Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Vanessa Byor, and this is my brother, Jonah.
Speaker 1: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 1: and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people
Speaker 1: we are today, who are pretty fascinated by the arts,
Speaker 1: if I do say so myself. Welcome to how did
Speaker 1: we get weird? So, Jonah, I'm very excited about our
Speaker 1: quest today. I know you are kids. Yes, when I
Speaker 1: was first starting on SNL, I actually did her podcast
Speaker 1: called how was your week? We had such a nostalgic
Speaker 1: podcast where basically we both watched reality bites, singles, empire,
Speaker 1: records and so I married an ax murderer, and we
Speaker 1: just talked about those four movies, which all have a
Speaker 1: lot in common. And in fact, our guest today gave
Speaker 1: me a quiz which was so funny. She would ask
Speaker 1: me things that a character did and I would have
Speaker 1: to say whether it was Ethan Hawk's character Troy and
Speaker 1: reality bites or Matt Dylan's character cliff in singles, because
Speaker 1: it turns out there almost exactly the same. How do
Speaker 1: you do on the quiz? Do you remember? I pretty
Speaker 1: sure I got a hundred percent, but I had just
Speaker 1: watched all the movies like. It's not like I did
Speaker 1: it from memory, or else I would have never remembered.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jonad also reminded me of the time
Speaker 1: that you had a birthday party were you and your friends.
Speaker 1: You're probably like thirteen, and you took your friends to
Speaker 1: see singles, and mom and dad and I went with you,
Speaker 1: but we had to sit like a few rows behind
Speaker 1: you and your friends. You could be cool. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I vaguely remember that. Yeah, I mean such an incredible movie.
Speaker 1: I still remember that club scene with allison chain's playing.
Speaker 1: Would I mean? And then Ben still are supposed to
Speaker 1: be like this kind of straight business guy. Now you're
Speaker 1: thinking of reality bites. You're mixing up the movies because
Speaker 1: they're so similar. No, chains has to be in singles. No, no,
Speaker 1: but Ben Stiller is in Real Ben Stiller is in reality.
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller isn't in singles. You're right. They are so confusing.
Speaker 1: They're so confusing, and Matt Dylan and Ethan Hawk play
Speaker 1: almost exactly the same character, which our guests today really
Speaker 1: picked up on and gave me a very difficult quiz
Speaker 1: if I hadn't just watched both movies. Wow. Well, I
Speaker 1: think maybe we should introduce her and then we can
Speaker 1: maybe talk about this a little more, really get into it,
Speaker 1: really get into it. Yeah, okay, so our guest today.
Speaker 1: We're so excited to have her. She's a writer, a
Speaker 1: comedian and actress and author and a podcaster. You may
Speaker 1: know her from creating, writing and starring in the halusa
Speaker 1: com difficult people, or from her popular podcast. How is
Speaker 1: your week and double threat with Tom sharpling. Please welcome
Speaker 1: the wonderful Julie Klausner. Hi, guys, I'm so happy to
Speaker 1: be here. Thank you for having me and, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, even as you totally aced that test. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the other questions that we've talked about a
Speaker 1: lot I'm here was where does the song stay by
Speaker 1: Lisa Loebe come in reality? Bites right, it's from the
Speaker 1: Jonah wait, let's see if Jonah can answer and here's
Speaker 1: the hint. It's kind of a funny place for a
Speaker 1: song called stay to be. Yes, so I don't even remember,
Speaker 1: and we had Lisa Lobe on this podcast. I feel
Speaker 1: like I should know that we did. I don't remember
Speaker 1: it from that movie. I just remember the music video.
Speaker 1: Where is it in the movie? Over the closing credit
Speaker 1: closing credits. That is not what you would expect. Not
Speaker 1: what you would expect, especially because to me, and maybe
Speaker 1: I'm biased because I love that song and I love
Speaker 1: Lisa Lobe, that is the most famous song from the
Speaker 1: reality Bites Soundtrack, like that's the biggest breakout song. I
Speaker 1: feel like some of the songs on that soundtrack weren't
Speaker 1: specifically created for reality bites, right, like weren't some of
Speaker 1: the songs a little older? Is the soundtrack to singles
Speaker 1: more bespoke? You mean? Yes, yeah, I actually know a
Speaker 1: decent amount about the single soundtrack because I just read
Speaker 1: Mark Lannigan's memoir and screaming trees. Yes, I near the
Speaker 1: last he was on it and he was sort of
Speaker 1: saying like he was saying it actually wasn't good for
Speaker 1: the screaming trees because he thinks the record would have
Speaker 1: done better if they weren't on that soundtrack. Like he
Speaker 1: he talks about having a meeting with executive. That's like
Speaker 1: all these Seattle bands are going to be on it,
Speaker 1: like obviously Pearl Jam Elson chains. So I'm looking right
Speaker 1: now at the soundtrack for reality bites and you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, with the exception of like Julianna Hadfield's been
Speaker 1: the bottle. Oh, also, great song from that soundtrack. That's
Speaker 1: a banger that we're talking about. And turn up farm
Speaker 1: by Dinosaur Jr. The first song on the reality Bite
Speaker 1: Soundtrack is my Sharona. Yeah, right, and that song tempted,
Speaker 1: is not tempted by squeezes on it, locked out by
Speaker 1: crowded houses on it? Oh, that's such a great song too.
Speaker 1: And then I see something called I'm nothing by Ethan Hawk,
Speaker 1: which I wonder if he sang in character. I kind
Speaker 1: of remember this because I had the soundtrack, and I
Speaker 1: will say this with all respect to Ethan Hawk, when
Speaker 1: you would get to that song, you'd sort of go, okay,
Speaker 1: that's kind of skip. Yeah, yeah, like that was like
Speaker 1: Patrick squeezy singing. She's like the wind on the dirty
Speaker 1: dancing soundtrack, where you're like okay, which actually is a
Speaker 1: pretty good song, though for that movie. They play it
Speaker 1: mercifully briefly, like I think he's like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they brought it all all the way down in the mix,
Speaker 1: if I remember I think you're right. I think if
Speaker 1: you listen to it closely, God bless it's pretty yeah,
Speaker 1: God bless him and we miss him every day then
Speaker 1: and we miss him every day. But maybe she's like
Speaker 1: the wind. Oh Man me, I can only think of
Speaker 1: like one phrase these things and then the song is over.
Speaker 1: But I guess it must in reality going for it
Speaker 1: must be a longer song. I have a criticism also
Speaker 1: the single soundtrack, Julian, if you're familiar with the song
Speaker 1: dyslexic cart by Paul Westerberg. Yes, so, good song replacements. Obviously,
Speaker 1: great bands. That line. The song. There's a line about
Speaker 1: my heart could use some glasses. To me that line
Speaker 1: always felt like a little bit too silly. Well, like,
Speaker 1: do you know what Dyslexia is? Yeah, like glasses don't
Speaker 1: fix dyslexia. And also, I know you're saying about your heart,
Speaker 1: like maybe communication issues. But I was like for that line,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like you could have worked
Speaker 1: shopped that one a little more. I also feel like
Speaker 1: today you couldn't really release a song called DYSLEXIC card.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could, okay, do that anymore. Oh,
Speaker 1: I knew this is gonna Happen. To talk about how
Speaker 1: canceled culture would have prevented run. That's that's my whole thing.
