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(00:00):
I got a jacket back. Yes, yeah, how about it? Look
at it? Look at her?Look at her? Look how good she?
First I thought, oh my god, he bought the exact same jacket.
That's what I was gonna do.But no, it's this this many
years later, you could find theexact same one. You've had that jacket
forever. Yeah, they still makethem, though it's a black north Face
(00:21):
jacket. Yeah they still. Imean they may have changed a little bit
of the design, but yeah,no, I got her back. Look
at her? Where was she?Well? You know what, why are
we calling her as she like,she's a ship? That's my jacket,
bro. Anyway, listen, Christenhas a ship that means a lot to
her. And Elliott's got a coatthat he loves it. You know what,
(00:43):
It's not even that I love it, you know what I mean,
Like, it's just it's an old, ratty north Face jacket. But I
don't want to go buy a newjacket. North Face not known for being
cheap, so I didn't want togo buy a new one. And you
were kicking yourself from misplacing it.The Yeah, but let me tell you
something. They're a good people inthis world, right so anyway, I've
been so were you still not saywhere you left? It counted six days
(01:10):
later, six days later, thatmany days I got her back. The
uh So anyway, no, Idon't want to say where it was because
it makes the place look bad andit's not. But how does it make
it look bad if you left yourjacket there because someone else took it,
not so you got it. Yeah, you got it back. Yes,
(01:32):
this is why there's good people inthe world. So anyway, remember I
told you I had called them rightand they were like, there's nothing And
I said, check your do youhave a lost and found? And they
said, well, I mean ifpeople turn stuff in. I mean we
don't have like a box or anarea or anything that's a lost and found.
But nobody, nobody is there's nothinghere and nobody is. Nobody has
(01:53):
said anything. It's not like somebodywas like, oh look, I found
this jacket somewhere. So I waslike, okay, what even that eliminates
a school. So anyway, yesterday, yesterday, when we were leaving,
do you remember do you remember whatwe talked about on the way to the
to our cars in the parking garage. Yeah, we talked about how cold
(02:16):
it's going to be and you don'thave a jacket to be freezing, you
freeze it's it's already there. Yeah, no, it's cold by the way.
Total side note, how much snowdid Upstate New York get yesterday?
And they were looking for over acouple of feet right when that like they
kept the show? Is that whatI know? That's what they may total
out at because on the overnight newsthey were showing the snow coming down.
(02:39):
Man, that looks good. Ihope with between Kristen's fuzzy caterpillars and the
Uncle John Farmer's toilet guide that theeverybody who said it's going to be a
rough winner, I hope they're right. Didn't Kristen City get quite a bit?
Did you guys get it? What'sthe name of your town? Top?
I'm taking Cleveland? Oh did Clevelandget hammed? I know Toronto got
(03:01):
hammered yesterday. Cleveland got it?Also? Oh wow, how about that?
Wouldn't it be great to get somealthough on the way in, didn't
they say there were some outlying areasthey got some snow? What like a
flurry? The well? Did theygot lake effects? No? No,
no, no, not the biglake effect. Anyway, quit trying to
distract me. So anyway, anyway, so the uh SO I had called
(03:22):
and they were like, no,you know what, nobody nobody has said
anything. There's nothing here. Fine, no big deal anyway, So you're
right. Yesterday we're leaving and Iwas and Tyler even said, you're gonna
go get a coat, and Iwas like, n No, I don't
want to. I don't number one. I don't want to spend the money.
I don't want to go to themall. I don't want to order
one. I just I don't wantto spend the money the I'd rather freeze.
(03:42):
So anyway, that's smart. SoI get home yesterday and I get
a I get a phone call,right, I don't recognize the number,
but I for whatever reason, youknow, like sometimes you just get like
a wild hair in your ass andyou see like the caller ID pop up
and you're like, I have noidea who that is, but you know
what, I'm gonna try it.And then you answer the phone and it
turns out most of the time itturns out to be a recording or garbage.
