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Speaker 1: Pushkin Khalila Holt, Welcome to the studio.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to welcome you to the studio. Every

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Speaker 2: time I feel welcome, I think they're welcome carries over

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Speaker 2: week to week.

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Speaker 1: I am a host of a nationally broadcast podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's what we do host with the most.

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Speaker 1: We're contractually obliged to welcome our guests, and you are

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Speaker 1: my guests. Make no mistake about it.

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Speaker 2: You're going to like offer me something to drink or no.

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Speaker 1: So now we're going to be listening to a encore

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Speaker 1: presentation of a little episode called Joey.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: And actually there is a line in this story that

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Speaker 1: I still quote that we both oh, that's true. At

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Speaker 1: the end of our meetings, Yeah, that's true, one person

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Speaker 1: will say to the other adios.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you guys late to audios.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And as you listen, you'll be able to hear

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Speaker 1: where that quote comes from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So maybe you guys can work that into your

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Speaker 2: lives too.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's get to it. Coming right up,

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Speaker 1: an encore presentation of Joey And at the end of

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Speaker 1: the episode, we're going to check in with Joey and

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Speaker 1: a surprise guest.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to find out who it is.

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Speaker 1: It's not you. No, you're a guest, but you're not

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Speaker 1: a surprise guest.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 2: People are like, yeah, that makes sense that she is there.

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Speaker 1: But first a word from our sponsors. Hi, John, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if I were to plan a surprise vacation for us,

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Speaker 1: where would you want to go? Did you say vacation?

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Speaker 1: Surprise vacation?

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Speaker 5: It could just never happen with my work schedule, like

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Speaker 5: I can, that can never happen.

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Speaker 1: Where would you want to go?

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Speaker 5: Why would I want to go?

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Speaker 1: For fun in the sun? Listen, no stress, you sound

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Speaker 1: the idea of actually being on.

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Speaker 6: Vacation with you, nice idea.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be vacation with any It would be a

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Speaker 1: slight caation because we do everything on a sleigh. We

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Speaker 1: dashed through the snow and I don't know, like check

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Speaker 1: our phones and argue. Occasionally you'd hang up on me

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Speaker 1: and I'd start the show. But up bump from Gimblet Media.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this is Heavyweight Today's episode. Joey

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Speaker 1: as a young man, whenever conflict arose, my go to

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Speaker 1: pray to go unnoticed. Of course, this only made matters worse. Case.

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Speaker 1: In point one afternoon, while riding a trolley, I fell

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Speaker 1: into a daydream and missed my stop. Anyone else in

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Speaker 1: my position might have yelled, I missed my stop. Up

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Speaker 1: or open the door please, But in imagining all these

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Speaker 1: the cost of staying silent that day was two twisted

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Speaker 7: There to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: This is young Joey, and he recently had a bad

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Speaker 1: I think Joey is twenty two years old, and the

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Speaker 1: lead up to his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad

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Speaker 1: day begins right after his art school graduation, when he

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Speaker 1: The downside was that the loft had bedsheets for walls

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Speaker 1: Joey had been living in the loft several weeks when

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Speaker 3: She She was like, oh, Hi, what's your name? Oh

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Speaker 1: Eventually, Joey began avoiding the loft altogether. He'd spend every

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Speaker 1: Everyone needs a hobby, and Joey found one that provided

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Speaker 1: it was while rollerblading that Joey discovered his new home

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Speaker 1: away from home, the pizza Parlor. The pizza parlor played

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Speaker 3: I found myself like making sure I could you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Like if it's raining out, I would

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Speaker 3: I'd say, oh, man, bummer, and this is not rollerblading weather, okay,

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Speaker 1: Slowly, Joey began making social inroads, even managing to earn

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Speaker 1: fun and friendship with his bohemian loft buddies were over,

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Speaker 3: I had planned on continuing to visit there and making

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Speaker 1: And so every morning Joey would blade straight to the

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Speaker 3: I pretty much exclusively ate pizza from that moment on

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Speaker 1: What were you doing for fruits and vegetables?

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Speaker 3: I occasionally got the veggie slice.

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Speaker 1: And that was Joey's life, eating za, rolling blades, and

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Speaker 1: I woke up to go get my pizza, headed into

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Speaker 1: But he'd only bladed a couple of blocks when he

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Speaker 3: And it's one of the pizza chefs. So I just

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Speaker 3: What's your name?

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Speaker 7: Let's you know. I thought he was just interested in me.

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Speaker 3: So I was excited to see him biking towards me,

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Speaker 3: And I was kind of like panicking talking to him,

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Speaker 7: He biked away.

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Speaker 3: I started crying on the streets, and I must have

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Speaker 1: At that point, it was a terrible day. It became

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Speaker 3: The roommates had been kind of talking and they that

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Speaker 1: The roommates found Joey's silent, sneaky ways, unsettling. They wanted

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Speaker 3: I like went and got my stuff, and I don't know,

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Speaker 3: I basically moved out in that moment. I like just

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Speaker 1: As the day came to a close, Joey called the

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Speaker 1: one person he always calls, the person he's leaned on

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Speaker 1: his whole life, Elise, his twin sister.

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Speaker 3: She gave me the same advice that everyone did, which

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Speaker 3: But I don't know, I mean, I never was able

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Speaker 3: it was especially I felt especially bad.

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Speaker 4: He was like almost in tears telling me this story.

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Speaker 1: Elise knows Joey better than anyone, and he's relied on

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Speaker 4: And he told me about how he cried, which is

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Speaker 4: Hm, you could tell it was a big deal that

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Speaker 4: Him and his rollerblades and often like funny looking tank tops,

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Speaker 1: Of him, Hang on a second. He has a mullet.

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Speaker 4: Full mullet full, full, creepy young child mustache, and his

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Speaker 1: Does he does he play?

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure that's ointment. I'm guessing that's just his

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Speaker 1: I don't want Joey to have to wait years and

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Speaker 1: years like I did, just to know the sweet joys

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Speaker 3: I want to say sorry that that I wasn't able

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Speaker 1: But when I put forward my action plan for Joey

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Speaker 1: to fix his bad day by rerollerblading through it, rerollerblading

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Speaker 1: rerollerblading to the loft to apologize for being such a creepy,

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Speaker 1: sneaky roommate, I can hear the beads of sweat squeak

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I'm definitely Yeah, I've definitely been meaning to,

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Speaker 1: Joey still wants to be invisible, but decades of experience

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Speaker 1: hide in the metaphorical bush like a young metaphorical Jonathan Goldstein.

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Speaker 1: After the break helping Joey to stop spinning his wheels. Okay,

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Speaker 1: hold the line for a moment, Joey, all right.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Hang on, I'm practicing my witty retorts anything.

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Speaker 3: Don't do that, Okay.

