September 1, 2025 • 57 mins
In this episode, Jon and Louise explore a variety of AMAZING ideas that they'll never do, ranging from dog care solutions, roadkill, dental care, bath time, and MORE! They also talk about a new invention from a musician who can turn PVC pipe into sonic gold.
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I don't see it happening.
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Hey, hey. It's me, Louise.
And it's me, John. Hey, Louise, how's it going?
It's going, man, you've been. You've been experiencing a lot
of craziness right now because you are currently dog sitting a
dog who looks almost identical to your dog.
That's right. And what's even better about it
is that my tiny tot keeps being like, which one is Bosco and
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which one is Roland? And I'm like, well, the puppy
dog, yeah, is not your dog. And the old man, that's your
dog. Wow, that's interesting that she
has trouble recognizing or or distinguishingly too in photos.
It it's a little hard to tell. You have to zoom in a little
bit, be like, ah, yes, OK, that one is definitely puppy in this
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one is definitely the old man. Yeah, but they are they are
something else. Yeah, So what's the vibe like?
It's constant. Go for it.
It's it's constant. Go for it energy.
The major battle is that the puppy doesn't understand things
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that are his and things that arenot his.
So that was basically like the first lesson that I taught
Roland in life, These are your things.
These are my things. And so I take that for granted.
And so it's just, it's just you gotta, you gotta have eyes on
all times. And so that's that's that.
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But the vibe is just cuddle cityand like puppy love.
Yeah. Oh, that's wonderful.
That's wonderful. Well, Louise, I, I can't think
of a better way to launch into the whole point of this show
than what we were just talking about, because this is a podcast
that's all about the great ideasthat we have that we're never
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going to do. And I have one that is so
relevant to what you're experiencing right now with your
dog sitting. Oh.
My gosh. OK.
It is a dog timeshare situation.So OK, your eyes just lit up.
OK, So for, for those of us who who adopt dogs, and I would say
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more so dogs than cats, because cats are a different story when
it comes to this type of thing. And also a dog, you know, more
or less what they're thinking atany given time versus a cat
where it's just a giant guessinggame.
But for dogs, I, it's as we know, it's a big commitment.
You need to be there for them all the time.
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They have their routines, they have the things that they like,
they have the things that they don't like.
And So what I am proposing is that during the dog adoption
process there should be an option to have a Co adopter.
And So what you're doing essentially is you are going in
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5050 with somebody else or maybe333333 with somebody else with
with two other people. And essentially it is a way to
understand I will have joint custody of this dog and we will
have an agreed upon system. And so that way you, you may be
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if you, if you're sick and you're just like, I cannot get
out of bed and I know that I'm neglecting my dog.
That's not a problem now becauseyou have an agreement set up
with this other person where it's just like you are splitting
the time. Let's say you're going to be
going on a vacation. You don't have to worry about
finding a dog sitter. You don't have to worry about
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finding a place to go board yourdog.
You already have your built in system that you have pre
arranged with your Co adopter. This is this is groundbreaking.
This is groundbreaking. OK.
And also I wrote this before I knew that you were going to be
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dog sitting. So like, serendipitous.
Pretty, pretty serendipitous, I'd say.
That's kind of wild. Well, I also remember you were
going to be going on a trip and for, for listeners who are are
new to the show or viewers, you might not know that Louise lives
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on the East Coast in New York. I live on the West Coast in
Portland, OR and we have been ultra buds since for for a very
very long time and all I got to say is that there are what?
Oh, this year's 24 years. Yeah, this year would be 24
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years. Wow.
I know, I know. Yeah, right.
About this time. Like this week or next.
Week Have we been friends longerthan we've not been friends?
Oh yeah. Wow.
I love that. That's a fun thing.
So anyway, there have been timeswhere we have kind of like
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griped to each other. I mean, doing this podcast
together, certainly we wish thatwe lived in the same
geographical region where we could just pop over to each
other's places and do this at any given moment.
I just watched my dog do a really big stretch and it was
very cute. But also there have been times
where like you've been going on a vacation and it's even come up
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in your discussions about what you're going to be doing with
your dog. Where the thought, as as you
said to me, was just like, you know, maybe we just fly John out
and John stays here and watches the dog, which I would
absolutely do. So I.
Mean it might be less expensive than a dog sitter or a cattle.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
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And so this kind of solves a lotof those problems.
And it's also like sometimes andclose your dog's ears right now,
but they can be pretty annoying sometimes And so like to have
space and time away from them sometimes is it can be kind of a
blessing. And it doesn't always need to be
a 5050 split. Maybe you only want to have a
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dog 25% of the year and, and in which case you can, you can
arrange for that to happen. And then like the other, you
know, a doctor like gets a a bitof a break.
Yeah. You split the costs of the of
the vet visits. You split the costs of the food
like you have your, you have your agreement set and you stick
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to it and that's and that's where you are.
This sounds like you would have to have the proper amount of
faith in your Co conspirator but.
This couldn't be somebody you'rejust meeting randomly.
No, cause also it'd be like and the the dog doesn't get table
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scraps and then it's like at that house they do, you know,
whatever you know, then they're chucking.
Dogs aren't also like that binary and that like they do
know that like with some people,they can get away with things
they can't get away with other people like, you know, depending
on the dog. Yeah, the smart ones.
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Right. Or the dumb ones forget and then
and then the dumb ones are just like, I'm just happy with
whatever. That's what I mean.
Like the dumb ones would be maybe better for that.
Yeah, that's what I've got and it's wonderful.
Man. So where's your mind been going
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lately? I mean, we've, I feel like our
our dog ideas probably outrank most of our other ideas.
Has your has your brain been on the on the canines lately?
It hasn't been on canines, but it's been on kids.
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Oh, OK, the other type of dog. The other type of dog.
Oh, the other thing that needs your unconditional love and
constant attention? Absolutely yes.
And here is what I'm working with.
Bunk baths once. Hear me out on this.
Yeah, you know how like when we went to Alaska, our couch in our
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cabin stateroom converted into the the lower couch converted
down to a bed, the upper part like hydrauliced down from the
ceiling and there was a ladder in the closet.
So our stateroom host every day until the 2nd day would put it
out and then put it back and thesecond day we were like, can you
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leave that bunk bed? You can put the couch back up.
But my kid loves that bunk bed. Not something she's familiar
with, not something she has. Bunk bed.
Super win. All kids think it's fun.
I don't know if they're creatures of habit and always
want to be on top or want to be on the bottom or whatever.
Wait, hear me out. You get smaller tubs than a
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giant tub, so it like saves water and you bunk bath it so
that the top one, some might waterfall at times into the
bottom 1. So like that's fun and cool.
And then it's kind of like I'm going to take a bath on top
tonight. I'm going to take a bath on the
bottom. And then they're excited instead
of having to fight them to get into the bath.
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Cause hear this too. Every kid once they're in the
bath then never wants to get out.
So but it it's the fight to get them in bunk baths.
It's like like or, or or just thought of this.
You know how cats have those like napping trees that have
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like clear bowls in them, something like that, something
like that. But.
Interesting. Hydraulics down, you get one of
those like shower wands to fill up the top 1, you get the the
regular faucet to fill up the bottom 1 and when you're done
you just out that that plug. So.
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Make that time a little more fun.
Yeah. So this I feel would work well
if you have, you know, if you have a bathroom set up that has
kind of like the floor maybe slants a little bit into the
drain. You know, I lived in one place
that had a a shower and the floor was just the floor of the
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bathroom. But in that area it just kind of
like sloped down a little bit. So I could see this being good
in a situation like that where everything can kind of just like
pour down, cascade down a littlebit.
Maybe there's a tube situation, I don't know, or a pipe
situation. I feel like a tube would make
better sense because there's I feel like it needs to like be
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less rigid. It needs to have some
flexibility to it. Maybe.
Yeah, what I I'm I'm gonna also like yes and you a little bit I
what about like a bath like a almost like Ferris wheel style
where they. Yeah, definitely, absolutely
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yes. Oh if yes, I mean this might
have to be an outdoor situation but.
If you're in the right climate, you could take baths outside.
Sure, Yeah, I do want to go backand say my child hates bunk beds
and doesn't want to go near them.
Yeah. Wow, well good thing that she
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won't have to share them. There you go.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Bunk baths. How did that one come up for
you? Well, my child is a fight to get
into the bath every every time she has to get in the fight or
in the bath. Hey brain, but.
But the bunk situation was so dazzling to her.
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So dazzling, so dazzling. And we are so we had a floor bed
with her. We never had a crib.
And then you could like flip it over and then put the mattress
on it. So now it's like a foot off the
floor instead of being like an inch off the floor on like the
toddler size, but the mattress is still a crib size.
And when we were discussing because she starts kindergarten
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next week, getting her like a big girl twin bed, we were like,
well, let's talk it over with her and see what kind we're like
thinking about because maybe it'll be easier if she picks it
out. And of course, she was like the
bunk beds. And I was like, that doesn't
make any sense because you are an only child and go ahead.
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What about? What about like a lofted bed
where it's just like a little bit raised, but then there's
like something underneath, like a little desk?
Yeah, the current issue is we have a ceiling fan and no
protective. So, like, and she thinks she's
so clever and, you know, in the mornings putting on her clothes
for the day, she'll sometimes like, toss them up on purpose to
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try to get them on the spokes ofthe fan.
So it's like, we both hate the fan.
We moved into this house right before she was born.
We don't like the fan. We like air circulation, but we
don't like the fan. It's like, not our style every
day. Yeah, could it be replaced with
one with smaller blades? Yeah, we're thinking there's
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like fans now that sort of are inside of the light shade.
Oh, she's going to hate that. Yeah, but it would be safer in a
bunk bed situation. Yeah, we've thought about that.