Speaker 1: That's what you're always talking you couldn't even call them singles.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be doubles. They'd have to be
Speaker 1: troubles exactly. Is that sound? Garden Organic? Right? You know? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: it was alison, those chains. Couldn't even say that anymore.
Speaker 1: I think dyslexic heart was the replacements. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was like their breakout single, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: the catchiest because of all the Nana Nanas. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. I don't really remember that song.
Speaker 1: That was a Paul Westerberg Song. Oh, it's not a replacement, okay,
Speaker 1: but it went NAA, no, no, Na no, no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big song any obviously, screaming trees and
Speaker 1: probably the Best Pearl Jam Song Stated Love and trust.
Speaker 1: I think probably my favorite Probach Song on that central.
Speaker 1: How does that one go? Jonah, I don't really want
Speaker 1: to sing it, but great, Jonah, sing a little bit.
Speaker 1: I love just sing on here, Julie. So it's always
Speaker 1: surprising to me when Jonah doesn't want to say you
Speaker 1: have to pressure him a little. Vanessa, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. How do you think it goes? If you
Speaker 1: had to imagine what is what's it called? The state
Speaker 1: of love and trust by Pearl Jams. I am a
Speaker 1: big Pearl Jam Fan, so I'm surprised that I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like Pearl Jam songs, their names are surprising,
Speaker 1: like you hear the song and you're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: the name of the song. They have a lot of
Speaker 1: one word names, like I feel like porch, Jeremy, alive,
Speaker 1: even flow. Yeah, but then some of the longer names
Speaker 1: I don't always know. There's a really popular one. Whenever
Speaker 1: I hear the name, I'm like, that's the name of
Speaker 1: that song. It doesn't sound like you're really like a
Speaker 1: huge fan. I'm a huge fans, a huge fan. I guess.
Speaker 1: I saw them in concert with you, Jonah. How was
Speaker 1: that concert? Was it good? It was awesome because we
Speaker 1: got to me. We got to kind of hang out
Speaker 1: any better before we did. And is he cool? Does
Speaker 1: he like comedy? to He like you? Was He excited
Speaker 1: to me? Oh my gosh, Julie. So, I think I've
Speaker 1: told a story in the podcast for he came up.
Speaker 1: Vanessa introduced me and she was like, because I had
Speaker 1: met him on the train wreck tour, he had come
Speaker 1: to the show in Seattle on our stand up tour,
Speaker 1: Vanessa's I was my brother, Jonah, is into music, and
Speaker 1: Eddie they was like your sister's cool man. What's it
Speaker 1: like having a cool sister? She's cool, you must be
Speaker 1: cool too if you're her brother. And I was like, like,
Speaker 1: I had no idea what to say. I was like,
Speaker 1: Oh my God, Vanessa, Eddie, better things, you're cool. You guys.
Speaker 1: It's whatever. It's everything. No, it was really well, it was,
Speaker 1: especially because I think Jonah is so cool. So to
Speaker 1: have Eddie vetter tell Jonah that I'm cool, well, things
Speaker 1: don't get much better than that. It was cool. So
Speaker 1: what were the other two? So was singles, Reality Bites,
Speaker 1: and then what were the other two movies? You Two discussed.
Speaker 1: So I married an axe murderer, which has some really
Speaker 1: good music in it too. There was one song. Well,
Speaker 1: there she goes. That's what I was thinking of. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big song, really pretty, really pretty song.
Speaker 1: There were like a lot of covers of that, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I married an x murder. was that considered like
Speaker 1: a romantic? was there like a yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: was like Mike Myers doing a ROM com after Wayne's
Speaker 1: world sort of saying, you know what, if I try
Speaker 1: this out? I love that movie. My friend Steph ruined
Speaker 1: I you know, he would do the thing where he
Speaker 1: would put his hand up to his head and pretend
Speaker 1: it was a phone and go call me, yeah, or
Speaker 1: like mouth call me. I mean we would do it
Speaker 1: all the time. I remember our mom thought it was
Speaker 1: really funny meeting Jonah and my mom step did you
Speaker 1: know there's a recent something that came out of so
Speaker 1: I married an ex murder on Netflix. What came out
Speaker 1: of it? This thing called the Pentaverte. Is that the
Speaker 1: Penta verse? Penta verse, it's a ministeries created by Mike
Speaker 1: Myers for Netflix, inspired by conspiracy theories from so I
Speaker 1: married an x murder. Their six episode. Oh my God,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Watch it. Good luck, Vanessa, because I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was connected to so I married an ex murder.
Speaker 1: I watched the first episode and it's him doing a
Speaker 1: sketch show, like he's playing five characters and one of
Speaker 1: them is sheep Gordon, Alex Cooper's manager, Literally Chef Gordon.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's like it's this guy and that
Speaker 1: guy and this guy's British and he's wearing a lot
Speaker 1: of prosthetics. It's very strange. It seems like they kind
Speaker 1: of gave Mike Myers a blank check, but I don't
Speaker 1: know the behind the scenes of got it. Got It,
Speaker 1: and I also don't want to disparage him because I
Speaker 1: am a fan of his and I like a lot
Speaker 1: of what he does, but I couldn't get into it.
Speaker 1: You're saying it's less of a conspiracy theory, like serious show,
Speaker 1: and more of like a sketch show, more like Mike
Speaker 1: Myers is going to put on some makeup and do
Speaker 1: some characters. Now, which I don't have any problem with
Speaker 1: and I welcome. But I think I watched it also
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the summer when my judge, I
Speaker 1: think I was like right now, I'm at the stage
Speaker 1: of the summer where I'm just like, is it in focus?
Speaker 1: Then fine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll watch anything.
Speaker 1: I totally get that. I totally hear that. What was
Speaker 1: the last one then? I wanted? The last one was
Speaker 1: empire records, which also had some pretty famous songs on it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. The soundtrack didn't totally line up
Speaker 1: to the movie. I remember like meaning, yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: there were maybe two soundtracks. Actually, they found out later
Speaker 1: there's like a second one, but not every song in
Speaker 1: the movie is on the soundtrack and vice versa. I think, Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. So Jin Blossoms, cranberries, toad the wets
Speaker 1: brocket better than Ezra. This is definitely like yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of more of a cherry seven up version of Yes,
Speaker 1: the grunge soundtrack right, there's a little bit more grenadine
Speaker 1: in this cocktail exactly. And then the last song on
Speaker 1: here is sugar high by coody shivers. So I believe
Speaker 1: the actor in the film was a singer for that band.
Speaker 1: Remember they played the end on the roof of the store.
Speaker 1: I think I've looked him up before. He actually sang
Speaker 1: for this band and I think this was their song.
