Roderick on the Line

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

00:00:01 ◼   ► sponsored by cards against humanity this [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► month they invited sincere engineer to [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► help me say hi to john [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► Roger I gotta lie [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► I John mm-hmm [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► hi Merlin how's it going it's going well [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► it's going well [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► sounds good sounds good you sound like a [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► man restored [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► it's pouring down rain here and has been [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► for days and that is very good you know [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► it's really thats whatever but you know [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► what's really interesting is it's [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► raining here a ho [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► yeah when it rains the San Francisco man [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► that's a smart that's far that everybody [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► is gonna smell haha [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► it washes washes them all down into the [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► sea does one day a real rain is gonna [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► come here at this time of year when the [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► rain comes the cold also coming in the [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► rain and the cold arrive together and it [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► scares the living daylights out of all [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► the people who arrived at any point in [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► the last nine months I don't become [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► suddenly yeah and all the people that [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► are like I moved there in march and [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► seattle's amazing [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► yeah and they just they spent the whole [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► summer thinking that Seattle was amazing [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► and then the cold icy death grip hand of [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► winter arrives just arrives wanna get [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► soda pig in a poke me an enemy that [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► having Tallahassee they brought me there [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► like all come we want you to get this [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► job in Tallahassee come visit and as it [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► turned out they brought me there in the [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► midst of a festival called springtime [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► tallahassee and is the one week a year [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► when it's really nice and tallahassee up [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► exactly right [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► you go you go you go in there stairs and [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► flowers and you know children are making [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► daisy chains and running around the [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► Maypole and then like a week later it's [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► like 95 degrees right and 95 degrees and [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► and and the like the witches are [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► building little stick figures out in the [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► for the swamps right they start early [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► their Halloween starts earlier every [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► year John it's already starting 2016 [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► Helen so that's already in stores as i [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► was driving in as i was driving in a you [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► know I went past the methadone clinic [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► and everybody there is running for cover [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► and then all the people [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► that have built camps like all the camps [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► in the in the medians and up and kind of [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► under the freeway and stuff you can just [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► see the blue tarps come out and people [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► are like holy shit [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► ah my tent weeks that's sucks [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► oh my god it sucks to be wet it's brutal [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► and and then all of the Amazon all the [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► like young guys in the j.crew suits and [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► all the tight jeans people and all the [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► Macklemore haircut people who are making [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► a hundred eighty thousand dollars a year [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► are like no amount of thousands of [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► dollars a year can compensate me for [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► this feeling which is that my bones are [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► cold [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► uh-huh and and then I go me haha [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► because my bones have no feelings oh is [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► that right not at all you seem like a [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► man's bones would have maybe even [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► sensitivity sometimes yeah maybe you're [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► right i know probably not find that [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► funny should bring this up because this [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► is actually this is not by topic for the [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► show but my lady and I are both actively [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► looking for new of rain gear [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► oh yeah I got a marmot jacket to [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► replacement old marmot jacket and I told [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► you this a few weeks ago and it looks [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► it's virtually identical to the marmot [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► jacket I've been wearing forever [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► it's got one critical piece missing [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► which is does not have the front outside [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► pocket into which one could put and I [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► thought oh what is why did they take [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► that way you know i'm guessing cost [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► yeah but you know that that's a shame [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► but like in Russia as this is super [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► she's looking also first ring here it's [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► like to be warm so now I've taken upon [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► myself as a good husband to try and find [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► her some some cure that will be warm now [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► filson the filson where that's a [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► commitment when you get filson you're [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► getting the whole lifestyle right i [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► don't own a single fill something right [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► yeah but thing about Phil's and stuff [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► let's be honest film stuff is a [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► commitment to being wet it's not it is [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► like buying hip-waders right you want [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► you want like you real now you're gonna [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► find someplace where you could really [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► get in the water [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► yeah but you're gonna be I mean it's wax [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► cotton and wool it's the old style of [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► dealing with the rain which is like i am [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► going to be [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► wet in the rain and I'm gonna be smelly [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► in the rain but i'm not going to die [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► like a sheepdog [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► yeah i'm not going to die in the rain [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► because i have this somewhat like [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► impenetrable material on but i am not [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► i'm not trying to do this like Healy [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► handsome thing where I step out of my [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► rain gear and I'm just dry and it's a [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► it's much more of a like I'm going to [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► live in the in the rain [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► that's interesting is my lady actually [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► has a healing Hanson I think it's a [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► yachting I'm you can't use the word [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► yachting without sounding like an [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► asshole but I it's down to like I think [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► it actually has like a little bored hole [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► we can put a rope through and stuff yeah [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► sure [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► and that boy is that ever you can just [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► shoot water that thing all day long as [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► laugh at you [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► so here it's so all of the Alaskan [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► fisherman they before they go up to [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► their new season they all go around and [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► they get a new season's worth of healy [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► Hanson stuff and it's like a suit you [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► know and it's impervious it's truly I [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► mean if Alaska fishermen choose it then [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► you can be guaranteed that there isn't a [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► better thing maybe we should fill in [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► some blanks for people who are in places [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► that have rain but we're talking about [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► it sounds seems to me like we're talking [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► about a distinction with Wilson you've [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► got some old-world technologies in [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► please try some some basically medieval [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► starways of waxing a sheep or something [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► so you can put it on [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► whereas in the other camp over here [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► interesting with my right hand you've [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► got more of what I will call technicals [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► you've got things like you've got modern [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► modern fabrics modern materials and [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► methods to have a light maybe it's not [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► working [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► it might have working that's right [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► working isn't a big part of having [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► technical is working well you know [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► wicking that's it then you get into your [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► polypropylenes I feel like there are the [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► people who say who so so it's a as your [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► as the lightness of the fabric the light [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► not just light-colored but like light [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► could like the less you feel the garment [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► be made it maybe it's waterproofness is [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► there but its hardiness goes away so [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► like when I [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► in seattle in the northwest if you see a [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► alignment up on a phone pole in the dead [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► of winter changing some transformer [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► uh-huh in Seattle [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► there's a very good chance he's gonna be [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► wearing filson because it's not just [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► that he wants to be protected against [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► the elements but he's also doing hard [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► work up a phone pole in the window right [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► it's like almost like I was I've been a [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► fan of the carhartt product line in the [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► past that like those like a logging [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► pants those pants with like that the [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► extra me and I'm like you can't kill [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► those things you can climb up all day [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► long it would make a scratch and and [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► feels the same except that except the [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► car it's like the carhartt pants was [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► then additionally dipped in hot wax and [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► allow to cool and really appealing he [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► had some amazing it's amazing when you [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► see lineman in them you realize like oh [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► this is a guy who could pick any he [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► needs his clothes to be like a like a [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► suit of armor another it's another tool [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► yeah and it's these are not expensive [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► items but are not inexpensive items but [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► he has chosen them because it's [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► necessary