Speaker 1: Well, I invited you here, thought I made myself perfectly clear.
Speaker 1: When you're a guest in my home, you gotta come
Speaker 1: to me empty. And I said, no, guests, You're own presences.
Speaker 1: Presents enough.
Speaker 2: I already had too much stuff, So how do you
Speaker 2: dare to survey me?
Speaker 3: Welcome to? I said, no gifts. I'm Bridgard Wineger. We
Speaker 3: are in the backyard. The police are roaring around the city.
Speaker 3: The neighbors recently stopped mowing their law on the local
Speaker 3: elementary has stopped whatever noise they were making. Whoever was
Speaker 3: screaming has stopped screaming. But you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a you know, a bevy of noises, a cornucopia of
Speaker 3: noises today, and that's fine. Things a news since the
Speaker 3: last podcast, the bug bites, the mysterious bug bites turned
Speaker 3: out to be nothing. I've been on vacation and I
Speaker 3: think that's oh. And we're not on strike anymore, at
Speaker 3: least the Writer's Guild, which is incredible. What a feeling,
Speaker 3: What an absolute feeling. I'm flying And I love today's guest.
Speaker 3: I really adore this man. It's Jimmy Pardo.
Speaker 4: Jimmy. Welcome to. I said no gift. Thank you for
Speaker 4: having men I can.
Speaker 5: I it seems like you talk very openly about things
Speaker 5: in your life. I'm gonna shaw only so that I
Speaker 5: can get this out of my head. Let's say, so
Speaker 5: that I don't then regret leaving here by not saying this. Okay,
Speaker 5: you mentioned you had some flooding. Oh, and I still
Speaker 5: just steamed roll into what I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 4: And I feel so guilty about that that I want
Speaker 4: to let you know that I did.
Speaker 5: I heard you, and I and I feel awfully for
Speaker 5: you that you had some flooding.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you just blew past it, because, for you know,
Speaker 3: from January till the end of March, the beginning of
Speaker 3: this podcast was me just essentially complaining about my home
Speaker 3: being full of water. And I've told everyone within your
Speaker 3: shot my house is flooding. So it kind of feels
Speaker 3: nice for someone to just be like, let's talk about
Speaker 3: the sink in the bathroom.
Speaker 5: I well, I was so thrilled to see that sink.
Speaker 5: You know that, as we've talked about all the it,
Speaker 5: I did not again, I for my own peace of mind,
Speaker 5: did not want the Did.
Speaker 4: You get a some pump? How did you get rid
Speaker 4: of the You talked about some pumps.
Speaker 3: That's uh, how do you know about some Well.
Speaker 5: I grew up in where we had a basement in
Speaker 5: the suburbs of Chicago, and so I think every house
Speaker 5: had a some pump.
Speaker 4: Okay, some pump. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's a sump pump, s ump, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think so. I think it's one of those things that
Speaker 3: you kind of just mumble and hope that people just
Speaker 3: sort of everybody's talking. Yeah, exactly, but we.
Speaker 4: Would hear it occasionally, like it would do its own work.
Speaker 3: A little robot essentially that recognizes when water is there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we left a hole where the work was done in
Speaker 3: case we need one next winter. We're gonna we did
Speaker 3: some work. Blah blah blah. They left a hole, and
Speaker 3: they're like, well, if this work doesn't happen, it doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Get the sun pump.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I'm praying to God that I don't have more flooding
Speaker 3: because I emotionally, I mean, I'm hanging by a thread
Speaker 3: at all times. Whenever it starts raining, I'm so tense.
Speaker 3: It feels like my back is going to break.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 5: So, so that hurricane that we were we were warned about,
Speaker 5: which is really was just a bad storm, bad storm
Speaker 5: and one.
Speaker 4: For us to be aware of. But uh, did that
Speaker 4: bring any flooding?
Speaker 3: It didn't.
Speaker 4: But then that's a wind.
Speaker 3: Well, but it was only raining for what what would
Speaker 3: you say, a day?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but a day of heavy rain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but last winter it was like a week of
Speaker 3: the rain.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 3: So until it's rained for four forty eight hours straight,
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not gonna count on anything, Okay. And
Speaker 3: the big fear now is you know my boyfriend Jim
Speaker 3: I do know Jimmyla. Yes, he's gonna he will be
Speaker 3: living in New York during the winter, and so I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be here alone.
Speaker 4: Oh no, just kind of uh waiting around ankle deep
Speaker 4: in water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not strong enough. It requires two people.
Speaker 3: I who knows what's gonna happen to me? It's really
Speaker 3: I might have to bring a lodger in or something,
Speaker 3: have somebody come stay with me. What would you use lodger?
Speaker 3: A lodger, Yeah, someone who kind of just lodges in
Speaker 3: the house. You know.
Speaker 5: Yes, I've never I've never heard that word before, nor
Speaker 5: have I heard it used in that context.
Speaker 4: Uh. We what would we call them growing up?
Speaker 5: I'm let mean, before we get deep into this thing,
Speaker 5: I'm on a medication that is affecting my memory, oh interest,
Speaker 5: which is great for comedy and if we're doing a
Speaker 5: a an experiment on my my word when cast never
Speaker 5: not funny?
Speaker 4: Where in September I did not take prevision.
Speaker 5: Okay, and we kept track of how many times I
Speaker 5: could not remember something right, And starting October first, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna start prevision.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're familiar with what does it? What is that off?
Speaker 5: It's a it's an over to counter thing which I'm
Speaker 5: ninety nine percent sure of snake oil. I'm sure it's nothing,
Speaker 5: but you know what, why not for the fun of
Speaker 5: the show, I'll take this pill and one off. All
Speaker 5: of a sudden I remember everything like but so so
Speaker 5: I don't remember the word of somebody that would like
Speaker 5: Phonsie with the Cunninghams was a oh he.
Speaker 3: Was like or like Charles Well, Charles in charge was
Speaker 3: the babysitter or whatever the bass.
Speaker 5: Like when you have a oh, bills are tough. We're
Speaker 5: taking on a you use the word lodger, A renter
Speaker 5: no like uh not at larger, but but a there's
Speaker 5: a great word for this. Wow show I ruined your day.
Speaker 3: I mean, God, bless you. My memory is just shot
Speaker 3: and I'm not on a medication that affects my memory.
Speaker 4: So is your question? Yeah, did you get did you
Speaker 4: have the COVID? Did you have COVID?
Speaker 5: They're claiming that COVID can also be something that affects
Speaker 5: your memory.
Speaker 3: Of course I've heard this, I've had I know people
Speaker 3: who've this has happened to.
Speaker 4: My memory was shot before you already had trouble. So
Speaker 4: you're young. Why would why?
Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with my brain. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: too much caffeine consumption.
Speaker 4: Do you think that has something to do with it?
Speaker 4: Because I drink a lot of can it made it
Speaker 4: very personal? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean you've got a cox ever right there. I
Speaker 3: just had two coffees. I'm just rattled. But that's got
Speaker 3: to be the only thing that's that's the only unnatural
Speaker 3: thing in my life. Or I was just cursed with
Speaker 3: a bad brain.
Speaker 4: Could be that.
Speaker 3: I will say I have a good memory for like
Speaker 3: minor details that are worthless in the past. Yes, anything
Speaker 3: that I need to actually count on, forget it. So
Speaker 3: provision is that what it's called provision, prevision, in vision.
Speaker 3: What is pre supposed to.
Speaker 4: Do for this?
Speaker 5: Supposed to improve your memory? And according to their commercials,
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, it's not gonna make it worse.
Speaker 4: Who would take a pill to make their memory worse?
Speaker 3: I thought you were saying you were taking prevision and
Speaker 3: the side effect was memory loss.
Speaker 5: No, No, I am not taking I don't. This is
Speaker 5: embarrassing and I'm not doing a hackey joke. I don't
Speaker 5: remember which medicine it is that I'm on that's affecting
Speaker 5: my memory. I take a lot of pills, right, and
Speaker 5: for my various aches and pains that all came in
Speaker 5: July twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: I don't know what happened. Oh interesting.
Speaker 5: I think my body was just so tense being locked
Speaker 5: up that then it reacted in a way where everything
Speaker 5: went wrong.
Speaker 3: And as of July twenty twenty, had you had COVID.
Speaker 4: No I didn't get it until July twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this was all just some other garbage going on.
Speaker 5: Oh, this was just again, I think just a stress
Speaker 5: and tens of the lockdown and my body just did
Speaker 5: not react. Well, I have to assume it was that
Speaker 5: I'm not an expert, but they discovered that other than
Speaker 5: a bulging disc in my back, I really had nothing
Speaker 5: wrong with me interest But that didn't stop me from
Speaker 5: going to the ear about seven times seven?
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 4: Minimum?
Speaker 5: Seven times seven times? In between January of twenty twenty
Speaker 5: and today, You've been to the er seven seven times.
Speaker 3: What are you saying to them?
Speaker 4: Like? What are you saying?
Speaker 5: I would call in and I would tell them this
Speaker 5: is what's happening, and they would do cat scans and
Speaker 5: they would do MRIs and then they would go, well,
Speaker 5: mister Pardo, like we said two weeks ago, there's nothing
Speaker 5: wrong with you. And I'd be like, awful, Oh okay,
Speaker 5: Well I'm still laying here in the feedable position crying.
Speaker 5: There's something wrong. I'm in pain. I didn't drive here
Speaker 5: to say hello to you in the middle of a pandemic.
Speaker 3: No, you're hooked on the er. I'm sure there are
Speaker 3: people that are hard cheers.
Speaker 4: I was not.
Speaker 5: This is my cheers. My son does make fun of me.
Speaker 5: My son effect. Just yesterday, the pharmacist at the target
Speaker 5: that we my pharmacist is in I walk past and
Speaker 5: they go hello. It is a Pardo and my son
Speaker 5: just thinks it's hysterical that my pharmacist says hello, even
Speaker 5: when I'm not getting anything.
Speaker 3: I feel like your pharmacists should know. It's so old fashioned.
Speaker 4: It is old fashion, but we don't even those times anymore.
Speaker 3: Well, you've made it your reality.
Speaker 4: Well when you're there as often as I am.
Speaker 5: So anyway, no prevision, Okay, starting October first, I started.
Speaker 3: That's the big experiment to see does it work? Commercial
Speaker 3: claim it will work? Please let me know how this.
Speaker 3: So they have commercials. It's not like one of these
Speaker 3: kind of crummy vitamins that like has no like market
Speaker 3: place thing. It's like there's actually they're advertising this on TV.
Speaker 4: My pillow guys.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I don't know if that's it sort
Speaker 5: of McDonald's.
Speaker 4: I invested my pillow. You know what, you sleep better.
Speaker 4: The man has some good ideas.
Speaker 3: Religiously literally everything about.
Speaker 4: This, everything about he really seeks to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, prevision, I'm going to look into this.
Speaker 4: It's not cheap.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's not cheap.
Speaker 4: No, it's I think it's like fifty bucks a bottle. Oh,
Speaker 4: but you know what the show is, We're gonna the
Speaker 4: show is going to pay for it. Okay, fantastic, it's
Speaker 4: a show expense and what what what if it works?
Speaker 3: Oh, you'll let me know then, Yes, our lives are
Speaker 3: both improved. I've got to find a drug for this
Speaker 3: podcast to pay for. I wonder what that would be.
Speaker 5: Uh, well it could be this one said, I've got
Speaker 5: a problem. But otherwise you're you're you look terrific. You've
Speaker 5: got to be in terrific health.
Speaker 3: I'm that's a good question. I mean, I will say,
Speaker 3: due to eating two Berzil nuts a day, my cholesterol
Speaker 3: is lowered.
Speaker 4: What do you about this?
Speaker 3: What are you eating two brazil nuts a day? This
Speaker 3: is the podcast For a long time, this is all
Speaker 3: I talked about. I stopped talking about. People were probably thrilled,
Speaker 3: and now I'm talking about it again.
Speaker 5: Well, listen to because I'm so self avowed. I don't
Speaker 5: listen to any other podcast except for my wife, bless you.
Speaker 4: Uh and uh.
Speaker 5: I just I think it's because I've been doing it
Speaker 5: so long. I don't need to hear other people doing
Speaker 5: what I'm doing. If that makes sense, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: I'd rather listen to music.
Speaker 5: I would rather listen to music, or for a time,
Speaker 5: I got really caught up and listened to way too
Speaker 5: much MSNBC, and I would just be rage driving and
Speaker 5: like everything like until I realized, oh oh you're You're
Speaker 5: as bad as Fox has but from a different point
Speaker 5: of view, Right, I need to find something that's more
Speaker 5: fair and biased unbiased. Tell me about these brazil nuts
Speaker 5: and more importantly, why only to a day?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, my doctor told me
Speaker 3: my cholesterol was at the high end of normal. That
Speaker 3: feels like something that starts happening to you when you
Speaker 3: have grandkids or something younger. It happens when you're younger,
Speaker 3: I mean, certainly to me. So I panicked, panicked my
Speaker 3: therapist at the time I revealed to him this piece
Speaker 3: of information. He said his husband had high cholesterol, started
Speaker 3: taking two brazil nuts a day. It dropped, cholesterol dropped.
