Speaker 1: I'm Vanessa Mayor and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 2: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 2: in nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people
Speaker 2: we are today, who.
Speaker 1: Are double excited for today's.
Speaker 2: Podcast, Welcome to How Did We Get Weird?
Speaker 1: Jonah, I know we're both very excited for our guests today,
Speaker 1: and I recently got to do their incredible podcast, Radio Lab,
Speaker 1: and when I was on it, I got to talk
Speaker 1: about something that I don't talk about a lot, which
Speaker 1: is that sort of my resting face is confused or lost.
Speaker 1: Because Sam, one of our guests today, also sort of
Speaker 1: has a similar resting face. Now, Jonah, what is your
Speaker 1: resting face? Do you think like when you're just walking
Speaker 1: on the street, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I don't know really right, because it's hard to know
Speaker 2: your own. But I have been told when I lived
Speaker 2: in New York, I had been told people had seen
Speaker 2: me when I was I was usually late and I
Speaker 2: look mad. I think I look very focused, and that
Speaker 2: can be perceived as angry. And we have a picture
Speaker 2: at our parents' house of me running a marathon and
Speaker 2: I look really mad, but I think I'm just like
Speaker 2: in it, I don't think I'm actually angry, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I could see, I could see confused.
Speaker 3: I could see confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's usually because I'm deep in thought. But
Speaker 1: when I'm deep in thought, I look confused. And I'm
Speaker 1: often deep in thought, and so I think, and Jonah,
Speaker 1: I know the photo you're referencing, you do look very angry.
Speaker 1: And there's a photo of me running cross country where
Speaker 1: I think I look lost and confused.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you may have been lost.
Speaker 1: Well it's like right in front of our high school.
Speaker 1: I think, like I probably wasn't that lost. But it's
Speaker 1: funny that I think we have similar temperaments and yet
Speaker 1: one looks angry all the time. I'm in one looks
Speaker 1: lost all the time. Yeah, not all the time.
Speaker 4: But not all the time. But yeah, when you're in
Speaker 4: the zone. But yeah, when we're in the zone, when
Speaker 4: you're in the zone.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you want to introduce our guests and we
Speaker 2: can get into yes a little more.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would love to, Jonah. Our guests today are
Speaker 1: two hilarious comedians that you may know from their hit
Speaker 1: podcast Radio Lab. Please welcome my new friends, George Severis
Speaker 1: and Sam Taggart.
Speaker 4: Wow wow, wow, Okay, just right off the bat, I'm like,
Speaker 4: what if Vanessa, okay, what if the mustache is what
Speaker 4: is making the change and all you need is just
Speaker 4: a sort of like Halloween store mustache that you put
Speaker 4: on when you want people to take you more seriously
Speaker 4: so you don't look as lost.
Speaker 5: But I immediately debunk that because I have a mustache
Speaker 5: and look lost.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's right. And I think because as
Speaker 1: I've said on your podcast, Sam and I are, I
Speaker 1: truly believe we're made from the same stuff. I think
Speaker 1: my mustache would look exactly like Sam and everyone would
Speaker 1: go look at that lost gal with a mustache.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 4: She's lost and she has a mustache, Like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do think Jonah, the length, how long have
Speaker 5: you had your mustache? Because I think the length of
Speaker 5: it does imply a serious sensibility.
Speaker 4: It's a certain confidence. Yeah, I've had it for a while.
Speaker 4: I would say, I don't know, maybe six.
Speaker 2: Or seven years. I would say, yeah, maybe something like that.
Speaker 2: But it takes me. I still struggle sometimes with trimming it,
Speaker 2: getting the right you know, it's kind of complicated. You
Speaker 2: try to go in from the ends and then go
Speaker 2: in Yeah, and it's yeah, you don't want it too long,
Speaker 2: so it's getting your mouth. Then if I cut it
Speaker 2: too short, it looks kind of weird, So it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a.
Speaker 3: It's an ongoing kind of process. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you too? How long have you have
Speaker 2: you too had your kind of mustache situations?
Speaker 5: But but do you feel left out? You can't talk
Speaker 5: about your mustache?
Speaker 3: But also how long have you not had a mustache?
Speaker 3: Why did you shave it off? Yeah? Do you feel
Speaker 3: less than.
Speaker 1: Well, I do feel a little less than I you
Speaker 1: know what. I see the products and I go wow,
Speaker 1: you know, the peace to the etc. But go ahead,
Speaker 1: give you give your mustache stories.
Speaker 5: Well, I have had my mustache for I want to
Speaker 5: say seven years at this point, Okay, yeah, I was lost.
Speaker 5: I was trying a bunch of different facial hairs and
Speaker 5: none of them were working. I really wanted, you know,
Speaker 5: I wanted the big beard. I wanted to look like
Speaker 5: sort of an indie rock guy, and it just was
Speaker 5: not hitting. And when I land on the mustache, I said,
Speaker 5: this is the perfect middle ground between gay guy and
Speaker 5: indie rock guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's incredibly Yeah, and I've
Speaker 3: had facial hair.
Speaker 4: I grew a beard six years ago, I think when
Speaker 4: I was going through a breakup, and it was very
Speaker 4: much like my going through a breakup thing, and somehow
Speaker 4: I just never went back. And now I've actually I've
Speaker 4: aged enough since then that like last summer, I did
Speaker 4: shave my beard and I was like, oh no, I
Speaker 4: look I don't look good like I now need the
Speaker 4: beard to hide my face.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, I don't look like I used to
Speaker 2: look right right. I think when you have facial hair,
Speaker 2: there's always this thing in the back of your mind.
Speaker 2: You're like, if I shave, I'm gonna look like ten
Speaker 2: years younger. I can do this at any point, just
Speaker 2: totally like I'm purposely making and then you realize, like,
Speaker 2: maybe that's not actually true.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's like little things like again I'm not you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not fishing for compliments here, but I just like,
Speaker 4: naturally your skin SAgs a bit, so like my like
Speaker 4: chin is not as defined as it once.
Speaker 1: Was, and that's not true.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying I've seen photos of myself and
Speaker 4: I'm not saying I would look I look like a
Speaker 4: monster if I shave right, it is noticeably you just
Speaker 4: like age in the span of six years, and so
Speaker 4: I don't look like I used to. For the longest time,
Speaker 4: I was like what you would call baby face, like
Speaker 4: especially when I was like a kid. I feel like
Speaker 4: through the age of through like twenty six or something,
Speaker 4: I could have been eighteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's simply not the case anymore.
Speaker 3: When I shave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so I never thought about that. I feel like,
Speaker 1: the thing that a lot of women do is they
Speaker 1: have bangs and that hides like forehead, sure, kind of
Speaker 1: lines and stuff, but I never thought about that with
Speaker 1: facial hair. You know. We have a crazy story about
Speaker 1: our dad, which we've told on here before, which is
Speaker 1: that the day of Jonahs bur Mitzvah, our dad was
Speaker 1: using like a mustache. Our dad has had a mustache
Speaker 1: our entire life, and he was using like a mustache
Speaker 1: like shaving kit, and he decided to just shave off
Speaker 1: his entire mustache.
Speaker 2: I think he made a mistake, and then you know,
Speaker 2: you try to even it out and then eventually you
Speaker 2: just have to Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was so shocking to us. We were just like,
Speaker 1: who is this man and why is he indulged Jonah's
Speaker 1: barmitzvah photos like it was. Our mom was so furious
Speaker 1: because again it's like the most photographed day.
Speaker 4: That is a common thing when you have a big events.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's this so clearly incorrect instinct where were like, well,
Speaker 4: it's a big event, so I should do something big. Yes,
Speaker 4: when you actually need to just look like yourself.
Speaker 3: You under the pressure basically, yeah, pressure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we have these photos. It's the only time
Speaker 1: our dead has ever known at a mass mustache and
Speaker 1: he's unrecognizable.
Speaker 5: My uncle did shave off his mustache and he had
Speaker 5: one forever and then he literally he did look ten
Speaker 5: years younger.
Speaker 3: And so I am thinking.
Speaker 5: Of it as like the glass I can break, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm like, as soon as I want to look like
Speaker 5: go back in time a little bit, I'm breaking that glass.
Speaker 5: I'm shaving my mustache and I'm being young again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 1: Breaking a lot. It's in the in your mind too, Jonah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm also just curious, like I'm wondering, I wonder
Speaker 2: what my upper lip looks like? Yeah, because it's not
Speaker 2: something I really see very often.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I do think.
Speaker 2: In the back of my mind, I'm like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna if I shave it off, I'm gonna look like
Speaker 2: I'm like twenty five or something, which is probably kind
Speaker 2: of not true.
Speaker 5: It's one hundred percent true. You look so young. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be amazing. You're gonna be able to go back.
Speaker 3: To college, and they're gonna be like, yep, he's just
Speaker 3: like us. I'm gonna start getting ID everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole thing. It's can be kind of annoying. Actually,
Speaker 2: I guess I said, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: And they won't accept your ID because you won't look
Speaker 5: anything like you anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, They're like, who is this mustachio gentileman?
