Awful Service Number One Hundred and Seventy-Seven - Jenni Lou Russi - Awful Service Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Tape Deck Media.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Welcome back. It's another episode of the Awful Service podcast.
This is the podcast that now comes on a gluten
free bun if you ask for it, but you got
you have to ask for it though.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Oh that's that's so much better than I'll just have
podcasts no bun.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, podcast no bun. Is that you can't hold on
to it, then it's I feel so bad.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
For the gluten free people. Like back in the day
you just couldn't. Everybody else was having a great, nice
hamburger with their hands and you're just eating a beef
patty with condiments with your fork and knife, just.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Just like a psycho path. It's me, the original knife
and fork, Matt Douimo.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
And the Sport himself.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Honestly, if you were a utensil, would would be your
very sport energy You look like you were you. You
look like something that would be eaten at a KFC
or Panda Express.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Am either the Sport or those two wood giant wooden
fork and spoon that every.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, we should we should We shouldn't keep talking about
utensils without without bringing in our guests. This week, uh
all the way from Valley City, North Dakota. Coming on
into the podcast, we have Jenny Lucy. Hi, Jenny, how
are you doing.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
No, it's fun to be here. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Did you know people who had the big knife and
fork on the on the wall, the big wooden one.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
I was one of the people. Yes, yes, my parents.
Every place we lived there was that wooden big knife
and fork. Man, I need to get that.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Get back.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
So when I moved from New York, I did not
understand that because I would go thrifting and I would
see all these giant wooden utensils next to the frames
and stuff, and You're just like, what the ship is this?
And then I will spend some time at friends houses
and I would see them, and then I was like,
all right, yeah, my first apartment is getting So I
had a giant fork and spoon in my first apartment,

(02:30):
and I don't know, you know what, There's got to
be a box somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It probably is.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
I need to get a you know, I'll make a
giant plate. I actually, you know, I'm remodeling these houses
and I should put that in the sixty.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Cross. Did you come with the plate? Oh? Okay, that's
the best part was missing.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
So I want to do it, and I want to
paint it like that corral, you know, put the pattern
on there that that seventies corral pattern on the plate,
and then put work in the night.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
For the listeners, Jenny was talking to us before the podcast.
He goes, yeah, so I'm a professor and my husband
is a lawyer, and we're flipping houses as you do.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's what we do, is Americans. Now we can't just
be lawyers and teachers.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Now, construction workers.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Now you gotta have that. You gotta put the hat on,
the hard hat.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
And this is so sad, but I mean for many people,
including us, that's retirement.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I get it, and I'm all for it. And actually
I think that here's a little thing for you. I
think you should go for that seventies Midwest basement aesthetic
for those houses. Just fake wood paneling that goes up
to about the middle of the middle of the room.
And then we get rid of this.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I know, I love these rooms.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Well that's exactly what's in there, know.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Just what's in there.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
It'll come back around.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was shopping for houses for a while and uh,
that was like a big thing for me. Was the
awesome basements that were the wooden and it had the
bar and.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Then and now everybody's putting lipstick on a pig.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
They're going to home depot and just grabbing some trashy
and ripping all this awesome basement stuff down and painting
it white and it's just gross.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
And that's you know, that's a tough choice because you know,
everybody's like doing this like very inexpensively. But I'm looking
at it. If I don't want to live there, then
I don't want to ask someone else to live there.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh, then you're not flipping a house.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
You are rebuilding a house for someone to live in.
Because that's like because the flippers are the lipstick on
the pig people.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
So that's the wrong tur That's where you find like
there's like a sink in the living room for some
reason like.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
That they just put the refrigerator in the weirdest places.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, they like it's like, how are you taking the
fridge out of the kitchen.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's one fourth of a kitchen. How did they put
a dishwasher on? Like the second lay up over the counter,
not under over the counter.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
One of these has a refrigerator in the hallway. There
is in the hallway you leave the kitchen and there's
the refrigerator.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
And what happened was is it the hallways stayed the
same size and just all of the the refrigerator in
the stove and the dishwasher just got bigger.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Slowly and then it was it was like we gotta
move it. Or was it always in the hallway? It was?

Speaker 5 (05:41):
It probably was never like that. The this this home
is it was built in nineteen oh six, so you know,
you didn't have a refrigerator on an icebox had an
ice box and that was much smaller. You didn't have
a dishwasher. The ranges were much larger. So I don't know,

(06:04):
but food storage was the thing you had to have.
So there are cupboards, cupboards, cupboards.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Covers and they're like probably a root cellar food.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
There is a what I would call it a canning
room in the basement. It's actually really really really cool.
But the refrigerator in the hallway is gonna change.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Quick question though, just quick question, is that hallway going
towards the living room?

Speaker 5 (06:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, see that if it was going to the living
would like listen, that's just you know what, you're just
cutting down steps between you and the snacks. You're gonna
you know, you gotta watch Matt Locke. You gotta get
some you know, you gotta get some cold cuts.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
It's going towards the primary bedroom, okay, with clean I like.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
A little like midnight, like it's a dag would I'll go,
I'll go to the kitchen in the middle of the night.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Exactly, you have to pass the fruge.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Let's just listen. I got some strawberries and with cream. Baby,
what's that it's like? Is that supposed to be an uh?
We doing something like yeah, we're gonna eat some food
after we get baked and try to hang out. What
what are you doing? But you know we're not here
to talk about this old house here on the podcast,
or even.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Though I could talk about canning rooms all day, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
What, Honestly, that's gonna be the new podcast episodes were
thrown it away. This is the Awful Canning Room podcast.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Now this started with awesome wooden giant cutlery.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yes, beautifulness is already coming from this podcast.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
What to say? I will admit in college we did
some like you know how like people would just like
here does a bunch of free shit on a corner?
You know they do that. Well, we found the giant
knife and fork and spoon collection, and I know for
the fact that my the house that I was living
with a bunch of dudes, we did use the giant

(08:01):
forking spoon to toss salads.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Sometimes that's hilarious, like and actually it's it.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Would work its great or or actually, I take that back.
We also used the giant spoon to uh to uh
a mix our wop.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh, yeah, that's right, you guys did make that good wop.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I I'm surprised that you guys didn't do a little
cocaine off the spoon.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's a that is a what is it a Jack
Nicholson size of cocaine from The Departed.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
The Schwarzenegger Danny DeVito coke party story where the sign
they put.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Their name in uh in cocaine.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's enough, my name is, there'd be enough cocaine to
kill a horse. Like, what are you talking?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Was it saying a huge spoonful of cocaine? It was
a tiny line on a big spoon. It's a hilarious.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
See, my mind just went to a whole big old
fucking like pie.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, it's like, all right, everybody grab your coke spoons
and then you just have this big looking spoon.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Actually, now I am going to use I'm gonna get
some giant a giant fork and a giant spook spoon
and use those as serving utensils. The serving you know,
like in the in the bowl of the spoon. I'm
gonna put some dip like some article, that's all, and

(09:29):
then line the bread up on the fork, and then
on the times of the fork, I'm gonna put buns
or donuts, glazed donuts on the tides of the fork.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I should have known this was gonna happen. If you're
gonna find somebody Joe's energy.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, I am delighted by this episode already.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm so excited here to talk about giants, my birthday,
giant cutler or flipping houses. No, it is the Awful
Service podcast. That's the podcast we talk about former jobs
and the stories there within. The very first segment on
the podcast is one that we lovingly referred to as
the resume.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Show us your reme, why should we hired? Have you
ever had a job?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Right you up and fire you tell us all about
yourself and a place of business, talk about my job's
built a shady politics.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Show us your resume.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Again, Jenny Loue. The the resume section. You can talk
about some of the jobs. You don't have to go
through all of them, but the ones you think you
have the good stories for, and which is whatever one
you want to start?

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Well, I think that the job that I had that
I was least qualified to have even applied for, was
I And I talk about this in my act, but
I used to be a weather uh a weather anchor. Oh,

(11:05):
and I am not a meteorologist.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay. Where what was your formal formal educations and communication?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
So communication in theater. Actually I was working as an
actor and I would go to the unemployment office every day,
as actors do, and uh that And I actually had
a truck, which I this was in Alaska, and I

(11:38):
was part of the team that started a dinner theater
and dinner that's not.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
All very You don't really need to be that qualified
to be a weather anchor in Alaska.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
It's called see that's what they figured. Yeah, so I would.
I had a truck, and not everybody had a truck,
and so every day, I'd go into the office and
I would you know, somebody would say they need something
to go to fair Bank, so they needed to go
to Wasilla or whatever, and I'd get hired driving whatever.
And one day they called me up to the front

(12:08):
desk because I'd just sit there and read a book
until they called me with a job. And they said
they need a weather anchor at the at the television station.
At that time, you know, it was we didn't have
two hundred. So that told me enough. I went there
and I walked in and this was in the mid eighties,

(12:30):
and the news director with whom I was interviewing had
Cleveland at that time. They were, well, yeah, this was
the first Browns. Okay, okay, yeah, no, no, the second Browns,
the beginning of the second Browns. Okay, this was the
awful Browns. This was after Paul Brown took them to

(12:55):
Baltimore and then then so these were the Brown Browns
and all my stars. I just looked and I asked him,
and you know how sometimes things will come out of
your mouth without you well, I here, you know aout
you're thinking about it, And I just said, aren't you
embarrassed to have Cleveland? Brown stuff all over your office.

