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Jamie
Not today.
Robbie
I saw something here that I'm like, this could be one of the coolest or saddest or worst things I've ever seen. I don't know. Like, it struck me at first. I was like, that's cool. But then I was like, this might not be. So I. We drove past. I drove past a strip club. You know, it's the afternoon, and I parked outside of. It was a school bus. So my thought was, is there a school bus driver who drops the kids off at school? And then he's like, you know what? Now it's my turn to have a little fun. Like, what is. That's what I think.
Jamie
Interesting. Because whenever I drive by strip clubs during the day, like at like a 1 7am okay, maybe they're like, still hanging on.
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
Like 1:32pm you're like, who's in there?
Robbie
School bus drivers maybe.
Jamie
Apparently got to kill the time before the pickup.
Robbie
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And you know what? Also, they have to kind of take the edge off before that because the kids are crazy, right? You got a school bus full of kids, they're going nuts. How do you not, you know, you get all the. Come out.
Jamie
Near happiest school bus driver there is.
Robbie
Yeah. They're like, how does he stay so cool?
Jamie
They could take the bus around too, after they don't have to, like, give it back.
Robbie
And then during the day, probably not, but maybe, maybe after. I don't know. Is it like cab? I remember you used to go to, like, Queens and you would see so many cabs, like, parked in. Right in people's garages, you know, like their driveways. So my question is, if you found out your kids school bus driver was going to the strip club in between picking them up and dropping them off, how does that make you feel? Do you want him?
Jamie
They're sober. Do. Do you, Bro. Lady. Whoever it is.
Robbie
But then the scary part is now you got a crazy guy who's sitting in a strip club for six hours sober, which to me means he's just crazy. I'd almost be happier if he was throwing a few back. But maybe he. Maybe you start drinking at 10am and by. By 1, you switch to water.
Jamie
No, no, that doesn't happen. I don't know. When you throw these hypotheticals my way, you really push me into a back me into a corner. I've got nothing. Again, if he's sober. Do you? What's the difference if he went home and watched porn for four hours and then picked him up.
Robbie
You know, I hope they're not doing that either. That's. That's even creepier to me. No. Why Watching porn for four hours. I mean, when you. When you watch porn, you're supposed to watch porn for max 15, 20 minutes. Especially at my, like by the time you're 40. Like when you're 16 and you're like, oh my God, porn. Like, it's so cool.
Jamie
Like, let's say you're an older guy, don't have a partner, no kids, you're just driving. You're waking up at five to do the bus routes. You're done by nine. First pickup is two. What you doing with those five hours of your day?
Robbie
Watch far. Watch good tv. Watch like actual series.
Jamie
Well, that's what you would do.
Robbie
I think you'd throw on the porn for 15 minutes. Maybe in the beginning.
Jamie
Should be a bus driver.
Robbie
Oh, I. What would be worse?
Jamie
I would love.
Robbie
Besides the strip club part. I don't like anything about driving buses. School buses.
Jamie
But I think like, give me, give me a camera following you around one day to do a bus route with all those kids. You can do bone Jack so that you know, you know two of the kids.
Chris
We gotta do a series on this, right, Robbie? Regular jobs.
Robbie
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow.
Chris
Come on, man, be hilarious.
Jamie
That's such a good idea.
Robbie
What other jobs do you think I should do?
Chris
Oh, man, I mean, you got to do retail, right? You got to be on Starbucks for a day.
Robbie
That. See that? I'm. That I'm down with school bus driving. I don't want to be in charge of a bunch of kids lives. I'll be in charge of a bunch of like yuppies. Coffee. Teacher substitute again? Yeah. I mean, yeah, a substitute teacher.
Tanner
Maybe museum tour guide.
Robbie
Oh, and I know nothing about and you know nothing.
Tanner
Yeah, you just go in blind plumber.
Chris
The whole time you're like this.
Jamie
Oh, yeah.
Chris
1560.
Jamie
This guy was definitely on molly when he made this.
Robbie
1568. What a year, man. What a year. Do you guys think it's all right for a school bus driver to go to a strip club during the day? If he's not. If he's got nothing to do with the kids. He's a great guy.
Chris
I mean, we're also. We're assuming this is a man. What if it's one of the strippers?
Robbie
Bro, I thought you were just gonna say a woman, but yeah, one of.
