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Best Of 2026 | Secret Microphones, Escalators, and Reactionaryism · Talk About That

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  Speaker 1: Hey out there to all of our friends from Banter Town,
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  Speaker 1: this is John. As you've probably heard by now after
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  Speaker 1: 10 years of Talk About That episodes airing most every week,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny and I have hit an especially busy season in
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  Speaker 1: both of our lives that has required us to take
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  Speaker 1: a little hiatus from weekly episodes. Hey, but fear not.
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  Speaker 1: We'd still like to bring you some of the best
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  Speaker 1: of Talk About That. These are some of our most
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  Speaker 1: downloaded episodes from the past several years. So whether you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing these conversations again or discovering them for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: we hope you'll enjoy diving back into some of our
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  Speaker 1: favorite talks. As always, thanks so much for listening, and
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  Speaker 1: we hope you enjoy this episode.
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  Speaker 2: Life Audio.
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  Speaker 3: Today on Talk About That, John gets secret messages in
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  Speaker 3: his ear during worship and ponders whether we need merch. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: I get interviewed by an 80s comedy icon and tell
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  Speaker 3: you the demographic of my fan base. Plus a conversation
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  Speaker 3: about reactionaryism, revolution, and choosing hope over fear. Today's episode
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  Speaker 3: is not sponsored by Grapefruit. If you like oranges, try
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  Speaker 3: their bitter overweight cousin. But first, a word from our
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  Speaker 3: actual sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: Grapefruit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you made it back for another episode. Thanks, man,
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  Speaker 1: for finding us on your podcast app.
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  Speaker 3: Or whoever you are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think it's all men? What do you
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  Speaker 3: think are.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say men. You said, thanks, man. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's an expression.
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  Speaker 1: I say.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guys. I say, what's up, dude, to my daughter sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Does she call you bruh? Yeah, sometimes. Really, bruh?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think the dynamics are if we were
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  Speaker 3: to divide it up? Like, who is listening to the show?
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  Speaker 3: Do we have any data like that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we have... The dynamics of male versus female. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Versus is a strong word. Sorry, guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. I don't know why we... It's not battle
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  Speaker 3: of sexes.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to hit you against each other.
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  Speaker 3: Do we want to... Would we want to see it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, I have it for my social media
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  Speaker 3: pages because it dials it in for you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's the... What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: If you were to guess, what is the average median
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  Speaker 3: block of ages for my fans and what do you
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  Speaker 3: think the average gender?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to say... Or the 70-30, 80-20, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it's 65-35 women.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to say women 30 to 35.
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  Speaker 2: It is 70-30. Women?
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  Speaker 3: Women.
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  Speaker 2: Close.
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  Speaker 3: And it is the biggest chunk of them are, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: 35 and up. So really 40 to 60.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine why.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's weird, too, because I don't think of
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  Speaker 3: myself as an older person. So I'm like, I'm middle-aged.
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  Speaker 2: That's you.
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  Speaker 3: It's me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful that they're listening. And they come to the
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  Speaker 3: shows and they're very excited. And they all want photos
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  Speaker 3: and hugs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the good news is they can afford the ticket.
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  Speaker 3: They're very sweet. That's what I'm saying. And they buy merch.
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  Speaker 3: Let me say that. And I'm grateful for that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And now Curry's behind the table. I will say taking
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  Speaker 3: Curry out because we talked last week about Curry feeling
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  Speaker 3: haggard on the road with me, which is true. And
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  Speaker 3: I feel bad for her sometimes. But I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: she's there because she's such a big help. And also,
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  Speaker 3: people like buying a t-shirt from a cute girl. Because plus,
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  Speaker 3: I've made fun of her in the show. And they're like,
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  Speaker 3: Bless your heart. What's it like being married to this clown?
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  Speaker 2: Take this extra tip.
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  Speaker 3: Please. Exactly. We don't need change. You're in our prayers.
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  Speaker 3: And it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know what we don't have?
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: We don't have any talk about that merch at your table.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. We should get something, because people are listening
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  Speaker 3: and they come to the shows now. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I listen to the podcast all the time.
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  Speaker 2: We should have a Banter Town shirt made up or something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about a shirt. Shirts are risky, because
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  Speaker 3: you've got to buy all these different sizes of them.
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  Speaker 2: But you're taking the risk. I'm okay with it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: It needs to be like a pin or a button.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so I did a show this weekend, two
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  Speaker 3: shows at a club, and the guy who opened for me,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a dry bar specialist. His name's Adam Bush. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Adam has these buttons that he sells, and they're like
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  Speaker 3: a little of a metal kind, you know, with a
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  Speaker 3: little in the back, a little safety pin thing in
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  Speaker 3: the back. And they got some of his little punch
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  Speaker 3: lines on them. And I'm like, this is genius. And
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  Speaker 3: he goes, yeah, I bought a button making machine. So
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  Speaker 3: as long as you know how to do like, if
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  Speaker 3: you can print your own little.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have one of those at our house.
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  Speaker 3: You have a button making machine?
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  Speaker 2: I bought one for Sadie when she was little for Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Get yourself out of here. Yeah. If it's still there,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to borrow it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. Because what he does is he goes, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great staging area for a joke. He says like,
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  Speaker 3: if you go, well, this would be fun. And he goes,
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  Speaker 3: then I'll move it to t-shirt. If the buttons are
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  Speaker 3: really like moving.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, he goes like, like a quarter in each button,
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  Speaker 3: maybe in raw materials. But he goes, I just let
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  Speaker 3: people pay what they want. So sometimes people leave a dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes people leave a 20 and take a button. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting buttons.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I think a talk about that button would
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  Speaker 3: be where I would start it. And then if it
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  Speaker 3: gets to, if you graduate to the level of t-shirt,
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to, yeah, it's going to, uh, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to take, uh, I mean, I've only done 350 episodes.
