Episode 4 | Destination LOST Angeles

Last week, we way overshared about our families and some major childhood missteps. Plus, as promised, Jay shared Luca's stellar story of crushin' cancer! We hope you laughed a lot, only cried a little and, ultimately, left lit up! 

In this episode, we spill the stories of our individual journeys to LA; namely, the breakups that fueled our hearts (and gas tanks) ... motivating us to just go west. 

By now, you know the deal: sidebars galore, but always bringin' it back to where every story starts and ends -- laughter and love.

If you're a first time rider, welcome! We're hella happy to have you and hope ya stay for the duration of the endless roadtrip that is our pod. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten years ago, I drove from Chicago to LA after
a breakup, no music, just me, my thoughts, and a
slow descent into madness. Same.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I came from New York twenty years ago, fresh off
a breakup, ugly, crying to Sirius XM and shouting at
traffic in New Jersey. LA.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Got two people running from heartbreak, one in total silence,
one blasting Alanis like it was a lifeline.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
And now, somehow, through silent driving and a jagged little pill,
we have a podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Isn't it ironic? Welcome to the show. All right, here
we go episode four of Say It Anyway with Ryan
and Jay. That's me, that's you, hi hi.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
So today we're talking about our respective travels to Los
Angeles from from where we came from.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
We are, but before we do, there's a couple of
things I want to get get out of the Get
out of the way, okay, okay. So it's always good
to get feedback.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I love the feedback. And you know, you know, once
it's produced and everything, I always give it a final listen,
so our ears are on it. Make sure there's no
you know, nothing glaring. Yeah, yeah, my observation. And then
I want you to tell your observation is that in
the first three episodes I have somehow talked about excrement. Yeah,
and I can't do that anymore a couple of times, yes,

(01:07):
and we only have a couple episodes, so right, Yeah,
So that's the thing that I'm going to work on,
and that is my pledge because I do realize that
as men, we find that way funnier than women. Uh huh, yeah.
All yeah, So that is my pledge to not only you,
but our wonderful listening audience that there will be no
poop stories today, Okay from you. I'm joking. I don't
have any. Yeah, actually you do, but you told me earlier.

(01:31):
We're not going to talk about that, okay. And what
have you learned Jay about yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
About myself through this podcast? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
What is the one note that you gave yourself and
that several others have given you?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean several is a strong word, but uh yeah,
I have learned that I need to let you finish talking.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Okay, that's not the one. I'll take that too.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
No, I get excited and sometimes I cut you off
and stuff. I I what else have I learned?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
See, this is how quickly we've discussed this.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That I, uh, you know, I throw around. I throw
around swear words a little a little too freely. Maybe
you know what I mean. And so here's the thing,
just to kind of I really have no excuse for this,
but I okay. So when I did stand up comedy,
one of the things that we learned because I took
a comedy class was to avoid that, like, to try
not to use the F word. It's called blue material.

(02:27):
Anytime you're cursing or telling like, you know, like jokes
about male genitalia. I don't want to say it because
I'm I'm gonna say a weird word like I was
gonna say dick jokes. But it's fine, it's fine, I
say that, right.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I don't know how far I have to pull back,
and it's gonna be very hard for me.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't understand it. I don't want you to change yourself,
but I just this is a conversation we had, like, oh, wow,
your uncle told you, Hey, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, Yeah, but I think I just I throw around
the F word a lot. Sometimes it's appropriate, right, because
you use it for emphasis on something or it does
it touches totally. But yeah, I think that I'm just
gonna I'm gonna be were consciously aware of the fact
that I don't need to say that to be funny. Right,
It is funny with Jane makes things funny. The fuck

(03:07):
doesn't make it funny. You're already isn't already in Let's
see if you be the only one this entire one
hundred percent, it's not going to be guys, here's what
you need to know. The literally, the only point is
that I'm going to try not to do it. I'm
not making any promises. Okay, I'm gonna do my best,
and I know I'm aware of it.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I and I and I got it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Thank you so much. Okay, great, these are the things
we've learned.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
As she takes a giant sip from her Stanley, almost mad.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
That you had to say out loud that I use
a Stanley cup because there's a story behind this.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Well guess what we're because cheers.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I havena I'm anti Stanley cup. I am a Yetti girl,
and a friend of mine is Stanley is a Stanley
so uh, my friend was shout out lloy. She and
I were in the car on the way to the
Atlantis Morrisset concert. Actually this is hilarious. And we had
our respective mugs in my cup holder and mine was

(03:58):
a Yetti and hers was a Stanley, and I was
giving her a bunch of shit, and I think I
even took a picture and I posted it on Instagram,
like you know, like people need to like try harder,
like look at look, we're still friends even though we
have these differences or something. Because it was such a
thing of the stupid Stanley cups. So for my birthday
about I don't know a month later, she thought it
would be funny and she gave me this Stanley cup
and now you and then I dropped the yetty so

(04:18):
many times, oh that I have fully kind of messed
it up. And I was like, I got to take
out the Stanley cup, man, and she's like, if you
want to.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
And I even had it.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I just took it out of like the paper and
everything off of it, like almost a year later, because
I was going to like regift it to her and
thought like that would be funn if we just went
back and forth with the Stanley cup for like, yeah,
it's fine.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I love that it's really good. Do we want to
open these fortune cookies? By the way, Ellen likes to
do this.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh before we're going to jumption cookie at my desk.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, let's see you have boxes. I just want to
read the fortunes. Let's see what it says. This is
so boring, Mine is horrible. Mine is really meaningful. It
is yours? Read it? I mean, really, you'll get a
great deal on a major purchase. Is that what it says?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now you time to car and house shop Ryan, Okay,
So mine says listen to this. Your hobby will teach
you the importance of setting and achieving goals.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
That's perfect. Yeah, I love that. I love that too. Okay,
all right, got that out of the way. Let's talk
about why we're here. How we're here? Really? Yeah, and
by here I mean not only here in whoever's ears
is hearing this, but here in the city of Angels. Yes,
who's going first?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
You?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay. Ten years ago April twenty fifteen, had a breakup.
My brother was here doing mornings. Are you're living in
Chicago at the time? I was, yeah, well it was
it was actually it was a kind of a farm
town called Beecher, Illinois. If anyone from the Midwest is listening.
You know, Beecher as a place where not a lot happens,

(05:55):
but I loved it.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
You're dating someone, how long you want to talk about
the break up at all?

