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Kyla Yu
A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism and Beauty is a new book from Kyla Yu, former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink, turned journalist. In this deeply personal memoir and essays, Yu reckons with being an object of Asian fetishism and how media, pop culture and colonialism contribute to the over sexualization of Asian women. Raw and intimate, Fetishized is a personal journey of self love and healing. It's both a searing indictment of the violence of objectification and a tender exploration of the broken relationship so many of us have with beauty, desire and our own bodies. If you're a fan of books about Asian American identity like Crying in H Mart or coming of age stories like Somebody's Daughter, be sure to pick up Fetishized, available wherever books are sold.
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Gal
Hey, it's Lena Waithe. Legacy Talk is my love letter to black storytellers, artists who've changed the game and paved the way for so many of us. This season, I'm sitting down with icons like Phylicia Rashad, Loretta Devine, Ava DuVernay and more. We're talking about their journeys, their creative process and the legacies they're building every single day. Come be a part of the conversation. Season two drops July 29th. Listen to Legacy Talk wherever you get your podcast or watch us on YouTube.
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Jason Manzuka
Also with that fire boy.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Welcome, welcome, welcome. To add to cart the podcast about what we buy and buy Auntie and what it says about who we are. We are live at Nui House Hollywood with all of our friends. You got? We got. I'm emotional. You're emotional. I am Auntie Cuckoo Elysa and you are. I am emotional and I am Auntie sue. And this feels worse than my wedding. I was telling someone because I was imagining. I was like, oh, I'm gonna look out. It's gonna be sea of people that I know and love. All true things. But at my wedding, I didn't have to perform, you know what I mean, with a microphone. So this is a trip. Now when we do our podcast, I'm never even in the same room. She refuses. Even looking at you is throwing me off. But welcome everyone. I love seeing everyone here. Past guests, reoccurring guests, friends. So first of all, we're in this beautiful space. What are we doing here? Just kidding. Cause you did say, I feel comfortable. This is my space. She did turn to me and say, wow, how does it feel like as a garbage person to be in this space? And I'm like, it is a bit surreal. Why do you have to share our personal did we Lotion our feet in the Aesop. Is that how you pronounce it? Lotion in the bathroom, guys. Okay, if you haven't been to the bathroom, I suggest you bring a few pumps home. I wanted. True story. I wanted to tell you can't make it up two seconds before here. We went to the bathroom and we lotioned our feet. Okay, good. So we started with our hands. We started with our hands. And I said, this is gonna. This is gonna go down smooth. And so we went right down to the toes. It's also Aapi Heritage Month. We are celebrating. Yes. Joy Apam. And it's our favorite month of the year because it's my birthday. Mother's. Mother's Day was a flop for me, but, hey, we're not gonna get into that. Mine was great. I got a balloon from Ralph's. But anyway, and. And then, of course, because it's Asian American Pacific Heritage Month, we have an AAPI Hollywood powerhouse joining us on the stage in a bit. And then we thought, why not give them what they want? And so you called your dear friend, and we have episode two or zero, I don't know, of Zook's Cube on this show as well. And for those of you who have been following us know how freaking deranged it's about to be. We'll explain. For those who don't. I know there's actually. We don't have time. Honey, we gotta. We don't have time to explain. Zook's Cubes. It's a guy who comes up and talks about packing cubes for like three hours. What else is there? Well, that is the explanation. How many people you've never heard of add to cart before? How many? Oh, wow. Really? You guys are plus ones or you just wandered in? Oh, plus ones. I love it. Thank you. Thank you for your plus ones for free. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay, fantastic. So we will try to be on our best behavior. Go on. Okay, so before we bring up our guest and our first. First guest, who I call a woman king. Yeah, we. Let's. Let's. Let's you and I get into some atheist. I had to look at you. Okay. That's right. You are. Yeah. It's like you're avoiding me. It's so weird to be looking at you like this in person. It feels intense. All of this feels very intense. Okay, go ahead. I'm with you. I'm here. We are present, just not in body. Go on. We're gonna do some of our classic add to cart sue things that we've added to cart. Yeah, you go first. Maybe some things we removed from cart. Okay. Okay, we can do that and right away. Let's, let's. Yes, I'll start. Yeah. This playsuit. This playsuit. To call it a playsuit, it doesn't do it justice. When you told me I'm wearing a playsuit, I thought it was gonna be like a. Like a jumpsuit, you know? Yeah. But this is. Well, I'm only calling it a playsuit because that's what it said in the description. And then I had to look it up because I didn't understand. Yeah. So I guess it's like for kids it's play clothes, but for ladies of a certain age, it's playsuit. You look like. You look like a woman king yourself. Thank you. Thank you. I was fishing. Gorgeous. This is from Lala Rest in Lala on Instagram if you're nasty. And I found this place because of an Instagram ad. I'm that bitch. I have a great algorithm that sends me things. They're like this one add to this. This one clears the check every single time. Yeah. And it's comfortable. It's. It's. You know, it's made for someone younger than us. Yeah, it's the. Yeah, I disagree. Well, it looks. It looks like. Yes agrees of what the Golden Girls would wear, but that's what the young people are doing. That's right. Nostalgia is back, number one. Number two, this. You and I and this whole thing feels like a tour of the Golden Girls, you know, so it's very appropriate. It does feel a bit like we. I get sometimes when I look over at you, like a glimpse of like. Is this like our future? Like on the road? We're like 75. We're like begging people for free stuff to give to our friends. Just hawking things. One can only hope to age is a privilege. And I'd love to age with you. Suchin Park. I see it. I see it on. I know it's just the legend RIP MTV News. RIP Removed from card MTV News Sujinpada rise from the dead. The Connie Chung of our generation. She's still alive, though. She's still alive, though. I wasn't saying she was. No, I'm just saying. But MTV is. Is no more. Just that is actually what's going to be one of my remove from carts was MTV News. If you guys haven't heard is no longer. If you all have a drink, we can pour one out symbolically. Wow, what a ride. And a lot of my friends from MTV are here. Some of you, I can't see you guys. You're in the back because I told you to come early and then you didn't. And now you're sitting on a couch and there you are. They did come early. They went and ate upstairs and you didn't. Now, now, open. I. I know I said 6:30, but, hey, people were eager and they were here. And I texted you. I said, leave the table, did I not? I said, leave the table. They're lining up. But, yes, removed from cart. Mtv. Wow. And it just. It feels like I'm not that old, you know? But now that my legacy is in a coffin underground, like, officially it does. I feel way older than I should feel, I think. And I feel pretty old all the time. But, yeah, and I was thinking about mtv, and I was thinking about all the memories you guys back there know, the weird skanky beach houses we'd have to hole ourselves up in every summer. I was thinking about. But my biggest memory often comes from, like, sitting in the makeup room. That's where all the action happens. Oh, yeah. That's where the tea gets spilt. That's where the tea gets spilled. That's where the drugs get taken. That's where the booze gets consumed. That's where the tears are shed. So for me, I have those, like, private memories of mtv. But, yeah, it's kind of bittersweet. But it's also nice because it's nice to know that there isn't a raging party happening somewhere and you're not invited anymore. You know what I mean? Like, it's over and you maybe were the party at some point and now it's no longer. So that feels. Let's lift the show up, Sue. Let's lift it up. Let's. You don't want to go down this road of layoffs. Inflation. Okay, sorry. I'll take that off my list of remove from cards. We're here for all things and all pieces, but I'm just thinking maybe we switch. Yeah, let's do it. Mix it up. Yeah, mix it up. I mean, you have a. Do you have another remove from Cart? I don't have another remove from Cart, but then I want to say there's only one VIP guest here tonight. Oh, yes. This man presumably took an Uber from Santa Barbara to be here. My father in law, Jules. Jules Bender, longtime listener. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. No immigrant parent would ever do that for me. I didn't even tell my parents this was happening. My mom still doesn't know what I do. No. And like, why they don't care. And yet my adopted father, my father in law, I mean, it's like I can't even look over there because I think that'll make me. That'll bring it down because I will then start crying. Just. Shit. The fact that he never misses. You won't look at me, you won't look at Jules. I just can't. I'm just looking here. But no, he. So anyway, so I was thinking about Asian American Pacific Month and like, what are the things? And we just went to an amazing event and we got all dressed up and gussied with our gals over there at that table. And I sat at the table with someone who was an ex lover of my husband. And I was like, wait, do I tell. There's thousands of Asians there. Asians that I didn't see. And yet she gets seated and my niece is here. I was thinking like, oh, yeah, but this happened. Used to happen all the time when we're living in la. You know that, like. No, I didn't. The Michael that we know, the man in the bubble, the man, that's his brother, by the way, loving every minute of this. You know, this. He got around, this man. Oh. Before I met him. And maybe even like a little overlap. I mean, you know, we were young, we would be like, we would watch, you know, these stories. We would watch a TV show, like a hit TV show, big TV show, I'm not gonna name names. And there'd be an uncomfortable scene. I'd be like, ooh, that's. That's. This is really. Wow, this is really graphic. And he's like, yeah, I used to go out with her. Or we'd be at a fancy restaurant. There's a valet and there's an actress there. And I'm like, oh, I love her. She's so good. Whatever happened, you know, she was in that movie. But it's like, yeah, I used to, you know, damn, Mike Bender. The time this man got around. Am I wrong? No. And you know, do not sleep on the quiet ones. Do not sleep on the quiet funny ones. Or do a lot of people. Did. Take a number. Take a number. And I was thinking, is this an ADD or a move? You tell me. I'm scared. And I have to say, after 12 plus some odd years of blissful marriage, it's definitely an add to cart. I'm like, you want to be with someone who has just spread themselves all over town, you know what I mean? And so they come home to a flat soda every night. It's the same flavor. And they're like, it's okay because I've had every beverage, every single sparkling cannabis, wine, seltzer, all of it. Adaptogens have that. Had that before. That was a thing. And doesn't mind, you know, a little flat soda. Because it's gonna be the same every night. It's gonna be the same consistency. Temperature's not gonna, you know, alarm anyone. Do you know we're saying, like, room temp? Oh, yeah, for sure. Room temp. No startling moves. Just like a nice room temp. But anyway, so that's not to carry. So for all of you guys who are still looking for love and you, you find someone and you're like, this person has been around, you know, is a ho. No. Right? We can't say that anyway. Has been around a ho. Can we just say ho. Yes. Is an ho. And you're like, I can't. You know, like, I don't know. This is the person to settle down with. That is the person to settle down with. That's my story. This is controversial advice. That's what I'm saying. That's all. That's all I got, though. We're gonna bring up our guest in just a second. I have one. One additional add to cart. What? Soojin, It's a gift for you. How many of you guys listened to our last episode with. Oh, we have a few. You guys can clap. You know, I'm just like, this isn't with Vivian too, AKA you're rich bff. Oh, my God. That was scary, you guys. That was a come to Jesus conversation. I'm still a little traumatized from that. As Deanna Chang said, we all needed to get roughed up. Literacy. Yes. She coined the phrase. What was it? Yeah, what's in it for me? What's in it for me? What's in it for me? That's the mentality she goes into her finances with. And she was taken aback that you didn't get the gold gala gift bag. Olivia, can you please bring a gold gala gift bag for such? And Pak, wait. Sushi pack. I love you. I too like free things. But because you physically got sick and had a migraine over it, I give you mine. Oh, my God, you guys. Oh, my God. I am a garbage person. I don't even care what's in it. Who. It did make me nauseous, though. I know it did. I know it did. You're welcome, Sue. I love it. We should do live shows. More often.
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Erica Mahoney
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Kyla Yu
Quince.com addtocart in the late 90s and early 2000s, Asian women were often reduced to overtly sexual and submissive caricatures. The geishas of the book turned film Memoirs of a Geisha, the lewd twins Phuk Mee and Fook Yoo and Austin Powers and pinup goddess Seung Hee Lee. Meanwhile, the girls next door were always white. Within that narrow framework, Kaila Yu internalized a painful conclusion. The only way someone who looked like her could have value or be considered beautiful and desirable was to sexualize herself. In her new book, A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism and Beauty, Kaila Yu reckons with being an object of Asian fetishism and how media, pop culture and colonialism contribute to the over sexualization of Asian women. Blending vulnerable stories from Yu's life with incisive cultural critique and history, Fetishized is a memoir in essays exploring feminism, beauty, yellow fever, and the roles pop culture and colonialism played in shaping pervasive and destructive stereotypes about Asian women and their bodies, she recounts altering her body to conform to Western beauty standards, being treated by men like a sex object, and the emotional toll and trauma of losing her sense of self in the pursuit of the images she thought the world wanted. If you're a fan of books about Asian American identity, like Crying in H Mart or Coming of Age Stories like somebody's daughter. Be sure to pick up fetishized. Available wherever books are sold.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Our healthcare system is broken in so many ways.
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Jason Manzuka
We have a healthcare system that's supposed to be taking care of people that is making it literally more difficult for people to put food on the table.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
So this season we'll dive into the challenges headfirst while also thinking about how we can find a better way because we all deserve better. Uncared for. Season 3 from Lemonada Media, available August 6th. Wherever you get your podcasts. Our next guest is a treasure and I do mean it in the Bruno Mars fashion. She is the creator of Disney plus. She Hulk attorney at law and is a superhero of shopping herself. Please add to cart Jessica G. Two drinks. Two drinks. Two drink out.
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Gal
Add to cart two drinks when they're free.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Two drinks for Gal. This is.
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Gal
I know, I know. Hold on, hold on.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Let me. This is the energy. Thank you.
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Gal
Thank you.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
This is a big get everybody shopping warrior. That's Gal. Got it. That's Gal. She's of that. That.
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Gal
I feel that.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, I feel that.
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Gal
Accurate.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Accurate. Okay. So we like to ask our guests, like, what. What type of shopper are you? How do you add to cart?
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Kyla Yu
What's your style?
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Gal
This is gonna shock you to your core.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Me?
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Gal
Yes. It's gonna shock you to your core. I'm a very conservative. Add to Carter.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Liar. I you hurts you sitting here in a Kirkland head to toe sweatsuit. There's no way.
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Gal
Not sponsored but open. Open to a sponsorship.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
There's no way you went there. No, I'm.
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Gal
Well, I don't. I'm not one of those people who likes to add a bunch of things to cart and then decide later, like, I only add to cart when I'm ready to buy.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, okay.
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Gal
Yeah. And I'm often ready to buy, but I don't, you know, I don't have like a bunch of carts full of stuff.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
No, because you're very decisive. Yes, you are. You are. You don't really sit on any fences. You sort of bowl them over. You are bold.
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Gal
Yeah. I bellow and then the force of my voice knocks down the fence.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yes. Much like the wolf in the Three Little Pigs. That's how you shop.
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Gal
So that's my style.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
That's your style.
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Gal
Yeah.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Let's get right into Costco because I have gone to Costco for years before I met Jessica Guy. Wait, wait, hold on. I did briefly describe for those listening and not here physically being able to see. Can you please describe to the folks Listening. What is Jessica wearing? Absolutely. She is wearing a playsuit. It is a matching black, black sweat suit number. It's long sleeve, of course, and it's Kirkland signature. We have it emblazoned across the chest and down the leg if you're nasty. Now, guys. Okay, go on. I thought you were gonna come in the slides.
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Gal
Okay, so I also have Kirkland's signature slides, which are 14.99 and very comfortable. But I thought this is a formal event. I should wear closed toed shoes.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, wow. Thank you.
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Gal
And until Kirkland signature does a collab with Adidas and does like a Kirkland signature Stan Smith edition, which is my dream, honestly, Costco should hire me to do like a capsule collection for them.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
They really should.
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Gal
Because it is far too hot to be wearing a full sweatsuit set right now. But I had to do it.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
No, I showed up in this and I said, wow, I actually like the fit of those. There's a tapered. She said, feel it. Feel it. Run your hands on it. Feel soft. It is. She did say that off camera.
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Gal
Softest sweatsuits I've ever felt.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah. Again, not sponsored.
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Gal
Not when again, open to sponsorship. Actively seeking sponsorship. Costco, if you're listening, when GAO takes on.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
I mean, you take on products, you take on.
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Gal
They become part of you.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
They do. And she is an amazing seller. I mean, she's Asian. Yeah, but gal's got a style I don't wanna, you know, like, she's very special and you guys will see. But because I knew about Costco. Everybody knows about Costco. But you, you took me into the. To the back door.
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Gal
I live Costco.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yes.