Speaker 3: I was, of course skeptical about everything. This therapist told me.
Speaker 3: We've since parted ways. Oh no, seriously, yes, I mean
Speaker 3: it was horrible, but it was just it was it
Speaker 3: doesn't click, It doesn't it didn't click. He wore some
Speaker 3: really chunky boots. Let's be got that threw me. It
Speaker 3: threw me too. Chunky heels on the boots. It was
Speaker 3: like it looked like he was going to do a
Speaker 3: Depeche Mode concert at all times, which is fine, but
Speaker 3: you know, it threw me. I was I was thinking
Speaker 3: about Depeche Mode, right, But he recommended the brazil nuts.
Speaker 3: I started taking the brazil nuts. My cholesterol is normal
Speaker 3: now to you oday. And I obviously did some research online.
Speaker 3: I looked at which actually means nothing. That actually means
Speaker 3: absolutely nothing. That actually should be a warning sign about
Speaker 3: the brazil nuts. But it seems like there have been
Speaker 3: some serious studies done about brazil nuts that if you
Speaker 3: take two minimum to a day or no, I think
Speaker 3: like it's eight a month.
Speaker 4: Is like the eight a month. What they've tested two
Speaker 4: a day is sixty a month. Yeah, that's more than eight.
Speaker 4: Why not do sixty? I would do a day.
Speaker 3: It's a nice little snack. Do you like a brazil nut?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I do, you're gonna learn. You're gonna learn to
Speaker 3: like a brazil lunt. What's your current cholesterol?
Speaker 4: It is I'm on a statin, so it is. It is.
Speaker 4: I border on high order on you.
Speaker 5: Okay, but enough where he gave me the statin too,
Speaker 5: so that I can enjoy foods.
Speaker 3: Are you eating a lot of red meat?
Speaker 4: I do eat a lot of red meat, but that's
Speaker 4: for other healthy reas.
Speaker 3: Oh so you're eating that for the iron.
Speaker 4: I forget why.
Speaker 5: But I do eat a lot of red meats and
Speaker 5: uh and chicken chickens.
Speaker 3: No fish, But you don't eat any fish.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't care for it.
Speaker 3: Will you eat fish if it's presented to you?
Speaker 4: What do you mean by that? Like you.
Speaker 3: Like all we have is house, you're not eating?
Speaker 5: No way I'll have I'll no way is a fact child?
Speaker 4: No way? I know. I don't like it. I don't,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I mean, here's the here's what's sick. Once a year
Speaker 4: I get a fly of fish.
Speaker 3: Oh and that's the one fish I won't eat. Oh
Speaker 3: it's delicious because it's not flathered.
Speaker 4: In matar sauce. That tartar sauce doing the heavy lifting.
Speaker 5: I think, I think if they just give me a
Speaker 5: bump with the tartar sauce, i'd be happy. And then
Speaker 5: growing up and I and I still would go like,
Speaker 5: if you said, right now, there's a a not Arthur Treachers,
Speaker 5: you ninety year old man. Uh, what is the uh
Speaker 5: what's the chain? The fish Shain.
Speaker 3: McDonald, John c oh John c Riley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ray got a fish place.
Speaker 3: There's a fish chain with John Silver fond Long John Silver.
Speaker 5: If you said, after this, hey, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 5: You know what I I said, you want I love
Speaker 5: Long John Silvers, you want to go, I would probably
Speaker 5: get there. You get two chickens in one fish plank.
Speaker 3: They serve chicken there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: That feels like a bad move at Long John Silver's.
Speaker 5: Well, they got to get it to the idiots like
Speaker 5: me who don't want the fish. Who go there with
Speaker 5: somebody who likes to fish, but.
Speaker 3: You would eat their fish.
Speaker 4: You like a fried fish. I like a fried fish,
Speaker 4: fish and chip. I like a fish and chips.
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes everybody likes that.
Speaker 5: But but not if it's gross, it's I I dude,
Speaker 5: we don't have time to talk about my my My
Speaker 5: eating weirdness is.
Speaker 3: Do you have a heart. You're a picky eater.
Speaker 5: I'm picky only in that I I don't if I
Speaker 5: don't like the way something looks, I'm out.
Speaker 4: Wow, I could be I'm easily nauseated. Okay.
Speaker 5: I also, and this is my people are sick of
Speaker 5: me talking about this, I cannot smell food being cooked,
Speaker 5: any food.
Speaker 4: Unless it's like barbecue outside. I can.
Speaker 5: But like, if like I walked into your house and
Speaker 5: its the Google's was in there cooking something up and
Speaker 5: I smelled it, I would I would have I got
Speaker 5: nauseated and possibly vomited.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I cannot smell food your whole It happened in
Speaker 5: the nineties at some point.
Speaker 4: I remember exactly where I was, I don't remember.
Speaker 5: I believe they were cooking a bad batch of ground beef,
Speaker 5: rant and meat.
Speaker 4: I think that that's the only explanation.
Speaker 5: But I was at this person's home, and again I
Speaker 5: don't even know whose home it was, but I was there,
Speaker 5: and I remember walking into the kitchen seeing the mother
Speaker 5: cooking this, and me going oh, and then running outside
Speaker 5: and vomiting on the front lawn. And since then it
Speaker 5: started with I can't smell ground beef being cooked right now,
Speaker 5: it's kind of everything.
Speaker 3: I will say, ground beef being cooked is probably my
Speaker 3: least favorite food smell. It's kind of gross, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like get some or something happening there because right now.
Speaker 4: It just smells like hot grease. It's that's what it was.
Speaker 5: Let's throw some I grew up in a very poor household,
Speaker 5: so we had a lot of Hamburger helper.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, And I had no problem with that. Like
Speaker 4: so growing up with that was not a problem. It
Speaker 4: was whatever happened in the nineties.
Speaker 3: What about things being baked?
Speaker 4: What do you mean by like a cake?
Speaker 3: A cake?
Speaker 4: A cookie?
Speaker 3: You even handle that?
Speaker 4: I beg you for you please give me a fresh cookie.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good to know. It's just the savory meals.
Speaker 5: It's mostly the meat. Okay, meat I cannot and I
Speaker 5: can't see. Food needs to be a magic trick to me.
Speaker 5: I can't see. I don't cook at all. I cannot see.
Speaker 5: Uh Like, hey, I'm making chicken. I can't see the
Speaker 5: chicken before it's on my plate.
Speaker 4: Done.
Speaker 3: What about at a restaurant where the kitchen is like
Speaker 3: an open kitchen?
Speaker 4: Do it?
Speaker 3: No? Said that would be a nightmare for you, a
Speaker 3: pure hell.
Speaker 5: And again this all happened late in life. I used
Speaker 5: to love going to beny Hanna as a kid, and
Speaker 5: they go all that right in front of it, their
Speaker 5: little display in their show forget. Couldn't do that now
Speaker 5: that I haven't turned at least I could. I haven't
Speaker 5: tried the benihanna in a while.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe got that feels like a risky move at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 4: That feels really dangerous. Whorst that can happen? I over
Speaker 4: the grill.
Speaker 5: I think I would. I don't think I think I
Speaker 5: would excuse myself. I don't think I would.
Speaker 3: I think make the memory, at least the story for
Speaker 3: the whole restaurant, for everybody.
Speaker 5: Everybody would You're never gonna guess what happened last night, right,
Speaker 5: Give everybody a.
Speaker 3: Story, and then none of those people will ever be
Speaker 3: able to smell cooked vomit again.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't even want to. I don't even want
Speaker 4: to hear the words.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. If anyone's eating breakfast right now, or
Speaker 3: trying to enjoy anything.
Speaker 4: Or these two brazil nuts make no mistake.
Speaker 5: On my drive home, I will stop at Sprouts, get
Speaker 5: a bag, and get a bag of brazil nuts.
Speaker 4: I may even go and get a brazil uh Brazilian day.
Speaker 3: I wonder if they're actually what's that thing called.
Speaker 4: A brazil Brazilian wax? Wax? Couldn't get the word the wax, get.
Speaker 3: The nuts, enjoy your day.
Speaker 4: It's a good day. It's a Brazilian day. Maybe put
Speaker 4: on some Sergio Mendes, is that Brazilian Hit the beach.
Speaker 3: You're ready, You're ready to go Brazil. Let's feel like
Speaker 3: a good beach snack. Actually, I'm recommending that as a
Speaker 3: beach snackck.
Speaker 4: Is that your recommendation? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Wow, I need if it's a big statement, I'm recommended
Speaker 5: that as a beach snack.
Speaker 4: Now, that may be my favorite thing you've ever said.
Speaker 4: You've said a lot of things I've enjoyed. Good. Good.
Speaker 3: Well, look, Jimmy, Yeah, well, Actually one other thing I
Speaker 3: wanted to ask you about. Is it true that those
Speaker 3: were created for Catholics.
Speaker 5: I don't know the origin of that, but I will
Speaker 5: tell you growing up, we would have them every Friday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because because you came forty nine cents, they were cheap.
Speaker 5: Wow, what a bargain. I'm an old man that deal.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, we would have those every because I
Speaker 5: grew up Catholic.
Speaker 3: Right, and you can't eat meat on Friday during Lent.
Speaker 3: During Oh, Jim's dad, I think would eat pulay a
Speaker 3: fish every Friday.
Speaker 4: Might be year around. I think my dad you around
Speaker 4: wow with the with the Friday fish.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if that's true that they added that
Speaker 3: to the menu.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Donalise, everybody got Ronald on the blower?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, actually invented in Cincinnati, Ohio in nineteen sixty
Speaker 6: two in a franchise that saw declining sales on Fridays
Speaker 6: and so it was in a neighborhood that had predominantly
Speaker 6: a Catholic population, and so to kind of get bring
Speaker 6: people back into the fold. The McDonald's hold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, say this. I'm a professor.
Speaker 5: I've made my living as a professional broadcaster, whether it
Speaker 5: be on television or via podcasting. You've got a wonderful voice,
Speaker 5: neither of compared to what that young lady just did.
Speaker 3: Voice Aunly does all sorts of recording everything from the vocals, vocals,
Speaker 3: professional vocalists.
Speaker 4: What kind of songs do we hear? Does anal what
Speaker 4: I can?
Speaker 3: I can like some a new wavy power pop.
Speaker 5: Give me an example like a yeas what would you say?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: A little yeahs I mine alto. Lately, I've been writing
Speaker 6: more like nineties kind of.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of keyboards, there's a lot of I
Speaker 4: want to be clear. I don't want to hear originals.
Speaker 4: I want to hear you do covers.
Speaker 3: You want to hear on Alisa at a wedding.
Speaker 5: I want to hear songs I know with this beautiful voice.
Speaker 4: That's what I want.
Speaker 5: Don't go into what I've been writing, lost interest, don't
Speaker 5: care about your process.
Speaker 4: I want to hear you sink songs I already know.
Speaker 3: Do Blondie do telephone line?
Speaker 4: Yeahah, hang out with a telephone on repeat? Let me
Speaker 4: while you have the mic and I and probably I'm
Speaker 4: not hijacking out.
Speaker 3: I'm going back inside.
Speaker 4: Did you look it up?
Speaker 5: What word I was trying to think of about somebody
Speaker 5: that rents out a room in your house?
Speaker 4: A border? Found border? I didn't have to do. You
Speaker 4: have your time?
Speaker 3: Border? Yeah, that's got a lot like a lodger, I believe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, border border a lodger.
Speaker 5: Lodger stuff that you've made up. But uh, I will
Speaker 5: stand by that. And again, I want to be a word.
Speaker 3: That's absolutely a word I don't I don't know if
Speaker 3: it is. You knew what it was as soon as
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: What you meant because of the context cleared well.
Speaker 3: That I created a beautiful word, and I should be.
Speaker 3: I mean, how do I make money off that? I
Speaker 3: guess my my job.
Speaker 5: You will not need to make money from it, because
Speaker 5: you'll be You're gonna be rolling a dough from your
Speaker 5: your promoting Brazilian nuts again as a beachnack.
Speaker 3: As a beachnack, specifically, get your bag of brazil nuts
Speaker 3: at Sprouts. That's the perfect place, by the way to
Speaker 3: buy a beach nut. No interesting, never night, do not
Speaker 3: buy a beach nut. Buy a brazil nut.
Speaker 4: What if I like beachnuts? Follow up? What's a beachnut?
Speaker 3: That's a good? That's a real thing, though, I said.