Speaker 3: This is clearly not you. He's way above eighteen.
Speaker 1: Jonah and I were both in New York for a
Speaker 1: really long time, and I lived really close to NYU
Speaker 1: the NYU dorms, and we Jonah and I used to
Speaker 1: go to this bodega near me and it was like,
Speaker 1: I'd want to buy like a thousand cookies and like
Speaker 1: it was this is kind of a meandering story, and
Speaker 1: I don't mean for it to be, but the point
Speaker 1: is we basically would act like we were in college
Speaker 1: to like sort of fit in with all the college kids,
Speaker 1: and we'd jonah, you remember that.
Speaker 3: I do remember.
Speaker 1: We'd be shopping and we'd be like, oh, like, got
Speaker 1: to get ready for that exam, because otherwise it would
Speaker 1: be embarrassing to be there, especially because like I was
Speaker 1: on SNL all the time.
Speaker 3: It was like I was probably like thirty five. We'd
Speaker 3: be like, oh, we need some some brain food. A
Speaker 3: big CALC exam.
Speaker 5: Coming recognize you, Like it's just like working out right,
Speaker 5: like in order like.
Speaker 4: The fact that your instinct, rather than to play up
Speaker 4: the fact that you're on television, your instinct is to
Speaker 4: pretend you're a college to This really goes back to, honestly,
Speaker 4: the whole being lost.
Speaker 3: Well, this isn't looking lost, this is being lost, is.
Speaker 1: Actually being lost and making up for that face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we would be like, oh, man, gotta get brain food
Speaker 1: for those exams. And then I would want to buy
Speaker 1: like three enormous cookies and a brownie and stuff, and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, these are for him, which is a
Speaker 1: move that I do a lot, which is I buy
Speaker 1: buy stuff like that, and then I blame it on
Speaker 1: the person I'm with and I go, I guess they're
Speaker 1: hungry today, But yeah, you're right. Why didn't I just
Speaker 1: act like kind of like snobby and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like worn like a hat and sung rises
Speaker 5: and yeah, that could have been really fun.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to.
Speaker 5: That's my fantasy, is to like wear the like celeb
Speaker 5: trying not to be seen as a celeb outfit with
Speaker 5: a hat and sunglasses and being like hand out, like
Speaker 5: don't look at me.
Speaker 1: Well, this is something that I've been doing for years,
Speaker 1: not because of that, but because this is this has
Speaker 1: been a real thing for me, speaking of how you
Speaker 1: present yourself, Like I am crazy about the sun like
Speaker 1: some protection, and so I for a years, since my twenties,
Speaker 1: I always wear like long sleeves and sunglasses and I'm
Speaker 1: completely covered up in the sun. And even when I
Speaker 1: was living in Chicago, people would be like, who do
Speaker 1: you think you are? Like nobody knows shit about you,
Speaker 1: Like why are you dressing in disguise? And I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm dressing because I don't want to get
Speaker 1: any sun. And now I do it. And now that
Speaker 1: I've like been on TV, people think that I'm doing
Speaker 1: it because of that, and I'm like, no, that's not it.
Speaker 1: That's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because
Speaker 1: it's some protection.
Speaker 3: I will say. I yes, Sam and.
Speaker 4: I both clocked the hat you wore when you when
Speaker 4: we were recorded with you in La and I remember
Speaker 4: being like, she is so lay she is not. I
Speaker 4: was truly like you are being like, you know, Anne
Speaker 4: Hathaway in a paparazzi frotto or something like. It was
Speaker 4: such an LA girl hat. And it's such a like
Speaker 4: cause you know you're not. You weren't dressed super loudly.
Speaker 4: You're wearing like jeans and a teeth. So it was
Speaker 4: such a statement. It was like, Okay, she's minimalist, but
Speaker 4: there's a twist.
Speaker 1: It's so that is so funny because I always am like,
Speaker 1: I guess this hat looks kind of stupid, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear it because I don't want to get sun.
Speaker 2: Vanessa, didn't you have an encounter with Jake Jillenhall or
Speaker 2: something when you're Okay.
Speaker 1: One time we were in line for brunch at that
Speaker 1: place I think it closed in New York called Toast
Speaker 1: or something, or it was called I.
Speaker 3: Know what you're talking about. It wasn't called Toast.
Speaker 1: It wasn't called Toast, it was it was always.
Speaker 4: Prune, Prune, Prue, oh, Prune, yeah, clothes right.
Speaker 1: I remember listening to a podcast about that closing.
Speaker 4: Well I closed I think during didn't they close it
Speaker 4: during the pandemic? And then she wrote like a big
Speaker 4: Times piece about like the difficulty of running a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and I think I listened to her on
Speaker 1: a podcast. But anyways, waiting in line for Prune, and
Speaker 1: I spot Jake Jillenhall, who I guess. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was. He was around SNL. I had met
Speaker 1: him maybe once at SNL maybe, but I don't even
Speaker 1: think he hosted, Like I think I literally just like
Speaker 1: met him there, like I like barely spent time with him.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know why, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's Jake jill and Hall. He knows me. I've got
Speaker 1: to go say hi.
Speaker 3: So I went up to him at Prune.
Speaker 1: At Prune, he was in line for Prune as well,
Speaker 1: and he was with I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: like his manager. So he was with someone, and like
Speaker 1: I went up. I don't know why I decided this
Speaker 1: person is his manager. I have no reason to know
Speaker 1: that he was just but anyways, I go up to
Speaker 1: him and I go hey, and I'm wearing like it was.
Speaker 1: You know, at different parts of my life, I've had
Speaker 1: better or worse son protective gear. And I'm wearing like
Speaker 1: I think I'm wearing like a jean jacket and like
Speaker 1: a scarf and a hat. And it's like really hot.
Speaker 1: It's maybe like an eighty five eighty eight degree day. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm sweating. I look insane. I just look like
Speaker 1: a woman who has approached him on the street wearing
Speaker 1: a jean jacket and a scarf in eighty degree weather.
Speaker 1: And you know you never want that. So I go
Speaker 1: up to him and I'm like, hey, how are you?
Speaker 1: And he was like what and he was like and
Speaker 1: I was like Vanessa from SNL And he was like,
Speaker 1: why are you dressed like that? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I stay out of the sun. And he
Speaker 1: was like, okay, it was really it was really fair.
Speaker 4: Wait, I do think that's a real like on his end,
Speaker 4: I understand you're saying you came across here, but like,
Speaker 4: don't don't open with wire right right when you've already
Speaker 4: not recognized this person that clearly right, at least things.
Speaker 3: They've met you.
Speaker 1: I mean, he probably gets a lot of crazy women
Speaker 1: in jean jackets going up to him. But he might,
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, he might have said like, Hi,
Speaker 1: why are you dressed?
Speaker 4: Like maybe it was a form of intimacy. He was like, oh,
Speaker 4: of course, Vanessa, Like I don't I mean, yeah, why
Speaker 4: are you wearing that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe I thought you were doing like a bit or
Speaker 2: something right, right.
Speaker 1: Like she's funny on SNL. Maybe she tries to go
Speaker 1: around the world being funny in her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe she's filming a web series here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so funny that you remember that story? Jonah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really you know, and I hope it didn't
Speaker 1: lead to the demise of Prune, but.
Speaker 3: It's definitely the beginning of the end. I think historians
Speaker 3: will mark that moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jake called and was like, you need to shut
Speaker 4: down this restaurant in case this happens.
Speaker 3: The people are being weird here and it's your fault.
Speaker 4: Quite frankly, a woman who looked lost harassed me at Prune.
Speaker 5: And if you don't shut down willingly, I will find
Speaker 5: a way to shut you down.
Speaker 1: I will find a way well, it sounds like we
Speaker 1: all express ourselves how you want, and then however people
Speaker 1: take it is how they will.
Speaker 3: So true, I'm always saying that, I've always said that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're going to get a quick commercial break,
Speaker 1: but we'll be right back with George and Sam. Well
Speaker 1: we're back, and wow, do we have a topic that's
Speaker 1: a wow? Today? We asked you both for some topics
Speaker 1: to talk about, and the one that we picked, which
Speaker 1: we thought was incredible, was eminem. Now, how is eminem
Speaker 1: significant to both of you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to give some context.
Speaker 1: Okay, give some context.
Speaker 3: George is amazing at this.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, oh yes. If there's one thing I'm amazing at,
Speaker 4: it's given context. So we were asked to come up
Speaker 4: with a series with a list, a short list of
Speaker 4: topics that were meaningful to both of us in our
Speaker 4: teens and in our childhoods. And it's interesting because even
Speaker 4: though we're so similar in other ways, we actually do
Speaker 4: have very different references. So it was difficult to hone
Speaker 4: in on a few things. And I will say and candidly,
Speaker 4: this was the one that I was like, what about eminem?
Speaker 4: And Sam was like, well, I knew the singles but
Speaker 4: he wasn't huge tread but let's put him down.
Speaker 3: So it was okay, okay, So it was it was.