(13:21):
The guy lost his shit. It turns out that he
was a news director, but he really wanted to be
a sports director, you know, and that's where his heart was.
And so he was like, you have to defend that,
you know, like, uh easy, you know in s record,
you know.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
And this is before Tim Couch, this is before that disaster.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
So I mean, this is in the eighties. You know,
I could have predicted they would do something stupid like that.
So anyway, the guy was like, Okay, you got the job.
I didn't talk about weather. I didn't even the guy
didn't even know I had ever been outside, just giving him.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Ship for being in the dog bound Yes.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
There wasn't even dogs didn't even want it before the
dog Pound all my stars.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
So uh that's so hilarious. That and and the other
thing is what what weather stage? What TV station is
using the unemployment office for its on air talent?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Well, they gotta be in a bind, Fairbanks.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Now this is this is anchorage. This is an anchorage.
But uh, I I have to tell you when you
ask that question, good point good, yes, who my You'll
never believe who. I'm not gonna ask you to guess
because you won't. But you'll never believe who my colleague was.

(14:56):
Who was the sports reporter Sarah Palin?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
What hold on?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I gotta call Holy, I gotta shake that one off.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Was she as crazy back then?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
And another person that was not qualified to do their job?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I also got the child because of the unemployment life.
But she had really big opinions on Cleveland's nickel defense.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
Okay, I have to say that she was very pleasant
and I did learn from her. And uh where Russia is? I?
This is before? This is really I mean, like, okay,

(15:51):
so years past, you know then then I didn't stay
at that job forever and and you know, I mean
I think it's clear why, but I I wow, I
was sitting in my living room in twenty oh nine
when they announced or twenty oh eight wasn't no, yeah

(16:13):
yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
When.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Oh help me own announced his running mete, my phone
was off the And this is what you know. Twenty
years later, people are calling me saying, your former colleague
is going to be our next vice. What what I mean?
Never in a million years would I have because I

(16:40):
would say as a politician, she was not nearly as
a popular as she had been as a sports reporter.
She was, She was a good sports reporter.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
She she she got that Sea wolves action, she knew who,
she knew that Division one college hockey was going to
be my stars. When you said your owners ringing off
the hook of a Hi, Jenny, it's Sarah, I needment.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
No, she wouldn't even remember me. But she isn't the
same person with whom I worked, I would have to say,
by by my observation and by others who have been
in more contact with her than than I, which is zilch,
she is not the same person today that she was

(17:28):
when we worked in broadcast journalists.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
So you're saying that you didn't go hunting for wolves
in a helicopter with.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
It no no tics changes for people, politics changes.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
It does, it does. Especially that was that was kind
of the beginning of the end for this country back then.
You know, that's that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
You have amvery good.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
That's insane that like that, that you that that that
you had that connection to someone.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
I would have never guessed it. You were right.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
When I got any big celebrities from Alaska.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Oh no, I guess not.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
We would I think we could have gotten there would
have taken us a lot.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
It would have taken a bit.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
You would have had to give us a bunch of hands.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no way would you guess that
I was going to say something about, oh.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
I know you, so you were the weather girl. Essentially,
it is kind of the idea, is that the I'm not.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
A fan of the term weather girl, I know, but
that was kind of like the Johnson's weather boy. Hutch
Johnson is like my favorite weather broader.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's a perfect name for a weatherman.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Hutch Johnson is not a weather boy.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
So I watched Hutch Johnson wrestle a tornado jumps with
on the on the beats weather no like, but I'm
just saying because like that was before, like especially in
the seventies and eighties, there's just more about somebody just
to kind of like, oh there's gonna snow today.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
You're just kind of reading from like the thing that
they came through, like the ap right.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Oh, at that time it was the National Weather Service.
I'd come in and I'd grab off the ticker. You know,
this is before we had computers. You know, well we
had computers, but it wasn't the same room right right,
there was a room with the tickers and you'd go
in and on the AP wire there might be some

(19:30):
news about weather in Mississippi, but it was between an
international story and a local story that had nothing to
do with my job. So I'd just rip it out
of the middle, leading the other pieces there, and you'd
just go in and you'd sort through the pieces of
paper coming off the ticker, and I would then call
the National Weather Service and I would ask them, so,

(19:53):
what's going on? And they would tell me, and so
then I would write my report. And at this particular station,
Today you have teleprompters that are in the lens of
the camera, but at that station, you had a teleprompter
that was basically a paper towel roll.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Oh my god. You just had to have a guy
as the.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Intern. The intern's job was to turn it, but it
was always some different intern because you know, they graduate
and so they so if they would turn it at
different speeds and so while on air, because you don't
get a dress rehearsal wall on air, you would have
to kind of signal while you're reading the teleprompter and

(20:45):
it's going, you know, you'd have to kind of get lower,
the higher, you know, faster or whatever. And then it'spend
only having sex. Actually, but.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Then you look at the there keep going right there,
right there, right there, too fast, too fast, stop it step.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Up, you know.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
But just like with sex, it really goes wrong when
the paper breaks.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh my god, I was gonna say, I was going
to say, sometimes is it sometimes that that? It like
the reporting just goes too fast and it's over before
you're done.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Yeah, or there's really no newstory before.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Was that a forecast that you did you forecast? I
didn't forecast? Did you forecast?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I was so close to forecasting.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I was really close. Let's let's give it about a
half hour, drink some gatory, then we'll go forecast.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Let's forecast again.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right?

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Uh, and now to you Sarah with sports did you
did you?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Did you have the.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
So so when I look at my old videos, like
I was like, I mean, I couldn't believe that that
I had had this connection. And now when I look
at my old videos, then there's an anchor after my segment,
then there would be an anchor saying, stay tuned, we'll

(22:05):
be right back with Sarah Palin and the sports. So
I don't know, I don't have footage of the two
of us engaging. But I do have footage of that.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Such a such a crazy thing to have, and it's God,
for some reason, sports just got a little grosser.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
It's I have to tell you something I really liked
about her reporting. She had a passion and still does
have a passion for mushing and uh she.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
For those on the podcast that don't know mushing, it's
a sexual terms.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Mushing is actually when two weather people have called mushing.
It's very very specific.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Well, you have to have a sled dog with them.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Pulled by sled dogs.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Pulled by sleds. It's a it's a race.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I did her rod. Oh that's a ding. That's a ding,
self ding, So god, damn, I hate I hate myself
for that joke.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, do you know Hutch Johnson would have had some
real harsh words for you.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's such a perfect fucking name for a weather I'm still.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
By the way, Matt, you know celebrities in uh in
Alaska and you didn't think of jewel.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Everybody forgets jewel and famous.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
For real though, Like that's so funny, like to be fair,
to be fair. At the same you know, she was
living out of her cards and he was living out
of her truck. We all know how that works.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
It was fine. Yeah, better teeth though.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
And that's the thing. That's the thing about Alaska. People
who live in Alaska have I mean, we think it's
normal to camp. That is a way of life.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
So I came down to the lower forty eight and
when I was in grad school, I didn't have money.
So and I was on full, full scholarship, but no,
you know, money for living expenses. So I found a shack.
It's a long story. I found a shack that I
lived in, a shack with my daughter that did not

(24:34):
have potable water. I had to haul my own water
and I used the fireplace for heat and all this,
and people would say, how can you do that? And
one day I was working in a theater and I
was hauling water. I was collecting water from the theater

(24:55):
and I was putting it in my car and this
guy walks up to me. The guy playing opposite me
walks up to me and he goes, you're in Alaskan.
This is in Cleveland, Ohio. See all my worlds go
back to Cleveland roads, go back all my world, My
entire world goes back to Cleveland in my life. So
I said, how do you know I'm in Alaska And

(25:19):
he said, you're hauling water And he said, I used
to haul water. I used to live in Esther, Alaska.
And I said, get out of here. Now I know
who you are. This guy who was playing opposite me,
like twenty years later. I had met him on my
honeymoon in Esther, Alaska when he and his wife were

(25:40):
living there. Is that not weird? I said, you're Dana
Hart and he goes, yeah, And I said, no, you're
Dana Hart from Esther, Alaska. We and we remembered having
just met at this lodge on my honeymoon. He remembered
because my husband and I were like saying, hey, it's
our honeymoon, and we remembered them because they were the

(26:02):
performers at the at this little saloon anyways in Cleveland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so hauling water.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
I thought you're gonna say he used to haul of
water for hutch Johnson.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Speaking speaking of all right, it's speaking of hutch Johnson.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Did you know he has his own uh it's hutchesweather
dot com and look him up. He does not look
like I think I thought he would. I thought he
was going to be more Paul Bunyanny. He's like Paul
Bunyan's like well weatherman brother Hutch just little, just a
regular size. And then he has So this is the

