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Freedom!

Wait, that came in so fast.

Fucking kidding.

It's never come in that fast.

Freedom!

Freedom!

It's never come in that fast.

It never has.

Something changed.

Freedom!

Freedom!

I don't know what's going on.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to Freedom.

Welcome back to the beginning.

This might be your first episode ever.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

Welcome back.

I truly hate that song.

Sorry.

Hi, Paul.

I think I didn't, I was indifferent to it before.

But then when I sang it, you just started fighting.

I think that when, because, of course, when we say, we end up saying welcome back a lot.

And it puts it in my head, and then I realize I don't like having this in my head.

Why?

It's so fun.

Welcome back.

It's so fun.

It's so fun.

I'm like dancing.

I'm like laughing.

It's so funny.

This guy failed.

Right?

This guy failed.

People left me.

I don't know the mythos.

But they welcome him with opened arms.

Do you know the mythos of Cotter?

They're all the people who are.

All I know is fucking hammerhead or whatever in the back going, Mr.

Cotter.

Hammerhead?

What's his name?

Travolta.

No, not Travolta.

I know that's Vinny Barberino, but who's Hammerhead in the back?

I don't know.

Who's Hammerhead in the back?

I don't know.

What's his name?

Calm down.

I don't know.

What are you talking about?

Horseshack?

Horseshack.

That's what I'm talking about.

The guy who sounds like

horseradish.

But he didn't say Mr.

Cotter.

That was Freddy Boomboom Washington.

Okay, I didn't know.

I don't know about Freddy Boom Boom Washington.

This show predates me a little bit.

He would say.

Freedom predates me.

Somebody would say, why do they call you Boom Boom?

He's like, I'm making Boom Boom in the Potty.

That's not what he would say.

He would mime an upright bass and then go, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Because he plays it or because he's a buddy as He never on the show played the bass.

But that was how he explained his nickname.

Okay.

Lawrence Hilton Jacobs.

Chilling performance as Joe Jackson in that Jackson's miniseries.

Oh, many years ago.

Oh, right.

But what is Mr.

Cotter's whole thing?

He fails as what?

He goes to this school.

Okay.

Oh, he's a student.

He was a student.

Okay.

Of this high school.

Much like Paul Giamatti in the Holdovers.

Much like.

He starts out as a student.

This is all off-camera at this high school.

I'm sure they were filming.

Buchanan in high school.

This is just understood.

They don't explain it.

They never show it to it.

They never show articles, but they never talk about it.

I think in the pilot, they probably mention it.

But the song sort of tells the story.

Let's look up the

now.

You're back here.

The same old place that you laughed at.

I went away and did some other stuff.

Welcome back.

Your dreams were bad.

Your dreams were your ticket out.

Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about.

Yeah.

And now who's laughing?

The place.

Well, the name.

This actually is pretty sad.

The names have all changed since you hung around, but those dreams have remained and they've turned around.

Who'd have thought they'd lead you back here where we need you?

Yeah, we tease them a lot because we got them on the spot.

Welcome back.

We always could spot a friend.

And I smile when I think how you make it.

This goes back past the length of the opening credit.

I know what a scene you were learning in.

in.

Was there something that made you come back again?

And what could ever lead you back here where we need you?

We tease him a lot because we got him on the spot.

You're welcome.

You already said that.

And I know what a scene you were learning in.

Was there something that made you come back again?

And what could ever lead you back here where we need you?

I want to kill you.

Yeah, we.

I just want you to die.

We tease him a lot.

Because we Why?

Oh, that's why.

Okay, you already forgot back.

That's the one thing we know.

So he was a teacher.

He leaves Brooklyn.

Yeah.

Went off to do fucking turfs out.

Who knows what he's doing?

He's going to be a motorcycle.

Radical feminists out?

Yeah.

That's a weird card.

They never talk about it.

Yeah.

Fuck that Cotter is loosely based on

J.K.

Rowling before any of she was even a personal.

She was a student at Hogwarts, though.

The K stands for Cotter.

Yes.

Yes.

J.

Cotter Rowland.

We've cracked the code with a K.

Now, when I was a child, I thought that show was

fucking hilarious.

Is it funny?

Welcome back, Cotter.

No, it's not.

Not at all, right?

It's drama.

It might as well be.

It's really not funny.

It seemed like shows at the time were like, if we can get some actor being very broad, saying a very broad thing, and then repeat it over and over

that'll be great did that would be

that would be great that would be great were you watching when you would watch family matters as a child lauren would you be upset if he didn't say did i do that no i wasn't really i don't think i was keeping tabs on that i just enjoyed the program and all the characters that's a fun i don't know that I would ever be

waiting for the catchphrase.

Yeah, I don't think I really even understood there was a formula.

It feels like

obviously when they would say it, I'd be like, yes, he said the thing.

It feels like, though, when you would watch Hans and Franz or whatever on SNL, you'd be disappointed if they didn't say pump you up or isn't that special?

Well, it'd be weird if they weren't.

It would get like a riotous laugh.

That would be very strange if they never said pump you up in a Hans and Franz.

It's like, it's kind of all you're there to do.

All right, we're Hans and Franz.

We're back.

Anyway,

don't

think about what we usually do.

We're not here to talk about, you know.

Because we're very busy right now.

We're very busy right now.

No terrorists will ever extinguish the spirit of New York, the greatest city on earth.

They get serious.

They should have done a post-9-11 episode where all the sketches were.

Yeah, they bring back old sketches.

Like all of them are just like

New York is the greatest city in the world.

Like the West Wing episode, post-9-11.

That's right.

Which is not in continuity.

An aberration.

As they said at the beginning.

An aberration.

Don't consider this as part of the timeline of

the real West Wing.

Just something we felt it important to do.

Yes.

Okay.

What are the worst pieces of media about post-9-11?

Oh, well, that West Wing episode is pretty bad.

Sorghum's doofer, too.

He's got that

newsroom episode on the plane.

Oof, that's so bad.

I think the Marvel comic they put out is really bad where Dr.

Doom is crying as he looks at ground zero what

is this real yes

doctor why is dr doom because even he knows how

horrible this is he's a bad guy no dr doom

sounds nice he sounds like a cool guy right i'm just if you were to meet a guy named victor von doom You'd think he's cool, right?

God, I really wouldn't think he was cool.

Doom.

Because you would know he made up that name.

And he's wearing a top hat in an LA bar.

Yes.

