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Waving Pays Off · I Think Less of You Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're sending the link to everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Not only that,
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SPEAKER_01: but then I texted you instead of my daughter this morning,
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SPEAKER_01: and you were like,
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SPEAKER_01: what the heck is that?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was funny.
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SPEAKER_00: You just said something about waving words or something.
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SPEAKER_00: I was like, I don't know what you're talking about, lady.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's happening.
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SPEAKER_01: So these people that live down the street from us,
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SPEAKER_01: which is very rare because I live in a really small town,
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SPEAKER_01: in between big towns,
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SPEAKER_01: but where we live is really tiny and like farms.
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And there's this couple that my husband and I are Kumbara for
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at our church.
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SPEAKER_00: Kumbara.
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SPEAKER_01: Define.
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Like godparents,
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but it's a little weird to say that about like adult converts.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, you're their sponsor.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I mean, it's more than just sponsor.
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SPEAKER_01: It's more like godparent.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it just sounds less infantile to say we are.
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You have certified to the church that you believe that they are
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converting in good faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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So anyways they live down the street from us and they give me
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the husband gives me
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so much crap because he's like I always wave to you and you
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never wave back at me
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SPEAKER_01: and I was like first off I drive a really distinct car my car is bright
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it is really easy to spot I drive a type of car that not a ton
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of people have so
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you can see me coming from like a mile away I need to consider
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this more with the
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amount of people that I flip off on the daily but I need to
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like remember my car is
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SPEAKER_01: super distinct they drive a gray nondescript like
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Mini SUV I Don't Is It A Honda Is It A Toyota Is It A Key I
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Have No Clue And I'm
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Like You Have The Most Popular Color So I Never See Them Going
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So He Gives Me So
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Much Crap I Just Started Waving To Everyone On The Street And I
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Look Like A Crazy
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SPEAKER_01: Person Because I'm Just Like
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Passing everyone waving as I go by and it's never them and it
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became this huge joke
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with my daughter and I was texting her because this morning at
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the four-way stop
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like waving wildly and it was actually them.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the only way in which you look like a crazy person too.
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SPEAKER_00: It stands out.
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SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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SPEAKER_00: It is the only way in which I'm insane.
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SPEAKER_00: Um...
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I'm glad I now understand It's kind of a cute story I'm just
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oblivious to my
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surroundings so I started waving at everyone and this has been
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going on by the way
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SPEAKER_01: for like six months
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SPEAKER_00: I mean,
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what you should have told him was pointed out that you're from
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California and
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SPEAKER_00: people from California are notably rude.
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SPEAKER_00: Do not like acknowledging each other.
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SPEAKER_00: I think I've mentioned this before.
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SPEAKER_00: When I was in California, I was struck by me.
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SPEAKER_00: I would I like it walking down the street?
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SPEAKER_00: Instinctually,
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SPEAKER_00: if someone's coming the other way,
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SPEAKER_00: I kind of like,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: try to lock eyes and smile to them.
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SPEAKER_00: Because that's where I'm from.
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SPEAKER_00: The civilized climbs in the world, that's what you do.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to know the person.
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As you're walking along,
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you kind of lock eyes and give a little smile,
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a head nod.
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SPEAKER_00: I did this in California.
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SPEAKER_00: I got so many glares from people.
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SPEAKER_00: They were not down with it.
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They were not cool with somebody trying to be nice to them and
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brighten up the day a little bit.
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But you have to remember that a lot of people in California are
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not Californians
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SPEAKER_00: Sure,
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tell yourself that California is typically like all outsiders
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that go there Native
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Californians tend to be nicer But you are correct in that a lot
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of transplants are
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SPEAKER_00: not It's actually interesting to me When I went to Armenia,
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SPEAKER_00: it was actually I was So again,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not Midwestern,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Western Pennsylvanian,
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which is an odd combination of Midwestern and East Coast in a
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lot of ways.
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But one of the Midwestern traits that Western Pennsylvania
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shares is just being
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SPEAKER_00: generally,
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SPEAKER_00: like,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: chipper and friendly to people that you encounter.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, you know, East Coast does not have this at all.
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SPEAKER_00: The East Coasters are not chipper and friendly.
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SPEAKER_01: I love how you explain this to me as though I'm not,
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SPEAKER_01: like,
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SPEAKER_01: the most chipper and friendly person on the planet.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: But...
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SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
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SPEAKER_00: Putting that on the list.
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I was,
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but when I was traveling,
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so I was,
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this was especially in the Istanbul airport.
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I Had A Long Layover I Had Multiple So I Was Checking Into I
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Have A Thing That I
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Can Get Into Priority Pass Lounges So There Was A Big Line On
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The Way There Was A
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Big Line Of People Who Were Checking Into This Priority Pass
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Lounge Because This Is
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SPEAKER_00: Fairly
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A Lot Of People Have It Now It's Their Lounges Are Rather
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Overcrowded Now Because
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So Many People Have So Many Credit Cards Have Priority Pass As
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A Perk So A Big Line
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Of People To Get In I Finally Get To Front Of The Line I Walk
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Up It's Very Early In
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The Morning So Obviously Everyone's Tired But I Walk Up And I
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Say Hey Hey How Are
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You Here's My Ticket And The One's Like Oh Thank You Thank You
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For Being Friendly
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No it is a thing like especially when I'm in Germany it's like
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you just have to
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apologize for your existence like I'm really sorry that I'm
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here and coming to you
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for the service that you are trying to get my money to perform
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but yeah it's I
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always joke like I am I know you are mean to me but I am never
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I am actually I
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always smiling and generally pretty happy and bubbly it's just
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you are it's just my
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SPEAKER_01: friends that I save all the complaining for um
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But my sister-in-law,
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who's Belarusian,
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is always like,
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you smile way too much.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, you look like an idiot.
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SPEAKER_01: And I was like, whoa.
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SPEAKER_01: And she's like, no, you have to remember, like, we don't smile.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like,
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the only reason you smiled growing up in Soviet Union is if you
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were in on it or if
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SPEAKER_01: you were so dumb that you didn't realize what was going on.
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SPEAKER_00: God bless America.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, you just look so dumb.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't really care.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't actually care if people think I look dumb.
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SPEAKER_00: You'll recall before we went to Armenia,
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SPEAKER_00: I said I was going to be,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to try to be something I'm not.
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I was going to be the most unapologetically American that I
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could be because it's
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SPEAKER_00: not like you're going to trick people into thinking you're local.
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SPEAKER_00: So, at that point, just lean into it.
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Like,
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you know,
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I wasn't ostentatious about it,
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but I wasn't trying to hide it.
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SPEAKER_00: You know what, pal?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm American.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't speak your language.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry, fella.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't...
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you dress very, like, American.
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SPEAKER_01: You could just spot from across the road, like, that's an American.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're very tall.
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SPEAKER_01: But you don't look like... You don't look like you are...
