Roderick on the Line

00:00:00 ◼   ► this episode of Roderick on the line is [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► sponsored by America votes with cards [TS]

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00:00:06 ◼   ► asks Americans to vote this November [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► hello hi John I'm I Merlin how's it [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► going [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► oh it's going so good oh good morning [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► mmm good morning mhm [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► oh boy I know what I want whoo-hoo yeah [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► yeah yeahs catcher what the human [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► condition i was on a plane all night [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► now that's not good you know what that [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► no I arrived in seattle at 515 am I am [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► you are you on a plane five hours ago [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► the others [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► yeah dancer huh and then I woke up with [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► a sore throat are you know if I was our [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► broadcast partner pal [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► dan Benjamin who i'd already be at the [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► doctor's office he beat the doctor twice [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► by now I would have canceled this [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► episode of the show in your ropes [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► training because I would have needed [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► some medical attention on but I am NOT [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► and Benjamin I'm me and I'm here in the [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► chair [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► oh man he's selling his like you're [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► about to blow I'm back [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► no I here's the thing i realized that [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► your you've been flying in your your [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► little bit sick we just see no you also [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► sound like you could just blow up right [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► now like you could really this could be [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► it this could be if you ever need to [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► emulate the feeling of this is the last [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► straw that that's the voice listen I i [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► do not want to miss my chance to blow a [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► guarantee you know because more attempts [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► on my father's like opportunity comes [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► once in a lifetime [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► well I'll try to join you in this tone [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► alright alright why like why were you [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► traveling and going to do this entire [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► program with clenched teeth was it for [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► business or pleasure it was there is no [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► pleasure in flying well hold on i i i [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► went up to the nice lady and I said [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► listen [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► my google arenas now use its you selling [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► it Jeanne old black you know inside me [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► uh-huh there are a lot of cells [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► oh you're like what women but I you know [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► I was booked on a flight that left two [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► a.m. and got in at 6 55 or something [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► like that and i went up to the counter [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► is the thing about Alaska Airlines you [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► can change your flight right there at [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► the kiosk so it's change it to an [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► earlier flight but then i was on a [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► middle seat in the middle plane was [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► gonna be awful was going to be worse [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► than bad know how far from anywhere even [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► if I could ask my flight from LA I use [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► are you saying that that it was a [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► one-hour flight that would be somehow [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► more tolerable I guess it would I guess [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► I 19-hour flight i need to have more [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► facts in order to propose some kind of [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► preposterous theory about you could [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► probably suck it up for two hearts but [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► it was a dignity dignity comes into it [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► was a three-hour flight but I went up to [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► the lady you know you gotta know the [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► deal even and 45 minutes before the [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► flight takes off they close the flight [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► oh yeah thatthat's I don't understand [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► that it was actually considering that [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► they quote unquote open the flight [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► usually about five minutes before that [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► well no there's nobody there there's no [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► might be signage about what's going to [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► happen there at some point later in the [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► eventually one Harry person shows up a [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► lot of white men run to the counter and [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► then they close the flight [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► that's right the flight is closed and [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► i'm one of those white men and I say [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► listen I know you're about to close the [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► flight and I really can't be in this [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► seat for a variety of reasons I'm very [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► special person that I have right here i [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► have my service horse will have trained [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► to tap his hooves in order to [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► communicate how desperately i need this [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► chair lol people interact with Winston [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► and she told ya my service turkey and [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► she took me she just like very very [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► cash on the download just put me right [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► in an exit row around the island exit [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► row that didn't have a person in the [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► middle seat it was just it was full [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► flight the the woman prior and told me [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► there were no seats available [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► they closed that flight and that's when [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► those exits eats cum online Merle uh-huh [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► anyway I was flying from Anchorage [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► Alaska my hometown because i went back [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► to attend my 30th highschool reunion and [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► I don't know if you remember the film [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► peggy sue got married [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► no yeah probably i think that was one of [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► the early Nicolas Cage hells yeah it was [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► an eighties film where Kathleen Turner [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► went back in time to her [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► 30 30 years to when she was in high [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► school [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► yeah that's running about and that came [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► out when we are in high school and [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► Kathleen Turner was envied ibly thought [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► to be an actress who could play who [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► could go back and play herself in high [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► school she was the Michael J Fox of the [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► story but now its new standards this [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► let's be honest the standards have [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► changed [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► it's true it's like you know sometimes [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► they measure the the economy how much [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► Big Mac costs I think today you can [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► judge the health of what it means to be [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► an actress in hollywood by how old you [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► have to be to play Peter Parker's aren't [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► which was originally I think mrs. [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► Cunningham and more recently was marisa [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► tomei marisa tomei is such a good actor [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► has good i really admire her [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► I feel like yeah it sounds like it's [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► right after topic so so whatever's [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► travels in time with nicolas cage and we [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► were high scarlett johansson plays the [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► beyond unnoticed the sexually [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► unappealing matron in a film because [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► she's older she's gotta be pushing 30 [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► now it's 35 or whatever oh my gosh I [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► told that will be the day that I check [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► no I don't remember feeling [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► uncomfortable about finding her [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► attractive in that in that steve buscemi [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► with the other girl because she's a [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► teenager solution teenager right she was [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► playing a teenager and yeah I made you [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► feel uncomfortable my thinking [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► uncomfortable i love movies [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► how do you feel about songs from the [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► fifties sixties and seventies that [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► reference uh like younger women [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► this is that side this i will hear [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► anecdote but that that's a big topic is [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► actually keys and something that I think [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► about a lot which is the coded language [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► of men over time and I was sitting [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► around the other day as irritating and [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► it occurred to me that you know because [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► there's always been code is always been [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► coding when you say stuff like you know [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► we exist of like you know oh there's [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► gonna be girls there and for a long time [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► when I was younger I would think the [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► 1000 i can get a date or like or have a [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► chance to try out my social skills that [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► was gonna be girls there and then as I [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► got a little older I started seeing oh [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► yeah that's probably the girls i can [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► kiss on women as I got a little earlier [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► when they're being seen with the guys [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► let's go to this party is gonna be girls [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► i'm pretty sure that was code for we're [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► gonna have intercourse [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► oh wow and now I find myself as a [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► moulder and urinating I think to myself [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► I wonder how many times that means i can [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► force a girl to to do something with me [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► you know for certain kinds of codes in [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► earlier times what I'm saying [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► and as for like a chase around teenage [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► girls like you know Chuck Berry ran into [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► a little trouble with that I thought he [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► ran into trouble to see was hiding in to [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► us in toilets yeah yeah that's the thing [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► that has I think that Chuck Berry can [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► find out you know around the time you [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► know the music died like all those guys [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► died in a crash and then you know Chuck [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► Berry violated the Mann Act and you're [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► like and then you know that in that case [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► you know was named kathleen quinlan was [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► a girl Kathleen Turner you know the [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► fighting going back in time is 0 [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► all he did was try to transport his [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► cousin over the state line for Nikki but [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► like who knows he might have had some [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► prototypical Russian spy camera in the [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► bus station bathroom because that's [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► really his thing so i decided i think is [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► a dookie man i decided to to yet to to [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► figure out what the real story of the of [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► the [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► whoever the character was that actually [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► was hiding inside a port-a-potty because [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► they wanted they wanted to watch people [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► go to the potty [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► yeah and I ced at the the to put a low [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► point on it I think he had some partial [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► ownership in like an establishment like [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► a restaurant right and so at some point [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► he caused cameras to be installed where [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► he could watch ladies go to the bathroom [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► but there was someone who actually was [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► in the toilet [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► that's right you get thought-form for [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► that promise so I i just tried to Google [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► hiding in toilet and that's gonna go on [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► my permanent record right google has put [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► that jumped in cabinets to get put in [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► google is Sergey Brin let their nests [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► that you're getting you're gonna get ads [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► based on was hiding and hiding hiding [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► hiding in toilet and so whatever [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► whenever I put something in the Google I [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► imagine sergey brin sitting at a big [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► desk which is in to speak with google [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► glass on an entire heads-up display an [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► array of things spin out of that he [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► clicks eclipse there's like three [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► pathways you choose for you at this [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► point it's like it's like a job 04 your [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► sexuality [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► no but this is my this is my imagination [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► right Sunday's he's he's got the [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► heads-up displays that because this is a [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► cinematic imagination are visible to us [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► the viewer right out there in in virtual [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► space in front of him [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► the desk is completely clean of any of [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► no comments no pen holder no pictures [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► family little 10 clean broad desk he's [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► sitting there in a black turtleneck with [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► the with the in homage sure and that [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► he's wearing Google glass and then a [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► secretary walks in and puts a piece of [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► paper on his desk already scan it with [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► Snowden google glass existed should put [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► it facedown his desk piece of paper and [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► he picks it up and it says hiding in [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► toilet [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► because you can be a new wrinkle in the [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► sexuality of General Eric he's [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► monitoring me in a different way and he [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► doesn't want he doesn't want the record [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► on his google glass [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► oh and he's how that anything any [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► information he finds about me it's on [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► paper and then he burns it has been [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► doing this for a while John that in my [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► imagination he has like it'sit's had the [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► ability you you've been on his glass [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► screen but here's the truth here's the [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► wrinkle yeah i went to write hiding in [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► toilet and I swear to you accidentally [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► finger from ball i wrote hiding internal [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► it with Archie Bunker fetish [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► that's right which is a little bit of [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► coded language it's actually much more [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► appropriate whoever it was that did [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► hiding the toilet probably pronounced in [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► toilet yeah but now Sergei was not a [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► native English speaker know gets that on [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► a piece of paper possibly hiding [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► internal it and he's that's hard to [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► parse peak and the thing is you could [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► google it probably but he wants no [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► record so he's looking at hiding it [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► turlet oh and he's making no sense out [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► of this i guess you could you could just [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► google turlet it suddenly someone [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► somewhere down in mountain view here [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► boob grace appear micrometer as we [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► continue to believe that because he's [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► checking everything grace our require [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► moment so now there is an article here [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► afternoon after googling hiding in [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► turlet there's an article here on the [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► Huffington Post which is which is never [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► wrong [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► the port-a-potty paper [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► huh-uh from boulder colorado [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► port-a-potty paper or paper prompts this [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► is that they do some alliteration party [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► part of paper prompts for body probe [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► police in no problem huh [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► but then i click on the article and what [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► came up was an inspiring way New Orleans [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► youth persevered 11 years post-katrina [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► yeah I think surgery is gonna take some [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► personal time another piece of paper is [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► gently slid onto his desk where met [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► download but the page here toilet terror [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► as Python bites man's penis while he [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► sits on the loop that's something to [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► post know this is somewhere else this is [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► well here they say Lou so you know it's [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► got to be some kind of you know that [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► comes from British ship potty talk you [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► know that comes from Lou supposedly [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► turns out it comes from the toilet in a [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► public building in England was often [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► room 100 really turns out i don't know [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► that's true you can notice that person [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► and i think john at this point you [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► should probably just stop searching I [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► think you've you've given plenty of [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► tender to the google man i just clicked [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► that's one of my favorite cat stevens [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► stops different good interpersonal man [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► well I i I'm being bothered by my click [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► on toilet errors Python bites minds [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► man's penis while he sits on the loop [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► before bloody battle ensues that's the [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► the rest of the headline huh [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► so now that piece of paper is getting [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► slit across that desk right this very [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► moment and you know he's easy on other [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► work to do [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► he's up in the google glass moving [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► billions of dollars around he's buying [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► yachts he's doing stuff am imagining it [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► because most of what I know about [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► running a large corporation comes from [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► watching TV shows in the in the [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► seventies I imagine that periodically [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► somebody comes into interrupting he's [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► frustrated they thrust a giant pile of [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► papers and say sign here and here in [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► here in here so he's still he's still [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► splitting his attention he occasionally [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► has to do something [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► he has to decide that something needs to [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► be purchased hehe maybe order a couple [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► Tesla's he signed some merger and [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► acquisition documents but the whole time [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► he's thinking about the turlet pythons [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► the thing is that the number of [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► situations in being in my life presently [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► where people send me an email where they [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► want me to use and some kind of app to [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► sign the email and send it back a secure [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► app and sign it now or signed with a Z [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► signs and I've got some of these [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► programs and I sit and try to navigate [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► them in and sign my document virtually [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► and send it back [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► you're always you're often often kind [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► enough to include me in the threat for [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► this that because i wanted my phone I [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► conduct my business on my telephone and [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► I frankly don't understand why I would [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► need to virtually sign as easy on this [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► forum [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► yeah it this application is not loading [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► properly on my telephone [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► yeah what I would i say is can you not [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► accept an email authorization of this [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► like contract for five dollars it's like [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► it's like yeah exactly that's what kills [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► it's like you know I'm not bowing [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► alright you want me to like come and do [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► like a little puppet show for 42 minutes [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► yeah and like we're talking about like [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► what what you spend on light bulbs in an [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► afternoon in this one building we're [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► talking about like rounding error levels [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► of money here that i won't see for six [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► months and yet I have to fill out the [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► Boeing for ya like like [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► no I don't have a million dollars in [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► insurance nobody has a million dollars [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► insurance who are you [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► I is now spent more time trying to sign [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► this form than I did during the during [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► the presentation you hired me to give [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► like my my show was not this long time [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► two hours into trying to sign your [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► fucking contract is also it's a [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► professional heal those organizations [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► and God love the people who are in [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► charge of putting those forms on my [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► phone but they have a bunch