December 25, 2023 • 51 mins
‘Twas the pod before Christmas, and all through the studio,
Not a host could be found, for they’re both in deep luteal.
Mark and Easton were seated by the mics with care,
In hopes that their voices would make it on air.
The Scrubbers were nestled all snug in their beds,
while visions of an episode downloaded in their heads.
So Mark and Easton are on, with some fan Q&A,
And while your questions get answered, they play a fun game!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scrubbing Man with Mark and Easton and iHeartRadio and Zero
Time People's Choice Award winning podcast. Hello everybody, We're scrubbing
scrubbing up dub. It's the mark An Easton Show.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
A lot of you on the Facebook group said, you
guys have done this before.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
When where can I hear it? Is it in another feed?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Nope? Right here in the scrubbing and feed where I
like to call home for the past six years.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Stretch your thumbs to scroll back for that one though.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do some stretching. It's the last show of twenty twenty.
We're on Zoom from I was sitting on the floor
in the closet. Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm sitting in my office.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I remember it. Well. Yeah, we're in studio today. Quality
is better in terms of sound quality, quality of the
content ever to be seen. Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Merry Christmas, Easton, A Merry Christmas, Mark Easton.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's start this show by talking about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tell me about Christmas. For a young Eastern Allen, I
feel like a young Eastern Allen was very similar to
our current Eastern Allen, like very excitable, really loved a
lot of different stuff, cereal and restaurants and superheroes and Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right, yeah, I liked Christmas as a young as a
young boy had we had a fireplace, but it was
one of those like stoves. It wasn't like a traditional
like wood burning in a fireplace. So I remember being
very concerned that Santa wouldn't be able to get through.
And then thank God that I believe it was the
Santa Claus tim Allen came out and they showed how
(01:35):
he can manipulate his body to get through very small openings.
I was like, wow, yeah, pressure's off.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now that's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But yeah, something I really liked. As I'd wake up
on Christmas morning in my well spoiler alert if you
have kids listening, but my dad, Kim Allen Senior, would
throw ash on the ground and make like footprints that's
good and stuff like that, and he would go outside
my window and like ring the sleigh bells and I
(02:02):
was like, oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Santy, laying there in bed, you'd hear Santa come.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I would Wow. It was great. And the only thing
that I was suspicious of was I was like, because
I heard Santa made these toys in his workshop as
Alas made it, and I was like, is Mattel okay
with them making Gi Joe? Like the package is the same,
There's got to be a legal problem here.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that is interesting. That works because back in the
day when the first Santa Claus, you know, story was
going around and that's what people got. They got train
sets and stuff you could have made. Yeah. Now it's
now it's an Xbox. Yeah, Santa made in his workshop
Fortnite Bucks. Yeah. I actually, since we've already blown it
with the kids out there, I believed longer than almost
(02:44):
any of my friends. And the reason was one Christmas Eve,
I don't know, I was seven or eight. Uh, some
friends of my parents came by the house who had
just been at a Christmas party and they stopped by
our house and they were fully dressed as Santa and
Missus Claus, and my parents took a picture with a
polaroid of the four of them together, and to me,
that was ironclad proof. It was like getting a shot
(03:07):
of big Foot of the lock dest Monsole. This is it.
You guys, go ahead, don't believe, but I know it's
real because I have a photo. Wow, sad little Barkie.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So your calls to the National enquirerof when I answered, yeah,
you're not gonna believe the scoop I got for you. Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now, both my kids found out the hard way by
friends at school blowing them. It's too bad. Yeah, they
were sad.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
How about you, did you were you really into Christmas?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah? Yeah, Well some people seems might be surprised by
because I'm not religious and we were not a religious family,
but we were way into Christmas. It's fine because that
that can happen. Yeah, there is a secular way of
doing Christmas, and we did the heck out of it.
We really did, with the songs and the and the
tree and the stocking and the shows, and we really
got into it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Do you have Christmas movies you would watch every year?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah? I watched It's Wonderful Life every year. Wow, for
a long long time. I showed her to my eldest
daughter last year for the first time. Yeah, we'd watch those,
and our tradition was we'd go see a movie on
Christmas Eve, like in theaters, fun, and then we'd come
home and have ribs. Mom would make ribs. She made
steak when we were younger. But I never I've never
been that into steak, so she made it ribs, and
then we'd go drive around look at Christmas tree lights
(04:18):
or house you know, houses, neighborhoods. And then Christmas morning
we'd get up early and I'd have an apple pop
tart and then we'd always start at the exact same time.
I think it was like eight forty two or something.
We'd always start opening friends at the exact same time
every year. I was a very big stickler for tradition.
But I do not recommend that because I have no
memories of Christmas now, because every year was exactly the same.
(04:40):
I couldn't tell you the difference between when I was
six or when I was twelve. They're all exactly the same.
So if you have kids of your own, change it
up a little bit every year so they have something
to remember.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, that's good advice. Yeah, yeah, we did the same.
It was such tradition until Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean some traditions are great, they're good. Yeah, traditions, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But yeah, it's it's good to switch such things up.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So right now, if people are listening to this in
real time, it's Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Wow, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What what what is happening at the Easton household.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, I just finished posting scrubbing in that I probably
should have scheduled in advance, but I didn't. So my
wife is waiting for me. No, what are we doing
Christmas morning? We always spend Thanksgiving with my family in
northern California, and then Christmas. We love doing just Allison
and I. That was something that was very important early
in our marriage. We're like, let's let's let's start our
(05:32):
new traditions now, you know, uh, just her and I.
So we usually we wake up and exchange gifts, and
we usually we like to watch a lot of movies
on Christmas Day. Yeah, so we usually watch Crampus starring
Adam Scott, horror movie. And we're probably gonna watch the
new Janet Kramer Christmas movie on Lifetime, Cowboy Christmas Romance, Sure,
(05:54):
Light of Fire, and eat a lot of junk.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Food and yeah that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What about you, you guys?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, we'll be at my mother in law's house and
the TV will be on and I'll be We're always
sitting in the exact same spot. You know. I get
sucked into these traditions. Yeah, I'm sitting on the couch
back to the window. Wife next to me. Kids are
on the floor even though they're all teenagers. Now, Grandma
Sandy's in one recliner, Papa's and the other recliner. You know,
we all get into our spots and you and we
try to take a long long time to open presence.
(06:22):
You take a lot of breaks. You make it last
all day if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Do you do the like? Do you does each person
opening kind of the oldest?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh? Wow, yes, see, we always.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Just did a like when we go to my grandfather's house,
just open season, just for it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, no, no, it's very it's very regiment the youngest
to oldest until the adult start running out of them.
But then a stayed youngest to oldest is just within
the kids.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That makes it easier.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, yeh, it's really good. All right. So today we
have questions that you've asked us on the Facebook group.
We're going to go through some of those and then
have a game for Easton later that he doesn't know
anything about. Wow. Yeah, I did a lot of research
on this game.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah. So that's coming up. So why don't we take
a break. We'll come back start answered some questions. All right,
here we go, All right, here we go. Questions on
(07:17):
the Facebook group. Thank you all for participating. Dana Snow,
what a lovely name for Christmas Day? Dana Snow. Why
have you guys started an advice podcast yet? I think
it is a very simple reason. No one is interested
in that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I don't I get that question all why haven't
you started a podcast yet? And I'm very flattered by
those very nice but my personal belief is we are
two white men. The world has enough of us out there,
especially in podcasts.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's really true. And also I think you need to
have a certain level of fame to have a podcast,
and if you don't, you're just one of the millions
of podcasts out there.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, so you know, maybe happened at some point, but
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I don't know what I could contribute. I don't
see I Hurt Radio getting behind to such a thing. Yeah.
That's a hard pitch, So sorry, Dan, I probably not
any time soon, but you're very sweet to ask.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yes, Jennifer Fisk, what are both of your roles at
iHeart Radio more than just your titles? Is it research,
pre show editing, facilitating, helping, the host if they get stuck.
What's a day in the life look like for each
of you. I'll go first. I get up early in
the dark, drive in. Sometimes a year I get a
little bit of sunrise, but usually that's also in the dark.
(08:34):
I'm the executive producer of On Air with Ryan Secrets.
That's the title, and the job entails getting everything ready
that he could possibly need for the course of a show.
I schedule out a show. This break, we're gonna talk
about this, this break, We're gon't talk about this now.
Sometimes he sees that and he goes, I don't want
to talk about that stuff. I say great. He said,
I want to talk about this. I say great, and
he does what he wants. Some days he sticks to it.
It's kind of a lot of it has to do
(08:54):
with what it's got he's got going on. Sometimes he's
very busy and he just kind of does what I
what I put in front of him. And sometimes he
comes in with a million ideas and does that and
they're both great. Honestly, it's probably better when he comes
in with his own ideas because then he's really fired
up to talk about them. But then the other part
of the job is to make sure he has everything
he needs for these bricks. Does he need pictures, does
he need callers? Does he need the questions for the
(09:17):
game we're going to play? Does he need a background,
does he need the pronunciation of a name like stuff
like that. Just make sure he has everything possible that
he could need for that break. And so that's the
main job, is doing that with him. And I've been
doing that for almost fourteen years. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, Easton, Well, I mean the email the business card,
says executive producer of American Top forties Rand Secret, which
is the show that airs on the weekends that Ryan does.
It airs across the country and across the world. And
my typical day is I wake up and we record
that show a couple times throughout the week. There's several
(09:55):
different versions of the countdown. So depending on when Ryan
has time for it, I will I will hop on
zoom usually and record with him.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's not live every Saturday and Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, I hate to break it to you. This
is something that I really it breaks my heart to do.
I spoiled Santa earlier in the show, and I'm gonna
spoil this. A lot of people think that Ryan comes
to their town on Sunday morning and broadcast the countdown
from there, and I'm sorry to say that it's not accurate.
He pre records it a little bit in advance, just
a bit, uh, But I record that with him, and
(10:26):
you know, similar to to what Marcus to do. I
have a script for him that has all this information
about all the artists on the chart, interesting stuff to
talk about, and the guests we're gonna have on the show,
and anything else he could possibly need, and we record
that together. It's just him and I were having a
lot of fun. We're best friends, Ryan Seacrest and I
and you know, it's just like two friends hanging out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Ryan really likes you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh you're sweet. I believes he's cool. I have a
funko pop of him on my show.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But yeah, he gets a big kick out of you. Easton.
What was the number one saw of twenty twenty three
on the American Top forty?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The number well, I mean, do you want to know
the pop chart or the hot pop chart? That's all
that matters. Come on, my goodness, the Contemporary Hit radio
chart that is CHR. The number one song was the
weekend Die for You.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, it was this is your number one song of
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And if you listened this past week, if you listened yesterday,
you'd know.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That, Well, there you go. It's out there. We're not
you know, no spoilers, soil, no, just what I thought
you might be curious. I like that. Jennifer also asks
if we weren't doing our current job, what would you
want to be doing with your life? I always say
baseball I want to be, and I've always wanted to be,
and I still want to be a played by I
play baseball announcer, not the guy at the stadium that
goes now about it ring center fielder. Not that guy
(11:44):
I want to be when you turn on the radio.
Here we go, ball one strike too. Here's the pitch
to Yellich. It's a swing on a ground ball to short.
