Roderick on the Line

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00:00:28 ◼   ► hello hi John hi Merlin was going oh

00:00:33 ◼   ► good good good happy monday thank you

00:00:39 ◼   ► happy mondays

00:00:40 ◼   ► yeah um are you good

00:00:44 ◼   ► yes you have any and exciting new Apple

00:00:48 ◼   ► events well i'm reporting live from the

00:00:52 ◼   ► floor here at the major apple event may

00:00:56 ◼   ► be beating we have updated the terms of

00:00:59 ◼   ► service

00:00:59 ◼   ► yes I've seen it it's amazing it's

00:01:02 ◼   ► amazing that you agree

00:01:04 ◼   ► what choice do I have whoa-oh what you

00:01:08 ◼   ► got

00:01:09 ◼   ► I just agreed and you wouldn't believe

00:01:11 ◼   ► what happened no you have to be a

00:01:14 ◼   ► millennium to understand this breakup

00:01:15 ◼   ► story you have to be a nineties kid to

00:01:18 ◼   ► know how to use iOS 10 is tens need to

00:01:20 ◼   ► send you some stickers

00:01:22 ◼   ► listen I haven't upgraded yet know and I

00:01:25 ◼   ► keep hearing about it

00:01:27 ◼   ► oh it was problematic no no no the

00:01:30 ◼   ► opposite

00:01:30 ◼   ► oh it's amazing like like Buddha and

00:01:34 ◼   ► somebody says oh sorry i was just

00:01:35 ◼   ► watching my phone like tell me my own

00:01:39 ◼   ► future and I was like wow does it do

00:01:41 ◼   ► that

00:01:41 ◼   ► yeah you're probably doing is just

00:01:43 ◼   ► taking messages from people that say set

00:01:45 ◼   ► with lasers be getting that were sent

00:01:47 ◼   ► with confetti

00:01:48 ◼   ► mhm no I'm gotten that yet i'm doing how

00:01:52 ◼   ► r l talk about i'm walking down the

00:01:54 ◼   ► street with people IRL who lurk durban

00:01:57 ◼   ► yet on phone and it's like why you here

00:02:01 ◼   ► even lurp more than you normally do

00:02:03 ◼   ► it's fun it's really fun hey is that now

00:02:06 ◼   ► let me ask you this is a resolution

00:02:07 ◼   ► higher they increase the resolution from

00:02:10 ◼   ► 1028 peepees to 400,000 let's get the

00:02:16 ◼   ► update you'll see it sets about 1029

00:02:18 ◼   ► peepees uh-huh yeah you want to get as

00:02:20 ◼   ► many cookies as you can on screen that's

00:02:22 ◼   ► why it's waterproof the it's a lot of

00:02:25 ◼   ► fun

00:02:26 ◼   ► there's a lot of neat stuff this is uh a

00:02:29 ◼   ► except for you who seems like poison

00:02:31 ◼   ► with electronics it's a fantastic very

00:02:34 ◼   ► solid update suit

00:02:37 ◼   ► yeah that's the stickers are fun there's

00:02:39 ◼   ► a there's a there's lots of stickers and

00:02:41 ◼   ► and and then there's and there's an app

00:02:43 ◼   ► you can get where you can remember your

00:02:45 ◼   ► favorite animated gifs and easily add

00:02:47 ◼   ► them from any of your devices really you

00:02:48 ◼   ► can you can add gifts mm-hmm

00:02:51 ◼   ► just click so I'm gonna do a good gift

00:02:55 ◼   ► yeah well you know I've always this is

00:02:58 ◼   ► minus thirty secret yeah always been

00:03:00 ◼   ► confused by how to make and save and

00:03:04 ◼   ► store gifts yes well the Photos app does

00:03:08 ◼   ► not handle them well or consistently

00:03:10 ◼   ► right huh

00:03:13 ◼   ► but I don't even know how to begin ok

00:03:15 ◼   ► I've tried to save some and then it

00:03:17 ◼   ► saves it as like four thousand pictures

00:03:19 ◼   ► no it's no good you know what that but I

00:03:20 ◼   ► can never get it just play again

00:03:22 ◼   ► mm there's some there's some writing

00:03:24 ◼   ► encryption me and you know it's weird

00:03:29 ◼   ► because sometimes you know i'll just

00:03:31 ◼   ► copy and paste the link and sometimes it

00:03:33 ◼   ► works and sometimes it goes to a page

00:03:34 ◼   ► and sometimes but you know start up

00:03:37 ◼   ► start off easy start easy easy that's

00:03:39 ◼   ► what I'm gonna start start off do you

00:03:40 ◼   ► back your phone up John I I should

00:03:42 ◼   ► probably ask the software feedback phone

00:03:44 ◼   ► up to me and do I back that phone you

00:03:47 ◼   ► back that up

00:03:47 ◼   ► ball ball ball ball and hip-hop song uh

00:03:50 ◼   ► i think it is a reference to an idea

00:03:53 ◼   ► back to the throne of part of ecology

00:03:57 ◼   ► get a little plug or get a little iCloud

00:03:59 ◼   ► back the phone up

00:04:01 ◼   ► mhm have you ever had someone back and

00:04:04 ◼   ► ass up to you

00:04:05 ◼   ► oh uh i was at a bachelor party one time

00:04:09 ◼   ► that I'd love to forget your hat now you

00:04:12 ◼   ► know you even said those words I want to

00:04:14 ◼   ► forget

00:04:15 ◼   ► yeah i still think about it once a month

00:04:17 ◼   ► and I i shudder at 10 what did terrible

00:04:20 ◼   ► things at that and I didn't enjoy it

00:04:22 ◼   ► spend a little more than I should it

00:04:24 ◼   ► wasn't fun i iu we've been in a strip

00:04:27 ◼   ► club together right

00:04:28 ◼   ► yes you know it's not my thing I know it

00:04:30 ◼   ► isn't you you i think i am probably the

00:04:32 ◼   ► greatest I'm the one they should have

00:04:33 ◼   ► dollars put into his underpants because

00:04:36 ◼   ► it's quite a show to watch how

00:04:38 ◼   ► manifestly uncomfortable I am and I

00:04:41 ◼   ► can't even begin to hide it

00:04:42 ◼   ► if i can recall correctly you sit with

00:04:45 ◼   ► your knees together pressed together

00:04:47 ◼   ► with briefcase on your lap and I don't

00:04:50 ◼   ► mean like flat on your lap I mean

00:04:52 ◼   ► standing up like popcorn yet with your

00:04:54 ◼   ► hand that's what your hands on the lock

00:04:56 ◼   ► yeah just waiting for the waiting to

00:04:58 ◼   ► look looking through the gloom for an

00:05:00 ◼   ► exit time

00:05:01 ◼   ► yeah if it's a lot like my posture from

00:05:05 ◼   ► my early days of going to Amateur improv

00:05:08 ◼   ► shows right just kind of have this this

00:05:11 ◼   ► rictus of a smile on my face as i gently

00:05:13 ◼   ► rock back and forth haha alright I'm

00:05:17 ◼   ► gonna need something you find about room

00:05:19 ◼   ► and it's a topping and while we can

00:05:23 ◼   ► comfortably now to know my god you know

00:05:25 ◼   ► dick jokes are funny just do dick jokes

00:05:28 ◼   ► but i'll try to make that improv

00:05:30 ◼   ► boop-boop-boop-boop Nick and go tell me

00:05:37 ◼   ► this

00:05:37 ◼   ► yes you there do you do you remember

00:05:45 ◼   ► your dreams

00:05:46 ◼   ► yes you do yes you wake up in the

00:05:48 ◼   ► morning and you remember your dreams i

00:05:50 ◼   ► can remember my dream from last night

00:05:52 ◼   ► and you remember it clearly

00:05:54 ◼   ► parts of it there's an entire episode of

00:05:58 ◼   ► the show John syracuse about this

00:06:00 ◼   ► because he is utterly perplexed by why

00:06:01 ◼   ► anybody would want to remember and

00:06:03 ◼   ► record the SE calls it brain garbage

00:06:05 ◼   ► that his dreams i'm intrigued by dreams

00:06:08 ◼   ► i don't find meaningful but i'm

00:06:10 ◼   ► intrigued by them like for example last

00:06:12 ◼   ► night i was eating fast food and I had

00:06:13 ◼   ► made friends with a comically large

00:06:15 ◼   ► fuzzy bear and the bear walked in front

00:06:19 ◼   ► of the restaurant was in and wave to me

00:06:22 ◼   ► and had the voice of Leslie Jones so

00:06:24 ◼   ► that's a nice feeling for me I like

00:06:26 ◼   ► listen Jen dream

00:06:27 ◼   ► why would you be pals with with a big

00:06:29 ◼   ► grizzly bear the talk Leslie Jones I am

00:06:31 ◼   ► I don't know that bear but yeah that's

00:06:37 ◼   ► wonderful and it do dreams fade

00:06:40 ◼   ► throughout the day so by the end of the

00:06:42 ◼   ► day you're kinda like and it was a bear

00:06:43 ◼   ► named chocolate Leslie Jones but early

00:06:45 ◼   ► on me

00:06:46 ◼   ► curious aj lee curious about this get a

00:06:48 ◼   ► little bit i'm fucking really curious ok

00:06:50 ◼   ► yes uh what happens is i will have

00:06:54 ◼   ► dreams very intense training for what

00:06:55 ◼   ► feels like a long time and then I wake

00:06:57 ◼   ► up and I've been made a practice of

00:07:00 ◼   ► trying to go back into the dream and I

00:07:03 ◼   ► have a methodology that i use for that

00:07:05 ◼   ► but to answer your question specifically

00:07:06 ◼   ► yes it does faith through the day but

00:07:08 ◼   ► Allah the phenomenon of 11 primacy and

00:07:12 ◼   ► recency i'm not sure i remember dreams

00:07:15 ◼   ► from the night before as i'm going to

00:07:16 ◼   ► sleep sometimes

00:07:17 ◼   ► oh you know what I mean not primacy and

00:07:20 ◼   ► recency what it's called

00:07:21 ◼   ► look at your local sprint I it's when

00:07:23 ◼   ► you're able to remember a dream but no

00:07:25 ◼   ► they must be fate sometimes I write them

00:07:26 ◼   ► down and they're very very silly how

00:07:30 ◼   ► successful have you been in pursuing a

00:07:32 ◼   ► lucid dreaming strategy ec not very we

00:07:37 ◼   ► should talk to our friend grant about

00:07:38 ◼   ► this because I think grant made quite a

00:07:39 ◼   ► study of this a long time and knows lots

00:07:41 ◼   ► about it you're talking about grand ball

00:07:43 ◼   ► for the floor

00:07:44 ◼   ► yeah you south africa south african

00:07:46 ◼   ► Germanic tribe and I have been very

00:07:50 ◼   ► actually I hate to admit it because you

00:07:52 ◼   ► know and I feel like we're getting more

00:07:54 ◼   ► jalan territory a little bit more jalan

00:07:56 ◼   ► ya but I I'm yeah I'm very interested in

00:08:00 ◼   ► that idea cause probably it's I mean I

00:08:02 ◼   ► accept the idea that what we call a

00:08:04 ◼   ► dream I just as my daughter and is

00:08:07 ◼   ► trying to describe like the you know

00:08:08 ◼   ► that what what i mean by brain garbage

00:08:10 ◼   ► which is that you bring you know your

00:08:11 ◼   ► mom your mind is a brain is doing lots

00:08:14 ◼   ► of filing and lots of people going out

00:08:16 ◼   ► yeah if you're sleeping enough stuff is

00:08:19 ◼   ► happening and the thing is it's not

00:08:21 ◼   ► garbage in the sense that it all useless

00:08:23 ◼   ► images but it is a fairly weird soon as

00:08:26 ◼   ► i understand it fairly weird random

00:08:28 ◼   ► synaptic mismatch like why did I

00:08:31 ◼   ► suddenly think of this person that I met

00:08:33 ◼   ► one time yeah 92 in a drunk drunk drunk

00:08:37 ◼   ► in bed spring garbage that fascinated by

00:08:40 ◼   ► it

00:08:40 ◼   ► did you ever work in her in like a in a

00:08:43 ◼   ► job where you filed things

00:08:44 ◼   ► yes right you're good at this you could

00:08:47 ◼   ► always find amazing lots file yeah i

00:08:49 ◼   ► could write amazing class file well I

00:08:50 ◼   ► just think of it as like files files

00:08:52 ◼   ► files on you know its files all the way

00:08:54 ◼   ► down

00:08:54 ◼   ► mvi find it there's certain kinds of

00:08:57 ◼   ► things i think this is one way in which

00:08:58 ◼   ► you and I

00:08:59 ◼   ► are probably more alike than different

00:09:01 ◼   ► there are certain kinds of what other

00:09:04 ◼   ► people consider mindless tasks that I

00:09:05 ◼   ► really enjoy i enjoy sorting Legos

00:09:09 ◼   ► oh yeah always black just sit just when

00:09:12 ◼   ► you just said that yeah I realized that

00:09:15 ◼   ► there's an emptiness in me how well we

00:09:17 ◼   ► sort them all we sort them by size will

00:09:19 ◼   ► sort them by color while we sort them by

00:09:21 ◼   ► kit we sort them by how often they're

00:09:24 ◼   ► used without sort of like the right

00:09:26 ◼   ► that's lame I know but I mean we take

00:09:28 ◼   ► the little things that could be used as

00:09:29 ◼   ► lights are flowers and put them into

00:09:31 ◼   ► this little of this little of tackle box

00:09:33 ◼   ► that I don't have a zero this i don't

00:09:36 ◼   ► have a bit of Legos so right now so I

00:09:38 ◼   ► don't have a tackle box

00:09:40 ◼   ► Oh as you know I have several several

00:09:43 ◼   ► tackle box style boxes

00:09:46 ◼   ► yes full of political pins and other

00:09:49 ◼   ► things that probably many of our friends

00:09:52 ◼   ► would consider garbage but these are

00:09:53 ◼   ► your cigar box type system

00:09:56 ◼   ► well except i have other i have larger

00:09:58 ◼   ► boxes bigger than cigar boxes that are

00:10:00 ◼   ► not meant for like tied flies exactly

00:10:05 ◼   ► but like you but there but they are

00:10:07 ◼   ► there are cut different from like

00:10:11 ◼   ► somebody's a little wooden wall

00:10:14 ◼   ► decoration where they keep all their

00:10:16 ◼   ► symbols like we're not talking about

00:10:17 ◼   ► like a like a box on the wall boxes what

00:10:19 ◼   ► we call that doesn't look that good

00:10:22 ◼   ► yeah some kind of display memento mori

00:10:24 ◼   ► uh yeah I know you're very popular

00:10:27 ◼   ► culture their ménage when we were kids

00:10:29 ◼   ► those are very popular we had some

00:10:30 ◼   ► friends that had 14 there late lamented

00:10:32 ◼   ► dog and a photo and his favorite chew

00:10:34 ◼   ► toy and that was on the wall