But also like a twin bed is X amount of dollars and a bunk bed
is XXX amount of dollars. So I'm like, why am I getting
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you a bunk bed and two mattresses?
I know. But she picked a, she picked a
bunk. So we were like, let's see if
there's a Labor Day sale. We have yet to purchase a bed
and or two mattresses but then it was like wait a minute, bunk
baths. Bunk bands.
This could be good too. That's so funny.
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It's like those umbrellas, too, at like water parks that spill
out over top of you. Like it's a little bit, it's a
little bit whimsy and it's a little bit get in the bath.
Right. I will say as a parent of a
child who used to hate bads, whether she was in them or
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getting into them, hated them, now she loves it.
So it's just something that passes over time.
And I think that it's also like sometimes a matter of like being
picky for the sake of being picky and like making the
decision and then like not remembering why you decided that
after a certain point of time. But but Louise, this kind of
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leads really well into another idea.
I've got get it because it's about picky kids.
OK, I don't know if you have this experience, but this is a
very common thing, not just withkids, but sometimes it like
bleeds into adulthood. OK, let's say you are making a
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sandwich for your child. What would you say is perhaps a
#1 like request when making a sandwich?
I have yet to get my child to eat any sandwich of any kind.
Are you serious? She will not eat sandwiches.
Why won't she eat sandwiches? I don't know.
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So. But a common request that I
would have as an adult would be APB and J.
OK, but then what would maybe bea requirement of the PB and J?
The Jelly ratio. What's something that a child
might request of their parent when being presented with a
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sandwich? Like cut it triangle.
Cut it triangle. I've what I'm what I'm getting
to is the concept of cutting offthe crust.
Oh yeah, that's a popular thing that never was gonna fly in like
my household growing up or childhood in any way.
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It was like every single kid I knew in the area of the country,
maybe that I grew up in, or justmy town, was like, can I have
your crust? I was like, no, you can't have
my crust, It's mine. Really.
So you experienced people wanting more crust?
Yeah, it was a fight over the butt ends of the bread.
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Yeah, people wanted the crust. Because the the more popular
thing is that people don't want the crust.
Yeah, that's why there's like uncrustables or whatever.
Right. Exactly.
Yeah. I'm familiar with this concept,
but it it doesn't hit home in the same way.
I was never a cut off the crust kid and I am not a cut off the
crust parent. I have been asked to either cut
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off the crust or to get bread with a different type of crust
than the one that I am presenting, which is maybe has
seeds on it or something else. That's the good part.
I know because you're a grown upand you get these things.
But what I'm going to say is I think that the the problem isn't
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so much that it is, you know, a different type of a part of the
bread. I think it's all a branding
thing because the word crust, I don't think that it's a positive
word crust I feel. Like it though?
Well, OK, but that's because you, I've grown into
understanding what that kind of thing is.
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But like when I think crust, I think like butt crust.
I think of like butt crust. I think of like something that's
been, I think of something that's been like, you know, wet
and then dried and caked on. And it's just like a disgusting
word. Yeah.
It doesn't necessarily mean it'sfrom the butt, but like it's
just like like something that's just been like that's been dried
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and it needs to just get kind oflike brushed off or something.
It's like. It's.
Crust. Oh, see, to me that like I
associate that with like like a toasted bread or like a, a Creme
brulee. It's got like a thin crust and
it's like, oh. Well, and I think that that's
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also a difference between you and a child, although not only
are you probably the most childlike adult I know, and in
fact, in fact, right now you arecurrently dressed like a child.
I just can't help myself. Yeah, but what I'm saying is if
if Crust just has a a rebrand. Rebrand.
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And what I'm thinking is we callit the crunch zone because.
Into it. Right, because a kid can enjoy a
crunch, you know? I know a child who exclusively
eats croutons. Yeah.
They are crouton. 2 textures. Crouton isn't a sexy word, but
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at least it only means one thing.
So as far as like the crunch zone goes, I think this could
also apply to pizza because a lot of times kids will eat
everything except the crust. This was the opposite of my
growing up experience. Everyone was like, are you going
to have that? That's so bizarre to me.
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That's what I was like. Is it a regional thing?
I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
What's the pizza in Iowa like? Is it really crust forward?
No, it's regular. It's regular.
And I, and I mean, I grew up in New Jersey, not far outside of
New York where it's like, you know, pizza crust is, I don't
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know, perhaps cared for in a different way, but still there
was a, a stigma against the crust for for a lot of people.
I know. Louise, you are an outlier.
Zone I, you know. The Crunch Zone.
As I am having more self discovery in life, this is
something that my dear darling partner points out to me all the
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time. And he's like, look, your fatal
flaw is that you think you're like everyone else and then you
get frustrated when you realize you're not.
Just internalize. Nothing about you is normal and
you'll be happier. You know what his You know what
his flaw is? Telling his wife that she has a
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flaw? Come on man.
Snaps Hello, take notes. OK, you certainly have your fair
share of eccentricities. That's right.
And no one's going to take that away from you.
But it is a a character quirk. I wouldn't say it's a flaw,
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thank you. But it's something where it's
just like you have to remember you are an an outlier typically.
Yeah. But yeah, it's funny because
you're just like, what? My world is so different from
the way that you're explaining this.
So yeah. Wait.
OK. So this is sort of atypical of
the way we normally do things, but it's a perfect segue into
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the challenges. OK, yes.
And you challenged me to roadkill.
Yes. And I am also like a severe
overachiever and always have 10 million ideas.
And this time I was like, how can you actually do this one
thing and do this one thing really well?
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It's a rebrand. Are you rebranding Roadkill?
You know what? I'm not doing it, but I'm like
every. I was so sad working on this
challenge and I was like, is it about the cleanup?
Is it about the like? The fact that it's happening at
all. Right, It's is the is the bigger
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issue that I'm solving like migratory patterns and and
infrastructure. Like I don't know, I'm sad.
I'm just so sad. And what's even sadder to me is
like when the impact would happen, but death isn't instant.
And so then they're anyway too sad, too sad, so sad, so sad.
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And the rebrand is we go to somesuper, super talented Jingle
writers and they, you know, theyput out something like W
freshman, W fun. It's a statement of a great man
anyway. And I'm you can sponsor us if.
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You like, I like how you said every single word on that except
for the name of the product. That you sure singing the Jingle
word? And we get some jingles for the
particular kind of deceased animal, so that when you're in
your vehicle flying down the highway freeway and you see it,
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the little Jingle pops in and you're not as sad as you would
be because the Jingle is so goodand so catchy.
Well, also it's a way of paying tribute to this fallen animal.
Yes. I like it.
Yeah. OK, I I don't want to put you on
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the spot too much, but let's saythere's a raccoon.
What might a Jingle be for a a sweet, sweet raccoon?
OK wait, OK this just put me on the spot and I'm trying to
think. I know I've never, we've never
had a come up with a song right in the moment kind of a thing.
But I feel like if anybody can do it, it's you.
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Not to put the pressure on you. Yeah, no.
Mask on your face, stripey tail.Hope you're having fun on your
new trail. I don't know.
Yeah, something I didn't have torhyme, but.
Yeah, that's just like a quick. Little.
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It's good and I like that. It is very jingly and it's not
just like a song, you know? It's very specifically.
Flying down at 70 miles an hour faster if you're other people.
I mean also me, but I didn't want to say it really well, in
some places the speed limit is 75 S and it's more of a
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suggestion. It's a guideline.
It's not really like a don't go faster than this drive with the
weather conditions is what I say.
But you don't have a lot of timeto sing like a minute and a half
song. It's got to be.
It's just got to be. 44 little lines.
A quick stanza and that's and that's just going to be there to
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to honor and alleviate a little bit of sadness.
Absolutely. Yeah, a roadkill.
Rebrand. I really like that.
A roadkill rebrand. Oh boy.
Oh, poor little, poor little buddies.
I like it, though. Yeah, I I've been very much
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looking forward to hearing what you're going to come up with,
and you did not disappoint. OK, good.
For my challenge, you challengedme to teeth and I I had two
ideas. Well, here's what happened.
I had one idea that was like it came to me pretty quickly And
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then I was as I was thinking about just life in general, an
idea came to me and then I was like, wait a second, this idea
is also about teeth. So I don't know if this is a a
Louise style. I have two ideas situation or of
one of them. So I'm going to tell you the one
that I thought of first and thenthe other one is going to just
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be like the bonus idea that kindof can be a, a separate category
too. So something that I, I and, and
I'm not the only person that's noticed this.
And perhaps you've also, you know, this has come across your
radar as well. So I feel like it's not, I feel
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like it's true up until somewhatrecently, the past 10-15 years,
actors in movies. And by that I mean men, women,
non binary actors, so on and so forth.
They haven't had perfect teeth. And that's what has made them
interesting. They seem more like real people
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instead of, oh, this is a movie star being put into a movie.
The, you know, in the 70s, nobody had straight teeth.
In the 80s, things were all overthe place.
And I think that once we got into like even the later 90s,
that's when things started to people were just like, got to
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get veneers, got to have make sure I have the perfect teeth
because there's AI think a, a discomfort with being a, a
character actor or I'm just saying, like in Hollywood, you,
you just like sprung up. So what I'm saying is that there
needs to be a a new requirement for motion pictures that there a
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certain, there needs to be like a certain level of imperfect
teeth in a film. So yes, one person can of of
course have perfect teeth. But if you look at like actors
from, you know, like popular, popular actors, Kirsten Dunst
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has like really interesting teeth.
She's gorgeous but has like distinct teeth.
Christian Bale has like similarly like interesting
teeth. Steve Buscemi of course has
fascinating teeth. Willem Dafoe has really
interesting teeth. Anna Paquin has like a gap.