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Like Explicitly Not Right Like You Could Pass For Russian Or
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Like Czech Or You
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Could Pass For Vaguely Like Post-Soviet Eastern European
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Whereas I Don't Know
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Whether To Take That As A Compliment Or An Insult To Be Frank
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Some Of Us Are Not
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Mean Some Of Us Are Actually Nice Are Any Of These People On
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This Podcast No
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SPEAKER_00: No, not on either side.
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SPEAKER_00: I did not.
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SPEAKER_01: When do I ever slam how you look?
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't invent this side of me that doesn't exist.
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SPEAKER_01: No, it's fine.
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SPEAKER_01: You just, you look like you could be vaguely.
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SPEAKER_01: I look very Irish and very German.
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I am genetically more British than statistically most people in
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the British Isles I
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am something like 85% British I have a general and I gather my
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father was similar a
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general kind of Semitic look like kind of Arab Semitic you
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don't really though but
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SPEAKER_01: it but that
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SPEAKER_01: Like, there are bits of it that I'm like, oh, he could be Russian.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: But it doesn't help I wear a beard that is,
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SPEAKER_00: right now is actually fairly well trimmed,
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SPEAKER_00: but often is not.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, my husband is similarly very British and also has a beard.
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SPEAKER_01: And the beard does help with that look a little bit.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, it does hide some of the American...
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know uh Britishness yeah the uh but yeah no no that's so
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getting it is I am one of
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the I think the best traits about the American ethos uh the
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American way of
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interacting with the world is our aggregate habit of being
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polite like because we
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are very much built on an idea of equality with everyone else
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around us um
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I don't even think it's a conscious thing it's just kind of
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baked into the cake we
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tend to be just very open and polite with people that we meet
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and very like you
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know very welcoming and I think that that freaks a lot of
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people Europeans and
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Californians out well it's because they both are living under
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communism or in
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Currently Soviet or Post-Soviet States Yeah I mean California
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There you go I was in
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Boston this last weekend I would say that people People were
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still pretty friendly
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But nobody is actually from Boston anymore either Like there's
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no thick My kids
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were so upset Because they were like wanting to hear You know
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really thick Like
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SPEAKER_01: Southie Boston accent It doesn't exist anymore really
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They were like two and we went up to Salem the first day and we
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were walking around
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SPEAKER_01: and we went to this cafe and had food like on the waterfront.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually had amazing clam chowder fries,
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SPEAKER_01: which a lot of people were grossed out by,
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SPEAKER_01: but they were phenomenal.
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And that was the only place that we heard anyone with any kind
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of like thick Boston accent.
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SPEAKER_00: No, that's like, you know, the...
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Dave said for a long time it's been the case and if you want to
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if you want to meet
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up with the actual like you know cultural New Yorkers and New
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Englanders you have
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SPEAKER_00: to go to North and South Carolina or Florida
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I suppose it doesn't hurt that we were we did spend most of the
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time either on a
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SPEAKER_01: Greek campus or in Greek Orthodox churches or dealing with Greeks.
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SPEAKER_01: So that could also like have skewed my sample size.
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SPEAKER_00: But I think in the outer rig suburbs of Boston,
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SPEAKER_00: you still have some of the original culture and the original like,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: the original accents and people.
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the working class people who couldn't who can't afford to live
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in Boston and also
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SPEAKER_00: can't afford to move but yeah because it's you know but we were I mean
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Massachusetts is a kleptocracy let's be let's be honest here so
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yeah and I feel
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like I was dealing with the Greek mafia contingency in Boston
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but not really thick
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SPEAKER_01: Boston accents just lots of thick Greek
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Accents There But Yeah I Know That's Like You Know That's The
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New Englanders Are
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SPEAKER_00: Like You Know I Always
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New England in general is all populated by people from out of
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state or New Yorkers.
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That's I always like to point to the fact that Vermont is
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represented in the Senate
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by a man with one of the thickest Brooklyn accents you'll ever
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encounter in Bernie
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SPEAKER_00: Sanders.
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So despite having lived in Vermont for like 70 years or
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something still is clinging
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SPEAKER_00: to that ridiculous accent.
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SPEAKER_01: My gram had a thick, thick, thick Boston accent.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, it was like a weird hybrid Long Island Boston accent.
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So like she would say some things really Long Island and some
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things really Boston.
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SPEAKER_01: But she spent most of her life in Los Angeles.
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So I used to have a really thick Boston accent as a young child
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because I was
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SPEAKER_01: always at my gram's house or we called it the big house.
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SPEAKER_01: It was like all of my great aunts like
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Crazy Irish People With Thick East Coast Accents So I Had One
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Growing Up And Then I
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SPEAKER_01: Thankfully Lost It And Went Valley Girl I Know Okay So Mean To Me
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I just have to say the one who makes fun of the other one is
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the valley girl up
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talk I'm not a big fan of you don't do it egregiously there are
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people who really
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really up talk can I get that in writing you just said I don't
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do it egregiously I
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SPEAKER_01: want that like I would like that noted and added to our record
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SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the West Coast,
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SPEAKER_00: I have found a new mission in life,
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SPEAKER_00: which is,
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you saw I posted about this,
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SPEAKER_00: that in Prim,
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SPEAKER_00: Nevada,
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SPEAKER_00: just across the border from California,
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SPEAKER_01: there is this old tourist trap
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SPEAKER_01: OK,
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SPEAKER_01: so we used to drive past this like we would drive to L.A.
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SPEAKER_01: all the time because I grew up in Colorado,
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SPEAKER_01: but my whole family is still in L.A.
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And we would we would drive through and you drive through Vegas
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on the way from
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SPEAKER_01: that's the way you drive down.
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SPEAKER_01: You drop into Riverside.
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SPEAKER_01: So we would pass this all the time.
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And I saw your tweet and I was like,
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yes,
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I've always thought that someone should buy it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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SPEAKER_00: so it's the Prim Valley Casino and Resorts,
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SPEAKER_00: which is apparently a very notable tourist trap thing in California,
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SPEAKER_00: like in Nevada,
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SPEAKER_00: I guess.
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SPEAKER_00: But like I said, the Welcome to California sign is right there.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's like right on the border.
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SPEAKER_00: You got Buffalo Bill Resort and Casino,
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SPEAKER_00: Whiskey Pete's Hotel and Casino,
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SPEAKER_00: the Prim Center,
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SPEAKER_00: the Prim Valley Resorts.
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SPEAKER_00: These are closing.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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As you drive by,
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they had a roller coaster that goes through one of the hotels.
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I don't know if it was Whiskey Pete's or if it was Buffalo
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Bills,
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whichever one.
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SPEAKER_01: It looked so fun.
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As you're driving through as a kid,
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you're like,
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that,
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I want to go there,
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I want to go there.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is like back in the days before...
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I want to say that that opened before the Circus Circus,
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like Adventure Dome was there.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Adventure Dome was fun for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: And you have the New York, New York roller coaster.
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SPEAKER_01: I've been to Vegas a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: We used to go as kids a lot just because, again, we were open.
