Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 3: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 3: in nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people
Speaker 3: we are today.
Speaker 2: Who are so excited for today's guests that we talked
Speaker 2: to him for a really long time and then split
Speaker 2: our convo into two episodes.
Speaker 3: Welcome to How did We Get Weird? With Jason Schwartzman
Speaker 3: Part two.
Speaker 1: But have you been to the new Amiba location the
Speaker 1: second one?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I have, not great. Yeah it's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I for some reason never had. I didn't
Speaker 5: really go, hadn't gone to it since the other location closed.
Speaker 5: And then when my friend Ben was in town, we
Speaker 5: went over there and it's like, I love, It's a
Speaker 5: great space and it's laid out. It's amazing, and I realized,
Speaker 5: like my kid, what a fun place it is actually
Speaker 5: for like kids, or at least my kids to go.
Speaker 5: It's like it's shirts and giant posters everywhere. Like you know,
Speaker 5: I think when I was a kid in La there
Speaker 5: was a store that I loved so much that's gone,
Speaker 5: but it was at this Century City mall and it
Speaker 5: was called Heaven Whoa. That's where I spent my first dollar. Wow,
Speaker 5: actually I my first dollar from my allowance. I got
Speaker 5: a candy and I remember like feeling terrible about it
Speaker 5: after I spent it, because I was like, I just
Speaker 5: spent this thing on something that's just gonna vanish in
Speaker 5: my mouth. But Heaven and and speaking me, which I'm
Speaker 5: realizing now that my sister Stephanie sent me a photo
Speaker 5: of her she found her old Heaven bag. But Heaven
Speaker 5: was the best store. It was the kind of story
Speaker 5: you'd go in and like the I just remember that
Speaker 5: the well maybe it was just because I was little,
Speaker 5: but it felt like the cash registers like they were
Speaker 5: up on like a on a step or something, because
Speaker 5: what was in front of you, it was just a
Speaker 5: wall of candy and that was the registers were on
Speaker 5: top of that and they were looking down at you.
Speaker 5: But you get like, you know, like posters and goofy
Speaker 5: pranks and things. I'm just thinking now, like for my kids,
Speaker 5: like when when I've taken them to Amoeba Records only
Speaker 5: a few handful of times because whatever, But I think
Speaker 5: that maybe that's what it's appealing about it too, is
Speaker 5: like it's like that kind of a place where it's like, whoa,
Speaker 5: look at that poster. I don't know if I am
Speaker 5: I supposed to see that image or like yeah, but
Speaker 5: uh yeah it's great, but that place is packed all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 1: I mean it, Yeah, my goodness.
Speaker 3: Gracious, well there's not many places like that in the
Speaker 3: country anymore. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's yeah, it's crazy,
Speaker 3: but it's great.
Speaker 2: We had stores like that in Cleveland growing up that
Speaker 2: had sort of had like obviously we had record stores,
Speaker 2: but we also had stores that had like stuff in
Speaker 2: it that you sort of like kind of like prank
Speaker 2: stuff and like whatever like stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing that my.
Speaker 2: Friends and I got so into, and this is what
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this earlier today that we thought
Speaker 2: was so crazy, but like we had to get like
Speaker 2: every time we saw this, we had to buy it.
Speaker 2: Where we got really into earrings where like the two
Speaker 2: the things on each earring was different, so it would
Speaker 2: be like a camera and film or like or like
Speaker 2: you know, like I'm trying that's the only example I
Speaker 2: can think of, because that's a real one that I
Speaker 2: remember we bought. But like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: like it would be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah together, like yeah, like a shoe.
Speaker 2: And a sock earring or like whatever. And I remember
Speaker 2: us being like this is crazy, Like I can't believe that,
Speaker 2: like these earrings don't match, but they go together, like
Speaker 2: and I remember us we were just to the point
Speaker 2: where we started sort of making our own, Like we
Speaker 2: would go to this crab store can dance and we
Speaker 2: would buy like little charms and like make our own
Speaker 2: earrings that didn't match. But to us, like that was
Speaker 2: the ultimate thing to buy. I was ear rings that
Speaker 2: didn't match. It was like that themed earrings was like
Speaker 2: what look at us, We're like such rebels, Like we
Speaker 2: don't arm. Earrings don't have to be the same, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's cool. That's a great feeling.
Speaker 2: It was a great feeling to just walk around and
Speaker 2: go like, yeah, sorry, my earrings are different. Get over it,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, Now I'm already ten feet past you and
Speaker 5: you're just realizing that you just saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the other thing that I just thought of that
Speaker 2: they would sell a lot at those kind of prank
Speaker 2: stores that we thought were so funny, and these were
Speaker 2: just an absolute ripoff that we didn't realize were Remember,
Speaker 2: they would sell little bottles of chill pills that were
Speaker 2: just candy. Did you ever buy those?
Speaker 1: I think I've seen them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were just like little They were like like
Speaker 2: basically like mic in X or something. I mean some
Speaker 2: generic form of those in them, yes, but on the
Speaker 2: bottle it said chill pill, chill pills, and so you
Speaker 2: would just take it, and they said on them like
Speaker 2: intended to like make you like chill out and whatever,
Speaker 2: like it was all a joke. But I remember us
Speaker 2: like thinking like, oh my god, this is so great.
Speaker 2: I have to spend like fifteen dollars on this or whatever,
Speaker 2: and then like pass these out at school.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, oh man, I love that. I mean,
Speaker 5: are there's what stores does that?
Speaker 1: Right? Now? What place would you get.
Speaker 5: It with that?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, I'm sure you could get them on Amazon,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like you could just like
Speaker 2: look up chill pills. But yeah, what it used to.
Speaker 1: Be OZ, but I don't know if OZ is open.
Speaker 3: There was like Spencer's Gifts. I don't know if those
Speaker 3: are still around.
Speaker 1: Bourbons.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's sort of where you would find like a
Speaker 5: toilet bowl, pencil sharpener, yeah, or something like that, or
Speaker 5: like yeah, pickle like chapstick that's a pickle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 5: I love I have such a soft spot for those shirts,
Speaker 5: you know, all those kinds. I love those shirts growing up,
Speaker 5: you know, just have funny sayings on them and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: to this day, I just have such a weakness for
Speaker 5: like or like it was always so envious of people
Speaker 5: that had like a really funny mug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like how do they get that?
Speaker 2: And like we got a mug I remember for our
Speaker 2: dad and it said like this mug. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember this, Jonge, It said, like this mug
Speaker 2: is for lefties because our dad's a lefty. I have
Speaker 2: like a hole in it, so.
Speaker 3: Like if hole in it, Yeah, if you drank something
Speaker 3: with your right hand, it would kind of spill all over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which seems like why would we buy that because
Speaker 2: it's like it feels like hazardous kind of like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, but I to avoid using that one.
Speaker 2: We thought that was really funny.
