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Neil Campbell Disobeys Bridger · I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar

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Speaker 1: And I invited you here. I thought I made myself
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Speaker 1: perfectly clear. When you're a guest to my home, you
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Speaker 1: gotta come to me empty. And I said, no, guess
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Speaker 1: you're presences presents enough. I already had too much stuff,
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Speaker 1: So how do you dare to surbey me?
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Speaker 2: Welcome to, I said, no gift, temperature wineger. We're in
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Speaker 2: the backyard, which is such a lovely feeling. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's been a minute since we've been back here, largely
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Speaker 2: because it's summer. But it's a pre noon recording, so
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Speaker 2: we'll only be sweating about halfway through the episode. For now.
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Speaker 2: I feel great that's going on. I woke up feeling
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Speaker 2: very ambitious this morning, but that's over now and I
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Speaker 2: got nothing accomplished. Last night I had a dream I
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Speaker 2: went on a cruise which was unbelievably stressful. What an experience.
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Speaker 2: And that leads us to now that's my day. That's
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Speaker 2: me before eleven am, and I think we should get
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Speaker 2: into the podcast. Today's guest is absolutely wonderful. It's Neil Campbell. Neil,
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Speaker 2: Welcome to.
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Speaker 3: I said, no gifts, thank you for having me. Oh,
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Speaker 3: of course, how are you feeling? I'm feeling excited. I'm
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Speaker 3: excited to be here. Are you warm? I'm warm, but
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Speaker 3: not uncomfortable.
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Speaker 2: Okay, great, you're in a summary. Look I like this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, gotta break out the short sleeves.
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Speaker 2: I have a very similar to this. I almost wore
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Speaker 2: it this morning, and that would have a disaster for
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Speaker 2: the podcasts.
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Speaker 3: Is it from Gant?
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Speaker 2: It's not. Wait, what is that?
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Speaker 3: I don't I don't know if they existed anymore, but
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Speaker 3: it was some brand that was around for a minute.
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Speaker 2: How do you spell that? G A N T Gant.
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Speaker 3: Gant, Yeah, and they had a store and it was
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Speaker 3: Gant Rugger or something like that.
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Speaker 2: Gant is not a pleasant It doesn't sound like clothing.
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Speaker 3: To know, and I'm very possibly mispronouncing it Gaunt Gaunt.
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Speaker 3: It might have been a very soft g and I
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Speaker 3: don't know.
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Speaker 2: Gante sounds like they sell drills or something. Gaunt it
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Speaker 2: sounds too.
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Speaker 3: GoF yeah, or or too kind of super skinny or right.
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Speaker 3: And Jant, yeah, well, now we know they didn't take off.
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Speaker 2: Jant sounds like a discount retailer, maybe kind of a
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Speaker 2: ross competitor. Maybe I'll open a Jant. Ross is popping
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Speaker 2: up everywhere there's a I just saw a new Ross
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Speaker 2: is opening. Really, I don't know what the epidemic of
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Speaker 2: Ross is, but I think it's the worst of those
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Speaker 2: type of discount stores.
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Speaker 3: I'm not I haven't. I'm actually not sure I've been
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Speaker 3: into ave never been in a Ross. No, and I'm
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Speaker 3: a stranger to a discount store, but I just don't
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Speaker 3: know that my path has led me to a Roth.
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Speaker 2: Have you been in a TJ Max?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Have you been in a Marshalls?
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Speaker 3: Yes? I think so.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and then let's see. Then we've got nordsomb Rack
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Speaker 2: is a little bit sure, the top tier. And then
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Speaker 2: we have a Burlington coat factory, which they don't call
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Speaker 2: a coat factory anymore, right.
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Speaker 3: But I think we have both. Both Burlington and TJ
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Speaker 3: Max were near my high school. Oh sure, I've only
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Speaker 3: popped into both of those.
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Speaker 2: We're around back to school shopping season. Was that like
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Speaker 2: an annual thing for you?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I guess so a little bit, But I it
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Speaker 3: was probably years before I really was paying much attention
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Speaker 3: to what I was wearing, So it was more of like, okay, annied,
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Speaker 3: like one new shirt, that's cool, this, you know, my
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Speaker 3: new Union Bay shirt.
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Speaker 2: Or something Union Bay. God bless they Union Bay. And
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Speaker 2: there was another one that was like Ocean Pacific.
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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, maybe yeah, Union BAYFK was just
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Speaker 3: in department stores, yes, as opposed to having its own
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Speaker 3: like brick and mortar.
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Speaker 2: Right, I feel like that was in Mervyn's. Did you
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Speaker 2: have Mervyns?
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Speaker 3: Where are you from? I'm from mostly Fairfax, Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so Murvins may not have gotten to I.
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Speaker 3: Don't think I had Mervyn's. We had J. C. Penny
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Speaker 3: and Lord and Taylor, and J j C. Penny was
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Speaker 3: our in Seares. We're our two department stores, Lord and Taylor.
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Speaker 3: I've always assumed as maybe because of Anne Taylor. Now
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Speaker 3: this is why I'm so stupid. I just assumed it
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Speaker 3: was a women's only store. But well, well I don't
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Speaker 3: even know that. I just remember fair Oaks Mall having
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Speaker 3: sort of four kind of three or four different InCor
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Speaker 3: stores ancor department stores, you know that sort of led
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Speaker 3: you in. And I don't actually think we were a
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Speaker 3: Lord and Taylor family. So it's possible they could have
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Speaker 3: been telling, you know, lumber for all of them. But
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Speaker 3: JAC Penny and series we hit up.
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Speaker 2: Hot least, do you have anything to say about Lord
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Speaker 2: and Taylor? Do you know anything about this company?
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Speaker 3: Looks like they're still around.
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Speaker 5: It seems they do make men's clothes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Oh so it's kind of more of a.
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Speaker 2: They only had.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a department store.
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Speaker 5: I always thought of it as a department store, like
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Speaker 5: a little fancier than Nordstrum Lord my brain strum, But
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Speaker 5: that's you know, that's my Colorado like brain talking. So
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Speaker 5: who's no, who knows if that is an accurate you know.
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Speaker 2: Right, Nordstrom was the ceiling as far as a fancy department.
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Speaker 3: Store, we do not have a Nordstrom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a big one. And I don't think
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Speaker 2: I ever got any back to school clothing at Nordstrom.
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Speaker 2: Are you are all the malls in your hometown gone?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I haven't. Everyone moved away after I
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Speaker 3: went to college, but I don't think they're all gone.
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Speaker 3: I think I think Fair Oaks Small might still be kicking.
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Speaker 3: But I guess I don't know how I would have
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Speaker 3: found out otherwise.
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Speaker 2: Where is Where is your family ended up?
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Speaker 3: My mom now lives in Arizona, Okay, and my brother
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Speaker 3: lives in Seattle, Washington. When I went to college, I
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Speaker 3: went to the University of Iowa. And then when I
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Speaker 3: was there, my dad had worked with a civilian but
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Speaker 3: worked for the military, had been at the Pentagon.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Then went to an army based in Germany. So then
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Speaker 3: I was in college. They were in Germany. Wow. Then
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Speaker 3: they moved nearby brother and he was living in Portland, Orgon.
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Speaker 3: They moved there.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, so you were moving around a lot as
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Speaker 2: a kid.
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Speaker 3: I would say zero to ten. Yes. I was born
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Speaker 3: in Atlanta, New Jersey, Virginia. Lived in Japan for a
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Speaker 3: few years on an army base where in Japan, an
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Speaker 3: army base called Camp Zama that's near Tokyo. Oh. Wow.
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Speaker 3: And then back to Virginia. And so then Virginia ten
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Speaker 3: to eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Did you pick up any Japanese?
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Speaker 3: Not really, it was an American Army base.
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Speaker 2: Oh right.
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Speaker 3: We would learn how to like sing some songs where
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Speaker 3: we had a class called culture. We'd like paint kanji
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Speaker 3: and learned some phrases, but not conversational.
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Speaker 2: Can you remember any of the songs?
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Speaker 3: Well, there's that one and I don't want to offend,
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Speaker 3: but it's like the like Sakura.
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Speaker 2: I was like that same melody of every there's like
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Speaker 2: a million songs and I feel like there's a French
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Speaker 2: version of that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably Jacques. Yes, is that how you profess?
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Speaker 2: I mean my apologies to our French listeners.
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Speaker 3: But yeah. One stayed with the Japanese family for a
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Speaker 3: few days once and then their son came and stayed
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Speaker 3: with us.
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Speaker 2: And have you been back as an adult?
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Speaker 3: I went back in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 2: How was that experience?
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Speaker 3: It was fun? It was great. Where did you visit
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Speaker 3: Tokyo and Kyoto?
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 3: But went to the studio ghibli Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: I tried to get into that.
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Speaker 3: It's not the theme park thing that existed. It was
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Speaker 3: before that, right, it was just like the museum tour
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Speaker 3: thing whatever.
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Speaker 2: It is impossible to get into now he did.
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Speaker 3: It's part of a tour group. So it was like
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Speaker 3: a whole kind of took up our day. But it
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Speaker 3: was and you know, went there, Wes Anderson was walking
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Speaker 3: around in a white suit.
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Speaker 2: He's been trapped there for ten years. Fascinating. Wow, what
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Speaker 2: a sighting.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it was. I think it was
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Speaker 3: in the country to promote Isle of Dogs.
