April 16, 2024 • 45 mins
Daniel talks construction, adoption, and divorce with Scott, the guy who spent months in Daniel’s driveway renovating a classic airstream trailer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many times estimate? Do you think you peed in
my yard?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It was nine months, God, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let me tell you something. A potocarpus can only take
so much of your urine.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Then that would be the plant right behind the gate
that looked like it was dying.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, Pasha Tosh, this is toss show woo.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That was a new sign on. Man, I'm in a
good mood today. Why in such a good mood? O? J.
Simpson dead? Oh say what you want about O. J. Simpson.
But he was a murderer. He miss he was. I
actually worry that those two murders will negatively affect his legacy.
(00:54):
These are tribute jokes for Norm MacDonald. Rip Norm. I
wonder if anyone is with OJ Dine have they said,
oh this one hurts. That always bugs me when I
read some oh this one hurt or when they go
up twenty twenty four, come on, like, ease up, well, Eddie,
(01:17):
I hope you're excited because today I'm debuting a new segment.
I'm excited. I came up with this the other day
when I was watching some basketball, and I'm like, this
is gonna be a great new segment. I'm calling it
front row face off. This is the Lakers versus the
(01:39):
Pacers edition. All right, Okay, here's how the game's played.
You show me a photo of the front row at
a Lakers game or a Pacers game, and I have
to guess which one it is. All right, Eddie, give
me the first one here you Okay, this seems like
a dead giveaway because it's just all middle aged white men.
(02:05):
One guy's wearing an Indie shirt and I can see
the floor, so I know this is Indianapolis, right, Yes
it is. But look at these people. I mean, these
are the people that love to make fun of California.
By the way, I have shows coming up in Indianapolis
and I can't wait to mock them in person. But
(02:27):
as I look out at that rich selection of diversity,
and you have to understand, this is the front row.
So these are the richest people in Indianapolis, and they know
they're gonna be on TV, so they're wearing their best clothes,
just oozing with style. All right, Well, that one was
pretty easy. All right, let me see the next one. Okay,
(02:50):
I'm gonna guess Los Angeles Lakers. You got Megan thee
Stallion showing her showing her sweet cleave. Oh man, Yeah,
a bunch of Lakers. I don't know who are friend
is good? God? Is she a smoke show too? And
this is the city his ship on. You look at
(03:12):
our front row and you're like, oh, la sucks. Okay, yeah, no,
it's it sucks so bad. Show me, show me, no,
see if I can see, if I can go three
for three? Okay, look at this, I'm gonna guess Los
Angeles again. Why do you say that? I mean there's
(03:34):
just a lot of style dressing to the nines looking great.
You got any anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, here's another one.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Indianapolis, Am I right? Oh, a bunch of honkeys. Look
at all those Honkys. Just rows and rows of Honkys.
You see all those honkeys honkeys and Khakis honkeys and
those two go hand in hand. That's a good I
love Indianapolis. Way to go, guys, all right? And that's
(04:03):
our new game like it front row face off. That
was the Lakers Pacers edition. Speaking of trailer trash, I
own a trailer. Yeah, not so Hollywood elitist, now, am I?
I love my in laws so much that I had
a mobile home parked in front of my house so
they could feel more like the Florida trash they are.
It's nineteen eighty seven Axcella airstream had it completely renovated.
(04:29):
Enjoy Casha today's guest. Help me turn my front yard
into a trailer park. Please welcome the airstream contractor to
the Star. I'm the Star, Scott Scott. Lovely to have you.
Thank you, sir. What do you want to start with
(04:50):
your fascinating and riveting life story or working on my
actual airstream.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Let's start the airstream.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So I bought an airstream because that's what fucking people
in Malibu do. Nineteen eighty seven thirty three foot Excelia.
I paid twenty twenty three thousand dollars for it. It
was destroyed. It's dented on the outside, the inside was
(05:22):
pretty much gutted by the way I was allowed. I
had agreed with my wife. We agreed on a nineteen foot,
but they didn't have a nineteen foot. They had a
thirty three foot and the guys I got to buy it. Now, man,
these things are going quick, and I'm like, oh, okay,
So I bought it. So I brought it back. Then
I had to get it wedged in and that took
(05:43):
about seven hours with fifteen people trying to wedge it
into its little parking spot. My wife also said, you
cannot get stressed out about this, so I was like, fine,
it's just a fun little project. We're going to renovate
an airstream, and by renovate, I'm going to hire someone
to do all the work. Then lo and behold. My
(06:04):
neighbor are couple houses down, but we're we're not gonna
say who, but I live in a celebrity enclave. This
person's Academy Award winning. They had bought an old airstream
around the same time, and you had finished up on it.
And I was like, oh, well, if it's good enough
for an Academy Award winner, send this guy my way.
(06:26):
I don't need to do any research. You had never
really done this before. Correct? Correct? How did you get
into building multiple airstreams on my street?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh boy, it's a long story.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
As you know a little bit from the background. I'd
worked in the movie industry for a while as a
prop maker.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I know a lot about you because one thing I'm
going to tell people right now, you can talk. This
is true all right, let's get into it, right, So
you are a prop maker on movies. Yeah, I got
into the film business later in life. I guess you'd
say it was in my boy. I got into the
prop making when I was forty. How old are you?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'm fifty four, You're fifty four.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You still look good? You look I mean well, I
mean you still look good. You look good.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
When I finally got into working in props, I'd already
had a stint in just about every trade for a
little while. Okay, when you work in props, there's no
rules on how to do anything, so I had free
reign to kind of pull from all the experience of
all the different trades and maybe really good at being
a prop maker. It gave me a lot of advantages
with props.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Though in television, it doesn't matter if it lasts long,
It doesn't matter if it functions well. In my experience,
it just matters if it looks good and does what
they needed to do for that split moment that it's
on film, which is terrifying when it comes to needing
someone to build you a home that someone's going to
live in and drive down the road. Right, all right,
(07:51):
go on?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When I got to working on your airstream in particular,
because I'd worked in construction and whatnot, I had some
experience about what it would take to create something some longevity, okay, right,
And I kind of put the pressure on myself to
be moving fast like you would for a film shoot.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But I was able to settle in and say, well,
I got to build this as if I'm going to
live in it, you know. That's the only way I
could figure it out. So I kind of end up
taking a little more time than I would have liked,
But everything I did was based on the idea you're
probably gonna want to enjoy it for a good ten
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
My wife was pregnant right when you were coming aboard
to start the job, and we talked briefly and I said, Scott,
how long is this going to take? I need this
finished by her the birth of my daughter. And you
said you said no problem, did you not? You said
(08:43):
no problem? I believe I said that, yes, right right,
you said two months. I can do this in two months.
I believed I could get it done in two months,
right now. It took eleven about it took It might
have been more like nine nine months. Fine, the same
amount of time it took my wife to grow a
human in her belly? Is how long? Here's the thing.
(09:04):
I don't care two months or nine months. I mean,
I just finished going through construction. Hell I had, I
had the Wolseley fire that burnt my house. I had
four years of permits to build my house than another
four years like so, I've seen real delays, So this
it didn't really bother me. But I felt like it
you you felt a little bit of pressure. I did
(09:25):
feel a lot of pressure. I was was it was
I putting it on you?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, it was more like I made the commitment and
that at some point I realized, Wow, this is a
lot more effort than I was expecting, all.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right, because you had never done it before, not on
that size. Now, I didn't have any real plans. Were
you at any point going like, ah, this guy's no
idea what he's talking about? Or were you like fine
with how vague I was.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I've done a couple of other builds, making small homes.
I converted a van for somebody once, and I did
other similar work. I just kind of knew I'm going
to get this thing cleared I'll get a couple of
walls in where he wants it, and once he starts
to see it look like a house, that's when the
wish list will come out. I would like this detail here.
Usually comes in the form of hey, I was just thinking,
(10:13):
could you and then you throw out something that probably
wasn't discussed at any given point.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I mean, I feel like I had stayed pretty true
to what I wanted the whole way through. You're pretty good? Yeah, okay,
do you remember what your quote was for me of
how much it was gonna cost? I don't remember. Fifty
four thousand, okay, because what you gave me as a
quote will be come in fifty two to fifty three, seventy,
seventy seventy. But again, guess what I think that was? Perfect? Okay, good,
(10:40):
I don't have any I don't have any problem with that.
If you give me a quote of fifty four and
we it's seventy is the actual that? To me is
an honest person, you can tell your builder look at that.
You got yourself a up. No, I just meant just
the one dead nail that you smashed. Yeah, are you
licensed and bonded?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I am no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Uh. I don't even know what license in bonded means.
I just know I've read that my entire life on
the side of people's trucks. Does that mean that? Uh?
That that that if you fall and get hurt in
my yard, that you can't sue me. No, not at all.
I could.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I could totally suit you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh man, that would have been horrible.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's my that's my future healthcare plan.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
How many times estimate do you think you peed in
my yard?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was nine months, God, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Let me tell you something. A potocarpus can only take
so much of your urine.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Then that would be the plant right behind the gate
that looked like it was dying.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yes, yeah, not, I apologize. Not only did it look
like you were aiming for the drain underneath it? I
could tell, right because but there's just dead leaves all
around it. And then I want to point out, by
the way, always invited to come into my home, you
never chose to do that. You never knocked on the
door and said I used to the bathroom. You are
always you always went out to the side of the yard.
