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Speaker 3: Sorry, this is a guess from the beginning of the episode.
Speaker 3: It's very rare. You know them from clubs and colleges
Speaker 3: across the country. Everyone put your gears together for John Milheiser. Hi, John,
Speaker 3: good to meet you. Put on that seatbelt and then
Speaker 3: shake my hand. Hi.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: Good to meet you. Good to see this is the
Speaker 3: back of my head.
Speaker 1: Has to it hot enough for you?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's pretty hot outside today.
Speaker 3: What have you been doing to beat this heat? What
Speaker 3: have I been doing?
Speaker 1: To beat the heat.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I guess staying inside.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yes.
Speaker 5: I walked my dog in heavy sweatpants and I came
Speaker 5: back like sweating all over.
Speaker 4: I had to like change clothes. I was like, this
Speaker 4: is too hot.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, it's I mean, we've been talking about it,
Speaker 3: probably too much on this podcast Weather, but yes, it is.
Speaker 3: There is. I don't remember in even recent past years
Speaker 3: feeling like, oh I'm sick, I need to take some
Speaker 3: sort of a test or something because I'm drenched with
Speaker 3: sweat and feel lightheaded. Then that's how it's affecting me
Speaker 3: just this year. So it's good to know that I'm
Speaker 3: not in a medical emergency. I want to hear everyone
Speaker 3: say I'm drenched with sweat, yes, at all times?
Speaker 1: Will you say that exact thing, please, John.
Speaker 4: I'm drenched a sweat at all times?
Speaker 3: Oh thank you.
Speaker 5: It's exactly what I needed to hear, especially going on
Speaker 5: a like a commercial audition or something. I like hang
Speaker 5: the shirt up and put in the back seat and
Speaker 5: then like drive pretty much shirtless to the audition, put
Speaker 5: it on right when I get out of the car.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeahs.
Speaker 3: I currently have Tonight's outfits on a hanger. In my
Speaker 3: back seat. Oh and that's that's you know Texas behavior
Speaker 3: where I remember taking a shower going through the day,
Speaker 3: and then throughout the day up to going to bed.
Speaker 3: I never dried off. You're just a wet person. You
Speaker 3: get used to everyone else being wet, and your towel
Speaker 3: never dries. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Where are you from?
Speaker 4: Originally from New Jersey?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, all parts like North Jersey and Central Jersey.
Speaker 5: And then go to the shore in South Jersey.
Speaker 1: Do you guys get humidity? You must because it's oh
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And my sister has or used to big curly hair,
Speaker 5: so it would call her a wooly woman with when
Speaker 5: to go frizzy.
Speaker 3: I did not know of my hair's potential until I
Speaker 3: lived in a human place and then just giant hair. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it really does it to you. Do you go back
Speaker 3: to Jersey a lot?
Speaker 5: I go back probably like three times a year, definitely
Speaker 5: for the summer to kick off summer, usually around fourth
Speaker 5: of July, with also a trip into like New York
Speaker 5: to visit New York. Yeah, and then usually Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 5: My sister lives in Hoboken. My other sister lives in Westfield,
Speaker 5: New Jersey.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like New York City is different?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: And also my sister has been like the one. She's
Speaker 5: a big financial business woman. She works like Wall Street
Speaker 5: and actually she works now Midtown, but she, you know,
Speaker 5: I fell in love with the city because she's twelve
Speaker 5: years older than me. So like she became businesswoman and
Speaker 5: was living in like Jersey City and commuting into Manhattan,
Speaker 5: and I fell in love with the city. Visiting her
Speaker 5: and staying over her apartment. I was like, Oh, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to be grown up and commute and work
Speaker 5: in the city and all this stuff. And we would
Speaker 5: see shows and go out to dinner and all this stuff.
Speaker 5: And so I then I became older and I fell
Speaker 5: in love with New York. But recently she doesn't like
Speaker 5: the city anymore. She doesn't go into the city. She
Speaker 5: thinks it's dangerous and she's like reeks of pot all
Speaker 5: the time. Oh, and she's kind of like scared, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, that's really stinks. And like I try
Speaker 5: to tell her that she never rides the subway, it's
Speaker 5: like the subways are safe. She's like, I just keep
Speaker 5: hearing about stabbings and people getting pushed and muggings and
Speaker 5: people getting punched randomly. Yeah, I mean the crime is bad,
Speaker 5: but yeah, that it seems different.
Speaker 3: I want to talk to your sister, let's call her,
Speaker 3: because that Honestly, the last time I went, I realized
Speaker 3: I feel like that more here and other places, like
Speaker 3: in New York City, I've never been full eye contact,
Speaker 3: kind interactions with strangers asking me honestly how I'm doing,
Speaker 3: how was your day? What's your name? Like? It was
Speaker 3: happening left and right and in a way that I
Speaker 3: don't experience in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought, I thought you said you'd never.
Speaker 2: I thought you use the word never in there, so
Speaker 2: that I'm like, well, then why is this example so specific?
Speaker 3: Oh I don't know what i'd Yeah, sometimes my mouth,
Speaker 3: my loose lips.
Speaker 1: No, no, but I get where you're Yes, that's when
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I only lived in New York for like nine months,
Speaker 2: and it was god, when was it twenty eleven? Maybe
Speaker 2: so just quick for a job, and I loved it,
Speaker 2: of course, but it's like the.
Speaker 1: Pre COVID post COVID thing.
Speaker 2: And I went back recently and I was only there
Speaker 2: for like two days, but it seemed really different. But
Speaker 2: I was like, but it is different because like all
Speaker 2: this time has passed, so it's not just like the
Speaker 2: things I'm hearing, like the experience. I was trying to
Speaker 2: like grab on to the like what how different does
Speaker 2: it seem to me? Or are any of those things
Speaker 2: really happening? But the thing that freaks me out was
Speaker 2: those guys on the bikes.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, also like Blair music.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's like they're everywhere. It's super weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and set up in a strange way where the
Speaker 3: bike lane going in the direction you're going in a
Speaker 3: car is on the other side of the street, so
Speaker 3: they're going towards oncoming. It is so chaotic, and the
Speaker 3: bike lanes have their own lights that now if you're
Speaker 3: taking a laugh like this, you could there could be
Speaker 3: a bike going the same direction craning into the side
Speaker 3: of you. It's so I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 3: It's been years since.
Speaker 5: I don't think about bike riding in the city like
Speaker 5: I've had friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bad accidents happened.
Speaker 3: Me too, yes, And I was thinking that the whole
Speaker 3: time I can be was getting everywhere on an electronic
Speaker 3: assisted bike. But my head was spinning in all directions,
Speaker 3: making sure you have to be so alert that it's
Speaker 3: a sign that maybe it's just too dangerous. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I visit New York and I go back and I
Speaker 3: and I don't experience any of the stuff she's talking about.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, it's still beautiful and like had a resurgence,
Speaker 3: and it seems like people are out and about and
Speaker 3: like loving the city.
Speaker 4: So I kind of talk her into going back.
Speaker 5: In the city and appreciating it, because I don't want
Speaker 5: her to fall out of love.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean they do.
Speaker 2: They say the same things about San Francisco, and of
Speaker 2: course those there are you know, there are truths to it.
