Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home? Either way, we want
Speaker 2: to be there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 1: time and a termino and gay.
Speaker 2: We want to send you off in style. We wanna
Speaker 2: welcome you back home. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1: We scared her? Was it fine? Malborn?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
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Speaker 2: Ride with Karen and Chris? Welcome to Do you need
Speaker 2: to ride? This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgareff.
Speaker 3: We, contrary to what you might think, because there have
Speaker 3: been episodes, have not seen each other since November.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Oh shit, this is the longest we've we've not seen
Speaker 3: each other. Well, I guess there's COVID, but at least
Speaker 3: there was zoom correspondence, which back then was normal. It's
Speaker 3: very abnormal for us to have not seen each other
Speaker 3: this long. We have to we get to know each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. We should, definitely, we should get curious
Speaker 1: about each other's personalities. How was your holiday break?
Speaker 3: It was great. I went to Montana to New York
Speaker 3: I came back and the.
Speaker 2: City was on fire. So that was the Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was did you get to see them from the plane?
Speaker 1: The fires?
Speaker 2: I did not know to even look for them. But no,
Speaker 2: it was like the next day it's oh good, got it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those but those winds. Did you have to
Speaker 1: land in those winds?
Speaker 3: And it was terrifying, Yeah, a lot of I saw
Speaker 3: a flight attendant.
Speaker 1: Hover oh up in the air and not come back down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it very much looked like a magic trick and
Speaker 3: there was, but it was weightlessness for a.
Speaker 2: Minute, Jesus for a second.
Speaker 1: Christ.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she did not have a poker face about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like what in the.
Speaker 3: Her eyes went a ruga and uh and yeah we
Speaker 3: we were not. Everyone kind of panicked. But it was
Speaker 3: right before landing. It's always like right before you land.
Speaker 3: But it was a wind based I don't think it's
Speaker 3: even turbulence when it's just clearly wind.
Speaker 2: That is just Yeah, it was scary.
Speaker 1: It is. It was scary on the ground. It was
Speaker 1: got up to like eighty miles an hour. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Shit blew down. It was just kind of like unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But then of course, like the fires somebody because somebody
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody and they're like, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I'm gonna come into the office today because
Speaker 1: the wind. And I didn't know anything out. I didn't
Speaker 1: know about any of the fires had started. I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything else. So I was just like, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna not come in because of the wind. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: And I just kind of didn't say anything because I
Speaker 1: was like, well, and then of course it was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what's happening. What are you talking about? And then it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're just basically getting served up for
Speaker 1: a massive disaster everyone can see coming. Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's always these times where I'm where, especially after a trip,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't want to look at my phone
Speaker 3: for just a day. What's the harm in that? But
Speaker 3: you just can't do that anymore. No, And I did
Speaker 3: the same thing. I was not looking at my phone,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, I'm getting messages are
Speaker 3: you okay?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, huh.
Speaker 3: And the only thing that was updating us is a
Speaker 3: independently run app.
Speaker 2: Called watch Duty, a nonprofit.
Speaker 3: A nonprofit and that should be monitored by some government agency,
Speaker 3: you would think, but it's just some guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I think women are definitely involved. And I know
Speaker 1: for a fact that the creators lived in Santa Rosa,
Speaker 1: which is a town above Penaluma that like about four
Speaker 1: years ago there was really horrible wildfires that swept through
Speaker 1: at three am and killed all these people in their beds,
Speaker 1: and basically the people that created.
Speaker 2: Watch Duty were in the community.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they were directly affected, but basically
Speaker 1: it was because they're like, people need to know when
Speaker 1: these fires are there, when they are coming, like, needs
Speaker 1: to be a warning system that is not your neighbor's
Speaker 1: wildly pounding on your door at three am, which is
Speaker 1: the only thing that saved people in those Santa as
Speaker 1: a wildfire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the nineteen eighties knock on the door.
Speaker 1: And I have to say this, my sister and I
Speaker 1: talked about it because so my sister during that time
Speaker 1: they heard about all that. Then the fires were coming
Speaker 1: down from the north and over from the east, So
Speaker 1: my sister was in this position at one point where
Speaker 1: she was waiting for She's literally watching the hill to
Speaker 1: see if the fire was going to make it over
Speaker 1: to basically her neighborhood. So there was one that way
Speaker 1: and then there they knew that there was the one
Speaker 1: that had just gone out from the north from the north,
Speaker 1: so it was like stress beyond belief. And she got
Speaker 1: in my ear like the day that I evacuated, because
Speaker 1: she was like, you got to make sure your car's charge,
Speaker 1: get your go back. She was like getting me ready
Speaker 1: even before she knew where any of the fires were
Speaker 1: because she was so traumatized by what they went through
Speaker 1: simply by trying to be prepared. So she was trying
Speaker 1: to prepare me. And then around five but I went
Speaker 1: into a full like doesn't matter, nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And then my assistant Jay called and he had already
Speaker 1: evacuated because he was on the west side near the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire. He texted me and goes, you need to
Speaker 1: get out now. There's because there was at one point
Speaker 1: four fires around me and so it's like a little
Speaker 1: horn around my home. And he was like, get out now,
Speaker 1: get out before everybody else tries to get out. And
Speaker 1: that is the recommendation for something like that, because I
Speaker 1: think people stay to either fight for their material possessions
Speaker 1: or because they're embarrassed. They don't want to like panic
Speaker 1: and run, and it's like, why not just get out
Speaker 1: before there's insane traffic and people are like, you know,
Speaker 1: before you're stuck.
Speaker 3: In the saddest thing is old people that maybe aren't
Speaker 3: looking at their phones right and they're getting last minute
Speaker 3: notices and it's too late.
Speaker 2: The fires were going so quickly. It was just so scary.
Speaker 2: So you did leave town?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I did twice.
Speaker 3: I still have belongings in my car, and it's hilarious
Speaker 3: when given twenty minutes, what I will grab that I
Speaker 3: think is important. I grabbed art from college bin of
Speaker 3: old art.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I spent a long time on this.
Speaker 3: I left like my mom's ashes because the damage that's
Speaker 3: done there and we've already done things with the ashes.
Speaker 3: I'm not making light of ash spreading, but there's just
Speaker 3: leftovers and I but I did stare at it for
Speaker 3: a second, like shure, I bring that right.
Speaker 2: My passport in case I want to go on a vacation.
Speaker 3: You could and a snowboard that I got for free,
Speaker 3: but it's worth my I brought a snowboard and put
Speaker 3: it in my car. I'm terrible at compartmentalizing what is important.
Speaker 1: Well, we literally should have like a file folder so
Speaker 1: that it's it's one grab for that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's literally one of the things my sister told me
Speaker 1: that I completely ignored.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I sadly found myself grabbing a lot of power chords
Speaker 1: and chargers, as if I was going to go somewhere
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have power or something like I was going
Speaker 1: to a hotel and it's like, you'll be fine, just
Speaker 1: plug in the one and you'll be fine. But I
Speaker 1: brought like options of chords and it was weird. It
Speaker 1: was a very odd. I think it was just things
Speaker 1: in front of me that I was like, could this
Speaker 1: help me later? And then like one thing off of
Speaker 1: like a shelf that was from my childhood.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, replaceable photos I think you're supposed to bring,
Speaker 3: but I don't have those. They were lost long ago
Speaker 3: when someone moved into my mom's house as a rental.
