"Clothing Rental Services" w/ Courtney O'Donnell

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:17):
Podcast starts now.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:20):
Welcome to Stradia Lab. We are coming at you coast
to coast, Georgia, New York, Salmon, Los Angeles, California, and
yet we're making it work.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Something we haven't I don't think said officially and on
the record, is that ever since you moved to LA,
recordings are now always on Fridays because you have Fridays off,
so it is near constant TGIF vibes at Radio Lab HQ. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think people will really notice a shift in tone
where you know, when we start this podcast, it was
sort of cranky.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
We were sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Always being like, oh God, what a horrible mood I'm
in now Because we only record on Fridays, we are
elated to be here every single time. We are planning
our big weekends, and we are like, you know, schools
out for summer. It's kind of yeah, dishonest.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think I think this is what I'm actually currently
struggling with. If I may be so bold as to
be vulnerable, because being vulnerable there is strength in it.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yes, thank you for saying that, And that is.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
The topic of my new collection of essays called Unclench
Your Job Bitch exclamation point.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I liked your previous title. That was what armor.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, they told me that, they told me at the
big publishing house that would actually be too raw. Yeah,
and I get that, I really get that.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's just so visual, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
You know what's interesting is the sort of language of
vulnerability has been so commodified and over commodified and like
appropriated in a cynical way that now when someone is
actually vulnerable, I am naturally suspicious.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I don't try to anyone who's vulnerable. Whenever someone's vulnerable,
I'm like, okay, so you want profits, Yeah, what are
you trying to tell me? Then stop it. Just tell
me something fake about yourself and be honest with that.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I'm I almost feel this is an insane thing
to say, but I almost feel like I also because
of that, trust truly the institution of therapy and psychoanalysis
less than I ever have, because I'm like, well, if
this was real, they wouldn't be able to make podcasts
about it.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, needless to say, it's all false. Wait, you were
about to be vulnerable And then we got on a tangle.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well, I was just gonna say, I'm actually I really
am in a world historically bad mood for a Friday,
And you know, when you are almost are trying to
sort of bang your head against the wall and say
to yourself, be in a better mood, be in a
better mood. But that's not working somehow. And so I
came in and I'm already you know, I feel I

(03:56):
feel already guilty for not being for not being elated enough.
That it's because I've been in a tg Well, I
think I've been in a tj IF mindset every Friday
in twenty twenty four, and this is the first one
where I feel like I'm filing Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, I want to say thank you for sharing that.
You know, it's so brave of you to say you're
feeling Tuesday when it is, in fact a Friday. And
I think many many people at home, Yes, you feel
like you're being vulnerable, but people are gonna see that,
and they're gonna say, look, I'm in Florida and I
feel Tuesday on a Friday, and they're going to feel
seen and heard because of you.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I hope. So I hope that my story can inspire others.
I do think that I I've decided that my personality
and my vibe is like sort of Daria every day.
But then on Fridays, I'm like Charlie XCX DJing under
a bridge.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, I what am I? On Monday through Thursday, I'm like,
I'm literally just like a father, Like I like have children,
I like live in the suburbs. I go to work,
I come home, I'm like, I just need a half hour.
And then I change out of my work clothes and
then I say what's for dinner? And then I watched
two episodes of television and then I go back to sleep.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, I think you are fully father, And then I
am I really have been bratty teen, I would say
in twenty twenty four, I've been bratty teen, bratty teen,
bratty teen. Yeah, like honestly Rachel mcadam's and the family stone,
like in pajamas, rolling her eyes at everyone around her. Yeah.
And then Friday is really the one day where I

(05:33):
wake up and I say, you know, for today, I'm
gonna be jojo siwah.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's so beautiful for me. Every Friday, I you know,
I realize, you know, this life I'm living is a lie.
I look at my wife and I say, we aren't
in love. And I look at my children and I say, yeah,
who are you, and then I really I come out
of the closet every single Friday.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh yeah, that's both. I mean it's bittersweet, you know,
it's it's really bitter. Are It's empowering you are finally
being yourself. But on the other hand, you're too. Children
are going to be scored for a life. And that's
something a lot of people don't talk about with these
self empowerment narratives, that there are victims.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
There are, of course victims, and I victimize my children
every single Friday, and when I come out of the
closet and remember, wait, I'm a LGBTQ plus and I
need to go out tonight.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah. Well, but it also does in the long term
benefit them because they can potentially write a book of essays. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
No, I mean even just win at sort of a
college event, and like if someone's like, you're being problematic,
and they're like, actually, my dad's fucking gay.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oooh, that's a good point. Maybe they can make an
inspiring speech in the halls of Congress War day.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
You know, it's really unfair when a straight guy was
raised by like a lesbian couple. Yes, and he like
has all this wisdom and gets to be so sensitive
and also still is straight, and you're like, okay, you're
supposed to have a trade off, you're not actually doing
a trade off. Like I know, I hate to have
it all.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I need to see some straight guys raised by gay
male couples.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I've actually never met one in my life.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I've yeah, I mean I would say, well, lesbians have
been doing it longer, and by the way, that's factual.
No one correct me on that because I think lesbian
You know, lesbians have been parents pretty much since the
since ancient Greece, but geor started doing it in the nineties.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, gay guys and even so they always have daughters.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
That's actually not true. Not to not to flo out
the rules of improv, but I know multiple gay guys
that have sons. Really, yes, I know a gay couple
who I'm very close to have twin sons. I know
for the writer Ruman Alam who wrote Leave the World Behind,
he has two sons, I believe, okay, with his partner.

(07:51):
I read that in a magazine profile.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, the fact checker has logged on to the child.
Need I go on, Sorry, my gigantic blanket statement wasn't true.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Are you happy now, wait, what am I quoting? There's
like it's like Gaga or something, or it's like are
you entertained? Are you thinking of the Gladiator? Are you not?
In kind of anyway? Should we bringing our guest?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I think that would be so genius.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, normally I would jump at the opportunity to
do the honors, but I do feel like, since you're
in the same room with her, potentially it is your
story to tell.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Sure, well who can what introduction is there to say
she's America's newest girl? Please welcome to the podcast. Courtney
O Donald.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Hello, Thank you so much. I did put a gun
to your head and tell you to say.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah yeah, and I appreciated it because sometimes you know,
you need fear to inspire you.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right, And that's how I work and how I get
the best work done.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah yeah, Courtney, You've sort of managed to carve out
the space for yourself as a pro gun comedian.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah. I'm doing a lot of NRA tours
this summer, a lot of college campuses where there's like
a right to carry loss.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, I'm super excited. It's a market that's actually si lucrative.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no, that's awesome. I've been to your house.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It's huge, right, yeah, thank you?

