The Cast Gets CON'd - Ep. 37

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Live from the holiday boost studio.

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Presented by Pete Tonight out tonight.

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Jojo on the go.

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Like the pros you are, I know. Oh, hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome back. I don't know what month it is. I don't know what year it is. I don't even know what day it is. Anyone want to fill in those blanks?

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I think we're in 2026.

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Springish? Isn't that Jenna?

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Smells like spring outside.

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Smells like teen spirit.

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This microphone smells like coffee and regret. I didn't know where you were going with that.

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God, I haven't seen you guys in ages. I know. Like that was just one week. Why did it feel like seven years?

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It really did. Honestly, I missed you guys.

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I was like when Jenna popped up, I was like, Can I help you? You are. Are you lost, little girl?

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I probably still look hung over and swollen.

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To be clear, I would never say, Are you lost, little girl? I take that back and regret saying it ever.

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You should.

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Would you say you're swollen, Jenna?

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I probably am. I mean, also it's so early. Like my eyes are not opening.

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Everybody here now, no longer can I be the slacker who roams free after we're done recording the podcast. Everybody here now has uh what you call real jobs, I guess.

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Big growing big boy jobs.

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If you want to keep the podcast going, you've got to find time to do that, and that time is when the rest of the world is rightfully so sleeping. So if we have a little sleep in our voices or uh Janice Puffy, as she says, uh it's either that or the diabetes. We're not sure.

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But my right side is awake, left side's working on it.

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Well, that's just because you had uh a stroke tumor.

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What good morning, y'all.

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Oh, so so what do you guys do during our spring break?

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Nothing. I've worked. Um, yeah, I've been going through Red Cross orientation and training modules here down in the dungeon because it's remote, which is great. Like that that's dream for me, right? I've always fantasized about I can stay home and work and you know, we've got the business. And now I've I'm working with the Red Cross, signing uh organizations and schools and medical facilities up for classes and things like that. But w it's like four to six weeks of training, and it's like these training modules where Sally comes on and tells you all about what to do and whatnot, and then the quiz comes. Yeah. And half the time I try to like skip through all the videos and just get to the quiz.

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They don't let you. It's like a defensive driving course. You may not leave this page for 72 seconds.

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I was like, let me just skip all this, get to the quiz, and I'll just take it until I pass it. And it's like, nah, you watching this video, all of it.

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Are you learning all about infectious diseases and blood-borne pathogens?

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No, I'm learning about a lot of abbreviations that I don't remember any. Um, I don't know how I've passed any of the tests, to be honest with you. C P R.

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You know, I'm cracking jokes in the room.

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What does that stand for? Honestly.

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Come on. Yeah duh.

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I've been CPR certified like several times in my adult life. Never knew what it stood for.

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Can I interest you in another class? Perhaps also sell you a mannequin. Oh, she needs a mannequin. Sell her one of those.

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Yeah, Jagger, buy me a mannequin. I could use a buddy to sleep with.

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Remember that resuscitante bag? I'm sure they I don't know if they still call it that. I wanted to ask in our room, but I didn't, you know, want to sound like a big thing. Is her mouth still open? Yeah, like Yeah, perfect. Send me. We know they have a smart one now, so I can only imagine what that does.

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Oh, it probably bites down walk down.

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Yeah. Well, that's not very smart. It's only smart because it roasts you if you get near it. Get away from me, you pig. I'd rather die than have your mouth on me.

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That's amazing. I would love that.

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I choose death. So anyway, things are going well with them. I'm sure they're proud to have me. Um how are your careers going? Thriving, I'm sure.

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I mean, I was just in Florida last week for a leadership conference, and honestly, it was amazing. Um, I don't know if this is what's supposed to happen when you work in corporate America, but I tend to get more out of like work things on a spiritual and human level than work-related, but yet I tie in like how things impact me personally into my work life. So maybe that does make me a better leader. But um, I had a great old time. Except for the weather. Florida weather was terrible.

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Been tracking you a little bit, and I was wondering which which day the lesson of karaoke happened.

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That was day one.

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Day one. That was day one. Is that team building exercise?

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You bet it was. We did that and we did like a top golf type thing. Uh, it was a lot of fun.

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Ooh, good. Top golf.

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I stayed out way too late that night.

