EITM: Jerry-RIP? 12/8/23

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Episode Transcript

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How about that story from Tara.I worked for a gas station when our

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roommate and best friend died. Igot to take a day off only because
my manager got someone to cover myshift. You know who covered her shift?
The manager? No, she writes, it was your former mailman,
Jerry. Are you serious? Jerrycovered her shift? Uh? Huh?

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Is that not the perfect story forthis season, unless Terry, you wanted
him to cover like a week andJerry's I give you one day. Jerry
just came up the other day becauseremember we talked about him getting the loading
docks yet beat up down in theloading dock. He is eighty years old.
Yeah, no time off for that, so he could no, no,
at least so he covered their shift. I didn't. He doesn't know

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how to work. That's stuff,Sure he does. Is there a lot
affording inappropriate jokes that this gig requires? Because I can do that well?
Rip Jerry? No, no,no, he was helping her out when
she's mourning the loss of her friend. Okay, you know Jerry has since

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passed. I don't think that's true. Do we know that that's definitely not
Truecause when that came up the otherday, I didn't know Jerry is not
still with us. Do you knowthat with one hundred percent certainty? Uh?
I am one hundred percent certain.I don't know who? Can we

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ask about that? The email him? But I have to do it in
a forward? Wait? No,didn't we didn't? Were we told?
Didn't Jerry die? No? Idon't remember him. I know his wife
died. Yeah, I think no, No that I know that. I
know. Oh No, I don'tknow that. Yeah. I think that

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you're throwing out a lot of whowould know that? Would Hall know that?
No? Colin? No, Colinmight nobody? You know who would
know? Alice Crider? I don'tknow. Tell me something Criter does know?
So should text? Did your text? Yes? Crider knows how to

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dance in his underwear and get high. Do you think Colin would know?
I'll have a huge in vainy righton my access is Jerry? How do
we find that out? I don'treally, I don't think he is.
It's not repeating something like that,that's so dangerous. I'm questioning. I'm
not. I'm not stating. Youdefinitely declared it. I hope he is

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still a lot of course, Butwhy haven't we heard with the with the
person who wrote him wrote about himin that By the way, you realize
in that message, would they knowwho? Well, I mean, we
don't know exactly how long ago itwas that this person's friend died and Jerry
filled in for her. Okay,you know Jerry was like, Jerry was

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in his eighties when he worked here. No, no, I don't.
He was old soul old. Soyeah, he was thirty, he was
thirty. No, he was definitelyolder, but he wasn't there was he?
Yes, it would be one hundredand ten. Sorry, thirty years

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have passed you last saw him.This is uncomfortable. This made it that
way? You did? I did? No, Actually, you guys did,
because I said he was dead andyou guys are like, no,
he's not. You guys made itup. We could have just gotten to
break and you'd have been like,hey, Elliott, I think you might
be wrong. You don't want tospread that around now. I struggled because

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I don't want to be right,but I like being right. At least
you will forgot. I said,Ogan, all right, well let me
have to find that out. Wellyou find it out with hr. No,
that's Alice or Carlos. You mentionedit's a two headed monster that is
ripping this company off like no one'sever seen. The Jacksonville Jaguars are gonna

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be like, damn, I'll findout. I'll find out, all right,
give me a give me a quickbreak. It's Elliot in the morning,
Elias in the morning. Do wehave confirmation on anything now? Now
everything's taking a weird turn. Well, everything is mixed up. But the
correct Jerry was misinterpreted by us.It's not my fault, that's that's the

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that's the speaker's fault. I mean, what, so there's two. Who
was the one that said Jerry coveredthe mailman Tara? Okay, there's two
Jerry, the male men. No, there's not, Yes, there is
for you, there is. Yeah. My male man when I lived in
false Church, my male man wasJerry, who was freaking awesome. Let

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me rephrase that. Who is freakingawesome? No, he is, he's
great. That's who covered the shiftfor Tara. That's right, and would
have done the whole week. Yes, that I believe Jerry was great.
Jerry is great because we were wonderingif Jerry, thinking it was the old
Jerry that worked here, who isnow one hundred and ten that anyone.

