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Speaker 2: With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: And this is Karen Kilgaroff.
Speaker 2: Hello, my friend.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I mean anything to report in your neighborhood, not to
Speaker 2: hijack the theme of Christian Duguet's podcast, which everyone should
Speaker 2: listen to, Valley Heat, But do you have any I
Speaker 2: want to talk about some things that happened in my neighborhood.
Speaker 2: And I didn't want a steamroll, like I clearly already am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just you're just announcing that you're steamrolling.
Speaker 2: God damn it.
Speaker 1: Yes, here's what today was garbage day in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I am very resentful that I have to take out
Speaker 1: my own garbage cans. They're heavy, they're unwieldy. I'm always
Speaker 1: in a weird morning outfit that I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: get caught in outside.
Speaker 2: By saying by wieldy, do you mean your garbage cans
Speaker 2: don't have wheels?
Speaker 1: No, that would be unweely. Okay, it's they're unwieldy. They're
Speaker 1: always heavy, like the Yeah, the one for gardening is
Speaker 1: always like so heavy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It just is like get up in the morning and
Speaker 1: do a chore, which I it just brings out the
Speaker 1: twelve year old in me of like eh, and there's
Speaker 1: I'm doing it to no one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then garbage day all day, there's just like garbage
Speaker 1: cans everywhere all day. It's just a is that kind
Speaker 1: of day?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. And I have a frustrating situation where in
Speaker 2: my five units there are between all of us fifteen
Speaker 2: trash cans and one, I repeat one recycling bin. So oh,
Speaker 2: I know this is a federal offense, but I did
Speaker 2: shimmy on down the alley and I decided that this
Speaker 2: this neighbor had enough recycling bins, and I actually did
Speaker 2: steal it, and I stole a second one for my
Speaker 2: neighbor so.
Speaker 1: Now, can I just warn you they do have long
Speaker 1: numbers on the front that can be referenced by the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I considered that, still did it.
Speaker 1: And you don't care?
Speaker 4: Oh I see?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well you know my neighborhood is it has an
Speaker 2: edge to it. It was featured in training day and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I I do things a little differently
Speaker 2: on the east side.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I mean you got to the.
Speaker 2: Main thing I want. I almost met our Lord yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was walking, okay, I was just walking pedestrian style
Speaker 2: on the sidewalk, and for some reason, I decided to
Speaker 2: go into a light jog even though I had, I
Speaker 2: guess because I had groceries in each hand. It felt
Speaker 2: like I was doing lunge shouldered things. So I started
Speaker 2: running with the groceries, and as I was crossing a street,
Speaker 2: this car that was turning left. Someone behind them was
Speaker 2: frustrated that they were stopped because I was crossing the
Speaker 2: street That's why they were stopped, and they rushed around them,
Speaker 2: slammed into them right as I was crossing the street,
Speaker 2: and the car just replaced where I was as I
Speaker 2: jumped under the curb like I pulled a muscle on
Speaker 2: my leg. I jumped like fifteen feet. Their tire popped
Speaker 2: like that car almost very close to hit me. I've
Speaker 2: not been running. I really think I would have been hit.
Speaker 2: Then I ran. The guy took off and I ran
Speaker 2: in the street behind him just to let him know, yes, smiling,
Speaker 2: let him know I had eyes on his license plate.
Speaker 2: And then he pulled over and the people got out
Speaker 2: of their flat tire car and joined me, and then
Speaker 2: I left the scene so I might wait, I foiled
Speaker 2: a crime. I foiled a hit.
Speaker 1: And quick quick cue. Okay, the car that almost hit
Speaker 1: you was the car that got hit? Is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: They so?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What was that second car doing?
Speaker 3: Like it.
Speaker 2: Was like an angry speed up turn into them, scrape
Speaker 2: the whole side left side of their car and took
Speaker 2: a right turn around them. He was he went from
Speaker 2: the turn lane to the middle lane and took his
Speaker 2: right turn and crashed right into them, pushing them to
Speaker 2: where I was. And I was like, Oh, this guy's unhinged.
Speaker 2: He's going And then it was sad because it was
Speaker 2: just kind of a confused older guy. Oh no, And
Speaker 2: then I was like, oh man, he's done driving, but
Speaker 2: he should be, you know, anyway, clean the streets in
Speaker 2: two different ways.
Speaker 1: We love when you share your stories. It's not steamrolling,
Speaker 1: but they often end in tragedy. Right right, that is
Speaker 1: a piece that we need to take a look at it.
Speaker 2: I gotta work on my punch lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's punchdowns. Can we go into a gully and
Speaker 1: then we have to introduce the guest.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I should have gone with the
Speaker 2: kid that's been doing bird calls with a dog with
Speaker 2: him hiding in the bushes, who I confronted the other day,
Speaker 2: But that's for another time. I'm sorry, Carrot. If he
Speaker 2: has a dog with him, if he's doing bird calls,
Speaker 2: he's pretending to hunt, and I think that he might
Speaker 2: be a weirdo.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sure of it. But we only got a
Speaker 1: slice of the store exactly. You just did a perfect
Speaker 1: teaser for our next.
Speaker 2: Dip, right exactly to come on this kid doing bird
Speaker 2: calls with a dog hiding in tall grass, who I
Speaker 2: have also confronted. More on that later.
Speaker 1: When you confronted him, did he have an old man's face? No,
Speaker 1: he started night chamelion.
Speaker 2: He was a young kid, mid teens, and he started singing,
Speaker 2: and not in a in a Hey, I have talent
Speaker 2: and I'm singing. It was more in a hey, this
Speaker 2: is the John Wayne Boubey Show, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: be a serial killer and I'm going to sing to
Speaker 2: you right now, and and I was. I complimented his
Speaker 2: voice and got the hell out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I've really.
Speaker 1: It's a very training day neighborhood. Now that you tell
Speaker 1: us all those stories, I feel like there is intensity
Speaker 1: and crime going on over.
Speaker 2: There, that we are a city of unrest right now.
Speaker 2: People were walking and now they're expressing themselves and it's
Speaker 2: not in the best ways. I've gone too long, and
Speaker 2: I really want to introduce today's.
Speaker 1: Guest or yeah, we got it. We got to bring
Speaker 1: her in on this for.
Speaker 2: Sure, Karen. Will you do the honors please, I've talked
Speaker 2: too much.
Speaker 1: She plays at clubs in colleges all over this Great Nations,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Silea Sharp.
Speaker 3: Hello, everyone, Hi, Shala, Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: First with the recycling U Herbie Kirby's do you call
Speaker 3: them Herbie Kirby's.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of Herbie.
Speaker 4: I'm okay, that is maybe it is an East Coast thing.
Speaker 3: That's what I had always heard them called in Atlanta, right.
Speaker 4: So, which, by the.
Speaker 3: Way, I moved from Atlanta about ten years ago, and
Speaker 3: they literally were just getting recycling booms.
Speaker 4: We don't care about the environment down there.
Speaker 1: Twenty ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty thirteen is when I finally got one of those,
Speaker 3: and then there was just like.
Speaker 4: Uh, paper, only they were unseeing.
Speaker 3: So, like Karen said, they do have numbers across the
Speaker 3: front that correspond to like whatever house it's assigned to,
Speaker 3: But the pickup dudes are very lazy, right, and.
Speaker 4: So they can easily.
Speaker 3: I have found my trash can in front of houses
Speaker 3: like a couple of doors down right, So you're absolutely
Speaker 3: in the right to take them because no one's gonna
Speaker 3: think anything because it's a neighbor's house.
Speaker 4: It's like, ah, this is the general cosinity.
Speaker 2: My motivation for doing it was because when I moved in,
Speaker 2: we did have three and they, like you said, they
Speaker 2: were displaced. So I'm just doing right vigilanti street justice.
Speaker 4: That's what.
Speaker 3: Yes, we just call that village living right, takes a
Speaker 3: village to get things, you know, recycled. Yes, now, okay, Uh,
Speaker 3: there's so much I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I was almost hit by a car. And then I.
Speaker 4: Mentioned almost hit by a car.
Speaker 2: The boy that's about to hunt joggers.
Speaker 3: Yeah you think. I mean the dog is alive, that's
Speaker 3: with them, right, So that's a wine keeping him from
Speaker 3: being a complete weirdo.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not a taxidermy or stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would I would, uh before really alerting
Speaker 3: the rest of the neighborhood, which definitely they also have
Speaker 3: eyes on this kid. Keep an eye on the dog, right,
Speaker 3: because the kid could just be a birding weirdo, which
Speaker 3: is its own situation, right. But I'm really trying to
Speaker 3: be accept I'm trying to be accepting of other.
Speaker 4: People's you know, bring me to your desires and stuff.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, I did come up behind it because
Speaker 2: I was on the running trail and he was totally hiding,
Speaker 2: and I heard these noises and they were annoying squeaks,
Speaker 2: like it sounded like grass in between the thumb that
Speaker 2: awful high oh yeah yeah yeah, So I'm like, that's annoying.
Speaker 2: And then I was like is that but I thought
Speaker 2: it was a bird. I'm like, is that a bird
Speaker 2: up there? And I heard his voice like no, I'm
Speaker 2: it's a person. And then but he didn't reveal himself.