Speaker 1: And the song on the soundtrack is a lot dirtier
Speaker 1: than it is in the movie. I think it's wild
Speaker 1: like war is not in the soundtracks and say it's
Speaker 1: such a memorable in the movie. is like on every
Speaker 1: sound track. I've talked about this. When I saw a
Speaker 1: Guar in the movie I thought they were created for
Speaker 1: the movie. They weren't real. And then I remember Jonah,
Speaker 1: you were the one who told me that they were real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're still an active band. Yeah, well, they're easily replaceable,
Speaker 1: don't you think? Like they're not. You're not going to
Speaker 1: notice if you're like that's not the Goblin that I
Speaker 1: you know, it's just the question putting makeup on a
Speaker 1: different guy. But have you ever Seen Joan Rivers Interview
Speaker 1: Guar on her daytime talk shows? No, I it's the
Speaker 1: best because it's like exhibit a of Joan being awesome,
Speaker 1: because she's just enjoying it. Yeah, she says, what are
Speaker 1: you doing, like we're mutants from outer spirits and we're
Speaker 1: here to like, you know, destroy all humans, and she
Speaker 1: goes of course, fantastic. You know, she's just letting it
Speaker 1: wash over her and enjoying the craziness and it's just
Speaker 1: such a great example of like this is how you
Speaker 1: interview Guar. She was such a pro that's so great,
Speaker 1: because I feel like Donni Hu and Geraldo and those
Speaker 1: guys were so kind of critical of like they would
Speaker 1: have it on and then kind of make fun of
Speaker 1: it or like critique it and have the audience to
Speaker 1: be like what you're doing is bad and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not bad. It's ridiculous and she totally embraced that.
Speaker 1: So that'll be on your next youtube search and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of Joan clips going around and when
Speaker 1: she would sub in for Johnny Carson kind of the
Speaker 1: ultimate heist when you think about how she didn't get
Speaker 1: that show, considering how good she was on the tonight show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was so great. Interviewing Betty White is the one
Speaker 1: that was going around a couple of weeks ago, this
Speaker 1: great clip of her and betty kind of giving each
Speaker 1: other the business and saying like Oh, that dress and
Speaker 1: must be but laughing at the same time through it,
Speaker 1: and it was so great. I'll have to check it out.
Speaker 1: I got to check it out. I was going to
Speaker 1: also say it was really also at the height of
Speaker 1: Liv Tyler. Yes, like when she was like just the coolest, hottest,
Speaker 1: and she's in there the coolest, the hottest, and Renee's elwigger.
Speaker 1: She was the other Gal and empire records right, right.
Speaker 1: I feel like the time between that movie coming out
Speaker 1: and Jerry McGuire coming out wasn't like as different as
Speaker 1: you would think it would be, given how different those
Speaker 1: characters and performances are. They feel like they're a decade
Speaker 1: apart culturally. You're completely right. Yeah, I'd live tyler done
Speaker 1: the aerosmith videos of that, because those are two main things.
Speaker 1: I know her from the film and the aerosmith videos. Okay,
Speaker 1: with Alicia Silverstone. Had she done them yet? I feel
Speaker 1: like that was all around with Alicia Silverstone. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: like that trilogy of video like crazy, yeah, she had okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: those videos were everywhere. Those videos were everywhere and I
Speaker 1: still am like the bungee jumping still so confusing to
Speaker 1: me how the logistics of that worked out at the
Speaker 1: end of the not just bungee jumping but flipping the bird,
Speaker 1: flipping the bird and Bungee jumping at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's more rock and roll than that,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and neither does aerosmith. You know what's
Speaker 1: really crazy is if you watched the crying video now
Speaker 1: and you watch that ending section, which I'm always because
Speaker 1: I think the thing that everyone always thinks, not to
Speaker 1: gross everyone up, but I think everyone always thinks she's
Speaker 1: bungee jumping from her new belly button piercing. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think you're the only one that thought that not the
Speaker 1: only one. Other people have confirmed this, but not everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll make a compromise, okay, but she's clearly not. But
Speaker 1: it's also confusing where the Bungee cord is going, like
Speaker 1: where it is and stuff. But if you watch it now,
Speaker 1: especially because she lands like face up, the background behind
Speaker 1: her of like the street underneath her, when you realize
Speaker 1: she's Bungee jumping, is so fake that it's really disappointing.
Speaker 1: It's like the Mr Rogers town they show at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and that's Stephen Dorr, if I guess, the love interest
Speaker 1: in that phone, which I didn't realize until recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are movie star cast videos. Okay, yeah, you're right, Jonah, Jonah,
Speaker 1: but asa needs you to agree. I do agree. Look
Speaker 1: at all these, look at what everyone went on to do.
Speaker 1: I would say all of these movies really great. We
Speaker 1: need more Nancy Travis our lives. I think she hasn't
Speaker 1: been in enough things, in my opinion, since ax murderer.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing it and my parents were familiar with
Speaker 1: her after so I married an ax murder she was
Speaker 1: in some Sitcom. She was great representationally for curly haired people. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: a h really put curly hair kind of back on
Speaker 1: the map when we were all trying to straighten her hair.
Speaker 1: She did a beautiful job representing that. Yeah, so true. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back with Julie Plasma. Okay, and we are back. So, Julie,
Speaker 1: you came in today with an incredible topic. It is
Speaker 1: called POCO ball, and we're just wondering if you could
Speaker 1: let us know sort of like what your connection is
Speaker 1: with Poco Ball, what made you think about that and
Speaker 1: just sort of if you ever used one? What's your
Speaker 1: POCO ball connect and describe it to everyone. A POCO
Speaker 1: ball was something that came out when I was a
Speaker 1: little kid. I guess a media made kid. When did
Speaker 1: it come out? And like the late eighties or something
Speaker 1: like that came out, and then I think the mid eighties,
Speaker 1: and it looked like Saturn because it was a bouncy
Speaker 1: ball about the size of like, I guess, like a basketball,
Speaker 1: and then it had like a pretty sturdy plastic ring
Speaker 1: that divided it and you had to straddle the ball
Speaker 1: and get in the center of it. It was probably
Speaker 1: very good for your core muscles and then you would
Speaker 1: like jump up and down on it the way you
Speaker 1: would if you were to be on a poco stick.
Speaker 1: But because it's not the nineteen fifties, people don't go
Speaker 1: around with Poco sticks and you could, yeah, just jump
Speaker 1: up and down on it, I guess. Now did you
Speaker 1: have one when you were a medium sized kid? I did.
Speaker 1: I did have one and I really liked it. I
Speaker 1: remember it took me a while to get situated, but
Speaker 1: once I figured it out I would bop around, though
Speaker 1: this is embarrassing, but we're in a safe space to
Speaker 1: confess our childhood trauma on this show. Is that fair
Speaker 1: to say fair, because I imagine it comes up a
Speaker 1: lot when you're talking about like things I remember and
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh no, that's where that comes from.
Speaker 1: But I remember bringing it to recess and then just
Speaker 1: like jumping on it by myself in the corner right schoolyard.
Speaker 1: So in other words, it wasn't like I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: other kids took a turn, but ultimately it did suit
Speaker 1: me because it was a solitary activity. It's not like
Speaker 1: bring a friend and then the two of you will
Speaker 1: be playing tennis or you know whatever. It was just
Speaker 1: kind of like bounce on this thing at your own leisure.
Speaker 1: So I brought it to recess and I just sort
Speaker 1: of ended up like bouncing up and down on it
Speaker 1: on my on my own, and then like bringing it
Speaker 1: home and then I mostly played with it in my driveway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did we have one, Vanessa? Well, we definitely had a
Speaker 1: skip it. When Amy Shimore was on this podcast we
Speaker 1: talked about skippets, which are similarly kind of a solitary yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think we did have a pogo ball, because
Speaker 1: it turns out they're pretty dangerous and I think, really,
Speaker 1: I think they are pretty dangerous if you're not wearing
Speaker 1: protective gear, which all three children on the packaging are not.