He's doing magic, close-up magic.

My name's Victor von Doom.

I'd be like, can you fuck off?

Like, at least once.

Tonight would be preferable.

At least once.

Could you fuck off at least once?

Hey, Dr.

Doom, can you fuck off at least once?

He didn't say he was a doctor.

He said he didn't.

Oh, he's a doctor.

I didn't know he was a doctor.

And now I'm interested in that.

has this boil on my ass.

So you're interested in a doctor when you're at a bar just to look at the boil?

Yeah, because I know it's been diagnosed.

I know what it is.

I have medication for it.

And I just want to know what I'm going to do.

I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of a look.

I've got a second opinion.

Just take a look.

Just look.

Take a good long look.

Because you're a doctor.

You like this kind of shit.

I'm assuming that's why you went to medical school.

Freak ass weirdo.

You want to see boils.

Fucking freak.

I think you're Dr.

Pimple Popper.

Well, you're nuts.

Oh, Dr.

Doom.

You think you're Dr.

Pimple Popper.

You think I'm Dr.

Pimple Popper?

You're nuts.

You're nuts.

Wait, so why is he crying?

She's an expert.

Because it's such a horrible thing to do to humanity.

Isn't it the kind of thing that he wants to do?

Yes.

But not on those terms.

He wants to do it himself.

He's crying because he missed his chance.

You don't kill people like this.

You build a ray.

Welcome to Freedom.

I'm Scott.

I'm Paul.

I'm Lauren.

We're saying our names at nine minutes in.

That's not a good sign.

Is it a bad sign?

No, it's a great sign is what I meant.

Oh, you know, when you're watching a television show, especially in this streaming era,

and they have a

theme music, you know, they have a title sequence.

Them music, title sequence.

Which is

like a Netflix or an Apple TV Plus thing, right?

And it doesn't come until 22 minutes in.

It's like, why did you bother?

That's crazy.

The fucking OA, that show on Netflix, where the dance principle is going to save the world.

Their

opening credits came, I want to say, 40 minutes into the show.

Just do without.

And I was like, I'm never watching this again.

Because you just go, we don't need it.

We don't need it at that point.

What is the point?

Just do whatever Big Brother does when they don't have time for it and just go, boom.

Do whatever Big Brother does.

Yeah, just go burn.

We were watching the sitcom Leanne on Netflix.

I've been watching that as well.

Phop's been watching that too.

Yeah, because our friend Hannah Pilkis was in it.

And then Leon Morgan.

Leanne Morgan's very funny.

I think Leanne's funny too.

And the thing we always forget every episode is that they don't have an actual theme song, but they do.

Out of nowhere, you never know when it's going to happen.

You hear these voices singing, Leanne!

That's akin to like a man.

It reminds me of Reba or something.

Or does she have a theme song?

She reminds me of Reba.

that.

I guess she goes remarks to her.

She should have been.

Isn't that her theme song?

That's true because she's a singer.

I think that reminds me, Leanne reminds me of Reba.

Does that make sense?

Sure.

I get it.

Yeah.

Because she's always talking about her.

Yep.

She reminds me.

She goes, do I remember?

Don't forget Reba.

Hey.

Remember Reba?

Wait, what was the.

I don't know what the Reba theme song was.

I thought that was.

No, I think it probably was.

Single Mama Workshop.

Two dogs who loves her kids, but never stops.

You know.

Give me a spinning wheel.

Otherwise, I'd play it right now.

What's your laptop, man?

You got a laptop problem.

This is an old one that I use for recording.

I started watching the Charlie Sheen dock last night.

Ew.

I look forward to finishing it.

It's interesting.

Tiger Blood.

Winning.

Winning.

It's interesting.

It's interesting.

I

well, I know all of.

Talk about all of his adventures with sex workers.

Yeah, I think

he's not holding back.

And they had adventures, right?

Treasure maps and stuff.

Yeah, sure.

Ex-Market.

Spelunking.

Can I spelunk with you?

In your

extra $50.

Spelunking.

Spelunk.

Spelunking.

Remember his tour that was just based on him saying beginning?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I just started at the beginning.

I mean, I've only watched the first like 20.

It's a very good place to start.

Yeah, I'm like that.

But I'm interested at this point in the dynamics of his family with, you know, Martin Sheen.

And I didn't keep it.

We're seeing his childhood, what happened there.

Interesting.

And they lived a very modest life.

Martin Sheen came to our house once.

Really?

Why?

Because his wife was at a fundraiser that we were holding.

And he popped by at the end.

It was very nice.

That's exciting.

That's so exciting.

Who's his wife?

I don't want to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like,

I don't want to dox her

because her name is her address.

But they showed this one clip of Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen playing basketball against Michael Jordan.

What?

I bet they won.

They did.

Yeah, two against one?

Absolutely.

They did.

Yeah.

But Martin Sheen, like.

All you got to do is one of them grabs his ankles.

Well, Michael Jordan had to cover his eyes for part of the, for the free throw shoot-off.

And

then on a different part, when they were playing,

Michael Jordan did a half-court shot that went in nothing but net.

And then Martin Sheen also did.

It was kind of fun.

Really?

It's pretty fun.

All right.

I just want to see that part.

Yeah.

Okay.

Watch that part then and get back to us.

Okay, I will.

I'll give you a full report.

Okay.

It sounded like I got the full report from Lauren already, but you haven't got it from.

Well, speaking of docs, did you watch the documentary, The Cat Film?

And Dr.

Doom.

Yes.

No, I did not.

Wait, there's a documentary on.

No,

it's a documentary of this teen girl who was being bullied through text messages, and she and her boyfriend were on a group of chain with this anonymous person who was building up.

What you guys do to me on the Threedom text.

Yes.

Okay, got it.

We use our burner burner accounts and tell you you're a cuck.

But it was like this horrible bullying.

I mean, honestly, the spoiler is probably already out there.

It's you know, you know what?

Because I knew what it was when I went into it.

From the

I didn't know, but

as it was going on, I was like, are we going to find out an adult was doing this?

Yeah.

But then there was a further

shock.

You don't know any of this.

I don't know anything.

I would say watch it.

I don't want to spoil it.

It's really, really good.

I want to spoil it.

Listen, skip ahead.

Yeah,

30 seconds.

Honestly, yeah, skip now.

It was her mom.

The little girl's mom is sending her these mean, crazy texts.

And then when they, when she admits it and they, you know.