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah yeah, and just really well decorated. So you know
that comes from gun money.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Makes sense.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, you were a little scared.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Though, I was.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I mean, whenever I go into a house and I'm
like wanded down by there's there's a door.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Man at your house, right and he wants which is
also my boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, he's hot, thank you.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, so I think that's on that.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
He's taken.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Oh my gosh, you're bad. Would you date your butler?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
No, we also George when you were like, I think
that was Gaga, was like truly just like a normal
thing to say, but you're like, oh.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
It had to be lady, that's a GGA quote.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I think it's Gaga.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wait, I've decided. Speaking of would you date your butler,
I think a really funny bit to do is be
at a dinner party or like a cocktail party and
ask a question in the same way that you would
ask like what would you do if your kid was
a Republican? You know, like something that is realistic, but
do that, but for a question that makes no sense,

(10:14):
just be like, okay, guys, go around. Would you date
your butler?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
What would you do if your roommate came home and
was like really anxious, You'd be there for her.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
That would be.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Hard for me.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, it'd be really hard for me.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Are you a supportive friend?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Go?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh my god, thank you for asking. Yes, I am.
I think I'm too supportive though. I always try to
like fix people's problems, which, like, again, is that kind
of like therapy speak? Like everyone's always like, oh, you know,
people please her, but kind of that's who I am.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, okay, next up on the dock, get Courtney. You're
one of the most bicoastal people on earth. How do
you do it?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Honey, thank you?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Fully so rich. I have a private plane that's nice.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
That helps.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, I don't. And someone did ask their like, oh,
like you have own apartment in both cities, which is
not true. I live in LA and I go to
New York a lot and pray off the kindness of
my friends, which is great.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, so you like, are okay with staying with people?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's getting I did it a lot last year and
now I'm just kind of like, Okay, this is so annoying,
especially like you know, you live in La too, you
get how nice it is here. It's sort of like
hard to dare I say slum it when I go
back to New York, you know, I kind of walk
up five flights of stairs. There's no dishwasher, not even
a toilet in some of my friend's apartments.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
No, totally, Yeah, they're doing it dippey style typey style.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I mean it's great because they're in like Nolita, which
is awesome, sure, and like near so many good restaurants,
but like the no toilet thing is annoying.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's so annoying. I mean, I mean the restaurants of course,
to die for.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Of course, the nightlife too.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
The night life is amazing, the culture.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
You just live for it.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
But then you go home and you say, where do
I pee?

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I just think that that some people really care about that,
and like in that case, you can go live in Toledo,
but I don't. Actually a lot of my friends don't care.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I mean, if there's like a cool scene, like a
cool club scene, bar scene, I don't need.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
A bathroom, right, And also like you're just not going
to get that culture anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, God, no, George, you well it's sort of like
how it's sort of like how some people, you know,
some people some people cook at home. You know, lean
New Yorkers would go to restaurants. It's the same, so
some people shit at home. It's like, honey, if I
need to go to the bathroom, I'll go to the
coffee shop.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh yeah, we're going to an all birds, honey, and
we're saying we need to try something on. Yeah. That's
another thing about LA though, there's not a big public
restroom culture.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
People here treat restrooms like they're the most fucking guarded
things on earth. Like you go into a CBS and
you have to buy some of the use of the restroom,
and I'm like why.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, It's like I could go into a restroom and
I could go into someone's.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
House in New York and be in New York, there's
a culture. What was that amendment where.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's like soldiers are allowed to stay with.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
You, Yeah, room and board or something.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
In New York they still have that right totally.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
But for bathrooms.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, LA is weird about it.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
LA is so weird about it.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, in like gas stations where it's like this is
the place famously you're allowed to use the bathroom at
the gas station. That's what they're for.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
They're always like it's out of order, and I'm like,
I don't believe you.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Sometimes. One time, actually in New York City, I got
so upset that I was like that somebody wouldn't let
me use their bathroom. And I was like I was
close to peeing on their floor. I was like, what
would you do? Like where it happens?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Then, I always am like, well, I have my period
and they're like okay, like that's also not that much
of an emergency. Like the worst thing that happens is
like I get my period on myself. You know, it's
like not like a hazard to anyone else involved.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, but if you mention that to a man, he
literally will be like, oh, do you need my shirt? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah right, he puts me on his back.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
He's calling an ambulance. He's like, she doesn't have wong.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
I did once. It was like it was Halloween in
New York and my friend was like peeing on the
side of the road, which is really bad. We were
like in deep Brooklyn, somewhere.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like not public places like William Spurg.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah, we were off of like the Bedford Stop.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
We were like super deep, like scary, scared, scared.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I was scared and she was peen and a cop
car came up and I immediately was like, she's fixing
her tampon, Like what, You're going to take her to
jail for fixing her tampon? And they just like drove
away and they're like, fuck you, You're so annoying.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's so like Girl in New York, you know, like
being like I'm going to fucking tell the cops, like.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
It was very Jessa from Girls. Yeah, totally, but she
actually does I think pee in the street.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh yes, yeah, I think each of them peas on
the street, right, yeah. I think that's how they inaugurate
every new season.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, I love that. I love when shows
have kind of like repetitive montages and motifs.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Totally.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I think I'm huge on motifs.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yes, oh thank you. And I feel like there's no
one talking about that anymore.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
No no one talks about motifs anymore, no one brings
wine anymore, and no one talks about.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Moti My god, it's just gross.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
It's disgusting.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
I want to Okay, fuck Mary kill motifs, themes casting.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Wait, wait you guys, I actually do need to ask
that is a motif, Like, tell me what you think
of and then I'll just.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Ask someone what a motif is. That is so insensitive.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
It's like a recurring thing like you can be like
you know, in our podcast, Lady Gaga is a motif, yes.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yes, right, or like the butterfly reps in this movie
represents Freda.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, and themes are more broad. A theme is like
podcast is sexuality. The theme of our podcast is heterosexuality.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
The last one was casting.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, I was trying to think. I really hit the
ground running with my question, but then couldn't think of
a third thing. That's people, the motif and theme symbolism.
Yeah yeah, motif, theme symbol those are the three. Okay.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would have to marry theme because you know there's
a lot there, there's more hef to it. I think
I would kill motif and I would fuck symbolism because
motif is like, so you're just repeating stuff throughout the piece.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, it's a little bit, you know what. To me,
a motif is have we seen challengers here?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yes? Yes, right?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
The racket, the ball on the racket when He's like,
I'm gonna have sex with your wife. To me, that's
a motif. So it's like that's important to me.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know if that's a motif.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
I tried so hard.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I would say a motif is. I would say a
motif is like, that's not a motif. I would say
a motif and challengers is like, oh god, maybe a
motif and challengers is like conversations as matches, like everything
is a match, like that, that is a motif that
keeps coming up?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
What is it that could also be symbolism like a
mot Oh god?

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I think symbolism is like what about the T shirt?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
The T shirt? I told your T shirt?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
The T shirt that is I guess you're thinking, you're
thinking very concrete, you know, yes, I think the T
shirt is closer to a motif for sure.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Right right right by the way. I I'm recording this
on my own for spark notes. So we do need
like a challengers.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I actually do think I'm gonna go ahead and say
that I told your T shirt is a motif.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Of course, I would fuck motif kill symbolism. Really, I'm
sort of like anything can be a symbol I'm not impressed.
That's what's about it. It takes I think a motif.
What's nice about it is that it recurs a few times,
so it's sort of like having you know that like
a hot guy that you see at a bar every
time you go there. Sure, it's like a gym crush exactly,
exactly like a gym crush. Yeah, and Michief is like

(17:32):
a gym crush. A theme is like, you know, it's
like your forever guy, and then and then a symbol
is just like some random hot guy that you saw
on the street.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
A symbol is like a guy that looks kind of
like a celebrity and you get to be like, wow,
if I had sex with him, and almost be like
having sex with that celebrity.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, it's like a guy that you see on Hinge.
Like every time you download, it's like he says new here,
and it's like, you're.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Not new here, You've been here for four years.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
You just keep making new profiles.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
One time I hooked up with a guy that looked
like Michael Stoolbarg and I just kept saying I hooked
up with Michael Stoolborg.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's that's huge for you.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
It was actually gigantic for me. It was a big moment.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Did I tell you about fame.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I went to a play with Michael stoolbarg recently and
walked out it intermission.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Whoa believe what he did to your friend?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah? I was like, I can't see him the same
way because I know he fucked my friends.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Now, wow, So do you usually walk out of place?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, I've never done it. I think maybe I've done
it one more time in my life, but I I
hate to say it was it was about Putin, and
I want to be clear. I didn't walk out because
I am some stupid, idiot, gay guy who doesn't care
about global affairs in history. I was going to say
that with globals global affairs in history. I live, eat,

(18:51):
and breathe global affairs in history. But you gotta keep
it interesting, right.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
So you walked out strictly due to boringness?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Wow, Now that is that crazy?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
That was what would make you walk out? Politically so boring?
I feel like I would have. You're like, I didn't
know this was anti Putin? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
What the heck?

