My friend Eddy has never tried Arby’s until today. We all got to eat and we all remember our first time. Eddy Burback, welcome to the show. Hello! Hey, welcome to my car. Is this your actual car? This is my actual car. I know what you’re saying, “Josh, a man of your stature, why do you keep yourself so humble? And I say I’m not-” I wasn’t thinking that or saying that, even a little bit. Nope? No, that was all you, you came up, but finish the sentence please. Yeah, okay, I know what you were thinking. “Josh, why does your car smell like old pre-workout protein powder?” Mh-hm. Yeah, and that’s because there’s a lot of that stained into the carpet. Okay, and did you happen… And I know I’m gonna date this episode right away. Sure. Did you happen to see the news on lead in protein powder from this morning? No. Did you not? Is it, “Wow! They can’t believe there’s no lead in the protein powder”? That… that is not the news. Eddy, how much lead is in the protein powder? Listen, I saw it briefly. My friend Drew gave me a bunch of protein powder recently and I feel like he was trying to poison me. I just talked to him about the news this morning. Is this the Drew that bought every protein powder? That is the Drew. That is the Drew. Yeah, YouTube’s Drew Gooden. Big fan of YouTube’s Drew Gooden. Yeah. Big fan of that video. Yeah. He gave me a bunch. That was the protein stuff that he had at the end of that video, he was leaving L.A. and he is like, “Here you go.” ‘Cause I’ve been working out. Yeah. And I think he’s trying to poison me. I… That’s what I think. I don’t know. Lead poisoning feels very old fashioned, like something you do to like a count, or a duke. You know, I feel like not among friends. Yeah. I feel like if I’m getting lead poisoned, then I need to like pour a glass of whiskey and have a steak and be awful to my wife. I don’t have a wife. Yeah. No, that’s okay. I’m gonna turn the air down ’cause it’s hot in here. Yeah. We’re sweaty because there’s a lot of Arby’s in the back, and you’ve never had Arby’s before. Never before. Arby’s has always been around. And I’m never choosing it. I don’t know. And the thing is… I know there’s a- Was there ever a time where you got close, like you almost turned the wheel into the Arby’s and then said, “No”? Never, I… I have never really thought that much about getting Arby’s. I’ll say I was an Arby’s hater, like some people are without giving it a chance for a while. What made you hate Arby’s without ever having tasted it? Because people who have had Arby’s, they may have reason to hate it. Right, the idea of advertising to me when I was a child with a roast beef sandwich. Yeah. I was like, there’s nothing I could think of that I want less from a fast food place. Yeah. I want a cheeseburger and some nuggets or something. Sure. And then I got older and people were like, “It’s actually pretty good.” And then I just didn’t care enough to do it. And so here we go. There’s something about age and roast beef sandwiches in Arby’s. Like there’s some… I think as you you age you get more interested in Arby’s. It’s like podcasts about World War II, and Arby’s. Or like the things. Yeah. I just finished a whole podcast about the Cold War actually. It was incredible. And then now I’m eating Arby’s and I’m like, “Oh, this is how you know that you’ve officially aged out.” Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it’s that your frontal lobe develops and you want suddenly a roast beef sandwich from Arby’s. Like that parasite that makes you like crave human flesh or whatever. Except it’s just your frontal lobe makes you crave Arby’s. Which parasite is that? I don’t know, man. Can I get that? Is that something that might happen to me? Yeah, I watched a lot of videos about parasites when I was a kid. It couldn’t be in an Arby’s roast beef sandwich, right? No, ’cause, well, okay, so I’ll tell you why. ‘Cause they fully cooked their roast beef. So basically most parasites will die at around like 165 degrees. Can I say it? Yeah. I would’ve never assumed they didn’t fully cook the roast beef before then. Is that a possibility? Yeah, so then you’re not involved in the current lawsuit that is suing Arby’s over the color of their roast beef in their advertisements. Oh, it looks more cooked? No, it looks less cooked. Ooh! So they depict like a proper roast beef sandwich. First, so try this Jamocha shake. It’s gonna melt if you don’t. What did you say? What was it? This is the Jamocha shake. Okay. Nobody really knows why it’s called that. It might be- I’m assuming there’s coffee in it, right? There’s definitely coffee in it. This has been on the original Arby’s menu since 1964. And I’m guessing it’s a Port Monto of Java and Mocha. Okay. So Java is an island in Indonesia. And then Mocha is a port city