Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyer and this is my brother Jonah.
Speaker 2: We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood
Speaker 2: and nostalgia and how it shape us into the people
Speaker 2: we are today.
Speaker 3: Who are so excited for today's guests that we couldn't
Speaker 3: take a nap if we tried.
Speaker 4: Welcome to how did we get weird?
Speaker 3: Jonah, I know we're both very excited for our guests today,
Speaker 3: and in honor of him, since he is a stand
Speaker 3: up comedian, I thought we could talk about the time
Speaker 3: that you did stand up once.
Speaker 2: I did do it once. Yeah, I've seen you do
Speaker 2: stand up many times over the years. I did it once.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They had us some kind of stand up night at
Speaker 2: Saint Vitas, and I had some friends who are doing it.
Speaker 3: Do we want to explain for the audience what Saint
Speaker 3: Vitas is. It's not generally a stand up club.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sure, no, kle have you you performed there?
Speaker 2: You seem like the kind of guy that would have performed.
Speaker 2: I did perform at Saint Vitas. I think my friend
Speaker 2: dan Ozzy, I think may have helped set up that show.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is a dan Ozzie friendly group. We love
Speaker 3: Dan Azzie.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, all right, yeah, yes, yes, shout out to Dan.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know if Dan was there, but
Speaker 2: Brendan from the band Incendiary was doing stand up comedy
Speaker 2: and he kind of I don't know he was involved.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. Anyways, I ended up doing it. Vanessa
Speaker 2: ended up coming. There weren't a ton of people there,
Speaker 2: but I felt like it was a good crowd. It
Speaker 2: was a good crowd, and I wanted to maybe tell
Speaker 2: a couple of my jokes really quick in front of
Speaker 2: two professional comedians.
Speaker 5: I would love it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny, is I didn't. I resisted
Speaker 2: doing this for so long because I was like, maybe
Speaker 2: if I come up with a special one day, I
Speaker 2: won't want to use the jokes on the podcast.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm forty four. I've only done comedy once.
Speaker 2: It was like ten years ago, so I think it's
Speaker 2: probably safe. But these this is the biggest audience all
Speaker 2: of it, So.
Speaker 3: This might be we might get so much feedback from
Speaker 3: the audience that they love these jokes so much it
Speaker 3: might propel you to do a special.
Speaker 6: What if Netflix sees this and they're like, give him
Speaker 6: an hour. But you can't use those jokes because we
Speaker 6: heard them all. Yeah, now that was that was the
Speaker 6: cream of the crop right there.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm kind nervous about. But we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2: They're kind of music related, cause so I think these
Speaker 2: might be up here.
Speaker 5: I haven't been. I just love where it.
Speaker 6: I just love wearing a world like, yeah, the guy
Speaker 6: from the band in send the area was doing some standard.
Speaker 5: Yes, so I'll tell three jokes. He's the only three
Speaker 5: I remember.
Speaker 2: Okay, So my first joke, one of them was I
Speaker 2: was like, so it was in the studio recording with
Speaker 2: my band recently. But now, so you probably don't know
Speaker 2: what a click track is. A click track, it's something
Speaker 2: that bands sometimes record with. It's like a metronome in
Speaker 2: your ear. So you played to time, okay, okay. And
Speaker 2: so we were talking about in the studio and they
Speaker 2: had an egg shaker, like a shaker shape like an
Speaker 2: egg kind of a percussion instrument, and I was we're
Speaker 2: talking about using a click track. I was like, or
Speaker 2: we could use this egg shaker and use a cluck track. Okay, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's funny.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of laughs on that one, but they
Speaker 4: get better musical comedy.
Speaker 3: This is Fred Armison's big thing too, write that he
Speaker 3: does comedy for your musicians.
Speaker 1: It's, you know, kind of insidery.
Speaker 5: It's it's my wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, let's say how the next one lands? Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is These are all true stories too. I was
Speaker 2: also recording during the session. Were recording at some guy's house.
Speaker 2: It was a converted house into a studio and I
Speaker 2: was playing guitar in the bathroom and I was playing
Speaker 2: I was trying to get my guitar tone, and then
Speaker 2: I stepped into the shower. I was like, all, I
Speaker 2: could stand here if you guys want a cleaner tone.
Speaker 5: Yes, I feel like these were received well in the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they've all got quite a bit of lead.
Speaker 1: Up to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Okay, this last one I think is my
Speaker 2: best joke, but it has even more lead up, so
Speaker 2: maybe the most disappointing.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: We were talking to someone and they were saying how
Speaker 2: this person they knew had all this money because their
Speaker 2: dad invented the orange netting they use like oranges and
Speaker 2: nectarines at the grocery store. And I guess he licensed
Speaker 2: this technology to construction companies. They used them with cranes
Speaker 2: or something, and so his dad had figured this out
Speaker 2: and that's why this person is so much money as kid.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, wow, so it sounds
Speaker 2: like they have a sit trust fund.
Speaker 5: Yes, I thought you were going to go with a
Speaker 5: net worth. Oh yeah, that would have been good to
Speaker 5: you could do them both, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you're open, if you're open to punch up,
Speaker 6: you know, I don't want to just go give a
Speaker 6: notes right away.
Speaker 5: I just mentioned well, I.
Speaker 2: Was actually expecting a maybe one laugh from one of
Speaker 2: you at.
Speaker 5: The one.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was la, I was sort of it's sort of
Speaker 2: like you have crafted your lives around this art form
Speaker 2: and then it's like someone doing a really bad job
Speaker 2: of it and being like, why do you guys think
Speaker 2: I'm great at this?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not as good at stand up as Kyle.
Speaker 3: I'm not nearly the stand up that Kyle is, but
Speaker 3: I feel I have a sense for comedy.
Speaker 1: And I well, I was here and there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 5: I'll take it like track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to ask Kyle. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think of Kyle you're really a pro at this. Do
Speaker 3: you have any other punch ups for trying to think of?
Speaker 3: With the second?
Speaker 6: I think if we're going with play on words, cluck
Speaker 6: track something that foul something you know? Yeah, sorry, that
Speaker 6: was a pretty foul joke. See, and then you get
Speaker 6: on when you keep get irritating people, you can bully
Speaker 6: them into relenting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if that's what you
Speaker 6: want to go for, if you really want to.
Speaker 3: Well, another move that I do that's kind of related
Speaker 3: to what you're saying, Kyle, is whether any kind of
Speaker 3: form of stand up or any kind of comedy I'm
Speaker 3: doing live. I find that if you just stare at
Speaker 3: the audience for a long time kind of to your point,
Speaker 3: they will eventually laugh, just out of discomfort sort of.
Speaker 6: But if you have the fortitude to just, yes, let
Speaker 6: a room of people be uncomfortable with your own presence, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that's yeah, it's pretty sure fire away to handle things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably my number one comedy skill.
Speaker 5: Or you get a bottle thrown at you sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty fifty.
Speaker 2: Let's give a proper intro in case you haven't figured
Speaker 2: it out yet. Our guest today is comedian. He's also
Speaker 2: a punk rock enthusiasts such as myself, and his latest special,
Speaker 2: Dirt Nap is available.
Speaker 5: Now you may have already guessed it. It's Kyle Kanane. Hey, Kyle, Hey,
Speaker 5: all right, here we go.
Speaker 4: Let's forget that first part ever happened?
Speaker 5: Maybe no way. I think it was a great way
Speaker 5: to start it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just proves to Kyle that everybody here has chops.
Speaker 1: Yes, has comedy chops.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're in the same wheelhouse.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I actually did for Dan Ozzie.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Dan Ozzie when he was at Noisy, I
Speaker 2: had a column called Up the Puns where I just
Speaker 2: did like musical puns.
Speaker 6: This is all coming together now, the scope is opening.
Speaker 6: I see the whole picture now.
Speaker 3: So yeah, picture, this is really there's a lot of
Speaker 3: crossover between you two. I think there really is. Man
Speaker 3: As you alone, that's you know, that's been a friend
Speaker 3: of Jonas for years.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Dan had me a Jewish show way back. He was
Speaker 6: He's like, do you under stand up on this show
Speaker 6: I'm putting together. I know him when he was a
Speaker 6: jaded punk hulk. Yes, back when remember when Twitter was
Speaker 6: moderately fun. He was back in those days when people
Speaker 6: made jokes. Was that kind of thing? And he was
Speaker 6: he put on a show with the was Brendan Kelly
Speaker 6: and all friends? I knew, I knew Brendan. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: didn't know, but so I did stand up on the
Speaker 6: on the Acoustic punk Rock Show because a lot of
Speaker 6: punk rock guys play acoustic now because it's hard to
Speaker 6: get band members with kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or did you know that?
Speaker 1: You guys, you guys probably know so many of the
Speaker 1: same people.
Speaker 5: We might Vanessa, We'll talk to you later anyway, Jon
Speaker 5: want to just start going to shows? What was your favorite?
Speaker 2: Well, that's actually you know, it's funny because you know
Speaker 2: you grew up in Addison, Illinois?
Speaker 5: Is that is that true? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And so what?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Were you going to shows as a kid in Chicago
Speaker 2: or where were you?
Speaker 3: I asked where is Addison in relation to Chicago? Because
Speaker 3: I lived in Chicago for several years and I feel
Speaker 3: like Addison's.
Speaker 5: That it is not a destination for anybody. It is.
Speaker 5: It is where you park families, if you work at
Speaker 5: the airport.
Speaker 6: Uh, gotcha, Okay. It's like if you took Lake Street
Speaker 6: twenty miles.
Speaker 1: Straight, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 6: Elmhurst is the tony suburb. May have found yourself an
Speaker 6: Elmhurst to go to the maybe perhaps the the Museum
Speaker 6: of Lapidary Art.
Speaker 5: Wow, got it? And the polished rocks as.
Speaker 6: Don't got that though we don't have a part.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 6: I was going to, like, you know, all the All
Speaker 6: Ages shows. I was going to Fireside in Metro and yep,
Speaker 6: you know, pretty much wherever they were having shows.
Speaker 5: So I loved it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, first, that was one of the things I That
Speaker 6: was one of the things I submitted for Nostalgia.
Speaker 4: I know, I know that Or were you.
Speaker 6: So nuanced into like mentioning it and I just blew
Speaker 6: the cover?
Speaker 2: No, no, you know what it's like. I'm trying not
Speaker 2: to turn this into like a punk rock podcast. I mean,
Speaker 2: I want I like talking about we just said on
Speaker 2: Brian Baker and so we're talking about all this stuff
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about music a lot, which I.
