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Speaker 1: episode of Laugh with Me. I am your host, chemi Odum.

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Speaker 1: Brand new year, same old me, same al shell. And

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Speaker 2: on afterwards to do kind of syndicated or not kind

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00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 2: of where you're you're talking to different markets and yep,

435
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 2: we'll I always remember that because my second year at

436
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 2: the River, I got a call one night and it

437
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 2: was from somebody who identified himself and said that he

438
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 2: was with a radio station HP, and he was just like, Eric,

439
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 2: you know I've listened to your stuff, like you really

440
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 2: saw it. Why don't you come in? And I remember,

441
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 2: you know, we recorded every phone call because you never

442
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 2: knew when you would strike gold. Yeah, and it was

443
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 2: always fun to you know, play the game of scene,

444
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 2: how long you could keep the you know, telemarketer or

445
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 2: whatever it was.

446
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: On the phone. That was my favorite stuff.

447
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 2: But I played it for another student who was just

448
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 2: happened to be there, and he was just like, oh,

449
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 2: this guy's identifying himself as Polycronapolis, Like this is obviously

450
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: a scam. This guy, this guy's pranking you. Like we're

451
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 2: still close enough to when Adam Sandler was making album,

452
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: so yeah, this was still so I deleted it and

453
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 2: then you and.

454
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: Grant ended up working for that guy. We did, and

455
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 1: then the guy is a big freaking deal in Minneapolis. Now.

456
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and that's where you know, you kind of

457
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,159
Speaker 2: runt with those pivot points in your life. So I

458
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 2: always think that that was my opportunity to.

459
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: Go into radio. Yep.

460
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 2: When I didn't do that, it's kind of like when

461
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 2: you finished third at Central and how that determined your

462
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 2: life going after that, I would never speak again. I

463
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 2: mean if you didn't get that, if you didn't have

464
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 2: that top ten moment in your life.

465
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's true. What's going differently? Yep, it

466
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: kind of like shot me to the moon of seking

467
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: to people, right.

468
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

469
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: I never would have put myself in a position at

470
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: grocery stores to talk in front of a whole team,

471
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: and then would put me in position to want to

472
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: go on stage and tell you Chrome's jokes and then

473
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 1: even more so talk to folks in my basement.

474
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Speaker 2: I mean my first job was at at kmart and

475
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: those radio skills.

476
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 1: I was the best at the man the intercoms. I

477
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 1: did you have a script or were you just free flowing?

478
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: Mostly just free flowing.

479
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,239
Speaker 2: I mean the products sold themselves, I mean they were

480
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 2: bargains and I had this big blue rotating light, so there.

481
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: Was really a light. Oh yeah, I guess I didn't

482
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: frequently came whenever I went to camera. Was just the

483
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: se went bankrupt spent too much on them lights? Yeah, yeah.

484
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 1: The I would do the my base. I mean, I

485
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: would do sales promos on the intercom at the grocery store.

486
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Speaker 1: But I would also whenever I was aging somebody, like

487
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: let's say it was a cashier, I need a manager.

488
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: It's just before I old enough to like sell alcohol,

489
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: I would I would just put on a performance. I'd

490
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: be like, need a manager on and then I would

491
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: just pause. I would see how long I could go

492
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: the pause, and then be like register three, and then

493
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,239
Speaker 1: you know the manager had come over. And it was

494
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: fun for a while. And then people started to be like,

495
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: what are you doing. You're holding up the whole operation

496
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: because then you know, people couldn't talk on the intercot

497
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: because I'm just trying.

498
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 2: To customer service has got that call they need to

499
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 2: transfer to the meat.

500
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 1: Department, right, and I'm over here. It's you know, it's

501
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and we're busy as hell and I'm over

502
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: here running bits. But it was fun.

503
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: What I love too is my biggest memory of you

504
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 2: when you worked at IVY back in those days was

505
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 2: the fact that you had one knot in your tie.

506
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 2: I did, and you never untied it.

507
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: Nope.

508
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,160
Speaker 2: So the knot would just every time you tighten it, it

509
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: would get smaller and smaller. I swear it was like

510
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: the size of my thumbnail.

511
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I did. I really did that because

512
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: I couldn't tie it. And then it was actually my

513
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: father in law. He was before we were married. I

514
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: didn't have a one knot tie all until I was married,

515
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: but we would. Uh, he showed me how to tie.

516
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: I think he noticed my tie and was like, well

517
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: me straight, and actually it's pretty easy to tie tie. Yeah,

518
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: very very easy. This is before you could just YouTube anything.

519
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 2: I like how you were fishing for empathy on that.

520
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: I mean that's obviously like I really was.

521
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: It's kind of like you help a wounded animal, like

522
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 2: you feel the bond, you want to take care of it.

523
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: Yep.

524
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 2: Like he ties your tie for you, and it's just like, sir,

525
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 2: can I marry your dubtor?

526
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly how I went down. And then he's like,

527
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: you know what if you can tie your tie for

528
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: three months? Straight, we'll talk about it, and damn it,

529
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: I went six months straight. So still going strong, Still

530
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: going strong. I did have a brief period of the

531
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: zip bond tie. M m oh. That sucks because if

532
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: you get loose and then it like then you people

533
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: see what you have going. You can't get caught with

534
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 1: that time. No, it's fun if they don't know what

535
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: you're doing. Yeah, it's a nightmare. If they know what

536
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: you're doing. No, I mean it's like wearing a two

537
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: pey or can you imagine being a magician and everyone

538
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: can see how you're performing your tricks? Like, that's not cool,

539
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: there's no illusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just a

540
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: little magician with stocking groceries. Did you just snort?

541
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: This is a very good microphone.

542
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: That was great when you said your fair part of

543
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: me at the high By in the old days. I

544
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: thought you were going to talk about the egg and

545
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'll talk about some egg band stuff.

546
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: But you went into the die like that caught me

547
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: that the memories rushed back. That was awesome.

548
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 2: Well, I'm practically caught up with the show here, so

549
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: I already know that you've talked about the egg man.

550
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: I know that he's established character. That's good and the U.

551
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: You briefly worked at the Ivy back in that period

552
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: as well, and you worked in the bakery. I think

553
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: I did a lot of the work for you, just

554
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: hanging out waiting for you to get off work. So

555
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: you hang out, but I wouldn't get off till like eight. Yeah,

556
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: it's so late. So normally you would show.

557
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: Up at like seven thirty, like let's go get a

558
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: beer mm hmm, and it'd be like, I need to

559
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 2: clean these dishes first.

560
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: Yep, and this is sweep. I remember doing a lot

561
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: of sweet that I kind of like do the eye thing,

562
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: you know, and help out. Are you going to just

563
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: sit there? Yeah? Oh man? Did you ever pull any

564
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: pranks back there? Mmmm?

