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There's a new. Term buzzing on the Internet,
dink. Dual income?
No, kid, you probably have an opinion on these people or an
opinion on people who have an opinion on these people.
America's birth rate has hit itslowest point in more than a
century. Some are blaming it on
infertility. Others say the state of the
world is causing couples to think twice about having
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children. Childless marriages could be a
good thing if they were a resultof God's sovereign providential
work. Oh my God, can't even hear you.
They like avocado toast and brunches out and going to plays
and having sweet vacations. You're probably super selfish.
Kids are better than brunch and.Then there's another group of
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young couples that want the lifestyle of childless
households and the lifestyle it brings with it.
Welcome to The DINK Side, the podcast about life, laughs and
living child free. We're a double income, no kids
couple navigating the up stones and hilarious inbetweens of
choosing a different path in a world that won't stop asking.
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So when are you having kids? So when are you having kids?
A question most often asked by people that have kids, including
everyone I work with in a very large building who is coming
into work this week. Sick.
EW. I think because here's what's
happening. School is ending, people are
coming back home and I think allthe parents are getting sick
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again. And I, I need to pound some
vitamins today because I was sharing elevators with people
today. I was sharing rooms with people
today. Everybody's hacking up a long, a
long, I can't even say it. It's affecting my brain already
hacking up a lung, sneezing, coughing, disgusting, gross.
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That's so annoying and also did we learn nothing from COVID?
Like if you have an illness, stay home.
Yeah, I honestly you need to stay home.
People forgot all the rules already.
Like you said, no covering of the mouth, no social distancing.
It's all out the window. No, but we have a lot to get to
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today, a lot to get. We've had a jam packed couple of
weeks. We have a ton of stuff to talk
about, but I wanted to start off.
I wanted to start off with something that's been on my mind
since it happened and I have been waiting to ask you about it
until we got on the pod. I don't like this lead up.
So we were out in public this weekend, and I used a public
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restroom. And while I was waiting in line,
there was about 6:00 or so teenagers that came up and they
were starting to, like, be rambunctious behind me.
Like, oh, we got to pee, we got to pee and they just started
kind of roughhousing with each other and whatever.
And I thought to myself, like, Ifelt my childhood instincts
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starting to kick in like a bit of fear around these 16 year
olds. And I it's not that I'm actually
afraid of them, but like I was transported to when I was a kid
around like this type of energy,right?
OK. And then I thought to myself,
there is a a trope in movies where like an adult gets beat up
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by a group of teenagers. And my question to you is this,
if I got attacked by three, let's say 3 or 4/15/16 year old
kids, do you think I could win that fight?
Be honest. Honey, honey, they're basically
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adults. I think you're just outnumbered.
If it was one. If you were getting 116 year
old, sure. I don't know about 316 year olds
flinging their limbs at you. I don't think I could.
I don't think I could do it. I really, I'm just going to be
completely vulnerable and honestright now.
I think it's a losing battle forme.
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Here's why. At least one or two of these
kids were my weight were heavierand another one of the kids was
about 6-6 inches taller than me.So really all they would have to
do is like hold me down, which Ifeel they could do together.
Yeah. OK, yeah, I I feel like.
I was set up for failure there. Though no, no, I, I that's the
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answer I expected because it's the answer I gave.
And also I found myself like more recently, this has happened
a couple of times where I feel kind of like this old man.
Well, I've always felt like an old man, but this old man
sensibility kicking in when teenagers are being like kind of
rambunctious in public or in front of a cashier or something.
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I've been really feeling the urge recently to be like, Hey,
young man, calm down or be respectful or whatever.
And I, I just, I feel like it's going to happen at some point.
I'm just going to let it loose and which I think is well, they
might, I don't know, or I'll be live on TikTok by accident.
I don't, you know, who knows? But I feel like I wanted to ask
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because you might get the call sooner rather than later, you
know? I did hear this happening while
I was in the bathroom because itwas those beach all gender
situation and you were standing outside and I heard this
happening. Yeah.
And I wasn't sure how you were reacting.
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I was like, oh man, these guys. I, I, it's like I said, it's
happened a number of times too. Like it in, in a line at, you
know, Subway or Starbucks or whatever.
And kids are just like effing off in front of the cashier or
two of the cashier. I'm like, OK, have some respect.
So I'm essentially, I'm going toget beat up by these kids and
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I'm also becoming an old man. So I'm thank you for asking that
question. The other thing I wanted to say
before we get into all the rest of it, horrible news, horrible
news. One of the worst pieces of news
I've read in months. What in celebration for the
summer, Planet Fitness, the gym that you and I belong to, is
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going to allow teenagers to comeand work out for free.
What is happening? Why are you kidding me for?
Free for free. They don't have to pay.
No, so #1 bullshit. Because I pay, they should have
to pay. And that's ageism, is it not?
Yes. And also do they not want?
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Do they not? They're going to alienate their
current clients. I'm going to cancel my fucking
membership. No, no.
Hell on earth. I'm just I'll go to LA Fitness.
I will go to Equinox if I have to.
My membership. Yeah, I mean, it's legitimately
we're going to get back to Planet Fitness this week, and I
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think if there's a problem, I'm going to say something.
Wait, what? And like you're like, if there's
a problem, I'm going to ask to speak to the manager.
I will. I'm going to say there's way too
much shit going around in here. But also, what are they trying
to do with this campaign? Literally what are the
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positives? What is their?
Was their name one single benefit?
Publicity. That's it.
Because they're not making money, they're going to make
their current clients mad. Who is it helping?
Literally, who is it helping? I think the strategy is like,
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oh, we're going to promote children's or teenager fitness
because it's a good look for us,because we're being, you know,
nice to kids to get into shape and whatever.
It's going to backfire. It's going to backfire big time.
I will go to LA Fitness so fast.Oh 100% questioning.
Is it even worth waiting to see how bad it is or do we just
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leave now? Because I'm a cheapskate, I want
to ride it out and see 'cause itis a $20.00 a month difference,
but I will not have patience forit.
I went to picture. It going badly?
I will pay that extra $20.00 in a heartbeat.
Without a doubt, Without a doubt.
I mean, I was there a couple weeks ago and there was a group
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of probably four or five, like 14 year old guys that were just
walking around kind of effing off.
And they weren't even necessarily preventing me from
doing anything, but I was like, these guys got to get out of
here. It was annoying me.
They were like, they had their phones out, They're talking,
They were taking pictures in thebathroom.
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Like just stop. I'm I'm it's Planet Fitness is
not long for this world, if thisbecomes a thing.
And is it just for the summer? For now, yeah, if this is this.
At what cost? Planet Fitness if you weren't
already on this path, this is a guaranteed path to being the
Waffle House of Gems. Oh.
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My God. Yeah.
OK. And what qualifies?
Is it 13 to 18 for free? Like what does it qualify?
What's the rule? Oh my God, imagine 13 year olds.
Oh my God, I know. I don't even know what's worse.
Wait, what? Would you rather 3313 year old
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boys or 317 year old boys? What is worse 1313 is or.
I would rather have 13 so 17 year olds.
Worse. Way worse.
I just don't even know anymore. Because 17 year olds are like
everybody. All both are on the Internet,
but 17 year olds are old enough and bold enough to do things
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that they see on the Internet. You know what I mean?
I guess you're right, but I kindof think that 13 to 17 is like a
vortex to hell regardless. Yeah, true ballad for most
people. Giving them free access is
insane. Just look it up on a discounted
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pass fine. High school students, oh, this
is, it's, it's so much worse. High school students between the
ages of 14 and 19 get to work out for free across the United
States and Canada. We're roping the Canadians into
this. Are there people in a comment
section rebutting this like. I'll have to look, but it says,
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according to this press release that I found, and this is again
why they're doing it, Planet Fitness says it is invested more
than $460 million in waived membership fees throughout this
initiative. Is their mission to break down
the barriers to fitness? And the Summer Pass program is a
key part of that. OK, I have more things to say.
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I don't even because I was just going to say maybe people aren't
freaking out online because a lot of people are parents.
So parents aren't freaking out. And then I stopped myself.
I'm pretty sure that yeah, 80% of the people that work out at
our gym are probably parents. And I bet you 70% of that 80%
don't want to see random tweens in their gym.
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Even if you're a parent, you don't want them like clogging up
the machines. I, I was at the when I saw the
that group of like four or five of them the other week, I
literally had the thought I was on the treadmill and I thought
to myself, huh, I guess I didn'trealize that anyone under the
age of 18 was even allowed in a gym.
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I kind of assumed they were adults only this whole time.
I don't know, but there's no waythat parents want this either.
I guess the parent, the parent of a 15 year old that's like
struggling with their health probably likes this, but I don't
think a single parent that goes to Planet Fitness is going to be
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like pumped about this. Yeah, I don't think so either.
No, no, no. I was devastated by the news
devastated by the news I. Hate that I had to find out this
way. Yeah, I I hate to break it to
you. I truly hate to break it to you.
Well, we've had a jam packed couple of weeks.
We we went to Idlewild, California for the first time.
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Yes. We spent some time in the woods,
which again is Idlewild is in Southern California.
It's about two hours away from LA, it is, turns out, a Mile
High. 6000 feet elevation. What?
Who thought? Who would have known?
I do think that there's googled.It.