Speaker 5: And then a hole on the top part of it,
Speaker 5: you mean, so if you grab it from this side, it.
Speaker 2: Would spill on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then it's so mean because it's
Speaker 1: probably hot coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a maybe we didn't buy maybe someone, because.
Speaker 1: The other thing I remember, I remember us having it
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe someone bought it Fridad for his birthday because
Speaker 2: I remember remember we've talked about this on here before
Speaker 2: our dad through a fortieth birthday for our mom, which
Speaker 2: seems so young. Yeah, but I remember our babysitter telling
Speaker 2: us about it while they were at the party, and
Speaker 2: her being like, she didn't they didn't want you'd have
Speaker 2: to keep the secret, but it's going on right now,
Speaker 2: And I remember being like, this is fucked up, like ah,
Speaker 2: like so like I could have kept this secret, like
Speaker 2: they're out there having her fortieth birth party. I didn't
Speaker 2: know about it. But anyway, I say all that to say,
Speaker 2: I remember after that party there was so much stuff
Speaker 2: in our house about being over the hill.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I remember she had a candle or a
Speaker 3: card that said forty and then I had it crossed
Speaker 3: out and it said thirty nine forever. And I was
Speaker 3: so confused about it. I was like, no, you're forty,
Speaker 3: Like it's your birthday, this is cool. Why do you
Speaker 3: not want it to be your birth like because I'm
Speaker 3: my mom's thirty years older. So I was like nine
Speaker 3: and I could not at my head around why there
Speaker 3: was like all this negativity about it.
Speaker 1: I was like every year i'm older, it's like exciting.
Speaker 2: I remember there was a lot of stuff with like
Speaker 2: graveyards and on it, like a grave, like a like
Speaker 2: a tombstone, like a tombstone on the top of a
Speaker 2: hill that would like just pass the Hillmet's like, well
Speaker 2: you're officially over the hill. And I remember being like, what.
Speaker 1: This is so worse, It's so crazy. Yeah, thirties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like, so we have like so much
Speaker 2: like forty forty year old merch in our house.
Speaker 5: I love the idea that you guys had it all
Speaker 5: after that night, just around your house, just like all
Speaker 5: this weird.
Speaker 2: It was really weird.
Speaker 1: It do with it?
Speaker 3: Good question?
Speaker 2: I know, that's such a good question. Like I feel
Speaker 2: like when we go home and visit them, now, there
Speaker 2: isn't all this like we're thirty nine.
Speaker 1: I get rid of it. Yeah, there.
Speaker 2: Really no, there isn't like I don't know where.
Speaker 1: I don't know where.
Speaker 2: I don't know where it. I mean they might have
Speaker 2: been in the basement. I was them, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: let's get rid of this stuff.
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, well on your show.
Speaker 1: But when you go back.
Speaker 5: How much investigating do you do, like just kind of
Speaker 5: like archaeological digging. Yeah, do you do when you go home?
Speaker 5: And and and and is it tolerated or is.
Speaker 3: It's it's not only tolerated, it's it's was lightly encouraged.
Speaker 3: And now it's sort of like mandatory, Yeah, because we
Speaker 3: all do. Yeah, we have a lot of stuff in
Speaker 3: the basement, and there's some work that needs to be
Speaker 3: done in the basement, so they want to get us
Speaker 3: out of there, get it out of there, and it's
Speaker 3: very hard to go through. I have like all the
Speaker 3: CD I have all stuff I can't get rid of.
Speaker 3: But I also like don't really want to. I don't
Speaker 3: really space for my house or with it. So we're
Speaker 3: very songly encouraged. But yeah, then I'll go down and
Speaker 3: just start digging through a box and it'll like spend
Speaker 3: an hour looking at old like zines or something and
Speaker 3: not get anything done.
Speaker 5: So how do you and then how do you decide
Speaker 5: what you want to keep and not keep?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I usually just say I want to keep everything
Speaker 3: and just get rid of like there's some there was
Speaker 3: like some keyboard, there's some stuff. If I know I can,
Speaker 3: I'm never going to use it or it has no value.
Speaker 3: I'll just be like, we can get rid of this.
Speaker 3: But it's tough. It's not it's not easy. And the
Speaker 3: CDs are tough because, yeah, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: that music I can never find again, but I also
Speaker 3: don't really miss it, and I haven't had it for
Speaker 3: so long.
Speaker 1: I I here to I've never gotten rid of any
Speaker 1: of my CDs. Really, where do you keep your CDs?
Speaker 1: They're in storage.
Speaker 3: They're in storage.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, I We're at.
Speaker 5: My mom's house for a long time and then I
Speaker 5: got them out of there. And because I don't want
Speaker 5: to feel like, you know, I owe or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I know, you know. You know I'm
Speaker 1: keeping your CDs here, So least you could do is
Speaker 1: come over and right right, No, I get it, I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 5: I like just I like to be my own man
Speaker 5: with that. Yeah, my god, I'll keep my CDs myself.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I know what you mean. It's like, what
Speaker 5: are you supposed to do with so much of that stuff?
Speaker 5: And it makes you think about you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: it doesn't make you think about because I'm just thinking
Speaker 5: that now and I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's just like.
Speaker 5: As stuff as we get less and less as our
Speaker 5: lives become, you know, increasingly in the box of you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, like photos, are you.
Speaker 1: Know less still photos?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: What will you? What will kid?
Speaker 5: Like? Like, what will the basement be full of?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Now it's digital.
Speaker 2: Oh here's this is a great time for Joan to
Speaker 2: make a gen z joke he loves. Well, no, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I set you up?
Speaker 1: What a gen z? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, to feel like, check out my old hard drive
Speaker 3: or something, I'd be like, okay, yeah you're old, Like yeah.
Speaker 1: What did he chext the person? What's the text?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's interesting. And yeah, they're just
Speaker 3: having less physical media just because it's like what what
Speaker 3: do we own? Like if like you're streaming everything and
Speaker 3: then those sites go to business or something, and then
Speaker 3: what do you have?
Speaker 5: I don't know, like what will I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: think of, like what the there is like to hold
Speaker 5: on to when so much of it now is yeah
Speaker 5: it's rented or yeah or borrowed or streamed or yeah,
Speaker 5: any of these these objects.
Speaker 1: It's like what do you keep?
Speaker 5: Like and I I I it is fun to go
Speaker 5: I go to my mom's house all the time, and
Speaker 5: I like to look. You can't help but look through stuff.
Speaker 5: Sure you know it's fun. But she yeah, I think
Speaker 5: it makes her a little bit like, you know, don't
Speaker 5: go through everything, like what are you taking?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Because even though she probably doesn't know where, what, what
Speaker 5: everything is, I think that I love taking stuff from
Speaker 5: her house. I mean I'll say that now it I
Speaker 5: get made fun of for it by her. Like Jason
Speaker 5: comes over, I don't know what he leaves, but it's
Speaker 5: true that I will just like find like, oh, I'll
Speaker 5: take these photo albums, thank you very much, because I
Speaker 5: feel like I'm rescuing.
