The Education Of Sweet Paul
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Chasing the Sweet Things in Life, the Sweet Paul podcast. Yes, it is. It's episode 10. Oh my gosh. I know. Cue the ticker tape parade. I'm expecting Key to the City and a documentary on CNN. Oh my gosh.

No, I don't think we're quite there yet. No, but that's exciting, 10. I know. So, you know, when you do a podcast and you host it through a hosting site, so you can see analytics. Yes. So you can see like where people are from and how many and stuff like that. Yeah.

And we've had thousands of downloads so far, which is exciting. That is really cool. So thank you everyone for listening. And even cooler is that we, honey, we're very international. Yes. Sweet tea. Sweet tea, darling. We are very international.

We have listeners from Australia, New Zealand, Japan. Yeah, which those are other planets in our solar system. Very far away. We have places in Africa. We have United... What is it called?

Arab Emirates. Yes. So the Middle East, Dubai, perhaps. We have... Probably lots in Norway. Lots in Norway. The biggest one is, of course, the US. Yes. Canada, France, Germany, Denmark. Yeah, it's kind of incredible when you look at it. It's... Oh, yeah. It lights up where people are listening. It's really fun to see. And you know what's really funny and...

and serendipitous and hilarious really is that our old neighbor brad hey brad actually created simplecast i know and so we started this podcast and utilized simplecast and then we figured out later that it was brad's platform i know brad is our old neighbor he lived upstairs from us yeah he's the sweetest most brilliant entrepreneur and it's like oh my god

So funny how it comes full circle. If you're listening, Brad, a discount would maybe be. Yeah, exactly. Discount be appreciated. Yes. Friends and family. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. So that's fun that we, you know, we able to see, you know, where people are from. Oh yeah. Analytics are very, very fun.

And very encouraging and very validating and very interesting. So speaking of... Speaking of interesting. Oh my God, it's back to me. Speaking of interesting. Yeah. So let's move it forward to when you were sort of in your formative older years in school. We've heard so many amazing stories about when you were a little kid. So when you started to...

grow up let's start with that just like school what would it be middle school elementary school junior high what as i said before you know we do we do one to six that's kind of like kids school and then we do six that's probably elementary school yeah yeah and then we do six to nine and then you're done you don't actually have to do anymore six to nine is

I guess it would be your high school. No, junior high. Okay, junior high. You don't have to do more than that? No, no, no. But most people do. Yes, most people do. So what we'll do, we'll do three more years. Okay, so to 12. Yeah, which is kind of like your college.

Because you have to do those three extra years if you want to get into university. Okay. Yeah. Oh, interesting. How many years do we have to do here? Too many. First of all, you start school at five, kindergarten. Yeah, that's crazy. Then you have first through 12. So it's essentially 13 years of school. You only have nine, maybe 12. Yeah.

If you want to go on to university. Yeah, that's true. So I almost did 12. What happened was that six months before graduating, I dropped out. Why is that? Several things. One, I just couldn't stand the idea of school anymore. Yeah, for sure. I was just so over it. Did you feel like it was like, what's the point? Yes, I thought totally what's the point. Yeah.

And I was in very much opposition to some of the teachers we had. Opposition, yeah. Yeah, I thought they were very old-fashioned and not progressive and didn't like... Like, as I said to my history teacher, I said to her that I have in my entire life loved history, but you have completely ruined any joy I have of learning about history.

I told her. Really? Yeah. And is that because of the content or because of her methods? It was more about her method and how we would, like, rush through everything. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and you wanted to... You were probably curious and you wanted to, like... Yeah, and she also, like, everything would just be made so dry. Yeah. You know, we would talk about the French Revolution. That was my, you know, always been my... If you're wondering what's in the background, someone is...

cutting the lawn. It's not a dog this time, it's someone else. Yeah, it just got made so boring and so dry that, you know, I just lost interest. Did you feel that way throughout most of school or just towards the end? I kind of did. I wasn't a big fan of school.

Maybe like the first two, three years because I thought it was fun to go and, you know... When you're still sort of like optimistic and... Yeah. Yeah, before you're kind of, yeah. I think what happened was that one to three, we had the same teacher. You know, the teacher that I said was charming. Yeah. And then three to six, we got a male teacher. It's not that he wasn't nice, but it kind of like... Everything kind of like shifted for me. Yeah. Yeah.