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Yeah, by just an old soul. No, that's an old body anyway.
He's ninety one. That's even ifhe's with us. I hope he's
still with us anyway. So themy false church Jerry, he's still with
us. As a matter of fact, he has a birthday in four days.

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You heard that. Yeah, yeah, we learned a lot about your
mailman. Yes, which at somepoint you should have said, hold on,
is there confusion as to why wouldI say that? They said it's
why because we didn't have Jerry themail men in our homes. Well,
she didn't say you're home, Shejust said Jerry the mailman. Well,
shouldn't have you maybe heard the coveringat the gas station and kind of put

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it together. No, because youwere the first one that said, I
don't think Jerry could do that job. No, Jerry, false church Jerry
could do that job. Radio stationmailman Jerry, zero chance he could do
that job. Yes, it lookslike false church Jerry is over twenty years
younger than our Jerry. Oh,he's probably more than twenty years twenty one.
Yeah, No, he's I meanhis workhorse. That guy would he

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would cover people's like other people's shiftsin the mail room. He was great.
Yeah, he is great. TaraToma said, what's up? Now,
let's look at Jerry, who usedto work at the radio station,
was also the mailman, got beatup downstairs, got jump mugged. Ugh,

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I'm back to him being a No. We just don't know who told
me? Yes, who told youthat they thought he Why would I think?
Why would I think that he's passedother than the fact that he's ninety
one years old. The person Itexted said he did not know, but

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would have taken the under. Thankyou, Diane. I don't mean that
in a bad way. It justsounds a little cross. I don't mean
for it too. I don't meanfor it too when you're talking about whether
somebody's a live or dead, I'mtaking the under. Oh that wasn't me,
I know. So this was theconversation during the break because we were

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getting bombarded with all this thought wasabout our Jerry, but was about your
Jerry. Right, we're hearing heis and that's the response. Is I
to suppose it's possible? One?And then I wrote, now we're hearing
no, and he wrote, seemsmore plausible. Well, I think he

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told you that right away. Idon't know, but this is but I
would have said, out of mindand this is what happens. We talked
about this a few weeks ago whenyou were this is a great example to
prove how you were such an unbelievablefraud when you said, people leave here,

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and I stay in touch with themif I'm friendly with them. Now,
not all of them. You andJerry and all of us had a
special bond with him. Yes,Oh, Jerry was great. Remember Jerry
act as a stripper at one point, and women stripped on him. He
was great. Never a happier momentin his life. That's not true,

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because he was happier then than whenhe got jumped downstairs. What You can't
say it, but he would alwayswhen they would do the concert listings in
the newspaper, he would always scanthem, oh yeah, because he wanted
to find Yeah, his favorite nameband, and he would cut it out
and put it either on your deskor on the board. Yes that I

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can't say the yeah No listen tothe guy. But the guy was awesome.
It's like top with the Leslie Jonesbook. The name's a little too
explicit, but just searched bonnk.You're donk. So we're back to not
knowing about Jerry. What's the phonenumber? You said, Elliott, No,

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I'm asking. I thought you thatyou may have his phone number.
Did I make that up? Idon't know. I feel now, I
feel like now people, I'm surprisedyou don't have it. Why would I
have Jerry's phone number? I don'tknow. That would just seem like you
would. I also don't think hewould answer it because he can't. Elliott.
I'm just maybe he thinks you're atelemarketer. I don't delete emails,

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especially, I mean especially work emails. So loud, he searching, searching
through stuff. The first result isifforting me something with this subject full load.

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That's what was So that is sogreat about him? What is because
he would he would forward you,guys the most vile stuff. All I
got was like kittens and stuff,animals and this and funny things, but
very innocent funny things. I gotkittens too. What where where did you

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get the number? Well? First, I'm reading and how to get to
Heaven in Ireland? Oh follow,Jerry's just right, you afford it,
and his only message would be likethis is a good one. All right,

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give me the number. This isthis, This is a scary game
to play. Yeah, why itgoes one of two ways? Just because
he doesn't answer doesn't mean anything bad, I know. But the only time
it goes south is if somebody elseanswers because we've reassigned the number. Okay,

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I'm just I have so many emailsfrom him, or we could just
read all the jokes. Let mejust make sure that he what's the most
recent email? Twenty followed as twentysixteen. He's only been gone nine years.

