Roderick on the Line

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00:00:19 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Merlin how's it going [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► whoa whoa well that complicated [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► uh-huh really is going complicated at [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► all [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► hmm i am online shopping [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► oh really what ya doing some online did [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► some online shopping [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► what do you give you see what I'm [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► getting the system uh you know what [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► we're good for right now my order a [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► dingus for our plant that will tell us [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► if it wants water or needs different [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► light will tell you that video your [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► phone does it have a nap [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► mmm I don't think so i got the cheap [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► model can you can you connect it to your [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► nest so that it again i don't have a [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► nest but if I did I probably could you [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► know this is a wonderful time I a night [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► out I gotta clock now I'm getting this [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► is a pilot project i'm gonna try because [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► as you know we we can have the kind of [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► clock i would like where I would like it [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► not going to get into that but i did [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► find a very cool-looking clock it's an [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► analog clock meeting it's got hands and [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► it's got the radio signals so it sets [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► itself [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► oh it's a it's a is it is atomic is an [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► atomic dog is an atomic it's an atomic [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► technically an outdoor clock so you can [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► put it in the bathtub is an atomic Punx [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► atomic Punx yep atomic how that's a van [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► Halen song Boing and it's got that [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► temperature and humidity also analog on [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► it's got a little hands likely our [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► president and we're like a Tyrannosaurus [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► Rex very much like the Tyrannosaurus Rex [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► and and in so doing and I want to hear [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► about your complication just give me [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► some time to think about it I I know you [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► love this phenomenon i discussed this [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► with some friends on another show [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► recently i love the thing when you go to [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► amazon and you [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► it has the section near the top of the [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► page it's got a section called [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► frequently bought together [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► oh yes where you know it it lets you [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► know you know if people bought this [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► thing also also button so they sure did [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► yeah in this case it suggests that [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► people like to buy three clocks so 33 [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► different clock 333 different clocks [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► yeah yeah this is this is a funny [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► phenomenon to me and that sometimes when [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► you want to get a clock that says your [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► people but this clock also about these [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► other two clocks [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► yes they did and i think--not maybe it's [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► time to tune the algorithm a little bit [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► when that happens [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► yeah I see that to a lot where where you [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► are where the frequently bought things [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► frequently brought together could not at [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► no one ever would have bought those [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► things together right i mean it seems [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► like something you would catch like [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► where you go like people who bought this [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► washer dryer set also bought these other [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► two washer/dryer secondly no I icic why [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► you think that but that's not that's a [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► thing honey honey I'm gonna buy three of [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► these and we'll just send back the ones [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► we don't like no so there-there [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► algorithm must be saying people were [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► shopping for these three things [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► yeah I I've noticed a lot of emails now [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► from companies that i have gone to look [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► at something and then yeah right there [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► very panicky about it looks like you [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► left something in your cart [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► yeah oh my goodness you know if you [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► don't get that uh oh you won't have it [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► you said you were interested in this [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► hard drive but someone is everything [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► okay is it me do we need to talk [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► yeah yeah a lot of needy very needy very [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► needy and and I am I feel you know how I [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► so I'm in a minute situation now where [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► every part of every part of my existence [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► both in california and here in Seattle [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► is starting to be governed by looking at [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► real estate what everybody's looking at [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► real estate [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► yeah alright real estate real estate [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► real estate ok and and I long lived in a [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► culture where I would periodically go on [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► zillow and kind of search around the the [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► area see what's up see what's going on [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► ya see some houses that are for sale [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► what the what the what the going rate is [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► have a good friend like my good friend [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► Chadwick that's not really his name but [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► sounds like a made-up name [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► chadwick ya fella named an AI Chadwick [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► said with [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► haha ok quick Chadwick place cinnamon by [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► the long winters down now [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► down down down down down now no no what [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► is inexplicable I make each a quick [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► Chadwick Chadli let's go on chatter [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► chatterley alright chatter ssin hmm no [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► he here in Seattle he likes to go look [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► at property and periodically hill by how [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► so just fucking go up straight up and [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► buy a house he owns a flight for houses [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► people get money for these things [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► well it's you know you've got BCI be [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► savvy he buys these houses that are [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► better that he can't because he looks at [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► him all the time he's like this house is [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► underpriced for the value but he also [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► has a strong aesthetic right so he [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► doesn't buy houses that he doesn't like [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► he's never bought a house where he was [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► he didn't have a personal smart let me [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► tell you by if your personal buy stocks [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► it by stocking products that you believe [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► in using enjoy exactly but don't buy [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► stock in things that you think are [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► terrible things about Warren Buffett [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► says that I think oh boy I bet he does [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► hmm i bet Warren Buffett says the shit [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► out of that Warren Buffett says you [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► should buy things when they're not [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► costly and then sell them when they're [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► more costly stop the presses [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► yeah he's got a whole book about it Shh [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► little dog she's nasty [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► this is what I've been doing wrong i [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► haven't been savvy mhm you know so [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► chatter 7chad workmen denson he said [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► workman's and he went with the thing he [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► likes to do is get in his truck and [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► drive around and look at stuff that's [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► like number one thing he likes to do and [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► the things he likes to look at our [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► properties and it's not just that he's [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► scoping them to buy them [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► he just like to look at other people's [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► properties to you know he just look at [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► all the time that's one of the things he [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► likes to look at I admire frankly it's [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► like a real estate stalker [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► well just like yeah just wants to see [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► other people's compounds you want to see [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► what's going on ok IC xagliv enthusiast [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► yeah there's no I he astonishes me [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► because there's no Road in all of King [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► County that I by I would doubt for a [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► second that chad has been up you know [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► we'll get you drive somewhere way out in [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► the country with me like you know what's [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► up that road egos are there's a little [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► and you're like you've been up that road [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► yeah yes but so II be periodically as [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► he's driving around you'll see a house [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► like I liked that house and he's not a [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► rich guy but he's just savvy enough that [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► he knows how to put together a [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► downpayment me knows how to figure out [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► this matt and he puts it and he's you [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► know he's handy enough that he can kind [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► of get the house in shape it's not like [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► he is not you put a new roof on it but [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► nearly goes in there and he fixes it up [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► and coat of paint on it but because he [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► likes it that work doesn't seem not so [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► owners it's not like he's he's going [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► around flipping like garbage houses who [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► and he's just now is this blaze this guy [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► my age has got this strange little [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► portfolio of four cute little shingled [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► bungalows around the city you go [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► ok but what have I been doing with my [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► life yeah I could see that you know i'm [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► sitting around i got like 