(26:45):
official website of Chief Meteorologist Hutch Johnson. Pedro the Protagony,
the protagon Maston the Protagonizing Pooch, and Leonardo Dicatrio the
Forecasting Feeline. So I don't think huts Johnson is qualified

(27:06):
to do his job either. He just has a cat
named Pedro the Forecasting feelin that calls the US Weather Service.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
It's like, ah, he up, watch it. Sincerely watch him
that guy. He boy, there's a lot I don't want
to say. He suddenly found himself unemployed and he did

(27:39):
what geniuses do. He's like, like, you started your own podcast.
He said, I can do this on my own. He
is a very good not only meteorologist, but broadcaster, and
so he created his own thing. And you know, and
and and and.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
He's not on a news channel.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
No, no, people just go and check this guy's Hutches weather.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
They're like they just turned they're watching the news and
they're like, eh, is it time for the weather.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
F this guy, I'm gonna go to Hutches YouTube.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yeah, yes, but when did like you don't you know, don't
you know at six o'clock say I'm gonna you know,
watch for the weather, or you go to the weather channel. Well,
now I don't have to go to the weather channel.
I can go to hutches uh podcast. I just go
to a site.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
See it's hilarious, genius his own It's called onlyweas dot com.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yes, this is amazing.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I've never seen I like, I like, I've never seen
a weather person go branch out on their own.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
I always thought that they were they needed they needed.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
The uh the former one from uh Caroleven actually the
spend from Caroleven actually has his own weather site in Minnesota.

Speaker 9 (28:59):
But but he's still on the news right a long
time ago.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
That's what That's what everybody needs to do, because let's
be honest, we have we see people in comedy doing that.
You know, Okay, I'm going to book my own shows.
What's the difference, you know, and those people are the
ones who are working comics and.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay, who forecasts that? You know?

Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's I just looked up the list of North Dakota
weather people. This list is insanely huge. There's like thirty
people on this list, and none of them is hutch.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I don't see.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Hutches in North Dakota.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
No I found him.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
There is a list of.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Thirty other like Alex Burtish and Megan Schata, Lisa Green
and Jacob They all need the.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
News, isn't the news? He doesn't need nothing.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
He doesn't need no list. Yeah, yeah, he's he's he's
he's above lists.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
So how did he get his own doppler? That would
be I mean, he doesn't have access to the teker anymore.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
That great slogan doppler on demand.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
I got my own doppler over here.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
So you're you're hauling water to a shack in in
around the Cleveland area, right right? Uh yeah, that's that's
that's fun like and then the people are just like,
what the fuck are you doing this for?

Speaker 5 (30:40):
It was crazy. I couldn't use the water for I
didn't use the water for well, I had to. I
had to haul my own water for just about everything
but the toilet, and because even the showers, he couldn't
really so anyway, yeah, it was That was three years
of my life I was in grad school at Kent
State University and it was. But my point is that's

(31:05):
what Alaskans do. So when you say Jewel lived in
her car, you're not so unusual. I yeah, yeah, not
so unusual to live in a tent. Uh, to live
in a wall tent with a stove in the center,
not so unusual. Inconvenient, But you don't go to Alaska
for convenience.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, you don't. If you don't like your neighbors, you
can just move like a mile down the road.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, what do you mean if you don't like your neighbors,
you don't have neighbors.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Oh I meant that. I meant the I meant the
pack of wolves that was roaming.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Slowly following you.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Yes, yeah, you got it. You have to be so
careful with your trash.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah yeah, the tent door.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah that's uh. I think I think more people need
to go Alaskan. Yeah, it's to see how like, it's
how easy we all have.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Oh, if the economy keeps going the way it is, Joe,
a lot of people we'll all be Alaska. Yeah, we're
gonna be podcasting from the podcast tent out.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, it's like we're gonna have to have and in
turn bicycling the power.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, hey, you want to be on the podcast. You
want to you want some screen time? I need you
and I need you to run about twenty miles, buddy,
It's just on a fucking treadmill.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
So we're gonna say so, we're gonna have Let's go to.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
A different job, Jenny. Let's let's go to me like
early Jenny, like, what was like?

Speaker 4 (32:27):
What are you?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
What was like to ask what was your first job?

Speaker 5 (32:30):
First job? I'm a beautician Oka and I when I
was in high school, I went to cosmetology school. So
loved doing that. I still do it every once in
a while. I was just the hair designer for a
play here in Fargo, and that was I want to

(32:51):
make it clear, you know, it's a contract. I mean,
it was a professional job. It was a professional gig
and I I do on occasion, I'll do that. But
that the lessons I learned in cosmetology school I apply

(33:13):
to my own teaching in communication and theater. Everything was
about getting a job, getting a and keeping a job.
Every lesson whether it was about giving a perm or
whether it was about customer service, it was about getting
and keeping a job. And so that's how I approach
my teaching at this college.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
That's a really good that's a crazy kind of awesome
approach that you would never really think about finding out
a cosmetology school, but I get how that works.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
This is very cool, Joe. We talked about this on
a previous episode. Remember when I told you I met
Jeene Stapleton and she said you had her biggest Her
biggest advice to give to the people who want to
be an actor is to learn to type. Oh yeah,
so because it's like you're never the gigs aren't always
going to be there, so you need to be able

(34:05):
to have like a something to put money and feed yourself.
You know what you're saying. You know, petition school, it's
the same thing. It's like having a different skill so
you can still pursue the arts, but also so you're
not like always having to go Alaska.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Well, when I graduated from from college with a degree
in theater, then then I started auditioning and having wigs
on my resume made a difference because I remember I
worked at the the the the Fine Dinner Theater, Mountaineer

(34:43):
Dinner Theater in Hurricane West Virginia, and I wanted to.
I wanted to extend my contract for the next show.
And I was more appealing for that next show because
not only did they know that I could act and
I had just been in one I was finishing up

(35:03):
a contract for that, but also the next show had
wigs and to have a cosmetologist right there. And that's
when I and that was one of my very first
dinner theater gigs, and I realized, oh, I need to
put this on my resume. I need to use this.
So any skills actors, you know, like when when I

(35:26):
go through all of the different jobs that I've had,
I've worked in tourism. I've been a tour.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Guide for what for what, I've been a.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
City tour guide and a tour guide throughout Alaska. I
would be a step on guide. I was hired as
a step on guide by cruise companies in Alaska. What
that means is they have their own driver and then
whatever city that they are going to be in, or
like if they're going from one point A to point B,

(35:58):
then I would basically narrate everything that they're seeing.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Your left is a boat and right is a bear. Well, yeah,
if you.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Look to the left. That is where Sarah Pallet could
see Russia.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
One time I was doing a city tour and Anchorage.
I was a step on guide and they were going
around Anchorage and I saw this kid fishing and I
knew something was going to happen, and I asked the
bus driver. He said, hey, can we stop here? And
I said to everybody on the bus, I said, I
want you to stay quiet because I don't want you
to disrupt that kid. But he's going to catch a salmon.

(36:37):
And because I know there was that salmon were running
and I knew he was going to He caught a salmon.
It was huge. His dad came running over to help
him and this he lost it. He lost it. And
then the kid started crying and the dad picked him
up and hugged him, and the whole bus was like oh.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
And I said, let's I know it was.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
I said, let's cheer out the window. So everybody rolled
down their windows and said you go, you're gonna get
another and they.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Didn't get us.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
It was a beautiful thing. And so as a step
on guide, because I lived there year round, I knew
and I had since childhood. I knew, you know, I
could predict things, you know, that only a local could,
and then they might. My passengers had that great experience,

(37:40):
but a driver wouldn't have noticed because busy driving, and
so moments like that happened. And I loved being a
tour guide. I loved talking about the history of Alaska.
My mother was a school teacher, so I felt that
I had a unique perspective.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I can Peter's someone in the group, like pet you
that kid with the fishing pole was a plant right
right this this part of the to every chapula, and
then the fish always falls off the hook, and then
the dad always shut it up.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Oh my stores, I never thought about that, but wouldn't
that you know.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Every time you're like, okay, the tour is going to
be coming by at about one fifteen. Okay.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Only good part about that is there's work for an actor.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Sure, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Speaking of work for an actor, I have looked up
the Mountaineer Dinner Theater and its history.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Uh, and this.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Place is amazing, this old. They made it look like
an old barn yep, and it's uh.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
It was for a time in the nineteen seventies and
early eighties, the Mountaineer dinner theater offered a bit of
Broadway in Putnam County and it's and yeah, faced with
continuing financial losses, Lewis reluctantly closed the theater in the
mid eighties.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
So this was a buffet style dinner theater with the
with this barn, this big old barn. This looks hilarious
and awesome.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
So so it was. So there were a series and
there's only one that still exists today. It's in Greensboro,
North Carolina. I think might be Charleston, North Carolina. Or
is that South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
That's South Carolina.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
Okay, so it's in North Carolina, so it must be Greensbroo.
But anyway, it's the only one remaining. But there were
there there were not a series, but what do you
call it? Like there there was like a run? Well, yeah,
and there were they were. They were all around the country.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Don't just kind of go across and play them all right.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
So, so the upstairs was where the housing was for
the actors. It was a brilliant conress business concepts they had.
They didn't have to pay, like you know, rent a
house or something. They housed the actors upstairs and.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
That also served.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
And that also served as your dressing room, so they
didn't have to have dressing rooms. And then they had
and bi equity. You know, with unions you have to
offer showers and dressing rooms, so they didn't have to
do that because you had your room with a shower.
So then the center, the very center. The stage was