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Now, who was your karaoke partner in that video?

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So she's actually one of the managers in my um organization, and she has been there for years, and she's been known to be the singer. So then I come into the organization and I tell my boss that I sing too, and he's like, Oh, okay, you two are singers. So I said to her, Hey, listen, no pressure at all. I signed up for karaoke. I'm trying to do things that scare me this year. Um, this seems like a pretty potentially embarrassing thing. Do you want to sing with me? She goes, Well, what song are you singing?

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No, don't, Jana, don't lie. It was a straight up battle, so you could mark your dominance. Yep.

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I'm the manager then. Listen to me. Listen to me. That's a good, that's a good move. That was not the case. It was more so this. Um, I said, Well, I picked Whitney Houston. She goes, I'm not singing with you if you're not good. And I was like, Whoa. I so talk about asserting dominance. So I was terrified. How dare you? Yeah. So then we hop on. So then I hopped on and I was like potentially thinking about just flopping the whole thing just to be funny over everything.

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Should have gone on and been like, ah, patata. Right.

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But you know what's funny? So I sang that song, and I do I've mentioned this. I take karaoke very seriously because I actually like to sing. For me, it's like a a creative release. But then as the drink started flowing, I then ended up singing Grease with someone else, and that was like a fun one. And then there was the super drunk guy at the end singing Timber by Pitbull and uh Kesha, and he didn't put two and two together that Kesha's a big part of that song. So I literally just ran and grabbed the mic and started like jumping up and down and being the MC. Yeah.

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We have two heroes on the line today.

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And then there's you.

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Yeah. I know, right? You know, you could tell your manager friend that you actually made her sound like a make-a-wish kid on that soundtrack. You totally blew her away.

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Her lifelong dream was to stand in the middle. It is. You should tell her.

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Oh my God, I will not. But um I hope she does it. No, it was it was a lot of fun. I was really happy that she agreed to do it with me. I was willing to do it myself, but I was this close to chickening out. So like I think having her there for accountability was like really helpful.

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Well, I did karaoke as well this weekend. So what's it? Would you like to guys singing everywhere?

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What are you a K-pop band all of a sudden? I wish. We should be. That'd be fun. That would be fun. No, I was at a Jeannie's coffee shop down in Pensacola. They had caffeinated karaoke. Would you leave those people alone? Uh I dream of Jeannie. It's fun.

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God, now you have to do that. Okay, so they canceled your stand-up and then they allowed you to sing instead. They wouldn't even let you talk. Canceled your stand-up.

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A new subscriber for uh ever since the program began, Jagger's been promising that he's going to be doing a stand-up routine generated by AI, and we're still here now on month out of the four. Where is it? It takes time. It's not as easy as a to actually go to a place would probably help. Right.

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That was the part that I didn't plan on.

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I the rest of it I figured was fine. Why don't you just record it in an empty room and we'll be the audience and play it back for it?

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I mean, yeah, don't you piece our piecemeal our show together, piecemeal your stand-up routine like you were actually there live?

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I'll put a live track on a mean.

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Exactly. Like we'll clap like this, not laughing at all, and you'll be like, ha ha ha ha ha. Wait, so what'd you sing in karaoke?

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Uh so I didn't go in the effort to say what's up.

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Before I forget, it's uh this young man's 23rd birthday today. So happy birthday to my son Jacob. There he is.

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Happy birthday, Jacob.

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A place called Burgatory. It's got the most extra milkshake ever known to mankind, the flame shooting out. Yeah.

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So if you're just on one of the listening platforms, we're looking at a picture right now of JoJo's oldest, and he is staring at a milkshake that has fireworks coming out of it.

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And it's not like we were all a little bit unsure about the restaurant's safety at that point. Um, but happy birthday. Very proud of you. He graduates in a couple of weeks.

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Yeah.

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Didn't a club in Switzerland burn down from those milkshakes?

SPEAKER_07 9:21

Uh I feel like a club will burn down from a lot of other things before a milkshake.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

I feel like that violates code, but um that show was not as big as the show that was happening at the table next to us at this burgatory. Have you heard of Burgatory?

