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Episode 64
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What do we do with Jen? Rick's life is on the sitter!
It's the Damn Beaver Podcast. Hey everybody.
SPEAKER_01Hello! We came back. Can you dig it?
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's awesome. I can't believe it. Mostly awesome. We're down one person.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Amy's uh Amy's doing Zumba class. Jeez. I mean we've been trying to get together for like a like two weeks now. Yeah, we could do Zumba here. I mean, come on. It's been hard. We had uh been busy. The the Shakespeare thing. Yeah. God, wasn't that sad? We had the COVID. So if you're listening in another state like some of uh Rick's cousins might be, we had a uh complete works of sh we have Shakespeare Abridged uh revised, we did. And uh for those of you who don't know about the play, it's just three people and a bunch of props and a bunch of backs. It was it was great. It's an awesome play, it was fun. But uh all three of us got COVID and we were wiped out for the um for the uh second weekend, so we couldn't do it.
SPEAKER_02I couldn't even believe that happened.
SPEAKER_01So we only had one weekend and we did all this work. It was just awful. That's that's what sucks, is all the work that goes into it, and then all of a sudden, uh but they were nice enough to to uh to let us give us one more Friday. So we had another Friday and it's like over a hundred people. I mean, it was great. That's good. It was a good time. That's good. And we were uh also talking about uh summer coming up, and I just we're too busy. We got uh the theater downtown's doing uh what is the play? I have not seen that.
SPEAKER_02I've seen it one time uh done at a high school.
SPEAKER_01What's it about?
SPEAKER_02Six years ago?
SPEAKER_01Um If you say it's about a drowsy chaperone, you can get the frick out right now. I don't want to hear that story.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if it's so drowsy, but um somebody tells a story about I believe it's like an a 1930s type of record playing and then it comes to life. Oh, really? Kind of.
unknownAll right.
SPEAKER_02It's really cool. It was funny when I saw it. I just probably better than it sounds. Yeah, I don't remember a lot of it, but I know I like it. Selling it very well, Ramsay. I'm really not. Okay.
unknownAll right.
SPEAKER_01You should see it though. Oh my god, it's gonna be great. Oh, it's great. So uh so I did that with Ryan and Kevin. And uh have we told you this story? So do you you know Jen Bonbeck, right? Yeah, yeah. I don't know if we should be talking about it, but she's it's it's all gonna be a good it's good, it's gonna be good meeting. She's gonna be listening now. Oh, she should be listening now. So it's good, we're just gonna get back because we have to tell this story. So we so Kevin and I were just talking one night, and we go, I go, you know Jen, right? And he goes, Yeah, I know Jen. She goes, you know, she's got like way too much talent, right? I mean, it just it's not so for those of you who don't know, so Jen in the theater world, Jen can uh act and she can sing both well, and she can dance well, and she plays piano very well, right? And and stop she's nice, right? And she's nice, and she's patient with I mean she's just an awfully sickening, nice person.
SPEAKER_02That's a disgusting, awesome trait, right there.
SPEAKER_01Do you see what I'm saying? Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. So what I'm saying is that she's just she's got too much going for her. So it that's it's true. So Kevin and I, we sat down and said, Well, we're probably gonna have to kill her. And we go, we go, you're right. We are gonna have to kill Jen Bonbeck. She's just too too good. Just she's just, you know, is the whole theater world is jealous, so we're gonna have to go kill her. So then we thought it through, right? We thought it through. And we said, and Jen is also she's cool too, right? So what would happen was this is what would happen because she's Jen Bondbeck, we would go to her house, have all the implements ready to kill her, uh, she would open up the door and we would say, Jen, listen, you got this going for you, you got this. We just we can't handle it. We're gonna have to kill you. And you know what? She would be so cool about it, she would say, You know what? You're right. I I am I am cool. I uh I have all of those things. I worked really hard to get all that stuff. Yeah. You know what, you guys, if you want to kill me, I can understand that. Go ahead. And we couldn't do it, we wouldn't be able to do it. And she knows that because I mean yeah, she's cool about it. Right. So right then and there, we can't kill Jen Bonbeck because she's too cool. She's too cool. And we have power. We couldn't handle it. She saved her own self and our thoughts. And we didn't even raise a finger to do anything. We just thought it through and realized that Jen Bonbeck was just too cool to be she we we couldn't do it. No, we couldn't do it. You gotta keep people like that on this planet. You know? For sure. Well, we couldn't do it. I mean, we we wanted to, but she was too nice about it. If she would have been scared, sure. But we we thought it through, and Jen would have totally been up for that, and we just we couldn't do it now because she's too nice. I mean, what do you do? Right. Anyway, so that's that's those were our thoughts on Jen Bach. Too much, too much talent on one person. You've uh I mean And she's pretty. She's pretty too. And her family's nice. God, I hate her.