(40:41):
upstairs almost all the time. Then through hy hydraulic lift
it would lower, so you know, the lights would go
down and the dinner theater downstairs, and then the stage
would would slowly descend with the set. And that as
the lights came up, and every he would say ah

(41:03):
because the buffet had been there before and suddenly they
is gone, but the show is there.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
It's just like I wanted to get more crab legs.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
It was I can't, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
Then during intermission they had dessert, but.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
The stage would live. People crazy.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
They would have dessert, they would people would order drinks.
It was about drink drinks, drinks. Drink. Strength did not
make it. Just like with comedy clubs, you don't make
bank with the cover charge. Uh, it's they they make
the venue makes their money off food and beverage. If
they're doing it right.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Question, Yeah, were the actors on the stage as it
was descending down or going up. Okay, that would have
been that would have been an ocean violation.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
So so you were blocked to thees. Then the lights
go out to step off, so you know, yes, it
was all choreographed.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Oh, I see. I'm imagining like there's like a stand
up comedy show and there's a comic bombing and then
all of a sudden, the stage just starts showing up, like, no,
we're done. This is where cutting you off? Yeah, it's
I think the host comes up from under this. Well
give it up for Billy the Billy the kid, and
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Uh it's I could I see why this could have failed.
There's all of this hydraulic ship and like they just
could have added a buffet room, just a little area
with all.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
I don't think it's I don't think it's hydraulics, Joe.
I'm imagining like clickick click click click, like the old school.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
You got you got like twelve interns with stand by
accident like Paul Ropes.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
It was a business formula that worked very well until
people didn't want to go to dinner theater. I'm not
sure why, but then dinner theaters started. I don't think
it was the shows. I just think that the idea

(43:11):
of sitting in the same seat for you know, a
buffet and then sitting there for a two or three
hour show is not something that we want to do
when we consider a night out. You want to in
a comedy.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Yes, exactly right, that's that's so funny though. I'm just
there's so many things that I'm imagining with that, like again,
and how many things could go wrong in that scenario
as well, Like that's a little so is there back
to like some oh humanity? Oh god, actually I believe

(43:52):
it was. It actually had nothing to do with that
is because they kept trying to make cats work at
that dinner theater and they're just like, listen, I can't
watch rum tum thinger again. I can't do I can't
do it. I can't.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Oh my god, Sarah Palin's hair as a sportscaster is amazing.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Oh my, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
We had big here. I should send you. Yeah, we
have big here.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Then it was a different time, it was, it was.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Yes, it's I know my mom had the big hair.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
So mine.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
So I'm quite a bit older than both of you.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Well, Joe just sent it to him. Oh, dear god,
the hair is amazing.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
She should have kept that. She should have stayed a
sports reporter and kept that hair. That's all I have
to say.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Yeah, that's a that's pretty epic.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
That's that's this is joke hair. This is I love this.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Oh that's what mine looked like.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
That was some anchorage ancor hair right there.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
So do you recognize the two people said she's at
the desk with.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
Oh yeah, oh no, the one guy I don't recognize,
But that's Lauren.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
This is from her own archive, the Sarah Pale Museums.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
She's a rice.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Okay, so I'm looking to see see most of my
work has been in theater, like outside of academ most
of my work has been because of theater. And uh,
I think that some of those like like I've worked
as a standardized patient, where for medical colleges I would

(45:51):
be a patient and uh, they would. I worked mostly
with teaching psychologists and psychiatry trists.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
So I shouldn't laugh at that. But there's just like, hey, listen,
this is a this is a case study.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
Yeah, So I'm sending you, Matt. I'm sending you a
video of my my doing the weather.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Okay, yeah, yeah, this is we're this is Buckle up,
butter cups.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Buckle up, butter cups.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
I'll give you one. This is one second. Your hair
wasn't as bad as Palin's. It wasn't nearly as obnoxious.
It was big, Yeah, it was big.

Speaker 5 (46:38):
We all have big hair. You.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I mean to be fair. My brother had the same
haircut in the nineteen eighties. So you're you're fine, all right.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Oh no, it's a video, Joe. Oh this here's a
little taste of Jenny as the weather person here.

Speaker 10 (47:02):
Arctic Slope area and strong gusty winds caused blizzard conditions
across the Katsubuse Sound and the northern half of the
Seward Peninsula. Now that the southern half of the Seward
Peninsula had snow early in the morning, but by late morning,
that's no change to rain. A winter storm watch is
in effect for Fairbanks for this evening. Southeastern Alaska was

(47:27):
mostly sunny today, except for some early morning fog that
occurred along the Panhandle, and the cold spot for the
state today was in Alaktuck, Alaska at twenty eight degrees
below zero along the Panhandle forty six, forty degrees in
Juno eleven and Vulcana twenty degrees.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
So this has to be like the equivalent of like
when you're a comic and you find an old video
of yourself in your life.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Oh my god, Jenny, thank you for letting us watch this. Hey,
And and this is it wasn't your fault.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
The guy was spinning the the guy was spinning the finish.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
So now I have a huge question.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Yes, my huge question is this is the background doesn't
move right, there's no moving background.

Speaker 11 (48:20):
No, no, and I don't I can't even see it
because it's a you know, all I have is a
green screen and then I yeah, I can't even see
what I'm pointing at.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
So do you have to set up your own like
Alaskan map that morning?

Speaker 4 (48:37):
You have to in your.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Mind have a map of Alaska? And yes, yes, okay,
in your mind you know where things are, so you know,
you're kind of.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
And you do have so you do have a monitor
that you can kind of see where you're at.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
You can kind of see.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
And that was the other thing. I loved your suit jacket.
It was so pro that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
What is this other thing you sent?

Speaker 5 (49:01):
That is okay? So see all okay. All of my
work has been steeped in theater. And one of the
most fun gigs I ever had was I was the
host of an educational series for the National Park Service.

(49:22):
I was ranger Carla, and one of the things they
wanted me to do was a rap. So I wrote this,
this silly rap about bats.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
What ear was this?

Speaker 5 (49:35):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 2 (49:35):
What year was this?

Speaker 5 (49:37):
This would have been let's see five, six ninety seven?

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Was that late?

Speaker 5 (49:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Usually like that stuff came out like in like the
late eighties, early nine. Yeah. Yeah, and the National Park Service,
so I mean it did they they're a little bit
behind that.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
So I so you rap. That's reading Watch this, that's
that's the wrap. Oh it was my keyboards, uh rhythm thing.
It was so so rinky dink, but this was fun.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
My god, I love this.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
So yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna check this
out here. This is I could see that? Is that
a dancing bat in the background?

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Two?

Speaker 5 (50:20):
What do you think we'd only have one it?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Two? Yes, let's let's listen to this this fire rap.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
National Park Service wasn't skipping on anything here.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
No, but they did tell me I couldn't shake my hips.
They said you can't do that in uniform.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Listen, wrap is fine. You can't cross against ranger code,
drop fire dancing.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
One, two three. Your Mexican freetail is the name. Controlling
insects is their game. They eat two hundred times a night.
Come with us on a moonlit sight.

Speaker 10 (51:11):
A single brown bat gets food color, eating abouts of
mosquitos and just one hour.

Speaker 5 (51:16):
Oh yes, some bats can.

Speaker 10 (51:17):
Do some good.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
You're lucky to have bats in the hood.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Okay, I don't want Can we pause that for a second.
I did just pause it.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, it's can we just go over that one line
of you'd be lucky to have bats in the Yes,
the bats are everywhere, right, But I just I thought
that line was and we need.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
To bring back ranger Carla. And now I bet tore
the National Services.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
I'm having a hard time. Do we want do we
want Jenny the news? What the weather person? Or oh
what would you bring back? I would one range of Carla. Yeah,
I'm thinking I need more of this.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
I need more range of Carla in my life. I
am going to go back as research and development. I'm
gonna go look up range of Carla and all her
fucking videos and I am just going to be hip
on range of Carla's TV.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
What was a TV show called that.

Speaker 5 (52:21):
You Got?