00:10:36 ◼   ► yeah and the the symbol remember in this

00:10:38 ◼   ► in the seventies people displayed their

00:10:40 ◼   ► symbols or there you know the the little

00:10:43 ◼   ► uns spoons right or the bells that you

00:10:45 ◼   ► would get in truck stops yes

00:10:47 ◼   ► gates you need a box for that stuff well

00:10:49 ◼   ► this my collections if you if if you'll

00:10:53 ◼   ► allow me he seemed not in those but in a

00:10:57 ◼   ► similar like structure but it has a

00:11:01 ◼   ► glass lid so so you can see the stuff

00:11:06 ◼   ► but it's under glass

00:11:08 ◼   ► and I don't mount them on the wall I

00:11:12 ◼   ► keep them stacked Oh like you know like

00:11:16 ◼   ► a like a modified little map rack but

00:11:19 ◼   ► miniature I like the sound of that full

00:11:22 ◼   ► of pins who but I don't have I have I

00:11:26 ◼   ► have not solved the legos conundrum

00:11:29 ◼   ► uh-huh because legos our thing obviously

00:11:34 ◼   ► to me as they are to you and to everyone

00:11:37 ◼   ► and I I desperately want Legos in my

00:11:42 ◼   ► life again i think probably seventy

00:11:45 ◼   ► percent of the reason i was excited

00:11:46 ◼   ► about having a kid was that I could get

00:11:48 ◼   ► legos back in my life

00:11:49 ◼   ► it trains and legos trains and legos

00:11:52 ◼   ► uh-huh

00:11:53 ◼   ► but when i go to the store to shop for

00:11:57 ◼   ► legos when I go to the lego store to

00:12:00 ◼   ► shop for legs when I make pilgrimages to

00:12:02 ◼   ► lego places

00:12:04 ◼   ► uh-huh i become so confused and baffled

00:12:09 ◼   ► and dismayed by what i find that Lego

00:12:13 ◼   ► stores by which i mean they're Shh

00:12:17 ◼   ► fucking shit tastic expensive

00:12:20 ◼   ► yeah it is they're entirely built around

00:12:23 ◼   ► kit this brainless a whole like brand

00:12:26 ◼   ► and marketing thing that like I I don't

00:12:28 ◼   ► want to build an Eiffel Tower I want a

00:12:30 ◼   ► box of legos and and then you can go to

00:12:34 ◼   ► those places where they have the legos

00:12:35 ◼   ► independently in bins they're like

00:12:39 ◼   ► fourteen dollars apiece and incredibly

00:12:41 ◼   ► costly and uh and so I don't know where

00:12:43 ◼   ► to begin i wander around the lego store

00:12:45 ◼   ► for like two and a half hours i pull

00:12:47 ◼   ► things down and like if I took this like

00:12:49 ◼   ► Lego princess castle apart would i be

00:12:52 ◼   ► able or can you make other things with

00:12:54 ◼   ► them and then I i leave empty-handed

00:12:56 ◼   ► I've gone online yeah and I've said sell

00:12:59 ◼   ► me your 1979 like like wash tub full of

00:13:05 ◼   ► legos which is what I'm imagining IV is

00:13:09 ◼   ► but I've never pulled the trigger on one

00:13:11 ◼   ► of them

00:13:11 ◼   ► are you looking more at first of all if

00:13:13 ◼   ► you'll permit me I will I will gift you

00:13:15 ◼   ► with something today i will send it to

00:13:17 ◼   ► you through the Amazon like I'd like to

00:13:19 ◼   ► do that for you are you interested in

00:13:21 ◼   ► just a whole bunch of classic like what

00:13:26 ◼   ► eight nubbin legos that kind of thing

00:13:28 ◼   ► you want classic bricks you're not

00:13:30 ◼   ► looking for a lot of Liberty tivity

00:13:31 ◼   ► that's correct

00:13:32 ◼   ► ok Oh was looking at right here it's a

00:13:34 ◼   ► good one is the lego classic large

00:13:36 ◼   ► creative brick box this is 790 pieces

00:13:40 ◼   ► looks like a lock it comes with a lot of

00:13:42 ◼   ► standard old stop bricks many different

00:13:44 ◼   ► colors it comes with wheels

00:13:45 ◼   ► it comes with screens it comes with

00:13:47 ◼   ► windows and doors you can make houses

00:13:49 ◼   ► that's nice but it's just a big-ass box

00:13:52 ◼   ► shaped like a Lego that has 790 pieces

00:13:56 ◼   ► in so okay i'm gonna give you that to

00:13:59 ◼   ► start and I like to give to you with the

00:14:01 ◼   ► classics and base plate on which you can

00:14:03 ◼   ► build these things

00:14:04 ◼   ► Santa blaze oh so it's sand-colored

00:14:06 ◼   ► being the big green 12

00:14:08 ◼   ► yeah but you'll also need to jerk did

00:14:10 ◼   ► your daughter get into duplo at all

00:14:12 ◼   ► well we did get into duplo and we built

00:14:15 ◼   ► things out of duplo several princess

00:14:18 ◼   ► castles as you can imagine yeah yeah we

00:14:21 ◼   ► built she likes to build rooms and you

00:14:25 ◼   ► know bedrooms and kitchens and garages

00:14:27 ◼   ► and bridges but the duplos just didn't

00:14:31 ◼   ► have the precision yeah well therefore

00:14:33 ◼   ► you know they're for little hands

00:14:34 ◼   ► yeah and then people started giving her

00:14:37 ◼   ► lego gifts but they were like here's a

00:14:41 ◼   ► like a like cool motorcycle mama she's

00:14:45 ◼   ► got a she's got a dirt bike and this is

00:14:50 ◼   ► a little it's like a little diorama

00:14:51 ◼   ► right there's a palm tree there's a tent

00:14:54 ◼   ► where she's spending the night

00:14:57 ◼   ► there's a motorcycle and then there are

00:14:59 ◼   ► 50 tiny tiny little chocobo ball

00:15:03 ◼   ► talkable upon little things like here's

00:15:07 ◼   ► her little who's her little matchbook

00:15:09 ◼   ► yeah I'm here's her little you know like

00:15:11 ◼   ► her magnifying glass and sounds like the

00:15:13 ◼   ► franchise called friends which is seems

00:15:17 ◼   ► super lame but has some of the best

00:15:18 ◼   ► weirdo pieces ever but they know they're

00:15:22 ◼   ► always gonna say about to play was the

00:15:23 ◼   ► cool thing because they lay

00:15:24 ◼   ► no and they're awesome to delay the

00:15:26 ◼   ► duplo and the with accommodating size

00:15:29 ◼   ► pieces with bricks you can use your

00:15:31 ◼   ► DUPLO and your Lego to get there

00:15:33 ◼   ► No so if in our case we got it we got a

00:15:36 ◼   ► butt ton of big bricks so if you don't

00:15:38 ◼   ► have the base of your castle like your

00:15:41 ◼   ► wall your fortification you could make

00:15:43 ◼   ► that a duplos and then you can get sexy

00:15:46 ◼   ► it up with you know turrets mom is crazy

00:15:49 ◼   ► talk

00:15:49 ◼   ► I thought the same thing occurred to me

00:15:51 ◼   ► one day this is Lego I should see if

00:15:53 ◼   ► this works now doesn't work for him it's

00:15:54 ◼   ► gotta be the same size and everything

00:15:55 ◼   ► they do work together it's it's kind of

00:15:59 ◼   ► brilliant

00:15:59 ◼   ► so are you still at a five-digit address

00:16:03 ◼   ► starting with one

00:16:04 ◼   ► yes okay i'm going to send you right now

00:16:06 ◼   ► will be delivered today you're going to

00:16:08 ◼   ► get the classic large creative brick box

00:16:10 ◼   ► 10 698 the classics and base plate and

00:16:15 ◼   ► the classic green base plate supplement

00:16:18 ◼   ► me i do that i mean that's that's that's

00:16:23 ◼   ► wonderful it's wonderful thoughtful of

00:16:25 ◼   ► you to do this just to try and solve my

00:16:27 ◼   ► lego connect I'm not trying to solve

00:16:28 ◼   ► anything I just want you to have legos

00:16:30 ◼   ► because because you know here's the

00:16:31 ◼   ► thing is ordered

00:16:32 ◼   ► um here's the thing it depends it's a

00:16:36 ◼   ► Sisyphean task let all things involving

00:16:39 ◼   ► parenting

00:16:39 ◼   ► well I'm like everything i do i use the

00:16:42 ◼   ► word Mississippi in 15 times a day to

00:16:44 ◼   ► describe something I just did write it

00:16:47 ◼   ► just keeps rolling back down synthesis

00:16:49 ◼   ► of this is all the way down every every

00:16:52 ◼   ► day I mean I'm so i should say she's a

00:16:55 ◼   ► way of this color entire enter cock but

00:16:58 ◼   ► warehouses professionally cleaned on

00:16:59 ◼   ► Friday our entire entire living room

00:17:02 ◼   ► table is currently covered with Lego ah

00:17:04 ◼   ► it was professionally cleaned in order

00:17:08 ◼   ► to make a clean a gar base you know what

00:17:11 ◼   ► a kid loves to mess up more than

00:17:12 ◼   ► anything a professionally cleaned room

00:17:14 ◼   ► right uh-huh perfectly professionally

00:17:17 ◼   ► clean the room and I want to I want to

00:17:18 ◼   ► get to the Sisyphus but just here's the

00:17:20 ◼   ► thing this it depends on I've said this

00:17:22 ◼   ► before you know as you know I'm a

00:17:23 ◼   ► Productivity to retire productivity cool

00:17:26 ◼   ► i think a big part of success in one's

00:17:28 ◼   ► career is to figure out what about one's

00:17:31 ◼   ► occupation is necessarily hard because

00:17:34 ◼   ► that is the reason as they say you get

00:17:36 ◼   ► the big bucks

00:17:37 ◼   ► is this part of it is necessary dip

00:17:39 ◼   ► necessarily difficult and there's a

00:17:40 ◼   ► reason that not everybody can or will do

00:17:42 ◼   ► it like some people are really good at

00:17:44 ◼   ► fixing automobiles and other people

00:17:46 ◼   ► right excellent pop songs or

00:17:48 ◼   ► what-have-you then you have to figure

00:17:50 ◼   ► out the part of your job that is not

00:17:51 ◼   ► necessarily difficult but you find to be

00:17:54 ◼   ► difficult and can you improve that and

00:17:56 ◼   ► the part of success is figuring out how

00:17:58 ◼   ► much you can tolerate the stuff that's

00:18:00 ◼   ► difficult but not making your job good

00:18:02 ◼   ► how much this stuff is difficult to fix

00:18:04 ◼   ► you see where I'm going with this

00:18:05 ◼   ► I'm sorry this goes for parenting to so

00:18:07 ◼   ► if you just happen to be a person who

00:18:09 ◼   ► likes sorting legos but don't mind that

00:18:12 ◼   ► it won't matter in 10 minutes that they

00:18:14 ◼   ► were organized you're good to go

00:18:16 ◼   ► problem is if you think that the the

00:18:18 ◼   ► flower light nubbins should always stay

00:18:19 ◼   ► in this drawer and you think you know

00:18:22 ◼   ► what I'm saying

00:18:22 ◼   ► pretty soon I was a guy in the lego

00:18:23 ◼   ► movie and you're you put the kragle over

00:18:26 ◼   ► everything right and then this guy over

00:18:27 ◼   ► here yet this would die I would not

00:18:31 ◼   ► tolerate racism i have of I have the

00:18:36 ◼   ► ball in the course of time

00:18:38 ◼   ► yeah basically evolutionary biology John

00:18:40 ◼   ► i have personally evolved into a

00:18:43 ◼   ► different species because of evolution

00:18:46 ◼   ► right i have naturally selected within

00:18:50 ◼   ► myself

00:18:51 ◼   ► oh you talk about that the the hidden

00:18:53 ◼   ► arm that that causes evolution you've

00:18:56 ◼   ► been you've been armed and the Armed

00:18:58 ◼   ► upon I think what I think it's the will

00:19:00 ◼   ► of something that wants to evolve in its

00:19:04 ◼   ► next-generation that wills that

00:19:06 ◼   ► evolution to happen right that wills the

00:19:10 ◼   ► natural selection to take place in a

00:19:11 ◼   ► certain way by by virtue of choosing

00:19:14 ◼   ► interesting

00:19:15 ◼   ► yeah so it's something like Lobster has

00:19:17 ◼   ► evolved to that yet

00:19:18 ◼   ► uh well a lobster is just a mosquito

00:19:23 ◼   ► that evolved into a lobster em right the

00:19:26 ◼   ► person skeet oh it's interesting at acc

00:19:29 ◼   ► roach

00:19:30 ◼   ► well it sort of it you know something

00:19:32 ◼   ► some bug

00:19:33 ◼   ► let's call it landed on the water was

00:19:35 ◼   ► like nice and then said in the future I

00:19:39 ◼   ► hope my kids can swim

00:19:43 ◼   ► haha and then those kids were swimmers

00:19:47 ◼   ► ok

00:19:48 ◼   ► oh you want you want better for your

00:19:49 ◼   ► kids yeah and then the swimmer kids were

00:19:51 ◼   ► like what's on the bottom

00:19:53 ◼   ► uh-huh one day I hope that my kids can

00:19:56 ◼   ► swim to the bottom and then they did

00:19:59 ◼   ► their kill you what I'm tired of having

00:20:02 ◼   ► the the short life of my progenitors I

00:20:06 ◼   ► would like my kids to live longer than

00:20:08 ◼   ► me maybe upwards of a hundred years

00:20:10 ◼   ► well somewhere along the line some

00:20:12 ◼   ► mosquito I don't know whether it was

00:20:14 ◼   ► intentional whether they just went to

00:20:15 ◼   ► the bottom because they're looking for

00:20:16 ◼   ► parole so who and then realize that the

00:20:18 ◼   ► cold water kept them live longer

00:20:21 ◼   ► ok or whether on the surface the

00:20:23 ◼   ► mosquito the the the proto mosquito

00:20:26 ◼   ► proto lobster I'm sorry yes post-post

00:20:28 ◼   ► Skeeter proto lobster mhm said I want to

00:20:32 ◼   ► live longer

00:20:34 ◼   ► I know that cold produces longer life I

00:20:37 ◼   ► said I sense it

00:20:38 ◼   ► I'm going down Paul you know what I'm

00:20:41 ◼   ► saying I'm going down one thing only

00:20:48 ◼   ► I am broadcasting to you from California

00:20:52 ◼   ► but I have a I have now established my

00:20:57 ◼   ► mobile podcasting rig you sound great

00:20:59 ◼   ► you played in also plugged in I'm

00:21:02 ◼   ► plugged into the hole

00:21:03 ◼   ► I'm putting the whole me gently you

00:21:06 ◼   ► sound so much better this way