Oh, God, she admit it.

Yeah.

When in the documentary, like, it's already, she's already caught Ford and went to jail and stuff.

And then they're doing this documentary.

And she's just like, acting like it's not that weird.

Like, she's like, she honestly doesn't really seem, she has a serious 30 seconds.

And that was what it was about.

That's not.

These are nuts.

And Dr.

Doom cried at that too.

These

are nuts.

Dr.

Doom cries at everything now.

He's very weepy.

Yeah.

He, I mean,

he's a mask.

He covers a lot of just tear-stained faces.

That's why he wears that mask.

Tears in his head.

I think he's doing it on purpose.

It's like the Jimmy Fallon of crying.

Yeah.

Because he's just always giggling.

I mean, always crying.

He's doing it on purpose.

And people are talking.

Because he knows it works.

He knows people think it's cute.

Yeah.

When Dr.

Doom cries.

People got to stop crying on the show, Big Brother.

Are they crying a lot on that show?

Yeah, there's one contestant who cries all the time.

It's like, come on, man.

Oh, my gosh.

Wait.

What are they crying about?

Oh, I wish I had dropped it.

Don't nominate me.

Oh, you did nominate me, but I swear if you don't vote for me, oh, just shut the fuck up.

Fuck off, everybody.

I'm Big Brother.

I would love it if someone were to be in Big Brother and not give a shit and be like, vote me off.

Don't vote me off.

I don't care.

They'd probably win the whole thing.

They probably would.

Proli Wilkes wouldn't care.

I don't know if I've ever watched a full episode of Big Brother.

It's done by now, by the way.

But you never watched a full one.

You got to watch a a full one.

Report back.

I'm not going to take that report.

You got a lot of homework.

I'm not doing that report.

I want it on my desk at 6 a.m.

I will not.

9 a.m.

I'll give you three extra.

Okay, okay.

5 a.m.

Wait, what?

You're almost done anyway.

Do it.

5.

You're almost done anyway.

God, remember having to do reports?

Oh, my God.

I do.

Sometimes you know.

What was the, by the way, what did they do with all that research?

It's nothing.

I filed my reports year after year in school.

I mean, that's...

What difference did it make?

That's how the school gets its funding is by publishing these reports that the kids do.

They publish our reports?

Our papers

in the magazines.

And then

they can use it on Wikipedia for references.

Fuck.

Fucking shit.

As much as you think about like, oh, it'd be fun to be back in school again.

As much as I think about that?

Well, I think about it sometimes about like, oh, you always think that.

Let's, let's, it would be fun to jump street, like catching drug dealers while you're in school again.

Catching drug dealers is probably the most fun part about it, but but just having to do all that homework

that would fucking suck.

At a certain point, I just gave up on doing it.

The day-to-day of going to school every day, that's enough.

I wouldn't do that again at all.

I don't care.

Because it's how it's 8 a.m.

till

3.30, I think is what we used to go.

You're allowed to stay there as long as you want that's like eight hours right there yeah that's a full-time job and then they want you to go home and do homework yeah get the fuck out of here

what are you doing at home getting drunk i know how it works

so am i if you're my geometry teacher wow

would he would he come to school drunk or

he came to school i would say not drunk but clearly like on a like massively hungover from the day before to where you're you're still a little bit drunk.

And when I think about it now,

oh, yeah, he was 22 years old.

Cartoonishly born.

Yeah.

And then bubbles flying out of his mouth.

His nose was red and had lines on it.

Good.

Gin blossoms.

I had gin blossoms.

I'm sorry.

Broken capillaries on my nose.

That's okay.

It's called a gin blossom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What?

If you're from drinking?

Yes, yes, yes.

I didn't know that's a band name.

Gin blossoms would get meant something.

Yeah, you get broken capillaries on your name means your your nose.

Every band name means something.

Toe the Wetz Procket.

Monty Python reference.

Okay.

Great one.

Other bands mean other things.

The Kinks.

I think you get it.

White stripes.

I think out of anyone?

White stripes.

These are stripes.

This is based on stripes that are white.

I never thought of it that way.

Remember any other bands in Malta?

Remember anyone who was like, are they brother and sister or are they dating?

Yeah.

Radiohead, actually, weirdly, is a reference to Stephen Tablowski.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I just heard this story for the first time.

No, for real?

Yeah, yeah.

For real.

He's very cool for him.

He told this story on Adam and I's show about Talking Heads, but he

has Adam Krull.

Adam Krull, yes.

He has some sort of like psychic powers anyway, where he like receives frequencies in his radio and in his head.

And David Vyrne wrote a song

called Radio Head about him.

And Radio Head took their band name from the Talking Head song.

And Stephen Tablowski was friends with David Byrne.

Yes.

Bing!

That's crazy.

Isn't that all very interesting?

Bing again!

Paul gives that two bings.

And he's in Freakier Friday.

Is he?

How is he?

Wonderful.

Great actor.

Great actor.

The movie's fantastic, as I've said.

Loved it.

What about Freakiest Friday?

Would you want to be in that?

Yes.

I want to be the grandma in that.

The grandma.

The grandma.

What if there was gremlins, but there were grandmas?

Grandma, grandma.

So cute.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

They're sassy old gremlins.

And they play basketball and they rap.

Yeah.

That's funny.

With white hair and like floral dresses.

Yes, and they're using big-ass glasses.

Modern slang.

I love this.

All right.

We're going to take a break.

We'll be right back.

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We're

back.

We have written the Gramlins script and we're going to do a read-through right now.

Yes.

By the way, we got this sold.

We did it on spec.

It's the highest number for a spec script of all time.

We sold it for $150.

It's never happened in the history of entertainment.

Here it goes.

Here it goes.

Exterior.

Retirement home day.

Grandma, I brought you your favorite cookies.

Hey, can't.

It's after midnight.

Well, come on, Grandma.

Just eat one.

Why are you coming to my retirement home at fucking two in the morning?

This all takes place outside, by the way.

Grandma, just eat one.

Okay.

I met you outside here because you begged me.

You threw these cookies against my window and got my attention.

And I came down here.

What?

It's not two in the morning.

It's two in the afternoon, Grandma.

Well, that doesn't work for the plot, honey.

No, but you're dementia.

So it's dementia.

Do you think the time is later?

It actually affects you.

But it's not.

I think you're upsetting her.

You'll have to leave.

Hey, hey, hey, don't push me.

Don't push me.

Yay!