(04:05):
Well, yesterday it pops up andI was like I'll answer it.
Not I had no idea what itwas going to be. And I answer
it and I get this, Hey, were you looking for a jacket?
Oh, Diane? They had noHow did they? How did they have
your number? Did you leave anumber or do you write your phone number
(04:27):
in your coat like your seven?No? I had left a number saying
if somebody, if somebody finds mycoat. They must have thought it was
a fur for real, that Iwas treating it like I would have been
like, I'm going to keep thisbecause it must be valuable. No,
but you couldn't you get your handson it. There's even some stuff coming
out of the front of it.It's got a rip and everything. But
at no point did you think thiscall was a scammer? No? Not.
(04:50):
When they said were you looking fora coat? I knew that worth
You've been looking for a coat?Now just meet me in this dark alley.
So anyway, I said yeah,and they said yeah, because I
had left the number and said,hey, listen if one shows up,
because sometimes listen. I worked ata movie theater and sometimes people lose things
(05:10):
in the theater, right, andyou would you would see them and you'd
go like, oh, I'm gonnaI might be able to use this,
and you take it for a coupleof days and then you're like, yeah,
I don't need this, and you'relike you know what, and word
gets around somebody lost something, andin your mind you're going like, no,
I'm a jackass. I stole theirstuff. And so then you throw
it back in the thing. Ohwas it the sticky one? So anyway,
(05:33):
anyway, so I get the phonecall and they were like, hey,
are you the guy that was missinga jacket? I was like,
I bet your ass. So theysaid, I'm not here for that.
Click. So they said, greatnews. Somebody else had taken it,
and I guess they must have thoughtit was theirs. It's not. They
(05:55):
brought it back. That's unusual.There are good people in the world.
So I said, you know what, hold on to it. I'm getting
in the car. And so theysaid, can you describe it? And
I said, yeah, it's ablack North faced jacket. It's old,
it's got like a little rip inthe front. And he said, let
me take a look. Hole pleasecame but it came back, Diane,
(06:18):
No, it was the music onHold, I know, but where was
that one from Diane. The mangets back on the phone and says,
good news, we have your jacket. I was like, you know what,
hold on to it. I'm gettingin the car. Good don't let
her out of your sight. Soagain, you please please stop referring.
(06:39):
Why is that bothering? Set meoff? Yeah? No, I's gonna
say this is really hitting a triggerwith you because it's stupid. So anyway,
Diane, I get in the carand I raced to get there,
and really no reason to. Theyalready told me that they would take care
of her until I got there.So I got there, I went.
(07:00):
I went running in there like thebuilding was on fire and there was a
baby stuck. Were they closing?Is that? Oh you were double You
were probably double parked on like WilsonBoulevard. No, I was not double
park No, they weren't closing.I get in there. I went rushing
in, Diane Tyler, nine timesout of ten, this is going to
be a restaurant, Go ahead,arms wide open. I went in and
(07:23):
I was like, I need tosee the manager. I lost my coat
and they said, you know what, it's right here, Diane. I
put her on. It felt fantastic, as you smell the other person.
No, not at all. It'sstill smelled like cigarettes. It was.
(07:44):
But what a great day, whata great what a it was a red
letter day, a red letter day, Diane, that I got it.
And then I went home. Iate dinner, like everything. Everything was
fantastic. But isn't that nice?I'm happy that it was a happy for
you, a great ending. Andyou know what, I know. What
about the other person who's out acoat? You know what? I didn't
(08:05):
even ask about them, But Idon't care. Here's what I who's number
one? No, no, no, I don't Maybe their coat was at
the restaurant. Oh, I don'tknow. I didn't ask. All I
know is, if you, Diane, honest, honest question, hand to
(08:28):
God, hand to God? Whatwould Todd Glass always saying, handed,
George Carlin right something? Or Richardpryor one of the two. I think
it was George Carlin, handed,George put your hand up, hand handed,
George Carlin. If you were ifyou were at this place and you
found a jacket that you thought wasyours and you took her home and then
you realized it wasn't your coat,would you have brought it back to the
(08:50):
place. Would you really handed GeorgeCarlin Joran Nope, wouldn't have John carln
Yeah. Nobody expects you to sayotherwise. Would you know how you treat
a wallets? I don't think thatwallet's got value. Would you have would
you as a coat? Not?Really? Only to me the I can't
(09:11):
I can't go in and buy anythingwith the code. I can use cash
out of a WALLA know where youcan sell it though Facebook marketplace. I'm
not selling her on Facebook marketplace her. Would you have taken it back now?
