1:48

I

2:00

don't see it much. I mean, one of my all time favorite

2:02

things is to have a grilled

2:04

cheese and one or two really

2:06

crunchy, sour pickles. Okay.

2:10

Then I think we're heading the right direction. Yeah. It's

2:12

similar, similar vibes. I

2:14

also say this kind of reminds me of, I've

2:16

never eaten Somalian food, but of course

2:19

the Instagram reels is just people

2:21

trying different foods. And that's all I want to

2:23

watch anyways. And sort

2:26

of one of the ways

2:29

in which Somalian food is served is with a banana.

2:31

So you're sort of eating

2:32

a savory dish and then you're also eating a banana.

2:35

Oh, interesting. I feel like I was born,

2:37

born for this. Are

2:39

you a big salty sweet mixer? Huge

2:42

fan. And especially a banana fan.

2:46

And having them separate to me, it's like versus like a cooked

2:48

banana, which is good, but like eating meat can be a little mushy.

2:50

Like to have a raw banana and then a

2:53

cooked savory dish.

2:54

What type of, like what texture

2:57

of food is it typically? Like,

2:59

is it like a stew and you're eating

3:01

a banana or is it more like a heart? Like

3:04

a? Yeah. Sort

3:06

of a stew potentially. Yeah. Like a

3:08

cooked dish, a soup,

3:11

a pasta even. Yeah. So

3:15

it's like a cooked meal versus like, I understand

3:17

like a rice dish versus like a

3:19

sandwich or something. Yes. Yes.

3:22

Yeah. Yeah. No, this

3:24

is a fully cooked. Like a salad type, like where it's like more raw, more

3:26

crunchy. Yes. Yeah. Let's

3:28

see. Cooking with meat, sort

3:31

of a polenta looking dish.

3:33

Oh sure. Yeah. And

3:35

then a fucking ripe banana. Oh. Yeah.

3:39

I could fuck around with that. Yeah. That

3:41

sounds good. Well, shout out to

3:43

every symbolic person listening.

3:46

And I guess it's like one of those things where I have

3:48

never had their cuisine. Oh, no, I have to. Now

3:50

it will become my, I

3:52

want to say hyper fixation, but my mother calls them

3:54

enthusiasm. Oh, I think that's

3:57

nice. One of your enthusiasm.

4:00

some alien food in LA. How

4:02

are you doing? I'm good. God,

4:04

I'm trying to think. I'm currently

4:07

taking a couple days off just like where is this

4:09

up September 1st or recording this? Yeah. Just

4:12

and I just like I I really

4:14

struggle to relax and also there's just so much

4:16

to do like I'm just setting up doctor's appointments.

4:19

It's non-stop. I have to go to FedEx.

4:22

So it's one of those things where it's like oh I really like to do something

4:24

fun. It's like no I really just got to like

4:27

clean and do all the other human stuff

4:29

that I've been putting off. Yeah. But that's not

4:31

much of a vacay. Yeah.

4:33

My plan on Monday while everyone

4:36

is off including me but you know

4:38

from what is to like

4:40

completely empty out and reorganize my

4:42

like front closet. That's like a catch-all

4:44

for everything I own that doesn't make sense

4:47

in another place and it's chaos in there

4:49

and I've got to deal with it. It's like there's

4:51

like a beach umbrella, batteries,

4:53

like old photos,

4:56

water cans. Like it's just chaos. Well

4:58

how about I do the same and then we could be

5:00

cleaning our big catch-all

5:02

closet at the same time. I really like that. Let's

5:04

do that on Monday. You

5:07

know cross-country. Because what else are we doing?

5:10

Nothing. I'm not doing anything. I'm gonna get stoned

5:12

and put on some music and just slowly go

5:14

through everything that's in there and hopefully throw some stuff away.

5:16

Sounds like a treat. Yes. Also

5:19

I'm gonna go see Bottoms. I haven't seen a non-horror

5:21

movie in forever. I'm gonna try to see some non-horror

5:24

movies. That's fun. I'm excited to see that.

5:26

People have said it's really funny and I

5:29

just want

5:30

a movie that's not the

5:33

movie strays. Which

5:35

I will continue to have a horrific vendetta

5:38

against. I want a movie

5:40

that feels like a human being wrote it and I refuse.

5:43

And that human beings are in it. And human beings

5:45

are in it and I refuse to see anything less. I

5:47

don't need to be the best movie in the world. I just

5:49

need to have a human touch. Don't

5:52

tell anybody anymore Star Wars movies. Don't

5:54

tell anyone. No more Marvel movies. I

5:56

don't want to hear about any fucking IP.

