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Speaker: It's recording? Yeah. Because who knows what this episode will be. Because we have nothing to talk about. We always have stuff to talk about, though. Well, I guess it's half the time, like, gossip.
Speaker: I don't know. About our families and friends. i don't know what to talk about right now. So... Blop. Blop. Happy Labor Day. Yes.
Speaker: Yes. I'm rad. I'm not working today. But you also usually don't work on Mondays anyway. Right. But.
Speaker: And I don't think you would get it off if you did usually work Mondays. No. No, you wouldn't. Because that's how retail works. Yeah. But I think you would get time and a half, right? No. What? No. I thought that was all in Massachusetts. I don't think so.
Speaker: I think so. I think they're only. i don't think so. I've never heard of such a thing. It was it was when I worked in Natick Mall. Yeah, but and that was not in Boston. That was well outside of Boston. Yeah, but that was at Walmart.
Speaker: True, but if assuming correctly, and I think I am, Walmart still has to abide by state laws for labor laws. Maybe.
Speaker: i don't know. Yeah.
Speaker: um But regardless, happy Labor Day. Yes. And apparently... Go plant a tree. go plate like that was That's Arbor Day, but, you know. Or Earth Day. Go fly a flag.
Speaker: Go punch a capitalist. Go on strike. Yeah, go on strike. That's the one. um Apparently,
Speaker: the reason labor name exists is not even like for any huge you know push forward or or improvement for workers but actually just workers were protesting and the president i think it was herbert hoover or whatever at the time um was like fine you can have one day off a year wow yeah it wasn't even for like better benefits or increase in pay or probably any benefits at all frankly yeah yeah well progress progress now we have a 40 hour work week and we don't even need it productivity has exceeded that but whatever yeah I wouldn't mind three day weekend yeah me neither
Speaker: I wouldn't mind the, what's the phrase? The only thing that came to mind was 69, 420. um But that's not correct.
Speaker: Something about like a four-day work week, six-hour work day, and like a 20, I don't know. Something in the vein of that. Or maybe it's a four-day work week, five-hour work day, and a 20-hour work week.
Speaker: Yeah, mean, sure. Something that will never happen in our lifetimes in the US. Yeah. Even if it's happening in other countries. Yeah. I think Finland has the four-day workweek.
Speaker: That doesn't surprise me. Across all corporations. Yeah. France should have a four-day workweek if they don't already. Everyone should. They're the first to start riots when they don't like the way they are being treated.
Speaker: They'll strike about anything. And honestly, it's admirable. They strike and they stroke, stroke, not stroke. They struck.
Speaker: Is that the past tense of striking for, or is it striked in the context of labor laws? don't know. they did a strike.
Speaker: And I think that's how they got, everybody got the month of August off. Wow. Yeah, nobody works in August. I don't really know how that works, but I assume that shopkeepers still are open. Probably. The country needs to continue to run. Right. But all office workers go to the coast.
Speaker: They're just like, we're not working. It's August. Must be nice. Must be nice in Nice. Or in Marseille. Or Normandy.
Speaker: That's the other side, but yeah. Still a coast. Yeah, that's true. The ah southern coast is the one that's known for like super, super hot weather. and yeah It's the Mediterranean.
Speaker: Yeah. you know Normandy is known for its beautiful beaches.
Speaker: Peaceful breezes. Yeah. Not at all known for War and battles. No. Yeah.
Speaker: I'd like to go to places outside of Paris in France. Like Paris was fine and it was cool. But I think if I ever managed to get back to France, I would want to hang out in like, you know, the countryside and on the coast. Yeah.
Speaker: be cool to go dip my toes in the Mediterranean. Sure. Yeah. If you could take a vacation anywhere. Anywhere in the world. without ah Without regard to expense. I don't know.
Speaker: And let's say don't you don't have to pick a single place. What if you wanted to pick like like ah like a round trip?
Speaker: Like I'd hit this place and this place and this place. Yeah. Because I certainly would have more stops on my itinerary than just France.
Speaker: In fact, France actually wouldn't even be my top choice. If I only got a chance chance to go one other place, it'd be Scotland. I think Japan would be cool. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I haven't been too many places, so I wouldn't really. I'd like kind of go anywhere. Yeah. you've for In terms of Europe, it's only been Iceland? Yeah.
Speaker: which is like barely Europe. Yeah. It's technically Europe. Didn't they just vote to not do the Euro? I have no idea. I mean, I don't think they've had the Euro. and forget their... Kroners?
Speaker: I forget it. It's in Norway and Sweden. It's Kroners. But I think they just decided to continue to not... Or no, maybe not the Euro. Maybe they just decided not to be like... In the EU. Yeah, yeah. Which is probably the same.
Speaker: I can never be, can never keep it straight whether it's good or bad to be a part of that and like what the benefits are. Isn't it the case that like if it's the EU or if it's some other organization that like anybody that has a passport from a country that's within it can just sort of bounce around? Yeah.
