Roderick on the Line

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00:00:24 ◼   ► hello hi John where the man jon john jon [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► john jon john x 102 down-and-out now [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► John is in front [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► let's put on a groundout hear that music [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► video [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► do I and they're playing it live in [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► adultery had had a guitar [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► mmm that was wet during Pete Townsend's [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► black telecaster phase and scheckter [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► American using his chapters yeah yeah [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► yeah isn't it was also wondering if I [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► could borrow a phrase it's also kind of [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► when he was transitioning with his hair [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► Oh ever he was he was at that he was at [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► that stage that last stage was like yeah [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► I can pull the Sun and his hair looked [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► like it was made by an Internet Boeing [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► ember was slightly be winging it [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's right he did he had he [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► had some had some wings to meet did it [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► was almost like it was almost like Pauly [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► from The Sopranos yes [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► yeah like it kind of almost a little [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► earmuff think a little higher up [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► uh-huh a little flock of seagulls yeah [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► yeah well you know that was their new [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► wave record right that was the that was [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► the new wave their new wave moment I had [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► a there's a different time it's nobody [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► cares i had a poster in my bedroom for [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► three or four years that I got probably [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► a liquor store or right honey cake sure [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► said Schlitz rocks America with the WHO [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► and then noticed there was a graphic of [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► them play music do you remember when of [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► those kids died at the who concert I was [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► yes that was I think i was living in [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► Cincinnati then yeah and that was like [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► such a minus my cousins were there they [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► were at the show you know at a cousin's [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► five years older cousin 10 years older [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► and they were at the show and they yeah [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► I was it was it was like a it was like [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► it rocked the country [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► yeah it did changed it changed the it [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► changed the whole deal in a way yeah I [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► have to tell you to this day I've [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► explained to my daughter I was like you [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► know arm you know how you have you ever [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► noticed how pretty much every door on a [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► public building opens out like can you [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► guess why that is and she doesn't cast [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► she's seven but no seriously every time [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► it's so weird I mean this to sound [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► really crazy but I notice when a door on [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► a public building does not open out [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► mmm doesn't meet for younger listeners [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► welcome [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► uh-huh hello I don't know the exact [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► story i think was it may be rolling [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► stone years later had a big piece about [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► this but basically there was a k-8 [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► Wisconsin who concert in Cincinnati 1979 [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► it was face dancers to her and got a [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► long story short they're gonna rush to [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► the stage and then there was this idea [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► that if you got in there is a store over [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► here I think we're if you got through [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► that door you could get to the stage [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► faster was that was that what happened [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► so some something happened but all you [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► need to know is that there was a massive [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► rush of people all heading toward the [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► same door at the same time a door that [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► guess what maybe the door to get out of [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► the of the you know riot or whatever but [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► the point is it open in and like when I [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► remember first hearing that this is so [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► depressing [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► remember first hearing that and like it [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► really sunk in what it meant to have a [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► door open in when several hundred people [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► are trying to get through that door at [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► the same time it's a bad scene people [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► were trampled people were crushed [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► crushed and yeah yeah and it was it was [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► really bad news now in contrast almost [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► well I think every front door of a house [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► does open in because inches because [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► hinges in a residential dorset up you [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► wouldn't have exposed hinges the changes [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► on the outside right [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► I always thought growing up in Alaska [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► that the doors open in case there was a [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► really big snowfall and you wouldn't be [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► able to get your oh this is good you [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► know what I'm not going to use the [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► internet i'm just going to postulate [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► that's good John I like that because if [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► there's a lot of snow you couldn't you [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► know there's all kinds of it happens all [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► the time when you open your front door [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► and there's like four feet of snow [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► that's all the tall but always have a [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► lot of a lot of work by the door to door [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► sales lobby [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► I think involved to keep the doors [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► opening in because your foot into a door [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► you know that opens out didn't wasn't [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► that their slogan for a while [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► keep the doors opening in a lot of [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► reasons why you would want your front [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► door of your house to open in and I [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► think that was probably the logic at the [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► when they built this stadium door set up [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► before and then it was like oh but in a [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► case where there are 4,000 people [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► trampling one another god through the [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► doors open out I i always remember it [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► being turned styles but maybe I'm maybe [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► I'm getting that wrong maybe maybe turn [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► styles were different Rock trampling I [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► don't know if it's very interesting idea [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► though I mean just done not super [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► interesting but I think it's kind of [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► interesting thing about a few if you [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► have a door there it's there for a [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► reason in for a door operatory as you [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► know where a philosophy podcast i could [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► say ah priori you don't operate your [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► email you have it or blank slate blank [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► slate unhappy little Rasta there you go [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► to the Monad of my idea is that if you [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► have a door is there for a reason and it [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► has to be secure enough otherwise why [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► have a door [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► well thank you yes why have a door [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► although there are decorative doors [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► lots of them I'm sure you get the [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► slightly a Japanese doors [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► well you got those and then you have [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► these foam corridors that they're so [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► popular now which are popular open [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► because the cheap-o like the yeah like [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► the used to be when I was a kid you can [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► take your finger off in a slamming door [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► oh my god you slam a door it really [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► youyou really emphasize your point a [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► child could not pick up a door where it [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► on the ground and now today you get the [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► hollow corridors blue get out of here [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► you can you punch one of those would be [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► the right through it in the nineteen [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► seventies when someone in the [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► neighborhood slammed a door you knew it [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► yeah right somebody down the block got [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► mad slam the door [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► gas prices with all this gal come on [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► people were transitioning their their [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► furnaces from coal to oil all got [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► catalytic converters don't get me [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► started you know what I so I know a [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► little thing [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► figure 2 about catalytic converters huh [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► and did you know that certain catalytic [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► converters early let's say early version [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► 1 catalytic converters beta have a lot [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► of platinum and yeah they're worth a lot [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► of money [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► no hitting a dead old greasy old [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► catalytic converter out of certain kinds [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► of cars has a they know it has a scrap [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► value several hundred dollars because of [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► the precious metals that's insane why no [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► cop maybe just on the wire but I know [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► like stealing copper pipe is a big thing [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► well yeah that's for a long time you you [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► read Jesus his son right [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► oh well still in copper pipe still [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► copper wire and copper pipe out of old [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► houses a major plot point i remember in [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► Florida maybe concomitant with the rise [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► of crack on people would break into [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► houses under construction they would [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► watch house under construction and see [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► at the point when they got wiring and [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► pipes and go and take it but imagine [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► that show up one day like gosh uh well [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► in fact there was an epidemic [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► I don't know how widespread the epidemic [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► was but it did qualify as an epidemic by [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► the by the 70s centers for disease [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► control standard of epidemic where [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► people were actually sawing down those [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► giant aluminum like interstate light [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► poles those giant light poles that go up [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► and illuminate an entire parking lot of [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► entire walmart parking lot of yeah they [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► were they were they were cutting them [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► down with with power sauce because there [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► was so much aluminum in them that the [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► scrap value was like worth the effort [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► that's so crazy now today looms like it [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► has nothing right are giving it away [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► here turns out there's been lots of [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► changes in the requirement recycling [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► quote-unquote industry i heard it's a [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► real different game nowadays you have to [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► really bargain the margins are thin and [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► you have to like really watch like what [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► the values are to figure out what's even [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► worth of course are the Sun NPR so you [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► could end up being the guy who doesn't [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► collect all the recycling and then base [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► we going like walgreen bottles are so [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► out of demand right now that i'm just [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► gonna take it to the dump [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► that's your recycling yeah I I went [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► through a phase 3 phase where I thought [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► maybe I would be a sort of Sanford and [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► Son style scrap metal level class glad [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► that you can resume your life of tight [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► it's a medical no no notnot my own [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► personal scrap no professional Scott [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► conventional scrap collecting where I [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► what I was like somebody would say hey [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► you do what you love you will clean out [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► this live well and I'd go you know take [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► all the rusty scrap and put it in a [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► truck and take it to be the recycling [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► place and you know they pay different [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► amounts and they at the time they really [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► wanted aluminum but they would they give [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► you money for steel and a couple of [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► times I role in there with the entire [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► back of a f250 just piled to the you [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► know just thought you could the truck [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► couldn't carry any more garbage and you [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► drive in there and they will that big [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► magnet you just like grabbed everything [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► that steel just grab everything that [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► steel right out of the back of your [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► truck you know they did the position [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► that magnet right over your truck and [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► you're sitting kind of it you can stay [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► in the truck stay in the truck and and [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► and it's sitting way down on it shocks [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► because it's a store full of metal and [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► then they turn on the power and like [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► however many hundreds of pounds of [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► garbage just is relieved from the truck [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► instantly just like soap without picking [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► up the truck doesn't pick it's not that [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► you know they calibrated so that it was [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► smart and yeah that's right right the [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► first time they tried that they don't [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► expect the consequences that's why they [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► put a knob instead of a switch [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► at first I didn't they just put a switch [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► in there like doll [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► what do you guys see 1.1 it's great to [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► put an abend but up but they allow that [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► must mean you really dramatic to see [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► what's great it's not just to see [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► because the truck then is all of a [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► sudden there 900 pounds lighter and it [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► bounces the truck bounces up on its [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► shock absorbers liked by all it's very [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► cool [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► experience and then you go into the [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► office and they give you like four and a [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► half dollars [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► oh really and you're like oh come on I [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► me know so i think we we did it we did a [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► run one time where there were where we [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► made enough money that the two of us [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► could get some mexican food and like a [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► you know and split a six pack of beer so [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► it's not a thing that you get rich doing [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► hauling scrap I i have a recollection so [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► funny today because now I mean is it is [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► it everywhere it is i get the feeling [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► that it's just a regressive cities like [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► ours but we got three cans of black can [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► for fruit for landfill we've got a kind [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► of hate that every time I see landfill I [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► just throw everything in there cause it [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► makes me so furious [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► mmm we got landfill is black i will [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► compost is green and it's a little [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► unconventional some places the greens [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► for the recycling but are exactly is [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► green blue green is diesel jeans diesel [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► yeah you put diesel in and see this is [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► they should really quantify this job [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► that's super confusing but back in the [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► day I remember when recycling first [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► became a thing that I was aware of [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► private eighth-grade probably bright not [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► too far from the time of Ashley it's [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► rocking America with the who i'm going [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► to turn into that ok but we drank a [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► metric shitton of coke in cannes i've [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► drank all I mean I dragon unconscionable [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► amount of coke for most of my life [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► it is amazing that you got as far as you [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► did I mean I when I was in college it [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► was not unusual at all and i'm gonna i'm [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► gonna make a gender division here [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► because diet coke was all the rage then [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► guys would drink a 12 pack of coke a day [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► yeah a lot of the ladies might like a [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► friendly drink easily drink a 12 pack of [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► diet coke today all it's just all the [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► bit just hearing this is like dissolving [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► the pennies in the pocket of my [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► aspartamay would be a pretty name for a [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► girl as part of a a Spartan a supported [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► a Spartan a start for mandarin lessons [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► but about what we do is in this god this [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► is so this is so gross but again back in [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► Florida Suncoast as you say we would [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► have big hefty bags and put the cans in [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► there and save them up and I might be [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► remembering this wrong but circa [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► nineteen eighty-one I feel like I [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► remember getting i want to say [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► forty-five cents a pound for aluminum [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► they were there aluminum at that [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► point taken from steel to aluminum but I [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► mean I don't think it's just something [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► even possible that seems ridiculously [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► high [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► I remember walking away with like seven [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► bucks sometimes well you know you may be [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► there may have been a deposit involved [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► also not in Florida buddy no okay out [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► here now what we gotta go to you know I [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► should do some sizzurp deposit on cans [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► and income oh yeah we're no [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► Massachusetts but let me see what it [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► says here on the looking at myself can [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► ya 17 to set recently says Bennett [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► nickel but it's nikhil at least that is [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► an awful lot that's I mean we stand by [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► our coke in those big sixteen-ounce [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► bottles because that was way easily the [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► most economic way it is like and you are [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► you want you a generic pop family [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► uh well no shasta ok that's not that's [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► not a generic are three kinds of [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► families there's the there's the [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► families that always only got coke the [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► families that always only got pepsi and [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► then there were the families like my [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► poor dear friend Jon whose mom always [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► bought whatever was on sale on the end [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► cap was he had down some serious are [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► seated so we didn't we had so rci [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► consider a top-shelf call or at least a [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► mid shuffle better than pepsi for sure [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► well what how can you say that about [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► pepsi i'll come on really [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► now that the hornings had an interesting [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► arrangement which was that I think they [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► had generally like lots of different [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► kinds of pop but the pepsi was for mrs. [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► Horning only and you think you could go [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► into the relating the NPR wooden houses [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► no no okay you could go with you could [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► go into their the mornings house and you [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► could get hires you can get a 7-up you [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► Dr Pepper but did do not touch the pepsi [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► that's only for mrs. morning mrs. [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► Lawrence pepsi now [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► Adolphus my good friend Adolphus Busch [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► orth one-third it was given to his prom [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► led by Clydesdales he because he's from [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► Atlanta and because his name because his [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► middle name is bush he drank a liter of [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► coke every day I knew him and and he [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► preferred it warm and flat huh huh [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► now me I'm a I'm [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► I'm pop agnostic right I'll drink any [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► kind of pop except diet I won't drink a [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► diet pop but anymore I don't drink I [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► don't drink pop because of the reasons [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► scraps of so many reasons but in the [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► seventies i'm going to say that we drink [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► a lot of shasta chest i think shasta is [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► making a root beer but she has to also [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► do the chest and make a variety of [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► carbonated soft drinks [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► yeah yeah and they had like a lemon line [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► they had their own off-brand some right [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► you keep saying off-brand alright i [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► guess is some kind of grocery store so I [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► I feel like I still have so much to [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► learn [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► I still have so much to grow as a person [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► i'm still using so many of the old words [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► yeah i know its offensive and defensive [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► to call chesta off-brand I just I can't [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► get used to it it's not a decision it's [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► a right i know i know it's something you [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► have to think about Merlin you just have [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► to get ahead of your you just have to I [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► don't know which of these kids today [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► John they're not aware of how much [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► variety there was in on brand drinks [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► back then thank you yes well the world [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► wants yet RC you had you had high but [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► there's a whole bunch of them and then [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► what's the generics came along forget [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► about I mean it was crazy there was so [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► much variety now growing up in in ohio [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► did you have some regional pops like [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► like Moon River nehi or whatever those [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► things where like daddy's lynching yeah [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► we had we had a we had lots of local [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► beers there was you to pole and was [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► called Hootie and there was what was the [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► other one we had those I don't remember [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► having regional I think maybe this is [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► just a hot John Hodgman thing but I [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► think of New York and New England as [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► being like where you get some serious [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► off-brand sodas yes are different [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► differently branded sodas and also will [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► some of those i would qualify as [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► off-brand that's the one he's always [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► going on about Moxie oxy yeah I've never [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► had a moxie [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► well there's a lot of those things [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► little look hush pies and monkey brains [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► and whatever that there's just all those [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► desserts that little pies and cakes and [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► stuff that that are actually regional [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► just completely regional and not [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► anything i'm interested in and then when [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► you look at it you realize oh that's [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► just a hostess cupcake [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► but you're calling it something else [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► right that's just you know what that is [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► that's just normal mayonnaise but [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► somehow you are calling it [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► Hellmann's mayonnaise right I almonds [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► man is it some kind of west of the [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► Mississippi east of the Mississippi is [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► how many best best foods that's right [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► yeah it's sort of like with was all the [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► fast-food place you get the Carl's jr. [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► versus hardees I believe that right [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► are you saying that those two things are [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► equivalent I know hardees is the same as [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► another place and it's Carl's jr. what's [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► the other one what's the moment though [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► with the fucking clown [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► what's that one the jack-in-the-box all [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► of them they all have a clown that's [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► true that you're using a lot more clouds [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► and food the burger king guys got a [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► clown Ronald McDonald's clown [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► jack-in-the-box thing is a little clown [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► how do we still have our clouds still [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► thing clown sell hamburgers [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► I am coming up on 50 years old john i [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► haven't I have never I have like maybe [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► three clowns [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► what about bob's big boy he was kind of [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► a clown well I think he's like a [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► diabetes clowns he had put with that [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► hair that's superhero you go in [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► Cincinnati that we didn't call Bob's we [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► had frisch's frisch's big boy [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► freshers big boy see what I would go [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► places and people it's a Bob's Big Boy [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► making me frisch's that's where the boy [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► is what happened is a lot of those East [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► Coast brands as they moved west people [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► were like those names are two ethnic we [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► don't want to sell any high almonds [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► mayonnaise out here we'll just call it [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► heaven names floated though they went [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► pretty well the German names [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► yeah yeah I mean cincinnati since [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► there's a pretty german test selectors [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► was a cold at the guitars [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► no but I know the the big boys [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► Oh freshers shrink like as infractions [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► fresh fresh [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► yes that's uh that's dish is a threat [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► research just hamburgers [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► um uh it was we had a thing out here [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► where the the what was it called it was [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► called her [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► oh it was called Black Angus the Black [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► Angus restaurant before [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► I'm sorry I immediately think of Patton [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► Oswalt's bit on that i have always will [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► have a black angus but he has a great [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► bit on the like aggressiveness not to do [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► other people's jokes but like the [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► aggressiveness of the ads you know about [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► and this ridiculous amount of food that [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► they bring to you it's like that part of [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► their thing [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► well see now I think this is the problem [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► with black angus which is a which is a [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► common enough phrase that I think there [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► are multiple black angle guy out there [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► and a California black angus probably [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► has no relationship to the old chain [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► washable I get it I get it I get I've [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► you know what like for example I bet in [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► earlier time they're probably a whole [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► bunch of different Burger King's that [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► didn't even know the other ones exist [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► exactamundo before Don Draper got the [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► account they were just there just a [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► whole bunch of places called burger king [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► burger Queen burgers who cares [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► Thank You burger king there's a burger [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► king in every town and i'm sure there [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► was a black angus in every town but [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► there was a guy here in Washington named [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► Stuart anderson and he had a he had a [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► big cattle ranch over by ellensburg and [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► he opened up all these restaurants [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► Stewart Anderson's cattle company [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► I'm sorry you mentioned this in the last [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► episode what he yeah you made a joke [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► about indie rock band playing there and [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► then people on Twitter started lighting [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► up itself like some beloved steakhouse [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► right well yeah except the cattle [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► companies were what he had to start [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► calling his restaurants because some [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► other place named black angus sued him i [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► think like Angus John I think that's [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► like champagne [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► I think that's one of those terms that [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► means something it is it's a kind of cow [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► yeah so anyway that the black but did I [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► really mentioned this on the last [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► episode what I'm having some kind of i'm [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► having some kind of cattle company like [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► fugue state where you're what you're [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► having one locking Barkley call tabula [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► rasa which is a kind of monad we're able [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► to start fresh every week because we [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► have such a good dialectic have a good [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► dialectic that thesis you got the [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► antithesis was you got this in addition [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► synesthesia which i think is what [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► foucault had when we made his pendulum [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► yes I thesis antithesis have you ever [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► seen Foucault's Pendulum yes they're [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► incredible i think it was in I want to [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► say Seattle don't think about what I [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► went somewhere they had a big-ass [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► pendulum and I kind of couldn't stop [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► watching it [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► did we go together was that one of those [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► late night [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► things where we went and yeah i think so [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► is it night and it wasn't a giant room [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► there's a pendulum and watch people are [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► sitting around looking kind of [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► bewildered i'll find out you know what [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► I'm not looking at the world at the [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► internet today but I'll find out what [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► Foucault pendulum is it about my Ganga [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► sorry i took a black angus no no I'm [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► bottom so far going off a black angus [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► know right now i'm looking at a picture [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► of uh of of like people cause playing [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► kiss that just appeared on my little [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► kids [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► yeah yeah we'll never agree on some [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► out-of-work full-grown adults but well [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► let me ask me get back to the question [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► of you not looking at the internet today [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► is that a thing that you just decided to [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► do while we were talking or is that a [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► thing that you woke up this morning and [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► said I'm not looking at the internet you [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► really want an answer yes [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► ok i go into every episode with this [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► idea in mind i am here to engage in [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► mental intercourse intercourse with John [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► it's not my job to be right [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► it's not my job to be complete it's my [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► job to be engaged so so and then I try [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► to say you hear me sometimes exhale like [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► this ago because i realize i gotta go [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► look at the internet and then what [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► happens like last week I looked at the [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► internet and i still got almost [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► everything I said wrong [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► aah because I'm waiting scanning an [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► article well I'm trying to have a mental [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► intercourse with you and i that's like [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► checking your watch [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► so this is like the dow of Merlin yeah [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► it is 10,000 steps begins with me [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► yeah RSC I could go check but you know [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► then you're gonna go through forgot this [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► or like you've got some you to you [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► you're using the voice of the of the [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► internet I don't think that's a [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► professor actually i am i've gone back [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► i've fallen off the wagon which and the [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► ebay wagon [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► oh how i'm back on ebay again I decided [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► at a certain point browsing or closing [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► the deal to close some deals recently [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► John so what happened was what had [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► happened was so I had all these shirts [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► that required that was our french cuff [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► shirts they required cufflinks and i add [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► a certain point I was like you know what [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► that is a that [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► is a dumb thing the dumb affectations [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► and I'm gonna take all these cufflinks [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► alright of shirts a whole these French [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► come get ready get the shirt [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► yeah they got to keep my fuckin complex [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► for now you got it and then get so much [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► more work to get in and out of this [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► shirt so I'm like I'm done I'm done with [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► the shirts the french cuff shirts I [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► packed them all up and I put them in a [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► bag [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► I was like I'm taking him to the thrift [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► store some some very affected young man [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► is gonna fight he's gonna end it's gonna [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► be a big guy right a very affected [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► large-sized young man was going to find [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► these shirts at the thrift store is [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► gonna be thrilled and make his day but [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► then I never made it to the thrift store [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► and this the baggy shirts got kicked [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► around and finally got kicked under the [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► bed and I forgot about it and then I [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► started needing to dress up a little bit [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► more or rather I i started to have an [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► excuse to think that i needed a dress up [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► a little bit more because in seattle if [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► you if you go and look at the pictures [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► of the people that are running for City [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► Council most of them are trying to [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► communicate through their clothes that [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► they're just regular people [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► yeah and I'm trying to communicate [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► through my clothes that i am not a [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► regular people [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► I'm a very fancy people we have plenty [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► of regular people [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► hey listen you want regular people in [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► seattle city council you got a lot of [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► people to vote for [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► I just got the fish throwing place but [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► if you want fancy people i'm your people [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► and so I'm wondering around I'm like I [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► gotta get I gotta you know I want to get [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► fancier oh wait a minute what is fancier [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► than french cuff shirts and then I [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► thought oh no I gave those shirts away [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► like a dummy i gave the shirts away just [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► a few months before before I realized [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► that I desperately needed the shorts so [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► the other damn flipping my mattresses [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► because it's spring I flip my mattress [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► up lo and behold right there under the [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► bed is this bag of french cuff shirts [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► that I kicked around sartorio mana right [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► it's like whoa hello [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► it's like thank you God its butt [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► haha song will you realize that oh my [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► god it's like leaving cigarettes above [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► the door frame right and then you own [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► you're out of cigarettes you wander [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► around for a while you're like I'm out [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► of cigarettes damn it and then you [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► realize oh wait a minute [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► no I left cigarettes above the sitting [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► on top of the door frames of every [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► window and every door in this house [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► their cigarettes everywhere here [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► I mean it's just it's it's very [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► equivalent you're actually really just [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► forgotten about him you would that's the [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► thing if you when you get a fresh pack [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► of cigarettes what do you have you have [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► 20 brand-new cigarettes you guys in the [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► end you have 20 brand-new cigarettes you [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► feel like you got all the cigarettes for [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► the rest of your life you never think [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► that you're ever gonna run out of these [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► 20 cigarettes and soso life right there [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► and so you take you take four out of the [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► pack because you can spare them because [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► you've got a million and you put you put [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► one above the your bedroom door what [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► about the bathroom door what above the [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► good one on your respirator well above [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► the window to the outside to hide one in [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► the kitchen and then smoked the [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► cigarettes like you you know like you [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► just like you starting that pack for [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► cigarettes in and then probably when you [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► get to the end of that pack of [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► cigarettes you'll be out a story you'll [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► get another pack you'll be three or four [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► packs later before you're back at your [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► house and out of cigarettes [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► Wow and so you've forgotten about the [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► four until that that little voice in the [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► back your head says thank you passed me [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► thank you passed me for thinking of me [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► present me and putting those cigarettes [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► around well so this is what happened [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► with my french cuff shirts and then I [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► realized if I'm gonna be fancy I two [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► things need to happen one I need to [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► figure out how to how to patronize a dry [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► cleaner because I've never done that [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► oh really now let us write you you did [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► the Sun on principle right never know [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► on principle never use the dry cleaner [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► well and never used an iron-on principal [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► you put in the shower [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► well no I just wear it wrinkled because [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► I'm because i have a rumpled style [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► authentic but I showed up to a couple of [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► things and and other people were like [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► yeah did you did you put those clothes [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► on wet and then go to bed and I was like [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► looking through their opera glasses [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► they're like I said we've talked about [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► this my ruffled style and then they [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► showed me a photograph of me standing in [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► a line with like six other people some [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► of them trying to look like regular [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► people over but everybody's iron to [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► their shirts and I did I looked like a [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► pile of dirty clothes so i may need to [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► figure out how to use a dry cleaner and [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► bi needed new cufflinks [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► so I started going on ebay and after i [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► was on there for awhile i decided that i [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► wanted my cufflinks all to have stars of [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► david on them because that was a kind of [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► fashion of judaica after the war to have [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► have your your little blue cufflinks [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► with the star of david i don't know why [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► that they appealed to me so that I was [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► like I had to I had to buy the ones that [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► I saw I don't know what I'm going to be [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► communicating that is really [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► unconventional to people but i really [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► like the little I like the like with it [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► i don't know i like the pictures [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► certainly gonna get people a certain [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► five [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► yea though but the thing is that this is [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► the thing about this is the thing about [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► cufflinks nobody