Speaker 3: Long story, but.
Speaker 1: Long story that I bet it is kind of sad.
Speaker 1: At the end, it was nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything I start talking about, I'm like, ah, this
Speaker 3: one has another.
Speaker 1: Sad one's a real twist down.
Speaker 2: This one has an animal in it. No, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't. So many stories. I have to stop.
Speaker 1: That's well, that's where we send people over to your blog.
Speaker 1: Read Chris's tragic animal story today. Yes, he has it
Speaker 1: all written out for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am, I'm I'm such a blogger.
Speaker 3: I love sharing bad news and this is not the
Speaker 3: place for it.
Speaker 2: People come here to get cheered up.
Speaker 1: Yes, we have to provide that or maybe sometimes your
Speaker 1: feel I need stories actually give them perspective of Right, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're all on a clock here, let's really make the
Speaker 1: most of it. Let's be good to each other.
Speaker 2: And cats.
Speaker 1: You never know what a cat is dealing with.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why I've told that story fifteen times, is
Speaker 3: because each every other time it's uplifting.
Speaker 1: I just realized something. I wonder if you'll relate to this.
Speaker 1: I've started to use a new lip balm because I
Speaker 1: need to use lip balm with SPF in it.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: So I will get a cold store in the sun
Speaker 1: and you can yep, and you can't. I can't use
Speaker 1: just anyone because they sometimes have a terrible SPF taste.
Speaker 1: Some of them don't. This one really does. This one
Speaker 1: I put on right before we.
Speaker 3: Left the office, and it's and it's it. Yeah, my
Speaker 3: lip bomb has deet in it.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want these chemicals.
Speaker 2: I know it's near me.
Speaker 3: No, you're just sometimes you just gotta be like our
Speaker 3: grandmas and put a little vasse lain on your lips.
Speaker 3: Just cup your hand, grab a nice heap in amount
Speaker 3: and just slather it over your face.
Speaker 1: Get a scoop.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's from petroleum. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's probably flammable.
Speaker 1: Is it could be?
Speaker 3: Is petroleum jelly flammable? Could I put a wick in it?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna we're gonna have to throw this back to analis.
Speaker 2: Who does little science experiments, who knows all these things
Speaker 2: as we demand it.
Speaker 1: If you put can you look that up? Do you mind? Onalise?
Speaker 1: If you put a wick into a handscoop of vassili, yes,
Speaker 1: it has to be hand scooped handscoop.
Speaker 2: If you did that before the holidays.
Speaker 3: I went to a birthday party my girlfriend partner.
Speaker 2: It is not flammable.
Speaker 4: Jelly is not flammable, but if heated to extremely high
Speaker 4: temperatures of more than four hundred degrees, it may give
Speaker 4: off flammable vapors.
Speaker 1: At that point, when isn't everything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say right, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 3: could be a piece of glass at some point becomes
Speaker 3: quite flammable. But I'm not gonna experiment with it at home.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of what. I always get these
Speaker 3: Instagram videos. They're like, hey, are you a survivalist, Here's
Speaker 3: how you make a candle? And I don't absorb the information.
Speaker 3: I find it interesting. I sometimes like it to later
Speaker 3: review it and then I forget what it was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I haven't been camping in oh a decade.
Speaker 1: Well get on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I want to.
Speaker 3: I bought a tent, I have a sleeping pad. I
Speaker 3: have a solar flashlight.
Speaker 1: I have a brink radio.
Speaker 3: All things I didn't put in my car when I
Speaker 3: abandoned my place. Why would you? Why would I? They
Speaker 3: were right there next to the car in the garage.
Speaker 3: Here are actually survivalist items. Yeah, let me leave it behind.
Speaker 1: Because it's not that's not the way your brain is moving.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: And also I was like, I have to I need
Speaker 1: to get out of here, and I need to, like
Speaker 1: I think I already I've put most comics already, like
Speaker 1: Live kind of Light. I don't know a lot of
Speaker 1: comics that are like right, because you were always gone.
Speaker 1: It makes you kind of come home and look at
Speaker 1: your stuff and be like, why is all this shit
Speaker 1: on the counter?
Speaker 3: Well, I've become good at packing, have you, but for a.
Speaker 2: Comedy out of town?
Speaker 3: So when it's like take what's only necessary, I did
Speaker 3: bring four pairs of socks, four pairs of underwear, two
Speaker 3: pairs of pants. It's like, I'm not going to go
Speaker 3: do stand up somewhere, right, what am I doing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: And also did you leave? And then you were just
Speaker 1: like I don't know how long I'm gonna be gone?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was that what fire was near you? Altadnik was coming
Speaker 1: towards it.
Speaker 3: It was just and I nothing compared to That's why
Speaker 3: I feel even embarrassed.
Speaker 2: That I was that worried.
Speaker 3: But there was a warning of this undulating it was there,
Speaker 3: and then it wasn't there. This warning line that was
Speaker 3: like the stage one, which was just.
Speaker 2: Be aware, yes, and that was enough for me.
Speaker 3: The reason I got out of town is houses when
Speaker 3: they melt, it's plastic, it's asbestos, it is lead in
Speaker 3: the paint. Everything is just vaporized and in the air.
Speaker 3: And I had a headache. This is a curious move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So close, so close that she could have handed
Speaker 2: us in and out order.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 2: The craziest thing I've seen on this show.
Speaker 3: That was a roller skating waitress distance from the window.
Speaker 1: Guys. A woman went to turn left in a very
Speaker 1: uh neighborhoody kind of street, then decided she wasn't going
Speaker 1: to go ahead and finish the left, and then just
Speaker 1: started driving straight toward the front of this car in.
Speaker 3: A hey you ain't from around here, are you, type
Speaker 3: of almost aggressive.
Speaker 2: Well, had the sweetest look on her face.
Speaker 1: She was it was slow, you could have interpreted that
Speaker 1: way as they were kind of scoping us out. Then
Speaker 1: when they got closer, you realized this woman was barely
Speaker 1: over the steering wheel and she was just trying to
Speaker 1: kind of make the best of what she was doing
Speaker 1: on the road. She's about fifteen minutes away from getting
Speaker 1: her license pulled. Yeah, I think, yes, probably ninety two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I think that. She just gave
Speaker 2: us a look like, does it look.
Speaker 3: Like I'm in control of how far I am from you?
Speaker 3: How close I this is just my body.
Speaker 1: She did a wave that's a very old person wave
Speaker 1: where she cupped her whole hand and waved downward right.