Speaker 2: It's not like there's no city that doesn't have crime, violence, whatever.
Speaker 2: But that idea of like the entire place is this,
Speaker 2: and then big swaths of people being like I won't
Speaker 2: go there is a very new strange trend to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's I grew up thinking because of movies
Speaker 3: that every day was hey I'm walking here, anger from
Speaker 3: a cartoonish from body by Jake whoever that factor is, Uh,
Speaker 3: he's the guy that said that. Okay, The point is
Speaker 3: it's so friendly and the audiences I very much have
Speaker 3: always liked it seems like audiences are smarter and people
Speaker 3: are super sweet. So how long have you been in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles? Then?
Speaker 4: Pretty much?
Speaker 5: I believe eleven years. Eleven to twelve years. I can't
Speaker 5: believe it's been that long. Yeah, I know it goes
Speaker 5: by very fast, especially when you get older.
Speaker 3: But yes, do you think it's getting older or do
Speaker 3: you think you've moved somewhere without four distinct seasons benchmarking
Speaker 3: the passing of time?
Speaker 4: That's what it is. It's definitely that, yes, and I try.
Speaker 1: Are you just saying that because he said it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I really try to divvy up my seasons as much
Speaker 5: as I can and what I'm wearing. I like, I
Speaker 5: have my summer clothes, I have my fall clothes, winter clothes.
Speaker 5: And I don't have a big place, but I find
Speaker 5: spaces to put away my clothes and bring new clothes out.
Speaker 3: You and I have that in common.
Speaker 5: Yes, just trying to divvy up the season somehow.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you have to do it with clothes or
Speaker 3: certain spiced beverages because every day there is seventy five.
Speaker 1: It's so weird.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite celebrity sighting like from when
Speaker 2: you anytime you moved here. Those are sometimes things people
Speaker 2: that like it's a standout moment of like a moment
Speaker 2: you couldn't have had in a different town, right.
Speaker 5: Sure, Yeah, I guess my favorite the ultimate one was
Speaker 5: we were at a bar, friends bro outside and we're
Speaker 5: in like in a big circle, and we're all talking
Speaker 5: at the same time, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: there's a wave of silence.
Speaker 4: That goes over all of us.
Speaker 5: Everybody around us back once that celebrity walks by, but
Speaker 5: it was Brad Pitt.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And it was like, so that was like a really
Speaker 4: cool sighting.
Speaker 5: And it's just funny that how everybody everybody just went yeah,
Speaker 5: and then it like everybody looked at each other.
Speaker 4: We didn't talk about it, but they're like, whoa.
Speaker 1: That is like Ace of Spades level celebrity. That's not
Speaker 1: even like like a list or whatever. It's like Brad
Speaker 1: Pitt is the.
Speaker 3: Luckness Monster of celebrity though, because he after a river
Speaker 3: runs through it. He had property and lived regularly in Missoula, Montana,
Speaker 3: where I'm from, and so you would see him occasionally.
Speaker 3: And when I first started doing improv in a bar
Speaker 3: where we had like our fifth show or something, and
Speaker 3: it was a small audience and Brad Pitt was sitting
Speaker 3: right in the middle of the room, and so we
Speaker 3: were all like, Okay, this has got to be a
Speaker 3: good show. You got because Brad Pitt's gonna scoop us
Speaker 3: up with his beaded go tee. It was when were
Speaker 3: he's wearing a lot of beads in the go tee
Speaker 3: and we started everyone that's his improv comedy, everyone clapping,
Speaker 3: and he just got up and walked out as he
Speaker 3: didn't sit there. No, God, no, he left immediately.
Speaker 4: He didn't give us suggestion.
Speaker 3: No he didn't. Nurse, nurse, Playboy factory, I'm out, and
Speaker 3: a Playboy factory that goes where the things people always yelled,
Speaker 3: Playboy mansion, a factory, factory, a nurse And then yeah,
Speaker 3: it was he left. But it it's funny that was
Speaker 3: the only celebrity i'd seen before moving here.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Brad Pitt sitting in that place
Speaker 2: was either a trying to have a quiet beverage or
Speaker 2: b thought the show was something else?
Speaker 3: No, I think yes, they It's one of those shows
Speaker 3: where they are surprising people with comedy, which is never
Speaker 3: a good Hey, are you eating, Well, we might as
Speaker 3: well be talking about the Bible because we're gonna yell comedy.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be involved, yes, yes, yeah. Also you have
Speaker 3: to be part of it.
Speaker 4: So put down that food.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, here's your job is to yell things out.
Speaker 3: I just want my salmon taco and uh yeah, so
Speaker 3: I think it was just there to eat.
Speaker 1: He was like, I gotta get out of here before
Speaker 1: they pulled me on stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so just. I came from where Brad Pitt
Speaker 3: and Andy McDowell all the time, all around town, and then.
Speaker 5: I saw Any McDowell on a hike and she stopped
Speaker 5: and pet my dogs, like I have a dog just like.
Speaker 3: This, and there is no story. There's no story. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's how she was in Montana. Cracky voice and super sweet.
Speaker 3: Everyone was like, it's the nicest person ever. And I
Speaker 3: think my first intern here was I moved to West Hollywood.
Speaker 3: I would run from my place to the twenty four
Speaker 3: hour Fitness and I actually I was wearing earphones and
Speaker 3: ran in the street and I got honked at from
Speaker 3: a woman in a portie and she flipped me off
Speaker 3: and said, move, you idiot, and it was Jillian Barbary from.
Speaker 1: Good Day LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there's a guy next to me. I'm like,
Speaker 3: was that Jillian Barbary And he's like, yep, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not even going to say what she actually called me,
Speaker 3: but that was my first It had to be like
Speaker 3: a oh, you know, everyone lives here. That apparently is
Speaker 3: even on what I believe at the time was an
Speaker 3: access show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, morning it was morning news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was Good Day Live and then Good Day LA.
Speaker 3: So that yeah, I think it was just in the
Speaker 3: Good Day LA Morning News and then it went national
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: Because I was taking a left, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: interrupt you and then go to mine.
Speaker 3: I time, right.
Speaker 2: I was taking a left on Ventura, and so I
Speaker 2: was out in the middle of the intersection and the
Speaker 2: car that was doing the same thing coming the other direction.
Speaker 1: It was like a powder blue Jaguar and it was
Speaker 1: fucking Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 2: And it was you know then the either late nineties
Speaker 2: or early two thousands, so he still looked he looked
Speaker 2: just like Clint Eastwood, and he was I think the
Speaker 2: sun was kind of in his eyes, so we had
Speaker 2: the glare, like the whole face he was. It was like,
Speaker 2: I recognized him immediately and we were just like staring
Speaker 2: at each other until we got to turn left.
Speaker 1: It was crazy. That was a really good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. God, a bunch of them are flooding into my brain.
Speaker 1: Now we could do this around.
Speaker 3: I was walking. I can't remember where I was, but
Speaker 3: I think Aspen walking on the side of the road
Speaker 3: with snowboards because we were waiting for a shuttle van
Speaker 3: or something and a dispute. Beautiful Jack Nicholson was racing
Speaker 3: up in a very fancy car and literally swerved towards
Speaker 3: us to scare us, and he had that evil look
Speaker 3: on his face. It was the most of all work
Speaker 3: and no play. Yeah, it was horrifying, and we everyone
Speaker 3: was like, that was Jack Nicholson. I'm like, we all
Speaker 3: in Unison Nicholson.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he knows that advantage.