00:21:08 ◼   ► and oh it all fits into a small bag into

00:21:14 ◼   ► a small bag my entire podcasting

00:21:17 ◼   ► operation now fits into my shoulder bag

00:21:21 ◼   ► which goes in the overhead compartment

00:21:23 ◼   ► move an airplane

00:21:25 ◼   ► this includes your fancy podcasting like

00:21:26 ◼   ► the open everything so it goes into a

00:21:30 ◼   ► couple bags one of the bags

00:21:31 ◼   ► actually that goes in the small bag

00:21:33 ◼   ► because the bag small bag is very small

00:21:36 ◼   ► whoo-hoo but one of the inner bags which

00:21:38 ◼   ► is smaller is a an old padded laptop bag

00:21:42 ◼   ► that you gave me one time back in the

00:21:44 ◼   ► day when laptops needed to be ensconced

00:21:48 ◼   ► in their own special bags yes that you

00:21:51 ◼   ► needed to take out of the bag and then

00:21:53 ◼   ► take this is it

00:21:54 ◼   ► snap tab SF bags at wakefield like a

00:21:58 ◼   ► phony

00:21:58 ◼   ► welcome back it's kind of funny but it's

00:22:00 ◼   ► not bulk repeal crow i think it was one

00:22:02 ◼   ► of your earliest one sure a bag that you

00:22:05 ◼   ► use when you had when your laptop was as

00:22:07 ◼   ► thick as a paperback book

00:22:08 ◼   ► whoo-hoo and and I find like a Russian

00:22:11 ◼   ► paperback book like a beer that's right

00:22:13 ◼   ► like a russian book a trade paperback

00:22:16 ◼   ► who from Russia and 1890s trivia I and

00:22:21 ◼   ► that bag actually does not it contains

00:22:23 ◼   ► the microphone and the headphones which

00:22:26 ◼   ► are in a separate small bag it all goes

00:22:28 ◼   ► into that small bag which goes into the

00:22:30 ◼   ► small bag i love a bag in the back

00:22:32 ◼   ► that's three bats bag in a bag in a bag

00:22:34 ◼   ► didn't say his bags on me down

00:22:40 ◼   ► so here i am and i'm in california and

00:22:42 ◼   ► it's all but you know the number of the

00:22:47 ◼   ► number of opportunities to feel like

00:22:48 ◼   ► Sisyphus in California who its

00:22:52 ◼   ► exponentially more opportunities because

00:22:55 ◼   ► they're all these people in California

00:22:57 ◼   ► that I have to correct because they're

00:22:59 ◼   ► profoundly doing it wrong yeah and and

00:23:04 ◼   ► then i use that you i'm just guessing in

00:23:06 ◼   ► the los angeles area i am in los angeles

00:23:09 ◼   ► area however either but what baby they

00:23:11 ◼   ► must be you must be exhausted John all

00:23:13 ◼   ► is what we just what you see you go

00:23:16 ◼   ► outside to get a newspaper pick up a

00:23:17 ◼   ► coffee the kind of stuff that you're

00:23:18 ◼   ► going to see people walking around and

00:23:20 ◼   ► acting like that is normal or acceptable

00:23:22 ◼   ► behavior it's insane you could if you

00:23:25 ◼   ► tied a copper wire around the top of the

00:23:29 ◼   ► first man bun you saw who

00:23:32 ◼   ► and then as you walk your spooling cop

00:23:34 ◼   ► I'm very thin copper wire as you're

00:23:38 ◼   ► walking every time you saw a bun on a

00:23:40 ◼   ► man-woman a top bottom i'm talking about

00:23:42 ◼   ► not a back button sure you wrap the

00:23:45 ◼   ► copper wire one more time around the

00:23:47 ◼   ► next one you saw and then you let those

00:23:49 ◼   ► people keep going you're spooning wire

00:23:51 ◼   ► wrap it around everybody you see for an

00:23:54 ◼   ► hour and you know your your kind of

00:23:57 ◼   ► trying to make somewhat of a loop

00:23:59 ◼   ► uh-huh you run back into the first

00:24:01 ◼   ► person you

00:24:05 ◼   ► wrap that copper wire around their

00:24:07 ◼   ► button one more time you made a Tesla

00:24:09 ◼   ► coil

00:24:09 ◼   ► I you know Tesla was on my mind as you

00:24:11 ◼   ► were saying that that's like Tesla's

00:24:13 ◼   ► dream right there right and it is

00:24:15 ◼   ► happening in LA right now always

00:24:18 ◼   ► alternating but you know that energy

00:24:20 ◼   ► just bits tears and rain it's not going

00:24:21 ◼   ► anywhere

00:24:22 ◼   ► no one's nose harnessing the energy of

00:24:24 ◼   ► the man bun circle

00:24:25 ◼   ► yeah and-and-and you and there are so

00:24:27 ◼   ► many man button circles in India of

00:24:31 ◼   ► different things

00:24:32 ◼   ► yeah that people could be taking

00:24:33 ◼   ► advantage of here and there not so many

00:24:36 ◼   ► I mean obviously I've made a big I've

00:24:39 ◼   ► made a big to-do about how California

00:24:41 ◼   ► coffee culture drives me crazy

00:24:43 ◼   ► who but there are so many other things

00:24:47 ◼   ► to be to be insane about down here that

00:24:50 ◼   ► I can't even worry about the coffee pot

00:24:52 ◼   ► I went to a whole foods in California

00:24:56 ◼   ► last night very very interesting

00:24:58 ◼   ► experience there was a lot more shouting

00:25:00 ◼   ► everyone's angry my experience at whole

00:25:03 ◼   ► foods is that everybody is very angry

00:25:05 ◼   ► and impatient

00:25:06 ◼   ► yeah impatient angry there were some

00:25:08 ◼   ► people walking around to just be

00:25:09 ◼   ► shouting which seems normal but then

00:25:11 ◼   ► there were other people that were

00:25:12 ◼   ► shouting at others it was just a very

00:25:14 ◼   ► tense situation I was like hey man we're

00:25:16 ◼   ► all Richie this is water buddy

00:25:18 ◼   ► yeah just chill chill chill the fuck out

00:25:20 ◼   ► you're paying 1499 a pound for salad bar

00:25:25 ◼   ► i put on my cal just like everybody else

00:25:27 ◼   ► well why are you upset yeah nothing to

00:25:30 ◼   ► be upset about using a hot party those

00:25:32 ◼   ► just just sell you macaroni and cheese

00:25:34 ◼   ► and a boxing take it home

00:25:35 ◼   ► how could he be mad about that how could

00:25:37 ◼   ► you be mad about that Jesus Christ a $25

00:25:40 ◼   ► for macaroni and cheese have you ever

00:25:41 ◼   ► done that you buy hot bar rather that'll

00:25:44 ◼   ► put a dent your wall you get to nice

00:25:45 ◼   ► slice of meatloaf and macaroni that's

00:25:47 ◼   ► like 60 bucks yeah you know back in the

00:25:49 ◼   ► touring days Mike Squires used to he

00:25:51 ◼   ► went through a phase where he decided on

00:25:53 ◼   ► tour he was only going to eat food that

00:25:56 ◼   ► was from out from the hot case in in gas

00:26:00 ◼   ► stations so we would drive and we pull

00:26:03 ◼   ► into a gas me up that's it that's a such

00:26:07 ◼   ► a bad idea

00:26:08 ◼   ► well this was it was my sister thought

00:26:09 ◼   ► experiment yeah I was during Mike's you

00:26:11 ◼   ► know period of like how much self-hate

00:26:13 ◼   ► can I put into a basket up in mind that

00:26:16 ◼   ► and so we pull into a gas station it's

00:26:19 ◼   ► like you know everybody jumps out you

00:26:20 ◼   ► can go get a bottle of water or you can

00:26:22 ◼   ► go in the bathroom

00:26:23 ◼   ► p get a coffee or whatever she could get

00:26:26 ◼   ► you could get like what's that what's

00:26:28 ◼   ► that awesome won the New York Times

00:26:29 ◼   ► wrote about you go get that cheddar and

00:26:31 ◼   ► sour cream ruffles which I've discovered

00:26:33 ◼   ► are possibly the greatest food in the

00:26:35 ◼   ► world

00:26:35 ◼   ► well I'm barfing at the thought shutter

00:26:38 ◼   ► sour cream ruffle know he would go in

00:26:42 ◼   ► against but there are known things you

00:26:44 ◼   ► can get you do not need to explore the

00:26:46 ◼   ► spinny meets he so obviously JoJo's

00:26:50 ◼   ► everywhere

00:26:51 ◼   ► jojo's are what time hot cases together

00:26:53 ◼   ► and then you've got your community of

00:26:58 ◼   ► jets it's just like everywhere is in

00:27:00 ◼   ► every job is different don't think that

00:27:02 ◼   ► it said that JoJo's are the same so just

00:27:05 ◼   ► not ojos and then you've got your little

00:27:10 ◼   ► like a in Toronto's or whatever they're

00:27:13 ◼   ► not quite like it's not clear what what

00:27:15 ◼   ► are their taquitos for legal reasons

00:27:18 ◼   ► they have to call them like in Chile

00:27:20 ◼   ► thus yeah so there's them and then

00:27:23 ◼   ► there's egg rolls

00:27:24 ◼   ► sometimes yeah right because it all goes

00:27:26 ◼   ► in a hot case and a fried chicken

00:27:29 ◼   ► sometimes you'll have just a like a

00:27:31 ◼   ► German sausage and then all the things

00:27:34 ◼   ► that get put into like a bread like a

00:27:37 ◼   ► like deep-fried bond right sausage it

00:27:40 ◼   ► deep fried sausage

00:27:41 ◼   ► yeah and then the little hot wrapped

00:27:45 ◼   ► sandwiches in tin foil chicken sandwich

00:27:47 ◼   ► sausage sandwich

00:27:50 ◼   ► translate sausage sandwich that fast

00:27:53 ◼   ► that sandwich and completely awful

00:27:56 ◼   ► that's that's that's making you think we

00:28:00 ◼   ► just say it's fast and it's so Squires

00:28:04 ◼   ► lived on on hot case for a while and it

00:28:07 ◼   ► was like remember and the number but now

00:28:10 ◼   ► they'll arrest of a supportive role is

00:28:12 ◼   ► just like stop doing this

00:28:14 ◼   ► I it was like that mcdonalds guy who ate

00:28:19 ◼   ► McDonald's every day for a year except

00:28:20 ◼   ► it happened way faster is all the color

00:28:23 ◼   ► one of his face except for like red

00:28:26 ◼   ► blotches

00:28:27 ◼   ► oh and he both gay

00:28:30 ◼   ► in weight and also lost 100 right he was

00:28:35 ◼   ► he was transforming for our eyes you

00:28:37 ◼   ► came to smooth did it was a screw

00:28:39 ◼   ► everybody was I don't think see you know

00:28:44 ◼   ► one thing that we I think we talked

00:28:45 ◼   ► about this we're having our we're

00:28:46 ◼   ► Chinese lunch but I had this impression

00:28:48 ◼   ► that especially when it comes to Asian

00:28:50 ◼   ► foods that are served in America a lot

00:28:52 ◼   ► of stuff that gets served as first of

00:28:54 ◼   ► all yeah heavily americanized to our

00:28:56 ◼   ► palates and tastes but also that it's

00:28:58 ◼   ► the kind of food that you eat every five

00:29:00 ◼   ► years at a wedding on like a tiny plate

00:29:02 ◼   ► that you he would not have like all you

00:29:05 ◼   ► can eat anything of like what gets

00:29:08 ◼   ► served at those kinds of places

00:29:10 ◼   ► yeah we yeah we did talk about that

00:29:11 ◼   ► right now well my girlfriend who lived

00:29:14 ◼   ► in China who was a vegetarian and she

00:29:17 ◼   ► would go to these meals and they would

00:29:22 ◼   ► serve like a big platter of you meet me

00:29:25 ◼   ► parks or whatever and she would say you

00:29:27 ◼   ► have any just like vegetables and rice

00:29:28 ◼   ► it's kind of what i would prefer they're

00:29:30 ◼   ► like what we would never serve an

00:29:33 ◼   ► honored guest right the food that we eat

00:29:35 ◼   ► every day it's against asleep on the dog

00:29:37 ◼   ► bed

00:29:38 ◼   ► yeah she's like no that's what i want

00:29:39 ◼   ► just the food that you normally eat

00:29:41 ◼   ► there like ha ha fat chance American

00:29:43 ◼   ► tourists

00:29:44 ◼   ► yeah you're gonna get the we're you need

00:29:46 ◼   ► our once-a-year meal and then you go to

00:29:49 ◼   ► what I went to my favorite not favorite

00:29:52 ◼   ► let's not call her favorite every

00:29:54 ◼   ► Christmas Eve for the last dozen years

00:29:59 ◼   ► my mom and I made a plan i made a made a

00:30:03 ◼   ► pact a long time ago we were going to

00:30:04 ◼   ► play Christmas anymore haha kinda like a

00:30:07 ◼   ► family and we went to house of home my

00:30:10 ◼   ► mom and I would go to house at home and

00:30:13 ◼   ► then we would go to the movies like ten

00:30:17 ◼   ► o'clock movie or something on Christmas

00:30:18 ◼   ► Eve house of home we'd get some moment

00:30:21 ◼   ► fried chicken or whatever you do and

00:30:23 ◼   ► then go to the movies and your house a

00:30:25 ◼   ► home on Christmas Eve you see all your

00:30:27 ◼   ► Jewish friends

00:30:28 ◼   ► right everybody everybody in Seattle

00:30:30 ◼   ► that wasn't celebrating Christmases is

00:30:32 ◼   ► in chinatown so it's a pretty fun time

00:30:35 ◼   ► and and house of hong was the reliably

00:30:40 ◼   ► bad chinese restaurant right it wasn't i

00:30:43 ◼   ► do I know exactly what you mean

00:30:45 ◼   ► yeah you wouldn't take your friends

00:30:47 ◼   ► there if they were coming in from out of

00:30:48 ◼   ► town you wouldn't go it's not a thing

00:30:50 ◼   ► you go to on a regular it's just like we

00:30:53 ◼   ► want almond fried chicken at

00:30:55 ◼   ► eight-thirty p.m. on christmas eve

00:30:58 ◼   ► there's no other place to go

00:31:00 ◼   ► we went to a song the other night

00:31:02 ◼   ► because it was my birthday and my sister

00:31:04 ◼   ► want to meet wanted to take me to the

00:31:06 ◼   ► House hall we went and it has changed

00:31:09 ◼   ► hands over and everything about it is

00:31:13 ◼   ► different and like that the old menu had

00:31:17 ◼   ► 400 things on and the new menu has 40

00:31:22 ◼   ► things on and they came and they were

00:31:24 ◼   ► all no good huh

00:31:27 ◼   ► and you think that's disappointing I