565
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: No No, I mean they are nothing for anything more

566
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: than my own amusement.

567
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: I would I did pull some brakes. I remember same store.

568
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: I was working in the dairy, So the Crosshouse had

569
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: the store, but in the dairy, in that little like

570
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: cove was where the slice meat counter was, and they

571
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: had a sink, you know, like you have to have

572
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: a sink to wash dishes and one up and I

573
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: would wait till they had it like full of water

574
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: and then I dropped some like dry ice in it.

575
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: It would just smoke up. I'd be like, what are

576
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: you guys doing packed there? No, No, I was.

577
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: I was very serious. I was very focused on the bakery.

578
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: I think my favorite part was just remember one time

579
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 2: I was there after five o'clock, so I was the

580
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 2: only person back there, and this lady she brought in

581
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: a cake that she had purchased earlier in the day,

582
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 2: and we had the cake decorators had misspelled the name

583
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 2: on it, and so she wanted to know if I

584
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: could fix it. And so, with all the confidence of

585
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: a eighteen year old working at IV, I was just

586
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: like absolutely. So I got out, I got out my

587
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: kind of scraper, and I started going to work, and

588
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 2: she was getting more and more nervous the farther it

589
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: went on. And it's just like, no, man, step away.

590
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: I got this.

591
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 2: I'm going to save this cake. You're hardly going to

592
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: know any thing happened.

593
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: And you wrote it on a piece of paper and

594
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: put the piece of paper on top of the cake.

595
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: Is that how you fix it? No? Oh, I actually

596
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: actually did it. It was you know, it kind of

597
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: looked like.

598
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: An a or a d like she She eventually took

599
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 2: the cake forcibly back from me.

600
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: I will say, was that the only time you wrote

601
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: on a cake? Yes? In a professional capacity, Yes, I

602
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: will say I have written on many a cake, and

603
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: I have given away many a cake for free.

604
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: Now that's customer service. That's the way to turn a

605
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: negative into a positive experience.

606
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, it's it's that's just not something that I'm

607
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: good at. I'm sure if I did it often, I

608
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: could get better, but I'm not very good at that.

609
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: They gave me.

610
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: They gave me a bag of the icing, yeah, to practice,

611
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: like they one of my first weeks there, they were like,

612
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: take this home and you know, just practice like writing.

613
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: Did you do that? No? No, it seemed like let

614
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: me do. I think you'd even do your homework.

615
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 2: I think I just threw it in a cupboard and

616
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure MI ate it at some point.

617
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, that's awesome. Those good times. Well, we're

618
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: on that same era. I know, we were not just

619
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: being creative with like writing on cakes. We had this.

620
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: We would hang out your your parents would go out

621
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: of town, so they said, don't have people over, So

622
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: we hung out at your place. And we had this

623
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: idea one time. So we had this video camera and

624
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: I think we were like YouTubers before YouTube. Oh that thing. Honestly,

625
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: I think we created we invented it.

626
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 2: Well, that thing would have definitely been uploaded and would

627
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: have yeah, at least three hundred views by now.

628
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: We thought we were so interesting. It's actually kind of

629
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty similar to this where we thought we

630
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: were so interesting. But we we set up a camera

631
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: in the living room and we literally just sat on

632
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: a couch. It was you me, was it Mark Rude

633
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: that was there that time, the first one. Yeah, And

634
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: we just set up a camera just watching us watch TV.

635
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: And then that was breaking like for for nineteen, you know,

636
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 2: ninety nine, two thousand.

637
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know, it's funny breaking television. But now

638
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: that's what people do online. People watch, people watch like sports,

639
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: like we were doing that twenty plus years ago. And

640
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: but we you know, we didn't say or do anything interesting.

641
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: We were just sitting there wa watch it.

642
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: T Yeah. Well, Mark didn't do anything that marked it.

643
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: You're right, I mean you you kind of like slid

644
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: underneath like one of the cushions.

645
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I was running a bit where

646
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: I was just slowly over time ending up in the

647
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: cushions of the couch. But so anyway, but that was fun.

648
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: We watched it and we were laughing. We thought that

649
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: was great. We called it just hanging Out because it

650
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: was literally us just hanging out. I thought that was fun.

651
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: And then another time we were like, well, this time

652
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: we got to amp it up and not and we're

653
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: gonna write skits. We were sketches sequel Latest, Yeah, just

654
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: hanging out too. And we were like, because our friends

655
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: they watched Just hanging Out, They're like, oh, this is funny.

656
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: We're like, well, thanks, yeah, we're pretty genius. And then

657
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: we were just hanging out too, and we actually did

658
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: sketches and we wrote, we we directed, we filmed, we

659
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: created the whole deal, and we had a movie premiere

660
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: and your house was flooded with people and we showcased

661
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: just hanging Out too. It was probably our biggest box

662
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: office hit, and when the box office wasn't dollars back then,

663
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: it was probably two lar pop, some ding Dongs, maybe pizza.

664
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: But it was awesome. I think we were doing sketches.

665
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: We weren't doing sketches before Saturday Night Live. But we

666
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: were doing sketches before streamers, you know, before anybody else.

667
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: And it was great humor too. There was a map

668
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: joke in there.

669
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: There was a matter of bathroom humor. We were hitting

670
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: all yeah, and then our artistic vision took a speed

671
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: bump when we thought we'd hit the trilogy and go

672
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: just hanging out three.

673
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 2: Definitely the most artistic of the three movies.

674
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: And that one was just starring you and I because

675
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: and the plan and he had a plant as our

676
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: co star and a McDonald's drive through. We did go

677
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 1: through McDonald's rivet through in that one. I don't know

678
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: it was bad, but I you know what, I think

679
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: that just hanging out like the idea of it us

680
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: watching TV. That's literally what people do now.

681
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 2: So I mean sometimes it's important to make a bad

682
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: movie when you're young.

683
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

684
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: So then when you're you know, when you're in your prime,

685
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: you know those same mistakes.

686
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, get it out of your isn't it.

687
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: Don't ever invite the plant on your radio show.

688
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: Yeah when I when I have a plant as the guest,

689
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: it's over.

690
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: The last episode.

691
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh man, Well that's kind of that was us

692
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: as kids for the most part, we're just having fun.