And a lot of the joy of going to school, I don't know, it just disappeared. So he wasn't cute. That's basically what you're saying. Actually, he was kind of cute. Because my gym, I was always like most of the male teachers or the PE teachers or the I was like really into or the substitute teachers. I don't know why. So that wasn't enough for you to stay interested? No. And actually in junior, I guess I would call it junior high now.

My head teacher was this muscly guy who used to be a wrestler. And he wanted me to, he actually told my parents that Paul has the perfect body for wrestling and bodybuilding. Was that like? It didn't happen. Yeah, of course. Yeah, it didn't happen. So you weren't flattered by that?

No, I wasn't flattered. I just thought he meant that I was fat. That's kind of in my head because like in those days, you know, I was a bigger guy, a bigger kid, um,

And it bothered me a lot. And my parents would constantly put me on diets. Put you on diets, yeah. Do you remember the first time you were conscious about your body weight? Yes. So when I started school, I was like a normal thin kid. I was always tall. I was always tall for my age. But I wasn't like big. And I got big because...

Every day when I came home from school, my grandmother would make macaroni with butter and grated cheese. Oh, delicious. I know. It was amazing. So, you know, I had two dinners every day, plus snacks and plus, you know, God knows what else. Yeah, yeah. So, when were you... How old were you when you were first conscious? I actually remember... I think it was the third grade when...

Kid in my class called me fatty. Really? Yeah. So you're almost like 10. You're almost 10. Yeah. And the teacher said that, no, he's not. He's not fat. You know, he's just... And I've been going through this in my head. I don't know if she actually said it or if it was in my head. But she said something to the thing where, but if you gain more weight, you will be fat. Right.

Oh, like she was being supportive and yet heating you a little bit. Yes. Oh my gosh. And I, I've been thinking about like, I can't have got to just taking that, you know, from somewhere. So it must have kind of, that's how you processed it in your little head. Even if that's not what she said, something else, but that's kind of how I would process it. And I didn't want to, you know, I hate the gym.

Yeah. Not because we were moving and around and because I kind of enjoyed that, but I didn't want to take my clothes off after and shower. Yeah. So I would do anything, like anything to get out of gym. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a lot of,

I became very good at having every disease under the sun. And to my great happiness, both my big toenails were ingrown, which actually caused me a lot of pain. And it was hard for me to run and stuff. And I would milk that. Oh, yeah. Whatever it was worth. Oh, okay. To the point where my parents were like, okay, you need surgery. Yeah. So then I got surgery on both my...

So that excuse was kind of gone. Yeah. But yeah, no, it was kind of tough. I remember in summer when we went to, you know, we had a beach house and

And I refused to take, like, because they always thought I was so, like, pale because I didn't want to go in the sun. I didn't want to take my clothes off. Yeah. So, I would wear, like, in the middle of summer, I would wear a polo shirt and a vest over, like, a cotton vest over that. Yeah. To sort of, like, hide everything. Yeah. Yeah, I was sort of a pudgy kid my whole life, too. And I remember being self-conscious about...

Rude things were said to me, even with my own family, I remember. Oh, yeah. It's really difficult because hopefully people are more conscious now. But, you know, I can understand people being concerned about a child's weight. But it's way more about encouraging them in a healthy lifestyle. Like, meaning, like, exercise. Because I'm sorry, but skinny doesn't mean healthy. No, that's true. So, you know, it's more about, like...

being active and maybe eating healthy, I think people should worry less about actual numbers. Well, what happens is, and what happened to me, the more people would tease me or my parents would say, oh my God, you're getting like... They would literally say, oh my God, you're fat. The more people will say that to you, the more you will actually eat. Well, yeah, because it's hurting you. And what happens is that you will eat in...

You will kind of like secretly eat. Oh, yeah. That's the worst because of the shame. I mean, awful. You would go to the store and you would buy shit and you would eat that. And then at dinner, you would just be like, oh, I'm full. Yeah. That's kind of what I did. Yeah, it's a dangerous cycle. The only one who never said I was fat and never complained about my weight was...