Speaker: Like their states. Yeah. That's what I've heard. Fascinating. just kind of cool yeah it's so weird it's so weird not even having that kind of an arrangement between like here in Canada or here in Mexico especially not nowadays yeah I know yeah there is like k Christina has talked about um there being a particular version of your driver's license in Michigan that you can have that allows you permission to go over the border mm-hmm into Canada but like I don't think that's for like extended stays think it's like day trips if you're going over there for like a doctor or like a store or whatever imagine going to Canada for a doctor that would be
Speaker: unsurprising cheating the system but in a good way i guess yeah i mean i've also heard of people doing like crazy um well seems crazy but it's probably not actually that crazy like health care trips to like Turkey or Greece or somewhere. And it's like, they spend like thousands and thousands of dollars to fly to Turkey and to stay in like very nice accommodations and then just get like a full panel of like health, health screenings and health treatments and get it all done. Dental work, maybe even.
Speaker: and Yeah, and they get it all done for cheaper than you could get it in the U.S. even with insurance. And it boggles my mind. Well, doesn't it balance out then with the traveling and everything?
Speaker: You mean the cost? Yeah. I mean, do you mean like, okay, when you say balance, as in like the cost of the travel? And hotels and... Well, it still ends up being cheaper is what I mean.
Speaker: Like even if you you know fly you know first class and then stay in like a luxury hotel. yeah I've seen like TikToks of people doing that. and they're like, here's all the things I had done in Turkey when I spent $4,000. And it's like so much cheaper than anything in the US. Similarly, or in the same vein, one of the people I follow on TikTok, Madeline Pendleton, um who is famously controversial, but that's besides the point. She just took a trip to China.
Speaker: And while she was in China, she went to like an eyeglasses place and she got a prescription, a pair of prescription eyeglasses for like $15. Hmm.
Speaker: And that's like without insurance or anything. Yeah. Here in the US, it's like couple hundred for a good pair of frames and lenses even after insurance has been applied. Yeah.
Speaker: It's fucking crazy. That's pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker: Pretty fucked up. Yeah. PFU. Yes. Mm-hmm. I guess it's worth mentioning Christina's once again not here. Yeah, I'm boring Jim today.
Speaker: But, you know, we we like you. Well, I'll just keep agreeing then. Sure, Yeah, weird. Yeah. um Christina's got a lot of life shit going on a lot of busy things keeping her busy. and So she humbly requested Jim fill in Sorry, everybody.
Speaker: No, but we have fun. Yes. Indeed. yeah life lately is like, not the most interesting, but also, sometimes, i like it that way.
Speaker: I know that you've not always felt that way about it. Yeah. Yeah. Like today we went to your parents' house. Yeah. And they gave me a bunch of stuff from their basement that I didn't want and don't know what to do with.
Speaker: But they're selling their house soon, so they have to make room or whatever. Yeah, the millennial plight. Yeah. It is like your stuff technically like your memorabilia or belongings. Yeah. But it's like shit that was like in my closet since like high school. and Right.
Speaker: like You know, but at least it's not at least it's not boxes of like their collections of beanie babies they thought would be really valuable. Yeah. You know, or like the precious moments like statuettes.
Speaker: Yeah. That's not my parents. Yeah. Thank goodness. Because that is what a lot of millennials do have to put up with. but Yeah. But yeah. Such is life. Yep.
Speaker: So. Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know what to do with that stuff. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've got similar boxes of my own old stuff in the basement. And it just gets stored.
Speaker: Yeah. you know We occasionally have the you know urge to pull them out and be like, let's look at things. yeah We did that last year kind of with old yearbooks and stuff.
Speaker: Because they were giving you some of that stuff like just in random containers last year. Well, that was when we found the Journal of Insanity. That's true. And just like a whole bunch of photos and still like in a manila envelope or whatever. Right. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. But it can be fun. i like I've always been the kind of person to enjoy going through old photos and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. like i don't yeah i don't want I don't know if I should throw them out, but I have no idea what to do with them, so I don't know.
Speaker: Yeah. But you have time to look through and decide. Yeah. Rather than letting them be like, nope.
Speaker: It's probably better than letting them do what they will. True. Yeah, they tricked me into coming over into saying like... My dad had a bunch of stuff in the workbench. Right. i would like That he was going to get rid of. Like some power tools. well I don't know if that's exactly what he said. They said that, that but I feel like that was the implication. Right.
Speaker: But really, like they're like, come get stuff from the basement. And just like a bunch of shit that i was like, okay, well, all right. Okay.
Speaker: Yeah. Which it would have been tough even with power tools though, because like, yeah you already have like a full deck. Yeah. and As it were. And i I don't even think my dad has any, if many, if any.
Speaker: True. So I don't know really what I was expecting, but yeah, whatever. Alas. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even your neighbor was getting rid of stuff and was trying to pawn it all off on you. I know. He had good stuff. He did have good stuff. It's true. Got a miter saw. I ah haven't even used it yet, but right all sorts of good stuff from then from him. Hell yeah.
Speaker: But I do have a bunch of furniture and stuff in the basement that I got to post and sell. True.
