The Cast Goes North - Ep. 48

Jojo recounts his trip to Canada

Transcript

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Live from the holiday boost in Spot Studios.

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Presented by Pete Tonight Altuna.

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Gojo on the go.

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Oh, you got a new hat.

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Yeah, I did, because you know, that's what you do when you're a stupid tourist and you go somewhere, leave your house.

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You know, that's that's actually a good question for you guys. So I know when I was a teenager, my go-to little tourist treat, whatever, was always a shot glass. Clearly Jojo's hats.

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Well no, I filled up the cabinet with the shot glasses. Okay, so you had to branch out. Just something just as functional in my life hats.

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So now I can pour my bottle of booze into my hat.

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Yeah, like the 40s, 1940s, see?

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What do you buy at a gift shop, Jagger?

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Yeah. I try to avoid the gift shop.

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Me too. I feel like I never go in anymore. I don't even buy things for my kids.

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I never go in. It's usually my wife and her mom that go in because you know we have to go in if we're somewhere. And then they come back and show me like the eight hats and five shirts they got me. And I'm like, at what point in my life, because this isn't the only hat that I got, one is full-on all in Canada. Like it looks like Make America Great Again, but it's a maple leaf. Oh nice. And I'm like, in what scenario would I be walking around central Pennsylvania with a hat that's just Canada?

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If someone thinks you love syrup, that's what's gonna happen.

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And that's really in the Canadian gift shops, you're getting shirts, hats, or or syrup. It's syrup. Syrup. And I was so impressed because it's one place whereas you would go into a spirit store and see all the different kinds of glens, glen glenliv, or glen, you know, what anything glen whiskey.

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Glen Beck.

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Glenbeck. Like in the in the Canadian gift shops, it's all different shapes of bottles of maple syrup from the maple leaf to the hockey puck to everything in between.

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I'm sure you saw it too. Uh I know when I was in Toronto uh and and whatever, uh, I saw like maple syrup lollipops. And it wasn't like a maple syrup flavored, it was actually just maple syrup in a lollipop force. And then they would do it, yeah, different types of candies for the kids. All maple syrup. There was no other flavor there.

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And it looks like the kind of lollipop where they would put a grasshopper in it. Oh, yeah, right.

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Yeah, they do the molds, right, right.

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But there's no grasshopper, there's just lots of syrup. I have a poorly lit photo. I'm gonna hold up to the look, there that's a souvenir shop.

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Yeah, it's incredible.

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It looks like a bar.

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And it does look like a thing.

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I got all excited. I was like, oh wow. There's a a bar in the gift shop A store. And it was just it was just that. The only thing that rivals maple syrup in quantity in Canada, at least in the part that I was at, Niagara Falls, is IHOP. Um, I'm not kidding. Okay, when I say there's an IHOP in almost every single hotel, no matter what the hotel is, and the biggest poster outside of the hotel is that we have an IHOP. So I didn't look it up when I was there. I was just like, we it was the running joke. Like, look, there's another iHop. Oh, gee, I wish there was an oh, there it is. Well, they gotta have a place to get rid of all that syrup. Yeah.

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That doesn't make sense.

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Somebody said in the card, I thought it was genius. I was like, And you would hope that they use actual syrup, right?

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Because I'm sure some places use the crappy little fake syrup, but I I doubt that an IHOP in Canada is using fake syrup.

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Well, I looked it up and it said basically there's four major hotel chains that own all these different hotels, and they all got in bed with iHop. That's why there's one there. And also, they think that at five minutes over the border from America, that we U.S. citizens are so homesick that when we get up for breakfast, we wouldn't possibly trust anything other than IHOP.

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Toto, I can't believe we're not in America anymore. We can't have McDonald's, we can't have Starbucks, we must have IHOP.

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Exactly. And it's not like, okay, it's IHOP, it'll be $14 plus tax and tip for breakfast. It's full on like $75 for the traditional eggs and pancake breakfast. Oh, wow. Because they think you're jonesing for a mediocre pancake experience that hard.