SPEAKER_02What are we gonna do? Jeez. What are we gonna do? I don't know. You know, I gotta get to know her better, I guess, too. Um I never had I I agree with everything you say, but she would be supportive and she would be, you know, how you doing?
SPEAKER_01Send you hang in there stuff.
SPEAKER_02You know, I was in into the woods with her, and she was the the witch in that. Yeah, yeah, I remember. I don't um I I was so busy with that stupid um, you know, coyote costume that I had to put in.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02I didn't have a lot of time to talk to her, but I know she was awesome.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Hey, she is! What do you do with that? There's nothing you can do with it. Yeah, no, not really.
SPEAKER_01All you can do is adore her from afar.
SPEAKER_02Nobody ever talks about us like this, I bet.
SPEAKER_01I'll bet you they don't. I'll bet you this is the best we get. They'll be like, hey, do you know Rick Mir's Dan Liz? They go, Yeah. That's it.
unknownThat's it.
SPEAKER_02That's all we'll get.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Walk away. That's it. I know them. You know, then yeah, I was in them with this thing. And then, oh, we might get this. Yeah, all right. All right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. Those guys, yeah, those guys.
SPEAKER_01All right. Right. Well, since uh uh Amy's not here, we're gonna do our history here real quick. Hey. Where'd we leave off? Was so uh no, we've we tied up. We're not doing uh Right, okay, yeah. We won. We won. We won the revolution. The revolution. We promised not to do any revolution.
SPEAKER_02I well, I mean I was glad we won.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So this is my new music. I'm just I'm doing historical facts that I can't decide what I want to do uh for for history. I was gonna do pirates, but it's it's becoming a lot of research again, so I'm trying to hold back. But pirates sounds cool. That is really cool. I should ask people what they want, but we won't get any responses. So that's yeah, I have uh 12 listeners. Whatever you guys want to hear, and then let us know. They they our listeners. Anyway. They're dedicated. All right, so here's what I did is some history food facts here, and some I just some I it's a it's a little buffet of stuff. So, first archaeological evidence of soup. You like soup, right? I love soup, yes. Yep, uh, dates back to 6,000 BC. Main ingredient? Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus. Those guys are mean. I can understand why they wanted to. How did they kill them back then? I mean, can you imagine? You must you gotta really want it.
SPEAKER_02No gun.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no kidding. Use use one of their teeth as a shot glass.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. Sorry, I'm probably used to.
SPEAKER_01I'm just saying sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Wow. By a dentist. Ah. Yeah. How do you like that? Yes. All right. Well, keep them in job, but yeah. That's uh that's how you get circular. That's how you get the pastries coming back. Job security. Okay. Besides human sacrifices, Aztecs offered the gods tamales.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so good. What are tamales?
SPEAKER_01You're gonna have to explain.
SPEAKER_02They're like a rolled corn meal and meat inside of it. You're talking. And it's usually wrapped in like a corn husk.
SPEAKER_01Eating anything.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's so good, yeah. And you peel off that, like the corn husk part. Not the husk, but the the wrapper. Go on. You peel it off, and then the cornmeal is in there, and it's all wrapped in with like seasoned chicken or or seasoned steak.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry, what? Uh okay.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01I was really excited. Um Abraham Lincoln's mother died from milksickness. No. Poisoning by milk from cows that had eaten the white snaker root plant. Oh. That's a poisonous plant right up there with the I used to know one. I was gonna compare it to now forgotten.
SPEAKER_02Is that before they what is that homogenized? What do they do with milk?
