Threedom - Our Mutual Friend, Dog The Bounty Hunter

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Paul, Scott, and Lauren discuss their Traitors game, gentlemen's clubs, and the first McDonald's before playing Out of Ten. Send Threetures and emails to [e-mail] us a voicemail asking us a question at hagclaims8.comFollow us on Instagram @ThreedomUSA.Listen ad-free and unlock bi-weekly THREEMIUMS on cbbworld.comGrab some new Threedom merch at cbbworld.com/merchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's a good question. Listen to Hasan Minhaj Doesn't know from Lemonada Media, wherever you get your podcasts. Freedom! Oh, it feels so good to say that word. We can finally say it again. Freedom! I'm gonna use everything I have this time

to say this word that I wanna say. I like Shepard pie. Freedom! I am so excited to be with you guys today because we haven't even told the best story that we have to tell. Yes, I know. In between our episodes, we did something fun.

By the way, welcome to Freedom, I'm Scott. I'm Paul. I'm Lauren. And this is the 250th episode of Freedom. Remember when we started and we said, let's only do three of these? 250th episode of Freedom! Remember when we started and we said, let's only do three of these, like Freedom? And then we did 247 more. On a dare.

Yeah, who dared us again? I forget, it was some bully? Yeah, he said, if you don't do this, I'll kick your ass. Oh, it was that bully from A Christmas Story. Oh yeah, all grown up now. Far Oh, it was that bully from a Christmas story. Oh, yes. Yeah. I've grown up now. Farcus. Farcus, right?

Sounds right. Do you know, that's a movie that I'm pretty sure I've seen all of, but not in order. Yeah. Cause it's on TBS every year at Christmas and Thanksgiving. Every year we do a free trial of TBS. Yeah. We watched it probably three years ago.

I put it on every year. At my parents' house. Cool Up had never seen it and she was loving it. She's like, oh my god, this is so charming, so funny. And then we got to the very last scene, she's like, oh right, well, it's the worst. Oh, that's right, that's right. Oh, is it when they go to the Chinese restaurant?

Yeah, oh my god, oh my god. You know. It's funny. But the sequel is really cute. That was like an example of them kind of like doing, you know, when you see a Oh they just did it a couple years ago something and he's all grown up. Yeah it's very sweet. Now he's the cursing guy. Yeah. I watched a little bit of the music of the live musical that they did um couldn't really get into it but it was a good try I have to say. I gotta say not everything

needs to be musical. Just throwing it out there. Yeah let's take music out of things. Someone literally puts their pen down as they were writing a musical version of Conclave. Yeah. Okay, I take it back. I want to be called John. But the other day we got together at night time. We got together at night time. This is exciting because for those of you who are listening at night,

maybe you think we always tape these episodes during the night because you happen to be listening during the night. It's not true. Because we're children of the night and what beautiful music we make. But actually we tape these during the daytime. And usually on weekdays. And this was a Sunday night that we got together.

Now this has been in the works for? Months. Months, six months or so. We've been trying to get this on the cal for a long time because we're coordinating with a lot of people. As you know, if you've heard us talk about it several times on this show, we are big fans of the television program currently on Peacock called-

Traitor. Do you know what? It's called the traitors? Yeah, I swear to God no, I just stop watching this is crazy It's not the Facebook Right is it is it the Facebook bomb is it the Facebook Lauren Is it the Facebook bomb? Is it the Facebook Lauren? Are you guys still on Facebook by the way?

No, I haven't been on Facebook for a while. I haven't for years. I think I've shared on this that I have a Facebook simply for a couple groups that I'm in but I don't have like friends. I don't like use it as like a looking at what my friends are doing. I feel bad because I feel like the, my high school reunion only now talks about it on Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, well, everyone has Facebook, so we'll only put it on there. And so I'll hear about something months and months too late.

Yeah. Somebody decides like, we're just going to switch over to this format and you have to either be on it or not. It's like when you get, when you, the QR code menu and shit like that, it's like what if there's people that don't have phones? I always think of old people. I always think of old people.

I know and I don't think it's fair. And I also think the same thing about places that don't accept. Inkblot. When they don't accept cash, I think that's wrong. Yeah. I was just at the zoo and all the food things were like, we don't accept cash.

Then I heard a little kid say do you take cash? But I have money! You have travelers checks? You know like a little kid gets ten bucks to go to the zoo with his friends and then they can't buy a fucking churro I'm like this is weird. I know that it is weird yeah you're right like a place that caters to children should let children however and it's so hypocritical of the LA Zoo because they only take cash if you want to buy one of the animals.

Yeah. Well, you have to show that you're committed. I bought an elephant there once. And they only take it in a briefcase. You bought what? I bought an elephant there once. And the elephant, just as I opened the briefcase to prove, of course, that I had the money, he scooped it all up in his trunk.

No. You know what? The elephants are never out over there. And I'm like, where are they? What am I up to? I've told this story before, but one time I decided to take my friend's son and my friend, his father, to the zoo. Because I thought, you know, he had a cute little boy and I was like, this will be fun family activity. So we go to the zoo and we're looking at the elephants and we're standing there at the little fence and looking at the I'm looking at the elephant and

my friend's son To get my attention punch me in the balls And said Paul look at these ants Like there's fucking elephants here, oh and said Paul look at these ants. What ants? I was like there's fucking elephants here. Oh he was pointing. I thought he meant your balls were ants. No, no, no. No, no, no.

That was just to make sure I did not miss the ants. The other day Holly, I took Holly to the zoo. Then it turned out, turns out he had just been at the zoo last week with his class. Well I took Holly to the zoo. What a waste of a day. Which nobody told me. And she, we looked at a roly poly for a long time

at the zoo. She's like, oh, it's so cute, it's so tiny. At a certain age. There's a bug, you can see the bugs for free at the zoo. Yeah, and up close. Yeah. We were trying to figure out what to do with Emmy the other day on a Sunday. Because, you know, she's, she's, I feel like she's living such an idyllic childhood that she's, she wakes up every day and goes, where are we going today?

And it's like, I used to have to play at home. I played at home or I went on errands and they were boring as, but that's also, I think that's good. Although Holly loves CBS. That's now, once you unlock that, that's a problem. But in any case, so we were trying to figure out what to do. And so we went to the Americana,

we went to the outdoor mall, went to the Barnes and Noble, and she can run around, look at books and all that. At a certain point, I realized she was just as happy just running on the grass as being out of place. You know what I mean? You know where I went that was so beautiful? LA Arboretum.