But it's my granddaughter.

Doesn't eat one of the cookies.

I'm trying to lean on you.

You keep running away.

Okay, then it goes on for like 120 more pages.

Yeah, and the gremlins win.

Yeah.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

Gremlins.

We did.

Anyway,

thanks for buying it.

I'm a gremlin.

Only in theaters.

Only exclusively in theaters.

Never to be streamed at home.

Never.

My movie march continues.

What does that mean?

I have been watching more and more movies.

I've been watching, I started my spooky season early.

I've been watching a lot of horror movies.

Good.

Here's what I've seen so far.

Okay.

Okay.

In the theater, weapons, of course.

Of course, you have to.

Loved it.

The Monkey, starring our friend Tatiana Moslini.

Great.

I started watching that.

I really loved it.

I did too.

I told her I want to do a prequel about her and Adam.

Yeah.

How they got into the movie.

She said she would love it.

Okay.

I don't think you watched it.

What?

Paul's so weirded out.

I don't think he watched it.

Yeah, you didn't watch this thing.

I did watch it.

I'm confused.

You want to do a prequel about her and Adam?

Adam Scott.

Adam Scott is in the first scene.

I I forgot about that guy.

Yeah, you did, didn't you?

In the very first scene.

You also forgot about Dre, you were telling me.

I never forgot about Dre.

Nowadays, everybody

feels like they got something to say.

If anything, I'm reminding people of Dre all the time.

Now, he was

her husband.

He was the husband.

And he brings it back, and that's why all this shit goes down.

No, I remember the rest of the movie.

Well,

how am I supposed to know that?

You don't remember the first thing that happened.

What do you remember things in reverse order?

What if I did?

And what if I was about to get there and you cut me off?

I also watched Oddity 2024.

Very good.

Very good movie.

Okay.

Features my boy from the great.

Howl 2015.

Werewolf movie takes place on a train.

Did you ever see the Jack Nicholson Wolf movie?

Wolf?

You know, I was working in the video store when that movie came out on video, so I think I've seen parts of it, but I don't think I ever saw the whole movie.

I was working in a

cocktail.

Cocktail bar.

Oh, when I'm

getting it.

I was a waiter in a cocktail bar.

Is that it?

Why do we need to gender waiter and waitress?

Oh, my God.

Why do we?

Let's just call them servers.

They say server.

I also saw dangerous animals.

Get your ass over here.

Get your pretty ass over here.

Whoa.

2025.

Very good.

Dog Soldiers 2002.

roof roof

another werewolf movie

good a lot of fun oh wow sean pertweet yeah he's in it you're you're seeing a lot of things you like 28 years later yeah rented it yeah great

the last scene it's crazy yeah last scene's extremely crazy setting up a sequel i didn't know what was happening

yeah i it almost was setting up like like they already set up of a sequel well no they already shot they already shot it it's coming out in like february

but but but that was news to me so i was like why are you doing this that's very wild to me yeah

um

it was an odd movie but i enjoyed it yeah i enjoyed it too it's kind of i i it was not what i expected jody comer jody comer jody comer

relic relic

scary movie yeah

below below this was the um

Fucking submarine movie.

That's right.

You were texting Sean and I about this last night.

And is Zach in this?

Zach Galifenakis is in it.

I couldn't quite tell the picture you sent.

I was like, is that Zach?

The reason it's the title stuck in my mind, I was like, why do I know this?

I've heard of this movie that I've never seen.

Well, you've probably said the word a few times.

Oh, do you think that's what it was?

Just from the word below?

Yeah.

That's why all titles sound familiar to me because they're made up of words.

When you tell someone, hey, would you below me?

When you tell someone else.

When I tell someone, hey, would you belong tell me?

Hey, would you below me?

But I forgot until 20 minutes or like 10 minutes in, there's Zach Galifanakis.

I'm like, oh, yeah.

I didn't know he was in this.

That's why I remember hearing about this.

That's what Paul said.

I didn't know he was in this.

I didn't know he was in this.

I didn't know he was in this.

I didn't know he was in this.

Did you enjoy Below?

I said, like, Joe Biden.

I didn't know.

I didn't know.

He was in this.

I didn't know he was in this.

No, I didn't enjoy Below.

I didn't know he was in this.

But you're on a submarine movie kick after having watched Master and Commander with us.

Yes, and I watched talking about it.

Crimson Tide.

Yes.

Red, red, wine.

Yeah.

We played that in my old band.

Here's my high school band.

Here's the words I know to red, red wine.

Red wine.

And then.

Red, red wine, you make me feel so fine.

You keep me rocking all the time.

Rocking all of the time.

Now, in 1987, did the other lead singer of the band, did he

do imitate that certain patois?

I can't imagine that he would.

Of course, he did.

Oh, he did.

In 1987, yes.

Red, red, wine, you make me feel so fine.

You keep me rocking all of the time.

Oh, God.

Did I just do it right now in 2029?

You sure did.

It was fun.

Yeah.

That was interesting.

That was interesting.

That has a certain interesting aspect to it.

That's interesting.

That was so interesting.

I thought it was very interesting.

Yeah.

But yeah, that was one.

Learning how to play songs was always so fun because back then

there weren't websites.

There were songs.

That's true.

There was happy.

Think about how many more songs there are now.

From 1987 to now?

Yeah.

There's so many more.

How many songs come out in a certain year?

In 1987, you could conceivably, if you really tried, learn all the existing songs.

Yeah.

Well, especially since Louie Louie chords are the same for so many.

Please don't talk about him.

Why can't I talk about Louie Louie?

Lauren, what's wrong?

Your face is in your hands.

I'm scratching my brow.

Your bra?

My brow.

Scratching my brow out.

Scratching my brow.

You were like Dr.

Facehance.

Was I?

Good old Dr.

Faceance.

You were in a lot of ways.

How often do you get rid of clothes?

Get rid of clothes?

Yeah.

Not often enough.

Oh, you mean, you don't mean at the end of the day?

Taking all my clothes and getting nude.

Ew.

Getting nude.

That's the reward at the end of the day.

Taking all my clothes and getting nude.

Now, you have a lot of suits and you have a lot of nice things, quality pieces you've picked out.

Do you ever go, I'm done with this one?

Or you're kind of like, no, they're always kind of lasting pieces because they're a little timeless.

Both.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes you'll you'll say, I'm retiring this time.

There's some stuff that I've had for a long time, and then there's some stuff that's like, I

wore this once or not at all.