SPEAKER_01Oh, they took all the value out of it with homogeneous. So to keep it preserved. Like it's I think it's like a pres uh preservation process to keep from dying. Poor girl. Jeez. Yeah. I don't know. We don't, again, this is all unskilled knowledge we're giving you. We are not professionals on any of this. This is just what we heard. That's it. That's good. All right. Now we got that out there. No one will take our advice. Romans-flavored food with garum. I don't know what that is, but it's going to tell a paste made by leaving fish to rot for several weeks. Oh, lovely. Spices and spice.
SPEAKER_02Smell and taste marvelous.
SPEAKER_01Non-food thing. Ready? Crisis averted, it says. October 25th, 1962. I'm just going to read this. Late at night on October 25th, 1962, a guard at a U.S. Air Force base in Minnesota spotted a dark figure climbing the fence. The guard shot and killed the mysterious invader. The fence was wired to detect intruders. And as the culprit fell, it set off an alarm. But the fence was incorrectly wired. And the alarm set off a second alarm hundreds of miles away at a base in Wisconsin. What? An F-106 fighter jet armed with nuclear missiles. Oh nuclear missiles immediately prepared to take off toward the Soviet Union in response to the intrusion. They just automatically planned it. But the nuclear strike was quickly called off after an investigation determined the identity of the fence climbing spy was a bear.
SPEAKER_02Almost caused World War III.
SPEAKER_01All right. Now, in our play, uh Shakespeare, the pre-works of Shakespeare, we refer to the curse of Macbeth. Macbeth, Macbeth, maybe where, and you don't say it out loud in a theater unless you're a performance. So listen to the uh the things that have happened during the play of Macbeth. They have a recording of these. In other words, these are people that have done the play when tragedies have occurred. Really? Ready? Here we go. All right, because I never believed it. Here we go, right? Okay. Shortly after the first performance of Macbeth, a male actor scheduled to play Lady Macbeth because ladies didn't.
SPEAKER_02Right, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Scheduled to play Lady Macbeth came down with a fever. Uh by some accounts, said that she had died. Wow. Yeah. In the early 1900s, the Moscow Arts Company was doing a dress rehearsal when an actor, Konstantin Stanislavsky, forgot his lines in the middle of the murder scene. Well, wait a minute. He whispered for a prompt, but the prompter was silent. Then he yelled for a prompt, but the prompter remained silent. He found out the prompter slumped over the script dead. What? And the show never opened. Oh my god. 1937. During a 1937 production of the affamed Old Vic Theater in England, the theater's founder, Lillian Bayless, suddenly died of a heart attack just before the play opened. Lawrence Oliver, who was starring in the lead role, missed death by mere inches when a sandbag fell from the rafters. 1948, during a production in Stratford, Connecticut, Diana Winyard, as Lady Macbeth, announced that the curse was ridiculous. She also decided it was silly to play her sleepwalking scene with her eyes open, so she closed them and walked off the edge of the stage, falling 15 feet to the floor below. 1942. The run of Macbeth, directed by John Gilgood. Do you remember John Geilgood? I do remember John Gilgood. I do too. He was also the uh the uh butler in Arthur, the first one, the girl. Right, yes. Would you like me to wash your dick for you, sir? 1942, a run of Macbeth directed by John Gielgood was plagued by death. First, Beatrice Felden Kay, playing one of the witches, died of a heart attack. Next, Marcus Barron playing Duncan died of angina. Wow. Angina. Another witch, Annie Esmond, died on stage while vigorously dancing around the cauldron. Finally, a set designer, John Minton, committed suicide in his studio surrounded by his designs for the Macbeth sets and costumes.
SPEAKER_02But wait, there's more. Oh no.
SPEAKER_01A Russian film version of the play was canceled when nine members of the crew died of food poisoning. President Abraham Lincoln was quoting passages from Macbeth to his friends the evening before he was assassinated.
SPEAKER_02No, he wasn't. Oh. Can you believe it?
SPEAKER_01And that is uh little history moments from your uncle Dan. How about that? That's crazy. That is absolutely nuts. So it's not so much a uh uh it's not as bad as you think, Rick. No. They absolutely McBeck thing is real. I'm telling you. Well, I believe now sports.
