The Cast Gets Sphered - Ep. 43

Jana recaps her Wizard of Oz Vegas experience.

Transcript

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Live from the holiday boost in Spa Studios, presented by Pete Tonight Altuna. Jojo on the go.

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In a mouth. Yo. It's unbelievable the effort that we go through for you. One dollar a month. Just unbelievable.

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My eyes literally won't even open.

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What's that?

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My eyes won't even open, can you tell? Even with these eye patches. They don't do shit. I'm taking them off.

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I was like, how different is that than usual? Look the same, friend.

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I was waiting for you to even notice them. He didn't even notice I had green goo on my eyes.

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Yeah, she was all like, man, I'm gonna keep these on until he gives me a hard time about them. I was like, keep them on anyway, even after that. He didn't even notice it.

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Now my eyes are stinging, kind of. I think I looked at it.

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Oh hi, welcome to Jojo on the go. If you're new to this, I'm I'm JoJo. I used to be on the radio. Jana. Jana used to be on the radio afterwards. I used to be married. She used to be married. Jagger and I used to work together in the deep south of North Kakawaki raise up.

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And he used to be skinny.

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Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

We got what, two and a half minutes in there?

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Yeah. Not even. I thought you'd have some new material by now. You've been to Vegas and all. Nothing.

SPEAKER_04 1:28

She was a little vi she was busy in Vegas.

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I guess so.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

A little bit. A little bit. I'm still recovering. I mean, I gotta say, I you guys remind me all the time of how much I've traveled over the past five months.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

Yeah, because we don't.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

But this was the first time in a long time that I've skipped over the time zones. And even when I was there, I was waking up even earlier than we are here now. And coming home has just not been easy. I I am not sleeping well.

SPEAKER_04 1:57

It's nice when you land in Vegas, though, from the East Coast.

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Yeah, it's not so good staying there or then coming back.

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Yeah, you leave at four and you get in Vegas at like four.

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Right.

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So it's like it took you nothing to get there, and you're ready to hit them casinos and get them cocktails and have fun. Then you get back and you jump ahead three hours. I can't imagine. I'm sure Jana, the world traveler, can can tell us what it's like to have a jet lag longer than three hours. Oof.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

No, this that that one takes weeks to recover from. I'm hoping this will bounce right after this episode.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

What countries have you been to?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Um, okay, so uh I'll start with Europe. Uh I've been to England, France, and Italy and Spain. And then in Asia, I was in Thailand. I've been to Israel. I think that's it. And then I went to Morocco, which is in Africa, and I've been to Central America, which is not another country.

SPEAKER_04 2:57

Was that your free Israel trip because you're Jewish?

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Yep.

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Well, sure wasn't.

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I actually I'm really happy about it because uh I've never really associated uh as a Jew. Like, you know, religion is not my thing. I just no, really? Yeah, right. Crazy. So I've always been just about like having faith and like this and that and blah blah blah. No, but uh I'm really grateful that I went because I went with my sister and my now deceased cousin. So uh I'm really glad that we got to have that experience together. And it honestly gave me so much clarity because you go there and people either go one of two ways. They're either like full on, I'm gonna convert, I'm gonna move to Israel, I'm gonna embrace my religion when I get home, or you're just like right. I had the revelation of like, no, intuitively I've always known that like religion is not the end all be all. I can just have a power greater than myself and call it a day. And I was really glad that I uh did that. Plus, the food was banging over there.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

Well, that and so much war. I mean, who wants that? Well, you know what it was funny.

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Well, even then, I remember my ex was like, you really like should not be going here. This is not safe. And I did not feel unsafe at all until the last day we went to the um, I think the graveyard of like all the Israeli soldiers, and they were all trees around. And I was like, this is the perfect like scene in a sniper movie where someone's just gonna come and get you. And obviously, you would see the like the Gaza strip everywhere everyone.

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Everyone else is just snapping pictures of the beauty of Israel. She's like, the sky could be here. Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

I was terrified, but then I made it back and I was like, Yes, never let fear stop you. You know what they say? Fear is just courage in action.

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I write that down on my notes for the Red Cross. I can't read anymore. Just call me, throw it away.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Call me Buddha, call me Allah, call me whatever you want to be. Every religion is inclusive over here.

SPEAKER_04 4:53

She shouldn't call me Allah. I was raised in a very religious house, a very strict house, uh Baptist, and my wife is Jewish, and I remember her telling me that that entitled her somehow to a trip to Israel. How does that work?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

So, I mean, you don't even need to be fully Jewish.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

I mean, um Can I know someone who's Jewish?

SPEAKER_01 5:17

You can have like one percent Jewish heritage and go. So do my 23 and me out. I mean, I I think you're a little past the age limit though. I think it's a hard out at like 26 or something.

SPEAKER_04 5:28

So they don't want old people in the You're you're well past the prime.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

No. Not enough. They're like, we can't keep you alive. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

They can't outrun the missiles.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

No, they literally have Israeli soldiers staying with you the entire time, and it was a party, let me tell you. Ours were not protective at all. They were just protective of the alcohol. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

What?

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It was fun.

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Hell?

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It was a good time.

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We got secret service in weeks because I'm going to Canada.

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I know the trip is coming up.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

I know. I got a passport. I had to get like find the dog's microchip papers. Really? My daughter needs a letter to prove that I'm not kidnapping her and taking her across the border. It's been a whole it's been a whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Wow, all for Canada, eh?

SPEAKER_04 6:11

Yeah, for Niagara Falls. This better be the most amazing slice of waterfall I've ever seen.

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Prepare to be disappointed.

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Yeah. It's not gonna be all scraped up to be. Why is my kid gone 12 times then?

