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#52: Mind the Gap!
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#52 Mind the Gap!
The Fresh Prince doesn’t want to share Jessica with the rest of the family. Friendship is a two way street people, so check-in on a friend today. At our age, we need hobbies, so Jessica has taken up some serious sewing as she gets ready for a future at The Villages in Flo-Ridaaaaa. Francis is still in disbelief at the woman who parked her car on Fifth Avenue and fell down a manhole right in front of Cartier. Sadly, the Maine Nordiques junior team has been mismanaged into bankruptcy - wah wah wah.
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Transcript
Introduction and Agenda
00:00:02
Speaker
From a makeshift recording studio in Brooklyn, welcome to The Grocery Stick with Jessica and Francis. Shut the front door. That is not what we agreed upon. Francis and Jessica. Meh, ignore that.
00:00:13
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We're Brooklynites and friends. We're here to talk, laugh, commiserate, and argue about all things travel sports-related, kid-related, and plain old life-related. It's Francis and Jessica, or I quit.
00:00:23
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Shh. I'll check past. Ready to record. who I wish every physical was like that. Every visit was like that. Oh, yeah.
00:00:33
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Big time. Big time.
Dog Dynamics and Family Tension
00:00:36
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Okay. So did you walk dogs this morning? I did. i walked them both separately this morning. How's the Fresh Prince?
00:00:45
Speaker
He's good. yeah He's good. He got little. Brozac's working? Yeah. He got a little moody with Ruthie last night. He like kind of climbed onto my lap and like growled at her as she was entering the room because he's a little bit like weirdly possessive.
00:00:57
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And I think it's actually because she's really the most needy out of everybody. So she's all over me more. feel like than everybody else. And the dog can sense that. Yeah. And she and I have had some real like ah tension.
00:01:10
Speaker
Oh, right. Over the past some recent dustops couple months, so which coincides with his arrival more or less. Yes. See? yeah Yeah. So maybe, you know, he sees her as a threat to his happiness. Yeah. Which he is. You know, she's not. but Maybe she she she sees him as a threat to her happiness.
00:01:34
Speaker
Yeah, I don't. It's it's kind of interesting. she definitely long I think she definitely occasionally sees him as a threat, but definitely not her happiness. I mean, by extension, maybe her happiness.
00:01:46
Speaker
But I've got it under control. I just, you know, when I'm here, it's just when I'm not here, I get a little like. What the hell? But I think that when I'm not here, there's no issue because I'm the problem.
00:01:58
Speaker
Right. You're like, I'm like the Taylor Swift song. I'm the problem. It's me. Like, it's me. I'm the problem. That's the sound. If you clickbait for our podcast, but I am the problem. Yeah, I'm the problem. So if I'm not around, you know, everything is copacetic. Everything runs smoothly. He's interesting. Perfectly fine with everybody. Okay.
00:02:17
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm definitely the problem. And I saw it happening yesterday because I was sitting on the couch. He was on the couch. She walks in. He growls. This is like been going on. If I'm not in the room, it's normally fine. interesting. But he inched over and basically sat across my lap.
00:02:32
Speaker
Wow. And growled. And I was like, oh, shit. Damn. So like I moved him and I got up and I was surprised. Yeah, I thought doing that whole training thing where you like, if he does that, you like leave the room or something? and Yeah, normally I do, but it's like I wasn't paying enough attention. know, she's, yeah she bounces around. It's hard to keep track. And I'm not, you know, alert a hundred percent of the time, yeah then, you know, there's a possibility of incident. But, you know, she just, I've given instructions a million times, a million and a half times really. He hasn't bitten anyone. No.
00:03:06
Speaker
Oh, that's good. No, but it's, you know, it's like a warning. It's like a, it's like a don't fuck with me warning. I don't, but nobody's going to fuck with them.
Relationship Challenges and Humor
00:03:15
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Nobody's messing with them. Right. You know, and the thing is, is, you know, like I said, I'm the problem.
00:03:22
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So if I subtract myself from the equation, there's no problem. That might have to be the title of this episode. I'm the problem, it's me. 52. 52. Episode 52.
00:03:34
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Jessica is the problem. ah But that's true, I think, for a lot of things, for lot actually. lot of things. Yeah. Yeah. You know what it is? Online internet arguments. Yeah. That and like some interpersonal stuff, you know, like with people who are acquaintances yeah that, you know, maybe I thought at some point could have been like friend. Yeah. Yeah. um But, you know, it's like after turning 50. Yeah. I just don't have the bandwidth for it anymore. It's like either. might tuck that back pocket one day. Jessica, you're the problem. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, you know, look, either, you know, I mean, I know I just shifted, but it's like either you want to be my friend or you
Expectations in Friendships
00:04:12
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don't.
00:04:12
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If you want to be my acquaintance, that's okay. But, you know, like reciprocity for me in friendships is a really big deal. Yeah, and sure. I am currently in a, you know, season of my life where it's like, I'll make an investment, I'll make an investment, I'll make an investment.
00:04:28
Speaker
And then I'm kind of like, if there's no return on said investment, no reciprocity, right? Like, yeah. Like I check in with you and I check in on your kid when I know things are bad. Yeah. You know, i shouldn't have expectations, but my hope would be that in return, if that was the situation that you would check in. Friendships have to be a two-way street. Right. And then like they don't check in. yeah Like there's, this is a very specific story, by the way. I don't know if you've garnered that yet. Yeah.
00:04:59
Speaker
Like I'm trying to be pragmatic and not, you know, not put anybody under a magnifying glass or in the spotlight. sure But, um you know, there was a situation where, you know, there was a fallout between our kids. yeah And um before that, they they have a child who had some stuff happening. Okay. And I don't even know that child. yeah And, you know, but I really like the parents. And so I would check in, I would check in, I would check in. Not because, you know, and I would say, like, I'm not trying to be nosy. I'm just checking and yeah how things are. yeah everybody, how's everybody doing? Is everybody okay? You know, whatever. yeah
00:05:39
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And, you know, I would get long responses and we would talk and then we would see each other in person and we would talk. And then, um you know, there are a couple invitations for them to, you know, come hang out. um All of which, you know, were either like, you know, we can't sorry or, you know, I got to get back to you and never get back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah And so at a certain point when like the fallout happened,
00:06:07
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You know, my kid went missing basically from their so from their, you know, atmosphere. OK. like my kid was frequently in the atmosphere. I mean, like prolifically in the atmosphere. sure And then the kid disappears. Yeah. Right.