That that guy. I want to be that guy, and
I've always wanted to be that guy. And maybe somebody
I'll get it to that chance. But that would be
the alternate route. And I did pursue that route at
one point when I was about twenty two, and that
didn't work out, and I got a morning radio job instead,
(12:04):
and that's been the path I've been on ever since,
but that was a fork in the road. So and someday,
hopefully I'll go back to that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How many love to hear that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I mean, I don't know, because I always wanted to
do radio and I'm doing it, and I guess I'd
like to be on the air somewhere, but I don't
really even I don't know if I want that. I
really love what I'm doing now.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I have found that as I get older, my desire
to be on the air is less and less. Of course,
here we are doing a.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Podcast, listen to us. I don't if I want to
do it every day. But you know something, I am
so fascinated by advertising and logos and jingles and slogans.
That is something that, like sincerely, brings me a lot
of non ironic, like real pleasure. So I've always I
have always fantasized about another life where I like went
(12:52):
into advertising or something. Yeah, you'd be good at that,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah, we're both radio nerds.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What can we say? Yeah, I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Let's see. This is a fun one. Kayla Boo Campbell
cute name. It startled me right in the middle there, Mark,
Why do you live a little have a soda or
a cup of coffee? Know? Although I did have a
soda in twenty twenty three. Wow, I did in August
and Wisconsin. I had a root beer float. My kidness.
(13:22):
It was delicious and that was my soda for the year.
And I don't usually do one a year. I usually
do zero a year.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Was it like Roger Rabbit having alcohol? Or like you're
head tron into a giant whistle?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know, It's funny the fizziness since I drink nothing
but water, the fizziness like whoa, My goodness, it's like
stronger than I remember it being Cletcher pearls. I got
the carbonation and I don't even know a coffee tastes like,
so that's that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Kayla also says Easton hypothetically, the cheesecake factory is closing down.
You're there the last night it's open. What are you ordering?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This is the thing I've talked to my therapist about.
When I go somewhere or eat something that I really like,
I do have a fear. I'm like, this could be
the last time I have this, and that paralyzes me
when I think about what I'm ordering and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Why do you think that Why would it be the
last time?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know, because if life is short, I mean
not like I'm going to perish before, but they might close.
This place might close tomorrow. They might take this off
the menu.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, okay, So like every time we go visit my hometown,
it de drives my wife nuts, but I have to eat,
like there's like ten things I have to eat. So
I'm like, I don't know when this would be my
last time having Tako with Verra to Britos. So I
have thought about this. If the cheesecake factory was going
under and closing, it was my last meal there. I
would get an appetizer of buffalo blasts. I would for
the for the starter, and then my main would be
(14:40):
the Cajun jumbalayapasta that's my favorite thing there, and then
my dessert would be the Somoor's cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Wow. Yeah, it's a good good answer, good question, Kayla.
Thank you, kat Ortiz Mark advice for handling two girls.
Expecting my second in May Well, congratulations, that's exciting. Good
for you. What's wonderful. The other night, my wife hosted
holiday Bunco. She's a Bunco group. Do you know what
Bunko is. It's a dice game.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's Wisconsin thing.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I don't think it's a Wisconsin thing. It's a lot
of mom Yeah, it's a bit of dice game. I
don't really know the rules of it, but you roll
dice and you win money and it's kind of fun.
And the moms were coming over and I have to
get I have to clear out when the moms come over,
so I go hide upstairs because this is a mom thing,
this is just us. So the kids and I go
upstairs and but but I was still downstairs getting things
ready when some moms arrived and they gave some gifts
(15:28):
because they do a white elephant thing, and Amy said,
put them under the small Christmas tree because we have
a big one for in the living room and then
the kids have one in the other room. Put them
under the small Christmas So they did, and I said,
oh cute. And one of the moms said, you are
a girl. Dad. My husband has never said those words
like that in his life. And I know that she
meant it as a compliment, but I took it as
(15:49):
a compliment. Uh, My only advice is, I hope you've
got a husband that is just cool with it all.
It's not one of these guys that wants to keep
going for boys and really wishes he had boys. You
need a husband who is very willing to play barbies
with them, to watch Princess movies with them, to play
Pretty Pretty Princess with them, which was one of our
favorite board games when I was little, and we have
pictures somewhere of me and the full all the jewelry
(16:12):
and the tiara because I won the game. Anyway, if
he's willing to do all that stuff, it's going to
be just fine, because having daddy's girls is the greatest
and that's where I am now. Sarah Hayes, what were
some of your bests this year? East? And you start movies, books,
TV shows, trips, food, but no Easty Awards spoilers, She says.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, you know, for those of you just tuning in,
I do a thing every year called the East Awards
where I recognize my favorite things throughout the year. And
this would be if I told you, like my favorite
movie right now, there would be spoiling the ceremony, which
is going on January eighth, I believe there'll be no.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I thought it was always New Year's Eve, you know,
it was New Year's Eve, and then I found sorry,
January seventh, it was New Year's Eve. But that was
it was hard to people got annoyed by that. Okay,
they got annoyed. So I'm doing it on Sunday, the
first Sunday in January now like other award shows, and
Eastwards shirts are available now, actually on my Instagram. But
I'll tell you my favorite. I'm not much of a
(17:16):
reader because I can't read. But no, I'm just kidding.
I can, but I don't read as much as I
would like. But I did read a book called by
Kevin Rafferty, who is an imagineer at Disney, and the
name of the book escapes me, but I did love it,
and I'm looking up the book now. I think it's
called My Fantastical Walt Disney Imagine Magic Journey. Magic Journey
(17:37):
is the name of the book. It's by Kevin Rafferty.
If you love Disneyland and rides and weird stories, it's
a great book. That was my favorite book this year.
But in terms of the rest of it, you're gonna
to tune into the Eastwards baby.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So sad, I know I would get more of that
from you. Well, so nothing else, no TV shows, that's
a category.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, Actually I don't do TV shows on the
Easties to talk about that, I don't watch TV a lot.
That's why I don't do it. But this year, I
really I loved this might be recency biased, but I'm
loving the curse that's still going on as we record this.
That is, and I think it will go into January.
That's Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder, who is a weirdo
(18:18):
on TV. Uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's so good. It's about this couple that are they're
trying to do an h G TV like, you know,
Fixer Upper, Like they're trying to make this town in
New Mexico become the new thing. And they suck. They're
terrible people and they make a lot of terrible decisions,
and it's really fun to I love the those kind
of stories of people making really bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, I just canceled Apple TV. Plus maybe I can
get the show.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Show gets Showtime trial and check out the curse. I
love that. And you know this, this won't make the
easiest because it was so recent. But I'm I think
I just saw poor Things. I just saw poor things.
That'stone also Emmstone and that is great, and that's that's
made by your Gosla I can't pronounce his last name.
The director. He did a movie called The Lobster. He's
(19:07):
a weirdo too. Yeah, I saw The Lobster. Yeah, weird,
very weird. This is weird as well, and it's great.
Uh So that's why I recommend you Magical Journey, the
Curse and Poor Things TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I really, I mean to me, it's succession. To me,
there is succession is up there with the Sopranos and
uh and Breaking Bad is just one of the greatest
shows of all time. Is this year media wasn't was it?
I feel like I watched it this year. Yeah, anyway,
I just loved it. I feel like it's acting, directing, producing,
Everything is at the highest possible level, set design, sound, editing,
(19:41):
Like everybody's the greatest in at the game and they're
all together doing the show. And I just think, don't
think it gets any better than that, because I would
go back and watch scenes over again to see what
these actors are doing a little twitch with their eyebrow
or a little thing with their lip, and it's just
like wow, it's just incredible watching these people act. It's
really I love that show movies. I mean, I love
(20:02):
the Barbie Movie.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I loved it so much. It was so everything I
hoped it would be in More Got Me Good, you know,
just kind of a movie just kind of hits you.
And the whole theme of how heartbreaking it is for
parents when their kids stopped playing with their Barbies. And
I've told that story before, but that my kids a
series finale with their barbies when they were getting too
old to play with barbies anymore, and they were going
(20:25):
to donate them all because they had eighty of them.
And so the two of them, who we are now
too old, they went and they played Barbies one last
time and had each Barbie stand up and explain what
they're going to be doing with their lives. You know,
I'm going to college here, I'm going to go work here.
Like it was. It was a series finale, and I
was the next room listening and just you know, blubbering.
But I also loved just to nerd out for a second.
I love the Spider Verse movie. Oh, yeah, I don't
(20:48):
remember if it's into or across or alongside or next
across the Spider verse. Spider that was great and reading
I'm reading right now the sequel so they both die
at the end.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Oh, I've heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, the new it's not current or anything, but it's
a sequel to it and it's called it's called the
first to die at the end. So I don't know.
It's good so far.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
One more thing about the Part movie, because it is
so good and I just wanted They re released it
in Imax and I went to go see it again.
It's just as good as the second time. I loved it.
Alison and I were like, yeah, maybe we can bail
like halfway through. No, we say the whole time. And
I posted on Instagram that I was going to go
see it and someone said what's different about it? And
I said, well, it's really big And it sure was, Baby,
(21:32):
it was huge. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wonderful movie. That speech about what it's like to be
a woman today, that was powerful. Jenna Beck wants to
know our favorite scrumming in memory. For me, it's a
live show with the Roxy. Oh that was standing on
that stage and having a couple hundred people just screaming
and cheering. I hope everybody gets to experience that in
their life at some point, because that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That was something I never when we started doing this podcast,
I truly never thought ever. I thought it would go
on for a while, but I'm like, I can't believe
that moment would happen.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That was so special.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Madison Young, what would be your perfect day? What are
you doing? What are you eating? Who are you with?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
East You know, I had imagined my perfect day and
I got to do it for my birthday in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I think about it all the time. It was my
perfect day. I woke up. I had a Lucky Boy
breakfast burrito from Pasadena. If you're in the Pasaden area,
you got to go luck You wouldn't get this breakast
brit It's so good. I had that. And then my
sister and her husband came met up with Alison and
I and we drove out to Malibu. We had oysters,
and then we went to Paradise Cove, which is the
(22:38):
beach where they shot the album cover for Surf and
Safari by the Beach Boys. And I stared at the water,
and I felt the air, and I looked at the cliffs,
and I just hung out with people closest to me.
It was the perfect day.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's very sweet. It's hard for me because it would
involve my wife and daughters. But I'd also want to
be watching a Brewers game, and they don't like to
watch Brewers games, and so I would feel bad about
making them do that. So I wouldn't do that. But
I'll tell you my happy place. My happy place is
at my mother in law's house. A huge backyard like
that don't exist in southern California. It's like a good,
(23:13):
big Wisconsin backyard, and we get out the tea ball equipment.
We'll not te ball, whiffleball. We all play whiffleball in
the backyard. So it's me and it's the kids, and
it's all of either the kids friends or usually their cousins,
and usually my brother in law's out there, and maybe
some other people that we know are there. And that's
just I could do that all, even if it's just
me and my daughters. That is my happy place, whiffleball
(23:34):
in that backyard on a lovely summer night. The sun's
going down. They usually we can still smell what was
on the grill a few minutes ago, usually the ball
games on the speakers on the radio. That's it. Man.
That doesn't get any better than that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Man, I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A number of people ask me about my daughter's anxiety.
Heather Durant here, can you talk about your daughter's anxiety?
What you've done that's helped. My four year old has
anxiety at bedtime, and I find myself getting impatient with her. Okay,
so I have the solution. I'd like to say I
have the solution, but obviously every child is different. But
my daughter could never express to us what the problem was.
(24:09):
And then she got to an age where she could
express to us what the problem was and had been,
and what she needed from us in those times, and
that we weren't necessarily giving to her. Here's what she needs,
So Heather, this is I think this would help. She
needs you to be there, she needs you to love her,
and she needs you to empathize with what she's going through.
(24:31):
And we were good at that to a point. And
I think that is the key. Because when your kid
comes in in your room at bedtime once twice three
times you can handle that, it's going to be fine.
