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(00:00):
One hundred dollars. All right,Oh, she doesn't believe it's not gonna
happen. But go ahead, ifyou tell me how the advice columnist,
and if you feel it's necessary toknow who the advice columnist is, I
will share that with you. Okay. I always like to Miss Manners.
I read all of them. I'mnot partial to any of them. By
(00:22):
the way I'm reading, there's athere's a new one that's come along.
It's a guy. Is this theguy that took over for Was it ask
Amy? Who retired? Which one? Which one retired? And then I
was having a guy right? Well, Amy is retiring. Eric is taking
over? Okay, yeah, thisisn't Eric. Oh yeah, no,
this is a different dude. Eric'sfrom Baltimore. The is he really?
(00:44):
So? Bro? I haven't decidedif I like this new guy's stuff yet,
though I don't know if I trusthim as an advice columnist. Anyway,
I'm going to read, Diane,and you'll answer the way you think
Miss Manners answered. Okay, dearMiss Manners, I'm reading this happened to
my husband at the grocery store.It was raining and a row of dripping
(01:08):
wet carts stood in an area nearthe door. Customers could take a cart,
then use the paper towels that werehelpfully left there to dry them off
before entering the store. My husbanddried his cart, but before he had
a chance to wheel it inside,a woman dare I call her Karen,
entered the area, snatched the cartaway from him and said with a breezy
(01:32):
thanks, while taking it inside todo her own shopping. My husband said
he was so shocked he didn't saya word. He just took another cart
to dry off for his own use. When he told me about this later,
I shared husband's shock at Karen's brazencheekiness. Of course, she was
(01:52):
right to thank him, but shealso seemed quite presumptuous to simply just grab
a cart that he had dried off. I was wondering, what you think.
Was this an opportunity to correct herbehavior? If so, how should
she have done it? Or shouldhe have just turned the other cheek as
he did. By the way,I think my husband is great to do
(02:15):
the shopping, and if that ladyhad the manners to ask first, I'm
certain he would have given her hisdried off cart. How do I think
miss Manners, your Miss Manners answerthe question. I think she would probably
say, the husband reacted in theproper way. Incorrect, Try again.
(02:35):
Miss Manners wanted him to go hamon that lady answer, excuse me?
Incorrect? Try again. Okay,Well, so there's some happy medium in
here. I don't know. Youtell me, Okay, there's one hundred.
Oh well you blew the hundred bucks. The husband should have said,
(03:01):
I actually dried that off from me. I don't try again. Okay,
Well I gave you three. Gether back at the check out line,
the shoven. What are you supposedto like? Go chase her down?
Incorrect? Try again. So thisis gonna be a very shocking answer.
(03:23):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And but miss Manners is not the
one who's got one foot out thedoor. And no, no, she's
got a job. And I hateher response. I hate her response.
As a matter of fact, shehas two responses, and I hate both
of them. I can't think ofany other option. Number one, let's
not call anybody. Oh she saidKaren. She is on the anti Karen
(03:53):
trade. Okay, and well,not the anti Karen train, the anti
slurring of yeah, it's not aslur. Miss manners any friends named Karen
Kristin. This is awkward since duringthe commercial break you dropped two Karen bombs
on us. Maybe three, Itwas definitely two where Kristen came in and
said, hey, some Karen's callingbecause you're talking about masturbating and she thinks
(04:17):
there's kids listening and is going tocall the FCC, Like, go call
him Karen. Her name's Jessica Rosenwursel. Tell her I call her a mommy
box. I don't. My nameis Tyler MoMA. But how would mismanners
respond to Kristin the Oh uh uhuh unless you know her name is Karen.
(04:42):
You do not call someone a Karen. Why are you rolling your eyes,
Diane whatever. That's a very mismannersything to say. No, don't
you dare call her Karen. Ifwe are to consider manners, consider how
(05:04):
rude it is to use a respectablename Kristen, which graces many innocent people
as an insult. Yes, youcan call her rude Kristin. Or are
we back to the original story.No, we're back to Karen. Yeah,
so Kristen in the future, insteadof saying Karen say this bitch,
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No, don't you dare call herthis bitch, I'm gonna call you out
every time. Not because that's ago to for you? What's that?
