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 they terminol and gay a.
Speaker 3: We want to send you off in style. We wanna
Speaker 3: welcome you back home.
Speaker 1: Tell us all about it. We scared her? Was it fine?
Speaker 2: Malborn?
Speaker 4: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
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Speaker 3: Ride with Karen and Chris? Welcome to Do you need
Speaker 3: a ride?
Speaker 1: This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgaroff.
Speaker 4: Karen just called this a jet lag record, which means you.
Speaker 3: Just got back.
Speaker 4: Yes, so take me to a moment. It doesn't matter when. Okay,
Speaker 4: I want to know surrounding architecture. I want to know
Speaker 4: about an interaction. Tell me about your trip to Italy.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was a trip to Sicily.
Speaker 2: So some Sicilians might argue that it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 2: accurately a trip to Italy because they consider themselves kind
Speaker 2: of separate. Yes, and it was very fun and one
Speaker 2: of my favorite memories is we were in a town
Speaker 2: called Lipari, which is in the one of the Aeolian
Speaker 2: islands off the coast off the like kind of northern
Speaker 2: coast of Sicily. And it was real small town that
Speaker 2: this one main strip where all the restaurants and boat
Speaker 2: rentals and stores were. And we went into the I
Speaker 2: went into the store because most of the stores were
Speaker 2: like sweatshirts that say Sicily on the front, or the
Speaker 2: flag they have the flag that's the lady's face in.
Speaker 1: The middle with all the legs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great flag.
Speaker 1: So a lot of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: But I saw the store and it had all this
Speaker 2: jewelry that looked like everything was an imitation of an
Speaker 2: of a like an antique archaeological find so like stuff
Speaker 2: that I'm.
Speaker 1: Very nerdy about and love very much, which is like.
Speaker 2: The Greeks or the Romans used to have these like
Speaker 2: a ring that would have a gem in it, and
Speaker 2: the gem would have a picture etched into it of
Speaker 2: like a Greek of God or a Roman god or whatever.
Speaker 4: These sound like things you would see in the gift
Speaker 4: nice gift store at the met exactly okay.
Speaker 2: Where it'd be like, this is a recreation of this
Speaker 2: thing that was fast So because it's this island I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, they've found crazy awesome shit off the coast
Speaker 2: of this island and all of these islands in the
Speaker 2: Oilien where so I see this and I'm like, we stop.
Speaker 2: And of course I don't speak Italian. And I promised
Speaker 2: the last time we went to Italy. Yes, that was
Speaker 2: my big thing is I was going to learn and
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: You've got things to do. You're busy professional.
Speaker 1: I have been a busy professional.
Speaker 2: So but I'm very regretful because they just want you
Speaker 2: to try a little so you can say, you know, hi,
Speaker 2: good day.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I don't speak Italian. Could you help me with whatever?
Speaker 3: That's right?
Speaker 1: But I can't say anything.
Speaker 2: I can say I'm sorry, and I can say good morning,
Speaker 2: good evening, and I always say said the wrong one
Speaker 2: at the wrong time, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, So these are begin interactions I have in English.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, good morning, Oh it's evening.
Speaker 1: What am I doing?
Speaker 2: So I see these rings that look just like the
Speaker 2: ones like I followed an account on old Twitter called
Speaker 2: art and Archaeology that showed these rings. It would be
Speaker 2: like this beautiful old ring that was from you know,
Speaker 2: a thousand BC with with like a beautiful red gem
Speaker 2: with a tiny etching of like a lady in it,
Speaker 2: and You're just like, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: So suddenly I'm looking in this jewelry store.
Speaker 5: And that profile of a lady.
Speaker 2: No, no, like a full picture, like you know. So
Speaker 2: some of them were like the Roman gods or the
Speaker 2: mythological creatures or whatever, and so I'm looking and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I know they're not the real ones, but they look
Speaker 2: exactly like them. And so I'm like, can't believe what
Speaker 2: I'm looking at in this store window. So a lot
Speaker 2: of the shop owners they come outside to talk to
Speaker 2: you or to say how are you to invite you in?
Speaker 2: Basically that they'll kind of walk you through the store
Speaker 2: because they know that's good salesmanship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not in a car salesman eat pushy way,
Speaker 4: not at all.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They just are like they know they can all speak
Speaker 2: better English than we can, and they're like, do you
Speaker 2: have any questions or you know, let me show you anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So was that a sneeze or did you start laughing?
Speaker 4: No, it was three things at once. For all I know,
Speaker 4: I also farted. Everything happened at once. It was a cough,
Speaker 4: and then I tried to clear my throat, and for
Speaker 4: some reason my voice got triggered in that, so now
Speaker 4: there was nothing for all I know.
Speaker 2: Correct, So this man came out and he was this
Speaker 2: lovely man, and I was trying to I was like,
Speaker 2: are these like? Are these what I think they are?
Speaker 2: And I didn't think they were the real thing from
Speaker 2: thousands of years ago? But I'm like and I was
Speaker 2: trying to say, like, are these antiques? But he didn't
Speaker 2: know what I was saying. And I'm like, why am
Speaker 2: I just saying? Are these antiques? And English over and
Speaker 2: over to him the worst kind of American? And then
Speaker 2: he pulls out Google Translate, wor I'm like, why don't
Speaker 2: I have this out?
Speaker 1: And why didn't I do this beforehand?
Speaker 2: And so he and I start having a conversation through
Speaker 2: Google Translate. That was like as if we were two
Speaker 2: old friends. Because of Google Translate, I was, we were
Speaker 2: able to so amazing, It's so great. So basically I
Speaker 2: went and looked and my friends Janet and Adrian were
Speaker 2: off trying to get a boat so we could get
Speaker 2: a little boat tour because we knew that would be amazing,
Speaker 2: and they were doing that next door, and I was
Speaker 2: just kind of killing time, because every place we went
Speaker 2: to was tiny, and I hate, like when three people
Speaker 2: are standing there but only one person is actually doing
Speaker 2: the business.
Speaker 5: So it's like, I'll just.
Speaker 1: Stand outside because I don't want.
Speaker 4: To us all beside on a cobblestone. Everything's cobblestone, everything is.
Speaker 1: It's all old.
Speaker 2: That's great, and you look at You're like, this is
Speaker 2: this has been here for quite some time. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just everything's incredible. Even if you're just looking at their
Speaker 2: corner store, You're like, but it's also the most charming
Speaker 2: and wonderful corner store you've ever seen. So anyway, basically,
Speaker 2: I ask him a bunch of questions and then we
Speaker 2: leave because we're trying to get this boat tour booked,
Speaker 2: and but I'm like, I gotta go back there because
Speaker 2: I'm never going to find another thing that looks like this.
Speaker 1: This isn't your standard.
Speaker 4: Shop or see your new suitet salesman.
Speaker 2: Friend, Yeah, well exactly, so the next day, and also
Speaker 2: it's a small enough town where we're going to see
Speaker 2: them every time.
Speaker 1: We walk down this main store.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so the next day we walk down again,
Speaker 2: but this time it's a it's another old lovely man
Speaker 2: with a good hat and a great scarf.
Speaker 1: And he starts telling me because he speaks.
Speaker 2: Much more fluently English and better than what I just
Speaker 2: did right there. And he starts telling me that my
Speaker 2: friend that I made it's his fiftieth anniversary and he's
Speaker 2: his brother in law and basically starts telling me all
Speaker 2: about the guy that owns the shop, where I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I love him, and so it's now I know, like
Speaker 2: about his life or whatever. So we were like, yeah, yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: I think we bought Me and Adrian both bought something
Speaker 2: that first day. But anyway, on our last day in town,
Speaker 2: which I think was like two days later, we were
Speaker 2: doing a bunch of other stuff, and then I'm like,
Speaker 2: I would really love to go back to that shop
Speaker 2: because so I wanted to get one of those rings
Speaker 2: because I was like, oh, I'll never wear one of
Speaker 2: those rings, like who cares, Like, just get one because
Speaker 2: of the experience you had. And we walked in and
Speaker 2: granted this was after dinner, so everyone was a little
Speaker 2: bit boozed up, but we walk in and Adrian kind
Speaker 2: of steps forward and does like a tuta like it's
Speaker 2: us again, and he my fifty fifty year anniversary. Lovely man.
