Threedom - Is This a Remix of Beep Beep Beep?

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

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Yeah, we just have to let that go. We just look, it happened, the end. Three. Oh, shit, I did it again. We ran to pretend that didn't happen. We are the number one podcast that sings their song by themselves. Live. I think that's true.

Yeah. It has to be true. It has to be. Welcome to Freedom. I'm Paul. I'm Paul. I'm Laura. We're two Pauls and a Lauren.

Two Pauls and a pizza place. And a baby. Why did they? But then they cut off the pizza place part. What's wrong, Paul? What's on your mind this week, Paul? They shouldn't have had the pizza place in the first place. They took it off. I don't know what are they, David Zazlisla.

Then it was two guys a girl. Two guys are a girl. It should have been two guys a girl. Two guys a girl. What about just a girl? Why do we need the two guys? What happened to the other two? the other guy and the girl uh what because ryan rainolds became a superstar i know the other one is

i actually was just looking at this show the other day a poster of it um because trailer harler howard is the girl and taylor momson which is what i always think oh no no no no no two different people um but yeah i was just reminiscing going down memory lane i we love memory lane yeah i was going down memory lane last night because I watched the movie Crimson Tide Now you've been talking about doing this. On my recommendation. You've been talking about this. Were you going to do it for Scott hasn't she?

No, this was just... It came up during... You just watched a movie. Watched the movie because it's a submarine movie. I love... Because it's a submarine movie? I love boat movies. What about you, 571? I think I have seen that one because wasn't Bon Jovi in it? I hope so.

If he's not. That's why I saw it. John Beyond Jovi? I believe that's why it sticks in my memory. Gian Giovi. You sound like a twin jovi. John Bon Jovi is Lieutenant Pete Emmett. Lieutenant Pete Emmett.

It rhymes. Lieutenant Pete Emmett. But if you wanted to rhyme. I do. Oh, yeah. If you wanted to rhyme, you could just make a rhyme. I need it to rhyme. Pete Emmett.

And your name is Paul F. Tom Paul. That's correct. And that rhyme. as well. Yeah, that rises as well. So I'm watching this movie, and who should be in it? In addition to young James Gandalfini,

young Vigo Mortensen, young Steve Zahn. I love Steve Zon. The kid from, an older kid from a Bronx tale. Another guy who I surely have seen in things but couldn't play. The Haunted Zumpurie. Is George DeZunza? it? Yes, he is. Oh, hell yeah. I thought it was George de Zubia Bush.

George DeZondah is the sign of quality. But there's couldn't agree more. You know what I mean? Couldn't agree more. First season of law and order, absolutely. If you can afford de Zunda. But there's an actor in it named Rocky Carroll. Oh, yeah. He's been on an NCIS or something like that for a billion years. He's doing great. But I used to wait on him at Tower video and I would always have I would always cause a problem with him when he was trying to check out because he is the second Rocky I ever met the first of course Rocky Balboa you fought him in Rocky two and a half this is a big deal you've met which is going to be released by the way oh good it's been in the camp for so long I've met a total of

three Rockies they turned that extra footage into two and a half cops Yeah, two and a half cops. What am I think? There's a cop and a half and then they added another cop. Two and a half. I was the additional cop. Cop and a half. We're not having fun like that anymore.

I know. Let's make movies fun again. What are we doing? I mean, honestly. Go on. There's movies about policemen with dogs. I need it. I need Turner and Hooch.

K-9. So for many years, I would see this headshot hanging in the hallway of the comedy works of Philadelphia of Robert, quote, rocky, end quote, Quote Wilson. Okay. Robert Rocky Wilson. He just went by Rocky Wilson. He's Rocky as in the movie?

No. You just met people named Rocky. It's just a nickname, yeah. That's what you're saying. You've met three Rockies. I've met three people. No, I thought it was. No, I thought it was.

Three Rockies. Then I think, well, there's only one Rocky. Well, there's my dog. Well, of course. You met that one. Yeah, you've met Rocky. There's also some people named Raquel, go by Rocky. Mm-hmm.

And Rocky the Squirrel. There's also a famous raccoon. I always love. The old Booker of Voneroo. Rocky the squirrel. I love that. voice that woman's voice. I've met four Rockies. At this point, though, you hadn't met her. June 4A? Yeah, you know that kind of raspy voice? Hey, boy, we go! It's really nice.

It's beautiful how it sounds when you do that. It's like a song. It's a sweet enough of a bird. Yeah, it's like a song from a bird. So when I would go to look up his name, I would always try to look it up by Robert. But his given name is Roscoe. Holy shit. That's how he was in the system. And I want to say five times this happened where I would go and say, like, oh, man, you're not, you're not in here. Because I knew he was Rocky. Uh-huh. And I would always look it up by Robert. But did he, I mean, it is weird that it's not rocky.

Shouldn't he, isn't the onus on him to say it's like, it's under Roscoe? I think. Right. You know? No, but he. He thought you knew. We had gone through this so many times. Yeah.

You see so many people. I want to. And I apologize every time, but I want to apologize in public. to Roscoe Rocky He's standing on the table, folks Carol Maybe they'll do

A captain my captain Maybe they'll do an NCIS Live show at Madison Square Garden or something And you can come on stage Oh my God Wouldn't that be fun if they did that? They should do that

We're going to put it up on his feet We're going to Shake the dust off and really I would love it I would love it and I would be there NCIS in the round I would love to see it Speaking of waiting on people

we were at a child's birthday party the other day. Wait, were there images of an alien taken by a 40-year-old? What? No, I don't know that. One of my favorite lines of dialogue in all of cinema in the movie Signs, where they are showing the alien on the news. Oh, right. One of the aliens is invaded.

Right. And the newscaster says, the images were taken by a 40-year-old at a child's birthday party. Why did they say that? I don't know, but it's stuck in my brain forever. It's good. It's very specific. Thank you for it's very good.

Because you said it like something I should know about. A 40 year old. Yeah. I mean, why would that matter? Why are you supposed to find? These images are from a child's birthday party. Oh, the child must have done it. Yeah.

They were from a 40. That was a note they got. These images. These images were taken at a child's birthday party. Okay, so did a six year old take them? This is video from a child's birthday party. Yes. Yes.