SPEAKER_00Golf really, really, really sucks.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. There you go. Speaking of golf, that you brought it up. Oh shit. Completely forgot about it. That's awesome. You know, Tiger Woods made a comeback.
SPEAKER_01I see that.
SPEAKER_02Like, what is it? Are we talking 13 months?
SPEAKER_01Does he have a dignity now or is it still well?
SPEAKER_02I mean, what he he mangled his leg like 13 months ago in that car accident. Yeah. Which, you know, it's just an accident. But um, so he's back on the course and uh he did pretty good. Um well, you know, like 30th something, I think, maybe in the first time that he came back. Then he went to do the I don't know if it was the players' championship, whatever it was last week. He had to pull out. He did. Okay. Yeah. Because you could see on his leg it actually gave out on him walking down like a you know, a sand bunker. Okay. So he was limping quite profusely. So he had to pull out. So that was his comeback. Oh far. He's got a ways to go.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But give him, you know, credit. The winner, you know, was I don't even know who won it.
SPEAKER_01He pulled out our stuff. I'd like to see you following my trend of not giving a crap about golf. I like playing it, but yeah. Just, you know, for the beer. Yeah. I like to play pro croquet golf. We used to dig holes in our yard and we put little coffee cans in them and we play croquet instead of using the big balls. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fun.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, play with big balls, it'll help. Oh yeah. I guess. Um so I was thinking that I was gonna talk about some uh sports things that that were happening the last time we did a podcast, which is like towards the end of like March or something like that.
SPEAKER_01So you had a segment?
SPEAKER_02Not really. No, I don't know. I'm not that I'm not that prepared for anything. Yeah, I can see we're gonna have to get our podcast uh organized, yeah. Probably a little bit someday. Yeah. Um, but at that time we were talking about how good the Bucks were gonna do, and they were, you know, pick to win the championship again, repeat, repeat as world champions. Well, they're done. Yeah. Who do we lose to? We lost to the Boston Celtics, which are one game away from getting to the championship, the finals.
SPEAKER_01If we lose, it's nice to lose to the champs.
SPEAKER_02Yes, it is. It is, and I think we're gonna lose.
SPEAKER_01We gotta root for the Celtics now.
SPEAKER_02Right, and I think they have a good chance of winning. Um they're really good. Damn good team. Three pointers killed us.
SPEAKER_01So one of those basketball players came out of uh oh, one of the guys elder ones said that he doesn't like the some of the elder basketball players may have a problem saying that they're only going for three-point shots now and their their fundamentals are lacking.
SPEAKER_02They are, they are, because look, the the Bucks beat the Celtics when obviously the Celtics were oh, they they like average, I think it's over 40 shots, third three-point shots a game. Wow. Um, that's a lot of three-pointers. And if they're off, they generally lose. They, you know, but they are really good three-point shooting teams.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I wonder if they're going with m if that's like uh like Moneyball where they're just going for the the win.
SPEAKER_02I mean, mathematically, they probably are high percentage of those guys to make those shots. If they can make 'em, yeah. There's not much they whip that ball around, they pass that ball around like most teams don't, and they always get a guy open, which is you know, well, it's a way to win.
SPEAKER_01So Yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. Um unfortunately. But some of the things are, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02Um so there are well, hi.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, that's a buster everyone.
SPEAKER_02Buster is sitting here and wants to get petted. Um there were some uh some other sports that have started popping up now since COVID kind of shut us down.
SPEAKER_01Oh, like what?
SPEAKER_02Underwater hockey. Did you ever hear of that?
SPEAKER_01How can they play when the ice is frozen? I don't get it. You know, that's a good question. I'm just trying to. You gotta hold your breath. But boy, they seem really still. You know, they probably have to wait anymore. Yeah, oh, what's going? Who's got the ball? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Who's got the ball? Terrible. Go. Um, so yeah, the the game, this uh the game. I was reading about this because there's some of these things, I'm like, I've never heard of this. What when the hell did they start playing this? 1954. What? Yeah, they started playing that in 1954. It's made a comeback now because they felt that uh you can't catch COVID in the water. And I'm like, that's not what they're I don't think they were accurate when they made that prediction. No, I'm serious. That's what they were saying. But um from a spectator's standpoint, um, the gameplay is rather frantic, with players from both teams having to regularly surface for air. So they do play most of it underwater. The rules are very similar to regular hockey, okay, with two teams having um of six having to push a puck along the floor of a swimming pool or a clear pond, good luck with that, to the opposition's end and goal, make a goal. Underwater. I mean, how slow would that be? How do spectators see? I was just gonna say not a lot of tickets, I'll bet. Right?
