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Speaker 2: Hi, Scottie, you just got back from a big trip.
Speaker 2: I'm on a trip. We're just full of trips. Guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we we have the extra. Well, you're you're on
Speaker 3: a working vacation. Mine was a semi vacation. I wasn't
Speaker 3: supposed to be, but it did work every single night. Actually,
Speaker 3: I zoomed and pitched movies and TV shows every night,
Speaker 3: which is romantic in its own way. I can't complain
Speaker 3: about it. Would I rather be at the pool bar? Yes,
Speaker 3: But sometimes you just got to pitch a rom com.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to I'm in I'm in Burlington, Vermont
Speaker 2: right now, Great state, Great state. I just had a massage.
Speaker 2: It's got it had a massage. I am I'm really
Speaker 2: I'm treating myself, how was it? It was amazing and
Speaker 2: I am even it was so good. And also I
Speaker 2: booked it like an hour and a half before. I
Speaker 2: I like, you know, an hour and a half early.
Speaker 2: I just was like, I want to do this, and
Speaker 2: then found one person who was available, and I want
Speaker 2: to shout her out. She's amazing kick at brilliant massage
Speaker 2: and skin and when an older, older Asian woman and
Speaker 2: it was one of the best massages I've ever had
Speaker 2: in my entire life. Fantastic, And Kiki was very much
Speaker 2: like giving me your card, like if you know anyone please,
Speaker 2: and I was like, you know what, Kiki, I will
Speaker 2: talk about this on my podcast because I thought that
Speaker 2: was so so excellent.
Speaker 4: So go go to Kiki. She's the best.
Speaker 3: If you're splitting wood, getting ready for the long Vermont winter,
Speaker 3: if you're tapping trees, trying to get sap out to
Speaker 3: make world famous maple syrup. When you're done at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, go see Kiki and get a
Speaker 3: massage at Brilliant Something Massages in Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 2: Brilliant massage and the skin, that's what it is in
Speaker 2: South Burlington. It was really delightful.
Speaker 3: That is delightful. I years ago, let's say nine or
Speaker 3: ten years ago, there's a massage place in China Town
Speaker 3: in La called Spabulist, like five A's in the middle
Speaker 3: of it, and it's twenty five dollars or it was
Speaker 3: at the time, or thirty dollars. So when I would
Speaker 3: get done writer's rooms, like working with colleagues or Christmas
Speaker 3: stuff or holiday stuff or whatever, I would just give
Speaker 3: all the other writers massages to Spobulous. And they thought
Speaker 3: they didn't understand it. And it was a really interesting place.
Speaker 3: You go in it's sort of a communal room, and
Speaker 3: you have your massuse and then you sit with your
Speaker 3: you roll up your pants or whatever, and you sit
Speaker 3: with your feet in like a foot bath, and then
Speaker 3: they give you a large pillow and you put the
Speaker 3: pillow on your lap and then you lean forward so
Speaker 3: that your body's kind of curved over the pillow, and
Speaker 3: then they stand behind you and give you massage. Wow
Speaker 3: for an hour.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: It was a really cool fun and like everybody appreciated.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people first thought I was
Speaker 3: sending them to a place that like was just like
Speaker 3: a hand job joint. But I wouldn't. I would not
Speaker 3: say and writers to that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Not I honestly just didn't know if that was like
Speaker 2: a real thing. And then I called. I called every
Speaker 2: single massage place in Burlington today to try and find someone,
Speaker 2: and then one was just like yea, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, do you have somewhere or
Speaker 2: twelve thirty or one. They're like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: just come. And then I was like, oh uh, this
Speaker 2: is not the way. Oh it's pace this work and there.
Speaker 2: And then I like looked them up online and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's what that place is. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: look at that, and I just go there.
Speaker 3: But so I go there with somebody that I was
Speaker 3: like kind of interested in, and we were just like
Speaker 3: having a Chinatown day. And then, for like thirty dollars
Speaker 3: a person or twenty five dollars, I was like, do
Speaker 3: you want to go grab a massage? Yes, let's get
Speaker 3: out of the heat. And so this woman and I
Speaker 3: go in and she's like this is so cool. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, this is really fun. She's like, are we
Speaker 3: going to be in the same room. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you stay fully clothed. You literally lean over a pillow
Speaker 3: with your footpath, and so we go in and we
Speaker 3: have these I have a woman and giving me one,
Speaker 3: and then she has this man giving her one, and
Speaker 3: we're next to each other. We're as close as two
Speaker 3: people sitting on a bus together. And it's great. I'm
Speaker 3: getting a massage. It's elbows and my back muscles, and
Speaker 3: I hear and the man next to her or the
Speaker 3: messeuse next to me, he goes, is that is that pressure? Okay?
Speaker 3: And she's like, can you go just a little harder?
Speaker 3: And he's like yes, And then I don't know, five minutes,
Speaker 3: maybe not maybe two minutes goes by, and she's like,
Speaker 3: can you just like maybe even harder? And he's like
Speaker 3: harder and she's like yes please. And so I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there getting tortured, feeling good, but I'm eavesdropping and she
Speaker 3: and then like they keep going, and then they're like,
Speaker 3: can you go, like just a little harder? And he's
Speaker 3: like you want me to go harder? And she's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: just as hard as you possibly can. And then he's
Speaker 3: going and then he's.
