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#136 MARGARINE, CORNFLAKES, & EGGS

Pour Choices Show··25 September 2026·1h 37m

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How’s Our Driving?🚨 EXHAUSTIVE JOB HUNTS, YO-YO NOSTALGIA & THE MOST USELESS ANIMAL IN THE WORLD! 🚨This week on The Pour Choices Show, David and Joe debate whether starfish contribute anything useful to society, turn four suspiciously profound questions into the inspiration needed to write a song, and discover that apparently you can be rejected for a job while physically sitting at the desk of the job you already got.We start with one of those parenting questions nobody thinks about until suddenly they have to, and follow it up with a question about one of nature’s blatant hiccups:  • At what age does taking a bath-time picture of your kid become inappropriate? • Are starfish the most pointless animal in the animal kingdom?Evolution had millions of years. Apparently, sometimes it just makes a decorative ocean pancake.Then David finally gets to share some genuinely good news: after roughly 10 months of job hunting, and 350+ job applications, he landed a new job. Naturally, corporate America immediately found a way to make it stupid.While sitting at work, David receives an email from a company thanking him for applying, complimenting his resume, and informing him that the position has already been filled.The company was his new employer. The email went to his company email. The position was filled by David. The person reading the rejection email. At his desk. In that exact position.From there, Joe unveils what sounds like a series of deep philosophical questions. David answers them seriously, only to learn Joe Googled the basic elements that make up a song, converted those elements into questions, and plans to use David’s answers as lyrics for an AI-generated song.So somewhere between therapy, songwriting, and entrapment, a new piece of music is apparently being born.We also get into:• Betting on, or against, yourself for absolutely no financial reward • David gambling on whether his car could make it home before running out of gas • Childhood yo-yo nostalgia • Buying the exact same yo-yo decades later on Amazon • Trying to figure out the first consumer product ever ordered online • The early days of e-commerce and online shopping • And the time David’s dad responded to a BMW repair problem by simply replacing the entire vehicleBecause when BMW refuses to cover a transfer case 4,000 miles outside warranty, there are technically several solutions. Buying another vehicle is certainly one of them.We wrap things up with This Week’s Pour Choices and two AskReddit questions: what people never realized was optional until they watched someone simply refuse to do it, and what every guy should know even though nobody really teaches it.Then we close with celebrity birthdays and the usual reminder that curiosity becomes significantly more dangerous when you give two people microphones.It’s weird animal debates, corporate stupidity, AI songwriting, childhood nostalgia, online-shopping history, questionable fuel decisions, BMW problems, and two lifelong friends turning ordinary observations into investigations nobody requested.If you like comedy podcasts with chaotic conversations, nostalgia, AskReddit stories, weird hypotheticals, technology history, personal stories, and arguments that somehow go from starfish to e-commerce without warning, you’re in the right place.  👇 WATCH NOW BEFORE THE FISH LEARN WHAT A BICYCLE IS 👇  Chapters 00:00 – INTRO 1:14 – WHEN DO BATH-TIME KID PHOTOS BECOME INAPPROPRIATE? 4:44 – ARE STARFISH THE MOST USELESS ANIMALS? 13:19 – GETTING REJECTED FROM A JOB YOU ALREADY HAVE 21.46 – TURNING OUR LIVES INTO LIFE IN A SONG 35:48 – BETTING AGAINST YOURSELF 46:58 – YO-YO NOSTALGIA & THE FIRST THING EVER BOUGHT ONLINE 55:59 – CAR TROUBLES AND DEALERSHIP SLIMEBALLS 1:12:00 – THIS WEEK’S POUR CHOICES 1:14:49 – ASKREDDIT: WHAT DID YOU NEVER REALIZE WAS OPTIONAL? 1:21:03 – ASK REDDIT: WHAT SHOULD EVERY GUY KNOW BUT IS RARELY TAUGHT? 1:31:33 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 1:34:25 – OUTRO  Check Out Our YouTube Channel For More Content! https://www.youtube.com/@pourchoicesshow?sub_confirmation=1Follow us on Socials: Instagram: @PourChoicesShow Facebook: /PourChoicesShow TikTok: @PourChoicesShow X: @PourChoicesShow#ComedyPodcast #PourChoicesShow #FunnyPodcast #PodcastClips #AskReddit #AIMusic #OnlineShopping #Amazon #Nostalgia #90sKids #FunnyStories #MillennialHumor #PopCulture #FunnyConversations #PodcastLifeSupport the show