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was driving through there um but we I've never stepped foot in
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these there's never
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cars in the parking lot like I don't know how it's existed as
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long as it has but
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I've been obsessed with these places my whole life and never
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went and now I'm never
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going to be able to go that so it is notable to me I I am very
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well acquainted with
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the general layout because it appears in Fallout New Vegas well
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the video game
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SPEAKER_00: Fallout video game series um
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SPEAKER_00: And that was,
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SPEAKER_00: I said,
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that Microsoft needs to buy these because they're closing and
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turn them into a
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SPEAKER_00: Fallout,
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SPEAKER_00: like basically Universal Studios Fallout.
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SPEAKER_00: But at this start,
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SPEAKER_00: this was just kind of a one-off joke because it wasn't exactly a joke,
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SPEAKER_00: but it was just,
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SPEAKER_00: hey,
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SPEAKER_00: we should do this.
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But now,
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the more I think about it,
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the more this makes sense and we need to make this happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I...
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SPEAKER_00: Similar to Gary,
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SPEAKER_00: Indiana boosting,
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this is going to become a passion project of mine because I but
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in this case,
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SPEAKER_00: this actually is something that I think would do very,
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SPEAKER_00: very well because you have Las Vegas right there.
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You have easy access to an airport just like,
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you know,
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what,
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half an hour away.
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SPEAKER_00: Um,
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SPEAKER_00: You have all this land around it.
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SPEAKER_00: They could literally build Universal Studios Microsoft games right there.
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You have a massive pool of hospitality workers and technical
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staff who are good at
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SPEAKER_00: putting on big shows.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know that I would say a massive pool of hospitality workers.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a little further out.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to say it's like an hour out of Vegas.
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SPEAKER_00: An hour drive in the West Coast is nothing.
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But here's the thing if you can buy these resorts you can build
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like a campus for
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workers it's not that big a deal and land is cheap out there
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there's like but
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nothing out there it's like moonscape totally desolate
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absolutely which is part of
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why I've always been obsessed with this place because it was
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like especially like
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when you're on a long road trip you get there and you're like
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yes I'm there because
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SPEAKER_01: you've been either
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know doing the long slog through the desert or you're doing the
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long slog through
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LA traffic up riverside through the mountains either way you're
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like yes I'm
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finally there and you're like oh wait it's this weird dumpy
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layer I've always
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thought that it should be taken over and developed so when I
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saw your idea for it I
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SPEAKER_01: don't
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play Fallout spoiler alert I don't actually know anything about
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Fallout I did I
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didn't text this to you but when I was at a comic shop in
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Boston my kids are into
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SPEAKER_01: anime um
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There Was A Fallout Cookbook And I Was Going To Text You A
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Picture Of It I Didn't
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Text It To You I'm Going To Text It To You Right Now While I'm
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Thinking Of It I'm
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Going To Text It To You Right Now Because I Totally Forgot So
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There Aren't That
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Many Games That Have Been Made In Fallout Universe But There
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Are I Think Total Of
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SPEAKER_00: Five Mainline Ones At This Point Well
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SPEAKER_01: I just say all of that to say, like, I don't care how it's developed.
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I just think something should take it over because it is a
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cool,
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like,
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interesting place.
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SPEAKER_00: So they have for a few years now near Prim,
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SPEAKER_00: near Prim,
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SPEAKER_00: there's a town called Good Springs,
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SPEAKER_00: Nevada,
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SPEAKER_00: which is the...
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SPEAKER_01: I have to stop us right here.
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SPEAKER_01: Can we pronounce it the way it's intended, which is Nevada?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_01: Nevada.
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SPEAKER_01: It's Nevada.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
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SPEAKER_01: It's Nevada.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not Inagata-Devada, baby.
20:06
SPEAKER_00: It's Inagata-Devada.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's great, but the state is called Nevada.
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SPEAKER_00: I wish I could remember.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: There's a fun line from Frazier about the...
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SPEAKER_00: the tunneling electron microscope and using it,
20:23
SPEAKER_00: even while using it,
20:24
SPEAKER_00: I could not locate my interest in how it's pronounced.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Great.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: It is pronounced Nevada.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Anyway,
20:34
SPEAKER_00: there's a place called Good Springs,
20:35
SPEAKER_00: Nevada,
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SPEAKER_00: which is the starting point of Fallout New Vegas.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: And every year they have a big, like a big get together of Fallout fans.
20:48
I guess this is like Good Springs was just kind of this random
20:52
one horse town in rural Nevada.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: And it's like huge for them.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: So like people come from all over.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: And I was driving the what's it last week?
21:03
SPEAKER_00: And we were going through rural West Virginia and ended up in,
21:06
apparently they started a East Coast one in this place called
21:11
Flatwoods in West
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SPEAKER_00: Virginia,
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SPEAKER_00: which is the,
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SPEAKER_00: I think the starting place for the game Fallout 76.
21:18
I never actually got that into Fallout 76 it's their online
21:22
game and I don't do
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online games really but so they had like this big there were a
21:30
lot of people there
21:31
a lot of people showed up for this thing so there is a culture
21:35
for this there are a
21:37
very dedicated fan base who I think would be really into this
21:39
and I think we need
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SPEAKER_01: to save Prim well when they need a hotel consultant
21:46
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: You should call it Microsoft.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: I looked it up.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Microsoft is sitting on like $80 billion in cash right now.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: They could do this with a rounding error, and it would do really well.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm just excited because I want something done with these places because,
22:05
SPEAKER_01: like I said,
22:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm oddly obsessed with them,
22:07
and I want someone who has a lot of money to buy them to make
22:12
it actually...
22:14
There are places like that and we kind of crap They're a money
22:18
pit They're a money
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pit though But they didn't used to be We crap on the roadside
22:25
attraction kind of
22:26
things these days because we are irony drenched Maybe we
22:32
generally I live for that
22:34
stuff I love Moki stuff I'm not talking about you and me I'm
22:37
talking about
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SPEAKER_01: culturally Give me a five-legged cow statue and I'm there
22:43
Like,
22:43
you know,
22:44
it's things like South of the Border and Waldrug I love them!
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Waldrug is one of my favorite places on Earth.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: I have numerous coonskin hats from Waldrug,
22:54
SPEAKER_01: which is a little bit problematic these days,
22:56
SPEAKER_00: but...
22:58
SPEAKER_00: People talk about how,
23:00
SPEAKER_00: like,
23:00
SPEAKER_00: you will see people,
23:01
SPEAKER_00: especially on the left,
23:02
SPEAKER_00: and we're talking about America doesn't have any culture.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: America does have culture.
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SPEAKER_01: That is our culture!
23:06
SPEAKER_01: You just don't like it.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't like the culture.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: I say that a lot.
23:11
I say that all the time when they're like,
23:13
oh,
23:13
you have to go to Europe for culture.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: Look, I love European culture.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: I love going to Europe to experience European culture,
23:20
something that you experience less and less of now that you're
23:24
in Western Europe.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: But I actually do really love European culture.
23:30
SPEAKER_01: I also really like American culture.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: I love going to a greasy diner.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: I love going to walk.
