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Hi, everybody.

I'm leaving.

What?

No, it's called Streetom!

Yeah, I was doing a street.

Yeah, we have to.

Wait, I have to go right now.

No, stay.

It's called Streetum!

I got a check for this show, and it said threesome.

No!

From CBV World.

For me?

Oh, dear.

With an E at the end?

Yeah.

Wow, dang.

But maybe it was for our threesome.

Oh, that's right.

I was paying you for our threesome.

Oh, I haven't been paid for that yet.

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The ultimate indignity.

Oh,

I left some money for you on the dresser.

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And I worked at Cafe Cordial.

This is a restaurant around now.

Oh, my my God.

Wait, another story from that time?

There was a,

they were exhausted.

I bet we've heard it before.

Okay, okay, fair.

I can tell you, no, because I just thought of it and I haven't thought of it in years.

Well, we've been doing the podcast for years.

I'm very,

I must have been 25, 26.

It was a very good year.

I worked at Cafe Cordiale.

This is Restaurant Roundup.

Restaurant.

What's a story you haven't heard?

There was a waitress there, maybe sometimes bartender there was a waitress

sometimes bartender

and i considered her to be older but like wiser

well like i considered her to be a little like too old to be

she was old a little too old to

i mean okay she was probably 35.

dried up old raisin but she was like 10 years older than me and Side note, there was this article that was like, Hillary Duff still looks amazing at 35.

And I was like, eat shit.

So was everyone else online.

So I felt good about it.

But at the time, I was 25, and I was like, oh, she's, she's,

she's like, she felt like an 80s,

like a, like a hot girl from high school in the 80s.

And you're a 90s bitch.

Yeah.

Of course.

I love it.

But.

Do you have a poster of her on your wall?

Wouldn't that be so weird?

Hey, do you mind posing for a photograph for me?

She just looked like an 80s, like, you know, hot lady.

But she had like bleached blonde hair.

She seemed a little out of date.

Does that make sense?

But

does she have dockers?

Knockers.

Did she wear dockers on her knockers?

Dockers on her dockers.

If dockers, if you're listening, you are leaving money on the dockers.

Why are you not making bras?

Dockers.

Dockers.

I want thick, khaki bras

with pleats.

Thick, khaki bras.

Oh my God.

So Dockers get in touch with us because we got a million dollars.

We got all for you.

You will only make $1 million.

By the way, you have to pay us $900,000.

Fuck it.

Please.

Please pay us.

Still, it's a 10 brand.

Okay, so this whole thing.

So

she was nice and everything, but

I've told you about how on the weekends they would have bands play.

They would have the Beatles cover bands,

which every time they would.

The Four Lads or something like that.

I think it was something like that.

But it was like

cockroaches.

Every single time they started.

They were playing Cafe Cordia

for Comedy Bang Bang when

we did a parody of a very obscure 60s beach

film with Frankie Avalon.

That's honestly who I pictured in it.

Because I know this from Full House.

Right.

Annette Funanchel.

Because he was in it, right?

I think Anat Fun and Chal is in it.

Beach Blanket Bingo.

No, it was even more obscure.

Did it even even more

on a real beach or did they shoot it on a fake beach?

They shot it on a real beach.

But

they had a Beatles parody character that Frankie Avalon played called the...

Sorry, I just got a loud environment warning from my.

Oh, no, loud environment?

How loud could it be that you need a warning?

I don't know.

They want you to go lay down.

Your environment is too loud.

Please sit down.

Hey, grandpa, you can't handle this.

But it was called the...

It was called the Dirt Bug.

It was like a parody of the Beatles.

They were making fun of the Beatles and they called it the Dirt Bug or something.

In the movie.

In the movie, yeah.

So we did a parody of it, and we called me the Beatle.

Great.

Parody, meaning you got on stage or you made a video.

No, this is in the television show, the Comedy Baby.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I thought you meant at Cafe Cordiale.

No, so at Cafe Cordiale, we would have bands who played there every weekend, and she would

do this,

but it was also like a groupie.

People at the bar going, come on, do this, do this.

This was her idea.

She wanted to do this.

There were all these like older gentlemen who hung out of the bar.

And I think she was 40.

Yeah.

Probably.

These senior citizens would come in.

That's how I felt when I started improv because I was like 19 and everyone was like 28.

And I was like, Jesus Christ.

What are they doing with their lives?

Firebreaker that will kill me.

But so they would always go, like, come on, do it, do it.

And so she would give a CD to, I guess, the band or no, no, she would put it on the house speakers.

And it was a karaoke track.

Oh, no, it was just the Joe Cocker song you can leave your hat on.

And

she would do the nine and a half weeks kind of strip dance with

a fedora.

Would she remove clothing or no?

I think she sort of would go down she would like unbutton the shirt and go down to see it was just like it was very weird in a work environment for that to be absolutely

kissing a student in a play

i've never heard that sir

i may have told you this before when i worked uh on kelsey grammar resents the sketch show

you dropped the p it was

never mind uh

we there was uh one of the one of the people from the production i forget what what job she had she

She was not like a PA.

She was more,

she had a higher status job than that, but she was like essentially like a clerical person on the show.

And she was like a sweet, like extremely sweet,

quiet, but very funny, like one of those types of people,

very reserved, but when you really listen to her, it's like, she's fucking hilarious.

She should be in this sketch.

But she was very, she was very lucky.

I did suggest that a couple of times.

But let me stay here in London and have a good time.

Why would it be in London?

It's a long

time.

Why did it happen at all?

It's so much more annoying that you have to be like away from everything.

But it was her birthday.

Towards the end of production, it was her birthday.

And

we were, you know, the studio that we shot at had a canteen and you would go eat.

lunch there and everything.

There was a lot of different productions and stuff.

It was a small studio.

So maybe a couple other things, but mostly, I think at the time we were the only thing that was shooting there.

But they still kept the canteen open.

Yeah, well, there's a lot of people, you know.

And so it was also like the people, like the

people who ran the studio and stuff like that

would eat there.

And it was, I really liked that aspect of it.

Was it like the picture?

It was really cool.

In Star Wars?

Yeah, there were aliens.

The devil was there.

Was it a hive picture?

It was a hive of definitely a hive of scum and villainy.

Yeah.

And so they hired, so at lunchtime

for her birthday, they hired hired a male stripper.

Oh,

and this guy, it started out, it was kind of funny.

She has to sit there on a chair, two thumbs, and was a stripper.

And then it just got so fucking runchy and it was uncomfortable for everyone.

It was like, please stop.

