Review Revue - Scarecrows (w/ Ian Karmel!)
Episode Date: September 19, 2023Reilly and Alfred Bardwell-Evans are joined by comedy legend and native-Portlander Ian Karmel as they spend their fortune, get shot by pigeons, and do unspeakable things to well-endowed scare...crows. >>>>><<<<< Follow at: IG: @reillyanspaugh @alfredinnit Twitter: @reilecoyote Join the discord here! Produced by Daniel Ramos @Schubirds Advertise on Review Revue via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Wow.
I knew you were going to say that because it was a song about you.
And so it's just kind of your whole thing is like you love things are about you.
Yeah. The more words in the song are my name, the more of a fan I am.
And that's just how it is.
That was the oh, oh, my God.
I have to know about the production value.
What that sounded not like a karaoke track.
That sounded like a live band doing a Black Eyed Peas song.
It was. Hold on. Let me just check the email. That's kind of just the quality
you can come to expect. Well, the email's from
william. It's from william.
Is it will.i.am.ed?
Yeah, at
icloud.com, which is
kind of strange. Famous people always
have old, like weird
names like that. At me
or whatever. AOL. At AOL.com.
Yeah.
Yes.
That was from Kevin.
Kevin says, sup, it's me, Banksy.
Obviously not Banksy.
Decided to make an amazing cover of a pretty mid tune.
Hope y'all enjoy this situationship of a song.
I'm currently writing a book.
So if you could yell at me to write the book slash offer to read it, I would appreciate it.
Follow me around the street.
Kevin, write the book.
Read the fucking book already, man. Write, write, no, write the book so we can read it. I would appreciate it. Follow me around the street. Kevin, write the book. Read the fucking book already, man.
Write, no, write the book
so we can read it.
Read the book already, man.
Read it and then write it.
You're never going to finish
the book, Kevin.
If you're wondering,
ooh, who's the devil on my shoulder?
Ooh, who's the devil on my shoulder
who just appeared?
If you've ever listened to a podcast
or listened to anything funny
or watched any episode of television that's ever been written.
Correct.
But specifically, if you're a HeadGum fan, and I know you are because you're listening to the show, and that means you've probably heard all fantasy, everything.
Ian Carmel is here, bitch!
It's so wonderful to be here, you motherfuckers.
Motherfuckers.
Ian, we're so excited to have you.
I'm so happy to be here.
And I just want, I want to be the voice in William's ear.
Just who's the word, the doubter.
I think that's an important role to have where you're like,
you're never going to do it.
Nobody here thinks you can finish this book.
So then he's going to be like, he's going to overcome it.
Yeah, he has to push against it.
He has something to push against.
Throw the log of my doubt into the steam engine of your laptop or typewriter, wherever you're writing it.
And then let that fuel you across the finish line.
He's going to do it.
And it's going to be because of my doubt.
And I think it's definitely someone who would make a Black Eyed Peas cover that has that good of production value is 100% writing a book on a typewriter.
It sounded great.
I usually would assume someone finds a karaoke track and then they just record over it.
It sounded like he was playing drums.
It was like one man band, like Burt from Mary Poppins style.
Just kind of like the whole thing.
Alf, did he have your middle name in there?
Alfred and Ha.
Yeah, so I have two last names.
And so he did both last names i know i'm kind of
loaded um and uh but it's amazing what you can accomplish you know when you're procrastinating
something i have to say i think the fact that he's not writing the book probably contributed
to the fact that it was a high production value normally he paid a studio band to come in and
normally the vibe is more like i played the karaoke track on my phone off
YouTube into the mic as I
sang it. So that was
pretty awesome stuff.
Do you have two last names like progressive
parents or do you have two last names like you
are part of the royal families of Europe?
Like you're sort of like a sax co-bird.
In a way both. No, it's more progressive
families.
Because I also have a middle name
it's alfred douglas bartwell evans um my parents are both british though i was gonna say it's a
british name you could ever so it does that it's like you were right in both ways i have two
progressive british parents i am choosing to believe that you are an exiled member of the British Royal family. Well, I also have hemophilia.
I am also.
Okay, fantastic.
I have a Habsburg palate, hemophilia, and progressive British family.
Habsburg palate.
Ian, what's up?
We're recording on Saturday, September 9th, a little peek behind a curtain.
That's right.
What's up?
I've walked to the coffee shop twice today, and that's literally all I've accomplished.
That's it.
And that's brave, and that's big.
What did you get?
I got a iced coffee the first time, and on the second one, I decided to keep my haters
guessing, and I got an iced green tea.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Keep the haters guessing and I got an ice green tea. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Haters guessing.
I do have a favorite between the two.
I think in an afternoon,
I mean,
the coffee's crucial in the morning and a lot,
there's going to be a lot more of this kind of stuff in my book.
And then you always say,
don't talk to me until I have my coffee.
You start your day.
And I enforce it and i enforce it
i sort of hand out a card that tells people i haven't had my coffee if they even try to talk
to me and they sort of understand where it goes from there and then once i've had my coffee i
can't stop talking but then i say don't engage with me on anything challenging or emotional
until i've had my green tea in the afternoon which is another my ice cream tea so it's really
just like faff in the morning and then the afternoon.
It's just kind of like, you know, then I really dig in.
So I've had my ice cream tea.
I'm ready.
I'm ready to get into the issues.
That's fantastic.
And Alfred, how are you?
We've, you know, been talking to you all day.
Yeah.
What's new in the hours since I've spoken to you?
I have a migraine and it's gotten worse since you last spoke to me.
I think it's because speaking relative to what we were just talking about, don't think i had caffeine early enough today i had i slammed a matcha at 11 a.m
and then i got a large iced coffee from duncan about half an hour later but i think it was too
little too late um i'm a person with a pretty strong caffeine habit so it has to be has to be
a lot and right away. Otherwise, the whole
day is fucked. I would just
like to say, because no one else saw
this except for me. This is before Ian joined the
Zoom. I was pulling up,
getting stuff ready, getting the theme song
ready, everything. And Alf, he
looked like, and the only way I can describe it is
like a colicky baby.
He grabbed his forehead
and made a face. I don't even know what you did beforehand, but he just made a faceicky baby like he grabbed his forehead and made a face i don't even know what you did
beforehand but he just made a face with an always like and it was so earnest and it was
and i just knew that this was gonna be your whole thing is gonna be i have a migraine i think it's
allowed to be my whole fucking thing i think i'm allowed to have this one thing you know you made
the fact that you had covid like the last three episodes two episodes is this one of those
podcasts that believes in covid uh we try and like take like not a real stance we can do plugs
now we can just kind of jump uh okay i just sort of like to plug doing your own research and for
sure for sure you know just like sort of like you plug doing your own research. For sure, for sure. You know, just like sort of like, you know, seeking out the facts and then making decisions based on that.
Sure.
Do you have any sources?
Yeah, that you want to plug?
That you think are reliable?
Yeah.
If you have access to the dark web, you can just kind of find my ex account on the dark web.
And then I've posted like a lot of primary research, a lot of phone pictures I've taken of photocopies that have been faxed to me.
And there's a lot of like a lot of that kind of stuff.
I think if you,
if you want to follow my,
my,
my account on social media,
it's it's,
it's,
it's based Dr.
Fauci underscore in between each of those words.
And you can, and that's kind of across all platforms. That's on everything. That's on Dr. Fauci underscore in between each of those words. And that's going to be across all platforms.
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It's on everything.
You're chairing RFK's campaign, correct?
I am chairing RFK's campaign.
Yeah, absolutely.
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And it glides like a dream if i'm gaming rfk's chairing rfk's
campaign you mean i'm sitting in my gaming chair listening to campaign videos at a hundred percent
that's a hundred percent right yeah but speaking of scary speaking of dark web speaking of something
that's a little talk about busy town richard's scary's busy town? Is that what we're getting into? I was actually going to jump, like, our really topical subject today.
It's a little scary.
It's a little autumnal.