Speaker 2: I'm like, so you're just hiding in the bushes. So
Speaker 2: I went behind him and talked to him. I went
Speaker 2: up on the street on my way back, and I
Speaker 2: was like, what are you doing? And he didn't have
Speaker 2: much to say, and that's when he started singing, that's oh.
Speaker 3: That's what Okay, yeah, no, no, sure, okay, yeah, but
Speaker 3: still keep an eye on the dog, okay, just because
Speaker 3: I feel like that dog is going to be the
Speaker 3: one that really.
Speaker 4: Is going to tell the tale. Do you know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 1: Because one day there's just going to be a dog
Speaker 1: and like a and one blade of grass in its mouth,
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna be like leash with no owner
Speaker 1: on it, and it's gonna be like emergency, something.
Speaker 4: Something has happened.
Speaker 2: Or do you think he's training the dog to go
Speaker 2: hunt people?
Speaker 4: Does it look like a hunting type of dog? It?
Speaker 2: Does it straight out a duck hunt the video game?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the giggling dog.
Speaker 4: Did it look like it? Oh? Wow? Real?
Speaker 3: Okay, so like a hound? Okay, it ain't nothing. But
Speaker 3: did it look like it was having fun? I?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was engaged. Like I'm doing this with my friend.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't seem like a cat captive dog. And
Speaker 2: I have seen him walking the dog. Okay, so they
Speaker 2: have dancing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, keep I would say the dog is really
Speaker 3: your point of contact here. Yes, I don't think Okay,
Speaker 3: he's gonna have much to say, but I feel like
Speaker 3: that dog for sure.
Speaker 1: The next of ken for any phone calls that will
Speaker 1: have to get made or any something happened, and yes
Speaker 1: there's a next level emergency contact that needs to be made.
Speaker 1: It's like we have to get a hold of the dog.
Speaker 1: The dog will know right.
Speaker 2: Yes, hopefully the phone numbers right on his collar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope. So. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: By the way, you're in New York. Now, have you
Speaker 1: ever almost gotten hit by a car in New York City?
Speaker 4: Oh? Certainly?
Speaker 3: Actually no, not really, only because I'm definitely just looking
Speaker 3: out for cars. I think the one time I came close,
Speaker 3: I was crossing a street, no car was around, and
Speaker 3: so I go ahead and step, and then some car
Speaker 3: came out of nowhere and whipped around the corner, and
Speaker 3: the person driving and I happened to lock eyes right
Speaker 3: when it happened, and so we both had like a
Speaker 3: real mean mug, just like.
Speaker 4: A you dirty rat kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: And then the second they passed in our eyes unlocked,
Speaker 3: we each realized we knew each other.
Speaker 2: So then you're kidding.
Speaker 3: He stopped short and hopped out and was like, so
Speaker 3: I was Drennan And then we hadn't seen each other.
Speaker 3: He had recently moved to New York and he's someone
Speaker 3: I knew from Atlanta and he had lived in Chicago,
Speaker 3: but he had recently moved. So this was how I
Speaker 3: was seeing that he was there, but seconds before we
Speaker 3: were two New Yorkers ready to kill each other. And
Speaker 3: then we realized that we were old friends from the
Speaker 3: mid nineties.
Speaker 1: So it was that's like a lifetime movie.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, it was. It was.
Speaker 3: It was a lot, and it was like that all
Speaker 3: was forgiven. You didn't even address it. We didn't even
Speaker 3: address Hey, how you doing trying to kill folks?
Speaker 4: Noth Yeah, yeah, I said nothing. I just let it go.
Speaker 2: But that's great. That's a lesson. And because the time
Speaker 2: I once had a commercial audition and some guy was
Speaker 2: a lunatic in traffic and we yelled at each other,
Speaker 2: and then he was the guy operating the camera during
Speaker 2: my audition. We were both rushing to the same place,
Speaker 2: and I did address it and.
Speaker 4: Show of course, yeah, no, sorry about out there, Yeah
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I've had that conversation with someone's like a comic.
Speaker 3: We started around the same time, and you know, we
Speaker 3: were booked on a show and some woman driving next
Speaker 3: to me was in a turn lane and didn't realize
Speaker 3: it and tried to cut me off to get into
Speaker 3: the lane to go straight, and I wouldn't let him
Speaker 3: because I know that that you got to turn and
Speaker 3: make it, do what you gotta do. And it turned
Speaker 3: out to be the mother of this comic, and so
Speaker 3: this comic of course, was just like very excited for
Speaker 3: me to meet her mother and she's like, this is
Speaker 3: my mom. And then her mom was just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you something about you wouldn't let me on driving over
Speaker 3: something like that, because she's kind of a sassy person.
Speaker 3: But this woman was also closer I'm closer in age
Speaker 3: to the mother than I was to the comic, and
Speaker 3: so I'm like, oh, no, I'm not going to give
Speaker 3: you respect because you're her mother. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh, you mean a street where
Speaker 4: you were in the turn lane?
Speaker 3: And you didn't know where you were going, so you
Speaker 3: tried to cut over and cut me off, and I
Speaker 3: wouldn't let you.
Speaker 4: And they just sit there and stared at each other
Speaker 4: for a while. Oh No, I love it.
Speaker 3: And I still encounter the woman because I'm still friends
Speaker 3: with that comic, and I.
Speaker 4: Know that she still has that in the back of
Speaker 4: her head.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 4: And I know that if there's ever.
Speaker 3: A falling out between me and the comic, that the
Speaker 3: mom's going to be like, you know, I never liked her.
Speaker 4: She tried to run me off.
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, I guess if that comic
Speaker 3: has a falling out with her mom, I'll be like,
Speaker 3: you know, I never liked your mom.
Speaker 4: She tried to let Yeah.
Speaker 1: If I may just give you my opinion, I love
Speaker 1: the way those the cutoff people though, Like this always
Speaker 1: happens on Laurel Canyon. You've probably driven in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: so you know that there's a crazy thing that happens
Speaker 1: if you're coming over Laurel Canyon from the valley where
Speaker 1: if you're in the right hand lane, they force you
Speaker 1: to turn onto Mulholland, But if you're in the left
Speaker 1: hand lane, it gets really trafficky because it's just one
Speaker 1: lane to go over Laurel Canyon, So people try to
Speaker 1: pass everybody in the right hand lane and then cut
Speaker 1: over at the last second, and then so the left
Speaker 1: hand lane becomes literally people driving in perfect bumper to
Speaker 1: bumper like so that no car can get in, and
Speaker 1: the cars that try to get in are literally like
Speaker 1: try to threaten your life at the very last second
Speaker 1: to get in. And it is the craziest like good
Speaker 1: versus evil, Like it is so overtly you guys are
Speaker 1: trying to cheat and we're not going to let you
Speaker 1: cheat things. And my thing is those people like how
Speaker 1: do you do this? And like feel fine, how do
Speaker 1: you do that where you just skipped thirty people knowing
Speaker 1: that everybody's waiting to go to the same place, and
Speaker 1: you're just like like that mother of the comic is
Speaker 1: like you were in the wrong and you actually think
Speaker 1: you're gonna like sass me down about how you were
Speaker 1: in the wrong, Like in no way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's how I feel when I am.
Speaker 3: If I was that were me and I was in
Speaker 3: the wrong and I had to turn, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 3: I guess I got a turn, you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know where I'm going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I always a time to go
Speaker 2: around the block. I'm not going to be forcedful. And
Speaker 2: these people are always in BMW's right.
Speaker 1: White BMW's there, always white car.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Interesting, Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 3: I mean I when when I had a car, it
Speaker 3: was always something that was purchased off of Craigslist. So like,
Speaker 3: I will drive and try to make sure I'm in
Speaker 3: the right lanes, but if you are trying to cut over,
Speaker 3: I will do the bumper to bumper thing to keep
Speaker 3: you from getting over. And I do not care if
Speaker 3: you hit my car. I also don't care. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: it's completely paid for, I.
Speaker 4: Have full coverage. Do your best.
Speaker 3: I've set it up so that you will.
Speaker 4: You will suffer, not me.
Speaker 2: Yes, In New York you have to be more assertive, right,
Speaker 2: Like I anytime I've been in a cab there, I'm
Speaker 2: like on edge because all the cars are moving and
Speaker 2: they're close together, but it's pretty controlled. It just makes
Speaker 2: me nervous because I'm used to Iree California, right, but
Speaker 2: it did it. It's just intimidating and screw riding a
Speaker 2: bike there like in the quick.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, I have only driven in New York once
Speaker 3: since moving here. Oh, because I'm like, y'all are nuts.
Speaker 4: I don't understand. Like I'm I'm used to Atlanta traffic,
Speaker 4: which is on par with LA traffic. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of it, totally, yeah.
Speaker 3: And at some point you just kind of get real
Speaker 3: zen about it. You just surrender to the expressway. You know,
Speaker 3: you're just you float above it. You don't even pay
Speaker 3: attention anymore. But here it felt like everyone was. All
Speaker 3: the movements were very furtive. Everybody's just looking over their
Speaker 3: shoulders at all times, and I'm like, what's wrong. And
Speaker 3: then I rented a car and I did drive through
Speaker 3: the city and I realized, Oh, everybody's trying to move
Speaker 3: much faster than they're allowed to.