ever looks at them [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► the only way that people look at them as [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► if you lift up your cuff link and wagon [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► in their face [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► oh yeah you know people talk about that [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► with the the apple watch that that you [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► know it's something for people like me [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► who don't wear a watch [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► we don't think about gosh that's silly [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► but watch people notice watches you know [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► coupling people are going to his [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► cufflinks right but how many coupling [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► people are there right [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► not very many I'm with you I'm with you [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► so and i figure i figured the very few [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► the tiny minority of coupling people [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► that will actually ever see my cufflinks [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► and and then have a giant like ? appear [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► above their head and I will be able to [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► take the time in eighty-five percent of [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► those cases to sit and talk to them and [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► explain [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► explain that I don't know why I'm [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► wearing this badge on the star of david [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► part I think is going to be the most [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► frequently asked questions about your [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► cufflinks [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► yep I think that's true i have I so I [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► have a lot of them that I'm some of them [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► are real real nice antiques they're very [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► beautiful and i'm not sure what [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► explanation i can offer on that he [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► should come up with something that's got [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► you that they appealed to me [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► well I'm glad you asked me about my [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► cufflinks never done as you know my [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► father David servant and unfortunately [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► for my family we have no there is [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► absolutely no connection to a the tribes [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► of Israel haha [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► is that right there's not a single even [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► ten general connection and so I'm I'm [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► completely out in the around the weeds [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► and I guess I could just say like I [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► really like the little star [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► yeah but I I'm not sure that's gonna you [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► know of of the of the fifteen percent of [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► people that I'm not gonna have a chance [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► to adequately explain i'm not sure like [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► what percentage of those people are [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► going to accept that right right like I [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► liked it [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► mm so did you go to ebay in search of [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► these things I went to ebay in search of [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► cufflinks and then once I got there I [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► discovered that star of david cufflinks [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► were thing and I said why should these [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► beautiful things only be available two [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► rabbis who liked who else is going to [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► wear these things sharp-looking rabbis [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► sharp-looking rabbis why should they [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► have why should they like get these and [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► no one else can [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► so then I was then I decided that I it [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► wasn't a decision exactly i just bought [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► a pair and then I was like if i get to [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► then I have a collection lookbook pretty [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► soon you know pretty soon I was like not [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► exactly scouring but i had to take a [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► break look at the main focus [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► yeah right you don't want to just be on [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► the internet like looking at it [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► there's 20,000 cufflinks on there and [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► because they're like they are like [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► accordions there was a time there was a [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► time when the gentleman i just want to [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► let you know i haven't thinking a lot [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► about this election [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► I you know what company is a lot like an [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► accordion most people don't know how to [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► play it and they wouldn't know what to [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► play if they did that's exactly right [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► there was a time when accordions were [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► very fashionable there was an accordion [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► in every well-appointed house accordions [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► and it would be so hard to check that's [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► but you're not looking at the internet [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► right now so if there's no way for you [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► to know you have to accept me to get [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► your word [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► listen weird al yankovic is a perfect [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► example of a young man who learned to [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► play accordion during the era when [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► accordion playing was very fashionable I [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► had accordion lessons as a kid [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► you're kidding now you did it could you [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► still play an accordion you think [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► no I mean I could do that over in chords [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► with my hand but that's about it now I [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► don't derail you but now it was doing on [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► saturday mornings right at the beginning [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► of the new season a TV super frustrating [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► all right brand new Batman franchise and [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► i was at their plan like Little Brown [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► Jug morning [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► oh well anyway so now there is what we [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► like what we in the business call a glut [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► of accordions right there are a lot more [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► really I bet they're hard to fix it but [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► that's part of it i bet it once it [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► doesn't work exactly right you just get [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► rid of it it goes into disuse and goes [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► away [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► yeah they are impossible to fix and [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► there are very few accordion fixtures [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► left but everybody who has an accordion [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► recognizes that it is kind of a [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► miraculous instrument and they all think [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► that accordions are worth a lot of money [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► right there broken ass rusty old you [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► know blown-out accordion is like a cash [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► cow is range imagine but the problem is [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► that for every person who can play the [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► accordion their 50 accordions that's [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► what that's why there are so many [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► parameters this like the world with [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► corporates morning edition [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► turns out and cufflinks the same way [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► like I huh [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► the hipsters have not decided that [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► couples for their new thing they're all [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► busy where monocles so so the only [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► people better and and like old people [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► are dying but seriously by the tens of [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► thousands every day how many how many [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► recordings with us meet in America [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► become available everyday I'll bet you [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► I'll bet you fifty eight accordions are [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► are liberated from this mortal coil [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► everyday i would say that was even i [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► would say that was even conservative i [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► would say was something country like 63 [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► new accordions on the hook set loose as [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► the dying wish of their owner [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► hi I I free you sir like that musical [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► nutria just go right I'll go let makeup [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► make a living for yourself out there and [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► and cufflinks are I think that's that [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► you'd have to add two zeros to that I [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► think there's 6300 fresh pair of [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► cufflinks re-entering the stream [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► everyday and no nobody knows where to [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► nobody knows what to do with them or [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► where to work where they should go so [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► I'm kind of i'm calling I'm calling the [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► ones from the herd that appealed to me [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► from for a while I was I was I was I was [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► getting ones that had little trains on [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► them but then I realized that the train [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► ones are i think that i think that the [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► railroads gave them out as like I mean [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► not to kids and stuff it wasn't like [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► everything like a service award [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► exactly yeah yeah we're like the [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► salesman would come through he's trying [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► to sell you I don't know what train [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► salesman tried to tell you but trying to [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► do you know buying and selling right [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► America and and the cufflinks or one of [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► the that was a kind of a party favor now [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► hmm it's not strictly a Polaroid model [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► because the Polaroid model like the [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► Gillette model you get the dingus for [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► very cheap or free and then you have [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► costly refills for it you kinda gotta to [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► a connection here tho cuz now if you're [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► going to start doing that you're going [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► to need more shirts as well right [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► well so this is this is the big question [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► that i have to ask myself everyday [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► other people i presume make do with a [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► limited supply of things ever write [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► write write it in addition that it's a [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► there's a high and maybe not impossibly [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► financial but i would say hi existential [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► cost of maintenance m2 having clean [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► clothes for example right thanks effort [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► but like I think traditionally you had [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► what five dress shirts but you had like [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► one pretty good hat and one pretty good [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► jacket in your ward most days I'm i had [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► had the shirts and you did the laundry [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► every weekend and and then you went back [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► through