[Leftovers] #187

We start where a lot of real podcasts start: fiddling with microphone placement, trying to sound “equal,” and immediately getting distracted by the temptation to whisper and mess with our voices. What follows is pure friendship banter, the kind that feels casual until it suddenly isn’t, because a joking “tell a secret” turns into a blunt admission that one of us almost died after losing a lot of blood and ending up on the way to the hospital. It’s dark, honest, and uncomfortably relatable if you’ve ever tried to laugh your way through a health scare.

From there we swing into language quirks that shouldn’t matter but absolutely do when you can’t un-hear them: people vs persons, why double negatives fry your brain, and how movie dialogue can sound “wrong” even when it’s technically understood. If you love communication, linguistics, or just arguing about words, you’ll feel seen.

Then we lean into the messy fun: background beeps that derail the room, debating whether what we watched was even worth it, and spiraling into posters, famous favorites, and music talk. We mash up Swedish nursery rhymes with English ones, face down challenge cards, attempt the alphabet song in a non-native language, and admit when a game is no longer fun. Stick around to the end, because we want to hear from you: stop what you’re doing and send us your favorite song. If you enjoyed the chaos, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review.

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Transcript

Microphone Setup And Volume Jokes

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Which is which?

SPEAKER_00 0:06

I think that's it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hello.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Hello.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Not yet. Yeah, that's okay. Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

What are you looking for, Pat?

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Um, seeing if it was straight up. Because it looks like it's not. Yeah. Maybe it's just slightly.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

Now it's it should be.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

It should be okay now.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Yeah. It's important.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

It is. We want to be equal. Yeah. Equally captured.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

So otherwise people would think I'm the sidekick because you get more of the microphone. Microphone.

SPEAKER_02 0:45

Right. Right. And I don't need it closer to me anyway because I'm already louder than you.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yeah. So sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 0:54

Sometimes. Yeah. When I'm not grumpy.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yeah. Because sometimes I go down here. Talk like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

And like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

And and I keep talking like this and uh and I'm down here. Yeah. You're sneaky.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

I am sneaky. Sneaky, sneaky. I just want to be down here. I want to whisper.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Oh yeah.

Whispering And Sharing Secrets

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Okay. I whisper. End episode. Yeah. Whisper episode. I think you kinda like it. Okay. Yeah. Let's tell secrets. Okay, you start. Okay. Okay. That's my secret. Tell me some. I do have secrets, but I don't tell you. Oh no. You know secrets, but I can tell you a secret. Alright. Tell down to secret. Okay. No. Wedding happened. And you want to keep a secret. Oh. I almost died. Yeah. Don't tell anyone. I almost died. But don't tell you. Don't tell the secrets. I don't want my mom to find it. I almost died. She would kill me. Have you ever done that though? Died?

SPEAKER_00 2:00

No, but almost. And that's right.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

I don't want to tell my mom about this. Oh, but I did tell her. That's good. Yeah. But I lost a lot of blood. I do. And on the way to the hospital, I was thinking like this could be just because I was so much blood. I was so disimplated. I couldn't sleep without getting

The Story Behind Almost Dying

SPEAKER_01 2:20

a faint. But I I did tell my mom, and you know what she said? Yeah, you did that with I don't think it was the best. She's like, oh well, this already happened. Oh just like, did you have another baby? I did. Two weeks ago. And then the nurse thought that I wanted to see my debate. She thought I just get difficult because she just had much of a difficult competitive. Just like oh I just want to get a job. I need them all. I break off the hotel. I don't think that's great. So the first thing isn't. You would never be allowed to walk out again. Never forget. You can't be trusted. Yeah, it's a person. Sounds like it's a people. It's not just two persons.

People Vs Persons And Language Pet Peeves

SPEAKER_01 5:00

What's the difference between persons and exploit that people? More than two. Oh more than a couple. Yeah. That's what expected. I think it's what to disagree. I think great persons. Use the persons. It's a couple. Oh, just a couple persons. Yeah. That was one of them. Okay. Does it look at you about the buttons? I'm fine. Whispering in there. No. What?

