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Speaker 2: things before I get to a couple of stories. HEYMI wow.
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Speaker 2: First one of twenty twenty five, The Best.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that was childish and I regret it. It was
Speaker 2: very childish. I loved it.
Speaker 3: Tell you what your inner child leaves town, you're screwed.
Speaker 3: I keep mine the healthy.
Speaker 5: It reminds me. We so one of the fun things.
Speaker 5: We did it cousin Christmas. We call it where everybody
Speaker 5: gets together, my brothers, their families, kids, cousins, grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 5: Everybody were there. We did a hot sauce competition. Oh,
Speaker 5: based on the what's that TV show?
Speaker 2: Hot Ones? Hot Ones?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you can buy the home version of Hot
Speaker 5: Ones and we watch Have you.
Speaker 2: Ever watched Hot Ones, Joe? I have not. It's pretty entertaining.
Speaker 5: Watched the Shack episode if you don't watch anything else,
Speaker 5: because this is pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They have celebrities on there and then the interview them
Speaker 5: while they try increasingly hot hot sauce with chips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shack, that is stupid. That sounds really entertaining.
Speaker 5: Oh, I haven't seen Conan's ConA is great. Shack is hilarious.
Speaker 5: Guzzle and milk. They have milk there to drink in.
Speaker 5: I mean, like crazy career. I don't like spicy stuff,
Speaker 5: so I don't get any joy out of it. I
Speaker 5: didn't even participate, but everybody else did. Most everybody else did.
Speaker 5: It was pretty funny, including my my, my thirteen year
Speaker 5: old Henry.
Speaker 2: He did the hottest one, the two million, whatever that
Speaker 2: number is.
Speaker 5: They got a scale right, and it was the hottest
Speaker 5: one that they had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, candle power. Anyway, he was just he ran into
Speaker 2: the bathroom.
Speaker 5: We just heard him in there and he yelled God, Oh,
Speaker 5: that got big laughs out of everyone.
Speaker 2: Boy, it must be a guy thing.
Speaker 6: My husband we bought that hot ones thing and he
Speaker 6: did it with one of his friends and he completed it.
Speaker 6: He walked around like he just hulk smashed a building
Speaker 6: like he was like, yeah, it was like the biggest
Speaker 6: testosterone boost I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: I guess it is a certain can you take it? Thing?
Speaker 5: Because my brother the you know, served in a rack
Speaker 5: several times. Guy really likes taking on the hot sauce.
Speaker 2: Wow, how interesting? What was I leading up to? Oh?
Speaker 5: These couple of things I came across, I don't know,
Speaker 5: they don't fit in. I'll do that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3: You know, I walk around with crippling joint pain all
Speaker 3: the time. So I'm good, Frankly, you burn your mouth
Speaker 3: with hot sauce. I'm good over here. I got my thing,
Speaker 3: you got you. It's always don't see the appeal.
Speaker 5: It's always seemed a little bit to me, like I'll
Speaker 5: take these players and pinch you really hard? Is it here?
Speaker 5: How about I pinch you here really hard?
Speaker 3: Can hold their hand over a burner, though, although you're
Speaker 3: not going to give yourself third degree burns obviously with
Speaker 3: hot sauce.
Speaker 5: So the Hot Sauce game thing came with a stack
Speaker 5: of cards and questions on them, and the way you're
Speaker 5: supposed to play the game is you can either answer
Speaker 5: the question or eat the hot sauce, and the questions
Speaker 5: are like embarrassing or revealing. So it's kind of a.
Speaker 2: You know, thirteen year old.
Speaker 5: Now we've reached it worked up to the really hot
Speaker 5: hot sauce, and here's the question. The questions were way
Speaker 5: too filthy and dirty. My son chose poorly. I should
Speaker 5: have looked at the box before we bought it at Target.
Speaker 5: I was looking through it. I mean, just like this
Speaker 5: is for early twenty something drunk people sitting around. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, what was your worst one night stand? And
Speaker 5: just you know, just stuff like that, a lot of them.
Speaker 5: But I dug out for parenting. I dug out a
Speaker 5: bunch of the questions that were okay for the family
Speaker 5: and parenting, and then we did those and we didn't
Speaker 5: end up doing them. For the hot saucing. We just
Speaker 5: tried the hot sauce on chips. But this was just
Speaker 5: conversation starters. I just needed something we got. We're all
Speaker 5: sitting around and after like the initial I don't know
Speaker 5: I anybody else has I've ever had this happen before.
Speaker 5: But you get all the family together and everything like that,
Speaker 5: and there's a big burst of energy. Then that kind
Speaker 5: of a bit of a lull happens, and now we
Speaker 5: got to come up with something we gotta well, first
Speaker 5: of you, of all, you go out to eat like
Speaker 5: nine times, but when you can't constantly go out to eat, so.