Because she doesn't like to use cusswordsand curse words? So what's the go
to for Christen? She uses Karen? Oh yeah, no, hey,
Karen just called. She's gonna callthe FCC. What yourself found? Don't
(05:54):
you dare call her? So?After scolding the person for using Karen,
yes, which is respectable name,what else does she take the writer the
writer to task for giving her husbandcredit for shopping? Thank you? Why
are we thanking him for shopping?Do you get a heads up that you've
(06:15):
been responded to a column? Oh? Like, we've actually written a response.
It will be published. Maybe youdon't get a date, but are
you? Oh? Somehow great question? I've never written. I've never written.
For as much as I read thesegoddamn things, you would think I
write them all the time, writeto them all the time. But will
the staff somehow let you know?Okay, the writer is crafting a response
(06:39):
or is responding, It will besubmitted. Keep a lookout or do you
have to stumble on it again?Why so you can like never go to
work? Again, wouldn't you beexcited that you've met Yeah, your letters
in there until you find out.Let's not insult someone rude? No,
don't you dare that's the Oh that'sgood. Oh I want to know the
(07:03):
answer to that if that is?I am writing? But do they also
get like people who like just writeevery day? Oh? Yeah, they've
got regulars for sure, you thinkso so like like dear Abby, because
all they want is a response.Well, Amy actually wrote a column the
other day about how often people tryto trick her. Wait, which one's
(07:27):
the leaving like completely up those things? Yeah, so she in this.
Oh but did you have a goodanswer though she? Did you have the
doctor Judy answer? I know you'regonna say, by the way, for
those that are not as cultured doctorby the way, total side note this.
Will you think the Doctor Judy referencemeans nothing to most people? Let
(07:49):
me give you one deeper Okay.Brian Phillips was on a zoom with Doctor
Judy yesterday just to check in.Doctor Judy used to host Love Phones and
Doctor Judy when somebody would call inwith some outlandish sex thing and somebody would
go, you know that they're lying, Doctor Judy would go, no,
(08:11):
no, if somebody can think it, if somebody can imagine it, somebody
has done it. Right, Soshe's speaks to somebody. Yeah, somebody
would call in and go like,I got a sideways by the pizza roller,
and they would be like that someonecould just if you can think it,
someone has done it. So isthat what Amy said? I didn't
read. I didn't I didn't readher her soliloquy, I guess after penning
(08:35):
her response, and this was backshe's been around for a while. Yeah,
and that's what she's getting to revisitthe hits and the missus and some
of these misses have never been madepublic before, but it's it's sort of
a celebration of the life of acolumnist. Wait, so is she saying
like the advice she gave turned outto be bad? Well, no,
she found out that the person hadwritten the letter and it was a lot
(09:00):
a fleet rip off of a movieplot from the film she hadn't seen.
Hey, so me and six friendsjust pulled off a great heights. Oh
that's good. So I think nowshe's able to have fun with some of
the pranks. She said that shegets pranked all the time. Yeah,
there's there's fake stuff that's really easyspot out. But if you haven't,
(09:22):
I have a dog growing into mybody. She's not a medical she's not
doctor Jen The or doctor Judy TheBut no, no, no, but
but listen, why would she knowthat? I don't fault for that.
Well, I don't recall which filmwas. But she was also really embarrassed
because she considers herself like a filmofficionado son boxes like a light light never
(09:52):
mind? What what? Oh?In twenty fifteen, here it is Jesus
Christ. Yes. In twenty fifteen, I got pranked. Hold on no,
that's the one where she's going orms Manners is going off on the
Karen. No, don't you ever? Don't you dare Kristin Karen calls she's
(10:18):
gonna call the FCC. I'm sorry. In twenty fifteen, I got pranked
when I chose to answer a questionwhose plot is closely based on the cult
movie The Room. Ironically, Iam a movie fiend, but because I
was not a drunk college student whenit was released in the world, I
had not seen it. Slur.Why is she slurring people who saw the
(10:39):
movie? And so it is witha strange mixture of pride and embarrassment that
I returned to this elegant prank.Of course, I stand by my advice.
