Roasty Toasty Ghosty

#90: I'm Italian Now

Lauren & Mattias Episode 90

Send us a text

In which Lauren & Mattias delve into Mattias’ childhood and unlock some secrets. They review their recent movie night films, and dwell on dreams of a home gym and an acting career.

Content:

  • Opening
    • Solving Mattias’ problems
  • Weekly check in
    • Lauren’s dream home gym
  • Movie on!
    • Xanadu
    • The Fifth Element
  • Intermission
  • Therapy session: Mattias’ childhood
  • Wrap up

Support the show

Don't miss this heartwarming and funny episode of Roasty Toasty Ghosty - and be sure to follow and subscribe to our podcast and join us on Instagram. Trust us, you'll want to be part of our crazy journey as we navigate life's ups and downs together.

Instagram, TikTok, Youtube: @roastytoastyghostypod

Reddit: u/roasty_toasty_ghosty

Twitch: @roastytoastyghostypodcast
LIVE MAD LIBS on Twitch every month!

Support the show and indulge in hilarious outtakes and other bonus material:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2094059/subscribe


Beginning music - Energetic Prog Rock from AdobeStock
Intermission & ending music - Marshmallow Overload by Avocado Junkie

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
Neither hosts are scientists or historians and all content displayed is strictly for entertainment purposes only. Simply put, not a single word spoken in this podcast is or should be taken seriously.

No ghosties were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Speaker 1:

Do you feel like it's about time to start?

Speaker 2:

I have feelings.

Speaker 1:

About starting time.

Speaker 2:

Possibly.

Speaker 1:

Okay, tell me your feelings.

Speaker 2:

My feelings are tired.

Speaker 1:

You feel tired about starting the episode.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it makes me tired, ah, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

So how can we change that? I don't know, you know we're going to open the energy drinks. Mm-hmm, you know we're going to open the energy drinks, so if you take a sip of that, maybe you will get some energy.

Speaker 2:

Or I'll get more tired.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but I don't have any better suggestions. Okay, yeah, let's start.

Speaker 2:

Maybe Chairs, chairs.

Speaker 1:

Chairs.

Speaker 2:

That's what I was trying to say, but I couldn't think of a word.

Speaker 1:

Night.

Speaker 2:

Night Night night night.

Speaker 1:

This is going to be so good, and it's gone.

Speaker 2:

Yep, so good yeah. That's why I can't just take a sip of it.

Speaker 1:

Matias yeah.

Speaker 2:

Are you ready?

Speaker 1:

Not yet.

Speaker 2:

What Are you ready? Yes, alright.

Speaker 1:

Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty. My name is Matias and I'm Lauren. Yes, and you're just in front of me. That right so I'm looking at you I'm looking at you yeah, and do you know what? What? We're gonna be the listeners, best friends, for maybe an hour, maybe not we'll see yeah, let's say that all. Yeah, we're going to be your best friends and we will talk about stuff.

Speaker 2:

That's accurate.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I would say that, yeah me too.

Speaker 2:

We're going to say some things for a while, and then you can move on with your lives yeah, pretend this never happened.

Speaker 1:

So my first question is how are you?

Speaker 2:

are you asking me or the listeners, because they're not going to answer?

Speaker 1:

I'm, I'm asking, or maybe you maybe they do answer like out loud and then someone hears them they're like I didn't ask true, I'm asking all of you oh, I'm only one person yeah, but the listeners as well okay but you have to answer for yourself okay, well and the listeners can answer for them.

Speaker 2:

Should we have like a moment of silence to give them a chance to answer?

Speaker 1:

They can comment.

Speaker 2:

I guess they could comment how are you doing? Yeah, tell us Is the question and I'm going to answer. Yeah, I'm doing all right.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

I'm doing fine.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, for once, I believe you.

Speaker 2:

I've been sick on and off and having trouble breathing and having all sorts of issues for a few weeks now. It feels like many weeks now and right now I'm feeling pretty good yeah. So we'll see what happens next week.

Speaker 1:

Very good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

It's really good.

Speaker 2:

For now Matias how are you?

Speaker 1:

I'm doing better than you.

Speaker 2:

That's a good line.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I've been waiting All day.

Speaker 2:

All right Okay.

Speaker 1:

No, I'm good. I'm not that bad either.

Speaker 2:

I'm not mad.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'm always mad.

Speaker 2:

I know You're an angry person.

Speaker 1:

I am.

Speaker 2:

You need to let it out, yes. So what is it you're angry about?

Speaker 1:

Grr.

Speaker 2:

All right, let's talk about your Grr All right.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

Let's talk about your childhood, okay.

Speaker 1:

My angry childhood.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you seemed pretty frustrated as a child, so let's unpack that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay, is that for the second part?

Speaker 2:

Maybe Do you want to get into this.

Speaker 1:

We need to have therapy sessions I mean, you can ask me questions about my childhood and I I can try to answer are you gonna actually answer?

Speaker 2:

or you're just gonna give me, like your, you know, generic answers like no fine, everything's fine, it's good, it depends on the questions okay if I know the answer and can like elaborate, I'll do so.

Speaker 1:

That's a good word. Yeah, good one. Thank you you're welcome.