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  Speaker 3: Um, it's not that John, it's just, you're, how do
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  Speaker 3: I say this? Your appeal is limited.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kidding around. No, you're not.
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  Speaker 2: My appeal is limited, Johnny, and I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 3: John, I did another podcast this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: It was very offended.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was invited to be on a podcast with
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  Speaker 3: Yakov Smirnoff. And when you told me, it's like one
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  Speaker 3: of your childhood heroes, right? Yeah, it's just like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I grew up as such an 80s comedy nerd. And
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  Speaker 3: so these were like my rock stars. So if you
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  Speaker 3: did comedy in the 80s and I saw you on
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  Speaker 3: television and then I get to meet you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: 30 years later, 40, I mean, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So what's better than that?
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  Speaker 3: He was so kind and He asked me all these
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  Speaker 3: questions about my childhood and, you know, making my mom laugh.
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  Speaker 3: He asked about like, what was the first person you,
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  Speaker 3: when did you know you wanted to do this? And
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  Speaker 3: so we started talking about our moms and it was
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  Speaker 3: just a really cool, like heartfelt. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: when that'll be released, but look for that podcast with
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  Speaker 3: Yakov Smirnoff. It's called the comedy couch.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he got.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wow, I can't believe that wasn't taken.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Comedy couch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We couldn't, I was like, what about talking about that?
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  Speaker 3: He goes, I don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I found our first pilot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it was ever published, episode that we
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  Speaker 2: just tried to do a podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: From like 2016. We called it Hear Me Out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that was already taken. Probably.
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  Speaker 3: There's probably a few Hear Me Outs, which there's some
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  Speaker 3: talk about. There's less talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that. But there is no talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're the only ones.
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  Speaker 3: And even if there is, you could be like, talk
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  Speaker 3: about that with John and Johnny. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have the little sub.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's always that.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right.
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  Speaker 3: Thing of like, comedy couch with John and John.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Yock off.
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  Speaker 2: Watch yourself. It might be a knockoff of the Yock Off.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: Knock off, smear it off. I will say this. I
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  Speaker 3: asked him what I would consider an uncomfortable question because
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  Speaker 3: I just couldn't get out of my own head. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I had no idea how he was
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  Speaker 3: going to react because I was like, he could fly
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  Speaker 3: off the handle. Because we were just talking about his
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  Speaker 3: career and this night show because I wanted to know
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff. Because he was asking about me and
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: I was like, let's talk about you for a second.
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  Speaker 3: I started kind of interviewing him. Because I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I remember all this stuff you're talking about. I remember
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  Speaker 3: you performing for Reagan and all of it. Tell me,
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  Speaker 3: did they vet your material? Did you tell him everything
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  Speaker 3: you were going to say? So he starts telling me
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  Speaker 3: about it. And then I said, I got to ask
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  Speaker 3: you this question and I do not know how you're
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  Speaker 3: going to react. But when I was a kid, one
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  Speaker 3: of the specials I remember on HBO, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: know how I watched it because I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: we had, we didn't have HBO, but somehow I watched
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: the HBO special that Billy Crystal did. It was called
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: midnight train to Moscow. I've referenced it on the pod
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  Speaker 3: before because he did like five minutes of material in Russian.
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  Speaker 3: And then he did, he was speaking as our all
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  Speaker 3: Russian audience. And then he did a material. It was
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: political in nature, but it was very– this is the
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  Speaker 3: Glasnost era. It was very perestroika. So it was very
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  Speaker 3: like let's unite. The summits had happened. Gorbachev.
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  Speaker 2: All this was happening.
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  Speaker 3: So the fall was right around the corner if it
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  Speaker 3: hadn't already happened.
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  Speaker 2: It was probably 87, 88.
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  Speaker 3: So the fall of the wall is coming. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: all this happened, and I remember liking that a lot.
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  Speaker 3: But I also remember thinking, even as a kid that
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  Speaker 3: did not understand the industry of comedy, I thought, I
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: wonder what Yakov Smirnov thinks about this. And he goes, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then he kind of smiled. He didn't get, I thought,
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  Speaker 3: is he going to be like, actually, it was very
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  Speaker 3: painful because he ripped off my, he didn't, he was very,
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  Speaker 3: he was very congenial about it. He goes, well, he
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: had family history. He had Russian relatives. So it's part
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: of his ethnicity, part of his background. So it made
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: sense for him to go back and do this thing.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: But it also was kind of like, yeah, you are
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: kind of horning in on my thing. And it is
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: a strange feeling. And I go, it's like, You haven't
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  Speaker 3: monopolized being a Russian comic. And it wasn't like he
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: was doing the I'm a fish out of water thing.
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  Speaker 3: Like Yakov's whole thing was I'm in America and it's
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: very disorienting. And let me tell you all the things
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  Speaker 3: about America that I noticed that you don't notice because
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: you're enveloped in it. And that was his whole, it
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  Speaker 3: was beautiful. And he kind of gave us that little
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: like perspective on it. And Billy Crystal wasn't trying to
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: do that, but it definitely was a little bit of a, Hey,
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: I like what you're doing Yakov. Let me see if
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: I can get in on this Russian thing. But it
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: was a very kind of a pipe bomb kind of
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  Speaker 3: a question. Like I do not know what it, We're live.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're not live, but I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 3: you could just edit it out.
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  Speaker 2: I hate Billy Crystal. And you're like, oh, no. What
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  Speaker 2: have I done? I love that you pushed the envelope.
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  Speaker 3: I could not. I just thought as a fan of
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: both of them, I want to know. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: love Billy Crystal and I love Yakov. I want to know, like,
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  Speaker 3: did you guys have a beef over this?