Speaker 2: He so many cookies. I am now a cookie addict.
Speaker 2: Oh lord.
Speaker 5: But so I dug out some of the questions and
Speaker 5: what was the one I was going to do before
Speaker 5: I get to the final one? Oh, this is a
Speaker 5: pretty decent one. It was kind of interesting because I'm
Speaker 5: there as a parent with my kids, and then my
Speaker 5: parents were there with their kids and grandkids, and the
Speaker 5: question was what trait would you least like to pass
Speaker 5: down to your kids? Oh that's heavy, Yeah, but I
Speaker 5: thought it was damned interesting. Again with the family relations there.
Speaker 5: It was interesting me because my dad said patience. I wish,
Speaker 5: I wish I had more patience.
Speaker 2: I don't have much patience. I never have, Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I don't like that, and I wouldn't want to pass
Speaker 2: that along, and I.
Speaker 5: Thought, huh, I've kind of got that patience. I've got
Speaker 5: different things that bothered me more than that. But like
Speaker 5: my son really has no patience. So and I have
Speaker 5: no idea if that's a genetic thing or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of it is. What would your answer be,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, mine.
Speaker 2: That might be it.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah it would be something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just patience, ability to look, you can make your point later.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking back to you know, I was a young
Speaker 3: parent and it ran a little hot, and there were
Speaker 3: times it took me a while to learn. Look, you
Speaker 3: can't make the point tonight with your angry, misbehaving kid.
Speaker 3: Just plant the seed, throw a little fertilizer on it,
Speaker 3: and just leave it alone. And don't you know, don't
Speaker 3: try to close the deal with a kid who's freaking
Speaker 3: out or whatever.
Speaker 2: Just let it rest. Something like that.
Speaker 3: Just I don't know how it'd phrased it exactly. Give
Speaker 3: me a minute, I could probably come up with it.
Speaker 5: But it was interesting to have, you know, hear my
Speaker 5: dad say it with me there, and then I've got
Speaker 5: one from my mind. Was procrastination. I just I don't
Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to pass that on to my kids,
Speaker 5: and I had to one of them, but not the
Speaker 5: other one.
Speaker 2: So that's cool, Katie.
Speaker 5: Since you're planning to have a family, what trade of
Speaker 5: yours would you not like to pass along?
Speaker 6: I would say my anxiety or my lack of ability
Speaker 6: to identify what's in my control, Like I tend to
Speaker 6: worry about things that I can't do anything about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to bring that up on the air.
Speaker 5: That was interesting with a very big group of people,
Speaker 5: and like the weather conditions getting worse, there the different
Speaker 5: levels of being worried about it, given that the result
Speaker 5: is going to be the same either way, the person
Speaker 5: that worries zero about it or the person that is
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to mention any names, infinitely worried
Speaker 5: about it, like to a really high point, the result
Speaker 5: will be the same way, the same either way, which is.
Speaker 3: Really interesting about worry and the challenge in front of
Speaker 3: you will be the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not to be too much of a downeror is
Speaker 5: like my son who's got a variety of issues. He said,
Speaker 5: I don't want to pass along my OCD, which was hard.
Speaker 2: Michael. Anything you don't want to pass along to your.
Speaker 7: Cats, maybe jealousy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get jealous of others a little bit, oh,
Speaker 2: a little bit envious. Interesting, that's a good one, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Oh, speaking of cats, Michael, for what it's worth,
Speaker 3: our daughter brought her cats with her and they have
Speaker 3: been were in my home.
Speaker 2: For gosh, when does she get here? I know there's
Speaker 2: an s on there, is it? Two or fifteen? Two?
Speaker 2: Two cats brothers, very very cute little fellas. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I'm at least provisionally I'm not on team cat like
Speaker 3: versus dog. But I had a lot of fun with
Speaker 3: the cats, really enjoyed their company fellas.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then so one more card and this will be
Speaker 5: the the end of the One More Thing podcast for today,
Speaker 5: the question was have you ever shoplifted? And there are
Speaker 5: only two people that had in our group.
Speaker 2: I never have.
Speaker 5: Uh, maybe we answered some questions here, Michael, have you
Speaker 5: ever shoplifted?
Speaker 2: No, Katie, No on accident, but no on accident. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I walked out of it.
Speaker 6: I walked out of a target with a parasun glasses
Speaker 6: on my head and h when I got home realized
Speaker 6: it drove back, returned.
Speaker 2: I got a crazy lost cabsent mindedness. Yes. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: As a kid, I fell under the sway of some
Speaker 3: older boys who were not a good influence at all.
Speaker 2: I was probably eight years old, I might have been
Speaker 2: nine something like.