It was like the equivalent of watching somebody beat the shit out of somebody like long after they've stopped moving.

Yeah.

It was just like

two of you.

Have you seen that?

A few times.

I mean, you know, my brother was in jail for a while.

He was a white supremacist, and I've seen him curb stop people.

But then he renounced those ways.

Oh, he did.

Okay.

I was wondering.

Yeah, I was happy.

I remember being happy.

Oh, you remember that?

I remember being happy that he wasn't a white supremacist then.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

I was surprised with a stripper the other night.

Really?

On stage?

Surprised.

It was on stage.

On stage.

Okay.

Wait.

What?

It was, so it was like a bit, but it was.

I did my friend's show Sloppy Seconds, which is like a podcast hosted by Big Dipper and Meatball.

It's very fun.

And they have on a lot of drag queens and other types of performers.

And I was the guest, but it was supposed to be me and Nicole Beyer.

And we were supposed to play like a newlywed game where it was like, we're, because we host a podcast together and Big Dipper and Meatball host the podcast together.

So it's going to be like, well, who knows their host better?

But then Nicole got COVID.

And so she wasn't there.

So I teamed up with Big Dipper, who I went to high school and middle school with, and was my prom date.

I don't think I knew that.

Yeah.

Wait, I knew that you were friends, but I don't think I knew that you went back that far.

Yeah.

Wow.

Prom date?

I was, I went to his prom my junior year and his senior year.

Um, and there's a hilarious picture that I can find that was just so funny because we both look so sweet.

And

you're so young and naive.

Yeah, like a white dress.

It's the 50s.

It looks hilarious.

Um, and he just like ditched me the whole time and was like dancing with and partying with everyone.

And I, the best picture from the night is me at the like dinner table at the prom with my arm around his suit jacket on his chair.

nobody sitting there.

But

so we played.

But then at the end of the show, they had this plan to surprise Nicole with the stripper,

which makes sense.

And I think she would know exactly how to react.

Of course she would.

Yes.

So they had booked the stripper.

But instead, and it was their friend, and he was really nice and he was great.

But instead, it was, they were like, okay, well, surprise, Lauren.

And I was, I really, I didn't see, understand that it was happening to me for like a long time.

I was just like watching, like, yay!

And then, like,

then he made me get up and dance with them and stuff.

And it was very, it was fun, but it was just like, I'm like, Nicole would have been the perfect person to have that happen to because she would be like, I've heard saying all this.

Were you guys deeking?

Deking?

Yeah.

What does that mean?

Isn't that, what was it called?

When you're in your school dances when they outlawed it?

Juking.

Juking.

Oh, yeah.

Juking.

I like deeking though.

There should be a deck.

Sounds like a penis is coming out.

Dekey.

My little thing is deeking at you.

Yeah, we would grind.

Yeah, we would grind.

Yes, absolutely.

I've heard too many stories about women hiring strippers for parties for fun and then it being just bad after five minutes.

Like it's fun for five and then them just being like, holy shit, we have another half hour.

I think it's better to go to the location where the strippers perform.

Right.

Because then you can dip in and out.

Yeah, exactly.

How much you're involved, you know.

But I have chippendales.

I've also heard about they all, as they're getting paid, like, want someone's number so they can come back and party.

Yes.

Like, I'm around all weekend.

You know, like, maybe I could get your number.

I could come back and party with you.

Well, I will say the guy who did the dance on the show that I was on, he was like, oh my God, I'm sorry.

I hope that was okay.

He was like so nice.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

He doesn't really like do that.

It was like kind of just a bit.

Oh, really?

He does like burlesque i guess but oh okay um he was great it was just very funny because i was like and you're leaving mike and uh yeah well i'm in love with him and we're having an affair that's a sweet story yeah it actually started so cute yeah

i had a dream last night okay that mike worked at this super fancy hotel Uh-huh.

And it was, I hope it doesn't come true.

It was me.

Sort of like, I guess like the sort of apprentice concierge.

There was like an older man who was that Mike loved, but was also like scared to disappoint or whatever.

And me and him and Gabris were hanging out.

Oh my God.

I remember one time

we were going to use the pool.

Like they had this gigantic hotel pool.

Right.

And getting in the pool.

One time.

Like, so this is like a whole

like you were there for weeks.

It was a long dream.

We went to a lot of different places, but I remember

the pool thing was just before I woke up.

Like I wanted to swim in the pool and there were all these fucking people like in the way.

And I was like, I have to swim under these people so I can get across to the other side of the pool.

Yeah, that's right.

That sounds intense.

This is like a white lotus kind of thing.

Had you just finished watching White Lotus?

No, but I was doing that.

I just finished doing that.

White Lotus, Bam, Lamb.

I had a dream.

Like, I woke up so

horny.

Yeah.

No, but it was like so.

I've just seen this dream.

It was so real.

It was just one of those dreams where it was like, it felt like I had been experiencing it for hours.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It emoted a lot of celebrities.

Really?

Like, who?

Will Arnett, Amy Kohler, Chelsea Handler.

Whoa.

I interacted with, and Jason Bateman.

Whoa.

I don't know why.

I guess I was looking at two.

You know, the smartless people.

I do know why, because I was looking at a smartless post right before I went to bed.

So that's why they were there.

Chelsea Handler.

You're probably on my Instagram as well.

It was always an Instagram influence, but it was a very real feeling.

So they are influencers, but just in dreams.

Yeah, yeah, it's working.

Wow.

It's working.

It's scary to think.

Spooky.

Spooky Dookie.

But yeah, dreams that feel real are so amazing, aren't they?

Aren't they so amazing?

They are.

Dreams.

They're wild.

I love to live in dreams.

Yeah.

Live there?

Only there.

Yeah.

You want to be dead throughout the day?

Yep.

In dreams, I walk with you.

That's true.

Last night,

I put

the lotion in the basket.

Because you don't want to get the hose.

It does get the hose sometimes, but it doesn't put the lotion on its basket.

It rubs the lotion on its skin.

Yeah.

Then it puts the lotion in the basket.

Yeah.

I put the dog.

Hey, wait a minute.

Just leave the lotion down there.

Yeah.

Let me keep the lotion.

Yes.

And when I run out, I'll tell you.

Yes.

If you want me to.

Oh, Buffalo Bill, I have some notions.

That movie is really scary.

It's great.

Yeah.

It's great.

But

I put the dogs in their crate where they sleep.

where they get the lunch.

Who put the dogs in?

You.

Who put the dogs in?

And every once in a while.

I like the song.

Yo.

I didn't even think of that.

I was just talking.