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Gal
As you all should.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
She was. And you guys might. Did you guys know about the Kirkland signature alcohol and that? It's like. Did you guys already know that?
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Gal
Yes.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
It took it like I met her a decade ago and she opened my eyes that way. What is this? Well, the vodka.
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Gal
The long standing rumor is that the vodka is Grey Goose. So basically, like, some people say it's Belvedere, but I mean, look, no one has ever confirmed or denied, but what we do know is that they get their water supply from the same part of France as the brand vodka. They use the same distance distilleries there. And you know, they often have these deals.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Where is there a newsletter? How do you know all this?
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Gal
I was, you know, I was just.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Telling Cool off the other day.
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Gal
I was like, I know so many Costco facts, which I'm very proud of. And so the other day when I Knew I was going to do this. I was like, I better brush up on my Costco facts. So I googled Costco facts, and the first thing that came up was an article titled 120 Costco Facts. And I was like, that sounds like enough. So I click on it, read the entire thing, didn't learn anything new, knew every fact. I feel like, okay, you know in Die Hard when Hans Gruber says, like, and Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer. That's how I feel about Costco facts. There are no more Costco facts for me to learn. And so I wept.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
I mean, educate us. Like, what are the Kirkland Signature products that are, like, always in your cart?
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Gal
Oh, first of all, my favorite is Kirkland Signature toilet paper. It's truly the best. It really is. It comes in a 30 pack. It's like $20 for a 30 pack.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah. That's good.
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Gal
I have a thing where I have to have double digit numbers of toilet paper rolls in my house. Feel secure Pre pandemic. Yeah.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, wow.
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Gal
So when the pandemic came, I was sitting pretty, didn't break a sweat. But it's great because it's the right thickness. It doesn't clog up your pipes. Because I used to be a Charmin user and my toilet would get backed up constantly. Never happened with Kirkland.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Wow. Okay. Doesn't pill. It's like a nice.
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Gal
Doesn't pill.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
A nice laid down. Yeah, a nice two pound. Don't look at me like that. You know what I'm talking about. How are you gonna know what. How. Pilling toilet paper. Pilling. No, really, that's. I mean, that's in the commercial.
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Gal
That's in the Charmin commercial where the bear gets, like, lint all over his butt.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, I guess so.
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Gal
That's the pillow.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Well, I have a bidet, so I don't know what you guys. Oh, God. I have a. Jessica, do you have a bidet?
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Gal
I sure do.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, boy. Two bidets. Okay. Warm seats. Warm seats.
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Gal
But I still. I don't have the patience to wait for the bidet to dry me. So I still use toilet paper, but significantly less. It's just to dry. It's just a pat. Dry.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
So you don't actually know if it pills or not because you've only patted. No, she knows. Trust me, she knows.
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Gal
Bidet is new. The Costco has been forever.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
That's some she hulk today.
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Gal
Okay, wait, before we get too deep into Costco.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yes.
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Gal
I want to back up a little bit and talk about the Gold Gala.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
The Gold Gala is getting so much.
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Gal
I went to that gifting suite before the ceremony was over.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, my God. And so you're just mingling all night with the giant black tote full of free gifts stuff?
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Gal
Yeah.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah. Okay. Just wanted to. To make sure. Oh, my God. That is the move. This is like another level. Yeah, yeah, I'm. I'm just. But an amateur. A little. A little cricket.
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Gal
And this is yourself a child of immigrants.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, I know, but this is how to go. But I get adopted. Look at my family now. Vendors right there.
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Gal
No one who Ubers from Santa Barbara needs to get a free gift.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, he's like. He's like, don't embarrass us up there, Kyle. Let's get back to Costco. Okay, let's circle back. Okay. So you said toilet paper. We've talked a little bit about the alcohol.
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Gal
Oh, let's talk a lot a bit about the alcohol. Oh, my favorite place to get alcohol. I'm a big scotch drinker, and they have such a great selection of whiskeys. Like, they have Japanese whiskeys. They have your classic scotches. They have my very favorite scotch of all time, Oban for very cheap. And also the Atwater. Costco is known as the good alcohol. Costco.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, my God.
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Gal
All get the same alcohol, you guys.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Whoa.
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Gal
I have spent many a 30 minutes talking to Doug, the wine guy at Costco, and that's what he told me. He said that one gets is known as the good alcohol one. So they get a lot of, like, specialty, small batch things like that. Limited quantity, like whiskeys there that don't go to the other Costcos.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, so we've got alcohol. Gold. Do you want to talk about gold?
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Gal
Oh, yes. Almost all of my gold jewelry is from Costco.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Most of it gifted by your mom.
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Gal
Most of it gifted my. All of it gifted by my mom because my mom, if left her own devices, is going to buy me something terrible. So I was like, what's safe? And I was like, what is the safest thing I can ask an old Chinese woman to buy me, obviously, gold jewelry. And so that's anytime she wants. It's my birthday or something. I say, just give me a gold necklace, a chain, and it's always from Costco. And she says it's because Costco lets you return gold jewelry, whereas all the Chinese jewelers won't, because they're like, you're obvious. You've obviously swapped this out for a fake. We're not taking this back. But Costco doesn't Know that that's our.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Scheme, you know, so she.
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Gal
So she's like, you know, in case you. If I pick something out, I'm. I'm afraid you won't like it. So I need to be able to return it.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
If you don't swap it and return it. Yeah.
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Gal
I've never returned a Costco necklace.
- [29:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
They're that good.
- [29:17]
Gal
They're that. They're great.
- [29:18]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Now I heard and am I getting my facts wrong? Dana, did you go on a trip to Hawaii? Was that you? Those three in the front, they went to Hawaii. I was at. I was somewhere and she comes up to me and she's like, oh, I'm, you know, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, what are you up to? You're always going to fabulous traps. And she was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to Hawaii. I was like, oh my God. For what? She's like, Costco. So she got on a plane and the Costco, apparently in Hawaii is totally different than Costco on the mainland.
- [29:46]
Gal
They're all. My dream is to do an around the world in 80 days. But of all the Costcos, if that.
- [29:53]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Isn'T a show to pitch, then.
- [29:55]
Gal
Well, they have. I mean, the Costco food court, as we all know, is great, but is it in different.
- [30:02]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Do we know that? Excuse me. And by food court, you mean like the food that you buy or the, the food that they're handing out have you. Both are not great. What's going on right now? I actually, I have been to a Costco maybe, you know, maybe twice. What?
- [30:25]
Jason Manzuka
Oh my God.
- [30:27]
Gal
You know what? To say that. To say that to us during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month is a hate crime.
- [30:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Violence. I've committed a hate crime. You're right. I thought I knew you. I don't. I guess I just don't get it. I'm getting it now. Okay, I'm listening. I'm downloading it all. But I go in there, I'm so overwhelmed. Who needs 80,000 of anything? I don't. Wait, so you're willing to buy a dozen youth size sweatpants that fit you like jodhpurs and not get these? And she just bought one. She didn't buy this in bulk. Yeah, I wanted to do that.
- [31:06]
Gal
I would have. Let's be clear, I would have buy it either bulk.
- [31:11]
Cuckoo Vlasak
And we're crazy.
- [31:12]
Gal
Yeah, we're gonna have to deal with some special field trip add to cart. Field trip where we go to Costco and then water.
- [31:19]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I need someone to take me through the aisles and just, you know, Just show me the jewels. You know what I mean? Really get into it. Because I go there. Jewels.
- [31:27]
Gal
I can show you there.
- [31:30]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I didn't know they sold gold chains. I mean, real gold chains.
- [31:33]
Gal
They sell Rolexes with diamonds on them.
- [31:35]
Cuckoo Vlasak
No, they don't.
- [31:36]
Gal
They do.
- [31:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
They do. Look at a lot of people know. A lot of people in the audience are nodding in recognition.
- [31:42]
Gal
$75,000.
- [31:44]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But if you're going to spend $75,000, you're going to.
- [31:48]
Gal
You want a good deal.
- [31:49]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You want to go to Costco and spend $75,000? I don't know. All right, okay. But I, I'm, I'm, I'm open. You know, I'm open. I'm open to being. To being wrong and to be convinced that this is. This is Homeland. Well, you know, I need to return.
- [32:04]
Gal
Home when I see it at the Atwater Costco. When we leave, you're going to have a couple Costco membership card in your hand.