Have you ever been there? No, we haven't been there. In Arcadia. Arboretum. It's so beautiful. And No, we haven't been there. In Arcadia. And it's so beautiful. And I went with my friend and her husband and kids, and I went with my children. And we were walking. There's peacocks. And then you can kind of walk. There's like a waterfall you can walk to and you can walk

and have a picnic in this grassy area. It's very, very peaceful. And we filmed certain sketches of Mr. Show there for a while. So I've been there, but I've never been there with a... Another place that has peacocks, The Traders. Yeah. We played The Traders on Sunday and it was extremely thrilling. We each had our own cloak.

Yeah, there was a card version of it. One of our friends bought. Yes, Trip J. And she was trying to schedule this for months where she would put out what I don't know exactly what it is. A doodle. A doodle where we all. I never investigated what that was. We used to use them for scheduling improv rehearsals a lot like 10 years ago. A doodle was a very popular way to. Oh I assumed it was a brand new thing. No it was like it's a way to like fill out your schedule so everyone can say what day works for them and then it makes a calendar that works for everybody.

It's very handy. So we did that, we tried for a little while and then it never worked out. And so six months later, we finally found a day. We could all do it. And the fun wrinkle that everyone decided to do was everyone found cloaks online and everyone bought them. Yeah.

And it really added something. Everyone got- It truly did. The same green cloak other than Paul and Taljohn. Yeah, I missed that it was, we were all getting green. And you brought a red cloak. It was purple. A purple. Yeah, cause Janie got a green. Janie got a green. And you brought a red cloak. It was purple. A purple, yeah, cause Janie got a green. Janie got a green, okay.

And so I was like, well, I'll get a different color. If I'd only known. If I'd only checked a little closer on the text thread. It made you stand out. But it helped tall John because he was wearing a brown, like Obi-Wan Kenobi kind of robe. Yes, yeah, yeah. Why did that happen?

I was too busy trying to figure out the rules. I bet he just had that. I bet he already had it. Yeah. Yeah. And so that was kind of, then we were a hodgepodge a little bit. Yeah, but.

Yeah, so Scott had to learn the rules of the game, which is the hard role. So what happened was? Wait, wait, wait, wait, the idea behind the cloaks also, the color behind of the cloaks, was that we're also going to wear them when we go out to dinner at Christmas time. Oh, right.

Because green cloaks at Christmas time. So when you have a red one, you already have. I do. So you should wear the red one and you'll be like Santa and we'll all be like elves. And we'll be like, thanks for taking us to dinner. So you'll pay. I hate that. So I showed up with a Santa costume to the dinner.

Great. You'd be great. There's no law against it. You'd be the belle of the ball at the restaurant. Are you kidding? I wouldn't be able to love it. No, everyone would want to talk to you. I mean, because of the beard. Oh.

It'd be like Dan Aykroyd in Train Places. So you think that he dresses as Santa and everyone just comes up and goes Santa, Santa. There's gonna be kids there and then they want to get a picture at that place. Honestly, I could see that happening. Will you get in our photo? Will you da, da, da, da, da? Santa, Santa, Santa, here's what I'm wanting. Santa, Santa, Santa, over place. Will you get in our photo? Santa Santa Santa Santa!

Santa Santa Santa! Do you believe what that woman said? How do you respond? Did you have sexual relations with that woman? Anyway, so here's what, you know, we all said, oh, how do we play this? And the person with the game... Jessica. Are we protecting her identity. I don't know. She wants to be named.

OK, so Jessica's we all do. Jessica said, oh, everyone. Everyone assumed it was like when we played mafia because Traders is kind of based on mafia. And years ago, we had all played mafia as this group. Yes. Yes. And when we became the group that we are today. Yes. So we all assumed it was like mafia. And then Jessica said, I'll check out the rules and figure it out. And then she confessed she opened it like an hour before the event and they're kind of confusing. But I will say, so I was very grateful that you took it on because it's very hard to learn a game

and then suddenly teach everybody the game and that you took it on because it's very hard to learn a game and then suddenly teach everybody the game and that you did a good job. And then once you explained it, it was actually very clear. It was just a lot, it involves an app, it involves pulling cards, it involves- Which by the way, it sounds confusing but it actually made it very fun.

The app part of it is really good. Which we got an iPad out and it's, you write down a name of the person you're gonna. It's like the chalkboards on Traders and then you also get to like, it also randomizes things for you so you don't have to do that part yourself. We all spelled each other's names wrong

when we banished people. It was really exciting. It was very fun. And I was immediately banished. Oh, you know what I realized? As I was falling asleep that night, I was like, I think I had a shield when everyone murdered me.

Oh. No. When I tried to kill him. Yes. You should have used it. When, where was it in a banishment that you can't use a shield? Yes. Should I banish or murder? Shield does not, shield doesn't banish. Then I couldn't have used it. Okay, good.

I was banished very quickly. I wasn't faithful and no one believed me. And there was something so sad about that. Mike came for you so hard early in the game. What I realized, you watch traitors and you kind of go like, oh, must be so easy to figure out who's a traitor. Yeah. Because they're just so suspicious. And then you play it and it's next to impossible. No, and I couldn't stop laughing.

I was like smiling saying I'm not, but I was like, I actually think if I was a traitor, I wouldn't be laughing. I'd be fighting. Yeah, you were acting suspicious. I was like laughing and then he's like, we keep laughing. And then I tried to get really serious and I got really serious. And then I still got killed off. And then I had to say, I got to stand in the doorway and say that I'm a faithful, which

was very exciting. Yes, when anybody got banished, we would have them stand in the doorway and do a little speech. There's like a spotlight. Oh, and Jess did the brilliant move of finding the Traders music on Spotify. That really helped a lot too. So there's like a Traders playlist and it's all that it's all spooky covers of songs. All those terrible like, some baddies watching me. And sometimes they'd be like, heart of glass.

For some reason, Blondie's heart of glass. Once had a love. But it, sometimes the timing of the music was absolutely perfect. Where just suddenly you would cut out and then that's when the app would reveal who we all banished. And yeah, it was very exciting.

It was really fun. It was really fun. Two games. Yeah, two rounds. And Paul was pretty suspicious. Well, here's the thing. They're in. And I realized why they did this later, which is they made changes to the game.