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Round? I mean, you know, it just it's so funny.
This was the one relationship and I feel like we've
all had one relationship in our life where the people
in your life don't tell you how much they couldn't
stand the person. Oh it's the worst.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
And then you record, You're like, I knew she was
and you're like, why did you say anything?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I know my parents are like, oh my god, thank
no personality. She was such a dot.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
How long were you guys together?

Speaker 1 (06:26):
I don't know, three years ish something like that. We
got a house, got a house together, and beat it
was it was on like like rented or oh no,
bought and it was a like a six acre. We
had a farm. It was on a farm like chickens.
And I had a lake in the backyard, like not
a lake. It was apposed like a twenty five dollars
purchase in Illinois or what. I'm just chick no, but yeah,

(06:47):
and then every I don't know, I just that's the
one takeaway from that relationship where.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I was like no one, no one told me, no
one for three years and they're all just like, oh,
all right, that's happy. Yeah, And then it's not even
like oh yeah, we didn't really see together. It's like, God,
she had no personality, and it's like, really, oh, I
can't really see you with someone with unless you're like
you know how some people have like all the personality
and they have to date someone with no personality because

(07:12):
they're just so overbearing in the personality that you can't
really be with someone.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
That a relationship though. I will say this though, aside
from being with this apparently terrible person it was the
happiest I think I had ever been in terms of
where I lived. I like my nearest neighbor was a
half mile away. It was just so peaceful. I built
a raised bed garden, I grew corn. I grew squashed.
Do you ever grow squash? Nope? Do you know how

(07:37):
squash does its thing? There's a male plant and a
female plant.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
If the bees don't do what bees do and pollinate,
you have to you have to take the male flower,
and you have to do it before the sun comes up.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
The flower, not the bee. I just want to make
sure I'm not okay, the flower. I have a little
bit of a black thumb, so I'm not totally.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, you have to take the flo and you have
to do it like before the sun comes up. I
guess I don't know why. Oh okay, you probably don't,
but I just did. And you have to really just
you know, simulate intercourse. You have to take the male
flour and put it inside the female flour and really
rub it in there. So these flowers have to fuck
each other. I'm just joking because I know, I'm just kidding.

(08:16):
I guys, I'm just sorry. No, they do, and you
make it happen, and you're just you're you're facilitating it.
So I grew squash and I made I made them
have sex every morning, so you okay, Yeah, we just
leave it there.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
So you and pumpkins I had. That's really it was
a great It was great except the time I fell
out off of a out of a tree like twenty
five feet. Didn't break a bone. You did not break
a bone. No, And I chalk that up to the
amount of milk I used to drink. What do you
mean I would drink like a gallon of milk a day.
No way, Yeah, because a child, uh from like yeah,

(08:50):
like eighteen to mid thirties. Whoa, Yeah, that's not a child,
that's a grown up.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I know.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I And when I went to college, I developed this
weird milk thing. Really but I didn't even love the milk,
you know. It was it was like I would wake
up in the middle of you ever do sleepy You
ever been a sleep eater? No, like, wake up and eat, Yeah,
and you don't even know it till the next morning. No,
oh yeah, sleepwalking What are you talking about? That's a thing.
Sleep eating though you wake up. Oh, it's a thing.
And I guarantee someone listening if you're a fellow sleep eater.

(09:16):
And I'm not anymore. I broke it. I don't know how.
You know the pain of that, because you wake up
and like there's a whole empty cottage cheese thing in
the in the sink, and now it's wild it is. Yeah.
So anyway, this is why I would drink the milk so.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
You'd wake up in the middle that I can drink milk, yes, but.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
In order to prepare my.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Mouth, not like spill it anywhere your no, I would
just drink it right out of the right out of
the thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, so I but in order to prepare my mouth
for the milk, I would need to eat like an
oreo or something. So I would just stand at the
kitchen sink, not knowing and just eat a bunch of cookies.
This is incredible. Yeah, so that's a thing, and I
know someone else can relate. I know it. Please let
me know. Please let us know, guys, because uh yeah, anyway,
I got way off course. I was very happy living
in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Okay, with this no personality check that you're doing.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Really, I mean, I think of us, Yeah, it was
just a n you.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Also, I feel like maybe wouldn't have noticed that so
much if you would a lot going on to take
care of there, you know, the garden and all this stuff.
So I feel like maybe that was a happy distraction.
Maybe you're not aware of the fact that you have
like a basically a blow up all inside with no personality,
you know.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
I mean, I don't know. Is that okay? Okay, So
after that, I just I made the decision to come here,
and it was I'll never forget I pulled it. Was
it a bad breakup. No, no, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Okay, it just uh nothing dramatic or crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
So what did you do? You sold your house? She
she kept it. She's still there. Oh wow. Yeah, So
I just you stay in touch with her? Do not? Okay? No,
but you know she's still there.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I do.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
I think like two years ago, I was like, oh,
I wonder what Laura was doing. So I went and
looked at her Instagram and she still has this dog.
This dog was an asshole. She brought home this dog.
It bit a nun. What Yeah, So her dad owned
an ambulance company and they would go she would like
end up doing. She would go to this nursing home
and these nuns where there was like a Catholic nurse.

(11:09):
It was like some Catholic based nursing home. And they
brought in like what was supposed to be a therapy dog.
But it started biting. Oh, it attacked none. Oh no,
and the nun was like, I can't have this dog.
So one day she came home with this dog. His
name was Prince, and he was not a prince. He
was an asshole and he only loved Prince of darkness. Yeah,
he was an asshole. So I, yeah, it was a

(11:30):
bad situation, come to think of it, and I've never
really reflected on it quite like this until now. I
remember the day I decided and I told my parents
and they were just like, oh my god, my brother
was already here. And as we've discussed we've already discussed
this in previous episodes, the family unit with the Manos
is very tight, and so when I dropped that on them,
it was really hard. The night before I moved, I

(11:50):
remember we had dinner, my dad would just sob just
start crying at the table, and my mom had to
pull them into their bedroom and say, this isn't about you,
you know that type of thing.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
And then the morning the next morning I drove, I
pulled out of the driveway and I'll never forget my
dad just standing there sobbing, and then I just drove.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
I drove in silence, Jay, I drove without.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Without so radio Ryan drives from Illinois to Los Angeles
in total silence the entire time.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I stopped in Oklahoma. Why did you do that?