Speaker 1: What do you mean protective gear and not going to
Speaker 1: fall on your head? Well, okay, here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to just for listeners. I
Speaker 1: want to say that it was also called a low
Speaker 1: low ball, Spring Ball, low lowball, disco, poco ball or
Speaker 1: Pogo it, and it's a rubber ball with a plastic
Speaker 1: platform around it. As you said, it was a little
Speaker 1: dangerous because, you know, you could fall pretty easily on
Speaker 1: it and I think I would have been too scared
Speaker 1: to use one. Now, Jonah maybe we had one and
Speaker 1: you were using it. I don't remember, but I do
Speaker 1: know it was invented by two Belgian men in n
Speaker 1: Oh good Haspro started mass producing it in the eighties
Speaker 1: until the early nineties, and now there's an updated version
Speaker 1: that that kids use, called the Pogo trickboard. Similar, but
Speaker 1: it's instead of being like shaped like Saturn, it's shaped
Speaker 1: like a cutting board, like a skateboard. They say, like
Speaker 1: a minis a skateboard. It looks more like a cutting
Speaker 1: board to me. With handles on it. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: kind of do like tricks on it, like in the commercial,
Speaker 1: like kids are bouncing. Then they'll like bounce off the
Speaker 1: side of a tree and like keep going handles. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm confused. It has handles on it. It does on
Speaker 1: each end, so maybe you could like grab on and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe for extra like tricks or something. Well,
Speaker 1: should we watch the commercial for the regular Pogo Ball
Speaker 1: and then should we watch the one for the new
Speaker 1: Pogo trickboard, which actually I was mistaken. That's the toy
Speaker 1: that people are saying is one of the worst, most
Speaker 1: dangerous toys. Is the found the Pogo Trick Board on
Speaker 1: an article that's called these dangerous items are the worst
Speaker 1: toys in two thousand nine to safety group says two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, but I mean also these people. That's surprising
Speaker 1: because you think that, you know, what we grew up
Speaker 1: with would be a lot more hazardous. But yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know who knows, like if this is lobbyists, though.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know. We don't know. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't know. Nic Slimes on here. I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: know who's behind all this. Okay, let's watch the Eighties
Speaker 1: Pogo ball commercial for the original. Oh, there's a cood
Speaker 1: man moment. So they are wearing kneepads. In this they're
Speaker 1: wearing kneads. So ball has one l which is interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad we watched this because something with Jonah
Speaker 1: I noticed, which I forgot to bring up, and we
Speaker 1: watched this a couple of days ago. was just for
Speaker 1: people listening. It's a bunch of kids Pogo balling in
Speaker 1: what can only be described as like a Kool aid
Speaker 1: style castle, Magic Warehouse, like a yeah, like an animated
Speaker 1: sort of future room, future futuristic room, and like a
Speaker 1: huge monster's hand comes through the window to try and
Speaker 1: grab them, and that detailed to me. To me, I go,
Speaker 1: this is a commercial. How do we sell more pogo balls?
Speaker 1: Because the scary monster's hand? I don't know why they did. No,
Speaker 1: I don't either. I think I do. You do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because as I was a kid, I took commercials like,
Speaker 1: very literally, as we've talked about. Like I thought, like
Speaker 1: the sweet pickles bus actually came to your house, like
Speaker 1: I thought everything I saw. Wouldn't that have been heavenly
Speaker 1: if they oh my God, right, everybody at the bus stop,
Speaker 1: every my parents would have to be like, Julie, we
Speaker 1: have to go to bed here, like the duck's gonna
Speaker 1: be here right. No, not, that hip hop was coming.
Speaker 1: I would have thought that if I got this toy,
Speaker 1: somehow some kind of animated exciting stuff would happen, like
Speaker 1: I would think, like that meant that like monsters, or
Speaker 1: like adventure, or like. I would have associated the toy
Speaker 1: with that, which is probably the point of the commercial.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't understand that what happened in commercials for
Speaker 1: products didn't happen when I got home with them. Then
Speaker 1: they're just a piece of plastic. You're braver than me,
Speaker 1: because to me, I'm going if a big monster's hand
Speaker 1: is going to come out when I'm on this ball,
Speaker 1: then I'm going to say absolutely, please. Yeah, check, please, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the monster's hand is definitely an effort to
Speaker 1: create this like universe, and I wonder if they were
Speaker 1: trying to sell a POCO ball show, but it really
Speaker 1: seemed like these kids were the heroes in this story
Speaker 1: about this godlike, this God like monster who hates kids
Speaker 1: who play Poco Ball, only wants to like sweep them
Speaker 1: up and crush their bones for his bread. And the
Speaker 1: only way to make sure he stays angry is to
Speaker 1: keep on POCO balling. By the way, such a like
Speaker 1: trope of tall tales or whatever, or just that giants
Speaker 1: and stuff like that like to crush children's bones and
Speaker 1: put it in their breath. The favorite. I've always been like,
Speaker 1: how does that? How does that work? I guess it's
Speaker 1: like college and powder. That's what I mean. Yeah, exactly, like,
Speaker 1: if it is a white powder, maybe it can pass
Speaker 1: for flower if you're really hard up for flower. I
Speaker 1: will say it does make more sense than the Anti
Speaker 1: Semitic blood libel trope of using like baby's blood to
Speaker 1: make Maza and you're like, have you had Mazza? It's
Speaker 1: so dry. First of all, it would be red, you idiots.
Speaker 1: Second of all, this is not a food that has
Speaker 1: any moisture in it whatsoever. Yeah, yeah, I remember like
Speaker 1: when we were kids and people get really excited, like Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Mazza Pizza. Matza Pizza was very important
Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, but it's also like it's still
Speaker 1: just tastes like Mazza. Well, I'm gonna say this. If
Speaker 1: you're having Lotza, you gotta embrace it as Mazza. Is
Speaker 1: what I think. To me, the best way to eat
Speaker 1: mazza is with tons of butter and salt on it.
Speaker 1: I like the cream cheese Metha, like whipped cream cheese
Speaker 1: on Mata. I will eat all year round. That's how
Speaker 1: much I like it. Oh, interesting, it is so good. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: should we watch the commercial for one of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous toys of two thousand nineteen, the Pogo Trick Board? Definitely, so.
Speaker 1: It's like a skateboard. Yeah, I could have sworn we
Speaker 1: watched a more exciting version of this. Right, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: We watched a different one where they're like jumping off
Speaker 1: tree trunks and stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I am
Speaker 1: obsessed with the actors they cast in that role, though.
Speaker 1: What is Vanessa? I feel like you could do a
Speaker 1: very good impression affair of that woman. Yeah, I agree completely,
Speaker 1: like that open flannel with the layered beads, smiling the
Speaker 1: whole time. Like, is this a cool mom character? Is
Speaker 1: this like right, right, right? Is this a like a
Speaker 1: funky sort of reasonable person? I mean, what's her connection
Speaker 1: to this? Like, does she have kids? Like, why is
Speaker 1: she invested good question and telling us about this? Maybe
Speaker 1: the commercial I was thinking of was for the regular Pogo.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been. Yeah, I guess my
Speaker 1: question is like why would you get a Pogo trickboard
Speaker 1: over a skateboard? I guess to me a skateboard is
Speaker 1: just way cooler, but it doesn't bounce. Yeah, to me
Speaker 1: it's like why would you get a pogo trickboard over
Speaker 1: a regular Pobo Ball? Yeah, I think that. Like it's
Speaker 1: just more room for your feet. Yeah, wouldn't that make
Speaker 1: it harder to I think they tried to improve on perfection.