Speaker 2 (19:14):
He was a good guy, really hard to get where
he is.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Right, Let's be a little more nuanced. Yeah, I walked
out of the I walked out of the Jackie movie.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Do you remember that with with Natalie Portman. Yeah, so
this is I'm actually glad you brought up that movie.
That is a movie that people have been telling me
to watch since it came out, and every I do
feel like there's a mass delusion happening. And I'm like,
I know I'm smart enough to know this would not
actually because.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
No, it wasn't. It was like I was so incredibly
bored and her life is so interesting, and I thought
Natalie Borton Moon was a good cast for it.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
But yeah, I mean anytime I'm this is very ungig
guy of me. Whenever there is like a slow, reflective
movie about some woman in the past, I'm like, yeah,
I know I should want to see this, but I'm
just never going to.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, like Spencer was actually good, you know, the Princess Diana.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's like, well, same director, you know.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well there we go, Honey, something was in the water
when you shot that one, because it's better. But yeah,
I just I do. I like that genre of course,
supporting women and let's hear their stories, but yeah, there
is something kind of like they're like they're kind of
wanting to make it dark and you know, intense.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, why can't it be about Princess Diana going shopping
and having fun.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Right, because that was like kind of her thing. And
Jackie was just more of like a girl's girl. Yeah,
Emily Harris kind of, yes, she's a girl's Kaki.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Jackie was a girl's girl, but she always managed to
find a boyfriend.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Ye, one of those girls never single for longer than
three minutes.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Jackie, Jackie, Jackie.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Should we do our first segment?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, let's do it. Oh my god, Okay, Courtney.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Our first segment is called straight Shooters, And in this segment,
we're going to ask you a series of rapid fire
questions to gage your familiarity with and complicity and straight culture.
It's basically this thing or this other thing. And the
only rule is you can't ask any follow up questions
or we will scream at you so intensely and violently
that they will one day make a patient film about
your time on this podcast. Like Jackie, or like Jackie

(21:29):
or even Spencer.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I would watch a film by a film from that
director starring Courtney.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm playing Margaret Thatcher.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're playing Margaret that You're doing like broad comedy Zoey Deschanel.
You're doing Margaret Thatcher, but via Zoey Deschanel. Everything is like, yeah,
every single scene is like that was awkward.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Okay, then moving on.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Okay, Courtner, are you prepared?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yes, I'm prepared.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, paying the price or selling the sunset? Selling the sunset?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Definitely, Hendrick and Drake have beef or baking a cake
while listening to Big Thief.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Kendrick and Drake have beef.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
So true, Okay. A Nettie pot or a Getty.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Shot Getty shot period.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Subscribing to the New Yorker, or diatribing like your Aaron.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Sorkin, diettribing like your Aaron Sorkin.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Okay, Tagliatelly or Miss Tory.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Spelling fun so fun as shape, questioning authority, or welcoming
the new girl into your sorority.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Welcoming the new girl into your sority.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah I love that, Okay. Dressing on the side or
living life with pride.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Living life with pride, wow wow.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Being attracted to mister Clean or getting redacted by mister Bean.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Being attracted to mister Cline for sure.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Wow Wow. You know I say something. Wait, I'm shocked
that you didn't choose getting redacted by mister Bean.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I like to keep you on your tongue.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, he's got you know, a giant asscoc.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh honey, I've seen it. Let me tell you.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
You know, when mister Bean comes, you're like, damn, this
guy really felt it.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Wait, I need to see Rowan Atkinson. I need to
see Rowan Atkinson do coming as mister Bean.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Oh no, the way that that's literally gooning and I
need it.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Wait that's yeah, okay, they should make.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
An R rated mister Bean. They should make an rated
mister Bean movie. You know, Ron Atkinson is one of
the sort of uh top like anti cancel culture people.
Now oh really Yeah. He loves talking about how you
can't say anything anymore, which I think, which is of
course amazing, because his most famous roles are mister Bean
and like the guy in love Actually like the most
tang possible roles a person can have.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Doesn't mister Bean like not really talking?

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, he's like, you can't say anything anymore and I
never have.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, back then I couldn't say anything, and now I
can't either.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Maybe maybe the entire dy of Mister Bean is a
commentary on cancel culture and how you know men are
being silenced.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Definitely. I in the last year watched Mister Bean's Big
Vacation or yeah so good.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Actually really he's unfortunately one of the great talents.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I was blown away. I was like, I could watch
this man fumble a receipt with a waiter for hours
on end.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
What was his like? Like was that a character? He
was just like doing it like Pinebox's rock Shop, Like
how did he.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Get the thing?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Is? I literally think yes, it's.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Like so funny. It's like that wasn't start.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Back coming that. Yeah, No, it was enough to be like,
so this character basically he doesn't speak.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, well that's sort of you know, we have to
draw the parallel between peewee of course. And he was
also like you know, a Groundling's care And then I
was like okay, and now he's on TV and now
he's like a figure, like an American character, like.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh he has like a ride at Universal Studios. It's
like crazy.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Something I really am very confused by is how Amelia
Badelia does does not have an incredible, hilarious live action.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Film well, simply because no person has the guts to
embody her fully.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
But where is Kristen Wig? Where's you know? There are
so many, like any any of the funny ladies of
Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
You can only jump into which is funny, that is funny,
and she's not hasn't even been on there?

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Mike Myers in a wig? Wait? Sorry, wait you guys,
Chris Rock and a wig?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
You know what I think the problem with Amelia Badelia is,
to be honest, it's just such a written you know.
It's the words that are funny. It's it's not in
the performance. She's a writer's yeah right, writer you think so,
I really do.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
But she does so much stuff that is funny.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Sure, but it's not. It's like funny because she misunderstands words.
It's all in the writing.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Wait, what about Jennie B.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Jones? Well she's a huge bitch.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh okay, Well she's my favorite character growing up, so
I got a lot of inspiration from her, don't.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
You think Jennie B. Jones is sort of like an
origin story for a girl who now is fully QAnon.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
I think she has full ADHD and just looking bad
grades but now as a creative that's why.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh you think, so, yeah, Okay, that's what I think.
I guess those are like the two paths that she
could take, because for me, I'm like, there's evil lurking
in there, like Junie B. Jones wants to hurt people,
and then she grows up and is like doing an
MLM and is really good at it.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Actually, Okay, so she's more like, yes, psychological abuse to yeah,
maybe the girls in her like legging startup or something.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yes, yeah, she's very legging startup. So I guess maybe
if she had some good role models later on, if
she had some professors in college, she could have become
more of like a improv girl.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Creative, right right, right, Okay, I think I'm aligned with that. Yeah,
I'm writing this down. Actually, I'm writing some pilots.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, it's so important to take a familiar ip and
turn it into something so now and so current.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I want Judy B.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Jones.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
But she's like into like domin.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, she like is a sex worker.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
But she like loves well that is literally I mean
that since Barbie then you I think the new thing
is going to be like children's Properties but for adults,
and so Juny B. Jones as a sex worker. Actually
is not far off.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, yeah, maybe it'll be like Amelia Badelia. But she's
organizing her the other maids in a.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Year right right, Oh wow, that would be really important.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
But then she like doesn't understand any of the terms
for you. So she's like something about like signing the
union cards. But then she like misunderstands the word cards
or they're like boycotting, but she does something with a
boy and a cot Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Okay, this is there's like ten episodes right there.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Wait, I'm actually leaving the zoom.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
You have a meeting with paramount.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, should we get into the topic. Yeah, Courtney wrote
an incredible topic today. Please tell us what it is
and also a little bit about what makes it straight
to you.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Okay, So I took a lot of I had a
lot of thought in this idea. I want to share
one that I didn't bring, which is limescooters.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well, well, don't get tim started.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Well, I'm obsessed with them. I've gone on record many
many times saying they saved my life.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Like writing them or someone coming by and saving.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
You, no, riding them. I was so miserable in Los Angeles, California,
until that big day when I couldn't take anymore and
I hopped on limescooter and then I said, this is freedom.
And now I see my whole future ahead of me
and there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Do you drive well?