It's something we can't get enough of.
What do you mean can't get enough of?
I mean, we can't get enough of this stuff.
Are you kidding?
Do you own a Scarecrow?
I have never in my life owned a scarecrow.
Because I grew up and I'm from Los Angeles.
And so I've never lived on a piece of land that would denote needing a scarecrow.
It's habitable for birds.
Right, right, right.
Well, I guess I don't have crops or things that I would need to have be protected.
LA.
Birds?
Parrots? Do birds exist in Los Angeles? Is is that it is it parrots and buzzards when you say birds having two british parents do you mean are there
women in los angeles now how are the birds come on now the birds and it's the two ends of the
spectrum the parrots are the hot ones and the buzzards are kind of the dogs
i got a lot of buzzards. I got a lot of buzzards
out on the town.
Wouldn't catch me
with one of those.
But do you get
like little Tweety birds
that go
Do you mean like
the Warner Brothers
animated character
Tweety bird?
Do you get Tweety bird?
Like Times Square
Elmo style.
There are birds
in Los Angeles.
That's what you're asking.
I've seen Tweety bird
at Tower Bar
a couple times.
Get pretty. And you don't want to run into Tweety bird. I do asking. I've seen Tweety Bird at Tower Bar a couple times. Get pretty.
And you don't want to run
into Tweety Bird.
You do not want to run
into Tweety Bird.
It was Tweety Bird,
Tobey Maguire,
and Ethan Supley
hanging out,
having salads.
And they called themselves
the putty tat posse.
The putty tat.
Oh my God.
Ian,
talk to me about Scarecrows. What, talk to me about scarecrows.
What's your experience with them, if any?
Well, I first of all-
You've got to have an experience.
I have several very sort of like spooky experiences
with scarecrows.
I live in, I don't actually,
but I live in Atwater Village here in Los Angeles
and my neighborhood is lousy with crows.
Crows and ravens.
There's crows, ravens, all sorts of birds.
I live by all sorts of birds.
I live by the LA River.
And there's great blue herons.
They're like, it's a very like active.
Oh, the block is hot.
Bird wise.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
A lot of women roaming the streets of Atwater Village.
From TJ to the Bigfoot Lounge.
I've worked with British people for like a decade.
And you think I would have something even close to a good British accent.
But no, not even a little bit.
I grew up in Oregon, though.
So I definitely have seen, like I've been around crops.
I've been around scarecrows.
My mother lives in a part of Portland.
She's like very into gardening.
And she really loves her squirrels.
She's cultivated a bustling squirrel population.
But there's also a lot of hawks.
So her.
Sure.
And her boyfriend, which feels so weird to your mother in her 60s has a boyfriend.
I love it.
Here we are, her and her hot piece of ass boyfriend.
They've situated a mannequin.
So a scarecrow would be much more preferable,
but apparently that's not enough.
A mannequin is much more terrifying.
It's so scary, and they move it around
to keep the hawk on its toes.
You gotta keep them guessing.
So it's like wearing clothes,
but it's like a white-faced
department store mannequin.
I stay at my mom's house. It's the worst thing.
It's the worst.
I'm thinking of emancipating myself legally.
What is the mannequin
outfitted in?
It varies. Is it seasonal?
Like put a coat on it in the winter?
Do they feel bad for it?
It's tweed right now as the seasons are changing.
No,
it's not tied to any sort of gender identity or anything like that.
They just throw different clothes on it and then they wash those clothes.
And yeah,
so that's my current experience with scarecrows.
And then going back in the past,
it's mostly pumpkin patches.
Right.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
And the Wizard of Oz.
Yep.
Yep. Yep. Yep. i had unsurprising to
literally no one who's ever listened to this podcast i had a big crush on the scarecrow in
wizard of oz alfred what uh what is your experience that's the craziest fucking take i ever heard
just need to put that out there um if you're gonna have a crush on anyone from the wizard
of oz franchise it's if it's not the scarecrow i don't know what to tell you no it's the uncle who plays the lion before he turns into the lion
in the black and white whose name i cannot remember um i uh i think i i think i identified
most closely with the cowardly lion um as a child um which will also shock nobody. As a child?
I also did use If I Only Had a Brain,
the Scarecrow song from The Wizard of Oz
as an audition song when I was maybe 13.
For college.
For college.
Didn't get the part.
Did not get the part.
Auditioning for Carnegie Mellon.
To give the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
It's like
shockingly accurate. In lieu of an essay.
I have a performance piece.
And in many ways that is how I got into college.
It was just by sort of
what if I told you he can barely read,
write, or do math, but
he can sing-ish.
But no, I didn't really
have a lot of experience with with scarecrows growing up
which is surprising because i grew up pretty rural um but uh you know i don't know if they
i don't know if they work like you know in your story seems to imply that it does work if you
are dedicated to the cause that you keep changing it and you keep changing the location of the
clothes but a lot of the reviews i read were pretty negative pretty negative about the efficacy
of the scarecrows um so i don't know i don't know if i would even bother investing in one if i had a
garden but i guess it'd be worth a try or do you have a green thumb do you do either of you ever
have a green thumb i have a garden i have a i have a couple of garden boxes uh in the back but
i've covered them and it's not the crows i'm so worried about with that it's the it's the
various other the neighborhood critters the neighbors it's my fucking neighbors the neighbors
it's like i've covered it but it's like they see the covering oh yeah move the covering or change
it like you can't fool them bruce and tran sneak over and pop the little cherry tomatoes in their
mouths to their heart's content and scurry off like a couple of raccoons.
Yeah.
I had a neighbor at an apartment I lived in in Chicago who they had a garden that was abundant.
And it was this older couple that lived there.
He'd lived in the house for 50 years.
He'd lived there his entire life as a kid and then grew up and had this, got married and moved back into his childhood home.
But they had this garden and it would produce so much produce and they would just give it
to me.
And it was genuinely the best part about living there.
And I miss it.
And you found out he was killing people and using their bodies to fertilize the vine.
And that was how.
It was so.
That's exactly right.
I don't know why for some reason someone living in a house for 50 years like screams haunted
to me, even though it's like, I'm sure it was a beautiful home.
They have a lot of great memories.
But like just the thought of that, I'm like, oh, okay, 100% Ian, he's a murderer.
Like, there's no way that, like, you don't live somewhere for that long.
Why are you hanging on to it?
What's buried under there that you're scared of someone finding?
Yeah.
Exactly.
What are you, what crime are you waiting to, for the statute of limitations to run out on?
He once sold me three air conditioning units for like five bucks each where it's like
i don't know if he like thought i would be embarrassed to just take them for free so he
was like no give me a little something and i'm like you could have just given them to me i know
you didn't need 15 you own a single family home in chicago you're not hurting for cash
just throw me a couple fibers yeah that paid his property
tax for the year though because he bought it 50 years ago the house is still valued at like 300
the price that his grandparents bought it for when it was like you know still rural chicago
because it was like 300 blocks above whatever. It was downwind
of the river before they
now it's the bean.
They turned his house into the bean.
It's crazy and he's still there. That's why he hasn't moved.
He can't get out because it's all
anyway. Should we get into it?
Finding the door takes forever on that thing.
That's the biggest problem.
It's all mirrors.
I don't know if it's on one of these sides.
Should we get into it no i'd love to oh okay kind of a disagreement here would you rather should we talk about birds for more just talk about more chicago just more
chicago architecture i took a what else what else did you take the boat did you take the boat tour
i took the boat tour oh you. I was there earlier this summer.
My wife is from Highland Park.
Oh, no way.
Yeah, so we did the architectural boat tour.
It's a blast.
I've always wanted to do that.
I haven't done that yet. It was a delight.
Let's get into it.
Should we get into it now?
It's genuinely the one thing I always recommend.
It's always the one thing I recommend.
He had to plug the boat tour, and now he's ready.
It's honestly fantastic.
It was funny, informative.