Wait.

Yeah.

Have a dog slept in the crate since.

Had a dog slept in the crate since before, Emmy?

Yes.

They always have, yes.

Because Rocky, our previous dog, used to sleep with us for a little while.

And it was a constant me waking up all throughout the night because he would get too hot.

So he'd come out from under the covers.

then he would go back in and in and out.

Sometimes Freddy makes me take through all the bed, and I'm like, Do you not understand what I'm dealing with here?

I need to sleep.

So eventually we moved Rocky to his own bed.

Okay.

But now we have

his own bedroom with posters and stuff.

Yeah.

And posters at Farrah Faucet.

Farah dog sit.

Sorry.

Oh my God.

Dog sits.

There's somebody sort of

notorious.

Notorious.

Is it Duran Duran?

Who had a room?

I'll think about this.

For their dog.

That had a bag.

It had a full room.

And it was like a miniature room.

Oh, that's not bad.

I'll let you take a room.

Think about it.

Take a long step back to listen.

I'm almost positive it is a manager.

Oh.

Oh.

Yeah.

Well,

I put the dogs into their crate, and they have a lot of blankets.

And by the way, Molly will get very scared

in the middle of the night if she's not in the same crate as Georgia.

She gets scared and whines because

so cute.

She wakes up and doesn't know what's going on and is like, where is everyone?

But if you put, if you put her in the same crate as Georgia, they sleep pretty much through the night.

Occasionally,

one of them will whine or Georgia will growl like, you're in my space.

And we have to go like, and in the middle of the night, if it continues, it wakes us up and we have to go shh.

And they usually

annoy though.

But so like, I, I put them in.

Cool up turned out the light.

I put on the sound machine and I just heard this growling from Georgia and it happened for a while.

And I I was just like, shh.

And then I turned towards Kulup and realized it was her snoring so loud.

It sounded like she was out within 10 seconds.

Wow.

Snoring super loud.

Dang.

Yeah.

She usually is like up till 12 or 12.30 or something.

Yeah.

She just, it was 10 p.m.

and she was snoring immediately.

So much that I thought it was a dog growling.

Yeah.

I fall asleep pretty fast.

I don't know if it's a 10 second shoot issue,

but I fell asleep.

I fall asleep really fast.

Like I will be thinking like I hear mike doing something like okay i'm falling asleep he's probably gonna come in here soon and then like i just don't ever remember anything that happens after that right it's like i fall asleep instantly janie falls asleep pretty quickly i i love to read myself to sleep it is like like you actually fall asleep holding the book not always yeah that's happened occasionally but usually i'll be like i i realize like hey your eyes have been closed for like 15 seconds so you should just put this book down right but janie will fall asleep reading um and we both read on kindles so sometimes i'll think that she's still reading because the light is still going out and she's just out cold.

That's me.

But it's a kind of thing.

It's one of those sort of pleasures you have that you kind of forget about it until you're doing it.

And I get into bed and I'm like, I'm going to read my book.

I know.

I love it so much.

It's so much better than being on the phone.

No matter what.

Oh, absolutely.

I'm reading a great book.

Are you reading something you enjoy right now?

Yes, I am.

What are you reading?

I'm reading,

I finished Les's Lost, which I love.

Oh, I have to read that.

And then

there are a couple more of those.

I think I told you, I read those Sloughhouse books.

Sloughhouse.

Slauhaus is an Apple TV series that's based on

the series of spy novels.

And I started watching the show.

It's Swedish or something?

No, no, no.

It's English.

It's pretty.

Oh, he watches Swedish television.

Yeah, right?

I do sometimes.

I watch, I mean, Danish, you know, like I go over all over the world.

But this is a

series of spy novels about

a place

in MI5.

There's like a branch that you go to if you fuck up as a spy and they like shovel shuffle you off to this place and they just give you meaningless tasks until you retire.

Wow.

And so

like a great book.

I put a paperclip in the cup.

But guess what?

Wow.

Interesting things end up happening.

But I started watching the show and then like 10 minutes in, and Gary Oldman plays the main character.

Um, it's great casting.

And 10 minutes in, I was like, I think I want to read this book.

He's an old man.

Yeah.

And so then I never do this, but I tore through all of them.

I read them all in a row.

I just really enjoyed them.

They're like, they're very, they're very like fun to read.

They're very absorbing, great stories.

And so

I started what I so there.

There's also a series of, I got all cut up.

I read all of them.

But there's some novellas that he wrote also in that world.

And so I'm currently reading the last two of those that are available.

That's cool.

I was at my parents' house, trapped at my parents' house for like a week.

You were trapped in your parents' house?

This is 10 years or so ago.

You can't even sing that right now.

Single midget things.

They have library.

They have books they check out.

That's the worst thing he's ever done.

They have books they check out from the library all the time.

So like I was trapped there, so I just started reading one of their books.

And it was a mystery novel, and it was like, obviously not written very well.

But I was like, oh, let me check out.

And it was a popular series I read of like, oh, these are popular.

I read it and I was just like, I had nothing else to do.

And there was one black character.

And I could not believe this is like a modern book because everything that the black character said, they took out like the ings.

They just had ing apostrophe.

And that was bad enough.

And she was always saying things like show enough instead of sure enough and stuff like that.

And I was just like, I can't believe this is a popular book, current book.

And this is a book series.

And then at one point towards the end, the murderer came out and the black character said, feats don't fail me now.

No.

It was crazy.

This is insane.

It was insanity.

I wish I could remember what it was.

And it was popular.

I was like, wow.

It gave me such an insight into like

middle America of just like what is still acceptable.

But was this like a 21st century book?

Yes.

And was it like Richard North Patterson or somebody like that?

It wasn't someone that big.

It was like a semi-popular.

It was like

a woman wrote these like charming mystery novels and it was a series and it was just like dang.

It was crazy.

I was listening to your podcast, The Scott Hasn't Scene.

You're welcome.

And that line in the bodyguard, I don't, I saw that movie, I guess,

a million years ago.

I've never seen it.

Where he talks about Kevin Costner says, he goes, you know, who always gets killed?

The mouthy black chauffeur or whatever.

It's very weird.

So weird.

Very uncomfortable.

Very strange.

Anyway, speaking of uncomfortable, I'm reading a good book.

We're going to continue doing the show.

Yeah, but we have to take a break.

Can I tell you what I'm reading?

No, we have to take a break.

Cliffhanger, Cliffhanger, Cliffhanger, we have to take a break.

When we return, we'll find out what book Lauren is reading that she likes on the freedom episode that continues next.