You were thinking about that one.
Madonna has has a gap like that.Tom Cruise has like 1 center big
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tooth and it's like we don't talk, we don't say, oh, he'd be
so perfect if he had straight teeth.
We say, oh, it's so interesting that this person that's so like,
you know, you know, we look to them as being like the, the, the
vision of perfection, but they have like interesting teeth.
And so it's like we, we should get to a point where like, you
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know, people are encouraged to have an interesting looking
mouth. That's all I'm saying.
I like it. OK, but you like got.
You got weird when I said that nobody wants to be a character
actor. Well, I did do that also.
Take a look at these. Interesting teeth.
Thank you. Real people teeth.
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Thanks. My mom couldn't pay for
orthodontics and she was like, if you were going to try to be
an actor in life, you can buy veneers later.
And do you want to know every single time that I would like
go, it wasn't a real audition. It would be like with a new
manager or a a different agency or something.
They'd be like, but we got to fix those teeth.
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I kid you not. Every single solitary one of
them. And I did try to do Invisalign
for a bit, but I'm a squirrel and I eat all the time and
that's just what works for me. And you got to constantly pop
them out and brush your teeth. And I just hated it.
And I was like, you know what? I'm not going to do Invisalign.
I can't do it. Like I tried to do it for about,
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I don't know, I think it was maybe 8 to 12 months that I was
Oh yeah, oh, yeah. I was like going to do it.
I needed the teeth. Everyone was telling me everyone
and I did it and you get these little like nodules cemented to
your teeth so that the trays clip on enough to like move them
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around. And finally, after just that
long of struggling with it and Ididn't finish the treatment or
whatever 'cause I think it was like 2 years worth of trays or
something. I was like, you know what, When
I get famous enough, I'll just get veneers.
Until then, my teeth are fine, they're healthy, and that's it.
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Yeah. And also, if anybody out there
wants to e-mail greatideapod@gmail.com, we can
set up like a Venmo account if anybody does want to contribute
to Louise's. Perfect teeth.
Fun. However, once there is this
requirement in Hollywood, I knowthat like, Hollywood isn't your
your goal. Broadway has always been, you
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know your goal, but you wouldn't, you know, turn away an
opportunity for a sweet acting gig no matter what.
Not to put words. No, you're 1000% right.
Yeah, but also, I don't know, I there, there needs to be some
sort of system where it's like it's, it's accepted and it's OK
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that you're going to have the the face that you have because
also like, OK, let's say you're in your 70s and and that's
you'll be there and, and you andyou suddenly are offered this
like great role for like an older woman.
It might work in your favor to have interesting teeth.
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Yeah. And just to dovetail on that,
I've always, and you talked about it before we were even
talking about me as an actor, but the roles that I am drawn to
are always the charactery bit. Totally.
Always, whether it's a drama or a comedy or musical or a
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commercial. I am not the Cinderella.
I am the step sister. I am the fairy godmother in a
different. You know, like more interesting
roles, by the way. They're just way more fun in my
opinion. I mean, who doesn't love to sing
a beautiful ballad like that? Aside, but that's the construct
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of the love interest sings this type of song, and those songs
are beautiful and I do like to sing them, but out of context in
a cabaret setting where I can change things is way more
exciting to my system than, well, like let's take Guys and
Dolls, probably one of the most perfect musicals ever written.
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Adelaide is way more exciting than Sarah I'm.
Not I'm not I I think I saw guysand dolls when I was a kid.
I haven't seen it since aren't not familiar, but I I believe
you. Yeah, no, no, no, I think that
it's like it's so boring to haveyou know the the I don't know
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the lead role, the I don't know it's boring.
It's. Not boring.
It's not boring to have the lead, but it's it's.
Well, and what? Maybe lead is not the right word
but like. You got to add your your, your
PDI, your personal brand of insanity.
Yep. You always got to add it.
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OK, so so I want to tell you about my other idea that is
teeth related. Great.
I'm ready. OK, let's say you work in an
office or, or maybe you've just gone to the gym or something.
And then right after that you'remeeting up with somebody.
You know, maybe you're about to go like walk in the park or
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something like that. I don't know, whatever.
Maybe it's a date, but you're feeling like you'd need
something to snap you into like a separate, a different mode
than you've been in. You need to get out of work
mode. You need to get out of workout
mode. And what's something that we can
do for ourselves that's like a little luxury that is caring for
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ourselves in a major way. It's brushing our teeth.
It's a 2 minute thing that can like really change your
mentality. So what I'm proposing are
toothbrush bars. So a spot where you can go to,
there's a bunch of like sink stalls.
You pay, you get a fresh toothbrush, you don't have to
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bring anything. You have your selection of
pastes, you have a selection of flosses.
You can because like for me, if if I brush my teeth in the
middle of the day, I'm just likea different person suddenly
after 2 minutes. So I lived in New York City over
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15 years. I had this friend.
I'm going to call him out by name.
His name's Ryan Jackson and. We used.
To have, we used to have what wewould call run by friending.
OK. And I would like to say that 75%
of the time because there's never enough time in life to
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like actually get a coffee or actually have lunch with
somebody. It's like it's so fun when
you're accidentally on the same train going somewhere and
somebody gets on your car and you're like, oh, hey, friend.
And you talk for 10 minutes and then one of you is like, this is
my stop. Good to see you.
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But we would do that at Sabon. OK.
Do you know what that is? No.
OK. It's like a fancy soap store.
It used to be all over, like theway that Lush or Keels is like
all over Sabon S A/B ON. And they would have little
sinks. And you could, like, use the
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testers and test out the soap. And he would be like, hey, I
have 30 minutes between this audition in Midtown.
Do you want to meet at that Sabon and wash our hands?
And I'd be like be there soon. I love that it's going ASAP.
Does that they have like a giantsink in the middle.
Of the yeah so the the teeth brush bar is so fun.
Well, also it's like maybe you went out to like lunch with
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somebody and you ate a big stinky meal.
Or a salad. A salad, definitely.
Let's say you just went to go see a matinee movie and then
you're you're going back to go do something else, but you got
popcorn in your teeth. You don't have anything on you.
You don't want to go to a CVS and get something and then be
like, OK, now where do I do thiswhere it's not disgusting
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looking? You go to a toothbrush bar.
Yeah, or you have a membership maybe, and so you don't have to
pay every time, but you're like,hey, just add it to my
membership. Right.
Or it's like, you know, you can maybe even pay less if you bring
your own gear, but it's just like the use of a private sink.
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But you have the option if you want like a particular type of
like mouthwash or something. And it becomes like an event
kind of a thing. And, and I like it's a it's a
little bit of a reset. It's a fun way to kind of go do
something weird with somebody. And, and also it's like, I don't
know, maybe it's a date spot because you're, you know, you're
about to go French kiss somebodyfor the first time and you want
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to like, and you're just like, hey, here's a fun idea.
Let's go to this toothbrush bar.And like, it's kind of like a
playing house kind of a thing where you're just like
cosplaying as like a couple who's sharing a sink and, you
know, brushing your teeth together and then.
Well, especially if you're like,let's grab a coffee and then you
can go brush your teeth. Or if you're like, let's get
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cocktails and then cocktails turns into dinner and you're
like, you know what? I don't want this night to end.
Let's go to the toothbrush bar. Like it?
Yeah. So that's where we're at with
that. And Louise, I have something
very exciting to share with you because you know, there are
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certain times where you know, we, we do have our great idea
Hotline 3O48-O four idea where you can call in, leave a
voicemail that we'll play it on the show and talk about it.
There are certain times where I'll go on like Kickstarter and
find a, an active Kickstarter campaign where somebody's trying
to raise money for a great idea that they've had.
But something came across my Tiktok feed that I want to share
(39:58):
with you and. This is like, I, I saw it and I
was like, this person had a great idea and they did it and
it's they're, they're selling this item.
It's not, I don't believe it's on Kickstarter, but I want to
take you on their journey a little bit.
OK. All right.
Hey everyone, this is a brand new TikTok account so I wanted
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to do a quick introduction videoabout this instrument.
It's like a $5 instrument I've been making called the Tubo
sounds like this. It's a Reed instrument
technically because of the membrane on the end and super
easy and fun to play. And so I've been making them for
the past couple of months and yeah, I'm going to be selling
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them soon and teaching you guys how to make them.
So I have this is the bass tubo,which has like a very mellow
almost cello sound. And then on the other end of the
spectrum, a little piccolo tubo.So follow along if you're
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interested in this journey. Let me know if you have any
thoughts about this instrument. If you would like to play one
yourself, let me know it's you because I'm going to be giving
some away. So yeah.
Christmas gifts. Christmas gifts.
I can tell by the look on your face the entire time that you
are into this. I love it.
I I reached out to the guy because I was like, I don't know
(41:31):
this person's name and I can't find it anywhere on any the
website or social media stuff. So I've been checking my e-mail
this whole time being like, did they write back?
But I haven't seen anything but the Tuboe.
TUBOE. Yeah, it's a super creative,
like it's a it's APVC pipe. I don't know if it's like a 3D
printed end piece that goes on the end that you put something
(41:55):
in that kind of creates that little membrane.
I'm like just a piece of wax paper on a kazoo.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I love this.
I think it's so much fun it. Is I want one or three?
And, and I know that you as a, ahornswoman, a player of the
(42:15):
horn, that you can certainly appreciate a, an instrument of
the sort. I'm going to go onto the website
right now because I feel like they sell them on the website.
So Tubo and E minor oh, out of stock sells them for $65.
(42:36):
But they look a little bit more polished than the one that you
see in like kind of the prototype that he's showing in
the video. But this website is also great.