Speaker 3: That, and there's some of the neighborhood boys and they
Speaker 3: kind of adopted me and that's what they're doing, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right. It was a good learning experience,
Speaker 3: though it honestly was because the uh, because we got
Speaker 3: pusted because we were stupid kids, and the uh whatever
Speaker 3: you call the security guy at the start prevention Uh, yeah, exactly, that's.
Speaker 2: The term I was looking for, chewed us out.
Speaker 3: I mean like really till there were tears and then
Speaker 3: mom and dad came and it was like, oh And
Speaker 3: at that young age, I hadn't fully appreciated that I
Speaker 3: am a extension of my parents and my siblings and
Speaker 3: my family. And we have a joke I probably shouldn't
Speaker 3: do the accent we do it in but as our
Speaker 3: kids embark on something, they will say to each other,
Speaker 3: we will say to them, bring pot pride to family.
Speaker 2: And it helped me really appreciate that. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: good one. It's a good thing.
Speaker 5: It didn't happen in you know, modern California up until
Speaker 5: a month ago, and that nobody would have busted you,
Speaker 5: you know, just.
Speaker 3: All right, could have yeah, built a career as a criminal,
Speaker 3: probably a very successful career.
Speaker 2: So one more thought on the hot sauce thing.
Speaker 3: While I do not find any joy in seeing who
Speaker 3: can endure the most pain to their nerve endings in
Speaker 3: their mouth, the idea of trying to maintain your cool
Speaker 3: and like speak coherently while.
Speaker 2: You are dealing with the hot sauce that is very funny.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why. Yes, that's why that
Speaker 5: show is funny. Google the Shack episode, watch it. So
Speaker 5: on the did you shoplift? Two people in the group
Speaker 5: of everybody said yes. My one niece said yes, and
Speaker 5: we're all shocked, and and she said yeah, she kind
Speaker 5: of does it for fun. And I have a friend who,
Speaker 5: like super successful it's very smart person who went through
Speaker 5: a big shoplifting phase in their twenties and it was
Speaker 5: just the thrill of it.
Speaker 2: That wasn't stuff they needed or anything. They got like a.
Speaker 5: Thrill out of it. It's like people who lie for
Speaker 5: the thrill of it or whatever. So I've never had that.
Speaker 5: But then my dad shockingly said I did once. I
Speaker 5: did once, and it was like, for some reason, my dad,
Speaker 5: now that he's eighty seven.
Speaker 3: Tell stories that he's never told ever in his life.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if he didn't think we could
Speaker 3: handle it or what, but he tells stories now that
Speaker 3: we're like my brothers and I are always like where
Speaker 3: why were you holding on to this your whole life?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I had that experience with my eighty four year old
Speaker 3: dad this past summer. He was in the Air Force
Speaker 3: the Vietnam War and he got out in the early seventies,
Speaker 3: and he explained because he'd quote unquote explained why to
Speaker 3: me earlier in my life, but he'd left out like
Speaker 3: a lot of it, which was he was fully cognizant
Speaker 3: of how dishonest the Department of Defense and the White
Speaker 3: House were being about the war and he hated it.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting. And he'd never uttered a word of
Speaker 2: that to me. That is interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So my dad says, I did once, and we're
Speaker 5: all like what because my dad is super honest, law
Speaker 5: and order guy, which I really appreciate. And he said, yeah,
Speaker 5: I was in the army and I was working KP
Speaker 5: in the kitchen and I stole something out of the
Speaker 5: kitchen and took it back to my room, and I
Speaker 5: felt so guilty about it. The next day I never
Speaker 5: stole anything again. We said, what did you take? Hey,
Speaker 5: here it comes a gallon jar of olives.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the great pleasures.
Speaker 5: What the frigg are you gonna do with a gallon
Speaker 5: of olives? You're one thing you steal in your whole life.
Speaker 2: You're gonna sit back and enjoy those. What you're gonna
Speaker 2: olives a long day in the kitchen. You're gonna pomp
Speaker 2: a little olive. Oh my god, I guess that's part
Speaker 2: of the hole.
Speaker 3: You grow up without electricity or indoor plumbing thing, you know,
Speaker 3: the joy of an olive may have been.
Speaker 2: Pretty exciting for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, wait, when I read Tom Sawyer to
Speaker 5: the kids, they are like, why are they getting so excited
Speaker 5: about an apple?
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't have apple. I guess that's some one.
Speaker 2: It was from my dad. A jar of olives stolen
Speaker 2: Army olives.
Speaker 5: The guy that was with him stole a half gallon
Speaker 5: of ice cream and stuck it under his shirt. I'm
Speaker 5: on the way back to the barracks. They got stopped
Speaker 5: and had to stand in the hot sun for a while,
Speaker 5: and that ice cream started to melt and he became
Speaker 5: one big wet stain of ice cream.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I didn't ask for my dad must have stashed the
Speaker 5: gallon jar of olives, because that's not easy alight.