Speaker 1: Them in a way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I'll take these before anything happens. But the
Speaker 5: truth is that I'll lose stuff here too. But like
Speaker 5: I loved finding stuff and taking it. And my mom
Speaker 5: is the best because she loves buying arts and craft
Speaker 5: supplies online to have for all the grandkids around the
Speaker 5: house and it's just like the best. Like you go
Speaker 5: over there and there's just like glue and canvases and glitter,
Speaker 5: and so I just end up like taking like I
Speaker 5: have outside, I swear to God, Like she's like, do
Speaker 5: you want these like you know, like air drying play, Yeah,
Speaker 5: air dried clay, just like play.
Speaker 1: Do you want these boxes she gave me.
Speaker 5: I have like five giant chunks of clay just sitting up.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, but I love it. I love all
Speaker 1: these My mama.
Speaker 5: She has a weird we I think that she is
Speaker 5: somehow hacked into my because she has I will be
Speaker 5: interested in something or mention something, and then a version
Speaker 5: of it will arrive as a present to me. She
Speaker 5: likes to buy me presents through on on on Amazon,
Speaker 5: and I always know that from her because she puts
Speaker 5: a different name on them.
Speaker 1: Wow, like a nickname for me on them. So like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. But I have no no idea like
Speaker 1: how she knows or what's coming.
Speaker 5: Like I'll just go like packages and be like I'll
Speaker 5: open it and I'll be like but it'd be wonderful
Speaker 5: and there'll be things that I'm you know, But like,
Speaker 5: for instance, she's like plugged in a weird way where
Speaker 5: like I watched this, this, that that thing masterclass and
Speaker 5: I watched this one with this Ron Finley who's talked
Speaker 5: about gardening, and he talks about sugarcane and he's saying
Speaker 5: sugarcane is a great thing to have in your yards.
Speaker 1: Easy to grow and you could.
Speaker 5: Wow and anyway, it's just talking about sugar, and I
Speaker 5: kept thinking, I gotta get some sugar cane. I would
Speaker 5: like to buy sugar cane and plant it in my
Speaker 5: yard and just start growing. It grows quickly and then
Speaker 5: I could cut it and make things out of it
Speaker 5: with my kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The next day my mom, a box comes from my mom.
Speaker 5: It's just a giant cocoa bean.
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Is that with a raw? Giant to plant? Wow? And
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this?
Speaker 5: Because I just I thought you maybe want to coat
Speaker 5: a life plant like a cocoa bean and grow cocoa or.
Speaker 2: Something that that's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I thought that was really weirdged in
Speaker 5: it's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very weird.
Speaker 2: Did you also get sugarcane ever?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: I did, but I I ordered like I misordered, and
Speaker 5: I got like seeds, like so excited, like three more
Speaker 5: days until it comes. And I came to like this
Speaker 5: little bag can with like these little things and I've
Speaker 5: lost I mean they're in some pair of pants that
Speaker 5: I was wearing that day, I'm sure, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't what I was expecting.
Speaker 5: But I also don't know if I trust you know,
Speaker 5: if you type in like buy sugarcane.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, is that really sugarcane?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's weird, Like, yeah, it's weird. I feel like I
Speaker 5: got to look the person in the eye that I'm
Speaker 5: buying my shoes. Yeah, and go to a store and
Speaker 5: that makes sense. Yeah, that makes total sense anyway. But
Speaker 5: I will say one last thing too. It's just that
Speaker 5: one thing I will say is I do love ordering.
Speaker 5: You're talking about ordering stuff in I really did get
Speaker 5: into ordering. I do like like ordering art supplies.
Speaker 2: Oh I when you started saying the thing about Clay,
Speaker 2: I had this flashback to being a kid and we
Speaker 2: would get so many catalogs and one of them art supplies,
Speaker 2: and it was like you could order like Clay and
Speaker 2: like pastels and stuff. I just remember being like, I
Speaker 2: want to order everything in this catalog.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's it's honestly, it's it's wonderful and you can.
Speaker 5: I will often like get like like I'll go on
Speaker 5: app that you know you can get it, like you
Speaker 5: can order some stuff like people would order a meal.
Speaker 1: But I'll get like like.
Speaker 5: Art supplies, but like I'll get I'll like qua like
Speaker 5: to qualify for like the free livery. You know, I
Speaker 5: try to like get to like this spend seven more dollars.
Speaker 5: But what's so fun is like you can.
Speaker 1: See just seeing it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I love going to the store, but in
Speaker 5: a way it's almost kind of like more strange, Like
Speaker 5: I do it when I get If I get to
Speaker 5: like a town for work, I'm gonna be there for
Speaker 5: like three weeks. The first thing I'll do is like
Speaker 5: go on and look for like like a nearby art
Speaker 5: supply type place and just get tons of like paints
Speaker 5: and fake glass and beads and string, like just get
Speaker 5: it all and then try to figure out what we're going.
Speaker 1: To do with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 1: And I remember so fun. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I remember when we were doing the Polka king. You
Speaker 2: made me some you had market Oh yeah you were
Speaker 2: making and I was like going through my stuff and
Speaker 2: I found some of this stuff. Yes you had drawn
Speaker 2: and stuff, and yeah you were always like drawing and stuff.
Speaker 2: It was so fun.
Speaker 5: It's and it's not like to like make art, like
Speaker 5: I'm not interested in. It's just like fun because now
Speaker 5: you find that people like, you know, I really got
Speaker 5: into this thing of like because of not you know,
Speaker 5: when you're not meant to have your phone on on
Speaker 5: set or at least, yeah, and so always trying to
Speaker 5: find like, well, what is something that you can you know,
Speaker 5: And I found that like having I would get clay
Speaker 5: that kind of like non air drive, like clay that
Speaker 5: never drives, like sculpie. You get like a hunk of
Speaker 5: it and give it to all the actors and it's
Speaker 5: so neat because like you're just like look and all
Speaker 5: the actors like just talking and like making things nice.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's like a parallel play thing. Like I just
Speaker 5: feel like when you're doing these little activities or you
Speaker 5: start to just open up more and yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 5: it's kind of fun just to like just be making
Speaker 5: things with people and just to make each other laugh
Speaker 5: or like take playing like whatever. It is, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know, Yeah, it's really I'm sure this is
Speaker 5: where my wife would have stopped listening to this. It
Speaker 5: is pretty boring, but it's true she would be listening
Speaker 5: right now and if she is, well she still is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I said that a few seconds ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we're going to take a quick commercial break,
Speaker 2: but I bet she's going to keep listening until them
Speaker 2: right back with our friend Janse and Shortsmith.
Speaker 1: That's hot.
Speaker 2: And we're back. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: I love those commercials so good.
Speaker 2: We're going to play a really fun game with you
Speaker 2: right now, if you feel ready, Yeah, I am. Okay.
