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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for tuning in for the WBM podcast. This is one of your hosts. It's your boy Merc. Welcome back, everybody.

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It's your boy XM.

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It's your boy Hoskey in the mid. In the mid.

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Tell him, Mark.

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Guys, we got a bummer for you today.

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We're gonna talk about uh a show I was catching in HBO Max, the pit.

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For all those of you guys who haven't seen it, uh we're also gonna be talking about I love the football.

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A football.

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And uh if you guys love musicals, I know you do. If you're a Disney fan, you're gonna like this one. Not really, I'm just kidding. Uh but there's some Megan in uh the possible mix. Maybe we'll throw it around in a circle. Who knows?

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Stick around. It might just be another night in the middle. It's a boulevard. Let's go!

SPEAKER_04 1:05

I'm so glad you said that because I was gonna say that too. It just didn't night.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Dude, that was awesome. You guys, I didn't know that's what we were gonna do. We're gonna have to play out the scene, you know?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Oh, bro.

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I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. McGill.

Chicago Trip And Gundam Haul

SPEAKER_01 1:16

There you go. Anyways, I'm back in the studio this week. If you've been following us, our last episode, I was on the road. I was in Chicago, Chicago, Chicago Mang, Chirak, Chai Town. Love so many names. Uh the windy city. It really is windy out there, I'll tell you what. I tell you what. They have snow out there, which is wild. Damn, it's isn't it spring? Oh, yeah. They snowed like a couple of days when I was there. Chicago was cool. For the people, for all the nerds out there, Chicago is the only place that has a Gundam base, a permanent Gundam base store in the United States of America.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

I had no idea. That's actually pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

It's the first Gundam base in America. We'll put the more you know thing here for you. I got a couple of Gundams here, but these are not from the Gundam base. I bought Well, to be I was on the road. Like I took like one checked in bag and one, you know, carry-on. I was like, where the fuck am I gonna put all these Gundams? But I did buy like three Gundams, three waifus, three uh little mini mini figure arts, uh a desktop mat, uh a fucking uh keychain.

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Damn, this guy said I had to go run to the post office.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

I gotta mail some shit off. I bought some Gundam shit. It was cool, man. So I I'll post some of the stuff on uh I'll post some of the stuff on social media. I don't have it hanging with me. But uh once I finish some builds, I'm gonna start posting them on social media. Love it. Guys, stay tuned. Chicago is cool. I mean, I don't know what you guys think about Chicago. Have y'all ever been to Chicago?

SPEAKER_02 2:43

I have been to Chi Town. I've been to the University of Illinois, McDonald's University, Notre Dame. You've been up there? Yeah. For what? Yeah, for Lulak. Shut up. But yeah, man. I had a great time, man, as a kid. We went up there, they uh were all about like college instructions and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

I had never tried actual Chicago dip dish. Did you try Chicago dip dish where it's like a fucking like casserole dip dish?

SPEAKER_02 3:06

I wanted to, bro. I've always wanted like a real one, not no bullshit that we have that year.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

I mean, we're talking about deep. How I do in your button. Oh yeah. Deep.

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Like yeah, keep going, bro. Keep going. Yeah. That's what she says. Come on, let's go.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

And you know, the waitress comes. I went to this place called Jordanos. Jordanos. And it's becoming like a chain over there, though. They already have like a bunch of locations. But it's supposed to be one of a really good plays. And the waitress comes and she'll like pick up a slice and lift it. Oh, with the big ass cheese pool, right? That's sick. She lifts the slice and you get the cheese pool. And I gotta record it and everything. You know, you gotta do that tourist shit.

Deep Dish And The Bean

SPEAKER_00 3:47

You guys hungry tourist shit every now and then. That's cool, dog. Yeah. I've seen that trend on the TikTok. Yeah, it looks cool. And the last time I did that, I went to go flick the bean. Hey, oh, since you gotta flip it.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

They say there's a person in there. No, the the the big bean in Chicago is like a chrome bean. Uh it's the actual name of it is the is the is the cloud gate. Oh, it's it's not as hard to find as people. But they call it the clitoris. Really? It's a lot easier to find there than you would think. Oh wow. Or for some people, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

But yeah, it's somewhere at the top, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:22