It's like 90 minutes. They sell drinks on the boat if you're into that. It's honestly fantastic. Like, it was funny, informative. It's like 90 minutes.
They sell drinks on the boat
if you're into that.
It was delightful.
My tour guide one time
was a man who had served in Vietnam
and he talked about it
pretty much every building.
He found a way to tie it back
into his time in Vietnam.
So there's kind of, you know,
there's varying experiences.
Let me tell you about another boat tour.
This tour lasted nine months,
longest nine months of my life.
I know a guy who does the tour now, though,
and I don't know if he's qualified,
but he does it.
He's a nice guy.
Now, what does that mean?
I mean, genuinely, he's like 23.
I don't think he's qualified. He's not an. I don't think he's qualified.
He's not an architect, but I think he's charismatic.
And I think it's kind of like the Jungle Cruise with Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
Yeah.
He shoots like, ah, it's Al Capone.
Kapang, kapang, kapang.
And then he shoots off a little cap gun.
Sorry, you just said it's like the Jungle Cruise.
Not the ride that's been around for decades, but the Disney film with Emily Blunt and Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
That's your touchstone for Jungle Cruise.
Is that based on a ride?
Next you're gonna tell me
Tomorrowland's not an original property.
Alf, do you
want to kick us off? I'd love to. Nothing would
make me happier than that.
Don't believe you?
This migraine, though.
Oh my god.
Come on.
It's not called an R-grain, alright? Keep it to yourself.
Oh, fuck. Yeah. You're gonna
start the scene and it's gonna be like, oh,
I can't, my head hurts.
And then we're gonna have to, it's gonna be like a doctor's office
and it's just kind of not gonna go anywhere.
I have to apologize for that R-grain
remark before we keep going. No, I loved the R-Grain.
I do feel bad for you.
I feel a lot of empathy for you.
I'm sorry.
Don't, don't, don't.
You did not have to say that.
It's like I was hurting physically.
In fact, I'd rather you didn't.
Now I'm hurting physically and emotionally.
Thanks to you both.
So hope you're happy.
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Who is it from?
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It doesn't work.
I purchased this to keep birds away
from my pool area
and the damn pigeons just chill next to it.
I've been using it for target practice
since that's what it's the best use I could find.
The pigeons, they still chill until they see me with the pellet gun.
So what he's implying is that the pigeons are not only smart enough to tell that it's not a real owl,
but also smart enough to recognize a gun and be afraid of a gun.
They're like, no, that's a fake owl.
But that is a real gun.
You guys keep
coming back.
Yeah, pellets like because it doesn't seem
sorry.
What were you going to say? No, I'm with you on that.
Like also they're pigeons you
can't come in a pigeon with an owl like the pigeons have seen too much right you know what
i mean like also the gun is only going to keep them away for a little while what's the alternative
for them you know there's not like a good situation for pigeons no no and and and at the
end of the day like unless you're going to sit out there and shoot for all day, every day, there's kind of an unlimited number of pigeons.
I don't think you could, if you were using a real gun, you could still bag a dozen pigeons a day and there would just be a dozen pigeons the next day.
Just ready to take their place.
They operate the way the Soviet Red Army did.
Exactly.
It's just a numbers game for them.
Yeah.
Five people per gun.
Yeah. Throwing pigeons at the problem.
It's like 3 a.m.
Coming out in a bathrobe. Honey, honey, you gotta put the gun away. Come back
to bed. They're gonna keep coming. You've barely gotten any sleep. Come on, come back
to bed. Okay.
Just five more minutes. Five more minutes. I'll get one. I'll get one. You said five more minutes Five more minutes
I'll get one
I'll get one
You said five more minutes
Three hours ago
What is it gonna take
For you to get inside?
Hey, you hear that?
You hear that?
You're what?
You don't fucking hear that
Arnold, come on
You've been at this for days
You're probably just imagining things.
Arnold, Jesus Christ, you're going to wake up in a minute.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
I'm going to bed.
Okay.
You can join me or not, but in the morning, don't say, oh, I have a migraine because I
couldn't get enough sleep because I'm not going to deal with that shit anymore.
I just want to say, you're always blaming me for my migraines.
You know, it's congenital, right?
My mother had them.
My grandmother had them. My grandmother had.
It's in the family.
I'm inside.
I'm gone.
If you want to come to bed, come to bed.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll be there.
Pass me that coconut.
In this situation, the pigeons are splashing around in the pool.
They're enjoying the pool.
They're not just outside of the pool.
They're in there.
Hey.
Get out of there, Earl.
I'll fucking shoot your ass.
Shoot me.
I don't care.
Give me the gun.
I'll do it myself.
What?
Give me the gun.
I'll do it myself.
No.
It's a good shot.
No, put it in my mouth.
Put the gun in my mouth.
You think I care? I'm a fucking pigeon.
What? Come on. Come on.
It's no fun when you... Is that gonna make you feel good? Get his ass, Tyler.
Get his ass, Tyler.
Is that what makes you feel like a man?
No, it's just... Is that what makes you feel like a man?
He's shaking in his moccasins.
Look at him. You're shitting in the pool. I want to use it. I swim in it. Well, you don't's just... Is that what makes you feel like a man? He's shaking in his moccasins. Look at him. You're putting...
You're shitting in the pool.
I want to use it.
I swim in it.
Well, you don't pee in the pool?
Well, no, I pee in it, but I don't shit in it.
All of my waste comes out of my clove at the same time.
I don't have a choice.
I guess I never thought about it quite like that.
Mister, give him the gun.
You guys are...
Give him the gun.
Give me the gun.
You guys are so into the gun.
Give me the gun.
Give me the gun. It's like you see a gun with a guy, you know what I mean? guys are so into the gun. Give me the gun!
It's like you see a gun with a guy, you know what I mean?
Not a guy with a gun.
Give him the gun or the owl gets it.
No, no, no, not the owl.
Not the owl.
Okay, take the gun. I don't even know how you're going to pick it up.
All of the bitches just start pecking the gun they all just flock we're gonna get you now
are you sure you want do you want help i feel bad watching this okay no
that's so insulting so condescending!
What if I pick up the gun and hold it to my
chest, and then all you have to do is peck the
trigger? Okay.
Okay, okay. Is that an amount of help
you're comfortable with? Okay, you pick up the gun.
Okay. But we're gonna
peck the trigger, because
we don't want it to be you
who does it. We do it ourselves.
It's us. right okay i mean
you seem like you really need this all right uh point the gun at
door opens honey you left there oh my god oh my god oh my god albert what the hell is going on
just put that down no no it's not what it like. I'm just holding the gun to my chest.
Albert, what are you doing?
Put the gun down right now.
No, I'm not going to pull the trigger.
They're going to pack it.
What?
I'm not going to pull the trigger.
They're going to pack it.
Who's they?
The pigeons.
Go back to bed.
Pool's open.
The pigeons pull the trigger, but it's a pellet gun, so it only just kind of hurts.
Ah, fuck.
Ow. Yeah, burn in hell That's gonna bruise
Again again
Do it again in the exact same spot
Okay I need to pump it
It's air so I have to pump it
Hang on
Honey go back to bed
This isn't for you
She's just like
Throwing up on the porch.
It's such shock.
Don't do that.
The pigeons are going to eat it.
That's going to be a whole.
Get the bird back to bed.
I don't want the bird watching this.
That's my wife.
Okay, you can talk shit about me all you want, but that's my wife.
If you come into my home, you cloaca void into my pool.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You come into my home, you cloaca void into my pool. Whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Don't talk about our cloacas!
We can talk about our cloacas!
Well, then why the hell are you talking about my wife?
You can talk about my wife, but I can't talk about your cloaca?
Well, it's just that your wife is no stranger to the packaging community.
What?
Don't listen to the...
Honey, what are they talking about?
They're pigeons.
It's nonsense.
They have no idea what they're...
I mean, what are we doing around here?
Talking to birds?
We're clearly sleep deprived.
We need to go to bed.
We're just pigeons.