Speaker 1: That's what I think too. Yeah, I just in picturing
Speaker 1: like a bunch of kids at a skate park and
Speaker 1: then like a kid rolling up with like a pogo
Speaker 1: trickboard and like kind of bopping around. Yeah, and everyone
Speaker 1: would say go home. Yeah, I just think you might
Speaker 1: as well learn how to skateboards, because it's like that
Speaker 1: has wheels, you can move. Seems like it would just
Speaker 1: be a better it's a longer lasting investment into like. Well,
Speaker 1: do you think that those are more dangerous than skateboards? No,
Speaker 1: I think skateboards are pretty dangerous. They're extremely yeah, every
Speaker 1: year I'm like I'm going to get back into skating
Speaker 1: this year and then I realized that I'm just it's
Speaker 1: too dangerous. Yeah, I'm also like thinking about not just
Speaker 1: the bouncing but the cushioning that the pogo, what is
Speaker 1: it called? trickboard? Yeah, Pogo trickboard. Yep, they're encouraging you
Speaker 1: to do tricks. They're encouraging you to do tricks. They
Speaker 1: want to get a piece of that skateboard. Is that responsible? No,
Speaker 1: I actually don't think it's as dangerous as well. You
Speaker 1: could use to Skateboard, though, to like commute somewhere. I
Speaker 1: feel like using a pogo trickboard, like if you're like,
Speaker 1: I want to get whatever it's like you'll never believe
Speaker 1: how Alan gets to work. Like try me and then
Speaker 1: you show me a picture like what it's like when
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman like hopped into the Oscars or something. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about? He did, or maybe
Speaker 1: it was the he hopped into something, and I remember.
Speaker 1: You know, hopping is really exhausting. It's like really good exercise,
Speaker 1: probably really good for if, like that's the secret behind
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman's great, but well, can you imagine what I
Speaker 1: work out? It would be to take a hug, to
Speaker 1: jump on a Pogo trickboard to work. Also, would save
Speaker 1: you no time, if nothing, make you go and make
Speaker 1: you a lad than if you are walking at a
Speaker 1: brisk pace. What about those shoes that have like the
Speaker 1: bouncy how do I describe it? It's almost like they
Speaker 1: look like a bow and Arrow underneath them. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: boots that you kind of like bounce in as you're walking.
Speaker 1: Moon shoes, Olivia says. I kind of know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. There's a few versions of this, because I
Speaker 1: know that when I just went like running slash walking
Speaker 1: shoes shopping with my parents the last time I was
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, our mom got like these shoes that kind
Speaker 1: of like are raised in the front. That's like kind
Speaker 1: of a new way that a lot of sneakers are
Speaker 1: coming out jumping shoes, jumping shoes, kangaroo jumping shoes for kids.
Speaker 1: I had some kind of extreme sport shoes about twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, when I was in college, I interned at
Speaker 1: the real world in Los Angeles in the music department
Speaker 1: with this guy, Dave stone, who's still keep in touch with,
Speaker 1: and he got sent all these shoes that had like
Speaker 1: these kind of rubber bottoms that you could like do
Speaker 1: tricks with, and they sent him like a little rail,
Speaker 1: like a handrail, on the floor, and you're supposed to
Speaker 1: run jump on this rail and like slide across it,
Speaker 1: sort of like a skateboard type thing, and I remember
Speaker 1: being like super danger and I remember us to like
Speaker 1: running up to this thing of falling off of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you hurt yourself? I didn't hurt myself, but it
Speaker 1: reminds me of like sometimes I'll watch videos of people
Speaker 1: doing like Parkour. Have you seen any of those videos?
Speaker 1: People do Parkour. What's Parkour? It's like when dogs have
Speaker 1: the zoom ees. You know how they like run into
Speaker 1: that room and then they run into the other room
Speaker 1: and they get up on the counter and then they
Speaker 1: get off the counter and you're just like just let
Speaker 1: them exhaust themselves and just like they're after a bath
Speaker 1: or something. It's kind of like that, but there's more jumping.
Speaker 1: I guess it'll be someone and he'll run across the
Speaker 1: field and like go up to a tree and like
Speaker 1: do a flip off it and then like, you know,
Speaker 1: jump like over a bridge onto a tree. Like it's
Speaker 1: like kind of like and then there's a summer selves.
Speaker 1: It's like get a life. Does Parkour come from France?
Speaker 1: It sounds like a European notion. Done that. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: a Americans invented. You know what I mean? No, but yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of amateur parkers out there who might be
Speaker 1: interested in a pogo trick ball because, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they could supplement with that and get some extra bounds,
Speaker 1: some extra air, I don't know. Yeah, but everybody were
Speaker 1: your protective gear please as so, if I were to
Speaker 1: get a pogo ball and use it to work out
Speaker 1: in my apartment, despite the protestations of my neighbors who
Speaker 1: don't need that in their lives, do you think I
Speaker 1: would be fine or you would make me wear a
Speaker 1: helmet and arm bands and knee bands and stuff? Good question. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I want to just be really clear that this article
Speaker 1: was talking about Pogo trick boards when they said you
Speaker 1: should wear protective gear, but in the Pogo ball commercial
Speaker 1: we watched, the kids were wearing knee pads. So you
Speaker 1: would want me to wear a knee pad? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would just say also, this article like the toys are
Speaker 1: so random. Like another thing that's most dangerous is a
Speaker 1: die cast school bus, and they say this bright yellow
Speaker 1: schools could be deadly if a child removes any ingests
Speaker 1: one of the small parts. The tires are removable, and
Speaker 1: it's like that's just what all these toys are. But
Speaker 1: I feel like you could say that about it any
Speaker 1: I feel like they just picked random toys and we're
Speaker 1: like yeah, you're not spposed to have small parts that
Speaker 1: are easily removable, I guess. But a POCO trickboard does
Speaker 1: seem genuinely very dangerous. It doesn't have small parts that
Speaker 1: you could ingest at least, but it can be dangerous
Speaker 1: for different reasons. If you fall on your face, sure,
Speaker 1: I will say this Vanessa, those whatever they're called, elbow
Speaker 1: guards and knee guards, they don't do ship. If a
Speaker 1: fucking hand comes in from outer space, and monster's hand,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's so true. They do not protect from that.
Speaker 1: It's really true. Yeah, I wish I could sit in
Speaker 1: that has row marketing meeting with all these big wigs
Speaker 1: that has bro and here the guy that's like or
Speaker 1: the woman whoever's like, yeah, we have a giant monster
Speaker 1: hand coming. That will sell a lot more of these things.
Speaker 1: Jonah's got a real issue with corporates, you know, overpaid,
Speaker 1: and look at these ideas they're coming up with. We
Speaker 1: could come up with better ideas. And it's very punk
Speaker 1: rock of you, Joana. Yeah, rage against the machine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jone has been punk rock since middle school when he
Speaker 1: really took our material at a task for I went
Speaker 1: and went right up to them and I said, I
Speaker 1: think you're charging a dollar fifty slice for dominoes and
Speaker 1: it's too much money, and they said ship, Joan, if
Speaker 1: you think the pizza too expensive, you don't have to
Speaker 1: buy it. And I think I continue to buy it
Speaker 1: because at that time it the dominas pizza was really good.
Speaker 1: It made an impression and it was that. Did they
Speaker 1: admit that? It was domino's? On Fridays you could get
Speaker 1: like Domino's pizza. The audacity. You could get a whole
Speaker 1: lunch with regular pizza, cafeteria pizza, for probably a dollar fifty.