and and Healy Hanson it's not [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► something you would want to ski in right [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► it's not something that you would want a [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► mountain bike in or or do any kind of [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► like we kind of things it's stuff that I [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► mean when you are honored on a fishing [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► boat in Alaska the weather becomes the [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► weather becomes sentient it is [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► absolutely trying to kill you it is [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► trying to it is trying to drown you on [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► your feet like as you stand the weather [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► is trying to cause you to suffocate in [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► water business and so the Healey Hanson [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► stuff is for that and and also your [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► you're like pulling monsters out of an [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► iron Gracie which is only not frozen [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► because its ocean it's too mad to be [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► frozen [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► you're pulling monsters out of the [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► depths of this and killing them with [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► hooks and so that's so it's a different [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► kind of gear then if you're like [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► snowboarding right right and so as you [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► get up but if you're snowboarding you [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► don't want to be covered with all this [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► weird [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► like bulletproof fabric you just kind of [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► want to stay warm and dry [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► that's a series of trade off so it's a [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► continuum like columbia sportswear [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► company which is a company from up here [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► that stuff will keep you warm and dry [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► I'm looking at one right now that looks [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► like it's right in my wheelhouse and [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► this is the looking at the columbia is [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► this jacket but the thing is it's it's [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► it's very wide purporting to this review [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► on the site i enjoy cool tools they say [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► that it is it's good it's very warm but [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► like you can even wear for too long as [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► you can so warm and look it's very good [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► at repelling water and it's got a hood [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► but you really look like you work at [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► uber yeah you know that look [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► oh yeah I do and and that's the that is [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► the modern trade off now in the old days [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► eddie bauer was the was the company that [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► made stuff that was like it was burly [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► enough but also you could you could wear [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► it in town [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► uh-huh or you know you could wear it up [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► on the mountain you can wear it in town [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► you didn't look like a dork but eddie [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► bauer went any powers went the wrong way [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► they sold their soul to the man and then [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► everything like the the other day we [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► were trying i was driving with the [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► friend who's in town it was Halloween [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► and we a couple of people are trying to [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► get across the street you know we in the [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► northwest if somebody stands on the edge [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► of the sidewalk and looks at you you are [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► obligated to stop and let them cross the [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► street that is this the cultural norm [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► here and may even be the law although [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► the cops never stopped for you you stand [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► on the sidewalk and stare right at them [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► and they'll just look at look straight [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► ahead and keep driving shark eyes but [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► the rest of us are expected to stop for [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► our fellow citizens and these two you [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► know they're probably early sixties [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► they're both wearing Outdoor Research [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► hats which are kind of a strange hybrid [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► of like an Australian bush hat except [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► it's made out of cortex and it has it [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► has strings you know it's like a chin [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► rope sure i caii thought that a dad hat [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► it's a little bit of a dad [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► but but but mom and dad are both wearing [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► these hats and they're wearing the [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► requisite like purple fleece some cortex [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► some you know the like cargo pants by a [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► company called cool which is K uhl cool [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► with them i think there's even a whom [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► lot in there where their logo has a [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► mountain in the background [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► enough already and and they've got some [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► kind of Solomon adventure shoe and just [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► making up words no no and I'm and I'm [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► looking at across the street tonight and [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► i turn my but my lady friend and I'm [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► like is that a halloween costume [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► I mean they are so Northwest I'm coming [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► as everyone in the Pacific Northwest [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► yeah it's like it's it's ludicrous the [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► only thing they need right now our ski [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► poles that they're using to go on a [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► brisk walk right maybe like carrying [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► carrying a coffee a locally sourced [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► coffee and riding a hoverboard [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► mm that's the those who haven't yet you [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► can hover boards around now that's the [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► young people think these these people [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► are like they are ready to go up Mount [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► Baker right now except they're not [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► anywhere near Mount Baker City replay [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► people look like you could its you could [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► i've also many it's difficult to tell [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► are they going out for half and half are [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► they on their way to climb Mount Tam or [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► are potentially going to a wine tasting [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► that's where there's a certain kind of [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► fleece upscale fleece that people wear [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► to all of those things [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► yeah and-and-and for me the moment that [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► the moment that like fleece became [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► flannel right when police became flannel [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► there was a there was a sea change in [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► all of our lives like there was flannel [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► for long long time and you know flannel [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► and like moleskine and then there was [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► police and once there was police certain [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► certain large segment of the population [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► up here just never thought about clothes [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► again [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► and interesting yes [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► yeah you know it's funny uh-uh I don't [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► know I'm again that we always get the [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► word wrong is it inertia but there's [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► something happened something comes along [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► and there's different trends and all the [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► sudden there's a thing there goes oh [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► yeah that's for me the boot boot came [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► along and suddenly like I guess every [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► young woman who want to look like she [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► just woke up I was wearing boots in [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► boosting your yoga pants and put the [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► other pants [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► I mean yoga pants yoga pants look I'm [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► pro yoga pants don't get me yeah well [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► you know you never know when you just [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► might need to do some yoga sure it goes [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► somewhere maybe you got a hot Sam you go [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► to an orange julius uh-huh well the [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► thing about yoga pants like that [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► somewhere along the line the technology [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► of pants changed so that they were they [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► were but lifting pants have wondered [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► about that it has a brassiere like [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► quality yes yes and then I what I [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► accomplished that if I were you up and I [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► don't know I honestly don't know i think [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► if i put on yoga pants that it would be [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► bad it would be bad luck to see you in [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► yoga pants but there was there was a [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► time when I was when I was in my teens [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► even where there were not that many [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► pants that made your butt look good it [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► was and you have to have a certain kind [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► of but you use definitely to certain [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► kind of but you're right there didn't [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► used to be used to be you could have [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► like formal so you can have a formal [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► slack [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► mmm you can have whatever looks good no [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► no you couldn't know absolutely no no [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► absolutely not that's why you got to [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► have the flap that goes over the back [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► with events that's right ok i'm using [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► basically every closed word that I know [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► at this point and then you got you got [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► your doctor stockies you know maybe with [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► the pleated front of I know your family [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► pleaded from even before dockers existed [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► right i mean i'm thinking about nineteen [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► eighty-four whatever if you wanted to [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► grab your butt look good [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► what did you do I mean you could wear [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► Levi's if you have Levi's but but not [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► everybody has a Levi's but oh no oh no I [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► think jonathan richman his whole song [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► about this [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► oh well I mean it's about genes but i [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► think by extension it's about butts is [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► that you know we don't all have the kind [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► of but that one would want to show off [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► and i think a Levi's style pants [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► generally is a little bit more hanging [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► we're talking at this point 84 you're [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► really talking about the the twilight of [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► the Jordache and take over the [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► Vanderbilt gloria vanderbilt years [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► yeah sure live live in Britannia all [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► that stuff is about some high-waisted [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► jeans talking about a high waisted jean [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► it's a dark rinse and it's very but [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► centric and I think we're seeing the [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► twilight of the but pan at that point [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► but I always felt like those highways to [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► gloria vanderbilt jeans were like if [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► you're if you have a pair but if your [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► butt looks like a pair huh [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► then something I'm sorry just to clarify [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► because the audio single pair up i'm [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► sorry/not pair PA ir going up there the [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► bear fruit PE AR care if you're like [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► adults chin you got like a little bit of [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► up [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► yeah yeah okay right now I mean that if [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► it looks like a Bartlett pear let's say [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► right Barlow pair then you can wear [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► gloria vanderbilt jeans you look [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► fantastic little blue pair huh a denim [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► pair right one who doesn't want that but [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► if you have any kind of lumpy butt or [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► square but or whatever maybe get a plum [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► but or like a plum but now you can buy [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► you might have some kind of a [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► little-little who is a melon I don't [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► mean in the sense of like you know you [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► no pickup truck sighs I'm talking about [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► more like you've just gotta like a [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► misshapen cantaloupe [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► yeah regularly and with bumps and lumps [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► and stuff for your god I mean you don't [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► want your butt to look like it's in a [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► bag right so but then then one day and [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► that would happen in the late nineties [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► be seven for all mankind jeans arrived [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► which had some crazy technology which [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► are was all constructed in denim they [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► didn't there wasn't any it's not like [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► there was a wire underpinning but all of [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► a sudden seven for all mankind jeans [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► arrived and everyone could wear our [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► mentor i'm talking about women now [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► everyone could wear them and they look [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► great on everybody was just like what [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► happened why didn't we know how to do [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► this before they just ran their sewing [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► machines through this denim in a [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► slightly different way and now that they [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► look amazing on everything that's insane [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► it's like how he discovered flat iron [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► steak you start you can start cutting [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► the steer a different angle you get a [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► Dutch angle [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► and then you're able to find an entire [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► state nobody ever discovered before your [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► I've never heard of seven for all [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► mankind i'm looking at it now you're [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► telling me they came up with some kind [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► of technology that will enable you to [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► depending on a bias you're doing some [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► kind of verticality the kids a special [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► lift and gravitas [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► let's that's right that's right and then [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► yoga pants came out employing what i can [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► only imagine is the same technology [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► except in like stretchy sweat pants [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► material that then they I'm sure do [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► wicking they will play with the shit out [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► of you [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► I guess their primary performance [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► characteristic probably waking and yoga [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► pants look amazing on everybody and all [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► of a sudden it just made me feel like [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► all of all in all through my teen years [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► and twenties we didn't have this [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► technology and now we do and I think the [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► world has been improved huh [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► okay less less less stress even if [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► you're not wearing it all the time you [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► know it's out there it's like well says [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► and so today I that's where is that I [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► didn't it didn't take it took me a [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► second [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► oh yes just exactly like ninjas I walked [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► out of the house today i'm wearing [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► skinny jeans i'm a man in middle age [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► wearing these skinny jeans that are [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► basically leggings let's let's call a [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► spade a spade [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► i I just it's just like a cut the [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► stirrups off the bottom of Paris stirrup [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► pants and I'm walking around in them and [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► and I presume I look cool and I think [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► everybody agrees they look very cool [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► this is not this is not a thing that [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► would have been possible before [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► yeah right it's a kind of it's a kind of [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► technology that I have hardly embraced [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► can't believe how different genes can [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► feel your pants really just pants in [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► general and because first of all I mean [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► is this basic problem of my gosh where [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► to begin but there's a whole problem of [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► when you're doing a lot of like you know [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► when you've got children making pants in [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► Asia is going to be some variations so [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► like I learned a long time ago you [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► should actually try on a couple [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► different pairs even if it's just jeans [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► wow I've never done that that's it's not [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► a bad idea I've had some lady friends [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► that would never consider just certainly [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► not just buying them off the rack you [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► try them on your mattress several pairs [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► line but the less expensive fancier [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► clothes get the more likely are they are [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► to be like well made and consistently [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► made and to be true to size but let go [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► go look [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► sighs your pants now and not those pants [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► but your other pants you look at your [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► 501 we talked about this [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► it might be hom Mexico it might be a cho [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► and in China you there's all kinds of [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► places where the HR jeans at this point [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► hmm you know and so the thing is you try [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► that on and the variations i mean i can [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► get pretty sloppy you can get you can [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► get some serious fruit but without even [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► intending well yeah I made a decision [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► not very long ago that i did not want to [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► buy anything anymore that was a cho in [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► China [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► Wow and it wasn't because i'm against [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► China it was just a decision that i [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► needed to i needed to just set some [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► limits on things right you need you need [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► to you need to define the space and [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► friends want to make these big sweeping [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► changes but like you can actually be [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► very profound to make a change even as [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► small as nature in China [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► yeah you just youyou you you defense off [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► the garden to keep the deer out and so [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► for me it was just like there's a lot of [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► stuff being made in China right now and [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► so if I just decide not to buy any of it [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► that protects me from too much just that [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► I mean it it it makes the first decision [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► for me it's already made nothing made in [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► china so thing shows up I look at it is [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► made in china no thank you [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► and it's just a way of sorting and then [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► and then I had to make some decisions [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► right because there's a lot of stuff [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► that says made in Hong Kong or made in [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► Macau uh-huh [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► now would you say that those were made [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► in China have to have to google it [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► are those are or no so what about the [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► one with the PRC or you got isn't there [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► to get the People's Republic oh you're [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► talk about Taiwan is that I want and [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► then you could have done that is that [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► technically part of China well and I [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► mean depending on who you ask if you ask [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► someone in china right they're going to [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► say that Taiwan is part of China but if [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► you have someone in taiwan they're going [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► to say no right no one is not part of [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► China it is its own but it's not exactly [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► the kind of thing that factor in your [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► decision you're scratching your head [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► wondering where this is HL well the [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► thing is I feel like it [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► in in my in my sort of worldview right i [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► support taiwan because they have decided [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► that they're not part of China and I [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► support them [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► china deciding that Taiwan is still part [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► of China if they just are currently [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► administered by a by a rogue government [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► I don't support that because you simply [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► because i think China is big enough and [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► Taiwan can be its own thing it should be [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► its own thing it's something I in fact I [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► have a good friend whose families from [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► taiwan and he is feel strongly about it [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► and so I support my friend now [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► Macau and Hong Kong both were their own [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► colonies right hong kong was a colony of [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► the United Kingdom and Macau is a colony [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► of Portugal and they were like they were [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► like city city states where they you [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► know I think macau was big in the opium [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► trade and you know gambling they were [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► like sin city's hong kong was more of an [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► administrative city after a while the [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► brits used it to administer their [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► long-term far-flung Empire huh [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► but then times changed and in in the [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► late