Roderick on the Line

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00:00:07 ◼   ► hello hi John [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► hi Merlyn how's it going good hmm yeah I [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► I made some eye I made some stunning [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► coffee today [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► Wow tell me about it well coffee around [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► here has been kind of kind of not that [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► good lately I've just been sort of just [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► phoning it in you haven't been doing as [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► much public speaking at appearances no I [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► just mean you have been getting gift [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► bags with free coffee in it right hmm [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► yeah but I've lately I've gone ahead and [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► just bought coffee [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► oh that's all yeah I know it's a bit to [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► hurt but I thought like that yeah but uh [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► but I haven't just been you know like I [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► use a coffee pot I don't know there's [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► nothing fancy about me I'm not you know [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► I don't think I'm better than you but [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► I've just not even been using the coffee [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► pot very very well I've just been sort [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► of pouring some coffee in do you have a [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► mr. coffee style drip coffee maker [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► that's right mm-hmm how much do you make [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► when you make coffee [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► I always make an entire pot is that [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► other convenience for knowing the [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► measurements or is that like an [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► aspirational pot I figure well it's it's [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► partly make all the bacon mm-hmm [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► we got to write an e-book at some point [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► Oh big Gulf bacon man [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► I always make all the bacon make all the [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► column I'll save these two strips for [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► that day that's definitely coming in the [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► next day or two or I want to make [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► exactly two strips of bacon yeah or like [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► sometimes people will stay over at the [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► house and I'll come downstairs in the [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► morning and they will have made enough [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► coffee for us both uh-huh I'm like what [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► you don't know what's gonna happen the [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► rest of this day what it's a power goes [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► out where exactly what the fuck enough [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► coffee it's it's another version of [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► packing a small bag which will [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► definitely be in our ebook or like you [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► know for me I know you're a fan of [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► noodles you you know you got me I used [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► to be a whenever I'd make steak I would [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► often make rice I still sometimes make [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► rice you [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► you got me into I remember one day I [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► said hey we're making steaks and you [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► really yeah steaks and I made steaks and [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► I served the steaks with some probably [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► some wild rice and he said no noodles [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► noodles and but you know I see you in [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► the noodles mistake I gotta tell ya I [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► have come around egg noodle with steak a [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► delight the fatter the egg noodle the [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► wider the egg noodle the bed of the [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► steak so I get him why'd I get him why [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► but here's the thing sometimes don't [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► think cuz you know I got a kid she eats [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► a lot of pasta products and I'll gonna [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► put some noodles in there here's the [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► amount of noodles to make if you've got [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► a bag a regular grocery store bag of [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► noodles you either make hardly any or [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► all of them yep cuz nobody wants a [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► quarter of a bag of egg noodles that [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► will never come in handy he'll let me [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► put a rubber band right let me let me [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► spend 25 cents on the ziplock bag for [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► this make all the noodles mm-hmm make [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► all the bacon pennies talking about [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► pennies yeah make all like an entire pot [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► of coffee every every time you make [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► coffee make an entire pot and leave it [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► either sitting on the counter until it's [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► done or if you're going away on a trip [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► for more than three days go ahead and [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► put it in the fridge but also like make [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► like make all the like a you know my [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► daughter's mother does a thing where she [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► will make some food serve it and then [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► keep some in reserve which i think is [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► great always keep a little bit in [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► reserve always keep you know two cups [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► back in the pot I mean of the produced [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► product or of the source material of the [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► produced product example well what's [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► your what you're thinking about in this [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► context is seconds or leftovers okay [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► mm-hmm if you get to the point in the [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► meal where you're like I couldn't eat [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► another bite then you've got a super [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► nice little lunch II sized leftover [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► throwing a throwing you're throwing your [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► snap top refrigerator glass uh-huh it's [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► not enough for like a big meal but when [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► you're when you're poking around [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► the fridge one o'clock in the afternoon [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► you're like ah all I want is an apple [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► really but then you're like oh look at [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► this mm-hmm look up look up ups of this [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► good stuff or you get done and you're [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► like I just want some more and you go [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► all right I got more cops said you kept [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► some in reserve kept some in reserves so [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► there's that on this once - Oh Stu you [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► can always use a little more Stu well [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► and you can always throw anything in Stu [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► that's called us to routinely I make [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► stew which is just all the stuff that I [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► don't want and wouldn't eat otherwise [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► kind of Pacific northwestern goulash [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► little bit every culture has a goulash [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► they do and it's one of the it's one of [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► the words that everyone understands even [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► if you go to Outer Mongolia you're gonna [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► find you're gonna say goulash and [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► they're gonna go oh yeah okay Peleg oh [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► yeah always at least around here has one [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► freezer burn chicken breast in it it [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► might have even one piece of fish that I [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► don't remember how it came here and I [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► don't know how to cook fish that never [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► survives my freezer cleanouts [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► my sanity saving freezer clean outs that [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► I occasionally do Trader Joe's packaged [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► so the portion is very modest it's way [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► too much for one person who doesn't care [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► that much tougher tilapia and it's it's [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► not even nearly enough for three people [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► who are not into tilapia it's there's no [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► good amount of tilapia you throw it away [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► you know tilapia is the only fish that [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► can survive in the Salton Sea I did not [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► know that Salton Sea has become so [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► polluted with the chemical runoff and [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► just like pure heavy metals that rise up [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► from the bottom of the earth it killed [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► everything if you go to the Salton Sea [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► the banks of the sea which is an [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► enormous sea still are I mean the [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► beaches are made out of dead and [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► decaying fish it's oh my god [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► these fluids are horrible kupaka well [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► this is very upsetting [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► yeah you can't baby around this enormous [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► see that you can barely see it across to [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► the other side without like crunching on [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► a thousand years worth of dead fish what [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► apparently mmm [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► tilapia thrive in that environment and [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► there are billions of them and did for [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► them yeah right it could cause me to [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► have new respect for tilapia of fish I [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► might add I had never heard of until 12 [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► years ago it's whenever garbage foods [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► that comes along every few years and [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► they say well today's gonna be the hand [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► caught tilapia certainly tilapia is [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► everywhere my sense of it was that after [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► the fishing collapsed off the Grand [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► Banks after we had absolutely over [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► fished to the point that the fish stock [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► could no longer survive that we had [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► caught so many fish they couldn't breed [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► with each other anymore [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► uh-huh and the fish went away in the [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► North Atlantic where formerly we've [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► gotten all of our fish you get all your [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► you get your caught up there right it's [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► your card you get your other fish that [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► you don't think about that much until [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► somebody names them and you're like oh [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► yeah that's a fish that's definitely a [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► fish all those fish up there and the big [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► big big fish the fish that have lived [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► 600 years and and and can like use just [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► a tiny little punching motion to break [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► their way out of a coffin [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► those fish smart fish all gone and then [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► all of a sudden tilapia a garbage fish [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► that can live in a polluted desert lake [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► suddenly that's on all the menus and [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► suddenly you can buy that by the bag and [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► I'm like hmm where all these tilapia [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► coming from I literally never heard of [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► this fish this is this is a very quick [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► derail here but but you enjoy fish like [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► if somebody makes it for you he makes me [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► a fish I will love it I think we can I [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► think you're the thin end of this wedge [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► for you and I don't want to make work [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► for you as you know I think what you do [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► is you go somewhere real nice I hear [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► they have fresh fish in Seattle this is [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► something that I figure and I don't know [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► if you get this but I think you should [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► get something like Gaya what's that [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► fancy one I like not haddock but oh I [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► just hadn't the name in my head what's [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► the one grouper good if you get a good a [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► grouper or similar [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► get a real meaty heavy fish fresh as [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► possible and come home and prepare that [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► with some butter [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► I think that's gonna remind you that [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► fish can be good so I did the other day [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► so I did buy an aspirational bag of [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► Trader Joe's tilapia fillets my god [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► never eaten any of those it's as big as [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► a sack of flour and add every time I [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► open the refrigerator I'm like it's like [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► playing a bill on the fridge that you [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► know you should also you should join a [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► gym like back in the 70s you put a pig [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► on your refrigerator to remind you're on [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► your diet yeah right likes you asshole [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► it's just like open the fridge and it's [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► just an alarm of all the serve you and [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► you put something in there you know it's [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► just gonna make you feel bad [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► so I said self mmm let's go let's go big [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► shot this is easy to buy and let's get [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► you know let's jump in here so I took [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► out what I thought was a reasonable [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► amount of these tilapias question are [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► they in a like a block or were they say [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► flash-frozen such that you could pull [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► one out like with a chicken breast [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► flash-frozen like a chicken brandeis and [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► I think I threw four of them yeah [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► they're small threw them into a pan with [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► some oil or butter I don't remember [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► which threw some salt and pepper on them [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► cooked them until they appeared to be [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► done ish and item that with some rice [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► rice saying hmm and and I was like not [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► bad not good not bad so the next time I [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► made a za terranes [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► mmm rice in a box new orleans-style [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► you make the rice in a box msg PI I'm a [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► huge fan of the saturate oh brother I [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► don't know look I got a whole [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► methodology with this man 3 sausage [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► buddy oh they're really good Jesse oh [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► I'm