Speaker 1: And that's going to include sides, that's going to include
Speaker 1: the mill. What are the sides that we're talking about?
Speaker 1: Because when you said sides, my stomach just like moved
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I was thinking of what a
Speaker 1: cafeteria's version of a side? Yeah, I remember eating a
Speaker 1: lot of buttered noodles. That was kind of my go
Speaker 1: to things. So that's a good side. buttered egg noodles.
Speaker 1: That was a good side. I'm on board for that.
Speaker 1: They're a little salad, maybe a little lettuce with addressing.
Speaker 1: I don't remember ever eating a vegetable. A lot of
Speaker 1: TATER tots, a lot of TATER tots. Yeah, and milk,
Speaker 1: of course, the ingredient to any good meal that everyone loves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter what you're eating a regular there's
Speaker 1: nothing like a carton of milk to drink with it.
Speaker 1: Milk really goes with everything, like especially chocolate milk. That's
Speaker 1: always just a great palate cleanser, throw it on to
Speaker 1: just help digest. Now I just want to say this,
Speaker 1: and I hope everyone knows, don't sleep on Tater tots.
Speaker 1: Even as adults, tater tots rule. I just had some
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and I thought, okay, these
Speaker 1: row yeah, welcome back to my life. Where have you been?
Speaker 1: Where have I been, Julie? When's the last time you
Speaker 1: had some? Some TATER tots? Recently enough to be and
Speaker 1: you're not going to be happy with this, but I
Speaker 1: prefer like a mushy steak fry. I'm like not into
Speaker 1: shoe string fries. They're too crispy for me. I like
Speaker 1: a more mushy, too crispy ratio, like I always like
Speaker 1: the ratio that favors mushy. So tater talts to me.
Speaker 1: I know this sounds Acinine, but like they can be
Speaker 1: a little too crispy. Yeah, and if I want crispy,
Speaker 1: I'll have like a you know, a chip or something. Right,
Speaker 1: Jonahen was the last time you had tater talks? I
Speaker 1: think we got some frozen ones, maybe in the last
Speaker 1: couple of months through him in the Air Fryer, and
Speaker 1: amazing so good. Yeah, okay, everybody, get tater talts. Good
Speaker 1: to your local Bistro, make them in your air fryer.
Speaker 1: They're not on the menu. Say Can I speak to
Speaker 1: the manager? Throw a fit and if they say get
Speaker 1: out of here, you just ride your Pogo Trick Board home,
Speaker 1: and I know that you're the coolest. Do a bounce
Speaker 1: off like the little Concierg station, maybe a flip or something,
Speaker 1: facing him the whole time. BOUNC it'll confuse him into submission. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, Tater tot that turned up
Speaker 1: the restaurants throwing tater talks. Okay, we're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick commercial break. We'll be right back with Julie Klausner.
Speaker 1: And we're back. So, Julie, we'd like to play a
Speaker 1: game with you now called legit Moan or unnecessary grown
Speaker 1: legit Moan, necessary groan. Okay, this game is inspired by
Speaker 1: our hometown paper, the Cleveland Plain dealer, and for years
Speaker 1: and years they used to have this column called Monday
Speaker 1: moaning where people would write in complaints and they would
Speaker 1: print them kind of regardless of there weren't like a
Speaker 1: less standards. Anyway. If you wrote in, it basically got
Speaker 1: public right. They're not the most newsworthy, necessarily, but exactly.
Speaker 1: They stopped doing these in about two thousand eleven. But
Speaker 1: Jonah and I have really fond memories growing up and
Speaker 1: making fun of these all the time and we went
Speaker 1: kind of back into the archives and we found some
Speaker 1: of them and we're going to read through three of
Speaker 1: them and we're going to decide whether we each think
Speaker 1: they are each a legit Moan like this person has
Speaker 1: a point, or unnecessary grown like this person needs to
Speaker 1: get real. Got It. Okay, Jonah, do you want to
Speaker 1: read the first one? Sure, I'll kick us off. So
Speaker 1: the first one. This is from May two. It's from
Speaker 1: just Cleveland into the neighborhood and it says if the
Speaker 1: casinos aren't going to allow you to smoke in them
Speaker 1: like the rest of them do, then we will keep
Speaker 1: going to Pennsylvania, Indiana and New York. You can keep
Speaker 1: the ones in Ohio. So this person upset that you
Speaker 1: can't smoke in Casinos Ohio and is saying the surrounding states,
Speaker 1: they'll go to that and we can keep the ones
Speaker 1: here because they're not bothering with it. Wow, I mean
Speaker 1: that makes total sense if you're a smoker. I think
Speaker 1: casinos are like one of the last places where you
Speaker 1: can just go to town. If I remember correctly, last
Speaker 1: time I was in a casino I was like wow,
Speaker 1: this is still a thing. So I can see how
Speaker 1: someone would be attached to that experience and definitely be
Speaker 1: very upset if it changed. Yeah, okay, so you're kind
Speaker 1: of calling this a legit Moan. It sounds like if
Speaker 1: I were a smoker and I was used to hanging
Speaker 1: out in casinos and they made smoking illegal, I would
Speaker 1: definitely be like, well then, I guess I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to another state. That just seems like logical to me,
Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, July, were you in New York like
Speaker 1: when they did this smoking band on bars and that stuff? Oh, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I was here for Giuliani. I was. I've been here
Speaker 1: since nineties six, so I've seen it all. I've seen
Speaker 1: it all and I grew up in Westchester, so I
Speaker 1: you know, was like watched Al broker and Su Simmons
Speaker 1: on Channel Four News and remember Ed coach and Dinkins
Speaker 1: and all of them. But yeah, I remember the smoking
Speaker 1: band and I also remember when you used to be
Speaker 1: able to smoke. So funny the idea that there was
Speaker 1: a smoking section in a restaurant. So that would ever
Speaker 1: be separate? Like it's like, okay, well, it certainly won't
Speaker 1: cross over to the non smoking wouldn't ever. That's just impossible. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: can you still smoking casinos? Depends on which state. It depends.
Speaker 1: And Really, Ohio just outlawed it, and this is from
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Yeah, Oh, so, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's still that's a great question with us. I wonder
Speaker 1: if it if you can smoke in other casinos and
Speaker 1: other states. Yeah, I mean I imagine there must be
Speaker 1: designated areas. Now I think the Cleveland Casino might have
Speaker 1: opened around this time. Got It, got it and they
Speaker 1: were like we're no smoking casino. Right, okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm gathering. Well, Jonah, what do you think? Do you
Speaker 1: think this is legit or unnecessary? I think this person
Speaker 1: is probably not happy with the way the world's gone
Speaker 1: in the past ten years, because now you can't smoke anywhere. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this person is ready for rude awakening. I was thinking
Speaker 1: the same thing. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. It's weird.
