March 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Filmed right from Marco’s home on the North Shore of Hawaii—right in the middle of the Pipe Masters competition—this special video episode of Broken Tiles gives us a rare, behind-the-scenes look at a 34-year marriage, all sparked by three deceptively simple questions.
The first one—"What would you never have done without me?"—opens the door to some eye-opening confessions. Brian admits he might never have fully "gotten his shit together" without Stacey’s influence, while she realizes she would never have experienced the slower pace of northern New York—an unexpected but perfect setting to raise their kids. And then there's the hilarious revelation: Stacey would have never, ever used a bidet in a public bathroom if not for Brian’s, uh, strong endorsement. That story somehow leads to a highly entertaining breakdown of their morning adventure hunting for Portuguese malasadas (aka delicious donuts) in Waikiki.
When they dive into each other’s "favorite imperfections," things get even more interesting. Stacey loves how Brian—who's always giving advice about balance and mindfulness—sometimes completely loses his own zen. Meanwhile, Brian gets a kick out of Stacey’s ever-changing approach in the kitchen, which has somehow led to an amusing role reversal. Their different worldviews come into focus when they answer which historical event they’d love to witness: Brian picks the Big Bang, Stacey goes for the sinking of the Titanic. (Interpret that how you will.)
But the most touching moment? When they call out each other’s hidden "superpowers." Brian’s got razor-sharp comedic timing—despite thinking he just yells to be funny—and Stacey has this natural ability to make people instantly feel at home. And, of course, their dog Mija steals the show, constantly interrupting and nearly taking down the podcast equipment in the process.
So, what would your partner say if you asked them these questions? Listen now, then try it for yourself—you might be surprised at what you learn.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Broken Tiles Podcast, pretty good.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Get your shit together.
We're on video.
Let's just play a little bitbecause we're on the island.
Stace.
This is the Broken TilesPodcast, first ever video
produced YouTube TV.
Stacey internet personalityinfluencer oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hardly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Working on the volume , trying to do my board right
here between my legs, which iskind of gross, but that's how
we're going to do it.
Nelly's Magic Moments NorthShore Invitational Guests
running in and out the last twodays of significant celebrity
and fame.
Including Mija Mija comecelebrity and fame, including
Mija.
Mija, come on, come on, mija,up up, come on, she's going to
do her own thing.
We will have a guest at somepoint that will jump up on the
(00:50):
couch.
I guess she's kind of becomelike a co-host.
She's become a house mascot.
Mija, the celebrity podcaster,will be in and out.
She's been adorable.
Marco is giving us his houseand abdicated his whole space
for five days.
Yeah, it's very impressive.
It's been so much fun, sogenerous.
(01:11):
Yeah, and I think for Nellieand I we've talked about doing
the North Shore Invitational andhis podcast over here for
almost a year that's at leasttoward the year and trying to do
it in the middle of the PipeMasters which is going on right
now as we speak, and it kind ofall came together yesterday.
You know, a break in thecompetition, tons of people
(01:34):
coming through and it's justkind of worked out fantastically
.
And we figured, since it's aquiet day today, we've got maybe
a hike in Waimea Valleysnorkeling when the sun comes
out.
Maybe the tide goes down alittle bit.
That's the plan.
And then we thought we'd sneakinto Broken Tiles.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, because it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You know, the one thing I won't have here.
You're right, the one thing Iwon't have is my fun.
I've got to figure that partout.
I don't have my board to do myquestion sound, that's right, so
we're just going to have torock it out and be a little bit
quieter than we usually are.
I'm lacking my production board, which we'll figure out.
She's going to be the star ofthis whole show.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I know she's so cute.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let's just do it.
It's kind of an abbreviated onejust to figure out this format.
Do it on film a little bit, butwe can definitely ask the
questions and let's see.
I can't remember like thesounds that I usually use.
It's what's it sound like?
How's that?
That's pretty good.
Question one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Question one.
These questions are from theSkin Deep, the author's name of
this book.
His last name is Topaz.
I'm not remembering his firstname, but it's from 12 Questions
for.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Love is the name of the book.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, does he need to close her ears?
Hold on, no, no, no, I'll closeher ears, it's totally puppy
appropriate.
I'm going to be very distractedthis whole podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I know what's new.
Okay, what is something younever would have done if it
weren't for me?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Something I never would have done if it wasn't for
you.
This is a broad one, but thisis, and I truly we haven't had
this question.
It's always we kind of get tothe point.
Now we always talk about it.
There's a lot of these ones,but I can I've referenced it a
(03:30):
lot with you and I know the onething I never would have done
I'm unconfident.
I would have never gotten myshit together.
Is that fair Cause?
Again, I just think that, um,it's hard for me to imagine you
know my kind of general mindsetand the way I was kind of going
about my life and it's probablya little an extreme example and
I would have gotten together insome fashion.
(03:51):
But I do think if you and Ihadn't connected when we did,
had the life we have togetherand sort of eventually gone
through it all together, I don'tknow if I would have gotten it
all the way together.
That's my answer.
Okay, how about you?
Do you have one?
I think that's pretty fair.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, my first one was it's kind of silly, but I
can think a little more broadly.
But I'm just going to share thefirst one because I think it's
pretty true.
It just happened yesterdaymorning.
I would not have used a bidetin a public bathroom.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm going to make you answer this twice.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I know I already have a second one All right, but I'm
very comfortable having thisconversation.
But the public bathroom?
No, because I used the samerestroom the day before and I
was not going to use any of thefeatures on the washlet.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I think I would agree with you that I would be
mostly not down with it.
But then when the amenities,the seat warmer, the four levels
of pressure, With watertemperature, the pulsing options
of.
Of soft and hard, Straight upthe b-hole.
(05:02):
A waterfall on the b-hole, yeah.
By that I mean the butthhole.
A waterfall on the B-hole yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
By that I mean the butthole.
I know what you mean, honey.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It was the well.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Tell the whole story from your perspective, like as
far as your day what you did,and then the I was there with
Kelly the day before and we bothused the bathroom I've never
seen it's called a washletinstead of a toilet and it's got
like a built-in bidet and aseat warmer and all these
features.
(05:29):
And it was just so weird to bein a public restroom with all
these options on a toilet and Iwas just like no way.
But then the next day we wentright when it's in like a food
court, shopping mall and it was,you know, just opened.
Everything was clean.
I don't think anybody had beenin there before us.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Brian was so excited to try it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, I was like when the conversation, the
conversation of the bidet, hadme my mind blown oh yeah, that
you guys didn't blow that waterup your b-holes.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It just doesn't sound that attractive.
But you know, when I did it itwas pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, and so the next day we went for Portuguese
donuts.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yes, malasadas, pennies, pennies, malasadas.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Pennies malasadas and we went there the next morning,
right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The place was just opening up In Waikiki we the
next morning, right out of thegate, the place was just opening
up In Waikiki.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We're staying in Waikiki, yeah, waikiki.
So it's a firm promotion.