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Of course. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

No. Well, Janet goes places, so I didn't doubt that for a second. But they they have pretty pretty good burgers when well, they overcooked mine, but that's okay. Next to us was um I saw a um a more mature woman and a younger woman sitting there, and then it didn't take long to realize it was a mother with her cranky teenage daughter. And they're looking at the menus, and the next thing I hear, and I look over, and one of the menus is on the floor. And then I see the daughter, and she's like, and I'm not picking it up. Uh-oh. And I'm like, yo, yo, yo, yo, check it out, check it out, check it out. To the whole table. So now we're watching, and the mom's like, pick it up, pick it up. So the mom picks it up, gives it back to her, throws it on the floor again. This went on like five times. I was like, This is amazing. This is definitely dinner and a show. Which was good because it took 45 minutes for the hamburger to come out that I wanted.

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So Yeah, that sounds like something my four-year-old would do. Uh so not surprising that that comes from a teenager. We also were prepping for T ball, um, because she's starting T-ball this week, and we're playing the game, and all of a sudden she goes, Well, can you just throw it to me? I'm like, kind of not the game. It you gotta hang off a T. So then we were playing tag too, and she's like, Oh, it doesn't count, and you have to tag me on the left knee. So I would tag her on the left knee. Oh, you gotta tag me on the butt. Oh, you gotta tag me on the side. I'm like, I feel like you're making your own rules, and she goes, That's because I am. So that kid throwing uh a menu that reminds me of my future.

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Too bad Dr. Phil will be dead by the time she's old enough to be on the show. Oh man.

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Catch me outside, how about that? So did the girl end up throwing her plate when her food came too?

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I mean, it just got worse and worse. And at one point, because our our youngest son just he stayed in the car with the dog and the windows up.

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What is happening because we air conditioned?

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See, he volunteered. He's like, I'll stay in the car with the dog with the windows up and just bring my food out to me. So when his food comes, I bring it out to the car. I'm calling CPS. Yeah, I go back in the restaurant and I pass the mother and daughter's table, and the mom looks at me like almost saying help me with her eyes. And I just said, Sucks to be you, nerd. And then I sit on my table.

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You know, I actually I I see that thing too, and obviously it happens to all of us as parents, right? The other day I was at the park and a mom was dealing with a child who was having an absolute ballistic meltdown, and she had to carry her to the car. And of course, it's very difficult to get your kid in a car seat when they're flailing at you and stuff. And I could see like the giving up on the mom, and she looked up for one second as she's like trying to get her in, and I'm walking back to the park, and I just looked at her and said, That happens to me all the time. I'm like, You're okay, you're not alone. And I think that just really helped her get through it. But like, it is crazy the moments of desperation that uh I I kind of understand why parents snap.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Yeah, then I wonder, like, what you know, when we when our kids were little, what kind of scenes did did we put on, like in theaters and restaurants and stuff.

SPEAKER_07 12:50

Oh, it's not you, it was the kid.

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Yeah, I was always paranoid, you know. Some parents let their kids throw food all over the Applebee's carpet and just leave, and I'd be the guy who asked the server for something to clean it up with.

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And I don't get embarrassed when my kid does that. I just like look at whoever's around and I'm like, me, right? You know, just trying to get everybody on the same playing field. Like, okay, let's match our energies. Yeah, like let's just know that we're all in this together. You're looking at trying to help I gotta suffer.

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During my uh Red Cross training today in the uh Teams room. I'm just gonna right in the middle of it say that.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Is there any way that you can record that that we can have for some content? Not legally in any way, shape, or form.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

No, that would fall into the um protecting company, whatever. Um I passed the quiz, so don't worry about it. Nice. Good job, buddy. Before Burgatory, I don't know if you guys wanted to know about Steel Citicon. I have been waiting for days.

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We saw all the picks.

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Janet's like, I already saw them all. Jagger, do you want to put him in for the audience here, or do you want me to just hold up my phone? Uh yeah, I'll put him in for you. Okay. So here's William Fitchner. You'll remember him from such shows as Prison Break, and also he was in Mom. He's the guy who looks like he could just kick your ass by looking in your general direction. Wait, he was in your mom or mom, not no television show mom.

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Good guess though.