SPEAKER_01Right, yeah. Probably has it taken off. I wanted to see what the team mascots would be. That'd be. You got the platyp.
SPEAKER_02I mean it's gotta be a duck.
SPEAKER_01They gotta be amphibium because they gotta be able to go up and anything in the water. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't know. Some kind of a fish. Um, now here's a game that I think I used to play this in college, but I didn't know what it was. There was a sports complex that had this uh trampoline game where you would have a ball and you'd have to throw it into the hole behind the behind you? Into the hole behind you? Yeah, I used to play that.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Uh give it to me. And they have walls so you don't fall out. So it's a safe trampoline.
SPEAKER_02It's a safe trampoline. You can jump, you can do all these things, and you'll get it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, those damn trampolines there. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You can hit the walls and bounce off. It's fun. I used to play it all.
SPEAKER_01Volleyball is what it used to be called.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they call this bossa ball. Or both boss bossa? B-O-SSA ball. Basa ball.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. So Yeah, that was fun.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I loved it. Or Aero Ball. They called it Aeroball 2. It's a good workout. It's a great workout. I used to love doing it. I want to open one around here. All right. Don't you think that would be awesome? Yeah. What a draw. I'd play. Oh, yeah. I'd be in there. Poor kids wouldn't get a chance. No, no, no kids would be. No, I'm staying in here. Adults only. 18 and over.
SPEAKER_01Son of them. Keep the kids out.
SPEAKER_02Yes. You beat me, I'll get out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Type of thing. Yeah. Play king of the hill so that they can't play together with their friends. Yep, you gotta beat me first. Mom. So yeah, that sounds that sounds like a a lot of fun and then um the chess boxing made a big they had a big championship round of chess boxing this happening chess boxing what's that um literally it's um it's fought over eleven rounds alternating between three minutes of boxing and three minutes of speed chess so so if you the goal is to bash the other person's brains in so they can't think well they're and they box and uh I guess one of the one of the downfalls is if if one of the boxers gets in a good punch the boxer that got hit isn't so bright after sitting down to play chess again really isn't that shocking yeah so that one's making a comeback I I was I'm surprised this isn't played in more trailer parks I don't get I'm sure but if you can play chess you probably don't live in a trailer no probably not I'm just and I'm I'm not stereotyping but I'm stereotyping so there you go yeah a little bit there a little bit yeah we'd we'd blame Amy if she would yeah Amy would yeah um she'd be calling us up cunning canning cannon hop have you ever heard of cannon hop? No no well let's see equestrian events have been an integral part of the Olympic Game since 1900 games of prayers now imagine the same events with a rabbit what you have to ride the put a little saddle on the rabbit I don't get it no I don't I think it's just the jumping part of jumping over like obstacles equestrian events. All right so I don't think you ride these unless they're huge jack rabbits or something. But can can yeah cannon hop or simply rabbit jumping was invented in Sweden in the 1970s. The sport sees rabbits get put through their paces in a series of events covering a variety of distances and obstacle heights they probably have something to do with sex in some way I think well I mean that's a common point.
SPEAKER_01Vadvul as he gets the bunnies and he makes them jump that's German That was pretty good either way. That was not Swedish.
SPEAKER_02No not really so not that this is a sport but you know I was very interested I'm sure you you know everybody's been talking about that whole Oscars slap thing.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_02Now the part of the Oscars and the Grammys and everything that's always intrigued me very deeply were the seat fillers. How do you be a seat filler? And what do they do?
SPEAKER_01How do they I forgot about so there's people that uh just are there sitting with no purpose.