Speaker 5: He's good with bits with everybody in the world, that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he worked with what he had to do. You know,
Speaker 3: his face through a broken hole in a door that
Speaker 3: was just swerving at us. He knew that was the
Speaker 3: best nicholsony tactic. It was horrifying.
Speaker 1: John, back to you.
Speaker 3: Let's go, let's hear another one.
Speaker 4: Another celebrity sign.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess who's just any McDowell And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I was kind of excited about that.
Speaker 1: That was a good one.
Speaker 3: I was on a date in college and Andy mcdell
Speaker 3: was breastfeeding in the restaurant and everyone one was acting
Speaker 3: accordingly except my I was nineteen, and I was just
Speaker 3: looking for eye contact with anyone else that could because, uh,
Speaker 3: the amount of time between pulling her breast out and
Speaker 3: putting the baby to it seemed like five whole minutes,
Speaker 3: so at the age I want I And then finally
Speaker 3: I had a just visual acknowledgement from another immature male
Speaker 3: from across the room, and we I think we high
Speaker 3: five the air, didn't I think we? Oh yeah, we
Speaker 3: met in the middle of the restaurant. Hut. I don't know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, she's uh comfortable in her skin and a
Speaker 3: sweet lady.
Speaker 2: I mean I think that is like, I'm all for
Speaker 2: the right to for her to do whatever. Sure, except
Speaker 2: she's a movie star, so it is a little bit
Speaker 2: like it's extra.
Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, I need to get this done
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't even know if my story is Yeah,
Speaker 3: she knew, she knew what she was doing, but yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: it's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1: Great oak.
Speaker 3: I will call the Chanre. She's a good friend. She
Speaker 3: was who was on the date with We've stayed friends.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 3: Schonre knows healthy. Yes, yes, often went to Nantucket. If
Speaker 3: you need anything to know about now, I've said too
Speaker 3: much about her. Yeah, I just want people to know
Speaker 3: she's real.
Speaker 1: I'm going to docks her.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, I just learned what that man I
Speaker 3: used to think imut canceled.
Speaker 4: This is a great harw story.
Speaker 3: It is the one I always go to.
Speaker 4: Yes, classic good harvestore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: He is right, all right talking.
Speaker 3: Hey, we're moving, We're we're we're in the wrong.
Speaker 1: I just stopped and.
Speaker 2: Was thinking about being naked in a restaurant.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's like, yeah, that is right.
Speaker 1: Mother.
Speaker 3: A lot of my stories affect you latter in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're kind of thinkers.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I like that hardware store because you go in
Speaker 3: and there's just like some a man that reminds you
Speaker 3: of a friend of your dad's or someone from your
Speaker 3: childhood that like acknowledges what you're buying. Let you know
Speaker 3: it's a good product, lets you know you're doing a
Speaker 3: good job. Yes, it seems like is that what you've
Speaker 3: experienced it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If I need anything, like can you help me, pap?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember when as a teenager there was like there's
Speaker 5: ball chains that you could wear, those necklaces that you
Speaker 5: could wear, but what they were was a lamp.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, the string to like turn on an old lamp.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I would go into the Harvard store is like,
Speaker 5: where are your ball chains? And they're like, for like
Speaker 5: a lamp and I was like, no, for like jewelry,
Speaker 5: and they're like.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's over there. Kind of get a dirty look
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I can't a baller. I mean for non
Speaker 3: utilitarian race. It's in our fashion aisle.
Speaker 1: There was that, not Osha proof.
Speaker 3: They're just mad they have a fashion aisle. I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that character. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was a skater who didn't skate pretty much.
Speaker 3: Right, where do you Where do you have your clean,
Speaker 3: untouched vans? Yeah? I let's we should go there now?
Speaker 1: Actually bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just have some keys made, even though I don't
Speaker 3: need them. Duped.
Speaker 2: I always get the feeling in it because I totally
Speaker 2: appreciate there's an ace hardware in the Valley.
Speaker 1: That's like that.
Speaker 2: But every time I go there, my mind blanks and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know, there's like five things I really
Speaker 2: need from here, and if I could just focus, it's
Speaker 2: like a screw for this thing, or a I don't know,
Speaker 2: a thing to clean out the drain. But I just
Speaker 2: stand there like maybe it's light bulbs because there's so
Speaker 2: much stuff like packed into a small store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: You just need to walk through the aisles.
Speaker 5: I mean, do you ever go to like Michael's or
Speaker 5: NS and just like I don't know what I need,
Speaker 5: but the store is going to talk to me, And.
Speaker 3: Well that's different, and those are storing craft. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: as a kid, I hated being in Joeanne Fabrics, but
Speaker 3: now it is so fun to just have the store
Speaker 3: tell you what you need. I don't get that at
Speaker 3: a At A I'm just at a hardware story. I
Speaker 3: end up in some weird plumbing joint aisle and I
Speaker 3: forget what I'm looking for and I buy some woodscrews
Speaker 3: in a panic. But I do love hanging out in
Speaker 3: a Joeanne Fabrics. Yes, like pick out fabric for my
Speaker 3: mom to make vests for me. Totally.
Speaker 5: I was not the coolest kid, but I would be like,
Speaker 5: I want this Looney Tunes fabrics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'll make a vest of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My mom did the same. There was actually a skate
Speaker 3: company called Limpies. They were just very simple drawstring pants,
Speaker 3: but you'd order them in the back of those skateboard
Speaker 3: magazine and you didn't know what you were going to get,
Speaker 3: so you could end up with purple Paisley pants. And
Speaker 3: my mom was like, oh, just pick out a fabric,
Speaker 3: and she made me Limpies and everyone thought that they
Speaker 3: were like she did a good job, But then they'd
Speaker 3: look for the logo on my pocket and it wasn't
Speaker 3: on there, and then you know, I didn't hear from
Speaker 3: them for a week. But it's funny. Yeah, I got
Speaker 3: excited when my mom would make clothes. In no way.
Speaker 3: It was way different than the time I drew a
Speaker 3: Nike swoosh on my Sears shoes.
Speaker 5: I definitely took an unthreaded Tummy Hill figure label at
Speaker 5: the store and had my mom sewed onto a random
Speaker 5: shirt that wasn't Tommy.
Speaker 3: I do that now, John, I ordered tiny patt If
Speaker 3: you just go on to Etsy and look up tiny
Speaker 3: patches because I was imagining, oh, what if something other
Speaker 3: than a polo player were on a shirt? And they
Speaker 3: have everything, tiny little animals, tiny little people doing different sports.
Speaker 3: I have a little golfer on my golf shirt. I
Speaker 3: have a little panda on another shirt that I thought
Speaker 3: needed a panda and it's so fun heat transfer and
Speaker 3: then and I'm no professional sewer, but I am. I've
Speaker 3: been looking at sewing machines that do embroidery. I'm like
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Sewing's the only thing I don't do that I
Speaker 5: want to learn how to do at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sewing and nitting I don't know how to do.
Speaker 2: But but at Michael's or Joanne's are there other things
Speaker 2: that you do?