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Speaker 1: During the ad break, while you were loading up on

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Speaker 1: unbelievable deals, I was considering the full extent of Joey's

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Speaker 1: The truth is, Jonathan Stuart Goldstein is actually a lot

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Speaker 1: become the animal associate alibis. I am today, happy, confident,

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Speaker 1: hoping you could work the same magic on Joey. Joey,

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Speaker 1: this is my friend Gregor.

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Speaker 7: Howdy.

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Speaker 1: Hey, So Joey was living in this loft and he

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Speaker 1: Gregor is the exact opposite of Joey and me in

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Speaker 1: never afraid to say the wrong thing. Case in point,

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Speaker 1: was Johnny kidding when he said you're wearing rollerblades.

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Speaker 7: No, I am a rollerblader, but.

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Speaker 5: So you rollerbladed into the store wearing your.

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Speaker 7: Rollerblades, that's right.

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Speaker 5: I have these very vivid memories of being in Central

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Speaker 5: body bent forward like zipping around in like a lycroskin suit,

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Speaker 5: the big giant grin as they gasped for breath, and like,

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Speaker 5: goggles on.

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Speaker 1: You got all that out of your system.

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Speaker 5: I hate rollerbladers, and I hate everything about rollerbla but

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Speaker 5: I think most people don't have the cardage to ask

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Speaker 5: for help. Okay, so the guy wants to roller blade.

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Speaker 7: Fine.

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Speaker 1: Since Joey feels most comfortable when he's rehearsing social interactions,

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Speaker 1: I suggest we do some role playing. Joey plays himself

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Speaker 1: and Gregor plays the pizza shop owner. After ten minutes

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Speaker 1: deliberating over his character's name, Gregor decides on Carmine, please

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Speaker 1: call me Karmi. All right, stop just trying to a

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Speaker 1: little depth of the character. Don't do that. Once I

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Speaker 1: finish offering some helpful direction, we begin. So Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you're you're the owner. I'll do the folly work. I'll

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Speaker 1: make any necessary sounds. Okay, Joey, you're coming up to

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Speaker 1: the pizza parlor, tingle, tingle.

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Speaker 3: Hey, so it's been a long time. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you heard I.

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Speaker 7: I had a bit of a.

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Speaker 1: Joe trails off even in a simulation. His nerves get

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Speaker 1: the better of him. I try to inspire him with

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Speaker 1: more folly work. Tingle, tingle. The place is starting to

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Speaker 1: fill up a little, so you might want to spit

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Speaker 1: it out. Tingle, tingle, tingle, tingle.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's like radio lab. Suddenly a monkey

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Speaker 5: came in. Gregor call me Carmen the whole duration of

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Speaker 5: this shoot. I need to be in character. I'm like

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Speaker 5: Daniel day Lewis. I will only answer if you call

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Speaker 5: me CARMI.

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Speaker 1: Why did I even have you be the shop owner?

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Speaker 1: Why wasn't I the shop owner?

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Speaker 5: I could be your son who's got like bigger dreams.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to spend my whole life singing pizza

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Speaker 5: derailing that I got big dreams. I want to get

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Speaker 5: into real estate, commercial real estate. I want to least laundromats.

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Speaker 5: See I'm not like you.

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Speaker 1: You really, I want to.

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Speaker 5: Have a self storage unit. They're very profitable, don't you see?

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Speaker 5: Now we're gelling as a team right at the very end.

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Speaker 5: As you start to fade us down, you can't even

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Speaker 1: Sure, Gregor was taking none of the work seriously, But

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Speaker 1: Joey was enjoying Gregor, and in his own way, Gregor

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Speaker 1: was enjoying Joey. It looked like Gregor was in I

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Speaker 1: noticed that you like to sit very close to the gate.

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Speaker 1: Gregor and I meet at the airport for the flight

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Speaker 1: to see Joey in La. While squatting on the floor

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Speaker 1: on air travel.

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Speaker 5: Because when they say extra time getting down the gate,

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Speaker 5: joe Way, you're allowed to run.

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Speaker 7: Past those people.

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Speaker 1: You're allowed.

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Speaker 5: See if like I could easily run outrun that little

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Speaker 5: girl in the purple. Anyway, Johnny, stick with me. I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna show you how to board this big bird. That's

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Speaker 5: where I stay at the pilot when I bought the claim.

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Speaker 5: Let's bring this big bird down brother. That way, he

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Speaker 5: knows I'm a member of the free Eternity of aviation.

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Speaker 7: Cross check at ready to grow accomplies.

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Speaker 1: Once we've board it, running down the jetway like a

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Speaker 1: couple of giggling idiots, Gregor regales me with stories the

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Speaker 1: time lou Reid threatened to put an ashtray through his head.

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Speaker 5: No he didn't, Yeah, heavy glass one.

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Speaker 1: The time a taxi driver told me he had eyes

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Speaker 1: like his dead brothers. That's a terrible story. The time

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Speaker 1: all dozen or so members of the Wu Tang clan

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Speaker 5: But then there was another photos on when someone died

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Speaker 5: thing on the PA where they're like there's any doctors

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Speaker 5: on board? And I was like, I'm kind of a doctor.

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Speaker 1: How are you kind of a doctor?

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Speaker 5: I'm a very good diagnostician. Look, we're on twenty five RL.

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Speaker 5: It's one of my favorite always.

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Speaker 1: Gregor and I rent a car and meet up with

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Speaker 1: Joey at his favorite coffee shop. From here, we planned

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Speaker 1: to head to the pizza parlor, get him unbanned, and

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Speaker 1: then go to the loft so Joey can apologize to

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Speaker 1: his former roommates.

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Speaker 3: Morning, nice to meet hi.

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Speaker 1: How are you Hi?

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Speaker 4: How you?

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Speaker 1: As well as being rollerblade footed, Joey's just as chopstick legged,

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Speaker 1: mustache lipped, and mullet headed, as his sister Relise had cautioned,

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Speaker 1: did it take you a while to decide like what

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Speaker 1: you were going to wear today? Joey seems anxious, so

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Speaker 1: I asked him, Joey, are you anxious? But before he

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Speaker 5: John, Let's take it from here. You don't want to

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Speaker 5: make the guy nervous by asking me if he was nervous,

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Speaker 5: why don't you go around in a circle and each say,

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Speaker 5: a member of the woutang until we get on.

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Speaker 1: With his idiot's game. What Gregor's really doing is distracting Joey,

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Speaker 1: protecting him, in this case, protecting him from me. Ready, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll start the diju. Let's stop just this is the genius, genius? Okay,

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Speaker 1: stop number one? The pizza parlor? Is this the place?

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Speaker 5: What time they open? Eleven?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I'm getting nervous. My stomach is jumping.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait here, Joey, I have some in the creer

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Speaker 1: just in case. As Joey's mentor, I know he runs

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Speaker 1: a pretty good chance of choking, so I prepared him

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Speaker 1: some notes during my flight. Okay, here you go. Read this.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 3: You guys were like family to me, and when you

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Speaker 3: accuse me of theft, I try it slower.