I've never had a Portuguesedonut.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Me neither.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You neither.
And there we were made to order, oh yeah, Eight to ten minutes
to kill Yep, and I killed 11minutes in that bidet.
That's true.
I've used it before, when we Iwas in Rome, I think it's just
um, you know, I feel like we'veused them before in different
circumstances.
Here and there.
We bought one.
We never installed Cause Ithink we had to drill through
and shit like that.
(06:50):
Um, but the common sense tellsme we use tap water in our
showers and we we just throw itup there, we do whatever without
thinking about it.
We're in a hotel, we're inwherever we are, and we're
taking that water and throwingit in and around that area and
it's um, you know it's, it's tapwater coming from that thing.
I think what you're probablytalking about is the additional
(07:11):
microbes that might be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's like a panel with buttons
to push and I just couldn't getover who, how many people have
pushed this without havingwashed their hands?
It was a bit gross that part.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, and that's the one press, only I didn't put my,
I didn't press and then put myfinger at my b-hole.
I used it to basically and Ifigured eventually enough, maybe
the first part of it, yes,maybe you're, maybe you're
basically getting some water,some shit from the air,
literally.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Literally Well they say, even when you flush a
toilet, you're supposed to closethe lid because things come out
.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I look right down at it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, my God, Do you put your face over it and then
kiss me with that mouth?
I look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's like before all of our fancy doctors.
That's how we knew as specieswe were healthy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I guess so you drop it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
you look at it, but that was amazing.
I think I'm going to play theoutro music.
Okay, that was a great podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Are we done?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I don't know.
I think the thing is I'mrealizing it can't get better.
It can't get better.
You started with a winner.
What's your real answer,although I'm considering making
that it's a pretty good answer.
Do you have another one?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, it's more broad and vague.
I mean, I certainly wouldn'thave lived in northern New York
if it weren't for you.
That opportunity would neverhave happened.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It sounds like you have some resentment.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, it was a great place to raise our kids.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It resentment?
No, I, it was a great place toraise our kids, it was wonderful
, I like it.
And then, but broadening it out, I think, yes, that's I guess,
stay there.
And I think for me it'simplicit that I don't think I
not that I wouldn't have got myshit together, but I don't think
I would have been challenged tokind of like get myself
together.
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The same way, the same way that we did but on
yours, the move to Northern NewYork.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Um, what, what's your kind of overall take back on
that?
Like, what's your thoughts asfar as?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
um, I think I really learned to appreciate um a
slower way of life and theinherent benefits it offers.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And it adds something to your life that I didn't
think I would never have known.
I needed.
And it really was a wonderfulplace to raise our kids, because
life slowed down enough that wecould really enjoy certain
moments, I know, when we wereliving in Denver, you, you know,
before we moved to northern newyork it was a little more
(09:48):
frenetic it was it was hecticyeah, I think in a million
reasons it came at the righttime and it um, everything has
its the variables and decisionsyou make.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
there's, it's that gwyneth paltrow one, I think,
the sliding doors kind of likewhat would have been, what
wouldn't have been, um, but thatone on whole, especially now
that you like everything else,there's a lot of raw energy or
things that happened when you'rein the middle of it and you
maybe even blame the spaceyou're in, but the farther we
get away from it, the more itfeels like it was the right
(10:20):
decision for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was.
It was the right decision atthat time and it was also right
decision for the family.
It was it was the right decisionat that time.
Yeah, and it was also right toleave when we did.
You know, we chose to raise ourkids there and when child
number three finished highschool, we went to California
and, while we live in a smalltown, for a while I commuted to
(10:45):
San Jose because that's where Ihad a really nice job
opportunity and I loved my work.
But we were back in thatfrenetic lifestyle or at least I
was, because of the commuteevery day.
Right, I was 17.
You just never know.
So you've got to give yourselfa lot of time and that was
hectic again Got some staticgoing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I wonder I don't know what moved there you go, that's
better.
You can still, I think youshift the other way.
Try it again.
We're doing technical stuffright now, it's so sensitive, is
that okay?
Yeah, you're great, you don'thave to be that close.
I think it's hard to sell whatit is, but we're going through
technical difficulties a littlebit here and there with learning
(11:30):
this new equipment.
I think it's also a little bitthat we have so many wires going
connected and we have aheadphone extension on there so
there's a.
there's a lot of differentmoving pieces.
All right, let's move to numbertwo.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Question, two Question two what is your?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
favorite imperfection of mine.
I went first on the last one,so you go first on this one.
Okay, my favorite imperfectionof you, uh-oh.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It is.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, this is good, don't say it.
No, this is good, don't say it.
Please don't say it, you havethis great Zen mindset on the
world perception and when youget overwhelmed you totally lose
that Zen mindset and you feeloverwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And rage.
Sometimes rage yes, fromperfect balance in the universe
to you, m F and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, and not only perfect balance, but really
dispensing advice to othersabout how to find perfect
balance, which I love, becauseyou offer really good insights
and then when you lose thatperspective yourself, that's an
(12:57):
imperfection that I really likebecause it humanizes you, it
makes you….
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, that would be annoying, as….
That would be annoying as… Isshe eating it again?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, she just pulled it out, it was cute.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Hey mija.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But I like that because it's sort of that.
Oh yeah, he is like everybodyelse at times when life gets
overwhelming, because I ameasily overwhelmed at times.
It's gotten better over time,but I get pretty sucked under.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That would be annoying as fuck if if I not
only because I do, I do, I, Ithink, I try to manifest it and
talk it into existence you'regoing that way, but it would
also be, um, it might actuallyboil over if I was actually
living it all the way through.
Is that what you're saying?
Like if I was actually, thatwould be, would be, it would be,
and maybe there's, maybe,that's maybe in.
That is the answer of whatyou're searching for is there is
no eventual nothingness.
(13:56):
Eventually, we're going for it,but but if you?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
were there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I always think that if I have that moment, I'll
disappear.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, it's like nirvana right, that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You've reached it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No need to be here any longer.
Yeah, but I think it.
Uh, it humanizes you and it'sum and that's endearing to me.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I like that yeah, my favorite imperfection of yours.
What is my favoriteimperfection of yours?
Well, you ruined it.
A little space in your teeth.
You fucked me over.
I saw it, I loved it.
It was there forever, thislittle crooked gap.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And now, oh, how funny.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I didn't know that was something you liked, I mean
smile at the camera because thatdid not, was not, was not cheap
.
I don't think that would be myfavorite imperfection, but that
was definitely one.
Yeah, bring it up.
My favorite imperfection of you, I think and I don't even know
(14:55):
if it's an imperfection is likesometimes.
What would the word be?
Would you consider being naivean imperfection, or is that just
a?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It could be.
I mean, it depends on I meanit's your perspective.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So whatever you perceive might be an
imperfection and it's not thatit's the closest word I can get,
but it makes our relationshipplayful, and I mean that in the
best way, because it's part ofit's genuine, because you do.
You're very good at erasingtrivial small things, but then
it continues.