Speaker 4: But turning it into turned out a punk and I'm trying.
Speaker 3: To actually speaking of the crossover between music and comedy.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to the empty bottle? Because I've
Speaker 3: got a pretty great empty bottle joke.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, now, see this is just boy, let's
Speaker 5: just do this every week.
Speaker 1: Okay, get ready?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Jonah was in this kind of punk band that was
Speaker 3: playing at the Empty Bottle once when I was living
Speaker 3: in Chicago, and I opened for the band, doing kind
Speaker 3: of I would say. I would say it was like,
Speaker 3: not to flatter myself, it wasn't as good as this,
Speaker 3: but it was kind of Neil Hamburg esque stand up,
Speaker 3: not my standard stuff.
Speaker 5: He stared at the audience until they laughed.
Speaker 3: Exactly staring at the audience and kind of this audience
Speaker 3: that was really ready to rage. And I thought, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you guys a bunch of dumb
Speaker 3: jokes first before you can. And I think I led
Speaker 3: off with empty bottle more like empty club.
Speaker 5: There weren't a lot of people there. I get that.
Speaker 5: That's why it worked. Yeah, Yeah, that's why the joke.
Speaker 3: That's why it worked. That's why I worked. Do you
Speaker 3: remember any of my other jokes, specifically from the Empty Bottle.
Speaker 3: I don't really remember any of the other ones.
Speaker 2: I just remember about how like people need to get
Speaker 2: to bed early so they can like collect unemployment or something.
Speaker 3: Right, there was a lot of insults to the audience,
Speaker 3: about them collecting.
Speaker 6: On Oh I love I love doing stand up for
Speaker 6: punk rock people that aren't necessarily on board, because like that,
Speaker 6: the most punk rock thing is laughing at yourself. Like
Speaker 6: nothing says I don't care about the world by spending
Speaker 6: three hours on your mohawk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 6: Nothing says I don't give a shit. Like that craft
Speaker 6: Project jacket you're wearing.
Speaker 5: Clearly you've ever.
Speaker 3: Gotten I've never gotten booed more than when I've opened
Speaker 3: for Jonahs bands.
Speaker 1: It's particularly in Chicago.
Speaker 5: I know. I'm trying to wonder if I was at
Speaker 5: any of these shows.
Speaker 2: Well, Ky, like what kind of stuff were you into
Speaker 2: comedy as a kid, or like what kind of stuff
Speaker 2: were you into kind of when you were growing up.
Speaker 5: I realized this.
Speaker 6: That my sister and I we got we got cable
Speaker 6: at a very early age, like all the channels at
Speaker 6: like just deck, go for it. What do you want
Speaker 6: to watch Friday thirteenth, get it, get in there, Wow,
Speaker 6: go lock yourselves in the basement at night.
Speaker 5: Go nuts.
Speaker 6: So I saw all the scary movies and all the
Speaker 6: comedy that I didn't I wasn't conscious of it, but
Speaker 6: we were like really gravitated towards all the like black
Speaker 6: comedians that were on. So my sister and I were
Speaker 6: just doing a lot of like Sindbad and Tommy Davidson bits, yeah,
Speaker 6: back and forth, just to like just a five and
Speaker 6: a seven year old talking about how black guys aren't
Speaker 6: scared of Freddy Krueger, just.
Speaker 5: Doing they were just to make car like.
Speaker 6: That was the funniest thing we've ever seen, was Tommy
Speaker 6: Davidson talking about Freddy Krueger. So we would just do
Speaker 6: that or Sindbad, I mean Sinbad, Sindbad going to McDonald's.
Speaker 6: Still that's still classic. I still love that. That's still
Speaker 6: funny to me. So, yeah, we that was like the
Speaker 6: comedy we wound up watching. I never watched, Oh I
Speaker 6: feel bad.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I never was out. I was always out on Saturday night.
Speaker 6: So I never watched Saraiy Live. Grown up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So all the all.
Speaker 6: The kids that would like on Monday mornings were talking
Speaker 6: about Sarahn Live, and we were always out just being
Speaker 6: neighborhood Cretans like Roman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna ask it's at a young age.
Speaker 3: See the reason that I think I saw so much
Speaker 3: SNL as a kid is because I couldn't drive yet
Speaker 3: and my friends and I would hang out.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed that.
Speaker 3: You were out what we're what are we doing on
Speaker 3: Saturday night with the buds?
Speaker 6: It was so I think junior high or like when
Speaker 6: you kind of start watching it.
Speaker 5: I don't know what.
Speaker 6: I honestly try to think, like what was I doing
Speaker 6: on Saturday nights? And we were just not like riding
Speaker 6: bikes or skateboarding or just being Christian hooligans. Nothing nothing,
Speaker 6: nothing true right, nobody, nothing true, trouble maker. But I'd
Speaker 6: really like we just were out running around being goofs
Speaker 6: on Saturdays. So I never was home watching TV on
Speaker 6: Saturday nights or so good or kind of having a cable.
Speaker 6: I was watching terrible movies, like you know, yeah b
Speaker 6: movies or horror movies or something.
Speaker 2: So I was watching when you were a little older,
Speaker 2: like you know, I would I've talked about on the
Speaker 2: podcast all the kind of punks in my area would
Speaker 2: go to the dunkin Donuts and hang out in the
Speaker 2: parking lot, yeah, and just talk about screeching wheel or whatever.
Speaker 4: Like were you were you doing that kind of stuff?
Speaker 5: Where were you?
Speaker 4: Where was your hangout spot?
Speaker 5: Where was.
Speaker 6: It was usually uh Rob's house. Uh Rob didn't have
Speaker 6: a lot of parental supervisions, so we're usually over there,
Speaker 6: and it was a lot of uh I don't know.
Speaker 6: He got like prescribed pills early on, like before you
Speaker 6: knew people everybody was on pills. We would like take
Speaker 6: his pills and stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like like we'd take ambient and then just try
Speaker 6: to outrun it, you know, like give one person. One
Speaker 6: person would take the ambien and then we just all
Speaker 6: sit around and watch what happened to him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Sadly I did that with some friends like in my
Speaker 2: thirty like way too old to be doing that, and.
Speaker 6: Like, oh yeah, we're still like nineteen twenty. It's still
Speaker 6: like all these romantic I didn't ge drunk high school.
Speaker 6: I didn't do any drugs in high school, and I
Speaker 6: was but I was going to all ages shows every
Speaker 6: every weekend. It's just either somebody at a car or
Speaker 6: I could start getting access to it, but otherwise we'd
Speaker 6: go there or we just you know, you'd buy forties
Speaker 6: and sit at the mall parking lot and you'd have
Speaker 6: five people with skateboards. One guy could kick flip and
Speaker 6: then we'd all just sit there and drink beer and
Speaker 6: watch that guy do kickflips yep, right right right, which
Speaker 6: sounds so unglamorous, but I'd look back on it so fondly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like I don't think I've laughed harder in my
Speaker 5: life since then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sadly felt like kind of a simpler time.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: It took so little to I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't yeah, without sounding like the oldest man in
Speaker 6: the universe, I don't want to like, oh, these dang phones,
Speaker 6: but there really was like, all right, I got my
Speaker 6: self laminated card of phone numbers in my wallets, which
Speaker 6: was just scotch tape around a piece of paper with
Speaker 6: your six friends, and then you'd all meet like figure
Speaker 6: out what you were doing, and just sit there and
Speaker 6: just be dipshits. And I really appreciated the dip shitt reviews.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I did too. I just want to say
Speaker 3: that on my Saturday nights, we would sometimes watch SNL
Speaker 3: and then we would watch this movie April Fools. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that movie. It was like a scary movie.
Speaker 3: I bet you got it on cable. Yes, it was
Speaker 3: a scary movie about April Fools, but it was like
Speaker 3: not that scary, but it was about as scary as
Speaker 3: we could get. And this is a spoiler alert for
Speaker 3: our listeners who haven't seen it. You don't if you
Speaker 3: haven't seen it came out I think in the like
Speaker 3: early eighties, you you've really had a lot of time
Speaker 3: to watch it by now, so I feel okay saying this,
Speaker 3: But it was basically like these these young adults go
Speaker 3: to like this house and people keep getting like murdered
Speaker 3: in these kind of like gruesome ways, and then at
Speaker 3: the end you find out it was an April Fool's
Speaker 3: joke and everyone's alive. So that's kind of as scary
Speaker 3: as we could go. But we were still really scared
Speaker 3: at the end of it. So then we'd watch the
Speaker 3: incredible Mister Limpet after it. This was like a pattern,
Speaker 3: like we would do this multiple It's funny. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know how like little kids can watch the same
Speaker 3: cartoon over and over again and they're still like really
Speaker 3: into it because they're seeing new. It's funny that we
Speaker 3: were we were like teenagers, like we were like maybe
Speaker 3: thirteen fourteen, and we could do that and we were like, okay,
Speaker 3: April Fools into Mister Limpet.
Speaker 1: Like there was no shouldn't we watch something else this week?
Speaker 5: And nobody was smoking pot or anything. It was sober.
Speaker 1: We were eating a ton of where our friend Steffi,
Speaker 1: her family was always really stocked with what are those
Speaker 1: candies that have hazel nut in them that are like
Speaker 1: there's like a few layers to them, and they cut
Speaker 1: in Ferrara rochetes. She always had a ton of Ferrera
Speaker 1: roaches fans and she had I think her parents went
Speaker 1: to Sam's Club and would get them in bult.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: I'm still in touch with I gotta ask her about this.
Speaker 3: It does seem incredibly fancy.
Speaker 6: It to watch the most benign horror movie and still
Speaker 6: need to like scrub it off you with mister Limpet
Speaker 6: and Ferrera rochet.
Speaker 5: Like, it's not like you had a pretty nice chest? Yeah,
Speaker 5: pretty good?
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Uh Jonah? What were you doing on Saturday
Speaker 1: nights when you were in.
Speaker 4: I mean I was probably going to a lot of shows.
Speaker 2: I was going to Dunkin Donuts or Coventry, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: grog shop or something, and then I was, yeah, probably
Speaker 2: going to show. But I think before that I would
Speaker 2: like sleep over friend's houses. And yeah, we do very
Speaker 2: banal things like yeah, yeah, yeah, right around.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was at my friend's house.
Speaker 6: We would do a There was a lot of like
Speaker 6: just lighting different chemicals on fire in his garage.
Speaker 1: Yea, oh this is you're like, of course, is that
Speaker 1: a thing?