Speaker 5: I mean, I just try to be crafty at any
Speaker 5: point time. Like I was eating salsa and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 5: it's a cute jar. And then I scrubbed the label off.
Speaker 5: And then I started collecting jars. And then my boyfriend's like,
Speaker 5: what are we doing with all these jars? And I'm
Speaker 5: like I don't know yet, Yeah what comes there? And
Speaker 5: then I started making candles, but with the jars, with
Speaker 5: the jar sure and Sure read up on how to
Speaker 5: make candles, and then I ordered all this stuff and yeah,
Speaker 5: like I did made potholders for a while.
Speaker 1: Crochet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the crochet potholder, Like it comes in a
Speaker 5: square thing and then you stretch the fabric.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, sure, just fun stuff.
Speaker 3: Like how about around Halloween which is coming up? Do
Speaker 3: you get into costume making?
Speaker 4: Yes? I do.
Speaker 5: I was Seymour from The Little Chop Horror. Oh wow,
Speaker 5: so I made my own wait seamore. Yeah, I was Seymour.
Speaker 4: And then the plant? What was the plant?
Speaker 3: Did were you gradually or were you suddenly Seymour? So
Speaker 3: that's just that's fun. Yeah, that's just good musical. Uh
Speaker 3: that's how What did you like? Did you get most
Speaker 3: of the supplies? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I got I went to Michael's. I got like a
Speaker 5: styrofoam oval egg type of thing. Cut it in a
Speaker 5: half like some clay fast drying clay. So I made
Speaker 5: the teeth and supercluded, and then got leaves and paint.
Speaker 5: Wow's great, and moss and then a flower pot and
Speaker 5: then I carried it.
Speaker 4: Around with me the whole night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, n uncomfortable and unable to use the bathroom.
Speaker 4: It wasn't that bad. It was like just it was
Speaker 4: like a foot tall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every year. Last year I did a toilet where
Speaker 3: my legs were the toilet's legs and I had little
Speaker 3: fake legs of someone sitting on the toilet that I
Speaker 3: made from paper machine my real toilet. Kind of unsanitary,
Speaker 3: but it was a dead Elvis sitting on a toilet.
Speaker 3: But every time I do a costume like that, I
Speaker 3: forget about bathroom breaks. I'm like encased in permanently for
Speaker 3: the night. So this year, yeah, you got to make
Speaker 3: a trapdoor. Do you have thoughts on what you'll do
Speaker 3: this year?
Speaker 5: This year, I definitely have written it down somewhere my
Speaker 5: notes at yeah, attack, because I tried to think throughout
Speaker 5: the year what I could be.
Speaker 4: Last year I was successful in writing it down.
Speaker 5: Well has passed away, and so I was like, I
Speaker 5: really like the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Christy Swanson.
Speaker 4: He was like the bad guy in it. Kind of
Speaker 4: a hit movie.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that was the only that was important though,
Speaker 3: because that was like the a lot of people seeing
Speaker 3: him not B B. B. Herman, for the first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think it was like kind of soon after.
Speaker 5: I think it was his first role after the whole
Speaker 5: movie theater.
Speaker 3: Using an adult movie theater for what everyone used.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, but it was a really funny part. So
Speaker 5: I got to be that this past year, which was
Speaker 5: I think his success. I mean, the only real purpose
Speaker 5: for me as an adult in Halloween, because I don't
Speaker 5: maybe I'll stop at a party for five minutes, but
Speaker 5: it's mostly just getting the costume on, taking a picture
Speaker 5: and posting it, yeah, and staying in for the night
Speaker 5: and watching a scary movie and just like enjoying the.
Speaker 4: The likes you get on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can get a green screen of a Halloween party
Speaker 2: and stand in front of.
Speaker 4: You pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think we walked down to like high tops of
Speaker 5: the bar in a cost in our costume this year,
Speaker 5: and then it was too crowded, so we just walked
Speaker 5: back home.
Speaker 4: That's costume. I was like, well, I got a picture
Speaker 4: out of it.
Speaker 1: It happened.
Speaker 3: It's so great. Every year I make the best costume
Speaker 3: for myself is the year I've done no research on
Speaker 3: where to go and I've done the exact same thing
Speaker 3: where I tried on different fake skin horror makeup on
Speaker 3: my face about like a zipper that attached to my
Speaker 3: face and that's a muscle under my and I did
Speaker 3: not leave my apartment. I took pictures, yeah, and I
Speaker 3: posted them. This was like five years ago, and I
Speaker 3: got the gratification from people saying, wow, neat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite experiences, and like during Halloween, is
Speaker 5: living in New York City and just taking the subway
Speaker 5: to a Halloween party and seeing everybody in the city's
Speaker 5: costumes on the subway. The zipper face reminded me of
Speaker 5: someone I saw on the subway once, like get to
Speaker 5: see everybody's cool outfits.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I got the idea from a cheap packaged
Speaker 3: like it comes with everything you need, but you know
Speaker 3: it's not gonna be good quality. So I just bought
Speaker 3: my own things. And but yeah, put so much work
Speaker 3: into it, and you didn't even think about how I
Speaker 3: hadn't nowhere to go. It's so great. Yeah, so this year,
Speaker 3: let's find parties everyone and maybe that would be the answer,
Speaker 3: Like is there still like a parade of costumes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I did that once in the village in New York
Speaker 5: and I got on the subway and it was just
Speaker 5: like your sardines.
Speaker 4: It was so packed.
Speaker 5: I hated it. I went right back in the subway
Speaker 5: went home. So I've never gone to all being prayed.
Speaker 4: I don't like being in that big of a crowd.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to show. I think it's a new thing
Speaker 3: for me. I really have trouble being real close to people. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I did a show the other night with a comic
Speaker 3: that it was like he did not experience COVID. He
Speaker 3: was talking so close to my face in an early
Speaker 3: nineties way, like engaging. It was something learned, like you know,
Speaker 3: how was it Judge hurst on a se yes talking
Speaker 3: or Judge ryin Hold. Yeah, I call him Judge Hirsch
Speaker 3: all the time. That's why I knew who you were saying,
Speaker 3: because that's my mistake. But no, it had Yes, it
Speaker 3: was getting closer to where I was leaning back, and
Speaker 3: I know at some point it probably worked as an
Speaker 3: engagement thing. This life section, Jesus.
Speaker 4: Christ, this intersection. There's an accident here like once a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, people, that's it's so boring to
Speaker 2: talk about. But people act like if they have to
Speaker 2: go around something, then they just get to and you
Speaker 2: do whatever you need to do, or it's like I
Speaker 2: know this is I'm here too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's important to the listener for you to know
Speaker 3: every time we've had an interaction that's bad in traffic,
Speaker 3: it was that we keep going through that same intersection.
Speaker 3: It's been three three times now. That's where the bad
Speaker 3: things are.
Speaker 1: That's where all the bad things happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't want to call it. We don't want
Speaker 3: to dox the intersections.
Speaker 1: Wait, sorry, but you were trying to say something, weren't you, John.