5:58

That's like a book. or something, that's fine. Yeah, sure,

6:01

sure, sure. But not like the tense

6:03

iteration of an entertainment

6:05

institution. Like I just don't want it anymore. I

6:07

want new, fun, human

6:10

stories. And if they're queer,

6:13

that's even better. Even better.

6:16

But yeah, let us begin. We

6:18

are doing Greatest Fears Month.

6:21

Yes. And we are using our

6:24

own Greatest Fears. Mm-hmm,

6:26

yes. We did The Dentist last

6:28

week with The Dentist from 1996. I

6:31

brushed my teeth after we finished recording. Fuck,

6:33

I didn't. You didn't see my teeth just start to fall out. But

6:36

then I had the pickle and I'm just like, we were

6:38

mixing some stuff here. Interesting, yes, like

6:40

drinking orange juice had to brush your teeth. Yeah. We

6:43

are doing, this week, we're going to

6:45

do Heights, one of Alice in the Spheres. Now

6:48

we are gonna do, I tried to

6:51

watch

6:51

the 2022 movie Fall

6:54

because it's about a two women

6:56

climbing an extremely long tall tower. But

6:58

I had a problem with my Netflix account

7:00

or just sort of like, I will just never use

7:03

Netflix. If you're making it hard for me,

7:05

that's the one. Was it like a login situation

7:07

or was it like this title is unavailable? The

7:09

title's

7:10

unavailable for,

7:12

if you have a subscription where you have ads. But

7:14

I didn't realize that's what I had. So I was like, oh, I'll upgrade

7:17

to no ads because it's not that much more expensive.

7:19

But then it doesn't take effect until

7:21

like the next time it's revealed. So

7:24

like, I guess I could watch it after September 30th.

7:26

So then what did I do? Anywho, the

7:29

fact that they're trying to do this means obviously they're not

7:31

making money, streaming is a scam. You

7:33

know, what do you do? Streaming is a scam, they don't pay residuals,

7:35

they don't take care of their artists

7:38

and employees. So, fuck them. Yeah, and

7:40

if they think those yachts of theirs aren't gonna

7:43

go up in flames sometime soon, they

7:45

got another thing coming. Orca, do

7:47

your thing. But I did

7:49

find a movie that I had wanted to watch for

7:52

the pod for a while, and that movie is

7:54

2010's Frozen. Yes.

7:57

And we always like to have Allison watch the trailer. Allison, what did you

7:59

think about the movie? a trailer for Frozen. This

8:02

is very scary. This has a lot of, this

8:04

has like a lot of

8:05

different fears. Heights

8:09

being a big one, but also

8:12

being abandoned somewhere. Yes. Is

8:15

like a very scary, like, I don't

8:17

know if I would like identify that as like, I'm terrified

8:20

of, but like, and then also, uh,

8:23

dark, deeply dark, dark

8:26

darkness trapped at night,

8:28

outside winter time, high

8:30

up at high up. It's everything. It's all

8:33

of a sudden. And then I didn't

8:35

like it. I don't know if it's in the trailer because I haven't not watched the

8:37

trailer. There's another in the other, other

8:39

minutes. Wolves. And honestly, I didn't, I didn't

8:41

look, I just started watching this. I wasn't anticipating

8:44

the wolves. I was like, Oh boy, take it from bad to worse.

8:46

Wow. But in this context,

8:48

I would be.

8:49

Yes, of course. And very wish

8:51

for me.

8:52

Yeah. Um, we always take

8:54

a baseline scary. And I guess what I would

8:57

ask you, Alison,

8:58

which,

8:59

how does this just from the trailer, what

9:02

of this evokes in you the

9:05

biggest fear, and then also

9:07

cause you said you're afraid of heights,

9:09

what it to you was like the most, the

9:11

situation with heights you would never find yourself at because a

9:14

chairlift is high, but it's not that high. I

9:16

like, I used to ski a lot when I was

9:19

younger and I didn't love

9:21

being on the chairlift, but I could kind

9:23

of like

9:24

dissociate

9:26

for the ride. Cause they're brief.

9:28

Yeah. It's not taking too long. To

9:30

me. It's like, I thought there was something

9:32

I saw on TikTok that wasn't even supposed to be like,

9:35

like evoking this the other day, but it was like, um,

9:37

I get served a lot of like New York real

9:39

estate shit. And it's like, you know, look at that $57 million.