Speaker 2: This game is called change dot.
Speaker 1: Door change dot door otherwise.
Speaker 2: Notice, let's make fun of people who don't know how
Speaker 2: to use change dot org. And we're going to bring
Speaker 2: up three different petitions that people created unchanged dot org,
Speaker 2: and then at the end of it, we'll vote for
Speaker 2: which one we would sign if we had to sign one. Okay, okay, Jonah,
Speaker 2: do you want to take this first one?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: I can kick us off. This one is called have
Speaker 3: more Vegan and Vegetarian options for hot Lunch at balor mine?
Speaker 1: Prep and answer your question? Are these games that you
Speaker 1: would typically play? Like? Have you always played games? I
Speaker 1: was wondering this the other day, Like interesting, did you
Speaker 1: always play these games in some form or another to
Speaker 1: make yourselves lack growing up?
Speaker 5: Like I forget what episode it was, but you were
Speaker 5: like reading like from like a thing in your old
Speaker 5: yeah paper, like the old newspaper of like like you're
Speaker 5: onto something yeah.
Speaker 1: Or bored or snort or something.
Speaker 5: And and it was like, would you do that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff, like play games like in the car, like
Speaker 5: with found objects, like reading and finding things that already
Speaker 5: exist and then kind of playing it making up a
Speaker 5: game around them.
Speaker 2: I think we would make fun of stuff a lot,
Speaker 2: And particularly you're referencing Monday Moaning, which was this now
Speaker 2: defunked column in the Dealer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, on this grown legit moan or unces their grown Yeah,
Speaker 3: we a problem doing that game because we've done all
Speaker 3: of the ones we can.
Speaker 1: Find right right.
Speaker 2: When we were younger, we used to read that column
Speaker 2: and make fun of it. So that so that is
Speaker 2: inspired by something we would do. It's fun it, make
Speaker 2: fun fun with it, make fun with it because sometimes
Speaker 2: they have legitimate complaints, you know. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of the games that we play here are sort of
Speaker 2: us commenting on funny cultural things, and I think that
Speaker 2: is definitely rooted in our tex Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I could see myself being like I would
Speaker 3: go and change that organ like what pop tart petitions are.
Speaker 2: Also is like someone who will like write letters to
Speaker 2: companies if he either wants to become an ambassador, such
Speaker 2: as he is for Go Macro, or if.
Speaker 3: I was a while ago somehow the box. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: sent me like cases of that and that's this weird
Speaker 3: like them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then those are great, but they're expensive. They're expensive.
Speaker 2: If you're an ambassador.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't gotten anything from them in about four
Speaker 3: or five years, but I wasn't in this email list
Speaker 3: where when they had a new flavor, they'd be like,
Speaker 3: we got this new flavor. If you want a case,
Speaker 3: let me know and I would email them.
Speaker 5: But your feelings if you're in the market and you're
Speaker 5: like that one, it's kind of a shitty thing that
Speaker 5: the ambassador has to see it in public.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a little bitter sign.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Jonah, I feel like the change dot org,
Speaker 2: et cetera. The petition making also relates to when you've
Speaker 2: been unhappy with your customer excers.
Speaker 3: I let them know happy when I'm unhappy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I've noticed that. Uh, not to get too
Speaker 3: far off track.
Speaker 1: Here, corporation, how's it off track?
Speaker 3: I think they've gotten much less forgiving from their end.
Speaker 3: I feel like now they're much less apt to kind
Speaker 3: of give you stuff. I think they're a little more
Speaker 3: strict with stuff I've noticed recently. My go to move
Speaker 3: used to be like subscribing to things and then canceling
Speaker 3: after the first one to get the discount. And I
Speaker 3: tried to do that with something last week and they
Speaker 3: were like, if you cancel after before the second installment,
Speaker 3: will just charge you the difference. Like they're cracking down
Speaker 3: on this stuff, and they sort of yea, and yeah,
Speaker 3: and the subscription stuff is tough because they have your
Speaker 3: info and you forget about it and then yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Do you remember that seeing the movie.
Speaker 5: Summer School. Do you remember that movie Summer School? Mark
Speaker 5: Harmon and uh many actors and that. But in that movie,
Speaker 5: he's like a summer school. He's a teacher who has
Speaker 5: to stay at each Summer School is one of my
Speaker 5: favorite movies, and he teaches the kids how to write
Speaker 5: letters to their companies and get that complain and they
Speaker 5: each get like full freak glasses and stuff.
Speaker 2: And favorite movie.
Speaker 1: But yeah, don't have to check that. I'm going to
Speaker 1: watch it this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but wow, that's so cool that you write I've
Speaker 5: done that.
Speaker 1: It cool, it's amazing. I'm glad that you're impressed with that.
Speaker 1: I am impressed with it, I am you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm impressed with anyone who does anything after the moment
Speaker 5: is over right, you know what I'm saying, Like, yes,
Speaker 5: upset up, I'm una set about something. But now it's
Speaker 5: a day later or whatever, and I'm gonna keep looking
Speaker 5: up for the email address and I'm gonna write the thing.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get the address and I'm gonna sit and
Speaker 5: write this thing, a delayed thing.
Speaker 1: I love that. The passion of that is yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a passion, you know this.
Speaker 3: The secret is like not to get too attached to
Speaker 3: the outcome because it's like, you know, you're not necessarily
Speaker 3: going to get the response you want, so you can
Speaker 3: put it out there. But then I feel like you
Speaker 3: can't get too fixated on it or can just like
Speaker 3: take things over.
Speaker 5: Do you relate to when you see bad reviews of products?
Speaker 5: Do you go, I understand, I see my I understand
Speaker 5: that person's upset about and like when you get the
Speaker 5: product and you're upset about it and they write back
Speaker 5: something like we're very sorry. Do you do you change
Speaker 5: your feeling about the company or or like does it
Speaker 5: does it go? Yeah, that was nice of them to
Speaker 5: do that, Like, yeah, yes, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: And I've had a lot of experiences like that, And
Speaker 3: then I've had experiences like we tried to buy this
Speaker 3: electronic cat litter that cleaned itself and it was like,
Speaker 3: took me hours to get through the company. Nothing worked,
Speaker 3: I had to ship this thing back and forth and
Speaker 3: so that, and then after that, I was like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm just like never going to try to buy something
Speaker 3: from them again because it's just too So it goes
Speaker 3: both ways.
Speaker 1: But they tell them that I will never buy something
Speaker 1: from you again. No, maybe I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think I this was a long but there have
Speaker 3: been companies where I've said I'm never going to buy
Speaker 3: something from you, and then eventually it was on sale
Speaker 3: and I did buy right.
Speaker 1: So it's it's sometimes it's short lived. Okay.
Speaker 5: But my last question is, Vanessa, is that is that
Speaker 5: an affordable steamer to your left?
Speaker 7: You're right, Oh, that hose? What is that thing? Oh
Speaker 7: this is Oh it's a microphone. Oh it's a pop
Speaker 7: But you. But you do have a steamer, right, I have?