Speaker 2: He does a thing where he pretends to faint in
Speaker 2: his seat behind his desk.
Speaker 1: That's so great, like beause we've come back.
Speaker 2: It was one of the most charming and then he
Speaker 2: came and like it was just so sweet, and so
Speaker 2: then I bought the ring and he kind of asked
Speaker 2: how much longer we're staying? And then I just said,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for being so patient. Because I
Speaker 2: don't speak Italian, but you Italian. I said this influent
Speaker 2: Google Translate Italian or I'm just typing it, and he's
Speaker 2: reading it, so so I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't do this speaking thing.
Speaker 2: I just typed it in Basically, you were so lovely
Speaker 2: to be so patient with me that first night and whatever.
Speaker 2: Here's what he does. He reads it and then he
Speaker 2: kind of does a face. He kisses his knuckle and
Speaker 2: then goes like this and.
Speaker 1: Puts it on my O.
Speaker 2: That's like a little platonic and yet like I want
Speaker 2: to kiss you.
Speaker 5: So here's the invented that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, isn't that the move of a lifetime?
Speaker 3: And he just came up with it.
Speaker 4: It came up with it on this you know, he's done.
Speaker 3: You know, I love it. I love that he fake fainted.
Speaker 4: First of all, I know in the chair, like immediately
Speaker 4: matched the theatrics exactly.
Speaker 2: I know this game because imagine if if he had
Speaker 2: if he had, like if he had just kind of
Speaker 2: stopped that of like welcome or something.
Speaker 1: Weird, and we would have been some compariss.
Speaker 2: Again, right, it's like, but instead he did a thing
Speaker 2: like the girls came back to say goodbye. So we
Speaker 2: all had that very sweet and that's kind of like
Speaker 2: a perfect example of the kind of vibes that you
Speaker 2: get in a.
Speaker 1: Place like Sis.
Speaker 3: God Lord, did you deliver on that assignment.
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, that was not I did not
Speaker 4: know that you'd have this tear jerking slice of life
Speaker 4: interaction all the sweet man.
Speaker 2: A sweet man that I was like, it was one
Speaker 2: of those things where, like you we don't get to
Speaker 2: have enough interactions I think in Los Angeles like that
Speaker 2: because everyone's like, what can you do for me? What
Speaker 2: about my thing or whatever? Where it literally was he
Speaker 2: was like, hey, what's up. You like my jewelry? Because
Speaker 2: he kept going it's not the real thing. He wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure I didn't believe I was buying an antique.
Speaker 4: I'm like he opened with unwarranted brutal honesty of just like.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to rip you off type of thing,
Speaker 2: or like I'm not going to let you believe you're
Speaker 2: buying an antiquity.
Speaker 1: It was just like lovely.
Speaker 4: Sweet right, which is the theme of so many sitcoms
Speaker 4: or movies, or a Brady Bunch episode where they get
Speaker 4: duoped because they're from out at town.
Speaker 1: Yes, and someone's so nice to you.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be another Brady Bunch episode.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to sell you a cursed idol that
Speaker 2: would get you stuck in a cave?
Speaker 1: Is that what it was?
Speaker 4: It's funny. I only know the folklore around this episode.
Speaker 4: I've never watched it, really, I know I've avoided it.
Speaker 3: But it's also that your story.
Speaker 4: There is good things that come along with the dangerous
Speaker 4: computer in our pockets.
Speaker 1: Yes, very good things.
Speaker 2: So you can immediately start talking to somebody that otherwise.
Speaker 3: But he was a warehouse in China.
Speaker 4: When I was calling about manufacturing of my skateboard lamp thing,
Speaker 4: I talked to this guy and we had the same
Speaker 4: conversation over the phone, but he could speak English. Okay,
Speaker 4: It was almost the same situation, but I had the
Speaker 4: luxury of typing it and then saying what.
Speaker 3: You saw, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: It so that because it's a generate to basically say,
Speaker 2: I don't want just you to do the work. And
Speaker 2: I understand that if you're the only one speaking English.
Speaker 2: I'm just being yet another American that thinks the world's
Speaker 2: going to come to me when I would like I
Speaker 2: wish I could meet you halfway.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and any attempt I think is probably appreciated
Speaker 4: when you try and meet halfway.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, last night I realized I watched that Saturday Night
Speaker 4: Live movie, which I thought was great.
Speaker 3: It was like a pe K Anderson tense character.
Speaker 2: It was great, But I can I just ask a
Speaker 2: question yes, yes, oh oh, pt and I think Peaky
Speaker 2: Anderson and I'm like Peaky Blinders combined.
Speaker 3: Peak and the nineteen eighty eight Olympics. Scary Skier, scary
Speaker 3: Peekaboo Anderson. Peekaboo Street was a skier.
Speaker 1: And sure it was big.
Speaker 3: Strong legs were there.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: I wanted to google, as I do with all movie
Speaker 4: watching when it's at all based in a story like
Speaker 4: the Menendez thing or what I'm always constantly like, did
Speaker 4: this really happen?
Speaker 3: Because you know they took creative.
Speaker 4: License license, Thank you for this movie because it was great,
Speaker 4: insane shit happened. I want to know what was real.
Speaker 4: So last night I was is it bad that I
Speaker 4: wish I had my phone out? No, it enhances the
Speaker 4: experience of watching a film.
Speaker 5: It does.
Speaker 4: It's not that we all have ADHD, and maybe we
Speaker 4: all do, but it is an added bonus that you
Speaker 4: also get a look at the story we have. We
Speaker 4: can do the research. It's fun, it's multimedia.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 2: And I think there's two we're we've already moved past
Speaker 2: that point of I guess I'll wait till somebody else
Speaker 2: writes an article and I learn about here's all the
Speaker 2: things that were real, and here's all the things that weren't.
Speaker 2: It's like this is all moving quickly enough where it's
Speaker 2: like they almost should do pop up videos for things
Speaker 2: like that, because that's all I thought of during Monsters.
Speaker 1: I was like, is this must be based on a truth?
Speaker 2: The truth because this really happened and people could come
Speaker 2: and argue all of that.
Speaker 4: They were very smart to immediately come out with the
Speaker 4: documentary because I watched them Ma act back and all
Speaker 4: the you know, those glorified moments are deblunked by the documentary.
Speaker 2: What were some because there was a couple where I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, should they be really lying right now?
Speaker 4: I think they took some liberties with the I love
Speaker 4: my brother naked, Oh like shower time and that. That's
Speaker 4: what I wanted to google right away. What the documentary
Speaker 4: did for me is like, oh my god, let them out.
Speaker 4: They were abused. I believe them one hundred percent. I
Speaker 4: did not feel that way after.
Speaker 3: Watching the narrative descripted thing.
Speaker 4: I was like, well, don't shoot your parents in the face,
Speaker 4: you know, let this be a lesson to us.
Speaker 3: All I knew lesson.
Speaker 1: The documentary made you feel like they.
Speaker 4: Need to be It made me in my mind, I'm
Speaker 4: sure of it, and that they've As gruesome as the
Speaker 4: killing was, it came from a reaction of fear and abuse.
Speaker 1: Yes, because and the dad.
Speaker 3: Was scarier than we can even imagine.
Speaker 2: Yes, the dad was a true psychopath and everybody thought so.
Speaker 2: But the kids doing it and whatever the media wanted
Speaker 2: to say was the thing that kind of got like
Speaker 2: when it happened real time, that's all you heard about
Speaker 2: was like, Ugh, these boys, they're so whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're rich, they're playing tennis, they're buying watches. No,
Speaker 4: they were freaking out and having emotional breakdowns and alternately
Speaker 4: trying to act.
Speaker 3: You know, they're definitely not people of the year.
