Speaker 1: Are you leaving? I you wanna way back home? Either way,
Speaker 1: we want to be there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 2: time and a terminal and gay.
Speaker 1: We want to send you off in style. We wanna
Speaker 1: welcome you back home. Tell us all about it. We
Speaker 1: scared her? Was it fine? Mal porn?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do your need do you ride?
Speaker 3: Ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need.
Speaker 3: With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen. Thank you
Speaker 3: for matchingdence.
Speaker 1: I always like to.
Speaker 3: We're going to continue to do this throughout the entire episode.
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Speaker 1: Dot hotmail dot earthlink dot.
Speaker 3: Gov, dot dial up dot org, and be sure to
Speaker 3: in your writing of the email leave pregnant pauses please.
Speaker 3: It's an important part of comedy that I used to
Speaker 3: not make room for pausing pausing.
Speaker 2: It conveys to the audience confidence and security that you
Speaker 2: will whatever horrorle hole you're digging for yourself, you're going
Speaker 2: to get out of it exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I used to just fill all silence with
Speaker 3: panic stricken words. Yeah, and it's a great it's a
Speaker 3: great trick silence.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: I saw Todd Barry and did do it well, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going to copy them and do their
Speaker 3: jokes and it did great for me. I tried to
Speaker 3: slip that by.
Speaker 4: I tried to slip it by.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, out of my way. It's an emergency.
Speaker 4: It's it's very.
Speaker 3: Scary when a car you're dealing with in traffic on
Speaker 3: the side that you're dealing with has been side swiped
Speaker 3: severely because it lets you know they really don't care
Speaker 3: when it comes down to it. And that's what I'm
Speaker 3: getting from this Kia Serreno.
Speaker 1: They'll do whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: On the way not the way here. But I was
Speaker 3: grocery shopping before coming and I and I'm not bragging,
Speaker 3: but there was an elderly lady standing next to her
Speaker 3: car with a flat tire and I immediately pulled over
Speaker 3: because it seemed like, you know, when you're a kid
Speaker 3: and they say in church you're going to be tested. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like, well I have to. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: another guy pulled over and then a weird thing happened
Speaker 3: where we had a little showdown and it was decided
Speaker 3: that he's more of a man than I am, and
Speaker 3: he let me have this one, and he took off,
Speaker 3: even though he seemed more equipped and actually had tools
Speaker 3: and a truck.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you back down?
Speaker 3: I because I was kind of first. It was like
Speaker 3: right of way. I was the first at the stop.
Speaker 1: Yep, I know, I know, first versus best.
Speaker 3: It's almost like he pulled over knowing that I was
Speaker 3: already there. You know when you see an accident and
Speaker 3: you pretend on the phone because you know if someone
Speaker 3: else is on the phone. What okay, okay, dude, what
Speaker 3: you want whatever? You didn't have to add the brights.
Speaker 4: Did you see that?
Speaker 1: Lunatic? But also, yeah, don't do that. Don't go against
Speaker 1: the road rules so that you can do me a favor.
Speaker 4: God, well, let's go back.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely gonna fight that person.
Speaker 3: But it was easy. It was fun and easy. Wait,
Speaker 3: lug nuts.
Speaker 1: Am I getting on the freeway right now?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes you are. The point is if we see anyone
Speaker 3: on the side of the road, I have already done that. Today,
Speaker 3: we don't have to do it. Let's go straight to
Speaker 3: our guests.
Speaker 2: The real point is is that you're going to fight
Speaker 2: to change a tire you're not equipped to change from
Speaker 2: the tow truck guy.
Speaker 1: Is what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm fully equipped. I assumed because of the model
Speaker 3: of the car that there would have been a jack,
Speaker 3: and that jack would also have the long sticky thingy.
Speaker 1: And then it did, it did, and you did it
Speaker 1: and it was easy. Oh congratulations, Yeah, it was fun okay.
Speaker 3: And I'm not bragging. I'm just I wanted to bring
Speaker 3: up the funny like with me and the guy both
Speaker 3: had the same intention. And then he took off and
Speaker 3: I'm like, come on, man, do your job. He didn't
Speaker 3: fight that hard to do it, but he's probably on
Speaker 3: the way to something.
Speaker 1: That's a little bit the way you described it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just jumping to conclusions based on the way
Speaker 2: you described it, but a little condescending that he is like, well, okay, buddy,
Speaker 2: you got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now I have melted popsicles from what being
Speaker 3: in the hot car?
Speaker 1: Oh you were like on your way home from the store.
Speaker 3: Yes, forreus, I know.
Speaker 1: He's in number fifteen. Why you should let the other
Speaker 1: man do it.
Speaker 3: I wanted to roll down the window and say sorry,
Speaker 3: lady popsicles, because I figured she would have gotten it.
Speaker 3: But now it was a yeah, it was. It seemed
Speaker 3: like a test. She was standing there helpless. Huh and
Speaker 3: maybe it was my age, I said she was. She
Speaker 3: had a shawl like she had.
Speaker 2: A what if the late what if it was a
Speaker 2: test and the guy in the truck was Jesus.
Speaker 3: It's so funny that that was the only thing ingrained
Speaker 3: in me when I was getting free food at after
Speaker 3: school youth group. Was that notion of be sure to
Speaker 3: do kind things for strangers because it might be the
Speaker 3: Lord testing you. And I immediately went to even hitchhikers,
Speaker 3: because oftentimes I see hitchhikers that do have a Jesus
Speaker 3: like look, a beard and long hair, and oftentimes that's
Speaker 3: not who you want to go pick up. Jesus at
Speaker 3: the look at the time his look was very Messiah appropriate.
Speaker 1: And now it has a kind of PCP dealer from the.
Speaker 3: Seventieses a hatchet wielding cat man, which is the ultimate test.
Speaker 1: Can you survive the Lord if he was in your car.
Speaker 3: The Lord comes in mysterious ways, and sometimes it's a murderer.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's so funny that it's bad advice,
Speaker 3: and probably not advice that a lot of you know,
Speaker 3: church folk probably don't want to help. Who knows. I'm
Speaker 3: not about to say that. I'll only think.
Speaker 4: It good idea.
Speaker 1: Who knows what anybody's thinking these days?
Speaker 3: That's okay, that's a great way to smooth pulling me out.
Speaker 1: I'm here for transition phrases.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, But yeah, so far, I believe
Speaker 3: that's all I've done today.
Speaker 2: Oh well that's a lot though, changing some a stranger's tire.