Do you donate or do you try to sell?

I donate.

I consider trying to sell, but I don't want to get in all that hassle of

putting things online, packaging, taking pictures.

I would donate, but it's so hard finding someone with the exact same measurements as me.

So,

yeah, that's the way donations work, right?

You don't donate because no one would ever fit into your shirt.

You go to Goodwill and they're like, hey, get up against the size chart.

Okay, we have one Scott shirt for you.

Yeah, I like to, especially with suits, there's various charities that take specifically men's suits to help people get jobs and stuff.

That's nice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's women's donation places like that as well for like the night for like businessy clothes.

Exactly.

The one place I used to.

I didn't have time to give those five oh that's how

i'm very i've been very busy i don't have a suit right now i don't have a suit right now because i'm very busy right now

there was a place that i used

traffic i used to drop off

a lot

the sound of all the traffic i just made the sound for you they stopped doing it i could just throw the stuff in the bag and then they would take it and they stopped doing it now

there's another place but everything has to be on a fucking hanger and stuff no i don't i can't go buy hangers all the time.

Look, I got plenty of hangers.

So it's not a problem.

I got plenty.

It's a problem with that.

It's like it's easier.

More steps are involved now.

Now, see, I like to sell things from time to time at like a crossroads or buffalo exchange or whatever.

That kind of thing.

Buffalo Wild Wings.

But

as we all know,

as we know, they're very snobby and picky.

And then they also give you like two cents of whatever the thing is.

I can't take the disappointment when they don't buy my stuff.

But one thing that bothers me that I'm struggling with a lot

is that they won't buy if it's offseason.

So you have to kind of time things out.

So I'm like getting rid of some winter coats and I think that they're good quality and I want to sell them, but I'm just like, but now's the time to do it.

I think right now.

I think I have to go right.

But you couldn't have done it.

I think I should call first before I waste my time.

Can I practice?

Yeah.

Okay.

Hello.

This is that place that you were talking about.

Hi, I was calling to see if you guys are accepting winter clothes at this time.

What are you talking about?

Like skis?

Winter.

Oh, sorry, getting another call.

Hello, this is that place that the other lady was talking about.

Would you like to play a game?

Yeah, I love games.

What are we talking?

We're talking Monopoly.

We're talking Scrabble.

We're talking Sorry.

We're talking operation.

You have 30 seconds to complete this phone call.

Hold on.

Hold on.

I'm getting another call.

Hello, this is that place.

I'm trying to call the other guy.

Oh, let me merge all the calls.

Ready?

Here we go.

Both of you guys talk to each other.

Hey, what's up?

You haven't finished my game.

You haven't finished my game.

Wait, are you guys accepting winter clothes?

Oh, I'm merged.

Sorry, I merged you, lady.

Let me take you offline.

Hi.

Hi.

So are you accepting winter clothes?

What are we talking?

We're talking like...

Oh, winter jackets.

I'm still here, by the way.

I am too.

And you haven't finished your game.

Wait, have you ever finished your game?

Your voice is the same as that lady's.

No, it's not.

Both of you talk at the same time.

I was

sorry.

No,

I heard two distinct voices.

I'm hanging up on all of you.

I can't take this anymore, this crazy phone call.

Can you hang up?

Because I'm in person waiting for you to deal with that.

You just talked to 10 different people with 10 different phones.

I'm sorry.

I thought you were on the phone.

The phone rang when I was talking about it.

You put me on the speaker.

All right.

Here you go.

Attention, employees and customers.

Would you like to play a game?

Yeah.

You have 30 minutes to get out of the store before you're killed by the story.

Okay, bye.

Well, that should be easy.

and now the silence are you because the store is the store is empty are you in line

i just came in yes i am in line okay

no one's here though i don't see any employees or anything but you you are in line well yeah i guess police what

we heard that there was a game happening here

so what

why are they playing where somebody's playing games i want to play

this hey my partner over here i just walked in I'm two weeks from away from retirement, and this is my new partner.

I'm 20 minutes away from retirement already.

Why are you working?

Oh, you have 30 minutes to get out of this store.

They really sweat you for that time.

All right.

Cops like to play games.

I'm turning off the TV.

Boop.

Wow.

What a good show.

That was really interesting to watch.

That was so good, honey.

Thank you for asking me to Netflix and chill tonight.

Dinner's ready.

Thanks, honey.

Thanks, honey.

We're in a thruple.

You know, I have to keep reminding us of that.

that.

We're in a thruple.

We're in a thruple.

We've got a lot of water things.

I've got a lot.

This is a successful improv show, right?

Imagine when the song We're in the Money came out.

People must have lost their money.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, thank God we can sing this.

Yeah, we could sing this.

What an aspirational song.

It's a lot like the Jefferson's theme, though.

How so?

Isn't that we're moving on up?

Yes.

To the east side, to the great big apartment in the sky.

Deluxe apartment.

Okay.

So you're saying it's the same sentiment.

Yeah, no, like celebratory, hey, we're rich.

There aren't a lot of songs like, hey, I'm rich now, other than, I guess, in hip-hop.

But you know what I mean?

Like, there should be more songs about, like, well, I used to be a poor rock star, and then my album sold really well.

Are there any rap artists who are bragging about their televisions anymore?

Was that a thing?

I feel like technology goes out of date so quickly.

It was in Rapper's Delight, of course.

Oh, right.

Yes, of course.

That he had a big color TV that he watched the sports on.

But now TVs are so great.

Yeah.

It's like, is there anybody rapping about how they have the TV that can make it look like a painting?

I mean, yeah, that's one right there, right behind you.

It's right behind me, isn't it?

I have one.

No, honey.

My Apple TV screen is.

I have one.

Do you want me to turn it off to your hand?

Do you have that TV?

Hand me that remote.

I love it.

You have the subscription.

The Samsung, yes.

I want that so loud.

You should get it.

Look behind you now.

Yeah, but can you pick it to be better art than that?

I guess you could.

Can I tell you that?

You might not have the subscription.

That thing is what I saw.

I did this gig.

I did this gig where I had to stay at

the person's house who had sort of commissioned this gig.

That's fun.

And a great way to be murdered.

It was fun until my room was a disused room

in the basement that they put an air mattress in and nothing else.

That's awful.

That's awful.

And they had a huge TV on the side of the wall that I could not turn off.

Why would they have a huge TV when you just have an air mattress on the floor?