- [32:11]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Speaking of Costco memberships, there's not sponsored. Not sponsored. Two types of memberships. The gold star is 60 a year, and the executive is 120 a year. Gold star standard executive has more benefits and a 2% annual reward. What do you got?
- [32:26]
Gal
Yeah, obviously, I'm the executive.
- [32:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I just thought I'd ask.
- [32:32]
Gal
Because if you spend just a mere $33,000 a year at Costco, you're already making back the difference in membership costs between the right standard membership. It's so easy to spend $3,000 at Costco. Like, try, I dare you to try not to spend $3,000 at Costco. And then if you spend $6,000, you've earned back your membership.
- [32:52]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Wow. Yeah. It's practically for free for $6,000.
- [32:56]
Gal
There's a pharmacy, there's an optometrist. Up until recently, there was a photo center. You can buy a coffin there. You don't even have to buy it in bulk. There's a tire center. When you buy a tire from Costco, they guarantee it for a year. If anything happens to it in a year, they just replace it, no questions asked. You just slash your tire and they'll replace it.
- [33:18]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Are you sold? I am almost sold. $6,000 later. Yes. Take that. Vivian, too. You're rich. BFF. Yeah.
- [33:25]
Gal
You know what? They sell La Mer at Costco.
- [33:27]
Cuckoo Vlasak
They do. They do. I mean, I'm not looking at the right Costcos. Maybe the Costco in Santa Barbara doesn't have all this fancy stuff.
- [33:35]
Gal
Oh, you think the Santa Barbara Costco doesn't have the fancy stuff?
- [33:39]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay.
- [33:40]
Gal
I remember what we were talking about now. International Costco. So at food courts in different countries, they have country specific cuisine at their food courts. Like Korea, Costco has bulgogi bakes instead of chicken bakes. Yeah. Like Costco. Japan, they have Matcha soft serve.
- [33:56]
Jason Manzuka
Wow.
- [33:57]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Add to cartridge.
- [33:58]
Gal
You guys, that's the food tour I want to do. I want to hit up all the Costco food courts.
- [34:05]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Like, Jessica's like, she's, like, dropping the mic after every one of these Costco facts. You know that, right?
- [34:10]
Gal
And you know what? Costco travel is going to book that trip for me.
- [34:17]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Gal. Are there any other, like, some hot. Some hot tips? Hot Costco tips.
- [34:20]
Gal
Everybody knows the rotisserie chicken is the thing to get at Costco.
- [34:23]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, yeah.
- [34:24]
Gal
4.99. You get a gigantic rotisserie chick. It's delicious. It'll feed your whole family for multiple days. They put it at the very back because then you have to walk all the way past everything.
- [34:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Genius. Rotisserie chicken in the back. 4.99. Rotisserie chicken in the back ropes. It's like 10 bucks plus. And it's a tiny chicken. Yeah, you're right. This one's got big old booties and boobies. I meant boobies.
- [34:52]
Gal
Yeah. Costco number one worldwide seller of red meats. Or a beef of red wine and nuts. And there. Do you remember in the 90s when there was that listeria outbreak and, like, it almost, like, ended Jack in the box.
- [35:05]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah.
- [35:05]
Gal
Like, in all these fast food places were like, oh, my God, we're gonna go out of business. Because everyone's meat might be contaminated. Costco got so freaked out that they opened their own meat processing plant and they process their own meat so that they can control the quality.
- [35:20]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Wow.
- [35:20]
Gal
And that's why you can get a USDA prime ribeye steak in a four pack for, like, $60.
- [35:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
How many refrigerators do you own?
- [35:32]
Gal
Only one.
- [35:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
What?
- [35:33]
Gal
Because despite popular belief, I'm not actually Korean, so I only have one.
- [35:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, is it just the Korean Asians that have multiple refrigerators?
- [35:41]
Gal
No, my parents have a garage fridge.
- [35:42]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah. Thank you. My parents are. Garage fridge. Yeah.
- [35:44]
Gal
My aunt has one of those chest freezers.
- [35:46]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, same. Yeah, yeah, same. I'm having a memory because that's where my dad would put all of, like, he would go all the extra food. Of course, the. The carp that he. He. He got. And then also one time, my dog died. He put him there. Why? To keep him frozen. And then he was. He. He said he buried him. I don't Think he did after. Anyways, mtv. Oh, my God, you brought. Oh, my Lord. I had the image and I had to give it all to you so that I could be free. Okay, but if you have a dead.
- [36:24]
Gal
Dog you need to put in a freezer, you can buy one at Costco.
- [36:26]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Well, hey, bringing it back. Bringing it back. Oh, my gosh. Gao, I want to ask you, I'm so curious why you're adding to Carte Lao Ganma Spicy Chili Crisp.
- [36:40]
Gal
It's the best chili sauce ever. I put it on everything. There's so many imitators. It's just not the same.
- [36:47]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Are you guys familiar? Do you know this? This is the og that's what I thought you were gonna say because there are so many different chili crisps. All great people, some of them sponsors of the podcast. But I knew you were gonna be.
- [36:59]
Gal
Like, above all, yeah, nothing tastes like this. And so this company, this brand in Chinese means old godmother. And so you'll know it by the exception, extremely cranky looking lady on the label. She's very tired from making so much spicy chili crisp all the time. But you have to. They make like eight different kinds of hot sauces and they all like, they're all named kind of similar. You have to get the spicy chili crisp. That's the one. It's different than all the other ones. It's so good. I love this so much. This was the wedding favor at my wedding. Everybody left with a jar of these and everybody was happy. No complaints.
- [37:38]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, I was so happy. I was so happy. Speaking of her wedding, she sent a link of all of the wedding pictures and in her getting ready photos before she put on her dress, while she was getting her hair and makeup done, she was wearing this outfit.
- [37:53]
Gal
It's so comfortable.
- [37:54]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Just so everybody knows she's not pretending. No, we all know that nobody here felt very good.
- [38:03]
Gal
This isn't the only cost clothing I have. I have eight pieces from the Kirkland Signature collection.
- [38:09]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Name them.
- [38:10]
Gal
I have this, but also in gray. I have this as a hoodie. I have a gray sweatshirt that says Costco Wholesale printed all over print. And I have a black sweatshirt that just says Costco Wholesale right here. Multiple times now, people have asked me if I work for Costco and I blurted out, I wish I went to an open house to look at a house. And the realtor asked me if I worked for Costco.
- [38:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
She you have multiple times launched into how well the employees of Costco are taken care of.
- [38:42]
Gal
A 93% retention, employee retention rate. After one year of employment.
- [38:48]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That's incredible. Fact 61. Fact 61.
- [38:54]
Gal
Even their part time employees get benefits.
- [38:56]
Cuckoo Vlasak
She knows everything about Costco. Give me one more fact.
- [39:01]
Gal
Average salary, $18 an hour in the warehouse.
- [39:05]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Wow. Give it up for $18 an hour, everybody. I really don't want to let you go Cause you're such a delight. But I also am curious what you're removing from cart.
- [39:18]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, purses.
- [39:19]
Gal
That's what I'm removing. I'm purse free. I've been purse free for two years and I'll never look back. But I love it.
- [39:26]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But how do you. Where's your phone?
- [39:28]
Gal
It's called pockets.
- [39:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, but then where's your lipstick?
- [39:33]
Gal
It's called bare lip. Everything just fits into my pockets. I have my wallet, my phone, and my keys. And that's it. That's all I have on me.
- [39:42]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But you don't feel like, weighed down with, like.
- [39:44]
Gal
No, I thought I would, but I have never been like, oh, I need this thing.
- [39:49]
Cuckoo Vlasak
And when did. What. What prompted you to go rogue like this?
- [39:52]
Gal
I. You know, look, it probably helps that it's. We're in pandemic times where, like, it's not like I'm going. I'm not going to galas all the time. And when I did go to the gala, I did have a clutch. But I. I want to say I could have gone without. I just want to be well heard on that. And if I ever need to carry more things, I just get more pockets. I put on a jacket with a pocket. You know, I just add more pockets. Add to cart pockets, cargo pants.
- [40:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Never. Never.
- [40:19]
Gal
I'll have a coat, a jacket, something with pockets. That's all. That's all I need.
- [40:23]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That's it. I mean, is anybody with her? What? Is anybody willing? Is this a movement? Guys don't count. Guys.