Speaker 2:

Okay, today we're going to solve matthias's problems.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, so uh but first this going to be a thing.

Speaker 2:

Like last week we Well. Last week we revealed, we unveiled your issues and today we're going to solve them. Okay so maybe if she said that we're going to go for a spiritual turn in the podcast, maybe it was just for this one.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, in the next episode, next episode, you can do it for me. Okay, yeah, okay, you can unlock my past. I just want you to keep a copy of your questions and send them to me.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm going to look them up, yeah yeah, keep a copy. It sounds like I need them on paper oh, I can do that too yeah, sure, I can write things now, okay, uh, first, matias, we need to go through the boring part okay, yeah, our lives, our lives what have we been up to this week? What did we do last weekend? Okay I can answer no. No, I need to let you talk I need to back off, yeah it's your turn can you be quiet for a few minutes?

Speaker 1:

I would love to okay, so yeah, already, you already failed. Um, last week, and oh yeah, that's when we did the interview and all on Saturday, and then later that evening we had live Mad Libs, mm-hmm, and we were drunk.

Speaker 2:

We were yeah.

Speaker 1:

Your sister couldn't really attend. That that's too bad. I like when she's one of the word givers.

Speaker 2:

Viewers what she's a viewer.

Speaker 1:

Viewer oh yeah, Participant yeah. What? No, I heard beavers.

Speaker 2:

She's one of the beavers. Our viewers on Twitch are called beavers. Why?

Speaker 1:

because that's what matias named them okay, yeah, this was too bad that she couldn't be with us um it's too bad that you came up with the name. Yeah, that's too bad too, actually too bad too too bad too it went well. I mean your life partner did well.

Speaker 2:

He tried at least this time yeah, so it was still fun.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I slept on the couch here and you did Yep, and then on Sunday it was your daughter's birthday.

Speaker 2:

That's right.

Speaker 1:

Yes, so what we did and what to do. What we did, no, what, yeah. What did we do on Sunday, when your daughter had her birthday?

Speaker 2:

What did we do?

Speaker 1:

We went and got waffles. Yeah, it was good, I liked the waffles. Oh, you didn't have waffles.

Speaker 2:

No, I didn't have any waffles.

Speaker 1:

No, did you just have water?

Speaker 2:

I just had coffee. Coffee, I had one coffee.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you just have water. I just had coffee, coffee and one coffee.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that was enough, okay, yeah, um but it was still fun.

Speaker 1:

It was fun, it was nice. Yeah, we went for a walk really nice weather yes, it was a nice walk it was um, yeah, so that was good, um, and she got to open her presents from us there. Oh, yeah, yeah, and your life partner is now regretting that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay. So my daughter is super into products as in, like body sprays and creams and anything in that department, and he got one spray that has a very strong vanilla scent. Every time she walks through the apartment it smells like vanilla, you can tell. And you walk into her room and it smells like perfume shop.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she can't sneak, no Anymore.

Speaker 2:

No, I don't know you always smell her scent, yeah, her trail.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Walk into a room. Oh, she's been in here. Yeah, she also sprayed me in the face with it while we were at the waffle place. Oh, because she sprayed it and we were sitting outside and the wind blew it while we were at the waffle place oh, because she sprayed it and we were sitting outside and the wind blew it on me and I was like um, but that was sunday.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. Did anything else happen on sunday?

Speaker 2:

after that you went home yes, you got a ride home. That was when I went for my super bike ride. Wow, we saw the rainbow.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

I went like 12 kilometers.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, crazy, that was it.

Speaker 1:

I also went far.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm, you took a walk though.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I also saw a rainbow.

Speaker 2:

You took a picture of the rainbow and it was way nicer than mine.

Speaker 1:

I never take good pictures.

Speaker 2:

It was a nice picture.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that one was nice.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you got like the whole thing. I had clouds in my way.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, it was blocking and I really liked that you could see where it went down, yeah so cool.

Speaker 2:

And then on Monday I had to take care of my daughter because she had a really bad headache. Yeah, that's what happened.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and your boss wasn't happy.

Speaker 2:

Well, no, because we're in the middle of our highest season and there's a ton to do and I am his best team player at the moment. So, yeah, he didn't like that.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

But I was there for the rest of the week. And there was overtime on Monday, tuesday and Wednesday.

Speaker 1:

I took them all.

Speaker 2:

I could only do Tuesday and Wednesday, yeah, but.

Speaker 1:

I did do that. I was there on Monday and I worked and took the overtime. Yeah, yeah, that's my Monday.

Speaker 2:

And Tuesday and Wednesday I also did the overtime.

Speaker 1:

Me too.

Speaker 2:

On Thursday there was no overtime, so we went to the gym, yes, and we did well. We did, we did, you know what would be really cool.

Speaker 1:

I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Did you think about it for a minute? No, I was. What would be really cool, I don't know. Did you think about it for a minute no. I was, that would be really cool.

Speaker 1:

I was expecting you to say what.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I was looking for a response.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I did respond.

Speaker 2:

Yes, you don't know, it would be really cool to have a house first of all.

Speaker 1:

Okay. But if I could, you know, what would also be cool what to have like a personal jet that would be cool, is that?