Speaker 4: But it's bizarre because your whole life, or my whole life,
Speaker 4: I've thought, oh, those were the crazy murderers that killed
Speaker 4: for no reason. Yes, so it's I don't know, it's
Speaker 4: interesting to watch. So I'm ready for a SNL documentary
Speaker 4: about that very first episode because there were so many
Speaker 4: things I wanted to check and so anyway, all I'm
Speaker 4: saying is you must see that it was interesting that
Speaker 4: I went into it thinking, oh, this is during my lifetime. No,
Speaker 4: this was a boomer era. Everyone in that theater was
Speaker 4: in their late fifties to my parents' age, because they
Speaker 4: remember vividly television changing with this raw, unscripted comedy Night
Speaker 4: of Insanity, and it showed how important it was at
Speaker 4: the time because prior to that, it.
Speaker 3: Was just Milton Berles singing racoons with.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah and yeah, it was just great. I
Speaker 4: was so invested in it. And also, it's not just
Speaker 4: for people in comedy who followed Snel and thought of
Speaker 4: it as a distant dream. Everyone in the general public
Speaker 4: knows a little bit about Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 3: Or remembers it right, even a plumber or.
Speaker 4: Disc golfer. Imagine, imagine the world where comedy is appreciated
Speaker 4: and thought of at as high art.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: It had been so long since we podcasted. Today, I've
Speaker 4: been having podcasts, like conversations with everyone, like getting prepared,
Speaker 4: oh like hell, just randomly talking and doing deep dives
Speaker 4: with the guy I got coffee from and a lady
Speaker 4: in mine. She had a Sicily sweatshirt. It said it
Speaker 4: was Cicily nineteen twenty two, and I'm like, ooh, I
Speaker 4: like your Golden Girls sweatshirt. And she was so excited
Speaker 4: that I knew that, and so we started talking about that.
Speaker 4: We've started talking about She's like, and you got to
Speaker 4: revisit early Roseanne. I mean, I know she kind of
Speaker 4: went flew off the deep end, but they also were
Speaker 4: ahead of their time in the topics. Oh yes, And
Speaker 4: we talked about different I talked about the doctor dismissing
Speaker 4: b Arthur's concerns because she's a lady. You probably just
Speaker 4: had the vapors what if we were talking about that
Speaker 4: episode and she's like, that was an important one to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then I talked to some guy that looked like a
Speaker 3: cage fighter.
Speaker 4: He was like a very strong, tough looking guy, and
Speaker 4: he was wearing a stance shirt and I'm like, they
Speaker 4: make good socks, man? Did we talk about where you
Speaker 4: get good deals on socks and underwear? We talked for
Speaker 4: twenty five minutes about the types of underwear and these
Speaker 4: days you just got paid thirty bucks for a good
Speaker 4: paramids under we're.
Speaker 3: At that age.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we started talking about middle age.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, deep podcasts that were unrecorded that no one
Speaker 3: will ever hear.
Speaker 1: Wait, where were you doing all of this?
Speaker 4: Because I've missed doing this is my point. Just this morning.
Speaker 1: Where were you?
Speaker 4: I was?
Speaker 3: It was, yeah, wait, did you see this guy just
Speaker 3: a car?
Speaker 1: Are you looking at this guy?
Speaker 4: Oh he's a poser. Oh he's wearing wranglers. Sometimes. I'm
Speaker 4: sorry that I'm scolding you. I just went I I'm
Speaker 4: sorry about reaction.
Speaker 1: Well, you get to have your honest reactions.
Speaker 4: Well, you and you were pulling a fast round because
Speaker 4: you knew that he wasn't a hardcore skater, that was
Speaker 4: a transportation.
Speaker 1: Long boarder was he Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 4: He's on a smooth sailing, soft wheeled let me get
Speaker 4: across town transportation device.
Speaker 1: And that's there's a big difference.
Speaker 4: Yes, you'll quickly pick up on little ques, mainly his
Speaker 4: western wear.
Speaker 5: That was a big tell for me.
Speaker 2: But if you can, if you can make that skateboard
Speaker 2: carry you somewhere you're not, that doesn't necessarily mean you're
Speaker 2: a skateboarder.
Speaker 4: No, but soon you'll be able to immediately judge someone's
Speaker 4: skill level just by how they carry themselves.
Speaker 3: And that guy is new to the game, is he yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, just you could start with how slow he was
Speaker 4: going and then go to you know, posture and things.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you had actually already clocked and dismissed.
Speaker 3: This stuff, he turned pixelated.
Speaker 1: To me, didn't I blocked him out? Didn't matter one wit.
Speaker 4: This is going against everything I truly believe. I want
Speaker 4: everyone at any level to have a skateboard and do
Speaker 4: it however they want. It would be a world I
Speaker 4: want to live in. I love that that guy was
Speaker 4: on a skateboard.
Speaker 3: I'm not judging him at all.
Speaker 2: You were absolutely judging him in every way for comedic purposes,
Speaker 2: and now this is serious drama.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, okay, I love that that Western ware man
Speaker 4: was on his longboard, expressing himself and having his own style.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the real truth, Chris.
Speaker 4: It's just comedy, Chris that says that style was whack.
Speaker 4: I years ago when you famously just brought up Milton
Speaker 4: Martinez and and I was like, what, how are you
Speaker 4: talking about the destigator. At the time, this new kid
Speaker 4: had come along and we talked about him, Mason Silva,
Speaker 4: and then his cousin listened.
Speaker 3: To our podcast.
Speaker 4: She told him, and then in a message of comment,
Speaker 4: he said, oh, they said such nice things about me.
Speaker 3: He had listened.
Speaker 4: That was in my brain. Cut to yesterday morning, I'm
Speaker 4: at Costco. He showed up with Grant Taylor and all
Speaker 4: these pros. They were shooting like a promo thing for Nike.
Speaker 4: They all are big time pros that have nice cars
Speaker 4: and their own shoes, you know. And I mentioned I'm like,
Speaker 4: your cousin listens to our podcast. He's like, I vividly
Speaker 4: remember the Thanksgiving where she brought it up.
Speaker 3: It's all coming back to me right now.
Speaker 4: He was like, he totally remembered and then we all
Speaker 4: kind of skated.
Speaker 3: I didn't stop skating.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're all amazingly good, but that's one of
Speaker 4: my spots. So we all kind of skated together, and
Speaker 4: it was really fun for me. I'm in nerd out
Speaker 4: in a fifteen year old way, and I'm around nice
Speaker 4: pro skaters. It was such a fun day.
Speaker 2: But I think you right now need to thank Mason's cousin.
Speaker 1: Yes, who is the one who made it happen?
Speaker 3: Yes, and you're out there.
Speaker 4: I don't even know your name or of it. The
Speaker 4: last name is Silva. We could guess all day and
Speaker 4: I'd get further and further from the truth, cos I
Speaker 4: never was even in contact with the truth on this.
Speaker 4: We could do all in night. We could go through
Speaker 4: the whole alphabet for first.
Speaker 1: And last name, Zinnia.
Speaker 4: It was Zinnia Johnson Silva hyphen through marriage. It's all
Speaker 4: coming back to me workscept the DMV. I don't Mason
Speaker 4: Silva's cousin, sweet person, Mason Silva's c I brought you up.
Speaker 5: His face lit.
Speaker 2: Up you and Chris's face is lit up from telling
Speaker 2: this story.
Speaker 1: You really, yes, made it look street.
Speaker 3: This is not even this is an actual dead end.
Speaker 3: But this is go up the stairs. We're doing it.
Speaker 4: There's a flight to seventy eight stairs meant for someone
Speaker 4: training for boxing.
Speaker 3: Oh boom, oh we're here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is perfect timing.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, it's perfect timing.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's it's it is it is.
Speaker 2: Get into this stranger's car, yeah, this one.
Speaker 3: You know today's guest. We're getting right into it.
Speaker 4: You know him from clubs and colleges across the country.
Speaker 4: Everyone put yes, clubs and colleges. You put your ears
Speaker 4: together for Brian Husky.