Speaker 1: You're done for the day, is this?
Speaker 3: And I feel bad because you're probably an eight o'clock
Speaker 3: and at nine o'clock and at ten o'clock my day
Speaker 3: won't start until I one time glanced and you weren't.
Speaker 3: You didn't know this, I don't think. But I glanced
Speaker 3: into your your daily book and saw how many appointments
Speaker 3: you had, and I was like, I don't know that
Speaker 3: I'm a grown up yet, because this is terrifying to me.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: I went from definitely not being a grown up to
Speaker 2: getting slammed directly into being a grown up in that way.
Speaker 3: I feel like you and I were almost at the
Speaker 3: same level when we met. We both had similar stories.
Speaker 3: We both were worried about overdo taxes. Yes, and now
Speaker 3: look at you. Yeah, and I'm here as a reminder
Speaker 3: of what you once were, thank god.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean, look, it's fun. And it's like
Speaker 2: the frog in the pot that slowly gets boiled to death,
Speaker 2: where it's like it's fun and I don't really notice it.
Speaker 2: So it it's fine, right, and like it is a
Speaker 2: big difference, like, as I always say to my sister, Hey,
Speaker 2: it's better than working at the gap. Like, it's a
Speaker 2: big difference working at your own company and on your
Speaker 2: own projects and stuff that you want to do than
Speaker 2: working for other people, especially when you're like me and
Speaker 2: you have.
Speaker 4: A what is it called goals? No?
Speaker 1: No, like I just don't like telling people telling me
Speaker 1: what to do.
Speaker 3: Ever, Oh, authority issues, Yes, that's what I have. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm going to start treating my career like a business.
Speaker 3: It is a business group and I until recently I
Speaker 3: didn't realize that. Yeah, I have met with a social
Speaker 3: media specialist. I'm going to start what kind of tiktoks
Speaker 3: do like Karen, because I really don't know what I'm
Speaker 3: going to do.
Speaker 2: Just get your big face up into that camera and
Speaker 2: blab people don't give a shue And.
Speaker 3: You're very right.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's what he said.
Speaker 3: I was you weren't paying this person front forward. I'm
Speaker 3: going to pay them a little bit sure, all right, yeah,
Speaker 3: and see what the results are like. See if it's
Speaker 3: something I can do on my own learn while doing it. Sure,
Speaker 3: I have a feeling it will be something that I
Speaker 3: will they'll know a lot more about than me. But
Speaker 3: I'm having troubled thinking of things I can do.
Speaker 2: That's because you're thinking of them as bits. They don't
Speaker 2: have to be bits.
Speaker 4: Literally.
Speaker 2: You can get on there and with a thought, the
Speaker 2: kernel of a joke, you can talk through how you
Speaker 2: just thought of a joke, and there are people who
Speaker 2: might like that. Yeah, as opposed to executing. It's not
Speaker 2: vine where you have to like do a mini movie.
Speaker 3: Sure, even though that's kind of what I want to do,
Speaker 3: I need to start with things that I know I
Speaker 3: can do immediately, and that's front facing blabber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do your blabbing, because it's what has made you
Speaker 2: all the money so far, and you're good at it
Speaker 2: and even a one minute blab, you know, with just
Speaker 2: like a concept of you know, I was watching Netflix
Speaker 2: the other day and it made mean.
Speaker 1: Bloh blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is the idea as opposed to if you get
Speaker 2: on there and you're just trying to like do hard jokes,
Speaker 2: people are going to be like, this guy, isn't he's
Speaker 2: just doing a character right or something.
Speaker 1: Yes, they have to know that you're actually like this exactly.
Speaker 3: And that's what these nice people were saying, is that
Speaker 3: people want to make it personal.
Speaker 1: Is these two white doves right now, I apparently a
Speaker 1: magician pulled over and lost its livelihood.
Speaker 3: Well, that one just did a dive bomb, which is
Speaker 3: rare for a dove.
Speaker 1: We're seeing incredible birds on the one today, ladies, and
Speaker 1: we're just seeing.
Speaker 3: Peaceful birds doing crow like behaviors?
Speaker 1: Were those two albino crows?
Speaker 3: Did I tell you about the time my friend where
Speaker 3: I was at the Comedy Magic Club following a very
Speaker 3: nervous magician, a young nervous magician, and one of his
Speaker 3: birds died before his show, and he was crying and
Speaker 3: I said, why don't I go up? He lost one
Speaker 3: of his birds. It was the worst thing I'd ever
Speaker 3: think it.
Speaker 1: Was he crying because he was connected to the bird,
Speaker 1: or was he crying because his act was Fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a little bit of bone, mostly because
Speaker 3: those birds were his friends and they aren't supposed to
Speaker 3: actually disappear. Oh oh, and I said, but that's not
Speaker 3: when you imagine when you pull him out of the hat.
Speaker 3: But I shouldn't have. I didn't say that, of course,
Speaker 3: but it was very I mean, he had dubs.
Speaker 2: That is, that's a sad bird wand of dies it
Speaker 2: is or cries as Prince used to talk about.
Speaker 3: Always all of his songs are lousy with dove references.
Speaker 3: But those birds that we just saw were certainly they
Speaker 3: were not the typical bird.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 1: They looked like a Christian poster.
Speaker 2: They looked like we were down in the church choir
Speaker 2: rehearsal room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like between them the should have been
Speaker 3: a flapping red ribbon. Yes, said United First United.
Speaker 1: Methodist Hosana in the Highest Church has started advertising like that,
Speaker 1: like will you marry me?
Speaker 3: Behind an airplane? They just sent out carrier doves.
Speaker 2: Wait, can I just tell you this past weekend standing
Speaker 2: in my backyard, I think I was pulling weeds although
Speaker 2: I doubt it. And I see that there's a skywriter
Speaker 2: and I look, and the skywriter wrote imagine dragons.
Speaker 3: Which of course was an advertisement for the band.
Speaker 2: I mean it either that or Kurt Broneler's up to
Speaker 2: his old tricks again making people imagine dragons.
Speaker 1: It made me laugh. I out loud, was like what, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But it was so funny.
Speaker 3: If you stuck around for a while, he would have
Speaker 3: written live at the Forum or something, or.
Speaker 2: He would have been like, now, if you imagined a
Speaker 2: yellow dragon, you're passive aggressive.
Speaker 1: Just it's a personality.