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Speaker 1: You guys were like family. Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: You guys were like family to me, and when you

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Speaker 3: accuse me of theft, I mishandled the situation. I became discombobulated.

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Speaker 3: I should have defended myself, told you I'm no thief.

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Speaker 1: Although we want to offer for Joey help, it's important

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Speaker 1: that he do this on his own. No Gregor, no Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: no Elise. We'll be there with Q cards and emotional support,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately Joey needs to enter the pizza shop and

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Speaker 1: make his case solo.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna let Joey shine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think like you bring your shinebox, Joey.

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Speaker 1: Are you getting the reference to the shinebox?

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Speaker 7: That would be a You guys got a lot of references.

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Speaker 7: O don't that?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen Good Fellas? Do your joe pesci for

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Speaker 1: Joey just to loosen him up a little.

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Speaker 5: Ed was one tough irishman. I put his head in

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Speaker 5: advice three days until his eyebowl pop.

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Speaker 1: That yet, get too vegetarian pizzas stuff. I instruct Joey

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Speaker 1: to order pizza and kombucha's for his roommates. This way,

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Speaker 1: the pizza parlor crew will see he's not just a

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Speaker 1: entire pie and a vinegar and bile based beverage. It'll

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Speaker 1: show personal growth.

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Speaker 5: Just have fun.

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Speaker 1: Joey swings open the door and roller blades inside. Remember

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Speaker 1: the rollerblading this whole time, Joey's been wheels down wearing

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Speaker 1: and re listen with that image in your mind. And

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Speaker 1: it's not just the roller blades. Joey is also wearing

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Speaker 1: a wire. So standing outside, Gregor and I can eavesdrop

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Speaker 1: on how things are going inside the parlor. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to hear?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 1: I can't stand well. Gregor paces back and forth on

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk. I cut an earphone and listen as Joey

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Speaker 1: rolls up to the counter.

439
00:25:54,209 --> 00:25:55,250
Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going?

440
00:25:56,449 --> 00:25:58,169
Speaker 1: Joey is greeted by a pizza chef.

441
00:25:58,570 --> 00:26:00,649
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if you remember me, I used

442
00:26:00,649 --> 00:26:04,090
Speaker 3: to come here all the time. I was kicked out

443
00:26:04,129 --> 00:26:07,290
Speaker 3: of your shop a couple months back for stealing slices,

444
00:26:07,449 --> 00:26:10,689
Speaker 3: even like I was accused of slices. No, I totally

445
00:26:10,770 --> 00:26:12,970
Speaker 3: know why you thought it was me, because it looks

446
00:26:13,010 --> 00:26:14,330
Speaker 3: like I mean, I came in.

447
00:26:14,290 --> 00:26:17,049
Speaker 1: Gregor and I watched nervously through the storefront window.

448
00:26:17,290 --> 00:26:18,129
Speaker 7: Oh he's blowing it.

449
00:26:19,970 --> 00:26:20,529
Speaker 8: I rushed him.

450
00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:20,770
Speaker 4: Sat.

451
00:26:22,090 --> 00:26:24,850
Speaker 1: Joey isn't mounting a defense, and he isn't offering a

452
00:26:24,889 --> 00:26:29,210
Speaker 1: counter narrative. Instead, he's exhibiting a level of mealy moothery

453
00:26:29,570 --> 00:26:32,850
Speaker 1: not seen since a young Jonathan Goldstein tried to explain

454
00:26:32,889 --> 00:26:36,330
Speaker 1: to a trolley conductor why he was hiding in a bush.

455
00:26:36,409 --> 00:26:37,850
Speaker 3: And I was kind of hoping I could come back

456
00:26:37,889 --> 00:26:40,050
Speaker 3: just because I love But as Gregor and I bicker

457
00:26:40,290 --> 00:26:43,090
Speaker 3: over whether to walk inside and roll Joey out the

458
00:26:43,129 --> 00:26:46,250
Speaker 3: door like a dessert trolley full of flaming horse manure,

459
00:26:46,889 --> 00:26:49,449
Speaker 3: we noticed something. I know, it's weird that's been so long,

460
00:26:49,490 --> 00:26:51,889
Speaker 3: but I just like felt really bad at me, was

461
00:26:51,889 --> 00:26:52,649
Speaker 3: really embarrassed.

462
00:26:52,889 --> 00:26:54,730
Speaker 7: Really, I'm sorry, she's really nice.

463
00:26:55,090 --> 00:26:57,570
Speaker 1: Saw like someone come in and with like roller seats.

464
00:26:58,010 --> 00:27:00,290
Speaker 1: I remember that day I was recommitting. Not only does

465
00:27:00,330 --> 00:27:04,570
Speaker 1: she remember that day, but she also remembers Joey always.

466
00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:06,369
Speaker 7: A guy who came in like several times.

467
00:27:06,129 --> 00:27:07,689
Speaker 1: Just like, yeah, no, I see, I think that was me.

468
00:27:08,090 --> 00:27:09,449
Speaker 1: Kind of remembers Joeoe.

469
00:27:09,850 --> 00:27:10,409
Speaker 6: I came in.

470
00:27:10,689 --> 00:27:11,530
Speaker 1: I'm a vegetarian.

471
00:27:11,570 --> 00:27:14,169
Speaker 3: I saw that you guys only had Pepperoni slices because

472
00:27:14,169 --> 00:27:15,529
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, not for me, And I just

473
00:27:15,530 --> 00:27:17,930
Speaker 3: turned around totally looks like I just grab one.

474
00:27:17,929 --> 00:27:20,090
Speaker 1: And since he didn't do it, you know, you don't

475
00:27:20,129 --> 00:27:21,169
Speaker 1: have anything to apologize for.

476
00:27:21,330 --> 00:27:22,649
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to make sure you, like you

477
00:27:22,689 --> 00:27:25,730
Speaker 3: guys don't think I did a man Okay, okay, cool?

478
00:27:25,850 --> 00:27:29,649
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he was willing to come back to face

479
00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:33,609
Speaker 1: his accusers, she says, he probably didn't steal the pizza,

480
00:27:34,050 --> 00:27:39,209
Speaker 1: and with that, Joey orders his pies and kombucha's with

481
00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:42,489
Speaker 1: her faces pressed against the window. Gregor and I watch

482
00:27:42,570 --> 00:27:45,929
Speaker 1: with amazement as Joey waits for his order while engaging

483
00:27:45,970 --> 00:27:52,410
Speaker 1: in some completely unscripted repartee cool song. He says, totally.

484
00:27:52,570 --> 00:27:58,409
Speaker 1: She says this band is so cool. He says yeah.