nineties are the whenever's the [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► nineties both of those things so this is [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► what's crazy to me they were basically [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► least like it's one of those 99-year [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► leases where you sign a 99-year lease [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► and you're like when I'm gonna be dead [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► before this lease expires [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► what is what even is a 99-year lease [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► well that's one of those things like a [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► Steve Jobs a dollar a year that kind of [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► well i got i know a guy here i used to [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► live in a building like an old warehouse [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► here where the guy who owned it didn't [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► really own it he had a 99-year lease and [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► he was he was saving area I mean he was [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► he fixed up the building just enough [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► that it could inhabit people and then it [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► was just like a rent generator for him [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► he couldn't I don't think we develop the [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► property and he could maybe subs [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► LOL his lease i'm not really sure 99 [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► year lease I mean he's going to be dead [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► long time before that but he has this [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► 99-year lease on the thing so anyway the [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► Great Britain and Portugal had these [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► leases of these cities and one day they [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► came up they come came up in China was [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► like we don't renew your lease or [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► whatever and the last vestige of that [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► brand of colonialism and so both cities [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► hong kong and macau returned to the [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► return to China and they're like a [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► special administration area one of those [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► things so you pick up a shirt and it [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► says made in Macau and you go out at [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► least it's not made in china and then [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► you go wait a minute that's just that [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► some label trickery [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► uh huh yeah you look at your phone and [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► it will say you know so worried like an [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► apple devices will frequently say [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► something like designing California [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► movie babilona yeah kinda made a stoner [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► assembled assembled in austin mhm [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► assembled in austin i don't know why but [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► they they used to say it used to say you [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► know everything you tell it's made in [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► America thinking well it's but there's [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► real switcheroo because there's some [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► parts that come from here and there gets [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► made in china and then it comes back [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► here and I don't think they polish it [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► here or something to put in the box i'm [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► not sure [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► yeah it's funny when you buy when you [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► buy i just got my lady and I felt for [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► her birthday and you'll see it's when it [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► ships out of shells n so it's called the [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► segment goes to Hong Kong and then make [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► the big jump to ontario california but [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► yeah you'll see that it's coming is [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► coming right out of China [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► I don't know what's amazing i think [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► about Hong Kong and Macau is that they [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► both are they both somehow have kept one [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► foot in the capitalist world cow was [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► Blake's they still gamble there it's [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► like a James Bond town everything is a [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► popular pastime in my neighborhood [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► oh right the plan mahjongg there's [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► mahjong there's mahjong fronts and there [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► are places that are nominally you know [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► bodega style convenience type stores [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► that's basically it's just six [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► elderly Chinese guys staring at Aquino [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► screen when you say when you say mahjong [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► front do you mean like people get a new [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► set of teeth but they're made out of [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► mahjong tiles [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► yes it's not a chinese bridge not to be [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► confused with contract bridge [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► according to Hoyle now just totally [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► different thing now [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► no but that's a that's a I think [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► gambling i think gambling is a big [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► cultural thing in am I I can't say that [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► for all of China China's a very big [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► country but there are a lot of Chinese [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► old especially older chinese guys and my [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► neighborhood really are any camera and [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► the young folks do they play a lot of [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► cards if I just cards on the street all [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► the time [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► I mean this might be happening in other [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► neighborhoods I can only speak from my [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► own but so I don't know anything about [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► macau I don't think I know anything [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► about the cow [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► yeah yeah watching that documentary [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► about the Indonesian genocide I think [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► they were a Portuguese what Protectorate [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► colony calling all the colony [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► yeah account look at that yeah you know [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► the Portuguese had a strange man strange [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► little Empire they were big ship people [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► they had a lot of ships yeah my [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► experience in Portugal which is I mean [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► not the world's most extensive [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► experience but I've spent a good goodly [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► amount of time in Portugal more than I [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► ever expected I would do and you know [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► the I think the tendency for us here in [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► the United States is to think that [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► Portugal is I don't know some flange of [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► Spain yes like it's like spain jr but [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► when you get to Portugal you realize [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► that they really are different from the [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► Spanish they look different they act [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► different they are they are different [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► and it's because they like hug this wild [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► Atlantic coast and they just look [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► they're more rugged mm-hmm [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► and what if you ever want to know [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► there's a difference just ask a [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► Portuguese person who I'll see that's [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► the thing if you ask a Spanish person [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► they're going to say that there's no [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► difference but if you ask a Portuguese [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► person it's kind of like Portugal is the [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► taiwan of of Spain cowboy and well you [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► know in Rhode Island where my ladies [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► from there are a lot of Portuguese [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► people and I mean it really confuses the [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► culture that's where they're very i hope [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► this isn't too ping pong but they're [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► very they're garrulous like very [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► outgoing are very emotional people and [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► it's [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► it's kind of a fun vibe yeah wait for [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► these food and I'm not so crazy they [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► don't want a greasy fish there [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► yeah and it's sort of like the Basques [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► the Basque love a greasy fish it because [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► it keeps their keep their pelts really [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► soft anything told knows that that's [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► that's good right [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► I just recently met a person of Basque [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► extraction and it caused me to think [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► about you know a new friend and they [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► caused me to [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► I've also spent some time in basque [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► country and i and i love it there and [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► but i but then i was like wait a minute [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► what the Basques do in World War two [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► I have a pretty good sense of what [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► everybody did during World War Two and I [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► I treat people from European countries [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► differently based on what my [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► preconceived notion of what their [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► grandfather did in World War two is [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► right i kind of like oh hello nice to [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► meet you [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► I know what your grandfather did in [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► World War two don't try and Buffalo me [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► mr. i know what your grand like a [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► terrible or movie had fun with work to [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► you know it's one of those things where [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► it's like you go into somebody's house [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► and that you know what what people's [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► grandfather's in Bavaria did in World [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► War two is very different than what [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► people grandfather's in the amber too [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► much so much to say about this i'm [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► looking at the page about Basque so [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► baskets kinda like it's a little bit [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► Spain little bit France little bit [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► country little bit rock and roll yet so [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► that it goes up into France it goes down [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► into Spain and there you know and they [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► kind of consider themselves as sort of a [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► single tribe except you know the French [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► Basques obviously her i'll say gracious [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► loyal it was a Basque that's exactly [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► right and he founded the Jesuits so the [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► Basques you know very separate group of [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► people their languages is to linguists [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► it has no like analog in any other [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► language in the world it is not an [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► indo-european language it is a cookie [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► why language that someone one day [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► invented who lived up in the in the [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► crazy Hills in northern Spain and I no [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► one knows where it came from and no one [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► it it doesn't behave like other [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► languages [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► it's a little bit you know it has it's [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► one of those things where it's like [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► well finish there's some there's some [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► crazy aspect of finish like her go [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► Hungarian