It's the tubo.com, the TUBOE andshows kind of like the
prototypes and things like that.And I think it's just so cool.
And I, I don't know, I really appreciate that this person is
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just like, hey, why can't you just make an instrument, right?
Absolutely, yeah. Things that I will spend money
on, musical things, food, like I'm all about supporting that.
Absolutely. Well, also the way that he kind
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of pitches it is that it is the sound of an oboe, A clarinet,
you know, whatever, but with theease of playing a recorder.
So it's great for, you know, kids, people who maybe don't
need to have this complex system.
I mean, a saxophone with all of that that it's got going on,
(43:46):
that's complicated, but to get asimilar sound and sure, I'm you
know, I'm not saying that like it's supposed to be a
replacement forever for a saxophone, but pretty cool.
Very cool. Yeah, so shout out to this dude.
I wish I knew your name, but everybody should go check out
(44:06):
the Tubo on your preferred social media platform and the
tubo.com. And yeah, pick yourself up a a
Tubo or learn how to make one. And, and yeah, we want, we want
to celebrate the the great idea ists all over the world who
actually are doing it, because we're certainly not.
No, I can barely make it to thispodcast on time.
(44:32):
Oh, come. On you usually are able to I
know you are dog sitting right now and it is not a dog
timeshare situation. So yeah, you're dealing with a
lot more, but that's some behindthe scenes stuff.
Yeah, I should. I you know what?
Maybe if we post this episode tothe socials, we can do a
(44:53):
carousel and we'll just plop thepicture of the dogs in there.
Oh yeah, we can certainly do that.
Well, for anybody out there who does have great ideas that they
want to share with us that they're never going to do or
that you have done and you want to just celebrate that, e-mail
us greatideapod@gmail.com. Leave us a voicemail. 3O48-O
Four idea Louise, do you have any challenges for me for the
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next episode? I do, I do it is that time of
year where my friends with little bits and bobbles of life
are looking for family photo shoot options for Christmas
cards coming up. So your challenge is an
(45:38):
improvement or a hot take our analternative to a family photo
shoot. Family for.
Purposes of sending out holiday cards or what have you, first
day of school, whatever. Great.
(45:59):
Well, I've got. What is your challenge for me?
I've got a seasonal one for you as well.
So I don't remember if you've ever talked about this on the
podcast, but you have told me that your maybe it's your least
favorite season is the autumn. You've told me that you've
(46:19):
expressed that because the plants are all kind of dying.
It's it's sad for you, It's not attractive.
It's it's it's kind of where areyou?
Do you still stand there? Fall is your least favorite.
You know what I don't know, I think that it does still in the
category of seasons fall in lastplace.
(46:43):
Hey, open up Ching. But I think I am a little bit
rewired where I don't hate it ashard.
Interesting. Care to care to elaborate?
Yes, I have a very very vivid memory or chunk of life.
(47:07):
I pandemic. We had just purchased our house
or closed on our house 2020 September and I had to drive
into the city by myself for an OB appointment.
So I was preggers 'cause I had my baby in December and I was
(47:29):
listening to the Sara Bareilles album Little Voice, which was
the music from the HBOTV show that she had of the same name.
But I was listening to her sing the songs rather than the people
in the show sing the songs. Doesn't matter.
And I was seething over autumn stuff and like the fact that the
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the world was in the state that it was.
And like I had this and I'm surewe talked about this before, but
I'll refresh everyone's mind. Like this incredible chip on my
shoulder because I didn't reallywant to have kids.
I didn't think that was a thing that I was going to do.
And I always thought. If.
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This ever happens to me. The father of my child or the
mother of my surrogate child or whatever would be at every
single appointment with me. Because if my life has to be
changed so drastically and if I'm required to be there, you
have to be there too. And then the universe said Nope.
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And so I was angry that I had totake time out of my day to go to
my OB, go to this appointment, whatever.
And I'm listening to Sara Bareilles and the leaves are
falling, you know, on whatever Parkway I was on, Henry Hudson
or sawmill or whatever, it doesn't matter.
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And it was just kind of like a switch in my brain.
And it was like it could be nature's confetti.
Interesting. And instead of it being trash
and debris and death I was like it's a party.
(49:25):
Also sub clause Halloween is my second favorite holiday so I.
Would like yeah, OK. And I was wondering about that.
OK, so this kind of changes whatI was going to pitch to you as
an idea because this is more of a personal challenge for you,
but maybe not so much anymore. But it was essentially to, to
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come up with an idea for a, a wave to to beautify fall.
But perhaps we can maybe adapt. Well, I think it's an incredibly
beautiful season. I think it's the most beautiful
season. I love it when the when the
world turns orange. It's awesome.
(50:07):
I love it. But you see death and decay, or
at least you saw death and decay.
You see brown. OK, so, so yes, I, I do, I, I do
want to challenge you to kind oflike for yourself, because to,
to your dear husband's point earlier when he mentioned you're
(50:27):
not flaw, but you know, character quirk is that you see
things in a way that you're surprised when you find out that
other people don't also see themthat way.
So, so for this one, it's, it's mostly a you thing, but yeah,
it's a, it's a way to like to boost up your least favorite
(50:48):
season. Maybe we'll just put it that way
to boost up your least favorite season.
OK, it's just so wild to me because I'm like there's only
four and if I have to like reorder them.
What is your favorite? It comes in last oh summer.
OK, for what reason? There are so few familial
(51:11):
obligations in the summer there.For you.
Yes. I feel like for me, that's when
I have like, oh, that's when that's when people want to get
together. That's when there's this thing
happening and that thing happening in this obligation and
that obligation because I'm not a big winter holiday guy.
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Yeah, so I like that. I love the weather.
I know a lot of people don't do well with humidity.
My hair looks the best in humidity.
So I like have to do the least amount of work on like myself.
I like the freedom of having thedays be I I'm very affected by
(52:00):
seasonal depression, I think. And so when it's 4:00 and dark
and someone texts me, hey, how about dinner tonight?
I'm like, it's four and now I'm home.
It back before I had regular jobs when I had very flexible
jobs and I'd be like, yeah, I'm not going out.
The day is over. But if somebody texts me at 4:00
(52:23):
in the summer, I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
It's just I I am much more like the longer day is good for me.
But funny enough, then my secondfavorite season I think is
winter because I like, I'm such an extreme, right?
I like the whimsy and I like theisolation, even though now it's
(52:47):
the darkest. Right.
And spring through. Because it's my birthday and
rebirth and you. Know it's the, it's the darkest,
but also there, there are more, you know, lights that people put
up and it changes the atmosphere.
Yeah, cozy. Festive.
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I don't love living in winter, but I love playing in winter and
anything is super fun if you have the right equipment.
So like sometimes I'm like, man,I don't have the right coat for
this and it's like we'll get theright coat, which is such a
privileged position to be and tojust say something like that.
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But I do like that. And then spring, my birthday's
in the spring, flowers bloom in the spring.
I don't hate rain. I know a lot of people hate
rain. I, I like rain.
I like it a lot. I like the way it sounds.
I like the way it smells. I like the way it smells right
before it rains. I like playing in puddles.
(53:54):
All these people in like, you know, the winter who detest
summer, who are like, it's so hot.
Just wear layers. I'm like, OK, well then just get
some rubber boots, play in the play in the like, not for
winter, but like, I don't know anyone that hates spring though,
honestly. And then, yeah, fall I.
Don't love. I don't love spring.
OK, I do know someone. It has nothing to do with rain.
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It it really has most to do withthe peak of seasonal allergies.
And it's like, that is the season of discomfort for me at
least, like physical discomfort as and health and things like
that. So I although this past spring
it was much more tame for me than it had been in the past.
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And also when I used to live in Los Angeles, I did not
experience allergies the same way that I experienced them
growing up in New Jersey or herein Oregon.
But there are are some years where it hits me, hits me really
hard and it's like the itchy eyes and headaches and all that
kind of stuff. But yeah, I feel like
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associating that with spring, italways makes me just be like
spring and fall is my favorite. I feel like it's, I like to wear
a, a light jacket, like, you know, a, a nice jacket, maybe a
sweater, but like not where it'sbeing covered by a gigantic
(55:30):
coat. I like to have the freedom of,
you know, just being outside, wearing a, just a, a nice
sweater and enjoying being outside.
The air is nice and crispy. After the first frost, no
mosquitoes. Well, we don't have mosquitoes
out here, so. But I was just in New Jersey
(55:54):
recently and man, those skeeterswere out.
Oh, boy. Gross.
Yeah, that was uncomfortable. And the and the humidity, you
know, just being, you get out ofa shower and you go outside and
you're just instantly covered insweat again, just because of the
humidity that I don't care for. And we don't get that out here
(56:16):
in Oregon either, at least in the part of Oregon where I am.
So anyway, I feel like geographically the, the, the
seasons even have a different impact depending on where you
are. Although the things that you,
you like about like the spring, you like the humidity and things
(56:36):
like that. Like that's something where if
you were here, for example, you'd be like, I missed the
humidity or summer rather. My hair would be horrible a it
would be like limp and weird andlike when it gets really humid
and my hair starts to absorb allthe moisture it gets.
It's just I do nothing and I have pageant hair.
(56:58):
Pageant hair. I love it.
And people are like, all right, so so your challenge is to is to
improve here. How about this?
How to improve your least favorite season?
Love it. Yeah, that, that's what we'll
do. Well, everybody, thank you so
much for tuning in. It's always a real joy for me.
(57:18):
And Louise, I just love doing this with you.
And all I got to say is just thanks for hanging out with me.
Thanks for hanging out with me. I don't see it happening.
I don't see it happening.
(00:25):
Hey, hey. It's me, Louise.