00:31:29 ◼   ► mean if they were it was always meant to

00:31:30 ◼   ► be no good but their network in the

00:31:32 ◼   ► passage of time by the little things

00:31:34 ◼   ► that go away like that

00:31:35 ◼   ► yeah like whatever you remember house of

00:31:37 ◼   ► all remember all the Christmases weekend

00:31:38 ◼   ► I was talking about this just this one

00:31:39 ◼   ► let's take you up and talking about just

00:31:41 ◼   ► this week where there's like all these

00:31:42 ◼   ► restaurants that we used to go to on a

00:31:44 ◼   ► regular basis that are just they're just

00:31:45 ◼   ► gone and it's such a tiny thing but

00:31:47 ◼   ► still I call me and i miss the hofbrau

00:31:49 ◼   ► yeah sure i miss you know the little you

00:31:52 ◼   ► know the little man's gone I told you

00:31:54 ◼   ► that

00:31:54 ◼   ► no yes the dim sum is gone well i know

00:31:57 ◼   ► we we walked by there are sure our

00:31:59 ◼   ► crafts yeah now it's now it's like asian

00:32:01 ◼   ► bread

00:32:02 ◼   ► yeah we saw that go down and we were

00:32:04 ◼   ► like hey I think we actually walked in

00:32:06 ◼   ► and said when we did I forgot about you

00:32:08 ◼   ► know what we were high on house Trotter

00:32:09 ◼   ► yeah whatever little bit but having a

00:32:11 ◼   ► little me they were like what happened

00:32:14 ◼   ► to the cats in the kitchen good time

00:32:15 ◼   ► time time to change

00:32:17 ◼   ► get in the kitchen so what is there is

00:32:20 ◼   ► the asian bistro now we wash our hands

00:32:22 ◼   ► of a nice day

00:32:25 ◼   ► corrects yeah I I'm stories etc tours

00:32:30 ◼   ► etc hasn't been around for 25 years I

00:32:33 ◼   ► still miss it

00:32:34 ◼   ► little stories etc was was a was the the

00:32:38 ◼   ► place that every single hipster on in in

00:32:41 ◼   ► Seattle had bread

00:32:42 ◼   ► first on saturday and sunday mornings

00:32:44 ◼   ► there were very few hipsters then so

00:32:47 ◼   ► they could all fit in one restaurant

00:32:48 ◼   ► that's convenient but I had that I had

00:32:51 ◼   ► that experience one time of walking down

00:32:54 ◼   ► the street somebody that i vaguely knew

00:32:56 ◼   ► bumped into me and said hey come and

00:32:58 ◼   ► have breakfast with me at stories etc I

00:33:00 ◼   ► was like sure didn't you know definitely

00:33:02 ◼   ► know that person but have good feelings

00:33:04 ◼   ► about that who went in and they were

00:33:07 ◼   ► meeting two friends both of whom were

00:33:08 ◼   ► like the very charming pretty young

00:33:11 ◼   ► girls i was a young man at the time

00:33:13 ◼   ► mocha we sat down at the table and I

00:33:17 ◼   ► just had one of those magic mornings i

00:33:20 ◼   ► was i was hungover right so I had that

00:33:22 ◼   ► halo magic

00:33:24 ◼   ► yeah that can sometimes be upon a person

00:33:26 ◼   ► when they're hungover second loss a

00:33:29 ◼   ► special extra drink because he get a

00:33:31 ◼   ► certain kind of the department toward

00:33:34 ◼   ► the world that can be that can be kind

00:33:35 ◼   ► of nice can be kind of relaxing too kind

00:33:37 ◼   ► of house you down a little bit and this

00:33:39 ◼   ► was one of those mornings it was just

00:33:40 ◼   ► like that that time when you walk into a

00:33:42 ◼   ► bar and your pool game is just on top

00:33:46 ◼   ► and you're just school and everybody in

00:33:48 ◼   ► pool and you're chill about it and so

00:33:51 ◼   ► everybody in the bar is just loving you

00:33:55 ◼   ► by the end of the night because you

00:33:56 ◼   ► can't miss but you get but you got

00:34:00 ◼   ► nothing invested in it because you're

00:34:01 ◼   ► like I've never seen this before but

00:34:03 ◼   ► you're not but you don't give your

00:34:04 ◼   ► secret away either who just like one

00:34:07 ◼   ► play another game pow pow

00:34:09 ◼   ► it only lasts the spell is very brief

00:34:12 ◼   ► yes last for one night but this was one

00:34:14 ◼   ► of those mornings where i sat at this

00:34:15 ◼   ► table and I just I actually charmed the

00:34:19 ◼   ► clothes off of all three of these people

00:34:21 ◼   ► in the restaurant is it was JJ contends

00:34:24 ◼   ► what's called it was a Tory zeg cetera

00:34:27 ◼   ► ok alright and and by the end it was

00:34:30 ◼   ► clear that I could take these three

00:34:32 ◼   ► people anywhere and have them do

00:34:33 ◼   ► anything and instead i stood up at the

00:34:38 ◼   ► end of a lovely meal and said this has

00:34:41 ◼   ► been lovely to loo before and they said

00:34:45 ◼   ► wait wait don't go

00:34:47 ◼   ► and I was like I must do I must turn on

00:34:50 ◼   ► boom and endo and waltz away and I

00:34:55 ◼   ► always thought back to how my life would

00:34:59 ◼   ► have gone differently if I had just

00:35:00 ◼   ► either taken them sliding doors were

00:35:03 ◼   ► gone with them yes and instead it was

00:35:05 ◼   ► just like this has been perfect

00:35:07 ◼   ► I do not want you to know that I'm not

00:35:09 ◼   ► this perfect all the time right and so

00:35:12 ◼   ► before I say the dumb thing that I

00:35:16 ◼   ► surely am about to say before I ruin

00:35:19 ◼   ► this before my hangover wears off and

00:35:22 ◼   ► all of a sudden I'm talking to you about

00:35:23 ◼   ► a world war 1 i'm going to float off and

00:35:29 ◼   ► you will always hopefully look at the

00:35:33 ◼   ► drinking fountain and remember me

00:35:35 ◼   ► I still do that you still remember my

00:35:37 ◼   ► friend explore Kelly I'm gonna start

00:35:39 ◼   ► doing that other people because it

00:35:40 ◼   ► totally works

00:35:41 ◼   ► yeah it does it's crazy oh my goodness

00:35:42 ◼   ► but you're like--you're ultraman except

00:35:44 ◼   ► they can't see your bling chest and you

00:35:46 ◼   ► know the clock is running

00:35:47 ◼   ► you gotta go because he may be a little

00:35:48 ◼   ► bit george costanza but you know that's

00:35:50 ◼   ► it you've done the best you can it's all

00:35:52 ◼   ► gonna be downhill from here

00:35:54 ◼   ► get out yeah that's right anything as if

00:35:57 ◼   ► I keep talking i I'm gonna lose my cool

00:36:01 ◼   ► right if I keep talking eventually

00:36:03 ◼   ► you're going to look up at the cool

00:36:05 ◼   ► barometer and the winds will have

00:36:06 ◼   ► changing up and the and a new and

00:36:09 ◼   ► depression will have moved in

00:36:11 ◼   ► uh-huh and you're like wool my joints

00:36:13 ◼   ► hurt all of a sudden and it's because

00:36:15 ◼   ► this guy that I thought was amazing has

00:36:16 ◼   ► been talking about the battle of the

00:36:18 ◼   ► somme the thing though a lot of

00:36:21 ◼   ► civilians might understand if you've

00:36:23 ◼   ► never been charming in a restaurant is

00:36:25 ◼   ► that once you've set that high bar it's

00:36:28 ◼   ► extremely disappointed people when you

00:36:31 ◼   ► fall off because didn't actually hate

00:36:32 ◼   ► you

00:36:33 ◼   ► it isn't that they go back to neutral

00:36:34 ◼   ► feeling it they really hate you after

00:36:35 ◼   ► that I think I i'm pretty sure i've told

00:36:38 ◼   ► you the story about a the time another

00:36:41 ◼   ► charm night when i was walking along

00:36:42 ◼   ► with some friends and for some reason i

00:36:45 ◼   ► was in a suit my friends weren't and

00:36:48 ◼   ► there was an up pizza parlor that was

00:36:51 ◼   ► also an art gallery and it was closed

00:36:54 ◼   ► but the lights were on and music was

00:36:56 ◼   ► playing and we walked by and sort of

00:36:59 ◼   ► just walked in Walt's to and there were

00:37:03 ◼   ► half a dozen girls in there who worked

00:37:07 ◼   ► at the pizza parlor was just kind of

00:37:08 ◼   ► like

00:37:09 ◼   ► playing some music having a in wiping

00:37:12 ◼   ► down tables or whatever and we came in

00:37:15 ◼   ► and and they said we're closed and we

00:37:20 ◼   ► were like yeah we know we just heard the

00:37:22 ◼   ► music and thought we'd pop in and they

00:37:24 ◼   ► were like oh and somehow right away we

00:37:28 ◼   ► were all dancing

00:37:29 ◼   ► Wow and this is like a this is like a

00:37:33 ◼   ► nineties film

00:37:34 ◼   ► yeah it was like instant dance party and

00:37:38 ◼   ► we're dancing and the girls are dancing

00:37:40 ◼   ► we are dancing all you know and spray it

00:37:42 ◼   ► with some music that I would never ever

00:37:44 ◼   ► ever have danced to it like mo beers and

00:37:48 ◼   ► one of the girls is someone that I had

00:37:51 ◼   ► seen for years and been intrigued by in

00:37:55 ◼   ► the neighborhood on come on really

00:37:57 ◼   ► yeah she played bass in a band she had

00:37:59 ◼   ► her hair her hair was like wild and

00:38:02 ◼   ► tangled and teased up kinda but not

00:38:03 ◼   ► teased up uh what he teased up in a way

00:38:08 ◼   ► that gave the impression that she never

00:38:09 ◼   ► called it not that she had ever worked

00:38:11 ◼   ► on it for a second man she looked like a

00:38:13 ◼   ► lori petty oh except with big hair

00:38:18 ◼   ► chimney and we're dancing and dancing

00:38:21 ◼   ► and and like I'm in a suit up like a

00:38:24 ◼   ► pinstripe suit but I've got like group

00:38:26 ◼   ► crazy dance moves i'm back in that ass

00:38:28 ◼   ► up right and left the music's loud and

00:38:33 ◼   ► my friends are doing it to my friends

00:38:35 ◼   ► are into it too and my friends are you

00:38:36 ◼   ► know my friends normally are like we can

00:38:38 ◼   ► all agree on cheese or whatever they're

00:38:40 ◼   ► not like dance speed that this

00:38:41 ◼   ► spontaneous dance party with some girls

00:38:43 ◼   ► that work in the punk-rock pizza place

00:38:45 ◼   ► ok so the whole thing's going like what

00:38:47 ◼   ► is happening nobody can nobody in the

00:38:49 ◼   ► room knows what the hell is happening

00:38:50 ◼   ► and the and the girl the amazing girl is

00:38:56 ◼   ► now dancing where she's like she's

00:38:59 ◼   ► dancing with me right she separated me

00:39:02 ◼   ► from the herd a little bit oh man she's

00:39:04 ◼   ► like cleared out the space around us so

00:39:06 ◼   ► we're not it's not just like seven

00:39:08 ◼   ► people dancing with each other it's like

00:39:10 ◼   ► now we're dancing and at a certain point

00:39:13 ◼   ► and I'm just like dancing and she's

00:39:15 ◼   ► dancing and she leans in and she goes

00:39:18 ◼   ► who are you and you ready are you ready

00:39:26 ◼   ► for this yeah very comfortable mean like

00:39:29 ◼   ► up till now this is this is unheard of

00:39:31 ◼   ► everything everything's coming up

00:39:33 ◼   ► Roderick she says she says who are you

00:39:37 ◼   ► like whispers over the loud music in

00:39:40 ◼   ► over my in my ear

00:39:42 ◼   ► who are you and I go like sort of like

00:39:53 ◼   ► super chill face I shrug and go about

00:40:04 ◼   ► i'm about to say I don't you know I

00:40:09 ◼   ► don't know myself I don't know myself

00:40:11 ◼   ► Who I am and she she like steps back

00:40:16 ◼   ► waiting for the answer to her question

00:40:18 ◼   ► she sees me prepare to say i don't i

00:40:22 ◼   ► don't even know I don't know what who am

00:40:24 ◼   ► i and she and her face falls oh and

00:40:29 ◼   ► before I say it she goes she mouths to

00:40:34 ◼   ► me like with a super contemptuous face

00:40:38 ◼   ► like oh I don't even know right

00:40:42 ◼   ► uh-uh that's your that's your deep bro

00:40:45 ◼   ► answer that's your like and I was just

00:40:50 ◼   ► like dead to rights right i mean my

00:40:53 ◼   ► pants basically fell to the floor

00:40:56 ◼   ► the spell was broke and make the magic

00:41:00 ◼   ► just fell off the suit

00:41:01 ◼   ► yeah because she deposits fucked up

00:41:04 ◼   ► because you paused she looked and she

00:41:06 ◼   ► looked at me when I'm pausing she could

00:41:08 ◼   ► easily suss out the the of all the array

00:41:11 ◼   ► of things that you could say you were

00:41:14 ◼   ► going to say something really dumb and

00:41:15 ◼   ► she figured out before you said it

00:41:17 ◼   ► yeah and-and-and she could see as that

00:41:20 ◼   ► corny reply formed on my lips that I was

00:41:24 ◼   ► not the person that she thought I was

00:41:27 ◼   ► then you turn into a pumpkin

00:41:29 ◼   ► yeah i waltzed into this pizza parlor

00:41:31 ◼   ► started a dance party in the three-piece

00:41:36 ◼   ► suit was an excellent dancer and like a

00:41:40 ◼   ► and just like a fucking sorcerer but in

00:41:44 ◼   ► my corn in that in in that one little

00:41:47 ◼   ► moment of possible porn blue right then

00:41:52 ◼   ► and the answer to that question is

00:41:55 ◼   ► hi I'm John right that's the answer the

00:42:00 ◼   ► answer is not anything corny you don't

00:42:02 ◼   ► have to say I'm the wizard from the

00:42:03 ◼   ► north

00:42:04 ◼   ► you just say hey I'm John you can you

00:42:07 ◼   ► said i'm john and i am in my corn

00:42:11 ◼   ► i'm john what's your name and fucking

00:42:15 ◼   ► should we be married now that we've been

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00:44:47 ◼   ► the great shows your world

