[Leftovers] #183

You know that split-second panic before sleep where you have to confirm your phone is charging even though you just checked? We start right there, because that tiny ritual is weirdly universal, and it sets the tone for a fast, messy, funny conversation that keeps swerving into new lanes. 

Then we get obsessed with a party game we keep hearing about at work: Hitster, the music trivia card game that uses QR codes to play songs on Spotify and dares you to place each track on a timeline by release year. It sounds simple until your brain tries to separate late 70s from early 80s, or you realize you’re great at naming an artist but terrible at pinning down the date. We dig into why pop culture memory works that way, why movies sometimes feel easier to date than songs, and how confidence can be totally disconnected from being correct. 

Along the way we drop a quick AFI shoutout (yes, “Cinematic” comes up), joke about workplace survival fantasies, and accidentally create a tagline that spirals into “a bad cat in a bush” territory. The back half goes full conversational chaos: New England horror vibes, a cryptid name-drop, a crooked Greek mythology sirens riff, and a closing beat that turns into a playful trust standoff. 

If you like casual comedy podcasts, music games, pop culture trivia, and unscripted friend banter, hit play and come hang. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves trivia, and leave a review, then tell us: what song year do you always get wrong?

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Transcript

The Bedtime Charging Check

SPEAKER_01 0:00

To see if it's charging or not.

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:02

That's what I do before going to sleep. I'm like, Yes, it's charging.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

It is charging.

SPEAKER_01 0:07

I need to check again.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Well, I have one of these in my room. So I just put it on there and then it glows when it's charging. Yeah. It's connected. So I can see from my bed.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Yeah, but I don't have one of those. No. So that's why I have to check my phones. Yeah. Yeah. That's how it works.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

I guess um. Uh

Warmups And Random Openers

SPEAKER_00 0:29

yeah. Let's not take that long today. No, we uh Do we need to do breathing exercises? Maybe mla mla summer. Do we need to do talking exercises? Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

You good?

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Yes. I feel good. Good. Da da da da da da da.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Hmm. Good.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Blink.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

What is the first thing that pops in your head right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Blinking.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

Okay.

Hitster Music Trivia Rules

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Um, I was uh told that I should play that game that we keep seeing at work. Maybe you don't because you're upstairs. But hit stir. Hit stir.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Apparently, what you do is that there's a QR code on the cards. You scan it and it plays a song on Spotify.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

And then uh this card, you have like a timeline in front of you, and you have to put it in the timeline, like what year it was released.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Okay. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Yeah. Well, I would suck at it, but I probably would too, because I'm not very good with years.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

But if it was like uh say the title or the artist, I would have a better chance there.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yeah, I would suck at that too. Yeah. But uh if it was the year thing with movies, I think I would be fairly good at that.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Not perfect. Because I I've been wrong before I could like uh it felt like I could all years

Why Years Are Hard To Guess

SPEAKER_01 2:07

on movies.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

You can you know everything.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

But now I don't think so. I I I remember when we did the movie quotes and we were talking about um Apollo 13.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Was it right? I don't know. I think so. And uh I guessed the year wrong. Not good several times, and I'm like, I don't get it.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

I what's wrong with you?

unknown 2:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

But yeah. Usually I can uh guess within like a couple years from the actual yeah. But yeah, songs I I I'm not very good at that.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

But uh I can I can do like an estimate. Like I'm pretty sure I know which songs are from like the 80s and 90s and such. Okay, but specific years is difficult for me. And like the ones that are like right in between, like between 79 and 80, like right in that area. I I'm I usually get that wrong.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

I think it's you.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Yeah, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Cinematic. Ooh, nice. Oh, yeah. It's AFI. Cool. Yeah, okay. Sorry, quite.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Need to listen to that.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

You need to listen to more AFI.

AFI Love And Poison Jokes

SPEAKER_01 3:19

I guess so. Did you poison yourself?

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Yeah. It was self-poisoning.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Yeah, so you can't go to work for two weeks now?

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Right. That's the goal.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

I might take a sip of that. Be like, sorry, I'm also poisoned. Yeah. Calm a TS. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:39

Give me. Did you do that?

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Did I do a tagline?

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah, did you?

SPEAKER_00 3:43

I had a different tagline last week.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yeah, I remember that, but did you have one this week?

Creating A Ridiculous Podcast Tagline

SPEAKER_00 3:50

No. The podcast that is a pad case.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Padcast.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Padcat.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Excuse me.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Podcast that is a bad cat.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Fat cat.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Bad cat. A bad cat. Bad cat.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

In a bush.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Why? Oh, lilac. Lilac. What? Lilac bushes.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Yeah, it's a bush.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Yes. Okay. What? No. Nothing. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Not confused.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

No, I'm not confused. No. We're moving on. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Yeah. Uh uh blew up or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yeah, you blew you blew up balloons. You uh inflated right now? Yes or no? You guess.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

I mean you're you're gonna be the one who's editing this part.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Right. So So that's my choice. Give me a minute. Yeah, sure. But it's annoying. I do know it's annoying.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

No, you should know why it takes two months. Okay, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Okay. And then some horror New England energy. Um Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

What were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_01 5:07

No.

Work Characters And Creepy Vibes

SPEAKER_00 5:09

I mean, we've got that one guy at work. I can't look at him.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

With him. He's nice though.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

He's nice. He's make them uh uh do some kind of uh uh boxing thing.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

And uh I can hear you. I can hear you.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yay! Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Well, it's me. I'm trying to get a book.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Ah.

Myth Tangents And Trust Problems

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Uh we're recording.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

And I I wanted to tell you, but I was kinda grumpy, so I didn't really tell you. Um, did it hear me?

SPEAKER_01 5:44

No wonder it only has one guest.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

40 billion minutes is Oh no. A table backed carrot creature with a beater Oh my gosh. Ogopogo. A female person. Any person. Yeah. A female person. Let's see. Who's cool? Who's a cool female person? Um. Someone fell over.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Yeah. Why can't I spell like a normal human being?

SPEAKER_00 6:15

You're not a normal human being.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Ah, that's why.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

The sirens of Greek mythology were happy but dangerous creatures. Who would Okay, I'm gonna. Who would jiggle sailors with their skateboards, causing stamp wrecks? That's not good. I'm gonna try that again. What are you not telling me now?

SPEAKER_01 6:34

I'm not I'm not telling you. Okay That you're that you don't trust me.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

I have good reason not to trust you.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

You do? I might no um