Was my grandmother. Of course. Yes. Well, it's our fault, but. I didn't think about that. Yes. It kind of was. And also, you know, as a kid growing up,

I loved cooking and it was just so important to me. And I love the taste of good food and, you know, butter and cream and sugar and all that good stuff that my grandmother would cook with. So food for me was kind of also a way of expressing like,

you know, emotions and love. Of course. Absolutely. For a lot of people. Absolutely. For a lot of grandmothers who feed their, who think all their, their grandchildren and their children are too skinny. Exactly. Yeah. So were there any subjects you loved in school or anything you enjoyed? I enjoyed English. I enjoyed speaking English. So there you have an English class, but it's literally to learn the English language. Yes. Okay. And then what's great in Norway is that, you know,

All the English TV shows...

Nothing is dubbed. Nothing is overdubbed in Scandinavia. That's why everyone learns English. So it's subtitles. So I learned English pretty fast, and I was actually quite good at it. And I remember my English teacher always said that I spoke in a very jolly manner. Aww. I always sounded very happy when I spoke English. Yeah, when you were announcing the flight in your basement. Yes, exactly. Okay.

Yes, if you haven't listened to the episode about... Come Fly With Me? Yes, you should, because that is actually... That's probably my favorite episode. Yeah, mine too. I liked that one, and then I had one thing that I exceeded on beyond everyone else, and that was drama. Oh. You know how every school has its drama star? You were the drama star? I was the total drama star.

What plays did you do? In every play. What did you do? What plays did you do? Well, they were mostly like Scandinavians. One called Jeppe på bjerge, which is Jeppe on the Mountain. Okay. So you didn't do like Pippin or Fame or Barefoot in the Park or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. No, no, no. Those are the ones we did. No, that was more in college. Okay. So in junior high, we would do, well, in...

Well, those were my plays in high school. In the kids' school, you know, one through six, we wouldn't do so much plays. It was more like... Skits. Yes. And like maybe singing for a holiday. And singing and some people were dancing and stuff. Yeah. And I loved doing that. And then when we went to junior high, there was more like plays. Yes. And I became very fast like that. I love it. So, did your family always come to see you perform? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That was like a big thing. They brought you flowers backstage. No, no flowers. No bravos. No roses flying on the stage when you took your bow. No, but I just loved being, I mean, people are very impressed by my abilities, but they were also very impressed by, I knew everyone else's line. So we didn't need like, what's it called in English? The people that will give you lines if you forget them.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember what it's called. In Norway. Oh, because you would tell them what their line was. I would tell the lines. I love it. You're like, I'm prepared. So the one play, which is... Prompter, maybe. I don't know. In one play, which is that Jeppe på bjerge, Jeppe on the mountain, it's about this poor drunken farmer who gets a trick played on him.

This rich aristocrat finds him. He's dead drunk. And the aristocrat puts him in his bed, puts beautiful clothes on him. And they're looking to see how he reacts when he wakes up. It's a very old play. It's from the 1800s. Yeah. And there's one line which is like, oh...

Am I dreaming? Am I alive? Yeah. Like, what is going on? And apparently, the one time I forgot a line, I was in the bed, and I had a manuscript underneath the sheets.

So I said, oh, what is happening? Am I alive? And I lifted the sheets and I looked at them and I skipped and I said, oh, yes, I'm alive. And everyone thought I looked at, you know, something else. Oh, my gosh. Was that during rehearsal or the actual performance? That was the actual performance. Oh, that's funny. They're probably like, his improv is fabulous. Yes.

It's fabulous, but a little saucy. Yeah, did everyone laugh? Yeah, everyone laughed hysterically. Oh my gosh, that's so great. I love it. And I couldn't really realize...

And I asked the drama teacher later, why did I laugh? And she was like, well, it kind of looked like you were looking at something else. Oh, my gosh. That's hysterical. Yeah. So, you did drama and comedy or mostly just drama? It was drama, comedy, plays, little plays. Yeah. It was fun. What we would do, we would pick a play in the beginning of the year and then perform it. At the end. At the end. Yeah. Oh, another really cute story.