Speaker 4: My suggestion, But then I was because I was not
Speaker 4: a super fan either. But there's something about I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm the exact Asi where Eminem was like one
Speaker 4: of the truly biggest just personalities and celebrities of any
Speaker 4: kind and was so formative and also was formative almost
Speaker 4: as a comedy performer, as a comedic performer as well,
Speaker 4: because he would always do like one, you know, he
Speaker 4: would have an you outman. It would be like one
Speaker 4: single that was like fully a comedy weird al song
Speaker 4: with like a video with Kathy Griffin, and then one
Speaker 4: song that's about how he like likes to commit violence
Speaker 4: against women, and so it was just like yeah, and
Speaker 4: there was something like fully comedy video about those music videos.
Speaker 4: And I actually think that was like literally a comedic influence,
Speaker 4: Like it was like a sketch. It was a sketch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I feel like he did do a lot
Speaker 1: of kind of comedy stuff. I didn't really think about
Speaker 1: that because I was always so like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like I was in a little and Sam, what was
Speaker 1: your you know, the singles.
Speaker 5: I know the singles, and it did speak to me, like,
Speaker 5: I mean, like the singles, I think, I like, I
Speaker 5: memorize the words I do think randomly like his like
Speaker 5: angrier stuff. Also, I like, I was like, damn, Like
Speaker 5: it was sort of like when I didn't have music tastes.
Speaker 5: But I was like, oh, well, this is darkness, and
Speaker 5: I was like that's cool. And so I would like
Speaker 5: learn all the lyrics like skeletons in my closet or
Speaker 5: whatever and be like hell yes, and like and like
Speaker 5: think like I'm not with my parents anymore, like I'm
Speaker 5: being fucking crazy.
Speaker 3: And so he did.
Speaker 5: Like the thing about his like fashion, like his vibe
Speaker 5: never spoke to me and in fact very much confused me.
Speaker 5: But the songs were hits, and like I wanted to
Speaker 5: know all of the words to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they're like debates around race and eminem were
Speaker 4: in a weird way, like some of the first times
Speaker 4: I had thought about racial difference.
Speaker 3: Wow, not the first times.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a little exaggerated, but like this idea
Speaker 4: there was something. It was there was something about like
Speaker 4: he is the first big white rapper and that is
Speaker 4: good and we should celebrate him and like no and
Speaker 4: no looking past that, Like it was just like I
Speaker 4: can't believe he, as a white person, was able to
Speaker 4: thrive in this community that is majority black, period like,
Speaker 4: and it was just like, and that is a cost
Speaker 4: for celebration and therefore he should like take up more space.
Speaker 4: And there was sort of no or at least that's
Speaker 4: the vibe I got when I was like eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The Slim Shady song was
Speaker 1: sort of like the first one that I remember being
Speaker 1: a really big hit. And then when I was at
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a counselor at Overnight Camp.
Speaker 1: It was he was really big, and this other counselor
Speaker 1: would drive when we would have our days off. He
Speaker 1: would like drive me back to like Cleveland and would
Speaker 1: listen to like the entire Eminem album and it was
Speaker 1: so scary and so dark, and there was like so
Speaker 1: much violence on it, like the Interstitial stuff too, there
Speaker 1: was like a lot of like and I remember just
Speaker 1: being like, this is like watching a horror movie, which
Speaker 1: I hate, but listening to it and it was so scary,
Speaker 1: and I always remember just being like, why does this
Speaker 1: guy always want to listen to Eminem? When we drive
Speaker 1: home and then cut to like, However many years later
Speaker 1: and I'm on SNL and Eminem's a musical guest, and
Speaker 1: I was the most starstruck I've ever maybe ever been
Speaker 1: on that show. I don't know why. Like I again,
Speaker 1: I was not a fan of his music when I
Speaker 1: was younger, but I was like, oh my god. And
Speaker 1: then at one point, I'm getting off the stage after
Speaker 1: the Good Nights and he like stepped off before me,
Speaker 1: and he was like, you need a hand, sweetheart, and
Speaker 1: he gave me his hand, and I like took his
Speaker 1: hand and walked off the stage, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I think I'm floating, Like I just couldn't have been more.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's because he, like you said, George,
Speaker 1: like he was such a huge deal when I was
Speaker 1: if you never gets.
Speaker 4: That he it was like number one, Like I distinctly
Speaker 4: remember watching a trol.
Speaker 3: It was like around when eight mile.
Speaker 4: Came out and it was like, I mean, who knows
Speaker 4: what the details are, but they said something like this
Speaker 4: is the most amount of people like ever in Times
Speaker 4: Square for tr Like it was just something where it's
Speaker 4: like he is, like I don't know, he was our
Speaker 4: you know Madonna or like our like y Mick Jagger
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeahthing about the look, like the fact that he's had
Speaker 5: like the same look forever. It's like he's become almost
Speaker 5: like a cartoon character.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like it would be like truly like seeing Homer Simpson
Speaker 5: in real life and being like, wait, I didn't know
Speaker 5: that you were real like seeing himinem, I could just
Speaker 5: I could feel how that would be, like whoaa, whoa,
Speaker 5: I'm dealing with like a fantasy you only live in
Speaker 5: a TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, don't you think his resting face is kind of sad?
Speaker 5: Yeah, leaning towards angry, I would say violent. I would
Speaker 5: say violent. I would say almost over the top violent.
Speaker 5: There's like a comedic element to how violent looked.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was doing some research and you know, you know.
Speaker 2: So he performed Stan with Elton John at the two
Speaker 2: thousand and one Grammys, which was I think was like
Speaker 2: a really big kind of moment in his career because,
Speaker 2: like you know, he had had a lot of criticism
Speaker 2: for his lyrical content and Elton John sort of like
Speaker 2: coming out and performing with him was really interesting because
Speaker 2: it reminded me in ninety two, Elton John played November
Speaker 2: Rain at the Video Music Awards with Guns N' Roses
Speaker 2: and AXL. Rose is kind of another kind of divisive
Speaker 2: figure for things he've said. So it's like interesting that
Speaker 2: he kind of came out kind of in a way
Speaker 2: supported both of these acts, especially eminem at that point
Speaker 2: I think was really really controversial.
Speaker 4: Yes, so like the fact that he was, on the
Speaker 4: one hand, so controversial and his lyrics were so violent,
Speaker 4: and on the other hand he was pretty quickly embraced
Speaker 4: by the mainstream and would be like, you know, he
Speaker 4: had the like eight mile one an oscar, and like
Speaker 4: that was always so fascinating to me. I mean, in retrospect,
Speaker 4: I imagined a big part of it was in fact
Speaker 4: that I'm sure his white privilege played a big part
Speaker 4: in someone else, like a black rapper, having those lyrics
Speaker 4: and that content. Like I don't know if the movie
Speaker 4: would then have you know, won an oscar. But yeah, wait,
Speaker 4: I also want to say sorry to change a couple
Speaker 4: of things. One is and we can pick this back
Speaker 4: up later, but I personally was also attracted to him.
Speaker 4: I don't think he was a heart throb, but he
Speaker 4: would like pose a lot shirtless or pose and like
Speaker 4: really like just like there was like a photo shoo
Speaker 4: where he's holding like a stick of dynamite where his
Speaker 4: dick would be and that, and that's like the joke
Speaker 4: like he would do things like that without knowing, like
Speaker 4: not trying to be sexy, but was like half naked
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 3: Well that's classic early two thousand exactly. And it goes
Speaker 3: back to the comedy thing like that.
Speaker 4: He was sort of like Jackass mad TV, like sketch
Speaker 4: comedy coded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so interesting because until we were at SNL,
Speaker 1: I was never really attracted to him because I think
Speaker 1: I was so basic in that way that I was like,
Speaker 1: he's not giving heartthrop so I'm not getting it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he's not trying to be
Speaker 1: He probably was like attractive and stuff, but I just
Speaker 1: I was just like, he's not doing it on purpose,
Speaker 1: so I don't see it. Kind of a thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know anyways, What were you going to say next?
Speaker 1: What are you going to say next?
Speaker 4: Well, the only other thing which I think is sort
Speaker 4: of interesting is for someone who was such a staple
Speaker 4: of the like let's say late nineties through mid two thousands,
Speaker 4: he hasn't been like nostalgified in this way that like
Speaker 4: other ninety two thousand moments have, which I find kind
Speaker 4: of fascinating because so much of what he did resulted
Speaker 4: in like quote unquote iconic pop culture moments that like
Speaker 4: a BuzzFeed would pick up or something. Yes, but you
Speaker 4: simply don't. You don't see him on like nostalgia instagrams.
Speaker 4: You don't see like people don't and talk about like
Speaker 4: one iconic performance of his is like you know whatever
Speaker 4: about their.
Speaker 3: Saying there's something sort of fascinating about.
Speaker 4: I mean, the closest I think I personally come to
Speaker 4: is like I think it's funny that Kathy Griffin was
Speaker 4: in the Real Slim Shady video and I you know,
Speaker 4: it's like she loves that and she posts about that,
Speaker 4: and you know that's sort of fun. But like, there
Speaker 4: are so many moments that could be like memed to
Speaker 4: Death and they.