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yeah, well, listen, he's one of a kind, and it's his thing, and you're doing something to support him. And honestly, May is a big month. Obviously, college graduations. Like that's huge. That's the kick it's the kickoff of summer for many. Many people think Memorial Day is like, okay.

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Yeah, the unofficial story.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Spring is out. Also, it's my birthday, just saying, Mother's Day's around the corner. Like, May's a big month.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Yeah, I love our military. Absolute total respect. I couldn't get in because of my vision and because I'm a weirdo, but like both my grandparents' uh grandfathers were in, and um grandmother was a volunteer. For the Red Cross, ironically. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Full circle.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

It's like I just blanked out and completely forgot where I was going with that because we're recording this at midnight. Over to you, Jagger.

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Yeah.

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Um anyway.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

My grandparents didn't didn't do anything of Valor, nor did uh I go to any sort of cool country or so not true, not true. My grandfather was in uh he stormed Normandy on D-Day. The biggin'.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

Okay. Was he just he just happened to be walking by that day?

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Yeah, so he wasn't in the military. He just like he had FOMO and saw a line, so he got in it.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Oh God. Yeah, I I used to have a friend that had really bad FOMO, and then she had such bad FOMO she had to date my husband. So Yeah!

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Man. Well, she's founding out she wasn't missing out on much, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

Oh yeah, I think I'm not not gonna get sued, and I'll stay out of that.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

That that's funny that your uh that your uh grandpa just happened to be there.

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Storm Normandy.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Yeah, well that was a punchline, but yeah, he was really in the military and did it, yeah. For real.

SPEAKER_04 8:07

I'm just trying to picture him storming something. Why? Well, because then I start picturing you storming Normandy.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

You know what? I see it. I see it. Storm your ass if I'm not sure. And I picture it. Okay, because I just came from seeing Wizard of Oz at the sphere. You know when they're um going into the castle to try and free Dorothy and like all of the witches.

SPEAKER_04 8:28

Spoil it for me.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

I haven't watched it yet in 85 years. Like, come on now. But they're all like, oh, ew. That's how I picture Jagger and her husband. Uh Storm in Normandy. His grandpa, not Oscar. I'm so tired.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

Clearly getting a big reaction out of Jagger on that one.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

I know. I'm waiting for the comedy to start. What time are we starting?

SPEAKER_04 8:53

Well, that's where we throw it over to you. Mr. I'm gonna do a stand-up act four months ago that still never happened. Oh, God. I'm waiting for the comedy to start too.

SPEAKER_01 9:03

We're still talking about this.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_04 9:06

You're never gonna let it go.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Right. That's that's why we have keep delaying it so we keep having content.

SPEAKER_04 9:13

Well, that's not true. You told us your grandfather stormed Normany. Normany. Normany.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Normconald. My grandfather stormed Norman. Yeah, I meant Norm MacDonald. He stormed him one time.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Oh. And he did. Rest in peace.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Mark Normand. Isn't that who you're all high on right now, Jana Banana?

SPEAKER_01 9:30

I really did love that uh stand-up.

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Mark Normand. Oh, that's right. I want to go see some stand-up comedy, but like I don't know. The prices are so ridiculous when they come to Pensacola. It's like I don't know that you're gonna be that funny for like a hundred dollars. Oh, that's probably what it is. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Well, you know, you see a comic on every corner in Vegas. They they really expanded all of their um you know residencies. It's not just concerts, it's magicians, it's comics, it's whoever is going to get paid to stand up on a stage.

SPEAKER_04 10:11

Like they're giving away Bro, they still propping up Wayne Newton on auditorium there.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:16

I mean, I don't even think he's alive anymore. It's like weekend Bernie's.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Yeah, I know. I did see the big Donnie Osman sign. There was even a Smokey Robinson sign at lunch. That's a miracle. I thought so too. I thought it was kind of cool, but at the same time, I'm like, so you packing out a venue every night? Even tiny.

SPEAKER_02 10:35

Even tiny is so they have people standing out on street corners, like trying to hustle you into a theater and stuff. Like, hey, come in here, come in here. Here's some tickets.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Yeah, yeah, no, they're handing out the things, they're doing it for everything, right? It's like, hey, you want to go see a show? Hey, you want to go see a stripper? Hey, you want to go to a club? It's like, you know, you hand you hand out a paper, and the amount of people that are taking these papers, it's like you don't even know what you're taking.

SPEAKER_04 10:56

All of that on Fremont Street.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Absolutely. Oh, yeah, no. Fully.

SPEAKER_04 11:01

I had some guy hand me a brochure for a hooker when I walked out of one of the casinos on Fremont Street.

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How'd that go for you?

SPEAKER_04 11:07

It was awkward because my son was standing next to me. Was it a trifle? I'm like, yeah.

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Yeah, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 11:15

I hate good times.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

So I did end up getting a massage while I was there, but it was not the kind I wanted. Oh no. It was it was it was classy. It was in a spa. Um, because my neck has been hurting so bad that like the last day my dad was like, got you. Here you go. Deep stress, deep tissue, and uh gross. All I kept thinking about was, oh, but if only this was off the strip.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Gross. You mean on your strip?

SPEAKER_01 11:41

I was gonna say off the strip on mine.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

I just want to know would you take would you take the finale if your dad paid for the massage?

SPEAKER_01 11:53

That's kind of if my dad had to pay for me to get a massage at a rinky dink corner joint. I think we'd have a big problem. Uh listen, I'm broke. I'm not that broke. I'm not desperate.