SPEAKER_02Seat fillers yeah well their purpose is to fill seats so if like say um Michael Jordan is at an awards banquet right and he gets up to get an award yeah you see somebody come flying in taking a seat and sitting down really quick. Why? That's a seat filler. Oh so that they don't leave holes in the thing so they don't leave holes that make it look like it's completely sold out at all times. That's what the Oscars did it for because they didn't want to let me let me pull this up why they did that seat fillers were introduced at a time when Hollywood did not want to give the audience any idea that what they were selling was not a complete sellout for fans. Well I mean it is sellout but they always wanted to make sure that there was a full crowd because that is the place to be watch the reward banquets be part of it. Now how much do you think that they make do you think you make money doing that? Well uh all right so I'm gonna guess uh 500 bucks okay 500 bucks for one night right they they're not doing it on a weekly thing right there's not a well some people actually that live like out in LA or something like that apparently they're career seat fillers I mean wow how do you congratulations so so you're on you're on Tinder what's your what's your occupation if well I'm a master seat filler I'm just the master seat filler I don't uh yeah so here's one person that claimed and I'm I'm gonna share this claim because I don't believe it but I thought I'd share it because how much does a seat filler make? I said 500 bucks if it's more than 500 bucks. Yeah yeah I would do it if it's more than 500 bucks so as of May 19th 2022 this is what this article said and I I can't quote it because I don't it's from Zip Recruiter okay all right now i I I don't believe it. As of May 19th 2022 the average annual pay for a seat filler in the United States is $35,873 a year. What it can't be real it can't be real right I it can't be $35,000. So it says here just in case you need a simple salary calculator don't tell my daughter we got her going to Milwaukee in Green Bay that works out to approximately $1725 an hour. Yeah this is the equivalent of $690 a week or $2,989 a month. But I'll bet you they got applications out the door I'll bet you that's from ZipRecruiter. Now here um here's how okay well let's okay many of us watch the Grammys etc get a glimpse of our favorite celebrities blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02Now take a closer look at here's how to become a seat filler at the Grammys turns out it's surprisingly easy. You're kidding you can become a seat filler at the Grammys and most other award shows by using the website seat fillers and more okay easy no kidding all you have to do is make an account for yourself and apply for shows that are listed on the website. But before you can attend any event you will need to send in either a resume or a letter of introduction that explains why you are worthy of a seat that needs to be filled now I uh I've always uh I've been sitting down my whole life I have 53 years of sitting uh I can sit with grace uh I can sit with no dignity I can sit angrily uh you know I'm I don't work out much my my rear end will fill the entire seat that's that's that's uh by the way you are losing I think you are losing yeah I'm working out and we're doing good no we're doing good we're gonna if we're gonna get them roller coasters man you guys I'm gonna be I'm getting roller coasters I'm so excited oh me too yeah so what what do seat fillers actually do? Seat fillers are volunteers who attend award shows to make it look like there's a full house but there's a little more to the role than that. What? At these kinds of events important people are moving around all the time to perform oops sorry I had a phone call damn it that was on silent but my iPad wasn't the love of God um present awards deal with emergencies take phone calls etc so to make sure the seats in the audience look like they are filled at all times seat fillers are moved around to various areas and events there are also strict rules to apply that apply to be get there uh to to have this job oh um where's the where are the rules now I had these I had these up here thanks for preparing for the show here they are I found them that was pretty quick all right I didn't even get my sentence out so I know that's how I was waiting for that I was like yep here comes no okay so you are not allowed to speak to the celebrities make any ruckus you're supposed to be quiet you have perfect date right yeah nice you have to wear this name tag around your neck when the cameras are off and then put it behind you when the cameras come on oh so you flip it around so you have to have a scarlet letter kind of right okay right um now they say that even if unless a a celebrity approaches you and starts talking then you can respond but you're not supposed to try and maintain a dialogue with them you are to cut it off nicely apparently politely so if Gal Godot comes up and says hey you have a very nice bald set of hair I say yes thank you Gal Godot I'm sorry I'm really busy right now I'm supposed to say that to Gal.
SPEAKER_01No I'm getting fired yeah I'm losing my seat yeah all that work for one yeah no way or if uh who wasn't if like if uh one of my other guys is uh that I would love to talk to but he can't they don't go like Harrison Ford like if he was there oh yeah it'd be fun to how you doing Dan this your your head should be in a museum you know what am I supposed to say yeah well then probably would be like oh my god it's Harrison Ford But if I want to bring in my 38,000 yeah right now that you have to shut up right okay but there are um there are stars who repeatedly uh break those rules for the seat fillers like Bradley Cooper.
