Yinz have a favorite funeral song?

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SPEAKER_01 (01:31):
Lanterns low, thunder rolls, Scott and Atlanta
hit the road.
Dirt roads dark, moonlighthides.
Sasquatch pranks by the riverside.

SPEAKER_03 (01:48):
Medicare parts A and B Medicare parts A and B That's
my new favorite song.
Medicare parts A and B.

SPEAKER_02 (02:01):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (02:02):
Okay.

SPEAKER_02 (02:03):
Whenever you are.

SPEAKER_03 (02:05):
Welcome back.
Welcome to the pod.
Welcome.

SPEAKER_05 (02:11):
Welcome to the Gilded Trash Podcast.

SPEAKER_03 (02:15):
Halloween edition.
Halloween.
Halloween.
Sawin.

SPEAKER_02 (02:27):
You said it right.

SPEAKER_05 (02:30):
What?
Sawin.
Sawin.
I don't know what they weresaying, but I know.

SPEAKER_02 (02:39):
Well, it's spelled Sam Hain.

SPEAKER_05 (02:41):
No, I know.
Well, you know Glenn Danzig, hisband after the misfits was
called Sam Hain.
Well, I I it was called Sawin,but that's what everybody called
it though, because you know,like metalheads have no clue.
So they were like, Sam Hain, youlike Sam Hain, man.
I was like, who's this Sam guy?

SPEAKER_02 (03:04):
I l I used well, used to love Danzig.
I haven't listened to them in along time, but Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (03:11):
So in between Danzig and Misfits, there was a band
called Sawwin where Glenn Danzigwas the singer.

SPEAKER_02 (03:17):
So interesting little tidbit.

SPEAKER_05 (03:20):
Yeah, they have some songs.
I got a feel.
I love the Misfits are likeprobably one of the they used to
only do like shows on Halloween.
It's like a whole legendary likething around the Misfits and
Halloween and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (03:36):
I did not know that.

SPEAKER_05 (03:38):
Yeah, yeah.
Very scary stuff.
Very scary.

SPEAKER_02 (03:42):
Were they doing satanic rituals?

SPEAKER_05 (03:44):
They might have been now in Glenn Dant now.

SPEAKER_02 (03:49):
So my when I think of him, um I go back to the old
rumor from the 90s that he's thebastard child of Jim Morrison.

SPEAKER_05 (04:04):
It you know where that comes from?
Because they both sing like youknow what I mean?
Like they both have they bothsing like that.

SPEAKER_02 (04:14):
Yes, but however, his mom was allegedly the woman
who Jim Morrison did that fakewedding, the blood ritual
wedding.

SPEAKER_05 (04:24):
I don't know that there's any truth to that
though.

SPEAKER_02 (04:26):
I don't know either.

SPEAKER_05 (04:27):
I vaguely remember I've dug into this and I don't
think that I think it's prettyfoolproof that Glenn Tanzig's
taught the channel to Jim Bois.

SPEAKER_02 (04:35):
It's a fun rumor.
It was fun in the 90s.

SPEAKER_05 (04:38):
I love those rumors.
It's right up there with MarilynManson and his rib removal in
heavy metal lore.
I said, true.

SPEAKER_02 (04:46):
I mean, at least it's I said, is it true?
We don't know.

SPEAKER_03 (04:50):
That's what they say.

SPEAKER_02 (04:52):
At least it's not the yellow Oh, what's his name?
The the hamster rumors.

SPEAKER_05 (04:58):
The what?

SPEAKER_02 (05:00):
Richard Gere Hamster Rumors.

SPEAKER_05 (05:02):
Oh, yeah, gerbil.
It was a gerbil.

SPEAKER_02 (05:05):
Oh, gerbil.
Sorry.
There's a different Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (05:09):
I mean, they wouldn't have different names if
there wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 (05:14):
They look the same to me.

SPEAKER_05 (05:16):
They're both rodent, little rodent creatures.

SPEAKER_02 (05:20):
They're cute, though.

SPEAKER_05 (05:21):
They're something.
Especially when you put them upyour pooper.
No.

SPEAKER_02 (05:29):
Probably you do not know.

SPEAKER_05 (05:30):
Do you remember?
There's a South Park where it'slike Lemmywinks is the gerbil
inside Richard Gere.
And it they have a song andeverything.
It's like Lemmy Winks,Lemmywinks.
It's like this whole thing.
He's on a journey.
We'll watch it after this.
It's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 (05:47):
Oh my gosh.
Um so this is actually oursecond Halloween doing the
podcast.

SPEAKER_03 (05:55):
Second Halloween.

SPEAKER_02 (05:58):
Yeah.
And our second Halloween wherewe ain't doing shit for
Halloween either.

SPEAKER_05 (06:02):
I mean, we've been doing lots for Halloween.
We have been I've beencelebrating the season by
watching scary movies while Iwork.
That's how I celebrate it.
I watch Halloweens one through19.
No, but I do.
I like to turn on theHalloweens.
Um, this brings up a gooddiscussion because we were
talking about this a little bitat work, but Halloween movies,

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what exactly like through andthrough the sure, there's a ton
of scary movies, but thatdoesn't necessarily make them a
Halloween movie.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, I don't view Scream aslike a Halloween movie.
I mean, people like to watchscary movies at Halloween, but
it's not like a Halloween movieis like Hocus Pocus, where it's

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about Halloween.

unknown (06:50):
Halloween.

SPEAKER_05 (06:51):
Hocus Pocus, Halloween Town, Ernest Scared
Stupid, uh, you know, whatever.
The Who Be Halloween?
The what?
Who be Halloween, yes.
Who be Halloween Zoos.
Yeah, that's a Halloween movie.
Um But Halloween, the horrormovie is sort of like it's like

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the crossover event.
It's it's a real deal horrormovie, but it's also a real deal
Halloween movie.
Because that's part of whatmakes it scary is that innate
fear that you have of Halloween.

SPEAKER_02 (07:29):
Yeah.
Yes.
So my favorite Halloween movieof all of them, though, was the
one where the um television wasprogramming people's brains.
So like a pumpkin would startsinging, and then like everybody
was being programmed through thepumpkin.

SPEAKER_03 (07:49):
I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_05 (07:51):
I think it's uh how you're thinking of Halloween
three season of The Witch, Ibelieve.

SPEAKER_02 (07:58):
Were people being brainwashed through their TVs?

SPEAKER_05 (08:01):
Halloween three is the only one that doesn't have
to do with Michael Myers.
And I know it has something todo with some witch factory, like
they're making masks orsomething.
I don't know.
Um you know what somebodybrought up at work today,
though, their favorite Halloweenthing to watch was though.
Oh it's David Pumpkins.

SPEAKER_02 (08:23):
I cannot stand David Pumpkins.
If still the fact that I alreadyin my heart of hearts believe
that Tom Hanks messes withchildren.
Don't say that.

SPEAKER_05 (08:37):
Cut that out.
Say Tom Hanks is engaged inother because I don't want to
put that out there.

SPEAKER_02 (08:43):
I say it on socials all the time.
I can't stand him.
That whole mitten thing is soweird to me.

SPEAKER_05 (08:49):
It might be, but it also might be.
It might be nothing.

SPEAKER_02 (08:55):
I mean, it could be nothing, but the fact that l
other people have gotten thatcreeper vibe from him, and then
he goes out and does DavidPumpkin, which is like an
animated weird version of thecreeper.

SPEAKER_05 (09:08):
But like these rumors don't really surround Tom
Hanks unless people were justlike, oh, I get a creepy feel.
Like, there's no accusationsagainst Tom Hanks.

SPEAKER_02 (09:17):
No.

SPEAKER_05 (09:18):
No.
No.
But yeah, David Pumpkins.
Saturday Night Live has a lot ofgood Halloween stuff throughout
the years.
That's always fun to watch.
My favorite.
I would like to watch myfavorite was it like you talk
about, of course, people talkabout it's a great pumpkin,
Charlie Brown.
That's sort of like the thatchanged the game for Charlie
Brown, too, because that waslike the first one, right?

(09:39):
Charlie Brown, yes, CharlieBrown's Christmas.
That was sort of the gamechanger for because so
Halloween, what you have tounderstand is Halloween was long
a bad holiday.
Trick-or-treating didn't reallystart till the 1950s.
There was this effort to sort ofget kids to calm down because
they were so wowed.
And uh they um so there was thisbig push to make it sort of like

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the commercial holiday that weknow today, but like Charlie
Brown Christmas in the 1970s,that like solidified the deal.
You know what I mean?
In terms of like making it thiscommercial kids' holiday.

SPEAKER_02 (10:14):
Right, right.

SPEAKER_05 (10:15):
And uh but my favorite though was I think it
was from the 80s, it wasGarfield's Halloween.

SPEAKER_02 (10:20):
I don't think I've ever seen that one.

SPEAKER_05 (10:22):
I like a go we'll watch it.
I think you can still find it.
I love a Garfield Halloween.
I don't even know because Ireally wasn't into Garfield, but
for whatever reason, I had atape that had it on there, and I
had a tape.
So, you know, like when you're akid, it was like four VHS tapes
at your house.
So one of the tapes though hadlike specials.
Rudolph was it was like Rudolphwas on there, uh Frosty the

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Snowman.
But then there was someHalloween.
Here it was the kicker, though.
It was only like the last 20minutes or 15 minutes of the
Garfield special.
So every time I was watchingthis, it always started in the
middle.
And I like it wasn't somethingthat they sh showed every year.
So it was just it it I don'tknow.
There was also a half of like aMy Little Pony movie on there or

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Care Bears or something.
I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02 (11:15):
I oh, I used I didn't like the My Little Pony,
but I loved Care Bears.

SPEAKER_05 (11:19):
Oh yeah, I liked Care Bears.
I had Care Bear pajamas, uh,Care Bear bed sheets.

SPEAKER_02 (11:24):
I love me some care bears.

SPEAKER_05 (11:26):
I had a care bear too.
I don't know nothing about thecare bears.
Like now, I don't remember likeyou know what I mean, like
character names or anything likethat, but I remember that I
liked them.

SPEAKER_02 (11:37):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't remember character names now.
I mean they're all resurfacing.
They're they're always they'realways making the rounds.
Matter of fact, half of TikTokhas care bears as their profile
pictures right now, but theymade their own versions, so like
they have like they're like ait's kind of like a mashup
between a garbage pell kid and acare bear, because it's a care

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bear bug.