in Yemen I believe. And Java’s also involved in playing Runescape on an old computer, I think. What? You said the programming thing, the like, Java, the… Somebody will know what I’m saying. This is only… I was an outdoor kid. I had, like, a ball. What the . I was an indoor kid? I was an outdoor kid, you know what I mean? Hey, cheers man. Cheers. It’s thick. It’s so thick! Sometimes you gotta blow it out before you suck in. Clear the pipes, they call it. I’m getting nervous about the pipe clearing though. You at the very top of the whole cup. Only one little drop came out. Yeah, sometimes it happens, man. As you get older, you eat Arby’s, you know, prostate starts enlarging. Mh-hm. And hold up, what was that last thing? Hmm? Prostate. Every man should be getting their prostate checked either by a professional or… After tasting this, did your expectations for Arby’s rise, or fall? It’s the exact same. If my heart flat lined right now, that would be the exact graph of how excited I am for Arby’s after this. It’s good! But like, is this… I mean, it’s like, yeah, it’s good. Yeah, I think it was Aristotle who said hunger is the best sauce. But I wanna update that to low expectations are the best sauce. I like that. So I think having that hatred of Arby’s as like a baseline, you know, whether it was in a former life or current, I think it’s gonna make it taste better. I don’t, I get very annoyed at people who go in with low expectations for something and they’re looking to confirm those low expectations because it’s like you’re never gonna enjoy a new experience in your whole life. You’re just trying to feel smarter than everybody else. A hundred percent. I am open to the Arby’s roast beef awakening something inside of me. Like the protagonist in a romance novel. “A Court of Arby’s and Roses.” You don’t seek out the Arby’s roast beef. Once you’re ready for it, it will come to you. Let’s start with the beef and cheddar. Let’s do it. Okay. Which one… Oh, it says it on the cover. So there’s a funny thing that happened to Arby’s. Well, you should have some packets of sauces. You gotta put the Arby’s sauce on it. Now, it’s equal parts corn syrup and red. What I love is the horsey sauce. It’s equal parts like mayonnaise and hot. Okay, wait. Yeah. Horsey sauce, and Arby’s sauce. Yeah, so you’re gonna want to combine those, all the beef and cheddar. Now, you can do like saucing the bites as you go or you can just splash it all on there. Hmm. I tend to alternate. I want to have it without the sauce and then compare. So, the lawsuit, surely you’ve seen commercials. Just any? Yeah. Yeah, one or two maybe. But if you’ve seen any commercials, you’ve probably seen an Arby’s commercial. Yeah. Because they’re trying. And I don’t… Yeah, this visual is not in the commercial. when they do the whole, “We have the meats.” With that crazy beat to it. Yeah. It’s not this visual. So that’s the one. Should I take the whole thing out? Is that what we’re doing? It can be helpful, but there is no juice inside the meat because as you see you squeeze it and nothing comes out. Is that how you found out? You just saw it and you started squeezing the meat and you’re like… I really found that I love tactile sensations of like squeezing my food. Really? I don’t think it’s a sex thing. Uh-huh, I wasn’t thinking that even a little bit when you said that, and then you did, now I do think is that. Sometimes, it’s like you’re worried that Arby’s is gonna awaken something inside you, but let’s try it. I also get one of those napkins here. Okay. Hmm. This is about to be the most average experience of your entire life. That is really just so like, okay. Oh, what’s the first time you remember being disappointed? I loved, loved, loved Rock Band 2. And I got very excited when Rock Band 4 came out. I was in community college, I had next to no money, and Rock Band 4 I believe was like 300 something dollars. And it was like a group game that we all played. And so at my job I like saved up money and I followed like the reviews for when it was gonna come out. And it was like they were talking about the story and I think there was an IGN review that was like “Rock Band Stories, basically an RPG in itself.” And then I bought it and it sucked. And there wasn’t a lot of rock music. The like catchiest song on that I could remember was “Uptown Funk”. And I remember it just like, the controllers kind of sucked. And I just remember being like, “I could not afford to buy this, And I still did and I got burned, and nobody’s gonna wanna buy this from me.” No. It was in community college. I had my brother and two friends. Who am I gonna sell it to? What was the most iconic song from Rock Band 2 that you remember? There’s a lot of Green Day stuff that I was into. Green Day, I got into… I