#575 - Work Hard, Play Harder

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Joe Santagato (0:30)

Welcome back to The Basement Yard. Welcome back to The Basement Yard. Frank?

Frank Alvarez (0:39)

I gotta be honest with you. I just caught it with myself. I'm a little fucking stinky.

SPEAKER_1 (0:44)

What the is that?

Joe Santagato (0:45)

That's where we're gonna start?

SPEAKER_1 (0:46)

I just...

Joe Santagato (0:47)

You stink? Like ship?

Frank Alvarez (0:50)

A little bit.

SPEAKER_5 (0:50)

No, just like... Like a big ship?

Frank Alvarez (0:52)

No, slow down. I'm not like... Wait, wait, like shit or like ship? I wish I smelled like a ship.

Joe Santagato (0:58)

Do you? You wish you smelled like barnacles?

Frank Alvarez (1:02)

What do barnacles smell like?

Joe Santagato (1:03)

I don't know. I assume the ocean.

SPEAKER_5 (1:04)

What do barnacles smell like?

Joe Santagato (1:05)

I don't even know what a barnacle is.

Frank Alvarez (1:06)

Ocean doesn't smell awful. It's just like when there's like dead shit in it. That's when it smells like shit.

SPEAKER_5 (1:10)

Wait, what's a barnacle?

Frank Alvarez (1:11)

It's like a little animal that like builds a little shell and like lives in a little shell with a little hole at the top of it.

Ant Prisco (1:18)

It's like a boat pimple.

Frank Alvarez (1:19)

Yeah, kind of.

Joe Santagato (1:20)

And they're also on whales, right?

Frank Alvarez (1:22)

Are they on whales?

SPEAKER_3 (1:23)

Maybe.

Frank Alvarez (1:24)

Maybe on like slower living animals. But like they're like, there's animals in there, brother. You ever see them crunch them off of lobsters? They go on lobsters.

SPEAKER_3 (1:31)

Do we eat them?

Frank Alvarez (1:33)

I don't think we can eat. Those are those little motherfuckers. Yeah, brother.

Ant Prisco (1:36)

This is gross looking.

SPEAKER_3 (1:37)

I kind of like them.

Frank Alvarez (1:38)

No, they could like hurt animals. So like they can grow. You've never seen the people that take them off of lobsters?

SPEAKER_3 (1:44)

No.

Joe Santagato (1:45)

Dude, there's like scraping barnacles off of lobsters.

Frank Alvarez (1:48)

No, they're scraping. They use like fucking like needle nose pliers and shit like that because they're like strong bitches.

Joe Santagato (1:54)

Oh, they're little strong rocks.

SPEAKER_3 (1:55)

They're little.

Frank Alvarez (1:55)

But in the middle, that little thing in the middle is an animal. Yeah, people like scrape them off.

SPEAKER_3 (2:05)

I like new like that.

Joe Santagato (2:07)

Like when I'm looking at it, I'm like, I know that's a barnacle, but I don't know what it is.

Frank Alvarez (2:11)

I'm pretty sure it's an animal and the thing around it is like a shell. Yeah, it can like fuck with like ships. It can propellers, it could fuck with lobsters.

Joe Santagato (2:20)

But every time I see a picture of a propeller, I just think of Titanic and that dude jumping off the back and hitting one and just spinning.

Frank Alvarez (2:25)

And like, but dang, like hit that shit.

Joe Santagato (2:28)

I love that sound.

Frank Alvarez (2:29)

You like so...

Joe Santagato (2:30)

I like the sound of a body hitting a propeller of the Titanic. That's what I like.

Frank Alvarez (2:35)

You know what? It's a one of one sound.

Joe Santagato (2:37)

You know what else I really like? When you throw, you remember the end of Tommy Boy where he throws a football and it hits the old lady in the face and it makes that like...

Frank Alvarez (2:46)

The sound of like when a ball hits someone's face, that's a very, very good sound.

SPEAKER_3 (2:51)

It's like a...

Joe Santagato (2:52)

It's like that.

SPEAKER_3 (2:54)

It's a...

Frank Alvarez (2:55)

I fuck with that sound a lot. That is a really good sound. But, bro, there's this TikTok account where these guys are like shipers.

SPEAKER_5 (3:03)

Sailors? Fishermen.

Frank Alvarez (3:05)

Fishermen. One of those three.

Ant Prisco (3:06)

Yeah.

Frank Alvarez (3:07)

And then they'll fucking like find a lobster and they'll be like, this poor guy got too many barnacles on it. And it's like fucking with its ability to like be a lobster. So let's just take them off, help them out, scrape them off, throw it back in.