00:44:52 ◼   ► her hair is still be wild like turning

00:44:55 ◼   ► turning a little gray yeah it's fucking

00:44:57 ◼   ► tanked role and and and they're having a

00:45:00 ◼   ► dance party a pizza parlor dance party

00:45:02 ◼   ► on a group around the world

00:45:03 ◼   ► oh she's got a little bit she looks like

00:45:05 ◼   ► bride of frankenstein what kind and I'm

00:45:08 ◼   ► so intrigued

00:45:10 ◼   ► yeah and but but in that moment the what

00:45:13 ◼   ► it was was my insecurities was revealed

00:45:15 ◼   ► that that this was a night where I was

00:45:17 ◼   ► playing a super cool game of pool but i

00:45:20 ◼   ► didn't actually I was not actually that

00:45:23 ◼   ► cool because of because i was a

00:45:26 ◼   ► co-parent corny

00:45:28 ◼   ► uh-huh and look this

00:45:32 ◼   ► that's like me at the bachelor party I

00:45:35 ◼   ► think about that

00:45:36 ◼   ► yeah well yeah well shit that happened I

00:45:39 ◼   ► mean I'm still drinking right that

00:45:40 ◼   ► happenin man you still remember what

00:45:42 ◼   ► that message is not part of your curses

00:45:44 ◼   ► in that part of your Sisyphean curses is

00:45:46 ◼   ► you have a pretty good memory for even

00:45:48 ◼   ► stuff you did when you were pretty drunk

00:45:51 ◼   ► when I was drinking I never blacked out

00:45:53 ◼   ► I never blacked out and I very seldom

00:45:57 ◼   ► vomited I that was part of the part of

00:46:02 ◼   ► you know every every alcoholic is

00:46:05 ◼   ► different right and I was one of those i

00:46:07 ◼   ► was a battleship you can put all the

00:46:10 ◼   ► booze in me and I would just keep like I

00:46:13 ◼   ► was a I was a d-9 caterpillar like I

00:46:15 ◼   ► would just gurgurk and never blackout

00:46:20 ◼   ► never forget a thing so I saw although i

00:46:23 ◼   ► was i was at every horrible bachelor

00:46:25 ◼   ► party where everybody was a bachelor

00:46:28 ◼   ► right there was no one was getting

00:46:29 ◼   ► married anywhere i was just awful times

00:46:31 ◼   ► and and all the blood the the

00:46:35 ◼   ► blessedness that is that that quality

00:46:40 ◼   ► and most people where they wake up the

00:46:42 ◼   ► next morning they're like would happened

00:46:43 ◼   ► last night I was like I'll tell you what

00:46:46 ◼   ► happened what's in here all morning

00:46:49 ◼   ► thinking about it is a fucking bloodbath

00:46:50 ◼   ► happened like I never went to sleep

00:46:54 ◼   ► because I'm just sitting here but

00:46:55 ◼   ► replaying the whole it's a nice feeling

00:46:57 ◼   ► and and there's a lot of that stuff is

00:47:00 ◼   ► still with me right i mean i remember i

00:47:03 ◼   ► laid down in an alley one time because i

00:47:07 ◼   ► couldn't walk any further and I was like

00:47:10 ◼   ► this is a knife

00:47:11 ◼   ► Ali is probably no cars are coming down

00:47:14 ◼   ► here on little sleep a little bit little

00:47:17 ◼   ► sleepies little sleepers and I laid down

00:47:22 ◼   ► in the corner of this alley which was

00:47:23 ◼   ► absolutely full of rats it like we're

00:47:27 ◼   ► like I found the probably found the

00:47:29 ◼   ► place where people pissed the most often

00:47:33 ◼   ► for the last hundred and twenty years

00:47:34 ◼   ► curled up there but in my moment was

00:47:38 ◼   ► aware enough that i took my glasses off

00:47:41 ◼   ► and folded them and put them on my night

00:47:45 ◼   ► table which was a pile of garbage and

00:47:50 ◼   ► when I woke up an hour or two later

00:47:54 ◼   ► now it because in the middle of the day

00:47:56 ◼   ► this isn't this isn't like it two in the

00:47:59 ◼   ► two in the morning

00:48:00 ◼   ► this is two in the afternoon

00:48:02 ◼   ► wake up in this hot garbage strewn

00:48:05 ◼   ► piston Ali's I'm like yeah it was

00:48:08 ◼   ► refreshing sleep

00:48:10 ◼   ► do-do-do-do-do birthday purchasing at ya

00:48:15 ◼   ► retweet

00:48:19 ◼   ► still she absolutely shitfaced I stand

00:48:23 ◼   ► up and off I go down the street drip

00:48:27 ◼   ► interpreter but i forgot my glasses are

00:48:30 ◼   ► still on your nightstand so my

00:48:32 ◼   ► nightstand

00:48:33 ◼   ► my vision is blurred enough already that

00:48:35 ◼   ► I that it's not like whoa I can't see

00:48:37 ◼   ► I'm just like we were purple and I gets

00:48:42 ◼   ► wherever somewhere the next place and I

00:48:46 ◼   ► go wash at my glasses and we're going up

00:48:51 ◼   ► turn around pick our perp corporate lurp

00:48:55 ◼   ► back to the alley classes are gone now

00:48:58 ◼   ► no one uses who steals a pair of garbage

00:49:02 ◼   ► class and these were glasses that I had

00:49:04 ◼   ► made because a friend of mine worked as

00:49:07 ◼   ► a like an orderly at the hospital and

00:49:10 ◼   ► they and he came home and he was like

00:49:11 ◼   ► there's a program at the hospital at

00:49:14 ◼   ► where they make glasses free for poor

00:49:16 ◼   ► people and I was like that's me and so I

00:49:20 ◼   ► had I went because I didn't have glasses

00:49:21 ◼   ► at the time and then went and had my

00:49:23 ◼   ► glasses made and they were amazing

00:49:24 ◼   ► because this was an era where I think

00:49:27 ◼   ► you remember this time sometime in the

00:49:30 ◼   ► nineties where all of the shop classes

00:49:34 ◼   ► and like government-issue glasses that

00:49:39 ◼   ► they made in the in proliferation back

00:49:42 ◼   ► in 1961 they were all just like 25 cents

00:49:46 ◼   ► apiece and this government program to

00:49:49 ◼   ► make glasses for people had the these

00:49:52 ◼   ► incredible fifties style like black on

00:49:55 ◼   ► top clear on the bottom

00:49:56 ◼   ► all right out like a style that would

00:49:58 ◼   ► become it's almost like that with the

00:50:00 ◼   ► column in in England NIH classes

00:50:04 ◼   ► yeah then became kind of fashionable

00:50:05 ◼   ► like Morrissey glasses that's right yeah

00:50:07 ◼   ► and it was a pain where those you know

00:50:10 ◼   ► those glasses were fashionable because

00:50:12 ◼   ► they were they were cheap but you know

00:50:14 ◼   ► like

00:50:15 ◼   ► free but I lost that pair of glasses and

00:50:19 ◼   ► who would pick up that would pick up a

00:50:21 ◼   ► pair of glasses from that fucking pistol

00:50:23 ◼   ► i don't know probably somebody else they

00:50:26 ◼   ► stopped by to sleep there or maybe it

00:50:29 ◼   ► was the little bird maybe it was the

00:50:31 ◼   ► song is somebody else's bed and that was

00:50:32 ◼   ► their nightstand

00:50:33 ◼   ► yeah that could be with all these

00:50:35 ◼   ► glasses doing on my nightstand

00:50:37 ◼   ► that's my pilot these will do but that's

00:50:40 ◼   ► simply click but like that scene in the

00:50:43 ◼   ► new adventures in babysitting

00:50:45 ◼   ► oh where the girl takes her glasses off

00:50:47 ◼   ► and then the little homeless lady comes

00:50:48 ◼   ► by and put someone is like I can see and

00:50:50 ◼   ► walks off and then the girl can't then

00:50:54 ◼   ► she can't really do remember every she's

00:50:56 ◼   ► stuck in the bus station

00:50:57 ◼   ► no offense to babysit that sounds like a

00:51:00 ◼   ► big part of the adventure it well but

00:51:01 ◼   ► it's but she's just a like a she's a

00:51:05 ◼   ► tertiary character i sees the one that's

00:51:08 ◼   ► like in she's she's the emergency

00:51:11 ◼   ► meeting that causes the babysitter to

00:51:15 ◼   ► take the kids into chicago I'll see I

00:51:18 ◼   ► don't know this story so she's the

00:51:20 ◼   ► MacGuffin she's the MacGuffin so they

00:51:22 ◼   ► have to have to leave have to leave the

00:51:25 ◼   ► comfort of their suburban like John

00:51:28 ◼   ► Hughes neighborhood huh

00:51:31 ◼   ► and she has to take these three

00:51:32 ◼   ► irascible kids

00:51:34 ◼   ► oh one of them the oldest the little boy

00:51:37 ◼   ► is younger enough than her that he needs

00:51:40 ◼   ► a babysitter

00:51:41 ◼   ► yeah he's old enough to be in love with

00:51:43 ◼   ► her I know that one and then the little

00:51:46 ◼   ► the little girl is a she's you know not

00:51:50 ◼   ► very old six or something seven but

00:51:53 ◼   ► she's in love with four but the

00:51:55 ◼   ► comic-book care who and so she spends

00:51:57 ◼   ► the whole movie in love with or until

00:51:59 ◼   ► she finally meets Thor in the in the

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00:55:00 ◼   ► know it everyone cool huh they're gonna

00:55:05 ◼   ► get somebody from a scar when death is

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00:55:08 ◼   ► haha no its it again didn't I can't