of people [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► who just sit around all day doing [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► nothing but making those little gears [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► turn just a tiny little bit yeah and [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► like the thing is I'm over here and I [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► got stuff to do it's not important stuff [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► you know who I got no soup you got this [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► guy over here not me [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► and the whole time I'm not an important [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► man John I'm like as i like to say John [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► I'm not busy I'm time constraint i I'm [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► not busy but I built my life for 49 [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► years getting to where I can be time [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► constraint without being busy when you [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► make me to sign something with a Z on my [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► phone [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► you're making me busy and you're [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► attaching an eel to my phone that's [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► right we see this all the time [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► yes people who there they are getting [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► work credit for sending emails [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► oh they could get paid to not make that [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► your turn buddy and i am sitting here [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► not getting work credit for receiving [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► their emails so it it costs them nothing [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► to send me five emails a day to make [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► sure that i'm gonna be there at load in [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► time costs them nothing [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► it's there it's their job they're being [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► rewarded for it but every one of those [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► emails I have to use my eyes to look at [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► and although you don't have to sign if [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► you ignore it still takes a minute to [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► decide to the north gate for ignoring [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► well then I get 14 more emails just [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► checking to make sure that you got my [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► email that circle back [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► actually I got that as a form i don't [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► know if we talk about this but you know [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► I i was getting phone calls to to make [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► sure I'd seen the email that was making [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► sure that I'd seen the text that was [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► telling me what time to be a place where [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► the thing [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► what were the time to be a place had [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► been carefully stated in five or six [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► emails I'd already received a great [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► great part is those people will get to [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► retire with those people have a job [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► where they get paid the same amount of [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► money every month and they get to retire [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► their kids get to go to college and [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► you're sitting there answering emails [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► about did you get my phone call about [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► the email about the phone call about the [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► gig and loaded [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► yeah like San we send me this sign [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► contract so i can send you the money I [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► owe you [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► oh my god for the thing you did already [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► that I asked you you know that I said I [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► would pay you to do but i can't pay [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► I there's an outstanding one right now I [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► am owed money by music company in [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► England you know for for some work I did [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► on an album was at the four tracks john [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► this is right circle brixham [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► and they and it's like it's like when [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► you're become a Microsoft vendor i went [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► online and somebody sent me an email and [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► they were like just click here and sign [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► up as a vendor for mca dot u K or [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► whatever and that then we'll be able to [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► pay and i went online and i filled out [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► the whole fucking form and then I [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► clicked on send and it and had asked an [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► inscrutable question like it went to [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► another page upon which there was a an [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► inscrutable question and I tried to [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► answer it and it did not accept my [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► answer huh and would not accept the form [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► and you know I hurt no one but myself [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► when I say go fuck yourself you have now [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► I've now gone to a third location with [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► the hippie ya never do that and I do not [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► want to be here anymore [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► go fuck yourself that you're the weirdo [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► you're the weirdo yeah that's it that is [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► inscrutable to them that you would not [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► want to take another couple days of your [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► life to just go deal with the with the [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► content management system again what [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► does what it required is that I've been [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► emailed the person back who sent me the [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► email and and I have to just wipe all [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► the work I've done so far because i [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► can't get back to that screen have to [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► email that person said what is the what [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► is this question about what do I have to [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► what the question was who was your [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► reference I name the person that was [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► your reference and i put in the name of [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► the person that sent me because [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► obviously we don't have access to the [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► system that you spent all that time we [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► have to go find it was a Johnny yeah [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► yeah really well know John emailed me i [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► get these emails all the time about [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► who's my new contact [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► I think I think Joey might be three [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► people ago ya ever get those you've got [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► you've gotten those height when [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► introduced my replacement [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► yeah cheers leone speak when you're near [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► the airport in your you type do you have [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► your flight number [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► no here's my name what's your final [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► destination today [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► here's my final destination all right [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► now you have my name and my final [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► destination [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► tell me that there are more than one [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► John Roderick right now that are going [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► to seattle tell can't do it service [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► security and so then it's like oh well [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► which flight are you on [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► and here's a list of five flights pick [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► the one that you're on [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► alright I'm i don't remember which one [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► month this one that one and so sorry [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► you're here now back out at the front [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► back out at the front of the back out of [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► the gate push the button [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► can I get in please i want it all to die [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► Merlin I want everything I want it all [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► to die and i wanted to go back to [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► triplet remember triplicates yeah surely [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► do you remember the goldenrod goldenrod [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► i love this whole you know that the [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► goldenrod was usually my copy to [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► remember to gene did you smell [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► mimeograph paper [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► we've talked about this of course idea i [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► seldom I smelled all the things it i [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► passed onto my daughter she's a hot for [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► now she smells so she'll enjoy a sharpie [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► remember sitting at a gas station when [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► there were no things that kept [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► chlorofluorocarbons from just pouring [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► into the atmosphere on the trip and just [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► huffing that gasps Oh gasps yeah the [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► leaded gas Maryland then we huffed i [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► missed the gas i missed the Midway graph [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► paper so it's 1985 Peggy Sue bodell sets [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► off to her 25-year high school reunion [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► with her daughter Beth oh she's just [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► separated from her high school [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► sweetheart now husband Charlie and his [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► weary of attending the reunion because [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► of everyone questioning her about his [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► absence as they have been married since [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► Peggy became pregnant right after [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► graduation I had this very conversation [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► just last just just last night with one [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► of my highschool classmates [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► yes this is directed by francis ford [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► coppola we aware that I I was not aware [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► of that [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► just someone getting divorced just now [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► after having been married since high [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► school [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► that's heavy the entire time that you [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► and I've been doing this podcast and [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► before that even these two people were [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► married all the way back to when I was [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► in high school and now they're getting [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► into [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► yeah I mean it's kind of become the [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► default assumption you know it's like I [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► I recently reconnected with the power [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► from college she I know somebody [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► following me and responding at home that [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► person has the name of somebody was [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► pretty good friends with in college and [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► so I did that thing that's really [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► awkward right said mom there get your [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► final destination [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► what if huh what's your fucking i said i [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► miss any chance there any chance that [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► this is the doesn't such person that I [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► knew in college which you know it's a [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► fairly unusual name but i thought i'm [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► probably gonna sound like a loon because [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► who knows and she was like of course [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► it's me [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► so when is my god you send him is this [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► wasn't such did I sent that message and [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► then now I when I was exploring what [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► she's been up to and it's like she's [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► still with the guy that I