Speaker 5: Yes, disclaimer, never a club, never a college. Talking about people.
Speaker 4: That's we don't adjust it at all. That is the intro,
Speaker 4: that's the interest. I don't know that we've ever had
Speaker 4: maybe a handful of guests that have actually done college
Speaker 4: game clubs.
Speaker 6: I mean you were talking about like rotary clubs and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that kind of like service function things.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, water buffalo meetings.
Speaker 5: Yes, I've managed a lot of buffets of those things. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Chris Fairbanks, I haven't seen you. I mean I would
Speaker 6: weirdly run into you here in LA and then there
Speaker 6: would be like a five year gap. Yes, if you
Speaker 6: live in the same city, you never run into people.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's been since the heady days of the
Speaker 6: big stinking Improv Festival to be met.
Speaker 4: It is, and that goes past my days of even
Speaker 4: doing stand up, which I mean longer than my comedy career.
Speaker 6: And I have this great picture of you with all
Speaker 6: the plastic forks and your hair.
Speaker 4: All that was my party trick back then to put
Speaker 4: as many straws or forks in my hair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a good one. I mean it made
Speaker 5: an impression.
Speaker 4: We uh add my improv group, Bob's family just attached
Speaker 4: to your group, the Naked Babies in a way because
Speaker 4: we had never seen any or performed anything but short
Speaker 4: form improv games.
Speaker 6: And I think, to be fair, everyone else at that
Speaker 6: festival was annoying. Right, that's just fair, Yeah, right, just
Speaker 6: to kind of like our quick overview is like we're
Speaker 6: better than everybody else except for this group.
Speaker 5: Let's pull them big friends.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad to hear you say that, even if
Speaker 4: it isn't fully true, because I my memory is that
Speaker 4: we glombed onto you. But we had good time. We
Speaker 4: went to Barton Springs, we sweat, we hung out with
Speaker 4: our shirts off.
Speaker 5: Yeah for it. There's vulnerability for sure.
Speaker 4: Yes, and full on bonded with you and Rob Cordrey
Speaker 4: and John What's John John Bowie? John Bowie, who I
Speaker 4: haven't seen since YouTube did Garage Punk for that reality
Speaker 4: show I was on, Oh God, which I thought you
Speaker 4: maybe wouldn't even remember.
Speaker 6: I remember so little that it was becoming horrified. Like
Speaker 6: I someone sent me a gift of something I did
Speaker 6: on Comedy Bang Bangs.
Speaker 5: I was like, I don't remember. I don't remember that
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 6: I have a there's documentation that I don't remember playing
Speaker 6: that character.
Speaker 4: That And you still do cameos based on a character
Speaker 4: you did on Comedy Bang Bang, But that was on
Speaker 4: AFO sheet.
Speaker 6: That's my profile. I don't you remember they had that
Speaker 6: show on IFC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like that.
Speaker 6: So it was you would just get a call and
Speaker 6: of course you'd run down there and get paid one
Speaker 6: hundred dollars in just that funny of course, and feel seen.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then I saw you in a sushi place
Speaker 4: with your family and we were so excited to see
Speaker 4: each other, and I was like, oh, yeah, I really
Speaker 4: like that guy. I'm furious that you're here somewoint.
Speaker 7: No, what if it took a turn, I have to
Speaker 7: say it is a ballsy podcast to choose to do,
Speaker 7: like this time of day of driving is the worst.
Speaker 3: We so bad, and this is always when.
Speaker 5: We do it? Yeah, and why and is that just practicality?
Speaker 2: I think we're just trying to fly in the face
Speaker 2: of what people think they like or want. Just like
Speaker 2: you know, everyone complains about traffic. How about we get
Speaker 2: into traffic and really live.
Speaker 1: In it and do it?
Speaker 4: Yes, And the original podcast was the airport. We would
Speaker 4: go to the airport, the most tense, stressful thing you
Speaker 4: can do in a car.
Speaker 5: Either way, it sounds like you're working for the oil lobby.
Speaker 4: Re because of their proximity to Halliburt and Lax would
Speaker 4: be our first stop.
Speaker 3: And then we get our checks.
Speaker 6: Ye takes in one of those cool steel briefcases.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and this time pay us and uncut diamonds. We'd say, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're on the dark end of business.
Speaker 6: In the beginning, it's also a little I'm just going
Speaker 6: to unpack my overview of your podcast. It's also weird
Speaker 6: to be behind you and having a conversation, right, it's a.
Speaker 4: Yes, and that has been like a sociological experiment, right it,
Speaker 4: I think, And you'll within ten minutes. Here, you're going
Speaker 4: to turn to a kid on a road trip with
Speaker 4: his friends leaving hometown for the first time. You're going
Speaker 4: to open up because you haven't seen our faces.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, I really didn't like because these windows are
Speaker 6: blacked out, and so you walk up.
Speaker 1: I'm a street racer.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess I am being abducted.
Speaker 1: Which I mean, yeah, technically right, which is.
Speaker 5: Cool, which is cool.
Speaker 4: There has been nothing to prove that I'm Chris Fairbanks
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 6: No, there's such a lull in work. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll be abducted. Yeah, it's really fun being abducted.
Speaker 1: See where it goes?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And this won't hold up in court because it's just
Speaker 6: audio as AI generated, so screwed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Are you feeling like you're in a lull because I do?
Speaker 5: I sure do.
Speaker 6: I just yes, yes, kind of, but I but no,
Speaker 6: right now, happily, I just got a couple of things,
Speaker 6: and so I'm for the first a certain no, a
Speaker 6: qualified no.
Speaker 5: I had to for the first time in.
Speaker 6: Good Gollies, like twelve years or more. I've had to shave,
Speaker 6: like I am. I'm beardless right now. And the reaction
Speaker 6: to from a lot of people who have known for
Speaker 6: years like oh, oh yeah, I forgot what you look
Speaker 6: like with that, and everyone else is like oh and
Speaker 6: definitely my daughter and all her friends are like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, scary.
Speaker 4: Really yeah, it's so funny. So you feel like that
Speaker 4: time that and I vividly remember the first time my
Speaker 4: dad came out without its mustache and I it's like,
Speaker 4: that's what your lap looks like, like so vulnerable.
Speaker 5: It's very weird. Yeah, it is very weird.
Speaker 6: And I, you know, thankfully a lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 6: you have an age, but to me, I look like
Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, I do have a young face, but
Speaker 6: it's I see the saggy young face.
Speaker 5: It's sort of like a baby doll. It's been played
Speaker 5: with too much.
Speaker 1: And did you have to shave because you because of work?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They it's a movie and it's sort of it's we're
Speaker 6: playing historical reenactors. So they wanted me to have like
Speaker 6: it's insane mutton chops and a mustache and all this
Speaker 6: kind of stuff. Then they dressed everybody up and then
Speaker 6: they put us all together and they're like, oh.
Speaker 5: Too many beards.
Speaker 6: You your your bald face, oh so now I just
Speaker 6: get some I do get to wear a tupeg, which
Speaker 6: is I'm psyched about.
Speaker 4: And this is not drunk history.
Speaker 5: This is not drunk history.
Speaker 6: This is this is this is something that my Nda says,
Speaker 6: I can't even think about.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will not ask anymore.
Speaker 4: Just keep guessing.
Speaker 5: Yeah they felt aw, He's like, if we follow up
Speaker 5: real fast.
Speaker 1: People they'll forget how they felt.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 6: Okay, maybe if you guys remember this. I feel like
Speaker 6: there was a movie recently that was a by all intentions, it.
Speaker 5: Was a drama and it was like supposed to be just.
Speaker 6: Hard hitting and gut wrenching, and people laughed at it
Speaker 6: so much that they re they re sort of branded
Speaker 6: it as a as a satire, Do you guys this
Speaker 6: is a string of not yet, not yet, because Micalopolis
Speaker 6: is on the verge of that.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just what is? But I do remember
Speaker 5: this thing, and people were like they're.