There's stuff that's not on the TV show that you can do. And it's because it's they're trying to differentiate it from Mafia or from Werewolf, so they don't get in trouble. I think were we to play it again, I would try to tailor it a little more like the actual TV show. I thought the same thing, because there's a card, you get this dagger card,

which means you can blackmail someone. You can look at their... You can look at all their cards and see if they're a traitor or a faithful, which is not something that, it kind of spoils the game. Yeah, I mean, I figured there's a way you could play it where it's like werewolf, where you,

somebody leads the game, somebody is the Alan Cumming or the Claudia Winkleman and says, if you wanted to have more than one traitor, and coming or the Claudia Winkleman and says, you know, uh, if you wanted to have more than one trader, you know, traders open your eyes, look at each other, you identify. So you know, here's my solution. Part of mafia is that you're playing, you know, you're, you're teamed up. And then you decide together who to kill. My solution to that part of it is that we buy or I think you already were buying

another card set. And that we, we played with eight people and there's only one trader card. We put the other trader card in there. And so there's nine cards for eight people. So there is the possibility of there being one or two traders. You could just do it with. Oh, but I guess so there is a trader card that you can get midway through the game that allows you to be Recruited it's a different color

Okay, yeah, the back is a different color anyway, so that that's but it was a lot of fun and I got to be a trader I was to be honest when I got the card very successful trader You are when I got the card. I was like fuck cuz everyone always anytime. I play mafia or whatever Everyone assumes I'm mafia because I play very hard, but this time. You were playing more reserved, but I think it was because you were in charge of the rules. Yes. Yes. People discounted you immediately. Yeah. Yes. I was sort of playing into that in the second one, like being sort of distracted by rules and stuff like that. And then even once I went outside to take

the dogs outside as if I couldn't care less about what was happening. And the whole time I'm like listening for, are they bringing me up? That's why I kind of missed somebody leading the game. And of course that's my favorite thing to do. Right. Yes, when you are not part of the game. In Mafia, one can not be part of the game

and lead the game. Yes, I enjoy that more than playing the game. You know what it should be? Well then we could get eight people and you could do it... I'd be happy to do that. What if you don't even need a separate deck? If you have a host, that person could just tap two people to be traitors. Exactly, yeah.

Okay, cool. I like that. So there's ways around this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was really, really fun. And I bought the game right away because I was like, I want to try this with different groups of people. Oh yeah, I gotta buy it.

Because we all know each other. Yeah. You know our styles of playing. And we're all, we were all for the most part couples. So that adds- It was very fun in the last game where I was the traitor that it came down to you and Janie and me and Coolop. And I intentionally killed Coolop because I'm like, she just always suspects me.

I mean, so. Same with Janie. Yeah. So, so. I thought it was Janie at that point. I don't know what she was doing, but I thought for sure she was. When she got accused,

she was reacting in such a way that was like, oh, it's you for sure. Oh, see, I was, I knew it was me. But I also remember when we were in Hawaii and we played mafia and I said point blank, are you mafia? And she went, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the tropes from the TV show. It was really fun. It was really fun. It was actually because we all liked that show. It was like really, it was like a fan club. Like it was so silly to like have the music on

with the cloaks. I was like, oh, I love this. It was so great. And writing down on an iPad, like everyone's name. It was very fun. A lot of fun to be had. And we're not sponsored by that game. You know what?

They should sponsor us. They should sponsor us. Yeah, get at us. We'll do an episode of all of this. Oh wow. Like we did that other game. Yeah. That's what she said. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. That was fun. That's a bad idea. Yeah. Yeah, it's not a bad idea. A little bonus episode. Lauren also, I'm not gonna say it on the recording, but Lauren had a great idea.

I did have a good idea. Oh, I wanna hear. Well, we're- We'll have to tell you at the end of the show. Well, I mean, we Lauren had a great idea. I did have a good idea. Yeah. Oh, I want to hear. Well, we're- We'll have to tell you at the end of the show. Well, I mean, we're going to take a break. You can tell me now. You can tell me now. Let's take a break.

Now that you're all caught up with our extracurricular activities. Yes, which you've been asking about. Everyone's like, what did you guys do together? We're going to come right back with more freedom. You know, yeah, I've been thinking for a while about starting a podcast before I actually did. What happened to your voice?

Well, every time I thought about it... Are you from the West now? It just seemed so daunting. Finally, one day, I decided to stop putting it off and turn my dream into reality. Wow. Well, I mean, odds are a lot of you listening to Paul's Western voice right now have felt that same way... Oh, it's harmonica, about starting your own business. Maybe you tossed and turned during sleepless nights, thinking, gaming it out in your mind, and you keep asking yourself, what if it doesn't work out?

What if someone else beats me to it? Well, take it from me. It is time to stop thinking about what if, and start doing what then. I don't know if that makes sense, but anyway, it's one of the easiest ways to do that. And I'll tell you this right now. I'm going to say it very slowly is to is to use Shopify. Pardon my harmonica. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e-commerce in the US from household names like Mattel and Gymshark to brands just getting

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Come here for a second. Come close, come close. What is it? Why are we in this little closet? Yeah, I'm sorry. I was going to play seven minutes in heaven with you and then something came up. I have to ask you something.

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Terms and conditions apply. Oh, King of the Impossible. I have a question for you. OK, I hopefully have an answer, but if I don't, I'm just going to run out of the room really quickly. OK, I mean, I would say take another guess if... You want me to just hazard a guess? I don't want you to just leave, yeah.

Okay, well, let's hear the question. I might just leave. Okay, here's the question. You know when a new shirt just becomes your go-to? Oh God, bye. Oh, Scott, he's gone. He left a hole in the wall shaped like himself. That's what happened when I picked up...

I'm back. Oh, okay. Good. You're just about to hear my personal story. Oh, okay. Please tell me something really heart-stressing. Do you remember what I said about the new shirt becoming my go-to? Oh, yeah.

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freedom. And we're back. This this was this is connected to something that happened during the break, but Stranger Things, the TV show is what I would call the TV show Better Things when I was trying to reference it. Oh, better, yes. And Say Nothing, the mini-series about the IRA, I would refer to as say anything. And both of these I would do without realizing

that I had done them. And so you're leaving a wake of confusion. Yes. If you were like, do you mean better things? Like, yes I do. It's talking about Irish people. Speaking of say anything, I love Dione's Guys memoir, Say Everything.