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Previously on Freedom.

I'm reading a book that I really like.

I'm ready to help you.

Lauren, what but how is your Jamba juice, by the way?

It's good.

I haven't had one in such a long time.

I had one on tour.

You know, there's one in the airport.

I've been kind of letting myself get a little jamba from time to time.

It's pretty fun.

Yeah, it tastes pretty good.

So the book that I'm reading is called Such a Fun Age.

How to get a Jamba juice.

Yeah.

It's right here actually.

How to get a jamba juice.

It's called Such a Fun Age by Kylie Reed.

It was the winner of the tour, it was long listed for the 2020 Filmer Prize.

It's really good.

I'm really enjoying it.

Everyone was posting about it like a couple of years ago.

You even brought it here.

That's it.

Well, I brought it in case I had a chance to read when I was out a little earlier.

During the show.

Yeah.

I don't blame you.

But I'm really liking it.

I highly recommend.

All right.

Yeah.

All right.

It's about this woman who

there's like a rich woman who has

two kids and she has a babysitter.

And so you kind of are witnessing.

You're witnessing the babysitter's experience in her life and that woman's experience in her life.

And then there's this connecting thread that fucks up their whole

existence.

And I only, I'm not far enough to even

know where it's going.

I'm getting right to the really juicy part.

And so I got to just wait.

So it is about John Bo.

It is.

Yeah.

It's about Strawberry Whirl.

Any boosts?

No boosts.

No boost.

You get one free boost.

But I haven't done boosts since old days.

I actually feel like boosts are a placebo.

Yeah.

I think that's safe to say.

I'm reading War and Peace.

Mike actually read that during the pandemic.

Speaking of Mike, he did his second season of his web series.

Yes.

And Paul was in it, and so was I.

I was.

And I heard your part was so funny, and I cannot wait to see it.

It was really fun.

Can I say what it was?

No, don't say yet.

Yeah.

But I did hear, he walked me through what your whole thing was, and I was dying.

It's so funny.

I can't wait.

Yes.

And I saw a picture of you also in it.

And I'm wearing a beautiful wig.

I'm wearing my little Reno wig.

Yeah.

Which is stunning.

And I, which is stunning.

I really like how I feel in it.

I get that.

And that wig special.

Like in that wig.

Yeah.

Why don't you wear that wig?

Because it's not attractive.

It's so funny.

But it's, but it's funny.

Yeah.

And it just feels great.

And my character was like an idiot.

So it just felt great to have that wig.

It is fun when you get to do a character thing where you have a wig or

some kind of weird makeup or facial air, and it just totally makes you look different.

Oh my God.

Well, that's like why I feel like actually

people who win Oscars for like roles where they're in like a ton of prosthetics.

I'm like, yeah.

Brendan Fraser in the whale.

He's maybe

about to.

That's what everybody else is.

I haven't seen that.

Has it come out?

I haven't

known if it came out.

Scott just got a screener.

I'd like to watch that.

I hear

mixed perspectives on that.

Right.

But

some say he's too fat.

I'm hearing mixed nuts.

What is this box you have here?

Conversation.

We've played this game once before.

Oh, okay.

That's for later.

It looks like a little caviar snack.

Oh, I thought that was your

caviar snack.

No, dear.

It's not.

Do you think these headphones would fit in that box?

He's an idiot, don't you know?

To be honest, I have not looked above your chin.

No, my eyes are so sad.

Well, you know, actually, that's a,

if you're staring at his chin, this is great because you could pick him out out of a lineup.

This is a great tip.

If you're being attacked,

just look at the chin.

Stare at their chin.

You will not, the face throughout the whole attack.

As much as you can, really process what they're doing.

Really relax and enjoy yourself.

Because

that's supposedly an easier way to pick someone out of a lineup.

Because when people all look similar, that they've changed.

The chin is the distinguishing feature.

Also, if you have to do like really fast pirouettes, you won't get dizzy.

Yeah.

Focus on the chin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you ever take ballets cut?

I did.

Wow.

What?

What do you mean?

I didn't expect him to say yes.

Why did you do that?

I went to theater school.

That's not ballet.

First position, third position, fifth position.

I didn't know everybody would have to, it was required.

Yeah.

And I didn't like it all that much.

I took it as a child, and then I

was pretty quickly.

Put my whole weight on my dumb toes?

No.

A lot of my physical.

Recipe for disaster.

A lot of my physical therapy for my foot recently has been like very

kind of almost ballet stuff of like, you know, okay, now get into like sort of first position.

Do this kind of walk and all that.

How's your foot coming along, by the way?

It's all right.

I still have nerve damage.

Yeah, same.

Do you think it'll ever be the same?

No, that's the thing.

When you fuck up your body at our age, it's done.

It's done.

It's over.

That was the one ankle you had.

Yep.

I'm done.

I'm over.

No, it's that.

My doctor says, says, like, yeah, everything should go away in time.

So, but uh, that's very bleak to nerve damage.

Everything should go away.

I've been, you know, I've been rubbing on it is a little CBD.

Yeah, man.

It's 420.

Rolling down a frozen

old gene, all my money, and my money, all my mind.

Stephanie Allen's mom has opened

a store

in

Palm Springs

and she's selling all sorts of amazing little wares.

And one of the things that she is selling, which she created, is this amazing box.

And Stephanie gave me one and I'm so excited about it.

It's basically a charcuterie board, but it's CBD gummies.

So you get

a plate with a knife and then these beautiful CBD gummies and you and you cut them up.

It's not THC, it's CBD.

So it doesn't get you stoned.

It just makes you feel relaxed.

And so I'm saying you can put it out at a party.

And it's like just really cute and clever and interesting.

And I love it.

You could put the word gummy on it.

You can't control what's put on it after you own it.

Okay.

But the idea is the CBD gummies, and I love it.

I think it's such a fun idea.

Isn't that cute?

It is.

That's cute.

And she's an artist, and she designed the box.

It's all painted and pretty.

I want to get more into that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Like, because, well, like, gummies and stuff.

I love box.

Well, you know, like, when I see a cat get in a box, I'm like, oh, that's so good.

Is he in there or is he not in there?

Called Mr.

Schrodinger.

Ah,

college boy.

He knows a thing or two about stuff.

But like,

every time I do, like, we, we have gummies in the house that we indulge in occasionally.

Janie, more than me.

And then every once in a while.

Every once in a while, I'll have one.

Not a gummy.

There it is.

There it is.

Well, we've been waiting for that.

And you know what?

I enjoy it.

Sometimes it doesn't work at all.