I came up to be a flicked bean, I knocked on the bean, I like went around the bean. For some reason, there's power to the bean. You know, you know. He did an Eskimo kiss to the bean. There's a conspiracy that somebody's living inside the bean. Yeah. I didn't realize how big this motherfucker was. It's massive, right? It's like huge. It's like bigger than this room. It's like uh yeah, it's like bigger than a small New York apartment. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. I always thought you could go inside of it and under it and kind of touch the uh the top of it, but no, no. It's like you can't? Really? No, you can't. How tall is it? Like like a little bit? Like from your hand or like Nah, it must be like 10 feet, 11 feet. From from where your hand can't reach? At the center. Damn. No, from the like 10 feet. From the highest point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

It's like 10 feet. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Now maybe maybe a lot higher than that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

That's interesting, bro. Wow, I had no idea. I didn't know it was.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

That bean is big, bro. That's a big bean. I'm glad you flicked it, buddy. And if you wanna, you gotta go all around that bitch, you know. Some some people would call that Brazilian.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

I'm just thinking, I don't mean that. I would not be.

Flight Routines And Movie Watching

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Anyways, made some connects over there in Chicago. Look out for the collabs coming up. But in the meantime, on the flight back, I was looking for something to watch. It was a three-hour fucking flight. Do you guys watch movies on flights? What do you guys do?

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Sleep. Because I the white noise just. Word? Nah, bro.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

I hit the uh the white noise does. I hit the hookah with the bazooka and I watched the hook. Hookah with the bazooka. RP my granny, you know what I'm saying?

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And uh stop for our other episode.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Anyway, yeah, no, uh, I watch movies, bro. I'm like, oh shit, I just saw this, but I want to watch it again on a plane, why not? But you fly mundanely, though. Like, it's not even like a fun thing to you anymore, right? Like, it's more of like a going to the doctor's office for you at this point, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Both of y'all, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

As much as I've flown in the past year, it's crazy how like you you do get used to it.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Yeah, I remember when I was flying a lot in high school, bro.

The Pit On HBO Max

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Like, you're like, alright, just go, it's part of the process. Here we go again. I remember being nervous about flying. Yeah, being kind of scared of flying because I was like, man, if I'm not driving the thing, I'm scared. Right. Like with a car. I can't like take somebody else driving because I'm like, this motherfucker don't know how to drive. Yeah. I'm like, this motherfucker riding the plane. What the fuck? I would have like put up the fucking uh auxiliary like three minutes earlier. Okay, I play Microsoft Simulator. Anyways, we can do this, bro. We can do this. Anyways, I couldn't find anything to watch. I somebody recommended a show on HBO Max called The Pit. It turns out it's a really good show, guys.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

I've heard about it.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

I'm only like five, six, six episodes in to the first season. Second season is like currently like out, like episode to episode. How many episodes per season, like you're asking? I think the first season was 15 or 14, 14 or 15. I think the second season is actually gonna be 14 and 15. So it is a very realistic doctor show. I really like the main character, the actor is called No While, because he was in a little sci-fi show called Falling Skies.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Oh, I've heard about Falling Skies.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Yeah, he was the main in Falling Skies. Okay. And this show, he's the main, the main character again. He's the main doctor. So the the the concept is the it's an ER.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

The pit is what they call the hospital in Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

So it's a very central hospital in Pittsburgh, and it's an ER, and it's it's like packed in there, and you know, like the show the waiting area, they got it's packed with with patients ready to go in, and uh it's just this big commotion and the the hustle and bustle of the ER. But what really sold me on it is that uh every episode is like an hour, like the whole season is one shift. Oh wow, really?

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Yeah one shift is one season? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Oh, that's cool, dog. So it starts at 7 a.m. when he's walking into his shift, and in hour two is 8 a.m., 9 a.m. 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 8:14

Oh, every hour this is transpiring.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Yeah, so you remember 24?

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

So it's 24, but in the ER. I think it works better because 24 sometimes was like, come on, he's not going from Mexico to fucking Canada in one hour. Anyway. Blood hole. But in the ER, in the ER it works because it kind of works three minutes later, we're arresting the president.

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Yeah.

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In the ER it kind of works because he's going from looking at this patient to looking at this patient to hey, we got a gunshot wood coming in and GSW as they call it.