I only wish I had better fictionalcharacters to offer it to. By
the way, that that is adoctor Judy response, I stand by.
They may have been lying, butI stand by my advice. And then
(11:03):
she goes on and you can goback and read it. I don't need
to do that from this past week. I'm auditioning a new guy, but
I think we're going to see somefun stuff come out. I forget when
when is her last come? Isn'tit right before July fourth? So say
Jack was on Friday? Right?Or you know? Going back, where's
(11:24):
we had it on the big calendarsout on the windows. I don't recall
Amy's last day. Ask Amy,and who is Eric taking her place?
Yes, Amy, after twenty oneyears is ending the column on? I
thought it was right before July fourth? Where is it? Did she give
(11:46):
a date? I have alerts?Where am I going? Asking Eric?
We knew that was the new one, right, he better be good too.
Don't come in and we just takedon't come in and carrying this thing
up, don't you day. Idon't see hi Elliott in the morning.
Elliott, sir, what if thelady thought the guy wiping the card off
(12:09):
was a worker at the grocery store? You know what? I thought the
same thing. I thought the samething when I read it, but not
not miss Manners. No, don'tcall anybody a Karen. Sounds like Miss
Manners being a little bit of aKaren. No, but I'm with you.
I would have thought the same thing. Yeah. Or also I would
(12:30):
have just you know what I wouldhave done if I would have been the
husband who, by the way,thank you for shopping Elliott the Uh No,
you know what I would have done. She wouldn't have had to take
it from me, because what wouldElliott Siegel have done? You would have
continued to wipe it down and thenhand offered it to or here you go.
This one's dry, milady. Ido wonder this though, because Kristin
at her core is a very,very kind person. It's just Diane's influence
(12:52):
that is poisoning her. Hearing aresponse like that from Miss Manners, who
we've respected for so long, Willyou think next time you use that insult
about this column? No, thinkabout your answer to my question, don't
(13:16):
you dare No,
One hundred dollars. All right,Oh, she doesn't believe it's not gonna
happen. But go ahead, ifyou tell me how the advice columnist,
and if you feel it's necessary toknow who the advice columnist is, I
will share that with you. Okay. I always like to Miss Manners.
I read all of them. I'mnot partial to any of them. By
(00:22):
the way I'm reading, there's athere's a new one that's come along.
It's a guy. Is this theguy that took over for Was it ask
Amy? Who retired? Which one? Which one retired? And then I
was having a guy right? Well, Amy is retiring. Eric is taking
over? Okay, yeah, thisisn't Eric. Oh yeah, no,
this is a different dude. Eric'sfrom Baltimore. The is he really?
(00:44):
So? Bro? I haven't decidedif I like this new guy's stuff yet,
though I don't know if I trusthim as an advice columnist. Anyway,
I'm going to read, Diane,and you'll answer the way you think
Miss Manners answered. Okay, dearMiss Manners, I'm reading this happened to
my husband at the grocery store.It was raining and a row of dripping
(01:08):
wet carts stood in an area nearthe door. Customers could take a cart,
then use the paper towels that werehelpfully left there to dry them off
before entering the store. My husbanddried his cart, but before he had
a chance to wheel it inside,a woman dare I call her Karen,
entered the area, snatched the cartaway from him and said with a breezy
(01:32):
thanks, while taking it inside todo her own shopping. My husband said
he was so shocked he didn't saya word. He just took another cart
to dry off for his own use. When he told me about this later,
I shared husband's shock at Karen's brazencheekiness. Of course, she was
(01:52):
right to thank him, but shealso seemed quite presumptuous to simply just grab
a cart that he had dried off. I was wondering, what you think.
Was this an opportunity to correct herbehavior? If so, how should
she have done it? Or shouldhe have just turned the other cheek as
he did. By the way,I think my husband is great to do
(02:15):
the shopping, and if that ladyhad the manners to ask first, I'm
certain he would have given her hisdried off cart. How do I think
miss Manners, your Miss Manners answerthe question. I think she would probably
say, the husband reacted in theproper way. Incorrect, Try again.
