Distracted Watching

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Kids today, with their in-line skates and their long boards that roll over everything.

It's totally weird and while it works, but it's weird.

Bring both your hands 64 is over.

We'll play Mario Kart.

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It smells like smoke coming off someone's ass.

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Do people not know what I'm at work?

This is the Garner Andrew Show Podcast.

For our little amateur radio show, my name's Garner.

Welcome to it.

We were talking a few minutes ago.

What is it?

Like, 54% of people now aren't buying booze when they go out for a meal in a restaurant.

I kind of thought, should I feel guilty about that when I don't buy booze?

I do, regular.

Like, I'll have one beer.

But just on Friday, we went out and I'm like, now, nobody at our table.

We were out for lunch, mind you.

And not a single person at our table ordered any booze.

It was diet coax all the way around.

And I felt guilty about this.

It's like, oh, we were hoping you'd spend more money.

No, instead, I had the $26 burger or whatever it was.

Somebody said, I think you should feel good because you're still going to a restaurant.

If you full on, stop going because it was too expensive, that might be something to

feel bad about, just to my, my two cents.

Somebody else said you should absolutely not feel bad for not ordering alcohol.

What about us sober people?

I haven't had a drink in nine years, but I still enjoy going out for dinner.

Well, that's from Shelley.

Thank you, Shelley.

I used to always just feel guilty when they come around.

You know how they try and sell you some dessert?

And I'm like, I'm not a dessert guy.

I used to feel guilty about that.

So now I feel guilty about not buying a drink.

And I feel guilty about not buying dessert.

The Garner Andrew Show Podcast.

The Garner Andrew Show, the show that stars you and me and my insecurities.

I was talking a few minutes ago.

Sometimes I feel guilty when I go to a restaurant.

And I don't order any booze with my meal.

Like either I just have water or maybe I have a diet coke.

And there was a story this morning that Taylor had at six o'clock about,

what is it like, 54, half of people aren't ordering drinks in restaurants anymore.

They'll just go out to eat.

Somebody said, well, this doesn't do anything for my insecurity about this whole thing.

This is from John.

Those restaurants and bars depend on you buying drinks.

If you're only there for the chicken tenders, don't tie up a table

when people might actually be wanting that table to spend money.

Okay.

This person, Garner, I think people should stop doing things they don't want to do.

Also, Garner, I feel bad when I don't want to spend $16 on restaurant drinks.

Don't feel bad if you don't want to drink or the dessert.

Live your life how it's best for you.

Happy Monday, you know what?

I am talking out of both sides of my mouth here this morning, aren't I?

I was just saying, I'm tired of doing things I don't want to do.

You know what?

I'm going to stop feeling bad about stuff.

Thanks for the pep top mystery person, whoever you are.

It's the Garner Andrew Show podcast.

So you went on a hot date with your best girl.

That's right.

Was that on Friday?

Saturday night.

Saturday with your beautiful, beautiful wife.

That's right.

What did you do?

We did dinner in a movie.

Went for dinner at like 4.30 in the afternoon.

Yeah, we wanted to get out of the house.

The kids were wild.

Granny was over.

It's 4.30, too, really, to go to sleep all night.

What time was the movie?

6.30.

OK, that's not too bad.

It's not crazy.

But yeah, we were in and out of there in like an hour.

OK.

We got two small kids at home.

We were used to eating real, real fast.

Oh, yeah.

And then you go to a restaurant and you try to take your time.

And oh, we're done.

Now, you went and saw Project Hill Mary.

It's so good.

I can't wait to see it.

I mean, I loved the Martian so much.

And it's the same guy that wrote the Martian

that wrote Project Hill Mary.

And the movie, it's getting really good reviews, made

a pile of money.

Did you like it?

I really liked it.

OK, good.

Ryan Gosling, he's just, he's so charming.

Oh, yeah.

I hate it.

He's just so char, his hair is perfect even in zero gravity.

What's with the Canadian Ryan's, hey?

No.

They're just, yeah, that's so likable.

Absolutely studs, but so likable.

But the one thing I did not like about the movie

was Ryan Gosling's glasses.

The style of his glasses.

Yeah, because like, he's a stud, right?

So they pulled the move.

Oh, I hate it when they do that.

