Welcome to the Esau McCauley podcast.

I'm your host, Isolm McCauley.

You're joined today by producer Mike and Amy.

So here's the question.

I do want to know who here came from the farthest distance?

Does anyone stand up who's not from Massachusetts, anywhere from far away? Anyone, raise your hand. Where are you from? Rhode Island. Anybody can beat Rhode Island? Connecticut, I don't know. Who wins? Texas. Texas. Wait, are you here for SBL? Yeah, they're here for the conference. Oh, how does that count? How are you getting nothing for that?

So I failed geography, so is it Connecticut or Rhode Island?

Upstate New York, there we go.

Congratulations, you.

What did she win?

A round of applause!

There we go.

So if you never listened to the East Hall-Mcauley podcast, we tend to open up with a somewhat serious, slightly ridiculous question depending on the context, based upon something I saw that was interesting to me.

And so I don't know if you all know that Eddie Murphy released a documentary recently about this life. Y'all have for Eddie Murphy? Yeah. Okay, thank you. We're not that white, Ethan. I'm not going to start. I'm not going to start. I'm not going to start. I'm not going to start. So Eddie Murphy was talking about, they asked him about his regrets. And he talked about three films that he turned down that he wished that he was in. Until the three movies that he turned down that he wished that he could have been in. He said no two. One was Ghostbusters. Can you imagine Eddie Murphy? I guess he's the black guy in Ghostbusters. Yeah. He turned that down. He also turned down Rush Hour. I know. No Chris Tucker, but you would have had Eddie Murphy. And I'm not exactly sure about this one. He turned down who framed Roger Rabbit. And I thought it would be interesting

to ask the question, where there's something that you turn down, that you regret. So we're going to

go. Should we start with Mike? Mike, you go first, then Amy and then me.

Okay.

You turn it down, you regret it. Yeah, I don't quite have a good answer for that. Okay. But I've got a version of it. A version of it. So this is my first time in Boston, and I didn't want to leave Boston with regret. Yes. And so today, I'm like, I got to get a lobster roll, right?

It's, I mean, it's, I have to do it.

I went to a restaurant that'm like, I got to get a lobster roll, right? It's, I mean,

it's, I have to do it. I went to a restaurant that, like, I did research. It's supposed to have really good lobster rolls. I get there. Okay, first of all, do you know how much lobster roll is these days? I'm allergic to shellfish and lobsters literally kill me. Oh, okay. So I have no idea how much they call.

It's a lot. It's okay. It's worth it. I'm in Boston. And I had it, and I'm not going to lie, underwhelmed. Ooh. So you all can boo me afterwards, but I, so, yeah. So you regret, avoiding the regret by getting lobster that costs too much.

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