Jamie
The strip Jack's driver is a woman. A cute woman. Younger for sure.
Robbie
Well, well, how would you feel if you found out she was stripping in the time that she drops the K.
Jamie
Comes back, make that money, honey, you respect the hustle.
Robbie
Wow. So open minded.
Jamie
Well, I'm not gonna judge what she does with her free time. As long as my kids get home safely.
Robbie
No, listen, so I, I, I hear you. I'm just saying some people might not want a stripper driving their kids to and from school. Yeah, it's an acceptable answer either way.
Jamie
And she's got my vote. She's good.
Robbie
Wow, that's awesome.
Jamie
Cutter would agree.
Robbie
Oh, he'd love it. How many do you think there'd be? A lot of parents who would immediately pull their kids out of that bus?
Jamie
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Robbie
Wow. Imagine, dude. Imagine it's a stripper.
Jamie
We're all a little naughty. Come on, let her do.
Heather
I looked up what bus drivers do during the day and said most of them have other jobs, so maybe stripper is that job.
Robbie
Wow.
Jamie
Right. Because they're done at, let's say, 9:00am and then they don't have to be back till 2. Yeah.
Robbie
See, if this was somewhere like New York or Vegas, I'd say this can't be true because the strippers are hot. But in Texas, I'd imagine there's, there could be a few. School bus driver, strippers, hybrid.
Jamie
I haven't checked out the stripper scene here.
Robbie
I have never been to a strip club here either.
Jamie
Well, you know any?
Robbie
Of course he does.
Chris
I said he's right. Yeah, it's my favorite place. What are you talking.
Robbie
Yeah, Dr. Drew, like, Dr. Drew basically left because. And he was so obsessed with strip club. That's pretty much made him uncomfortable.
Chris
Yeah, he's like, I can't enable this anymore.
Robbie
Yeah, get out of here.
Jamie
So what's the vibe at the Austin strip clubs?
Chris
I mean, I've only been to Red Rose with, with Drew and it was, yeah, it was a little sad. It was like. Yeah, this isn't like, you know, premiere shit. You know what I mean? I feel bad, you know what I'm saying? I ain't trying to talk down the strippers. I'm just saying it wasn't like I'm used to la, you know what I'm saying? So it's like in Vegas.
Jamie
What's sad? Like, they're terrible dancer.
Chris
No, they just look sad, Zola. You know, they just.
Robbie
We don't care if they're good dancers.
Jamie
They seem sad. They don't seem happy to be there.
Robbie
No.
Jamie
Oh, that's hard.
Chris
Which, you know, even when they do, it's A lie.
Robbie
Right.
Chris
But, like, put on that act, baby.
Jamie
For sure. That's how you. That's how you sell it.
Chris
Yeah.
Jamie
Oh, that's that. So, like, they're like, they're feeling like, I gotta be here. This sucks. That's. That's rough to see.
Robbie
I'm not a New Orleans guy. Like, I just. When I went there once and I was like, this. This place just isn't for me, but New Orleans?
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
No, Orleans. No, No.
Jamie
I thought you said it in one of your, like, egg ways.
Robbie
Oh, maybe. I don't know. But I. I'm not a New Orleans guy.
Jamie
I know. I think New York. We say New Orleans, but most people say New Orleans. Right. How do you guys say it?
Chris
Yeah, we said. I mean, I say New Orleans.
Robbie
Yep.
Jamie
I think it's a New York thing.
Robbie
Yeah. New Orleans. New Orleans.
Jamie
New Orleans.
Robbie
Yeah. I. I accept both out of my mouth as well. I've probably said both, but. So I went for Ron's bachelor party.
Jamie
Yeah. Yeah.
Robbie
We went and I showed up and I had. And this is probably my fault. Like, anybody from there would say the reason you don't like it is because I thought you get a hotel on the Bourbon Street. I don't know. I've never been, but I'm like, yeah, this is. But I guess that would be like getting a hotel in Times Square. In New York, I get a hotel, Bourbon Street. And I used to, like, always stay up the night. I still do sometimes, like, stay up the night before my flight. So, like, I get somewhere and I'm like. And I was just in a bad mood and everything, and I'm, like, trying to pull my suitcase through the dirty streets and, like, get into the thing. Sober at this point, I'm on pills. No, I'm not sober in life. Yeah, I'm on pills, but I wasn't drinking, like, on the flight. And I pull up and I'm staying across the street from a strip club, and there's a pregnant stripper standing outside smoking a cigarette. And I was like this. I was. That was my first impression. And I was like, this is really bad. I was like, I don't like this. But then. Then two nights later, I got drunk and I was like, this place is pretty cool. Yeah. But I still. I just. It' just not a place for me. Like, I didn't like the.