Speaker 5: Boys? I think? Boys? Yeah, boys do that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It was another really fun one, climbing onto the roof
Speaker 2: for no reason.
Speaker 5: Big hit, oh, big hit.
Speaker 3: You can never forget when I was home and you
Speaker 3: and your friends were on our roof and I was like,
Speaker 3: what are they doing? Like there's no reason, fire, altitude,
Speaker 3: hard to get out there, but like why would you it?
Speaker 6: Just a quest? Yeah, just a that was Yeah, they're
Speaker 6: getting on the roofs. We once laser tag entered this,
Speaker 6: I can't believe I think about how it is nowadays.
Speaker 6: We would just run around with guns. They were laser
Speaker 6: tag guns, but they're shaped like guns. And we were
Speaker 6: on just strangers roofs. We're just jump jumping down from
Speaker 6: garage roofs to sabotage each other, and like like a
Speaker 6: five block area of the neighborhood to play laser tag.
Speaker 6: I was like squirt guns. You had to be like
Speaker 6: ten feet away from laser tag. All of a sudden,
Speaker 6: you got twenty yards you can pick somebody off on. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so I got one kid had the sniper rifle. He's
Speaker 6: up on some stranger's roof. We used to just sneak.
Speaker 5: We were just peeping Tom's as little kids.
Speaker 3: Were the neighbors. Did you ever get feedback from the
Speaker 3: neighbors like don't do this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they weren't happy about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but also under the cover of darkness, we just
Speaker 6: we were out of there.
Speaker 5: They didn't know what happened.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get into like paintball or any of that.
Speaker 2: That stuff was also really big. When I was a kid,
Speaker 2: paintball didn't come around. I kind of feel like, as
Speaker 2: an adult, I would like to experience it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. There were some older kids at my school
Speaker 5: who would get really into it and get all the
Speaker 5: gear and it was yeah, like the Co two and
Speaker 5: get really into it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was not athletic, So laser tag opened up this
Speaker 6: world of like, oh I could just hide somewhere, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Which I think you could probably do with paintball too,
Speaker 3: but I don't know because I never played it because
Speaker 3: I was too scared.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just I get I guess my impression is
Speaker 6: probably wrong, but like anytime I see the like these
Speaker 6: are the guys that wish they were in the military.
Speaker 1: It seems more yeah, athletic, maybe too.
Speaker 2: Yeah I think a little bit. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: like the current climate. It's like kind of not is
Speaker 2: like it feels a little weird. But at the time
Speaker 2: it felt like this is just like what kids do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want Yeah, both teams should be friends. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't like playing. I don't like do anything with
Speaker 6: strangers because I don't know their level of intensity. Yeah, like,
Speaker 6: oh no, we're all here to be goofs. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't need some paramilitary outfit.
Speaker 5: Right right exactly? Who needs that? Who?
Speaker 6: Just like yeah, envisions me as like the terrorist target.
Speaker 6: You can buy a gun shows, right, that's right, I see.
Speaker 5: Well, just to have fun, guys.
Speaker 2: The other problem was that it was like like kind
Speaker 2: of there's like an honor code, not like an honor system.
Speaker 2: So like someone would be like, oh, you I shot you,
Speaker 2: and you'd be like, no, you didn't, and they'd be well,
Speaker 2: there's pain on you, and you'd be like, well, the
Speaker 2: paint hit that tree.
Speaker 4: And then it was like it's hard to have it,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: This is something when I was in college I got
Speaker 3: really into I wrote like a whole paper on Civil
Speaker 3: War reenactments and this which we can get into another day,
Speaker 3: but this is a huge thing with Civil war reactions
Speaker 3: is people do all the work, they drive all the way,
Speaker 3: they get all their gear or whatever, and when they
Speaker 3: get quote unquote shot or killed during battle, they're like no,
Speaker 3: They're like, I came all the way out here.
Speaker 1: They I would watch.
Speaker 3: I went to one where I remember seeing this guy
Speaker 3: like was dead and then I saw him slowly like
Speaker 3: grab for like his hat.
Speaker 1: His gunny stood back up and was just like looked
Speaker 1: around and was like back in the game. Like it's hard.
Speaker 3: It's it's a bummer in any kind of those those
Speaker 3: games that take a lot of prep and you've got
Speaker 3: the whole outfit on or whatever. To not to call
Speaker 3: Civil War reenactments a game, but uh, it's hard to
Speaker 3: not to, uh to get you know, cut out right
Speaker 3: away because you you came here to play.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: How do they know who got shot in the Civil
Speaker 5: War ren? I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do all different kinds of things too, Like
Speaker 3: sometimes in their guns they have paint that will sort
Speaker 3: of like a paint that will like if you get
Speaker 3: a certain color on you, it's they do. When I
Speaker 3: was talking to this one guy about it, he was saying,
Speaker 3: different different Civil War reenactments will have different sort of
Speaker 3: ways that they show who got killed and who didn't.
Speaker 3: Some of them are looser than others, is my understanding.
Speaker 3: But you know it's hard because again, nobody wants.
Speaker 5: To get killed.
Speaker 3: And on that note, we're going to take a quick
Speaker 3: commercial break.
Speaker 1: And we'll be right back with.
Speaker 5: And We're back, Kyle.
Speaker 2: Do you know I think a friend of yours may
Speaker 2: have designed the artwork for our podcast. Fellow Cleveland or
Speaker 2: it goes been okay?
Speaker 5: Pants? Oh Man, Pants did it? Pants? Did it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Hell?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah? Have you been to the Old Lady six?
Speaker 4: I have not been there yet. No, I've only been.
Speaker 2: We go back to Cleveland usually for Thanksgiving, and I
Speaker 2: been wanting to check it out and we haven't made
Speaker 2: Have you been there?
Speaker 5: I have?
Speaker 6: I was hanging out last time I played Cleveland. I
Speaker 6: love hanging out with Pants.
Speaker 5: Incredible.
Speaker 6: Another Cleveland or Mary Santora, another cleveland Er. She's like,
Speaker 6: if you've been to Pants's bar, It's got a real
Speaker 6: solid divorce theme to it, which.
Speaker 5: I'm sure, she said to his face. So that's why
Speaker 5: it's funny. Yeah, that's very funny. But no, it's I like, yeah,
Speaker 5: shout out to pants on the Old eighty six.
Speaker 2: Yes, shout out pants and Old eighty six. And so
Speaker 2: how we wanted to get into your topic today?
Speaker 5: He did that poster right there.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, really, which doesn't have anything because this is audio,
Speaker 6: but okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he did that poster for her. Incredible Kyle,
Speaker 5: your topic today.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled about it because it's something that I think
Speaker 3: about probably at least once a month. I've looked it
Speaker 3: up so many times. Sometimes I get an answer about it,
Speaker 3: sometimes I don't. Today I really made a concentrated effort
Speaker 3: to like use the right buzzwords related to it to
Speaker 3: find it, and I found this show that you brought up.
Speaker 3: There's a whole Wikipedia page for it. There's a ton
Speaker 3: of people are talking about it on read it a lot.
Speaker 3: The show that you're talking about it. You called it
Speaker 3: the PBS show where they would draw and color in
Speaker 3: a picture in time lapse, and that's and I used
Speaker 3: some of that to find it. It's called cover to cover.
Speaker 3: This is a show that I asked people about again
Speaker 3: all the time. I'm like, do you remember that show
Speaker 3: where the guy would like draw stuff made with pastels
Speaker 3: or something, and then he would tell a story, and
Speaker 3: it was like this guy. The guy had a mustache,
Speaker 3: and everyone's always like, Vanessa, get a grip, get out
Speaker 3: of my face.
Speaker 1: In more or less this show. I okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, it's confusing because this show had a
Speaker 3: lot of different names. But this show cover to cover.
Speaker 1: It was an educational program broadcast on public television from
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties to the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 5: Oh d.
Speaker 3: This show was on for a very long time. The
Speaker 3: host was John Robbins, who you probably remember. He had
Speaker 3: a mustache. I always thought he looked like our uncle Dennis.
Speaker 3: And he would introduce young readers to one or two books,
Speaker 3: and then he would draw scenes as a passage from
Speaker 3: the book was read, and he would encourage the viewer
Speaker 3: to find the book in question and read the rest
Speaker 3: of the story.
Speaker 1: So he would sort of like stop reading.
Speaker 3: He would stop with the story kind of at a
Speaker 3: really exciting point and say, go to your library and
Speaker 3: rent the book and read the rest of it. This
Speaker 3: guy is a former elementary school teacher and he would
Speaker 3: generally read these books that were aimed at readers.
Speaker 1: Ages nine to twelve.
Speaker 3: And what I didn't remember about this, but what makes
Speaker 3: sense is I always thought they were picture books, but
Speaker 3: that wouldn't really make sense because he's drawing them as
Speaker 3: he's talking. They were always sort of like young adult novels.
Speaker 3: And anyway, now that I've talked a ton about it,
Speaker 3: because I'm so excited about it, what is your memory
Speaker 3: of this show?
Speaker 6: I'm so sad. I just looked it up because I
Speaker 6: was like, Oh, I want to see what it is. Yes,
Speaker 6: it's not the same show that I'm thinking about.
Speaker 5: It's not. No, it's not it was.
Speaker 6: I knew it wasn't part It wasn't part of Sesame Street.
Speaker 1: This is not part of Sesame Street.
Speaker 6: No, no, So this is what I remember what I saw.
Speaker 6: It was on Channel eleven w TTW Chicago, shout out there.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't see there was It was just music. And
Speaker 6: what reminded me of it is hilarious. Comic and friend
Speaker 6: of mine, Chris Fairbanks, is also an illustrator, and he
Speaker 6: just did a promo for their podcast called do You
Speaker 6: Need a Ride where he did a line drawing first
Speaker 6: where you don't the line drawings happening. You don't see
Speaker 6: the hand in it. You don't see the hand drawing it.
Speaker 6: So you see just the outline and then the shading
Speaker 6: and then the color coming in. Okay, And that's what
Speaker 6: triggered me thinking about that show. And it was like
Speaker 6: a segment of another children's show. So now I feel
Speaker 6: terrible because I want to.
Speaker 3: See what you're talking about, even though I thought for
Speaker 3: one time I felt truly seen for one time in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 6: Well, but we both got the same satisfaction of watching
Speaker 6: a piece of art come to fruition before very eyes
Speaker 6: as children.
Speaker 5: Yes, so did you did that make you?
