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If you want to get some dirty looks, tell everybody you like Ballers. It's clearly aimed at a certain kind of bro, but if you're investigating The Rock the way we are, you have to watch it.

And despite the negative hype, it's actually kind of fun.

One thing we've never actually done for #TheRocktober is watch The Rock wrestling. We watched a documentary about it, but this year we're actually watching a whole episode, specifically the 2019 debut of Friday Night Smackdown on Fox.

We have a great array of wrestling experience from much to absolutely none.

Probably our favorite crazyballs franchise on this show is Fast & Furious. We've watched a bunch of them. And just because Hobbs & Shaw doesn't feature the whole families, it's still nice to spend a day with the cousins.

The Rock and Jason Statham are punchy and quippy and care about their families, and while it isn't the best thing we've ever seen, it's not a bad couple of hours.

The most rockerful time of year is upon us again, The Rocktober! And we're shooting it off with a real sad whimper.

Look, The Rock mostly appears in low quality movies. But even for him, this one's a stinker.

Autumn has fallen upon us and that means one thing: The Rocktober! Okay, but before that it's time to go back to school.

We watched the 80s one-liner fiesta starring Rodney Dangerfield. And no disrespect but it's not that funny. Like a lot of stuff from the 80s it's racist, homophobic, body-negative and of course really really sexist.

Aloha!

It's the official end of the #SummerOfFun. We ate lollies, caught a baseball game, hung out at the mall, and lots more. We've got a bunch of great episodes and even more great memories. But it all has to come to an end. For our final episode of the summer, we talked to comedian and writer for Full Frontal w/ Samantha Bee, Mohanad Elshieky, about his recent trip to Hawaii. It's not the kind of thing everybody can do for the summer, but Ezra's been a couple times so the two of them talk about it while Alex speculates wildly.

Thank you to everybody who's contributed votes, suggestions, feedback, and more for our summer. I hope everybody had fun in the sun and got laid in the shade.

Never change.

Aloha!

Earlier this year we did a whole episode about candy from our childhood. Inspired by that, our Australian fanbase Rhiannon offered to send us over 3kg of candy and snacks from the earth's nether regions. So we sat down with Jordan Casner (@jordancasner on all paltforms) on a Tuesday morning and consumed that candy. These are the results.

Here's what we ate:

• Arnott's Shortbread Cream
• Tim Tam
• Shapes
• Cheezels
• Cadbury Special Treats - Cherry Ripe, Turkish Delight, Crunchie, and Boost
• Cadbury Caramello Koala
• Violet Crumble
• Milky Way
• Allen's Party Mix
• Allen's Retro Party Mix
• Allen's Minties
• Musk Sticks
• Milo
• Vegemite

Also, here are the terrifying candy teeth:

The SummerOfFun is fading out and being replaced by autumn, which will last for a week or two before it's basically Christmas. But we caught one of our last remaining sunny days and used it for the violent childhood classic, the water balloon fight.

Sponsored by Shannon, Anthony and I embarked on a woodland balloon rumble, surrounded by his extended family. It was an absolute blast.

But that's not all! Ezra had a separate water balloon fight with his whole family, so we chat with him and his five-year-old son about their splashy adventure.

Here are some more photos from Anthony and I's one-on-one water duel to the wet.

Here's the amazing new water balloon filling technology in action:

Also, you really should check out this great interview with the nuclear physicist who invented the Super Soaker:

Here's the Super Soaker I owned as a kid that was my most prized possession, the CPS 1000.

I was traveling for comedy in LA this week so I took the opportunity to fulfill another Meat Buddy request and go to a baseball game! Bri and I recorded a live mini-episode while watching the New York Yankees taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It's kindof a weird one so let us know what you think and of course, no refunds!

MLB apologizes for blown call

It's our first ever sponsored Summer of Fun episode. Meat Buddy TJ asked us to take in a movie car-style. Anthony and I went to the pop-up drive-in in Portland and watched Little Shop of Horrors while Ezra... did his best.

TJ does a web show where he reviews movies along with his whole family. It's really charming. Watch their Lion King review below and throw them a subscribe. They really want to get to 100 subs, so please help them out.