very happy to hear this I thought I [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► was I have been our mutual friend John [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► siracusa has made fun of me because [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► eat a lot of Zadar and rice with things [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► in it no no no they're great and and [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► it's another way to make stew right you [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► can just throw anything into is that [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► Naren swords that does he say you know [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► it's great in there I just give you a [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► quick tip if you got him I don't know if [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► you got him I I live in a house with [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► people so we have cherry tomatoes [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► sometimes or those little baby tomatoes [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► oh you put a bunch of those on top I [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► don't have those no do you like that no [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► but I do [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► oh wait a minute but one time I did have [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► a can a mysterious can of cherry [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► tomatoes I can of cherry tomatoes thing [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► I never would have purchased in my life [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► I have no idea Paul Sabourin brought it [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► here sign up no idea how it got in my [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► school and I did put it into his at [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► terrains [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► it adds the Missal aspect does it make [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► you sad I ran say no when it comes out [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► you you know a little bit of salt can be [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► nice I like to put a little crystal [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► sauce in when it's cooking [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► I'm just here I'll tell you once you I [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► got it I've actually done an entire [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► podcast about this I'm going to keep [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► this short but when it's done without [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► the boiling point right before you turn [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► down the heat on your side arounds [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► that's when you throw in a handful and a [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► half of cherry tomatoes and even if you [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► don't like tomatoes you're gonna [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► discover this adds the x-factor you do [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► know that it suggests it right on the [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► box as a surface tchen all right all [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► right okay okay I think I'm feeling it [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► I'm feeling it now cuz they get big they [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► must down oh they sure do they'll break [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► up it's I I think it has the the it's [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► one of the rare terrible foods that my [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► wife and I both like to have once a week [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► okay well here's life hack number 70,000 [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► hmm throw a couple of tilapias tilapia [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► in the SATA Rance [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► yeah and they just you talking about [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► leftovers here [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► no I'm saying go into your freezer bag [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► yeah and then the tilapia goes in and [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► then it gets you know it it becomes it's [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► not it doesn't disappear it's not like [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► tuna it chunks up and then you've got [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► what is almost let's call it a like a [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► fish stew or Coast copia call what's [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► called cioppino cioppino you know you [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► can go in there maybe grab a handful of [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► those little throw [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► shrimp stew oh and then you put some [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► shrimps now you know I've hacked 70 [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► thousand and fifty you know you throw [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► them in when they're frozen they're [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► gonna cook they're gonna cook right up [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► and they're not gonna overcook and get [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► all rubbery like a like a shrimp will do [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► who is the fuckin sophisticate no no you [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► are you're you're Johnny cioppino you're [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► mister making fish do it other people [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► are doing that the you know right now [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► how many people right now are making [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► fish doing home not many they're out [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► there making apps they're making apps or [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► they're making stomach and deluxe [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► hamburgers you know like super [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► hamburgers but I went to a beach party [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► yesterday and and the the cook the [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► barbecue was making hamburgers with [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► chopped onions in the burger scrunched [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► in the burger I've done that that's ham [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► first you saute the onions first and [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► then put Hanes and butter first so [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► they're real soft and he kind of small [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► enough so your daughter can't see them [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► and then they're in the burger and they [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► provide flavor without objection flavor [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► without objection let me ask you this [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► about the burger was it this is a [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► leading question so FRA forgive the [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► witness for considering this hostel it [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► was it a normal sized human burger every [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► one of those abominations this [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► deliberately made way too big because [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► men I would put this burger right in the [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► sweet spot between those two sides [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► that's a good spot when I walked over to [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► the barbecue I was like mmm nice big fat [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► burgers but I didn't say ah ya asshole [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► and then when it went on the bun it was [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► like right this is your girl goatee [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► you'll make those burgers whether you [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► want to or not you won't even notice [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► it'll be like Westworld you get I can't [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► see anything [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► you're too big you're not impressing [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► anybody that burned on the outside there [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► on the middle and they're too big to put [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► into human mouth yeah no I die I [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► wouldn't support that and my friend who [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► is throwing this party is not he's not [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► that kind of guy although he did [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► introduce me to the Yeti bag the Yeti [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► bag I know the any microphone I don't [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► know the Yeti bag Yeti bag is apparently [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► something I was not I've heard about [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► this it's very high-end right [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► I was zero aware of it yesterday and [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► then I became 100% aware of it somebody [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► is on a camping trip [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► i sat in the tent on my phone looking at [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► these for an hour these are so cool well [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► so at this beach party it's uh you know [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► this is a beach party that's behind a [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► door right so so it's not you know it's [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► not exactly like it's not the 1% but [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► it's not the 99% it's somewhere in the [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► 10% range to 12% area where where people [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► can have a beach that is behind the door [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► and my friend told this story about like [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► I ordered this yeah i ordered this yeti [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► bag online because it was you know like [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► $50 cheaper then because they're [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► expensive was cheaper than they would be [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► elsewhere and i was like that's why you [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► get things online and he said but i feel [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► like it just came from some like post [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► office box in alabama I feel like these [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► things got I got heisted from a from a [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► Cabela's watch that on the Amazon you [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► got to watch because sometimes you'll [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► get you get stuff it's you get like a [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► used cooler or like a aftermarket eBay [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► stock cooler well and so he's I mean [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► these were new right but it but [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► definitely felt like somebody in the [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► middle of nowhere just sending these [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► things out mannequins yeah a little [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► shenanigan but the thing arrived and my [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► friend apparently the trick about a Yeti [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► bag is when you zip it you zip it and [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► then at the end you have to kind of yank [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► it you gotta pop it mm-hmm that locks it [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► in it locks it in and once in the flavor [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► it locks in the cold I throw some dry [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► ice in there and you can be making ice [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► cream in this thing just put it in the [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► backseat of the car drive over the [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► mountains he's made ice cream it's so [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► cold in there and he didn't know he my [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► friend did not read the instructions [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► even though he I think maybe even looked [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► at a YouTube video and everybody said [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► you gotta yank it there at the end he [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► didn't and he said to this guy this [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► thing you sent me a defective bag gets [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► broken uh-huh and the guy in Alabama [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► miraculously are very responsibly sent [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► another bag and my friend sent his bag [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► the second bag arrived and have the same [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► problem than my friend it felt to him [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► like the zipper was stuck the zipper was [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► it was what it is is this when you look [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► at the zipper it looks like it's [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► misaligned that's part of the secret [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► sauce that's how it works [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► so my friend wrote back to a guy in [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► Alabama and he was like hey man I'm [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► sorry it was my fault I'm a dingaling I [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► didn't know how to do this so you know [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► I'll cover the shipping for both of [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► these things and sorry for the [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► inconvenience according to my friend the [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► guy in Alabama gave him a little bit of [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► what they call a little bit of the [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► Alabama razzmatazz uh-huh [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► said like oh yeah well what's up big [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► smart city guy can't figure out how to [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► use zipper dippers are complicated if [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► you know gave him some dim sum threw him [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► some shade uh-huh my friend was like [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► well I'm not gonna be friends with this [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► guy anyway so anyway let it ride he says [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► couple of weeks later or maybe a month [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► later the other yeti bag arrives back at [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► his house where the sign on the thing [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► says he nobody ever came to the [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► post-office box to pick it up return to [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► sender oh no so our cigars I called [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► ghosting John well who knows what it is [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► but Alabama ghosting I think Alabama I [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► think it means Alabama went to jail [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► oh now and so now my friend has to Yeti [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► bags and he rolls into his beach club [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► like mr. mr. conspicuous Yeti bag mr. [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► mister like parks his Mercedes and right [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► in front of the door New York City so [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► he's telling this story and then I'm [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► looking around the the looking around [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► the Country Club [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► there's Yeti bags everywhere because [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► it's within this tiny little subculture [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► of 12% earth that's the bag yeah you [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► gotta have and I was like wow wow I fell [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► into a micro scene did you get a foam oh [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► like a like a Ford yeah and I'm a fear [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► of missing out as the Millennials say oh [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► you know you should [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► did you feel backless no because uh I [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► don't ever pack things to take anywhere [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► else that I care whether those things [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► are hot or cold later episode it's one [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► thing you have your Filson bag for [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► travel it's another thing to go to a [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► cookout where you're gonna lose it as [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► easy as you lose your flip-flops [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► well that and also like gin general I [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► want my I want everything at room [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► temperature oh right [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► so if I was going to a barbecue and I [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► was taking a bunch of Meads I think I [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► would assume I was gonna get there in [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► time to cook it where it was it didn't [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► it wasn't a problem that I just threw [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► the meat into the bottom of a grocery [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► bag and I know you don't want a super [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► cold fresca I don't want a super cold [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► fresca I don't drink beer which is the [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► number one thing that people are like [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► wow you got to keep it cold and I'm if [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► I'm going somewhere and it's not like I [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► take three cokes with me that I want to [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► keep anyway I never use a cooler for [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► anything and I there's a little while on [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► tour where we kept a cooler in the van [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► which seemed like a you know a real like [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► Vanderslice ething to do like uh we're [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► really living it deluxe a little bit [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► deluxe like now we got cold this is your [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► this is your first day you know it's a [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► good idea to have something