I think that we need to start Googling cities before we go to
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them. What elevation they're at.
Yeah, I do, because it has always affected you and I feel
like it's affecting me more thanit used to.
And there's a lot that goes intothe high elevation, from
breathing to physical, other physical things to mental state.
I think it affects everyone. I just think people have varying
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degrees of awareness. Yeah, about it.
Fair. So if you know it, if you know,
oh, I'm at a high, I'm at whatever altitude.
And then you start noticing a couple things and you're like,
oh, I guess I am winded. And then you're like, oh, and I
am dehydrated. Oh, and I am dry.
Oh, I'm a little dizzy. But if you don't know you're if
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you don't really realize you're at elevation, I don't higher
elevation or whatever. I feel like your brain might
explain it away or be like, oh, whatever, I guess I'm winded
today. Or you know, I kind of think it
affects everyone. You just have varying degrees of
knowledge. Yeah, and where we live, we are
600 feet up in the air above sealevel, and where we went was
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above 6000 feet. It's a difference.
You're being compressed by gravity.
And I don't think, I mean, is there a aside from like, you
know, Advil and stuff to take for a headache or whatever?
Is there a a medication you can take for elevation in the same
way that like if you go on a cruise ship you take Bonine or
whatever? I've googled it many times and
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you just hydrate so you can takeextra electrolytes.
You can take those little oxygenbottles if you have a bad
headache or Advil and what like blood thinners help and
hydrating and whatever, but there's nothing like boning that
cures it. OK 'cause you're just closer to
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the sun. Like, there's nothing that that
can counteract that. You can't take a pill that gets
you further away from the sun iswhat you're saying right?
Makes sense. It was really cool though.
I mean, very sleepy town. A lot of businesses closed
multiple days of the week. Some of them even when they're
open, are like open from 9:00 to10:30 and then one to two, just
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random hours like that. But the big headline there was,
and some people who don't even live in California are aware of
this. The mayor of Idlewild,
California is a dog. A dog in a in a line of dogs
that have been mayor. Did you see it's his birthday
today on Instagram? Did you?
Follow it yet? No, that is big news.
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Big day. Wow, I wonder what they do to
celebrate Mayor Max's birthday. I know in the town do they throw
a party? They better.
It's a lost opportunity if they don't.
Truly. But he was delightful.
He's a golden retriever. He's Mayor Max the Third.
They have had two preceding Mayor Max's, and instead of
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doing goldfish style where they just switch out with a new dog
when one dog passes, they do specify that this is Mayor Max
the 3rd. And you know, he held his
position well. He wore a cowboy hat and a tie
and a name tag, and he barked and he said he decreed law.
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There there was a lot of legislating.
He shook hands. He kissed foreheads.
What I love too is we found out there's like a whole cabinet.
There's, there's like a vice mayor that's also a dog, some
sort of like Sergeant or deputy or sheriff or something, the
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vice. Mayor is his sister and she
doesn't make her, she doesn't appear with him every time,
which I think is she's kind of slacking off.
I don't know. But also, he does appearances,
you know, three or four days a week, 4:00 PM, one PM, 4:00 PM,
sometimes twice a day. Yeah, he's, he's out there.
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He's out there. And what I liked about meeting
him was he still seemed like a dog, like he didn't lose sight
of the fact that he's a dog. I've met a couple quote
unquotes. Well, I've met a couple quote UN
quote celebrity dogs over the years and they're weird.
They're weird dogs. Like they're just socialized to
the point of thinking they're human.
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I you remember Jeff Palm? He was a Pomeranian.
I was big on Vine. And then like, is he?
Dead. Yeah.
Oh my God. Are.
You sure? Yeah, it was a big It was quite
the headline when it happened. Oh my God, may he rest in peace.
I remember where where I was Jesus.
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But we he like appeared. I did this video thing for work,
a job I had at the time where wehad to go to this red carpet.
I think it was for like the streamys or something.
And he was on the red carpet andit was creepy.
He was sitting on top of like a bar stool and he was very keenly
aware of what was going on around him.
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And if you walked up to him to take a picture or a selfie, he
would look directly into the camera and pose.
And then you take the picture and he would go back to like
looking around and that like it was so weird.
It was so weird. That's unnerving.
This is how. This is the same way I feel
about child actors. I here's the thing.
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I do like an adult, an adult like child, but in the wild when
it when it's just their natural personality.
A child actor is weirdly like sentient and manipulative and
you feel like when you're talking to them, I feel like
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they know what they're giving you and they know.
It's almost like, I don't know, like they're used to getting
such a reaction from adults on set.
Like, oh, exactly like that. Like that's exactly the reaction
we want. So it's almost like they they're
always on and they're always like slightly emotionally
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manipulating you, it feels. Yeah, I agree.
But it's fucked up because it wasn't their choice.
Right, that's the weird thing. And the same the same thing is
to be said for the dogs. But that's why I like Mayor Max
'cause it feels like kind of feels like it was his choice,
even though I know it wasn't. Yeah, he's just vibing.
He's there for the vibes. He's not really trained.
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He wasn't posing for photos really, he was just living his
life. Yeah, he was like, like me, or
don't, I don't care. I'm on to better things.
I do think the world would be a better place if we allowed more
animal politicians though, because the general overall
vibe. Vital Wild is safe, quiet and
off the map. Not anybody's business.
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I liked it. Yeah, me too, so highly
recommend. Mayor Max for president, some
say. Oh, some.
Some do say some. Do say Oh yeah, I would.
I think you should just be a write in or, you know, line of
succession. Mayor Max for life.
Also this past weekend, it was abig weekend in LA.
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It was the first Cenespia event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,
which is, if you're unfamiliar, where they play movies outside.
And this time it was ET, which had.
OK, you watched ET. Did you ever see it now that you
watched it? I thought I.
Had seen it. I don't think I've had seen it.
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You think your brain thinks you've seen these movies because
you've seen so many clips or thefamous parts of them?
Yeah, I don't think I had ever actually seen the full movie.
It was. I definitely have one time, but
you're right, it is one of thosethat just has like general clips
of it and stuff. Yeah, and Speaking of child
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actors, my God, the whole movie is child actors.
Chock full of them. Here's the thing, I get why it's
famous 'cause I think it was like the first movie of its kind
with like kids or whoever meeting an alien, right?
Like and the alien being shown to that extent.
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Possibly. I don't.
I don't know, though. I think probably.
Probably with kids, yeah. I think it was like a unique
concept at the time, but as a whole lot of plot holes.
Lot. Lot of like oh he died and now
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for no reason at all. Spoiler alert if you haven't
seen it, it's what is it? 40 years?
60 years old. It is God.
It was the 80, so 50 years old. OK.
So 40 or 50, right? It's like, I don't, I don't
know. At one point he's dead and then
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for no reason, no discernible reason, he's just alive again.
And they're attached. Their hearts are attached like
or emotions or bodily health areattached to him and the kid.
And then they're both dying. And then, for no discernible
reason whatsoever, all of a sudden they're not both dying
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and they're no longer attached. Yeah, they don't ever really
explain it. Ever.
Not really. And like, there's so many
anyways, it's so fucking slow. It could have been 30 minutes.
It could have been a short film.Jesus fuck.
I was like anyways we get it. It is.
So slow, God damn it. It's like significantly slower
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than I even remembered it. It was, it was really slow.
Whatever. I mean, like I was like, OK,
it's kind of nostalgic, feeling cool.
There's Drew Barrymore as a child.
It was fine. We had a good time.
But there were children next to me.
The similar age of how old do you think the actors were in the
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movie? What's his name?
The main guy? I don't know why I can never
remember Drew Barrymore. I feel like was like 6 or 7 in
it. Yeah, the other kid let me look
it up real quick. His name is Henry Thomas.
I think he was like 10-11 maybe,don't you think?
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Yeah, probably he was OK. It was a lot of screaming, just
a lot of like. It was a lot of screaming.
There were kids next to me that kept shining a flashlight in my
face in the dark and I was glaring at them.
I don't. Know what's so weird is like
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it's funny 'cause like a lot of there's a lot of people, it's
not just kids that have this behavior, but like they were
watching the movie and the entire time during the movie,
it's like, what's that? What's that mom?
What is that? Who is that?
What's happening? What's And a lot of people do
that. It's not just kids, adults do it
too. But it is just like, I don't
know, watch. I know you will find out.
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Or if at the end of it you're still confused, still questions,
That's either a. I will then answer them.
Yeah, I don't know. I do think we've at least
reached the age where we can no longer sit on the ground for
multiple hours. Absolutely not.
And you know what? I think we had more self respect
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than that. And I'm kind of sad that we
didn't, that we sat on the ground.
I think we just wanted to like, prove it to ourselves.
Like, oh, we're. We're.
In shape and healthy enough thatit won't really affect us.
It's fine. And I feel like my back still
hasn't recovered. I like it's because you're also
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like you're, you're leaning on your hands for too long and
you're stretching things and it's, I don't know, just it
doesn't work that way. Not good.
No one's. Meant work.
For a whole entire movie on justthe ground.
I don't think that. I don't think that I could.
If you had to sleep on the ground, like remember when you
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went to a friend's house when you were kids, did you ever just
like, sleep on the ground? Like on a blanket or just in a
sleeping bag which is just the ground.