She might end the podcast.
(15:28):
She's killing an alligator,right?
Is that an alligator?
I?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's a green fuzzy thing, she's also very close to
chewing through the primary cordfor the whole podcast right now
.
She could take this whole thingdown.
Yeah, but it's not necessarily.
I'm not using the right wordNaive is not the right word but
it's somewhere in there thatallows us to kind of have this
(15:54):
bounce back and forth of mystupid shit.
That entertains me works Onlybecause I think it's probably
not the right answer to thequestion.
I don't know if that's animperfection of yours.
Probably not the right answerto the question.
I don't know if that's animperfection of yours.
Very difficult with you becauseyou know that by no means are
(16:17):
you perfect.
Nobody is, nobody is, nobody is,but it's limited in the way I
see you as imperfections.
You have one, but it's afavorite imperfection.
She's in trouble here.
Why don't you go up and grabher because she's going to pull
that down?
She's stuck.
It's an emergency broadcastsituation.
(16:41):
I don't quite know what to dowith that cord to make it any
better.
That's probably fine, just aslong as she doesn't find herself
right there again.
Yeah, the only other one I wasthinking of possibly that kind
of works is, you know, and it isto me, it's more.
(17:02):
It's more along the lines ofsomething.
I don't think it's somethingthat I love so much, but I do in
a way, because it's a changeLike this is one we've talked
about lately, ever since, likethe dizziness and things like
that, you've kind of become mein the kitchen, like you used to
(17:23):
legendarily be all ahead of itand it's as if you weren't there
, and we switch places in a way.
In a lot of ways outside ofwhen I'm doing, you know, if I'm
in a rush, rubbing people over,but mostly I try to keep it to
one pan and as if I didn't evencook dinner, kind of thing.
But you lately since the MalDay to Bark Ma and that of you
(17:46):
kind of, are a cooking schoolkid.
Now, like when you say youcooked, you do the dishes, I
walk in and it's like, butthere's part of me that is it.
Find it.
I find it very lovable becauseit's like it's not you and it is
an imperfection that makes, Iguess, in a weird way, you more
approachable, cause it's like itwas very difficult that I was
(18:06):
the cooking school kid thatcouldn't clean up after
themselves and a lot of, andthat's very true for what we
talked about.
But then the other one was um,you know, for me it's kind of
it's fun to switch that place alittle bit where it's not.
I don't think that part's allthe way come back.
Yet your organization in thekitchen.
You're proud.
Even six months ago, you cancook a meal off of a recipe
Follow a recipe.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, and that's like packing.
I used to be able to packreally streamlined the last
couple trips.
I can't even keep my suitcaseunder the weight limit.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't know what I'm doing anymore, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's funny, I like that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Actually, I'm going to.
Let's see if this even playsright now.
I thought we could.
We could be in the islands.
I've played this before on it,yeah, but I've got to do our
little.
Uh, take on me, intermissionand I.
I think we played on one of thefirst one or two or three
episodes.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I got this one yeah, I know, but just like azuki does
I've actually got one.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've got a question, good, I think.
Um, oh yeah, I don't thinkwe've done this one.
If you could have been aneyewitness to any event in
history, what would you chooseto witness?
Wow, have you ever done thatone?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Do you have one?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
No, I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Mine's a slam dunk easy.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well share.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Big slam dunk easy.
Well, share big bang.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you would choose that I'm not talking
about that one.
I'm talking about 1973 vhsvideo.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh god, I'm joking, it's um the big bang.
I think if you could, um, ifyou it's like our conversation
last night at dinner as far asthings that you would want to
witness and if you could do itin a space where it was
comfortable.
I think the question last nightwe were having at dinner was
what do you want to do, butyou're afraid to do?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, what is one thing you really want to do, but
you're too scared to do it?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, and mine was to go to the bottom of the ocean,
one of those little cramped,tiny submarines that then in the
blackness see all the species.
But I'm truly, not only justbecause of the news from a
couple of years ago that oneimploding on itself, but I'm
truly petrified of theclaustrophobic feeling of that
depth.
But I would want to see it, andI think yours was what
(20:22):
Skydiving.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I think skydiving would be fun.
I think it'd be exhilaratingand to feel what it feels like,
first of all, the free fall andthen to have the parachute go
off and you just kind of float,I think it'd be fun.
But at the same time I'mterrified.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Exactly, and so this falls in that same kind of
categories.
Like the logistics of watchingthe Big Bang are impossible, but
the question's fantastical andI'd want to be in that spot to
see it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I like that.
I think um it's terrible,almost morbid Is it watching me
on the bidet?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
No that would be funny actually that's an event
in history, but I can make thathappen for you.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, no, no, no, I'm not going into the men's public
bathroom in Waikiki.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I am, and I'm going to bring in fried chicken next
time, oh, God, we had thisconversation.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
He wants to pass a leg of fried chicken to
whoever's underneath In theother bidet.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, have a moment, that's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I said it should be a burrito all wrapped up, so
there's no jerk, and then itdevolved from there.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, so do you have one?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, what I was thinking of, and this is silly
and I don't know that I reallywould want to see it, but what
popped into my head is watchingthe Titanic.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That is morbid as shit it is.
It's actually cruel.
I know it's terrible, butyou're saying like I'm going to
give you some room here.
We would be watching eventswith no ability to change
history.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Right and we would be safe.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And the sound of it and all of it to see.
I guess you hear screaming,dying people.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I just don't know, because you know we've seen it
depicted in movies.
But what is it really like?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I just want to be to set it straight.
I want to see the creation ofthe universe and you want to see
thousands of people die.
Oh, my Well, it's on the recordnow.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's terrible.
I'm sorry.
I've said that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's roll into the last question, okay, so we can
kind of get over to the beachand watch these 40-foot waves.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, okay, so this is a good question.
Are you going to ask it?
Oh God, I can keep talking,though, right?
Isn't that what that means?
That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm so glad this is on video right now because this
has been a controversial subjectthe last three nights.
Yeah, A very good friend ofours, Kelly, who listens to
podcasts, is on this trip withus and we're at dinner.
Because I, Kelly, who listensto podcasts, is on this trip
with us and we're at dinner andI want, because I actually want
some feedback from people thatsee this and at one point in the
middle of the dinner, shereached across the table and did
(22:56):
this to me and I stoppedtalking.
Clearly, I stopped talking inthe middle of my sentence and
her response was you can keeptalking.
And I said that's not what thatmotion means.
That's been a thing and clearlythat's not what that motion
means.
And so that's been a thing andclearly it's been.
Um, I've been testing it out onother people.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
She was what she was trying to say in her mind.
That made sense is Brian wasgiving her a taste of some food
and she wanted to finish whatwas in her mouth before she took
that bite.
But he was also telling a storyat the same time, so that gives
a little more context.
But I understood what she meant.
But this does typically meanStop talking, stop talking.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So the only thing I was doing this for was for you
to stop talking.