Speaker 3: I ask you about the other names that it was
Speaker 3: under then, to just to make sure that this isn't
Speaker 3: the same show. It was also in different times called
Speaker 3: the book Birds Storybound and read it.
Speaker 5: I don't know, and it's not the same show. I want.
Speaker 6: I want it to be. I really want for your sake.
Speaker 6: I want this. They have a good, nice little ribbon
Speaker 6: on it. But this was not Kyle.
Speaker 2: I think what you're saying is really true. Though, Like
Speaker 2: this idea, like even like like Bob Ross, or like
Speaker 2: picture pages, like this idea of like as a kid,
Speaker 2: watching someone make art in front of you was really entertaining, right.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, and it made me want to It made
Speaker 6: me want to, Like I started like drawing and do
Speaker 6: it s hard to say, like I was a visual
Speaker 6: artist at a young age.
Speaker 5: It's finger painted. I was.
Speaker 3: I made a ton of books and they haven't gotten published,
Speaker 3: but they were always about Yeah.
Speaker 5: I drew a lot of pictures.
Speaker 6: But that was one of the things, Like it was
Speaker 6: kind of how I didn't know how comedy got started.
Speaker 6: I didn't know how you did stand up or think
Speaker 6: of any sketch show or so I wound up watching
Speaker 6: a lot of Kids in the Hall because of the
Speaker 6: cable thing, and they were on HBO.
Speaker 1: You've got every channel, why not?
Speaker 6: So that's so that was my introduction to sketch comedy
Speaker 6: was Kids in the Hall but stand up. Also, I
Speaker 6: didn't you saw it on TV, but you didn't know
Speaker 6: how it ended up that way. And so I think
Speaker 6: with these art shows it was like, oh, you see
Speaker 6: how the line is turning into a car or a
Speaker 6: tree or a house, and then here's how the color
Speaker 6: comes in to fill it and you and you got
Speaker 6: to watch something be created in front of you, and
Speaker 6: you're like, it was such a blueprint for like, well,
Speaker 6: I will just start drawing the shape that I want
Speaker 6: and then the color comes later. Yes, and it it
Speaker 6: I That's what I was just excited to remember that
Speaker 6: because I saw this thing on Instagram that my buddy
Speaker 6: Chris was doing for his podcast, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm going to send that in so we could talk
Speaker 6: about that.
Speaker 5: And it's sad that it's not.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the name?
Speaker 3: Were you able to figure out the name of the
Speaker 3: show you're talking about or what it was, what the
Speaker 3: segment was a part of.
Speaker 6: No, and it was just part of another children's show. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but that was the segment I thought at first, I
Speaker 6: thought it was Nickelodeon, But Nickelodeon was not As Nickelodeon
Speaker 6: was silly and funny, it wasn't educational. So I just
Speaker 6: assumed because if it's not Nickelodeon and it's not Sesame Street,
Speaker 6: it's got to be some rando.
Speaker 1: PBS right right right right, chids.
Speaker 5: In front of the TV kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Were there any other kind of like educational shows you
Speaker 2: were into as a kid.
Speaker 6: No, you know, I think my I don't want to
Speaker 6: say it as like in an indictment against my parents.
Speaker 6: But I think they saw the kind of Disney youths
Speaker 6: as creepy or like I went to CCDO and I
Speaker 6: didn't go to Catholic school, but I went to like
Speaker 6: Sunday but anybody like.
Speaker 5: Vacation Bible school.
Speaker 6: Stuff, which great band, by the way, but like they
Speaker 6: always kind of looked at that stuff as like something
Speaker 6: too straight and arrow about it, okay, yeah, or like
Speaker 6: anybody that was super Disney or super The kids only
Speaker 6: watch educational materials. Granted, we went pretty hard the other
Speaker 6: way with horror movies. Yes, I mean I saw I
Speaker 6: think I think I was I don't remember what age,
Speaker 6: but I was like a very little kid watching The
Speaker 6: Shining Yeah. I'm like the on the kitchen TV. I
Speaker 6: don't know if you had how many TVs you had
Speaker 6: in your house. We weren't wealthy, but we definitely had
Speaker 6: We had the downstairs TV in the kitchen TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you know it's funny. Our parents have a
Speaker 3: kitchen TV and it has a VHS player in it,
Speaker 3: and they just offered it to they were going to
Speaker 3: donate it or get rid of it, and they asked
Speaker 3: if either of us wanted it, and I said that
Speaker 3: I did want it because it has a VHS player
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 1: Jonah and VICKI were very quick, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I love the idea of being in my kitchen
Speaker 3: having a TV and being able to watch like old
Speaker 3: VHS chiefs on it while I'm making dinner or something.
Speaker 6: Media come out with the way they're taking everybody's digital
Speaker 6: stuff away from them now, even if you want it.
Speaker 6: That's why I never thought about that argument of people
Speaker 6: like that's why I buy records or buy tapes or
Speaker 6: DVDs or anything, because you have them, right.
Speaker 1: Right, because you have the physical thing and no one can. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I was watching I remember it was at
Speaker 6: night and it was the Shining on cable and it
Speaker 6: was and my mom just with a shining Oh that
Speaker 6: one's scary, good night. And then she just let me
Speaker 6: watch it by myself, which I think rules.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 6: I think that's great, Like, yeah, it's a movie, you know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: go watch movies, watch scary movies. Being scared is entertaining,
Speaker 6: So that's right. You want to talk about nostalgic, that
Speaker 6: was a thing like being scared for fun is I
Speaker 6: love it.
Speaker 5: My sister's gone nuts. She's signed.
Speaker 6: She'll just sign waivers on websites and then get kidnapped.
Speaker 5: Like she's at that level.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: She just does whatever kind of weird scare experience gotcha?
Speaker 6: When the Cup when the Cubs were in a World Series,
Speaker 6: it was like it wasn't the game that they wanted,
Speaker 6: but it was one of the ones in Chicago. Oh
Speaker 6: my god, were you out doing the game? She's like, now,
Speaker 6: I signed up for one of my things. Like I
Speaker 6: dropped off in a body bag, like like.
Speaker 5: Division in Western, Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's so crazy.
Speaker 5: I don't like what happened to you when we were younger.
Speaker 5: That didn't happen to me.
Speaker 1: That's wild. I you know that gave me Johnah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever been to it, but
Speaker 3: there's a haunted house in New York that happens every
Speaker 3: year that's called Like I can't remember it's called, but
Speaker 3: I remember one year, every a bunch of people, a
Speaker 3: bunch of us from SNL we're going to like go together.
Speaker 3: And then I looked it up and it's like it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this year's one is so much better. It has like
Speaker 3: waterboarding and like all this other stuff that I was like,
Speaker 3: that's so I was.
Speaker 1: Like, there is you guys, I'm not going to this.
Speaker 3: Like the scariest I'll do is like a haunted hay
Speaker 3: ride where it's like clearly you know, I mean where
Speaker 3: I get to like just sit the whole time and
Speaker 3: kind of eat little snacks and maybe like.
Speaker 1: Get a little spookier there.
Speaker 5: But that's it.
Speaker 3: The idea of like going being like tortured or like
Speaker 3: going through and thinking people are going to actually kill you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is what yeah, room.
Speaker 6: It's a different thing, but that so that that's what
Speaker 6: we you know what, that's what we're doing a lot
Speaker 6: on Saturday nights. Well, just run around like trying to
Speaker 6: find abandoned buildings or fields or just something to go
Speaker 6: get creeped out at.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is how all those movies are. It's it's
Speaker 3: always kids who are looking to do that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did all that stuff.
Speaker 6: We got the there was the you know, every urban
Speaker 6: legend is like, well the gate to Hell's over there.
Speaker 6: There's always a gate to Hell somewhere, and for ours,
Speaker 6: it was the it was the Ovaltine factory in Villa Park,
Speaker 6: which I love the juxtaposition of a gate to Hell
Speaker 6: being in the basement of the abandoned chocolate powdered drink
Speaker 6: manufacture and you go in there. My sisters one went in,
Speaker 6: I got I chickened out it and going side. When
Speaker 6: we were little, we rode our bikes there. She's like,
Speaker 6: I'm inside. There's holes on the floor.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's it's funny because I guess that
Speaker 3: stuff was genuinely did have some danger to it. I
Speaker 3: feel like, to me, the scariest I remember being so scared.
Speaker 3: I think we've maybe talked about this on here before,
Speaker 3: but by the about the bloody Mary thing, where it
Speaker 3: was like if you say bloody Mary a certain amount
Speaker 3: of times in the mirror in the dark, she'll come
Speaker 3: and she'll kill you.
Speaker 1: And I remember being like.
Speaker 3: God, like I like I remember just being like, I
Speaker 3: guess I could get killed by hair, but like, also
Speaker 3: do I kind of want to see it? Like I
Speaker 3: remember that was like as scary as I would as
Speaker 3: I would go, and it really bothered me, like it
Speaker 3: really stuck with me. But I felt like I was
Speaker 3: being so brave by just like trying it a few
Speaker 3: times in the mirror just to like, you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know that was as far as I went in.
Speaker 1: I was just standing in my.
Speaker 6: Bathroom psychological freak out all that stuff. I remember watching
Speaker 6: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part two. Yeah, like, and it was
Speaker 6: going back to the parents thing. It was a family
Speaker 6: party or there was somebody was having a family party,
Speaker 6: so you just let all the kids watch Texas Chainsaw
Speaker 6: Massacre Party while the parents got drunk in the basement.
Speaker 5: And then we just had to go home.
Speaker 6: And I was like, what, what's the good people with chainsaws?
Speaker 5: And they wear faces and on their face, like, oh
Speaker 5: my god. It was great. I loved it. I love
Speaker 5: all that stuff. I still do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We had we had a family friend and our dad's
Speaker 2: friend Terry, and he would watch us sometimes as kids.
Speaker 5: And I.
Speaker 2: Remember being very young in him watching that movie The
Speaker 2: Reanimator and it's totally I still I was freaking out.
Speaker 3: I still remember part of it. Like I was in
Speaker 3: the room for like two minutes with you, and I like.