- [40:29]
Gal
And also what's great is, you know, if you are in a heteronormative relationship with a man, it absolutely stops him from being like, hey, can you put this in your purse for me? He doesn't know what to do with himself. He has to hold his own sunglasses, his own keys. Like he. It's completely like shaking him to his core. And I love it.
- [40:50]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I mean, there's. There's no argument for it anymore. I'm not. I'm not sure why any of us carry it.
- [40:55]
Gal
It's convenient and it destroys someone else's sense of self.
- [40:58]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But what if you're like, such in Pak, who has her breakfast, fried rice in a used Ziploc bag? Where would she Put it in her pocket.
- [41:07]
Gal
In a pocket.
- [41:08]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You line.
- [41:09]
Gal
You line a pocket with the Ziploc bag, but she.
- [41:13]
Cuckoo Vlasak
In her pocket already is a Ziploc bag with pills. Does she shove it to the side or. Yeah, yeah. That's why the Ziplocs are flexible. They're not cube material. Oh, don't you start. It's not time for six cubes yet.
- [41:26]
Gal
I am a big fan of packing cubes, I will say.
- [41:28]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, really?
- [41:29]
Gal
Oh, yeah.
- [41:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, well, get ready for your pills.
- [41:32]
Gal
I would suggest using nature's purse, which is your body.
- [41:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Just eat it.
- [41:37]
Gal
Eat the pills.
- [41:38]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, I thought you meant your vagina.
- [41:39]
Gal
Oh, no.
- [41:42]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I did. Everybody give a hand for Jessica. Go, go. You're the best. Thank you, Jessica.
- [41:57]
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- [43:28]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, let's bring up our second and final guest. Well, it's a new podcast almost, right? Yes. You know him as an actor, a comedian, a writer, a person not on social media, a white shirt wearer, and the host of the podcast within our podcast. Please welcome Jason Manzuka. Sukes suits. Sukes. Sukes, Sukes, Su. Hi, there.
- [44:07]
Jason Manzuka
Here we go.
- [44:12]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Jason. Wow. Luggage. Oh, boy. This is gonna be fun.
- [44:16]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, yeah.
- [44:17]
Cuckoo Vlasak
This is gonna be riveting.
- [44:18]
Jason Manzuka
I brought the stuff. Now, I thought there was gonna be a table that I could display it on. There isn't, but I'm going to be cool with that.
- [44:27]
Cuckoo Vlasak
We could. Okay, yeah. We could perch it on our knee. Yeah, I'm good. Okay. So how many people are familiar with Zoox cubes? For those who Aren't familiar. Jason is a man who likes things a certain way. Is that fair? J?
- [44:44]
Jason Manzuka
I'm particular.
- [44:45]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You're particular about all things. Most things. Some things in your life, I would say so.
- [44:52]
Jason Manzuka
Most things, if not all things.
- [44:55]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Jason, I love you. One.
- [44:57]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, my God. I love you too.
- [44:59]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yay. So I sit in between the two of you and you are the range of people who use packing cubes. I think that's fair to say.
- [45:06]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, yeah. I am exclusively packing cubes, pouches, all the rest. And based on the photos that Soochin has sent to our shared group chat.
- [45:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Correct.
- [45:17]
Jason Manzuka
You live in abject chaos. You live in a world that. Like the picture. I. There have been pictures sent based on your packing for a trip that gave me a panic attack.
- [45:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Because we were given. Because Jason came in, he taught us about tom bin, and we were gifted some tom bin. Yes, they were very nice. They're very nice. And yet you use them. But then there would be just a sandal.
- [45:47]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, no. A thousand sandals.
- [45:50]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Correct. A thousand sandals. You just never know.
- [45:52]
Jason Manzuka
Appeared to just be loose shoes.
- [45:55]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah.
- [45:56]
Jason Manzuka
The idea of putting in your suitcase for travel loose shoes is disgusting. I want to go on record. That is disgusting.
- [46:10]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I mean, there are a lot of disgusting things in this world. And I think a loose sandal in my suitcase. Not. Not so high on it.
- [46:17]
Jason Manzuka
Really.
- [46:18]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Not so high on the list. No. I mean, I'm not doing anything that disgusting with the sandal.
- [46:24]
Jason Manzuka
I mean, all of the bottoms of your shoes are just covered with the filth of the filth of the world. And then you're like. And I'll throw it in with all my clean clothes.
- [46:32]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I thought you were going to give me about when I tried your tray. Oh, the tray. The tom Bin tray.
- [46:41]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, yeah, I brought one, too. Great.
- [46:43]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I was like, first of all, look at. Look at how much space that. Do you know a Ziploc? I wish I brought a Ziploc. I didn't know you guys were gonna bring this tray. It's a. Why it's. Look at this. This is so much safe. I thought you were going to give me shit because I filled it.
- [46:57]
Jason Manzuka
I brought mine, too.
- [46:59]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Now all three of us are holding travel trays.
- [47:01]
Jason Manzuka
Yes, I brought mine.
- [47:02]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Not sponsored in any way, shape or form. But I thought you were gonna give me shit because then I filled it. I was like, fine, I'll use your tray. And I filled it with my toiletries. Toiletries. And I, you know, had a little glass jar that I'd saved from a Japanese hot sauce that I love. You know, with your toiletries. And I cleaned it out. I cleaned it out and I poured my mouthwash in it. And then.
- [47:34]
Jason Manzuka
Like, I don't.
- [47:35]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Tools.
- [47:36]
Jason Manzuka
I don't think you should be allowed.
- [47:38]
Cuckoo Vlasak
What are you talking about? I cleaned it out.
- [47:40]
Jason Manzuka
You shouldn't be allowed to travel.
- [47:43]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I cleaned it out and because I knew that you guys were going to be in the group chat. So it's a picture of your suitcase.
- [47:50]
Jason Manzuka
Is that what we sound like to you?
- [47:53]
Cuckoo Vlasak
When I see the three dots, it's like in my head.
- [47:57]
Jason Manzuka
Savage.
- [47:58]
Cuckoo Vlasak
And. And I. So then I went to my husband's. What do you call that? And you print it out and it's a picture. And then there's like a label. Label maker.
- [48:09]
Jason Manzuka
A brother P Touch.
- [48:11]
Cuckoo Vlasak
A brother P Touch.
- [48:12]
Jason Manzuka
I almost brought my brother P Touch tonight as one of my items.
- [48:17]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah. Ladies, wow. Settle down there, right? Get involved, ladies.
- [48:21]
Jason Manzuka
I will say on the picket line last week, someone did say Zook's Cubes. Really, really made my day first.
- [48:31]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Hey, young man. In the next excuse. But I did use that. And I. And I put mouthwash in it because I knew that you would want me to take a picture. And that's what I thought you were gonna give me shit about the sandals. Eh, whatever. We didn't understand that. I'm not licking the sandal. I'm not eating with it. I'm not brushing my teeth with it.
- [48:49]
Jason Manzuka
The desire to travel with heavy glassware.
- [48:54]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah.
- [48:54]
Jason Manzuka
How can I pack this mouthwash? I should find. Wash a heavy piece of glass that will maybe break. Maybe like, that's. There are.
- [49:05]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Juice of life. Juice of life. You know what I mean? Who knows? I like living on the edge of my seat. Everywhere else I'm contained in a coffin. But when I travel.
- [49:15]
Jason Manzuka
A coffin.
- [49:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
A coffin. You just dead dormant.
- [49:18]
Jason Manzuka
You travel like a vampire.
- [49:20]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But when I travel, I mean, the world is my playground, you know, the world is open to me.
- [49:27]
Jason Manzuka
Please allow us to post the pictures you sent to the group chat.
- [49:31]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Sure, sure.
- [49:32]
Jason Manzuka
That people can get a gander at. Like, if I. If you were like, if we. If you're like, hey, let's go on vacation, blah, blah, blah. And you put your suitcase down, you unzipped it. And I would be like. If I saw that, I'd be like, I can't be friends with you anymore. I can't. I can't.
- [49:49]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Because I'll be behind you in the checkout line of the security as you're taking out your cubes, your pouches, and your. Everything's in. You bought 400 little tiny plastic bags on Amazon. For what?
- [50:06]
Jason Manzuka
I use them all the time.
- [50:09]
Cuckoo Vlasak
For what? These tiny little plastic bags.
- [50:11]
Jason Manzuka
Okay, I'll show you. Okay, I'll show you what you're talking about.