693
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: But like then we grew up, we got your we moved, Yeah,

694
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: we moved for that stuff. But so your career, your

695
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: career path took you into transportation. You've come and gone

696
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: in that world. I'm sure you've seen things, You've heard, things,

697
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: You've got like some stories and that I who was

698
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: I taught who was on the show. We talked about

699
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: lot lizards. Frank we were talking about a lot lizards

700
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: and he was very into that. But I'm sure you've seen,

701
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: you've heard most are shut out for Yeah, uh, what

702
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: do you think I mean, transportation, give us, give us

703
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: something that would I don't know, put a smile on

704
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: our face. Oh man, put put me on the spot here,

705
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 1: that's you're the guest. Yeah, I'm putting on the spot.

706
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that I have anything that is

707
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: too funny without you know, incrimination.

708
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good.

709
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 2: But I will say, you know, in our younger days,

710
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 2: you know, I had brown hair, and now it's you know,

711
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 2: it started going gray at like twenty six.

712
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure due to transportation. So when everybody

713
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: is here's here's something I don't think a lot of

714
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: people think about is it's you know, it's Christmas time

715
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: and it's the biggest like season of spending money and

716
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: shopping of the year, right and it kicks off with

717
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: Black Friday. But everything that has to happen for Black Friday,

718
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: the wheels are literally turning in your world. Oh at

719
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: what point?

720
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: I mean when is that all starting on your end?

721
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: So for the Black Friday for any of those retailers,

722
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: starting way.

723
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: Back in October.

724
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so a lot of those guys, the month of

725
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 2: December is kind of a little bit of a yawner.

726
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: But for food, like bringing stuff into grocery stores and

727
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff like that goes like crazy.

728
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: That's going nuts. Yeah. Yeah, So like when let's say

729
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: Target buys who knows how many semi loads of TVs.

730
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: Obviously October is when they're rolling into the like Target warehouses,

731
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: but you're taking them from manufacturer to Target at at

732
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: what like what before? Then?

733
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: Early enough to annoy the people that work at the

734
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: store who are just like, where am I going to

735
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 2: find room in my back room?

736
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: You know what I compare it to when on November one. No,

737
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: I'll even take it even further back to say I'll

738
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: take it even further back to July fifth, when we

739
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: start to roll out Halloween candy at the grocery store

740
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: and all the customers are like, already Halloween already, I'll

741
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: bet you. At the warehouse they're like, TV's already, so

742
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: Friday already. And that kind of.

743
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: Reminds me of one of them where we had there

744
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 2: was a big hurricane that hit, you know, probably eight

745
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 2: or nine years ago down in Texas, and so we

746
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: had a hard work customer that we were doing emergency

747
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 2: loads down too, and it would be like generators and.

748
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: A lot of that stuff like that people have to have.

749
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: Mm hm.

750
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: Well the warehouse, the DC was like, well, we've got

751
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: like half the truck here that we're not using, so

752
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 2: let's put a whole bunch of Christmas stuff in there.

753
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: So we would send these trucks in to deliver the

754
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 2: store and the store would be like we just got

755
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: hit by a hurricane. Yeah, like yes, thank you for

756
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 2: these generators. I can just pull a palette out, put

757
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: it on the aisle and it's gone.

758
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: But what am I going to do with all this Christmas?

759
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: And we would just have to tell our drivers like

760
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: just stay there, We'll get corporate involved, and then corporate

761
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 2: would have to call and be like you're taking it,

762
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: like we.

763
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: Paid for the transportation you're taking Oh geez, I'm going

764
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: to side with the store with this one that maybe

765
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: we could have delayed it, but it makes sense. I mean,

766
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: there's dollars involved all the way through the process.

767
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: But and that's the lesson of transportation is just that

768
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 2: we're always right in the middle.

769
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: Yep.

770
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: So we get we get all the grief. We catch

771
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 2: arrows from both the store that's receiving it, like why

772
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: are you bringing this to me?

773
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: Yep? And it's just like I didn't load the truck.

774
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: And then we're also getting it from the.

775
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 2: Other side of just why aren't you delivering this stuff faster?

776
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 2: Why were you late to your second stop? And it

777
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: was like because you didn't want to unload Frosty the Snowman.

778
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: And that happens. That's where it's like they roll up

779
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: to the back of the store and the back room's full.

780
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: It's not the truck driver's fault that the back room's full,

781
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: and the person at the store is like, well, I

782
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: don't have any room for it. And really, when you

783
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: think about it, it's the store's fault of the back

784
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: room's fall. Yeah, they got to take it, and they'll

785
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: they'll say no, they'll reject the truck, and it's a

786
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: whole deal. I've had drivers have to stick around, you know,

787
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: and sit in the parking lot overnight just because somebody Nope,

788
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: I'm not making that call someone else's and they don't

789
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: get to go home to their family that night. You

790
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: know that sucks.

791
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 2: No, I mean that's where you say the challenge is now.

792
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: It's like, who do you know find me a zoomer

793
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 2: that wants to go away.

794
00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: From home for two weeks? Yep.

795
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 2: So you do see some of the cool ones where

796
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: they've modified the inside of that cab and it's you know,

797
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 2: they got a big screen TV in there, Like you'd

798
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: be amazed what they can fit in this little five

799
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: by five by five space.

800
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: Oh really, Like they.

801
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: Can make it really really comfortable. But yeah, we've kind

802
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 2: of progressed a little bit. You know, Society kind of

803
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: is like, oh, well, do I really want to stay

804
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 2: at a truck stop overneck? Do I want to stay

805
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 2: parked outside of a store overneck?

806
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: Yep? So it makes it very very tough to recruit them.

807
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: Why why wasn't it like exhibit doing pit my ride

808
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: to those cabs and like putting fish tanks and stuff

809
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: in the.

810
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 2: Aesome And that's something like you'll see a lot of

811
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: them out there. I mean, those owner ops that own

812
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 2: the truck, Like those are the ones that you see

813
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: that pimp their rides.

814
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: So is that primarily that's your drivers or ones that

815
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: own Yeah, did they individually own it? They're gonna do it, Okay.

816
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: Most of your big carriers are just going to buy

817
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 2: the trucks, drive them for three or four years, and

818
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: then resell them.

819
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: Oh okay. I'm just so familiar with on the grocery side,

820
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: and it's drivers that generally work for the company, yep,

821
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: and you know they just pull up and then here's

822
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: your cab for the day and you go and yeah,

823
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of times it is their cab

824
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: because you see so many of like especially at HIV

825
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: where you got the gold cab, because so many miles

826
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, accident free or whatever, which is just freaking

827
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: amazing to me that they can do that. I mean,

828
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: how often are you just driving and your We were

829
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: just talking to our friend Traps yesterday and he's got

830
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: a Tesla and he's like, yeah, it's a light pole,

831
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: and it's like it just freaking happens. But you got

832
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: these guys going, you know, a million miles and no accidents. Yeah,

833
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: it's impressive.