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Now I do, but as of like a month ago.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Okay, so this was a this was a mode of transportation.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
I was literally stranded every time I would leave my house. Yeah,
and then limescooter saved me. And now I drive a car.
Things are a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, I like a little more freedom.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
I haven't really.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hopped on a scooter since the car, but I do
miss it and I do owe it my life.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
But sorry, I keep going.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Okay, Well, well I'll just say one thing about how
straight there is. Like they're always just thrown in like
the middle of the sidewalk, and I think.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's it's literally like straight guy's bedroom. It's like you walk. Yeah,
it's basically like a startup that makes any street into
a straight guy's bedroom.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
That's so true. You know what I'm surprised that they
don't have is like you know, on like big balls
hanging on a truck like they need yeah, trucknuts for
a limescooter.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Oh they should, Yeah we need that.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Okay, we're starting a company.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Wait.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Also, I'm like, I want to bring back truck nuts.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
I thought I was trying to do joke once for
I like my boyfriend drives a Mini Cooper with truck nuts,
but no one got it, and I was just like,
that's the funny.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thing I've ever said. That is so funny. This is
when audiences don't get things like that. That's when I
become anti cancel culture, right right, right, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
There's also nothing worse than being on stage and being
like that was funny. Like, by the way, that was funny.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I love having an idea and being like this is
really going to work, and then going out and being like,
oh yeah, that's just sort of a thought.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
You care so much about it and you're like this
is the next big thing. Nothing.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I also think the way that Lime scooters even just
like being on the sidewalk and being like it's really
like not it's sort of you know, to take a
former thing. It's sort of a man's spreading situation. Yeah,
really not afraid to take up some space, right and
be a little dangerous. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, they're also filling a need. It's very straight to
see a need, which is that La doesn't have good
public transportation and be like, oh, perfect, let's do a startup. Yeah.
And it's not like with uber it's a lot. Yeah.
No one is like, you know, lobbying the government. No
one is thinking of a more communal, you know way

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to know. They're just like, let's basically litter and give
people little scooters.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
When I was in New York, I felt like, you know,
if only everyone could just bike everywhere, this would be
so amazing, right, and now in La, I'm like, God,
if we could just get rid of those cars and
everyone was Lime scootering.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I know, but it's like imagine Lime screening like on
the one on one.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Literally my fantasy. I would be so happy.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
How fast did they go?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
That's a great I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Did you wear home?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Did like my ride on his limescooters and they look
like too fast, too furious?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
He's playing like Charlie X's.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I mean I would put in headphones and just ride
down the street as fast as I could. It was
so fun.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Wait, I feel about that. I took up much time
about limescooters.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
No, don't ever apologize, okay.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Because it seems like you really care about that. No,
that's great, that's great. You're using public transportation.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, it's actually really helpful. But now I'm normal and drive.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Great. So wait, what's your real topic instead of your
fake topic?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Okay, So my topic is subscription clothing rental companies. So
what we're talking about here is we're talking about the
rent rent the runway. We're talking about Newly and what
I think is really straight about them, And I want
everyone to be clear that's listening or tuning in that
I am a I am a customer. I am like
kind of the main customer. Actually I'm wearing something that's rented.

(32:42):
Oh they did not sponsor me. But what I think
is very straight about it is like this idea of
like renting like funky cool outfits, yeah, but not like
purchasing them, like being too scared to be like, oh
I'm really out there, like I'm going to get this
like you know, metallic silver coat, but it's like all
just wear it for a month. And I think that's
very like by girl straight to kind of just try

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something on but not really like commit to it.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
I love you being like, so it's really straight because
it's very like by.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Girl, that's just the straightest thing you can be.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Now, well, I mean we are not.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And go on your rent by the way, you can
go on the bi girl runt now if you aren't.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
So this is a really fascinating world to delve into
because on the one hand, of course, the inability to commit,
I think is a big part of what you're talking
about is very straight. It's like you can't just decide
what you're you can't just decide what your wardrobe is like,
commit to something you have one life, decide are you

(33:46):
more you know, classic silhouette or are you more TikTok
big pants? No?

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Right, yeah, And it's like I think, like for me,
it's like I just get to be like crazy, you know.
But then like the rest of my closet is sort
of just the basics, you know.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
So it is that.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
There's something about like gamifying a wardrobe that it does
where it's like, you know, most people do have to commit,
and then they have to be like is this worth
the closet space?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Is this worth?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
And you get to instead be like, no, my life
is a startup and yes I have my like these
are my weirds and these are my normals right.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Right, and it's like ooh, this like quirky jack, Like okay.
I think that a lot of gay culture is like
thrifting and really like taking time and finding things that
really matter to you. And I think straight culture is
just like I'll wear this jacket like fuck it up
and just send it back in butt X you know,
which I've never done, by the way, of course.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Not no. I yeah. I think there's also something where
it's like so unsentimental. It is like you aren't like
making a little story about your jacket and being like wow,
like you're like when I open my closet, I see
my jacket and I say, god, when I bought this jacket,
I was so different than I am now, and yet

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it is mine and it like now I'm going to
put new meaning into it, right, And this is such
just like I like the shape, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Oh cool, that'll look like good in like a photo
that's like weird. Yeah, Oh my god, am I like
looking weird? Guys? That's me whenever I try.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
On my This is crazy.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
This is sort of something that I think we have
come back to a few times, which is is it
more consumerist to do the straight thing of like ascribing
no value, no meaning or sentimental value to anything and
just following trends blindly, or is it, in fact more
consumeris to like instill value in commodities and be like,

(35:41):
this shirt is literally my personality, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I think you're sort of in a double behind. There's
no winning.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
I think the second one is gayer, Like I think
like making us a narrative around a piece of clothing
is gayer.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Well, Sam opening his closet and going these are my
stories is kind of the Chayst thing I've ever heard. Sure,
but there's beauty in that, and there's no beauty in
just kind of never having anything to cling to.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I mean, I even like when I am I'm not
telling yourself stories in order to live. When I'm like
going through something, I'm like I need to buy. I
need to have a piece of clothing so that I
will remember this time in my life. From this piece
of clothing, I'll never forget the Buffalo Exchange when I
got my horse printed jacket.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
You know, Yeah, no, it shirt have a story I
know no one can see it.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
This shirt tells the story of I had a shirt
that was similar, that was my boyfriend's dad's shirt that
I loved, but it was ripping and I said, I
need something to replace it. And I got this one
and it you know, and I actually did get it cropped.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
It's a tasteful crop.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yeah, I mean for everyone that can't see, it's your
nipples are out, which I think.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, it's a taste of crop. It goes up above
my nipples. The whole chest is revealed, right, and yeah,
so that's anti cancel culture and spray pain. Yeah, it does,
let me speak. So that's just the story that this
shirt tells. George, is your outfit tell a story today?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
It is so like the idea that you were knowing
I'm wearing a plain black T shirt that you would know.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I don't know what plain black T shirt means to you.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
The fact that you would poke me on the spot
and be like, okay, great, create something funny out of
plain black T shirt. You bitch. We're already zooming you
from we're together in one room, you're alone in your
office in New York. Now say something funny about black
T shirt.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
You don't know it could have like a like a
bar from like North Carolina, like on the.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Back, like we literally don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, you're always at that bar in North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
It's where you lost your virginity.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, you fucked in the bathroom of the bar in
North Carolina. You were so taken because you were like,
oh God, in New York, we don't even have bathrooms.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
I'll say this. So this shirt that I'm wearing is
a very plane T shirt Google Plane T shirt, hit Order. Okay,
but I actually think that's part of this conversation because
it's like I think the gay I think you have
to have basics that mean nothing and then and then
real pieces that each you know, represent how you feel