And that is from third grade. It was that there was a big competition in school. So we got a new music room. And on the hallway into the music room, there was going to be murals on the wall. And all the kids in school got to do paintings, like drawings, to enter the competition for the mural. And it was kind of like a big thing and everyone was super excited. And in my class, there were...

Especially girls that was like amazing, like artists and could draw really beautifully. And I never been good at drawings. I was just like, you know, I remember I was drawing like an opera singer with a big hat, a guy playing a flute and a guy playing the violin. Yeah.

And on top it said, sing and be merry. But of course, I couldn't really spell. So it was like completely... I didn't spell any of the words correct. Not one word. In English. In Norwegian it's syng over glad. But I misspelled like every word. How old were you? Maybe it was second grade. I don't know. Oh my gosh. Don't make me feel bad. So the competition was done and they put all the...

All the entries, and this was from the entire school, all the entries got put on like all the walls in the, all the alley walls, like the- - Hallway. - Yes, the hallway walls. And I remember very clearly that we were going to see, was like a big thing. Okay, we're gonna go and see all the paintings, all the drawings. And all the drawings were hung up in the hallways with, you know, which class it was and everything.

And I was very excited to see my little drawing on the wall, and it wasn't there. And I was kind of devastated because everyone else's drawing was there but mine. And I thought, oh my God, it was so ugly that they didn't even want to hang it up. Yes, I think maybe I was crying a little bit. And my teacher took my – and this was the woman that I thought was charming. My teacher took my hand and she said, I'm going to show you something, Paul.

And then the entire class went to the music room, went into the hallway that led to the music room. And what was on the walls? No, you won? I won. Stop it. My drawing was on the wall. And did they correct the spelling? No. Are you serious? That's what they thought was so charming and fun. That this little kid...

And, you know, it was kind of like stick figures. I mean, I couldn't draw whatsoever. Oh, my God. Yeah. I would kill to see a picture of that mural. It's really – Were you happy? I was so ecstatic that I made my parents drive me back to school that night. And we somehow managed to sneak in. Yeah. And I showed them, like, the whole thing.

Oh, that story. I know. It kills me. Okay. Let's take a break while I like, my heart is full. She needs to gather herself. I need to gather. Yes. Okay, everyone. So if you are anywhere in Southern California, especially in the Coachella Valley or the high desert, our second Mojave Flea holiday market is the Weekend of Thanksgiving. Okay.

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Come see us the weekend of Thanksgiving in Yucca Valley, California at the amazing Tumbleweed Sanctuary. Okay, we're back. We're back. He's managed to gather himself. Uh-huh, clutched my pearls. Yeah, it's a cute story. Ugh, I love it so much. Yeah. And how long was that mural up? I don't know. It might still be up. Oh my gosh. Stop it. I came back years later because my sister attended the same school and it was still up when my sister was there.

You need to find out if it's still there and have your sister to go take a picture. Well, she lives kind of far away. Well, you have to know someone and also that could look. Yes. Yeah, it was so cute. Oh, my God. I was so ecstatic and proud. I'm just like...

Oh, I'm obsessed. Next level. Oh my gosh. What else? What else? So one funny story is that there's two things that I'm kind of very afraid of. One is snakes, which I'm sure we'll come back to. And the other one is actually horses.

Yeah, I'm pretty afraid of horses, too. Yeah, I'm very afraid of horses. Yeah. They're huge. They have a mind of their own. And they can really... And they weigh like 2,000 pounds. Exactly. They can... Yeah. You know, we would go several times a year to this hotel up in the mountains. And sometimes we would go in summer. And they had horses. Yeah.

And my whole family was like, oh, let's go horseback riding. And it seemed fine because it was kind of like an organized thing where everyone... I think there were maybe like 10 people. Everyone had their own horse, you know, and everyone...

It was kind of like a group thing. So to me, it seemed completely safe. And I wasn't that afraid of horses back then. I thought they were very intimidating. Yeah. But it wasn't like I was super... Yeah, you just... Yeah, you didn't know any better. Yes. And so I got on the horse. And it kind of... I was kind of like, oh, this is fun. I was kind of into it. And we...