834
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 2: Nope, that's what I used to have to when I

835
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 2: lived here in Omaha. Sometimes i'd have to host drivers

836
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 2: that were coming in for multimillion miles. And I remember

837
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 2: that one of them, it was a lady and she

838
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 2: had two million, oh wow, and she talked about the

839
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 2: first time she drove a truck.

840
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: It was during the winter and she forgot to you know.

841
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 2: Hit the clutch and the brake at the right moment,

842
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 2: and she slid through like a stoplight in the first

843
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 2: five miles that she would Now, luckily she didn't hurt herself,

844
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 2: she didn't hurt anybody else, didn't get an accident.

845
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: The next one million.

846
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: Nine ninety nine nine and ninety five miles were flawless. Yeah,

847
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: but like you know, it just it doesn't take much

848
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 2: to screw that kind of a spree gup.

849
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: It really doesn't. And it doesn't matter if it's your

850
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: fault or not. I mean, you think about all the

851
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: people around you on the road that could just yep. Yeah, Well,

852
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: kudos all those drivers out there that are are making

853
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: it without an accident. It's pretty it's pretty damn impressive.

854
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm always afraid of when you're driving, and this has

855
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: been ever since I was a kid driving on the

856
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: Interstate and you look over to the right, you know,

857
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: and I'm in the back seat and there's a semi

858
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: I'm afraid those bolts are going to get loose and

859
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: just like shoot out at me or something. And I

860
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: know that's not not a thing, but I definitely feel

861
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: like it could happen. Yeah.

862
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's in a Batman movie where they

863
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: got those spikes coming out of the hubcast.

864
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And you know, it's probably why I got

865
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: how I got that fear. And then you know, when

866
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: you're walking around in like the back rooms or even

867
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: in the on the sales floor different stores, and you

868
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: see like cardboard boxes and like the flap is like

869
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: hanging out, I have this like irrational fear that one's

870
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna get a paper cut on my eyeball

871
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: from one of those I'm just gonna walk right into it, now,

872
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: you do, I mean, you probably didn't think about that

873
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: stuff before. I'm I'm kind of confused by the logistics here.

874
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 2: I mean, you wear glasses. I do wear glasses. Are

875
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: you thinking that the paper like it's gonna go through

876
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: the glasses.

877
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: You're acting like I've never had something go like in

878
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: between my glasses in my head. I have every time

879
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: it rains, I get water in there. Every time I

880
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: don't know, my hair goes down in front of my face,

881
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: it goes down in between. So I'm aware that things

882
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: can go in between the glasses in my face. So

883
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: I'm afraid that I'm gonna get a cardboard paper You're

884
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: kind of cardboard paper cut. I am absolutely shocked that

885
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: you didn't say pepper spray right there. Oh, he was

886
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: son of a bitch. I anybody who's never been pepper

887
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: sprayed and wants to talk shit about getting pepper sprayed,

888
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: bring it. It was one of the worst experiences.

889
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: Of my life, I know, and you talk about it

890
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 2: every single time I see.

891
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: You, and one of the ones I love talking about

892
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: because not many people have been pepper sprayed. What do

893
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: you got? I was pepper spray and I lived to

894
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: tell my tale.

895
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna pepper spray some Travis next time.

896
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: I say you should, it's just so you know, with

897
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: that's like, yeah, well, the stress and pressures and bullshit.

898
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes of work can catch up to you. I know

899
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: one time it caught up to you, and you were

900
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 1: just like, you know what, guys, I'm out and I've

901
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: I You inspired me and I did the very same

902
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: thing at one point in my life as well. You

903
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: had what we called the summer of Eric, where you

904
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 1: just quit your job and moved on to vacation for

905
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: an extended time. Tell us about the summer of Era

906
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: and how can we inspire others to do the same.

907
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: But I really, you know, as I mentioned, I think

908
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 2: transportation started my hair turning.

909
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 1: Gray a very early age. Yeah, so I really.

910
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 2: Was hoping that the whole process would kind of reverse that.

911
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: It did not.

912
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: It did not. But no, when I when I worked

913
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: the company.

914
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 2: I'd worked for, I did a ton of traveling. So

915
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 2: I had a ton of the points, you know, airlines.

916
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 2: I was you know, VIP, Diamond, Platinum. I had rental

917
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: cars and hotels and stuff. I did a lot of

918
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: traveling during them, so it was kind of a you know,

919
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 2: be at home. Well, I can't find a job this

920
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: month because I've got this trip, you know, coming up.

921
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to go up to Minnesota, or I'm going

922
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 2: to go to Vegas, or I'm going to go to

923
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: Vegas again, or I'm going to go to Vegas again.

924
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 2: I went to Vegas actually three times that year during

925
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 2: the summer bear, Yeah, during the summer of Eric and

926
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 2: each time, you know, the gambling losses I got a

927
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 2: little bit more concerning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, by

928
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 2: that last one it was like probably, it was like, well,

929
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 2: I probably should get a.

930
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: Job now would you say that the house put you

931
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 1: back to work?

932
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 2: But see, I was still on my hot streak, you know.

933
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 2: But so you know, we both like to play blackjack

934
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 2: quite a.

935
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: Bit more after.

936
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: The advantage with blackjack is just that you can't you

937
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: don't necessarily have the ability to like you're never gonna

938
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: walk away with life changing money, right, but if you're

939
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: playing well, like you can play for a long time

940
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 2: and break even.

941
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can play for hours and feel like you've

942
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: been entertained enough to spend two hundred bucks. Yeah. Absolutely so.

943
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: I think like the first five times I went to Vegas,

944
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 2: I every single time I won on my gambling that

945
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 2: was all it was like one hundred dollars here, two

946
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: hundred dollars there. But it kind of gave me this

947
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 2: like thought process that like, hey, I can always come

948
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 2: out and at least come out even yep.

949
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: So now I just.

950
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: Chase that high for the rest of my life. It's

951
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: always just like, yeah, just one hundred dollars more. This

952
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 2: is all it's gonna change here, two hundred dollars more

953
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 2: on this table.

954
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 3: You've had some epic runs though, yeah, yeah, at the

955
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 3: table where you walk away and you've got I don't know,

956
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 3: you've walked away from a table to move on to

957
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 3: wherever you're at and had a you know, I don't

958
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 3: know when.

959
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: You're how old was your twenty five? You know, probably

960
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: around there, right, and you got a grand in your

961
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: pocket five hundred bucks, seven hundred bucks or something from winning,

962
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm keen shit, and I'm going to

963
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: go to the next table or a next casino and

964
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: find a table and I'm just I'm gonna double it

965
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: or whatever I'm gonna do.