Yeah, they pulled the move where, oh, we

got to make sure he looks smart.

So we'll give him glasses.

Or they, it's like they have to try and make him

a little less handsome.

Yeah.

And for some reason, glasses are what they put on people.

But he is not good at wearing glasses.

No.

Half of the movie, they're hanging one,

hanging one arm off of his ear.

Or they're all disheveled on his face.

And it's like, look, man, my culture is not your costume.

I have, I have glasses.

I need them to see.

And if you did, your character, she wouldn't be treating

your glasses like that.

Show me, right, how was he wearing them?

He had them like down under his chin and blank.

So hanging off of all the glasses.

I'm thinking, I'm smart.

And then he put them on and make some revelation.

I saw somewhere, somebody posted something like,

what's with Ryan Gosling's glasses or something like that?

And I did a quick little Google on it.

And exactly what you were saying, you aren't the only one

who were distracted by the fact that he had them hanging off

like under his chin kind of hanging off one ear.

So when I Googled that this morning,

I came upon a red thread and somebody said,

we called that Van Gogh style.

And they posted, you know, the famous meme of Van Gogh

with his missing ear.

Yeah.

So, but also if you wear glasses,

they'll get all smudged, oil stained and stretched.

And I don't know, I'm going to find this incredibly

distracting now when I go see this movie.

Yeah, I wish I probably ruined a bit of the movie for you.

Just because of that, Van Gogh watch it.

But even with his poor glasses wearing technique,

he was very likable.

It was that good.

It was.

Yeah.

And a little rocky.

What a cutie.

Rocky, don't say anything.

Rocky.

That's all in the tree.

Is it?

Yeah.

Okay.

There's one line that's just so good.

Did you take a pillow?

Did you take, did you wear your pajama pants?

Did you take a blanket?

No.

Everyone, we went to the landmark theater in Tamarack.

That's my favorite theater.

Yeah.

The one with the popcorns.

Just okay.

But everything else about it is amazing.

Because you have the little left seats that are heated seats

and recliners.

People are coming in with pillows and there's a family of four

each had their own blanket.

I've noticed that now too.

If I threw a blanket on me in the landmark cinema,

it'd be over.

Uh-huh.

Like I would sleep through the entire movie.

You can't get too comfortable for a movie.

But yeah, a lot of people are packing.

People are bringing movie Sherpas now.

An extra person just to carry all the stuff they're bringing in

for the movie.

Your pack and heat.

Yeah.

Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

You could go see it sometime soon.

How many thumbs up you giving it?

Ah, two.

Good.

How many I've got.

There we go.

I'd like you to do the news at eight o'clock this morning

with your glasses hanging off one ear.

I wish.

It looks so smart.

I know.

But can you read without your glasses?

A little.

Yeah.

You're listening to the Gunner Andrew Show podcast.

My name's Gunner Taylor's here.

Remember on Friday when we were talking about

an administrative party?

What would it mean party?

It mean parties.

Yeah.

You get together with a bunch of friends.

You bring some wine and some beer and some dip and chips

and your laptop and then everybody just hunkers down in the same

room and you take care of boring administrative life stuff

like paying bills.

But you do it together?

Yeah.

And for some reason that makes it fun.

Yeah.

Okay, have you done that?

I never have.

But I've got like, I got to make a list of the things I need to do.

Yeah.

And then I think it's a great idea.

Well, yeah, maybe we should start a new segment on the show called,

what are you putting off?

What are you finding daunting and haunting?

Haunting, I think.

And we can talk about, I sorted through,

did I talk about this on the,

I'm getting rid of my record collection.

OK.

I'm going to get it down to maybe, I don't know, 150 records maybe.

And so about two months ago, I sat down in my basement for weeks on end.

And I went through every single record and I scanned it and sorted it into piles.

So two months ago, I did that.

And then I went and got all the boxes.

So I could box them up and everything.

Now all that's left to do is for me to put them in my car and drive them to a used record store.

That's the hardest part.

And that's the part I haven't done yet.

What is that?

Like is it because I secretly don't want it?

Because I feel like I do want to get rid of my records.

I feel like I have too much stuff tying me down.

But at the same time, is there something subconscious going on that I just can't let these things go?

It's like the box of clothes you want to donate that are sitting in your trunk for months on end.