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Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense, and Isle of Dogs there's some
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Speaker 2: Japanese element in Isle of Dogs. I think. I think
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Speaker 2: you're right, Yeah, didn't the movie didn't make much of
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Speaker 2: an effect on that. My apologies to Wes Anderson. Wow,
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Speaker 2: were there any highlights of the trip to Japan?
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Speaker 3: Mostly just some of the like nostalgia, like well, I
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Speaker 3: don't know that I was in this spot, but of
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Speaker 3: kind of feeling like, oh, I remember this sort of
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Speaker 3: vibe or this type of vending machine on the corner.
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Speaker 3: Little details like that.
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Speaker 2: The vending machine culture there is the Yeah for vending
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Speaker 2: machines not to seem trashy is such an achievement for
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Speaker 2: a country, and they're everywhere. Yeah, and none of them
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Speaker 2: seem like junk. They're just kind of like these lovely
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Speaker 2: little magical things around that you can get all kinds
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Speaker 2: of I mean, I don't think I bought anything out
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Speaker 2: of them, but it's just nice to see one in
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Speaker 2: the wild.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. My brother and I used to get these things
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Speaker 3: called the Gundam cards when I was a kid. I
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Speaker 3: think I'm sure there was a game you could play,
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Speaker 3: because they have like hit points or something on it.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure there was some Pokemon esque thing, but we
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Speaker 3: didn't understand that, right. We just like these little cards
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Speaker 3: you could get out of a vending machine that had
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Speaker 3: like drawings of robots. Robots, yeah and so, and I
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Speaker 3: still have my big stack of them.
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Speaker 2: Right. Every child has to go through a stage where
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Speaker 2: they want a lot of cars. Yeah, summer. Yeah. I
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Speaker 2: was just back home in Utah and talking to my cousin.
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Speaker 2: He was in Japan as a kid. Bought a Pokemon card.
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Speaker 2: In them all it's now worth like twenty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 3: Jeez, I gotta check my gun Dam cards.
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Speaker 2: I know you should. Actually I had any of these things.
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Speaker 2: It's what a shame that I'm just bad at investing
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Speaker 2: in anything, I guess. I mean, wow, but do you
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Speaker 2: hold onto that card? Is that a bubble that eventually
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Speaker 2: bursts or does the card just get more and more?
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Speaker 3: Probably sell it. If I had a twenty thousand dollars, Oh,
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Speaker 3: I made my own Gundam card. And then my dad
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Speaker 3: had like a lamination machine. Oh my god. I think
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Speaker 3: it was back in maybe this is still in Japan.
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Speaker 3: Probably was at work here. I was able to laminate.
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Speaker 3: So I drew a little robot and for his skills,
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Speaker 3: I said, he has a good sense of humor.
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Speaker 2: Like a giant mech that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of a skills parties. Yeah do
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Speaker 2: you still have the card? I do.
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Speaker 3: It's on my fridge right now. Wow, you should try
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Speaker 3: selling it. Yeah, maybe that was very well.
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Speaker 2: Find out that it's your retirement. That's credible. Do you
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Speaker 2: travel much or is Japan just of no?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say travel quite a bit.
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Speaker 2: Where have you been recently?
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Speaker 3: Let's see, went to Madrid last December?
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Speaker 2: How was Madrid? I recently had a friend just tell
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Speaker 2: me flat out, you won't like going to Spain because
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Speaker 2: eating there they're because of tap us. It's just you
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Speaker 2: never really feel like you're getting a full meal.
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Speaker 3: Well, I just keep shoving them in my mouth and
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Speaker 3: I am full. So that wasn't really an issue I encountered.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pescatarian, so a lot of the ham
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Speaker 3: eating culture I didn't but found plenty. I mean there's
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Speaker 3: plenty of good seafood and vegetarian options around. So I
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Speaker 3: had a great time as a traveler.
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Speaker 2: Are you like just food focused or are you like
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Speaker 2: going out and wandering around that kind of Well?
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Speaker 3: I like wandering around, but I think food is kind
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Speaker 3: of a a lot of places I've gone, We've gone
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Speaker 3: has been a like booking a food walking tour kind
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Speaker 3: of a thing has been did that in like Mexico
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Speaker 3: City and Dublin and places you know where you kind
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Speaker 3: of get to sample different tours just online online, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and you just how do you vet them? I should
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Speaker 3: say my partner Frank Gillespie is the one who's mostly
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Speaker 3: trust friends. Yeah, yeah, I'm vett.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like she probably has good standards. And
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Speaker 2: it's because now finding food anywhere, because the Internet has
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Speaker 2: is fundamentally broken. It's so difficult to find real recommendations
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Speaker 2: to anything.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I don't know how she's googling this, but
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Speaker 3: I haven't complained. I was putting in the work, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: just putting in the work.
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Speaker 2: On trips. I feel like, especially international trips, there's always
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Speaker 2: kind of a breaking point for me where there's a
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Speaker 2: real low point. Do you go through that experience?
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Speaker 3: Yes, fully, I mean sometimes we're just like, oh, this
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Speaker 3: is one day too many, right, and maybe they're still
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Speaker 3: another day or two to go. This is all we
11:56
Speaker 3: needed to do right in this city.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I've decided that about ten days is
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Speaker 2: where I cap it off. Eleven or twelve days. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: oh no, I think that's right. I need to be
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Speaker 2: home now. This is just I'm enjoying myself, but I'm
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Speaker 2: just completely depleted and stressing out every moment of it.
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Speaker 3: I also get to a city and I'm like, on
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Speaker 3: day one, I'm like, well, let's go to the I
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Speaker 3: know I want to hit this museum, and let's not
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Speaker 3: delay because what if something comes up and we can't, right,
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Speaker 3: I mean, do the museum or the restaurant or whatever
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Speaker 3: on like the first twenty four hours.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bit. That's actually a huge mistake.
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Speaker 3: Yes, And then you kind of get to day three
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Speaker 3: and you're like, well, I guess if we could just
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Speaker 3: go wander around this part of town or something, and
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Speaker 3: sometimes that's great and other times not as much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that uh interesting. I've never really thought about that,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, I just ruined everything almost from the beginning.
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Speaker 2: And then I guess that's just a metaphor for my
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Speaker 2: entire life.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I don't want to miss Guernica, so
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Speaker 3: I gotta go to day one and the PRADU was
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Speaker 3: not far.
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Speaker 2: Do you have any vacation goals, any places you'd like
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Speaker 2: to go that you haven't been.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I've never been to this in hemisphere. Okay, so Australia,
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Speaker 3: South America, anywhere, South America, Africa, you know, right, have
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Speaker 3: gotten below.
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Speaker 2: Refuse to go south of the equation.
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Speaker 3: But I'm usually more of like going to a less
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Speaker 3: of like a resort beach guy, and more of a
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Speaker 3: like a.
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Speaker 2: City, the whole experience of the country kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: That's more my speed. As well. If I go somewhere
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Speaker 2: and I'm in just one location the whole time, I
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Speaker 2: just think, why did I even come here?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I could have just essentially imagined this at home. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I needed to see all kinds of things. And I
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Speaker 2: don't mind just walking around. Yeah, just especially in Japan,
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Speaker 2: that's such an easy country to just wander around.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Mostly gets stressed about footwear.
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Speaker 2: Oh interesting, what's your footwear situation while you're traveling.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's kind of the like how many shoes
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Speaker 3: am I going to pack? And then what kind of
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Speaker 3: you know, what's a good walking shoe?
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Speaker 2: First?
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Speaker 3: And in the kind of year to year, I'm like,
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Speaker 3: all right, I'm bringing the Hokahs to Portugal and then
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Speaker 3: then but I should pack some loafers as well. Loafers.
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Speaker 2: What are you doing with loafers on a vacation just
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Speaker 2: for a nice dinner, I guess.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my bar for dressing on a vacation
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Speaker 2: is so low at this point because I refuse to
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Speaker 2: check a bag.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, I'm probably doing just untold damage on
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Speaker 2: my body and my back by only wearing vans everywhere
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Speaker 2: I go, walking fifteen miles a day in vans. But
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna die either way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's working for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's working absolutely fine. But maybe I should I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I'd like to get to a point when
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Speaker 2: actually I think I'm at the point I need to be.
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Speaker 2: No check bags, it's a life ruiner.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't really ever check either unless absolutely Forcedill.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the check bag on the way there is
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Speaker 2: not as big of a deal unless they lose it.
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Speaker 2: But on the way back, waiting at a baggage carousel,
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Speaker 2: worse feeling in the world. You're exhausted, you have like
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Speaker 2: two hours left to get home. I just don't know
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Speaker 2: why anyone doesn't.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like also when I was a kid,
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Speaker 3: if we want a vacation, we were checking bags. And
15:04
Speaker 3: then when I first was an adult and like moved
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Speaker 3: to LA but then we go home or something. I
15:10
Speaker 3: was always like, well, you got to check your bag,
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Speaker 3: Like it seemed like a luxury to bring a bag
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Speaker 3: onto a plane. And maybe I just had one giant
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Speaker 3: suitcase right right. I was like, who are these people
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Speaker 3: that have these like bring a suitcase on the plane.