Yes, you're taking the code allthe way back, all the way
back. I don't know where theylived, three states away this restaurant you
(09:31):
won't tell us about. I don'tknow where they They could live. They
could live. I live in Arlington, they could live. They could live.
Oh you're thinking, oh, theymust have been from out of town
for visiting the Thanksgiving holiday week.You don't know that. Oh could you
imagine if without even thinking, theywould have and you know it's not yours,
just take it back. They couldn't. You brought up an excellent point.
(09:54):
I don't think they flew back totown to drop it off. If
that could have been a traveler,and they packed her her up and put
her in the suitcase and went home. No, they didn't fly back to
the spy. They didn't fly backin. Come on, that's crazy thinking
by you the But all that matterstwo things. Number one, she's safe.
Number two is number two something.If you read between the lines,
(10:20):
one can figure out. I don'tknow, I don't know what it is.
Had you sworn off this restaurant?No, no, no, no,
no, no no. By theway, I'm not even sure it
was a restaurant, Diana. It'sdefinitely a restaurant. But it's not like
you were shopping for small business Saturday. No. No, because I didn't
(10:41):
have my jacket on small business Saturday, six days. Yeah, I didn't
have I didn't have her on BlackFriday. I didn't have her on small
business Saturday. What is number two? Then they're good people in the world.
Oh yeah, No, that restoresThat restores your your faith in humanity.
And the slicker alert is canceled.And what have I been saying?
(11:05):
All we need to do as badas crime is and as bad as everything
is. And these people didn't stealmy jacket. No, they was an
honest mistake. The All all peoplehave to do is just show just a
small sense of decency. That's all. You don't have to be like you
usually I do the the just justbe a halfway decent person. They're good
(11:28):
people in the world. And youknow what they brought. They brought the
jacket back the people that to thinkhow many hurdles that thing had to go
through. They brought it back theplace I had to call me you know
who the really smart one was,and all of this me left. I
gave my number exactly. I gavemy number, and that I bet that
jacket is. I don't know fortydollars. Huh, what the you mean
(11:54):
it's current worth because it's old.Oh no, it's current worth is less
than I mean priceless. Well itis. I mean you can't put a
price tag on it. I'm treatingit like it's a five million dollar jacket.
Will you repay the universe today anddo something kind? Oh you want
me to pay it forward? Iwill? You already have your eyes set
on something? No, I mean, if something comes along, I'll pay
(12:16):
it forward. It not day tomorrow. But I'm not going to pay for
somebody Starbucks or something that's actually quitenice. The the the no. If
if I come across something, no, I'm not. If I came across
and I'd pay it forward today,I don't know what. What am I
gonna? Are you going to comeacross to pay forward today? I don't
(12:37):
know. That's the beauty. That'sthe beauty of waking up every day.
Welcome your dip. That's not payingit forward. Sure is dip for somebody
at seven eleven? Is it payingit forward? Maybe you get a meg
a million sikette for someone in line. Definitely not paying that forward. The
no. No. But if likeif I saw somebody running down the street
(12:58):
and they were like, oh mycat, and the cat was right next
to me, I would pick herup. It's a girl. I would
pick her up and give them theircat back. That's paying it forward.
Neighbor's cat was meowing outside our windowyesterday and I told Lindsay, I hope
it freezes to death. You're awful. You know you shouldn't have an indirector
cat. This should be illegal.See good people in the world, doche
(13:26):
Sorry, douche
I got a jacket back. Yes, yeah, how about it? Look
at it? Look at her?Look at her? Look how good she?