9:43

I'm like, okay. Um, but

9:45

it was a guy who was like on like

9:48

the 50th floor of this,

9:50

like, luxury apartment

9:52

building. And he was out on their terrace

9:56

and he was like leading on

9:59

the railing. And it's like, it was like. a glass wall and it was

10:01

like, you know, it came up to like, maybe

10:03

his like waist. And I was like, I

10:05

don't think that that is height like, like

10:07

a strut like I and so there was a drone

10:09

that was like kind of like zooming

10:12

in and out and I was like, this is so

10:14

like I could like I remember my friend lived

10:16

on the 31st floor in midtown

10:19

of a building and he had Florida ceiling windows and

10:21

I put into it. I wouldn't go near

10:23

the window. I would either across

10:25

the I was like up against the front door the whole

10:27

time and like it was and that wasn't

10:30

even that bad in comparison

10:31

to like what some like

10:33

I don't I don't

10:35

I don't get it not bad on flying. I like

10:39

can I have other fears you're kind of contained

10:41

and you're also moving. You can just not

10:43

look a little different. You could not look out the window and

10:45

like you're not visually aware of the height

10:47

situation but like being on a ladder

10:50

being up on a like, I

10:52

just I live on the third floor and I have a terrace to me

10:55

that's high enough. I you know, whenever

10:57

you see like window washers in New York on the

10:59

outside of a building. Well, I though

11:01

I always get video of I'm assuming this

11:03

is the building you get video as well as

11:05

the Central Park Tower. Oh, yeah,

11:08

has 98 above ground

11:10

stories. Nope. And

11:13

it is the second tallest building in New York City,

11:15

the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

11:18

The 15th tallest building

11:20

in the world and literally like I've

11:23

seen you know, because obviously they're like, Oh, look how luxurious.

11:26

I don't know what no rich people

11:28

think being alive is I

11:30

know like just to be that high

11:32

is

11:34

there's something in me. I don't say

11:36

lizard brain or my mammal brain or

11:38

what

11:38

it is perverse

11:41

in a very particular terrifying

11:43

way.

11:43

And I'm just thinking,

11:45

New York gets rain, it gets wind,

11:47

it gets snow. You want to be up that

11:49

high? No hearing your windows

11:53

flex against now fucking wind.

11:55

No, when you're like certain tall

11:57

buildings that sway in the

12:00

wind and the rain like they're built that way. You

12:03

have to know this in this way and you're 1500

12:06

feet above the earth? No.

12:08

You might go down the moon. I have no interest.

12:11

No fucking interest. That is not

12:13

impressive. If I, if I, if I met

12:16

somebody like you have to, whatever it is, you have

12:18

to control it. Stop it. You have to see a

12:20

doctor about whatever making you live here. So

12:23

we're on the same page and I'm really glad. Would

12:25

you like to guess the twist

12:28

in 2010's Frozen, Allison? Guess

12:31

the twist. Okay,

12:35

so

12:36

from what I can tell from the trailer, it's

12:38

these three friends that are going skiing and snowboarding

12:41

and they like scam their way into getting

12:43

a Lyft ticket without paying. My

12:45

guess is the Lyft operator saw

12:48

their grift and intentionally

12:51

trapped them up there. Oh, malicious.

12:54

Malicious, malignant, evil, depraved,

12:56

based. We love to see it. Let

12:59

us begin. Ruining Frozen. We

13:02

open on a beautiful ski slope. Oh wait, I just

13:04

asked, do you ski? So I used

13:06

to ski, I can't ski anymore because of my back

13:08

obviously, but I spent my whole year.

13:11

You shadow into a million pieces. Yeah, I spent my whole youth skiing a lot.

13:14

We used to get my dad and I used to go out to Colorado and

13:16

ski in the powder

13:18

and I would ski up and down the West Coast all the time and

13:21

I, but I haven't done it since college. Yeah,

13:23

we used to go such a bummer. We used to go skiing or

13:25

from Northeast Ohio and we

13:27

would go to this ski,

13:30

just like sort of like a smaller,

13:32

I don't even know what you call it. It's

13:35

not a resort, but it's like a slip. Yeah.

13:38

Yeah. But unfortunately I believe they've been having,

13:40

I don't think it was still open because

13:42

of climate change. Like

13:44

Northeast Ohio does not get the snowfall.

13:47

When I was in fifth grade, I remember going and it was

13:49

like there was five feet of powder. Like

13:51

we got so much like lake effect snow.