Right. That's all we need. So I'm at this child's birthday party. It's someone turning three. What's the thing? theme uh it was at a one of the children yeah it was at one of these like play places um and uh most of the kids are three or four who are there but there's there's this one who seems to be seven i would say like this boy who's seven i don't know what is i don't know what his relationship is to anyone

there but um i have two interactions with him um what uh both both when i'm standing next to the food table and he's, I'm standing it next to the adult food table and he sidles up to me. Oh, so like erotic cakes. I'm going to have some of these tip cakes. We have a table of chicken tenders for the kids and then for the cronos. We have these filthy cakes. Kids don't look over there. We put the table up higher so the kids can't see.

Well, the seven-year-old kind of fucked us. Yeah. I could see over everything. Um, so this kid, this kid comes over to the adult table and he's like searching through the pizza boxes and he's like, cheese, cheese, got any city D? Some purple pizza. Well, he's like, cheese, purple pizza. It's like, hey, is there any, uh, did they get any pepperoni here?

And I was like, I don't know. I love when kids just talk like, it's just funny. But I was like, I was like, hey, Mac. They get a pepperoni over here? I was like, polite at that point. I'm like, oh, yeah, I don't know. Polite at that point. Where's this?

Well, so then I'm sitting on an ice chest next to the kids table. Must be cold on your ass. Yes. My butt hole is very cold by the end of this party. All right. It had a hole in the center. It's something good ice cream cake. Scooping up ice.

And I'm sitting on this having a conversation with another adult and he sidles up to me and he points at one of the like sauce containers with a white sauce and he's like so is this ranch and I was like I have no idea I was like does this guy think I work here? What is what is happening?

Oh wait were you wearing your party apron? Yeah. Oh yeah but I determined that I must still have table waiting energy yeah you know I just seem like I would seem like you would be knowledgeable about what's happening at the table. Yeah.

Many times I've been approached at the hostest stand, the host stand at a restaurant because I'm waiting for a table and someone thinks that I'm going to be wearing probably dressy clothes. I think this guy's got to work here. Who would ever wear clothes like this? Although one time it happened at the cat and fiddle. Ooh. That's crazy. Who works here would be wearing a tie?

At Target, you know, you just wear a red shirt of any kind. Of any kind. It doesn't have to be a polo. Really? You're wearing just a red shirt. Can I have riding? on it? I don't think so. Can you say I work at Target?

Yeah, you can go on this says, I work at Target or I work here. You know, actually, I had such a lovely interaction with... We should make freedom teas that say yes, I work here. Those will sell great. I had a... I work here. I just say freedom.

Yes, I work here. And on the back it says freedom. Hey, that's kind of good. It's kind of good. Who would buy that? Our idiot fans? We love you guys. I mean, they voted to call themselves Piss Pigs, so I can't really count to them. People are weirdos.

They're weird. They start screaming it at me in public. They're hotballs. You know, they love the name Piss Pigs and they own it. They really, they're proud of it. It always gets flagged on Instagram. They're like when people, when I'm on another podcast and Piss Pigs are commenting Pish Pigs, those are always hidden. Yes.

I wish I could go in. Oh, no, like them. yeah that's that that that is that i mean that that that is a good point that that that is that can i talk about my bad day oh no you had a bad day paul have one right now right now today's this is still part of it wait this is part of it i haven't come around that's how many hours have you been up we're doing this early in the morning i have seven o'clock i have been up for a long time because we were supposed to have okay so behind my desk in my at home there is this just shitty plywood counter okay and found i wanted to do something

to make it a nice counter i wanted to josh it up yeah and don't you think i deserve it you do just i was about to say you deserve it you deserve that and nothing else so i found this place or janey found it because first i was thinking what if i had like a metal counter like a sort of hammered brass kind of thing or whatever. And then Janie found this place they do this epoxy thing and it looks fucking cool and so I was going to get

a metallic sort of thing done. And it's, this is a shelf that what is on this? It's like it's countertop. Countertop. Yeah. And so I'm just going to say

when somebody gives you a window of time it's a lie. Every single time. I swear we just had this. We just had this where someone, we hired a service. they said we're going to come between whatever whatever just nothing didn't hear from them the end wait what happened because a couple episodes ago yeah the dog yeah the dog I got ever get back

well we did establish that they're going to come the day that they wanted to do it not my day um but then I said it has to be the first thing and they said sure and TBD it still hasn't happened yet but did they return your text they did they did but they didn't acknowledge the screenshot where I said random giff of me from Orange's New Act out of context they returned the text but they didn't acknowledge my screenshot

I wasn't even trying to be rude I was just trying to go just to be clear you did say this day and now you're saying this day right okay because they also wrote August 8th

when they meant September 8th it's like we're all over the place right maybe the dog was responding it got lucky enough some of it made sense that's how good they are it's like they've gotten their dogs to be

and honestly it's a good it's a good service that they provide, but the scheduling is very infuriating. Right. That shit, grab me crazy. Yeah, so what happened? So what was the window? The window was 7 to 8. That's a small window.

It's a small window, which by the time of my leaving to come here, they had not met. And by the way, they agreed to it. They could say, I can't do that. This was their idea. Yeah, when you do a 7 to 8 window, you're expecting to get there at 7. Like, it's the first thing of the day. So I said, what are you doing before? You're not making another stop.

and then coming by. Exactly. Which I'm building another table at 5 a.m. Right. So I set my alarm for, you know, 6 a.m. Then, of course, I have horrible sleep because I'm thinking about, you know, waking up in time and having to come here and all that ship. Table falling on your head. And so as of this recording, I have no idea if the guy ever showed up or not.

I hate that. Really? So no messages. Did you ever call them to say, you know? 13 minutes ago, Janie said no one is here yet still. You know, I find it interesting because I think a lot of times this happens with like independent contractors. Yes. And they just do whatever they want.

But it seems like it always works out like for them. Like they're fine. Yeah, of course. I mean, like they don't give a shit. Like they didn't. If you need something, it will not work out for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And if they needed your money or the job, they would show up.

Yeah. That said, I've had some great experiences with people making deliveries and picking stuff up lately. Well, I also, I just want to say. I would say I primarily have good experiences. I want to say it. I'marily have good experience as well. But it's times like this. But I hate a large window.

