Roderick on the Line

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00:00:05 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Marilyn how's it going [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► super good yeah me too [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► oh good yeah pretty good good news you [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► know it's nice to just have a normal day [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah yeah I slept pretty well [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► Sunday night is usually my best night of [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► sleep yeah I mean when I say I'm doing [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► pretty good it's not today's not a [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► normal day and I just I guess I slept [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► sort of well no no well I mean that's as [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► good as it gets for me these days really [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► yeah but I have to leave after our [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► program to go be on the radio [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► ah the radio did the terrestrial radio [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► not our modern radio oh we should talk [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► more about things that you do you um you [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► uh surprise that's the wrong word I'm [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► frequently surprised I'm buoyed to see [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► that you go in perform places I saw I [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► saw a picture of you with long hair [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► performing you played the Pledger song [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► on the the brothers podcast you're still [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► out there you're still getting stuff [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► done oh you know you got to get stuff [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► done Merlin if you don't get it done and [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► how's it gonna get done it's gonna do [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► this stuff yeah that's right what can I [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► ask what kind of you know is it a KEXP [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► is it a Luke Burbank it's a what kind of [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► situation you got no none of the above [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► is say it's a KUOW which is our local [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► public radio station and they have a [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► they have a culture panel where they get [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► they sit around and discuss cultural [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► moments they say relatively like a [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► temper aeneas or like yeah yeah yeah [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► okay all right yeah I mean it's a it's [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► just filler it's filler which is well a [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► 98 percent of all content is oh my [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► goodness really oh I think so about [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► content yeah do you think most content [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► is filler I really do think it's in [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► substantial I think so [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► sure I mean you know like is the Azalea [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► let's say let's just say that for [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► instance why do you want to know [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► anything about is he as they Iggy Iggy [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► Azalea [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► she's so fancy she's fancy but do you do [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► you want to know anything about her I [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► had to learn a little bit about her I [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► don't take you off your topic about her [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► because I'm a fan of Charli XCX who's [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► the lady who sings the good part of that [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► one song oh sure the part where she's [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► not acting like like a black person from [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► New Orleans English which is which is a [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► really good part of that song huh and [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► then then I heard there was some kind of [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► dust up about her bona fides I should [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► add oh you were bad news was yeah with [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► the bad-boy demeanor and yeah [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► tattoos twos Nicki Minaj monster monster [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► everybody knows so the thing is I don't [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► know anything I don't think really I'm [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► really up on the rap these days monster [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► song it's a really good song when I see [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► that hotline bling you got the guy who [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► did the who did the the Marvin Gaye song [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► that was I'm definitely not doing this [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► with you know updates in rap what that [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► comes up on your cultural panel what if [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► you're expected to opine on the rap of [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► the day well this is the danger for me [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► now because since I'm not on Twitter I [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► don't know what the of the day stuff is [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► I didn't of the day thing on the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► television a couple of days ago what do [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► you think about but it's up but it's all [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► stuff that I wouldn't have encountered [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► it anyway you know they'll hand you a [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► piece of paper here at the King 5 [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► breakfast show and it said there's a [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► there's a hotel for sale outside of Reno [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► that's decorated 100% in clowns and you [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► read the thing and you're like oh and [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► then you get online and or you get on [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► the TV with them and they're like what [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► do you think about that and you know and [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► people that are making pancakes or [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► people that are like getting the kids [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► off to school or whatever it is that [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► people do that watch those shows yeah [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► they're like law or the [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► there's a football player who was jet [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► skiing any and he crashed and he lost a [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► hundred and fifty thousand dollar [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► diamond earring what do we think about [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► that boys got something to say about it [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► John I don't know a lot about producing [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► content but IIIi think those are as you [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► say problematic yeah you don't start out [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► with something that's already funny and [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► then talk about it well the thing is [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► public radio is gonna be a little bit [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► it's you know it's not gonna be so the [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► humor is not gonna be so broad right [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► they're they're actually gonna say [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► here's an interesting thing right let [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► the state legislature of Oklahoma says X [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► and then but you know it's not gonna [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► actually be like it's not gonna be [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► biting nice it's it's cultural gentle [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► its gentle but that's one of the one of [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► the many things I do Merlyn in or in [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► order to get stuff done [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► in order to to make content for people [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► and to ultimately I guess to to be in [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► the mix you gotta stay in the mix you [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► follow the mix it's hard to get back in [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► oh yeah you can't get out you can't get [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► out of the mix and I'm like riding a [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► bike mm-hmm if you cuz then the mix [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► separates right and you can your sauce [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► yeah make your sauce you don't want to [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► break your sauce but this week is gonna [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► be this week's gonna be a hot week for [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► me because because it's a it's Seafarer [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► week here in Seattle OC for a week is [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► that like a Fleet Week type situation [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► that's right oh really [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► and I am be a king of the of the obscene [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► fair because your military service [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► because again they need some content [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► certain number of cubic inches of [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► content right and John can provide that [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► he can come in whereas little doctor [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► doctor whose suit and you come in and [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► you provide some content we get a crown [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► I have a crown this please [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► Cromwell they're on the they're on my [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► Instagram account Oh insta cuts right [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► you're still in the Instagram [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► oh yeah use Instagram crown sword I have [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► a tunic and so what you get in a [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► situation like this is get a lot of [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► events I'm gonna welcome the Blue Angels [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► to town oh my goodness oh my goodness [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► you've got a sash I do this is [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► outstanding I was at a parade I was in a [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► big parade 150,000 people watch the [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► parade tremendous parade it was a big [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► parade and then so this week I go I have [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► dinner on on the flagship the US Navy [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► admiral Pacific Admiral flagship boat I [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► shake Anza and kiss babies with the Blue [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► Angels quite a few times a lot of a lot [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► of events a lot of different category go [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► to the largest Rotary meeting in the [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► northwest which they have every year at [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► this time too [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► you know because the rotor is very [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► involved Wow things some breakfast some [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► dinners and then I watch the and oh and [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► throughout all of this I'm doing [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► ceremonial night ends oh my goodness you [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► you were born for this role John well [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► this is the thing this is the kind of [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► content that that I am that I that I can [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► freely give the City of Seattle because [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► without a king wearing a sash and a [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► sword all you have is a bunch of guys in [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► Navy uniforms milling around and then [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► some Chamber of Commerce types and some [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► rotary types and you know that the usual [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► suspects mm-hmm but then you throw then [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► you can throw a guy in a sash in there [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► and it's anybody's it's a buddy's game [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► at that point well you know if you're [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► gonna have a monarchy you should have a [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► king otherwise she's gonna have a power [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► vacuum well won't be a monarchy well in [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► mmm-hmm the other day I was asked I'm [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► sorry I'm kind of distract I don't look [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► at Instagram but now I'm looking at your [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► Instagram you have all kinds of photos [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► on here you know that's right it's my [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► picture that you [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► the brothers there's you oh look at you [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► look at you and a little little sweet [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► baby brother and look at that yeah oh [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► did you get your fill sandbag buck no [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► okay [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► you all set you a Catwoman a Catwoman [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► and I were looking at some comics I was [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► asking her some questions because she is [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► running the she was running the the [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► booth I was like hey I don't see in here [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► what I'm looking for and she came over [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► someone took a a candid photograph wait [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► you looking for Oklahoma sex cat sex cat [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► yeah yeah I wasn't looking for that but [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► now that you remind me of Oklahoma the [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► sex cat I'm you know I should add it I [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► should add it to my list you should make [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► an apple note oh there's your mom look [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► at your mom oh so that they so like for [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► instance the other day I think that when [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► they asked me to be King Neptune they [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► had in mind that they wanted Seafarer to [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► be a little bit hipper than it's been [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► last year the King Neptune was was a [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► member of the Seattle Seahawks and and [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► he had a fun time with it when he [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► bothered but it was that that was their [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► typical the typical mistake I think that [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► that you make in a situation like this [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► where you're like this is an this is an [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► honorary position and we're gonna give [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► it to an upstanding citizen and then you [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► pick somebody that that is in your own [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► world [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► you're a Chamber of Commerce the kind of [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► organization you pick somebody from that [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► world yeah it's impressive in that world [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► like a Seahawk but that's not very fun [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► you know what I mean like you go to a [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► Rotary meeting with a guy that has been [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► to a lot of rotary meetings it's very [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► it's just like it's very internal and [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► then you realize oh we're producing an [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► event for the whole city but but we're [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► doing the we're making the old mistake [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► of just like it's a circle jerk hit him [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► where they ain't you yes you want power [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► but you obviously you want somebody who [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► you know has respect for the service [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► mm-hmm [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► drawing power somebody who loves the [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► city of Seattle and who isn't just [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► coasting yeah I also think you probably [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► want somebody who's a good sport [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► you gotta be a good sport right but [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► there's the version of being King [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► Neptune good sport where you stand there [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► gamely with your sash and your crown on [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► and they hand you a piece of paper and [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► they say read this and then we're gonna [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► Knight this your fellow citizen and you [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► gamely read it and everyone gamely [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► applauds but then there's then you there [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► the UM another option which is swing for [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► the fences and in this year they said [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► why don't we get why don't we try and [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► make C fare a little bit more fun and [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► they got they asked me to be king them [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► too and it's hard for me to tell I I do [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► know that I'm putting pressure on the [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► organization by being a little too fun I [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► don't know how much sting it's kind of a [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► Footloose type situation where a little [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► bit where they bring you in because they [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► say this guy's a good sport he looks [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► great in an outfit and a crown but now [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► now it's a in the second act things are [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► turning around a little bit and they're [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► going oh it's this guy cuz it's got [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► gonna be a pistol well a little bit of a [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► pistol right so the Seafarer grand [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► marshals of the parade who are it's [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► another honorary position there are a [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► lot of these I think the grand marshals [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► of the parade and a couple of years ago [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► one of the grand marshals was Duff [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► McKagan my my good pal who is also a [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► Seattle light a very vociferous [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► supporter of Seattle [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► that's just what is it it's an honorary [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► thing they hand you a scepter you go I [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► hereby commence the parade and you know [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► it's but it's a fun thing it's a nice [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► honor well this year last year they had [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► Chris Pratt and an actress who everybody [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► talks about very excitedly and who each [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► time her name is mentioned I can't [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► remember which one she is okay but one [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► that everybody was excited to meet last [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► year now I would be very excited to meet [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► Chris Pratt because he's my favorite [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► actress yeah he's a very good actor [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► and I have to say just for what it's [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► worth he's also seems like a good sport [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► for good sport right and so it was very [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► exciting so this year again they tried [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► to maybe maybe they tried to duplicate [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► their success yet last year so he [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► brought along his lady friend and Anna [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► Faris Anna Faris that's right and [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► everybody's very excited about Hannah [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► Ferris mm-hmm [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► this year they got James woke and Billy [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► Burke of the television show zoo Y which [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► is on I don't know what the WB your CBS [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► I don't know oh my goodness [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► zoo better Marshalls so these are these [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► actors and what they are is some actors [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► from a thing that TV show like if it was [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► if we were at comic-con Waterson to you [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► yes oh we're about this I mean who knows [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► ya know if it was nothing I've heard [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► about there's a comic-con and I walked [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► past these guys at a booth I would go [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► sure of course but here they are and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► they're presented to me as like here are [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► the grand marshals of the parade and you [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► are meant to Knight them and then they [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► commence the parade and it's all this [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► thing this the it's a little bit of it [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► some song and dance is what we're doing [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► we're going slightly absolutely so here [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► they come in the way I met this event [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► and there some there are quite a few [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► Admirals which is very exciting I met [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► the commander of the Coast Guard for the [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► Pacific region I met the the compare the [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► Admiral of the Stennis Strike Force [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► sleeps the aircraft carrier strike force [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► another Admirals I made some I made some [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► business with some animals you know I [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► did a little look some walls with them [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► another talk about game those guys have [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► to be game because they do a lot of this [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► type of thing anyway so up they walk in [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► here comes Billy Burke who's a guy [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► clearly my age but handsome Billy Billy [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► Burke okay Lee Burke he was in the [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► Twilight series Oh anyway he's wearing [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► son I know this guy I thought Billy [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► Burke was the good Queen and Wizard of [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► Oz that's why that's the difference a [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► different Billy Burke okay but he's [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► wearing sunglasses he's got his hair is [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► dirty hair up in a man bun he's wearing [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► a Seahawks t-shirt a dirty unzipped [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► hoodie and some shorts [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► Annie and I'm like seriously that [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► doesn't bring much gravitas visa V [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► marshalling know somebody somebody told [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► you that you were gonna be the grand [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► marshal of a parade and you show up in [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► your pajamas I was offended and so did [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► you try to keep it in no I'm standing in [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► front of this group of local dignitaries [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► and I call him up and as they as they [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► walked out my mom like Billy you didn't [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► have to get dressed up all special for [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► the parade [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► and Billy Burke I don't then he put on a [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► strange smile but I don't think he liked [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► being roasted and then I said a few [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► times as I was knighting him like you [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► know Billy Billy made the special effort [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► to roll out of bed to come be the grand [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► marshal of Seattle's parade and I think [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► we should honor him with this great [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► honor oh my goodness and it's and the [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► thing is I'm not being hostile I'm being [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► funny it's fun Billy Burke [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► fifty-year-olds grand marshal of a [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► parade and he you know he should be able [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► to take a little bit of this because he [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► chose he chose that outfit not you yeah [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► that's right cuz fuck you Billy and [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► thing is James woke a younger man the [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► star of the star of this TV show James [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► work he showed up in a collared shirt [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► with some pants now he didn't tuck his [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► shirt in but he's a young person and he [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► was loving it he was loving that Billy [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► was getting raked over the coals so it [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► was a little bit of a roasty situation [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► is what happened huh now that is not [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► what is I think typical of this event [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► you unintentionally or maybe you made a [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► little edgy I made a little some fun [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► here we're gonna have a little fun and [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► since since I established that tone then [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► I knighted a couple of admirals and I [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► gave them a little bit of the same kind [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► of business like oh here is the Admiral [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► of the Pacific Coast Guard fleet [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► commander and I said is Alaska part of [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► your area and he said no they're a [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► separate group and I said oh so then [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► you you have Montana and Idaho the two [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► great coastal states some boy and he was [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► mad and then I realized oh right the [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► Missouri River the Snake River the [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► Columbia River like the Coast Guard is [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► also in the rivers okay and so then I [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► you know so I corrected myself and I was [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► like oh you also are all the waterways [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► all the great waterways he and I made [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► good friends the Admiral and I but you [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► know a little bit but I think the people [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► at seif they're the ones who have asked [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► me to do this job are now hopping up and [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► down not in anger but in anxiety because [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► what is the king gonna say next kind of [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► thing which is I think the exact kind of [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► fun that they were hoping to have in [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► just slightly smaller measure and so [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► this is the this is the fun for me right [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► this is a ceremonial position I'm not [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► getting paid it's this is all [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► interesting this is a old boy know what [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► about Chris Pratt is he doing it for [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► free everybody does this for free this [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► Chris Pratt brought his family to [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► Seattle and did this job for free yeah I [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► mean you know I'm sure they put him up [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► yeah but uh you should check that out [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► that mmm that sounds a little bit like a [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► jamup to me it's the type of thing that [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► is I think it falls into the the sort of [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► general community service aspect of [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► being famous you get honored with these [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► things and if you say yes there's no you [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► know what does Seafarer gonna give give [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► him five grand I mean that's not that's [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► not something Chris Pratt's gonna put [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► his family and I think me I don't know I [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► don't know how much of this is image [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► management but I've seen tons of [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► delightful pictures of him visiting kids [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► in hospitals and bringing them Lego and [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► doing things in costume and he seems [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► like kind of a Mitch like I don't know [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► if that's aI don't know if that's like a [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► rock the Dwayne Johnson type situation [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► where he's just doing image management [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► who knows but but he seems he seems like [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► he'd be like a pretty cool guy maybe [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► just totally like him on Parks and Rec [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► it's the reason why he's one of my [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► favorite actresses yeah but I think past [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► a certain point right what will what [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► this will be is Chris Pratt probably has [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► a foundation and then this he'll do this [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► in return for the opportunity to put his [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► foundation for kids on the masthead of [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► some other you know what I mean like [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► it's it's a different kind of currencies [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► the wrong word but for lack of a better [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► word it's a different kind of currency [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► it's a kind of social tokens that we [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► pass back and forth we try and do the [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► right thing and these are the this is [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► what the Rotary Club is all about right [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► the Rotary Club sends some students to [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► go bei Japan and Kobe Japan send some [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► students to rotary and one of those [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► students one day goes to college and [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► become a majors in business management [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► and ends up being the deputy director of [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► the port and rotary pins appends a star [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► on him and though her and the star then [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► goes up on a on a piece of wood on the [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► wall of a place and you know it's like [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► there is a there is a world of [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► honorarium a world of and everyone is [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► very proud there's a lot of like pride [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► in the work that they do [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► it feels meaningful it feels like it [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► spreads a fraternity thus the whole [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► sister-city notion of like and now [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► someone who's here from our sister city [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► in Uzbekistan and they brought an [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► entourage and you know and being like [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► being is even tangentially involved in [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► that in this kind of world like I have [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► to I have to also realize they're [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► creating content for their own markets [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► and sure again it's it's a kind of thumb [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► I don't visible but a kind of yes [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► you're saying it's it's it's content and [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► it's it's a kind of reputational Wafi [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► tokens like there's it's interesting [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► you're moving kind of invisible [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► resources around yeah and and I think I [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► think what what the benefit of these [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► things is to the people that that are [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► knee-deep in it is like this is where [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► after you've awarded the the blue ribbon [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► for the state's largest cow or after [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► you've sent 25 kids to college and [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► Antarctica for the semester then as [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► you're standing around at the end of the [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► meeting somebody like my dad says hey [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► Bill I want to meet Tony and Tony goes [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► hey Bill how's it going I'm trying to [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► you know I'm the guy that's trying to [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► get the permits to build the sixty five [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► storey office tower on the land adjacent [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► to where you are trying to also build a [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► tower and you are holding up my permits [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► haha why don't we figure that out and [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► it's like oh you're a Rotarian Wow and [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► like that kind of handshake II thing is [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► what people that aren't in the room and [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► what you know what democratic socialists [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► are what makes them so suspicious and [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► angry because it seems like that's where [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► all chummy yeah that's where all the [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► deals are getting made and that's why [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► those organizations exist now being [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► inside them right I see like oh that's [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► not why they exist but it is a it is an [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► element it is a fringe benefit of it [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► that the people that are invited are the [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► ones that are seen to need to be there [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► and then that's how things get done and [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► it's uh it's not very creative and it's [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► not very it's not it's not fun by any [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► standards that we have like it's not [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► like the things that are supposed to be [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► funny aren't funny the things that are [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► supposed to be neat aren't neat there [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► are a lot of PowerPoint demonstrations [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► where people are showing slideshows of [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► all the kids that they've helped but it [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► really does [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► come from I don't know a place in those [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► people that is altruistic mm-hmm a [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► desire to help and I have no idea how [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► but but I now AM on not on the I'm in [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► the anteroom of these people because I'm [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► because whatever they pick me out as [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► somebody that's game that will come to [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► these things and be a little roasty and [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► be a little bit because the thing is in [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► a group of in a group where the [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► admiral's are standing around right [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► there's a lot of respect for the [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► Admirals and the Admirals are standing [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► around used to being respected it's [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► their number one job description respect [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► these guys right like they're every [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► single room they've ever walked into [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► from the time that they were a [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► lieutenant junior grade some large [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► proportion of the people in that room [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► are respecting them mm-hmm no one ever [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► disrespects them except maybe and part [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► of it is um you learn so early on that [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► you get respect by giving respect [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► there's a tremendous respect as the [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► currency right and so that but the [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► Admirals in this situation are like [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► they'd to go to a lot of rotary meetings [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► they behaved respectfully but you don't [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► get the sense that they you know part of [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► respect sad to say is that you are [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► impressed and maybe a little afraid [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► right I mean certainly the respect [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► they're used to commanding has a healthy [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► element of fear in it because the people [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► that are like yes sir are ones that can [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► be in big trouble [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► if they say yes sir wrong and so the [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► Admirals are in this thing and there are [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► a lot of rote Aryans and and people from [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► the city and the animals aren't really [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► very afraid of them you know they're [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► it's not like somebody from Seattle is [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► going to say we're not giving the Navy [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► permits to park their boats here this [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► year because we're making I mean it's [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► possible if we elected a mayor [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► was a real radical but ultimately the [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► Navy's not worried about Seattle but a [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► situation like that you know my job I as [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► I see it is to because the lot of these [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► animals aren't that much older than me [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► right I know I know 54 and so although [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► I'm iris I respect to the office and I [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► respect the Navy let's say I don't have [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► a lot of social fear because what is it [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► Admiral gonna do to me what is what are [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► these people gonna do to me and so no [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► one ever roasts Admirals particularly [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► not at a thing like this that's so low [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► weight like this is these are low power [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► events for these people the Seafarer [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► parade you know they do they don't come [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► expecting to be ribbed publicly and and [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► I think personally that they love it I [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► think it's fun for them I think that a [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► everybody likes to be roasted a little [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► and it's a like nobody ever [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► nobody ever sidles up to them and says [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► so tell me is that do you don't you get [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► tired of wearing these uniforms that are [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► half polyester I mean couldn't you have [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► a uniform Taylor do you think they like [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► that I think they do because it's a kind [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► of banter that they it's the sort of [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► banter that I would you know that I [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► would lay on you yeah and they and they [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► do have those feelings like so I'm [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► standing next to the King County Sheriff [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► who is a beep he's a big deal here and [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► we're watching the opening remarks and I [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► and there's a young deputy standing next [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► to him who's not his who's it basically [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► looks like his son and is sort of acting [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► like his son and I don't think he's a [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► bodyguard he's just his he's probably [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► his aide-de-camp [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► he says Ballena called Theia is his body [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► manners back now but yeah he says he's [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► the guy that's gonna eat his purse he [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► gets his Leviathan and [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► he needs a magnifying glass he knows [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► where to pull it out right yeah so I'm [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► standing next to the camp eight to camp [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► what a great term aid to camp it's got [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► to be what he is and I look over in the [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► and the King County Sheriff has a side [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► arm and the side arm you know it's [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► unlikely that this sixty year old man is [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► ever gonna draw his sidearm again but [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► it's there because it's part of the [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► uniform uh-huh and I looked down and it [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► has a single piece of scotch tape [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► wrapped around the handle wrapped around [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► the grip and I look at him I kind of [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► think about it for a second and I walk [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► over and I say Sheriff and he looks at [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► me and I'm wearing a crown yeah yes so [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► he's so he's not gonna say hello citizen [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► he's gonna say what the fuck is this now [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► and I said sheriff I can't help but [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► notice that your sidearm is held [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► together with scotch tape can you and he [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► starts to laugh and his aide camp starts [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► to laugh and I said can you give me a [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► some explanation for why the sheriff of [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► King County can't find a screw for his [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► or whatever and he says well you know [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► the the grip is a little bit Wiggly and [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► so I fixed it and you're the first [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► person that's ever said anything about [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► it and now my aide camp is laughing at [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► me so thanks very much for that Wow and [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► I figured either his kid put it on there [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► he kept it on cuz it was sweet Oh cuz [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► you know get a lot of that your kid put [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► stuff on your things I'm sure it was [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► that or there was maybe so he could get [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► his fingerprints off there if you need [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► it to no just a single piece of scotch [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► tape all right and and so I said well [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► you know sheriff that's wonderful [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► because I'm gonna be able now to report [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► to the citizens of King County that you [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► are not wasting precious County [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► resources on doing things like fixing [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► the grip of your gun [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► yeah which you're unlikely to draw and [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► so then he's like oh here's I got a live [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► one here and we sit and chat [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► because in a way that kind of banter [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► establishes establishes that there is a [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► that my lack of fear is a kind of peer [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► I'm establishing a peer relationship [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► right like I am clearly not a peer of [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► the King County Sheriff in any respect [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► right sort of classic sense not in the [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► classic sense but I'm also not [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► intimidated by him and that's unusual [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► for him right I mean the only people [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► that aren't intimidated by the King [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► County Sheriff are his wife and his kids [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► probably because everybody else that he [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► meets in it in the course of this [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► situation is either someone who reports [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► to him or someone who needs him needs [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► his political support mm-hmm I mean [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► that's it's um I don't mean this [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► disparagingly but that's a managerial [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► job big time right I mean I mean you [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► know I wouldn't Domitian I'm sure that [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► he