like this in [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► your van exactly except when you're on [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► tour it's so freakin boring that when [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► you when you are thirsty pull over [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► because you just want a chance to go [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► into the truck stop and look at all the [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► commemorative spoons uh-huh even for the [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► five minutes that it takes to like fill [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► up the gas and get a pop like the idea [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► that you're gonna put this cooler in [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► there and just like you're on a camping [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► trip I don't know it's not my is it we [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► ended up not using it that much mm-hmm [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► so I mean you know a cooler is [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► ultimately a cooler it does a it does [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► something for you but it also becomes a [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► job where like you now you've got to [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► keep ice in there and then the first [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► time somebody doesn't feel like putting [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► ice in there now you just you don't [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► really have a cooler anymore [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► and if you notice this now I am somebody [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► who likes a cold beverage if I'm at a [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► hotel I'll put a ton of ice into the [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► drink I think there's new I think [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► they're using new technologies to make [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► ice melt faster I'm pretty sure I think [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► a lot of the ice you see nowadays [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► because it's more easier to manage water [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► the liquid than a solid but that's the [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► thing that's the thing with a cooler a [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► cooler is a job and if nobody's really [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► that into it there's not gonna be [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► anybody who becomes the coolers are well [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► this is why I this is why I stopped [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► buying records at some point in the late [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► 80s because if you're buying records [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► then you got to maintain a stereo and if [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► you're maintaining a stereo then you got [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► to maintain an address and even if [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► you're even if you have a Walkman and [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► are listening to tapes you gotta have [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► batteries and for that basically you [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► might as well have an address if you're [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► buying batteries yeah and so I stopped [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► buying new music I stopped listening to [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► music on the Reg because it it suggested [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► this whole I mean you had to have a [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► lifestyle he had to have a lifestyle [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► that I couldn't maintain that's a really [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► good point and it seems like and then I [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► never regained the habit of buying music [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► because by the time I had gotten all the [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► way back to a place where it's like now [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► I've got a lifestyle I was in my early [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► 40s right it was too late music [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► alternating the creation of music not [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► consuming it that's right [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► it's job and so it cooler feels like the [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► same thing you got to keep the you got [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► have to keep the cooler cooler the [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► cooler coolant in the freezer freezin [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► it's in the freezer freezing to be the [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► cooler cooler huh and then you got to [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► store the cooler pushing that stuff you [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► need a place to put your stuff between [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► the football and baseball every day [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► somebody's more news who's never heard [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► George Carlin their whole childhood I [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► know I know something our late great [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► friend Leslie Harpold used to say this [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► and I say this every month or so just to [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► me one of the ways I can help keep her [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► memory alive she says I hate buying toys [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► for my toys [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► this gets into the John Roderick problem [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► this gets into John Roderick's île [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► problem is like this one thing to get [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► stuff and then it's another thing to get [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► a job for the stuff now you're taking [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► care of like a Tamagotchi right and like [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► now you need stuff for your stuff you [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► got to have dongles for your computer [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► you got to get subscriptions for your [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► computer you need a case for your [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► computer yep the first time I went to [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► get a case for my phone I felt like I [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► had really been fucking duped uh-huh [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► because I walked into the store and I [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► was like yeah I need a case for this and [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► they were like behold and and then you [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► know there was some wizard smoke and [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► then there's I think we might have a [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► couple here let's go look these things [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► and I'm like huh [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► I don't care about any of this I don't [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► want it to look like a block of wood I [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► don't want it to have a Pokemon on it I [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► just want a fucking case for and they [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► were like here's a nice case [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► seventy-five dollars or whatever it was [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► yeah and I said you're kidding me [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► first of all make the phone so it [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► doesn't need a case but second of all [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► why don't why don't they make the whole [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► plane out of black box all right so [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► anyway I do not want a Yeti bag oh I [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► don't have any use for it you can offer [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► on the extra bag you didn't say hey [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► here's 20 bucks let me take that off [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► your hands hmm one I have too many bags [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► and two come on this is a country clap [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► well I could people keep telling me this [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► people tell you that but don't [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► eternalize that well you know people [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► tell me I have too many like like the [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► drum major jackets these people say a [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► lot of things John OB there are MIDI [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► drum major jackets I don't a fraction I [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► will not hear this a bags are a good [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► thing I organized many of my bags just [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► this morning and it was a great feeling [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► yeah I definitely now have a big bag [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► full of little bags oh you know we yeah [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► that's what I did I can't buzz though [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► out of town and I I took all of my [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► packing cubes and I nested them not in [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► super nested them I've folded them [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► nicely zip them up and I put them all [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► inside of the very large cube and now [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► they're only going place my big problem [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► right now is the 20 [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► two pairs of Levi's problem hmm we've [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► discussed it before yeah I but I had the [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► 22 pairs of Levi's zipped in a big bag [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► that was in the back of a closet [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► somewhere and I pulled the bag out and I [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► was like what's in this big bag unzipped [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► it oh it's the 22 pairs of Levi's so I [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► pulled him out again and I went through [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► them again there's still 22 pairs of [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► Levi's about I would say about 12 of [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► them are made in the USA like oh oh it's [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► not hom meheeco no proper like 19 mid [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► 90s Levi's that I'm sure somebody [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► millions are proudly in the Mission [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► District one would guess yep yep except [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► every single one of them [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► I have blown out the crotch the rest of [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► the pants are fine it's a gift and a [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► curse I do the same thing yep the first [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► it came for the Space Pen and I said [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► nothing and they came for the iPhone I [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► said this is this isn't a thing where [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► it's like oh it's got a rip in the knee [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► this is blown out crotch yeah - eager [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► that you get a blown out crotch of like [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► a half inch to two inches and then you [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► get like a thread comb-over on the edges [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► yep and it's the hardest part of the [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► gene to repair I mean I I learned to use [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► a sewing machine just so I could repair [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► my jeans but to get in there and repair [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► the Crouch is really hard that's a tough [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► place that's like heart surgery for [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► pants yeah and then you're like well [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► I'll take it down to the seamstress [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► person the seamstress person is gonna [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► charge you $15 to do a repair or more so [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► then you're looking at 22 pairs of [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► Levi's each one is gonna cost you $15 to [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► fix to have now a beat-up pair of Levi's [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► that decide here's my algorithm if it [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► takes me a calculator to figure out how [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► to fix the crotch in 22 pairs of pants [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► is too much money okay so yes but I but [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► I'm but I'm back to the problem of [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► laying out these pants on the bathroom [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► floor and it seems like value the thing [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► seems to have value it's got a valence [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► the amount surely and also the [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► american-ness and also these are an old [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► and the he gay men's oh right there's so [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► much he gay in that bathroom you can [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► barely get in there you're pushing the [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► door and it's like the he gays pushing [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► full of striations and so it appears to [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► be it appears to have value mm-hmm and [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► so I'm very confused by them walking [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► around the house I've got I'm you know [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► I've got a palm on them on my forehead [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► going like what am I do go I can do [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► these things are like they're dragging [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► me can I can i repurpose might a lot be [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► a hack for this solution that's gonna [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► sound really obvious but I'm gonna toss [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► this out you know it's kind of the [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► opposite of making rice like that your [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► cat says you're not making grains of [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► rice you're making a rice it's the [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► opposite of that you get away from the [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► 22 and here's what you need to do you [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► need to go into a very large area of [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► your house and without prejudice lay all [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► of the pants down and then you need you [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► need to do like you did with your [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► passport you need to just listen just [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► listen because one of those pairs you're [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► gonna this is gonna take you five [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► minutes to get out of that mindset [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► you're in right now [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► five minutes later you're gonna hear hey [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► buddy [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► one of those pairs will speak to you and [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► you will know which crushed them and oh [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► one one pair one pair that's all you [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► need [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► here's how you say it you say to them [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► all with your with your mind bullets you [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► just say hi everybody [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► I know it's been a while you're all here [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► I'm glad we're all here together [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► first of all I just want to say none of [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► you need to be worried about this right [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► cousin all hands pants meaning none of [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► you guys need to worry but here's the [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► thing I'm just gonna stand here for five [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► minutes I'm gonna stand here I'm gonna [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► sit with this and I want one of you to [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► whisper with whom do I begin hey buddy [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► don't you think well I bet you want [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► speaks to you all right [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► you might do it your head is there one [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► pair that you remember who's he gave you [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► remember creating in the 90s that's [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► really speaking to you yeah all right [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► okay all right I'll look at I'll look [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► into this yeah I you know that doesn't [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► make sense from a like intellectual [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► standpoint I think it obviously [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► emotionally it makes sense but I think [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► it's very rational we can talk it is [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► very rational but it is the opposite of [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► make all the bacon right fix all the [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► Levi's this is the exception that proves [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► the pants I guess so all right okay I'll [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► give that a try I mean I have been [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► fielding I've been feeling like the 22 [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► pairs of Levi's is like a vest of geld [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► and somebody threw me over the book over [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► this side of the boat and it's like so [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► it's like Esther and heavy armor yeah [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► yeah it's it's