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No, he would email even afterhe wasn't here any longer. Right,
Yes, that is correct. Oh, here's the email I sent to
him after hearing how he got beatup. Hey, Jerry heard you got
beat up? I wrote, Thatis unbelievable. Glad you weren't hurt too
badly See you Monday, Jerry.What's so funny about that? I just

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think, Oh my god, jerrysretellated the story. Please give me his
number I got. Just let meread this quickly and then you'll run out
of time and hopefully not call thisrandom number. I went out to mail
a DHL box and I even saidgood morning to this guy. He was
sitting on the concrete next to theDHL pickup box. When I turned around,

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that bastard caught me over the ritear I saw stars. He ran
after I got hit. All Iheard from him was the word old.
So he must have been referring tome or his soul, because remember,
Diane, he's really young, justwith an old soul. They talked to

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the building manager at the time.I'm paraphrasing. Now, let's see,
everyone says he is a weirdo,and I now must agree. All right,
cool, No one has heard ofthat happening around here since we've been
here. You think Jerry and starsright now? See you Monday? Okay,

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Oh, look at all these Christmasmessages. I have to click on
the puppies, yo, yo,go to scent. It was an actual
dog. It wasn't the top ofthe woman where a necklace wearing a Duncan
necklace, frozen crabs and the blondeflight attend All right, give me the

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number. Okay, okay, buthis wife, his wife's name, His
wife is younger. Did you rememberher name? I know, but I
remember for their anniversary, the stationput them up in a hotel room.
What was his wife's name, Arlene. She mentioned in this forward Sunday Morning

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sex scary. Oh my god,I give me the number please. I
know, I know this is okay. I got to minimize testical disorder,
all right? Can you read that? I don't want to stay out loud?
Yeah, hold on, I don'tthis this. I feel like this

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ends poorly, no matter what,not at all? How can it end
poorly? Because if he is andI hope he is still with us,
I do to he's he's a mucholder man. Now, So what am
I gonna yell at him for beingold? I'm keeps telling you he's old?
What if what if he doesn't likeremember that's okay here, Like I
just okay, let's do this.If you here, hell, we'll just

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hang up. No, it saysclear channel. No. I mean have
to say hello to him? Yeah, I know, but everybody's afraid,
Like what if he's got like he'sJerry, it's Elliott, all right?
Remember I met you at that dh L Box old? Oh my god?

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What's so come on? This?This has the opportunity to be a
great moment to say hi to Jerryand listen, it's not like he's going
to answer the phone and go,hey, I died, Like where there's
not there is. There's no downside. I told you. The only downside.

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There's two downsides. If the phoneno, because even if the phone
was assigned to somebody else, wedon't know. The only downside is is
if his wife answers the phone andwe asked for him and she goes,
oh, then there's a problem.Tell him or her or whoever that you
finally decided, after all these years, how you would define a full load,

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which is in the body of thisforeward. I had dial nine and
one. What's wrong going on?You asked one. Nope, Nope,

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not a chance. The number youdialed is not in service. Thank god,
that's who he's with. Oh mygod, yes, So what does

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that mean? Did you dial correctly? I'll try. Can I see what
you're what you've written down? Justto make sure? Uh yeah, okay?
What you know? Would be funnyif if my false church Jerry answered
the phone. No, If ourJerry answers, it says new phone,

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who is I know? If thisis your first day listening to this show,
you think Elliott is a horror wholeperson, and as Aaron and I
decided in that meeting years ago.He is what one right, we're worried

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about Jerry the senile real m ohnot in the Oh my god, for

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a second, there's like the raindifferent heally did or does Jerry's still think
that the that the operator has tostart plugging everything. Sarah, they put
me through to Pennsylvania five thousand.Well, the good news is we still

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don't know. That is good newsthat we still don't know. I mean,
I know what my bad is basedon the