Speaker 4: Like, if you are like, oh, the speed.
Speaker 3: Limits twenty five, then I guess I'll do like twenty seven. Right, Fine,
Speaker 3: everybody is around you just like going nuts, trying to
Speaker 3: move fast and they can't because the speed limit. Like
Speaker 3: I'm doing twenty seven, yeah, while I'm able to coast
Speaker 3: at that speed because I'm like, well, I guess I'm
Speaker 3: not in a hurry or it's not that important to
Speaker 3: me for everyone to hear me coming or.
Speaker 4: Any of these things. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a different
Speaker 4: It is just a different mindset.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I haven't been on the expressways here in New York
Speaker 3: because I don't like whatever it is they consider merging.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1: Like? Really? Is it too fast? Too short?
Speaker 4: It's too short.
Speaker 3: It's very it's very short, and I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: I know there's time. There's spaces at a premium here,
Speaker 3: so they don't have the space to do those long leisure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But you know sometimes they have like a stoplight at
Speaker 3: the end and then it just goes from red to green,
Speaker 3: so you're at the edge and then it's just green.
Speaker 4: Go go get in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so scary. Yeah, Like on the Bay Bridge
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, there's one light to get on and
Speaker 2: I'm like, you have to peel out. You have to
Speaker 2: have like a powerful car to not be in danger if.
Speaker 1: You don't have pick up, like when that light goes
Speaker 1: and you can't like take off and go. If you
Speaker 1: have any kind of guard that goes like you or
Speaker 1: builds it up, you're screwed. Everyone hates you.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I had a getting on the one oh one, which
Speaker 1: was one of those. It was purely for the traffic
Speaker 1: on the one on one, but there was one of
Speaker 1: those lights and it was red and I got honked
Speaker 1: and I was just like that. So it's so la.
Speaker 1: It's like we all know the rule here one car
Speaker 1: per light and and it's like literally like call any way,
Speaker 1: break the law because I insist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a well you guys are making me
Speaker 3: miss driving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we we.
Speaker 2: Talk about just because you know, this used to be
Speaker 2: a podcast in the car and we'll be again soon,
Speaker 2: but we do talk about car stuff. And that is
Speaker 2: my least favorite, specifically where it's a red light and
Speaker 2: it literally says no right on red, And even then
Speaker 2: people will honk. They're like, come on, break the law.
Speaker 2: It's a honk that says, don't be a woosp why
Speaker 2: are you following the rules. I'm like, I always maniacally
Speaker 2: point try and point at it. But from behind you
Speaker 2: can't tell what I'm doing. It just looks like I'm
Speaker 2: doing a stay alive dance.
Speaker 1: It looks like you're doing the turning on the inside
Speaker 1: light to look for something. It's dating.
Speaker 4: Guy's not even paying attention. She's looking at him like
Speaker 4: fu okay, great.
Speaker 3: So then this is the perfect place for me to
Speaker 3: bring this up because I haven't found anyone.
Speaker 4: To talk to about this yet.
Speaker 3: So when I do drive, it's usually when I go
Speaker 3: back to Atlanta, So like three four times a year,
Speaker 3: I go rent a car, drive around, get it out
Speaker 3: of my system so I can come back here and
Speaker 3: be amongst the rats and the money makers. But I so,
Speaker 3: Atlanta has changed so much that their street lights have changed.
Speaker 3: So we used to be a big like you know,
Speaker 3: you got your red light and then you got your
Speaker 3: two you know, you have your left turn lane, and
Speaker 3: then you have an arrow for that side and then
Speaker 3: just you know, yellow and green for the right side
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 4: Now instead of.
Speaker 3: Having the arrow that to let you know, okay, you're
Speaker 3: all clear, left turn, okay, slow it up because we're
Speaker 3: gonna let the other people go now, okay, don't go anywhere,
Speaker 3: they just have a flashing yellow, which means do what
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Like, what is this freedom I need?
Speaker 4: What do you mean I can?
Speaker 3: Like, I was gonna do this anyway, but this flashing
Speaker 3: yellow makes me feel like I'm not doing it the
Speaker 3: right way, and so I'm like, why would you give
Speaker 3: me a flashing yellow.
Speaker 2: It's basically saying yield. And what yield is telling both
Speaker 2: parties is hey, it's up to you whether this other
Speaker 2: person leaves or dies. Yeah, and I just met this stranger.
Speaker 3: It feels so strange because I'm like, I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess what I've been doing is yielding, But now that
Speaker 3: you've put a name on it, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I understand it anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, that's because I think yield is an old fashioned
Speaker 1: concept from a time when we had decorum and decency
Speaker 1: in this nation, and now that people are like post quarantine, psycho,
Speaker 1: I gotta get mine, I will absolutely kill you. The
Speaker 1: energy is so bad lately that we cannot just allow
Speaker 1: people to yield and work it out amongst themselves. We
Speaker 1: need actually more directions and more specificity because these days,
Speaker 1: like my favorite thing lately that I see is when
Speaker 1: people and this is a very la thing, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are looking for the address
Speaker 1: they're looking they don't know where they're going, and they
Speaker 1: just got here. And there's a lot of people trying
Speaker 1: to take a left when there is a left turn
Speaker 1: lane they could merge into to go over them and
Speaker 1: do their business. They just stay in that inner Oh
Speaker 1: what is actually the real left lane? They use it
Speaker 1: as the turn light.
Speaker 4: That's where people are speeding right.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's kind of like then they slow down
Speaker 1: that fast lane and then they're kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: look this is about me right now. And it's like,
Speaker 1: this is what makes people gives people road rage and
Speaker 1: makes people kill each other? Is that kind of like
Speaker 1: your way or the highway? No content?
Speaker 3: I will pull off off no matter what. I won't
Speaker 3: pull onto his shoulder, even if I'm supposed to.
Speaker 4: Be turning left.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, the Lord will get me over there,
Speaker 3: But first I got to see where I'm going.
Speaker 4: I do that when I'm walking.
Speaker 3: I'm walking and I need to answer something on my phone.
Speaker 3: I will make my way over so I'm standing up
Speaker 3: against a building, and then I'll take care.
Speaker 4: Of it, of course, and then I and then I'll
Speaker 4: merge back in.
Speaker 3: I definitely walk through New York like like.
Speaker 4: The way that I drive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I moved through like a small car.
Speaker 4: I moved through the like.
Speaker 3: A Corolla, an old Corolla though, because the new ones
Speaker 3: are too big. But yes, I'm definitely a hatch back,
Speaker 3: just kind of zipping.
Speaker 2: Through the corollas are way too fancy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's too much. This is supposed to be a
Speaker 3: sensible car.
Speaker 4: And now yeah the nerve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you were talking about just driving in that city,
Speaker 2: that's how I feel on the sidewalk when people are
Speaker 2: walking and like everyone has somewhere to go right in
Speaker 2: the way, because I'm just trying to find some of
Speaker 2: these buildings I've seen in movies looking up like oh
Speaker 2: and yeah. Everyone is so motivated and working so hard
Speaker 2: in a way that I can't relate to it. It's
Speaker 2: like being in traffic. It is when you're at the
Speaker 2: airport and someone just stopped their walking and they just
Speaker 2: stop because they have to look at their ticket and
Speaker 2: they don't do the side wall hug. I'm like, how
Speaker 2: are you? How have you made it this far?
Speaker 1: And entire families that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just recently traveled and it was like an entire
Speaker 1: family standing in the center where it's I was like,
Speaker 1: you guys are making it seem like there's a different
Speaker 1: area to go to, like and I think I went
Speaker 1: like clear it or something as I walk by, because
Speaker 1: I was just like, no, this is the through way,
Speaker 1: you guys. Have to figure out your like German tourist,
Speaker 1: shit to the left of.
Speaker 3: Here, please, I absolutely walk out of walk up from
Speaker 3: subway steps, and if people have just stopped there, I
Speaker 3: will walk through them and go keep moving, keep moving,
Speaker 3: like the street sign. Keep moving because my office is
Speaker 3: uh my day job. My office is like right where
Speaker 3: a lot of people go to start shopping in the
Speaker 3: Soho area, so it is it is the stop, so
Speaker 3: it's a There are a lot of tourists, lots of
Speaker 3: families all decked out in Levi's five but one jeans
Speaker 3: looking for deals, and they're just right there on the corner.