00:06:23
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Five months. OK. Not a single text. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Saying, hey, I noticed so-and-so is missing. Yeah. Or hasn't been around. Is everything okay? Right. Or I know everything's not okay. I just wanted to check in and see how your kid's doing.
00:06:40
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Right. But there was none of that. None of that. So I go to this event with that child about two weeks ago. Okay. Weekends ago. Yeah. Knowing that this other family was going to be there. Right. Right. But, you know, it's like I, you know, look, I was very close to the kid and I said, you know, I told my kid that I would be warm and receptive. Yeah. I mean, I would be friendly. Yeah. Not not warm. Don't ask me to be warm. Warm is a stretch for me anyway. Yeah. Like, you know, there's a lot of conditioning that went into me being warmer. Right. Like, yeah, whatever.
00:07:22
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And so, you know, I was there, saw said kid, said hello. Yeah. My distance kept it moving. Like, don't need to have a conversation. You're not going to like what I have to say anyway.
00:07:34
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So I'm not saying a word. Yeah. And then I was talking to ah some people that I know, you know, like in an in-depth conversation, laughing, whatever. yeah And this other kid's parent, this person's parent, who i had at some point, you know, thought we would be friends, came over right into the middle of the conversation, threw said arms around my neck, gave me a huge hug, squealing hello. Super excited to see me. and so I, you know, when the hug was over, I said hi.
00:08:07
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You know, I think I may have said like, hey, how are you? like Something like that. Okay. But didn't go out of my way to introduce anybody that was in the circle. I mean, I was in the middle of a conversation that was like wildly interrupted with like this like insane burst of energy that I thought was pretty manic. actually Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:25
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And like I just kind of stood there looking at this person, you know, like, what do you have to say? Like, say something. Don't come and hug me. emphatically and then like stand there looking at me to start some kind of like extra conversation. Right.
00:08:44
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And so you know, we continue talking while this person was there and then this person like walked away. Yeah. and i yeah And I was just like, what a strange, you know some people just plastic you that way. It's like some people just like to not be not very deep in social butterfly for lack of a better word, just like, you know hop around and, and, yeah and yeah. And, and I, and I felt okay about that yeah yeah until like, you know, until I had a realization about the no check-in thing.
00:09:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Which was, you know, you don't need to check in with me. This isn't about me. Yeah. So it's not about you being my friend. Yeah. But I genuinely thought that you dug my kid. Yeah.
00:09:29
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And so if the situation were reversed. Yeah. I would have at least reached out via text once to say, hey, i know what's going on. You don't don't tell any of the kids that I contacted you.
00:09:43
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But I just wanted to check in and see how everything is. Yeah. Right. And so when that's not to be devil's advocate, but it's not people awkward. Like they don't know what to say. Some people are like, oh, I'm not getting in my kid's business. But it's like it's not in your kid's business.
00:09:55
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Yeah. It's not. It's not in my kid's business to reach out to me as the adult to say, hey, i know what's going on. I know it's shitty. i just wanted to check in Don't tell. Don't tell any of them that we talked. And I would be like, yeah, no problem.
00:10:09
Speaker
Nobody needs to know anything. yeah But then it would alleviate in my head that my kid you know was still you know at some point adored by these people now I kind of look at it and I'm like well you really don't fucking care do you right like you actually i don't I actually don't understand the degree to anything that you give a shit about anybody other than your own people so but yeah so anyway this all came to a head because the kids made up okay yeah a okay which was fine okay knock yourself out that's good no
00:10:42
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Sure, for them.
Adult Friendships and Superficiality
00:10:45
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Yeah, exactly. But I mean, the addendum to that is the stress in my house over five months, right you know, is still extremely fresh and the repercussions and the reverberations from that are very firmly set in place that now I still need to deal with for the foreseeable future.
00:11:05
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And I'm not saying that it's that kid's fault or my kid's fault necessarily in its entirety. There's like obvious some emotional instability there. um But yeah, I don't like I'm just kind of like whatever.
00:11:21
Speaker
Like whatever. ah Because friendships are fucking weird. They can be. I mean, ebbs and flows. I guess I'm always like, hey, for the most part, I'm very skeptical of most people. And then if someone surprises me on the upside, I'm like, this is a true friend, like this person. yeah but you have a lot of friends. No, but it's kind of like,
00:11:43
Speaker
You know, it's kind of like when you, I tell most people like, wait hey, like i look I worked in the investment bank for 20 years, all these people and it's like, and it's convenient, we're all the same company, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah blah like, listen, I ran, just before i left, I ran like 800 people, right? That's a lot of people. Many people that you promoted,
00:12:03
Speaker
paid 3, 4, 5x before you joined and you valued them. and And it's easy, i tell a lot of managers, it's easy to fall into a trap where you think that these people care about you, they're your friend. and They don't give a shit. I mean, maybe it's too cynical to honest. They don't give a shit. They just care that you They're sucking up to you. right You're the boss. You're the gateway. Can I hang out with you? Make you feel good? I'm like, listen, whatever. And as soon as you leave, like they'll forget you were there two weeks later.
00:12:33
Speaker
And it's okay. And I'm like, that's totally fine. And then one or two people will surprise you. And they're like, hey, dude. And you know like for me, like I left that company 2016. Yeah. It's been 10 freaking years. Yeah. A decade. And there's like a handful people like you are still friends to reach out. like, there you go. Those are the true friends and everyone else. Go fuck yourself. Right. but we Right. Well, that's but that's kind of that's kind of exactly kind of sort of what I'm saying.
00:12:58
Speaker
Yeah. Right. And I'm like, so so to me, I tell my kids, hey, listen, yeah you be nice to people, do whatever you want to do If you are going to expect some type of reciprocation, sure, that's natural. But people disappoint you and don't take it too hard. and you know You know what? It's kind of like, you know, when you see people, but TV or real life, winner it's like, you know, they broke up with me and I'm trying to win them back. I'm like, why?