(12:03):
But the stench after a while I had to start
I want you to know I had a weakly hose
down that area, just to be fair. It wasn't just
me agreed, And to be fair, I told you, hey,
if I'm not here, ever, you can go pee right here.
That is a spot.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And I do remember in the beginning I made an
effort to move around that space and try to hit
different plants.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Then I kind of lost enthusiasm. And why are airstream
such a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They seem like when you walk around and start looking
at the construction, very simple, elegant and effective. And I
think that all the ones who were doing remodels on
have been driven down the road for a couple hundred
thousand miles and just had the ship beat out of them.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You can't have something put together with ten thousand rivets
and be forty years old and not leak. How much
time did you spend sealing her up?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think we dedicated two solid weeks just to fixing
the leaks, and then boy throw out a couple different rains.
All the rest of the project, we discover a few more,
and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh, Airstreams should sponsor this show, and then I could
film this show out of an airstream. You airstream. Give
us a brand new airstream, one of the beautiful ones
to a big, huge one. All right, good? Did my
driveway chickens bother you? Only they're aroma? Oh? Really?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
There was a I'm not sure if it was your
sewers backing up, but for like about an hour every day,
there'd be.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
A bit of a stench emanating from right around there.
I guess I never noticed my chicken smelling.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It was kind of disturbing to look at them, watch
them do their thing. They turn around in that area
around the Kloaco would be kind of muddy and mucky.
That was kind of hard to look at.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Did you ever learn my chickens names? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Boy? You told them once? Told me once their grandparents
right there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh good memory? Betty, Katie and Hazel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I couldn't tell you which one was which.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Betty is black? All you have to me o black baby.
I liked having you out in the driveway because that's
always always fun to come out there and see the progress,
or see your frustration, or watch you. I don't mean
this in a disrespectful way. Are you a little clumsy boy?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Sure wasn't your driveway that time around?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I felt like I've watched you stumble in and out
of that airstream.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Man, I could I could not negotiate the depth of
that step.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know what it was. For four months, it
was just your toolbox. Yes, and how many ms you
hit your head getting out of the.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Airstreams twice once in the beginning, huh, and you you know,
generally do that once. It's like, okay, I've established that height.
And then boy, towards the end, I got myself good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
By the way you had help at the beginning. The
people that you would bring no experience in building either.
It's like you're like, oh, this guy is a writer
and he's got some time off, so he's just gonna
help me. Then he brought one guy over to work
and he wouldn't stop insisting on painting mural in the bedroom.
(15:01):
And I was like, I don't want a fucking mural, man,
How do I say this nicely? You could have just
said it just like that. I didn't. I just said no,
I think we're good, or my wife's going to handle
the artwork, and he's like, no, I tell him I
want to paint a mural in here.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think when he heard your wife was going to
handle the artwork. He was really nervous for you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That was Nate.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nate, if you're listening, wonderful work.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You did great work. Just you know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Nate's actually a fine art painter. That's sort of his
miliu is bringing that sort of life to things.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Here's the difference between a white person in construction versus
a lot of times the Latin appeal. They would be
in my driveway at six a m. Till two thirty.
They avoid traffic on both sides. You different style, show
up around eleven, stay till it's uncomfortable, and I'm walking
(15:53):
outside at nine him telling you, hey, fucking wrap this.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We have a noise ordinance. Yeah, I try coming earlier.
There's just so much traffic from the part of time
I was coming, I mean there was kind of no
way to avoid it. And then when I was on
a schedule to get started better, I was stopping at
one of three different home depots almost every day.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Our all home depot layouts the same, pretty damn close.
You know your way around real well, I think so. Yeah,
you ever asked for help or no, No.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't need to ask for help.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's growing though, By the way, what's the best power
to uh to buy?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You're talking brand or the brand brand? Oh boy, I
think right now Milwaukee is probably the best Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think I've got Milwaukee, Milwaukee. Why don't you send
me some more shit? I love Milwaukee. They should be
a sponsor to this podcast. Milwaukee. I don't think I
have Milwaukee. I think I have Makita. Is Mkeita not good?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
If you like that sort of thing?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What does that mean? That seems like, well, they're they're.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Asian designed and made, so they're a little more elegant,
and we Americans like things that hit hard and bash things.
So Milwaukee and do Walt pack a little more punch
with the interesting interest?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Sweired? How everything? You know? There's there's there's a lot
that are drawn. I'm not foreign to work in with
tools or you think I am.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You didn't look particularly handy.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
WHOA. I'll give you this though.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
When you talked about adding that little badge or emblem
to the electric car you got for your son, you
talked about the hardware, and you said, how would I
go about this? And I said double stick tape. And
I realized I could see the reaction on your face,
and Daniel actually knows what I'm talking about in this.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well that I know what doubles.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
He realized it was a better option than using hardware
to penetrate the surface of the brand new car.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All Right, I gave you a few points so I
know how to tape something. It wasn't Eddie here. He
has a little cabin in Tahoe and all the time
just as like, oh, I'm putting in a new bathroom
and I'm like, I know you you don't have any
ability to do this, And he's like, yeah, we watch
(17:54):
YouTube figures you figured out and he does it and
does it look good? It doesn't look it looks better,
but it also looks like somebody that oh this was
your first time. Good, good try. Yeah, I'm gonna show
photos of your bathroom like a grade schooler. You can.
I mean, it does look better, it looks better. It
(18:15):
doesn't it doesn't look it does doesn't look amazing. I
wouldn't say it amazing, but that you know, that could
be some of your design choices. And that's just you know,
a difference of an opinion. By the way, were there
any of my uh decorating or design ideas that you thought,
this is not gonna look good or colored choices, And
now that you see it, go okay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I was not a fan of the penny tile in
the shower. Oh interesting, I like penny tile, but the
color was I know something about it. It just it
just didn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pink. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, Well, normally in a shower you would have if
you're gonna go with penny tile, it would it's normally
on the floor, uh huh, and you would counter it
with something else on the walls where we just kind
of went everywhere in it. Yeah, it does look better
now that it's complete. Now, once we had the hardwood
floor and then we had the off white everywhere, and
then the two wallpapered walls.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That helped quite a bit. But you still don't seem
like you like it to this day. It would not
be my choice.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're completely wrong. Let me tell you something. Everyone everyone
loves that shower. I'll stand corrected. When I first met you,
we started talking about in your life. Interesting, fascinating, fascinating
for sure. Okay, can we get into it, go for
it all right, Let's start with just off the top
of my head, you were adopted.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yes, so I grew up in San Diego, and my
parents told me from a very early age that I
was adopted at birth. We didn't really get into it.
So you were born in Sandigo, I was born in
San Diego. Yes, I was actually come to find out.
I was released to them the very next day.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Ah. Okay, so it was probably during the pregnancy. This
was all worked out correct, huh.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And then I grew to fifty years old not really
knowing anything else about it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I never wanted to, not really because I felt like
I had my family, of course, you know. But still
I've looked into adoption before. I'm not I've been very
interested in it my whole life of adopting a child,
I thought. But my wife wanted to have her own children,
as a lot of people do, and I'm not. That's
been great too. I'm still open to it, and I
(20:16):
think now maybe that'll be something we can do. But
now I've learned there's no more of these closed adoptions
or secret adoptions where you don't get to know the
information the parents. Information now is just it's always readily available. Okay.
So I have a comment about that, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I think it was maybe two thousand and six,
when I went to get my marriage license at the
county Clerk's office in San Diego. The clerk took my information,
confirmed my social Security number, and then said, hey, are
you aware you're adopted? And I know, as a matter
of fact, I am. He said, well, do you want
to contact your birth parents? No one ever put that
to me before, and I said, well, no, I guess not.
(20:56):
Why do you ask this is well it says right
here the information is available and says you're free to
contact if.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're like, uh, what a weird thing for him to do. Yeah,
that's cora. I mean, borderline. He's an insane person, but
he probably has a monotonous job and rarely gets to
have any fun, and he's like, watch me blow this
dude's mind. Totally in hindsight that day, you should have
been like, you know what, just rip that marriage license
up and walk out him. And oh boy, that is
(21:24):
that is correct? Yeah. When I met you, you were like, hey,
you were going through a divorce. You're like, but you
still lived with your wife, your ex wife? Yes, uh huh,
so I think that explains why I was having to
kick you out at ten o'clock at night. Something to
do with it. So this is two thousand and six,
back when things were so sunny, so sunny, so full,
(21:44):
the beginning of a relationship. Yeah, it was amazing, Okay,
And he tells you this, little does he know? He
just put a seed in your head that eventually is
going to explode.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So in twenty seventeen, my father died, and in that
year following I started thinking about what about my birth parents?