(38:18):
about your grandmother. Yeah, yeah, whereas the straight fashion, the rent,
the Runway girl, all of them are it's it's sort
of like a middle, middle of the road. Everything is
just like kind of meaningful because she saw it in Vogue.
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Or it's like it's the web. The way the website works.
There's a lot of like different like like four like
wedding guest or even like yeah, there was an era's
tour like section. Oh god, so it's very it's very
straight on there.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, that's tough. That hurts a little.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
But something that I'm really I can't get behind is
these sites are now allowing you to rent phone cases,
which is just absolutely wild to me. Why I have
no idea, like it's ever all the like, because I
was so interested in all the reviews are like I
don't really need I didn't really need to rent this,
but I did and it was super fun just kind

(39:12):
of like show my personality through this face and it's
like just has like like it's just like, you know, monochromatic.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, it's really weird.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
That's bizarre. Yeah, you know what I would like to
rent their own way? What sunglasses they do have that?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Oh wait? Really I've never to me are such a
statement thing that it's like, it's so fun when it's
summer and you can finally wear your sunglasses and that's
your personality, George, you're sounding.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
So New York.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Oh my god, we're wearying them all the time.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
You're wearing them all the time. We're never not wearing them.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
And then what but okay, fine, so let's say you're
wearing them all the time. Oh my God, George, you're
so New York. Why would you Why would you want
different ones? It's so specific to find ones that fit
well on your face because.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
I think, like, okay, I have a lot to say.
I stand on the table. But basically it's like sunglasses
like you have if you're you know, your like crew
or your ray bands whatever that you're like classics. But
then it's like you want a fun pair, but you
don't want to spendour hundred dollars on it, exactly right,
so that there is some save there's some thrift thriftiness
going on here. You know, you can rent bags as well,

(40:16):
we do you think bags make sense?

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, because bags are just so expensive.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
But sunglasses, sunglasses, because they're such a statement thing, like
they are just like, well, sometimes I want to be
that guy, like I want to be a different person
every once in a while, and I yeah, like I
don't want to Yeah, I even there's no glamorous Okay,
but George, you're gonna fight me on this. Maybe there's
no glamorous way to buy sunglasses. It always feels like
a scam. George's screaming, what are you talking about? Any

(40:46):
player you go to buy sunglasses? You're like, this is
a scam.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I want to be on your.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Side, but I am being so persecuted. I'm like, literally,
mister bean right now, like you can't say anything. It's
fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Well you're take, well there's this. I think what I'm
running into is this idea. Like, to me, sunglasses are,
if anything, it's like one of the simplest possible things.
It actually like brings if it's time to buy a
new pair of sunglasses, it like brings me joy because
you sort of can't go wrong. They have to they
you know, even if they're cheap, they look fine. Like

(41:21):
it just doesn't cause me stress in a way that
basically buying anything else does.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
I find a lot of stress in it.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Like I find so much stress in it.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Okay, you know what I meant. It's like those really cute,
like they're like many kind of like very thin sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Uh huh, they don't.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
I can see the rims and it really bothers me.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I mean, and most sunglasses I'm sort of like, why
did you make this? This doesn't work? Yeah, Like there
are very few. We need to disrupt the sunglass industry
for good. Something is going wrong there. We need a
startup because first of all, none of them block out
the sun like I need Yeah, I mean I live
in sunny Los Angeles, California. Sunny is part of the world.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
You need them.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
I need them. I can I'm always blinded by the sun. Anyway,
They ninety five percent of them look stupid.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Yeah, I agree, but maybe George just has like that
face that you can kind of wear anything.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
I'm really trying to yes San this conversation, but I'm like,
literally like, go to Warby Parker, get whatever they have,
You'll look fine. There's like or get go to ray Band,
get a pair of ray bands. Like it just is
so like I sort of think everyone always looks good
in sunglasses because you look inherently more glamorous, because you

(42:31):
sort of look like, you know, Julia Roberts on an
outdoor red carpet in the nineties, or you look like
Joe Biden, one of the most glamorous women alive, wearing
his ray Band aviators. Like I think I have so
much more trouble, like talk about like buying going out
and trying to buy a vintage pair of Levi's. I
would rather legitimately jump off of a bridge. But sunglasses

(42:54):
to me are like, oh, what a treat. It's like
buying a delicious you know, soft or ice cream.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
It's the same, right, this is I mean, I couldn't
disagree more we have. Maybe you just have a perfect
head and I have a perfect legs and ass.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
I feel though, perfect man. If only we could combine
my perfect head with your perfect legs and ass, then
we'd create the perfect man.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I don't even want nobody wants.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
No torso just perfect head, perfect legs, and ass goes
straight from chin to ass.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Even see, these are my These are my la, my
l a sunglasses?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Ready, Sam, can I ask you? Where are they from?

Speaker 2 (43:36):
A scam store?

Speaker 1 (43:37):
What do you mean? Just some like sunglasses place? But
what is it? I want to know because sometimes I
feel like you will like not look for something and
then be like it doesn't exist.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Okay, it's actually crazy to see you in these from.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Are we gagging?

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
So where where? So like we're talking like a sunglass
hut or like so I think it.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Was called Big City Optical Okay, I know that off
the top of my head. Yeah. See this is what
I mean. I'm embarrassed.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
But were they were they like the twenty dollars ones
or like a hundred because they make all they make
those on the street, which I think is fair.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
You are saying so rude. You were truly expensive. How
expensive would you say on the podcast?

Speaker 2 (44:22):
That would be disgusting?

Speaker 1 (44:23):
So they were they This was like a big purchase.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
They were real.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
They were real.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Honey, they're real sunglasses. I mean they look great on you.
I'm just asking. You won't give the name, so we're
kind of forced to, you know, yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Sort of now just put on your sunglasses and are
refusing to ask answer any questions.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
They're Marnie.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
They're Marnie. No, you're lying, they are Oh my god,
Sam fashion needs to go off.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Oh he's so shy and they're cute like you and
I honestly am like, maybe we can go Sunnglas shopping together.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
We should. Well, it was because I was moving to
LA and I know, I cannot believe you're just walking
around in Marnie sunglasses and well, okay, I will say
Marnie is generally an overpriced brand. These on sale sweethearts. Okay,
So are you pro were against them? What do you
want me to say, we.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Need to know your stay. By the way, I have
all my guns out right now. Wait wait, you said
that you didn't go every time you Wait, George said
that Marnie it was a scam store. But he has
Marnie suncos.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Yeah, you have. You have discounted Marnie sunglasses from a
normal optical store that look good on you and that
you paid a normal amount for.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Like, literally, what is the problem. It just felt it
didn't feel glamorous when I was in the store. It
felt like a scam. Like the guy was sort of
like felt scammy, you know what I mean. And it
was like it was real. It was a store. They're
like nice, they look nice, but it's like, but I
didn't feel the pomp of buying something.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
M okay. So then I think maybe the issue is
I'm seeing where you're coming from. I think the issue
is the optical store is in this like uncanny valley
between medical hospital and store. Yes, yes, And so I
think about, yeah, that's where the scamminess is coming from
because you go there and you're like, why are you
in a lab coat? Yeah, it was weird.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Because they want to get your prescription, Like that's there,
they're like, we have designer brands, but we're here just
to make sure, like your prescription is okay.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Yeah. Yeah, Actually recently I was in the market for
a new glasses and I recently went to a store
and like, you couldn't try them on yourself, so you
had to have this like ongoing conversation with someone, tell
them what you wanted, and then they would be like,
let me think and then whip out something, and you're like, okay,
I get that you're an expert, but it's also like,