Speaker 2 (12:19):
If it wasn't a rough breakup, Like what was the
quiet about?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I think the the crux of the the turning point
of what was happening. The magnitude of you were leaving
this life. You know, you were leaving the city that
has basically raised you, that you had a tremendous amount
of you know, fun and success and friends and life

(12:45):
in I mean, Chicago is in my blood. I couldn't
imagine ever leaving.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
You never lived anywhere else, No, okay, I mean Indiana
and Chicago, right, but where where your parents live and
where you're from is so close to the border of
all of those.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
All of the states right there. Yeah, like when I
was back home.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah, So, just in case anyone doesn't know this, last week,
Ryan visited home. You probably if you follow us on
social media, you'd know because he posted a lot of
things about it. But yeah, and so I was like,
I'm confused, are you in the Chicago and you're saying
you're in Indiana? And so then he explained that it's
like a three minute drive or something.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
And then I blew your mind when I was like,
we're going to Michigan for lunch, and I was like what, Like,
I couldn't compute.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
I was like, huh, Michigan, what are you guys gonna
He has a private plane, what's going on over there
at the Manos.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
No, but it's all in that little yeah. But yeah.
So anyway, so I drove in silence. I think that's
where we were. I stopped in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
So you're kind of like it was it was your
own way of giving yourself a minute to kind of
process what you're doing, what you're what's happening right now?
I think so.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, in that silence, I was like I was closing
a chapter and starting to write a chapter. Yeah, And
did you have.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
A job and stuff lined up here when you were
coming here?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
What was your plan? No, you did not know. Well, yes, okay,
so I had been out here a couple months prior
visiting my brother. We had a boss at the time,
he told me, because I was kind of already you
both had a boss at the time. What do you
mean when I started here? Was he was our shared
book Kevin, My brother had a boss at the time.
He was not my boss at this.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Time, right in Los Angeles doing radio. And that's his boss, correct,
And that boss is also your boss.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
He was he became my boss.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I got it right.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
So when I first met him, he said he was
Australia or New Zealand. He would say, he said, come
on out, come out anytime you're ready. I got We'll
find a spot for you.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's awesome. So I was like, great, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
It was, but until it wasn't because then I got here.
It took him at least a month and a half
to call me back. You're just like, oh, hopefully I
can figure it out. Did did you stay with your
brother a little bit?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:47):
I lived with Nicky Glazer for a while in Santa Monica.
Stayed with my brother cow chopping till you figure a
little bit. A little bit. I do remember a day
where I was it was like I didn't have a
place to do long. I remember sitting outside of a
laundromat on one of those big parking blocks, and I
called my dad and I was like, I think I'm
coming home you know where.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
It was like the.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Promised job was not happening.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I was walking dogs.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah wow, you like professionally yeah, paid.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Okay, And I was fine, like I had enough to
get but I wasn't like I was like freaking out.
But I was like, I just I think I made
a mistake. Yeah yeah, but I didn't. And here we
are ten ten years and two months later, and here
we are sitting here with you. Yeah, that was a
weird long story, and I'm really sorry. No, you did
a great job this time of letting you tell it. Yes,

(15:41):
thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I figured no, see, I think because I go on
and on and on, and you don't get to go
on and on and on, and then then you're like, oh,
it's a long story.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I was like, are you kidding? That was not a
long story. That was like a run on sentence for me,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
It was yeah, your turn, Okay, all right, So I
drove out here twenty me.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh god, now I'm gonna cut you off.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
One thing that I did on the way that I
really liked is I drove through Albuquerque, went to all
the breaking bad locations. Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
So wait when you when you drove out here, how
long did it take you?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I stopped twice. I stopped in Oklahoma City and then Flagstaff, Arizona.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
So you came, you came down and over kind of yeah,
pretty much, okay, because that's what I did as well.
So do you remember how many like, how long it
took you? How many days or hours?

Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't know what I think. Three days, three days,
three nights. Yeah, and I pulled in here on my birthday,
April eleventh, twenty fifteen. That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, all right, sorry, no, that's okay, it's great. I'm
actually glad you brought that up. So I lived in
upstate New York at the time. For me, it was upstate.
It was about, I don't know, an hour south of
Albany and you know, another whatever hour or so to
New York City. My family mostly lived in New Jersey.

(16:51):
My mother and sister lived in upstate New York. Also,
I was living with a guy I was dating who
I also worked for. He was twice my age, so
I was twenty twenty one, okay, he was forty two.
And so it was I'm just gonna I'm just gonna

(17:11):
not I'm not gonna tell all that whole thing. But
it was a very, very bad breakup because I put
myself in a situation where I was dependent on him
for everything and I had nowhere to go. I then
decided we had come out here, him and I for
a business trip for some training for He was a
physical therapist and I was kind of like the office

(17:34):
manager and so I came out here for some training
on like marketing and you know whatever, it doesn't matter.
We came to Burbank literally where I am right now,
and I had moved. So I've moved twenty two times.
That's insane, Jay, I've lived in four different states, and
as a kid, we moved every two years. And it's insane.
But it also is what made me out going. I

(17:56):
used to be very shy when I was five, if
you could possibly imagine. But you know, moving that often,
you learn that if you want to make friends, you
need to open your mouth, you know what I mean.
So like going into the lunch room for instance. You know,
like when you remember like a lunch roomhen you walk
in and there's like tables of friends. Yeah yeah, you
know when you walk in and like there's clicks of
people and they're all sitting together, right yeah yeah, Okay,

(18:16):
So that's rough on your first day at school and
you don't know anyone, you don't know where to set,
you don't know, you know what I mean. So I
was like, okay, I need to start you know, being
you know, more outgoing. I can't be shy or I'm
gonna be fucking miserable.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
No, it's fine, you're doing great. Okay, that's a third one.
There was three. Okay, so how how far are we
into this at three? Yes?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh great, great, Okay, that's a very short amount of time,
but fine. So so I became out going because I
moved so much. Doesn't matter. Fast forward to this to
this thing.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Can I go back really quick? I have one question
about this guy, and I know you said you didn't
want to tell the story. Did you start dating him
after you worked for him?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Or was this?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Did? Were you dating and he hired you?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
No, it's a great story, I'll tell it. I was
nineteen and I got I rear ended someone got into
a car accident, and I was prescribed as part of
the accident physical therapy because I had her needed a
disc in my back, And so I worked at a
This is so funny. I worked at this place called