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GSW gunshot wound.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Gunshot wood coming in, we got this patient that we gotta check out. There's interns because it's a teaching hospital. So you got the interns, you got the residents, you got the first years, you got the second years, and we're keeping up with everybody winning this shift.

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Yeah, very cool.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

I think that's a really cool concept.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

I really like that. It's such a good show that believe it or not, quick sidebar. The show Scrubs, first episode of the new season, it literally, I think, pays homage to the pit because the first episode is like there's a gunshot victim who's coming in through the doors. Everybody's like, all right, get into positions, they all have a shit. They do all that. It's just like okay. He's stable. They do all that. Great job, Dr. Dorian. And then you start seeing like big titty bitches in the background. He's like, I am a great doctor. And then it goes into our scrub shit. But it's like, I thought it was very cool to get that. I'm like, oh man, this show could still work if it was set up like this too, bro. You know? But they're like, okay, cool, we're gonna let these guys have their moment. Like, that's their thing. But just want to let you know, I think the shit's really cool too. Like, I just thought it was cool, man.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

No, it's pretty cool, it's pretty cool. Uh from what I from the reviews that I read, it's pretty realistic. Because sometimes it's hard to like make doctor shows realistic. Yes. Um, but it's just very realistic so far. They show everything. Like they brought in a patient who got run over by the by the subway, by the metro. Oh shit. So her leg got run over. So her leg was like completely like, and it's all bloody and stuff, and they just fucking rearrange it, and it's like, oh. They showed uh the show like cutting into another one, getting ready to prep for the OR. They show people get pissed on. Damn. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:28

This is R. Kelly video? What happened?

SPEAKER_01 10:31

That's wow.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

That's 10 minutes into the shift.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Right.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

That's 10 minutes into getting the company. I mean, there's there's there's there's there's not even clocked in yet.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

One of the medical students is his first year, like uh, or he's the first he's the first year at the ER.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

He's a first year intern, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

He he got pissed on, he got bloodied on, and then he got bloodied on again. And he had to he already had to change scrubs like four times in the first four hours. So we'll see what happens by the end of the shift.

EMT Ride Along And Medical Reality

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Believe it or not, interns actually have to unpack like the most assholes out of any other profession, just so you're aware.

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That's what I keep mine clean for you.

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Fun scrubs facts, just so you know.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

As a matter of fact, way back when, like years ago, I wanted to I wanted to be an EMS. I wanted to be a paramedic or yeah, paramedic. And I took that class at Lunar College. I took the I took the EMS like six months to be an EMT LSC. And I got my basic EMT certification. Oh shit. But when I do went to go do my ride-along, or what do you call in my Yeah, it's a ride-along.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

That's exactly what they call it.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Yeah, there's a specific word for it. I forgot at the top of my mind. The thing your mom does is call it a ride on it, but so you do a 12-hour shift riding along and the hospital and the ambulance and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Bro, they have that in scrubs too. Dr. Cox does. Maybe he had to do a 24-hour shift. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Yeah, so because yeah, the hospitals and every and everybody else, they do 12, 15-hour shifts. It's crazy. So the the the the right it's not right-on it, I can't remember the word. It was a 12-hour shift. All I saw, I mean, these people are heroes. I mean, it just wasn't for me, because all I saw was fucking vomit and feasies. It's a lot, man. I I commend those people, man. Mostly old people. Mostly, yeah. Mostly like a big percentage of just taking care of old people, and which is cool. I mean, nothing wrong with that. It's just it's not what you see on TV. It's not what you see on TV at all.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Scrubs does a good moment of that, man. It says that he's like modern medicine, it helps people survive that should have died a long, long time ago.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

It does. It does. And I mean, it has these big moments about you know, keeping an old guy, do you keep it on a breeding machine, even though intubating somebody really hurts him and he's not comfortable, why would you keep somebody that's 80 years old on a breeding machine? So it goes into the ethics of all that. It's crazy. It's crazy what the people in the medical industry have to go through. Like I said, it wasn't for me. Like I actually got my EMT basic certification. I went through the whole semester. And at the end of the day, when I went out there and did my uh I forgot. But you do it at the end of the semester to get the thing. I realized, hey, this is not for me.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

And a lot of people, unfortunately, that's how they realize it's not for them. Like they don't know until they do it.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Yeah, because they're I mean, you can only learn so much in the classroom.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