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Speaker 3: It was like a status symbolt, And eventually I realized like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I can get a small suitcase and do that.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I guess like when I first moved to
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Speaker 2: LA and i'd go home, I would always First of all,
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Speaker 2: I was flying on Southwest, which you know, complicated airline,
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Speaker 2: but you could check a bag for free, and I
15:40
Speaker 2: was like kind of using it as a stealth way
15:42
Speaker 2: to move everything else out of my parents' house that
15:44
Speaker 2: I haven't already. So it would be like sixty pounds
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Speaker 2: by the time I got it to the airport, but
15:49
Speaker 2: it was And now I've got I've moved everything out.
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Speaker 2: I never need to return. They'll never see me. Forget it,
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Speaker 2: Mom and Dad. Well, I feel like, you know, as
15:58
Speaker 2: far as packages go and this kind of thing bringing things,
16:02
Speaker 2: there's something else I'd like to talk to you about. Yes, Well,
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Speaker 2: I at least feel like I need to talk to
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Speaker 2: you about. I was excited to have you today on
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Speaker 2: the podcast, so excited to be here, and so I said,
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Speaker 2: no gifts, and so I you know, I assume you
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Speaker 2: got an email or something. Hopefully you saw the title somewhere,
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Speaker 2: but I'm now starting to feel like you didn't, because
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Speaker 2: you showed up holding what is obviously I mean, any
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Speaker 2: any idiot could look at this and say that's a gift.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's it's pretty stereotypical. Ye, packaging for a gift. Yes,
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Speaker 3: cartoon character gift.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in kind of a birthday party wrapping with a
16:44
Speaker 2: nice little blue bow on top.
16:45
Speaker 3: Is this for me? It is? And I can explain,
16:49
Speaker 3: Oh you can. I bought this gift. I saw something
16:52
Speaker 3: that I thought would be perfect for you, and I
16:53
Speaker 3: bought this gift months ago, before I was ever booked
16:57
Speaker 3: on the show, and this has just become the first
16:59
Speaker 3: opera unity to give it to you till today. Oh
17:04
Speaker 3: but I I well, I'll give you the story of
17:07
Speaker 3: why I bought it months ago. But yes, so, so
17:10
Speaker 3: it was a gift I've just been meaning to give you.
17:14
Speaker 3: It's an unfortunate coincidence. I'm giving it to you on
17:17
Speaker 3: your podcast.
17:18
Speaker 2: Do this often on the podcast, but I'm willing to
17:20
Speaker 2: open it.
17:30
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, it's a bobblehead of Vince Scully of the Dodgers,
17:35
Speaker 3: the Dodger's former broadcaster, former announcer.
17:38
Speaker 2: Oh so, I mean, I'm really revealing in ignorance. I
17:40
Speaker 2: just thought this was a baseball player.
17:42
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he was there, the announcer.
17:44
Speaker 2: Okay.
17:45
Speaker 3: I was scrolling through my Instagram, avid follower of yours.
17:49
Speaker 3: I saw a clap I think you did with Best Show,
17:52
Speaker 3: and it had extra you behind a mic. Next thing
17:55
Speaker 3: I scrolled up, I think was an ad for I
17:58
Speaker 3: think this bobblehead Night at dot Stadium. But it had
18:01
Speaker 3: a photo of Vin Scully behind a mic, and I thought,
18:04
Speaker 3: a young Vin Scully and a Ridger Weineger, aren't.
18:10
Speaker 1: They.
18:10
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say they look the same, but I would.
18:13
Speaker 3: There are echoes, you know too, especially two photos in
18:16
Speaker 3: a row behind microphones, right, how fascinating. And I thought,
18:21
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna get this bobblehead and give it to Bridger,
18:23
Speaker 3: because both the fates putting these things back to back.
18:26
Speaker 3: Am I scroll and the algorithm is one of the
18:30
Speaker 3: greatest broadcasters of our time. Of course that wanted number
18:33
Speaker 3: one and two mean being number one, of course, Yes,
18:35
Speaker 3: I agree. I know nothing about this guy. How long
18:39
Speaker 3: was he doing this for? He he passed away a
18:41
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. I want to say it was
18:43
Speaker 3: over fifty years. He was like the announcer when like
18:46
Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson was on the team, wow, up until and
18:48
Speaker 3: he was the announcer up until like seven years ago. Maybe, Okay,
18:52
Speaker 3: so he really did it for a long time, a
18:55
Speaker 3: sort of legend in the field of sports broadcasting. Maybe
18:59
Speaker 3: the legend and.
19:00
Speaker 2: The legend and murdered, I assume murdered in the end. Yeah,
19:05
Speaker 2: I guess I hit squad.
19:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah enough, Ye, you've got to get the hired
19:13
Speaker 3: by the Padres. Yeah wow.
19:17
Speaker 2: So maybe I should start uh commentating on the Dodgers.
19:21
Speaker 2: I don't see why I shouldn't. I could kind of,
19:24
Speaker 2: you know, help you out if you every That's could
19:25
Speaker 2: be like the launch of the campaign. Yeah, who's doing
19:28
Speaker 2: it now? Some loser Actually is.
19:30
Speaker 3: A guy that's kind of quickly risen in the ranks
19:33
Speaker 3: and now is announced its like football announces. He's a
19:37
Speaker 3: very popular guy.
19:38
Speaker 2: TikToker. No, probably, Now I do have TikTok the podcast
19:43
Speaker 2: does just to post clips of this show.
19:45
Speaker 3: Here's what I don't have it. And here's my question
19:47
Speaker 3: that it didn't occur to me until like the last
19:49
Speaker 3: couple of days. Is it closer to YouTube where like
19:53
Speaker 3: most people don't make YouTube videos, they will watch YouTube videos.
19:56
Speaker 3: Or is it close to Instagram where I think most
19:58
Speaker 3: people who have Instagram use it at least somewhat right,
20:02
Speaker 3: you know, in post or is there like a is
20:05
Speaker 3: there a whole world of content creators and then just
20:07
Speaker 3: mostly other people?
20:08
Speaker 2: Just kind such a good question. I mean, the only
20:10
Speaker 2: things I'm exposed to feel like things that are made
20:14
Speaker 2: on purpose content rather than like I'm showing you my
20:18
Speaker 2: kids or whatever. Yeah, but I assume there's got to
20:22
Speaker 2: be a whole world of that on there that I
20:24
Speaker 2: just have zero interest in, and they've already figured that out.
20:26
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just wonder what percentagy users are making tiktoks?
20:30
Speaker 4: Right?
20:30
Speaker 2: Right?
20:31
Speaker 3: Do you download it because you think you're going to
20:34
Speaker 3: make videos?
20:35
Speaker 2: I mean I think to watch them, probably eighty percent
20:37
Speaker 2: of the population under twenty five years old is like, Yes,
20:40
Speaker 2: that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make
20:42
Speaker 2: That's what a career is, which makes me sound like
20:45
Speaker 2: I'm a thousand years old, but I really feel like
20:47
Speaker 2: that's the only place people feel like they can make
20:49
Speaker 2: money anymore is making content out of their real job.
20:53
Speaker 2: Sometimes it'll be like, oh, I'm an electrician, but now
20:56
Speaker 2: I'm the fun electrician or whatever. So but I assume
21:00
Speaker 2: that there are probably just annoying people doing annoying stupid things.
21:03
Speaker 2: Well I don't assume. I definitely have seen that, but
21:06
Speaker 2: more unprofessionally. Yes, yes, where like, of course you're not
21:09
Speaker 2: going to make it, you are bad at what you're doing.
21:12
Speaker 2: But I wonder if there are people like bothering their
21:15
Speaker 2: family to just like it's like the family TikTok.
21:17
Speaker 3: Following each other.
21:18
Speaker 2: Good.
21:19
Speaker 3: I guess I should both something right.
21:21
Speaker 2: Which seems like the most stressful thing I could possibly imagine.
21:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was never very good at Twitter, uhlex.
21:29
Speaker 2: And of course thank you, we'll beep Twitter, and uh.
21:33
Speaker 3: It did stress me. I was like, okay, I don't
21:36
Speaker 3: just naturally come up with a tweet, right, really, I
21:40
Speaker 3: just like, sweat over is this a funny little sentence?
21:43
Speaker 3: And you know, maybe made like eighteen ever.
21:46
Speaker 2: So well, it was very Yeah, it was a stressful
21:48
Speaker 2: place to be. I think if you wanted to work
21:50
Speaker 2: in comedy, if you actually wanted to do it, like
21:52
Speaker 2: you're like, people are looking at me, and I can't
21:54
Speaker 2: embarrass myself this, I need to be good at this.
21:57
Speaker 2: But then you see people who don't have that stress,
21:59
Speaker 2: who're just like tweeting every thought they've ever had, and
22:01
Speaker 2: that's just not how I operate.
22:03
Speaker 3: Know, I mean, that was what I was like jealous of.
22:04
Speaker 3: I'd see people that just kind of could like flow
22:07
Speaker 3: with it, and boy, I wish I had that that
22:09
Speaker 3: sort of heltered kind of taken totally.
22:14
Speaker 2: But how are those people in the real world? Are
22:16
Speaker 2: they annoying?
22:17
Speaker 3: Some of them are comedians and they figured it out,
22:20
Speaker 3: you know, they locked in.
22:21
Speaker 2: And they're confident in themselves on some level.