I'm not going to get upset. By the eighth, ninth,
tenth time, it's very difficult to not even if you're
saying the right things. They can tell if you're annoyed
(24:53):
with them. And so if your kid knows that there
is a breaking point for mom and dad, it almost
becomes inevitable that they're going to get to that breaking
point because their anxiety is going to force them to
do that, because they're going to go back to bed
and they're going to feel like, is this the moment
that they're mad at me? And then their anxiety is
gonna get worse and worse until they come in and
(25:14):
maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Even if you aren't,
they go back to bed and they still know it's coming.
I have found that when I said to her later on,
after I had the revelations of all the stupid mistakes
I made as a dad in handling this situation, that
if she knows that you're never going to get upset,
(25:36):
that is enough. I remember one night my wife and
other daughter were at some dance convention, so it was
just me and my oldest and I knew that her
anxiety level was high when I was saying good night
to her, and so I said, I'm right down the
hall and you can come all night long. I don't care.
I'm there and it's going to be fine. And she
never even came once because I think just knowing that
(25:57):
it's going to be fine, the anxiety go away. So
if they know that you are a safe space that
they can go to, if they know that you're a
safe space indefinitely, then they're not gonna push the limits
of that. So, Heather, my advice to you is to try.
(26:18):
And I know that's hard, man. I know when it's
three in the morning and she's still coming in, it's
so hard. But if you can just figure out a
way to always be okay with it, it's gonna get better.
And it's gonna get better fast, I think. And every
kid's different, so who knows, but and Daniel Hammond, that's
the best parenting advice I wish I had known back then.
And it's easier said than done, because you're gonna get annoyed.
(26:40):
It's just natural, especially when you don't understand it. And
I never understood it. Why are you so anxious? Nothing
bad's ever happened to you in your whole life. What's
the problem. But when you go to that place, then
it just gets worse. You just got to find it
in yourself to be okay with it forever and then
it's gonna it's gonna get better.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So anyway, that's such good advice for not even if
your child doesn't struggle things, or even your your partner.
I think if you you need to be that place,
they need to feel like you are a safe place.
I think, yeah, and that is so important and always yes,
always there.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We go, moving on to other topics. Lindsay spark when
how many podcasts do you guys work on? I think
I saw you on Paris and Love. That's that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I made it. I am.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm not going to sugarcoat I'm the star of Paris
and Love season two, episode five. Specifically, I do have
a line I say, I could fix that to Paris
that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, one of those tea shirts available at your Instagram.
You can fix that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
People. I've asked for them, They've asked for them. How
many podcasts do we do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I don't like to know.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Actually, I think I have a way of knowing this.
Let me just bring this up right here one, two, four, seven,
eight nine. I'm up to thirteen. Easty.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well let's see. Let me let me look here, and
what does that entail?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
She says, Well, it entails. I guess somebody else said that.
But it's basically for most of that. It's different for
each of them. For most of them, they just do it.
They send me the audio. I edit it together and
make it sound like a show. I put on the
production at the beginning, and I put in the commercial breaks,
and I do all that stuff, and maybe I shorten it.
I bleep the s words. If you can't say that
on that show, Sam, you can, some you can't. So
(28:39):
it's different for each one. But it's it's mostly behind
the scenes post production on these podcasts.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, I do again. I do not want to count.
I think it's probably abound the same though, But thirteen
or something like that, and I sit on usually zoom.
Except for the case of Paris Silton, I do go
to her home, which is called Slivington manor thank you.
And you know, you know it's funny about that is
when I was sixteen or seventeen, my friends and I
(29:06):
came to La for the first time, like without our parents,
and it was a big deal. And we bought the
map of the Stars homes and we went to Paris
Sultan's house. That's incredible and it's different than where she
lives now. But like we went to the house that
like they broke into in the billing ring. Yeah, and
obviously didn't go up to the door. We drove by.
I'm like, oh my god, it's Perry Siltan's house, and
like it's just funny that now I'm I am there.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
You can practically come and go as you please. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, I've been there more than my parents' house, so
LUs a couple of years. But so yeah, I sit
there and I make sure all their microphones work. I
make sure their computers work. If they have any other
technical needs, I answer those. And then I sit there
and I write down the notes. I take notes with
the timer so that Mark knows, oh they stopped, they
(29:53):
went this is off air, or they said a bad word,
or you know, they're coughing or something like that. Try
to make the show more enjoyable for people to listen to.
And it's a lot of fun and I wouldn't trade
it for the world. Great, yeap, And what's my favorite podcast?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, Alex, I wants to know the top three favorites.
Alex viharro i airs.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
People ask us this all the time. What's your favorite podcast?
Number one has to.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Be Rubbing In.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, I was gonna say Lady Bosses.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
At rest.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I think you can still download it somewhere, but Lady
Bosses and Ben is my favorite show.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I love Scrubbing In. I love I mean, the other
ones are harder because I love help. I suck at dating,
but it's a little bit more work for me, so
then I love it less. I love drama Queens, but
that one's a lot of work for me, so I
love it less. Uh So, I don't know. It's hard
to say. I mean almost Famous was our first and original,
so I would say that one definitely, because also they
(30:46):
turn out episodes like you wouldn't believe.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh yeah man, and it's yeah, it's nice. Let me
tell you. I just want to say again how much
I love Pod Meats World. Pod Meets World's show I
would listen to if I was not being paid to.
It is so funny and so interesting, and you know,
even if you're not a boy meets World fan. I
think it's a really great show.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Margaret Watford McClintock.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's a cool name, great name.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
How is a failure or a parent failure set up
for later? Set you up for later success? Do you
have a favorite failure? That's a very high end question
right there. I just have a funny story. That's why
I picked this one. I was at a station called
WMMM Triple M. We called the one oh five to
five Triple M Madison's something and I got fired a
(31:30):
lot back in the day, but this is like the
only one that was my doing. Like I got fired
from WMAD because they went bankrupt. I got fired from
w jj L because they fired everybody, and I got
fired from other places for similar radio just kind of
normal radio related reasons. But this one was my fault.
I was the overnight guide at two to six AM,
and the other overnight guy, his name was Gabe. We
would sometimes go exploring at night in the middle of
(31:52):
the night, as you do, yeah, as you do, although
back then I'm not sure how we did much because
you can automate now. Back then you actually had to
literally hit play on every song. Sure how we did that,
but we would and.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Put on American Pie and then huh yeah, explor.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
One of the things we did was we would back
then this is I don't know if it was predirect
deposit or it didn't or they just didn't use direct deposit,
but everyone's paychecks were slid into their mail slots, and
so Gabe and I would hold those pace slots up
to the paychecks up to the light to see what
kind of coin people would bring it in, because we
knew we were getting hosed. We were the overnight guys.
And so anyway, somebody overheard us exchanging notes like, oh,
(32:28):
this person makes Oh did you see this person? Oh
they make this much. No, it's I was an idiot,
Like I'll tell you that right now. I was an
idiot for many reasons back then, and that's one of them.
And so anyway, so that person told the bosses, who
told the bosses, and I got fired for that. Gabe
didn't because he'd already found another gig, so he'd already
put in his two weeks notice. But I got I
got fired for that. So I would say that's a
(32:49):
failure and a learning experience and a growth moment. Not
something I'm proud of, but you know, it happened, then
it is what it is. Do you have a failure reason?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know I do. I was I didn't
really know what I wanted to do after like high school,
so I started taking criminal justice classes. I thought I'd
be a cop like my dad. And then I was like,
oh my god, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Like fight, not see you as a cop.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I know that's what he said to my dad,
but you know, I just kind of did it. And
then I got an internship at the radio station in
my town and I started doing that and I loved it,
and I was such a bad student. My plan was
to transfer to San Jose Stage or something like that
and do film television radio. That was a major there.
(33:34):
And I could not, for the life of me, pass
intermediate algebra at my community college. I flunked it so
many times. I flunked it the most amount. I could
not retake it there. So if and that was a credit,
you needed to transfer. So if I was going to transfer,
I was gonna have to go to another community college.
And that filled me with so much shame and I
was like, Okay, I either have to do that or
(33:57):
I have to move to Los Angeles and try to
just do radio down there because that's what I wanted
to do ultimately, and that was my and I'm like,
you know, I'm gonna try and here you are. Here
I am you know. That was those thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
On the fifth floor of the iHeart Radio building overlooking Burbank, California.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Beautiful downtown Burbank. I'm here and it worked out for me.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But yeah, of the four people on this podcast, Tanya
and Becka included, only Tanya rad has a college degree.
The rest of us dropped out. That's right, there's a
lesson in there somewhere. Kids. Let's see, Hailey Heineman, what's
your favorite thing about California. You know, I'll tell you
I love a lot about California. Obviously, the weather. It's December,
(34:39):
it's late December, and it is gorgeous outside. I hike
a lot, and that's another thing. I live walking distance
from hiking trails and a mountain and I can do
it twelve months out of the year and that's beautiful.
I love that. But I also love the diversity of California.
I love that my kids are going to school with
every race and every ethnicity and every under variation, every
(35:01):
sexual preference. I love that. I love them. My kids
are being raised that it's perfectly normal to be whatever
you want, whoever you want to be. I think that's fantastic.
And that's Those are the two main things.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I love California. I love everything about it. I love
you grew up here. I grew up here. I was
born and raised in California. I love fake California, like
I love the California and like Beach Boys songs like
the California that kind of never really existed. I love that.
But I love I love the geographical diversity. I love
that you can there's that whole thing. You can go
to skiing, surfing and in the desert in the same day.
(35:33):
You could do that. I love. I love the diversity
of it. I love how excited people are to be here,
and I think that brings a lot of creative and
interesting energy. And I mean, yeah, you can't beat the
weather man. I just it's so great. I've seen snow
like twice in my life, and I want to keep
(35:53):
it that way. Yeah, I just I And I love
there's gold here. I love there's gold in the hills,
like I just I think that's such a cool metaphor
for this place, right, like Golden State. Yeah, I love California.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Blair Maples. What's your least favorite part of your job?
You know, people would think it would be the hours,
but I've really gotten used to that. I don't It
doesn't really bother me getting up early, because I don't
know any other life anymore. I've been in morning radio jeez,
almost twenty years now, so I don't have any other
frame of reference. Really, I don't mind that at all.
I guess it's meetings. And then I don't mean the
meetings with the staff because I love those. We do
(36:29):
this every day for the next day show. I love that.
I love doing the show. I love working with Ryan,
I love I love the show itself. It's meetings with
like people who wear ties for a living, those kind
of meetings, like the planning meetings. Those all drive me crazy.
That's my least favorite part. Yeah, because look, Seacrest is
(36:49):
a big deal in this company, and our show is
a big deal in this company, so a lot of
people have a very vested interest in our show. So
we have to do a lot of those meetings and
they drive me nuts.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
God, what's my least for your.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Love.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I really do love almost every aspect of this job.
I guess. There are some times I have to record
a podcast with someone whose opinions I don't like. Ah, yeah,
that's good. I have to sit there and listen to
them and take notes on it. And then the worst part.
A lot of the podcasts you listen to, I also
write the little description things. Just trying to make someone
(37:25):
that I absolutely despise sound exciting and interesting is a challenge,
and I don't like that. That's the part, But I
do it because I'm good at my job. But that's
the part I don't like.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Let's burn through a couple of ys quickly. How'd you
know your wives were? The one that was? Megan and
Shala both asked that that's an easy one. I remember.
I remember the thought when the thought of living a
life without her became laughable to me. The idea that
five years from now we wouldn't even know each other,
that was just ludicrous, and I thought that was funny,
And that's when I knew it was time to propose.