don’t listen to that much anymore, but my sister gave me an MP3 player when I was a kid. She upgraded to an iPod Nano and I got the MP3 player that she had downloaded stuff on Limewire. Yeah. She committed crimes. Let’s put it out there. I forgot that that was illegal. That was like the most baseline level illegal thing that I can think. You had to do it, you had to do it at the time. Especially if you’re a kid. It’s like, “What am I gonna… What money with what money?” But yeah, it was like full of Green Day songs. So I would ride my bike and listen to Green Day and then if I saw a girl I had a crush on, I would try to ride faster past them thinking that I would seem athletic and cool. I still do that. And I am happily married, but like I still see girl, guy, but somebody I wanna impress. I’m just like, “I’m gonna run a little bit faster and hold my posture a little bit tighter.” You do that while you’re running? Yeah, yeah, still. I hate being perceived while I’m running. Sometimes somebody I know or I’ve had somebody who’s maybe recognized me from YouTube stuff be like, “Hey, sometimes I see you running in like your neighborhood.” And I’m like, I never want anyone to notice me while I’m running. One time actually last year I was going for a run and I was next to a main road where a bunch of traffic was stopped and my foot clipped a curb and I tripped, and I tripped so hard on the sidewalk that I like skidded forward. I scraped the shit outta my elbow. I was training for a half marathon. So I had bandaids when I did the half marathon. Nice. But the worst bit of it, not only was the traffic was stopped, my air pods flew out of my ears and then I had to get up and collect both air pods and I was in so much shock and pain that I put one in and I bent over, there’s all this traffic, they just saw me eat shit. I bent over to get the other air pod and then the one I put in fell out of my ear. And I just like, I was in shock. I was bleeding and I was just like, I just started jogging like nothing happened. ’cause I was like, “I need to get away from these people. They just saw.” And it was a long run before I got to any side street. You can never go back to that street again. No, and it’s really close to my place. Oh, you’re walking the long way around, brother. Yeah. Yeah. I ate shit on a skateboard recently. I was a little… I skateboarded to a bar. Okay. Which I think a pretty solid idea. That’s cool as hell. Thank you so much. You can’t skateboard back though, can you? Well this is- Is it like a bike where you get… Can you get a DUI on a skateboard? I don’t think, if you can just like hop off and pop it up into your hand. I feel like you shouldn’t. True. But I know someone who got a DUI on a motorized beer cooler that they would drive around. So I don’t know, but I was skateboarding drunk. It’s a victimless crime, but I hit a crack in the sidewalk and I ate shit. And I just went face first, and then I just look up at the closest person and go, “Was I out or was I safe?” And he just goes, “I’m a big fan.” Ugh! “Oh, all right, I’ll see you.” Oh, man. Should we go to chicken or… Yeah. Do you wanna try the gyro? Let’s go with the gyro. Let’s do it. Okay, where are you putting the… Did you put it in your bag? The trash, or… There was no trash. What’s up? I ate it all. Ooh! You told me you weren’t! I know, but I was sitting around and I was hungry. Okay, wait, which one am I grabbing? The gyro? Try the curly fries too. You gotta eat the gyro with the curly fries because as you know, in Greece they put the fries in the gyro. It’s a little Arby’s hack. Normally if I’m getting one, it’s not from Arby’s, but this doesn’t look bad. This looks like pretty standard, I feel like. I mean typically you’d have like the beef and lamb mixture that’s like shaved off but like this is shaved off of an animal. Yeah, I did see the meat and it doesn’t look as standard as I was… You see it’s the roast beef, the same one that they put in the sandwich. Oh, wow. Yeah. Ooh… What a good day. I’m still working through a lot of the guilt on this show of normally we like, you know, cook something really cool, like eat something really cool that we made in the mythical kitchen. Yeah. But then now it’s just like, “Hey, do you wanna come eat the most average food in the world in my car?” Yeah, and I also don’t know if you remember that the only other time you’ve had me here, I made you guys a meal. I had no real strategy other than practicing this. I did think about killing Josh. Yeah, no, you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I’m waiting for this treatment that everyone else is getting. I feel like I owe you one, man. Well, I make you a meal and then we have Arby’s in a car. You made me pastina. It takes like two minutes to cook. And I won