485
00:27:58,530 --> 00:28:02,810
Speaker 1: She says, we didn't prepare Joey for any of this,

486
00:28:03,490 --> 00:28:06,729
Speaker 1: but here he was riffing and scatting away like some

487
00:28:06,889 --> 00:28:11,449
Speaker 1: kind of improvisational jazz cat. Carmine would have been proud,

488
00:28:12,169 --> 00:28:19,130
Speaker 1: thank you very much, and tingle tingle. Joey emerges from

489
00:28:19,129 --> 00:28:26,570
Speaker 1: the restaurant holding our pizzas aloft like trophies. Joey, oh

490
00:28:26,609 --> 00:28:27,169
Speaker 1: you did it.

491
00:28:27,250 --> 00:28:28,489
Speaker 7: Oh my god, I'm shake it.

492
00:28:28,649 --> 00:28:31,689
Speaker 1: I'm shake it. You did a great job. Despite his

493
00:28:31,770 --> 00:28:34,449
Speaker 1: fear of saying the wrong thing, Joey had managed to

494
00:28:34,449 --> 00:28:38,050
Speaker 1: put himself out there and stumble his way through. Joey,

495
00:28:38,090 --> 00:28:40,729
Speaker 1: that was great, Like, yeah, you really like and you

496
00:28:40,730 --> 00:28:42,370
Speaker 1: did it by yourself. We didn't have to go in

497
00:28:42,490 --> 00:28:42,930
Speaker 1: or anything.

498
00:28:43,410 --> 00:28:44,050
Speaker 7: That's awesome.

499
00:28:44,690 --> 00:28:47,010
Speaker 3: Oh I really really was nervous that I felt my

500
00:28:47,090 --> 00:28:49,009
Speaker 3: leg completely shaking. I thought she was going to look

501
00:28:49,050 --> 00:28:51,090
Speaker 3: down and just see my leg shaking like it.

502
00:28:51,170 --> 00:28:54,970
Speaker 5: Okay, on one to ten, how do you feel did

503
00:28:55,010 --> 00:28:55,650
Speaker 5: you wrestle the bear?

504
00:28:56,610 --> 00:28:58,450
Speaker 3: Because I know I still have to go to the loft.

505
00:28:58,450 --> 00:29:00,370
Speaker 3: It's you know, the relief has it come.

506
00:29:00,450 --> 00:29:07,570
Speaker 1: But after the break, Joey tries rolling up a much

507
00:29:07,610 --> 00:29:14,249
Speaker 1: harder hill, apologizing to people he actually knows.

508
00:29:14,370 --> 00:29:16,249
Speaker 5: Those people you live with, they actually know the real joy.

509
00:29:16,290 --> 00:29:18,050
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe they didn't like the real joys. But

510
00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:19,250
Speaker 5: they knew who you were.

511
00:29:20,090 --> 00:29:21,650
Speaker 7: No, I don't think they did. I mean I hope

512
00:29:21,650 --> 00:29:22,050
Speaker 7: they did that.

513
00:29:30,850 --> 00:29:32,610
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a good sign that the roommates

514
00:29:32,610 --> 00:29:34,210
Speaker 1: did not respond. No.

515
00:29:34,209 --> 00:29:34,289
Speaker 7: No.

516
00:29:34,490 --> 00:29:35,930
Speaker 3: To be honest, I'm pretty nervous about that.

517
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:40,970
Speaker 1: Joey had tried to contact his former loftmates via group

518
00:29:41,050 --> 00:29:43,570
Speaker 1: text to let them know he'd be coming by to talk.

519
00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:46,249
Speaker 1: But as we stand on the street in front of

520
00:29:46,290 --> 00:29:51,570
Speaker 1: the building, our kombucha bubbling and vegetarian pizzas congealing, Joey

521
00:29:51,650 --> 00:29:55,210
Speaker 1: checks and re checks his phone, not a single one

522
00:29:55,250 --> 00:29:58,290
Speaker 1: of his former roommates has responded.

523
00:29:58,010 --> 00:30:00,410
Speaker 5: Not even like any response is not a good sign.

524
00:30:00,530 --> 00:30:03,730
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's better than like responding by saying I'm

525
00:30:03,770 --> 00:30:06,850
Speaker 1: not interested. Right, the loft is on the second floor,

526
00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:09,529
Speaker 1: behind the metal gate, and there's no doorbell.

527
00:30:09,650 --> 00:30:11,730
Speaker 5: All right, let's figure out how to get into this fortress.

528
00:30:12,490 --> 00:30:15,569
Speaker 1: There's no drain pipe to shimmy, no fire escape banister

529
00:30:15,690 --> 00:30:18,330
Speaker 1: to reverse oli. All we can do is wait for

530
00:30:18,370 --> 00:30:21,250
Speaker 1: someone to come in or out. Gregor fills the time

531
00:30:21,490 --> 00:30:23,249
Speaker 1: with yet another aviation story.

532
00:30:24,090 --> 00:30:26,049
Speaker 5: When I was going through the TSA, the lady was like,

533
00:30:26,209 --> 00:30:27,729
Speaker 5: could you pull your pants up a little bit?

534
00:30:29,209 --> 00:30:30,690
Speaker 1: You just told me to take my belt off.

535
00:30:30,810 --> 00:30:32,170
Speaker 5: Now my pants are falling down. You want me to

536
00:30:32,209 --> 00:30:32,930
Speaker 5: pull my pants up?

537
00:30:32,930 --> 00:30:33,490
Speaker 6: Which is it?

538
00:30:33,770 --> 00:30:35,330
Speaker 7: You really get told to play an?

539
00:30:35,650 --> 00:30:37,090
Speaker 5: I get told that every time I go through the t.

540
00:30:37,290 --> 00:30:39,410
Speaker 1: Where's a belt with a pair of shorts? You wear

541
00:30:39,410 --> 00:30:40,610
Speaker 1: a belt and shorts?

542
00:30:40,690 --> 00:30:43,210
Speaker 5: Yep, I never heard of that. How do you think

543
00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:43,770
Speaker 5: I keep mouth?

544
00:30:43,930 --> 00:30:47,010
Speaker 1: I think someone's coming. Thankfully we're interrupted.

545
00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:50,210
Speaker 3: Yoh, how's it going?

546
00:30:51,570 --> 00:30:54,930
Speaker 1: One of Joey's old roommates emerges. He's a hip young

547
00:30:54,970 --> 00:30:58,370
Speaker 1: man who, if not wearing a straw pork pie hat

548
00:30:58,410 --> 00:31:02,330
Speaker 1: and carrying a gondola paddle, is certainly giving off that vibe,

549
00:31:02,690 --> 00:31:08,770
Speaker 1: a Venetian boatman vibe. Joey, foregoing all social foreplay, dives

550
00:31:08,890 --> 00:31:09,370
Speaker 1: right in.