966
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 2: That was actually the first trip I actually ever went

967
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 2: to Vegas. We were there for three nights, so you know,

968
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 2: come in on Friday, leave on a Monday and Sunday

969
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 2: night everybody else.

970
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: They ditched me around six pm.

971
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 2: And that's what I did. I went to the first casino,

972
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: I think it was like the Cosmopolitan, and I put

973
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars on there, and I started playing blackjack

974
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 2: and I just played for a while, and then I

975
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 2: would just cash in and I would walk to the

976
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 2: next one. And I hit every casino on the way

977
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 2: down there to the Wind. And I hit the Wind

978
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 2: probably at like three am, and like there was like

979
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 2: two tables open, and like one of them is like

980
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 2: a regular one, and then like one of them is

981
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: like one hundred dollars table, and I'm I'm up probably

982
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 2: nine hundred.

983
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: Bucks at that point.

984
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, for a moment, I did consider

985
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 2: that one hundred dollar table, and I decided against it

986
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 2: and decided.

987
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: To walk back. Can you imagine you'd played that table.

988
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 2: I think you'd walk for I mean, that could be

989
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:25,919
Speaker 2: the second pivot point in my life.

990
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you would have a totally different conversation.

991
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: You really would have. I'd been talking to a professional

992
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: gabler or somebody who flies in their own jet, and

993
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm asking you where are you going today? We're Oh,

994
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: you flew in today on your jet. Huh? Can I come?

995
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: Like that would have been the conversation, because that's the

996
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: kind of cool questions I would have asked.

997
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: But it's kind of the same kind of conversations that

998
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 2: you would ask when I got my car.

999
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you didn't, I didn't have Where are you

1000
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: going today along? Yeah, you're gonna come pick me up

1001
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: bring my rubber chicken.

1002
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: But so I'm at the wind, I've got my I've got,

1003
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 2: you know, probably a grand in my pocket, yep. And

1004
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 2: it's three am, and I just remember, I mean it's

1005
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: like a mile and a half walk from there down

1006
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: to the ex Caliber where we were staying down the

1007
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 2: strip at three am on Monday morning, so nobody's out

1008
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 2: and I just remember I had the bottle on my

1009
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 2: right hand, like like just expecting to get jumped, and

1010
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna defend myself with this last bottle. It's like

1011
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 2: Tupac got shot there, like I I gotta I gotta

1012
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: tread carefully.

1013
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 1: Are you telling me you're on the same level as

1014
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: Tupac or you thought you were that nine at that point? Yes,

1015
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: I love that you're on the same level as Tupac.

1016
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know so, but that was it was

1017
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 2: great because I got back to the ex Caliber, I

1018
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 2: sat down at the table there, I played some more,

1019
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 2: and eventually at six am, I went back up to

1020
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 2: the hotel room and everybody was relieved to see me

1021
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: because we needed to leave for our flight.

1022
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: Did you even know that you had a flight? Oh?

1023
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 1: I like coming up or you just do it?

1024
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 2: But I mean, crap, I'd been I've been up and

1025
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 2: at them for twenty hours at that point.

1026
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

1027
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: But and that's not even that's not even my worst,

1028
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: like Vegas walking story.

1029
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 1: You have a worst one.

1030
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we were. We flew out a different time.

1031
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: This was during the summer of eric and well actually

1032
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,479
Speaker 2: I guess this was right before because I was still

1033
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 2: I was still working with my current company or my

1034
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 2: previous company. Yeah, and so one of my customers was

1035
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: there in Vegas and it just happened to be that

1036
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: same time, and so some people from my company were

1037
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 2: there and they were like, hey, if it works out,

1038
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 2: you know, you'll come and join us and we'll have

1039
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 2: some drinks. So I get the call, I get a text,

1040
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 2: you know, earlier in the night, probably like seven o'clock,

1041
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 2: and I'm at ex Caliburn. It's just like, hey, we're

1042
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 2: going to be at the palms, you know, come meet us,

1043
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 2: you know, for a round. And so we had gotten

1044
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 2: into Vegas at like noon that day, so I'd already

1045
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: been drinking for like seven hours, and we were having dinner,

1046
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 2: and apparently I threw fifty dollars. Travis says, I threw

1047
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 2: it right in.

1048
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: His face, like it bounced off his forehead. That sounds

1049
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: like it was insulting.

1050
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 2: But I threw fifty dollars at him, and I was

1051
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 2: just like, I got to go, And so I started

1052
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 2: going down the strip.

1053
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: Wait, why did you throw fifty dollars? Well to pay

1054
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: for my dinner? Oh?

1055
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, So I leave and I'm going,

1056
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 2: you know, I go across the bridge. I'm in New York,

1057
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 2: New York. Well, casinos are not built to be like

1058
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 2: easy to get out of. No, so of course I've

1059
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 2: been drinking and I get lost, and I wander all

1060
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 2: around the streets of New York inside the casino before

1061
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 2: I finally find my way out. And then all right,

1062
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 2: now I've got my north. I'm out on the sidewalk.

1063
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 2: I can figure out where I'm going.

1064
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:54,959
Speaker 1: Did you get a slice at least? While you're running

1065
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: around New York?

1066
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 2: I just eating, try to keep up with the store, right,

1067
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 2: So I keep walking down. I keep walking down. You know,

1068
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm a man on a mission, you know,

1069
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 2: just walking fast, like getting getting my my exercise in

1070
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 2: pretty much. And I get down to like the fountains

1071
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 2: at Blagio and I see this guy and he's got

1072
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 2: this backpack and it's full of beer. And I realized, like,

1073
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 2: this guy's selling the beer like out of his backpack.

1074
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 2: So of course, like I stop and I buy two

1075
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 2: beers from him, because why.

1076
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: Not you did that just because you saw a guy

1077
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: with a backpack.

1078
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it's a very good situation, he asked him.

1079
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 2: I was just like, hey, how do you get to

1080
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: the Palms? And he's just like, well, you go across

1081
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 2: the street hearing there's a shuttle.

1082
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, okay, So I keep going. It's

1083
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: a shuttle.

1084
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 2: I get to like an intersect. Well the Poems is

1085
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 2: on like the other side of the interstate from like

1086
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: the strip, but I'm looking to my left and I'm

1087
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: like I can see it, like I could walk over there,

1088
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 2: like this is no big deal.

1089
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: I need a shuttle. Yeah, So I.

1090
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: Turned left, away from all the lights, away from all

1091
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,399
Speaker 2: the stuff. Well, I get up probably like a half

1092
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 2: a block down, and it starts into a big ramp,

1093
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 2: like a big pedestrian bridge that goes up over the

1094
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 2: interesting and there are like homeless people. There are people

1095
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 2: everywhere on this like bridge. Now keep in mind that

1096
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 2: I've been in Vegas for eight hours. I'm intoxicated, I'm

1097
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 2: wearing flip flops and cargo shorts. I probably got eight

1098
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 2: hundred dollars of cash in my pocket.