- [50:15]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, well, just take a big bag and twirl it shut.
- [50:19]
Jason Manzuka
My big bag.
- [50:20]
Cuckoo Vlasak
This is two insane people talking to one another.
- [50:22]
Jason Manzuka
My big bag. Yeah, this is. By the end of this, we are married.
- [50:27]
Cuckoo Vlasak
They're just talking about plastic bags right now.
- [50:32]
Jason Manzuka
For me, all the little. So my bag is just full of other bags.
- [50:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Boring magician.
- [50:39]
Jason Manzuka
You know what? I brought you suchin.
- [50:42]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I don't want.
- [50:42]
Jason Manzuka
This is a bag for shoes.
- [50:45]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Take it.
- [50:46]
Jason Manzuka
This is a bag that is shoes in it.
- [50:50]
Cuckoo Vlasak
There's holes.
- [50:50]
Jason Manzuka
No, there's a plastic line in it so you can see which shoes are in it.
- [50:54]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Because as you were complaining that you couldn't see.
- [50:57]
Jason Manzuka
Look at that. Wow.
- [50:58]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Can you believe people really care about this stuff?
- [51:02]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, yeah.
- [51:03]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Like, they made it see through, which was my problem. I got all these beautiful. Tom. What's in it? Once it's cinched up, I'm like, I don't know. Is it burrito? Is it my mouth? Would you put a burrito in it? I'm just saying you don't know what's in here.
- [51:19]
Jason Manzuka
You do know if you know what you put in there.
- [51:22]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But I. That's assuming.
- [51:23]
Jason Manzuka
What are you like, do you go. Do you memento yourself at the end of like. How does it go?
- [51:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
It laser? Yeah, I laser it away. I don't know, I just. I can't. I think like opening a suitcase. And your suitcase was. I did say it was. It was a work of art. It was beautiful. It showed me an intimate side to you that is frightening. And maybe I may already be married to. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. And I thought this man must have the memory. The memory of a mad scientist. So many closed zipped bags filled with things. And everything, by the way, is also filled with a charger like wires.
- [52:09]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, well, yeah, I duplicate. There are certain.
- [52:11]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Duplicate. You guys, Are you hearing this?
- [52:14]
Jason Manzuka
You always want accessible. One of them is a phone charger and a little. Either an external battery or like a little brick to plug in somewhere. And you don't want to be like, there's only one of them in my entire travel setup.
- [52:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
So the weight of your extra batteries, your 48 extra batteries, your 42 extra charges. He doesn't do that. And my little spicy jar of mouthwash. I'm just saying the weight, I think. I don't know. I don't know. That feels very heavy.
- [52:45]
Jason Manzuka
Am I wrong or did you not have some sort of spill situation with a toilet?
- [52:50]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, there's always a spill situation with the toilet. And by the way, these trays are waterproof. On the bottom was great. That I do agree that on the bottom, I was like, I just took them out and I just sloshed out the liquid and I put it right back in the there. Let's explain. Jason, explain to the folks what this travel tray is, because I think it's an unusual piece of travel cube.
- [53:09]
Jason Manzuka
So I. Okay, so just show of hands, who here uses packing cubes or pouches or stuff? Okay, so quite a lot of people. You're acting as if I'm a weirdo.
- [53:22]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I feel like. I feel like they're also here because they. They like you as a person. And it's exactly Cubes fans. But anyway, it feels like a bias. This many a biased audience. You're.
- [53:34]
Jason Manzuka
What a savage take on your own show. You're like, half of these people are just here for Zeu's Cubes, and the other half is here for Costco.
- [53:46]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yes, Kind of.
- [53:49]
Jason Manzuka
Here's what a huge reveal for me. Massive fan. I have never been to Costco.
- [53:55]
Cuckoo Vlasak
God, what the fuck is happening?
- [53:59]
Jason Manzuka
Full stop.
- [54:00]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I told you he was a psycho. I told you that. I told you that twice. I've been there twice. Two more times than this psychotic person sitting next to me.
- [54:10]
Jason Manzuka
How dare you?
- [54:11]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Two more times.
- [54:12]
Jason Manzuka
And at least I'm willing to accept that it is a character flaw in me. It is my problem that I need to remedy. And please take me to Costco. So for a travel tray, what I do, you get to your place and you're like, oh, I got my this. I got my pocket knife. I got all my stuff. Bing bang, boom.
- [54:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, empty the pockets. I want to see. What is that? What's that? What's that? What's that? Money clip.
- [54:41]
Jason Manzuka
Money clip. Okay, that's a Swiss army knife.
- [54:44]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Wait, you already have two knives? Pocket knives. Two knives.
- [54:46]
Jason Manzuka
There's two knives. Don't worry about it, guys.
- [54:48]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You got two knives, two pockets, two pockets, two knives. Credibility.
- [54:53]
Jason Manzuka
So when you get to your hotel, boom, everything goes. Your pockets all go into a tray. And you can be like, okay, it's all there for me to load back up. And then if I want to. And I'm like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm not gonna do my whole pocket situation. You just cinch it up like that, throw it in your bag. Kaboom. I'm now traveling with it. I Know everything that's in there. I know where everything is. I'm not rooting around. Oh, no. Where's my pocket knife? Oh, no. Where's my money clip? It's all there. The best. What? You. You hate it.
- [55:28]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You just. You just like. Like tying it to your belt loop and there's just.
- [55:33]
Jason Manzuka
I'm not tying it to my belt loop.
- [55:36]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But what if you needed to get to one of your 88 knives, you know, while you're traveling around and. And then you have to get in there to undo it then look at you rummaging through that bag. Look at breaking a sweat rummaging through that bag.
- [55:51]
Jason Manzuka
It is a 100 degrees in here. Yeah, I'm very hot, which I am flummoxed by. You gotta keep it hot for comedy. Why clip it to my belt loop when I can carry a little carabiner around? Now, this is a great one. It's called a hero clip.
- [56:15]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Clip.
- [56:15]
Jason Manzuka
God damn it. So let's.
- [56:19]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- [56:23]
Jason Manzuka
What?
- [56:24]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Let me see that. What is that?
- [56:26]
Jason Manzuka
I'm gonna show you.
- [56:27]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, fine. Stop screaming it right.
- [56:32]
Jason Manzuka
May I have your bag right now?
- [56:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, God. Don't do it. Thank you so much.
- [56:37]
Jason Manzuka
Thank you. You. I appreciate it. So let's say you've got your bag and you're someplace and you're like, I don't like. This is a lovely place. Beautiful bag. I don't want to put my bag on the floor. This place is gross.
- [56:51]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Here comes the hero clip.
- [56:53]
Jason Manzuka
You clip it, boom, and it's gone. No, come on. This is a home run.
- [57:02]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That's good. Gal likes it. Gal likes it.
- [57:06]
Jason Manzuka
Gal's on board. I won Gal back.
- [57:09]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, yeah. You're gonna put that in your pocket. You're gonna put that. That hanger thing that. The hook hanger in your pocket.
- [57:15]
Jason Manzuka
I mean, come on. You wouldn't carry this around just so you don't have to put. You love putting your shit on the ground.
- [57:21]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I don't love it, but I don't hate it enough to carry that thing around.
- [57:24]
Jason Manzuka
You're a ground monster.
- [57:26]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I am a ground monster.
- [57:27]
Jason Manzuka
Thank you so much. And what to carry? This is a zero. It's a nothing.
- [57:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You have so many things in your pockets. No wonder you need a tray you can't pocket.
- [57:38]
Jason Manzuka
This is attached to any bag I have. This is like. I just had it in there just so I could grab it. But it can sit again. It can be on your backpack. It can be anywhere.
- [57:46]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay.
- [57:46]
Jason Manzuka
And you got. You know what? I'm never gonna win you over. And I'm okay with it, but I'm gonna keep trying.
- [57:53]
Cuckoo Vlasak
The thing is, is that I am with you. You.
- [57:56]
Jason Manzuka
And then in practice.
- [57:58]
Cuckoo Vlasak
No, no, not even in practice. In the beginning. I'm with you in the beginning. And then. And then you pull out a hook. You know what I mean? Like, I understand. Yeah, I understand. When I looked at my tray and I said, yeah, there's some sort of fluid on the bottom of it. Clean, you know, probably mouthwash, whatever. Yeah, it's actually good. Like, I. I like this thing, you know, it doesn't cinch up all the way. So I want to be very clear. But then you put.