Speaker 2: The old my knuckles hurt wave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the old rheumatis return right this wave. It was
Speaker 1: just kind of like she could have been saying down
Speaker 1: boy to a dog. Oh, that male man thought I
Speaker 1: was waving at him by my example.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your service, sir.
Speaker 1: We love you Mary Christmas.
Speaker 2: That's why we're giving you the claw.
Speaker 1: The old Grandma pancake hand down.
Speaker 2: We're just driving around the area to find our the
Speaker 2: neighborhood security.
Speaker 1: Hello. Hello, it's you again your New Year's sir.
Speaker 3: We're just we're questioning what you're doing in the neighborhood, partner.
Speaker 1: Let's see within five hundred feet of a school. We'll
Speaker 1: make sure we didn't like the cut of his jib. Wait,
Speaker 1: you're going to say something else.
Speaker 2: My I said my partner for the first time.
Speaker 3: I don't you know I work at Jacobine and Myers.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: She went to LaGuardia High School with her childhood chums,
Speaker 3: where Sarah Paulson and.
Speaker 2: Pedro Piscal and a number of people that went on.
Speaker 1: Was that like an arts high school?
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, yeah, And we got invited to Sarah
Speaker 3: Paulson's birthday party, which was I've never been to the chateau.
Speaker 2: It is right, and it was like a shared.
Speaker 3: Like you know, three rooms with an outdoor patio, and
Speaker 3: it was I was not prepared. I did not know
Speaker 3: I would freak out seeing certain faces, like what faces
Speaker 3: I Glenn Close was there, Demi Moore was there? Wow,
Speaker 3: Sandra Bullock was there, Amy Adams, and then also.
Speaker 2: Just current young actors that I don't know.
Speaker 3: Their names, but I'm like, wow, you're sure and wicked,
Speaker 3: but we're just dancing and no one knows. It's everyone
Speaker 3: being normal and sweet. I needed to see it because
Speaker 3: it's a room full of people that also feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: And you can tell that celebrities are not at all
Speaker 3: riddled with confidence that we don't possess. Maybe obviously in
Speaker 3: an audition room they are. But Pedro Pascal I have
Speaker 3: to report as the sweetest, kindest, oh most engaging. It's
Speaker 3: every everyone knows that already, but I'm just confirming it.
Speaker 1: So you got to actually hang out with Pedro.
Speaker 2: Yes, he wanted to loan me some Uh well, Buttrin.
Speaker 1: Chris, you you have an ability to bury the lead
Speaker 1: in a way that is mind boggling.
Speaker 2: I tell stories like Christopher Nolan yeah, but love.
Speaker 3: And also the goofiest, funnest person. His name he is
Speaker 3: in Sugar. He's in Ozark. His name is Something Butler.
Speaker 2: Aaron Butler, the guy that played Elvis. No, no, Austin Butler. Aaron, No, No,
Speaker 2: I should know his name.
Speaker 3: He's he's in Sugar at the end when when I
Speaker 3: don't know what you mean. Sugar is a great show
Speaker 3: with with mister eyebrows himself, Colin Ferrell's who's like an
Speaker 3: it's great, you got.
Speaker 1: Oh he's an investigator.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've seen it's so I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 3: But his best friend in it is this actor who
Speaker 3: is very funny, and we were dancing. It's not no,
Speaker 3: it's Something Butler. I will look right now.
Speaker 2: I liked him so much and and.
Speaker 1: I will. Do you think any of them are going
Speaker 1: to listen to our podcast?
Speaker 2: No, certainly not.
Speaker 1: Wait, you didn't pass for Sarah.
Speaker 2: Paulson's mom Will. She's a big fan.
Speaker 3: I love her. She's wacky and I love meaning moms. Oh,
Speaker 3: don't do that to me, missus Paulson.
Speaker 1: Marien Paulson.
Speaker 2: Ever, she was on Mushrooms and she was hilarious and.
Speaker 1: I loved her that's her name is not Doris, because
Speaker 1: Doris does not do much room.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, there's never been a Doris that.
Speaker 1: She's more of a Janet Paulson, the mate Paulson.
Speaker 3: Yes, Kathy, it was, Yes, the actor that is so
Speaker 3: funny and fun to dance with and kind. And it
Speaker 3: was just I think it's Answerah invited all these people
Speaker 3: she went to LaGuardia with.
Speaker 2: So it was all these It was like a.
Speaker 3: Reunion, high school reunion for people that some have moved
Speaker 3: on to do entirely different things.
Speaker 2: Other people teach acting.
Speaker 3: But they hadn't seen each other in years, and so
Speaker 3: I was watching what I hope to have one day,
Speaker 3: which is a friend's only high school reunion. But it's
Speaker 3: they all flew and went to this thing. So it
Speaker 3: was Jason Butler Harner.
Speaker 2: Is his name?
Speaker 1: Can we see a picture?
Speaker 3: That guy is the funnest dude. Oh he's British right,
Speaker 3: No he if so he was hiding it.
Speaker 1: Let me see. But that guy, okay, is the fun
Speaker 1: he's he's like a long time working actor.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's just one of those those guys. But
Speaker 3: he plays a lot of bad guys. That's why it's
Speaker 3: it's funny to meet someone and see that they're a
Speaker 3: full on, hilarious goofball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can get that from anyone.
Speaker 3: When you see them dance to nineties, you know it
Speaker 3: was all music from everyone.
Speaker 2: There was my age, and it was it was amazing fun.
Speaker 1: That was So the headline of that would have been like, hey,
Speaker 1: I went to a big time celebrity party.
Speaker 3: Yes I did, but I don't like those words coming
Speaker 3: out of my mouth. So I had to Nolan my
Speaker 3: way through it. So it was revealed because I don't.
Speaker 1: Want to think that means what's the problem with those
Speaker 1: words coming out of your mouth? Is that like a
Speaker 1: leftover nineties thing for you?
Speaker 3: I that I don't want to name drop it stuff.
Speaker 2: I think we all avoid that, don't we. I just
Speaker 2: do it in a confusing way.
Speaker 1: Right, But yeah, you're still doing it. So it's like,
Speaker 1: at least tell us what got to happen.
Speaker 2: But people want to hear these people were great.
Speaker 3: If I went to a thing and everyone was a jerk,
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't tell this.
Speaker 1: Jory no, completely Well, I think that's like you're no,
Speaker 1: You're completely right to tell it. I love that you're
Speaker 1: telling it. I'm saying you shouldn't even hesitate. It's the
Speaker 1: reason we all moved here. Like, I'm here for exactly
Speaker 1: that moment where Pedro Pascal is somehow standing next to
Speaker 1: me at the coffee bean and tea leaf and I
Speaker 1: get to have some sort of short personal exchange. You
Speaker 1: got to have like a true night long hang. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I really was off in the distance most because
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't want anyone for a second
Speaker 3: to be like, who is that guy?
Speaker 2: I didn't, so.
Speaker 1: So you're shaking hands or doing anything eventually because people
Speaker 1: like who are you hi?
Speaker 2: Asking me questions.