it's it's a parable it's [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► parabolic [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► oh you know para we could smell a [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► parable coming down the road fucking [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► hate parables I hate parables because [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► first I realize that they're there and [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► it makes me mad and then I realize how [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► appropriate they are and it makes me [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► super funny and I realize that you're [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► right in the center of the parable you [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► you look around you can't tell who's the [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► parable because it's you know and the [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► parable just makes this noise hmm yeah I [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► know I know [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► he's like shit Here I am I'm sinking in [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► the river because I because I think that [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► my vest of geld is worth more than my [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► own life yep it's like it's like a Bible [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► parable oh it's absolutely this is like [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► something right out of Luke well you're [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► right but I think this is a philosophy [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► program so I mean I think you could you [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► can say yes make all the noodles yes [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► make all the bacon yes make all the [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► coffee but I feel like there must be a [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► corollary to that which is for example [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► let's make this a little bit Talmudic [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► forgive my French you go to the store [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► you can't buy every kind of coffee you [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► got to start somewhere and you got to [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► say to yourself you know I'm gonna buy [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► this coffee and if it doesn't work out [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► I'll try a different one it doesn't mean [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► I don't shop anymore it doesn't mean I'm [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► not gonna drink coffee anymore so I mean [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► but right there we there's there's a [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► there's a big difference I think this is [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► it this is another problem this is like [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► another part of the no Yeti bank problem [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► for me which is that if I go to the [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► store and buy coffee it is not with any [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► awareness or intention of quotes trying [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► this coffee to see if I like it [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► and to maintain an awareness that that's [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► what I'm doing long enough to make it to [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► the store the next time to either buy [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► the same stuff again having tried it and [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► like it or buy a different kind having [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► tried it and not liked it because wow [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► that's super interesting to me yeah [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► every time I go to the store it is like [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► I've never seen coffee before yeah I buy [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► it based on whatever imaginary criteria [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► are flying through my head at the like [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► five minutes before the grocery store [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► closes which is whenever I'm in there [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► and I'm like ah let's see [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► and I do a [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► do some kind of accounting based on is [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► there one on sale does that one seem [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► like it's on sale because it's cheap [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► coffee and I don't want it like it's [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► gotta be within the fancy enough for me [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► window right I'm a fancy guy I've got it [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► the coffee's gotta be feeling there's a [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► fancy not for me window is very familiar [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► to me I know exactly what you mean yeah [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► I'm not gonna just get Seattle's Best [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► Coffee I'm routing algorithm we're on [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► the one hand I mean this is this is [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► probably a stupid perception error but [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► on the way and you go this that's really [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► cheap there's probably pretty good [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► chance I won't like that on the other [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► end you go oh my god that's way too much [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► money I would never pay that and so that [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► naturally narrows you to that 80% in [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► between sure the fancy enough window and [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► then you fall for the thing where it's [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► like well this this brand has got like [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► like six feet of shelf space but over [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► here there's just two little bags of [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► something called San Francisco coffee [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► company more or the you know like the [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► Tillamook Valley coffee roastery and you [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► go that's gotta be artisanal or at least [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► special yeah it's special enough to be a [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► small group you know it's not a red can [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► of Folgers right or you know you're not [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► buying some illy in a in a silver can [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► just because the cans can is awesome [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► because because that's what you drink in [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► Europe and Europe and you're like not my [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► Paris wait a minute not my Paris no you [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► you're thinking to yourself I'm somebody [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► I'm somebody special that's got fancy [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► coffee in my you know European coffee I [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► don't even know if it's really as far as [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► like how much I enjoy drinking it it's [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► fine I would put it along the lines of [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► fancy enough a hotel room coffee or [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► coffee it's fine it's fine [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► I mean in Europe I feel like I've I've [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► had le coffee out of a vending machine [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► like I don't think it's fancy it's just [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► kind of great can but so I go into the [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► grocery store each time like a newborn [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► babe and I couldn't tell you the coffee [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► that's on the counter in my kitchen that [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► I'd wear I just left the house five [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► minutes ago [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► fascinating to me so I make no decision [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► ever based on like Zacha rains I know I [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► like and I don't need to go and look at [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► all the boxed rice dinners because I did [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► find a thing where it's like that's [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► great I'm gonna buy that [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► so that arraigned is an unusual example [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► of it's definitely certainly in the [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► fancy enough window but like it's also [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► that like I've had other brands of that [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► and they're not as good as this and if [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► you can drive all that and just put it [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► in the cart boom talk about rice-a-roni [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► oh you know i used to treat it is it is [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► I used to like Hamburger Helper [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► sometimes that could that can be good [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► but my contra concern here and this just [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► shows you how broken inside I am it's [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► like I just worry about missing okay so [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► here's what I hate what I hate is when I [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► get something and I bring it home and I [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► go oh crap you know oh because of the [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► way this branding and packaging works I [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► mistook this for something else so [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► classic example fat-free half-and-half [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► no no why is that even in a store and [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► what is it least so much like regular [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► half it's like making a toy that's like [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► I haven't a toy gun right next to a real [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► gun and going help yourself yeah it's [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► it's so bad and so I but I you know and [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► I've learned my lesson I've learnt it [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► like here's the thing [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► stop and look at it cuz here's what [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► would happen what if I do that twice in [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► a row what if I actually go to the store [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► I accidentally buy fat-free half and I [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► bring it home I go yeah I go back to the [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► store I pick up something oh guess what [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► I just bought fat-free half-and-half [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► again because it was nothing tension [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► that's going through my head is like [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► what if I keep accidentally buying like [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► a wrong thing and there's too much [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► latency between the purchase and the [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► attempted consumptions together that's [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► just me that's just me yeah I'm admiring [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► you I'm admiring you at this point you [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► care so much about the things in your [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► home you're 22 pairs of Levi's you can [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► walk into a store with Zen Zen mind [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► beginner's mind just give me some coffee [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► every time and I do it with bread too I [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► walk in you know there's a eight [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► thousand kinds of bread and every time I [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► swear to you every time I stand there [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► and I say well twenty two seed bread has [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► 22 seeds that's you know that's like 13 [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► more seeds than not the same for every [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► pair of Levi's but wait a minute what if [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► the what if 22 is too many kinds of [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► seeds and what you real [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► just water the basic nine seeds and [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► what's this you know squirrely bread I [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► feel like I've had that before bad if [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► you stand there and do that and you [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► actually think about it for more than [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► about 90 seconds in my case I feel [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► absolutely insane and all I all looks [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► the same and different and I feel like [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► I'm tripping this is but their potato [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► buns and but no wait a minute that why'd [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► you put the potato hamburger buns next [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► to the hot [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► what taxonomy is happening here was [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► there twenty two seeds in this bread [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► well and I feel like each time that I do [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► this and then I arrest that tendency I'm [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► at the top of the log ride at Disneyland [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► I'm about to get on and go down the log [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► ride and then I say you know what pick [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► one and then I reach and I pick one of [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► the numbers of seeds or one of the [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► numbers of other components in a in a [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► thing nuts nuts Aziz okay go and I so I [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► feel like I have conquered every time I [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► do that calculation I do feel like if I [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► go in by rote and pick the thing that I [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► always get mm-hmm then I'm also I'm [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► potentially making a grave error in [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► missing missing the missing something in [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► the variety and so I make that you know [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► I I do that calculation each time right [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► and I'm and I feel somewhat confidence [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► that I got the most suitable thing at [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► that moment for me in this John you're a [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► traveler you're a seeker yeah I mean you [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► still you're traveling in a grocery [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► store you're walking through Europe [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► except it's a it's a safe way well so we [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► go to the same Mexican restaurant for a [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► family dinner periodically and everybody [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► at the table gets the same thing over oh [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► right that the three ladies get shrimp [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► tostadas a thing I love Mike okay man [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► shrimp toast on I don't even know what [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► the I don't I honestly don't know what [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► that is [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► I've gotten one because this is my thing [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► at the Mexican restaurant el farol mmm I [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► go in and the waiter knows us he sees a [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► good he's good man good friend and he [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► knows that he's gonna get out three [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► shrimp tostadas one cheese enchilada her [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► chichi bean and cheese burrito [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► quesadilla with no cheese for the child [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► please oh and she's adamant like no rice [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► double beans all right whatever you know [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► he'd take it you take it as it comes but [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► then he knows that I'm gonna pick a [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► different thing off the Michigan ah the [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► the the pot beans or refried what'd she [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► get she wants whatever beans he got [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► black beans she is mine black bean [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► doesn't mind it likes it she does not [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► want any kind of rice no matter what [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► interests and I'm like it's an a you [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► know how do you not like rice doesn't [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► like potatoes don't even put them on my [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► plate [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► don't put them on the table she doesn't [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► want potatoes either god bless her but [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► she's just extended that didn't fall far [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► from the tree [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► well they have the potato tree that's [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► another place that you have to look for [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► the potato tree yeah that's where the [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► wild things are [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► well you when you go to a restaurant [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► John Roderick it seems to me you do go [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► out of your way to to the extent [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► possible unless it's part of the [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► tradition of the place like when we [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► would write a dim sum place our IP we [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► would always get the same thing because [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► that was part of our thing that we did [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► but you you go to the same restaurant [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► you get you deliberately you search [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► through your mind you want something [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► different every time and I will get [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► things that I don't that I am almost [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► certain I don't like right like I am NOT [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► a big fan of a mole a sauce let's just [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► be honest you know I've been to Oaxaca [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► I've had the mole a I've been to the [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► where the mole a comes out of the ground [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► in Springs is that right mo sighs yeah [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► and I had the mole a Springs the famous [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► male Springs of Oaxaca [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► Wacka Wacka but I do not want it because [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► leave it you know don't get your [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► chocolate in my peanut butter I don't [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► understand the whole male phenomenon [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► so I don't want that but always like the [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► wine of Mexican food it's like something [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► you get to be real pissy about because [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► you know stuff and you go way beyond the [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► fancy enough window fuck that fuck that [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► is that right do you know people that [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► are fancy about mold way people are [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► fancy about everything John it's it's [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► they know they know they can capitalize [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► on how little somebody cares about [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► something obscure that they can become [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► an expert about nigga well actually how [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► it's found in their shade of that potato [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► tree I mean yesterday I went to a beach [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► that was behind a door I got I got a no [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► is this anybody I know well so I have a [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► good palate if somebody you know I have [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► a good pal who's in there he's in the [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► business let's call it season he's in [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► the business where this house I insulted [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► it's not him is it no no no some drinks [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► at night no that is that was 120 percent [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► justifies that's when you spent on the [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► streetcar and and Ben took us to meet MC [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► Hammer wasn't it I spin on a streetcar [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► and I tweeted about it and then the San [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► Francisco streetcar Twitter account was [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► so bad right and and and that Twitter [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► account and I still communicate with [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► each other at least did before I got on [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► I would let you work things out okay so [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► somebody who's in the business who has a [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► bitch behind a door and she's not our [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► business this is not he's not a business [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► of show no he's not in your business he [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► is in our business oh and it's a kind of [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► business that is show business adjacent [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► let's let's call it this it's a creative [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► he used the home of a creative so this [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► friend of mine is a creative and he is a [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► creative in the sense in in a way in [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► which there are instances where he would [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► actually describe himself as a creative [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► in a room where he would never break [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► character and and everybody in there [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► would nod because yes we that's how we [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► talk but he also could be in a place [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► with me and know not to say not to use [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► the word creative that way but he's not [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► one of those people that's living a [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► double life he is himself everywhere he [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► goes self everywhere that he goes he's [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► himself everywhere he goes he's not a [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► guy that's like sometimes uses the word [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► creative and then when he's with his [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► friends he rolls his eyes at the words [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► they say is not in our [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► management he no he's not a faker mm-hmm [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► it's just that he understands he's smart [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► enough to know when you're with a group [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► of people that are don't talk that way [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► you don't talk that way right [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► that's smart if that's what you know [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► that's good for most careers and not all [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► of us take up that mantle that's that's [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► a good way to roll sure sure right you [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► don't you don't open the kimono in a [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► room where nobody's wearing a kimono [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► mm-hmm full of kimonos that's a very [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► awkward thing to ask of people sure [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► don't do that either but if you're in a [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► room and there's a there and you're [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► talking to some VC people and it's a and [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► it's a deep dive or a drill down yeah [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► it's a scene from the movie Facebook dot [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► or Facebook yeah that's a very good [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► movie yeah right David David filter [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► that's web 2.0 but what what we have [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► here is a failure to communicate any man [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► doesn't put a spoon back so anyway so he [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► is a member this is the thing he's in [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► business yeah he's in the business [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► he's are creative and he feels like [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► because of his position as a as a member [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► of the creative class who is also a [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► member of the business class that he [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► needs to be a member of a lot of things [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► because because networking yeah right [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► it's like hey we got to have a meeting [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► with this and he's like oh well why [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► don't we go to X thing that I am a [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► member of and then the person who's [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► doing business with them is like mm-hmm [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► this guy's aha this guy's a roller this [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► guy's a player [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► oh they this this person speaks my [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► language sure this is this world that [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► I'm always talking about sort of having [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► a toe in this from your father you learn [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► from your dad you're a member you're a [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► member of this you remember that that's [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► how when it's time to make a deal make a [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► plan it's like Oh or you remember oh I'm [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► a member for long enough I'm pretty soon [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► generals you're doing a dance about you [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► in drag that's right and actually [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► frankly now Merlin yeah I have had [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► Admirals do a dance about me so oh we [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► you know what we should circle back to [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► that I want to hear how all that went [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah there's a lot of talk I [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► hope we didn't do anything to damage the [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► relationship of last year's host because [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► I was very sad I was like within days [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► of us talking about that nice couple [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► they announce them we're going to be [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► together anymore my good name names but [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► the people who had the people who were [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► the king last year yeah I hope we didn't [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► do that dance for you and this is a [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► person who's industry adjacent who knows [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► when to use creative kimonos and knows [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► when to not yep and who has the social [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► lubricant see to know which kind of [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► places to take people when deals are to [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► be cut in lines that are dotted need to [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► be signed that's right and he has leaned [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► in right leaning but but he also knows [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► mm-hmm [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► yeah wall to who hid buy cheese that's [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► right right he knows on a Tuesday [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► afternoon mm-hmm he knows how to hide [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► the cheese he knows where he had the [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► Dinos it you gotta remember where you [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► put it when you moved it that's right [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► and he knows who's cheesie's movement [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► that's the book I want to read I move [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► your cheese fuck you exactly you wanna [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► know where your cheese's yeah you talk [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► to me B I'm not telling you where your [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► cheese's so he's a member and he has he [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► said he's confided in me he's like you [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► know this all this membership and it's [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► it's fucking breaking the bank [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► I don't want to be members of all these [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► things it's expensive did you get used a [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► lot but it's but it's a business expense [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► because I cuz pretty much you gotta be [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► members in these things because if [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► somebody hires Beyonce to play as [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► daughter's 16th birthday party yeah am I [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► gonna not be a member of that or am I [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► gonna be a member of course I'm gonna [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► remember yes so she's very talented she [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► is and it's very expensive to hire her [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► to do things oh also honest on that [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► topic just very briefly him on the on [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► the program I do with damn Benjamin I [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► don't have a ton of podcasts I'm not [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► like some people yeah but I have one [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► other one yeah with your good friend Dan [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► Benjamin he just shook off road work [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► which he can find it 5x5 TV that's right [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► any a Dan is a guy that you introduced [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► me to yes I said on that program that [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► you know I don't like playing shows [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► uh very much but if somebody wants to [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► pay me to play a show I'm not gonna say [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► no right you're not gonna stone right [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► and Dan says Oh what does that mean and [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► I said well like that's that birthday [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► party I played for the Starbucks guy the [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► only reason I played the Starbucks guy's [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► birthday party I mean he convinced me [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► that he was that the long winners were [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► his favorite band mm-hmm but he but he [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► also he said I want you to play my [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► birthday party and I said that's not a [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► thing that I will ever do and he said [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► how much would it cost to have you do it [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► and I so then you're familiar with this [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► concept yeah my car I'm already familiar [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► with this concept right the fuck you [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► money right you say well pay me fuck you [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► money [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► it's an event event you don't want to do [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► for people you're not necessarily that [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► attached to you're pretty sure it'll go [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► badly it might be disruptive it's any of [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► those things the red flags are flying [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► everywhere on the field and you go well [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► and the thing about you is I remember [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► when you started introducing the concept [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► of fuck you money and people started [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► paying it to you and then you were like [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► you know what I'm gonna charge even more [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► fuck you money because I don't want to [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► do these things and people paid you that [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► well I mean it started a pretty small [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► level but yeah but pretty you got to up [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► to some fucking money and then I then I [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► was there I remember the day when you [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► were like there is no amount of fucking [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► money you could buy me a boat and I [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► still won't do this because because [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► that's a whole show but you gotta know [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► you got to know when I say what you're [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► worth I don't I mean partly yeah I mean [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► with the market and yeah i partly mean [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► like what's what's fair to everybody but [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► it's also like the 10,000 things you [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► will not be doing when you're doing that [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► thing and the maybe 50,000 things you're [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► not doing in the run-up to that because [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► they can't pay a deposit yeah yeah well [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► so anyway immediately after that show [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► airs I get an email from from a nice gal [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► and she says uh I want you to play my [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► eye we heard your podcast I want you to [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► play my husband's I want you to play for [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► my boyfriend I guess she said Wow [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► and I was like I wrote her back and I [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► said listen you sound like a nice lady [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► yeah but I don't think you were reaiiy [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► don't think you heard what I was saying [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► there's no way I'm gonna play for your [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► husband or your boyfriend because [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► there's just it's just [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► I