would be happy to jump in and grab a [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► broom if he needed to but like his job [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► is very that's a high level [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► administrative job he manages other [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► managers and he came up through the [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► ranks and you know one of the Dave [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► Reichert who was a former King County [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► Sheriff became a US congressman so it's [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► a political job okay all right and he [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► goes to these events and everything [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► everything that we're looking at at this [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► event is within his jurisdiction he is [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► the sheriff of all of this and so [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► everybody at this thing is like sheriff [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► you know thanks for coming and also we [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► you know we're looking for your help if [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► next year at the whatchamacallit thing [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► and so no one ever comes up and says [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► what's the deal with your broken gun [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► giggling yeah what's up with that and [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► and he likes it right everybody likes [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► that everybody wants somebody to come up [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► and take the steam out of them or at [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► least everybody who's normal like I'm [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► sure there's a king I'm sure there's a [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► sheriff somebody somewhere who's like [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► move along citizen I mean in my [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► estimation that [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► is less bothersome to people who are [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► both powerful and confident right there [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► are there are people in positions of [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► power that are not that confident [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► nominee any names here and then there [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► are other people who are very confident [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► but don't have power and that kind of [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► thing if you haven't gotten through the [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► ranks and moved up feels like a slight [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► that must be addressed in the moment it [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► much like you went on like a playground [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► right power you can you can laugh it off [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► because you know let's just not gonna [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► bother you well and he is a he's a he's [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► a politician ultimately and so he's not [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► gonna get to that job and be good at it [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► if he doesn't have a sense of humor [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► because it's you've got to you've got to [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► be fielding a lot of crazy shit all day [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► and a few minutes later I'm standing [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► with the King County Executive who is [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► the sheriff's boss nominally who's a [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► young guy and actually a friend of mine [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► like somebody that I know socially and [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► he's the I think the greatest politician [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► in the state by a large margin and [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► everybody thinks so his name is Dow [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► Constantine and he is a he's just a [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► great politician and he's a he's a [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► liberal he gets things done and he's [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► also a cool guy right he's at this event [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► he's dressed appropriately except he's [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► wearing converse because he's a because [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► he's a Justin Trudeau he's having a [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► little fun he's having a little fun [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► because it's a fun time but he's also [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► got a blazer on and he's he he found in [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► his collection of accoutrements all his [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► little Seafarer pins and buttons that [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► he's received over the years as various [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► like every one of these little things [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► that some King Neptune has given him [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► like I hereby proclaim that you are the [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► king of the day and they hand you a [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► little pin Dow has them arranged [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► somewhere so that when he's coming to [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► this some assistant says and here are [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► your Seafarer pins and he puts them on [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► his blazer so that it's just like and [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► that's how you're a good politician you [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► know you show up at this and you're [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► wearing the right pins [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► and so you know that's let me pause you [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► for a second because I like that phrase [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► what was the phrase knowing the right [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► pins that's really that's kind of a [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► really good way to put it because it [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► also encompasses a lot of the different [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► kinds of things we're talking about [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► whether that's Rotary Club or your [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► father you know uh councilor you know [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► like knowing all of the ways to like [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► wear the right pin becomes very [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► important in these situations right [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► remember remember how politicians were [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► being bullied into wearing American flag [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► pins during the Bush administration oh [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► it was it was this I remember after I [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► want to say after 9/11 there was this or [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► things like which late-night talk-show [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► host will be the first to stop wearing [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► up a flag pin yeah and if you if you [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► appear there was a while there where if [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► you appeared as a public figure without [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► a flag pin on it was cause for censure [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► especially if you were a Steph you were [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► a a public servant and I think I think [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► you will still see an awful lot of flag [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► pins on the lapels of I mean I don't [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► think there's a single Republican [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► Congress person that doesn't have a [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► flight well a lot of them wear that that [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► goofy slightly oversized badge that [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► Congress person's get that looks a [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► little silly because when I see them [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► talking on the MSNBC it looks a little [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► bit like like a POG maybe or something [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► you know it's a big pin trading culture [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► at theme parks sure I think this is how [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► that the sheriff with the cowboy hat got [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► a lot of his Mad Max when Morton Joe [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► pins is just trading with other cowboy [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► sheriffs yeah this whole penetrating [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► culture and I think that's part of what [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► you're describing here knowing the right [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► pin but but also it encompasses the [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► things like the things that I look at [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► and see as magical like the ability to [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► remember people's names yeah what they [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► do what they used to do who they know [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► who their family is and to do that [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► without going back like I are you you [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► know that's I I just look at that and I [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► just said look at something like that [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► sheriff I just go man that guy's got it [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► wired right well and you think about you [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► think about Dow how many different [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► events he goes to where they hand him a [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► pin and he goes home and somehow puts [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► that pin into a system [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► where he says the next time I go to the [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► to the King County reservoir maintenance [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► directors Jamboree I'm gonna be able to [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► put this pin on my lapel and and when I [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► arrive and they see it they are going to [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► be chuffed right there's no look that [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► you can tell I'm excited and this is my [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► fifth one of these look at my lapel I'm [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► wearing I'm wearing my flight of pins [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► it's it's phenomenal you know that [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► ability and that and the knowledge that [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► that is the thing you need to need that [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► you need to do but so I'm standing there [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► in down an hour just talking about our [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► families and we're talking about our [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► lives and a guy walks up and he's one of [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► the people I've I have honored that day [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► who's a who runs an organization that [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► supports the Navy and he says you know [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► hey sorry to interrupt I just wanted to [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► say hi just wanted to say thank you [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► Dowell remembers his name Dom knows who [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► he is and he says just wanted to make [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► sure you got my email inviting you to [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► the event that we're doing and it's a [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► little bit of a you know I know I know I [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► know that message I've gotten a message [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► and and this is a protocol breach [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► because we're at a thing dows wearing is [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► his fun shoes but you can tell that this [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► man is very earnest about his work and [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► as part of that earnestness he does not [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► recognize social [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► whatever the way the wiggle room is [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► between this is an event where you say [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► something like that this is not slightly [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► cringy breach of protocol a little bit [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► but Dow is very very graceful sure and [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► Dow says you know I don't have any staff [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► members with me right now and so and [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► then he makes this self-effacement joke [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► so he then he says and you know honestly [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► like I just go where they tell me so I [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► don't know I don't you know it's his [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► kind of way of saying I don't answer my [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► own email when it is things like this [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► but when I get back to the office I'll [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► ask them to make sure that I am you know [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► right D write it down [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► nope he just remembers just remembers [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► and and the guy kind of presses his [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► attack a little bit well we'd like you [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► to be at the event and you know it's [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► very important because we're doing it [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► for the Navy and we in the you know we [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► and support our troops and Dow says you [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► know as soon as I get back a minute I'm [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► going to talk to my staff about it and [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► just sort of gracefully does his thing [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► but that is what is happening at these [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► things whether it is overt like that or [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► whether a person walks up and says hey [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► great to see you Dow and Dow knows that [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► this person wants them at their at his [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► event and he's able to send a coded [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► message to them like hey great well I'll [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► see you the LC in a week it's in a [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► situation like that it's a little bit [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► the phrase comes to mind is holding [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► court where if you actually think about [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► a regent sitting in some kind of a room [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► where people come in and come in you [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► know talk to them about things in that [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► kind of situation dow is his name [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► sheriff down no the sheriff is not down [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► who's down Dow is the executive what am [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► i sorry Dow is the executive is the [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► nominal boss well he's that person if [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► that person that person has the [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► opportunity to say at that point to this [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► person oh by the way I got your note I [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► haven't had a chance to respond to it [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► but I feel pretty sure we can get that [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► on the schedule yeah how's the [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► opportunity where he could say that but [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► if he didn't say that you asking them [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► about it you're basically doing that [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► thing where you say did you get my email [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► about about your email okay don't do [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► that don't people especially in social [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► situations it's it's such a it's such a [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► PR bad PR person thing to do that whole [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► like well if I do it in public and I'm [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► smiling