Speaker 2:

or are you comparing? Like that's equally as impossible? Or a helicopter yeah, sure, but I want my house to have a basement so I can put like a gym down there. Okay, yeah. Like my own, with like the weights, and maybe a treadmill will be cool. Yeah, and a bike. That's funny. Is it really that funny?

Speaker 1:

No, not really Okay.

Speaker 2:

Would you join my gym?

Speaker 1:

if that ever happened, do I have to pay to?

Speaker 2:

You just have to blip your card. Yeah, you don't have to pay for it, you just blip it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, just for the fun. Yeah, I just have to blip it.

Speaker 2:

You have to blip it. What?

Speaker 1:

No, it just sounded weird.

Speaker 2:

Yeah For the thrill of blipping.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I want a monitor that says welcome Matthias.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, of course, and then we're going to hook you up to a system so that it shows your heart rate and all of your stats.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

You have to walk in and you blip your card, you take your weight and then it'll show everything and it'll continue showing your stats while you're working out.

Speaker 1:

You should start a gym and have all of those. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

You can rent out a Fitbit or something.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if someone dies, will it blink red or something.

Speaker 2:

If you're having a heart attack and should probably get off the machines, then yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Cool, very cool. That's a plan.

Speaker 2:

For when I get a house.

Speaker 1:

For the future, yeah, cool.

Speaker 2:

Anyway.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

Did you have something you were going to say?

Speaker 1:

About the days.

Speaker 2:

Or the gym or anything.

Speaker 1:

About your fantasy gym right uh, I like the idea. It's a very cool idea yeah and I would join it, would I have to pay? Yes okay, can I have like a discount at least? Yeah, yeah, you get a discount good it's. It's not that expensive either no so it's even cheaper yeah, the discount, yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if I have to help you buy the stuff that's the price okay, yeah, and then it's for life. Oh.

Speaker 2:

You don't have to renew your membership.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, cool.

Speaker 2:

If you help fund it.

Speaker 1:

So are you going to have other people there too? No, that's good, because I don't like people.

Speaker 2:

It's our gym and maybe relatives.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2:

Like the people residing in the house, could use the gym.

Speaker 1:

Even the kids. They have to be supervised if they're gonna go in there yeah regardless of their age okay, yeah, so, even if they are like 30 no, no, as minors they have to be supervised like if they're they are 30 and just want to borrow your gym stuff you're going to.

Speaker 2:

I just want him to go on the treadmill for 10 minutes. Mom, you don't need to sit here and watch me.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to watch you.

Speaker 2:

So if we have a treadmill and a bike, do we have to get two of each, or does one of us have to do treadmill and one of us does the bike?

Speaker 1:

I guess that's an option. It depends on and we'd have to do treadmill and one of us does the bike. I guess that's an option.

Speaker 2:

It depends on, and we'd have to switch.

Speaker 1:

Yeah of course, yeah, that works Also the thing where you do the sit-ups.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, one of those benches.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, An adjustable bench thing too.

Speaker 2:

One of those and some free weights.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

With a whole bunch of discs Yoga stuff too One of those and some free weights. Yes, with a whole bunch of discs, yoga stuff too. Okay, so we can do yoga.

Speaker 1:

I'm up for that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean, it's probably easier too if we're in our own personal space and you don't have other people watching you. I hate that about the gym.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2:

Feeling like other people are watching.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And we can play the music that we want to listen to.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, true, this is going to be really good. What's the point?

Speaker 2:

What's the point in doing anything that's on repeat?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's so funny. Every time we went to the gym the old gym that song was playing. That was when we didn't care that much actually about going to the gym. We just went there because we had the cards. We didn't really do much there.

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

Not as much as we hoped for.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 1:

At least one time we just sat there and talked, for we just sat there and talked the entire time. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Then we were like I think we're done here. Yeah, I'm trying to think of what else I like to do at the gym. I know that I like the rowing machines and yeah, oh, those are cool, that could be doable. But I was also thinking about the floor climber thing. Oh yeah, and well, I think I could probably survive without that.

Speaker 1:

I think so too.

Speaker 2:

It's really good it is but no.

Speaker 1:

Difficult. I also like the cross trainer thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, our gym feels like it's getting cramped. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to have the biggest room for this.

Speaker 1:

No, and it feels like it's mostly cardio.

Speaker 2:

Well, I mean, if you have the weight, then it's like half and half.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So I think we need to stick with just the two cardios and the adjustable weight machine and the free weights.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And the yoga corner. Yeah, sounds good, yeah sounds good, that's how our good yeah sounds good, that's how we're doing yeah.

Speaker 1:

Should we move on?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I think we ran straight into the woods with this one. We got very off topic.

Speaker 1:

Yes, so let's move on now.

Speaker 2:

Let's do that. So today is August 16th yeah, it's Friday, and we watched movies.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

We watched.

Speaker 1:

Xanadu.

Speaker 2:

Xanadu and the Fifth Element. Yeah, and we watched Xanadu first, so you get to tell me about that.

Speaker 1:

Okay, this is a movie. It's a what?

Speaker 2:

I love that first line. This was a movie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this was a movie, also the end. I like that you laugh into the can. You should always have the can in your mouth. Yeah, we're not tired, you're like a four-year-old. Okay so this movie is about a guy we're never finishing this episode.