Speaker 8: Like, oh no, no, no, no, yeah, we knew, we knew
Speaker 8: people would be laughing at these these scenes. But it's
Speaker 8: and you can't remember what it is because I can't
Speaker 8: remember what shows have been on, so that's that's where
Speaker 8: I am right now.
Speaker 3: But were you you were in it?
Speaker 5: I know I wasn't.
Speaker 4: Probably.
Speaker 5: I think this was a movie I made.
Speaker 8: And funded and then blanked out into blacked out when
Speaker 8: people were laughing at it, and it was like my
Speaker 8: soul up on the street.
Speaker 4: Are you still falling and getting concussions at work a lot?
Speaker 4: I think there's a connection.
Speaker 5: I guess. So when I wake up, they say, I am, But.
Speaker 4: You know that's why the I'm sad. Your nickname is
Speaker 4: fall Rest.
Speaker 2: Can you remember any like visuals? Is there anything in
Speaker 2: your memory about this movie?
Speaker 6: I did not see this movie because I remember seeing
Speaker 6: trailer for be like, well that looks like, yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm fresh out of guesses, none of which if I
Speaker 4: have even tried, I have not even attempted.
Speaker 5: I'm at zero guesses.
Speaker 4: Well, last night I watched I mentioned it earlier, I
Speaker 4: watched the snl Oh movie and it was way more
Speaker 4: fun than I thought it would be. I was thoroughly
Speaker 4: enjoyed it and it was a fun like everyone in
Speaker 4: it really nailed their impressions and they don't give them
Speaker 4: away in any trailers or promo that there's a lot
Speaker 4: of fun surprises, and it looked like it was so fun.
Speaker 3: To work on.
Speaker 6: It's smart to make it just the hour and a
Speaker 6: half of the for like the just a block of time, right,
Speaker 6: it's just sort of like.
Speaker 4: Yes, but it's funny because the movie is more than
Speaker 4: an hour, but it shows the clock. It periodically goes
Speaker 4: to the clock. But it's I think the nature of
Speaker 4: filmmaking even describe describing one minute's time in a short story.
Speaker 4: To shoot it, you have to have camera shots of
Speaker 4: different angles, like by nature. I think it doubles the time,
Speaker 4: so that one hour it's told in a two hour
Speaker 4: movie and it doesn't bother you.
Speaker 6: So it's two hours of So one hour is the
Speaker 6: movie and the other hours are cut away to the.
Speaker 3: Clock, right right, They just stirring the movie.
Speaker 4: There's a calendar hazeling in the distance and pages are.
Speaker 3: Tearing off of it.
Speaker 4: They do that classic the clock. No, they just will
Speaker 4: show the time, or someone asks the time. It comes
Speaker 4: up a lot and it's only been fifteen minutes. But
Speaker 4: you know you've watched a half hour of movie in
Speaker 4: that time. But it doesn't it seems like that would
Speaker 4: bother you or me, not you personally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lying is dishonest, that's wrong.
Speaker 3: It was just interesting filmmaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah. And a lot of fake beards in it.
Speaker 5: Ooh yeah, boy, I have to get in on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No one in it was willing to shave.
Speaker 4: They had all those auditions said are you willing to grow?
Speaker 4: Which is less common.
Speaker 5: I also they were also like, oh, leave your hair.
Speaker 5: I don't have I've got a little ring. I've got
Speaker 5: a classic mail pattern ring.
Speaker 6: And so when it gets a little shaggy, go in
Speaker 6: there and I spend too much money for what is
Speaker 6: being cut off and it lasts for a couple of months,
Speaker 6: and oh, just leave it.
Speaker 5: So now I'm bald faced, and I have this kind
Speaker 5: of like.
Speaker 6: It's like, I don't know, nineteen seventies sort of like
Speaker 6: nerd hair ring going on, which is really driving me crazy.
Speaker 5: And no one else sees it, but to me, I'm
Speaker 5: just like, oh my god, it looks so insane.
Speaker 4: When I think of hair rings, I immediately think of
Speaker 4: the classic friar. Oh yes, but that's a bang's situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's more of a donut.
Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah. I again, I'm not looking at you either,
Speaker 4: So if I turn and see a nice straight banged donut.
Speaker 5: I guess it's more of a horseshoe, right, is it
Speaker 5: kind of a Gallagher?
Speaker 4: Look?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can do a Gallagher. I mean when I
Speaker 6: wake up in the morning. It's comedy.
Speaker 1: It's just just like ga such good comedy.
Speaker 5: We got a hammer and a watermelon in bed with
Speaker 5: me and it goes.
Speaker 2: It's all you need.
Speaker 3: It was an interesting thing to work on.
Speaker 4: An MTV show based in the seventies, and Gallagher did
Speaker 4: a cameo and Gallagher wore a hat with what his
Speaker 4: old hair used to look like stapled to the inside
Speaker 4: of the hat so he would put.
Speaker 3: It on and I think he already owned it.
Speaker 4: Wow. Oh yes, it was an interesting thing to see.
Speaker 2: It was like his show hat of like now I'm
Speaker 2: doing the character of Gallagher the comedian.
Speaker 4: Or he came prepared and said, you know what, I
Speaker 4: made my own props for years. I'll make a hat
Speaker 4: with what my hair used to look like to be
Speaker 4: time appropriate to this era.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, he's in that movie.
Speaker 4: If no, I jumped to a difficult to follow subject.
Speaker 6: Change, Yeah, I did so, you said, an MTV show
Speaker 6: in the seventies, So that part was I am going
Speaker 6: to let that slide.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And that was my description. That was all
Speaker 4: I was willing to get.
Speaker 5: I was like, if he's got early on set, I
Speaker 5: can't remember anything, so it's fun.
Speaker 3: Oliver brains, it is. Yes, it's happening right now.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 4: I when I moved here, I did some MTV reality
Speaker 4: thing where kids had to live in a house. Their
Speaker 4: cell phones were taken away and they had to live
Speaker 4: where everything was seventies rotary phones. And I was like
Speaker 4: a neighbor that played with nunchucks and had a trans
Speaker 4: am and would come over and quiz them and whoever
Speaker 4: lost at the quiz was kissed kicked off the show
Speaker 4: and then they would cry great.
Speaker 3: What was it called?
Speaker 4: It was called show that seventies House. Seriously, the seventies House.
Speaker 4: It was before that seventies show, but it was. There
Speaker 4: was Jimmy J. J. Walker was on it, like there
Speaker 4: was cameos throughout a different.
Speaker 1: Yes, and sorry you had Gallagher hair.
Speaker 4: Gallagher was on it, older and aged, very grumpy Gallagher
Speaker 4: who then put on his youthful hat with his old
Speaker 4: hair stapled into it. If it was his real hair, wow,
Speaker 4: I would be amazed by thinking got it from.
Speaker 1: And suddenly he was like in a real good moon.
Speaker 1: Ye went back and he's like, yeah.
Speaker 4: No politics, back to watermelon, smile on the face.
Speaker 5: That didn't his brother pick up the mantle and take
Speaker 5: over that whole oh franchise.
Speaker 4: And I had the luxury boy of seeing Gallagher two
Speaker 4: perform in Austin right when I moved there and started
Speaker 4: doing stand up. So after we met at the big
Speaker 4: Stinke and im Pro Festival, I took a stand up
Speaker 4: class in one of those seminars they had and moved
Speaker 4: there within six months after having met you and started
Speaker 4: doing stand up there. Interesting, a comedy club opened and
Speaker 4: Gallagher two performed with a he had like a antenna
Speaker 4: that it was like a PowerPoint presentation. He even had
Speaker 4: a Janet Jackson style microphone on the side of his face,
Speaker 4: and he did a lot of Gallagher jokes, apparently because
Speaker 4: shortly after that there was a legal dispute that Gallagher
Speaker 4: had with Gallagher two, mainly the fact that he called
Speaker 4: himself Gallagher two probably rubbed.
Speaker 3: Him the wrong way.
Speaker 5: Was it too.
Speaker 3: Shook the pins? It was t o with a crooked
Speaker 3: oh that was kind of just hanging by a thread.