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  Speaker 2: You could create a peace summit to unite them.
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  Speaker 3: I think it needs to happen.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come to a bridge and we'll meet in the middle. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: At long last.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The blood feud can end.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring down the wall of comedy between, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Smirnoff, tear down. I don't know. But that was
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: pretty cool and that was a fun experience.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I say that to say that I've done
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: other podcasts with comedians and generally I do not like
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  Speaker 3: it as much as ours because there's a dynamic between
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: us that I can't quite put my finger on. But
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: if I was to put a word, if I was
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: to put a phrase to it, it would be that
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  Speaker 3: you know You're very respectful about when to lay back
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: and you don't have this thing in you that needs
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: to like top like comedians tend to want to top
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: each other they don't mean to but they just go
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: oh yeah.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: I worked there and they go i was in vegas
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: then and they have to.
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: Tell their vegas story yeah they can't just listen to
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: your and for whatever reason like you just let me.
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  Speaker 1: Go well i think it's uh I think I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to top it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not even that.
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  Speaker 3: It is, but it's also, I just think there's a,
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: obviously it's 20 something, 28 years of friendship and it's,
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  Speaker 3: there's a respect there, but I just have done, but
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  Speaker 3: I will say the Yakov one, I liked a lot
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  Speaker 3: and I am leaving this show to go do a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It was an interesting segue, setting it up that you
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  Speaker 2: like ours better.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate what you brought and you've taught me what
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  Speaker 3: I need. And now that Yakov has given me that,
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: we're done. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This sounds like my first agent.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know this about myself. And now that I've
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: outgrown you, I wanted.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: To talk about it.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: I think it's time. Yeah.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: That's one of the more condescending things that's come out
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: of like weaponized therapy talk in our culture is when
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  Speaker 3: you talk about outgrowing a person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've just kind of outgrown my friends. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you go, please don't tell them that. Please don't
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: ever use the words out. I love you, but I
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: feel like I've outgrown you. What a condescending, horrible thing
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: to say to somebody. I've grown and you've not.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: It's a hard balance. Again, there's relationships you need to end.
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  Speaker 1: There's relationships you need to put boundaries up. All those things.
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  Speaker 1: And then also, there's relationships where you need to endure
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  Speaker 1: and grow together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just because you don't hang out with somebody
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  Speaker 3: as much anymore doesn't mean you have to brand them
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  Speaker 3: a toxic person. You can just go like, We don't
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: have as much in common anymore. When I see them,
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: it's cool, but you don't have to be like, there's
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: got to be a reason behind this.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: They're toxic. Stop it.
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: There are toxic people, and many of them are listeners.
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: We love our toxic listeners. John, how would you support
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: the show if you wanted to as a non-toxic listener?
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: You go to talkaboutthatpodcast.com.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: If you click on that upper right-hand link, John, you
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: can find ads. No, you can't.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Click on the upper right-hand link, John. You can find
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: ad-free content by supporting the show.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Why would you go there to click on to get ads?
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Because if you're not getting enough ads in your life,
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: have we got the thing for you? Ads. The upper
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  Speaker 2: right-hand corner of our website. The upper right-hand corner. More
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  Speaker 2: just splashing at you.
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: John, if you want to send a note to the show,
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: a little message of encouragement or a proper scolding.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. That we deserve. We do.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: From time to time. Lately, people have been noticing... And
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: they love to point out when we make a historical mistake,
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: an error. We say radar when we mean sonar. We
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: say dearth when we mean something else. They love that.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: And I think there's something about that. And that's a
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: weakness on their part because they need to point out
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: our flaws to make themselves feel better. No, we're glad.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: We're happy to get notes from you guys and we
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: So hello at TalkAboutThatPodcast.com. to do that and thanks for
• 13:45
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• 13:48
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  Speaker 2: And we're back. Johnny's about that time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: That's my quote of the week. It's a segment we
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: call They Talked About That. That's a little bend that time.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: That one's not going to.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: No, it's horrible.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: I got a bad feeling about that one. I'll fix
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: it in post.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I got to sing Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: And preached. Sung and preached.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Normally, that was like you didn't like that.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: No, it just happened.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: We'd move some scheduling around, and one was already booked,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: and then some people were out of town.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: It just made sense to go ahead. But I got
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: to sing with Bethany. That was fun. Oh, geez.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: It's like the best safety net, too, because the harmonies
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: are so great.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: And I had Kiko on the drums and he has
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: the band leader mic.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: So like there's one song I'd never led before.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: And like during practices, I do help me out and
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: he'd come in while he's playing drums and help me know.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: The melody of the next line. Really?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was great.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: He was like, when did the band leader mic thing
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: off air start coming into churches? Like the people are
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: in your ears going like, all right, second verse is
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: coming up, John.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't miss this. Don't miss this. Oh, you blew it.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Get back on beat. Like they can do that. And
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: the people in the audience aren't hearing that. Exactly. Has
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: there ever been an instance in a church where they
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: got piped out?
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: That'd be great. It's almost like taking your wireless mic
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: to the bathroom with you.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I did mess up the intro.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Oh boy.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Cause you do also have a, a cue in the track.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: A lady's voice going course two, three, like it tells
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you what's coming. And when you first get started, that
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: little surge of adrenaline.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: We're playing. It sounds good.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: And it was a longer intro than I thought. And
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I started singing, but it said intro again. And I
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: started singing. And then Kiko's like, not yet.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Not yet. I was like, okay. And I backed out.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: I was like, all right, guys, now we're really ready.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: And I was kind of, you know, and I think
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: the rest of the time we were okay.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: It's like when the port speaker goes, who wants to
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: learn a brand new song this week?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Like you were like, I'm going to learn a brand
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: new song this week. Right now. I don't even know it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll all learn together.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: It was fun. Pick a melody and go with it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: He's got to go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you did it, and I heard great things about
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: the service, John.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: People are, there's a buzz.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: There, that was a fly. There was a buzz about
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: that service. Anyway, John, quote of the week.