14 guitars [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► what the hell do they do i mean i like [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► them but yeah they don't generate and [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► make you healthy gonna pull a thread on [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► that sweater too hard [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► mm you know heard a lot of what you do [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► right was yeah anyway I was at an open [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► house the other day and it was one of [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► those open houses i don't know how many [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► open houses you go to but there are some [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► open houses where the realtor res really [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► dressed the place up all there's a thing [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► called staging la stage-by-stage okay [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► you make chocolate chip cookie so it [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► smells like cookies mmm what house [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► wouldn't you if you made in the morning [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► you make cookies and then right before [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► you open the house up you make fried [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► chicken [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► oh that's such a good idea yeah and then [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► everybody's like aha whatever it costs [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► they might bring like a fried chicken [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► candle just just because it would be [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► funny you know we all suffer from this [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► thing where like we like this solve the [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► problem that we understand everybody is [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► like your real estate agent wasn't very [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► good but you like to cook it and you're [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► open houses just turn the place [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► upside-down it was like Thanksgiving [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► dessert so tell me more about the guest [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► bath hang on hang on man I don't end up [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► sometime if you're there with your apron [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► on yes wiping your beer sweated brow [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► erotic I've been to back in the day I [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► went to a lot of open houses because my [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► mother was a real estate agent oh of [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► course [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► wars and so I did this release the [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► pre-staging days now [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► my understanding is today if you're [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► doing this and I want to get back to [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► your story and your complication [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► my understanding is you can have [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► services that will come in they'll even [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► bring in furniture but it needs to look [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► like a place that somebody would want to [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► live you can get some throw pillows [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► right you can get some fried chicken and [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► you could have a you know you might have [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► a make it look like a child who's happy [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► lives there [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► yes this is all true a with the caveat [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► that apparently and I've been we've been [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► over this many times and I sit still [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► astonishes me because I meet a lot of [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► nice people you know you know what I [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► mean yes like I got into a I got into a [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► cab this morning because my truck blew [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► mm that's kind of the complication oh [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► well it's just one of many complications [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► Merlin every every day you know [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► am i right yeah you are right so i get [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► into the cab and that and I start [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► talking to the driver as you do and he's [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► from Senegal and I said what time to [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► start this morning at 4am I said for [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► a.m. that's early and he said yeah but i [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► have to get you know I live in everett [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► which is a completely different town [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► from here to a no and a fairly long [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► drive and an unpleasant one and he said [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► yeah I gotta get back to the house by [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► noon because my wife starts working at [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► her job at one and i have to care for [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► our five month old [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► oh my god and then she gets off work at [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► 11 and then I get the four hours of [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► sleep between 11 and 4 and then I start [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► the uber for the cab driving i'm not [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► complicated and I said you know not to [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► get all up in your business but that [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► seems unsustainable and he said it [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► really is i said 'what's you what you [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► what's your long-term plan here you [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► can't keep doing this can't live like [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► this and he said I think i'm gonna go [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► back to Center call you know how I was a [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► civil engineer in Senegal and and I just [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► you know I got knows my folks are here I [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► got a support network and frankly babies [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► are boring i don't want to surround the [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► baby all day and I was like you are [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► talking my language now babies are [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► boring [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► that's candid and we're driving along [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► and baba d'you know HIPAA grip and and [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► I'm like like this guy like there's no [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► the number of people i meet in a typical [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► day which is you know between five and [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► fifty for the most part I like them all [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► they're all you know so this guy that [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► normally in a situation like that I it [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► in a conversation like that where [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► somebody tells me to this happens to me [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► all the time i'm going back to Senegal [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► and I'm like really you're going back to [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► Senegal because I you know I i believe [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► in America [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► yes and I believe it i'm leaving us [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► you raised your daughter that's right i [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► believe in America as a place where [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► someone from Senegal can come and with a [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► little hard work and ingenuity and [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► American stick to it we can plant a flag [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► gear and then look what happens season [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► ended a sentence suspended sentence you [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► believe in America I do and so typically [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► in a situation like that i am always I [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► immediately go and this is you know this [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► is why I'm spy I a lot of cab drivers [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► will take me home for dinner with their [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► family because we get into a [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► conversation and they're like listen I [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► don't want to drop you off clean we come [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► back and talk to my wife and tell her [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► about this America that you keep telling [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► me about yes and so I would always I'd [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► always be like well hey you know like [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► let's strategize for a second here [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► before this cab ride is over and see [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► like what we can do to to do to make [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► your life more sustainable and and and [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► get you to double-down whatever I need [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► to do to put you in this country today [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► yeah how do i how do i get you into the [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► driver's seat of America [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► mm-hmm but talking to him and listening [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► to him i was like he and I see where [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► you're at [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► I see where you're coming from and he [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► said I'm at and I you know I made a [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► little reference to the yeah the whole [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► thing the current situation he was like [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► you know my wife was born here she [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► senegalese but she was born here I'm a [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► US citizen like I'm none of this [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► hullabaloo that's happening really [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► affects me at all [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► hmm it's just and also i'm from Senegal [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► i'm not from [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► you know some other random country that [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► country like Syria have another bad [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► country [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► yeah but he said I just you know I i'm [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► working all the time and he said that's [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► what I mean you know like II and and [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► we're having one of those conversations [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► there's a lot of like yeah yeah he's [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► like I'm a man and I'm like yeah he said [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► I'm you know I should be a work i should [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► be doing hard work and I was like oh [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► yeah he said I'm an engineer civil [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► engineer [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► yes god damn yes and and so he's even [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► though he's like I don't want to [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► surround the baby if i go back to [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► Senegal got my family I got everybody [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► there and I was like listen you know I I [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► just met you but seems to me going back [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► to senegal is not the worst plan you [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► ever had [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► mhm and and he's like yeah you know I [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► mean it's nice here I've been here 10 [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► years and I said what about France to [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► direct the Senegalese and France have a [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► like a reciprocal you guys are like [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► friend countries or Senate call was I [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► mean I guess when you talk about a [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► post-colonial relationship I guess you [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► don't say friend country public [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► complicated it's a little complicated [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► yeah it's not exactly like it's not like [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► friend cities or whatever like swapping [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► t-shirts in eighth grade it yeah right [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► it's like oh I mean I happen to know [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► that in Senegal like in Morocco like in [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► some countries with a former colonial [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► relationship with France that the [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► language of business there is friend [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► mean you know if you're going to do [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► you're going down to a government office [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► you're going to be speaking French I [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► said wouldn't you [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► what about pair what about Paris what [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► about what about the front would you go [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► to brunch and he did that what i have [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► come to find is the typical african [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► answer to that question which is no ID [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► no i do not want to go to France was [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► like mm tip of the hat to you it sounds [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► like senegal maybe in your future again [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► he seems very focused [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► it sounds like he knows what he wants in [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► life well this is the thing you know [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► this is the American dream this is why [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► I'm always when I meet somebody like [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► that I'm like double down on America [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► come on like you're the you are the [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► exact the the whole fact that you're [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► here and not in Senegal [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► is what makes you like that type of [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► American that they know that makes [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► America great once once and future [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► yeah but but yeah in this way to lose [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► weight to lose a fella you know we're at [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► some point we have the rapper and will [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► close the deal with the Senegalese man [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► and you hate the idea that for whatever [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► reason it's not working out you'd like [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► to think we can save this relationships [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► like that's exactly right Mike listen [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► you're living in everett you're driving [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► a cab from five over four o'clock in the [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► morning every day you got a [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► five-month-old baby I know that babies [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► are boring don't want to be there [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► what I had a baby I had a I had my mom [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► there and he was like ahhhhh see I was [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► like I know right [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► you get your mom there and you're like [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► hey this baby's born I'm gonna go wash [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► the car was this ride [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► well you know I mean we got a lot done [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► in a in a cab ride because I'm not [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► somebody that I don't sit in the back of [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► the cabin look at my phone [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► you know you know you get a chance to [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► talk to somebody [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► this is that this is the reason that [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► people don't believe that i'm an [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► introvert is that if i get in the back [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► of a cab is the reason [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► yeah if I can i get into the back of the [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► cab and I've got someone you know who's [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► basically trapped there with me and they [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► have a story they can tell me about [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► themselves [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► it's the perfect it's the perfect [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► climate right because this cab ride is [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► going to last 15 to 20 minutes and so [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► there's nothing we're never going to get [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► into a situation where I they're never [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► unless they're crazy person they're not [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► going to start talking to me about what [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► they're feeling about a flat taxes [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► well you know there's an intuit yeah you [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► know it's guys got a finite it's got a [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► beginning is kinda and that's a nice [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► feeling and I know how to interview a [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► guy right mean I know how to say where [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► you from and then not drop the ball [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► because I know where places are so he [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► said senator and I go oh you ever go to [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► Burkina Faso and he's like I went to [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► college there and then you know we're [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► off to the races and I learned something [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► I learned learn about a guy learn about [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► his problem i learn about is his [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► five-month-old his wife so there's the [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► his wife was home with the baby and he [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► was working two jobs before and he was [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► like that was fine i like working two [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► jobs but then after the baby's a few [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► months old my wife comes to me and says [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► I can't stand this [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► I'm drug going crazy i want to go back [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► to work this baby is driving me crazy [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► and this baby is not a bad baby they're [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► just normal maybe speaker boring babies [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► are crazy making if you have to just sit [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► there and stare at it all day [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► you can't even go wash the car got a lot [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► to say about this and so you know [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► there's a lot of pressure on women to [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► not even show a crack right you're [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► supposed to take care of all this stuff [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► i don't want to make this political by [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► actually care about women and let's get [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► is pretty crazy that like they're [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► expected to take care of all of that to [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► not be bored and to not be frustrated [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► that they can't just have a glass of [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► wine like a person anymore [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► yeah and that whole business of that [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► whole business gets put on them up like [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► well you're a woman this is what you're [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► made to do you you love love this love [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► this little baby so his wife obviously [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► is a like to get going kind of gal and [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► she's like I can't stand stay home all [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► day staring at this baby i'm going to go [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► back to work at my job and he's like oh [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► ok yeah I guess I'm the baby was on the [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► other foot now i guess i'm working from [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► for a.m. to noon and then I'm sitting [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► here staring at this baby to that's Mike [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► that's the game like me up so yeah by [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► the time I got out of the car i think we [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► had agreed that it was at least a good [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► tentative plan to go back to Senegal for [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► a year or two and my sense is that if he [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► goes back to Senegal for a year to he's [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► going to want to stay his wife for [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► unclear unclear whether she can keep I [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► think you'll go back there and he'll [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► feel like he's he's hit he can find a [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► valid existence for himself [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► I'm not sure how she's going to get a [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► sense of the country of origin of the [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► boring baby was the baby born in the US [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► yes now that's an interesting wrinkle [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► right there yes but so was his wife [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► mmm [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► hmm oh wait she's America's American [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► well but she senegalese but she was born [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► in America interesting how did they meet [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► well she was born in America but then [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► they went back to her family went back [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► to Senegal when she was a little kid so [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► she grew up in central huh [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► but a so and that's where they met but [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► she had the option of going back to [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► America for college which she wanted to [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► do and she said listen I want to go to [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► college for a couple years in America [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► and he was like i'll go with you [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► mhm and then fast forward 10 long years [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► later and he's still here in diesel and [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► he says you know as you do he says time [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► flies and I was like yeah time does fly [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► my there's anything that time does its [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► flying it flies and flies and flies and [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► flies so uh so yeah what can you say I [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► mean yeah it's a you know the thing [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► about senegal it's nice there [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► it's nicer it's got a beach it's got you [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► know dude I don't know anything about [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► senegal I think they might make coffee [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► but I don't know anything about senegal [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► do you know about the parents to dakar [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► overlaid car race i do not so there's a [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► new car because we're favorite Chris [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► doctrine is a he's billeted sure that's [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► where yeah that's where the card wars [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► but otherwise she's always that right i [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► used to get your car noir ok I had some [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► money from being a busboy and I went to [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► the mall in tampa and i bought a big-ass [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► thing of your car noir and a white Miami [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► Vice jacket [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► you did the same day changed everything [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► no no you're telling me because you and [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► I are about the same age you're close [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► enough they as we get older we're much [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► closer [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► yeah you've got you've got the edge on [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► me a little bit sure do but you decided [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► at some point during that time that you [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► were just going to you're going to cast [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► your dice with the Miami Vice [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► I cast my dyson and advice I did you [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► forget that show was slotted for a while [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► well and you were damn you at least one [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► to college down there but this I'm [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► guessing this and apply Miami but i [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► watch TV at NBC like I like a normal [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► person [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► and you know i was graduating to a more [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► sophisticated sent this is a pre ralph [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► lauren polo for me but post like you [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► know dad's Aramus well what about [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► grandpa's hai karate [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► what about ck one ck the general fall [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► for ck1 know so the k1 my sense of ck [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► was helping clients right right was that [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► ck one was one of the first unisex [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► fragrance and the second look this up [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► because I had a girlfriend has kept its [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► calvin klein for ladies the one that's [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► real like spicy I I think calvin klein [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► one because you know you get you imprint [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► do you can print on certain sense [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► yep don't you think i'm afraid that i [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► imprinted pretty heavily on obsession [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► that's the one that's what i meant [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► comment yes it's the orange one [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► yes my first college girlfriend uses use [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► the the Calvin Klein obsession and that [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► will always be that smell to me now a [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► girl that I wanted to go out with use it [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► was a lorry basler it wasn't no Laurie [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► bachelor by that point had already died [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► no it was a girl in college that I [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► didn't not the redhead a doctor when we [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► don't mention no no it's not her [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► no this was all the way into college by [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► now but it was a girl who went to my [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► high school who then went to the same [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► college as me and during high school we [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► had flirted a lot and hard but we had [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► never put it together and we've never [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► put ourselves together and part of it [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► was that I was a late bloomer and part [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► of it was that she was a very unusual [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► girl like an unusual girl who had the [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► Calvin Klein obsession [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► yeah do you remember the character in [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► The Breakfast Club who put 40 sugars in [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► her pop is ali sheedi i'm guessing you [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► remember there weren't that many [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► characters in talking about process of [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► elimination I could get it down either [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► ally sheedy or your your your paramour [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► in response to your tweet she [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► still not responding to your tweets but [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► she's lost my ring world has never [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► responded i've got i've got i've given [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► it a little bit of a rest are you doing [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► any better with jane wiedlin no no in [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► fact I thought she came up in [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► conversation of the day I thought about [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► Jane know I kind of got you know I I [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► figured ultimately I had a really good [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► I really good exchange and and now kind [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► of a kind of a little bit of an Internet [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► I can't really say friendship but uh you [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► know an Internet collision I like just [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► internet home slices with Martha Quinn [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► mm little bit of back and forth with [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► Martha could really use that 92 boy I [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► sure could but but in 2015 [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► I i have enough enough back and forth [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► with Martha Quinn that I felt like you [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► know i'm doing ok yeah but Jane Wiedlin [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► no never I mean maybe she replied to me [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► one time Molly Ringwald has never [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► acknowledged my existence and I was [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► following Molly Ringwald really early we [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► saw it before it was cool yeah when she [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► had like fifteen hundred followers i was [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► like first of all day i have more [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► followers the molly ringwald and B yeah [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► you know what I'm gonna help her here [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► i'm gonna help i'm gonna help her this [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► is the kind of an idea as an American [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► you you know I think she's mostly French [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► these days if my serves so younger out [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► there and you're saying you know [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► Bienvenu although she's back now she's [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► back in America that whole French thing [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► was was an interlude aunjanue yeah she's [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► a that's right she's now in it I think [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► she's pretty much back which is in New [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► York yeah New York that's my sense is my [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► weekend I got retweeted a KD Lang and [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► neko case that's not really that is nice [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► I don't want a little the political this [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► weekend I didn't so great about her rack [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► up some big numbers but I don't feel [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► great about it doesn't usually happen [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► with you [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► I neko case the word on the street and [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► pretty reliable word on the street is [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► that needle case doesn't like me very [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► much [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► oh she seems like she has strong [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► opinions and you know engender if I [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► could use the word you and gender strong [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► opinions and people ya know you've [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► always been like this it's a lot like a [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► scent it's a lot like a Calvin Klein [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► obsession one that you can see people [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► have very strong reactions and these [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► things and hopefully I hopefully they [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► imprint on me quite quite often but not [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► getting stuck [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► yeah in this case she and printed on me [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► in a way that she was like I don't like [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► that guy just too bad how did they say [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► that in Africa [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► Oh Jenna sais quoi ya nah know but spit [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► don't get on the ground in Africa that's [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► not nobody's gonna like the house [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► arbitrary please don't shake somebody's [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► hand on your left hand to this day I [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► don't like when somebody hands me the [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► left-hand i think it's i think it's [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► problematic as people say no and [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► somebody let well online and especially [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► for going to do that little like like [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► like you're like a French King thing we [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► just kind of pull your fingers out like [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► you want your ring kissed but you never [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► know you never know who's bob dold oh no [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► that I'm open to that if I see something [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► you know I say something yeah i would [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► like to teach an online course in how to [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► shake hands I would like to really help [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► these millenniums understand how [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► important it is to know how to shake [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► someone's hand well but we can get back [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► to that so you're dating Ali she d's [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► avatar she's putting she's got Calvin [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► Klein's obsession and she's putting lots [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► of sugar and a pepsi well I wasn't [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► dating or I was change so sorry let me [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► check that ok and see was to chasing me [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► at your house hunting her but she used [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► so much obsession i think it's that [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► likely like Ralph Lorenz polo for men I [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► think you very quickly become for more [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► or patchouli you become a nerd too how [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► much you actually have on a given it's [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► ignorance is it is absolutely endurance [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► yeah and that's what happened with her [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► so much so that it was like on me but [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► also like in my it was just in my every [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► it was in every pore and I couldn't [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► shake it off it without me and jovan [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► musk with one girl in eighth grade and I [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► was stupefied by the way this woman [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► smelt it was it laid me low [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► she had worn a shirt of mine i think at [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► one point and still smelled like that [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► and like I want to put in like a Donald [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► Trump case like I was like I want this [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► smell to always be here [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► I wanted to put it into a Donald Trump [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► case is not a reference that I got oh [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► you know like when it comes out to speak [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► he's got his props like you have a red [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► hat in a Plexiglas case and things like [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► I guess I i guess i didn't follow him [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► that close it's been really hard few [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► months John yeah i get it i know and i [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► think we should you know what we should [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► give ourselves a phony award for being [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► so good about not talking about politics [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► on our program [TS]