SPEAKER_05 (12:01):
Yeah.
Yeah, that's kind of funny.
Yeah, I kind of like that.
Um But yeah, I mean, uh otherthan that, as far as like
Halloween goes, um I mean moviesand shows and stuff like that.
I we like to watch like episodespecific of like sitcoms or
whatever that's specific toHalloween, but Halloween viewing

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is not as plentiful as uh onemight think it might be.

SPEAKER_02 (12:28):
No, like we need to start a whole hallmark line of
Halloween chills in the movie.

SPEAKER_05 (12:33):
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
Just I people embrace Halloweenalmost more than Christmas.
I'm surprised that they haven'tcapitalized on this.

SPEAKER_02 (12:41):
Yeah, I know.
Like, but like I mean, they TheGood Witch, kind of, like, but
that's about as far as it goes.
And I don't really like thatmovie.
I mean, I don't not like her,but she's there's something.

SPEAKER_05 (12:57):
Is it exactly what you imagine it to be if it was
you thought of a Hallmark Witchmovie?

SPEAKER_02 (13:01):
I mean, yeah, that's exactly it.

SPEAKER_05 (13:04):
It's right there.

SPEAKER_02 (13:06):
Yeah.
Like how do I want to say it?
They almost want her to be likemysterious and sexy, but she
doesn't pull it off, and so itcomes off campy and like it's
just it feels disingenuous.

SPEAKER_05 (13:25):
I my thing with her is people always said that that
about her being sexy, but Ican't get she got that goofy
eye.
I can't look at it.
It throws me off, man.
It does.
I thought that back when she wasin drag.
Somebody catches you with that,it's just something, and I'm not
knocking it.
Whatever, I get it.
It's not her fault, but it justthrows me off.

SPEAKER_02 (13:47):
Or it's just bad acting.
Like, seriously, it could justbe bad acting, right?

SPEAKER_05 (13:52):
Not only that, but she's had so much work done to
her lips that it looks kind ofridiculous.
I think that's part of it.
She's like, you know what Imean?

SPEAKER_02 (14:00):
Stop it.
Don't be making fun, because I'mI told you, I've been talking to
some friends this week.

SPEAKER_05 (14:07):
If you put something in your lips, that's gonna be
the dips.

SPEAKER_02 (14:12):
Botox right here.

SPEAKER_05 (14:13):
Your lips look fine.
Your face looks fine.
I don't even know what you'retalking about.

SPEAKER_02 (14:18):
I didn't Botox.

SPEAKER_05 (14:20):
No.

SPEAKER_02 (14:20):
I'm talking about it.
But at any rate, we do not makefun of people for altering their
appearance because that is apersonal opinion that they have
about themselves.

SPEAKER_05 (14:30):
I mean, I make fun of people's appearances regular
before they do work, so it'sonly fair to do it after as
well.
And I don't think I think it'sfunny.
I don't care if people make funof my appearance.
That's the way I look at it.
Uh it's the only thing you gotlike that who gives a shit?
At the end of the day, it don'tmatter.

SPEAKER_02 (14:50):
I don't care if people make fun of my appearance
for it.

SPEAKER_05 (14:53):
It's fun to make fun of.

SPEAKER_02 (14:56):
The latest thing on TikTok is that I have teeth like
a horse.

SPEAKER_05 (15:01):
Again, uh they go.
They you can tell it when itdoesn't automatically ring a
bell.
Like, it has to be obvious forit to be funny.
Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_06 (15:10):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (15:11):
Like, you can't be making fun of somebody and
you're like out here lookinglike like if somebody called me
what but like what's funny isthe Pat Noswald one.
Because it's true.
Like, you're like, oh yeah, Isee that.
You're like a little pudgy,funny looking guy.
Yeah, that's why it's funny.
But if people say, like, oh,you're fat, or you're short, or

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like they like I'm not reallyfat.
I'm chunky, but I'm not fat.
So that doesn't really work.
I'm short, right?
But I'm not that short.
I'm not hilariously short.

SPEAKER_06 (16:37):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (16:38):
Like, so that kind of stuff, it's like when the
people go to those kind ofthings, you know it's full of
crap.
That's what I'm saying with likethe horse teeth one.
Like, if it's not obvious, likesomebody with horse teeth, you
ought to look at them and you'relike, whoa, nilly.

SPEAKER_02 (16:54):
Right.
Like, people wouldn't tell meall the time that they love my
smile if the first thing waslike these giant teeth, right.
I mean, I do have big teeththough, and I have been
conscious about like my gap inmy teeth over the years, but it
definitely gives me character.
I've put fake veneers on to seewhat it would look like.

SPEAKER_05 (17:13):
I look weird with perfect big teeth is Horace from
Dr.
Quinn Medicine Woman.
That's big teeth.
I don't know who that is, but hewas like, I love walk around my
pills.
I'm Horus.
You probably shouldn't do that.

SPEAKER_02 (17:32):
I've heard you do that before.
I just didn't know.

SPEAKER_05 (17:35):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah, he just is big goofy guyon Dr.
Quinn.

SPEAKER_02 (17:40):
So what's like I know you've been watching like
everything, and we probablytalked about it last year, but
what's your absolute favoriteHalloween movie?

SPEAKER_05 (17:51):
Halloween movie, I guess Halloween.
It's right in the title.

SPEAKER_02 (17:57):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (17:59):
It's right in the title.

SPEAKER_02 (18:00):
Hold on a second.
Somebody's at the door.
So I'm sure that got all pickedup on camera, but that was the
lady who was city council.

SPEAKER_05 (18:08):
Who was it?

SPEAKER_02 (18:09):
Uh Charlene Stanton.
She's running for city council.

SPEAKER_05 (18:13):
What's she doing?
What's she about?

SPEAKER_02 (18:16):
Um not using eight million dollars of city's funds
to build a useless park.
She's about more police,cleaning up the crime, cleaning
up the neighborhoods.
Um, she has a cat rescue site,so I'll look into that.

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Yeah, I'll cut this out.
Like, I don't I don't want totalk about it until after the
election.

SPEAKER_05 (18:41):
No, I have no I need to look into her.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 (18:43):
I'm not endorsing anyone, but I've she's very
vital on the I'm endorsingTaylor Clark.

SPEAKER_05 (18:49):
I know him.
We know him.
I stand by him.

SPEAKER_02 (18:53):
Yeah, which sucks because Taylor is way left
leaning.

SPEAKER_05 (18:58):
I mean, it doesn't eat he's not though.
He's like a he is, but he's notthe road.
Yeah, it's middle of the road.
But anywhere here you're gonnabe left-leaning, especially when
you're under 30 or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 (19:12):
Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 (19:13):
And he's not left-leaning on the weird stuff.
He's just, I mean, how kids are.

SPEAKER_02 (19:20):
Yeah, but no, I fully say, but he's a gr he's a
business owner owner.
He's he's a great businessman,he's a great spokesperson.

SPEAKER_05 (19:27):
We need everybody involved if Johnstown's gonna
turn around.
It don't matter what side theyargue.
The only side is us and them.
Are you gonna do something forthe city?
Are you gonna be a fuckingdouchebag like the rest of these
morons have been running thistown for the last 50, 60 years?
Come on down here.

SPEAKER_02 (19:45):
Come on, down here.
I can't even do it.
I just turned Cajun.
Uh, I can't do a Pittsburghaccent.
Like it just comes out of myface.

SPEAKER_05 (19:54):
Oh, I've caught the other day when I was in the
shower doing comedy, I caughtmyself saying something and I
was like, Jesus Christ.
It like sounded so it was soit's like, do you I can't even
do it?
And I didn't even, you know,like I said, the more Trevor
Austin said this to one time Iheard him talking about it.
Like the more you do it as likean exaggeration, the more it

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becomes part of you.

SPEAKER_02 (20:21):
Well, that's a great segue because we can talk about
our show.
You we were surrounded Saturdayby Pittsburgh, right?
Yeah.
And so Blake's accent, oh myGod.

SPEAKER_05 (20:34):
Yeah, he does those O's funny.
That's it's no, I know it's allof them.
They all it's all pronounced.
Um But yeah, no, but let's goback to it.
We built this, you know thatwe've been building a comedy
club here in our house.
We finally we did it.
We pulled the trigger, we had ashow.

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It went uh it went really,really well.

SPEAKER_02 (20:58):
It went really without a heads.
It really did.

SPEAKER_05 (21:01):
And um we'll definitely do it again.
And um, yeah, the food wasgreat.
We had way too much food perusual.
As always.
Per usual, but this felt reallyexcessive.
Um no, but it was great.
Like it turned out so well.
It was a great room filled withlaughter.

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Everybody had a great time.
We had a lot of fun.
Um, I just can't say enough howmuch I love those benches there.
I built benches.
That's what I did.
I built benches.

SPEAKER_02 (21:31):
And I'm really proud of you, babe.
I mean, you've never builtanything like that before.
I don't build.
I'm not a builder.
We didn't have like true specsor anything.
We just kind of used YouTube andChat GPT and you figured it out,
right?

SPEAKER_05 (21:47):
Like I I did a little bit of measuring, a
little bit of cutting here andthere, bing bang, got yourself a
bench.

SPEAKER_02 (21:55):
And it's a U bench, it goes along it's so I'll show
the picture for those of you whohave not been bombarded by my
Facebook post about it.
But the one wall is 12 feetlong.
So the one so it's 12 feet inthe long section, and then it's
four feet on the shortersections on each side.

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The other one you made a littlebit longer than four feet, but
still.
Yeah, six feet.
It's six feet.
So like it covers that wholehalf of the room, and it's it's
amazing because that that pieceof the room just felt like it
was weirdly.

SPEAKER_05 (22:32):
And it's solid.
It's solid.
How I did the middle part thatunbelievable.
You've seen everybody sit.
Your brother, Mark, we're allsitting there, so that sucker
will hold you.
That sucker will hold you.

SPEAKER_02 (22:47):
Um and it's it's a great little space now because
it fits the 10-foot table,right?
So we can put the 10-foot tablethere and have dinner.
We can have Oh yeah.
That's we can do whatever now.
That room is.