1099
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: And you don't have a glass bottle of the time,

1100
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: I don't have a bottle to protect myself.

1101
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm carrying two bud lights in.

1102
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: My hands, which back then wasn't controversial.

1103
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: Like if there was ever anybody to mug like this

1104
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 2: was the silver platter, it'd be you.

1105
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1106
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: Like I ain't even started in on one of those beers.

1107
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 2: Like one of those beers was still you know fresh.

1108
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: Oh, that would have been disaster had you been jumped

1109
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: and didn't even get to have your beer.

1110
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: But so I'm just I'm walking like right in the

1111
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 2: middle of the aisle, just like not make an eye contact,

1112
00:52:55,239 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 2: just you know, just posture completely straight. I send I

1113
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 2: sent Travis a text because he was planning on like

1114
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 2: catching up, like and I just I sent him a

1115
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 2: text and he always talks about it because the text said,

1116
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 2: knit safe, do not follow.

1117
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen somebody get mugged? Like personally? Like yes,

1118
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: like obviously it happens. We know it happened. I mean

1119
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: every Batman movie, right, but in person? Have you ever

1120
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: seen it? Did you have reason to believe that this

1121
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: was going to happen to you? No? No, No, it

1122
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: was just very scary because it was very dark. That's awesome.

1123
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just remember getting to the palms safely, safely,

1124
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: and I told my boss who was there at the time.

1125
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: I told him about it, and we allowed to curse

1126
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: on the show. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. He called me

1127
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot. Yeah, and then reminded me that I

1128
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: should have just got a cap. Yeah, you should have.

1129
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: There's everywhere Vegas. Yeah. Yeah, you could have just grabbed

1130
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: one of those cards, you know, people handing out the

1131
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: cards on the street. You could have just grabbed. And

1132
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: they have free limos. You could have just hopped in a.

1133
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 2: Limo and got our dad to stop at the Yeah,

1134
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 2: and then a minute or two right.

1135
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: And then been like all right, take me to the wind. Yeah,

1136
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: that's awesome.

1137
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 2: The things we learned as we get older.

1138
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing like when you're younger in your

1139
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: first time and you know, I'm sure people go to

1140
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: Chicago right now and think, well, I'm in the windy city.

1141
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: This is fun, let's go shopping, let's go sight see,

1142
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: and then they get mugged. You know, they weren't thinking

1143
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: like you, Like they think they're safe because they're in Chicago.

1144
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: It's like the most dangerous place in America right now. Yeah,

1145
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: for people people in Omaha, for people in Omha. Yeah,

1146
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: it's a good point. That's funny. Oh, you know the

1147
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: summer of Eric what a good time. So you're a

1148
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: history buff. You just saw the Napoleon movie. I know

1149
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: in a previous episode we had say on he kind

1150
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: of he saw the movie as well. He kind of

1151
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: gave us a few things you're not saying. So what'd

1152
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 1: you think of the movie? It? Okay? As a Napoleon

1153
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: are you an expert? Would you callll yourself an expert?

1154
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: Could you hang with some Napoleon experts? Oh?

1155
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. I've read the I've read

1156
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 2: the biography, which one it's called Napoleon.

1157
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: Oh did he write it? No? No, no, did you

1158
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: write anything? Uh?

1159
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: He was a prolific letter writer.

1160
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: Oh was he really? Yeah? The book that has those

1161
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: letters published.

1162
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 2: So actually a Napoleon movie that was some of the

1163
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 2: source material was the letters that him and Josephine had

1164
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,240
Speaker 2: wroteen had written back and forth.

1165
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: So was the movie based off of those letters or

1166
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: based off a book that talked about the letters?

1167
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 2: Based off the book that talked about the letters? O? Uh,

1168
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 2: the I think the only real complain I've got about

1169
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 2: the movie would be that that was the focus of

1170
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 2: the movie. But then it was also like greatest hits

1171
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:05,959
Speaker 2: of Napoleon's career. But so it had those two things

1172
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 2: on there, but they never really tie him together. They

1173
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 2: never give each one of them individually enough room to

1174
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,760
Speaker 2: be like, oh.

1175
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 1: Gotcha, what about Waking in Phoenix? Was he good? He was?

1176
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 2: But the strange thing is that Napoleon is famous for

1177
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 2: everything he did when he was young, Like he was

1178
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 2: emperor by the time he was like thirty two.

1179
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: And this took place when he was older. The movie,

1180
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: the movie gets his first battle in Toulon.

1181
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 2: He's twenty four at the time. But they show that

1182
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 2: in the movie with Phoenix, and you're like, okay, am

1183
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 2: I supposed to think that Napoleon was like old and

1184
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 2: just waiting for his opportunity to do something right.

1185
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: But so he's portraying a you know, a twenty four

1186
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: year old, because how old was he when he died.

1187
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: He couldn't have been that old. Fifty two. Yeah, so,

1188
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: and Phoenix himself is probably that age year older. Yeah, yeah, no,

1189
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,879
Speaker 1: it looks ten years older than that, you know, and.

1190
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 2: I mean the classic kind of Hollywood of just you know,

1191
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 2: the actress that played Josephine I think was like fifteen

1192
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:02,240
Speaker 2: years younger.

1193
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that sounds about right. I mean that's what Honestly,

1194
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,760
Speaker 1: she probably could have been fifteen back then. Napoleon probably

1195
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: hooked up with a fifteen year old. I'm sure he

1196
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: did as a twenty four year old. You know this,

1197
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: this has really gotten off track. I'm spitballing here, but

1198
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: I think Napoleon did do that. You know.

1199
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: The thing that's interesting about Josephine kind of one of

1200
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 2: those fun little factoids.

1201
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: Is she was missing her teeth. Yep. I think she

1202
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: grew up on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, and

1203
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: she loved her sugar and did not like to brush. Interesting,

1204
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: so I always floss. That's why Napoleon loved her. Well,

1205
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: she teeth, he loved them gums. He I bet she

1206
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: was fifteen gumming, and Napoleon was like, come see the king. Jeez.

1207
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 2: Well, Josephine was actually older than Napoleon. Oh really because

1208
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 2: she was married previously. Oh okay, and she had three

1209
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 2: kids and they got married and she was famous for

1210
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 2: having an affairs. He was famous for having affairs.

1211
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: So it just worked out for them both. But yeah,

1212
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: she never had.

1213
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 2: Never produced an air for him, so Napoleon set her aside,

1214
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 2: got a younger wife who probably had a son for him.