Speaker 5: Hilarious.
Speaker 4: Yes, uh no, I think that fun with fonts. It
Speaker 4: was kind of fun too. Oh, I have a lot
Speaker 4: of graphic design jokes, but you're not going to do
Speaker 4: no no, no that we're not a half hour.
Speaker 3: We don't have perfect It.
Speaker 4: Was kind of like seeing Brian Reagan's brother, like they
Speaker 4: are clearly siblings but way different people, and they both
Speaker 4: do County and Gallagher two was not the funny one,
Speaker 4: so it was interesting to watch this performance. Wow, I'm
Speaker 4: just one of the only people, I think in this
Speaker 4: car to watch Gallagher two dude, not one, but two sets,
Speaker 4: you know, and that he always did.
Speaker 5: To back to back same sets for the audience because
Speaker 5: he is Gallagher two.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's part of it, not a word change.
Speaker 5: If we're waiting for the same reaction about this.
Speaker 4: They insisted everyone remain seated. You did not have the
Speaker 4: option of lead and only watching one show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then they had they had like an audience warm
Speaker 6: up guy, like on a sitcom or like a multiicam.
Speaker 5: I was like, come on, guys, we know we've seen
Speaker 5: these jokes before, but we got to give them.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I've done that before.
Speaker 4: Even if you've heard this joke before, you got to
Speaker 4: act like think of the first time you heard it
Speaker 4: a few minutes ago.
Speaker 5: You did a warm up thing, you did that? Yeah,
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I did it for shows I was not part of,
Speaker 4: and then of a Fuel TV show that had a
Speaker 4: live audience.
Speaker 6: I went to go see a friend do one before
Speaker 6: I moved here, and I had no idea that that happened.
Speaker 6: And when it started happening, I was so baffled and
Speaker 6: so uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was. It's awful, and it doesn't feel good
Speaker 4: to be the person doing it either, because a lot
Speaker 4: of it involves Okay, no one's listening to me, hand
Speaker 4: the bowl of candy over, yep, and you hand out.
Speaker 5: I know that. At that point, I was like, wow.
Speaker 4: So there was a candy ball. Yeah, oh god, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess it's an industry secret.
Speaker 5: They got people's They know how to fucking push those buttons. Baby. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's always through the sweet too.
Speaker 6: You just you just you dominate through volume on being amplified,
Speaker 6: and then give them candy and the promise that.
Speaker 5: Your laugh will be on TV. Yes, and maybe if
Speaker 5: you have a distinctive laugh, you can pick it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so the only people interested are excited about
Speaker 4: that are usually visiting, and so oftentimes those studio audiences
Speaker 4: are people on vacation. Yeah, because no one else, no
Speaker 4: one that lives here, wants to surprise be on TV.
Speaker 4: They'll get in trouble with their agent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I did. I did try. I I
Speaker 5: was trying to have it a distinctive laugh. So when
Speaker 5: i'd laugh, wow.
Speaker 8: Every time, very sexual, very eye fish, kind of upsetting.
Speaker 3: Someone like that joke a little too much, Sir, They're
Speaker 3: gonna we love that, we enjoy that.
Speaker 4: You're enjoying yourself during your laugh, Sir, she's putting up
Speaker 4: with that husband.
Speaker 3: He's a handful.
Speaker 1: He's so rude to her.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: God, and she's she's beautiful and he is u.
Speaker 4: Their mixed match relationship makes me howling euphoria.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: There was a laugh on the sound or the laugh
Speaker 2: track for like Laverne and Shirley Happy Days. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was like the production company owned that
Speaker 2: or use the same thing, but it would be at
Speaker 2: the very end in like seventy sitcoms, at the very
Speaker 2: end of the laughter one guy's laughter, and it sounded
Speaker 2: kind of like it sounded like effervescent, like it was
Speaker 2: like I can't explain it, but it was That's how
Speaker 2: I knew. I was like, all of this is fake.
Speaker 2: I was like eight years old of like, that's not real.
Speaker 2: That's the same guy from last episode of Overne Shirley.
Speaker 2: Like they're just using the same thing over and over.
Speaker 6: Oh I got to I was in I was over
Speaker 6: like Gower Studios going to an audition, and I was early,
Speaker 6: so I was just kind of lingering in the hallways
Speaker 6: and I wandered by this editing suite that was open,
Speaker 6: and I heard someone doing I guess it's like a
Speaker 6: Nickelodeon kids show kind of thing, is editing it, and
Speaker 6: then he was dropping in all the laughter stuff, and
Speaker 6: it just was like they would just try different things.
Speaker 1: Sorry, my sister calls every.
Speaker 4: Time every time.
Speaker 1: Does she know she thinks too much?
Speaker 4: This is my neighborhood. Let's take out Angelino High. It's
Speaker 4: the part of Los Angeles that boasts the most Victorian homes.
Speaker 5: So you're we are so close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I were never in this neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Perfect this way.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 6: It was just fascinating because you would just have first,
Speaker 6: you'd have the you know, you'd have them shoot on
Speaker 6: the set with no audience.
Speaker 5: They're saying bad jokes and it's just like dead silence.
Speaker 6: And then they would just drop in a certain kind
Speaker 6: of laugh here, and then a huge laugh to this one,
Speaker 6: and then they pull one back and then they mix
Speaker 6: them around. But the guy was like slouched over in
Speaker 6: his chair doing it all with one hand. It just
Speaker 6: looked like the other hand was holding a gun.
Speaker 4: Out of you now, just at a laugh switchboard, just like, God,
Speaker 4: damn it, this street so unenjoyable is a wonderful experience.
Speaker 4: Let's take a right here. This is the Thriller House.
Speaker 1: Oh, the problem is we can't see it.
Speaker 5: Wait that one right behind it or in the front,
Speaker 5: it looks that burnt house.
Speaker 4: Wha, I'm guessing Arson is the Thriller house.
Speaker 5: Super like a super fan came in.
Speaker 1: But like you're saying, they kept it from the video.
Speaker 4: What that's where they shot the music video.
Speaker 1: But I mean, did it look like that?
Speaker 3: No someone lives there.
Speaker 4: One of these houses it's from the TV show Charmed
Speaker 4: on the upn I don't know which one. But these
Speaker 4: are beautiful. Look at how ornate they're beautiful. Look at
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 3: Look at all that eve work.
Speaker 5: I know, but it's also like, don't you sort of
Speaker 5: feel like you live in the holly hobby house?
Speaker 4: Sort of I suppose.
Speaker 5: I mean no judgment against that lifestyle. You want to
Speaker 5: go down that road.
Speaker 2: It does one of those little things where you go
Speaker 2: out and look for your sea captain who's been.
Speaker 5: Which is a great, great name for something.
Speaker 4: It's on the other husband, I call it a crow's nest.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're right. Living in those would be like living
Speaker 3: in a dollhouse. Oh, here's a little bit.
Speaker 5: Here's one of these weak day yard sales.
Speaker 2: Oh, someone's living in a full emergency. Yes, that's what
Speaker 2: I think of.
Speaker 5: Oh wait this this is an active fire station that's
Speaker 5: being blocked by this yard.
Speaker 4: It's really every time there's a fire there.
Speaker 1: Have to do a station bankrupt. So that's horrible. That's
Speaker 1: why that house is all burnt right around the court.
Speaker 4: Damn it. We sell clothes that we find in burnt homes.
Speaker 4: A lot of them are singed. Why is this smell
Speaker 4: like smoke?
Speaker 5: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's this is a historic part of One of
Speaker 4: these streets has hitching posts from when people rode horses
Speaker 4: downtown to their business job, and there's the hitching posts.
Speaker 3: That are carved like a horse's head and they are
Speaker 3: very old.
Speaker 5: Wait, so is your household timey.
Speaker 4: No, mine's nothing to sneeze at. But it is just
Speaker 4: a few paces up that way. It's more of an
Speaker 4: apartment duplex situation.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, not at all Victorian.
Speaker 5: Gotcha.