Speaker 3: I noticed a thing about New York people is they
Speaker 3: will ask you about your day, what you're up to,
Speaker 3: what you're all about, in a way where I'm used to,
Speaker 3: I think, and I'm not. I love this city and
Speaker 3: I love it all the black sheep of their families,
Speaker 3: artists moved here.
Speaker 2: It's great. I love that I have that in common
Speaker 2: with everyone.
Speaker 3: But people do have a tendency here to talk about themselves,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeahs don't change the narcissism.
Speaker 2: In New York.
Speaker 3: I don't see that as much. I was like talking
Speaker 3: to strangers and connecting. I'm like, oh, New York is
Speaker 3: it the friendliest city? What is happening this? Hey I'm
Speaker 3: walking here about a being thing was not occurring, No,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah it's yeah. I didn't. I need to
Speaker 2: look at a map before I judge areas. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just great.
Speaker 1: And I don't tell my friend Albertina.
Speaker 2: Right, No, I love that name though.
Speaker 1: Oh well she's You've been at parties with her several times.
Speaker 1: She is. She is a like a New York City
Speaker 1: native and she the reason she and I've been friends
Speaker 1: for so long is because I find that kind of friendship.
Speaker 1: It's like what my family is like where it's just
Speaker 1: like she'll be like, no, come on. I'll be like, sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't come. We made it a dinner plan. Now
Speaker 1: I can't come. I'm exhausted. And she'll be like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm here, and then I'm like, oh, you're right, I'll
Speaker 1: be there. Like it's like a person that's like more
Speaker 1: like a sister than a friend. They're like they're pushy,
Speaker 1: they're gonna tell you what they really think. They're gonna not,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna lie, they're not gonna whatever, and that's
Speaker 1: like so much better than the like I'll tell you
Speaker 1: whatever you want to hear so I can get something right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think this group of people, I could
Speaker 3: tell it was very important for them to be around
Speaker 3: each other and stay in contact. And I just noticed,
Speaker 3: and I think it's me a little bit, and I'm
Speaker 3: trying to change that.
Speaker 2: I don't really have that.
Speaker 3: I've become a weird hermit guy and I'm fighting it
Speaker 3: and I'm getting out of it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying my best.
Speaker 1: You're not a hermit.
Speaker 3: No, No, I go outside, I do think, but they
Speaker 3: are so lowly things we do sports where you're by
Speaker 3: yourself and and talk much to others, you know.
Speaker 2: And I want to be more social. And I know
Speaker 2: we've been saying that for years, both of us, but
Speaker 2: it's true. I'm really doing it this time.
Speaker 1: I'm really doing it this time as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Is it too early to say what
Speaker 3: kind of summer we're going to have?
Speaker 1: No? Is it in New York? Pedro Pascal summer.
Speaker 2: He doesn't even know he's a movie star. He's Demi
Speaker 2: Moore said hi to him, and he said, Demi Moore
Speaker 2: just said hi to me, Like, do you not know
Speaker 2: that you are currently in Gladiator two.
Speaker 1: And the one of the most beloved.
Speaker 2: Stars and but has zero ego.
Speaker 1: Did you see the Nicholas Cage movie he was in.
Speaker 3: I saw it two nights ago and I it's my
Speaker 3: third time watching it.
Speaker 2: I love us so much.
Speaker 1: I watch it like four times.
Speaker 2: It kind of flew under the radar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is called the Massive Weight of Incredible Talent,
Speaker 3: of staggering Talent or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, Pedro Pascal is so good in it.
Speaker 3: I think it's the best uh he's ever because he's
Speaker 3: you see how funny he is and in person, I
Speaker 3: saw how funny and Boofbali he can be, which is great.
Speaker 3: But it also there's moments where he has to be scary.
Speaker 2: It's got everything. Yeah, if you want the full dose
Speaker 2: of Pedro.
Speaker 1: Did you tell Pedro about that? You just saw that movie?
Speaker 2: And no, but I did see Oh what's Regina King?
Speaker 2: And I had just watched The Watchman.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I watched that season that talks about the
Speaker 3: Tulsamasca and everything. And I had just watched it, and
Speaker 3: I said, because we're waiting in line at the bar
Speaker 3: so I could get my fake drink and I just
Speaker 3: watched that Watchman thing, which is from twenty nineteen, so
Speaker 3: it was and you were so good in it, and
Speaker 3: she was like, oh my god, thank you. Oh I
Speaker 3: really like as if no one has said that, it's
Speaker 3: just it was really cool.
Speaker 1: I love Gina King so fucking much. And if you've
Speaker 1: ever seen Southland, she plays she's there's a really good
Speaker 1: cop show about LAPD called Southland and Sean HATTI see,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Who is my Twitter boyfriend? No more because
Speaker 1: no one's on Twitter anymore, but he was like my
Speaker 1: celebrity that I actually talked to on Twitter. That was
Speaker 1: so exciting.
Speaker 3: After that celebrity, it was Seawan Cassidy.
Speaker 1: Kind of fleeted through there. But that was so surreal
Speaker 1: that I was like, I don't think that's real. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it was really Shawn Cassidy because that was
Speaker 1: such a full circle moment. But the Shan Hat to
Speaker 1: see thing was like, Oh, that's just the guy that
Speaker 1: I personally picked as my my the guy I like
Speaker 1: from movies when I see him show up or TV shows,
Speaker 1: So I started watching because of him. But Regina King
Speaker 1: in that show is kind of like the boss, but
Speaker 1: she has her own whole storyline so good. Then I
Speaker 1: got to see her restaurant and I literally was trying
Speaker 1: to take pictures just because I was in the same
Speaker 1: room as her. And I was like, this is someone
Speaker 1: needs to know this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I and trust me.
Speaker 3: At this party, I wanted to take so many pictures
Speaker 3: and be in the picture.
Speaker 2: There's pictures being taken. There was a photo booth, but
Speaker 2: I was not. I'm like, I'm not going to be
Speaker 2: grabbing Pedro yeah, and like.
Speaker 3: Hey, arm around him. But then after the photo, I
Speaker 3: was I just didn't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't give it.
Speaker 1: After the photo you're saying, arm you did take the
Speaker 1: side hugged, But what do you mean after the photo
Speaker 1: you just said you didn't take any photos.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to side hug in the photo. But
Speaker 3: then after the photo was taken.
Speaker 1: You said I want photos.
Speaker 3: There were other people. I'm just not in them, so
Speaker 3: there's no evidence.
Speaker 2: I can't prove that I was at this party. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to be in the photos.
Speaker 1: This the side hug portion puts you in the photo.
Speaker 1: So what do you mean by that?
Speaker 3: After the photo side huk after it was take in
Speaker 3: a different room ten ft away.
Speaker 2: Minutes later.
Speaker 1: Wrap up of that was a great hang.
Speaker 3: I had the post photo discussion. I was around four.
Speaker 2: Got you, but not in any photos because.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't make sense. You didn't go to that school.
Speaker 2: Exactly, it's high school, ruin, it's it's a birthday party.