Speaker: Links are in description. Continue to be. Okay, yeah. Ever since last year. Yeah, links to your, like, Insta. Even though you're not posting them on Insta. Yeah, yeah. I have to post them on probably, like, Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker: True, yeah. Via me. Yeah. But um even still, you are contactable. Yes. Yeah. For your customization and decor services.
Speaker: I guess so. Yeah. So if you're in New England, hit a boy up. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: What else? We had Austin Christmas last weekend. Yeah. Austin Christmas is always fun. Indeed. i found some goodies.
Speaker: Do people know what Austin Christmas is? I think that Bostonians do. We do have quite a few people in Boston who listen. But for anyone who is not a Bostonian, do you want to tell the world about Alston Christmas? um Sure.
Speaker: ah um It's the day or the weekend... Not always a weekend, but... Yeah, it's a weekend. It's like the last, like, few days of August, really.
Speaker: Yeah, like, it's always... and In my mind, it's always been August 31st and September 1st. But it's also in May sometimes. Mm-hmm. You know, because it's when people, it's basically when students are starting or ending school.
Speaker: And because Boston is such a a college town, a lot of people, a lot of international students and a lot of people like kind of move in and move out and go into different apartments and dorms and different temporary living situations.
Speaker: yeah And when they do... The leases are always timed, seemingly, for the most part. To the school year. To the school year and primarily to August 31st or September 1st.
Speaker: Like they end on the 31st and begin on the 1st. Which I remember that being bizarre because when finally had to move out of my Boston apartment...
Speaker: And I realized, oh, my lease ends on the 31st, but we can't get the keys to the new place until the 1st. I was like, oh no, where do I go? And then I had a boyfriend and then I stayed at his house yeah for that one night. But ah before that, leading up to that, I was just like, oh, that's going to be weird. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. So for one night every year, students in Boston are homeless. Yeah. They're all sleeping in moving trucks in the back alleys. But was a lot of, there's just a lot of cool and a lot of useless, but a lot of cool things that they put on the sidewalk to throw away. Yeah.
Speaker: So we went scouring and found some cool things. Yeah. And it really is a thing because we came across many other people also scouring.
Speaker: So... Well, gotta keep them out of the landfill. True. Very true. And... Yeah. So we had some fun with that.
Speaker: Yep. It was a ah day you were looking forward to. Found a cool bench. Found a cool mirror. Yeah. A book too, right? Yeah. A book of...
Speaker: Who was it? I can't remember. just remember it being huge. Yeah, it's one of those beef poets from... I forget who.
Speaker: I feel like I recognized the name when you like read it off. Yeah. But I cannot for the life of me remember. I'm drawing a blank too, but... Yeah. just But like in the trash can.
Speaker: Yeah. Yep. Yeah, because it's safe to rummage. um It's probably not advisable. you know this is Do not listen to us as we are talking. Listen to us. don't Don't do what we say. Well, you know everything that day is being thrown out because of that and not because it was bug bed. Trash or... Yeah, broken or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker: mean, a lot of broken stuff was out there too. Well, lot of shit was probably broken because it was thrown out the window or whatever. Yeah. I remember two years ago, Sierra...
Speaker: sierra friend of the show and one of our first guests on the podcast, also two years ago, she came up here, she flew up here to hang out for Day weekend and then hung out for a couple days, worked remotely from here in my apartment and I worked remotely and then we drove down to Pennsylvania for Anahatas. But during Labor Day weekend, were we were We had like a day in Salem, a day in Boston, and then a day to just like melt on the couch because we were exhausted.
Speaker: And our day in Boston, we wanted to make sure we hit this speakeasy in the Back Bay area called Hecate.
Speaker: Are you resisting right now? I know how it's pronounced. Anyway. Anyway. um And it was the kind of thing where, because it's a speakeasy, it's very like limited space and it's very first come, first serve. and so we went and basically put our names on the waiting list and then stepped back outside because there's like nowhere to wait inside. And lo and behold, these two like IKEA loungy chairs
Speaker: were sitting in the in the alley fresh and clean because it was Alston Christmas and so we just sat down in the chairs right outside of the door and waited and it was very comfortable and we found multiple people after we you know had a had put our names on the list thank goodness multiple people came down the alley looking for the same place and they were just like looking around and we were like are you looking for Hecate? It's right there because it is quite hard to find we were we shouldn't have taken the chairs yeah no because we were we didn't drive in we took the train should have taken the chairs with what space I don't know anyway I barely have space as it is but it was very convenient for that moment while we had to wait and then it was delicious good yeah Austin Christmas it's a thing
Speaker: Yeah. It's a fun. One time I was in Malden, I think, and I saw the arcade game Galaga on the side of the street.
Speaker: And I should have grabbed it. I don't know it, but I guess I don't really know arcade games. It's that one where you air like a ship and you fire things and things are falling at you. Okay. So like I've Like a video game and not like a pinball machine. Yeah. Okay.
Speaker: Yeah. Gotcha. oh One of the like greatest regrets of my life. One of them. Yeah. What about some others?