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00:31:27 ◼   ► Roderick on the line and all the great [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► shows so I was at this house opening [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► this a little bit house in the open [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► house inning and two interesting things [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► happened what they were there was a [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► partnership of two real estate agents [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► and I was trying to decide if they were [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► a romantic partnerships who would have [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► to always wonder ya doing real estate [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► together whether this was just [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► completely a partnership but i think a [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► lot of those relationships start with a [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► professional partnership and pretty soon [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► it's a fucking key party that's my guess [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► they were working pretty closely [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► together one of them was a man my age or [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► liberals we are my age or a little older [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► who from India em who was very you know [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► very like suave and he kept saying [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► things like you know one of the one of [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► the ways that we conduct our business [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► like one of our fundamental tenants of [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► our business relationship is that we are [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► very low pressure no pressure at all [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► so if you'll just sign into this ipad [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► app that we have and and you know and [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► here's my business card and take also [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► here's like my wallet I want you to hold [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► it for me for a while yes I'll come find [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► you later when i need it and I was like [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► hey I'm just walking through here I'm [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► not gonna I'm not looking to buy a house [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► that's not gonna touch and ipad I'm just [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► yeah I'm not good not only am I not [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► touching an ipad like i'm not even [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► putting my fingerprints on the doorknob [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► so just to keep myself you know what my [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► daughter and my office I'm not here I'm [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► never here I'm not here right now [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► that's what I'd say to the Indian man i [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► would say with all due respect i would [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► say i'm not here [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► listen you're not seeing me I'm not here [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► I'm not holding your wallet I don't even [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► know what's going on I don't know I [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► don't know what's happening but I'm [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► definitely gonna touch and ipad and I'm [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► so not here [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► yeah so that's what was happening with [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► him the other guy had a sort of the [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► other guy the other guy was sort of a [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► pale stocky shaved head [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► mmm sort of like a job he looked well he [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► wasn't like that [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► stocky but he was like a fraternity guy [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► also not quite my age but you know a [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► little bit younger somebody in his late [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► thirties early forties booth and so I so [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► and not miss the second guy not really [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► in possession of any suavity whatsoever [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► and I was so i was trying to put them [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► together and I know that like opposites [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► attract but this was this was very they [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► were very far apart on the on the swab [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► scale so I'm talking saw the one the one [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► guy is is given me the hard sell about [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► how he never give somebody the hard sell [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► the other guys super nice the the friday [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► one super nice super chill and as we're [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► leaving their actually walking down this [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► the front steps of the house with me [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► that I'm trying to shake him off a [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► little bit like okay well this was great [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► really great to meet you i love the way [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► you guys like set up a house and I'm got [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► here now I'm not like already down the [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► block and they're just kind of coming [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► with me [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► I don't know how far we're going no no I [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► don't know where they're getting in the [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► car with me or not and the and the frat [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► guy says yeah well ever since I was shot [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► in Afghanistan it's always a little bit [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► harder for me to get down this [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► and I was like so I stopped at that [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► point and took about three steps back [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► toward him like I wasn't leaving now and [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► I was like really know you that didn't [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► read as a bit [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► oh well I didn't care if you if you I [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► mean it doesn't always pulling out the [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► Afghanistan car he sure is and but if [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► somebody's gonna pull out the shot in [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► Afghanistan card [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► I'm yeah they're right so i went off in [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► that stack sure did I got back up to [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► where the touch the toe of my shoe was [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► within a shoe length of the toe of his [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► shoe [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► uh-huh and I said tell me we're not [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► getting shot in Afghanistan and he was [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► like well it [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► yeah it really so we it was a long rehab [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► and I said it affected your balance like [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► did you get shot in the spine and he [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► turns around he said no the bullet went [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► in here and he points to behind his ear [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► yeah oh god and it came out here any [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► points to the other side of his head up [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► his temple [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► what and I was like I'm what so he's a [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► medical anomaly [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► yeah how did that how could that not [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► just had to put her and I said it so it [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► went through your abdominal oh yeah blah [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► blah blahblah yeah and he said you know [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► just just missed it and I said uh-uh [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► what kind of rehab was did you lose [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► cognitive ability and he said a little [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► bit of memory issues but I had to learn [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► to walk again and i'm still a little bit [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► you know unstable and he's very you know [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► he if if you got a bullet all the way [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► through you like that huh yeah i would [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► talk about it to you know I would find a [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► way to prepare to bring that into [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► conversation because that's pretty and [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► so and you can see the wounds in his [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► head which have healed on God and he's [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► like you know and I grew up in this [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► neighborhood and I lived three blocks [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► away and now i'm selling real estate [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► here and it and the you know the indian [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► guy is like yep and I'm uh you know I've [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► been a real estate agent for 30 years so [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► are our expertise really combines and I [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► said listen I didn't want to buy a house [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► before but now I do [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► hmm i want to buy a house from you [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► because you seem like a good guy to keep [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► around [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► yeah like holy cannolis you know and so [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► then you know then it's like I might as [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► well have been in a cab with him because [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► all I wanted to do was stand there and [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► talk to him about this experience [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► meaning how do you mean that feels when [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► he pulls out that story I think he [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► thinks it's great because hmm i was so [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► close to sign into that ipad if he had [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► said listen if you want to keep talking [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► to him you gotta sign in the ipad i [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► would kind of tough choice to make [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► yeah they didn't you know he didn't like [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► but but he this was the reason that I [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► thought maybe they're in a relationship [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► because he was you know he seemed kinda [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► proud of his partner proud of the story [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► like he hadn't heard it enough times it [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► was it wasn't that that's lovely [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► yeah every time was new again because [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► you don't there's no way you could [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► contemplate that enough times like I [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► believe by his by his main by his [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► general main that that this man was an [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► officer in the in what I had to assume [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► that was the military and I was so [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► focused on his injury that I did not do [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► the normal thing which is what branch of [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► service where you what rank were you [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► what was your job what was your you know [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► I didn't get into that because it seemed [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► to me he's not stealing valor [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► well I knew that I unless this was a [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► wound that he received working on the [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► railroad and I feel like that's a hard [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► one to two just like drum up like you [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► sitting in the bar like I was a Navy [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► SEAL really yeah actually you with I got [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► shot in the back of the head [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► yeah show me your challenge coin figure [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► but it seemed at that moment it seemed [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► even small to ask what branch of the [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► service he was in you know like someone [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► somebody starts telling a story like [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► that you either gotta leave the [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► situation if you're going to stay you [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► gotta just get out of the way [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► sure right because you're not going to [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► say it like backtrack and say okay [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► alright let's set the scene like where [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► did you [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► go to college which is normally how if [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► somebody jumps into a thing I'm iri hold [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► on hold on hold on let me get situated [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► yeah there's a couple of things I need [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► to know where did you grow up and how [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► did you get where [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► how did you get to the beginning of the [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► story but I didn't care you know this [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► was just a thing where the recovery from [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► this injury given i knew that i will I [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► wasn't gonna spend all day here the [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► recovery from the injury was what was [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► interesting about this story and