I know, I know, so I could domy Question three.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What is a superpower that I have that I'm not aware
of, that you're not aware of?
You're becoming more and moreaware of your superpowers as
time kind of goes by.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Superpower that you have that you're not aware of.
She's presenting her belly tobe scratched right now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I love her.
I love her so much, she's mypuppy.
Let me think about what yoursuperpower is that you're not
aware of.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think you are, but not all the way.
I'm going to use this one.
It's that you have incrediblygood, when you choose to use it,
incredibly good comedic timing,and I don't think that's
something you would list on ahundred things that you have.
So I think it's fair for thatquestion to answer that question
(24:41):
.
I think that's that's my answer.
Is that I think the reason it'ssuch like for me I'm a volume
guy.
Like I'm a volume, I'm going toput out a thousand sweet sweet
burns a day.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes, that's true, and it's just like I'm like, and
they're usually aimed at me.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Aimed at you, but it's like the Amazon of bullshit
.
Like I put out a thousanddistribution points of burns and
I'm hoping for four or five toland.
Now you just land the same.
No, you don't land the sameamount.
That's me.
I'm a lower margin.
I'm looking for a lower margin,higher volume burns.
You just drop sweet burns whenthe time is exactly right and
(25:21):
it's not very often yeah, butthen they're 10 times the value
of the burn.
So we end up having the samenet revenue in our burns.
Because, let's say, I'm getting$0.12 per burn and I get four
burns a day, right, okay, $0.48a day is my income.
You just drop one burn a day,but you get 48 cents for the one
(25:43):
burn, and so we both have.
We're just doing it a differentway.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I think I'm more like once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, I'm, you're.
You're basically the iPhone ofburns and I'm like the burner
flip phones like on the wall.
It's like the $49 pay your ownminutes.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Did we both answer it ?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
or no.
No, I have to answer for you.
A superpower that you were notaware of.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The one thing that comes to my mind, and you might
be aware of it is that you youmake people feel very
comfortable, like immediatelylike me yeah, look at that,
although you've been with herall week it would have been such
(26:33):
much better street.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
This has become doggy porn, that video oh, oh, keep
that leg down, stop it you'regonna get sued scratch your
belly yeah, and I think that'sfair, because I don't think I've
ever.
I don't.
You don't see yourself, though,so I've never thought of that.
I'm not.
I'm not walking around thinkinglike I'm gonna go make people
(26:55):
comfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
But you this is so you Like even in a public
restroom we have a publicrestroom theme today you will
clean up the seat so that thenext person doesn't have to deal
with a mess.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's right.
The world doesn't need to knowthat, but that's true.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it's a mess that you
made.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, I clean up bathrooms for the next person.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You do not saying it's a mess that you made.
No, I clean up bathrooms forthe next person you do it's.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, who does that ?
Well, because I can't get awayfrom the fact that I walked in.
I'm like it's fucking gross andthere's nothing but like six
rolls of paper.
You can do one part, throw itall in there and then wash your
hands.
It's, um, it's.
It's something that I just doon a regular basis, so so that
somebody doesn't have to,because because that is not a
good feel, and especially,especially, I do it 100% of the
(27:42):
time if it's a run bathroom, ifI know a woman's going to walk
in behind me and some dude'spissed all over the seat,
there's just a chance.
There's no way I'm leaving it.
I just can't do it.
It's a real gross way to end thepodcast.
Sorry, Do this though.
Go back through your threequestions quickly and do our
(28:03):
thing, and just kind of liketalk about, like you know what
you think.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay.
So, like our first question waswhat is something you never
would have done if it weren'tfor me?
Yeah, for anybody, because Ithink it speaks to the power of
how we might be open tosomething because of another
person, someone that you trust,someone, whether they're your
(28:28):
partner or a friend or a familymember.
I think it shows the power ofhow being open to something can
change your life.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It's exactly, and I think what we're doing now is
we're expanding it out to likecouples have been going out for
one week, we've been married,coming up on 34 years.
It's not necessarily a questionthat you would ask you could
after a short period of time,but it's a question you ask,
like how are we going tochallenge ourselves in this
relationship?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Where are we going to challenge?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
ourselves in this relationship.
You know, like, where are wegoing to?
Where are we going to go inthis relationship, um and and
are are we going to kind of meetin the middle on some things
that are our differentpriorities, like wearing a uh
fucking hula shirt and you in amatching dress.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, that's my dream .
I want.
I want us to be wearingmatching Hawaiian clothes you in
a Hawaiian shirt and me in thesame print dress.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So you'd want to go, I could wear this, and you tell
me you'd wear a sundress withthis print.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I totally would.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And we would go out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And we would go ride a tandem bike into the sunset.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Your dream, my nightmare.
Yeah, okay, we'll probably endup doing this.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I want a picture of it and can we put?
Can we put in the same outfitMija can be in the same outfit
in the basket on the front ofour tandem bike.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right, so the second one expanded out.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Okay, so what's your favorite imperfection?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No brainer.
That's a great question to askanybody at any point in the
relationship, becauseimperfections can lead to
imperfections on kind ofcommunicated, can lead to
breakups, divorces, things likethat.
If you just would have said,hey, that's, and I'm not
overshare, but if there'ssomething in the right way where
you, you, um, uh, you know,because in this one's the
(30:13):
favorite.
But I think if you're open totalking transparently about
imperfections, you're loweringthe bar for what you can and
can't talk about.
We're going to openly talkabout imperfections like we did.
Yeah, Because it was a wonkyone for me, because I'm like,
well, it's not imperfection, butI'm saying you're shitty at
doing dishes and it's just asafe place.
I mean, it's like it's a safeplace.
(30:36):
You know to, I don't know Ithink it's also what.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
What struck me is uh, sometimes we can get I don't
know what the word is Um, we can, we can think negatively about
ourselves and our imperfections,and it's sort of um, the
ability to see things in adifferent light imperfections,
and it's sort of the ability tosee things in a different light
(31:01):
Imperfections.
I mean, we can be soself-critical if we allow
ourself to be, and really we'reall human beings.
Nobody is perfect.
We all have our little things.
We do things in certain ways.
I don't know.
Sometimes that can be cute.
Well, we're close though.
I mean, if I can, that can becute Well we're close, though.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I mean, if I can just get rid of my rage, I'm perfect
.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oh, I see If I can zen out and do my things.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You were just telling me today that one thing If I
can just close that one gap andnot flip the fuck, out, don't
lose yeah, every day.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I don't really love it when you flip out, but I also
like to see you just be anormal person.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And use my sweet curse words.
You do use them well, andconnected like 16 of them in one
long winded.
And what?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
was the last one.
What is a superpower that I'mnot aware?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
of.
That's a good one.
That's just one month, twomonths, 30 years.
That's you finding a way tocompliment somebody in a
creative question.
It's me complimenting you, youknow, like me telling you what a
super, basically me tellingsomething amazing about you that
you don't know and maybe you do, but you wouldn't say it's just
(32:15):
a great question wouldn't sayit's just a great question.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, I think it also highlights how um other people
might see us in different ways,and that's kind of beautiful.