We know nothing about satisfying a woman.
That's something we have in common, isn't it?
No, I know about that.
And they certainly...
Kidding, big eyes. No one would know about that. And they certainly, getting big eyes, no one would know anything here.
No one here would know anything about satisfying a woman.
I think we can all agree on that, and we can all just go back to bed.
Everybody go back to bed.
Middle will come back to bed with you.
Honey, what the fuck are they talking about?
Like I said,
we're all just,
it's the middle of the night, we're just getting a little
crazy. Is this about
book club? You guys are in the book club together?
Thursday nights?
Maybe go back in your bedroom, put on
that pink nightgown.
You know the one, and go back to bed.
How do they know? How do they know about
the nightgown? Well, I mean, they're birds.
Maybe they sit in the window from time to time.
And maybe when you're not home and I need some validation,
they tell me I look nice.
And that, you know, the Pilates is really paying off.
And maybe that feels good.
I tell you you look nice.
They pay me the attention.
Yeah, but you're looking at me, but they see me.
Does that make sense?
No
I guess I
Never thought about it like that
We're gonna take off
No wait
No wait don't
Don't go
Something about having you guys here makes me feel like I can be vulnerable
I can really open up to my wife
It's soothing Yeah you guys here makes me feel like I can be vulnerable. I can really open up to my wife.
It's soothing.
I think it'd be best if you stayed around.
Forever?
I mean...
Let's take it one week
at a time, okay, buddy?
Don't get carried away.
How come we can use the pool?
Oh, I've never had an issue
with using the pool. That's because you don't use the pool.
I am the only one who uses the pool. Of course
you don't have a problem with that.
I'm sorry. I snapped.
Yeah, you
guys can use the pool as long as
at night. Is that okay?
Just at night?
I think we're all gonna be okay.
I think so too, buddy.
How about I bring out some
room temp coconut liqueurs? Yeah.
And put that nightgown on.
The neighbor's
nest cam just
sees
this husband and wife
in a nightgown
and drinking and looks dry.
Honey, the Wilsons are losing it.
Riley, do you,
should we take a break?
Oh, let's take an itty bitty
baby little,
little pellet break.
Cloaca break.
Pellet?
Cloaca. pellet cloaca and we're back from our say cloaca break again.
So this is for worth import 60 inch life size harvest sitting scarecrow,
blue, brown, yellow, cream, black, orange.
And it's just, it's a scarecrow that looks happy.
It very much is like decorative fall and not to be put up in a yard
to scare off literally anything.
This is five stars from P.D.
Alf, can we get a full name for P.D.?
Sure, that's going to be Peter Driffin.
God damn it.
Peter Driffin. So stupid. No, do it with the voice. You have to do it. Peter Griffin.
So stupid.
No, do it with the voice.
You have to do it with the voice.
Otherwise, it's not how I said it.
Peter Griffin.
Five stars.
The title is Great Hard to Find Item.
I'd also like to be clear that this is an Amazon choice item.
So very easy to find.
Great.
So the title is great.
Hard to find item.
I just put him outside with my Thanksgiving decor,
a great price for the size of him.
And he is darling.
I do have him under the covered porch and would not put him out in the
elements.
Oh,
he's my darling boy.
Yeah. Well, it's because he's my darling little boy And I have to protect him
From the harshness of the world
I wouldn't put him out in the cold
He's my darling boy
I wouldn't send him to a public school either
No he's
I think
I don't know if
Wreck soccer is really for him.
You know what I mean?
It's a little dangerous.
He's the delegate.
All those kids, we don't know where they're from, you know?
Because just anyone can join?
Right.
How much are the fees?
$30 fee?
Oh.
Oh.
Sort of.
No, that's not enough.
A little low, right?
No.
Badman.
Yeah, it's, there were a lot i will say this was one out of many reviews i saw of
people i don't know a certain anthropomorphization of these happy scarecrows and like very much
a lot of views of being like oh well, well, I keep them covered. I keep them on my porch. Everyone loves it.
He's the center of attention.
It's giving kind of like
boy mom energy.
And I say that in quotes
like very like,
oh, well, he's my darling.
Oh, he's my special boy.
Well, he's my handsome, sexy boy.
Wait, hang on a minute.
I don't know if I know
a hundred percent.
I was with you for a second
and then I was off for a second.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
I do.
My tall Dewey.
He's got those side abs.
He doesn't just have the normal abs.
He's got the side ones too.
He's got the V.
My boy who I love.
He's got the V.
He's got the V.
It's like so somebody's mom. It's like
did you watch MILF Manor? Did we watch MILF
Manor? It's very
MILF Manor. I've heard of MILF Manor.
I watched two episodes and felt very
gross and had to stop.
It was an uncomfortable. Also just for visual
I just need to show you guys
maybe I'll put this on the Instagram after but this is
the darling boy. I was gonna say I saw a lot that i saw a lot of the scarecrows kind of have that
it's like he is darling have that aesthetic though where it's like they've it's one like
single piece of fabric or whatever the pants you know it's like patterned to look like it's kind of
you know patchwork and it's been stitched up and it's a little rough around the
edges but it's like it's not actually it's just they want the aesthetic of that kind of like
rustic burlap sack you know pants scarecrow there's someone in taiwan sewing prefab worn out
burlap scarecrow outfits for amazon taking a belt sander to it has to be the right
amount of distressed for looking at that thing that's less of a uh scarecrow and more of a charm
neighbor you know right yeah yeah yeah yeah 100 i'm gonna take i'm gonna take off it's very like just happy-go-lucky guy i i have i've never been to one of these in person but i
have definitely seen a party they're very nice you suck like a scarecrow like decorating competition
have you ever heard of those no i think you made it those? No, I didn't make it up. You made that up whole cloth.
Not announce the truth.
But just imagining just like a bunch of like, it's like a PTA event.
Like a bunch of neighborhood moms getting together.
Oh, Carol, I love what you're doing.
That looks great.
Thank you.
It's, you know, I actually had kind of a model back home that I'm working off of, if you know what I mean.
Oh, right, right.
Is that the scarecrow that we saw in your house that was just sort of wide out there in the open?
Wasn't under the overhang?
Oh, this one?
Oh, God.
Well, I mean, you know, we had to keep him outside for a second because we wanted to give him a little bit of that, like, weather.
He's kind of like been through it.
Like kind of get this dirt on his hands.
But not for long.
Not for long.
We also have a scarecrow out there just sort of exposed to the elements.
We did see that.
Yeah.
Quite exposed.
As in?
Tracy and Leanne, I hear your concerns, but I promise, I swear, hand to God.
Like I swear on my son's life. I swear on my husband's life, I swear on my life, I would never leave this darling boy out there for more than an hour.
So if you drove by the house, that's probably when you saw it.
I just think it's so amazing that you happen to know exactly when torrential weather is going to come through so that the scarecrow wouldn't be out there when it rained or when the sun was too extreme.
I just think that's amazing that you have that intelligence.
I'm just so jealous of that.
And I'm sorry.
I don't think we got a clear look at your scarecrow.
Cause it's looking a little,
I would say it's not looking realistic as much as the other ones are.
It's looking a little bit dusty.
This is the one you kept probably in the basement for a couple months.
No,
it is.
I kept it in a furnished basement. Yeah? I kept it in a furnished basement, yeah.
I kept it in a furnished basement for Christmas.
Semi-Furlished.
Semi-Furnished.
Because it's got a furnished section, but then there's that laundry room that's very much-
When my boy goes over to your house, he says, oh, it's not fully finished yet, and it hasn't been finished for four years.
He says, oh, they've been kind of working on it for four years. Well, your boy would know about it's not fully finished yet and it hasn't been finished for four years oh they've been kind of working on it for well your boy would know about something not being
fully finished uh the the basement is is plumbed and partially carpeted right and your husband's
been saying he's gonna get around to finishing the carpeting for sorry how many years
oh you are four oh my goodness uh that's a lot of years. Yeah, four years.