(19:15):
Hudson Valley Power Equipment where that sold chainsaws and snowblowers.
And okay, I've had such crazy jobs and done somebody.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
We should do an episode about jobs later.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
For sometime Sometheah, for sure, we should, because I've worked
in the most random fields.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
So I've never told anyone until just now that I
walked dogs when I got to LA.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
So this is a new bit of information sharing that
that's really cool. Power tools power tools, so power equipment,
that's a difference. So I worked there and right next
door there was a physical therapy office. So I thought, oh,
this is so convenient. I could just go there for
my physical therapy. So I did, and the owner, slash
physical therapist, was going through a separation with his wife

(19:56):
and had a three year old son. And I at
the time, you know, again, I'm what, I'm twenty years old,
I think, and so he's forty, and I don't know
what I was thinking. And he was not even like
not even like really really good looking at it, Like
if you saw a picture, you'd be like, what do
you what do you mean, Jay, what do you mean?
But he was so charming and he had such a

(20:17):
This is one of those like things that I said
I hated, where someone's like, he's not great, but he
has a good personality. So I fell into that trap.
And so I don't know, he just treated me like
no one had ever talked to me like that before,
Like he was just like, you know, gave me all
that attention and sometimes for attention for me, Trump's the
look card, and so it did. And I was also
in a place where I did not feel good about

(20:37):
myself in terms of confidence.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
I was, you know, twenty years old. I was like whatever.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
So so, yeah, so that turned into a thing, and
uh so I started off as his patient, then it
went to a romantic thing, then it went to.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I work for him. Okay, it was really bad.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
It was a lot of things kind of grouped into
one thing. My mom was so upset. I remember her
inviting him over. I was like, you just want you
need to meet him me so nice, like you won't
feel like that, and she was like, you know, one
of those like what are your intentions with my daughter
type type things, and he told her he wanted to
marry me. At some point I was like, what is happening.
I'm twenty years old. So we did not get married.

(21:21):
Spoiler alert. It was one of those things that started
off very very intensely and ended just as intensely, just
as fast as it started. So I had come out
here and going back to that, we're landing, We're flying
over Burbank, We're gonna land at the Burbank airport and

(21:42):
I'm looking down from the airplane window at all of
these like you know, anyone who's flown over Los Angeles
can tell you, Like, I don't know. There's all these
mountains and hills and I'm seeing this for the first time,
and I'm like, I don't This is going to sound
so dumb, But it was the first time in my
life I ever felt like I was home. Really, I

(22:02):
moved so much that no house really felt like, Oh,
I'm so glad to be home, you know. And there
was something about it. I wasn't stepped foot on the
ground yet. I was looking outside and I was like.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh, I really like this place. This feels good. That's interesting.
I had the opposite reaction the first time I came.
I came for the anchorman junket to interview Will Ferrell,
yeah and Steve Carell like, and that was my first
time in LA and I was like, I am never
returning to this hell hole. Wow, I hated it.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Well, it's very different than where you're from. But also
and where you're from, that's true because I we like
an upstate New York. Where I'm from, it's very similar,
you know, huge like houses are on acres of land.
Your neighbor's like, really, it's kind of a similar vibe.
It's not like when people think I say I'm from
New York, They're like, oh, I like it's not the
city at all. Right, So and so anyway, when this happened,

(22:49):
when we broke up, we broke up because and I
don't know why I would be shocked by this, but
he started to do what he did with me with
another patient. And she was thirty five, okay, and you
know she was an older woman compared to me.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
It's so funny that.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Thirty five was an older woman right now that I said,
here at almost forty two years old. Yah. And so
I felt very threatened by that, obviously, and I was
extremely hurt by it because he was sneaking her into
the house while I was there.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
It was just really right, while you were there, yeah,
while you were there? Yeah? And so were you sleeping?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Uh yeah okay, and I woke up, Oh wow, yeah okay.
So I I remember being I remember never feeling his
heart broken as I felt. I remember crying so hard.
I was on the phone with his sister, and then
the first thing out of my mouth was I want
to move to California. I don't even know why I
said it to this day. I just think that's what

(23:43):
came out. And I said, I don't have anywhere to go.
I need three weeks and I will leave and I
will stay in the guest room. I asked im for me,
did she move in wait until I leave in three
weeks to continue on whatever's going on? Yeah, he could not,
and it was a pretty humiliating three weeks. But I.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Sold every what I could.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I had. I even had, like I mentioned in the
last episode, I did like pottery and stuff and something
that he knew I was passionate about at one time.
So he had bought me a wheel and clay and everything,
and that had to stay. A lot of things had
to stay that I just couldn't take because I packed
whatever I couldn't too my Honda Civic and left with
my cat Bella. And I again have said, music is

(24:31):
like I need it. So I listened to so much
music on the way. I drove from New York to
Los Angeles in three days. I drove eighteen hours a
day and slept six hours a night. I was not
into sight seeing or any of it.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, where you stopped.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yes, I stopped in North Carolina because I knew someone
there who had a house party that night, which I
couldn't couldn't tell you much about what happened becuse I
don't remember fun night. And then left the next morning
and stopped.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
God, I stayed it like a Motel six at one point.
It's really rough. Yeah, that's rough. That's like a step
above prison. Oh it was, Yeah, I got it. Can
I tell you something? Yeah? You know our friend Amanda, Yeah, okay,
we went to Stagecoach this year. Yeah, we waited too
long to book. I remember the pictures. Yeah, we waited

(25:23):
too long. And I know Amanda listened to book the
hotel to stay there. Yeah, to book like an Airbnb
or like a proper ye.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yah, yeah, because it's gonna getilled u because there's a
music festivalt yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah yeah. And we're talking like a week and a
half prior. Okay, So the stage Coach reservations are made
typically a year or more.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And I wish we were closer friends then, because you
you guys need like a good planner and I'm a
good planner. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
So anyway, point is we stayed at a Motel six. Oh,
my god, and oh my god, yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah. Oh you want to like shower and battery acid
after you leave a place like that?

