Jake’s Takes and Liv’s Gives makes its triumphant return to the podcast. This time around, there are no bumpers in this bowling alley as Travis and Julian are nowhere to be found. Liv and Jake throw strike after strike (or gutter ball after gutter ball if you dislike the ‘take’) in this meandering episode where they discuss everything from the Sonic Movies to petty drama between Canadian pollsters. Come for the takes about the Ghostbusters video game but stay for the takes about what’s wrong with ankle socks. Also, a more in-depth conversation about Ship Shows.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
Yeah, our culture is being destroyed by the American.
Cultural influence.
There's no, like, it was funny because a lot of it, like, I felt, like, held on because of, like, it's a lot easier to control older forms of media.
But, like, newer forms of media, everyone just is on, like, TikTok.
They're just listening to American accents on TikTok and they're, like, what?
Like, embarrassed of being like, hey, bad, like, I'm cooking some scotch eggs, yeah?
Well, it's really just that, like, you absorb the linguistic environment you're in.
And, like, the more online people are, like, sometimes I say Z, sometimes I say Z, even though, like, especially older people say Z, but it's just because...
Because you watch YouTube, and everyone's American, so they say Z. And they all say Z. And it's not like Britain, where there's a really distinct, I think, cultural difference, where you consume and are around a more...
Like, I guess, distinct linguistic environment.
Here, it's just, like, the border is, like, literally an hour drive.
Like, we all live right by the border.
Yeah, and there's no, like, there's no large body of water, really, that's separating us.
I feel like British people look at Americans and our accents, and, you know, they're like, these absolute trash.
Like, they look at us as, which, it feels right.
I mean, anytime you have a British, like, anytime we have Annie on the show, and she's reading something, it sounds smart, and it sounds...
It's proper.
It's proper, yeah.
There's, you know, even as like a dirty American, I listen to that and I'm like, that's, man, I should be that.
That's where I should be.
I think that is like a literal thing.
And this is Jake's take, so we don't actually have to research the things we're saying.
But I'm fairly certain a lot of the British accent comes from rich people being like, we want to talk in a fancy way.
Then everyone kind of being pulled along with them.
And so like the American accent, this is total like Jake's take, live, give, unverified fact.
But the American accent is closer to like the English dialect that's spoken in like the 17th century.
Like they've diverged more than Americans.
Interesting. So, like, yeah, I guess we probably originally sounded like Daniel Day-Lewis in, like, Gangs of New York or something like that.
That'd be awesome.
I mean, I'm fucked because I have, one, a lot of Canadian friends who I love dearly.
Love dearly.
And so I'll say sorry, and I'll say A. You sit out in a boot.
On a boat, yeah.
And it started as kind of a joke, but like, you know, you say something enough and it just sort of works.
It just becomes a habit.
Absolutely, yeah.
But I was also doing that long before I ever worked in Canada, and that's because in Ghostbusters, obviously my favorite movie, Dan Aykroyd, there's a bunch of times, and he's Canadian, and there's a bunch of times in the movie, if you watch Ghostbusters, where he goes, oh, I'm sorry, Venkman.
I'm sorry.
Like, he does sorry, and it was the first time I'd ever been exposed to that accent, so I was like, oh my god, like, I love these guys.
I love the Ghostbusters.
Like, he says it like this.
I want to say it like this.
So I was doing it before I even knew what it was.
We were bringing it back.
We were doing the reverse cultural imperialism.
We just need to get more Ghostbusters out, I think.
More successful Ghostbusters films.
And then every American will just be saying out and about on a boot.
Yes. We need to put Dan Aykroyd in the containment unit.
We need to keep him alive long enough to make as many Ghostbusters movies as possible.
And we can turn the American population back to where we really came from.
Not Britain, but Canada.
Yes, the motherland.
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Welcome to the QAA Podcast Premium Episode 282, Jake's Takes slash Liv's Gives, Volume 5. As always, we are your hosts, Jake's Takes.
Liv's Gives.
And Liv's Gives.
Yeah, do and.
And Liv's Gives.
Hey gang, Jake and Liv here.