Right. Do you think you could do that
now or like what shape? I think I would be pretty
wrecked if I woke up after sleeping on the ground like that
or camping, you know? Yeah, I don't know.
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Here's the thing. Laying fully down is one thing.
Yeah. 'Cause then your bones can
decompress a bit. Yeah.
I mean, I would still be wrecked, don't get me wrong, but
I think I could do it easier than sitting for six hours or
whatever. Yeah, I guess I.
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Just laying is easier than sitting 'cause you don't have to
support any part of yourself. That's true.
That's a valid point. You maybe that's what we should
just do next time if we go. At one point I did give up and
lay. You're just staring at the
stars. Was listening to while you're
listening. To the sounds, yeah.
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Of ET. Good God, we, we've, it's that
time of the year. Like it was Memorial Day
weekend. And we're always looking, I'm
certainly always Googling like fun things to do in LA this
weekend, fun things to do this week, fun things, Memorial Day,
whatever. And we were kind of debating
what we should do this past weekend because we had just
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gotten back and we had a couple busy days and we're like, what
do we do? And I found this thing not too
far from our house in Topanga, California called Topanga Days.
And it goes like a festival where it's three days.
So we thought, OK, we'll hit up one of the days.
And online there's like they have a poster of the quote UN
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quote lineup. And really it's, and no shame,
'cause I, I enjoy this type of thing, but it was like a handful
of cover bands, like a, you know, a Beatles cover band or a
Fleetwood Mac cover band. They had like four or five of
those a day, and so not exactly like Coachella.
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So I thought, OK, it'd be prettyaffordable.
Turns out not so much. Single day ticket.
Well, you had said it was like you thought that you saw the
price was 25 or something to getin.
And what I saw it turns out was 25 + a fee is 30.
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And that is for quote members only.
And the members thing is like tothe community group of Topanga
or something, Chamber of whatever.
And so the non member fee, the fee that we would have to pay
was north of $60.00 each to go to this.
Yeah. Damn.
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So it would have been like 130 bucks to go to Topanga Days to
see some cover bands. Just to get in and not to like
it doesn't come with a drink or food or 'cause there's a bunch
of vendors. So then you're walking around
like still spending money at Topanga Days, and then you leave
and you're 300 bucks deep. Yeah, I will say this is in, you
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know, you and I are, are trying to be conscious of spending but
also live our life. And at this period of time when
gas and where we live is almost $7.00 a gallon, like we look at
something like this, we're like,and this has been coming up a
lot. Like we've been doing a ton of
like vintage shopping recently. It's super fun.
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But you're going through and yousee A at shirt that is $95 a
$110. You're like, who the fuck can
come in here and buy this thing?Right.
And also, if I'm going to spend $110 on a shirt, I'll just buy a
new shirt. Right half the.
Time from the 70s. Yeah, and half the time it's not
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even like an iconic shirt. It's just like, you know, a 1978
rowing team shirt or something. And it's.
Just you saw a champion T-shirt from the 90s, but all it said
was champion the the brand and it was $95.
Yeah, it could have been. It was the same logo and
everything. It could have been a shirt that
was a week old. Oh, I thought it was.
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I thought it had said from the 90s.
But anyway. It did, I'm just saying it
looked the same as a a shirt that's the week old.
Like it's basically is the same thing.
It's so weird. So we didn't go to Topanga Days
because we drew the line at thatfor the budget.
We did. And we decided to go to Venice
Beach area and go to some thriftstores and instead with that
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exact 100 and 21130 plus dollarswe bought 2 Pizza Hut bomber
jackets. From what year honey?
From when? I would say conservatively the
80s, probably 80s or early 90s. They're embroidered and we found
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it and I, at first we thought there was only one and it was
definitely going to be for you. And we turned the jacket around
and it said in stitching Barb. Yeah.
Fuck. Yeah, Barb and I was like a
glove. I got to have this thing.
Then the guy that owned the store saw how enthused we were
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and goes, oh I have one more, let me get it out and it was a
different style and it said Bev.Yep.
In stitching on the front, so Barb and Bev Barb.
And Bev. And they were both originally
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listed for $100 in the store. And you came in clutch.
I swindled a deal. I swindled a deal, I said, and I
quote You're not running a 2 forone Pizza Hut jacket deal, are
you? And then he giggled and went, If
you get both, I'll definitely make you happy.
And my face went, How happy? And then he said 2 for 1:50.
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And then I said we don't have kids.
And you said DINK life. And then we purchased the fine
jackets from the fine gentleman and we waltzed out, literally
walking on a cloud. Oh my God, yeah.
And we went to another vintage store, looked at a shirt and
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it's at $125.00 for one like T-shirt.
And I go, let's just go eat dinner and be done with this
'cause we already got our score.We feel alive.
We have one, and we can spend the frivolous $150 on 2
irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind vintage Pizza Hut jackets.
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Iconic Pizza Hut jackets. And here's the thing.
I'm going to be wearing mine by myself.
I'm going to be wearing mine at the same time as you.
I'm going to be wearing mine forHalloween.
Yeah, and I know what you're thinking.
Is this like a black jacket withjust like the Pizza Hut logo on
it? Oh no, it's these are satin red,
bright red jackets like you saidwith stitching.
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With stitching, embroidery. And I will have you know,
earlier today I was thinking about my jacket and I was
missing it. I was missing Barb today and.
Barb and Bev. I looked up on Whatnot, which is
a site kind of like Depop or whatever that people post
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clothing to sell and resell and all that, and I could only find
one that that was similar, not even the same, similar to what
we bought, and the starting price was $150.00 for one
jacket. Wow, did it have a name on it?
It didn't. No, there was no name.
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It just was Pizza Hut. That's it.
That's lame. Yeah.
I feel like, honestly, I feel like he lost out in this deal.
I think he could have got way more for those.
Oh my God, yeah. That was crazy fool.
Barb and Bev, you live on in ourhearts.
We are the perfect people to have those by the way, not some
like rando that doesn't even appreciate it.
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No, I think I am. I think I have what it takes to
carry Barb's legacy forward and I think that you will do Bev
service and justice. I'm just like scared we have to
wear them on a day when we're feeling like up to socializing
because I'm just like, honestly I'm scared for the amount of
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compliments. Do you think, are you now, are
you comfortable with wearing them at the same time in a
social situation or I? Literally just said that.
No, I know. But are you comfortable with
that or are you going to make ita situation where you have to
wear yours one time and I have to wear mine, mine another time?
You know what I'm saying? Like are we going to have to
alternate? It's like situational like here,
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like let's say let's just throw out an occasion.
If we go to like someone's baby shower, we can't wear them at
the same time because we'll upstage the baby thing.
Like, I think it'll be all aboutus then.
Sure, yeah. But if we just go to if we just
go to like dinner with friends, we can wear them at the same
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time. I just think two of them are too
powerful in like some situations, yes.
What about a 'cause? This happens several times a
year and I think it's a pretty common occurrence for us.
What about if we go to a birthday party for an adult?
If it's themed and this is somehow adjacent to the theme,
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then sure, but if it's just likea regular birthday, it feels
like we're pulling focus. So if it's a regular birthday,
it's OK if one of us wears it orneither of us can.
Wear. I think if one of us wears it,
it's OK. If both of us wear it, we're
pulling focus. How do you feel?
Because this is a power move. The next birthday we get invited
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to like, assuming it's at somebody's place, not like a,
you know, dinner out or somebody, but imagine like a
backyard party type of vibe. How would you feel about both
wearing them and also going to Pizza Hut beforehand to pick up
carry out pizzas? They might think we're the
delivery people and just give them to us and then we walk in
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wearing them and carrying the pizza.
OK, we have an opportunity to use this this week.
We do. Our friend John is on Comics
Unleash this week and he's having his party at the Glendale
Room. OK.
And we could show up in our jackets and bring pizza.
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We could. Or is that polling focus?
It might be a polling focus situation.
It might be. Yeah, I think it might.
Be. Because that's a once in a
lifetime thing and I think a birthday is every year.
I think it's OK to like not pullfocus but like to do something
fun and zany for a birthday. Sure, I just want.
It's like a, it's kind of like awhat is it when you have like a
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coffee table book or whatever and it's like it's a
conversation piece. Yeah.
So you are eliciting a conversation to an extent.
So yeah, see, we have to wield this power responsibly.
We. Do and I have one more pitch for
you. OK, I think that we both need to
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get T-shirts made that just for like a plain T-shirt with the
names stitched on them. Like I'll get a a black T-shirt
with Barb stitched on it. And so when I go to whatever
social situation with my jacket on and I'm like, oh, it's hot in
here and I take it off. I'm still wearing a shirt that
says you're still Barb. That's really funny.
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I love this idea. I do too.
I also think it's funny because Bev, the mine is AI, don't know
if you caught it, but there's like a couple little stains that
I will get out or not, but we'llsee.
And I like picturing that. Bev was the slob, like, yeah,
out of the two, Barb was like put together.
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And Bev was just like a fucking mess.
Like I'm picturing like all of the characters, characters that
Melissa McCarthy plays where shejust throws food towards her.
Yeah. And in like every movie she's
ever been in. Yeah, accurate.
I'm picturing I'm picturing Bev as Melissa McCarthy, basically.
I think so too. Yeah, I think so too.