I have no trouble getting rid of that.

As a matter of fact, like when I put a bunch of clothes in a bag and it's time to go donate them,

I can't get them there fast enough.

Oh, interesting.

Like I will go right now.

And it's not part of another journey.

It's not part of a whole bunch of errands.

It's like, I got to get this stuff out now.

But for some reason, my records, I just can't do it.

Somebody just messaged, hey, Garner, I wanted to tell you that my sister and I had an admin party yesterday.

We thought of you.

We also felt very productive.

What a great idea.

Well, that wasn't my idea.

We were just sharing that idea.

Yeah, it's a thing that people are doing.

I don't know.

What else do you have?

Anything else going on in your life that you're just sort of...

I really do need to get my garage under control too.

My cardboard box collection.

It is out of hand.

It is completely unnecessary.

But we've discussed this before.

When you get a good box, you can't let go of that box.

It's sturdy.

It's got rigid corners.

The top on it is fantastic.

You know you can store stuff safely and securely in that box.

You just have nothing to put in that box yet.

But one day, you probably will.

Anyway, what are you putting off?

Let's discuss that.

I was kind of a long-winded way to get to that, wasn't it?

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Hey, I was driving to work this morning.

And this has never, ever happened in this vehicle before.

I was coming up Gateway Boulevard.

And there's a car coming up 51st Avenue.

And I could see it out of the corner of my eye.

And he's gone really fast.

And all of a sudden, the dash of my truck turned red.

And the whole thing started going,

boom, boom, pre-collision alert, pre-collision alert.

There was no voice.

But that's what I heard in my head.

Scared to living crap out of me.

But my question and the guy stopped in time, obviously.

But my question is, who are the people that

come into intersections so hot that they have to practically

stand on the brakes in order to stop in time?

Yeah.

Isn't that hard on your brakes?

Is it?

And your foot?

I know, but I know nothing about cars.

But slamming on the brakes that hard

when you don't really need to is that,

I feel like that would be hard on your brakes.

I feel like those are the same people too.

You know, when we're paying $1.63 a liter for gas,

or whatever it is right now, it's not cheap.

Are these the same people that at the red light,

they just floor it so they can be the first person

to the next red light?

Isn't that bad for your gas mileage?

I feel like they might be the same person.

But anyway, that pre-collision alert thing

in my vehicle, that scared me more than the guy

coming up to the intersection.

That startled me to the point that I just about drove off

the road and had a crash, huh?

Anyway.

You were listening to the Garner Andrew Show podcast.

Did you see that story?

The other day, was it Matt Damon and Ben Affleck?

We're saying that when you do a Netflix movie now,

the big wigs at Netflix, they're telling the people

who write the scripts to reset the plot at least four times.

Because people are so distracted

that they have to deliver key plot points

that were delivered right in the beginning of the movie.

They have to do it over again.

Have you seen anything about that?

Sorry, could you say, again, I was looking at my phone.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, no, it's crazy.

I don't know, when's the last time you watched a movie

and didn't have your phone in your hand?

That, I don't get.

Yeah?

I never, like if I watched a movie on Saturday night,

my phone was, I don't know, on the table

beside me or something.

But I never ever, I can't do that and watch a movie.

Like sometimes it's like, oh, what was that guy in?

And you just grab your phone, you know, look it up.

Okay, and then you realize it's been five minutes

and you're still staring at like someone's Instagram page.

But have you lost track of what's going on in the movie?

Yeah.

And then you try to read the subtitles

while also looking at your phone and it's a lot going on.

I just don't, I couldn't do it.

My beautiful wife is constantly, she's not,

it's not like she's just, she's playing scrabble

or whatever.

Like she's doing something on her phone while she's,

but she's very, she's in, she can tell what's going,

it's like she can split her brain into two.

There's the one part absorbing the movie

and the one part, you know, laying down a huge word and scrabble.

I cannot do that.

Okay, well, you make that sound like it's impressive.

So no, I'm proud of myself for being able to do that.

Yeah.

Are you sort of like a horse, too,

where you can see two different things at the same time?

I mean, you have regular eyeballs on the front of your face.

It's like, that's what I always think of.

I was like, I look at a horse and as I had a hoon,

are you seeing two different things at once?