Speaker 5: Color of a wood that you buy like it's one
Speaker 5: of the choices, like when you go to buy a.
Speaker 3: Prefads where it's like the flooring. It's not a real
Speaker 3: It might not even be a real thing. I've never
Speaker 3: it sounds like a real thing.
Speaker 4: Get the beachnut.
Speaker 3: Beach nut, that's e h nut. W Yeah. On Lisha
Speaker 3: is saying yes and is it a nut?
Speaker 4: Wow? I is it something? Is it a color of furniture?
Speaker 3: It's got to be a color of furniture every nuts.
Speaker 3: Probably you can probably buy an almond couch.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a nice color couch. Yeah, well I guess
Speaker 4: that would be a beigey be nice.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I threw us off with the filet of fish.
Speaker 3: There's something more important we need to talk about. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: I was so excited to have you here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: You know, we met years ago, as discussed on your
Speaker 3: podcast at They Won and Only Jeff Franklin's Home Insane Circumstances,
Speaker 3: And I was thrilled to be on your podcast. I
Speaker 3: was thrilled to have you here. You're a professional, You've
Speaker 3: been doing this for such a long time. You're you're
Speaker 3: one of the original, probably one of the original podcasters.
Speaker 3: Would you say?
Speaker 4: They called me a pioneer. Incredible, I wanted. I don't
Speaker 4: mean at one point they said I was the first.
Speaker 5: I certainly was not claim it, no, because if I
Speaker 5: the one time I went yeah, I might have been.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 4: Well, you know you're not right, Like, well, then who is?
Speaker 4: I think Adam Curry was the first one.
Speaker 5: Okay, there was a show out of the on the
Speaker 5: East Coach called Keith and the Girl that were around
Speaker 5: a little bit before us. Okay, and then but Todd
Speaker 5: Glass put it in his book Best I was the
Speaker 5: and this is no direct disrespecting.
Speaker 4: Heath and the girl. They're wonderful people.
Speaker 5: Todd Glass said in his book, Jimmy Parter was the
Speaker 5: first person you had heard of that had a podcast, right,
Speaker 5: that's for me, and so I will own that. So
Speaker 5: but I but I know I was not the first one.
Speaker 5: I certainly we started in two thousand and six. We
Speaker 5: were there pretty early on Wild.
Speaker 3: I feel like I was working at the Apple Store
Speaker 3: at the time, and you guys were probably you know,
Speaker 3: we were to promote podcasts. Yeah, and at the time,
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know what we're talking about here.
Speaker 3: I'll put music on my iPod. Leave me alone with you.
Speaker 4: Don't want the talking.
Speaker 5: You don't want the you don't what the beautiful sound of.
Speaker 4: My voice talking about I made.
Speaker 3: What a mistake.
Speaker 4: I could have lost a lot, we could have become.
Speaker 3: You would be my friend from afar, like podcasters are
Speaker 3: yes for decades, and then this would be a scary interview.
Speaker 5: Oh they'd be very frightening. But luckily that luckily you
Speaker 5: didn't listen to me. So we're able to meet as
Speaker 5: human beings exactly.
Speaker 3: But okay, so we've confirmed your professional She was excited
Speaker 3: to have you here.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: The podcast is called I said, no gifts. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: it was a little thrown, a little shaken when you
Speaker 3: come trotting up into my backyard holding what's clearly two gifts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we've got like a larger box here. This is
Speaker 3: happy birthday all over it, and then a thin gift.
Speaker 4: So what's happening? What's going on here?
Speaker 5: Well, to your point, my son this morning, my wife
Speaker 5: is out of town at the moment, okay, and so
Speaker 5: my son this morning said, what's.
Speaker 4: With the gifts?
Speaker 5: And I said, I'm doing a podcast today, I called
Speaker 5: at Bridge of Windergers podcast I called.
Speaker 4: I said, no gifts, So I'm bringing the gifts.
Speaker 5: And he went, well, it's right in the name, Dad,
Speaker 5: you're not supposed to bring any gifts. And I said, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think the premise is you're still supposed.
Speaker 4: To bring gifts.
Speaker 5: And and you, as I said, I've done no research.
Speaker 5: I still brought gifts because I've been to so many
Speaker 5: parties where I see the thing that says no gifts,
Speaker 5: you bring a gift.
Speaker 3: I play along with any premise, send your son next time.
Speaker 4: He said, you know what he's a good kid. He'd
Speaker 4: be a good gift.
Speaker 3: Has he ever been on a podcast?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't mind quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yes, he's ever done a stranger's podcast.
Speaker 4: When Hamilton was at its peak.
Speaker 5: Okay, we went on the airwolf Hamilton, who hosts the
Speaker 5: Trayvon General's name who hosted it, And we went on
Speaker 5: as a father's son who are obsessed with Hamilton.
Speaker 3: What an activity, What a great father son activity.
Speaker 5: It was fun and he was great. In fact, he
Speaker 5: as he does on my show. He stole the show.
Speaker 5: And if you listen to that that Hamilton podcast, they
Speaker 5: did a lot of editing Jimmy Parto out and it's
Speaker 5: a lot of Oliver Parto And rightfully so.
Speaker 3: I feel like your son probably knows more about Hamilton.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 4: He you know what, he knows how to talk about
Speaker 4: it better than I do. What he likes.
Speaker 5: I just I like Hamblton and like the same thing,
Speaker 5: like my favorite band of Chicago.
Speaker 4: What do you like about it? I like them. I
Speaker 4: don't know how to get in the weeds. It's hard
Speaker 4: to talk about things you like in specifics. I think, oh,
Speaker 4: thank you for giving me that excuse that I really, it's.
Speaker 3: True, Especially with music, I start to feel like such
Speaker 3: a dork when I'm like getting into details. I'm just like,
Speaker 3: I like it. It's I like to hear it loud. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 4: People get on me about I love it, and I'm
Speaker 4: sick of defending it. I'm just owning it.
Speaker 5: I love classic rock. I love classic rock, and I
Speaker 5: love the eighties. I don't care that it's not hip.
Speaker 5: I don't care that they're not playing at Space or
Speaker 5: you know, some unique venue space.
Speaker 4: I like what I like. But if you ask me,
Speaker 4: why do you like it? I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 4: My ears enjoy it. Clicks, it clicks.
Speaker 5: It isn't nostalgia, probably right, but it's but I love it.
Speaker 4: And why do you care? Live your life like what
Speaker 4: you like? I like what I like. That said, who
Speaker 4: is your favorite?
Speaker 3: So I could judge favorite band of all time or artist.
Speaker 3: It's hard for me to say. I don't know that
Speaker 3: I have a favorite anymore. I like guitar music. I mean,
Speaker 3: I like all music, but if a guitar is there,
Speaker 3: I'm happy.
Speaker 4: Like a jungle guitar.
Speaker 3: I like a jngle guitar. I like a distorted guitar.
Speaker 3: Jim says a lot of the music I listened to
Speaker 3: sounds like he's having an MRI.
Speaker 4: Which, ah, what does Jim like? I think? I think
Speaker 4: I probably more aligned with Jim.
Speaker 3: Jim likes he likes a lot of musical theater. I
Speaker 3: do too, And then he likes a lot of pop music,
Speaker 3: which I like a lot of pop music.
Speaker 4: But does he also loves the standards? Right, he loves
Speaker 4: the standards. I heard enough of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't like. Do you like a Sinatra?
Speaker 5: I had my Sinatra phase when I was in eighth grade,
Speaker 5: and and then I'm over in Cologne.
Speaker 3: I can't get into a Sinatra. It sounds I just
Speaker 3: feel like I'm a macaroni grill. I'm just like, this
Speaker 3: is not for me. But Jim listens to I've kind
Speaker 3: of converted him to a little bit of my music,
Speaker 3: like kind of the the easier music music I listened to.
Speaker 3: But there is a lot of my music that is
Speaker 3: extremely loud, and I recognize that it's abrasive and that
Speaker 3: it's not foreverone.
Speaker 4: Okay, but for me, it's for you who cares?
Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 4: I don't care? All right? Okay, you got the gifts.
Speaker 4: You brought these gifts?
Speaker 3: Should I open them here on the podcast?
Speaker 4: Why would you not? I don't know you brought them.
Speaker 4: I would, I would hope that you would. I would
Speaker 4: start with the tiny one.
Speaker 3: Okay, this kind of magazine, yesque thin, Yeah, Okay, we're
Speaker 3: gonna get Oh, this is a pretty wrapping paper. It's
Speaker 3: got some there's a change.
Speaker 4: I might have to take that wrapping home.
Speaker 3: Take it home with you, frament. Okay, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be very careful.
Speaker 4: You know you don't have to. I love the feel
Speaker 4: of this rap Take a look at the inside of
Speaker 4: that wrapper, that rapping as well. Is it a leather.
Speaker 4: It's not a leather. It is a silver. But also that.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the inside of a balloon like balloon. Yeah, gorgeous.
Speaker 3: This is a reversible wrapping paper.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I won't with the blueing stereo. Yeah. Now take
Speaker 4: a look at that. There's your first gift. You're welcome,
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: This is a gift I received recently when the Lady
Speaker 3: to Lady podcast hosts were on the show, and it's
Speaker 3: a photo of them unframed this time.
Speaker 4: But now I have this I forgot to frame it.
Speaker 4: Damn it.
Speaker 5: Why did you bring this? Here's why did they give
Speaker 5: it to you? Brandy Posey, who I adore, she's so bad.
Speaker 5: Uh and I've known for ages. She was as she
Speaker 5: appeared on my podcast and h I believe she was
Speaker 5: leaving there to come to yours. Okay, okay, And I said, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm doing that soon. I'm excited about doing it. And
Speaker 5: I said, what gift.
Speaker 4: Are you bringing?
Speaker 5: And she said, well, we did this thing where we
Speaker 5: I'm sure she went, we took a photograph at Pennies
Speaker 5: or were seers, and so we're bringing him that framed.
Speaker 5: And I said, I'm doing the same thing, and she goes,
Speaker 5: you're gonn take photo? No, no, no, you're gonna give me
Speaker 5: one of those. And I'm bringing that same photograph and uh,
Speaker 5: I did forget to frame it. So that's on me, right,
Speaker 5: But the good news is you don't have now two
Speaker 5: frames to throw over.
Speaker 3: I can get a different fresh.
Speaker 4: So I brought that for just for the joke. How
Speaker 4: many of these do they own? At least two?
Speaker 5: Well, Sazero, you have both of them.
Speaker 4: Well I've got to give this to somebody. Wow, keep
Speaker 4: that moving.
Speaker 3: So did she bring she brought it to you at
Speaker 3: a later time, or did you go pick it back
Speaker 3: the next day and dropped it off a professional.
Speaker 4: I even said I'll come and get it. I'll be
Speaker 4: in the area.
Speaker 3: She was happy to do it.
Speaker 4: I don't have to do anything.
Speaker 3: Do you get family photos with your son and your wife?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 3: Do families not do that anymore?
Speaker 5: I think they do, they do, but I think it's
Speaker 5: not a certain kind of family.
Speaker 4: We never.
Speaker 5: We did never when when Oliver was very tiny, we
Speaker 5: did do the only because we kind of felt like
Speaker 5: we had to bring him to one of those photo places.
Speaker 3: You did a shirtless one with him, you were holding
Speaker 3: him naked.
Speaker 4: No, heaven snow, he was in a little sailor suit.
Speaker 5: You know we did that, Okay, Yes, and he looked
Speaker 5: adorable and grandparents loved them, of course, But we did
Speaker 5: it because, like I think, we felt like, the grandparents
Speaker 5: want these photos, of course, but we're not the hate.
Speaker 5: Let's go to Pennies and or sears and get these photos.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's a less common thing now.
Speaker 5: I think just in our bubble. I think in our
Speaker 5: circle it's less common. I think if you, if you
Speaker 5: would just leave your elite Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Bubble, get out of my limousines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and see how the real world lives take. Stop
Speaker 4: doing laps in my pool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in your infinity pool that we're overlooking.
Speaker 3: Washing a peasant drown in.
Speaker 5: Yes, and you're infinity pool, by the way, just watching
Speaker 5: your office flesh.
Speaker 3: That's my personal person It is an endless pool of
Speaker 3: just filth. Well interesting, So you feel like other people
Speaker 3: are getting their pictures taken.
Speaker 5: I think when I go when I go to the mall,
Speaker 5: like if I'm doing a gig in Cedar Rapids, iowa, right,
Speaker 5: and I'm killing time after lunch, and I'm walking around
Speaker 5: the mall, and I believe I will see that that
Speaker 5: photo place is booming.
Speaker 4: There happened.
Speaker 5: They've got a family there, They've got a family waiting, right,
Speaker 5: and they've got a lot of other families on the books.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's my take.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean my family got pictures probably every two
Speaker 3: years when I was growing up, well probably every three.