I hate an eight-hour window. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, that's fucking, yeah. I have stuff to do. Yeah. And sometimes it'll be an eight-hour window and they always come in that eighth hour. I like when they say, and we'll give you, we'll give you a text or something when we're on our way.

And that never happens. And that never happens. I don't know. Why is everyone a liar? Then I get my car. I'm about to get in my car. And I say, I'm going to grab my bottle of water. Good.

Yeah. And it's right through. You're going to need it. Make sure. Yeah. I just filled it up the night before. So you got night water. Yeah.

I like night water the next day. Leftover water, I love it. The molecules just have time to sell. It tastes even better the next day, I think. Got a sport top, click up, click down. I know what happened. What do you think happened? It spilled over you.

It's not all over me. It's sprayed out. For the one millionth time, I have done this. Too big to fit in the cup holder. So I just put it in the seat next to me. Dude. Had not closed the lid. Let me tell you about this.

Look at this guy. Pick it up. Why is it so light all of a sudden? Let me tell you about this guy. This is an open top water, but it's called a hydroflask. I twist on the top. Hydroflask. Not great for drinking on the go.

It does fit in the car cup holder. However, twice now I have jostled it with my hand or sudden stop. And it just spills all over the fucking, fills the whole. thing with water. I'm like, it's ridiculous what I'm dealing with. The amount of water guzzling out. Yeah, so much. And it's like, make a sound or something. I'm just like, yo, buddy, stop it. Like I look down and there's an envelope on my

seat that's wet on the edges and I'm like, God, do it. And that was the letter you were sending to to Janey to say, is the guy there yet? She thinks I'm overseas fighting in the war. And I have to keep it up. The next time I see her, I have to limp. The good news is it's just water. it is just water and I'm like

is this going to stink up my car is it going to get moldy in there because it ran it went through the passenger seat onto the floor if it hits some old food that you dropped in there then yeah

I never do that okay sorry okay are you because I imagine you both keep your cars clean yes you keep it clean yes

I like to keep my car clean as well every time I get out I'll take out the trash yeah me too I've cleaned cars of friends before I like to get in there and just really...

It's disgusting to me. Sometimes I think... So your car is messy. Not that. Because sometimes I think... I just want to put her to work. When you see... And this has been many years of me saying this in my life.

But like, you know, driving around people... When people drive around a pile of trash, I think that's how you feel about yourself. Yeah. Sometimes there's a pile of trash. That used to be my cars in high school because... And it used to be my locker and everything because I would just not want to do my homework,

but I would know it's important. So I would hold on to all of this stuff. And it would be... I have the vaguest memories of my... my locker in high school. Yeah. Like, I remember, I guess, putting my coat in there. I had some pictures hanging up in there.

What did I hang up? I don't even, fuck out. Did I have pictures? I don't even know if I had pictures. I hung stuff up. I had a mirror, you know. Well, of course. All that natural stuff.

I feel like there was a sort of fridge style. There was a long door and then a short little shelf door. Yeah. Did you, we didn't have two doors. We didn't have two doors. Or just you open it and there's a shelf at the top of it's long. Or sometimes we would have a half where you only have a top half or a bottom half and you don't have a lot of space.

I can't remember there being two doors. Maybe I'm wrong. But yeah, I don't remember. I guess I put a front door and a back door. Yeah. Sometimes I sneak out of school through the locker. Yeah. I remember watching like you'd watch like 902 or whatever and then they had lockers outside. That blew my own. Somewhere outside. That's crazy. Yeah. That's California, baby. That's so cool. Couldn't know where I'm from. So cool. You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. Speaking of cars, we just got a couple of new cars. Couple. Just. Just. Just. Just. Because we bought, or we leased, it turned out, they both turned out, they both expired at the same time.

And so that we ordered these cars and they both came in the same week. That's exciting. It's very nice. But the one that Kulap got, I was, she wasn't around. So I received it and was the guy took me through all the features. And it has like one of these electronic buttons to push to open the door. And I was like, I said, so how, so what happens if you drive into a lake and you, it shorts out the electrical? system you need to get out and the guy goes uh i guess just kick out the window dude you should get

this little tool no there we found it we found it ourselves later there is one in the car there's an emergency latch yes that will open oh no there's like a tool that'll crack your window yes we we have that as well okay good and it has don't go driving to the lakes but you know it also there's millions in the country so you it could happen we found that out the hard way this tool also has a sonic alarm that I accidentally triggered. Who are you, Doctor Who? I am Doctor Who. So I'm the 16th Doctor.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Where does the thing live in the car? So it goes into the cigarette lighter, right? Oh. And it also has like a plug, like an iPhone plug, all this kind of stuff. It's a multi, this is a multi tool, right? But it also has the thing to knock out your window, right?

Hey, sure. Fine. I don't know. Do you know what I'm sorry. Yeah. But it has a sonic thing, which I accidentally. flipped on and had never heard it before and didn't know what it was. And I thought it was

the song at first that was playing. And I'm like, this is a weird part of the song. And then this I usually love beep, beep, beep. Yeah. And then I turned down. But it usually switches into something like boop, boop, boop. Is this a remix of beep, beep, beep, is this a remix? Turn down the radio.

Are you pregnant again? You're laughing at me so much. No. Ever again? No. Emphatic, no. Turn down the radio. was still going. I was like, what car is, and I started fearing I was being pulled over and I couldn't figure out what it was. And I was like, there must be an alarm in my car. I'm searching the dash. I pull over. I'm searching the dash. Everything turned out is this little tiny tool.

Well, we already knew that. You're a little tiny tool. I should have started in media res. Yeah. You're a little tiny tool. Thanks, buddy. You're a little tiny tool. Thanks, buddy. You're a little tiny tool. Do do. I thought I had one of those little hammers. I don't know if I do. I got a check in my glove box. Yeah. I have to look into this. I did have the whistle with the compass on it. What? It's like a help whistle.