And it's me, John. Hey, Louise, how's it going?
It's going, man, you've been. You've been experiencing a lot
of craziness right now because you are currently dog sitting a
dog who looks almost identical to your dog.
That's right. And what's even better about it
is that my tiny tot keeps being like, which one is Bosco and
(00:49):
which one is Roland? And I'm like, well, the puppy
dog, yeah, is not your dog. And the old man, that's your
dog. Wow, that's interesting that she
has trouble recognizing or or distinguishingly too in photos.
It it's a little hard to tell. You have to zoom in a little
bit, be like, ah, yes, OK, that one is definitely puppy in this
(01:13):
one is definitely the old man. Yeah, but they are they are
something else. Yeah, So what's the vibe like?
It's constant. Go for it.
It's it's constant. Go for it energy.
The major battle is that the puppy doesn't understand things
(01:39):
that are his and things that arenot his.
So that was basically like the first lesson that I taught
Roland in life, These are your things.
These are my things. And so I take that for granted.
And so it's just, it's just you gotta, you gotta have eyes on
all times. And so that's that's that.
(02:01):
But the vibe is just cuddle cityand like puppy love.
Yeah. Oh, that's wonderful.
That's wonderful. Well, Louise, I, I can't think
of a better way to launch into the whole point of this show
than what we were just talking about, because this is a podcast
that's all about the great ideasthat we have that we're never
(02:23):
going to do. And I have one that is so
relevant to what you're experiencing right now with your
dog sitting. Oh.
My gosh. OK.
It is a dog timeshare situation.So OK, your eyes just lit up.
OK, So for, for those of us who who adopt dogs, and I would say
(02:45):
more so dogs than cats, because cats are a different story when
it comes to this type of thing. And also a dog, you know, more
or less what they're thinking atany given time versus a cat
where it's just a giant guessinggame.
But for dogs, I, it's as we know, it's a big commitment.
You need to be there for them all the time.
(03:09):
They have their routines, they have the things that they like,
they have the things that they don't like.
And So what I am proposing is that during the dog adoption
process there should be an option to have a Co adopter.
And So what you're doing essentially is you are going in
(03:30):
5050 with somebody else or maybe333333 with somebody else with
with two other people. And essentially it is a way to
understand I will have joint custody of this dog and we will
have an agreed upon system. And so that way you, you may be
(03:53):
if you, if you're sick and you're just like, I cannot get
out of bed and I know that I'm neglecting my dog.
That's not a problem now becauseyou have an agreement set up
with this other person where it's just like you are splitting
the time. Let's say you're going to be
going on a vacation. You don't have to worry about
finding a dog sitter. You don't have to worry about
(04:13):
finding a place to go board yourdog.
You already have your built in system that you have pre
arranged with your Co adopter. This is this is groundbreaking.
This is groundbreaking. OK.
And also I wrote this before I knew that you were going to be
(04:33):
dog sitting. So like, serendipitous.
Pretty, pretty serendipitous, I'd say.
That's kind of wild. Well, I also remember you were
going to be going on a trip and for, for listeners who are are
new to the show or viewers, you might not know that Louise lives
(04:55):
on the East Coast in New York. I live on the West Coast in
Portland, OR and we have been ultra buds since for for a very
very long time and all I got to say is that there are what?
Oh, this year's 24 years. Yeah, this year would be 24
(05:19):
years. Wow.
I know, I know. Yeah, right.
About this time. Like this week or next.
Week Have we been friends longerthan we've not been friends?
Oh yeah. Wow.
I love that. That's a fun thing.
So anyway, there have been timeswhere we have kind of like
(05:40):
griped to each other. I mean, doing this podcast
together, certainly we wish thatwe lived in the same
geographical region where we could just pop over to each
other's places and do this at any given moment.
I just watched my dog do a really big stretch and it was
very cute. But also there have been times
where like you've been going on a vacation and it's even come up
(06:00):
in your discussions about what you're going to be doing with
your dog. Where the thought, as as you
said to me, was just like, you know, maybe we just fly John out
and John stays here and watches the dog, which I would
absolutely do. So I.
Mean it might be less expensive than a dog sitter or a cattle.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
(06:22):
And so this kind of solves a lotof those problems.
And it's also like sometimes andclose your dog's ears right now,
but they can be pretty annoying sometimes And so like to have
space and time away from them sometimes is it can be kind of a
blessing. And it doesn't always need to be
a 5050 split. Maybe you only want to have a
(06:44):
dog 25% of the year and, and in which case you can, you can
arrange for that to happen. And then like the other, you
know, a doctor like gets a a bitof a break.
Yeah. You split the costs of the of
the vet visits. You split the costs of the food
like you have your, you have your agreement set and you stick
(07:07):
to it and that's and that's where you are.
This sounds like you would have to have the proper amount of
faith in your Co conspirator but.
This couldn't be somebody you'rejust meeting randomly.
No, cause also it'd be like and the the dog doesn't get table
(07:27):
scraps and then it's like at that house they do, you know,
whatever you know, then they're chucking.
Dogs aren't also like that binary and that like they do
know that like with some people,they can get away with things
they can't get away with other people like, you know, depending
on the dog. Yeah, the smart ones.
(07:51):
Right. Or the dumb ones forget and then
and then the dumb ones are just like, I'm just happy with
whatever. That's what I mean.
Like the dumb ones would be maybe better for that.
Yeah, that's what I've got and it's wonderful.
Man. So where's your mind been going
(08:14):
lately? I mean, we've, I feel like our
our dog ideas probably outrank most of our other ideas.
Has your has your brain been on the on the canines lately?
It hasn't been on canines, but it's been on kids.
(08:35):
Oh, OK, the other type of dog. The other type of dog.
Oh, the other thing that needs your unconditional love and
constant attention? Absolutely yes.
And here is what I'm working with.
Bunk baths once. Hear me out on this.
Yeah, you know how like when we went to Alaska, our couch in our
(09:01):
cabin stateroom converted into the the lower couch converted
down to a bed, the upper part like hydrauliced down from the
ceiling and there was a ladder in the closet.
So our stateroom host every day until the 2nd day would put it
out and then put it back and thesecond day we were like, can you
(09:23):
leave that bunk bed? You can put the couch back up.
But my kid loves that bunk bed. Not something she's familiar
with, not something she has. Bunk bed.
Super win. All kids think it's fun.
I don't know if they're creatures of habit and always
want to be on top or want to be on the bottom or whatever.
Wait, hear me out. You get smaller tubs than a
(09:47):
giant tub, so it like saves water and you bunk bath it so
that the top one, some might waterfall at times into the
bottom 1. So like that's fun and cool.
And then it's kind of like I'm going to take a bath on top
tonight. I'm going to take a bath on the
bottom. And then they're excited instead
of having to fight them to get into the bath.
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Cause hear this too. Every kid once they're in the
bath then never wants to get out.
So but it it's the fight to get them in bunk baths.
It's like like or, or or just thought of this.
You know how cats have those like napping trees that have
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like clear bowls in them, something like that, something
like that. But.
Interesting. Hydraulics down, you get one of
those like shower wands to fill up the top 1, you get the the
regular faucet to fill up the bottom 1 and when you're done
you just out that that plug. So.
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Make that time a little more fun.
Yeah. So this I feel would work well
if you have, you know, if you have a bathroom set up that has
kind of like the floor maybe slants a little bit into the
drain. You know, I lived in one place
that had a a shower and the floor was just the floor of the
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bathroom. But in that area it just kind of
like sloped down a little bit. So I could see this being good
in a situation like that where everything can kind of just like
pour down, cascade down a littlebit.
Maybe there's a tube situation, I don't know, or a pipe
situation. I feel like a tube would make
better sense because there's I feel like it needs to like be
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less rigid. It needs to have some
flexibility to it. Maybe.
Yeah, what I I'm I'm gonna also like yes and you a little bit I
what about like a bath like a almost like Ferris wheel style
where they. Yeah, definitely, absolutely
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yes. Oh if yes, I mean this might
have to be an outdoor situation but.
If you're in the right climate, you could take baths outside.
Sure, Yeah, I do want to go backand say my child hates bunk beds
and doesn't want to go near them.
Yeah. Wow, well good thing that she
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won't have to share them. There you go.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Bunk baths. How did that one come up for
you? Well, my child is a fight to get
into the bath every every time she has to get in the fight or
in the bath. Hey brain, but.
But the bunk situation was so dazzling to her.
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So dazzling, so dazzling. And we are so we had a floor bed
with her. We never had a crib.
And then you could like flip it over and then put the mattress
on it. So now it's like a foot off the
floor instead of being like an inch off the floor on like the
toddler size, but the mattress is still a crib size.
And when we were discussing because she starts kindergarten
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next week, getting her like a big girl twin bed, we were like,
well, let's talk it over with her and see what kind we're like
thinking about because maybe it'll be easier if she picks it
out. And of course, she was like the
bunk beds. And I was like, that doesn't
make any sense because you are an only child and go ahead.
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What about? What about like a lofted bed
where it's just like a little bit raised, but then there's
like something underneath, like a little desk?
Yeah, the current issue is we have a ceiling fan and no
protective. So, like, and she thinks she's
so clever and, you know, in the mornings putting on her clothes
for the day, she'll sometimes like, toss them up on purpose to
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try to get them on the spokes ofthe fan.
So it's like, we both hate the fan.
We moved into this house right before she was born.
We don't like the fan. We like air circulation, but we
don't like the fan. It's like, not our style every
day. Yeah, could it be replaced with
one with smaller blades? Yeah, we're thinking there's
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like fans now that sort of are inside of the light shade.
Oh, she's going to hate that. Yeah, but it would be safer in a
bunk bed situation. Yeah, we've thought about that.