mostly those [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► closer friends with a in college there's [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► they're still together and I was like [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► wow thats I'm not feels like the [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► exception [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► yeah you don't can assume you can't go [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► like you know house Christine or [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► whatever or you know all what about [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► James how is he is like I don't know we [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► haven't talked since 1992 and all right [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► sorry [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► yeah I said that to a guy to I was like [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► yeah you still see in Tasha rasmussen [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► whatever it was like not since 1994 [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► looks like oh what's been happening [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► since then [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► well I had three kids one of them's 22 [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► years old shit I haven't talked to you [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► in a long time [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► yeah I know it's been about 22 years I I [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► feel my forms i still feel very close to [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► yeah well here's the school together [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► this is the Atlas together as part of it [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► i really wish you'd tell me more about [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► your story but the others part of this [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► is that I want to hear I realized by [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► going to Google somebody and in so many [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► of my friends that there are still out [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► there are some of them are still writers [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► a lot of them have become developers and [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► stuff like that and I'll go I'll look [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► somebody up and I'll go wow shit man [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► that guy you please put pushing 50 [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► dog-eat-dog and i'll be like and then go [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► like it sweet [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► here because i know they were mostly my [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► age in 1986 and the crazy part is [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► they're still mostly my age today [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► because in my head they will always be [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► 19 or 20 [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► I know this is an obvious thing but when [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► you actually are confronted with like [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► holy shit you're you're older now than [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► you and your dad was when I met you [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► which is in agreement that smooth and [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► now your fingers still didn't get the [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► email you about this to the email how [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► they let you know John it's time for the [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► 32 33 Union yes today is such a high [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► school is it you want to the high school [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► that wasn't a good high school you went [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► to the other always a good i'm perfectly [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► fine but you're not the high school got [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► ozzy osbourne know where we weren't we [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► was always pretty I feel like you've [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► always portrayed it as like you were the [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► also-ran you mean where's my hit the [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► white ribbon I we were highschool number [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► two who high school number one uh for [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► many many years was the only high school [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► and they also have the auditorium that [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► seed seated 2,000 people so everyone in [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► Anchorage when there was something to do [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► when there was an event in in 1960 [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► everybody in the city went and SAT in [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► the west high auditorium and on the side [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► of the westheimer aquarium as a giant [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► Bald Eagle shrieking through the sky [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► with its talons outstretched to catch a [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► giant anchor a giant be fouled anchor [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► like in relationship to this screaming [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► eagle it is a truly bad ass logo and [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► then it was determined that the city was [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► growing and it needed a second high [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► school also West has colors were black [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► and orange very tough see those you do a [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► leather jacket your collar we recall [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► what year's work [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► sure I do holy warriors well let me get [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► there okay because when they started [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► when they built east high school [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► they did not give it a 2000 seat [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► auditorium and the mascot was the [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► Thunderbird a mythical animal and the [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► Thunderbird was represented in sort of [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► Native American like general vague [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► Native American iconography but a [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► Thunderbird is not it's not part of the [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► the Eskimo that's more or less that [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► feels more like a Southwest I'm look at [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► the lower 48 like a Southwest Native [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► American kind of thing [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► look at the UCC a Thunderbird thing I [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► feel like maybe in like in like I in [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► Arizona or New Mexico and even like [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► Pacific Northwest you know I can also [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► see a vancouver top type Thunderbird day [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► there's all kinds of what the card [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► indigenous know every original peoples [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► whatever thats that's a huge thing we're [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► in vancouver it was like it was in [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► ironically a big part of the culture [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► there was like this yeah experience of [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► that culture looks good let's call it a [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► look let's call it an indigenous myth [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► mythology my wife and I went to a fancy [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► dinner at a place that was all like it [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► was like kind of fancy but like the [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► Atlantic ish upscale like a I don't want [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► to say something racist but I don't say [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► Indian whatever the work term they use [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► there is but what's the whatever the the [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► tribes of the British Columbia they're [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► still very aware that totem poles in the [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► park and this whole thing you know where [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► the the Haida and the blanket right the [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► clicker from a little bit further north [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► I'm catco's the Haida are from right [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► around there but there are a lot of [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► subject sub-tribes right right right [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► uh the you know the LED the lips the the [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► tribes from right around here [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► I mean I i could name 40 of them but [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► they're all related to the Haida what [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► happened the supra tribe but the Thunder [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► what one thing the Thunderbird is not is [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► either an Eskimo [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► like icon nor is it really like a [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► central Alaskan I don't I don't I don't [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► think of it as a as an Athabascan image [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► and Anchorage is not really part of the [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► turf of the of the blanket who you know [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► their turf ends down there in the [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► wrangles somewhere i don't know i'm [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► using a lot of words in the sentence [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► word salad but I'm riding the wave and [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► so it sounds a little bit like saying [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► it's like it might as well as meaningful [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► as saying like hey we're the Pirates [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► well we never really had Pirates here or [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► what oh they're they're adopting some [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► kind of a culture [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► yeah but even yeah right it's not [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► there's no there are no hurricanes on [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► the west coast so you shouldn't because [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► you shouldn't say like East I hurricanes [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► they you know it should be cyclones or [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► whatever but yeah this is that this is [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► some there aren't totem poles in [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► Anchorage let's just put it that way [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► there are no totem poles but the East [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► High logo looks like it came from a [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► totem pole so right away you're feeling [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► like um and then to make matters worse [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► our colors were red white and powder [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► blue and so our letter jackets were the [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► the body of them were powder blue sounds [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► kinda like maybe like Eastern European [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► it well and out and my lady friend went [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► to my reunion with me and she said I [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► find those very attractive colors and I [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► said but but but yes okay but are they [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► butch sports color [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► she'sshe's millennium she's a millennium [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► so she's like I don't even know what [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► about butch sports colors but i think [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► it's a very attractive jacket in a in it [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► in any case so here we are [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► against the fighting Eagles west high [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► and we're like the the powder blue [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► Thunderbirds it was tough and and what [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► what drives me crazy is were there no [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► other fierce animals in Alaska that [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► could have been the mascot of the second [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► high school [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► yeah how about a bear what about a wolf [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► these are there there are these he could [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► have even gone with [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► you know something that seems to be a [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► touchdown for you which is the hearty [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► stock of the various people that have [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► come there over time so we can really [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► get to san francisco 49ers or something [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► like that you could go with something [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► that's about the people but instead they [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► transplanted a Thunderbird sure the [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► Anchorage anchors I don't know the West [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► i already have the anchor let's say they [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► have the eagle and the anchor it's so [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► infuriating and if they had a secret [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► society i bet it was called the Eagle in [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► the anchor here we are [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► the Thunderbird and the and the cultural [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► co-optation and we could have been so [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► the third high school or whatever [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► Bartlett I think that Carlos in portland [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► maybe diamond was the third could have [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► been