SPEAKER_04 12:07

I know. Who's such a big thing? I've been to Bali, I've been to Pali, tiny Somali. What was the worst country you went to? This one.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

Um I mean cleanliness.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Jojo country. I love America. Not America, I meant this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Cleanliness-wise, I would probably say Thailand.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Somebody just died upstairs. Thailand's where you're from, though, no?

SPEAKER_01 12:37

I love it.

SPEAKER_04 12:38

You didn't like Thailand? That's the one I'm thinking I'm gonna like the most.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

No, I really enjoy Thailand, but it is it's extremely dirty.

SPEAKER_04 12:44

Well, yeah, but that's your place for your ultimate massage. Oh, yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

But I don't if I didn't get one there, I mean, no, I could have gotten one there. I we did not choose to, but I did get a Thai massage there, and they were fantastic massages. Actually, funny story there. Um so we went and the place was right across the street from our hotel. We pop in and they're just like, oh, okay. And so time massage, they stand on your back, they contort you, like you become a gymnast real quick. Well, then you're not gonna you don't want a time massage, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

They're very, very handsy, and by handy I mean they put every part of their body on your body, not sexually. Um, but of course, you can do the the other type of stuff somewhere. But it was funny because I guess we were really jet lagged and it cost 50 bot for the massage. Now that comes out to like, I don't know, $10, $15 in America. Um we were so jet lagged that my ex accidentally threw a $500, not a $50, at them for bot. These women were so excited every time we left our hotel, they would be like, Oh, you come get massage, you come over here. We were like, No, no, no, it's okay. And obviously it didn't end up being that much like translated into American money, but like we made their day over there. That's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 14:05

Did you get a lady boy?

SPEAKER_01 14:07

No, see, that's the thing, is like so when we were in Bangkok, is where we got the massages. When I went down to Fiquette, which is like the beach area, that's where you would see all the lady boys, and um, I was not permitted to go in there.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

Are you allowed to say lady boy?

SPEAKER_01 14:21

You just did, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

So uh I was wondering that before, but it is it's it's the preferred term, so it's not derogatory. It is the preferred nomenclature. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Yeah, that's what they identify as a wannabe-called a lady boy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Uh listen, I respect them. They're enjoying their life. There are beautiful lady boys out there. Um, you know, and they're making money. So good for them. Who's complaining?

SPEAKER_02 14:46

At least somebody's making money. And so you gotta reserve that dough just for the tie. So that is not something you want to call a transgender person.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

I would definitely not recommend that.

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But a tie, uh, the tie have lady boys.

SPEAKER_04 14:59

All I wanted to do was talk about what it was like to see the Wizard of Oz in the sphere. That was a good one. Yeah, how'd we get here?

SPEAKER_01 15:05

I don't know. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_04 15:08

I just want to know what that experience is. Can you give me the because I can't spend $500 to walk into a ball and watch a movie from 1939? What what's holding an apple?

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Obviously, we have to talk about just like the architecture of the place, right? Like super, super cool. It's it's very round, but like no, the escalators go all the way up, and there's like four different stories of them. It was awesome. Everything inside was Wizard of Oz, so they had different scenes playing, they had all these cool setups, um, visuals, this and that.

SPEAKER_04 15:43

Uh, yes, I did catch an apple, which was a I gotta put you on the spot here because not everyone gets an apple, and some of them have to spend like 300 bucks in the gift shop to get it. You're telling me straight up you caught an apple.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Yeah, I swear. So uh Did you steal from a kid? No, there were actually there was only one kid that I saw over there, and I was a little bit taken aback, but I was also thinking to myself, like, there were definitely moments that I think my kid would have gotten a little overwhelmed or overstimulated because I mean remember, it is it is visual.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

You're in the Wizard of Oz.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

You're in it, and like there was one point, I think I posted a video. Um, it was on my story though, but uh I could probably repost it or you could find it on uh JojoWorldwide.com. But uh when it's the twister, the sh the seats literally shake, they blow gus a wind at you. Mama cap was literally like this, like the whole time. It was it was actually crazy. Like if if my kid was there, I think she would have been terrified, honestly. But it was so fun. Yeah, so fun.

SPEAKER_04 16:43

So there's rain, is it and and when it when it snows the asbestos, do they put real asbestos on you?

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Nope, no asbestos. I was thankful for that one. I was a little concerned at some point.

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Yeah, you hear about how bad those actors had it when in that scene where they fell asleep from the snow, they were just dumping straight up asbestos on their heads.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

Well, you know, I was thinking about this, and obviously I've seen Wizard of Oz a ton of times, but seeing it on the big screen and then seeing it on like a 180 screen. Being inside of it, you really see how like the tin man's makeup, you're like, Oh yeah, I see how that killed him, you know.

SPEAKER_04 17:18

Yeah, what with the lead and all?

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Yeah, exactly. You could see every little shackle of lead on his skin.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

It was Buddy Epson from Beverly Hillbillies was supposed to be the tin man, put that makeup on and almost killed him in a day, so he had to give up the part. And I guess this other guy was like, I'll die. Put that lead on me. Let's do it. And he died.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

That he needs cash. Yeah, it worked out.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

So now that you've been there, Jana, are there other movies? What would you recommend another movie that you would go see there?

SPEAKER_01 17:45

Uh, so I don't know many movies that well, first of all, I don't think there's any other ones that they're showing yet. I know that concerts are the big thing there, and I think right after uh Wizard of Oz, that night, they were showing Fish at the Sphere. My parents previously saw the Eagles, and they said it was awesome because each band has their own, like, not even A V guy, but AI guy, essentially, that that sets up the different like lights and stuff for um for the music and hooks it up. I'm trying to think what would be a cool movie to see at the sphere.