Speaker 1: Get you, okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Regina King five stars, five out of five. She's
Speaker 1: the greatest.
Speaker 2: Everyone was great. There was no one that was not great.
Speaker 1: God, yeah, no assholes at that high school.
Speaker 2: I didn't. Yeah, I wish.
Speaker 3: I am so jealous of high schools that had like
Speaker 3: you could major in the arts in a high school
Speaker 3: that was public in New York City.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the coolest.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then you had to really be talented to get
Speaker 1: into that high school because because you were up against
Speaker 1: other chldren in New York City, right, yeah, serious.
Speaker 2: Ship, Yeah I would.
Speaker 3: I would have had to have gotten in for art.
Speaker 2: Poor dance. Yeah, you don't know my aggressive street style
Speaker 2: dance that I kind of.
Speaker 1: Intented that you won Olympic bronze for.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, but yeah, very fun, very fun to
Speaker 2: be around those people and have it be the most comfortable, fun,
Speaker 2: sweet time.
Speaker 1: So we've got a Pedro Pescal. We've got Regina King,
Speaker 1: which is like, hands down, that's my favorite. But any
Speaker 1: can you just run through any other names that were
Speaker 1: you actually interacted with her?
Speaker 3: No, No, I just saw there and then you know
Speaker 3: there was other people that Jennifer Aniston, but these are
Speaker 3: all I'm like.
Speaker 2: It was so crowded in what it was the equivalent.
Speaker 3: Of three hotel rooms with a hallway and then an
Speaker 3: outdoor area that I still it was just too many bodies,
Speaker 3: and so I think a lot of people came and
Speaker 3: then they were like this is too crowded and left.
Speaker 3: But in that moment of seeing everyone, I was kind
Speaker 3: of on the outside looking and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is like being at the Oscars or something as
Speaker 3: close as all be.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Unless I start scoring or key gripping, oh or acting,
Speaker 3: I might.
Speaker 2: It's not too late. It might be one of these
Speaker 2: late bloomer Robert Duvall type.
Speaker 1: You could be a total Brian krantzt.
Speaker 2: One yep. Yeah. So it was. It was very very cool,
Speaker 2: and that was a pre and then I flew to
Speaker 2: my dad's and we had the best time. Amazing Christmas
Speaker 2: in a shell, made fair nuts in a what a nutshell.
Speaker 2: My Christmas in a nutshell?
Speaker 1: I gotcha, still nolling it to the very end. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Nolan it.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes? And did you go home?
Speaker 1: I did? I went home. I had a lovely month
Speaker 1: long hang with my dad. Essentially, he watched football. I
Speaker 1: sat in silence because it goes into his ears directly.
Speaker 1: So then I just got to watch TikTok freely and
Speaker 1: it seemed like we were watching TV together, but we
Speaker 1: kind of weren't. So then I didn't have to just
Speaker 1: like get pummeled by literally twelve hours of football every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does your dad have a hearing aids? Yes?
Speaker 3: My dad just got them, and it seems like they've
Speaker 3: somehow been tuned in to the TV. So he's just
Speaker 3: can hear that like it's down low, but he's only
Speaker 3: hearing that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, still like.
Speaker 3: Same situation. I'm looking at my phone, but then something
Speaker 3: will happen. He'll pause it and it's story time for
Speaker 3: twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm just hanging.
Speaker 3: Out in the TV room because I know we're going
Speaker 3: to have these conversation breaks exactly what I'm there for.
Speaker 1: Or every once in a while a mong dad will
Speaker 1: hit pause and then go, you got to watch this,
Speaker 1: you got to watch this, and then I have to
Speaker 1: watch some incredible catch yeah or some amazing thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm there for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh in.
Speaker 3: Your dad's doing well, healths getting around.
Speaker 1: Real, he's very strong, he's very loud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in my mind, your dad is still six four something, right,
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 2: I mean big.
Speaker 1: He's probably two inches shorter than he used to be,
Speaker 1: but he's very tall. He was six four as I
Speaker 1: grew up. Wow, yeah, big man.
Speaker 3: It's so funny how everyone in my family was six
Speaker 3: two to six four, both Grandpa's, all my cousins, and
Speaker 3: then my dad and I are these little five nine guys.
Speaker 3: But I feel like those inches, those fewer inches with
Speaker 3: that's why we developed a sense of humor, because I
Speaker 3: don't recall my grandparents having.
Speaker 2: That, right, what's very funny.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like the hype thing. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's superficial kind of requirements thing that is
Speaker 1: very nineties two thousands, where it's like a man has
Speaker 1: to be six feet tall or whatever, a woman has
Speaker 1: to be this. Then it's just like no one believes
Speaker 1: that anymore. It's like it feels old.
Speaker 2: To me, right.
Speaker 1: I mean not to say that people aren't absolutely being
Speaker 1: tortured by the societal restrictions. Right, of course we all are,
Speaker 1: but it just isn't the way it feels like it
Speaker 1: used to be. And I feel like the people that
Speaker 1: really love to sing that song, like if a guy
Speaker 1: is an over six feet tall, it's like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: that's just you needing people to know your preference, right.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with if you walked into
Speaker 1: a place and had a spark with a man who
Speaker 1: is five feet tall. That that's you don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck's going to happen to. Yeah, Like, don't set
Speaker 1: out all the reasons why you have to like disqualify people.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And when I say tall, I also mean like, you know,
Speaker 3: you don't expect some of my favorite comics like Lachland
Speaker 3: Patterson or Gary Goleman, who look like they are linebackers,
Speaker 3: like or something better. I say linebacker because I don't
Speaker 3: follow a lot of sports.
Speaker 1: Maybe a tight end, a wide receiver, tight ends. I
Speaker 1: do ask me.
Speaker 2: Anything, then you'll just say something to your Dad's.
Speaker 1: The point. The whole objective is to move the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. Yeah, that's my favorite thing is when
Speaker 1: those when the announcers are talking, then I just repeat
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing they say, and my dad laughs really hard, right,
Speaker 1: because it sounds normal when they're saying it.
Speaker 3: But I'm even more impressed when someone has traditional good
Speaker 3: looks and then on top of that they became very funny.
Speaker 3: To me, it's even more impressive, yes for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well but you know what it says to me
Speaker 1: that they had to glow up when they were like
Speaker 1: twenty three. That is not evident, right, So it's like
Speaker 1: you were a gangly weirdo, looked like a whatever, an
Speaker 1: ostrich or something. Yeah, yeah, and then it all came
Speaker 1: together and you're just newly attractive.
Speaker 2: Right right. I do demand to see childhood photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with your your teeth that sticks straightforward, right.
Speaker 2: There's yes, which was certainly the case with me. I
Speaker 2: assume I was given porcelain braces which, upon the first
Speaker 2: lipped and cup of soup or dyed bright yellow to
Speaker 2: start high school yellow brackets. From a distance, they just
Speaker 2: look like tartar.
Speaker 1: But it was my braces, it was, And no one
Speaker 1: told you do not like, do not pour any any
Speaker 1: food coloring on these braces.