22:24
Speaker 3: Of me constantly like no one cares about my take
22:28
Speaker 3: on this, or like I'm just repeating something I have
22:30
Speaker 3: nothing new to add to the conversation, which you know
22:32
Speaker 3: still is a like he would just looking at like
22:36
Speaker 3: should I post no one look at me.
22:38
Speaker 2: To That's how I feel where I'm like, I'll get
22:41
Speaker 2: on any of these things and everyone I know has
22:43
Speaker 2: already posted about it one hundred times. I'm like, what
22:45
Speaker 2: am I doing?
22:46
Speaker 3: I feel like I have like a you don't have
22:48
Speaker 3: anything to add to the conversation. Someone's already said something.
22:52
Speaker 3: You don't need to repeat it, you know. But that's
22:55
Speaker 3: I'm sure, a horrible attitude in many regards. And it
22:58
Speaker 3: makes sense in like a writer's room or something, shouldn't
23:02
Speaker 3: be applied to every aspect of life.
23:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is how I was on Twitter most
23:06
Speaker 2: of my experiences, Like, well, I'm just not going to
23:09
Speaker 2: tweet about the oscars. I don't care. Everyone else is
23:12
Speaker 2: already doing that all the time. Yes, so I'll just
23:15
Speaker 2: take the night off. But some people just love making
23:20
Speaker 2: quips about the thing that everyone's making.
23:22
Speaker 3: Quips're not like me, Well, let me make sure no
23:25
Speaker 3: one else has made this joke already, Like yeah, I'll
23:27
Speaker 3: just be the fortieth person to make this joke.
23:30
Speaker 2: Maybe if I started drinking, that would help, I don't know,
23:34
Speaker 2: loosen me up a little bit. I need to drink
23:35
Speaker 2: to get on Instagram.
23:37
Speaker 3: Yeah I should. I should have brought your liquor.
23:40
Speaker 2: That's only happened once on this podcast, and I had
23:43
Speaker 2: a little sip and got very drunk on a lease
23:46
Speaker 2: was scared. Everyone was like got to get him in
23:49
Speaker 2: the house. It was dangerous. But maybe I will start
23:52
Speaker 2: drinking to be online. I think that that's not the
23:55
Speaker 2: worst idea at this point.
23:56
Speaker 3: It makes sense.
23:57
Speaker 2: Oh.
23:57
Speaker 3: The other thing I want to say about this body
23:59
Speaker 3: well yeah, barely talked about is if you don't like it.
24:02
Speaker 2: But where's your receipt?
24:03
Speaker 3: But you do want another bobblehead you in any night
24:08
Speaker 3: that there is a bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium, there
24:10
Speaker 3: will be people outside the stadium as you're leaving who
24:13
Speaker 3: are like trade bobbleheads and interesting because they want whatever
24:16
Speaker 3: the new one is. I'll probably have one from a
24:19
Speaker 3: previous game that maybe isn't you know, and in demand
24:22
Speaker 3: value right, and so you can maybe just swap it.
24:25
Speaker 2: So there's a whole culture of that going on. Oh yeah,
24:27
Speaker 2: there's something for everybody.
24:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can probably go trade this for like a
24:31
Speaker 3: tyler Glass now bobble.
24:33
Speaker 2: I was going to say tyler glass. Now I've been
24:35
Speaker 2: looking for one of his bobbles.
24:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Wow.
24:38
Speaker 2: People are If there's a plastic doll of it, people
24:41
Speaker 2: are after it and making their life about it. Yes, point,
24:44
Speaker 2: which good for them. It hasn't happened to me yet,
24:48
Speaker 2: but it could. Yeah, this could be the start of something.
24:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd get the bridge of bobble Head.
24:53
Speaker 2: I would love. I would love for my life to
24:55
Speaker 2: take a turn where people are like, remember when he
24:57
Speaker 2: got that bobblehead and then he was just only buying
24:59
Speaker 2: baseball bobble that's the specific. I've never been to a
25:02
Speaker 2: Dodgers game. The traffic, cologne terrifying.
25:05
Speaker 3: I live about a mile from the stadium, so I
25:07
Speaker 3: will walk there. Oh, that's a healthy happen and it's
25:10
Speaker 3: a little Yeah. How long is.
25:12
Speaker 2: A baseball game?
25:13
Speaker 3: About two and a half hours? Okay, maybe they made
25:16
Speaker 3: a few rule changes a few years ago to shortened games.
25:19
Speaker 3: Oh and it worked, and so.
25:20
Speaker 2: Some editing is good for there.
25:22
Speaker 3: They're kind of bringing down the how long.
25:24
Speaker 2: Were they getting over?
25:25
Speaker 3: Three oh three?
25:26
Speaker 5: Is?
25:27
Speaker 2: No one respects anyone's time anymore.
25:28
Speaker 3: I know.
25:29
Speaker 2: It's just everyone thinks the thing they're doing should just
25:32
Speaker 2: go on forever.
25:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is the amount. People are like get mad
25:36
Speaker 3: though about like The Brutalists runtime or any movie that
25:39
Speaker 3: has a long run time, and then they're like, well,
25:41
Speaker 3: the Dodgers play one hundred and sixty two Brutalists.
25:44
Speaker 2: A year, you know, like you know, everything should be
25:48
Speaker 2: measured and Brutalists. Yeah, I've only seen the first half
25:51
Speaker 2: of The Brutalist because I'll only see the first half
25:53
Speaker 2: of a three hour movie, So I don't know what happens.
25:56
Speaker 2: But I had a lovely time and left.
25:57
Speaker 3: Oh but you missed Felicity Jones.
25:59
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've got to get back to the
26:03
Speaker 2: I'm getting in the car now.
26:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll try to find a seventy billimeter projector.
26:08
Speaker 2: I should hop on. I need to finish Bows Afraid
26:10
Speaker 2: in that or at least skim through. And I had
26:13
Speaker 2: nothing against the movies except for the fact they were
26:16
Speaker 2: too long.
26:17
Speaker 3: I've done a few of the like eight hour Hungarian
26:19
Speaker 3: movie you have, Yeah.
26:21
Speaker 2: And you sat through the whole thing? Were you on adderall?
26:24
Speaker 3: No? No, well, I do think is it santane? It
26:27
Speaker 3: spelled satan tango? Okay, so tend to go. I don't know.
26:32
Speaker 3: I think I broke that one up.
26:33
Speaker 2: But how long is that one?
26:35
Speaker 3: That's that's the one that's six and a half to
26:38
Speaker 3: eight hours somewhere in the cara. I can't remember exactly.
26:40
Speaker 2: What's going on in six and a half slow cinema.
26:44
Speaker 2: I think they call it, and were you at.
26:46
Speaker 3: Home while watching? I was at home?
26:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, any seven hours and thirty minutes a perfect runtime.
26:52
Speaker 2: My new rule is I'll walk out of a three
26:54
Speaker 2: hour movie halfway through, or I'll watch a full seven
26:57
Speaker 2: and a half hour movie. Yeah, that's and a half hours.
27:00
Speaker 2: I'll be in the theater because you've basically moved in.
27:02
Speaker 2: Yeah wait, but did you watch this at home?
27:05
Speaker 3: At home? But I have a projector, and you know,
27:07
Speaker 3: I try to make a nice, a nice evening.
27:10
Speaker 2: Of it, right, do you pause and like get dinner?
27:13
Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, yeah? Or or like yeah, maybe even split
27:17
Speaker 3: it up into a couple of nights.
27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I feel like sitting through that entire thing
27:21
Speaker 2: is a uti waiting to happen. Just you got a
27:25
Speaker 2: bathroom breaks? I mean, that's worse than a flight.
27:28
Speaker 3: I'm taking some breaks, but I try to also get
27:30
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, like I mean, how do you get?
27:33
Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. My attention span really had. I feel
27:37
Speaker 2: like I used to have a really good one and
27:38
Speaker 2: has just been destroyed, absolutely destroyed. I have to go
27:41
Speaker 2: to a movie theater in order to watch a movie
27:43
Speaker 2: because at home so difficult to get away from my
27:46
Speaker 2: stupid phone, and a movie has to be so engaging,
27:51
Speaker 2: and so I can't imagine what seven and a half hours.
27:53
Speaker 2: I guess that would be like a goal, like something
27:56
Speaker 2: to rewire my brain.
27:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like that with TV more
27:59
Speaker 3: than film. I feel like this film will be done
28:01
Speaker 3: in a couple of hours, right, so I can sit
28:03
Speaker 3: and watch it and even if I'm don't like it,
28:05
Speaker 3: if there's something I'm taking from it that, you know,
28:09
Speaker 3: I'll appreciate that. And a TV show where I just
28:13
Speaker 3: watch an episode and I'm like, I got to really
28:15
Speaker 3: dedicate like seven more hours of my life to just
28:18
Speaker 3: this season alone. Especially it's one way you should watch
28:20
Speaker 3: the show. And there's four seasons, and that's where I
28:23
Speaker 3: not the four seasons, but you know, also the commitment
28:27
Speaker 3: of like restart starting a new episode, starting an episode,
28:31
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's that's where I have a harder
28:33
Speaker 3: time people.
28:34
Speaker 2: Who are really able to like binge a show like
28:36
Speaker 2: in a couple of nights. That doesn't make any sense
28:39
Speaker 2: to me.
28:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll watch like four shows maybe a year, right,
28:42
Speaker 3: or four seasons of a show.
28:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like I started, we started in this home
28:47
Speaker 2: watching a Little House on the Prayer.
28:49
Speaker 3: I've been I've been keeping up on the pod.
28:52
Speaker 2: But like I started talking about it, and I think
28:53
Speaker 2: I feel like listeners have absolutely lapped me there.
28:56
Speaker 3: Like I just started season three.
28:57
Speaker 2: We just finished season one because we're watching one episode
29:00
Speaker 2: a night, so it takes and what like not even
29:03
Speaker 2: every night of the week. It's like two a week,
29:06
Speaker 2: and other people are watching four a night and just
29:09
Speaker 2: blowing through this thing. I don't think I'll be a lot.
29:11
Speaker 2: I don't think i'll live long enough to watch the
29:13
Speaker 2: whole season. I see.
29:15
Speaker 3: I really like and Or. Oh I love and Or,
29:18
Speaker 3: but I'm still I have three episodes left and I
29:21
Speaker 3: love it. But it is almost like, well, let me
29:23
Speaker 3: make sure I've set aside the night and I'm not
29:25
Speaker 3: gonna get distracted, and I'm watching a new to me
29:28
Speaker 3: and Or right, and it really takes my time.
29:30
Speaker 2: So the first season of Andor I blew through, and
29:33
Speaker 2: then there was such a long break that I forgot everything.
29:36
Speaker 2: And so season two was a little bit me like
29:40
Speaker 2: going in and out a bit because it's like, what's
29:42
Speaker 2: going on? Who is this person? I need to watch
29:44
Speaker 2: it all in a row.
29:45
Speaker 3: I actually didn't watch any of it until this year,
29:47
Speaker 3: So what an experience. So I've been going straight through
29:50
Speaker 3: the twenty four episodes or whatever.
29:52
Speaker 2: Are you a Star Wars person?
29:53
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean for sure I am in terms like
29:56
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, right and all of that.
29:59
Speaker 3: I haven't really kept up on the TV shows. I
30:01
Speaker 3: think this is the only one. How could you possibly?
30:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a thousand episodes of all of those
30:06
Speaker 2: different shows.
30:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and I know people love like the animated
30:09
Speaker 3: Clone Wars, and I've watched some of that as well,
30:12
Speaker 3: just see what it was all about. But you know, again,
30:15
Speaker 3: any animated I tried to watch like Demon Slayer one time, and.
30:18
Speaker 2: Oh, sure, how many episodes of that?
30:20
Speaker 3: Was probably? Like so that was pretty good. I got
30:22
Speaker 3: like four in. I'm like, I just don't think I'm
30:24
Speaker 3: gonna make it through all of them.
30:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a different brain of person who can watch
30:28
Speaker 2: five hundred episodes of an animated show like just in
30:32
Speaker 2: a few months. For me, that's a lifetime goal. Yes,
30:36
Speaker 2: and I will fail at it. I will absolutely fail
30:38
Speaker 2: at it.
30:38
Speaker 3: Eventually get through the Flintstones.
30:41
Speaker 2: I'm working so hard. I need to see if they
30:44
Speaker 2: stick together, the family doesn't break up.
30:46
Speaker 3: I don't have the kids yet.
30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to see them get to the modern car. Yeah,
30:52
Speaker 2: that's who was the Flintstones four? Was that for children
30:56
Speaker 2: or adults?
30:57
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess family entertainment for both. They like,
31:02
Speaker 3: we're kind of doing the Honeymooners, but it's a cartoon,
31:04
Speaker 3: so kids will want to watch, but it's on in
31:06
Speaker 3: prime time.
31:06
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, it kind of doesn't make sense to
31:08
Speaker 2: me as a TV show anymore because it's not like
31:11
Speaker 2: Simpson's Level for mostly for adults, but it's not really
31:15
Speaker 2: for chure. I mean, like the Dinosaurs are for children.
31:17
Speaker 3: I'm almost positive, Well, okay, that's that was way too strong.
31:21
Speaker 3: I have a vague suspicion I a memory that there's
31:24
Speaker 3: an episode of Flintstones where they're trying to like maybe
31:29
Speaker 3: maybe they didn't maybe they adopted the kids. I forget
31:32
Speaker 3: what it is, but they're like not gonna Barney and
31:35
Speaker 3: Betty are not gonna be able to adopt bam bam
31:38
Speaker 3: or something. And Barney goes to he goes to a
31:42
Speaker 3: bridge and like ties a boulder to his waiste and
31:46
Speaker 3: he's gonna like commit suicide. I'm like, is that? Did
31:49
Speaker 3: that really happen? On the flint Stows? There is this
31:51
Speaker 3: like a dream I had when I was seven and
31:52
Speaker 3: then like h taking it as cannon for years.
31:57
Speaker 2: Wow. What a dark episode of the Flintstone. Wow you
32:01
Speaker 2: think he would have I mean, I guess he wasn't
32:02
Speaker 2: ready to be a father.
32:04
Speaker 3: No, or he was sad that they weren't gonna he
32:06
Speaker 3: wasn't going to get to be one.
32:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, if if it's that big of
32:09
Speaker 2: an issue, he's got some things to work to it
32:11
Speaker 2: before he adopts the kid. Yeah, and the adoption agency
32:13
Speaker 2: saw that you're kind of a little too. Yeah, sir,
32:18
Speaker 2: work on yourself a little bit. But if you're gonna
32:20
Speaker 2: throw yourself off a bridge because your adoption got declined,
32:24
Speaker 2: they don't get declined denied option, adoption denied.
32:28
Speaker 3: They ran the car to it got declined. Sorry, paperwork,
32:33
Speaker 3: we needed a file, just to wow.
32:35
Speaker 2: I wonder if they ever got the kid.
32:37
Speaker 3: I would bet by the end of the episode they did.
32:39
Speaker 2: I would hope. So yeah, that's kind of how TV
32:41
Speaker 2: used to work. The problem was usually solved. There is
32:44
Speaker 2: an episode of Little House on the Prairie where Laura
32:46
Speaker 2: goes to meet God at the top of a mountain.
32:48
Speaker 2: Just a surreal thing to watch. And then she gets
32:51
Speaker 2: to the bottom of the mountain at the end and
32:53
Speaker 2: having not met God, but maybe there's a secret guy
32:56
Speaker 2: living in the woods who maybe it's very honestly kind
32:59
Speaker 2: of scary.
33:00
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
33:00
Speaker 2: Like the sort of thing I was watching was like,
33:02
Speaker 2: if I was watching this as a kid, I would
33:04
Speaker 2: be terrified. She just meets this weird guy in the
33:07
Speaker 2: mountains who may or may not be a spiritual or yeah,
33:11
Speaker 2: she might be hallucinating. I thought she ate something in
33:14
Speaker 2: the woods kind of off camera. What a show, What
33:18
Speaker 2: an experience. The reboots got a lot to live up too.
33:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. We were not a little house on
33:23
Speaker 3: the prairie. It's probably because two boys, me and my brother, oh,
33:28
Speaker 3: I feel like, and also living in Japan, we had
33:30
Speaker 3: one TV channel, oh from like eight to ten, so
33:34
Speaker 3: we didn't get what was airing on that there was
33:36
Speaker 3: like the premost slot was Sunday at eight I think
33:39
Speaker 3: it was eight, and half the year was Cosby Show
33:42
Speaker 3: and half the year it was Roseanne.
33:43
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting two people who have gone on to do
33:46
Speaker 2: so many.
33:48
Speaker 3: Exactly, we didn't get Simpsons there. They would just you know,
33:51
Speaker 3: sometimes show a baseball game or something on right. That
33:54
Speaker 3: was probably tape certainly tape delayed.
33:58
Speaker 2: That sounds so refreshing to just not have an option
34:01
Speaker 2: of what to watch on TV.
34:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you could flip to the Japanese channels as well,
34:04
Speaker 3: But then you write some of the crazy game shows.
34:07
Speaker 3: Someone's falling in water. That's fun, but we you know,
34:09
Speaker 3: you can not understand it.
34:11
Speaker 2: Right, What did you watch that documentary about the Japanese
34:14
Speaker 2: game show about the guy who's like, what happened? They
34:17
Speaker 2: just kept him in an apartment.
34:18
Speaker 3: For really, I know what you're talking about, but I
34:20
Speaker 3: haven't watched.
34:20
Speaker 2: That at least. Is that sound familiar to you? It
34:22
Speaker 2: was brutal to watch. They basically drove this man out
34:25
Speaker 2: of his mind.
34:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, in like solitary confinements. Right, It's really a scary
34:30
Speaker 3: thing to watch.
34:31
Speaker 2: But the country was having a ball watching him just
34:35
Speaker 2: kind of break down. Yeah, I think we need to
34:38
Speaker 2: get back to only having two TV shows. We need
34:40
Speaker 2: to get back to your childhood.
34:42
Speaker 3: Experience having armed forces network.
34:46
Speaker 2: The armed forces need to take over all in some ways,
34:51
Speaker 2: I believe that. In some ways, I think that may
34:53
Speaker 2: be a dark way for the country.
34:55
Speaker 3: Occasionally get like a Baltimore Orioles game, you know, Wow,
35:00
Speaker 3: did you have a favorite between Roseanne and Cosby?