SPEAKER_04 18:17

Jaws. That would be cool, yeah. Right? I will say flies out the water itching the face.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

That would be cool. I will say one thing that was a little bit trippy, and I understand why they had to do it. Um but there was a lot of AI incorporated into it. So it's like you're watching and you're seeing Judy Garland, and all of a sudden you see her and you're like, why does she look kind of different? And it's because in order to get certain graphics and to make it look so cool, they had to generate a lot of AI. So they would like use the background noise of the movie, but then kind of m play around with the characters. And so maybe like to the untrained eye, they wouldn't notice. But because I know Wizard of Oz, I'd be like, that's not in the movie, you know? And but I I get why they had to do it.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

I think one of my favorite movies uh would be awesome there, Back to the Future. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Oh my god, that would be sick, actually. That would be amazing.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

I feel like Willy Wonka could be pretty cool too. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_04 19:14

That's a good one. Yeah. The Chocolate River, like they could just shit on your face. Somebody get the sphere on the phone. We got ideas. We need a thousand tons of human shit for the river scene.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Yeah, no, and 15 million dollars. We'll show you, Augustus.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

My dad was telling me that uh each band that plays there, like, in order to get the whole setup, like it that alone costs over a mil.

SPEAKER_04 19:42

Wow. Oh, yeah. Uh so we were there, the sphere was like they had just taken the the cover off.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

U2 was playing.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Yeah, yeah. They were the originals, I think.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

I still haven't forgiven them for putting that album on my iPhone. So we didn't support that at all. My son and his girlfriend one night just wanted to kind of walk by and because it does all kinds of things. You can see it in your plane while you're laying on the phone. Yeah, yeah, no, it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

It's a site.

SPEAKER_04 20:07

It's always got a display. So my son and his girlfriend, they walk up to it and they're like, and some guy, I guess, who unfortunately is homeless and lives outside of the sphere and never gets any darkness, walks by and goes, It's just a ball. And just keeps walking. And I'm like, man, suck. Or it might rule. Maybe I want to live outside the sphere.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

I mean, listen, sometimes ignorance is loud, right?

SPEAKER_04 20:39

I imagine that guy's getting radiated because that like can you even get next to it? It looks like it'd be so hot.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

No, it's not hot. It's not hot.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

Did you touch the sphere?

SPEAKER_01 20:48

I didn't touch the sphere.

SPEAKER_04 20:50

Are you allowed to?

SPEAKER_01 20:51

I don't know. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

I just want to touch everything. So did you um do you think that they're gonna build a sphere on the East Coast? I heard that's true. Word?

SPEAKER_01 21:00

I've heard that as well.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Like a smaller on the East Coast deserves a sphere.

SPEAKER_01 21:04

Not in the panhandle.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

I think near D.C. No, not in Florida. I think near DC.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

I could see that.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

You're not gonna put a sphere in Hurricane Alley. Well, that could yeah, because it would wind up like the Superdome during Katrina. That would not be a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Oh god, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:19

But uh we never learned from our mistakes. And that's exactly what would happen.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

That's why America is the dirtiest country.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

So I think it's gonna be 6,000 seats uh versus the 17,000 in Vegas. So it's a smaller version, but it still might be fun.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

17,000 in the sphere?

SPEAKER_02 21:36

That's what I'm reading, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

But let me tell you, there was not 17,000 people uh when I was there. Maybe that's why I caught an apple.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Well, nobody's gonna pay five hundred dollars a person to see the Wizard of Oz from nineteen thirty-nine.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

I saw that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Yeah, they dropped one apple per person. They counted on you on the way in.

unknown 21:54

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 21:54

Do you want to eat for the next five days or go see the Wizard of Oz and the bowl?

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Did you catch it in the air? Did you pick it up on the ground?

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Wouldn't that have been cool? They did fall from the sky. Um, but uh, and you know, I was so ready for it. I was thinking about you guys the whole time. As soon as that tree came out, I handed my mom my phone in my bag. I said, Watch me, I'm getting an apple. And it fell right behind me. So it was like one of those when you're at the ballgame and you're like, Who's gonna fight for it? Who's gonna fight for it? Uh, and then no one was fighting for it. So I got it.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Someone else was there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

No, there were a decent amount of people there, but also a decent amount of people got apples. So 17,000 apples, 17 people.

SPEAKER_04 22:32

The apple count.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

They must have.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

It used to be real rare, and then you could go to the gift shop, and I'm serious, I'm pretty sure it's like hundreds or on eBay.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Well, that's crazy because at the end of the day, it's a foam apple.

unknown 22:44

Right.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

It's like a stress ball, right?

SPEAKER_02 22:45

It's a $500 foam apple.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Yeah. So anyway, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

People like Jenna are posting it online. That entices other people like me and you to want to go. Like, ooh, she got an apple.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

I will say, even just the prep of like sending a picture that I was at the sphere, the after videos that I was sending, I was getting lots of comments and people reaching out to me either saying, Oh my god, I heard it's awesome, or I'm headed there, or oh, I saw it and it's incredible, blah, blah, blah. So, like, you know, it's definitely the talk of the town.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Yeah, I'm just glad with all the problems that we have and people suffering and uh economic troubles that we have our priorities straight to the point where we realize the solution would be to build a giant ball in the middle of the desert that plays the Wizard of Oz.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

It does never fail to surprise me what America can come up with. I also um went in my first uh I don't even know what you call it, but vehicle where there's no driver. Um, so that was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04 23:47

Driverless vehicle.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Sure, let's go with that.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Yes, I think that's it.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