(46:46):
I do know what I like. I should be able
to browse.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Well, that's why like a sunglass hut hits heads because
you go in and you just take them off and
you throw them on, and you're with your friend. You're like,
are these cute? And they don't really bother you. Yeah,
I like that. I want my own. I don't like
when you have to be with the person in the
store the whole time.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
No, I think we should not be supervised while trying
on sunglasses. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I'm sorry
I took this in such a sunglasses direction.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
I want to know. I am now understanding. I think
it's I had to like, re think in my head
what you were, like, I think you are talking about
the optical story experience. Yeah yeah, rather than like sunglasses
as an object, right, yeah, yeah, definitely yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
And sometimes when you go in those two it's like
ray Band authorized cellar, Like, because you're saying you're an
authorat seller, I feel like you're not. You know, why
do you have to like push that in Like I
didn't think you weren't an authorized seller.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. No,
there is something that feels scammy about it also feels
all DIY like you're like, which I actually find almost charming,
Like it seems like all of them are mom and
pop shops. Yeah, what is that?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
I'm like, we need to regulate the sunglass industry. I
should be able to go into a chain restaurant of sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
I mean I guess well again, you can, you can.
I'm being so attacked.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Were literally everything just comes back to the idea of
like we need to make this an app, we need
to be able to rent this.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I think, in fact, I think that actually might be
what I find at times charming about glass shopping is
that mom and pop feel which I think is actually
sort of lost in so many other parts of the
retail experience. Sure, sure, sure, you know what I mean. Like,
I actually do think there's something about optical stores that
they're the last remaining mom and pop stores.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Yeah, because you don't really have that with like shoe
stores anymore.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
No, don't have it with shoe stores. I would say
I feel that way a little bit with certain like
boba like boba places, wow, like more so than coffee shops,
Like there's a little more variety.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Sure s sure, No that makes sense to go back
to renting the runway, George, you're a fashion girl. Have
you ever done it or considered it?

Speaker 1 (48:55):
I've never done it. I don't know what is stopping me.
I thrift and vintage shop a lot, and I'm always
looking for that next deal.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Well, I know you love a deal more than anything.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
I love a deal more than anything. But I do
actually think something about renting makes me feel like I'm
throwing money away, Like it's it's this I need something
to feel like an investment. And I also I am
so particular about how things fit that I just know
that I would everything would look just a little bit off,

(49:33):
and then I would just constantly be in a bad mood.
I mean, how are you finding that court new with
renting the run?

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Like, well, thanks for asking. I Well, okay, I will
say that I do do it a lot for like
show reasons, like I don't need to have like sixteen
crazy jackets, you know, but it's like, oh, when I'm
on stage, it's fun. But yeah, you kind of are
in my head. I'm like, oh, I'm saving money because
if I if I would buy like one hundred things

(50:00):
a month, which I wouldn't, but almost half of the
things you get sent do not look good on you.
I will say that, and you can't return well really,
and so you kind of are just like, yeah, it's
like one one size too big and it doesn't look
the best on me. But for some reason, it's like
a toxic relationship. I just keep coming back, you know,
I can't stay away totally totally, because it offers you

(50:23):
this idea of like I could just have like the
most fun outfits for this month, you know, like when
I'm going out with the girls, like I'm gonna have
this like really fun like Rachel Antonov sweater. But then
it gets there and it kind of looks like shit.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
No, I feel this way. Honestly.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
This goes back to sort of I feel this way
about most clothes that I'm excited about. Like I actually
am so much happier when I find something shitty that
then looks good on me than when I see something
that should look really good and looks like medium on me.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Yeah, like you're saying, like in a thrift way or
just in a thrift.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Way or even a normal clothing way, Like I do
think I'm maybe more on too thrifting because I'm like, oh, look,
this should look like horrible and I actually look good
in it.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
And then but if I like the one time I've
literally bought like one nice shirt in my life and
I was so excited about it, and every time I
wear it, I look horrible.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Yeah, I think that's because you're like the pressure on
it to look good is so astronomical.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah. Yeah, so that's how I feel.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
So you wouldn't rent, So I wouldn't rent.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Wow, I think it's different for it's different for men
and women.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
How honey, we got to talk about the men and women.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Well, also you guys, like you guys, you can like
I feel like you just look inherently better and like
you get like one one tailored shirt and it's like
sex pot.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Well that is the other I think with tailoring too,
Like I would love it if I could rent a
suit for a for an event, but like it, if
something isn't tailored on a man, it just will not
look good.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yeah. Yeah, my dear friend Zach Schiffman gets his shirts
tailored a lot and they always look so great on him.
And but you know that that's a lot of work
that goes into it, and you can't rent if if
that's the case.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
I mean, lord knows, I know. Look I cropped my
damn sure.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Yeah, my dear friend Sam actually too.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
No, no, don't ever apologize. I'm like, okay, how are
we feeling? Like okay, so pretty much, so pretty much
that's the podcast.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
And if you guys want to sponsor us, like any
sort of like clothing rental subscriptions.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Okay, look said phone, So pretty much. That's it, really
is it really is dj F vibes. You're being a
little joker.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I'm needing I'm needing a little joker energy.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
I'm feeling it's so funny to me that after your
diet try about slug glasses. You're like, uh, whatever, I
guess these are the ones I got and they are
designer sunglasses that look amazing on you.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
I had to pry them out of his hands so
he would not say what.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I mean, it's so embarrassing to talk about. This goes
back to the gift thing.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
You can't to be like they're they're Marnie, Like, then
you're that that that's that changes everything.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
I think you were really sweet about it, Like, I
think it was really endearing. I feel endeared. But it's
okay to be proud of Marnie.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yeah, you earned those Marnie Sun classes.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yes, yes, Wow, it is so tg if. I'm sorry
I looked at my phone. It was just to check
the time because I was like, wow, like it could
be seven pm for all I know.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Yeah, because I'm just so lost in convo we're having.
We're just like I'm podcast. Nobody just hangs out anymore.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
I know.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
I want a podcast where we're just hanging out, like
just like friends, like catching up getting some Will you
come with me to get some glasses? There's actually a
story that I want to go to. Oh really e
w E on help you like you don't, it looks
really fancy.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I think the biggest flex you can do as a
store owner is name your store something like that, because
you're like, it's basically aiming it, like naming it like fuck.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Off, Yeah, don't even come here.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Yeah, e e w e e e L.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's pronounced or like yuck, Yeah, kind of cute. Yuck
is fun. Yeah, what do you wish you could rent
that you can't a boyfriend? Oh my god, you're bad.
Let me tell you so bad? Well, okay, the one
thing we didn't touch on is it not to be
completely obvious, but is the sort of sustainability element of

(54:43):
all of this.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Well, I almost don't want to on it because I
feel like it ruins the whole argument. I'm like, better
to rent for that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Obviously. The best thing you can do is buy a
single article of clothing every year that costs five thousand
dollars and last the lifetime. Like that is the goal
everyone has, you know, let me tell you something. You go,
you go to Berlin, everyone has exactly five articles of clothing.
They are all black, and they and they've somehow managed
to they can somehow be combined in an infinite number

(55:10):
of ways so that you look a little different each day.
So that is the goal. I think, of course, after
that is like thrifting, because at least you're being a
little sustainable. And then I think with the rent the runway,
it's like it's sort of either that.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Or she in.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
I agree, and I think like, unfortunately we are in
a society where like hyper consumerism is such a thing
that it kind of like it I get my itch
scratched for like shopping all the time, you know, because
I yeah, because I do feel like the other option
is just like ordering like from Timu every day.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
You know, So I yeah, it's sort of not going.
It's not like getting to the root of the problem.
You're not like I'm going to do the work to
not be consumerist, but you're like, what's this sort of
slightly more painless way to remain consumers? Right?