Speaker 5: Like I can't do any harder than this, Like it
Speaker 5: was exhausting him. He was wearing himself, and I honestly
Speaker 5: was like, this is just going to be a friend.
Speaker 5: If this is the normal level of massage this person
Speaker 5: can take, there are things she's working out that I
Speaker 5: won't be able to attend to. And sometimes it's good
Speaker 5: to know that sometimes maybe we should all go get
Speaker 5: a couple's massage even before we're.
Speaker 3: In relationship with somebody. Really let you know who the
Speaker 3: person you're dealing with is.
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, like I do not. I've gotten
Speaker 2: one hard massage once because it was like I had
Speaker 2: like just I work from working out. I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go and I'm going to like get
Speaker 2: a you know, a time massage and I'm going to say,
Speaker 2: do it hard. And I was in pain. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was in pain the whole time. And then afterwards I
Speaker 2: didn't feel any better.
Speaker 4: I did not feel sore better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just felt sore. I was like I was
Speaker 2: sore when I walked in there. I don't need to
Speaker 2: be additionally sore.
Speaker 3: I know. And the opposite I've had, really I've had
Speaker 3: massages that were really really weak, like just that also sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah it does, but at least it's kind of like
Speaker 3: I'll just take a face down nap. I'm just getting
Speaker 3: my back rubbed, and I'm taking a nap like a
Speaker 3: three year old. And that's more pleasant than wincing and
Speaker 3: being in pain and pretending that you're not, because when
Speaker 3: you're a guy, you just have to endure pain, and
Speaker 3: so you just go.
Speaker 2: That was what was good about this massage again be
Speaker 2: a brilliant massage, was that it was because it was like,
Speaker 2: my legs were really sore, and it was hard enough.
Speaker 2: It was hard enough. There were certain moments where I
Speaker 2: was like, damn much, but then most of it was good.
Speaker 2: And then there was a lot of stretching as well,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I need that stretching.
Speaker 3: Okay. So when I was flying back from this vacation,
Speaker 3: I don't know I sent you. You know, cell phones
Speaker 3: work a little different over there. I sent it to you,
Speaker 3: but I don't think it came through. So in the airport,
Speaker 3: I was in Verona airport, very small, very great. Also,
Speaker 3: Verona way underrated. People always go to Rome and Florence
Speaker 3: and milan'sa yea Capri and all those. Verona very charming,
Speaker 3: old school, cool city. And I'm sitting there and I
Speaker 3: see a gentleman in a suit jacket tucked in orange shirt.
Speaker 3: He's got a sort of a scarf neckerchief thing on,
Speaker 3: and he's pacing with a laptop on his shoulder, and
Speaker 3: I realized he is talking. He's talking into his laptop
Speaker 3: like a phone and pacing through the entire terminal, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, here we go. And so I'm watching
Speaker 3: this man and then I sneak out my phone and
Speaker 3: I turn to record him because he's talking. It was
Speaker 3: like that show trigger Happy TV or whatever, where it
Speaker 3: was like it felt like a prank, speaking loud Italian
Speaker 3: into a laptop on his shoulder, like a cell phone
Speaker 3: that is just way too big. So then I look
Speaker 3: around and I realized that everybody my age and younger,
Speaker 3: all the millennials and the Gen z ers, are filming
Speaker 3: this man. Secretly, I'm filming, and I could see other
Speaker 3: people's cell phones in my video because there everybody's like
Speaker 3: and Kurt, he did it for one hour, for an
Speaker 3: hour he paced around. I have video. I will put
Speaker 3: it in the stories. I've never seen somebody just so
Speaker 3: boldly do something so silly, and by the end I
Speaker 3: just ignored him because I'm like, this is this guy's thing.
Speaker 3: He hates phones. He loves talking into laptops, something I
Speaker 3: wasn't really aware that you could do, but that you
Speaker 3: could do, I guess if you have a wireless signal.
Speaker 2: Was he holding the screen to his ear and the
Speaker 2: keyboard to his mouth like it was was folded.
Speaker 3: I'll show you a ohto now so you could see
Speaker 3: the screen is on. Yeah, it's folding like a laptop,
Speaker 3: as if it was on a desk. And he it
Speaker 3: was the pacing that really did it. It was the
Speaker 3: pacing around loudly talking.
Speaker 2: He's he's, he's okay. So it's on his shoulder, the
Speaker 2: flat parts there. He's holding it like a tray, like
Speaker 2: a waiter carrying a bunch of drinks on their shoulder
Speaker 2: with their hand and.
Speaker 4: And he's gotta. Does he have a scarf?
Speaker 3: Yes? He has Italian he's an Italian man.
Speaker 2: Does he also have a Does he also have a
Speaker 2: little man purse? Yes, he also has a little man purse.
Speaker 2: He is very Italian. He is just walking, just walking
Speaker 2: and talking because it's the.
Speaker 3: Most normal thing in the world. And you know what,
Speaker 3: maybe it is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh.
Speaker 2: Around the corner from where I am, there's a place
Speaker 2: called American Flatbread in Burlington, Vermont, and I walked by
Speaker 2: it and I.
Speaker 4: Looked at it.