23:36
SPEAKER_01: My dad has a giant mounted jackalope.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: No,
23:47
that's like America's culture by and large had to do with cars
23:53
because having a
23:55
place that you could take your family to in a car because the
23:59
hallmarks of America
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SPEAKER_00: are very family oriented and
24:03
And it's a huge country So a lot of our culture traditionally
24:11
was these places that
24:12
were either endpoints or notable stopover points you would go
24:20
slightly out of your
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SPEAKER_00: way to visit on your way to your endpoint in your car
24:25
So that's I think these things do need to be preserved I think
24:28
there's all sorts of
24:29
things like that that need to be preserved and cherished and
24:32
people should actually
24:34
understand why they're important and why they were important
24:37
and why they should
24:37
SPEAKER_00: continue to be important
24:41
SPEAKER_00: Again,
24:41
SPEAKER_00: I think with Prim specifically,
24:45
you're able to tie it into an actual thing of interest to
24:49
people Especially,
24:51
there's a Fallout television show on Amazon that is massively
24:54
big for a streaming
24:56
SPEAKER_00: show It has done very,
24:57
very well I think people didn't like the second season as much
25:00
I like the second
25:00
season But we know there's a market of people who are
25:04
interested in that world
25:07
SPEAKER_01: I know nothing about Fallout.
25:08
I just want those properties to not be,
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you know,
25:12
taken over by time and sand.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: And druggies.
25:18
I am,
25:19
like,
25:19
the biggest champion of a random bit of Americana in Casa
25:26
Bonita.
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SPEAKER_01: My favorite American cultural icon,
25:33
SPEAKER_01: which was bought and preserved for generations to come,
25:38
SPEAKER_01: thanks to Matt Stone and Drake Parker.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: The last good thing they did before South Park dropped off.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Look, South Park is always South...
25:51
People Got Really Excited Because South Park Will Call Out Some
25:54
Dems They Took That
25:57
As Being Republican They're Not At All They're Super Liberal
26:02
Like They Hate A Lot
26:05
Of Fun Of Donald Trump Yeah They're A Lot Like Colorado Left
26:09
Leaning Usually More
26:12
SPEAKER_01: Independent
26:14
SPEAKER_01: And then the liberal side comes out.
26:17
SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
26:18
I've said before that I think the Trump era has kind of put in
26:21
the line a lot of
26:21
libertarianism that libertarians were only ever were never
26:29
really actually
26:30
SPEAKER_00: particularly aligned with the conservatives.
26:31
SPEAKER_00: There were just specific key line items that they were important to them.
26:37
And that they have now decided those key items aren't as
26:40
important because they are
26:43
fundamentally much more on the liberal side than on the
26:45
conservative side.
26:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:47
SPEAKER_01: No notes.
26:47
Because they're an anti-state movement,
26:51
which is by definition radical left.
26:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:59
SPEAKER_00: But...
27:00
Yes we need we need someone like them or like I said Microsoft
27:03
but I don't I don't
27:04
have the resources to buy prim they can't they can't buy that
27:08
because I think
27:09
that's out of even their budget and because they had to finance
27:14
you know 40 million
27:15
dollars over what they thought however Microsoft could could
27:19
easily afford it
27:20
SPEAKER_01: Microsoft could do it in like like you said a rounding error yeah um
27:27
That's I and I think this this this does need to happen my not
27:32
substantial but not
27:33
insubstantial Twitter presence part of it will likely going
27:36
forward be turned
27:38
because these buildings I have to assume because they're in the
27:41
desert if they're
27:43
just abandoned if they just leave them they're going to be
27:46
unusable within probably
27:47
SPEAKER_00: two or three years the desert will reclaim them
27:51
No,
27:51
it's actually the opposite because you don't have humidity
27:54
decaying things.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: You get the desert fungus.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: The sand gets in everything.
28:00
SPEAKER_00: The sand and the dirt.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
28:02
but as long as you don't have open windows and the doors are
28:05
closed and things,
28:06
SPEAKER_01: the sand and dirt isn't that big a deal to get rid of.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, this needs to happen.
28:13
SPEAKER_00: We need to save these things.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Honestly,
28:15
I would be trying to go out there to see them now because they
28:20
closed depressingly
28:22
SPEAKER_00: on America's birthday on July 4th.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
28:27
SPEAKER_00: I can't make that kind of short-term trip.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: I got stuff going on, man.
28:33
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: Although we should go.
28:35
SPEAKER_01: I could.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: I could be there tomorrow.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, you can drive.
28:41
I gotta fly Not my car Not my car Although yeah Maybe I'll
28:45
think about that one But
28:48
I would I would also fly Just to be perfectly honest Roots are
28:50
probably cheap right
28:51
now But Well I don't want to stay there I'd stay in Vegas No I
28:55
wouldn't go there I
28:57
SPEAKER_01: know you don't want to stay in Vegas No I'd stay in Vegas for that
29:03
I want to save and preserve these places I also want them to be
29:06
like upgraded to hypocrisy
29:24
Thy Name Is Odell I Am Sorry I Am Sorry That They Don'T Put Up
29:30
The Five Star French
29:32
Riviera Experience That You And Your First Class Flying Okay I
29:41
Was In First Class
29:43
On Our Flight Home I Was Not In First Class On The Way Out
29:46
There I Was In First
29:47
Class On The Way Home And Did They Make You Slum It In Business
29:51
On The Way There I
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Am So Sorry
29:53
SPEAKER_01: No,
29:54
SPEAKER_01: I was in Economy Plus Oh,
29:56
SPEAKER_00: oh,
29:56
SPEAKER_00: oh,
29:56
well I get free upgrades to Economy Plus I don't even have to
30:01
pay for my seat
30:03
SPEAKER_01: Having status is great Well,
30:05
anyways I would stay in prim I would stay at one of the finest
30:10
establishments
30:11
I was saying that because I get because of status I'm like
30:16
guaranteed upgrades and
30:18
there weren't that many people on our flight home to Denver and
30:23
I was guaranteed a
30:25
companion seat and my son was insistent that my daughter get it
30:30
because he got the
30:31
window on the flight out in economy plus and he was like no no
30:36
it's her turn she
30:36
SPEAKER_01: should get the first class seat and I was like she doesn't want it
30:39
because she doesn't like sitting by herself and they weren't
30:42
like seats together.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, well, I don't want it.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't want it.
30:47
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, it's a free upgrade.
30:49
SPEAKER_01: Like someone should take it.
30:51
SPEAKER_01: I'm taking mine.
30:52
SPEAKER_01: And he was like, oh, dad could have it.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: My daughter's like, I don't want to sit with you back here.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: I'd rather sit with dad.
30:59
And he's going through all these hoops and he's like,
31:03
well,
31:03
I'm an everyman.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't need first class.
31:07
SPEAKER_00: Good man.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: We get off the plane and he's like, Mom, that dinner was pretty good.
31:10
SPEAKER_01: I think I liked that.
31:11
SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, everyman.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: Disappointing.
31:16
SPEAKER_00: So quickly do they turn on their everyman roots.
31:22
SPEAKER_01: He felt guilty.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I shouldn't get it.
31:24
SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't get it.
31:25
SPEAKER_01: I was like, dude, I'm not paying for this.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: It's free.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: Take the upgrade and enjoy it.