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  Speaker 3: G.K.
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  Speaker 2: Chesterton. I mean, Johnny, he's always good for a good quote.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorites, basically. I mean, C.S. Lewis, G.K.,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, G.K., I find myself quoting G.K.
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  Speaker 2: As much as C.S. Lewis. Yeah. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: The true soldier fights not because he hates what is
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, but because he loves what is
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  Speaker 1: behind him.
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  Speaker 3: When he wrote this, it probably was what?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: World War... I don't know the date.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Do you think it would have been, had a war
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: background and he was actually talking about it? I don't
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: want you to.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: There's always a war going on, but I just want
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to see G.K.
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  Speaker 3: Chesterton. What his lifespan would have been when he possibly
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: said this.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: So we got a thing going here right now.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: So he was, yeah, 1874 to... 1936. So very possibly
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: World War I.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Or two. No, no, we're on two yet.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: World War I or several British things happening in the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: middle of all that. Yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: At any rate, if you guys are watching online, like
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: we're doing some pretty cool stuff where I'm actually searching
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: live on the big screen.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, man. That's exactly what people want to see.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: They love it.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of talk. There's a lot
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of co-opting in our language and our vernacular about fighting
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: and soldiering. And, um, I know some actual soldiers and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of course, Chris is on staff here and he's a veteran.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: And, um, you know, the thing.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: About it, and he's done a lot of amazing things,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like amazing, amazing things and multiple tours. There is a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: sense of, I never forget one time we were having
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a conversation before I hired him, I think. Um, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I actually ask now when I do interview questions, some
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: things that aren't politically charged, um, But they're to try
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: to make sure that someone doesn't come in who's going
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to feel attacked or hyper offended because we can be
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: open here on our staff and just say, you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: we can talk freely. Right.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And so I'll be like, hey, if you heard this
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and I'll just say something political.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Not from the stage and like that. If you heard
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: this from very generations around our staff table.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Would that be offensive to you or whatever? You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: if you heard someone did this and that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And he I remember I asked him that question and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: he said, you know, it would not offend me because.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I fought so that people could have the right to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: say things like that, even if it were things I
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: didn't agree with. And that, to me, is a true soldier.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: That's what Chesterton says. There's such a thing as a
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: true soldier. Not just those who are saying, I'm fighting,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'm fighting.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And I'm not. I'm not a soldier, right? I did
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: not have the honor of serving.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: But I love that idea that what we fight for
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be because we hate something.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And that's a really hard line right now. in our world. Right.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I don't even think hate, there was a day, if
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: we just said this 15 years ago, we'd have been like, well,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I can't think of hardly anybody I really hate. Right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: If you ask people today, I think most of them
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: would easily name someone.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Before you could think about what you were for,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: you could almost always think of a list of what
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you were against or who you were against.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You're imagining a people group.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: It's very, it's very reactionary.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Like again, if in, in political science, the, the, the,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: if you talk about revolutions, there's very, levels of them,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: but a leftist-based revolution you would call a.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Revolution.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: A right-based revolution you call reactionaryism, meaning there's different levels
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of how you come at it. One is by taking
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: down a corrupt system. Another is by creating a someone
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to be against that we all react to yeah right
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: um that may not necessarily be at the top but
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: maybe someone at the bottom in hitler's case the jews
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: or whomever like you create someone.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Right they're responsible for your lot in life.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Right versus someone at the top that you gotta we
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: got to dethrone or whatever and i think reactionary ism
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: is is dangerous because it does it it it finds
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: what you are scared of and i know we read
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a quote one time that my therapist actually talked about
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: like when you find what makes you angry then you
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: find what you care about that actually is a sign
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of something you care about yeah if we get you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: afraid or angry and we're we're getting into your security
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: center we're getting to a place where These are what
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you value or what you value for yourself or for
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: your family. And I just, I love the idea that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I want to be fighting for someone, not against someone, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'm fighting for someone. And it's hard because to fight,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you have to fight against someone. So I think this
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is about a matter of the heart. Jesus most certainly
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: spoke against the Pharisees. But when a Pharisee came to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: him by night, he didn't turn him away. like Nicodemus,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't, you know, he, the, the fight wasn't
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: against flesh and blood. It was against the spirit of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that age and, and the again, co-opting of his father's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: kingdom for human gain and human approval. And while you're
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: exploiting the widow, the orphan, the immigrant, the refugee, while
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you're trampling on the poor, I mean, that's where Jesus said, no,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: we're not going to do this. When he turned over
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the tables, and we'd love to talk about that as something.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus was powerful and he turned over tables. Like, one,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was very reactionary. And the reason is,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you probably remember this saying this in youth a lot.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: If you read that passage, the Bible says he fashioned
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the whip. And so I always, I used to joke
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: with the kids that he was just sitting in a corner,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: like just weaving something together.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And the disciples are like. what are you doing, Jesus?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: He's like, you'll see.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, making a whip.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Like, you know, it wasn't like, he knew what he
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was doing, but his issue was, as you're cheating people,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you're charging more than the law requires for things for
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: people to come sacrifice to try to make themselves right
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with God.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And this is what he wouldn't, he wouldn't stand for that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It wasn't just like every time he saw any sort
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of anything, he went out and turned over a table.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Like it was a very specific thing for him that
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: was corrupting the actual kingdom of God. Um, but I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: think on the, on the whole, then he was willing
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to let those same people kill him, you know, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: he was willing to forgive. So I think that love
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: driving us to fight is a hard concept, but I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: think it all goes back to, we talked about that
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: last week a little bit. It all goes back to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: what kind of love is it? Is it earthly love?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Is it, is it the kingdom love and how do
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I evaluate it?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Well, John, I'll just say when I fight you and
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: it's coming, when I eventually fight you, An attempt to
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: vanquish you. And successfully vanquish you.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it won't be hard.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: It won't be because of what's in front of me.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: It will be because I love what's behind me.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: What's behind?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Well, right now it's just.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: It's just a wall.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: It's just your door. But figuratively... It won't be for that.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It'll be for things I love. It won't be because
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I hate you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: No.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: You're just in my way. Yeah.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You were just trying to get to the buffet and...