(02:35):
Miss Manners wanted him to go hamon that lady answer, excuse me?
Incorrect? Try again. Okay,Well, so there's some happy medium in
here. I don't know. Youtell me, Okay, there's one hundred.
Oh well you blew the hundred bucks. The husband should have said,
(03:01):
I actually dried that off from me. I don't try again. Okay,
Well I gave you three. Gether back at the check out line,
the shoven. What are you supposedto like? Go chase her down?
Incorrect? Try again. So thisis gonna be a very shocking answer.
(03:23):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And but miss Manners is not the
one who's got one foot out thedoor. And no, no, she's
got a job. And I hateher response. I hate her response.
As a matter of fact, shehas two responses, and I hate both
of them. I can't think ofany other option. Number one, let's
not call anybody. Oh she saidKaren. She is on the anti Karen
(03:53):
trade. Okay, and well,not the anti Karen train, the anti
slurring of yeah, it's not aslur. Miss manners any friends named Karen
Kristin. This is awkward since duringthe commercial break you dropped two Karen bombs
on us. Maybe three, Itwas definitely two where Kristen came in and
said, hey, some Karen's callingbecause you're talking about masturbating and she thinks
(04:17):
there's kids listening and is going tocall the FCC, Like, go call
him Karen. Her name's Jessica Rosenwursel. Tell her I call her a mommy
box. I don't. My nameis Tyler MoMA. But how would mismanners
respond to Kristin the Oh uh uhuh unless you know her name is Karen.
(04:42):
You do not call someone a Karen. Why are you rolling your eyes,
Diane whatever. That's a very mismannersything to say. No, don't
you dare call her Karen. Ifwe are to consider manners, consider how
(05:04):
rude it is to use a respectablename Kristen, which graces many innocent people
as an insult. Yes, youcan call her rude Kristin. Or are
we back to the original story.No, we're back to Karen. Yeah,
so Kristen in the future, insteadof saying Karen say this bitch,
(05:30):
No, don't you dare call herthis bitch, I'm gonna call you out
every time. Not because that's ago to for you? What's that?
Because she doesn't like to use cusswordsand curse words? So what's the go
to for Christen? She uses Karen? Oh yeah, no, hey,
Karen just called. She's gonna callthe FCC. What yourself found? Don't
(05:54):
you dare call her? So?After scolding the person for using Karen,
yes, which is respectable name,what else does she take the writer the
writer to task for giving her husbandcredit for shopping? Thank you? Why
are we thanking him for shopping?Do you get a heads up that you've
(06:15):
been responded to a column? Oh? Like, we've actually written a response.
It will be published. Maybe youdon't get a date, but are
you? Oh? Somehow great question? I've never written. I've never written.
For as much as I read thesegoddamn things, you would think I
write them all the time, writeto them all the time. But will
the staff somehow let you know?Okay, the writer is crafting a response
(06:39):
or is responding, It will besubmitted. Keep a lookout or do you
have to stumble on it again?Why so you can like never go to
work? Again, wouldn't you beexcited that you've met Yeah, your letters
in there until you find out.Let's not insult someone rude? No,
don't you dare that's the Oh that'sgood. Oh I want to know the
(07:03):
answer to that if that is?I am writing? But do they also
get like people who like just writeevery day? Oh? Yeah, they've
got regulars for sure, you thinkso so like like dear Abby, because
all they want is a response.Well, Amy actually wrote a column the
other day about how often people tryto trick her. Wait, which one's
(07:27):
the leaving like completely up those things? Yeah, so she in this.
Oh but did you have a goodanswer though she? Did you have the
doctor Judy answer? I know you'regonna say, by the way, for
those that are not as cultured doctorby the way, total side note this.