It's not to figure out what direction's north. There's a little whistle called Birdie that I saw at a place recently. Oh, yeah. It's like a... I know these guys. It's a, I think it was a mother daughter that made it to help if you're, you know, feeling unsafe out in public. Janie gave them his gifts to the gals and the neighborhood. That's good. Yeah, I thought it's a handy. I won't be going by that

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I had a nightmare. Oh, no. That happened. We started a podcast. Oh, no. Go back to sleep, honey. That'll never happen. That dream turned into the podcast and business you're listening to today.

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Ryan. What is it? Ham on, ham on. Never mind. You'll figure it out if we just keep letting you try. Yeah. Yeah.

Give him enough rope. Give him that rope. Hell, finging on a song, well. So I'm tired. So you're having a bad day. So you've been, first of all, you've been up since six. I've been up since five. I've been up since five.

You've been up since 58. You chose this life. Okay. Fair enough. I was raised on the dog. Yeah, I mean, you are able to sleep in essentially every day unless you have a job. It's true. What's your normal get up time?

Because I know Janie is always texting way earlier. Do you know it has changed? Because my normal get up time used to be about like seven. and then lately I've been sleeping in when I can when I have the ability to God I wish I could to like 11 I can't even I can't even do it anymore because even when I've been in a hotel I thought I thought I couldn't do it anymore yeah but yeah that's nice I remember the days in late teens through late 20s probably where it was like you would stay up till two or three probably get up at 11 oh my God it was great

I think also part of it is that I don't sleep that well. Our mattress is not great. We're getting a new mattress. I heard about that on your podcast. Your mattress podcast. And I had never heard of what a more mortifying thing to hear. You did a reverse of the podcast where it was, most of it was about mattresses and the ads were. I like to listen to your podcast.

I love to hear what you guys are up to. I'm very touched by that. And I have very excited when there's a new episode. And I'd never heard of that podcast or that. I never heard of that mattress brand of the note. There's a store of one that I saw. I was very surprised because Janie was asking me, do you have a coupon for any of these from your podcast?

I'm like, I haven't heard a mattress ad in a really long time. We should be getting one soon. We should be. We've been trying to. Fingers crossed. I was thinking about it the other day because we were talking about this off mic. And what is it about? Did everyone just get a mattress?

I think everyone got one when we were doing all the ads. Like everyone was doing podcasts. Or did they all go out of business? Because we were, of course, we were a lease of family for a lot. There was the boom of, there was the boom of them. Mattress boom. Of being able to order it in the mail. So everyone replaced it.

And also maybe it was an awareness thing of like, now everyone knows about him. Right. You know what I mean? So like, why bother? We got it. Yeah. Yeah, it sucks having to go, it fucking sucks. But you know, it's interesting because I have, I have one, like, new cool mattress from a cool company.

And then I have one that's from like a mattress store. Does it have sunglasses on it or why is it so cool? It's so cool because, well, actually, it is the Helix with the cooling technology. Oh, cool name, too. It's a lovely mattress. I love it. But on my guest room, which we've now made into Gigi's room, big news. Whoa, they split up.

Big news. How did she take this? It's going great for everyone, I think. That's great. But the guest bed is still in there. And it's like a mattress that I got when I bought the bed. And Gigi has that all to herself. Yeah, she just rolls around.

The bed I got it like, you know, West Delmer. or curtain barrel and I bought the mattress at the same time I think through them. But it's like an old school style mattresses. It doesn't fold into a box. You know what I mean? Right, right, right. I love it. So I might say you need to go lay down on some mattresses. That's what we did

when we got this mattress. Oh, I thought this was a box mattress. No, no, we're getting a mattress delivered. I don't think it's a box, though. I think it is like a, you know, full. He doesn't roll up. Yeah. And the mattress, the previous mattress we have was, which we have right now, is a old-fashioned we went in and laid down on some fucking...

But you're too embarrassed to lay down long enough. You don't lay fully. You know what I mean? It's like you're too... It's like if you really wanted to test it out, you'd be there for like half an hour. You know what you got to do is read reviews because honestly I was buying a pillow top mattress pad and I, we talked about this, I swear to God. But I was in the store and then I googled the reviews and I picked the one based on the highest reviews and I love it.

But I'm like, that must be true with any mattress. actress in the world. Yeah, yeah. That even, even like an old school style. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

So I sleep like shit. What if you got a sleep number bed? I can't imagine doing that. You're up, Janie's down. You're going this way that. It's like, it's too hospitaly to me. I know. Yeah.

Yeah. I can't do it. I don't like them. I don't know anything about it. My friend's parents have them. It's for your friend's parents. You know what I mean? For sure.

Until you're your friend's parents. Who has that bet? Your friend's parents have that bit. Although that said, if any of these companies want to advertise with us, willing to take them on. There has to be parents friends. I have no complaints about any mattress that we have advertised. I have laid on myself and I've loved it.

Yeah. Because I either gave it to someone of my family or I used it myself. Yeah, absolutely. I like our current mattress so much. I feel like we've had it now for a good, probably longer than what is recommended. But it's so good. I don't want to give it away, give it away, give it away now. You know what's hard to is you're supposed to rotate them out.

I've never done that. We've done it a couple of times. Never done that. Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Gosh, yeah, probably. I don't know. I mean, we're very comfortable.

This one we're getting, we have to rotate it, I think, a couple times in a month. In a month. It's part of the trial period. Oh. And if you don't rotate it, then they can figure it out and. stick you with the mattress? They monitor. They come over to your house and they watch you rotate it. They watch you sleep.

Do you ever switch? Oh. They just come over and they watch you rotate the mat. You could rotate it back when they're gone. No, you can't. Really? Because they put clamps on it? They put clamps on. The clamps are really hard to get off. The clamps are hard to get off. It's like a boot. It's like a boot. Do you ever switch sides of the bed? Because we do that every once in a go. I think it's time for me to be over there now.

We've never done that. Oh, wow. We've never done that. We do it every few months. We'll be like, I think it's good if I'm over here now. I don't know if I could do that. I need access to certain things and certain areas of our room. I like it, but it throws me off for a few days. I'll keep going over to my side. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know a couple that have no established side of the bed. That's fucking mayhem. Like, like every day, it's just, it could be, yeah, anarchy. Anarchy. Whoa. Mere anarchy is loose. Just whoever gets there first? I guess, yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah. But it's like, don't you have it's, what if he got a book? What if you got a book? No, it's, it's, it's,

You have your charger. I got my earplugs. I got all my shit. That's crazy. I don't like this. I can't have that. They need to break up. Who are these people?