31:29
SPEAKER_01: Let yourself enjoy nice things if they're free.
31:33
SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
31:34
SPEAKER_00: I don't have pretensions to be an everyman.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: I'm too weird for that.
31:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, he was also acting like I spent money on it.
31:41
SPEAKER_01: Like if I had spent, number one, I don't spend on upgrades for my kids.
31:45
SPEAKER_01: They have been able to fly business class internationally,
31:49
but that's a fluke because I had bought tickets to a much more
31:53
expensive place and
31:54
SPEAKER_01: then we had to change our tickets to a much cheaper place.
31:57
So they got business home internationally,
31:59
but that was because of October 7th.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
32:06
I flew Economy Plus once to England it was it was fine I don't
32:13
know I don't know it
32:14
SPEAKER_00: was worth the extra cost to be honest but I did have slightly more room
32:18
So there's there's economy economy plus I have to have at least
32:25
I have to fly
32:26
SPEAKER_01: economy plus in the U.S.
32:28
because of the leg room thing I have to be able to put my legs
32:31
out and I'm so tall
32:33
I can't put my legs underneath the seat in basic economy but
32:38
for international I
32:39
SPEAKER_01: have to fly premium plus which is like baby for
32:44
SPEAKER_01: business class.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: And again, that's for blood disorder things.
32:49
SPEAKER_01: So I don't have a blood clot.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: Minor inconvenience.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: Cognitive dissonance.
32:58
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to die of a blood clot.
33:01
SPEAKER_01: It's a weird version of cognitive dissonance.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: I just get up and walk up and down the aisle a few times.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: I do that.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: I do that.
33:08
SPEAKER_01: And I also wear...
33:11
I'm I'm really hip and cool and attractive and wear compression
33:17
socks when I fly
33:19
and like that makes sense yeah no I have to go through all that
33:24
that's what killed
33:26
um what's her face Carrie Fisher yeah Princess Leia that's what
33:29
killed her so I'm
33:31
trying to not be Princess Leia on a flight and have to upgrade
33:37
my seat for that and
33:39
SPEAKER_01: do all the things the
33:41
Economy Plus was fine Economy Plus is really it's like three
33:48
inch difference from
33:49
basic economy whereas like premium economy there's a little
33:53
foot rest and it's like
33:54
an eight inch difference so you can extend your legs longer if
33:59
I'm on an over five
34:00
hour flight that matters for me just because of blood disorder
34:05
Did you see I've
34:06
SPEAKER_00: retweeted this also or I quote tweeted this that Brad Bird
34:11
is making a movie called,
34:14
or I think it's a series for Netflix,
34:16
called Ray Gunn.
34:17
SPEAKER_00: Do you know who Brad Bird is?
34:19
SPEAKER_00: You don't.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: Have you seen Iron Giant?
34:23
SPEAKER_01: I have not seen it, but I have at least heard of it.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: That's a good movie.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: Have you seen The Incredibles?
34:29
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
34:30
SPEAKER_00: Brad Bird made The Incredibles.
34:31
SPEAKER_00: Brad Bird is one of the most creative filmmakers of
34:37
Children's Stat Has Been For A Very Long Time He Made
34:41
Ratatouille As Well For Pixar
34:46
SPEAKER_00: So He Is Now Not Working With Pixar
34:50
SPEAKER_00: Yes, he is now not working with Pixar.
34:52
He is making this show for Netflix called Ray Gunn that is with
34:59
Skydance Animation,
35:01
SPEAKER_00: which is run by Peter Lasseter,
35:02
SPEAKER_00: who used to run Pixar before he got fired because he's huggy.
35:09
He got Me Too'd because he's kind of a weird dude and he liked
35:11
to hug people.
35:14
SPEAKER_00: There were all kinds of accusations.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: Stuff like that really annoys me when the accusations are like,
35:21
SPEAKER_01: oh,
35:21
he was a little too friendly or like they were misinterpreted
35:25
things because I'm
35:25
SPEAKER_01: like,
35:26
SPEAKER_01: OK,
35:26
there are very serious real issues and stuff like that makes a
35:29
mockery out of them.
35:30
There was a woman who accused him of there in a meeting and he
35:33
like she said he put
35:35
SPEAKER_00: his hand on her leg and was rubbing her leg.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's a little weird.
35:40
SPEAKER_01: That would weird me out.
35:42
SPEAKER_00: At the same time, she was the only one who said this.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: No one corroborated it.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: And what most people said was, he's a really huggy guy.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: He's very emotional.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: He cries a lot and he hugs people.
35:55
SPEAKER_01: I'm someone who,
35:56
SPEAKER_01: like,
35:56
I meet you and four seconds later I'm hugging you and I'm
35:59
probably weird and,
36:00
SPEAKER_01: like,
36:01
SPEAKER_01: I think I'm an over-touchy person.
36:03
SPEAKER_01: That's just the Irish.
36:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:08
John Lasseter Thanks John Brad Bird is working with John
36:13
Lasseter who is now
36:15
heading Skydance Animation to make this series called Ray Gun
36:19
which is a retro
36:21
futuristic noir cartoon about it's set in the modern world from
36:28
the perspective of
36:29
SPEAKER_00: 1939 so it's very art deco very
36:34
and it is a detective noir about a detective who gets embroiled
36:40
in a mystery involving aliens.
36:45
SPEAKER_00: It sounds like pure comic book craziness.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm really excited for this.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: I was vaguely aware of it before.
36:54
They just released the art for it and I am very much looking
36:59
forward to this.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: What I tweeted about it was I hope that it is good.
37:04
All the Children See It And That They Become And Fall In Love
37:09
With Art Deco Design
37:11
And That Their Generation Goes Forward And Brings What Was The
37:17
True American Design
37:19
Movement Of Art Deco Like The Uniquely Truly Just American And
37:27
They Bring That To
37:27
SPEAKER_00: The Future
37:28
We Need To Go To Vegas As A Pod Trip But Also Kansas City
37:32
Because Oh And Tulsa And
37:34
Tulsa No Kansas City And Tulsa You're A Great Trip Player I
37:39
Know I Really Am I
37:41
Brought You To Yerevan Like You Should Know By Now I Have Some
37:46
Weird Picks I've
37:47
SPEAKER_00: Always Wanted To See Tulsa Tulsa
37:51
Tulsa and Kansas City have great,
37:54
amazing,
37:55
well-preserved art deco architecture.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: They are art deco cities.
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SPEAKER_01: This is why I said that.
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SPEAKER_01: There was a reason to say that.
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SPEAKER_01: Look, I love brutalism and I love art deco.
38:07
SPEAKER_00: Have you been to the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge?
38:14
SPEAKER_00: It's just this random, pure, just dripping in art deco
38:20
SPEAKER_00: Skyscraper sitting in the middle of a park.
38:25
On the front there's the grand statues with Lady Liberty
38:29
holding up a sphere.
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SPEAKER_00: It's absolutely wonderful.
38:35
SPEAKER_00: I loved it.
38:36
Sure,
38:36
but in Kansas City there's so many buildings that are
38:40
beautifully well restored.