I think so too.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

So that that was fun. Um tell me about that, because I actually heard a story from someone else in Pittsburgh who had an experience. The car picks you up, there's nobody in it.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Yeah, so this one was called Zooks, and that right now they're only having like you say inside uh they're only in Vegas and actually in San Francisco. So uh we were walking through one of the casinos that my dad wanted to check out, and all of a sudden I saw the big banner for Zooks, and I was like, oh, this is the hub for it here. Cool. And I had downloaded the app previously, but they only pick you up and they only drop you off in certain places on the strip, and the wait can be very long. So they're not available all the time. It just so happened that I was like, Oh, I can pull one and it's gonna pick me up right here. I did wait 35 minutes for it, but I was like, this seems like a once-in-a-lifetime experience, like at least right now, you know, until the next lifetime when they start rolling them out and getting rid of all the other cars. So it was really cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

What's the cost comparison versus like an Uber or Lyft? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

So here's the thing is like because the Zooks thing is something that they're just rolling out, it's free. Um, but it's limited, so you really can only use it on the strip, and you had only three places that you could either be picked up or dropped off from. So I think that's why there was a high demand for it too. And that's why I was like, well, I'm here, so I might as well just do it.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Well, couldn't almost know the name of it, hang out on them all day.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

I I suppose so if you want to keep renting them for yourself. I mean, and and let me tell you, they're tiny and and they they zoom. They zooks.

SPEAKER_04 25:22

Zooks. I don't know the name of the company, but they tested it in Pittsburgh and was telling me about it. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's fine. It was also free because basically you're a human guinea pig, and it's like, maybe you'll die.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Well, so my mom was not about it. She was like, I don't want to go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And my dad was Grow up, Ellen. Yeah, my dad was on his way to go play in a poker tournament or whatever. So I said, fine, go with him. I'll go by myself. It was like 10 o'clock in the morning. She's like, I don't want you driving by yourself. I'm like, You weren't driving.

SPEAKER_04 25:54

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

I was like, mom, I'm like, trust me.

SPEAKER_04 25:57

Wait a minute. You're alone in a driverless car at three o'clock in the morning by yourself in Vegas. I said 10 o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

That's the saddest thing ever. I mean, is it really sad though? Do you know how many people at 3 o'clock in the morning, like, they're still going out? I, in fact, I woke up Sunday morning. I just stopped in. I was like, okay, you know what? Because the the tables are cheap on a Sunday morning, right? So I was like, okay, I I can play a little bit of blackjack. It was quiet in the casino. I had my coffee with Bailey's, it was enjoyable. A guy sat down next to me, and uh and I was and he was like, Where you from? And I was like, New York. And he's like, Oh, okay, I'm from London. And I was like, I'm like, I'm like, what are you doing here? I'm on a bachelor party. And I was like, okay. It was actually it was seven o'clock in the morning. So I said, So where where's your friends? Like, why are you here if you're on a bachelor party? He goes, Oh, love, we haven't gone to sleep yet. In fact, we're going to the beach club later. You want to come? And I was like, Boy, I was like, I'm a divorced mom on a divorced birthday trip with my parents. No, thank you. Missed that boat. That was 10 years ago. No, again, I I got shuttled from the casino to another casino. I just went for the ride. That's all.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

You have a problem. I was shuttled.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

It was fun. It was a 15-minute tables are cheaper on Sunday morning.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

What is that? The Sinners special? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

I mean, yeah, I guess so. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 27:26

What do you what does a dollar cost? 50 cents? I don't understand what it's like.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

No, listen, the tables on like a Friday, Saturday night are minimum 25, sometimes $50 a table. Obviously, I'm not playing that.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

Yeah, minimum bet. Yeah, minimum bet.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Yeah, right. But uh, you know, a $10 table, that's like gold. That used to be expensive back in the day.

SPEAKER_04 27:46

Did they take Wizard of Oz apples on trade? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Shagger, hey, you've been coasting on our wings for this whole thing. I want to hear about you. I heard that you're a bit of a trader. Are these wings?

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Oh, yes. No, I'm not a trader. I'm not a trader. No. So I told you about my boat friends, and uh, we did get invited on the boat this past weekend. Nice.

SPEAKER_04 28:08

These boat friends, let's reframe for anyone who missed it. Jagger knows people that have a boat and instantly decided they're his friends.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Kinda, yeah. So no, so you meet people as you do. We're we're newish to the area, and so uh newish to the area. Newish. Newish. Yeah, I'm not getting a free trip to Israel. Um, no, no, no. I'm getting a free trip to Destin on a on a boat. But um we tried to go out this weekend, but the weather wasn't great, and so we just met for lunch instead, which was, you know, fine. It was no dating.

SPEAKER_04 28:47

Right.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Um But then we had uh another uh another couple invite us over to their place uh who are now our pool friends. So now wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

So you dumped your boat friends?

SPEAKER_02 29:00

No, no, we had pool friends. We had lunch. Um, but then some of our some of our other friends, Governor? No, we did we did lunch, um, but then our other friends uh said, Hey, what are you doing this evening? And we're like, Well, nothing, chilling. So come on over. We played some board games, had a couple cocktails, and got in the pool. It was fun.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

Real quick before I forget, your pool talk reminded me my neighbor across the street has a pool. He saw me walking the dog the other day and he said, Hey, you want a hat? Because you know I'm the hat guy. Yeah. And I told him I would wear it in the next episode of the podcast, and I'm not. I'm sorry. I'll get it to it the next time. You're probably not even watching this. You probably just subscribed to be nice. Anyway, go ahead, Jugger. You've dumped one set of friends for the other.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

So you're you're compartmentalizing your friends now.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

Right. Yeah. I've got my my pool friends, I've got my You got your game friends, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:52

You guys do board games?