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So filster. I thought of all the people we met, he would be the most like standoff is because he just looks like a badass, you know. Um he was in the dark night, he was in uh a lot of different things. Uh he was tremendously gracious. I also learned there's two different experiences that you can have at these things. One's a professional photo where you line up like cattle, yeah, and it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And you don't say anything and they don't really talk to you. Well, we missed a photo opportunity with uh Brad Dorf um from Grandma's Boy. Like it was so quick, we we missed what was paid for, and the guy's like, oh no, no. Well, was he in a hurry? Where was he going? Then we figured out that so these professional photos were in a hotel next to the convention center, and then in the convention center was the con.

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So you would have to leave the environment, the energy, the event to go to go to your nerd photos, to go to Sears photos. I've never been to a con, but is that typical? I thought everything was right there.

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What what I didn't know is after they're done with the nerd photos, yeah, they go back to their booth at the con, and you can just go up to them with your phone and take a selfie and and and have them sign something and chat with them.

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And probably not wait on a line.

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Like, yeah, it's like half of them were just walking around the crowd. Um so I I took a picture with uh, like I said, William Fitchner and then uh Kevin Nealon, who was in Weeds Saturday Night Live. Um all kinds of shows. He was cool. Um my wife was excited, she got to talk to the original Annie, and they hit it off actually so well that Steel Citicon used a photo of my wife with Annie on their main page. Is that because they're both orphans? Yes. Tiger said that one, so you know. Um and I felt bad because there were, and this would totally be me. So there were some celebrities who weren't famous enough to be in the celebrity section. So they were like renting a table in the vendor section. Oh no. So like there was an actress from Terrifier 2 next to a guy that sells hot sauce. Nice. And you you look over, and it's like this big poster as scene in Terrifier 2, but you don't want to stare at her too much because she doesn't have a line and she's just sitting there. So it's back over to the guy selling the channel.

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It kind of tracks.

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So I'd rather have the hot sauce.

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Right.

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Oh, neither one of you. Well, maybe you, Jagger, but uh Jana couldn't handle Terrifier.

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No.

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Probably not.

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What is it? Jagger's now gonna put up a picture of Art the Clown so everyone can see the uh lead star of all the terrifier films. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 17:18

Oh.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_07 17:22

Well, thanks for the warning.

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If you weren't scared of clowns, you are now. Um so let's see, I hope I didn't leave anyone out. Uh I probably did. Roseanne? Well, no, that was what I was getting to.

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So sorry, I blew too fast.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

No, my wife didn't want anything to do with that. Obviously, Roseanne is a firebrand, as I was called when uh when I was in terrestrial broadcasting by the president of our company. Um and obviously Roseanne's got opinions. Roseanne and I have history. She blocked me on Twitter once when I pissed her off. She yelled at me in the middle. Yeah. So, you know, I see her over there, and I'm like, I, you know, you're talking about conquering your fear of karaoke. My fear was the great Roseanne.

SPEAKER_07 18:04

Let me go make amends with the celebrity who has no idea who I am.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Exactly. So, I mean, it happened 12 years ago. It must be a very fresh memory in her mind. She hasn't gone through anything since then. So I said, you know what? I'm gonna do it. And so my wife's over hanging out with Annie, and my youngest son doesn't know who any of these people are. He he met the voice of SpongeBob. Oh, that's a really good one. That's the one I would crap on every story that I tell. I'm just not gonna tell them anymore. No, no, it's not even worth it. It's like let me hear about what you did, and then you're like, Oh, I don't know any of those people. That sucks. I gotta get into Red Cross training. I don't need this. It's just before our time. I got business headphones.

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Our time. It was before our time, he says.

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I'm I'm young at heart, Janet.

SPEAKER_07 18:53

Oh, right. You sure are.

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Well, I said my son, like, listen, if if I was your age with my parents here, which would never have happened, but I would have known who everyone is because I never chose what show got to be watched, and there was one TV in the house and three channels. So it's like I would have known every single person.

SPEAKER_07 19:10

And then that just speaks to your age. Proceed.

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I decided to just take the photo with Roseanne and put it up on social media, let the chips fall where they may. So we're waiting in line, and you don't just get a picture with her, you get a roast. Like every single person, she she had something, whether it was what their shirt said, the kid in front of us was dressed up in his cosplay, and she goes, What the hell are you supposed to be? And he doesn't talk because I guess that's part of his character. And she goes, I hope you're not as weird underneath that thing. Get over here, let's get this picture.