Speaker 1: I think in some ways it is legit because if
Speaker 1: this person's smoking is so important to them and you
Speaker 1: know they're not gonna them smoke, then you know they're
Speaker 1: just saying, I'll go to another state. Yeah, if that's
Speaker 1: your main priority, then yeah, you should just go to
Speaker 1: another state. So I think it's a legitimate concern for
Speaker 1: this person. I think that ultimately they're not making the
Speaker 1: best decision and they're going to spend a lot more
Speaker 1: money to drive out to Indiana to play like a
Speaker 1: slot machine. But if they want to do that, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna win so much money. Right, right, right, I
Speaker 1: forgot about that part. Yeah, so I think it's legit
Speaker 1: on that level, but I also think you know, smoking
Speaker 1: is not good. Yeah, but like it must be so
Speaker 1: hard to adapt to like playing slot machines without a cigarette.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I hear that. However, if
Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest, I'm going to call this
Speaker 1: an unnecessary road and Alim, a lot of times I
Speaker 1: kind of get annoyed with the tone of these people
Speaker 1: and this person, their last sentence being you can keep
Speaker 1: the ones in Ohio. It's like, sir, okay, we were
Speaker 1: going to anyway. Thanks for the permission. Now go funk off.
Speaker 1: I just sort to feel like. This person isn't even complaining,
Speaker 1: like please, let us smoke. He's just saying, and I'm
Speaker 1: assuming this is like a real agroman, but maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: But if the casinos are gonna allow to smoke in
Speaker 1: them like the rest of them do. Also, these people
Speaker 1: never check their punctuation, then we will keep going to Pennsylvania. Okay,
Speaker 1: keep doing that, you know, and in the meantime you
Speaker 1: need some time for driving, so maybe you don't waste
Speaker 1: time writing into Monday mony. Weirdo. I don't like this.
Speaker 1: Why does every subscribe in the newspaper need to know this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can keep the ones in Ohio. Oh, thanks so much. Wow,
Speaker 1: because we were gonna without Your Business, we were going
Speaker 1: to have to close them, but thanks for your permission.
Speaker 1: It's still a casino. It's a very good business model. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be just fine without you, but thanks for
Speaker 1: letting US know this. I call an unnecessary Groan and
Speaker 1: I'm moving on to the next one. Okay, here goes.
Speaker 1: This one's from Avon, which is a suburb of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: As a working parent of three, my time on the
Speaker 1: weekends is precious. I lost thirty minutes of that time
Speaker 1: in line behind an extreme coupon, or if your life
Speaker 1: show allows time for that, great. Just have some common
Speaker 1: courtesy for anyone who gets in line behind you and
Speaker 1: more in them. Absolutely I could not agree more. I
Speaker 1: cannot imagine being stuck behind an extreme coupon her and
Speaker 1: having to just get whatever, a bag of Tater tots
Speaker 1: so that I could go home and eat them out
Speaker 1: of the well. Jonah's fancy. He's going to use an
Speaker 1: air fire, but I'd probably thick him in. The microwave
Speaker 1: wave works too, but I cannot imagine that. No Way.
Speaker 1: Reality of saying, are you kidding me? And someone brings
Speaker 1: out they're freaking one of those like binder, those accordion
Speaker 1: style wallets to keep their coupons like by ill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get this sense. Extreme coupon Ng is not as
Speaker 1: much of a thing now as it was ten years ago.
Speaker 1: You don't really hear about it anymore, like they're all
Speaker 1: those shows and specials about out it. It seems like
Speaker 1: that got kind of sorted out. I think the shows
Speaker 1: were just really boring, but I would believe that it
Speaker 1: still exists. They may have been boring, but I know
Speaker 1: I've watched many of the same, actually same, and I
Speaker 1: have also watched, maybe it was my strange addiction, but
Speaker 1: about cheap skates, like the ones where people steal toilet
Speaker 1: paper or whatever. Like I'm not calling him a cheap skate,
Speaker 1: but Jonah, do you remember our uncle, Richard, used to
Speaker 1: buy like a thousand bottles of soda so he could
Speaker 1: get like he had some kind of like coup on
Speaker 1: scam going with like orange pop or something like that.
Speaker 1: We call it pop in the Midwest. Vaguely, I don't
Speaker 1: really remember. Soda Goes Bad, Yeah, Richard, Soda Goes Bad.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about my own anxieties of like if
Speaker 1: I'm at the grocery store and I feel like I
Speaker 1: have too much stuff for like they have to check
Speaker 1: something and the person behind me is waiting, like how
Speaker 1: bad I feel or how I'm like, I'm sorry. You know,
Speaker 1: the idea of just coming up there with like fine
Speaker 1: hundred coupons and just being like all right, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take a half hour here. Some behind
Speaker 1: me just like show up. Didn't say to the cashier.
Speaker 1: Shall We Dance? Yeah, I mean it's like I can't
Speaker 1: imagine doing that and not feeling so uncomfortable. Myself agree.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be one of the
Speaker 1: rare ones when we all agree that this is a
Speaker 1: legit Moan. I would say just turn around. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, fine, just turn around and say to
Speaker 1: the person behind you, just F Y, I have I
Speaker 1: have a ton of coupons. Is gonna take a long time.
Speaker 1: Now I have one gripe. I still think this is
Speaker 1: a legit Moan, but I do have one gripe. Okay,
Speaker 1: or one question. This person lost thirty minutes of time.
Speaker 1: I would say like eight minutes in, ten minutes in.
Speaker 1: Don't you just switch to a different line, to another
Speaker 1: cash here, unless this is a place where there's yeah,
Speaker 1: she said, just warned me. I just feel like it
Speaker 1: seems like there are other aisles. Just go to a
Speaker 1: different one after give it fifteen minutes. Sometimes the problem
Speaker 1: is that if you're in line for a long time,
Speaker 1: then you're like, Oh, I've invested all this time already.
Speaker 1: Now I don't want to switch. If the other line
Speaker 1: you yes, what if all the cashiers were like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this together so it takes less time, so
Speaker 1: all of them were working on it? What about that?
Speaker 1: Or if you had an extreme couponing line, but I
Speaker 1: guess there's usually probably once every other month or something,
Speaker 1: you know, like could you imagine if this was the
Speaker 1: supermarket that attracted all the extreme couponers? Then they'd be
Speaker 1: out of like Campbell's tomato, you know, like whatever. You
Speaker 1: don't want to promote that. That's absolutely right. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it seems like we all think this is a legit
Speaker 1: Moan and we're going to give this person a little
Speaker 1: bit of leeway for waiting as long, because maybe they
Speaker 1: were just really invested, you know, they had already waited
Speaker 1: so long they just Vanessa, you found this last time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go ahead and read it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I thought this one was very funny. Okay, this one's
Speaker 1: from Brooke Park Two. The misplaced modifiers and stuff are
Speaker 1: really throwing me, but I'm going to try and read
Speaker 1: this clearly. We have a married woman on our street
Speaker 1: with two little children that she walks up and down
Speaker 1: the street with in her skimpy two piece Bikini. YEA,
Speaker 1: now we're getting to the good stuff. Please stop doing this.
Speaker 1: You're a grown woman, not a twelve year old, so
Speaker 1: please dress your age. It looks awful to be running
Speaker 1: around the neighborhood half naked. Wow, Julie, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Could you just reread the very beginning that, because I'm
Speaker 1: sensing a morality judgment that there's a married woman. There's
Speaker 1: a very misogynistic tone to this one. I'll start by
Speaker 1: saying that, even though I don't want to influence anyone,
Speaker 1: she's a married woman. We have a married woman. Have
Speaker 1: a married woman. Yeah, and then later says you're a
Speaker 1: grown woman, not a twelve year old, so please dress
Speaker 1: your age. Okay, so he thinks that all twelve year
Speaker 1: old should be in Bikini. That's what's my issue to
Speaker 1: one of my just so weird and gross. I think
Speaker 1: the idea that he thinks that her being married is
Speaker 1: important is sick. Yes, it's like this woman is someone
Speaker 1: else's property. Yeah, and she's going around showing her stuff
Speaker 1: where her husband that's for her husband. Doesn't everyone know
Speaker 1: that that's for her husband only? And she has two
Speaker 1: little kids and I wonder if that's his way of
Speaker 1: saying that maybe her body is stretched out in a
Speaker 1: way that he doesn't like, or that she has to
Speaker 1: set an example for those kids at home. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I say the one who's writing this letter seems like
Speaker 1: such a creepy yes, that I think he is doomed.