I believe that's how long it took Eric to finish, what was it, third grade?
Yes.
Well, my boy is, you know, he takes after his mother.
You know what I mean?
He's a slow bird.
Yeah.
Speaking of slow bird, let's have a look at your scarecrow there.
It looks like you decided you wanted to-
I don't mind if I do.
No shirt.
That's an interesting choice No shirt Yeah the no shirt
It's just kind of all straw
Well I actually modeled mine after my
Beautiful real life baby boy
Eric
And no he might not be the most academic
But he certainly ripped
And so if you take a look I've actually
Stitched the V
Into his
Scarecrow tummy.
So I think we're all probably quite jealous of that.
The biceps are remarkably realistic.
You've even got the vein going down the middle of the bicep that you've managed to do with
straw.
That's...
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's breathtaking.
I, you know, sometimes when I, you know, when things are slow around the house, you know, I take to my little hobbies.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
And I think we have a way in this culture of demonizing women's hobbies, which I just don't think is appropriate.
No one said anything about demonizing hobbies.
Well, Carol, you made a comment.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You had made a comment.
What, about you loving your work? I mean, a home you're talking about. You had made a comment. What about you loving your work?
I mean, a homemaker is a job.
That is, that is, you're taking a lot of time.
It's so important.
It's so important.
I agree.
It's a full-time job.
Well, yes.
And yet somehow I still have time for my hobbies.
And it's nice that somebody in your family does have a full-time job.
Well, I think, I think that's a rather uncalled for illusion
yes as we all know open secret hubby has been underemployed recently but um you know the firm
never heard that term for it no that's well he's still getting residuals from the firm so things
are things are gonna be fine. We're not worried.
Speaking of firm,
what's going on with the pants
on your scarecrow there?
Well, he's well endowed.
If that's what you're referring to.
You know.
Oh my god.
What, you have an issue?
You're telling me. No, none at all.
None at all.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Does this look abnormal to you guys?
Is this?
Just in the sense that none of the other scarecrows are in doubt at all.
At all.
Well, I don't know whose problem that is.
You guys are missing out.
I mean, there's no harm in it.
We're missing out?
I'm just saying it is more.
These birds are cleverer than ever.
It's just...
My scarecrow's wearing old jeans.
Her scarecrow's wearing old jeans.
Your scarecrow's wearing gray sweatpants.
Yes, and is hung like a horse.
And he's beautiful, and I love every inch of him.
His scarecrow is shirtless.
Every inch of him.
With gray sweatpants.
Yes, and a huge...
Extremely hung.
Huge hung member.
And I think that's beautiful.
Your scarecrow's biting its lip
and kind of arching
one of its eyebrows.
He's horny.
I don't understand
what you guys don't understand.
I mean, he's my horny baby
modeled on my beautiful son.
He's got a little
you kind of have like a little
you fashion some resin
to have little droplets of sweat
forming at the brow and at the temples.
Absolutely.
And so you definitely modeled this after your 20-year-old son.
Well, it's a blend.
You know, my 20-year-old son who's in ninth grade and, of course, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
My celeb crush.
I just think he's so witty.
I love his little rhymes. I think we can all agree on that. He is so witty. I love his little rhymes.
I think we can all agree on that. He is so
Oh, we can all agree. Oh my god.
Have you heard the
scuttlebutt? I know I sure
have.
Ladies,
it's good to laugh.
Why don't we bury the
proverbial hatchet and
why don't you come over to my house later and you can all take a turn with him.
If you'd like.
I mean, I'm not, I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I mean, Leanne, I know your marriage is on the rocks.
I don't know if I'll take a turn, but I'd at least like to be in the room where it happens.
And that will work for me.
What does that mean? Well, I get off
on it. I have kind of a
public exhibition thing. Would you like to watch?
Well, I thought you were going to say, we can watch
Hamilton on your Disney Plus
account I really thought that that's where this was going
no no no no
it's being intimate with my boy
with the scarecrow
yes my beautiful straw boy
come on
take a turn
coward
the genitals are
they're functioning
you built your scarecrow so it has functioning genitals are they're functioning that you're oh yeah you're scared so it has
functioning genitals there's a very complex core sort of straw hydraulic sort of pumping system
that i think you'll be very pleased with carol you've been here for 45 minutes you walked it
you didn't have how did you manage to build well before i had a full-time job as a homemaker i was
an aeronautics engineer and it kept me very busy and and and this has just been a way you know for me to sort of channel my
talents so judge coming by oh lovely oh i love seeing this very classic got the old jeans
and the nice shirt oh fantastic that is. That's going up in the ranks.
Doesn't even have a clock.
Who said that?
Who said that?
Carol, you shouldn't say that.
I didn't say anything.
The kind Mrs. Johnson was admiring our very classical scarecrows that do not have a working penis.
And a working...
My God, let me see.
Oh, well, hello, Tina.
Good to see you.
Oh, my...
Mrs. Johnson, are you okay?
Oh, my God, I think she's having a heart attack.
No, no, this is just how older people get aroused.
No, what?
Is it not?
I think she's having an actual...
I think we might need to call an ambulance.
I think she's having an actual heart attack.
She's falling on the floor.
She's laying on the floor.
She's on the floor.
She's on the floor.
Well, I can call.
I can call, right?
Let me just check her pulse oh my god
I should hang up right she's already yeah
okay no I mean definitely call them
I should still well fuck I hung up okay
100% call them
um oh my god
1 2 3 ambulance
oh my god Leanne it's not working
ambulance
yes I'd like an ambulance please
right right it's impossible to get good help these days ambulance. Yes. I'd like an ambulance, please.
Right.
Right.
It's impossible to get good help these days.
Paramedics show up.
They're covering her.
I'm so sorry for everyone's loss.
We just need,
we just need one person to fill out the paperwork,
give us kind of cause of death.
I can do it. And the information.
I think everyone's looking at me to assume a power position in this moment.
So I will take the reins as it were.
Can I ask what your relationship was to the deceased?
I mean, there's so many to choose from.
Just pick one.
Mentor, confidant.
You were this 83-year-old woman's mentor.
Yes.
I mean, in many ways, I think, you know, while she invented the competition,
you know, the scarecrow competition,
I perfected it with my
beautiful tongue. We would love to get this body to the morgue
as quick as possible, so if we could really just
I will pick mentor,
that is fine. It doesn't matter to me.
I really just need it for the paperwork.
Okay.
Time of death?
I don't know. Lunch time? I don't know why I'm asking you.
That should be me.
That was about four.
Sorry.
That was weird.
Are you okay?
No, hang on.
Hang on.
Are you all right?
Is this your first time?
With a body?
How could you tell?
You're sweating.
Horrible.
Horrible.
It's upsetting to see this in any
you know situation
would you like some cheering up
I would like someone to give me the cause of death
so I can not be here anymore
okay
I guess
horny
she got so horny.
She got so horny she died.
Um.
Okay.
That's all I needed to know. Do I win?
I killed her
with my horny doll. I think I
should get something.
Got it.
She leaves you with the first place trophy in her will somehow.
Ian, do you have time for one more?
Oh, yeah, I got time.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, hell yeah.
Hells bells.
Let's do it.
Hells bells?
Why did I say that?
It's the first time you've literally ever said that.
It's not how I talk.
Is that a lyric from Shook Me All Night Long?
No, it's a different song by ACDC.
So it's just a very ACDC themed
That's kind of the aesthetic of the show.
If you couldn't tell, it's our whole thing.
People can't see this visually,
we are all wearing suit tops with shorts
and a little hat. Cute little hat.
Very cute.
I think this is for the same one that you just had as a
darling boy this is worthy worth import 60 inch life-sized harvest sitting scarecrow blue brown
yellow green black orange uh this comes from uh basket no last name Does someone have a last name for basket?
Basket is the last name, actually.
Oh.
Basket, basket.
Basket, basket?
Okay, basket, basket.
Yeah, basket, basket.
Basket, basket says five stars.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Loving, loving my sitting scarecrow.