00:13:24
Speaker
Right. Well, that's exactly it. I'm like, what are you doing? This person doesn't want be with fucking Why is your whole wrapped into, like, this person liking you? Right. Well, so, okay. So, and maybe that makes us both sociopaths because, like, that's kind of been the philosophy and the tack that I've taken pretty much my whole life. Like, you know, if you, if, if you don't want to be in contact with me, like, unless like out of sight, out of mind, yeah yeah yeah then like, why would I, why would I put any effort? And it, and this particular thing is extremely out of sight, out of mind.
00:14:00
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Yeah. Right. Like, it's just like, like the beyond. And, but you know, it's at a certain point, you know, you have think lot of those people that you put effort into, let's say a friendship and they don't,
00:14:14
Speaker
put the same kind of effort into it. Yeah. I think lot of people don't even realize it. Like they're so into themselves in their own life. Right. Maybe, i don't know. I don't think narcissistic is the right word, but.
00:14:25
Speaker
Self-involved works. Just self-involved, right? It's just, they're just so in their own world. Yeah. That they don't even know. And I bet you have someone on a third party said, Hey dude, or lady, you know, you're doing this X, Y, Z and you're not really
Finding Community through Hobbies
00:14:38
Speaker
holding up your end of the bargain they'd be like oh my god fuck but again like but a lot of it's right it's not right a lot of it our job is to do that no but a lot of it's trite right like you run into people and they're like oh my god we should get together and last time i said let's do lunch right thing right do lunch and then they don't call but it's like oh let's get together and it's like uh sure i'll be waiting by the phone
00:15:05
Speaker
No, i just I'm just like, sure. yeah and then I just move on. Right. I mean, but I've started to put people on the spot when they say it. Oh, because now i' I'm all about the accountability. Oh, yeah. I'm like, take out my phone because it's in my pocket. My calendar is in my pocket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's literally no reason to not put a date on the calendar when someone says to you, let's grab lunch. Let's get together. Let's have coffee. Let's go for a while. Okay.
00:15:28
Speaker
All right, great. Let's do that. Let's put a date on the calendar right now. Let's do that. I think by now in our old or middle old age, we know who the people are. And you know the signs of when you meet somebody ah where they're genuinely interested in being friends and we'll call you. Yeah. Or they won't.
00:15:47
Speaker
And the thing is like we're old enough to not be foolish enough to hope like how it's going to happen. like Whatever, dude. I often feel. You got shit to do. It happens or doesn't happen. Well, I often feel at my age, it's not out of friendship. It's out of some other reason, whether it's business connection, a connection I can make to somebody else. Yeah. yeah a hobby Right. Like something that like something that has a ah foundation for that call or that connect. Yep.
00:16:19
Speaker
And it's very rarely. Oh, my God, I think you're amazing. Let's be friends. friends Yeah. Yeah. Right. yeah like That's a very elementary school. Yeah. um Mentality. Right. Right. Oh, my God, you're amazing. I'm having I'm elated to be with you. Let's be friends.
00:16:33
Speaker
I don't get that as an adult. A pick me girl. Yeah, you know, i guess I guess. No, me no, because I'm so easily content to go find something else to do. yeah Well, that's hey. And, you know, actualization. just Yeah.
00:16:51
Speaker
I mean, i so I've taken up sewing like, ah you know, it's I've been dabbling yeah for many, many, many years. Right. i've Like I've bought machines. I have machines. I have a vast, obsessive collection of fabric. Yeah. Just I mean, just bananas. Like I see something I like, I buy it like it's it's good. Yeah. Yeah, it's good when you actually make shit with it. It's not when you end up having this stash that becomes i'm sportarding Right. whating um But I think, you know, over the past, I don't know, seven or eight months, I've dabbled more and more. And I have just just um joined this group. Yeah.
00:17:28
Speaker
It's got like a thousand women in it across the country. Yeah. You know, to sew. So like, so as a group, you know, pick a group project, we do the group project together. So like, it'll start, like I just did one that I couldn't finish because it's a new machine and I'm having some trouble managing it. Okay. It's a overlock serger machine, yeah which has four spools of thread. And you know like if you look at the inside of your pants, like the seam on the inside that has that over the edge, not knitting, but sewing. No, sewing, like construct like garment construction. Yeah.
00:17:59
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. it's ah It's a very intimidating machine that I've had for like 10 years. It's been sitting on my shelf. And so this class came up in my Insta feed of this woman who I think is a great teacher who I've taken a class with before okay about this machine specifically. Yeah. And first class, all of it came together. Yeah.
00:18:17
Speaker
Except I think my machine's really old and I think there's something wrong with it. So so it's been one of those, you know, super frustrating experiences. Yeah. um But all of that to say, like, I feel like even if these people aren't my friends, like even if I get no friendship out of this, at least I have found a tribe.
00:18:38
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Like people who are doing the same thing, having a similar interest. Yeah. able to converse about that interest even if there's nothing else. yeah And I find that in my everyday life that's pretty lacking. Like I don't actually have that until I think this group.
00:18:57
Speaker
Until I join this group. Yeah. Are you going to play bingo next? Dude I fucking love bingo. and but Do I need to come visit you in a home somewhere? oh Well, so if ruthie if Ruthie has control over any of my shit, yes.
00:19:11
Speaker
If Sam has control over any of my shit, no. You'll have to come and visit me his backyard. If have in home, going to visit sure. Welfare check on Jessica? Yeah, no, no, no. Welfare check. No, one says that they'll they'll make sure they have a guest house for me and never put me in a home. And the other one is like, i can't wait to put you in a home. i love that. I tell my kids all time, like, hey, I'm being nice to you. So just remember, when you put me in a home, put me in the one that doesn't sexually abuse me.
00:19:34
Speaker
Right. Or leave me on my back for six weeks to have fucking incredibly painful bed sores. I mean, we joke, but... No, i want my kids I want my kids to put me in the villages. Oh, my God. I want them to send me down de pen lady send to Florida. It's actually not. It's not? Nope. I've been researching it quite a bit. Not for me right now. Are you sure? Yeah. Senior homes are fucking expensive. This is not a senior home. It's not? This is a community. It's a 55 and over community.
00:20:02
Speaker
Right. got to buy a house? got to rent house in the area to be in it. Unclear. i think it's purchase. It's not expensive. Like the smallest home I think is like 200,000. I think there's no HOA involved. you're looking to get an STD. Is that what's going on? Oh, dude. STDs are rampant down there. know what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. No, rampant. There's so much. There's so much sex with STD results down there. It's unbelievable. You're listening. Earmuffs. Earmuffs.