Speaker 1 (25:54):
It is that is something. Yeah, that's a thing. Anyway,
So I had a friend with me.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Uh. Part of the story that a lot not a
lot of people know is that a friend with one
of my girlfriends came with me for the first part
of the trip.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
She had a bit of a.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Problem, a bit of an addiction, a pill problem, and
she I didn't quite know that. And we were at
the hotel and she was going through some shit and
like to a point where I she wanted me to
take her to the emergency room retox.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
She needs more.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
She wanted to find somewhere where she could get more.
I don't vico in or something, right, Yeah, And it
was crazy because years prior I worked at a bank
and her and I were there, and I remember I
think I was me I had yeah, I had to
make my wisdom toothpold or something, and they had given
me vic it in and I and I was making
a joke at work about how I was like fucking
three sheets to the wind.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Sorry it's four and uh ah man and so.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
And so I realized on this trip, oh my god,
this started for her back at the bank, which was
like three years prior. But she never like chilled out,
and I was like, I just took it for a
tooth and I don't know what you know what I mean, Like,
so she had to actually come home back to the
East way through the trip and then I finished it
out alone. Now, something interesting to note is that on

(27:15):
my way two crazy things happened. I was driving through
you know, you guys know how like Texas has like
a little top square part right, So it's like I
want to drive through that part because I'll be the
shortest distance across Texas. You know, I don't want to
get into the big body because I'll be in there
for days.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You know, Jay, It's tough.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
I did not.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I cannot. It's brutal.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
So I was like I got to get it was
like forty West. I think I took where it's like
it's like the little and I had a Thomas guide
guys with the little thing.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I just because there was no I didn't have any
of this ways. It was twenty years ago. They didn't
have they had a garment twenty My dad just found
his twenty year old garment, okay, whatever. I didn't have that.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I had a Thomas Guide and so I was like, okay,
and I was looking at that constantly to map out
my trip, which, by the way, learned how to read
a map. Like it's a good it's a good skill
to have, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
For who who's reading?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't know who means to now actually, but it
was good at that time.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
It was a different time.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
First of all, you didn't you moved ten years ago.
This is twenty years ago. I had a flip phone. Okay,
twenty years ago. I don't.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I don't even know. I literally don't think you did.
I'm gonna look this up. I had a flip phoney.
I mean, maybe you just hadn't gotten to the iPhone yet,
but kind of what. I didn't get an iPhone until
I like that was like when I knew I really
made it. You know what I mean? I didn't have iPhones?
What year did GBS come out of searching? So tell
me what you find. I have to I know, I

(28:37):
know that I'm gonna be wrong. That's okay, I'm wrong
a lot. Just try to be right more than I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's that's the idea. No no, no, no, no, this
isn't right. Oh I bet it is right. No no, no, no, no,
no no way.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Okay for cars, hang on, Okay, it's in Japan in
nineteen ninety, doesn't matter. Okay, I was seven, so it's fine.
So I didn't have a GPS for whatever reason. Actually
it doesn't matter. I was also using the Thomas guy
and it has nothing to do with the story. The
point is that I drive to the top Square part
of Texas, yes, and I'm looking out the window and

(29:12):
the sky. It's really nice out, but the sky like
the clouds have like these little they look like dull ups,
like little I don't know how to explain it, like
little pockets, I don't know. And I'm like, that's a
weird cloud. I've never seen a cloud like that. Now,
you guys can understand. Like one of my favorite movies
back then was Twister, and I was like, I want
to be a storm chaser, you know, Like I.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Was like sew into that thought. It was so cool.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
And then I'm driving and I'm looking at this cloud.
And as I'm looking up ahead where I'm driving, it's
just flat. There is nothing for days, you know what
I mean. There's not a hill in site. There's just
nothing like Oklahoma City. I drove it like it's just nothing,
you see, Like it's just insane how flat it is.
I'm driving through this top square part of Texas and
I look ahead and it's black, like I'm driving into darkness.

(29:59):
And I look at my your mirror and it's super sunny,
and so all of a sudden it gets really dark
and it starts raining, and I have my serious excent,
and all of a sudden, like something, the music stops,
and there's a thing about a tornado warning, and I'm like, okay,
I'm gonna be fine, because like animals can sense when
something's wrong. And Bell is in the car with me,
and she's fine. And then I look in my rear
of your mirror and she's sitting up in the back

(30:21):
by the window with like her eyes open wide and
her ears are down.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I was like, oh no, this is not good.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
So I now notice that my car there's only one
eighteen wheeler on the road other than me. Yeah, and
my car is going twenty five miles an hour and
it's just swaying back and forth across the four or
five lanes of the highway, which, by the way, where
I'm from it's called they're called highways, and here you
guys call it them freeways. And that took a long
time for me to say, Yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
We call them. Yeah, we call them expressways in the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah we have yeah, yeah, we have that, but we
say highways usually.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
And don't We don't use the numbers either. We say
like it's like you take the Dan Ryan, like that's
that's it. The steep like here, the one I won,
the five people they call them numbers. Here we just
want by people.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh okay, yeah, okay, it's cool. So I was like, okay,
I have to pull over and find like safety. Yeah,
I don't know, I've never done. And at this point
I pull off the next exit and everything's shut down.
The gas stations are like everyone's underg doing whatever they're doing,
and pill girl's gone, she's gone.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm alone. Okay, I'm alone. And I'm like, I was like,
oh man, it was so great she was here. At
least I have a good time, you know.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
So I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna have to
just drive through this thing and hope that I can
I don't know, beat it, get through. I don't know,
I don't know what we're doing. And now I'm on
the road and I'm swaying back and forth and it's hailing,
and I'm going out loud in my car and the
music's back on. It keeps getting interrupted for the thing,
and I'm.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Just like, I was just kidding.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
I don't want to be a storm chaser, Like I
was like totally scared.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Shitless, Like I was like, oh my God, beating with God.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, you know, I was like, any Jesus, I don't know,
it's gonna go crazy. Thing. So I yeah, you know,
like you start praying it's a whole thing. So then
I get through. So all of a sudden, as I'm driving,
I see this little circle at the end of the
highway of light and I was like, I've either died
and this is a light that everyone talks about, right
or or it's the storm is done, you know. I mean,

(32:13):
we're really hoping for the latter, you know what I mean.
So I'm like, Okay, we're just going to keep powering through.
And so I drove and you don't understand, guys, like
the barriers to me leaving New York and coming out
here to five days before I left, there's a lot
of deer in upstate New York. Like people would hit
deer all the time. Wait, I know you have a story.
I could see it in your face. Five days before

(32:34):
I was leaving, I did not hit a deer. Wait oka, wait,
wait wait. We had a fence, a bunch of deer
heard of one. A little family jumped over the fence
and won. Because, by the way, guys, deer as beautiful
as there the dumbest animals on the planet, jumped into
the hood of my car, ruined the hood of my car,
and then scared the crap out of itself and shit