SPEAKER_02 6:00

You want to keep whisper shape. I know. Maybe we should talk.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Maybe we can talk now.

SPEAKER_02 6:06

But I'm gonna talk down here.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

We should talk. Yeah, okay. About what? Uh say things.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

About other things.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Yeah, talk like normal persons.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

People. Yes. It's weird. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

I'm not used to it.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

No.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

I've always grown up with people, not persons.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

Okay. But I heard it in movies.

SPEAKER_02 6:31

I have heard it in movies, but I just assume that they're wrong. Or like, that's a weird way to put it.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

I tried to punch you.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

It's like whenever people use double negatives. I'm always so weird. Yeah, I'm always like. Okay, so you mean the opposite? Yeah. But I know that they don't, but why do people talk weird?

SPEAKER_02 6:57

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Yeah, like Rocky, he always uses double negatives.

SPEAKER_02 7:02

Just doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

No, it's like, I don't know what you mean, man.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

What are you saying?

Starting The Game And Random Distractions

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Rolling, rolling, rolling.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

I believe. Is it your turn? My turn.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

I whose turn. Why? I feel like it wasn't it my turn last time?

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Or was my birthday episode?

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Was that when I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

Or was that Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it was me. Yeah. I did. It's your turn.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

We're gonna Why are people falling? Hello? I don't have the number. I write on Messenger. Search Mats Gabin or whatever his name is. I don't have a number. Can't help you. What are you sorry? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

Broke my finger.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

I didn't mean to. Why am I not getting oh, because I'm sleeping. That's why. Beep boop. Okay. Alright, yes. Please, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

We're gonna open it up.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

We're gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Yeah. I got the hole on the side, so it's but I I was drinking like this.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

In the throng.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Yeah. You were talking. You were almost whispering the first time.

unknown 8:17

You're doing it.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 8:19

I didn't hear what you said.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

You're doing it wrong.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Okay, okay. Now I get it.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

There were two hot tubs.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

What is the do you hear beeping?

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Microwave?

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Who's microwave? We have nothing to microwave.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Popcorn?

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Maybe. Anyway, um popcorn. Yep. Oh, you're right. Okay. Um I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Yeah. What? Uh should I be sorry that we watched these? No. No, okay, good. No. Because I I I kind of felt like that while watching, I'm like, why did I bring these? Maybe I shouldn't have. In a way, I kinda wanted since we've seen the first one, and I mean uh they're not great, but yeah, I don't know. But I

Posters, Famous Favorites, And Song Talk

SPEAKER_00 9:00

had seen these, so so I knew they weren't good.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Yeah, but I'm I'm talking about me too, not just you.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Yeah, but uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

Should we do one? Should we do two? Should we do both? Should we do the other one?

SPEAKER_00 9:15

There's not really some I mean So You're welcome.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

You should get a poster for me.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

You want an AFI poster?

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Uh what what'd you say? You should get a poster from me.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

From?

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

On Jackie Chan. So are you? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

Oh okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Well these are my left side, actually.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

That is your left side as well. Yeah, there's your rights on the right.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Yeah. Famous people.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Yes, two more. Two more people that I like. Dead or alive. Or your No, that's my chemical romance. Oh my goodness. This is ridiculous. I'm so sick of everything.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

It is something like that. Yeah. You're gonna go far, kid. Is it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Why am I offline? Why? The kids aren't alright.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

No, that's not it. Well, that's not the song I used for the You're gonna go Yeah far, kid.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Okay, so what's my chemical romance? What's that song?

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Maybe they also did another.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

Maybe. Give him Helicid.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Yeah. I remember when I did the um the video was kind of funny because um Jackie's character was called Shanghai Kid.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

Uh in the movie.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

So that was part of the why I chose that. That's funny. I didn't answer it back.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

So I you didn't come up with five people for your No, I can.