And you can do great in class, but then when the pressure comes on, you don't have a private a private room, you don't get additional time, you don't get your your cheat sheet guy.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

You gotta do the practicals, and in the moment you gotta think about like, okay, how many things could be wrong with this patient? Yep. That's a lot. Like many mistakes could lead to like a patient dying. It's a lot of pressure, too. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

But like I said, that's why a lot of people, unfortunately, like they'll they'll spend the money, go through all the medical school, get to internship, or you know, they're yeah, and then they'll they'll drop out because of the pressure, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Shout out to everybody that's in the medical field. Shout out to the heroes, man.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

I know for sure.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

For sure, nurses. Y'all are the real MVPs. Y'all are wild. Y'all like parties, y'all are red flags. But at the same time, you're one hell of a green flag.

SPEAKER_04 13:50

Facts. And that's all we need to worry about. And that's the way the cookie crumbles.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

That's just uh that's just another 90 Sunset Boulevard, you know?

Flow State Rituals Through Football

SPEAKER_04 13:58

It's just another 90 Sunset Bull. Sunset Boulevard. So Segway. Oh, my turn. Yeah. So I like I imagine like in those situations, flow state is very, you know, important. So you need to be in the moment. So the thing about high-level situations when it comes to doctors need to be able to from what I imagine go out right into it. But if you're a doctor, like every day is flow state, but you know, sometimes it takes time to develop, right? They're pretty much from my topic.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Okay, flow state. I like that idea though, because yeah, that flow state is finding that sweet spot between challenge and boring. So you gotta be engaged a hundred percent of the time.

SPEAKER_04 14:36

Here's my bag from last week I told you. It's a really cool bag though, which you can see it in person. Yeah. And part of it is like, yes, getting that sweet spot, right? So, like to me, there's everybody has their own ritual to get into the flow state, right? So mine is like I got it from League of Legends, pretty much, which is like a development of the character called Renga where you stack. Upon stacking, it allows me to do abilities because that is what's called my passive, right? That's what it's called. And it's simple. And it's simple. It's four stacks, right? Number one, a simple pass, is what it is. You know, you get into the game, a simple pass, because it's so simple, it's like I did that right. So, like that kind of fucks with your key, like it boosts your ego, like you're you're doing great, right? The second stack is if you do it before the first stack, it counts as one and two, which is a successful long pass. Because if you do a successful long pass, you skip what you skip in stack one, jump to straight to stack two, and it builds your confidence. Like, look, you know, hey, long pass, build my confidence. And then stack three is win a 1v1. You know, if you if you jump straight to number three, that surpasses, you know, your that boosts your ego. You you immediately get faster flow state.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

I I think about it as XP. So first XP is a little bit, it gets you level one. It's a simple pass. Higher XP, a long pass, gets you level two. Uh-huh. And then you're like, oh, well, if you go ahead and just kill the Pokemon as an example, you get all the XP and you get to level three already.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Oh, what's the other word for some of the characters? We uh scale. Scale. So a lot of characters, I I think about it like that, scaling within the game.

SPEAKER_04 16:21

Yeah, exactly what it is. And the last one is just number four, go for goal. Like if I score, like off the bat, and then I just bypass all three, my confidence is off the roof. Yeah. And I'm closer to flow state. Once I hit my flow state, you know, domain expansion. My all my passives, right, my cooldown is reduced by at least 33%.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Because the scaling already got up there.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

His cooldown is implying that he's used this ability once, and in order for him to use it again, he needs an extended period of time in order for him to engage it again. That's right. So, like the JJK rolls.

SPEAKER_04 16:56

But it but it's a it's a double-hore kind of like so. If I use my Q, my abilities, my R, is the thing is like because my cooldown is, I can use it faster, but I don't use mana. I use energy, right? So can only use so much energy, but even though I have you know the abilities, you know, the cooldown, sometimes I don't have the energy, aka the stamina now. So sometimes somebody I'm I'm I'm tired, I'm gonna go goalie. I'm gonna go back to base.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Bo, once he's batteries recharged within his domain, all these passes will connect.