551
00:31:09,930 --> 00:31:12,650
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm here because I want to apologize. I don't

552
00:31:12,650 --> 00:31:16,329
Speaker 3: know if you've got the group text. Oh yeah, I

553
00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:18,050
Speaker 3: just wanted I felt really bad about how I left

554
00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:21,290
Speaker 3: things here, so I brought some pizza and my friends here.

555
00:31:21,490 --> 00:31:26,130
Speaker 1: Okay, Joey gestures over to his friends, two balding middle

556
00:31:26,170 --> 00:31:30,050
Speaker 1: aged men slumping behind him like bald scarecrows stuffed with

557
00:31:30,170 --> 00:31:30,610
Speaker 1: muse ley.

558
00:31:31,530 --> 00:31:35,610
Speaker 9: Hey, right, okay, all right, well this is really awkward

559
00:31:35,650 --> 00:31:36,370
Speaker 9: in a surprise.

560
00:31:36,770 --> 00:31:39,569
Speaker 6: All right, I was just going.

561
00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:39,490
Speaker 2: Out of my car.

562
00:31:39,730 --> 00:31:40,090
Speaker 7: Okay.

563
00:31:40,209 --> 00:31:45,930
Speaker 1: So the boatman isn't very receptive, but Joey persists, does.

564
00:31:45,890 --> 00:31:47,250
Speaker 3: Anyone else tell him if you want to, like, ask

565
00:31:47,290 --> 00:31:49,890
Speaker 3: if they are okay with me coming up like that?

566
00:31:50,250 --> 00:31:51,330
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you so much.

567
00:31:54,450 --> 00:31:57,050
Speaker 1: It's taken all of Joey's courage to return to the

568
00:31:57,090 --> 00:31:59,969
Speaker 1: place where the coolest art kids in La live, and

569
00:32:00,010 --> 00:32:03,850
Speaker 1: he's still being denied entry. As Joey stares in silence

570
00:32:03,890 --> 00:32:06,330
Speaker 1: at the steel door that's just clanged shut, in his

571
00:32:06,410 --> 00:32:10,090
Speaker 1: mustachioed face, I struggle to come up with something positive

572
00:32:10,130 --> 00:32:14,969
Speaker 1: to say. I think you handled yourself.

573
00:32:14,970 --> 00:32:17,610
Speaker 7: Well, I'm extremely nervous right now. I don't feel good

574
00:32:17,610 --> 00:32:18,730
Speaker 7: about how this is going.

575
00:32:20,530 --> 00:32:24,450
Speaker 1: Upstairs, the gondolier is saying to his roommate something along

576
00:32:24,490 --> 00:32:28,650
Speaker 1: the lines of, Hey, remember that silent roller skating weirdo

577
00:32:28,730 --> 00:32:32,769
Speaker 1: we kicked out of our art loft. Well, he's downstairs

578
00:32:33,450 --> 00:32:42,050
Speaker 1: with pizza and his two gay dads. But then, yo, hey, what's.

579
00:32:42,410 --> 00:32:45,570
Speaker 6: How you doing.

580
00:32:45,810 --> 00:32:48,530
Speaker 1: Zach is the unofficial head of the household, the guy

581
00:32:48,530 --> 00:32:51,289
Speaker 1: who takes care of all the square noormy stuff like

582
00:32:51,370 --> 00:32:54,890
Speaker 1: throwing out expired cottage cheese and paying the rent on time.

583
00:32:55,450 --> 00:33:00,209
Speaker 1: He's bearded and shaggy. He turns to Joey. Joey stares

584
00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:03,650
Speaker 1: down at his rollerblades and starts mumbling explanations.

585
00:33:04,410 --> 00:33:06,690
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought, I mean, I didn't think it

586
00:33:06,730 --> 00:33:10,050
Speaker 3: was just like, I just thought, like.

587
00:33:10,290 --> 00:33:13,410
Speaker 1: I haven't heard this much mealy mouthing since I guess

588
00:33:13,450 --> 00:33:16,049
Speaker 1: an hour ago, when Joey was at the pizza parlor.

589
00:33:17,209 --> 00:33:21,969
Speaker 1: Zach looks at Joey skeptically. His arms are crossed. Nonetheless

590
00:33:22,410 --> 00:33:24,250
Speaker 1: Joey's soldiers on, I.

591
00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:27,289
Speaker 3: Just feel really bad about kind of how how I

592
00:33:27,370 --> 00:33:30,570
Speaker 3: left things here. Yeah, I know that I wasn't the

593
00:33:30,610 --> 00:33:33,530
Speaker 3: best roommate, and I feel really bad and just kind

594
00:33:33,530 --> 00:33:36,610
Speaker 3: of uncomfortable about like just you know, even just how

595
00:33:36,650 --> 00:33:38,690
Speaker 3: you guys think about me. But I just wanted to

596
00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:40,730
Speaker 3: apologize and make things right.

597
00:33:44,050 --> 00:33:46,130
Speaker 6: There were things like that bugged me. Here we go.

598
00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:49,290
Speaker 1: Whereas the pizza chef had been impressed with the mere

599
00:33:49,330 --> 00:33:52,969
Speaker 1: fact Joey had returned, for Zach, that wasn't enough.

600
00:33:54,490 --> 00:33:56,490
Speaker 9: You had your headphones on a lot, and you had

601
00:33:56,890 --> 00:33:58,050
Speaker 9: noise canceling headphones.

602
00:33:58,050 --> 00:33:59,530
Speaker 6: You're just like in your world.

603
00:33:59,490 --> 00:34:01,850
Speaker 1: He launches into a laundry list of grievances.

604
00:34:02,050 --> 00:34:04,570
Speaker 6: Didn't clean the bathroom, and I was just.

605
00:34:04,490 --> 00:34:08,770
Speaker 1: Like dude, Joey ignored everybody, never cleaned up after himself.

606
00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:10,650
Speaker 1: I ever even washed a dish.

607
00:34:10,610 --> 00:34:13,609
Speaker 9: The amount of rant or who's paying what? Or why

608
00:34:13,650 --> 00:34:16,090
Speaker 9: are you paying her and not paying Ah?

609
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:19,970
Speaker 1: The worst thing Joey could imagine was happening. He was

610
00:34:20,010 --> 00:34:24,610
Speaker 1: being seen and told that he'd always been seen. He

611
00:34:24,730 --> 00:34:27,690
Speaker 1: put all his effort into trying to become invisible and

612
00:34:27,730 --> 00:34:30,770
Speaker 1: absolutely no effort into doing his share of the chores.

613
00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:34,730
Speaker 1: That's why his roommates wanted him out. They'd seen him

614
00:34:34,770 --> 00:34:38,450
Speaker 1: visibly not cleaning the loft, visibly not taking out the garbage,

615
00:34:38,930 --> 00:34:41,489
Speaker 1: trying to hide but not really hiding at all.