I want to plug it. I loved it. It's really entertaining. It's really entertaining. It say everything. I want to plug it. I loved it. It's really entertaining. It's really entertaining. It's moving. I cried at the end. And it's also fun to hear who she's thrown down with. She names names all over the place.

She names them all. Really, really fun. Really fun. This sounds dare I say, shagadelic. It is shagadelic. I think that's one of the quotes on the back of the book. Yeah. I think my friend Austin left a blurb about it.

This book is Shagadelic, baby. Yeah. I'm sorry, my colleague. Yeah. It'd be fun to have a blurb from one fictional character. I loved it, Snoopy. I read this whole thing on my dog house. Call me Ishmael.

Ishmael. Couldn't put it down, Mr. Magoo. Couldn't figure out where to put it down. Couldn't put it down because Mr. Magoo. Couldn't figure out where to put it down. Because my hand was glued to it. Nothing bad ever happened to him. It only happened to other people. Yeah, that's true.

He was always spared. Yeah. Well, we I mean, we don't want him to die at the end of every cartoon, do we? I don't know. It got pretty annoying. Yeah. Would you say that Kenny is Mr. Magoo? Because of his vanity, he wouldn't put on glasses. Just wear glasses. By the way, they're cool now. You piece of shit. There's plenty of scissors. Yeah, wear it.

We could pick out a nice frame that everyone will go like, oh, you're pretty hip, Mr. Magoo. I would love to see Mr. Magoo in tinted lenses. Yeah. Yeah. One time, do you know, you're familiar, of course, with Jumbo's Clown Room. Of course. This is a local striptease Emporium. Yes. And it's a sort of alt kind of... It was kind of alt back in the 90s before that was really a thing.

Yes. Before all women had a pole in their living room. Yeah. We had one for a long time. I know. Everybody did. So glad. But I went there... Well, at a certain point, did she stop using it? And then you're like, now we just have a poll. And it reminds me of when you used to do that. But it was like you, you legitimately have to like put it into a, because it's like,

has to support, it has to support. So it's like, we had to install it. And then you just have a big pole. Was it in your room or it was it was in like my off my library room. I got to go in there, by the way. OK, have fun. Because we want to know how big that room is. Yeah. OK, I'm going to go in there. Never have known during the break. So I'm there at Jumbo's Clown Room. And when is this?

This is years ago during my break break. This morning for breakfast. I ate eggs and then I went to Jumbo's. Have you ever eaten at a strip club? No. I have not either. But you hear about these buffets. I have been to. And you hear some people going like, oh, this one is the best buffet. I've been to a strip club, I think four times, counting twice at Jumbo's.

And I was the two other times regular old gentlemen's clubs very uncomfortable didn't like being there. They asked you to strip? Because Jumbo's is more it's much it's more coed. I thought you were saying a gentleman's club is some but that's just a typical strip club. Yes exactly yeah. It's more cooperative educational educational. Jumbos is more like it's- It's like girls in tattoos getting a little crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not-

It's not as sexual. It's more- It's more of a hangout. It's like a bar with a stage, and then it felt more like, this is the one place you could go with your friends who are women, and they would enjoy it.

I would actually, I think the last time I went to a strip club was with you in San Francisco. Oh, that's right. Yes. I, yeah, I've been to, I don't know. You were making a rain. I was making a rain. I love to make a rain or strip club with your money.

No, it was Dave Toonies. Oh, we've talked about this. You know, Dave's talked about it. Um, and so one of the dancers got off stage. Please stop thinking it's my money. I really thought it was. I know you have for years. Cause how long ago was that? off stage. Please stop thinking it's my money. I really thought it was. I know you have for years. Cause how long ago was that?

Please stop thinking it's my money. That was 10 years ago. At least. Yeah. This is Dave Tunney Erasure. I know, thanks Dave. One of the dancers. Thanks for the ones buddy.

Got off stage and walked past me and I was wearing glasses and she stopped and she looked at me and tousled my hair and said, Oh, Mr. Magoo. Do you know what's crazy though? I have to jump back. I have a very distinct memory that it was your money. I know.

And the last time this came up, I believe on the show, I said, I don't think it was my money. And then I said, was it Dave Toonies? And you went, oh, that's right. Okay. I think it's him, but we can call, we can get it, I can text him right now. I ran into Dave right before I came to the Traders. I saw him on the street.

We yelled out and chatted with him. That's right, he lives the next street over. And I see him all the time. And the last time I did about a couple of weeks ago, I really wanted to text, I saw your ass. Yeah. But I didn't. Did he move or is that where he was?

Cause he was always, I don't know. I'll get into it now. I saw somebody that I knew today in our respective cars. I was turning onto a street and as I did, it was like one of those things where our faces went past each other. And it was a very strange experience because we did not have time to past each other. Yeah. And it was a very strange experience because we did not have time to acknowledge each other.

I almost hit Carl Tartt on the street. Oh, I know this story. We know this one. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. Wait, again? No, but that one time and then, and then I got in my head of like,

cause he gave me a, a, a, he gave me the Dikembe. And I was like, did he recognize me? Like months later? Yeah. And he did. He said, Oh yeah. I wanted to, I went on up to it. But you were wondering because you have tinted windows. No, I don't. I don't have to do it. I just, I, it was dark and I was like, I was trying to have fun. I'm fucking,

I forgot about your tinted windows. Jesus, you have rainbow windows on your car. You have a rainbow windshield. By the way, I hit a car the other day. What great car car car gone to an accident. I was doing a favor for a friend. I went to a place. Donuts in parking lot. Would you tell you what? I'll do some dough.

If you have a chance, could you do some donuts in the parking lot? Please. I need somebody to do it today or else I go crazy. I'll tell you what, I'll do some donuts for you. If you have a chance, could you do some donuts at Parking Lot? Please, I need somebody to do it today or else I go crazy. I went to a place I'd never been before. Narnia? Narnia. It was my friend Aslan. You guys have been friends?

You've never been there? I love that guy. You finally did a favor for Aslan. Yeah, finally. So I went to this place I'd never been with a big parking lot and looking around for where I'm supposed to go and this I've, and this parking lot I can't wait to hear who this was for. has the narrowest narrowest spaces where they are,

are just really trying to cook one extra space in every row. Narrow spaces. And I made that left into it and Crunch. Crunch got their bumper with my bumper and got out and no one's there. No, no person in the car could have driven away. The perfect crime didn't have anything.