I'd rather not say. Let's tell them, though. Just say. If you're listening to this, it's time for you to knock it off. Your marriage, that is. I'm trying to think in, like when I go to a hotel, if I end up on the same side of the bed that I would when I'm at home. I find that it's, I, I just naturally pick the side that's closest to the restroom no matter what.

Oh, I think I, that's what Janie does. I think I go closest to the window, like away from the door. Oh, really? I go closest to the door, too, because I want. You want to beat that ass and the door comes in? You like to be as close to as many doors as possible. Well, I, for emergency exit, too. Emergency door.

You know? I was, like, out of town recently in a hotel, and I was like, is going to sleep in and then I fucking little baby was outside the door screaming and I was like this isn't fair I have a child and I'm away from my child not hearing this for one day and then they were out there in the hall like move it along yeah I support that you need to cry can you just do it somewhere else every once in a while I catch myself in a hotel like with you know we're on tour whatever talking to other people and realizing oh no we have to we have to get out of here because people are trying to sleep yeah yeah it's fine when we go on tour or

whatever, and there's a big group of people, you can tend to have these loud, boisterous conversations in the halls. Yeah, we're not going down. And then you go, oh, shit, no. That is true because it feels so dead in the hall. You just kind of forget that there's people behind those doors. Okay, I'll give the baby the benefit of the doubt. But no, baby shouldn't be in hotels.

I always forget to request a room away from the elevator, and so often I'm like right next to that elevator. I get that elevator so many times. It sucks so badly. Yeah, it really does. That sucks. Because she's hearing... Spilling out.

Yeah, and just hearing, bing, bing, and, like, people's luggage all the time. You want to hear beep, beep, beep. Oh, we did our little trip to San Diego last week. Oh, yeah. Tell us how it went. Where'd you go? Yes, we went to San Diego. We did four days because Holly had four days in a row off for Labor Day, I guess.

From work? From work. From work. And so... A baby having days off. She's not a baby. She's not a baby. She's a big kid.

Does she acknowledge she's a big kid because... She'll be like, am I a teenager? And she's like, am I seven? Because a lot of times we'll, trying to give Emmy praise, we'll say, you're such a big girl, you know, regarding her body training or whatever. And she always vehemently says, I'm not a big girl. She'll go back in force sometimes. I'm a strawberry baby, is what she says.

Oh, that's so cute. I'm a strawberry baby. Although now she's taking it saying, I'm a witch. I'm a big bird. A witch. I'm a strawberry baby is so cute. Yes. We stayed in an Airbnb.

near the zoo and that was great. Yeah, that was just Mike waking up. Oh no. Oh, shit! But it was kind of great to be right by the zoo

because then there wasn't the like traffic going to the zoo where then you start to lose steam on either end, you know? Like it was like we kind of just were home immediately. Yes, yes, yes. It was a beautiful zoo.

It's known to be one of the biggest and best zoos there is. And if you have, if you have opinions about zoos, great. And I'm happy, happy to hear them. It's beautiful. It's quite large, so it's a lot of walking.

And we didn't see much, honestly. We were there for like two hours. We were maxed out. What was everybody's favorite animal? We really, the gorilla came right up to the window and sat right by us. That was cool. And watched the other gorillas. Check out these guys.

They have pandas. They have pandas at the zoo. And it's very special because they're very rare to see. However, you have to either have a ticket, which was already sold out by the time I was getting our tickets. Or you have to wait in the line. And the line was like a million hours long. I'm not getting in this line with this.

The girl that couldn't hook you up? I wish. And I was like, you know, I read Good Night Guerrilla every night. We want the panda. You help? So we bought panda stuffed animals, which honestly scratched the itch. Yeah, exactly. They were thrilled.

Yeah. They love those things. If you've seen a video of a panda, you've seen a picture. had to. Yeah. There's not much too. I mean, everything in the world has been videotaped at this point, right? Almost. Yeah. Yeah. There's two bugs left. Wow. Wow. Yeah. We went. Also, we went on to dinner, which is kind of a bold. We don't do that often. Yeah. We don't do that often because it's a lot. And we went there. Booster seats. And we were like, you know what? Mike was like, let's go someplace that we want to eat. Not based on like what they have for kids. Oh. And then did they find stuff that they could eat? Everything was fine. They barely ate it anyway. And I don't care. I got to have. I had a tiny stomach. I had. I had. I had a a great steak and it was lovely dinner and um honestly a couple drinks and i was like this is so nice i was like about to cry i was like this is so great even though it was like really stressful and not that fun when we were leaving i was like we have to do this all the time all the time next day we did not go out we were like no and then the next day went to the

aquarium oh what we were going to say i was going to ask about the aquarium i got to go to that aquarium were you really i was because it's not good oh no is that true i would say my friend is from there, and I said, what should we do? We're obviously going to do the zoo, the aquarium. He goes, I would say you could skip the aquarium. I go, we're probably still going to do it because I've been talking about it. And we love aquariums. And so I ignored his advice.

It was a bit far. It was like 20 minute drive, which, you know, is a lot with kids when you're trying to, like, when you add the parking, that's 40. The parking was crazy. They only had like, they had like a hundred spots, maybe 200 spots, parking spots. But this, it was full. You're driving running in a loop. We finally got like an EV parking spot,

but it required like I had to download two different apps to get like a parking permit and do all this fucking bullshit. And we had to pay for that parking spot, even though the other ones were free. So we did that. We finally get in. It's, of course, expensive.