Speaker 1:

No, no, no, no, but I'll try. So this movie is about a guy. He's a pretty good drawer. No, he's good at drawing. He's an art. Can you shut up? I'm talking here, sorry, he's an artist. You shut up? I'm talking here, sorry, he's an artist, yeah, a painter. He does like a drawing on a paper and then he don't like it and just rips it apart and throws the pieces out the window and they fly away far, the end, very far, and then they wake up a wall of painted women. I guess they come to life.

Speaker 1:

One of those women is Olivia Newton-John. She meets the guy and gives him a kiss. Then he falls in love and she disappears and he tries to find her. And then he meets Gene Kelly, who's playing the flute. There are some songs, and some of those songs they sing. Oh yeah, they want to start like a club. And Gene Kelly, who's an old man in this movie, he wants it to be like 1945-ish, and the younger guy played by Michael Beck, he wants it to be like 1980 style. They mix the two styles and that's their plan. And there are other stuff happening too. Was that good? Yeah, what did I miss?

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

I missed no.

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

So this movie is kind of weird, but still kind of interesting. I didn't hate it. It's not my favorite, but it's okay. I would probably say a little bit more than average, though, so it's good. Do you have anything to say about this movie?

Speaker 2:

It was an interesting movie. There were a lot of special effects. Yeah, yeah, it was. I really I don't know. It was a movie we did watch it. It was interesting, Maybe not the easiest to follow during some parts, but I did recognize one of the songs at least.

Speaker 1:

Me too. I don't think we recognize the same, but I recognize the song where Gene Kelly was changing outfits and trying new outfits.

Speaker 2:

Yeah that song, wasn't there another one?

Speaker 1:

Xanadu, I recognize that one too Okay.

Speaker 2:

I don't know the title to the one that I recognized, but it was one of the earlier ones, I think.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, did you say your feelings on the movie?

Speaker 1:

I said that I liked it. It was good. It was above average for me.

Speaker 2:

All right good.

Speaker 1:

And how would you say?

Speaker 2:

I'm gonna say average. Okay yeah, I'm bringing it a little bit lower.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this was the last theatrical movie for Gene Kelly. No, that's kind of sad.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I really like him.

Speaker 2:

He's good.

Speaker 1:

The movies we've seen. I haven't hated anyone Any of them, any of them, any of them. Yet.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, good, anyway, yeah, next of them, any of them yet? Yeah, go ahead, anyway next.

Speaker 1:

Okay, the next movie was the Fifth Element.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I'm going to tell you about that. So this is a movie with Bruce Willis and there are aliens and some kind of prophecy, right? Mm-hmm yes, and some kind of prophecy right. There's the five elements and the four original elements had to be hidden somewhere else, yeah, or else because they were in danger yeah, they had like rocks, or yeah they were in stone form. Yeah, have four elements and they need the fifth one, which happens to be a girl. Yeah, yeah. So what is it? Earth, wind, fire.

Speaker 1:

Water.

Speaker 2:

Water girl.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Okay, that's clear now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And so the girl comes along, falls into his, into his life, pretty much almost falls on top of him and uh, so he's stuck with her and there's a bad guy who, um, is there, yeah and they're looking.

Speaker 1:

There's a bad guy who's absent. He doesn't appear in the movie.

Speaker 2:

Wait, no, hold on. So the bad guy also wants to find the rocks.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And Bruce Willis and the girl have to find the rocks too, and there are aliens attacking.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And that's the situation he got himself into.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and what did he do for a living?

Speaker 2:

He was a taxi driver.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Also Chris Tucker shows up as a DJ.

Speaker 1:

There is a few recognizable people in this movie.

Speaker 2:

There was the guy from the Medallion.

Speaker 1:

Yes as well, lee Evans.

Speaker 2:

And a guy from Shanghai Nights.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, kim Chan.

Speaker 2:

I knew that.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Off the top of my head.

Speaker 1:

But the guy from Striking Distance with Bruce Willis.

Speaker 2:

Sirius Black.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, was in this movie Gary Oldman.

Speaker 2:

And Bilbo Baggins.

Speaker 1:

Yes, the Hobbit version no. Lord of the Rings Lord of the Rings version yes, ian Hall.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so quite the cast.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Very interesting yeah. Kind of all over the place, but still cool. Yeah, so you liked it, I did. I like this movie. Yeah, I'm enjoying Bruce Willis movies Me too, so far. Yeah, I'm enjoying. Bruce Willis movies, me too, so far.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I also like this one. It has some humor in it, mm-hmm and some action. There was also a guy who's called Tim Tiny Lister. I think he's called Tiny Because he's the guy who was playing the president.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

I've seen him in other movies. He's in a movie with Dolph Lundgren. I just have to show off.

Speaker 2:

You are very nerdy.

Speaker 1:

This is a movie I haven't seen that many times, though.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

But I did make a video so I had to refresh my memory, so I had to watch this before making the video.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So I could use the best clips for the video.

Speaker 2:

Okay, okay, on that note, would you like to take a break?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we can take a break.

Speaker 2:

All right, we'll take a break and we'll be right back. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Later, we'll be right back later. Right back later Okay goodbye, okay, bye-bye, and now we're back.