Yeah, sometimes ourself-perceptions are not fully
accurate exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, should we boogie out of here?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
yeah, we have some waves to see and people writing
them to cheer for.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Select to 7, our actual licensed music.
Still Anything else.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Aloha.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Man a big time aloha from the Marco Studios in North
Shore, Hawaii, Broken Tilesfirst ever video.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Thank you to Marco and Miha for the hospitality.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Maybe this means Azuki can podcast with us now.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I hope so Well, why?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
not?
Yeah, maybe that becomes athing is where we have guest
hosts and little puppies likethis.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, love you, babe, love you.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Bye, that's it.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
What's on these Short and sweet?
What 35 minutes.
This is the Broken Tiles Podcast, pretty good.
Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Get your shit together.
We're on video.
Let's just play a little bitbecause we're on the island.
Stace.
This is the Broken TilesPodcast, first ever video
produced YouTube TV.
Stacey internet personalityinfluencer oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hardly.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Working on the volume , trying to do my board right
here between my legs, which iskind of gross, but that's how
we're going to do it.
Nelly's Magic Moments NorthShore Invitational Guests
running in and out the last twodays of significant celebrity
and fame.
Including Mija Mija comecelebrity and fame, including
Mija.
Mija, come on, come on, mija,up up, come on, she's going to
do her own thing.
We will have a guest at somepoint that will jump up on the
(00:50):
couch.
I guess she's kind of becomelike a co-host.
She's become a house mascot.
Mija, the celebrity podcaster,will be in and out.
She's been adorable.
Marco is giving us his houseand abdicated his whole space
for five days.
Yeah, it's very impressive.
It's been so much fun, sogenerous.
(01:11):
Yeah, and I think for Nellieand I we've talked about doing
the North Shore Invitational andhis podcast over here for
almost a year that's at leasttoward the year and trying to do
it in the middle of the PipeMasters which is going on right
now as we speak, and it kind ofall came together yesterday.
You know, a break in thecompetition, tons of people
(01:34):
coming through and it's justkind of worked out fantastically
.
And we figured, since it's aquiet day today, we've got maybe
a hike in Waimea Valleysnorkeling when the sun comes
out.
Maybe the tide goes down alittle bit.
That's the plan.
And then we thought we'd sneakinto Broken Tiles.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, because it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You know, the one thing I won't have here.
You're right, the one thing Iwon't have is my fun.
I've got to figure that partout.
I don't have my board to do myquestion sound, that's right, so
we're just going to have torock it out and be a little bit
quieter than we usually are.
I'm lacking my production board, which we'll figure out.
She's going to be the star ofthis whole show.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I know she's so cute.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let's just do it.
It's kind of an abbreviated onejust to figure out this format.
Do it on film a little bit, butwe can definitely ask the
questions and let's see.
I can't remember like thesounds that I usually use.
It's what's it sound like?
How's that?
That's pretty good.
Question one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Question one.
These questions are from theSkin Deep, the author's name of
this book.
His last name is Topaz.
I'm not remembering his firstname, but it's from 12 Questions
for.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Love is the name of the book.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, does he need to close her ears?
Hold on, no, no, no, I'll closeher ears, it's totally puppy
appropriate.
I'm going to be very distractedthis whole podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I know what's new.
Okay, what is something younever would have done if it
weren't for me?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Something I never would have done if it wasn't for
you.
This is a broad one, but thisis, and I truly we haven't had
this question.
It's always we kind of get tothe point.
Now we always talk about it.
There's a lot of these ones,but I can I've referenced it a
(03:30):
lot with you and I know the onething I never would have done
I'm unconfident.
I would have never gotten myshit together.
Is that fair Cause?
Again, I just think that, um,it's hard for me to imagine you
know my kind of general mindsetand the way I was kind of going
about my life and it's probablya little an extreme example and
I would have gotten together insome fashion.
(03:51):
But I do think if you and Ihadn't connected when we did,
had the life we have togetherand sort of eventually gone
through it all together, I don'tknow if I would have gotten it
all the way together.
That's my answer.
Okay, how about you?
Do you have one?
I think that's pretty fair.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, my first one was it's kind of silly, but I
can think a little more broadly.
But I'm just going to share thefirst one because I think it's
pretty true.
It just happened yesterdaymorning.
I would not have used a bidetin a public bathroom.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm going to make you answer this twice.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I know I already have a second one All right, but I'm
very comfortable having thisconversation.
But the public bathroom?
No, because I used the samerestroom the day before and I
was not going to use any of thefeatures on the washlet.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I think I would agree with you that I would be
mostly not down with it.
But then when the amenities,the seat warmer, the four levels
of pressure, With watertemperature, the pulsing options
of.
Of soft and hard, Straight upthe b-hole.
(05:02):
A waterfall on the b-hole, yeah.
By that I mean the butthhole.
A waterfall on the B-hole yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
By that I mean the butthole.
I know what you mean, honey.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It was the well.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Tell the whole story from your perspective, like as
far as your day what you did,and then the I was there with
Kelly the day before and we bothused the bathroom I've never
seen it's called a washletinstead of a toilet and it's got
like a built-in bidet and aseat warmer and all these
features.
(05:29):
And it was just so weird to bein a public restroom with all
these options on a toilet and Iwas just like no way.
But then the next day we wentright when it's in like a food
court, shopping mall and it was,you know, just opened.
Everything was clean.
I don't think anybody had beenin there before us.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Brian was so excited to try it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well, I was like when the conversation, the
conversation of the bidet, hadme my mind blown oh yeah, that
you guys didn't blow that waterup your b-holes.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It just doesn't sound that attractive.
But you know, when I did it itwas pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, and so the next day we went for Portuguese
donuts.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yes, malasadas, pennies, pennies, malasadas.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Pennies malasadas and we went there the next morning,
right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The place was just opening up In Waikiki we the
next morning, right out of thegate, the place was just opening
up In Waikiki.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We're staying in Waikiki, yeah, waikiki.
So it's a firm promotion.
I've never had a Portuguesedonut.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Me neither.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You neither.
And there we were made to order, oh yeah, Eight to ten minutes
to kill Yep, and I killed 11minutes in that bidet.
That's true.
I've used it before, when we Iwas in Rome, I think it's just
um, you know, I feel like we'veused them before in different
circumstances.
Here and there.
We bought one.
We never installed Cause Ithink we had to drill through
and shit like that.
(06:50):
Um, but the common sense tellsme we use tap water in our
showers and we we just throw itup there, we do whatever without
thinking about it.
We're in a hotel, we're inwherever we are, and we're
taking that water and throwingit in and around that area and
it's um, you know it's, it's tapwater coming from that thing.
I think what you're probablytalking about is the additional
(07:11):
microbes that might be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, yeah, I mean, it's like a panel with buttons
to push and I just couldn't getover who, how many people have
pushed this without havingwashed their hands?