Speaker 3: Sort of just aren't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's like an it would almost be
Speaker 5: like acknowledging your own immaturity to be like I loved this,
Speaker 5: because it's like it clearly was like like a childish
Speaker 5: sort of enjoyment, Like yeah, you wouldn't like put on
Speaker 5: like the vinyl of slim shade. I mean maybe someone would,
Speaker 5: but not not in my experience.
Speaker 3: Would you want to do that?
Speaker 5: And so it would be like, yeah, you could acknowledge
Speaker 5: that you were obsessed with this in middle school, but
Speaker 5: it's like but, but it's kind of a shame thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel Yeah, it's definitely more cool to be
Speaker 4: like I loved outcast, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: For sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, has he done any thing to your knowledge where
Speaker 1: he's like made fun of himself as an adult.
Speaker 4: It's complicated because he like has a sense of humor
Speaker 4: to the extent that he produced these like super comedic
Speaker 4: music videos, right, and yet also at the same time
Speaker 4: is so humorless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, right, right.
Speaker 2: I bet if you were hanging out with him and
Speaker 2: you're like having a good time and then you kind
Speaker 2: of made some kind of joke about him, the mood
Speaker 2: would kind of change.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Well, I wanted to do. There was when I
Speaker 1: sorry to keep talking about when I was on SNL,
Speaker 1: but there was this sketch that I pitched with one
Speaker 1: of the hosts where it was my first season and
Speaker 1: I was like I was supposed to come into like
Speaker 1: Jeff Bridges dressing room and be like Hey, like, are
Speaker 1: you having fun? It's a really great show, and then hey, like,
Speaker 1: don't step on my lines, like or you're gonna regret it,
Speaker 1: like just like me getting really serious and scary. And
Speaker 1: so I wanted to do that with Eminem when he
Speaker 1: was a musical guest. I thought that would be really
Speaker 1: fun funny, not that exact thing, because it would be
Speaker 1: because but like just something where I would just sort
Speaker 1: of like come in and and I guess I just
Speaker 1: told you that. He never even got the idea because
Speaker 1: it was just like, no, Eminem's not doing any sketches,
Speaker 1: like he's not. And I was like, well, what if
Speaker 1: I did this thing with him where like I'm kind
Speaker 1: of scary too Eminem like, isn't that funny? That's like
Speaker 1: a funny swap, And the producers were just like, he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not doing any sketches, and I think he's I
Speaker 1: should know this. I think he's maybe appeared in stuff before,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Like to me, it was like
Speaker 1: I was like, the funniest thing in the world would
Speaker 1: be me being mean to Eminem, Like can you even imagine?
Speaker 4: I mean, it would be and the comedy it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, if you grasp a little bit, like I immediately.
Speaker 3: Grasp what's funny about that? And if Eminem had some
Speaker 3: self awareness, he would immediately get right right.
Speaker 1: But I don't even think he got the idea ever,
Speaker 1: because it was just like he is not up for
Speaker 1: he's not doing sketches.
Speaker 2: Remember we went to that movie, that Andy Sandberg movie
Speaker 2: where like Vanilla Ice was in it. It's like, I
Speaker 2: think an Adam Sandler. I think it's called That's My Boy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And vanilla Ice was in it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Eminem never really got to that point where like vanilla
Speaker 2: Ice was kind of became this kind of funny part
Speaker 2: of nostalgia where he could kind of pay fun at
Speaker 2: himself like that that never happened, which I think is
Speaker 2: what George is saying.
Speaker 4: Yes, and Eminem also famously maybe I'm misremembering this, but
Speaker 4: he famously like didn't he fight triumph the insult comic
Speaker 4: dog like because he didn't get the humor?
Speaker 3: Right? Wait, was that real?
Speaker 4: He definitely did, But I what, I don't want to
Speaker 4: I don't want to misspeak. Maybe he did it as
Speaker 4: a joke, And now I'm like, right, what I know?
Speaker 1: And I feel like half of our listeners are gonna
Speaker 1: be like, he's done so much stuff making fun of himself.
Speaker 1: You guys are so stupid. I don't remember any of it.
Speaker 4: Obviously he has, Yeah, he has done stuff that is funny.
Speaker 4: But I do think he also really takes himself seriously.
Speaker 4: I also think even like I mean something I think
Speaker 4: about off it is like his fight with Mariah Carey
Speaker 4: where he was so just like serious about being in
Speaker 4: a fight with her and she actually did responded in
Speaker 4: a humorous way where she like played him.
Speaker 3: Do you know about this? But no?
Speaker 4: What had a music video called Obsessed where she the
Speaker 4: lyrics like why are you so obsessed with me? And
Speaker 4: then she plays Eminem in drag. It's like her dressed
Speaker 4: as Eminem. It's very funny, Like it's like exactly how
Speaker 4: you want to respond to a feud by sort of
Speaker 4: like making.
Speaker 1: What was the original feud?
Speaker 3: I could not tell you.
Speaker 4: Now your listeners are truly like yelling, look, we're.
Speaker 1: Not an Eminem research podcast. Okay, we're talking.
Speaker 5: Although I looked up the Triumph the Insult comic and
Speaker 5: I think he did get mad at the puppet.
Speaker 3: It's I found something well, he like pushed it a tear.
Speaker 4: He like, yeah, yeah, Robert's Michael, my former boss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's not down to be made fun of.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Well, are you too aware of Eminem's latest business endeavor?
Speaker 3: Is it.
Speaker 1: Not?
Speaker 3: No? I mean he's probably doing that too.
Speaker 2: But he opened a pasta restaurant in Detroit I believe
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one called Mom Spaghetti. Oh spi his
Speaker 2: palms are sweaty knees, week arms or however.
Speaker 4: There's vomit on a sweater already Mom's yeah, so free
Speaker 4: from lose yourself. It's a partnership between him and a
Speaker 4: local restaurant group. I guess he's made some appearances, like
Speaker 4: he there's a walk up window and I guess he
Speaker 4: was like working the window when it opened.
Speaker 3: And they sell like Mom Spaghetti. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They have like sort of a limited menu, but it
Speaker 1: seems like it's successful. They have mostly spaghetti spaghetti sandwiches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they have spaghetti with meatballs or vegan rabbit balls.
Speaker 4: They call them, oh every because his name was rabbit.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, for I love that he named the restaurant
Speaker 5: after the thing he threw up in the song.
Speaker 4: I was about to say like talk about like literally,
Speaker 4: what it's referencing is the contents of his vomit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's but it's like he did.
Speaker 3: From myself.
Speaker 1: Can I ask a question, is so eight Mile is autobiographical?
Speaker 3: He wrote, Yes, he laid himself and his Maybe I'm right.
Speaker 1: I think he wrote he got his big moment from winning.
Speaker 3: Like a rap battle, rap battle. Yeah, okay, he did
Speaker 3: not write it. Okay, okay, good, that actually makes sense
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: And then he got signed by Scott Okay, our producer
Speaker 1: O Livia is telling U Scott Silver wrote it. Scott Silver,
Speaker 1: who we know from?
Speaker 3: He also wrote the Fighter Wow, whoa, Oh my god? Okay,
Speaker 3: get ready for this? Are you ready?
Speaker 4: He wrote Joker Say No More makes the Joker with Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Scott Silver is cranking out Master He's
Speaker 1: also writing.
Speaker 4: He also wrote Joke, the new one with Gaga that's
Speaker 4: coming out Joker fully.
Speaker 1: I wow, Oh my god. I love that Scott Silver
Speaker 1: has such an enduring career.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 3: I mean the eight Mile really is a Joker style narrative.
Speaker 3: Yeah right right. Oh.
Speaker 1: Also, Eminem was the first rapper to win an Academy
Speaker 1: Award for his song.
Speaker 4: Yeah and I remember he like accepted the award. He
Speaker 4: was writing like I want to say, like a sports
Speaker 4: jersey and a blazer, Like he was adamantly not dressed
Speaker 4: for a black tie event.
Speaker 1: He was Eminem to the core. Yes, not going to
Speaker 1: get dressed up.
Speaker 2: If you were on the Eminem kind of level as
Speaker 2: far as like financial ability that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 2: someone came to you was like, do you want to
Speaker 2: open the spaghetti restaurant? Do you think you would be
Speaker 2: into it or do you think you'd be Like, I'm
Speaker 2: probably just gonna go to like my beach house and
Speaker 2: like not think about work, because I feel like I
Speaker 2: would be more the It depends.
Speaker 3: I think it depends.
Speaker 5: I think I would obviously lean more towards beach house.
Speaker 5: But if someone if the person coming to me was
Speaker 5: like my cousin, then I'd be like, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: There's also something about I mean it's in Detroit, which
Speaker 4: is his hometown, and I could see myself like if
Speaker 4: I got so successful and then like went back like
Speaker 4: wanting to give back to my local community.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, this article that I found, I think in the
Speaker 2: Detroit Free Press did say he mom Sucghetti was at
Speaker 2: several Eminem performances, and then they delivered food to frontline
Speaker 2: workers and COVID vaccinaers and Detroit during COVID So I
Speaker 2: think he is trying to kind of give back to Detroit,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: So that is really good, I think, Jonah, when we're
Speaker 1: at that level, we should open yeah, okay, yeah, we
Speaker 1: should open like a place called like the first Todd's Lounge.