Do I have any other family? And so I simply
called the County Clerks office in San Diego and said
I'm ready to have that information now. And the response was, actually,
there was a bit of a foul up. We weren't
(22:15):
supposed to be letting any of that information out, and
this was apparently a statewide mistake somehow, and they said,
now the law stands that every adoption is sealed. So
they were unwilling to give me any information. And then
later I filed some kind of a form, applied for
it for the information for a bunch of different excuses,
and they came back and said, look, unless you have
(22:37):
a medical emergency that the doctor gives you a note
and says we need to know what's going on in
their family, you're not going to find out about this,
not through us.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
This is where it gets a little weird.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I don't think I've told you this part, so I
think the following year, I was with a friend and
she said, hey, do you want to go to this
giant medium event? And I said, what's this.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The way she's setting this up, then I don't want
to go to this.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So twenty bucks ahead you feel a small auditorium. Two
mediums sit in psychics if you will, sit at the stage,
and they talk about what it's like to to contact
people in different ways and living and dead, and then
everyone's allowed to ask one question, and just to add
little drama, I ended up being on one side of
the room, so I was the last person they asked,
(23:23):
and I said, Hi, I grew up adopted. I'm wondering
are my birth parents alive?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
And I figured that was a good question, because if
this was just the whole cold read technique where it's
a you know, it's some kind of a parlor trick.
They both seemed a little flu mixed. They asked me
a few questions here and there, and they said, sorry,
you can't really can't really help you. And I was like, no,
we'll see it's bullshit, right, It's complete bullshit.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's what you needed to know, well that it was
complete bullshit.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, as I walked out, one of them pulled me
aside and said, hey, we don't like to respond to
any negative things, right, So I didn't want to say
this and full front of a room full of people
and have you take it wrong, but said, your your
birth father is dead, your birth mother's alive, and she
doesn't necessarily want to be contacted by you. Oh fuck,
(24:06):
all right, So that seems odd.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Ah, no, it seems insane. Well it segues here, we'll
go all right.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So then later, just deciding I really want to know
what the genic makeup is, I do twenty three and
meters and my first cousin, Marlene, if you're listening, thank
you again. My cousin Marlene is on Instagram and she
immediately calls me and spills the beans about my whole
family living on the East Coast. My birth father had
in fact died. He had died the same week as
the man who raised me. That I thought of my
(24:35):
father and who was your father? Yes, even though you
say I thought him as I? I okay, okay, I
call him Dad. He's Dad. Okay, So Dad and Biot.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
A week apart, same week.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
In August of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, huh, Ery, Well yeah, now, if she'd have brought
that up the median she was actually correct as well.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That birth mom, bio mom, you know, had me in
secrecy and didn't want the family to know about it,
and in fact, when I contacted her, simply ignored my
calls and emails for like a month.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I mean, I can only imagine what I would do
if someone from let's say, Kansas City that said they
had an abortion fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Ago, Springfield, Missouri, something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
By the way, this is also part of the reason
it took nine months to do my airstream. Continue, do
you believe in I'm supposed to ask this my first
question to all my guests, but for you it's been
my fiftieth question only because I know the answer. Do
you believe in ghosts? Absolutely? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Continue, Cousin Marlene put me together with my brothers, okay,
gave me their phone numbers.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Your cousin Marlene says you have two brothers, full brothers,
which means I'm just you know, I'm spelling this out.
This means that your parents had you, gave you for adoption,
stayed together, and then had two more children. Correct. Correct,
that's interesting, right. I mean, I'm just trying to think
of my family. My parents had four kids. Imagine if
how much better my life would have been had they
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given one of my sisters up for adoption. I'm not
saying which one. I'm not starting any feuds, all right, continue,
So my two brothers, you contacted them. They were opened,
They were completely open to it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They both called me like within that week. I think
one wanted to rattle on and on and on like
I do, and the other was like, hmm okay, well
let me know when you're gonna be out here. One's
a house builder and he worked with our dad, and
then the other one is an auto mechanic. He owns
his own little garage and Vermont. He's kind of in
a I don't want to say he's like a hermit,
but he's he's kind of out there in a small town. Sure,
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But apparently when dad wasn't building houses, his pastime was
building drag cars. So so you know, I got both.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Your adopted parents named you Scott. Yes, did the birth
certificate have a different name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So they got to name you. They got to do everything.
What are your brother's names, Jason and Matthew? Did they
know you existed? They did not.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Nobody knew apparently, so cousin Marlene said, after she and
I spoke on the phone, she said, I hung up
with you, and I neatly called my mother and she
said when she answered, I just said, mom, which one
of your sisters ran away to the West Coast in
nineteen sixty nine, had a child and thought no one
would ever find out?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And apparently, wow, this cousin is is fun at the family. Yeah,
she is just a shit stir.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Apparently her mother sort of gasped very dramatically and said,
I knew that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I knew that's why she took off for a year.
So apparently it had never been admitted. So you finally
talked to your mother bio Mom, Yes, bio and your
mother not your biome. Your mother. She was aware that
you were going down this rabbit hole. Yes, absolutely, and
was totally fine.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
She was great with it because she had two brothers
and two sisters, and she felt like that experience of
having a lot of siblings in a large family was
like one of the better parts of her life.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Was she as intrigued by the discoveries or confused or
any of it?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You know, I think it landed a little awkward in
the beginning, like, hey, I'm gonna you know. I never
talked about bio mom with her, although bio Mom eventually
tried to friend her on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Interesting, interesting choice.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, she really enjoyed seeing pictures and hearing conversations. She
spoke to both my brothers on the phone at one point. Okay, yeah,
so it was good.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Okay, how was the first meeting with bio mom.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Wasn't exactly a joyful reunion?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
First I met my brothers and I hung out with
them for a bit. It turns out, just as a coincidence,
the entire family was at this one house. So I
came pulling up in a rented minivan and there was
thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So they did that on purpose knowing that you were coming.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Don't I don't think so. I think at that point
bio Mom wasn't really talking about it much.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They didn't know you were coming. They didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Most of them on that porch did not know I
was coming.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And then you just started seeing faces they kind of
looked like yours. Yeah, I bring him something else. So
you told me you used to used to be much larger. Yes, yeah,
I was a heavier guy at one point. You lost
a ton of weight, about sixty pounds, I think. Okay,
when you met your brothers, it was kind of like
both versions. Yeah, actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The second brother, Jason is probably the fittest of the
three of us, and looked just like me when I
was at my most fit. And my brother Matthew, my
baby brother, Matthew. Yeah, he's carrying the weight. He's a
bigger guy, right, He's also bigger physically all.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Around, you know. All right, So you walking on the
sport you start seeing faces and features that look like you.
Is that freaking you out?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It was interesting to finally look at people and say
that's that's really a family resemblance, because I've never experienced that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I've never once looked at people and go, oh, you
look just like or certainly babies. I've never been able
to see like people look at my kids like they
look like you, and I'm like, do they I don't
really see it. It's kind of hard to see a shage.
All right, so these people actually look like you, and
you're like, no doubt out at these are my brothers, right,
And then my mom, how was that? Did you do
you walk? Do you hugger? Your handshake? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And we did a fist pump.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I walked up and I sorry, and I didn't know
what to say, and she says, well, I'm your mother,
and then she gave me a hug and it kind
of broke the ice and we chatted a little bit.
But there were a lot of people, you know, it
was kind of like I just won the super Bowl
or something. There was just like a lot of loud
talking and cheering and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Is she good looking? She's in great shape for her age.
I'd say she looks healthy. I mean, you got great hair.
That's that's her side of the family for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
This is Grandpa Selepski's hair, in case we're looking at
it there it.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Is, so that's good hair. Yeah. Did you did you
breastfeed from her? No? Not even not even you know what,
I don't know for a fact. No, I met when
you guys are at the reunion. Just to break the ice. Mom,
I think you owe me this. It's time to eat.
So when you showed up at this family readnion, did
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you immediately request all the back birthday gifts?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I didn't even think too.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I mean they missed a lot. They did miss a lot.
Before you met your brothers, did you, like, like stalk
them on social media to make sure that they didn't
need a kidney or anything.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I did stalk them, but I wasn't looking for medical conditions.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Okay, there was no big red flag.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
They don't have a huge social media presence there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then after that day, just all a family again.
You guys moved in how to work by all.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Mom was kind of holding me at arm's length for
a little while, but as time's gone by, it's, you know,
it's become okay.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Even though she did the right thing for her, the
guilt of giving away a child is a weird thing
for probably any person. And then to face it fifty
years later is yeah, it's not like you were coming
with like a malicious intent or anything like that. But
I'm sure she still felt the weight of this, like, oh,
I'm sure, and that's that's that's a tough thing.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I think it was the second year I flew back
there and met the family for Christmas, and there's a
lot of people there that didn't know anything about me still,
and so I kind of spent the evening introducing myself.
And there's a lot of confused looks about that, like
you're who kept getting that quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
How many years older are you? Then you're the next
closest brother.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Four years, four years, and then brother passed, that's another
four years.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, well, well the three of you, by the way,
did you have any health issues that you needed to
worry about after going down this rabbit hole? It appears not.
I would love to find out that my parents aren't
my parents. I literally would go, oh, that makes so
much sense. Well, it is interesting you say that.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So I certainly got along with my family growing up
and all the extended family. They're shared interests, But I
mean I was the only creative, if you will.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And do you think that's because the parents that you
had in the West Coast just a different environment? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean I don't know. They were both they're both
very blue collar people. Mom grew up on a farm
in Iowa and dad actually lost his dad when he
was really young and spent his formative years, just moving
all around the state.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So you think you probably, out of your siblings, you
had it better. I think so. Actually, right, yeah, one
of that sounds a horrible thing to compare, but that's
what my job is to a right. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I feel like I got to grow up in San Diego,
you know, in the seventies and eighties. I mean, it
was just beautiful there, you know, in mild weather, and
there was a lot of fun to be had. There's
outdoor sports, there's motor sports. It's all good stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Uh huh. And now you're throwing all of this away,
are you not? And you're you're you're heading across the
country to work with your brother.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I am, you know, I'm just gonna take off. I
want to spend some time with my brothers. I have
the opportunity. That's Vermont, that's Connecticut. Oh, Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
He's the housebuilder. Are you going to build house? He's
already booking me for work. So how do you build
in the winter? Connecticut? In the winter time? Let me
tell you how depressing that place is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Ugh. I think he spends a lot of time sitting
by a stove getting warm in the winter.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That always makes me mad with builders like like like
in La if it sprinkles, nobody shows up to work
for four days on a work site. I'm like, oh,
so you're telling me that they need complete sunshine to
build in Seattle. I don't know. Somehow they get it done.