616
00:34:41,970 --> 00:34:44,250
Speaker 6: He taking an advantage of And that's what I was.

617
00:34:44,170 --> 00:34:48,010
Speaker 1: Like, whoa O If ordering a pizza had given Joey

618
00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:51,690
Speaker 1: the Jimmy legs, facing Zach was giving Joey the Joey

619
00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:54,850
Speaker 1: leg a name I've just coined for a condition in

620
00:34:54,890 --> 00:34:58,810
Speaker 1: which one's entire body becomes one single Jimmy leg that

621
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:02,969
Speaker 1: is a Joey leg that won't stop Jimmy ing is like.

622
00:35:02,890 --> 00:35:03,890
Speaker 6: A liberty, you know.

623
00:35:04,130 --> 00:35:07,969
Speaker 1: But while Joey is Jimmy ing. He isn't folding, He's

624
00:35:07,970 --> 00:35:08,850
Speaker 1: not running away.

625
00:35:09,210 --> 00:35:13,570
Speaker 6: But it was just the way that it was done. Yeah.

626
00:35:14,130 --> 00:35:18,930
Speaker 1: As Zach finishes speaking, Joey maintains eye contact, and what's more,

627
00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:23,130
Speaker 1: as the la breeze whips up the hindquarters of his mullet,

628
00:35:23,170 --> 00:35:26,970
Speaker 1: he does not fall prey to his lifelong crutch, silence,

629
00:35:27,970 --> 00:35:33,570
Speaker 1: without notes, without wittyish rejoinders. He responds, all this stuff,

630
00:35:33,610 --> 00:35:33,770
Speaker 1: like the.

631
00:35:34,010 --> 00:35:36,810
Speaker 3: Not paying rent on time, and just all the story stuff,

632
00:35:37,010 --> 00:35:40,650
Speaker 3: all that stems from this shyness, this like the weirdness

633
00:35:40,650 --> 00:35:43,250
Speaker 3: and like just feeling uncomfortable to like, I don't know,

634
00:35:43,330 --> 00:35:46,009
Speaker 3: be in the public space kind of just because I'm

635
00:35:46,130 --> 00:35:48,850
Speaker 3: weird and shy. And I can't blame it on anything

636
00:35:48,850 --> 00:35:51,010
Speaker 3: but myself. I mean, it was all It's all me.

637
00:35:51,090 --> 00:35:54,410
Speaker 3: It's like my own things. Zach looks at Joey's I

638
00:35:54,450 --> 00:35:56,490
Speaker 3: wish I was more able to like be friendly with you.

639
00:35:56,490 --> 00:35:59,850
Speaker 1: Guys, sees him struggling, and his face softens.

640
00:36:02,690 --> 00:36:06,650
Speaker 9: I understand like having social anxiety, having like issues where

641
00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:09,370
Speaker 9: you're like you feel something that's like strangling you in

642
00:36:09,410 --> 00:36:11,290
Speaker 9: a position where you have to converse or whatever.

643
00:36:11,770 --> 00:36:12,930
Speaker 6: Like I can understand that.

644
00:36:13,730 --> 00:36:16,530
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I only wanted to just be friends with you, guys.

645
00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:19,290
Speaker 6: I have I appreciate it. Where were you staying now?

646
00:36:19,890 --> 00:36:23,490
Speaker 1: Awkwardness is just a step along the way to vulnerability,

647
00:36:24,210 --> 00:36:27,850
Speaker 1: and being vulnerable, allowing yourself to be seen is the

648
00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:30,450
Speaker 1: only soil from which friendship can grow.

649
00:36:30,490 --> 00:36:32,210
Speaker 6: I love your funky style.

650
00:36:32,210 --> 00:36:36,330
Speaker 1: And what better fertilizer than a mutual love of the mullet.

651
00:36:36,770 --> 00:36:40,250
Speaker 9: I've been contemplating a similar mullet as yours, but I

652
00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:43,090
Speaker 9: don't know if my hair would work as much as yours.

653
00:36:43,170 --> 00:36:44,210
Speaker 6: You have a different volume.

654
00:36:44,530 --> 00:36:47,370
Speaker 1: So as Zach and Joey wax on about the beauty

655
00:36:47,370 --> 00:36:54,009
Speaker 1: of Joey's ape drape, another loft made appears in the stairway. Nice, yeah,

656
00:36:54,090 --> 00:37:06,850
Speaker 1: if that's okay, that's great, Thank you, Holy cow. This

657
00:37:06,890 --> 00:37:08,050
Speaker 1: is a really big space.

658
00:37:08,290 --> 00:37:08,969
Speaker 8: It's good.

659
00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:12,450
Speaker 1: Joey leads Gregor and I on a tour through the

660
00:37:12,490 --> 00:37:16,049
Speaker 1: old audio cassettes and dummy heads, past the kickboxing bag

661
00:37:16,090 --> 00:37:19,050
Speaker 1: and vinyl collection, and ends the tour in a truly

662
00:37:19,130 --> 00:37:23,490
Speaker 1: empty V cribs kind of way at his old bedroom

663
00:37:24,050 --> 00:37:27,610
Speaker 1: where the magic happened. And by magic, I mean where

664
00:37:27,690 --> 00:37:31,650
Speaker 1: Joey slept on the floor wrapped in unwashed blankets.

665
00:37:32,010 --> 00:37:33,370
Speaker 7: This is where they used to stay.

666
00:37:33,570 --> 00:37:45,570
Speaker 1: Did you have a mattress? Joey breaks out the pizza

667
00:37:45,610 --> 00:37:48,210
Speaker 1: and kombucha, and we all gathered by the hot plate

668
00:37:48,290 --> 00:37:48,930
Speaker 1: for a toast.

669
00:37:49,250 --> 00:37:52,250
Speaker 5: You're supposed to actually look up, look at each other's eyes.

670
00:37:56,530 --> 00:37:57,210
Speaker 7: The communication.

671
00:38:04,970 --> 00:38:09,290
Speaker 1: After we choke back our kombucha, I suggest the symbolic gesture, Hey,

672
00:38:09,450 --> 00:38:12,010
Speaker 1: you want to you want to wash all the glassy

673
00:38:12,370 --> 00:38:12,570
Speaker 1: I do.

674
00:38:15,010 --> 00:38:16,170
Speaker 5: This is totally ridiculous.

675
00:38:18,170 --> 00:38:19,770
Speaker 1: You're gonna use soap and everything.

676
00:38:21,650 --> 00:38:23,570
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's good with the vision or

677
00:38:23,610 --> 00:38:23,970
Speaker 5: something that.

678
00:38:24,050 --> 00:38:24,650
Speaker 4: Stop with them.