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And Barb, I feel like is older, like Betty White or something.
Yeah, for some reason it was thrilling though, and I can't
wait to wear it. I'm I'm really looking forward
to the first excuse I have. To wear it, I'm nervous to debut
it and then also the the pendulum swings if we wear them
and then no one compliments us. Can you imagine?
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Oh my God. And then it just turns into like
this psychopathic tenants that we have where every time we're
wearing different jackets to tryand get the attention we never
got to the next time it's a Domino's jacket.
And then, you know, Papa John's after that.
But seriously, there is nothing more thrilling than a vintage
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store, a thrift store find. Oh my God.
And then, like a polite haggle that works 'cause I thought he
was gonna say, OK, 2 they're each 100, OK, one 8150.
Sir, you can have my dog. I know you can.
Yeah. Do you want my car too?
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That's fine. Yeah.
It's there's nothing more thrilling.
It's it's the same scratch you itch when you go to a garage
sale and find something crazy or.
Itch you scratch. Is what I say.
Scratch you itch. Well, you can scratch itches.
Same scratch you had. Yeah, you can itch a scratch.
I don't. You know what?
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Listen, I I don't. I don't.
I don't write the phrases. I just say them accurately every
time. Maybe I'm wrong now, I don't
know. I think I'm wrong, think I'm
usually the wrong 1. So we did that.
It was so funny. We did that.
And then we continued the DINK life day because we got home
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later that night and we watched like 3 hours of Lizzie McGuire
episodes. On our VCR because we don't have
to come home and feed the baby. Been a long time since I watched
Lizzie McGuire. I think people with babies could
probably watch AVCR too, I just don't think the kids would maybe
always like it. That's true.
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I guess that's a good point. They want to watch Bluey or
whatever. I do think that I have thought
about this before and again, doesn't really apply because
we're not having children, but in an alternate universe where
we did, I think that I would. And I've seen this on TikTok.
I think I would be one of those parents that forced our kids to
watch like old TV shows instead of the current ones because I
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feel like they're way more and largely more tepid.
Agreed. Even though there was like a
shocking amount of like in Lizzie McGuire, like dating and
kissing and crushes and things like that than I remember.
Oh, it was racy in Europe. It was it was super racy.
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It was funny. We the so the tape we got had it
was like the star, All Star, celebrity, whatever.
And so it had a bunch of episodes with like famous guest
stars. And the famous guest stars were
Aaron Carter, Steven Tyler, who played Santa Claus in an
episode. Frankie Munoz.
Frankie Munoz and the God, I can't remember her name, the mom
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from Everybody Loves Raymond. I literally said it last night.
Raymond Mom. Marie Brown or no Doris Roberts.
Sorry. Doris Roberts.
Marie Brown's her character. Yeah, it was a good time.
It was really fun. The vibes were Immaculate.
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VHS Life. Yeah, we've been doing a lot of
analog stuff. We're both reading again for the
first time in a long time. You're reading Jeanette Jeanette
Mccurdy's book, right? I am.
I'm reading Jeanette Mccurdy's book the I'm Glad My Mom is Dead
or I'm Glad My mom Died. It's about her life as a child
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actor as we live and breathe andspeak of it.
It was just like she went through a lot.
So in the middle of reading thatone, it doesn't look good for
child actors. I got to say, I don't know.
I think it's just like, make sure your kid actually likes it.
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Yeah. And is the one the driving force
behind doing any of it and not yourself and your own self
interests? Yeah, because there's certainly,
there's certainly kids who like want to do it and they're,
they're very dedicated to it. And it's super impressive.
Like when you see a a kid actor who's really good, it's like,
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holy shit, how are you that good?
And then you're right, you see alot of the crazy parents who
helicopter around and are in it for their own self-interest, and
it's wild. Or like maybe the kid wanted to
do it at the at the jump and nowallow them to change their mind.
Because now let's say there's a kid that really did want to do
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it and then they've done a movieor TV show or whatever.
They're kind of gaining success.They're getting booked more and
now they don't like it anymore. Just like a bunch of kids start
a sport and then decide they don't like the sport.
I think that's what happens a lot of times.
At first, kids think it's cool. Then the parents get a taste of
like, oh, they're, they're famous, they're almost they're
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successful. The kid decides they don't like
it anymore, and then the parentsforce them to keep going.
Yeah, yeah. And that's just as bad.
Or they feel like they're disappointing their parents if
they stop. It's funny you mention that.
And I think that's a good point because so HBO is doing a new
Harry Potter series that is essentially it's not replacing
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the movies, but instead of doingone book per movie, they're
doing one book per season of of ATV show.
And the first season, Sorcerer'sStone comes out at the end of
the year and one of the actors in it playing Ginny Weasley is
in season 1 and has decided not to come back for season 2.
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And her parents said, and the press release or whatever, it's
due to personal reasons. So it very much seems like
either they or the young girl who was playing the character
did it for a season and they were like, it's too much work or
I don't really like it anymore. Or the parents were like, I
don't think that we're prepared for the amount of vitriol that's
going to come with this. And they decided to do exactly
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what you're saying and they pulled out of it, which I think
is super respectable. Yeah, that's definitely being a
good parent, like allowing her, like helping her make the
decision to not do it. Yeah, I think so too.
Which, yeah, that sucks for the parent.
Like sure, but you're going to end up like screwing up your kid
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big time. Yeah, that's why they have.
And I know you know of this and a lot of people do out there,
but some don't. They have something called a
Coogan account when you're an actor under the age of 18 where
a certain percentage, I think it's 30% of your earnings get
siphoned off into a trust account that only you can touch
when you come of age. Because parents for a long time
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we're just stealing all their kids money doing this too.
It's kind of, I mean how did we come to the number of 30%?
I don't know and I could be wrong on that, but I'm I'm
pretty sure that's what it is. Cuz then it's like should it be
more or? That's yeah.
Oh, actually it is 15% even less.
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Yeah. It seems like should be more.
I guess the thought is that parents put in the the brunt of
the cost of like getting that, you know, head shots and classes
and all that. But like, I don't know, a little
weird, a little weird. Hayden Panda Tierra has that
book coming out too, or it came out and I think it's similar to
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subject matter. Really.
Yeah, it looks really interesting.
Really, really interesting. Anywho, real quick, before we go
have something from Reddit and you're going to love the
headline on this one. It says I'm more than happy to
be the end of my bloodline. This is from the child free page
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on Reddit. They say there are so many
reasons why I choose to be childfree.
One stupid comment people alwaysthrow out there is don't you
want to continue your legacy? They say why would I?
I'm not rich or famous, my career isn't that exciting, I
don't own a big house for expensive cars.
I'm just an average person in the crowd.
I love my simple life. I honestly just don't feel like
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I have to continue the bloodline.
But the end of the day I love ormy last name is simply just a
name, nothing more. Besides, I only know a little
bit about my great grandparents,so there's not like any legacy
I'm actually looking forward to carrying through.
I'm OK with being a little bit forgotten, just like my
ancestors. I thought that was kind of
refreshing. Thank God.
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Yeah, it's not like you're a Prince and you have to care for
a society and you need someone below you to continue running
the government like. Just enough.
Yeah. And I think it like some people
might hear that and think it's like a sad thing Like no, I
don't. I'm not reading that at all.
(47:43):
I think that there's like kind of comfort and pleasure and the
anonymity a little bit. Yeah, it's less pressure.
Yeah, 100%. Also, roll of the dice.
What if you birth a serial killer?
That can happen. That can happen.
You're assuming that your legacyis going to be positive because
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you're assuming that the kid youbirth is going to be awesome.
Right. You could birth an asshole.
Yeah, you could. There's a lot of them out there.
Yes, there's nature versus nurture to an extent.
Like yes, some people are assholes 'cause they had a bad
childhood, but some people are just, I don't know, I think some
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people are just born assholes. I think, yeah, that's it's, it's
just the roll of the dice sometimes.
Yeah. Assholes are gonna asshole like
those group of kids at the gym at Planet Fitness or the group
of kids that I'm gonna probably get into a fight with and lose.
Yeah, now I'm just like, really worried about our gym.
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I know, start looking elsewhere.We're going to have to plot it
out. That's the closest one, but it
might not be the safest. What if I stomp up to the LA
Fitness desk and go? Will you price match?
I'll join they. Might, they might we should try
and say I'm here because I don'twant to be in the teen gym and
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they'll say welcome. It would be so baller.
OK, you know how McDonald's and Chick-fil-A and Wendy's fight on
Twitter and it's funny and they're like, he he ha ha.
If LA Fitness tweeted something that was like like for all of
you that don't want to be in a in like a daycare center, come
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do our $20 summer or something and do a price match summer.
Missed opportunity if they don't, honestly.
Marketing genius. Yeah, you heard it here first.
LA Fitness, get on board. The anti daycare summer pass 20
bucks a month. God, it just, it writes itself.
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Come on, can we get somebody whoat La Fitness is listening right
now? God.
Forbid. Spread the word.
All right. We will see you next time,
everybody. Bye.
There's a new. Term buzzing on the Internet,
dink. Dual income?
No, kid, you probably have an opinion on these people or an
opinion on people who have an opinion on these people.