SPEAKER_05 (23:02):
We have so much more room for activities.
And it really can it the roomcan really be anything you want
to be because that's the beauty.
It's not, it's a shapeless roomnow.
Right.
In the sense of you can bewhatever you want it to be.
If you want to have a footballparty in there, you can have a
football party in there.
If you want to have a bigdinner, you can have a big
dinner.
You want to have a comedy show,have a comedy show.

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Karaoke, you can do it.
You can do whatever you wantwith it.

SPEAKER_02 (23:27):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (23:28):
Because it's a blank slate.
It's a blank slate.

SPEAKER_02 (23:33):
And I can't think of I can't even talk about all the
future things that I want tohave in there in about 10 years
because I can't talk about it,but you know what I mean.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (23:41):
Oh, I know.
So many things.
I have to say too, this picturebehind me, and it's very
distracting, the combination ofthe My Chemical Romance album at
the bottom of this guy.
When I'm turned like this andyou can't see the edge, because
the my picture is small in thecamera, it looks like the menu

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to Rocky's Cascade Pizza.
It looks like the pizza's at thebottom, and there's a guy
standing up top doing somethingwith the pizza.

SPEAKER_02 (24:14):
I can see pizza now.
I can see pizza.

SPEAKER_05 (24:16):
Yeah, tell me that's and that's just in my I'm like,
why do I have a giant pizza menuhanging on my wall?
Now, in the big, it doesn't looklike that.
Anybody looking at this in a bigframe is never gonna see it, but
because the picture's small asI'm looking in the camera, it
looks like a pizza menu.

SPEAKER_02 (24:32):
I can totally see that now that you said that.
Yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_03 (24:36):
So weird.

SPEAKER_02 (24:37):
Oh my god.
So um, yeah, so you built abench, we're gonna do so many
things with that room.
It's amazing.
Um, the turnout on Saturday wasgreat.
The food, the but what was that?

SPEAKER_05 (24:50):
The turnout was okay.
We could have had a little bitbetter.
But it'll be fine.
It'll be fine.
Everybody had a great time.
That's all that matters.
The crowd was good.
That's how they behave is moreimportant than the size, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (25:02):
Right.
Like, would I have liked to havea couple more bodies and seats?
Absolutely.
And if y'all didn't show up,you're dumb for not coming
because it was a blast.

SPEAKER_05 (25:12):
But yeah, you'd have had a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 (25:15):
But the pe but when I say great turnout, like
literally the whole room wasvibrating with laughter from
beginning to end.
It was a great one.
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (25:24):
The people that came, it was fun, had a good
time.
Had a good time.

SPEAKER_02 (25:29):
Yes, it was stupid.

SPEAKER_05 (25:30):
They come down here, they had a good time.
That's um no, but we of coursehad I mean, the lineup though, I
mean, of course we knew it wasgonna be that good because we
personally curated the list.
But I just have to say, like,I'm really good at ranking
comedians.
Like, because we always get likethe to me, what I think is like

(25:53):
the best.
We go to a lot of shows, and um,you know, there's always a
person or two you're like, Icould have probably done them.
But I feel like I'm like the theway that I try to do it is I
want to be the worst one on myown show.
I know that sounds dumb.

SPEAKER_02 (26:13):
No, it doesn't.
It doesn't.

SPEAKER_05 (26:15):
It only makes you look better.

SPEAKER_02 (26:17):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (26:17):
You understand what I'm saying?
Like, if you're just amongst themen that's something that I
think people sometimes areafraid, is like to get people
that are too funny.
I don't think that.
That's only gonna elevate yourcomedy.
People only remember the goodstuff.
They don't remember like they'regonna be like, uh, that one guy,
whatever.
That's all they're gonna say,like, if you're not impactful.

(26:40):
So it's like, I'd rather justhave the the best show possible.

unknown (26:45):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (26:45):
Um But yeah.
And it just elevates the wholething.
But yeah, no, it was it wasgreat.
I think everybody really, Imean, had a great time.
I didn't hear any negativereviews.
Um, which brings up anotherinteresting point.
We're gonna talk about it righthere, real quick.
I'm gonna try to snag aninterview, but I haven't even

(27:07):
heard anything from him, andit's like four days away.
Um we got an open mic coming upat Fetsis Sports Pub here in
Johnstown this coming Tuesday,November 4th, 2025.
They're gonna give away prizes.
I'm gonna do a feature set.
Uh Frank's gonna host.
It's gonna be grand.

(27:27):
We try to get as many people inthere as we can.
Fetsis has good food.
Get yourself some of them littlebarbecue kiebossi bites, and
things will knock your socksoff.

SPEAKER_02 (27:37):
So good.
Oh my god.
I love those barbecue kiebosis.

SPEAKER_05 (27:43):
I don't even know.
Here's the thing is like, I'vedone them here at the house
numerous times.
It's like not even the samething.
I don't know what they're doingor what they're using or how
they're cooking it, but thoselittle bastards are good, man.

SPEAKER_02 (27:56):
Well, first of all, they either they brown them on
the grill a little bit, right?

SPEAKER_05 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 (28:03):
But I can't figure out some of the sugar, I think.

SPEAKER_05 (28:06):
Right, but here's the kicker, though, is I can't
figure out if they cook themthen, if they grill them and put
them in the sauce and just servethem, or if they cook them, put
them in the sauce and they'relike on a pot and they're just
dipping them out.
That's another scenario, whichis what I think might be
happening, which is why theflavor is so rich in the
barbecue sauce and you get sucha good caramelization of those
sugars.

SPEAKER_02 (28:29):
Oh my god.
Uh well, you could ask Chad, Iguess.
He might tell you his child'ssecret.

SPEAKER_04 (28:36):
I I'm sure that he probably will.

SPEAKER_02 (28:39):
That's the other thing that I like about having
the open mic there is that it'ssuper accessible.
It's right in the city.

SPEAKER_05 (28:45):
If you're coming to Johnstown, it's literally the
easiest place to go.
And they have a huge parking lotright across the street.

SPEAKER_02 (28:51):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (28:51):
You know, you know what I mean?
Because you can park right thereat the stadium.
So it's like the ease with whichto go there is uh you're not
gonna find another venue inJohnstown that you can get to as
easy as you can get to Fetses ifyou're coming from somewhere
else.

SPEAKER_00 (29:07):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (29:07):
Outside of Johnstown.
Like if you're in Johnstown, itis what it is.
It's the same as going anywhereelse.
But if you're coming fromAltoona or some a lot of these
people are gonna be coming infrom out of town, Altoona, State
College, Huntington, whereverthey may come from, Bedford,
wherever.
It's literally when you get intoJohnstown, I mean it's bing bang

(29:29):
boom, right off the highway.
If you can call it a highway,which I don't, but and they have
a lot of space there.

SPEAKER_02 (29:36):
I mean, inside of Fetzes, like it kind of almost
looks small from outside, andyou're not sure, but there's
plenty of room in there.

SPEAKER_05 (29:44):
Yeah, there's tables.
I love that place.
Yeah, there's plenty of room atthe bar.
The bar goes around.
It's it's yeah, it's a goodlittle place.
I love fetzes.
We love going there.
Karaoke.

unknown (29:54):
Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (29:56):
Yeah.
I haven't done karaoke in frontof us.
Except for at my own house.

SPEAKER_05 (30:01):
Here is my question, though, to the masses.
Is because I heard that he's notgoing to do karaoke more since
we moved here, but is JR stillused to karaoke at Fetz's?
I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 (30:16):
But he still does it at Rockies on Friday nights.

SPEAKER_05 (30:20):
What's that?

SPEAKER_02 (30:21):
I don't know if he does it at Fetz's anymore, but
he still does it at Rockies onFriday nights.

SPEAKER_05 (30:25):
Well, I'm just saying he's supposedly never
gonna do karaoke again everytime I've ever, they're like,
this is J.R.'s last time doingkaraoke.
And maybe that's how they getpeople there.
I don't know.
But no, I love J.R.
I'm not not I'm not saying likeanything against him.
I just and I know that it hahe's changing jobs and he
changes, you know, that he'smade some different decisions

(30:47):
along the way as far as what hewanted to do with the business.
But I'm just kidding, I'm givinghim a hard time busting his
balls because it does feel likewe've been to like nine
different final JR karaokes.

SPEAKER_02 (30:58):
Right?

SPEAKER_05 (30:59):
Am I wrong in that?

SPEAKER_02 (31:00):
Like no.
No.
You're not gonna be able to dothat.

SPEAKER_05 (31:03):
There's a couple times we're like, oh, we'll make
sure we come out for thatbecause it's the last one.

SPEAKER_02 (31:08):
Like, then a week later I see a post.

SPEAKER_05 (31:12):
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 (31:15):
Yeah.
No, I think I'm pretty sure he'sstill doing it at Rockies over
in Woodvale.

SPEAKER_05 (31:19):
Uh I think he's still doing it at Fetz's, too.

SPEAKER_02 (31:23):
Yeah, I think he might be right.
But didn't they say there's a umopen like a open mic, a music
open mic there on Thursdays orsomething?

SPEAKER_05 (31:32):
They do uh jam night or whatever on Thursdays, I
think.
Or no, karaoke's.
I don't know.
One of the next one.

SPEAKER_02 (31:38):
Yeah, karaoke's Wednesday.

SPEAKER_05 (31:39):
Maybe Wednesday, Wednesday's karaoke, Thursday's
jam night.

SPEAKER_02 (31:43):
Yeah.
But jam night, I mean, that'sinteresting.
I wouldn't mind going down forthat because I used to jam out
at Dively's around here.
But we have a lot of friends outthe out tune away who like to do
jam.

SPEAKER_05 (31:56):
Who are doing a lot of gigging.
Doing a lot of gigging and jam.
Doing a lot of jamming.
Kevin, Alyssa, um We got the guythat plays the accordion.
I love that guy.

unknown (32:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (32:08):
He has a country roads accordion that I love,
man.
Good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (32:13):
I know.
I'm like seriously obsessed.
I want to learn how to play theaccordion now.

SPEAKER_05 (32:18):
Oh, I know.
It's crazy.
It's fun.
It looks fun.
Because there's so much goingjust a lot of this.