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, it's just pizza. It's straight up
Speaker 2: and it's not even square. It's not there's nothing about
Speaker 2: it that's bread. It's it's round, and it has cheese
Speaker 2: and it has sauce and it's just pizza. And I
Speaker 2: was like, what's up with American flatbread? That they were
Speaker 2: was is pizza too ethnic for them? That they would
Speaker 2: to swap out a two syllable word for a six
Speaker 2: syllable word. And I just I just want to name.
Speaker 2: I want to open a store next door called American
Speaker 2: Circle Cake, a donut store. I want to have a
Speaker 2: store across this. I want to have a Hamburger shop
Speaker 2: across the street. It called American Beef Sandwich.
Speaker 3: I like that too.
Speaker 2: That's not a pigeon, that's a that's an American eagle. No,
Speaker 2: that's a city eagle.
Speaker 3: Dude. I love that. Do you remember when I right
Speaker 3: when I first started working in TV and we were
Speaker 3: in New York, I was suddenly got very entrepreneurial where
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, if this really works out, if
Speaker 3: I keep working TV, maybe I can open some businesses,
Speaker 3: maybe I can make things happen. And then you understand
Speaker 3: that rents nineteen thousand dollars a month and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is never going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But my big thing was in the village in New York.
Speaker 3: I wanted to open a place called diarya burrito, and
Speaker 3: that it was a window a window service with three things.
Speaker 3: It had the best vegan burrito. I was going to
Speaker 3: get a chef to make the best vegan burrito possible.
Speaker 3: Then like a Korean burrito because those were all the
Speaker 3: rage and delicious, and then one really great classic burrito.
Speaker 3: And then a patron frozen margarita machine that was served
Speaker 3: in plastic goblets that are like to go goblets. And
Speaker 3: then besides the window, there was the cleanest toilet in Manhattan,
Speaker 3: was the idea, and it was gonna be a gold
Speaker 3: painted toilet, and when you went in there was a
Speaker 3: mirror on the back that had a crown painted onto
Speaker 3: the mirror, so when you sat down it looked like
Speaker 3: you had a little crown on your head. And I
Speaker 3: wanted to say, shit like a king today. And I
Speaker 3: was like, this will make so much money just in
Speaker 3: people buying patron frozen margaritas to use the Golden Throne toilet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: couldn't get it together. Just never made enough money to
Speaker 3: make that dream of reality. But I still think about it,
Speaker 3: you know, on cold winter nights when I'm alone, I
Speaker 3: still think about what diarrhea brito could have been. I
Speaker 3: the merch alone, the merch alone.
Speaker 4: I guess there is a possibility.
Speaker 2: It's just the people hearing the word diarrhea next to
Speaker 2: a food item.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: I think it's a fifty to fifty whether or not
Speaker 2: it would be successful. I do think that there is
Speaker 2: such a visceral aversion. It's like calling something. It's like
Speaker 2: calling something like the the bed bug hotel.
Speaker 3: You know, Yes, you're right, that's such a good That's
Speaker 3: the perfect example too, because.
Speaker 2: It's just a word that makes people like also speaking of.
Speaker 3: Hotel.
Speaker 2: Currently woke up this morning, Oh boy, and I woke
Speaker 2: up early because I wanted to. Uh, I have to
Speaker 2: wake I have like a six fifteen am flight tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I have two boys, so I have to like
Speaker 2: finish my last show, come home, go right to bread,
Speaker 2: get four hours of sleep, get on a plane, and
Speaker 2: uh so I woke up early and went over to
Speaker 2: this place Onyx Tonics, Oh the best coffee in Burlington.
Speaker 2: Really got a four shot cappuccinot normal, drank it. And
Speaker 2: then I had heard that there was a a Brooklyn
Speaker 2: of Burlington.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Winooski for when people are done with the hustle
Speaker 6: and bustle of the four block by four block.
Speaker 2: Ber LinkedIn Version corporate, they corporate, they can go to Windowski.
Speaker 2: And so I was like, I'm gonna go to Windy
Speaker 2: Breakfast over there. I'm gonna start walking and I go
Speaker 2: to call an Uber and uh, twenty it's fifteen minutes away,
Speaker 2: ten minutes away, twenty minutes for Uber to come get me.
Speaker 2: And I was like, that's gonna take thirty minutes. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna walk. There was a forty seven minute walk and
Speaker 2: uh and I start walking and just as I get
Speaker 2: out of like the main area of Brillington where there
Speaker 2: is no longer any stores or shops or anything.
Speaker 4: Uh, that is when the quad cap.
Speaker 2: I had not anticipated I needed to use the lab
Speaker 2: laverage very bad.
Speaker 3: Absolutely that makes sense.
Speaker 2: And I'm just in a neighborhood. I'm just in a neighborhood. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what to do, Like I was honestly,
Speaker 2: if I had seen someone, I would have if I
Speaker 2: had seen any human being, I would have offered them
Speaker 2: twenty dollars to come use their bathroom.
Speaker 3: Of course at their house.
Speaker 2: It was pure. And this is when you texted me.
Speaker 2: This is when you texted me. Then it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we also have a bonus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah you were. I was like, how are the shows?
Speaker 3: And Kurt's like, oh, we have to do a bonus.