SPEAKER_02 17:28

That's right. And then what he's referring to by his W and Q are abilities that he can use in order for him to initiate or engage on the actual enemy. In other words, and these are the rules of the colon game.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

During my domain expansion, both teammates and opponents are amazed by the passes, so I can manipulate the trajectory. The sorcerer. However, because I sacrifice my ult because I don't go for a goal, I create unlimited opportunities for a goal.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Because he chose a higher level augment, it allows him to use his other abilities more often.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

Spamming my Q, my R, my A.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

And this domain will stay in effect. That's it, until an opponent breaks the other streak.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

By taking the ball. At which point then he loses all of his stacks and starts back at the beginning, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

And that's the fun of the calling games. Well, that's the challenge, right? That's a challenge to get you back in the flow state. When you do lose your stacks, that's an interesting point. When you do lose your stacks, that's where you become challenged, and all of a sudden your mind starts to like put in like overwork of like, hey, how can I like get that stack?

Losing Stacks And Accepting Defeat

SPEAKER_04 18:31

And that's the thing, and that's like the that the second lesson of Book with Five Rings type shit. Is that first and foremost, you gotta find your like your flow state, your ritual to f get into the flow state. And you know, it doesn't have to really be football. For me, it's football. But once you find your ritual for your flow state, you try to activate as much as possible. You know, whatever it may be. Find your ritual, follow your rules of the ritual you set up in order to continually spam your flow state. And that can be whatever it may be. You know, for doctors, if they're studying their profession, they usually have a ritual before they get into their flow state. So in my lesson of the book of Five Rings is like develop your ritual, find your ritual, meet the standards of your ritual in order to unlock your constant spamming the flow state. And that is the second lesson of the books of five rings type shit.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

I like it. I like you, man. I can't do that sound effect. Uh so lesson one, bully your opponents. Lesson two, find your ritual. Oh that's it.

SPEAKER_04 19:34

That's the second chapter, yeah. Subpoint stacks. There'll be more, guys. There'll be more.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Man, I really like the way you put that, honestly.

SPEAKER_04 19:43

Appreciate you, brother. Appreciate you. That's good. That's what I got. Next.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

So uh what do you do? Second. What do you do when you haven't really tr finding trouble like getting to the stacks?

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Oh, oh, oh, let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Yeah, because sometimes you gotta uh humble yourself and then mint defeat, you know? That way you can regroup for the next stage. That's what it is. If you just can't get it, you just didn't get it, you know. You just gotta accept defeat. But when you accept defeat, you gotta accept defeat graciously. Like, how do you want to lose, you know? Because there's games where I'm overwhelmed, we're losing, we're like, I fine, I lost, fuck it, whatever, 10-0, whatever. So this game, because the real reason I'm here is for cardio, I'm just gonna run up and down the lap, you know? And then from there you realize you're having fun, you know, because I'm just running up and down, the game is done, you know. I'm the best player in the field because I'm just having fun with it. Now I've eventually, in some way or somehow, forgiven the goal. Because if the goal is to like what do you call it? If you have a goal on it, it may disrupt other factors like the flow state, because you're so like adamant, I need to get this, I need to get this, and you may uh lose sight of other things along the way.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

I like that. I like that a lot. That seems like a lesson that you can even apply to like life.

SPEAKER_04 21:00

You guys sometimes you gotta know when to know when to quit. Facts, but you can't be fucking 50 acting like you're 25.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Yeah, but then sometimes it's just like Sunset Boulevard.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Who must have it? Okay, okay, okay. I thought you were gonna say that.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

That's our segue. Okay, then all right now I know.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

We didn't establish it. Well, you gonna Am I gonna say it or are you gonna say it? You're gonna say it. I'll say it. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

It's just another night.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Sunset boulevard.

SPEAKER_04 21:26

Sunset boulevard.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

Can't be 50, I can take 25.

Sunset Boulevard Musical Breakdown

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Yeah, bro. There goes another day. Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, man. The Sunset Boulevard is speaking of, it's uh Merck's Music Corner. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, we're visiting Merck's Music Corner. We're bringing it back. That's right, bringing it back season three or four. I don't even know. Jesus Christ. Anyway, yeah, it may have been season two, bro. Anyway. So the play, man, I I was assigned to do a report on a specific play, Sunset Boulevard. And I'm gonna go ahead and break it down for you guys real quick. And you're gonna be like, ah man, I don't like musicals. Yes, you do, bro. If you like if you like Disney, if you don't talk about Bruno, you know what I'm saying? If you know Rikueta, that man, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 22:09

People forget is that everybody grew up on musicals. 100%. We all grown up on musicals.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

Yeah. Even the shows, bro. Like one face like Gestun. No one is like Gaston.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

No one fucks all the anyway.