Speaker: I don't know. I'm kidding. don't know about that. Yeah. Ooh. Want to tell the story you told your parents?
Speaker: Even though it's not Allstead Christmas related. Yeah. the the way you acquired the bike uh yeah although that's best with visual aid um i believe in your descriptive abilities okay well a couple years ago yeah i found a bike for free on the streets of Boston and I'll explain.
Speaker: i was hanging out I was hanging out with someone who I don't even know who it was in Roxbury or something, just south of Boston. And obviously these were in my times of drugs.
Speaker: So that's what I was doing and that's why I was there. The drug days. The drug days. But... I don't know. I would often just be like, I'm going out for a walk. No matter where I was, whoever I was with was just like, okay. right Can't keep a good man caged. So yeah, I went out and I was walking around the South end of Boston, which is like half very rich, like townhouses, like millionaires.
Speaker: And the other half is like, it's right next to a, what they call methadone mile which is like just homeless drug addicts like ah there's a giant just like encampment of them it's near like a um i think like a safe like what is called a reduced hazard what's it called um harm reduction harm reduction yeah like clinic as a part of a hospital so that's a thing and you just can't really walk around without crunching on needles and all that sort of shit yeah
Speaker: So as I'm walking around, I see this person like standing up in like an alleyway, clearly high on fentanyl, like doubled over, standing up, arms dangling.
Speaker: so not quite standing up, but like on their legs. Standing on their legs. but like Standing bent over. Yes. Arms like swaying in the breeze. yeah And at his at this person's feet were just two bicycles.
Speaker: um And the first and i was like, oh, all right. Well, I'm high and said this is a good opportunity. So obviously going to take one. He's not using any of them. So yeah, i there was a really cool like orange just like mountain bike. It was thick. I don't know. It was just like really cool and probably expensive. and I tried to grab that one first and it didn't it like didn't i don't know it didn't work. He was like kind of draped over them, wasn't he? Yeah.
Speaker: And at one point I was like bending over to get it and my meth pipe like fell out of my pocket and like it landed on the ground it was like think somehow it didn't break but it was like the clintonlin thing ding thing and I froze but he did not hear he did not hear oh my god he was gone so I grabbed my pipe and I grabbed the second bike and I rode off with my own pretty new bike yep which is still here yep it's uh hanging out in our little entryway a white and purple woman's bike But hey, it served you purpose or served a purpose. Yeah, no, it was good. new Yeah, and now you have another one. Yeah, from the same neighbor who gave me the miter stuff.
Speaker: Right, right. but yeah So I'll probably get rid of the other one. The ladies' drug bike. Yeah. Ladies' drug bike.
Speaker: Oh my goodness. Yeah. I know you have like a billion stories of coming across random shit, whether it's free shit that you you know got to keep and use for yourself or stuff that you were able to turn around and sell.
Speaker: Yeah. um All of which occurred during the drug days, except for over the last year, obviously. Yeah, well, Modern Haunted was...
Speaker: I think my Massachusetts drug era, which is the majority of it, honestly. Yeah. Proportionately. It's pretty defined by modern haunted. True. Because it was, you started that like what, only like a year before?
Speaker: i started it in like when I, during the first couple of months I was home. Oh, okay. I thought you had, like, sort of at least been, like, formulating the idea. no I was kind of doing it. In months leading up. I was doing it in New York, especially when I had an apartment, but the last couple of years I didn't. I sort of, don't know, and then and and then for my friend let me stay with her.
Speaker: So I kind of had a room there that I definitely, I don't know, I definitely absorbed cool shit and sold it and whatever, but... It wasn't really con. It wasn't a thought to I just did it it you know as a way to get money for drugs and to make my space cooler. It wasn't like a thought out business the way i was trying to do it once I came home and once I came back to Massachusetts and Right. You know, I started when i was sober, honestly, because I was sober for the first couple of months I was here. Right, right. And didn't know what to do. And then people were putting furniture on the side of the road because everyone was cleaning their house because they bored being stuck inside for COVID.
Speaker: Right. So I just started taking all the pieces that I saw on the side of the road. and my poor parents is the only house in the world that chi it started filling up with shit. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker: Oh, man. But it was cool. And like you built a website and i remember, i guess it must have been super new when I met you. But I remember like coming across and being like, damn, this is nice.
Speaker: Yeah, it was cool. The Generation One stuff was all very like basic and yeah. it was It was like really... Figuring out the voice of modern haunted still. Yeah, and I felt like a lot of it was very... I don't Even if it was chaotic, like the summer table or whatever the hell that was called. oh that one was awesome. That one was chaotic, but it was beautiful. Yeah, I love that one. Yeah.
Speaker: And the mermaid dresser was like...
Speaker: Not so much chaotic, but it did have a lot going on. Yeah, I got it like a little carried away with that one. Yeah. but I feel like over time, you just increasingly got more and more carried away with a lot of stuff. Yeah. which like But most of the things did sell. Yeah, i was going to say, nothing wrong with it. And there was you know there's a market for that, obviously. but like it's very much It started out where you had this really nice blend of like minimalist and...