Speaker 1: I think he's a doomed person. Yea, and I wish
Speaker 1: him nothing but ill will. Yeah, okay, so that's an
Speaker 1: unnecessary Groan from usually I would say that I think
Speaker 1: it's morally abhorrent that he's going around, yes, judging a
Speaker 1: woman in his neighborhood. Now, am I curious about this
Speaker 1: Gal that's walking down the street in a BIKINIA and more? Absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I want to know more about her. I want to
Speaker 1: be like, where are you going, like what's your situation in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then again, I also don't think this guy is
Speaker 1: a reliable narrator. She could be wearing like a crop
Speaker 1: top or something, or and like a pair of Jean Shorts,
Speaker 1: and he could think that that's a two piece swimsuit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: often unreliable narrators. But either way, now, Jonah, what do
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, I mean, I agree with all those sentiments.
Speaker 1: I'll also add that this is such a weirdly passive,
Speaker 1: aggressive way to deal, and I'm not saying that this
Speaker 1: is a valid complain at all, but I'm saying if
Speaker 1: this is a complaint, I'm conflicted. I guess in a
Speaker 1: lot of these situations I would say you should just
Speaker 1: like we had one where someone was messing with the
Speaker 1: produce at at a grocery store and I was sort
Speaker 1: of my thing was like just you know, you can
Speaker 1: go up to the person. They did, like if you
Speaker 1: have a problem with someone, go out, and they did. Okay,
Speaker 1: this one, I'm glad that this person did not say
Speaker 1: anything to this woman. Right. Generally, I think if you
Speaker 1: do have one of these gripes, it's better to address
Speaker 1: it than to just write an anonymous Le to a
Speaker 1: newspaper about it, because that's not going to change anything.
Speaker 1: But in this case, I guess I want to say
Speaker 1: I'm glad that this person doesn't say anything, but also
Speaker 1: I understand how writing into a newspaper Annas me telling
Speaker 1: someone to start. Like are you thinking maybe this woman
Speaker 1: will see this article and like rethink, yeah, like it's
Speaker 1: I don't understand the logic behind it, I guess, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, oh, that's interesting. Like what
Speaker 1: were his goals with this? Yeah, like does he think
Speaker 1: someone's going to be like reading the paper and be
Speaker 1: like this guy's got like a good point, like I
Speaker 1: can relate to this, or something like society is going
Speaker 1: down the drain or whatever. I'm going to go ahead
Speaker 1: and say that he wrote this letter because nobody listens
Speaker 1: to him anymore about this or probably other things. Yeah, Vanessa,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? I agree with both of you.
Speaker 1: First of all, the fact that he felt like he
Speaker 1: needed to include that this woman is married, like it's
Speaker 1: improper for her to show her body if she's married,
Speaker 1: is so disgusting to me. I'm shocked. I'm getting yeah,
Speaker 1: like so don't. And then also, she walks on this street.
Speaker 1: Please stop doing this. You're a grown woman. At a
Speaker 1: twelve year old, like, yeah, it's implying that twelve year
Speaker 1: olds where skimpy bikinis, but adult women don't. I think
Speaker 1: he's got it wrong. I think he's got it absolutely
Speaker 1: the opposite of correct. And Yeah, like, what is his point?
Speaker 1: I also think that this is like such a hurtful
Speaker 1: way of saying this. Like if this woman does read
Speaker 1: this Monday moaning, which sounds like she's like on the street,
Speaker 1: taking walks of their kids and like living her life,
Speaker 1: as opposed to this person who's like sitting in there
Speaker 1: like little living room, like writing this note. I just
Speaker 1: feel like this is such a kind of mean thing
Speaker 1: to do. And what is this person's the other thing
Speaker 1: is a lot of times these people aren't clear with
Speaker 1: like what their problem is, like is it like I
Speaker 1: have a really young child and I feel like exposing
Speaker 1: them too, but even that, it's it's just him. It's
Speaker 1: just him, and I just think, like what's the issue
Speaker 1: with this? I don't see any problem with it. This woman,
Speaker 1: maybe she's worked really hard to have a body that
Speaker 1: she feels like she wants to show off in this
Speaker 1: bikini and it's fine. And, by the way, this person
Speaker 1: to like sorry. I just think this is a totally
Speaker 1: yeah word, sorry, the h word. I just think this
Speaker 1: is such an unnecessary grown and it's so misogynistic and
Speaker 1: I just think also it's like what a little coward,
Speaker 1: because this person is writing and saying they're from Brook Park,
Speaker 1: which is a suburb of Cleveland. It's going to be
Speaker 1: very clear who this person is. That's I think so.
Speaker 1: I think so, and I just think that this person
Speaker 1: won't even the person who wrote this complaint isn't even
Speaker 1: signing their name. Rude and it's also kind of embarrassing
Speaker 1: to the woman, like if people know who it is
Speaker 1: that someone wrote this about her. I mean hopefully not,
Speaker 1: like hopefully she's like reads this and she goes get
Speaker 1: a life, you know, like just like I like this character.
Speaker 1: I walked down the street in a bikini. By the way,
Speaker 1: this was written in two thousand and ten. It wasn't
Speaker 1: written in like nineteen eighty, like it's just so weird.
Speaker 1: Has This person eighty? Yeah, so I call this an
Speaker 1: unnecessary grown and I think this person needs to grow up,
Speaker 1: get a grip, grow up and get a grip. Maybe
Speaker 1: this person should stop acting like a twelve year old.
Speaker 1: Where we're gonna say, Jentle you're gonna say this, this
Speaker 1: person should get on a polo trick ball with no helmet. Right.
Speaker 1: This person should absolutely get on a pogo trickboard, but
Speaker 1: no helmet. This is what I say to this guy.
Speaker 1: They're called BOOBS said Yeah. Boobs said Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: you have a problem, you can take your Pogo trickboard
Speaker 1: and you can get the hell out of here. Wow. Okay, Julie,
Speaker 1: we've had such a great time with you today. Can
Speaker 1: you tell our listeners where they can find you. They
Speaker 1: can find me over at the podcast called double threat
Speaker 1: that I host with Tom Sharp Ling, and I have
Speaker 1: a new podcast called ask Julie, which is on the
Speaker 1: forever dog plus network, where you can get if you've
Speaker 1: subscribed to forever dog plus, and it's just me doing
Speaker 1: the like weekly monologue where I talk about stuff. So
Speaker 1: I hope you tune in and I can't thank you
Speaker 1: enough for having me as a guest. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we had such a great time with you. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us and to everyone for listening. And
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Speaker 1: keep an eye out for next week's episode of how
Speaker 1: did we get weird, where we will discuss more stories
Speaker 1: from our childhood and cultural touchstones like Pogo Ball. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you.