WEBVTT - Tom Scharpling Disobeys Bridger 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:15.720 Hello, I invited you. Hear Gonta made myself perfectly clear. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:22.119 When you're a guest to my home, you gotta come 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:28.560 to me empty. And I said, no, guest, your presence 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.120 is presence enough. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.640 And I already had too much stuff, So how do 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.240 you dare to surbey me? 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.720 Hello, it's Bridger. I don't feel comfortable letting you listen 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.400 to the rest of the episode yet, I know you 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.520 just listened to the theme song. I don't care. I 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.520 have a big announcement. I've got big news. The podcast 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.160 is now on Patreon Patreon dot com slash I said, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.720 no gifts. What does this mean? 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Lisa's demanding I look right into the camera 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.760 for YouTube for the videos, So that's what I'm doing. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.239 And if you're just listening to this, it doesn't affect 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.120 you in any way. I've had my baby belled cheese 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:01.360 from the office fridge. Nothing could possibly go wrong. Is 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:06.600 there anything else? My horoscope reminded me that other people 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.720 have their own problems. That does not sound right to me, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.400 So let's just move on to the podcast. I really 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.160 adore today's guest. It's Tom Sharpling. Tom, Hi, welcome to 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:19.600 I said no. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.639 Gifts, thanks for having me. Of course, sighting. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.160 Of course, it's a little rainy outside, it's a little damp. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.400 How was your drive over? 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.320 Oh it's fine. A lot of classic LA drivers where 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.640 the fast lane is kind of a suggestion that you 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.360 can be like either somebody's going one hundred and ten 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.360 miles an hours if it's fast and the furious, or 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.680 somebody is driving forty five miles an hour in the 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.480 fast Yeah. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.080 I feel like the fast lane within the Los Angeles County, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.960 no one understands that that's what it's for. Yes, even 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.440 my boyfriend, who's actually kind of an aggressive driver. But 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.520 then we'll just in the fast lane the whole time, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.440 and we're just going seventy five, and I ask him 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.080 over and over, please move, You're supposed to pass in 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:08.480 this thing? 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.520 Is this worth it? We go now. It's really bizarre 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:18.040 how uniquely awful the driving is out here. And sometimes 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.080 it's just like everybody's like, oh, the traffic. It's like, no, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.400 it's not the traffic, it's the humans making awful decisions. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.480 I imagine somebody has made this observation before. But do 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.560 you feel like that is because there are so many 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.040 transplants here and everyone's constantly lost. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.159 I could see that. It is like a It is 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.400 a place where not a lot of people are from here. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.120 Who are here like they'll be like, I'm from Los Angeles, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.680 I've been here for three years now, being from New Jersey. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.919 The fast lane is like the fast lane. It's like 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.680 the Autobahn where people are just like like, if you're 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.400 not going eighty, you might as well be going ten 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.680 miles an hour right the turnpike. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.240 And I imagine there's amount of road rage. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.680 Oh yeah, no, it's it's on the license plate. It 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.760 says home of road rage. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.560 Have you ever gone a speeding ticket? 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.479 Oh yeah, I've got plenty of speeding tickets, so not 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.000 in a long time, knock on wood, but yeah, I've 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.920 gotten speeding tickets. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.680 What's the fastest you were going when getting a. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:25.119 Like seventy eight, seventy eight? Fifty five? Yeah? Not okay? Two? 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.560 That's ridiculous. Yeah, I feel like fifty five is no 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.440 longer a real speed limit on a freeway. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.480 No, that's a that's that's a bizarre. It's like an 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.680 antiquated thing. It's like when you hear that, Like, like 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.960 I was thinking, like on Saturday Night Live, where we 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.720 write all Tuesday night into the morning, It's like, why, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.599 because that's how we always did it here. It's like, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.520 are we sure we don't want to question that at 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.880 any point and be like, well, maybe we could work 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.040 normal office hours and not be sleep deprived when we 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.320 come in to do a table read. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.000 Right, a strange badge of honor or whatever for absolutely 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.200 no reason whatsoever. 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.800 Sticking to these old norms is kind of kind of ridiculous. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.720 Yeah, I think that one ten is still a fifty five. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:17.000 Speed one ten is pretty awesome because it has I 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.560 didn't know you could have a ninety degree angle turn 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.640 off of a highway where you go from going fifty 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.880 five to five into a residence. Like within thirty feet 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.239 you're in a residential area. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:29.880 You're going through someone. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.640 Yeah, it's just like you're going so fast and then 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:38.360 suddenly it's actual houses and you are still going fast. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.000 Yeah, just breezing past an elementary schools. I've recently like, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.200 I feel like the one ten does. And this is 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:51.479 this is a topic for four people, but I feel 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.560 like that particular freeway, that stretch of it, it's very old, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.520 gets a very bad rap, but I've kind of fallen 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.600 in love with it recently. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.919 I like it. It's very weird and it feels like 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.880 it feels like nobody caught that this still exists yet 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.800 and they haven't changed it like they've been meaning like 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.680 it's like, oh wait, we didn't, we didn't alter that yet. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.000 How'd that get away from us? 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.080 It's very charming. It has a lot of curves which 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.520 you don't usually see on a freeway. You actually have 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.800 to pay attention. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.640 Oh yeah, no, you've got to be on guard, right. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.800 I mean the biggest problem, obviously, is going from a 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.720 stop sign to freeway speeds that like on the entrances. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.520 There's always that moment where you're trying to get on 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.760 the one ten. There's a stop sign and cars are 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.360 going so fast and you're trying to just find your 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.640 your entry point. It's so sack you have to go 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.040 from you have to be going so fast so quickly. Yeah, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.280 I'm amazed that there's not a thousand accidents on the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:52.440 one ten every day. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.160 I know, it's really shocking. I I should be responsible 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.480 for at least five hundred of those accidents the way 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.960 I'm pulling onto that thing, But and I have no 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.600 real sense of space or time, So when I pull 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.840 out onto it, it's like I'm putting everybody's life in danger. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.640 And of course, like that would be a you would 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.280 get hit by a cargoing seventy yeah, oh. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.720 Yeah, no, is that like that would look like you 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.800 would be dead? Oh yeah, you would be dead. You 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:18.920 wouldn't know what it looked like. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.320 But while driving down it, you do feel almost like 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.360 a It's like a detective freeway in the forties or fifties. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.960 I feel like you're on the case or something. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.000 Yes, yeah, the one ten. It feels like you'd see 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.640 Philip Marlow driving on the one ten is Stewda Baker. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.480 He just had a steak and coffee and. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:40.800 He's exactly for thirty cents he has had. Yeah, I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.360 like when you've seen those movies and it's like coffee 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:48.640 five cents, Like, how did this go? Fifty thousand percent 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.880 of price increase on this five cents was for coffee. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.040 Why wouldn't you hand someone to nickel for anything? 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.720 It's just like movies ten cents. It's like, this is 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.480 like wartime inflation. We've we actually live in. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.680 And the amount of change that people were carrying around 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.520 just jailing. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.040 And then now we're just like coins, what are these coins? 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.960 Why do we have coins? 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.560 Do you know what I did recently though, is I 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.800 got a roll of quarters and put it in my 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.599 car middle whatever that little treasure chest is. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.360 and it's changed everything as far as parking meters goes. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.079 I have in my glove compartment. I shouldn't say this 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.960 because now my car is gonna be a targe. You're 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.840 listening breaking into my car. I have in my glove 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.400 compartment like a little zippy bag that shaped like a 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.440 piece of cake. And I have coins in it that 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.440 I use for meters and it's always a life changer. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.320 Yeah, I credit card in a parking meter. I'm so 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:51.320 frustrating for me. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.400 Yeah. And do you know this might be getting very specific. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.200 Nothing is more infuriating than the parking lot in past 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.719 Fields next to Fred sixty two. Oh, there's that one part. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.640 And it never the machine never works. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.480 It's horrible and you. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.360 Can't even scratched, so like people have scratched the things 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.240 that you can't even read whether you paid for it 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.080 or not. And there's always just like a line of 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.640 six people. And finally she was like, it's not working today. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.640 Let's just hope you don't get tickets. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.440 I mean, if the city wants you to pay, they 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.079 should be on top of those things making sure they 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.400 work at all times. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.240 Oh. Absolutely no, it should be a h They should. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.440 Care, They should care on someone they don't care. I 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.600 feel like if the machine isn't working, I should also 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.920 have like post it notes in my car that I 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.760 can write it's not working your this is now your problem. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.120 Absolutely. I always thought the greatest thing ever would be 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.400 to have in your trunk like a fake fire hydrant 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.560 you could put in front of when you want to 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.880 park somewhere, and you put it there when you know 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:01.560 you're gonna have to be there, and then you just 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.120 go and then you put the fire hydrant back in 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.840 your trunk when you get there, and then when you Yeah, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.680 I just I don't have the courage to do that though, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.959 to actually be like, set, did you just pick your 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:18.360 the fire hydrant up and put it in your trunk? Yeah, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.360 I'm up to something. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.600 I wonder what the consequences would be if you were 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.360 caught doing that. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.760 Is there like impersonating a fire hydrant? 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.240 There's no law you'd fire hydrant salesman. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.200 I think you're Oh. The other one you could do 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:35.760 is I always though it would be to put like 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.600 win this car. You could just like park on the 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.559 sidewalk and just have a sign it says win this car, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.920 with like a website, and then people like, well, there's 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.920 clearly some sponsored arrangements here. There's a car, win it, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.280 and then it's just then you just put your win 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.640 this car signed back in the. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.400 Trunk like a ninety eight cord or something. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.559 I'm giving you exactly why who wants to win this 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.800 dirty Kia. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.840 I've never No, I've gotten one parking ticket and never 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.000 gotten a speeding ticket. Really, well, I'm in moder gratulations 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.000 an A plus driver. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:14.880 That's what everybody says. No, you're you're the mister safety 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:15.800 on the road. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.760 I'm actually an atrocious driver. Really, the fact that I 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.439 wrote drove on the freeway today in the rain is crazy. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.520 Well, I would hear people get so weirdly bad at 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.720 driving in the rain. There' just like I remember arguing 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.280 one to when I was I lived in New Jersey 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.560 for most of my life and came out here probably 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.679 five years ago, and people would I would be out 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.520 here and it would rain. People would be drawing like 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.400 twenty miles an hour and be like, why do you 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.520 guys go so slow? And I'm like, it's the the 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.480 oils come out of the road when it rains, Like 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:52.560 what the oils the asphalt has been holding oils that 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:58.440 the water lifts from them and everybody's skidding around. It's like, no, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:03.480 you guys are just not great drying. Yeah, that's fine. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.760 I mean, speaking of New Jersey, I feel like the 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.520 last time I saw you, we may have even talked 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.320 about this, but I've it's just been dominating my thoughts 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.439 since the last time I was in Jersey over the 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.760 holidays and I saw it for the first time, that 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.280 giant mall. Have you been to that thing? 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:25.480 No, that thing was it was not done xanadu is. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.719 I think what they were calling is that. I think 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.480 I think it was it's way up north. They were 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.000 building the world like this giant shopping center that had 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.360 literally like a ski yes, ski slope in it, and 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.600 they ran out of money and it was just this incomplete, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.920 just albatross. I would pass for years and then they 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.480 finally got it on track. When I was leaving. I 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.880 never got to see the ski slope, right, go to 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.080 the mall with your skis? 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.520 People take that or do you just borrow them from 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:02.360 them all you might? 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.840 Is it like a roller rink where we would just 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.080 get some schemes you're spraying them with lysol? 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.880 Yeah, yeah that. I drove past it and it is 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:15.840 an atrocious looking building, like. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.040 Oh, it's hard, it's like a checkered it does it 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.080 looks like the Partridge family bus with all the patterns 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.560 on it. And you're like, this is clear now I 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.000 know why this thing was not finished because just the 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.080 color scheme is bad enough. It's like clear that if 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.960 that's a reflection on who's trying to get this thing 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.720 off the ground, It's like, yeah, of course this is 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.360 a disaster. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.360 There must have been a lot of dirty money there. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:40.680 That's New Jersey. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.880 It's a place where what are you talking about? 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.080 Go to a diner and then you I would eat 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.000 it this diner and Hoboken and then one day in 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.800 the paper it's like, oh, this is the diner where 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:57.520 the where they were like making deals for like selling 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:02.120 organs illegally, the walk in fridge. I don't know how 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.800 they were doing. And it was like there were like 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.400 rabbis involved in it or not. Maybe it was like 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.640 it was it was the messiest thing I've ever heard about, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.560 And it was like that diner is where it happened. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.240 And then I learned about that. I'm still eating there, 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.440 and then one night I'm eating Artie Lang comes in 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.120 like a disaster at probably one thirty in the morning, 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:30.680 I hear he orders two roast beef sandwiches to go. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.960 It's like, first of all, who gets a roast beef 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.720 sandwich at a dianer? Lit two of them? Like, well, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.720 look the two that's your call. But it'd be like 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.400 the people get like they go to the they get like, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.960 oh I got the uh, like the stir fry at 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.240 the diner. It's like, this is this is not what 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:49.720 they do. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.680 Make one of those five years, I think mistake. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.840 Yeah, I think we can make that. They get the 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.720 cookbook out for that one. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.680 What's the uh? And this just feels like we're really 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.480 leaning into a stereotype with New Jersey. But did you 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.200 ever come close to knowing anyone that was even remotely 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:10.240 connected to the mafia? 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.440 You could, I mean in terms of knowing, not knowing, knowing, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.680 But I would meet people and you're just like, it's 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.800 like it is really like the cliche where somebody would 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.040 be just like, yeah, I work in. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.280 Like waste waste. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:30.200 Management, their construction and I mean that stuff didn't come 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.920 from nowhere. It's not it's not fiction. But and you 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.760 can always feel because there would also be people who 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:41.400 would act like they were connected and you know they're 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.040 talking about yes, yes, it's the people who were like 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.040 quiet and you're just like, like, guy scary, And then 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.120 you kind of realize put two and two together on 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.240 those guys. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.160 What a shame for the people in New Jersey who 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.320 are actually in construction and waste management. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.880 Yeah, just making an honest living. I mean New Jersey 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:05.320 literally has the docks, and like Elizabeth, New Jersey, it's 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.000 like a it's like a put on. It's like the docks. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.439 It's just where it would be. The cranes are lifting 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.560 those giant those giant things off and they're filled with 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.120 stuff and it's it's just so you can tell how 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.760 crooked certain spots are. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.359 How powerful do we think the mafia is at this point? 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.399 That's a good question. I think they would be a 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.639 real headache if you had like a store and they'd 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.200 be just like guy, come to hey, be shamed something 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.000 happened in this place. Like it would be kind of 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.520 exciting though, if somebody came into my store and was 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.680 just kind of like nice place you got here, knock 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.160 something over it shatters, Yeah, we might have to look 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.320 after it for you. Like I'm running a baseball card shop. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.000 I don't make much money. Please, It's like like it's 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.720 a karate studio. We have some mats is all we 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.480 have here? Are you gonna take my mass away from me? 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.760 Just feels like co managing the store you're just stepping 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:06.240 into help. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.360 Yeah you want to help, I'll hire you. You work 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.000 here now, now you're the mob guys like booking classes 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.400 for fifteen year olds doing karate. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.000 I like the Mafia being reduced to a pain in 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.840 the neck at this point. Yeah, yeah, I wonder who, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.560 like the number one guy is. It's uh, who was 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.400 the like the last big mafia guy who got caught him? 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.040 Well, John Gotti that's like the biggest one, right, But 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.040 there were always these guys. There was one guy who 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.640 pretended to be like insane and would walk around the 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.960 village in a bathrobe and but was actually still kind 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.040 of like mobbed up, but he was pretending to be 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.560 just like, oh he lost his mind, and then they 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.040 caught him at some point. Its like, no, he didn't 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.000 lose his mind. He's just doing the long game here. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:05.439 But just the idea that the commitment I'm gonna be nuts, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.720 Like he tells everybody, I'm gonna walk around the village 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.280 in a bathrobe, keep the Feds off my back because 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:12.400 I'm crazy. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.639 Wearing a bathrobe in public really is like the last 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.280 resort to keep people away from you. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.520 Yeah, now that is a real commitment and He's like, you, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:22.600 that'd be the kind of thing when you're gonna like 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.639 take a fashion risk and then you're just like scared 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.600 and you're just like so self conscious with it, like 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.560 and then just like I couldn't pull that off. I'm 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:32.840 not wearing the robe anymore. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.359 You're kind of just like trying to carefully take it 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:36.680 off without people noticing. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.879 Yeah. Oh, he went back to not wearing a robe again. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.200 Do you have a bathrobe? Do you walk around the 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:43.879 house in a robe? 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.639 I'm not a huge on bathrobes for whatever reason. I 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.680 don't know. There's just too much work, kind of like 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.040 because it's too it's I either get too like suddenly 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:54.680 I'll go from being cold to being. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.520 Too warm right with a bathrobe. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.640 Like within like four minutes. I'm just like, I get 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:05.320 this ba throbe off me. I'd rather just grab a blanket, 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.520 grab a blanket, warm up, and then dispose of not 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.160 disposed of the blanket. I fold it back. I don't 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:16.800 throw it out. Get this blanket garbage can full of 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:18.840 blankets I throw out. 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.840 I like a robe during the winter. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.000 It's nice a light robe. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.680 Do you like a light I would say it's like 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:26.960 a medium level robe. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.359 Okay, so you can get warm from the yes. 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.840 Okay, And it's not after showering or a bath. It's 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.920 like when I wake up in the morning, while I'm 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.520 eating breakfast or whatever, okay, kind of shuffling around the house. 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.320 Yeah, I don't do a whole lot of shuffling. I 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.800 usually wake up in a panic and I don't have then. 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.680 I also wake up in a panic, but that leads 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:45.280 to shuffling. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:49.040 Not a lot of robe time in my schedule, just like, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.000 oh shit, I gotta be out of here, hurry. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.119 How quick? How soon between waking up and getting dressed, Like, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:57.920 what's the time there? Oh? 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.080 Well, it depends me and my wife will do it. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:03.960 We'll drink coffee in the morning to sit on the 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.400