00:55:15 ◼   ► unsee it

00:55:16 ◼   ► he'd still be super strong baby fucking

00:55:18 ◼   ► Wallace Shawn I'm the great i would

00:55:21 ◼   ► watch I would so like the Avengers with

00:55:22 ◼   ► Wallace Shawn nest or wash on his store

00:55:25 ◼   ► but Yuma character of of bump my my

00:55:31 ◼   ► dinner with Andre yeah exactly

00:55:33 ◼   ► ok so I'll try to be more realistic this

00:55:35 ◼   ► is a movie it's made with the early

00:55:36 ◼   ► nineties probably know it ladies but

00:55:38 ◼   ► somebody you least expect it is an actor

00:55:41 ◼   ► that I know

00:55:42 ◼   ► yes okay uh you know I i can guess I'm

00:55:48 ◼   ► just gonna jump right in

00:55:49 ◼   ► go Vincent D'Onofrio it's D'Onofrio huh

00:55:55 ◼   ► it's an interesting career okay now I'll

00:55:58 ◼   ► let myself look it up and operate at

00:56:00 ◼   ► that very same moment was also playing

00:56:02 ◼   ► the guy in Full Metal Jacket who was

00:56:05 ◼   ► born again hard

00:56:06 ◼   ► Laurel and Hardy had already been the

00:56:08 ◼   ► bodyguard wasn't ours at the other guy

00:56:11 ◼   ► that's the other guy that's the

00:56:12 ◼   ► gamergate guy he was investing our free

00:56:15 ◼   ► oh yes he was born again hard ones even

00:56:17 ◼   ► before that he was in know he was in was

00:56:19 ◼   ► he in them busy men in black was later

00:56:21 ◼   ► using men in black with that was later

00:56:22 ◼   ► but so you lose them to confuse out in

00:56:25 ◼   ► baldwin and mrs. off you know what kind

00:56:28 ◼   ► of ball one has that ball Adam Baldwin

00:56:31 ◼   ► is like some kind of distillation of

00:56:33 ◼   ► baldwin ism down to all the thinking

00:56:36 ◼   ► seated fart

00:56:37 ◼   ► yeah like it's all this stuff about ball

00:56:39 ◼   ► one bald ones all the Baldwin ask

00:56:42 ◼   ► characteristics but I don't like like I

00:56:46 ◼   ► like Alec Baldwin despite all the

00:56:48 ◼   ► reasons not to like oh gosh yeah i mean

00:56:50 ◼   ► he's one of those he's an American

00:56:52 ◼   ► antihero

00:56:53 ◼   ► yeah that's right but like all the other

00:56:55 ◼   ► bald ones remember when the Baldwin's

00:56:57 ◼   ► were a thing like all the balls are huge

00:56:59 ◼   ► people talked about the Baldwin's as if

00:57:01 ◼   ► it was a good thing that matter they

00:57:02 ◼   ► were the lots of the nineties full metal

00:57:05 ◼   ► jacket and adventures in babysitting

00:57:06 ◼   ► both came out in 1987 is in the ya

00:57:10 ◼   ► episode of the equal at two episodes of

00:57:12 ◼   ► the equalizer has two different people

00:57:13 ◼   ► using mystic pizza

00:57:16 ◼   ► this is when he was still Vincent Philip

00:57:17 ◼   ► D'Onofrio who and then what I next know

00:57:20 ◼   ► him and he's in JFK I don't remember

00:57:22 ◼   ► that he's in the player i don't remember

00:57:23 ◼   ► that but if you look at him I remember

00:57:26 ◼   ► him being Orson Welles in Deadwood if

00:57:28 ◼   ► you look at a picture of him as for

00:57:30 ◼   ► adventures in babysitting right and then

00:57:33 ◼   ► you look at a picture of him as the

00:57:35 ◼   ► board again hard character same same

00:57:38 ◼   ► year huh

00:57:39 ◼   ► you realize that Vincent D'Onofrio is

00:57:41 ◼   ► greatest American huh

00:57:43 ◼   ► oh my goodness look at oh my goodness

00:57:47 ◼   ► look at him and then and then he ends up

00:57:51 ◼   ► on CSI

00:57:52 ◼   ► but you know a like new brunswick or

00:57:55 ◼   ► whatever the rights on the show we tilt

00:57:56 ◼   ► his head a lot but there is thats is

00:57:59 ◼   ► that's that that's where he got his

00:58:00 ◼   ► start as he's wearing a blue like

00:58:03 ◼   ► undershirt and he's got long uh like

00:58:05 ◼   ► very blond hair and a red baseball cap

00:58:08 ◼   ► baseball cap and he comes down out of

00:58:09 ◼   ► some smokies guy he's carrying a big

00:58:11 ◼   ► hammer little girl is like it's Thor in

00:58:15 ◼   ► my store

00:58:16 ◼   ► he's actually kind of mean who and that

00:58:19 ◼   ► thought I mean to your door is very

00:58:21 ◼   ► conceited that's how he ran into

00:58:23 ◼   ► problems

00:58:23 ◼   ► Oh see I didn't know enough about for ya

00:58:26 ◼   ► when i watched adventures in babysitting

00:58:28 ◼   ► together now it makes sense that thought

00:58:30 ◼   ► when we watch The Avengers my wife

00:58:32 ◼   ► turned to me and said stories basically

00:58:33 ◼   ► every guy i tried to avoid at parties at

00:58:36 ◼   ► santa cruz oh sure you know and so the

00:58:39 ◼   ► drama thora story is very conceited he

00:58:41 ◼   ► felt pretty positive that he was going

00:58:43 ◼   ► to be the heir apparent to Odin and then

00:58:45 ◼   ► he got really conceited and that's when

00:58:47 ◼   ► he took away my owner and he said he

00:58:48 ◼   ► said you can have your stripping of your

00:58:50 ◼   ► powers I'm gonna go to earth and you're

00:58:52 ◼   ► going to be you're going to be a

00:58:53 ◼   ► slightly disabled doctor he was a doctor

00:58:55 ◼   ► that which is nice

00:58:56 ◼   ► uh but he's he's stripped of his power

00:58:59 ◼   ► instead of his powers he has to earth

00:59:00 ◼   ► then he has he figured something out

00:59:02 ◼   ► something something he redeemed himself

00:59:03 ◼   ► he continues to be a doctor he's got it

00:59:05 ◼   ► he's got a can be

00:59:06 ◼   ► as he has a walking problem when he

00:59:07 ◼   ► smashes his cane really hard on the

00:59:09 ◼   ► ground it turns into mill near any meat

00:59:10 ◼   ► come store i see that's what we used to

00:59:13 ◼   ► do more transformation of the

00:59:14 ◼   ► superheroes and Mueller is the hammer

00:59:16 ◼   ► mia yah mule near member Mia and Loki is

00:59:20 ◼   ► his brother who is also bad

00:59:22 ◼   ► oh yeah he's really bad news no see he's

00:59:24 ◼   ► the problem the thing is Thor is a dick

00:59:27 ◼   ► but look he is perfidious he's disloyal

00:59:29 ◼   ► affinity is the worst kind of bad it's

00:59:32 ◼   ► the worst kind of disloyalty for sure

00:59:34 ◼   ► and so he's he and that's the reason the

00:59:36 ◼   ► Avengers were formed fiscal okie who has

00:59:39 ◼   ► these be basically is he's escaped from

00:59:41 ◼   ► his mental jail that he was put in he

00:59:43 ◼   ► goes to earth and he makes it look like

00:59:47 ◼   ► a train is going off the tracks he gets

00:59:50 ◼   ► into a Bruce banners head and so hawk

00:59:54 ◼   ► goes to try and save the train but it

00:59:56 ◼   ► looks like he's attacking the train

00:59:57 ◼   ► doors are formed in the

00:59:57 ◼   ► doors are formed in the

01:00:00 ◼   ► circa nineteen sixty-one the Avengers

01:00:01 ◼   ► are formed to go after Hulk because he's

01:00:04 ◼   ► a bad guy so they bring a man because

01:00:06 ◼   ► he's a guy who can send his hands all

01:00:07 ◼   ► over the world to find Marcus you know

01:00:09 ◼   ► I'm fighting hands right now California

01:00:11 ◼   ► oh my goodness you know my sugar ants

01:00:13 ◼   ► your you know my experience with north

01:00:14 ◼   ► northwest and yes and spiders

01:00:18 ◼   ► I am Legend in in the northwest as like

01:00:20 ◼   ► a holocaust her but here

01:00:23 ◼   ► yeah they're going to sink hole we ship

01:00:26 ◼   ► the ends in Southern California do not

01:00:28 ◼   ► kid around

01:00:29 ◼   ► yeah when they come upon one of our

01:00:32 ◼   ► waiters while they're looking for work

01:00:33 ◼   ► well that's the thing that most

01:00:34 ◼   ► beautiful and I ever saw them but ma ma

01:00:37 ◼   ► maybe art they're the most here's what

01:00:40 ◼   ► it is they were the most talented and in

01:00:42 ◼   ► their own communities sure like the best

01:00:45 ◼   ► entertainment began a small pond

01:00:47 ◼   ► I'm looking out the window to people

01:00:48 ◼   ► with buttons went by oh I've got my

01:00:51 ◼   ► spool here but I can't get out there you

01:00:54 ◼   ► know that they could take it probably

01:00:56 ◼   ► they could probably power and iphone for

01:00:58 ◼   ► a couple hours of those buns but they're

01:00:59 ◼   ► not there is walking around but that's

01:01:00 ◼   ► normal

01:01:01 ◼   ► if you don't think about that if you and

01:01:03 ◼   ► your significant other both have top

01:01:05 ◼   ► buttons who how

01:01:09 ◼   ► why wouldn't you tie them together once

01:01:11 ◼   ► positive one is negative right why

01:01:13 ◼   ► wouldn't you just run a little spool

01:01:14 ◼   ► even if it wasn't metal wire what if it

01:01:16 ◼   ► was just ribbin people already share

01:01:18 ◼   ► headphones John you're going public

01:01:20 ◼   ► transit and there's a couple Chinese

01:01:22 ◼   ► kids sharing and sharing their ipod same

01:01:24 ◼   ► deal here that wire could be i think

01:01:26 ◼   ► it's in an electrical transducer or

01:01:28 ◼   ► modem and that would be used for to one

01:01:31 ◼   ► of these positive one of these negative

01:01:33 ◼   ► and then that would generate enough

01:01:34 ◼   ► power for the ipod with some leftover

01:01:36 ◼   ► for the grid if you saw two people

01:01:38 ◼   ► walking on the beach in Venice

01:01:39 ◼   ► California they both had burns and they

01:01:41 ◼   ► were both flying kites from their buns

01:01:43 ◼   ► ok how would that make you feel because

01:01:47 ◼   ► it would fill me with joy i would say

01:01:49 ◼   ► here are some people here are some

01:01:51 ◼   ► millennium not SS SS me up for a minute

01:01:53 ◼   ► 40 unit because the kite would be

01:01:56 ◼   ► pulling the bun up i have been a speech

01:01:59 ◼   ► problem

01:02:00 ◼   ► oh well it's it's a it's it's it's

01:02:07 ◼   ► it's a willful unusualness oh yeah yeah

01:02:12 ◼   ► there's a lot of that but you're gonna

01:02:13 ◼   ► find that in ann arbor 24 or all the

01:02:17 ◼   ► other are but you gotta wear more layers

01:02:19 ◼   ► their true true but like the willful I

01:02:22 ◼   ► mean the thing about Venice i think is

01:02:24 ◼   ► like the there the the the kumquats are

01:02:30 ◼   ► thick on the ground here who you know

01:02:33 ◼   ► what I mean like you don't have it do

01:02:35 ◼   ► you remember when being a wastoid

01:02:39 ◼   ► burnout seemed like it was a valid job

01:02:45 ◼   ► yes right and that 1982 remember 1982 it

01:02:49 ◼   ► was it was something to aspire to and

01:02:51 ◼   ► you know we talked about the the origins

01:02:53 ◼   ► of various kinds of Valley speak and

01:02:54 ◼   ► serve talk i mean that that was some of

01:02:57 ◼   ► that has antecedents in well in our

01:02:59 ◼   ► group that kind of Lodi's but you can

01:03:01 ◼   ► take burnouts I don't know where that

01:03:02 ◼   ► came from Lotus but i guess because they

01:03:04 ◼   ► got loaded but you get that you get the

01:03:05 ◼   ► Judas Priest drawn your folder easily

01:03:08 ◼   ► got a flannel shirt you fall asleep in

01:03:09 ◼   ► class

01:03:10 ◼   ► you're always in the smoking area

01:03:11 ◼   ► because yes high schools you have

01:03:12 ◼   ► smoking areas

01:03:13 ◼   ► yes and and not in your date will regard