Speaker 2: Me and a girl named Aaron England.
Speaker 3: Were the only kids in high school who that freshman
Speaker 3: year had this new experimental braces that were porcelain, and
Speaker 3: I think they hadn't quite figured them out, and later
Speaker 3: versions of them did not absorb yellow number five or
Speaker 3: other food dice Jesus. But the first version I had
Speaker 3: bright yellow brackets on my teeth. That is the year
Speaker 3: I honed my comedic skills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do I get friends?
Speaker 3: These all the kids I went to high school with
Speaker 3: a lot of them more from another school, and it
Speaker 3: was I had to try harder. Yeah, and the braces
Speaker 3: didn't help, no, but then afterwards, So that's not glow up.
Speaker 3: That's just me being lucky that my parents paid for that.
Speaker 1: Well, but it's a challenge either way. I mean, all
Speaker 1: the things that like you go through in high school
Speaker 1: end up serving you in some way, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, although the x ray that that Orthodonis did give
Speaker 3: me in the beginning, because they x ray your hand
Speaker 3: to see how much you're gonna grow, and he promised
Speaker 3: me I was gonna be over six feet tall.
Speaker 2: I took him to that. I'm still waiting.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never know.
Speaker 3: I do now though, because I'm five nine, going on
Speaker 3: five eight am. I'm already in the shrinking phase.
Speaker 2: That spurt.
Speaker 1: It's like, this spurt is never gonna happen. It's never
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I wonder if, first of all, you can
Speaker 1: get shin extensions. I think that's available, an available choice
Speaker 1: to you. But I wonder if, like, because somebody said
Speaker 1: one time that it's like sometimes that doesn't happen, or
Speaker 1: people's growth is stunted if they like get a head injury.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yes, I feel like if there's something to blame.
Speaker 3: It was my infant convulsions. I thought I wasn't gonna
Speaker 3: talk because I you know, I kept having these fevers
Speaker 3: and have to put me on ice.
Speaker 2: Apparently my eyes rolled back. I didn't know about that.
Speaker 2: That was a detail I got during football this year.
Speaker 1: We're in a pretty serious medical area right now that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to climb your way out of.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: It ends great, okay, because I one day just started
Speaker 3: talking and they're like, they thank the Lord.
Speaker 2: They said, although they weren't religious, how old were you
Speaker 2: when this happened, these fevers?
Speaker 1: When you started talking? Well, I prefer.
Speaker 2: To tell their story backwards.
Speaker 1: I know your prep. It's not that your instincts are wrong.
Speaker 2: Your dad no socks.
Speaker 3: That was the first thing I said about a man
Speaker 3: wearing sandals, and they said, oh, I guess he talks.
Speaker 2: And it was a full.
Speaker 1: Sentence, how old were you?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: That's where I was getting you do you like Christopher
Speaker 3: Nolan's films?
Speaker 2: And then I looked down I read it.
Speaker 3: There was a tattoo on my arm, reminding me that
Speaker 3: I was two and a half.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, so that's kind of lat Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's maybe a little, but it's.
Speaker 3: They were sweating it though, because the doctor said he
Speaker 3: might have brain damage from these convulsions. But maybe I
Speaker 3: ended up flying cognitively, but it stunted my growth.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what That's what I was saying.
Speaker 3: I should do a re edit of all my stories,
Speaker 3: like a more leanear version for those that prefer I
Speaker 3: don't know the memento that is told in order, which is.
Speaker 1: Available to and your absolute inability to answer direct questions.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's something different. I think it's how
Speaker 3: I'm punk rock. You want you want an answer?
Speaker 2: Fuck you? No, I do.
Speaker 3: I do think I have that problem.
Speaker 2: I don't answer directly. I was never in the military.
Speaker 1: Oh yasi legal, sir, in eighteen thousand different ways.
Speaker 2: Not If you're in a fun, fun purple jeep, you
Speaker 2: can do all you can.
Speaker 1: Pretend to take a left, make it a U turn
Speaker 1: in the middle of an intersection.
Speaker 3: People try to get angry, but they're like, what a
Speaker 3: fun color?
Speaker 1: Was that? The grimace? What's that?
Speaker 2: Aftermarket? How are the fry guys? What do you think
Speaker 2: so far? Boy? The last few days.
Speaker 3: At first I almost thought it wasn't a Nazi salute.
Speaker 3: I thought, well, maybe he just socially is so awkward.
Speaker 3: But you've already told me and I didn't read up
Speaker 3: on like the family history stuff.
Speaker 2: Right, But he did the one. I'm like, well it
Speaker 2: could have been. And they turned around and did one
Speaker 2: to the audience, and I was like, oh, that we're fucked.
Speaker 2: That was it was.
Speaker 1: I have to get rid of this car. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: it's now, it's now. One of the few things I
Speaker 1: can do about fucking anything is at least not drive
Speaker 1: this car.
Speaker 3: I think there's so many of these cars in this
Speaker 3: city that it is not it's people don't assume you
Speaker 3: bought it because you're a fan.
Speaker 1: No one is doing that right, and there's it's the
Speaker 1: old Prius. It's remember when Prius first came out, there
Speaker 1: was like, literally that's every car.
Speaker 2: I think you should get that out of your head.
Speaker 3: I do not think anyone is judging you, especially you know,
Speaker 3: if you got that sticker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't read it and go, oh that's fun.
Speaker 1: They'll be like neat. Yeah. The problem though, is, well,
Speaker 1: it's just whatever. I just would like a different car
Speaker 1: for many many reasons. Sure, and also it's weird because
Speaker 1: now we're in the twenties of January, when it truly
Speaker 1: felt like it was just New Year. It just everything
Speaker 1: is going so fast.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 3: I didn't I did go to a fun New Year's
Speaker 3: Eve party, which I haven't.
Speaker 2: I have been going to Montana.
Speaker 3: To just sit with my dad, and that's been great.
Speaker 3: I have not tried to celebrate at a party in decades.
Speaker 3: I used to go back to Montana and we'd you know,
Speaker 3: have a gas powered heater in a frozen garage and
Speaker 3: we'd all wonder why we were dizzy and dance. But
Speaker 3: I finally went to like a fun New York City,
Speaker 3: very diverse fun party. It was so great with a band,
Speaker 3: and there was the actual countdown. It's so funny that
Speaker 3: I just convinced myself I don't care about that, but
Speaker 3: it's so fun with a group of people to actually
Speaker 3: do the countdown, and you know, and of course celebrated
Speaker 3: by cool in the game.
Speaker 2: And you were there in New York doing sets. No,
Speaker 2: it was just a fun.
Speaker 3: Visit with my girlfriend and seeing her family and all
Speaker 3: the just bringing in the new year.
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to go to New York. I had
Speaker 2: an idea this.
Speaker 1: Sorry, can I just do a quick hookup? We're hooking
Speaker 1: up right now. The fact that your girlfriend went to
Speaker 1: high school with Sarah Paulson, and so you were in
Speaker 1: New York City for that.