SPEAKER_04 22:23

Tripless like Gaston, like Gestun.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

But yeah, no, man. I can show you the world.

unknown 22:31

No.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

I will not.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Oh, wait, wait, wait. Everybody loves the music.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

The Hercules one.

SPEAKER_04 22:43

No chance. No way. I will say no no. It's cool. No way.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

I will say it no how. Yeah, I don't know how it is. So that was it, man. Three dudes. Singing here. 100%. It's probably out cheating with me. We me with the boys. No way. No chance. But yeah, no, man. The musical itself was called Sunset Boulevard. It takes place in 1950 in good old Hollyweird. And it's a it falls in a time where an up-and-coming writer is struggling. He ends up meeting this older woman who's a used to be in silent films, there's now talkies, and she's phased her way out. So she's kind of out of her.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

I like that in the back of the day, like they after silent films, they called the call the films now talkies.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Such a fun detail.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

I think it's really interesting that there was actually like there's there's true, there were stars that were in it that just couldn't cut it in a different kind of film. They were only good at the non-speaking part, so that's why it worked for him. It's crazy. It's so crazy. Yeah, there was like just a whole series of actors that never got a chance to do anything with it. I digress. So uh our failed writer or our struggling writer ends up meeting this older woman who ends up having a story. She does not let him leave because she's like, I want you to work on my story. But in order for him to stay, he has to actually like stay on the property in the house and like kind of go by where she says and what's what's allowed by her. If he's even allowed to leave at all, to be honest. Think of uh what's the movie we said? Uh Stephen King. Oh, The Misery. The Misery, there you go. It's something like that, right? So he starts going through this script with her, and she's super nitpicky about it, super controlling, so it takes him a whole lot longer in order to go through with it. He finally ends up finishing it, they submit it to the uh Paramount, and they're like, hey, we're gonna wait to see what they say. By this point, he should be leaving. The chick ends up manipulating him and guilt tripping him to be like, okay, I'll stay until we hear back. Ironically enough, on this bad script that they submitted, they still end up hearing back from Paramount. However, the main woman, her name is Norma. My main character's name is Joe. They Norma does not call Paramount back. He's like, she's like, she tells Joe, yo, I'm I'm gonna call him when I feel like it. They're calling me, obviously, right? They want my business. You're like, oh, okay, cool. You know, whatever she says. While this is going on, Joe steps out for a little bit and he ends up meeting Betty, and she is a woman that is introduced throughout the play in moments where she is trying to inspire Joe to basically write from the heart, from based on his experience, do something inspiring and something genuine whenever it comes to his writing. And he doesn't really think that he can. He doesn't know if he wants to do it, but Betty ends up actually pushing him and encouraging him enough where he's like, you know what? Damn it, we're gonna give it a shot. We'll try it. Right.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

So, pretty much like the old lady was like a sponsor to him, like, hey, I know you want to make it, you know, write me a script. You can live under my roof, you know. Hey, I'll give you, throw you some 50-year-old deucey if you want it. Here's some clothes, here's some food, here's a butler, whatever you want, baby, you know. Just know, I got you, right? But if but I'm getting from what I'm getting, he's like, Yeah, that's cool. But he also found like this other cute girl, Betty, and he's like, be poor with me, you know, start from the bottom.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Kinda. She just wants him to write. She's not even necessarily down to be broke, but he's like, Man, I'm trying to do something. I'm trying to make it, right? Because this whole thing is I'm looking for a job. But even when he gets offered the job by Norma, he's like, I'm busy. Like, I got another script I'm working on right now. I don't have the time to work on this. She's like, he's like, plus I'm too expensive. I need 500 a week. And she's like, Don't worry about it, I got it.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

And that's when he's like, Well, I don't have a place to stay. She's like, You don't have to. I got a spot for you.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