you know like I don't want to I don't [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► want seriously thank you for writing and [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► she wrote back very calm and cool and [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► she was like but seriously like how much [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► how much mm-hm and so I wrote her back [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► and I said look here's the thing [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► plumbers make bids musicians consider [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► offers oh I see so I'm not gonna bid on [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► this thing that you want like a because [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► I'm not you know you just moved her [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► cheese I just moved the cheese a little [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► bit move the cheese because what you [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► don't want to do is say uh two hundred [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► dollars to somebody who was thinking [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► twenty thousand dollars right because [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► then they're gonna go oh shit yeah [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► moneybags let's start first if you say [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► twenty thousand dollars to somebody that [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► was thinking $200 huh [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► you know really get you yeah there are [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► out on now they're on LiveJournal right [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► now writing a blog about your about your [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► writer anyway so I said you know make it [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► bit so she comes back nice gal makes a [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► bid and I was like huh that's in the [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► ballpark okay I didn't immediately turn [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► you off or make ego no it was it wasn't [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► it was in the ballpark so I wrote her [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► back and said you know throw like three [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► five pound bag of M&Ms and and your [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► engagement ring and and we got a deal [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► and she was like done just like one word [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► done mmm [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► can I remember and so it was for the [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► next day or two days later so I got in [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► my car and I drove several hours to this [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► place and I show up and I walk into this [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► house and none of the people knew I was [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► coming except for her well wait a minute [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► it was a situation where they were about [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► ten or eleven people there they're like [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► seven guys and four women and I think if [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► I'm correct all the women knew that this [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► was happening oh what a nice present yes [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► none of isn't and they were longtime [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► fans and I sat down in the living room [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► and there were two grown-up men that [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► were in your in my age range this is [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► gonna turn into a key party and then [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► - then like three of their sons who were [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► between nineteen and you know thirty or [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► something huh and everybody knew [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► everything right they all knew all the [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► songs they all knew all the podcasts oh [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► what a dream and I sat down and I was [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► like hi nice to meet you and they were [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► and you know and the wives were teasing [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► them the wives were like they're [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► freaking out right now that you can't [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► tell but they're freaking out and the [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► guys were did not appear to be freaky [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► and they were to help yeah they were [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► like but there wasn't even that like [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► honey [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► knock it off they were just like they [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► everybody seemed normal super normal [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► and also like super great I sat down and [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► I was like all right what do you want me [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► to play and between them they each [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► pitched a few songs all of the songs [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► totally great like totally unexpected [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► choices and each time I was like alright [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► well that was great now what about the [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► next song somebody came up with another [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► and they weren't trying to be obscure [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► they were naming their favorite songs [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► and it just so happened that it was a [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► completely great weird setlist that I [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► never would have otherwise played a [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► couple of them I could I had to remember [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► how to play as I was playing them played [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► played the the set and then the you know [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► like chief gal in charge was like [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► alright well that's great now we got to [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► go because we're meeting some other [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► people because there's a wedding this [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► weekend and so it wasn't it wasn't [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► secretly a hangout opportunity well and [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► so that's bad that's bad but she was [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► like she was like that was great done [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► and done and I said and they were like [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► going to dinner at some food truck [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► Corral or something I said hey you know [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► what I'll join you guys for dinner [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► because they said we're good fine and [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► it's not like well I mean we went to a [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► food truck growl and each got our own [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► food and then sat together 1/8 off paper [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► plates but but and I brought you know I [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► brought some gifts I brought I brought [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► her boyfriend a couple of candles things [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► I could see you being so good at this [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► and and then I was back at my car and I [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► was back home by midnight and I was like [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► oh that works there just is that you [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► know like all I had to do was say that I [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► would do it and then somebody basically [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► understood that that was a [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► dare and said all right sure like this [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► would be worth it for me to have you do [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► this as a gift to the people that I love [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► and did it just she she was just [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► nonplussed I mean I I basically wrote [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► her a couple of times it was like lady [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► like go away and she was like no not [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► gonna go away tell me what you tell me [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► and I was like ah fine and then by the [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► end we were like fine both of us and it [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► was super fun it would actually ended up [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► being very fun it was nice to meet these [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► people I enjoyed their choices [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► I brought him to candlesticks Wow two of [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► those a week buddy right be nice to [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► those a week that's all you need [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► well shit to a month I'd be happy hmm so [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► anyway that was a very I mean a little [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► bit of a digression but not know I [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► realize I hope in her for me about like [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► right right right there is a there is a [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► place out in space an x-point where [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► somebody says cuz there are a lot of [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► people even people listening to this [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► program right now who are like maybe [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► he'll come play my birthday party for [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► $200 and I will not and it's not a thing [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► we're only rich people get good things [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► because you can get a Yeti bag for free [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► from a guy in Alabama if you just play [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► your cards where we come to hodgman's [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► corollary which I don't totally buy into [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► but I respect for John Hodgman hodgman's [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► corollary is that the corollary to I'd [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► never hurts to ask [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► as you know what is a hodgman's [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► corollary oh who says I give you $200 [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► yeah that's more money than I would ever [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► give for something like this so guess [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► what now you're not getting paid you're [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► spending that time and guess what now [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► you're the asshole yeah yeah well I [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► always tell the story about the time [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► that I had saved up 500 dollars to give [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► you for building the long winters [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► website and and I was like Stan I was [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► like basically standing there with it in [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► an envelope behind my back like I'm [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► gonna blow merlyn's mine and give him [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► $500 to talk to you about the website [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► and you said let me stop you right there [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► I built that website because I love you [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► and I love your band and if you are [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► let's say for instance hand me an [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► envelope like let's say for instance [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► five hundred dollars in it it would just [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► be hard for me and you both not [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► discharged is dead so let me just say in [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► this instance let me just dissuade you [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► if that is even what you're about to [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► start talking about five hundred dollars [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► and it just went into the so arrogant [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► I'm so sorry [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► knows it was very instructive work I did [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► for you is between twenty-five and fifty [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► thousand dollars worth of work and I [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► would never ask you to pay for it but [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► also yeah you're talking about this [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► since the our first public broadcast [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► together on my old video show that in [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► many ways are our businesses such as [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► they are are very similar and one of the [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► ways in which they're similar is that [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► nobody wants to pay you a because be it [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► all seems really easy and fun right like [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► oh you really love playing your music [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► you get to travel you get to meet people [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► you could craft services and you know [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► that's that we used to be a real [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► struggle for me and so when I would [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► throw that particular shape that is on [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► the basis of the preceding 15 years of [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► going sure I'm just glad you love me $50 [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► should be more than enough and what the [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► thing is if you do that gosh guess what [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► a nice guy what a nice guy he made the [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► site for this mall for $50.00 what a [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► nice guy the thing is now I mean you [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► have turned your life into a living hell [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► how many people how many clients like [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► that can you afford to have before you [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► just simply don't have a life anymore [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► well it might know the realization I had [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► somewhere along the line which was when [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► people said oh all we can afford is this [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► we'd love to have you yeah and then you [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► write they say that's that's the red [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► line this is it as much money there's no [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► nickel more more and you write back and [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► say the leather the smallest amount I [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► could do it for is twice what you're [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► offering yeah and they're like okay I [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► think we can make it work and you go oh [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► I see everyone's a liar I guess I didn't [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► know that before I mean I should [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► Posey's wrote that song everybody [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► fucking sick of getting shortchanged [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► yeah they were like shit are you kidding [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► me all this time there was twice as much [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► money [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► money [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► let me go ask my manager uh uh asteroids [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► yeah so I'm not above saying to somebody [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► um would you leave your job and wife and [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► daughter to fly across the country for [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► three days for this amount ago well of [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► course I would I said well then that's [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► not smart because if you really thought [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► about that that's not such a good deal [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► yes you make in a day of your work at [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► your job yeah that's right so so anyway [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► yeah now I'm now I'm trying to figure [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► out like yeah there's uh you know [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► anybody you need these they're not a [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► sponsor this week but you need a [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► Squarespace one-page website John's [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► bespoke entertainment services hmm and [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► don't don't overdo it you should [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► probably have a kid maybe an intern who [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► monitors this for you and you just say [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► make me an offer [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► here's what I'll do I'll come and hang [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► out play some songs you know what I'll [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► do I'm John Roderick I'm just fuckin [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► Roderick yeah but see here's the thing [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► right I mean I have a relationship with [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► a booking age and I don't want to [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► formalize this process because because [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► at a certain point he's gonna say are [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► you playing house show house shows are [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► you bitches on not a thing I'm do I do [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► not play out shows here's the thing boy [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► you ain't with Dave would that be fun oh [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► my gosh [TS]