(32:56):
all over the side of my car.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I go outside.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
There's toughs of deer hair stuck in like the hood,
and then there's deer shit on the side of the car.
The police come. They do think it's called a no
fault thing. And this happens, guys in like place is
where there's nature, which is not here in Los Angeles.
If something like that happens, your insurance has a thing
called no fault where they just pay for the repairs
because it's not your fault.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
It's like an act of whatever deer. So so she
goes looking for the deer, this lady, this cop, and
I'm like, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
And she's like, I said, they're fine, they're fine, Like
it went off into the sunset somewhere. Don't worry about it.
So she goes, well, it's going to take ten days
to get the check to fixed car. I'm like, not
fixing the car. Then, so as I'm driving, I could
see deer hair like flapping in the breeze, off the
like off the headlight of my car.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I was like, I'm leaving in five days.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
I don't care. Nothing's stopping me. So I left like
that the headlight.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Go ahead. Tell your dear story before I finished. The
night before I moved. The night before I was getting
some stuff or taking some stuff to a storage space,
but I used I was using my mom's car because
it was bigger than mine. Huh. And you've I think
I've sent you when I was back home, I sent
you videos of like these country roads. Oh yeah in Indiana.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Dark, not a light, Oh yeah, you can't see nothing.
You got to look for those glowing eyes.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Night before crushed the deer, deer hair all over my
mom's car. No way tofts of deer hair? Same Jay,
what right?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
That's crazy?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
It is crazy.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
We need the same page ting. It is crazy podcast.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
We do need a same page ging. We can have
that made, okay. But here's the thing. My parents were
so sad that I didn't want to pile on.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
So it was it was on.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
It was on the right side where and I was
parked in the driveway that and I knew my mom
was going to work she wouldn't see it when she
came out. So when I got to Oklahoma City that night,
I did you use your car to drive to drive
to drop off stuff at the storage, you know, but
not to drive here?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
No, usay, okay, okay. So I called them when I
got to Oklahoma City and I said, I hate to
make this day worse. I didn't want to tell you
last night or this morning.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Wait, you've already left your Oh I was in Oklahoma,
you're en route, and now you're calling going say go
out to check the right front of your deer hair
and your car is to add insult to injury. So
you've lost both your sons. And also you gotta get
your car, fex, I.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Saw the deer run away. Yeah, of course I do. There.
So anyway, that's weird that we both had hit that.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Is insane, like days before we were leaving.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
That's so funny. So yours was the night before. Huh
night before? It's wild. Okay, So so that happened.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I drive through this storm, all of a sudden it
clears up and it's beautiful out. I'm like, thank god, right,
I got through that. I'm like f Texas, you know,
So I made it out here. Now. Now here's the
second crazy thing that happened.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I guess third.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
At this point, I had been in touch with a
woman who had this like really big house on Franklin
Avenue in Hollywood that she kind of rented rooms to people.
And I didn't really know anyone out here except for
the consulting company that we came out to do that
training with when I worked, right, that was the only
because that's the only time I ever came out to
her bank. They had a convention in Arizona the year before,

(35:58):
and I was hoping that they would remember me because
they're the only people that I know. Right, So I'm
in touch with this lady she has my room ready,
and I'm telling her like my eta. So I get
to Hollywood and I parked the car and I get
out to stretch my legs because I've been in the
car for such a long time. And I'm standing on
Kermit the Frog Star. Yes, I will never forget this day.

(36:20):
It's like it happened yesterday. And I call her and
I go I'm here, and she says, I'm so sorry
I had to give your room away. And now I'm
in Hollywood with my cat on Kermit the Frog Star
with nowhere to go now. When I left and when
I told my family I was going to move here,

(36:40):
my aunt and uncle were My aunt mostly was very upset.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
She's like, no, no, you can't.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
You're being crazy. You're just upset because you went through
a breakup.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
That don't do this. Da da dada da. My mom.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I drove from my mom's house. She made me breakfast
that morning, and I left. I looked at my rooview
mirror and she was standing in the driveway crying as
I left, and I was okay.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Until I left familiar roads. Yep.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Then I was like, oh, I'm doing this, you know
what I mean? Like like I knew all the highways
over there, all the roads, all the thing, and then
I left my familiar footing and I was like, Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
We're driving across the country.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
This is crazy. One thing my aunt told me when
she came to her version of terms with me actually
leaving was that you know, try it for a year.
If you don't like it, just come back. And I
was like okay, and that was kind of my like
thing that I hung on to. I was like, Okay,
I'm just going to try it for a year. So
I get out here and I have nowhere to go,
and I'm like, oh god, what am I going to do?
You know? You know what I'll do is I'll call

(37:34):
our like guy, like our account manager from that company
and see if he remembers me.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
His name is Tim.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
So I called him and he's like, hey, Jay, what's
going on? Like he knewho I was because he would
he would do calls with us like every whatever. And
so I was like, hey Tim, I was like, so
I moved to Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
He's like you did. When I was like just a
couple of minutes ago, just got.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Here, just arrived. I haven't showered, and like I need
some okay. So I'm like I, uh yeah, So I'm
here and I was supposed to stay at this like
Franklin House whatever it was called, and they gave my
room away.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Now, guys, you have to understand something. I am twenty one.
I left.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
New York with six hundred dollars and somehow arrived with
three hundred dollars. I slept in my car one night.
I stayed at that friend's house in North Carolina. I
had to play like seven cents for the motel six
night because that's not that's not a Ritz Carlton, you know.
And so when I when I arrived, I saw the
three hundred dollars. But this is not because like I
did give her I think like one hundred and fifty

(38:38):
dollars and age. Then I'm just gonna figure it out.
I always figure it out, right. Yeah. So he's like, oh, Jay,
you come stay at my condo. My daughter's out of tet.
You could stay at my daughter's room. And I was like, uh, tim,
I only have like three hundred bucks, Like I don't
even have a job lined up. He's like, hang on
a second.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
So there was a man. He's still this is a
really cool story.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
No, no, okay, you just it's just such a sweet story,
and you effed it up with that.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
There was a I was like, I know how I
can get a place to stay. Watch me do this.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
So so no, so the two people that owned that company,
their names were actually Harvey, but he since passed away,
of course, and the other one's name was Craig. And
I got Tim got them on the phone and I said,
I don't know if you guys remember me from the
convention in Arizona, because Tim I talked all the time,
but not them. But I I'm here in Los Angeles

