Toni and Ryan - Six Degrees Of Impossible Kathy Bates

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

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Welcome to the Tony and Ryan podcast. My name is Ryan. This is Dr. Author Tony Lodge. We are calling what we say in Australia, Megan. We got some hot contention on the Megans, Megans and Megans. Yeah, and then it's Megan in the US, but we're calling Scotland, which would sound like... Little Megan. Oh no, that's Irish. Hello, it's Tony and Ryan. Who are we speaking with? Hi, I'm Meg. Meg!

Meg, there we go. Meg, beautiful. How are you, Meg? How's North Lancashire this morning, tonight, whatever time it is for you? It's pretty dead. I've stayed on late in work, so I'm by myself. Meg, will you approve today's podcast?

Of course I will. Oh, nice. Hi, I'm Meg from Scotland, and I approve this podcast. Coming up today. Coming up today. Are we just going to call it what it is? Yeah. Near misses when you're going to the bathroom.

When you think you're not going to make it. And then you don't. No, no, no, no. That's coming up soon. I mean, hang around. No, no, no. That's coming up soon. I mean, hang around. Yeah, fucking stay tuned. But first, Tony Lodge is a pioneer, an innovator, a modern day Thomas Edison. That's funny.

And she's discovered and today will pen a new version of the walk of shame. Thank you. When put into this context, you'll go, yes, someone needed to name this and, like, stamp it for what it is and we'll get to that soon. But first, just to bring you up to speed with what I'll say is a history of walk of shames. A colourful tale. Or maybe not even a history but just a really fucking great example.

And I will focus your attention to Tony, Ryan and Cameron's hotel in New York City. First of all, let's just go around the room about who's in a relationship and who is loving themselves sick on tour. Tony, relationship status? I'm in a very long-term, very serious relationship with my partner, Torbs. Yep.

How would you describe it in years and doing of? Together for 10 years, doing it for nine. Very happy together. Hang on. Say that again. Oh, what did I say? Doing it for- Together for 10.

You said doing it for 10, together for nine. Fuck that first year. It must have been cold. No. Yeah. I'm just scrambled, my brain. Doing it for. Ten years.

Doing it for ten, together for nine. Okay. Yeah. What about you, Ryan? I'm married for. Coming up to three years married. That's so crazy. December 29.

I can't believe I met you just before. Yeah, you did too. That's so weird. And the first time I ever met Bridget, it was like she'd gone that day and picked up her wedding dress. Yeah, that's right. So that's three years. And Bridget and I are the parents of a beautiful young Mabel who's six and a bit months old. And?

And Bronson Johnson, our rescue dog. I didn't mention my baby, Pippa. Pippa, but my dog BJ. So the tally in our house is two purebreds and two rescues. Two purebreds. Sorry, we're distracted because something else. This is another person. Cameron, relationship status?

Single and loving myself sick in America. He said it. So. I mean, just work trip. You know what I mean? Like, where do we stand on it being a work trip? Yeah, but you don't work 24 hours a day. I do, mate.

I'm always doing shit for you kids. Does it count if Cam was just like at the work bench? Single mom who has two jobs. Well, Cam's been working two jobs. Oh, two fucking hand jobs, I believe. So, in New York, we stayed in this hotel. It was like a tiny, it was a pretty dang hotel. Great location.

That's what we kept telling ourselves. Oh, but how was the location? The location was great. And once you got used to it, it's like when you grow to the size of your room, you kind of got used to it. We had to forego a few facilities and niceties because of the price of New York. Turns out New York City, very expensive. The reason I mention it's being a small hotel is each floor has four rooms.

And so on our floor, there's Tony, there's Ryan, there's Cameron, and there's a random other. Family in another room. Not like a random guy in the hallway. Well, not yet. Well, it seems like Nostradamus has seen ahead because that's exactly what happened. Seen ahead. He had gotten ahead, I reckon.

Well, he looked refreshed. So I get out of the – so Cam goes, oh, we're meeting downstairs in 15 minutes? And I go, yeah, yeah. And he goes, cool, 15 minutes, yeah? Good. And then I'm like, okay, well, Cam, it's going to be 15 minutes. Maybe I'll go down. I don't know what I had to do.