I originally had plans to sit him on the porch but after receiving it i am keeping
it indoors so i can enjoy it for many years to be keep in mind this is a 60 inch tall a five foot
scarecrow i picked that review too that's one that i picked as well it's crazy that you're just like
no i can't possibly put this outside.
This has to take up a room in my house.
It's gorgeous.
It's gorgeous.
Oh, my God.
This is gorgeous.
What a weird word to use to describe a scarecrow.
It's also like, enjoy it for many years.
There's no plans on this being seasonal at all.
It's like this is a fixture of my own.
It's very Norman Bates.
I love it.
It's very psycho.
Gorgeous, gorgeous. I also think I'm biased because of the fact that I live in a studio apartment.
And so the idea that you would dedicate a seat to an inanimate object.
I'm like, my apartment has three chairs
in it, and every single one
of those is absolutely necessary.
Because one is for me,
and two are for Laundrie.
And one's
for Elijah the Prophet.
One's for Elijah,
one's for me, and one's for the scarecrow.
This must be one of those
$200,000 nine-bedroom houses in rural Ohio that you look at in CeeLo, and you're just like, one's for me and one's for the scarecrow yeah this must be one of those two hundred thousand
dollar nine bedroom houses in like rural ohio that you look at right hello and you're just like
it's like brand new construction yeah yeah nothing around it for miles bluth model home
the scarecrow just has its own room it's just leaned up against the wall in its own room.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's, yeah, honestly, it's the gorgeous.
It's not even like, oh, cute or like kitsch or fun.
Yeah.
It's gorgeous.
I mean, you really got to see it.
It's gorgeous.
The stitch work, the stitch work on the side of the head.
This is high quality straw. It's gorgeous. And just so I know, we'll have to post work on the side of the head This is high quality straw It's gorgeous
And just so I know
We'll have to post it on the Instagram
But this is the
This is what's gorgeous
Gorgeous
It's kind of like a Raggedy Ann
And Andy aesthetic
It really is
A hundred
It's the eyes
It's the eyes
It's very Raggedy Ann
Yeah
And like that loose straw You know that's falling on the ground and getting on shit.
It probably smells chemically treated.
Right.
If they bought it on Amazon, you know what I mean?
The clothes especially.
There's like some antifungal thing on it.
It's more flammable than gasoline.
Like it's the most flammable product like
element on the planet
that's Carecrow.
Gorgeous. Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous.
It's like an estate sale.
Like this beautiful
mansion.
Just walking around like, oh, well, I mean, we have, you know, grandmother's money to spend.
We can get anything.
We could furnish the whole house.
We could get beautiful armoire.
We could get the closet. I mean, my darling boys, anything you want.
I know you miss your grandmother, but we are here and we can spend the money however we choose.
Yeah. Anything catch your
eye? I do miss
granny, but
I don't know.
I don't know if anything's gonna bring her back.
Unless my eyes deceive
me, I detect
men and women of
taste. A mother,
a son who can talk, and a mute child as well.
Yeah, this my brother.
Something happened to us real nasty as boys,
which left me British and him unable to speak.
That's becoming more and more common these days.
I'd be lying if I said it was the first time I've heard of that.
I also have a migrating accent.
Is this, oh, sorry, my mum just dropped her bag.
Is this your establishment, miss?
Yes, I'm managing this estate sale, you see.
I fly from estate sale to estate sale, especially when it's specially wealthy people.
Oh, what a glamorous life.
I do envy you so.
It's incredibly glamorous.
I haven't flown anything worse than Comfort Plus
in over eight months.
Wow.
And who would if you could afford it?
My God.
Well, speaking of afford it,
do my ears deceive me,
or did I hear that you've come into
an extraordinary amount of money recently?
Your ears do not deceive you, my friend.
We have come into, I don't mean to brag,
I'm not this kind of person,
but we have come into a disgusting amount of wealth.
Unfortunately, in the coming days,
my father's mother did pass,
and we're very sad, aren't we, boys?
I am.
I really don't know about you.
I could positively vomit at the idea of how much money you've inherited.
It is rather a mind-numbing sum.
I'm scared to even say the number aloud for the damage it could wrought.
Don't, don't. My God, that could put us in so much hot water.
No, but we do have, let's just say we have enough to play with while we're here.
I mean, the collection at this manor, I've never seen anything like it.
Who has the time to recite all those digits anyway?
And I don't want to waste any of your time,
which is why I simply must distract your attention away from these awful,
awful mahogany armoires and gold filigree chests of drawers
and take you to the real prize of the estate sale
just through this door here. Oh my god. Well, who are we? Royalty or what, boys? This is so-
Hey, boys. One second, boys. Gather round. This is a very important moment. This is a moment where
you're going to learn to bargain, but not too much. You don't want to look cheap. You have to
hold yourselves with class hold yourself
hold your heads high all right yeah i mean i don't i don't really know who you're trying to
convince love i mean me and me and the broth we're pretty good uh bargaining wise you're the one who's
fucking shaking like a newborn rabbit i don't know what happened to you. You guys still won't tell me.
You cannot speak to me this way.
We'll go in.
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
I have a Southwest flight to Boise in 45 minutes.
Show us the stuff.
Show us the stuff.
Please, please.
We are, oh my God, I can't even imagine.
Is it jewels?
Is it solid gold pieces?
I can't even imagine.
Well, as we head back to this room,
I think you can see there's this beautiful 18th century landscape painting with a frame that's worth more than anything that you'll find in another space.
Oh, I mean, the frame alone.
I don't know what could be more beautiful than that.
Well, I think that's the exact word you would use to describe this painting is beautiful.
And then as you keep walking here, no doubt you'll see this beautiful Tiffany lamp, which is...
Oh, my.
Oh, my God, I can see my reflection.
Oh, it's blinding.
It's blinding.
It's so beautiful.
And this lamp here,
I think you would call stunning.
Yeah, the painting was beautiful
and this lamp here is stunning.
It is.
That is stunning.
You are right.
But what awaits us
on the other side of this door here?
If I could be so bold,
I believe there's only one word
to describe it,
and I'm not going to be a little chickadee and lay an egg in your head, but...
Well, let's just go here.
Let me stop you before you open that door.
Let me...
Christopher!
Shush!
You stupid bird.
I'm going to make you an offer.
Sight unseen. Christopher, you don't even know who it is
Shut it, 100 grand
Whatever's behind that door we'll take it
100 grand, deal or no deal
I'm going to chalk this up to the
Foolishness of you
That you would toss out a number like 100 thousand dollars
Yes, thank you Thank you would toss out a number like $100,000 before even seeing. Thank you.
Thank you.
The knob on this door I wouldn't sell for $100,000,
let alone the resplendent image it's hiding.
I can hardly wait.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Christopher, for the love of all things holy.
Hang one minute.
Let me speak to the banker.
It's not a banker.
Beans over to the silent brother.
All right.
The banker has said,
we're willing to go as high as $250,000.
Final offer.
Deal or no deal?
$250,000.
That's right.
American.
Currency of choice.
Assuming the exchange rate is sort of comparable I mean
Well I feel like I should also get a say in this
Because we have not yet seen what it is
I cannot stress it enough
Shut up
Sorry about her she's new
Of course
Well I have a wonderful mother I could set you up with after this if you're looking.
But for now.
This is unbelievable.
I think I'd rather go stag for a while.
But thank you for the offer.
You are 16 years old.
You need a guardian.
Will you please let me deal?
Please, will you please open the door so we can see what my boys would like to buy for $250,000.
It's $250,000 and you take everything in this room.
Everything, yeah.
Not just the item I was talking about, but everything.
Storage wars rules.
Let's do it.
In a handshake?
Ooh, what a strong grip for a 16-year-old boy
Thank you, I play bass
Well
Say goodbye to the lives you were living up until this moment
And say hello
To the rest of your lives
Oh
The room is empty
except for one stool in the corner
with a scarecrow.