Speaker 4: No, goodbye, Chris?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. They I the close talker. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's It just reminds me of Hey, people don't like
Speaker 3: that anymore. Like it used to be a thing for
Speaker 3: men to when you shake their hand, squeeze it just
Speaker 3: to where you feel they're metachartial bones crunching together like
Speaker 3: way too hard. And I always was rubbed the wrong way,
Speaker 3: Like there's no way that's the result. People want a nice,
Speaker 3: firm handshake. No, I have arthritis hands, do not squeeze them.
Speaker 4: Anytime someone shakes my hand, I always.
Speaker 3: Go yes, yes, it's important my bird bones just as
Speaker 3: they're touching. No, the deal is off, sir. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: basically what I do. Do I do not like, or
Speaker 3: I'll pull my hand away. I like a nice dry,
Speaker 3: soft handshake like barely those are the best, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Or maybe it's just like someone puts your hand in
Speaker 2: their palm and then rubs the top of your hand.
Speaker 1: Yes, like a grandma.
Speaker 3: My last No, I don't feed you after midnight and then. Uh.
Speaker 3: What I hate the most is where the prank handshake
Speaker 3: where someone is holding your hand handshake position and then
Speaker 3: they take their middle finger and tickle your palm. Have
Speaker 3: you ever experienced those mondes? I have? I hate it.
Speaker 3: I've always hated it, and I had to bring it up.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is supposed to be, just
Speaker 3: a surprise. I just don't like pranks at all, not
Speaker 3: at all. Are you a fan of pranks? John?
Speaker 4: I like pranks?
Speaker 2: What kind?
Speaker 5: If I see like a woman that I know at
Speaker 5: like a supermarket or something, and she's holding a purse,
Speaker 5: I'll run up and grab the person.
Speaker 3: Give me okay, and then I'm like, it's just me.
Speaker 4: They usually get very scared. What else do I do?
Speaker 5: I walked by somebody at a restaurant and I just
Speaker 5: stopped the table is like how is everything?
Speaker 4: And they're like, oh it's good?
Speaker 3: Oh hi John, Okay? I do like that. I don't
Speaker 3: really worry. Are they pranks?
Speaker 4: Are they bits?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I think the difference is strangers
Speaker 2: are friends.
Speaker 1: If they were strangers, it would be a prank.
Speaker 4: I guess they don't do it to strangers.
Speaker 2: It'd be so funny if you did. They're like in
Speaker 2: a restaurant, HIH's everyone? Are you having everything? They'll think
Speaker 2: you're the manager and you'll be like, can I get
Speaker 2: you anything?
Speaker 1: Any dessert or anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then that would be like who's this for?
Speaker 4: Who's this prank?
Speaker 1: It all in your mind?
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, there is a fine mine, because I certainly
Speaker 3: love a bit in high school when there is a
Speaker 3: parent teacher conference and my dad pulled his pants up
Speaker 3: high and fell down the stairs and pretended to be
Speaker 3: hurt to make me and my friends laugh. That's one
Speaker 3: of my fondest memories. But the whole even the simplest,
Speaker 3: lighthearted you know, April Fool's joke where it's like, ah, surprise,
Speaker 3: I said a thing and you believed me, but it's
Speaker 3: not true. I got you.
Speaker 4: It's April Fools.
Speaker 3: I do not like that.
Speaker 5: I always forget April Fools when it's happening. Yeah, Like, oh,
Speaker 5: I saw this thing on Instagram. They're like, oh, that
Speaker 5: was an April fools.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of those are like so they're just taking advantage
Speaker 2: of the fact that people read social media and believe
Speaker 2: everything immediately. So it's just like, yeah, you mocked up
Speaker 2: a headline. I believed it was real, and then for
Speaker 2: two hours I was like, Oh, no, we're we're going
Speaker 2: into war with Iran or something like yeah. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I don't I don't like being emotionally tricked.
Speaker 5: I was goffing with my dad once and I went
Speaker 5: over a hill and then he hit from behind the
Speaker 5: hill and so his ball landed like like ten yards
Speaker 5: from you lay down. So then I lay down next
Speaker 5: to the ball, and he came.
Speaker 6: Over like, oh my god, John, Oh, that's the best
Speaker 6: I did a kind of great one that was very
Speaker 6: inside baseball.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you've seen the movie Reversal
Speaker 2: of Fortune, Glenn Close, it's the story of Sonny von
Speaker 2: Buloh and the Klaus von Bulau.
Speaker 1: They don't know if he murdered her or not. I
Speaker 1: remember it. Do you remember the movie?
Speaker 3: I do not remember seeing it. I know it I
Speaker 3: saw it in the video store.
Speaker 2: Such a good movie, Like it's Jeremy Aron's and Glenn
Speaker 2: Close just chopping it up and it's really good.
Speaker 4: But oh wait, bus.
Speaker 3: Only Yeah, wow, they painted a red dance floor for
Speaker 3: the bus. It's glittery.
Speaker 2: So in that movie, she like od's on insulin and
Speaker 2: they find her body in her bathroom and her uh,
Speaker 2: she's wearing like a nightgown and a robe, but her
Speaker 2: robe and nightgown are slid up and so it's like
Speaker 2: her exposed but in.
Speaker 1: Big kind of granny panty underwear.
Speaker 2: And that's how she's found and that like later on,
Speaker 2: the cops are like she was slid around. She was
Speaker 2: moved after she fell down because of where her pajamas were.
Speaker 2: And I of that movie and I made the boyfriend
Speaker 2: I had at the time watch it with me like
Speaker 2: multiple times. And then one night I got up and
Speaker 2: went to the bathroom and then I just pull I
Speaker 2: realized I had a nightgown on, which I almost never did,
Speaker 2: so I just pulled it up and laid next to
Speaker 2: the toilet until he came in and found me.
Speaker 1: So I did.
Speaker 2: I had laid in there for like over five minutes,
Speaker 2: just not making noise or anything. And then he was like, hey, Karen,
Speaker 2: are you Are you okay?
Speaker 3: Whatever?
Speaker 2: And I he opened the door to discover me Sonny
Speaker 2: von Bula style on the ground.
Speaker 4: Oh well, that's committed.
Speaker 2: That's great, full commitment for one audience member that was like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, this is not just me.
Speaker 1: I have to now retell it in this laborious fashion.
Speaker 4: Today for too long. That'd be weird. If I just
Speaker 4: gave up now.
Speaker 2: And just come then you're gonna think I was shitting
Speaker 2: forever instead of doing the funniest joke. That's only funny
Speaker 2: to me and maybe you probably not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did that once with uh. I went right.
Speaker 5: When I moved to LA I went back to New
Speaker 5: York for something and I went camp with my friends
Speaker 5: and my one friend didn't know I was going on
Speaker 5: the camping trip, but he arrived later that night. So
Speaker 5: we set up camp and then we see him coming
Speaker 5: into camp, like from the parking not far away. So
Speaker 5: I ran up into the woods and hid, and then
Speaker 5: for like I waited an hour. I was in Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, and you know, he settled down. They were
Speaker 5: sitting around the campfire, and then I just started going
Speaker 5: very far in the distance. He's like, dude, what is
Speaker 5: that Are you okay?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: I was like oh, and he started freaking out and
Speaker 5: then I came running, charging towards him, screaming like a
Speaker 5: horror film and he had a knife in his hand
Speaker 5: and I like ran like right over the fire and
Speaker 5: I was like, it's me and he's like, John, I
Speaker 5: almost stabbed you.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait, eat then.