It's like two steps long. We saw an octopus where like, whoa. Okay, what I will say, there were a lot of adults who were like really pushy and they did not care for my children walking. Even though there's tons of kids. Yeah. It felt like everyone in San Diego,

go hate strollers and they don't like little kids. Like it was like there was a lot of pushiness around that and like culturally a grown man who was probably my age up on the fucking tank looking at fish and like whoa and like you know my kids are trying to see

and like nose to the glass. Yes he was like and then I went he's high as fuck I was like of course he's high he was because then he was sitting there watching the tank for a long time I was like he just saw Platonic yeah but then it was you know it was really not that great but they had fun but it was I was well that's what's all about isn't it it was fine but then we went to

belboa park which is also beautiful yeah and it was very hot and very crazy but we got beautiful pictures and that was worth something to me and then by that point we're like we're going home and we're not leaving tonight we're not going anywhere that's right we just watched movies and that rule in the hotel room in our Airbnb oh got it and then the next day we went out to breakfast before we left and that was also they you know I fed them before we went out to breakfast because they were up so early they both they breakfast and then I got to sit there and just eat my meal without trying to force someone to eat something. And it was great. That is great. Yeah. They just colored and stuff and I was like,

Holly ate ice. It's harder with two, right? For sure. When we see, when we see one, when they hype up people like and they go, oh, you should have another, it's easier because they can play with each other. There's a little bit of that. But I'm like, when we see someone walking with one baby, we're like, oh my God, they don't know how easy they have. But then you go, but you don't know how easy you have it because it's all relative and it's still hard with one child so it doesn't matter I'll say it again someone told my mother uh when she was pregnant with her second child if you're gonna have two you want her to have 10 see I felt like if I'm gonna have two I might as well stop because it does having sex entirely yeah never do it again but it does feel like it does

feel like it does feel like it does feel like two different moods, two different wants and needs, and then you're just... And schedules, right? The idea of three, I applaud those who have more. I curse them. I can't imagine. I mean, one is already way too much. Yeah.

Not to mention the, you know, I mean, the expenses. I mean, I think when you think about people having so many kids, I'm like, how do they forward to go to do all these things? It's just occurring to me that TV show 8 is enough. Yes. That 8 is enough is supposed to be kind of a fun. title. Yeah.

Yeah. Like that would make you laugh every time you're like it's an absurd yeah. I think we'll stop at eight. It's an absurd amount

of children to have. Yeah. But I always admired to fill our lives with love. I don't know that one. But when you see the people with a lot of kids.

Dick Van Patten, right? shiny new dimes. How many are in your family? If we're ever troubled by I'm saying the changing times There's a plate of homemade cookies How many are you in your family? You're out in the kitchen.

Wait, I'm saying, windows safe. How many are you in your family? I got to. But it is enough to fill our lives with love. No, no. Because it is enough to fill our lives with love. No, what about just? Stung by Grant Good Eve.

Just the 10 of us. Just the 10 of us. That's another show. It's another one. You can make it if we're trying. Which is also supposed to be kind of funny, right? Yeah. How about who's the boss?

It's kind of supposed to be kind of funny, right? Who's the 13? Yeah. Who's the 13? Who's the 13 reasons why? Yeah. For dating my daughter? Yeah.

It's supposed to be kind of funny. Supposed to be kind of funny. Now that was a sitcom based on a t-shirt. Is that correct? Supposed be kind of funny. Who's the boss? 13 reasons why. Oh, I don't know.

What t-shirt? I think it was a show. shirt that was said the what t-shirt do you think the one that says federal body inspector 13 reasons why it's 13 oh wait 13 reasons why that was the suicide one yeah and then 13 rules for dating my daughter eight simple rules eight simple rules okay oh i thought he cared about his daughter it's only eight i love that show i never seen it that was our uh the late john rudder i know he was like my favorite like so that's he was the best yeah oh we have to take a break Okay.

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That's not about that. Holly loves my big Sue action figure. Whoa. She doesn't know that it's me and it feels too complicated to explain. Really? Emmy knows mine is mine. I mean, I guess, I guess, well, yours looks like you. Not especially, but it's, she, I think she just was told as me.

Yours looks more like you than her. Thank you. I mean, come on. I have to explain more if I'm doing that. This is me and it being silly costume. I was actually explaining my job to her yesterday. Like sometimes she asked what I wonder.

I wonder about this. When does she know what the concept of job is and what does mommy and daddy do? Yesterday she said, So what did you think when I was gone all day? Like she kind of said something like that. And I was like, oh, what did you mean? Like what do I do? And she's like, yeah.

And I was like, well, I missed you. And I was like, but my job, because I had a wardrobe fitting. yesterday so I was like well I have you know what we do what daddy and I do for our job was like we get dressed up like different things and people put us in costumes and I was like here's my costume and she was like laughing and she thought it was but I haven't explained I thought I could show her a picture of Big Sue maybe now that I've set this layer and then be like this is me being this and then we made this doll I worry that if you showed her the episode with you as Big Sue that she would get scared or something in the middle of it and say turn it off I don't want to watch

I don't want to show her the episode I would show her a picture of me right right I think start with a picture during the big sue segment yeah start with a picture and then do like 29.33 per second okay well she brought anyway she brings it in her backpack to school she was like and we had put it into like this little cabinet in our bathroom it's like a glass cabinet and she was like what's big sue doing in there how to and we're like she wanted to go in there what's big sue doing in there it's so funny that she's saying big sue's I know she says big I feel like Kulap told her that it was me. Yeah.

And so now, and I, she's retained it. Yours is you. Yeah. Well, I mean, dress, yeah, yeah. Dressed as what, a sweater? Come on, man. Stop doing this. Yours is you.

Or you mean, the one where you're wearing a costume? Well, no, I mean, no. Yeah, I'm just, I don't really dress in the sweater or whatever. You don't wear a sweater. But yeah. I think she could imagine it. It has the hallmarks of me. Head, face.

This has Scott Ackerman written all over it. Body. Foot. Sweater. the bang bang book is in one of the rooms of our house and she's always like daddy's book and then points to me on it so i think but but then anytime she goes are you going to work it just means am i going downstairs here i don't think she understands yeah i mean when i go to work it's at any hour of the day and it can mean anything she was at the door when i was doing scott hasn't seen with sean and sorry sprague and uh she was tapping on the glass and looking in and trying to get my attention and then later on she was like through the window. She was like, you were talking to your friend? I thought you went to work.

It is a liar. It is work. Trust me. It's not easy. Back in the days of the Pod F. Tompcast, which was my very first podcast, we used to record at Evan Schletter's studio. And his daughter, who was very young at the time, was. Now she's old.