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I think iHop has good pancakes, they're fluffy. I when do you go to iHop? I haven't been in a decade, but that's besides the point. And maybe if I was in Canada, I would.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

You struck me more as a Waffle House check.

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Let's blow your mind some more. I notice I'm not talking about like the falls or the majestic views. I'm talking about franchises.

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Right. Yeah, let's get into the nitty-gritty.

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Applebee's serves breakfast in Canada. Oh. And they are effing proud of it. Like they went all in on posters on the building, on the sidewalk. Applebee's has breakfast. It's right next to the Appy Hour poster.

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It's not something I would think to venture to.

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And I don't even know, like, what are they what do they serve? Like what the sampler?

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Oh, boneless buffs in the morning? That could be good. Same menu. Yeah. Yeah. Full bar, open.

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What are we getting to drink?

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But seriously, how was Canada? It looked amazing.

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It was dirty. It was amazing. You don't know. So we we go to this hotel. It's supposed to be a pet friendly room. And the rest of my family goes to the right side of the hotel, which faces uh Niagara Falls. We got a room which was literally in the Hertz rental car parking lot. That was the view. So we check in and they're like, but your room is bigger. You don't get the falls, but you look, you have a dishwasher.

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You have a mat for your dog to pee on.

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Yeah. So, okay, so we get there and we're in the pet friendly. Like, I feel like I'm in Titanic and I'm banished to steerage. So we're next to the restrooms, the vending machine, the pool. It's just that in our room. And we unpack, we put the dog in. I think we're somewhere about 45 minutes when my kid's calling, and he's like, the front desk is complaining that the dog's barking. I said, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, and we're in the pet friendly section of this hotel. What do they want? So then I immediately like throw a fit. I go back to the hotel, and I sit in the room, and I was like, Well, I can't do anything in Canada. And they're like, it's not, it's fine. Let them bark. I was like, no, it's not right. This is supposed to be pet friendly. Uh, you guys should go up there and say something. So my mother-in-law and oldest son go up to the front desk while I hide in the pet-friendly room. Yeah.

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The real man of the family.

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And they're like, uh, they come back, they're like, all right, it's all fixed. We got a new room.

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We just killed your dog. All taken care of.

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Like, that's coming up. No, they like you in a whole new room and it's on the left side. I said, wait a minute. Wasn't that the side I couldn't even look at because I had a dog, and now I can suddenly go there and stay in one of those. Yeah, they said that they just implemented a new policy where they were trying out pet-friendly rooms on the other side. So we go up to like what I think is the top floor, and I look over and it looks like I'm in Niagara Falls. I don't know what they said at the front desk or how much uh of shares they own in Hilton, but we went from the Hertz parking lot view to me feeling like I was in the falls, and it was at the end of a hallway, like the shining, so the dog could bark his head off and nobody would hear him. So that's how regular adults work things out while I hide. Um amazing. It wasn't so then yeah, then we could and still I was paranoid. Somebody still stayed in the room with the dog, so what was the point? But we saw the power station, and that was boring. Um no, it was it was it was interesting. I mean, I'm sure it was more interesting back when they discovered electricity, but right I mean that that is just mind-blowing now. Um and then like the funny thing is like the top floor is okay, here's how the power plant worked 100 years ago, and underneath there's a tunnel that will take you out to Niagara Falls. Like, that's the payoff money shot. Well, my son's not one to skip over the let's pick up the tape recorder thing that scans the sticker in 1936. Oh, wow.

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So you had to spend time in each and every one.

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He didn't miss one of those things that you could put the little recorder up to. We had to listen to every single piece of information about Tesla and the power plant before we could go down. The elevator takes you underground, and the guy's like, okay, go that way, and you'll see the falls in a half mile. And I was like, could we have put in the half mile part before the elevator went a hundred feet under the ground?

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You were gonna go.

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Also, could we have mentioned that it's 55 degrees down here all the time, and I don't have a t-shirt on it says Niagara Falls? Oh okay, bye.

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I just hope there was somebody there at the other end to stop you. Like, when do you know to stop? There was. Oh, good.

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There was, but but it there was a guy that he was stationed at the end, but he really looked like go ahead.