Speaker 1: Because our dad, we talk about this all the time.
Speaker 1: Our dad thinks he's the first person to be named Todd.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, Isa Georgian.
Speaker 3: He does this legitimately, he thinks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, And I feel bad for our listeners because
Speaker 1: they've heard us talk about this so much. But he
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't feel bad for them because it's
Speaker 1: absolutely iconic. Buddy. He thinks he's the first person ever
Speaker 1: to be named Todd, like it was a last name
Speaker 1: before he and Jonah, we don't have to call our
Speaker 1: restaurant that, by the way, we can name it after ourselves.
Speaker 3: Sure, we can probably figure out. The name is probably
Speaker 3: the last thing we need to really worry.
Speaker 1: What are we? What are we? What are we?
Speaker 3: What's our signash? What's our signature?
Speaker 1: Dish.
Speaker 3: Is there something we ate growing up?
Speaker 1: Maybe mom zucchini bread. Our mom makes really good zucchini bread, bread,
Speaker 1: breads by Bears, Bears Breads, Breads sell zucchini bread, and
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 2: There's kind of this gluten free thing. It's pretty popula.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure the bread thing is really.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's maybe we could make a gluten free
Speaker 1: Beyar's bread, and then the Todd.
Speaker 3: Gluten free one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Actually our mom doesn't eat a lot of
Speaker 1: gluten anymore, so it could be like Carolyn's gluten free.
Speaker 3: Todd is raised completely from the narrative, all of a
Speaker 3: sudden start out as to lounge. He has been demoted
Speaker 3: to Carolyn washing dishes in the back Todd's corner. It's
Speaker 3: like a little corner.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, And maybe the regular zucchini bread is Todd
Speaker 1: time and then right, but do you want to name
Speaker 1: them more for what they are?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I don't think zucchini breads really has is hitten like
Speaker 2: oat milk or something. It's not really like a trendy thing.
Speaker 4: It might be, it could be. I think it has
Speaker 4: the potential to be. I think it has a potential.
Speaker 4: You do, Ok, we're real on the pulse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also, you know, things come and go. People
Speaker 1: might be really pro gluten in a few years. And
Speaker 1: also sure, I feel like Clevelanders love gluten. That's that's
Speaker 1: when I go to Cleveland, I'm eating bread left and right.
Speaker 1: I can't get enough. Okay, Thanksgiving, Okay, we.
Speaker 5: Got the comedy club in Cleveland. You're like, where are
Speaker 5: my gluten heads at? And everyone's going fuck wild, throwing
Speaker 5: stuff back because they're so happy.
Speaker 3: It's like dice in there.
Speaker 1: I did do a stand up show once at a
Speaker 1: club in Cleveland, and wow, it was all my teachers.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. Oh wow, my teachers came.
Speaker 3: That's a nightmare for me.
Speaker 5: If a teacher ever saw me perform, I'd be like like,
Speaker 5: I'd be like, okay, I'm first of all, i've never
Speaker 5: had sex.
Speaker 3: Second of all, so let's get that out of the way.
Speaker 3: That's covered. What else? What else? What else? I love? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've never disretected the flag, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I would say my stand up at
Speaker 1: that time, and I haven't done it in a while,
Speaker 1: but I would say it's pretty opposite of eminem. So
Speaker 1: I think I felt confident that they you know, it's
Speaker 1: pretty inoffensive kind of stuff, which believe it or not,
Speaker 1: because I know everyone knows that I'm I like to
Speaker 1: live on the edge and get.
Speaker 3: Edgy edge lord. Whereas when Sam and I perform, we're
Speaker 3: very eminem.
Speaker 1: Right, people say you're the Eminem's of comedy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of flipped. Instead of being like it's
Speaker 5: fun that they sometimes do comedy, it's like it's fun
Speaker 5: that they like get super violent for no reason sometimes
Speaker 5: totally right.
Speaker 1: Exactly, that's exactly. Uh, that's exactly what it is. Anyone
Speaker 1: have anything else to add about Eminem now that we
Speaker 1: know that he's king of Pasta.
Speaker 5: I had one more thing, actually, yes, face, which was
Speaker 5: the I remember. There's something too about Eminem where I
Speaker 5: was like young enough when he was popular that it
Speaker 5: kind of was alienating where I was like do I
Speaker 5: understand culture? Like the fashion, the tone, like his vibe
Speaker 5: and everyone loving it. There was an element of like
Speaker 5: I was like, I guess I just don't know people
Speaker 5: like I think it'll take me a long time to
Speaker 5: figure out what is going on, And there was something
Speaker 5: I felt very othered with Eminem being super popular, and
Speaker 5: I was like I get like the the songs are catchy,
Speaker 5: I'm in, but it was like, but his vibe is
Speaker 5: so not my vibe.
Speaker 3: This is so confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I also think because I'm sure Sam and
Speaker 4: I both although Sam was more I think Sam you
Speaker 4: were more open to like indie rock and stuff. But
Speaker 4: especially when I was like a kid kid, I was
Speaker 4: really like spice Girls and saying and so for me,
Speaker 4: Eminem was such an exception because I did not I
Speaker 4: was not like aware of a lot of other music
Speaker 4: like that before. I like then was you know, in
Speaker 4: middle school. In high school, I got into rap and
Speaker 4: hip hop, but like Eminem was in a weird way.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is humiliating to admit, probably like my introduction.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I feel like I was a little
Speaker 2: older and I was so into like punk and hardcore
Speaker 2: and indie like underground music. Like to me, Eminem was
Speaker 2: kind of the same as like any pop music. It
Speaker 2: was in that same world. So I think it was
Speaker 2: a crossover. Yeah, I think it makes sense that then.
Speaker 4: I yeah, that it was like a way in the
Speaker 4: only thing I other thing I wanted to say, which
Speaker 4: is I find it very sort of sweet and charming
Speaker 4: that his daughter Hayley, who's mentioned all of his songs,
Speaker 4: is now just like an Instagram cheek who's like just
Speaker 4: like has three million Instagram followers and is posting like
Speaker 4: she's at a football game, she's with her fiance, like
Speaker 4: she's doing spaon con for a beauty brand. It just
Speaker 4: is so polar opposite from how we knew her as
Speaker 4: a child.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. And also I wonder what it was
Speaker 1: like for her fiance to meet Eminem and be like.
Speaker 3: What do you think Vanessa? That conversation was like.
Speaker 1: You heard me going there? Like he is probably like,
Speaker 1: all right, what's your name? That's Eminem, what's your name?
Speaker 1: And he's like Tom, and he's like he's like, and
Speaker 1: you dated my your date my daughter Helen. Isn't that
Speaker 1: exactly how we talked? And he's like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to take her out on a date. And he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, but if you come home late, you're going
Speaker 1: to be in trouble.
Speaker 5: Incredible, you're gonna meet Marshall lifts up one fist, Math
Speaker 5: is the other fist.
Speaker 4: That's right, Well, I think it's if you do yeah,
Speaker 4: if you do his actual accent, you would sound offensive.
Speaker 3: Doing it because.
Speaker 2: It is in fact, actually, well we got it. You
Speaker 2: know Taren does you who I know is a guest
Speaker 2: and listening.
Speaker 1: To podcast, Karen does such a good impression of him,
Speaker 1: such an incredible angry Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to say sorry. I'm on Haley's
Speaker 4: Instagram still. Her podcast is called Just the Little Shady,
Speaker 4: which is so iconic. To take slim shady this like,
Speaker 4: you know, whatever alter ego of this violent rapper and
Speaker 4: make it into like an Instagram friendly you know, throwing shade.
Speaker 5: That is genius talk about. I mean, is a voice
Speaker 5: of a generation that is so small.
Speaker 3: Agree, you guys need to I.
Speaker 1: Know, I'm obsessed with Haley. I'm like, do we need
Speaker 1: to just like cut everything negative, anything even slightly negative?
Speaker 1: We said about I'm an m out of here so
Speaker 1: we can get Haley on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all positive, it was all good vibes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I think she'd.
Speaker 3: Still do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got to get Haley on here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: She sounds like such a fun, girly pop.
Speaker 5: I mean the way that if she could just tag
Speaker 5: me in a photo, my whole life would change.
Speaker 2: So I'm just looking at this podcast, and this is
Speaker 2: a subject one is called recently called Britt got in
Speaker 2: a Fight with a Karen and it says getting into
Speaker 2: BRIT's real life shady story of her Karen encounter over
Speaker 2: the weekend.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: So she's just like I mean, she's like a rich
Speaker 4: La girl who loves fashion and podcasting.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: She sounds like she should be my best friend.
Speaker 4: A lot of her photos are very like, you know,
Speaker 4: like Christian girl Autumn. It's very like. She has a
Speaker 4: lot of photos where she's like, I mean, I'm there's
Speaker 4: this one where she's Christmas tree shopping and sort of
Speaker 4: a tan jacket.