Speaker 6: But where y'all picked me up is at the bottom
Speaker 6: of that those stairs is my street and my street.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, because we're thinking about driving up those seventy
Speaker 4: eight stairs. Do you jog them.
Speaker 5: Every day every day? Yeah?
Speaker 6: It's closer to the top, fewer, easier, but still kind
Speaker 6: of a nightmare.
Speaker 5: It's it's people.
Speaker 6: Get deliveries, get lost, people abandon you in parties, like
Speaker 6: they're like, nope, can't find you.
Speaker 5: Fuck you.
Speaker 4: Right, so your your address is actually up those stairs,
Speaker 4: like you have to get there on foot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and every single uber like lift service kind of thing,
Speaker 6: they all they the mapping system shows that I live
Speaker 6: in several different locations, right, so they're always like on the.
Speaker 5: Other side of the freeway or they're on this other
Speaker 5: little cul de sac. It's a nightmare.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I have the same situation. I'm at the
Speaker 4: top of that hill. I have to get to my
Speaker 4: place via stairs, and I was told by an Uber
Speaker 4: driver that the original mapping system that they used was
Speaker 4: used by the sanitation department. So it sends people to
Speaker 4: my house via the alley, an alley that is so
Speaker 4: scary to drive down, giant retaining walls that are sagging
Speaker 4: in because the earth is moving, and everyone shows up
Speaker 4: to the back of my house with a look of
Speaker 4: terror in their eyes.
Speaker 3: So yes, it is a scary situation.
Speaker 4: And it's the same that street, the way it abruptly
Speaker 4: ends that there isn't even a turnabout.
Speaker 3: I'm from England, there isn't.
Speaker 4: One would call it a cald swivel.
Speaker 3: A lot of people say it wrong in America.
Speaker 4: The wool's end, they cool. The sash umlot is just
Speaker 4: an end. And then there's your stairs, and it only
Speaker 4: makes sense that you have to get there on foot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you don't own a car?
Speaker 5: Nope, nope, nope. I'm the guy in La without a car, me.
Speaker 4: And you're just you and your one big wheeled bike.
Speaker 6: This crossroads used to be a really great that I
Speaker 6: never went into, but had fantastic neon sign liquor store.
Speaker 3: That the neon sign is now in the Neon sign Museum.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, it had an animation. Karen.
Speaker 1: Oh, Karen was drifting off in his callow Park card.
Speaker 1: I mean a real.
Speaker 9: Snooze fest today. But we happened to talk about a
Speaker 9: couple of things. I like animation, and the garbage truck
Speaker 9: thing was fine.
Speaker 4: I was excited. But yeah, when during quarantine that liquor
Speaker 4: story shut down and it was an outdoor area at
Speaker 4: the Halloway and I went there a lot for a
Speaker 4: human interaction with a mask on. They would isap your
Speaker 4: face with a ray gun that told your temperature, and
Speaker 4: there was plank sea glass partitions up. They took it
Speaker 4: so seriously that I felt that was no time for
Speaker 4: a place for me to have my alcohol. I was
Speaker 4: now called yea anyways, and there was also nachos, so
Speaker 4: I went. I went there a lot and they took
Speaker 4: it down and and someone said, yeah, they're refurbishing it
Speaker 4: for the Neon Museum because everyone loved that signal committment?
Speaker 4: Was it a train with plumes of smoke?
Speaker 6: Andy Blitz, guys, we just trop pass conan writer and
Speaker 6: stand up Andy, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he's slowly walking. He's got happy to see us.
Speaker 1: If a car pulls up, I'm leaving.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: He's got an he's got a beard and stuff.
Speaker 5: He's got that dog. You wouldn't believe it. I'm doing
Speaker 5: a freaking podcast in this car right now.
Speaker 3: It's good to see your face.
Speaker 6: Oh look at that's coat is made from your beard hair.
Speaker 4: See, that's why we do it in the car.
Speaker 1: Do you understand that?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: It is about community, It's about reach out. Driving in
Speaker 6: your neighborhood that you want to leave more, but people
Speaker 6: drive you around in it?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: When she do you have some reason?
Speaker 4: When do you get the chance to stop and chat
Speaker 4: with a passer by while you're driving?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 5: I'm flabbergascid. How many people lived in this zone?
Speaker 6: Did I never run into I've ran into him more
Speaker 6: than most, which would be three times in twelve years.
Speaker 4: Yes, I would occasionally see him at the Halloway, but
Speaker 4: it's been years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Did bumber shoot with him on a lineup of so
Speaker 4: many fun people, and we bonded and then, you know,
Speaker 4: like you said, five to seven years past, I see
Speaker 4: him again.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's good to see you.
Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on? That much?
Speaker 3: All right? See you in a decade.
Speaker 5: I see you in the next pandemic. Yeah, how was
Speaker 5: y'all's pandemic?
Speaker 4: How to go?
Speaker 1: I liked mine?
Speaker 5: Fuck you?
Speaker 3: I know I hate you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so sorry that I'm pout to use the
Speaker 4: word thriving.
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, but it was just easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah you, I'll say this, I said to myself because
Speaker 2: I was home by myself, and I was like, you're
Speaker 2: lucky enough to be in a house that makes you
Speaker 2: happy and with a pool, smart, and other than that,
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can do about this, So do whatever
Speaker 2: you want. Don't go crazy. So if you feel like
Speaker 2: you need to stay up till three in the morning,
Speaker 2: if you feel like you need to call people on
Speaker 2: the phone all day long, whatever it is, do whatever
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 5: You need to.
Speaker 2: Just get into learn what JFK Junr is doing for
Speaker 2: us as a nation right now. But then that was
Speaker 2: my only rule, and so then I was and I
Speaker 2: didn't have to work or do anything else.
Speaker 4: So it's pretty nice, right, And how how was a
Speaker 4: treatress for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: It was so.
Speaker 6: Co parent with my ex two houses and then my
Speaker 6: girlfriend is you know, compromise. So I was in the
Speaker 6: middle of of multiple multiple parties and a lot of
Speaker 6: a lot of sort of juggling of safety, and just
Speaker 6: my vigilance level went right crazy.
Speaker 5: I had to had to it out of necessity. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then I just I did not. I did kind
Speaker 5: of ease into like, Okay, yeah, this is the this
Speaker 5: is the groove. I get up and I.
Speaker 6: Exercise and I make some lunch and then I wait
Speaker 6: till the afternoon and then the sun starts to go
Speaker 6: down so we can watch more TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of TV.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I so you didn't feel because I feel
Speaker 4: my what gray hair I had went away because they
Speaker 4: weight on my shoulders of like.
Speaker 3: Nothing is expected of you right now.
Speaker 4: Even too, it was so comforting for me to see
Speaker 4: even TV shows being done over zoom in someone's house. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I the pressure was off, and my fear of going
Speaker 4: crazy in a room because I didn't have a pool.
Speaker 4: I just look at the TV, the wall under the TV.
Speaker 3: The TV was off. I'd sit and look at the wall.
Speaker 5: Which I paint it believe look like uh, I was oh,
Speaker 5: SD little friend, Oh look at this piece of worse.
Speaker 4: That's all right, all right. She reminds me so much
Speaker 4: of my mom that I want to start crying, so
Speaker 4: let's go hold on.
Speaker 3: There, married God, that looked like my mom.
Speaker 5: Everyone.
Speaker 2: It really seemed like she was going to put her
Speaker 2: foot down on the gas and then reverse really fast.
Speaker 3: Like that was the situation my mom want panicked in
Speaker 3: the same way. Oh God, let's go talk to her.
Speaker 4: Everything's fine, But yeah, I thought I was going to
Speaker 4: go crazy and not be able to be with myself,
Speaker 4: and it turns.
Speaker 3: Out I'm a blast.
Speaker 5: I just was like, I was not fond of the
Speaker 5: person in charge at the time, who was trying to make.
Speaker 3: A cameo again, right, and yeah, I just I a
Speaker 3: cameo and home alone too.
Speaker 5: That's what you're talking about, right, But I was like,
Speaker 5: please don't listen.