how he [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► got how you got shot in the back of the [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► head seems like it but we'll get to that [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► in the course of our friendship as yet [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► in your capacity as my new real estate [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► agents because i'm buying a house in [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► this neighborhood i don't know how i [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► don't i don't know how to find the money [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► I don't even want to live here [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► yeah but I just wanted I want to have [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► you over for breakfast so I never I [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► didn't find out enough about that story [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► that i can see that i can retell it as a [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► as a like a like a good thing where [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► where I have where I have the whole [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► story altogether but I'm gonna I think [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► I'm gonna I'm gonna go track him down [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► because there's just there's no you're [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► gonna go you're gonna give another throw [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► like you could take a meeting that feels [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► that feels user eous to go because all [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► he wants to do is sell a house right i [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► mean he and and to go like pretend that [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► i want to look at houses just to hear [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► this but through the head story [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► mmm i actually don't intend to buy a [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► house there [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► ok but in the course of life who I will [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► recognize i will recognize those too if [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► I see them I would recognize them each [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► individually and if I get into if I get [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► into a situation because it because it [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► also might be interesting to sequester [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► his partner and say so give me a little [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► background here at what point did you [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► guys meet was he already back up on his [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► feet [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► did you know it before yeah that's just [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► so much to this story but that's that's [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► certainly put a complication more [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► complications into the I mean it all [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► feels very complicated right now [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► yeah feels very very exciting your truck [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► blew up a truck blew up [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► it's a the trucks plural keep blowing up [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► plural and the following sentence [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► escaped my lips yesterday as my as my [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► dear mother about rolled her eyes at me [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► for the 10,000 time I said you know what [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► I'm just going to sell everything will [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► sell everything i'ma buy a subaru oh and [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► she lit up she was like great idea I [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► think that's a great idea subaru you [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► know new Subaru it will never talking to [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► break down it's not gonna I'm never [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► going to get a call where you suddenly [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► need me to something you're just going [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► to be not gonna have to sleep in it [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► overnight with a child without heat [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► that's right this is just behind the [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► benefits can be Joe mr. man John mr.man [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► normal truck [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► normal truck right you're just drive [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► around you put a namaste sticker on [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► there was this big with the lesbians are [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► you wear this I did i do know that you [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► heard a whole herd of podcast about this [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► is very interesting they realize that [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► the lesbians were loving Subarus and [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► instead of going [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► yeah they were like let's embrace this [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► lets the answer but what do I need you [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► to put this lesbian in a Subaru you know [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► where we are we are now the lesbian car [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► but it's also my sense of them when [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► Subarus first came on the market in [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► Anchorage they were an enormously [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► popular car because they were a [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► four-wheel-drive it's almost like the [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► opposite of an SUV or like people go out [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► and buy SUV so they can rep that there's [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► somebody with an SUV is the super seem [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► like something people because they [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► genuinely use the features of its like [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► go places in camp and stuff like that [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► subaru like a that remember that iconic [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► blue color of a Subaru kind of a light [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► blue subaru [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► the light brute blue subaru like came [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► with cross country skis already on it [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► are already over [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► you know like it was the car in Alaska [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► that that you drove if you were if you [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► coached a team cross-country ski club [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► whereas the volvo was much more the NPR [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► car [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► yeah and then it was the first kind of [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► with heated seats interesting i love [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► heated seats fold all the Volvo's were [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► always sold to us as like you could [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► survive any accident because people in [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► Alaska dial the time getting t-boned on [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► icy roads and then I had a good friend [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► whose mom got just creamed by a massive [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► transfusion her [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► volvo dl and just got completely just [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► straight on tee shot who on a on a major [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► thoroughfare where a guy in a in a ford [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► bronco didn't even see the light and [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► just hit are going 55 miles an hour [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► oh my god and she she had to use the [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► other door to get out of the car was [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► basically the injury that she received [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► like it it was a car where it was a [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► crook collision where the Bronco was [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► wrecked and the vulva was just a twisted [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► hunk of metal and she just got over into [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► the passenger seat got out and was like [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► huh well that wasn't very fun like no [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► damage to her at all because the volvo [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► was some kind of miracle car Yeah right [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► right they named it was wasn't like one [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► of the original cars that we thought the [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► idea of how you put the boxes together [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► and all the right parts of crumpled and [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► memory serves I was explained to me as [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► if you're using a Volvo head on this is [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► not physics but like a lot of the impact [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► is distributed in a way that it doesn't [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► get it to the extent possible doesn't [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► get to where the cabin that you're in [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► but also liked it transfers it's like [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► just basically make the engine dropout [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► like it takes all that is it something [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► like that i think what happens is it [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► gets trance that gets transferred into [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► solar energy that you know what that's [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► that'sthat's good it's clean its [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► renewable take away and then it gets [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► transferred through some kind of volvo [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► proprietor [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► process into a hydroponic farm and put [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► some drm probably yeah oh yeah [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► absolutely right so but the subaru is [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► now the National Car of Seattle which is [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► increasingly becoming its own nation and [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► so everywhere you go there's a Subaru [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► that either and they all have bumper [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► stickers and most common ones are [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► coexist with each letter represented by [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► the symbol of a different religion so [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► high so many problems with that from [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► graphic design standpoint coexist very [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► troubling to me totally unreadable [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► unless you've looked at a thousand of [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► them which everyone of us has coexist [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► and also coexist i think has some [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► association with Bono [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► oh isn't that Miss even worse yeah so [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► that every time I see that bumper [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► sticker also somehow now bono is in my [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► head a little bit it's just sort of [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► rebel song he's just peeking around the [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► corner down the hall like this i'm also [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► here the glasses yellow don't mean to [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► book your mr. I and then the other one [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► that goes on every subaru everyone that [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► doesn't have to co-exist has a wag more [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► bark less no realize world plants were [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► visualized or cheese and then there's [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► one and he just here in the northwest [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► visualized tacoma which is which dates [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► back to that era where it was like wha [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► wackadoodle and that's gone right from [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► the culture mostly that kind of [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► wackadoodle is gone [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► yeah wouldn't you say there's nobody [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► putting out like visualize to come up or [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► stickers weird [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► yeah we squeeze two we used to have more [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► joy does anybody remember laughter it [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► I don't know did you know I don't know [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► if we've talked about this but yet [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► somebody asked somebody asked Robert [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► Plant in an interview Germany regrets in [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► all the years you know you've done a lot [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► of crazy things i'm sure you've been in [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► a jet airplane with a bunch of people [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► that all died and you were the only one [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► to