Speaker 2 (52:22):
You gotta give the warning don't ever, under any circumstances
get close to a bat that is on the ground
or close enough for you to touch.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Bats don't want to touch you.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yeah, you know what touch No bats? Yeah, but that
as someone who's had bats in his house, they are terrifying.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Oh yes, I.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
So my my little brother, uh had he owned this
house for years and at one point I lived across
the street. There was an apartment building, uh across the
street right and now I used to live in that
apartment building. Uh. Middle of the night one night he
calls and he's like, dude, you got to come over
and help me with this bat. I can't catch this bat.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
And so I.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Literally put on I had, uh a hockey helmet and
like a hockey goalie mask and a sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
And did you dressed like Casey Jones? Did you have
a gold.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Yeah? No, I did not.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
I did not do. I wasn't going because you can't
harm a bet. Did you tell me Carla in the video.
If it's you, if it's in your house, you can
kill a bat. In fact, they actually suggest it because
if you've maybe been in.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
The same room as it, it could have given you rabies.
You're supposed to kill it and bring it to a
wildlife place like the University of Minnesota where they will
test it for rabies.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
It's so few bats off they get a bad wrap.
So few bats half rabies.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
I know.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
But that's what literally the word from the University of
Minnesota they told me. Because I was like, I called,
I'm like, what am I supposed to do? There's pats mouse, Like,
you have to kill it and bring it in If
you slept in the same bedroom as one, and I did,
so that you had because you.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Could be rabid it was in the bed. That's a
different story.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
Yeah, that's the educational video I should have made. Was
the do not sleep with that?

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Well, yeah, they're never going to call you the next day.
They don't make it breakfast, they.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
They hang upside down. How are you supposed to do that?
You know, it's you're never going to have that intimate
relationship with them that you.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
Want with that face with.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
God.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
So what was what was range? Of Carla's TV show.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
Oh, this was an educational series that then they had
these videos that people in gift shops goodbye.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Oh I'm they probably play this for kids camps at Yeah,
and they.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Played them in the lobby with the sound off and
stuff like that, so I'd go in nobody. One time
I was at a park where like, I went in
and it was on in the lobby are Carla? And
nobody recognized me? And I was like, what, nobody recognizes me?
So this hat? Yes, Like I still act and I

(55:27):
still you know, I I will do that till the
day I die. When I got my you know, people say,
don't get a degree in theater because what will you
do with that? Man, I will use this until the
day I die.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Well, we already know you can be a weather person.
You can.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
And last week, in my late sixties, last week I
had three auditions. One was as a hand model for
a video where I'm referencing stuff but all see is
my hands. And they needed old lady hands and I
got them. And then okay, what is it for?

Speaker 3 (56:07):
You got to make sure those Sometimes those hand those
hand commercials, they go where you got to do They're like, hey,
if you want the job.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Well, they weren't looking for hands like a velvet glove,
so I wasn't worried.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Then uh, then the next old lady hands ripped for
his pleasure.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
I had this this an audition, uh for voice, where
I was supposed to read the voice in somebody's head
rather than like, you know, dialogue. I wasn't responding to
someone else. And when I was preparing, my best friend said, oh,

(56:54):
this is right up your alley. You always have a
voice inside your head. And I said, yeah, I'm acting,
so I can't act like the voice that I hear
inside my head. This has to be the voice in
somebody else's head. And I've never been privy to the
voice in somebody else's head, so this is like acting blindly.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And then the third you've had some experience with because
of all your work with bats.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
And right right, ironically, that's not like to get rapped
at they do.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
That's a notorious country fans. Actually they prefer country music.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Well see I know the voice of Sonar. Oh yeah, yep,
there you go. And then the third audition, I did
not ask enough questions. They just they they just looked
at my head. I go into the studio and they
just looked at my head and asked me about my

(57:52):
neck and if I have any neck issues, and was
there a couch I would not be seen on camera,
but I would wear a twenty pounds camera on my head.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Okay, what you are?

Speaker 3 (58:14):
They needed a a a tripod, like they could have
got a camera stand but it.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
But I need the camera needs to move like a
person's head would move, you know, like you.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Know, oh, so you're doing a POV thing and cameras
on your head and they had that they needed to
see your leg.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
Right, but they told me that it weighs twenty pounds
And I said, you know, I have no to my knowledge,
I have no shoulder or neck issues, and I wear
motorcycle helmets, so I assume I'm okay with this. And
then I got home and I realized that that's like

(58:58):
wearing a toddler on your head.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
And I was like, I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Start doing next exercise cords.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Where do I find a twenty down bag of rice
to just wear it? And then I'm like, why can't
I have a normal job like my parents wanted me
to have, you know, they wanted me to have a
normal job. But no, I want to have a job
where I have to find somebody's toddler and ask if
they'll allow me to have them sit on my head,

(59:31):
which sounds like a kink, but it's not. It's just
a job.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Came you find a little person and then they'll just
the same thing. Just burn Troyer just right.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
A big Now do you find a fat cat? It's
a fat cat. You're a fat cat away from.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
That's Johnson's weather cat, Pedro, the overeating forecasting cat.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
Yeah, So I don't need to have weird jobs. I
will until the day I.

Speaker 8 (01:00:10):
Die because of your parents told you to get a
normal job.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
You're still rebelling all these years later.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
I'll tell you this I mean and I love. I
love my job as a professor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Oh, by the way, awful history. You were the first
professor we've had on the podcast. Oh wow, Yeah, we've
never had a professor before. We've had some weird we've
had some different and unique jobs, but that is the first.
You're the first professor. I think we've had people with
doctorate's on the show, but we've never had any professors.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Right, And you're the first person to be political adjacent, like,
we've never had anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Not not to that, not to the level of vice president. Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you were off from the first TV weather person. We've
had some radio weather people.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
So you're telling me I'm not the first bat rapper.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Yes, we actually, but we're lousy with oh ship.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
Every episode really you should see. Yeah, you got to
hear our closing music. It's ironically so similar.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Actually, just because I know he listens to this, mister Rogers,
will you please do a batrap for us?

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
Oh my god, that will be the coolest.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
He's a guy who does our our mister Rogers, and
the man.

Speaker 4 (01:01:28):
Use the same cassiodrum.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
That he's He will listen.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
I'm leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I'm leaving this part in because it'll be an Easter
egg just for one person, just for one, for one,
for one person.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
That's how we do the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Just eventually we're gonna have an Easter egg for all
of our listeners. It's just gonna take thousands of years.

Speaker 5 (01:01:49):
So in truth, I have the job that my parents
wanted me to have. I I have tenure. I am
I've had a nice career as a professor. But I
think the most secure positions I've ever had were the

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result of my acting skills.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Including the professorship. Just can you act like a professor?
Can you come in with the patches on the elbow.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
I've never actually finished a degree. Yeah, you've just been
acting the part.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Did you also find this professorship in the unemployment line?

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Actually?

Speaker 6 (01:02:30):
Yeah, it's as hard as it was to get a
job in academ I have to say, I don't feel,
and never have felt entirely secure in academ And so
I have the job that my parents thought I should
have for job security as a single parent.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
And I entered it with no security. And at no
time have I felt secure. Isn't that weird?

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
I mean weird?

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
You felt more secure with that rapping I and comedy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
Because I'm in control, I can say yes no to
how much money I'll make, and if I'm not getting
enough gigs, I'm not going to fire myself. But budget cuts,
I cannot control budget cuts and enrollment.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
So as a professor, how long have you been a professor?
Just for our listener's sake, how long have you been
doing that?

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
I've been teaching since twenty five years awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
So through that time you have to have, like can
you bring up at least one like a story about
like a difficult student or something that you can like
that really stands out in your mind. So I was
teaching Sarah Palin No.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Right, right, right, just one of our kids, one of
her dumb children.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Actually talk about this in my act because the student
will complain about the weirdest things. And I, you know,
I'm teaching adults. And I didn't know I said this.

(01:04:16):
I don't know how I said this, why I said this,
in what context this came out? But I was called
into the to speak with an administrator because apparently in
the classroom I said that my ass is as big
as a billboard?

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
What somebody that you were.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Oh, oh, it's more than that. So this administrator told
me that a student didn't feel safe in my class
because you And I was like, is that because my
ass is so big? Do we need a bigger classroom? What? What?
Why am I here? What problem are we here to fix?

(01:05:11):
Are we fixing my ask?

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
Do I need an exercise bike? Is that what you're
trying to tell me that?

Speaker 5 (01:05:17):
I said, well, it's not getting any smaller, And this
administrator was like, you know, so uncomfortable. I felt so
sorry for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Them because he's like an hr right, like like a
essentially well.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
My boss of my boss. And so then well, I
don't want to say too much because.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I don't want it was not it was not the dean.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
So then I said, do you want me to stop
saying that because I'm not sure why I said it.
I'm not I'm not saying I didn't say it, but
I just don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
It's it's that what I was put it in the celebus.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Warning your professor's ass is as big as a billboard.
Step in your choose your seat accordingly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Dude, that's the weirdest rate my professor dot com thing
I've ever read. Like, dude, professor professor Russy's got cake, bro,
she's got cake. So then I.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Said, do you want me to stop saying that? And
this administrator said, well, I don't think I can tell
you not to say that. And I said, good, So
are we done?

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Okay? So where don't we go from here?

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
We're done here?