Speaker 1: Not only do I steamer farther away. It's weird.
Speaker 2: I know it looks it's it's actually behind it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, sorry.
Speaker 2: Not only do I have a couple of portable steamers,
Speaker 2: I have a full size steamer. I don't iron clothes.
Speaker 2: I just steam them. Really, and I find it to
Speaker 2: be you know that I'm not going to burn it.
Speaker 2: It's it's gentler, it's I love steamers. Yeah, I'm all
Speaker 2: in on the Steam game.
Speaker 1: Hell ya, who is it? Are people not into it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know people not into it?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just going you think I'm going to iron that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I don't even own an iron, believe it or not.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah irons. Yeah, that's not what we do anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's right, idiot. Why I'm gonna bring us back to
Speaker 5: this first petition? Okay, petition it's easy.
Speaker 3: You have more vegan and vegetarian options for hot lunch
Speaker 3: at bal Or mine prep. And this is a short
Speaker 3: one says recently, I've no s there not a whole
Speaker 3: lot of lunch options for student at Balor mind who that?
Speaker 3: Who are vegan or vegetarian most of the stuff all
Speaker 3: they can need for lunch if they want to buy
Speaker 3: it at school, or snacks like chips. Obviously, this is unhealthy.
Speaker 3: Getting a vegetarian vegan option for hot lunches at school
Speaker 3: make a huge difference. If this petition gets enough signatures,
Speaker 3: I hope the school will help to change the lunch
Speaker 3: options and make it easier for vegan and vegetarians to
Speaker 3: have lunch options at school. Jason, what do you think
Speaker 3: about adding more vegan and vegetarian options to this hot
Speaker 3: lunch at this school, this prep school?
Speaker 5: I think that's a great great And myself I am
Speaker 5: a vegetarian vegan. Yeah, but even if I wasn't, in
Speaker 5: a way, I think that the nutrition going back to
Speaker 5: craft service, it's just like the nutrition of.
Speaker 1: Kids and students. To be eating well and have good
Speaker 1: food that's healthy for you will also just make.
Speaker 5: Your learning better and yeah, just overall mental state and
Speaker 5: body feel better.
Speaker 1: And I think you, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 5: And I also think that just because you don't eat
Speaker 5: meat shouldn't make it where you can't have any nutrients
Speaker 5: at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are there not that hard to that hard? Are
Speaker 2: there vegan options at your kids' schools.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, great, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean I agree. I agree with Jason.
Speaker 2: I think this should be an option. We sort of
Speaker 2: picked it knowing that you were vegetarian vegan, you know,
Speaker 2: so we thought you it would be weird if you
Speaker 2: didn't land on that conclusion.
Speaker 1: But we don't know you surprise. I agree with this
Speaker 1: one too.
Speaker 3: I mean, we had like cheese, pizza, buttered noodles, that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, but not a lot of veggies.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we all do agree on this.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, Yes, I agree.
Speaker 2: Here's this next one. It's called move all major holidays
Speaker 2: to Fridays. This person writes, I propose that we move
Speaker 2: several major US holidays to Fridays instead of being on
Speaker 2: a particular date. Several holidays are already operate this day,
Speaker 2: such as Easter, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, and Father's Day being
Speaker 2: scheduled on Sundays, and many others on Mondays. Moving major
Speaker 2: holidays to Fridays will ease events, scheduling, and travel for
Speaker 2: a majority of Americans. Blah blah blah blah blah. Moving
Speaker 2: holidays is not unprecedented. We have moved Thanksgiving more than
Speaker 2: once to accommodate the shopping season for Christmas over the years. Okay,
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving is already based on a day of the week
Speaker 2: versus a particular date. However, Friday is a better fit
Speaker 2: for the holidays, so it should move one more time. Okay,
Speaker 2: So this is this person. This is this person's holiday proposals.
Speaker 2: Their holiday proposals are Valentine's Day, second Friday in February,
Speaker 2: Independence Day, first Friday in July, Halloween, last Friday in October,
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving third Friday, and Christmas Day last Friday in December.
Speaker 2: So I guess they're saying it just This person closes
Speaker 2: it up by saying, it is my sincere belief that
Speaker 2: any holiday that rises to the level of businesses closing
Speaker 2: or large groups of people gathering to celebrate should be
Speaker 2: scheduled on a Friday or Monday. If you agree with
Speaker 2: this idea, please help me spread the idea.
Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, Jason, what do you think I mean?
Speaker 5: I don't want to get in the way of I mean,
Speaker 5: more power to the person, but I think that it's asked.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit uh selfish to try to change
Speaker 5: everything just for your own uh to make it more scheduled. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it's like it's pretty like, uh like to
Speaker 5: just be like, let's change everything just to yeah, make
Speaker 5: it better.
Speaker 1: I think that's yeah, a change.
Speaker 5: And I also think that that it's that's what makes
Speaker 5: it fun when the holiday does line up to be
Speaker 5: on a Friday after the round of a year, You're like,
Speaker 5: it's on a Friday this year.
Speaker 1: If it was always on a Friday, then it would
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have that enjoyment.
Speaker 5: So I think it's worth I like the carousel aspect
Speaker 5: of it, and I think that, yeah, it's ridiculous to
Speaker 5: try to change a holiday to make it better for
Speaker 5: your travel for most Americans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and yeah, I agree with Jason. I think
Speaker 3: it's then everyone's traveling on Friday. You know, it's still
Speaker 3: going to be busy, you know, and I work, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of like a day job, and if holiday falls
Speaker 3: on the weekend, then we get Monday off, you know,
Speaker 3: so it all evens out. Yeah, And imagine the logistics
Speaker 3: if you're like, oh, Thanksgiving, No, thanks Giving not on
Speaker 3: Thursday more, it's on Friday.
Speaker 1: Like it to me, that's bizarre. But you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, it'd be really weird.
Speaker 5: Is like if let's just say, uh, they're just that
Speaker 5: that really did happen, that this petition, this did happen.
Speaker 5: And then in seventy years they were saying, do you remember,
Speaker 5: did you know there was a time before Thanksleaving Friday
Speaker 5: when Thanks Sleeping was actually on Thursday? Yeah, yes, it
Speaker 5: actually took someone wrote it, didn't you still always be
Speaker 5: on the third Friday of November? And neither was Valentine's too.
Speaker 5: They used to just be on different days of the week.
Speaker 5: You're kidding me, No, no, no, this is a new thing.
Speaker 5: It didn't used to be like that. So yeah, imagine
Speaker 5: that became like someone hearing about how didn't used to
Speaker 5: do Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well this has sixteen signatures and it's made out
Speaker 3: to the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, So.
Speaker 1: We see, how many do you need to get up there?
Speaker 1: How many? Well it's this one.