the game! Not over you. Oh, yeah, you did. But I did trick people and it’s the one recipe that I kept making after, I have not gotten good at cooking yet, but I’m okay at baking now. Hey! So that’s a new update. That’s huge. That’s better than the last one. If I were flatlining, a heartbeat just came in. You’ve learned to feel. Mh-hm. He’s become a real boy! It’s… I’m like the Grinch And Arby’s did it to you. In many ways. And I’m talking about the Jim Carrey one with an ass. What’s the first video game you remember completing? For many years I was too young and dumb to complete any video game. Sure, sure, sure. The one that really tortured me was Kingdom Hearts 2. One of my favorite games of all time. But there’s a boss in it, he like, plays the guitar and he makes water attack you and he says “Dance, water, dance!” And we could never beat it, until we were adults when we came back to it. But the first one I ever fully completed might have been like The Chamber of Secrets PS2 game? Like, Harry Potter? Mh-hm. Nice! Yeah, it’s a game that didn’t really like stop me at any point. Yeah, I think it’s probably designed not to, because it’s for children. Any bit of like minor challenge as a kid I would get destroyed in a video game for. What’s the first time you remember overcoming a challenge video game or not? I’ve had such trouble with procrastination in my life that, especially in elementary school, when I could do somewhat well in school. It was like a battle every week. Like, I feel like every week I was overcoming a challenge I imposed on myself of getting like papers done or something like that. And so I feel like anytime I think of that feeling when I was a young kid, it was that I had placed myself in a situation where that day was a full panic. Sure. And then I got it done. But as a kid I wasn’t like, “I gotta stop doing this to myself.” I’m just like, “They gotta stop giving me so much homework.” I agree with that lens that you looked at it through as a kid, though. Because I was the same exact way. Every single morning I woke up with immense dread because I had not done the thing that I was supposed to for school. Mh-hm. And every single morning I would tell myself “Tonight, I don’t like this feeling, and I can change it, and I’m gonna do my homework.” And I’m sitting there and I’m like watching Food network and I’m like, “Yeah, I’m not gonna do it.” But that’s self-hating pattern just happened for like yeah, I mean through college, through beginning stages of actually working. I’ll be honest, I still got it. You and me both, man! That’s what I’m talking about. Eating Arby’s and not improving ourselves. Yeah, it’s something that like, in high school faked sick quite a bit. My parents know this now. And also they can’t compare stories ’cause they’re divorced. So if they got some it, it’s half the stories. I realize it was anxiety but I had so many mornings that I was like nauseous that they took me to the doctor and I’m forgetting what procedure it is where they put the camera down your throat, you know what I’m talking about? So you were genuinely nauseous. You didn’t like you weren’t faking it. Oh, sorry. In high school I faked sick. Copy, copy. Because I loved missing school from when I was really actually sick. Gotcha. And then I was like, “I need this time.” Yeah. So then I had a whole time where I went to the hospital and they put a camera down my throat and they found that nothing was wrong or nothing was wrong, you know, immediately in my stomach. But it was I think all up here. But I do remember from that too is that I woke up, I was in eighth grade, I woke up in the hospital bed and they had put me out with like anesthetics and I remember feeling better than I had in my entire life. Because I was so high. And I woke up, and at the time I very much did not like anything cranberry. And so this nurse walks over and he goes like, “Hey do you want some juice? We have cranberry and apple juice.” And I was like, “I would love some juice. That’s amazing.” And I fall back asleep ’cause I’m the most comfortable I’ve ever been. And I wake up to him coming back and he goes, “Hey, sorry we don’t have apple, we just have cranberry.” And I was like, “That’s fine.” I took a sip, it is the best thing I’ve ever tasted in my whole life. I felt so high. And I remember to this day now, I like the taste of cranberry, because of whatever happened up here. And I remember even in eighth grade going like, “I can never do drugs like that ever in my life.” I can never do what, like, what I’m assuming it’s like opioids or something like that? Yeah, I think so, yeah. It’s something that I was like, “I felt way too good. I can’t mess around with that stuff ever.” Yeah, incredible that it pushed you that direction instead of the other