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Yeah, he's like, I I know life is hard, it's fine.

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I've been here eight hours a day, 40 hours a week for the last 15 years.

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What's that one Harrison Ford movie where he jumps off the edge?

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So then I start re researching like how many people jumped off Niagara Falls and survived, and I you know, I go the weird route. And congratulations uh to uh a lady named Annie in 1901.

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Was that one of those clickables? You clicked it and it told you that.

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Yeah, and that's you know, if they put that in the PowerPoint plant documentary, that would have been interesting. No, it was a woman in 1901 who built the barrel, jumped over and survived. And then a guy tried it like five years later and hurt himself 60 different ways from Sunday and ended up in the hospital for a year.

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Yeah.

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A fun fact, she was looking for the Hope Diamond, that's why she did that.

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Jenna does it recommend jumping over the falls.

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It doesn't seem like my uh my go-to.

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But that's all I could think about when I was looking at it. Well, it's hard not to.

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You know, it's kind of like when an icicle is falling down. You don't want someone to necessarily die, but your thought is, well, what if that falls? You know?

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And there's so many spots to stand over Niagara Falls and contemplate the same thing. And then you're like, what's the security system stopping me?

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Well, it's also not a barrier, at least from my memory. The barrier was like up to chest level, like for a it wasn't nothing I couldn't get over. Oh no.

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No, no, no. One leg swinging, you're over. Oh no, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what did the guy with the poncho standing back by the cave and only lost two so far today? Um tough job. And then we get back inside, I've got my poncho on, and my wife's like, there's that's where you throw out your ponchos. I was like, throw out. This is Niagara Falls on it. This is a free souvenir. I'm not throwing this out.

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I'm wearing this every time it rains.

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Oh man.

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So in the elevator, there's like 45 people, and I'm the only loser in the like wet blue garbage bag. I'm keeping it. But Canadian money's not worth anything, so that was nice. You could go out for a dinner that costs $300, and then when you looked at your bank, it said it cost $13.07.

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So I wouldn't go that far, but I will say that it's always nice when you go to a currency where it's cheaper than America. But what screwed me was that I've had a break even because when I was there, I didn't use a credit card that didn't have international fees. So that I bet in the hockey player. Right. But of course.

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Yeah, I didn't get the whole if you use the card a certain way, you pay a bigger international fee, and I'm not smart enough for that.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

But it's the same thing here. You use a card here, you get three percent right off the bat. That's cash back, Jagger. Oh, I'm doing it wrong.

SPEAKER_06 12:41

They're taking his money.

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Jagger's the only one that pays three percent when he gets true.

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No, everywhere you go. We went to uh breakfast a couple weeks ago.

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It is true.

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And there was a sign that my girlfriend read. She's like, I cannot believe it. They're charging extra to use a card. I was like, literally, every time you use a card, you get charged three percent. And she didn't understand she didn't realize that.

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Yeah, everywhere you use it, you're getting charged up. Everywhere in the pan handle. I don't think everywhere you Walmart's not charging you 3%.

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Not everywhere by me, but I I do notice it when they say, like, uh, like I even get it uh, you know, sometimes with certain utilities, and they're like, if you pay via card, it's gonna cost you more.

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Gas stations are famous for that. Cash is king.

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Yeah.

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Cash is king and it's disappearing. They got rid of the penny. Make it make sense.

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Make it make sense.

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You're next, nickel. Fat little coin. The Canadian ATM put my perfectly good American debit card in and got this weird money. Like, it's like how do they not forge this all the time? It didn't even look it looked monopoly look more legitimate than the Canadian.

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I feel like most international currency does not look real in comparison to ours.

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That's how I look I felt like when I was in Germany. You're like you got the little monopoly money, and then it doesn't feel real, so you spend it faster. Maybe I hops on a money laundering ring.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Ryan.

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Money and syrup. Got to that Burger King with the Frankenstein roller coaster on top.

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Okay, I need to know. I need to know about it because I actually also went to a fair, totally less exciting last week. But I it was the first time in a long time that I went on rides with my kid and was banging around. I'm like, oh, I can't do this like I used to. So I was thinking about how you survived the roller coaster.