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
So I started to walk out, but as I left,
I realized my ass was in their eye line. You know,
I mean, there's sightline and you turn.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Back, did you turn back and say something.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
You're checking to see if it is there's a over
the shoulder glance, like, yeah, that's me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
What's up.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
It's as big as a billboard. I mean I could
take on that apparently, you know, I don't know. I
never saw my ad.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
You should have just put an ad on your ass
for the rest of your class where it was like,
please don't be offended by my billboard sized ass.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Jo Jo, do you have a problem. I have a
better one. It's like, you know, like when they have
the empty billboards on the side of the highway, like
advertise your business here.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My friend Paul Carrington said that
I should get a pair of pants that says if
you lived here, you'd be home by now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Well, I don't think there's any topping that one for stories.
Jesus Christ. Although I think that student was really up,
it wasn't. He was upset, but he had seen some
movies on the internet about how you get an A
in college and he goes, listen, I don't know if
I can handle all that booty. That's what he was.
That was the real problem was He's like, listen, you know,
I was trying to get extra credit. But that's a
lot of extra credit.

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
I have had experiences that are not funny. Where where
that has happened.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
They've tried to like they've tried to like like, hey,
how do I get a little extra credit in class? Yes, Jesus,
I thought that was just a fucking trope.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Something that I was surprised by how horrible that made
me feel.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
I can imagine, And it was I was just kidding.
I'm sorry, I didn't. I wasn't trying to bring up.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, and I and
I hate taking taking this this this you know, I'm
sorry to you know, but it really I mean, I
think that the other side needs you know, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of like mistakes that we just laugh,
laugh like. I don't think I have ever laughed as
hard as I have in my classrooms, and it is

(01:09:02):
not because of something that I said, but something that
my students say, and they are hysterical. When when we
create an atmosphere that is a safe zone to take
risks to say ridiculous things. I don't think I've ever
laughed as hard as I have in my classroom. But
on the other hand, there are I would say that

(01:09:25):
was I thought about quitting because of the way that
made me feel and what but but but how low
do you have to feel as a student two to
even entertain the thought of doing that, of making that attempt.

(01:09:51):
I mean, certainly, you know, I mean, there's extra credit
out there. Check the soldest opportunities.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
We're coming with a that rap. I will give you
an extra credit this class.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
To find a way to wrap eats a million mosquitos
an hour, but you can find it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
That's crazy. So yeah, that's happens. But but you know,
that's wow.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Wow, I just I honestly, I mean, I I guess
I could have imagined because of course, guys are gross
no matter what it's under. We're in comedy, and in
comedy we all know unfortunately this ship does happen. It's great.
But like in profess, I really thought, like I'm like,
I didn't even think about that because I'm like, oh,
I thought, you know, professor, it's a little bit more professional,
you know. I I've even heard of that in like

(01:10:41):
a high school setting, which is even actually worse if
you really think about it. They're all bad. But like,
I never would have thought that I'm so sorry you
had that happen to you. That's that sucks.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
It's it's it's it sucks. But it's something that I
you know, the only reason I bring it up here
is because it happens. And I'm sure that there are
professors who don't talk about it because of the way
that it makes it's grossed. But yeah, but then on
the other hand, you know, like all the crazy complaints,

(01:11:11):
you know, and and uh, part of it is they
you know, so much is on the line for these students,
you know, scholarships, uh, you know, participation on teams, on
athletic teams. Uh, it is it's a high stake situation
for them, and so there are gonna be some you know,

(01:11:35):
some of them want to complain just to get around
you know, I'll get this this this, I'll get this
professor in trouble. And it's like, oh, that's not gonna
work because you know, like my ass is as big
as a billboard. So I've got tenure, you know, and
I hope I never ever ever use that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
No, I know that, but that's just the form of
safety and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Break glass in case of emergency.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
It's just absolutely and I think that that's why it was.
It was established. You know, I have I have mixed
feelings about tenure. I've worked at universities that don't offer tenure,
and the the structure, the interaction, the faculty interaction, it's
all it's different. But can you imagine if we had

(01:12:30):
that in other fields, Like if we had like the
house MC at a club had tenure.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
I've worked. I've worked a couple of clubs like that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Actually you're like, oh God, I can't wait till this
guy dies so I could finally be an MC.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
There was the place that I got my start in comedy,
had a tenured comedy house who did it for thirty years.
I was his like star if he took a week off.
That's how I got started hosting years ago. He would
take a week off and then I would get that weekend.
And then he took off a couple he took off,
like he took off for a year. He's like, I
can't do this anymore. So like me and a couple

(01:13:04):
other people filled in, and then he came back because
he wanted it back. And like the only.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
Because it's tenured. That is crazy. Unless you own it,
how can you be tenured? And who would want to
be the house. I'm see.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
His name is Parrien and he was from Saint Cloud.
That's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Yeah, he did it for thirty years at the First
Street station, all the other ship that was there. It
was insane. Yeah. Well, Jenny, we don't just exist on
this podcast talk about bat rap, Sarah Palin or butt complaints.

Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
No, but I have been having a blast.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Oh no, this is doing it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
This is this has been delightful.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
We have a bunch of first on the podcast, and
that's that's what we look for.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
But this is like my birthday episode, and it's by
the time this comes out, it's probably actually it will
probably Yeah, it's gonna be my birthday, So it Jenny.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
We don't just.

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
Turned thirty eight again, Jenny Lou.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
I'll adversary.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
I want to sing happy birthday to you.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
I'm doing want to Jack Benny forever thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
For ever thirty eight, but actually forty four. So we
don't just exist on this podcast to talk about Joe's
age or any of the other things we talked about, Jenny.
We also exist on this podcast to battle the scourge
that is known as Karen's but Jenny, before we go
into our next segment, we always like to ask our guests,

(01:14:32):
how would you define a Karen.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
I struggle with this because I think oftentimes the Karen
is defined by some by earmarks of advocacy. It is
someone who is advocating for themselves and right or wrong.

(01:14:57):
I think that there's this degree of passion that is
a part of the advocacy, whether it's you know, at
a store complaining because what they got was not what
they ordered, and people are like, come on, it's French fries.
It's not the end of the world. But how do
we not advocate for ourselves? And my job that advocacy

(01:15:22):
is the center of what I do with my students.
When I teach public speaking, I tell them when I'm
teaching you these communication skills for public speaking, I'm teaching
you how to advocate for a raise, for a job,
for a date, for convincing somebody to make a baby

(01:15:45):
with you. That ain't easy. I you know, I have
one that's it. It's not easy to do that, So
then how can you know?

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
For me?

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
It's so hard because my life revolves around encouraging other
people to add advocate, even if it is Hey, these
French fries aren't what I ordered. I ordered these French fries,
and I want compensated for it. Give me the right
French fries or compensation. So I look at Karens as

(01:16:18):
being advocates, and I think that many times people are
maligned when they're advocating for themselves and called Karens or Kyle's.
But on the other hand, there are people who are

(01:16:41):
inconsiderate about it, so.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Ineffective, ineffective advocators.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Right right, And that's the thing that where it's it
goes from. Because I am all about advocating for yourself.
I love haggling. I love it, I love.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Getting like it's having it done right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
There's something that's why I eat at Culvers because they
just treat her with respect and they make them nice burgers.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
Like it's But.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
There's that thing where when you go over the line
and now you're starting to just can.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Be one thing to be like, hey, my fries came
out soggy. Can I please we could work this out?

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
Yeah, there's a As a communications professor, we like there's
a workout ableness.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
That's how how do we communicate how we feel? That
is like the bigger thing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
And that's where I feel that Karens are that that's
a level of bitchy lady and god and guy.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Yeah, I don't think it's gender specific.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
No, No, it's not. Definitely is not gender specific on
this podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:17:43):
But I don't think specific to this podcast. But I
think in the world that if you took two scenarios
where you had a woman complain about something and a
man complaining to the same entity about the same thing,
the man is taking charge and creating change. The woman

(01:18:04):
is a Karen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
That's unfortunately part of it. Yes, But what we do
on this podcast, especially because myself and Joe we both
have been in customer service since we started working for me,
I still bartend and wait tables because I'm killing it
at forty one, and.

Speaker 7 (01:18:23):
Totally I don't because I would be killing people at
forty four.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
At thirty eight, Jo Joe finally got out.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
My first year of college teaching, I was waiting tables
at the Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Oh, I'm sorry, and a student.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
Came in with their family for graduation and they saw
me waiting their table and they said, Jenny Lou, what
are you doing here? And I said, raising my kid
what can I get you? And I don't think there's
a person who hasn't been through Ah, there are, I

(01:19:01):
know some people you know, but yeah, yeah, you're You're
not alone and we've all been there where there's customer
service positions where you encounter that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Kyle, Yes, So on this podcast again, that's one of
my favorite segments. So we we We we skirt. We
searched the internet Jenny for different Yelp reviews, Google reviews,
Facebook reviews. Sometimes their tweets are handwritten notes. Since the segment,
we call the Karen of the week.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
This is Karen, I'm your boss.