It was a bit gross that part.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, and that's the one press, only I didn't put my,
I didn't press and then put myfinger at my b-hole.
I used it to basically and Ifigured eventually enough, maybe
the first part of it, yes,maybe you're, maybe you're
basically getting some water,some shit from the air,
literally.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Literally Well they say, even when you flush a
toilet, you're supposed to closethe lid because things come out
.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I look right down at it.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, my God, Do you put your face over it and then
kiss me with that mouth?
I look at it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It's like before all of our fancy doctors.
That's how we knew as specieswe were healthy.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I guess so you drop it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
you look at it, but that was amazing.
I think I'm going to play theoutro music.
Okay, that was a great podcast.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Are we done?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I don't know.
I think the thing is I'mrealizing it can't get better.
It can't get better.
You started with a winner.
What's your real answer,although I'm considering making
that it's a pretty good answer.
Do you have another one?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, it's more broad and vague.
I mean, I certainly wouldn'thave lived in northern New York
if it weren't for you.
That opportunity would neverhave happened.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It sounds like you have some resentment.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, it was a great place to raise our kids.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It resentment?
No, I, it was a great place toraise our kids, it was wonderful
, I like it.
And then, but broadening it out, I think, yes, that's I guess,
stay there.
And I think for me it'simplicit that I don't think I
not that I wouldn't have got myshit together, but I don't think
I would have been challenged tokind of like get myself
together.
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The same way, the same way that we did but on
yours, the move to Northern NewYork.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Um, what, what's your kind of overall take back on
that?
Like, what's your thoughts asfar as?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
um, I think I really learned to appreciate um a
slower way of life and theinherent benefits it offers.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
And it adds something to your life that I didn't
think I would never have known.
I needed.
And it really was a wonderfulplace to raise our kids, because
life slowed down enough that wecould really enjoy certain
moments, I know, when we wereliving in Denver, you, you know,
before we moved to northern newyork it was a little more
(09:48):
frenetic it was it was hecticyeah, I think in a million
reasons it came at the righttime and it um, everything has
its the variables and decisionsyou make.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
there's, it's that gwyneth paltrow one, I think,
the sliding doors kind of likewhat would have been, what
wouldn't have been, um, but thatone on whole, especially now
that you like everything else,there's a lot of raw energy or
things that happened when you'rein the middle of it and you
maybe even blame the spaceyou're in, but the farther we
get away from it, the more itfeels like it was the right
(10:20):
decision for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was.
It was the right decision atthat time and it was also right
decision for the family.
It was it was the right decisionat that time.
Yeah, and it was also right toleave when we did.
You know, we chose to raise ourkids there and when child
number three finished highschool, we went to California
and, while we live in a smalltown, for a while I commuted to
(10:45):
San Jose because that's where Ihad a really nice job
opportunity and I loved my work.
But we were back in thatfrenetic lifestyle or at least I
was, because of the commuteevery day.
Right, I was 17.
You just never know.
So you've got to give yourselfa lot of time and that was
hectic again Got some staticgoing a little bit.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I wonder I don't know what moved there you go, that's
better.
You can still, I think youshift the other way.
Try it again.
We're doing technical stuffright now, it's so sensitive, is
that okay?
Yeah, you're great, you don'thave to be that close.
I think it's hard to sell whatit is, but we're going through
technical difficulties a littlebit here and there with learning
(11:30):
this new equipment.
I think it's also a little bitthat we have so many wires going
connected and we have aheadphone extension on there so
there's a.
there's a lot of differentmoving pieces.
All right, let's move to numbertwo.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Question, two Question two what is your?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
favorite imperfection of mine.
I went first on the last one,so you go first on this one.
Okay, my favorite imperfectionof you, uh-oh.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It is.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Don't do it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, this is good, don't say it.
No, this is good, don't say it.
Please don't say it, you havethis great Zen mindset on the
world perception and when youget overwhelmed you totally lose
that Zen mindset and you feeloverwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And rage.
Sometimes rage yes, fromperfect balance in the universe
to you, m F and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, and not only perfect balance, but really
dispensing advice to othersabout how to find perfect
balance, which I love, becauseyou offer really good insights
and then when you lose thatperspective yourself, that's an
(12:57):
imperfection that I really likebecause it humanizes you, it
makes you….
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, that would be annoying, as….
That would be annoying as… Isshe eating it again?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yeah, she just pulled it out, it was cute.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Hey mija.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But I like that because it's sort of that.
Oh yeah, he is like everybodyelse at times when life gets
overwhelming, because I ameasily overwhelmed at times.
It's gotten better over time,but I get pretty sucked under.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That would be annoying as fuck if if I not
only because I do, I do, I, Ithink, I try to manifest it and
talk it into existence you'regoing that way, but it would
also be, um, it might actuallyboil over if I was actually
living it all the way through.
Is that what you're saying?
Like if I was actually, thatwould be, would be, it would be,
and maybe there's, maybe,that's maybe in.
That is the answer of whatyou're searching for is there is
no eventual nothingness.
(13:56):
Eventually, we're going for it,but but if you?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
were there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I always think that if I have that moment, I'll
disappear.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, it's like nirvana right, that's it.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You've reached it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No need to be here any longer.
Yeah, but I think it.
Uh, it humanizes you and it'sum and that's endearing to me.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I like that yeah, my favorite imperfection of yours.
What is my favoriteimperfection of yours?
Well, you ruined it.
A little space in your teeth.
You fucked me over.
I saw it, I loved it.
It was there forever, thislittle crooked gap.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And now, oh, how funny.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I didn't know that was something you liked, I mean
smile at the camera because thatdid not, was not, was not cheap
.
I don't think that would be myfavorite imperfection, but that
was definitely one.
Yeah, bring it up.
My favorite imperfection of you, I think and I don't even know
(14:55):
if it's an imperfection is likesometimes.
What would the word be?
Would you consider being naivean imperfection, or is that just
a?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It could be.
I mean, it depends on I meanit's your perspective.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So whatever you perceive might be an
imperfection and it's not thatit's the closest word I can get,
but it makes our relationshipplayful, and I mean that in the
best way, because it's part ofit's genuine, because you do.
You're very good at erasingtrivial small things, but then
it continues.
She might end the podcast.
(15:28):
She's killing an alligator,right?
Is that an alligator?
I?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's a green fuzzy thing, she's also very close to
chewing through the primary cordfor the whole podcast right now
.
She could take this whole thingdown.
Yeah, but it's not necessarily.
I'm not using the right wordNaive is not the right word but
it's somewhere in there thatallows us to kind of have this
(15:54):
bounce back and forth of mystupid shit.
That entertains me works Onlybecause I think it's probably
not the right answer to thequestion.
I don't know if that's animperfection of yours.
Probably not the right answerto the question.
I don't know if that's animperfection of yours.
Very difficult with you becauseyou know that by no means are
(16:17):
you perfect.
Nobody is, nobody is, nobody is,but it's limited in the way I
see you as imperfections.
You have one, but it's afavorite imperfection.
