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That Guy and The KidBetter Late Than Never - Ep 10Did you miss us? We recorded this show back in September, clearly Max has been slacking on editing. Tom catches us up on the move; he actually bought a boat, mower and truck and is fitting in with the community like a glove. He’s got a new job as a chef at a private club and he has become somewhat of a mentor to his co workers. Tom gets into the major differences between the south and California, most notably the fact that the south produces things people actually need which leads into Max and Tom talking about a...2022-01-0953 min
That Guy and The KidThe Bro - Ep 09This week we have Tom’s fraternal twin brother John on and we talk everything from the brothers' old days back in high school to surfing to music. Oh yea, and we have a new president. We talk his inauguration and how it was probably a good thing that Trump wasn’t there. We then go on a long environmental tangent about fracking and our dependence on natural gas. We give our obligatory COVID update and speculate about what mask mandates Biden might enforce in the future. We then talk the Garnett childhood some more. Tom and John tell a stor...2021-01-241h 01That Guy and The KidThe Road to a Million Miles - Ep 08Tom and Max open the show talking about how the recent heat wave is like Santa Barbara taunting him now that he’s leaving. We then talk about the struggling businesses during this pandemic and how China is putting people in camps who have covid. Tom is a couple weeks out from heading East and he gives us an update on how that's going. We then give some more updates about the Capitol raid that happened the week prior which leads into a discussion about the petition to remove Trump from Home Alone 2. This leads into a conversation about st...2021-01-1851 minThat Guy and The KidThe Circle of Humanity - Ep 07We’re back! Happy New Year everyone. Tom and Max start by talking about the new COVID vaccines and which logo would look best as a tattoo. They then talk about Tom’s plan to move to the east coast in which Tom makes quite a good case for leaving California. This moves into a discussion about the future of That Guy and The Kid and how we will continue the show remotely. This of course takes us into a conversation about COVID, because so does everything these days, and how poorly essential workers seem to be treated by anti...2021-01-0849 minThat Guy and The KidTyson’s No Chicken - Ep 06Tom on Rachel Ray - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeo9G_pwZ5U Tom starts by talking about his appearance on $40 a Day with Rachel Ray which leads him to talk about his past experience in the restaurant business and culinarily school. The guys then talk about how rent in Santa Barbara has doubled and wages have only gone up around 50% which leads into a conversation about how people don’t have as many kids these days as they used to so they can save money. This moves into a discussion about long term tasks vs short and...2020-12-0253 minThat Guy and The KidBack to Back in Black - Ep 05The first thing Max and Tom talk about is the new AC/DC album, Power Up and how similar it is to Back in Black. This then goes into a discussion about how kids don’t have loud stereos anymore and it has all moved to playing things from iPhone speakers and streaming services, moving into a talk about how the huge change of music seen in the past few decades may have influenced the change in the way people listen to music and vise versa. Tom then brags about his car stereo and regales a story about how he fl...2020-11-2045 minThat Guy and The KidThe Election - Ep 04We’re back with two back to back episodes! First off, we discuss the election and the possibility of a civil war if Trump manages to overturn the results. They then discuss whether city people need country people more or vise versa. This then moves into a discussion on how the older generation is held to a higher standard of rules than millennials. This moves into talking about the supposed 90% effective vaccine and who will get the credit for it. They then talk about China and the possible threat that they pose to the rest of the world which le...2020-11-2036 minThat Guy and The KidShort and Sweet - Ep 03This one we ended up cutting short because we ain't beholden to anyone. We start things off by talking about the death of the great Eddie Van Halen. (Again, on top of the newest news as always.) This leads into a discussion about the different types of classic rock in general and the crowds that listened to them in the seventies. This leads into a discussion about Surfer Magazine coming to its untimely end. Tom reminises a story about a confrontation he had with another surfer which ended up in Surfer Magazine believe it or not. We then very...2020-11-0536 minThat Guy and The KidMore Hatin than Debatin - Ep 02Tom and Max start things off by talking about the ugly nightmare that was the first debate. (We are super up to date as always.) We then talk about how the landscape of weed and drugs in general has changed between Tom’s generation and Max’s. They also talk the pitfalls of smoking pot and whether or not legalization was a good thing. We then discuss how music has changed and how kids today don't seem to pay for music, or almost anything for that matter, anymore. The conversation then moves into news as a whole and how the...2020-11-0559 minThat Guy and The KidCOVID and America Today - Ep 01Introducing the first episode of the new hit podcast, That Guy and the Kid! Hosted by Tom Garnett AKA "That Guy," a mid 50s old school surfing stoner who knows his way around a kitchen; and Max Walters, a 21 year old kid with a stutter who is trying to figure out his way in the world with the much needed guidance of That Guy. In the first episode we talk everything from COVID to how America has changed, to where we think the coutry is headed in the next few years. (By the way this episode might seem a...2020-11-0558 min