Jamie
Yeah, New Orleans is not. I will say I had a dark night in New Orleans. Oh, yeah, there was that. I was at a bar and there was a guy that was like the MC of Like, he was, like, standing on the bar, like, with a mic. He was, like, running the party. And I. We went home together. I didn't have sex with him. Oh, it was. And that's, like, not my style. That's, like, not what I do. And I did it.
Robbie
Wow. Yeah.
Jamie
It must be just. What? New Orleans? It's the only time I've been to New Orleans. Haven't been back.
Robbie
Were you wasted or. Right when you walked in, you're like, this guy's kind of handsome.
Jamie
I was. I don't. I don't remember. I was not. I was drunk.
Robbie
Shout out to Cutter. Sitting outside watching this, by the way. Just big, big shout out to our boy. Does he know this?
Jamie
No.
Robbie
Text me your questions, Cutter.
Jamie
Sorry.
Robbie
Wow. That is not like you. No, especially like a random. Never done it in a random town. Like, in New York. It's a little more like.
Jamie
Yeah, it was very. Again, I didn't sleep with the guy, but it was not my style.
Robbie
What were you doing in New Orleans?
Jamie
I was there doing Cinderella. Like the tour. The musical, like the tour of it. Yeah.
Robbie
Listen, if Cinderella can get. Go home with a random guy, I think school bus drivers can go to the strip club.
Jamie
That's. I guess maybe it's why I'm so open to it.
Robbie
Yeah, maybe.
Jamie
I can't judge. Can't throw stones.
Robbie
If. If you were going to do the Robbie real jobs, if you were going to do Jamie real jobs, what would you want to. What would you want to get into?
Jamie
Give me some ideas, because I wouldn't be as uncomfortable as I don't think it would be as good television as yours would be, because I think you would be very uncomfortable and triggered by things. I think I'm less so.
Chris
Yeah. That's why it's fun.
Robbie
Yeah. Well, you just have a miserable. You just have a higher time.
Jamie
I would love it, actually.
Robbie
You would have a higher tolerance for being nice to people. That's the thing. I think I'd be nice for, like, 10 minutes and then I'd be like, what the fuck?
Jamie
Like, stop asking me for things.
Robbie
Yeah. Especially, like, Starbucks when they're getting real stupid with the orders. Like, insane. We're on. Like.
Jamie
Like, just passed so much judgment on people's orders.
Robbie
Yeah. I don't know a single thing about Starbucks. I don't know. Like, I know it's like, vent day.
Jamie
I'd like to see you and Cutter behind the counter.
Robbie
Oh, that. Now that would be good.
Jamie
Yeah, that would be fun.
Robbie
Wow. And you know what would be funny? If you were in like.
Jamie
It'd be like two pumps of vanilla car. Be like, you sure you want to.
Robbie
You want.
Jamie
You want one?
Robbie
He's like, I put one in here. I put one in here. I think you're. I think that's.
Jamie
Every time he brings me my car. I just. You just wanted one. I was like, that's not what I said.
Robbie
See, that. That. That would be my problem too if I had, like, fat people coming in and asking me for. I'd be like, maybe you go. Maybe you go with the egg bite.
Jamie
I think this show needs to happen.
Robbie
Yeah. Yeah. That's a great idea. Any. I like Robbie. Regular jobs. Yeah. You know, I've only. I don't.
Jamie
Robbie, I don't.
Robbie
Have we ever talked about this out in the world? I've only had one job in my whole life. Did we ever talk about this?
Chris
Think we talked. I don't remember what it is, though.
Robbie
I was handing out flyers for a video game store.
Chris
Oh, yeah, you did tell the story.
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
What do you got paid for something like that?