35:02
Speaker 2: This will reflect on you as a person.
35:05
Speaker 3: Hmmm, that's a good question. I was a big fan
35:08
Speaker 3: of both. I don't. It really was kind of like
35:11
Speaker 3: one would end. You'd be like, great, now Roseanne's coming
35:14
Speaker 3: next week. Then that would end, You're like Lord Cosby
35:17
Speaker 3: showed you know at the time, classic shows.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody knew anything, knew the better you knew, the
35:23
Speaker 2: wiser is that?
35:24
Speaker 3: What do you say?
35:24
Speaker 2: I don't know. But and one had Lori Metcalf. That's true,
35:29
Speaker 2: So I don't know anything with Lori Metcalf. I'm on board.
35:31
Speaker 2: Although I've never watched it. I think I've seen one
35:33
Speaker 2: episode of Roseanne won half well the commercial for the Conners.
35:38
Speaker 2: But I have seen Getting On? Have you seen Getting On?
35:40
Speaker 3: I haven't seen Getting On. I've seen her in a
35:41
Speaker 3: couple of plays though.
35:42
Speaker 2: But they were phenomenal. Oh yeah, she's so good.
35:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's amazing.
35:46
Speaker 2: Well, is there anything left to say about Vin Scully?
35:48
Speaker 2: I mean, he's dead, so I don't have to push
35:50
Speaker 2: him out of the way.
35:52
Speaker 3: No, I would say, you know, if you want to
35:54
Speaker 3: sell that, keep it in the box, put it on eBay.
35:57
Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to get a huge price,
35:59
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't treat it too much like a collector's
36:01
Speaker 3: eye might think. You can have to do with.
36:04
Speaker 2: The gas station seventy six.
36:06
Speaker 3: Do you see that that's just a sponsor. I'm sure
36:08
Speaker 3: they paid. They paid for the bobblehead, yeah, or the
36:14
Speaker 3: the offset some of the costs by saying, you know,
36:16
Speaker 3: will sell use some ad space on.
36:18
Speaker 2: The side of the box is behind this.
36:20
Speaker 3: They did a thing at the dog I went to
36:21
Speaker 3: the Dodger game on Saturday, huh, and they it was
36:24
Speaker 3: like a full moon and they had a shot at
36:25
Speaker 3: the beautiful full moon and then they like cross faded
36:28
Speaker 3: to the seventy six orb that like it's just in
36:32
Speaker 3: the outfield. Is just you know, as a sponsored thing.
36:36
Speaker 3: That sort of weird, Like that's how it should be.
36:39
Speaker 2: We shouldn't have to look at the moon. We should
36:41
Speaker 2: have to look at.
36:42
Speaker 3: The circle the moon shot game sponsored collab with the moon.
36:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, they should be putting ads on the moon. We're
36:51
Speaker 2: not far from that, I imagine. I wonder how you would
36:53
Speaker 2: do that. Have you driven past the Tesla Diner?
36:56
Speaker 3: No, where where is somebody?
36:57
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to, I don't want to encourage
36:59
Speaker 2: tear or or shopping at this thing. But it's all
37:04
Speaker 2: It's somewhere in Hollywood, one of the most hideous buildings
37:08
Speaker 2: ever created.
37:09
Speaker 3: I just I've heard it exists, but I.
37:12
Speaker 2: Just looking over at it, it was goober city. Everybody there
37:15
Speaker 2: was just a loser. They were playing the matrix. It's
37:18
Speaker 2: just everything you could possibly imagine it is. And I
37:23
Speaker 2: wonder what they'll make of it when they close it.
37:25
Speaker 2: What could that possive. I mean, it's not big, it's.
37:27
Speaker 3: Also a dealership or it's just like it's just.
37:29
Speaker 2: A diner, and I think you can charge your tesla there.
37:33
Speaker 2: But what does that become after it goes out of
37:37
Speaker 2: business is the big question. Can't be a Halloween superstore,
37:41
Speaker 2: can't be a ross. Those are kind of the two
37:44
Speaker 2: things that move in.
37:45
Speaker 3: Maybe a Kona charge that's not a bad.
37:51
Speaker 2: A star they do turn these gas stations into Starbucks.
37:55
Speaker 2: M oh, I'm curious to see. It's one of the
37:57
Speaker 2: ugliest things I've ever seen. And that's such a sad
38:01
Speaker 2: thing that that exists. But what do you make of
38:04
Speaker 2: the bumper stickers that say I bought this before Elon
38:06
Speaker 2: went crazy?
38:07
Speaker 3: I think it would be funny to put that on
38:09
Speaker 3: your car if it's not a tesla.
38:10
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's I thought of that often. Actually, I wait, I.
38:15
Speaker 3: Do an Elon Musk story. But I don't want to
38:18
Speaker 3: be too You can cut this out if it's boring.
38:20
Speaker 2: But no, I mean I'm intrigued already.
38:22
Speaker 3: Okay, and I you're married. So when I was a
38:28
Speaker 3: young writer, starting out youngish, my friend Harriswittles was writing
38:33
Speaker 3: on Parks and rec with Mike Scully, who I had
38:36
Speaker 3: not ever met, and he and Harris said, hey, Mike
38:39
Speaker 3: Scully was saying, the Simpsons are looking for more writers.
38:44
Speaker 3: Mind if I give your script? He had read like
38:45
Speaker 3: a script script I'd written. He said, mind if I
38:47
Speaker 3: give Mike Scully your script to pass along to the Simpsons.
38:51
Speaker 3: I said, please, that'd be exciting. Uh he did. I
38:54
Speaker 3: got called in for an interview with al Jean growing
38:58
Speaker 3: in and I met with Al Jean and I just
39:00
Speaker 3: had to bring a few ideas and stuff, like I
39:04
Speaker 3: remember this is how Fargo long ago. This was like.
39:06
Speaker 3: One of my ideas was like, there's this thing called
39:08
Speaker 3: the Hunger Games and they're going to make it into movies,
39:10
Speaker 3: and like Bart and Lisa could be in a Hunger
39:12
Speaker 3: Games type thing and you get ahead of like the
39:15
Speaker 3: movies I think are going to be a big kind
39:16
Speaker 3: of Anyway, the meeting was great, but never heard anything.
39:19
Speaker 3: A year and a half later I got an email
39:22
Speaker 3: from Algene and he said, hey, would you want to
39:24
Speaker 3: write a freelance script? We would need it in two weeks.
39:27
Speaker 3: You know, but you write an episode of The Simpsons, right.
39:29
Speaker 2: So of course now they were doing that that recently,
39:31
Speaker 2: I mean in the last fifteen years.
39:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, they really, because they used to be in w
39:35
Speaker 3: GA if you had a certain episode order, you had
39:37
Speaker 3: to spread the wealth zone have like freelance writers.
39:40
Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm not sure who enforced.
39:42
Speaker 3: That if you didn't, but anyway, sometimes I was doing
39:45
Speaker 3: it still. So he was like, great, we have these
39:48
Speaker 3: story notes and would you want so so we just
39:52
Speaker 3: have a few notes and you'll just need to turn
39:54
Speaker 3: in a draft like two weeks. I said, I'd love
39:55
Speaker 3: to do this, obviously be an honor and it was.
39:57
Speaker 3: And don't get me wrong, and they went, okay, you
40:00
Speaker 3: know who Elon Musk is and I didn't, and I sure,
40:03
Speaker 3: and of course I do. I googled it was like
40:06
Speaker 3: this again, like pre Tesla at least Tesla in the US,
40:08
Speaker 3: and it was I googled it and it was a
40:12
Speaker 3: PayPal billionaire who's into clean energy, and I had never
40:15
Speaker 3: heard of him, and I went, okay, sure, yeah, and
40:17
Speaker 3: they sent me the notes. It was like two pages
40:19
Speaker 3: of notes, and it was basically a story that's like
40:21
Speaker 3: Elon Musk comes to Springfield and he mister Burns gets
40:26
Speaker 3: upset with him. That like gets upset the Springfield loves
40:29
Speaker 3: an energy billionaire and hates him. And he was going
40:32
Speaker 3: to be the guest voice, you know, playing himself. And
40:34
Speaker 3: so I wrote this draft. I had never really written,
40:38
Speaker 3: apart from a specscript like a half hour narrative. I
40:40
Speaker 3: think I'd written on one season of comedy Bang Bang
40:43
Speaker 3: ok point anyway, wrote the draft went to like a
40:46
Speaker 3: table read a year later. The script's totally different from
40:48
Speaker 3: what I wrote, But that's part for the courus of
40:50
Speaker 3: Simpsons known to expect that Elon Musk's at the table reading,
40:54
Speaker 3: you know, does it signs the script and stuff? Again,
40:57
Speaker 3: this is all like maybe now Tesla's around, but just
41:00
Speaker 3: kind of before I, like I even thought of him
41:02
Speaker 3: as like a public figure. Did The episode comes out
41:06
Speaker 3: and airs now years later and I, you know, Simpsons
41:10
Speaker 3: was like my ship. I love Simpsons growing up. It
41:12
Speaker 3: like shaped my sense of humor. I was so honored
41:14
Speaker 3: to touch it in some way. And like years later
41:16
Speaker 3: it is like, this is the worst episode ever of Simpsons.