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh man, and then he's like
Speaker 3: I'm in a hurry or whatever, and I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: I got it. Now, I understand the context.
Speaker 4: I'm on a log walk and things are going poorly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: finally found a place, a delightful place. They were very nice.
Speaker 2: But I also went into three separate businesses and they
Speaker 2: all told me they don't have public bathrooms. And I
Speaker 2: want to tell you, if you live in Vermont and
Speaker 2: you don't have a public bathroom, that is shit. Only
Speaker 2: New York City polls, only New York City polls. We
Speaker 2: don't have a public bathroom.
Speaker 3: Fuck you.
Speaker 2: I'm so mad about that. I hate you don't have
Speaker 2: a public bathroom.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: I looked at him and I was just like please, sir, please,
Speaker 2: And he said, no public bathroom. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to light this place on fire. That place
Speaker 2: was Momos. I'm gonna light Momos on fire.
Speaker 3: It was me, okay, good to you heard it here first.
Speaker 3: You heard it here first. That's not right. Help a
Speaker 3: help a grown man out.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Do you have a a would rather?
Speaker 3: And I have an advice? I have an advice that's
Speaker 3: just a written one, not a voicemail one. Let's do it?
Speaker 2: Would you rather? And then I got an advice here for.
Speaker 3: Here's a travel one. This might be the most I've
Speaker 3: been thinking about this all morning. Might be the hardest
Speaker 3: one for me to answer that we've ever been proposed. Wow,
Speaker 3: this was from Mary Kaufman. Thank you Mariy so much. Guys,
Speaker 3: you can send us would you rather? Anytime you want?
Speaker 3: We do bonuses once a month. We'll get to it.
Speaker 3: Would you rather find a live mouse in your airplane
Speaker 3: meal and the plane has to turn back around to
Speaker 3: the airport, or find a live mouse in your airplane
Speaker 3: meal and eat it so everyone can continue to the destination.
Speaker 3: This is so hard for me.
Speaker 2: That's crazy that we have to eat it. That's hard.
Speaker 4: It's hard.
Speaker 3: Everything else is pretty easy. This is tough because this
Speaker 3: is very hard. I am an aisle guy on a plane.
Speaker 3: I see I do. I do not like to inconvenience people.
Speaker 3: If I have to get up and pee twice, I
Speaker 3: would asking two people to get up. Would I just
Speaker 3: couldn't face the world. And yet if you were next
Speaker 3: to me and you had to go thirty times, it
Speaker 3: doesn't bother me at all. No, I'm gonna go get it.
Speaker 3: And I'm probably too I'm probably too big of a cheerleader.
Speaker 3: Can I go again? Absolutely, get in there, get in there,
Speaker 3: let it, let it all.
Speaker 4: You're weird about it, you're too aggressive about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, I'm good for two, three more of these things.
Speaker 3: We've got another hour on this flight. Get up there,
Speaker 3: say hydrated. You can cramp up up here. So this
Speaker 3: is tough because obviously I don't want to ever eat
Speaker 3: a live mouse. No, under any circumstances, I would quit
Speaker 3: the show fear factor immediately. If they're like, eat a
Speaker 3: eat a live mouse, I'd be like, yep, this is stupid.
Speaker 3: But if we were like over the Atlantic or the
Speaker 3: Pacific Ocean doing a jumbo jet and we were halfway
Speaker 3: to Hawaii, and and because of my well, also, I
Speaker 3: guess this hypothetical as you can't hide the fact that
Speaker 3: there is a mouse, because right exactly, I would just
Speaker 3: toss over my shoulder and pretend I was asleep, and
Speaker 3: a perfect.
Speaker 2: I would I would cover it back up and just
Speaker 2: be like, Wow, we're just gonna keep this in here
Speaker 2: where no one's ever going to see this.
Speaker 3: I want to when you land, when you land, let
Speaker 3: them go. What a great story he's got, probably salid In.
Speaker 3: All right, So would you rather find a live mouse?
Speaker 3: I guess have to report it and turn the whole
Speaker 3: plane around, or eat a live mouse so that everybody
Speaker 3: can get to the destination.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, oh boy, is I don't know on
Speaker 2: an airplane without tools, specifically without a knife, if I
Speaker 2: could eat a mouse, I don't know if I you
Speaker 2: know it?
Speaker 4: Also, does it have to be alive when you eat it?
Speaker 2: That's another question in the hypothetical it does, so, oh
Speaker 2: it does have to be alive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in this it's live mouse, live mouse, and both examples.
Speaker 3: So I guess, I guess we'll take the wimpy way out,
Speaker 3: the non murderous way out, and say, I guess I
Speaker 3: would return the flight because.
Speaker 2: This can't I can't imagine how I would get it
Speaker 2: small enough to swallow it.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: That's the that's my main I don't want to turn
Speaker 2: the flight around.