Speaker 3: Test in the sky and the guy's doing it for days,
Speaker 3: and the wind it's just taking away the first question
Speaker 3: you'd have to rewrite that. Let's think about how stressful
Speaker 3: that job would be, by the way, trying to write
Speaker 3: an entire sentence and having to factor in wind, yeah,
Speaker 3: in your exhaust girth or whatever. It's not a job
Speaker 3: I envy. No job is one I envy?
Speaker 1: Is it computerized? At this point though?
Speaker 3: I wonder, Oh, they're just like projecting an image or
Speaker 3: an airplane.
Speaker 2: The guy that's flying the airplane doesn't have to be
Speaker 2: the one that's farting out the right the exhaust that
Speaker 2: lets you know that you need to imagine dragons.
Speaker 1: Right now at two o'clock on a Saturday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe now they have little exhaust for extencils that will
Speaker 3: shoot out the shape of those letters.
Speaker 1: Computer.
Speaker 3: The technology has to have gotten further. Have you ever
Speaker 3: soos days?
Speaker 2: Have you seen those fireworks displays? I'm sure it's in
Speaker 2: Singapore because Singapore has all the good stuff first, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: but when they're like, it's a fireworks display, but then
Speaker 2: it does all this other shit and like you can't
Speaker 2: it goes up and then suddenly it's a baby looking
Speaker 2: down at you or whatever.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rare that I see advanced my complaint about
Speaker 3: fireworks for my whole life. It's like, this is just
Speaker 3: like last year. Then something happened and they started animating.
Speaker 3: They started doing three D. How am I looking at
Speaker 3: suddenly a sphere?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: How do they make it blow up into a perfect circle? Now?
Speaker 2: A step before that, and I don't want to ruin
Speaker 2: your bit, but a step before that in the this
Speaker 2: was just like last year's journey was in my opinion,
Speaker 2: when they started to do the one where it exploded
Speaker 2: and then fizzled down. I like that, right, which they
Speaker 2: were like, that was new technology for a little while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't think we were gonna get past or like
Speaker 2: the grouping ones that were like or the color changing.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, this isn't like last year.
Speaker 2: I remember really feeling that one year, and now we've
Speaker 2: gone way past that.
Speaker 3: And I believe that's called a report. Oftentimes you buy
Speaker 3: a firework and it claims to have this is a
Speaker 3: sparkling forest tank or whatever with report, and I remember asking,
Speaker 3: what's the report, and they're like, oh, at the end.
Speaker 1: Thanks you dick.
Speaker 3: Of course, course of course it's you.
Speaker 1: Andy has a picture of Jesus in his back window. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't fucking think so.
Speaker 3: Time for someone to remember what he would do.
Speaker 1: He would let you murder.
Speaker 3: I think you're the one that blasted passed. When I
Speaker 3: was helping an old lady with a bad bad she
Speaker 3: keeps changing.
Speaker 2: She gets more and more tragic as the guy that
Speaker 2: left gets more and more of an ass.
Speaker 3: He just turned his eyes away when he saw she
Speaker 3: had one.
Speaker 1: Arm, and then he flipped her off, specifically.
Speaker 3: Flipped off a lady with no eyes.
Speaker 1: What a waste her eyes were on a plate in
Speaker 1: her hand. It's actually Saint Lucy the Halloween.
Speaker 3: It was surrounded by werthers. I took one to be polite.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was so you guys were waiting
Speaker 2: for me. I was just on a zoom call. Is
Speaker 2: it this one? Yes, I was just on a zoom
Speaker 2: call that was taking a long time, and in front
Speaker 2: of me there was a tin of cookies and candies
Speaker 2: that Georgia brought back from France or her French friend
Speaker 2: brought to her, and she brought into the office for everybody.
Speaker 2: So as we're sitting there, I look over and realize
Speaker 2: there's beautiful looking caramel candy sitting in this tent. I'd
Speaker 2: never even looked at it, and I'm like, oh, hell yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna eat some caramel candy on this meeting. I
Speaker 2: pick it up and it is the loudest cellophane wrapped
Speaker 2: around this caramel.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm like it.
Speaker 2: If I eat this candy, I'm gonna make a scene
Speaker 2: on the zoom call.
Speaker 1: So no, I can't have it.
Speaker 2: I like tried it and it was like immediately the
Speaker 2: loudest cellophane.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's so funny. That brings back memories from just
Speaker 3: two years ago where I was like, can I get
Speaker 3: away with this snack or with opening most likely a
Speaker 3: tall white claw while doing this zoom show. Everyone's gonna notice,
Speaker 3: so I'd be coughing or making noises so you can
Speaker 3: cover it up. Yeah, people didn't know all the snacks.
Speaker 1: In my lap, so you got away with it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I got really good at it. It's interesting
Speaker 3: what I got good at knowing that I would never
Speaker 3: need it in the future. Private candy eating Is that
Speaker 3: the top of the list.
Speaker 1: I'm no po a candy.
Speaker 3: Candy for money?
Speaker 1: Oops?
Speaker 4: What was that little hole we're going?
Speaker 1: This is towards now I'm turning on central No.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yes, I will do a better job. I mean,
Speaker 3: look at me. I'm doing nothing. You're operating a motor vehicle.
Speaker 4: I know I will.
Speaker 3: I will mind the map, mind the map anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the little sparkly crispy things at the end of fireworks
Speaker 3: are called reports.
Speaker 1: Reports. That's really what you wanted us to know. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get back to it, and you
Speaker 1: did with almost no sege whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Exactly, Yeah, or really pay off. I knew, but I
Speaker 3: had to finish.
Speaker 2: I wonder though, because fireworks similar to guns, right, the
Speaker 2: report is what happens when it goes off. So they're saying,
Speaker 2: hold on a second, I'm so sorry. We're passing a
Speaker 2: restaurant called Crab Avenue. Have you ever heard of Crab Avenue?
Speaker 2: I mean we've driven down Crab Avenue.
Speaker 3: I mean we called a street that back and call it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go in. I think that it's
Speaker 3: probably great food. Let's not.
Speaker 2: No, No, I feel more like what I'm trying to
Speaker 2: point out is maybe that's the best name of a
Speaker 2: place ever. It is like on par with cellar Door,
Speaker 2: Crab Avenue. It's all very it goes together.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I think a linguist would approve what I
Speaker 3: wouldn't approve. I don't want to deal with fish. If
Speaker 3: if your sign is sun faded to where you can't
Speaker 3: see the word restaurant though, yeah, to me, that means
Speaker 3: they're they're gonna leave stuff out for a little while.