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And I was right there.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I love what's behind you, which is the buffet. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I got to get through you to get to it. John,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: let's do my segments. First one's Johnny's old jokes. We
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: call it Joke About That. John, a police officer pulls
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: over a semi-truck. He gets the usual license and registration.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: But he hears strange noises coming from the trailer.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: So he decides to investigate. Inside, he finds 50 penguins.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: So this is a true story.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Sir, why do you have 50 penguins in your truck?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: The officer asks the driver. Well, they're my friends, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: we like to go on journeys together in my truck,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the man replies. I'm sorry, sir, but you can't just
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: own 50 penguins. I'm afraid you're going to have to
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: take them to the zoo. The man agrees and drives off.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: The next day, the same cop pulls the truck over
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: again and once again hears strange noises in the trailer.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: He goes to check and finds the same 50 penguins.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I thought I told you to take these penguins to
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the zoo yesterday, the cop angrily tells the driver.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I did. They loved it. Today we're going to the beach.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: It's kind of a fun.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Tell that one to see what she thinks.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, John. So we're going to have a little hybrid
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: scenario because this week in history is coming, but fast
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: on its heels. I wanted to kind of set into
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: it a prequel joke that leads into this week in history.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: So it's, we've never done it before, but I want
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: to start with an old Mitch Hedberg joke. Mitch Hedberg,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: one of the, again, he's a Mount Rushmore kind of
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: a comic. I know we only have four. on Mount
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Rushmore technically, but Mitch Hedberg, probably if you think of
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: a one-liner comedians or people who do like absurdist comedy, yeah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Mitch Hedberg would.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Be like, it'd be him. Steven, right. Maybe Dimitri Martin,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: depending on your age.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: But Mitch Hedberg, incredible, incredible. Mitch Hedberg famously said an
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: should never see an escalator temporarily out of order. Son,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: just escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And so with that, we will lead now into This
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Week in History. We call it Talk About Then. John,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: this week, 1892, the first escalator is patented.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Man, that's early.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: By American inventor Jesse Wilford Reno. The idea for his
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: inclined elevator, this is air quotes I'm giving, was originally
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: part of his proposal to build the underground New York
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: City subway. Okay. The subway proposal was rejected, but the
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: inclined elevator caught on. It included a rubber-coated moving handrail,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: which that stayed, right? The handrail that goes a little
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: faster than the steps somehow.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You're like, ah, here it goes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And a comb of projected fingers on the ends to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: help prevent feet from getting caught in the mechanism. Again,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that's still a design element. So he nailed it, whatever
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: he did. The first one was demonstrated at Coney Island,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: New York, and transported some 75,000 people during its two-week
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: stay there. So it was a mobile thing, machine. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: then it was moved to Manhattan, the Manhattan entrance of
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: So that's a big hub. So it got to Coney Island. Yeah.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: 75,000 people.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: All right. Dry run.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Nobody died. Nobody got sucked into the gears or whatever. Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Let's move it to the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Were you afraid as a kid of getting sucked into
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the gears?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Always.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: And my mom's terrified of everything. She was one of
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: those overprotective moms. So it was always like, kids, watch your.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Watch yourselves.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Your pant cuff.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You know, it's always.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Your shoestrings. Yeah. But there are the.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: It does happen. Every now and then a shoestring gets
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: pulled in, some kid's hair, whatever. It can happen.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: It would hurt.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: It would hurt.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And we just pull it out, but it would hurt
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: on the way. Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: It's not your best day.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: No.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: John, speaking of not your best day, this week... in 1661,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: the last person was hanged in Boston just for being
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: a Quaker. Did you know this? The people were hanged
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: for being Quakers?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You hanged the peaceful people?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: When I think of being a Quaker, I don't think
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: of like, we got to stop them. But this is
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: where religious extremism comes in because William Ledra was hanged
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: this week, 1661, for returning to Boston after banishment for
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: being a Quaker. At the time, it was a crime
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: in Boston to be a Quaker. Quakers or a Christian
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: religious group that believes God speaks directly to individuals and
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: not just through the clergy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: So here we go.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Which was considered heresy to the Puritans. So the Puritans
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: and the Quakers were like, no, sir. They fought. They
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: didn't just love what was behind them. They hated what
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: was in front of them.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Come on now.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Back to your quote. As he was being prepared for
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the gallows, he said, forbearing my testimony for the Lord
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: against deceivers and the deceived, I am brought here to suffer.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Punishments for being a Quaker included being Branded with an
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: H for heretic. Boring through the tongue with a hot iron.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, these people, just for, oh my gosh, lashings,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: ears chopped off, and banishment. I would take banishment. I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: don't know why banishment was last.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, can I just choose banishment right now?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: When you're building a list, and you got boring through
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: your tongue with a hot iron, and then you go,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: or we could ask you to leave.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I would go banishment, then lashes. Start with banishment. I'll
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: take it. Banishment for $ 20, Bob. Good grief.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Between 1659 and 1661, rather, two-year period, four Quakers were
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: hanging in Boston and becoming known as the Boston Martyrs.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: King Charles II put an end to the execution in
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: 1661 shortly after Leder's hanging, so he was the last.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: We're a little late there, Charles.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, Charles. How about banishment as a policy? Quakers,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: also called the Religious Society of Friends, are a Christian
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: religious group who generally are united in belief of the
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: ability of each person to experientially access that of God
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: in everyone. They are known for the refusal to participate
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: in war, wearing a plain dress, like yourself, refusal to
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: swear oaths, like yourself. I'll be there. I just left
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: the house. That's John's oath.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm on my way. Who was at lunch first today?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: I'm on my way. Are you, John?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: You'll never be a Quaker. Opposition to slavery and teetotalism.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: So it's a balance. You know, they're like.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Slavery is bad. So is booze.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And we hold those each in equal disdain.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: One of those I agree with.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We know which one. John, finally, this week in 1894,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: I've included this one because it's a friend of the show.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Not a sponsor yet.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe they could be.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: It would be nice.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe after this.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: This would be a big sponsor. The soft drink Coca-Cola
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: is sold in bottles for the first time. The soft
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: drink Coca-Cola was invented by John S. Pemberton in 1886.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Who called it?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Do you want to know what it is? it was
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: originally called? Coca-Cola?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but a minute ago you said Coca-Cola
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: like somebody, like our grandparents would say.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Coca-Cola. Soda Pop?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: John, let me just say this. Is it a derivative
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of the name?