yeah i think one of those you know [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► they're the Bears the diamonds are the [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► something else's so here's East I the [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► truth we fought we fought a just going [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► there was a fight or a scrappy we were [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► scrappy upstart so huh [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► and so i'm back at the Reunion East I [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► Thunderbirds goatee birds who and my [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► classmates at least the ones that came [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► to the reunion are in fine shape they're [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► in find federal there were a lot of [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► people there that I said did look the [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► same like look the same or better than [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► they did in high school and I was [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► thinking when I went to the 20-year you [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► know everybody had kind of thickened up [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► and it seem to bode that by the time you [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► get to the 30-year you know we were just [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► going to be flesh mounds but people were [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► in good shape [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► they'll you know they looked sharp they [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► had they had sparkle in their eyes a lot [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► of them their you know their third kid [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► was graduating from high school and [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► they're ready to start a new adventure [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► in life Kenny [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► and I was standing there like in my [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► banana republic blazer that i bought a [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► Salvation Army for a dollar and thinking [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► to myself [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► christ almighty what it could look a [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► bunch of people from how did this [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► how'd they are older than my friend's [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► parents were when i was in high school [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► but my friend's parents looked like me [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► piles with hair you know they were they [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► needed to trim the hair on their ears [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► and hear my of my highschool classmates [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► look like they're the freaking Kennedy's [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► so times have changed in the and the [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► expectations are up by 5i I went [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► immediately to a drugstore but just for [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► men mustache die [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► nice to see me now look like Tom Selleck [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► this November we head to the polls and [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► select the 45th President of the United [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► States of America but today [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► cards against humanity is asking you to [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► vote with your dollar for the candidate [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► that you support [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► is a graduate of Yale Law School who has [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► served our country as secretary of state [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► senator from New York and First Lady of [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► the United States in her decades of [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► public service [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► she has tirelessly advocated for women's [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► rights campaign finance reform and [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► access to healthcare [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► the Republican candidate Donald Trump [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► will make America great again he is a [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► powerful CEO who wears three suits at [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► once all across america building [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► screaming his name Trump Trump he always [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► knows what time it is [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► Donald Trump is a huge man who lives in [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► a golf course at the end of this [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► promotion cards against humanity will [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► tally up the sales of both packs and [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► depending on which pack gets more [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► support we will donate all the money in [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► support of Hillary Clinton [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► exercise your sacred franchise at [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► www.bulbamerica.com with cards against [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► humanity dot-com [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► I love to see you now that's a possible [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► he's a good guy could have some guy i'm [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► on my way [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► uh-huh i'm on my way to you a legend [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► when I am you know there's a lot of [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► there are a lot of people didn't go to [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► the 30th and I got it I got a lot of [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► feedback from people online that [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► indicated a kind of a kind of sort of [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► smug consensus that like why would you [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► go to your reunion [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► herp derp and I feel like I feel like [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► some of that attitude comes from people [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► still not realizing that life is short [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► and there aren't and it doesn't last [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► forever your your reunions are like [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► they're just a a pair of demarcation of [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► life time progressing and that when i [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► walked in the door of the reunion out [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► you know I had a natural apprehension [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► what's this going to be like the I [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► haven't seen these people in years [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► do I even have anything in common with [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► them they're like moms and dads from [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► Anchorage Alaska but then you get there [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► and you know all these people you know [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► them now for four decades even if you [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► haven't seen him you know one like I [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► can't remember what I meet somebody at a [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► party in there like hi my name's Andy [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► their name goes right in one ear and out [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► the other I have no recollection of who [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► they are one minute later and I turn to [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► lean over to their friend of mine and I [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► go what's this guy's name again and the [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► handy and I said that's my secret shame [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► i'm like right handy and then i turn my [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► head back and look at Andy and I've [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► already forgotten his name but I walk [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► into this ski chalet where my 30th [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► reunion is and every single person that [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► walks up to me I'm like holy shit John [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► Lindsay how are you i like oh my god [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► it's chilly coochie like I know them [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► like a like I nobody chillin sorry [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► chilly was we could chill coochie that's [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► terrific mean it's like somebody from [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► Greece he's amazingly could use amazing [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► lives in Denver you [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► look about Kelly's a real person tell [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► you know I normal and we had a very like [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► an excellent high school class and i [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► will end at the time I didn't think so [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► but like really interesting excellent [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► people who are still still thriving [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► so I think that I think that those [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► things like those little dumb flags your [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► highschool reunions the dumb flags [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► aren't you don't you too sophisticated [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► for that now you've moved San Francisco [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► oh no this is this is the irony is that [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► i like i like to think that's the case [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► but it's really just cuz I'm scared [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► well and I think that's true for a lot [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► of people who you know the people that [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► are like I've I don't go back to my [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► hometown I got out of there now I'm [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► living now I've got 700 channels of [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► television in my town [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► I'm not going back to that but yeah you [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► go back to that and you it turns out [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► that you thought you were a nerd but [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► none of your classmates did they all [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► thought you were great [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► or you remember everybody hating your [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► guts but in fact they all really liked [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► you and they're all nice now they're all [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► nice people and they're not little high [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► school jerks and every basis do this is [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► what everybody says this is what [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► everybody says it makes me feel terrible [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► that I don't go to these things I think [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► everybody should go right now because [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► people are great i mean there's only one [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► guy my eyes go reunion that is still [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► working out the whole problem of cool [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► there's one guy who every time I see him [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► online he's very nice to me every time I [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► see him in person he lurks over on the [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► other side of the room because he's not [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► gonna come say hi to me first [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► there's a one guy you know a whole room [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► of people I went to high school but [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► still worried about that kind of that [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► level of thing and he's a super [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► interesting guy but he's just got this [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► he's just still got you can see it in it [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► but it's not like you're walking over to [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► him first you're gonna wait here [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► oh no I mean I I'm talking to people who [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► are coming up to me to talk to me but [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► I'm looking across the room and I see [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► him over there and he's just looking at [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► his fingernails [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► when i get done talking to the people [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► who are brave enough to come over and [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► say hello then I do go over and say hey [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► man because i want to relieve him of [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► this stress but it's very funny to think [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► that you wouldn't go to one of these [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► things you're like oh jesus you know [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► everybody's gonna be high school on me [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► but nobody is except for one there's [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► always one guy but this reunion is put [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► together you in answer to your original [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► question that was put together on [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► facebook [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► yeah there were no emails it all [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► happened on Facebook including all of [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► the threads where people were saying I [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► maybe i can come maybe I can't how much [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► is it [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► when is it oh my daughter has a dance [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► recital that day and it's like in yeah [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► this