Speaker 2: They're gonna definitely be like that crab from last week
Speaker 2: is fine, just mix it into a salad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if that's how you treat your sign, I don't
Speaker 3: want your open air of shellfish.
Speaker 1: I feel like also that was closed.
Speaker 3: That place, Oh, it totally is.
Speaker 1: I think it is. But so rip Crab Avenue.
Speaker 2: Hey, there'll never be another one like you. I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to go around the blue Sorry.
Speaker 3: So all right, speaking of closed and should be closed,
Speaker 3: here's a shareless ferris wheel.
Speaker 1: Oh they're building it right now. Look they're building it,
Speaker 1: and I think, oh those guys, Wow, that's the gravitron.
Speaker 3: But it's called something else here. It's been a while
Speaker 3: since I've seen a fly by Night carnival.
Speaker 1: God, I wish we could go here. It looks like
Speaker 1: it's about to open. It.
Speaker 3: It just pops up and they put in three or
Speaker 3: four screws and then you trust your family on to
Speaker 3: get on there and spin around.
Speaker 2: I actually saw a lawyer on TikTok and they used
Speaker 2: to do this thing on TikTok. It was like five
Speaker 2: things I would never recommend as a dermatologist, five things
Speaker 2: I would never recommenmnd as a fireman whatever.
Speaker 1: And this guy was like five things I would never.
Speaker 2: Recommend as a like an accident lawyer, and those he
Speaker 2: was like I would never let anyone in my family
Speaker 2: on a ride that got set up in a parking lot.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, unofficially, that would make me assume he's
Speaker 3: said there's a story behind that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the way he said, the passion with which
Speaker 2: it's like, because those dudes, it's like, the trust is
Speaker 2: that those two dudes building that ferris wheel right now
Speaker 2: are totally fine, Yeah, totally sober, Yeah, totally focused, right, but.
Speaker 3: They might look like a you know, hitchhiker. Posing is
Speaker 3: the savior. I'm I'm yet, those are the carnival barkers
Speaker 3: that I remember.
Speaker 1: As a kid, and they and those also are the
Speaker 1: best in the biz.
Speaker 2: Some people are dedicated in Karen would never do any
Speaker 2: of the things I just mentioned.
Speaker 3: Exactly for fairness. I remember the most passionate guy who
Speaker 3: assisted me on the bumper cards so much to where
Speaker 3: he is concerned that I would I had a faulty
Speaker 3: turning radius or something that he jumped on the back
Speaker 3: and made me look like the biggest dork ever, because
Speaker 3: even so passionate about his job, it's so embarrassing to
Speaker 3: be on the bumper cars. And the carnival worker decides
Speaker 3: this guy needs help. I'm going to stand on.
Speaker 1: The back of his car, that's true.
Speaker 3: And steer for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this little guy needs help, is what the guy
Speaker 2: yelled to all your friends.
Speaker 3: I don't need help. Why what is it my red suspenders?
Speaker 3: What is it about me?
Speaker 1: The popsicle staying around my mouth?
Speaker 3: Oh? So much drama.
Speaker 1: Here we are, we're picking up our guest today. Is
Speaker 1: a stranger. I'm so nervous.
Speaker 3: I know, I am too.
Speaker 2: It's a stranger. We love or I do anyway. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you are familiar with his work.
Speaker 3: I was not, but now that I look at what
Speaker 3: he's done, I'm certainly familiar with the work part of it.
Speaker 1: Pretty goddamn great? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is this him? No, that's an old lady.
Speaker 3: Well that's change her.
Speaker 2: Tire, ma'am pull over, leave me alone.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well she's talking. You can really get away
Speaker 3: with talking to yourself lately. All you have to do
Speaker 3: is hold a phone in your hand and whisper, whisper
Speaker 3: sweet nothings to the clouds. Is that it's somebody? It is?
Speaker 4: Is that him?
Speaker 3: Yes, Harry comes.
Speaker 1: This is exciting.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, it's us. Hi Hi other side, please,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, you know today's guests from uh from?
Speaker 3: You know I'm from clubs and colleges throughout the country. Hello,
Speaker 3: put your ears together for Gillow's Ai.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: Hi, how are you ge? I'm doing all right. We
Speaker 3: haven't met. My name's Chris him Chris.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Karen.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: We're very happy that you're here.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Glendale.
Speaker 1: So gorgeous.
Speaker 3: We've been on the way here, and I think it's
Speaker 3: a sign. It's a good omen. We saw two doves
Speaker 3: appearing to dog fight in the sky.
Speaker 4: Oh. I thought you were going to say something else.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, they were just large.
Speaker 4: Doves and they were having a fight in the sky.
Speaker 3: They were dive bombing. That's not There is a strong
Speaker 3: chance that they weren't doves, but they look like them
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, maybe Glendale I hope didn't bring it out
Speaker 5: in them.
Speaker 4: We usually were known it.
Speaker 3: Yes, they just start flying like a lot of folks
Speaker 3: drive in Glendale exactly. And you are in New York, man,
Speaker 3: are you not?
Speaker 4: I was, Yes, I was born and raised.
Speaker 1: Oh in New York City or.
Speaker 4: Queen's Yeah, Queen Queens just like the Entourage boys.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you know that's how I know you?
Speaker 4: Yes, go ahead, when.
Speaker 3: I first moved to Los Angeles, I had an audition
Speaker 3: for Turtle on Entourage and the audition was just out
Speaker 3: of work actor being a clown at a kid's birthday party. Okay,
Speaker 3: we went in this car. Recall that being in a
Speaker 3: scene in an episode.
Speaker 5: I've seen every single episode and I couldn't tell you
Speaker 5: right in a row.
Speaker 4: In a row.
Speaker 1: That's so. The magical part ABOUTOGE was it called Entourage.
Speaker 4: Thon You got it? That's it because.
Speaker 2: When I first sawt on Twitter, and this was pre COVID,
Speaker 2: this is a long time ago. It was just like
Speaker 2: I was by myself at the weekend and I thought
Speaker 2: it said encourage Athon.
Speaker 4: Oh, and I would have been a positive experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you were being funny and it kind
Speaker 2: of went along with other things i'd seen you post.
Speaker 1: So I was like, that's funny.
Speaker 2: But then I started to realize that Gil was basically
Speaker 2: going to watch every episode of Entourage from all of
Speaker 2: the seasons and.