There. And she was old enough to kind of. I care I think she was old enough to kind of be on her own in the next room kind of playing and she came to the doors she came to the doors we were recording

there was like a little tap on the sliding glass door and we turn around she's holding up a sign and says I'm bored and you're like the reviews are in the reviews are in it's really good stuff it was really good stuff I got a picture of it's great that's funny that's how bored she was she was willing to stand there and hold up that side

Long enough for me to get a picture. Bob Dylan style. Then I called her on stage. What if Bob Dylan did that? Like he had a big concert. He's like, I got something new I'm working on. And then he just held up a sign that said I'm bored. And everyone's like, are you going to play music or?

They just stands there with the sign. I mean, that could be interesting. It could. It would be noteworthy at the very least. I'd be worth taking a picture of. I'll say that. Sure. I would think, speaking of concerts, saw Trap the other night.

What's that? Trap is that M-Night Chomlon movie. Yeah. That your husband watched with us. What? For Scott has a scene. Oh, oh, that one. He's fucking great in it.

It's so much. It's really fun. Josh Hartnett. We were all excited that he was back. Yeah. The Hartnettissons. Yeah. Hard net a son.

Hard net a chance. Kilosophy had the chance. And then, but he, it's really funny when he is. I mean, the movie obviously knows what it is doing. Yes. It's fucking goofy movie. It's not the goofy movie. It's a goofy movie.

Oh, is it only a goofy movie? Yes. That means I could put a movie called the goofy movie. Yes. It's just one of many. I have to do. And it wasn't about the character goofy. It's just the movie itself is very goofy.

Yeah, oh, no, it'll be a goofy movie. It's just a goofy movie. Yeah. Yeah. But he switched, he, you know, after he blinds someone by putting a good glass bottle at a French fry fryer. Yes. He just grabs a fucking apron and then goes up on the.

roof for whatever the cops are like hey what do you do it up here this guy doesn't work there I know the apron guy should not be on the roof nine foot middle age man does not work at the hot dog stand yeah this model looking guy yeah he's very tall like you should be an actor Josh Hartnett he's a tall guy let me see about this yeah look at him in Oppenheimery

towers about everyone that's when I found out that that Gillian Murphy is a short king he's a five seven that's not he's not even a medium king. Josh Hardin, 6.3, just in case you were here.

6.3. That's tall. That's tall, baby. For an actor? Mm-hmm. You put him next to a 5-7 guy? Then you're like, I got to look up this little guy's height.

Yeah, I know. That's the thing. I mean, we tall people can look quite large. You make me sick. You make me sick. Well, the fans love sending us messages to this website.

Hag claims eight. Oh, that's what we were talking about. So, okay. So yes. you can still leave voicemails. Yes, you can still do that. No, it is not a phone plan anymore. No, sorry.

And all of your phone plans were canceled. And they were non-refundable if you read. And if somebody knocked on your door and they took your phone away, that was, someone knocked on my door. They took my phone plan away. They took your phone plan away. But I can still use my head claims date.com any time of the day. Do you do, do, do, do.

The novelty dictionary, it's still a dictionary, no longer a novelty dictionary. It's just a dictionary. There's still like some words like asshole with a picture of somebody, but that's just a, that's the real definition. Those are just accurate. But here's the problem. All the definitions and words are correct. They are not connected to each other. And you can't buy it and put in a definition of your own for your friend as a joke.

No, which is that's too bad, really. Yeah. That's too bad. And do you think we're going to get the capacity to do that back? probably not I don't think so I think they said the internet didn't have enough space anymore

yeah because there's a lot of TikTok made an announcement about it yeah yeah and tweets too many tweets and posts and TikTok

kissed the microphones tweets and tweets and tweets and tweets you know your lips touch this and it feels disgusting no I love it but it is

had claimed data if you leave a voicemail referring to by the way that's a great point your asses The microphone, I said I kissed the mic, but you didn't hear me. Oh, I didn't hear.

There's a little, the little foamy thing. If you do leave a voicemailant, hacklaymday.com, now somehow this is tied to your heating bill, which is not a problem during the summer, obviously. Obviously, the cold months are coming. Listening to freedom is going to be very cheap during the summer, but at wintertime, I'm afraid you're going to have to, you know, do your parts with your heating bills. If you listen to our show more than once, it's going to drive up your heating bill. Yeah. And we are sorry about that. I am sorry about that.

No, no, no. We're all sorry about it. I'm sorry. None of us are relishing this opportunity, but it's just what had to happen. Sorry. But look, we had to move on. We did get a voicemail. We did get it.

Yeah. And I want to hear it. Who's it from? What's their name? Well, yada, yada. Let's see if they say what it is. But here we go. Hi, Threatom.

I'll try to keep the. short because I know how much Scott hates us. Who are you? So you were talking about... Wait a minute. What did he say? How much Scott hate... I guess you hate the length of the voicemail.

Hi, Freedom. I'll try to keep this short because I know how much Scott hates us. Scott. I just talked about how much I love all of the fans. Guess what, dude? Nameless. Who are you? Clint Eastwood, a man with no name?

Yeah. Or the chair that he's talking to? Why don't you check out the previous segment where we talk about how much we love our fans? Yeah. Just rewind just a little bit before hearing your own goddamn voice for just one second. So you were talking about swumber parties or as us dudes used to call them sleepovers. And I, without a doubt, have the most embarrassing sleepover story in the history. Oh, okay.

I have a couple of buddies staying over. I want to say this was probably fifth or sixth grade, mid-90s you're looking at. So because my parents were motorcycle culture enthusiasts, so to speak, it was very common for, by, Biker magazines to be strewn about the house. So growing up, you might have had entertainment weekly in your bathroom. I had easy riders. So a fun fact about biker magazines is they're full of tits. Usually hammered women at biker rallies who flash their whacked tits at the camera,

but this is the 90s, remember, and our tit options were limited. So we're at the age, we're starting to get interested. So we're flipping through these magazines, and my mom walks in on us. Now, you might be thinking of your own parents. You might be thinking. She'd say, oh, what are you guys doing? Put those away. No.

She says, oh, I was in one of those before. Let me go find it. And then walks out. So I had never heard about this, so I thought she was being a weirdo joking. She comes back about 10 minutes later, which, by the way, is more than enough time to think it over and decide against doing this. She comes back with an issue of Outlaw Biker Magazine and proceeds to flip through and find and show me and my friends a picture of her flashing a singular tit.