Speaker 3: And I'm just like, keep it moving, keep it because
Speaker 3: they can't play. They don't know who's saying it. No
Speaker 3: one can get mad too many people, So I'm just like,
Speaker 3: keep moving, keep to the side on your left, Let
Speaker 3: all of it move out of the way.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: That reminds me. I was in because I really love
Speaker 1: New York City, like I would love, love love to
Speaker 1: live there, and I got to work there for like
Speaker 1: I think it ended up being like roughly a year,
Speaker 1: and I was in the beginning. I would do I
Speaker 1: would basically because I had a job in Chelsea, so
Speaker 1: and I got an apartment in health's kitchen, so I
Speaker 1: was like, okay. At first, I was too scared to
Speaker 1: take the subway because I didn't want to do it wrong,
Speaker 1: and I was positive I was going to get caught
Speaker 1: in the human turnstile. I was positive that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. So at first I was taking cabs everywhere
Speaker 1: and then but then I would go I would get
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks out of the ATM and then three
Speaker 1: days later have zero dollars and I'd be like shit,
Speaker 1: I dropped money again. And finally someone goes, no, you're
Speaker 1: taking cabs. Stop stop taking get on the subway. You're fine,
Speaker 1: You'll will be fine. And then then of course I
Speaker 1: felt like such an idiot. But one time my friend
Speaker 1: and I took a cab to Soho and we were
Speaker 1: getting like we were getting out, but the guy didn't
Speaker 1: pull over into like a parking space or there was
Speaker 1: no space, so he just double did a double park
Speaker 1: stop or tried to start to and then didn't realize
Speaker 1: that the van next to us wasn't parked, and so
Speaker 1: my friend opened her door and the van drove into it,
Speaker 1: like shoved the door into the doorframe, and then the
Speaker 1: van kept going yeah, and the cab driver started screaming
Speaker 1: and this lady on the street because we were kind
Speaker 1: of like what and my friend was already out of
Speaker 1: the cab, and this lady on the street saw the
Speaker 1: entire thing and looked at both of us and goes,
Speaker 1: go go, go, go, don't just don't don't stay here,
Speaker 1: and was sally like this died in the wool. New
Speaker 1: Yorker saw the two of our big eyes like are
Speaker 1: we suppose because the cab driver was like, you have
Speaker 1: to stay here, like as if we were going to
Speaker 1: pay for his door, and this lady's like, just go,
Speaker 1: just go run up the street. And it was one
Speaker 1: of it's like, that is why I love New York,
Speaker 1: that there's some real shit like that going on where
Speaker 1: people will help you when you are like caught in
Speaker 1: the cityness of that city.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's oh my gosh, that's that's true. That reminds me.
Speaker 3: I once had to yell at it Cabby, who is
Speaker 3: driving my sister from the airport to my apartment, and
Speaker 3: he pretended, you know, she had the information I gave her.
Speaker 3: You were going to this address between this street and
Speaker 3: that street. I've given you main address cross street. He
Speaker 3: should be able to figure it out. If anything, he
Speaker 3: can put it in his phone. Now, that's that's what
Speaker 3: they're doing. Yeah, So she gave him that information. So
Speaker 3: he's driving and he's already most of the way there
Speaker 3: before he's like, do you want to take this or
Speaker 3: the that?
Speaker 4: And she's like, I don't know. He's already cho.
Speaker 3: Made that choice though, Yeah, but he's like, oh, she
Speaker 3: don't know where she going. So then he's just kind
Speaker 3: of driving around and then he's like, uh, I'm texting
Speaker 3: my friend because he maybe knows this area.
Speaker 4: He's just pulling a lot of shit so that he
Speaker 4: can run up that meter, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so she calls me and she's just just.
Speaker 4: Frantic and I'm like, what do you see out your window?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: What are you seeing?
Speaker 3: And she is actually in the neighborhood and she gives
Speaker 3: me a couple of streets that they passed, and I'm like, great, okay,
Speaker 3: he is moving in the correct direction. Tell him when
Speaker 3: you see this to make a left or whatever, and
Speaker 3: then tell him to drop him off at whatever corner
Speaker 3: I told her, which was a block from my house.
Speaker 3: And I said, I will meet you there, and she
Speaker 3: said okay. So I go up and I see it.
Speaker 3: She gets out. He doesn't even he just opens the
Speaker 3: trunk or whatever. I get her bags out of the trunk,
Speaker 3: I close it, and then I give him what I
Speaker 3: think it should cost, and he's like, that's not what
Speaker 3: it says. And I said, well, no, you were trying
Speaker 3: to take her for a ride. Yeah, but this is
Speaker 3: how much it costs on average to get her where
Speaker 3: you were going to hear, and he's like, you gotta
Speaker 3: pay me more.
Speaker 4: And I was very calm, and then he just kept
Speaker 4: going and.
Speaker 3: Then I just screamed and I'm like, you don't know
Speaker 3: how to do your goddamn job. Man, You're not taking
Speaker 3: my fuck. It's this blah blah blah. This is all
Speaker 3: you fucking get now. My neighborhood, I don't know if
Speaker 3: they even noticed me. They're probably like, here's this woman
Speaker 3: who's just walking around randomly, but they all stopped. I
Speaker 3: felt them stop and turn around and watch this happen.
Speaker 3: And no one was trying to do anything. Everyone was
Speaker 3: just like, let's see how this plays out. And I
Speaker 3: screamed at him, and then I slammed the door and
Speaker 3: then I'm like, come on, let's go. And we walked
Speaker 3: to the apartment and he it's further down the block,
Speaker 3: so he follows us and then he rolls down his
Speaker 3: window and he starts to yell something at us, and
Speaker 3: my sister yells back, oh, now you know where you're going.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh wow, okay, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 4: And so I was just like, all right, well here
Speaker 4: we are, you know.
Speaker 3: And then later that night we were in Williamsburg and
Speaker 3: a cabby drives A cab drives by, and I recognize
Speaker 3: it's the same driver, and I'm like, is he just
Speaker 3: haunting the streets now looking for us? So we just
Speaker 3: kind of duck.
Speaker 4: Later, were you high you thought he was after you
Speaker 4: had no idea? But I'm like, yo, yo, yo, that's.
Speaker 3: The same dude, right, She's like it is you just
Speaker 3: kind of like lower ourselves because what are the chances?
Speaker 4: And chances yeah for real?
Speaker 2: Oh you're my hero? For okay? Did everyone stop and
Speaker 2: watch how it played out as if they would intervene
Speaker 2: if or.
Speaker 3: Were they just I never I know, I'm just such
Speaker 3: a I feel like I'm such a quiet figure on
Speaker 3: these streets, Like you know, I'm not really saying hi
Speaker 3: to people.
Speaker 4: I'm just in and out of stores. You know, I
Speaker 4: do a thing.
Speaker 3: But I ran like a comedy show a couple of
Speaker 3: blocks from my house, like for three years, so I
Speaker 3: don't think anyone's really paying attention. But it turns out
Speaker 3: there are people in the neighborho are like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're the comedy girl. So I have no idea who's
Speaker 3: paying attention to me at all. So I just thought
Speaker 3: the streets were gonna continue to be the streets while
Speaker 3: I'm oh, here's someone yelling at a cabby, but they
Speaker 3: all like stop and they're like, oh, here's old girl
Speaker 3: yelling at a cabby.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see how this goes.
Speaker 1: Let's track this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, yea, yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people like slowly brought up phones,
Speaker 3: but it was yeah yeah, quietly. Yeah, So it just
Speaker 3: would have been yeah, I'm yelling at this cabby.
Speaker 4: But then to see him later that night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fucking scaryt shit.
Speaker 4: I was like, are you the only cab working this weekend?
Speaker 4: How is this possible? Yeah?
Speaker 2: The last Oh, now you know how to drive that
Speaker 2: that aid at him to wear? Oh for sure, keep
Speaker 2: it on some fingerless gloves.
Speaker 1: And shave his heads his apartment. Yeah, Travis pickled it.
Speaker 2: Up driving around looking every but the not in service
Speaker 2: light is on. Oh shit, every time.
Speaker 1: When I was in New York and I was just
Speaker 1: there for like a week or a weekend or something,
Speaker 1: every time I would get a cab to go, you know,
Speaker 1: pre uber nineties or whatever, I would get a cab
Speaker 1: to go back to the airport. If they took any
Speaker 1: way that wasn't because I'm from I'm you know, have
Speaker 1: lived in LA so long that I'm just like, get
Speaker 1: on the freeway. That's what you do. If you're going
Speaker 1: to take me on side streets. I'm scared or something's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, or you're trying to run up the meter.
Speaker 1: But you don't always take There's not it doesn't work
Speaker 1: like that there. It's like it's not La. It's not
Speaker 1: one to one thing. So like so many times because
Speaker 1: at certain times in the morning, the cab driver knows
Speaker 1: if you go around these side streets, you'll get their
Speaker 1: way faster, and it's the way better option. And I
Speaker 1: just sit in the back of that cab like I
Speaker 1: have to trust the New York cab system in this
Speaker 1: way where it's like I think he knows and I'm
Speaker 1: and even if, like, even if it's a scam, what
Speaker 1: the fuck am I supposed to do? Because now I
Speaker 1: don't know where we are at all. And the one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful times, and I have should say
Speaker 1: every single time. We got there, and we got there fast,
Speaker 1: and we beat the traffic, and it's that thing where
Speaker 1: you kind of go over on the side and then
Speaker 1: I think you're I don't know the neighborhood. But one
Speaker 1: time it was really early in the morning and I
Speaker 1: remember looking up a street that we passed and a
Speaker 1: pack of no joke, thirty stray dogs. Well it turned
Speaker 1: and came running down the street. It was the most cinematic,
Speaker 1: amazing thing I've ever seen. I was like, where are
Speaker 1: we right now? Like wow, fuck is going on? And
Speaker 1: then boop were at JFK. Everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, you must have been on
Speaker 4: your way to JFK.
Speaker 3: Is Now what I'm learning is I'm kind of deep
Speaker 3: in Brooklyn, So it takes about the same amount of
Speaker 3: time to get to LaGuardia as it does the JFK.