First I thought, oh my god, he bought the exact same jacket.
That's what I was gonna do.But no, it's this this many
years later, you could find theexact same one. You've had that jacket
forever. Yeah, they still makethem, though it's a black north Face
(00:21):
jacket. Yeah they still. Imean they may have changed a little bit
of the design, but yeah,no, I got her back. Look
at her? Where was she?Well? You know what, why are
we calling her as she like,she's a ship? That's my jacket,
bro. Anyway, listen, Christenhas a ship that means a lot to
her. And Elliott's got a coatthat he loves it. You know what,
(00:43):
It's not even that I love it, you know what I mean,
Like, it's just it's an old, ratty north Face jacket. But I
don't want to go buy a newjacket. North Face not known for being
cheap, so I didn't want togo buy a new one. And you
were kicking yourself from misplacing it.The Yeah, but let me tell you
something. They're a good people inthis world, right so anyway, I've
been so were you still not saywhere you left? It counted six days
(01:10):
later, six days later, thatmany days I got her back. The
uh So anyway, no, Idon't want to say where it was because
it makes the place look bad andit's not. But how does it make
it look bad if you left yourjacket there because someone else took it,
not so you got it. Yeah, you got it back. Yes,
(01:32):
this is why there's good people inthe world. So anyway, remember I
told you I had called them rightand they were like, there's nothing And
I said, check your do youhave a lost and found? And they
said, well, I mean ifpeople turn stuff in. I mean we
don't have like a box or anarea or anything that's a lost and found.
But nobody, nobody is there's nothinghere and nobody is. Nobody has
(01:53):
said anything. It's not like somebodywas like, oh look, I found
this jacket somewhere. So I waslike, okay, what even that eliminates
a school. So anyway, yesterday, yesterday, when we were leaving,
do you remember do you remember whatwe talked about on the way to the
to our cars in the parking garage. Yeah, we talked about how cold
(02:16):
it's going to be and you don'thave a jacket to be freezing, you
freeze it's it's already there. Yeah, no, it's cold by the way.
Total side note, how much snowdid Upstate New York get yesterday?
And they were looking for over acouple of feet right when that like they
kept the show? Is that whatI know? That's what they may total
out at because on the overnight newsthey were showing the snow coming down.
(02:39):
Man, that looks good. Ihope with between Kristen's fuzzy caterpillars and the
Uncle John Farmer's toilet guide that theeverybody who said it's going to be a
rough winner, I hope they're right. Didn't Kristen City get quite a bit?
Did you guys get it? What'sthe name of your town? Top?
I'm taking Cleveland? Oh did Clevelandget hammed? I know Toronto got
(03:01):
hammered yesterday. Cleveland got it?Also? Oh wow, how about that?
Wouldn't it be great to get somealthough on the way in, didn't
they say there were some outlying areasthey got some snow? What like a
flurry? The well? Did theygot lake effects? No? No,
no, no, not the biglake effect. Anyway, quit trying to
distract me. So anyway, anyway, so the uh SO I had called
(03:22):
and they were like, no,you know what, nobody nobody has said
anything. There's nothing here. Fine, no big deal anyway, So you're
right. Yesterday we're leaving and Iwas and Tyler even said, you're gonna
go get a coat, and Iwas like, n No, I don't
want to. I don't number one. I don't want to spend the money.
I don't want to go to themall. I don't want to order
one. I just I don't wantto spend the money the I'd rather freeze.
(03:42):
So anyway, that's smart. SoI get home yesterday and I get
a I get a phone call,right, I don't recognize the number,
but I for whatever reason, youknow, like sometimes you just get like
a wild hair in your ass andyou see like the caller ID pop up
and you're like, I have noidea who that is, but you know
what, I'm gonna try it.And then you answer the phone and it
turns out most of the time itturns out to be a recording or garbage.
(04:05):
Well, yesterday it pops up andI was like I'll answer it.