America's birth rate has hit itslowest point in more than a
century. Some are blaming it on
infertility. Others say the state of the
world is causing couples to think twice about having
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children. Childless marriages could be a
good thing if they were a resultof God's sovereign providential
work. Oh my God, can't even hear you.
They like avocado toast and brunches out and going to plays
and having sweet vacations. You're probably super selfish.
Kids are better than brunch and.Then there's another group of
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young couples that want the lifestyle of childless
households and the lifestyle it brings with it.
Welcome to The DINK Side, the podcast about life, laughs and
living child free. We're a double income, no kids
couple navigating the up stones and hilarious inbetweens of
choosing a different path in a world that won't stop asking.
(01:03):
So when are you having kids? So when are you having kids?
A question most often asked by people that have kids, including
everyone I work with in a very large building who is coming
into work this week. Sick.
EW. I think because here's what's
happening. School is ending, people are
coming back home and I think allthe parents are getting sick
(01:24):
again. And I, I need to pound some
vitamins today because I was sharing elevators with people
today. I was sharing rooms with people
today. Everybody's hacking up a long, a
long, I can't even say it. It's affecting my brain already
hacking up a lung, sneezing, coughing, disgusting, gross.
(01:47):
That's so annoying and also did we learn nothing from COVID?
Like if you have an illness, stay home.
Yeah, I honestly you need to stay home.
People forgot all the rules already.
Like you said, no covering of the mouth, no social distancing.
It's all out the window. No, but we have a lot to get to
(02:08):
today, a lot to get. We've had a jam packed couple of
weeks. We have a ton of stuff to talk
about, but I wanted to start off.
I wanted to start off with something that's been on my mind
since it happened and I have been waiting to ask you about it
until we got on the pod. I don't like this lead up.
So we were out in public this weekend, and I used a public
(02:30):
restroom. And while I was waiting in line,
there was about 6:00 or so teenagers that came up and they
were starting to, like, be rambunctious behind me.
Like, oh, we got to pee, we got to pee and they just started
kind of roughhousing with each other and whatever.
And I thought to myself, like, Ifelt my childhood instincts
(02:50):
starting to kick in like a bit of fear around these 16 year
olds. And I it's not that I'm actually
afraid of them, but like I was transported to when I was a kid
around like this type of energy,right?
OK. And then I thought to myself,
there is a a trope in movies where like an adult gets beat up
(03:11):
by a group of teenagers. And my question to you is this,
if I got attacked by three, let's say 3 or 4/15/16 year old
kids, do you think I could win that fight?
Be honest. Honey, honey, they're basically
(03:38):
adults. I think you're just outnumbered.
If it was one. If you were getting 116 year
old, sure. I don't know about 316 year olds
flinging their limbs at you. I don't think I could.
I don't think I could do it. I really, I'm just going to be
completely vulnerable and honestright now.
I think it's a losing battle forme.
(03:59):
Here's why. At least one or two of these
kids were my weight were heavierand another one of the kids was
about 6-6 inches taller than me.So really all they would have to
do is like hold me down, which Ifeel they could do together.
Yeah. OK, yeah, I I feel like.
I was set up for failure there. Though no, no, I, I that's the
(04:23):
answer I expected because it's the answer I gave.
And also I found myself like more recently, this has happened
a couple of times where I feel kind of like this old man.
Well, I've always felt like an old man, but this old man
sensibility kicking in when teenagers are being like kind of
rambunctious in public or in front of a cashier or something.
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I've been really feeling the urge recently to be like, Hey,
young man, calm down or be respectful or whatever.
And I, I just, I feel like it's going to happen at some point.
I'm just going to let it loose and which I think is well, they
might, I don't know, or I'll be live on TikTok by accident.
I don't, you know, who knows? But I feel like I wanted to ask
(05:07):
because you might get the call sooner rather than later, you
know? I did hear this happening while
I was in the bathroom because itwas those beach all gender
situation and you were standing outside and I heard this
happening. Yeah.
And I wasn't sure how you were reacting.
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I was like, oh man, these guys. I, I, it's like I said, it's
happened a number of times too. Like it in, in a line at, you
know, Subway or Starbucks or whatever.
And kids are just like effing off in front of the cashier or
two of the cashier. I'm like, OK, have some respect.
So I'm essentially, I'm going toget beat up by these kids and
(05:52):
I'm also becoming an old man. So I'm thank you for asking that
question. The other thing I wanted to say
before we get into all the rest of it, horrible news, horrible
news. One of the worst pieces of news
I've read in months. What in celebration for the
summer, Planet Fitness, the gym that you and I belong to, is
(06:14):
going to allow teenagers to comeand work out for free.
What is happening? Why are you kidding me for?
Free for free. They don't have to pay.
No, so #1 bullshit. Because I pay, they should have
to pay. And that's ageism, is it not?
Yes. And also do they not want?
(06:35):
Do they not? They're going to alienate their
current clients. I'm going to cancel my fucking
membership. No, no.
Hell on earth. I'm just I'll go to LA Fitness.
I will go to Equinox if I have to.
My membership. Yeah, I mean, it's legitimately
we're going to get back to Planet Fitness this week, and I
(06:56):
think if there's a problem, I'm going to say something.
Wait, what? And like you're like, if there's
a problem, I'm going to ask to speak to the manager.
I will. I'm going to say there's way too
much shit going around in here. But also, what are they trying
to do with this campaign? Literally what are the
(07:17):
positives? What is their?
Was their name one single benefit?
Publicity. That's it.
Because they're not making money, they're going to make
their current clients mad. Who is it helping?
Literally, who is it helping? I think the strategy is like,
(07:38):
oh, we're going to promote children's or teenager fitness
because it's a good look for us,because we're being, you know,
nice to kids to get into shape and whatever.
It's going to backfire. It's going to backfire big time.
I will go to LA Fitness so fast.Oh 100% questioning.
Is it even worth waiting to see how bad it is or do we just
(07:58):
leave now? Because I'm a cheapskate, I want
to ride it out and see 'cause itis a $20.00 a month difference,
but I will not have patience forit.
I went to picture. It going badly?
I will pay that extra $20.00 in a heartbeat.
Without a doubt, Without a doubt.
I mean, I was there a couple weeks ago and there was a group
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of probably four or five, like 14 year old guys that were just
walking around kind of effing off.
And they weren't even necessarily preventing me from
doing anything, but I was like, these guys got to get out of
here. It was annoying me.
They were like, they had their phones out, They're talking,
They were taking pictures in thebathroom.
(08:43):
Like just stop. I'm I'm it's Planet Fitness is
not long for this world, if thisbecomes a thing.
And is it just for the summer? For now, yeah, if this is this.
At what cost? Planet Fitness if you weren't
already on this path, this is a guaranteed path to being the
Waffle House of Gems. Oh.
(09:04):
My God. Yeah.
OK. And what qualifies?
Is it 13 to 18 for free? Like what does it qualify?
What's the rule? Oh my God, imagine 13 year olds.
Oh my God, I know. I don't even know what's worse.
Wait, what? Would you rather 3313 year old
(09:24):
boys or 317 year old boys? What is worse 1313 is or.
I would rather have 13 so 17 year olds.
Worse. Way worse.
I just don't even know anymore. Because 17 year olds are like
everybody. All both are on the Internet,
but 17 year olds are old enough and bold enough to do things
(09:45):
that they see on the Internet. You know what I mean?
I guess you're right, but I kindof think that 13 to 17 is like a
vortex to hell regardless. Yeah, true ballad for most
people. Giving them free access is
insane. Just look it up on a discounted
(10:07):
pass fine. High school students, oh, this
is, it's, it's so much worse. High school students between the
ages of 14 and 19 get to work out for free across the United
States and Canada. We're roping the Canadians into
this. Are there people in a comment
section rebutting this like. I'll have to look, but it says,
(10:30):
according to this press release that I found, and this is again
why they're doing it, Planet Fitness says it is invested more
than $460 million in waived membership fees throughout this
initiative. Is their mission to break down
the barriers to fitness? And the Summer Pass program is a
key part of that. OK, I have more things to say.
(10:52):
I don't even because I was just going to say maybe people aren't
freaking out online because a lot of people are parents.
So parents aren't freaking out. And then I stopped myself.
I'm pretty sure that yeah, 80% of the people that work out at
our gym are probably parents. And I bet you 70% of that 80%
don't want to see random tweens in their gym.
(11:16):
Even if you're a parent, you don't want them like clogging up
the machines. I, I was at the when I saw the
that group of like four or five of them the other week, I
literally had the thought I was on the treadmill and I thought
to myself, huh, I guess I didn'trealize that anyone under the
age of 18 was even allowed in a gym.
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I kind of assumed they were adults only this whole time.
I don't know, but there's no waythat parents want this either.
I guess the parent, the parent of a 15 year old that's like
struggling with their health probably likes this, but I don't
think a single parent that goes to Planet Fitness is going to be
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like pumped about this. Yeah, I don't think so either.
No, no, no. I was devastated by the news
devastated by the news I. Hate that I had to find out this
way. Yeah, I I hate to break it to
you. I truly hate to break it to you.
Well, we've had a jam packed couple of weeks.
We we went to Idlewild, California for the first time.
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Yes. We spent some time in the woods,
which again is Idlewild is in Southern California.
It's about two hours away from LA, it is, turns out, a Mile
High. 6000 feet elevation. What?
Who thought? Who would have known?