Because the room was for something else.

Wow.

Oh.

But he used to be something else.

I was like watching TV.

I think the room used to be the gym or something.

So your ass on the hard cement floor.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That's wild.

So you couldn't turn that on.

It was that exact screensaver.

It was that one right there.

This one dims when the lights are all off.

That's not a screensaver.

I don't think this is the Samsung frame.

Okay, okay.

This is the frame that looks, that's a picture.

Yes, it is.

Okay.

It is.

Well, get that off of it because it gives me bad memories.

I don't want to.

I want you to have bad memories.

Why would you want to?

Change it now.

I'm a sweetie.

Or I walk.

Or there's the duel.

You don't like it?

There's the duel.

There's the duel.

You don't like working the ticket master machine?

There's the duel.

What happened to that person?

Do you keep track of any of your old bosses?

No.

I sometimes think about it.

That never occurred to me.

I think about some of my old managers at some of my restaurant roundup jobs.

And I go, God, I hope they're still with us.

I wonder what they're doing.

One of them had their 50th birthday party when I was working there in 1995.

So he would now be 80.

I would imagine.

And I went over to his house to watch the old couple.

Me and a few.

The old couple.

I was thinking about how old he was.

The odd couple.

Because we had never seen it.

So me and me and the old TV show?

Or the movie?

The movie.

The movie.

Okay.

Okay.

Because I was always like, yeah, the odd couple.

The TV show is bad.

But he's like, no, the movie is really good.

So I went over to his house with some friends to watch The Odd Couple, and it was really good.

But he must be 80 now.

So I bet he's not with us anymore.

I also thought he was very tan.

80's not that old.

I know, but he was very tan.

Was he tall and lovely as well?

I know he wasn't young.

He's the girl from Ephonema.

I knew.

He was just really tan.

Tall.

He's tall and young and lovely.

The girl from Ephonima goes walking.

And when she walks, each one she passes goes,

you've heard that song, of course.

I haven't heard that part where they go,

yeah, yeah.

It's gross, yeah.

Because they're creaming in their shorts, they're creaming their jeans,

they're creaming their jeans.

That's the first song that's officially about creaming your jeans.

The first song that's officially about creaming your jeans.

The girl from EPA D.

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chand we're back and it's time chandra back

you have something you want to tell us now it won't happen i know i have a squeaky wheel over here and of course it's getting the grease it's a microphone arm that made a sound like like a very ancient creature.

Yeah, I thought it was like a spooky door.

I thought it was like a spooky door.

Oh my god, this door is so spooky.

Oh, my God.

A spooky door while the ghost come out.

Oh, no, a haunted door in a regular house.

Everything's fine, though.

The door is squeaky and haunted.

I'm flashing back to

the Vietnam War.

One pill makes you smaller and the other pill doesn't do that.

We only have information

about the first pill that makes you small.

I was going to bring this up, but I'm worried that I brought it up just a few weeks ago.

I'm sure you did.

And are we really concerned about that now?

It's just when I was in fifth grade, and our music teacher, who would come once a month, month,

decided to make a tape recording of it was Halloween time, so gonna make a tape recording of all of us doing sound effects and telling a spooky story.

And she was gonna read this, or maybe one of us was the narrator or something.

And, but everyone, and that's music.

I mean,

yeah,

very loose, but it was very, it was very fun.

And

she said, Okay, we need a girl to scream at this part.

And

she pointed to a few of the girls who were like, just like, ah,

but not going for it, right?

Just going like, ah.

And then Scott Ackerman raises his hand.

And then I raised my hand and I could try.

And I let out a blood-curdling shriek that sounded, you know, because I'm young, sound like a woman.

That's right.

Okay.

But I,

you know, I was so shy and, of course, told I had an ugly smile and couldn't sing.

That's awful.

But by someone in your family,

who shall not be named?

Voldemort.

And

even though I was so painfully shy and thought of as a nerd, I, for some reason, was still going for it.

And like

that urge to perform was still so in me that I was like, and everyone, of course, all the guys made fun of me afterwards saying, like, oh, you scream like a girl.

And you said, wasn't that the requirement?

Did you see the

You saw those girls scream.

Did it sound like that?

No, it didn't.

So actually, I scream like a woman.

So eat my shit.

Damn.

Scream like a woman.

Anyway, the Halloween time's coming up, and I just flashed back to that.

Great flashbangs.

And I did do it.

I just, when I think of that story, I still have shame about it.

Yeah, well, I'll kick it out.

I'm going to kick your ass for telling that.

That weird mixture of shame that I was was that outgoing and everyone was going to make fun of me for it, but still wanted to do it, and pride in knowing I did a great job.

Absolutely.

That's show business, isn't it?

Shame and pride.

Shame and pride go hand in hand.

Pride and shame,

sunshine, and rain.

Yes.

That's right.

Hey, Paul,

I wanted to

play a three-cher.

Okay, I'll play one with you.

I want to play one with you and Lauren.

Okay.

Yeah.

Are you okay, Lauren?

Are you up for this?

I would love to.

Okay.

Why don't we?

Yeah, why don't we do that?

Why don't we do it?

Why don't we do it?

Do it.

Sure.

I have one for us.

Oh, okay.

Oh, that's perfect.

This is called I've Got Some Bad Tunes.

And I forget who submitted this one, but thank you for your service.

Yes.

It was Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, I believe.

It was Staff Sergeant.

Staff Sergeant, yeah.

His first name, Staff.

Last name, Sergiant.

And you surf for Staphani.

You have a Staphani infection.

And the way this game works is

someone is tasked with.

But before you go into this,

I have to answer what's on everyone's minds.

Because I know they're screaming up there.

Are you seriously doing this?

Yes.

Okay.

Because everyone's like, no, no, no, no, no.

Last episode,

you said you were going to eat the cookie puss

cake.

Oh, that.

I thought I could do something else.

And everyone's been listening to this episode fast forwarding, playing at two times speed, trying to get to the cookie puss thing.

We found the local Carvelle.

We found a place that would deliver it.

All they would deliver is a fudgy the whale.

They didn't have cookie pussy.

We found cookie puss and he's dead.

Did they, is it just that they refused to deliver cookie pussy?

It wasn't even on the menu.

It wasn't even on the menu.

Menu.

Yeah.

So I don't know what.

And, you know, when we tried to get a direct from Cookie Puss, they said it's not available for delivery this time.