Speaker 4: But JFK there are more streets involved.
Speaker 3: Before they get at the very last minute, get on
Speaker 3: whatever part of the expressway.
Speaker 4: We'll take them to a terminal.
Speaker 3: But in the meantime, I'm like, should there be this
Speaker 3: many Windy's like on.
Speaker 4: The way to the.
Speaker 3: I feel like it should be, but I mean and
Speaker 3: we get there in no time flat. So after that,
Speaker 3: and you know, after yelling at that Cabby, I think
Speaker 3: I had only lived here like maybe five years by then.
Speaker 3: But then I'm like, Okay, next time you tell him,
Speaker 3: do this, take the the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
Speaker 4: And then blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You know, if they're not going to do that, they
Speaker 3: take this, And she's just like writing this down, like okay, wait,
Speaker 3: what's But yeah, there have been times I'm definitely, especially
Speaker 3: from the airport, where I remember one guy who was
Speaker 3: just kind of driving in circles once he left, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, I don't know where I'm going, but
Speaker 3: where are you going? Like none of this looks familiar?
Speaker 3: And he's like, you got excuse me, I really have
Speaker 3: to pee. Oh so he just couldn't think straight. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Was with a very confusing truth bump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I went well, pull over and pee, and.
Speaker 4: So he did, and he's like, oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I really feel And I'm like, okay, so now do
Speaker 3: you know where you're going? He's like no, not really,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, give me your fuck phone. Like I'm like,
Speaker 3: I can't believe I got to be your mom. You
Speaker 3: wasted all this time. I'm like, first off, turn off
Speaker 3: that meter. Yeah good, I'm not paying. I'm not paying
Speaker 3: for your pee adventures. And then blah blah blah, but wow,
Speaker 3: just insane.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 2: You're my You're my hero. For speaking up. I would
Speaker 2: I can see myself in New York, know that someone.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, maybe it's normal to be in Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: for a second, Like I would never say anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those beautiful horses.
Speaker 2: He's just showing his country house.
Speaker 3: You. I mean, you really just have to catch me
Speaker 3: at the right time, because I for sure will just
Speaker 3: be like I mean, they say the Tri state area
Speaker 3: and I'm not entirely sure which states they mean, so
Speaker 3: I guess Vermont could be one of them. I don't
Speaker 3: know anything, but you know, if if I've done it
Speaker 3: a few times and I'm like this doesn't feel right,
Speaker 3: you know, like I feel like you were supposed to
Speaker 3: do something a long time before, and I don't know
Speaker 3: where we are now, So then I and if I'm
Speaker 3: using one of the apps, I will follow along on
Speaker 3: the map.
Speaker 4: And I don't think they're expecting people to do that.
Speaker 3: Yes, I definitely surprised the driver by like, hey man,
Speaker 3: why are you going this way when you easily could?
Speaker 3: And they're like, oh, I thought you were just someone
Speaker 3: who didn't know the streets.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I maybe don't know where I am, but I know
Speaker 2: what a fucking figure eight is, yes, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I don't like it. No, Actually I want I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you that you are one of the
Speaker 1: few people I have not muted on Twitter. You are
Speaker 1: you were You don't know it, but you're one of
Speaker 1: my Twitter friends and we have a lot of real
Speaker 1: life mutual friends. But it's a it's a funny thing,
Speaker 1: like knowing that you were going to be on today
Speaker 1: where this I saw this yesterday and it made me
Speaker 1: laugh so hard, the video of the guy that could
Speaker 1: fold jeans super fast. Yes, And so you know how
Speaker 1: the way Twitter works now, like I have to watch
Speaker 1: people I follow talk to other people I don't follow,
Speaker 1: and don't know right, So oftentimes these things come into
Speaker 1: my feet. I'm like, what the fuck am I watching this?
Speaker 1: Jean's folding thing for it, I'm like, okay, Shelly was
Speaker 1: talking to something. Okay, then okay, then that's fine with me.
Speaker 1: And you did. You said the funniest thing that then
Speaker 1: also I want to talk about. But it was somebody saying,
Speaker 1: if you've ever known anybody that's worked retail, you've seen
Speaker 1: them do like this is the stuff that sticks with
Speaker 1: you or whatever, being able to fold clothes like that.
Speaker 1: And then your response was something and you talked about
Speaker 1: doing it a two year bid at the Gap.
Speaker 4: It made me.
Speaker 1: Laugh so hard, But I worked. I worked at the
Speaker 1: Gap for a year. Yeah, I did a stretch. I
Speaker 1: did a year stretch myself, and that is exactly how
Speaker 1: it felt. And I still can quick fold anything like
Speaker 1: when I shop at the Gap now as a lead person,
Speaker 1: I refold anything I look at.
Speaker 3: I have to anytime that I'm in a gap or
Speaker 3: an old Navy and I'm looking for my size and
Speaker 3: I pick up part of the thing to either put
Speaker 3: a shirt back or someone's like, oh you've done this before.
Speaker 3: No one tries to put it back in size order, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this thing, and you just kind of quickly fold the
Speaker 3: thing and then just put it and people are like,
Speaker 3: oh you, where are the immediately? Where can I find
Speaker 3: the I don't work here, but did you try over there?
Speaker 1: But it's stuck in my mind. I know what's probably
Speaker 1: it's like you pull the lip forward so it has
Speaker 1: the size sticker on the fold.
Speaker 4: You know, the whole weight has to.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, you did two years at the gap. Then
Speaker 2: I treat it like a sentence.
Speaker 4: Yes I did, and I left.
Speaker 3: I quit because that particular gap decided to put a
Speaker 3: gap kids in the middle of the store instead of
Speaker 3: have a separate gap kids. They put in the middle
Speaker 3: of the store, and I don't work with children.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, if y'all get a gap kids,
Speaker 3: I'm leaving. And my managers truly thought I was kidding.
Speaker 3: And I helped them, like the night before they were
Speaker 3: going to open as a gap. I'm like, this is
Speaker 3: literally my last day, and they're like okay, And I
Speaker 3: helped them set it up and we hung a bunch
Speaker 3: of little shirts and everything, and I said, okay, this
Speaker 3: is it. And then two days later they're like, wait,
Speaker 3: you were serious, and I said, yeah, do what you
Speaker 3: gotta do, so you make it look like you knew
Speaker 3: that was my last day because I'm not coming back.
Speaker 4: I don't let kids.
Speaker 2: Wow where they putting in a ballpit or something.
Speaker 4: You just know.
Speaker 3: I just I already didn't like how the shoppers would
Speaker 3: come in with their kids and just leave their kids right,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, look, I'm paid to like take care
Speaker 3: of the clothing, but I will not take care of
Speaker 3: your kid. So there are many times where are kids
Speaker 3: like pulling on a mannequin and I'm just like, uh,
Speaker 3: watch out there now, and they can't do anything. And
Speaker 3: then they pulled a you know, they pulled a mannequin
Speaker 3: over and parent comes running out from the fitting room
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, yeah, that's a mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah they know. They're all kind of running around like,
Speaker 2: uh not yet lit sticks of dynamite. Yeah, never know.
Speaker 4: So now, and that's with just adult clothing.
Speaker 3: So now imagine there's children clothing and little knickknacks or
Speaker 3: stuffed animals or whatever, and then they're gonna go around
Speaker 3: and knock over all the perfume that's in there, gap
Speaker 3: earth and airror and water grass, all those all those
Speaker 3: fucking smells.
Speaker 4: I'm like, it's too much. Y'all are asking too much
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I'd be a bad influence because
Speaker 2: I'd go up Tanny Kidd and be like, do you
Speaker 2: want to hide in that rack of clothes from your mother?
Speaker 4: Like I used to have.
Speaker 2: Fun doing that. I would be I'd be a bad influence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my gosh. So yeah, that's definitely how I
Speaker 4: view it.
Speaker 3: It's just like I felt like it was one of
Speaker 3: those jobs that you kind of had to like do.
Speaker 4: Time a little time.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have friends to this day and that for
Speaker 1: the last thirty years. And we met working at the
Speaker 1: Gap in San Francisco, where I work, Like it's a
Speaker 1: very trauma bonding experience where you're just you, depending on
Speaker 1: the kind of boss you have and depending on the
Speaker 1: you know, the assistant manager and the way that it's
Speaker 1: such a strange hierarchical and you're supposed to be trying
Speaker 1: to get into management, where I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: even want to be in sales. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be here at all, Like, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: There's like kind of a competitive like everybody doing great. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I'm always like four minutes late walking in eating like
Speaker 1: a piece of licorice, and my boss is like, here's
Speaker 1: been on the floor at two o'clock, not walking.
Speaker 4: In to a four.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, a lot of that, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: But it was also it was like the worst and
Speaker 1: the best, yeah, because then it was just like funny,
Speaker 1: crazy shit would happen all the time exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was a I was a stock supervisor, which just
Speaker 3: I was of the people who work stock. I just
Speaker 3: hung around the longest. So they're like, all right, you're
Speaker 3: in charge of the back room. I went, great, I
Speaker 3: don't want to be out there with you in the
Speaker 3: trenches with you guys. That's a shame.
Speaker 4: But then they were they they.