your shirts I didn't I don't [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► think he'd like a lot of extra shirt or [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► extra shoes and because of because of my [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► lifestyle choices because it might you [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► know let's just let's just call it what [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► it is because of my lifestyle i have a [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► lot of shirts and so do i need more [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► shirts i don't i have to say i have to [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► wake up every morning and quell that [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► feeling that at that way it really wakes [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► me up i don't have enough shirts and [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► then I wake up and I'm like you've got a [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► lot of shirts guy just Shh you don't [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► need anymore sure and then that the [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► other voices a little bit more high [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► pitch and it's like people sure I bet [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► you're not committed just clarifies I [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► think i mighta gotten this wrong you're [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► not committed to going French cuffs only [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► no no no French cups [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► I mean like every affectation not gonna [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► be your Paul Simon bowtie that haha well [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► there was down sticks we're both I [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► remember I thought you meant palsy other [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► point apartments little horrible man was [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► have my up and uneven looking for [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► couplings no I don't think I think made [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► the fifties or in the forties in the [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► forties my dad decided that he was going [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► to be a bowtie guy he was going to be a [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► bowtie guy a tweed jacket guy [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► Wow and so at the beginning of his [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► career this is the beginning of his [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► career he was a veteran but he was a vet [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► it was a he was a university washington [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► law school graduate and he was he was [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► gonna wear tweed jacket in a bowtie [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► everywhere he went [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► and so if you can think back to like [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► what was fashionable for other people to [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► wear in the fifties it was not a tweed [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► jacket about I but he stuck to it he [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► stuck to that look all the way until he [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► met my mother and my mother thought at [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► the top of at the time 1958-59 like the [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► beginning of the mad men era right she [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► said you look like a pile of dirty [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► clothes [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► not coincidentally that that kind of [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► look is it's really cool but it would [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► probably be a little bit fuddy-duddy [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► against the four more popular fitted [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► suits of the time yeah funny and dirty [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► you got sure you get your get your lady [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► friend and her you know she now like new [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► look for her Dior like new look em [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► journal he's got our hands tucked in a [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► little muff and you look a little to let [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► you run around like half of the [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► humanities professor yeah you look like [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► Orville Redenbacher so my mom said you [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► got it you got a dish it you gotta ditch [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► this look at my dad went kicking and [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► screaming but then she bought him a lot [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► of slick suits and all of a sudden he [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► felt like a pretty pretty smooth [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► operator [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► so I don't want to make that mistake i [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► don't want to continue that mistake [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► through subsequent generations right [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► sure where I decide oh I'm French cups [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► bowtie guy [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► all I need now is a pocket watch and and [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► some of those colored wing tips and you [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► know and the just you just said put me [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► out to pasture you just put me on the [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► cover of real simple magazine and the [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► other will surprise you could not where [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► I want to live [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► that's not it at all so no I so I don't [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► know this french cuff thing I mean it's [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► really in a lot of ways it's it's [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► reprehensible but uh but you know there [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► i am staring at myself in the mirror [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► asking that perennial question who are [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► you dude you're right [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► who among us doesn't look at ourselves [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► in the mirror and say who are you dude [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► that actually there's a question I've [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► been wondering if I could interject [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► absolutely i mean i don't know i don't [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► uh I think it's probably reflected so to [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► speak and in my peril in my carriage [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► that I don't spend a lot of time looking [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► in the mirror I don't really are you [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► dude [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► no no I'm not as much as I should I [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► don't think about it that much I mean [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► obviously I'm racked with self doubt and [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► fear but i don't actually think that [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► much about how I look until I see how I [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► look and then I go wow that's how your [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► body is shaped like that's a different [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► well you know I mean I'm am I think [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► getting to that stage were just [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► congenitally you start looking like an [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► old guy [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► no I mean yes your hair getting gray [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► getting wrinkly and stuff like that but [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► just you know getting a little bit like [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► didn't used to have like a little bit of [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► a chest this is kind of weird and like [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► and now i'm getting those like old man [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► calves and stuff like that and that's [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► kinda weird but again now because of my [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► life is I don't have to think about that [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► much my wife is super nice about not [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► saying anything I'm very chic [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► yeah she's pretty sharp but you now have [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► to go play and you always go places and [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► I know you're a sharp dresser but at the [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► same time don't do you have to see I've [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► seen more new photos of you in the last [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► three weeks then probably the last [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► couple years before that maybe and you [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► always look good but is it weird to you [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► and your self-image to see a photo of [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► yourself has that changed at all now [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► that you are going to see more of what [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► you look like to the world [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► well there's no question that i am that [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► i am rocking a serious dad vibe now [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► there's no pretending for instance if i [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► put on some skinny jeans and some [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► checkerboard bands i look like a dad in [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► skinny jeans and checkerboard bands [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► thats it's not nobody's going to mistake [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► me for a skater [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► hello fellow students [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► so but you know this is the question [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► about fashion what is it right what is [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► it and and the people that don't care [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► about it uh are legitimate [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► I mean that they are completely they're [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► completely right to not care about it [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► but then there are then there are people [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► for whom [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► fashion is their entire lives it's their [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► career it's their hearts [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► yeah okay I just to clarify though [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► here's what i'm talking about give you [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► I'll give you an example an additional [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► examples of accidentally see myself in a [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► mirror and making a little screaming [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► noise on it's been a big week with the [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► Star Wars trailer coming out and it [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► coincided I've right as you watch it [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► well yeah of course my god how can i [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► watch it like here's my question to you [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► yeah chewy and that Han Solo have [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► different homes they do not come back to [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► one place and say is we're home but they [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► see a lot of people are guessing that [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► means they've been away for a long time [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► I think it could be that they were on [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► some kind of mission right before this [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► happened but where's Han Solo's home it [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► was never established is Corellian but i [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► think he travels a lot so are they part [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► are they arriving at Corellia so here's [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► the thing [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► Chewie lives on Planet Chewbacca katka [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► chic just shake with 3 y's yeah that [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► just seemed I don't know and you know [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► and I studied the video could you see [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► Hansel is your ring and necklace the [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► earrings you're wearing what I've but [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► i'm not sure i feel like i couldn't see [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► through the tears [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► hello my god cheering I felt 10 years [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► old again John it was in a way that guy [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► is here a phrase like that but like I [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► was like transported all right look here [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► well let me let me let me let me give [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► you let me give you a side-by-side [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► comparison okay ready [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► on the one hand Chewie get us out of [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► here who on the other hand to we were [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► home [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► come on it's a really good about it's a [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► teaser it's a teaser it's a teaser you [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► know what I obviously one thing about [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► this i just hope he's still weary [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► watched many of the Star