The world is in desperate need of a vibes transfusion. And so we asked Kevin Wildes — co-host of FS1's "First Things First” and professional counterbalance to Nick Wright — for something even bigger than Jordan vs. LeBron. Ol' K.W. has assembled nothing short of a master list of 71 (!) things that are, in fact, cool. And PTFO's official Cool Committee debates the door policy at a club where anyone, in theory, can be a member... whether you have whale bodyguards or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. Right after this ad.
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What's the situation here? Are we... Sweet. Have we started? I think we have. Great. This is a very loud new chair. That's an FYI. It's okay.
I'm ready to make a proclamation, but you can start us. I would like to start with your proclamation. Wherever you think this podcast is going to go, because you've caught me in such a unique headspace, it's going to go... further away than you think it's going to. And here's the thing. If you don't like it, I'm okay just severancing this podcast. Being like, you know what? That never happened.
We, you know, we just delete it. Yep. I'm going to go home and have no memory. Yeah. Of like, oh, why gave Wilds a pithy thesis while he was on vacation and And he became like a different person. You have a sheaf of papers.
Yeah. And you're always full of ideas, but now you're like champing at the bit. By popular demand, by the way. And Kevin Wiles, I should say your name aloud for people not watching on YouTube. By popular demand, you're here. And I thank you for that.
You sent me a text maybe on when I was on vacation. Yeah, I think it was. I was in Maui. It took you a couple of days to the point where I was like, I don't know if Kevin likes this idea. Well, that's another part, another leaf I'm turning over. Less phone.
Like just enough with the phones. So actually disengaging or doing the thing that I've been trying to do, which is also admittedly trying to be tardy enough so that everyone's expectations for my responsiveness are reduced.
Yeah. Treat it like a letter, like a very fast letter. Like you wrote me a letter. I got it. I'm thinking about it. Here's your letter back. But it's very fast. A day. In the olden days. Right. Not Ken Burns Civil War letter. No. But closer to... You know, your birthday card from your parents. Yeah. It's coming.
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Chapter 2: How does Kevin Wildes define cool?
Oh, sure.
Equals cool. So it works. Then I kind of came up with a Rosetta Stone of cool.
What does that mean? So I understand the Rosetta Stone is a way of being able to understand other languages.
I kind of just liked the word Rosetta Stone rather than the Madden ratings of cool. Okay. So I saw this video. I wanted to get, like, something super famous. Certainly walking on the moon is cool, but also kind of unattainable for most people. Then I saw this guy. I'd assume you haven't seen this video, but you are very online. Extremely. I know 2,000 dragons. Dragon singular.
I think when I listened to the Chris Hayes podcast, you guys were talking about esoteric random TikToks, and he's like, yeah, that guy's great. Yeah, the hammer guy. What in the world? Have you seen this guy? I pulled a screen grab for it. Oh, okay. I'll describe it. Yeah, please, for theater of the mind. It's a gentleman fishing with a few of his pals.
Looks like he's got a Miller Lite in his hand, and he's tapping on the water, okay, to get the gators to come near him. Alligator comes right up to the boat, taps it a little bit more so the alligator opens its mouth. This dude takes an aluminum can of beer, pops it on the alligator's tooth, gives it to his buddy, who then shotguns it.
That's some Flintstones shit.
our bird is also our telephone our alligator is our bottle opener so here's the thing so i went back and looked at it is he calm yes is this dude confident yes obviously is he confident oh you want a beer you want a shotgun a beer yeah does anyone have a key no i have a gator tooth great dude he crushes it and what i really want so what i take away from that it's obviously cool
It doesn't matter how you look. It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter, you know, your haircut or your sneakers or any of this other stuff. This is why my aperture is so open. It's just this dude's just being him. And he's getting down to the raw authenticity of himself and doing cool stuff.
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