I do think that there's googled.It.
I think that we need to start Googling cities before we go to
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them. What elevation they're at.
Yeah, I do, because it has always affected you and I feel
like it's affecting me more thanit used to.
And there's a lot that goes intothe high elevation, from
breathing to physical, other physical things to mental state.
I think it affects everyone. I just think people have varying
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degrees of awareness. Yeah, about it.
Fair. So if you know it, if you know,
oh, I'm at a high, I'm at whatever altitude.
And then you start noticing a couple things and you're like,
oh, I guess I am winded. And then you're like, oh, and I
am dehydrated. Oh, and I am dry.
Oh, I'm a little dizzy. But if you don't know you're if
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you don't really realize you're at elevation, I don't higher
elevation or whatever. I feel like your brain might
explain it away or be like, oh, whatever, I guess I'm winded
today. Or you know, I kind of think it
affects everyone. You just have varying degrees of
knowledge. Yeah, and where we live, we are
600 feet up in the air above sealevel, and where we went was
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above 6000 feet. It's a difference.
You're being compressed by gravity.
And I don't think, I mean, is there a aside from like, you
know, Advil and stuff to take for a headache or whatever?
Is there a a medication you can take for elevation in the same
way that like if you go on a cruise ship you take Bonine or
whatever? I've googled it many times and
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you just hydrate so you can takeextra electrolytes.
You can take those little oxygenbottles if you have a bad
headache or Advil and what like blood thinners help and
hydrating and whatever, but there's nothing like boning that
cures it. OK 'cause you're just closer to
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the sun. Like, there's nothing that that
can counteract that. You can't take a pill that gets
you further away from the sun iswhat you're saying right?
Makes sense. It was really cool though.
I mean, very sleepy town. A lot of businesses closed
multiple days of the week. Some of them even when they're
open, are like open from 9:00 to10:30 and then one to two, just
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random hours like that. But the big headline there was,
and some people who don't even live in California are aware of
this. The mayor of Idlewild,
California is a dog. A dog in a in a line of dogs
that have been mayor. Did you see it's his birthday
today on Instagram? Did you?
Follow it yet? No, that is big news.
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Big day. Wow, I wonder what they do to
celebrate Mayor Max's birthday. I know in the town do they throw
a party? They better.
It's a lost opportunity if they don't.
Truly. But he was delightful.
He's a golden retriever. He's Mayor Max the Third.
They have had two preceding Mayor Max's, and instead of
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doing goldfish style where they just switch out with a new dog
when one dog passes, they do specify that this is Mayor Max
the 3rd. And you know, he held his
position well. He wore a cowboy hat and a tie
and a name tag, and he barked and he said he decreed law.
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There there was a lot of legislating.
He shook hands. He kissed foreheads.
What I love too is we found out there's like a whole cabinet.
There's, there's like a vice mayor that's also a dog, some
sort of like Sergeant or deputy or sheriff or something, the
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vice. Mayor is his sister and she
doesn't make her, she doesn't appear with him every time,
which I think is she's kind of slacking off.
I don't know. But also, he does appearances,
you know, three or four days a week, 4:00 PM, one PM, 4:00 PM,
sometimes twice a day. Yeah, he's, he's out there.
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He's out there. And what I liked about meeting
him was he still seemed like a dog, like he didn't lose sight
of the fact that he's a dog. I've met a couple quote
unquotes. Well, I've met a couple quote UN
quote celebrity dogs over the years and they're weird.
They're weird dogs. Like they're just socialized to
the point of thinking they're human.
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I you remember Jeff Palm? He was a Pomeranian.
I was big on Vine. And then like, is he?
Dead. Yeah.
Oh my God. Are.
You sure? Yeah, it was a big It was quite
the headline when it happened. Oh my God, may he rest in peace.
I remember where where I was Jesus.
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But we he like appeared. I did this video thing for work,
a job I had at the time where wehad to go to this red carpet.
I think it was for like the streamys or something.
And he was on the red carpet andit was creepy.
He was sitting on top of like a bar stool and he was very keenly
aware of what was going on around him.
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And if you walked up to him to take a picture or a selfie, he
would look directly into the camera and pose.
And then you take the picture and he would go back to like
looking around and that like it was so weird.
It was so weird. That's unnerving.
This is how. This is the same way I feel
about child actors. I here's the thing.
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I do like an adult, an adult like child, but in the wild when
it when it's just their natural personality.
A child actor is weirdly like sentient and manipulative and
you feel like when you're talking to them, I feel like
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they know what they're giving you and they know.
It's almost like, I don't know, like they're used to getting
such a reaction from adults on set.
Like, oh, exactly like that. Like that's exactly the reaction
we want. So it's almost like they they're
always on and they're always like slightly emotionally
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manipulating you, it feels. Yeah, I agree.
But it's fucked up because it wasn't their choice.
Right, that's the weird thing. And the same the same thing is
to be said for the dogs. But that's why I like Mayor Max
'cause it feels like kind of feels like it was his choice,
even though I know it wasn't. Yeah, he's just vibing.
He's there for the vibes. He's not really trained.
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He wasn't posing for photos really, he was just living his
life. Yeah, he was like, like me, or
don't, I don't care. I'm on to better things.
I do think the world would be a better place if we allowed more
animal politicians though, because the general overall
vibe. Vital Wild is safe, quiet and
off the map. Not anybody's business.
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I liked it. Yeah, me too, so highly
recommend. Mayor Max for president, some
say. Oh, some.
Some do say some. Do say Oh yeah, I would.
I think you should just be a write in or, you know, line of
succession. Mayor Max for life.
Also this past weekend, it was abig weekend in LA.
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It was the first Cenespia event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,
which is, if you're unfamiliar, where they play movies outside.
And this time it was ET, which had.
OK, you watched ET. Did you ever see it now that you
watched it? I thought I.
Had seen it. I don't think I've had seen it.
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You think your brain thinks you've seen these movies because
you've seen so many clips or thefamous parts of them?
Yeah, I don't think I had ever actually seen the full movie.
It was. I definitely have one time, but
you're right, it is one of thosethat just has like general clips
of it and stuff. Yeah, and Speaking of child
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actors, my God, the whole movie is child actors.
Chock full of them. Here's the thing, I get why it's
famous 'cause I think it was like the first movie of its kind
with like kids or whoever meeting an alien, right?
Like and the alien being shown to that extent.
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Possibly. I don't.
I don't know, though. I think probably.
Probably with kids, yeah. I think it was like a unique
concept at the time, but as a whole lot of plot holes.
Lot. Lot of like oh he died and now
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for no reason at all. Spoiler alert if you haven't
seen it, it's what is it? 40 years?
60 years old. It is God.
It was the 80, so 50 years old. OK.
So 40 or 50, right? It's like, I don't, I don't
know. At one point he's dead and then
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for no reason, no discernible reason, he's just alive again.
And they're attached. Their hearts are attached like
or emotions or bodily health areattached to him and the kid.
And then they're both dying. And then, for no discernible
reason whatsoever, all of a sudden they're not both dying
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and they're no longer attached. Yeah, they don't ever really
explain it. Ever.
Not really. And like, there's so many
anyways, it's so fucking slow. It could have been 30 minutes.
It could have been a short film.Jesus fuck.
I was like anyways we get it. It is.
So slow, God damn it. It's like significantly slower
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than I even remembered it. It was, it was really slow.
Whatever. I mean, like I was like, OK,
it's kind of nostalgic, feeling cool.
There's Drew Barrymore as a child.
It was fine. We had a good time.
But there were children next to me.
The similar age of how old do you think the actors were in the
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movie? What's his name?
The main guy? I don't know why I can never
remember Drew Barrymore. I feel like was like 6 or 7 in
it. Yeah, the other kid let me look
it up real quick. His name is Henry Thomas.
I think he was like 10-11 maybe,don't you think?
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Yeah, probably he was OK. It was a lot of screaming, just
a lot of like. It was a lot of screaming.
There were kids next to me that kept shining a flashlight in my
face in the dark and I was glaring at them.
I don't. Know what's so weird is like
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it's funny 'cause like a lot of there's a lot of people, it's
not just kids that have this behavior, but like they were
watching the movie and the entire time during the movie,
it's like, what's that? What's that mom?
What is that? Who is that?
What's happening? What's And a lot of people do
that. It's not just kids, adults do it
too. But it is just like, I don't
know, watch. I know you will find out.
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Or if at the end of it you're still confused, still questions,
That's either a. I will then answer them.
Yeah, I don't know. I do think we've at least
reached the age where we can no longer sit on the ground for
multiple hours. Absolutely not.
And you know what? I think we had more self respect
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than that. And I'm kind of sad that we
didn't, that we sat on the ground.
I think we just wanted to like, prove it to ourselves.
Like, oh, we're. We're.
In shape and healthy enough thatit won't really affect us.
It's fine. And I feel like my back still
hasn't recovered. I like it's because you're also
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like you're, you're leaning on your hands for too long and
you're stretching things and it's, I don't know, just it
doesn't work that way. Not good.
No one's. Meant work.
For a whole entire movie on justthe ground.
I don't think that. I don't think that I could.
If you had to sleep on the ground, like remember when you
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went to a friend's house when you were kids, did you ever just
like, sleep on the ground? Like on a blanket or just in a
sleeping bag which is just the ground.