We would do these beautiful walks and the nature was stunning and everything was like, oh my God, this is so pretty. And then all of a sudden I noticed that my horse is kind of like slacking behind the other horses. So what happened was that the horse all of a sudden decided to itself, oh, I need to catch up. Oh. And started galloping towards the other horses. Oh my God. Yeah.

And I can, oh my God, I remember this so clearly. And my mom told me too, she was like, she was watching this whole thing and she was like screaming. And what happened was that I like started like, I was sliding more and more and more sideways. Were you trying to hold on? I was trying to hold on and I was just sliding and sliding. And I fell off. No. And I fell off into this like bunch of rocks. No. No.

And I can remember seeing the hoofs over my head. So, you know, I could really almost get, could have been killed. And yeah, it was super painful. You know, they picked me up, you know, they examined you. Yeah. And, you know, they dragged me back to the hotel, into the hotel room. And the doctor came to check and I didn't break anything. I was just like, you know, very bruised. Yeah. You know.

But I tell you, I milked that for everything it was worth. Yeah. I got some good outfits out of it, of course. Oh my god. And... Was this before or after the skiing accident? This must have been maybe... I don't know.

If it was before, then I would think the skiing accident was on purpose so you could milk that too. Oh, no, no, no. Honey, no one breaks their legs on purpose. Yeah. This might actually have been before. And we got a free one-week stay out of it. Really? Mm-hmm. Because I went to the director of the hotel. You did? I did.

And he said, I want to speak to the manager. Well, what happened was that we were there so often. So they kind of became like friends of ours. Yeah, of course. And we even talked about me coming there to work a little bit because, you know, I was very interested in like, you know, entertaining. Yeah. I thought, you know, working in a hotel. Oh, my God. That's almost like being a flight attendant. Yeah. It's so glamorous. Yeah.

So I told him the whole story about the horse and the hoofs. I was like, I could have been killed. FYI. And I was like, I don't think we should get a bill this time. And we didn't. When we left, he said to my mom, it's taken care of.

Fabulous. So, of course, you were like, that's right. I actually didn't tell my mom. You're like, you can just write me a check. I didn't tell her for a while. Oh, really? Yeah, but I remember we came home and she was like,

You need some new polo shirts. And I was like, yes, I need some new Lacoste shirts. Oh my gosh. I only had like 10. Oh my. There's a couple of colors I don't have. Okay. Canary yellow and lavender. Well, I didn't want anything that was like sticking out too much because, you know, I was fat. So you just had the dark colors. Like maroon, navy, black, hunter green, maybe. I never wanted black. Yeah. But yes, I had like, I think I had like five. Brown. Did you have brown? I had brown. Yeah. Yeah.

chocolate brown i can see all the colors in my head right now all primary yes oh yeah yeah yeah i still look at them and i get like oh my nostalgia yes totally totally yeah all right let's take another quick break and then we'll come back with what's up sweet paul

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that gives all year long, four issues quarterly. He just got the printed copy of the holiday issue. It's so beautiful. It's beautiful. I love it. Every time a new one comes out. You should do my PR. And we are back for question time. It's called What's Up, Sweet Paul? What's up? Okay, let's... We're going to separate some of these questions because some of them we're saving for Christmas. Okay, Courtney Williams says,

I like to know more about your tattoos. I love all you do, but as a lover of tattoos, I'm always curious about the meaning significance behind them. How many do you have? I don't know. I have a bunch. So on one arm, I have a race of animals. Yeah, it's so beautiful. And it started with Lestat riding a bicycle wearing a top hat and binoculars. Yeah.

And then I thought that was a little lonely, so I went back to the guy and I said, I want a race of animals. A race, yeah. So he's racing with a bear, a giraffe, and a hippo. There's a bear. Where's the hippo? Oh, in the... It's a rhino. It's a rhino. I never knew that was there. Okay. It's underneath your arm. I know, I know. So the cool thing is Lestat is black, obviously, but he did Lestat...

As a blonde. Which is so great because now we have Hugo. So it's kind of a combination of both of them. And then there's a bear and a giraffe and a rhino riding bicycles in a race. I love it so much. And then on the other arm, what do I have? A robot. The robot was my first one.

