Goin’ Deep Show 2340: Airplane Bean Flicker and Boundaries

Episode 2340 - Kid A.G. and El Pres ease in with a listener text from Jaybird and a song preview meant for Nurse Fiona before landing on the latest South Park run. The Sephora episode and the looksmaxxing app bit land hardest; both hosts note how the show still finds the low-budget freak-out lane and how the Paramount/Skydance money hasn’t shut the jokes down. From there the treadmill session with the weighted vest becomes the through-line—six miles, hips and knees needing stretch time, a 30-pounder that forces better posture, and the April ruck date sitting out there.  

That training talk opens the midlife section. A video about the U-shaped happiness curve for Gen X gets picked apart: most people bottom out then climb once they can choose their own stuff, while Kid A.G. describes his own line as basically flat and high the whole way because he has been drawing and playing baseball since he could hold a crayon. Bachelor-party stories surface (both ended early and messy), dad conversations get a quick pass, and El Pres drops the retirement dream involving a Home Depot t-shirt, morning wood, and a paint bucket. The tone stays practical rather than crisis-mode.  

Relationships take the next stretch. The hosts work through the difference between liking someone and deciding not to wreck the friendship, the way physical stuff changes the math, and how women often set the early boundary. Hat Trick’s fireman getting divorced gets the most air; both worry about the alone-time needs and the long stretches she has been known to disappear. A feral “lick my shit” clip gets played as the 40-something marker. Social-media couple pictures versus solo male profiles get called out as territory marking, and both hosts float stepping back from Facebook and personal Instagram in favor of a dumb phone, a watch, and Pinterest boards that actually feed design work.  

Headlines arrive late and scattershot. Anthropic’s report on a China studio running 4,700 AI personas across dating apps and 2.36 million messages in two weeks gets the “people are flirting with robots” treatment. An early-flight bean-flicking story, the Walmart pet-aisle incident involving lamb-chop dog toys, and the woman who kept her mother in a garage freezer for two years while collecting benefits all get quick passes. Baseball closes the main block: loyalty to one team (Gwynn, Trammell, Ripken), frustration with players chasing the biggest check, preference for every game of a series instead of short ones, and the specific memory of standing at Comerica for Game 1 of the 2006 World Series while “Working for the Weekend” played. The episode ends with a new Suno track and the usual reminder to call 989-431-3314 to leave us a wonderfully well thought out voicemail message. Go Deep.