languages which are similar to [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► Japanese and really and nobody can [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► understand how that's one reason I find [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► Portuguese so interesting that up uh [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► ruin my roommate for a while and [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► military school was from portugal and [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► when he would speak you know you hear on [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► the phone talking to his family and he [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► never spoke it you know there weren't a [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► lot of Portuguese kids there but one out [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► here I always said was so strange [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► because it sounded to my twelve-year-old [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► it sounded almost exactly like a cross [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► between spanish and german it had a lot [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► of that group of the glottal kind of you [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► know gotta roll filled up German but [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► also the kind of like that little thing [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► romance feel of spanish i feel like the [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► gutter reality of Portuguese developed [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► because they were shouting at each other [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► across the deck of a ship that was in a [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► storm [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► I said that you know that i think they [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► call it an adaptation with no answer key [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► so call evolution [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► Yeah right right right right yes because [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► if you just if you you're not gonna be [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► up there you know you know this is why [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► the Italians never c never sailed is [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► because it was too hard for them to yell [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► over the wind it's not about selling a [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► poem rights right that's why the [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► Italians uh yeah they days whether it's [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► like an unlocked [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► they just stayed in Italy and they never [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► got in boats because they didn't want it [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► because their language which she was [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► John about the you know what you know [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► what it's shaped like a boat that shaped [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► like a boot that's true i think that's a [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► really good point but I but so the [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► Basques that you know that their [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► territory is very mountainous and if you [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► were trying to invade and conquer those [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► people you would fail which is why they [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► did not they were not conquered they got [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► two things go on their side they got a [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► language were no it's like Stonehenge [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► nobody knows where it came from and then [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► you've also got the mountains united [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► nations against any kind of a attack you [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► can't get in can't get out and then when [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► you get there it's hard to ask for [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► directions because we like you know from [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► that's right you're not speaking the [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► this and unintelligible language you can [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► even learn it's like Navajo code talker [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► you how many a pastor on united states [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► well you know what i do i do know one [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► thing about the Basques in the United [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► States which is that they settled in [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► idaho what the bellaire 57,000 793 [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► according to wikipedia and but 193 well [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► as we don't come [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► but never like that accidentally [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► somebody had to see where that came from [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► I think that my friend who is a basket [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► got in here unbeknownst to wikipedia and [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► she doesn't she's not be encountered in [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► that figure because she because there [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► was an intermediary relationship where [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► she lived in knowing John no one knows [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► how to ask her [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► probably well that's right what do you [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► what do you say like I mean not [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► everybody that comes into the country [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► gets asked i I've gone through customs [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► enough times to know that they don't ask [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► if you're Basque well-known they might [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► misunderstand think your last name is [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► actually the city are from make a chalk [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► mark on your tagged and put in [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► quarantine I'll see exactly right and [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► then all of a sudden you're walking [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► around Corleone here but that's right [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► that's right yeah so a but i'll but i [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► love that part of the world and they eat [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► a lot of greasy fish but that's [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► delicious wonderful i did I used to [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► think I was not a greasy fish guy but [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► then i had had some sardines in other [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► categories your bow [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► yeah you know like like the the herring [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► the herrings from the herring family and [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► they're just laying out these gigantic [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► Greece fish and like I hope you like [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► these and I I was like Hello [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► but then i am and i said i do like them [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► I understand what you're doing up here [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► in bilbao I get it now but that but what [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► I didn't know was what their [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► grandfathers did in World War two and so [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► I started a little bit of i started [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► rabbit holding as you do about Fresno no [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► I rabbit hole about friends know this [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► morning but I rabbit hold about the [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► Basques in World War two the morning [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► trying to figure out a fortune for [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► carpenters gay [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► what did you come up with I'm like maybe [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► a third of the way in right it's one [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► that's not super clear this and I feel [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► like that's where I am with the Basques [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► in world war two and a third of the way [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► and okay i figured out you know because [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► the thing is that there is that whole [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► business right spain was we get the get [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► the get the fascist right there just [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► coming off the the big war in the [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► thirties that's right but there [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► ostensibly neutral in the war and a lot [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► of Allied Pilots that got shot down over [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► France did that the French underground [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► would take them down hand them over to [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► the Basques the Basques would get them [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► across into Spain and then the [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► neutrality of of Spain would allow those [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► pilots to find their way back [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► come even though the Spanish were pretty [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► allied with the Nazis but there was [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► enough of a you know they would they be [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► maintained enough of a sort of like [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► neutral posture that Allied Pilots could [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► get over there and then I realized that [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► neighboring the basque country is a is [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► the hollandaise sauce County oh that [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► Belgium know it's a burn burn bear you [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► no bare knees are barren that's [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► excellent [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► well no it's it's this it's like the [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► coming holidays is not from Dutch no [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► that's what's amazing about its of me [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► I'm branch that's and and that then this [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► Bearnaise so I don't think the sauce is [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► actually from Baron what about béchamel [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► where's that from [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► I'm sure they're all from France there [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► there were no sausage before friends is [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► that right [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► there's all their idea before that [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► people only had dry drying meets yeah it [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► probably is probably boiled vegetables [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► yeah they thought no thought of sauce [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► they put it put everything in a pot [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► boiled it through some salt and some [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► dirt in that was one on Z and then the [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► French were like what if we made an [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► emulsification of mayonnaise and through [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► like some tarragon in it and then the [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► world was forever changed em but all [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► those sauces i think i think they did [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► they came from the north but they were [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► called the they named it [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► béarnaise because they don't know [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► because it was they were doing somebody [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► an honor right like oh you're from Baron [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► we're going to name it béarnaise your [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► name is sauce for you and there's a [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► marshal of France but they're called the [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► God sauces I stand corrected it's the [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► mother sauces mother sauces sasa [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► associate mommy air you've got the best [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► email you got s spy spagnoli it's got it [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► only ESP hele and I've ever heard that [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► holidays to tomahto and veloute oh [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► that's the mother sauces and so a new [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► mommy Oh mommy I think that's the one on [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► the back of the tongue that the Japanese [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► discovered yeah we struggle at all with [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► these distinctions with your daughter [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► she characters my daughter is is really [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► becoming a very profound cultural critic [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► she has no idea what she's talking about [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► your waiver of songs now no sauce is [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► lots always challenging she must like a [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► little bit of butter but not too much [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► but when it comes to like she almost [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► exactly always exactly gets japanese and [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► chinese things confused she thinks anime [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► is from China and she and she thinks [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► that did you know the stuff we got from [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► chinese restaurants Japanese oh IC uh [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► the Marlins pretty I think she can hang [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► with the fact that there are she's just [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► learning about there being people from [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► all around because she's grown up in a [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► culture where there were kids of every [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► kind of race ethnicity around