Will you think the Doctor Judy referencemeans nothing to most people? Let
(07:49):
me give you one deeper Okay.Brian Phillips was on a zoom with Doctor
Judy yesterday just to check in.Doctor Judy used to host Love Phones and
Doctor Judy when somebody would call inwith some outlandish sex thing and somebody would
go, you know that they're lying, Doctor Judy would go, no,
(08:11):
no, if somebody can think it, if somebody can imagine it, somebody
has done it. Right, Soshe's speaks to somebody. Yeah, somebody
would call in and go like,I got a sideways by the pizza roller,
and they would be like that someonecould just if you can think it,
someone has done it. So isthat what Amy said? I didn't
read. I didn't I didn't readher her soliloquy, I guess after penning
(08:35):
her response, and this was backshe's been around for a while. Yeah,
and that's what she's getting to revisitthe hits and the missus and some
of these misses have never been madepublic before, but it's it's sort of
a celebration of the life of acolumnist. Wait, so is she saying
like the advice she gave turned outto be bad? Well, no,
she found out that the person hadwritten the letter and it was a lot
(09:00):
a fleet rip off of a movieplot from the film she hadn't seen.
Hey, so me and six friendsjust pulled off a great heights. Oh
that's good. So I think nowshe's able to have fun with some of
the pranks. She said that shegets pranked all the time. Yeah,
there's there's fake stuff that's really easyspot out. But if you haven't,
(09:22):
I have a dog growing into mybody. She's not a medical she's not
doctor Jen The or doctor Judy TheBut no, no, no, but
but listen, why would she knowthat? I don't fault for that.
Well, I don't recall which filmwas. But she was also really embarrassed
because she considers herself like a filmofficionado son boxes like a light light never
(09:52):
mind? What what? Oh?In twenty fifteen, here it is Jesus
Christ. Yes. In twenty fifteen, I got pranked. Hold on no,
that's the one where she's going orms Manners is going off on the
Karen. No, don't you ever? Don't you dare Kristin Karen calls she's
(10:18):
gonna call the FCC. I'm sorry. In twenty fifteen, I got pranked
when I chose to answer a questionwhose plot is closely based on the cult
movie The Room. Ironically, Iam a movie fiend, but because I
was not a drunk college student whenit was released in the world, I
had not seen it. Slur.Why is she slurring people who saw the
(10:39):
movie? And so it is witha strange mixture of pride and embarrassment that
I returned to this elegant prank.Of course, I stand by my advice.
I only wish I had better fictionalcharacters to offer it to. By
the way, that that is adoctor Judy response, I stand by.
They may have been lying, butI stand by my advice. And then
(11:03):
she goes on and you can goback and read it. I don't need
to do that from this past week. I'm auditioning a new guy, but
I think we're going to see somefun stuff come out. I forget when
when is her last come? Isn'tit right before July fourth? So say
Jack was on Friday? Right?Or you know? Going back, where's
(11:24):
we had it on the big calendarsout on the windows. I don't recall
Amy's last day. Ask Amy,and who is Eric taking her place?
Yes, Amy, after twenty oneyears is ending the column on? I
thought it was right before July fourth? Where is it? Did she give
(11:46):
a date? I have alerts?Where am I going? Asking Eric?
We knew that was the new one, right, he better be good too.
Don't come in and we just takedon't come in and carrying this thing
up, don't you day. Idon't see hi Elliott in the morning.
Elliott, sir, what if thelady thought the guy wiping the card off
(12:09):
was a worker at the grocery store? You know what? I thought the
same thing. I thought the samething when I read it, but not
not miss Manners. No, don'tcall anybody a Karen. Sounds like Miss
Manners being a little bit of aKaren. No, but I'm with you.
I would have thought the same thing. Yeah. Or also I would
(12:30):
have just you know what I wouldhave done if I would have been the
husband who, by the way,thank you for shopping Elliott the Uh No,
you know what I would have done. She wouldn't have had to take
it from me, because what wouldElliott Siegel have done? You would have
continued to wipe it down and thenhand offered it to or here you go.
This one's dry, milady. Ido wonder this though, because Kristin
at her core is a very,very kind person. It's just Diane's influence
(12:52):
that is poisoning her. Hearing aresponse like that from Miss Manners, who
we've respected for so long, Willyou think next time you use that insult
about this column? No, thinkabout your answer to my question, don't
(13:16):
you dare No,
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