SPEAKER_02 (32:24):
It looks like peaceful too.
It looks, it's, it feels like itwould work my chicken wings off.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 (32:31):
As long as we're not doing polka, I think we're fine.
Polka.
Yamavuchi polka.
Kiss me polka.

SPEAKER_02 (32:43):
I so up at Lorraine Borough at the at the we call it
the ball field, but um it'sactually like an event place for
folks who don't know.
Um they have pavilions there andthis, that, and the other.
Well, um, they used to have apolka fest.
I'm sure they probably still do.
I just haven't been to it inforever.
Oh my god, polka fest is so Ilove polka fest.

SPEAKER_05 (33:08):
I imagine that polka fest is a lot better than polka
music because you have polkafood.
Polka kebasi.

SPEAKER_02 (33:15):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (33:16):
Polka kilbasi.
Polska kilbass.
Polska kilbasi.
But yeah, no, I uh I imagine yougot lots I bet that's a sausage
fest in more than one way.

SPEAKER_06 (33:32):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (33:33):
Oh, but I Graham used to she could Yodo a little
bit and she would be like, didee, did eat, did, but she would
do it to like polka music.
So she'd walk around the housedid eat did eat and all the time
to polka tunes, and her birdswould pick it up, and her birds

(33:55):
could like did polka.

SPEAKER_03 (33:58):
Polka polka.

SPEAKER_02 (34:03):
There's something about polka music.
I just like it.

SPEAKER_05 (34:05):
I guess because I grew up here and it's like a
it's not wholly WesternPennsylvania, but it kind of no,
it's not because what's weirdabout it is you see a huge the
accordion is a fascinatinginstrument because look at its
influence on country Westernmusic via the way of Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 (34:26):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (34:27):
Because Southwest music, Mexican music, uh has a
lot of accordion in it.
They love an accordion.

SPEAKER_02 (34:34):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (34:35):
But it's where it comes.
Right, but it because of thoseGerman immigrants that went to
Mexico.
That a big part of that, that'swhere that all comes from in
Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 (34:49):
Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05 (34:51):
Yeah, so because it's a I I mean you can fact
check it.
I'm almost a hundred percentsure that it was German
influence on Mexican music thatled to um because there was a
lot of immigrants that went toMexico to be like cowboys and
stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (35:08):
Yeah, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05 (35:11):
And so, but a big part of it, and so they had the
music and stuff that goes withit.
So I'm I'm almost pretty,pretty, pretty sure about that.

SPEAKER_02 (35:20):
Pretty pretty sure.
Um what did I say that I wantedto talk about?
And I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_05 (35:34):
Something in Halloween, Pennsylvania?

SPEAKER_02 (35:38):
No, Tappy's giving us crap for that.
Oh, well, let's talk aboutsomething that comes up every
single year.
Every year.
There's the lore and there's thetells, and there's the people
giving you uh tips and advice.
I thought, I thought that it wasmy parents lying to me so they

(36:04):
could eat half my candy before Ifigured out what was in my damn
box or my bag.

SPEAKER_05 (36:08):
Well, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_02 (36:10):
That's what I thought it was.
But every year, this year it'sfentanyl.
They're putting fentanyl in thecandy.

SPEAKER_05 (36:17):
Well, this started back in it started the same time
as satanic panic back in the80s.
This whole candy.

SPEAKER_02 (36:24):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (36:25):
Like that people were just massively dosing.
You could go to the hospital,get your handy x-rayed.
I never forget that because wedid that one year and we waited.
It was like two hours at thehospital.
It was never again, mom said.
Who needed it?
Oh my god.
She's like, and I remember well,what's hilarious is she's I
remember saying, Your dad didfind one thing that looked open,

(36:48):
so he ate it.
As if that's the solution, ifit's poisoned, like I'm gonna
eat this just in case it'spoisoned.
Just in case.
So that logic just cracks me up.

SPEAKER_02 (37:05):
And when they say drugs, like, are you fucking
kidding me?
Who's wasting their drugs onchildren?
Because like a couple years ago,like this year it's fentanyl,
which is scary.
I mean, that's just scary.
But a couple years ago it was umMDMA or like Molly or whatever
that they were allegedly puttingin the candy.
Like, who's giving away Mollyfree to kids?

SPEAKER_05 (37:29):
And not only that, but like I sure I could see
accidental like fentanylpoisoning.
Like, so first off, how manyfentanyl addicts do you know are
giving away candy and triggertreat?
Like, just from a perspective ofthings, like these people are
not participating in society inthe way that the rest of us are.

(37:50):
The fact that they're like, letme get a bag of candy to give
out to the kids.
So that's the thing.
Any money they have is going tofentanyl.

SPEAKER_02 (38:01):
Well, and if you look it up that, like
statistically, the times thatthat has been actually done, it
was people going after their ownkids.
Like their intent was to gettheir own kids.
So I found it.

SPEAKER_05 (38:15):
They fake some kind of accident or something, right?

SPEAKER_02 (38:18):
Right.
So the original one of thathappened in Texas in the 70s,
and the guy um he took pixiesticks and poisoned them with um
cyanide.
But he went it was to kill hisson because he wanted the
insurance money.
So it did indeed happen one timein Texas.

SPEAKER_05 (38:41):
And that's not even drugs.
Cyanide isn't even like thestories you always hear is it's
like you might accidentally getcrack.
You know, like it's not it'snever like the poison's a whole
different thing.

SPEAKER_02 (38:54):
Like Right, exactly.
Or like the range of blades.
It's it's all just hyperbole.

SPEAKER_05 (39:01):
Like just Yeah, it's all just it's just you it was
scare tactics for whateverreason.
I don't even really know.
Again, like the satanic panic.
I'm not sure what the purpose ofit really was, but um it didn't
amount to anything.
How many kids do we stop fromeating razor blades out of
apples?

(39:22):
First off, you got an apple inyour Halloween bag, you ain't
fucking eating that thing.
You're throwing it, you'repitching it.
That's crap and garbage.
Nobody that was trying to doanything would put it in apple.
If you really wanted to trickit, you would like insert in the
middle of the Snickers bar.
Like the logic is completely outthe window.

SPEAKER_02 (39:40):
Like Right.

SPEAKER_05 (39:42):
It just doesn't make sense.
Again, uh, because it didn'thappen.
It's not happening.
People, it's just not somethingthat's not.
I'm not saying it's neverhappened, and I'm not saying
that it never could happen orwould happen.
Anything can happen.

SPEAKER_02 (39:55):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (39:56):
But like the idea that there's like risk, right?

SPEAKER_02 (40:02):
So that's what people are playing on is your
willingness to risk your child.
So it's just people who want toincite fear, and what like
that's gonna be the thing thatyou're afraid of most is that
your child gets hurt, right?
And for most people uh who havechildren, that's gonna be their
fear of all fears.

(40:23):
It's a mind game, it's a controlfactor.
Anytime that you are able toassert fear into somebody else's
life, that person gets a littlegiddiness out of it.
But if people just actuallyfucking thought through it
logically, they would arrive atthe same conclusions that we do.
There's calculated risk ineverything that you do in life,

(40:43):
but that's a lot more people.

SPEAKER_05 (40:48):
Yeah, it's just not a it's just not really a thing.
It's just yep, like you said, Ijust don't I'm not into it.

SPEAKER_02 (40:55):
I may or may not give out candy tomorrow.
I want to, kind of, but it'salso two to the city.

SPEAKER_05 (41:00):
Here's the thing is I love the idea of giving out
candy.
That sounds funny.

SPEAKER_02 (41:05):
I wanna give it out.

SPEAKER_05 (41:06):
Like I'm not gonna have to have candy Listen, we're
gonna have plenty of candy tothere's gonna be pl we can't
talk about it.
We can talk about it, but we'regonna have plenty of
opportunities in the future toparticipate in these activities.
So I'm concerned that I've beenmissing out.

SPEAKER_02 (41:23):
I'm looking forward to hay rides and pumpkin
carvings and mazes.

SPEAKER_05 (41:30):
None of that takes place on trick or treat, but
that's the bonus part of itthough, is all the field
activities.
Petting zoos, pick your ownpumpkin patch, uh press your own
cider.
Apple cider slushies.
I saw somebody was doing I thinkit was at the treasure apple

(41:52):
ranch or whatever.
It was like cider slushies withice cream.

SPEAKER_02 (41:58):
Like a that sounds amazing.

SPEAKER_05 (42:00):
Like a you know what it's like.
Like a snowball.
Yeah, like yeah, like asnowball, but with apple cider
slushie instead of you know,whatever flavor you can use.

SPEAKER_02 (42:08):
That sounds so good.
It's like apple pie a la mode,right?
Yeah, kinda.

unknown (42:16):
Sure.

SPEAKER_02 (42:16):
I'm gonna have to try that.
I need to go try that.
Let's write down the treasuresthis weekend.
Treasures.

SPEAKER_05 (42:25):
I think I saw that it was like I th it they might
not even be doing it anymore.
That's how you know what I mean.
I'll have to look.
Because it was like a limitedthing.
I'm saying they were not doingit.
I don't I don't know if they'llstill be doing it this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 (42:39):
But we can speak of uh Halloween apple
confectioneries, I decided totry my hand at making um candied
apples.
But first I tried it oncranberries.
That was really effing good.
I've never made hard fat candybefore, so it was kind of messy,

(43:00):
but I would do it again.

SPEAKER_05 (43:01):
Oh, the cranberries were delicious.
I'd eat a pile of them.
If it was a little bit lessmessy, I felt like they got a
little sticky.
It'd be less I mean, of courseit's candy, it's gonna be
sticky, but like like you said,the ability to be able to eat,
but they're addictive as hell.

SPEAKER_02 (43:18):
Uh candy apples, I mean Yeah, I just I need to
learn how to set the candybetter.
That was my very first go at it.
So the f the I one thing that Idid wrong, especially with the
apples, is that you have to makesure that they're completely
dry.
So I strained them, but theywere uh soaking in lemon juice
and water so that they couldretain their like color.

(43:40):
And it's a preservative, right?
So they were soaking in a lemonjuice.
I didn't pat them dry when Idipped them.

SPEAKER_05 (43:47):
Candy, much like smoking meats or baking, is a
learning curve.
You learn little tricks as yougo along.
You get to eat your mistakes,that's the best part, and it
always tastes good.
But like you learn things tomake it the best.
So I have no doubt that you'llbe whooping up candy apples
regular style in no time.