It's the only two things in the room.
Tuscan burlap.
Oh.
A stitching technique that is only practiced
anymore in a 14th century
abbot in the countryside of Italy.
My word. And if you'll just walk over to it here with me
just to get a closer look here on these overalls.
What do you notice about these overalls? Oh, those buttons.
That's right. They're stitched onto the body.
They're stitched onto the body.
They're stitched onto the body.
It is ivory.
It's ivory of a rhino species that hasn't existed for over 200 years.
Wow.
It died a very painful death, I can assure you.
We're getting this hay man and the stool for $250,000 currency of your choice.
You can thank me later, Mum.
That's right.
Can I be perfectly honest?
I feel like I'm in the company of friends now.
We're all rich here, Mum.
Come on.
That's very rich.
I feel like we got a steal.
I mean, genuinely, miss.
I feel like you undersold.
You underplayed your hand.
I would have easily done seven.
I mean, that's the game of estate sales, isn't it?
You say $250,000.
Can I give you an extra 50?
I couldn't take it.
I feel bad
I feel genuine guilt
I absolutely could not
I mean he's
The only word I can think of
To describe him
Is gorgeous
He's gorgeous
He is gorgeous
He's gorgeous
Now
I do have some
Follow up questions
I do have some
Follow up questions
Okay
Of course
Before we sign the contracts
Of course this is all standard
This is all standard
Where are you planning On keeping This hey man As you call him A scarecrow Of course, I can imagine. Before we sign the contracts. Of course, this is all standard. This is all standard.
Where are you planning on keeping this hayman, as you call him, or scarecrow?
Hayman.
Well, I mean, one would think that he would be kept outside.
Customary for scarecrows.
But not.
I think I could speak for the family.
Oh, absolutely. There's no way.
There's no way that this gorgeous boy is going to be braving the elements.
Oh, God, no.
No, we will set him up nicely.
You know, he won't have to worry.
He'll get a room in the home.
He'll get a bed, you know, anything he could want.
So I don't want, if you want to do a home check, we have a backyard.
It is fully enclosed.
We have a gate around the pool.
We wouldn't like to call it anything as undignified as a home check,
but we do like to foster a community
around our scarecrows.
One last thing,
and I do want you to be aware of this.
Your accent really is wandering.
You've said that before.
I'm hearing it now.
It's because she's rich, Mom.
Rich people sound like that.
There's just one last thing here that I wanted to make you aware of before we finally finalize the sale.
Sorry, before we finalize the sale of the Scarecrow.
Yes.
He does have a fully functioning penis.
Oh, fucking hell.
I want to give you
ten million dollars.
I simply can't.
The banker has just told me
that we have to give you
at least another million.
We have to.
Any more money and I'll start doing
accents that have become
less tolerable
for a person of my
background to do
as we've become more aware of social
injustice
and a lot of rich people
he couldn't be older than like
he couldn't be like older than five
I'd like to say something
oh my god
the banker speaks
I think we should give him the whole lot I think we should give her everything Oh my god! The banker speaks! Oh my god!
I think we should give him the whole lot. I think we should
give her everything we've got.
Because this hayman, this scarecrow,
it's
our new brother, it's our new father,
it's our new everything, and we can't
thank her enough.
This is the first
word he has said in nine months.
This is, um...
This is amazing.
And I just have to ask, when you say the whole lot,
do I...
Do I also get your grandmother's skeleton?
Well, the banker, it's up to you.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Hang on a minute.
Guys, I think we might have lost sight of what's really important here.
We're willing to trade granny skeleton for a scarecrow with a human cock.
That seems a bit of a stretch.
She didn't say human.
She just said fully functioning.
I am looking at the bulge
and there is no way
that that is not flesh.
I do have to say
that this is a Shetland pony penis.
Oh my.
I do, if we are,
if we really need to give him the breast.
You can take my corpse
when I'm gone.
You can take mine.
Give her granny.
You can take the boys.
You can take mine, whatever.
Shetland?
Oh, fuck it.
Fuck it all.
Give you my soul.
Come on, Grandma.
We've got a flight to catch.
Should we do our last segment?
Let's do it.
Okay.
Dance!
It shook me all week long.
Alf, we forgot to set an intention for the episode.
We didn't set an intention. We forgot to set an intention.
Let's retroactively do it.
We normally set intentions.
Let's set intentions retroactively.
The intention for this episode.
God, this episode was.
It's going to be the most.
It's going to be the girthiest episode
the girthiest episode we've ever done
yeah so Daniel just throw that in
earlier
he just stitches that in
this is gonna be the girthiest
episode and then the theme song starts
Ian what has been shaking
you what's something that you just can't
get enough of had too much, can't stop thinking about?
It can be quite literally anything.
The stakes couldn't be lower.
I can't get enough of riced cauliflower or cauliflower rice, if you call it that.
I've been getting really in to, I went pretty hard this summer as far as eating absolutely everything I wanted to.
And then I got a natural wine because I thought that didn't count as alcohol.
And it doesn't.
It doesn't, by the way.
And it doesn't, by the way.
And the Supreme Court has recently ruled on that.
It's natural.
And you will be pleading that in the DUI case, yeah? I will be
pleading that. I will be passing
out little glasses of, little Dixie cups
of natural wine at my proceeding.
But as a way to
sort of detox from all that fun
of eating a lot of riced cauliflower
and boy oh boy
does it take up room
in your stomach.
It really is kind of the most just like-
Boy, oh boy, is it filling.
This is a vehicle for anything else.
Yes, you can put stuff on this
and you will forget that you're eating cauliflower a little bit.
A little bit.
I feel like every time I've had it,
it's always like a little bit watery.
Just a little.
Oh, it's not good.
If you're comparing it to Oh, it's not good. If you're comparing it to food,
it's not good.
But compared to nothing,
compared to being hungry, it's good.
Okay. Yes. And I just think
we have to start grading rice cauliflower on a
curve like that. That's fair.
How do you take it? How do you
take your rice cauliflower?
In a pan, and I'll heat it up,
and then I'll just put an array of whatever sort of sauces and spices I can get my hands on.
Did you also know that spices can expire?
I sure did.
Because I found this out at the age of 38, which is how old I am right now.
And what was the spice?
What was the spice?
I was going to ask that one.
It was like a turmeric, I a tur like a turmeric i think
or something like that where i was like it had gone south i ate the cauliflower rice anyway
but this is when i found out that like this had been with me i think i may have bought it in
portland oregon and i've lived in la for more than a decade so it really put up a fight can they i
know i guess i might be learning something here. Can they go bad and hurt you?
I don't know.
Or is it just they go-
Sorry?
I mean, can they go bad?
You're not going to get sick, are you?
Or is it just like it doesn't taste good?
The doctor told me that I have three weeks left to live.
And that was two and a half weeks ago.
So, so far, so good.
Well, you're going out on a bad-
I don't know.
I don't know if they can hurt you.
They cannot taste as good.
Right.
That's for sure.
But it feels like they hopefully can't hurt you because I'm realizing now that I have many a spice that I will use a single grain of once every three months.
I just assume because Marco Polo took them on what had to be years long journeys that it's just fine no matter what.
And they never got scurvy.
I understand.
It's like,
I never would have,
it doesn't in my head.
I don't know if this sounds dumb,
but it's like,
it's like,
it doesn't make sense for spices to turn.
Like,
I don't know why,
but I remember like I was cleaning out.
Well,
I'm also,
I'm a hypochondriac with anxiety and incredibly neurotic.
And so I check expiration dates all the time on things.
And so I remember like, you know, I think my boyfriend and I were cooking and he was
like, we need this.
And I'm like, oh, or he's like, are we out of that?
Do we have that?
And I checked the date on it and it was incredibly old.
And I remember like going to toss it and it was like one giant clump like coming out of the and it was like years old years
old the expiration dates on spices are jump scares you're like 2015 100 you're like crazy like
numbers yeah anyway that's what's that's what's shaking me i'm i'm make godspeed on the rice
cauliflower cauliflower rice i hope you get another jar of turmeric that you don't throw out until you're 60 years old.