But also like a twin bed is X amount of dollars and a bunk bed
is XXX amount of dollars. So I'm like, why am I getting
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you a bunk bed and two mattresses?
I know. But she picked a, she picked a
bunk. So we were like, let's see if
there's a Labor Day sale. We have yet to purchase a bed
and or two mattresses but then it was like wait a minute, bunk
baths. Bunk bands.
This could be good too. That's so funny.
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It's like those umbrellas, too, at like water parks that spill
out over top of you. Like it's a little bit, it's a
little bit whimsy and it's a little bit get in the bath.
Right. I will say as a parent of a
child who used to hate bads, whether she was in them or
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getting into them, hated them, now she loves it.
So it's just something that passes over time.
And I think that it's also like sometimes a matter of like being
picky for the sake of being picky and like making the
decision and then like not remembering why you decided that
after a certain point of time. But but Louise, this kind of
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leads really well into another idea.
I've got get it because it's about picky kids.
OK, I don't know if you have this experience, but this is a
very common thing, not just withkids, but sometimes it like
bleeds into adulthood. OK, let's say you are making a
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sandwich for your child. What would you say is perhaps a
#1 like request when making a sandwich?
I have yet to get my child to eat any sandwich of any kind.
Are you serious? She will not eat sandwiches.
Why won't she eat sandwiches? I don't know.
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So. But a common request that I
would have as an adult would be APB and J.
OK, but then what would maybe bea requirement of the PB and J?
The Jelly ratio. What's something that a child
might request of their parent when being presented with a
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sandwich? Like cut it triangle.
Cut it triangle. I've what I'm what I'm getting
to is the concept of cutting offthe crust.
Oh yeah, that's a popular thing that never was gonna fly in like
my household growing up or childhood in any way.
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It was like every single kid I knew in the area of the country,
maybe that I grew up in, or justmy town, was like, can I have
your crust? I was like, no, you can't have
my crust, It's mine. Really.
So you experienced people wanting more crust?
Yeah, it was a fight over the butt ends of the bread.
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Yeah, people wanted the crust. Because the the more popular
thing is that people don't want the crust.
Yeah, that's why there's like uncrustables or whatever.
Right. Exactly.
Yeah. I'm familiar with this concept,
but it it doesn't hit home in the same way.
I was never a cut off the crust kid and I am not a cut off the
crust parent. I have been asked to either cut
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off the crust or to get bread with a different type of crust
than the one that I am presenting, which is maybe has
seeds on it or something else. That's the good part.
I know because you're a grown upand you get these things.
But what I'm going to say is I think that the the problem isn't
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so much that it is, you know, a different type of a part of the
bread. I think it's all a branding
thing because the word crust, I don't think that it's a positive
word crust I feel. Like it though?
Well, OK, but that's because you, I've grown into
understanding what that kind of thing is.
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But like when I think crust, I think like butt crust.
I think of like butt crust. I think of like something that's
been, I think of something that's been like, you know, wet
and then dried and caked on. And it's just like a disgusting
word. Yeah.
It doesn't necessarily mean it'sfrom the butt, but like it's
just like like something that's just been like that's been dried
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and it needs to just get kind oflike brushed off or something.
It's like. It's.
Crust. Oh, see, to me that like I
associate that with like like a toasted bread or like a, a Creme
brulee. It's got like a thin crust and
it's like, oh. Well, and I think that that's
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also a difference between you and a child, although not only
are you probably the most childlike adult I know, and in
fact, in fact, right now you arecurrently dressed like a child.
I just can't help myself. Yeah, but what I'm saying is if
if Crust just has a a rebrand. Rebrand.
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And what I'm thinking is we callit the crunch zone because.
Into it. Right, because a kid can enjoy a
crunch, you know? I know a child who exclusively
eats croutons. Yeah.
They are crouton. 2 textures. Crouton isn't a sexy word, but
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at least it only means one thing.
So as far as like the crunch zone goes, I think this could
also apply to pizza because a lot of times kids will eat
everything except the crust. This was the opposite of my
growing up experience. Everyone was like, are you going
to have that? That's so bizarre to me.
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That's what I was like. Is it a regional thing?
I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
What's the pizza in Iowa like? Is it really crust forward?
No, it's regular. It's regular.
And I, and I mean, I grew up in New Jersey, not far outside of
New York where it's like, you know, pizza crust is, I don't
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know, perhaps cared for in a different way, but still there
was a, a stigma against the crust for for a lot of people.
I know. Louise, you are an outlier.
Zone I, you know. The Crunch Zone.
As I am having more self discovery in life, this is
something that my dear darling partner points out to me all the
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time. And he's like, look, your fatal
flaw is that you think you're like everyone else and then you
get frustrated when you realize you're not.
Just internalize. Nothing about you is normal and
you'll be happier. You know what his You know what
his flaw is? Telling his wife that she has a
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flaw? Come on man.
Snaps Hello, take notes. OK, you certainly have your fair
share of eccentricities. That's right.
And no one's going to take that away from you.
But it is a a character quirk. I wouldn't say it's a flaw,
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thank you. But it's something where it's
just like you have to remember you are an an outlier typically.
Yeah. But yeah, it's funny because
you're just like, what? My world is so different from
the way that you're explaining this.
So yeah. Wait.
OK. So this is sort of atypical of
the way we normally do things, but it's a perfect segue into
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the challenges. OK, yes.
And you challenged me to roadkill.
Yes. And I am also like a severe
overachiever and always have 10 million ideas.
And this time I was like, how can you actually do this one
thing and do this one thing really well?
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It's a rebrand. Are you rebranding Roadkill?
You know what? I'm not doing it, but I'm like
every. I was so sad working on this
challenge and I was like, is it about the cleanup?
Is it about the like? The fact that it's happening at
all. Right, It's is the is the bigger
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issue that I'm solving like migratory patterns and and
infrastructure. Like I don't know, I'm sad.
I'm just so sad. And what's even sadder to me is
like when the impact would happen, but death isn't instant.
And so then they're anyway too sad, too sad, so sad, so sad.
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And the rebrand is we go to somesuper, super talented Jingle
writers and they, you know, theyput out something like W
freshman, W fun. It's a statement of a great man
anyway. And I'm you can sponsor us if.
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You like, I like how you said every single word on that except
for the name of the product. That you sure singing the Jingle
word? And we get some jingles for the
particular kind of deceased animal, so that when you're in
your vehicle flying down the highway freeway and you see it,
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the little Jingle pops in and you're not as sad as you would
be because the Jingle is so goodand so catchy.
Well, also it's a way of paying tribute to this fallen animal.
Yes. I like it.
Yeah. OK, I I don't want to put you on
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the spot too much, but let's saythere's a raccoon.
What might a Jingle be for a a sweet, sweet raccoon?
OK wait, OK this just put me on the spot and I'm trying to
think. I know I've never, we've never
had a come up with a song right in the moment kind of a thing.
But I feel like if anybody can do it, it's you.
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Not to put the pressure on you. Yeah, no.
Mask on your face, stripey tail.Hope you're having fun on your
new trail. I don't know.
Yeah, something I didn't have torhyme, but.
Yeah, that's just like a quick. Little.
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It's good and I like that. It is very jingly and it's not
just like a song, you know? It's very specifically.
Flying down at 70 miles an hour faster if you're other people.
I mean also me, but I didn't want to say it really well, in
some places the speed limit is 75 S and it's more of a
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suggestion. It's a guideline.
It's not really like a don't go faster than this drive with the
weather conditions is what I say.
But you don't have a lot of timeto sing like a minute and a half
song. It's got to be.
It's just got to be. 44 little lines.
A quick stanza and that's and that's just going to be there to
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to honor and alleviate a little bit of sadness.
Absolutely. Yeah, a roadkill.
Rebrand. I really like that.
A roadkill rebrand. Oh boy.
Oh, poor little, poor little buddies.
I like it, though. Yeah, I I've been very much
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looking forward to hearing what you're going to come up with,
and you did not disappoint. OK, good.
For my challenge, you challengedme to teeth and I I had two
ideas. Well, here's what happened.
I had one idea that was like it came to me pretty quickly And
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then I was as I was thinking about just life in general, an
idea came to me and then I was like, wait a second, this idea
is also about teeth. So I don't know if this is a a
Louise style. I have two ideas situation or of
one of them. So I'm going to tell you the one
that I thought of first and thenthe other one is going to just
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be like the bonus idea that kindof can be a, a separate category
too. So something that I, I and, and
I'm not the only person that's noticed this.
And perhaps you've also, you know, this has come across your
radar as well. So I feel like it's not, I feel
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like it's true up until somewhatrecently, the past 10-15 years,
actors in movies. And by that I mean men, women,
non binary actors, so on and so forth.
They haven't had perfect teeth. And that's what has made them
interesting. They seem more like real people
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instead of, oh, this is a movie star being put into a movie.
The, you know, in the 70s, nobody had straight teeth.
In the 80s, things were all overthe place.
And I think that once we got into like even the later 90s,
that's when things started to people were just like, got to
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get veneers, got to have make sure I have the perfect teeth
because there's AI think a, a discomfort with being a, a
character actor or I'm just saying, like in Hollywood, you,
you just like sprung up. So what I'm saying is that there
needs to be a a new requirement for motion pictures that there a
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certain, there needs to be like a certain level of imperfect
teeth in a film. So yes, one person can of of
course have perfect teeth. But if you look at like actors
from, you know, like popular, popular actors, Kirsten Dunst
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has like really interesting teeth.
She's gorgeous but has like distinct teeth.
Christian Bale has like similarly like interesting
teeth. Steve Buscemi of course has
fascinating teeth. Willem Dafoe has really
interesting teeth. Anna Paquin has like a gap.