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Mama Rickety. So I survived the roller coaster by not getting on it because by the time we got to where the roller coaster was, it was raining.

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Uh-huh.

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Which is hard to tell whether it's raining or not in Niagara Falls. It's always a little misty. Yeah, it's always spitting on you in some way, shape, or form. But so we did go inside and experience an overpriced whopper. And I loved it. This is one of my favorite parts of the trip. And then we did the Skywheel. Oh, is that the giant Ferris wheel? Oh, yeah. And I said, how come the Skywheel only blinks white? Like, don't they have greater technological capabilities for a Skywheel? Well, it's about peace. You're in Canada. The wave of the white. It's just white. You know why? Because I think it doesn't want to compete with Her Majesty Niagara Falls.

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I don't think you can.

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Nothing competes. You see, everything in Canada is just white except for that. Get rid of that red, whatever it is. But still. Um so I didn't get to ride the Frankenstein coaster, although it was still like talking its crazy don't you dare trash. Um trying to show other memorable moments here. Oh, here's one. There's my son who's 19.

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Oh, I did see that. What a moment.

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There he is drinking alcohol. We're so proud. Because it's Canada. That's the pina colada. There's Jacob. Today is his first full-time uh day creating AI to destroy us. Oh, wonderful. And uh look at us. We look like we're in the Wonder Years. I know. Like this happened, it looks like 1968.

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World, what'd you do? Attitude.

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Oh Mario so nostalgic. It was classic.

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Oh my gosh.

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So um, so that was nice. Uh I won't even tell you how we handled that restaurant, which was in the sky. Um who knows? Spins around type deals, but real slow. Yeah. But once you notice it, you can't not notice you're spinning around.

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Oh man.

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Um the entree prices, like we picked up the menu, and I was like, well, made a mistake. I should have known when they said at the bottom, if you eat at the restaurant, your elevator ride to the observation deck is free when a ticket for that itself is $30 a person. Oh, wow. Oh, we got appetizers. Sure. And what would you like? I was like a meatball and four knives. And a Caesar salad. Oh, the Caesar. Janna would have been so embarrassed. Oh, the rack of lamb. Yeah.

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No, I actually uh I'm one of those people, even if I go out with my parents who obviously usually treat, I feel like if I'm between two options, like my ex-husband, he always would go with the more expensive, especially when he wasn't paying. Oh, absolutely. I tend to go with the cheaper because out of guilt.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Oh. Really?

SPEAKER_06 17:33

Yeah, I swear. I I do every single time.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

I'd like all of you to know, I mean, the main reason we went on this trip was my son graduated Penn State, so we had to see that. I mean, we wanted to see that.

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And and listen, a college graduation is not for the faint of heart.

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Out to dinner that night, I'll have all of you know all I had was water. I just wanted to be completely straight laced for the uh for the experience of watching him graduate for five minutes and then being trapped in the parking garage for three hours. I thought you'd be taking shots of syrup while you were in there. Get hyped up. No, it was one of those deals right at this nice restaurant. He's graduating, he's got his he he first of all, he texts me, he's like, Do you have a tie? I was like, No, I seem to have run out of spare ties that I was bringing to Niagara Falls. And and then it became I need a belt. Do you have an extra belt? And I was like, again, I I didn't foresee needing several belts for Niagara Falls. And then be a dad for once in your life, like started running in my head. So I give him my belt.

SPEAKER_06 18:40

Oh no, because your pants always fall down. This is gonna be a debacle. I know what's happening here.

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So, and I'm on a GLP one. Oh. So that that 36 waist is now almost a 32, 33. Them pennies be dropping. I so I give him the belt, and my pants almost immediately fall on the floor. My wife's like, what are you gonna do? You you have to go out in public. You don't have any belt, and you can't, what do you how are you gonna hold? So I find a Walmart bag and I rip this Walmart bag up. Tie it together? Like I'm like I'm get them a Gyver. I'm ripping up, and I I put the Walmart bag through the belt loops and I tie it and it works. Was it paper? So there we are at one of the fanciest restaurants in Erie, and then at this dignified Penn State graduation, and I have a Walmart bag holding my pants up.