Speaker 2:

To part two.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. We're not past it yet, so Nope, not past part two, but we just started right now part two of this episode. Yeah, we're past part one, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Not as fun, but it's the truth.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

I'm all about the truth. I'm sorry for interrupting you.

Speaker 2:

I was saying something.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, please say that again.

Speaker 2:

Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's your fault.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2:

I'm upset.

Speaker 1:

Sure.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so let's see what are we doing today. Last week we talked to our good friend the medium, manali and Jess, and we got to break you open just a little bit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, just a little crack.

Speaker 2:

A little bit, yeah, just a little crack A little bit, and um, just gave me a little crack. Yes, you got some crack. Yeah, and on episodes now and then, we like to get to know each other a bit better. Yeah each other a bit better. So I'm thinking, since we've brought your life, your family history and such a bit to the surface, I would like to dive a little bit deeper.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so we're stuck in the past.

Speaker 2:

We're stuck in the past. This is the spiritual episode, part two. We're going to have a therapy session.

Speaker 1:

So this is Mattias' past part two.

Speaker 2:

Yes, mattias' past part two.

Speaker 1:

Yep.

Speaker 2:

Therapy session, which is what we're calling this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I will answer truthfully, truthfully.

Speaker 2:

Wow, that's a difficult word yeah, and there's quite a bit here, so let's see what we can get out of you yeah, I will try to you know elaborate okay. So when trying to open someone up about their childhood through questions, it's important to ask in a way that feels natural and non-intrusive.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

So I'm going to try to be gentle here.

Speaker 1:

You're going to try to be natural.

Speaker 2:

Natural.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

Gentle non-intrusive. Out on a limb If tears happen, then so be it but whatever, Try not to cry though. I'll try not to cry. Here are some thoughtful, open-ended questions that can help guide this conversation, so I'm going to start off with a general background, okay, so what was your hometown like when you were growing up?

Speaker 1:

I don't even know what my hometown I guess it's this town we're in right now. I didn't go to school here, but this is where I, you know, we did all the shopping and I went to. So it's a very small town but has a couple stores, but it has a couple stores and I don't really know what to answer more on this question.

Speaker 2:

I kind of need some direction as well. So why don't you consider your school town to be your hometown?

Speaker 1:

Because I just went to school there.

Speaker 2:

That was it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I did have friends there, but I didn't really go there much on my free time. Okay, so that's why I consider this town more of a hometown.

Speaker 2:

Okay, what are some of your earliest memories?

Speaker 1:

One of my earliest memories. It's me sitting in a police car.

Speaker 2:

An actual one. Yes, okay.

Speaker 1:

Because my parents were drunk and my dad got upset and just left. My mom was also upset and didn't know where he went, so police was called. I must have been like three or four at that time and I remember that I got to sit in a police car in the back seat and it was kind of cool. You know the radio they have and all that. I wonder if maybe even my grandma was there actually because she was living yeah, she was across from you, yeah, so she probably was involved in some way.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I could always turn to my grandma. You know, when I didn't really want to talk to my parents, I could talk to my grandma. She was always understanding, so she was the first person I would talk to if I had problems, and that's it. But that memory is like, you know.

Speaker 2:

I can imagine it's probably very vivid.

Speaker 1:

Yes, Since it was a big deal.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, a lot was happening and yeah, how would you describe your family dynamics when you were a child? What was your family like?

Speaker 1:

My dad was usually very calm and quiet, unless he got drunk.

Speaker 2:

Did that happen a lot. Sorry, I'm just going to throw out.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's good. Those are the questions I want. I don't know if it was a lot. I don't think so. Sometimes it was more when I grew up, maybe a little bit more. Now he doesn't drink at all.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

And the same for my mom. But I mean, I grew up to be a normal person. What was the question? Your family dynamic oh yeah, yes, so my dad was usually pretty calm and my mom was the more angry person, not always, but when she got really angry, she got really angry. You wouldn't really want to talk her angry, if you understand what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you really tried to avoid conflict with her, yes, so wait, do you mean if you just have issues with her, you can't talk to her about it, but if you had issues somewhere else in your life, would you be able to talk to her about that?

Speaker 1:

That's probably why I didn't talk to her about that, because I didn't want to make her upset and maybe make her angry.

Speaker 2:

Even if it has nothing to do with her.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

But I mean, that's what I'm trying to say. Maybe that's just in my head, Maybe she would have been really helpful, but what if she wouldn't be?

Speaker 2:

helpful yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1:

So that's probably just my fear of her being angry instead.

Speaker 2:

And that's why it was easier to talk to my grandma. Okay, do you think that your personality is more like your dad or your mom.

Speaker 1:

I mean, it really is a mixture of both. When it comes to me being calm, because I can be that, it feels more like my dad, and when I get really angry, I feel like my mom. But yeah, I'm not really like her. Yeah, I would probably say I'm more like my dad, though, but I still like my mom's humor because she got her humor from my grandma, and my grandma is also a good source for my comedy, or, yeah, whatever you want to call it maybe you already touched on this a bit, but what kind of relationship did you have with your parents and siblings?

Speaker 1:

oh yeah, I didn't even talk about my sibling yes uh, okay, so my sister was the closest and I mean we fought a bit when we were younger. She was like three years older, what?