1215
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: She was fifteen, had a child at.

1216
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 4: Say actually that that probably that probably checks out see

1217
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 4: see but that's always another one of those tidbits is

1218
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 4: Napoleon's bloodline did not exist past his son and then

1219
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 4: some illegitimate kids.

1220
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: That he had. Interesting did they touch this in the movie. No,

1221
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,479
Speaker 1: but well the fact that he had a son, yes,

1222
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: but will there be a sequel? All they touch this?

1223
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Josephine. Her bloodline is found in over twenty

1224
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 2: five percent of European royal families.

1225
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: Today because she got around.

1226
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because Napoleon basically put her kids like, you know,

1227
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 2: the thrones of other countries as he conquered them.

1228
00:58:59,440 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: Wow.

1229
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 2: So one of those great ironies that he divorced her

1230
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 2: to continue his bloodline and hers was much more successful

1231
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 2: than his.

1232
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: Well that's impressive. Napoleon was smart.

1233
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 2: Gosh, look at some of this in depth stuff, like

1234
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 2: we haven't even touched on, you know, any of the

1235
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 2: great battle victories. We're just talking.

1236
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: About smart chicks with no teeth, yep. But because that's

1237
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: really that's what he cared about, So that's what we

1238
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: should talk about. Will there be a sequel? Will we

1239
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: get more Napoleon? You think? Now? I'm interested in like

1240
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: because you know, Bamman Begins was good, but then Dark

1241
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: Knight was legendary, so I'm kind of waiting for that one.

1242
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 2: What my dream would be like of is if they

1243
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 2: if they did a Napoleon show similar to The Crown.

1244
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: Now I haven't seen.

1245
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 2: The Crown, but from what I understand is they it's

1246
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 2: basically like six seasons going through Queen Elizabeth's life and

1247
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 2: they have different actresses cast at different.

1248
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: Ages, and they kind of go through the whole history.

1249
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: Can you do that? Can you hope for something to

1250
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: be like something that you've never seen? Yes? Yes, okay,

1251
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: I think I'm entitled. I think that's silly. With that

1252
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: in mind, I think when you.

1253
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 2: Your whole entire first show was about a book you

1254
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 2: never read.

1255
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: You know, I don't need your bullshit. I don't need

1256
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: you calling me out on my own show about the book,

1257
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: because really I read the cover and I flipped through

1258
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: it and I read the synopsis and I kind of

1259
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: get what she's talking about. Then you can find humor

1260
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: or anything.

1261
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 2: And I just want to say for the record that

1262
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 2: I don't know this because I listened to the first

1263
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 2: alf for first episode. Yea, I know it because Johnny

1264
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 2: filled me in before the show.

1265
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: Johnny, it's his fault, honestly, and why I didn't read

1266
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: the book because I was telling him about it and

1267
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, yeah, you're right, that's exactly what the book.

1268
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: I read the book, that's what it's about. Yeah, he

1269
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: was cliff notes for that one. I was like, oh good,

1270
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: I don't need to read this because the more I

1271
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: learned about kat temp more I disliked her. What are

1272
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: you going me to do? Not reading the damn book?

1273
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: Plus I didn't buy the book. I was just standing

1274
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: in Barnes and Noble like looking at it on the table.

1275
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 2: Would I have learned this by listening to the episode?

1276
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: No, I didn't address anything. Okay, this is all new information.

1277
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 2: Well, well you're really rewarding those repeat listeners.

1278
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. This is what they call it callback in

1279
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: the business. That's awesome. Well, you've spent some time in

1280
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, Napoleon's land of Europe. You know, have you

1281
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 1: been to his grave? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, at Invalids? Did

1282
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: you peet on it? No? Can you put somebody if

1283
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: they wanted to? No? Okay? Uh.

1284
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 2: You know one of the when I was in France

1285
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 2: this last fall, they were actually hosting the Rugby World Cup,

1286
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 2: and you know, we always talk.

1287
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: About kind of you know, cops and you know that

1288
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Here for the record, we don't always

1289
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: talk about cops just.

1290
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 2: Well sometimes we do. But you know it's like whenever

1291
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: you see like police presence here, you know, just like

1292
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 2: normal cops just hanging out, Like when you saw police

1293
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 2: presence over there during the rugby thing.

1294
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's the.

1295
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 2: Guys with the rifles like strapped across their chest like

1296
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: swat teams. Yeah, like they're not screwing around type of stuff.

1297
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Speaker 1: So no, I was Was it because the movie was

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Speaker 1: coming out? No?

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Speaker 2: No, just but yes, I was not exposing myself in

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Speaker 2: the tomb.

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Speaker 1: Is he celebrated over there? Oh yeah, yeah, they love them.

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Speaker 2: They still own Corsica.

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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: The rest of it. Italy all, you know, formed Italy

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Speaker 2: after he died, but the French never gave up Corsica.

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Speaker 1: When's that gonna happen?

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Speaker 2: Some some some Corsicans want to unify with Italy.

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01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: So a little point is somebody gonna have the balls

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Speaker 1: to take it back.

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Speaker 2: I mean one of the best, all right. So Napoleon

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Speaker 2: was born at Corsica. Corsica right before he was born

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01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 2: was owned by a Italian country. We, of course, a

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01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 2: rebelled against that country. So the country was like, hey,

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Speaker 2: France will sell you this island, and the rebels come

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01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 2: for free, and so France bought it, set their army over,

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Speaker 2: easily crushed them, and then it was France.

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Speaker 1: That's like a classic bad fantasy football trade.

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01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, except France got Napoley.

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Speaker 1: Except they got Napoleon. Yeah. Wow, that owner won the

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Speaker 1: championship that year. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's like picking up like a star player

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01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 2: in the Rule five draft or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. So they need an Italian with vengeance in

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01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: their heart to lead a pack of people to go

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Speaker 1: take it back. I think it's going to happen someday.

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Speaker 2: You know so much about like, because that's exactly how

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01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 2: they refer to armies, A pack of people, back of people.

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01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm going off.

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01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: I think that's what when we stormed the beaches of

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01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 2: Normandy those boats, it was like, what can we fit

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01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 2: in one of these boats?

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01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: We can fit a pack of people with a pack

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01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: of people? Well, how many is in a pack? Twelve? Nah?

1334
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 2: Nah nah, you can fit more on a pack.

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01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: You can fit fifteen in a stick of gum.

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01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 2: Well yeah, so the pack of people comes in twelves,

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01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 2: but the boats hold twenty. So you always have some

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01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 2: leftover from your pack.

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01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, you always have looted over. Yeah, just hopefully don't

1340
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: get any doubles pack of people. Yeah, that's that is

1341
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: technical term. Ye see you learned something here today too.