Speaker 3: No, I'd rather crash the plane. To be honest with you,
Speaker 3: these between these two options, I'd rather just say Nope,
Speaker 3: I'm stuck. It's been real. Yeah. I mean, I guess
Speaker 3: you could put it in like a whiskey. I guess
Speaker 3: you could ask your flight attendant for a double whiskey
Speaker 3: and just put it in there like the pickle toe drink,
Speaker 3: and just slug it down like an oyster shooter.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're fully conceiving of how big a
Speaker 2: mouse is. Like, even if it's a tiny mouse, you're
Speaker 2: still talking three inches right, more than that, and that's
Speaker 2: and that's not including the tail. That's just three inches
Speaker 2: of a body, two to three inches of a body,
Speaker 2: and that's probably an inch and a half wide.
Speaker 4: I just don't think I can slide that down my throat.
Speaker 3: Would you stand in the middle aisle and say, ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen, non binary friends, I'm going to eat this
Speaker 3: mouse so that we could Could you on to New Zealand.
Speaker 3: I would like a round of applause. Three. Let's count
Speaker 3: me down. The hero has arrived. No, I think ultimately
Speaker 3: for me, it's why kill a mouse? Why kill a
Speaker 3: mouse just to go to Delaware? You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I feel like the mouse is gonna
Speaker 2: get killed when you when you land. Whoever's going to
Speaker 2: take that mouse is gonna immediately kill it and be like,
Speaker 2: how's the mouse on the plane, how's the mouse in
Speaker 2: the food? I'm not going to release it inside the airport.
Speaker 2: M all right, let's do some.
Speaker 3: Thank you for sending that one in. It was a
Speaker 3: tough one, it was.
Speaker 2: A good one. Here it is hopefully you can hear
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: I at ban boys, I am I'm Alicia, and I
Speaker 8: am sure seeking advice is kind of timely. October nineteenth.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you're still doing this because I'm
Speaker 8: to be used in the January of twenty twenty four episodes.
Speaker 8: But we are throwing a backyard ball on October nineteenth.
Speaker 8: My husband and I and I just so we have
Speaker 8: plans for like a games tournament on fire dinner and
Speaker 8: having it kind of like celebrate the end of August. Yes,
Speaker 8: not the fall, and I just wanted any tips or
Speaker 8: tricks to make it a little warm bananas. So we're
Speaker 8: doing like backyard games. I look at the time. Backyard games,
Speaker 8: we're doing like things like ladder ball and at throwing
Speaker 8: and what.
Speaker 4: Else we're doing cub whatever cub is, and that's where
Speaker 4: it ends.
Speaker 3: Some cub.
Speaker 4: So I cross realized.
Speaker 2: Thirteen fourteen fifteen, say.
Speaker 4: Okay, this will come out like with two days left.
Speaker 3: That's plenty of t A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's plenty of time. So these need these
Speaker 4: needs to be.
Speaker 2: These need to be ideas that can be quickly and
Speaker 2: easily pulled off, not something you don't have to order
Speaker 2: anything on.
Speaker 3: That household supplies. Well. First of all, great idea. You
Speaker 3: and your partners seem very fun. And these days celebrate everything.
Speaker 3: You could celebrate whenever you can with the people you like.
Speaker 3: We could play some cork and ladele.
Speaker 2: What's cork and ladele?
Speaker 3: Well we made it up once. Cork and ladle is.
Speaker 3: You should have everybody bring some sort of ideally a
Speaker 3: cooking ladle. You know that's a lot of people might
Speaker 3: have if you don't, maybe a big spoon that's good
Speaker 3: for a punch bowl and you hang it off the
Speaker 3: back of your pants like your belt. And then everybody,
Speaker 3: when you finish wine, somebody gets the cork. And if
Speaker 3: at some point in the night they can put the
Speaker 3: cork in the ladle without you noticing and say cork
Speaker 3: and ladele, then you have to drink whatever the party
Speaker 3: drink is.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me see if I understand everyone has a ladle.
Speaker 3: Hanging from their backside.
Speaker 2: I mean, that seems like it falls off pretty fast.
Speaker 2: Is that not the case, Scottie.
Speaker 3: I've never seen one fall off in my entire life.
Speaker 3: Of course, we only played this. We only played this
Speaker 3: one night, and it was in probably two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: But when you said it's got to be household supplies,
Speaker 3: my head went cork and ladel and I think we
Speaker 3: were just slamming aftershock. I think it was just like
Speaker 3: if somebody got a cork in your ladle. Man. We
Speaker 3: had a rough night, but it's fun cork and ladele.
Speaker 3: And then we ended up putting the ladle on the
Speaker 3: ground because we only had a couple of ladles, and
Speaker 3: then we just did think we had to toss the
Speaker 3: cork across the room like quarters. And whoever landed it
Speaker 3: in the ladle one also very fun and exciting.
Speaker 2: A delight that sounds delightful. Also for more information, she
Speaker 2: said that, uh, it's a cool climate where she lives,
Speaker 2: probably in the sixties. Uh, everyone's wearing full formal wear
Speaker 2: and boots because it's gonna be muddy. So so people
Speaker 2: are dressed up and it's muddy and it's outside and cold.
Speaker 3: Sounds sounds very potentially sad. So we gotta we gotta
Speaker 3: perk this up.
Speaker 4: Potentially sad.
Speaker 3: It's just cold and muddy and sixty.
Speaker 2: Sixties sixty is pleasant, sixties easy, sixties easy. I can't like,
Speaker 2: uh my feeling off the bat o is there is
Speaker 2: something about dumb college games that are genuinely enjoyable.