13:54

Yeah. And now I really wonder

13:57

if this is, okay, it looks

13:59

like. it's still open. But yeah,

14:01

I imagine that it is a struggle

14:04

to keep snow on it. A lot of the ski

14:07

slopes got hit. Like I think about

14:09

like we used to go in Western

14:11

Maryland and in New York State

14:13

and Pennsylvania all the time. And like,

14:16

none of those places got snow in the last two

14:18

years. So I don't know what's

14:20

happening with that. But yeah, it looks

14:22

like okay, I found their Instagram, it looks like they do a lot

14:24

of like nature stuff like, you know, like other

14:27

seasons, like they have like concerts

14:29

and stuff there. That's smart. I yeah,

14:31

because I I do wonder

14:34

that is part of part

14:37

of a sporting world that

14:39

I wonder if I do climate

14:41

change naturally affecting it. Yeah.

14:44

What that's

14:45

gonna look like. I do skiing. Did you

14:47

ski or snowboard or both? I did

14:50

ski. Snowboarding was like popular

14:52

in the 90s. But I never remember my brother's

14:55

trying it. I just didn't have any interest. I

14:57

thought it looked mean either. But I was just like, it's not for me.

14:59

I was like, I already once I learned how to ski and was

15:01

like a decent skier. I was like, well, I'm not gonna start

15:03

from scratch. Like it took a minute to get good

15:05

at skiing. Like, yeah, be

15:08

able to do what I'm doing. I

15:10

guess I feel like I

15:12

oh, my problem was like, this I have the same

15:15

problem with the beach. I want to do something for about a

15:17

half an hour. Yeah. So it's like

15:19

you go you have to pay money to rent all this

15:22

stuff. You know, so you're there for hours because like your

15:24

parents are like, we buy you fucking passes. You're

15:26

gonna be here for five hours, bitch. And

15:29

I just after about an hour, I'm like, I'm just gonna go drink

15:31

hot cocoa. And I do love like

15:33

a pre ski culture. Oh, oh, yeah.

15:36

I snuggled sweater, little like,

15:39

you're kind of like your cheeks are ready from being outside

15:41

and you've like exercise you kind

15:44

of get to like enjoy like I remember getting

15:46

like hot chocolate and like chicken tenders and fries

15:48

and heaven. I will say I do remember

15:50

somebody tweeting it was like, the

15:52

Winter Olympics were invented so that white

15:54

people can win some of the sporting events. And

15:57

I correct if you look at the demographic.

16:00

playing out of course but they're wondering

16:02

had that winter games in Sochi and they had to basically

16:04

import all the snow because they didn't know

16:06

that and that was a couple years ago yeah well clays

16:08

they were like dogs walking

16:10

around in

16:14

the hallways of the hotels

16:16

I don't think that was true but yeah

16:19

what a time in our nation's history well movie

16:21

god I suppose let us begin

16:23

ruining the

16:25

movie frozen Allison

16:28

we open on a

16:30

ski slope and we meet our friends

16:33

they are Dan Parker and Lynch

16:36

that's his last name is her same Joe and

16:38

basically Dan and Lynch

16:40

have been at this ski place before

16:42

and Parker sort of brought along she is Dan's

16:45

girlfriend and they've already

16:47

established that Lynch and Parker sort

16:49

of

16:50

Lynch is not like Parker because he

16:52

sees her as sort of butting in on their bro time

16:54

okay yes of course and he's been friends with

16:57

Dan since they were in first grade and he's like

16:59

and and the implications there in college and Parker

17:01

sort of dance first real serious

17:04

girlfriend and they have a seemingly a really

17:06

positive healthy relationship but Lynch is very

17:09

jealous of their like connection in time

17:11

he's

17:12

already like oh my god we got to bring her supposed

17:14

to be like are we go skiing together and that's

17:16

our thing but they're

17:18

waiting at the ski slope because they do not have

17:20

enough money for a pass so what they

17:22

do these two guys when they've gone before is

17:25

wait until there's a woman who works at

17:27

the ski lift and

17:29

one of them will go with hit on her and then give

17:32

her $50 and be like

17:34

let's just let us ride we're paying you directly

17:36

we have our own stuff don't worry about it and

17:38

usually it works Allison this time

17:40

the person shows up as a dude and everyone

17:43

has to be heterosexual a parent so

17:45

they say Lynch and Joe sorry Lynch

17:48

and Dan say to Parker you're gonna go hit on

17:50

this guy you're gonna say you mean my girlfriends

17:53

okay you're not gonna mention us we want to

17:55

know oh we forgot our credit

17:57

cards this is so embarrassing we drove all the

17:59

way here Is there any way you can let us ride?