Speaker 2: I think it would take a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the goal here is twenty five. Once you get
Speaker 3: twenty five, it'll be one hundred. So but to really,
Speaker 3: I think you knew a lot, a lot. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: only six media attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I just want to say I
Speaker 2: agree with both of you. I think that this almost
Speaker 2: seems like it's some kind of CEO or something writing
Speaker 2: it because it's like Thanksgivings on a Friday. Then, like
Speaker 2: you know the cool thing that Thanksgiving is when it's
Speaker 2: on a Thursday. Yes, you generally get Friday to keep
Speaker 2: moving things closer and closer to the weekend, you get
Speaker 2: less and less time off. So I would say to
Speaker 2: this person, maybe focus your energies elsewhere.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, all right, I'll get into this last one.
Speaker 3: This one is called get Animal. The Muppet Animal on
Speaker 3: the cover of Modern Drummer magazine. Yes, okay, already on
Speaker 3: board in honor of Ronnie Verrell. Honor the man but
Speaker 3: behind Animal. Muppet drummer Ronald Ronnie Thomas Verrell passed away
Speaker 3: in two thousand and two. He was a drummer for
Speaker 3: the UK and I guess he performed on The Muppet
Speaker 3: Show and played drums for the show's manic puppet drummer Animal.
Speaker 3: When American drummer Buddy Rich, one of Verrel's harrows, guested
Speaker 3: on the show as Animal, had a drumming duel with
Speaker 3: Rich one after Animals smashed the snare drum over Rich's head.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I didn't realize actually Animal had this kind
Speaker 3: of actual, you know, pedigree, and they're saying put him
Speaker 3: on the cover of Modern Drummer. Jason, what do you
Speaker 3: think you're into this one? Well, you got you got
Speaker 3: some snares right there.
Speaker 1: Little Animal up right here. Yeah, I ordered these. Uh,
Speaker 1: I would say yes because.
Speaker 5: Animal is a great obviously a great drummer and man
Speaker 5: a great character by the way.
Speaker 1: I love his eyebrows, by the.
Speaker 5: Way, and and also and there's different animals, but like
Speaker 5: even like the Muppet Baby's Animal is really funny because
Speaker 5: his shirt is like really short, he has like really
Speaker 5: tight jeans, and his little belly sticks have.
Speaker 1: But I love Animal.
Speaker 5: Because he he's kind of like you like, if you
Speaker 5: watch him when he's watching other people, he's like looks
Speaker 5: like he's kind of smiling, like he's just wonderful. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's drumming is amazing. Apparently I don't know if this
Speaker 5: is true, but that it was like based on Keith Moon.
Speaker 5: Really I don't know, but I love Animal, and uh.
Speaker 1: And I think that he believed it or not.
Speaker 5: I bet you came to be and I bet you
Speaker 5: he was an influence on a lot of drummers. Yeah,
Speaker 5: in probably just as influential as other people who have
Speaker 5: been on the cover of Modern Drummer, Right, so why not,
Speaker 5: Like I think a lot of kids first like, uh,
Speaker 5: introduction to drumming, especially with such flair as Animal. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, and so I mean hell yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: the fact that he hasn't been is shocking to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree.
Speaker 3: I mean, we got I'm looking at this month, they
Speaker 3: got Mikey d from the Scorpions, which, yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 3: he's a great drummer. I think he might have been
Speaker 3: a motorhead. But but yeah, Animals should be on there.
Speaker 3: I think. I'm sure they have a lot of the
Speaker 3: progressive musicians. All these were the technical guys. There's a
Speaker 3: place for that. But I think you're right as far
Speaker 3: as influence, it's.
Speaker 1: That there hasn't ever been one that would.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I even not to get not to
Speaker 5: look back, but like even just as a promotional thing
Speaker 5: for those movies, I can't believe they didn't, Yeah, get
Speaker 5: some more of the drumming demographic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like a missed opportunity for modern drummers.
Speaker 3: What do you think I agree.
Speaker 2: I agree. I mean this is probably one of the
Speaker 2: drummers that I'm most familiar with. Ye, so I would
Speaker 2: say for sure, I think you know, I love, I love,
Speaker 2: And also, you know, we're big Muppet Babies fans over here.
Speaker 2: We watched a lot growing up, and yes, yeah, I
Speaker 2: love that little Muppet Babies animal so cute.
Speaker 5: Don't you love that Muppet baby? You know, because I
Speaker 5: spent a lot of time with the different babies. And
Speaker 5: there's a new Muppet Babies.
Speaker 2: You know, Oh, we're aware. We did a whole episode
Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, right, and they have like a their
Speaker 2: song is like updated.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And Jenny Slade is the voice of the
Speaker 5: she's the grandma or the Renna.
Speaker 2: We did know that.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, that's incredible. But I love I'm really interested.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of fascinated by it because the Kermit the
Speaker 5: Frog that's on it, it's a different feeling Kermit the
Speaker 5: Frog to me, And I'm curious, like when you're doing
Speaker 5: like a prequel, like because it leads into like Kermit
Speaker 5: from the Muppet Show is like very much kind of
Speaker 5: like trying to keep this show together, right right, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's very much But then this one is a
Speaker 5: bit more like kind of like you know, he's he's
Speaker 5: nervous in a way like well, I don't want to
Speaker 5: like he's more you know, it's just like oh what
Speaker 5: if what the lights don't come on?
Speaker 1: Well then what am I gonna do?
Speaker 5: Like you know, it's like a little bit more nervous
Speaker 5: and and like I'm you know, I'm sorry, like I
Speaker 5: shouldn't have given up to you.
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do now? Like and I'm like
Speaker 1: so like you know, he's like animal, you know, but
Speaker 1: like but it's yeah.
Speaker 5: I actually my daughter, my little daughter Una was like
Speaker 5: obsessed with the Muppet baby's and we have Kermit Muppet Baby,
Speaker 5: and we had the Muppet Baby Kermit doll, and we'd
Speaker 5: go on walks and she would want me to talk
Speaker 5: as you do Kermit. Yeah, and so I would go
Speaker 5: around and but to give a tour of my neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Like I don't know how we fell into this thing,
Speaker 5: but like I would give a tour of my neighborhood
Speaker 5: as Kermit. I was like, oh that just when I
Speaker 5: went to school. But it was that would be like
Speaker 5: be like that little pond. There was a tadpole man,
Speaker 5: there was my friend, like Laurio is like it would
Speaker 5: always be about like reptile or like little other frogs
Speaker 5: and you know what I mean, like and and it
Speaker 5: was highly like my voice be so trashed at the
Speaker 5: end of some of these walks, like I was like,
Speaker 5: I cannot keep doing this voice anymore.
Speaker 1: And then why they she just stopped linking Kermit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well you do a very good impression in Jonah,
Speaker 2: do you want to do your current I.