Speaker 3: Some are amazing.
Speaker 2: If you had some thing like a dumb college game,
Speaker 2: but the fancy version of it, like if you had
Speaker 2: flip cup with plastic plastic champagne flutes.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it's so hard to do, so hard. No, you
Speaker 3: could do it. Somebody could do it.
Speaker 2: Or you had or the half full half full water
Speaker 2: bottle flip and toss and try and land it upright.
Speaker 2: M I like that game as well.
Speaker 3: I can't Okay, how about how about you go out
Speaker 3: and you buy one baby sized pumpkin for each person there,
Speaker 3: and everyone has to write the name. You have to
Speaker 3: give it a name and draw it a face, and
Speaker 3: then everybody exchanges it. And then the rule is within
Speaker 3: forty eight hours, everybody has to put that in a
Speaker 3: stranger's mailbox. And that's it.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. That's one percent.
Speaker 3: Well, we got to think of a name for that.
Speaker 3: We'll call it but something baby pumpkin, Baby Pumpkin.
Speaker 4: Baby Punkin hide and Seek.
Speaker 3: Okay, there we go, Baby Pumpkin hide and Seek.
Speaker 4: Oh, everybody, baby's Punkin Pikaboo, Baby Punkin pe.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're playing baby Pumpkin Peekaboo. And all you need
Speaker 3: to do, I think it was Alicia, is one pumpkin
Speaker 3: per person. Everybody has to draw a little face on
Speaker 3: it and give it a name and signe like Hi,
Speaker 3: I'm Kurt, Hi, I'm Scotty whatever, and then everybody exchanges
Speaker 3: and then the rule is you have to put it
Speaker 3: in a stranger's mailbox within the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 2: That's it. Super Scotty Scott is a genius. No folks,
Speaker 2: Scott is a genius.
Speaker 3: Well, that just sounds like something I would like to do.
Speaker 2: I would like to do that as well. Also, it's
Speaker 2: nice to give people a art activity in addition to games.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh, that's for sure. And I'm sure this will
Speaker 3: have some sort of fire thing. That's what I went
Speaker 3: there first, like the idea of you're ending season, you're
Speaker 3: starting a new season, so do you is there something
Speaker 3: something where you intention? And then we're not an intention,
Speaker 3: we're something that something that you either want to get
Speaker 3: rid of or want in your life.
Speaker 2: And then write it down and everybody throws it in
Speaker 2: the fire right right.
Speaker 3: And then and then kurts game my baby bird whiskey
Speaker 3: in the mouth, baby.
Speaker 2: Bird whiskey in the mouth, which we invented at my wedding, uh,
Speaker 2: which is you pour with whiskey in your mouth and
Speaker 2: then you baby birded into someone else's mouth.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's delightful and it doesn't uh pass on any
Speaker 2: diseases or because it's whiskey, guys, it kills everything. Here's
Speaker 2: and here's what I actually want at my next dinner party.
Speaker 2: Here is what I want, because when you have a
Speaker 2: group of people that is larger than six people. Okay,
Speaker 2: you get stuck across and next to because you're always
Speaker 2: at one of those tables where it's like everybody's just
Speaker 2: across from someone and next to someone a long table,
Speaker 2: and I hate that.
Speaker 4: Even if I'm with the most entertaining people in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: So here's how it works. Every five minutes, you have
Speaker 2: to move. Every five minutes, everybody moves places.
Speaker 4: And we have to just figure out how.
Speaker 2: So if it's if it's if it's a long table,
Speaker 2: and it goes so the people on the far side
Speaker 2: move to their right and the people on the closer
Speaker 2: side move No, no, everybody moves to their right, so
Speaker 2: that it then shifts and you go around the corner
Speaker 2: like a conveyor belt. So then you're always talking to
Speaker 2: new people every five minutes and you meet everybody at
Speaker 2: the party in one meal.
Speaker 3: All right, let's add a song to this, just one
Speaker 3: song that's about the right length, because I think this
Speaker 3: is a great idea that every every time that song ends,
Speaker 3: you switch places. It's basically like social musical chairs. But
Speaker 3: then the song can be what's a good five minute song?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Or do you do five minutes? It really just
Speaker 2: depends on how many people are there, because if you're
Speaker 2: all sitting down for dinner and it will only take
Speaker 2: like six rotations for everybody to meet each other, then
Speaker 2: it's you can do it for ten minutes, you know.
Speaker 2: Or but let's look for a song as well. If
Speaker 2: it's like a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's fun. I mean, I I mean, now I'm
Speaker 3: thinking one. I like this idea so much. Now I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: does our host couple make a little fall party end
Speaker 3: of season passport? Just meaning a little cool piece of
Speaker 3: paper that says, you know, Alicia and Steve's Winter Bonanza. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And everybody that's coming is told to bring a sticker
Speaker 3: and then you have to interact with every single person
Speaker 3: you get stamp or sticker in your passport to leave
Speaker 3: the party. I love that.
Speaker 2: That's great, that exist, that a one hundred percent should exist.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll do that for my next party. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'm gonna throw a New Your's Eve party
Speaker 3: this year. I may. I might do a pants cutting party.