like you have to be nice to me [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► yeah well and it's how I it's how a PR [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► person justifies their their bowl of [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► cereal right because they get to that's [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► my job yeah that's their job and they're [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► trying to get those Glengarry leads all [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► the time but but an event like this [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► every single person in there is holding [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► court simultaneously there are no people [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► in there that are not either with I mean [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► everybody had stars on there [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► and the sheriff has four stars on his [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► collars but he are on his collar but he [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► he reports to Dowe who is wearing [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► converse but functions yeah yeah but [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► Dalles got stars on his collar too and [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► everybody knows it it's just down Stars [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► our Seafarer pins cuz he knows how to do [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► that the only people in there that [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► aren't that don't have stars on their [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► collars are Billy Burke and James woke [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► who are there because they're rich [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► Hollywood hansoms and then me [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► yeah and I'm wearing a fucking crown [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► yeah that speaks for itself [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► it really does right a crown like you [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► because the crown says suggests I am [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► ceremonially the boss of everyone here [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► obviously we all know that that is not [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► true well I think the purpose is for the [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► purposes of this event if that has been [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► conferred on you I think people should [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► be deferential to you and they are and [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► that is part of the fun every one of [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► these Admirals said do I bow mm-hm and [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► each time I say yes and and bend the [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► knee as they do the fucking two of these [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► Admirals got down on their knees right [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► that's a good sport [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► it's a fucking good sport because [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► they're politicians - mm-hmm you don't [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► get to be a three-star general or [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► Admiral without being pulled it's a [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► little bit of what one might call social [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► power exchange you have you're having [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► fun with it [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► fucking-a mm-hmm and Mike and what I the [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► only thing I lack is a clown nose [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► because that's that's what the crown is [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► right come on and I went to great [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► lengths because because you have a lot [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► of dignity I would not call that a clown [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► nose you're a very you have a you have a [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► an excess of dignity thank you I grew my [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► beard a little bit long so that I look [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► like hanging up to it a little bit more [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► mm-hmm but but I feel like the the job [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► description that the Seafarer people had [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► in mind [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► was [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► business-casual plus a sash and a crap [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► that's what they expect okay and I have [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► spent the last month putting together a [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► pretty good replica of of like tsar [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► nicholas ii tunic from just before the [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► world war i have all the elements i have [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► the you know i have the the star of [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► Constantine and I have the the [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► additional gold braid and the gigantic [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► epaulets and the you've done some [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► readings on your work here the sword [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► belt and I mean if you take a picture of [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► me and my tunic and you put it up next [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► to Tsar Nicholas he's got a lot more [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► bling [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► and each one of the nice things about [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► being a Tsar is that you can have [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► knee-high patent leather boots made for [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► yourself which would be set that I'm [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► like I'm frankly teetering on making me [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► - I just thought telling but so sweet in [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► a tunic befitting a star and that is not [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► what Seafarer expected they're not [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► displeased [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► it certainly is inhabiting the role what [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► they expected was you come in looking [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► like a golf dad basically they want to [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► golf dad with a sash lalala and and [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► that's but they got they got a little [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► more than they bargained for they wanted [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► to reach a younger demo and they brought [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► in a new king with some of some fresh [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► energy and he he brought a whole outfit [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► yeah right and it's a you know like the [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► outfit oh so fun to wear it's so fun to [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► march around in this outfit with its you [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► know the epaulets really the epaulets [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► really communicate not only that you [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► have broad shoulders but that those [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► broad shoulders are covered with [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► cthulhu's of gold which is you know like [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► the fucking Admirals [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► who are marching around this thing have [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► giant gold epaulettes [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► it's just that style has changed and the [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► epaulets now are flat and have a lot of [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► stars on them but they're still freaking [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► gold epaulettes and my epaulets are just [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► what they would have worn a hundred [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► years ago a little bit more at Gilbert [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► and Sullivan yeah I mean there's a you [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► know I don't want to look like [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► Nutcracker why'd you put that image in [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► my head that's funny like the Nutcracker [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► with some homemade makeup I am [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► essentially I am essentially there is [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► the Nutcracker the you know the the game [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► I mean initially I what I wanted was to [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► come dressed as Master and Commander and [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► it was very difficult to put that outfit [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► together so that it looked good with a [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► crown and the problem of the problem of [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► the crown is that it it's very important [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► to see fair because that's what they [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► made they made a crown and they thought [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► they were having fun with that and that [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► that's an example of like we are fun and [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► we're having fun with but with this and [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► we made a crown and a sash for our King [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► and it's an easy thing to put on [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► somebody who's wearing business casual [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► and make it make the event fun it's like [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► instant King just add crown right you [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► can walk in and you're wearing a suit [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► from Men's Wearhouse and they put the [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► sash on you you put a crown on and then [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► unite somebody everybody has a good [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► laugh yeah but Seafarer when i was a kid [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► was one of these regional festivals that [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► used to happen in every in every town [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► every small town every to local every [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► town that wasn't because they're the [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► country didn't have a unified culture [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► Seafarer was an event that where seattle [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► went off went bananas like king neptune [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► had an entourage of 20 people oh my [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► goodness they were all wearing giant [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► hats with feathers in them everyone was [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► drunk it was there were parties people [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► would really get into the spirit oh my [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► god I mean my mom talks about it she's [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► she's like [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► Seafarer was the event of the season [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► there were multiple parades there was a [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► giant parade to kick it off then there [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► was a giant parade in the middle and [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► then there was a giant parade at the end [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► that's kind of event my late father [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► would call it grab-ass [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► it was a huge grab-ass and everyone came [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► from miles around [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► the mayor and that you know and the end [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► Neptune was a was a big deal right [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► during that time during the Seafarer [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► month King Neptune never bought a drink [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► in any bar in the city there are Seafair [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► pirates and sea fair clowns and they [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► would they would come into bars and [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► restaurants and just start singing their [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► body songs and they would take you know [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► food off of people's plates and [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► everybody had a grand old wry bald time [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► and I'm sure at that during that era [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► right there was also a lot of [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► impropriety that wouldn't fly these days [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► oh I would feel fairly certain about [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► that and so that you know that is kind [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► of taken out of it right as time goes on [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► the mayor does not get publicly drunk [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► during sea fair but watching them in old [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► black-and-white photos like watching the [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► town just go nuts and when I got when I [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► was appointed King Neptune my brother [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► Bart sent me a text and he said dad [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► would be so proud oh that's nice [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► dad loved sea fair and this is a you [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► know this is an example of the kind of [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► honorary position in the City of Seattle [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► that my dad thrived on and no member of [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► my family even in all of their many [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► splendors no one ever was King Neptune [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► before my dad and my my uncle al and my [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► uncle Junius and george alfred caldwell [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► rodchester before him none of them ever [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► were afforded or recorded this honor [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► so I don't want to show up in business [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► casual and have a crown I wanted to come [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► dressed as Russell Crowe and Master and [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► Commander hmm but it but you can't take [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► that big Napoleon hat off and put a [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► crown on you just look dumb but you can [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► come as Tsar Nicholas or King George the [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► fifth or a little bit less Kaiser [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► Wilhelm but you can you can come as [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► those guys and it and it it looks it [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► looks the part right because they were [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► obviously like commanders of their [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► navies to you you knew that Tsar [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► Nicholas George the fifth and Kaiser [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► Wilhelm were all first cousins right in [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► thinking about what you were saying I [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► was in my head something was swinging [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► around about Germans there seemed [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► something isn't there a lot of dramatic [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► things running through a lot of [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► different countries like a lot of the [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► royal family has roots in Germany well [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► they're all they're all related right [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► the British royal family is a German [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► house I seem to remember in that in the [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► crown I remember that being kind of kind [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► of a big deal like one of the one of her [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► relatives still mostly spoke German and [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► stuff like that well sure and the thing [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► is the leaders of those three nations at [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► that time 1914 the King of England the [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► George is George v Elizabeth's father [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► grandfather okay right I think [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► yeah all right well they were all so all [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► three of those yes either you're right [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► I'm sorry yeah I think you're right the [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► Kaiser of Prussia the the Czar of Russia [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► and the King of England were all first [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► cousins and they were all grandsons of [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► Queen Victoria Wow [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► and while Queen Victoria was alive they [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► were all like oh and they and they look [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► almost exactly alike like George the [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► fifth and Tsar Nicholas look like twins [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► you see them next to each other twins [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► twins twins and no nobody in the family [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► liked Kaiser Wilhelm he was the cousin [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► that nobody liked how come he was a jerk [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► okay he was like I think that he had [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► when he was being born did there was a [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► complication and one and you know it was [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► it was all olden times so they weren't [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► able to solve complications in being [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► born did like on the spot and one of the [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► results was that the Kaiser was had a [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► deformed arm that it was like Gary [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► Berghof right he he had one hand that he [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► didn't like to show Erbs palsy Gary [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► burghoff had an arm situation Gary [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► burghoff if you I mean in in the ten [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► years that we all watched mash every day [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► we never ever noticed that Gary burghoff [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► has one hand that is I think much [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► smaller than the other I had no oh my [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► god there it is I had no idea and he [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► Gary [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► Birkhoff who is by all accounts a [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► reprehend reprehensible person oh no I'm [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► so sorry you hear that is also a great [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► drummer [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► thank you so much he's a phenomenal [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► drummer but everybody I don't so you [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► weren't around maybe you were your [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► attention was elsewhere you were [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► probably watching Apple announcement [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► events yeah developer conferences but [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► at some point in the early-mid Twitter [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► period [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► Gary Birkhoff appeared on Twitter and he [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► was one of those people that went from [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► having 50 followers to 15,000 followers [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► in two days because he was on Twitter [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► just taking a dump on Alan Alda every [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► day I see and was just he was going he [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► was doing a James Woods he was just [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► going crazy and it was oh I know oh no [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► this is not good it sounds like oh I had [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► some drinks it was the type of thing [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► where Andy Richter was right in there [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► you know like everybody was enjoying [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► gary burghoff [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► imploding online I love a Charlie Sheen [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► I most of all right but but it caused me [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► then to read some oral histories of mash [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► and my favorite quote was somebody I [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► don't know who said Gary Birkhoff was by [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► far the best actor on mash he was doing [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► a genius performance because he was [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► creating a character that was beloved by [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► everyone in the country when he himself [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► was like the most awful man alive and [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► was going up to Charles Nelson Reilly [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► Herve Villechaize no one is spared no [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► you see what's really on Olsen Reilly [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► that's no good well it's like Gary also [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► is is not a not a tall man and yeah [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► thought he was lumped in there but so I [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► think the Kaiser because of his because [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► of his damaged arm had a chip on his [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► shoulder and the Czar and the King [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► looked so much alike and were very [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► chummy like they vacationed together [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► there was a lot of slap and tickle [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► happening and the Kaiser felt left out [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► but they all stayed very they all stayed [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► very you know like pally [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► because all three of them loved Queen [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► Victoria their grandmother and there are [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► all these pictures of them kind of like [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► curled up at her feet while she pets [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► their hair [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► and when she died almost immediately the [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► cousins were like they all squared off [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► and of course they started a world war [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► not that long after mm-hmm [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► where and so the Kaiser and the king and [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► the Czar are fuckin first cousins and [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► they are they're like fighting this [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► enormous conflict where millions died [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► over some stupid shit and halfway [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► through the war the Tsar is deposed by [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► revolution and then at the end of the [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► war the Kaiser loses his crown and there [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► is no there is no monarch of Germany [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► anymore it becomes a whatever funk [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► semi-functional republic and the king of [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► england is the last man standing so I [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► guess really I'm really I'm dressing [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► like King George the fifth I don't want [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► to end up like the Tsar it's gonna be a [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► busy week [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► I have like six events a day oh my [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► goodness that's too many events at six [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► events a day Merlin and Wednesday is [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► supposed to be a hundred and three [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► degrees in Seattle that's a hot day to [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► be the king well I'll see I don't want [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► to wear my tunic on that day I'm gonna [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► that's the day that I'm going business [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► casual mm-hmm I'm going I'm going cruise [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► ship casual on Wednesday this is another [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► nice thing though is that you are I mean [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► obviously you've put a lot of your own [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► special preparation into this particular [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► costume but like you've got a lot of [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► stuff just sitting around that would be [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► appropriate for almost any event like [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► you're you seem like you're pretty good [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► to go yeah as long as no one I I think [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► that I have put myself now finally in a [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► place that I've been that I've been [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► shooting for my whole life which is a [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► place with particularly in in wardrobe [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► terms where whatever the invitation says [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► is the Wardrobe [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► I know that not only can I can I meet [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► their expectations but that I will be [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► able to show up in my own version of a [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► thing like if it sells if it says [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► cocktail formal or it says semi-formal [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► or if it says I mean no one ever doesn't [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► event that says that that says formal [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► and means actual formal like the the [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► nicest event in the country you can show [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► up to an a rented tuxedo anymore but you [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► might say black tie or white tie right I [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► I do not think that you will ever see a [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► thing invite where you are invited white [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► tie I mean unless it's a Royal Wedding [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► which no one's no one listening to this [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► podcast is likely to get invited to [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► least of all me yeah although you never [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► know you never know [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► I mean maybe Boris Johnson is listening [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► to this but other times the dress code [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► they give is a combination of two things [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► on the one hand it's like hey you don't [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► want to look like a ding-a-ling so make [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► sure you dress at least up to this bar [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► but it's also a kind of like a [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► consolation of saying don't worry like [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► you don't have to wear a necktie to this [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► right I think you're trying to give you [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► something to say like to provide comfort [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► ultimately to say like if you're in the [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► range of this [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► range of this [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► kind of garb you'll be fine right and [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► that is antithetical to the idea of [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► having a dress code right I mean that's [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► a that is a modern that's a modern [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► problem to say like here's the dress [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► code don't feel bad [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► you get to where you have to wear it up [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► to this point but don't worry you can it [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► you won't be uncomfortable poor person [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► yeah and after an hour you can take your [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► shoes off [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► yeah and in the past right a dress code [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► was almost almost explicitly like you [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► are going to be incredibly uncomfortable [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► this is not negotiable here is what the [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► expectation is and you will come correct [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► and that's gone from the world unless [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► you're invited to something hosted at [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► the White House or something right like [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► like you go you go to a wedding where [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► the where the people are putting on the [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► wedding and they want everybody to be [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► like really really formal and you see a [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► bunch of guys in blue suits yeah I mean [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► if it doesn't if the if the title of the [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► event you know you look out for words [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► like gala gala is a good indication you [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► should up your game a little bit right [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► but for a lot of people in the world [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► that is a blue suit that's as high as [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► they go blue suit with with the tie the [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► ceiling I've been go any higher than [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► that or a rented tux a mule an [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► ill-fitting rented tux [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► yeah so but but in most cases like [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► formal I think formal involves like [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► actual formal at night is white tie [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► white waistcoat like when was last time [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► you saw that that wasn't at it wasn't a [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► member of a wedding party well and you [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► have to be careful that you don't get in [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► too jokey frat brother Brothers style [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► formality right black black tie is after [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► six is that right [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► well white tie is like the super formal [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► one right right time in olden times [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► white tie was for dinner and black tie [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► was like what you wore [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► like then I mean a morning coat well [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► this is when you white ties when you [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► wear like a Jiminy Cricket outfit yeah [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► at dinner every night I mean this is [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► like this is like old Oh like 1910 and [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► in England but you didn't show up with a [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► Black Tie tuxedo at night at a gala for [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► sure but now you do now that's the [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► that's the peak and there are all kinds [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► of rules right you don't wear a white [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► dinner jacket unless you're in the [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► tropics but people love the look of [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► white dinner jackets and so now you see [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► white dinner jackets above the tropics [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► and also you don't wear a white dinner [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► jacket in the winter hmm but people do [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► now because there's a costume for speed [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► since most people are having fun with it [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► right they don't under they don't know [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► what the they don't know that it [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► actually signifies a Kemp some kind of [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► like archaic social order but so if I'm [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► invited to anything up to white tie [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► which I cannot accomplish like Paul if [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► Tompkins can accomplish white tie and [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► wears it sometimes min wears it always [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► as a costume so he wears it [TS]

