Speaker 1: I'll hit you with the shut the hell up us curse.
Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: So before we get to whatever that is on the show,
Speaker 2: we got onto the topic of bathroom graffiti. Somehow found out, Yeah,
Speaker 2: something I never discussion, truly found out, something I never
Speaker 2: know my whole life til Katie told us that women's
Speaker 2: rooms have disgusting drawings of penises. Also just assumed they're very.
Speaker 1: Tasteful, beautifully rendered with light and shade. Yeah, drawings of
Speaker 1: shanss and just assumed that women are above that.
Speaker 2: That's funny if you assumed wrong, sir. Currently anyway, so
Speaker 2: I went to chat GPT asking about some of your
Speaker 2: better restroom graffiti. They went with the all time greats
Speaker 2: here I Sit Broken Hearted, a classic. I won't do
Speaker 2: the rest of that one. You're an advocate for the
Speaker 2: return of pay toilets. Have been for a year absolutely
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. H we aimed, and most foreign countries
Speaker 2: I've been to have paid toilets and therefore have public toilets,
Speaker 2: as opposed to the United States, where there's lots of
Speaker 2: areas where there are no public toilets because they've been
Speaker 2: destroyed by the drug addicts. And so you just can't
Speaker 2: use the bathroom, which is a stupid way for society
Speaker 2: to be. Anyway, we aimed, please, you aim too. Please.
Speaker 2: That's actually very you know, a good message and succinct
Speaker 2: and well done. Don't rush me. I'm making a masterpiece.
Speaker 2: I find that disgusting. Gosh, but I'll just leave you
Speaker 2: with this one and then I won't go through any
Speaker 2: more of these, because you know, I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: getting a poor reaction. Why what if the hokey pokey
Speaker 2: is what it's all about, that's pretty fine.
Speaker 1: There is a fabulous British pub in Sacramento, California, name
Speaker 1: of the Fox and Goose, great place for breakfast, and
Speaker 1: they're years and years ago. When I first went the
Speaker 1: in their bathroom, the men's room, I was only in
Speaker 1: the men's room. I'm I'm a cist gender male.
Speaker 2: Ah. There was graffiti.
Speaker 1: It was tile and grout on the walls, and there's
Speaker 1: graffiti on all the grout and it was all puns
Speaker 1: involving the word grout, the grout Gretzky grout expectations and
Speaker 1: it seems stupid, but there are so many variations, and
Speaker 1: some of them were like cerebral. It was my favorite
Speaker 1: graffiti of all time. Yeah, I wish I had more examples.
Speaker 2: It was so much more uplifting than a crude drawing
Speaker 2: of a penis and testicles for someone's number. Who is
Speaker 2: that for and for what reason?
Speaker 1: Well, Jack, you know this, It's for the artist. They
Speaker 1: are expressing themselves. Maybe they have an audience, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1: The art is for them.
Speaker 2: That's their big chance right there in that stall. I've
Speaker 2: never scrawled anything on a bathroom all my life. I
Speaker 2: know that for a fact.
Speaker 1: I believe I have made may have penned a response
Speaker 1: or two.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell this story. I've told it before. It
Speaker 2: is one of the weirdest things that ever happened to
Speaker 2: me in my life. Joe Hills from the bathroom. Joe's
Speaker 2: heard this story ten times.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm in the stacks at the University of Kansas taking
Speaker 2: summer school, the stacks being the giant library, and like
Speaker 2: my maga, on the fifth floor of whatever department. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's nobody around. I mean the library is, but it's
Speaker 2: an enormous library like big colleges are, and there's nobody
Speaker 2: around or whatever, and I'm I go to the bathroom fantastic,
Speaker 2: completely alone. I like my alone time in the library. Yeah,
Speaker 2: bathroom in the library, and I'm on the I am
Speaker 2: I'm seated for this activity, and I'm I'm killing a
Speaker 2: little time. This is pre smartphone. You know, in the
Speaker 2: smartphone era, I would have been reading my phone. But
Speaker 2: this is pre smartphone. I don't even what did people
Speaker 2: do in the bathroom pre smarty? What did you do
Speaker 2: with a sport for your fellow? That's right. Newspapers were big.
Speaker 2: Newspapers were big anyway, So I had no newspapers. So
Speaker 2: I'm just reading the wall and I'm killing time reading
Speaker 2: the wall, you know, it's usual. And then there is
Speaker 2: a I forget exactly what it said, but it was
Speaker 2: something about two for a good time or something like that.