Speaker 4: Watching entire movies and can't remember anything a day later.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you're scared. You're not you're not
Speaker 6: worried about making new memories. Worried about surviving. Yes, that's
Speaker 6: occupying your exit distance.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 6: I would purposely put a single chair in the middle
Speaker 6: of the basement floor and watch scary movies alone. There's
Speaker 6: a bar in our basement off to the left, so
Speaker 6: you couldn't see what was down there. And I would
Speaker 6: get so scared that I would have to like I
Speaker 6: would paralyze myself, like I couldn't move, I would have
Speaker 6: to pee so bad. And then I was like, all right,
Speaker 6: I gotta be able to turn off I can't turn
Speaker 6: off the TV. I got to turn off the TV
Speaker 6: and get up the stairs in the matter of like
Speaker 6: zero point five seconds. And I had it down so fast,
Speaker 6: like if it was its own sport. I would have
Speaker 6: been the best at it, from like jumping to slapping
Speaker 6: the knob on the TV to being up the stairs
Speaker 6: less than a third of a second. Wow, on purpose,
Speaker 6: night after night, I would do that.
Speaker 5: Would you have a lot of scary dreams as a kid?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 5: I don't remember any of that. I would. I would
Speaker 5: just seek it out for fun. It's such a cheap thrill.
Speaker 6: Like when you're a kid, you're not you know, if
Speaker 6: you're not drinking, you're not doing drugs, you're not trying
Speaker 6: to like actually, when you know you're not in actual danger,
Speaker 6: right when it's all just your your again the imagination thing,
Speaker 6: when you're all just using your own imagination to get
Speaker 6: yourself riled up, and then the release of like, oh,
Speaker 6: wasn't that fun that we got scared that way? I
Speaker 6: still that's still I love. I don't go to them enough,
Speaker 6: but I still have haunted houses. We had like one
Speaker 6: of the first crazy ones out by us, and my
Speaker 6: dad was a big Halloween guy.
Speaker 5: Like our house had Halloween.
Speaker 6: Decorations before anybody in the neighborhood really did, or before
Speaker 6: even decorating for.
Speaker 5: Halloween was a thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, like hand painted gravestones and they would put
Speaker 6: dry ice in the bushes.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: You know. There's a guy who lives near me, who
Speaker 3: or a family, I don't, I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: a guy, it's a family that lives near me, And
Speaker 3: for Halloween they put out some upside down fake crows,
Speaker 3: like hanging from trees out front of their house. And
Speaker 3: they're really scary looking because you walk by the house
Speaker 3: and you'd see this like a But I think what
Speaker 3: happened was because there are like crows around, you know,
Speaker 3: the street, and I think because they put them up,
Speaker 3: crows now don't land on their yard because of it.
Speaker 1: So this guy kept one of the crows.
Speaker 3: And so you walk down the street, which is like
Speaker 3: a nice street, and you just whenever I'm with my
Speaker 3: friends and we walk past it, they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: like it's just so off putting to see this crow
Speaker 3: upside down. Meanwhile, other people on my like around where
Speaker 3: I live, other people hang compact discs, like because oh yeah,
Speaker 3: from trees, because I guess those keep birds too and
Speaker 3: crows from coming by. But it's like, I really wish
Speaker 3: this family would just hang those instead. It's really it's
Speaker 3: really scary to just have an upside down crow that
Speaker 3: looks so real hanging. But you know, they took their
Speaker 3: they made their Halloween decoration a year round thing because
Speaker 3: it's actually working their advantage.
Speaker 5: I'm about legit scary.
Speaker 3: Yeah decoration, a legit scary one, like a blow up ghost.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm glad you're in the spirit.
Speaker 6: But these, yeah, twelve foot tall skeletons that everybody started getting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I appreciate that. I like that you you don't know
Speaker 6: how to store them, so they just stay out year round.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Great, there's a three story house that when there's one
Speaker 6: on the roof of a three story house, so you
Speaker 6: don't even see it unless you're just looking randomly. Wow,
Speaker 6: And there's a twelve foot skeleton off the third story
Speaker 6: of a house and I'm like.
Speaker 5: Ooh, good job, way to go.
Speaker 2: I saw one yesterday for the first time, one of
Speaker 2: those super tall ones. It was like, oh, like near Albany,
Speaker 2: New York, and I could not believe it. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess I was like, why is it up now?
Speaker 2: But I guess you're right. Impossible to move.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because then it's just in your house or something.
Speaker 6: I could see not wanting it sitting in your whole
Speaker 6: living room.
Speaker 1: Right where are you going to put it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got like these that you're talking about twelve Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're huge.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not exaggerating, you know.
Speaker 3: I near this neighborhood where people will like get their
Speaker 3: houses professionally decorated for Halloween and for Christmas, and so
Speaker 3: to me, I will never forget. One time I was
Speaker 3: walking by this house that was so decorated for a
Speaker 3: Halloween and this guy came outside who owned the house,
Speaker 3: I assume, and he was like on a business call,
Speaker 3: and I was like, does this guy feel embarrassed? That
Speaker 3: were like like, but he's like taking a business call
Speaker 3: while he's standing in front of his house that's like
Speaker 3: all covered with like goblins and cools.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: To me, it felt so like you can't have both,
Speaker 3: like do one or the other be be like a
Speaker 3: serious business guy or have a halloween house. But I
Speaker 3: guess the truth is this day and age, you can.
Speaker 3: You can be all things.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's one of the professional decorators. That's why his
Speaker 5: house is done, maybe decorated. He's taking calls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe he's taking calls. Yeah, But it was
Speaker 3: just really I didn't know you could decorate your house.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, oh yeah. People people do it, especially people
Speaker 3: who like live in these really big houses. Like think
Speaker 3: about think about the home alone house, speaking of Chicago,
Speaker 3: think of the home alone house.
Speaker 1: How were they going to get up there, to the
Speaker 1: top of it and decorate it? Jonah.
Speaker 6: I kind of feel like it's an earned thing by
Speaker 6: doing it yourself, Like that's why it's the creativity of
Speaker 6: how you do it yourself, right, Yeah, I mean, granted,
Speaker 6: this is coming from somebody who's never decorated a home
Speaker 6: on his own before, so I know it's an involved process.
Speaker 6: Which I see it. When I see like a well
Speaker 6: decorated house, I don't know how to show it like
Speaker 6: I'm a little honk on a horn or something, or
Speaker 6: you driving by like nice work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's call me.
Speaker 4: And you weren't grown up eating poppains for our Rochet chocolates.
Speaker 5: I mean we were.
Speaker 3: Kind of John, I'm your sister. We definitely grew up
Speaker 3: with the same background so much. Sure, I grew up
Speaker 3: so much fancier than you, like the frend whose parents
Speaker 3: were smart enough to get Ferrero Rochet and Pulk.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that I'm fancier.
Speaker 5: Then it keeps them in the house. The boys aren't
Speaker 5: coming around.
Speaker 6: You keep them pumped full of fancy chocolates and olympets.
Speaker 5: They're not getting in trouble elsewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, meanwhile, Kyle, Yeah you're out the slapstick show. Who
Speaker 2: knows what's gonna happen there.
Speaker 5: I'm out.
Speaker 6: I'm making you know, I'm trying to sneak beers. We're
Speaker 6: trying to go to. We're trying to go to haunted
Speaker 6: houses after the All Ages show everything, Give me get,
Speaker 6: let let me be thrilled in the suburban landscape.
Speaker 3: The thing that Jonah brings up that I feel like
Speaker 3: is such a such a like thing that really that
Speaker 3: I didn't even know was happening, but but was. We
Speaker 3: had like barn Bump Mits was every weekend in seventh grade,
Speaker 3: and Jonah has talked about how they what was the
Speaker 3: thing like you would try and just like take leader
Speaker 3: bottles of soda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you try to break in any area that
Speaker 2: wasn't completely locked off? And then once we'd got into
Speaker 2: the basement of the temple and found all these two
Speaker 2: Leaders of soda, so we would take them into the
Speaker 2: parking lot and shake them up as much as we
Speaker 2: could and then throw them as high as we could into
Speaker 2: the air and watch them explode. And that was like
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was an era of at least male like
Speaker 6: for every juvenile male where it's just destruction. Yes, the
Speaker 6: sound of breaking glass, like if we found in an
Speaker 6: abandoned building or anything, it was like we got to
Speaker 6: break those windows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were like that.
Speaker 3: Like I was getting dressed up and just like what
Speaker 3: should I wear to this bar?
Speaker 5: Bump?
Speaker 1: It's fun and like try you know who am I
Speaker 1: going to talk to?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Am I going to dance with? Any boys?
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, those same boys outside shaking up leaders to me,
Speaker 3: there's something so funny about that, just the fact that
Speaker 3: that I had no idea that was going on.
Speaker 6: It's hard to reconcile the stupidity, yes, but man, there's
Speaker 6: just a satisfaction it just yeah, I don't know, you're young.
Speaker 6: Everything's just how it's supposed to be a normal. So
Speaker 6: things that crash or break or explode or fly up
Speaker 6: in the air, yeah, it rules. Oh man, fireworks oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh Jonah, you had a kind of a phase with that.
Speaker 6: We oh just even just bottle rockets and then somebody
Speaker 6: getting m eighty and like those are the most dangerous ones,
Speaker 6: all right, well we better put it in something so
Speaker 6: it blows that thing up too.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just even the opportunity to buy fireworks, like it felt
Speaker 2: like like it was like the hardest thing to get. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all this stuff sounds so quaint now sort of, but
Speaker 2: at the time it's like, oh my gosh, yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh no, somebody had to make a special drive to
Speaker 6: Indiana or Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Right, that's right, that's right. Being from Ohio, you're right, yeah.
Speaker 6: And then you see like the dads would light up,
Speaker 6: you know about fourth there's all of a sudden, like
Speaker 6: dads who were all about the rules and everything are
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, you know, four beers deep going
Speaker 6: all right, back up, kids just lighting stuff with a
Speaker 6: cigar and chucking it into a field to see what happens,
Speaker 6: like all right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then it's crazy how it flips is an adult now,
Speaker 2: If I like go to a show and I see
Speaker 2: a sweaty guy with like a shirt off, and he's
Speaker 2: like twenty feet away from me, I'm like, how far
Speaker 2: away can I get from this person so they don't
Speaker 2: touch me?
Speaker 6: Oh? That was That was one of the funniest memories
Speaker 6: of an All Ages shows was a big the large
Speaker 6: shirtless man in the mash pit, and everybody was kind
Speaker 6: of like, all right, buddy, I know we're all sweating,
Speaker 6: but a shirt you could use a shirt.
Speaker 5: I got his shirts on. Well.
Speaker 6: Plus he was also very slick, you know, just just
Speaker 6: just the viscosity wise, and so I remember I pushed
Speaker 6: my friend into him on purpose and he just he
Speaker 6: just slid off so smoothly.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my friend came back and punched me in the
Speaker 6: stomach and it was deserved.
Speaker 5: But it was very.