is your 30th reunion like [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► reschedule the dance recital [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► there's a lot of that kind of facebook [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► chatter and I just was always glimpsing [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► and then I made my reservations to go to [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► the reunion and then I arrived and then [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► I was sort of getting on the plane and [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► we got a text from one of my friends was [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► like all right we'll see you in a couple [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► of hours i was like what are you talking [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► about the reunion tonight the reasons [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► tonight friday night I naturally assumed [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► it was saturday night because i never [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► read the invite i didn't read the [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► facebook description of and so I made [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► him hated plane reservation that landed [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► in Anchorage one hour after the event [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► starts and so I i rented a car I i ran [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► through the airport like a disgraced [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► football star yep jumpin over suitcases [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► jumping over suitcases nothing but [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► smiles some little old lady says go [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► j-rod who make it into that and make it [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► into my rental four-by-four and I Korean [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► across the city a city I know intimately [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► all the way over to the mountains where [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► the brain is being held in a ski chalet [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► and you know what I wasn't even [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► aight they were just getting started Wow [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► and I have the whole reunion with all my [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► my pals and then got in the four-by-four [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► and raced back to the airport because my [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► lady friend was flying in on a later [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► flight [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► I did all this and one night felt like a [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► felt like I I didn't need to have flown [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► in a day early because what I could have [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► driven back to the airport and flown [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► home I could have done that whole thing [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► flown in landed gone to the reunion had [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► a great time gone back to the airport [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► gone home [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► nobody would have I mean I could have [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► left a pot on the stove [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► no I'm saying Marilyn I could do your [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► you're the it seems like you getting [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► closer and closer with the you know [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► sometimes you just need to put that [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► fight around like you get you're gettin [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► recent history indicates that you're a [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► man is happy that you can if you have to [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► hop back on a plane and just go straight [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► back you just your jet-setting how many [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► years of our lives have we thought oh [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► boy i got a better get those plane [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► tickets it's only six months till I have [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► to fly [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► oh yeah you know like find out about [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► your travel insurance [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► yeah going on trips is a big deal [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► changing flights as an enormous steel [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► you might as well just stay home you [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► could get stranded if something goes [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► wrong with your flight you may never go [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► home again [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► yeah and now I'm realizing that [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► everything you do with visa via an [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► airline cost a hundred bucks let's get [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► to now you know what I mean like you've [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► got a you've got a wallet with hundreds [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► in it and every time you talk to [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► somebody should just throw a [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► hundred-dollar bill at him but it's only [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► a hundred dollars once you understand [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► that it's less shocking [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► yeah it's easy just this is just how [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► this works hey can I do this [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► they're like yeah that'll be 101 dollars [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► and ninety-five cents and you're like [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► yeah I knew it was going to be a hundred [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► dollars and so here's I have some [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► hundreds already earmarked for this [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► purpose and then you get at the thing is [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► that hundred dollars allows you to be on [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► an airplane in one hour rather than [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► get a hotel room and wait until tomorrow [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► get a 250 our hotel room and wait until [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► you're originally scheduled flight or [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► whatever you know like that hundred [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► dollars is just the thing that is [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► required and you can leave whenever you [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► can leave you can I mean I was in LA in [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► LA couple weeks ago and I said I'm [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► leaving La right now what this did not [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► work out this trip didn't work out i'm [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► leaving and I was like 100 dollars and I [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► was on an airplane in an hour so it has [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► really stripped away the feeling that [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► getting on an airplane is a big deal or [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► that all that stuff all that like we got [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► a plan we gotta prepare what are we [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► gonna do when we get there [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► like what are you gonna do you're gonna [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► peel off another hundred dollars and [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► throw it at somebody and then it's just [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► like you play it's just like you planned [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► it becomes becomes a kind of thought [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► technology where you at so you're really [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► realigning your whole idea of how this [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► is gonna work [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► Yeah Yeah right because it because if [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► the trip originally if you had budgeted [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► $1,000 for a trip let's say uh I mean [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► that's ten one hundred dollars is uh huh [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► and if the flight if you buy the flight [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► today for a flight tomorrow and it costs [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► whatever even $500 you still have 500 to [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► throw and you still you're still within [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► your budget so it was I mean I flew up [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► to Anchorage on friday and i left Sunday [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► night and that is a that's ludicrous to [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► fly to Alaska for the weekend except [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► it's not cause $300 to you know i bought [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► my tickets with miles and will rule look [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► at you mr medallion i know c and then [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► high and then i read in the car I was [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► 200 bucks who I throw a hundred dollars [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► and somebody for something i don't [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► remember what don't need to know [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► justjust know they're gonna go I don't [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► even care it's like how many how many [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► dinners have I bought for Jason Finn it [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► costs a hundred dollars least sales be [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► going to a place Jason orders some [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► Negroni you get some appetizers [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► maybe a little blanched spinach it for [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► the table then the thing comes as ninety [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► seven dollars really fuck knows a lot [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► more money than I thought it was gonna [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► be [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► how many Negro needs to g-get but he's [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► already under the table like I guess [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► this one's on me and that's that's [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► that's the amount it is it's basically [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► the same amount that it cost to get [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► Jason fit under the table with a plate [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► of blanched spinach is the cost of being [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► able to fly at the drop of a hat you [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► don't get rich in life by spending money [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► isn't it the other way around [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► huh you do get rich in life baseman oh [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► this is the thing when everything goes [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► well isn't it funny how rich people are [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► the cheapest people in your like well [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► that's spoken like a poor person [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► oh no I'm saying sort of oh yeah Jason [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► he's got more money than Sinatra and [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► euro fine isn't growing and he's under [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► the table if I see snake [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► I see what you're saying uh yeah he [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► Pat's he pats at his and his fleece that [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► he's always wearing like that that [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► mixture that have a while but even [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► better Jason friend ID hi Jason and he [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► still listens [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► I'm sure he does he listens on his runs [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► so a lot of the podcast him just sounds [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► like trucks honking whoo oh I remember [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► what the hundred dollars I throughout [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► somebody was I got back to the car [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► rental place and they were like oh [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► you're two hours late dropping the car [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► off its an extra day and it costs a [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► hundred dollars and I was like seriously [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► a hundred dollars for for being two [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► hours late [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► uh-huh and they're like this right here [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► the contracts and it's like I don't read [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► your stinking contracts and I stood [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► there and I was like okay I can get all [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► heated up about this are you mad [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► he's dealing to just peel pull off a [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► couple the cenotes and walk away [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► yeah I was like I i used to demand [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► satisfaction in a situation like this [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► sure did but now the satisfaction comes [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► from from flipping another hundred [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► through the window of her and being like [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► this problem is gone it cost one hundred [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► dollars and i'm not talking about a [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► hundred value they're going to be people [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► listening to this podcast they're like [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► well it's nice if you can afford 305 [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► John Roderick that's right but the [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► problem is that everybody's budgeting to [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► do things and they're the end and these [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► hundred-dollar bills they're spending [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► them to their [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► just in different categories they don't [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► see it as peel-off honored throw it [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► throw it out of thing the problem is [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► solved [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► they're like well then there's a hundred [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► dollars budget for this and for that and [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► for this and for that it's like if you [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► buy this ticket six months ahead of time [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► they're not any cheaper it doesn't give [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► you any relief from anxiety to have all [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► that stuff in a folder sitting on the [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► sitting on your desk this is my trip six [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► months from now and I've got it all [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► squared away at least for me it doesn't [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► it's cheaper to just to just spend a [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► hundred dollars in in terms of like [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► right let me through this [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► let me make it through this little [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► portal let me through your spider web [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► huh tsa PreCheck [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► yeah just get er done get er done get er [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► done [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► ya like that how we went to Disneyland [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► as i mentioned off-air we went to [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► Disneyland a few weeks ago for the first [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► time and I I felt something similar [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► where I had I had basically said that in [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► order to have this trip and for me to [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► not be stressful this is actually [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► something I've learned from our friend [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► John siracusa which is like be a [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► rational person all the time and here's [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► your rationality when it's time to go on [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► vacation [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► be prepared and plan for everything to [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► cost way more than you expected like [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► build that into the budget don't take [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► the trip until you know you can spend [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► way more than you think you should [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► because even if you don't just buy a [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► bunch of shit [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► still you're still gonna have the [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► hundred-dollar problem everywhere you go [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► as in your parlance and we had a [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► wonderful trip partly because i just got [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► you sleep well that meal costs a hundred [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► dollars shit like she just had macaroni [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► again and somehow we spend a hundred [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► dollars i'm not sure how that happened [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► yet because it was 18 $18 macaroni [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► because it had two bacon bits on [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► oh yeah well I'm and i think i think [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► part of it for me is that I'm just [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► budgeting my money toward living this [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► life rather than budgeting money toward [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► living a different life [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► well you need to get one of those jobs [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► we circle back with people about how the [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► forms are going I can't stop I can't say [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► but I can't stop thinking about that [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► look at your job you make money in your [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► job god bless you god bless you you make [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► money in your job when I'm not doing [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► mine [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► yeah yeah it's just it's vexing me I [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► don't take you off your peggy sue or [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► your body cam but my goodness that [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► frustrates me when you see them all the [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► time you see him walking around with [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► their jobs now making money doing [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► nothing and its really changed a lot of [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► what I do because you know this could be [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► a personality fall where I just don't [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► have I don't have the patience to in the [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► worst-case have a series of phone calls [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► with different people for six months [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► about whether something will happen [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► oh and then you go through what I [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► learned was eventually called the [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► engagement process which is where we [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► figure out if the thing we definitely [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► took six months decided we definitely [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► want to do with you whether that money [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► exists and who could potentially pay for [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► yeah we spent that entire amount of [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► money months ago on the amount of time [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► you guys were in meetings about whether [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► you wanted to do this [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► that's when you're when you're a loser [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► like us he's never gonna retire that's [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► the way you think but they're on a [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► different level you know when when i [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► when i did this this little television [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► talk show thing that I ever tell you [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► about the the i was i arrived for [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► wardrobe [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► oh yeah you took much in Turner yeah [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► they were fitting me having a wardrobe [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► and somebody came out and they were i [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► was interacting with about five people [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► at this point the producer the writer [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► the producer's assistant [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► uh-huh the representative from the [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► agency the representative from the other [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► agency and some nothing much for ya [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► someone came out and said well they're [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► all having a meeting right here right [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► next to where we are and they really [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► liked to me there and I think that in a [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► minute [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► they're going to be ready for you uh-huh [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► and I had other stuff to do the wardrobe [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► person was putting shoes on me and I was [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► like all right and when they're ready to [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► talk to me i guess i'm here already and [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► i'm not being paid for this day right [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► there was they think this is pro bono [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► out of your like hell parts in the city [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► work [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► yeah and but they contracted me for two [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► days worth of work [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► and then they said but there's going to [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► be a fitting day i'm alright alright [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► hitting day they're not paying me for [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► the fitting that's just you know that's [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► presumed so there's some money in it but [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► it's very circumscribed like was making [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► money for for day 2 and a 3 but there's [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► no okay [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► icic day one this is the fitting day and [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► i'm not getting paid for this and that [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► was fine i was like sure I'll go fitting [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► day but then they're like okay we're [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► they're about ready to meet you and the [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► person that said that walked away went [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► through a door somebody else came out [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► hi nice to meet you I'm the person [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► that's doing this they're gonna be there [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► they are about ready to meet you and [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► then that person walked away I went [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► through a different door I got shoes put [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► on me and that I put on me and I was [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► like I'm having a fine time somebody [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► came and asked me if i wanted to rap and [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► i said i have a wrap [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► oh well you know rap checkout sure it's [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► like it's like a breeder sandwich [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► sure give me a chicken wrap this [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► wonderful thank you and then they [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► realized that there was just a tray of [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► wraps in the kitchen that hadn't been [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► eaten by by the day I was like I'll take [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► one of your old raps so maybe even [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► sitting there with new shoes on even an [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► old rap and finally somebody comes out [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► and says um it's gonna be a minute [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► they're not sure if they you know [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► they're not sure if they're ready to see [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► you yet [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► so what I'm sorry I'm already losing the [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► thread here who are they and why do they [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► need to talk to you [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► I had no idea either but it's but the [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► implication is or what you inferred is [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► that these are some kind of big [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► stakeholders in whoever's behind the [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► scenes behind the scenes and it's gonna [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► be like kind of a meet-and-greet and [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► maybe a little bit of like here's the [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► here's the reason for the season [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► yeah exactly alright my assumption you [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► know all these situations is look I'm [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► the talent I'm the one they want to meet [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► I don't care who they are they could be [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► President the goddamn world it can be [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► sergey brin sitting on a magic carpet [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► sitting indian-style on a floating magic [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► carpet [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► he's gonna want to meet me because I'm [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► the talent sure [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► criss-cross applesauce preeminent so I'm [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► out there and I'm like hey I'm not [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► getting paid for today already [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► whoever's timeline we're working on is [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► fine with me part of my brand is that I [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► don't give a fuck i got a used wrap here [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► apparently shoes and i'm already [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► negotiating with the costume lady that [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► I'm going to get to keep these shoes at [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► the end of the shoot you can get your [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► decision [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► well so I leaned in and I go what I [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► gotta do to keep these shoes huh [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► she's like well i got this budget i got [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► this in that i did about 10 [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► I don't know about that's gonna be tough [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► and I'm like him but I'm gonna keep [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► these shoes right she's like well I can [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► talk to