her so she [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► never she didn't understand that there [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► was any difference between people just [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► based on their color or she doesn't [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► think that there is and but she does [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► appreciate the people are speaking [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► different languages right which he [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► thinks is fascinating and she's just at [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► the age where she's starting to kind of [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► try and imitate them which you know what [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► it's like [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► well that's as do that are inside voice [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► yeah that's fun that's fun to do but [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► it's also an inside voice thing and the [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► other day she was wearing she's wearing [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► black pants and a black shirt and she [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► was running around saying I'm a black [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► girl I'm a black girl and it was like [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► that's exactly what you are and yet [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► that's not a thing that we can shout at [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► the mall and so that you know we're [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► right at the stage where I don't want to [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► get into her little mind and start [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► filling it with all of our adult human [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► like anger and frustration and bullshit [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► right now I totally that's part of the [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► struggle [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► yeah i think you mean alsace-lorraine I [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► mean when we're in when we're in [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► chinatown in their people speaking [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► Chinese all around us and my [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► four-year-old goes Jeong Jeong I go I I [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► uh I don't want this I don't want to [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► start right yet like stomping on your [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► enthusiasm with our like intermediary [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► problems you know I don't want to lean [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► down and say say anything but I also [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► don't want her to like you know the [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► better their ninety-nine percent of the [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► people in chinatown are going to give a [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► shit and they're gonna think it's cute [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► and funny but there's always gonna be [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► somebody who has their up often since [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► Apple it's on [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► I did but it is also always fun to hear [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► like if you asked anybody this is not [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► something you would you would probably [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► do it south by southwest or maybe you [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► would do this XOXO but you can see that [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► somebody like what is its what is a [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► Vietnamese written language styling was [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► German sound like or any of those you [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► know you just imitate a Canadian person [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► was fascinating though is to hear people [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► in other countries doing what they think [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► an American accent sounds like yeah and [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► you realize like how how dominant uni [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► and weird we sound well I've never told [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► that story about the when i was at [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► Gonzaga a good friend of mine had a [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► roommate who was from Japan and who was [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► learning English sort of in college and [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► a bright guy na like a he was a great a [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► great guy and ended up being a really [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► good friend but when he first arrived he [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► knew I think he knew more English than [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► he was comfortable speaking but he did [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► not really speak English and so after a [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► while of a kind of hanging out and and [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► introducing him to american beer and so [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► forth [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► one of us one of us said I think it was [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► my friend Bob said when you are in japan [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► and talking to Japanese friends how do [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► you imitate Americans like what do [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► Americans sound like and he was like [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► what are you talking about was we had to [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► explain like what it was and by way of [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► explanation way we said you know when we [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► imitate Japanese are like also chung [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► talking or whatever right and he was he [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► like you can see the light bulb go off [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► and he was like all right I get it and [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► he likes to do with his feet apart wide [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► apart wide stance [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► and he said I'm gonna bang bang bang [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► bang and we were like oh and we all got [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► really sad isn't exactly what you don't [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► want to hear ya we slide back in our in [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► our like Randy couches we're like a [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► hamburger hamburger bang bang Chicago [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► bank don't know that's the worst are we [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► that bad [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► oh no it's miserable uh ah so and I [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► think that that's still true i think [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► that in the majority of America the [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► world were just hamburger hamburger bang [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► bang [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► I think you're probably right that you [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► like 4s espagnole sauce [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► oh my goodness i think this might be our [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► our gravy so what happens in espagnole [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► sauce [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► alright let's look at this is all your [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► ass but no way it's just look at this [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► photo of of beef in this brown gravy [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► with a side of like steak fries [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► what am I doing here why am I sitting in [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► this cold also sitting here looking at [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► your boys are freezing beef in brown [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► gravy [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► oh look at that went to importance last [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► night oh good for you how to go went [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► great i mean you know you go to morton's [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► and and you basically like it's like [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► you're stewing in Frank Sinatra right [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► there's Frank Sinatra on the stereo and [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► then they bring out a plate and it's [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► basically like half of Frank Sinatra [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► hosts fingers in my hair but it's an [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► honor it's another Frank Sinatra he [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► pissed on my fucking head and it wasn't [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► on fucked my wife right on the bar you [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► know that but should be frank yes I can [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► if frank says I can sew in detail you [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► want you had a big steak [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► yeah a big stick it was good but you [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► know i'm suffering a little bit of the [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► consequences today because yeah [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► basically I you know I hate a cat and [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► now I'm i'm walking around it's like it [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► was Halloween too and i haven't even [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► eating sugar for a while and you know if [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► you get anyone Eminem the cravings come [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► back right and then you need to you need [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► to go to the methadone clinic because [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► just like oh my god I had some sugar and [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► there's this giant bowl of reese's [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► peanut butter cups and what can I did [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► you know I'm trapped in the house all [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► method for candy [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► let's say hit rock bottom as a candy [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► user like what do you think what kind of [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► clinic would you go to what they give [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► splenda oh yeah i think they would just [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► give you shitty candy they give you like [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► licorice the but you know I i had an [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► interesting conversation with my mom the [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► other day where she said you used to it [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► so you know you have to have talked [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► about my shoebox full of money [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► yeah but according to my mom i also had [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► a giant bag of candy when people would [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► want you know all the candy holidays [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► which are kind of all the holidays [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► except fourth of July they're all candy [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► holidays and she said you would hoard [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► your candy you wouldn't eat it and I was [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► like that sounds like me she said but [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► you would you kept this candy in a bag [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► and you would bring neighborhood kids in [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► you never take the candy bag out of the [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► house you'd bring neighborhood kids in [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► and you would give them a choice of [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► their favorite candy out of the bag if [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► they would blank like you would bribe [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► and manipulate the neighborhood kids [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► into doing what you wanted by promising [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► them a selection from your candy horde [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► and I was like what I sound I sound like [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► a fucking diabolical monster child [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► yeah you sound like a like a like a [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► super billionaire and she was like [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► that's right and so I have and so then [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► it started to like memory started to [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► flood back of my candy stash which was [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► full of all the candy that I didn't [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► actually person i mean i would eat all [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► the fucking chocolate right away but [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► then I had all the garbage candy the [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► smarties and the licorice in that Mike [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► and Ikes and all that stuff I didn't [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► care about Necco wafers yeah like just [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► shit candy that they give to people and [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► I would just hoard it and then offer [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► this offer these like beads two kids for [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► their Manhattan islands [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► oh yeah I shall require you to do a [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► fancy dance for me [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► that's right or like oh here's here's [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► here nave here's the [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► game here's the game today you are going [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► to be a dog and i am going to be a dog [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► killer and the kids would be like I [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► don't want to be a dog again and I'd be [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► like why don't you come in and have a [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► Necco wafer and then maybe like okay and [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► then be like that's right now [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► now i'm going to sit on my throne and [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► you