(44:08):
Um I love a good, I would liketo do, you know, you always see
them like the with the nuts onthe like the caramel ones.
Like you see the different ones,like not just candy or caramel
apple, but like uh the gourmetones.
I don't want it too fancy, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (44:27):
Like I want it like a Jimmy's or Crushnuts or yeah,
yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
But so candy thermometer is anabsolute game changer.
I had one before, but it wasn'tthe right style.
This one is perfect.
It was like 12 bucks at Walmart.
Oh my god, is a game changerbecause now I can make I can

(44:50):
make Taffy, I can make Divinity,I can make all the candies now.

SPEAKER_05 (44:56):
Uh well, that's funny that the thermometer is
really the key there, just likewith smoking meats.
Your thermometer is your bestfriend, much like candy making.
It's like it's just the thingthat you have to have to make
sure that it's like workingcorrectly.
That you're because all thosethings are those things, candy
making, smoking meats, it'syeah, you're just taking a

(45:19):
temperature, but the reasonyou're doing it is because the
science behind it is thechemistry that's taking place
within the ingredients.
You have to have that at acertain temperature, whereas
other forms of cooking, it's notquite as much.

SPEAKER_02 (45:34):
It's right.
There's some variants.
You're absolutely right.
And so, you know, we lovewatching those shows.
Like, remember that one showwhere the guy made all the crazy
chocolate creations?
He was like a chocolate sculptoror whatever.

SPEAKER_05 (45:50):
I'll turn it on right now.
It's uh what's his face?
Uh yeah, he's got the littlemustache, he's French.

SPEAKER_02 (45:57):
He does the sugar sculptures.

SPEAKER_05 (46:01):
He's the best in the world, like.

SPEAKER_02 (46:03):
When I was doing the sugar, when I was making the
candy, like I was like, so haveyou ever watched somebody mold a
candle?
So you take a candle, a candle,and you dip it in a vat of cold
water, and then you ladle meltedwax over it in the cold water,
and you can like twist it andturn it.

(46:24):
I watched one girl make a dragonholding onto a candle just by
using water and twisting in thewater and pouring more wax.
So I was doing not doing it withthe candy, but I was seeing how
I could do that with the candyto make shapes, like how he made
like the bird's nest and theglass globe and all that.

(46:47):
I'm learning how to do all thatnow.
I'm gonna make a I'm gonna learnhow to make like sugar creations
out of everything.

SPEAKER_05 (46:53):
Now that's fun.
That's something I can getbehind.

SPEAKER_02 (46:57):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (46:58):
Um, no, well, this brings up another interesting
point because now we're talkingabout food and stuff, but now
we're headed into the real likeSuper Bowl era of the food.
So literally, within the nextthree months, you have
Thanksgiving, Christmas, NewYear's, Super Bowl.
Four big food events.

(47:19):
In a three-month span where youget all the good stuff.
All the good stuff.
Like each meal's different, too.
Cause like Thanksgiving, youknow, of course, we know what
Thanksgiving is.
Christmas is usually similar tothe Thanksgiving, but it's
usually done purposely differentbecause you just had
Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 (47:38):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (47:39):
New Year's is like all party food.
It's all your little weenies andyour fucking bacon wrap things
and your fucking barbecuedfucking shrimps.
I ate so many shrimp.
I got i dine poison.
Um little 3-6 UGK for you,sipping on some scissors.
Um but the you know, and then ofcourse the Super Bowl's similar

(48:07):
to what I would say is NewYear's, but there's a little
probably more substance behindit.
Because Super Bowl, you want agood meal, eat a hoagie, eat
some pizzas, something likethat, you know.
Um so it's good.
It's it's my favorite, favoritethree months.

SPEAKER_02 (48:22):
Yeah, I mean favorite three months from the
Halloween to the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
Cause for me, it's not the sameas like your everyday cooking.
It's a project, it's a craft,it's an art.
You're doing extra things withall the things.
So, like, I absolutely love tobe Betty Crocker during the

(48:45):
holidays.
It's my favorite vibe, is likejust having music or something
going on in the kitchen, TV, andjust running around cooking all
day.
I love it.
It's it's like peaceful for me.
Like it's a very um, like whenI'm angry, cooking is probably a
good place for me to like getout of my brain.

(49:07):
If I'm like too inside myself,start cooking.
Cause then it like I'mconcentrating, I'm forgetting
about like the crap, and I'mjust like in the moment cooking.

SPEAKER_05 (49:18):
Well, that's what I was gonna say is I think it's
the task because it in cooking,you're focused.
You know, this is the order,this is what this, d-da-da-d, d-
d-d-d.
Like it takes you out of youryou as a process.
Most of the time throughout yourday, you're not in that sort of
regimented step by step by stepby step.
So you like you said, it givesyou that sort of I don't know,

(49:41):
turn your mind off kind of thingand focus on something else.

SPEAKER_02 (49:45):
It's like a worried.
It's not a mindless activitybecause you do have to put your
mind to it, but you're you'reconcentrating and thinking
through.
And I've said this very often.
I would love to see a video fromlike a we need to put a ring cam
in the kitchen when we're doingan event.
Because like I swear it's like acable, dude.

(50:05):
It's like a symphony, right?
Of you and I, because we knowour stations, we know who's
prepping what, we know who'sgonna be chopping veg.
Like, we always kind of knowwhere we're gonna be in the
kitchen at what time.
We like, and it's not like wesit down and have a meeting and
talk about it.
We're like, okay, I'm makingthis at this time, this at this
time.

(50:26):
And then, like, but the activityof us just kind of gliding
through the kitchen past eachother doing our things, it's
kind of cool.

SPEAKER_05 (50:33):
Well, I think because we we have a good
kitchen to do.
We've this never workedpreviously.

SPEAKER_02 (50:38):
It's the space, it's like I mean it did, but not as
well.

SPEAKER_05 (50:42):
But the reason that you and I do is because when we
set out to do it, I don't helpyou with your stuff.
You don't help me with my stuff.
We have our jobs, we're doingthem, and we know that the other
person's doing theirs, so you'rejust mindful of what they're
doing and where they're doingit.

SPEAKER_02 (50:59):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (51:00):
Umperates.
I mean, that's how a goodkitchen operates.

SPEAKER_02 (51:05):
Well, we've both worked in kitchens.

SPEAKER_05 (51:06):
Everybody should know their station, like you
said.
What's that?

SPEAKER_02 (51:10):
I said we've both worked in kitchens as well, so
we get it.

SPEAKER_05 (51:15):
Well, yeah, but that doesn't automatically mean you
know what's going on, because90% of the people I worked in
the kitchen had no clue of thisconcept.
Uh but that's the way that it'ssupposed to work, and a good
kitchen manager makes thathappen.
That's why you that's why it'simportant to have somebody like
that.
You can't just have a head cook.

(51:37):
A perfect example, like localestablishment that we know that
rhymes with Smurchard.
Like, yeah, he's a head cook,but like he's not managing the
kitchen.
You need to manage the kitchenand manage the people and the
workflow and who's doing what.
It can't just be a free-for-all.

SPEAKER_02 (51:56):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 (52:00):
I would love I like doing it.
I like running a kitchen, butthe problem is the only kitchen
that I ever want to run is mine,and I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_06 (52:11):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (52:12):
Like, I like the idea of it and concept, and when
I'm doing it, I like doing it.
And yeah, if I could make agazillion dollars doing it, I
would.
But like pay is not there forpeople to manage kitchens.

SPEAKER_02 (52:24):
Like No.
Not even higher.

SPEAKER_05 (52:27):
If you found the right situation and the right
people, could an offer be made?
Sure.
If you hear me out there, someof those people have told me
that they would love to make methat offer if they ever own
their own place.
So feel free.
Uh because I do enjoy thatpressure.
I like I like the kitchen and Ilike the you know what I mean?

(52:48):
Like I like the hotness, I likethe people firing back and
forth.

SPEAKER_02 (52:53):
It's that.
It's the fast pace, but you knowit's gonna be over at some
point.
There's a stopping point to it.
You know at 10 o'clock you'renot getting you're not accepting
another order or whatever thecase may be.
So that's why I love it.
Because like, even like when Iworked up at South Mountain, I
used to be like there would be agroup coming in, like right

(53:14):
before I was ready to shuteverything down.
I'd be like, hell yeah, put thetickets through because it's the
last one.
I know that's the last thing Ihave to do tonight.
Right.
So absolutely I love busykitchens.
I love them.
Home, restaurant.
It's just a cool place to be.
It's like the ER.
I like hanging out in the ERtoo.

SPEAKER_05 (53:36):
It's a better ER.
You can't eat nothing in the ER.
I mean, maybe if you got a goodcafeteria, I'll tell you what,
them chicken patties down thereat the Waynesburg Hospital shout
out there.
Nah, I'm decent.
But no, I you know I love a goodcafeteria, and a hospital is one
of the I judge a lot.
I mean, there's some good ones,there's some bad ones, but I
like it when I love when ahospital serves nothing but

(53:58):
unhealthy food.
I hate these ones that try to bemodern, it's just like salads
and shit.
Nah, fuck that.
Yeah.
I want a chicken patty, aburger, and a sausage egg, and
cheese, my friend.

SPEAKER_02 (54:09):
Right before I go in.

SPEAKER_05 (54:10):
And that way, if I have a heart attack, I can head
right upstairs to the fourthfloor and get myself zapped or
whatever I need done.

SPEAKER_02 (54:17):
Speaking of which, I do speaking of hospitals though,
um we were out at UPMC inAltuna, right?
Is that what it is?
Is it a UPMC?
Yeah.
Now, their snack bar bar has aStarbucks in it.
It has like good pretzels, ithad all the stuff, but the only
beef I had with their cafe,their menu fucking like you

(54:42):
couldn't, I it was pictures.

SPEAKER_05 (54:44):
You didn't even know what they had.