SPEAKER_06 19:36

I appreciate the resourcefulness totally.

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Thank you, Jana. Yes, because my it was like the scene from from a show. My wife's looking around like, what could you possibly use this about? And I'm like, Walmart bag. Gonna use it for the dog shit, but now it's gonna hold my pants up.

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I think it's awesome.

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Once a hood rat, always a hood rat.

SPEAKER_06 19:58

Yesterday, actually, I went to go do something on my roof, and speaking of like Maguire. Is everything fixed? I yeah, the roof is, but something else happened. It's a long story. So I took three surge protectors because my drill wouldn't uh the cord wouldn't reach far enough. Three surge protectors to extend it. So I basically made it to become a sailor. I did I did so much work this weekend, like so much labor. I did, oh, but I made the mistake, and I I will attribute this to just learning to be the man of the house. I didn't put shoes on and I went on the roof and it was 90 degrees outside yesterday and my feet fell off. So I had to run back in the house. I went up on the roof probably four different times. I was sweating.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

And shingles are all textured, so it'll rub all the skin off your shoulders.

SPEAKER_06 20:44

Oh, yeah, no, it did not feel nice. I'm like, okay, I'm learning.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Isn't it like it's like it's like sandpaper, but less forgiving under your feet? Yeah. I'm so impressed. Usually I get to like the top step of my ladder and I'm like, there's the roof.

SPEAKER_06 20:58

Yeah, but who's gonna do it if I don't?

SPEAKER_01 21:00

You know, like it's a real commitment. Yeah, hire somebody. You can afford it. I've seen that bank.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Very proud. I mean, you're taking matters into your own hands. We actually have uh paparazzi following you nonstop, and I was told that you were spotted out mowing your lawn.

SPEAKER_06 21:17

I was. I was well, uh, you know, I barefoot? Uh no, yeah, not barefoot because I heard there's a blade under there. Um so I did, I mowed my lawn. I'm still trying to grasp the idea of like follow the line when you go the opposite direction. And then I guess I blame it on either being left-handed or having glasses. Like, my depth perception isn't there, so like it does not necessarily always look pretty. And then I even weed whacked at the end. Also, like we're just we're striving for good enough is good enough, you know?

SPEAKER_01 21:48

Is it still called weed whacked? Weed whacked. Is that an word? Is that socially acceptable now? You can't whack weeds weeds in the street.

SPEAKER_06 21:55

You know what's weird? I heard the other day that the word brainstorm wasn't socially acceptable. And I was totally thrown for a loop by that one. What?

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Nobody has any brains.

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Maybe that's it.

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Brainstorm is not socially acceptable in the world.

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Critically thinking out the window, so we're no longer able to use the word brainstorm.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

What is that the offensive part? Brain?

SPEAKER_06 22:13

Must be. Maybe so.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

To the neurodivergent population?

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Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Who's calling brainstorm offensive?

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I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

My brain's always in a storm.

SPEAKER_06 22:22

But yes, I whacked some weeds.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

What about brain fog? Is that still on the table?

SPEAKER_01 22:27

No, that's a little close to something else. You can't say that anymore.

SPEAKER_06 22:30

Oh, see? There's things out there.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah. Can't say the F-word.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

I'm going to be canceled. Can't say F word.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

I did some yard work this weekend under protest.

SPEAKER_06 22:39

Because you live in the word under protest.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Yeah, because evidently uh my girlfriend thinks we should break leaves. I was like, what? Rake leaves? Well, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Spice season and the panhandle.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Well, the thing is, her argument is I hadn't touched it since we moved in. So that's what she said. I've never raked a leaf. I said, why are we why are we raking leaves? Just let them be. And she's like, she was like flabbergasted that I didn't believe in raking leaves.

SPEAKER_06 23:11

No, so I will I will say well in May, definitely not, but even in the fall. I picked up a lot, um, especially the ones that were like sitting on the lawn or some on the mulch, but a lot of them I kind of let ride out and die. I mean, there's still a decent amount out there. Like they didn't all disintegrate, but I'm hoping one day they will.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Do you have a lawn jagger?

