THE PILOT! (or Retirement, Road Rage, Really Big Laughs)

Welcome to the very first episode of Expect to Laugh! Lori and Brett introduce themselves, explain how this podcast came to be, and share the stories behind their friendship, their famous "Secret Society," and their mission to find joy in everyday life. From retirement to ridiculous road trips and unforgettable laughs, this episode is the perfect introduction to the conversations you'll want to be part of every week. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Okay. Alright, here we go.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Alright, pilot episode take two. Expect to laugh. Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Welcome to the pilot episode of the podcast Expect to Laugh with your host, Lori Vornes and Brett Williams, theme song forthcoming. Alright, so we this is the introduction. Yes. Pilot episode.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Who are we and what are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Right. I guess first off, we should explain the why. Have you, Lori?

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Yes, Brett Have you needed a laugh lately? Yes, Brett. Here's the thing there are certain people in our lives that bring us to that place, that dopamine hit that we need in our brains sometimes, and in a heavy world where we just want to laugh. And a laugh is a healthy thing for the brain.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Absolutely. So you and I have known each other for 25, 30 years, and uh we have a a group, a subgroup of people, ex-employees in radio.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Yeah, we're all ex-cons.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Now we're now we are. I was the last.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

And you say that, Lori, but we'll unpack that in a little bit. And as I as you attend my next what does it really mean to retire seminar?

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

So I uh we we get together, I don't know, um we try monthly, but it's probably more like it's sportily. It's a group of us, there's like five of us, and we call ourselves the Society of No, you've already gone.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

No, Lori.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

It's already try again. Try again. And society name go.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

It's the secret society of salad with the chicken on top. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

You got it. You got it.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

You can see how I might forget the name of our. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 2:04

We made a logo.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Uh we did?

SPEAKER_01 2:06

No, I I think I might have.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Well, in the beginning, when we used to we would get together for uh lunches and dinners, and we would take notes. We'd have minutes of the meeting.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

We wouldn't we didn't take notes.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Sandra took the notes.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Takes notes. Okay. She's our secretary.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Right, exactly. Because we were gonna we were gonna be serious about this really awesome group of ours. And and we literally only just got together and and and we would just laugh until our bellies hurt and our faces hurt.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

It is honest to God, the thing on my calendar, if I have a doctor's appointment, I can cancel it. But secret society of salad with the chicken on top, it's just secret society. If it says secret society on my calendar, my wife knows that day is sacred. Yeah. Do not interrupt that because she knows how good that is for me. She's happier after I have gone to one of those meetings because I'm happier.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

They're delightful. And we laugh and laugh and laugh. And recently, within the past six months, we all got together and had a dinner at Anna, who is part of the Secret Society. Yes. At her home, and we got to bring friends and significant others. And a friend of mine was like, Well, I and this was her first time there.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Your friend's very first time.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

And she doesn't know you people, and she's like, I I what should I expect tonight? And I said, Expect to laugh.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

Hence the name of the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

Did she have a good time? That's the question.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Oh my God. She was beside herself on how much she laughed. And she said, you know, my God, that Brett, that Brett is like the funniest guy I've ever met in my life.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

And you said this earlier to me, and I have to say, and this is from a place of true sincerity, I think I am the least funny person in my family. My brother and sister make me laugh. My brother is hysterical.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Really?

SPEAKER_01 4:01

I think he is.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Well, then I've got the wrong person for the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

So can I give you his card? He has availability Tuesdays and Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Brett's name on the podcast contract. There we go. Brett's brother.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

It honestly, and I You're funny.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

And you don't even know it. And that was and that's what makes you.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

And maybe that's what makes that's what might make funny people funny is when they don't try to be funny.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

You are delightfully hysterical, and you're just you're you're crazy too. I mean, you when we get into these laughing fits with these secret society meetings.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Okay, so we have gotten in trouble by at restaurants where we have asked to be quiet. We always let them know what we're gonna be up to, and we request the outermost. Right. Get us away from Can you put us can you put a table in the back of the parking?