There's a robot, the Michelin Man, a glue gun. I have the top of the Chrysler building. Chrysler building. Evan English did that one. That's my favorite building. I have an apple for, you know, living in a big apple. Apple.

I have a little... Origami elephant. I have a little elephant. I have Tintin. Tintin, a star. I have an Altoids box. An Altoids box. Chasing the sweet things in life tattoo. Good thing that's what we call this podcast. I know. And then on his upper arm, he has... I have the beheading of Marie Antoinette. Obsessed. Yeah, which is really good. Yeah. And on my chest, I have a big...

Norwegian sail ship. Sail ship. Yeah. Yes. Those are all Duke Rivalry. Oh, he has an anchor on his neck. And then next up is going to be a palm tree. Yeah, I want to pump the palm tree. Yes. And I found this girl up in the Yucca Valley who does stick and poke, which means that, you know, it's no electricity involved. Yeah. That'll be a whole other experience. Yes. I'm excited about that because people are often saying, oh, my God, the pain, the pain.

But there's something about the tattoo pain that it's almost like high. It's almost like a rush. Well, once your endorphins kick in, people say it's bad. Okay, next question. So Jackie Ann, we hear Sweet Paul talk about his grandmothers in genuine loving ways. I would like to hear...

If he intentionally makes cooking, serving, and eating a meditative time to connect with ancestors, childhood, and things he has lost. If so, how does he make meaningful space for those memories, feelings, and connections?

Is this ever a difficult process? That's such a good question. That's a good question. Wow. Well, I do notice that as you get older, you think more about your childhood and what happened. And...

I noticed lately that I actually dream about it. That I dream about my parents and my grandmother and my great aunt and stuff that happens. Well, I'm sure in everything that you cook and everything that you make, your grandmother is in there. I mean, and your great aunt. They're definitely there somewhere. They totally are. And, you know, I will use techniques and ways to do things that they taught me how to do. So they're always there.

And I do think about them quite often. Yeah, it's strange. I remember my grandmother said that, that, oh yeah, she would often think about her childhood when she was like in her 60s. Although I'm not in my 60s. I'm in my early 50s. Early to mid 50s. What do you mean mid 50s? No, I'm kidding. I was trying to make that joke of when someone says this. I was in my early to late 30s. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah, they're definitely there.

I don't take like, I mean, what I have done several years and especially it's before Christmas that I will take a night where I will write Christmas card or wrap presents. I will put on like Christmas music. I will have a glass of port because that was my grandmother's favorite thing.

And I will write Christmas cards and rap. And then I will very often cry. Yeah. Because I will think about how things used to be. Yeah. Because it is a time in your life that is never going to get back. And yeah, all you have are your memories. Yeah. Yeah, I was just saying the other day, I wish that I...

was able to meet your mother. Yeah, she would have loved you. And I love that you think that. Do you know what she was obsessed with? Whatever boyfriend I had, she always looked at their hands. Oh, really? Yeah. And she was like, he has beautiful hands. She was very interested. And if she didn't say anything, I know that she didn't like them.

Would she have liked my hands? Yes, she would have liked your hands a lot. Yeah. She would have said you have piano hands. Yeah, I do have. I've always heard that. So, yes, they're always there, one way or the other. And even if it makes you cry, they're happy tears, too. Yeah, of course. Yeah, you know, it's just like memories and, you know, yeah. Cool. Elizabeth Charbonneau? Oh, my gosh.

Am I pronouncing that right? Charbonneau? I don't know. It's French. Maybe it's Canadian. Okay. So one of her questions, which we'll do now and then we'll save the others for the holiday episode.

Do the dogs travel with you? Ours do all the time. Yes, they do. They do. Very often. Yeah, they do. They actually travel pretty well. They put them in the backseat of the car. We never take them on a plane because you can't take a Frenchie on a plane. But...