Go to get a coffee or went to do something, chuck some stuff out. I was in the shower. I had told everybody I'm going to have a shower now. I'll see you guys in 15 minutes. So I walk out to the lift and again, there's only pretty much just us on our level. You can't not run into each other. Yeah. Like.

There is a artistic alternative skinny boy. Oh. Who looks. And is he staying in the other room? I don't think so. Oh. alternative skinny boy who looks... And is he staying in the other room? I don't think so. Oh. But there's only four rooms on our level. Yeah.

So, are you sure he wasn't staying in the other room? No, because you could tell where he, like the direction of the door. You could see where he'd stayed. Yeah. Yep. Where he'd laid. So, Cam, did you say, I'm working with these guys? What did you say you were in town for?

I said, yeah, I'm in town, yeah, producing a podcast. And did he say, well... Doesn't sound like that's what you're doing. Because I knew exactly, because Cam's type is Cam. Yeah. And I actually went, that looks like if Cam had a brother. He does have like eight brothers. Yeah, I was like, you one of Cam's brothers.

You're here to stay the night. I know, I've run into a few brothers in New York. Maybe Cam's got some brothers as well. Yeah, that's true. Maybe Cam's also a brother. He does have like eight brothers. Yeah, I was like, you one of Cam's brothers. You're here to stay the night. I know, I've run into a few brothers in New York. Maybe Cam's also a rescue. Yeah, and it turns out. Lo and behold. Lo and behold, he was doing the walk of shame. He had not yet tied up his shoelaces of his. The boy.

Yeah, because obviously it's as if someone had gone, fuck, I've got to be ready in 15, get the fuck in. My mum and dad are going to come home soon. And he hadn't done enough of his shoelaces on what I would say a very big boot. Like a Doc Martin? Yeah. Oh, nice. It was like a big boot on a small boy. Should have said in the boot the night before. And I was just like, oh, isn't this sweet? Ah, to be young. Ah, to be young and a little walk of shame. You and I fucking FaceTiming our families at home. Cam's

fucking ribbing someone raw in New York City. But the thing is that he didn't know that I knew, like Cam and stuff. You know what I mean? Oh, so you weren't out in the hallway, Cam? No. Oh, you voted and booted and he was out. Cam's got rid of the guy. See, I thought maybe you were walking him. You didn't even walk him out.

No. There's no shame in that. The shame is Cam going, can you fucking leave me? I thought that producer Cam was there. No, no, no. So the thing is, I knew where that guy had been from and he thought he was pulling a swift one. Cam was there. No, no, no. So, the thing is, I knew where that guy had been from. And he thought he'd, like, he was pulling a swift one.

Well, that guy's like, who cares about this other dude on this floor? Well, he doesn't give a fuck. You know. But he doesn't know who you are. Yeah, and that's why I was like, I know where you've been, mate. So, I gave the twink a wink and said, well done. And then he, like, tied up his shoes as we were going down the hall. And so, I saw the top of his head and I was like, oh, I can see what Cam sees in this guy. I know what Cam saw in him.

Himself. Thanks. Kathy Bates was there. So that's your traditional walk of shame. Yeah. For someone who's single and in their 20s. Yeah. I don't want to shock.

Enter Tony Lodge. I don't want to shock anyone, but I did a walk of shame in that hotel as well. Was it the same guy? I unlaced his boots as he was going. Well, I, as I said, I'm in a very serious long-term relationship. Doing it for nine together for ten? Yeah, that's exactly right.

Cold year in the middle? Yeah. Got off to a slow start. And I could never dream of being with somebody else, could never dream of doing something like a walk of shame until now. New York was the first place where we'd stayed for like a few days and actually got a couple of days to like do some admin and some washing and that kind of thing. And I'd actually like fully unpacked my bag. And we were working during the days.

And then by the time we got home at night time, you were probably the same. I'm like FaceTiming the fam. Yep. Not a real fancy hotel. So I ordered some Uber Eats. Oh, yeah. And I mean, we're all friends here, right?

Yeah. The options you've got. Oh, my God. I just want to have Uber Eats seven times a day. Yeah. I don't want to leave the room. Because, like, by the time the day is over, I'm so exhausted. I'm like, the last thing that I can do right now is, like, go for a big walk.