Speaker 3: Were trying to like, you know, you should think about
Speaker 3: like the road to management, and I'm like, every time
Speaker 3: those tiny blonde women come in here from various regions,
Speaker 3: y'all freak the fuck out, and I'm not, I can't
Speaker 3: do that, you know. But it's always I'm like, I
Speaker 3: see who the managers are, and they're never anyone who
Speaker 3: looks like me.
Speaker 4: They're all very petite.
Speaker 3: Blonde, very short, bobbed women, Like I can't do that.
Speaker 3: And then I was working at a record store at
Speaker 3: the same time, like an independent record store, and I'm like, look,
Speaker 3: this is just to subsidize the coolness factor, Like that's
Speaker 3: where my heart, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean? This is this is the pay bills,
Speaker 4: but my heart is with the vinyl.
Speaker 2: When was it after the gap you worked in in
Speaker 2: the sex shop?
Speaker 4: It was after the gap?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a couple of a couple of months,
Speaker 3: I think after I left and then I got the job.
Speaker 4: At the adult video store.
Speaker 1: Son was the pay better?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was, it was better, much more interesting stuff.
Speaker 3: I didn't but I will say weirdly because I remember
Speaker 3: a customer asking, like, there are a lot of women
Speaker 3: who worked at the store, And I remember a customer
Speaker 3: asking like, how do you feel about working here when
Speaker 3: you're seeing all of you know, all this stuff, and
Speaker 3: you know, doesn't it feel like degrading?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, first you're a customer here, like
Speaker 4: what are you doing?
Speaker 3: And I'm and then I was like, look, I used
Speaker 3: to pick up after people's fitting rooms, like at the gap,
Speaker 3: and that felt far worse, you know.
Speaker 4: I was like just side like size was just picking.
Speaker 3: Up tiny little clothes for people. My age was that
Speaker 3: I could never fit into that hurt me a lot more.
Speaker 4: At least, I know.
Speaker 3: There's a row of movies for dudes who want chubby
Speaker 3: black girls, Like I know, if you want that, they're
Speaker 3: that's there.
Speaker 4: I'm here, you know, right.
Speaker 2: Just knowing that exists is far less intimate than picking
Speaker 2: up someone's tiny shorts that they just put on.
Speaker 3: Just like, no, I don't want this, it's too big,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh boy.
Speaker 1: You know the rolling folding table that we would always
Speaker 1: park out in front of the fitting rooms, and then
Speaker 1: when people would come out of the fitting rooms, they
Speaker 1: would just dump their shit onto the table, no matter
Speaker 1: what you were doing on that table, and they would
Speaker 1: look at you. They wouldn't acknowledge you. I went through
Speaker 1: so many kind of like psychological kind of like who
Speaker 1: am I? What am I doing? Yes, you know, with
Speaker 1: like Enya playing in the background, because it was like
Speaker 1: the same mixtape that played for six hours a day,
Speaker 1: and just sitting there going is this what I want
Speaker 1: for myself? I need to do better than this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just can't.
Speaker 3: It was it was much or so by the time
Speaker 3: I got to the porn store, I was like, ugh,
Speaker 3: first off, I don't have to worry about what to wear, Like,
Speaker 3: whatever I have on is fine. It it doesn't need
Speaker 3: to be gap appropriate. You know, they're not giving me
Speaker 3: a T shirt that says, you know, gap swings.
Speaker 4: Or gap right.
Speaker 1: Yes, no forced chinos.
Speaker 3: No forced chinos, no forced chinos. And yeah, it was
Speaker 3: just uh weirdly an easier atmosphere to be in. And
Speaker 3: then I was so hell bent on showing that I
Speaker 3: was cool, and I'm like, what's cooler? I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: already in an indie record store. What's the next level? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And the level is a porn store. That's that's the
Speaker 3: only place, and that you know, you're a nineties woman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the only way to show to show that exactly,
Speaker 4: to show that you're cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a talking about talking to someone about their
Speaker 2: music tastes is pretty personal. It's like the next logical
Speaker 2: step is just ask about their junk.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, or showing that you're too cool, too cool
Speaker 3: to even hear about their junk. But I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess keep talking. You know what's yours? Your solo show
Speaker 3: is don't don't reach in the bag. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: my first rule. Yeah, it's it's the first rule. Of
Speaker 3: working in an adult video It was like video rental. Okay,
Speaker 3: so people were returning and it was it's just like
Speaker 3: the first thing you should know. It took people a
Speaker 3: while to realize, Oh, we should tell new hires this
Speaker 3: so they don't mess up just because things get slippery.
Speaker 4: Oh right, So it's just best to just dumb it
Speaker 4: all out, I.
Speaker 2: Thought, because of the you don't want to shame someone
Speaker 2: by pulling out oh yeah about bangers volume whatever.
Speaker 4: No, you know, Oh well that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just dump it out and just kind of move
Speaker 3: it around with a pencil or something.
Speaker 2: But that's not what I expected at all.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's a germ issue. Yes, that's so great.
Speaker 1: Are you still doing that show? It's a one woman show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I am still doing it.
Speaker 3: I I am now just kind of doing it in
Speaker 3: little like just like here here here. It'll pop up
Speaker 3: in New York, but I'm going to do it in
Speaker 3: Austin as part of like the Moontower Festival.
Speaker 4: I'm doing it in Portland at the end of May.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And so you gradually keep adding on to
Speaker 2: it then over the last years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a whole thing.
Speaker 3: I take a it's a there's a Q and A
Speaker 3: at the end of the show because I'm like, I know,
Speaker 3: I didn't I know in listening to the five stories
Speaker 3: that you've heard me tell, I'm not telling you there's.
Speaker 4: More that you want to know.
Speaker 3: So just because I can talk about it for hours,
Speaker 3: but we only have an hour and ten minutes here,
Speaker 3: So just what are your questions?
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Can you think of like the best question an audience
Speaker 1: member has asked you at the end, or like the
Speaker 1: most interesting?
Speaker 3: Okay, I did it in LA like last year, maybe
Speaker 3: last fall, just the very quickly, and someone in the
Speaker 3: audience asked me about what I thought the bridge was
Speaker 3: between spirituality and sexuality, and I was like, that is
Speaker 3: the most LA question. Yeah, are you serious right now?
Speaker 3: But it was an older woman, you know, short gray hair,
Speaker 3: you know, and she's just like, what do you think?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, first of all, thanks for coming.
Speaker 1: Your support means the board, thank you.
Speaker 4: Now what I spiritual?
Speaker 3: I never think about spirituality, I guess except when people say,
Speaker 3: oh God when they're getting ready to climax.
Speaker 4: I don't many people do think about that.
Speaker 3: I was like, I can tell you, I think that
Speaker 3: sex is a is more of a need or like
Speaker 3: a necessary thing than like a It shouldn't just be
Speaker 3: lumped in with love. It's you know, you got to
Speaker 3: clean out your pipes. And so I was literally I'm absolutely.
Speaker 4: Happy with helping people.
Speaker 3: Like once I was there, I could see, oh we
Speaker 3: are we are curtailing a lot of crime. I can
Speaker 3: see by being here, oh twenty four hours for people
Speaker 3: to get their their love and go, like, we are
Speaker 3: really helping the people out in a way that it's
Speaker 3: hard to like fully quantify, but I see how it's happening.
Speaker 3: Wow really yeah yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: Well that's a that's a connection that makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: because that's very true.
Speaker 2: I really want to see your show. And also yea
Speaker 2: many questions.
Speaker 4: Clean I know I am.
Speaker 3: I am trying to schedule to come back out there
Speaker 3: in LA like late summer. So I am total good
Speaker 3: to get to get it back out there and do
Speaker 3: a run because my producer is Dulce Sloan and so
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and so she's yeah, she's helping. She'll be
Speaker 3: out in Atlanta or she'll be based in LA again
Speaker 3: soon and so we're just gonna put it up as
Speaker 3: much as we can.
Speaker 1: Great, great, yeah, perfect, Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 2: I was around for when I lived in Austin. Uh
Speaker 2: my girlfriend at the time was doing a documentary called
Speaker 2: Lady porn at Ut and we were interviewing a lot
Speaker 2: of women that worked in sex shops just to ask
Speaker 2: what about their yeah, all this stuff. Yeah, I've I've
Speaker 2: talked about this before and it was really interesting to me.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it's it was kind of a not like
Speaker 3: a wild time. But when I worked there was the
Speaker 3: late nineties into the aughts, so I watched, like I
Speaker 3: watched it move from VHS to DVD, you know, But
Speaker 3: then I also watched like the mindset of the world
Speaker 3: change from like Clinton to Bush, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like I thought all these things happened, and I'm like wow,
Speaker 3: because I was there for like six seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't see a connection with spirituality, but politically.
Speaker 3: But politically yeah, I see, Yeah, I definitely see. You know,
Speaker 3: we had to pull some of the sex toys off
Speaker 3: the shelves because the people in charge in the city
Speaker 3: didn't care for him, But then once someone else was elected,
Speaker 3: we could put them back on to get you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like politically.
Speaker 4: We had to make a lot of.