Which one are you living with? The one that that's
(34:20):
grumpy or the other one.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
The grumpy one I'm going to I'm going to Matthew's house. Initially,
are you you you know, bully him?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh? You know what? Actually the middle brother does that? No, right,
first night, wake him up with your nutstack on his head.
Just let's say I'm missed out on all this good huh.
You know he's a lot bigger than I am. That
might you guys gonna take a bath together. You should
recreate all all You should recreate every childhood photo with
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the sibling. You should take baths together and then do
a calendar. Yeah, I know people don't you have calendars anymore,
But you send out a friendly calendar of all of
the missed opportunities that you had with these brothers. One
time I had my brother hold on to a rope
that I tied around his wrists. Okay, so I tied
(35:08):
him run his wrist. We were playing some form of
prisoner and then I tied the other end of the
rope to my bike, and then I started riding my
bike and was making him run around my house in
our backyard in Saint Louisa, and I was just going
faster and faster, and I just kept telling him, eventually,
you're gonna get tired and fall. That's what you missed
(35:32):
out on. That was man.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
That was particularly cruel.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
It was I don't know that he ever actually fell.
I probably got tired sooner than he did. Is it
possible that you have yet another brother named Spike Ferirestine.
It's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
When I was working for Spike, we were chatting about
something in the hall and he goes, come over here.
He took his glasses off, put him on my face,
and he said, it's like looking in a goddamn mirror.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Ah, so you worked for him. I did work for Spike.
I didn't know that. I always give everybody a gift
on the show. This is what I'm giving you. I
don't want him in my garage anymore. You seem like
a man, and I'm not. They look like folding ramps. Yeah,
they're folding ramps. Alright, I don't want them. Okay, I'll
take them, thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I don't need them, but I'm going to now go
out and find a piece of equipment that requires there.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah but you, but you're a dude. Yeah, hey, these
are great. Actually, whoa careful you? You cut yourself? You also enjoyed.
You would see how I would torture people, Panda cousin.
I used to occasionally go out in the driveway when
you were working. You would not and I would put
a horribly offensive bumper sticker on her car. They were
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bumper stickers that I had made when I used to
do my other show. One of them was like I
chug jizz and I'd put them on the back of
her car and she would never notice. So, for instance,
the I chugged jizz when she went to a concert
that night and she I like, like a small local concert,
like and she pulled into the parking lot and there's
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a bunch of people milling about, like getting ready to perform,
and they saw the bumper stick and they go like geez, lady,
and she's like what and and she's like, oh, like
just mortified. But it would make her a hit at
the party. I still do it, just so you know.
I do it constantly and sometimes you'll catch it in
a couple of days. Sometimes Copp will pull her over
(37:29):
and be like, hey, you shouldn't have that on the
back of your car, but anyway, I'll give you one
so you can have one. I don't know if you
want to stick it on somebody's or use it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That everyone you love will eventually die. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, it's just it's sometimes you know the right person
to give that to you, and then you stick it
on their car and you just laugh and they're like,
give it on the floor next to your table. Hey,
you're If you're moving to the East Coast and something
goes was horribly wrong with my trailer, how fast can
I get you back? I promise a seventy two hour turnaround.
(38:09):
By the way, I love my airstream is my problem.
And don't say this just because I want to hear
you say that. I don't know that I actually want
to hear this. Is this the best project you've ever done?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I will I will say this. This is not to
placate you. I really I really enjoyed your project. It
was challenging. I did a couple I did a couple
of things I'd never tried before that came out beautiful,
Like when we did the ship lap and actually brought
it all the way around in a curve into that
front section. I'd never seen that done before.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
No, it was good. I just I just assumed we
were not.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Going to do that, and when you brought it up,
I was both pleasantly surprised and kind of irritated. I
was like, oh man, that's gonna like that's gonna I'm
got to figure out how to do that.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Now it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I think it's beautiful. Everyone thinks it's beautiful, and I
use it. We always have guests to staying in there,
Like every other week at least there's somebody, and my
son and I even occasionally get to do an overnight
sleepover in there, which we've done. I'll tell you my
favorite thing about the airstream is some peace and goddamn
quiet just goes sitting there and I close the door
(39:11):
and I hope they don't find me. Well, listen, whenever
you're back, you're welcome to stay in my airstream for
in my head I was gonna say two nights, but
people always push it and get a little extra on me,
So I'll say one night. Then you can. You can
have two nights. You can push it too. You can
push it too, and I'll give on too. You can
(39:33):
stay in my airstream for a night, Scott. Thank you
(39:55):
for building my airstream. Thank you for talking about your
very fascinating life, and good luck in Connecticut with your
new baby brother.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Casha.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Will Carl. It sure is sad now that Scott's not
in our front yard every day. I want to thank
Scott for being on the show. And we also gave
him an additional partying gift as he was driving out
of town one of my bumper stickers. I hope he
gets tons of laughs out of that. He actually needs
to come back. A small leak in the airstream and
and I need him to touch that up. I'm sure
(40:33):
he'll do right by me. Hey, I'm in trouble. What's
going on? You know? We created this segment to check
in on my mom's physical well being?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Ah? Sure as shit? I messed up forgot to do it.
Last week she had a surgery cataracts. Okay, is that
you don't consider that surgery. I mean it is. Yeah,
I don't know if it's a check in surgery. Oh
that's interesting, because she is. She's making me feel pretty
guilty for not checking in on her. What is was
(41:04):
that surgery even entail? Now? You know what? Let me
just ask her. Let's see if she's home. Hey, hey,
I wanted to check in. I heard you had surgery.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
I did.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I had a cataract. What you missed it? You forgot
to ask? Now? What is it? What exactly does that
surgery entail? It's surgery. It's real surgery. They take a
lens out that's cloudy, and they put a new lens in,
and they put it so I can see. So I
don't make glasses. So I have one eye for distance
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and one eye for reading. And it's great and I'm good.
So you're not wearing glasses anymore. I've never worn glasses.
I've always worn contacts. Well, I don't have to wear
contacts anymore. Yeah, so you got one eye for close
and one eye for far. Yes? Are you can you
drive at night? I can?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I don't. I don't usually go out at night, but
if I do, I can yes, Eddie. Eddie told me
that this surgery doesn't warrant a phone call check in.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Oh it did?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Do you have any Do you have any other surgeries
on the plate? I don't have any other surgeries on
the plate. I'm done. Would you would you ever openly
talk about some of the plastic surgery that you've had.
I've never had any. You know, I wouldn't do that.
You're all natural. We're done. That's it, all right. Well,
(42:34):
I'm gonna check in on you later. Do you have
any follow ups on this, on this major surgery that
you've had? My follow ups, that's when you called.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It wasn't my last follow up.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
I've had three follow ups, so you missed it completely.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
It doesn't didn't sound very serious. But I'm glad. I'm
glad you've recovered and that your eyes are working well.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Love you by Oh you know, she acts like she
doesn't care, but she really does. Ye get that sense.
Oh my goodness. And if you do see her on
the road, if you're in Brevard County and it's nighttime,
you need to get out of the way. That will
(43:16):
blind slide you. We got some plugs. I'm gonna be
in Fresno this weekend. Come on to see me. Check
the calendar at Daniel Toosh dot com. Check out boyswarpink
dot com to buy some cute clothes for any toddler
that you know. We got The Goat premiering May ninth.
(43:39):
Hear they're gonna drop three episodes on May ninth. Have
you guys been hearing that? Yep? A lot of people
talking about on the streets in Hollywood. Eh. What else?
Do we have? Another bedtime story? Last week's bedtime Sorry
for my once three year old son was the best. Actually,
it was long, it was funny. I played it to
him and he laughed. He laughed the whole way through.
(44:01):
He thought it was he was getting tickled by himself.
I was like, you can't laugh at your own jokes.
But this week's this week's sucks. So what are you
gonna do? Kids like me hit and miss see you
next week?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
One to tell?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
So yeah, let's tell stories. You gotta go first and
no down. He wants to go first? A right, let
him go first?
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Get party came, Yes, tattap, get that tat? I name
many he read?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
That story is horrible. Now you tell a story.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Once upon a time and the soul we sid social
legit bunny.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
All he wanted to.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Do is samply, he twittered. All he wanted to do
is sampling. He tay it, and then I just all
it take. And then the bunny didn't know what to do,
he said. He finally he sold to them what all yoga?
And at my talk will house?
Speaker 1 (45:18):
What is joining?
Speaker 4 (45:20):
And then the other got what it? How that could do?