- [58:23]
Jason Manzuka
That is not for toiletries. There are things that are sealable and you got them.
- [58:30]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, my God. With zippers. This is a catch all tray, some of which have.
- [58:35]
Jason Manzuka
It's called waterproof zippers.
- [58:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, my Lord. That's just too much stuff for me to keep track of. But okay. It is just. My bad. I'm sorry. I thought this was a thing for toiletries. That's what I thought.
- [58:51]
Jason Manzuka
I'm having the best time.
- [58:55]
Cuckoo Vlasak
It. It felt like it should be. Like I could open it and I could.
- [58:58]
Jason Manzuka
Of course, it can be anything you want. You can do whatever.
- [59:01]
Cuckoo Vlasak
It's heaven. It's the most perfect.
- [59:03]
Jason Manzuka
But I agree with you in the sense that it doesn't cinch airtight. So anything liquid inside you are in danger of it getting out.
- [59:10]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I'm glad we can agree on that.
- [59:14]
Jason Manzuka
We are going to make out.
- [59:18]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Things are heating up. It's very hot now, Jason, normally we know what our guest is bringing, but this is all. This is all. We never know with you.
- [59:30]
Jason Manzuka
No, I just threw a bunch of stuff in the bag and I figured we'd run through it.
- [59:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, I love it. I love it.
- [59:34]
Jason Manzuka
And by the way, if people have. I mean, I don't know if you guys do this, I'm. I'm open for questions. If you've got. If you've got. If you've got cube cues. I've got.
- [59:44]
Cuckoo Vlasak
We have a mic off stand. Yes.
- [59:46]
Jason Manzuka
Okay, great.
- [59:47]
Cuckoo Vlasak
No, here.
- [59:47]
Jason Manzuka
So if people do. Feel free, but I'm gonna run through some stuff.
- [59:51]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, let's see. Let's see what's in this. This.
- [59:53]
Jason Manzuka
Okay, so this is. So I did a lot of. Like when we did it last time, we talked a lot about packing cubes for clothes, shoes, etc, but I also like pouches for the rest of stuff. Okay.
- [60:05]
Cuckoo Vlasak
For the what?
- [60:06]
Jason Manzuka
For like the rest of the stuff.
- [60:07]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, got it.
- [60:08]
Jason Manzuka
So this is a company called evergoods make these. And it's like a. Let me zip it just so stuff doesn't fall out. It looks like this, right? And it's got, like, little compartments for lots of different stuff.
- [60:21]
Cuckoo Vlasak
He's so happy, you guys. You see how he's beaming? He's the most alive. I've known this man for so long.
- [60:28]
Jason Manzuka
I care about this more than I care about everyone I know.
- [60:33]
Cuckoo Vlasak
And I feel that.
- [60:37]
Jason Manzuka
So, for example, and I'll just. This is, like. For me, like, I throw this in the thing that I bring on the plane, and it's got stuff that I need on the plane in it. Now, here's another thing I'll talk about. This thing is called an Airfly. Anybody use this? Okay, so this is. You know what? No, I'm listening.
- [60:54]
Cuckoo Vlasak
This is my listening face.
- [60:55]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, boy.
- [60:56]
Cuckoo Vlasak
This is my listening face.
- [60:57]
Jason Manzuka
So you take this thing. You're on an airplane. Go ahead.
- [61:01]
Cuckoo Vlasak
So is this your. What would you call this pouch? Is your airplane travel pouch? Is your tech pouch? What is this pouch? In your mind? How do you orga. When you see this pouch? You're like, oh, that's my.
- [61:13]
Jason Manzuka
Okay, well, this. This is a. This is a pouch that I carry when I'm traveling all the time.
- [61:20]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Okay, so it's your travel pouch.
- [61:21]
Jason Manzuka
So it's like. It's. It's. It's on me. It's in the seat when I'm on the airplane.
- [61:25]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Got it.
- [61:26]
Jason Manzuka
It comes with me to wherever. It's not, like, packed away in the suitcase. It's in.
- [61:30]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You take it out.
- [61:30]
Jason Manzuka
It's in my backpack or whatever. And then I put it in a. And then I have everything that I want at my seat. I put in a tote bag, and I put the tote bag in my backpack. So when I get there, pull the tote bag out.
- [61:41]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Backpack goes above bags and bags and bags and bags. There it is. Yeah.
- [61:45]
Jason Manzuka
Okay, so this thing, you plug it into the headphone jack on the plane, and it pairs with your Bluetooth headphones. So you don't. Yeah. Oh, now people are on board, by the way.
- [61:57]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Most of these people are on board.
- [61:58]
Jason Manzuka
You took a show with everybody here who wasn't on. Is like, okay, I get it. I don't have to get pink ear from the headphones that the airplane gives us.
- [62:10]
Cuckoo Vlasak
It's a different choice.
- [62:11]
Jason Manzuka
It's a great thing. And you can pair multiple headphones to it. You can do whatever you want with it, but it's super simple, super easy, and it's called airfly Right? Anybody's used it. Speak up. Right. I've got one of these little guys which has multiple every single end. You could need to charge all your stuff in one cable.
- [62:35]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That's so sexy. My brother in law has never concentrated more straining his neck. He's straining his neck to look around the corner here, cursing himself for getting a bad seat.
- [62:47]
Jason Manzuka
I've got chopsticks. I've got.
- [62:49]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh boy.
- [62:50]
Jason Manzuka
I've got chopsticks.
- [62:51]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Wow. Did not see that coming.
- [62:53]
Jason Manzuka
I know you didn't. And boom. Suddenly you're traveling, you get some meal and they give you flimsy cutlery that breaks. Or they don't. By the way, guess what they don't give you anymore. Plastic spoons and nonsense. Here we go. Collapsible chopsticks. Great. And oh look, a bunch of Ziploc bags.
- [63:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Why are you upset? You love Ziploc bags. Yeah, but I don't. I don't understand the size of those. I don't understand. What is. What is this?
- [63:24]
Jason Manzuka
You don't understand. Wait, you don't understand that Ziploc bags come in different sizes?
- [63:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
No, I don't understand why you just can't take the Ziploc bag that's in your drawer of whatever size it is and use that for what? What are you going to use that for?
- [63:37]
Jason Manzuka
So you're telling me. And again, I just want to. Boy, do I wish I could be like click, click. And just run through a slideshow of the pictures you yourself, indicting yourself, have sent, which is like three. Like a chapstick, a something else and some other random thing in a gallon freezer bag. So much extraneous Ziploc.
- [64:02]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I just roll it down. I roll it down. I roll it down and then I put a rubber band around it.
- [64:07]
Jason Manzuka
And I'm meanwhile, like, I'll just put them in this, the perfect size for those things.
- [64:12]
Cuckoo Vlasak
What? Oh, just like a chapstick. Okay, I don't want to. We gotta move on because we have to get on with our lives. I just, just. And I swear this is the last interruption about this.
- [64:24]
Jason Manzuka
But like, oh, I can't imagine it will be. I think we all know that's not true.
- [64:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That, that travel case is so confusing to me already. There's. There's no rhyme or reason to that case. Now you've got empty Ziploc bags in there. But there is only rhyme and reason to it. Not to me. I don't. That is an org chart that just. I cannot wrap my head around.
- [64:48]
Jason Manzuka
I don't even. You're blowing my mind.
- [64:52]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You're welcome.
- [64:52]
Jason Manzuka
Is this a prank?
- [64:53]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You're welcome.
- [64:56]
Jason Manzuka
The whole point of this is organization. You are arguing for chaos. As a. Yeah, your packing style is nihilism. Let me ask you this.
- [65:08]
Cuckoo Vlasak
How often. Thank you.
- [65:11]
Jason Manzuka
How often, when you get to your destination, have you forgotten something?
- [65:16]
Cuckoo Vlasak
All the time.
- [65:16]
Jason Manzuka
That's what I never do.
- [65:18]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Yeah, I. I choose to forget things because I know there's going to be a target or a cvs.
- [65:25]
Jason Manzuka
Exactly. What you want to do on vacation is be finding a target, a cvs, any of those things. That's.
- [65:31]
Cuckoo Vlasak
That's. That's what I want on the itinerary. First thing, out of the cab, I say, can you make a stop before we go to the hotel? I look up, is there a target, a CVS, or whatever in your country.