This is, here's the problem. Didn't have anything to write a note with. So I had to park, go to where I was going, which was like a 10 minute walk. Oh, that is this favor. Then ask the people in this office like, hey, do you don't have a piece of paper with a pen? Do you?

And they were like, how many times do people ask us this every single day? Of course we have pens of it. We're in office. Yeah. So tons of car accidents in that parking lot. Yeah. Ten minutes away. So I told them what happened.

They went, oh yeah, that parking lot. Yeah. It was 10 minutes away. So I told them what happened. They went, oh, yeah, that parking lot is terrible. And then I wrote the note and went all the way back. And did they contact you? Yes, of course. Good. But they said, oh, my neck. You're like, well, it was a bit. Yeah, you weren't even in the car.

Like, oh, I can't even get my neck. It's like that Brady Bunch episode. Yes, where Uncle Fester tried to sue them. Oh yeah, is it Uncle Fester? Yeah, Jackie Coogan. And they have the neck brace and then they'd make a loud noise and the person turns. Like, ha, it was a fake neck brace.

I'll tell you how much of a hero I am, not only do I leave the note, I never told my friend that I was doing the favor. That's very good. Because I don't want them to feel guilty about me doing them a favor. Good job, Scott. You're a good person.

Good job. Is that what you wanted to hear? That's the right thing to do. Thank you. And the right time to do it, Quaker Oats. It's hard sometimes to not give that little extra detail. Like by the way. But you know, you don't want to.

You do feel like you're a living saint when you leave information out of something that was a pain in the ass to do. Yeah. Well, it's like when my mutual friend's dog was lost and we went up and down the hills looking. Dog to bounty hunt. Our mutual friend.

Yes, of course. He was lost. Yeah. And we spent hours and hours and hours the day after Christmas looking for the dog going up and down the hills. And a bee stung my hand. And I never told him. Because we found the dog and he was so happy.

I didn't want to say, by the way, a bee stung me. The reason my hand looks like a boxing glove. Due to helping you. Hope you and your fucking dog are happy. Due to helping you. Hope you and your fucking dog are happy. Merry Christmas to you. Merry post Christmas. I was in the middle of watching Little Women.

Bob Odenkirk just walked in. My Little Women. I watched that for the first time like this year and I loved it. It's great. I had been putting it off for who knows why. I like, I think of the little women's that I've seen. I think I liked the one before that better. Yeah. I still have to see mine.

I don't like- We should do what Scott hasn't seen. No, I've seen it. It felt like the non- I haven't. The non- Women, men. You can just call them men.

Non- Non-linear storytelling seemed arbitrary to me. In which one? The Greta Gerwig? Yeah. Oh, I get it. Oh, yeah. I don't really remember. She's trying to publish and she goes in the back. I felt like it was an intentional thing to differentiate it from other adaptations of the book. And I was like, well, it doesn't really do anything for me. It's so sweet. I loved that book too as a kid. I've never of the book. Yeah. And I was like, well, it doesn't really do anything for me.

It's so sweet. I loved that book too as a kid. I've never read the book. Yeah. Yeah. I had this really nice set. Louisa May Alcott. Little women and then Anna of Green Gables.

They all had like really beautiful spines and I really liked those as a kid. My mom really liked. Yeah. My mom really liked the Anna of Green Gables stuff. I loved liked those as a kid. My mom really liked yeah My mom really liked the out of green gable stuff. I loved those books as a kid and Avon Lee What's it about? I don't really remember It's like a young girl who lives in like a countryside and then what she do all day I don't know we talking about gables. I don't remember what she does. Yeah, I know she's Canadian

Is she I believe so. Yeah, Oh, where's your friend? It's Canadian Queens rake Silent lucidity Is Canadian yeah is a 1908 novel. What's your name again? Lucy Maud Montgomery. Yes. Published as L.M. Montgomery.

I did a dead author as the character, yes. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-20th century, set in the late 19th century. The novel recounts the adventures of an 11-year-old orphan girl, Anne Shirley, sent by mistake to two middle-aged siblings,

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Sent by mistake. Who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Prince Edward Island, that's right. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts in school and within the town.

The Cuthberts? You know what, I wanna reread this. I feel like crying a little bit looking at this. Go ahead. What are you gonna do? Read it to Holly. Okay. Is she old going to do? Read it to Holly. Okay. Is she old enough to hear chapter books?

No, and she's barely interested in a book right now. She's very like, she's just like, just wants to run around. Yeah. Play with toys, watch a movie. It's pretty great. Pretty great life. She's living it up. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. There was a piece of advice, parenting advice that we got sent that I thought was actually pretty good, which is like when you're trying to get your kid to do something, if you can phrase it in a way that makes it sound like it's play because kids only want to play all the time. If you can phrase it. Hey, let's play the game when you shut the fuck up.

I read. Well, you know, I sort of tricked her into sitting down with the book a few times recently because she just doesn't want to. Yeah. With these I spy type books. Oh, yeah. I'm like, oh, wait, okay. Well, I don't know where that is. And then we start like looking at it and she gets really, I want to do it. And he loves the finding books. So yeah, finding anything. But I mean, like, like we're trying to get her stand up out of the bath. And it's like, you can only go like, stand up, honey, honey, will you please stand up? Because she doesn't want to, you know, but if you go like,

Hey, do you think your head could touch my hand up here? She'll go like jump up and try to do it. You know what I mean? So it's like exhausting. Yeah. Yeah. Finding the ways around. Yeah. You know, yeah, We've, we've the, the timeout threat is, is pretty potent. Oh yeah. She's, she's gotten timeouts and the threat of the timeout and then, but then it almost upsets her so much. So it's like, you don't find you don't to do it. I'm like, the timeout, like just stop whatever you're doing. So you don't have to have a timeout. Just listen to me. What happens during a time out?

You just have to sit quietly? She just sit in her bed for like a minute. Yeah, time out chair. And it's like, you have to time exactly how long it is. But like just putting Emmy in the chair, even she's just like, I don't want to do this. You know, it's just like kids hate to be bored. So the thought of like sitting in a chair.

No, you're not allowed to do anything. Yeah, you know, even though it's like, I'd love to of sitting in a chair. You're not allowed to do anything. Even though it's like, I'd love to go sit in a chair for a minute. I know, and it's one minute. It's like, it's fine. Check back with me and you're all, you're gonna love to sit in a chair. No, I mean, that's the thing. Last night, it was getting to be funny how much she wouldn't let either of us sit down. We were so tired and we were just desperate to like wrap it up for the night, you know?