Speaker 2: Funny in Cleveland growing up with the Cleveland Mash Team,
Speaker 2: and they wore shirts that identified them as pit enforcers
Speaker 2: or I don't know what they were called, but but
Speaker 2: they had the shirts on the shows.
Speaker 5: The show so you know that meant business.
Speaker 3: It's funny that we all grew grew up watching one
Speaker 3: or the other type of sort of artistic educational shows
Speaker 3: and yet went such in such different directions kind of
Speaker 3: in our in our teens, but all came back to
Speaker 3: here where we will at where we have fun as
Speaker 3: adults and we avoid you know, the sweaty guys at Moshpitz.
Speaker 5: Speak for yourself. I'm still out there.
Speaker 3: Well, on that note, we're going to take a quick
Speaker 3: break and we'll be right back, O Kyle Kadane. Well,
Speaker 3: we're back, and we're going to play a little game
Speaker 3: with you, Kyle.
Speaker 1: It's called change dot Doork.
Speaker 5: Change dot Door.
Speaker 3: Basically, we bring up three different somewhat nostalgic things that
Speaker 3: people are trying to bring back with petitions on change
Speaker 3: dot org.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we're going to read three of them.
Speaker 3: At the end, we'll each vote for the one that
Speaker 3: we would sign if we had to sign one of
Speaker 3: these petitions. Kind of a sillier petition, probably not what
Speaker 3: change dot org initially set out to do, but here
Speaker 3: we are.
Speaker 5: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm going to read this first one. It's
Speaker 3: called make microwaves have mute buttons, and and this person says,
Speaker 3: when you're downstairs late at night and you want to
Speaker 3: make a hot pocket, you put it in, you go
Speaker 3: to finish something up, you come back, you see the
Speaker 3: beep is about to go off. You run for it,
Speaker 3: but it's too late, and now everyone is mad at you.
Speaker 3: But microwave mute buttons can fix this. By signing this petition,
Speaker 3: you are bringing us one step closer to peak evolution.
Speaker 3: This person says, So make microwaves have a mute button.
Speaker 3: It's got five signatures. And this person made this petition
Speaker 3: out to microwave manufacturers.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Kyle, what.
Speaker 6: Else do you have to do in the middle If
Speaker 6: you're getting up to have a hot pocket in the
Speaker 6: middle night, what's the others? What are you multitasking?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right, right, right, right, right right.
Speaker 6: You're just a little a little munchie goblin. Just sit
Speaker 6: there and watch it twirl until it's ready to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, best of luck to them, But I don't
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: Think there were other petitions that were like make microwaves silent,
Speaker 3: which that feels like easier said than this one feels
Speaker 3: more doable to me than making the actual things be silent.
Speaker 3: But but I hear you, what what else are you
Speaker 3: up to in the middle of the night that you
Speaker 3: can't just.
Speaker 5: Someone else in the house up maybe or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're saying in the middle of the night when
Speaker 3: you're making a hot pocket, for example, it would be
Speaker 3: nice if you could put it on mute so that
Speaker 3: it could be done and you wouldn't. I do find
Speaker 3: the microwave beeping to be a bit much, and especially
Speaker 3: because like if you do, I know, with my microwave,
Speaker 3: if you don't take things out after a few seconds,
Speaker 3: it will like beep again in a way that I'm like,
Speaker 3: there's got to be you know, But I hear.
Speaker 1: You, what else are what else are you up to
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night?
Speaker 5: Yeah, or eat something? Else. Yeah, that's right. Have a
Speaker 5: nice room temperature snack. That's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, something something better for you. You're gonna be
Speaker 6: gonna throw a hot pocket in at three am. That's
Speaker 6: not good. You already got bads. I'm just gonna break
Speaker 6: it down. Your sleep patterns are bad. That's probably due
Speaker 6: to your diet. What would the middle of the night
Speaker 6: hot pockets?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's get you on.
Speaker 6: Let's get you on some melotonin. Yeah, let's get you
Speaker 6: sleeping through the night. That's where I want to break
Speaker 6: this down to. Also, I think new microwaves probably have
Speaker 6: a button a coffee maker I can put ding or
Speaker 6: no ding.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what this person wants. I know
Speaker 3: mine doesn't. I don't have that option, so I don't know. Yeah, Jonah,
Speaker 3: what do you think?
Speaker 5: I think? Yeah? I agree with Kyle. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I read an article recently that was talking or a book.
Speaker 2: They're talking about why people open the microwave with like
Speaker 2: two seconds left, which is really true. I think if
Speaker 2: you use a communal microwave, there's always like two seconds
Speaker 2: on it. So I think I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people who are waiting in front of the microwave just
Speaker 2: open it early anyways, because they don't. I think it's
Speaker 2: a control thing, and I also think it's just an
Speaker 2: impatience thing of being like, Okay, it's close enough, so
Speaker 2: you could also just do that. And I looked it
Speaker 2: up and people are like, do it does a leak
Speaker 2: radiation if you open the microwave early?
Speaker 4: And the answer is no, interesting, yeah, does.
Speaker 5: It leak dat? Yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are like, I opened the door,
Speaker 2: really like is something bad going to happen? And apparently
Speaker 2: know the element it's safe. Seems safe now, Kyle.
Speaker 3: Something that's interesting about these petitions, and you'll really see
Speaker 3: this in the next one, is that sometimes I feel
Speaker 3: like people are interested in doing stand up or doing
Speaker 3: some kind of comedy and instead of doing it, or
Speaker 3: in addition, they make these petitions. And you might have
Speaker 3: noticed like a little bit of that at the end
Speaker 3: of this last petition when the person said, by signing
Speaker 3: this petition, you are bringing us one step closer to
Speaker 3: peak evolution. But in this next one, which Jonah is
Speaker 3: going to read, this person's really made a whole comedy
Speaker 3: act out of their petition. So I ask you to
Speaker 3: both pay attention to that, but also try and pay
Speaker 3: attention to the thing that this person's trying to get done,
Speaker 3: which I do think is interesting.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: This one is called make cupcakes a socially acceptable breakfast food,
Speaker 2: and it says, uh starts with a quote. Muffins are
Speaker 2: just like socially acceptable cupgates to eat before eleven. It's
Speaker 2: attributed to a wise person. This petition says the Civil War,
Speaker 2: the American Revolution, an argument between your average teenage girl
Speaker 2: and her parents. What do all of these things have
Speaker 2: in common? They're all about freedom. For decades, society and
Speaker 2: status quo have maintained oppressive control over the general populace,
Speaker 2: dictating what you can and when you can do it.
Speaker 2: For decades, people have fought for their rights against the
Speaker 2: system designed to hold them back and keep them in
Speaker 2: their place. You can be one of these people. Today,
Speaker 2: cupcakes face international discrimination across the board. Often seen as
Speaker 2: a more unhealthy muffin, cupcakes have incorrectly given the label
Speaker 2: of unhealthy, to sweet, expensive, and not tasty. These blatant
Speaker 2: falsehoods have been assumed as true facts by the unsuscecting public,
Speaker 2: causing widespread hatred against cupcakes. We can stand up to
Speaker 2: this injustice. Blah blah blah blah blah. Basically, this person
Speaker 2: is being very dramatic about cupcakes for breakfast and society
Speaker 2: being out of what do you think how.
Speaker 6: I think whoever wrote that that's real proud of themselves. Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: you can tell. You could tell. The stroke with which
Speaker 6: they typed it was very like, I'm creative and fun
Speaker 6: and everybody likes me.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't think.
Speaker 6: I think this is if you want to lead the charge,
Speaker 6: just eat to eat the cupcakes when you want to
Speaker 6: eat them. Yeah, I think this is a false This
Speaker 6: is a false argument. I don't think anybody's judged this
Speaker 6: person freating a cupcake in the morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they want to they want to put their
Speaker 6: degree to use. Yeah, change dot org.
Speaker 5: You got to do it. You can't talk about it.
Speaker 6: A petition isn't going to change whether or not somebody's
Speaker 6: a cupcake or not. You're gonna be on the streets
Speaker 6: eating them in people's faces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean I think there. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of injustice happened in the in the world.
Speaker 2: This not one of them in my opinion. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: want to eat a cupcakes for breakfast? Go, I do
Speaker 2: think there are a lot of similarities between cupcakes and muffins. Probably,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, oh so a little bit of it is
Speaker 2: I get that part. But yeah, I mean this feels
Speaker 2: like a creative writing exerts size that that just is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's trying a little too hard. I think
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Like an office dweller that really posits him or horse
Speaker 6: self as being the witty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, the wrote a petition online.
Speaker 5: Let me what's your email address? Let me send it
Speaker 5: to you, and then very smugly.
Speaker 6: Can you can you believe it? Can you believe I
Speaker 6: even did that? I mean, what am I?
Speaker 5: What? Am I? Nuts? Laugh?
Speaker 3: Loof right, right, so what do you think? Okay, so
Speaker 3: I understand where this person is. If this person had
Speaker 3: a different way of going about this. For example, we
Speaker 3: had a petition on here that I actually thought was
Speaker 3: really good, which was called cheesecake cheese pie because it's
Speaker 3: not a cake, it's it's more like a pie consistency. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we we we we sort of we talked about it.
Speaker 1: We didn't anyway.
Speaker 3: The point is this person really explained like why different
Speaker 3: things are what they are and whatever, And I feel
Speaker 3: like this person, if they were really serious about this,
Speaker 3: could have said, like, you make them in the same tins,
Speaker 3: their similar shape, Like I would like if the place
Speaker 3: that I go to get brunch at, instead of just
Speaker 3: offering me muffins in the morning, I would like if
Speaker 3: they offered cupcakes too, because.
Speaker 1: They're the same thing.
Speaker 3: Like Instead, not only did this person say the stuff
Speaker 3: that Jonah read to you, but they also said what
Speaker 3: your family and friends are saying about this movement at
Speaker 3: the bottom of the petition, and then for example, they wrote,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, that's a really good point. Your coworker sounds
Speaker 3: about right, actually, rajish and then he wrote, Okay, here's
Speaker 3: the joke.
Speaker 1: Stop texting me.
Speaker 3: Please, We've been over this already and I don't care
Speaker 3: about your stupid damn muffins or whatever. I'm not coming back.
Speaker 3: Stop being so desperate, and please move on. I'm blocking you.
Speaker 3: Danny goodbye. And that's quoted to his ex girlfriend. It's
Speaker 3: sort of like, hey, Danny, take a chance on yourself
Speaker 3: and go to a club and do stand up for
Speaker 3: twelve people, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like start small. I want more.