And maybe that's how I feel about people

who can do something on their phone.

Would you like me to go ask a horse?

Yes, if you wouldn't mind, please.

I just can't do it.

I'd that be weird if Netflix,

it Netflix is of course going,

now we didn't tell anybody to do that.

Yeah, but I think it's a thing people think about now

when you're writing a movie.

So we gotta make sure people can understand this

because they're probably gonna be busy.

Yeah.

That's why like going to see a movie in the theater,

that's why you enjoy it so much more

because all you're doing is watching the movie.

Yeah, you just zero in on it.

You better not be a Sally screen timer,

Sally Seat Kicker, Tommy Texter.

Tommy Texter, you better not be a Tommy Texter

in the movie theater.

This is the Gunner Andrew Show Podcast.

My name's Gunner Taylor is here.

I ask you this question,

are you one of those freaks that can break your brain

in two where one part watches the movie

and the other part stares at your phone?

Yeah, I feel like I have to do that.

I don't understand that.

I could not do that.

I can't watch something and watch something else

and keep them both straight.

And it's like trying to do the dishes

without music or a podcast or something else going on.

I'll just start wandering away from the actual thing

I was trying to do,

unless I've got something else to like

contain that part of my brain.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I like having, I always have music on at home.

Always, if the TV's not on, there's music.

If it's just silence, I can handle that if I'm alone.

But if there's somebody else in the house,

there has to be some music in the background.

But I just, I can listen to music and scroll on my phone.

I'm able to do that.

But if I'm trying to pay attention to a movie,

this stems from this whole story,

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck said in an interview

that Netflix is now telling filmmakers,

hey, you got to reset the plot points,

the major plot points,

at least four times during the movie,

because people aren't paying attention.

Isn't that bad?

I don't understand this.

Somebody said, I would not enjoy that.

Oh, they're talking about doing two things at once.

I would not enjoy that.

I read one Danielle Steele novel in high school,

couldn't do it again,

because she repeats herself numerous times.

Her books are designed for people

who are distracted and or put the book down

for long stretches.

Commit, people.

That's what I say.

I say, if you're gonna sit down and watch a movie,

commit to the movie,

or get out of my living room.

Strict a rule.

No, it's fine.

And I said, my wife does this all the time.

She looks at her phone, but rarely,

if maybe she's confused a lot

and just knows that I would lose my mind

if she asked me plot points.

But she seems to be able to keep track of the two things,

her scrabble game on her phone

and whatever we're watching on TV.

And you seem to be able to do that, too.

Yeah, we're real happy for this.

I'm pretty proud.

No, it's better when you don't do it, though.

Definitely.

Yeah, okay.

Also, I asked the question.

You know, can a horse, like I look at a horse

and you got an eye on each side of the face

and it's like, how does that even work?

Are you thinking of two things?

Oh, there's somebody on a bike.

Oh, there's an apple tree.

Are you thinking of both of those things at the same time?

And somebody sent in a picture of horse vision

and it's like when you set your phone for panorama.

You know, to take a picture,

that's what horse vision looks like.

I'm sure that's super scientific to the picture they sent.

The Garner Andrew Show podcast.

We were talking a few minutes ago

about people that are able to watch a movie

or watch something on one screen while they scroll on the phone.

I can't break my brain into like that.

I can only concentrate on one thing at a time.

I'm a terrible multitasker.

But as it turns out, lots of people can do that.

Now, I don't know how much of the movie

or whatever you're watching you actually retain.

Are you really following what's going on?

And then I got this text,

how about people that can walk and read a book at the same time?

I used to see a guy in my old neighborhood.

He would go out for a walk every day

and read a paper back while he walked.

It was weird, but at the same time, impressive.

How many times did he fall into open manhole covers?

Hmm? Probably didn't see that part.

I was driving the other day, actually.

And you know, I guess it doesn't really matter where,

but I was on the overpass, Ellersley Road,

and over top of the QE2 and I was waiting for the light to change.

And I looked over and the guy going the other direction

who was also stopped in traffic and was right beside me.

I looked over and the guy had a hard cover book open

on his steering wheel.

And he was just sitting there reading a book

while he was behind the wheel of a car on the road.

Is that distracted driving?

Or is it just your phone that would be distracted driving?

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