You were thinking about that one.
Madonna has has a gap like that.Tom Cruise has like 1 center big
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tooth and it's like we don't talk, we don't say, oh, he'd be
so perfect if he had straight teeth.
We say, oh, it's so interesting that this person that's so like,
you know, you know, we look to them as being like the, the, the
vision of perfection, but they have like interesting teeth.
And so it's like we, we should get to a point where like, you
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know, people are encouraged to have an interesting looking
mouth. That's all I'm saying.
I like it. OK, but you like got.
You got weird when I said that nobody wants to be a character
actor. Well, I did do that also.
Take a look at these. Interesting teeth.
Thank you. Real people teeth.
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Thanks. My mom couldn't pay for
orthodontics and she was like, if you were going to try to be
an actor in life, you can buy veneers later.
And do you want to know every single time that I would like
go, it wasn't a real audition. It would be like with a new
manager or a a different agency or something.
They'd be like, but we got to fix those teeth.
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I kid you not. Every single solitary one of
them. And I did try to do Invisalign
for a bit, but I'm a squirrel and I eat all the time and
that's just what works for me. And you got to constantly pop
them out and brush your teeth. And I just hated it.
And I was like, you know what? I'm not going to do Invisalign.
I can't do it. Like I tried to do it for about,
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I don't know, I think it was maybe 8 to 12 months that I was
Oh yeah, oh, yeah. I was like going to do it.
I needed the teeth. Everyone was telling me everyone
and I did it and you get these little like nodules cemented to
your teeth so that the trays clip on enough to like move them
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around. And finally, after just that
long of struggling with it and Ididn't finish the treatment or
whatever 'cause I think it was like 2 years worth of trays or
something. I was like, you know what, When
I get famous enough, I'll just get veneers.
Until then, my teeth are fine, they're healthy, and that's it.
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Yeah. And also, if anybody out there
wants to e-mail greatideapod@gmail.com, we can
set up like a Venmo account if anybody does want to contribute
to Louise's. Perfect teeth.
Fun. However, once there is this
requirement in Hollywood, I knowthat like, Hollywood isn't your
your goal. Broadway has always been, you
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know your goal, but you wouldn't, you know, turn away an
opportunity for a sweet acting gig no matter what.
Not to put words. No, you're 1000% right.
Yeah, but also, I don't know, I there, there needs to be some
sort of system where it's like it's, it's accepted and it's OK
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that you're going to have the the face that you have because
also like, OK, let's say you're in your 70s and and that's
you'll be there and, and you andyou suddenly are offered this
like great role for like an older woman.
It might work in your favor to have interesting teeth.
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Yeah. And just to dovetail on that,
I've always, and you talked about it before we were even
talking about me as an actor, but the roles that I am drawn to
are always the charactery bit. Totally.
Always, whether it's a drama or a comedy or musical or a
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commercial. I am not the Cinderella.
I am the step sister. I am the fairy godmother in a
different. You know, like more interesting
roles, by the way. They're just way more fun in my
opinion. I mean, who doesn't love to sing
a beautiful ballad like that? Aside, but that's the construct
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of the love interest sings this type of song, and those songs
are beautiful and I do like to sing them, but out of context in
a cabaret setting where I can change things is way more
exciting to my system than, well, like let's take Guys and
Dolls, probably one of the most perfect musicals ever written.
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Adelaide is way more exciting than Sarah I'm.
Not I'm not I I think I saw guysand dolls when I was a kid.
I haven't seen it since aren't not familiar, but I I believe
you. Yeah, no, no, no, I think that
it's like it's so boring to haveyou know the the I don't know
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the lead role, the I don't know it's boring.
It's. Not boring.
It's not boring to have the lead, but it's it's.
Well, and what? Maybe lead is not the right word
but like. You got to add your your, your
PDI, your personal brand of insanity.
Yep. You always got to add it.
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OK, so so I want to tell you about my other idea that is
teeth related. Great.
I'm ready. OK, let's say you work in an
office or, or maybe you've just gone to the gym or something.
And then right after that you'remeeting up with somebody.
You know, maybe you're about to go like walk in the park or
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something like that. I don't know, whatever.
Maybe it's a date, but you're feeling like you'd need
something to snap you into like a separate, a different mode
than you've been in. You need to get out of work
mode. You need to get out of workout
mode. And what's something that we can
do for ourselves that's like a little luxury that is caring for
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ourselves in a major way. It's brushing our teeth.
It's a 2 minute thing that can like really change your
mentality. So what I'm proposing are
toothbrush bars. So a spot where you can go to,
there's a bunch of like sink stalls.
You pay, you get a fresh toothbrush, you don't have to
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bring anything. You have your selection of
pastes, you have a selection of flosses.
You can because like for me, if if I brush my teeth in the
middle of the day, I'm just likea different person suddenly
after 2 minutes. So I lived in New York City over
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15 years. I had this friend.
I'm going to call him out by name.
His name's Ryan Jackson and. We used.
To have, we used to have what wewould call run by friending.
OK. And I would like to say that 75%
of the time because there's never enough time in life to
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like actually get a coffee or actually have lunch with
somebody. It's like it's so fun when
you're accidentally on the same train going somewhere and
somebody gets on your car and you're like, oh, hey, friend.
And you talk for 10 minutes and then one of you is like, this is
my stop. Good to see you.
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But we would do that at Sabon. OK.
Do you know what that is? No.
OK. It's like a fancy soap store.
It used to be all over, like theway that Lush or Keels is like
all over Sabon S A/B ON. And they would have little
sinks. And you could, like, use the
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testers and test out the soap. And he would be like, hey, I
have 30 minutes between this audition in Midtown.
Do you want to meet at that Sabon and wash our hands?
And I'd be like be there soon. I love that it's going ASAP.
Does that they have like a giantsink in the middle.
Of the yeah so the the teeth brush bar is so fun.
Well, also it's like maybe you went out to like lunch with
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somebody and you ate a big stinky meal.
Or a salad. A salad, definitely.
Let's say you just went to go see a matinee movie and then
you're you're going back to go do something else, but you got
popcorn in your teeth. You don't have anything on you.
You don't want to go to a CVS and get something and then be
like, OK, now where do I do thiswhere it's not disgusting
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looking? You go to a toothbrush bar.
Yeah, or you have a membership maybe, and so you don't have to
pay every time, but you're like,hey, just add it to my
membership. Right.
Or it's like, you know, you can maybe even pay less if you bring
your own gear, but it's just like the use of a private sink.
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But you have the option if you want like a particular type of
like mouthwash or something. And it becomes like an event
kind of a thing. And, and I like it's a it's a
little bit of a reset. It's a fun way to kind of go do
something weird with somebody. And, and also it's like, I don't
know, maybe it's a date spot because you're, you know, you're
about to go French kiss somebodyfor the first time and you want
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to like, and you're just like, hey, here's a fun idea.
Let's go to this toothbrush bar.And like, it's kind of like a
playing house kind of a thing where you're just like
cosplaying as like a couple who's sharing a sink and, you
know, brushing your teeth together and then.
Well, especially if you're like,let's grab a coffee and then you
can go brush your teeth. Or if you're like, let's get
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cocktails and then cocktails turns into dinner and you're
like, you know what? I don't want this night to end.
Let's go to the toothbrush bar. Like it?
Yeah. So that's where we're at with
that. And Louise, I have something
very exciting to share with you because you know, there are
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certain times where you know, we, we do have our great idea
Hotline 3O48-O four idea where you can call in, leave a
voicemail that we'll play it on the show and talk about it.
There are certain times where I'll go on like Kickstarter and
find a, an active Kickstarter campaign where somebody's trying
to raise money for a great idea that they've had.
But something came across my Tiktok feed that I want to share
(39:58):
with you and. This is like, I, I saw it and I
was like, this person had a great idea and they did it and
it's they're, they're selling this item.
It's not, I don't believe it's on Kickstarter, but I want to
take you on their journey a little bit.
OK. All right.
Hey everyone, this is a brand new TikTok account so I wanted
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to do a quick introduction videoabout this instrument.
It's like a $5 instrument I've been making called the Tubo
sounds like this. It's a Reed instrument
technically because of the membrane on the end and super
easy and fun to play. And so I've been making them for
the past couple of months and yeah, I'm going to be selling
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them soon and teaching you guys how to make them.
So I have this is the bass tubo,which has like a very mellow
almost cello sound. And then on the other end of the
spectrum, a little piccolo tubo.So follow along if you're
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interested in this journey. Let me know if you have any
thoughts about this instrument. If you would like to play one
yourself, let me know it's you because I'm going to be giving
some away. So yeah.
Christmas gifts. Christmas gifts.
I can tell by the look on your face the entire time that you
are into this. I love it.
I I reached out to the guy because I was like, I don't know
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this person's name and I can't find it anywhere on any the
website or social media stuff. So I've been checking my e-mail
this whole time being like, did they write back?
But I haven't seen anything but the Tuboe.
TUBOE. Yeah, it's a super creative,
like it's a it's APVC pipe. I don't know if it's like a 3D
printed end piece that goes on the end that you put something
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in that kind of creates that little membrane.
I'm like just a piece of wax paper on a kazoo.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. So I love this.
I think it's so much fun it. Is I want one or three?
And, and I know that you as a, ahornswoman, a player of the
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horn, that you can certainly appreciate a, an instrument of
the sort. I'm going to go onto the website
right now because I feel like they sell them on the website.
So Tubo and E minor oh, out of stock sells them for $65.
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But they look a little bit more polished than the one that you
see in like kind of the prototype that he's showing in
the video. But this website is also great.
It's the tubo.com, the TUBOE andshows kind of like the
prototypes and things like that.And I think it's just so cool.