And and just so when waging
Speaker 1 (45:30):
This story is no good either
How many times estimate? Do you think you peed in
my yard?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It was nine months, God, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let me tell you something. A potocarpus can only take
so much of your urine.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Then that would be the plant right behind the gate
that looked like it was dying.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, Pasha Tosh, this is toss show woo.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That was a new sign on. Man, I'm in a
good mood today. Why in such a good mood? O? J.
Simpson dead? Oh say what you want about O. J. Simpson.
But he was a murderer. He miss he was. I
actually worry that those two murders will negatively affect his legacy.
(00:54):
These are tribute jokes for Norm MacDonald. Rip Norm. I
wonder if anyone is with OJ Dine have they said,
oh this one hurts. That always bugs me when I
read some oh this one hurt or when they go
up twenty twenty four, come on, like, ease up, well, Eddie,
(01:17):
I hope you're excited because today I'm debuting a new segment.
I'm excited. I came up with this the other day
when I was watching some basketball, and I'm like, this
is gonna be a great new segment. I'm calling it
front row face off. This is the Lakers versus the
(01:39):
Pacers edition. All right, Okay, here's how the game's played.
You show me a photo of the front row at
a Lakers game or a Pacers game, and I have
to guess which one it is. All right, Eddie, give
me the first one here you Okay, this seems like
a dead giveaway because it's just all middle aged white men.
(02:05):
One guy's wearing an Indie shirt and I can see
the floor, so I know this is Indianapolis, right, Yes
it is. But look at these people. I mean, these
are the people that love to make fun of California.
By the way, I have shows coming up in Indianapolis
and I can't wait to mock them in person. But
(02:27):
as I look out at that rich selection of diversity,
and you have to understand, this is the front row.
So these are the richest people in Indianapolis, and they know
they're gonna be on TV, so they're wearing their best clothes,
just oozing with style. All right, Well, that one was
pretty easy. All right, let me see the next one. Okay,
(02:50):
I'm gonna guess Los Angeles Lakers. You got Megan thee
Stallion showing her showing her sweet cleave. Oh man, Yeah,
a bunch of Lakers. I don't know who are friend
is good? God? Is she a smoke show too? And
this is the city his ship on. You look at
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our front row and you're like, oh, la sucks. Okay, yeah, no,
it's it sucks so bad. Show me, show me, no,
see if I can see, if I can go three
for three? Okay, look at this, I'm gonna guess Los
Angeles again. Why do you say that? I mean there's
(03:34):
just a lot of style dressing to the nines looking great.
You got any anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, here's another one.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Indianapolis, Am I right? Oh, a bunch of honkeys. Look
at all those Honkys. Just rows and rows of Honkys.
You see all those honkeys honkeys and Khakis honkeys and
those two go hand in hand. That's a good I
love Indianapolis. Way to go, guys, all right? And that's
(04:03):
our new game like it front row face off. That
was the Lakers Pacers edition. Speaking of trailer trash, I
own a trailer. Yeah, not so Hollywood elitist, now, am I?
I love my in laws so much that I had
a mobile home parked in front of my house so
they could feel more like the Florida trash they are.
It's nineteen eighty seven Axcella airstream had it completely renovated.
(04:29):
Enjoy Casha today's guest. Help me turn my front yard
into a trailer park. Please welcome the airstream contractor to
the Star. I'm the Star, Scott Scott. Lovely to have you.
Thank you, sir. What do you want to start with
(04:50):
your fascinating and riveting life story or working on my
actual airstream.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Let's start the airstream.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So I bought an airstream because that's what fucking people
in Malibu do. Nineteen eighty seven thirty three foot Excelia.
I paid twenty twenty three thousand dollars for it. It
was destroyed. It's dented on the outside, the inside was
(05:22):
pretty much gutted by the way I was allowed. I
had agreed with my wife. We agreed on a nineteen foot,
but they didn't have a nineteen foot. They had a
thirty three foot and the guys I got to buy it. Now, man,
these things are going quick, and I'm like, oh, okay,
So I bought it. So I brought it back. Then
I had to get it wedged in and that took
(05:43):
about seven hours with fifteen people trying to wedge it
into its little parking spot. My wife also said, you
cannot get stressed out about this, so I was like, fine,
it's just a fun little project. We're going to renovate
an airstream, and by renovate, I'm going to hire someone
to do all the work. Then lo and behold. My
(06:04):
neighbor are couple houses down, but we're we're not gonna
say who, but I live in a celebrity enclave. This
person's Academy Award winning. They had bought an old airstream
around the same time, and you had finished up on it.
And I was like, oh, well, if it's good enough
for an Academy Award winner, send this guy my way.
(06:26):
I don't need to do any research. You had never
really done this before. Correct? Correct? How did you get
into building multiple airstreams on my street?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh boy, it's a long story.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
As you know a little bit from the background. I'd
worked in the movie industry for a while as a
prop maker.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I know a lot about you because one thing I'm
going to tell people right now, you can talk. This
is true all right, let's get into it, right, So
you are a prop maker on movies. Yeah, I got
into the film business later in life. I guess you'd
say it was in my boy. I got into the
prop making when I was forty. How old are you?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'm fifty four, You're fifty four.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You still look good? You look I mean well, I
mean you still look good. You look good.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
When I finally got into working in props, I'd already
had a stint in just about every trade for a
little while. Okay, when you work in props, there's no
rules on how to do anything, so I had free
reign to kind of pull from all the experience of
all the different trades and maybe really good at being
a prop maker. It gave me a lot of advantages
with props.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Though in television, it doesn't matter if it lasts long,
It doesn't matter if it functions well. In my experience,
it just matters if it looks good and does what
they needed to do for that split moment that it's
on film, which is terrifying when it comes to needing
someone to build you a home that someone's going to
live in and drive down the road. Right, all right,
(07:51):
go on?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When I got to working on your airstream in particular,
because I'd worked in construction and whatnot, I had some
experience about what it would take to create something some longevity, okay, right,
And I kind of put the pressure on myself to
be moving fast like you would for a film shoot.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But I was able to settle in and say, well,
I got to build this as if I'm going to
live in it, you know. That's the only way I
could figure it out. So I kind of end up
taking a little more time than I would have liked,
But everything I did was based on the idea you're
probably gonna want to enjoy it for a good ten
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
My wife was pregnant right when you were coming aboard
to start the job, and we talked briefly and I said, Scott,
how long is this going to take? I need this
finished by her the birth of my daughter. And you
said you said no problem, did you not? You said
(08:43):
no problem? I believe I said that, yes, right right,
you said two months. I can do this in two months.
I believed I could get it done in two months,
right now. It took eleven about it took It might
have been more like nine nine months. Fine, the same
amount of time it took my wife to grow a
human in her belly? Is how long? Here's the thing.
(09:04):
I don't care two months or nine months. I mean,
I just finished going through construction. Hell I had, I
had the Wolseley fire that burnt my house. I had
four years of permits to build my house than another
four years like so, I've seen real delays, So this
it didn't really bother me. But I felt like it
you you felt a little bit of pressure. I did
(09:25):
feel a lot of pressure. I was was it was
I putting it on you?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
No, it was more like I made the commitment and
that at some point I realized, Wow, this is a
lot more effort than I was expecting, all.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Right, because you had never done it before, not on
that size. Now, I didn't have any real plans. Were
you at any point going like, ah, this guy's no
idea what he's talking about? Or were you like fine
with how vague I was.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I've done a couple of other builds, making small homes.
I converted a van for somebody once, and I did
other similar work. I just kind of knew I'm going
to get this thing cleared I'll get a couple of
walls in where he wants it, and once he starts
to see it look like a house, that's when the
wish list will come out. I would like this detail here.
Usually comes in the form of hey, I was just thinking,
(10:13):
could you and then you throw out something that probably
wasn't discussed at any given point.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I mean, I feel like I had stayed pretty true
to what I wanted the whole way through. You're pretty good? Yeah, okay,
do you remember what your quote was for me of
how much it was gonna cost? I don't remember. Fifty
four thousand, okay, because what you gave me as a
quote will be come in fifty two to fifty three, seventy,
seventy seventy. But again, guess what I think that was? Perfect? Okay, good,
(10:40):
I don't have any I don't have any problem with that.
If you give me a quote of fifty four and
we it's seventy is the actual that? To me is
an honest person, you can tell your builder look at that.
You got yourself a up. No, I just meant just
the one dead nail that you smashed. Yeah, are you
licensed and bonded?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I am no, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Uh. I don't even know what license in bonded means.
I just know I've read that my entire life on
the side of people's trucks. Does that mean that? Uh?
That that that if you fall and get hurt in
my yard, that you can't sue me. No, not at all.
I could.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I could totally suit you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Oh man, that would have been horrible.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's my that's my future healthcare plan.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
How many times estimate do you think you peed in
my yard?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It was nine months, God, it was a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Let me tell you something. A potocarpus can only take
so much of your urine.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Then that would be the plant right behind the gate
that looked like it was dying.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yes, yeah, not, I apologize. Not only did it look
like you were aiming for the drain underneath it? I
could tell, right because but there's just dead leaves all
around it. And then I want to point out, by
the way, always invited to come into my home, you
never chose to do that. You never knocked on the
door and said I used to the bathroom. You are
always you always went out to the side of the yard.
(12:03):
But the stench after a while I had to start
I want you to know I had a weakly hose
down that area, just to be fair. It wasn't just
me agreed, And to be fair, I told you, hey,
if I'm not here, ever, you can go pee right here.