01:03:26 ◼   ► inappropriately in that it's too formal [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► for some events he goes to but that's [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► his bit he's like a he's like a friendly [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► children's television host yeah that is [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► that's his bit huh but almost anything [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► else that you would invite me to I can [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► come not only appropriately but also in [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► my own vernacular right in my own [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► vernacular precisely so you know I can [TS]

01:03:48 ◼   ► come to a black-tie event in 1959 or in [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► 1977 or then also the one that is just [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► the appropriate one [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► can I just I read you the description of [TS]

01:04:00 ◼   ► white tie from the internet science site [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► here according to the British etiquette [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► guide Debrett's of which I do not own a [TS]

01:04:08 ◼   ► copy the central opponents are [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► components of full evening dress from [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► men are a white Marcella shirt which is [TS]

01:04:14 ◼   ► a kind of like a weave of shirt Marcella [TS]

01:04:17 ◼   ► shirt with the detachable wing collar [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► and single cuffs fastened with studs and [TS]

01:04:21 ◼   ► cufflinks the eponymous white Marcella [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► bowtie is worn around the collar while [TS]

01:04:26 ◼   ► marcella waistcoat is worn over the [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► shirt over this is worn a black single [TS]

01:04:31 ◼   ► breasted bar Athiya that's like a very [TS]

01:04:33 ◼   ► gameofthrones name Bharathi awal or [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► ultrafine herringbone tail coat with [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► silk peak lapels were not done the [TS]

01:04:40 ◼   ► trousers have double braiding down the [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► outside of both legs while the correct [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► shoes are patent leather or highly [TS]

01:04:46 ◼   ► polished black dress shoes although a [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► white scarf remains popular in winter [TS]

01:04:50 ◼   ► the traditional white gloves top hats [TS]

01:04:52 ◼   ► canes and cloaks are now rare it's the [TS]

01:04:56 ◼   ► end of the menses yes and so you lose [TS]

01:04:58 ◼   ► the Canes you lose the Canes and cloak [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► because in cloaks nak seem to like Tori [TS]

01:05:07 ◼   ► and that's two costumes you look a [TS]

01:05:08 ◼   ► little bit like you know the monopoly [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► man it was like them enough women but [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► single cuffs not French cuffs like there [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► are a lot of mistakes that we make in [TS]

01:05:20 ◼   ► thinking that the thing that is more [TS]

01:05:22 ◼   ► ornate is also the most fancy like [TS]

01:05:27 ◼   ► you'll see a lot of people a lot of men [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► wear their wingtips to put wingtips with [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► the tux because the wingtips have more [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► fancy on them they are more bling they [TS]

01:05:38 ◼   ► got more bling but in fact when you get [TS]

01:05:40 ◼   ► up to this level the fanciest is the [TS]

01:05:43 ◼   ► plainest so you're not meant to wear [TS]

01:05:46 ◼   ► wingtips with a with a tuck so you want [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► your plainest black shoes and it should [TS]

01:05:51 ◼   ► be no except first right yeah that's [TS]

01:05:53 ◼   ► right [TS]

01:05:55 ◼   ► and and not French cups but single cuffs [TS]

01:05:58 ◼   ► and so forth and so on and all this [TS]

01:06:00 ◼   ► stuff is like that all signals whether [TS]

01:06:02 ◼   ► or not you know and that's a huge part [TS]

01:06:05 ◼   ► of what dress codes and what dress even [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► is it signals whether or not you know [TS]

01:06:10 ◼   ► what things are and now of course we [TS]

01:06:14 ◼   ► think oh those things are unimportant or [TS]

01:06:16 ◼   ► those that are worse those things are [TS]

01:06:18 ◼   ► enforcing a social hierarchy that we [TS]

01:06:21 ◼   ► abhor but those things are also part of [TS]

01:06:28 ◼   ► our and this is the word that you know [TS]

01:06:30 ◼   ► this is the bell ringing word right it's [TS]

01:06:32 ◼   ► part of our patrimony pound sign not all [TS]

01:06:35 ◼   ► tuxedos right pound signs you know wears [TS]

01:06:38 ◼   ► why is it patrimony mm-hmm that's I am [TS]

01:06:41 ◼   ► but but it's that stuff interests me not [TS]

01:06:45 ◼   ► just because it's like cultural heritage [TS]

01:06:48 ◼   ► but also because I love codes you know I [TS]

01:06:51 ◼   ► love social codes I love in I love [TS]

01:06:55 ◼   ► interpreting codes I love seeing when [TS]

01:06:57 ◼   ► other people like Dow Constantine [TS]

01:07:00 ◼   ► wearing those fucking ribbons is and the [TS]

01:07:04 ◼   ► converse is expressing a knowledge of [TS]

01:07:11 ◼   ► ultimately of people and of stories and [TS]

01:07:15 ◼   ► of the stories that people want to tell [TS]

01:07:16 ◼   ► and that's what all this stuff is about [TS]

01:07:18 ◼   ► and I admire it when I see it [TS]

01:07:21 ◼   ► and honestly I feel like the single [TS]

01:07:25 ◼   ► piece of scotch tape on the sheriff's [TS]

01:07:27 ◼   ► gun was a thing that he initially put on [TS]

01:07:33 ◼   ► there because a screw fell out of his [TS]

01:07:34 ◼   ► pistol and then he liked what it [TS]

01:07:37 ◼   ► symbolized he's a man of the people he [TS]