Speaker 2: Either, Oh of all, I don't think.
Speaker 5: No, surely you can't suitcase of gallon jar of olives.
Speaker 2: Not with that attitude. You can't.
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Speaker 5: So when we go driving around, me and the kids,
Speaker 5: like we are going out to eat, and we take
Speaker 5: turns on who has ox, which is a term teenagers use.
Speaker 2: That's that's who has access to the music. I get OX.
Speaker 5: It comes from auxiliary A the auxiliary play even though
Speaker 5: nobody uses that anymore. It's all bluetooth. But I get OX. Now,
Speaker 5: you had OX last time? Is the way he and
Speaker 5: his okay, high school friends talk if you want to
Speaker 5: sound him. But anyway, my oldest son had AUX on
Speaker 5: the way back from the restaurant, and so he plays
Speaker 5: his stuff. I say, okay, here we go with the
Speaker 5: cop killer rap and the helas give him crap? Where's
Speaker 5: the melody? With his various songs, but Kendrick Lamar Bitch
Speaker 5: Don't Kill My Vibe we were listening to on the
Speaker 5: way home featuring Good Kid and m Aa D City
Speaker 5: Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe by Kendrick Lamar. I just
Speaker 5: my question was going to be to you, have you
Speaker 5: ever read anything or do you have any theories on
Speaker 5: how musical taste develops, why some people like certain stuff
Speaker 5: and other people like different stuff.
Speaker 2: I got two kids, grew up in exactly the same household. Uh.
Speaker 5: The younger one basically likes the same music as meant to.
Speaker 5: He likes classic rock. He wants to listen to Eagles
Speaker 5: and Leonard Skinnard and Bachman Turner, Overdrive and that sort
Speaker 5: of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's thirteen.
Speaker 5: His older brother is all Kendrick Lamar and Ken Carson
Speaker 5: and Cardi card Be or would Cardinal different Cardi, Playboy
Speaker 5: Cardi Playboy Cardi and that sort of stuff? And do
Speaker 5: you have any do you know why you'd made up
Speaker 5: all of those names? I would still be sitting here
Speaker 5: with the same look on my face.
Speaker 3: I know, no, do you have any idea how people
Speaker 3: come to their tastes. Oh, but like with food, don't
Speaker 3: you kind of assume to a certain extent they perceive
Speaker 3: it differently, Like yes, the flavorless upbringing. I mean, it
Speaker 3: can't be a coincidence that billions of Indian kids like
Speaker 3: Indian food, right, But okay, well that on My two
Speaker 3: kids grew up in the same house with the same exposure.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't even know how I
Speaker 2: found this stuff, wouldn't me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have any idea. That reminds me I
Speaker 3: came across the woman who has my dream job. I mean,
Speaker 3: it makes this job look like digging ditches, which I've
Speaker 3: also done. Talk about that litle bit later on.
Speaker 2: You have a theory there, Katie. I'm just wondering if
Speaker 2: it has to do with his friends your friend group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, maybe that's formative years of forming musical taste,
Speaker 3: which is probably typically between eight and fifteen.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's ninety percent of it. Your friend group. What
Speaker 5: is going to make you more popular with the people
Speaker 5: you want to be popular with?
Speaker 2: Pushes you that direction part of it, Like, I don't
Speaker 2: even know why my musical tastes are what they are.
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell Jack Armstrong and Joey The Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty Show, The arm Strong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 5: What dude, Yeah, you know, I've got a pretty good
Speaker 5: immune system for stuff like normal diseases that go around.
Speaker 2: I usually don't get them. What would it be like
Speaker 2: if I ate better? I might be impenetrable. Oh you
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 3: But you're you're just at the tail end of raising
Speaker 3: little kids. Now you have teenagers, so you have been
Speaker 3: enrolled in the marine boot camp of immune systems raising children.
Speaker 3: So I've got a number of people in my orbit
Speaker 3: who take nothing when they get a cold. They don't
Speaker 3: They believe it's all bs, and they don't take anything.
Speaker 3: I take a few things. Do you take anything?
Speaker 2: Do you think anything works? Katie's nodding her head. We'll
Speaker 2: start with you. I take theraflu. You take theraflu. I
Speaker 2: have found that to work.
Speaker 5: I don't care if it's placebia, if I suffer from PLACBIA,
Speaker 5: doesn't matter of me.
Speaker 2: As long as I feel better. I don't need anybody
Speaker 2: told me it doesn't actually do. I don't care. I
Speaker 2: feel better.
Speaker 3: Do you take anything like tile and all or I
Speaker 3: view profen at one point, I was down with the zinc. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't figure out what form, and I just
Speaker 3: kind of remember when nobody got a cold during COVID. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've fallen out of I don't remember what to do anymore.