Speaker 1: Weird And also that risk is what makes it even funnier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I would ever stab someone.
Speaker 3: You yelling help me, I'll help you die could Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 3: that's commitment. The one hour of waiting you knew you
Speaker 3: had to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to put in the work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certain pranks, like with friends, that's great, but with strangers,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess, I guess, I'm I say
Speaker 3: I don't like pranks, but I'm just a bit of
Speaker 3: a prank snob.
Speaker 1: Is that it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has to be the right payoff for me?
Speaker 3: And then I put on special glasses. Yeah. I do.
Speaker 3: Remember when I lived in Austin, everyone was watching The Exorcist.
Speaker 3: I was out. I still haven't seen the movie, and
Speaker 3: really good. It was right during I looked through the windows.
Speaker 3: It was right during a part where uh Thelma Blair,
Speaker 3: I don't know her, No, that's a different actress anyway,
Speaker 3: crawling on the seato Linda Blair scary part. And I
Speaker 3: actually turned from the electrical box, turned the power off
Speaker 3: and pounded on the windows. And apparently it was very traumatized,
Speaker 3: like there was screaming. It didn't I felt bad that
Speaker 3: everyone was actually scared.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was just one I'm emotionally delicate person in
Speaker 3: the PA. I didn't know who was in attendance, and
Speaker 3: I really scared someone. I guess for life.
Speaker 2: As my friend once said to me, it's not the
Speaker 2: worst thing you'll ever go.
Speaker 3: Through, No exactly.
Speaker 2: I remember going through some kind of minor but irritating
Speaker 2: thing and then that's that was her advice to be
Speaker 2: where it's.
Speaker 1: Like, wow, okay, yeah, worse to come. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that is the best thing you can
Speaker 3: hear that it gets worse.
Speaker 1: It gets worse after this prank.
Speaker 2: I had a friend too, and he was a real rascal,
Speaker 2: Like I heard the story a raal. Yeah, he is
Speaker 2: a true definition of a rascal. Because it made me
Speaker 2: laugh so hard, But I'm like, this is the worst
Speaker 2: thing I've ever heard. He to prank his female friend,
Speaker 2: put pantyhose over his head and crawled into her kitchen
Speaker 2: window carrying a knife, and I was he told me
Speaker 2: that story, and it's like you got really mad at me,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, are you out of your fucking mind?
Speaker 2: But it was like, you're so kind of innocently kooky
Speaker 2: that it's like, you don't know, that's like the scariest.
Speaker 3: That's exactly Okay, that's what I think. Or a TV
Speaker 3: show where it's like, oh, there's a work crew that
Speaker 3: thinks they're here to do some drywall, let's put a
Speaker 3: body in the bathtub. Yeah, and scare them because they
Speaker 3: have compassion.
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 3: That's going into my snobbiness here. Uh do not like that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: where it's where the victim is the victim because they're
Speaker 3: expressing concern.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard with a lot of those, you know,
Speaker 3: like spur the moment pranks, you don't have a good
Speaker 3: you have to have like a reveal, a payoff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And that's happened to me where I was at a
Speaker 3: comedy festival and my friend because I brought people back
Speaker 3: to our hotel room. One night. It was like everyone
Speaker 3: was partying fun comedians, but he was in bed and
Speaker 3: we were like doing six man pyramids at the foot
Speaker 3: of the bed and he finally woke up, but to
Speaker 3: get back at me. I was sleeping in the next
Speaker 3: day because I drank too much. He called and said, hey,
Speaker 3: I think you're about to win the Best of the
Speaker 3: Fest here and I was like, oh shit, you hurry
Speaker 3: up to the theater in the middle of Aspen and
Speaker 3: so he then told everyone to like cheer as I
Speaker 3: Chris Fairbanks is about to run around the corner. Everyone cheer.
Speaker 3: So I came around then and everyone's in the street
Speaker 3: like yay. And I just thought that I won this
Speaker 3: award until nighttime. He didn't think about the payoff because
Speaker 3: they did have an award ceremony and and Andy Smith
Speaker 3: got it. It was very funny and I was like, wait,
Speaker 3: I thought I won that and granted just he just
Speaker 3: came over and said, yeah that I just said that.
Speaker 3: It was like a prick. I'm like, well, the reveal
Speaker 3: there has to be at the moment, not all day.
Speaker 3: My dad called me and said congratulations, like it was, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it has to have a nice dismount.
Speaker 1: Well you can't. Yeah, you have to end it. You
Speaker 1: have to end it.
Speaker 4: I forgot to end it.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 5: Speaking of people being drunken hotel rooms with friends, you
Speaker 5: ever like stacked? We called it stacking where you just
Speaker 5: put stuff on top of the person who's passed out.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, of course, or a chair. I didn't even
Speaker 7: know it was, and they roll and all this stuff
Speaker 7: falls off of I think it's a step above like
Speaker 7: drawing a penis on their face.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you've already done that a bunch of times, you
Speaker 2: need something new. Yeah, And then they probably wake up
Speaker 2: from the noise, so they're like, what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 3: My cat used to do that to me. I'd come
Speaker 3: home and uh, there'd be a stack of newspapers and
Speaker 3: magazines on my bed, and I knew what it meant.
Speaker 3: I'd pull them all off and there was a little
Speaker 3: turret he shit on my bed and I put exactly so,
Speaker 3: I'm cat. I He would grab things from the room
Speaker 3: and drag them then with his mouth. Oh it was
Speaker 3: around the time he revealed, oh yeah, I know how
Speaker 3: to go in the toilet too, Like this cat was
Speaker 3: a genius. I should have put them in front of
Speaker 3: a piano. I couldn't. Yeah, just a little on it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's his only power. This cat is very talented. Sure,
Speaker 3: it's only poop based.
Speaker 1: It's also like that cat felt shame like covering up.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done this, but oh no, I've done
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 4: Well, it is kind of we're the classified.
Speaker 3: I gotta find a new apartment. Uh yeah, a cat's
Speaker 3: innately do that that. I think it's a shameful thing
Speaker 3: that they're covering it up with litter, even they want.
Speaker 3: It's the same part of a cat that wants to
Speaker 3: cover up with dirt. There's no dirt around. I guess
Speaker 3: I'll use these magazines. What I couldn't wrap my mind
Speaker 3: around is a cat's little mouth biting into a magazine
Speaker 3: and dragging it. Jumping up on a bed and stacking
Speaker 3: all these things. Yeah, sometimes moving my pillow. I would
Speaker 3: pay one hundred dollars to see a cat take a
Speaker 3: pillow on a bed and move it to the middle
Speaker 3: of the bed. These are things you don't see cats do. Also,
Speaker 3: in private, they put on little top hats. These are
Speaker 3: all things I gotta watch a cat.
Speaker 5: Do you have pets, yes, I have a dog, Charlie
Speaker 5: oh kind. He's a terrier mix, a really pretty medium sized,
Speaker 5: fluffy dog, nice, hypoallergetic.
Speaker 4: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: I think it's tiny fluffy dogs that usually.
Speaker 5: He sheds constantly, so that's why he's fur so soft,
Speaker 5: because it's new.