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Yeah, well, so we did board games at the pool friends house.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Oh, so in North Carolina, I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 30:00

Did you mix the boat friends with the pool friends? Not yet.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

I'm worried that the universe will be never loaded. I know. I'll be out. I got nothing to offer.

SPEAKER_04 30:09

They can each benefit each other with a boat in the pool. What the hell you got, Tom?

SPEAKER_02 30:14

We're getting rid of our lame friends for you guys. Yeah. That's true. Let those friends meet. They can never meet.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

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SPEAKER_01 31:39

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SPEAKER_04 31:59

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SPEAKER_01 32:02

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SPEAKER_04 32:05

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SPEAKER_02 32:13

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SPEAKER_04 32:17

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SPEAKER_04 32:44

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SPEAKER_01 33:28

Now is tomorrow the last day? Oh, every month. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_04 33:31

Yeah. Well, I mean for April. Tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

Yeah. Tomorrow's the last month uh day for April.

unknown 33:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

So Jagger, make sure you pick a winner today.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

I hope so. I hope I get lucky when I get my box of uh parlor donuts, and it has a Nutella donut in it.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Ooh, I had one of those in Vegas.

SPEAKER_04 33:48

Wait, have you been to Parlour Jagger?

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Yeah, we got parlors all around here. What do you mean all around there?

SPEAKER_04 33:54

No, we don't. All over the panhandle, son. Are you kidding? We had one open here and the line went five miles down the road.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Well, that's how it works in your neck of the woods. 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

15 minutes in either direction of my house, there's a parlor.

SPEAKER_04 34:07

If they ever open a sonic in the Blair County area, you'll lose it. The place will explode.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

You guys get a Sinoco, like just a gas station, and you're like, what? I don't have to drive 17 miles to go to the next sheets.

SPEAKER_04 34:22

Hey, we have a Sinoco. It's over on Allegheny Street. Very nice.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

It's one of everything. That's what that's the charm about uh the area.

SPEAKER_04 34:30

Yes, this podcast, if you're new to it, is nationwide in the sense that I'm here in beautiful Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Central PA, and Jenna is in beautiful Long Island. And Jagger is in the panhandle. He says Destin, but it's Navarre.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Navarre, that's where I live, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

I love the name Navarre. I think it's so edgy and it really fits like your personality. Jagger? Yeah. Yes. It does.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

You should live in Navarre. Should I change my name from Jagger to Navarre? It sounds like a place the ship crashes on in Star Trek.

unknown 35:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 35:04

Captain, we've landed on Navarre. It can't be true, Smock.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

It's actually pronounced never.

SPEAKER_04 35:13

Oh. Because someone went once and they're like, you want to go back? And they're like, never. But then they step their toes and they're like, Navarre!

unknown 35:21

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Like, Navarre, I want to come back here.

SPEAKER_04 35:25

Hang on, I'm taking a call here. Jagger's pool friends are on the line. Oh no. Go to hell.

SPEAKER_03 35:31

Well, you try to make the point.

SPEAKER_04 35:33

They must have uh gotten hooked up with my uh boat friends. So I want to give Jana credit because since the three of us have jobs and businesses and all kinds of things going on, stressful uh divorce proceedings and everything. We've got it all here. Um I came down into the studio and the monitors on, and there's Jana just waiting, like an hour early, just all dressed. Now she did start with I haven't slept in three days, but she was still there. She still showed up. Don't give her credit.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

It's jet lag. That's all it is.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Oh, that's right. What am I giving you credit for? Jet lag, insomnia, it's stress.

SPEAKER_04 36:16

It's uh you think it's noon or something.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Hey, I wasn't giving myself credit, but I'll take it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 36:22

Yeah, I was very impressed. I honestly I thought I was to myself.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

I've said this from day one. I'm a lot of things. One thing that I really pride myself on is being reliable. And if I say I'm gonna show up, I show up, you know? For anyone. For anything.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

Anyone. How tall is that soapbox you're standing on?

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Two feet eight inches.

SPEAKER_04 36:43

When our housekeepers get to working on it again, it'll be even taller.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Oh man, this again.

SPEAKER_04 36:49

What? You don't have Tri-Luna Royal Cleaning?

SPEAKER_01 36:52

No, but he has to call his best friend.

SPEAKER_04 36:55

Wrinkles the clown?

SPEAKER_01 36:56

Wouldn't be an episode if it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Is that what he's doing? He's gonna pick up eventually.

SPEAKER_01 37:02

You look creepy.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

I've got him saved on my phone. Look. Yeah, I see that.

SPEAKER_04 37:06

That's not good lighting for you. This time he picks up and says your name. Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Maybe we should record later in the day if we want to actually speak with him.

SPEAKER_03 37:18

Oh, you drink all the clouds.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

Can't wait to hear what he says.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Hey Rink, it's uh Jagger again. Hope you're having a great week, buddy. I know it's hump day. You're almost there, you're almost to the weekend. Lots of more people to scare. Uh if you need a hand, just give me a call. I'll uh come on by. We'll crawl under the bed together. Uh appreciate you, brother. If you need a hand, give me a call back. All right. Let's do this thing. Rink out.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

Rink out. You know he's a clown, right? Not some supernatural human. He doesn't know your phone number, does he?

SPEAKER_01 37:56

He must now. He he's on the block list.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

One day Jagger's gonna be having fun with his pool friends or his boat friends, and he's gonna look over the fence or on the shoreline and see this. There'll be wrinkles. It'll be the new Halloween, like where you see Michael Myers and you're like, he'll say, for those of you confused, um, there's a documentary on Netflix called Wrinkles the Clown. It was hot for like five minutes. It's gone now, but we're never gonna let it go. Ever. Somebody made a YouTube video about this clown who was like stealing kids or something, and it was all fake, it was all made up, but it went viral. But then there's this Wrinkles the Clown guy who I guess got in on it or existed before it, and he talks like this. And he's parents use him to scare their kids into being well behaved, I think is the premise. Like, they don't hire him to go to a birthday party to be like juggling, they hire him to like peer into your kids' room and scare the crap out of them.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Who's hiring him though for that? Like, who actually wants to do that to their kids? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 38:59

Yeah, no, I'm just straight up.