Speaker 5: I got a bottle of uh it's you know something
Speaker 5: or other they say take when a cold first you
Speaker 5: first start to get the symptoms of a cold, and
Speaker 5: it's zinc.
Speaker 3: And a couple of other things. And I don't know
Speaker 3: if they do anything, but I feel like if I
Speaker 3: take that, if I do get the cold, it's much milder.
Speaker 2: Again, might be in my head, I don't care. I
Speaker 2: also use zycam, yeah, which is awesome. I've heard people
Speaker 2: recommend sinuses and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I tend not to trust my own experience because the
Speaker 3: data set isn't big enough.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I have no information that there's anything wrong with taking
Speaker 3: that stuff, and what the hell it worst is harmless.
Speaker 2: But you're not a take nothing guy or no, I am, pretty.
Speaker 3: Much, although I'm thinking now that you mentioned it, maybe
Speaker 3: I'll take some tile and all or something. I actually
Speaker 3: my symptoms aren't that bad other than just overwhelming fatigue
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 2: Now do you guys take niq will and that's what
Speaker 2: I do, and then I go to sleep afraid of it.
Speaker 2: You're afraid of nighttime niquil. Yeah, well, with our hours,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 6: If I wake up groggy or oversleep, that's not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 5: Alcoholics are not supposed to take nicol because it's basically
Speaker 5: taken a shot outcohol.
Speaker 2: Help you sleep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't for the reason Katie cided. I just
Speaker 3: it's hard enough to get up in the morning and
Speaker 3: be semi sharp.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Listeners of the first hour of the radio show
Speaker 2: saying that's very sharp.
Speaker 5: Well, one thing with giving your kids stuff, you kind
Speaker 5: of have a better gauge of whether it's actually doing
Speaker 5: anything or not, especially when they're little.
Speaker 2: They're too young to like and uh, most stuff I
Speaker 2: don't think does much. All right, Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Remember when that one thing that was ubiquitous on the
Speaker 3: still it drug store shelves of America. It's still in
Speaker 3: every freaking drug I buy, Every cold medicine you buy
Speaker 3: still has that fenel en run or whatever it's called
Speaker 3: in it, and the government announced it does nothing.
Speaker 2: We're completely different.
Speaker 3: The FDA said it does zero zero it's a nothing
Speaker 3: and it's an ivery cold medicine.
Speaker 2: Still you're wasting your time on the fenyl hellamelo mellow till.
Speaker 2: Why this fella hell of it elen in here? Well?
Speaker 2: How do you say it? Katie? You're looking at it?
Speaker 2: But so it's on years. What are you looking at
Speaker 2: right there? This is DayQuil.
Speaker 6: When I had this flu last time around, I took
Speaker 6: everything under the sun that I could get my hands
Speaker 6: on because I was trying to get rid of that crap.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's in here too.
Speaker 5: Every cold medicine in every aisle of every store that
Speaker 5: sells cold medicine has drugs full of that, and the
Speaker 5: government announced it doesn't do anything. I just think that's weird,
Speaker 5: just counting on that people don't know.
Speaker 3: It's because it's funny to say, oh yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 3: the percentage of people you know. Honestly, we've posed this
Speaker 3: question in many contexts in recent days and through the years,
Speaker 3: what percentage of Americans?
Speaker 2: One of us will ask the other do you think
Speaker 2: knows that story or anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And in this case, what percentage do you think
Speaker 3: could tell you? Oh, yeah, fenel elephant here is Uh?
Speaker 3: It was worthless. I remember that new story be a
Speaker 3: very very small number.
Speaker 2: I suppose you're right. Okay, this says Feda left freen
Speaker 2: fenel la freen. That's why you fat?
Speaker 3: Okay, fennel left fren fenelefrine, I like your guys, is
Speaker 3: better elephant?
Speaker 2: Well, since it doesn't do anything, I'll call it whatever
Speaker 2: I want to call it. It's a bunch of wow guy,
Speaker 2: use leeches, hilarious. What you got too much blood in
Speaker 2: your body is your problem?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You got to bleed your feet. You don't have the
Speaker 2: uh stomach to actually slice open your own feet? Isn't
Speaker 2: that what killed George Washington?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it hastened his death certainly. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know why.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a bit of a history freak and a
Speaker 3: bit of a medical history hobbyist and a great admirer
Speaker 3: of George Washington. That was I listened with wrapped attention
Speaker 3: and like committed it all the memory there in his
Speaker 3: bedroom where he died, as you're there by his bedside,
Speaker 3: probably a recreation. But and they explained that, yeah, he
Speaker 3: had what did they think he had? I can't remember
Speaker 3: the disease. I didn't memorize it that effectively. Obviously, but
Speaker 3: the doctors in he probably did not have aids uh.
