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A simple rideshare to the airport turns into an unexpected masterclass in conversation and craft. With two young, affected passengers in the back, we move seamlessly from small talk to something deeper: how to create safety so people open up, when to hit record and when to circle back, and why empathy always outshines a checklist of questions.

The ride becomes a swap of stories—journalism and 9/11, the mechanics of production, and the odd role affectations play in everyday pop-culture dialogue. What started as a commute ends up as a reminder that connection is both an art and a discipline.

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to another episode of Rideshair Road Talk, Conversations Emmotion, a podcast where we create unfiltered talk space that examines the meaningful lives of my passengers while engaging in personal and topical discussions. I'm your host, and driver, John Foddett. And we're cruising the streets of Washington, D.C. Buckle up. Let's drive. Business or pleasure?

SPEAKER_02:

Pleasure. Alright. Sort of.

SPEAKER_00:

I drove through St. Louis once.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, did you?

SPEAKER_00:

That's about it.

SPEAKER_02:

Did you like it?

SPEAKER_00:

From what I saw from the highway, sure.

SPEAKER_02:

You're like fair enough. Looks like a family. I'm like, look, the arch. Big ass arch.

SPEAKER_00:

What's the connection point? You have friends there? My family's there.

SPEAKER_02:

It's my grandpa's 80th birthday.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, okay. That's cool.

SPEAKER_02:

You know.

SPEAKER_00:

I will not insult St. Louis any any longer.

SPEAKER_02:

No, that's really fine. Okay. Misery, misery. It's not a coincidence, I fear.

SPEAKER_00:

What time's uh your flight?

SPEAKER_02:

650.

SPEAKER_00:

And let me see what's going on with this navigation. It's alright. You should be okay.

SPEAKER_02:

I'll be fine. I feel like we're fine.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

We actually like really can this flight.

SPEAKER_00:

Gives you about an hour, I think. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah. We're fine.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you have like uh clear or pre-check or anything like that?

SPEAKER_02:

Oxygen tank exploding.

SPEAKER_00:

Sometimes they'll let you piggyback.

SPEAKER_02:

You need to get pre-checked.

SPEAKER_00:

That dog is straight up chilling. It's not even blinking.

SPEAKER_02:

Hi, Poopy! Hi, Poopy, Pookie. We got big ears. Oh, there's another one.

SPEAKER_00:

Nice.

unknown:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, we do not want him in our car.

SPEAKER_02:

Perhaps so. Look at those teeth. He also looks like he likes can't see low-key. Yeah, he does look kind of. His eyes are looking a little, but he's still got big teeth.

SPEAKER_00:

What's funny?

SPEAKER_02:

Who would it was ears? Top big ears.

SPEAKER_00:

I have a giant Bernese mountain dog. They're so much fun.

SPEAKER_02:

I love those dogs.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they're like they're like human Velcro. They just they would not leave you alone. Like, if you're on the couch watching TV, he wants to be on top of you, like on your chest. I'm like, bro, you're like 130 pounds. No, not at all.

SPEAKER_02:

Thinks he's a lap dog. Yeah. Wait, what's his name?

SPEAKER_00:

Buddy.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00:

It's not very original.

SPEAKER_02:

It's not, but it's a classic.

SPEAKER_00:

But I've got two boys, and when they were younger, I just say, hey, buddy, and all three come.

SPEAKER_02:

So that's cute.

SPEAKER_00:

Three birds. Allergies or cold.

SPEAKER_02:

Asthma.

SPEAKER_00:

Asthma. Alright, there's a caddyshack reference, but you're probably too young for it, so I won't bother.

SPEAKER_02:

But it sounds like it might be funny.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. If you're like 57 like me, sure.

SPEAKER_02:

My dad's 57, I think. My mom's 57. Alright. Wait, what was your was she born? No.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, if you play that game, if you could pick one age to live for eternity. Like 45.

SPEAKER_03:

Really?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah, absolutely. 100%.

SPEAKER_03:

That's good to know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Something to aspire to.