SPEAKER_02 39:01

Yeah, and then they they use him to like uh if you keep being bad, I'm gonna call wrinkles back.

SPEAKER_04 39:06

And listen, I smell franchising opportunity. If this podcast doesn't work out, I'm all for it. You already got a mask, you can print me another one. We can get a wrinkles franchise going, you know?

SPEAKER_02 39:16

It's so crazy because it's like the McDonald's, it's locally owned and operated.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

Oh my god. And here I am feeling guilty like when my kid doesn't like brush her teeth, and I'm like, if you don't do it, there's gonna be a consequence. And the here's there's parents saying, I'm gonna call that guy.

SPEAKER_04 39:31

I'm like, oh, I'm a I'm a much better parent. My favorite dentist poster, because you know, for some reason dentists seem to like posters, and one was well, first there was the Mountain Dew teeth one, which really threw me for a loop. I don't think I've ever touched a Mountain Dew after that. Um the other one was it's just words, and it said, ignore your teeth, they'll go away. That's good. Use that your stand-up, Jar. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 39:57

Um yeah, that's my closer.

SPEAKER_04 39:59

Yeah, and that I saw it like six, and I think, you know, I brush maybe once or twice a week. So it's it really stuck with me.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

That's one or two more than you might have.

SPEAKER_04 40:09

Let's go to Alana, Jana Morissette, who wants to talk about irony.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

Yeah, and you ought to.

SPEAKER_04 40:17

Something ironic.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

You ought to know about irony.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

So i I feel like I love a good irony.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

Yeah, love you too. Yeah, love you, love you.

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Do we know?

SPEAKER_02 40:28

She's talking to all of us.

SPEAKER_04 40:30

She has to like timestamp every episode.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

She wants to make sure you're working. Yeah, I came in at 40 minutes, 28 seconds. Um, no, I find it so ironic. So my mom has the palette of I can't even say a four-year-old's because my kid eats better than she does. She likes things so bland, so plain. She'll look at a menu and be like, there's nothing I can eat here. Unless it's like chicken teriyaki or like eggplant palm. So the irony about her though, we go to the sushi place when we're down there. By the way, it was fantastic. I had this like lobster uni pasta. It was so good.

SPEAKER_04 41:06

Um, because of all the tapeworm she has.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

Right, exactly. Um eat sushi grade, people. Anyway, so she won't eat the sushi, but then she's sitting there and she's like, I love wasabi. And I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_04 41:21

Your mom?

SPEAKER_01 41:22

Yeah, I'm like, what person won't even eat dark meat chicken but loves wasabi, you know?

SPEAKER_04 41:29

I'm with your mom, but dark meat chicken sucks. Okay. I'll stand by that.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

That's a hot take. But anyway, so she won't eat anything other than a chicken breast, but she's down in wasabi. Like, to me, that's so crazy. I just don't even know how to do it.

SPEAKER_02 41:41

Why don't you put the wasabi on? That's my question.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

She'll eat it with a uh chopstick.

SPEAKER_04 41:47

Just plain wasabi with a chopstick? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

It just doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 41:51

I mean, she knows how to use chopsticks, but she hates sushi.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

Meanwhile, she doesn't like spice. She doesn't even like s when there's extra salt on food, when it's actually properly flavored, and yet here she is downing wasabi. And I'm like, this woman is a walking stereotype.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

She put raisins in her potato salad.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Oof, gross. I hate potato salad.

SPEAKER_04 42:10

At least she'll probably live longer than all of us if she's staying away from salt. Yeah, yeah. That's like my elixir.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

So how is the sushi? How's the sushi in Vegas so good? It can't be fresh.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

There's no getting it from no caught in the desert. Well, hello, hello, people ship. So like we went to a place off the strip. People shit. Every Friday they ship it in from Japan.

SPEAKER_04 42:34

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

So and it it's every Friday they ship it in. Yeah, and it was quality, let me tell you. It was really good.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

I bet panhandle sushi's better. It's all fresh, caught right now.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Listen, I love like when I'm traveling down to tropical areas or something, like all I eat is seafood when I'm around water, you know.

SPEAKER_04 42:52

These are slums that I lived where Jagger lived for like three months and then like basically just threw me out. But you're too much party.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

So goodbye. You're too much party, not enough fun.

unknown 43:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

They have your picture up still.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

So ironic.

SPEAKER_04 43:12

Do not allow. I loved it. It was great. It's playing chingy.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Unk. What's the the if you change low? Do you have Bible to the flow?

SPEAKER_04 43:24

Party like a rock. Party like a rock stop. I was loving it. That was a good old days. Yeah, so fun.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

Yeah. I mean, I hate to say it, but that's my high school music.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

Considering you were 23 when you worked with me on the radio, that does make total sense. Because it was about 10 years before that. Yeah. That tracks. Shit, I'm old.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

Mm-hmm. True.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

But so shut the f up, man. Back back to Wasabi. That that's why I find that it's so ironic. So uh what about you guys? You have any ironies out there that people would like turn their heads on and be like, Like, huh?