18:02

And, uh, Dan leads over and unzips her

18:04

coat and likes to see her like cleavage. He's

18:06

like, you're going to do great. And he gives her 50 and two 50. So 50

18:10

and a hundred dollars. Um, so she

18:12

goes over to scam the ski lift guy and

18:15

lynched her with and just unleashes all of his pent

18:17

up friend at a box towards her,

18:20

like drama Parker. I just Dan, Dan

18:22

immediately. He's like, why does she have to come? We

18:24

haven't seen you as Fizzy Wigs for $1 drafts

18:26

all semester or a Monday night football.

18:30

It's like your pussy whipped, you know, right

18:32

there. The ski resort is called Mount Holliston.

18:35

He's like Mount Holliston used to be our thing. And

18:38

Dan is, he's like the most emotionally mature

18:40

college guy. He's just like, you know, you gotta tell

18:42

me when you're there, subset, like you don't, don't want to

18:45

build up. Like I, wow. Emotional

18:49

maturity. He's like, I watched football with you

18:51

last week. He's like, and let's

18:53

just like, well, I know, but this is not the same thing. It's

18:55

like try to like have this conversation, but

18:57

she was like, oh, I'm spending more time with my girlfriend. You

19:00

know, this seems like a serious thing. Lynch was sort of

19:02

a, my life partner. And now it's like, you

19:04

know, this sort of friend jealousy of a romantic

19:07

partner, but then we can't have anywhere backstory

19:09

because Parker comes over. The guy bought it, you

19:11

know,

19:12

well, they're going up. Yeah.

19:14

And Dan immediately is like, you

19:16

know, they're lying. And of course the guy's like, I thought

19:19

you should do your girlfriend's arrived live. And she was like,

19:21

I'm sorry. And he'd get on the lift and

19:23

immediately Dan says, you gave him the full $100. She's

19:26

like, I never scanned anyone before. I never, I

19:28

never, what was she supposed to do? Why did he

19:30

give her a hundred dollars? And if you said you gave me two

19:32

fifties, I was supposed to ask for change or. I

19:34

was trying to convince this guy to let us on the fucking lift

19:37

and Dan's like, no, you're right. I want to say great

19:39

work, babe. And Parker says, you never

19:41

call me pet names. You just call me

19:44

Parker. And so then you kind of see

19:46

Dan try to intentionally call her baby,

19:48

baby to make her like, cause she clearly

19:50

likes it. And I was like, Oh, he's taking what

19:52

she said. And he's like, Oh, I don't use pet names. I

19:54

should call her baby. She likes that. Oh, Dan.

19:57

I'm so impressed by this character. I

19:59

know.

19:59

And I feel really bad what's gonna happen.

20:02

Oh, yeah

20:03

So of course we get on the ski list and we're already here like

20:06

the groaning the metal the

20:08

straining Yes, they're they're like

20:10

having a time of their lives. We know that they're in a horror movie

20:12

So yeah, we're I mean, I even hearing those down

20:15

Yeah, when you know you're you're likely to

20:17

be safe and you're actually like is not

20:19

a nice thing to hear It's a dental drill.

20:22

You're like exactly exactly Right, can you

20:24

just imagine

20:24

you'll just hear like these that metallics like spring

20:26

and then the whole thing will just fucking drop

20:28

exactly But

20:32

Lynch keeps trying to want to pick a fight

20:34

with Parker and sort of like position

20:36

him like Triangulate against her and it's like

20:38

dude just like learn to like

20:40

her a little bit and then you all

20:42

hang out It's you know, just accept that

20:44

this is a natural part of life, but there also feel

20:47

like 20, you know I mean and so she

20:49

lights up a cigarette she smokes and he's

20:51

like, oh wow. I'm really enjoying the fresh mountain

20:53

air Let me see what it smells like an old man's

20:55

dental floss That was a funny way

20:57

to describe the snow that is right. So interesting

21:00

and she's like, oh my god we're outside like

21:02

it's not a big deal and Parker

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then says when do you think we'll be back like because

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basically it is that they are probably like an hour

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to drive from Their college so

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there they go for a couple hours and they said what

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did it go back? Cuz I have all this reading to do and

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Lynch says see she's already breaking the first

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rule of ski day No talking about

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anything else except it's like of it was this powder

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You know, like we are here to unplug

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and as a result else and they have left all

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their cell phones in their locker Great.

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So none of them have a cell phone cuz it's 2010 You'd

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be like, well we if we were skiing we would

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have our cell phones on us because everyone has their

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cell phone Yeah, right It's like now you like

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that's like one of the good things that cell

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phones have provided us is this ability

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to be like scenario But how would

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it happen like communication

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in a dangerous? scenario,

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yeah, but