She's in trouble here.
Why don't you go up and grabher because she's going to pull
that down?
She's stuck.
It's an emergency broadcastsituation.
(16:41):
I don't quite know what to dowith that cord to make it any
better.
That's probably fine, just aslong as she doesn't find herself
right there again.
Yeah, the only other one I wasthinking of possibly that kind
of works is, you know, and it isto me, it's more.
(17:02):
It's more along the lines ofsomething.
I don't think it's somethingthat I love so much, but I do in
a way, because it's a changeLike this is one we've talked
about lately, ever since, likethe dizziness and things like
that, you've kind of become mein the kitchen, like you used to
(17:23):
legendarily be all ahead of itand it's as if you weren't there
, and we switch places in a way.
In a lot of ways outside ofwhen I'm doing, you know, if I'm
in a rush, rubbing people over,but mostly I try to keep it to
one pan and as if I didn't evencook dinner, kind of thing.
But you lately since the MalDay to Bark Ma and that of you
(17:46):
kind of, are a cooking schoolkid.
Now, like when you say youcooked, you do the dishes, I
walk in and it's like, butthere's part of me that is it.
Find it.
I find it very lovable becauseit's like it's not you and it is
an imperfection that makes, Iguess, in a weird way, you more
approachable, cause it's like itwas very difficult that I was
(18:06):
the cooking school kid thatcouldn't clean up after
themselves and a lot of, andthat's very true for what we
talked about.
But then the other one was um,you know, for me it's kind of
it's fun to switch that place alittle bit where it's not.
I don't think that part's allthe way come back.
Yet your organization in thekitchen.
You're proud.
Even six months ago, you cancook a meal off of a recipe
Follow a recipe.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, and that's like packing.
I used to be able to packreally streamlined the last
couple trips.
I can't even keep my suitcaseunder the weight limit.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't know what I'm doing anymore, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's funny, I like that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Actually, I'm going to.
Let's see if this even playsright now.
I thought we could.
We could be in the islands.
I've played this before on it,yeah, but I've got to do our
little.
Uh, take on me, intermissionand I.
I think we played on one of thefirst one or two or three
episodes.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I got this one yeah, I know, but just like azuki does
I've actually got one.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've got a question, good, I think.
Um, oh yeah, I don't thinkwe've done this one.
If you could have been aneyewitness to any event in
history, what would you chooseto witness?
Wow, have you ever done thatone?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Do you have one?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
No, I'd have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Mine's a slam dunk easy.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well share.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Big slam dunk easy.
Well, share big bang.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you would choose that I'm not talking
about that one.
I'm talking about 1973 vhsvideo.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh god, I'm joking, it's um the big bang.
I think if you could, um, ifyou it's like our conversation
last night at dinner as far asthings that you would want to
witness and if you could do itin a space where it was
comfortable.
I think the question last nightwe were having at dinner was
what do you want to do, butyou're afraid to do?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, what is one thing you really want to do, but
you're too scared to do it?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, and mine was to go to the bottom of the ocean,
one of those little cramped,tiny submarines that then in the
blackness see all the species.
But I'm truly, not only justbecause of the news from a
couple of years ago that oneimploding on itself, but I'm
truly petrified of theclaustrophobic feeling of that
depth.
But I would want to see it, andI think yours was what
(20:22):
Skydiving.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, I think skydiving would be fun.
I think it'd be exhilaratingand to feel what it feels like,
first of all, the free fall andthen to have the parachute go
off and you just kind of float,I think it'd be fun.
But at the same time I'mterrified.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Exactly, and so this falls in that same kind of
categories.
Like the logistics of watchingthe Big Bang are impossible, but
the question's fantastical andI'd want to be in that spot to
see it.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I like that.
I think um it's terrible,almost morbid Is it watching me
on the bidet?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
No that would be funny actually that's an event
in history, but I can make thathappen for you.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, no, no, no, I'm not going into the men's public
bathroom in Waikiki.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I am, and I'm going to bring in fried chicken next
time, oh, God, we had thisconversation.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
He wants to pass a leg of fried chicken to
whoever's underneath In theother bidet.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, have a moment, that's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I said it should be a burrito all wrapped up, so
there's no jerk, and then itdevolved from there.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah, so do you have one?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, what I was thinking of, and this is silly
and I don't know that I reallywould want to see it, but what
popped into my head is watchingthe Titanic.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That is morbid as shit it is.
It's actually cruel.
I know it's terrible, butyou're saying like I'm going to
give you some room here.
We would be watching eventswith no ability to change
history.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Right and we would be safe.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And the sound of it and all of it to see.
I guess you hear screaming,dying people.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I just don't know, because you know we've seen it
depicted in movies.
But what is it really like?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I just want to be to set it straight.
I want to see the creation ofthe universe and you want to see
thousands of people die.
Oh, my Well, it's on the recordnow.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's terrible.
I'm sorry.
I've said that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's roll into the last question, okay, so we can
kind of get over to the beachand watch these 40-foot waves.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, okay, so this is a good question.
Are you going to ask it?
Oh God, I can keep talking,though, right?
Isn't that what that means?
That's right.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm so glad this is on video right now because this
has been a controversial subjectthe last three nights.
Yeah, A very good friend ofours, Kelly, who listens to
podcasts, is on this trip withus and we're at dinner.
Because I, Kelly, who listensto podcasts, is on this trip
with us and we're at dinner andI want, because I actually want
some feedback from people thatsee this and at one point in the
middle of the dinner, shereached across the table and did
(22:56):
this to me and I stoppedtalking.
Clearly, I stopped talking inthe middle of my sentence and
her response was you can keeptalking.
And I said that's not what thatmotion means.
That's been a thing and clearlythat's not what that motion
means.
And so that's been a thing andclearly it's been.
Um, I've been testing it out onother people.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
She was what she was trying to say in her mind.
That made sense is Brian wasgiving her a taste of some food
and she wanted to finish whatwas in her mouth before she took
that bite.
But he was also telling a storyat the same time, so that gives
a little more context.
But I understood what she meant.
But this does typically meanStop talking, stop talking.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So the only thing I was doing this for was for you
to stop talking.
I know, I know, so I could domy Question three.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
What is a superpower that I have that I'm not aware
of, that you're not aware of?
You're becoming more and moreaware of your superpowers as
time kind of goes by.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Superpower that you have that you're not aware of.
She's presenting her belly tobe scratched right now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I love her.
I love her so much, she's mypuppy.
Let me think about what yoursuperpower is that you're not
aware of.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I think you are, but not all the way.
I'm going to use this one.
It's that you have incrediblygood, when you choose to use it,
incredibly good comedic timing,and I don't think that's
something you would list on ahundred things that you have.
So I think it's fair for thatquestion to answer that question
(24:41):
.
I think that's that's my answer.
Is that I think the reason it'ssuch like for me I'm a volume
guy.