Speaker 4: Every three years. How many other people would be in
Speaker 4: those photographs.
Speaker 3: It was a family of six, so my four three
Speaker 3: siblings and I and my two parents.
Speaker 4: Every few years, it would your parents hang them on
Speaker 4: the wall. So that you can look at yourself.
Speaker 3: I don't think they were hung on walls before I
Speaker 3: guess memories. I think occasionally they were framed and put
Speaker 3: on top of the piano. Otherwise, I have no idea
Speaker 3: where those photos were going. They're probably in a closet
Speaker 3: at this point, because I haven't seen one in years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually I have.
Speaker 3: I took where I saw a recent one because I
Speaker 3: took a photo of it on my phone. But I
Speaker 3: don't know where my mom's hoarding those things.
Speaker 4: I would imasgine a box somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we recently took a family photo in my parents' backyards.
Speaker 3: You did because my mom wanted a picture of the
Speaker 3: whole the nieces and nephews and my grandma.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll do that, like if my dad was to
Speaker 5: have a family reunion, right, we would all then Hey,
Speaker 5: we're all here, let's take a photograph and you put
Speaker 5: it on Facebook and then you.
Speaker 4: Forget it ever happened. But you're not going to the studio.
Speaker 4: We are not.
Speaker 3: What would it take to get you and your wife
Speaker 3: and Oliver to the photo studio.
Speaker 5: I think even if they called and said you want
Speaker 5: to come down for a free photo, we wouldn't do it.
Speaker 4: I think my I don't think we would do it.
Speaker 4: We're just not those people.
Speaker 3: I cannot imagine you in the under the circumstances.
Speaker 5: I I'm not a fan of getting my photograph taken,
Speaker 5: so I showed certainly to go into television.
Speaker 4: I don't like it. I don't like the way I
Speaker 4: look at photographs, and I don't like good looking man.
Speaker 4: I was not fishing for compliments. I will take that,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 3: It's just a fact I feel like you probably photographed well.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you were the second person this week
Speaker 5: that told me that? And I am now gonna fly
Speaker 5: high for another week. On this last Friday, a friend
Speaker 5: of ours, mutual friend who is amazingly handsome and that
Speaker 5: was on the been on the.
Speaker 4: Cover of GQ. Wow.
Speaker 5: He commented on how handsome I'm looking these days, and
Speaker 5: I've never felt lower, quite frankly. So he made me
Speaker 5: feel feel great. And then that was a week ago.
Speaker 5: Today I was kind of going, oh no, I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe he was lying, and I kind of was like,
Speaker 5: coming on a down and boom, here you come to
Speaker 5: bring me right back.
Speaker 4: Wow. So his was unprompted. His was unprompted.
Speaker 3: Wow, And so now you're hooked.
Speaker 5: But you know you're kind of unprompted as well, because
Speaker 5: I was talking about no, I was saying, I don't
Speaker 5: like the way I look.
Speaker 3: So now you're looking for any way to get this
Speaker 3: complet every Friday.
Speaker 5: Now, every Friday, I gotta be somewhere going, even if
Speaker 5: it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be like, do I look okay? Am I handsome? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like the other problem with the
Speaker 3: suit thing is you have to coordinate outfits, which.
Speaker 4: Is and we ain't doing that. That's not happening.
Speaker 5: That's a little too that's a little too hipster for
Speaker 5: us too. I can see a hipster.
Speaker 3: Couple doing that ironically, ironically okay, with their dog, and
Speaker 3: we're not.
Speaker 4: We're not that either, Right, You've.
Speaker 3: Got to be on one end of the spectrum, like
Speaker 3: a real earnest or ironic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're certainly we lean more towards the irony,
Speaker 5: but not that we're not. We don't have Flamingo's at
Speaker 5: our front lawn. We're not those people were.
Speaker 3: I feel like we're almost because we love our dogs
Speaker 3: so much. We're almost to the earnest part of getting
Speaker 3: a photo with our dog. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Oh no, well Smagool's is out east, right, so it's
Speaker 4: gonna leaves tomorrow.
Speaker 3: He leaves tomorrow, and so it probably won't happen tonight.
Speaker 3: We'll avoid getting a picture with a dog another season.
Speaker 3: But you never know.
Speaker 5: You forgot to tell me when you did my show
Speaker 5: off the air, because you cannot say that the time.
Speaker 4: What show, Jimmy is in a lot.
Speaker 3: Now you can say Spamelot's coming back to Broadway, buy
Speaker 3: your tickets on Oh that's exciting, Yeah, with past guests
Speaker 3: of the podcast Tar and kill him.
Speaker 4: Actually he's the star of it.
Speaker 5: I just saw announced, right, Yeah, so that starts I
Speaker 5: think opening or no previews beginning on Halloween.
Speaker 3: It's opening night November sixteenth. I think it's very excity.
Speaker 4: What theaters are at I don't know.
Speaker 3: Jim said it probably says it ten times a day, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I cannot Maybe the Saint John is that a theater.
Speaker 5: It was a name that I was not familiar with,
Speaker 5: and it sounded like a local parish. Oh it's more
Speaker 5: than it did a theater. So maybe that's right.
Speaker 3: It's got We're gonna get an answer ound to at
Speaker 3: least get into it. Yes, s Bamelot, it's back on Broadway.
Speaker 3: Jim hasn't been on Broadway in twelve years. That's exciting
Speaker 3: that he's so thrilled to do it.
Speaker 5: I understand all of the New York's talking about his return.
Speaker 5: I said that for Huber, but it sounded too mean
Speaker 5: as it came out. I wonder if he knows another
Speaker 5: friend of mine that's on Broadway, Rob Colletti.
Speaker 4: There's no Rob.
Speaker 3: Let me know who what does Rob? Rob's a Broadway
Speaker 3: performer as well in anything currently?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I couldn't tell you what I want.
Speaker 3: Don't say it because it's a competitor to Spamalot. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it might sell spamalot tickets here Sat.
Speaker 4: He might be making his return down Rob Colletti, I
Speaker 4: should tell you this. I don't know Rob Colletti. Rob
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: I know through Twitter and another mutual friend. And I
Speaker 5: threw it out there like I on a daily basis.
Speaker 5: Rob Colletti is a big white Sox fan, as am I. Okay,
Speaker 5: but he is a Broadway performer who's a big white
Speaker 5: Sox fan. And I'm a jackass comedian who is a
Speaker 5: white Sox fan and there are few and far between
Speaker 5: of us that are white Sox fans, right, who are
Speaker 5: then also in entertainment?
Speaker 3: Right, it's a small cross, very small. Yea on a Lisa,
Speaker 3: did we find out where the theater is?
Speaker 4: My computer is not is smoking?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Well you know, you just google Spamalon you'll find out.
Speaker 3: I believe it's the Saint John.
Speaker 4: I would say spam a lot Broadway should get you
Speaker 4: right there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't, then there the producers are doing a
Speaker 3: bad job.
Speaker 4: I would agree s.
Speaker 3: CEO is not working out in their favor.
Speaker 4: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: A search engine optimization wow, which is kind of what's
Speaker 3: ruining the Internet. Keywords they feel, you know, when you're
Speaker 3: searching for something, it'll bring it to the top of
Speaker 3: the results. I used to do that for overstock dot com.
Speaker 3: Well you did, which is now called Bedbath and Beyond,
Speaker 3: which is insane to me.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Overstock has become bed Bath and Beyond.
Speaker 5: So did not go out to business.
Speaker 3: They did go out of business. I guess Overstock swooped.
Speaker 3: They swooped in and they're like, we're going to buy
Speaker 3: that name for some reason, because people like that name,
Speaker 3: and it's not associated with the wild man who is
Speaker 3: running overstock dot com who was having an affair with
Speaker 3: the Russian spy and was like a Maga psycho.
Speaker 4: I I knew the mega psycho party the other he.
Speaker 3: Was like having an affair with the spy. I think
Speaker 3: Overstock was like, we've got to get away from the name.
Speaker 3: They're now bed Bath and Beyond.
Speaker 4: Interesting, and so you can still buy the same thing.
Speaker 4: I can go there and buy an almond.
Speaker 3: Couch popopulation like a hideous element catch and then probably
Speaker 3: get they must have those coupons. The bed Bath and
Speaker 3: Beyond wass for what would.
Speaker 4: Think bed Bath and Beyond is now known as.
Speaker 5: A failure, I because they've closed everywhere. So why would
Speaker 5: that be? I understand get rid of overstock.
Speaker 3: Sure, because that's also known as a failure. And then
Speaker 3: I can say that as a former employee.
Speaker 4: But now bed beath Beyond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting move to pick up a It's
Speaker 3: like dying name. It's like taking a stealing a dead
Speaker 3: person's name. Yeah, one of those people. I guess that's
Speaker 3: what spies do. Actually, speaking of spies, or at least
Speaker 3: according to the Americans, I never watched it. I feel
Speaker 3: like spies will find a dead person and then they
Speaker 3: take over that name, take their social Security number. How
Speaker 3: am I talking? I'm not the expert on this.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you are. Sounds you're the spy expert.
Speaker 3: How did we get to bed, bath, and beyond?
Speaker 4: You used to working over stock before that? Oh? Se
Speaker 4: o s e o.
Speaker 3: We're learning about the internet. The Internet's broken. You don't
Speaker 3: like it, You can't use it anymore.
Speaker 4: It's bad.
Speaker 5: I am grateful for the Internet because it's given me
Speaker 5: a career of me too, but I hate everything about
Speaker 5: it because.
Speaker 3: Of what you just Yeah, I mean yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: totally and it's not what it used to be, not
Speaker 3: what it used to.
Speaker 4: It's a weird thing to say about something that is
Speaker 4: still so modern.
Speaker 3: Right and now it feels twenty years ago, feels so
Speaker 3: old fashioned. The things we were doing on the internet,
Speaker 3: where everything felt innocent, and you went on there with
Speaker 3: your hobby and looked at your hobby, yes, and then
Speaker 3: got off the internet. You weren't You never screamed at anyone.
Speaker 3: No one ever screamed at you, right, you weren't tricked.
Speaker 4: What happened to you? What do you mean you were tricked.
Speaker 4: You're constantly getting tricked on you. How are you being tricked?
Speaker 3: I was just on vacation. I was looking for you know,
Speaker 3: like what are the best restaurants? That's an impossible thing
Speaker 3: now because of SEO, you like google best restaurants in
Speaker 3: the city, fifty blogs will show up. They're all created
Speaker 3: by essentially robots. Right, you can't trust anything, trust nothing
Speaker 3: on the internet.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will not.
Speaker 3: I'm out of websites. I don't even go to websites anymore.
Speaker 3: Really what websites do you go to?
Speaker 4: Go to a music one? Which music one?
Speaker 5: It's called melodic rock dot com. I like the name
Speaker 5: of They've been around forever.
Speaker 3: Melodic rock.
Speaker 4: A lot of rock dot Okay, I bet I could
Speaker 4: get into that.
Speaker 5: It's very uh like if you like Journey, right classic
Speaker 5: it's bands they kind of sound like Journey bad English.
Speaker 5: It's but but current. Oh and also talking about the
Speaker 5: retro Okay, okay, you know right.
Speaker 4: It's that sounding. It's almost it's like it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 5: Not yacht rock. But is a niche area.
Speaker 3: Like a highly polished rock music. Yeah, that makes sense
Speaker 3: to me. That stuff you would hear it like when
Speaker 3: they have the cars, uh, the hot rods at Bob's
Speaker 3: Big Boy.
Speaker 4: No, that's more. Don't you have more fifties for that?
Speaker 4: I'd be more. Doo wop?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, God, somebody's still listening to du wop. I
Speaker 5: guess it's that scene, right, I love do wop?
Speaker 4: You do not love do wap? Everyone loves do wop.
Speaker 5: Nobody likes it more than a song. And then you go, oh,
Speaker 5: that was nice. Now let's get back to our birthday party. No,
Speaker 5: it's hard.
Speaker 3: Never mad when do wop is on?
Speaker 4: Are you No, I'm never mad.
Speaker 3: I know, I know this song. Listen to those harmonies.
Speaker 5: You're right, but I two songs tops all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: you're gonna talk me to all right? Nine songs tops
Speaker 5: a day and a half a duop and then I'm out.
Speaker 3: I like anything you would hear it in a sockhop.
Speaker 4: I don't dislike a sock cop. I mean been to
Speaker 4: one in ages?
Speaker 3: Have you? You've actually been to a sock cop?
Speaker 4: Well back when, you know, back when we would do
Speaker 4: theme dances at school.
Speaker 3: Even then it was like it was like a novelty thing.
Speaker 3: So you've never been to a literal sock cop.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I mean you were.