01:01:09 ◼   ► what it be is it would be we would be [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► splitting an amount of money that's [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► already too small but the thing is I [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► don't play house shows I did not I would [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► never come down to a town to play a show [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► for your boyfriend no I wouldn't do it [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► something I see right in rare instances [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► I will do it but it's the rare instance [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► it's not a thing that I'm like hey I'm [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► putting out my shingle I'm open for [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► business here you know I'm I know what I [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► would draw the suggestion you're [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► absolutely right [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► sorry Squarespace no it's all right I'll [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► have Squarespace first do something else [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► because I got it because right now I've [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► got it I've got a lot of assistants I've [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► got a lot of assistants that are queuing [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► up watch some great some great great [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► assistants huh because I put the call [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► out for assistance again oh no chime oh [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► I don't just I feel like don't have [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► anybody move I got I got 22 pairs of [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► Levi's are they local then Levi's yeah [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► they're in the bathroom floor okay what [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► what about the potential assistance [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► babies is it gonna be somebody in Wales [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► most of them are in other places but [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► there's one person that's in Seattle I'm [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► like your personal Cassandra I cut out [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► all the parts where I warned you about [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► things John I cut it all out I cut it [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► all out [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► I I you know you know the supercut I [TS]

01:02:32 ◼   ► could make up are you really sure you [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► want to do that if that goes perfectly [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► that assistant come over they're gonna [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► say let me take care of these jeans for [TS]