38:44
Kansas City has some great,
38:45
great art deco,
38:46
but Tulsa has even better examples.
38:49
SPEAKER_00: You and me will go to Kansas City.
38:50
SPEAKER_00: We'll get some barbecue.
38:51
SPEAKER_00: It'll be great.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: I happen to know.
38:54
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
38:54
SPEAKER_01: I lived in Kansas City,
38:55
so I'm biased towards Kansas City because I live there and my
38:59
family's from there.
39:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: There's also the Jazz Museum,
39:05
SPEAKER_01: the Negro Baseball Museum,
39:07
SPEAKER_01: the World War I Museum,
39:08
SPEAKER_01: which is a very,
39:10
SPEAKER_01: very slept on museum.
39:11
SPEAKER_01: It is one of the best museums in all of America.
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SPEAKER_01: I love going to the World War I Museum.
39:16
SPEAKER_01: They have amazing exhibits all the time.
39:19
SPEAKER_01: So, so great.
39:20
They have the best view of Kansas City and down into like Union
39:25
Station and
39:27
SPEAKER_01: from their tower.
39:28
But nobody ever goes to the World War I museum and talks about
39:32
how amazing it is.
39:32
SPEAKER_01: It's the Forgotten War in America.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: It's such a great museum.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: You have to go there.
39:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, World War I is the Forgotten War.
39:39
SPEAKER_00: We were instrumental in the end of World War I,
39:42
SPEAKER_00: but we weren't that instrumental in the fighting of World War I.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: And it just kind of fell by the wayside for the most part in our history.
39:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, we're aware of it.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: They made... Everyone shook down.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: They made...
39:55
SPEAKER_01: It is a very worthwhile trip, especially for kids.
40:00
All children should go to Tulsa or Kansas City,
40:04
whichever one that was in.
40:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's Kansas City is the World War.
40:08
SPEAKER_01: Tulsa just has some pretty art deco building designs.
40:13
SPEAKER_01: Very flat.
40:14
SPEAKER_00: Both very flat.
40:15
SPEAKER_00: Very flat places.
40:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: I haven't been to either, but I'm aware of their reputation.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:23
used to live in one the uh so yeah anyway ray gun it's gonna be
40:30
on netflix later
40:31
this year I'm actually looking forward to this um I think it
40:36
could be good I I I'm
40:37
a sucker for retrofuturism do you remember um it was when we
40:41
were in college I
40:42
think they came out with sky captain the world of tomorrow uh
40:46
which was this um
40:48
SPEAKER_00: It was the first all CGI background movie.
40:53
SPEAKER_00: And it was really interesting conceptually,
40:56
SPEAKER_00: but the technology for the CGI background wasn't there.
41:00
SPEAKER_00: They didn't have that.
41:01
SPEAKER_00: I did not.
41:11
SPEAKER_01: In college, I think the... Yeah, you were partying.
41:14
You were actually,
41:16
like,
41:17
doing more things and,
41:19
like,
41:19
keeping up with movies that are...
41:22
SPEAKER_00: I went to movies constantly back then.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: I loved movies.
41:25
SPEAKER_00: I still love movies.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: Movies are great.
41:28
SPEAKER_01: I was, you know, busy.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: You had friends.
41:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've lived with a bunch of guys, so we would just go to the bars.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
41:40
SPEAKER_01: I did go to Lord of the Rings in the theaters in college.
41:45
My wife has never seen Lord of the Rings movies because she
41:49
says they're violative
41:50
SPEAKER_00: of her imagination,
41:51
SPEAKER_00: that she read the books and she doesn't want to.
41:53
She doesn't like to have another artistic vision attempt to
41:58
supplant her own that
42:00
SPEAKER_00: she developed while reading.
42:01
SPEAKER_01: I actually saw the second under the worst circumstances on earth.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: On 9-11.
42:08
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
42:08
SPEAKER_01: I was out at the bars and I was, you know, annihilated.
42:14
It was like,
42:15
I think it was on one of the nights that this bar did 25 cent
42:18
drink night.
42:21
SPEAKER_01: And it was like towards the end of the night.
42:23
SPEAKER_01: And my friend looks at me and he's like, oh, I have tickets.
42:27
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, what?
42:28
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, yeah, you want to go?
42:30
SPEAKER_01: And we went at like, it was a 2 a.m. show or something.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: So it was like right as the bars were closing,
42:35
SPEAKER_01: you know,
42:36
SPEAKER_01: when they were doing a morale,
42:37
like when they were first released and they did 24 hours and he
42:40
had like tickets to
42:41
SPEAKER_01: the 2 a.m.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: one.
42:43
SPEAKER_01: So we're the last two schmucks in line, just wasted, annihilated.
42:49
SPEAKER_01: And we had to sit front row center while very, very drunk.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: And they open up where it's the Eagles flying and
42:56
SPEAKER_01: And it's like spinning and I was like, oh, just tell me when it's over.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: It was the worst.
43:03
SPEAKER_00: Well, I thought you were going to say you watch it on a TV in a bar.
43:07
So that actually is better overall than what I thought you were
43:11
going with the story.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: No, but like.
43:14
No but it was not a good situation I went back and saw it again
43:18
and I was like okay
43:19
it's so much better I like to watch movies I'm not a front I'm
43:23
very very farsighted
43:24
I can't see anything up close and I have some weird like
43:29
peripheral issues so front
43:31
row center was like really I want to vomit if I'm sitting there
43:36
anyways let alone
43:38
SPEAKER_01: being like spinning drunk so I'm a back row
43:43
SPEAKER_00: Best place to watch a movie is center of the theater about halfway up.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: I like the back row or the second to last row.
43:52
SPEAKER_01: Center.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: I just see better from far away.
43:56
SPEAKER_01: That's fair.
43:58
SPEAKER_00: Movie theaters are great.
43:59
SPEAKER_00: I love movie theaters.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: People should go to more movie theaters in general.
44:02
SPEAKER_01: This is just a side thing.
44:04
As an aside,
44:05
the last movie I think I saw in the theater was like Deadpool
44:09
or something.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: I haven't been to a movie theater for...
44:12
Probably 8-10 years I hate going It's crowded It's not as bad
44:20
as my daughter but I
44:21
SPEAKER_01: have the audio phonia or whatever it is where when you hear people No,
44:28
misphonia I can't deal with people's chewing noises and people
44:34
like eating popcorn
44:35
with their mouth open and just smacking their lips and making
44:38
loud chewing noises
44:39
SPEAKER_00: This is the first I've heard you say anything about this
44:42
Maybe I Was Being Polite I Know Not To Be A Jerk About It But
44:49
Like I Am Really
44:50
Annoyed By People's Eating Sounds It Creeps Me Out To Hear
44:55
People Chomping
45:00
SPEAKER_00: Classic American thing.
45:03
SPEAKER_00: The world over,
45:05
all movies theaters are designed like Americans make them
45:09
because we have achieved
45:10
SPEAKER_00: cultural victory on the global stage.
45:13
SPEAKER_01: Also, I was wrong.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: The last time I went to a movie theater was during COVID.