679
00:38:28,090 --> 00:38:30,730
Speaker 1: Just as we're about to leave, Gregor decides he'd like

680
00:38:30,770 --> 00:38:34,090
Speaker 1: to use the bathroom. And whereas a couple of shrinky

681
00:38:34,130 --> 00:38:37,090
Speaker 1: and sneaky violets like Joey and me might just slink

682
00:38:37,130 --> 00:38:39,410
Speaker 1: off looking for it, Gregor does not.

683
00:38:39,770 --> 00:38:41,290
Speaker 5: It might be too much of in a position if

684
00:38:41,330 --> 00:38:43,370
Speaker 5: I was to leave a little urine in your toilet

685
00:38:43,450 --> 00:38:44,930
Speaker 5: on the way out.

686
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:48,930
Speaker 1: By embracing the awkwardness of life, acknowledging that we are

687
00:38:49,010 --> 00:38:53,730
Speaker 1: creatures who require toilets, Gregor somehow makes things less awkward,

688
00:38:54,370 --> 00:39:04,090
Speaker 1: at least for himself. Gregor has mastered something that Joey

689
00:39:04,130 --> 00:39:08,370
Speaker 1: is still learning, the art of saying here I am,

690
00:39:08,410 --> 00:39:15,210
Speaker 1: even when ping into a toilet while wearing a lapel microphone.

691
00:39:25,410 --> 00:39:30,530
Speaker 6: You're welcome, Thank you, take it easy.

692
00:39:30,650 --> 00:39:34,570
Speaker 3: Thanks.

693
00:39:30,930 --> 00:39:39,490
Speaker 1: After leaving the loft, there's only one thing left to redo.

694
00:39:40,010 --> 00:39:40,250
Speaker 8: Hello.

695
00:39:41,410 --> 00:39:45,370
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey phones up his twin sister release and this

696
00:39:45,450 --> 00:39:49,610
Speaker 1: time he isn't crying. It was so good, it was

697
00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:50,890
Speaker 1: so cool. Yeah.

698
00:39:50,890 --> 00:39:52,450
Speaker 3: I think he genuinely forgave me.

699
00:39:53,770 --> 00:39:55,250
Speaker 7: And I did it all on my lone, son.

700
00:39:56,290 --> 00:39:56,890
Speaker 6: No, you did it.

701
00:39:57,050 --> 00:39:58,250
Speaker 7: You needed so much help.

702
00:40:00,090 --> 00:40:02,690
Speaker 3: Well after I got the help, I did it on myself,

703
00:40:02,810 --> 00:40:04,690
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, but now I just feel like

704
00:40:04,730 --> 00:40:06,410
Speaker 3: I can do it on myself by myself.

705
00:40:06,930 --> 00:40:08,930
Speaker 7: I'm very I am really proud of you that I know.

706
00:40:09,170 --> 00:40:10,690
Speaker 1: It takes a lot, it did.

707
00:40:11,490 --> 00:40:12,210
Speaker 3: It takes a lot from me.

708
00:40:12,290 --> 00:40:13,490
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, more than anyone.

709
00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:19,170
Speaker 1: Your proudness feels good. I'm not surprised that Elise is proud,

710
00:40:19,570 --> 00:40:22,130
Speaker 1: but I'm taken aback to see that. Gregor looks proud too,

711
00:40:22,890 --> 00:40:26,570
Speaker 1: proud of himself, of course, but also with Joey. So

712
00:40:26,690 --> 00:40:29,770
Speaker 1: once Joey gets off the phone, Gregor offers up some

713
00:40:29,890 --> 00:40:30,770
Speaker 1: fatherly advice.

714
00:40:31,210 --> 00:40:33,130
Speaker 5: I understand what it is to be young. It's a

715
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:37,170
Speaker 5: tough phase until you're about forty five. Life is really difficult, okay,

716
00:40:37,730 --> 00:40:39,810
Speaker 5: and then from there on in it's all just sitting

717
00:40:39,810 --> 00:40:41,770
Speaker 5: in one of those soapbox derby cars rolling down the

718
00:40:41,810 --> 00:40:44,130
Speaker 5: hill to your sinescence and eventual death.

719
00:40:44,770 --> 00:40:46,090
Speaker 1: Gregor, you're depressing the guy.

720
00:40:46,330 --> 00:40:49,610
Speaker 5: I'm coming to my Hallmark inspirational line. I'd say it's

721
00:40:49,610 --> 00:40:53,410
Speaker 5: a tough fifteen to twenty five year period. It's very unpleasant,

722
00:40:53,450 --> 00:40:54,610
Speaker 5: really most of it.

723
00:40:56,650 --> 00:40:58,290
Speaker 7: Could you repeat that Hallmark line again?

724
00:41:03,930 --> 00:41:08,090
Speaker 1: And with that, Joey pulls off his unlikeliest feet, yet

725
00:41:08,330 --> 00:41:14,130
Speaker 1: he gets in a genuine off the cough zinger. Gregor

726
00:41:14,170 --> 00:41:23,930
Speaker 1: and I had brought this big bird down, Guang. There

727
00:41:23,970 --> 00:41:25,530
Speaker 1: we going.

728
00:41:39,010 --> 00:41:48,529
Speaker 8: Now that the fernitures returning to its goodwill home, now

729
00:41:48,610 --> 00:41:53,410
Speaker 8: that the last month's rant is skating with the damage

730
00:41:53,490 --> 00:41:56,610
Speaker 8: to Posle, take this moment to dissolve.

731
00:41:59,210 --> 00:42:04,610
Speaker 2: If we meant it, if we talked, we felt around

732
00:42:04,730 --> 00:42:05,410
Speaker 2: for far.

733
00:42:08,410 --> 00:42:09,690
Speaker 8: Thanks accident.

734
00:42:13,850 --> 00:42:19,810
Speaker 1: Hello Joey, Oh wait, here comes our surprise. Guest.

735
00:42:20,210 --> 00:42:22,890
Speaker 7: You ready for it?

736
00:42:22,770 --> 00:42:29,730
Speaker 1: It comes? Gregor, you look very moisturized.

737
00:42:30,010 --> 00:42:32,050
Speaker 5: Did you have an HR policy where you're not supposed

738
00:42:32,050 --> 00:42:34,330
Speaker 5: to comment on people's physical appearance? Because I think Johnny

739
00:42:34,330 --> 00:42:36,050
Speaker 5: skipped that day when he was getting on boarded.

740
00:42:36,330 --> 00:42:39,250
Speaker 1: Well that, I mean, that's a compliment, don't you think, Yes,

741
00:42:39,330 --> 00:42:40,050
Speaker 1: young lady, you.

742
00:42:39,970 --> 00:42:40,970
Speaker 5: Look great in that druss.

743
00:42:41,010 --> 00:42:41,810
Speaker 1: You really fill it out.