Swedish Nursery Rhymes Mixed Together

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

No, no, we don't. Chorus, that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

I I don't know that many nursery rhymes, especially in English.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

I You know the Swedish ones.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Yeah. I do.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

But um maybe If you take two Swedish ones, then we can translate them.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Yeah. But I I I can't really come up with one Swedish or I mean I can come up with uh I can't really mix them together.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Okay. So if you come up with two.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

I I I uh yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Like Imse Vimse Spindel. And then and then Baba Vitalam.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Okay. Baba Spindan. Baba Spider. Or uh Baba Imse Vimse uh Imse Vimse Vita Lum. Yeah. That works. Right? The It'sy Bitsy White Sheep Lamb. It's actually black sheep in English. Which is weird.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

But is it the same? It's the same.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

So you have ba ba vitam, and then we have ba ba black sheep, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Ba ba black sheep. Is it like that?

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Or what no, it's ba ba black sheep. We have it like uh the straight line first, and then it's

Challenge Cards And The Alphabet Song

SPEAKER_02 12:05

hard to explain notes.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Ba ba black sheep. Have you any? Well, yes, sir, yes, sir, three bag ball.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Challenge card. Uh or I mean it's set a timer for sixty seconds. Each player must write down as many songs as they can feature the word heart in the title.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

That's not.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

No.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

Next, skip.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Challenge card. Set a timer for sixty seconds.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

No, no, no, we're not doing that. Oh my goodness, I am itchy. I can't itch. Next.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

What's with all the challenge card cards?

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Okay, here we go. This one should be pretty freaking easy for you.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

If you can't do this Here we go, here we go. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Then I'm quitting. Okay. If you can't manage this. Okay, here's a challenge for you. Um, recite the alphabet song in any language other than your native tongue.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

A, B, C, D, E, F, G. How how far do I I uh the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

You know the alphabet. You don't know the alphabet?

SPEAKER_00 13:10

I know, but uh it's difficult in English. Okay. H G. Uh I I don't like challenge cards.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Are we done here?

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Uh we're not doing more?

SPEAKER_02 13:25

I don't know. Do you still want to play?

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

I just don't want to do the challenge cards. Okay. Is that okay? Yeah. Good. Oh, you got that.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

No more singing today.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

No, not for me.

Impossible Trivia And Pop Culture Guessing

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Do you know the band? Or is it a solo?

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Uh he's unknown.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Unknown? Yeah. No one knows this guy.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Complete unknown. Wasn't that what the movie was called, I think.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

Elvis?

SPEAKER_00 13:58

No. No, that was called Elvis, I think.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

Oh. Complete unknown?

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Wasn't that him?

SPEAKER_02 14:03

Um There's just no No, there's no way. Sorry. I mean, you can read it if you want, but there's like no way. That one's too hard. I knew that.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

No, you didn't. No, I didn't. Yeah, I mean, like, the first that comes to mind is like uh Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Yeah, but he was having a really hard time getting on MTV. Oh yeah. So I would say that's not it. They showed that in the movie. Spoilers.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

I only saw it once.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

You weren't paying attention?

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

It's okay. It's not Bob Dylan. Did you catch anything I just said?

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Yeah, it was written by someone young.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

Who wrote crazy.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

And it's not Bob Dylan. That was a hint.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Well, it says then unknown. Ah, okay. You said his movie was something about being unknown. Yeah, a couple of things. And it wasn't it wasn't him.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

No, because I'm I'm thinking maybe Dolly Parton wasn't known yet, but uh Oh.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Who's in Degrassi?

SPEAKER_00 15:11

What's ruining my life? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

You tell me. Tell me, baby.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

I don't have much to to ruin my life. Do you have uh something that ruins your life?

SPEAKER_02 15:27

I know what's ruining your life.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Okay, please tell me.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

I'm leaving.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:32

Uh maybe we should say something about that.

What Ruins Your Life And Listener Prompt

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Well, next week you're still gonna Oh yeah, I'll be here next week.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Never mind. And then I will sing it in the next episode.

unknown 15:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

I will practice and practice. I will have one day to practice, so you better send that in quick.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Yeah. Um send it now.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Send it right now.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Right now.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Stop what you're doing and comment or send us a text telling me your favorite song.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

And sorry, I had to burp internally.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Okay. Have a good life.