walk off i mean like like any regrets [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► and he was like he said the one thing I [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► regret is that does anybody remember [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► laughs are you kidding no and i was like [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► he [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► i would that would be what I regretted [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► to you i know i know just one like at [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► one thing you just kind of say out of [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► nowhere and like that's your that's your [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► thing now that's your thing right and I [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► and you have to imagine that when they [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► were mixing that and when they were [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► putting that out [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► they said to him you know hey you want [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► to come by and check out the mix and [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► just make sure that it all sounds good [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► and he probably did that thing that I [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► often do which is like I'm sure it [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► sounds fine yeah and we find and then it [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► came out and and I subsequent to that [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► for 35 years people have been walking [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► out really good left my god [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► and yeah that's the one thing Robert [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► Plant regrets it's the one thing he [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► could think up [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► yeah you know I got feelings about [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► robert plant is very sad what happened [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► with his son and you think about that i [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► know i really i genuinely feel sorry for [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► Robert Plant and didn't see that coming [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► this morning [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► mhm so you're looking at Subarus you're [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► looking at land [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► no I I definitely do not I on one hand I [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► feel like a Subaru is an unimpeachable [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► decision like if I went and bought a [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► Subaru it would be the kind of indignity [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► that I could like what would happen is i [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► would fall in everyone's esteem a little [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► really I if you can picture this picture [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► this scenario i come on our podcast and [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► you say i was going today and i go i was [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► pretty good i just bought a Subaru now [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► think about that tweet something again [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► there's gonna be a lot of Subaru owners [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► that tweet me positively like welcome [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► have you checked out the subaru have you [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► read your owner's manual yet I see but [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► they're going to be a little respect [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► today expect to be in the subaru [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► community you thinking about or at least [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► I'd be welcome there but there i think [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► are a lot of listeners to our program [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► that imagine that my next car will be [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► some kind of anti tank vehicle it stands [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► to reason you know my next car will be a [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► three-man submarine you get a deep [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► decommission how much are slimmer [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► submarine ya there [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► and put a massage chair in a nice and so [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► to to reveal myself to be a like a real [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► human being who's like a super was the [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► best value or like our it seems you know [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► I've got a kid and it seems like exactly [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► find out the wizard of oz eating Arby's [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► yeah precisely why would I can't because [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► it's not just people listen to our [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► program like I've gotta wraps around [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► this town [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► yeah i'll start your brand John it [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► absolutely is not show up and Superbad [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► something that people will be like did [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► you did you like steel that recently and [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► I'm like now I bought it and it was just [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► no one would know what's stopping my [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► friend no one would think that I was any [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► less [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► oh but i would fall just that three [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► percent in their steam [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► yeah thats 3% could be a lot of percent [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► it can and so so as soon as my mom [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► walked away I was like heck no i'm [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► buying an experimental helicopter and [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► she turned around and was like what did [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► you say I was like nothing subaru [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► probably but maybe i'll get one of those [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► super is with a big like with what [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► appears to be like a blower on the front [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► I know it's not a blower but it's some [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► kind of turbo-charged juror it's like a [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► piper charger they have a lot there are [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► super is with a lot of works on them [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► because they're used in rally drifting [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► drift rallies but I feel like that's [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► just that sort of that's that bolt on [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► accessorizing that again i could i I [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► just I can't I can't quite stand up with [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► pride with a Subaru patch on my jacket [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► and say like yeah I bolted onto make [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► sure [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► well I don't think you're as houses [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► check your text i sent you something on [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► I I don't think you are a watcher of the [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► TV show Project Runway but I'm gonna [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► tell you something I learned from [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► project runway which is there's a weekly [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► challenge [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► ok and you to really listen to what the [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► spirit of the challenges because here's [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► what they don't want you to do no matter [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► what the challenge is what they don't [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► want you to do is take some Muslim make [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► a basic tank dress and then put a bunch [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► of shit on it [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► don't fucking make a basic tank dress [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► out of Muslim [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► and what is a Muslim I met Muslim and [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► then dress it up with a bunch of God [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► don't ya don't don't sparkle tron it [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► don't don't what size whether it be [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► Julie like you know you have to go your [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► design is the design like make a thing [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► don't make a thing and then just put a [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► bunch of fucking candy on it like that's [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► not it that's not a design and I I feel [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► like there's something similar going on [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► John is not going to be a guy that goes [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► and buys a stock subaru and then put [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► bedazzle zit no war is not the answer [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► piece also takes courage company [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► elizabeth warren wing of the Democratic [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► Party so what I'm saying it's time to [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► use our outside voices it really is [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► little behavior women seldom make [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► history [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► they sure do they sure don't see you [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► know everybody's John wild women don't [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► get the Blues Merlin that's right i'm [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► known a lot of wild women and I've known [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► a lot of women with the blues and the [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► those band diagrams do not overlap me [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► you show me and in my blues and she will [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► not be wild and conversely when I mean a [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► wild women I know she does not have the [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► Blues snapping three times like and in [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► my dating life it was always one from [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► column a than one from column B so the [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► photo i sent you of this car that is [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► frequently near our house parking this [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► handicap space now this is a photo that [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► you took this isn't a thing from the [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► internet knows about my house and now [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► the first of all see ivory mixed [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► feelings about this because first of all [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► this person is there a lot [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► is that a playstation oh the person is [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► this car is there a lot and it always [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► makes me laugh every time I walk by [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► discovered in that way that only hippies [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► with no taste can do has slapped bumper [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► stickers on to the painted part of this [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► car and on top of one another [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► oh and its really it's I i realized it's [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► supposed to be maybe a little bit what [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► situation is punk rock to do it this way [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► but they did mostly bother to try and [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► get them horizontally aligned right it [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► isn't it doesn't totally crazy is my [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► cover your laptop with band stickers in [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► like a haphazard way like this [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► it started out with a little bit of like [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► and also notice for example ok so i [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► won't get one thing out of the way they [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► are parked in a handicapped space we do [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► have do you have [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► hang tag but i also want to stipulate [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► for the record that San Francisco has a [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► read on carelessly high rate of abuse a [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► king because guess what you get to do [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► when you get a hang tag you don't have [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► to pay parking meters [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► yeah she's gonna walk down terrible [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► street buddy we're doing [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► thank you all it's just solid solid [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► anything it's just it anyway out about [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► finding articles and you but there's two [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► things you thinking ahead and hang tag [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► because they also had a like a fake [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► comfort horse thing i don't know i don't [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► know you know I'm coming