I've walked all day. Yeah. And I'm like, I just need something so that I can sit here, talk to Torbs on the phone and then go to bed. And I can have literally anything I can think of. The world is my oyster, including oysters. Yeah. And thanks for that.

And anyway, so after a few days of being in this New York hotel, I realised that like maybe I haven't really taken advantage of being in the city because I've ordered heaps of Uber Eats. Yeah. And, like, whenever I'm in a hotel, which is a lot at the moment, but whenever I'm in a hotel, I always put the Do Not Disturb thing up. Yeah. Because I don't like it when they remake my bed.

Really? I fucking hate it. I get the blankets the way that I like them because I untuck them all and I just, then they remake the bed and I'm like, what a waste of time. Like, I don't need a fresh towel. I don't need my bed to be remade. Like, don't worry about wasting time in here because I'm just going to untuck it again.

Yeah, there's another room down the hall that needs a lot of attention. Oh, yeah, blue light in there for sure. Anyway, and so because, like, I hadn't had my room, like, made up by housekeeping or whatever, I realised that I was accumulating quite a few bags of rubbish and quite a few bags of Uber Eats. And because I didn't want someone to come in and pet my bed, I was like, I'm going to have to take this downstairs. So housekeeping wasn't doing it day by day.

You've got five days worth. I've got five days worth. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have to take this all down. And I'm like, in my head, oh, do I go one bag now? And then later on when I go back, like, you know, like drip feed it down. So if anybody sees me, they only ever see me with one bag. And then I'm like, fuck, my life is too short to be thinking about this. Yeah.

I'm taking all the bags out at once. Fuck. Five bags. Five plastic bags. Different places about this. Yeah. I'm taking all the bags out at once. Fuck. Five bags. Five plastic bags. Different places as well. Yeah, so all different places. And the thing is, is that other people in the hotel don't know you've been there for five days? So it looks like I've just fucking like dined like a queen one night,

ordered a sandwich from every different place in New York, and I walked downstairs and I had to do the walk of shame with the garbage from my hotel room. The walk of shame for people in relationships. Yeah. I wasn't getting fucked. I was fucking myself up with, like, all this food from New York City. Worth it, though. Totally worth it.

And, like, the lovely woman who was working on reception, who was there most days, she goes, like, Hi, Miss Lodge, like, so lovely to see you again. And I'm, like, standing there with my bags of shame. Oh, are you heading out for the date? No, just... No, this is all my rubbish. How embarrassing.

I'm like, did you see that guy before with the unlaced boots? Like, shift the blame. But, yeah, so I think that that is the... Someone brought him back to the hotel and he just littered all these Uber Eats bags around everywhere. These were in the blame. But yeah, so I think that that is the- Someone brought him back to the hotel and he just littered all these Uber Eats bags around everywhere. These were in the lift. I don't know who's been doing that. But I think, yeah, that that is the version of walk of shame

in your 20s, because I'm not 30 yet, not till next week. I think that that's the version that I'll stick with as I'm in a relationship. And you're proud? Yeah. I mean, Torbs and I, if we were together, we could do twice as much damage. Ten bags would have been going down there. Hi, I'm Meg from Scotland, and you're listening to Tony and Ryan. A massive shout out on a Friday to a few of our champion tapas over at our Patreon.

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Good from me. I didn't hit my head on the desk. Oh, my God. You hit your head on the desk. Oh, no. Is your mole okay? The mole's on the back of my head. You've hit your mole.

Yeah, I've seen it. Megan Eccles. Good on you, Megan. Thank you. Hayley Cuomo. Oh, no, you're in a coma. You've hit your head. Isn't there an actress called Hayley Cuomo?

Hayley Cuoco, the chick from Big Bang Theory. Yeah, Cam knows all about the Big Bang Theory. Aunt Banana and Chris Shea. Thank you so much for being part of the Patreon. Thank you. Are you proud of me, Tony? Always. Literally every day of my life.

For not needing to pee every 10 minutes during the meet and greets? Proud of you. I mean, proud like- Proud might be a bit strong, but like- Proud just feels like the wrong word, but I think surprise. And I also feel bad because you're a nervous peer. I know you're also like, we've both got travel tum. Yep. Like we've been eating a lot of weird food.

I don't think I've eaten a vegetable in like 98 fucking years. I don't think they have them here. Like we said, the conspiracy. So proud, I feel like is the wrong word, but I'm more just like, are you okay? Because I'm kind of not. Yeah. So New York was like four and a half hours of meet and greet.