sit here next to my throne and if [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► anybody comes you attack so I that sub [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► that makes me sound like a sicko from a [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► young age that happened and then my mom [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► confirmed that she thought I was a [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► psycho that this was not a childlike [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► behavior but she didn't somehow she [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► didn't like getting a doctor or anything [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► well not as far as i know not until [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► later but you know I my daughter has [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► what appears to be very little impulse [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► control like when we go places where [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► there's a buffet [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► she just pieces in front of the buffet [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► just trolling it hoping that someone [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► will give her a shrimp you know and I'm [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► like get away from the buffet you're [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► freaking people out and she's like but [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► all I could all the food and i'm like i [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► see it you've already eaten enough food [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► for 74 year olds today sheet a lot she [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► just she did would never stop eating [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► money if i put if I put a a trough of [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► four-year-old kibble four-year-old child [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► by purina right if I put it there in [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► front of her room she would just you [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► just forage all day she's fascinating my [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► kid is not a big eater [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► she's going straight she's a canon [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► lawyer she's always looking for like [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► what do I need to negotiate to get a [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► little more TV a little bit more candy [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► but she does not eat a lot of like [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► normal food but your kindle elite like [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► what kind of stuff like what if she had [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► rather what she also just the just kid [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► shit even macaroni Dogg hott Dogg's a [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► grilled cheese sandwiches because school [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► Betty she likes she likes something [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► Betty White if my daughter you know we [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► talked about i believe i've had this [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► fantasy of somebody having a great [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► machine in my house like I think if she [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► could have you know some people have [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► draft beer if she could have draft [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► noodles [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► I think she would just be pulling on [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► glass noodles all the time I feel like I [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► feel like that would be true of mine too [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► and so but but she's trolling the buffet [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► I don't know what she's looking for [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► apes like what does she think is up [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► there but she just want you know she's [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► you know she gives the like the this [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► poor street urchin eyeballs to all the [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► adults walking by like no one has been [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► using little look at the Kenzie and [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► character gotta have more grills and and [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► so people are like I mean I think we [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► passed the point where any adult would [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► feed a strange child from their hands [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► right when they look around like where [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► is this child's parent and why she [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► trolling the buffet like so that's what [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► I say to her like you're making people [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► nervous [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► come over here and sit with your family [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► and she's just like as soon as soon as [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► you're not watching her she's back over [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► like like it like that sharks swimming [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► in front of the a beach covered with [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► bathers and I go I like what is that [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► but she does not seem like somebody [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► who's going to hoard candy in a bag in [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► order to manipulate other kids and I [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► can't tell whether that's an evolution [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► of the family like a sort of John [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► Syracuse's style and the way he looks at [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► evolution right yeah just sort of like [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► where people see a thing and then they [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► they change the ball and evolve and [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► evolution yes or whether it is where the [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► weather it's a maladaptation and she's [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► not going to be able to she's not going [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► to learn how to leverage your your [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► wealth into power over people who don't [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► ask you talk too much about our bet you [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► know that good kids are weird kids are [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► super weird I it's hard to know what [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► they're going to what they're going to [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► connect with and like but the buffet i [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► remember the buffet just being the stuff [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► of fantasy to me when we got our first [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► don't say Duff's and in Cincinnati was [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► like three dollars me in like nineteen [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► seventy six or seven dollars you it [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► feels like it was three dollars for all [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► all you was before they say all you care [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► to eat they would say for [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► all-you-can-eat buffet which really was [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► more like some kind of a challenge oh [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► yeah ours was called the royal fork and [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► when you walked into the Royal for that [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► sounds fancy it was it was it was there [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► was a crown on top of the fork the Royal [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► for you'd walk into the royal fork and [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► you saw right away [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► that there were like twenty four [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► different kinds of jell-o salad and yeah [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► all the macaroni and cheese you could [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► eat all the chicken cutlets you could [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► eat all the school Betty you could eat [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► it wasn't it was an insane scene and [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► then I can't imagine why the restaurant [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► like that would go out of business but [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► royal fork is no more i'm looking at [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► some images here from a place that area [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► became popular around the time I moved [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► out of tallahassee but it's called china [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► super buffet and there was this real [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► trend in the mid to late night for [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► example I think I told you the first [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► time I ever ate sushi at least on a [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► regular basis was at a buffet [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► oh that's good sushi buffet sushi sigo [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► you got lunch is eight dollars for [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► all-you-can-eat sushi and a seminal role [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► you know what's that Tom i Doan 27 [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► Olympians eat their food and rolls I [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► think that racism and white wife beating [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► it but they uh but no but that's that [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► was well there was this trend though in [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► the mid to late nineties where there's [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► like more and more buffets taking over [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► and pushing out the more mom-and-pop [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► version of whatever was coming there so [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► when this place open you should see this [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► place looks like a a barn it's just [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► giant so they got all that i'm looking [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► here at the steam tables full of like [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► lots of you know vegetable heavy dishes [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► with recent but they also have this [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► entire bar of just uniformly [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► golden-brown american food is always [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► liked all-you-can-eat tater tots all you [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► can eat french fries all ukita it's not [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► going to publix you know when you go to [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► that the hot section where it's like [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► just all uniformly golden brown [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► oh I know I know and people just would [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► just go fucking crazy in this place I [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► was behind a guy the salad bar last week [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► and I I swear to god you do not want to [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► see an old person in the salad bar they [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► put a hurtin on a salad bar [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► I think a lot for a lot of people to go [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► the salad bar that's going to be three [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► meals I've got a pal uh who insists that [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► we go to sizzler not because the stakes [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► are good but because the salad bar they [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► got AI got hot bar [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► yeah right you can go you two soups you [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► get a variety of breads yep [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► now you gotta pump chilly there today [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► well the children maybe the chili is in [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► a is in a [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► serving tub because I don't sound like [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► it like a like a fancy lad but sizzlers [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► just a little bit of my bar [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► yeah I keep saying this I can't even [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► find ironically john and i want to [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► change the cheese dad what did your did [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► your tastebuds the stop in 1987 I mean [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► they stopped evolving like sizzler [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► no I can't go to sizzler but but she [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► insists and we go to sister and my god I [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► can't do this this is that they don't [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► even have they don't even have steak in [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► Malibu chicken anymore i couldn't even [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► find a malibu chicken salad with chicken [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► what I got in what you never had you [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► never want to sizzler got steak in [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► Malibu chicken think so sounds pretty [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► malibu chicken is basically just a [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► chicken breast with the LA cheese on it [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► slice a ham on it and then some Swiss [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► cheese on the top [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► oh it's like a poor man's that cordon [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► bleu the poor man's quarter blue you get [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► it get too used to get two breasts to [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► Malibu chickens and anna and some kind [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► of six ounce or eight ounce steak that [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► that absolutely fell off the back of a [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► truck right i mean it's like they say [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► they don't say us a choice they say they [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► say like choice takes a picture picture [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► of a guy in government uniform shrugging [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► if I'm