41:20
Speaker 3: If they took the Michael jacksone off the air, they
41:22
Speaker 3: should take this one off the air. This is like
41:25
Speaker 3: propaganda for like who is Neil Campbell? Like who wrote this?
41:30
Speaker 3: Like it wasn't even right around the Simpsons And he
41:32
Speaker 3: comes in and writes this like puff piece for you
41:34
Speaker 3: lot of us.
41:35
Speaker 2: It's kind of Ah, that was a nightmare.
41:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so one episode of the Simpsons credited to
41:41
Speaker 3: my name, and uh, and it certainly has its detractors.
41:46
Speaker 2: Oh that's really a shame. What an absolutely yeah, it's like.
41:50
Speaker 3: A monkey's paulk any any episode of them, any episode?
41:55
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh that's so tough.
41:57
Speaker 3: You know, no one knew at the time, I guess,
41:59
Speaker 3: but uh and I was still very grateful too, But wow,
42:05
Speaker 3: kind of could it have exploded it a worse way
42:08
Speaker 3: for me?
42:08
Speaker 2: Who do you think is a worse energy person, mister
42:11
Speaker 2: Burns or Elon musk.
42:13
Speaker 3: Well, In the world of the Simpsons, there's barely Anything
42:16
Speaker 3: wrong with Elon Musk in Springfield is Burns.
42:20
Speaker 2: But I mean, I will say this for mister Burns
42:23
Speaker 2: compared to Elon Musk, mister Burns is funny. Yes, that's
42:26
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. That's the one thing he wants to be
42:28
Speaker 2: and never will be. Yes, never, No, of course, there's
42:33
Speaker 2: no one has ever tried harder to be funny and
42:35
Speaker 2: never been funny. It's amazing to watch that man fail
42:38
Speaker 2: at being funny. One of the most annoying people alive.
42:41
Speaker 2: Elon don't reach out? Well, what a story. Oh God,
42:46
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You're just gonna live with that curse forever.
42:48
Speaker 3: Life takes some funny twists and turns. Well.
42:51
Speaker 2: I think we should play a game. We're gonna play
42:54
Speaker 2: a game called Gift Master. But I need a number
42:56
Speaker 2: between one and ten from you.
42:57
Speaker 3: Eight.
42:58
Speaker 2: Okay. I have to do some light calculating to get
43:00
Speaker 2: our game pieces, so that right now you can recommend, promote,
43:02
Speaker 2: do whatever you want.
43:03
Speaker 3: I'll be right about okay. What I would promote is
43:05
Speaker 3: the TV show Digman. I co created it with Andy
43:07
Speaker 3: Samberg and have been running it. Our first season is
43:10
Speaker 3: on Paramount Plus our second season at the time we're
43:14
Speaker 3: doing this interview is airing on Comedy Central and will
43:17
Speaker 3: eventually be on Paramount Plus. I say with a good
43:20
Speaker 3: amount of confidence, But there's just been a huge merger
43:23
Speaker 3: that's happened. I don't really know when it will be
43:26
Speaker 3: on Paramount Plus, and I don't know what the future
43:29
Speaker 3: of all these things are. But anyway, I'm quite proud
43:32
Speaker 3: of it second season, very excited for people to see.
43:36
Speaker 3: So hopefully you'll eventually be able to find it gorgeous.
43:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody go watch Digman hopefully. Ah, these mergers, let's
43:45
Speaker 2: get back again at least the two just two streaming
43:47
Speaker 2: networks or something. Yeah, I need to there are too
43:51
Speaker 2: many subscriptions at this point.
43:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just and with this stuff or people like
43:56
Speaker 3: when's it going to stream? Like I would have had
43:58
Speaker 3: a clear answer.
44:00
Speaker 2: It's crazy that you don't know if anyone in the
44:02
Speaker 2: world should know when the show is going to be
44:04
Speaker 2: on something.
44:04
Speaker 3: I read when it should, which is like February of
44:07
Speaker 3: next year. Sure, but I don't know that that is.
44:11
Speaker 3: Things won't change, could change for the better and come
44:14
Speaker 3: out right it comes sooner or could come?
44:17
Speaker 2: Never was wow, Paramount because now there it's the sky Dance. Yes,
44:24
Speaker 2: we love the name sky Dance, so beautiful, so evocative.
44:29
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is or where it came from,
44:31
Speaker 2: but good for everyone for merging and whatever. Okay, let's
44:35
Speaker 2: play gift masks. Thank you. I'm going to name three
44:37
Speaker 2: celebrities and then I'm going to name three gifts and
44:39
Speaker 2: you're going to tell me which gift you would give
44:41
Speaker 2: which celebrity and why.
44:42
Speaker 3: All right, so that makes perfect sense, makes perfect sense.
44:45
Speaker 2: Okay, Today you'll be giving the gifts to number one
44:49
Speaker 2: Sam Bankman Freed kind of a polarizing figure, sure, Number
44:53
Speaker 2: two post malone, Number three Christine Baranski. And these are
44:58
Speaker 2: the gifts you'll be giving. Number one is a family
45:01
Speaker 2: of four, less traditional, more of an experience, well, an
45:05
Speaker 2: experience and objects if you imagine people as objects. Number
45:09
Speaker 2: two a USB chord, which is I need to say
45:15
Speaker 2: less this is your game. And number three is Anderson Cooper.
45:19
Speaker 3: Mmmm. I'm going to give the USB cord to Christine Baranski, okay,
45:26
Speaker 3: because I feel not to pass make a judgment that that.
45:31
Speaker 3: But like me, I still have my iPhone needs the
45:35
Speaker 3: like lightning cable. Sure, so I'm not fully USB c's right,
45:40
Speaker 3: So I would imagine Christine Baranski might have some need
45:43
Speaker 3: for you USB and not USB C.
45:45
Speaker 2: She doesn't strike me as a tech heads.
45:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I feel like post Malone and Sam Bankman
45:51
Speaker 3: Freed haven't used just a standard US They've gone to
45:54
Speaker 3: USBC everything right right for a while, so they would
45:59
Speaker 3: have no U for it. I feel like she probably
46:01
Speaker 3: has a few devices that could use it.
46:04
Speaker 2: Out of these three people, I bet she's the one
46:05
Speaker 2: that has a junk drawer. You can throw that in. Yeah,
46:08
Speaker 2: those other two guys don't have I don't think post Alone.
46:11
Speaker 2: I think he's a vagabond. He just is all over
46:14
Speaker 2: the country at all times.
46:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.
46:16
Speaker 2: And Sam Bankman Fried probably lives in some sort of chamber.
46:20
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now I'm tempted to say I think Postalone feels
46:25
Speaker 3: like a guy who's kind of a little bit like
46:27
Speaker 3: has the values of like family, like would want a
46:30
Speaker 3: family and and say make me Freed. I'd think once publicity,
46:34
Speaker 3: once coverage, so I can imagine, but I'm gonna flip
46:37
Speaker 3: it and then say, I think Sam Bankman Free should
46:39
Speaker 3: have the family to maybe sort of see some other
46:43
Speaker 3: priorities in maybe he'll realize open his eyes his eyes
46:47
Speaker 3: a bit.
46:49
Speaker 2: The organic world.
46:50
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, right, beautifully put and then it's sort of
46:56
Speaker 3: by default leaves Anderson Cooper to postalone. But you know,
47:00
Speaker 3: maybe as an artist, Cooper can help postmon gonna get
47:04
Speaker 3: past the first thought on something, dig deep with an interview,
47:08
Speaker 3: have him kind of explore.
47:10
Speaker 2: And what an odd couple situations? Yeah, a lot A
47:12
Speaker 2: pair in a one bedroom apartment. They're getting on each
47:15
Speaker 2: other's nerves. Anderson is so tidy. Post Malone is, you know,
47:21
Speaker 2: beer everywhere, just an absolute slob. I know, so little thoughts.
47:26
Speaker 3: The same here. I try to think of the name
47:29
Speaker 3: of a But I.
47:30
Speaker 2: Feel like Anderson Cooper would help him clean up his act,
47:33
Speaker 2: and post Malone might help Anderson loosen up a bit.
47:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Could be. I mean they could do
47:38
Speaker 3: an odd couple revival.
47:40
Speaker 2: Yes, they should. They should do one on Broadway.
47:42
Speaker 3: On Broadway.
47:43
Speaker 2: I think that's what the world needs.
47:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, get a Oh what's his name? Who directed the Oh?
47:50
Speaker 3: Never mind Steven Spielberg. Oh we know he directed The Graduate.
47:57
Speaker 2: Oh what is that guy's name directed? Uh, he's directed
48:02
Speaker 2: so many great movies.
48:03
Speaker 3: And I listened to the entire audio book of his
48:05
Speaker 3: Holy Mike Nichols, Mike Lee, and I knew that was
48:09
Speaker 3: the another great direct great director for more recent and
48:12
Speaker 3: I just couldn't get Lee out of my head and
48:14
Speaker 3: replace it with me. Oh yeah, anyway, you just yeah,
48:17
Speaker 3: take his old blocking.
48:18
Speaker 2: Notes to do right? You bring him back from the dead.
48:22
Speaker 3: Why not? Or get his daughter in love Rachel Nichols
48:24
Speaker 3: to direct.
48:25
Speaker 2: Rachel Nichols get.