45:17
And I loved it because that was the time where you could rent
45:20
out the whole theater
45:21
SPEAKER_01: for really,
45:21
SPEAKER_01: really cheap.
45:22
SPEAKER_01: It was like 50 bucks and you got the whole theater.
45:24
SPEAKER_01: And we did that a couple of times because I was like, this is so great.
45:29
SPEAKER_01: I don't have to hear weird popcorn chomping.
45:32
And people are always on their phones or they're like really
45:35
loud and whisper.
45:36
SPEAKER_01: I hate going to the movies because people are just a-holes.
45:40
SPEAKER_01: It sounds like it must be a Colorado problem.
45:42
SPEAKER_00: I haven't really encountered this.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: I've only encountered,
45:45
SPEAKER_01: like,
45:46
SPEAKER_01: horrible problems with movies and people just talking and being annoying.
45:52
SPEAKER_00: Going to movies in small towns, wonderful experience.
45:55
SPEAKER_00: You don't have this.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: You should try it sometime.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: Try not living in lib land where people have lost all sense of decorum.
46:03
I was going to make a really dark joke,
46:06
and I'm going to put a pin in that.
46:08
SPEAKER_01: Anyways...
46:10
Love Movies People Should Go To More Movies Ray Gun Super
46:13
Excited For Ray Gun
46:14
People Should Make More Movie Theme Parks Out Of Hotels In
46:21
Nevada Seriously So In
46:24
Fallout New Vegas So When The Fallout Games Are Set In A
46:30
Alternate Reality Of
46:35
SPEAKER_00: Reality I Believe The Diverging Point Is In The 1940s
46:39
that they didn't they did they never miniaturized the
46:42
transistor so but but instead
46:45
they just use nuclear power for everything so like you don't
46:48
nuclear power thing so
46:50
but things that existed before like 1952 or whatever exist
46:56
within game so I'm
46:57
assuming this that they must have existed then or so in Fallout
47:04
New Vegas they
47:06
SPEAKER_00: actually like went blanketed that whole area with people
47:09
SPEAKER_00: and took,
47:09
SPEAKER_00: like,
47:09
SPEAKER_00: extremely detailed charts of,
47:12
SPEAKER_00: like,
47:13
SPEAKER_00: you know,
47:13
they went through the places to understand what they looked
47:16
like entirely and
47:17
SPEAKER_00: recreated them all within the game.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: So people who have played Fallout New Vegas,
47:22
SPEAKER_00: which has a very healthy player base and has for decades now,
47:27
SPEAKER_00: are very familiar with all of these structures.
47:31
I'm looking up to see how expensive it is to stay in these
47:34
places right now.
47:36
SPEAKER_01: I know that they're closing, but, like,
47:39
SPEAKER_00: If enough people flood in,
47:41
SPEAKER_00: maybe they'll stay open,
47:43
SPEAKER_00: or maybe they'll convince Microsoft this is a going idea.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: It's not actually pulling up.
47:50
SPEAKER_01: It's pulling up the Prim Valley Hotel and Casino, but not theirs.
47:56
SPEAKER_01: And then it's pulling up a bunch of Vegas stuff for me.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: I have a lot of friends in Vegas.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: It's only like...
48:03
SPEAKER_01: It's also really close to Phoenix to drive to.
48:08
SPEAKER_01: My parents have driven to Vegas.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: There's some Chinese food place that they love that's off the strip.
48:14
And they have driven and stayed for the night just to have
48:17
dinner at this Chinese food place.
48:19
SPEAKER_01: I support this.
48:21
SPEAKER_01: They drive like five.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: No, it's less than five hours.
48:24
SPEAKER_01: They just drive up and they like go to dinner and then they...
48:28
It's so weird Really conveniently Now I'm sure They stay at the
48:33
Trump though My
48:34
parents always stay at the Trump and it has nothing to do with
48:37
the president It's
48:38
because smoking isn't allowed in the hotel Because Trump
48:43
doesn't smoke He doesn't
48:45
smoke and it's the only place that you can go to that doesn't
48:50
just reek of smoke in
48:51
all of the casinos so they always stay at the Trump just
48:54
because My promised land
48:56
SPEAKER_00: everywhere but the Trump
49:00
You would hate the Trump I'm not a gambling person My wife
49:05
stayed at the Trump when
49:05
she was out there years ago she said it was lovely Yeah I
49:10
always stay I like to go
49:11
SPEAKER_01: on the street I don't gamble but I will I'll do like the quarter slots
49:19
I like to see how long I can make my money last,
49:22
which is its own challenge in Vegas.
49:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, here's 50 bucks.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: If I have this last all night, that's great.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: I had a night out.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: That's what I would spend on a night out.
49:35
SPEAKER_01: That's about all the gambling I can do.
49:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm not a gambler.
49:39
SPEAKER_00: I would not do the slots as they are now.
49:43
The 1R Bandit,
49:44
if I happen to come across an actual 1R Bandit still around,
49:47
I Would 100% Use Those But I Know Too Much About How Slot
49:51
Machines Operate Now
49:52
They're All Networked Together And Like The Payout Pool Is Now
49:56
Spread Out Across
49:57
SPEAKER_00: Like You Know A Fleet Of Them Why I Say Like You Have To Think
50:03
SPEAKER_01: have to think of it as a cost of admission,
50:06
SPEAKER_01: not a way that you're going to get ahead on the house.
50:09
If it's your night out and you're having fun with friends and
50:12
you're getting free
50:13
SPEAKER_01: drinks,
50:13
SPEAKER_01: if you're drinking your $50 worth and you make it last all night,
50:17
SPEAKER_01: it's fun and you get a little up.
50:21
SPEAKER_01: I can do that, but I'm not a gambler.
50:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm really, really
50:28
SPEAKER_01: It's not even like a moral thing for me.
50:30
SPEAKER_01: I just look at it and I'm like, that's a burrito.
50:32
SPEAKER_01: That's a pair of shoes.
50:33
SPEAKER_01: That's a new sweater.
50:34
SPEAKER_01: Like I can't gamble.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: Well,
50:37
SPEAKER_00: that's and,
50:37
SPEAKER_00: you know,
50:38
the Las Vegas area is they've been facing economic headwinds
50:42
because at one time
50:44
SPEAKER_00: they were the mecca of gambling.
50:47
SPEAKER_00: They don't give you the free stuff anymore.
50:48
Like they tried to deal with their with the loss of revenues by
50:54
they don't they
50:55
SPEAKER_00: don't call everything like they don't call people things anymore.
51:00
SPEAKER_01: Well, they do if you're rich enough and you spend enough money.
51:02
SPEAKER_01: But that's
51:03
Like High High Roller You Don't Like The Buffets Aren't Like
51:07
You Know You Get You
51:07
Get A Buffet For A Song They Actually Charge A Reasonable Rate
51:11
For The Buffets Well
51:13
If They're Actually I Will Say In Vegas Prices The Buffets Are
51:19
Still Reasonable The
51:20
Problem Is All Of Vegas Is Very Expensive Like When I Go To
51:24
Vegas We Go To Really
51:26
Nice I Mean I Say That But Then I'm Like I Always Go To The
51:29
Palm When I'm In Vegas
51:32
No,
51:33
but we go to really expensive,
51:35
going to Vegas is like getting really expensive meals.
