert.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay. I didn't hear you laughing.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I knew it was. I because I was thinking of web page BBC, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Not that Jesus crap.

SPEAKER_03

Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, I enjoy British news as well.

SPEAKER_03

Now we know what now we know what Mark's into.

SPEAKER_01

No, the British version.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, somebody's gotta get through my fluffy butt, Rob. I didn't hear what you I didn't catch what you said, Mark. I said somebody's gotta get through my fluffy butt. Since I'm a fluffy guy. And he's gone.

SPEAKER_00

No, I'm contemplating.

SPEAKER_03

I think he's still trying to figure it out. You heard the okay, yeah, okay, all right.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you need like a giant cock, right? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, BBC. Like a lucky or a lucky. Oh, wait. Oh, it's back.

SPEAKER_03

It's back.

SPEAKER_00

Nope. It's not that was yeah, that was my bad. That's a rule. We do not talk about lucky to hold it.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, with lucky, there's no tail to the problem with lucky, there's no tail to hold on to to pull him back. Marcus.

Final Shots And Sign Off

SPEAKER_00

Good lord, sir. Yeah, so if you want to donate to the dog rescue, it's gonna be one eight hundred. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_03

It's all 501c3. That's it.

SPEAKER_00

Jesus Christ. That's horrible. Uh, and thank God we are out of time. Fuck.

SPEAKER_02

Bullshit.

SPEAKER_00

We're not out of time. We are so fucking out of time. Okay. We're over time, bud. So okay, bud. Yeah. Uh Rob, you want any last words or whatever?

SPEAKER_03

You wanna thank thank you for having me on. It's great to talk to you guys.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Well, big checks in the mail, right, Rob? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. You're uh uh I'm hoping you'll you'll waive your appearance fee since I'm family, but I understand if uh still getting it. I'll give my friends and family discount, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Don't worry about it. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02

All right. Uh yeah. Kentucky, it means a whole different thing.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, I'm done. Was it half off? Huh. It's the toothless discount. Oh, gummers. I'm not gonna say gummer. I'm gonna quote my other writer. Is that a gummer? Oh god. All right. Uh catch y'all next time. Have a good one.