744
00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:44,930
Speaker 5: Well that's a compliment too. I mean, come on, I

745
00:42:45,010 --> 00:42:48,570
Speaker 5: that's time like you had a mullet and were rollerblading

746
00:42:48,610 --> 00:42:51,930
Speaker 5: and eating a slice of pizza and had like eleven roommates.

747
00:42:51,970 --> 00:42:55,090
Speaker 3: Not too much has changed. Some things are have improved.

748
00:42:55,410 --> 00:42:59,969
Speaker 1: Can I see the back of your head and you've

749
00:42:59,970 --> 00:43:01,130
Speaker 1: still got a mustache?

750
00:43:01,330 --> 00:43:04,130
Speaker 7: I do, it's grown in. That's what seven years will do.

751
00:43:04,650 --> 00:43:07,170
Speaker 1: Wow, look at that, you've grown up, just in the

752
00:43:07,170 --> 00:43:11,410
Speaker 1: blink of an eye exactly. So we just wanted to

753
00:43:11,490 --> 00:43:13,370
Speaker 1: check in with you and see how you were doing.

754
00:43:13,770 --> 00:43:16,130
Speaker 5: I want to hear about how now like you were

755
00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:18,810
Speaker 5: sort of pushed out of the nest that instead of

756
00:43:18,810 --> 00:43:20,930
Speaker 5: falling to the sidewalk and getting eaten by a cat,

757
00:43:21,370 --> 00:43:28,970
Speaker 5: you have taken off to soar with the seagulls.

758
00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:31,850
Speaker 1: Bernie and ethel seagull. All right, listen, we're getting off

759
00:43:31,850 --> 00:43:33,650
Speaker 1: track here, Joey. We're here to hear about you.

760
00:43:33,810 --> 00:43:34,450
Speaker 7: I was enjoying this.

761
00:43:34,650 --> 00:43:36,450
Speaker 1: So what's going on in your in your life? Are

762
00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:38,210
Speaker 1: you in la? I?

763
00:43:38,370 --> 00:43:41,130
Speaker 3: Actually I'm in New York and I moved out here

764
00:43:41,170 --> 00:43:42,610
Speaker 3: about four years ago.

765
00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:44,730
Speaker 1: How many roommates do you have?

766
00:43:45,530 --> 00:43:47,010
Speaker 7: This will shock you zero.

767
00:43:47,690 --> 00:43:50,890
Speaker 1: So no, no bed sheet walls, just all you.

768
00:43:51,410 --> 00:43:54,610
Speaker 3: I do live in like a large studio apartment railroad

769
00:43:54,730 --> 00:43:57,930
Speaker 3: style where there's like multiple rooms without proper doors, so

770
00:43:57,970 --> 00:44:00,690
Speaker 3: they are separated by what kind of looks like a

771
00:44:00,690 --> 00:44:01,090
Speaker 3: bed sheet.

772
00:44:01,130 --> 00:44:02,930
Speaker 7: It's like a curtain. I don't know if you can

773
00:44:02,930 --> 00:44:03,489
Speaker 7: tell the back.

774
00:44:03,970 --> 00:44:05,530
Speaker 1: Was that something that you were looking for? You you

775
00:44:05,570 --> 00:44:07,730
Speaker 1: told the real estate agent that you wanted something with

776
00:44:07,730 --> 00:44:08,210
Speaker 1: bed sheet.

777
00:44:08,770 --> 00:44:09,009
Speaker 7: Yeah.

778
00:44:09,090 --> 00:44:11,890
Speaker 3: I don't feel at home unless i'm around bad shoots.

779
00:44:12,010 --> 00:44:15,290
Speaker 1: Joey's doing. Joey's thriving. Look he's got a cow. Is

780
00:44:15,330 --> 00:44:16,450
Speaker 1: that a couch you're sitting on?

781
00:44:17,890 --> 00:44:20,770
Speaker 3: It's a share I don't have a couch.

782
00:44:22,050 --> 00:44:24,250
Speaker 1: Oh are you still rollerblading?

783
00:44:24,570 --> 00:44:27,530
Speaker 3: Of course I still love rollerblading, but I also I

784
00:44:27,610 --> 00:44:29,810
Speaker 3: found that I love riding a bicycle too.

785
00:44:29,850 --> 00:44:30,490
Speaker 5: I have a question.

786
00:44:30,930 --> 00:44:32,090
Speaker 1: Oh go ahead, gregor.

787
00:44:32,370 --> 00:44:35,210
Speaker 5: Not too personal? Are you drinking your own urine? What's

788
00:44:35,250 --> 00:44:35,570
Speaker 5: all right?

789
00:44:35,690 --> 00:44:40,170
Speaker 1: So good talk, Joey. Any thing you'd like to say

790
00:44:40,210 --> 00:44:40,770
Speaker 1: in parting?

791
00:44:41,850 --> 00:44:44,330
Speaker 3: I guess I want to say thank you for helping

792
00:44:44,370 --> 00:44:45,290
Speaker 3: me all those years ago.

793
00:44:45,810 --> 00:44:49,090
Speaker 7: It actually, I do think meant something and it worked.

794
00:44:49,730 --> 00:44:50,010
Speaker 2: Did it?

795
00:44:50,090 --> 00:44:50,370
Speaker 8: Really?

796
00:44:50,970 --> 00:44:53,850
Speaker 7: I think it did? How so I felt a lot

797
00:44:53,890 --> 00:44:54,890
Speaker 7: more confident after that.

798
00:44:55,730 --> 00:44:57,930
Speaker 3: Just yeah, I mean the lessons imparted on the day,

799
00:44:57,930 --> 00:45:00,890
Speaker 3: but also just hearing it back.

800
00:45:01,130 --> 00:45:03,130
Speaker 7: Over the years, I've revisited.

801
00:45:02,610 --> 00:45:06,170
Speaker 3: It and whenever I do, it makes me laugh first,

802
00:45:06,210 --> 00:45:08,770
Speaker 3: but also kind of shows me how far I've come.

803
00:45:09,170 --> 00:45:09,810
Speaker 7: So I'm grateful.

804
00:45:10,690 --> 00:45:14,529
Speaker 5: This may come across a slightly patronizing, but I feel

805
00:45:14,570 --> 00:45:15,610
Speaker 5: like Joey's all grown up.

806
00:45:15,850 --> 00:45:17,410
Speaker 7: I think I am. I think you're right.

807
00:45:18,290 --> 00:45:22,010
Speaker 1: Okay, let's close this out by all together ready. Woo

808
00:45:22,170 --> 00:45:43,290
Speaker 1: tang tang, Woo tang. Thanks to everyone who helped put

809
00:45:43,290 --> 00:45:46,970
Speaker 1: this episode together. We'll be back next week with another

810
00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:48,970
Speaker 1: encore presentation of Heavyweight

811
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Speaker 8: Cont