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Yeah, both front and back, because I'm fancy as hell.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

So why don't you mulch the leaves into the lawn? It's good fertilizer for the grass.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

So my backyard has this real Florida-esque type alligator. Yeah. So no, it kind of drops off halfway. Like a cliff? Like a cliff. It's just like a cliff.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

It's lifeful, good property.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Yeah. So the the the back half of the yard is really unusable by us. I mean, when we have with the sinkhole. Yeah, when we have the the grand dogs over, they love running down there. And that was the argument for for the leaves. She's like, that's gonna be a snake bed and and and one of our dogs is gonna get bit. And I'm like, she is right.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Everything in Florida is a potential death threat. Threat.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

You know, send me in to make sure there's no snakes in there. So long story longer, I'm going to go invest in one of those vacuums that sucks in the leaves and chews them up, puts them in a bag.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

I saw that. Lawn sweep lawn sweeper. Yeah, I'm getting one. I never know this existed, like a vacuum cleaner for the lawn.

SPEAKER_06 24:34

You know, that will be helpful because I, you know, people use leaf blowers, right, to blow them out. But like the truth is, because it can easily get damp and they can easily bundle together, you're not getting that even distribution to turn it into the mulch, like Jojo's saying.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

So mine like to stick the landing in the river rock. They like to stick the landing right in the river, and the the blower doesn't do anything. Listen, I got a neighbor who hasn't uh mowed their lawn in two years, brother. You're doing all right. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. It'll be fun, it'll be good. I want to give a shout out to uh some of our sponsors. First and foremost, uh, those of you who subscribe to our podcast, thank you very much. Uh and thank you for for putting up with the trip to uh to Niagara. I rarely leave. Janna's the world traveler. Um, so thank you to our subscribers and thank you to our sponsors, like our friends at Pizza Night in Altoona. Jagger's mad at Pizza Night for some reason. I guess there's he thinks that they specialize in sending out uh food to places all over the country, like their goldbelly.com or something. Well, I've been looking at all these great deals at Pizza Night, and I want in.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

And um I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

So move here. You can't just have them send it to the panhandle.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Oh, yeah. It's so odd that we would ship something to someone.

SPEAKER_06 25:47

I mean, we are in the world of delivery. I'm kinda with him on this. FedExing a pizza.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Well, HelloFresh can get me anything I want in 10 seconds. Come on, Pizza Knight. I want a bully. Send me one of the bullies.

SPEAKER_06 25:57

Send them a bolus.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

I mean, I can get one of those Philly Cheesesteak bowls, a Sicilian Thursday. Send me any any any special you want. Send me a frozen wing. I'll gnaw on it. I don't care. But yeah, if you're nothing will go anywhere. Right. If you're local um and you're not sitting here in Florida wishing you had pizza night, go get one. Go to Beale Avenue. Uh they are at 3329. You can get there. Um, what's the you take the 10 to the 9, then 9 to 12, take a left at what? How do you get there?

SPEAKER_00 26:28

10 to the 9.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

I don't know the streets, but I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Uh Beal Avenue. Use your cheap s. Order pizza night. Yeah. Lunch, dinner, anytime, pizza night, 814-943-7000. And uh, of course, we are still looking for dough gooders in our area. So if you know somebody who contributes whatever it might be, whether they walk the neighbors' dogs or they cut their grown grass or uh rake in the spring or help uh little old ladies cross the street, just somebody or uh you know a volunteer, fire department, whoever the case may be, a teacher, somebody works at the store who does good. We're looking for a dough gooder, thanks to our friends at Parlor Donuts. Go to JojoWorldwide.com, tap dough gooders, tell us about the person that you know that's doing good in uh your area, and you and them could win a visit and delicious treats from uh myself and Brendan from Parlor Donuts in Altoona. Hurry up, go get those entries in JojoWorldwide.com. You can also get merch at jojoworldwide.com. We're talking shirts, we're talking hats. We don't have any maple syrup, but we got a lot of great things there. I gotta get more shirts. Yeah. Been doing those uh DJ gigs and like the two shirts. I don't think they're gonna make it through the summer with the high volume that that I'm putting them through. So we have all different colors.