Speaker 2: Party, the party with all the celebs. Yeah, no, that
Speaker 2: was at the Chateau here before. That's right. I'm so sorry. No,
Speaker 2: I keep dropping. It's confusing. I've been going to all
Speaker 2: these parties, you know.
Speaker 3: The New York one was in Queens, which was a
Speaker 3: lot you know, taking this the subway, which I'm not,
Speaker 3: but if you're with a local, it's the easiest thing ever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and just experiencing that city. I wanted it to be
Speaker 3: the miracle on three fourth Street, snowy I wanted a
Speaker 3: New Year's with snow and it was actually very warm
Speaker 3: and then it.
Speaker 2: Got really cold. But it's a great place to have Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just really like that city nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you end up being surrounded by fun.
Speaker 2: Locals that that love each other and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, really great.
Speaker 1: It is like in terms of partying and enjoyment, there's
Speaker 1: just no place like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: Really Like the last time I was there, I think
Speaker 1: it was for my birthday and it was with my
Speaker 1: friend and we went to like it was just that
Speaker 1: thing of like, oh, we're going to go to that museum,
Speaker 1: so I guess we'll go to this like French bistro beforehand,
Speaker 1: and like being there, I was just like, this is
Speaker 1: the best experience of all time. It's just like you
Speaker 1: keep on because of things that have been there for
Speaker 1: so long. Things are time tested, Like you can't really
Speaker 1: be in business in New York City and not be
Speaker 1: relatively good or right.
Speaker 2: People want to especially food.
Speaker 3: I ate every everything I ate there was the best
Speaker 3: thing I'd ever had a peta sandwich from a bodega.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why is this so good? Why is it
Speaker 2: so inexpensive? It was? It was just the best and
Speaker 2: and yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Kind of want to live there in a in a way,
Speaker 3: but I mean my interests would I would have to
Speaker 3: forfeit most of the things I like to do, I think,
Speaker 3: other than comedy. I did do one sat there. I
Speaker 3: did Whiplash and it was very fun with Uela Sharp
Speaker 3: was I will take that w and throw it in
Speaker 3: front of an owl with so many words, but it
Speaker 3: started with her name is the best and gave me
Speaker 3: a sweet, kind intro.
Speaker 2: And that audience was great.
Speaker 3: And I feel like whenever I'm in New York, they
Speaker 3: like all the jokes that I'm most proud of that
Speaker 3: I avoid telling here. Sometimes I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's in my head, but I had so much fun.
Speaker 3: Great Josh Gondleman was on it. I haven't seen that
Speaker 3: guy in forever. There's a lot of fun fun people.
Speaker 2: Is so great.
Speaker 3: But then what I'm leaving out is most of the
Speaker 3: time in New York we both had the flu. It
Speaker 3: was like, oh so that yeah, being sick and then
Speaker 3: sick a little bit here.
Speaker 2: That was I forgot about that. That was it was
Speaker 2: going around. Everyone had the flu.
Speaker 1: Everyone has it, everyone's getting it. It's just a fact
Speaker 1: of life. Oh, another fact of Like that's what it was.
Speaker 1: The TikTok ban my addiction, oh right, my true full
Speaker 1: brain addiction. They're like, okay, well there's today's the day
Speaker 1: they're banning it, and I went.
Speaker 2: Didn't it also say unless Donald Trump does something about it?
Speaker 2: Wasn't that?
Speaker 1: So let me tell you this story?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Sorry, So so they say that it's coming, they warn you.
Speaker 1: People are literally saying goodbye. All their posts are like
Speaker 1: I'm just really love what is going on here? So special?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for days, for days and days, and then
Speaker 1: finally it's a day of and every video is really slow,
Speaker 1: like they won't load, and it's like there's a real pain.
Speaker 1: And so finally I was like, well, if today's last day,
Speaker 1: then I'm deleting this off my phone because if I
Speaker 1: open it and it's just sitting there, I will just
Speaker 1: try to open it all the time, like a weird
Speaker 1: like a parrot that's knocking its beak on a mirror,
Speaker 1: Like I just it's gonna make me feel crazy. So
Speaker 1: I just deleted it off my phone. Well then literally
Speaker 1: twelve hours later, Bridger. I was like, oh, the TikTok band,
Speaker 1: and Bridger goes, oh no, it's back, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what it is? So I go back and try to
Speaker 1: redownload it. I can't. So all the people like me
Speaker 1: that were reactionary, that were like, yep, I can't just
Speaker 1: stare at this thing. We don't have it anymore. But
Speaker 1: like people like my sister who just didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: she's like, oh yeah, everyone's back.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, everyone, you are unable.
Speaker 1: I'm unable to re download it because the Byte Dance
Speaker 1: Company is what's like banned from the app store. So yeah,
Speaker 1: until he didn't really reintroduce it entirely, of course, and
Speaker 1: it's different. My sister's like, it definitely feels different. It's weird.
Speaker 1: So I've literally been I started watching YouTube shorts. That's
Speaker 1: how bad it was.
Speaker 2: Oh no, and.
Speaker 1: Their YouTube shorts is the Walmart version of if TikTok
Speaker 1: is Bloomingdale's, which it's.
Speaker 2: Not, but all the swear words are bleeped.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's just it's just a bunch of
Speaker 1: reading with music behind it. And it's like, here's five
Speaker 1: ways to improve your psychological manipulation tactics. Or whatever. What
Speaker 1: am I looking at? And I'm just and I can't
Speaker 1: tell it my preferences because that means I've sign in
Speaker 1: and of course don't know my password. So I'm just like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, just let's see if there's anything good
Speaker 1: on here.
Speaker 4: Blue Sky is creating an alternative to TikTok right now.
Speaker 4: Blue Sky is yeah, called the Skylight.
Speaker 1: Blue Sky is so wildly middle aged, Like I've never
Speaker 1: had more people treat me just trying to post a
Speaker 1: joke and it's obvious. It's not only obviously a joke,
Speaker 1: it's a fucking sloppy, hacky joke. It's not a good joke.
Speaker 1: And there's so many people of like I so agree
Speaker 1: with you, and like people coming to treat It's like
Speaker 1: they're trying to treat it like Facebook, like interact with
Speaker 1: you over a post where it's like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: a one way deal, but of course it's not because
Speaker 1: it's not Twitter.
Speaker 2: It's so frustrating there a little facebookie, yes.
Speaker 1: But like in this way where people are like somebody
Speaker 1: already can't went on there and was like, hey, Karen
Speaker 1: love you, and Chris you're you know. Dinah means the
Speaker 1: world to me.
Speaker 2: But you got to.
Speaker 1: Get rid of that car, and it took everything in
Speaker 1: my power to not right back. You gotta go fuck
Speaker 1: yourself because it's like, yeah, who the fuck are you?
Speaker 1: Of course it's a man, get off my fucking get
Speaker 1: off this app like I'm not here, like I know that.
Speaker 2: The reason you know it is kuy I told you, so.