Speaker 3: I grew up with the fifty Yeah you weren't fifteen
Speaker 3: and nineteen fifty two.
Speaker 4: No I was not.
Speaker 3: So there's no way you could have been to an act.
Speaker 4: No, I was at one.
Speaker 5: Like, let's do a fifties dance and then and again,
Speaker 5: I go up in a neighborhood was relatively poor, So
Speaker 5: a fifties dance was easy because.
Speaker 4: Everybody had a white T shirt and jeans.
Speaker 3: Everyone should have a white T shirt and jeans.
Speaker 4: It's a great look. That is a it's a classic look.
Speaker 3: You can't go wrong with that, right, as far as
Speaker 3: I'm concerned, I.
Speaker 4: Wish I could pull just that off.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you could absolutely pull that.
Speaker 4: Oh I can't. I'm not fishing. I'm not fishing here.
Speaker 4: Let's not go back to this.
Speaker 3: Everyone can pull that look off?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think you can. I also not everybody
Speaker 5: can pull off the V neck T shirt.
Speaker 3: Well, no one currently in this period of history. No
Speaker 3: one can pull it off because it's out of fashion.
Speaker 3: Is it really doesn't look good? Looks bad.
Speaker 4: That's got to be the right guy. I think you.
Speaker 3: Think of the right Well, I mean, of course, an
Speaker 3: incredible looking person, whatever the hell.
Speaker 5: They want to come in with the V neck and
Speaker 5: you go look at that guy, and then I go,
Speaker 5: you know what, V necks are back? And then I
Speaker 5: go get a V neck and then I look at
Speaker 5: the mirror and go nope, and take it off and
Speaker 5: get immediately back to the crew.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But this is the second time v nex have been
Speaker 3: brought up on this podcast within the last like six weeks.
Speaker 3: So obviously they're in the air. Back they are, they're
Speaker 3: they're at least simmering, and they're gonna be back and
Speaker 3: then we'll regret it to then you know, the cycle
Speaker 3: of fashion continues.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, you gotta be you just gotta I
Speaker 5: think you've gotta be strikingly good looking to pull off
Speaker 5: the V neck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, until they're back in fashion, and then everyone thinks
Speaker 3: they're pulling it.
Speaker 4: You in a deep V neck V neck, I mean,
Speaker 4: nobody wants that. Nobody wants that.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a bold look.
Speaker 4: I do own some v nex though, so I can
Speaker 4: wear with a dress shirt.
Speaker 3: Oh, interesting, So you'll wear an undershirt with I guess
Speaker 3: I'll wear an undershirt. Oh, but you want it unbuttoned. Wait,
Speaker 3: so why are you wearing it with a dress shirt
Speaker 3: fully unbuttoned dress shirt?
Speaker 5: What if you have fully un butttoned like it's Michael
Speaker 5: in the video. No, no, like, all right, I'm at
Speaker 5: a wedding.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're at a wedding.
Speaker 4: And then hey, the wedding is getting a little hot.
Speaker 3: I want to take my tie off. I don't want
Speaker 3: a T shirt showing, right. That's a good the v
Speaker 3: never thought about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, interesting, and it's just enough where nobody's going look
Speaker 5: at that guy with his shirt undone, like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's not Danny Terrio, it's.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's like the eleven thirty at a wedding.
Speaker 5: Long Yeah, okay, well that said everybody would understand.
Speaker 4: Oh he took his tie off.
Speaker 5: Now we can see his T shirt, right because everybody
Speaker 5: else had the dance flow is doing that too, right.
Speaker 3: So, but it looks a little less cool when you
Speaker 3: can see the T shirt there. Yeah you want to Yeah,
Speaker 3: you wanted to look a little more casual.
Speaker 4: There was the era where you could get away with that.
Speaker 5: I remember learning that on Queerie, where you could wear
Speaker 5: a colored T shirt under a dress shirt.
Speaker 4: Oh that looks so bad. It looks bad.
Speaker 5: I wore that on stage for years because of queer eye,
Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, this is what they said
Speaker 5: to wear. And then somebody pointed out you seven years ago. Fair,
Speaker 5: very fair.
Speaker 3: Okay, well we haven't even opened the big gift gift
Speaker 3: here yet. Should I open this now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is a much larger It's like in a
Speaker 3: shoe box or something. Oh, it's heavy.
Speaker 4: Gets way to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've dropped that.
Speaker 4: I'm glad. I was kind of careful. You do it.
Speaker 3: Uh no, I want to hold this. I can do
Speaker 3: two things at once.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to be of assistant ripping and.
Speaker 3: We love the rip, we love the tear.
Speaker 4: Now, this can't possibly be what the gift is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it is, sure.
Speaker 3: Wait is this a car vacuum car back? And it's
Speaker 3: actually a carvack? There's nothing else in here open. I'm
Speaker 3: thrilled about this.
Speaker 4: I'm over the moon. It's yours. Why did you bring this?
Speaker 4: Here's why.
Speaker 3: It's a black and decker auto auto pivot vac.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's even pivot on its own. I will be
Speaker 4: doing no pivoting.
Speaker 5: I may that may be a mistake that I brought
Speaker 5: that that's a that's that's a nice gift for a
Speaker 5: dumb for a dumb hay bring a stupid gift thing. Uh,
Speaker 5: here's why, let me walking through it.
Speaker 4: Uh. I received that all right.
Speaker 5: Let's see, we started doing a wet white elephant on
Speaker 5: Christmas Eve several years back, and somebody brought that right,
Speaker 5: and I got it. I landed that as the white elephant.
Speaker 5: You know what white elephants where.
Speaker 4: It's recompetitive. Yeah, competitive, right, you don't know what you're getting.
Speaker 4: I want that one. I'm mad was that.
Speaker 3: I usually leave those mad that I didn't get the
Speaker 3: item I wanted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but is that that's part of the joy. No,
Speaker 4: not for me, not for you.
Speaker 3: I came to win.
Speaker 4: It's not a win.
Speaker 3: I came to win a vacu.
Speaker 5: Some people bring something like this like a back, and
Speaker 5: then other people will wrap up a potato, right, and
Speaker 5: that's fun too.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's fun. We love it.
Speaker 5: I love the white elephant. So anyway that person brought it,
Speaker 5: I got it. I then put it back in the circulation. Okay,
Speaker 5: somebody else got it. Then it came back to me.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Then the lockdown happened, and that's been with me since
Speaker 5: Christmas twenty nineteen. Wow, And I went, well, we don't
Speaker 5: know if we're doing Christmas Eve this year. We don't
Speaker 5: know if there's a White Elephants. I know how I
Speaker 5: can shake this thing loose.
Speaker 4: And here you have it.
Speaker 3: So you never had any plans to use it.
Speaker 5: No, I was going to completely just keep it was
Speaker 5: gonna be a running gag at the White Elephant.
Speaker 4: And now it's for you. I'm through now that I've
Speaker 4: opened it. Really look at it. That's a nice gift.
Speaker 3: Occasionally you need to vacuum the car and you're not
Speaker 3: at the car wash.
Speaker 4: You're, Oh, you're gonna store this thing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put it in the car. You are, I'll
Speaker 3: put it in the trunk. And it looks like it's
Speaker 3: car powered. I don't need to charge it or anything.
Speaker 4: It was car powered.
Speaker 3: So when I, you know, dump bird seat or whatever
Speaker 3: in the car, yeah, I don't. I don't need to
Speaker 3: turn to anyone. I can use the vacuum.
Speaker 4: Follow up, real quest, how often are you dumping bird seat?
Speaker 3: I'm on my way to the AVI area, I'm on
Speaker 3: my way to the pond, you know, I'm on my
Speaker 3: way to the Union Square. I'm just throwing bird seed.
Speaker 3: I love to feed the bird constant. Now my car's
Speaker 3: pretty tidy. I've got to keep a tidy car, do you.
Speaker 5: I keep my car as if it was still in
Speaker 5: the showroom. Wow, I am very nuts when it comes
Speaker 5: to any sort of our house. My friends used to
Speaker 5: call our house the model home because it would be,
Speaker 5: uh pristine.
Speaker 4: But it's like, well it is because you've came over.
Speaker 5: I cleaned the house, but it always kind of is
Speaker 5: close to that. My wife, my wife and son would
Speaker 5: prefer that I loosen.
Speaker 4: Up a little bit, so you're driving all of this
Speaker 4: one hundred. If they leave a glass out, they hear
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 5: And I've loosened up where I I now just passive aggressively.
Speaker 4: I'll move these and then I do it.
Speaker 5: But my car is like right now, there are some
Speaker 5: things on the my son got because I had to
Speaker 5: drop my son to school today. There is some stuff
Speaker 5: on the passenger floor mat that will be vacuumed up
Speaker 5: by day's end.
Speaker 4: What are they? You know, after something from a tree
Speaker 4: that you pine cone? It's a giant pine cone, oh jacket?
Speaker 5: Uh like maybe some little nut of some sort, like
Speaker 5: some little things some tree ner, our house, drops.
Speaker 3: The beach nut or something falling there. Okay, so do
Speaker 3: you have any like car rules like no drinks in
Speaker 3: the car, no eating in the car.
Speaker 5: Currently, no eating. This particular vehicle is only two months old.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but I can have a five year old
Speaker 5: one and you can eat, and eventually you can eat
Speaker 5: the car.
Speaker 3: There's a period with every car that you break through
Speaker 3: and you're like, well, I'm just going to eat here, right,
Speaker 3: it doesn't smell as new anymore. What am I going
Speaker 3: to take?
Speaker 4: Yes? I like to keep that new car smell as
Speaker 4: long as.
Speaker 3: Possible, right, I feel like I kept mine with my
Speaker 3: current car, like probably ten months. Good for you, Now
Speaker 3: it smells like a regular car. I think it's because
Speaker 3: the dog was in there.
Speaker 4: The dog's going to affect that quickly. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I had a little situation with this car where I,
Speaker 5: in fact, I wrote a national email that they, without
Speaker 5: my knowledge, sold me a car that was in the showroom.
Speaker 4: Oh, while it is essentially used.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, yes, in their opinion, and in a
Speaker 5: lawyer's opinion.
Speaker 4: No, a lawyer got involved.
Speaker 5: I got I got some I was really pissed off
Speaker 5: because it was like, why is there no new car
Speaker 5: smell in here?
Speaker 4: Why? Right?
Speaker 5: And I know, oh that's interesting. I didn't have to
Speaker 5: take those off of the light, you know, like the little.
Speaker 4: Sticker, And that's such a satisfying feeling. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: is there anything more satisfying than that peeling that.
Speaker 3: You get midway through and it just flies off.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5: I didn't do it as that, and it was like, wait,
Speaker 5: something's up. And then it dawned on me. This was
Speaker 5: a showroom car. It's a seat, there's there was some
Speaker 5: blood on the seat.
Speaker 4: And again that would be my memory. I murdered.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the car dealership's fault.
Speaker 5: I don't like my apologies to you and the attorney
Speaker 5: I got. I was pissed off, like I, this is.
Speaker 4: Not a to me. I agree it to me.
Speaker 5: That's a used car. Ow Yes, it only had three
Speaker 5: miles on it. Okay, but people kids, kids were bored
Speaker 5: waiting for their parents to finish their deal, so they sat.
Speaker 4: In this car.
Speaker 3: Somebody was sitting in there with their car dealership coffee. Yes,
Speaker 3: touching everything and fiddly.
Speaker 4: And that's the other thing.
Speaker 5: The the the driver's side visor is not as tight as.
Speaker 4: It should be horrible because dangerous people always put that
Speaker 4: down like, oh, I'm gonna check this car out. Oh okay,
Speaker 4: that works, and of course that works. You don't have
Speaker 4: to do that, but this one had hundreds of people
Speaker 4: doing it.
Speaker 3: Of course that thing is gonna swing down and it's
Speaker 3: gonna thank you.
Speaker 4: Scalp you that happens, sir.
Speaker 5: I will take I will, I will fire my attorney
Speaker 5: and bring you in on this.
Speaker 3: I just know a lot more than your stupid attorney.
Speaker 5: Nobody, nobody else agreed with me that I was getting
Speaker 5: a used car. They all landed on it's only got
Speaker 5: three miles.
Speaker 4: On it, sir.
Speaker 3: But that's just half of the story. Think that is
Speaker 3: truly half of the battle.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 5: Not only did the car dealership that agree with me
Speaker 5: and this attorney, there's a chance my wife and son
Speaker 5: didn't agree with me. My my closer friends than you
Speaker 5: did not agree with you. Everybody thinks I'm nuts, but
Speaker 5: the fact that you went that's essentially used car tells
Speaker 5: me I'm not completely nuts in this case.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 3: I'm redean. How long was this legal battle?
Speaker 5: It went back legal battles strong phrase It went on
Speaker 5: for about seven emails.