Speaker 3: Have the opposite issue of I have a Kermit impression,
Speaker 3: and my wife hates it so much that whenever I do,
Speaker 3: she's like, please stop and get away from me.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, can I hear it? Yeah? One here. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's more just like, hey everyone, I'm Kermit the Frog.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's great. Yeah, yeah, thank you. But yeah, but
Speaker 3: I start to do it, or I'll do like we'll
Speaker 3: hear a song, I'll be like, what if my impression
Speaker 3: of Kermit Frog doing an impression of Billy Corgan singing.
Speaker 1: That song and it's yes, you know my rage, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: I am still just an animal and can you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah tonight, But like, oh this army was a
Speaker 4: smile okay, but but uh the uh.
Speaker 5: But what I was gonna say is, well, then my
Speaker 5: wife started to do it when I would go out
Speaker 5: of town. I was kind of giving her like the Cliffstones,
Speaker 5: like when you do it, this what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 5: And then there it became this time when like my
Speaker 5: daughter started like my wife's kermit more than mine, okay,
Speaker 5: became a bit and then sometimes like we're both trying
Speaker 5: to get our kids attention, and we're both talking to
Speaker 5: each other as permit, like do you like and we
Speaker 5: would not I don't know why we would be like
Speaker 5: we would continue having like an adult conversation like.
Speaker 1: Have you seen my shoes? I don't know where the
Speaker 1: held you put them?
Speaker 4: I thought I put them out of the fucking bed,
Speaker 4: like shit, oh Jesus, oh no, when I'm swearing like
Speaker 4: an asshole again, where are you sure?
Speaker 1: Why do you have to ask me all the questions
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 5: I don't know where you put your shoes, jeez, man, Like,
Speaker 5: but they're always mupp at baby kermit.
Speaker 1: It's never the other one is like mister Eldon John,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean, Like it's not like that one.
Speaker 1: It's it's the other one. But it's the latter.
Speaker 2: Wait, I kind of want to try and do it.
Speaker 5: Well it's the other yeah, go ahead, no, go ahead,
Speaker 5: well no, no, no, I'll just say one for a
Speaker 5: fun thing that was real. I had this amazing not
Speaker 5: that amazing, but so are old, many many moons ago.
Speaker 5: The car that we had had a DVD player in it. Ironically,
Speaker 5: the only DVD player it was in our lives was
Speaker 5: in our fan and but I had all my Muppet
Speaker 5: DVDs Muppets, so what I would drive around and they
Speaker 5: would watch Muppet Show, my kids, And it's interesting to
Speaker 5: listen to.
Speaker 1: The Muppet Show as opposed to watching it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And what I thought was what I what I
Speaker 5: took from it was that there's really so little you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Only a handful of people doing the voices.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's really such a there's not that much of
Speaker 5: a difference between like ms Piggy and and and you
Speaker 5: know and Fozzy better. But yeah, it feels like there
Speaker 5: is when you're watching it, because there's such distinct characters.
Speaker 5: They're so different. And but when you're driving, you're like
Speaker 5: and you you know, you'd think like when someone's like
Speaker 5: even any parent like reading a book to their kids,
Speaker 5: like they go like, oh, why can't I be able
Speaker 5: to think of It's like I've been evil, like your voice,
Speaker 5: you go to these different extremes as a character for characters,
Speaker 5: you know, it's like I'm the evil doctor of the thing.
Speaker 5: Like but like, really, when you're listening to these different characters,
Speaker 5: they're not very different vocally, they're just nuanced enough and
Speaker 5: letting the puppet the puppetry and the the look of
Speaker 5: the puppets and do so much of the word too,
Speaker 5: And it was such a fascinating like it's like, wow,
Speaker 5: it's very it's just a little, one little thing that's
Speaker 5: different about these and they're totally different characters and you
Speaker 5: don't have to do much if you can find that thing,
Speaker 5: you know, or I guess that's the genius of what
Speaker 5: they were all doing. But it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 5: like Miss Piggy is just like I don't know, you know, she.
Speaker 1: Gets so angry. I love it she gets so angry.
Speaker 3: She gets angry. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5: Yes, she gets still in that And I love I
Speaker 5: love I've really come to love like Rover because I
Speaker 5: realized he is a thing where he doesn't use any
Speaker 5: contractions in his grammar. That's like I think. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm not positive, but like I think he's like you
Speaker 5: is like.
Speaker 1: There will not be anymore of this.
Speaker 2: Because I cannot go here.
Speaker 8: I am like they are there, like there's no couldn't
Speaker 8: like right, this could not be any more worse.
Speaker 1: He doesn't use any contractions. Oh god, I love it
Speaker 1: these guys. I love his sons of bitches.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, wait, let me try. If you wait, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do Kermit.
Speaker 1: Do it?
Speaker 2: If you had to be yes, pick one of these petitions.
Speaker 1: You're there one.
Speaker 2: Of these petitions to sign. I'm really bad at it,
Speaker 2: tried before.
Speaker 5: But I've seen a lot of people try it, and
Speaker 5: for for that's that's really good for a first, You're
Speaker 5: you're so close.
Speaker 1: You are so close because you have it inside you.
Speaker 9: I guess you had to sign one of these petitions.
Speaker 2: Which one would you sign?
Speaker 1: Well? Are you you want to do Kermit from the show?
Speaker 1: The kids Show?
Speaker 2: I'm not I'll take either. I don't think I'm covering either.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe yeah, I said one thing. I think it's
Speaker 5: like sometimes that's really kind of fastic that like if
Speaker 5: you if you have I'm sorry, like if you have
Speaker 5: a sign right, like would you if you had to
Speaker 5: sign one of these petitions.
Speaker 2: These petitions, which one maybe be better at Miss Piggy, right,
Speaker 2: he says a lot.
Speaker 1: She's the best, She's the best. But wait, your kermit
Speaker 1: was keep going.
Speaker 9: Okay, wait, I I will review with the three petitions
Speaker 9: and can pick one which you would sign. Yes, have
Speaker 9: more vegan and vegetarian options for hot lunch at beller
Speaker 9: Mine prop move all major holidays to Fridays, or get
Speaker 9: animal on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine.
Speaker 2: It's a freaking bad no.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: If you did have to choose one of these, which
Speaker 2: would you choose? It's hard to choose, isn't it. You
Speaker 2: can sign more than.
Speaker 5: One, well, I would sign. I think ultimately i'd sign
Speaker 5: for the vegetarian vegan because you know, I think the
Speaker 5: nutrition is a big, huge heating But the one I realized,
Speaker 5: the one I love my passion project would be to
Speaker 5: be working on the animal thing Animal because it seems
Speaker 5: like such a no brainer.
Speaker 1: It seems like such.
Speaker 5: A missh Yeah, yeah, it seems insane. I believe you'd
Speaker 5: be the biggest selling issue they've ever had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was easy.