51:40
SPEAKER_01: You save up and like go to really nice restaurants and spend,
51:44
SPEAKER_01: I think I,
51:45
SPEAKER_01: this is a corporate card thing,
51:47
but I think there was one dinner that I spent like over a grand
51:51
in wine alone.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: I have been to the Palm once in my life.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: I was not paying.
51:59
SPEAKER_00: Our mutual friend Phillip was paying.
52:01
SPEAKER_01: Don't put him on blast.
52:03
SPEAKER_01: He listens.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: He was there.
52:06
SPEAKER_00: He knows this happened.
52:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, I know he was there.
52:08
SPEAKER_01: He paid.
52:09
SPEAKER_01: No one was thinking you paid the bill.
52:14
SPEAKER_00: When I go to a place like this,
52:17
SPEAKER_00: generally my default,
52:18
SPEAKER_00: where I know it's going to be super expensive.
52:21
SPEAKER_00: I'm not even sure they had the prices listed on the menu at the poll.
52:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they do.
52:26
SPEAKER_01: They do, but usually you go on the Palm on your business card.
52:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
52:30
SPEAKER_00: So my default is I will just order what the other person orders.
52:36
SPEAKER_00: The person who's paying, I will order what they order.
52:39
Because it's like,
52:40
okay,
52:40
well,
52:41
this is what he considers to be a good value at this place.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: So I did that.
52:47
SPEAKER_01: Don't go with me.
52:48
SPEAKER_01: It was very expensive.
52:50
SPEAKER_01: I was very happy I wasn't paying.
52:52
It was very good steak He got steak with chimichurri sauce
52:57
Which I'd never had
52:58
chimichurri sauce before It was all very good But I'd never had
53:03
chimichurri sauce I
53:04
don't know They don't serve at an Outback Steakhouse Actually I
53:09
think they might
53:09
now I think they do actually I think even Texas Roadhouse
53:14
probably has chimichurri
53:15
It never would have occurred to me to get it in the past But
53:17
that was what he'd
53:18
SPEAKER_00: gotten and I said I'll get what he has
53:21
It was very good but I was very happy I wasn't paying for it My
53:25
last meal that I
53:27
paid for in Vegas was caviar for two at Petrosian for my
53:32
husband and I might still
53:35
SPEAKER_01: be paying that off so I'm sure you are I probably am that was like oh but
53:41
Petrosian's caviar is so good it's like right in the entrance
53:44
in Bellagio That was
53:46
SPEAKER_00: with you that I had caviar right?
53:48
SPEAKER_00: That caviar isn't very good
53:51
I didn't like that in fairness okay that was like lake traviar
53:54
from that was lake
53:56
caviar from Armenia it that that was not my favorite caviar
54:01
that was also trout row
54:02
I wouldn't call that caviar it wasn't like beluga it wasn't etc
54:07
you need to get
54:08
some actual like Petrosian Armenian name um like sturgeon
54:13
caviar it's very
54:14
SPEAKER_01: different
54:15
One of my favorite things to do is to give you rope to make
54:18
yourself incredibly
54:18
SPEAKER_00: pretentious with.
54:20
SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
54:21
SPEAKER_01: This is going to get even worse.
54:23
SPEAKER_01: My absolute favorite caviar service is at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen.
54:30
SPEAKER_01: During their winter bar,
54:32
SPEAKER_01: which is a pop-up that they only do in winter where they have like little
54:36
SPEAKER_01: shuffleboard thing out front,
54:39
SPEAKER_01: we got their kettle chip caviar.
54:42
So they,
54:43
instead of a blini,
54:44
you get like fresh fried kettle chips and you do like
54:48
You do the crumb fresh on a kettle chip and then you load it up
54:51
with caviar and all
54:54
SPEAKER_01: the rest of the trimmings and it is so spectacular.
54:57
SPEAKER_01: Caviar belongs on kettle chips.
54:59
SPEAKER_01: I also like to do caviar bumps.
55:02
SPEAKER_00: You're a woman of the people.
55:03
SPEAKER_00: What can I say?
55:07
SPEAKER_01: You're like, you had really cheap caviar.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: Please don't judge it on that.
55:10
SPEAKER_00: Wasn't a fan.
55:12
SPEAKER_00: Don't see well the hubbub.
55:14
SPEAKER_01: Sometime when we are out somewhere, I will get a proper caviar service.
55:20
SPEAKER_01: And you'll be like, oh, okay, I see.
55:22
SPEAKER_00: If you're paying, I'll eat it.
55:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, again, no one's expecting you to be paying for this.
55:29
SPEAKER_01: You can.
55:30
SPEAKER_01: You're not poor, but you are cheap.
55:33
SPEAKER_00: Yep, it's true.
55:34
SPEAKER_00: This is a very true thing.
55:37
SPEAKER_00: No, I'm actually not cheap.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: I just, I prioritize my, I blow money on different things.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: You are very cheap, it's fine.
55:45
Tell that to my wife and she can describe you all the random
55:48
old speakers I've
55:49
shown up at the house with because I found a great deal on them
55:54
at the Salvation
55:55
SPEAKER_00: Army.
55:55
SPEAKER_00: They didn't know what they had,
55:56
SPEAKER_00: so I spent a hundred bucks,
55:58
SPEAKER_00: but these things are worth at least three.
56:01
SPEAKER_00: Are you going to sell those speakers?
56:03
SPEAKER_00: No.
56:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I just want to...
56:06
SPEAKER_01: Okay, but cheap doesn't mean you necessarily steward things well.
56:11
SPEAKER_01: It just means you're going...
56:13
SPEAKER_01: It's like that.
56:15
SPEAKER_01: You're not letting a deal pass up, but you don't need it.
56:18
SPEAKER_00: The thing is, I have seen what food ends up like after I eat it.
56:25
SPEAKER_01: Gross!
56:28
SPEAKER_01: Gross!
56:28
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you have to take it there?
56:30
SPEAKER_01: Gross!
56:33
I'm Sorry I Don't Think A Lot Of Money On Something Is Gonna
56:37
End Up You Enjoy It
56:39
It's Oh My God I Think We Need To End Now I Love That I'm Like
56:50
Oh I Lived With Guys
56:51
SPEAKER_01: It's Fine I'm A Bro It's Fine And Then I'm Like Oh
56:56
I have no idea what you're talking about with this video game
56:59
but sure let's save
57:01
this random town I'm not joking this is gonna become a new
57:05
thing everyone can look
57:05
for it I'm all for it and look look into how much it would cost
57:10
for us to actually
57:11
go there I'm I'm legitimately gonna pull that up but you always
57:15
yell at me when I'm
57:16
on my phone during these even if it's that ideal I feel like I
57:19
feel like I'm
57:20
required to monologue when you do that as though you need the
57:23
requirements
57:25
SPEAKER_00: All right Bye Bye