Speaker: maximalist i guess and then it just sort of trended more and more toward only maximalist and it was a little bit just like yeah you know yeah yeah some things Like, I feel like there was like, a part of it was your tastes and then a part of it was also like drug fueled. Yeah.
Speaker: Just like, you know, not knowing when to stop adding stuff. A lot of things I stumbled upon, like, like the mermaid chest, the mermaid dresser thing, which was probably one of my first like thematic, you know,
Speaker: Because lot of the things at first were just like either made to look spooky or made to look like cartoony, you know, and and but that was the first time I like kind of picked a direction to like go as like the underwater, you know, sort of whatever theme. And it was funny because I was like, I had this dresser, forget where I got it, side of the road, obviously.
Speaker: And I was like spending all this time sanding it and whatever. And i was like sanding all these drawers and like meticulously whatever, like getting, wasn't sure what I was doing with it yet, but I was like just getting ready to getting it all prepped and ready to do something with.
Speaker: And then I had this this kid I met through drugs over. um I think my parents were, out of town for the weekend and he came over and and he was like, dude, this is cool. And I was like, yeah.
Speaker: And he's like, you want to work on some, can work on some furniture with you? and i was like, dude, yes, sure. And I was like, yeah, here's like spray paint. Here's the pieces like you could do like, you know what? a And I turn around and he's like, just like spray painting all sorts of like pinks and blues and purples on the, on the newly sanded drawers. was like, fuck no, anything but that dude. dude Oh shit, I'm sorry. I'm sorry i'm like, fuck.
Speaker: So I started sanding it those down and that's when i sort they sort of started kind of becoming the tie-dye, not tie-dye, but like blended pinks and purples and whatever. And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
Speaker: yeah And then from there I was like, you know, it just developed into this sort of like marine Neptune-y thing. I don't know. du So, yeah, no, a lot of these things just kind of like found their own way found their own voice or and whatever it's true it's true i do you remember that and that one sold pretty for pretty good yeah that was at a yard sale early on right and was yeah sold for like it was that and the blue bench i think i sold them for like five or seven hundred dollars or something like that the two of them together yeah and maybe one other thing too but i forget right right
Speaker: Where did you get the dinosaur bone? The dinosaur bone! That was my favorite. It was not a literal dinosaur bone, by the way. looked like it, though. It was just a gigantic fucking, like, femur? I don't know what the fuck was it. Yeah, like plaster, like, not paper mache, but some sort of, like, plaster-y. Right. It looked like... It was, like, six feet long or something. Yeah, it was probably, like, four feet long, but, like, proportionate. Yeah.
Speaker: Giant. um Yeah, I don't know. I just... I found that... on a sidewalk in Brooklyn one day. There was two of them. And I was like, no way. And I just like grabbed one of them. i wish I could have grabbed both. I grabbed one of them and like took brought it on the train, brought it on the subway, went went to my friend Eric's house. And he was was like, all right, cool. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I leave this here for a while? I'm homeless. He was like, guess. Oh my god. so I'm glad that was able to survive.
Speaker: you know How did that get back? That did come back to mass. How did that That must have been when my dad brought me back somehow. I went back. I don't know how I got that back. i Yeah, I was going to say, like, you didn't fit a whole lot in his first pickup. That must have been in the first round of stuff. Oh, really? i think. I guess, yeah, that's true, because I guess it was on the website when I met you. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, and you didn't go back until after that? No. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And Jerome. Jerome the Black Gnome. The Matt Black Gnome.
Speaker: I don't know where you got ah got him from. I'm sure I robbed him from some person's front yard. i don't know where I got him from either, to be honest. Well, he got met blacked and then I bought him.
Speaker: Actually, i think I got him for free. Yeah, maybe. But i think I think you didn't list that it was given away for free on the website. Sold. Just sold. Yep.
Speaker: But, uh, Jerome... Jerome Danone. Yeah, I threw away a couple Matt Black things today, actually. ah Sad day. Whatever. Wow. I kept some of them.
Speaker: True. Good. And you sold some, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. There's a whole Matt Black collection. Yeah. Of things. Yeah. Like the Big Mouth Billy Bass.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. Remember the Imagination Station? Of course. ah was ah That was a Generation 1 classic. It's true. It was like a desk with a hutch, and and and like took me forever to like meticulously paint it.
Speaker: But it was nice. It was very nice. And it got spray-painted red and then destroyed by some person's parents in New Hampshire. ah right
Speaker: being purposely vague. Yeah. Because, fuck, like that just, that could have... I know. It's a shame that that didn't sell. Yeah. I mean, I think of I didn't. It's like a pity that they didn't sell it.
Speaker: Right. Because like, you know, it just like they could have profited even if that would have been stolen from you. Yeah. But at least it would have gone somewhere. Yeah. It just nonsensical. These people and their parents, they don't make sense. The um remember Snoopy's doghouse? I do remember Snoopy's doghouse. It's a doghouse we found in Milford right by. Right.