Speaker 12 (01:19:34):
Oh my god, Oh my god, Karen, I'm your arm

(01:19:57):
Oh my god, Karen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
This week's Karen is a little bit different because sometimes
the call is coming from inside the restaurants when the
management as Kareny. This was posted in the back by
the lockers at a restaurant here in these United States,

(01:20:21):
Effective immediately, all staff must leave their cell phones on
and make themselves available when not on shift. Consider yourself
on call. You must answer calls from Gary and if
you were asked to cover to shift, you must do
so without complaints. This is not optional. We need to

(01:20:42):
work together to help the company succeed. Let's set some
record profits this quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
Go team woy goshs record profits for whom for the
exactly exactly and then that I'm not sure, you know,
I don't know anything about well, I don't know much
about labor law. But that's requiring somebody to be on clock,

(01:21:15):
on the clock, if your phone's on the clock, and
if it's used.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
For you to get to pay them called in.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Yeah, it's an on call shift essentially.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Yeah, but everyone's all always on call.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Yeah, I place. I worked at a place years ago
that had on call servers, and you would have a
couple on call shifts every couple of weeks, and they
would still pay you. They'd pay you half wage though,
because you're just sitting at home, but it would I'd
still pay you. It's like five six dollars an hour
just to be ready, and it would only be for
like a two to three hour window and you get

(01:21:52):
an extra fifteen bucks on your paycheck. It's just sit
and watch Baywatch or whatever the hell you're doing. Because
it's like the nineties of.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
Yeah, dude, it's a great it's a great idea, and
or restaurants need to go back to this where because
there's a lot of overstaffing and then people just get
sent home with nothing you and you had to go
get drive there and gas is.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Noted in cheap these days. It's cell phones on like
their nurse like they're a doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
That's right, right, right, I got a doctor of appetizers that.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
That's infuriating because that person is paid by the tips, right,
not even for their time. So you know, I mean
even if you put that person on call, what would
that be, you know, two dollars an hour? You know,
that's that's it's not even oh man, the service industry
is so hard. Because then on the on the other hand,

(01:22:47):
you can understand, what's his name, Gary? Is that the
guy you know?

Speaker 4 (01:22:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Yeah, yeah, Gary? Karen is uhh being unrealistic from our perspective,
But then if you look at Gary's perspective, Gary has
people calling in because they're not coming to work. Yea dah,
YadA YadA, and his restaurant is going down the tubes.
I get that, but there has to be other solution.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Isn't a better equilibrium to that?

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
And that's and that comes back to the mountain near
Dinner Theater where It's like maybe we have the staff
live above the restaurant, and now you're compensated.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
You don't need your own changing room because you have
your own bathroom in your own suite.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Bring back.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Endentured Servitor's not up everybody's ass because he knows where everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
Indentured servitude is where it is at.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Me.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
People rely on you know, if you rely on.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
This, you don't have to keep your phone on. It
was like, not so bad? Was it?

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Dutger observant? With that bad? Everybody? Was it that bad? Really?

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
It was slavery with more steps.

Speaker 5 (01:24:00):
We make you, We make you so available to us.
We're gonna drag your ass to work. Don't worry about
waking up. You will well like you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
I couldn't imagine, like cause you know, we all try
like a work life balance here and and like for
someone like myself, I'm waiting tables and tending bar half
the time, and then the other time, I when I'm
not doing that, ninety percent of the time, I'm doing shows,
I'm podcasting, I'm doing my creative endeavors. So I couldn't imagine, like, hey, sorry,
uh you know, Bethany called out tonight we need you

(01:24:32):
to we need you to come in. I'm like, hey,
I'm in man, Dan, what the fuck do you want
from me?

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
I'm one hundred miles away. Wow, am I supposed to
do anything?

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
You're supposed to be on calone ready? Gary said, so, yeah,
I am on call.

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
I answered the phone to tell you your fuck off.
I'm in Mandarin Mark is.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
And sometimes, like asking the staff to have to be
on call, we have to ask ourselves, Gee, why did
it fail?

Speaker 4 (01:24:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:25:00):
Everything everything I thought I was here to say, I thought,
Now I have to figure out what do you?

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
Why did it?

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Jenny lou G Why did it fails? A segment we
do every week where we look at different menu items,
businesses and commercials and we ask ourselves, do you think
that didn't work out too well? And on this podcast
it has been well documented that McDonald's had taken some
really big swings when it came to their menu items.

(01:25:35):
We all remember the mic pizza, which we talked about.
There was next Spaghetti, They had Pete flat bread. They
have Alasania, which I'm sure was microwave, which we all.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
Want microwave where Yeah, I feel about that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Joe, And microwave is anya. Well, they they tried to
do something in the nineties, and I vaguely remember this,
but then like the commercialone said me, this commercial, and
I do not remember this commercial. They tried to do
an Asian swing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:10):
In the the salads.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
No, they had mcgg rolls, oh shit, yeah. And so
I found a commercial from the nineteen nineties and I
think McDonald's probably wishes would never see the light of day.
And it's, uh, this week's gee, why did it?

Speaker 14 (01:26:34):
Tastes of the audience? Four Mini spring Roads Audiental Sweet
and Sauer Sauce Odiential Burgle with Terry Yucky sauce, liquis
and mayonnaise, and six chicken McNuggets with Sauti sauce. McDonald's
tastes of the Audience Better get a move on, you know,

(01:26:57):
I like we were to come here more often.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
I reckon, we need to call him a wolfing. Hey
they called case still orion? What is.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
It? Starts with a guy that kind of looks like
wish dot com Steve Irwin, Yes, yuh walking and they
bang a gong as he walks in, and then it's
done like a bad dubbed like Kung Fu movie.

Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
But they they really asianed up the McDonald's too, Like
it's got all the like paper paper walls.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
They're still Frisen Burgers. It's so funny, but like this
is insane. This did not age well.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
No, this never, This didn't came off the line bad.
This was a rejected This is a goofy. What was
the burger? It was still a burger.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
But terry and.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
Mayonnaise and lettuce. What is good about that?

Speaker 5 (01:27:59):
There's nothing in Asian cuisine. There's I don't know, maybe
it's some kind of prehistoric fusion with that mayo, but
there's nothing Asian cuisine about mayo.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
And burgers that breathes right, so perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
And like it's okay. So then there's the mic egg rolls.
So isn't the big thing about fast food restaurants is
that they use everything that they already have and they
just change it a little bit to make it a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
Right, Yeah, so what.

Speaker 4 (01:28:35):
Were they making? The egg roll?

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
That was probably the bunch of the weird ship during
the nineties. They were eighties and nineties, they were just
throwing spaghetti against the wall, both literally and figuratively. Yeah,
to try to find weird shit because they had to
compete against the new new fast, you know fast Asian
fast Italian restaurants that were coming up and taking a
part of their market.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
That was amazing and terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
And also and again they're doing the kung fu thing.
We're like, okay, wait to get a burger. You know,
it's like where the words don't match the mouse. And
also I love that to make it legit, they found
an Asian guy to be like, oh, I mean a burger,
and then they have an Asian kid, like, so we're
not racist.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
Where's the kid's parents? You never see. It's just this
Asian kid sitting by himself.

Speaker 5 (01:29:20):
But Jill, you did a British accent at the end.

Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
I did do a British accent at the end.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
I'm not known for my accent's accent.

Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
So somebody like somebody else did in the in the spot,
I think I think that's what inspired you. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Australian that's what it was.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
It was.

Speaker 4 (01:29:45):
I was going for Australian, which is so close.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
I mean it's I mean, because they're they're.

Speaker 4 (01:29:50):
British, the British rejects.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
It's what happened. It's the hybrid of British and Texas
becomes an accent.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
But I was I I I didn't talk about this earlier,
but I actually work as a dialect coach too, and
the Asian dialect that faux Asian dialect. At the beginning,
I was just like, that is so racist, that is
so horrible. But then I thought, well, is that a
It didn't sound right, and I thought, is that a

(01:30:20):
faux British dialect at the end, but because yours was
better than that one, But that's because you were doing
British and not.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
I was, but I was trying to do Australian.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
It just didn't come out right because I'm not good
at I'm not known for my accents.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
But but anyway, that whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
Was just it's it was.

Speaker 5 (01:30:38):
It's offensive, but it's legit.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
It's legitimate because we have an old Asian man and
he's wearing like a if you look, he's actually it's
not like shirt, it's a kimono shirt looking thing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
And they put they did put the Japanese fan next
to the McNuggets.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Yeah. Also, the thing that's funny is like they're like
with this one kind of song, so I'm like they
already had an Asian inspired sweet and sour exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
It wasn't Asian enough.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
What was the sauce that it was like a Seeschwan
sauce or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
That wasn't a sauce because we would have gone ape
shipped over that and we would have made them bring
that back again, like the Rick and Morty debacle.

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
Thousand Island sauce. You know that that that that that
that that that sauce. Yeah, for the isn't that actually.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Yeah, it wasn't that. It was like it was like
something like but they the whole the whole thing is
just ridiculous because again, this does not look like a McDonald's.
It looks like you're going into like a like a Honestly,
if I'm going to be completely honest with our listeners,
it looks like they're going into like an Asian buffet
in the Midwest.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
So that's why it failed. I mean, you know, you
didn't know you were at.