around on that [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► but I also want to point out some of [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► these they have bubbles like where they [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► didn't really put much care into putting [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► it on here [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► corporations are not people corporations [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► are not for money out Bernie in boerne [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► but also look at that back fender buddy [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► save our be like don't just look at the [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► design of the stickers [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► notice how many dents and dings and [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► scuffs this person is hitting a lot of [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► cars [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► oh they are you saying it's a it's a [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► hybrid car [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► yeah but it's so it doesn't [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► fundamentally sound way but you know the [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► specific it's not like a civic hybrid [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeahs lotus-like on that top [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► level like across the word advocate you [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► see how torn up that sticker is that's [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► because they just keep hitting things [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► yeah we are citizens united my love the [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► little yellow one which seems very new [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► which is a system in broken it's fixed [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► it's fixed true what is that strong will [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► get money skimming money out of politics [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► where / strong sharps money out wrong [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► Stanley out of some not money climate [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► voter my voice my values my vote but the [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► the system isn't broken thing which is [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► new is slapped over the top of the save [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► the Arctic auntie shell and the the [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► shits himself on top of save our bees [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► yes but the shell symbol is half shell [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► oil simple with the devil horn half [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► polar bear face have cartoon polar [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► that's this so much confused messaging [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► on here and then when you your when you [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► zoom in that far to look at that then [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► you see how damaged that bumper is low [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► its super damage to bumper is trashed [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► this person this president is here is [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► like they had one [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► oopsie while they were like parallel [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► parking no this is a serial car header [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► and they seem like an awful person was [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► the tag was expired wasn't really well [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► they don't let me that because they have [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► a handicap know they're handy can handle [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► yeah I feel like those are the people [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► that yell at me on the internet a lot [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► and there are people that are ostensibly [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► I share this like the tabs people who [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► have like really a very bad bumper [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► sticker aesthetic ow ok so I'm really [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► glad you went in that direction thank [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► yes I totally agree i told this is [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► aesthetically uh and you know if this [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► was on the back of like a minibus I [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► don't want I don't want to sound I don't [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► want to be [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► that's racist against box where anything [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► is but but you know on this particular [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► like late model and Little John I mean [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► how old is this car naming 34 years old [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► mm-hmm look at this it's a new car new [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► ish car and they just been banging the [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► shit out of other cars missing on that [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► left side and think it's actually just [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► as I'm not gonna put the socks and shame [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► this person but the but there are the [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► defender is published under the [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► bumper-to-bumper is stuffed everywhere [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► it is broken in parts and they shredded [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► their own stickers from hitting things [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► so often discarded it's car maybe the [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► left thank you ever city [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► it reminds me exactly of my old guitar [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► case which I you know I constantly [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► slapped other band stickers and stuff [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► you know you're out there in the world [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► and you play with the band and here's [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► our sticker and slap it on your guitar [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► case and it's the lives you do it right [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► in front of them so you're like yeah [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► love playing the show with you and then [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► you you put your fiber sticker on your [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► on your guitar [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► yep but the way that the sticker or the [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► way the guitars fit into the van [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► required that Eric course and our chief [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► he was he was gifted that wasn't yeah he [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► was chief jigsaw operator he always my [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► guitar was always the last thing to go [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► in the in the truck and and as a [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► consequence it got crammed in to a space [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► that was just slightly too small for it [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► and so the stickers on my guitar case [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► were both compressed into the case and [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► also like ground kind of shredded and as [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► time went on i just put more stickers on [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► top of the shredded stickers and it's [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► just it's it's just chaos looking and it [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► looks kinda like the back bumper of that [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► garbage car this year rickenbacker yeah [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► the rickenbacker and boy loved that [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► guitar [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► yeah yeah but i still get such a feeling [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► when I see a Rickenbacker it gives you [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► that rickenbacker feeling I have when I [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► told you this i want to sell it for rent [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► yeah that's a 12-string oh so what you [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► don't want to have to sell things for [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► red but college man that's what you do [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► it's a tablet everything it's [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► complicated to be or not it's not you're [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► not always able to go back to Center [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► call sometimes you have to play feet say [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► so on my guitar don't go back to [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► Rockville so wasted another year [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► no no pero now [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► well that was a great you know if you [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► need a campfire song buddy looking for [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► spaghetti party in Romania campfire [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► spaghetti party that's going to pull out [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► and go back to Rockville I [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► and go back to Rockville I [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► so Peter bucket here but famously said [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► you know every time I play and I I don't [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► remember what he said this in an [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► interview or whether he's I think he [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► actually said this to me [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► yeah he's always saying things to me I [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► well you know we were somewhere and I [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► said peter is very literal a person LOL [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► yeah he's interested in in my experience [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► oh I I know a few people in rem yes [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► let's say everybody except for a single [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► no I have but know him well enough that [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► that I mean he doesn't walk up and say [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► John but you know he has he has said [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► John to me and say he has no your name [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► at some point yes that's nice [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► the only one of everyone in the band [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► that was an original member and even [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► some of the later members that is at all [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► what you would call figure to his mills [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► connecting those little cat no kin is [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► extremely figured but he's a late [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► addition I guess I take your point and [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► he's not in the band anymore so I [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► saucony kind of in rem at some point [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► he's he's been are inferred years and he [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► is still in the band and Scott is scott [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► is also figurative but like Michael and [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► and Peter both seem very pretty literal [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► even given this very surprising to me [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► even given stripes like I think one of [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► the one of the things about his original [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► lyrics was that they were so figurative [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► as to be meaningless and as he got as [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► his lyrics got more and more mixed [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► forward and he felt more empowered to [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► make them make sense [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► we saw that they that the litter ality [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► of them was a little bit of a problem [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► right like I needed to to my leg off the [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► type of type of lyrics [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► mm-hmm notice not as much but anyway [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► peter said but now i'm picking he [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► absolutely said he literally had his [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► finances Orange Crush well i mean that's [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► that's the question [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► he's got my eyes that I've got my spine [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► I've got my orange crush [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► I don't think he says I got my spine in [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► my orange crush [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► ok and i think he does have his spawn [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► and he does have his orange crush [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► ok this is the thing right you can like [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► Oh does that mean something [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► maybe or maybe he's just saying some [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► things that he has you cigarette out [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► yeah but Peter said every 44 years and [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► years and and still to this day there is [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► always a group of dudes standing right [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► in front of me watching me play guitar [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► trying to figure out the secret and he [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► said here's the secret d g e-- see em [TS]