Robbie
I don't remember. It wasn't a lot. But what happened was there was a video game store in where I grew up that opened up, and we would be in there all the time because they had like a TV with a controller and you could just play. And then she like. You know, it was a woman who actually ran it. Like an Asian woman. And she was like, yeah, there's not enough, like, people coming in. And we're like, oh, well. We'd hand out flyers up on 86th Street. And she was like, oh, look at that. There I go. That's super cool.
Jamie
Wow.
Robbie
That's Robbie regular job.
Jamie
You're so dressed up for the bus. You're taking this so seriously.
Robbie
That's the one thing I dress up for. That's me.
Heather
According to ChatGPT.
Robbie
Wow.
Jamie
They really like to change your teeth.
Robbie
There's one person in the world who would like this joke, but Cutter. That looks like. Cuz we follow. We follow. Me and Cutter follow these two guys who, like, put out football pics and it looks like one of them, but. Sorry, that's a. Specifically for one person with a hat.
Jamie
That just says school bus. In case anyone was wondering what you were doing there.
Robbie
Yeah, that's. I would actually rock that outfit. If you get me that outfit, I'll rock it. We should make. We should make. Why not today, pal? Merch. And that's our merch. School bus.
Jamie
School bus.
Robbie
Yeah. It's a dope vibe. Yeah.
Jamie
I need a yellow Hat.
Robbie
Not at a strip club, I'll tell you that. It's Christmas behind me.
Jamie
It is. I know. It's really. I'm in the mood for some holidays.
Robbie
Yeah. They. Oh, I hate the holidays. The. See, that would be very. School bus driver. Me. Like, oh, my God. You know, the curmudgeon school bus driver. I think that would be me. Like, pick a pickup and then drop off would be disaster.
Jamie
Guidance counselor would be great for you. Have the kids come in and talk about their problems. You'd be like, you're such a. Do you know what I dealt with?
Robbie
Yeah. I handed out flyers. I. So I. I don't remember how much she paid us, but we went to. We told her, like, we'll hand out flyers. She. She made all the flyers for us. We would go to 86th street and hand out a few. But then what we would do is we would stay stand right in front of the store, and when it looked like somebody was about to go in, we'd hand them the flyer so that it would look like people were coming in holding the flyer that we were handing them out. So we would do that for, like, four people. Then we'd go smoke a blunt in, like, the staircase of, like, our building, hang out for a while, go back, do it a few times, whatever. And then, I don't know. We were doing it for a while, I don't know how long. And then she. And by the way, I think I'm on Sopranos at this point. And then she said, like, one day we went in, and she was like, oh, sorry, I don't have any flyers, like, for you guys to hand out. And my friend Matt Rip was like, oh, I have a bunch at my place. I could. I could go get them. And she was like, why do you have a bunch of them at your place?
Tanner
And we're.
Robbie
We were, like, stoned. And he just didn't come up with an answer. Yeah. And it was like, all right, well, see, See it never. See you never. And we're done.
Jamie
You were fired.
Robbie
Yeah. And that sucked. And we went home, and he threw all the flyers down the incinerator. Just, like, hundreds of flyers.
Jamie
Get that anger out. I get it. Wow.
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
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Robbie
By the way, you know, we never spoke about this, but there was like you guys took like a crazy test at ymh, right? What was the like, name of the test or what was it actually called?
Heather
I think it was just called like a psychological evaluation. But yeah, we had, we had a psychologist come in here and well, she sent us a test that we like filled out online and then we sent it back to her. And yeah, then she read us our results on the show and they were pretty interesting.
Robbie
And who were the extremes again? Obviously we know Tanner, but there's arguments. Was Tanner really telling the truth? Was he fucking around?
Jamie
No.
Tanner
I wasn't fucking around. I took it pretty seriously because, like, I know I'm fucked up, so I wanted it like an actual I gotta pay money to get that done. That's just free, man.
Robbie
And what did she say about you exactly?
Tanner
That I'm borderline schizo and psycho.
Chris
And she said he has traits of.
Tanner
A combat veteran, traits of a combat vet.
Jamie
She didn't know past life.
Heather
She didn't know anything about anyone going into it. And she was just getting the results sent to her and she texted me, she goes, hey, this guy Tanner, is he a ex military? I'm like, no. Like he has like ptsd, like traits that have only ever seen from people in combat.
Robbie
And did she specify what, what those were?