That is a spot.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And I do remember in the beginning I made an
effort to move around that space and try to hit
different plants.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Then I kind of lost enthusiasm. And why are airstream
such a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They seem like when you walk around and start looking
at the construction, very simple, elegant and effective. And I
think that all the ones who were doing remodels on
have been driven down the road for a couple hundred
thousand miles and just had the ship beat out of them.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You can't have something put together with ten thousand rivets
and be forty years old and not leak. How much
time did you spend sealing her up?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I think we dedicated two solid weeks just to fixing
the leaks, and then boy throw out a couple different rains.
All the rest of the project, we discover a few more,
and yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh, Airstreams should sponsor this show, and then I could
film this show out of an airstream. You airstream. Give
us a brand new airstream, one of the beautiful ones
to a big, huge one. All right, good? Did my
driveway chickens bother you? Only they're aroma? Oh? Really?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
There was a I'm not sure if it was your
sewers backing up, but for like about an hour every day,
there'd be.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
A bit of a stench emanating from right around there.
I guess I never noticed my chicken smelling.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It was kind of disturbing to look at them, watch
them do their thing. They turn around in that area
around the Kloaco would be kind of muddy and mucky.
That was kind of hard to look at.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Did you ever learn my chickens names? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Boy? You told them once? Told me once their grandparents
right there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh good memory? Betty, Katie and Hazel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I couldn't tell you which one was which.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Betty is black? All you have to me o black baby.
I liked having you out in the driveway because that's
always always fun to come out there and see the progress,
or see your frustration, or watch you. I don't mean
this in a disrespectful way. Are you a little clumsy boy?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Sure wasn't your driveway that time around?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I felt like I've watched you stumble in and out
of that airstream.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Man, I could I could not negotiate the depth of
that step.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know what it was. For four months, it
was just your toolbox. Yes, and how many ms you
hit your head getting out of the.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Airstreams twice once in the beginning, huh, and you you know,
generally do that once. It's like, okay, I've established that height.
And then boy, towards the end, I got myself good.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
By the way you had help at the beginning. The
people that you would bring no experience in building either.
It's like you're like, oh, this guy is a writer
and he's got some time off, so he's just gonna
help me. Then he brought one guy over to work
and he wouldn't stop insisting on painting mural in the bedroom.
(15:01):
And I was like, I don't want a fucking mural, man,
How do I say this nicely? You could have just
said it just like that. I didn't. I just said no,
I think we're good, or my wife's going to handle
the artwork, and he's like, no, I tell him I
want to paint a mural in here.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think when he heard your wife was going to
handle the artwork. He was really nervous for you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That was Nate.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nate, if you're listening, wonderful work.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You did great work. Just you know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Nate's actually a fine art painter. That's sort of his
miliu is bringing that sort of life to things.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Here's the difference between a white person in construction versus
a lot of times the Latin appeal. They would be
in my driveway at six a m. Till two thirty.
They avoid traffic on both sides. You different style, show
up around eleven, stay till it's uncomfortable, and I'm walking
(15:53):
outside at nine him telling you, hey, fucking wrap this.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
We have a noise ordinance. Yeah, I try coming earlier.
There's just so much traffic from the part of time
I was coming, I mean there was kind of no
way to avoid it. And then when I was on
a schedule to get started better, I was stopping at
one of three different home depots almost every day.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Our all home depot layouts the same, pretty damn close.
You know your way around real well, I think so. Yeah,
you ever asked for help or no, No.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't need to ask for help.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's growing though, By the way, what's the best power
to uh to buy?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You're talking brand or the brand brand? Oh boy, I
think right now Milwaukee is probably the best Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think I've got Milwaukee, Milwaukee. Why don't you send
me some more shit? I love Milwaukee. They should be
a sponsor to this podcast. Milwaukee. I don't think I
have Milwaukee. I think I have Makita. Is Mkeita not good?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
If you like that sort of thing?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What does that mean? That seems like, well, they're they're.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Asian designed and made, so they're a little more elegant,
and we Americans like things that hit hard and bash things.
So Milwaukee and do Walt pack a little more punch
with the interesting interest?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Sweired? How everything? You know? There's there's there's a lot
that are drawn. I'm not foreign to work in with
tools or you think I am.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
You didn't look particularly handy.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
WHOA. I'll give you this though.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
When you talked about adding that little badge or emblem
to the electric car you got for your son, you
talked about the hardware, and you said, how would I
go about this? And I said double stick tape. And
I realized I could see the reaction on your face,
and Daniel actually knows what I'm talking about in this.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well that I know what doubles.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
He realized it was a better option than using hardware
to penetrate the surface of the brand new car.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All Right, I gave you a few points so I
know how to tape something. It wasn't Eddie here. He
has a little cabin in Tahoe and all the time
just as like, oh, I'm putting in a new bathroom
and I'm like, I know you you don't have any
ability to do this, And he's like, yeah, we watch
(17:54):
YouTube figures you figured out and he does it and
does it look good? It doesn't look it looks better,
but it also looks like somebody that oh this was
your first time. Good, good try. Yeah, I'm gonna show
photos of your bathroom like a grade schooler. You can.
I mean, it does look better, it looks better. It
(18:15):
doesn't it doesn't look it does doesn't look amazing. I
wouldn't say it amazing, but that you know, that could
be some of your design choices. And that's just you know,
a difference of an opinion. By the way, were there
any of my uh decorating or design ideas that you thought,
this is not gonna look good or colored choices, And
now that you see it, go okay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I was not a fan of the penny tile in
the shower. Oh interesting, I like penny tile, but the
color was I know something about it. It just it
just didn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Pink. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, Well, normally in a shower you would have if
you're gonna go with penny tile, it would it's normally
on the floor, uh huh, and you would counter it
with something else on the walls where we just kind
of went everywhere in it. Yeah, it does look better
now that it's complete. Now, once we had the hardwood
floor and then we had the off white everywhere, and
then the two wallpapered walls.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That helped quite a bit. But you still don't seem
like you like it to this day. It would not
be my choice.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You're completely wrong. Let me tell you something. Everyone everyone
loves that shower. I'll stand corrected. When I first met you,
we started talking about in your life. Interesting, fascinating, fascinating
for sure. Okay, can we get into it, go for
it all right, Let's start with just off the top
of my head, you were adopted.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yes, so I grew up in San Diego, and my
parents told me from a very early age that I
was adopted at birth. We didn't really get into it.
So you were born in Sandigo, I was born in
San Diego. Yes, I was actually come to find out.
I was released to them the very next day.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Ah. Okay, so it was probably during the pregnancy. This
was all worked out correct, huh.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And then I grew to fifty years old not really
knowing anything else about it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I never wanted to, not really because I felt like
I had my family, of course, you know. But still
I've looked into adoption before. I'm not I've been very
interested in it my whole life of adopting a child,
I thought. But my wife wanted to have her own children,
as a lot of people do, and I'm not. That's
been great too. I'm still open to it, and I
(20:16):
think now maybe that'll be something we can do. But
now I've learned there's no more of these closed adoptions
or secret adoptions where you don't get to know the
information the parents. Information now is just it's always readily available. Okay.
So I have a comment about that, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
So I think it was maybe two thousand and six,
when I went to get my marriage license at the
county Clerk's office in San Diego. The clerk took my information,
confirmed my social Security number, and then said, hey, are
you aware you're adopted? And I know, as a matter
of fact, I am. He said, well, do you want
to contact your birth parents? No one ever put that
to me before, and I said, well, no, I guess not.
(20:56):
Why do you ask this is well it says right
here the information is available and says you're free to
contact if.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're like, uh, what a weird thing for him to do. Yeah,
that's cora. I mean, borderline. He's an insane person, but
he probably has a monotonous job and rarely gets to
have any fun, and he's like, watch me blow this
dude's mind. Totally in hindsight that day, you should have
been like, you know what, just rip that marriage license
up and walk out him. And oh boy, that is
(21:24):
that is correct? Yeah. When I met you, you were like, hey,
you were going through a divorce. You're like, but you
still lived with your wife, your ex wife? Yes, uh huh,
so I think that explains why I was having to
kick you out at ten o'clock at night. Something to
do with it. So this is two thousand and six,
back when things were so sunny, so sunny, so full,
(21:44):
the beginning of a relationship. Yeah, it was amazing, Okay,
And he tells you this, little does he know? He
just put a seed in your head that eventually is
going to explode.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So in twenty seventeen, my father died, and in that
year following I started thinking about what about my birth parents?
Do I have any other family? And so I simply
called the County Clerks office in San Diego and said
I'm ready to have that information now. And the response was, actually,
there was a bit of a foul up. We weren't
(22:15):
supposed to be letting any of that information out, and
this was apparently a statewide mistake somehow, and they said,
now the law stands that every adoption is sealed. So
they were unwilling to give me any information. And then
later I filed some kind of a form, applied for
it for the information for a bunch of different excuses,
and they came back and said, look, unless you have
(22:37):
a medical emergency that the doctor gives you a note
and says we need to know what's going on in
their family, you're not going to find out about this,
not through us.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
This is where it gets a little weird.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I don't think I've told you this part, so I
think the following year, I was with a friend and
she said, hey, do you want to go to this
giant medium event? And I said, what's this.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The way she's setting this up, then I don't want
to go to this.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So twenty bucks ahead you feel a small auditorium. Two
mediums sit in psychics if you will, sit at the stage,
and they talk about what it's like to to contact
people in different ways and living and dead, and then
everyone's allowed to ask one question, and just to add
little drama, I ended up being on one side of
the room, so I was the last person they asked,
(23:23):
and I said, Hi, I grew up adopted. I'm wondering
are my birth parents alive?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
And I figured that was a good question, because if
this was just the whole cold read technique where it's
a you know, it's some kind of a parlor trick.