Speaker: And I took it back. And at first, I was going to make a haunted doghouse. But I forget something just, i was like, oh, let's just make it. It's like a live action Snoopy's, a recreation of the red.
Speaker: doghouse and i brought that up to new new hampshire when i moved up there who and for some reason i remember we had to go to this was my i'll just say it was my ex-girlfriend right at the time it wasn't actually we were just friends yeah it was before yeah and we drove and i remember for we had to like go and her parents lived nearby the same town in new hampshire but not we had it was like a driving distance we drove there and somehow i saw like the doghouse on their front lawn with like written in like like ballpoint pen like on on like a piece of like 8 by 10 8 by 11 like printer paper like for sale $75 and I was like wait what the fuck oh my god wait this is mine oh my god they were a mess yeah so we still I stole it back well good
Speaker: Yeah, but I still think they ended up destroying it. or I don't know where it ended up, actually. Fuck them. Yeah, too bad. Whatever. yeah I got the photos of it. That's all that matters, I guess. Indeed. Indeed. And I'm trying to think what else. There was like a really cool... i want to say like media center, but it was like old-fashioned.
Speaker: Yeah! Oh, that's the one that we brought from Ross's apartment. right and dropped off in like uh beacon street i don't think so oh so this is a 2020 thing okay and i remember you like did a different color on each cabinet door there was like four of them it was just it was very interesting and it was i don't even know if you ever finished it i don't know if you took it down to new york when you opened the store fry or Oh, was it the blue and gold one? Kinda, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. think. Yeah, I've actually recently found a photo of that one. Yeah, do you remember what happened to it? Yeah, I think the person that volunteered to store some of my stuff kept it, and then she got evicted, and then that ended. that also She also had the... um Summer table? The summer table. That's right.
Speaker: Yeah. yeah Damn it. I know. Yeah, that one was shaping up to be really cool. Yeah, I did recently find a photo of that, so I was... Wait, what's... Yeah. don't know. We'll figure out later. I'm pretty sure that we're talking about the same yeah yeah thing. Yeah. yeah Yeah.
Speaker: Many a thing. Many of my furniture pieces came from you. Yes. Indeed. All customized. Well, except for this table that I use the most, frankly. I mean, that was kind of customized. I don't know where I got that from. Well, you had already, like, designed it, and you didn't change anything, really, after I said I wanted it. Yeah. So, but, like,
Speaker: I think the broken record table. Yeah. Turntable. I told you i just wanted it like basic, not black, but like mid-century modern. Yeah.
Speaker: And like, same with the kitchen hutch, the kitchen witch. Which we, which remember picking that up? I do. Yeah. that's Purple. And like, do you remember the exact purple shade that you called it?
Speaker: Yeah. dead Purple. course it's accurate it was and it's just bananas because i'm like of all the colors to choose for that kind of piece of furniture that like any purple would be less weird than that particular shade ah you know like a lavender would have been nicer or like a deep rich purple would have been nice did you see inside the house No.
Speaker: It was a pretty eccentric house. It kind of reminded me of like the Weasley's house. The house where it came from, by the way. Yeah. yeah Okay, that's still... i Still, I don't understand how that's the choice for the color. yeah I don't know. Well, regardless, it's matte black now with very nice gold hardware. Yes.
Speaker: And it fits. It's exactly what it should be. um Yeah. And a few other things. This beautiful dark cabinet. The dark cupboard.
Speaker: Dark cupboard. That's the one. don't think I did anything with that, though. I think you stained it. I did? I remember seeing a photo of it being like taken apart and laying flat. The cabinet door like being flat on your parents' driveway. Those doors are like so intricate. Spray staining. What the hell?
Speaker: Spray staining? that would be the only way to do it. Yeah, I think that's how you did it. Regardless, that's been a favorite of mine also. It was a bedside table for a long time.
Speaker: I still have the legs downstairs that we were going to add to it. The legs from like six years ago. Yeah. I don't even know they'd work, but I don't know if they would. And I don't know if it matters anymore. Cause like, I don't even have room for it.
Speaker: Yeah. You know, do you remember? was thinking about this the other day. remember when we stole stuff? Yeah. Lowe's. Yeah. I can't believe stupid Paris. They found it in our basement.
Speaker: We stole a stop sign that had been, like, knocked over from the lowest parking lot. Yeah, it was, like, laying in the bushes. We scouted it for, like, months. Yeah, I'd been there for months. Yeah, it was, like, in the bushes. Nobody was fixing it. Nobody else took it.
Speaker: So we did. So we did, yeah. And I put it in my parents' basement. And I... Tried to hide it, but they found it and like returned it to like like the true lawful neutrals that they are. The municipal traffic office of the town.
Speaker: Stupid. Yeah. Oh my god. But fortunately... It was gonna be a table. Well, I did make a stop sign table. True. because Later. Yeah, Carol. if this That's a whole random story, but whatever. Carol gave me a stop sign that she had in her basement. Yeah.