Chicago, four and a half. Toronto, five. Dallas, I think was three or four. In Australia, amateurs, usually like an hour and a bit. Well, when we did Hot Fun Garbage. I mean, I've had big crazy ones though. No, but when we did Hot Fun Garbage, that was a few hours. That was a few hours, yeah.

That was probably four hours. And I was like, oh, it's just going to be so annoying if I have to pee all the time. But the only time that was like a hassle was in New York where there's a big line and I was like, guys. We've got to, yeah. We've been out here for a few hours. Big line and I was like, guys. We've got to, yeah.

We've been out here for a few hours. I was like, I've got to go. I think as well like the adrenaline of the meet and greet like kind of pushes it off a little bit. So, I think that's why we've been lucky in other places. I mean, Toronto, I wasn't so lucky because I got diarrhea from the poutine. You got poutine. And then I had to poutine. Yeah. Yeah.

So, that wasn't great. But I think the adrenaline kind of kicks in and you know that you have to stay there. And I feel dumb because people are in the line long enough anyway. The last thing they need is the line not to move for five minutes because I'm rushing off. And also because we're like in public, there's not always like a decent place to go to the bathroom nearby. So I try to go into the New York State Library and I'm like, oh, they'll have a little something in the lobby or whatever. Well, surely. It's a public building. Yeah. So I run in there and get one of those. Like, it's not as if you went into, like, someone's house and you were like, oh, do you mind if I use your toilet? If someone

knocked on my door and said that, I would let them in. Nah, nope, they're probably a murderer. Don't do that. Don't let people into your house. No, but I get it. Nah. As a guy that needs to go to the bathroom, hey, yeah, no, good man, all good. Use my front yard, don't mind, but you're not coming into my house. Okay. Well, if you need a pee, you know which house to choose. Turns out the library wasn't open to people like me. Without a library card. That's what we were.

That is what we got told later, but for a while we went, oh, the riffraff outside isn't allowed in. But because I'd already committed to going to the toilet, and when you tell your brain, all good five minutes, we're on, and your brain goes, yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool. I'm in five minutes to go mode. Because before that, you're in holding mode. Yeah. And holding mode is mostly indefinite until it's too far gone. And so I can't get into the library.

So I'm like, there's this winter wonderland thing that has bars and cafes and food and snacks. They'll have bathrooms. But also there's a fucking winter wonderland there. So there's 10,000 people. And as you found out later in the day, long lines. So I have to line up. And at the same time, I'm very aware that people are lining up for me. For you.

Across the street. And I'm like, oh, I feel really bad. I'm waiting for these people and blah, blah, blah. So I'm waiting there for ages. And I feel, you know, a bit flapped and a bit whatever. And then I get to- And you just like over, what's the word? Stimulated. Yes.

Because the way he's coming, your brain's upset. Yeah. You're trying to get back to a place and you had plans for after as well. So, you're like, oh. Yeah. And so, I'm standing there. The guy's line, to be fair, is a lot shorter and quicker than the girl's line. Every time.

Every time. And I finally get to the front and I'm sort of told my brain like, we're there. Yeah. We've made it. We're here. Chill out. We're going to be in in three minutes. Send the goods down.

Send them on their way. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hit go. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, on the plane where you like wait to board in in three minutes Send the goods down Send them on their way Oh yeah Hit go Yeah It's like you know on the plane Where you like wait to board And then you get onto the air thing

And then you wait again at the plane It's like that bit And you're like well I'm fucking home now Yeah And then This guy in a wheelchair comes down And he like needs to use the bathroom And the like attendant's like

Oh excuse me sir I'm like This guy gets priority And you're like Of course Like to you Yeah Yeah and I think because I was It looked like the next one was going to be like like, attendance, like, oh, excuse me, sir, like, this guy gets priority. And you're like, of course. Like, to you, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and I think because I was, it looked like the next one was going to be, like, maybe a wider stall

and obviously he needed a bit more space. Oh, well, because normally there's, like, a, yeah. Yeah, well, there's only two and there's, like, a bigger one and a smaller one. So, like, yeah, yeah, like, this guy. Obviously he'll use that one, yeah. And you go, of course. Yeah.