Oh, gummies

mess me up.

But

when one works, it's like, this is fun.

Oh, yeah.

Like, I enjoy this.

Yeah, it's great.

And it's like, but I don't think of it as a relaxation thing.

It's not like that.

It doesn't come to mind.

Like, you're more like glass of wine style.

Yeah, it's usually on the weekends.

I'll have three bottles of wine.

On the weekends, I'll have a bottle of wine at night.

Yeah.

And then nothing throughout the week.

Yeah, I love that.

But

I do forget that, oh, yeah, it's legal.

I could just do that.

And it would be, you know, the next day I'm not going to be hungover, you know,

watch a weird movie, have fun.

I had a doctor's appointment this week.

Awesome.

Yeah, it was great.

I got a physical, you know,

which actually I haven't done in a very long time.

I feel like let's get into physical.

As a woman, I feel like you go to the doctor a lot, but it's not a physical.

It's like your OB.

Yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

And that kind of feels like it

covers all the bases, but I, then I don't, yeah.

So I'm like, now I'm, I'm like planning to do that.

And

they asked me if I,

or you have to fill out the form with what you drink and if you do drink or smoke cigarettes.

And then it's like, I put down marijuana, which is funny because you can't write marijuana.

And then they're like, okay.

And then she was, she's just like this young, it was like a nurse talking to me, but she's like asking me about my weed usage.

And it's like, it's just very funny because it's the same as drinking.

This is not like revelatory.

It's just like in one of those moments.

It feels like you're writing something illegal.

Like, I'm like, oops, I did smoke a little weed.

Sorry.

Judgments.

I'm just trying to be honest with you.

The drugs.

Yeah.

Well, the weird, the thing

they will really judge you for is smoking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like they, I don't, I found that doctors don't really care about the drinking.

They don't, as long as you just go for the drinking, like, you know, like twice a week.

You know, just lie.

Just say twice a week.

But they, they really judge you for the drink.

At a wedding, maybe I'll have a drink.

Smoking cigarettes.

Yeah, smoking cigarettes, they'll be like, yeah, uh.

Yeah.

Stop right away.

I had a doctor once when I said how much coffee I drank.

I said I drink three cups of coffee in the morning.

He went, oh, whoa, hey, yeah, you maybe want to cut back on that.

That's a that's, I mean, although I guess if you go to the market, you're being judgmental like the doctor.

Well, it seems like a little bit much.

Well, he seemed, he seemed like alarmed, and I was like, Is that bad?

I didn't think that coffee was that bad.

Well, what is it?

I don't know.

I drink now.

I drink two cups.

I guess it's the caffeine.

Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah, probably.

Do you drink more than three cups of coffee?

I have one cup of coffee in the morning.

That's it.

And we used to, when we lived by

coffee bean we would always walk rock excuse me yeah and tea leave so sorry tea leave

um we would walk the dog it was an excuse every day to walk walk the dog

tricks of course walk the dog yeah my yo-yo i'd walk the dog in front of coffee bean i'd make you go to sleep i would do it for all the customers

But it was always an excuse to get like a big

like coffee drink.

Well, that seems kind of fun.

If you live right by a nice coffee shop.

Yeah, it was a five-minute walk or whatever.

Enjoy it.

And sometimes that's why people buy places is they're like, oh, it's just a five-minute walk to a coffee place or whatever.

But first of all, my financial person was like, you know, I see you're spending a lot of money at coffee, bean, and tea leaves.

Maybe you've got to be.

Have you been having too much avocado toast, you millennial?

Sort of.

It's kind of a weird one to pick on because you just feel like,

well, I'm sure you were spending more money in other areas.

Sure.

Say to your accountant, can I please have one goddamn pleasure in my life?

Can I get a fucking coffee in the morning for however much it is?

But when you really think about it, it's like between Kulop and I, it's like $12 a day or whatever, right?

So she's like, maybe you could drink coffee at home.

And then the other part of it is like, you're putting 600 calories or whatever

every morning, one of those things.

And I talked to another friend who was like, yeah, I was gaining a lot of weight.

And then my friend said, well, you get one of these every single day.

Yeah.

And it's a fancy.

And so we then just got a coffee maker and now have like, I put splenda in it and a little bit of fat-free cream.

And it's like, i drink my coffee black which is which makes it that i don't really enjoy having coffee out yeah you know what i mean i don't like i we found our nice coffees that we like that we make at home and starbucks black is terrible right um the blonde black maybe is better maybe but still i'm sorry paul i'm sorry for saying that

gotta go to a nice independent store yeah they make it it's too a lot of times it's too much.

You know what I mean?

But I also don't like coffee after a certain, I like coffee in the morning and that's it.

So like if I'm on a set or something like that and say, we're going to do a coffee run, it's like, I'd rather drink like a Coke or something for coffee.

I sometimes feel jealous because I think it seems so fun to have your coffee routine and have like, like when, yeah, when I'm in a city.

Well, just sitting at a Starbucks.

I was like, oh yeah, yeah.

And just sitting at a Starbucks and stuff like that.

I mean, when we were on tour, I would like every morning I would kind of get up early and just go find the nearest coffee place and get something or whatever.

But I would go to Mass.

You'd go to what?

To Mass.

Oh, every day on tour.

Yeah, every day on tour, I went to Mass.

I would find the nearest Catholic church.

You could confess about what you said the night before on stage.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because it's like to entertain people, I say these sinful things.

And then I would have to confess it and know that I was going to do it again.

And, you know, the priest would.

But you need money.

So it's like.

That's what the priest said.

Yeah.

The priest would invariably say, what else are you going to do?

Hey, speaking of doctors, I told you I got a colonoscopy.

You're speaking to priests.

I told you I got a colonoscopy recently.

Oh, yeah.

I still haven't done it.

I got to do it.

No, now they say it's 45 and over.

Dang.

Wow.

These freaks.

I've never done it.

Yeah, I know.

I got to do it.

You could do the color guard first.

I did the color guard first.

I've never done that stuff.

I did color guard first, which is they make you drink a die and it goes out your bones.

This is Chris Parnell box.

Yeah.

Basically, you're going to love this.

I am?

You're going to love this, Laura.

You, of all people, you're going to love this.

Okay, I can't wait.

You

take a shit and put it in a box and mail it to them.

I've done that before.

Put it in a box and mail it.

And the results were hull.

But you could not pay me to be receiving that mail.

Here's what I would bring it up.

If I were them,

I would always send an angry reaction first, like, why did you do this?

And then, like, immediately, just kidding.

Of course, we know this is what we wanted you.