They both seemed a little flu mixed. They asked me
a few questions here and there, and they said, sorry,
you can't really can't really help you. And I was like, no,
we'll see it's bullshit, right, It's complete bullshit.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's what you needed to know, well that it was
complete bullshit.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well, as I walked out, one of them pulled me
aside and said, hey, we don't like to respond to
any negative things, right, So I didn't want to say
this and full front of a room full of people
and have you take it wrong, but said, your your
birth father is dead, your birth mother's alive, and she
doesn't necessarily want to be contacted by you. Oh fuck,
(24:06):
all right, So that seems odd.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Ah, no, it seems insane. Well it segues here, we'll
go all right.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So then later, just deciding I really want to know
what the genic makeup is, I do twenty three and
meters and my first cousin, Marlene, if you're listening, thank
you again. My cousin Marlene is on Instagram and she
immediately calls me and spills the beans about my whole
family living on the East Coast. My birth father had
in fact died. He had died the same week as
the man who raised me. That I thought of my
(24:35):
father and who was your father? Yes, even though you
say I thought him as I? I okay, okay, I
call him Dad. He's Dad. Okay, So Dad and Biot.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
A week apart, same week.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
In August of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, huh, Ery, Well yeah, now, if she'd have brought
that up the median she was actually correct as well.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That birth mom, bio mom, you know, had me in
secrecy and didn't want the family to know about it,
and in fact, when I contacted her, simply ignored my
calls and emails for like a month.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I mean, I can only imagine what I would do
if someone from let's say, Kansas City that said they
had an abortion fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Ago, Springfield, Missouri, something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
By the way, this is also part of the reason
it took nine months to do my airstream. Continue, do
you believe in I'm supposed to ask this my first
question to all my guests, but for you it's been
my fiftieth question only because I know the answer. Do
you believe in ghosts? Absolutely? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Continue, Cousin Marlene put me together with my brothers, okay,
gave me their phone numbers.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Your cousin Marlene says you have two brothers, full brothers,
which means I'm just you know, I'm spelling this out.
This means that your parents had you, gave you for adoption,
stayed together, and then had two more children. Correct. Correct,
that's interesting, right. I mean, I'm just trying to think
of my family. My parents had four kids. Imagine if
how much better my life would have been had they
(26:09):
given one of my sisters up for adoption. I'm not
saying which one. I'm not starting any feuds, all right, continue,
So my two brothers, you contacted them. They were opened,
They were completely open to it.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They both called me like within that week. I think
one wanted to rattle on and on and on like
I do, and the other was like, hmm okay, well
let me know when you're gonna be out here. One's
a house builder and he worked with our dad, and
then the other one is an auto mechanic. He owns
his own little garage and Vermont. He's kind of in
a I don't want to say he's like a hermit,
but he's he's kind of out there in a small town. Sure,
(26:46):
But apparently when dad wasn't building houses, his pastime was
building drag cars. So so you know, I got both.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Your adopted parents named you Scott. Yes, did the birth
certificate have a different name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So they got to name you. They got to do everything.
What are your brother's names, Jason and Matthew? Did they
know you existed? They did not.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Nobody knew apparently, so cousin Marlene said, after she and
I spoke on the phone, she said, I hung up
with you, and I neatly called my mother and she
said when she answered, I just said, mom, which one
of your sisters ran away to the West Coast in
nineteen sixty nine, had a child and thought no one
would ever find out?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And apparently, wow, this cousin is is fun at the family. Yeah,
she is just a shit stir.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Apparently her mother sort of gasped very dramatically and said,
I knew that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I knew that's why she took off for a year.
So apparently it had never been admitted. So you finally
talked to your mother bio Mom, Yes, bio and your
mother not your biome. Your mother. She was aware that
you were going down this rabbit hole. Yes, absolutely, and
was totally fine.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
She was great with it because she had two brothers
and two sisters, and she felt like that experience of
having a lot of siblings in a large family was
like one of the better parts of her life.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Was she as intrigued by the discoveries or confused or
any of it?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You know, I think it landed a little awkward in
the beginning, like, hey, I'm gonna you know. I never
talked about bio mom with her, although bio Mom eventually
tried to friend her on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Interesting, interesting choice.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, she really enjoyed seeing pictures and hearing conversations. She
spoke to both my brothers on the phone at one point. Okay, yeah,
so it was good.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Okay, how was the first meeting with bio mom.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Wasn't exactly a joyful reunion?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
First I met my brothers and I hung out with
them for a bit. It turns out, just as a coincidence,
the entire family was at this one house. So I
came pulling up in a rented minivan and there was
thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So they did that on purpose knowing that you were coming.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Don't I don't think so. I think at that point
bio Mom wasn't really talking about it much.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They didn't know you were coming. They didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Most of them on that porch did not know I
was coming.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And then you just started seeing faces they kind of
looked like yours. Yeah, I bring him something else. So
you told me you used to used to be much larger. Yes, yeah,
I was a heavier guy at one point. You lost
a ton of weight, about sixty pounds, I think. Okay,
when you met your brothers, it was kind of like
both versions. Yeah, actually yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
The second brother, Jason is probably the fittest of the
three of us, and looked just like me when I
was at my most fit. And my brother Matthew, my
baby brother, Matthew. Yeah, he's carrying the weight. He's a
bigger guy, right, He's also bigger physically all.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Around, you know. All right, So you walking on the
sport you start seeing faces and features that look like you.
Is that freaking you out?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
It was interesting to finally look at people and say
that's that's really a family resemblance, because I've never experienced that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I've never once looked at people and go, oh, you
look just like or certainly babies. I've never been able
to see like people look at my kids like they
look like you, and I'm like, do they I don't
really see it. It's kind of hard to see a shage.
All right, so these people actually look like you, and
you're like, no doubt out at these are my brothers, right,
And then my mom, how was that? Did you do
you walk? Do you hugger? Your handshake? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And we did a fist pump.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I walked up and I sorry, and I didn't know
what to say, and she says, well, I'm your mother,
and then she gave me a hug and it kind
of broke the ice and we chatted a little bit.
But there were a lot of people, you know, it
was kind of like I just won the super Bowl
or something. There was just like a lot of loud
talking and cheering and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Is she good looking? She's in great shape for her age.
I'd say she looks healthy. I mean, you got great hair.
That's that's her side of the family for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
This is Grandpa Selepski's hair, in case we're looking at
it there it.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Is, so that's good hair. Yeah. Did you did you
breastfeed from her? No? Not even not even you know what,
I don't know for a fact. No, I met when
you guys are at the reunion. Just to break the ice. Mom,
I think you owe me this. It's time to eat.
So when you showed up at this family readnion, did
(30:56):
you immediately request all the back birthday gifts?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I didn't even think too.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I mean they missed a lot. They did miss a lot.
Before you met your brothers, did you, like, like stalk
them on social media to make sure that they didn't
need a kidney or anything.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I did stalk them, but I wasn't looking for medical conditions.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Okay, there was no big red flag.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
They don't have a huge social media presence there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then after that day, just all a family again.
You guys moved in how to work by all.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Mom was kind of holding me at arm's length for
a little while, but as time's gone by, it's, you know,
it's become okay.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Even though she did the right thing for her, the
guilt of giving away a child is a weird thing
for probably any person. And then to face it fifty
years later is yeah, it's not like you were coming
with like a malicious intent or anything like that. But
I'm sure she still felt the weight of this, like, oh,
I'm sure, and that's that's that's a tough thing.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I think it was the second year I flew back
there and met the family for Christmas, and there's a
lot of people there that didn't know anything about me still,
and so I kind of spent the evening introducing myself.
And there's a lot of confused looks about that, like
you're who kept getting that quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
How many years older are you? Then you're the next
closest brother.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Four years, four years, and then brother passed, that's another
four years.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, well, well the three of you, by the way,
did you have any health issues that you needed to
worry about after going down this rabbit hole? It appears not.
I would love to find out that my parents aren't
my parents. I literally would go, oh, that makes so
much sense. Well, it is interesting you say that.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So I certainly got along with my family growing up
and all the extended family. They're shared interests, But I
mean I was the only creative, if you will.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
And do you think that's because the parents that you
had in the West Coast just a different environment? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean I don't know. They were both they're both
very blue collar people. Mom grew up on a farm
in Iowa and dad actually lost his dad when he
was really young and spent his formative years, just moving
all around the state.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
So you think you probably, out of your siblings, you
had it better. I think so. Actually, right, yeah, one
of that sounds a horrible thing to compare, but that's
what my job is to a right. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I feel like I got to grow up in San Diego,
you know, in the seventies and eighties. I mean, it
was just beautiful there, you know, in mild weather, and
there was a lot of fun to be had. There's
outdoor sports, there's motor sports. It's all good stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Uh huh. And now you're throwing all of this away,
are you not? And you're you're you're heading across the
country to work with your brother.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I am, you know, I'm just gonna take off. I
want to spend some time with my brothers. I have
the opportunity. That's Vermont, that's Connecticut. Oh, Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
He's the housebuilder. Are you going to build house? He's
already booking me for work. So how do you build
in the winter? Connecticut? In the winter time? Let me
tell you how depressing that place is.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Ugh. I think he spends a lot of time sitting
by a stove getting warm in the winter.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That always makes me mad with builders like like like
in La if it sprinkles, nobody shows up to work
for four days on a work site. I'm like, oh,
so you're telling me that they need complete sunshine to
build in Seattle. I don't know. Somehow they get it done.