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yes, and again, and don't you guys feel the pressure
to like you've got to have new things to wear
for all the events we're going too?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Seriously, seriously, that is so true.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I mean when I'm no, the way that we can't
get into this, but the way that I'm never ready
for an event. I never have anything for events?

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Are you always like last minute shopping?

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I always just like what I do is I have
a freak out half hour before the event and go
I have nothing to fucking wear. I guess I'll look
like trash. I think my worst, my the nightmare that
is continuing to come true, and I can't do anything
to change my path or my story is that whenever
I'm at anywhere, I am serving, oh he's a writer,

(56:40):
Like you look like like you're like not hot enough,
You're not like they're cheek enough. And I'm like, I'll
and I'll think in the moment like oh I look good,
And then you look at a photo and you're like,
I'm such a fucking writer.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
I'm embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
You did not.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Hey, I want to say, you did not look like
a writer when you walked in today. You looked glowing
and you still do. You're a podcaster.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Oh hey, Sam, would a writer have Marnie sunglasses? Period? Yeah,
it's hard with the headphones. Here's what I have to
say to the clothing industry. Uh, let's figure out get me.
Someone send me a blazer that fits me perfectly, and
then I can put on on top of anything else
I'm wearing. I can wear with jeans, and I can

(57:24):
wear with dress pants. I can wear with a T shirt,
I can wear with a button down. I can even
wear with a polo. Because I actually think I specifically
would look amazing wearing a black Lacoste polo and a
blazer over it. I agree. So my challenge for all
the fashion designers out there, Christian Siriano, Tim Gunn, anyone
else listening, is make a blazer that fits my specific

(57:45):
body type, because I have yet to see one.

Speaker 3 (57:47):
Wow, I could see you in a really nice like
khaki linen blazer.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Oh I do. Actually I have a sort of beige
linen suit that I wore with summer wedding once and
it looks okay. Mmm.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
I'm trying to think of a call to action to designers.
I mean, I guess just to all the sunglass designers
out there, Christian Seriano, if you're listening and you want
to get into the sunglasses business, I would say, you're
gonna have a lot of ideas. Most of them are bad, yes,
and it's okay. Don't less is more. If you only

(58:25):
have two sunglasses this year.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
That's okay.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
We'd rather have the best ideas.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Two of the best sunglasses. Leave the twenty other bad
ones in your mind. Don't even draw them, just leave
them in your head.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
You know what they need to bring back those Kanye sunglossel.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
The Shutter shades. I mean we are like months away
from those coming back. Yeah, like it is. I'm almost
shocked they haven't already.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
I'm shocked that wasn't on the on like Gracy Abrams
at the met Gala.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of wa The Metcala theme
will literally be h you know, like American what is
it called American apparel America? I kept wanting to say
American outfitters, and I was like, that's not oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
no urban out You know, I used to think that

(59:16):
the shampoo herbal Essences was Urban.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Essences just for those city girls.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Yeah, just for the city girls.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
I love the old packaging that they had.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
What was it? Do you remember those ads where they
would the women would orgasm while shampooing their hair?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Of course iconic.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
I mean that is like those are that was our
mad Men? Is the ad guys that created that.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
This is a really loose episode. I know in a
way that I celebrate. I love to make a point
and then go whatever.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Not every every you know, I need to stop doing that.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
I think I do that a lot, where I I
undermine my own point before anyone has a chance to respond.
I think it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Wait, I want to do it? Was that good?

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Yeah? Try it? Say something before it to really sell it, something.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
About like sexuality that I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Well, okay, here's the thing about LA like culture. It's
like the cars.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Yeah, yeah, there's nothing to say anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
There's nothing to say anymore. It's all been said.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Yeah, normalize, shutting the fuck up. So what do you
guys think about AI?

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
I love it, honey.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
It's actually we should have we should have Little Michaela
on the podcast as again.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Oh my god, that's such a good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Is she still around? Like I remember when that was
so cool. It's like there's fashion model that's like not
real and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
I'm like, okay, the way that that was just I
was like, what am I not getting? Like? I was like, no, no,
you have to believe your eyes. I really like I think,
I mean, we're being lied to constantly and I'm seeing
like otherwise smart people fall for it, and you have
to you have to believe your eyes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Wait so you mean you have to believe that it's
not real.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yeah, Like when you see what you're looking at little
Mikhaela and you're like, this is bullshit, believe that. Believe
your instinct.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Like when you're reading an article that's like meet the
newest fashion saddle, that's not real, be like, this doesn't
make any sense because it's not real.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Yeah, right, totally.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
I'm like, it's just literally like, wait, sohow is she
wearing clothes so she's not real?

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Here's here's my question. Okay, So I actually, okay, I
feel like everyone this goes back to you know, Kamala
falling out of a coconut tree. I think everyone is
acting like they fell out of a coconut tree. And recently,
what I've noticed is that the one the one thing
in culture that people seem to be looking right through
and not believing is Camila Abayo, whoa I have. Isn't

(01:01:53):
that crazy? Like because I'm like, I actually feel bad
for her because I'm like, she's doing the same thing
everyone else is doing. She's doing, you know, she high
a team to rebrand her. She's like, this is her
new era, she looks great whatever, and for some reason
she's the one everyone hates and all the other but
we like, but all the other girls doing the same thing.

(01:02:13):
Everyone is like, oh, yeah, she's mother. You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I think though, I don't think she had a grassroots movement.
I think she was always she's sort of Biden of
pop girls.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Well yeah, yeah, other ones also didn't have Like I
don't I guess you're I guess you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
I feel like she was very It was very much
like four guys in a room and they were just like,
this is what's cool now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Yeah, you know, but I'm but not to I don't
know why I'm being so combative, but I'm like, I
love it. This idea that like other pop stars don't
have four guys in the room saying this is what
you're gonna do. That is what like is. We're not
saying that, we're saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
We're just saying that she hides it worse because she was.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Very much like to me, she's so is she not
to you guys like Selena Gomez level like that to
me is her as an artist like straight out of
the factory.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
She's kind of Selena Gomez level.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
But then Selena go Selen Gome is a great example
of someone who sorry, but four guys do every time
decide what the next thing will be, and yet everyone
eats it up.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Well, but she is so honest about it. She's like, no,
I'm barely me, like, I'm four guys. That's the that's
the difference for me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
I'm four guys in the trench.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Coch Yeah, I think she doesn't pretend to be an artist.
She's like, yeah, they wrote the song for me, and
like they auto tune the fuck out of it, and here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
It is right, so interesting, I think because I was
like I thought the whole thing was It's like when
you know, the breakup song came out, it's all about
Justin Bieber and she's so raw and she always talks
about mental health.

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
No, I I agree with that, but I want to say,
what the to me? The difference between Comyakbo is that
she's like acting like like she's taking the success of
like Charlie and like this is my now and just
being like oh like Kim Petras like which those probably
also went through like a lab. But course there's something
about Camilla that's like, oh, this is cool. Now like

(01:04:10):
I want to be mother totally two.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
She didn't. She jumped from A to C. She forg
has to do B in the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Mm hm. You know who else jumped from A too
C and forgot to do be was Christina Aguilera when
she did stripped and somehow she pulled it off. And
I think we don't appreciate how challenging that was.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
Huh what is she up to these days?

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
She just opened an amazing new store. It's called Eh Yeah, Yeah,
that's awesome because she just wanted to relax and just
like sell stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Right, there's something it's like the the new makeup brand,
like celebrity's makeup brand of sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Actually totally Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
My god, live should do sunglasses?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Should we end this podcast? Should we do our final segment?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Uh? I guess I have Yeah, yeah, I guess. I
mean we are running out of time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
I mean I'm not trying to be like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
No, No, you're not. No, I'm I feel like I've
been so scatterbrained and I'm like, I you know when
you're like sometimes at the end of the podcast, I'm like, wait, okay,
just make one good point. It'll make up for everything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Oh literally, I have I know exactly that feeling. Yeah,
do you want to make a really good point really fast?