Speaker 4: So that's a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they eventually ended up giving me a little
Speaker 5: bit of money back.
Speaker 3: Okay, but how much can I ask?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Radical honesty? What radical honesty?
Speaker 5: I believe I got five hundred and twenty seven dollars back.
Speaker 4: Not bad something it was.
Speaker 5: It was a weird amount, Okay, Yeah there, And I
Speaker 5: don't remember why this was grateful that it was somewhat
Speaker 5: of a win, right, but I think it's an empty win.
Speaker 3: But to get anything back, I'm not even sure what
Speaker 3: I wanted, Like, yeah, were you thinking you were gonna
Speaker 3: get a new car?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I kind of was.
Speaker 5: I think in my head I was like I even said,
Speaker 5: I recognize that now has sixty miles on it, and
Speaker 5: you can't.
Speaker 4: Give me a new car. But I am open to
Speaker 4: that as if I'm doing them the favor. And they're like, they.
Speaker 3: And what do you want us to do with this car?
Speaker 4: Right? Well, you sell it at the showroom, put in
Speaker 4: the showroom. Yeah, it infuriates me.
Speaker 3: Now at the time when you bought it, yeah, well
Speaker 3: you didn't notice that there was no.
Speaker 4: New car smell. I guess I didn't.
Speaker 3: Not trying to blame the victim here, But.
Speaker 5: I guess I didn't. I guess I just was like, uh,
Speaker 5: or maybe it had it for that day?
Speaker 4: Oh interesting, you know to me like it?
Speaker 5: But I did notice it very rapidly because that was
Speaker 5: part of my email, like this car doesn't even have
Speaker 5: a new car smell and I've only had it four days, Like.
Speaker 4: It was all this was. I reacted quickly to this.
Speaker 3: You were probably riding the high of a new car.
Speaker 3: You were so excited about every other element of it.
Speaker 3: I WoT that you were being absolutely ripped off.
Speaker 4: Yes. Wow.
Speaker 5: I also was more focused on the you know what
Speaker 5: am I getting in the in the interior?
Speaker 4: You know? Do I like the displays? Do I like this?
Speaker 4: That and the other? So I may not have noticed
Speaker 4: that at the at the dealer. Wow, clearly I didn't.
Speaker 3: Was it hard buying the car? When I bought my car,
Speaker 3: it was a nightmare.
Speaker 4: I get a car every three years.
Speaker 5: Okay, leasing, I lease, okay, And it's a nightmare every time.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't have to be. Yeah it shouldn't. Why
Speaker 4: do we play that game? Are you?
Speaker 3: Do you get into big fights with the salespeople.
Speaker 5: I threatened to walk away, and uh, my friend Adam
Speaker 5: Ferrara it to only the best thing to do is
Speaker 5: to go across the street to a competitor and find
Speaker 5: out a salesman's name.
Speaker 4: There. Oh, go to where you.
Speaker 5: Want to go and go look, I'll go over to Tony.
Speaker 5: Tony gave me a great deal over at the Ford dealership.
Speaker 3: Clearly a made up.
Speaker 5: Name, and and then the person they but if it's
Speaker 5: not made up, but they go.
Speaker 3: I think they know Tony over God.
Speaker 4: I think the dealers come out and have some sort
Speaker 4: of a joust in the.
Speaker 3: Middle of the street. Fights, Yeah, jets.
Speaker 5: They're on auto lane or whatever they call that. Those
Speaker 5: places where a bunch of dealerships. I think I do
Speaker 5: think they all know each other. Because I also think
Speaker 5: that Tony once worked over it.
Speaker 3: Right, there's probably a lot of cross.
Speaker 4: Breeding, a lot of instation.
Speaker 5: That's not a word says incestuous behavior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's there's things happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so that was his advice, and I
Speaker 5: try and doesn't work.
Speaker 4: You see right through my nest.
Speaker 3: You got to take Gym with Yougoo's good at it.
Speaker 3: It's deeply uncomfortable when you're with him. I'm like apologizing
Speaker 3: to the salesperson. But then at some point they reveal
Speaker 3: themselves as horrible, and I'm like, oh, great, Jim's being
Speaker 3: horrible to a person who's horrible, and then he gets
Speaker 3: a great I mean, he gets so much.
Speaker 4: I gotta read Jim.
Speaker 3: It's incredible. You've just got to take someone who's willing
Speaker 3: to really stand up for themselves and be like, you're
Speaker 3: trying to rip me off.
Speaker 4: Well, guess who's not doing that?
Speaker 3: Not me, not you? No, well then you're getting ripped off.
Speaker 5: I'm firm about other things, but there, it's kind of like,
Speaker 5: even though even though I'm in the driver's seat literally literally,
Speaker 5: they still have some power over I feel they have
Speaker 5: some power over me because I think they know I'm
Speaker 5: not walking out right.
Speaker 4: I know you need a car, they know I.
Speaker 3: Need a car, And for me, it's like, who am
Speaker 3: I to say what a car should cost?
Speaker 4: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Right it might be worth tens of thousands of dollars
Speaker 3: more than they're willing to pay. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: can't be like, you're this is not the right price, right,
Speaker 3: but Jim, Jim knows, she knows unless and this would
Speaker 3: be even more embarrassing. They're still like when we rip
Speaker 3: them off and that guy freaked out, he's not freaking out,
Speaker 3: but he's you know, he's like.
Speaker 4: They still got one over on them. Yeah, that would
Speaker 4: be really embarrassed.
Speaker 5: I think every time I leave, when they you know,
Speaker 5: how they come out, they go thank you. I think
Speaker 5: then they turn and did they just all start laughing
Speaker 5: at Yes. I think they all just laugh at me.
Speaker 3: That sucker, that absolute sucker. And they got you this, son.
Speaker 5: Oh they got me this. There's no question they got
Speaker 5: me this time. I've talked about this with my therapist, everybody,
Speaker 5: every and even she who's supposed to just listen was
Speaker 5: not on my side.
Speaker 3: Your therapist was not on your side here.
Speaker 5: No, she's think it is as a it's a new car.
Speaker 5: It's not relax stop.
Speaker 4: Someone was probably vaping in there. There could be a vapor.
Speaker 4: There's there's talk there could have been a lodger.
Speaker 3: Certainly a lodger in there. They had a lodger, right,
Speaker 3: That's how they make their That's like how they keep
Speaker 3: the doors open at the card.
Speaker 4: That's how they do that. They would like taking lodgers
Speaker 4: in their costmarks.
Speaker 3: Just a lot of people sleeping in those car lots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the car lots.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, do you vacuum and clean your own card
Speaker 3: you take it to somebody.
Speaker 4: I will every now and then have them do it.
Speaker 4: But I have a one of those.
Speaker 5: Buy a package at the local express car washing near
Speaker 5: my house.
Speaker 4: Okay, they do a nice job.
Speaker 5: And for thirty bucks a month, I can get a
Speaker 5: car wash every day.
Speaker 3: It's like a subscription service. Yeah, thirty bucks a month.
Speaker 3: What a deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and because one car wash is like thirteen bucks, right,
Speaker 5: and then you get free use to the vacuum and
Speaker 5: uh and so I don't vacuum it every day, but
Speaker 5: I do get my car washed closed every day.
Speaker 3: It feels like you're doing damage here.
Speaker 4: That's what I thought too. Yeah, am I taking off some.
Speaker 3: This is like some washing their hands and then suddenly
Speaker 3: their hands are like yeah, really dry.
Speaker 4: And I'm nuts.
Speaker 5: If I'm anywhere near that car wash, I'm goh, we're
Speaker 5: close the swing boy, we're paying for it, And Danielle
Speaker 5: will go, you just did it yesterday. I go, right,
Speaker 5: but we're there, We're so close, and She's like, we're
Speaker 5: the neighbor. We're always so close.
Speaker 3: Is it one of the ones where the car is
Speaker 3: getting dragged through and beaten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love those. I worked at one
Speaker 4: in high school.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And it was one of the ones that
Speaker 3: the big wet Noodlesla car was one of the one
Speaker 3: were you doing just helping people get into the track?
Speaker 4: We would it was on a busy day. Was that
Speaker 4: it was a multi man uh operation.
Speaker 5: Okay, one person would be at the booth taking the money, right,
Speaker 5: the next person would be the person guiding them into
Speaker 5: the track.
Speaker 3: That part I'm always I don't care how much they're
Speaker 3: giving me a thumbs up. I'm like, this is when
Speaker 3: my tires going to get ripped off.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you something? I'm good about three things
Speaker 5: in this world. One of them is driving my car
Speaker 5: into that car wash.
Speaker 4: Really, they never need to.
Speaker 5: Go I never get the thumb left or right. I'm already.
Speaker 5: They just pulled me in. And I think even when
Speaker 5: I leave, they go, look that guy, you know how
Speaker 5: to do it. I think opposite of the car leadership,
Speaker 5: they're not laughing at me at the car.
Speaker 4: Wash, dude. And then there'd be two people drying the
Speaker 4: car down.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, that's on a busy day. On a slow
Speaker 5: day would be a one man operation.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of response you to do it all? Wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you have a favorite position there?
Speaker 4: Will?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: I like I like taking the money.
Speaker 5: I like being that guy because you can talk to
Speaker 5: people and we would make we would make stuff up.
Speaker 5: Uh like Uh, I would say if you pulled up,
Speaker 5: I would go, uh, Hayser, Welcome to winter Corns. That
Speaker 5: was name of the place, Winter Corns car wash. It
Speaker 5: was an Amico walking to the winter Corns. Uh, real fast?
Speaker 5: Who's your favorite Marx brother?
Speaker 4: Groucho?
Speaker 5: We got the Groucher special going today. And what I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do for you is for at the time, three dollars.
Speaker 5: For three dollars, We're gonna wash the car. We're gonna
Speaker 5: use soap, We're to throw wax on there. And when
Speaker 5: we're done, we're gonna we're gonna drive the thing off
Speaker 5: with cloth towels.
Speaker 4: You want in Yeah, I'll take that deal. What does
Speaker 4: that cost? Without beat the Grouncer deal? Three dollars? There's
Speaker 4: no deal, but we would do that. What a rip
Speaker 4: to get uh, to get the sales?
Speaker 3: And it was always the Marx brothers.
Speaker 4: I would know, what's your favorite comedy movie?
Speaker 3: Oh, let's uh, Lost in America.
Speaker 4: We got the Loss in America special.
Speaker 5: Go today all Albert Brooks movies are getting on special
Speaker 5: for three dollars.
Speaker 4: We're gonna watch the car.
Speaker 5: Like and I read walking Through And they would all go, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I'll do that.
Speaker 4: Wow what a thing. Yeah. Every now with that, a
Speaker 4: guy would go, what's the cost?
Speaker 5: If I don't get that specially, I go it's the
Speaker 5: same price, and then you go oh.
Speaker 4: Then they would. Then they would do it because they
Speaker 4: enjoyed the fun of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean at the very least they get to
Speaker 3: name a favorite thing. Yes, everyone loves the name of
Speaker 3: favorite thing.
Speaker 5: We actually, except for your ear. When I said who's
Speaker 5: your favorite band? You panic.
Speaker 3: I panic about anytime you say favorite thing because I
Speaker 3: don't really know that I have a favorite thing of
Speaker 3: anything anymore. You don't have a favorite movie, no, because
Speaker 3: I have. I have movies I like for different moods.
Speaker 3: I have a lot of movies I really love. I
Speaker 3: have a lot of bands I really love. Like in
Speaker 3: high school, I had a favorite band, I had a
Speaker 3: favorite movie, I had a favorite this for that.
Speaker 4: Now it's just like general nostalgia reasons. You don't have
Speaker 4: like like my favorite movie is Breaking Away. I don't
Speaker 4: know that movie. Oh it's oh, it's wonderful, nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 5: It's a coming of age based in Bloomington, Indiana. One
Speaker 5: best screenplay, I believe, but it is, Uh, it just was.
Speaker 5: I was younger than that. These guys are graduating high
Speaker 5: school and they don't know what they're gonna do with
Speaker 5: their lives, okay, And I was in eighth grade when
Speaker 5: it came out in seventy nine, and we were moving
Speaker 5: to a new house, and so I kind of related
Speaker 5: in a way of well, I don't know what I'm doing,
Speaker 5: I'm lost to sure and it's certainly not similar, but
Speaker 5: that's how I felt, and so I've kind of brought
Speaker 5: that with me. I kind of like the lead kind
Speaker 5: of was like an out you know, kind of an outsider,
Speaker 5: didn't really fit in. That's kind of I felt the
Speaker 5: same way.
Speaker 4: And so like, I just that movie just was it right?
Speaker 5: And since then, I've seen movies that I think were, well,
Speaker 5: this would be my favorite, but that one's nothing.