Because she's it.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I had a similar thing. Yeah, I could not imagine
life without her, And even the even the worst parts
of life are so much better with.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Her Elsie Limb. First impressions of Becca and Tanya and
each other, uh, east and Easton's incredibly likable, as you
all know. And I see he seemed like a fun
likable guy the first time I met him, and then
I saw him at Disneyland. Then I thought it was
somebody didn't say anything, But knowing him now, I should
was obvious it was him. He's there all the time.
(38:25):
But I still seemed like a fun likable guy.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah. I was intimidated by you, because yeah, you're you're
the guy here. I was so new and uh, he's
so funny and everyone everyone liked and respected Mark, and
we just won't want to impress you Mark. That's what
everybody here wants to do. I was like, oh god,
if I could that was the engineer. Then I'm like,
if I could just fix something for market, my life
would be set.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And Becka, well, Tanya I met, you know, twenty ten,
twenty eleven, and she's just Tanya is what she is. Like,
She's just sunshine and just walks in the room with
her eyes wide and smile, hue huge and big teeth
And there's Tanya and it's just hard not to like Tanya.
I was told blon, Tanya was coming. That was the
only thing. Blon, Tanya is gonna start working for us, Okay, great,
And then she comes in and she's like Wow, she's
(39:11):
so happy and fun and kind and genuine and so
And that's the same way I feel about her now,
Like there's Tanya is who Tanya is, and Becka I
didn't really know her whatsoever. I think she's she's stunning.
I remember thinking that, like wow, but she's just so
incredibly down to earth for somebody who is so lovely
(39:32):
and has some you know, fame behind her, she's just
so incredibly friendly and down to earth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I remember Tanya was so welcoming to me when I
first started working here. And I remember when I first
got the job. She we were using a well and
semissenger back then, and she hit me up on aim
and she was like a big part of the job
I'm gonna need you to do is tell me what
song is playing next. And I was like, you got it, Tanya, Yes, yes,
And so I'd have to sit there and because I
was sitting behind the computer at the board and I
(39:59):
could see and I would send her and I am
going like same old look by Slene, gummeez his next
and she'd like thank you, and she'd give me a
little salute from behind the glass.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Why does she need to know that?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I don't know. She couldn't tell. She didn't have access
to that. I guess at that point.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
She so every song for four hours, not.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Every song, but whenever she wanted to know interesting. Yeah,
And I was happy to do that task. But she
was so so nice and so fun to be around.
And Becca, again, I did not watch The Bachelor. I
didn't know anything about her. I guess the first time
I met he is when we just started doing the podcast.
I don't think I would have met her before then.
She can't Yeah, Sugarman. Amy Sugarman was like, we're doing
(40:38):
a podcast with someone from another person from the Bachelor.
It's going to be about Grey's anatomy or something. And
it was just Beca, Tilly and Mark and I sitting
in here, and she was so fun and I knew
that she loved McDonald's and fast food. I was like, Oh,
we're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
A hearing yep, yep. Generally, Anthony, this is funny. It's
your funeral. Everyone has to take communion. That is the
blood and bread of youth. That her mark. Example, mineus
coke and a medium rare steak. Yeah, my husband is
muscal and minundo soup. My dad is soda water and
a mini slider. My friend is dirty martini and a
(41:10):
mini bagel with cream cheese. What would be your blood
and bread of east mark? That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
It is funny. I like that. The the body of
Jesus is usually just a small like what wafer wafer
and for these people, you got it to catch it.
Multiple ingredients here, I think.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
My I mean I again, I'll I drink is water,
but that's boring, so I don't want to say that.
So I'll say root beer because I did enjoy that
back in the day. And I'm going to say a
hot dog on toast.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
We called it a Wiener toasty back in the day,
and I still love a Wiener toasty, whether it's toast
or it's the Pillsbury croissant rolls like a pick and
a blanket, basically like a full size picking a blanket. Wow.
Uh huh, that's it. That's that's that's my blood and
bread right there.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Uh yeah, mine would have to be. Uh, it's got
to be Coca cola. Love Coca Cola. I could drink
it every day, all day long. Coca cola and Nacho's
would be the body that's my favorite food of all time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
And Daniel Taylor Mark, you mentioned a long time ago
you have meals free, stay of the week. That one
really struck a chord with people. Yeah, does it ever
change when you get sick of it? I'm in a
dinner rot. So right now we're the kids are so
busy and they're never home. But right now we it's
Monday is still breakfast. Tuesday is now pizza, Wednesday is
now pasta, Thursday is often and this is a new addition,
(42:30):
by the way, everybody heads up. You might want to
jot this down. It's Chinese food from Trader Joe's. Wow. Yeah,
really good stuff. Interesting, the egg rolls and the.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Do you jump the kind of Chinese feling? No, it's
always the same, okay, and so what And that's dumplings.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
And dumplings and egg rolls and the and the orange chicken.
Oh it's great. Uh. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday are
kind of kind of free for alls at this point
because the kids are never around. I am often on
my own because the kids they're gone, and my wife,
you know, were working on some booster thing of some
sort of anyway, So that's on Easter. Whatever happened to Croctober,
I can't look at Crocs about thinking of you.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm I'm happy you brought that up. I love Crocs.
I still buy them frequently. I set a high standard
for myself with Croctober. The first time I did it,
I did like thirty days of croc related videos and
it was a lot of work. And so the following
year I think I did something similar but less frequent.
(43:32):
This year, I don't think I did anything for Croctober
at all this year, other than like wishing everyone a
happy October when I would see them in public. But
it's just a lot of work, you know, and Crocs
knows that I love them. But until I have a
really unique and astonishing idea, I think Croctober might have
to take a back seat to other things, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Fair enough, all right, I have a game for Easton. Wow,
we're gonna play it when we come back, all right.
I was trying to think what which of Easton's passions
(44:13):
should I quiz him on Should I givehim a Disney quiz?
Should I give him a Crocs quiz? Should I give
him a Marvel quiz? I didn't think people would be
very interested in those, but I thought a cheesecake factory
quiz would be kind of fun. So here we go
three rounds. First round is trivia. OK, I'll take the
rounds as they come. All right, Here we go Round one,
(44:35):
general trivia. Here we go easton Ready Ready? In what
city and year did the first cheesecake factory open?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Beverly Hills, California?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yep, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I'm so sorry it is nineteen seventy eight. Beverly Hills
is correct. However, I feel like you're going to get
this next one. Who is the found the cheesecake factory?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Oh man, this is embarrassing. I really yeah, I really
have overstated your love of cheesecas. No, I'm sorry. Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Wait, if I give you his first name, can you
give me his last name?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Let's try it. David LaMarsh, David Overton.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
No, I'm not even gonna bother with this next song
because the next song is what is the name of
the band? He was in before he started a.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Second just get wait he was in a band.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, it's called the Billy Roberts Blues band, Wow Easton.
Approximately how many items and how many words are in
the Cheesecake Factory menu? This is an approximation because it
changes regularly. Yeah, roughly how many items and how many words?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
It's never evolving menu. I think items. Let's see, there's
like I want to say, there's like forty pages in
that menu, so items. Probably it's like seventy five items.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
According to the source I have, it's approximately two hundred
and fifty Jesus words. All right, how about this one?
The Cheesecake Factory is referenced in what Drake song?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Oh oh wait, I know this? What I know?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
What? I know? You would child play? It's correct, very.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I love to go there, all right? Round two? All right,
I'm going to give you, uh, I'm going to ask
you for some of the names on the menu and
their significance. Whose favorite pasta is it? And who is Evelyn?
I don't know who really know that these are the
(46:45):
kind of things I was that you would be looking
up on your phone as you sit there staring at
the menu.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah, you know I I have at some point, but
you know, the gigabytes get overwritten sometimes. Uh, take a guess.
Evelyn is a end of the overtons.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
It is the mother of David. It's her favorite pasta.
Who's chicken and almond sandwich? Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Oh? Uh oh man, Dave's No, No, I don't have
that one.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Who's Renee?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Renee is the sister?
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Who's chicken and avocado salad? Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
All the name ones? Yeah, I thought you'd get Yeah,
you know, I love a Jeescay factory, But like I
could study the menu a bit closer. Chicken and almond salad?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Teresa's?
Speaker 1 (47:39):
It is Sheila's?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Sheila's Who is Sheila? Sheila is the neighbor David's wife.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Sorry, all right, here's what's gonna happen now, samuela complicated.
We're gonna give a shot. I'm going to give you
sixty seconds on the clock. You're gonna name as many
flavors of cheesecake as you possibly can. Okay, there are
I believe twenty eight of them. All right, so we
see how many you can get in sixty seconds. All right,
(48:08):
sixty seconds on the clock. Please, here we go. Ready, ready, Now,
you'll need to give me just a half a second
to cross it off the list, and I'll do my
best to keep up with you. All right, all right,
are you Mark? Get set go?
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Original coconut key lime. Okay, cookie dough. It's not called
cook it's called it's called cookie do lovers?
Speaker 1 (48:33):
I think whatever?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Oreo Dream, Extreme sixtyth anniversary, thirtieth History. Sorry, the Snickers
something Snickers.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The cinnabon. There's one cinnabon. Oh god, there's so much pressure.
There's a white talking academia, uh something, peanut butter Uh,
peanut butter cake, Reese, there's a peanut butter cup, Kevin's Uh,
(49:16):
Adams Adams peanut butter fudne cup. Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
I'm sorry when you.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Got like twelve, I think you got twelve. That's pretty good,
all right? Yeah, the pressure I thought I would just
rattle them off. Yeah, gets scary.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Oh my gosh, well that was fun.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
You are the champion. Not quite what I had hoped for,
but still.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
You know I I do a lot of executive worship,
and the Overtons are not as involved with the company anymore.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
So you know, you know, actually I'm I don't think
I'm gonna out hurt too much. But the wife of
the president of the cheesecake factory, her friend is a scrubber,
and introduced me.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Wife of the president's friend.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Yeah, is a scrubber, got it? So oh no, no, no, sorry,
the president's wife's friend is a scrubber. President's wife's okay,
So she introduced me to the president's wife, the first
lady of the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
And and I will not say her name on there.
I don't want to blow up her spot, understood, But
I we DM pretty frequently. She has sent me some
cheesecare Factory stuff.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
She's going to be so disappointed in how you did
with that quiz, I know.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
And you know I led a ferocious campaign to bring
back the peppermint bar cheese cake last year and it
fell on deaf ears. So hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
All right, Well, that's going to do it for our show.
We love you, Thank you for letting us do this.
It's just silly, uh and and just ludicrous that anyone
would want to hear what Eastan and I have to
say for an hour.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
I know, I always think it's so nice meeting scrubbers.
I love meeting Scrubbers in public. It's like I never
thought that would happened to me. Yeah, but every now
and again they'll want a picture and I don't. I
don't mean to be insulting, but sometimes I want to
be like, how are you going to explain this picture
to people like this? You know, I have a favorite podcast,
and this guy's like he talked looks like once every
(51:01):
other week on it. So it's very kind. And that
just shows the scrubbers are so passionate and I really
we appreciate.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
My kids are very impressed when one of you recognizes
me in public. They're very impressed with that. So thank you,
thank you all, thank you for what is it almost
seven great years of this program. Wow, in twenty four,
it's gonna be our best ever.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I just can't wait. Let's get another people's sort of word.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
We should make a goal for twenty four.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Okay, a live show, Yes, yes, a live show another
one that.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Would be great. Well, we'll see, yeah, we'll see what
happens in the meantime. Thankscrubbers, and Merry Christmas, and we'll
see you next year, and so long everybody, Bye, b
Scrubbing Man with Mark and Easton and iHeartRadio and Zero
Time People's Choice Award winning podcast. Hello everybody, We're scrubbing
scrubbing up dub. It's the mark An Easton Show.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
A lot of you on the Facebook group said, you
guys have done this before.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
When where can I hear it? Is it in another feed?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Nope? Right here in the scrubbing and feed where I
like to call home for the past six years.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Stretch your thumbs to scroll back for that one though.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do some stretching. It's the last show of twenty twenty.