Speaker 1: Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 1: But that's it's that kind of like there's a real
Speaker 1: mom has forty five minutes of free time, so she's
Speaker 1: gonna go over to blue Sky. So I don't have
Speaker 1: all the faith in the world because there's no young
Speaker 1: people on there seemingly at all. So I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith that they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: recreate what the children built over on TikTok. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I won't be too negative,
Speaker 1: but it is a bit you it's kind of corny
Speaker 1: over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to go where the kids are.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's we're gonna follow them and see what's going on.
Speaker 1: You're gonna flip a uwie.
Speaker 3: My friend that I skate with, he's a fire captain
Speaker 3: in town.
Speaker 2: Nate and he worked twelve days oh shit in a
Speaker 2: row and yeah, this first day off, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did he do with all that?
Speaker 2: Ten like it?
Speaker 3: I was like, how how has it been? He's like,
Speaker 3: we saved the Girl Scout camp. Like he only had
Speaker 3: positive things to say.
Speaker 2: He was like, just that's what you have to do,
Speaker 2: is just this is a good thing. This is a
Speaker 2: good thing. I know he's seen nothing but heartbreak. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he only enlisted the good things and that was
Speaker 2: the Girl Scout Camp, he said him in his department,
Speaker 2: we're really excited about that, which is sweet, that's lovely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and also there was somebody that said with the
Speaker 1: winds that we had, they were like and a lot
Speaker 1: of people, a lot of Southlanders heard this already, but
Speaker 1: the fire cap you know, whoever was talking to the
Speaker 1: press was like, when you have winds, you know, around
Speaker 1: twenty degrees, you're fighting fires a firefighter. When it's up
Speaker 1: in the over fifty miles an hour, you're an observer.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, there's.
Speaker 1: Nothing they can do after a certain level of wind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was hard for me to understand when you're
Speaker 3: watching live footage of all the burning and it's.
Speaker 2: Like where are helicopter?
Speaker 3: Why is because I'm so used to Montana wildfires where
Speaker 3: they're just so prepared and they have three rivers to
Speaker 3: pull water from in town, there's water everywhere. But it
Speaker 3: was the winds they couldn't how frustrating that would be
Speaker 3: if you're like a helicopter pilot ready to go and
Speaker 3: it was just too windy and smoky.
Speaker 2: They couldn't see right.
Speaker 3: So it's just so it's horrible, terrible, And on my
Speaker 3: way out of town to just wade out and wade
Speaker 3: it out and breathe that air, I saw I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure a arsonist being arrested.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, but it was just a guy. It was
Speaker 2: just a mentally ill person freaking out and they.
Speaker 3: But I saw the thing that we always see on TV.
Speaker 3: They're like yelling at him and being rough, but they
Speaker 3: were so careful to make sure he didn't hit his head.
Speaker 3: That whole notion of like watch your head, now, watch
Speaker 3: your head. You'll get a nasty bump. And then once
Speaker 3: he's in the car, they're like, get this animal out
Speaker 3: of here. It's just my favorite thing. I saw them
Speaker 3: all true cops put their put their hands on his head,
Speaker 3: make sure, be careful.
Speaker 2: It's it's a sharp edge.
Speaker 1: Get this asshole out of here. Oh was it because
Speaker 1: he was handcuffed?
Speaker 2: Well, there was.
Speaker 3: They were putting out a fire right there, so it
Speaker 3: was someone that just had lit some papers just on
Speaker 3: the side of the freeway.
Speaker 2: Like there was so many.
Speaker 3: It's such a weird thing when the news is saying
Speaker 3: when the winds were picking up, now would be a
Speaker 3: terrible time for a fire, and then there is a
Speaker 3: bunch of fires.
Speaker 2: It's hard to not think.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm sure it's been proven otherwise that those me
Speaker 3: fires were I think a power structure.
Speaker 1: No, they think the Palisades was arsenal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 3: And I mean, and then there's more people like I
Speaker 3: want if you're someone that just wants to burn the
Speaker 3: world down and you're angry every day, that the news
Speaker 3: kind of let you know it was time to do.
Speaker 1: It, it was time to do well. And also I
Speaker 1: think they do have copycats, right, that does happen, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the major fires that have been down here,
Speaker 1: because I covered one that was like that. Anytime there's
Speaker 1: like four or five things go up, it's always an
Speaker 1: arsonist because it's like either the one person is trying
Speaker 1: to burn mass amounts of area or it's the copycat
Speaker 1: yeah kind of thing. But I also do think there's
Speaker 1: that anti California vibe that it was like, oh, try
Speaker 1: to burn down all of Los Angeles and then California
Speaker 1: will be blah.
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's I know.
Speaker 3: I don't want it sound like nine to eleven was
Speaker 3: an inside job type person, but.
Speaker 2: Does go there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was hard not to think that though.
Speaker 1: I mean there could have been a million answers. We
Speaker 1: were just all sitting here staring at our phones watching
Speaker 1: everything catch on fire. Yeah, so it's hard not to
Speaker 1: think that way.
Speaker 3: And now it's a matter of I think would have
Speaker 3: been trying to do is just post gofundmeans of families,
Speaker 3: especially in Alta Dina, that were, you know, really affected
Speaker 3: and have nowhere to go. Like I keep thinking about
Speaker 3: someone with like a four year old kid. How do
Speaker 3: you explain to a kid that young that, like, oh everything,
Speaker 3: we had a kid that you haven't talked to about.
Speaker 2: Life or death.
Speaker 3: And then it's you have to explain that the house
Speaker 3: that they know is not there anymore.
Speaker 2: That would be the hardest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you wouldn't. You would basically just be like,
Speaker 1: we're going to go to spend the night at Grandma's
Speaker 1: and then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You have you would have to do a life is
Speaker 3: beautiful thing where like let's try and make this an adventure.
Speaker 2: It would be so hard.
Speaker 3: And there's so many like parents with young kids, and and.
Speaker 1: There's there's also I think you can look if like
Speaker 1: people that are listening are trying to find a place
Speaker 1: to donate. There's like a lot of people doing individual gofundmes.
Speaker 1: But then there's also just like the Red Cross as
Speaker 1: a central service for the people who truly are just
Speaker 1: like standing there with whatever they grabbed as they ran out,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think we my favorite murder did
Speaker 1: put out a newsletter where we linked and it's on
Speaker 1: our social media. My favorite murder for like, okay, five
Speaker 1: really good charities to donate to that are like direct aid.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to consult that list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah I will. Let's do what we can.
Speaker 1: We we do what we can, we take care of
Speaker 1: those nearby. We hope that Pedro Pascal is one of
Speaker 1: those people. If not, treat everybody as if they are
Speaker 1: Pedro Pascal. Yes, until twenty twenty six, you're right.
Speaker 3: Let us that will be that's our summer. Treat everyone
Speaker 3: like their pedro.
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Speaker 1: if it was him, laugh as hard at their jokes
Speaker 1: as you would at his. Yes, give them the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt and.
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