Speaker 4: For all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's clumps of It's like we just have
Speaker 5: a dust devil that we just keep vacuuming up cumbs
Speaker 5: of hair all day.
Speaker 3: I think that's okay, though for me, it's it's the
Speaker 3: type of hair, like a pug or a shiny dog.
Speaker 3: I get very I get like red blotches, but a
Speaker 3: dog like yours, like a terrier.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we found him my roommate, my old roommate and
Speaker 5: I Nicole and I were living in a Beechwood apartment
Speaker 5: and when we first moved here and somebody posts on
Speaker 5: Facebook that they found this dog on the highway. Why
Speaker 5: they got him like fixed up. He had like like
Speaker 5: a cyst on his neck. He was all dirty and
Speaker 5: they cleaned him up and they were like, oh, we're
Speaker 5: going to Europe, can anybody watch this dog? So and
Speaker 5: we didn't see a picture of him or anything, so
Speaker 5: I was like Nicole, I want to watch a dog,
Speaker 5: and she's like sure, and then as soon as we
Speaker 5: opened the door, we fell in love immediately, and then
Speaker 5: we've kept him ever since.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, we're back from Europe. Can we have our dog?
Speaker 2: No, get your own dog, go back to the highway.
Speaker 2: I have a terrier too, and she is that's my
Speaker 2: favorite kind, I think because it was the first dog
Speaker 2: we ever had. Pepsi and just a kind of wire
Speaker 2: hair terrier mutt. They're just so smart, they're just so
Speaker 2: like I just I love that kind of dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't have to do any training, but it was
Speaker 2: like I just started to whistle when I wanted to
Speaker 2: come back in the house, and she did it immediately
Speaker 2: the first time. Where it's like every dog I've ever
Speaker 2: had does not It can't be trained for some reason
Speaker 2: or I can't do it or whatever. But it's like
Speaker 2: she's like, I am willing to work with you. However
Speaker 2: you need to do this. We will get something going here.
Speaker 3: Now the root of the word terrier, does any part
Speaker 3: of it mean hey, I'm gonna bite you.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: What is terror because there's like pitbull terriers. Is it
Speaker 3: just mean a smaller dog.
Speaker 5: I think it's a smaller Yeah, I guess you're asking
Speaker 5: us the like yeah, rgein No.
Speaker 3: Why I hear the word terrier and I think it
Speaker 3: means it's a dog that's going to bite me? Is
Speaker 3: it because it's close to the word terror? I see the
Speaker 3: English one that's it always misguiding.
Speaker 2: I think they're kind of they're kind of the most
Speaker 2: common dogs. I feel like like a little you know,
Speaker 2: if I think your average mutt is probably fifty that guy, No, that's.
Speaker 3: Truella, So it's a safe bed if I'm if I'm
Speaker 3: desperately trying to drum up conversation with someone standing there
Speaker 3: with a dog, I can say, what is that terrier?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, Wow, you know your dogs?
Speaker 3: Yep, yep, yep, And then the word lout comes out
Speaker 3: of my mouth and they slap me. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 3: quite a derogatory term in the dog community. I think
Speaker 3: it's funny that that's even a conversation, like where, I
Speaker 3: need to know where that dog's blood is from? Where's
Speaker 3: the origin?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 3: I think they were in a hurry to It looked
Speaker 3: like the vehicle was for kids. There was a stuffed
Speaker 3: animal on it.
Speaker 2: Almost terrier, Say there's your terrier right there, but I
Speaker 2: wonder if she was in their.
Speaker 3: Blind spot or yeah it was because he turned into
Speaker 3: the sun. It was.
Speaker 1: That was not good.
Speaker 3: Keep your windshields clean.
Speaker 5: Everybody, have you guys had any close closer and anything thiscast.
Speaker 2: Lot if we have a lot of people that if
Speaker 2: it was like this where it's like a two lane,
Speaker 2: normal street and then someone backs out, it just someone
Speaker 2: just comes right over and you know, it's like playing
Speaker 2: chicken with a car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of things like that.
Speaker 3: And we've had some unstable people like get on the
Speaker 3: hood or chase us on a bicycle. It's okay, I
Speaker 3: wanted to be on this podcast. The last time that
Speaker 3: happened with tig that was that was actually traumatizing. That
Speaker 3: was like affected the following days because I was kept
Speaker 3: thinking like, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Like we were it was a guy that we're and
Speaker 2: it was on Losienagu so it's like a busy street,
Speaker 2: very unexpected, and as we were at a stop light,
Speaker 2: I think or maybe a little past, this guy walking
Speaker 2: down the street just kind of made a beeline and
Speaker 2: came and stood in front of the car.
Speaker 1: And then was like what I'm gonna do. What do
Speaker 1: you do? And it was totally.
Speaker 2: Insane and very odd, like we were just I was just like, well,
Speaker 2: there's nothing.
Speaker 1: We can do.
Speaker 3: Ten minutes it went.
Speaker 2: It went on for a while, but then a cop
Speaker 2: came and just like and then, which is the thing
Speaker 2: that never happens.
Speaker 1: In La, Like that never happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a neighborhood policeman yeah, came and.
Speaker 2: Was like sir, then just like took him away where
Speaker 2: I was like, we could be here all day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is new. Do you guys want to see something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, let's.
Speaker 4: Can we turn around? Yeah, make a rite on.
Speaker 5: I'll show you Walt Disney's house. Oh wow, Okay, it's
Speaker 5: a house that I always noticed driving by. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's a pretty house. I want to live in that house.
Speaker 5: And then randomly I was reading about him and I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, it's Walt Disney's house all the way
Speaker 5: around right, Yeah, I'll make a right on Franklin.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, when do you know when it was his house?
Speaker 5: I believe nineteen like twenty six area, Yeah, that time,
Speaker 5: because he his office his first office was here.
Speaker 3: At on Kingswell, yeah, at the skate so I my
Speaker 3: friend did a bunch of Disney old like logos and
Speaker 3: things from that era because that skate shop is makes
Speaker 3: their own boards and everything. Mouse. Yeah, there's a whole
Speaker 3: wall their their logo. I never knew why they had
Speaker 3: like a Mickey Mouse on a lot of shirts, but
Speaker 3: they they embraced that. And I didn't know until like recently,
Speaker 3: like a week ago, they told me that that was
Speaker 3: the first Disney.
Speaker 4: Like studios Disney Brothers animation.
Speaker 3: I think that's so cool. That's like early.
Speaker 5: And then they moved out of that place and then
Speaker 5: went to where Trader Joe's is across from Gelson's and Silver.
Speaker 4: Lake at Hyperion.
Speaker 5: Sure there was a had a big building there, so
Speaker 5: that's where their second studio was.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's so cool that that's where it all started.
Speaker 2: I love when there's architect Sure in LA it's like
Speaker 2: very rare, but then it's really good when when it exists.
Speaker 5: I sometimes take this way back home just because of
Speaker 5: this bridge.
Speaker 1: I love the Shakespeare Shakespeare Bridge.
Speaker 3: Do you have a special enjoyment of Disney things?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 5: My grandmother lived in Florida during the winters, so like
Speaker 5: growing up and then make a left up here. Growing up,
Speaker 5: we would go Christmas with her and then go to
Speaker 5: disney World. Right, So I got into disney World, and
Speaker 5: then I never went to Disneyland until I moved here,
Speaker 5: and then I've been probably like six times to Disneyland.