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Get us away from people who may be uh offended by laughter. So we decided after this recent gathering, man, we should do a podcast. We should all be in it.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Well, because you're in a new season of life.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

Right. I'm in I retired from morning radio after 32 years, and uh but I still I miss the funny part of being on the radio. And that's the fun for you. And that's the fun, absolutely. And you, the director of the Stanford Performing Arts Center, are looking for a creative outlet.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Yes, I'm always looking for a creative outlet. I get paid to look for creative outlets. Right.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

I like you, you like me. So we were gonna get this whole thing together, and we talked to an expert on actually, you know, this expert. Her name is Kylie, Kylie Lowe.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Ah, I love her podcast.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

She has Dark Down East, and it's consistently one of the biggest podcasts in the world. And she used to be on the Q morning show with me.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

Yes, right.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

I reached out to her and she said, Yeah, that's no, you're not gonna get a don't do a whole group. Don't do the whole group. Okay. Just do like two of you, and then you can have a guest on. Right.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

So you should choose the one with the best hair and the worst hair. And I have no hair, so that was the easy part. You Lori, you have a hair.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

And it's awesome. Listen. But I I look in the mirror and I just need to cue ball.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

Shine that bad boy up a little.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

Yep, I polished every morning.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

You and I have been meeting and we are committed to doing this, so um, we're gonna we're gonna do a weekly podcast where you can hopefully just listen and laugh.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

And if you are driving somewhere or if you are just sitting home alone and you're looking for if you're having a bad day, if you're sitting home alone having a bad day, turn on Judge Judy. Because she will make you feel better about yourself. Oh my gosh. Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. But if you're looking for a laugh where you're going, tune us in. And we're gonna our goal is to try and do this every week. Yes. And give you a little bit of a No.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

No, don't say our goal. We're gonna do it every week because one of the things I learned about podcasting is people are really demand. Yeah, be reliable. Okay. They're very people are demanding. Yes. Now, the demand might not be there where, hey, one and done.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

And if that's the case, thank you both for listening. Yes. And by both I mean loyal.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Family members, right? Family members we paid. Um so that that is the goal. So we're gonna have to get, you know, we'll we'll bring in somebody from the Secret Society.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

You gotta meet these. You gotta you gotta meet them.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

The greatest people.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

We both have people in our lives that we find hysterical and funny and would love to to be in on a conversation of just just stuff. You know, because everybody the first you know, this I feel kind of bad because people ask, what's your podcast about? You already have people in the world, Brad. I'm famous, okay? I'm very famous.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

All right, and I'm Stanford famous. Right, you're Stanford famous, which means I get stopped in the frozen food section and have conversations with people I don't know their first names, but I have to act like they do. So hey you. I was gonna say that I learned that from you in the 90s.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

Yes, you're welcome. Hey you. Hey you. Hey you works so great. You can imagine a lot of people know me only because of the radio thingy, but I don't, I'm very, very bad with my names.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Hey you! Hey you, but the way you say it is so genuine.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

Right, right. So I definitely like I care about you. Yes, I definitely mean it's the Mr.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Rogers inflection that you add.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Hey you. Uh won't you be my neighbor? Won't you, please? You probably are my neighbor, and I don't know your name. So that's the skinny uh of what we're doing. And uh, you know, we're currently in your office at Sanford High School.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

Okay, I so full disclosure. So as you mentioned, I'm the director of Sanford Performing Arts Center. Now we are in my office at Sanford High School, right? Because this performing arts center has high school, which feels like more like a college campus here. It's very, it's a whole it's a whole vibe. This building is it's neat. And uh one of the things that is a reality when you work in high school is high school kids will keep you humble, okay? Because they will call it like they see it. And I am made fun of for my laugh all the time. Really?

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Yes. Because you're always laughing, which is fabulous.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

And maybe that's a good thing. It is a good thing. I am like, I have an iconic laugh. You do. And the kids make fun of my laugh because there's a TikTok trend about this dad laugh. Um, a student told me earlier, and I think you were here, when I said to the student, I said, Avila, describe my laugh. And she said, Dad laugh. It's a dad laugh.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

It's a dad, and I thought.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

I wasn't trying it.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

And then it kind of goes into old man laugh.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

And then I can't pray.