Right. Do you think you could do that
now or like what shape? I think I would be pretty
wrecked if I woke up after sleeping on the ground like that
or camping, you know? Yeah, I don't know.
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Here's the thing. Laying fully down is one thing.
Yeah. 'Cause then your bones can
decompress a bit. Yeah.
I mean, I would still be wrecked, don't get me wrong, but
I think I could do it easier than sitting for six hours or
whatever. Yeah, I guess I.
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Just laying is easier than sitting 'cause you don't have to
support any part of yourself. That's true.
That's a valid point. You maybe that's what we should
just do next time if we go. At one point I did give up and
lay. You're just staring at the
stars. Was listening to while you're
listening. To the sounds, yeah.
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Of ET. Good God, we, we've, it's that
time of the year. Like it was Memorial Day
weekend. And we're always looking, I'm
certainly always Googling like fun things to do in LA this
weekend, fun things to do this week, fun things, Memorial Day,
whatever. And we were kind of debating
what we should do this past weekend because we had just
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gotten back and we had a couple busy days and we're like, what
do we do? And I found this thing not too
far from our house in Topanga, California called Topanga Days.
And it goes like a festival where it's three days.
So we thought, OK, we'll hit up one of the days.
And online there's like they have a poster of the quote UN
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quote lineup. And really it's, and no shame,
'cause I, I enjoy this type of thing, but it was like a handful
of cover bands, like a, you know, a Beatles cover band or a
Fleetwood Mac cover band. They had like four or five of
those a day, and so not exactly like Coachella.
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So I thought, OK, it'd be prettyaffordable.
Turns out not so much. Single day ticket.
Well, you had said it was like you thought that you saw the
price was 25 or something to getin.
And what I saw it turns out was 25 + a fee is 30.
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And that is for quote members only.
And the members thing is like tothe community group of Topanga
or something, Chamber of whatever.
And so the non member fee, the fee that we would have to pay
was north of $60.00 each to go to this.
Yeah. Damn.
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So it would have been like 130 bucks to go to Topanga Days to
see some cover bands. Just to get in and not to like
it doesn't come with a drink or food or 'cause there's a bunch
of vendors. So then you're walking around
like still spending money at Topanga Days, and then you leave
and you're 300 bucks deep. Yeah, I will say this is in, you
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know, you and I are, are trying to be conscious of spending but
also live our life. And at this period of time when
gas and where we live is almost $7.00 a gallon, like we look at
something like this, we're like,and this has been coming up a
lot. Like we've been doing a ton of
like vintage shopping recently. It's super fun.
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But you're going through and yousee A at shirt that is $95 a
$110. You're like, who the fuck can
come in here and buy this thing?Right.
And also, if I'm going to spend $110 on a shirt, I'll just buy a
new shirt. Right half the.
Time from the 70s. Yeah, and half the time it's not
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even like an iconic shirt. It's just like, you know, a 1978
rowing team shirt or something. And it's.
Just you saw a champion T-shirt from the 90s, but all it said
was champion the the brand and it was $95.
Yeah, it could have been. It was the same logo and
everything. It could have been a shirt that
was a week old. Oh, I thought it was.
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I thought it had said from the 90s.
But anyway. It did, I'm just saying it
looked the same as a a shirt that's the week old.
Like it's basically is the same thing.
It's so weird. So we didn't go to Topanga Days
because we drew the line at thatfor the budget.
We did. And we decided to go to Venice
Beach area and go to some thriftstores and instead with that
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exact 100 and 21130 plus dollarswe bought 2 Pizza Hut bomber
jackets. From what year honey?
From when? I would say conservatively the
80s, probably 80s or early 90s. They're embroidered and we found
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it and I, at first we thought there was only one and it was
definitely going to be for you. And we turned the jacket around
and it said in stitching Barb. Yeah.
Fuck. Yeah, Barb and I was like a
glove. I got to have this thing.
Then the guy that owned the store saw how enthused we were
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and goes, oh I have one more, let me get it out and it was a
different style and it said Bev.Yep.
In stitching on the front, so Barb and Bev Barb.
And Bev. And they were both originally
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listed for $100 in the store. And you came in clutch.
I swindled a deal. I swindled a deal, I said, and I
quote You're not running a 2 forone Pizza Hut jacket deal, are
you? And then he giggled and went, If
you get both, I'll definitely make you happy.
And my face went, How happy? And then he said 2 for 1:50.
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And then I said we don't have kids.
And you said DINK life. And then we purchased the fine
jackets from the fine gentleman and we waltzed out, literally
walking on a cloud. Oh my God, yeah.
And we went to another vintage store, looked at a shirt and
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it's at $125.00 for one like T-shirt.
And I go, let's just go eat dinner and be done with this
'cause we already got our score.We feel alive.
We have one, and we can spend the frivolous $150 on 2
irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind vintage Pizza Hut jackets.
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Iconic Pizza Hut jackets. And here's the thing.
I'm going to be wearing mine by myself.
I'm going to be wearing mine at the same time as you.
I'm going to be wearing mine forHalloween.
Yeah, and I know what you're thinking.
Is this like a black jacket withjust like the Pizza Hut logo on
it? Oh no, it's these are satin red,
bright red jackets like you saidwith stitching.
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With stitching, embroidery. And I will have you know,
earlier today I was thinking about my jacket and I was
missing it. I was missing Barb today and.
Barb and Bev. I looked up on Whatnot, which is
a site kind of like Depop or whatever that people post
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clothing to sell and resell and all that, and I could only find
one that that was similar, not even the same, similar to what
we bought, and the starting price was $150.00 for one
jacket. Wow, did it have a name on it?
It didn't. No, there was no name.
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It just was Pizza Hut. That's it.
That's lame. Yeah.
I feel like, honestly, I feel like he lost out in this deal.
I think he could have got way more for those.
Oh my God, yeah. That was crazy fool.
Barb and Bev, you live on in ourhearts.
We are the perfect people to have those by the way, not some
like rando that doesn't even appreciate it.
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No, I think I am. I think I have what it takes to
carry Barb's legacy forward and I think that you will do Bev
service and justice. I'm just like scared we have to
wear them on a day when we're feeling like up to socializing
because I'm just like, honestly I'm scared for the amount of
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compliments. Do you think, are you now, are
you comfortable with wearing them at the same time in a
social situation or I? Literally just said that.
No, I know. But are you comfortable with
that or are you going to make ita situation where you have to
wear yours one time and I have to wear mine, mine another time?
You know what I'm saying? Like are we going to have to
alternate? It's like situational like here,
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like let's say let's just throw out an occasion.
If we go to like someone's baby shower, we can't wear them at
the same time because we'll upstage the baby thing.
Like, I think it'll be all aboutus then.
Sure, yeah. But if we just go to if we just
go to like dinner with friends, we can wear them at the same
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time. I just think two of them are too
powerful in like some situations, yes.
What about a 'cause? This happens several times a
year and I think it's a pretty common occurrence for us.
What about if we go to a birthday party for an adult?
If it's themed and this is somehow adjacent to the theme,
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then sure, but if it's just likea regular birthday, it feels
like we're pulling focus. So if it's a regular birthday,
it's OK if one of us wears it orneither of us can.
Wear. I think if one of us wears it,
it's OK. If both of us wear it, we're
pulling focus. How do you feel?
Because this is a power move. The next birthday we get invited
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to like, assuming it's at somebody's place, not like a,
you know, dinner out or somebody, but imagine like a
backyard party type of vibe. How would you feel about both
wearing them and also going to Pizza Hut beforehand to pick up
carry out pizzas? They might think we're the
delivery people and just give them to us and then we walk in
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wearing them and carrying the pizza.
OK, we have an opportunity to use this this week.
We do. Our friend John is on Comics
Unleash this week and he's having his party at the Glendale
Room. OK.
And we could show up in our jackets and bring pizza.
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We could. Or is that polling focus?
It might be a polling focus situation.
It might be. Yeah, I think it might.
Be. Because that's a once in a
lifetime thing and I think a birthday is every year.
I think it's OK to like not pullfocus but like to do something
fun and zany for a birthday. Sure, I just want.
It's like a, it's kind of like awhat is it when you have like a
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coffee table book or whatever and it's like it's a
conversation piece. Yeah.
So you are eliciting a conversation to an extent.
So yeah, see, we have to wield this power responsibly.
We. Do and I have one more pitch for
you. OK, I think that we both need to
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get T-shirts made that just for like a plain T-shirt with the
names stitched on them. Like I'll get a a black T-shirt
with Barb stitched on it. And so when I go to whatever
social situation with my jacket on and I'm like, oh, it's hot in
here and I take it off. I'm still wearing a shirt that
says you're still Barb. That's really funny.
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I love this idea. I do too.
I also think it's funny because Bev, the mine is AI, don't know
if you caught it, but there's like a couple little stains that
I will get out or not, but we'llsee.
And I like picturing that. Bev was the slob, like, yeah,
out of the two, Barb was like put together.
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And Bev was just like a fucking mess.
Like I'm picturing like all of the characters, characters that
Melissa McCarthy plays where shejust throws food towards her.
Yeah. And in like every movie she's
ever been in. Yeah, accurate.
I'm picturing I'm picturing Bev as Melissa McCarthy, basically.