SPEAKER_02 (54:46):
I didn't know what they had.
Somebody was walking away withthis gorgeous fucking sandwich,
and I didn't know what I wasn'tgonna be like, hey, can I like
that's rude.
So yeah, I mean, but the foodwas good.
It's such like the layout oftheir hospital.
I love the whole thing abouttheir hospital.
I'm obsessed with hospitals too,because I've been working in

(55:09):
medical settings for the past 20years.
So like I like the hustle andbustle of an ER as much as I
like the hustle and bustle of akitchen.
Um and I'm and I'm like when Igo to hospitals, I'm like in it.
Like I'm I'm checking everythingout, where how everything's laid
out, all of it.

SPEAKER_05 (55:26):
As long as I'm not the one that's there for an
affliction or whatever I'm therefor, as long as I'm just a
visitor, then I'm I'm I'mscouting it out.
Snack bars, vending machines,soda pop.
No, I do.
I check, I'm like, what can Iget from there?
What can and that's how I'vealways been as a kid because
that was like the opportunity tolike get something because you

(55:48):
weren't at home.

SPEAKER_02 (55:50):
You like So my big thing at the hospital is their
ice machines.
Like, cause you know, like onthe floors, they have the good,
good.
They have the crunchy littleshave little.

SPEAKER_05 (56:04):
I mean, some probably do.

SPEAKER_02 (56:06):
The best ones do.

SPEAKER_05 (56:08):
I think it's probably like convenience
stores.
Some are rudders, some aresheets, some are whatever.
Some got good ice, some got bad.

SPEAKER_02 (56:14):
So it's funny though that when people say the good
ice, we're all referring to thecrunchy ice.
Like it we don't that's thecommon nomenclature or whatever.
Like nobody's ever calling thosehard ass.
Nobody's calling those hard asslittle cubes that have the holes
in the middle.
Nobody's calling those the goodice.

(56:34):
No, it's the crunchy ice, likethe soft.

SPEAKER_05 (56:39):
Yeah, rudders has it in those little pellets.
It's that's the good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (56:44):
Yeah, the pellets.
But it's the texture of them.
I don't even care what shapethey are.
It has to be like the soft,almost like a slushy, but like
not.

SPEAKER_05 (56:55):
The shape has a lot to do with it though.
The shape has a lot to do withthe way that it freezes.
Like, so that that has a lot todo with that.

SPEAKER_02 (57:06):
Yeah.
Yeah, I just I love the goodice.

SPEAKER_03 (57:11):
The good ice, party.

SPEAKER_02 (57:13):
There was something else that I wanted to talk.
Oh.
So um it is Halloween themed,but not necessarily, and it
keeps coming up in my feed forso many reasons.
So we're just gonna lay this,lay this all out.
It's not Halloween specific, butI gotta pee real quick and then

(57:33):
we're gonna talk about it.

SPEAKER_05 (57:34):
Neither was Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 (57:36):
But did the camera pick up me pee?
You're weird.

SPEAKER_05 (57:40):
Yep.

SPEAKER_02 (57:40):
Could you hear me?
You you could?
No.
Could you hear my pee?

SPEAKER_03 (57:44):
No.

SPEAKER_02 (57:45):
Oh, because I was gonna sell to OnlyFans if you
could.

SPEAKER_05 (57:48):
No, I couldn't hear it, but here's what I do here.
Do I kind of look like awrestler?

SPEAKER_02 (57:56):
Yes.
You do look exactly like awrestler.
You look exactly like awrestler.
No, I was gonna sell my umpeeing noise to OnlyFans.

SPEAKER_05 (58:09):
Don't talk about that.
Don't talk about that.
That's disgusting.
People don't that's so horridthat we live in a society where
people are actually doing theAnyway.

SPEAKER_02 (58:22):
So then this might gross you up.
No, we've talked about thisbefore.
So I want to open a boutiquefuneral parlor.

SPEAKER_05 (58:34):
Oh, yeah, that's nice.
That's not selling pee forChrist's sakes.

SPEAKER_02 (58:39):
Umeral parlor.
Yeah, what do you think it is?

SPEAKER_05 (58:45):
A boutique funeral parlor?
That's where you'd have likecool funerals.

SPEAKER_02 (58:50):
Yeah.
Yeah, like badass funerals.
So here's where the thoughtstemmed from.
I'm just gonna give everybodythe history so they can be in my
brain with me.
One of my favorite movies when Ineed to let it all out and sob
my heart out is P.S.
I Love You.
It also has a stellarsoundtrack.

(59:11):
Yeah, yes.
It has a stellar soundtrack.
And one of my favorite songsthat I listen to on the regular
is If I ever leave this worldalive.
Um it is, I think, is itflogging Molly or um Oh shit.
Hold on.
I need to look this one upbecause I don't want to Yeah,

(59:33):
I'm not sure.
The pogs it's the Pogues.
Who sings if I ever leave thisworld alive on the movie P.S.
I Love You.

SPEAKER_03 (59:44):
If I have her, leave this world alive.

SPEAKER_02 (59:50):
I'm okay.
But I thank you.
Um it is flogging, Molly.
I was right the first time.

SPEAKER_05 (59:56):
There you go.

SPEAKER_02 (59:57):
Ha ha go.
But yeah, is one it's one of myabsolute hands-down favorite
songs.
And the premise of the song orthe movie, like I'm sure most
people know already, becauseit's like a hundred years old,
is that um he knows he's dying,so he like sets it up so that
she gets all these experiencesafter he dies, right?

(01:00:18):
Um but one of my favorite scenesis they're all sitting around
his ashes, just like doing shotsin a bar.
That is that's me.
When I die, just fucking sitaround, put my ashes in the room
wherever you are, do a bunch ofshots, sing a bunch of songs.

(01:00:39):
Don't sing four non-blondesbecause I've aired that one out.
Don't sing me and Bobby McGeebecause I've aired that one out.
Those don't represent me as ahuman.
I will leave a list of songs youcan sing on my behalf.
One of them, if I ever leavethis world alive.
So that got me thinking aboutwell, I want a place where

(01:01:00):
everybody's a funeral dreamfirst.
Yeah, you absolutely can, but Ijust but we gotta segue into
they have to have the visualthough, right?
So I want to open this boutiquefuneral parlor where you can do
wild things at the funeralswithin reasonable limits of the
law, right?

(01:01:20):
But where you could there is abar, you can play badass music.
I can speak from experience.
Some of the songs that I playedat my son's funeral, I was
getting fucking dirty looks.
And I don't ever want to haveanybody be getting dirty looks
for their family's songs.
Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:38):
That's part of it too, though, is having the
attached bar.
That makes it pretty great.
You're like, where's Steve?
Over at the bar.
How great would it be to have?
I can't believe nobody ever puta bar in a funeral home before.
I mean, it's perfect.

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:52):
Oh, let's see if they have.
No, I'm not.
I'll look it up later.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:56):
But yeah, like not now, but I'm sure that maybe
somebody has, but Right.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:02):
Like I I mean People are paying twenty thousand
dollars or more for a funeral.
I wouldn't even charge thatmuch.
My boutique funeral parlor wouldbe you can get an open bar for
like a thousand bucks.
Right, exactly.
Like, come on now.
I want it to be a celebration oflife parlor, but only after the

(01:02:25):
person's dead.
We do parties for the living tooall the time.
But this I just I'm attached.
I want people to go out the waythat they want to, right?
Which leads into how you want togo out.

SPEAKER_05 (01:02:38):
Well, what the thing is though is that what people
look when you go to a funeral,what's everybody everybody's
like when the actual funeralpart's over, that's when the
real fun begins.
And I don't mean fun, but likethat's when you're able to talk
to people, like hug it out, tellstories, share, laugh, cry, eat,
drink, do whatever.

(01:02:58):
Everybody loves the thingafterwards, the reception,
whatever you call it.
Seems weird to call that thereception when that's what you
call the thing after a wedding,but regardless, right?
Um, the reception and like orthe party back at the house, you
know what I mean, or whatever.
That's what everybody looksforward to because that's when
they've really going for.

(01:03:20):
So why not just make the wholething that?
Like, no fan.
If you walk in here in a suitand tie, you're getting punched
in the face, Bob.
No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:28):
But you can do whatever you want.
I mean, some people want mightwant like a tuxedo-only funeral.
Whatever your wish is.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:40):
Right.
I agree.
We would tend to do that, but ifthat's what you want, then
probably go into our boot TV orparlor's not the place for you.
But if that's what you want,that's what we'll give you.
But this all brings to theculmination of what I would love
of this is, and this is what I'mgonna do at my funeral, this is

(01:04:01):
what I want done.
I'm gonna shoot videobeforehand.
Like when they cremate me andstuff, I want I'm gonna have to
get with the people that aredoing this because I need to
have some visionary, directorvisionary like thing over my own
video in my funeral.
But I want, as people walk in, Iwant the gates of hell are open

(01:04:21):
wide by Alan Jackson playing.
So that way they're like,where's Scott?
And it's like the gates of hellare open wide.

SPEAKER_02 (01:04:30):
Open wide.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:32):
Then when they say something about the flames,
they're gonna be like pushing meinto the fucking fire of the
thing.
And that's gonna be playing inthe video.
Yeah.
They're gonna be pushing myvideo of them pushing my coffin
into the cremator, and I'lljust, and they'll be like, and

(01:04:53):
then I'm like at the gates ofhell, and I'm like there, like
welcoming you to the carnival ofhell.
And I'm just like standingthere, like in Alan Jackson,
like in a shiny cowboy suit witha cowboy hat, like like this,
sort of like the gate, the youknow, when you picture, I always
think of the back of the LedZeppelin 4 album where the

(01:05:16):
person just like stand therewith the stick like next to the
thing or whatever.
Like just something simple likethat, where it's like just
welcoming you to hell.
Um, I'm gonna have all sorts ofhell jokes, Satan jokes.
I don't I want it to be really agood time.
I want the people that are likeChristians in my family to
probably feel uncomfortable withit, but they'll know me, so

(01:05:37):
it'll be fine.
Because I want people to belike, uh I want them to be I
want the person like officiatingto be like, Scott is down there
now smiling up at us.
Well, he's probably not smiling,he's probably screaming.
But yeah, I want it to be fun, Iwant it to be a good time.

unknown (01:05:57):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:58):
I want the last thing that people think about me
is to be like that goofy fucker.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:04):
Yeah, I just want to be planted.
Um, I want my ashes to be aweeping willow tree.
That's all.
And but the actual, like I said,the part I want everybody to
just be drinking and telling thecrazy stories.
I'm having a good time.
For me, like, depending on whooutlives me, there's some

(01:06:26):
fucking crazy stories that couldbe shared that are fun, funny.
People are gonna laugh because Iwas a bitch and just like street
fought all the time.
People are gonna laugh because Iroast people all the time.
I'm I'm not a stand-up comic,but I'm funny to fucking people
because of the way I talk shit.
Um I oh me, I don't want to beknown for talking shit.