Wars movies in [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► the last couple weeks which is which is [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► what makes this time kind of interesting [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► did you go back and watch negative 3 [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► negative 2 negative 1 [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► um i have special versions of those [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► that we can watch em I have so much to [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► talk about [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► yes I damn you don't care about Star [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► Wars but you know what I do care about [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► special versions of things okay okay [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► kinda put a pin in that for just a [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► second okay cuz all i want to say [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► because this is this is why i'm asking [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► you these questions important your [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► candidacy yeah so my kid has seen we [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► didn't watch perspex back but we've [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► watched a you know New Hope AKA star [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► wars we watched a special version of [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► return of the jedi and we've recently [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► watched as i mentioned last week we've [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► watched episode negative 1 right that's [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► three [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► yeah a couple times recently so anyway [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► so the trailer came out she was not as [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► excited as I am but she's pretty excited [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► but so I watch like six times that day [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► talking on twitter bike ride and [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► everything and she comes home from [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► school I told her one picture of school [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► like you're gonna there's a trailer for [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► the new stores where you can watch it [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► watch it [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► she was so excited and like a lot of a [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► reaction was similar to mine or so [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► what's happening there [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► oh my gosh who is that and we talked a [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► little bit about our records about that [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► then you see the Millennium Falcon and [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► she was kind of excited and I was [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► excited too because like we just wait [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► just wait just wait because black it [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► comes back up here or chewy it comes [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► back up [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► we're home I'm crying she goes he's so [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► old haha it's like you have it isn't [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► that great they're still together it's [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► in that same pose from she's like oh my [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► gosh let's watch it you can watch it [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► again same reaction he's so old now all [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► I'm saying is that we will then of [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► course we continue to pick up the ipad [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► we do a google search on Star Wars then [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► and now and she had exactly the same [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► remark about every single person and I'm [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► like aah time they the same thing [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► happened like nine times where she goes [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► um like oh my god I'm stability party [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► Kenny Baker is so old I go yeah but he [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► looks pretty good look and there's a guy [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► who plays c-3po and also he looks [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► awesome he looks really fits because he [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► looks so old and that's all she could [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► say to every one of these which makes [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► total sense because she's used to seeing [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► these people 38 years ago [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► yeah well as I look at them and go while [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► they look they look pretty good [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► yeah do you my question to you is do you [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► ever have a John recovering then and now [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► moment you ever see yourself and go what [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► wow you look good you look good but you [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► do have like a white a grayish beard [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► is a great no it's great it's great this [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► is the thing i have aged by i have aged [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► very quickly i think because when I was [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► 38 I had a little bit of gray coming [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► into my beard that looked kind of blonde [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► when I was 40 it looked like that when I [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► was 42 it looked like that and then [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► between coming Steve Martin hack Steve [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► Martin went gray he won't prematurely [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► gray so he's in his like his twenties or [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► thirties he's going gray and so now we [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► see him when he's like 60 or 70 like wow [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► he looks pretty good because the elta is [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► not there he doesn't look that different [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► but I do i do look different to myself [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► when I see a picture now because the [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► gray came in i think really fast like in [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► the last three years four years and I [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► and now I'm legitimately like gray beard [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► guy and a dad it's one of those things [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► where you see somebody from a distance [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► and you're like oh here comes some 65 [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► year old guy and then when they get up [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► closer you're like oh he's actually just [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► a gray 46-year old guy right right but [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► that is there is a little bit of a of a [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► like a shocker to me and not just when I [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► see a picture of myself taking candidly [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► and I go I still fat but like also now [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► like and gray like a fat and gray but [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► what can you do what can you do about [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► that like I've been idea i honestly did [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► not mean it as like getting you say oh I [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► like old I didn't mean it that way at [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► all i just meant it was the unusual now [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► that that's that's going to be kind of [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► part of what you do like when you're on [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► a stage with other people like you know [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► the natural human impulse all the times [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► to like try suss out what somebody is up [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► to with how they look at how they carry [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► themselves and how that compares [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► together people on stage doesn't ever [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► seem strange to see yourself in that [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► situation [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► uh yeah it does just because well for [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► instance like now that I now that i have [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► thrown my hat into the ring as a as a [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► political person in Seattle and I and I [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► recognize that the other people [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► in the ring are all people who have been [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► practicing this style of dance more or [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► less their whole adult lives and i am a [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► dancer i am a i'm a i'm a good dancer [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► but I am a dancer in a different style [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► of dance right I've probably had my [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► picture taken more than everyone onstage [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► combined but in a very different context [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► and so I'm sitting up on a dais with a [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► bunch of other candidates listening to [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► them talk [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► watching them interact with one another [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► and and and the people right and and and [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► even that like I when I interact with a [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► with a crowd i interact with them like [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► an audience and a p a group of people at [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► a political event are not exactly an [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► audience or they're not an audience in [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► the same way you know they ra ther the [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► polity or whatever the ya know if that's [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► a good distinction [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► yeah so I set up there and then I see a [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► photograph of the of the group and well [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► for instance right like my collar is [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► wrinkled and no one else's color is [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► wrinkled now in in the last 25 years [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► I've never looked at a picture of myself [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► and thought my collar is wrinkled I but [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► now it stands out so I'm learning a new [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► style of dance and part of that is like [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► learning to look at myself in pictures a [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► different way and i'm studying i'm still [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► cutting my own hair so I'm not going to [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► be I'm not going to be too slick just by [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► just by by virtue of like the inherent [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► problems in cutting your hair with with [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► scissors children says scissors that you [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► got out of the junk drawer but yeah I'm [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► I what what I'm curious about is now [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► that i have gone gray in my beard will I [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► will I have another sort of 15 years [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► where I kind of don't appear to age very [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► much [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► right like I'm great now and when I'm 60 [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► lb gray and am I just going to be just [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► increase [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► singly sort of grey on the same at the [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► same tempo didn't all happen is it like [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► those those guys but like they have a [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► full head of hair when they're 17 and [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► then by the time they're 21 they've just [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► gone completely bald right this [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► testosterone guys who can grow a [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► mustache like 11 [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► well this is the thing about standing [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► next to John Hodgman one of the things [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► that that people don't know about [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► Hodgman is that he is actually of [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► italian ancestry so he has he has this [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► kind of Sandy hair that makes you think [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► that he's just part of the American [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► Yankee hair people but when he grows [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► that black mustache figures parent for [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► The Paris Review right you would think [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► but in fact there they are they are [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► Italian and a and so he has this this [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► mustache that looks like he's just [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► dumping Grecian formula [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► well I get it but it's not it's his [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► natural it just he's