one. Yeah. Well I just remember thinking like, if it could make me like cranberry juice, what else can it do? You like, do you still enjoy cranberry juice to this day? Yeah, I love it. And I think it’s ’cause of that memory. We gotta try the chicken cordon blue sandwich. Okay. So I will say, I don’t wanna sound too negative about Arby’s. Sure. I think… Would I choose this over my regular fast food so far? I don’t think so. I don’t think they want you to choose it over your regular fast food. I think the way that Arby’s survives is one in every seven trips to a fast food establishment you go “Maybe Arby’s this time.” Mm. Have they influenced you in that way? If somebody was like, “I’d like to get Arby’s.” I wouldn’t put my foot down. But also, and this might be a distance thing, I think the only Arby’s in Los Angeles that’s currently open now is like a pretty far drive from me. Yeah, it’s somewhere in the out ’cause the Hollywood one closed down. Yeah. Didn’t they keep the sign? I think maybe it was like Prince Street Pizza that bought it or something? Yeah, you’re right. And then they like kept the sign up. I remember it ’cause I was like, I do like looking at that sign. It’s the big hat. It’s really fun. It’s a good sign. They wanted to call the restaurant “Big Tex” initially, so they had this like big ass cowboy hat, but they’re like two Jews from Ohio, and it didn’t make any sense. So they were like, “Oh, screw it. It’s still here.” And then Pharrell wore the hat. Right. You knew about Pharrell? Yeah. Wait. By the hat, it was the Arby’s hat? No, Pharrell wore some sort of high fashion hat. Okay. So then, and not to brag, I’ve held the original hat before. The original Arby’s hat, or the original Pharrell? The original Pharrell hat that Arby’s bought at a charity auction. And then I went to a kinda weird underground Arby’s rave at a warehouse in New York as part of their meat crafter movement when I was like 23 years old. That is the first time that full sentence has been said. And I take pride in that. Unless you’ve said that exact sentence before, which you might have. It’s something close. Even other people that went, I don’t think have said that sequence of words. No, but all the people that went were all like bonded for life. That, yeah. I mean it sounds like it, it sounds like you guys went to war together. A lot of like ad executives there and one just goes like, “You know what this is?” And pulls out the Pharrell hat, and I go like, “That’s the Pharrell hat.” And he goes like, “It’s the P… Yes.” What is the lowest level of food that you will not go to, if someone’s like, “I would really like this right now.” You would put your foot down. Huh, I’m not too picky about that stuff. Like I’ve had, you know, I’ve had many Taco Bell days. It’s not like a quality of food thing. What? Hmm? What? You got… Were you talking about me? Oh, my God. Yeah. Thank you so much Pharrell. Do you need this? I appreciate that. There you go have fun. That’s really sweet. I’m in shock. Do you wanna wear the Pharrell hat? A little bit, yeah. Wait, hold on. Were you setting me up by us talking about the hat or the hat come up? No. I think it for me. I’d like to break the fourth wall here. Sometimes we do plan little fun surprises like that. Completely forgot we had the Arby’s Pharrell hat. I think we’re also about to find out if the height of me and the car… I might have to sink down. Okay. Well, Nissan doesn’t make an ultimate convertible, Eddy. How do I look? And be honest. Could I go out like this? You could, but to what end, I guess, what do you want to convey when you go out? I wanna look hot. Do I look hot, Josh? You look hot to somebody. For sure. Okay, that, the pause, and even “To somebody.” If we were in like a heavy Mennonite area, Uh-huh. I think that people would find you very attractive in that hat. I think you’re looking- Usually if I ask if I look hot to somebody, Sure. You don’t love to hear a specific of where you could be, where it might work. Well, but what if it’s like a very specific religious minority sect that- I’m gonna be honest, that’s not where I’d be looking. No. Now it seems… Now that seems messed up. Like you’re prejudice against the Mennonite community. All our Mennonite and Amish fans- It’s just not where I be. I think you should probably apologize to all the Amish community watching right now. I think you’re setting me up. I think you set me up for this hat just so we could get to this exact point. This is a hit piece. This is a character assassination. Who could have planned this? This is a wonderful coincidence. Everyone’s looking at, and they’re like “We got him in the hat, we got him in the stupid hat, and he doesn’t look hot and he looks silly.” Yeah. Yeah. To that I say let’s- Would you like me to