And then she's kept being like, mommy come over here, look at this. Like about everything. And then like begging to watch a movie. And then I was like, it's too late to watch a movie. And then that turned into a meltdown. And then I was like, you get to watch 10 minutes. And then I put that on and I got on my phone

and I laid on the couch and I was like, one hour later. Like I literally was like, I just let it happen. And then I turned it off and she went insane. And I was like, that was my fault. It was completely my fault. Like I was like, I just caused all of this by not just getting through the first tantrum and not letting her watch it.

What if you had said to her, like just really gas lit her and like, that was 10 minutes. Yeah, I mean, I- We said 10 minutes and that was 10 minutes. But I said, that was an hour. You just got to watch an hour and now you're upset. I mean, it doesn't have a concept of time yet. Yeah.

She does, cause she'll be like, if it's like a TV show, she'll be like, I want another one, another one, another one. And like, they're usually short. So I'm like, okay, one more. And then the hour passed though, like last night, it was truly like, I just was so tired that it just felt so good to finally, like she stopped asking me for things.

And I was just so glad. And then it took, Emi started this thing where she, okay, she always wants to do a dance party before bath. Yeah, of course. But now she started to get very, very bossy about how we dance. Like it used to be like, she'd go, no, no, dance with me.

And that would be enough and you could dance however you wanted to dance. But now she's very much like, no, don't dance there, dance here. No, don't, no, dance like this, dance, you know, where it's just like, I'm just like. Sounds like a choreographer. Yes. In the making. What if this is her career?

And then this is where you pay in sweat. I like to pay in sweat for things. Sure. You know? Yeah. Like a car. How much sweat do you want? Summertime, going to shopping spree. All that money? All that money. for things. Sure. You know? Yeah. Like a car. How much sweat do you want? Summertime going to shopping spree. All that money.

All that money. All that sweat, sweat, sweat. That sweet, sweet sweat. Keith Sweat. Keith Sweat. Yep. Keith Sweat. Keith Sweat.

Yep. Keith Urban. I believe Keith will take care of this. Are Keith Urban and Carl Urban related or is Urban just a common Australian name? That's a good question. Thank you. Are Keith Urban and Carl Urban related?

They don't look anything alike. This comes up, no, they're not related despite sharing the same surname and both being from New Zealand. Here's a more detailed explanation. I thought Keith Urban was from Australia. He's from New Zealand? He's from New Zealand. Here's a more detailed explanation. I thought Keith Harbour was from Australia. He's from New Zealand. He's from New Zealand.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Carl's management has made statements confirming they are not related. Carl's management in the East Coast is called Hardee's. All right, Carl's Jr. Hmm. All right, Carl's Junior. Yeah.

Shouldn't it be Carl Junior's? Well, yes, it should be kind of like Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, like Whoppers Junior. No, that's how you pluralize Whopper Junior. But I always assumed that it was not Whopper Junior's.

I thought I thought Carl's Junior. was like an unfinished phrase. Like it's Carl Carl's Junior or hamburger. So yeah, I was talking about this the other day. I don't know if you saw that Michael Keaton McDonald's movie, but no, I didn't. I saw that. I saw that movie being advertised and I was like, what's in it for me? What, how are you going to get me in the door? That's how I feel about any movie is like, why am I paying for this?

You pay me to watch this. My time's valuable. You pay me to set up your stage. Yeah. He killed us if you got the chance. Are you watching the studio? I've watched a couple of the episodes. The Kool-Aid movie thing.

But it's just funny how they're, yes, go ahead. Yes, anyway, the one thing? I think it's... But it's just funny how they're... Yes, go ahead. McDonald's movie. The one scene that I think about, anytime I think about fast food though, is the first time he ever goes to a McDonald's. He hears about it or something and he... So he goes like, I'm trying to chew gum while I'm doing my Michael P impression. I guess I'll go to this McDonald's thing.

So he goes up to the counter. It's like he was here. Yeah. It was like, whoa, whoa. So he goes up to the counter and he's like, I'll have a burger fries thing. Yeah. And then they-

Take a burger fries. Yeah. And then they hand him a bag and they go, here you go. And he goes, what's this? And they go, what's your food? He goes, no, I just ordered it. Let's say this is someone else's. You got me confused. They go, no.

Too fast. Yeah, too fast. He goes, they go, no, this is your food. He goes, no, no, no, you gotta make it. Like I just ordered it right now. This you're thinking of someone. Oh my God. This is like when people invent songs in movies

like we were talking about. No, but I know, but it's- They made food? Fast? But it is fascinating because you don't think about it. And then he's like, well, do I need silverware? They go, no, you just eat it with your hands. He goes, where do I eat it?

They go, anywhere. Wait, you never heard of a hamburger before? He just ordered it. It must have seemed weird, I guess. His? Yeah. I don't know. I always pictured like they already had like a hot dog stand or fries, you know, like those types of places where you just grab one thing and walk away. So it's that, but it's in a house.

Is this movie trying to say that McDonald's invented the idea of a hamburger stand? With a roof over it? I don't know what the I don't know what the movie is trying to purport. I'm just saying that scene is very interesting to me. This guy is he's a genius for buying somebody else's business. Well, now he went into it like this is Ray Kroc story, and then he went into it with ways to constantly streamline it and make it like fast and the shape machines and all that kind of stuff.

The first McDonald's I believe is in Downey. We just passed it the other day. Uh huh. Congrats. Hey! I've been there. What do you want from me? I have to say there are two letters in their sign that are like, don't work.

Like either they don't light up or they're not on the sign or whatever. I'm like, McDonald's, you're a huge business. This is your first one. That's a pet peeve for me with, it's crazy that the first McDonald's would have that issue, but it's a pet peeve for me with any business where I think if I owned a franchise, I would be like, and if my like,

you know, light went out, I'd go, oh, that's one of my first things I kind of fixed. That's first thing because it makes it look really dingy. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Or like you're supposed to read, it's like Catwoman smashing them in our apartment. Hell here. Yeah. What was it? Hello there. Hello there. That's right. I love our apartment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do like there. Hello there, that's right. I loved her apartment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do like that moment. I thought it was good.

Hell here. She's awesome. She's awesome. All right, we have to take a break. All right. All right. Boy, what's around the corner these days? Have you been thinking about it?