- [65:44]
Jason Manzuka
That is Lived in a world where once you got to your destination, you could enjoy it and not be thinking, oh, fuck, I forgot a toothbrush. Oh, fuck, there's dog shit on the shoes that were packed next to all of my loose underwear. Yeah, I agree. Everybody who's saying ew, it's gross. And that's how suchin lives.
- [66:12]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Not everyone can handle it. I get it. Not everyone can live free like this. Not everyone can take all the things and drink all the things and thrive. But I will be here at the end. At the end of the world, I will be here. And you, my friend, will be in the house as the zombies are coming. Me? Like, I'm gonna be right there. I just gotta put on. Wait, hold on.
- [66:42]
Jason Manzuka
I didn't get a character.
- [66:43]
Cuckoo Vlasak
And I'm done. I'm gone. I'm gone with. On my sandals, by the way, a mouthwash in my glass case. You walked out of the house. Zombies are done. I'm out of here.
- [66:54]
Jason Manzuka
You walked out of the house with a bunch of whatever you're trying to.
- [66:57]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Get it in the tray.
- [66:58]
Jason Manzuka
I have grabbed my zombie go bag, which is already packed.
- [67:08]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Nobody has time for those zippers.
- [67:10]
Jason Manzuka
And I'm out the door. I'm right.
- [67:13]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I'm in the mountains. Hold on. You're just zipping already. And when you open the bag, guess what's in there? Another fucking bag? Yes. And you say, what is dead? You're dead. I'm alive, thriving. And. And my seed spreads and the world continues. What? Hold on.
- [67:36]
Jason Manzuka
I'd actually love you to break that down for me.
- [67:39]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Unpack that.
- [67:40]
Jason Manzuka
How does that work?
- [67:41]
Cuckoo Vlasak
These are. These are just, you know, just a general, you know, kind of like not my actual seed, but I thrive. I Live. And my seedlings are planted. So you're repopulating the earth. That's right. While he's dead. Because he's on his 48th zipper trying to get to his 18th knife. That's, like, hidden in something.
- [68:04]
Jason Manzuka
The knives are usually in my pockets.
- [68:07]
Cuckoo Vlasak
No, they're in the tray. They're in the. You don't know if there was a tray. They put them in a hanger thing.
- [68:12]
Jason Manzuka
Well, then at least I know where the tray is. Wow. This is chemistry. This is what they call in the biz.
- [68:24]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I haven't been this relaxed in a while. I was nervous, and now I feel chill. For me, my voice is rested and relaxed. I feel also sprightly, Jason.
- [68:38]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, yeah. Well, it's perfect. You are mediating. You are basically.
- [68:42]
Cuckoo Vlasak
I'm barely mediating.
- [68:43]
Jason Manzuka
This is couples counseling for such. I'm rooting for them. Wait a minute.
- [68:52]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Jason, give us one more thing. One more cue.
- [68:54]
Jason Manzuka
Only one.
- [68:55]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, God, please. Is it merino wool? What did you.
- [69:00]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, I didn't bring any merino wool stuff. I should have. I know. That's true. I like this pouch. I'm gonna do a few more things. I'll do some quick hits.
- [69:07]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Great. Let's go. Let's go.
- [69:09]
Jason Manzuka
And when you unfold it, it sits up like this.
- [69:12]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, look at everyone's. Why are you guys in the back? Why are you standing up? Nothing is happening up here. Sujin's dear friends in the back are not one cleaning their head. Yeah.
- [69:25]
Jason Manzuka
So now tech stuff in it. And the thing I want to mention. I like. I like this.
- [69:29]
Cuckoo Vlasak
What doesn't have tech stuff in it?
- [69:30]
Jason Manzuka
I like this punch. But I like having a white noise machine when I travel.
- [69:35]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Suchin, you can relate because you can connect to the Sujin.
- [69:39]
Jason Manzuka
Because hotels are impossible. All I do is hear other people's doors slamming and whatever. White noise machine. Boom.
- [69:47]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Suchin, meet him where he's at. What do you bring to every trip? Such and pock. Now it. Yeah, yeah. That's. That's that. Yeah. Okay. All right. You have one of those.
- [70:05]
Jason Manzuka
Am I winning you over?
- [70:06]
Cuckoo Vlasak
She doesn't. She needs it. Sweet, sweet music. Yeah. Okay, listen. I've always liked you. I. I don't. I've never met you. I knew from the second you appeared on the Zoom. I said, this is someone that I like. And I. Of course you travel with the. You're not a monster. I take it back. I take it back. You're a monster.
- [70:25]
Jason Manzuka
I'm a monster, but I'm a monster for good. I'm A benevolent monster.
- [70:31]
Cuckoo Vlasak
A benevolent monster.
- [70:33]
Jason Manzuka
And also in this. Isn't it great? Travel with an Apple tv.
- [70:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Oh, my God, you guys.
- [70:39]
Jason Manzuka
Every hotel, you can plug it in. Guess what? You're watching your fucking shows. Travel with an Apple tv? Why the hell not? Come on.
- [70:50]
Cuckoo Vlasak
All those people that clapped when you brought that out have now left the room. I cannot believe you are traveling with.
- [70:58]
Jason Manzuka
That with an Apple TV and a white noise machine.
- [71:02]
Cuckoo Vlasak
The white noise machine. I get the Apple tv.
- [71:05]
Jason Manzuka
Oh, it is a game changer. Yeah, it is a game changer because you just plug it into any. It takes 40 seconds to plug it in and then you're not subject to the nonsense. And guess what I'm not going to do? Log in using my name and pass. You know how many times I've been in a hotel and opened up the TV and someone is still logged in and I'm like, guess what, buddy, you're about to have watched a lot of bosh. I'm just fucking with people's algorithms just so I can watch bosh wherever I am. Guess what? I bring my own Apple tv.
- [71:37]
Cuckoo Vlasak
But why leave your house then?
- [71:39]
Jason Manzuka
I have to. I don't want to. That's a traveling. I didn't leave my house for years.
- [71:45]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Traveling is, is, is, is.
- [71:48]
Jason Manzuka
Go ahead.
- [71:48]
Cuckoo Vlasak
You know, going to target. Going to target.
- [71:52]
Jason Manzuka
Finding pharmacies.
- [71:54]
Cuckoo Vlasak
Did you bring. You brought the right shoe, but did you bring the left one? I don't know, like I would hope. Traveling is, it's. It's about letting loose, getting, getting rid of your playlists and your, you know, and whatever other wires you have in there. You know what I mean? It's about just, just breathing in the air, the funk.
- [72:13]
Jason Manzuka
I do all of that and I don't have to figure out how I'm gonna get to a pharmacy because I didn't get. I didn't bring any of the stuff. I or I didn't arrive with only one shoe. And I have to figure out, oh, fuck, I gotta go buy shoes now. Anybody? Monopoly Deal. After I talked about it last time. Anybody get into Monopoly Deal.
- [72:34]
Cuckoo Vlasak
It's really fun, really fast. Anybody's ruined? Yeah, ruined.
- [72:38]
Jason Manzuka
Great. I love it. Here's another game. Left, right and center. Anybody? Great game. Especially great game if you've got a bunch of kids, like around a table. It's very fun. Everybody gets very into it. It is a very low stakes betting game. It comes with little chips. Everybody gets three chips and everybody rolls three dice. And you either keep a chip, you'd send a chip to your left, your Right. Or into the main pot. Last person with a chip wins the pot. Now, if you don't do the chips, but you put down three single dollar bills in front of everybody, that pot starts to get pretty interesting. And if you've got a bunch of kids around the table and you put down three $20 bills in front of yourself, those kids will go nuts. It's a blast. It's super quick, it's super fun, it's super rowdy. And the rounds go quick and it's a very fun game. And it's just like this. It costs nothing. It's left, right and center, everybody.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Nice.
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Jason Manzuka
And I'm gonna suggest one more thing.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
Adding to cart. One more thing. Adding to cart. As we're sitting here, adding.
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Jason Manzuka
This book is called the Case of the Missing Men. It's a fantastic graphic novel that I can't recommend enough. It looks like this. It's gorgeous. It's basically, what if Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys existed in Twin Peaks? What if it was kid detectives in a truly supernaturally bizarre small town in Nova Scotia? It's fantastic. Get involved. Fuck you guys.
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Cuckoo Vlasak
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