SPEAKER_02:

45.

SPEAKER_00:

45. No, don't make the fix. I'm sorry. No, I'm serious.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00:

Don't make the fix.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm chillaxing at 22 right now.

SPEAKER_00:

You have your health?

SPEAKER_02:

Do you?

SPEAKER_00:

At 45?

SPEAKER_02:

Not everybody does.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I hope you should. Sure. I mean Sure, I guess you'd rather like Loki, you should have your health at 45. Established career? Sure.

SPEAKER_02:

You should have some like money.

unknown:

True.

SPEAKER_00:

You have wisdom, but you still are old enough to go out and still have some fun and let it fly if you want. Um.

SPEAKER_02:

Do you wish you were 45?

SPEAKER_00:

I don't wish for anything anymore because it's all bullshit.

SPEAKER_02:

That is not inspirational to the younger generation at all.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god, this is a good thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

You work in media?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh I own a production company.

SPEAKER_02:

That's really cool.

SPEAKER_00:

And I actually drive this car for a podcast. I do it downtown twice a week. And uh I work in journals. Well, there you go. Ask me anything, because I did that for 20 years.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god, wait, that's really fun. What's your podcast?

SPEAKER_00:

It's called Rideshare Road Talk.

SPEAKER_02:

Rideshare Road Talk? Wait, why aren't we on the podcast?

SPEAKER_00:

Do you want to be on the podcast? I usually wait till nighttime down in DC. It's on Apple and Spotify and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

Um first we want to be on the podcast. I love a good podcast. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_00:

And you know what's interesting? So you're in journalism or you're aspiring?

SPEAKER_02:

No, no, she's a journalist. Okay. Well, I'm an editor, but still.

SPEAKER_00:

We have lots to talk about.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I've heard the Washington Examiner as a home page editor.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So print editor.

SPEAKER_01:

Umline.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So you're doing any video, film, anything like that, or just all okay.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I have done those, but just the the there's so many benefits from doing this that I just find spectacular. One of them that you might be able to relate to is as a producer, and when I go in and and do a corporate interview with an executive or whatever it is, doing this hones your chops to have organic conversations with people, to be disarming, to create a comfortable space that will inhibit someone to relax and give you what you need in terms of a narrative.

SPEAKER_02:

I really felt that from you. Don't be a smart no, I'm serious. I did feel that I felt that energy. That's why I was like I was like gabbing.

SPEAKER_00:

Fair enough. Um so it is transferable. Some people are assholes and don't or don't want to talk, they're having a bad day, they're introverted. Right. Fine. It is what it is. Let's ride in silence. Let's ride in silence. More often than not, everyone has a story, and if you can extract it and present it in a certain way, it can be very engaging.

SPEAKER_03:

I just go to a question signal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

There are none. It's just, I mean, organic conversations are the best. I mean, I can steer it a little bit, um, but it shouldn't feel like work because I'm like Ruddy.

SPEAKER_02:

Can we do it?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, we've been doing it. That's it. That's how good I am.

SPEAKER_02:

But no one's recording.

SPEAKER_00:

Sure it is. It's always recording.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, seriously.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, DC is a single single party. Yes.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00:

Um DC, it is uh single party consent. And as crazy as the law is, if I'm the one that sets up the device, that's considered single party. Yeah. I always ask people, I always tell them.

SPEAKER_03:

Of course, because that's a technical thing to do.

SPEAKER_00:

Of course. And I'm not breaking any boundaries here. It's there's no reason for me not to.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

And I tried it a couple of times where I would redo uh an episode or a conversation and tell someone after the fact it's not worth the uncomfortableness of that.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So it's like, hey, this is what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02:

So true.

SPEAKER_00:

Or there's a segue, like, hey, this is a nice car. I'm like, well, yeah, I don't really do it for that reason. I do it for this reason, and that's why blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_02:

I do like this car. Yeah, me too. Touch O class.