Speaker 2:

I was being dumb for a minute, I was like. But our sisters are the same age and my sister is five years older than me yeah it was like all right, you're not the same age as me, so that's the difference.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay, sorry yeah I'm being dumb, yes so yeah, I mean we could get into fights, but uh, nothing like long lasting. No, I think we had a good. We still have a good. I mean now we never fight, never I. I don't think my sister has been mad at me at all for like 15 years or longer, so that's good.

Speaker 2:

Or 50. 50 years For at least 50 years.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so she's never been mad at me.

Speaker 2:

We used to get in arguments, but she's never been mad at me as I said, my parents.

Speaker 1:

So we already said I, but your relationship with your parents.

Speaker 2:

You mentioned how they can be. Uh, I guess your relationship with your mom is a little iffy right now or was, or whatever I mean we had a good relationship.

Speaker 1:

She is very protective, though she was always worried that I would get hurt, and she's very loving and all. It's just sometimes when she get mad, that's when it's scary, or was scary. Now I can turn it off just ignoring it. Yeah, whatever, okay, mom I can just go out or something, because it's not often she's mad at me, she's probably just mad at like, a lunchbox or something. What?

Speaker 2:

Has that happened?

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, please tell me.

Speaker 1:

You know, if she takes out the lunchbox from her bag and it gets stuck in the handle thing or something she's like and just throw it.

Speaker 2:

Easily frustrated.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and often after work day.

Speaker 2:

Oh well, I get that. What about your dad? What's your relationship like with your dad? Or was or is, oh yeah, whatever it was good.

Speaker 1:

It was good and, like I said I, the only problem I had with him was when he was drunk.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And he doesn't drink much anymore, so that's good. It was more of when he stopped working. That was like the worst time for him, okay, or was about to stop working.

Speaker 2:

When he retired.

Speaker 1:

When he retired? Yeah, because I think that he, his bosses told him that he could stay after 65.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And he did that because he felt like he could work more. But then at some point he got a talk with his bosses that they couldn't keep him there because people were complaining that he shouldn't be there after 65, since he should be retired. So they let him go. But he felt like he could work still and that was a hard time for him, I think, because he felt like it was like a betrayal from his colleagues. And that's when it was the worst with his drinking. That was like every day. It was a tough time for him. But uh, he's better now he's retired, now he's at peace with that. Now good.

Speaker 2:

What was school like for you and did you enjoy it?

Speaker 1:

uh, my school it was pretty good. Actually I had friends. One friend I had like the entire time from first class to like the last it wasn't me? No, it wasn't you, because I hadn't met you yet it should have been me okay, yeah, no, it was another guy. Another guy Like you're a guy.

Speaker 1:

Some other guy no, it was a guy, okay. But I had other friends who kind of got cool, one of the you know cooler guys who started smoking and all that, so, yeah, yeah, I wasn't really friends with him anymore, and it's too bad, though, because he was a really fun guy. I had one guy who I think he felt he was too good for me, and the other guy who he also kind of just left us for the cooler people. And then we had another friend who was a nerd, a real nerd, and I liked him so much but he was too smart for us so he had to hang out with the other smart people.

Speaker 1:

No, no, no, it wasn't like that. Well, kind of, but he switched schools. He got into a smart people smarter school yeah, and so it was. Uh, just us two idiots left. So yeah, we weren't very good at um school. We barely passed. I say weak, as he and I was so alike, so I got, you know like one thing better than him. So I feel a little bit better. I'm not the worst.

Speaker 2:

You mean like one grade better. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I didn't really try to get a higher grade either.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

I just wanted to pass.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you did the minimum.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

The question is who were your close friends growing up? But you pretty much already touched on that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But what did you guys like to do together?

Speaker 1:

Watch movies.

Speaker 2:

Yay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's really. I mean, at that time we were playing a lot, you know, outside as well.

Speaker 2:

Did you guys also have movie night?

Speaker 1:

Not as often as we have okay like not once a week, but occasionally we could have. They always got to borrow movies from me because I had like all the jackie chan movies and other movies as well. So if they wanted a movie I brought it with me and did.

Speaker 2:

Did they return them?

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you made sure that they returned them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, so yeah.

Speaker 2:

Otherwise, I've noticed that's kind of a theme, At least since I've moved out here if you let someone borrow something, it's gone. Oh, you like never get it back.

Speaker 1:

Oh, really Pretty much. No, I would never do that.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Have I borrowed something from you and I haven't returned it? I don't think so no because I think I get most of this.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you don't usually borrow things from me.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

I borrow things from you.

Speaker 1:

You do.

Speaker 2:

Sometimes Like the projector. Oh, yeah, and then it stayed here forever, sometimes Like the projector.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, and then it stayed here forever. Yeah, they did borrow movies from me and they returned them.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

And this was the VHS years.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay, so very cool. What else did you guys do?

Speaker 1:

My best friend, the one I stuck with. He was into like games and Video games Video games and computer games and I wasn't really into that. There was one time I was at his place and he had a video game. I think it was the Nintendo and it was James Bond Goldeneye.

Speaker 2:

Oh, the N64 game yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and he wanted to play that and I sucked at that. So I let him and his brothers play. And their father went into the room and saw me watching them play and he's like what, what the heck is this? Why don't you let him play? And I'm like I don't want to play.