So, he goes in and I was like. And then you're like, fuck, I've said the goods can come down. Yeah, I've sent the troops in. Yeah. So I'm fucking struggling. And I was like, there's probably 10 blokes behind me and probably 30 girls that can all see me. And I'm also aware that we've done a meet and greet. We've invited a lot of tarpers to come down.

So when I ran into the thing, a lot of people came to say hi to us, then they went to get some food and stuff. Yeah, and so they're like, oh, you guys are done. You're like, no, still going. No, and it's just like, I think I'm, this could be the worst day of my life. I think I'm going to shit myself in New York City in front of a whole long line of people. I mean, great title of a book, great movie episode, TV episode, movie, you know, but not a great life experience.

Yeah. The other stall opens up. Yeah. And I get in there. Surprisingly, fantastically clean facilities. Yeah. I think you mentioned something similar. Yeah.

Fantastic. Get in there. I made it. All good. And then we just talked about the walk of shame this is the opposite i come out of the bathroom and everyone's like oh that's the guy that let the wheelchair guy in oh and so i had to walk back through the 10 or 15 guys and the 30 and it was almost like i was everyone's like wow what a nice guy yeah and you're like have you heard of

tony and ryan yeah it was almost like a thank you sir like thank you for your service thank you, I'm just doing what I can. Oh, you know, like I'm such a nice guy. I didn't almost shit myself. Yeah, but after five minutes of going to the library, five minutes in line, another five minutes for the guy, a few minutes. So I got back to the meet and greet, what, four hours later? Something like that. And then what makes it more embarrassing is that everyone, because I said I'm just going to the bathroom there and everyone goes, yeah, all good, man, we'll wait. And I come back 25 minutes later, even if I didn't, which I had, but even if I didn't poop, everyone's like, he's just shit. Well, you've shit.

Yeah. Did you wash your hands? You know, well, I was speaking. Did I wash my hands? You would have had to because that bathroom was beautiful. Yeah. And also I high fived everyone on the way back because it was the New York marathon was on and I pretended I was running the marathon and I ran down the line of people waiting for us high-fiving them.

Little did they know I just pooed. They knew. They knew. Not little did they know. They definitely knew. Well, I had a great chat with Javier in that time. You just chat to Javier, I'll be right back. Yeah, luckily it was someone really chatty

because, yeah, we just chatted and he's like, yeah, I work at Pinterest and I used to work at Facebook and we're like having a great time. Oh, really? Javier's a tech guy. Yeah, luckily it was someone really chatty. Yeah. Because, yeah, we just chatted and he's like, yeah, I work at Pinterest and I used to work at Facebook. And we're like having a great time. Yeah. He's a tech guy. Yeah. Yeah. So we were having a fucking great old chat.

So, I mean, zero sum loss, really. So I appreciate that. But so you, that all happened when you came back and finished the meet and greet. And then you had plans with your biological family. Yep. So, Grampy. Which was amazing. Like, they all came down and they were like, oh, can we get a photo?

And I was like, let me take it. And they were like, no, you're in. Like, you're family too. Your family love a rescue. Great. Thank you. They do. They love a newly found.

Yeah. And they were like, yeah, you're part of the family now. And I was just like, really nice. Do you want to hear something really old? What? I was your age when I found them. Oh, 29. Nearly 30.

Oh, sorry. Give or take. A bit different. A little bit different. Wrong decade. Give or take. Wrong decade. Give or take.

But so you kind of like, we had to, we finished the meet and greet and then you're like, oh, I've actually got like dinner, lunch plans with these guys it's alright if I head off and I was like yep like because you had gone to the bathroom and I'm not saying this is your fault but because you'd gone to the bathroom I was like I can't go to the bathroom at the same time who's Javier going to talk to? I'm holding down the fort with Javier. Exactly and so as you go I go fuck I've got the travel time I wouldn't mind also going to the bathroom but mine was just we're wheeze i needed to wee so fucking bad so i'm standing there holding down

the fort and then when you come back i'm like well i'm not now gonna run off and get stuck in the same line for even longer or whatever so as soon as we're done you go i'm gonna run off to the toilet i'm gonna run off sorry i've got toilets on the brain i'm gonna run off to lunch with my family and i'm like oh well i'm absolutely busting for the loo so we're gonna go to the winter wonderland anyway we go around there and the line as you said for theokes, there's like 10 people. There's like 30 in the line for the ladies. And we're like not that far from our hotel. So I'm almost like, do I leg it down there? And I was like, no, no, no, because if I go home,

we won't come back out and we won't go and get lunch and stuff. So I'm like, no, I'll stay here. You know yourself, the self-awareness. I do. If I go back to the room, it's over. It's done. We're done. And so I'm kind of standing in the line.