Speaker 3: I haven't quite decided yet. But if the next time
Speaker 3: I throw a rager, I'm gonna make social passports for everybody,
Speaker 3: and everybody has to bring either a stamp or a sticker,
Speaker 3: and then you can't leave until you visited every single island,
Speaker 3: every person. I love it. That would be so fun.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so fun. And people will forget to bring
Speaker 2: stickers and stamps, so you need to have a bunch
Speaker 2: of backs on the hand. That's right, you have to
Speaker 2: have hand. Yeah, you have to have them in the hand.
Speaker 3: But Scratchitsif stickers are on Amazon Prime and boyd that
Speaker 3: they smell like they did in nineteen eighty three, they
Speaker 3: all they haven't changed the sense at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, good one.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's do it. Would rather than an advice.
Speaker 3: This is a classic. This is from Aaron Kate. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Aaron Kate, thank you, so simple, straightforward. Would you rather
Speaker 3: be reincarnated as a cat or a dog?
Speaker 7: Oh hmm, I know I would come back as a
Speaker 7: cat because there's sometimes a lad outside of the house.
Speaker 3: I think I'm already a dog. I think I already am.
Speaker 3: I'm like one. I just am already a dog that
Speaker 3: wears human clothes and has a podcast like I, I
Speaker 3: know what cats are up to. I want to know
Speaker 3: what they're thinking. M Also, cats live longer. If you're
Speaker 3: going to get a second time around the old wet marble.
Speaker 3: You might as well. Cats lived for a long time.
Speaker 3: They really do.
Speaker 4: I was shocked and surprised at how long cats live.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see oldest cat in history, oldest cat.
Speaker 2: I think it's thirty eight years.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love that. I love that you had thirty
Speaker 3: eight years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just looked it up recently.
Speaker 3: Oh good, and three days. If you remember the name,
Speaker 3: I'm going to send a jersey Mike's to your house
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: No, I don't scuber skim.
Speaker 3: Cream Puff, which is a great name. So thirty eight
Speaker 3: days and three years was cream Puff. It was a
Speaker 3: great looking cat. And then oldest dog in history. See
Speaker 3: it's an educational podcast.
Speaker 2: It is an educational podcast.
Speaker 3: History known history. We should say was oh yeah, Bobby.
Speaker 3: We reported on Bobby. For some reason, I thought somebody thirty.
Speaker 2: Years, thirty years, all right, look at that. Hey, eight years,
Speaker 2: I'm going dog. I'm going dog, you diurney do dog,
Speaker 2: because it's not worth the extra eight years. Say that
Speaker 2: now that eight years is probably not that pleasant. We're
Speaker 2: assuming every animal is gonna live to the most age.
Speaker 2: And also, I just feel like I don't think I
Speaker 2: can deny my own nature enough to be a cat.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna be a dog even if I
Speaker 2: was a cat, So why not be a dog? You
Speaker 2: want to have a new experience, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: incapable of having one.
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean maybe it's there. It's funny because
Speaker 3: I don't currently have a pet cat. You know, Punk
Speaker 3: stayed at the cabin. Punk didn't come with, and when
Speaker 3: I moved here, there was like a cat. One day,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh sweet, now I have a new cat.
Speaker 3: But then haven't seen it since. But every time I
Speaker 3: see a missing cat poster in LA, I truly have
Speaker 3: the thought, I hope I find it. I'll go keep
Speaker 3: this cat. It's like I don't ever want Jill. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to have children. It's not happening. But every
Speaker 3: once in a while, I'm like, in a horrible situation,
Speaker 3: if I had to take certain friends' kids or my nephews, obviously,
Speaker 3: but I would take them in a heartbeat, like and
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, that'd be kind of fun I mean,
Speaker 3: not the bad part, but everything after it's funny. There's
Speaker 3: something about cats. When I see a missing one or whatever,
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I kind of hope that cat ends
Speaker 3: up just wanting to kick it with me for the
Speaker 3: next thirty eight years. Good old cream puff.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do some advice.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is from Abby CB. Hey, Abby CB. I
Speaker 3: think this is Abby's first DM to us ever too,
Speaker 3: so we gotta love that.
Speaker 2: That's not Oh heck yeah.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the DM machine gun firing responses. Hello, can
Speaker 3: I get some advice? I work in climate policy trying
Speaker 3: to stop fossil fuel companies from kill us all, which
Speaker 3: is pretty challenging and stressful.
Speaker 2: I can imagine it.
Speaker 3: Seems like it. I am desperate for a low key,
Speaker 3: silly hobby that does involve any critical thinking, so I
Speaker 3: can actually unwind and relax when I'm not working. What
Speaker 3: you got for me? That'd be great question? Thanks for
Speaker 3: fighting fossil fuel companies. I'm go in the market for
Speaker 3: a new lease, Kurt, and I'm I'm looking at at
Speaker 3: least hybrid's, if not full EV's, and I gotta say
Speaker 3: they're getting pretty good. Oh yeah, get and.
Speaker 2: Get a pretty good if you're gonna have one car,
Speaker 2: I would recommend plug in, plug in hybrid. If you
Speaker 2: get a hybrid instead of an EV, get a plug
Speaker 2: in hybrid because then la, everything's like under twenty five miles, right,
Speaker 2: so you can ride on electric all the time if
Speaker 2: you plug it in every night. Okay, I got that's
Speaker 2: my that's my that's my recommendation.