SPEAKER_06 27:49

Um yeah, it's starting to get toasty outside. Yeah, a hot weekend.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Then I look for this upcoming weekend and it says the highs are gonna be like in the 60s.

SPEAKER_06 27:58

I know. Once you know, it's crazy to me because on Mother's Day, I ended up putting my heat on temporarily because it was so cold. I then turned it back off. So then yesterday I was like, oh, is today the day? Like, even I have a little fan going right now in the office because I'm like, I'm hot.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Menopause.

SPEAKER_06 28:14

Yeah, Perry. So uh I am gonna be 34 in a few days, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

That's hot.

SPEAKER_06 28:20

But um, I was debating turning the air on and I'm like, but it's gonna be 60 in like four days.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

So you're gonna w look forward to the four days from now when you won't need it and save money by pretending it's 60 now?

SPEAKER_06 28:32

I mean, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

We do this cool thing at night where if it's too humid and warm outside, we put the air on like 60 and it freezes up and leaks all over the floor because the air conditioner's not gonna go to sixty at night.

SPEAKER_06 28:45

So why would you do that?

SPEAKER_00 28:47

We have dreams. Hopes and dreams. You gotta try. Just yeah. Um then I wake up and it's all frozen and then I have to get the mop. But that's just how the royal people live, Jenna. You wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_06 29:00

I would not know.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Um Oh Triluna Royal Cleaning. Fe if you want to feel like a a royalty, don't clean your own house. Call Triluna Royal Cleaning. And let them clean your house. Because really, what else are they doing? I don't know. Their name is Triluna Royal Cleaning, not sunbathing.

SPEAKER_06 29:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Will they come clean up my leaves? They don't want anything to do with you. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Mutual.

SPEAKER_06 29:26

I think anyone that's like talking about leaves in May, they're concerned about.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Why are you so hung up on what month it is? Who cares? Because you don't have leaves in May.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

It just looks weird.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

It's a bad message.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

Listen, I did a somewhat spring cleanup like a month ago. Um, so everything that was left over from the winter that didn't disintegrate, but I mean, like now we're basically summer over here. Well, you know what? This is what happens when for him every season is the same season.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Summer over here.

SPEAKER_06 29:52

It all blends together.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

It all blends together. It blends together.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

I was looking for Trilina Royal Cleaning's phone number because I always give it out wrong. 814 something. That's all I got. Look them up. 814-895-3038. Whether you're an individual or if you own a business or a franchise, uh, they got great prices, just ask for Dominic. It's code word. There's not really anyone there named Dominic, but ask for Dominic. That's actually my lifetime.

SPEAKER_06 30:23

My daughter's first crush, her name is Domin his name is Dominic.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yes. Call uh Janna's daughter's first crush at 814-895-3038. Loves idea. It's funny. Um he reached out to me because the company, I guess, wanted an estimate, and and I happened to know who owns it. And I said, Ah, I'll get you a deal on that. Don't waste your time. I'll go right to the source. So I call up uh the guy and I was like, hey, listen, you need Trilina. And he's like, Oh how much you pay for that new roof? I was like, What? I walked into the I was just trying to like do do my friend a solid and have you call him. How much? What'd you what'd you pay? Six thousand? Oh god. Six thousand?

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Yeah, what's it? Where do I live? A Barbie Dream house?

SPEAKER_00 31:10

You're getting a roof replaced for six thousand.

SPEAKER_06 31:12

Get in a shingle.

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Get it in a shingle. Yeah, you don't understand how rotten my house was. Like it wasn't just put on a new roof. No, it was take off the old one, take off the wood, take off the skeleton of the roof, and put all that back on. I got a dumpster spilling out in the driveway outside. Like they had to gut the entire thing. It's guaranteed for 50 years, which is good because that's how long the payments will be lasting. Yeah, good luck, Jonathan. But you won't see me walking around up there several weeks after. Because Janet, you just had your roof replaced too. Yep. What are you doing up there walking around?