SPEAKER_00 9:55

And he turns bright, bright red.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Seriously, I haven't cramped right here right now. I'm not in shape, you guys. I'm not in good. I'm not in good health. He's not.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

This this podcast could kill him.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

The red face is a sign of high blood pressure.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Oh my god. All right. So here's the thing. I mean, you make me laugh. Every time I see you, you make me laugh. So the expect a laugh title could just be for us.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

If that is all I get out of this, is just hang time with Lori. I love that. I mean, that is just a great thing in life.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

That is a good point.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

And if I just get to hang with Lori and laugh, it's a win. I forgot about this. I went to New York one time and I saw a show called Cry Baby. I didn't realize. I went with my wife Hannah and I didn't realize that a friend of mine from college was in the show. No way. Yes, way. And it was just the same composer that did hairspray. Okay. Okay. So same vibe as hairspray at the Marquee Theater.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Okay, too many details, Dad.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Thanks. And so after the show, I go to the stage door and I say to the doorman, I said, Hey, could you please let my friend know that I'm here, Allison? And he said, Are you Brett? And I said, Yes, why? He goes, he says, She thought you might come back. And she comes down. She heard my laugh in the crowd. Oh my god. Isn't that wild? We hadn't seen each other in 15 years. Oh my god. She heard my laugh.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

And identified that if somebody came to the stage door for her, that it had to have been Brett because I heard that laugh. That is from the stage. Isn't that wild? At the Marquee Theater on Broadway, a performer knew my laugh. Which it either means that I have an awful laugh or an iconic laugh.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

You have an iconic laugh.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

You know, sometimes in um when I'm You can make it your ringtone if you want. Nope.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Um sometimes. You ever watch um uh sitcoms? No, never.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

I've never seen what is that?

SPEAKER_00 11:51

There's it back, I think it's like the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

There I call it the 1900s.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

It is true. Back in the 1900s. Um the there's a there was a particular laugh, and I would watch like um, because it was a laugh track, I think. Oh, yeah. It wasn't the live studio audience. Yeah. But there's one laugh that comes through all the time, and it's a female.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Over and over? Like they you they reuse the same track, and there's an iconic.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

There's an iconic one. I'm gonna go. Like what's a show? Like, is it on Golden Girls? Where can I find it? I don't remember. But in my head, uh, I'm just trying like Seinfeld uh rings like a bell where there's this one particular woman who laughs, and you hear her in several episodes. I'm that woman.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

You are that's on my resume. I'm the Seinfeld lady. Remember, it was weird. They used to have a laugh track in the Flintstones. Do you remember that? So here's Like Hannah Barbera.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

I love laugh tracks. I love them. I there was a show that had a laugh track, and I don't remember what it was, but let's just say mad about you.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

And then they took away the laugh track for an episode or something, and it wasn't funny. I'm telling you. Because that whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Yes. See? And so this podcast, hopefully, will give you, wherever you're going, in your car or bored at work, a permission to laugh. You know what? I hope that people listen to us. I hope that's a thing. I want people to put on their headphones at work and listen to this podcast, and hopefully we draw them to laugh out loud in awkward moments. Okay, wait. I want them to cackle.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

When, you know, when we started thinking seriously about doing a podcast, I had never listened to a podcast before in my life. So one of my homework assignments was to listen to a podcast. And so I was listening to uh Amy Puller has a good one.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

You had never listened to a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

No.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Isn't that I've been listening to a podcast since I left radio. I I'm sure I don't want PTSD in my car.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

I know I I get it, but I was still on the radio, so I listened to the radio. That was my homework. So I'd listen to a podcast, and and I thought, oh, I I'll listen to it while I'm you know doing the dishes. And then I was like, oh, I'll listen to it while I'm and all of a sudden uh I was like cleaning out a closet or something, and I thought, I don't know anything of what just happened. Like I get lost listening in the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

That's the great thing. Have you ever been driving somewhere and you forget driving there? You just get to where you're going. I mean, I must have driven, I must have driven here, right? I don't remember those seven traffic lights in Bidiford today.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

Side note, Beddeford. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yeah. Actual.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Actual. I had to go. Okay, I had to get gas. I watched a football game in soccer with a buddy, and I went to get gas and I put it in my GPS, and I had a shell gift card, and I went, shell, and the closest one was like a half a mile away. Oh, great. Okay, okay.

unknown 15:05

What?

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Out of gas. When was this? Was this the way? Wait, was this during the energy crisis in the Carter administration?

SPEAKER_00 15:13

I was I was seven years old. I stole in my damn. My kid Sorrento had no petrol. Oh yeah. No, so and then, and then so there's another shell that's like a mile away or something that goes to that. Getting to that second gas station was an exercise in road rage. It was bit offerred.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

It is the traffic light capital of northern New England.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

It is wretched. And they're doing so much construction. And I don't know why they're probably any more traffic lights.