Speaker 3: I have early memories of it too, and it was
Speaker 3: vivid memories of Pirates of the Caribbean and stuff. But
Speaker 3: as a kid, I always just wanted to learn how
Speaker 3: to animate, making little flip books and everything. It was
Speaker 3: always what I thought I would do.
Speaker 4: And yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: My mom signed me up for an animation class at
Speaker 5: disney World, so we got to go behind the scenes
Speaker 5: and like, that's great on cells and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's so cool. Yeah, I ordered a light table
Speaker 3: and the little three hole tab for those cells, and
Speaker 3: I mean a little cartoon for a snowboard video once,
Speaker 3: but did use the old style of coloring it. It
Speaker 3: took so long to make a thirty second intro to
Speaker 3: a snowboard video. I worked on it months, hundreds and
Speaker 3: hundred thousands of drawings, And that's what kind of talked
Speaker 3: me out of it.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: My back is sort of from how much I've been sitting.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't want to do this.
Speaker 4: At least are the two houses right here? Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: This one was yellow one and then that one was
Speaker 4: his brother Roys.
Speaker 3: Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 4: So they live next door to each other.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: And that is a honky shirtless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a cartoonishly muscular Disney villain. He seemed like
Speaker 3: he wasn't happy that we knew about his house. It's
Speaker 3: weird when you see surprisingly large ripped people just in
Speaker 3: the wild.
Speaker 4: Those as weren't drawn on no there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was just hard work and time that would
Speaker 3: have been spent with people had he not severed all relationships.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, got you stuck on this?
Speaker 1: Or are we gonna end up Alta Dina?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right here was that was Hannah's house, and that was
Speaker 3: that was Barbara's. It's just animation, animation neighborhood. Let's get
Speaker 3: narrower and closer uphill. Oh just go back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, also because then we see the guy again. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: question about your garage?
Speaker 3: What do you do? You look ripped? I was just
Speaker 3: saying that my phone likes to send me those videos. Hey,
Speaker 3: you're in great ship shape? What do you do?
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 3: And how old are you? And those videos often I
Speaker 3: uh Apple, The people at Apple, I think that's who
Speaker 3: tells you what you'd like.
Speaker 1: They know what you like.
Speaker 3: Chris, Yeah, it's the things I talk about.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're real key.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where he had muscles. Hey, guy just ripping out
Speaker 3: a set. I'll be right out. That's him knowing people drive.
Speaker 4: By and you know that's the school where it was
Speaker 4: right El High.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, from Greece.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I feel like someone said it.
Speaker 2: But this school has been in so many TV shows
Speaker 2: at Puffs School all the time because it is again,
Speaker 2: one of the few pieces of architecture Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: So they're like, oh, look, this is fun. This is
Speaker 3: kind of like what I do with my cameos. I
Speaker 3: live in Angelino Heights, which boasts the most Victorian homes,
Speaker 3: and I've learned a little about it.
Speaker 4: Oh that is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Look at her speaking of opening animation. That yeah, the
Speaker 3: animation from Greece blew my mind. When I was a kid,
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to make that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was cool, but a lot of sitting. I
Speaker 8: suppose I could have stood when I drew make a
Speaker 8: little music stand or some podium standing desk.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there was a little comedy club dream works,
Speaker 3: I'm not. They moved some cubicles, put up a brick wall,
Speaker 3: and one of the animators there that was into comedy
Speaker 3: would have shows and it was unbelievable how they never
Speaker 3: left to work on Kung Fu Panda or something. There's
Speaker 3: a gym there, there's a bar, there's places to sleep
Speaker 3: if you just want to wake up and work. And yes,
Speaker 3: nobody sat. They all were on some sort of a
Speaker 3: you know, soft standing like matt or like an exercise thing.
Speaker 3: Everyone animated. It's standing up.
Speaker 2: I was very surprised, but sorry, can we go back
Speaker 2: because they brought you into the offices.
Speaker 1: Did you stand up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was nighttime and it's weird. It was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like and they had like a library wall
Speaker 3: where you a book was a switch and it opened
Speaker 3: up and they had this like nautically themed library and
Speaker 3: with whiskeys and that was like.
Speaker 1: Was it just you or was it like a three
Speaker 1: man show?
Speaker 3: Yeah? More of five or six comics. The JK Comedy Club.
Speaker 4: Is it still running?
Speaker 3: No? I think that all ended. Probably it's funny I'll
Speaker 3: say three or four years ago, but we all know
Speaker 3: it's been a decade. But yeah. No, it was a
Speaker 3: lot of like all comedy stand up at Franklin UCB
Speaker 3: Era did get you started at UCB right.
Speaker 4: The Chelsea Theater that's now dust and demolished.
Speaker 5: Oh really yeah, it was under Cristides in uh Chelsea,
Speaker 5: Like I'm twenty six, eighth and twenty six.
Speaker 3: Those are some of the best memories that ever. Was
Speaker 3: great going back and forth visiting there and just going
Speaker 3: back and forth. Like when you visit there, you get
Speaker 3: to do all the fun shows in one week, and
Speaker 3: so I had this inflated sense of how often I
Speaker 3: would be on stage there. But it's so great.
Speaker 4: But I haven't been to the New Theater yet in
Speaker 4: New York.
Speaker 3: Oh there isn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't know they're up and running though.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is that a thing you would go back to, Like
Speaker 2: if you were in town, you would, Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fun.
Speaker 5: I'd let them know him in town that they wanted
Speaker 5: want me to do anything? Improbably, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: How did you get into it?
Speaker 5: I was fresh out of college and I went to
Speaker 5: school at HOFTA, which was like close to the city
Speaker 5: in Long Island, and I never knew about it in college.
Speaker 4: And I could have done it all through college.
Speaker 5: But after college I was about to interview for a
Speaker 5: writer's assistant on the Daily Show. So I researched all
Speaker 5: the people that worked at the Daily Show where they studied. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and they all studied at this thing called UCB. I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, like the TV show. And so then
Speaker 5: I didn't get the job, but I went to UCB
Speaker 5: and I was like blown away. I was like, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, this is what I should have been doing,
Speaker 5: and oh wow.
Speaker 4: Became obsessed and did it every night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. So is there anything that you want
Speaker 1: to promote?
Speaker 4: No, nothing promoting, nothing going on.
Speaker 3: That's okay me too. I feel good about where I'm
Speaker 3: at artistically. But the other night I did a show.
Speaker 3: What do you want me to say? I'm like, there's
Speaker 3: nothing really to say, just you know, this thing or
Speaker 3: this thing from years ago, and if I do it,
Speaker 3: be on my Instagram. So right, what's that handle?
Speaker 4: Just at John Milheiser.
Speaker 3: Go to John mil Instagram dot com, forward slash John Milheuser.
Speaker 3: Thank you for being in the car pleasure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, randomly all around with us.
Speaker 4: Of course. I hope you like the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Oh, we loved it so gorgeous. You've done amazing things
Speaker 1: over here.
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Speaker 1: Our talent booker is Patrick Coottner.
Speaker 3: Theme song by Karen Kilgarrett.
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