Speaker 3: He was an honorable and elderly man. Anyway that the
Speaker 3: doctors in treating him for what was probably whatever the
Speaker 3: hell just kept saying, yeah, we got to bleed the
Speaker 3: feet and let out the bad humors. And he'd like
Speaker 3: grally a little bit, and they'd think, yeah, we probably
Speaker 3: ought to bleed his feet more. What if you don't
Speaker 3: have enough red blood cells?
Speaker 2: Anemia?
Speaker 6: He protty much and it was all that for a
Speaker 6: throat infection, is what the interwebs see.
Speaker 2: Got too much blood is your problem?
Speaker 3: Yeah, structococcal infection or something. He should have taken some
Speaker 3: phenahell element a little bit.
Speaker 2: And what's your story?
Speaker 6: Michael.
Speaker 7: My wife has looked in the closet and says, I
Speaker 7: need to throw away all my old clothes basically because
Speaker 7: of fashion or size. I don't wear them and it's
Speaker 7: just taking up space. But yeah, do I I guess
Speaker 7: the question that I have is, for example, we have
Speaker 7: some old towels. She wants to change out the towels.
Speaker 7: But I've told her, hey, just wash them, we can
Speaker 7: give them away to goodwill or something like that. She
Speaker 7: wants me to throw them away and how often do
Speaker 7: you change out towels?
Speaker 2: For example? I mean, do you guys change them out
Speaker 2: every rid of them?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean do you change them out every six months? No?
Speaker 3: When we're ashamed of them, that's when you get rid
Speaker 3: of There's nothing wrong, you're embarrassed for people to look
Speaker 3: at them.
Speaker 5: I realize my lifestyle is not like most people's, but
Speaker 5: I don't know that I ever have in my life
Speaker 5: other than like they just get lost or something.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I like you, Jack, I just keep the
Speaker 2: same towels and keep reshing them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never kept thirty years. I've never kept a
Speaker 5: towel long enough to wear it out. I don't think
Speaker 5: can it?
Speaker 2: How do you lose them like a bath towel? What
Speaker 2: happens to them? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't have the same towels I don't have. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't have the same towels I had when I
Speaker 3: was twenty five. But I never act, That's what I'm asked.
Speaker 3: What I'm wondering too, I've never actively gotten rid of them.
Speaker 3: You know what I do a lot, and this is
Speaker 3: not good is I've moved a lot in my life.
Speaker 3: I'm bad at unpacking I'm doing this right now in
Speaker 3: my house. I have an unpacked since my last move.
Speaker 3: Like I bought some new a new screwdriver last night
Speaker 3: at the store because I don't know where my screwdriver
Speaker 3: is from the move, so I probably do that.
Speaker 5: I got boxes of old towels. I've never opened the boxes,
Speaker 5: so I had to get new towels. That's probably what
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: But no, I have never thought, does your wife do
Speaker 3: this because she wants a different look, like a different color,
Speaker 3: or is it because she thinks they're worn out.
Speaker 2: She thinks they're worn out, well, then get new towels.
Speaker 2: But what's what I'm trying to save money? And so
Speaker 2: what's a worn out tiles? What is a worn out towel?
Speaker 2: It looks kind of threadbare and just blah, doesn't that
Speaker 2: nice anymore? Unraveling? Okay, I don't. I just figure if
Speaker 2: it washes my body and I'm happy with that, I
Speaker 2: wash them and that's it. You wash yourself with your towel, well,
Speaker 2: you know, when you dry yourself with the towel. But
Speaker 2: there you go. As far as saving money, though, I
Speaker 2: just I just I don't want her to keep buying
Speaker 2: new stuff. And it's just well, this sounds like a
Speaker 2: thing between you and your wife. But wow, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not wait to get involved it. No, I have opinions,
Speaker 2: but it just doesn't seem like a good idea away.
Speaker 5: And although I buy high quality towels so they would
Speaker 5: last practically forever, I'm one of the few things and
Speaker 5: I've always been willing to spurge on.
Speaker 2: I love the feel of a good, high quality towel. Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 7: She wants me to throw them away, not give them away.
Speaker 7: She says, you can't give those two goodwill And I said,
Speaker 7: why not, They're perfectly fine, and she says, no, no,
Speaker 7: we've been using them.
Speaker 2: And I say, well, just wash them.
Speaker 3: You know, I would say, bring them to said charity
Speaker 3: or a charity of your choice, and if they want them,
Speaker 3: they'll take them.
Speaker 2: If they don't, they will heave them. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: Can you I've got comments, but no, I'm just I mean,
Speaker 6: how bad of shape are they in, Michael?
Speaker 2: Can you read the newspaper through them?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: No, they're in good shape. So and I do not
Speaker 2: want to weigh in this on this at all.