Speaker 3: This person who then to make this petition that is
Speaker 3: actually something that interested me.
Speaker 1: But really in the delivery, let me down.
Speaker 6: It's got real funniest person at Bible Study vibes. Yes,
Speaker 6: we've got to take you on from strangers and see
Speaker 6: how it chops up.
Speaker 3: I think that's incredibly well put. I'm going to read
Speaker 3: this last one, which this is something our dad is
Speaker 3: very passionate about. Relates to something he's very passionate about.
Speaker 3: But so here it comes. It's called bring back Vanilla Frosty's.
Speaker 3: Wendy's always has chocolate around, why not vanilla. It's not
Speaker 3: fair that you can only get it in springtime. We
Speaker 3: should get it all year round. If they are going
Speaker 3: to have this many seasonal flavors, they need to have
Speaker 3: a second machine for vanilla.
Speaker 5: Now it ended right there.
Speaker 1: It ended right there.
Speaker 3: That's it, which I appreciate. After that last one, I
Speaker 3: do appreciate this person's brevity. But our dad has this
Speaker 3: card where he gets like a he gave like two
Speaker 3: or three dollars to charity, and now every month he
Speaker 3: gets a mini Every every time he goes to Wendy's,
Speaker 3: he gets a mini.
Speaker 1: Frosty for free, okay, and he likes the chocolate.
Speaker 3: One's okay, But he really likes the Vanilla ones and boys,
Speaker 3: he getting mad because every time he goes, it's chocolate
Speaker 3: and some kind of seasonal frit flavor that he hates, orange,
Speaker 3: strawberry whatever. People do love vanilla Frosty's. It's like a
Speaker 3: classic flavor. I think this person's idea to have just
Speaker 3: like a second machine that's just vanilla instead of having
Speaker 3: a machine that's doing seasonal I think.
Speaker 1: There's something to it. But I want to hear what
Speaker 1: you think, Kyle.
Speaker 5: I got.
Speaker 6: Oh, this one really lit me up. I Uh, first,
Speaker 6: just the idea of vanilla, like in a world where
Speaker 6: we're just getting inundated with new modifications and updates and everything,
Speaker 6: going back to just a vanilla Frosty.
Speaker 5: When's the last time you said it? Cheese pizza?
Speaker 4: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 5: Oh man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like it's like like it's like you never
Speaker 6: had it before.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 6: Get a bunch of shit all over this thing. No,
Speaker 6: sometimes I just get a cheese pizza and that's great. Yeah,
Speaker 6: because everything's just everything's coming at you with upgrades and modifications.
Speaker 6: So I like the I like, how to the point
Speaker 6: this petition is? Yeah, I agree with your dad entirely. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he can't get too loud. If it's free, he can't
Speaker 6: get mouthy about it.
Speaker 5: Right, right, that's true.
Speaker 6: But the just people want to break from everything, I
Speaker 6: think I think it represents more than just vanilla tastes.
Speaker 6: People just want to break from customizations and everything. They
Speaker 6: just want just give me some classics. Yes, stop reinventing everything,
Speaker 6: and especially for a classic, it should have its.
Speaker 5: Own machine maintained.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I know McDonald's gets in a lot of heat over there, broken, right.
Speaker 6: I think it's just because they're probably just filled with
Speaker 6: ants all the time. Yeah, that's what I assume about
Speaker 6: any fast food ice cream machine. Not to ruin your
Speaker 6: dad's enjoyment of Frosty's, but I just assume they're filled
Speaker 6: with ants.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. Not because I'm a huge mcflurry fan.
Speaker 6: Okay, but but I think that I agree one hundred
Speaker 6: with the dedicated Well, bring back the vanilla and have
Speaker 6: a dedicated machine for it. The petitions correct, your father's correct,
Speaker 6: and I will sign this. But if that's incredible, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I agree with cale. You ever go to a diner
Speaker 6: and just get like a cheese omelet, I'm.
Speaker 5: Always gonna throw like a mushroom or a green pepper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I normally do, but sometimes I'm feeling
Speaker 2: a little thrifty.
Speaker 4: I just get the cheese pretty good.
Speaker 3: You know, you're saying that you don't want to pay
Speaker 3: the dollars, right.
Speaker 6: It's like when when they when they ask you, like really,
Speaker 6: when the when the servers like, sure, yes, we could
Speaker 6: put you know, it's an omelet.
Speaker 5: You can put all kinds of stuff. That's the whole point.
Speaker 5: I don't want to. I just want to.
Speaker 6: I just want to go Ian mackay with this thing.
Speaker 6: I want to strip it down. It's basic, it's no no.
Speaker 2: Riffraffra Yeah, but so yeah, I totally agree. I think
Speaker 2: vanilla Frosty, keep it simple, keep a classic. I don't
Speaker 2: need like an avocado toast favorite cliver of Frosty, you know, right, really.
Speaker 1: It kind of hits on some of your gen z.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't need it.
Speaker 2: With oat milk, I don't know that stuff has has
Speaker 2: a place, but it's like, let's keep it, let's keep
Speaker 2: it simple. I mean, I think this could also be
Speaker 2: like a marketing play by Wendy's. Do they take away
Speaker 2: something you love, then it's back and so you rush.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like Kyle, It's like you know, with
Speaker 2: a band, when the band breaks up, Oh it's our
Speaker 2: last tour. Everyone comes out. Then you know, the next
Speaker 2: year they're back together. But you know, yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's the McRib create a frenzy around it and pull
Speaker 2: it back. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I also like that whoever wrote this seems like he
Speaker 6: found change dot org. Yeah know about it until he's like,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm pretty pissed about this frosty thing and
Speaker 6: I don't know who to talk to. Yeah yeah, And
Speaker 6: somebody's like, well, there's a whole website where you can
Speaker 6: get people to sign things. All right, good, because I
Speaker 6: was just gonna stand in front of Wendy's with a
Speaker 6: with a picket sign.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I actually made a move like this today.
Speaker 2: And this is kind of sad to admit, but I
Speaker 2: called a gas station's corporate line today.
Speaker 1: Jonah loves to do something like that.
Speaker 2: Complain that they use styrofoam cups and because they're a
Speaker 2: gas station they can get and I called. I was like, listen,
Speaker 2: you guys use stytrophone cups. I don't like buying coffee
Speaker 2: in a styrophone cup. If you guys went to paper
Speaker 2: or cardboard, I would buy your coffee more. And no
Speaker 2: one answered, so I left this on a message, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure no one will. Jonah.
Speaker 3: You know what you could also do? What you could
Speaker 3: bring your own cup.
Speaker 2: I know, and sometimes I do, but I just didn't
Speaker 2: have one. Yeah, you got your own cup, Kyle nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just et I forgot it at home, so I yeah.
Speaker 6: I would love it if you were like pulled in
Speaker 6: with like a forward f three point fifty. And this
Speaker 6: is your argument at the gas station, is that you
Speaker 6: know how bad this is for the environment. Anyway, I
Speaker 6: just filled up on number three. That's about seven hundred
Speaker 6: and eighty dollars. Styrofoam is terrible, terrible for the environment,
Speaker 6: and next to the straws.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? Anyway?
Speaker 6: I get my diesel stroke going out there, Mac my
Speaker 6: Duramax fired up.
Speaker 1: Remember when we had grown up?
Speaker 5: We had growing up for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, remember the thing of like how like if
Speaker 3: you were like a real piece of shit, you would
Speaker 3: break styrofoam, Like if you had a styrofoam late but
Speaker 3: you would break it. That's so bad for the environment.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh what a piece of shit. That kid
Speaker 3: is is breaking styrofoam.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, where is it going afterwards? Anyway? You're
Speaker 5: not washing it off?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have I have rid Well. I use rid well.
Speaker 6: I got a giant bag of styrofoam because I just moved,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, I'm just giving it. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 6: just giving it to these genies that are Oh, I'm
Speaker 6: sure it's going to it's going to heaven after this service.
Speaker 6: I pay, however much for a week, and they take
Speaker 6: it to heaven, so I'm guilt free. They're just taking
Speaker 6: the dump just like the garbage truck will. But I
Speaker 6: pay an extra I no wage by guilt.
Speaker 2: You're told our garbage truck, we have recycling. But they
Speaker 2: dump it all in the same thing, and they're like
Speaker 2: it should be in the bag and it just gets
Speaker 2: steed sorted by the truck. I'm like, okay, this gets
Speaker 2: sorted by the truck.
Speaker 5: Not at all. No, it's for us to feel better.
Speaker 5: It's church. It's garbage church.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm praying the recycling into this bin. It's the
Speaker 5: same place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, recycling unclear whether the plastics I well, regardless, Vanessa,
Speaker 3: what do you think about the vanilla frost I agree that.
Speaker 1: We should bring back.
Speaker 3: I think the idea to have a separate like I
Speaker 3: think chocolate is the classic frosty and so vanilla is
Speaker 3: like the other was always like those were the two options,
Speaker 3: and that makes sense to me, and I think that.
Speaker 3: I think that having these seasonal flavors, like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: do you know anyone who would go like, oh, over
Speaker 3: chocolate or vanilla, I'll take an orange one. It's just crazy.
Speaker 3: It's like, are those the kind of customers you want Wendy's.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm gonna guess this is somebody that's hitting Wendy's
Speaker 6: two or three times a week.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right, And so they're changing it up.
Speaker 6: Also, vanilla just as a term, has gotten a bad rap,
Speaker 6: and now it.
Speaker 5: Stands true and flooring.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Now it's like, oh if I order that, what does
Speaker 6: that say about me? You can't identify with vanilla?
Speaker 3: But have you ever met one of those assholes who's like,
Speaker 3: my favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla and you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: or they go or they go such and such makes
Speaker 3: the truly the best vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 1: I'm like, take a break.
Speaker 5: I've been around the world.
Speaker 6: I've eaten I've eaten centry egg in Thailand, I've had bullute,
Speaker 6: I've had whale blubber. I've had whale blubber and anarchic.
Speaker 6: You know, my favorite thing vanilla ice cream? Is it
Speaker 6: that kind of asshole or somebody like, Nope, I don't
Speaker 6: need to know anything else.
Speaker 5: This is the one I like. Don't confuse me with flavors.
Speaker 2: I think that, Yeah, someone who's acting like they're so sophisticated,
Speaker 2: they're above even being sophisticated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's one thing to be Like, my
Speaker 3: favorite flavor of ice roan is actually vanilla. I know
Speaker 3: that's it's I know it's a simple flavor, but I
Speaker 3: love it. It's different to go like, the best ice cream
Speaker 3: is vanilla. You just have to get a really good one.