I'm waiting for it to make the journey.
It's like wedding anniversary wine or champagne.
It's your anniversary turmeric.
We have our anniversary cake and the kid where our anniversary was last week.
And now I got a cake.
Oh, happy anniversary.
Thank you very much.
You got to deal with so romantic. Well, I Thank you very much. That you got to deal with.
So romantic.
Well, I'm trying to eat healthy now, and it's like, fuck, there's a whole cake here.
Just throw some turmeric on it.
Just throw it over some rice cauliflower.
That's what I'm hoping how it works.
I'll just flop the entire cake on a bed of rice cauliflower.
Riley, what's been shaking?
No, I did you first.
Riley, what's been shaking you?
Alfie, teeny bobeeny.
No, Riley, whiny Riley come up with something cause I
need to rack my little brain
oh
Christ what has been shaking me
um
I have one okay great
I just thought of one did I talk about this already fuck I can't remember
my blackout curtains no
um the uh
I once inadvertently tried to talk about my blackout curtains for this segment like three weeks in a row without remembering that I'd done it.
No, I went to a graveyard.
I went to a graveyard.
You went just for fun?
Well, to pick my plot.
No, I went to a graveyard last weekend because I just moved.
I'm not going to dox myself i moved to chicago a place in
chicago where there is a graveyard nearby there's a lot of graveyards in chicago it's a haunted city
um and i had a really good time just walking around and like looking at the graves and like
so you went you did just go just for fun i genuinely went to like because here's the thing
to get into chicago geography for you i used to live really close to the lake and you lived in the bean i used to live in the bean which is very very close to
the lake and you could just kind of finally got out like one of those giant hamster balls you
could kind of walk and the bean would move and i could get some water that way but now i live
further inland and so it's like the green space is like a little harder to come by because the
lake is so verdant um and so now I have this graveyard,
which is going to be my new lake.
I'm going to be going there,
going for a swim in the mausoleum.
I have a graveyard,
which is going to be my new lake.
You want to sing that like it's a Vecura lyric?
I have a graveyard.
That's going to be my new lake.
It's going to be my new lake.
It's going to be my lake.
Just bringing it back to me, obviously getting everywhere I've ever gotten in life by singing
and I
no but genuinely Charles Dickens'
brother is buried there
and his entire epitaph
is like Augustus
Dickens or whatever
brother of Charles Dickens
and it's like fucking hell
if I died and my epitaph was just like
Sam's brother, that would be pretty
brutal.
It was his
idea to name him Ebenezer.
Really? No, I don't know.
I'm like, I'm his brother, but
yeah, I told him the name of Ebenezer.
I was the one who came up with the Ebenezer.
Yeah. Bah humbug. I used to
say that. He put that in becausezer. Yeah. Bah humbug. I used to say that.
He put that in because I used to say bah humbug.
I used to walk around a cemetery all the time when I lived in Portland.
Yeah.
It's just kind of fun.
And they're not like recent enough that you're kind of like, ugh.
Like it's an old graveyard.
Most of the death dates are like 1930.
So you're like.
Yeah.
That's fun.
I like that.
I feel like I've, i drove past a graveyard last
i was in chicago funny enough where it was like fresh like fresh dirt and it's that's tough that's
sad yeah we don't have graveyards in la because as soon as someone turns 40 they're shipped out
to somewhere else in the country yep the whole place is kind of like disneyland no one has ever
died yes everyone gets shipped out to like Orange County.
It's like you have to die across the border.
Vote Republican and then die.
What's been shaking me?
What's been shaking me?
Okay, I have kind of an earnest one.
Sorry.
Sorry.
We're getting earnest.
It's okay.
So I watched, my mom and i watched little miss sunshine
for the first time in forever uh this past week it's such a fucking perfect movie it's amazing
but i um watching oh my god for those of you who are not familiar go watch it it's it's a fantastic
fantastic movie it's one of my favorite favorite it's daniel rashid's favorite movie of all time it's so good um but the scene in i
wept my way through that movie because i was like i see so much of my younger self in olive and like
i the this the alamode ice cream diner scene oh i was crying the entire time i couldn't stop crying watching that film
and like i just uh anyway if you want to dm me about body dysmorphia don't but no that's kind
of what the sentiment of this of this what shook me is is that it's uh so anyway so my new thing is like my new thing
a thing that i know my new thing is my new thing is having body smorgasbord
it's like it's like uh i just love the the alamode scene basically the scene is just like
is this little girl wanting waffles with ice cream and not understanding the dad is like fat
shaming her for eating ice cream and it's just it turns out to be
a very sweet moment
and so
just like hey
Alamode
is like my little reminder
when my
body's Murphy kicks in
anyway
um
fucking
I love that movie
Scarecrow
so good
right yeah
no it's so good
you don't need to
it's so
no it's amazing
I think
to be earnest
to be earnest
to be earnest
okay go crazy
go on I think one of the things I remember when I saw that movie for the first time when I was younger it's amazing. I think, to be earnest, to be earnest, to be earnest. Okay, go crazy. Go on.
I think that one of the things I remember when I saw that movie for the first time when I was younger, it's like, it's a portrayal of like an incredibly dysfunctional family in which there's still like a lot of love.
You know what I mean?
Like everyone's like deep care for each other, even though none of them know how to communicate properly.
Yes.
And I was like
this is so good it's the same reason i left malcolm in the middle yeah you know but it's
like true brian cranston who's in little miss sunshine yes he's like that guy the the the guy
who uh uh greg kinnear like tries to sell his like nine step self-help program to you wow and
i literally forgot he was in it and he came on screen and I said,
is that,
is that Brian Cranston?
IMDB sure is.
That's wild.
Um,
well,
Ian,
thank you so much for coming on.
This was such a treat.
My pleasure.
It was a treat for me.
I loved it.
This was so much fun.
Uh,
where can people find you?
Oh,
listen to all fantasy,
everything where we fantasy draft things from,
from the popular culture.
It's an amazing show.
If you guys haven't listened to what you were missing out,
it is so fucking funny.
That's so nice.
You to say,
I'm also on Twitter,
Instagram,
tech talk.
You can find me there.
I'm doing a lot of standup in,
in and around LA.
And then also on the road. I'm going to
Vancouver, BC, Austin.
Going back home to Portland soon.
By soon, I mean March of next
year, but tickets will be available in a couple weeks.
Yeah, so come see me do stand-up.
Hell yeah.
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We're just going to leave the tics.
Be cozy with us.
And that's how I'm going to start selling the show is that we're going to be cozy.
Be cozy at an improv show.
And it'll be fun.
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coyote and as we say every week on the
show we say
this every week every week we say
it and we all know it
and we all know it
I actually have a tattoo oh my god where is it it's because we say it and we all know it. Ian knows it and we all know it. I actually have a tattoo.
Oh my God.
It's because we say it so often.
I have it sort of circling my belly button.
Oh, wow.
Must be a huge font.
It's a really big font.
Because it's such a short thing we say every week, I guess.
It's 72 size font.
Right, right.
Which you can ask for at a tattoo place.
They're like, how big do you want it? You say 72 size font. They understand. Aer's 72 size font. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Which you can ask for at a tattoo place. They're like, how big do you want it?
You say 72 size font.
They understand.
Aerial 72 point bold.
That's right.
Yeah.
Bold italics underlined.
For this little quip that we say every week.
For this little one word that we say every week.
For this little one word that we say.
Hamburger.
Hamburger.
Hamburgers.
We say every single week.
The shortest word in the English language. I have to say, I think you guys are sick of it. Hamburger. as we say every single week. The shortest word in the English language.
I have to say, I think you guys are sick of it.
Hamburger.
Circling Ian's belly button hamburger.
See you next time.
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I don't understand the minds of Riley and Alfred to be able to come up with something so deranged.
That was a Hiddem Original.