So, yeah, that sucked. I don't even have a question. I guess I don't either. What's a couple of instances maybe from your childhood where someone you know's parent did something way fucking crazy like that? All right. Thank you for me. That's a pretty good question.

You're the funniest people in the world. Love you. Bye. I feel like I sort of cover this an episode or so ago when I talked about my friend's mom. I might not have come out yet. It might not have come out yet. But I'm saying that to you now. No, no, because it was so, it was actually so similar to that.

Yeah. That it's interesting. His story is much worse. Well, that's gross. It's gross. Yeah. I know that there, well, there's a rumor that this person's mom would answer the door nude. What?

In your neighborhood? Or in our neighborhood. No, that like this is like a long time ago. Is it the go to hell lady? That would be great. No. But she wouldn't put it past her. So there was this rumor that, hey, if you go knock on this door in the neighborhood.

It has happened from, it has happened from time to time that she would answer the door in the neighborhood. That can't. That can't be true. No. Let me think of the other ones, though. Do anyone's parents do anything weird? I don't think so. I don't think I ever felt like unsafe.

I've more felt like judged or like constricted by parents in my neighborhood because everyone was always like, no, you got to do this. You got to do this. You know what I mean? Also there was a big snake that lived in your neighborhood. Yeah. I mean, that was a big part of it and we were all in caves. Oh.

Yeah. We were all in caves. I lived in a system of caves. Yeah. The only things that I have are like rumors that are. are actually so sick I can't even say and they're

most likely not true. I remember one sleepover it was just me at the same friend's house and his mom had unfortunately married this fucking horrible dude. This is the guy who made me

I was having dinner at their house and I didn't and still don't like baked beans. Oh no. And so I baked you all these beans though, Paul. I didn't want to. It's a bean cake. Why did you do that?

I just, I was like, I got to get some beans baked for my good friend, Paul. I don't like making them, though. I don't like it. How do you like your beans then? I like them fried. What about boiled? I like them fried. I like my bean fried.

I do not have. Hillary, give me some fried beans with that friar. And he made me sit there at the table. Oh. Until eventually I scraped the beans into the trunk. I don't think you can make another. like a kid that's not your own. No, it's demented.

Then I went and had dinner at my friend's bio dad's house and he made this, we were eating like some kind of stew or whatever and I didn't like it and I was like choking it down. And the guy saw and said, if you don't like that you don't have to eat it. How nice. That's actually

really nice. It is nice. Nice of both of you. What are the rules of the world? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The inconsistency. But this guy, we were, so me and my buddy we're like brushing our fucking teeth or whatever. Together? Yeah. I'm brushing And his, the rest of the mind. You do yours.

Yeah, exactly. And his fucking stepdad, I can't even call him a stepdad. This fucking guy comes up and slaps my friend across the head. Jeez. Like, with no warning, it was fucking. Why? Because we were making noise. Oh, my God.

That's awful. Yeah. Well, that's abuse. I don't think I ever was around. She eventually divorced that guy. Thank God. Oh, good. I luckily, I think, was never around any parent that made me feel unsafe.

No, same. Or at least let me see that there was any kind of strife. It actually was very rare to ever hear about, like, a friend who had divorced parents. Divorce wasn't that. That was rare for me, too. I guess it was a little rare now that I think about it. Most of my childhood friends' parents were. Oh, this guy used to, like, just have Playboy magazine, like, out.

the guy who slapped his kid Yeah He would have it like on the bedside That's disgusting Yeah It's very interesting Imagine being the wife Yeah it's also just like

Oh he's just that's his reading material Yeah He just likes to look at that He likes jazz and loves to He's researching speakers It helps him fall asleep to look at big tits Look at how big I can't fall asleep unless I see

One big tit Well Nameless person We're sorry but that's a crazy story Sorry to hear that Also, don't blame you for leaving your name out. What's funny to me also is you said they were motorcycle culture enthusiasts, but you're not say they were motorcycle enthusiasts, which I guess I assume that they have motorcycles,

but maybe they were just into it. They just like wearing leather vests and posing with one tit out. I was always... If you could read this, the bitch fell off. I was always... There were motorcycle enthusiasts who went to our church, and they would wear like, they would drive the motorcycles to church, and they would wear, like, they would drive the motorcycles to church, and they would wear leather vests

with fringe on it and stuff and it would have crosses on it and stuff like that and you can't have both can't no you got to like one of the other you can't have both that's fucking stupid you can't be a bikeer and a motorcycle and go to church get the fuck out of here

although don't you think if they were invented at the time yeah I stand by it Jesus I went back down Jesus had a almost like a motorcycle gang in a way down. No, I won't back down. You might want me to back ride down, but I won't back down. Hey, Jude, baby.

There ain't no easy way out, Jude. Hey, Jude, Jude, baby. No, I won't back. Now I'm bored Back Jude Jude Wait, I'm getting to a D

D Duh Well that's That's freedom for another week It really is We hope everybody is having a great summer Summer's Actually I would Summer goes past Labor Day

Maybe it's still happening I don't know It's true I think it's like the 22nd Is the last day of summer Oh I think we're well past It's just going to be It's hotter and hotter here for a while.

I think it's cooling down, actually. Okay. And anyway, we hope that you... We thank you. We cherish you. We love and keep you in our hearts. And we hope that you will listen to the show next time. I hope you listen to it again.

I wouldn't blame me if you stop because your heating bill I know is going to go through the roof. That's if you leave a voiceman. Don't encourage them to worry about the heating bill. You know what I'm saying. If you leave a voicemail and listen to it, then you're hearing. heating bill is it's all tied up if you leave a voicemail yeah you get you get a discount oh really well

the the the voicemail is what connects it to the heating bill yes but you but you get a one time discount a one time discount yeah for one uh what do they call them B2s yeah British thermal unit all right bye see you like look how cute What Makes Life Meaningful. My name is Elise Loonen, and I'm the author of Oner Best Behavior and the host of the podcast, Pulling the Thread. I'm Pulling the Thread. I explore life's big questions with thought leaders who help us better understand ourselves, others, and the world around us. I hope these conversations bring you moments of resonance, hope, and growth.

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