Speaker 2: It was like a meet me here noon, Thursday the
Speaker 2: June eighth, or whatever it was. I thought, hmm, I'll
Speaker 2: be damned, it's a day's June eighth. What time is it?
Speaker 2: It is freaking noon, and I'm not kidding. Within moments,
Speaker 2: some guys head comes underneath the stall. He's laying on
Speaker 2: his back and he slides underneath the stall and he's
Speaker 2: looking straight up at me. It is noon June yes,
Speaker 2: and he's like wide eyed and ah, like he like
Speaker 2: he was not pleased that I was not received, you know,
Speaker 2: like like I wasn't there for the same reason he
Speaker 2: was there. And uh, I pulled up my pants and
Speaker 2: ran out.
Speaker 3: He's still telling this story too. Right on sird is
Speaker 3: that it's June eighth, the noon. I'd had that up
Speaker 3: there for two weeks. I go back June eatean noon.
Speaker 3: There's some guy in that day.
Speaker 2: He freaks out. It was so weird. I can I
Speaker 2: would recognize the guy. I'll bet I can still picture him.
Speaker 2: It was. I was so shocked. It was so weird.
Speaker 2: That sounds like something out of a movie. It does.
Speaker 2: You and you're laying on the floor of a bathroom
Speaker 2: and he's lid underneath there and I'm making straight down
Speaker 2: in his face like an exact I don't know if
Speaker 2: he was on a dolly like if you go under
Speaker 2: to change oil in your car or what you.
Speaker 4: Guys never seen O have you guys ever seen Dumb
Speaker 4: and Dumber? What happened that that actually happens in that movie?
Speaker 4: I'd forgotten that actually happened that gag. Wow, that was
Speaker 4: so weird.
Speaker 2: They stole your story. Yeah wow? Uh so?
Speaker 1: Uh In the intro, I said, I'm gonna hit you
Speaker 1: with the shut the hell up us curse. It's a
Speaker 1: Harold Potter story. The great JK. Rowling Project. There's a
Speaker 1: new HBO Harry Potter series coming up with with a
Speaker 1: pretty good cast really, including John Lithgow and some other people.
Speaker 1: But Potter coma wizard. Yes, apparently because of JK. Rowling's
Speaker 1: outrageous insistence that only women are women. There's huge social
Speaker 1: pressure you've got to be to harass these people. Open
Speaker 1: letter to John Lithgow, Please walk away from Harry Potter.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, could anything be more beloved than Harry Potter?
Speaker 2: And you're gonna be anti having of this Harry Potter show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, this guy, Nick Frost was named as the new
Speaker 1: hagrid Um. He quickly had to disable comments on Instagram,
Speaker 1: then gave an interview in which he said that his
Speaker 1: opinions quote don't align in any way, shape or form
Speaker 1: with those of JK.
Speaker 2: Rowling, don't dignify their responses as hagrid. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Really, Not only did he dignify it, but he he
Speaker 1: appeased the tiny angry hyperactivist crowd. Yeah, yeah, wow, And
Speaker 1: they go through all the various cast members saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a friend call me uh and with John Lithsgow,
Speaker 1: had a friend sent him an article entitled an open
Speaker 1: letter to John Litsko, please walk away from Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: telling him, dude, keep your head down. I assume Liftgows's Dumbledore.
Speaker 1: Or did you already say yes? No I didn't, but yes,
Speaker 1: that's correct.
Speaker 2: So is this a like just an episode's version of
Speaker 2: the Harry Potter stories we've already seen before in movie form, or.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's the Further Adventures. Okay, it's going back
Speaker 1: to the Hogwarts days.
Speaker 2: So what are they now? Like thirties and beaten down
Speaker 2: my life?
Speaker 1: And no, it's like the end of the final Harry
Speaker 1: Potter Andy. Now he's forty five and kind of you know,
Speaker 1: stuck in a career and right, yeah, she's running around
Speaker 1: on him with the Malfoy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't start the books early enough, so I didn't
Speaker 2: get to the very last Oh with my kids. Do
Speaker 2: he and Hermione end up together? No they don't, no.
Speaker 1: Spoiler alert. No, they're they're best friends, not lovers. He's
Speaker 1: with Ginny Weasley oh, okay, that makes sense. And the
Speaker 1: final scene of the final book is incredibly touching, and
Speaker 1: the movie for that matter, hmmm, it involves a snape
Speaker 1: the bravest man Harry ever knew.