Speaker 5: I've tried a lot. I've had like a lot of them.
Speaker 3: I've tried every freaking flavor of ice cream, and the
Speaker 3: best one, honestly, is go back to the basics of vanilla.
Speaker 6: What are you guys doing drinking and drugging and having sex.
Speaker 6: I'm having a vanilla ice Cream of the Taste challenge
Speaker 6: at home tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, now's the time in the game where we each
Speaker 3: have to vote for the one we would sign, even
Speaker 3: though I think it's really obvious. Yeah, so I pose
Speaker 3: it to both of you and to myself, if you
Speaker 3: had to vote for one of these, make microwaves have
Speaker 3: mute buttons, make cupcakes a socially acceptable breakfast food, or
Speaker 3: bring back vanilla Frosty's, which would you sign?
Speaker 5: It's pretty obvious I want a vanilla Frosty.
Speaker 6: Now, yes, yeah, yeah, so do I Not only will
Speaker 6: I sign that, I think I'm going to go find
Speaker 6: a Wendy's.
Speaker 3: Well, good look getting a vanilla Frosty. I think last
Speaker 3: time we were here we're talking about this. I think
Speaker 3: your only option is right now? Are chocolate and orange?
Speaker 1: My friend?
Speaker 6: What is what happened to the green ones after Saint
Speaker 6: Patrick's day? Do they just throw them in the sewer?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Do they have green or is
Speaker 1: that a McDonald Is that.
Speaker 2: Like a shamramrock shake? But yeah, now they're pushing this
Speaker 2: or orange dreamsicle frosty.
Speaker 5: That doesn't sound bad though it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't sound that bad. Actually, well no, it does sound bad.
Speaker 3: It does sound bad really to me.
Speaker 1: But let's say this. You're going to Wendy's.
Speaker 3: You're like, I'm going to get a vanilla frosty, and
Speaker 3: they're like, your options. You can get an orange, aren't
Speaker 3: you gonna go? Ma am or sir get out of
Speaker 3: my respectfully?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 2: Which one of this sounds the best to you? There's
Speaker 2: an orange Dreamsicle. It's following in the previous seasonal success
Speaker 2: of Wendy Strawberry, Pumpkin spice and Peppermint Frosty's.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna come at you with this first off, Are
Speaker 6: either of you the type of trash that puts the
Speaker 6: fries in the frosty?
Speaker 4: No, I've done it before.
Speaker 6: Is it good or is it just like, oh, you
Speaker 6: tricked me? Is it like some great that it.
Speaker 1: Just tastes like fries with chocolate ice cream on them?
Speaker 6: Of course it does. Of course it does. And these
Speaker 6: people are trash that do that. I will say dreamsickle
Speaker 6: as a flavor if it's coming from the ice the
Speaker 6: ice cream Dreamsickle. It was orange on the outside with
Speaker 6: cream in the middle, so there is a vanilla component to.
Speaker 4: The ges it does.
Speaker 5: It's a vanilla base, You're right, it says it's a
Speaker 5: vanilla base with like hints of orange.
Speaker 6: You want orange, you don't want a clue behind the curtain.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you would sign this petition, but you're not.
Speaker 3: You're not as much of an orange dreamsicle hater as
Speaker 3: we are.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not going to go in there with a
Speaker 5: with a.
Speaker 1: Saber yeah and start trouble.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna go full falling down Michael Douglass and narrow.
Speaker 4: Go to Vanilla, get a buzz cut and go in
Speaker 4: there and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god, that movie was so big when we
Speaker 3: were younger, and I remember, Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's really funny except for the end.
Speaker 1: Jonah, what would you which position.
Speaker 2: I'm with Kyle and you, I think, yeah, I would
Speaker 2: sign the Vanilla Frosty Yeah, I yeah, Pumpkin spice Frosty
Speaker 2: does sound pretty bad. Dreamticle I think is higher up,
Speaker 2: but yeah, just have it on the menu. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know how big a frosty machine is, but
Speaker 2: just jamming in the corner or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know, do.
Speaker 3: Your seasonals, but have that Vanilla machine. I think this
Speaker 3: person has a very good point. You just have the
Speaker 3: Vanilla machine, So what do you think? Yeah, I'm signing
Speaker 3: this one. And honestly, and I want if the person
Speaker 3: who made this petition here's it. I want them to
Speaker 3: know there's a world where I would have signed them
Speaker 3: make cupcakes socially acceptable. And I say this knowing that
Speaker 3: like when you're in your own home, you can eat cupcakes.
Speaker 3: But wouldn't it be nice to have cupcakes as an
Speaker 3: option at like a brunch style of meal at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: But they didn't. They didn't convince me with their you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I want to see this person take take a risk
Speaker 3: on themselves and try their stand up out somewhere else.
Speaker 3: And in the meantime, I'm going to vote for Vanilla Frosty's. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've really silenced the room.
Speaker 6: Oh, it was just such a definitive statement. Yeah, we
Speaker 6: all poo pooed the muffin man. We know that he's Yeah,
Speaker 6: we know that. That's just a you know, proud of
Speaker 6: themselves creative writer who was like, Yeah, if you want
Speaker 6: to make something socially acceptable, you do it socially. You
Speaker 6: don't get a petition online done about it.
Speaker 2: You go down, go down to Saint Vitas, get on stage,
Speaker 2: tell some jokes.
Speaker 4: We all did it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yes, we've all done it.
Speaker 5: Kyle.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, actually, like, what do
Speaker 1: you think this would be?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Do you think this guy would go? Okay, I'm going
Speaker 3: to try and do it. Okay, and then you and
Speaker 3: then so muffins and cupcakes. Right, you can eat muffins
Speaker 3: for breakfast, but you can't eat hubcakes for I'm going
Speaker 3: they're the same shape, they got the same amount of
Speaker 3: sugar and calories and such. And I'm going next time
Speaker 3: I go out for breakfast, I want to have cupcakes
Speaker 3: on the menu.
Speaker 1: Now, Kyle, how would you do it?
Speaker 6: I mean, my personal style, I go back the other way.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I want to wrap up a nice I want
Speaker 6: to go to a birthday and wind down with a
Speaker 6: nice muffin afterwards.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know you're giving me. You're giving me so
Speaker 6: many options of sugary treats. It flips the reversal works.
Speaker 6: Give me a sweet treat in the morning, give me
Speaker 6: a nice something with brand in it after I've eaten
Speaker 6: a bunch of candy corn and gummy bears. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: we could flip the script. These things should be living
Speaker 6: in the set. I'm going logical. I'm not going comedy.
Speaker 5: Logical.
Speaker 3: I love the you can make some some kind of
Speaker 3: some kind of crap joke on top of that, you
Speaker 3: can go hey, and for anyone who doesn't know the thing.
Speaker 1: After I'm having my sweets, it's kind of what you
Speaker 1: hit on.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have some fiber because you know where that
Speaker 3: goes the toilet.
Speaker 6: You could even put a crap joke on it, like
Speaker 6: how you pitched it. Put a crap joke on there.
Speaker 4: I see, I'd go more of the pun root.
Speaker 5: Okay, John, let's try. Let's get I think we both
Speaker 5: figured that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, this cupcake, I gave it
Speaker 2: to my dog.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what is this a pupcake? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That doesn't really have anything to use the petition,
Speaker 3: but it's good.
Speaker 6: It's funny though. Yeah, what's a cup? You ever try
Speaker 6: to drink out of a muffin pan? It goes everywhere.
Speaker 6: That's not a cup. They're pancakes. But we already took
Speaker 6: that by things. These cakes, those aren't cakes and they're
Speaker 6: made well in a pan, all right, that joke dead end.
Speaker 3: I tried to make a big I tried to make
Speaker 3: a sheet cake and a muffin in a muffin pan
Speaker 3: and I had a bunch of little It wasn't a
Speaker 3: sheet cake. It was like a it was like a
Speaker 3: one eighth of a sheet cake, A bunch of them.
Speaker 5: Oh Buch made the whole sheet cake A real tired afterwards.
Speaker 5: Sheet count.
Speaker 1: I'm counting sheet cakes at night.
Speaker 3: You know, you know my problem with muffins and cocakes
Speaker 3: are they're the same thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, on that note, Kyle.
Speaker 5: I think you could get me. You could get mad
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just because you put frosting on it. Now,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's a it's a cupcake.
Speaker 5: No, thank you, what bitch, I know what that is.
Speaker 6: I know what you're doing. You'd be the know it
Speaker 6: all comic that's telling the truth. Yeah, you guys might
Speaker 6: not be ready for this. Cupcakes and muffins, same damn thing.
Speaker 5: Dog.
Speaker 1: I hope that.
Speaker 3: I hope that the guy who wrote this petition is
Speaker 3: gutting some ideas from this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you did basically just workshop this with some pros.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, free workshop.
Speaker 5: He's working on it.
Speaker 3: You know, this person should rate and review our podcast.
Speaker 3: But speaking of where people, Kyle, where can people find you?
Speaker 3: We know you have a new special.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm just on the internet under my name at
Speaker 6: Kyle Kanane on All the Stuff or Kyle Kanane dot.
Speaker 3: Com, Kyle Kanane dot com. And where can people watch
Speaker 3: where can people watch dirt Nat?
Speaker 5: It's on eight hundred pound Gorilla. It's on there.
Speaker 6: Well, you can find it on my website. It's you
Speaker 6: could buy it for ten bucks and you get it
Speaker 6: and you get like four download codes so you can
Speaker 6: watch a commercial free for ten bucks. Or April second
Speaker 6: will be on YouTube for free with commercials, you know,
Speaker 6: the way comedy is meant to be consumed, just interrupted,
Speaker 6: you know, they just they know where the punchlines are
Speaker 6: and they step all over them. So you can watch
Speaker 6: it that way for free, or you can get it
Speaker 6: and you get like a bunch of download codes to
Speaker 6: share with people. You can go in and have your
Speaker 6: own thing for Yeah, it's it's out there, boil of
Speaker 6: promoting myself.
Speaker 2: Well, I've been watching it and it's it's very funny
Speaker 2: and everyone, Oh, thank you should check it out. Yes,
Speaker 2: of course, yes, and yeah, that was so fun. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much for Kyle for joining us. Who knows I
Speaker 2: might open some dates for him in the future. I
Speaker 2: think I made a pretty good oppression.
Speaker 1: That's right. I think you made a pretty good showing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know you can talk to my agent
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