wear a silly hat that doesn’t make me look hot? Do you have a silly hat prepared? I’ll open my trunk. Your trunk? This is your car? I’m going in the trunk! You have a silly hat- I’m going in the trunk! I’m going in the trunk again. This is his car. Who just like has a silly hat in your trunk? Normally people keep like a spare tire. What the . I’d just love to know why it was back there. I actually have a very specific reason why. This keeps sinking down further. When I bump it on the top. I got this hat from Max Miller from Tasting History. Uh-huh. I was at him and his wonderful husband Jose’s holiday party last year. Then I had to go meet my wife and her friends at like a cowboy themed bar night. And so I asked Max and Jose, “Hey, do you have any cowboy themed hats?” And they said, “Well, we have the hat from Woody from Toy Story.” That’s what I was gonna say. And so I wore this too. And just like the original Pharrell hat, that’s the original Woody from Toy Story hat. You know, he is a lot bigger than you think he is. I feel like I sometimes already get times where I look in the mirror and I’m like, “Man, I kind look like a cartoon character.” And now I really do. What cartoon character do you think you look like? Anyone with the glasses and mustache. When people… Yeah, when people wear the Usually Marx glasses, if I’m in the room people are like, “Eh, looks like you.” That’s exactly what it is. Yeah. You do a little bit have the “You’re wearing a disguise to be yourself.” Yeah, I hear Inside Out dad, I hear Harvey from Stardew Valley. I hear basically any white guy with glasses and a mustache. This isn’t… You’re not gonna like this. Well, I might. This is the fried chicken patty. This is the cordon blue fried chicken patty. Ham, Swiss cheese on it. This is them trying to get you to stop buying their beef ’cause it’s so damn expensive because this changed. Okay, so this is their real attempt to convince us to not have what we just had. Yeah. Correct. Okay. Oof. Hmm. Well you said, “Oof” first. This chicken, it’s so thin. Mine is so hard. It was like a texture that I did not expect outta chicken. It’s like a hockey puck and it’s like I don’t wanna seem ungrateful, like, I’m really much enjoying myself. We got food in front of us, like, what a life, you know? I’ll cook you something nice. You deserve something nice. But, like, it’s just the fact that you told me that this is them trying to convince me not to eat the stuff we had before. I think the gyro’s been the best so far, and the fries, but you know, I feel like… What is going on over there? Is that the paper? Yeah, the paper was sticking to mine too. There’s so much paper stuck to the chicken sandwich. There’s so much paper. It’s like it left an airplane bathroom and it’s just trailing. I just hit your rear view mirror with this. This is your actual car, you said? Yeah, no, I drive this every day. So when you leave here, the Arby’s will come with you? Yeah, but there’s a lot of different smells that generally come in here. Right. I did clean it before. And possibly with the news maybe the smell of Arby’s is less worrying than possibly the lead that might be in your system from protein shakes. So it’s in all protein powders, or just… We gotta give it a Google before I… It was I think like… I can’t confirm it yet. It was everything people were talking about on Twitter. I had a couple people text me about it. It seems significant enough, but I had to come do this thing so I didn’t look into it. But I will be possibly looking up the one that Drew gave me and seeing if he poisoned me and seeing if I can press charges in anyway. Hey, we ask every guest on this show. What is the first that you have yet to have? Well, first I gotta say that this hat is making my head so hot, but it’s already so sweaty that I can’t take it off. Turn up the heat. We’re stuck with… Did you say turn up the heat? Yeah, we’ll turn up the heat. Oh, God. What’s a first I’ve yet to have. I have always, always, always in my life wanted to be a filmmaker. And I think now I will, I think be a little kind to myself and say I’m sort of a version of that with the stuff that I make now. They’re still very much YouTube videos. They’re not like structured movies. It’s getting so hot. You really did turn the heat on, huh? Called Miss Onsen. And so what if like just for the bit, we just like made it cool? I really love the creative freedom of editing my own stuff, and writing my own stuff and shooting my own stuff. But very much so at one point in my life I would like to get more experience at collaborating with other people on like an artistic vision. Whether that would be like short film, or like TV, or like movies. But also it’s not something that I would give up the current stuff I’m doing for because