Speaker 2: Okay, spoiler alert, and again I probably won't get around
Speaker 2: to it unless I end up having more trouble. Well
Speaker 2: you should. It's it's terrific entertainment. It's great. It's just
Speaker 2: a good read. Of course, you read serious things. I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Then then this I'm currently reading as a novel. I
Speaker 2: don't read that much literature. I should read more because
Speaker 2: I really like it. I know i'm reading.
Speaker 1: I never have time.
Speaker 2: Uh. The End of the Affair by Graham Green. I
Speaker 2: read another Graham Green book last year. Oh, I'm a
Speaker 2: Graham Green fan. He is fantastic.
Speaker 1: She screams f you and stomps out.
Speaker 2: That's the end of the affair. But then, if you've
Speaker 2: never read Graham Green and you like books, give it
Speaker 2: a whirl.
Speaker 1: Well, Muppets super fans held a funeral recently, Jack speaking
Speaker 1: of popular culture and people way too into various things.
Speaker 1: So Disney World in Florida announced the end of Muppet
Speaker 1: Vision three d An attraction that had existed four decades.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, so forty year old three D technology. That
Speaker 2: must have been some Well, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Muppet fanatics flock to it for years
Speaker 1: and years and.
Speaker 2: Years, probably now dressed as animals.
Speaker 1: Well, and this lady has a big Miss Piggy tattoo
Speaker 1: on her arm.
Speaker 2: All right, what is Miss Piggy doing in this anyway?
Speaker 1: They dressed up in costumes. I was all cried out,
Speaker 1: said a thirty nine year old man from Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 1: He showed up early on the last day Muppet Vision
Speaker 1: was open to the public to be among the first
Speaker 1: to experience the film.
Speaker 2: I like the way you verbally put man in quotes.
Speaker 1: What He watched it multiple times and waited in line
Speaker 1: for forty minutes just to purchase pressed penny souvenirs. And
Speaker 1: when a crowd gathered that evening to sing Rainbow Connection
Speaker 1: outside the theater entry, I'm guessing in your old city,
Speaker 1: I had to call it today, I was all cried out.
Speaker 2: Let me guess that these adults don't have children, A
Speaker 2: lot of them.
Speaker 5: Significant others or significant others, or they're all together, because
Speaker 5: it's like the crowd when we went to when my
Speaker 5: kids were younger and we went to Universal Studios for
Speaker 5: the Mario exhibit, and we actually stood line longest I've
Speaker 5: ever stood in line in my life, because I've regularly
Speaker 5: said I wouldn't stand in line for anything.
Speaker 2: My kids were into this, and we stood in line.
Speaker 2: They do a pretty good job at Disney to keep
Speaker 2: the lines moving to make it feel like it's not
Speaker 2: so long. But we could stand in line for like,
Speaker 2: I think two hours. I mean an insane amount of time.
Speaker 2: But you worked your way through this giant castle and
Speaker 2: up things and in things, so there's always stuff to
Speaker 2: look at anywhou. The other people in line were mostly adults.
Speaker 2: It wasn't kids. It was like thirty year old dudes
Speaker 2: there with their dude friend. And they didn't appear to
Speaker 2: be gay. They just like were childless arrested development. Oh
Speaker 2: it was so distinct. Fed boys they call them in Japan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was that. So the attraction that surrounding area previously
Speaker 2: known as Muppets Courtyard will be redeveloped into a section
Speaker 2: based on the Monsters Incorporated franchise. Okay, that's quite the
Speaker 2: leap forward in uh In culture from Muppets, because like
Speaker 2: Muppets is way before your time, like Ray Kiddy, No,
Speaker 2: I grew up with the Muppets. Okay, Yeah, Then they
Speaker 2: organized a prom themed gathering in February and informal clothing
Speaker 2: and they're childless. They don't you when you have kids,
Speaker 2: you don't have time for this nonsense to go as
Speaker 2: a grown up to do this sort of thing for
Speaker 2: a whole day and dress up. Like I remember saying
Speaker 2: this when I got back from Universal after going to
Speaker 2: the Mario thing, trying to picture when I was in line,
Speaker 2: trying to picture my dad as a thirty year old
Speaker 2: dressed in a Mario costume, waiting in line for hours
Speaker 2: to ride the rides. He had a couple of kids,
Speaker 2: and he'd had a job and been married for years,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's just it's just a ah.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's a guy with a three year old stepson.
Speaker 1: That's the only mention I can find of that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Being in that theater, in some cell sense felt like
Speaker 1: being part of the Muppet Show, said jd Hansel, a
Speaker 1: writer for Muppet fan site Tough Pigs, who recently made
Speaker 1: the pilgrimage to pay his respects.
Speaker 4: Yeah alright, hi yah, Well, I guess that's it.