SPEAKER_06 31:46

I was confirming the work. I will say I found a bunch of They have drones for that. I found a bunch of rusty nails still. I'm like, they didn't clean up their shit.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Really?

SPEAKER_06 31:52

Yeah, I was not happy about it. But also, I have to say, they literally came here the day after or the day before a blizzard. There was already still so much snow on the ground. So like all the things that fall off the roof, they usually clean them up. I've been picking it up for months now. So I don't fully blame them, but uh $20,000, you would think that like they're not leaving a caulking gun up there. And they did in the gutter. I think they're gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

They have a caulking gun five shingles?

SPEAKER_06 32:19

They did.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

That's a cock element.

SPEAKER_06 32:21

It's highly inappropriate for a single woman. Jeez. No, but speaking of paying for the next 50 years, I mean I'm with you on that. Like it's yeah. This this is this credit card bill does not go away.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

And then, of course, you know, me, I'm always the one that goes, How long can we delay those payments? Right? And they were like it deferred for six years. They're like six months. I was like, Yes. All right. Honey, you don't have to pay for six months. It's almost free. It's practically free. So now they're done and they want to do the walk around and have us say it's okay part.

SPEAKER_06 32:56

Which is again difficult when you're not up there.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Or you're alone because your wife's at work, or you're down at work or away. Like, we can't get the two of us together, and God knows I'm not gonna walk around and say it's fine when I have like no vision and she's the one that paid for it. But still, um, I don't know. But how am I supposed to judge?

SPEAKER_06 33:17

You know how you you just like step back, you look at the house, and you're like, I think it looks good, and then has anything leaked in the past day? No? Okay, you're probably good.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Yeah, but it didn't rain. I need a good meeting I need a good soaking before I can go out with the missus and walk around to the hose out and hose her down. Not a bad idea. Of course, I didn't also need just a new roof. I needed the um a new gutter system in the back, so that was a nice change order. You gotta have all those upgrades. There was one part of the roof where he had repairs done, and they showed me pictures, and they're like, you should sue whoever did this.

SPEAKER_06 33:55

Yeah, I've had that too. And I was like, oh, that was something that I brought up. I was like, hey, we should have fixed this then, and it was like, ah no, we we did what we had to do. And I was like, okay, leave it all on me. No problem.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

I gotta give the court system a break. I got like six different cases against people going on right now. I don't have time to be going after somebody else.

SPEAKER_06 34:14

See, it's funny, you're you're fighting everything and I'm fighting nothing.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

You're fighting your inner demons.

SPEAKER_06 34:20

I I am, and and you know what? So I I swear I had this revelation last week, and I said, I know that advocating for myself and trying to protect myself financially and like legally and all of this for justice is right for me and my daughter, but the thing that I think matters more is like my peace. And so needless to say, I made an appointment to sign my divorce papers.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Our very own Aaron Brockovich, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_06 34:48

That's uh I do love Julia Roberts, she's my fave.

SPEAKER_00 34:51

Were you on the fence about signing them? Or they just was it like a dramatic you walked by them? Well, the pen was there.

SPEAKER_06 34:57

Yeah, I was like, oh, what is that doing there? No, I was just trying to, you know, have some sort of negotiations and be civil, and there was no talks of that. And uh I'm not I'm just not going to court is like um cool like the judge Judy cool. No, and it's just it seems painful.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Um so I'm in the spirit of Canada, you're throwing the white flag?

SPEAKER_06 35:20

That's it. That's it. She surrendered.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Also in the spirit of Canada, just don't go chasing waterfalls, Janna. Not that one at least. Definitely not that one. All right, until next time, everybody. That's JoJo on the go. Get yourself a shirt, buy a hat, uh, support the podcast, tell a friend, go online to JojoWorldwide.com for Janna, Banana, and Jagger. I am JoJo, and we will be back before you know it. I mean, not today, we'll be back for another episode.

SPEAKER_04 35:51

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SPEAKER_03 35:55

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