And I, I don't know, I really appreciate that this person is
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just like, hey, why can't you just make an instrument, right?
Absolutely, yeah. Things that I will spend money
on, musical things, food, like I'm all about supporting that.
Absolutely. Well, also the way that he kind
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of pitches it is that it is the sound of an oboe, A clarinet,
you know, whatever, but with theease of playing a recorder.
So it's great for, you know, kids, people who maybe don't
need to have this complex system.
I mean, a saxophone with all of that that it's got going on,
(43:46):
that's complicated, but to get asimilar sound and sure, I'm you
know, I'm not saying that like it's supposed to be a
replacement forever for a saxophone, but pretty cool.
Very cool. Yeah, so shout out to this dude.
I wish I knew your name, but everybody should go check out
(44:06):
the Tubo on your preferred social media platform and the
tubo.com. And yeah, pick yourself up a a
Tubo or learn how to make one. And, and yeah, we want, we want
to celebrate the the great idea ists all over the world who
actually are doing it, because we're certainly not.
No, I can barely make it to thispodcast on time.
(44:32):
Oh, come. On you usually are able to I
know you are dog sitting right now and it is not a dog
timeshare situation. So yeah, you're dealing with a
lot more, but that's some behindthe scenes stuff.
Yeah, I should. I you know what?
Maybe if we post this episode tothe socials, we can do a
(44:53):
carousel and we'll just plop thepicture of the dogs in there.
Oh yeah, we can certainly do that.
Well, for anybody out there who does have great ideas that they
want to share with us that they're never going to do or
that you have done and you want to just celebrate that, e-mail
us greatideapod@gmail.com. Leave us a voicemail. 3O48-O
Four idea Louise, do you have any challenges for me for the
(45:16):
next episode? I do, I do it is that time of
year where my friends with little bits and bobbles of life
are looking for family photo shoot options for Christmas
cards coming up. So your challenge is an
(45:38):
improvement or a hot take our analternative to a family photo
shoot. Family for.
Purposes of sending out holiday cards or what have you, first
day of school, whatever. Great.
(45:59):
Well, I've got. What is your challenge for me?
I've got a seasonal one for you as well.
So I don't remember if you've ever talked about this on the
podcast, but you have told me that your maybe it's your least
favorite season is the autumn. You've told me that you've
(46:19):
expressed that because the plants are all kind of dying.
It's it's sad for you, It's not attractive.
It's it's it's kind of where areyou?
Do you still stand there? Fall is your least favorite.
You know what I don't know, I think that it does still in the
category of seasons fall in lastplace.
(46:43):
Hey, open up Ching. But I think I am a little bit
rewired where I don't hate it ashard.
Interesting. Care to care to elaborate?
Yes, I have a very very vivid memory or chunk of life.
(47:07):
I pandemic. We had just purchased our house
or closed on our house 2020 September and I had to drive
into the city by myself for an OB appointment.
So I was preggers 'cause I had my baby in December and I was
(47:29):
listening to the Sara Bareilles album Little Voice, which was
the music from the HBOTV show that she had of the same name.
But I was listening to her sing the songs rather than the people
in the show sing the songs. Doesn't matter.
And I was seething over autumn stuff and like the fact that the
(47:56):
the world was in the state that it was.
And like I had this and I'm surewe talked about this before, but
I'll refresh everyone's mind. Like this incredible chip on my
shoulder because I didn't reallywant to have kids.
I didn't think that was a thing that I was going to do.
And I always thought. If.
(48:19):
This ever happens to me. The father of my child or the
mother of my surrogate child or whatever would be at every
single appointment with me. Because if my life has to be
changed so drastically and if I'm required to be there, you
have to be there too. And then the universe said Nope.
(48:44):
And so I was angry that I had totake time out of my day to go to
my OB, go to this appointment, whatever.
And I'm listening to Sara Bareilles and the leaves are
falling, you know, on whatever Parkway I was on, Henry Hudson
or sawmill or whatever, it doesn't matter.
(49:04):
And it was just kind of like a switch in my brain.
And it was like it could be nature's confetti.
Interesting. And instead of it being trash
and debris and death I was like it's a party.
(49:25):
Also sub clause Halloween is my second favorite holiday so I.
Would like yeah, OK. And I was wondering about that.
OK, so this kind of changes whatI was going to pitch to you as
an idea because this is more of a personal challenge for you,
but maybe not so much anymore. But it was essentially to, to
(49:46):
come up with an idea for a, a wave to to beautify fall.
But perhaps we can maybe adapt. Well, I think it's an incredibly
beautiful season. I think it's the most beautiful
season. I love it when the when the
world turns orange. It's awesome.
(50:07):
I love it. But you see death and decay, or
at least you saw death and decay.
You see brown. OK, so, so yes, I, I do, I, I do
want to challenge you to kind oflike for yourself, because to,
to your dear husband's point earlier when he mentioned you're
(50:27):
not flaw, but you know, character quirk is that you see
things in a way that you're surprised when you find out that
other people don't also see themthat way.
So, so for this one, it's, it's mostly a you thing, but yeah,
it's a, it's a way to like to boost up your least favorite
(50:48):
season. Maybe we'll just put it that way
to boost up your least favorite season.
OK, it's just so wild to me because I'm like there's only
four and if I have to like reorder them.
What is your favorite? It comes in last oh summer.
OK, for what reason? There are so few familial
(51:11):
obligations in the summer there.For you.
Yes. I feel like for me, that's when
I have like, oh, that's when that's when people want to get
together. That's when there's this thing
happening and that thing happening in this obligation and
that obligation because I'm not a big winter holiday guy.
(51:32):
Yeah, so I like that. I love the weather.
I know a lot of people don't do well with humidity.
My hair looks the best in humidity.
So I like have to do the least amount of work on like myself.
I like the freedom of having thedays be I I'm very affected by
(52:00):
seasonal depression, I think. And so when it's 4:00 and dark
and someone texts me, hey, how about dinner tonight?
I'm like, it's four and now I'm home.
It back before I had regular jobs when I had very flexible
jobs and I'd be like, yeah, I'm not going out.
The day is over. But if somebody texts me at 4:00
(52:23):
in the summer, I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
It's just I I am much more like the longer day is good for me.
But funny enough, then my secondfavorite season I think is
winter because I like, I'm such an extreme, right?
I like the whimsy and I like theisolation, even though now it's
(52:47):
the darkest. Right.
And spring through. Because it's my birthday and
rebirth and you. Know it's the, it's the darkest,
but also there, there are more, you know, lights that people put
up and it changes the atmosphere.
Yeah, cozy. Festive.
(53:09):
I don't love living in winter, but I love playing in winter and
anything is super fun if you have the right equipment.
So like sometimes I'm like, man,I don't have the right coat for
this and it's like we'll get theright coat, which is such a
privileged position to be and tojust say something like that.
(53:31):
But I do like that. And then spring, my birthday's
in the spring, flowers bloom in the spring.
I don't hate rain. I know a lot of people hate
rain. I, I like rain.
I like it a lot. I like the way it sounds.
I like the way it smells. I like the way it smells right
before it rains. I like playing in puddles.
(53:54):
All these people in like, you know, the winter who detest
summer, who are like, it's so hot.
Just wear layers. I'm like, OK, well then just get
some rubber boots, play in the play in the like, not for
winter, but like, I don't know anyone that hates spring though,
honestly. And then, yeah, fall I.
Don't love. I don't love spring.
OK, I do know someone. It has nothing to do with rain.
(54:24):
It it really has most to do withthe peak of seasonal allergies.
And it's like, that is the season of discomfort for me at
least, like physical discomfort as and health and things like
that. So I although this past spring
it was much more tame for me than it had been in the past.
(54:48):
And also when I used to live in Los Angeles, I did not
experience allergies the same way that I experienced them
growing up in New Jersey or herein Oregon.
But there are are some years where it hits me, hits me really
hard and it's like the itchy eyes and headaches and all that
kind of stuff. But yeah, I feel like
(55:09):
associating that with spring, italways makes me just be like
spring and fall is my favorite. I feel like it's, I like to wear
a, a light jacket, like, you know, a, a nice jacket, maybe a
sweater, but like not where it'sbeing covered by a gigantic
(55:30):
coat. I like to have the freedom of,
you know, just being outside, wearing a, just a, a nice
sweater and enjoying being outside.
The air is nice and crispy. After the first frost, no
mosquitoes. Well, we don't have mosquitoes
out here, so. But I was just in New Jersey
(55:54):
recently and man, those skeeterswere out.
Oh, boy. Gross.
Yeah, that was uncomfortable. And the and the humidity, you
know, just being, you get out ofa shower and you go outside and
you're just instantly covered insweat again, just because of the
humidity that I don't care for. And we don't get that out here
(56:16):
in Oregon either, at least in the part of Oregon where I am.
So anyway, I feel like geographically the, the, the
seasons even have a different impact depending on where you
are. Although the things that you,
you like about like the spring, you like the humidity and things
(56:36):
like that. Like that's something where if
you were here, for example, you'd be like, I missed the
humidity or summer rather. My hair would be horrible a it
would be like limp and weird andlike when it gets really humid
and my hair starts to absorb allthe moisture it gets.
It's just I do nothing and I have pageant hair.
(56:58):
Pageant hair. I love it.
And people are like, all right, so so your challenge is to is to
improve here. How about this?
How to improve your least favorite season?
Love it. Yeah, that, that's what we'll
do. Well, everybody, thank you so
much for tuning in. It's always a real joy for me.
(57:18):
And Louise, I just love doing this with you.
And all I got to say is just thanks for hanging out with me.
Thanks for hanging out with me. I don't see it happening.
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