SPEAKER_01 15:54

Well, those traffic lights aren't gonna construct themselves.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Listen, let's make an intersection with like, I don't know, six roads all coming together. Yeah. And you don't know what lane you're in if you're in the right lane until you're through the light, and then you realize you're in the wrong lane. You're going the wrong way.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

And if you want to get in the right lane, you have to wait for the cycle through all six roads again. Yes. And you'll have another chance in 15 minutes to find out if you were right. I mean what were we talking about? I don't know. Okay. Oh, I was saying if if you get somewhere and forget how you got there, then that's a good podcast. Yes. And audiobooks too. I also like audiobooks.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

We're not doing an audiobook. No. Unless. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 16:38

Uh do you think that we're just gonna unseat Joe Rogan? Probably.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

Joe Rogan? I don't know. That's our goal. Yeah, like in the next I don't know. We'll be there in a month or two.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Doesn't he have the number one podcast?

SPEAKER_00 16:51

You know, I was uh you know I was on his podcast. Are you kidding? What he took a YouTube video while I was at work on the queue. I stuck the Q. I we're gonna have to edit that out. That's a thing. Um I had to I no, I didn't have to, but I I'd seen or read something that you can charge your cell phone with a piece of fruit and a quarter or something. And a battery, like a nine-volt battery, and and a plum. And I did it.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Wait, that's real?

SPEAKER_00 17:24

That's a real thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I thought this was a thing that you fell for.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

So no, I often fall for things on the internet, but I felt so but this worked.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

This is a life hat.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Joe Rogan used that clip of me in that YouTube video uh for something. I'm sure he was making fun of me.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Well, what's not to make fun of?

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Well I know. It was something like, oh, look at this, you know, a little piece of fruit.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Yeah, well, you laugh all you want, Joe. Her phone is charged, and she's still got half a lime left for the drink.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

It's a plum. It's a plum.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

She's got a half a plum left to what do you do with half a plum? Eat it. Oh, okay. You could do that. Now, I have to ask you a question. When you entered this season of life, because you kind of just retired from radio, yeah. Talk about what you're doing now and what you thought you would be doing. And is it the same? Are you doing what you thought the life of a retired person would be?

SPEAKER_00 18:19

No. I, first of all, um, I thought it would be a lot harder to retire. Like I thought emotionally, like emotionally. Yeah. Now, uh might not be as hard because I still am part-time. This is what I was saying earlier in the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Like, you're not fully retired. Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

I still know the door cut.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

And go in and just have free range, then you're still there.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I can steal all the sticky notes, sticky pads. So, so that I think that that will be a big change January. I am no longer part-time.

SPEAKER_01 18:58

Oh, this is going right through into the new year.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

No.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Dang, girl, you don't know how to let go.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Right. So here, no, no, at the end of December. So January starts no more part-time work or association. And that means I will lose my email.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Oh, what are you doing? Are you transitioning already?

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I mean, I'm still I get all the emails and I'm still doing some stuff for the station, right? Yeah. So, but as soon as that email shuts off. Shuts off, I think that will be like a reality check for me. Because right now, okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

That's gonna be the moment where it's like, oh, I'm out.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Oh, right, exactly. Because right now I still have a foot in. And so it's really easy. You know what I mean? It was mentally easy because I'm still kinda there.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

And by kinda, I mean always.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

I just don't have to get up at four in the morning and do a morning show.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Yeah, and you just did a big fundraiser too. So you're always you're still very active and present on that frequency.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

I'm still, I'm still, not very, but yes, I'm still involved. All right. Um, and yeah, and cancer care is a big thing. And I mean, it's it was the 23rd year for this thing. That's a long time for a charity of any. And especially a radio one. Yes, you know, because we're not.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

I mean, that changed frequencies. Right. I followed you to different stages.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

Dragged it over from the queue to H O M. So um I think the reality check will will really hit me hard in January. When I lose that email and I can't like because I I have always been addicted to eat, you know, I'm one of those people that works on video.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

She replied to every email.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Every single one.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Oh, oh, oh, oh. I will.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Do you want to have a nervous breakdown right now? Can I show you?

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Oh, no, if you show me your email and you have more than four more than what number?