01:03:16 ◼   ► except you're not canadian women

01:03:18 ◼   ► yeah when Gardner to canadian first of

01:03:20 ◼   ► all and also like to whatever it like

01:03:23 ◼   ► beckham hashers is that we call it up

01:03:24 ◼   ► there commissures is that is that a is

01:03:26 ◼   ► that considered a slider a slur sure I

01:03:29 ◼   ► feel like hasher came later in Anchorage

01:03:32 ◼   ► we call them stalkers stoners ok and

01:03:35 ◼   ► stoner was a blanket term for any kind

01:03:38 ◼   ► of sort of burner you know anybody that

01:03:42 ◼   ► was anybody that was because a stoner

01:03:46 ◼   ► would look at you and I'm not talking

01:03:47 ◼   ► about like a like a sixty-five-year-old

01:03:49 ◼   ► burnout stoner that's what they were

01:03:51 ◼   ► that's what they aspire to but when

01:03:52 ◼   ► you're 18 year old stoner yeah he's not

01:03:55 ◼   ► really fighting

01:03:56 ◼   ► I mean you gotta really to get kill

01:03:58 ◼   ► those brain cells permanently you're

01:03:59 ◼   ► gonna have to really stick with it and

01:04:01 ◼   ► there was a there was a tremendous

01:04:02 ◼   ► element of defiance right the stoners

01:04:06 ◼   ► would look at you and say I choose

01:04:09 ◼   ► nothingness right like I am

01:04:12 ◼   ► this is a valid life choice mmm i am I

01:04:16 ◼   ► do not care about your bullshit these

01:04:18 ◼   ► men are nihilist honey trap right now

01:04:22 ◼   ► and there's a transient me what's in the

01:04:24 ◼   ► box

01:04:25 ◼   ► mm no no that was ever to Russell it's

01:04:27 ◼   ► totally true and it was a life choice

01:04:29 ◼   ► and it was it a contrary to what

01:04:32 ◼   ► appeared to be it was not simply a

01:04:34 ◼   ► reaction to straight culture it was seen

01:04:36 ◼   ► as an affirmative stance

01:04:38 ◼   ► mm and that i remember very distinctly

01:04:41 ◼   ► mean we've all stood at the crossroads

01:04:45 ◼   ► who and we've all looked down one as far

01:04:49 ◼   ► as we couldn't tell where penned into

01:04:51 ◼   ► the undergrowth who but there was a

01:04:54 ◼   ► moment right where you're where you're

01:04:56 ◼   ► thinking like Spicoli is the coolest

01:04:58 ◼   ► character and fast times at ridgemont

01:05:00 ◼   ► high perhaps that coolness is also

01:05:03 ◼   ► available to me but Spicoli has made a

01:05:07 ◼   ► life choice Spicoli is on a path Spicoli

01:05:11 ◼   ► his reproach model with mr. hand over

01:05:14 ◼   ► the end of the film does not mean that

01:05:16 ◼   ► mr. hand has converted Spicoli to caring

01:05:19 ◼   ► about the identity that would be a

01:05:21 ◼   ► different film so different film i mean

01:05:24 ◼   ► if the fact that mr. hand comes to his

01:05:25 ◼   ► house in the way that he does and that's

01:05:27 ◼   ► a wonderful turn but also the fact that

01:05:30 ◼   ► you know they don't end up jumping into

01:05:31 ◼   ► a pool together I like that a lot

01:05:33 ◼   ► well and who is more changed quickly or

01:05:36 ◼   ► mr. hand you know I never have thought

01:05:38 ◼   ► about along you know what I mean like I

01:05:39 ◼   ► feel like being around my time now is

01:05:41 ◼   ► the one that's right mr. hand has as a

01:05:44 ◼   ► as as izzy is is changed and evolved by

01:05:47 ◼   ► the end of that but so I'm walking down

01:05:50 ◼   ► venice beach and i'm looking around and

01:05:52 ◼   ► i have this like wow this is there are

01:05:58 ◼   ► stoner burnouts here that are from my

01:06:02 ◼   ► time there are people here who who came

01:06:06 ◼   ► to that Spicoli crossroads and they took

01:06:10 ◼   ► the other as just as fair m and here

01:06:13 ◼   ► this resonates I just sit there and

01:06:15 ◼   ► smoke a doobie the crossroads something

01:06:17 ◼   ► they came into the crossroads who they

01:06:19 ◼   ► try to hitch a ride huh

01:06:21 ◼   ► and they saw the devil and they said

01:06:23 ◼   ► take me to the other side plank and dust

01:06:26 ◼   ► my broom and so they're they're they're

01:06:29 ◼   ► sitting around there walking around

01:06:32 ◼   ► their fucking riding a unicycle and it's

01:06:35 ◼   ► not just the guy that looks like Jimi

01:06:36 ◼   ► Hendrix on roller skates and it's not

01:06:39 ◼   ► like i sat down there the other day and

01:06:41 ◼   ► there were maybe ten black guys about my

01:06:45 ◼   ► age sitting around on the stone the

01:06:47 ◼   ► stands around the basketball court and

01:06:49 ◼   ► they were arguing loud about basketball

01:06:54 ◼   ► teams from the eighties john who was the

01:06:57 ◼   ► best

01:06:57 ◼   ► yeah and I knew all I knew everything I

01:07:00 ◼   ► knew every name that they were saying

01:07:02 ◼   ► and they were really up in each others

01:07:04 ◼   ► face about it like you know what your

01:07:07 ◼   ► guests and surprises the first time this

01:07:08 ◼   ► has come up this is like your old all

01:07:10 ◼   ► guys sitting on a stupid Turkey

01:07:11 ◼   ► yeah this these guys I think probably

01:07:14 ◼   ► have a version of this argument every

01:07:16 ◼   ► day

01:07:17 ◼   ► yeah and part of the loudness of it is

01:07:19 ◼   ► that it is a performance their conscious

01:07:22 ◼   ► of being we are the Venice Beach

01:07:24 ◼   ► middle-aged guys that sit around the

01:07:27 ◼   ► basketball court and what we do is argue

01:07:31 ◼   ► loudly about things from our childhood

01:07:35 ◼   ► or whatever like Iverson you know

01:07:37 ◼   ► they're just like screaming at each

01:07:39 ◼   ► other the Celtic Celtics were the you

01:07:42 ◼   ► know chelton melting

01:07:43 ◼   ► I don't know my friend right now people

01:07:47 ◼   ► think it's like like Apache Esperanto

01:07:49 ◼   ► fortran any other languages is something

01:07:52 ◼   ► are they teaching its young people are

01:07:53 ◼   ► they bringing in are they bring in new

01:07:55 ◼   ► people out work you have to be of the

01:07:57 ◼   ► vintage to argue about Larry Bird yeah

01:08:00 ◼   ► you have to care because young people

01:08:01 ◼   ► just roll their eyes at him because

01:08:03 ◼   ► there's been four or five complete

01:08:06 ◼   ► iterations of like basketball culture

01:08:10 ◼   ► since the since Michael Jordan like an

01:08:13 ◼   ► old a black guy version is like slacker

01:08:16 ◼   ► like sit around like like talking about

01:08:18 ◼   ► scooby-doo this moment in time for my 25

01:08:21 ◼   ► 30 40 years ago you still like just just

01:08:23 ◼   ► turning over because there was never in

01:08:26 ◼   ► in their world right there was never a

01:08:28 ◼   ► better moment not just in basketball but

01:08:32 ◼   ► in history of a

01:08:35 ◼   ► the Bulls vs the the celtics writer or

01:08:39 ◼   ► LA right was the big rivalries or

01:08:41 ◼   ► whatever l 118 lakers and the lakers in

01:08:44 ◼   ► the celtics ya get magic vs Larry Bird

01:08:47 ◼   ► and and so that was such and I that is

01:08:50 ◼   ► just like cast in iron in my own mind

01:08:54 ◼   ► and I didn't care about it like the idea

01:08:59 ◼   ► that there would ever be a bigger moment

01:09:01 ◼   ► in sports than that rivalry which was

01:09:03 ◼   ► like so profound and I felt like I felt

01:09:07 ◼   ► like you know turn around and being like

01:09:08 ◼   ► well what about a you know the beauty

01:09:13 ◼   ► jazz but the witch named still really

01:09:18 ◼   ► gets under my skin

01:09:19 ◼   ► the Jazz the chance yeah famous utah

01:09:22 ◼   ► famous for its jazz scene right John

01:09:25 ◼   ► Stockton John Stockton he played when he

01:09:28 ◼   ► and the Bulls right well you want to

01:09:31 ◼   ► play for the Jazz now and John Stockton

01:09:33 ◼   ► went to Gonzaga where I want so he was

01:09:36 ◼   ► on and Gonzaga was a busy with college

01:09:39 ◼   ► as you know that's like basketball is

01:09:40 ◼   ► the big thing for guns and I learned

01:09:42 ◼   ► about you talk a lot about deadly

01:09:44 ◼   ► shrimps

01:09:45 ◼   ► yeah I learned about him because he's on

01:09:46 ◼   ► several episodes of parks and rec and he

01:09:48 ◼   ► used to play for the the Sonics that's

01:09:50 ◼   ► right it was a long time ago and the

01:09:52 ◼   ► sauna so in the early nineties right

01:09:54 ◼   ► that was sonics heyday and these guys

01:09:56 ◼   ► got into the Sonics they were they were

01:09:59 ◼   ► yelling at each other about and I SAT

01:10:00 ◼   ► there because I was loving it

01:10:02 ◼   ► I did not want to be anywhere else and

01:10:05 ◼   ► they yelled at each other about eighties

01:10:06 ◼   ► basketball until they were yelling at

01:10:08 ◼   ► each other about the Sonics and early

01:10:10 ◼   ► nineties basketball which I still could

01:10:12 ◼   ► follow along like I understood the terms

01:10:14 ◼   ► yeah but so so waltzing around down in

01:10:17 ◼   ► Venice IC IC the the the culture down

01:10:22 ◼   ► there and like underneath the underneath

01:10:27 ◼   ► the level of people selling a like

01:10:29 ◼   ► Guatemalan pans underneath the level of

01:10:33 ◼   ► in a sideshow Parker Parker ism

01:10:37 ◼   ► the like whatever creepy like sub but

01:10:40 ◼   ► like the real muscle beaches in santa

01:10:43 ◼   ► monica right there but there's another

01:10:44 ◼   ► muscle beach in Venice or like feel that

01:10:47 ◼   ► muscle beach and having you exactly

01:10:49 ◼   ► yeah like yeah it's the its earlier

01:10:52 ◼   ► muscle beach feel like every answer

01:10:53 ◼   ► Lysander's love the beach I feel like I

01:10:56 ◼   ► want to send my remark because i have

01:10:57 ◼   ► not been to Venice in a long time and I

01:10:58 ◼   ► realized I sound like a dick

01:11:00 ◼   ► there's there's a culture of performance

01:11:01 ◼   ► to what those people are doing and now i

01:11:02 ◼   ► feel kind of a dick that I said anything

01:11:04 ◼   ► no no I because because I've been to

01:11:07 ◼   ► Venice Beach in Venice California 1000

01:11:10 ◼   ► times and I Drive down

01:11:12 ◼   ► Albert kidney and I go to the beach and

01:11:14 ◼   ► I walk walk around and I go there's

01:11:16 ◼   ► nothing here for me and then I leave and

01:11:19 ◼   ► then I came back and I did it again I

01:11:21 ◼   ► was like there's nothing here for me and

01:11:22 ◼   ► then I leave and then there's a Pinot we

01:11:25 ◼   ► stop and get coffee and inteligencia and

01:11:27 ◼   ► like I don't like this either

01:11:28 ◼   ► for years I've been coming here and

01:11:30 ◼   ► saying there's nothing here that

01:11:32 ◼   ► interest me but now i'm here at more as

01:11:35 ◼   ► a local and spending the days here and i

01:11:41 ◼   ► find that there's their their levels

01:11:43 ◼   ► upon levels but everybody a little bit

01:11:46 ◼   ► of like and live in the suburbs are

01:11:48 ◼   ► going to the mall

01:11:49 ◼   ► we're going to the mall was its own

01:11:52 ◼   ► thing you were not there to buy a dress

01:11:54 ◼   ► shirt right you were maybe kind of their

01:11:57 ◼   ► to get an Orange Julius but I freely

01:11:59 ◼   ► went to the mall without a nickel in my