Speaker 5: I'm only asking a lady wants new towels, all right, Katie,
Speaker 5: I'm only the lady or tells I'm only asking for
Speaker 5: information purposes, so she doesn't want to give him away
Speaker 5: because she doesn't think it's cool to give somebody a
Speaker 5: used towel. Correct, okay, well, okay, by definition, I mean
Speaker 5: goodwill stuff tends to go to people that are pretty
Speaker 5: down and out usually, and I think they'd rather have
Speaker 5: a used tale of a no towel.
Speaker 2: But you can always do jatam.
Speaker 6: I was sorry to like the SPCA or something for
Speaker 6: the animals.
Speaker 2: Dogs don't use towels. I've watched dogs over and over.
Speaker 2: They just shake.
Speaker 3: I wish they would. Um boy does bashirt like if
Speaker 3: we walk him in the rain, boyd does. He liked
Speaker 3: to get toweled off, so it's a win win. He's
Speaker 3: not resistant to it because it feels really it's.
Speaker 5: A race between getting the towel on the dog and
Speaker 5: them shaking. And they're standing in the doorway or something.
Speaker 2: Like that and they shake.
Speaker 3: You got hair and splacker everywhere. Oh yeah, pro tip
Speaker 3: towels in the garage. You gotta be prepped, you gotta
Speaker 3: be ready.
Speaker 2: Uh where were we?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let the free market function, misses Mike line.
Speaker 3: If somebody wants to buy the towels, let them. That
Speaker 3: is a coming together of a need and a fulfillment
Speaker 3: of that need.
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm a guy who buys used shoes off
Speaker 5: of eBay and stuff like that. So I mean, I
Speaker 5: think a shoes way grosser than a towel.
Speaker 2: He can wash a towel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whenever my parents go through a towel or whatever,
Speaker 6: my dad cuts it in half and uses them for
Speaker 6: the gym.
Speaker 5: That's a good idea. Or use it just for like
Speaker 5: cleaning my car, washing my car, d something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that is I've done that with towels before. That's true.
Speaker 2: I have done that.
Speaker 3: They move from the drying my body to the drawing
Speaker 3: my motorcycle. Yeah sure, yeah to the garage. Yeah there
Speaker 3: you go, win win Michael out to the garage.
Speaker 2: Huh Hey, thanks guys. So I'm not throwing them away.
Speaker 2: That's that's the bottom line. I'm not gonna throw this.
Speaker 6: You're willing to die on that hill? Yes, yes, I
Speaker 6: am in a couple more years out of them. Michael
Speaker 6: Tonight on THHC Towel Hoarders TLC is now it's THHC
Speaker 6: is pot. That's y never mind we'll to.
Speaker 2: TLC is fine.
Speaker 5: We don't want this to move to a Judge Judy
Speaker 5: situation where you got Michael and his wife yelling at
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 2: She wants to throw away the towels. They're disgusting.
Speaker 7: She says, no, but as far as close go, do
Speaker 7: you when you give away clothes do you worry about
Speaker 7: fashion at all?
Speaker 2: We're giving them away, yeah, you know, donate them to
Speaker 2: like goodwill or.
Speaker 6: Like somebody's going to go shopping and go, wow, what
Speaker 6: dick donated this?
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 3: This shirt sucks. I'm going to figure out who donated
Speaker 3: this mocking and there on. That's what I say.
Speaker 2: You know, well, thanks for your guys. I'm not throwing
Speaker 2: away those towels.
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Speaker 6: Anyway, back to Keith, this is this is just a
Speaker 6: silly story that I had actually forgotten about until this
Speaker 6: conversation came up. One of my top favorite bosses of
Speaker 6: all time, and I think you know him, Paul Hawsley.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, what a good dude. I love him.
Speaker 6: So I get off the air in San Francisco and
Speaker 6: he comes into the into the studio and he goes, hey, Katie,
Speaker 6: I need to talk to you in my office for
Speaker 6: a second. And he is stone serious, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 6: oh boy, what did I say, what did I do?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 6: So I go into his office and he sits me
Speaker 6: down and he goes, so, what is going on with
Speaker 6: your car?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly my reaction. I'm like, what what are you
Speaker 6: talking about?
Speaker 2: Bout you get out of your car like a dude
Speaker 2: and it's just weird. Yes, it's yeah, that was it.
Speaker 6: And he goes, you're the pictures on your car and
Speaker 6: I'm like, the pictures on my car? The only thing
Speaker 6: I have on my car is a blink one eighty
Speaker 6: two sticker on my window. And he goes, okay, let's
Speaker 6: let's go to the garage.
Speaker 2: So and the license plate. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So we walk down to the garage and we go
Speaker 6: to the back of my car, which is parked right
Speaker 6: next to the elevator, and at this time it shows
Speaker 6: so this is like ten thirty in the morning, Okay,
Speaker 6: all over the back of my car, below the windshield
Speaker 6: or below the windshield so I couldn't see it, are
Speaker 6: Triple X porn photos ripped out of the magazine oh
Speaker 6: like like oh taped on their taped to.