Yeah, we went to Cookie Puss himself.

Yeah.

And said, will you deliver yourself unto us?

It is making me feel, though, for the next episode, that perhaps I could go try to pick one up.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

It's on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Boom.

In the worst place on earth.

Why?

It's just always like anytime I have to go somewhere and it involves Santa Monica Boulevard, the traffic is bad.

They're always doing work on it.

It's a fucking nightmare.

A nightmare.

It's not as bad as the 101 freeway trying to get to Santa Barbara, where they've been doing work on that for 25 years.

Well, I'm not going to Santa Barbara, so that doesn't concern me.

And also the five freeway going south, they've been doing work on that since before COVID.

And I thought, oh, COVID, this is going to be the perfect opportunity for them to finish it up.

Nope, still going on.

Boy, that would have been nice if they'd finished all that shit during quarantine.

Would have been great.

We'll finish everything.

Like we do with our specs pilots.

Specs RAP.

Specs RAP.

Like I did with my specs pilots.

I did that with my specs pilot.

She.

See?

Hey, raid my spec pilot, see?

I'm James Robinson.

I'm James L.

Brooks.

See?

James L.

Brooks.

Edward G.

Robinson.

Edward G.

Robinson.

I'm James L.

Brooks.

Yeah, see.

This is Edward Brooks.

Have you ever finished your spec script?

Shay.

Can we play a three-time?

Someone is tasked with delivering bad news, but they have to deliver this news to the tune of a popular song.

So one person comes up with the tune.

One person comes up with the bad news.

The third person must combine the two.

Oh, it has to combine the two.

Okay, so got it, got it.

And then is there a guessing part of this where the person has to guess who gave the bad news has to guess the song?

No.

No, there's just no.

Okay, got it, got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it all right so who would like to go first

okay so i'm going to text paul the tune yes lauren is going to text the bad news

and paul is going to combine

by the way this doesn't need to be a text does it

I think yeah,

it's not a surprise for the listener.

For the listener and for the two of you.

Yes.

Because you'll only know one part of the equation.

My last text to you, Paul, by the way.

Taco's alive and only 70.

Because I believe as you exited a show we were doing together, I started singing Puddy on the Ritz

and you said, is Taco still with us?

And if so, how old would he be?

And I texted you as you were walking out the door.

I was happy to see it.

Yep.

Good for taco.

Good for taco.

And what's good for taco is is good for the country.

What's good for the taco is good for the burrito.

All right.

Let's see how I do here.

Yep.

Excuse me.

I was wondering if you could give me a hand.

Sure.

Oh, yeah.

I'm always happy to help people.

Sure.

Look for the helpers, as they say, and that's me.

Well, says Mr.

Rogers said.

When I say they, I mean Mr.

Rogers and his wife.

You mean people who quote Mr.

Rogers?

No.

Oh, you think his wife also said it a lot?

Yeah, he never credited her.

He said that his mother told him to look for the helpers.

No, he was wrong.

He was wrong.

He wasn't lying.

He was wrong.

He was mistaken.

He would think his wife was his mother all the time.

This is very interesting information about Mr.

Rogers.

What did you need help with?

Hey, why are you trying to cut to the chase?

No, because I see this man.

He's pouring wet.

I'm pouring wet.

That's not my problem.

Why are you pouring wet concrete

into this thing?

Because the dry concrete won't won't do anything.

Oh, that's a good point.

It's hard to pour, too.

A big slab.

It is.

Big slab of dry concrete.

Not just the powder.

Yep.

I'll see you later.

What?

He's leaving?

Before, what?

Pogo horse?

Maybe you could help me.

Yeah.

This is a very delicate situation.

Okay.

Oh, I'm a nurse, by the way.

Are you really?

I am.

Congratulations.

You tease me a lot because you got me on the spot.

Hold on a second.

Let me get some pots and bands here.

Thank,

i feel so good in my heart good and i feel very much gratitude and i feel very much so glad gratitude

i'm leaving again okay man just come or go he's making a lot of do you know he's making a lot of holes in your concrete welcome back

i love that song i know you do so good how do you know because you walk around mumbling it all day so you've seen me before of course i have have.

Why are you watching me?

He's a spy, dear.

I'm a spy.

I'm not supposed to say that.

Well, why are you spying on me?

My cover's blown.

I'm blown.

I'm blown.

Baloney.

Listen.

My cover is baloney.

Mine cover's baloney.

I'm hiding under baloney.

What do you need, sir?

Okay, sir.

For God's sake, I'm going to sleep.

I'm trying to weed my garden, and I understand you think you've got me trapped because I'm out here already.

I'm looming over you.

I could go inside at any moment.

You're pouring concrete on us, and we're trapped.

I might go inside.

All right, please, before you go inside.

Boing, boing, boing.

What?

Before you go inside,

there's something I hope you can help me with.

I got a thing, and I'm in a burn cause I got something in my car, not fun.

And I need someone to help me get it out, out,

out, out.

I had a fight with a friend of mine.

I hit him on the head with a hammer.

It's tough to tell you what has happened next right now.

Oh,

I got a body.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, in a rug in my truck.

Okay, I want nothing to do with that.

I'm calling the police right now.

You're entrapped in this concrete.

We can't.

I can use my phone.

Why don't you just pour the concrete over the body?

No, don't.

Police headquarters, would you like to play a game?

Yes.

We love playing games.

You have 30 minutes to find out where we are.

And before you do, we're going to tell you that we're going to kill someone.

You just said that we were at police headquarters.

Shit.

Oh, shit.

All right.

we'll talk to you later okay bye

they are coming to get you

really uh i could hear

they're coming a little bit of you and you're in trouble you were holding your phone reality show style and we heard the entire conversation all right fine i can't i i i don't know why i'm on your side

it's better to be on my side i've killed someone That's true.

Yeah.

You don't want to be next.

I don't want to abet you, though.

No, just you can aid me without abetting me.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

Yeah, aiding is not against the law, right?

I think it's nice.

We're going to say that aiding is now something that's not good.

Oh, wait.

Oh, we can't aid someone?

Abetting, I get it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pour some concrete down her throat.

Pour some concrete down her throat.

Do, do, do.

Should we try this again before?

All right, Lauren, I'm going to text you the ailment.

Okay.

Or the bad news you're delivering.

Here is so nice and quiet.

It got really calm.

I can't wait to get a text from my friend.

I want to text him.

I've texted the song.

Got it.