Fudge. What'd you say? Fudge. Fudge, yeah. I know that's where it's made. Yeah, of course. I don't know whether they sell it there, but summer also is just around the corner like Lauren was saying. The folks at Mint Mobile have a hot take. Getting

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That's right. OK, so I'm going to do that for this. Great idea. I don't blame you. Hi, Lauren. You still have your phonograph. Guys, it's one, two, three, four right now. It's one, two, three, four.

It's tough. OK. It's one, two, three, four. It's one, two, three, four. What's one, two, three, 1234 right now. It's 1234. It's tough, okay. It's 1234. It's 1234. What's 1234? The time, it's 1234. Oh my God. What? Oh my God, everybody get under the table.

1234. This is a three-ture submitted by a listener. If you would like to submit a three-ture to us, write to us at freedomusa at gmail.com. It's fun, it's educational. It's free. And you can brag about it. It's incredibly free, although I guess-

Then you get bragging rights like this person. Paying for your internet, technically. Yeah. Technically you're paying. Child care that your parents had to pay for to raise you. Mm-hmm. But that said, it's fun. You can brag to all of your friends that,

hey, did you ever listen to that podcast that I told you about that sounded annoying? They said my name. Said my name on it. And like this person's name sounded annoying? They said my name. Said my name on it. And like this person's name, Marissa. Say my name, say my name. Marissa submitted a feature called Out of 10. One player is, we've played this before

and we're gonna try it again. One player is the guesser while remaining players agree on a number from one to 10. The guesser asks, category is the other's answer with an item corresponding to the chosen number on a scale from 1 to 10. One being the worst, 10 being the best.

The answers can be subjective. I mean, yeah, in the personal opinion of the person, they will be for sure. Oh yeah, this got a little confusing. By the way, I want to say when we played Traders the other night, I started explaining the rules of the game and almost immediately Lauren said, well, why don't we just play it where and decide to change the rules? And I said, I'm glad you're porting this over from Freedom into our Astro Game.

Yeah, that's just part of my personality. Let me give an example. If the number is 10 and the guesser gives the category films, the person being asked to reply with a film, they consider a 10 out of 10. After a few rounds, the guesser tries to guess the number. Now, the last time we played this, I found it was very tricky

because we're relying on what we know of each other and what we would think the other person rates, whatever. How many shots of this do we get again? And I was also relying on some of my knowledge from Scott Hasn't Seen, from watching the podcast. And I was surprised at some of the things you rated. What did I rate as what? I don't remember.

But I remembered hearing you on the podcast saying this movie sucked, and then you rated it a six when we were playing this game. Not a six, certainly, but well. Well. By the way, that's a binary choice of, I'm glad I watched it or I didn't watch it. But you say more than that.

Okay. So what are... Who gives the number? Yeah. I can do a... Great question. A randomizer. Players agree on a number from one to 10. Oh, but then how are we agree...

We have to vote. Here, what? But if we agree on a number... Why don't we do the... Are we supposed to not know what the number is? Why don't we do the number randomizer and we'll all agree? Because I'm supposed to guess what number it was. Like you say a movie and I go, I think Paul would give that a four.

I feel like two of us have to know the number and one of us doesn't, right? Yes. Paul, you should close those instructions. I'm looking at them right now. For instructions. You guys text each other a number and then I don't know what the number is and so I'm asking categories and you're- Yes, I think that is something we had to intuit. For example, if the number is 10 and the guesser gives the category films, the person being asked should reply with a film they consider a 10 out of 10.

So yeah, who- So do you want to be the guesser first, Lauren? Okay. I'm going to randomize this number. So we're, we're, we're trying to guess the number based on, so the person who is the the guesser, Lauren, in this case is trying to guess what the number is. Right. I was going to say the person who has the number, they come up with the number.

Yeah, I just came up with a number. So the the agreed upon thing is not as nothing. We don't agree upon a number. No, no, that's right. But we can't agree when I sent it to you. I hope you'll agree. It's more it's more aspirational. You text me back. I agree or I disagree. I'm waiting for Paul's text because I've sent him the number.

Now I'm on pins and needles waiting for him to either agree with this number or disagree with this number. By the way, I sent you the poster for the Downton Abbey. And you never responded. No, but I did immediately tell Janie that there's a third Downton Abbey movie coming. Oh, Paul's text me back. I agree to this number. Okay. Okay.

I didn't want to hold things up. Please list a snack food. Snack food? Snack food. Snack food. Barbecue potato chips. food. Barbecue potato chips. And then I also list a set. I'm going to say I'll say Funyuns. Please list a television program.

Television program. Television program. Television. Or if you have one Paul. Program. Feel free to go first. All right. TV program? I'll say Stranger Things.

Television program. I'll say Stranger Things. Television program. I'll say... The Office. Date activity. Oh, date activity. Oh, date activity. Like a hike. Okay. Going to... Such an LA answer.

A restaurant that you've never been to and it's not one you would go back to again. Okay. that you've never been due and it's not one you would go back to again. Okay. Can I guess the number? Sure. I've waffled between a few, but now that just brought it down. I guess I'll do one more category just to kind of. Okay, great.

A city to visit. City to visit. City to visit. Cleveland. Dallas. Four. No. I thought we were going to say it together. Oh, right. Three, two, one, six. Oh.

Oh. I started as a seven and then you started getting more like, and I feel like six is still pretty good. Six is just over half. Yeah. And it's like, these are like something like Stranger Things is to me is a true six where it's like, it's watchable enough, but I don't,

I didn't continue to watch it. You know what I mean? And for me, the date was like going out to dinner and only doing dinner would maybe be a seven or eight if it's your favorite place. You mean not having sex. Yeah, no, 10 is having sex. Only going to dinner and not having sex afterwards. Yeah, exactly. I love dinner immediately having sex. Yeah, no, 10 is having sex. Only going to dinner and not having sex afterwards.

Yeah, exactly. I love dinner immediately after sex. And Funyuns are- And both. Barbecue chips, I was like, hmm, barbecue chips, and I was like, Funyuns, okay. Yeah, but barbecue chips aren't a 10, right? No, but they're always good. They are always good.

And I really wanted them right after you said- I feel six is reliable. I would put barbecue chips way lower, because I don't like them. Okay, okay. All right, I'm going to be the guesser now. You guys- Okay, I'm going to text you a number.

We need to, you need to agree on this number. Okay. And this can't be a lengthy debate about the number. Okay. Like you, you, we have to pick one and move on at a certain point. So I need you- Do you agree? Do you agree?