00:20:31
Speaker
Oh, no. Get an education. Education time. Our kids are old enough. It's okay. Yeah, think anybody who's listening to this crap is old enough. Oh, my But, yeah, there's a, I mean, and that's kind of the running joke between me and my brother and my sister-in-law. Right. You know, is the the vast number of STDs being diagnosed. What Jessica has look forward to is...
00:20:55
Speaker
Oh, I'm not looking for me right now. Sewing bingo STD villages. I sound really old. You're going to end this podcast earlier, so you can eat dinner at 4.30. 5 o'clock. I love a 5 p.m. dinner. In bed by 8.
00:21:12
Speaker
Oh, that's a little that's a little early. But you know what? Honestly, i probably wouldn't mind if I was binge watching shows with, you know, like with heated rivalry being embedded. Come on. mine Yeah, it would have been great. Oh, it's done yeah old enough for that shit yet.
00:21:27
Speaker
Yeah. Watching like basically like gay porn and bad is just not the worst thing ever. OK. All right. loved heated rivalry.
Urban Dangers and NYC Life
00:21:39
Speaker
By the way, by the way, did you read the story about that lady who fell into a manhole cover? Yes, i did What the fuck? Dude, she fucking stepped out of her car directly into a hole. Okay, so.
00:21:51
Speaker
On Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street. In front of Cartier. Which makes it even worse. I saw the picture and I was like, that's in front of Cartier. And I was like at first I thought, at first I thought she, when they have picture of the car,
00:22:07
Speaker
At first I thought she opened the door, happened like, I mean, this is like, you can't make this shit up. And it's your time to go. It's your time to go. Clearly. You parked right by an open manhole cover and then opened the door, hopped out and fell right through. Okay. So first of all, I was like,
00:22:25
Speaker
That's literally impossible because when you fall into a manhole cover, like you're taking a as stride. like Not if you fall directly into it from the air. i mean, the odds of you falling like a cartoon straight in without it getting stuck. You're hitting your head somewhere whatever. my God. Have you ever seen Dead Like Me?
00:22:45
Speaker
No. The show? No. Oh my god, so this story would be plucked from that show or they would use this story to write the show. The most fantastical weird shit.
00:22:56
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From a witness who was on the street. He said was was she actually got out of the car. Stood up.
00:23:07
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So she managed to get out of the car fine and then walked into it. Like walked into and then fell straight down. um but Like, how do you not look where, I guess, well, no, okay, fine.
00:23:19
Speaker
I know people who don't look where they step. I mean, do. When you're in New York and you park your car, you're always looking for dog shit when you come out of the car. Dude, and I'm looking for puddles. I'm looking for, like, garbage. I'm looking for all of it, but I don't think that people who don't live here A truck, apparently Con Ed says a truck, a heavy truck rolled by 12 minutes before she did and dislodged the cover. 12 minutes is a long time.
00:23:45
Speaker
Yeah. And then she parked by it and then kind of fell in. And then, you know, it's like, again, it's like when it's your time to it's your time to go. She falls straight in, which is ten almost impossible. Yeah. 10 feet. 10 feet. But then it's like scalding hot water. So she would have been burned by the water. i didn't even think of that.
00:24:03
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Yeah. So she's burned and then inhaled. don't know if it's toxic fumes, but some some fumes that would have knocked her out. Hits her head. Anyway, she's dead.
00:24:14
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Well, I had heard that she was yelling from the hole that she was dying. i mean, that would track if you getting if you fall into a hole so it hurts and then you're being burned by the hot water. Yeah, and if you hit your head or hit something on the way down. Right, that kind of thing. So people saw it and they called 911 right away. by By the time they get there, it's, you know.
00:24:34
Speaker
It's done. Done. She's dead, right? Yeah. but um But like that is such a New York story. so i mean seriously if you're not being pushed into the tracks and you're not falling through a grate right you're or falling off a balcony in a building next to it an empty manhole a manhole with no cover and you just fall in like what the fuck yeah I you know I look I mean i habitually always look where I walk yeah I mean even if I'm not looking directly down at my feet yeah I have everything peripheral like I find it hard to believe that no one saw it
00:25:10
Speaker
I know. Or noticed it. Like 12 minutes is a long time for a manhole cover to be dislodged and off with an open gaping hole in the ground without a surrounding guard.
00:25:21
Speaker
Is that people notice it and go, what the fuck? And they kind of move on. All they have to do is call 911 or 311. It's not that big a deal. Maybe you are. but you and i wouldn't. I'd be like, oh, fucking manhole cover. Oh, I totally would. And you keep walking by. Because you don't see the potential danger in that before someone actually gets into an accident and falls in so much So many weird things happen in New York that people are just unfazed by it, right? No one even cares anymore. this Someone else's fucking problem. Potholes here, blah, blah, blah, blah. I think if you don't have anybody else in the city that you know, then yeah nobody gives it then you don't give a shit. I think if you know a ton of people in the city and you have kids that are rolling around the city, that's a phone call you make.
00:26:02
Speaker
Just because it's a big city thing, right? we're sort We're sort of like it's someone else's problem. Someone else make the phone call. They do that shit all the time. Someone else is going to do it Someone else will call 911. So I'm not going to bother. I don't want to. Yeah. yeah That's a very, like, they do it all the time that's you know, well-researched happens all the time. yeah It does. And typically the people who make phone calls are cranky old ladies.
00:26:26
Speaker
Okay, so there was a correlation there. I think that is is unfair. You know you know the the lady on the block who's like complaining, that oh, this guy didn't take his garbage out or this call 3-1-1.
00:26:37
Speaker
I feel like you're making an inference to me with the sewing and the bingo and the 5 p.m. dinner. And now an old lady because I'm going to call 9-1-1 because of a manhole cover. No, no, no. I'm just...
00:26:50
Speaker
All people are like this. Dude. i'm I'm becoming like this too. I'm becoming like this too. Trust me. i'm I am becoming like this too where way it's funny when people say the cranky old person on the block is always complaining about something at 311. It's totally true. It is true. a lady down the street from me in a nice brownstone.
00:27:08
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And she comes out and she knows people in our building. And she's always complaining that people don't move their cars for street cleaning. So she calls 3-1-1 every Monday and Tuesday. They get a ticket. They don't care. i know And I'm out there.