I think so too. Yeah, I think so too.
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And Barb, I feel like is older, like Betty White or something.
Yeah, for some reason it was thrilling though, and I can't
wait to wear it. I'm I'm really looking forward
to the first excuse I have. To wear it, I'm nervous to debut
it and then also the the pendulum swings if we wear them
and then no one compliments us. Can you imagine?
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Oh my God. And then it just turns into like
this psychopathic tenants that we have where every time we're
wearing different jackets to tryand get the attention we never
got to the next time it's a Domino's jacket.
And then, you know, Papa John's after that.
But seriously, there is nothing more thrilling than a vintage
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store, a thrift store find. Oh my God.
And then, like a polite haggle that works 'cause I thought he
was gonna say, OK, 2 they're each 100, OK, one 8150.
Sir, you can have my dog. I know you can.
Yeah. Do you want my car too?
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That's fine. Yeah.
It's there's nothing more thrilling.
It's it's the same scratch you itch when you go to a garage
sale and find something crazy or.
Itch you scratch. Is what I say.
Scratch you itch. Well, you can scratch itches.
Same scratch you had. Yeah, you can itch a scratch.
I don't. You know what?
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Listen, I I don't. I don't.
I don't write the phrases. I just say them accurately every
time. Maybe I'm wrong now, I don't
know. I think I'm wrong, think I'm
usually the wrong 1. So we did that.
It was so funny. We did that.
And then we continued the DINK life day because we got home
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later that night and we watched like 3 hours of Lizzie McGuire
episodes. On our VCR because we don't have
to come home and feed the baby. Been a long time since I watched
Lizzie McGuire. I think people with babies could
probably watch AVCR too, I just don't think the kids would maybe
always like it. That's true.
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I guess that's a good point. They want to watch Bluey or
whatever. I do think that I have thought
about this before and again, doesn't really apply because
we're not having children, but in an alternate universe where
we did, I think that I would. And I've seen this on TikTok.
I think I would be one of those parents that forced our kids to
watch like old TV shows instead of the current ones because I
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feel like they're way more and largely more tepid.
Agreed. Even though there was like a
shocking amount of like in Lizzie McGuire, like dating and
kissing and crushes and things like that than I remember.
Oh, it was racy in Europe. It was it was super racy.
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It was funny. We the so the tape we got had it
was like the star, All Star, celebrity, whatever.
And so it had a bunch of episodes with like famous guest
stars. And the famous guest stars were
Aaron Carter, Steven Tyler, who played Santa Claus in an
episode. Frankie Munoz.
Frankie Munoz and the God, I can't remember her name, the mom
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from Everybody Loves Raymond. I literally said it last night.
Raymond Mom. Marie Brown or no Doris Roberts.
Sorry. Doris Roberts.
Marie Brown's her character. Yeah, it was a good time.
It was really fun. The vibes were Immaculate.
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VHS Life. Yeah, we've been doing a lot of
analog stuff. We're both reading again for the
first time in a long time. You're reading Jeanette Jeanette
Mccurdy's book, right? I am.
I'm reading Jeanette Mccurdy's book the I'm Glad My Mom is Dead
or I'm Glad My mom Died. It's about her life as a child
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actor as we live and breathe andspeak of it.
It was just like she went through a lot.
So in the middle of reading thatone, it doesn't look good for
child actors. I got to say, I don't know.
I think it's just like, make sure your kid actually likes it.
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Yeah. And is the one the driving force
behind doing any of it and not yourself and your own self
interests? Yeah, because there's certainly,
there's certainly kids who like want to do it and they're,
they're very dedicated to it. And it's super impressive.
Like when you see a a kid actor who's really good, it's like,
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holy shit, how are you that good?
And then you're right, you see alot of the crazy parents who
helicopter around and are in it for their own self-interest, and
it's wild. Or like maybe the kid wanted to
do it at the at the jump and nowallow them to change their mind.
Because now let's say there's a kid that really did want to do
(43:20):
it and then they've done a movieor TV show or whatever.
They're kind of gaining success.They're getting booked more and
now they don't like it anymore. Just like a bunch of kids start
a sport and then decide they don't like the sport.
I think that's what happens a lot of times.
At first, kids think it's cool. Then the parents get a taste of
like, oh, they're, they're famous, they're almost they're
(43:41):
successful. The kid decides they don't like
it anymore, and then the parentsforce them to keep going.
Yeah, yeah. And that's just as bad.
Or they feel like they're disappointing their parents if
they stop. It's funny you mention that.
And I think that's a good point because so HBO is doing a new
Harry Potter series that is essentially it's not replacing
(44:05):
the movies, but instead of doingone book per movie, they're
doing one book per season of of ATV show.
And the first season, Sorcerer'sStone comes out at the end of
the year and one of the actors in it playing Ginny Weasley is
in season 1 and has decided not to come back for season 2.
(44:25):
And her parents said, and the press release or whatever, it's
due to personal reasons. So it very much seems like
either they or the young girl who was playing the character
did it for a season and they were like, it's too much work or
I don't really like it anymore. Or the parents were like, I
don't think that we're prepared for the amount of vitriol that's
going to come with this. And they decided to do exactly
(44:47):
what you're saying and they pulled out of it, which I think
is super respectable. Yeah, that's definitely being a
good parent, like allowing her, like helping her make the
decision to not do it. Yeah, I think so too.
Which, yeah, that sucks for the parent.
Like sure, but you're going to end up like screwing up your kid
(45:10):
big time. Yeah, that's why they have.
And I know you know of this and a lot of people do out there,
but some don't. They have something called a
Coogan account when you're an actor under the age of 18 where
a certain percentage, I think it's 30% of your earnings get
siphoned off into a trust account that only you can touch
when you come of age. Because parents for a long time
(45:32):
we're just stealing all their kids money doing this too.
It's kind of, I mean how did we come to the number of 30%?
I don't know and I could be wrong on that, but I'm I'm
pretty sure that's what it is. Cuz then it's like should it be
more or? That's yeah.
Oh, actually it is 15% even less.
(45:56):
Yeah. It seems like should be more.
I guess the thought is that parents put in the the brunt of
the cost of like getting that, you know, head shots and classes
and all that. But like, I don't know, a little
weird, a little weird. Hayden Panda Tierra has that
book coming out too, or it came out and I think it's similar to
(46:16):
subject matter. Really.
Yeah, it looks really interesting.
Really, really interesting. Anywho, real quick, before we go
have something from Reddit and you're going to love the
headline on this one. It says I'm more than happy to
be the end of my bloodline. This is from the child free page
(46:39):
on Reddit. They say there are so many
reasons why I choose to be childfree.
One stupid comment people alwaysthrow out there is don't you
want to continue your legacy? They say why would I?
I'm not rich or famous, my career isn't that exciting, I
don't own a big house for expensive cars.
I'm just an average person in the crowd.
I love my simple life. I honestly just don't feel like
(47:01):
I have to continue the bloodline.
But the end of the day I love ormy last name is simply just a
name, nothing more. Besides, I only know a little
bit about my great grandparents,so there's not like any legacy
I'm actually looking forward to carrying through.
I'm OK with being a little bit forgotten, just like my
ancestors. I thought that was kind of
refreshing. Thank God.
(47:22):
Yeah, it's not like you're a Prince and you have to care for
a society and you need someone below you to continue running
the government like. Just enough.
Yeah. And I think it like some people
might hear that and think it's like a sad thing Like no, I
don't. I'm not reading that at all.
(47:43):
I think that there's like kind of comfort and pleasure and the
anonymity a little bit. Yeah, it's less pressure.
Yeah, 100%. Also, roll of the dice.
What if you birth a serial killer?
That can happen. That can happen.
You're assuming that your legacyis going to be positive because
(48:05):
you're assuming that the kid youbirth is going to be awesome.
Right. You could birth an asshole.
Yeah, you could. There's a lot of them out there.
Yes, there's nature versus nurture to an extent.
Like yes, some people are assholes 'cause they had a bad
childhood, but some people are just, I don't know, I think some
(48:26):
people are just born assholes. I think, yeah, that's it's, it's
just the roll of the dice sometimes.
Yeah. Assholes are gonna asshole like
those group of kids at the gym at Planet Fitness or the group
of kids that I'm gonna probably get into a fight with and lose.
Yeah, now I'm just like, really worried about our gym.
(48:49):
I know, start looking elsewhere.We're going to have to plot it
out. That's the closest one, but it
might not be the safest. What if I stomp up to the LA
Fitness desk and go? Will you price match?
I'll join they. Might, they might we should try
and say I'm here because I don'twant to be in the teen gym and
(49:09):
they'll say welcome. It would be so baller.
OK, you know how McDonald's and Chick-fil-A and Wendy's fight on
Twitter and it's funny and they're like, he he ha ha.
If LA Fitness tweeted something that was like like for all of
you that don't want to be in a in like a daycare center, come
(49:31):
do our $20 summer or something and do a price match summer.
Missed opportunity if they don't, honestly.
Marketing genius. Yeah, you heard it here first.
LA Fitness, get on board. The anti daycare summer pass 20
bucks a month. God, it just, it writes itself.
(49:54):
Come on, can we get somebody whoat La Fitness is listening right
now? God.
Forbid. Spread the word.
All right. We will see you next time,
everybody. Bye.
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