there’s so much creative freedom in it. I would like to make a movie at some point in my life. It seems like you really wanna like give it a shot to sort of at least verify the things that have been going on in your head for a long time. Yeah, and it’s, I just love movies so, so much and it’s one of the reasons I’d say more recently the stuff I’ve been shooting like has been influenced by movies I love, like, way more and I mean in just like small specific ways like shit that is more just for me. Like I made a video that was this whole like thing kind of in Italy for a bit and which is the first time I’ve ever traveled overseas. I feel so dumb turning my head in this hat. We can take the hats off. I’ll keep it. It’s too funny. Because I couldn’t afford to go to film school and so YouTube was like kind of where I put all my cards and I got very lucky and I’m very fortunate, it’s still something that’s never kind of like left my brain, is something that I want to do. There wasn’t an avenue for somebody like Sean Evans and Hot Ones, right? No. Yeah. And without that sort of like breaking through this mold, there never would’ve been an avenue for a lot of like what I do. And you can sort of look back retrospectively on this and be like, “Oh, that is a genre that exists.” But now like if you know to say you’re not a filmmaker and I know what you mean about like, not even wanting to make a a traditional feature, but collaborate with a bunch of people who have a shared goal. Like yeah, you’re definitely out there making films, man. And like you’re definitely making work that resonates with people. That resonates a lot with me. Appreciate it, thank you. Be really proud of yourself. Thank you so much. It’s yeah, it’s that the pursuit of that artistically has been what’s been kind of driving me for the last like maybe two years. And that’s one thing I think for some people I wanna make sure, even when I talked about the procrastination stuff is that like, it’s one of those things it’s dicey with like how often you show up publicly with like a project, especially with YouTube. I think sometimes some people feel like when somebody doesn’t maybe like upload as much, it’s them like taking support for granted or something like that. Yeah. It’s really more just like, I care so deeply about making something that is worth it to show that sometimes that takes a while. And I also, I don’t know, I have a channel with my brother where we pop up all the time and talk about stuff and I love that too. But yeah, it’s something that like, the pursuit of that I think is the most like fulfilling thing for me now. And it’s fun and that was really nice of you to say thank you so much. Like, yeah, you’re definitely out there making films, man. And like you’re definitely making work that resonates with people. That resonates a lot with me. Appreciate it, man. Thank you. You should really be proud of yourself. Thank you so much! Eddy, this has been wonderful, man. You got anything else to plug? Okay, mid to late November, unless something goes terribly wrong, I do have a new video out. It is a somewhat, I’d say leaning negative piece about AI. I, you know, might have a tattoo by then. My first tattoo. Oh, when are you going? I gotta schedule it still and I gotta be done with the video in October. So it’s a really got… I got a lot to do. I’m in the midst of that right now. Today’s like my one day break from editing that, so hopefully that’s out. So I guess my channel is Eddy Burback. That’s Eddy with a y. And then also I have a channel just called Burback with my twin brother where we make video essays talking about like video games, and movies and pop culture. And that whole project I’m very proud of and has like, you know, its own audience and its own merit and stuff, and that’s been really cool as well. So either of those, you know, check ’em out. I went really loud there for that one. I don’t know why, I expected like the video to end, but then I realized we’re having a conversation and I don’t have the edit. I kinda like being yelled at. Again, I know what you’re thinking. “That’s a sex thing.” It’s not. Okay. Well, again, I wasn’t thinking that. I keep thinking I know what you’re thinking. Yeah, you keep thinking that I’m thinking what you’re saying is a sex thing. Sure, I can see how you draw that. Now I know what you are thinking. You think that me correcting you, about me thinking I know what you’re thinking is a sex thing and it’s not a sex thing. And I know what you’re thinking is you change your mind and I do look sexy in the hat and not just in a specific avenue of the country. It’s actually really, it’s really growing on me. But nobody could resist this look. Head to sporked.com to find everything you need for the tastiest thanksgiving ever.