48:27
Speaker 3: Is she really? That's right?
48:29
Speaker 2: Wow, Rachel, let's team up. Let's make me the next
48:32
Speaker 2: Vin Scully. She should do a puff piece on me.
48:34
Speaker 3: That'd be good.
48:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably the next natural step for her career.
48:39
Speaker 3: I give the puffy requested.
48:43
Speaker 2: I need to hire.
48:44
Speaker 3: It hurts the journalists feelings, and you refer to it
48:48
Speaker 3: that lie.
48:50
Speaker 2: I need to get some sort of pr team to
48:51
Speaker 2: get me in Sports Illustrated or something I should be on.
48:54
Speaker 2: I should be their next swimsuit model.
48:57
Speaker 3: I agree.
48:57
Speaker 2: Why not Martha was I'm a Martha Stewart type. People
49:02
Speaker 2: are clamoring for me to be on the cover of SI.
49:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, or do you do you know when they would
49:07
Speaker 3: do this sort of sexy it's actually just painted on.
49:09
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's time for the painting on. Yeah, yes,
49:13
Speaker 2: And then Access Hollywood can do a whole piece on that.
49:16
Speaker 3: Yes.
49:17
Speaker 2: Wow, I'll be all over the place. Rachel. This starts
49:20
Speaker 2: with you. I don't know, it's such a loose connection.
49:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, we said the name of your deceased father in law.
49:28
Speaker 3: Why would you not your back.
49:30
Speaker 2: Is against the one. Okay, well, I feel like we
49:35
Speaker 2: should get to the final segment of the podcast. This
49:37
Speaker 2: is called I said no emails. People are writing in
49:39
Speaker 2: and hopefully sending voice notes to I said no gifts
49:42
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. We help me answer a question
49:45
Speaker 2: you would love Okay, this is let's see here High Bridger.
49:49
Speaker 2: They don't even mention you, which is so rude. So
49:52
Speaker 2: let's say Hybridger and Neil, I love the show and
49:55
Speaker 2: wondered if you would help me with a problem. My
49:57
Speaker 2: wife thinks she hates Mexican food, but whenever I convince
50:00
Speaker 2: her to eat it, she actually loves it. How do
50:03
Speaker 2: I get her to understand she actually loves Mexican food.
50:06
Speaker 2: I can't think of a Mexican food she doesn't like,
50:09
Speaker 2: like she absolutely loves Nacho's and she always eats half
50:11
Speaker 2: my torta when I order one, despite being gluten sensitive.
50:15
Speaker 2: Thanks for your help, and that's from James.
50:17
Speaker 3: Interesting what do.
50:19
Speaker 2: We Okay, let's think about this email for a minute.
50:23
Speaker 2: Is the wife racist? Maybe?
50:25
Speaker 3: Could it be?
50:26
Speaker 2: So that's just a possibility. We'll put that out, but
50:28
Speaker 2: we'll put it aside. Truly the first thing that comes
50:31
Speaker 2: to mind for me. Okay. And also it sounds like
50:34
Speaker 2: he wants us to help gaslight his wife mm hmm
50:37
Speaker 2: in some ways. But he's saying she's gluten sensitive. I
50:42
Speaker 2: actually am seeing a real problem here. This woman's eating bread.
50:48
Speaker 2: It's making her sick, and so of course she can't
50:51
Speaker 2: like the cuisine because she doesn't realize that it's causing
50:55
Speaker 2: all of these whatever issues happen in her stomach.
50:58
Speaker 3: Well, there certainly is our tortilla versus a corn tortilla
51:01
Speaker 3: is going to be a difference for someone with gluten sensitivity.
51:05
Speaker 2: Yes, you have to go with the corn tortilla. You
51:07
Speaker 2: have to go with it. Well, they're just corn chips.
51:11
Speaker 2: But my sister is celiac and so there's I like
51:14
Speaker 2: for actually getting into the allergen issues here. Maybe the
51:18
Speaker 2: wife is getting cross contamination on the nachos, or maybe
51:22
Speaker 2: the cheese sauce has wheat allergens in it. James is
51:26
Speaker 2: not thinking about his wife's health. All he's thinking about
51:29
Speaker 2: is his favorite cuisine.
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Speaker 3: No, and this could be a you know, a bad
51:33
Speaker 3: situation where he's trying to.
51:36
Speaker 2: Family. Yeah, he's trying to poison her. This is kind
51:40
Speaker 2: of like putting poison in the soup for six weeks.
51:44
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we got a phantom thread kind of operation happening.
51:48
Speaker 2: But honey, you love Mexican food, I'll bring it to
51:52
Speaker 2: you in bed.
51:53
Speaker 3: I also would it seemed like a lot of it,
51:55
Speaker 3: And maybe I was just inferring this. It was perhaps
51:58
Speaker 3: takeout orders. I wonder if you were like, Hey, I've
52:01
Speaker 3: planned a big, fun night out and it's to this
52:03
Speaker 3: really nice restaurant. It happens to be Mexican cuisine, right,
52:08
Speaker 3: but we're I'm taking you out for a lovely evening.
52:11
Speaker 3: Is that going to help mark it? Yeah? And you'll
52:15
Speaker 3: see the whole menu of options and go, oh, well,
52:17
Speaker 3: this wouldn't affect my sensitivity and all that.
52:21
Speaker 2: And if they're let's say, if they're getting take out
52:23
Speaker 2: and she's getting nachos. First of all, she's bad at
52:25
Speaker 2: ordering things that does not travel. That's a soggy chip.
52:29
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm frustrated with the wife. Let's say
52:31
Speaker 2: it Mexican food is for everyone loves it. It's a
52:35
Speaker 2: fun food.
52:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the problem. What's wrong with this person?
52:38
Speaker 2: I know?
52:38
Speaker 3: And we just have to imagine James is a sort
52:42
Speaker 3: of stereotypical impact husband.
52:46
Speaker 2: The wife is always the issue, This bore wife. She's
52:50
Speaker 2: always nagging, nagging about how she doesn't.
52:53
Speaker 3: Like Mexican while he's, you know, probably a firefighter.
52:57
Speaker 2: He's putting his life on the line every We've got
53:00
Speaker 2: a first responder who loves Mexican food and a wife
53:04
Speaker 2: who won't let him eat.
53:05
Speaker 3: Is not honey, I brought him some nacho. Sorry, I'm late.
53:08
Speaker 3: There was a foe alarmed fire.
53:10
Speaker 2: Let me just clean off this ash, clear my lung.
53:12
Speaker 3: Well, it's not bonbonds. You're right, I'm sorry, dear.
53:20
Speaker 2: Well, we solved it. I think we ultimately solved it.
53:23
Speaker 3: We kind of went from accusing him of big a
53:25
Speaker 3: murderer too, thinking that he's actually the most wonderful man
53:29
Speaker 3: on her. Vote for James.
53:33
Speaker 2: Vote for James to get a divorce from this lady,
53:35
Speaker 2: and hopefully it's a wake up call for her. Yes,
53:37
Speaker 2: she doesn't know what she's got and it's time for
53:41
Speaker 2: her to tune into this she's not even a listener
53:43
Speaker 2: of the podcast.
53:44
Speaker 3: Apparently not.
53:45
Speaker 2: This lady sucks right.
53:46
Speaker 3: If she hears this, then is up? God?
53:49
Speaker 2: Wow, you know some people, some people's wives. That's what
53:54
Speaker 2: I'll say. We answered the question more than perfectly. I
53:59
Speaker 2: think so we ruined marriage. But we may have created
54:03
Speaker 2: a new fan of Mexican food. Maybe that's the real
54:07
Speaker 2: hope there.
54:07
Speaker 3: We can always use one more, Yeah, we could always
54:10
Speaker 3: use one more.
54:11
Speaker 2: And now I've got this gorgeous not only bubblehead, but
54:14
Speaker 2: now career goal. Yes, and it's one of the rare
54:17
Speaker 2: career goals where I don't have to kill someone to
54:19
Speaker 2: get to where I need to be. And I feel
54:21
Speaker 2: great about it. I feel like Dodgers fans will embrace me.
54:26
Speaker 3: Hey, I do you do?
54:27
Speaker 2: It starts with one person, one brave person. Someone needed
54:31
Speaker 2: to speak up, and you did, and so I'll be
54:35
Speaker 2: in the stadium shortly, I imagine, let's do it. Who
54:38
Speaker 2: could ask for more? Well, I've had such a wonderful time.
54:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me here, an
54:42
Speaker 3: honor to be here. I'm a big fan.
54:44
Speaker 2: Oh you're very sweet show, thank you for being here
54:46
Speaker 2: and listener the podcast is screeching to a halt. I'm
54:49
Speaker 2: slamming on the brakes. Hopefully we all have our seat
54:52
Speaker 2: belts on and we'll walk away alive. But it is over.
54:56
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55:09
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55:20
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55:22
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55:24
Speaker 2: wonderful gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see
55:27
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55:29
Speaker 1: Why did you hear? Gonta man? Myself perfectly clear? But
55:37
Speaker 1: you're a guest to me. You gotta come to me empty,
55:43
Speaker 1: And I said.
55:46
Speaker 4: No guests, your presences, presents, and I already too much stuff.
55:55
Speaker 4: So how do you dare to surbey me?
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Speaker 1: The fifty