For those playing at home, Tony is dancing on the spot. Doing my wee-wee dance. The wee-wee dance. And I'm like trying not to piss myself, trying not to think about it. Like I'm trying to do like this meditation where I'm just like, don't piss, don't piss, don't piss, don't piss, don't piss, don't piss, don't piss. And I have talked before on this podcast about my issue with toilet seats so um i didn't understand that had a purpose i don't like it when people put them down it turns out that there is a reason for them and it's so that when you flash like the particles don't all fucking fly up into the air and but i just don't really understand it and like i know now the reason for them but i'm still like

oh how impractical i need to eat so bad finally my turn comes in the line and i need to go so badly that i sprint into the toilet pull my pants down and like start going before i've even really sat down like i literally like it was this close like i almost had like piss all over me. But then I did have piss all over me because the toilet seat was down and I just sat in a pool of my own piss. Pissing on the seat. On the seat. And not when it got. Not the seat, the lid. Yeah. I'm like sitting on the lid of the toilet. Piss, like active piss. Mid- active mid piss and then and

then i was like and i stood up yeah because i was shocked you would be and because also i sat on a toilet lid in a fucking new york city public bathroom um and then i like quickly stood up but the pity we were still coming and so then I had to, like. So you can't stop midstream? No. And so I, like, ripped the lid up and then, like, kept weeing. But I'd gotten wee all over my knickers, my jeans, the floor. It was, like, on me, like, on my thighs.

Tiny lodge. It was, like, it just, it was such a, like, but I just needed to wee so badly that the wee just kept coming and I was like, well, I can't stop. Once you pop, you can't stop. Yeah. I believe is the slogan for being. So whilst it was probably like not even a millilitre of wee

that ended up like coming out onto the toilets, like it just, it was such a mess. Anyway. Yeah, no. And so like I'm covered in my wee. And then I, like, walk out and Cam's like, cool, all good. Like, do you still want to get lunch? I was like, so we're going to go to the hotel first and then we'll come back.

He's like, oh, are you sure? Like, you want to come back? And I was like, well, I can't stay here because I'm covered in my own piss. Yeah. How would you describe the mood of Tony? I stayed high. I think I did pretty well, to be honest. Were you, like, pretty determined she needed to go home?

Yeah, there was no wiggle room. Yeah. Don't say wiggle room. Literally no wiggle room. Yeah, I needed to. Yeah. But so you were like, and then you come home and you're like, oh, I had this great day with my family.

And I was like, did you? That sounds lovely. I was covered in piss. That was mine. I guess it's better than being covered in someone else's. Yeah, I mean, if you had to choose. Yeah. Question.

When we said we'll talk about near misses, this wasn't a miss. This was a hit. Yeah. A miss and a hit. A near miss and on piss. If we were playing Battleships, you would be sunk. Yeah. Don't wink at me.

I'll sink your Battleship into my fucking throat sorry sorry what the fuck what has happened what was that i don't know are you lashing out because you pissed yourself and you're embarrassed no oh no i'm not embarrassed otherwise i wouldn't have told the story um that's the thing how did you need to take a moment when you got home though i was actually fine i was just more pissed off. Don't say pissed off. I was more like upset that I was like, fuck, like someone's put that thing down and I didn't check it

because I just needed to go so badly. You just run in and mid-thing just like turn around and just. Yeah. Dangerous. I got to love to see it. Oh, beautiful. Kathy Bates. One of the great actors of our time.

Alex Dore. Oh, Alex Window. That deserved more. Oh, Kathy Gates. A Dore or a Gates? That's funny. Don't laugh at that. That's funny.