Speaker 3: I'm joining ABBYCB and fight against fossil fuels. That's my pledge.
Speaker 3: Fun low key Bobby, that requires no critical thinking.
Speaker 2: AI video bird feeder there it is, Okay. My kids
Speaker 2: have just forced me to buy one. I have one now,
Speaker 2: and it is what a treat. What a treat. It
Speaker 2: identifies all the birds that come. It sends you a
Speaker 2: little alert to your phone. Sometimes we have so many
Speaker 2: birds I have to turn my phone off because it's
Speaker 2: just like house finch, house finch, housefinch, squirrel, squirrel, house finch,
Speaker 2: house finch, housefinch. They get a lot of housefinches, right,
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 4: Get to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it like tracks everything and tells you like where,
Speaker 2: like who's coming the most, and gives you like graphs
Speaker 2: and everything. So that's kind of it's very low key.
Speaker 2: And then my next thing would be woodworking. I love wordworking.
Speaker 3: I think woodworking is a great recommendation and I I
Speaker 3: would like to do that also. I just say sadly. Yes.
Speaker 3: My I have several family members that you know, in
Speaker 3: retirement have found different things. I know a couple of
Speaker 3: them have started taking watercolors classes. Mm hmm, that seems delightful.
Speaker 3: My aunt Kate does it. My aunt Isabel's a great painter.
Speaker 3: She can already do the whole damn thing. But it
Speaker 3: seems like a great, easy, totally peaceful, low stress thing.
Speaker 3: But on top of those, I think, okay, if we
Speaker 3: had a friend in la that made a certain type
Speaker 3: of food that did drop offs, what food would be
Speaker 3: most exciting when when somebody was like, oh crap, Abby
Speaker 3: just texted she made blah blah blah of blah blah blahs.
Speaker 3: How many do we want, Lauren?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Because I think making a specialized thing that people actually
Speaker 3: want is maybe once and once a month, like not
Speaker 3: in everything you're making apple pies, because that takes forever.
Speaker 2: But something I don't know why I'm saying this. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say spinacopita.
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, it's delicious.
Speaker 2: First of all, it's so good, and if it's homemade
Speaker 2: and well done, you're just like, oh yeah. Also, it's
Speaker 2: not like god like horrible for you there's spinach in
Speaker 2: there at least, you know what I mean. So then
Speaker 2: you're just like, oh, I could definitely get four spentacopas dudeford.
Speaker 3: Okay, Abby, maybe already a cook maybe or not, but
Speaker 3: maybe you focus on and you give yourself a year
Speaker 3: of practice to really become ungodly good at at at
Speaker 3: that at I mean, God, that caught me so off.
Speaker 3: I'd bean baccava is similar. Ye uh oh my god.
Speaker 4: That is so it's a savory treat that you don't
Speaker 4: get that often, do you know?
Speaker 3: Breaking food? All Greek food is so delicious, it's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would say, pick one very unexpected food item and
Speaker 3: slowly master it and to the point where you deliver
Speaker 3: small amounts to your closest friends on a bi monthly basis,
Speaker 3: meaning every two months, not twice a month, and just
Speaker 3: build up to the point where when that text comes
Speaker 3: through people are so excited. And then you can spend
Speaker 3: a lazy Sunday afternoon driving around, maybe get a friend
Speaker 3: to drive you around, and just do some deliveries to
Speaker 3: people you like and be like, yeah, we don't know
Speaker 3: why she does it, but it's so good and we
Speaker 3: look forward to it. Every time.
Speaker 2: I love that so much.
Speaker 3: There was a what are those Filipino for lack of
Speaker 3: a better word, A g rolls. They're called because I
Speaker 3: grew up with this kid, uh lumpia, Oh okay, spring rolls.
Speaker 3: They're a savory mixture of poor cabbage and other veggies.
Speaker 3: So I grew up with this kid named Colon like
Speaker 3: Colon Powell or Colon like your butthole. And his mom
Speaker 3: once a year would make like one thousand lumpia all
Speaker 3: day or for two days, and she would like she
Speaker 3: would give us some if we were in the neighborhood
Speaker 3: and we'd come over, and I'm like, every year I
Speaker 3: would look forward to this thing. But basically Colon and
Speaker 3: his sister had to bag them, and then she like
Speaker 3: had everybody's name on him and so this but for her,
Speaker 3: she was a Filipino woman, so this was a culturally
Speaker 3: it made perfect sense. But for you, Abby, find something
Speaker 3: that doesn't make sense and get great at it's something
Speaker 3: you'd love, something that you can slowly get great at
Speaker 3: and take a woodworking class. There we go. That both fun.
Speaker 2: That is a bonus. Sade folks, thank you so much, Scottie,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 3: I hope you have wonderful shows tonight the people of Vermont,
Speaker 3: laff and laf and laf and uh sorry, you gotta
Speaker 3: get up early and fly back. In the morning. I'll
Speaker 3: be here watching the Dodgers playing the New York Mets.
Speaker 3: And if you're bored late in the evening, I'll probably
Speaker 3: be in Atwater Village watching that game at a bar.
Speaker 3: So come join me for one.
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