SPEAKER_04 44:00

I would address wasabi first. I look at that green glob and I'm like, yeah, challenge time. And I get all up in it and I take way too big of a serving, just like it's a good thing. Instantly comes out your nose. You're like, all of a sudden, I like my throat's closing. I can't breathe out my nostrils. This was a huge mistake. But look at the reaction. That's I just I what I do, I don't care if it hurts me, if it gets a reaction around me. It's just my self-destructiveness.

SPEAKER_02 44:29

You just got to get the attention. Doesn't matter how.

SPEAKER_04 44:32

Speaking of which, you're talking about irony and me. Uh here's irony. I never want to leave my house, right? Yeah. We know this. So what do I do? Because an entertainment business that requires I perform in front of hundreds of people, and 25 pieces of equipment have to work perfectly, or I get embarrassed in front of hundreds of people.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

In fact, you only got a work-from-home job to now offset all of the out-of-the-house things that you have to do.

SPEAKER_04 45:01

Oh, yeah. And and believe me, I love my remote position with the Red Cross, but the second they're like, all right, break, I'm like out the door, running down the street, breathing in fresh air. It's when you can't do it, you want it so badly. And then it's like, if you have to do it, it turns into something different.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

It's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:23

And now my basement feels like a prison. And someone please help me.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

And now you're going out more than ever. You're like MCing every festival.

SPEAKER_04 45:31

Yeah, that is ironic. No. I do you see these posters coming up? There's one it's coming up. I'm gonna make sure I get it right. Like these flyers are coming up, and they're like, can we use your image? I'm like, well, if you want people to show up, I'm not sure that's good, but yeah, go ahead. Um that's a good flyer. Blown away by the one that came to my desk for approval yesterday. And I don't even know why they question it because my face is on it. Of course, I'm gonna approve it. Um it's coming up this summer, Summerbash 2026, Liberty and Valor Foundation. They've been talking to me for months. It's happening August 22nd at the Crescent Sportsman's Club, and I think I agreed to be there from like sun up to sundown.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Oh, that's where you're making the mistakes.

SPEAKER_04 46:14

You're giving two. I'm happy to be a part of it, but see, when my career fell apart, basically I was on a what I felt was a sinking ship, and I'm like grabbing at everything, and I didn't realize that I was gonna catch everything. But I'm extremely thankful and grateful, and I I don't want that to get lost in the fact that I have overextended myself, and I still probably won't say no if things come up. I just I I don't know. That's irony, you brought it up. Um, I would stay here and watch the ID channel seven days a week if I could, with an occasional nap and fast food delivery. Um, but maybe this is healthy for me because it stops me from being in this. And actually in radio I was in this rut, because if I wasn't doing the show and I didn't have to do a public appearance, I was hiding in my house.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

Right.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

Well now I guess it's kind of like uh conquering your fear, you know. And Jenna, you know the Jenna knows all the motivational expressions, but they say do do one thing each day that scares you. And I can definitely say every single day is in its own way scary and terrifying now. So I guess that means I'm living life to my fullest.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

Just remember not to burn yourself out, you know? Don't burn the stick at both ends. And and it's okay sometimes to say no when it's too much. So enjoy the ride while you can, and then when things start to even out and you're like, hey, I can trim the fat a little bit, metaphorically and physically, do it.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

Hey, I take a shot in the stomach every week, and I'll need jokes like that. Yeah, I know. You're actually withering away now. I'm frigging nauseous all the time. Leave me alone. I know, right? Yeah, put some meat on your bones.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Miss Priss over here judging everybody.

SPEAKER_04 47:58

I had to force myself to eat yesterday. I was like, when's the last time I ate?

SPEAKER_01 48:01

Oh man, that I was like, God damn it.

SPEAKER_04 48:03

It was like 9 p.m. Terrifies me. Terrible for me. So I'm like, so I go and boil an egg. Yeah. Eat the egg and go to bed.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Oh my god. Wow, that if that's not an old man statement, I don't know what is.

SPEAKER_04 48:17

Right. Eat the egg and go to bed. There's a shirt tiger too. Tapioca on it. By the way, we want to get a lot of our uh merchandise out of the factory right now because those poor kids have been working real hard. Oh my god. That's not accurate. Not accurate. Jenna corrects me. I've gone over the line, please. Right. So we do have, we've got Jana shirts, don't we? Do we have Janna Thongs? I don't know. We have Yeah. Janna Banana Hammocks.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

Do we? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 48:48

Shirts. We've got it all. We'd love to see. Uh, and we'll put you in a podcast episode if you if you happen to grab one. And here's an example right now of one of our listeners wearing a piece of merch. There you go. Thanks, Jagger. And where do they get their hands on the Jojo on the go podcast merch?

SPEAKER_02 49:06

It's so simple. All you got to do is go to JojoWorldwide.com. There's a merch tab there. If you're on your phone, there's the little hamburger menu that's up in the corner. You click that, go to merch, and it takes you right into the merch store. Easy piece.

SPEAKER_04 49:20

People call that thing so many different things. The hamburger menu, the stack, the we're talking about the three lines, right?

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yeah, the three lines. People call it the stack.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

Clearly. Mm-hmm. And speaking of moments, ours are done for this episode of Jojo on the go. We thank you for listening. So I gotta get out of here.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

Oh man, I smell it.

SPEAKER_04 49:43

He rotten. Oh, that's just part of it. I might make it like a spear where it's like you were living with 4D.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

I don't I don't appreciate the smell of vision.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

Check out the website, JojoWorldWide.com, book us for your events and parties. Order the merchandise. Catch up on all the episodes. Send Janna an email. Do it all. Follow us on social jojoworldwide.com. Thank you for subscribing. From the bottom of our hearts, please tell a friend so we can stay in business. Till next time, America and the world. Bye. Lady Gators.

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