Speaker 2: Is there a lot of stuff with her and eminem
Speaker 2: or no not angle photograph?
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I think they have a good relationship. I
Speaker 4: mean they I don't think they. I think I don't
Speaker 4: think she would name her podcast a little bit shady
Speaker 4: if she didn't love her.
Speaker 1: Father, right right, right right, totally. It's interesting there. Fall
Speaker 1: girls and Halloween Girls are different. Introducing my fiance.
Speaker 3: Oh, she did an activation at Lollapalooza. Huge.
Speaker 4: Wow, she has a line of sweatpants. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: I of entrepreneurs.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: She's doing great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's probably the brains behind mom Spaghetti now that
Speaker 3: I think about it, literally, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, Like we're we're all going, oh, I'm in a
Speaker 1: mom spaghetti. It's probably Haley was just like, dad, come up,
Speaker 1: You've got to be an entrepreneur these days. Like you
Speaker 1: can't just like be someone who used to wrap, like
Speaker 1: you have to have businesses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is my wife. And I watched Shark Tank
Speaker 2: a lot, and it's like all the time. There's like
Speaker 2: these kids are like fourteen, Like I've been watching Shark
Speaker 2: Tank my whole life. I'm in like my entrepreneur club,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, okay, like maybe try being a kid, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We needs to tell that to Haley.
Speaker 1: Haley, Chill, chill girl. But we're also proud of you.
Speaker 4: I love that her Instagram bio is welcome to my
Speaker 4: unpredictable i G life.
Speaker 3: And then it's like the most predictable on Earth.
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I sort of am wearing jeans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I guess we need to be careful what
Speaker 1: we say about Haley because we know who her dad is.
Speaker 5: Us.
Speaker 1: Yeah he will, but we love Haley, and that's all
Speaker 1: anyone else anything else about Eminem or should we maybe
Speaker 1: we'll go to a quick commercial break and be right
Speaker 1: back with George and Sam and we're back. Did I
Speaker 1: chill everyone by saying don't make fun of me, will
Speaker 1: come after you.
Speaker 4: No? I mostly just horrified that I made the statement
Speaker 4: that Eminem got me into wrap. I'm like I did
Speaker 4: no other appers.
Speaker 3: No, you didn't know. He didn't.
Speaker 4: He was just like the biggest one in mainstream culture,
Speaker 4: Like I knew who other people were.
Speaker 1: He, like you said, he was a real like go between.
Speaker 1: Because it was like felt like.
Speaker 3: Pot, Okay, what just happened, just happened?
Speaker 1: Okay, why did that happen?
Speaker 3: We need to describ We to describe what just happened.
Speaker 4: So in Vanessa's zoom window, like a graphic of balloons
Speaker 4: rising happened as like similar to how when you say
Speaker 4: congratulations over text, there's like a bunch of balloons out of.
Speaker 3: Nowhere and only on her window. And while she was
Speaker 3: trying to make.
Speaker 1: A point, the point that I was trying to make,
Speaker 1: why are balloons rising? That actually is scary to me?
Speaker 3: Is it your birthday or something? Maybe someone say congratulations
Speaker 3: quietly or.
Speaker 1: Something, Oh congratulations, did that do it.
Speaker 3: No, no, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Let's yeah, will you look up why that happened?
Speaker 3: We need answers now more than ever. Haley hacked the
Speaker 3: main frame.
Speaker 4: Main frame was wait about and was like, thank you
Speaker 4: guys for promoting my page.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's balloons. That's a bitch. You know she is
Speaker 3: into doing things that are unpredictable and that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she actually got offended that we said she was predictable,
Speaker 4: and she was like, I'll show you predictable, bitch.
Speaker 3: You'll never see this coming.
Speaker 1: Well, what I was trying to say before I was
Speaker 1: interrupted by balloons or maybe supported by balloons, was that
Speaker 1: Eminem was like where pop met rap. So it makes
Speaker 1: sense that, like, even though you were already listening to
Speaker 1: other rappers and stuff, this really kind of like made
Speaker 1: that segue in a way.
Speaker 4: It was definitely like Eminem on one hand. And then
Speaker 4: of course like featured rappers. If it's like Mariah carreyam
Speaker 4: bust rhymes, it's like a featured rapper on a pop
Speaker 4: track or like an R and B track, and I'd
Speaker 4: be like, oh love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, who Lauren Hill was first? And then I
Speaker 3: like understood who the fujis were, Like.
Speaker 1: Or like when I went to bar and Bot Minces,
Speaker 1: every year, three or four of the popular boys would
Speaker 1: do a dance to Regulators by Nate Togg and Warren
Speaker 1: g And they had like a choreographed dance that they
Speaker 1: would do every time it came on, and everyone thought
Speaker 1: they were cool from poreographing a dance that.
Speaker 3: Is a scary.
Speaker 5: I'm like, why did every middle schooler across the globe
Speaker 5: need to know every lyric to Regulators?
Speaker 3: What happened that made that true?
Speaker 2: I don't know, And that stuff sticks with you as
Speaker 2: an adult, Like yeah, songs from that era.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I still know every I can't find my
Speaker 2: keys to go to work, but I can know every
Speaker 2: one of these lyrics.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, lose yourself. I mean it's a
Speaker 4: little later, but lose yourself from many people. I think
Speaker 4: myself included is like that where the lyrics come out
Speaker 4: like flow out of you if.
Speaker 3: If it comes on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I assume everybody else here has the
Speaker 1: Wrap from water Falls memorized.
Speaker 3: Of course, Well that one I don't. Actually, I have
Speaker 3: to admit I have to be honest with myself.
Speaker 4: TLC is. I mean, I would say this was almost
Speaker 4: too obvious of a thing. But one thing I was
Speaker 4: when we were brainstorming, I was like the No Scrubs video,
Speaker 4: which I talk about something that has been like memed
Speaker 4: to death, but like I just I truly remember where
Speaker 4: I was when I first saw it, and I was like, well,
Speaker 4: my life is different.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going I gotta go get some silk pajamas asap.
Speaker 1: And I don't like, yeah, okay, well sorry, I just
Speaker 1: need to take a second to meditate on that. And
Speaker 1: now we're going to play a very fun game called
Speaker 1: Yes Nostalgia, where we bring up nostalgic products, shows, et
Speaker 1: cetera that are making a comeback, and if you're into them,
Speaker 1: you can give them a ystalgia yahstaalja, and if you're
Speaker 1: not into them, you can give them a nostalgia no no.
Speaker 3: No no no no no no no Stalers. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 2: And I can kick this one off because this one is.
Speaker 2: This one's kind of urgent because it's happening right now.
Speaker 2: So so in case people don't know, The Never Ending
Speaker 2: Postible currently has returned to Olive Garden. It's running from
Speaker 2: September twenty fifth through November nineteenth and of course Olive
Speaker 2: Garden E Club members have early access, which I'm sure
Speaker 2: we all are, but yeah, it says with up to
Speaker 2: eighty total possible pasta combinations, guts can enjoy unlimited servings
Speaker 2: of their favorite pasta, plus homemade super salad and of
Speaker 2: course the breadsticks and some of the pastas. There you
Speaker 2: got fetiscini, spaghetti, rigatoni made from scratch, creamy mushroom sauce, meatballs,
Speaker 2: and so it starts at thirteen ninety nine with options
Speaker 2: to add other stuff for five bucks and you have
Speaker 2: to sign up for the Olive Garden E Club by well,
Speaker 2: you had to do that long time ago to get this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, So what do you guys think of the
Speaker 2: return of that never ending possible?
Speaker 5: I'm a hard nostalgia to that one. Okay, it makes
Speaker 5: me feel like there's still magic in the world. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's the promise of never ending has always really spoken
Speaker 5: to me, similar as like a you know, a lifetime supply.
Speaker 5: It's sort of like, che does that mean like you
Speaker 5: can't quantify never ending? I think it's also you know,
Speaker 5: in this time of corporate greed, you know, it's so
Speaker 5: nice to see a corporation really giving back. It's essentially socialists,
Speaker 5: and they are in charge of the DSA.
Speaker 4: Yes, and and Bernie is the new CEO of Olive Garden.
Speaker 4: I think i'm, you know, just to sort of play
Speaker 4: Devil's advocate. I am gonna have to go nostalgiaza. I
Speaker 4: struggle with a never ending I'm not saying this in
Speaker 4: terms of like, oh, I'm such a pig. It's not
Speaker 4: about like quantity of food. But I struggle with the buffet.
Speaker 4: I struggle with like Unlimited.
Speaker 1: And Sam's Vanessa just because I'm like, you're the professional.
Speaker 4: You bring me what you think a human being should eat,
Speaker 4: and I will gladly finish it. I'm not gonna not
Speaker 4: finish it like I but I can't. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: make my own sides. I should not have any power.
Speaker 4: I don't even want the dressing on the side. I
Speaker 4: want the food professionals to do their job, and then I,
Speaker 4: as a consumer, will pay the money and I'll pay extra.