Kathy Gates is cool. Don't encourage her. So, Alex Dore Is a video show watcher And so it's on Of our podcast Yeah So it's on a Friday It's like on the screen at home

Not at the moment Because we're on the road On the road But The wife will sort of like Walk past And kind of like She doesn't listen

All good But like you know She'll want Oh those guys Yeah it's Friday And so she's sort of been Like a Passive listener That kind of like, she doesn't listen, all good. But like, you know, she'll want, oh, those guys, yeah, it's Friday. And so she's sort of been like a passive listener, that kind of vibe. But that was until Minneapolis.

Indianapolis. Indianapolis. A mini bar in Indianapolis. She came with me to the meet and greet where I met you guys And then she goes, maybe I will have a proper listen Oh yeah, oh the tour's working One listener One week later She's coming home every day from work

Telling me about every single thing that happened on today's episode She's two years behind but she's loving it sick Tony and Ryan are bringing me and my partner, high school sweethearts that don't often have new things to talk about, even closer together. Oh, you love to see that. That's very sweet. Yeah.

So thanks for sharing that, Alex. Well, thanks for coming to the meet and greet. Indianapolis was great. We all sort of vibed that place out. Yeah, it was really cool. The spot we were in was sick. I could live at that food truck garage hall thing. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, we did get kicked out. We did get kicked out, but thank you to the lovely folks at Garage Hall. We actually got kicked out twice. Yes, we did. Yeah, we did. We got kicked out of the meet and greet. Then when we finished the meet and greet, we went and had some food. No, we're actually going to have to ask you to leave again.

I meant about the food. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, so you forgot about the food. Did you? Yeah. Yeah, so you forgot about the first one? Yeah, I did. I mean, it's really blurred into one. After what, how many meet and greets have we done? Nine?

Nine. Nine too many. How dare you? No. How dare you? No, no, no. Kathy Bates. Kathy Bates.

Well, I've got a great, you'll love to see it. This is fucking good. And a wonderful fuck you to toxic workplaces. Yeah, and what a great thing to drop on a Friday as we all fuck off out of our workplace. And you can think about how you're going to quit on Monday after the weekend. Really? Brent has said, posted this in our Facebook group,

this time last year I was in hospital with major depression because of some really dark workplace issues. Really toxic workplace. I feel like when you're in those places, you just feel like you're so stuck. And, oh, Brent, my fucking heart goes out to you because, oh. We've been in some of those, sweetheart. We have, yeah, we get it.

And I wish that we couldn't. Like, I wish that we didn't get it, but we do. But tonight I'm flying business class for the first time to Europe thanks to the money that the toxic workplace had to pay me out. Sucked in. You bloody love to say it. Yeah, it would have been cheaper to just be nice. Yeah, actually.

But now I've got my fucking first class holiday out of it. Who cares? Now I get that payout money. Payout money feels a bit fucking sweeter than regular money, doesn't it? Well, because you go, oh, it's like spare money. It's like not money that I was going, oh, well, that $200 has to go to rent and this has to, whatever. And there's like a pretty sweet photo in our You Love To See It thread of Brent holding a little glass of champagne in first class. And you love to see that, Brent. Good on you. Don't you love to see that? Good on you for getting out of there.

It's really hard to leave when you're stuck in it. You know what sucks? Even though it's true and they're trying to help, when people go, just leave. It just doesn't, when you're in it. You have said that to me. I have said it to you because it's not untrue the other way either, but it just feels so hard and impossible in the moment.

It does. But you know what's crazy? And I know this doesn't help you when you're in the situation. I know it doesn't help. I've been told it. I get it. It's like the week after you left, you go, oh, I should have left a month ago. Yeah.

Straight away, you just go, oh. Like your shoulders come down and you go, oh, it's not so bad. Yeah. And it's not the fucking end of the world that you think. So if anyone's in a similar boat, I mean, not the fucking first class boat because fuck yeah. Yeah. But I don't know.

Kathy Bates was on Titanic, so she gets it. Well, if we get Kathy Bates from her role in Late Shift, not Late Night, because she was like an agent, like a negotiator and she was ruthless. Yeah. So maybe she'll come down on your behalf and like fucking work it out. Yeah. Well, I mean, Brent was just living in misery. Is that the name of the town?