So there's no complaint. It happens like organically, where he like all of a sudden becomes dependent on her.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Right. Again, there's a there's an original snare that takes place in there. Like I said, for me, I believe it's a script because it needs a lot of work. And it normally could just be blazed through, just by, okay, you don't need this, you can use this, but she chooses to drag her feet and make it difficult so they can spend more time. It's like they're forced to interact more because of that. You know what I'm saying? Since that happens, they now end up actually showing up to uh oh no, I'm a liar. New Year's Eve happens. Norma and Joe have spent enough time together at this point where there's she believes he's under the impression that they're throwing a party. So they do a dance, they're doing the cool little waltz together, they have a moment, and after the song is over, Joe's like, all right, we're the rest of our guests. She's like, There are no guests, Silly, it's just me and you because I love you. And she kisses him. And she's like 50, bro. He's like 30. Right? So for him, he's like, Weird. I can't do this, I gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Yeah, he's like, nah, nah, pump the brakes. So at this point, he takes off, he's like, I'm gonna go to this party with my friends. I haven't seen him in a while. I'm finally out of this crazy ass lady's house. He goes there, he sees Betty. Betty is like, Look, I still need your help in the script, help me out with it. He's like, Okay, let's do this. At this moment, he ends up calling back to the house and he tells Max, which is Norma's butler. He's like, Yo, I need you to pack my shit. He's like, I can't help you, bro. He's like, What do you mean, bro? I just need you to grab my bags. He's like, No, I can't help you. I'm helping out the mistress right now. The deal is like, what's going on? He's like, Well, she ended up finding a razor in her room, and she she cut herself. And he, as soon as that line drops, the entire party that he's at, it's it goes off. It's uh Happy New Year, right? They're noisemakers, everybody he grabs the stuff immediately goes. He ends up reconciling, reconciling with Norma. They embrace, they kiss, and you're like, Oh shit, this is where the I love you thing comes into play. Act two of the play starts, and he's basically starting with a brand new white suit and his fanciest thing, and he's talking about all the dope stuff that he has, but it's basically because he's sold out. He's sold out to be in Sunset Boulevard. This is what it takes. He's like, but I'm not the only one. We all gotta do what we gotta do to pay our bills around here. He's like, Some people kiss ass, some people gotta do this, some people gotta do that, do that. This is what I have to do, and uh, but hey, I got a pool, I got 27 rooms, 13 bathrooms, and you know, everything and caviar and champagne for breakfast, baby. You know what I'm saying? I got it, I made it. You know what I'm saying? And I don't mind that the lady cops if you let me know every now and then. You know what I'm saying? That's how his mindset is when it comes to it. Fast forward through the play, they show up to the to the actual studio. Somehow away they they end up getting in through coincidence, more or less or another. And when she tries to, Norma tries to go and complain about her film, not complaining, she's like making demands, like this is how I want it done, this is and that. They leave only to find out that they were contacted not about her movie, but about her vehicle to purchase her car. So there is nobody who's trying to make a movie for her. And it was a big like kind of gut punch for the characters. Max and Joe end up finding out about this, they kind of keep it a secret from her and they go about their business. While this is going on.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

That's so crazy. What are their songs like throughout the musical?