00:27:22
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i just told him to be out there at 8 o'clock in the morning when the guy shows up on our blog. The street cleaner guy? No, the sanitation manager. the guy who gives the tickets. The guy, right, yeah. Yeah. yeah His name is Joe. Nice guy. Super nice guy. We chit chat. buth bla blah For a while, I was parking you know Evan's car on the street. So I'd be there and just chit chat with him.
00:27:40
Speaker
And she comes marching out. There's one time, like, the councilman sends somebody and the police are like, what the fuck is going on? Oh, that lady there, she keeps calling 311 every single day. and It's bananas. And she comes to talk to Joe I'm there. She's like, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, okay, I just want you to understand.
00:28:01
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The rule is we're here for garbage. If it's dusty, if it's gravel, they were doing construction. Like that's not our problem. We just take care of the garbage. One.
00:28:12
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Two, actually, if you're the homeowner of a brownstone, the first, i think it's like one or two feet from the curb, It's technically your responsibility.
00:28:23
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Oh, interesting. you're happy with the garbage on in front of your thing. Clean it up. You're supposed to clean it up. It's not complain to 311 kind of thing. so and And third is like, until they start towing cars.
00:28:37
Speaker
nobody gives a shit they're parking their car and they're not moving it and they'll take look each ticket's 65 yeah right if you go on holiday for a month and you get those four tickets right 250 no 270 260 240 and 260 in fines the parking in the the parking garage is like seven to eight hundred bucks yeah like All you have to do is drive the car to the airport. It's cheaper to park in the airport.
00:29:06
Speaker
Helen is not. What are you talking about? and I park in inside the airport all time. It's safe. It's totally cheaper than a garage. Depending on where you go. look Like long term. garage Yeah, long term is cheaper. But it's cheapest to just encourage damn tickets. Totally. Which is exactly. And people, by the way, budget for that shit all the time. And the city loves it. Yeah, they do. The city loves that money.
00:29:30
Speaker
Yeah, sure. So I just started laughing at her. I was like, you can keep calling people one all you want, lady. Nothing is going to change. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Literally nobody cares. I was like, boo. And I was like, boo-hoo, rich lady in the brownstone.
00:29:45
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Who, by the way probably never cleans up in front of our house. I'm like, yeah. You know, it's the same people who take possession of tree beds because it happens to be on their sidewalk.
00:29:57
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Right. Anyway. Like, oh, I planted in there so it's off limits. Like, yeah, it's very nice that you did a neighborhood beautification project, but you don't own the tree bed.
00:30:08
Speaker
So anyways, God bless you for calling the, ah I don't know, 911 for a missing man. girl I bet you that they can call. But I can guarantee you in New York, if you called, they wouldn't have done shit. I don't know. don't know that they wouldn't have done shit. I think that if they found out that Con Ed wasn't in the area, they would have sent somebody to fix it. hope you're right. I don't know. Because if a car goes into it, you got the same thing, right? A car drives over it, getting stuck, tires coming off, axles bending. Like, there's a lot of liability involved. I mean, yeah, but then the car goes in it, you break the axle, hold the insurance, they don't But let's just say it's not just the car. The person in the car gets hurt because the manhole cover. Like, here's...
00:30:47
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There's plenty of liability there that needs to. use like Everything you're saying makes sense. Not disputing it. i except I'm just disputing the fact that they don't. You know on the subway when they say, if you see something, say something. Oh, yeah.
00:31:01
Speaker
Nobody says anything. It's well documented and that people call in. Yeah. And the person on the phone makes you feel like like they're doing you favor for picking up the phone in there. Yeah. I know. Which is kind of lame. That's so lame. It's so lame.
00:31:17
Speaker
You know, I mean, and that whole thing is bred out of like terrorist threats and shit like that. So it makes it even more lame. i know. It's like you want people to help. And then when they help, you make them feel like shitty. Yeah. And that's New York.
00:31:29
Speaker
Yeah, it is. above all anywhere else because i was constantly surprised like in the hamptons when you want when me trying to get permits for buildings of and i was like dreading calling in to the town hall to speak to somebody and they couldn't have been nicer Oh, they're totally nice. Holy shit. you all i like oh that i I'm so jaded living in New York that when I called, they they were so nice. Oh yeah, do this, do this. If you need help, call me back. and Oh my God. yeah They were so nice. oh yeah they're Unbelievable. On the North Fork too.
00:32:04
Speaker
They're very nice. And all like the town halls. I mean, but it's small. And they deal with some shitty ass people out in the Hamptons. especially because Yeah, they do. You know, rich, southern kind of people, right? I think that they know that they have control over everything. So they don't need to be not nice. Like they just like, very matter of fact, they're kind of like, yeah, well. this is the way it is. This is the town ordinance. This is this, this is that. But helpful, helpful. Yeah. but you know they are Go to the post office. You remember when you were kids, we had young kids and you go the post office and you take to the passport. Oh my God. And there's like 50 steps literally. And there's no way you're going to get it right.
00:32:38
Speaker
The first time, second time, third time. no And I remember, and they would like yell, no you got it wrong away what i got wrong don't still waste my time and then the one time i remember one time is in tribeca when the kids were like nine or ten and i did it right and the lady was like This is wild.
00:33:00
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I was so embarrassed. Everybody, everybody. god Thank you to this gentleman for doing the forms right. Jesus, ladies, shut up already. Just like fucking process application. i was like, what? There's no need to be like that.
00:33:17
Speaker
First of all, many people don't speak the language. yeah And so having problems reading the f freaking English instructions, which for me, I tell people, listen, I'm college educated. professional and i have problems following the instructions i can't imagine what it's like being an immigrant and trying to read that no but the immigrant isn't applying for an american passport necessarily and if they are you became a citizen well yeah i mean if they are though then you probably know how to read english no no i will because if you're an immigrant and you just had a child
00:33:51
Speaker
That child is a citizen and you may not be, but that child is citizen because you're born here. Yeah, that's true. So you, Chinese, yeah Spanish, European language of some sort, like you don't know. I give, I give. It's true.
00:34:04
Speaker
That's true. I give. Didn't think of that. You can see me wagging the finger. I see you wagging at me. Uh, uh, uh, lady. like it's Snaps.
00:34:16
Speaker
ah Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Okay. okay What else was on my list today before we get to the most important topic, which is the bankruptcy of the Maine Nordiques?