(39:40):
and I am very I could do anything, like I'm
a quick learner, like you can put me at the
I'll be a receptionist.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I'm a people person like, but I could do. I'll
do whatever you guys want me to do, like if
you have a job or any position there that I
can that I can work in. And they said, oh,
oh yeah, we remember you. Of course remember you.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Most people do.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
And they were like, we will create a position for
you because they didn't have anything about ry and they
did great, and they remember me because in Arizona at
the convention, I was they had like their big party
night or whatever, and I may have had a couple
of a couple of you know, adult beverages, and I

(40:19):
was apparently standing up and did a whole comedy show.
This is before I even realized or dabbled in comedy
at all. But I was standing in front of everyone
and I was like putting on this whole whatever, give
me attention speech. I don't know, I have no idea
what I was talking about or whatever, but apparently it
was very funny. Everyone remembered who I was and it
was that moment that they went like, oh, yeah, no, no,
she'll be great like well, and so thank god I

(40:40):
did that, and they did. They created a position for
me where I worked there. I worked there for a
long time, and they became like the people, like the
dads that took me under their wing.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Craig was an ordained minister and married Clark and I.
That's how long that relationship lasted. And it was really beautiful.
It was a really beautiful kind of thing. Tim let
me stay with him for a long time. I eventually started,
you know, paying some rent. Once I got you know,
I started to get on my feet a bit more,
and then I stayed with a friend of mine, like,
and I just figured it out, you know. And so

(41:19):
that was kind of the story I guess of how
I came out here and it was wild, and a
year later I was like, I don't ever want to
go back.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
I love it here.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, And seeing that I could do that on my own,
you know, and I figured it out and I made
it happen. It isn't it crazy how we all, like people,
I think, don't give ourselves as people, just the general
people enough credit for getting through things. They don't innately
like you have such a drive to survive and make

(41:50):
it go right, you know what I mean, Like just
push through anything and figure it out. And you don't
really know because most people are not pushing themselves.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Not enough, you know what I mean. Like, no, so
you don't, so then they end.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Up you don't know how we're capable of until you're
in a crazy situation. You're like, you don't have to
be in a crazy situation. Just push yourself a little
harder each day and you'll, you know, very pleasantly surprise
yourself and jesse of who you are. Yep, it's pretty beautiful.
So so yeah, that was that's great, that was my story.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I'm glad you so you brought up this thing, and
it kind of just made me think about some other
things that you know, and anyone that's moved, and you've
moved twenty two times, which is a lot, but there's
always a lot to acclimate to mm hmmm when you move. Maybe.
I don't know if you have any off the top
of your head, but I'll tell you a couple of mine.
When I first got to LA, just really California police

(42:36):
chases being shown on TV. Didn't know that was a thing,
I thought, because I remember I was in Baltimore when
the O. J. Simpson police chase happened, and I was like, Okay,
this is big news. I didn't know they show every
police chase.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah, that's another day in Los Angeles. Yeah yeah, that's crazy.
It was crazy. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, Also, I have
an idea for a TV show. I might have told
you this, I don't know, but it's called after the Chase.
No one does it. I want to know what happened
that morning to make that man steal that car and
oh yeah, I need a follow up that we just
watch it. We get it. So investment.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
What happens now, Yeah, so what happened is this person
in prison? What were they having a bad day? Did
like what occurred totally? What was going through their mind?
Did they think they would get away?

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I would love that.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
I need that stuff like that. Yeah, so no one
steal that idea because it's on record right now, trademark.
It's definitely okay, you better do something police chase. Also,
I'll never forget the first time I saw in the
news Malibu was on fire.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was like, I called my parents. I was like, guys,
I don't know what's happening, but Malibu is burned. I
mean I think I'm okay, you know, And it's like
that was a trip to get used to where like okay, okay,
now it's just you know, every so often, you know,
maybe weekly you see like oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
It's all the time. And I don't, like, I don't understand. Okay,
I grew up in a really small town. Like if
I go back there right now, twenty years later, like
the same guy who's going to be leaning up against
the mart at the gas station with a cigarette his
met like I know the deal, you know what I mean?
And I knew that if I didn't leave there, I
was going to end up like marriage to the local
landscaper and that was not gonna be my life. And
I was like, nope, I want more. So, like, I

(44:03):
I think that I'm serious. His name was Chris so
so so I think that, like, you know, you're in
a bubble a little bit when you live in a
small town, right, Like I dated a guy named Billy.
His uncle was the sheriff of that town, and the
craziest thing that happened.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
We're like whatever.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Also, God, I heard this recently, which is insane. You know,
there's this whole like thing with like fentanyl poisoning right
in my kids and people kids using it. And so
apparently the capital of where that hole came from is
Hudson Valley, where I lived. Really yeah, and I have
a time, I know, and I have a friend who
like is in recovery for I think like five years now,

(44:45):
and she's done so much to like help that area,
and it's so beautiful, it's so great. But my point
is is that in areas like that, also like you're bored.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
There's nothing to do.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
So one thing I loved about being here is that
there's always something to do for me as a teenager.
I remember, like, I guess, I don't want to bring
me to the mall. And there's only so many times
you go to the mall. You're a team, you have
no money, you're like walking around.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Honestly, that's why I think so many there's like so
many like young pregnancies and meth like you, That's.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
What I mean. Stuff you're bored, become a cop, you
get knocked up, or you cook meth. That's right, you
sell it or you sell it. There's four jobs. Yeah,
or you're a landscaper. Okay, uh so yeah, I think culturally.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
For sure like that. Yeah, and all the a lot
of helicopters. Helicopters.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
My god, the helicopter phone yesterday and I was like,
what's going on? You're the helicopter. Yeah, you know at
your house. You're like, what, it's constant.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
I didn't have. There was nothing like that.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I don't think I saw a helicopter in reelect once.
So we got here to be honest, like in real
life of.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
The A Team or something. Yeah, yeah that show. Okay,
another one that I just thought of, mattresses on the sidewalk. Oh,
my god, can we not toilets?