Speaker: the o Yeah. But it was fun. My car still bears the scars. I didn't think you were going to take the whole post and everything. i thought you were going to unscrew it from the from the hole.
Speaker: Well, yeah. I think that was the ideal plan, but it was kind of on there. It kind of rusted. Took a little while to work off. so Gotcha. Yep. Yep. ye So you just carved a chunk out of my dashboard when you were shoving it into the car. At least, yeah. At least it didn't hit like the radio. Or my head.
Speaker: radio your phone or my head Yeah. here yeah that's too bad you and then there was ah another day hurt night when there was we found the dresser In Lake Holliston.
Speaker: Yeah. I can't believe that fit. Well, the door didn't, the trunk didn't close. Okay. For sure. i was hazarding it all the way back to your parents' house. Yeah. But it was also super late at night, so.
Speaker: Yeah, that stayed there for a while. True. Before Bethann, my friend Bethann, decided she was gonna take it. Yeah.
Speaker: That turned out pretty good, too. Yeah. dressers i feel like it's easier there's like a little more imagination freedom when it comes to dressers because it's already like a creative space when it comes to like deciding what you're gonna wear true particularly for women less so for men yeah yeah unless you're you know a particularly creative uh fashionable man yeah but uh they are they're creative spaces and
Speaker: easy to like build or find a way an avenue to like create an inspiring space i really like the two that i did when i was staying with beth ann that like just the way because they were so like rectangular they were like vertical dressers yeah as opposed to the that one long ones the long which was like yeah and like the way the drawers like they did There was like no space between the drawers. So it was just like five like perfect rectangles stacked on top of one another. right So it was like kind of like a flat surface almost.
Speaker: i don't know. so like I like those ones. it's hard Those ones are hard to describe. but Yeah. I know exactly what you mean, though. Yeah. Really cool. Really easy to do like patterns across it and make it look like one cohesive thing. Right.
Speaker: Right. Some people do like patterned wallpaper or even like the like tapestry style wallpaper on the fronts of dressers and stuff yeah those ones would have been good to also do something like do the pack of cigarettes idea right marlboro yeah make i mean they're all those are all over pinterest and whatever but it's true it looks fun to do yeah fun simple straightforward if i were to ever commission one i would want it to be
Speaker: um based off of like if i if i was trying to do a fun one and not like you know a tall dresser that just looks like a nice clean mid-century modern but um you remember my cigarette purse yeah i would want it to look like my cigarette purse which is basically it looks like the marlboro but it's all black and white and it says whatever hell ain't that bad anyway or something like that don't know um it's cool i like it
Speaker: That would be Yeah. I have more space? Yeah. Because as it stands, I barely have space for the dresser I do have.
Speaker: Yeah. Alas. And pretty soon I'll post. Oh, already talked about that. Yeah, you're going post stuff? yeah Yeah.
Speaker: It's really good. Yeah. Hell yeah.
Speaker: Anyway. Yeah. Hooray. Hooray. Memory lane. Yeah. Furniture. Yeah. Shall we do a Mad Lib?
Speaker: Or two? Okay. You want to go first? Which? As in holding the phone? Okay. I haven't even looked at what most of the new Mad Libs are called.
Speaker: Okay. So it's going to be a free for all. 101 goofiest Mad Libs. Oh, brother. Mega value.
Speaker: see all of my books. He he he he he. Christina and I have played several Mad Libs on recording since you and I did them. And it's always me filling in the words and she came up with them.
Speaker: So it's fun to be on the receiving end. All right. Well, should I read you a couple options? Yes, please. The first few ones are um Ninja Fight Song, Dancing Through the Decades, Benjamin Franklin, My Favorite Teacher Contest, A Letter to Santa, oh Video Games, A Morning Person, Confessions of a Pizza Eater,
Speaker: Moon facts. Oh my goodness. Moon facts. Let's do moon facts. Okay. Okay. All First one. We got an adjective. Adjective. Rusty.
Speaker: Rusty. Next. Noun.
Speaker: Cat toys. Or single cat toy. Cat toy. Next. Noun. Damn. Spaghetti noodle. Spaghetti noodle.
Speaker: Next. Adjective. Adjective. Vantablack. Vantablack. That's the blackest black.
Speaker: I know. Plural noun. Plural noun.
Speaker: Wheels of cheese.
Speaker: Wheels of cheese. Verb ending in S. Ooh, don't get that one very often. ah
Speaker: Sucks. Sucks. Number. Number. 69. nine 69. Noun. Same noun.
Speaker: o barn same noun What guess. Person in room.
Speaker: Jim. No. Okay. a Person in room. Mully. Okay. Noun.
Speaker: Sword. Plural noun. Okay. I got one and I'll need your input on this. It's either Book of Mormons or Books of Mormons.
Speaker: Books of Mormons. Books of Mormons.
Speaker: That's a forever argument amongst Mormons, or at least it was back in the day. You're going to like this one. Part of the body. Nipple.
Speaker: Nipple. Yes. Plural noun.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: Let's do garden hose is garden hoses. Garden Jose's adjective adjective gilded.