We asked you to do that.

So, wait, you did that first.

So, I did that first.

So, you literally sent your shit in a box.

Yeah.

So, but then

you got shit in the box?

yeah.

So then, then what kind of box is it?

It's a

cube about this big.

And it's cardboard.

You don't just send it.

Do you have to fill it?

So it's with you for like a month.

With you.

Keep going.

Almost there.

But, but the results came back that there was like foreign matter in there.

Which

means.

Pennies.

No, cancer, essentially.

Oh, never mind.

So

you ate a.

I thought a papercoat fell in.

Yeah, I was going to say you ate a screw.

You ate a screw.

So I was like,

you know, that people eat an average of four screws a year?

They just, but they crawl in your mouth at night.

But wait, you, wait, wait, wait.

You, they call it foreign matter?

Well, that's the thing.

They don't know what it is, but they, they say we've, we found foreign foreign matter in there.

So

I looked it up.

I was like, holy shit, do I have cancer?

I looked it up and I was like, they say

just basically these

it's very easy to get a false positive, essentially.

So you need to do a colonoscopy.

So, so my doctor called and I was, and he goes, hey, so your results came back.

He goes, I would not worry at all because there's so many false positives.

You need to get a colonoscopy, obviously, but because when this positive comes back, you have to get one, but just don't even like stress about it at all.

Like, don't put it out of your mind.

Because that could lead to cancer.

Yeah.

So I went and got the colonoscopy.

And, you know, they give you all the drinks and all that, and you're supposed to fast.

And I, I question,

you could have skipped the shit-in-the-box step because you technically, at your age, have to do that anyway, right?

Like, no, no, no.

If you, if you get the, if you do the color guard thing and you pass it, you don't have to get it.

So it is worth it to shit in the box.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's no such thing as a false negative.

And isn't there such a thing as seeing something in your actual intestinal tract that is not seen on poop?

I don't know.

Like if there's a little guy in there who's like, I leave you, you gotta keep me out.

I'm like, I'm trapped in the way of What are you?

I'm not a doctor, by the way.

So, I

don't think people should not.

Sometimes I have to remind you guys that.

I always put a lot of people in the middle of a suit.

Yeah, I heard on Freedom that I didn't have to get a colonoscopy.

A class action suit.

Don't listen to anything we say.

Speaking of a little guy,

I'm sorry.

So

I did everything by the rules.

Like I'm a rules guy.

Because you were not at 1600 Pennsylvania.

No, of course.

Yes.

The rules remain the same.

You drank the juice.

I drank the juice.

I did.

I fasted everything that I'm supposed to do.

I've never seen the movie, but I get

it.

I recently watched it.

Never seen it.

Cleansed everything out, did everything by the book.

I was like, okay, good.

This was good.

So you could keep your badge in your gun.

And then, yes.

And then also,

I had the surgery, like, the colonoscopy semi-late in the day.

It was like at 9:30.

And they were like, you sure you don't want to do this at like five in the morning so you can eat all the way up to it?

I was like, so I hadn't eaten for like,

you know, 18 hours or something at the point where I got it.

And, um, you know, they put you to sleep.

During that period, what are you allowed?

Water?

And that's it?

I, are you allowed water?

I do not know.

They have to let you drink water.

Not in the morning, definitely.

I think maybe no water 12 hours before it or something like that.

Jesus.

I can't remember, but but so I went there.

I did everything right.

You could eat like cheese.

Yeah.

I mean, like a little bit of cheese.

A little bit of cheese.

Yeah.

Anything that starts to react.

As long as you're just snacking there, okay?

So I go there and I get it, and they put me under, and I go get the thing, and

I wake up and I'm kind of loopy, and I send Adam Scott a weird text.

I had a camera in my ass, and I thought of you.

I haven't told him this yet.

That this weird text.

Like about five hours later, he responded.

I was like, no, never mind.

Sorry.

But why did you do it?

I meant to on the last show we did.

I'm going to tell him on the next one.

I get it.

Oh, you know what the reveal, yeah.

But, but, uh,

and so the doctor comes and he goes, hey, everything looks good.

And then he goes, did you do all the stuff we wanted you to do?

I'm like, what do you mean?

He goes, did you fast?

Did you do all the thing?

Because he goes, it's kind of a mess down there.

Wow.

I go, yeah.

I go, yeah.

And, you know, this is your job.

You clean it up.

It's like

rude.

I take my car to the mechanic and like, I'm not cleaning up the oil spills.

Like, I'm not apologizing them.

The story is sick.

What I'm envisioning is sick.

What he had to experience.

And this can't be the first time this has ever happened in a colode.

Nobody wants to catch you in a lie.

Nobody wants to shame you.

You didn't do it, did you?

You didn't really drink the stuff.

I did everything.

All right, we have to take a break.

Well, are you fine?

Oh, Lauren can.

How are you?

No, he mentioned you.

He said everything looks good.

We'll be right back.

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And guess what, everybody?

Yay!

Guess what?

Three church times.

Hey, you know what, though?

Do we have any voicemails?

Oh, I'd love to hear one.

Does Matto Matt

number dude?

You've been more of a mocking number.

All right, we do have a three tree here.

While Matt is looking,

our producer is looking, we have a game that was sent to us, a physical game that was sent to us by Xantor the Magician.

Oh, he played it once before.

Oh, we did.

And it's a game called

Conversation, The Game about the game.

Just follow the one rule on your card and have the most ridiculous conversation you've ever experienced.

Oh, that's fun.

With cards like only ask questions, initiate another player, imitate another player, speak in an appropriate volume.

It's easy to see why everyone's been talking about this game.

So basically, we each get one card, right?

And we do a season.

That's a fun idea.

Everybody gets a prompt, and then you have to figure out what the other person's.

I think this is fun for Christmas.

I think

it's fun for Christmas.

When you're around with the whole fam.

Who gives a fuck about Christmas?

Who gives a fuck about Christmas?

Christmas.

All right.

All right.

So we're passing out the cards right now.

What?

Wait, wait, it doesn't make any sense.

Okay, wait.

Take it back.

What do you mean it doesn't make any sense?

My card just said friends.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

That is weird.

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

Okay.

I've got mine.

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to do it.

Right.

Okay.

Part of the fun.

Yep.

And then we have to guess what the thing was.

Yeah.

Yes.

You have to guess what the other people's things are.

All right.

Okay.

Well, hey, man.

Hey.

What's going on?

What's it going on?

How's it hanging?

What's it going on?

It's hanging pretty great.

I have great news.

Really?

So, you know how I wanted to start my own Tower Records?