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Toilets?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Jay, mattresses and toilets? There has to be a better
way there. Now, here's it.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
I understand that you have to create like a special
pickup for this, Okay, right, like a Christmas tree. You
gotta felt the thing and they come and they get it.
But I'm going, like, why are we getting rid of
all these beds? What's happening there?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (46:11):
It is an inordinate amount of mattresses very often? What
is happening to LA's mattresses?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
And then I'm going, are they murders? And then that's
why there's a helicopters? Are they're all connected?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
The police chases? Are they looking for the guy that
stabbed it on the bed and that's a mattress? Yeah,
he's like, I'm just gonna toss his mattress.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
It doesn't it seem like a lot of getting rid
of evidence? One hundred? It's too many mattresses. The toilet's okay, fine,
you know what I mean? Fine? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I don't see as many toilets as I see constresses,
j and couches. Oh my god, it's a high turn
it is Ashley's furniture non stop from block to block
around here. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Okay, uh, this is fun. Okay, a couple more. What
did you guys call soft drinks in New York?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
I called them soda, but my grandmother called them something else?

Speaker 1 (47:02):
What pop? Pop? I hated it. No, you were Midwest?
Was pop? Oh? When I came out here the first
time I said pop, I was like, it's somebody though.
You're talking about you grandfather record scratch, Like, what did
you just say? You see you have to adjust to soda.
That was a tough one. Earthquakes, Oh, oh my god. Wait.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
By the way, anytime there's a fire an earthquake, which
is like what a lot often right, especially in the
summer to this day, I'll get a call you guys, okay,
text your everything. Okay, because my so, my mom moved
out here, but like my her family that's in Jersey.
Every time they see something like are you guys all right?
Mm hmm, like they think we have protesters outside of
our front door, I'm like, no, this is all like
usually in downtown this We don't live in downtown.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
I have to explain yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Same, yeah, same, it's the concept of where these things
are occurring versus our locality. Yeah, because we're from smaller areas,
so like people don't realize that are from there. Los
Angeles has a billion towns and cities in it, you
know what I mean. Like it's right because it's like
a weird thing. But where we're from, it's like where
I lived, like that county was like three towns and
that was it like that, you know, it was like

(48:04):
a different It's just a different beast.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Okay, last one for me, And do you have any
by the way, I feel like I'm hogging all of these.
I know you're doing great. Okay, this is the last one.
And just like I want to fix the mattress and
the toilet and the couch problem. This is another thing
that we really have to tackle here in LA. And
if you're not in LA, and you may have a solution.
This is this is all inclusive. Yeah, please send them.
I don't know about you. Do you like Chinese food?
Not here? Thank you? So it's awful. What are we doing?

(48:30):
I don't have could be enough Asians here? Hang on.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
First of all, guys, I need everyone to under Chinese
doesn't live in Los Angeles they actually have like these
Chinese buffets here, which I'm calling bullshit on because on
the East Coast they have these things. You go and
you pay like twenty six dollars, you can eat whatever
the hell you want, right, and so the food tastes different,
like it's so flavorful on the East Coast, Chinese food
specific right here, everything no matter what Chinese place you

(48:57):
go to, no matter what you order, taste the same.
It has this underlying bland. I don't know if it's
I don't know what it is. It's like a Okay,
if anyone's ever worked in the restaurant industry or bent
have you no ever?

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Have you ever been in like a kitchen at a restaurant. No,
I've never done. I've never done any restaurant. Have you
ever gone to a fucking bonfire? I've been to a bonfire?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Okay? You know when you leave, how your clothes smell. Yes,
you know when you live, how your cloth smell. Sometimes
if you go somewhere to eat, that's like a little
bit greasy, yes, okay, this is how that's what it
tastes like. Yes, all the Chinese food your taste like that?
If that if that scent had a flavor. That is
Los Angeles's Chinese food across the board. Ye, please send
me suggestions on it and don't be like PF changs,
Like give me a good hole in the wall place
from New York that like when I go home, like

(49:39):
I need Chinese food. I just need Chinese food. Another
thing I have on that And I know why this is.
I found out why this is pizza and bagels.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Oh is better where we're from because of the water.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Because of the water allegedly, and I don't know if
this is true, apparently Larry King had a bagel place
in Los Angeles where he would get the water shipped
from the East coast. Really and I need to find
out a that's true where it is?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
And I need to eat a bagel folk Okay, they
just opened an H and H Bagel in Santa Monica,
which is like the best bagel in New York in Midtown.
It's so good. I can't, I can't, I know going
back to the Chinese to no, it's it's great. But
this is my plea. I just I need an egg
roll that is not a thin little what is that?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Like? I want.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Want I want to my hand. I want a thick
one rolls with girth. That's what you need. Yeah, last
j can't pardon us, okay, last one children can say,
I know, it's fine, it's fine. That was six f
f words by the way, all right, So what's the

(50:42):
next thing. This is the last thing. And this this
isn't even a it isn't even a cultural thing. But
I was talking to you last week and I go,
I'm picking up my brother at the airport. We did
this whole thing for my dad, surprising my dad. And
I go, I'm gonna wait the cell phone lot. And
You're like, what what what is this?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
And yeah, he goes, I'm waiting, gonna wait a cell
phone lot.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
And I go, what's up?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
And he goes, it's just like a lot that you
you pull into, like when you're waiting for someone to land.
I go, oh, yeah, yeah, like on the side of
the thing. I know what you're talking about. No, wait,
and then he sends me a photo. He sends me
a photo and it actually says in the pit, let
me see if I can find it, says cell phone lot.
It's a designated parking lot for you to sit and
be on your phone. I said, I've never seen anything

(51:21):
like this before in my life.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
This is amazing.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
I thought you might just pull over, like, oh, I'm
an lax. There's like a marriout on that. I'm just
going to kind of chill out there, let me know.
In you're I'm gonna keep circling around. No now, Nope,
there's a designated spot for this.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
And the title on the sign is cell phone Long,
cell Phone Lot. It's called that. Yeah. Oh my god's fascinating. Yeah.
I thought that was really cool. All right, let's go.
We done? Are you done? Yeah? I'm good. I'm good
on this one. This was good.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Okay. We told our stories about how we arrived. You know,
I hope you guys all enjoyed it, all of our listeners.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
You know, what do you think? Are you done? Do
you have anything else? I think I covered it. I
got a lot off my chest today, so especially in
that last fIF teen minutes right there, I just I
feel really good about the Chinese food, right and the
damn toilets and couches. That's a lot. Yeah, I feel
like we did.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
We did it.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
It was a good venting sash.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
It was okay, good, all right, guys, Well if your
heartbroken lost, are just driving west with no plan.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
We've been there somehow, we made it out with stories
in a podcast. Thanks for riding with us, Catch you
next time, and remember say it anyway