01:07:41 ◼   ► has a piece of tape on his gun and no [TS]

01:07:44 ◼   ► one has said anything about it he's been [TS]

01:07:46 ◼   ► wearing that tape on his gun for fucking [TS]

01:07:49 ◼   ► ever I bet because looking at the tape [TS]

01:07:51 ◼   ► it had been on there a long time it was [TS]

01:07:52 ◼   ► all it was all used and it was put on [TS]

01:07:56 ◼   ► there very you know not not with any [TS]

01:07:59 ◼   ► attempt to be neat it was very like slap [TS]

01:08:02 ◼   ► on some tape he'd been wearing that like [TS]

01:08:05 ◼   ► a pin on his lapel as a way of signaling [TS]

01:08:09 ◼   ► so many things and someone finally said [TS]

01:08:12 ◼   ► something about it and he was thrilled [TS]

01:08:14 ◼   ► and his deputy was thrilled [TS]

01:08:16 ◼   ► all these little flags that we have all [TS]

01:08:19 ◼   ► these flag lapels a flag pins on our [TS]

01:08:22 ◼   ► lapels that are that are ways of saying [TS]

01:08:24 ◼   ► like this is me like a sheriff can't [TS]

01:08:27 ◼   ► bling out his outfit it already is [TS]

01:08:29 ◼   ► completely composed I'm not sure if Sam [TS]

01:08:31 ◼   ► you know he doesn't have any there's no [TS]

01:08:34 ◼   ► opportunity for him to put them even a [TS]

01:08:36 ◼   ► even a flower in [TS]

01:08:37 ◼   ► lapel because it would be out of uniform [TS]

01:08:39 ◼   ► huh but he can put a little tape on the [TS]

01:08:41 ◼   ► handle of his gun like a like a lace [TS]

01:08:46 ◼   ► brassiere [TS]

01:08:47 ◼   ► now at some point do you think you [TS]

01:08:50 ◼   ► should get that fixed I mean like it's [TS]

01:08:54 ◼   ► fun he's having fun with it which I like [TS]

01:08:56 ◼   ► I like that he's doing some bling and [TS]

01:08:58 ◼   ► he's got his his version of a black [TS]

01:09:00 ◼   ► brassiere but like damn certain points [TS]

01:09:01 ◼   ► shouldn't police officer make sure his [TS]

01:09:02 ◼   ► gun doesn't have tape on it and that's a [TS]

01:09:05 ◼   ► throwaway piece I think they call it I'm [TS]

01:09:07 ◼   ► hoping I'm hoping that this Sheriff has [TS]

01:09:11 ◼   ► enough insulating sheriffs around him he [TS]

01:09:15 ◼   ► has three or four there were the shit [TS]

01:09:17 ◼   ► there there are the deputies you see and [TS]

01:09:19 ◼   ► there that are the deputies you don't [TS]

01:09:21 ◼   ► see and in Seattle at least in in in [TS]

01:09:26 ◼   ► Palin around with Dow his driver and his [TS]

01:09:30 ◼   ► the deputy that is assigned to shadow [TS]

01:09:33 ◼   ► Dow is always a woman and there and at [TS]

01:09:38 ◼   ► this event [TS]

01:09:39 ◼   ► standing sort of back with my crown on [TS]

01:09:41 ◼   ► that's another fun game is to pick out [TS]

01:09:44 ◼   ► the people who are there because they [TS]

01:09:46 ◼   ► are carrying guns because they're [TS]

01:09:49 ◼   ► shadowing somebody right because a lot [TS]

01:09:51 ◼   ► of the people at this event have a [TS]

01:09:53 ◼   ► shadow and the shadow isn't standing at [TS]

01:09:56 ◼   ► their elbow the shadow is standing in a [TS]

01:09:58 ◼   ► corner somewhere and they will have an [TS]

01:10:01 ◼   ► earpiece or they won't but they will [TS]

01:10:05 ◼   ► definitely have a little twirly cable on [TS]

01:10:07 ◼   ► it like you're like a Secret Service [TS]

01:10:08 ◼   ► type situation yeah so there were four [TS]

01:10:10 ◼   ► of those people at this event but there [TS]

01:10:13 ◼   ► were also other people that didn't have [TS]

01:10:14 ◼   ► twirl ease but that had on you know like [TS]

01:10:18 ◼   ► bulges in their jackets and in King [TS]

01:10:23 ◼   ► County at least it seems like often the [TS]

01:10:30 ◼   ► like secret detectives the ones the ones [TS]

01:10:36 ◼   ► who are standing at one remove are women [TS]

01:10:38 ◼   ► because I think that the county [TS]

01:10:41 ◼   ► recognizes that bad guys are there you [TS]

01:10:46 ◼   ► know the the goal of somebody's standing [TS]

01:10:48 ◼   ► there with a pistol is that you may not [TS]

01:10:50 ◼   ► be notice [TS]

01:10:51 ◼   ► mm-hmm and bad guys are gonna be less [TS]

01:10:54 ◼   ► likely to think that the sheriff is [TS]

01:10:56 ◼   ► being shadowed by a deputy who's a woman [TS]

01:10:59 ◼   ► and that that's an extra layer of [TS]

01:11:02 ◼   ► badassery that's super badass like Pussy [TS]

01:11:06 ◼   ► Galore like you have your whole like [TS]

01:11:07 ◼   ► your squad of action people that's [TS]

01:11:11 ◼   ► really cool and so when the when the the [TS]

01:11:14 ◼   ► gang was all finally arrayed on our on [TS]

01:11:19 ◼   ► our big like parade of Corvettes which [TS]

01:11:24 ◼   ► is how we were going through the parade [TS]

01:11:25 ◼   ► and the mayor the the beleaguered mayor [TS]

01:11:28 ◼   ► of Seattle also arrived and got in his [TS]

01:11:31 ◼   ► Corvette and I was very interested to [TS]

01:11:33 ◼   ► know because it's a parade and there's [TS]

01:11:36 ◼   ► very little separation between you and [TS]

01:11:39 ◼   ► the crowd in a parade yeah as he started [TS]

01:11:41 ◼   ► having a rough time well I mean what [TS]

01:11:43 ◼   ► what he is accused of he will never not [TS]

01:11:46 ◼   ► have a rough time I mean I know you've [TS]

01:11:49 ◼   ► been acquainted with him I'm trying to [TS]

01:11:50 ◼   ► be classy about it but he's he's had [TS]

01:11:52 ◼   ► kind of some a challenge our current [TS]

01:11:55 ◼   ► mayor did not run for re-election even [TS]

01:11:57 ◼   ► though he was until this scandal [TS]

01:12:00 ◼   ► presumed to be a shoo-in he he bowed out [TS]

01:12:04 ◼   ► of the race and now there are 21 people [TS]

01:12:06 ◼   ► running for mayor of Seattle and I [TS]

01:12:07 ◼   ► should have done it it should have done [TS]

01:12:08 ◼   ► just film no no please don't even for 22 [TS]

01:12:11 ◼   ► it's done but but so he's in the parade [TS]

01:12:13 ◼   ► Dow is in a parade they're both riding [TS]

01:12:15 ◼   ► sort of next to each other in their [TS]

01:12:17 ◼   ► Corvettes awkward and buff and it's very [TS]

01:12:20 ◼   ► awkward because Dow is a very successful [TS]

01:12:22 ◼   ► politician who will be a national [TS]

01:12:24 ◼   ► politician at one point in his life for [TS]

01:12:26 ◼   ► sure I mean unless he makes a real [TS]

01:12:30 ◼   ► misstep which I don't foresee him making [TS]

01:12:34 ◼   ► but so I walk up in my tunic to their [TS]

01:12:39 ◼   ► cars to say good luck gentlemen have a [TS]

01:12:41 ◼   ► great parade on behalf of King Neptune [TS]