SPEAKER_00:

It grew on me. I was a suburban Tahoe guy for like 20 years.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00:

And then the residual values and lease programs when the economy went kind of upside down. Yep. It like was double, and I'm like, well, fuck that, I'm not doing that. And uh Ford offered a good deal. So here we are.

SPEAKER_01:

I like that. She's like fascinated by your mic.

SPEAKER_02:

I am. Why? When I got in here, all I could think was look at that incense dispenser. And I was like, that's crazy that it's back. You're like, that's so smart. I never would have thought to do that.

SPEAKER_00:

It's uh it's a it's two transmitters and a receiver.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, it's all wireless, so that's it's a two-channel uh real deal.

SPEAKER_02:

That's the real deal.

SPEAKER_00:

Receiver gasp.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, how much was it?

SPEAKER_00:

One is there, and then I have one here on my C.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00:

It's my voice, and then that picks up whatever in the back there. I mean, I don't know. I mean, this is like 500 bucks maybe.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Um we have these with all of our camera kits and stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

My gosh.

SPEAKER_00:

And so you can tap that into the camera, use that for interviews. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01:

So what type of your stuff does your company do? Uh tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00:

It's all corporate video. Oh. Um, I was a photojournalist at CNN and um Fox for 20 years. And then that came to an end and started my company. And that's been 15 years. And it's all mostly cor corporate marketing and advertising.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm definitely about to hit you guys up. I work for a nonprofit.

SPEAKER_00:

Cool. That means you don't like to write checks.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But you know what though?

SPEAKER_02:

But you guys can ex get exposure to huge events. I don't know. I don't need exposure. Exposure to execs. So you want that?

SPEAKER_00:

I have that, not to be rude. But you know that did sound kind of rude. I'm sorry. But I apologize. Um, seriously, I'm really good at making people cry. And when people cry, they write checks. So insert that into the nonprofit world where you need someone to empty their pocketbook for your cause.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, like just for your cause. I was gonna say I work in maternal and infant health, so everyone's crying anyway.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I'm not cheap, but you know, typically the value proposition of that is exponential, um, depending on what the cause is. Philanthropy. Yeah. We always bring out uh PAs. Uh-huh. Um, they're not interns. I don't do that. But PAs, we pay them yeah. Come out.

SPEAKER_03:

PAs.

SPEAKER_00:

Depending on what you want to do. You can shadow a producer or you can shadow a camera crew and help with gear and lighting and things like that.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, that sounds really fun. That does sound fun.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm getting ready to not do it anymore, so it has been fun though.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, what are you doing now? Just the podcasts?

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I've got a kid in college, I have one graduating from high school this year.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh. Congrats.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, are they going to college?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, one is at Tennessee currently, just starting his junior year.

SPEAKER_02:

Love it.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, and it's like, you know, my business is always gonna be there, but I'm in a position where I'm gonna give away kind of the front end to contractors to do, you know, the filming and all that stuff, and I'll just take the back end to sit at home and do emails and maybe do some editing.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Because you've earned your happiness. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

If you only knew. Um I mean it it was a been a great experience making a great book someday, but it's enough. I mean, what do you want to know?

SPEAKER_02:

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00:

Everything. I mean, what do you want to know?

SPEAKER_02:

What's your biggest trauma?

SPEAKER_00:

Trauma?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Good question. Um, 9-11, I was up at ground zero filming for a week. I don't really talk about that one too often, but you did ask.

SPEAKER_02:

I did. That's fair enough. My dad was in the I don't know if you know the Deutsche Bank building. Yeah. Yeah. He worked in the Deutsche Bank Building, so he was also there.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But he got out early enough to like really like avoid a lot of.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I was here that morning in DC. I filmed the Pentagon and then they sent me up that afternoon. Wow. And so I had to pay some guy on a boat like a watt of cash to take me from Liberty State Park across the river to the financial district. That is and then that's where I was for like a week.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow.