00:34:28
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Yeah, the only other topic I had in my notes was, this applies to me, it applies to you.
Sports Hopes and Team Struggles
00:34:36
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Do you change the price of something you paid for when your wife asks you, how much did you pay for that? yeah yes I definitely do. My daughter would laugh and she was like, i all the time.
00:34:48
Speaker
How much cost? It really cost 10 bucks. How much cost? Oh, like $4.99. Oh, okay. and I do that all the time. the There's the wife price. And then there's like the dad, the grandparent price. Because your parents always ask, hey, do you get a good deal on that? a good deal that? know And I'll make up some price just to get them off my back.
00:35:06
Speaker
I don't overpay for shit all the time out of convenience. I don't care. Like I'm not lining up at Trader Joe's for 30 minutes to pay $2.99 for something when I can just go to Brooklyn Fair and pay $4.99 and just get in and get out. Sorry. Right. Totally agree. I mean, I time for that shit.
00:35:26
Speaker
I don't have time for that shit either. Probably not a wife to husband thing. Do you do that with Eric? No, I don't think I do. No. I don't think I do.
00:35:38
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Okay. Anyways.
00:35:43
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Yeah, there you go. Maine Nordiques, go bankrupt. I don't know what to say you. I did do some research in terms of a an average... junior team and for the people who are not hockey main nordiques in maine clearly um it's a pretty big team it's like it's like a it's like a very well-known franchise in junior hockey and and again for the people who are outside of hockey you know, pro teams have a farm team. Imagine the farm team suddenly just goes bust. Now this is not a farm team. It's a junior team, you know, for teens, but still like it's a very big team in the NAL, the North American Hockey League, which is a big, which is the, the, let's say the number two, uh, junior league. And,
00:36:32
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And we know that therere they're typically, the owners is like a ah passion project. They don't make money. We know that. But I was surprised at how small the numbers were. Like the average junior team, it says,
00:36:45
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generates five to $600,000 in revenue per year. Well, because there are small markets. Right. So clearly you can see that running a a junior team is going to cost you more than that. Yeah. Right.
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah. Sticks, whatever equipment, rink, travel, blah, blah, blah. So it's no wonder that we, you know, I've complained. and i won't I won't put you in the same boat as me, but I've definitely complained about, you know, paying the $800 for main camp. But you know that main camp is generating $60,000 $80,000 month.
00:37:18
Speaker
that they use for the season. They need Okay. So you get that, you know, your are not going to make the team, but we invite you and, you know, you have a skate and blah, blah, blah. yeah Um, uh, so I was shocked at how small the numbers were, right. An average team generates five to 600,000 in revenue, clearly spends it all on a, what you think a 50, 60 game season.
00:37:43
Speaker
Yes, I do think about that. Yeah. Yeah. September to March, I guess, if you make the playoffs. Yeah. And then it you know rolls through April, the whole month of April, if you keep advancing.
00:37:55
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you Right. and so And so my thing was, use I said it to you. like Yeah, it seems to be well known. And it seems to be well known. I had some other, Evan has a teammate who almost signed with him.
00:38:06
Speaker
And the dad was like, oh, yeah, we could sort of see the signs. And so we signed with somebody else. I'm like oh. Fantastic. i'm like But, you know, they just left. They've drafted kids. They signed tenders. The season is yeah three months away. may you know, training camp is two months, two and a half months away. yeah Fuck. That's just you've just released 30 kids yeah into the system. We have to have mad panic. Right. To find new teams.
00:38:30
Speaker
Yes, 100%. And I think that the the coaches um on average you know take do take kids with them when they find new opportunity. right. Yes. um That's good. you know i mean And it depends on whether or not those kids want to go where they're being invited yeah to go. yeah, yeah.
00:38:56
Speaker
Yeah, you know, is's it's interesting because there are plenty of juniors teams that ah figure it out, even though they don't have a huge right ah you know a huge um amount of money to put into the team. Like, they figure it out. This particular situation, like, my understanding is that the team didn't pay for ice for, like, a whole year.
00:39:23
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And then when they were called out on it, yeah someone else came in and needed to manage the money ok to make sure that the ICE was paid for. Oh, so the money's there.
00:39:33
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It was. for like to to Okay. But I'm not sure. I don't actually know numbers, right? Like, so... The money may have been there for the ice, but may not have been there for travel. It may have been there for the ice, but not for equipment. Like there may have been some kind of imbalance in the funds, yeah you know, like the budget wasn't budgeted. and right you know, but the ice, the rink needed to be paid.
00:40:00
Speaker
Cause typically they have enough corporate. So most junior teams run off of corporate sponsorship. You're not signing tickets for five bucks, 10 bucks. Right. that's not it And then there's like the fees and tryouts. Okay. That's part of it. But in general, most of it's like corporate sponsorship plus the owner is some rich person that fronts hundred grand a year, whatever it is. Right. To to just be near you talking. Okay.
00:40:22
Speaker
And so I was under the impression that was stolen money. as opposed to the money sitting there and they just gave up managing the team. yeah Because if if they just give up managing the team and the money's there, somebody could step in right now and run that team.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah, there was it's there's more to this story. Right. There's definitely more to this story. Yes, yes, yes. um Yeah, I don't know. okay I don't know. I mean, I know one kid, the same you know, one of the kids that we both know had played there, got traded. Yeah. And then I know of another kid who's there who I think is being um moved with one of the coaches.
00:40:59
Speaker
Okay. All right. You know, so he'll find a spot. and Okay. um But as for the other, you know, 26 kids or whatever, um i don't know what that looks like. Yeah.
00:41:12
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And of course with one less NAL team, you know, that makes all of the movement a little bit tight. Hell yeah. You know. Yeah.
00:41:25
Speaker
There's a kid that we know ah who graduated last year from prep school. ah And the mom was like, oh, fuck, man. Like three teams, a USHL team, null team, another null team, all within the first three months. Wow. and and And the kid's not playing.