Speaker 2:

I I'm, I just want to watch this the friend with like a ton of brothers and then the one sister yeah, he had two brothers and then one smaller sister.

Speaker 1:

I've talked about them, yep, yep yep, anything else. No.

Speaker 2:

All right. What did a typical day look like for you when you were young?

Speaker 1:

I think it was mostly like going to school and staying there, trying to survive school and getting home maybe talk to my grandma and I don't like to say but I drank a lot of soda and that kind of ruined my life ruined your life okay did you ever get into any kind of sports or anything? No, not really my parents didn't really want me to. All right, they had to drive stuff like that.

Speaker 2:

Boring, yeah. So other than watching movies, what else did you enjoy doing?

Speaker 1:

I was pretending to be Jackie Chan. I did many falls. It's weird that I never broke anything. I guess I was good at it, not as clumsy as Jackie is.

Speaker 2:

Those are some rough words there, yeah.

Speaker 1:

But yeah, that was my childhood. Really, Jackie was my number one hero.

Speaker 2:

What were your favorite family traditions or holidays as a child?

Speaker 1:

favorite family traditions or holidays. As a child Traditions, I'm thinking did we have traditions. I mean we did fish the crayfish every year and that was fun to go down to the creek, also very wet, you know, it was often raining, but that was good because that's when the crayfish was.

Speaker 2:

When they come out.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we didn't go to that many places, but I remember us renting like an RV.

Speaker 2:

A motorhome.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

I don't know what RV stands for.

Speaker 1:

No but.

Speaker 2:

But it is a motorhome.

Speaker 1:

Okay, it's a drivable camper. Yeah, and I like that, but we only did that for like one time, but it was nice.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Really nice to sleep in that.

Speaker 2:

How did you celebrate birthdays?

Speaker 1:

At home eating cake, getting presents.

Speaker 2:

Did you ever get like a birthday party?

Speaker 1:

If I had birthday parties, it wasn't big ones.

Speaker 2:

It wasn't that exciting.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

Okay. Were there any significant challenges or difficulties you faced as a child?

Speaker 1:

I don't know. I guess I had like bullies at school. But I mean, I say bullies, but when I hear about other people's experiences with bullies, I don't really know if I could call them bullies, because they weren't that bad they were just they were really rough, though it's not like I got beaten up that much.

Speaker 2:

Your experience is still valid. Oh, okay despite other people's experiences yeah you know what I mean by that yes okay, because I mean I do the same thing that you're doing now like especially with, like my health and my pain and stuff, like yeah, I'm hurting, but you know, other people have had it worse. That doesn't mean that doesn't take away the fact that I am hurting, like yeah, I'm having trouble breathing, but it's not like I'm not turning blue or anything.

Speaker 1:

No, it just feels kind of I don't know if I would say disrespectful to the people who actually had you know way worse than I had. Yeah, for me to say that, oh, I had such a troubled childhood because I had a bully who hit me once. And then here's someone who said who gets you know spit in the face every day and like that, that's way worse than what I went through.

Speaker 2:

I get what you're saying.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but it's still valid.

Speaker 2:

Did you get hit?

Speaker 1:

I did.

Speaker 2:

Okay, why wouldn't people make fun of you? I'm Italian now.

Speaker 1:

Why wouldn't people make fun of you? I'm Italian now. Why would people?

Speaker 2:

make a fun of you. Why?

Speaker 1:

Why would people?

Speaker 2:

make a fun of you.

Speaker 1:

Make a fun of me.

Speaker 2:

I'm trying to ask a serious question and it's not coming out in a serious way. I am screwing it up.

Speaker 1:

I was very nerdy. Some people don't like people like that, so I guess they thought they could successfully intimidate us nerdier guys, and I really don't know why.

Speaker 2:

Just stupid people.

Speaker 1:

Who knows why people bullied to begin with? No, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:

I never understood it no is there a moment from your childhood that you feel shaped, who you are today?

Speaker 1:

of course, the first time I ever saw Jackie Chan that's what I was thinking yeah, that really shaped my interest in movies and everything.

Speaker 2:

And that's just kind of who you are today.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, my being.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that really is. But before Jackie Chan came into your life, you already loved movies right, I did, I did, that's just something that's been a constant throughout your life.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes that's, that's it. I really I have always loved movies, but I don't think I was thinking about making movies as much before jackie, because, you know, in jackie's movies you get to see at the end the glimpse behind the scenes, and that's, that's what piqued my interest in, you know, making movies oh, I did have another question what's the first movie you remember seeing before Jackie? The first movie I remember seeing at all you know, at home on video.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like ever cinema or at home.

Speaker 1:

I know, I think I know the cinema one, but the first I ever saw because I know I saw movies at home first it must have been like some cartoon Disney, yeah, probably. I mean the one that really made a big impression on me is Lion King. That might be one of the first ones I actually remember and that was kind of dramatic and still fun. Yeah okay, is that a good answer?

Speaker 2:

I like your answer. So, yes, can you share a happy memory from your childhood that stands out to you? We've talked a lot about less than happy memories, but maybe we can think of something more positive.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I remember this was after I became a Jackie Chan fan.