What an absolute slog of a year it's been so far, eh?
Nothing but pure nastiness and bile in the news, on your TV, and even in your podcasts.
But don't worry too much.
I'm here to tell you that you're not the only one battling deep depression as you ask out loud to an empty room, how the hell will you endure the next four years?
We're sick too.
And for this reason, I decided it was time to come up for air for an hour or so and talk about what's really important.
What Liv and I think about things.
So excited to talk about things.
Things! I love talking about things.
Yeah. Things.
It's really what the podcast is missing.
It really is.
It's kind of like a grab bag of stuff.
It really is.
I'm always so happy when people online are like, hey, more Jake's Takes and Liv's Gives, please.
Because I'm like, maybe there's a world where this is the only kind of podcast I do.
It's like the, you know, utopia.
There's no need for QAA, and we could just do this forever.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine life is so good, people are just tuning in once a week, twice a week, to listen to us talk about movies, games, shows?
Yeah. Just wake up and hear your partner's like, what are you talking about, QAnon?
I don't know what that means.
You gotta tune in for another Jake's Takes Lives Gives.
Your podcast that makes you your money.
They're, like, queuing on that, like, fringe thing that's, like, so, like, was defeated 11 years ago.
So, listeners, I want you to take a deep breath, make yourself extra comfortable, and allow your body to sink into whatever surface you happen to be resting on.
If you are up and around your place doing chores or sitting at work inputting data, let your muscles relax.
Allow your fingers to type a long row of cues into that Salesforce text field and get ready to hear Liv's opinion on all three Sonic movies.
I bet you haven't seen any of the Sonic movies.
No, I found out recently from a friend, Sonic Lore, that I didn't know that Shadow was made in a lab.
I thought it was, like, his brother or something.
I didn't know that either.
Yeah, what a cruel twist of fate that, like, you're made as, like, the opposite of some actual guy.
He's like the, um, he's like, uh, uh, uh, what do you even call it?
He's like Winter Soldier versus Captain America or something.
I know I got that wrong.
The two people who are into Marvel are gonna hit me up being like, no, incorrect.
These Sonic movies, though, I haven't seen any of them either, but what's crazy is that it started so bad.
Like, they released the 3D image of Sonic, and people were like, this looks terrible.
This is going to bomb.
This is going to be...
Awful. You have destroyed Sonic, which we don't even care about all that much.
He's not Mario.
Yeah, who loves...
I mean, now we're gonna get someone like the fire of Sonic.
Like, who loves Sonic?
I feel like he's like a side character in terms of investment.
I'll tell you who.
Every child aged like three to six.
My nephew is obsessed with Sonic.
Oh, it's coming back.
He is obsessed.
He loves the Sonic movies.
My brother took him to the theater to see...
He's Sonic 3. He's got a shadow action figure, nice figure, like 7, 8-inch figure, very good, like, good poseable, you know, a lot of good joints.
And he's got Sonic t-shirts, and he loves Sonic.
And it's so funny, because when we were growing up, Sonic was like, he was, you know, the under-hedgehog.
Like, Mario and Nintendo, that's whose house we wanted to go over and play.
If you had Nintendo, that's where we wanted to go.
But Sega Genesis was like, eh, alright.
You know, you're not a Nintendo family, but, like, you got 16-bit, like, I guess that's better somehow, but you have Sonic, which is not Mario.
This is a dumb question.
Is it at all related to the American fast food place?
No. I've never been to a Sonic before, but I hear it referenced.
Well, we should talk about that, because Sonic, actually, the food place, is one of my favorite fast food spots.
Interesting. I've heard bad things about Sonic.
I, for whatever reason, like it.
I think it's because...
It was kind of this mystical...
Because it wasn't where I was, but they would still run commercials for it.
So it's one of those things, like, I knew it existed but didn't have access to it.
So the first time I had it, I was like, oh my god, this is incredible.
I see, that makes sense.
I'm kind of afraid to eat American fast food.
I heard that your standards are lower.
I mean...
For, like, food quality.
As somebody who has eaten a lot of fast food in my life, it's pretty good.
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