We're on Zoom from I was sitting on the floor
in the closet. Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I'm sitting in my office.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I remember it. Well. Yeah, we're in studio today. Quality
is better in terms of sound quality, quality of the
content ever to be seen. Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Merry Christmas, Easton, A Merry Christmas, Mark Easton.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's start this show by talking about Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tell me about Christmas. For a young Eastern Allen, I
feel like a young Eastern Allen was very similar to
our current Eastern Allen, like very excitable, really loved a
lot of different stuff, cereal and restaurants and superheroes and Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Right, yeah, I liked Christmas as a young as a
young boy had we had a fireplace, but it was
one of those like stoves. It wasn't like a traditional
like wood burning in a fireplace. So I remember being
very concerned that Santa wouldn't be able to get through.
And then thank God that I believe it was the
Santa Claus tim Allen came out and they showed how
(01:35):
he can manipulate his body to get through very small openings.
I was like, wow, yeah, pressure's off.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now that's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
But yeah, something I really liked. As I'd wake up
on Christmas morning in my well spoiler alert if you
have kids listening, but my dad, Kim Allen Senior, would
throw ash on the ground and make like footprints that's
good and stuff like that, and he would go outside
my window and like ring the sleigh bells and I
(02:02):
was like, oh, my god.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Santy, laying there in bed, you'd hear Santa come.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I would Wow. It was great. And the only thing
that I was suspicious of was I was like, because
I heard Santa made these toys in his workshop as
Alas made it, and I was like, is Mattel okay
with them making Gi Joe? Like the package is the same,
There's got to be a legal problem here.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that is interesting. That works because back in the
day when the first Santa Claus, you know, story was
going around and that's what people got. They got train
sets and stuff you could have made. Yeah. Now it's
now it's an Xbox. Yeah, Santa made in his workshop
Fortnite Bucks. Yeah. I actually, since we've already blown it
with the kids out there, I believed longer than almost
(02:44):
any of my friends. And the reason was one Christmas Eve,
I don't know, I was seven or eight. Uh, some
friends of my parents came by the house who had
just been at a Christmas party and they stopped by
our house and they were fully dressed as Santa and
Missus Claus, and my parents took a picture with a
polaroid of the four of them together, and to me,
that was ironclad proof. It was like getting a shot
(03:07):
of big Foot of the lock dest Monsole. This is it.
You guys, go ahead, don't believe, but I know it's
real because I have a photo. Wow, sad little Barkie.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So your calls to the National enquirerof when I answered, yeah,
you're not gonna believe the scoop I got for you. Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now, both my kids found out the hard way by
friends at school blowing them. It's too bad. Yeah, they
were sad.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
How about you, did you were you really into Christmas?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah? Yeah, Well some people seems might be surprised by
because I'm not religious and we were not a religious family,
but we were way into Christmas. It's fine because that
that can happen. Yeah, there is a secular way of
doing Christmas, and we did the heck out of it.
We really did, with the songs and the and the
tree and the stocking and the shows, and we really
got into it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Do you have Christmas movies you would watch every year?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah? I watched It's Wonderful Life every year. Wow, for
a long long time. I showed her to my eldest
daughter last year for the first time. Yeah, we'd watch those,
and our tradition was we'd go see a movie on
Christmas Eve, like in theaters, fun, and then we'd come
home and have ribs. Mom would make ribs. She made
steak when we were younger. But I never I've never
been that into steak, so she made it ribs, and
then we'd go drive around look at Christmas tree lights
(04:18):
or house you know, houses, neighborhoods. And then Christmas morning
we'd get up early and I'd have an apple pop
tart and then we'd always start at the exact same time.
I think it was like eight forty two or something.
We'd always start opening friends at the exact same time
every year. I was a very big stickler for tradition.
But I do not recommend that because I have no
memories of Christmas now, because every year was exactly the same.
(04:40):
I couldn't tell you the difference between when I was
six or when I was twelve. They're all exactly the same.
So if you have kids of your own, change it
up a little bit every year so they have something
to remember.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, that's good advice. Yeah, yeah, we did the same.
It was such tradition until Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean some traditions are great, they're good. Yeah, traditions, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But yeah, it's it's good to switch such things up.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So right now, if people are listening to this in
real time, it's Christmas morning.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Wow, that's right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
What what what is happening at the Easton household.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, I just finished posting scrubbing in that I probably
should have scheduled in advance, but I didn't. So my
wife is waiting for me. No, what are we doing
Christmas morning? We always spend Thanksgiving with my family in
northern California, and then Christmas. We love doing just Allison
and I. That was something that was very important early
in our marriage. We're like, let's let's let's start our
(05:32):
new traditions now, you know, uh, just her and I.
So we usually we wake up and exchange gifts, and
we usually we like to watch a lot of movies
on Christmas Day. Yeah, so we usually watch Crampus starring
Adam Scott, horror movie. And we're probably gonna watch the
new Janet Kramer Christmas movie on Lifetime, Cowboy Christmas Romance, Sure,
(05:54):
Light of Fire, and eat a lot of junk.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Food and yeah that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What about you, you guys?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, we'll be at my mother in law's house and
the TV will be on and I'll be We're always
sitting in the exact same spot. You know. I get
sucked into these traditions. Yeah, I'm sitting on the couch
back to the window. Wife next to me. Kids are
on the floor even though they're all teenagers. Now, Grandma
Sandy's in one recliner, Papa's and the other recliner. You know,
we all get into our spots and you and we
try to take a long long time to open presence.
(06:22):
You take a lot of breaks. You make it last
all day if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Do you do the like? Do you does each person
opening kind of the oldest?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh? Wow, yes, see, we always.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Just did a like when we go to my grandfather's house,
just open season, just for it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, no, no, it's very it's very regiment the youngest
to oldest until the adult start running out of them.
But then a stayed youngest to oldest is just within
the kids.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That makes it easier.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, yeh, it's really good. All right. So today we
have questions that you've asked us on the Facebook group.
We're going to go through some of those and then
have a game for Easton later that he doesn't know
anything about. Wow. Yeah, I did a lot of research
on this game.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah. So that's coming up. So why don't we take
a break. We'll come back start answered some questions. All right,
here we go, All right, here we go. Questions on
(07:17):
the Facebook group. Thank you all for participating. Dana Snow,
what a lovely name for Christmas Day? Dana Snow. Why
have you guys started an advice podcast yet? I think
it is a very simple reason. No one is interested
in that.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I don't I get that question all why haven't
you started a podcast yet? And I'm very flattered by
those very nice but my personal belief is we are
two white men. The world has enough of us out there,
especially in podcasts.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's really true. And also I think you need to
have a certain level of fame to have a podcast,
and if you don't, you're just one of the millions
of podcasts out there.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, so you know, maybe happened at some point, but
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, I don't know what I could contribute. I don't
see I Hurt Radio getting behind to such a thing. Yeah.
That's a hard pitch, So sorry, Dan, I probably not
any time soon, but you're very sweet to ask.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yes, Jennifer Fisk, what are both of your roles at
iHeart Radio more than just your titles? Is it research,
pre show editing, facilitating, helping, the host if they get stuck.
What's a day in the life look like for each
of you. I'll go first. I get up early in
the dark, drive in. Sometimes a year I get a
little bit of sunrise, but usually that's also in the dark.
(08:34):
I'm the executive producer of On Air with Ryan Secrets.
That's the title, and the job entails getting everything ready
that he could possibly need for the course of a show.
I schedule out a show. This break, we're gonna talk
about this, this break, We're gon't talk about this now.
Sometimes he sees that and he goes, I don't want
to talk about that stuff. I say great. He said,
I want to talk about this. I say great, and
he does what he wants. Some days he sticks to it.
It's kind of a lot of it has to do
(08:54):
with what it's got he's got going on. Sometimes he's
very busy and he just kind of does what I
what I put in front of him. And sometimes he
comes in with a million ideas and does that and
they're both great. Honestly, it's probably better when he comes
in with his own ideas because then he's really fired
up to talk about them. But then the other part
of the job is to make sure he has everything
he needs for these bricks. Does he need pictures, does
he need callers? Does he need the questions for the
(09:17):
game we're going to play? Does he need a background,
does he need the pronunciation of a name like stuff
like that. Just make sure he has everything possible that
he could need for that break. And so that's the
main job, is doing that with him. And I've been
doing that for almost fourteen years. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, Easton, Well, I mean the email the business card,
says executive producer of American Top forties Rand Secret, which
is the show that airs on the weekends that Ryan does.
It airs across the country and across the world. And
my typical day is I wake up and we record
that show a couple times throughout the week. There's several
(09:55):
different versions of the countdown. So depending on when Ryan
has time for it, I will I will hop on
zoom usually and record with him.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's not live every Saturday and Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You know, I hate to break it to you. This
is something that I really it breaks my heart to do.
I spoiled Santa earlier in the show, and I'm gonna
spoil this. A lot of people think that Ryan comes
to their town on Sunday morning and broadcast the countdown
from there, and I'm sorry to say that it's not accurate.
He pre records it a little bit in advance, just
a bit, uh, But I record that with him, and
(10:26):
you know, similar to to what Marcus to do. I
have a script for him that has all this information
about all the artists on the chart, interesting stuff to
talk about, and the guests we're gonna have on the show,
and anything else he could possibly need, and we record
that together. It's just him and I were having a
lot of fun. We're best friends, Ryan Seacrest and I
and you know, it's just like two friends hanging out.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Ryan really likes you.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh you're sweet. I believes he's cool. I have a
funko pop of him on my show.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But yeah, he gets a big kick out of you. Easton.
What was the number one saw of twenty twenty three
on the American Top forty?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
The number well, I mean, do you want to know
the pop chart or the hot pop chart? That's all
that matters. Come on, my goodness, the Contemporary Hit radio
chart that is CHR. The number one song was the
weekend Die for You.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, it was this is your number one song of
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And if you listened this past week, if you listened yesterday,
you'd know.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That, Well, there you go. It's out there. We're not
you know, no spoilers, soil, no, just what I thought
you might be curious. I like that. Jennifer also asks
if we weren't doing our current job, what would you
want to be doing with your life? I always say
baseball I want to be, and I've always wanted to be,
and I still want to be a played by I
play baseball announcer, not the guy at the stadium that
goes now about it ring center fielder. Not that guy
(11:44):
I want to be when you turn on the radio.
Here we go, ball one strike too. Here's the pitch
to Yellich. It's a swing on a ground ball to short.
That that guy. I want to be that guy, and
I've always wanted to be that guy. And maybe somebody
I'll get it to that chance. But that would be
the alternate route. And I did pursue that route at
one point when I was about twenty two, and that
didn't work out, and I got a morning radio job instead,
(12:04):
and that's been the path I've been on ever since,
but that was a fork in the road. So and someday,
hopefully I'll go back to that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How many love to hear that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I mean, I don't know, because I always wanted to
do radio and I'm doing it, and I guess I'd
like to be on the air somewhere, but I don't
really even I don't know if I want that. I
really love what I'm doing now.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I have found that as I get older, my desire
to be on the air is less and less. Of course,
here we are doing a.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Podcast, listen to us. I don't if I want to
do it every day. But you know something, I am
so fascinated by advertising and logos and jingles and slogans.