Speaker 2: Moves because the Accommodator looks like a Lincoln beard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just letting you know, I know about
Speaker 2: some of the Yeah. Yeah, I've been a proud owner
Speaker 2: of an accommodator. And you don't it's karen if you
Speaker 2: don't know. It's a penis you wear on your chin
Speaker 2: and it comes into three different colors. I know, a
Speaker 2: big black one, and I can't bring myself. It's still
Speaker 2: in the box. I've never once I brought it home
Speaker 2: and put it on. I'm like, I can't pull this off.
Speaker 2: And it has everything to do with abrinking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a specific kind of hat where you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't have a hat face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's different.
Speaker 2: It's my sexual fedora. It seemed like a good idea
Speaker 2: at the time.
Speaker 3: I once in my car at that time, I kept
Speaker 3: a dildo. I think it was called demand Rammer, and
Speaker 3: it was just a very large dildo. But at the
Speaker 3: end it had like a like a sword kind of handle,
Speaker 3: like a hilt.
Speaker 4: Okay okay, and it was huge.
Speaker 3: It was, you know, just a handle and then just
Speaker 3: this thing and I would leave that in the passenger
Speaker 3: front seat.
Speaker 4: Just leave it in there to keep people.
Speaker 3: From like breaking in and stealing like my silver change
Speaker 3: or whatever. Which is I lived in areas where that
Speaker 3: normally would happen, and it definitely worked.
Speaker 4: And also I was.
Speaker 3: Like, if I it's you know, it wasn't like a firm.
Speaker 3: It was you know, kind of floppy silotone, kind of floppy.
Speaker 3: So I would like if anyone.
Speaker 4: Were to I could like, yeah, I was myself and
Speaker 4: like smack them if I need to.
Speaker 2: Probably heavy and you know heavy it was.
Speaker 3: It was pretty heavy and embarrassing, very embarrassing. And it
Speaker 3: also had it also came in three colors. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: gotta you gotta cover everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my my dick gin when I say, but
Speaker 2: it was jet black in a bondage way. That's it
Speaker 2: looks scary. I look like a villain with it. That's
Speaker 2: the man. It looks very intimidating, Like there's.
Speaker 4: I think that's the way to go a color that
Speaker 4: is not a natural I.
Speaker 1: Did to recreate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it seems easier to deal with that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always think about the fact that this stuff like
Speaker 1: it would have been you're so right that it is
Speaker 1: like that super cool girl nineties move to be like
Speaker 1: I'm so chill that I can work here and handle
Speaker 1: things and like check me out, which I adore. But
Speaker 1: then these days it's like the mentality of almost the
Speaker 1: entire culture, at least the youth culture is like things
Speaker 1: are so open, chill everything, but it's like so accepting now.
Speaker 1: I would be fascinated to know the difference of like
Speaker 1: any kind of store like that compared to what it
Speaker 1: was like in the even in the two thousands or
Speaker 1: the twenty times.
Speaker 3: I think the big difference right now is now that
Speaker 3: everyone's open about this, and now that a lot of
Speaker 3: the you know, movies are whatever, the flicks, however you
Speaker 3: call them, are available online. Now it's more about the toys,
Speaker 3: which means it's probably it's kind of more geared towards women.
Speaker 3: So that is kind of where the cool factor is,
Speaker 3: is that I'm helping women finally reach orgasms that they've
Speaker 3: never been able to reach before. And I think that
Speaker 3: is probably where the turn is because the story that
Speaker 3: I worked at still is still up and running, but
Speaker 3: they've made a few pivots and so they have they
Speaker 3: now have a viewing boots where you actually go in
Speaker 3: to watch clips of movies, which were around when I
Speaker 3: worked there, but we were like, no, we're a classy joint.
Speaker 4: You just rent the movies and take them away and
Speaker 4: do what you want with them.
Speaker 3: But now yeah, now it's uh, you know, you can
Speaker 3: go in here, pay for however much time, go and
Speaker 3: watch a watch a movie or two pick a movie,
Speaker 3: and then the rest of the store is mostly like
Speaker 3: costumes and toys and aids and games and things of
Speaker 3: that nature. And that's kind of yes, bachelor, yes, bachelor
Speaker 3: at party, but also like even that has changed. It
Speaker 3: used to be like this stuff is, yeah, bachelorette party.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna put a bunch of penises on stuff.
Speaker 4: We're so silly.
Speaker 3: Now it's like this one has been medically found to.
Speaker 3: The toys are like, you know, they're all like these
Speaker 3: wild organic shapes where you're like half circles and curves
Speaker 3: and and I'm like, I don't know where to I'm
Speaker 3: I think maybe I'm just an up and down kind
Speaker 3: of person, so.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm mis curvy with it, So
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: That I feel like that must be how it's happening
Speaker 3: in order to still kind of seem to have that
Speaker 3: kind of cachet that it did before. Was I think
Speaker 3: that must be the That must be how it looks now,
Speaker 3: because when I was in the store actually over the
Speaker 3: holiday and was just like, okay, this is this is
Speaker 3: what we're doing now.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: But you think of those stores that are they look
Speaker 3: like Apple stores, but it's all sex toys.
Speaker 2: Oh right, Yeah, I am surprised to hear they have
Speaker 2: the viewing booths. I thought that was a bygone era thing.
Speaker 2: And I do what must be worse than emptying a
Speaker 2: bag or putting is did you have to clean those
Speaker 2: little rooms?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: We don't.
Speaker 3: I have to know I didn't. We didn't have the
Speaker 3: rooms when I worked there. They recently got the rooms,
Speaker 3: but they You know, you can find someone who will
Speaker 3: do that. You pay them handsomely. Yeah, make sure that
Speaker 3: there are always gloves and yeah, I don't know, plastic
Speaker 3: for your you know what I mean, the gorgeous yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: face whatever.
Speaker 1: The FBI is coming in to go over the crimes, just.
Speaker 3: Straight up have the disposable has mats on tap and
Speaker 3: then you just if you pay them handsomely, someone will
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: Just yea, somewhere's your oiled tongs. I yeah, I racked
Speaker 2: up some credit. There's a comedy show here at the
Speaker 2: Pleasure Chess that I used to do, and I racked
Speaker 2: up credit. And that's when I felt like a square
Speaker 2: is I was. I had, you know, like almost one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars credit and all I all I could find
Speaker 2: was the accommodator. That was the only toy I'm like,
Speaker 2: And I felt like I went, wait, I'm taboo, come
Speaker 2: on right, yeah, I'm yeah, I'm an up and down guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing is that I feel like, because of youth culture,
Speaker 3: maybe I'm supposed to you know, you're trying to keep
Speaker 3: up with them, maybe, and you're like, oh, I guess
Speaker 3: I should be whackier with it.
Speaker 4: But it's such a personal thing.
Speaker 3: And I also kind of feel like I just want
Speaker 3: to say, like, maybe to the youth who were, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, putting big oversized honey nut cheerios and themselves
Speaker 3: are doing whatever, and I'm like, you may it may
Speaker 3: you may be doing too much.
Speaker 4: This may not be your thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Because it takes years.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, we're a lot more open to things,
Speaker 3: and so I feel like we're a lot more open
Speaker 3: to concepts. Yeah, but like, honestly, though, what does your
Speaker 3: body like?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Can you truly answer that question? And that's that's gonna
Speaker 3: take some time. I'm like, if you know that, you
Speaker 3: don't know that, and then that can also shift. So
Speaker 3: I just hope that everyone, while being very adamant that
Speaker 3: they are open minded and stuff, are still able to
Speaker 3: carry that with them as they get older, because I'm
Speaker 3: now at a point where I'm just watching young people
Speaker 3: be very hardcore about stuff, and I've gotten past the
Speaker 3: point where I'm like, but what about me? You guys
Speaker 3: used to listen to me five years ago. Now I'm like,
Speaker 3: all right, you'll see I'm not gonna I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Press it, but you will.
Speaker 3: I will check back in with you in twelve years
Speaker 3: and see how you feel about suddenly being ignored, you know,
Speaker 3: and seeing how you'll adjust to that.
Speaker 2: And I have to can we elaborate on the cheerio
Speaker 2: that's just been hanging above?
Speaker 3: Everything's just so curvy, It's all so curvy, so round,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I I this could be where maybe
Speaker 3: I'm not reading the write magazines.
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe there.
Speaker 3: Are sites, maybe there are videos I'm not clicking on
Speaker 3: that will show me how if this is like a
Speaker 3: floaty or am I supposed to sit on it?
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 1: Is actually just a thing that helps you love swimming.
Speaker 4: It turns out.
Speaker 1: That you can also it's just floating, right, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I don't want to make that mistake that I'm
Speaker 3: trying to now sex.
Speaker 2: We all know sex that's getting very aquatic.