Speaker 4: I was just scared.
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry because this isn't important.
Speaker 4: But isn't that a folks it's a folkswagon thing?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: At the very beginning of this record, we were talking
Speaker 2: about these are incredibly rare cars, like more rare than DeLorean.
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard that, Brian, that they only made
Speaker 4: five thousand folks in my folkswagon things.
Speaker 5: They're called things kind of like they look like an
Speaker 5: open jeep.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're very military questionable side of World War two
Speaker 4: type vehicle.
Speaker 5: Anyway, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah they are. They're rarely so one.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. We were talking about it like it will
Speaker 1: never happen, and.
Speaker 3: I was lied to. There's probably millions. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I the whole time, I was thinking about parents, and
Speaker 4: I was thinking about teachers, and I was thinking about kids,
Speaker 4: and how yeah that's my elementally how bad it was
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 6: It was what age thirteen to fifteen like that time,
Speaker 6: would like find your tribe, break away from your parents,
Speaker 6: or get locked in the house with them.
Speaker 3: And that's where my nieces were. And I was thinking
Speaker 3: about that a lot.
Speaker 4: So I we don't mean to flaunt our childless I'm
Speaker 4: not bragging that I clearly am shooting blanks. I am.
Speaker 3: I'm proud of you as a father. I'm sorry for I'm.
Speaker 4: Thank you for doing all the hard work sure dealing
Speaker 4: with an IMMO compromise person.
Speaker 5: Are you asking for my daughter's hand in marriage?
Speaker 1: Well, how bigs are dowry? It's actually fine out.
Speaker 5: You saw that chest that I walked up with.
Speaker 1: You walk around with it all the time. Those people
Speaker 1: are very appealing.
Speaker 5: Now are you going to try to drive up let's
Speaker 5: just something right here. This is an enormously dangerous you
Speaker 5: have to be careful right here. The front of your
Speaker 5: car is very close to the spot that's fucked up
Speaker 5: so many cars.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, go ahead.
Speaker 5: And on either side it's where these like drainage things.
Speaker 5: And I've seen so many bumpers just get ramped.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: because that dips down, grab a wheel.
Speaker 1: People trying to be funny like me just gone like, let's.
Speaker 5: Drive there, just innostantly, like I'll turn around this driveway
Speaker 5: and then.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, that is the movie, but like just
Speaker 1: for this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's symmetrical. That's two clowns both arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two blooms coming out.
Speaker 4: Of the shower.
Speaker 3: Do you want to want to play with this boat?
Speaker 4: And then the other side like, hey, I got a
Speaker 4: chest set, don't play with that clown.
Speaker 5: And then Gallagher and Gallagher to pop up.
Speaker 1: We finally found our home today. We got our wigs.
Speaker 4: Is the improv training that I wanted to have the
Speaker 4: surface go back, come back cop it?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: Is that what happened?
Speaker 1: I think it is?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: But I mean unless you have more, do you want
Speaker 2: to drive around one more time, same exact route.
Speaker 5: Is it like the Gallagher second set?
Speaker 1: We're back to back it.
Speaker 4: We can conjure our conclusionary statements from an idol position, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think we could.
Speaker 1: I mean, is there anything you'd like to promote for
Speaker 1: most or talk.
Speaker 3: About that you won't get sued for mentioning?
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess if anything. I'm affiliated and still
Speaker 6: perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in the Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So every third.
Speaker 6: Thursday we do an improv show called Soundtrack. We improvised music.
Speaker 6: It's fun, it's got great people, and then I do ask.
Speaker 5: Out there randomly. That's all I got. Really, I love it.
Speaker 3: That's Ascat's my favorite. UCB. Is it a Harold Armando?
Speaker 3: I always confused the two.
Speaker 4: What's a mod? A mod is a sketch group, okay,
Speaker 4: which is a response to Harold.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's movie, you get it?
Speaker 3: Ah, Dell close? Were you though?
Speaker 4: These are all things you know that we were studying
Speaker 4: when around the time I met you.
Speaker 5: YEA Dell close would have been canceled so quickly in today's.
Speaker 3: Day, but I need to hear give us the dirt.
Speaker 6: But then improv would not have been born so so
Speaker 6: you know, sorry, all you people are traumatized at the price.
Speaker 4: Don't get me started on that reckless to help her.
Speaker 4: I don't know that was just a book author. She's
Speaker 4: probably a sweet person.
Speaker 3: But you I, in all seriousness, you you guys wear
Speaker 3: a big influence on us.
Speaker 4: We went back to Montana and our group were like,
Speaker 4: let's play instruments, let's have themes, let's start writing sketches.
Speaker 4: We go in to improv and we started mapping out
Speaker 4: our shows a little more.
Speaker 3: Influenced by the Naked Baby.
Speaker 4: I love that. Yeah, and I still have you won't
Speaker 4: believe me a severed doll head?
Speaker 5: Oh nice? Yeah, I wish I had mine.
Speaker 3: It's in my dowry chest. So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, I'm still in touch with Maggie Carey.
Speaker 3: That me too.
Speaker 4: We just she was in Missoula, the town where we
Speaker 4: moved to Austin from there together. Uh. And she was
Speaker 4: there for some homecoming soccer because she was a you know,
Speaker 4: Division one athlete.
Speaker 3: You ever want to surprise her with that knowledge?
Speaker 5: Actually I knew that she for whatever reason, let me
Speaker 5: know that she was in Missoula at some soccer thing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, She wrote you a nice letter.
Speaker 4: That's funny.
Speaker 5: She did text me, she was like, hey, I'm in
Speaker 5: Missoula and now this soccer thing right now. And I
Speaker 5: think maybe she did mention you, but I don't. I can't.
Speaker 6: Well again, here's the memory thing that is okay, honestly,
Speaker 6: that is the thing that was taken away from me
Speaker 6: during pandemic. Yes, the ability to not only focus on
Speaker 6: one day.
Speaker 3: Right, how many times did you have COVID? Maybe it's
Speaker 3: your brain. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, You're fine. Years of past.
Speaker 1: It would beat it.
Speaker 5: Guys. It's not here except for the surges. It doesn't exist,
Speaker 5: the surges and the rages and the deaths.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why she was nostalgic in that moment,
Speaker 4: because that's where we did improv.
Speaker 3: That's where a lot of it started.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, like the comedy world, and and and her becoming
Speaker 4: a filmmaker. Maggie carries she's Emmy Award winning filmmaker.
Speaker 5: Really, Maggie, there we go.
Speaker 4: That's it old, uh, And yeah, I'm glad that every
Speaker 4: time I see you, I'm nostalgic.
Speaker 3: You just bring that out and people I do.
Speaker 5: I am days of your I bring that out in people,
Speaker 5: especially now with your new Alright, I'll get out of
Speaker 5: your your car now, I get it.
Speaker 1: Ban that was so delightful.
Speaker 5: It was nice to barely chat with you. I'm so
Speaker 5: sorry we didn't get to I'm not.
Speaker 1: Talking to you right now. I didn't get to really
Speaker 1: deliver that.
Speaker 3: I steamrolled this one.
Speaker 4: No, no, no connection.
Speaker 5: But it's also the back of the head. It's hard
Speaker 5: to connect with people. I mean I saw some there's
Speaker 5: some profile.
Speaker 1: I tried to give what I could, but I also
Speaker 1: have jet lag. Oh, so I was really lating Chris.
Speaker 5: Oh, where'd you go? It'll I know.
Speaker 4: The getter started on the cobblestones again.
Speaker 5: My request all right, well I'm gonna awkwardly get out
Speaker 5: of the car now.
Speaker 3: You're the best.
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you?
Speaker 5: Does it work like this?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right by silent person.
Speaker 3: Ah, that was terrific.
Speaker 4: What a great episode you've been listening?
Speaker 3: Do you need a ride?
Speaker 1: D y n they are.
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Speaker 3: Mixed by Edson Troy.
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Speaker 3: Theme song by Karen Kilgareth.
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