SPEAKER_02Yeah Leonardo DiCaprio is a guy who likes to talk a lot to the seat fillers Jennifer Aniston she would be she's usually very very uh apparently communicative to seat fillers because she knows what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01Oh okay okay so whether they're trying to get them fired or not I guess they could so you so if they engage you can have a 30 second conversation.
SPEAKER_02Yes and some seat fillers get uh invited to the after parties etc so really now here's another article of a seat filler okay that claims I um I almost I paid almost eight hundred dollars in preparation to be a seat filler at the Oscars. So according to these articles there is not one penny to be made because there are so many people scrambling to be seat fillers. Yeah now that I believe that I believe I don't know about ZipRecruiter where they get that information from right right and I'm also wondering if uh nope I lost it I lost my chain of thought yeah a lot of people are saying you know to blend in with the industry professionals Bradley Cooper etcot um they must spend thousands of dollars for the experience so some people you know get the Gucci or whatever you know top ends.
SPEAKER_01I suppose you have to have a look too you have to have a look you have to fit in the I was just gonna say so do they only take pretty people I mean is that they're gonna I'm wondering if there's a look I almost guarantee not that we're not great looking guys.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01But they're gonna choose my daughters and your and your you know yes yeah probably over us.
SPEAKER_02Yeah they'll probably ask do you have any you know kids right right that are better than you yeah yes I do that we don't mind staring at for like you know for more than three minutes. Of course just you know a shot to the dignity you know right it is but wow yeah that's the deal um was with seat fillers seat fillers I always wondered because I heard about it I always thought geez I'd I'd like to go out there and be a seat filler so you can actually volunteer to do it.
SPEAKER_01Doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_02No and then you have to buy a you know a suit tuxedo all that kind of thing it's gotta be a tuxedo huh because I have nice suits. I'm pretty sure it'd be a tuxedo it's gotta be a tux I think if you're well the dress code is the dress code is solid you must you must dress up. They're not saying tuxedos but you think Will Smith will lend me his tuxedo I bet you he has a couple spares.
SPEAKER_01He isn't gonna need it for a while I wonder if you're banned from the academy if you if you get invited to the other wards like the Golden Globes like if you're just automatically off everyone's list.
SPEAKER_02You don't want to fear him hitting everybody right and obviously he's not he's lost you know he's not gonna babysit anymore you know probably not I wouldn't think so yeah I was I was watching that we thought it was a big joke when that happened I was like oh yeah that's funny that's it ooh that was a really good smack and then I wanted to see him like nobody sat nobody filled his seat did you notice?
SPEAKER_01I noticed oh no I didn't notice so when he got you got me thinking about it yeah he got up to go slap him yeah nobody filled the seat they assumed he was coming back I think but I mean it probably was unscheduled. Yeah clearly so if you really followed seat fillers you knew that was real you knew that that was there's because it wasn't prepared if you're a professional seat filler you were like oh that's that's not something's gonna happen here. Something's not yeah I'm not supposed to fill that yeah I always thought they just sold tickets I didn't know that they were seat fillers. Yeah no I I thought they just only people that get tickets actual tickets are the people celebrities Academy yeah the I get it toities the uppity ups uh you know things will never be yeah probably we should have a list of things of dreams and hopes that have just been flushed down the toilet because there's a lot of things I thought I was gonna do you know what that's a great episode right should be an episode of things that things that will never happen to me I can start right now I could put them I'll start writing them. Yeah one of the things I did get was a house full of women it's just not as much fun as I thought it was going to be I mean it's nice but uh yeah at least you have two bathrooms a lot of a lot of a lot of things going on with the house full of women anyway uh I think probably you got any more no I got nothing more you got to no that's how we end it pretty bri pretty straight yeah right right just a big old roadblock right there no better way we could fade off in a professional manner but that's just no without Amy we can't do that we can't do that everybody we're gonna try to get another one out we try but it's uh it's gotten harder and harder now that COVID's under control. Yeah we'll get there kind of and then uh we'll we'll we'll we'll keep going because we're we're bored and we're old people we got nothing to do. Yeah pretty much thanks again everyone bye bye