1342
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 2: But you know The one part I did want to

1343
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 2: share in my Europe trip was when we were in

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01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 2: Munich for Octoberfest. So you don't got to see a

1345
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 2: lot of people, got to drink with a lot of people.

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01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: Wait, do you plan it so that you go there

1347
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: during Octoberfest or is it just aw you'd happen to

1348
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: be there, just happened to be there.

1349
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 2: So the first time we were in Berlin for one

1350
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 2: of my friends was running in a marathon and so

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01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 2: we ended up going up there. This time we did

1352
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 2: plan to go during Octoberfest. Okay, but it's a great atmosphere.

1353
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: You know.

1354
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 2: You come into these big tents they call them tents,

1355
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 2: but it's more like a wooden structure with a canvas

1356
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 2: like sealing.

1357
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: Packs of packs of people everywhere.

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01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,960
Speaker 2: But the strange thing is is that it's like, all right,

1359
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 2: well you think about it, it's just like, well, I

1360
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 2: mean we drink here for octoberfestor we do that, but

1361
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 2: like there's no way to describe just the festival energy

1362
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 2: of that of if you're walking into that tent, you're

1363
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 2: intending to drink two or three liters of beer, like

1364
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,919
Speaker 2: you're not just stopping by for a quick pint. After

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01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 2: work or you know, hey, I'll just check out the

1366
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 2: vibe and you.

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01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: Know, get out of here.

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01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 2: No, you're sitting down drink. So a lot of people,

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01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 2: you know, we had five in our group, so you know,

1370
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 2: you can fit about eight comfortably at one of these tables.

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01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 2: So people just be coming and sitting down at our

1372
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 2: table and would chat.

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01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: So it's like we've met, you.

1374
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 2: Know, people from Iran and from Germany and Italians, Canadians,

1375
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of Americans that came in there.

1376
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 2: But at one point there was this commotion at the

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01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 2: table next to us, and all these Germans started all

1378
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 2: like turning around and like taking pictures and like pointing

1379
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 2: at me, and it's just like what, like what is

1380
01:05:57,240 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 2: going on?

1381
01:05:57,880 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: They thought you were Jewish?

1382
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, how are you touching that? So you know,

1383
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 2: we get to the bottom of it.

1384
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: Weren't just like oh, you know, like what is it?

1385
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 2: And they were just like they were like, you look

1386
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:18,160
Speaker 2: exactly like one of the German soccer coaches. Wow, they

1387
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 2: thought maybe you were. And so yeah, they were just

1388
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 2: like you are the spitting image of it. And I'm

1389
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 2: just like no, I'm not. And they were like, yes,

1390
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 2: yes you are. You are definitely that, and I'm just like,

1391
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 2: I'm an American and like one of them, just like, yeah.

1392
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: We know, we understand. Yeah, we've watched you long enough,

1393
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 1: you're in America.

1394
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 2: But yeah, then I had to go and take and

1395
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 2: they wanted to take selfies and they wanted to take pictures.

1396
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: So there's people with like framed photos of you in

1397
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: Germany right now thinking that it's you and their favorite

1398
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: head coach.

1399
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 2: And at that point, I mean we were already like

1400
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 2: four beers in Yeah, so out of our group for

1401
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 2: the entire rest of the trip, we were trying to

1402
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 2: find a.

1403
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: Picture of this German coach to just confirm it.

1404
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, or were they just completely pulling the rug over

1405
01:06:58,960 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 2: our head?

1406
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: Did you like go all in on the bit and

1407
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: just randomly sing sweet Caroline? Well, so the best part

1408
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: about it was like we had read we had read

1409
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: If I laugh at my own jokes, is it better

1410
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: or worse?

1411
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 2: What I don't like about.

1412
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: Is when you laugh at your own jokes, you throw

1413
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: off my time, my bad.

1414
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the people at home think that this

1415
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 2: is my fault.

1416
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1417
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we were reading, you know, about Octoberfest.

1418
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: So some of the group had not been there before.

1419
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 2: And one of the things we discovered was there's a

1420
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 2: thing called Octoberfest cocaine, which is basically just it's like

1421
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 2: tobacco or nicotine sugar. And I think there's like one

1422
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 2: other additive in there, and it was I was just

1423
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 2: like they were like, there's nothing in there, Like, that's

1424
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,959
Speaker 2: not actual cocaine. It's not actual like drugs of any sort. Yeah,

1425
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 2: and I guess they looked they tried to ban it

1426
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 2: years ago, but they just couldn't.

1427
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: So what do they do with it?

1428
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 2: They snort it?

1429
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: Oh okay, like cocaine.

1430
01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, So the Germans offered me octo professed cocaine.

1431
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: Wow.

1432
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:03,920
Speaker 2: So they gave me a little bump right on the

1433
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 2: you know for coach, and it was it was red,

1434
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 2: like bright red and uh, you know to you know,

1435
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 2: storted it because of the tobacco. I don't know, maybe

1436
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 2: that's what the other additive in there is, just the

1437
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 2: food coloring. But it's just like the sugar that's in it,

1438
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 2: and that it gives you like a jolt. It's just

1439
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 2: like like a five hour energy kind of Yeah. It

1440
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 2: has meant ball in it too, Oh okay. Uh so yeah,

1441
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 2: it gives you that, but then for the next like

1442
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:30,599
Speaker 2: three days, when I blew my nose, it would come

1443
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 2: out red.

1444
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:31,879
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

1445
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 2: So and it wasn't It wasn't blood, no, no, no,

1446
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 2: it was october fesst cocaine.

1447
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: And they make that or what's is it available in

1448
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 1: gas stations.

1449
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 2: Or not that I saw?

1450
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: Not that I saw. That's funny. That's interesting because you

1451
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: don't know how to play soccer.

1452
01:08:51,280 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: You're very tall, so I mean soccer. That had to

1453
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 2: have been a giveaway over there anyway.

1454
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,640
Speaker 1: It's not even soccer over there. Well, that's funny. What

1455
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 1: a trip. That's the thing. I guess if I was

1456
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:06,560
Speaker 1: going to Europe, it'd be cool to go around Octoberfest

1457
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 1: experience the festival portion of it, because it would be

1458
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: neat to you know, because it's a big deal here.

1459
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 1: But it's not. Yeah like people, Oh, let's go on

1460
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 1: Saturday to the beer tant like that's what it is here.

1461
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: But it's like life. But yeah, I mean that's what

1462
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: it seems like anyway.

1463
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 2: Then again, it's just I mean it's structured around everybody's

1464
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 2: going there to have a good time.

1465
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good vibes only that's what I'm all about

1466
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,520
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01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,160
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