They travel pretty well in the car, and they're pretty good in hotel rooms. I mean, they fuss for the first five minutes because I think that they're so excited. Yes. They act like they've never been outside before. But that's every time we take them out. They act like they've never seen grass or a tree. Yeah, but then they settle down, and sometimes I forget that they're even in the car. The only thing that's a little bit difficult is oftentimes we travel for work,

And I have to leave work and go to the hotel in the middle of the day to walk them. That's a little bit of an inconvenience. Yeah. Other than that, it's pretty fun to have them. Yeah, because when we don't have them, we miss them. Yes. It's true. We climb into bed at night and we're like, oh, I wish the dogs were here. We always say that. But what's important, a great tip if you're staying at hotels with dogs is to check and make sure.

that there's no like crazy dog fees. Yeah, absolutely. Because we have been places where... They'll charge $100 a night. Yeah. And then there's some place... Per dog. Per dog, yeah. And then there's some places that just don't.

charge at all so so always call it call in advance or look at the website and if you're using like hotels tonight or expedia if you scroll through to the fine print it'll tell you exactly what the fees are or the policies yes it's important to you know so you don't get like you don't get a hotel bill which has like 200 extra well no it shouldn't be more money than leaving them with a babysitter like do you know what i mean yeah yeah

Okay, cool. So next one, Kate, not Jiro. All these French, is that Jiro? Jiro. Kate, not Jiro. Sorry for butchering your name. It's a lovely name.

What movie did you see in this pic? Oh, what pic was that? So I posted the picture from us in San Francisco. Oh, it wasn't a movie, darling. It wasn't a movie. It was Work the World, the Ru Paul's Drag Race Tour. Yes. It was so exciting. It coordinated with us being there every weekend or almost every weekend for Paul. And I bought tickets and we went and it was like Naomi. Oh, she was so extraordinary. Naomi Kim Chi.

Vanjie. Vanjie was there. Oh, a little fly girl, Vanjie, doing like her hip hop. Monique Hart. Wait, Monique Hart? Yeah. No, Asia. Asia O'Hara. Sorry. Asia O'Hara. Yeah, Asia O'Hara. I forget who else. Cameron Michaels. But yeah, that was really fun. That was really fun. We were very excited. Yeah. And the thing that is...

so crazy is that the thing that was so much fun about it was the audience reaction yes literally crazy for every little thing especially because they had this intermission little contest drag contest for people in the audience and there was this little girl who's probably five years old who did a death drop and everyone freaked the F out and it was so funny because it's in San Francisco there was just so much joy in that room

Yeah, the energy was... You could bottle it and sell it. It was incredible. It was. Such a fun night. So, yes, we didn't see a movie. No. But we go and see movies all the time. All the time. We love to see movies. I just bought tickets for Star Wars. Yes. Because that's my childhood. James is a big Star Wars fan. You know, my favorite thing is to watch whenever there's a new trailer for a Star Wars film that comes out. Watching...

the reaction videos on YouTube. Oh yeah. You see like these grown ass men crying while they're watching. It's love. It makes me so emotional. Yeah. Okay. Last question. This for this time, Andrea Laplante Davenport. Okay. Is that your drag name?

These names are so fabulous. Like three word names. Okay. Oh, are at the movies. What did you watch? Oh, it was the same, same thing. Same question. That's so funny. Like, no, it wasn't the movies. We are at the theater. Sweet.

Yeah. But as we said, we go to the movies all the time. All the time. I haven't seen Judy yet. Yeah, I saw Judy. I need to see Judy. Joker is very heavy and very dark, but it's one of the best films I've ever seen. It was amazing. It's a really important film to see right now. Yes, especially with this climate. My heart was broken and filled with empathy after that film. We saw Jojo Rabbit. Charlie's Angels was terrible.

Jojo Rabbit was really charming. It was. The little boy in it reminded me of you the whole time. I know. Yeah, it's crazy because it's about, you know, the last days of, you know, the German Nazi regime. And it's crazy to call that, like, charming and funny. But it's actually... Well, it's the characters. A funny movie about the last days of... Yeah, and it's...

It's really good. It's dark and funny. Yes, but there's messages of... There's good messages in it. Even though it's like a comedy about the awful, awful, awful

time in history world history but yeah we love the movies I love popcorn I love turning my brain off for two hours I love the whole thing it's amazing yeah all right okay that's it for today okay thanks guys we have to do a little spiel which is if you like this podcast please tell your friends please rate us please give us a comment and

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