Speaker 8: The back of my car, like and is and we
Speaker 8: know what sex is play. I mean, oh boy, bleeps
Speaker 8: it Hanson.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: It went all the way up to just about as
Speaker 6: triple x as you can get.
Speaker 4: And I.
Speaker 2: Mortified. I looked a him.
Speaker 6: I like, Paul, I have keep in mind, my drive
Speaker 6: to San Francisco was about thirty five minutes. So I
Speaker 6: drove from home over the bridge into San Francisco with
Speaker 6: this on the back of my car.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 6: So I go into my text messages because I hadn't
Speaker 6: checked him. People used to text message me at ungodly hours,
Speaker 6: and I see a text from one of my friends
Speaker 6: that says, hope you have a good work morning. And
Speaker 6: I knew I from this the second I saw it
Speaker 6: and went this, dick, it was him. He came home,
Speaker 6: he walked to my house and he taped these things
Speaker 6: to the back of my car. So Paul and I
Speaker 6: had a little bit of a laugh about it. We
Speaker 6: go back up into his office and Paul goes, hey,
Speaker 6: let's call your friend. I'm like, okay, So I call him.
Speaker 6: I call him and I start, you know, fake crying.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Ryan, dude, my boss, really, my boss would
Speaker 6: like to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Really. Oh my god, this is the appropriate vengeance. This
Speaker 2: is uncomfortable, this is justice.
Speaker 6: So Paul has him on speaker phone and he goes, Hi, Ryan,
Speaker 6: this is this is Katie's program director here in San Francisco,
Speaker 6: and I just wanted to discuss the images that you
Speaker 6: put on the back of her car. We actually have
Speaker 6: security from the building here as well. And you could
Speaker 6: hear Ryan going no, no, no, and then Paul start
Speaker 6: busting up laughing.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that that's pretty good. The reason this.
Speaker 6: Story came up is because we were talking about the
Speaker 6: weirdest reasons we've ever been called into our boss's office,
Speaker 6: and my brain went, oh, my god, that happened.
Speaker 2: Oh that is that is a good way to get
Speaker 2: back at somebody. Though. That's good. God, Oh it was mortifying.
Speaker 3: Anyway, if you are doing this job and you get
Speaker 3: called into the boss's office and you're not fast forwarding
Speaker 3: through everything you said in your head, you're not doing
Speaker 3: the job right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: It's it was a short walk to Paul's office. But
Speaker 6: I'm going, Okay, what did I I did this news
Speaker 6: story a comment? I'm like, I had no idea at all.
Speaker 2: Wed go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, we've like had serious stressful
Speaker 3: issues with people, completely freaked out and pissed off some
Speaker 3: of them performatively about things we've said.
Speaker 2: And I'd say two of the three I never saw coming.
Speaker 5: No, I was gonna say, every time I've gotten in
Speaker 5: trouble for saying something, it's like something I didn't even remember.
Speaker 5: I say edgy things sometimes and they go, oh boy,
Speaker 5: that might get me in trouble.
Speaker 2: That's not the one.
Speaker 5: It's the thing I didn't even think of for some
Speaker 5: reason that usually ends up with the TV cameras outside
Speaker 5: the radio station, and then there.
Speaker 3: Is I need to come up with a name for it.
Speaker 3: It's like my white whale. It's the one thing I
Speaker 3: said once that I thought, that's it.
Speaker 2: I've ended my career. I shouldn't have said that. Whoops,
Speaker 2: And I was. I was.
Speaker 3: I was virtually certain it would be devastating and thing
Speaker 3: ever came of it. And you can ply me with booze.
Speaker 3: You can put me on the rack, give my boy,
Speaker 3: you can, or a handy or the other thing. Well,
Speaker 3: the other thing might get me.
Speaker 2: I don't know, try it. But I gotta go to church.
Speaker 2: I need to get to go to.
Speaker 3: Church and have my ears washed out. And I will
Speaker 3: never admit it. I will never repeat it. It will
Speaker 3: not be repeated.
Speaker 5: Had one time we angered the Asians, and every TV
Speaker 5: station sent their Asian girl reporter to the radio.
Speaker 2: Station to and that was the funny part of it.
Speaker 2: And we've seen that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: If you say something insensitive about like affirmative action for
Speaker 3: black people or something like that, all of a sudden
Speaker 3: you find out every station in town happens to have
Speaker 3: a black reporter too. Wow, when they're reporting on this story,
Speaker 3: it's hilarious once you become aware of it.
Speaker 2: It's it's like one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Italian Americans are angered at the cancelation of the parade.
Speaker 2: We go to Luigi Praconi for a report. Come on.
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