Not I had no idea what itwas going to be. And I answer
it and I get this, Hey, were you looking for a jacket?
Oh, Diane? They had noHow did they? How did they have
your number? Did you leave anumber or do you write your phone number
(04:27):
in your coat like your seven?No? I had left a number saying
if somebody, if somebody finds mycoat. They must have thought it was
a fur for real, that Iwas treating it like I would have been
like, I'm going to keep thisbecause it must be valuable. No,
but you couldn't you get your handson it. There's even some stuff coming
out of the front of it.It's got a rip and everything. But
at no point did you think thiscall was a scammer? No? Not.
(04:50):
When they said were you looking fora coat? I knew that worth
You've been looking for a coat?Now just meet me in this dark alley.
So anyway, I said yeah,and they said yeah, because I
had left the number and said,hey, listen if one shows up,
because sometimes listen. I worked ata movie theater and sometimes people lose things
(05:10):
in the theater, right, andyou would you would see them and you'd
go like, oh, I'm gonnaI might be able to use this,
and you take it for a coupleof days and then you're like, yeah,
I don't need this, and you'relike you know what, and word
gets around somebody lost something, andin your mind you're going like, no,
I'm a jackass. I stole theirstuff. And so then you throw
it back in the thing. Ohwas it the sticky one? So anyway,
(05:33):
anyway, so I get the phonecall and they were like, hey,
are you the guy that was missinga jacket? I was like,
I bet your ass. So theysaid, I'm not here for that.
Click. So they said, greatnews. Somebody else had taken it,
and I guess they must have thoughtit was theirs. It's not. They
(05:55):
brought it back. That's unusual.There are good people in the world.
So I said, you know what, hold on to it. I'm getting
in the car. And so theysaid, can you describe it? And
I said, yeah, it's ablack North faced jacket. It's old,
it's got like a little rip inthe front. And he said, let
me take a look. Hole pleasecame but it came back, Diane,
(06:18):
No, it was the music onHold, I know, but where was
that one from Diane. The mangets back on the phone and says,
good news, we have your jacket. I was like, you know what,
hold on to it. I'm gettingin the car. Good don't let
her out of your sight. Soagain, you please please stop referring.
(06:39):
Why is that bothering? Set meoff? Yeah? No, I's gonna
say this is really hitting a triggerwith you because it's stupid. So anyway,
Diane, I get in the carand I raced to get there,
and really no reason to. Theyalready told me that they would take care
of her until I got there.So I got there, I went.
(07:00):
I went running in there like thebuilding was on fire and there was a
baby stuck. Were they closing?Is that? Oh you were double You
were probably double parked on like WilsonBoulevard. No, I was not double
park No, they weren't closing.I get in there. I went rushing
in, Diane Tyler, nine timesout of ten, this is going to
be a restaurant, Go ahead,arms wide open. I went in and
(07:23):
I was like, I need tosee the manager. I lost my coat
and they said, you know what, it's right here, Diane. I
put her on. It felt fantastic, as you smell the other person.
No, not at all. It'sstill smelled like cigarettes. It was.
(07:44):
But what a great day, whata great what a it was a red
letter day, a red letter day, Diane, that I got it.
And then I went home. Iate dinner, like everything. Everything was
fantastic. But isn't that nice?I'm happy that it was a happy for
you, a great ending. Andyou know what, I know. What
about the other person who's out acoat? You know what? I didn't
(08:05):
even ask about them, But Idon't care. Here's what I who's number
one? No, no, no, I don't Maybe their coat was at
the restaurant. Oh, I don'tknow. I didn't ask. All I
know is, if you, Diane, honest, honest question, hand to
(08:28):
God, hand to God? Whatwould Todd Glass always saying, handed,
George Carlin right something? Or Richardpryor one of the two. I think
it was George Carlin, handed,George put your hand up, hand handed,
George Carlin. If you were ifyou were at this place and you
found a jacket that you thought wasyours and you took her home and then
you realized it wasn't your coat,would you have brought it back to the
(08:50):
place. Would you really handed GeorgeCarlin Joran Nope, wouldn't have John carln
Yeah. Nobody expects you to sayotherwise. Would you know how you treat
a wallets? I don't think thatwallet's got value. Would you have would
you as a coat? Not?Really? Only to me the I can't
(09:11):
I can't go in and buy anythingwith the code. I can use cash
out of a WALLA know where youcan sell it though Facebook marketplace. I'm
not selling her on Facebook marketplace her. Would you have taken it back now?