Speaker 1: These days. I did a show at the Pleasure Chest
Speaker 1: one time, and I was standing, you know, like when
Speaker 1: it's so funny because they have like a curtained off
Speaker 1: area for the performing area, but then the comics are
Speaker 1: just waiting in the aisles of the store, right, and
Speaker 1: I just I'm just so Irish Catholic and like just
Speaker 1: raised in a culture that's so repressive and so like,
Speaker 1: not only does sex not exist, but if it comes
Speaker 1: up on like on TV or in a movie, people
Speaker 1: get mad about it. Like it's it's very inverse to
Speaker 1: what is happening these days. And I just was standing
Speaker 1: there waiting to waiting to go on, and I went
Speaker 1: to like lean against something and I looked and it
Speaker 1: was a package of penis pasta and I started laughing
Speaker 1: so hard, and then I was just like, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm such a twelve year old when it comes to
Speaker 1: all this shit, Like I understand there's people that are
Speaker 1: like I want to explore it and I do this
Speaker 1: and it's to do that or whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I think this is hilarious and I like want to
Speaker 1: buy this for all of my friends. That's the stage
Speaker 1: I'm at r with all of these things. We all
Speaker 1: get to do it the way we want.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: When I started, I told my sister I got the
Speaker 3: job there, and she was like, but you don't like
Speaker 3: watching people kiss on television Because when I was a
Speaker 3: kid and we watched like The Love Boat and people kiss,
Speaker 3: I would cover my eyes. And so even now when
Speaker 3: I'm watching a show and people start kissing, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't be seeing this, but this is like hown work,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't know. So it's a weird
Speaker 3: thing where I still am uncomfortable at the emotion around kissing.
Speaker 3: But I absolutely can like sell these toys or do well.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, oh, yeah, no, that's that's absolutely what
Speaker 3: you would do with this little egg.
Speaker 4: You know, I just don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just don't want to watch?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't need to see it.
Speaker 3: But I am the mechanics.
Speaker 2: I can watch people kiss. If I hear a suld smack,
Speaker 2: I am out in the door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well is there anything? This went by so fast?
Speaker 4: I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I just looked down and was like, are you fucking
Speaker 1: kidding me?
Speaker 4: That insane? Yeah? Sually.
Speaker 1: Was there anything you want to plug or like talk
Speaker 1: about before you go?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, uh, I don't know. I'm so bad at
Speaker 3: plugging things. Oh okay. I I co host a podcast
Speaker 3: we all do and everybody you know does, and it's
Speaker 3: called The War Report, and I do it with a
Speaker 3: comedian named Gastor Almonte who's very funny, and it's usually
Speaker 3: him coming up with really terrible business ideas and me
Speaker 3: reminding him that he is a husband and a father
Speaker 3: and legally he shouldn't be able to do any of that.
Speaker 3: But you know that's We do that like a couple
Speaker 3: of times a week, and it's a good time. So
Speaker 3: it's just us talking about the news and me yelling
Speaker 3: about something is usually how that shakes out. So you know,
Speaker 3: look it up The War Report. You'll find it. We've
Speaker 3: been doing it a couple of years.
Speaker 1: War Report. I always love when I see your posts
Speaker 1: on that because the picture you guys took, you're both
Speaker 1: wearing camo and you're scanning. It's like, it definitely looks
Speaker 1: like you guys are gonna invade the Middle East somehow.
Speaker 1: What is this podcast about?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 3: Because the artwork is based on an album called The
Speaker 3: War Report by two rappers named Capone and Noriega. Now,
Speaker 3: Gastor is a big hip hop person, and I dance
Speaker 3: around the edges of hip hop for sure. So he
Speaker 3: came to me with this idea and he's like, we
Speaker 3: got to do it, and we got to make the
Speaker 3: art look just like the album cover.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I mean, okay.
Speaker 2: Is that nineties hip hop?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's ringing a bell yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's so the cover, I guess is iconic. I
Speaker 3: had to go buy fatigues and then we took we
Speaker 3: took the picture and then uh, you know, our guy,
Speaker 3: he put together the artwork and it looked very much
Speaker 3: like the cover, the original album cover, so much so
Speaker 3: that when we posted the first episode on Spotify, someone said, hey,
Speaker 3: copyright infringe and it got pulled because it.
Speaker 4: Looked too much like the album cover.
Speaker 2: I've experienced that with a graphic or Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was the graphic and they were like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't know what this is. We're going to pull
Speaker 3: the whole episode. So we had to repost it. We
Speaker 3: had to change the graphic for Spotify, so that artwork
Speaker 3: that I post on Twitter is just on Twitter.
Speaker 4: We can't use it on anything. Well.
Speaker 2: I was from what I know not to be a nerd,
Speaker 2: but I think you only have to change a ten percent.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that's dictated, but with with graphic
Speaker 2: design stuff, when i'm that.
Speaker 4: I believe that.
Speaker 3: I was just like, yo, just put our initials, man,
Speaker 3: don't it's too close. And then someone uh so Gastor
Speaker 3: then got on Twitter and was just like ah, the
Speaker 3: man trying to keep us down, and he I think
Speaker 3: managed to get the attention of one of the like Noriega,
Speaker 3: who saw the cover well like hah, that's funny. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, wow, my god. That was our first day
Speaker 3: of the podcast, and I was like, this is I
Speaker 3: don't know if this is a good sign or not,
Speaker 3: but next time let's do a little more of a
Speaker 3: homage instead of a straight rip give you the rights or.
Speaker 4: No, not really.
Speaker 3: He just said online like this is cool, this is funny.
Speaker 3: But by then I was just like, let's just post
Speaker 3: the picture on Twitter, where it's much more lawless.
Speaker 4: Especially the Yeah, but it really is.
Speaker 3: If you look at the cover of the of the
Speaker 3: War Report album and then our podcast artwork, it is
Speaker 3: very close.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait to look at up. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen it. That's so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So, but that's that's what I got going on.
Speaker 3: And then all my social media is at silky jumbo
Speaker 3: all one word traditional spelling, and and I usually I
Speaker 3: usually will say whatever it is I'm doing on you know,
Speaker 3: your your Twitter, your your Instagram.
Speaker 4: Not so much on TikTok. I don't understand it. It's
Speaker 4: and I'm fine with that. I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, on TikTok, can I just tell you really
Speaker 1: quick if you're interested or you see tiktoks that you like,
Speaker 1: because here's how I got on TikTok. For three years,
Speaker 1: my sister would just send me tiktoks in a text
Speaker 1: and then I would open it and I would watch
Speaker 1: what she wanted me to watch. I would laugh really hard,
Speaker 1: and then it would go to the next video and
Speaker 1: it would be like a teenage girl crying and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I don't want to see that. I would
Speaker 1: get really mad, and finally my sister was like, just
Speaker 1: make an account and then you can control all of
Speaker 1: this and when you when you do it, and you
Speaker 1: and tell me if you do, because then I'll send
Speaker 1: you videos and then you just teach the algorithm what
Speaker 1: to give you and you don't get any of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've started to I've had accounts and so I'm
Speaker 3: still on them and I will uh and that one
Speaker 3: I'm at Silky Jumbo, but the last o is a
Speaker 3: zero because I'm also at normal Silki Jumbo, but I
Speaker 3: forgot that password.
Speaker 4: So I've got it's the cross reference.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, who even goes to the library anymore?
Speaker 3: And I am, and so I now, will you know
Speaker 3: for a day if I'm looking at it, They're like,
Speaker 3: you know what, today, We're going to give you cats
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I mean, all right.
Speaker 4: That's fine.
Speaker 3: And now they're like, you know what, today, We're going
Speaker 3: to give you black people complaining about white folks and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I mean, I ain't mad, and then today
Speaker 3: it'll be dancing and I'm like, all right, this is fine.
Speaker 3: But then when I go to post something of mine,
Speaker 3: they're like, nah, you've violated our community standards.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, yeah, yeah, they have a lot
Speaker 1: of rules that you can't say certain words.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Crazy. It's like it's crazy, but for me, and I'm
Speaker 1: just telling someone this. I'm like, in these very dark
Speaker 1: times that we live in now, when I get up
Speaker 1: in the morning and I have the immediate like dread
Speaker 1: for no reason or whatever, and I open up my
Speaker 1: TikTok and they're these dances. There's like a it's four
Speaker 1: bars of music. People make up a dance and then
Speaker 1: they do it like at the airport, and then people
Speaker 1: start joining them in the dance.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: It makes me go like, oh, we're okay, it's going
Speaker 1: to be okay, it's fine. Like this is what we
Speaker 1: love to do. People love to do it with each other.
Speaker 1: It's like this kind of universal language that is so
Speaker 1: like nineteen seventy five and suddenly we're all going.
Speaker 4: Like and we're all just doing the hustle.
Speaker 1: And coming together in spite of it all there's some Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some good shit like that on there. It's like
Speaker 1: it's good to tap into the youth and the people
Speaker 1: who are like, oh, we're going to like those I
Speaker 1: got into TikTok when all the people on TikTok organized
Speaker 1: and went and reserved the free tickets at that last
Speaker 1: Trump rally where they thought it was going to bed
Speaker 1: and then it was like eighty people went and it
Speaker 1: is one of the most genius things. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is like I need this kind of comfort because
Speaker 1: just Twitter, it's like you might as you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're all the world ending tomorrow, Yeah, but you get
Speaker 1: on there and you're like, it's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the ultimate. The ultimate flash mob is
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's not showing up on mass Yeah that's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Leeba, it's so great.
Speaker 2: You were so great today, and it's so I know
Speaker 2: you so long ago, I think kind of the first
Speaker 2: couple of years of your career absolutely laughing school and yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been fun to watch your career.
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. Course, absolutely
Speaker 3: excited to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great to have you, Thanks for doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been listening to do you need a ride,
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