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: It is not even close.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: It is a terrible, terrible name. Go for it then.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Tonic?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Esteemed brain tonic, and intellectual beverage. Esteemed brain tonic? First
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: of all, none of that fits on a bottle. It's
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: a gigantic, it's a novel. Hey, can you get me
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: an esteemed brain tonic and intellectual beverage real quick?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: They're like, you mean Coca-Cola?
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: They got an EBT or whatever. Give me an EBT
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and a Coca-Cola. EBT, I'd be eb-timate.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Ebtimate. It just rolls right off the tongue. It's horrible.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I tell you.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And it's all in flowing cursive, probably. But Coca-Cola had
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to sound weird, too, to them. Right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: A cola. Were there other colas?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: That they had to be like, we're Coca-Cola.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it had cocaine. Well, no, but I'm saying— Well,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: it was from the Coca plant. But I'm saying, were
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: there other colas.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: At the time?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yes. I think cola— In the cola world, we're the Coca-Cola.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Actually— Because there was Pepsi-Cola. Go watch Food for the
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: World of America.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Was Pepsi-Cola already around?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: No. Go watch Food to Build America.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: There's all kinds of weird things that come out of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: those like drugstore apothecary kind of things at that time.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: It's so weird because it's easy for us to think
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of like we've evolved.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Like they had brain tonics they were buying, which now
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: we just drink as sodas.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: It's all over Instagram right now.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying it's still around. Like people are being like–
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: if I say, for instance, I've stopped taking melatonin because
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: it gives me headaches and I realize it now that
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: that's what's giving me headaches. And that's a certain percentage
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: of people that take melatonin. They get headaches. And I
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: realize now I'll wake up with a headache like once
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: a week, a horrible headache. It's the melatonin. So I've
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: stopped taking it. And I'm like asking Curry, like, what
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: should I take instead? I don't want to get on
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: diphenhydramine because that could be bad for me, too. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: then she looked it up and it's like a million,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: like all of the diffuser people. The essential oils people
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: come out of the woodwork in these search results. Oh,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: it's magnesium. It's this.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: It's, you know, cloves.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: And you've got to drape garlic over your chest. I
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: don't know what you do. A salve that I have to.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Leeches. It is.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: It's like we're in. It's easy to be like we've
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: come out of the dark ages and there's no brain tonics.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: But then yet we do have like. It's just I
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: don't think we're ever going to really graduate from that
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: idea of like people want health.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: But they want also just like. Chug something to get it. Yeah.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Like, just give me a tonic.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Or I want to enjoy this soda, but it's easier to.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Enjoy if I think I'm doing something good for myself. Like,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: this isn't a Yoo-Hoo.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: This is a chocolate tonic.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Well. You got to shake it. This is why I
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: drink coffee, because, you know, they say people who drink
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: coffee live longer.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I wrote about it in the Ultimate Guide for the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Avid Endorsement.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, a book plug from John.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: It's an award-winning.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It is an award-winning book. How would someone acquire said book, John?
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Probably just go to Amazon.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Is that the best way?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: That's your best buy. Do you get paid? Yeah. Okay,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Well, you can go to johndriver.com. The ultimate guide for
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: the avid endorsement.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I actually really stand by that book. Well, I mean,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: why would you not? It won gold at the American
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Book Fest for humor. Yeah, it was number one.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: I won bronze and hadn't even written a book. They
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: were just like, is anybody out here? Has anyone read
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: a book?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: This guy?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: No. That's a high.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I don't like to brag, Johnny, but no one's ever
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: heard of that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Are the awards going to end up on this wall
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: behind us?
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You know what? I haven't figured out the awards yet.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The big trophy case of John? The shrine to yourself?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I think what I want to do, and this is
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: weird because you're going to make fun of me on
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: it and so will Andrew.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: That's part of the show.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: So it'll mess with me. Because I don't want to
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: be that guy also.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: But I mean, it's not just to honor yourself. It's like,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: these are my life experiences. Well, that's really what I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: trying to make The Office, about my life experiences. And
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to have less.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Well, the books you've collaborated on, it's easier to do
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: because you're the collaborator, so you're honoring the other person, too.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I want a picture of me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: In equal measure.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Like, I want not-so-black-and-white with me and Reggie in New
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: York at the studios for Good Morning America.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: That's great. Can it be a black-and-white photo? Come on now.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be a nice little.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Play on the concept?