We don't want you to verbally agree. We need you to text back if you agree or not. Now you won't know if we agreed or not. Oh, okay. Well, I'm pretty sure if the game is going to... He wrote, I agree to this number. That was private! I told you that in confidence. Gotta give him a category. Yeah. No, he gives us a category.

I give it to you. 80s songs. Hey Mickey. Did you give a category to us though? No, I gave a category. I'm the, I'm the guesser. I'm the captain now. And now we both say something that's rated that number to us. I'm back.

Yeah. I said, Hey Mickey, that song. Hey Mickey. Yes. It's just Mickey, but okay. Did you say eighties pop songs? Eighties songs. Sussudio. Sussudio. Interesting. And Mickey. Both hits. People in comedy that we know.

No way. All right. We can't do that. Apps on your phone. Oh, okay. I'll just say my period tracker. Period tracker. Hmm.

Word. Word. You have it on your phone. Microsoft Word. It's on there. Interesting. It's on there. I've had to use it.

You've had to use it. Okay. I've had to use it. You've had to use it. OK. And now I'm going to say. Actors over 70. I think he's over 70. Arnold Schwarzenegger? Wilford Brimley. He's very much over 70 and that he is dead. He's under 70 degrees.

Okay, and then I'm going to guess. Okay. I'm going to guess. This is hard because I love both of your songs so much, but I feel like you don't. So I'm going to guess five. No, the number is. Well, you want to guess one more time? Okay, I'll guess one more time, four. No. No. The number is? I meant, do you wanna give us another category? Okay, okay. Vacation destinations. Didn't we? Okay.

Gary, Indiana. No, she said city to visit. I'm saying vacation destinations. So this is a one? Vacation destination. Librea Tar Pits. For a full vacation. So like a week there? Well, if you're vacationing to-

From another. From another place, one of the spots. Okay. Be a destination on your vacation. This is me asking you as a person, not me asking a person who lives out of town. Yeah, okay. I stand by.

Okay. So, I'm supposed to guess you deciding to go on a vacation to the La Brea Tar Pits. If I'm on vacation and I end up at the La Brea Tar Pits, this is what I give it. Okay, this is a one. No. What is it? The number is two. You really don't like Sausudio that much?

No, it's dumb. It's about a person named Sausudio. Presumably. It's annoying. And you don't like Hey Mickey? Yeah, I had to think of one that I don't really want to hear. And I'll say that. All right.

Wow. Okay. All right, Paul, you're going to be the guesser. And you will agree upon a number? Yeah. Lauren, do you want to send it or do you want to receive? Yes, I want to be the guesser. And you will agree upon a number? Yeah, Lauren, do you want to send it? Or do you want to receive? Yes, I wanna send it.

Okay. I'm looking forward to getting this number. I have to say. Oh, I texted to Paul. Well, that's not gonna be the number. My phone is down. It's not gonna be the number. It can be.

Okay, do you trust not to look at your phone? I trust not to look at my phone. Okay, I'd like the same number. Okay, I've received it and I agree to this number verbally. Okay, so've received it and I agree to this number verbally. Okay, so they agree, that's good. It's helpful. A decade in which you've been alive.

The 90s. The... 2010s. Mm. Okay. Um... A... comedy film from your childhood.

Wayne's World. Oh, for my childhood. Children, children younger than 18. City Lights. Shut the fuck up! The projectionist? The Lemon Drop Kid. Cold Places.

London. Philadelphia. Heard of it. Hmm. My dog is screaming upstairs. Absolute pig squeals. Yes. Does not like being left alone. Beach activity. Playing in the ocean.

I'm going to take a guess. Okay. Eight. Three. Three, two, one. Yes. The number is eight. I want to stay in this together. Three, two, one. Yes. The number is eight. Good job.

Thank you. But also good job to us for saying exactly what was the number eight. We kind of were. What's better? OK, so eight is there's only two above. What's a better cold place than London to you? Oh, I mean. Because I think London's a nine.

Well, I thought Paris. I think New York is a 10. New York, Chicago. I would say like- Chicago's not a 10. A 10 cold place for me would be Iceland. No, I think, yeah, like something like Alaska or something where it's actually like very nature beautiful.

Yeah, I wanna go to Alaska. Well, I've never been there. I thought once about driving to Alaska. I was like, how long would it take you and what's the route? And I looked it up and I'm like, it sounds dangerous actually. Sounds long.

Also, I do enjoy sort of driving when we're on tour cause it's not as long, but anything over five hours gets to be a bummer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like when we were gonna do our driving trip from here to Chicago that we planned out and everything, I was like, we're going to do it right when everything opened up after COVID. We planned it out and did all the reservations and everything.

And then everything started being wonky again with COVID. So we decided not to do it. I hate a wonk. That's a long drive though. I did that to move here from Chicago to LA. Right. And it's a couple nights. We were going to do it for pleasure. I have never done...

It was over five nights, I think. I've never done a cross-country trip, like a drive, and that is a bucket list thing for me. I would very much like to do that. So then in terms of beach activities, what is better than playing in the ocean? For me, having a margarita and reading a book. Mm-hmm, that's right. Yeah, I thought like laying under a umbrella or something. I feel like that for me is like being,

actually being in the ocean is a nine. I do think being in the ocean is one of the best parts. It might be a 10 for me actually. But you know what I might say is the 10? I don't have to when I go to the beach. The 10 might be a 10 for me actually. You know what I might say is the 10? I don't have to when I go to the beach. The 10 might be drying off after, like when you're cold in the water, then you come out and it's warm,

and then it's like that perfect feeling. Like when you let the sun dry? Yeah. Yeah, I do like that. Yeah. I do like that. And then what else did you ask about movies? And decades. How many movies when you were a kid? How many movies when I was a kid?

I think The Lemon Drop Kid is one of Bob Hope's most charming films and funny but not his funniest. And when you were a kid it was up there. Yeah, it's great but I would say like Road to Utopia. I knew from the decades thing that it was on the high end from the way you guys answered. Yeah, I love the 2010s for me, especially 2016. Three, two, one, and 20. When things just got better and better. No, but the 2010s were good, because I had a TV show and I was skinny.

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Wind sprints, star jumps, press ups. Throwing them on the glass. Throwing them on the glass, throwing it down one time. The usuals. Great, yeah. Yeah. And what day is that? That's tomorrow, the second. May 2nd. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. May 2nd. So it's May Day today.

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