Kathy Bates is in misery. She was lovely in Titanic. Oh, yeah. Like, almost a character... Oh, yeah. Almost a character, like, didn't need to be in it. Like, he could have got away without it, but you always need that helper on the good person's side

to just be in your corner sometimes, you know? I just really, because they were really awful to her because she was, like, new money. Yeah. But she was the nicest out of all of them. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure her character is actually based off a real person. Really? Because you know how, like, Jack and Rose isn't, like, based off a real person?

It's just like a love story. Spoiler alert! Yeah. Are you joking? It came out in fucking 1991. Four? Oh. 94?

Titanic? Yeah. 97. 97. Sorry, I'm just fucking sitting here, man. But yeah, I believe, and this might be fake news, I believe that Kathy Bates' character is based on an actual real person. Really?

Unlike Jack and Rose. Can you Google that, Cam? Yeah, it's true. Molly Brown. Molly Brown. Molly Brown. Thank you. Molly Brown.

But yeah. Was she the daughter of an aristocrat? No, no, no. She was traveling to meet her husband, I think. Or maybe her husband had just passed away or something. Because she's traveling with her son's clothes. Which is what Jack was. Which is what, and that is true in the in real life jack wore that tux yeah leonardo de capro was on the ship the fact that someone can look so great in someone else's

tux the fact that someone can look that good just like fucking full stop like i look like an old fucking doorstop like 90 of the time and i time. And I'm just like, what the fuck? You accidentally got on this ship. You had none of your stuff and, like, all of a sudden, like, you're a heartthrob. Like, fuck off. Fucking doorstop. Just, like, sometimes a bit handy but, like, mostly useless.

No, don't undersell. Not yourself. Don't undersell doorstop. The door stops. Sorry, I just need to go before we move on with our lives and leave the studio for a final time. Can we just do a quick look through Kathy's IMDb and squeeze every last part out of it?

Surely there's some more. Are we off Kathy Bates gear after this? I think we need to leave it in this studio because we won't be here next week. Oh, no, I don't like that. I love Kathy Bates. She this. I think we need to leave it in this studio. Oh, no. I don't like that. I love Kathy Bates. She's in The Blind Side. Kathy Bates is also in, like, American Horror Story.

She's in Bad Santa 2. And that's, like, not as well as, like, she was in Bad Santa the second. She's in Bad Santa. P.S. I love you. Didn't make it. Oh, I love you too. Coincidence chat. She was also in that movie.

Oh, yeah. So she's very good in American Horror Story. Oh, she's in three episodes of The Big Bang. That's a shame. That's a shame. Fuck, is it dry enough, Cathy? That is a shame. Jeez.

Oh, she's in The Office. Got to get out of The Office. Oh, she is in The Office. Her character in The Office is very good. Jo? She plays the role of the office. Oh, she is in the office. Her character in the office is very good. Jo? She plays the role of the boss. Nope, that is Jenna McCarthy. Yeah, that's not...

She's definitely like the second or third in each movie, though, eh? Probably third or fourth. Like, she's not on the poster of much. No. I think that's fair, yeah. But everything that I'm seeing on her IMDb is like shit that I reckon. Like, there's nothing that I'm like, oh, what's that? She was in Bee Movie.

That's big. Fried green tomatoes. Taking Off in 1971 as a young love interest. You just know what you're in for with Kathy Bates and that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing Yeah, it's like Subway Do you remember Valentine's Day That had every actor in it of all time?

Yeah, and it was one of those like Chippy choppy movies that had like A million storylines Like a shitload actually Yeah, I really Taylor Swift was in it in her acting debut Yeah Do we like those choppy ones?

I do I like that movie Valentine's Day. I think it's like real silly and easy to watch. What I like, and that's a great example that you just said, but I like how they sort of like come together at the end a little bit. Yeah, that all of a sudden you go, oh, that was her brother and you didn't know it the whole time and stuff. But even when the stories overlap.

So this is like maybe a bad example of that. But you know the holiday? Yeah. So it's like a love story in the UK and a love story and obviously they're related and they do the switch and whatever. Yeah. But the fact that like at the end they're all together, you're kind of like, oh, this was worth it. The Holiday is probably one of my favourite movies. Really? It is such a great film. Jude Law, Jack Black. Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet. Oh, Titanic Chat. Titanic Chat. we've come back to Kathy Bates

thank god now we can go home six degrees of Kathy Bates I'll fucking see you next week and we found it love ya talk to you on Monday

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