Speaker 3: Ways, I got an emotional yes, like nothing's gonna own
Speaker 3: since memory almost Yeah yeah, yeah, interesting. And now you're
Speaker 3: saying that reminds me, I really love the movie bad Lands.
Speaker 3: You know this movie.
Speaker 4: I don't know a movie.
Speaker 3: Terrence Malick movie incredible.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: Also, speaking of jeans and white shirt combo, it's uh,
Speaker 3: who's the family with the Kardashians. It's Kim Kardashi.
Speaker 4: You're a family.
Speaker 3: It's two famous people and I can't remember either of
Speaker 3: them right.
Speaker 4: Now, Julia and Eric Roberts. Only Martin Sheen, Martin she yes, excellent.
Speaker 4: They're both so young in it, and there wonderful actors
Speaker 4: and actress and.
Speaker 3: Just kind of a crime movie.
Speaker 4: Bad Lands, bad Lands, great movie. I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 5: This is you're gonna think I'm making this up. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna watch that tonight with my son.
Speaker 3: I thought you'll really like it.
Speaker 4: But here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: I goes, you know what, Oliver, I got a great
Speaker 5: I got a great recommendation for us. Let's watch bad Lands, dad.
Speaker 5: I watched that during the pandemic. Okay, that's what it's
Speaker 5: gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But there's rewatching is more fun than watching.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't find that anymore. Really, I don't.
Speaker 3: You're not into that.
Speaker 5: I mean I could watch Glengarry Glenn Ross eight million times, right,
Speaker 5: I could watch Breaking Away, I could watch Halloween, I
Speaker 5: could watch Jaws. But you know, like an off brand
Speaker 5: bad Lands, I think I'm on and done.
Speaker 3: Badlands is not off brea off brand he's got.
Speaker 4: It's got unknown mark.
Speaker 3: You're gonna love it, both of you're gonna.
Speaker 4: I can't which is it? It's really good.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know why that reminded
Speaker 3: me of bad Lands. Maybe seventies movies. Maybe that's maybe
Speaker 3: how it clicks for me. But yeah, I've got favorites
Speaker 3: of all sorts. Sure, after hours speaking of comedy movie,
Speaker 3: as soon as I said Lost in America, I thought no,
Speaker 3: after hours, Griffin done, Griffin done? He what happened to me?
Speaker 4: What happened to grif? Why did Griffin Dune? He did?
Speaker 4: After Hours? And and the Werewolf movie? Bof is that?
Speaker 4: Uh los? Or Werewolf of London? Where London?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Did he not become a gigantic stuff?
Speaker 3: Right? I mean he is kind of a name. Everybody
Speaker 3: nobody knows. Griffin done. But but whydey Griffin Dunn? Never
Speaker 3: get his rob blow on West Wing sort of thing, right,
Speaker 3: ever had a renaissance or anything. He must have crossed somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's something happened, probably around nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4: I think it was the early nineties. Right, somebody's like
Speaker 4: you thought you were on the rise. No, done, you
Speaker 4: are done. That's what your finished. But they sound the same.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I think we should play a game. I'm
Speaker 3: thrilled about this vacuum, but we should play a game.
Speaker 4: Okay, on a leash.
Speaker 3: It's a gift a curse today, fantastic. I'm getting so
Speaker 3: good at this with two different games, and so I'm
Speaker 3: trying to alternate them every time so the listeners don't
Speaker 3: scream at me. And I'm speaking of good memories. I'm
Speaker 3: able to kind of alternate. Remember what we did last episode?
Speaker 4: You did? Remember you just asked her? She told you, Well,
Speaker 4: but I guessed correctly. Let me do something with that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw this in the trash.
Speaker 4: Fair.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just moving out of the way because I
Speaker 3: need access to my computer.
Speaker 5: All right, you're doing it so precuriously. I got worried
Speaker 5: that you're going to hurt your arm.
Speaker 3: Using the vacuum.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's pivoted, pivoted in a way that no
Speaker 3: normal person will ever use a vacuum.
Speaker 4: I bet you will use it like that.
Speaker 3: You don't post a photo of that on Instagram ever
Speaker 3: done that.
Speaker 4: I regret giving you this. I'm not kidding. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have a clue car. It's got ten position pivoting nozzle.
Speaker 3: You never with these tiny vacuums. You only ever need
Speaker 3: it in one position.
Speaker 5: I think you're gonna find that you're you're misspeaking. You're
Speaker 5: gonna find out that you're you're gonna use it in
Speaker 5: all ten.
Speaker 4: It's got ten. You're gonna use seven of those ten minimum.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna use all ten. I want you to report
Speaker 3: back to me, Okay, I'm gonna I'm going to I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to.
Speaker 5: The store and by myself one of these today. This
Speaker 5: was a horrible error.
Speaker 3: This podcast just cost you one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: I could have brought you anything, right, true, I could
Speaker 5: have just bought that photo had been done with it.
Speaker 4: Play your game, okay, I'm going to argue about it.
Speaker 4: I need a number between.
Speaker 3: One and from you, uh seven, Okay, I have to
Speaker 3: do some light calculating to get our game pieces. So
Speaker 3: right now, you can recommend something, you can promote something,
Speaker 3: do whatever you want with a microphone.
Speaker 4: I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Well, I recommend people listening to my word Winni podcast,
Speaker 5: Never Not Funny. I also got a brand new web series,
Speaker 5: brand new season of my web series, Jimmy's Records and Tapes.
Speaker 5: Season four is beginning, and Jimmy's Records Tapes is where
Speaker 5: I each week we'll talk about five of my favorite
Speaker 5: of something. This week it is five favorite live albums.
Speaker 5: Then I have five like I've done five favorite songs
Speaker 5: that have the harmonica, I've done five favorite horrible songs.
Speaker 5: So and it's just me rambling no surprise about what
Speaker 5: I like musically. And it's not always the five. Sometimes
Speaker 5: it'll be There's a lot of ties and a lot
Speaker 5: of honorable mentions.
Speaker 3: That sounds great.
Speaker 5: It's fun people see people that like music, and again
Speaker 5: that like, even if you don't like my music, you
Speaker 5: like the way that I talk passionately.
Speaker 4: Or stupidly about it. People seem to like them.
Speaker 5: It did not become the viral sensation I was hoping,
Speaker 5: But I do it for the folks that like it.
Speaker 3: I love to listen to people talk about their favorite
Speaker 3: things what was your number one live favorite live album?
Speaker 4: Kiss A Live two.
Speaker 5: Oh, and again, that's a lot of nostalgia there of
Speaker 5: getting back in Christmas in nineteen seventy seven and staring
Speaker 5: at that album cover and listening to those songs that
Speaker 5: I heard.
Speaker 4: You know now, I'm I basically have a greatest hits
Speaker 4: album of Kiss, right, you know?
Speaker 3: Of so yeah, I bet I could get into Kiss.
Speaker 4: They've got you know what. They are much maligned and
Speaker 4: maybe rightfully so. I mean they seem like terrible guys,
Speaker 4: one of them does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul Stanley has turned a corner and has become
Speaker 5: actually a pretty decent guy.
Speaker 4: Oh, good for him. Yeah, Geene Simmons, I think it's still.
Speaker 3: Really on that. I think he's gonna stick with that.
Speaker 5: I think I think if in a different world he'd
Speaker 5: have a red hat on on a regular basis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he would have been at the Capitol
Speaker 4: on jan six. If he wasn't Gene Simmons, he may
Speaker 4: have been there, could have been there.
Speaker 5: He's always in disguise. They've got a lot of great power.
Speaker 4: Pop songs, right exactly. And I love that they were
Speaker 4: like people.
Speaker 5: They got mad at them when they did Dynasty, which
Speaker 5: had I was Made for Loving You on It, which
Speaker 5: is a disco song.
Speaker 4: It was like they weren't heavy. They were never heavy.
Speaker 3: Metal, right, they were always like pop music that just
Speaker 3: had like kind of a.
Speaker 4: Rock d Yeah, they've had a lot of good songs.
Speaker 5: They had a lot of crap like every band, but
Speaker 5: they got a lot of great songs.
Speaker 3: I'm going to try to get into Kiss.
Speaker 4: Do yourself that favorite and then and then go you
Speaker 4: know what, not for me, do what everybody and you
Speaker 4: know what tried to try to start with the best
Speaker 4: of best of. Yeah, try to start with one of.
Speaker 3: Those best ofs always scare me, I feel like, because
Speaker 3: I feel like a best of, like the last forty
Speaker 3: is newer stuff.
Speaker 4: No, they're not doing that.
Speaker 3: They're not doing that.
Speaker 4: That is not the only Kiss rolls.
Speaker 3: I feel like if I got a best of Kiss
Speaker 3: that was produced in like nineteen eighty five, I would
Speaker 3: probably be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, can look into that. Yeah what am I?
Speaker 3: Oh? The thing I'm recommending today, of course, is brazil
Speaker 3: Nuts on the beach.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 3: I mean what else could I recommend it? I also
Speaker 3: like the movie After Life. Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 3: The Japanese movie No beautiful movie. Really a beautiful movie
Speaker 3: about being dead.
Speaker 4: I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: It's really a nice movie. I can recommend that. All right, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is how we play Gift for a curse. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna name what is it called after of the game,
Speaker 3: not the movie?
Speaker 4: The game.
Speaker 3: First of all. The movie is called after Life. Let's
Speaker 3: just say it again.
Speaker 4: Game is called gift or a curse? Gift or a curse.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna name three things and I got Okay,
Speaker 3: you have to tell me if there are a gift
Speaker 3: or a curse and why. Oh, and then I'll tell
Speaker 3: you if you're right or wrong, because there are correct answers.
Speaker 3: Can't be Oh, there certainly can all right, okay. Number
Speaker 3: one this is from a listener named Rebecca. Rebecca wants
Speaker 3: to know gift or a curse? Scary movie trailers with
Speaker 3: full jump scare scenes playing before a movie that is
Speaker 3: not scary.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Boy, you know it's interesting because my son will leave.
Speaker 5: My son hates scary movies, so he will lead if
Speaker 5: one of those comes on, he will go.
Speaker 4: He will leave the theater. Wow, that's dedication. So for him,
Speaker 4: I guess it's a curse.
Speaker 5: But I don't even know if it's a I can't
Speaker 5: even but for me, who I do like those sort
Speaker 5: of movies.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a gift either. Oh I don't.
Speaker 5: I think it's a curse because I don't want to
Speaker 5: know where the jump scares are gonna be.
Speaker 4: Oh interesting, So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 4: land on curse. Wrong, damn it to hell. I'm over one.
Speaker 4: They're a gift, I liar.
Speaker 3: They give a fun, little free scare in front of
Speaker 3: Trolls three.
Speaker 4: I did not show that. I love.
Speaker 3: If a trailer can scare me, they've done a good job,
Speaker 3: because usually trailers don't scare you, all right, I mean
Speaker 3: the one I can really think of the really scared
Speaker 3: pretty much everyone was for The Nun. Do you remember this?
Speaker 3: Just the Nun? This was in like twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: They were playing. Remember they had.
Speaker 3: Essentially just one scene from the movie. I think that
Speaker 3: ended with a jump scare that terrified everything. I love it,
Speaker 3: and also I love people aren't prepared for that. They're
Speaker 3: learning a little lesson about themselves. We're all going through
Speaker 3: something emotionally together. It's an excellent the gift. Okay, wonderful Okay.
Speaker 3: Number two. This is from someone named Peter. Peter suggested
Speaker 3: saying you read a book, just to describe having listened
Speaker 3: to the audio.
Speaker 4: Book gift or a curse? A gift? Why? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Look the way you said why, Like, I'm already wrong.
Speaker 5: It's a gift because you did read the book. But
Speaker 5: he's saying the gift is lying to somebody.
Speaker 4: What's the what am I?
Speaker 3: He's wondering if you if people saying, oh, I read
Speaker 3: the book and then you find out later that they
Speaker 3: checked out the CDs at the library, and you're he
Speaker 3: thinks that that's.
Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna set my answer.
Speaker 5: It's a curse because then I got to hear that
Speaker 5: guy talk about that book, and I don't I don't
Speaker 5: want to hear about anybody talking about the book, whether
Speaker 5: they read it or listen to it.
Speaker 4: So it's a curse. That's a curse. Oh wrong, Wrong again.
Speaker 4: I think it's a gift.
Speaker 3: You've read the book, you did the work. However, you
Speaker 3: got the book into your brain.
Speaker 5: Now you're changing it though you're saying I thought I
Speaker 5: was the person listened to person talk about the book.
Speaker 4: It's a curse to me, it's a gift to you.
Speaker 3: As far as the game rules go, it's a gift. Ah, okay,
Speaker 3: zero out of two so far. We hate to hear it.