Speaker 2:

Would you say after Okay, yep.

Speaker 1:

So I had seen a few of Jackie's movies and I really enjoyed them. And one day we went to the store and they had big boxes of movies and VHS and I went to that box and saw all the movies and I found like at least like seven or eight different Jackie Chan movies that I had never seen before, and all of them there and I was so happy. That must have been like the happiest time in my life. I think I had seen one of them actually, or two.

Speaker 2:

But you didn't have them. No, okay.

Speaker 1:

We only rented them before that. So I bought. Well, I didn't buy them. I told my mom to buy them.

Speaker 2:

You told her to. Yeah, okay, she had to.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I was a big fan. Yeah, everything was so perfect that day. I was so happy. You know that summer smell that's so perfect, mm-hmm, like when you open a window. That's what the day was for me. It's difficult to explain, but it felt so good. That's how much of a nerd I am. I can give you a list of all the movies I bought that day.

Speaker 2:

Okay, okay. What's something from your childhood that you miss?

Speaker 1:

I mean, I do miss my friend that lived close to me. He was also fun, but he moved too soon, you know, and after he moved we never really talked because he was a year older than me.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so you know he's too good for you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he stuck to his age group.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1:

And yeah, that's it. We never really talked after that. Oh yeah, so I do miss him and would like to know what he's doing today.

Speaker 2:

Later today. Yes, what are you doing today?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, in like seven hours. I'm going to call him. I'm going to find him.

Speaker 2:

You're going to spend the rest of the night trying to find him. Then you're going to call him and be like what are you doing? What are you doing later?

Speaker 1:

Remember me.

Speaker 2:

Remember me, let's hang out. Do, do, do, do, do. When you were a child, what did you dream of becoming when you grew up?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that would have been like a movie star. That was my absolute, my top dream.

Speaker 2:

Do you remember what you wanted to do before Jackie?

Speaker 1:

I think I actually wanted to be an actor.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Like I said, I never thought about behind the cameras. Do you think you could still be an actor? Okay, like I said, I never thought about behind the cameras.

Speaker 2:

Do you think you could still be an actor?

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 2:

No, okay.

Speaker 1:

I don't think I have the talent for that.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Do you think so?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I haven't tested. No, no, we haven't had a good skit or anything, no Idea.

Speaker 1:

I don't think I would come across as natural.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

But who knows, maybe, maybe We'll see.

Speaker 2:

Did your childhood aspirations change as you got older?

Speaker 1:

How do you mean?

Speaker 2:

Your dreams, my dreams, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yes, Like I don't want to be an actor. Okay, no. Now my dream is still want to work with movies, but I want to be behind the camera. I'd rather be a director or editor.

Speaker 2:

That would be cool.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Well, how do you feel after all of this?

Speaker 1:

I feel like I'm an open book.

Speaker 2:

All right.

Speaker 1:

No, not really, but I feel good. I think I can keep most of it.

Speaker 2:

You got a lot out.

Speaker 1:

I did.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Are you happy with your answers?

Speaker 2:

I am. Are you happy with your answers?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, most of them.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you did pretty good. I think yeah, but you got a. Your answers, yeah, most of them. Yeah, you did pretty good I think, yeah, but you got a lot off your chest. You feel Like you can breathe a little bit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

You talked about your problems a bit here, mm-hmm, yeah, good, good, good, good, good. So what Is it my turn next week?

Speaker 1:

If you want to.

Speaker 2:

Oh boy Okay.

Speaker 1:

Well.

Speaker 2:

I let you talk today.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So I did my part.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you did Mm-hmm Very good. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, we're both improving.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

With that, would you like to wrap this up?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it's about time.

Speaker 2:

This is number 90.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

So that's 10 episodes until 100.

Speaker 1:

Crazy.

Speaker 2:

Did we say 95?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, 95.

Speaker 2:

That's when we reveal what we're doing for number 100.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

All right, then we'll wrap this up. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1:

Should I do the exit as well?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, thank you for listening to us and please comment and like. You can probably like somewhere and follow us. Yeah, we have several of the social medias and just look us up and have a good time with those.

Speaker 2:

We're on TikTok, instagram, twitch and YouTube.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah so please write something on one of those.

Speaker 2:

Would be cool.

Speaker 1:

Yeah or do anything, Just let us know you're out there.

Speaker 2:

Just say hi. That's all A simple hi in a comment box would be amazing. We want to know who is listening.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if you want to, you can talk a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

That would be cool.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Really cool. Please do that, I dare you.

Speaker 2:

I dare you.

Speaker 1:

Okay, next Live Mad Libs is Saturday, september 7th, and it's hopefully fun. It's going to be even more fun if more people could join us. So please join us there and maybe write about yourself or something Maybe not Just write words actually, when you're there, and we will try to be as entertaining as we can be. I think that's all, or do you want to say something?

Speaker 2:

I think you covered about everything. That was really good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm that good you are. Yeah, I've been talking about everything, thank you, that was really good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm that good you are yeah.

Speaker 1:

I've been talking about my childhood, that I feel like I can now cover it all, so see you next week and have a good one.

Speaker 2:

Be good. All right, thank you. Yeah, goodbye.

Speaker 1:

Bye-bye.

People on this episode