SPEAKER_02 29:04

Man, they're really they they disguise a lot of stuff as far as like happy go lucky, even though it's it's a little bit more. It's like an upbeat musical. No, it's it's like a darker satire kind of thing, but and it's kind of operetic, pop operatic. Think that. You know what I'm saying? Not a bunch of dancing, way more singing than dancing or anything else. There are moments where they do have the musical aspect of it, but I enjoyed it, man. It was really good, it was better than what I thought. Going further, she realizes the movie isn't going to be made, or they realize it. Joe ends up falling deeper in for Betty. She ends up confessing that she's in love with him. She's about to get married, she ends up calling off the engagement because she confesses that she loves Joe. Joe's like, all right, well, I need to try to do something about this. When Joe goes home, Norma confronts him and is like, yo, who is whose phone number is this and who is Betty? Right? He's like, Look, I'm not even gonna worry about it. I haven't done anything at this point. I won't do anything. We're good. So it should be left alone. However, the old nosy bra, Norma as she is, she calls in the middle of the night and she calls Betty. And she's like, Yo, Joe ain't who you think he is. He don't live with his mama, he don't do this for work. You better, if you want to know why you should ask him and just see what he says to you. And out of nowhere, Joe steps in the room. He grabs the phone, he's like, Hey, you know what, sweetheart? You want to see what's really going on? Here's my address, blah, blah, blah, Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, come here right now. Yeah, we'll see you soon. Click. And she's like, Please don't be mad, Joe. You don't hate me. She's like, You can be anything else. She's don't hate me. He's like, whatever, bitch. All right, I'll see you in a minute. So then his uh his new bra gets there, Betty gets there, and she's so confused, what's going on? He's like, Look, you want some caviar? I got some champagne for you if you want, baby. He's like, You want to check out the pool in the back? She's like, What the fuck is going on? And he's like, We just said we loved each other earlier. What's the deal? He's like, Well, here's what it is. You're gonna marry the stupid guy because that's just basically what's set up for you. And I'm gonna stay here. I got a bunch of dope shit. I've acquired a lot of stuff being here. I'm not giving this up, but hey, if you want to come by and use my pool, baby, your mother's welcome to it anytime. You know, we can always come and kick it. And it's a what the fuck moment for her because she's like, that's not true. You don't need this. She's like, you can pack your shit up right now, we can go. Me and you, and we can head out of here. He's like, I was hungry out there, sweetheart. I don't think you know what that's like to be hungry the way that I was. I've wanted all this and I finally got it. Why would I walk away from it? So damn, right? What we all gotta do what we gotta do in Sunset Boulevard, right? So she's disgusted, she takes off, she's pissed off. And ultimately, in the end, he doesn't want to be under the control of Norman anymore. So he's like, Look, I'm sick of this shit, I'm leaving. I'm out of here, I'm gonna move away. I don't want to deal with this shit anymore. I'm over it. And she's like, Nobody leaves a star. That's why they want a star. So she goes to her room, she's crying, she comes back as Joe is walking out, and she pops his ass. Pow! Pow pow. Third time he hits the ground, and believe it or not, this is exactly how the play began. It's him narrating his death, and he's like, You guys are probably wondering how I got here. And then that's when the play starts. Ultimate in the end.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

That's such a good like you know, full circle moment. To cap the story.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

The big finale for it was that Norma ends up uh having the police show up to her home, and she's so mentally distraught and delusional at this point. She comes out in full gear, makeup, get up, and she is uh surrounded by like people, police taking photos of the crime scene and stuff like that. And she's struggling to do her scene, and out of nowhere, you see Max. You find out in the story that Max is an ex-husband, first director who like really saw her from the very beginning, ended up falling in love with her and marrying her. But even after they got divorced, he still stayed around as a cuck butler just to continue to serve her because he never wanted her to give up and surrender. So at the final moment, in order for her to finish this final scene that they have for her and leave in one piece, he tells her, Hey, we're acting out the final scene in your movie. We need you to go ahead. The cameras are waiting. And so she goes through her scene, she has her last little song, and that's when you hear this famous line, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. And the light solos on her, everybody else in the background fades out, and yeah, uh it ends. The story goes. It's very sad. There is no happy ending, unfortunately. She ends up going to prison, Joe ends up dying, and Betty ends off alone. But man, the stories were interesting, and it was a hell of a wild ride. And I hope you guys enjoyed Merck's Music Corner.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Just to that's Merck's Music Corner for you.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

That's right. Justin.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Another crazy night. In Sunset Boulevard.

Megan Thee Stallion Hits Broadway

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Damn right. Sunset Boulevard. Also in Broadway. Megan the Stallion. Megan Thee Stallion is in Broadway. That's right. Megan the Stallion is supposed to be throwing it around in the circle for she plays Ziggler at the Mulin Rouge.

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Mulon Rouge, ladies and gentlemen. Go check that out.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Look up all the videos on TikTok.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

Maybe she can get a crunchy roll sponsorship. You never know.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Not that she's doing Broadway. She's I mean, she could get an E-god. You never know. Oh, but yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_02 33:47

Of course it's what they're going for. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Megan the Stalin is everywhere. Yeah. She saved K-pop. She saved Anime. And now she's saving Broadway.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

I don't know if it's saving. One twerk at a time. Broadway never dies, baby. There can be a war, the Great Depression, or housing market crash, baby, but all Broadway always comes back.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

If anything is just another night in Sunset Boulevard.

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