SPEAKER_00:

Um not traumatic was on West Side Drive. This is in one of the podcast episodes we were talking about this. Oh there was like an Asian massage parlor that went legit for the week. And we heard this rumor that all the police and fire guys. Oh, what an interesting dog.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Where?

SPEAKER_00:

Look at that thing. Oh, oh, it's like it's like kitty cat fur. Oh, it is like kitty fur.

SPEAKER_02:

It's like a big kitty. It's really that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

Look at its tail. Oh, yeah, look at his tail. That's bizarre.

SPEAKER_02:

What would you call what would you call that? Would you call that a dat or a cog?

SPEAKER_00:

A what?

SPEAKER_02:

Dog cat. Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

That was good, right? Probably a dat. You think? Not a cog. I guess it's like a cat dog. So cog. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So Asian massage parlor. We all we all know what happens there, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, apparently, um, they went legit for the week, and we walked in there with the camera crew and a producer, and the place was filled with cops and fire guys in towels. And they were all getting massages and grease downs, and it was like the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. And I went to the uh the watch commander and said, Hey man, are are you kidding me? He goes, Like, no, they're just this is the world's coming to an end, so this is happening. And we'll be writing citations next week, but for right now, they're doing a great service. And so here are the keys to the city. Oh my god. Jade Spa. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, that's like really crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it was pretty fun.

SPEAKER_01:

So where did you grow up?

SPEAKER_00:

Here. Did you go to school here? Born in DC, grew up in the suburbs.

SPEAKER_02:

Gasp.

SPEAKER_00:

Went to uh school in Florida for a bit, and then came back. Yeah. Where? Uh Lynn University in Boca, Pretone.

SPEAKER_02:

Did you study?

SPEAKER_00:

No, I didn't study anything. I studied how to do cocaine and drugs and drink.

SPEAKER_02:

Well you went to school in Florida, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

In the late 80s. Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_02:

I didn't think about that.

SPEAKER_00:

Load uh and then came home and was very fortunate. Start and started and ended my journalism career right here in DC without having to go anywhere.

SPEAKER_01:

Look at that car. Do you see it? It looks like it has a QR code on the side.

SPEAKER_00:

So what do you ladies do besides go to St. Louis for birthday parties?

SPEAKER_02:

We're not from here.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, you're from St. Louis.

SPEAKER_02:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

What do you mean you're not from here?

SPEAKER_02:

Like we're not from this city or this side of the US. But you live here. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Well, where's home home?

SPEAKER_02:

I'm from Oregon.

SPEAKER_00:

Really?

SPEAKER_02:

And Grace is from Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00:

Ooh, okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So you're in Oregon. Central Oregon.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I've heard that. Yes. My uh uncle, who is no longer with us, but he lived in Ashland.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep. Shakespeare Festival. Exactly. That's cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, cool little town.

SPEAKER_02:

My grandma used to live there, well, p kind of near there. She lived in Eugene. She also lived somewhere else. I kind of forgot. But she used to take me to the Shakespeare Festival. Like I would go visit her and we would go together.

SPEAKER_03:

Nice.

SPEAKER_02:

And one time I went when I was 14 and I met this guy named Adrian, who was 16, and I really liked him. I was like really like at Starcross 11. So my grandma like sat in the hotel room and like watched us from the window.

SPEAKER_00:

Wait, how old were you at the time?

SPEAKER_02:

14. Okay. And we were sitting in the hot tub, and I was like trying to be cute and like talk to him, and I almost passed out because I sat in there for too long. And my face turned really red and I had to get in the pool. And then I cried and I had to drink a glass of water. So anyways, Adrian, Adrian, if you're out there, I still think about you. And I still talk about him with my grandma, anyways.

SPEAKER_03:

That's fine.

SPEAKER_00:

But where where in Wisconsin are you from?

SPEAKER_01:

Uh right outside of Madison.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Fun town, I hear.

SPEAKER_01:

It is. It's a great town. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. My kid's friend goes to school there. Loves it.