I am in the middle of texting.

Oh, it's going to be a long problem.

No, I just misspelled words.

Okay.

There we go.

There we go.

So I said, no way.

You actually said that to their faces.

Ladies, ladies, more tea, more sandwiches?

Thank you.

I would like less tea.

I would like fewer sandwiches.

I'll drink a little bit of tea.

Drink some of my tea.

Please.

Can you put the crusts on this?

Yeah.

You know,

I'm so happy to have you guys over.

Can we have a double stuffed crust?

You're so specific in particular about what you want to eat.

Well, and about our friends.

That's right.

We don't like anyone but you.

Well, darling.

That's so great.

I do have something I need to tell you.

Well, I have news too.

You do?

You have news too?

What's your news?

You go first.

I am not getting engaged.

Congratulations.

We were so worried.

Thank you.

Yes, I realize I don't believe in marriage.

So I'm not going to take the first step, obviously.

When Jasper said he was taking you on that hike

up to that big mountain.

Yes, and he was wearing a tuxedo.

Yeah, I was worried that you were going to say yes.

No.

I said no.

Good.

Congratulations.

I bet that was really hurtful to him.

It was.

I made him pick out the ring.

I told him what I wanted

and gave him very specific instructions.

And he absolutely crushed it.

Yeah.

It was the exact ring I was thinking about.

It's just in the moment.

No, I just realized, no, I don't want this.

And it's not about Jasper.

It's just about my life.

Wow.

I have news too.

I'm not having a baby.

Yay.

So you are sterile.

Yes.

I'm so happy.

A little bit of my news.

Oh, give us a little bit.

Just a little bit.

Just the tip of news.

You know how I had a lot of inheritance?

What?

I beg your pardon?

What, honey?

You're going to have to speak up because you know how

you're going to have a lot of inheritance.

Know how you had a lot of inheritance.

Come in my way when my mom died.

Well, my mom spent all my inheritance

at the track.

She lost all of my inheritance.

Ain't no inheritance in my account.

I don't know what

I have to admit.

Ain't no inheritance in my account.

Ain't no inheritance in my count.

Ain't no inheritance in my count.

My count is zero.

What's on this?

And it wasn't actually my mother.

It was my mother-in-law who did it.

And my mother-in-law took my inheritance.

And she bet it all on some horse races.

She lost all my inheritance.

I know, Sancho.

I am now quite very poor.

Do you have money to spare?

I would take any

money.

I love to have some money with my account where there is no more.

Well, here, take all of my money.

Thank you.

Here's $7.

That's also helpful.

I have three.

That's all you have.

That's 10.

That's 10.

$10.

Ah, ah, ah.

Okay.

She's counting.

Okay.

Okay.

Maybe it's time for you bitches to leave.

It was ain't no sunshine, and it was hard to sing that.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Do you very quick want to give me one?

Yes, let's do one more.

But just jump into it.

Very quickly.

Everyone texts me.

I'm going to text you the song.

Lauren's texting me the song.

Paul's texting me the bad news that that I'm to deliver.

And when that is combined,

that

is essentially how this game is played.

I have the song.

I'm waiting for the bad news.

It will be received by me

once Paul sends it across the airwaves.

He's going to send it to a satellite, which is going to send it back to me, even though he's right next to me.

It seems like it's wild.

Yeah.

It's taking a long time for it to get there.

I've sent it.

Okay.

So, what do you want to do later?

Do you want to just go around?

I want to go around.

I want to see all the little shops here.

Excuse me.

Boutique.

Hold on.

Excuse me.

Yes.

Are you little whippersnappers?

That's my question.

Well, not really.

I'm 70.

You're 70.

I'm 17.

What do you have in common?

We like fucking each other.

Ever heard of it?

And guess what?

Now I'm 19.

Thank you.

Because I didn't feel right once you said that.

If we were in New York, that is, of course, the age of consideration.

New York, the greatest city in the world.

In a New York minute.

In a New York minute.

Why did you meet?

I left Alex.

We met at an Alicia Keys concert.

He wasn't able to get in because he was too young.

Okay.

How many years ago was this?

One.

One year ago.

One year ago.

What's your problem?

What's my problem with us?

Who said I was?

I know you have when you look at your aldehyde you do look ald

well I'll tell you my tale if you really require me to do so.

Why, though?

Please do hear it.

Well, it was Saturday

evening

and I was

to a store

and I got a little

sushi

and I thought

I'd like to eat some some more.

So I took my little chopsticks and I put it

on what I thought was

an avocado roll.

But I ate a big lump of wasami.

And my

wife

is cheating on me.

That really worked at the end of my life.

They used to say it wife.

Really good.

That's why we don't say it out loud.

Wow.

Really good.

I'm sorry to hear that, by the way.

Oh, no problem.

Anyway, keep fucking.

Thank you.

That's that.

Oh, that's that.

That's that.

Paul, you have tour dates this weekend.

Yeah, man.

This you need to talk about.

I think it's October 16th right now.

I think it is.

Yeah.

That means, you know what that means.

Every October 16th.

Every October 16th, like Clockworks and like Craftwork,

you can find me in

On My Way to

the Polski Theater in Overland Park, Kansas, because we got a show there tomorrow night, the 17th of October,

7.30 p.m.

Show.

Come on out.

And then Saturday, we will be at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries in St.

Louis, Missouri.

And then Sunday, Old Foresters Paris Town Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.

Please come see those shows for iatopia.com.

Don't make him beg.

If they come to the show, will you beg them all to come inside when they're lined up outside?

Oh, that's don't do that.

That's a fucking hassle.

Just come into the show.

Just come into the show and he'll beg you once again.

I'll beg you before the show, but I'm not going to.

Come on, guys.

Let me have some dignity.

Just a little bit.

I gotta go out and vampire rules you to come in the show.

He's already out there, like, buying costumes and stuff.

He already has lost his dignity just doing the show.

Yes,

the show itself is the indignity.

Come on out.

Lauren, anything for you?

You know, I'm just doing my thing.

I love that.

So keep an eye on my Instagram.

All right.

I'm doing my thing, which is nothing.

We'll see you next week.

Bye.

Bye.

Every caregiving journey is unique, but the isolation, guilt, and exhaustion we all feel-that's universal.

It's reality, it's life.

You know, I wish it could all be happy and joyous, but sometimes it's full of rage, and that is what it is.

That's why this show exists-to be a safe place for caregivers to land.

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