That is something that, like sincerely, brings me a lot
of non ironic, like real pleasure. So I've always I
have always fantasized about another life where I like went
(12:52):
into advertising or something. Yeah, you'd be good at that,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah, we're both radio nerds.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What can we say? Yeah, I mean, here we are.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Let's see. This is a fun one. Kayla Boo Campbell
cute name. It startled me right in the middle there, Mark,
Why do you live a little have a soda or
a cup of coffee? Know? Although I did have a
soda in twenty twenty three. Wow, I did in August
and Wisconsin. I had a root beer float. My kidness.
(13:22):
It was delicious and that was my soda for the year.
And I don't usually do one a year. I usually
do zero a year.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Was it like Roger Rabbit having alcohol? Or like you're
head tron into a giant whistle?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know, It's funny the fizziness since I drink nothing
but water, the fizziness like whoa, My goodness, it's like
stronger than I remember it being Cletcher pearls. I got
the carbonation and I don't even know a coffee tastes like,
so that's that's not happening.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Kayla also says Easton hypothetically, the cheesecake factory is closing down.
You're there the last night it's open. What are you ordering?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
This is the thing I've talked to my therapist about.
When I go somewhere or eat something that I really like,
I do have a fear. I'm like, this could be
the last time I have this, and that paralyzes me
when I think about what I'm ordering and everything.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Why do you think that Why would it be the
last time?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know, because if life is short, I mean
not like I'm going to perish before, but they might close.
This place might close tomorrow. They might take this off
the menu.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, okay, So like every time we go visit my hometown,
it de drives my wife nuts, but I have to eat,
like there's like ten things I have to eat. So
I'm like, I don't know when this would be my
last time having Tako with Verra to Britos. So I
have thought about this. If the cheesecake factory was going
under and closing, it was my last meal there. I
would get an appetizer of buffalo blasts. I would for
the for the starter, and then my main would be
(14:40):
the Cajun jumbalayapasta that's my favorite thing there, and then
my dessert would be the Somoor's cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Wow. Yeah, it's a good good answer, good question, Kayla.
Thank you, kat Ortiz Mark advice for handling two girls.
Expecting my second in May Well, congratulations, that's exciting. Good
for you. What's wonderful. The other night, my wife hosted
holiday Bunco. She's a Bunco group. Do you know what
Bunko is. It's a dice game.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's Wisconsin thing.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I don't think it's a Wisconsin thing. It's a lot
of mom Yeah, it's a bit of dice game. I
don't really know the rules of it, but you roll
dice and you win money and it's kind of fun.
And the moms were coming over and I have to
get I have to clear out when the moms come over,
so I go hide upstairs because this is a mom thing,
this is just us. So the kids and I go
upstairs and but but I was still downstairs getting things
ready when some moms arrived and they gave some gifts
(15:28):
because they do a white elephant thing, and Amy said,
put them under the small Christmas tree because we have
a big one for in the living room and then
the kids have one in the other room. Put them
under the small Christmas So they did, and I said,
oh cute. And one of the moms said, you are
a girl. Dad. My husband has never said those words
like that in his life. And I know that she
meant it as a compliment, but I took it as
(15:49):
a compliment. Uh, My only advice is, I hope you've
got a husband that is just cool with it all.
It's not one of these guys that wants to keep
going for boys and really wishes he had boys. You
need a husband who is very willing to play barbies
with them, to watch Princess movies with them, to play
Pretty Pretty Princess with them, which was one of our
favorite board games when I was little, and we have
pictures somewhere of me and the full all the jewelry
(16:12):
and the tiara because I won the game. Anyway, if
he's willing to do all that stuff, it's going to
be just fine, because having daddy's girls is the greatest
and that's where I am now. Sarah Hayes, what were
some of your bests this year? East? And you start movies, books,
TV shows, trips, food, but no Easty Awards spoilers, She says.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, you know, for those of you just tuning in,
I do a thing every year called the East Awards
where I recognize my favorite things throughout the year. And
this would be if I told you, like my favorite
movie right now, there would be spoiling the ceremony, which
is going on January eighth, I believe there'll be no.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I thought it was always New Year's Eve, you know,
it was New Year's Eve, and then I found sorry,
January seventh, it was New Year's Eve. But that was
it was hard to people got annoyed by that. Okay,
they got annoyed. So I'm doing it on Sunday, the
first Sunday in January now like other award shows, and
Eastwards shirts are available now, actually on my Instagram. But
I'll tell you my favorite. I'm not much of a
(17:16):
reader because I can't read. But no, I'm just kidding.
I can, but I don't read as much as I
would like. But I did read a book called by
Kevin Rafferty, who is an imagineer at Disney, and the
name of the book escapes me, but I did love it,
and I'm looking up the book now. I think it's
called My Fantastical Walt Disney Imagine Magic Journey. Magic Journey
(17:37):
is the name of the book. It's by Kevin Rafferty.
If you love Disneyland and rides and weird stories, it's
a great book. That was my favorite book this year.
But in terms of the rest of it, you're gonna
to tune into the Eastwards baby.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
So sad, I know I would get more of that
from you. Well, so nothing else, no TV shows, that's
a category.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, Actually I don't do TV shows on the
Easties to talk about that, I don't watch TV a lot.
That's why I don't do it. But this year, I
really I loved this might be recency biased, but I'm
loving the curse that's still going on as we record this.
That is, and I think it will go into January.
That's Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder, who is a weirdo
(18:18):
on TV. Uh and uh.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's so good. It's about this couple that are they're
trying to do an h G TV like, you know,
Fixer Upper, Like they're trying to make this town in
New Mexico become the new thing. And they suck. They're
terrible people and they make a lot of terrible decisions,
and it's really fun to I love the those kind
of stories of people making really bad decisions.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, I just canceled Apple TV. Plus maybe I can
get the show.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Show gets Showtime trial and check out the curse. I
love that. And you know this, this won't make the
easiest because it was so recent. But I'm I think
I just saw poor Things. I just saw poor things.
That'stone also Emmstone and that is great, and that's that's
made by your Gosla I can't pronounce his last name.
The director. He did a movie called The Lobster. He's
(19:07):
a weirdo too. Yeah, I saw The Lobster. Yeah, weird,
very weird. This is weird as well, and it's great.
Uh So that's why I recommend you Magical Journey, the
Curse and Poor Things TV show.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I really, I mean to me, it's succession. To me,
there is succession is up there with the Sopranos and
uh and Breaking Bad is just one of the greatest
shows of all time. Is this year media wasn't was it?
I feel like I watched it this year. Yeah, anyway,
I just loved it. I feel like it's acting, directing, producing,
Everything is at the highest possible level, set design, sound, editing,
(19:41):
Like everybody's the greatest in at the game and they're
all together doing the show. And I just think, don't
think it gets any better than that, because I would
go back and watch scenes over again to see what
these actors are doing a little twitch with their eyebrow
or a little thing with their lip, and it's just
like wow, it's just incredible watching these people act. It's
really I love that show movies. I mean, I love
(20:02):
the Barbie Movie.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I loved it so much. It was so everything I
hoped it would be in More Got Me Good, you know,
just kind of a movie just kind of hits you.
And the whole theme of how heartbreaking it is for
parents when their kids stopped playing with their Barbies. And
I've told that story before, but that my kids a
series finale with their barbies when they were getting too
old to play with barbies anymore, and they were going
(20:25):
to donate them all because they had eighty of them.
And so the two of them, who we are now
too old, they went and they played Barbies one last
time and had each Barbie stand up and explain what
they're going to be doing with their lives. You know,
I'm going to college here, I'm going to go work here.
Like it was. It was a series finale, and I
was the next room listening and just you know, blubbering.
But I also loved just to nerd out for a second.
I love the Spider Verse movie. Oh, yeah, I don't
(20:48):
remember if it's into or across or alongside or next
across the Spider verse. Spider that was great and reading
I'm reading right now the sequel so they both die
at the end.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Oh, I've heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, the new it's not current or anything, but it's
a sequel to it and it's called it's called the
first to die at the end. So I don't know.
It's good so far.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
One more thing about the Part movie, because it is
so good and I just wanted They re released it
in Imax and I went to go see it again.
It's just as good as the second time. I loved it.
Alison and I were like, yeah, maybe we can bail
like halfway through. No, we say the whole time. And
I posted on Instagram that I was going to go
see it and someone said what's different about it? And
I said, well, it's really big And it sure was, Baby,
(21:32):
it was huge. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Wonderful movie. That speech about what it's like to be
a woman today, that was powerful. Jenna Beck wants to
know our favorite scrumming in memory. For me, it's a
live show with the Roxy. Oh that was standing on
that stage and having a couple hundred people just screaming
and cheering. I hope everybody gets to experience that in
their life at some point, because that was amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That was something I never when we started doing this podcast,
I truly never thought ever. I thought it would go
on for a while, but I'm like, I can't believe
that moment would happen.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That was so special.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Madison Young, what would be your perfect day? What are
you doing? What are you eating? Who are you with?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
East You know, I had imagined my perfect day and
I got to do it for my birthday in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I think about it all the time. It was my
perfect day. I woke up. I had a Lucky Boy
breakfast burrito from Pasadena. If you're in the Pasaden area,
you got to go luck You wouldn't get this breakast
brit It's so good. I had that. And then my
sister and her husband came met up with Alison and
I and we drove out to Malibu. We had oysters,
and then we went to Paradise Cove, which is the
(22:38):
beach where they shot the album cover for Surf and
Safari by the Beach Boys. And I stared at the water,
and I felt the air, and I looked at the cliffs,
and I just hung out with people closest to me.
It was the perfect day.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's very sweet. It's hard for me because it would
involve my wife and daughters. But I'd also want to
be watching a Brewers game, and they don't like to
watch Brewers games, and so I would feel bad about
making them do that. So I wouldn't do that. But
I'll tell you my happy place. My happy place is
at my mother in law's house. A huge backyard like
that don't exist in southern California. It's like a good,
(23:13):
big Wisconsin backyard, and we get out the tea ball equipment.
We'll not te ball, whiffleball. We all play whiffleball in
the backyard. So it's me and it's the kids, and
it's all of either the kids friends or usually their cousins,
and usually my brother in law's out there, and maybe
some other people that we know are there. And that's
just I could do that all, even if it's just
me and my daughters. That is my happy place, whiffleball
(23:34):
in that backyard on a lovely summer night. The sun's
going down. They usually we can still smell what was
on the grill a few minutes ago, usually the ball
games on the speakers on the radio. That's it. Man.
That doesn't get any better than that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Man, I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A number of people ask me about my daughter's anxiety.
Heather Durant here, can you talk about your daughter's anxiety?
What you've done that's helped. My four year old has
anxiety at bedtime, and I find myself getting impatient with her. Okay,
so I have the solution. I'd like to say I
have the solution, but obviously every child is different. But
my daughter could never express to us what the problem was.
(24:09):
And then she got to an age where she could
express to us what the problem was and had been,
and what she needed from us in those times, and
that we weren't necessarily giving to her. Here's what she needs,
So Heather, this is I think this would help. She
needs you to be there, she needs you to love her,
and she needs you to empathize with what she's going through.
(24:31):
And we were good at that to a point. And
I think that is the key. Because when your kid
comes in in your room at bedtime once twice three
times you can handle that, it's going to be fine.