SPEAKER_01 20:51

Give me the number.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

If you have more than four new emails that haven't been opened, I'm gonna I'm gonna flip out on you.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Okay. I have to tell, okay, this has to go with a qualifier because I get a lot of emails.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

So do I. I get hundreds of emails every day on Gmail and the work email.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

And some are not worth reading.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

I understand.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I get it.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I have to learn how to film.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Ladies and gentlemen, he has I can't even say this number. Do it. 24,214 in his inbox. That would that that would make me have to go to a hospital. I would have to quarantine myself.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

It makes me want to go home.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

And and get I would have I have okay, I have zero. I have zero maybe one.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

And you reply to them all too.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Absolutely. I don't have time for the okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, all right. I don't reply to all of them because uh there's a lot that's stupid and junk and all that. Yeah, I don't thanks for the offer on 50% off. My Macy's is having a sale. I can't. And I'm so special. I got a coupon. No, I know who.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Dear Vermont Country Store. Thank you for the discount coupons.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Oh, and okay, this will flip you out. That flipped me out. This is gonna flip you out.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

So many listeners have my phone number.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Why? Why did that? How did you let that happen? All right, so this you're gonna love this.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

My signature, you know, the thing at the end of an email.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

You left your phone number on it?

SPEAKER_00 22:32

I had no idea it was there.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Oh my gosh. Well, you typed it in.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

And and I often gave my phone number out because what do I care? They're listeners. If they needed something, you know, whatever. But since leaving, they still have my phone number.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

What are you gonna do? Can you like block them?

SPEAKER_00 22:50

I'm not gonna block them.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

That's just do you pick up and talk to them? It's just Kathy!

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Hey you that's brilliant! That's brilliant. No, no, no. But I mean, so it's it's a text thing. Okay. And I will, and I do, and I and I get back to them. There's only about six that actually use that stalk you actively.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

It's not weird to you that they're always outside your door.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

Hello. Hello? Hey Lori. Lori. I have your paper. I've always thought that you're a huge success if you have stalkers, so I'm fine with it.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Our friend Sandra in our secret society used to get, she used to get prison mail. Oh, prison mail. Ask her about that. Did you ever get prison mail? Absolutely got prison mail. I've never got prison mail. Well, I'm sorry. I did afternoons for five years. And I never got prison mail.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Dear Brett, I love you so much from cell number 6D. Oh!

SPEAKER_01 23:53

60!

SPEAKER_00 23:54

That's Lori's age! Oh my god. Speaking of 60. Yes, you've just flipped. I just flipped the clock to 60, which was a big motivator in all of my life.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

And I just got the greatest gift for being 60. I've only been 60 for like a month.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Was it fish oil?

SPEAKER_00 24:13

I went to Lois' Natural Foods Route One in Scarborough to pick up probiotics.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

And everyone knows you can't go into a place that's named Lois without being 60.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

I will say, I was the youngster. So I walk in. Beulah's caramels. Wait till you hear the exciting part of it, though. So I go in there and I get my probiotics, which are very expensive. And I get a little container of peanut butter covered pretzels, which are very expensive because Lois's is very expensive.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Also, as I'm looking around, not here.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

In my car. I go up to the cash register, and oh my god, there's this beautiful sign, and it says Wednesday, senior day, 10% off if you're 60 and older. And I I literally, it was like, I found the holy grail, and I said, I'm I'm screaming, I'm 60! I'm 60!

SPEAKER_01 25:16

She was like, Who does Molly Shannon do? Yeah, do you kick and I split and I kick.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

I was so excited.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Only sadly, she was 50.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

Right, exactly. Right. So I asked the nice lady who is probably my underwear's older.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

And I said to her, if I had been if I had one second later, this would have been water all over your face.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

I asked her, do you want proof? Because I'm so excited, right? Because who wouldn't say there's a hot flash? Do you want to see my Do you want to see my teeth? Here, I'll take them and put them in this jar. Do you want to see my medications list? No, because I thought, I don't know. It seems a little egotistical, but I thought, no way could she even possibly think I'm 60, right? I'll have to prove this. And she was like, no, I'm good. No, I'm good. I saved like eight, nine dollars.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

If that's a win, then's a huge win. Then I want to give that moment to you. Lori, congratulations. Thank you. On your 10%. Sexogenarianism. I believe in sexogenarian. You're a sexogenarian.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

You are. I don't even. I'm going to put a poster up. Sexy generarians.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Honest to God, we're we're not drunk. It seems like we could be. Oh, we will be. All right. But we are not.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Okay. Listen, we're going to try and do this with no, we're doing this with regularity.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

And if you love laughing and you're regular, then we're the show for you.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Okay. So it's called Expect to Laugh, Tell All Your Friends. Tell both of them. We'll have guests, we'll have topics, and we'll have laughs.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

See you next time.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Bye.