Speaker 4: I will literally pay more than the Unlimited bowl to
Speaker 4: get a bowl that is expertly made.
Speaker 3: Wow in my area.
Speaker 2: So George, where do you stand on self checkout? Are
Speaker 2: you into it or against it.
Speaker 3: Great question.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's what I'll say. I'm only into it. Well,
Speaker 4: first of all, I'm against it because it is replacing
Speaker 4: cumans with machines. So on a political level, I'm against
Speaker 4: it everywhere. Okay, Now, on a selfish level, I am
Speaker 4: for it only at Unichlow where they have the bins
Speaker 4: where you put your clothes.
Speaker 3: Have you seen this? Now, this is the craziest thing
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. You don't have to do anything.
Speaker 4: You literally just put all your clothes in a bin
Speaker 4: and then it through like lasers, like a million different lasers,
Speaker 4: just tells you how much it just knows.
Speaker 3: You just don't.
Speaker 4: You don't have to go one by one, you literally
Speaker 4: just put everything in. It just knows instantly. I've never
Speaker 4: experienced anything like it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: And that's the only time in my life that I
Speaker 4: have felt like self checkout is quote unquote more convenient
Speaker 4: for a customer than nonsense.
Speaker 1: But you know how when you check out a clothing store,
Speaker 1: they usually fold stuff a little bit when they put
Speaker 1: it in the bag. No, that's a good point, sure,
Speaker 1: because I thought you were going to say the layersers
Speaker 1: like fold it.
Speaker 4: No, that's a good point. I do find that when
Speaker 4: I'm shopping at Uniclo, I sort of don't need things
Speaker 4: to be folded.
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, Now, Jonah, where
Speaker 1: do you fall on this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're correct.
Speaker 2: I don't like really buffets, especially crowded buffets. It gives
Speaker 2: me kind of makes me feel anxious. I don't I'm
Speaker 2: sure with like the lighting. And I also say, it's
Speaker 2: thirteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: This isn't a buffet, by the way, I just want
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Ka sort of oh yeah, okay, yeah, okay, fair enough,
Speaker 2: I associate with buffets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I'm kind of the same way.
Speaker 2: I feel like then I feel like I have this
Speaker 2: pressure to eat as much as possible to get my
Speaker 2: money's worth. Then I feel sick. And I also, this
Speaker 2: is a thirteen ninety nine. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 2: you guys, go that Olive Garden times Square. This thing
Speaker 2: is probably seventy five dollars.
Speaker 1: It is more expensive. The one in Times Square is
Speaker 1: more expenses.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like it puts a lot of I put
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on myself and that makes it
Speaker 2: less enjoyable for me.
Speaker 1: Vanessa, what about you, well, as I said, I'm a Sam,
Speaker 1: You're a George, and I'm absolutely for this. I remember
Speaker 1: doing the never ending possible. When I was in high school,
Speaker 1: we would carbo load before our cross country races, and
Speaker 1: I remember going, I did you run cross country?
Speaker 5: I was a cross country girl. Oh my god, you
Speaker 5: guys are twins. I was obsessed with it. I wish
Speaker 5: it could have been my job.
Speaker 1: But I bet you were good at it. I was
Speaker 1: very bad at it.
Speaker 3: I was very for a little but then I moved
Speaker 3: to a bad school and had a bad coach and
Speaker 3: I got bat of it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Well, okay, so I will just say that
Speaker 1: I always would go to those carbo loading sessions and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I wish we didn't have to do
Speaker 1: the race, Like I wish that cross country team was
Speaker 1: all about going to eat the never ending possible and
Speaker 1: not having to do the race, and that would be
Speaker 1: the perfect athletic team for me. Yeah. I love unlimited
Speaker 1: pasta and I just wanted it's so fun, it's so
Speaker 1: exciting to get as many breadsticks. Also, if you're choosing
Speaker 1: the soup over the salad, I truly do think there's
Speaker 1: something wrong with you because the salad is so good.
Speaker 1: It's like a Caesar, It's like a It's got like
Speaker 1: a lot of dressing and cheese. Like, it's just like
Speaker 1: a fun salad. If you're getting the soup, it's probably
Speaker 1: like salty and sucks like you're insane. But that aside,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, like Jonah and George, like
Speaker 1: you don't have to ruin it for everybody else.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying like, okay.
Speaker 5: But you started a campaign to get them to shut
Speaker 5: it down, and I find there's so much that's true.
Speaker 3: This is wrong. It's it's ended November nineteenth.
Speaker 4: These are way so, I mean, damn, it's they can't
Speaker 4: So it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: But maybe they maybe they'll bring it back again next year.
Speaker 1: And you guys cannot get in the way. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: read this next one just kidding. I know you're I
Speaker 1: know you have probably much better eating habits and much healthier.
Speaker 3: Okay, you'd be surprised.
Speaker 1: Go on. The next one is Ferbie is coming Back.
Speaker 1: Hasbro announces the Toys return. The furry toys from the
Speaker 1: late nineties are making a comeback, and they have a
Speaker 1: new look. They say, generations of kids have loved this
Speaker 1: adorably fuzzy, chatty and curious little creature, and now they
Speaker 1: can discover the all new one. The next generation of
Speaker 1: Ferbie is available now and it comes in two colors,
Speaker 1: purple and coral. It also features five voice activated modes
Speaker 1: and has over six hundred phrases, jokes and songs, and
Speaker 1: also much more to discover. The release states the Ferbie
Speaker 1: will listen to these five commands dance party, copycat, tell
Speaker 1: my Fortune, Let's chill, and light show.
Speaker 4: Damn, George, what you take this one? I'm a firm.
Speaker 4: I'm a firm nostalgia on this. I've never had I
Speaker 4: can't remember fact you had Furbi's, but I was definitely
Speaker 4: the right agehere. I remember the ads. To me, Ferbies
Speaker 4: are such a beautiful LGBTQ plus toy because they are
Speaker 4: neither male nor female. Like they're not like a doll
Speaker 4: for girls, but they're also not like a gun for boys.
Speaker 4: They are it's actually sort of a safe way for
Speaker 4: even boys to be mothers and girls to be freaks
Speaker 4: and you know, punks. So yes, I like the just
Speaker 4: the tactile nature of it, Like it's not an app,
Speaker 4: it's not something the kids are gonna do on their iPad.
Speaker 4: It's not even a yama.
Speaker 3: What are those called? Yes, it's like that.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't like the nostalgia with those because
Speaker 4: I'm like, those are still tech. This is a good
Speaker 4: old fashioned toy. I guess they can also do dance
Speaker 4: party and read your fortune and I guess they're AI.
Speaker 4: But I'm I am the yes styleja on this.
Speaker 5: I mean, I also have to say if you are
Speaker 5: if you think there's not gonna be an app that
Speaker 5: you can download on your iPad to control the ferbie,
Speaker 5: you're lying to yourself.
Speaker 3: There is one. Yeah, it could be a Megan situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, George, that was a really beautiful argument,
Speaker 5: and I think I do mostly agree with you. Although
Speaker 5: ferbies do give me a little bit of trauma. I
Speaker 5: feel that there was such a I did not have them,
Speaker 5: and the people that did, I will say it was
Speaker 5: the kids that didn't have rules.
Speaker 3: And the kids that didn't have rules.
Speaker 5: Always scared me because their lives were so chaotic and
Speaker 5: they'd be like, do you want to play with want
Speaker 5: to see my ferbie? And I'd be like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: because there's no bedtime when's dinner?
Speaker 3: What the hell is going on?
Speaker 5: And so I'm I'm fearful of, you know, that new
Speaker 5: generation of ruless children.
Speaker 3: But hopefully these furbies, you know, have a schedule.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at this updated the photo of the new ones,
Speaker 4: and they are a little different than the old ones. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they do give like gen z euphoria.
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. They're very like bright and.
Speaker 3: Sort of like a little raver. They've been to a rave.
Speaker 1: They're very raver looking exactly. That's the right word, Vanessa.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little too old, Like I think
Speaker 1: I must have just missed ferbies when I was younger,
Speaker 1: so I don't have like a nostalgic connection to them.
Speaker 1: But for all the reasons that you said, George, I
Speaker 1: could see why it's great that they're back. Did they
Speaker 1: always talk and stuff? Is that their big thing?
Speaker 5: They like moved and like had like little I think
Speaker 5: they did have phrases and yeah, they're like eyes would
Speaker 5: opening clothes and stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I mean why not. I agree it sort
Speaker 1: of feels like a toy for every child, and so
Speaker 1: I'm into it. I feel a little worried about, like
Speaker 1: once it does get integrated with the app and everything,
Speaker 1: like what might it become? But for now I'm into it.
Speaker 1: What about you, Jonah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think some really good points here, you know, personally,
Speaker 2: and maybe this is just because I'm older, I feel
Speaker 2: like when they update these toys for like this generation,
Speaker 2: they always look kind of strange to me. Like I
Speaker 2: think they're like, this is a new Muppet Baby's, there's
Speaker 2: a new Strawberry Shortcake, and they're kind of like futuristic
Speaker 2: looking to me.