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Not-so.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: And then I want one of me and Mr.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Haslam when he, you know, he won a business book
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: award for that, uh, for co-piloting and he's 93, four now,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you know, amazing book, Tennessee history, all the things, Tennessee
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: football history. Um, and I want one with, uh, maybe
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: with Pat Bradley for, um, born for rescue.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: They do such amazing work.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Um, we support them to end sex trafficking and, East
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Africa and also in the United States.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Um, yeah, I just, again, I want to have a picture,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you know, Tyler Trent.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I got a great picture of me and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: him at the college football hall of fame when he
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: won the Disney spirit award.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Let me just say that I was that guy when
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I started my comedy career that I got the fast
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: forward button hit for me by Tim Hawkins. He took
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: me on the road. I was four years in. And
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: so I never really did the whole thing of like,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I'm going to take a bunch of photos with Tim
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: on the road of the shows. Cause I didn't want to,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: I almost was like, I'm not making any sudden movements.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I want to act like I've been here.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: And it's one of my big regrets that I don't
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: have a ton of photos from those shows of being
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: on the bus with Tim and hanging out. Like I
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: was afraid to like, so I dimmed my light for
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: people a little bit. That was a, that was a mistake.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Rick Roberts, who's our dear friend of the show. He
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: said the regret from his career of all those years
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: on the road, being a road dog comic. He goes,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: I worked with every major comic that you can think
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: of that now is a big, because we work together
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: and I don't have photos with them. And I wish
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: You know, what's crazy is I went to look for
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a picture of me and Tim and Because I went
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: out with y'all some and I wrote his book with
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: him and.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I can't find any, not one.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: It's a bummer.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: But surely that time that you and I were on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the bus together for that, what is it, four day
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: tour or whatever?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: We just wouldn't have thought like, hey, let's stop and
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: we just were experiencing it. Yeah. We think we're better
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: because we're like, we're not those people that stop and
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: take photos. But you need one photo.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I see one.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Take one photo.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: There's got to be one out there. Where are all
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: your photos?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Like I'm saying, do you have a cache?
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I guess they're in the cloud or.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Like, you need to start searching. Yeah, you're right. You
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: might find stuff that'll go on my wall.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, can I make the wall?
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll send it over.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: All right. Get your printer ink ready, buddy.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Come on, man.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: It's coming.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Well.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: You don't know?
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Is that the end of.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I think that's the end of this. Wait, hold on. Yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: that was it. That was it. I will say this
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: about Coca-Cola, though. You're a Coke Zero person, and I
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: think Coke Zero is awful.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: It tastes just like Coke. It doesn't at all.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Listen, I need listeners to please send us a note
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: if you agree with me. And it's not just because
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I'm addicted to Diet Coke. Diet Coke is better than
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Coke Zero.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I think I disagree with you and everything you stand for.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Now, my favorite diet drink is Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: because it tastes more like Dr.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Pepper for me.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: It's very good.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Diet Coke tastes nothing like Coke. Can you admit that?
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, but it has its own thing.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: But you like its own thing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I like not having 150 calories per eight ounces.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I can respect someone.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Because I'm going to drink a lot of them.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I can respect someone who likes something that's awful just
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: because they like it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That's fine. If they know that it's different than the original.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Said by the guy who drinks like Topo Chico or
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: whatever the heck mineral water you drink.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I like Topo Chico.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: It's all bitter. Like water should not taste like anything.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: It tastes like ore.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: That's how you get your water.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It tastes like iron ore.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Iron ore. Like, hmm, this is a tonic. There's a
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: little bit of hair on your teeth.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Stop it, John. I like it.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Tonic water. Give me some more platinum.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I'm only upset about it because tonic water killed my father.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Did it? Oh, that was.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I tell that joke so much, and people don't.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: People don't laugh.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: They don't know what to do.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: It's fun. I like putting people on edge.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I almost ran into someone. I do it all the time.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: You say, that's what killed dad? I say, killed my uncle. Yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Like, I almost ran someone over running back and forth.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: They were putting food out for Sunday morning.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I was like, oop, I almost ran into you. That's
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: what killed my uncle. Uncle's not as funny.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know why. Dad feels more personal. It feels
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: like it's going to have trauma associated with it. You're
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: not necessarily being close to your uncle.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I think that's the point. I'm trying to distance myself from...
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: You start joking about your dad dying. You've got to
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: be a real comedian to do that.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I think where it came from, honestly, that idea in
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: my head, because I've been saying that for years, something
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: really random and strange would happen, and I'd go, that's
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: what killed my dad. Uh, and it's just something funny
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I would say, but I think that the root of
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: that joke in my mind is from naked gun. When
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the guy, the villain falls off the railing at the stadium,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: he lands and then a steamroller steamrolls him. And then
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: a marching band walks over the pancake body. And then
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Leslie Nielsen goes, what a horrible way to die. My
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: father died. I think that's where the, the, the kernel of,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I thought that was so funny as a kid. What
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: a funny, I don't know, but Leslie Nielsen, uh, rest
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: in peace.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Was that, Was that the same movie where the steamroller's
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: coming forever?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: No, that's Austin Powers.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: That's Austin Powers.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Well, what a great— I think Mike Myers has said that
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: is his favorite visual of anything he's ever done. That's
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: his favorite gag, which is— I mean, that's a great career.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: When you think about all the things Mike Myers has done,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: and he goes, this is the one where you're just, no!
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: And the guy won't move, and the steamroller slowly rolls over.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: It reminded me a little bit of the basketball— video
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: we did for the three and three tournament yeah where
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: we had andrew walk over this hill and we had
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: staying alive playing just the music looped over and over
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: again and we had him like we kept panning back
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to us and panning him he was always really really
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: really far away right.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: And then we did like five times.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: That's monty python and then all.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Of a sudden he's right and we kind of he's
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: right there yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: We revolutionized church videos for.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: There's a lot. There is a lot. And I got
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: to get with Jeffrey. I know he listens.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So he helped me today with some things on hard drive.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: And Jeffrey, I do owe you money. I said I
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: would pay you. But he's going to help me do
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the best job of pulling stills out of videos. Oh,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: because I will tell you one that's going to go
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: on the wall. It's going to be music. on the
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: scooter and you chasing the Big Mac. I've got to
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: have that picture.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: That's got to be there.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: All right. I remember that one. We have so many
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: stupid videos. Such fun. Such fun. Well, don't we have
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: fun here on the show?