Speaker 1: Then get into a limo and go see go to
Speaker 1: the movie at the arc Light. That's correct, and that
Speaker 1: was the And it was how long was it.
Speaker 4: Was seventy five hours without sleep and.
Speaker 3: You had not seen a single episode.
Speaker 5: I had seen like one season or two seasons prior
Speaker 5: to that, but I had not I had stopped and
Speaker 5: then so I I decided to catch up before the movie,
Speaker 5: but we ended up going to see Aloha at the
Speaker 5: end of it instead.
Speaker 4: Which do you remember Aloha?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: It was it was that Emma Stone plays Asian vehicle.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, no one talks about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially Emma first name basic.
Speaker 1: But they live streamed it so you could just watch
Speaker 1: Gil basically torturing himself on like on the internet, and
Speaker 1: it was so hilarious to me.
Speaker 3: It was fun for hours and hours and days, Yes,
Speaker 3: for about three days straight. I love it. It was
Speaker 3: great because the only time I've done that is with
Speaker 3: shows that people actually get mad at you for having
Speaker 3: not seen, like The Wire or some.
Speaker 4: Potales, and I do it with terrible shows.
Speaker 5: I did it with Two and a Half Men as
Speaker 5: well a few years prior to that. Really, yes, that
Speaker 5: was even worse.
Speaker 1: Same idea.
Speaker 5: Say it was called two and a half days of
Speaker 5: Two and a half Men, which it exactly. It worked
Speaker 5: out to be two and a half days. This was
Speaker 5: at the time when Charlie Sheen was having like his
Speaker 5: Tiger blood meltdown.
Speaker 3: Right right post bowling shit exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so we had like a bunch of his
Speaker 5: ex girlfriends in to watch with us. It was it
Speaker 5: was pretty nut.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so funny. When someone brings up that show,
Speaker 3: I immediately think of three men and a baby and that's.
Speaker 4: What that show is, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, minus the go in the background.
Speaker 4: Exactly, but with a lot of sex. Have you seen
Speaker 4: Two and a half Men.
Speaker 1: By the way, I've never seen.
Speaker 5: Okay, so it's very dirty. Oh yeah, yeah, it's actually
Speaker 5: a really dirty show.
Speaker 1: And that's the idea is like John Cryer is the
Speaker 1: nerd and the grossy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is when I have watched it, I'm
Speaker 3: I am like, these are pretty good jokes. Am I wrong?
Speaker 4: I mean it's not.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it's like, you know what, A lot
Speaker 5: of it is blue humor because that's what I was like.
Speaker 5: But like, I think people liked it because it was
Speaker 5: like something you could put on in the background while
Speaker 5: you're making dinner or like hanging out or whatever.
Speaker 4: There's some hard jokes in there, I'll give you that way.
Speaker 2: During two and a half days of Thon, did you
Speaker 2: ever sincerely laugh.
Speaker 5: I actually made a count of all the times he
Speaker 5: had counts, and I don't remember how many times it was,
Speaker 5: but it must been like twenty five or something like.
Speaker 3: That out of the entire yeah, exact season.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, there were some crazy weird things on that
Speaker 5: show that You're You just they would like constantly eat
Speaker 5: pizza with forks, like.
Speaker 4: That was a thing they did.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was like on purpose or not,
Speaker 5: but there were there were some really really unusual things
Speaker 5: that happened.
Speaker 1: Was that supposed to be like a running joke.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. It was never spoken about. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 5: and it happened multiple times.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it was like a safety issue. We
Speaker 3: tried doing pizza at the first season.
Speaker 4: We set up birth the kid's mouth.
Speaker 3: You do not want to scald John Cryer's roof mouth.
Speaker 4: No, you don't.
Speaker 1: They treat it like having on gun on the set,
Speaker 1: where they're like.
Speaker 4: Ye're coming in for exactly.
Speaker 5: They give you like a whole like spiel before they shoot, like, okay,
Speaker 5: we have hot pizza on set.
Speaker 4: Everybody, we want you to be careful. Fingers up, fingers up,
Speaker 4: Where's Ali Baldwin? I hope he's not here.
Speaker 3: Let's let let me remind you of Totinos versus Vermont. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's have a good shoot.
Speaker 4: I know I bring that case up every time. Shoot.
Speaker 4: It's a very important thing.
Speaker 3: Also, don't remind me. A lot of you looked it up,
Speaker 3: and I'm the only one that knows about it because I.
Speaker 4: Was the one who was burned.
Speaker 3: Anyway, my name is Jonathan Toatino.
Speaker 4: Oh jeyous.
Speaker 2: If you were to do that again, yes, what show
Speaker 2: do you think you would do?
Speaker 5: I've thought about a bunch of different things, like I
Speaker 5: don't know, maybe like every Nicholas Cage movie or something
Speaker 5: like that, or Steven Segal or I also wanted to
Speaker 5: do one on like a trip to Australia, so like
Speaker 5: I fly there and back and only watch plane movies.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great, and.
Speaker 1: You don't stay there, you just just go.
Speaker 4: Get go and come back.
Speaker 5: I love it, but I have not had the courage
Speaker 5: to do it again because I was like I was
Speaker 5: really breaking down the last time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when I did the orthoorogy.
Speaker 2: It did seem near the end, well, I didn't understand
Speaker 2: how you were doing it, but I was so excited
Speaker 2: because I can't remember if I had just like stopped
Speaker 2: a job and was just like really like locked up
Speaker 2: on the couch, okay, permanently, and I was like, this
Speaker 2: is perfect. I can just lay here in my computer
Speaker 2: soffer Yeah. But then also I was I was watching
Speaker 2: the actual episode, so I knew what you were talking about.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, which was kind of funny and whatever.
Speaker 4: Fun Yeah, yeah, to follow along.
Speaker 3: I missed those days of Twitter at the time where
Speaker 3: you clearly Karen had an addiction. You were you had
Speaker 3: a Twitter problem.
Speaker 1: Yes, I did, for sure, I do too.
Speaker 4: I mean it was a lot more. It was a lot.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a hellscape as it is, no, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Actually it was very rewarding. And before my podcast got
Speaker 2: popular and anyone gave a shit what I was saying,
Speaker 2: I used to get on there and just like tell
Speaker 2: people to shut up.
Speaker 4: And right right, do you all kinds what you like
Speaker 4: to do? You love?
Speaker 2: It's like a big part of my personality is definitely
Speaker 2: stepping in when people need to shut up and letting
Speaker 2: them know, and.