SPEAKER_02:

UW Madison.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

But then we came to DC for undergrad.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, we met first one year the first day of math workshop, which sucks, by the way.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh sure.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean This girl pulled me through that class by my hair.

SPEAKER_00:

What school did you get did you go to here?

SPEAKER_02:

American.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. How did you like that, by the way, that experience? It's relatively small.

SPEAKER_02:

It is.

SPEAKER_00:

Um and it's not like GW is kind of like the urban feel. That's kind of subject.

SPEAKER_02:

Fun fact, my s my little my youngest sister is going to GW. Okay. She's moving in in two weeks. So we'll see how she likes that.

SPEAKER_01:

But if you have that you would campus vibe.

SPEAKER_02:

The campus is it's actually awesome. Okay. That's the main thing I would say.

SPEAKER_01:

And like I made a great kid. Yeah, I mean, I felt like it's given me a lot of really good opportunities.

SPEAKER_02:

It has. And I actually know what? I literally probably only had like one professor that I didn't like obsessive. Like almost all my professors were like pretty incredible.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Like, really. And like at least half of them like had given me their personal phone number and like texted back and like so you know, that that's something to be said for a small school.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, the engagement's important, especially when someone's stroking a check that large.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, math or job. Stupid claws.

SPEAKER_00:

I had this interesting conversation with two ladies that were in journalism school. Um, and they were kind of like just lamenting about like the current state of like politics and Trump and what's going on and you know, the whole fake news thing and all that.

SPEAKER_02:

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_00:

And they were like gonna tap out and they didn't want to do it. And I said, And I was like, I said, I don't know. Well, and that's what I said is it's uh it's kind of like a high water mark. There's gonna be a a point in time where it's gonna be really important for people like you to be in that position. Yeah, to keep towing that line. It's kind of like the phenomenon at the Kennedy Center when various people on the board resigned in protest.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

If no one's there to keep their foot in the door, then they then then what? Like Ben Foltz. He just left Ben Foltz. There's a joke there because he folded.

SPEAKER_02:

No, yeah, that was good. I liked that. It took me a second, but I already uh I didn't care for that so much.

SPEAKER_00:

Sorry, bro. Sorry you're a relatively famous entertainer.

SPEAKER_02:

I hope you're listening.

SPEAKER_00:

Maybe you should have stayed and endured. Because, you know. We know what happens.

SPEAKER_02:

Anyways, those who bend to the will of authority will never stand up and be a people against them. You later just now. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

I like it.

SPEAKER_02:

Thank you. Quote that TM. TM that yeah, it's like really like we uh don't really need to talk about it, I fear, because we've talked about it ad nauseum. And also, like, yeah, we can talk about it, but like also it's just kind of like there I think it's important to talk about, but I think there are times where it's appropriate to be like, I don't really wanna like get into that right now because it's depressing and maybe we just want to like go like low key pretend for like 25 minutes that like it's not like anything. Like let's just get a drink and like not talk about Trump real quick.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, let's just go do cake stands and forget about it all for a minute.

SPEAKER_02:

I do not drink beer. It makes my stomach hurt. If you wanted to know. We like cider.

SPEAKER_00:

I just learned what a dizzy bat was.

SPEAKER_02:

What the hell is that? See?

SPEAKER_00:

And and look, I've been there and done that. There isn't I've done pretty much everything you can possibly do. Except for a dizzy bat. Apparently, you go to like a toy store and you get like the whiffle ball bats, and you snip the bottom of the handle, okay, and then it becomes a hollow vessel, and then you fill that with alcohol.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Beer, mixed drinks holds a lot, apparently.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, so it's kind of like a borg.

SPEAKER_00:

I I guess. I don't know. But apparently you're supposed to like spin around in a circle ten times and then you shoot the dizzy bats.

SPEAKER_02:

I've seen that.

SPEAKER_00:

And then you puke and fall down, and apparently that's fun.

SPEAKER_02:

Apparently that is fun. That doesn't sound like our kind of night. We're not really those girlies up here. We're not the dizzy bat girls.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh come on. That's a good name for a band, by the way.