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: We sure do, Johnny.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for joining us in the fun.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You should check out all the other episodes at TalkAboutThatPodcast.com
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: where you can find out about the journey that led
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: us to where we are today.
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  Speaker 2: We usually suggest starting in the present and then working backwards.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the best way to go.
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  Speaker 3: But not in life.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Stay in the present. Work towards a better future.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Try to avoid the past.
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  Speaker 3: Make your own podcast. Wait, that's not. Everybody's already doing
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  Speaker 3: that probably.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how many podcasts we've inspired. Have you ever
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  Speaker 3: thought about that?
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  Speaker 2: I know of at least one. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know what someone said to me the other day?
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  Speaker 2: It was so funny. Because people listen and go, I
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  Speaker 2: could do this crap. They're horrible.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy.
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  Speaker 1: One of our mutual friends, he said he feels like
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  Speaker 1: This is how we all catch up.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get to see each other that much. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, but the problem is, is I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to y'all, but you don't know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you know, what I should do is I
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  Speaker 1: should start a podcast. That's just rebuttal of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: And so then he listens to ours. We listen to his.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how we like.
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  Speaker 3: State of the union, like where they always have. Now
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  Speaker 3: the democratic response or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Everything he said was a lie. Now back to you.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to you, Bob. So just the one note. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Just the one note.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You should check out.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny W, J-O-N-N-I-E-W.com for all the new tour dates that
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: are coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come to the live show. Live comedy is great.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things where if you watch a clip,
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it and I get like half a nickel
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  Speaker 3: and I appreciate your views. But also, come to a
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  Speaker 3: live show. I think you're going to find that comedy
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  Speaker 3: is so much better in the room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you listen to the podcast or watch
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  Speaker 1: it on YouTube, come find Johnny at the table and
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  Speaker 1: tell him.
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  Speaker 2: That always means a lot to us.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it does. And people always are like, somebody said
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  Speaker 3: that they listen and their kids are in the car.
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  Speaker 3: This is the last weekend I just did. And they said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this one. And so when I told him, this is
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  Speaker 3: the guys, we listen to their podcast, and they're like,
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  Speaker 3: which one is it? And he goes, it's the real
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  Speaker 3: tall one. That's what they described me. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that could have gone a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: I did the ugly joke at the restaurant again today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and the guy told me that, too, when I got there.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, he said, your buddy is here.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, are you Johnny? I go, yeah. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: your buddy said that a real tall, ugly guy was
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  Speaker 3: going to be here and to bring him right to
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  Speaker 3: the table.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did it hurt? It hurt.
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  Speaker 3: It hurt a little bit. I'm not feeling great about
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  Speaker 3: myself today.
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  Speaker 2: They seemed okay with it this time. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: the Uncle Jim. They were like, we'll play along. Fun.
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  Speaker 3: Fun. Then you walked in and you're like, who's got
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  Speaker 3: to play? You gave them permission to call somebody ugly.
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  Speaker 2: Since you're there before me all the time.
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  Speaker 3: What if I'd flown off the handle?
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  Speaker 2: It'd be great if I just like, how dare you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to Longhorn.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to do this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: My own podcast. Talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: I spend thousands in here. That's a, that's the number one.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very American thing. I know how much money
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  Speaker 3: I spend in here. I used to hear that at
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  Speaker 3: home Depot. I built my house in this place. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to Lowe's. I go, I don't, sir, I make
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  Speaker 3: six 50 an hour.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do. I do not know
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  Speaker 3: what to tell you. Thank you for building your house.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your service. Um, I have rung up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lumber.
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  Speaker 3: For you and I appreciate you, but this is not
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  Speaker 3: about that. I just need to see ID for your check.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's always interesting when you're working, um, Because I was
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a weed eater man for years. I mean, just filthy, dirty,
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  Speaker 1: covered in, I mean, just nasty. And when you come
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: around someone's apartment or whatever, we did apartment buildings.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They just, the way that manual laborers are treated, because
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I am a manual laborer. That was my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always interesting. The little old ladies are usually
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: really nice to me.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them. Some would be kind of mean.
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  Speaker 1: But people, if they need you to get something inside
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  Speaker 1: their fence or whatever, like, hey. come here and get
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: inside this fence. You know, it's just like, it's a
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  Speaker 1: real like, Hey, technically I'm not supposed to do that,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: but sure.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And how you treat people that can really like do
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: nothing for you or, and when nobody's watching, how you
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: treat service, that is a big character thing for me. Yeah.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: It's a big, there's one guy that did a thing.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: He said like, the big one is, do you return
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: the shopping cart to the corral? That's a big one.
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  Speaker 3: If you just like park it by your car and
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  Speaker 3: be like, okay, nobody's here. I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 3: You leave it?
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  Speaker 2: No, I take it back.
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  Speaker 3: You take it back to the corral?
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  Speaker 2: Even walk it back to the store.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I do?
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  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: I make Curry take it back to the corral. That's...
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that says about my character.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Chivalry.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Well, she's... All right, I'll take it. We'll take turns.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Well, do you come pick her up then?
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Well, sometimes.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Unless it's not far away. It's just right over there.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you should have taken an umbrella.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get the car warmed up.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, we do love it that you listen as
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: well every week. Let's do it again next week here
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  Speaker 1: on Talk About That.