00:41:50
Speaker
Yeah, that's the problem. And it's just like, Jesus. I mean, so at least that kid doesn't have that new five and five rule, you know, restriction. So that's good. Yeah. But I guess the flip side is, and so you sort of know that there's more time ahead, but still, i this is the thing we talked about before,
00:42:05
Speaker
you know You go from being a first or second line person plenty of minutes on your club or prep school team and you go to juniors and everybody's good and you're like you're riding the pine. like What the fuck? is in here It's a hard. It's a hard well and hard adjustment. yeah i mean It happened to a lot of kids we know that were really successful as youth hockey players in the first like you know four months, three months yeah of their seasons. yeah yeah A lot of them didn't dress. you know It's like But, you know, it's it's hard to go from, you know, being the cream to being, you know, like the bottom of the roster.
00:42:41
Speaker
Well, but that goes back to what we talked about a long time ago, and that is you're better off on a lower team and playing. Yeah. Than on a higher team to say you're on the higher team and then you're just riding the pine. Yeah, but I also believe that a lot of the time you need to work for it. And yeah you're not going to walk in, even if you were a top player as a youth guy, yeah yeah you're not going to walk in and and slot yourself into top four. I mean, top three, right? yeah you know It's never going to happen. It's never going happen.
00:43:08
Speaker
So, you know, it isn't necessarily not worth it to go. It may not be worth it to stay. And I think that that's the difference, right? If you can go and know that you need to really, really work and that you're nipping at everybody else's heels all the time and you have that drive, then the chances that you'll succeed are are more likely. Right.
00:43:27
Speaker
I think if you're not that kind of person, you know you don't have that kind of personality, disposition, drive, discipline, yeah then you're better off at a lower team and being able to slot into the lineup of yeah above a four. It's, you know, i mean, it depends on the type of kid you're dealing with.
00:43:46
Speaker
I guess. But it's like... You know, and if you have a good advisor and it's not working, they'll be able to move you. Can you ask for a trade? No. You can ask for a trade, but it doesn't always go well. Does that make look bad Sometimes, yeah. It's got to, right? Yeah, sometimes it does. You're not resilient enough to put in the time and effort. You just want to keep hopping to the next team to spot. Yeah, but I also think it depends on the dynamic, right? I mean, you may be on a team where, you know, it's not even about the lineup. Maybe it's about the kids. Maybe it's about the staff. You know, like I had heard a story about a kid who um was on team, and I don't know this kid personally, so there's no way for me to know.
00:44:23
Speaker
um But had, you know, the trainer had beef with him. And the trainer. Yeah. Like there was just something about like maybe it was a personality conflict. Like I don't know what it was, but, you know, the trainer was making things very hard. And I think that there's, um you know, there's a lot of people that you're surrounded by.
00:44:41
Speaker
yeah You know, where one person could just simply not enjoy your company and make things very, very hard for you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can see that, especially in the junior team know, look whatever the coaches, trainers, whatever, they're all in control of your fate to a certain extent, right? yeah And that's it's ah it's a less tough lesson for some kids to learn, if you especially if you if you've been a top player on your team and everybody's like giving you the a adoration and like whatever you want and blah, bla blah, blah, blah. And suddenly you're like, hey, you're just an average. I mean, no different from being a smart kid, valedictorian, going to a top college and going, oh, shit,
00:45:18
Speaker
Right. I was the number one kid in my school. I'm just average smart kid. Yeah. At the new school. And that's sometimes tough to. Yeah. To to adjust to. Right. Yeah.
00:45:29
Speaker
Hundred percent. Hundred percent. yeah Yeah. Yeah. The latter. The latter, you know, extends. Right. And so, you know, where you start on the ladder may not be where you remain as it extends. Right. As it grows. Yeah. You end up kind of like where you're at and it could be much lower than where you thought you were before.
00:45:48
Speaker
Right. Yeah. OK. Well, boy, did we make that story really exciting. I know. i know. just got died on the vine. What else you got? What else you got? Or else I'm going to jump into some dad jokes if you don't save this podcast episode from all the shit that we're talking We're getting tight on time for you. It's okay. So i gots something but that's something to definitely monitor. anything else exciting to share. Yeah. No, I just, I got an email while we were while recording that really pissed me off. so Oh.
00:46:21
Speaker
Yeah, apparently one of those. Angry Jessica, something we've never seen before. No, it's something that it's something that you and I have talked about privately before. That's not for general consumption. So I'm not going to talk about it here. just Yeah, absolutely not. No, definitely not. It's not for the it's not for the masses.
00:46:39
Speaker
Not for the masses. Yeah, no, it's not for the masses. Any views on hockey playoffs before we go to the dad jokes? I want Montreal to win. I know. What a Cinderella story that would be. Yeah, i I mean, and I'm not a fan. I've never been a fan. Yeah. um But, you know, there's just something so romantic about them winning right now. You know, and then you got the Knicks, right? And so, you know, you've got these like, you know, i don't fall basketball enough, but man, they are out of nowhere. They're killing it.
00:47:11
Speaker
They might win, right? They they might win. And so, you know, I would be, I'd be happy with the Knicks yeah and Montreal winning. I think that that really he wanted a Colorado-Montreal Stanley Cup final. Clearly not going to happen because Colorado's just too injured. Makar injured two games, came back. McKinnon's injured. I hate that the that the NHL does upper and lower body injury. i hate oh that i hate the the you know like the the opaqueness you but you can't understand that right because like if you if you say like i have a i have a broken arm yeah people are running for you people will freaking come looking for that arm right yeah right to like damage you that kind of thing but it's a bummer because like they had the number one you know once again the number one team the president trophy president trophy president's cup president's trophy yeah whatever
00:47:59
Speaker
doesn't mean It's like the number one team in the league in regular season. just can't, you can't keep up the momentum. They're down three games to zero against Bay. And I fucking, okay. I don't have anything against Vegas.
00:48:12
Speaker
Yeah. I hate Vegas right now because Tortorella is an asshole. but so And it's so funny because I historically and have loved him. Yeah. I don't want to win. He's been the biggest fucking asshole. He went to the Rangers to fuck them up. He went the Canucks to fuck them up. So I'm kind of pissed off. And then to Mitch Marner, the bitch, bitch Marner, bitch Marner. He's an excellent. He's an excellent hot player. Good for him. He's leading the NHL playoff scoring. He's so good. But he's a bitch. He's a whiny fucking bitch. Yes, he's so don't need them winning.
00:48:41
Speaker
He's good. So good. I'm like, let Colorado fucking win. Let Montreal win. You know what? And then I kind of feel bad for Bryndamore because, like, Carolina's been to the playoffs for eight straight years and can't get out of the conference finals. like Yeah.