SPEAKER_02:

Dizzy bat.

SPEAKER_00:

Dizzy bat girls.

SPEAKER_02:

Dizzy bat girls. I want my baby badzy birthday. Me?

SPEAKER_00:

It's a good bad. Oh my god, I like everything.

SPEAKER_02:

I hate when people say that.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh, okay. Um pick.

SPEAKER_02:

You have to pick. Yeah, like that's not.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, I have to like lay it out. Yes. Um my god, I really do like everything.

SPEAKER_02:

Hey, like what's your favorite thing? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

What like most often like go to put on? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Right now.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Sure.

SPEAKER_00:

It changes with the I hate pop country music.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you can't do it.

SPEAKER_00:

It's formulaic. Same three chords that are sonically predisposed to your ear, rearranged, it's garbage. Oh my god. Happens in pop rock music as well. There is a derivative of country music that originated in Oklahoma called Red Dirt. Oh, and I really have been into that because it's kind of like half rock, half country.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. I'm looking that up.

SPEAKER_00:

And there's a band called Cross Canadian Ragweed.

SPEAKER_02:

Of who uh exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

They are the godfathers of red dirt music.

SPEAKER_02:

I was like, you're in.

SPEAKER_00:

Um they kind of started it like 20 some years ago. And it's like just you know, stripped down, clean lyrics with heavy guitar with a little bit of twang, but it's not like Leonard Skinner's Southern Rock. It's just kind of like country with some ass to it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Which is kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02:

That is cool.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

We'll check it out. Yeah, that does sound cool. I'm not like I like like country. You don't love country. But I don't love it. Yeah, I like rock. I like the rock. I like some rock.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what I don't like also?

SPEAKER_02:

Like when I go we ask you what you like, and then it's like alarming that you went to like what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00:

No, not alarming. No, no, no. When I visit my kid at school, there's this whole sorority thing where they all have to wear white cowboy boots when they go out.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh yeah, jump scare.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I don't know. Oh, but he goes to the city. I don't understand. It's not Texas.

SPEAKER_02:

It doesn't matter. It's still the city. It's still, it's still I don't know. Who? Southern girls. You can't say that unless you say Southern girls. Southern girls. Southern girls. With those fake ass white cowboy boots. And they're like, I got these, they're cracking out skin. Like, girl, you know those are in they're not, and those are in those are from Sheen, and also crocs are endangered, so I'm pretty sure. Are they? Wait, I'm looking it up. I know pandas are.

SPEAKER_01:

So you don't like white white cowboy moves?

SPEAKER_02:

Me? Yes. Sorry. I mean, I don't know. I guess. Many d many species of crocodiles are endangered.

SPEAKER_01:

Honestly, time and a place. I think that like it would be cool if like everyone else wasn't doing it.

SPEAKER_02:

Like, okay, but we talked about this the other day. Right. Trends are trends for a reason. Like stuff is like fake for a reason. Like, it's not always bad. But if there's a way to do it that's cute. No, you're right. But that's what I said. It's not always bad. But yeah, sometimes it's. I love a cowboy boo, but you have to do it the right, yes.

SPEAKER_00:

I think it's the audacity of white.

SPEAKER_02:

The audacity of the white. Like that just doesn't make it.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just it's just obnoxious.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, I feel like that's like says something else. The audacity of the white.

SPEAKER_00:

Could could be interpreted as a lot of things. It could be interesting. TM again. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

You don't trademark brains. What do you say? Quotation, quotation. Quote unquote. Okay, attributed. Attributed.

SPEAKER_01:

Set here first.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, set here first. I like that. Can you edit that out and say I said set here? Set here first. He's like, I'm not using this. I was gonna say our conversation is not um.

SPEAKER_00:

I do hear all kinds of like little keyword phrases and acronyms that I've never heard before.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, like what?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh there was a young lady, uh, but she had this saying, uh, what was the acronym?