I'm not going to get upset. By the eighth, ninth,
tenth time, it's very difficult to not even if you're
saying the right things. They can tell if you're annoyed
(24:53):
with them. And so if your kid knows that there
is a breaking point for mom and dad, it almost
becomes inevitable that they're going to get to that breaking
point because their anxiety is going to force them to
do that, because they're going to go back to bed
and they're going to feel like, is this the moment
that they're mad at me? And then their anxiety is
gonna get worse and worse until they come in and
(25:14):
maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Even if you aren't,
they go back to bed and they still know it's coming.
I have found that when I said to her later on,
after I had the revelations of all the stupid mistakes
I made as a dad in handling this situation, that
if she knows that you're never going to get upset,
(25:36):
that is enough. I remember one night my wife and
other daughter were at some dance convention, so it was
just me and my oldest and I knew that her
anxiety level was high when I was saying good night
to her, and so I said, I'm right down the
hall and you can come all night long. I don't care.
I'm there and it's going to be fine. And she
never even came once because I think just knowing that
(25:57):
it's going to be fine, the anxiety go away. So
if they know that you are a safe space that
they can go to, if they know that you're a
safe space indefinitely, then they're not gonna push the limits
of that. So, Heather, my advice to you is to try.
(26:18):
And I know that's hard, man. I know when it's
three in the morning and she's still coming in, it's
so hard. But if you can just figure out a
way to always be okay with it, it's gonna get better.
And it's gonna get better fast, I think. And every
kid's different, so who knows, but and Daniel Hammond, that's
the best parenting advice I wish I had known back then.
And it's easier said than done, because you're gonna get annoyed.
(26:40):
It's just natural, especially when you don't understand it. And
I never understood it. Why are you so anxious? Nothing
bad's ever happened to you in your whole life. What's
the problem. But when you go to that place, then
it just gets worse. You just got to find it
in yourself to be okay with it forever and then
it's gonna it's gonna get better.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
So anyway, that's such good advice for not even if
your child doesn't struggle things, or even your your partner.
I think if you you need to be that place,
they need to feel like you are a safe place.
I think, yeah, and that is so important and always yes,
always there.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We go, moving on to other topics. Lindsay spark when
how many podcasts do you guys work on? I think
I saw you on Paris and Love. That's that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I made it. I am.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I'm not going to sugarcoat I'm the star of Paris
and Love season two, episode five. Specifically, I do have
a line I say, I could fix that to Paris
that's great.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, one of those tea shirts available at your Instagram.
You can fix that.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
People. I've asked for them, They've asked for them. How
many podcasts do we do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I don't like to know.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Actually, I think I have a way of knowing this.
Let me just bring this up right here one, two, four, seven,
eight nine. I'm up to thirteen. Easty.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well let's see. Let me let me look here, and
what does that entail?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
She says, Well, it entails. I guess somebody else said that.
But it's basically for most of that. It's different for
each of them. For most of them, they just do it.
They send me the audio. I edit it together and
make it sound like a show. I put on the
production at the beginning, and I put in the commercial breaks,
and I do all that stuff, and maybe I shorten it.
I bleep the s words. If you can't say that
on that show, Sam, you can, some you can't. So
(28:39):
it's different for each one. But it's it's mostly behind
the scenes post production on these podcasts.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, I do again. I do not want to count.
I think it's probably abound the same though, But thirteen
or something like that, and I sit on usually zoom.
Except for the case of Paris Silton, I do go
to her home, which is called Slivington manor thank you.
And you know, you know it's funny about that is
when I was sixteen or seventeen, my friends and I
(29:06):
came to La for the first time, like without our parents,
and it was a big deal. And we bought the
map of the Stars homes and we went to Paris
Sultan's house. That's incredible and it's different than where she
lives now. But like we went to the house that
like they broke into in the billing ring. Yeah, and
obviously didn't go up to the door. We drove by.
I'm like, oh my god, it's Perry Siltan's house, and
like it's just funny that now I'm I am there.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
You can practically come and go as you please. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, I've been there more than my parents' house, so
LUs a couple of years. But so yeah, I sit
there and I make sure all their microphones work. I
make sure their computers work. If they have any other
technical needs, I answer those. And then I sit there
and I write down the notes. I take notes with
the timer so that Mark knows, oh they stopped, they
(29:53):
went this is off air, or they said a bad word,
or you know, they're coughing or something like that. Try
to make the show more enjoyable for people to listen to.
And it's a lot of fun and I wouldn't trade
it for the world. Great, yeap, And what's my favorite podcast?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, Alex, I wants to know the top three favorites.
Alex viharro i airs.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
People ask us this all the time. What's your favorite podcast?
Number one has to.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Be Rubbing In.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, I was gonna say Lady Bosses.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
At rest.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I think you can still download it somewhere, but Lady
Bosses and Ben is my favorite show.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I love Scrubbing In. I love I mean, the other
ones are harder because I love help. I suck at dating,
but it's a little bit more work for me, so
then I love it less. I love drama Queens, but
that one's a lot of work for me, so I
love it less. Uh So, I don't know. It's hard
to say. I mean almost Famous was our first and original,
so I would say that one definitely, because also they
(30:46):
turn out episodes like you wouldn't believe.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh yeah man, and it's yeah, it's nice. Let me
tell you. I just want to say again how much
I love Pod Meats World. Pod Meets World's show I
would listen to if I was not being paid to.
It is so funny and so interesting, and you know,
even if you're not a boy meets World fan. I
think it's a really great show.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Margaret Watford McClintock.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's a cool name, great name.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
How is a failure or a parent failure set up
for later? Set you up for later success? Do you
have a favorite failure? That's a very high end question
right there. I just have a funny story. That's why
I picked this one. I was at a station called
WMMM Triple M. We called the one oh five to
five Triple M Madison's something and I got fired a
(31:30):
lot back in the day, but this is like the
only one that was my doing. Like I got fired
from WMAD because they went bankrupt. I got fired from
w jj L because they fired everybody, and I got
fired from other places for similar radio just kind of
normal radio related reasons. But this one was my fault.
I was the overnight guide at two to six AM,
and the other overnight guy, his name was Gabe. We
would sometimes go exploring at night in the middle of
(31:52):
the night, as you do, yeah, as you do, although
back then I'm not sure how we did much because
you can automate now. Back then you actually had to
literally hit play on every song. Sure how we did that,
but we would and.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Put on American Pie and then huh yeah, explor.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
One of the things we did was we would back
then this is I don't know if it was predirect
deposit or it didn't or they just didn't use direct deposit,
but everyone's paychecks were slid into their mail slots, and
so Gabe and I would hold those pace slots up
to the paychecks up to the light to see what
kind of coin people would bring it in, because we
knew we were getting hosed. We were the overnight guys.
And so anyway, somebody overheard us exchanging notes like, oh,
(32:28):
this person makes Oh did you see this person? Oh
they make this much. No, it's I was an idiot,
Like I'll tell you that right now. I was an
idiot for many reasons back then, and that's one of them.
And so anyway, so that person told the bosses, who
told the bosses, and I got fired for that. Gabe
didn't because he'd already found another gig, so he'd already
put in his two weeks notice. But I got I
got fired for that. So I would say that's a
(32:49):
failure and a learning experience and a growth moment. Not
something I'm proud of, but you know, it happened, then
it is what it is. Do you have a failure reason?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, yeah, you know I do. I was I didn't
really know what I wanted to do after like high school,
so I started taking criminal justice classes. I thought I'd
be a cop like my dad. And then I was like,
oh my god, I gotta.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Like fight, not see you as a cop.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, I know that's what he said to my dad,
but you know, I just kind of did it. And
then I got an internship at the radio station in
my town and I started doing that and I loved it,
and I was such a bad student. My plan was
to transfer to San Jose Stage or something like that
and do film television radio. That was a major there.
(33:34):
And I could not, for the life of me, pass
intermediate algebra at my community college. I flunked it so
many times. I flunked it the most amount. I could
not retake it there. So if and that was a credit,
you needed to transfer. So if I was going to transfer,
I was gonna have to go to another community college.
And that filled me with so much shame and I
was like, Okay, I either have to do that or
(33:57):
I have to move to Los Angeles and try to
just do radio down there because that's what I wanted
to do ultimately, and that was my and I'm like,
you know, I'm gonna try and here you are. Here
I am you know. That was those thirteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
On the fifth floor of the iHeart Radio building overlooking Burbank, California.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Beautiful downtown Burbank. I'm here and it worked out for me.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But yeah, of the four people on this podcast, Tanya
and Becka included, only Tanya rad has a college degree.
The rest of us dropped out. That's right, there's a
lesson in there somewhere. Kids. Let's see, Hailey Heineman, what's
your favorite thing about California. You know, I'll tell you
I love a lot about California. Obviously, the weather. It's December,
(34:39):
it's late December, and it is gorgeous outside. I hike
a lot, and that's another thing. I live walking distance
from hiking trails and a mountain and I can do
it twelve months out of the year and that's beautiful.
I love that. But I also love the diversity of California.
I love that my kids are going to school with
every race and every ethnicity and every under variation, every
(35:01):
sexual preference. I love that. I love them. My kids
are being raised that it's perfectly normal to be whatever
you want, whoever you want to be. I think that's fantastic.
And that's Those are the two main things.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I love California. I love everything about it. I love
you grew up here. I grew up here. I was
born and raised in California. I love fake California, like
I love the California and like Beach Boys songs like
the California that kind of never really existed. I love that.
But I love I love the geographical diversity. I love
that you can there's that whole thing. You can go
to skiing, surfing and in the desert in the same day.
(35:33):
You could do that. I love. I love the diversity
of it. I love how excited people are to be here,
and I think that brings a lot of creative and
interesting energy. And I mean, yeah, you can't beat the
weather man. I just it's so great. I've seen snow
like twice in my life, and I want to keep
(35:53):
it that way. Yeah, I just I And I love
there's gold here. I love there's gold in the hills,
like I just I think that's such a cool metaphor
for this place, right, like Golden State. Yeah, I love California.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Blair Maples. What's your least favorite part of your job?
You know, people would think it would be the hours,
but I've really gotten used to that. I don't It
doesn't really bother me getting up early, because I don't
know any other life anymore. I've been in morning radio jeez,
almost twenty years now, so I don't have any other
frame of reference. Really, I don't mind that at all.
I guess it's meetings. And then I don't mean the
meetings with the staff because I love those. We do
(36:29):
this every day for the next day show. I love that.
I love doing the show. I love working with Ryan,
I love I love the show itself. It's meetings with
like people who wear ties for a living, those kind
of meetings, like the planning meetings. Those all drive me crazy.
That's my least favorite part. Yeah, because look, Seacrest is
(36:49):
a big deal in this company, and our show is
a big deal in this company, so a lot of
people have a very vested interest in our show. So
we have to do a lot of those meetings and
they drive me nuts.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
God, what's my least for your.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Love.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I really do love almost every aspect of this job.
I guess. There are some times I have to record
a podcast with someone whose opinions I don't like. Ah, yeah,
that's good. I have to sit there and listen to
them and take notes on it. And then the worst part.
A lot of the podcasts you listen to, I also
write the little description things. Just trying to make someone
(37:25):
that I absolutely despise sound exciting and interesting is a challenge,
and I don't like that. That's the part, But I
do it because I'm good at my job. But that's
the part I don't like.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Let's burn through a couple of ys quickly. How'd you
know your wives were? The one that was? Megan and
Shala both asked that that's an easy one. I remember.
I remember the thought when the thought of living a
life without her became laughable to me. The idea that
five years from now we wouldn't even know each other,
that was just ludicrous, and I thought that was funny,
And that's when I knew it was time to propose.