00:48:55
Speaker
It'd be nice for him. i gotta tell you, I don't feel bad for any of those guys. Yeah. No. i So, okay. Wow. You don't make it all the way. Wow. I know. You've made it all the way. You're like 0.01% of the population. You've made it all the way. So boo fucking who? You don't get to the Stanley Cup. Like, whatever.
00:49:14
Speaker
i mean, I get it, right? Lifelong goals. yeah, yeah. You're keeping it. know You know, you're banging your head against whatever is impeding you. I i get that. But I don't feel bad. Like, fundamentally, I don't feel pity for them. I don't feel that. Yeah, yeah.
00:49:30
Speaker
for any of those guys. yeah Basketball, hockey, baseball, football. I don't know that. Living the dream. All right. Well, a happy note. I want to play a game for a living and get my paid a gajillion dollars.
00:49:42
Speaker
You're playing the game of life, Jessica. I am. I sure as hell am. That is for shit sure. I have won aggravation and irritation. Thank you, Francis. Thank you so much. Irritation.
00:49:57
Speaker
Join the club. Okay. Tend regret maybe. it is time.
00:50:05
Speaker
The first one's a doozy. I can't even. i feel like I feel like I wish I had done this before I had read the email. Disclaimer. May have done this before. Maybe we did it in the chat. may I don't think I've done on the podcast. ah I laugh. It's really stupid. i found it Instagram. So people will be screaming at me and you if you don't get it right. Wonderful. I assure you, I did not see it on Instagram. so I think you know this. I think you know this. Okay. Okay. Here we go.
00:50:32
Speaker
Jessica. Frances.
00:50:36
Speaker
What is blue and not very heavy?
00:50:41
Speaker
What is blue and not very heavy? And this is not a play on words.
00:50:54
Speaker
What is blue and not very heavy? This is so fucking stupid. I can't even. When I tell you the answer. No, I'm going to tell you the answer. Oh, yeah. You're so disappointed. see it written all over you right now. was going to if you didn't the answer we were in the same studio, you'd slap me in the face how stupid the answer Yes, because the answer has got to be light blue. Yeah.
00:51:15
Speaker
i laughing so hard. Again, it was on Instagram. It was that funny. And it was like people, people like playing this game and they said it and it maybe was funnier than it was. It's because of who was involved. But I said it to my wife and she cracked up.
00:51:32
Speaker
I mean, it's so stupid. You have to laugh. So stupid. But a lot of them are so stupid. You have to laugh. i mean, that's the whole point of a dad joke. Exactly. They're clean and they're dumb. So you are as dumb as I am.
00:51:43
Speaker
oh to Far, far beyond more dumb, no doubt. Okay, okay, okay. okay and Why should you never brush your teeth with your left hand?
00:51:57
Speaker
Why should you never brush your teeth with your left hand? I won't get this one. You might. Why should you never brush your teeth with your left hand?
00:52:12
Speaker
yeah i don't. Because a toothbrush works better. Jesus Christ. Forget it. and You know what? I'm cooked. All done.
00:52:23
Speaker
All done. i am just cooked. But I thought you that was just as obvious as the light blue. Yeah, that was not as obvious as I don't know. No? No, because of course I don't see it that way. like i have I'm closing my eyes and land trying to like... What the fuck's wrong with my left hand?
00:52:40
Speaker
Right. I'm thinking, why would it not work with if I did it left-handed? my God. I just want to, like, max melt on that one now.
00:52:51
Speaker
Okay. Well, okay. I'm trying to figure out the last one between two wordplay. Please don't give me another one. um
00:53:06
Speaker
Okay, this was really easy. You'll get this one. What do you call a rude cow? Do you call What you call a rude cow?
00:53:21
Speaker
For the next few episodes, I hope we don't get lost in summer break, but there are some really some real doozies coming up on my list of things for you the next couple episodes.
00:53:32
Speaker
Some really bad, stupid jokes, like the light blue one. but Well, there are a lot of stupid jokes. What do you call a rude cow, Jessica? It's beef jerky. Yeah!
00:53:45
Speaker
See? I knew you'd get it. Beef jerky. People, this is what our life has become. Jessica and I have to do these episodes, really not to enlighten you with any stupid shit like people follow that mantle cover. PSA, always on the ground before you get out of the car.
00:54:03
Speaker
But we have we live for these stupid jokes. I live to give them to her. I don't really live to answer them. She doesn't answer them, but when she gets them, I know there's a dose of happiness inside. Yeah, there's a little bit of, actually, I think it's more relief.
00:54:19
Speaker
I think it's relief. I think it's like, oh, God, thank God I got one. Are you smarter than fifth grader? Oh, I got one. Yay. Thank you. Light blue, light blue. Yay. Yeah. Yeah. You got them. Beef jerky. I got two.
00:54:32
Speaker
The left hand thing is always, it's going to haunt me now. i was going to haunt you for a while. It's going to haunt me. yeah At least for the rest of the day. I know. You'll have to kick in with me at like nine tonight and be like, so, are you okay? How are you feeling? yes Are you okay? Like feeling so dumb, so dumb.
00:54:47
Speaker
yeah Nice. All right.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:54:50
Speaker
ah I'm traveling. All right. we sign off. Good for I'm bringing back to Uber. Oh, nice. I'm supposed to be traveling. Oh, shit. shouldn't have said that. It's supposed to a surprise. No, my parents don't listen to this. By the time it comes out, I will be Okay, anybody who's listening, don't tell Francis's parents that he's coming. It's a surprise.
00:55:07
Speaker
There you go. It's okay. By the time they listen to this, I will already have been there. Well, then that works. The timing works great. I think so. ah Yeah. I'm traveling also. You're traveling also. Yeah. And then hope you don't get off this treadmill. And then the last episode is 52.
00:55:24
Speaker
And then... No, I mean, I'm around intermittently. I think, you know, I think that there... Yeah, I can definitely find an hour a week. I don't think it's... Or like a couple hours a week. Unless we're on a family vacation. And then we'll just have to bank...
00:55:37
Speaker
Yeah. You know, either you or me will have to bank before. i people Well, fingers crossed. We can keep entertaining you with this stupidity. Pretty sure. Jessica and Frances's life in Brooklyn, New York.
00:55:48
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