SPEAKER_02:

Um Wait, did you use that on the podcast?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I used the episode, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah. She wanted to be on.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

For sure. Um reasonably not ugly. In reference to like a guy she was dating.

SPEAKER_02:

Reasonably not ugly?

SPEAKER_00:

And whatever that acronym is. Um R and U. Yeah, yeah. And she's like, coin that it's gonna be something someday, because it always happens to me where I get dumped by these 40-year-old men who are reasonably not ugly, but can't check any other fucking box, and I just won't settle now. I actually love that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Said there first. Wait, that's so funny. What do we say? You know what we say? Whenever we see an attractive man, we just look at each other and go, sexy cana, just spun us. And that's how you know someone is wait, what is that?

SPEAKER_00:

That sounds like it sounds like a country song.

SPEAKER_02:

It's not a country song. What is with you and you have some issues to work out.

SPEAKER_00:

I do, I do. But there was a cadence to your voice that made it sound country.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, fine, but it's not. It's by outrage.

SPEAKER_00:

It's an affectation. It's an affectation. Yeah. Great word.

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, can we get a def on that?

SPEAKER_00:

Really? Yeah. Well, no, it's not meant to be insulting, but I'll tell you what it means.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

An affectation is when someone uses an accent to make something sound important, even though they don't give a shit about it.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Does that make sense? Can you use it like in a different um instant, like an example?

SPEAKER_00:

Um, there is a great scene from a movie. Like a coffee shop scene, and the girls talk like, oh my god, what do you want? Oh my gosh! And then he's like he's like, no, that's an affectation.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and then he's like talking like this. He's like that.

SPEAKER_00:

No, it's not Paul Rod, it's someone else. Who the fuck is it?

SPEAKER_02:

Someone else. Is it that? Is it um the Hulk?

SPEAKER_00:

No, it's the guy who was in Oh fuck. It's the he was in Sex in the City. I don't know. And Louder Milk, some other show. I can't remember. Anyways, if you search coffee heads.

SPEAKER_02:

I see him in my head though, like coffee shop, yeah, and she's like, You're talking like that. And she's like, That's that's not how I'm talking. And he's like, That's an end.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, and right, and then she snaps out of it and goes, Well, fuck you, man. She's like, There, that's your real voice.

SPEAKER_02:

And he's like, Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Wait, that's really funny that you brought that up. Like, I have that in my brain. Like, that's stored in there. That's filed back, as is every song lyric on the planet. Like, oh, ew, I've never been to this terminal.

SPEAKER_00:

This is the original.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, this is the original. Like, yeah, it's Southwest. It is. Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

That's who knew Southwest flew out of DCA, number one.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, look at his thing. It says Southwest Airlines and it's directing us this way.

SPEAKER_01:

I did not pick Southwest, did I?

SPEAKER_02:

We are on Southwest.

SPEAKER_00:

Are you sure you're not attacked to be in DWI?

SPEAKER_01:

What do you say? Are we sure that we're not to be on BWI?

SPEAKER_02:

Um, don't even say that to me, I'll cry. And I do not cry cute, so let me look at this. Washington DC to St. Louis. See? Imagine I got yours from BWI and mine from DCA. 6 50 p.m. A crash.

SPEAKER_00:

What?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I think. I'm scared.

SPEAKER_00:

Jesus Christ, we are at an airport.

SPEAKER_02:

I know. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_03:

I didn't even love that.

SPEAKER_02:

My bad. My bad to the viewers.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know what's going on here, but let's let's not do this, because this asshole is gonna do this. What the fuck? Fuck.

unknown:

Yeah, look at that car.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

That's not a car, it's a case.

SPEAKER_00:

Ten points. I'm gonna get you right up here.

SPEAKER_02:

Ten points for Griffindor.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, that's a free game. That's not ten points.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I like the top. Oh no. Oh, it's a sweat. Oh, I like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. I'll have you I can't.

SPEAKER_02:

Goodbye, everybody.

SPEAKER_00:

Let's get real.

unknown:

Woo!

SPEAKER_00:

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