Because she's it.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
I had a similar thing. Yeah, I could not imagine
life without her, And even the even the worst parts
of life are so much better with.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Her Elsie Limb. First impressions of Becca and Tanya and
each other, uh, east and Easton's incredibly likable, as you
all know. And I see he seemed like a fun
likable guy the first time I met him, and then
I saw him at Disneyland. Then I thought it was
somebody didn't say anything, But knowing him now, I should
was obvious it was him. He's there all the time.
(38:25):
But I still seemed like a fun likable guy.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah. I was intimidated by you, because yeah, you're you're
the guy here. I was so new and uh, he's
so funny and everyone everyone liked and respected Mark, and
we just won't want to impress you Mark. That's what
everybody here wants to do. I was like, oh god,
if I could that was the engineer. Then I'm like,
if I could just fix something for market, my life
would be set.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
And Becka, well, Tanya I met, you know, twenty ten,
twenty eleven, and she's just Tanya is what she is. Like,
She's just sunshine and just walks in the room with
her eyes wide and smile, hue huge and big teeth
And there's Tanya and it's just hard not to like Tanya.
I was told blon, Tanya was coming. That was the
only thing. Blon, Tanya is gonna start working for us, Okay, great,
And then she comes in and she's like Wow, she's
(39:11):
so happy and fun and kind and genuine and so
And that's the same way I feel about her now,
Like there's Tanya is who Tanya is, and Becka I
didn't really know her whatsoever. I think she's she's stunning.
I remember thinking that, like wow, but she's just so
incredibly down to earth for somebody who is so lovely
(39:32):
and has some you know, fame behind her, she's just
so incredibly friendly and down to earth. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I remember Tanya was so welcoming to me when I
first started working here. And I remember when I first
got the job. She we were using a well and
semissenger back then, and she hit me up on aim
and she was like a big part of the job
I'm gonna need you to do is tell me what
song is playing next. And I was like, you got it, Tanya, Yes, yes,
And so I'd have to sit there and because I
was sitting behind the computer at the board and I
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could see and I would send her and I am
going like same old look by Slene, gummeez his next
and she'd like thank you, and she'd give me a
little salute from behind the glass.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Why does she need to know that?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I don't know. She couldn't tell. She didn't have access
to that. I guess at that point.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
She so every song for four hours, not.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Every song, but whenever she wanted to know interesting. Yeah,
And I was happy to do that task. But she
was so so nice and so fun to be around.
And Becca, again, I did not watch The Bachelor. I
didn't know anything about her. I guess the first time
I met he is when we just started doing the podcast.
I don't think I would have met her before then.
She can't Yeah, Sugarman. Amy Sugarman was like, we're doing
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a podcast with someone from another person from the Bachelor.
It's going to be about Grey's anatomy or something. And
it was just Beca, Tilly and Mark and I sitting
in here, and she was so fun and I knew
that she loved McDonald's and fast food. I was like, Oh,
we're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
A hearing yep, yep. Generally, Anthony, this is funny. It's
your funeral. Everyone has to take communion. That is the
blood and bread of youth. That her mark. Example, mineus
coke and a medium rare steak. Yeah, my husband is
muscal and minundo soup. My dad is soda water and
a mini slider. My friend is dirty martini and a
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mini bagel with cream cheese. What would be your blood
and bread of east mark? That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
It is funny. I like that. The the body of
Jesus is usually just a small like what wafer wafer
and for these people, you got it to catch it.
Multiple ingredients here, I think.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
My I mean I again, I'll I drink is water,
but that's boring, so I don't want to say that.
So I'll say root beer because I did enjoy that
back in the day. And I'm going to say a
hot dog on toast.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
We called it a Wiener toasty back in the day,
and I still love a Wiener toasty, whether it's toast
or it's the Pillsbury croissant rolls like a pick and
a blanket, basically like a full size picking a blanket. Wow.
Uh huh, that's it. That's that's that's my blood and
bread right there.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Uh yeah, mine would have to be. Uh, it's got
to be Coca cola. Love Coca Cola. I could drink
it every day, all day long. Coca cola and Nacho's
would be the body that's my favorite food of all time.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
And Daniel Taylor Mark, you mentioned a long time ago
you have meals free, stay of the week. That one
really struck a chord with people. Yeah, does it ever
change when you get sick of it? I'm in a
dinner rot. So right now we're the kids are so
busy and they're never home. But right now we it's
Monday is still breakfast. Tuesday is now pizza, Wednesday is
now pasta, Thursday is often and this is a new addition,
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by the way, everybody heads up. You might want to
jot this down. It's Chinese food from Trader Joe's. Wow. Yeah,
really good stuff. Interesting, the egg rolls and the.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Do you jump the kind of Chinese feling? No, it's
always the same, okay, and so what And that's dumplings.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
And dumplings and egg rolls and the and the orange chicken.
Oh it's great. Uh. And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday are
kind of kind of free for alls at this point
because the kids are never around. I am often on
my own because the kids they're gone, and my wife,
you know, were working on some booster thing of some
sort of anyway, So that's on Easter. Whatever happened to Croctober,
I can't look at Crocs about thinking of you.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm I'm happy you brought that up. I love Crocs.
I still buy them frequently. I set a high standard
for myself with Croctober. The first time I did it,
I did like thirty days of croc related videos and
it was a lot of work. And so the following
year I think I did something similar but less frequent.
(43:32):
This year, I don't think I did anything for Croctober
at all this year, other than like wishing everyone a
happy October when I would see them in public. But
it's just a lot of work, you know, and Crocs
knows that I love them. But until I have a
really unique and astonishing idea, I think Croctober might have
to take a back seat to other things, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Fair enough, all right, I have a game for Easton. Wow,
we're gonna play it when we come back, all right.
I was trying to think what which of Easton's passions
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should I quiz him on Should I givehim a Disney quiz?
Should I give him a Crocs quiz? Should I give
him a Marvel quiz? I didn't think people would be
very interested in those, but I thought a cheesecake factory
quiz would be kind of fun. So here we go
three rounds. First round is trivia. OK, I'll take the
rounds as they come. All right, Here we go Round one,
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general trivia. Here we go easton Ready Ready? In what
city and year did the first cheesecake factory open?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Beverly Hills, California?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yep, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I'm so sorry it is nineteen seventy eight. Beverly Hills
is correct. However, I feel like you're going to get
this next one. Who is the found the cheesecake factory?
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Oh man, this is embarrassing. I really yeah, I really
have overstated your love of cheesecas. No, I'm sorry. Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Wait, if I give you his first name, can you
give me his last name?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Let's try it. David LaMarsh, David Overton.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
No, I'm not even gonna bother with this next song
because the next song is what is the name of
the band? He was in before he started a.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Second just get wait he was in a band.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yeah, it's called the Billy Roberts Blues band, Wow Easton.
Approximately how many items and how many words are in
the Cheesecake Factory menu? This is an approximation because it
changes regularly. Yeah, roughly how many items and how many words?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
It's never evolving menu. I think items. Let's see, there's
like I want to say, there's like forty pages in
that menu, so items. Probably it's like seventy five items.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
According to the source I have, it's approximately two hundred
and fifty Jesus words. All right, how about this one?
The Cheesecake Factory is referenced in what Drake song?
Speaker 2 (46:14):
Oh oh wait, I know this? What I know?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
What? I know? You would child play? It's correct, very.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
I love to go there, all right? Round two? All right,
I'm going to give you, uh, I'm going to ask
you for some of the names on the menu and
their significance. Whose favorite pasta is it? And who is Evelyn?
I don't know who really know that these are the
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kind of things I was that you would be looking
up on your phone as you sit there staring at
the menu.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yeah, you know I I have at some point, but
you know, the gigabytes get overwritten sometimes. Uh, take a guess.
Evelyn is a end of the overtons.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
It is the mother of David. It's her favorite pasta.
Who's chicken and almond sandwich? Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Oh? Uh oh man, Dave's No, No, I don't have
that one.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Who's Renee?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Renee is the sister?
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Who's chicken and avocado salad? Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
All the name ones? Yeah, I thought you'd get Yeah,
you know, I love a Jeescay factory, But like I
could study the menu a bit closer. Chicken and almond salad?
Is it?
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Teresa's?
Speaker 1 (47:39):
It is Sheila's?
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Sheila's Who is Sheila? Sheila is the neighbor David's wife.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Sorry, all right, here's what's gonna happen now, samuela complicated.
We're gonna give a shot. I'm going to give you
sixty seconds on the clock. You're gonna name as many
flavors of cheesecake as you possibly can. Okay, there are
I believe twenty eight of them. All right, so we
see how many you can get in sixty seconds. All right,
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sixty seconds on the clock. Please, here we go. Ready, ready, Now,
you'll need to give me just a half a second
to cross it off the list, and I'll do my
best to keep up with you. All right, all right,
are you Mark? Get set go?
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Original coconut key lime. Okay, cookie dough. It's not called
cook it's called it's called cookie do lovers?
Speaker 1 (48:33):
I think whatever?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Oreo Dream, Extreme sixtyth anniversary, thirtieth History. Sorry, the Snickers
something Snickers.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The cinnabon. There's one cinnabon. Oh god, there's so much pressure.
There's a white talking academia, uh something, peanut butter Uh,
peanut butter cake, Reese, there's a peanut butter cup, Kevin's Uh,
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Adams Adams peanut butter fudne cup. Let's see what else.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
I'm sorry when you.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Got like twelve, I think you got twelve. That's pretty good,
all right? Yeah, the pressure I thought I would just
rattle them off. Yeah, gets scary.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Oh my gosh, well that was fun.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
You are the champion. Not quite what I had hoped for,
but still.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
You know I I do a lot of executive worship,
and the Overtons are not as involved with the company anymore.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
So you know, you know, actually I'm I don't think
I'm gonna out hurt too much. But the wife of
the president of the cheesecake factory, her friend is a scrubber,
and introduced me.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Wife of the president's friend.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Yeah, is a scrubber, got it? So oh no, no, no, sorry,
the president's wife's friend is a scrubber. President's wife's okay,
So she introduced me to the president's wife, the first
lady of the cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
And and I will not say her name on there.
I don't want to blow up her spot, understood, But
I we DM pretty frequently. She has sent me some
cheesecare Factory stuff.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
She's going to be so disappointed in how you did
with that quiz, I know.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
And you know I led a ferocious campaign to bring
back the peppermint bar cheese cake last year and it
fell on deaf ears. So hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
All right, Well, that's going to do it for our show.
We love you, Thank you for letting us do this.
It's just silly, uh and and just ludicrous that anyone
would want to hear what Eastan and I have to
say for an hour.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
I know, I always think it's so nice meeting scrubbers.
I love meeting Scrubbers in public. It's like I never
thought that would happened to me. Yeah, but every now
and again they'll want a picture and I don't. I
don't mean to be insulting, but sometimes I want to
be like, how are you going to explain this picture
to people like this? You know, I have a favorite podcast,
and this guy's like he talked looks like once every
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other week on it. So it's very kind. And that
just shows the scrubbers are so passionate and I really
we appreciate.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
My kids are very impressed when one of you recognizes
me in public. They're very impressed with that. So thank you,
thank you all, thank you for what is it almost
seven great years of this program. Wow, in twenty four,
it's gonna be our best ever.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
I just can't wait. Let's get another people's sort of word.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
We should make a goal for twenty four.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Okay, a live show, Yes, yes, a live show another
one that.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Would be great. Well, we'll see, yeah, we'll see what
happens in the meantime. Thankscrubbers, and Merry Christmas, and we'll
see you next year, and so long everybody, Bye, b
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