(01:06:48):
Oh.
Uh well, anyways.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:50):
Um, I don't think that'd be the main thing that
people know you for.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:55):
No.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:56):
I think people know who you ask for.
I think the number one thing itbe Well, I think if you ask
around, I think the number onething that people would be like,
who's such a great singer?
She's such a great singer.
We want a videos of her doingit.
That's what I think people wouldsay.
They'd be like, I loved hervoice, I loved her attitude.

SPEAKER_02 (01:07:16):
Maybe that's what I'll do.
I'll write a song and cut itbefore and it'll only be
released at my funeral.
Only be released at the funeral.

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:24):
And it'll be great.
It'll be great.
Um, I think personally, I thinkWillie Nelson summed it up best
when he said, roll me up andsmoke me when I die.
That's like that's pretty muchjust do that, put my ashes in
the dirt, grow a wheat plant,roll me up and smoke me when I
die.

SPEAKER_02 (01:07:43):
Oh my Lanta.
Yeah, like I could, oh I'd be.
I'm not saying that death isfunny, but we have to be able to
like just be ourselves.
And I feel like funeral parlorsjust take that away from you
because they're so sterile.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:04):
It's your last time getting to celebrate like that
person.
And it's like just going to walklike Uncle Kevin's thing or
whatever.
It's like he wouldn't have likehe wouldn't have even gone if it
was something like he wouldn'thave even gone.
It like he would have just beenlike, whatever, I'm not going to

(01:08:26):
that.
And he'd have stayed home anddrank.
And like, then he'd have waitedbecause people would have gone
over and like, but that's likethe thing is like I just want
people to treat me when I'm deadlike they would any other day.
Come on.
Right.
Pass me a pass me a doobie, getme a beer, turn the Steelers
game on.
Let's jam some grateful dead andlet's eat some bacon wrap

(01:08:47):
scallops, okay?

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:50):
You just turned so Pittsburgh when you said that
too.
Oh my Leonta.
Um what else do we got supposedto talk about?
I feel like we had so muchbecause we had to be.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:02):
I know I love that idea because it's like you're
like we saw people love the sortof like fancy death stuff.
I mean, you see it, I I think itwould be great.
I think you're right on withthis.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:16):
Yeah.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:19):
I would go.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:20):
I don't know.
Plus, like obviously neither ofus are morticians, so we'd have
to hire a mortician.
And I already know who I want tohire.
You said that's easy.
Oh, I have somebody in mind.
Oh, you said that's easy.

(01:09:42):
And I was like, I when you saidthat's easy, I thought you
meant.
I meant finding a mortician.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:48):
No, you can find e you can find somebody easy.
I mean, I'm sure there's plentyof mortician schools.

SPEAKER_02 (01:09:53):
Yeah, but you want one that fits the vibe of the
place that is.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:56):
Well, you go to the mortician school, then you're
like, which one of you kidswants to come try something new?
Which one of you is innovative?

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:05):
Or you go to the I want Lauren.
Lauren the Mortician.
She's famous on TikTok.
Her name's Lauren the Mortician.
She's a real mortician.
She's a medical examiner.
But she does socials, and she'svery like goth kind of.

(01:10:27):
Um, but she's also a mother.
Like, she's very likeparadoxical, right?
Aren't you?
She's very cold.

SPEAKER_03 (01:10:33):
Aren't all morticians goth?

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:36):
Sure.
You could argue that.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, the true definition ofgothic would probably imply
that.
But I met her because of Bunny,um, XO.
Uh Bunny had her on the podcast.
And I just I fell in love withher, but I wasn't sure because
she seems a little like umpermit patty.

(01:10:58):
But then when I actually startedwatching her content, she like
she breaks stuff down and likeshe debunks things.
So like she's been recentlydebunking, because you know,
Candace Owens is fucking woo offher meds, I guess.
And she's been saying all thisconspiracy for it.
Right.

(01:11:18):
Well, she's been doing all thisstuff about Charlie Kirk
conspiracies, whatever.
And Lauren, the mortician, brokeit down.
She was like, this is whatreally happens.
This is why the report saidthat.
Nobody's trying to conspire.
You're just reading too muchinto it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:11:35):
That's just it, especially when people don't
understand things that theydon't do.
They're like, why would someonedo this?
Well, why would I watched onewhole thing where she was like,
Why would someone use the word,what was it?
And then they showed 19, she'slike, nobody would use that
word.
Nobody uses that word anymore.
Then they proceeded to show amonth's worth of clips of her

(01:11:55):
using that word way before thething ever even happened.

SPEAKER_03 (01:11:59):
Oh my God.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:02):
It's exhausting with her.
I don't even I don't I honestlycouldn't tell you what's going
on in her life because I like Ididn't unfollow her, but like I
just since I stopped clickinginto her content when it comes
up in my feed, like they don'tshow me her content anymore.

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:17):
Because like it's just You did what Charlie Kirk
did.
He didn't unfollow her.
He just like, well, let me justlet me just back off.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:28):
Slowly back the way.
Yeah.
I mean, but he fired her first.
He did fire her.
No, but you know what I'msaying, though.
Like I don't know if he's theone that actually was I don't
even know if he was there.
Yeah, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_05 (01:12:43):
But yeah, no, that's all fun and games.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:46):
Um, but yeah, I uh yeah, she's a Yeah, we've Yeah,
I don't think I'm gonna talkabout that.
What do we got coming up,though?
So the next couple weeks, we'vegot so you the open mic that
you've already talked about,that is gonna be so fun.
They might be giving away, ordid you already say?

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:10):
No, I didn't say, but their plan was to give away
Penguins tickets to the PenguinsRed Wings game.
That's November 4th, Tuesday, 7p.m.
to 10 p.m.
Fetz's Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Then on Black Friday, details tobe announced.
I think it's gonna be at theMasonic Temple here in
Johnstown, but all the wrongmoves coming back with another
show.

(01:13:30):
More to come on that.
I don't know the details.
Then that Saturday after BlackFriday is a the three Scots and
a Knot show.
This is gonna be so much fun atState College.
Me and my two favorite Scots aregonna rip, rip, rip.
And it's gonna be fun.
I'm like, I'm excited about it.

(01:13:53):
We possibly may have there willbe a knot.
We don't know who it is.
It might be Ridge, it might besomebody else.
It depends on schedule, so we'llsee.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:02):
Yeah, I'm excited to go.
Well, so oh go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:08):
No, no, no, no, no.
I was just gonna say we do havesome other things planned in
there, but none of it's local tohear.
Like we have the 565 thing andall that.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:18):
Oh, right, right.
Well, you could talk aboutPittsburgh.
Don't discount them.
There's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_05 (01:14:23):
Well, I don't remember the dates, so I don't
want to talk.
I don't want to talk.
No, I just don't want to talkabout the dates because I don't
remember what it was.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:31):
So we're going out hope I not hopefully, I think
we're going out Saturday tothey're doing a um vigil for
Matthew McDonald um out nearCalifornia, Pennsylvania.
So um we might rather Californiaway.
Talk to the folks, see what youknow, get some footage of the

(01:14:52):
visual.
But so two things that I amcalling out right now because I
want to get them stamp markedout into the ether.
So we talked about the holidayscoming up, my favorite time of
year.
I almost wore a Christmas shirttonight.
One thing that I thought of justtoday that I haven't even talked
to you about yet is I want to doa live recording of the podcast

(01:15:15):
up at the mall, the galleria.
Oh that way people want to stopby and like say hi, they can.
They can come in and sit in thebooth and get a Yeah, yes, yes.
And then the other thing I'm I'mputting out into the ether um
because we need to start talkingabout it now if it's gonna

(01:15:37):
happen.
Um, and so this might be acasting call.
I haven't really thought aboutit yet.
But I would really, really,really I want to put on a
Christmas variety show thisyear.
I don't know where we're doingit.
I don't know who's gonna beinvolved.
It's gonna be the feel of like1975 old Bobby Goulet type, bad

(01:15:58):
hair, bad suits.

SPEAKER_05 (01:16:00):
And I be like, this child is a blessing to the both
of us.
Give me let me sw I, Joseph,will swaddle this baby.
And then I want to get up and dothe then I'm gonna pat you on
the head like we just got done abasketball game.

SPEAKER_02 (01:16:28):
Oh yeah, we can do it.
I really, really, really wantto.
So we know that I sing.
Um, there are lots of otherpeople we know who sing.
I would love to do a live remixof Christmas time for the Jews
from SNL.
It's one of my I love doo-op.

(01:16:49):
I love that type of music, Ilove that lady's voice.
Um, I can't think of it rightnow.
Um, but yeah, I want to do that.
I want to do skits, I want to domy comedy.

SPEAKER_05 (01:17:02):
You can sing.
You can sing, but have you everplayed Bibbon?

SPEAKER_02 (01:17:07):
No.
So funny enough, no, I didn'teven.
But the only time that I wasever in any production like
that, I was also uh way backdeep in the back, extra.
Nothing important ever came myway.
So much so that I, well, becauseI was overweight in high school,

(01:17:27):
right?
So I didn't cast well.
So I became the stage managerand said, fuck it, I'm producing
these shows.
So I produced three musicals andwhile I was in high school
because I didn't want to be inthe show because I was too
insecure about being fat.
Even though I could sing waybetter back then thanks.

SPEAKER_05 (01:17:49):
I don't think I was ever in anything.
I other than that one act,one-man play that I did and won
the goddamn fucking historything.
Let me tell that story becausethat's fun.
So there was what inPennsylvania, there's this thing
it's called Nash, it's like partof National History Day, but
Pennsylvania like has their ownthing and they have contests.