SPEAKER_07 19:43

You know what? I respect that. She must have been on crack cocaine, because that takes a lot of energy to do that.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Uh I'm thinking allegedly ambient and maybe something else, but we don't know for sure. And that's not my business. But we were next. We're next. And again, my son, no idea. This this woman that he's now terrified of, he has to take a picture with. And she goes, What are you doing? He's like, We're taking a picture with you. She goes, All right, why don't you get over here? I got a bad shoulder. And that was that was where I went. It looks like I'm sitting on Santa Claus's lap, if you look at this photo with uh Roseanne and I. Um, and then we got a text from my oldest son who's like, Hey, guess what? Uh, I'm an hour away looking at the waterfall house by Pittsburgh. Can I stay at your Airbnb tonight with my girlfriend? I'm like, this kid finds us no matter where we go. We could be six miles out to sea in Jersey, we could be at a con in Pittsburgh. And and I love that because I love seeing him. So lo and behold, he shows up, and our dinner reservation turns from three to five people, and the cost turned from 200 to $500. Ooh.

SPEAKER_07 20:49

Listen, at the end of the day, a mooch is a mooch. Until he's off that health care, he's got a mooch.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

I gotta take some of the blame for that. I found out that they actually had Buffalo Trace, which is impossible uh to find in this state. Well, that was $300 of the bill right there. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

So it's really not fair. I'm interested to know how much did you spend on pictures?

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Yeah. Um valid question.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Hand goes in the face.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

Too much. As you know, my wife and I keep separate accounts for a reason. Oh, right, right. Um so like I treated her to Annie and then she treated me to everything else that we did. Nice. That's a good system you got worked out.

SPEAKER_07 21:34

Listen, I keep these uh tinted glasses for a reason, so you never know what I have.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

It's 5 30 in the morning.

SPEAKER_07 21:41

Don't ask questions that you don't want answers to.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

No judgment here. Um, but it was fun. I I thought it was nice to you know the Gene Simmons look alike from Kiss was walking around and stormtroopers, and uh I knew I learned a new term cop. Cosplay is not consent. What? That's what I said. I was like, what the hell is what does that mean? I guess you can't just grab someone who's dressed up like uh Chucky.

SPEAKER_07 22:11

I agree with that.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Totally permission.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Oh, as far as pictures are concerned. Not like, okay, I got pumping.

SPEAKER_07 22:19

I can confidently say this is not an event I would ever think to attend. Um no, you're above it. However, I do appreciate any sort of con event, you know, comic-cons and that. I was just thinking, I was talking to a friend about this, and they were like, they're like, Do you think that like some of these people are like real like freaks? Like not like weird, but like like freaks in the bed. And I'm like, absolutely. Like they gotta have a good time, these people who like to dress up all the time.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Uh Janet's not much into con, she's more into ex-cons. Yes. That's more of her thing.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

That's it.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

But that's not free either. You know, they just take her money.

SPEAKER_07 22:56

You're paying in one way or the other.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

So Jojo, if you were to dress up at a con, what would you choose? What would be your character? I wouldn't have to.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

I'm already thinking about that for the August one. So I don't know. What are you gonna do? You're gonna keep with the case. I saw one girl, she had like an actual television on her head.

SPEAKER_07 23:12

Oh, that's so you just do a microphone?

SPEAKER_02 23:14

A functioning TV, and she got in our face and like started dancing around and we didn't know how to react because all it was was a TV head. Start making it rain, one dollar bills on her. Kind of uncomfortable, honestly. Try to change her channel. But listen, Jen, everything got better when I found the bar.

SPEAKER_07 23:29

It always does. And I appreciate that there was one.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

And then as I was ordering my beverage, he said, Do you want a small or a large? I said, How much more is the large? He said, It's the same price. I said, Well, that's a bad business model, but I'll take it. So would I go again? It depends on who's there. And there's a risk you take because the reason we ended up there in the first place was that my wife found out Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys was supposed to be there. Oh, right.

SPEAKER_07 23:57

That was the ultimate. That was it.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

That was it. So and then all of a sudden he didn't necessarily bail, he had a uh benefit that apparently he was more important. I don't know. He he went to something else, but we still had these tickets, so we we found other people. Also, Adam Savage from Mythbusters was supposed to be there. My son was excited about that. So he yeah, he immediately canceled too.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

So all the big names cancelled.