got the black [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► mustache and so he won't go his [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► moustache will be black I think for many [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► many many many years before it starts to [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► get salt and pepper in it [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► I only hope I wish that for him yeah [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► Jonathan Coulton he appears to not age [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► because of science is using science but [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► me I'm just I yeah I think it waited and [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► waited in the wings aging it was lurking [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► there behind the curtain [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► alright and then it just left on my ex [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► what I think that age is what I ended up [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► kind of unintentional glomming onto I [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► and I'm not asking for more information [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► necessarily i meant more in the sense of [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► like it must be strange to just know [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► that people are looking at you and [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► taking your photograph and like it must [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► be strange to see yourself and go like [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► you know that's how i look like to other [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► people not just not just a just seems [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► weird i act maybe it's just me that's [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► always that's always been through and I [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► get that make up my mind that Michael [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► Jackson disease alopecia [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► that's the one that's the one where you [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► think you are we with the body [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► dysmorphia always there for you [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► we don't you think you your nose is too [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► big or something I think that you I [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► think you're seeing pictures of me more [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► because you weren't looking for pictures [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► of me before but there are all people [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► are always taking pictures of me and [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► putting them online and I have a I have [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► a fantastic time line of like well I was [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► better then that i am now that's good [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► oh boy those pictures I've some thinner [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► than I am now like you know you can [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► always look online and and find a [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► picture that will either make you feel [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► like you're doing good or that you're [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► not quite doing [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► hello brother do I know it right I got a [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► I got a robot scale that when you step [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► on to put your record it to you know a [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► little internet thing so you can see a [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► graph over time what [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► Oh towards privates private but it's [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► it's it's very very interesting and i [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► would not I do not have a scale i would [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► not step on a scale well and that the [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► other thing is that like it may be that [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► matters maybe your weight in particular [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► ones wait tracks more directly to your [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► bodily appearance when you're in your [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► thirties we go like I gained 10 pounds [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► but that matter we get older you start [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► looking all fucked up [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► well here's the here's a crazy thing [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► that I cannot account for I am able to [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► wear the same pants that i was able to [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► wear 15 years it is buckling runyon [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► heats know they fit the same the pants [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► are the same and they fit the same right [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► and yet i clearly weigh 30 pounds more [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► now where is that 30 pounds it in bone [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► density am i carrying it in my head did [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► my ears calcified I know what you're [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► saying it is very very weird and it's i [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► remember when i started in the Atkins [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► diet one things that few things that [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► actually seemed sensible continues to [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► seem sensible we just we just cross the [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► old man rubicon go in here when your [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► wire jars so hard to open up and help [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► everybody is that the idea I've heard [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► this in other places i think this is [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► really sensible is like don't wear [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► yourself everyday unless you're doing [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► that diet where you're yourself everyday [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► but if you're trying to lose weight [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► better exercise more and when [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► your clothes start feeling different [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► when you're close start fitting [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► differently that's when you know that [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► something is changing don't even think [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► of don't even worry about it just do [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► your best and really stick with it as [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► many days as you can and if one wants to [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► in this case lose weight and when your [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► clothes fit different that's when you'll [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► know but then I mean what she wants that [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► I had like a you know I had that stupid [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► thing happened last summer where I was [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► really stressed out with that kind of [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► Health in the family and i lost like ten [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► pounds in a week and a half and I [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► suddenly plummeted and all my clothes [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► are like hanging off of me and it kind [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► of stuck for a little while but then boo [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► just came right back and before [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► everything fit just fucking beer all you [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► talk about star wars two guys Star Wars [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► well no you got the hell away from star [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► wars because you didn't want to tell me [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► about all your secret episode [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah I don't say a little about [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► this here's the thing you know people [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► I've always about to say George Lucas [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► has frustrated people i'm not going to [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► say that I'm gonna say people have found [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► themselves frustrated by certain aspects [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► of Star Wars movies and so there's these [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► just writ large there's this interesting [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► okay so you got the original trilogy of [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► movies 4 5 & 6 that most people think [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► are like pretty good the Ewoks maybe a [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► little bit over the top and then you got [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► the prequels episode 123 and there are [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► these groups of people will be there are [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► these people that I go in and I would [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► say most when it comes mostly to the [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► newer movies the prequels they do what [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► are called fan edits where they will go [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► in any what [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► yeah and it's august first fan edits [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► there somewhere just for preservation [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► there's there's some that are for [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► changing the plot and there's some that [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► are just trying to as much as possible [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► try to find the movie that wanted to be [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► the original movie what is this the riff [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► track skies that are doing this are [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► going to fan at around i'm not going on [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► the internet not for this haha [TS]

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01:01:00 ◼   ► anyway they go and we at the movies and [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► depending on your taste you can [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► theoretically find one of these movies [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► to watch that does things like reduces [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► Jar Jar Binks to having a total four [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► lines of dialogue in the entire trilogy [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► oh I see also the fans are jumping in [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► and making the movies better on behalf [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► of George look they're making the well [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► Lou [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► they're making a difference on behalf of [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► themselves IC ok so the other thing and [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► this is the one that I think might [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► interest you Morgan mostly try to avoid [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► those unless your daughter finds out [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► about them and then you're screwed like [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► four five and six [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► here's the hard part it's hard to find a [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► really good copy of a high quality copy [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► of the original theatrical release of [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► endorphins you have to you have to have [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► a laserdisc player right that's the last [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► known full good copy and so you're stuck [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► with like the special edition lon or the [TS]

01:01:50 ◼   ► rear special edition one everything's [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► pink and like this all these different [TS]

01:01:52 ◼   ► things so so there's been this effort to [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► go through and try to make the a copy of [TS]

01:01:59 ◼   ► star wars and the irony in all this [TS]

01:02:01 ◼   ► isn't gonna hold up about this is george [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► lucas i think essentially this point [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► he's claiming that there's not a good [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► copy more sorry about that but we can't [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► put up in 1977 Star Wars I don't know I [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► lost its here somewhere it's in the [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► couch or something [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► so what people have done is taking an [TS]

01:02:16 ◼   ► original copy of star wars or whatever [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► quality knowing what each shot is how [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► its color graded and everything going [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► through and basically finding the [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► highest quality available version of [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► every shot and music and whatever that [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► matches the original so it's not an edit [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► in the usual sense and i'm not saying [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► this is perfect i'm not saying it's [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► right on the st. anything it's super [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► interesting that those are called the d [TS]

01:02:39 ◼   ► specialized editions so people go in and [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► you get if there's parts on the blu-ray [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► that exactly match was in the original [TS]

01:02:47 ◼   ► that's the copy they use it is a DVD [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► thing that's the highest quality version [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► all i see so they use so they go to the [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► the the contemporary source that is the [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► highest quality and take all that back [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► to the laserdisc where necessary but [TS]