Like I'm a volume, I'm going toput out a thousand sweet sweet
burns a day.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes, that's true, and it's just like I'm like, and
they're usually aimed at me.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Aimed at you, but it's like the Amazon of bullshit
.
Like I put out a thousanddistribution points of burns and
I'm hoping for four or five toland.
Now you just land the same.
No, you don't land the sameamount.
That's me.
I'm a lower margin.
I'm looking for a lower margin,higher volume burns.
You just drop sweet burns whenthe time is exactly right and
(25:21):
it's not very often yeah, butthen they're 10 times the value
of the burn.
So we end up having the samenet revenue in our burns.
Because, let's say, I'm getting$0.12 per burn and I get four
burns a day, right, okay, $0.48a day is my income.
You just drop one burn a day,but you get 48 cents for the one
(25:43):
burn, and so we both have.
We're just doing it a differentway.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I think I'm more like once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah, I'm, you're.
You're basically the iPhone ofburns and I'm like the burner
flip phones like on the wall.
It's like the $49 pay your ownminutes.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Did we both answer it ?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
or no.
No, I have to answer for you.
A superpower that you were notaware of.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
The one thing that comes to my mind, and you might
be aware of it is that you youmake people feel very
comfortable, like immediatelylike me yeah, look at that,
although you've been with herall week it would have been such
(26:33):
much better street.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
This has become doggy porn, that video oh, oh, keep
that leg down, stop it you'regonna get sued scratch your
belly yeah, and I think that'sfair, because I don't think I've
ever.
I don't.
You don't see yourself, though,so I've never thought of that.
I'm not.
I'm not walking around thinkinglike I'm gonna go make people
(26:55):
comfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
But you this is so you Like even in a public
restroom we have a publicrestroom theme today you will
clean up the seat so that thenext person doesn't have to deal
with a mess.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's right.
The world doesn't need to knowthat, but that's true.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it's a mess that you
made.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, I clean up bathrooms for the next person.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You do not saying it's a mess that you made.
No, I clean up bathrooms forthe next person you do it's.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I mean, who does that ?
Well, because I can't get awayfrom the fact that I walked in.
I'm like it's fucking gross andthere's nothing but like six
rolls of paper.
You can do one part, throw itall in there and then wash your
hands.
It's, um, it's.
It's something that I just doon a regular basis, so so that
somebody doesn't have to,because because that is not a
good feel, and especially,especially, I do it 100% of the
(27:42):
time if it's a run bathroom, ifI know a woman's going to walk
in behind me and some dude'spissed all over the seat,
there's just a chance.
There's no way I'm leaving it.
I just can't do it.
It's a real gross way to end thepodcast.
Sorry, Do this though.
Go back through your threequestions quickly and do our
(28:03):
thing, and just kind of liketalk about, like you know what
you think.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay.
So, like our first question waswhat is something you never
would have done if it weren'tfor me?
Yeah, for anybody, because Ithink it speaks to the power of
how we might be open tosomething because of another
person, someone that you trust,someone, whether they're your
(28:28):
partner or a friend or a familymember.
I think it shows the power ofhow being open to something can
change your life.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It's exactly, and I think what we're doing now is
we're expanding it out to likecouples have been going out for
one week, we've been married,coming up on 34 years.
It's not necessarily a questionthat you would ask you could
after a short period of time,but it's a question you ask,
like how are we going tochallenge ourselves in this
relationship?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Where are we going to challenge?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
ourselves in this relationship.
You know, like, where are wegoing to?
Where are we going to go inthis relationship, um and and
are are we going to kind of meetin the middle on some things
that are our differentpriorities, like wearing a uh
fucking hula shirt and you in amatching dress.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, that's my dream .
I want.
I want us to be wearingmatching Hawaiian clothes you in
a Hawaiian shirt and me in thesame print dress.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So you'd want to go, I could wear this, and you tell
me you'd wear a sundress withthis print.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I totally would.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And we would go out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And we would go ride a tandem bike into the sunset.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Your dream, my nightmare.
Yeah, okay, we'll probably endup doing this.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I want a picture of it and can we put?
Can we put in the same outfitMija can be in the same outfit
in the basket on the front ofour tandem bike.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
All right, so the second one expanded out.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Okay, so what's your favorite imperfection?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No brainer.
That's a great question to askanybody at any point in the
relationship, becauseimperfections can lead to
imperfections on kind ofcommunicated, can lead to
breakups, divorces, things likethat.
If you just would have said,hey, that's, and I'm not
overshare, but if there'ssomething in the right way where
you, you, um, uh, you know,because in this one's the
(30:13):
favorite.
But I think if you're open totalking transparently about
imperfections, you're loweringthe bar for what you can and
can't talk about.
We're going to openly talkabout imperfections like we did.
Yeah, Because it was a wonkyone for me, because I'm like,
well, it's not imperfection, butI'm saying you're shitty at
doing dishes and it's just asafe place.
I mean, it's like it's a safeplace.
(30:36):
You know to, I don't know Ithink it's also what.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
What struck me is uh, sometimes we can get I don't
know what the word is Um, we can, we can think negatively about
ourselves and our imperfections,and it's sort of um, the
ability to see things in adifferent light imperfections,
and it's sort of the ability tosee things in a different light
(31:01):
Imperfections.
I mean, we can be soself-critical if we allow
ourself to be, and really we'reall human beings.
Nobody is perfect.
We all have our little things.
We do things in certain ways.
I don't know.
Sometimes that can be cute.
Well, we're close though.
I mean, if I can, that can becute Well we're close, though.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I mean, if I can just get rid of my rage, I'm perfect
.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Oh, I see If I can zen out and do my things.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You were just telling me today that one thing If I
can just close that one gap andnot flip the fuck, out, don't
lose yeah, every day.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I don't really love it when you flip out, but I also
like to see you just be anormal person.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
And use my sweet curse words.
You do use them well, andconnected like 16 of them in one
long winded.
And what?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
was the last one.
What is a superpower that I'mnot aware?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
of.
That's a good one.
That's just one month, twomonths, 30 years.
That's you finding a way tocompliment somebody in a
creative question.
It's me complimenting you, youknow, like me telling you what a
super, basically me tellingsomething amazing about you that
you don't know and maybe you do, but you wouldn't say it's just
(32:15):
a great question wouldn't sayit's just a great question.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, I think it also highlights how um other people
might see us in different ways,and that's kind of beautiful.
Yeah, sometimes ourself-perceptions are not fully
accurate exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Well, should we boogie out of here?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
yeah, we have some waves to see and people writing
them to cheer for.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Select to 7, our actual licensed music.
Still Anything else.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Aloha.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Man a big time aloha from the Marco Studios in North
Shore, Hawaii, Broken Tilesfirst ever video.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Thank you to Marco and Miha for the hospitality.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Maybe this means Azuki can podcast with us now.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I hope so Well, why?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
not?
Yeah, maybe that becomes athing is where we have guest
hosts and little puppies likethis.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, love you, babe, love you.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Bye, that's it.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
What's on these Short and sweet?
What 35 minutes.
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