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
That's really the only point I was thinking of making
is get ready for this? Why is makeup the things
celebrities make when it's so like clearly not something they
can make themselves, like it's chemistry. Celebrities should start making
little friendship racelets that they make themselves with beads, and
then at least you would it would feel.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
More authentic, right, like crochet bags for the grocery store.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Yeah, I'm like a makeup of all things that seems
like so difficult. It seems difficult to make, and there's
so many risks involved because it could cause you a rash.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yeah, Celebrity makeup is sort of like the Little Mikaela
of merch. Yeah, they're like, well, it's like it's so
clear that it's you know, they don't have any hand
in it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
They just say like okay, yeah, and at what point
do we at what point do we revolt? Like? At
what point do I storm the capitol? If I hear
one more person be like yeah, I just saw the
market and didn't see anything for girls like me, So
I got in the lab and like did some experiments
and meanwhile it's Sabrina Carpenter, right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
And they all are the same. I totally agree with you, Like,
what type of creative vision are you bringing to this?
You're just like I love rouge. It's like, what is
different about Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande's highlighter stick?

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
It's insane and I actually feel that, you know, I
think Gaga is always sort of a lightning rod. I
think she like tends to when she does something then
people start to hate it, and I think she is
maybe doing a.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Public service by doing house labs.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
And having She's raising awareness for how stupid celebrity makeup.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
It was the nail in the coffin first celebrity truly, definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
And I'm to see what industry she kills next. Maybe
the concert film.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
I think, cinema, Yeah, yeah, grassroots organization, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Maybe yeah, that would be amazing. Okay, do you feel
that you made a point.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
I thought that was good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah, all right, let's do our final segment.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Well, you explain it. I've been doing so much explaining.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
The real to explain it. Our final segment is called
shout Outs. And in this segment, we pay homage to
the grand straight tradition of the radio shout out things
the one hundred think TRL you're shouting out to your
squad back home, recommending something you're absolutely capital o obsessed with.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
I actually do have one.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Okay, sway go.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
Are you standing out?

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
What's up? Freaks?

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Lizers and needless to say, the perverts around the globe,
I want to give a huge shout out to I'm
not wearing them right now, but cowboy boots. I recently
got my first pair of cowboy boots because, as you know,
I'm in the West. I'm trying to create a narrative.
I'm trying to feel a story and a myth around
the West, and so I got cowboy boots and they
are so silly, and suddenly they're unlocking a whole new

(01:08:25):
side of me. I feel like I'm not wearing them
right now, so don't even look. And I wanted to
wear them, but I thought, who has the time. But
I feel so masculine. I feel like I'm I live
in a truck. Feel I see how now I keep
seeing sort of other people's cowboy boots. I'm like, you're
wearing it? Almost feels like fetish gear in the sense

(01:08:46):
that you're wearing like this whole boot and no one
knows about it. Sort of like you have to be
honest with people and tell them you're wearing a giant
boot under that pant. I feel silly when it's fun
to go to someone's house wearing them and they make
you take your shoes off and then you take a
huge boot and you're like They're like you were wearing that,
and You're like, yeah, I don't know. I'm just experimenting

(01:09:06):
and trying to have some fun out here. So shout
out to Cowboy boots, shout out to La, shout out
to Cali, and shout out to a fashion xoxo, Wow, gorgeous. Yeah,
it's it's been interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
I really would love to see those on you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Yeah, I should have worn them. It's also fun to
be like, wait, how do you wear cowboy boots? So
now I keep trying to look in film and TV
and see people who wear cowboy boots and be like,
how do they wear it?

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Are you wearing them on your underpants?

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Underpants not tucked in?

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Yeah, And I think the tactic I've been going with
right now to try to meld my style is Brad
Pitt in Once upon a Time in Hollywood, where it's
like Hawaiian shirts.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
And cowboy boots.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
I can see that for you, and that's pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Actually, wow, it's funny. Cowboy boots are such actually a
natural next step for you stylistically. But it had never
occurred to me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
It had never crossed my mind.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
And it is.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
They are still weird.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Like, whenever I wear that, I feel like someone's gonna
point at me and be like, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Yeah, Sam, you stay reappropriating Americana. That's so true.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
George, do you have one?

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Yes? I have one. What's up, Cinophiles, It's me letterbox
user George Severis with a shout out today, I want
to shout out. I want to shout out Elaine May.
I have finally, I have been. I've had watched all
her films except Ishtar, and I was always like, you know,
what if I watched it, I don't like it. What
if everyone's right? What if it is the biggest flop

(01:10:41):
in Hollywood history. Let me tell you something. I was
laugh laugh laughing along. The people that the people that
really need to be on the hook for that are
the lead actors, specifically Warren Baby, who is the equivalent
of dropping a giant rock inside a lake and hearing
it thump every time he's on screen. I am not
convinced he is a bankable leading man. And I will
say that's with confidence and then you're twenty twenty four. Wow.

(01:11:03):
But the fact that her entire career was ruined because
that movie was such a flop, I don't think so, honey.
To quote my dear friends at our sister podcast, Lost cultteresays,
everyone needs to go stream the Heartbreak kid. You need
to go stream and you leave ishtar. This is one

(01:11:23):
of our great comedic minds. And she hasn't been allowed
legally to make a film since the late eighties. Wow.
And you know why because of misogyny and sexism that
are institutionalized in the Hollywood system in entertainment. And I'll
say it globally, politically, socially, and esthetically.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
WHOA.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
So it is time that men are banned for making
movies and she is allowed to make one final one.
You know, realistically, you know she's not getting any younger.
I need her to make one final movie, maybe with
a big star, maybe with a Sydney Sween. Actually, no,
Sidney screen is not very good at comedy. But maybe
with a big comedic star of her choice, maybe Kristin Wade,

(01:12:01):
maybe Kristen wigg And it's a Junie B.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Jones remake.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Juni B. Jones. Honestly, Get Jones is a sex worker comedy,
all right, And that's what I have to say. Well, okay, Courtney, what.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Up freaks and geeks, It's coco here. I want to
shout out the concept of owning a printer at your
own home. Wow, something that I recently took on. I
bought a printer at Target. I actually forgot to get
the paper, so that was crazy, so we ordered that
on Amazon. I think it's amazing to have a printer
at home, because it's so embarrassing to have to go
to FedEx or ups and have to print something out

(01:12:38):
for three dollars whatever it is. But what I also
have to say is that it was really exciting to
have to put something together and kind of really work
that part of my brain that we don't often work.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Usually.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
You know, you get your Apple watch, it's hardy set up,
but the printer you're actually putting ink in and You're
you're putting a CD in your computer actually to connect it,
which is crazy. That is great, and you're calling your
friend Dash Turner to help you do it. So it's embarrassing.
It was enlightening, and I think that everyone should own
a printer at home if that's something that your family

(01:13:09):
wants to do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Wow, that's really amazing. So you're sort of returning to
the earth and putting together printers, right, Yeah, that's amazing.
I do find the shame of going to a FedEx
to print sort of inspiring. I think it keeps me
humble and grounded.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Well, then you have to email the UPS store like, oh,
it's a nightmare. There's like this is my pilot that
I'm like trying to edit, so and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
They're like, yeah, I love like printing out stuff that
is so embarrassing there, yeah, or.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Like a return label that you have to then take
to USC.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a nightmare. But taking care of a
printer is as hard, if not harder, than taking care
of a child.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
So I don't know if I'm ready for that responsibility,
but I support you and your choice.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Wow, this has been an absolute delight. I wish I
could rent Courtnery to have her be in my apartment
and jokes to me for a week.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Honey, it'd be expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Oh my god, you can't turn this thing off. Yeah.
Thanks for doing the pod.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Was so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
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Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
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