right it's like choice takes [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► that's that's different than saying that [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► this steak is USDA choice probably fine [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► it's just saying that you chose them [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► how about ok like a laundry bin of [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► states [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► let's take him it came out of a out of a [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► processing plant no no we don't mean [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► USDA choice we just means we picked out [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► for you mean scissors choice i don't [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► think they might even be called sisters [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► sisters choice that's as good as us atty [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► a choice but yeah so I so the other day [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► i was down i was being I was being [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► basically like a guy press-ganged into [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► going into a sizzler and I was standing [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► out front like like digging my heels [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► into the cement going no i do not want [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► again to go to a sizzler i'm done and [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► across the street from the sizzler is an [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► Outback Steakhouse and I said let's just [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► look look-look-look-look we're here [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► let's just try something new you know me [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► I like try something new [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► let's just go across the street to the [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► back steakhouse will do a comparison [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► it's consistent it is consistent and so [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► we slept across the street to the to the [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► outback steakhouse we go in and [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► immediately were being upset [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► also the bloomin onion we weren't even [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► seated at the table this and sat there [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► and just sort of you know got up sold [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► half a dozen times the weight the waiter [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► was pretty bad at his job but you know [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► it was a better class of stake than the [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► sizzler so i had to say you know okay [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► you go to places like a ponderosa on [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► your kid we didn't have those in [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► Anchorage we didn't I don't even know [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► what a golden corral is that sounds like [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► a royal forward but that's not a real [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► fucking golden corral i think is like [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► that well here's the thing like when I [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► was a kid he had your York steak house [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► you never heard her well and they were [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► places that did like a cafeteria-style [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► line and you could get a six-dollar [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► steak or whatever or whatever you can [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► get you know that the ground beef patty [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► burger with steak fries and you get a [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► little just like you get the putting in [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► the jello out of the case just like you [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► know like you would any cafeteria [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► it's just that would be you know it's [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► like slightly nicer than disgusting and [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► like you would go there but then I think [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► something happened i want to say around [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► the time i was in high school probably [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► where they suddenly i guess i don't know [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► i'm not sure what market force would [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► have caused this but they started adding [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► more and more buffet elements i think it [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► started [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► obviously with the state with the with [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► salad bar then they start you start [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► having your soups you got your breads [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► you get more made a carving station and [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► I think that feels very luxe to people [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► when you go to las vegas & like people [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► are dying for this stuff [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► did I ever tell you that I was a member [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► of a group called the cotillion club [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► when I was in high school was that what [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► was that about dancing it was about [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► dancing always think italian club you [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► were in continuum club seventh grade [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► yeah don't know about yours [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► well so you know sometime around [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► I don't know 9th or 10th grade the kids [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► all started whispering about cotillion [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► were you or were you not going to get [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► invited to tell you and I had never [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► heard of continued and I didn't know [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► what to expect but it was like [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► a group of adults chose which kids were [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► the right kids wear the fancy kids [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► you're kidding to invite to cotillion [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► club which was a special set of dance [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► and this is in the eighties [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► oh yeah special set of dances that only [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► the chosen kids could attend and the [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► grown-ups were like the moms and dads [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► and i think that the that the the [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► grown-ups chose one another to like the [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► the moms and dads from from the last set [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► you know picked then the the right moms [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► and dads to choose the right kids for [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► the next generation and so buzzed all [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► the kids are whispering who's going to [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► get into cotillion club and it was not a [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► thing that I knew about and my mom was [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► absolutely not one of the right moms and [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► i was very definitely not one of the [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► right kids man [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► and so cotillion club comes around and [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► and and you know it's like the kids are [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► getting tapped like you know tap on the [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► shoulder it's like skullenbones with [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► dance moves [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► do you want are you know yet you are [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► invited to tell you do you accept your [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► you know you accept or refuse to make [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► your choice right and all the kids like [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► oh my god I'm in cotillion [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► Wow and so the selection of cotillion [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► happened and I was not invited because [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► the moms who made that decision i think [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► there were some dads to mom's dance had [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► determined that I was the bad elements i [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► was the wrong i was the wrong tone [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► because my parents were divorced my [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► mother was a single mother who lived in [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► an inappropriately big house considering [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► she was a single mother so that was [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► suspicious something was wrong because [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► no single mother should be prospering [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► and this suspicion i think in the [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► neighborhood was that my mom was there [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► to steal all their husbands or something [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► whatever it was that they were afraid of [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► single women at the time single [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► professional women so I didn't get [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► invited and also I was a bad kid let's [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► be honest here but my friends who all [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► were in continuing club rebelled [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► you know you never saw this before and I [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► didn't think my friends like me that [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► much but they did like me enough and [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► they went to their moms and they they [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► staged a protest not a not an actual [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► protest because these are middle-class [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► kids there's an insurrection an [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► insurrection and they said if you don't [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► invite [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► invite [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► John to cotillion club then we none of [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► us will go to tell and it was a [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► completely false threat they all were [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► gonna go to tell you whether I went or [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► not but it was for that week or whenever [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► it was there it was there stand for [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► justice that was there that was their [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► march on Selma was that they were going [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► to stop this this tragedy that I hadn't [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► been invited to continue so a week later [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► than everyone else my invitation to [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► cotillion arrived and you could just and [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► you just knew the moms or so mad because [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► i was i would I was gonna ruin it and [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► obviously like there were very few if [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► know people of color invited to [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► cotillion and it was but you know this [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► was before anybody felt like before any [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► white people notice that there was a [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► problem with that [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► and so they had these dances down at the [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► Hilton Hotel where members of the [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► cotillion club from all the schools [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► would congregate and it was basically [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► like these are the right kids from the [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► whole town [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► these are the these are the chosen kids [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► from something from the thirties yes [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► absolutely but this is Anchorage in the [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► eighties la even by the eighties like I [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► think about when I was in like advanced [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► english they had to come up with a funny [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► name for it so they could they did one [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► called accelerator whatever there was so [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► much concerned about steering so much [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► concern about like you know even then [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► exhaling kids to some kind of area where [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► like they didn't feel special like yeah [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► I can't believe this existed but this [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► was this was extra school it had nothing [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► to do with the school this was a group [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► that was funded and run by parents who [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► wanted the best for their kids [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► ok and it was absolutely like savannah [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► in the thirties but the you know there [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► was this super class hierarchy and [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► Anchorage at the time because a lot of [TS]

01:01:58 ◼   ► the people that settled Alaska in the [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► fifties and sixties came from a the [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► Northeast in you know at [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► and move directly to Alaskan like they [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► didn't move west they moved from new [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► haven to Anchorage little bit a little [TS]