SPEAKER_07 24:24

You were left with uh Roseanne Roseanne Annie.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

Oh, uh I was gonna say television head girl, but okay. Uh sidekick on home improvement, uh Richard Carr. Yes, Carn. Yeah, Carn. Um and uh uh the guy from Hellraiser, uh Pinhead, he was there and his charge for photos was nothing.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Well, because you have no idea who he is under that mask.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

There's no mask. He's he's he's aged a lot. He kind of looks like Pinhead now. Oh, good.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

That's good.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

No makeup required. It's good for the car. Yeah. I did confuse some of the workers though, thanks to those of you uh listening who came up to me while I was a nerd waiting in line to get a signature from Kevin Neal, and I hear Jojo. And then next thing you know, I'm taking photos, and then the con people are looking around like who's Is this guy supposed to have a booth? Like they didn't but they're all fans and they say hi and they said that say they enjoy the uh podcast. That's super cool. Lovely.

SPEAKER_07 25:28

I love meeting listeners.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

Maybe we should get a booth to the next one. Yeah, but we'd have to be like in the where the non-famous actors have to rent one next to the hot sauce.

SPEAKER_07 25:37

I mean I would approve of that as long as the guy would give me a little deal on the hot sauce.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

And I'll pitch in a third. That's fine. What's it, six bucks? One couple was like, how much for a picture with you? And I'm like, why is that funny?

SPEAKER_07 25:50

I stoop to no low. I will take a picture for six dollars.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

Some guy, like uh 20 miles deep in the William Shatner meet and greet line shouted, Jojo, and I was like, uh that's fine. Because you don't want to mess with those trekkies. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. There's gotta be freaks out there. It was like, you know, I got I it made me feel good. Like I think I had more people than a couple of the actors that showed up.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Well, you also did have your Jojo hat and shirt on, so it's probably what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yeah, they were just they were just recognizing the shirt.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

You had a big arrow pointing at you.

SPEAKER_07 26:27

Yeah, they didn't know you. They were just like, it's like when you uh have a name tag on and they're like, How'd you know my name? And they're like, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Yeah. You weren't recognized, they were reading. I was waiting in line, and the guy from Grandma's Boy is like, Joe Joe. And I was like, oh crap, he's a listener. And I was like, oh no, shirt. That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

Happens to the best of us.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Um and then William Fitchner saw my hat. I was wearing the LBI hat, Long Beach Island, New Jersey. And he goes, L I B, what's that?

SPEAKER_07 26:56

Library.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

And I'm like, Oh, oh, L B I. That's that's Long Beach Island. He goes, Oh, I go, have you been there? He goes, Nope. Take the picture, move on. Pretty good actor. Yeah, get out of my way, peasant. Leave the 80 on the table.

SPEAKER_07 27:14

Well, I'm glad you had a good time. And uh, it sounds like an eventful weekend for sure.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

It sounds like I sound overly excited. You know, I don't really leave my house uh for many purposes, and this is a big adventure for me to go.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

I was excited for you. I was looking forward to hearing about it. It looked like a fun time. Jonathan had fun bunny earsing everyone. I thought that was cool.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

That took a lot of cojones for my kid. Like I I get it, he didn't know the actors and stuff, but for him to just bunny ear anyone he to take a phone.

SPEAKER_07 27:40

I love that.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

He's making his own fun. It's like I don't care who they are.

SPEAKER_07 27:44

He's like, I'm gonna get Papa thrown out of here. Everybody has their shtick. You know, I told you guys uh I love to do selfies with sleeping strangers. So when I used to commute into Manhattan, I'd be on the train if someone fell asleep next to me. I would just like pop a selfie with them. Well, that has continued in my old age, and I did it on the plane uh to both the people sitting next to me.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

I don't think you're allowed to pop selfies in public. Don't pop anything in public.

SPEAKER_07 28:10

Well, I did and uh asked for forgiveness afterwards, but I wanted to ask you guys because while I was on this plane ride taking selfies of these sleeping strangers, I'm the middle seat. What is the protocol for which armrest you get when you're the middle seat?

SPEAKER_01 28:28

You get both.