Yes.

It's opening up next week.

Whoa, that sounds groovy.

Yeah.

Yeah, remember when you had that concert that you played at where you were like, I like you said you could play guitar, but then you actually couldn't?

Yeah, it sucked because the fuzz came and broke it up.

Darn it, I missed that.

Yeah, well, just because you were in jail.

It was, it was pretty groovy.

You were.

Let's not bring up the dang jail.

But you were in jail.

It was.

And I mean, did you ever tell him why you were in jail?

Yeah.

Why, why'd they throw why?

Why'd those pigs throw you in jail?

Well, shoot.

I was being naughty with the law and doing things that the law considered naughty.

And so they were like,

guess what?

You jerk.

Man.

You're going to jail.

And I went there.

Wow.

Wow.

You didn't even smoke any reefer or anything like that?

I did not do anything

like

messed up.

That's a lie.

What do you mean that's a lie?

You

climbed into the giraffe area at the zoo.

The giraffe area.

The giraffe area.

You said that you could ride one.

You pulled one's tail till it got on its knees.

You climbed on its back.

You held on to the neck and you swung around it over and over and over again.

What the fudge?

That is absolutely not true.

It's absolutely true.

Scott, I'm sorry.

He missed your concert because he was doing something so absolutely.

This is blowing my mind, man.

This is...

This is tripping me out.

She's She's a dang liar.

This is trippy.

I'm not a liar.

I just,

I just, I'm saying something you don't want to hear.

Whoa.

This is not how friends behave.

Can't we all just like, you know, join hands and, you know, kind of like.

You know, the last time you did that, wasn't that a really fun time?

You got everyone to join hands across America?

Yeah, it kind of turned into a big thing.

Yeah, I was like, you know, I was like, hey, man, this is just like really

putting us into a peaceful mindset.

You know what I mean?

So it was really cool to join hands with everybody.

It was just really, it was really groovy.

Crumbs.

I'm sorry I missed that.

Yeah.

Do you guys feel ready to guess?

Yes.

Sort of ready.

Yeah.

You're like.

You can't swear.

Yes.

Fake swears.

Fake swears.

Yes.

You are a hippie.

You're using hippie sling.

Hippie slang.

Yeah.

And you are telling everyone secrets?

You're accusing people of things.

Bringing up stories about players can be fictional.

Okay.

Can be fictional.

Vincent can be.

All right.

All right.

Pretty good.

Yeah, let's give it another shot.

Give it another shot.

Are we supposed to disguise what we're doing?

Maybe.

So that no one can guess.

Okay.

Some of these are different colors.

Yeah, the ones that are different colors maybe are the

categories.

This one that says rank.

Yeah.

There must be some sort of color.

It doesn't mention that on the fucking thing.

Well, thanks, Zoltar.

It's Xantar.

He doesn't grant wishes.

Zoltar.

The number.

All right, we're passing out of the cards.

We're all looking at them.

One guy.

Got it.

Did Zoltar ever give out any other wish, or was it just because

Little Tom Hanks was such a good one?

He wasn't plugged in.

He was, you know, it was a dream.

But did he give wishes to everyone who came over?

Or was it just like, hey, everybody else saw the plug and they're like, I guess it doesn't work.

Yeah, why?

You know, it's so, I tried to show big to my nephews this summer and they didn't really care at all.

And isn't that weird when something's such a classic and

a modern generation is just like for whatever reason, they're just tuning out and just going like, this doesn't I know, or it's like just the wrong time of day, they just don't want to sit down.

But I'm like, I wish I could just force them to watch every movie that I want them to watch.

Yeah.

Well, you can.

You can be mandatory.

Also, they need to do the big sequel with Elizabeth

and Colin Hanks as the grown-up version of Tamami.

Yes.

And just see how weird it is.

They reconnect and connect.

And

they run into each other somewhere in Manhattan.

Oh my God.

I would love to.

That's actually a brilliant idea.

Yes.

Right?

And it's like, oh, yeah, we did fucking.

Because it's not like.

And then maybe she makes a wish of some kind.

To get younger in his age.

Yes, and then he gets convicted of statutory rape.

No, no, she wants to be

his age, like 40.

And then what happens, then he's like, I liked you for who you were.

And he's like, I like 20-year-olds.

Yeah.

Like, could you make another wish?

Just one more.

All right.

Ready?

All right.

Oh, sorry.

Oh, you didn't look at your card.

I forgot it.

Jaws.

All right, here we go.

All right, company meeting time.

This is the time for the company meeting.

Oh, the time for company meeting is among us.

We are going to,

let's just like sit around and everybody say

things that, you know, you're experiencing here working at Jamba and, you know, things that you feel could be improved, things that you're loving.

Of course, we like to, you know, we love to like hear things that you're loving as much as things that you are, you know, wanting to change.

Well, I would like to say,

you know, it's such a pleasure to be here among all of you and to be selling these juices to people that really need them.

I don't think the boosts are doing anything.

Is that fair to say?

That's one perspective.

So,

hey,

Darren,

Darren?

Yes.

Did you hear what Bamba said?

Bamba?

Bamba Jamba?

He was I mean he was he was talking about Jamba Jews of course yeah I think anyone could have say could have guessed that but was I correct you were

so

I did a good job

sure all right um look I guess I'll just call out the elephant in the room um Darren you don't pay attention to shit that's going on you're

you're thinking your life is more important than ours it's absolute bullshit

just among us I agree with you about Darren.

What?

Darren,

do you can you hear us?

Yeah, I'm paying attention.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

It sounds like you're lying.

Why?

Because like you literally say

like what after everything that

is being said.

Maybe you should get your hearing checked because when you're among people, you're supposed to get your mouth truthful.

Because right now you're saying a bunch of bullshit.

Bamba.

Okay, don't use his name against him.

That is his given name.

Thank you.

Among my people, it's a fantastic name, like Jodi.

So it's a little bit uncommon yet known and liked.

Precisely.

Okay.

You categorized it perfectly.

So

I want to just draw everyone's attention to the board.

Darren?

Yeah.

What?

Okay.

Look, I'm actually going to quit.

What?

I don't like, I don't want to.

I like that.

You won't be Amoong Us anymore?

I don't care about working here.

So why do you say Amoong?

Zamba.

Why do you say Amoong?

What are you talking about?

Quit, Zamba.

I'm Samba Jamba, and I don't want to work here anymore.

Well, I'm Bamba Jamba, and I need you amoongus.

And you're Darren Jones.

I'm the only one who's not a legacy hire.

You changed your name from Darren Bowie.