Speaker 9 (01:31:47):
McDonald's what it was for Disney's Mulan. No, this was
not no, not this, but I'm saying that the Swan sauce. Yeah,
like they so they just brought back their Asian This
was ninety four right, and they like they just had
a bunch of Australian Asian.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
How do we get rid of this? They're like, what
about this Disney movie.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Mulan, We'll do like a Native American Asian.

Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
Confusion something like that. Where does that plumb some stuff ship?
And then it just sounds asiany enough, right.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
Because Mulan was that she was a Native.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
American right, No, she was Chinese.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
Oh that's right. What am I thinking of?

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
You're thinking of Pocahontas? How your wow?

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
So what I want to know is what is the
kidsty what's the kid toy in the happy meal for this?

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Oh? Yeah, it's the fan It just has the big
golden arches.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
On it where it's a picture of Ronald McDonald. It's
like a purple one with Grimace's face.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
It's just his face and all of the fans Australian kids.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
I mean, it could have been worse. They could have
had like the fry kids in Geisha outfits. Jeez, that's
the that's the line.

Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
Yeah you get to take there.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
I feel like it's me mixing up Pocahontas and Mulan
was somehow racist.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Joe's like, oh yeah, you know that Asian movie where
they say paint the colors with the wind. You remember that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
One, right, dude, I watched neither of them.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
You were a big boy when those movies.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Came Stone Brain. I still loved cartoons. Don't get me wrong.
I still watch an episode of Chippendale's Rescue Rangers.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
I was more of a tailspin boy. Well, I think
it's time we eighty six the podcast. But before we go, Jenny,
we do have one last quick segment. It is called
Human Yelp Reviews. That's for you, Jenry lou Russy. You
get to review the podcast. You can either review it
as a whole or myself and Joe individually. You can

(01:34:03):
use a five star metric or as many stars as
you'd like, and whenever you'd like to start.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
Hright, I give it five stars, and I'm gonna tell
you why. In terms of content, it was not just funny,
but we had some very serious moments where you, the
two of you, create a fair environment for some serious

(01:34:28):
points to be made. So yeay, I and number two
fun a lot of fun. You're fun loving. Three useful
tips in the future. I know now not to go
to McDonald's in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
Look, and I can't wait to see the giant plate
that you add to the big the forkin's boat.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
Yeah yeah, and that was next four tips, my stars.
Everybody who listens to this is going to be using
those big fork and there's gonna be a rush. They're
gonna start manufacturing them.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Again, and I have to start making the plates and
selling them as.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
Merch you go along with the do you know where
they make.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
I likely they make those fork and spoons in Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
They probably did. And then five, Wow, what likable hosts
you are, so I I give it a five. I
give it a five.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Wonderful, thank you so so much.

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
Yeah, that's just.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Like okay or else used to We're used to cynical
comments or like one store.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
Can't describe themselves with words, describe things with words and ships.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
So it's it's nice to hear like.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
We need to have more communication people on the podcast,
less of these like you know, I worked in the subway.

Speaker 8 (01:35:55):
I'm just kidding all d Carla and listen to my
pat wrap And Okay, I happen to be an Alaskan
weather woman and uh just worked with one of our
dumbest vice presidents in.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
His president candidates and yeah, that's right, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Right, that's right. I forgot. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
At least I didn't mix up like mulan with leg
Oh hey, that was like the that was like the
little redheaded mermaid.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
See, Jenny, how do our listeners follow you?

Speaker 5 (01:36:31):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
If they was my accent on that, Jenny? Was that good?
Was that? Fake? Friends? Enough?

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
See? I love fake accents. I I'm on Facebook, I
I I really don't have people following me.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
So if you be this ghost.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
People should follow you. Because I booked Jenny before. She
is a phenomenal comedian. You need guys, need to go
out and if you see her on a on a
on a show, go watch her.

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
She you need Do you need a do you need
a voice coach? Do you need someone to do your hair?
You need need.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Yeah, she'll write a wrap, she does the weather. We
can like, what do you need Jenny to do?

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
She wears style your hair, she'll.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Put a baby on her head.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
And we need a hand model?

Speaker 4 (01:37:21):
Yeah, you need some you need some old lady hands
like she's all over it. It's what do you need?
Because Jenny's got you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
You need the website that's like the Hutch You need
the Hutch fucking Johnson website of people just come there,
like what do we need?

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
All right, come on, I.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
Need a podcast and bring you guys on as a guest. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well I'm I'm at Dublin on July twenty sixth uh
in Duluth, so and and I'm doing in I'm doing
a showcase at the Cellar in Fargo on the eleventh

(01:37:57):
of July. So things are pretty slow in the summer
for me in some ways intentionally, So watch out.

Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
For your your hands in some ads.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Yeah, it's there's gonna be a p o V of
like you talking and walking and doing something.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
And that's gonna and you're gonna hear your voice is
the internal monologue.

Speaker 4 (01:38:18):
That's I know. That is Watch for those commercials that professor.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Watch for those commercials.

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
Nice and we gotta get you on Hutch Johnson's thing.

Speaker 5 (01:38:29):
You should write to him, should like, hey.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Look, dear Hutch, can or do you prefer mister Johnson.

Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
I'm not going to write to Hutch. I'm going to
write to Pedro.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
That's even better, Pedro.

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
I heard you do all the work.

Speaker 5 (01:38:47):
Yeah, well, Pedro's the gatekeeper. I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (01:38:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Listen, you want to get to Hutch, you gotta go
through page and what was the dog? What was the dogs? Now?

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
Got I gotta hold on, pulling it back up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
I know I should have.

Speaker 5 (01:38:59):
Been that was paid. I think Pedro's the dog.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Pedro was the cat and uh, it's a hold on,
hold on, Oh Jesus, come on, hutches dog.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
Yeah, what the fuck? Hutch?

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Like, where is your what the hutch?

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
What the hotch?

Speaker 15 (01:39:13):
Actually it's he's got hutches kids. He does something with
kids and weather. Yes, you should get your like Hutch.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
I Uh, I.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Think you need a rap I am specifically for this.
I do animal rap.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
I'm actually qualified, unlike my weather person job.

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
He's into metal, so I I want to get.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
To do a rap rock song. Yeah, good biscuit style, Joe,
how do people follow you?

Speaker 4 (01:39:47):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
It's uh Instagram the word photographizing, that's the word photograph
I z I n G.

Speaker 4 (01:39:54):
I thought that was a good idea back in the day.
I've got a bunch of stuff coming.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Up that I can't even remember right now. It's We're
gonna have fun at Crooners in July. I think I'm part.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
Of uh convention. That's the convergence that's.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Going around, maybe on the fourth. So check out things
I'm around. I'm headlining, I'm doing stuff. How about you, Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
You can follow me in the grocery store. I'm the
slope shopping cart with the wheel that kind of goes
to the side.

Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
Yeah, that's that's the card.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
I describe you most as with the wonky wheel wheel
guard o old wonky wheel dom over.

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Somebody just got themselves nickname.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
You're gonna forget that in a week.

Speaker 4 (01:40:39):
Really write it down right now, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:40:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
You can follow me on Matt do. I'm on Facebook
and Instagram, I am at that, Matt Douma on Blue
Sky and TikTok. For me, just gonna plug a couple
of things. The basement of the Red Carpet Nightclub. Every
single Wednesday evening, I host the Keller Comedy Open Mike,
one of Minnesota's longest running stand up comedy. Open MIC's
doors open at eight ish, the show starts at nine is.

(01:41:03):
We have thirty two onns beer pitchers for only six bucks.
Come on out for a free live comedy every single
week and then this summer for the Beaver Island Comedy Series,
the show I produce at the bever Allen Brewing Company
in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. We are only doing shows on
the last Saturday of the month of June, July, and August.
We're taking a little bit of a break, but we

(01:41:24):
have some phenomenal headliners Jason Schomer in June. We've got
DiAngelo Punches in July, and then we have the wolf
Dog Comedy guys from Iowa coming in to do a
dual headline set on the end of August. So those
are gonna be great, so check those out at beaver
Allen Comedy Series. We also are gonna be doing Punchline
Punch Out on June seventeenth at Beaver Island. It's gonna

(01:41:48):
be Twin Cities versus Saint Cloud's a free shows. You
can come enjoy some great Beaver Island beers and have
a fun. It's a fun room. Jenny's played at, Joe's Played.
It's a great place to be. Jenny, thank you so
much for taking time out of flipping houses to do
our podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
This was I still can't find the dogs name.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
It was like it's like paid like it's something the overeating,
obnoxiously polarizing poodle or.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
Something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:18):
And then Pedro was the one that was like, hey,
I do all the work here. I'd pay the bills
in this.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
House and casting cat as always. Don't give bat's bad
rap and have a good night.

Speaker 16 (01:42:34):
It's time to count till, sweep the flaws and mop
the bills. Say good night, dispose up the trash and
turn out the light.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
Tell me why I try. It's so damping and it's alive.
So I'll take my tips. My services have earned me
this may.

Speaker 16 (01:43:01):
I will find a way of something.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Now, account my and lock the door.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
This has been a tape Deck Media production. Thank you
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