Speaker 3: It's like something unsettling about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't have a really a connection with
Speaker 2: the original Furby, and I think, yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: think that brings you off.
Speaker 3: The screen into the real world. It's great.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do you think the original Ferbie, you know,
Speaker 5: had a little more heft to it.
Speaker 3: It was a little chunkier, you know.
Speaker 5: This one's like trying to be so snatched, and it's like,
Speaker 5: you know, let let a Ferby be like a little
Speaker 5: chubby thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 2: So our last one is McDonald's just bought back the
Speaker 2: Oreo Frappe Frappy Frappe.
Speaker 4: Hey, how you say that? It's got the accent. Okay,
Speaker 4: if it's got the accent, gonna go ahead and be
Speaker 4: a f orio.
Speaker 3: This is very, very fancy for McDonald's.
Speaker 2: So this article says, after eight years, the fan favorite
Speaker 2: McDonald's beverage is back on the menu, the Oreo f Repe.
Speaker 2: This delectable drink is a spin on the classic McDonald's
Speaker 2: Mocha frape, made from the Mocha frape, bass crushed ice,
Speaker 2: oreos and cream syrup with cream a plenty of Oreo pieces.
Speaker 2: It's sure to satisfy cookie and coffee lovers alike. And
Speaker 2: so there's a bunch of info about it, and I
Speaker 2: guess people have been ordering a copycat version where you
Speaker 2: can just get this mocha repe and add oreos to it.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 3: I guess it's called a hack.
Speaker 2: You can ask for oreos to be blended in which
Speaker 2: it's like I put like, imagine like the level of
Speaker 2: dignity you have to be, like, I'd like this order repe.
Speaker 2: Can Hey, you guys have got oreos, Can you guys
Speaker 2: blend some of those in there too? Now you don't
Speaker 2: have to go through that whole conversation. You could just
Speaker 2: order the Oreo f Repe. So that's nice. What do you
Speaker 2: guys think about this?
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to interrupt Jonah, but I do want
Speaker 1: Jonah this big joke to get in here, which he
Speaker 1: kind of just made. But the article says if you
Speaker 1: miss on on it. For some reason, fans have already
Speaker 1: offered up a McDonald's secret menu hack, order a moocha prepee,
Speaker 1: and ask for some oreos to be blended in. And
Speaker 1: then Jonah wrote in all caps, or perhaps get some dignity.
Speaker 2: I sometimes get insecure with my jokes because you know,
Speaker 2: everyone hears like a professional kind of comedian, and I'm.
Speaker 1: You're a professional comedian.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: But what are our thoughts on the orio repe is
Speaker 2: it's a nostalgia nostalgia?
Speaker 3: What are you thinking?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess for like the general, For me, it's
Speaker 5: a nostalgia, but I guess for the culture. I say,
Speaker 5: you know, to me, who the speaks to is like
Speaker 5: the high school girl who's, like you know, out with
Speaker 5: her friends and is wanting to pretend to be mature
Speaker 5: but is not mature. And I actually think that is
Speaker 5: a beautiful demographic to cater to. And you know, in
Speaker 5: ten years, of course she'll be drinking black coffee in
Speaker 5: Paris even But but right now she is in you know,
Speaker 5: a suburb of Cincinnati and she's getting her Oreo frappe
Speaker 5: and I think that's beautiful.
Speaker 3: So you're a noestalgia. I'm a nostalgia for the culture.
Speaker 5: It's it's sort of you know, a frape is to coffee,
Speaker 5: what you know what like eminem was to George's rap knowledge.
Speaker 3: It's a way in. Yes, and you know what.
Speaker 4: I actually I'm convinced by that because my instinct, so
Speaker 4: what see, here's my thought process. When you first said
Speaker 4: the name of this drink, I was all in because
Speaker 4: I was imaginingasically an Oreo mcflurry, which to me is such.
Speaker 3: A stunning drink.
Speaker 4: I love anything sort of cookies and cream slash Oreo flavored,
Speaker 4: do you sam No?
Speaker 3: I don't really either wow.
Speaker 4: Or even if you're more sophisticated, a stretch a Tella flavor,
Speaker 4: which is sort of like the Italian cookie clan, I
Speaker 4: don't know what mean every start Yeah, so you're gonna
Speaker 4: have to You're gonna want to look that up. So
Speaker 4: my instinct was like, okay, yes, I'm ready. Then I
Speaker 4: got to the coffee part. I was like, oh, see,
Speaker 4: I would never order it, so I was gonna be
Speaker 4: a nostalgia, but I was obviously being misogynist because Sam
Speaker 4: is very clearly stating that this is for teenage girls,
Speaker 4: the market that has been historically not taken seriously. And
Speaker 4: I think it's about time that they stepped into their
Speaker 4: light and took up space in this world. So I'm
Speaker 4: a firm nostalgia and I stand with all girls and
Speaker 4: women and young women that are ordering the Oreo Frepe.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, what are your thoughts on this? I really
Speaker 3: excellent points here.
Speaker 1: You know, I agree. I How could I go against it,
Speaker 1: which I feel like Jonah might, But how could I
Speaker 1: go against what Sam said of a girl being like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: let's get coffees. Okay, we're gonna have. We're gonna have,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have seven Oreo frat pays. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love coffee. I'm like, I feel like I'm buzzing.
Speaker 1: I'm like drinking so much coffee and I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm buzzing. That's my impression of the girl. And I
Speaker 1: I'm sorry sometimes I'm I'm a real theater kid on here,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 3: Really Eminem has already rejected that sketch idea.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say no, oh no, okay, well guess what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pitch it to Haley all right, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pitch it.
Speaker 3: I love it. And we have a brand partnership with McDonald's.
Speaker 1: This is a nostalgia for me. I give it up
Speaker 1: for these girls and their oreo frat paze jonah, what
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So what's funny is it? And this is from a
Speaker 2: website called Taste of Home. And at the end of
Speaker 2: this I just found this, It says writer's note. I
Speaker 2: tried to test the oreofrepe myself, but in an ironic
Speaker 2: twist of fate, my local McDonald's had been shut down
Speaker 2: by the Food and Health and Safety Department that morning.
Speaker 3: So iconic good sign. I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not for me. I take coffee pretty seriously.
Speaker 2: You know, I have an espresso set up here. I
Speaker 2: put a lot of work into me. Like, this is
Speaker 2: kind of like not something I would ever drink. It's
Speaker 2: probably so sweet, but yeah, I think maybe to get
Speaker 2: your foot in the door. But let's it's not really
Speaker 2: a coffee drink. Let's be honest. It sounds more like
Speaker 2: a milkshake. To me, but if it's if it's if
Speaker 2: it's an entry point, sure, not for me, but if
Speaker 2: this makes other people happy, you know, in moderation, right,
Speaker 2: we don't want to be drinking these things three or
Speaker 2: four a day, you know, we want to, you know,
Speaker 2: but once in a while as a treat or why
Speaker 2: not if that's if that's all okay.
Speaker 1: So we're split on the never ending possible. We are
Speaker 1: mostly Jonah, were you pro Ferby?
Speaker 3: You were sure? I think do you think we're a
Speaker 3: pro ferby?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're pro perby, we're Proferby. I don't and then
Speaker 1: we're we're actually shockingly to me because I didn't go
Speaker 1: in thinking this. We're pro oreo frape.
Speaker 4: Even though none of us want disgusting but it's not
Speaker 4: for us, that's right.
Speaker 2: I think it really speaks and I don't want to
Speaker 2: speak for everyone, but to our collective character that we
Speaker 2: can before something that isn't directly for us.
Speaker 4: But we proved the world we're very empathy and I
Speaker 4: think the geop could learn a lot from what we
Speaker 4: have today.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's absolutely right. Wow, Well on that important note,
Speaker 1: Sam and George, is there where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Great question?
Speaker 5: You can listen to our podcast Radio Lab wherever are
Speaker 5: downloaded and on Instagram.
Speaker 3: I'm at Sam Taggart and George Yeah, and I'm at
Speaker 3: George Severis believe it or not. Wow, it's so simple.
Speaker 3: It was almost I didn't believe you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we post all upcoming shows there and you know,
Speaker 4: come see us live.
Speaker 3: We're hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to think of a joke to
Speaker 1: make just now, of like I want a special parking
Speaker 1: space when I go to your show or something. It
Speaker 1: really it wasn't was. It was very la It wasn't
Speaker 1: really shaping up as a good joke, but.
Speaker 5: Maybe something of like you'll wear your best sun gear
Speaker 5: when you're at the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, full disguise, but really because of the sun,
Speaker 1: even though it'll be at night. Maybe So then what
Speaker 1: do I say? That was really fun? Jonah. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much to Sam and George for joining us, and to
Speaker 1: everyone for listening. If you enjoyed this, please subscribe to
Speaker 1: the podcast and keep it at it. For next week's
Speaker 1: episode of How Did We Get Weird, we will discuss
Speaker 1: more stories from our childhood and cultural touchstones. Like Eminem,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, you too, you thanks for having us.
Speaker 3: And thank you so much for having us. This was
Speaker 3: a real treat.