Speaker 1: You just go after a while, it's like, oh.
Speaker 4: Those are needed, those are I mean people like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like a room monitor for the Internet.
Speaker 5: I remember one of my favorite shut ups I ever got.
Speaker 4: It was not from you, but I'm sure you're shut up.
Speaker 3: You're still the.
Speaker 4: Best, and you're still the best.
Speaker 5: I was walking one time with my dad and I
Speaker 5: was a teenager, and I was screaming at him in
Speaker 5: Central Park. We were having like a huge argument. We
Speaker 5: were about to get on like the subway. Do you
Speaker 5: remember what the argument was about, like about how he's
Speaker 5: never around.
Speaker 4: I don't even know. I didn't want to, like, okay,
Speaker 4: here's the sad part. No, But I was like yelling
Speaker 4: at him and I was.
Speaker 5: Being you know, pretty teenagery of like rude and like,
Speaker 5: you know, really loud. And as we were going down
Speaker 5: to the subway, this homeless guy just goes shut up,
Speaker 5: and my dad just started cracking up. It was really
Speaker 5: it was like perfectly placed. So a good shut up
Speaker 5: is like perfect.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: I actually I had a really good shut up once,
Speaker 2: and I think maybe that's what in my mind I
Speaker 2: was imitating. Did you ever go to the bar the
Speaker 2: Coach and Horses, It's on Sunset, It's gone now. It
Speaker 2: was the diviest dive bar, and there was a bartender
Speaker 2: named Ginger and she looked like a lady from Central
Speaker 2: Casting who was like, I'm from a trailer park.
Speaker 4: Like it.
Speaker 2: It looked like she was doing a bit of like
Speaker 2: I'm here in my house dress and sun.
Speaker 1: Black costume, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: And she was really grumpy and very unfriendly. And so
Speaker 2: one time we were sitting there during the day it
Speaker 2: was pouring rain sometime in the nineties, pouring rain outside
Speaker 2: mudslides in Malibu. Everything felt like everything is like on
Speaker 2: fire or mudslides are crazy. And so we were just
Speaker 2: sitting in there, like at four o'clock in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: getting drunk and what and the TV was on. Sharon
Speaker 2: Stone comes on. I start talking shit about Sharon Stone,
Speaker 2: like I don't want to look at her anymore whatever,
Speaker 2: and from down the bar, Ginger who's literally wearing sunglasses
Speaker 2: inside the bar, goes.
Speaker 1: Hey, shut up, like same style.
Speaker 2: Not only did I shut up, but I think I
Speaker 2: stopped publicly thinking anyone wanted to hear me criticizing a celebrity.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a powerful one.
Speaker 2: In a second, why am I doing this anyone? Because
Speaker 2: I think later she tried to say she was friends
Speaker 2: with Sharon Stone, which there's no fucking way that she
Speaker 2: was friend.
Speaker 5: So what do you guys think it is about someone
Speaker 5: saying that like that in that way that just sort
Speaker 5: of like takes you down because.
Speaker 2: I can give it up, but I can't take it,
Speaker 2: I think, is what it is about me? Or I'm like,
Speaker 2: I love I love the vibe of hey, you don't
Speaker 2: need to be saying this, but I certainly never think
Speaker 2: that's true for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's also something of like im you're exposed as
Speaker 5: like an idiot, like in a really perfect way.
Speaker 4: That's just like, oh right, I am. I did sound stupid.
Speaker 4: Just you're like.
Speaker 2: Loud and taken up. Yeah, you're taking up the air.
Speaker 2: You're mucking things up for everybody else.
Speaker 5: I remember when I was in like high school, when
Speaker 5: I was exactly when I was in high school. I
Speaker 5: decided to wear gel one day to school, Like I
Speaker 5: was like, I'm gonna comb my hair, I think, And
Speaker 5: I put on a ton of gel and walked in.
Speaker 5: And as I was walking in, the security guard was
Speaker 5: standing with like a few like high schoolers, and he
Speaker 5: just goes, drip, drip, drip. Everyone just started cracking up,
Speaker 5: and I was just like, I'm never like wearing gel
Speaker 5: ever again.
Speaker 3: I'm traumatized.
Speaker 4: Yeah, horrible, but it was so dead on. It was
Speaker 4: just like, yep, you're right and crazy, right, the.
Speaker 3: Funniest security guard I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like it is the thing if you
Speaker 1: are a funny person and then you are the butt
Speaker 1: of the joke. That's the reason.
Speaker 2: Like I almost always just wear black where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: you think I'm going to give people a reason to like.
Speaker 4: Say, notice me nice shirt?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, anything, yep, yeah, I just want to fly
Speaker 5: under the radar.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anytime I'm being negative and outwardly vocally, I deserve
Speaker 3: If someone says shut up, I'm like, okay, you're probably
Speaker 3: right about that. Yeah, I think I would appreciate it
Speaker 3: me too, although I've never been told shut up. Isn't
Speaker 3: that weird?
Speaker 4: That's a realist fact.
Speaker 1: I'll follow up with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometime when you don't expect it.
Speaker 3: No, I'd like to get it right now.
Speaker 5: No, I do, I do, But it never. I mean,
Speaker 5: I guess when you're young it's different than when you're older.
Speaker 3: I think the age gap of six years having an
Speaker 3: older sister, yeah, it was. It was more like she
Speaker 3: was another motherly figure.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so funny because I have a six year
Speaker 5: gap with my sister.
Speaker 4: Oh, and I was horrific to her the opposite. I'm older.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was a I mean we're very close now,
Speaker 5: but when younger, I.
Speaker 3: Was just I think it's yeah, if if I had
Speaker 3: an older brother, I think it would have been a
Speaker 3: totally different thing. I was my sister's play thing since
Speaker 3: I was a baby, and I loved it right, dressing
Speaker 3: up and wearing all of it. To talk about hair gel,
Speaker 3: that's immediately what I thought of when you said that,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, is my sister saying, let's put moose in
Speaker 3: your hair? And I walked around proudly.
Speaker 4: And must have been excited. I mean the attention of
Speaker 4: an older person exactly.
Speaker 3: And all her friends they would dress me up full makeup,
Speaker 3: different little outfits and they're no secure already guards at
Speaker 3: my school, so it just went great.
Speaker 1: Wait was that high school in or where you were
Speaker 1: in Queens?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was in Queens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a place called Townsend, Paris. Have you
Speaker 4: heard of it? Are you from New York? No?