Speaker 3: It's just the worst thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: This is the this is the worst performance in the
Speaker 4: history of the game.
Speaker 3: Actually, no, a few people have lost. There are a
Speaker 3: few people have lost, but you might not lose. I
Speaker 3: don't know what here's Eric Eric suggested, gift or a curse.
Speaker 3: Grocery stores that play a thunderstorm sound effect before missing
Speaker 3: the produce.
Speaker 4: That's a gift? Why? Because what a joy?
Speaker 5: What a joy that somebody went out of their way
Speaker 5: to say we had a little show for you.
Speaker 4: That's a show? Are you kidding me? That's cucumbers in
Speaker 4: a show. I mean, if I'm wrong on this one,
Speaker 4: I'm walking. I'm not kidding. I'm leaving the premises the
Speaker 4: same way I went at a at a car dealer ship.
Speaker 3: I can't argue with that. What a delight. Yes, I've
Speaker 3: never gotten to experience because that's a problem. But maybe
Speaker 3: what grocery stores are doing this I don't know, but
Speaker 3: I want to go there. That sounds incredible. I mean,
Speaker 3: the one problem I see is I feel like every
Speaker 3: section of the grocery store should have a sound effect.
Speaker 3: But oh, I'd be thrilled. They should have lightning going,
Speaker 3: they should flash the lights.
Speaker 4: You think there should be Little Tellian mused in the
Speaker 4: pasta and sauces asle.
Speaker 3: Little Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 4: No, I don't want that.
Speaker 5: It's a likely no matter. It's the last thing I want.
Speaker 5: Maybe just some ambiance your husband, what about the cereal
Speaker 5: or something something fun, something.
Speaker 3: Fun, Yeah, peppy, so kids I could go for. I
Speaker 3: mean that grocery store is probably a racket at this point.
Speaker 3: There's too much noise, too many conflicting sounds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you're walking out that aisle, they've got
Speaker 4: enough speaker set up and all you hear.
Speaker 3: Is the ambience. It's gotta be fun. It's an experience. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a gift.
Speaker 5: And when you're at Disneyland and you're just walking around
Speaker 5: and then the second you walk into frontier Land, you
Speaker 5: hear that music. You didn't hear it right a foot
Speaker 5: and a half away from it. The second you step in,
Speaker 5: your hear it. Same with the aisles.
Speaker 3: Disney should get into the grocery business.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see him expand you're having a tough time.
Speaker 4: Drop everything, go into the Yeah, I would chop at
Speaker 4: a Disney grocery store.
Speaker 3: Actually, it would probably be it would absolutely devastate you financially.
Speaker 4: It would be too expension. I'd go once.
Speaker 3: It would be a fun little experience. Yes, that's an
Speaker 3: idea for Disney to continue ripping people off.
Speaker 4: Go for it.
Speaker 3: Okay, you got one out of three bad not a
Speaker 3: good job, that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, you so you knew when I was over two
Speaker 4: I couldn't win, and you said you could still win.
Speaker 4: You gave me false I say you could still win.
Speaker 3: Yes, what I meant to say is you can still
Speaker 3: not walk away a complete mess.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, I'll accept that thing.
Speaker 3: Which is a little win. It's kind of a little win.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna you know what, I'm gonna leave here on
Speaker 5: a high because you said I was a good looking man,
Speaker 5: so I'm still on that.
Speaker 3: You're taking a couple of things away with this, and
Speaker 3: you're leaving a vacuum.
Speaker 4: I'm leaving a very expensive gag gift. Okay.
Speaker 3: This is the final segment of the podcast. It's called
Speaker 3: I said no emails people right in to I said,
Speaker 3: no gifts at gmail dot com with whatever questions they want, problems,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah they want to answer. So, okay, will
Speaker 3: you help me answer a question? Okay, let me get
Speaker 3: into the doc. Here, open opening, opening, So like it's
Speaker 3: recess at the moment, it is currently recess. I wonder
Speaker 3: if the listener will be able to hear recess. What
Speaker 3: do you think, on Lisa, So they're hearing the joy
Speaker 3: of children's laughter? What an incredible benefit of this podcast?
Speaker 3: What other podcast has the joy of children's laughter?
Speaker 4: None? None, just the playground podcast? That would be it.
Speaker 5: Okay, should buy some creep, right, some guys, this car
Speaker 5: records this.
Speaker 4: Recording from the Special Elementary. Now, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 4: that's not a bad idea. I'm gonna pitch it. Read
Speaker 4: it over to. That's gonna be the next exactly right pod.
Speaker 4: Crime is on the way out. Now it's like active crime.
Speaker 3: You're committing a crime while doing the podcast. Truer crime. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is dear Bridger and delightful guest.
Speaker 4: That's very nice, thank you.
Speaker 3: I am an administrator at a university and I supervise
Speaker 3: six employees my salary is not hugely larger than theirs,
Speaker 3: but I still feel I should give holiday gifts to
Speaker 3: people I directly supervise. I am financially able to give
Speaker 3: the all gifts in the area of thirty dollars apiece.
Speaker 3: Since this will come from my personal money, what should
Speaker 3: I give my own? Past supervisors often gave me twenty
Speaker 3: five dollars Starbucks gift cards, but that feels both impersonal
Speaker 3: and self serving. Since caffeine is mostly a prerequisite for working.
Speaker 3: I would love to give them all significant raises, and
Speaker 3: I do give them good reviews, but ultimately, salaries are
Speaker 3: determined by our budget and HR offices, so compensation is
Speaker 3: not in my control. It sounds like they're dodging blame here.
Speaker 3: What is an appropriate and inexpensive gift for six employees
Speaker 3: that says I appreciate you, and our department would fall
Speaker 3: apart without you, and none of us are paid enough.
Speaker 3: But here's a little holiday cheer. Well, okay, if I've
Speaker 3: ever seen a run on sentence, I hope this person's
Speaker 3: not in charge of the English Department. Thanks Julie. Julie
Speaker 3: has six employees. Julie obviously is like saying a bunch
Speaker 3: of bad stuff about her past supervisors. They didn't give
Speaker 3: thoughtful enough gifts to Julie. So she's got kind of
Speaker 3: a high opinion in of herself, and she's got about
Speaker 3: what's sixty or thirty times six is one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty dollars Harney Bucks, one hundred and eighty ish dollars
Speaker 3: for the six employees. What do you give your employees?
Speaker 3: Do you give your employees any money or any gifts?
Speaker 4: Or will you'll give them a Christmas bonus? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you give a bonus. The bonus is such a
Speaker 3: wonderful feeling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we give them a nice Christmas bonus. I will say,
Speaker 5: in Julie's case, based on that email, maybe just a
Speaker 5: day of silence would be a gift, because good.
Speaker 4: Lord, that was a lot. I will see. I will say,
Speaker 4: I will say this. I will never it may be impersonal.
Speaker 5: It may if you want to give me a twenty
Speaker 5: five dollars target card, I will never not like that.
Speaker 3: I love it, and.
Speaker 4: I get I bet you her employees will feel the
Speaker 4: same way. Who doesn't want that?
Speaker 3: It feels great?
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: I think as a society we finally moved on to
Speaker 3: say gift cards are great.
Speaker 4: They're great.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with a gift card. I don't feel
Speaker 3: like it's impersonal. I just think, oh, you have a
Speaker 3: life that you're living, and you can't constantly dedicate yourself
Speaker 3: to thinking about my everyone of my interests.
Speaker 5: Or bopping around to Bridger likes music, I'll go to
Speaker 5: the record store and get him something.
Speaker 4: You know, on a least likes t shirts, I'll go
Speaker 4: to the story and get.
Speaker 3: Her that, right, Right, I've got other things to do.
Speaker 5: I got other things to do. I've I've got a
Speaker 5: department to run. I think the gift cards will win.
Speaker 5: And I know it's impersonal.
Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't think it's a personal anymore.
Speaker 4: I think it's a wonderful gift.
Speaker 3: How about it You go to a nice like a
Speaker 3: local fun restaurant, then and get the gift cards there.
Speaker 4: Wonderful. Then it's a little more specific. It's not coffee.
Speaker 5: You know what else is nice, although the money doesn't
Speaker 5: cover it, is a massage.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean a thirty dollars massage. Is you're
Speaker 3: in the middle of the mall, that's probably a mall massage.
Speaker 4: In that weird chair. That weird chair laying down.
Speaker 3: Next to like the ear piercing pagoda. Right, that's not
Speaker 3: a place you want to get a massage, but a massage.
Speaker 4: What a gift. It's a nice gift, you know what
Speaker 4: you do.
Speaker 3: She's got one hundred and eighty dollars, gives one of
Speaker 3: the employees one hundred dollars massage, and then the rest
Speaker 3: of them get kind of crummy gifts, and now they're
Speaker 3: competing with each other. I need to do a better job.
Speaker 4: Did you get that?
Speaker 3: We say it again?
Speaker 4: Why did you get that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, why'd you get that?
Speaker 5: I do character to throw you. I was trying to
Speaker 5: do some character work.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, suddenly I'm questioning everything. No, I
Speaker 3: think that's a great way of strategy to keep your
Speaker 3: employees on their toes. One hundred dollars to local massage
Speaker 3: parlor or maybe not a parlor.
Speaker 4: No, not a parlor or maybe a parlor.
Speaker 3: Actually, that's gonna get Julie fired.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get a legit, Oh yeah, legit? What do you
Speaker 4: call that?
Speaker 3: A massage center?
Speaker 4: A spa, A spa spat spa day.
Speaker 3: And then she's got eighty dollars for five other people
Speaker 3: and they're getting Krummy gifts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but eighteen bucks each.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're all and then they're kind of working
Speaker 3: to get that other person out of a job. There's
Speaker 3: something to watch for the next year. You get to
Speaker 3: watch them fight amongst each other.
Speaker 4: That's a perfect gift. I think it's wonderful. I think
Speaker 4: we've answered to this question clear. I would welcome an
Speaker 4: eighteen dollars target gift card. I would five dollars.
Speaker 3: Look, I can put it towards something I don't care.
Speaker 5: I get excited when the pharmacists said, oh, you've just
Speaker 5: been your tenth prescription. Here's a five dollars coupon.
Speaker 4: It feels great.
Speaker 3: Anything fifty cents might be an inconvenience. Can you put
Speaker 3: fifty cents on.
Speaker 4: A gift card? I don't think you can go that way.
Speaker 3: That would be insulting.
Speaker 4: I think it'd be you'd make your statement.
Speaker 3: It would be something about yourself and you're giving it. Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: Julie's got her answer, and her employees are now fighting
Speaker 3: with each other and the department is in chaos, and
Speaker 3: Julie has some she's probably bored with her job. She's
Speaker 3: writing into a podcast for answers. She clearly needs something
Speaker 3: to do at length. At length. Yeah, this is probably
Speaker 3: two hours of work she's getting paid for. Wow, Julie,
Speaker 3: you're welcome. Wow, Jimmy, we've done it. We've done it.
Speaker 3: I've gone two gifts. One of them is very valuable.
Speaker 3: One's a backup in case my other photo goes missing
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 5: Happens away in a flood, in a flooded could put
Speaker 5: that a high.
Speaker 4: Up put that on a high up shelf, if you
Speaker 4: would please.
Speaker 3: I'll put that on the ceiling. I'm gonna tape that
Speaker 3: to the ceiling or step there.
Speaker 4: Wow. I've had such a nice time with you. I
Speaker 4: have enjoyed every second of this.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the gifts. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 4: I honor thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: And now the podcast is over. So see listener. The podcast,
Speaker 3: you can tell is screeching to a halt. You've got
Speaker 3: to do something else. You've got to finish whatever you
Speaker 3: were doing. Stop mowing the lawn your I mean, it's
Speaker 3: absolutely mud at this point, you've destroyed your yard. You've
Speaker 3: done too much. Move on, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: I love you, goodbye, I said no gifts is an
Speaker 3: exactly right production it's produced by our dear friend Analise Nilson,
Speaker 3: and it's beautifully mixed by Ben Holliday. And we couldn't
Speaker 3: do it without our guest booker, Patrick Kottner. The theme song,
Speaker 3: of course, could only come from miracle Worker Amy Man.
Speaker 3: You must follow the show on Instagram. At I said,
Speaker 3: no gifts. I don't want to hear any excuses. That's
Speaker 3: where you get to see pictures of all these gorgeous
Speaker 3: gifts I'm getting. And don't you want to see pictures
Speaker 3: of the gifts?
Speaker 1: And I invited you hear I thought I made myself
Speaker 1: perfectly clear.
Speaker 4: When you're a.
Speaker 1: Guest to my home, you gotta come to me empty.
Speaker 1: And I said, no, guests your own presences presence And.
Speaker 2: I already had too much stuff, So how do
Speaker 3: You dare to survey me