(01:18:11):
You can either write an essay,you can make a project, or you
can do a performance.
Well, me being, and you hadmonths to work on this, and it
counted for part of your grade.
And so we got to the statecompetition, and I was always a
procrastinator, always lazy.
And so I I originally hadpartners in this play, and they

(01:18:33):
all backed out about two weeksbefore the competition.
We're like, we're just writingpapers.
I was like, I'll be goddamned ifI'm writing a fucking paper.
Like, so I was like, I'm justgonna do this.
So I went up there and did thiswhole play about this grand kit.
They was in a hospital.
I had like little bed sheets andthings churn up.
This guy was like, hisgrandfather was telling him the

(01:18:54):
story of World War II, and likethen he like was a ghost.
I don't even know.
Like, he wasn't really there,you know, like in the room.
I did this all myself, one actplay.
I won the regional competition,and they were like, So I had to
go do it again.
Well, not only that, then theywere like, you did so well, why

(01:19:16):
don't you do it for the wholeschool?
And the way they wanted to do itwas they were gonna have me do
it at different times throughoutthe day for each class that came
into the history class.
So everybody that had history inseventh period met in the
library.
I did it for those threeclasses, then like eighth
period, I did it for the nextthree classes.

(01:19:37):
I never had anything writtendown.
So I just not only did I make itup the first time, but then I
had to remember what I made up.
And I got pretty good by likethe third or the fourth time I
had it down.
Like I like had it totally actedout.
But you talk about puttingyourself in a bad position
because I was like, when theyasked me to repeat it, I was

(01:19:58):
like, what am I even gonna do?
I don't even know what I said.

SPEAKER_02 (01:20:01):
You're hilarious.
But didn't you do that one othertime too?
So for FFA, didn't you do likewing it for an FFA speech and
win something too?
Or was that different?

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:15):
Well, I never won it for a FFA thing.
I did now FFA, I was superfucking good.
Not only so at FFA, so the firstthing I did, I won the state
competition at the and that wasjust so that that's like a re-
you recite the FFA creed andthen they ask you questions
about it.

(01:20:35):
I was such a good boy.
As I was giving the answers, Iwas like, I'm winning this
fucking thing.
Because my I knew that I was sofull of shit that day.
It it I couldn't have been morefull of shit.
And it worked just, I mean, itwas masterful what I and I knew
I won.
There was no chance that I waslosing this thing because I

(01:20:55):
could see they were eating it upfucking lock, stock, and barrel.
Then the next year I did athing.
Now, this one you could go to anational competition, and I was
selling John Deere Skid Steers.
It was team, it's calledAgricultural Sales.
And part of it was a writtentest, part of it was like a like

(01:21:18):
you had to give like a salespresentation, and they like were
asking you questions, and likethat's where I exceled because I
was just like selling this guy afreaking skid steer.
Anyway, I ended up I got ascholar, I won a scholarship
because I think I was like 11thor something in the nation uh
when it was all said and done.
And uh, I mean, basically, yeah,I was just being full of crap.

(01:21:40):
That's why I was good at it,because you just you were like
selling somebody a skid steerthat was imaginary that like you
knew nothing about, and like Iwas like, picture yourself on
your family phone.
I remember like picture this,like, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:21:56):
Speaking of winning in school, oh my God, I got so
teary-eyed this morningscrolling through Facebook.
As you know, but some of ourlisteners may not know.
In high school, I was in thedrumline.
Um, so when so I played bassdrum, but I could play drums.

(01:22:20):
Like I could play other drums,but I just played the boom,
boom, boom.
But it was fun.
I loved being in March and Band.
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
It was the best experience of mylife.
Best people growing up in the80s and 90s, like our it wasn't
like so.
American Pie bastardized andturned.

(01:22:42):
We said we were band geeks, butwe weren't fucking geeks.
Nobody in the drum line was ageek, nobody in the trumpet line
was a geek, nobody in thesaxophone line was a geek.
Matter of fact, nobody was ageek and when I went, but
anyways, so I was scrollingthrough Facebook this morning
and I was like, it like backthen we were huge.

(01:23:03):
Like our band probably had likeover a hundred and some members,
right?
So it's declined over the years,you know, funding for the arts.
Um the drumline for JohnstownHigh School won the states first
place.
I cried so hard.

SPEAKER_03 (01:23:21):
Wow, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 (01:23:23):
Yay.
Yeah, it's huge.
Yeah, that's awesome becausethere's a lot of bands that
actually still compete.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:33):
I love that the drumline.
So much going on.
It's wow, you can't even controlyourself, and you're like,
what's happening right now?

SPEAKER_02 (01:23:47):
So it's so funny because like my tism, um I have
auditory, sensory issues, right?
So noises great me, bother me.
It's the opposite for a drum.
When I hear drums live in amarching band setting, like you

(01:24:10):
could tell me I won a milliondollars and I wouldn't even give
a shit.
Because that drum music justgets me somewhere where I just I
can't even describe it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:20):
I think your stuff is auditory, but your your
pleasing things are alsoauditory, and there's so much
structure in drums.
Like no beats out of place,everything's orderly.
So I think that's why it's likea good reaction for you.
Just like when you watch thestupid people clicking on the
thing.

SPEAKER_06 (01:24:39):
What are you saying that a movie things?

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:42):
Oh, no, but I'm saying like it's the same thing.
It's rhythmically pleasing.
Rhythmically pleasing, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:24:49):
Yes, yes, yes.
But like it's but it's not onlyso it passes like the the
recognition barrier and actuallyfilters down into my soul and
like the vibrations make myheart happy.
Like I can feel it.
Like I can, like that's right.
Cause you know, I don't thinkthat I have the capability to

(01:25:10):
experience true joy.
Yeah, yeah.
Like for me, that's when whensomebody asks me, like, you
could tell me so many goodthings, and I'll be like, Oh,
that's really awesome.
I'm so excited.
But like I'm saying I'm excited,but I have no feelings attached
to it.
The only time that I get thefeeling of joy, well, there's

(01:25:31):
two times.
One is seeing a baby, and two ishearing drum beats that are the
right ones.
Because not all drum beats, likeit has to be a certain rhythm
and stuff, too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:44):
So I bet you get on some of those odd timing things,
it probably does the oppositefor you.

SPEAKER_02 (01:25:50):
Uh Tull.
Speaking of odd timing, Tullmusic, as much as I like two of
their songs, their drop, theirtheir their tuning and their
bass lines give me full on panicanxiety.
Full on panic anxiety.

SPEAKER_04 (01:26:10):
It's designed to do that.
That's the it's designed to dothat.
I know.

SPEAKER_02 (01:26:14):
I know.
Um there was one other thingthat I want to talk about.
I can't remember this.
I'm drawing.
Oh, I know what it is.
Okay, the we're closing out.
Unless you have any othertopics.
So I think this weekend we aregoing to, if we can, this is
another thing where I need toput it out into the ether,

(01:26:37):
right?
You wrote the new song for thepodcast, and I want to release a
music video for it.
However, this song is a lot morespecific than the generic one
that I wrote.
So we need to get some footage.
So if you happen to be arudder's worker and you see us
out and about, just say, heyScott, hey, Alana, so that we

(01:27:00):
can like get it.
If you happen to be a rudderworker, I'm gonna be walking
around producing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:07):
If you happen to be a rudders worker, we need you to
allow us a little access to bewalking around your store, maybe
giving you a free hoagie.
I don't know.
Egg roll was acceptable,whatever.

SPEAKER_02 (01:27:18):
Because we're gonna be promoting you.
Your rudder's name is in ourtheme song, and it will stay
there until the next iterationof Gilded Trash.

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:29):
If Rudders had a face, you're looking at it.
Because we tout rudders topeople we promote rudders more
than probably anything else thatwe promote.

SPEAKER_02 (01:27:40):
I can listen to this damn podcast and have Chappie
pull out every time we saidrudders because we're always
there.
We're on the road a lot, we'reon the road a lot in
Pennsylvania, and our choice isin Pennsylvania on this side of
Pennsylvania, sheets andrudders.

(01:28:00):
Wawa's making its way this way.
Uh they're making headway.
Rofo is making its way this way.
They're making headway untilRofo gets in Pennsylvania deep.
I'm gonna continue to tellRudders as my gang.

SPEAKER_05 (01:28:18):
They're barely crossed the border.
They've barely crossed theborder out there near York and
stuff.
They barely crossed it.
We need them to be deep, deep inPennsylvania.

SPEAKER_02 (01:28:29):
Deep.

SPEAKER_05 (01:28:30):
I want it to be so deep in Pennsylvania that sheets
start selling fried chicken.

SPEAKER_02 (01:28:34):
What did they just start doing that I was like, ah,
so I notice, and I don'tremember which sheets it is now,
but there is a sheets that hastheir coffee bar set up like
Rudders.
Because that's the one thingthat we always talk about, is
one of the things that I loveway better is the Rudders coffee

(01:28:55):
bar because you have your littledifferent tasty flavors that you
can We were at a Sheets and Idon't remember where it was, but
they had the Coldwell with theInternational Delight Coffee
Creamers.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:11):
Well, Rudders also just has way better coffee than
Sheets.

SPEAKER_02 (01:29:17):
It tastes better.
It tastes way better.

SPEAKER_03 (01:29:21):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:29:22):
Because they're all doing the beans now.
Like everybody's doing thebeans.
So it's not like the process.
It is literally just whateverbrand Rudders uses has way
whatever brand Sheets uses has ahigher acidic level and like a
sourness behind it that I can'tget behind.
I don't like Sheets coffee.
I can't.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:42):
Here's the thing is like I've tried coffee.
I mean, we've I've drank coffeefrom just about every place
there's a drink coffee from.
Honestly, personally, I thinksheets is one of the worst
coffees out there.
Like, I'd rather haveMcDonald's, anything like I like
better than Sheets.
I just do not like their coffee.

SPEAKER_02 (01:30:00):
Yes.
Agree.
Agree.
All right.
Well, on that note, I needcoffee or something because I've
been up since 4:30.
So um, if you see us out andabout um recording, maybe you'll
make the um the music video.
Um, we might see you thisweekend.
Maybe we'll be handing outcandy.

(01:30:21):
I don't know.
But if nothing else, you guysknow the deal.
Stay trashy.

SPEAKER_03 (01:30:29):
Stay trashy.

SPEAKER_00 (01:30:35):
UFOs and smoking trees.

SPEAKER_02 (01:30:49):
All the rudder's employees know odd names.

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