Speaker 1: I just love New York.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, it's in Queens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a uh sort of like humanities school. Oh,
Speaker 5: like a Bronx science or divesant type of school.
Speaker 1: And as humanity is English the arts, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah it means like English and the arts, I guess.
Speaker 2: Okay, Like you know, so you could say that you
Speaker 2: went to like a a high school for the arts
Speaker 2: in New York.
Speaker 4: I could say that, and I do from now on,
Speaker 4: shut up, because that.
Speaker 1: Is like truly. I'm from northern California.
Speaker 2: Saw the movie Fame when I was like twelve years
Speaker 2: old in the theater and I was Juilliard. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's about a high school. It's a performing high school. Yeah,
Speaker 2: performing art high school in the city, I believe. And
Speaker 2: we were just like, well, that's the only life to live.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 1: It was like so exciting and amazing and incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well I wanted to go to a place called La Guardia,
Speaker 5: which was also like a performing arts school, but I
Speaker 5: did not get in. So this was more like this
Speaker 5: was more like English writing, liberal arts, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I know. I know a handful of people that wanted
Speaker 3: to go to Laguard get in. It's not it's hard
Speaker 3: to get in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3: What did you want to get in for?
Speaker 4: What were you drawing?
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm a drawer. Do you still draw?
Speaker 5: I do every day? All that every day? I mean
Speaker 5: I draw now on my iPad a lot, me.
Speaker 4: Too, you do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm I've been uh watching a lot of
Speaker 3: like saving now that I know how to save Instagram
Speaker 3: videos tutorials about different the brushias.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's so cool, isn't it? Yeah? It is.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna nerd out here.
Speaker 3: We are going to know that I do have one
Speaker 3: of those uh screen protectors that is a texture of paper.
Speaker 4: I don't, but I've seen those. We gotta get them.
Speaker 4: And how do wait do you have them?
Speaker 3: I've only heard it because of getting used to drawing
Speaker 3: on slippery glass with my shaky hands. I've just gotten
Speaker 3: used to it. Turns out we don't need.
Speaker 4: To we don't. Like. Yeah, I'm I'm suffering for no reason.
Speaker 3: When we end today, we're going online the company that
Speaker 3: makes it. It's called like paper by the way. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 3: and uh we got to get that if we're are
Speaker 3: you confronted by how much tracing you now do?
Speaker 4: Guilt? How much tracing? Oh? Like you're like I'm feeling
Speaker 4: like guilty or something about it? No.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of people don't know a comic
Speaker 3: book artists. There's a pencil guy.
Speaker 4: You go in.
Speaker 3: You start inking. If I were in that world, I
Speaker 3: would be the anchor. Okay, I now, if I have
Speaker 3: to do, you know, some caricatures of I go into photoshop.
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm admitting just a minute. I go
Speaker 3: into photoshop and I do a photoshop mock up, and
Speaker 3: then from that I draw on top of that loosely
Speaker 3: mind you. Right then I get rid of that background,
Speaker 3: and then I ink on top of my my more
Speaker 3: gestural drawing.
Speaker 5: I mean, I find the whole process I've done that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I find it very meditative. That's why I like it
Speaker 5: so much, because I'm not thinking or planning with like
Speaker 5: if writing or anything else.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm thinking.
Speaker 5: Steps ahead before I see, like you know, the product itself,
Speaker 5: and withdrawing, I'm just like.
Speaker 4: In the in the moment. I love all the steps.
Speaker 5: I love, like you know, drawing it out, coloring it in,
Speaker 5: shading it, all lighting, all.
Speaker 4: That stuff is it's really I find it calming.
Speaker 3: It is what It's the only thing I do where
Speaker 3: I can suddenly realize, wow, I've been sitting for twelve
Speaker 3: straight out exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my neck is broken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and do you use this might be we'll
Speaker 3: move to a new topic.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, take your time.
Speaker 3: Being able to export a time lapse video of your
Speaker 3: drawing for me and for most people, huh, it's very I've.
Speaker 4: Not done that.
Speaker 3: It's just a click, go into the settings. Anything you
Speaker 3: draw on there, you can export it as a video.
Speaker 4: And what do you gleaned from doing that?
Speaker 3: It is well that I have to edit out all
Speaker 3: my photoshop cheating. But it's like, wow, you just started
Speaker 3: with that simple drawing and then you went straight to shaving.
Speaker 3: But it is it. It's just fun conceit. Yeah. And
Speaker 3: and it's a it's fun to watch that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because you gotta do it all right.
Speaker 4: Next step, we're back. We're folks. We're back as human
Speaker 4: being guys.
Speaker 2: It's fun to witness two people having two things in
Speaker 2: common back to back, because the six year sibling difference
Speaker 2: is quite a that's weird.
Speaker 5: That you're gonna go where. I bet you there will
Speaker 5: be a third one before we're gonna find out.
Speaker 3: Was your father a good artist?
Speaker 4: My father is an artist. He's a photographer.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've done it well.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you can consider that art, do you
Speaker 5: consider photography art?
Speaker 3: It took me a while as a kid because my
Speaker 3: dad was a painter. He's like, painting in this way
Speaker 3: and the way I do it is the only art
Speaker 3: there is. Are you close with your father? I am
Speaker 3: indeed okay? And but when I think back about how
Speaker 3: he would you know, have me look at my hand
Speaker 3: and draw it over and over, and then look at
Speaker 3: the other hand and draw it with my left hand.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, in the basement low light, I wasn't allowed
Speaker 3: to lead.
Speaker 4: With a gun to your hand.
Speaker 3: Yes, it seems like abuse, but it made me great
Speaker 3: at drawing hand.
Speaker 4: It's so funny. My dad would make me read when
Speaker 4: my friends came over, not a joke.
Speaker 5: Would say, all right, Gil has to separate himself right
Speaker 5: now and go read for half an hour.
Speaker 4: What if you if you want to.
Speaker 3: Play kidding you talking about abuse?
Speaker 1: Well, it means so kind of fucking up the fund.
Speaker 5: He just wanted to, I think, exert his power A
Speaker 5: and B like make it known that you know this
Speaker 5: was really important to him, and that like reading, I
Speaker 5: shouldn't just fuck around and play.
Speaker 3: But it's right when your friends show up.
Speaker 4: It was like on purpose. I like the idea of.
Speaker 3: Him saying, Okay, when your friends come in, I want
Speaker 3: you to be smoking this pipe with this thing.