the guy can't do this happened [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► and then there are you doing a little [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► bit of a Jedi mind trick on her [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► well see the thing is I know that's not [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► her decision I don't want to put her in [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► a in an awkward position [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► I'm just sowing the seeds so the first [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► person I've talked to already thinks [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► that I'm going to keep the shoes [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► eventually what happens is the person I [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► figure out who the person in charge of [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► that process is later on in the [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► production a day and a half later and [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► I'm like I love these shoes how about me [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► keep these shoes and that person by that [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► point in time is so focused on keeping [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► me happy mood because they've been [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► bringing me waters the whole time even [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► though [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► hello there pay grade they're doing it [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► because I'm the talent developed a [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► relationship they got some skin in the [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► game and then that person makes the [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► decision like this what you want the [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► shoes all ya done and the and the [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► Wardrobe lady standing there and the [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► production people are all standing [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► around and they heard the person say it [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► and then I just walk out issues I don't [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► there's no storm to sign at that point [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► who was the person already the the [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► person who's bringing me the water so [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► said so anyway so I'm sitting in this [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► room and finally someone comes out and [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► says they're ready to see you like I'm [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► ready to see them and it was ostensibly [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► that i was going to come in and show [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► them the costume and they were going to [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► decide that the suit was right huh [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► right so all right I'm realizing like oh [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► this is a this is a situation where they [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► want to meet me and they want to be [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► entertained by me but but they justified [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► it as that i'm walking in there like a [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► like a monkey talent from mannequin to [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► show them my clothes [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► well that seems like a status move a [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► little bit deputy 50 people and so I [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► walk in and you will not believe it a [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► u-shaped table there's 20 people so for [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► goodness sake when the people i walk in [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► i am I like am taken aback [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► holy shit this is a big meeting room and [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► there's 20 people in here there's [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► there's the row of stakeholders in the [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► chairs around the you and then there's a [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► then there's the back row of chairs of [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► their assistance or somebody I don't [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► know people with people that are [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► actually holding pieces of paper that's [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► what all those people do well there's [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► the agency personnel sure you get there [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► is a person from the other agency yes [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► there's the person from move the client [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► there's client-side person there's the [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► other there's a person from the other [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► client there's the people that were [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► contracted there's the boss there's the [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► boss lady who's above the boss sure [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► right there anything else in charge and [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► the thing is everybody in this room is [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► in charge right all the people that [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► aren't charger outside the room running [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► around telling me when things are going [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► to happen and so you know of course I [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► walk in and I go hey hey it's dave [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► Roderick area you want to see my costume [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► let me turn around us do these pants [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► look good on my house and everybody is [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► immediately disarmed and charm because [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► the talent is fun and then i say i'm [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► keeping the shoes [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► keeping the shoes [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► and every single one of the 20 people [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► they go around the table and everybody's [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► got something to say [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► mm there's a person from California that [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► has very very casual hair you know [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► somebody that used to work at geffen [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► who's not wearing socks and then there's [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► the person that this very you know like [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► high and tight haircut who came from New [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► York every single one of those has this [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► as some kind of say in the decision and [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► as I'm standing there in front of them [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► doing this little dance not getting paid [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► for today because it's fitting day I [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► look around the room like me the the top [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► person in this room is probably making [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► seven hundred thousand dollars here [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► yeah the bottom person in this room is [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► making 220,000 dollars a year and i'm [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► not getting seven hundred fifty dollars [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► for today because it's fitting well okay [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► and like here's the thing from from me [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► being a karma suck you know being the [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► holden caulfield of the operation if [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► somebody said to me hey what if we paid [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► you whatever your dingaling rate is to [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► come and be fitted with clothes for a [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► day and then be inspected by a crew of [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► people at our leisure and to give you [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► notes if somebody gave me that as the [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► entire proposition i would say fuck no [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► let alone will you then go do a talk [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► show on the back of a truck [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► I'm just here to say like when you look [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► at it from that point of view no you [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► couldn't pay me to do that that's [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► ridiculous [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► mm so but all this is just a little bit [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► of a little bit of extra sky like saying [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► like hey we're gonna pay you to come [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► over repeated to come to our house and [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► watch the price is right [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► oh but also there's a day where you are [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► paint the exterior of our house but we [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► figured you know I figured you know [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► that's pretty standard in the industry [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► but wasn't sure about that exterior [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► house painting stuff [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► well and that's that's why in those [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► situations I'm like I i feel i feel no [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► shame about taking these shoes [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► not at all I feel no shame about [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► about asserting the fact that even [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► though everybody in this room has a 401k [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► everyone in this room is going to retire [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► one day [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► yeah I walk in and say look at my ass [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► you dummies are they gonna do replace [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► you [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► yeah exactly i'm the talent you're like [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► Greg Brady you fit the shoes [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► yeah how do you like me like that may [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► like me now what if i pulled his pants [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► up really high is that funny that you [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► really interesting point here is my ass [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► my cloud you any questions i make you [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► laugh a little more ass [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► I'm keeping these fucking shoes and they [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► can't do anything all weekend warriors [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► left one of the what are they gonna do [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► stay tone it down [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► fuck you look at my ass again because i [TS]

01:02:50 ◼   ► went to high school with these same [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► people she just be sure did [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► yeah you're gonna sue that's right I'm [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► the piggy soon this story i'm scared to [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► go back to my reunion because i just got [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► divorced my husband 35 years [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► yeah it's my 25th reunion Greg and I [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► don't really talk much anymore [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► oh it's complicated I told he cried i [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► went to a Denny's the couple years ago [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► and the server came over and he was what [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► he was wearing up a and is recognized [TS]

01:03:22 ◼   ► that the server was about my age and I [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► looked at his name tag and it said [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► dennys employees since 1986 I was like [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► that's the year I graduated from high [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► school [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► oh shit that's the year he graduated [TS]

01:03:36 ◼   ► from high school [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► absolutely and i ordered a pancake who [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► and I had a real moment [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► uh-huh of feeling like all but all that [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► time that I felt like I was just [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► throwing time down a down a turlet sure [TS]

01:03:58 ◼   ► well there's another there's an [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► alternate universe black mirror version [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► of this where what if we lived in a [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► world where each of us had to wear a [TS]

01:04:06 ◼   ► nametag about the thing we mostly done [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► since high school [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► in that case is pretty simple it might [TS]

01:04:13 ◼   ► actually seemed pretty honorable yeah I [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► have worked at this location since then [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► yeah somehow managing to fuck it up [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► since 1986 and what would your nametag [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► say that [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► that's pretty much it might be it might [TS]

01:04:24 ◼   ► be a GF yeah i mean will be something [TS]

01:04:28 ◼   ► along the lines of you know snatching [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► defeat from the jaws of victory since [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► 1980 Maddox not working up to his [TS]

01:04:35 ◼   ► potential since 1986 yeah 3/5 that's [TS]

01:04:38 ◼   ► interesting so you you were young for [TS]

01:04:40 ◼   ► your grade I was old for mine and we [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► graduated your part that's interesting [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► question 8585 I always thought if I was [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► a good year all those terrible year we [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► were bribing the bottom of the barrel [TS]