Speaker 2: Just for listeners who don't know Jason has a button,
Speaker 2: an easy button from Is it from Target? That's right,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Kermit get Animal on the
Speaker 3: cover of Modern Drummer magazine and honor of Ronnie Verrell. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's I'm signing this one for sure. About you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the I'm kind of with j Yeah,
Speaker 2: the vegan and vegetarian options obviously I would sign that's imported. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree, but also the animal one based on, you know,
Speaker 2: our love for icon animal iconic, animal iconic. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I think we're both good with both of those. The
Speaker 2: Friday one's the only one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Friday one is is tough. That's a complicated tough.
Speaker 5: The Friday one is a real I hate to make
Speaker 5: the person feel terrible. Yeah, but I think the longer
Speaker 5: I think you should, you're going to enjoy the holidays
Speaker 5: more if you stop fighting them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a big Yeah, it's a lot of
Speaker 3: energy of like make the world fit the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would say let go and just yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: would just say let it happen.
Speaker 1: That's what's fun about the holiday. I suppose yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I picture this person goes to a restaurant, they order
Speaker 3: and like five minutes later they're like, where's the food?
Speaker 3: I have to be somewhere later. Well, everyone doesn't work
Speaker 3: around your schedule. Maybe have come sooner, maybe understand.
Speaker 5: It's exactly what about you? Yeah, sorry, Vanessa, what about you?
Speaker 2: No, I think I answered already and I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I said I would pick the I would pick the vegetarian,
Speaker 2: vegan food at school and also the animal and the
Speaker 2: I know, for our listeners, I know that's bad. I
Speaker 2: know I don't do it good. I know I do
Speaker 2: other good impression six to your good ones, Vanessa. But
Speaker 2: the point is you have to experiment that stuff and
Speaker 2: ASTs how you get better.
Speaker 5: You do such incredible stuff I love. One of my
Speaker 5: favorite things of the one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 5: my day, if if, if the day allows it is
Speaker 5: to get in bed with my with my thirteen year
Speaker 5: old at the end of the day and I show
Speaker 5: her different SNL sketches. Oh and you're Miley said, I
Speaker 5: mean she the tears of joy coming down her face
Speaker 5: is just the great, Like it's just like that's it's
Speaker 5: the great and it's so good and it's like just just.
Speaker 1: You know, I love watching just sing like what now
Speaker 1: this is just funny like theirs it was funny then
Speaker 1: and now look it's happening on this screen. It's shoot
Speaker 1: through the air.
Speaker 5: And my daughter, who's like says going like is like
Speaker 5: in bed and it's like and it's doing the thing too,
Speaker 5: that's so great, which is like.
Speaker 1: Really saying tension of the day before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. Nice and it's
Speaker 2: the best. It's the best. I also just that's really nice.
Speaker 2: I also love how she talks. And I noticed I
Speaker 2: was doing this yesterday. When I see her on something,
Speaker 2: I do it back to the like screen sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like she was doing something yesterday she's.
Speaker 6: Like, thank you all so much for voting for flowers
Speaker 6: for uh for my like it's it's so cool to
Speaker 6: be here and everybody voted for me for flowers for
Speaker 6: the British like something of words I don't remember, and
Speaker 6: she was like, she's like, it means so much to
Speaker 6: me that like y'all like like the song so much
Speaker 6: and I think it's really cool, like and she probably
Speaker 6: didn't say it's really cool. That's probably my own thing,
Speaker 6: but I just let she has the most unique speech pattern,
Speaker 6: and I love it so much.
Speaker 1: I could like to listen to all that.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I just impersonate it back, okay, Like I just
Speaker 2: say the same thing back to see, like if I
Speaker 2: can do it, I do it with There's certain Real
Speaker 2: Housewives I do impressions of two, which which I started
Speaker 2: doing post SNL. So I'm really doing these ones to
Speaker 2: the TV screen and the few times that I go
Speaker 2: and watch what happens live. But but like I will
Speaker 2: say it back to them because I'm trying to see
Speaker 2: if I can do the thing. It's honestly, if I
Speaker 2: did that with Kermit, I'd probably get a lot better
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you are great at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could definitely do it.
Speaker 2: Thank you well, Jason, speaking of seeing of great, it
Speaker 2: was great having you on the podcast today and we
Speaker 2: had so much fun with you, and thank you for
Speaker 2: doing it. And where can people find you? I know
Speaker 2: there is pretty easy, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just going to say in Studio City. But
Speaker 5: people can find me, Like what does that mean?
Speaker 1: It's anything promote.
Speaker 3: You're probably not big on social media. I don't get
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, but I'm not and I'm not like against it.
Speaker 5: I just don't really know how to do it. But
Speaker 5: any projects I have, no I've done, I'm coming out.
Speaker 1: I guess this summer.
Speaker 5: I have a film coming out called Between the Temples,
Speaker 5: which I which I think is really good and I
Speaker 5: hope people go see.
Speaker 1: It's really fun.
Speaker 5: I got to do work on it with Carol Caine wow.
Speaker 5: And Robert Smigel, Oh my god. And I got to
Speaker 5: just sit and talk to Robert Smike. I mean that
Speaker 5: was like amazing. It was like amazing. Yeah, so what
Speaker 5: a brilliant person. Yeah yeah, so yeah, that that's the
Speaker 5: I think the most next thing that's coming out. And
Speaker 5: then in the meantime, I'm just going to try to
Speaker 5: write some music and organize things and try to find
Speaker 5: another job because it's hard to find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to come by.
Speaker 2: But it seems like you're doing pretty good, pretty well
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when that and that, when that movie comes out,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll be able to catch you on some doing
Speaker 2: some press, doing some interviews.
Speaker 1: Well I'm doing it here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, that's coming here.
Speaker 1: This is where I'm coming off the cycle. Perfect cycles
Speaker 1: kicked off and we're honored.
Speaker 5: Would that be called part two or would that be
Speaker 5: just number another one, like would that be called our
Speaker 5: interview Part two or is it just no part two?
Speaker 5: Is if it was one thing split.
Speaker 3: And one thing? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, but we can re air this. You could
Speaker 5: split this one. We could split this one and then
Speaker 5: play that one later. We could replay it.
Speaker 1: We figured out that split could conversation over the course
Speaker 1: of a year. And just like hear, how weird, like
Speaker 1: how many things change?
Speaker 5: Like gosh, I can't believe he says that something like
Speaker 5: that so sensitive considering all that's happened from the world.
Speaker 1: It hadn't happened yet eight months ago, right, Or you
Speaker 1: could just come back on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, we'd have you back anytime, and you could say, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'll happen.
Speaker 1: I'll come up with that nostalgic thing.
Speaker 2: This was perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is perfect, Jason. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on. You guys are the best. You guys are
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being here, and to our listeners who
Speaker 2: enjoyed that, please subscribe the podcast and keeping it for
Speaker 2: next week's episode, please of how do we get where?
Speaker 2: We will discuss more stories from our childhood and cultural touchdowns.
Speaker 1: A w W exactly right.
Speaker 2: You want to press that easy button one more time,
Speaker 2: just to it was easy.
Speaker 5: Four