SPEAKER_07 28:29

Someone has said that to me, but you know both. I got neither. I had the girl on the left, her elbow was on my armrest. I had the guy on the right, his elbow was on my armrest. He even took it another level. His foot was in my foot space, so I was literally in like this. So I said, you know what? I earned my selfies with sleeping strangers.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Yeah, you certainly did. Yes. You're not one to put up with that. So what did you do?

SPEAKER_07 28:55

I allowed it because uh I yeah, I was tired and the plane was hot, and I was just trying to read my book and mind my own business. But no, I didn't I didn't particularly enjoy that at all. Then again, when my ex-husband used to have a belt extender, he would take up my space too. So I was kind of used to it.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

I wish I knew that was an option instead of just poking holes in an old belt.

SPEAKER_07 29:23

Well, you know what's you know what's even funnier? So then um my one of my two of my co-workers actually, one was my boss. They both need belt extenders. They're bigger guys.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

Why don't you just get another belt? One of the no on the airplane, the seatbelt. I'm sorry. Okay, I thought we were talking like a belt for Levi Jeans. I'm like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_07 29:42

How expensive are belts? That's funny though. But they were saying they're like, oh, I need to remember to ask the flight attendant for a belt extender. My coworker whips one out of his bag. He goes, I've needed it so many times, I just bought my own. I'm like, who would have thought you could buy one of those?

SPEAKER_01 29:56

I will die in a fiery crash before I ever ask for a seatbelt extender on there.

SPEAKER_07 30:06

Uh back in the day when my ex-husband was of a certain weight, it was like required. Like they were like, sir, you physically can't like use the seat, like you need an extender. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

No, here's the thing. All you do is you tuck the belt under the belly, and then this the steward or stewardess cannot see it that it's tucked under the belly.

SPEAKER_07 30:24

They think it's sounds uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Use with use what you got.

SPEAKER_07 30:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

You know, I saw a lot more of David Harbor's belly than I wanted to see in the show DTF on HBO.

SPEAKER_07 30:35

Um is it good? I want to watch that.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

I have not heard of DTF. What is it about?

SPEAKER_07 30:40

You know, it's a pretty good cast. Jojo mentioned that David Harbour is in it. Um, it's DTF St. Louis, I think is the actual name of the show. It's like Jason Bateman, Linda Cartellini, Richard Jenkins. I know it's like a lot of Jason Bateman. Same, a lot of like fantastic people. I don't actually know the plot of it, but it's on HBO. It's like it's one of those dark comedies. Uh, I will be watching it eventually.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

It's very dark. DTF does it stand for what I think it stands for? It's also got the dad from Step Brothers.

SPEAKER_07 31:09

Oh, yeah, Richard Jenkins, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

He's awesome. Yes, it does stand for what you think it stands for.

SPEAKER_07 31:15

Oh, then I'm definitely DTF.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

But not in the way that you think it it's gonna stand for it.

SPEAKER_07 31:20

I'm DT dub, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 31:21

And like I said at the beginning of this, you're gonna see way more of David Harbour than you've ever wanted to see in your entire life.

SPEAKER_07 31:26

Well, he's better than he used to, you know?

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Do we are we talk about the same person or someone you nate you dated named David?

SPEAKER_07 31:34

No, I feel like when he started Stranger Things, like he definitely wasn't as in shape.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Oh, well, I think he went the other way for this role.

SPEAKER_07 31:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Because it's part of the storyline, uh his insecurity.

SPEAKER_07 31:46

Okay. Well, we've established I'm a chubby chaser, so I'll take any David Harbor.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

He also has an appendage that's supposed to be straight and is twisted up like a pretzel, if you really want me to throw that in there for you, too. Oh didn't he get that Peroni. Oh, you do. You need to know it, and you're gonna hear about it a lot.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Well, guess what? You have uh caused me to call out of work today because I'm gonna sit and binge that all day.

SPEAKER_07 32:09

Sounds great.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Oh, yeah, it's unlimited, baby. That's what you do.

SPEAKER_07 32:13

Really? Yeah, but you know, I d I do feel like any job that offers you unlimited PTO, it is for a catch, right? Like what's but I mean you're a salesman, so if you don't if you can use as much PTO as you want, but you're not gonna sell as much, right?

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Well, I mean, it could be. Uh I think if you maximize your time when you're at work, you can take more time off. Yeah, I they just trust you. The my company trusts you love it. To do what you need to do and and to take the time off that you need, no questions asked.