Which one are you living with? The one that that's
(34:20):
grumpy or the other one.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
The grumpy one I'm going to I'm going to Matthew's house. Initially,
are you you you know, bully him?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh? You know what? Actually the middle brother does that? No, right,
first night, wake him up with your nutstack on his head.
Just let's say I'm missed out on all this good huh.
You know he's a lot bigger than I am. That
might you guys gonna take a bath together. You should
recreate all all You should recreate every childhood photo with
(34:47):
the sibling. You should take baths together and then do
a calendar. Yeah, I know people don't you have calendars anymore,
But you send out a friendly calendar of all of
the missed opportunities that you had with these brothers. One
time I had my brother hold on to a rope
that I tied around his wrists. Okay, so I tied
(35:08):
him run his wrist. We were playing some form of
prisoner and then I tied the other end of the
rope to my bike, and then I started riding my
bike and was making him run around my house in
our backyard in Saint Louisa, and I was just going
faster and faster, and I just kept telling him, eventually,
you're gonna get tired and fall. That's what you missed
(35:32):
out on. That was man.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
That was particularly cruel.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
It was I don't know that he ever actually fell.
I probably got tired sooner than he did. Is it
possible that you have yet another brother named Spike Ferirestine.
It's funny you say that.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
When I was working for Spike, we were chatting about
something in the hall and he goes, come over here.
He took his glasses off, put him on my face,
and he said, it's like looking in a goddamn mirror.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Ah, so you worked for him. I did work for Spike.
I didn't know that. I always give everybody a gift
on the show. This is what I'm giving you. I
don't want him in my garage anymore. You seem like
a man, and I'm not. They look like folding ramps. Yeah,
they're folding ramps. Alright, I don't want them. Okay, I'll
take them, thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I don't need them, but I'm going to now go
out and find a piece of equipment that requires there.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah but you, but you're a dude. Yeah, hey, these
are great. Actually, whoa careful you? You cut yourself? You also enjoyed.
You would see how I would torture people, Panda cousin.
I used to occasionally go out in the driveway when
you were working. You would not and I would put
a horribly offensive bumper sticker on her car. They were
(36:46):
bumper stickers that I had made when I used to
do my other show. One of them was like I
chug jizz and I'd put them on the back of
her car and she would never notice. So, for instance,
the I chugged jizz when she went to a concert
that night and she I like, like a small local concert,
like and she pulled into the parking lot and there's
(37:07):
a bunch of people milling about, like getting ready to perform,
and they saw the bumper stick and they go like geez, lady,
and she's like what and and she's like, oh, like
just mortified. But it would make her a hit at
the party. I still do it, just so you know.
I do it constantly and sometimes you'll catch it in
a couple of days. Sometimes Copp will pull her over
(37:29):
and be like, hey, you shouldn't have that on the
back of your car, but anyway, I'll give you one
so you can have one. I don't know if you
want to stick it on somebody's or use it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
That everyone you love will eventually die. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, it's just it's sometimes you know the right person
to give that to you, and then you stick it
on their car and you just laugh and they're like,
give it on the floor next to your table. Hey,
you're If you're moving to the East Coast and something
goes was horribly wrong with my trailer, how fast can
I get you back? I promise a seventy two hour turnaround.
(38:09):
By the way, I love my airstream is my problem.
And don't say this just because I want to hear
you say that. I don't know that I actually want
to hear this. Is this the best project you've ever done?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I will I will say this. This is not to
placate you. I really I really enjoyed your project. It
was challenging. I did a couple I did a couple
of things I'd never tried before that came out beautiful,
Like when we did the ship lap and actually brought
it all the way around in a curve into that
front section. I'd never seen that done before.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
No, it was good. I just I just assumed we
were not.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Going to do that, and when you brought it up,
I was both pleasantly surprised and kind of irritated. I
was like, oh man, that's gonna like that's gonna I'm
got to figure out how to do that.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Now it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I think it's beautiful. Everyone thinks it's beautiful, and I
use it. We always have guests to staying in there,
Like every other week at least there's somebody, and my
son and I even occasionally get to do an overnight
sleepover in there, which we've done. I'll tell you my
favorite thing about the airstream is some peace and goddamn
quiet just goes sitting there and I close the door
(39:11):
and I hope they don't find me. Well, listen, whenever
you're back, you're welcome to stay in my airstream for
in my head I was gonna say two nights, but
people always push it and get a little extra on me,
So I'll say one night. Then you can. You can
have two nights. You can push it too. You can
push it too, and I'll give on too. You can
(39:33):
stay in my airstream for a night, Scott. Thank you
(39:55):
for building my airstream. Thank you for talking about your
very fascinating life, and good luck in Connecticut with your
new baby brother.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Casha.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Will Carl. It sure is sad now that Scott's not
in our front yard every day. I want to thank
Scott for being on the show. And we also gave
him an additional partying gift as he was driving out
of town one of my bumper stickers. I hope he
gets tons of laughs out of that. He actually needs
to come back. A small leak in the airstream and
and I need him to touch that up. I'm sure
(40:33):
he'll do right by me. Hey, I'm in trouble. What's
going on? You know? We created this segment to check
in on my mom's physical well being?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Ah? Sure as shit? I messed up forgot to do it.
Last week she had a surgery cataracts. Okay, is that
you don't consider that surgery. I mean it is. Yeah,
I don't know if it's a check in surgery. Oh
that's interesting, because she is. She's making me feel pretty
guilty for not checking in on her. What is was
(41:04):
that surgery even entail? Now? You know what? Let me
just ask her. Let's see if she's home. Hey, hey,
I wanted to check in. I heard you had surgery.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
I did.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
I had a cataract. What you missed it? You forgot
to ask? Now? What is it? What exactly does that
surgery entail? It's surgery. It's real surgery. They take a
lens out that's cloudy, and they put a new lens in,
and they put it so I can see. So I
don't make glasses. So I have one eye for distance
(41:42):
and one eye for reading. And it's great and I'm good.
So you're not wearing glasses anymore. I've never worn glasses.
I've always worn contacts. Well, I don't have to wear
contacts anymore. Yeah, so you got one eye for close
and one eye for far. Yes? Are you can you
drive at night? I can?
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I don't. I don't usually go out at night, but
if I do, I can yes, Eddie. Eddie told me
that this surgery doesn't warrant a phone call check in.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Oh it did?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Do you have any Do you have any other surgeries
on the plate? I don't have any other surgeries on
the plate. I'm done. Would you would you ever openly
talk about some of the plastic surgery that you've had.
I've never had any. You know, I wouldn't do that.
You're all natural. We're done. That's it, all right. Well,
(42:34):
I'm gonna check in on you later. Do you have
any follow ups on this, on this major surgery that
you've had? My follow ups, that's when you called.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It wasn't my last follow up.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
I've had three follow ups, so you missed it completely.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
It doesn't didn't sound very serious. But I'm glad. I'm
glad you've recovered and that your eyes are working well.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Love you by Oh you know, she acts like she
doesn't care, but she really does. Ye get that sense.
Oh my goodness. And if you do see her on
the road, if you're in Brevard County and it's nighttime,
you need to get out of the way. That will
(43:16):
blind slide you. We got some plugs. I'm gonna be
in Fresno this weekend. Come on to see me. Check
the calendar at Daniel Toosh dot com. Check out boyswarpink
dot com to buy some cute clothes for any toddler
that you know. We got The Goat premiering May ninth.
(43:39):
Hear they're gonna drop three episodes on May ninth. Have
you guys been hearing that? Yep? A lot of people
talking about on the streets in Hollywood. Eh. What else?
Do we have? Another bedtime story? Last week's bedtime Sorry
for my once three year old son was the best. Actually,
it was long, it was funny. I played it to
him and he laughed. He laughed the whole way through.
(44:01):
He thought it was he was getting tickled by himself.
I was like, you can't laugh at your own jokes.
But this week's this week's sucks. So what are you
gonna do? Kids like me hit and miss see you
next week?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
One to tell?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
So yeah, let's tell stories. You gotta go first and
no down. He wants to go first? A right, let
him go first?
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Get party came, Yes, tattap, get that tat? I name
many he read?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
That story is horrible. Now you tell a story.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Once upon a time and the soul we sid social
legit bunny.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
All he wanted to.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Do is samply, he twittered. All he wanted to do
is sampling. He tay it, and then I just all
it take. And then the bunny didn't know what to do,
he said. He finally he sold to them what all yoga?
And at my talk will house?
Speaker 1 (45:18):
What is joining?
Speaker 4 (45:20):
And then the other got what it? How that could do?
And and just so when waging
Speaker 1 (45:30):
This story is no good either
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