Speaker: think this is the last one now. Duncan iced coffee. in ice Coffee.
Speaker: Coffee. Okay, here we go. Alright. Okay, moon facts.
Speaker: Even though the moon first appears as a rusty slice of light and finally comes and finally becomes a full cat toy, it doesn't change its spaghetti noodle. the man The moon looks different as the Vantablack sun illuminates its different wheels of cheese. Okay.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: once in every sixty nine days if the moon were to be seen next to the earth it would look like a tennisbarn next to a bowling barn
Speaker: and ninety sixty nine jim and molly from the apollo sword were the first human books of mormons to set nipple on the moon
Speaker: Many historians and garden hoses believe this to be the most gilded achievement in the history of Duncan Ice Coffee.
Speaker: Oh, that was good. There you go. Yay. yeah ya ya Yay, yay, yay, yay. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker: And now, it's your turn.
Speaker: All righty. I'm going skip past the ones you read. Close dancing is cool again. okay Behind the scenes. How to write a love letter.
Speaker: What to do when you have a cold. Famous hippie famous hippies in history. Okay. ah So you want to be a villain. Maybe that one.
Speaker: So you want to be a villain? Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Give me an adjective. Okay. Um, frayed. Afraid? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker: Frayed. Frayed like a rope. Ah. Noun. Slinky. Slinky. Plural noun.
Speaker: Shoes. Shoes. Good, sturdy. an Adjective. Um, formidable. Formidable. That's a good one. Person in room.
Speaker: Bob Om. Robert Bom? Yeah, Robert Bom. Robert Bom. Robert Om, wouldn't it be? No, Robert Bom. Okay. Person in room.
Speaker: Link. Or horny. Yeah, horny. heads and battlecorn The battle battle corn.
Speaker: Okay, look how tiny that got. It's okay. Another relic of the modern haunted days. Yes. Noun.
Speaker: Catheter. Catheter. Oh my god. Adjective.
Speaker: Jealous. Jealous. Plural noun. Let's say... Apple pies. Apple pies.
Speaker: Person in room. um I have an idea if you want it.
Speaker: Cow skull. That's not a person in the room. That's a noun. Oh, okay. was going to say Tony Soprano. Okay, Tony Soprano. He's not in the room. He's on the TV, which is in the room. Okay.
Speaker: We just got done watching The Sopranos for anybody who's curious. Okay. Celebrity. Who could have also been Tony Soprano. Yeah. Let's see. Celebrity.
Speaker: Armie Hammer? was going to say Antonio Banderas. Ooh, yes. Antonio Banderas. Maybe that's just because I had Tony on my mind. Maybe.
Speaker: Plural noun. Um... Uh... Mallets. Mallets. Occupation, plural.
Speaker: Okay, let's say garbage men. Garbage. Barbage. Barbage men. What just almost typed. Adjective.
Speaker: Barbaric. Barbaric. That's another good one. Another adjective. um Slippery. Slippery.
Speaker: And one final adjective. Sad. Sad. Here we go
Speaker: So you want to be a villain. Yep. It's not easy being frayed villain in a sea of fairy slinky. It's true. Mothers. Slinky mothers?
Speaker: Oh, as instead of godmothers. was like, what the fuck Fairy slinky mothers. Magical shoes and formidable princes and princesses. Yeah. To be really successful villain like Count Robert Baum or horny the heaven sent battle corn, the wicked catheter will take practice and the right tools. Yikes. First, you'll need a really jealous laugh. since you have to cackle alongside the most evil witches and horrible apple pies. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker: It is also recommended that you hire some evil henchmen like Tony Soprano! Wow! Or Antonio Banderas! Yeah, yeah, yeah. help you steal golden mallets or kidnap wealthy garbage men.
Speaker: Oh And of course, you'll need a place to hide out. A dark barbaric cave is good. Yeah. But so are slippery alleys. Those are those both work perfectly. oh Follow these directions and you will certainly become a really sad world famous villain.
Speaker: bad. Amazing. to hire Tony Soprano in his audio pen. Yeah. The Tonys. Yeah, the Tonios. The Tonios.
Speaker: Wow. Well, that was fun.
Speaker: ah Well, thank you for doing that. And thank you for joining me on this. That Lib was mad. oh It was indeed the maddest of Libs. Yes.
Speaker: Yeah. And um hopefully we weren't too directionless. No, I think memory lane is pretty directional. Well, here's the thing. We're talking about a lot of things that probably help to be able to visualize. it's True. If you want to visualize, just go to modern at modern haunted on Instagram and scroll all the way to the bottom. Maybe you can post them somewhere.
Speaker: Maybe we'll see. Yeah.
Speaker: But yeah, that's our episode. takes a Nice, short, light, sweet. fill her inner for Christina and we appreciate your filling in. Next time perhaps we'll be more prepared.
Speaker: Yes, even though we had a whole week to prepare.
Speaker: Regardless, it was fun and that's half the reason we do this. It was fine and normal. Yes, it was. Okay. Well, everyone have a wonderful evening.