01:02:59 ◼   ► you boss and then they're gonna come [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► back all perfectly repaired [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► oh my go how did it happen how did you [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► do it and they're gonna say they're [TS]

01:03:05 ◼   ► gonna they're gonna like Winkle their [TS]

01:03:07 ◼   ► nose like a little genie yeah and I'm [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► gonna go what the Wow I got the best [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► assistant ever [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► you know you know and it definitely [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► won't be what it definitely won't be if [TS]

01:03:18 ◼   ► somebody's not making enough money to [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► really put their back into it kind of [TS]

01:03:21 ◼   ► half-asses it and then doesn't doesn't [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► really do it right you got to do it [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► yourself again that won't happen no [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► training program you'll set up some [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► desks people come in right well so I did [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► do that that didn't work but what's nice [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► about so far everybody that has replied [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► seems like a very professional person [TS]

01:03:40 ◼   ► with a lot of talents and skills if you [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► look at their Facebook pages yeah mostly [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► and they all seem like they're all legit [TS]

01:03:48 ◼   ► their jobs you look for complaints about [TS]

01:03:51 ◼   ► old jobs I feel like it's a situation [TS]

01:03:54 ◼   ► where they're like look I can build this [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► website for you for $50,000 or for free [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► which one do you want yeah I don't know [TS]

01:04:00 ◼   ► I don't know it free I haven't gone I [TS]

01:04:03 ◼   ► haven't gone deeper with anybody yet [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► I've gotten the emails I've written them [TS]

01:04:07 ◼   ► bet back I think mostly I wrote [TS]

01:04:08 ◼   ► everybody back and said Wow amazing you [TS]

01:04:11 ◼   ► seem amazing cuz they all did you need a [TS]

01:04:13 ◼   ► dick chaney you need somebody to be the [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► assistant who helps you pick out who [TS]

01:04:16 ◼   ► your assistant should be well this is [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► the problem the last time that happened [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► she picked out herself full Cheney yeah [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► she did [TS]

01:04:25 ◼   ► quoting that correctly yeah he said the [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► best candidate for vice president is me [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► and then he was the starting 60 war that [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► is man-sized vault in his office yeah [TS]

01:04:45 ◼   ► incredible incredible that's still an [TS]

01:04:48 ◼   ► incredible story to me that the entire [TS]