Speaker 4: I want them to see that you're we're going to
Speaker 4: find you in a diaper. Yeah, here's here's how we're
Speaker 4: going to humiliate you. Yeah. It was awful.
Speaker 5: It was awful also for my friends too, because they
Speaker 5: had to just be alone in my room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that is kind of that is not It's
Speaker 2: basically an interference on a thing that's very that needs
Speaker 2: to have its own chemistry. That's like basically when they're like, okay,
Speaker 2: everyone out of the pool type of energy where you're like,
Speaker 2: you could ruin this whole day right now. We could
Speaker 2: all go, we could turn on each other, like anything
Speaker 2: could happen exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he didn't care. He liked that that that power.
Speaker 1: Oh but how's your reading comprehension these days?
Speaker 4: Oh it's not good.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I mean I feel like you could go
Speaker 5: either way.
Speaker 4: It could.
Speaker 5: I think it's okay, I'm just teasing, but like I
Speaker 5: do feel like there was a rebellious side to me,
Speaker 5: which was like, okay, you want me to you know,
Speaker 5: be really serious, I'm gonna be silly instead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so it sort of did the opposite
Speaker 4: of what he wanted to do.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's unjust a rebel. When I'm five six pages
Speaker 3: in and realize I've retained nothing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm reading the same sentence over and there.
Speaker 4: Take that, dad, exactly. There's a little win every night
Speaker 4: before that.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Oh man, I really like the idea of
Speaker 3: him handing your friend's books too. You're all going to read.
Speaker 5: He is the kind of when I begged for a
Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember, there was a a
Speaker 5: video game system called Sega Genesis at the same I
Speaker 5: was like yeah, and.
Speaker 4: I begged him for it, and he said okay.
Speaker 5: And then on my birthday he got me a a
Speaker 5: chess set that was like a computer chess set that
Speaker 5: was called Genesis Genesis. He knew, he knew, and he
Speaker 5: was just like he was like he wanted to make
Speaker 5: me into this like student.
Speaker 4: You know. I think it was because he also had
Speaker 4: was forced to learn like my dad.
Speaker 5: My dad was My dad's parents were yemen night Jews
Speaker 5: and yet from Yemen, yes, and sometimes they're called Yemeny
Speaker 5: some there. I mean, there's like a but he was
Speaker 5: forced to basically, you know, learn to read the Torah
Speaker 5: every day and if he wasn't, if he wasn't learning.
Speaker 4: He would get hit if with a leather whip.
Speaker 5: Like it was like under it was like abusive, right,
Speaker 5: So I think he's just like, you know, we repeat
Speaker 5: the mistakes of our parents sometimes.
Speaker 3: Right, And it sounds like he had it maybe worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So now I make my daughter read the value path. Everybody.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, like, find me a car wash, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: That I can really use.
Speaker 4: Get in there.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: I want a Sega Genesis. How about a box set
Speaker 3: of everything? Phil Collins's retort.
Speaker 1: I mean my dad did a version of that because
Speaker 1: I was like ten years old in nineteen eighty, so
Speaker 1: it was like we were the Atari generation.
Speaker 2: Like that was that broke Everyone went insane. Everyone got Atari.
Speaker 2: We did not get Atari because my dad his big thing.
Speaker 2: He would say it all the time because he was
Speaker 2: a fireman in San Francisco and go we have that
Speaker 2: at the firehouse.
Speaker 1: You won't like it. So we didn't get cable and
Speaker 1: we didn't get like he wouldn't. He was just kind
Speaker 1: of cheap. So he's such a good right because he's
Speaker 1: like it's as if he tested it already. So for atari,
Speaker 1: we were like, Dad, like it's been two years. You
Speaker 1: have to we have to get this, Like we can't
Speaker 1: be so out of the you know, conversation. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: And so that Christmas we got the like original Pong machine,
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 4: Which is which was the That was like the one
Speaker 4: game going.
Speaker 2: Back a decade where we're like thanks so much, so
Speaker 2: we can now play Pong on the TV like it
Speaker 2: was it. That's how he did everything. We never had
Speaker 2: a new car. It was always like he's got this
Speaker 2: great car of Fireman's gonna sell him. And then we
Speaker 2: have the weirdest you.
Speaker 5: Think he knew, like in the same way he knew
Speaker 5: he was getting an old thing, or he's just like
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna get It's like the way my mother's like,
Speaker 5: have you heard of j Lo?
Speaker 4: He's like yeah, you know, no.
Speaker 1: He he just kind of wanted to do.
Speaker 2: I think he really worried about money all the time,
Speaker 2: which I didn't ever feel. I didn't feel it except
Speaker 2: for when it came to stuff like that where it's
Speaker 2: like why can't we just have this and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: because that costs I'm sure it costs three hundred bucks
Speaker 2: or whatever. Right, And he's like, that's crazy for a
Speaker 2: kid's toy. Yeah, because he didn't really get it. So
Speaker 2: he's like, well, here I'm going to get you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buy someone's old used.
Speaker 1: Version of pong.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: We're like, thanks, So there's dust on the kids. What
Speaker 2: do you think enjoy it's tennis?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I thought that. Yeah, I was being taught some sort
Speaker 3: of a lesson when my dad would hand me blocks
Speaker 3: of wood that he cut with a saw as a gift,
Speaker 3: but that we were poor. We were poor, and I
Speaker 3: actually liked those blocks.
Speaker 5: Of what I mean, when you're a kid, I feel
Speaker 5: like I don't know. I mean, I guess maybe this
Speaker 5: is like toddler age, but they they're more interested in
Speaker 5: like a cardboard box than an actual toy.
Speaker 3: And you're right, and I am this is early memories. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's crazy that I remember that. Well, that's I'm amazed.
Speaker 1: Do you need a beverage of any kind?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Should we try to go to a drive through?
Speaker 4: I would love to.
Speaker 3: We often do that.
Speaker 4: How often do you record the podcast once or twice
Speaker 4: a week? Once or twice a week. Okay, all right.
Speaker 5: I was also thinking about like when I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I don't know if these because they mentioned suggesting something.
Speaker 4: So I was like, have you guys heard of Foster's Freeze?
Speaker 4: Oh they have a drive through?
Speaker 1: Do they really they do?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: We have to go there and I've never been. This
Speaker 3: has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1: Produced by Annalise Nelson, mixed by Edson Choy. Our talent
Speaker 1: booker is Patrick Cootner.
Speaker 3: Theme song by Karen Kilgarrett.
Speaker 1: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks.
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