01:12:00 ◼   ► pocket just to go to the mall and there

01:12:02 ◼   ► was something that you did you knew

01:12:04 ◼   ► somebody that worked at the squire shop

01:12:05 ◼   ► it was kind of our version of cruising

01:12:07 ◼   ► like like in a car like you walk around

01:12:09 ◼   ► the mall for like three hours that's

01:12:11 ◼   ► what we do that we just go to we would

01:12:12 ◼   ► just go to the mall and that sounds

01:12:14 ◼   ► somewhat similar

01:12:15 ◼   ► this is the third place is the third

01:12:16 ◼   ► location for people yeah i bought a

01:12:18 ◼   ► bicycle from a guy i said i need a

01:12:22 ◼   ► bicycle and this guy had a like a a

01:12:28 ◼   ► rotten a rally an old raleigh 3-speed

01:12:32 ◼   ► raleigh that I recognized immediately as

01:12:34 ◼   ► a an older raleigh those are a British

01:12:40 ◼   ► British bikes and so I said I'd give him

01:12:44 ◼   ► a hundred bucks for it and he said okay

01:12:47 ◼   ► and then I you know I did some searching

01:12:50 ◼   ► did some online searching to try and

01:12:52 ◼   ► identify the the raleigh it turns out

01:12:55 ◼   ► it's in 1966 raleigh who which i'm in

01:12:59 ◼   ► the process of sort of cleaning up and

01:13:00 ◼   ► fix it up but so now I got this little

01:13:04 ◼   ► this little vintagey sort of thing being

01:13:06 ◼   ► kind of bicycle i look at David basket

01:13:09 ◼   ► on yours

01:13:10 ◼   ► I so i have a have a rack in the back

01:13:12 ◼   ► and I'm and I'm i want to put a basket

01:13:14 ◼   ► on it but i want it i want the runtastic

01:13:16 ◼   ► to be one that you can put a bunch of

01:13:20 ◼   ► stuff in right i want to be able to put

01:13:22 ◼   ► a like a gallon of milk and a loaf of

01:13:23 ◼   ► bread and stick of butter and be nice to

01:13:26 ◼   ► be able to stick in a standard grocery

01:13:27 ◼   ► bag without having to fiddle

01:13:29 ◼   ► yeah i just put it in and it's like

01:13:31 ◼   ► that's kind of a delivery guy Basque

01:13:33 ◼   ► basak okay so i'm trying to find the

01:13:36 ◼   ► right one so I haven't I haven't

01:13:37 ◼   ► committed to it yet but so I'm riding

01:13:41 ◼   ► around so now I'm a local right this

01:13:42 ◼   ► isn't some dumb beach bike that I rent

01:13:44 ◼   ► it from somebody who this is my quirky

01:13:47 ◼   ► sixties like three speed British bike

01:13:50 ◼   ► and so now I'm already feeling like

01:13:53 ◼   ► what's Mike work you know going tonight

01:13:55 ◼   ► am I gonna get a bowler

01:13:57 ◼   ► yeah you know your that that's now your

01:14:00 ◼   ► year you get that point where you gotta

01:14:01 ◼   ► like oh you do i always want to sit on

01:14:03 ◼   ► the side watch everybody else dance

01:14:04 ◼   ► exactly it's gonna be a party i should

01:14:06 ◼   ► get in there dance so yesterday i was

01:14:08 ◼   ► having breakfast here in Venice Beach a

01:14:09 ◼   ► guy rolls up ready for this motorcycle

01:14:14 ◼   ► sidecar now what's in the side armor one

01:14:18 ◼   ► bulldog that's right and what's the

01:14:20 ◼   ► Bulldog wearing this is he wearing

01:14:24 ◼   ► aviator helmet because this guy's got a

01:14:29 ◼   ► he's got a pair of goggles really

01:14:35 ◼   ► happened on the dog and and a

01:14:39 ◼   ► handkerchief your next move around feels

01:14:41 ◼   ► like something union where if he's like

01:14:43 ◼   ► as you went down that path there was no

01:14:45 ◼   ► way that wouldn't end with a bulldog

01:14:47 ◼   ► just as an aviator so here i'm watching

01:14:50 ◼   ► this guy gets up there and it's like a

01:14:51 ◼   ► platonic form of Bulldogs exactly right

01:14:54 ◼   ► it's a platonic form you know you might

01:14:56 ◼   ► not put into to you might not put in a

01:14:58 ◼   ► baseball cap that dog that dog needs to

01:15:00 ◼   ► be an aviator

01:15:01 ◼   ► what's so watching the whole thing

01:15:02 ◼   ► unfold he pulls up in front of the

01:15:03 ◼   ► sidewalk cafe where I meeting he talked

01:15:05 ◼   ► to some people think they take his

01:15:07 ◼   ► picture with the dog he looks like a

01:15:09 ◼   ► normal guy he's not he's not wearing a

01:15:12 ◼   ► sunflower costume right he's not Peter

01:15:15 ◼   ► Gabriel he's like just wearing a jean

01:15:18 ◼   ► jacket

01:15:19 ◼   ► normal haircut and but he doesn't come

01:15:24 ◼   ► into the restaurant he's he's out front

01:15:26 ◼   ► of the restaurant for a while talking to

01:15:28 ◼   ► people it's not clear that he knows

01:15:30 ◼   ► anything he saw somebody was like hey

01:15:31 ◼   ► there's my friend pulling over and then

01:15:33 ◼   ► he gets on the motorcycle and the dog

01:15:35 ◼   ► drive off and it's like does he just he

01:15:37 ◼   ► just touring all the restaurants it's

01:15:39 ◼   ► like sunday sunday morning I've seen

01:15:42 ◼   ► I've seen people who do that I've seen

01:15:43 ◼   ► belly dancers that do that I think

01:15:45 ◼   ► people who just go from place to place

01:15:47 ◼   ► doing their performance ya doing their

01:15:50 ◼   ► work and so as i said as i sat and

01:15:52 ◼   ► watched him and i watch this unfold I

01:15:54 ◼   ► was like wait a minute this is a this is

01:15:57 ◼   ► a platonic form this guy has chosen to

01:16:01 ◼   ► be that guy

01:16:04 ◼   ► the motorcycle with the Bulldog with the

01:16:06 ◼   ► sidecar with the goggles sky he didn't

01:16:10 ◼   ► invent this this is a this is the thing

01:16:12 ◼   ► that we all these days as the hint has

01:16:15 ◼   ► the hinges would say he's an avatar

01:16:16 ◼   ► he's an avatar right he is the he is the

01:16:20 ◼   ► mark twain impersonator but right now in

01:16:26 ◼   ► Venice California he may be the only one

01:16:28 ◼   ► he may be the guy and if I were 19 years

01:16:32 ◼   ► old it's like a century 21 franchise say

01:16:35 ◼   ► a limited to certain territory this is

01:16:37 ◼   ► what I wonder what does he do if he's if

01:16:39 ◼   ► he rides up in venice beach and there's

01:16:40 ◼   ► another guy with a motorcycle with a

01:16:42 ◼   ► sidecar with a bulldog with goggles

01:16:44 ◼   ► like what if you want to be the parent

01:16:45 ◼   ► guy there's already passed apparent what

01:16:48 ◼   ► you want if you want to be talks about

01:16:49 ◼   ► the deficit guy you're gonna have to go

01:16:51 ◼   ► to tell if he dresses like Mark Twain

01:16:53 ◼   ► guy there's a very good chance there's

01:16:55 ◼   ► already a dresses like Mark Twain guy or

01:16:57 ◼   ► what if you're Jimi Hendrix on roller

01:16:59 ◼   ► skates guy like there's been a jimi

01:17:02 ◼   ► hendrix on roller skates on venice beach

01:17:04 ◼   ► for 40 years

01:17:07 ◼   ► is it the same guy the whole time does

01:17:08 ◼   ► he play guitar away skating he does Oh

01:17:10 ◼   ► as an amplifier on his back and he's a

01:17:14 ◼   ► good piece

01:17:14 ◼   ► good enough guitar player that you

01:17:15 ◼   ► identify the guitar parts as Jim

01:17:17 ◼   ► Henderson Jimi Hendrix Ian but does is

01:17:24 ◼   ► it the same guy does he anoint the next

01:17:26 ◼   ► guy did you try out for that job when

01:17:29 ◼   ► the when the guys ready to retire but

01:17:31 ◼   ► but the motorcycle guy I was like which

01:17:34 ◼   ► element came first right did he have the

01:17:37 ◼   ► bulldog and then he said hey haha i'm

01:17:41 ◼   ► gonna put goggles on you and then he was

01:17:43 ◼   ► like wait a minute

01:17:44 ◼   ► yeah this feels right to me and then he

01:17:46 ◼   ► bought a motorcycle with a sidecar or

01:17:50 ◼   ► yeah

01:17:51 ◼   ► did he have a motorcycle and then he was

01:17:54 ◼   ► many felt like you know I've always

01:17:56 ◼   ► wanted a sidecar because i was a I was a

01:17:59 ◼   ► motorcycle person and I wanted a sidecar

01:18:03 ◼   ► until guess it went motorcycle for a

01:18:06 ◼   ► long time

01:18:07 ◼   ► Bulldog for some time oh he strapped on

01:18:10 ◼   ► a sidecar and that point it's just a

01:18:12 ◼   ► trip to the flea market 222 deck out

01:18:14 ◼   ► your your animal so you feel like he

01:18:17 ◼   ► sandwiched his way into it i don't see

01:18:19 ◼   ► how it goes backwards we're watching a

01:18:20 ◼   ► project runway where somebody made a

01:18:22 ◼   ► pattern that was based on their own

01:18:23 ◼   ► tattoo which I found very convoluted i

01:18:26 ◼   ► think i think it's like I cannot comes

01:18:28 ◼   ► razor thing like you know was like the

01:18:30 ◼   ► order that way because it'll be very sad

01:18:32 ◼   ► we started with chuckles you get back

01:18:39 ◼   ► solving the goggles i looked at it and

01:18:44 ◼   ► felt like it was very real possible my

01:18:46 ◼   ► god a stoner burnout just walked by the

01:18:48 ◼   ► front there

01:18:51 ◼   ► I mean they're real here they look like

01:18:52 ◼   ► they're that close yeah yeah like

01:18:55 ◼   ► clearly he had no he was like.he he

01:18:59 ◼   ► seriously was the dude right particular

01:19:02 ◼   ► did ya just missing the sweater how man

01:19:05 ◼   ► 82 degrees or whatever but I looked at

01:19:07 ◼   ► the motorcycle sidecar guy and I felt

01:19:10 ◼   ► like the whole thing came to him in a

01:19:11 ◼   ► fever dream

01:19:12 ◼   ► uh-huh like tomorrow I like today I am

01:19:17 ◼   ► myself tomorrow i'm going to set in

01:19:21 ◼   ► motion a chain of events that will that

01:19:24 ◼   ► will will transform me

01:19:26 ◼   ► into motorcycle side darkside Bulldog

01:19:30 ◼   ► guy right

01:19:33 ◼   ► you know like yeah I'm thinking because

01:19:35 ◼   ► last night I was a movie I watched for

01:19:36 ◼   ► the fourth or fifth time which is called

01:19:38 ◼   ► a blue to prove you think of deceptive

01:19:41 ◼   ► practice and Ricky J think you might

01:19:44 ◼   ► have seen it once or twice I have you

01:19:46 ◼   ► know what should i watch it fairly

01:19:48 ◼   ► regularly because it's amazing and I'm

01:19:50 ◼   ► the toxin particular about his

01:19:52 ◼   ► relationship with the kids wasn't

01:19:54 ◼   ► charlie miller and I vernon and how he

01:19:56 ◼   ► would go to the magic castle in like

01:19:57 ◼   ► there was like this this like it was

01:19:59 ◼   ► like Fagan they're like all of these a

01:20:01 ◼   ► spy in the seventies they're always like

01:20:02 ◼   ► aspiring young magicians who would hang

01:20:05 ◼   ► out with these guys and like try and get

01:20:08 ◼   ► the information and would never give

01:20:10 ◼   ► away their know he totally messed them

01:20:12 ◼   ► like one time according to ricky jay you

01:20:15 ◼   ► know he indicated is an amazing thing

01:20:16 ◼   ► where he throws a card boomerangs back

01:20:18 ◼   ► to him and I've earned said I've done at

01:20:20 ◼   ► 39 times I've never been able to 40

01:20:22 ◼   ► times if you can do 40 times i'll tell

01:20:24 ◼   ► you this effect that you want to know

01:20:25 ◼   ► and he did it and the 40th caught it

01:20:27 ◼   ► behind his back

01:20:28 ◼   ► just because he's a magic guy point

01:20:31 ◼   ► being like they're all jockeying they're