SPEAKER_07 32:44

I think that's great.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

So now at the end of the year, if I'm not hitting goal, then I'll be taking permanent PTO.

SPEAKER_07 32:49

Yeah. Exactos.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

And I'll be watching DTF all damn day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:55

All day.

SPEAKER_02 32:56

I know. Yesterday was my first actual 9 to 5 30 day, and I have to do it. How am I still alive?

SPEAKER_07 33:07

You know, my mom asked me, Mama Cap was like, How's Jojo doing?

SPEAKER_03 33:11

And I said In the real world.

SPEAKER_07 33:13

I said, Yeah, I don't I don't want to ask because that might give him even more anxiety. So it's kind of better to just ignore and pretend like we don't know what's going on and just let it happen.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

I felt like Jen and I were sending our our firstborn off to kindergarten yesterday.

SPEAKER_07 33:27

It was well, it definitely wasn't first grade, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

I hope he makes friends. I uh it's gonna take a while for me to adjust to a world of two 15-minute breaks and a lunch. It's it's but the thing is, like, I have to use those to get stuff done around the house because if I'm worked until late and I'm the one who cooks, it's like I gotta come up with every crock pot meal.

SPEAKER_07 33:48

Welcome to corporate America, baby.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

I'm walking the dog on a 15-minute break.

SPEAKER_07 33:52

Like, come on, we ain't got time for that, Bush. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Hey, get the dog a treadmill and then get some pre-packaged meals. That's all you gotta do. Get the dog on a treadmill.

SPEAKER_07 34:02

You know what's funny? It's funny because you know, work from home has become a major thing since the pandemic. And when I um when I moved apartments, I came to this organization that's national and it's uh fully remote. And I remember hopping on calls with people and they were on those walking pads. Um and I was always like, wow, like they're we're doing meetings and they're just on the walking pad. And I appreciated it because they're like getting their steps in, they're multitasking. Well, then about a month and a half ago, we got an email. We are now forbidding the walking pads. We cannot because uh technically, if they got hurt, I think they would have to do workers' comp.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

From you at your house. I never thought about that.

SPEAKER_07 34:42

Yeah, so apparently.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

I'm looking over my basement steps thinking, hmm.

SPEAKER_07 34:48

It's a hazard. Total hazard.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

I can throw myself down, those.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

You have FMLA, you can just go ahead and get six weeks out.

SPEAKER_07 34:56

So isn't he not eligible for like six months or something? Oh, probably.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

I'll tell you something, they got good benefits. Like they let you pick from any insurance company that exists. It's uh Do you get free blood? Do you get you do get to take the CPR classes many times as you want? But they have all kinds of classes, they even have um pet rescue classes. Mouth to snout, if you will.

SPEAKER_07 35:19

That's a choice.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

That's I've had a few dates like that.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

You want to hope that Jagger's not around your dog while it needs uh any help because he'll just go ill.

SPEAKER_07 35:28

It's not you know, I I know I know people love like a wet snoot on a dog. To me, either dry nose or get away from me. I'm not kissing no dog with a wet snoot.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Well, if our dog has dry nose, we were told they have to put Vaseline on it.

SPEAKER_07 35:42

I'll take dry nose any day.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

No one cares. I'm doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Us too. Whoever's leaving. Is that boobs?

SPEAKER_07 35:56

It's a burglar.

SPEAKER_02 35:57

Hang on, I have to go take out the trash. Hey, you want to give a shout out to our uh new presenting sponsor, our good friends at Pizza Night, ladies and gentlemen.

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I want one of those. No, it's basically you know what I think? It's a stromboli, so it's like a bolus. It's not a boldly. It's a bowl.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Who wrote this? I'm gonna put a bolus in my mouth. Does not sound good. Who wrote this copy? Send it back. They're called bowls.

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They barely delivered a Johnstown.

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Well, you know what? A lot of pizza places nowadays, I I know the one that I the um restaurant I worked at for nine years, they would ship. So they would freeze and then ship it everywhere. Yes. Ship.

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SPEAKER_02 38:09

You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna say goodbye for now. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 38:13

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SPEAKER_01 38:16

Say it.

SPEAKER_07 38:18

You won't. Oh.

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Bye.

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