Yes, you're taking the code allthe way back, all the way
back. I don't know where theylived, three states away this restaurant you
(09:31):
won't tell us about. I don'tknow where they They could live. They
could live. I live in Arlington, they could live. They could live.
Oh you're thinking, oh, theymust have been from out of town
for visiting the Thanksgiving holiday week.You don't know that. Oh could you
imagine if without even thinking, theywould have and you know it's not yours,
just take it back. They couldn't. You brought up an excellent point.
(09:54):
I don't think they flew back totown to drop it off. If
that could have been a traveler,and they packed her her up and put
her in the suitcase and went home. No, they didn't fly back to
the spy. They didn't fly backin. Come on, that's crazy thinking
by you the But all that matterstwo things. Number one, she's safe.
Number two is number two something.If you read between the lines,
(10:20):
one can figure out. I don'tknow, I don't know what it is.
Had you sworn off this restaurant?No, no, no, no,
no, no no. By theway, I'm not even sure it
was a restaurant, Diana. It'sdefinitely a restaurant. But it's not like
you were shopping for small business Saturday. No. No, because I didn't
(10:41):
have my jacket on small business Saturday, six days. Yeah, I didn't
have I didn't have her on BlackFriday. I didn't have her on small
business Saturday. What is number two? Then they're good people in the world.
Oh yeah, No, that restoresThat restores your your faith in humanity.
And the slicker alert is canceled.And what have I been saying?
(11:05):
All we need to do as badas crime is and as bad as everything
is. And these people didn't stealmy jacket. No, they was an
honest mistake. The All all peoplehave to do is just show just a
small sense of decency. That's all. You don't have to be like you
usually I do the the just justbe a halfway decent person. They're good
(11:28):
people in the world. And youknow what they brought. They brought the
jacket back the people that to thinkhow many hurdles that thing had to go
through. They brought it back theplace I had to call me you know
who the really smart one was,and all of this me left. I
gave my number exactly. I gavemy number, and that I bet that
jacket is. I don't know fortydollars. Huh, what the you mean
(11:54):
it's current worth because it's old.Oh no, it's current worth is less
than I mean priceless. Well itis. I mean you can't put a
price tag on it. I'm treatingit like it's a five million dollar jacket.
Will you repay the universe today anddo something kind? Oh you want
me to pay it forward? Iwill? You already have your eyes set
on something? No, I mean, if something comes along, I'll pay
(12:16):
it forward. It not day tomorrow. But I'm not going to pay for
somebody Starbucks or something that's actually quitenice. The the the no. If
if I come across something, no, I'm not. If I came across
and I'd pay it forward today,I don't know what. What am I
gonna? Are you going to comeacross to pay forward today? I don't
(12:37):
know. That's the beauty. That'sthe beauty of waking up every day.
Welcome your dip. That's not payingit forward. Sure is dip for somebody
at seven eleven? Is it payingit forward? Maybe you get a meg
a million sikette for someone in line. Definitely not paying that forward. The
no. No. But if likeif I saw somebody running down the street
(12:58):
and they were like, oh mycat, and the cat was right next
to me, I would pick herup. It's a girl. I would
pick her up and give them theircat back. That's paying it forward.
Neighbor's cat was meowing outside our windowyesterday and I told Lindsay, I hope
it freezes to death. You're awful. You know you shouldn't have an indirector
cat. This should be illegal.See good people in the world, doche
(13:26):
Sorry, douche
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