Yeah.

That should have stayed among us.

Darren Bowie.

yeah

all right do we feel ready yeah I mean I don't know either of you guys use the word among not just among

mispronouncing I have to say amoong use the word amoong once per turn really yeah it's like the easiest one to fucking guess he only noticed it once

and you aren't listening i'm distracted okay that's why you didn't hear him yeah and distracted but then you went into pure aggression When you heard what was

if you come at me,

I have no idea what yours is.

Yeah, you're calling a meeting.

You're a woman?

Use filler words like uh, um, etc.

You just sounded like yourself.

I did not.

I added them all the time.

I didn't say that.

I added them all the time.

All right, one more.

Okay, let's do another one.

Another one.

Another one.

Huh, interesting.

Okay.

Well, Scott got an interesting one.

That's good.

I think.

Oh,

I think I didn't.

Oh, I need to look down where the cards are.

Pastor.

Hey, everybody.

I want to say thank you so much.

I really appreciate you all being here.

I'm so sorry I wasn't earlier.

No, I'm just grateful for your presence.

This really means a lot to me.

That does mean a lot to me, too.

Oh, I'm so glad.

I appreciate that because you only turn 40 once.

Do you?

And

I guess you do.

Yeah.

And

thank God.

And I'm actually, I'm so sorry.

I thought you were already 40.

I know I said that last week.

And

you don't look

a day over 39.

Thank you.

I appreciate that because it makes me feel like I'm mature, you know, that I give you different.

Do you feel different?

And I also appreciate you saying that I look a little bit younger than I am.

Do you feel different at all?

Yeah, you know, I'm really

just reflecting on life and really, I'm so appreciative of

all the people in my life, of all the wonderful places I get to go, of all the

beautiful smiles that I see.

What about your friends?

Do they share these feelings?

God, I hope so.

I think they do.

I'm so sorry.

That makes me so zoning out for a second.

That was so rude of me.

I'm really, really, I apologize.

Don't you wish you were paying attention?

I actually do because I really don't know what you're talking about.

That's okay.

You know, I just am glad that you're here.

I'm sorry I didn't say that first.

I'm glad you're here.

Thank you.

I should have said it.

Oh, my God.

Thank you.

I don't have anything to apologize for.

Yeah.

Well, no, you don't.

And I appreciate that.

I'm so sorry to bring it up, but you did do that one bad thing.

What did I do?

I'm so glad you mentioned that.

I'm so sorry.

You pooped in the sink.

I didn't.

Okay.

Don't say that.

No, I'm really sorry I said it.

I just feel like it's true.

Don't ever spread that rumor about me because I did not do that.

Where do you think it came from?

Just wondering.

Don't you think there are other people that you could implicate with this?

Can I say everything?

It was foreign matter, and it seemed like it was yours.

I feel so privileged to be with people who can be this open.

And I can't believe how lucky I am.

I don't feel that way after during which.

Oh, my God.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable.

You didn't?

No, I really didn't.

I'm so, and I'm really sorry if I did.

Don't

come at me with these fake

to me that you were standing up for yourself.

I really, really wish that I had not said what I said.

I wish you didn't say that either.

Well, I'll take it back.

I'm really, really sorry.

Don't even bother.

Don't even bother.

Please forgive me.

Sometimes I do.

Okay.

Oh, see, sometimes conflict is a gift.

And aren't we so lucky?

Aren't I so lucky to have

the opportunity to bear witness to something like this?

Thank you both.

I'm so sorry to even make you make that speech because I feel like

I'm not worthy of it.

I appreciate you saying that so much.

I do too.

Okay.

Okay.

Are we?

Okay.

I think that you

are overly appreciative.

Be overly thankful.

Nice.

You copy what he's saying.

No.

No.

Okay.

You, you, you, uh, take, what do you think it is?

I don't know.

I think you're apologetic.

Yeah, I'm overly apologetic.

Right.

Mine, I did it

and I just did it.

And I'm doing it now.

You're making intense eye contact?

No, I always do that.

Wait, I'm still doing it.

What?

I have to use a conjugation of do every single time I talk.

That is crazy.

You know what, Xantor?

Fuck you.

Xantor, not today.

Not today, Xantor.

Not today, Xantor.

Not today.

Well, that was fun.

That was a good creature.

Matt, any

no, that's maybe next time.

Oh.

Okay, well, you know what?

Great Cliffham.

Big Cliffham.

Mixie H.

Look, if you're not listening to us three visit on the twos, what are you doing with your life?

Every Tuesday, we're re-releasing our old original episodes, like old original from behind the paywall.

From behind the paywall for free.

And you can hear them and you can like them.

Yep, you can love them.

And hey, if you want to follow us on Instagram, it's at threedomusa.

That's right.

We're also that on Twitter.

Is that still around?

We're taping so far in advance.

As of this recording, Twitter is still around.

We're so far in advance.

We're about five days in advance, and I don't think it'll still be around.

When is this coming out?

When are people hearing this?

Last Thursday of December, I believe.

Okay.

My true love gave gave to me.

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Great.

Do you have anything?

What's come out?

Why weren't you paying attention when I just said it?

Because I was on my phone.

Oh, okay.

That's cool.

Last Thursday of December, I believe.

Oh, please.

Okay, my live show is January 14th at Dentisty Typewriter.

It's sold out, but you can get live stream tickets, which are available.

Please watch.

It's a great lineup.

I posted on my Instagram.

You can see everyone is playing.

It's John Gabris, Sean Diston, Jason Manzukis, Mary Holland, and Nicole Byer.

It's going to be good.

I am currently in New York City.

I'm looking for barbecue sauce.

And

I'm doing shows with Amy Mann and Ted Leo.

They're doing their post Christmas, Christmas show.

I love that.

At City Winery.

So we're there tonight and then tomorrow and then January 1st.

Oh, interesting.

We have New Year's Eve.

We're going to be happy New Year's Eve there.

Yeah.

What are you going to do on New Year's Eve?

Probably sit in a hotel room.

I love that.

Cool.

I'll probably get blind drugged.

Is Janie gonna be with you?

No,

she was threatening to come up.

She'll be in South Carolina.

That sounds awful with her mommy.

I'll come up and see you.

Oh, my God.

Sometime?

New York on New Year's.

That's so much fun.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

I remember one that I spent after the fish shows where I was just really hungover.

And then on New Year's Day, I had tickets for a matinee of follies, and I was so just hungover and sick.

And watching that show was just

torture?

Yeah.

Great.

All right.

So that's something you can do too.

Goodbye.

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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