Heather
I mean, I think it was just all of like the schizo type of stuff.
Tanner
Like, yeah, she was like, you're hella avoidant and like bipolar and all this.
Robbie
So what do, what do you think, like the answers you gave that made her say that? I don't know.
Tanner
There was one question that was like, do you see shapes and stuff? And I was like, yeah, sometimes.
Jamie
Like, just like tv, right here is a rectangle.
Robbie
What's a big deal? No, not like that.
Tanner
Like, I'll be like, I'll be walking through my house and Then, like, there's like, a figure or something or.
Jamie
That.
Tanner
I see, and I, like, look again, and it's not there anymore.
Robbie
Oh, wow. What do you think that PTSD would be from?
Tanner
There's a lot of stuff, man. Probably, like, flipping my car and doing some bad things. Bad.
Robbie
Just.
Tanner
Just some bad decisions that I've made in my life. But, you know, we're trying to stay on a good track.
Robbie
Track now.
Jamie
You are.
Robbie
So what did you. What did you. Have you made any changes since the test? No. No. All right. Yeah, that's fine.
Tanner
I mean, I just kind of like. Well, when she told me all this, I was like. I mean, I've been living it, so, like. And, like, I'm like, look where I'm at. Like, it couldn't be that bad.
Robbie
Yeah, you dunked on her. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah. Boom. In your face. Yeah. Look how good.
Tanner
It's crazy now.
Chris
Ho.
Robbie
Yeah, exactly. What. What. What other. Who were the other, like, extremes?
Chris
I remember Gamba was one of them.
Robbie
Was.
Jamie
She got going on. I didn't hear that pretty smile.
Robbie
I didn't like that she kind of went after our Heather. I didn't like that she went after Heather a little bit. What she said, the doctor. What she say about Heather again?
Chris
She just got super deep, super quick. She's like, so when's the last time somebody hurt you? And where and how. Explain it.
Robbie
Elaborate, please.
Chris
Yeah, it was like, Jesus. Like, we're on a.
Robbie
All right.
Chris
Millions of people are going to see.
Jamie
Okay.
Chris
All right.
Jamie
Oh, you guys did this on your mom's house?
Robbie
Yeah. Yeah.
Tanner
Got a bunch of messages after, and.
Chris
We didn't prep at all. It was just like. Yeah, all right, let's just talk it out. We'll see what happens.
Jamie
Oh, I wish I did this.
Robbie
Yeah, it was. It was a good app. I liked it. But she. And some people.
Jamie
App.
Robbie
No app Episode. Yeah, but she did. Yeah, I thought. No, I thought it was. I thought it was a good episode. So did any. Did anybody make any changes after this thing?
Heather
I don't think so.
Chris
I don't think so. I mean, she said I was more or less normal, which was kind of crazy, so that was cool.
Robbie
But that was because you just had gone through your therapies.
Chris
I guess so.
Robbie
Yeah.
Chris
I guess so.
Tanner
See, I went cold turkey on my meds, so I think maybe if I was still on them, my scores would be a little different.
Robbie
Did you stop seeing shapes and figures when you were on the meds?
Tanner
Yeah, everything was. Everything was really chill. The Brain was nice, but I got really numb. Right. Yeah, it's numb and it's boring and I. I, like, I wanted to. You don't feel like you decided to. I didn't tell my psychiatrist about this, but I think she knows because I haven't visited her in like a couple months, so.
Robbie
Yeah, she probably put two and two together. Yeah. Yeah, I bet she figured that out. Yeah.
Tanner
I mean, she's a psychiatrist.
Robbie
Yeah.
Tanner
But pills, schmills, you know? You know?
Robbie
Yeah, I know. It's a. Listen, it's a tough line. What do you do, you know, do you get. Do you stay on the pills? Do you get off the pills? I guess it depends just how bad shit she gets. Yeah. But I don't know. If I see. If I. If I see you under one of these bridges out here in a few years, I'll help you out.
Tanner
Thanks, man.
Robbie
Yeah, I'll go. I'll go get you, like, canes or something. That's what.
Tanner
No, I. I, like, really despise homeless people, so I, like, I will work so hard to not be homeless. Like, that's like a big fear of mine.
Robbie
That's most people. I think that's what we're all doing.
Jamie
I know, but, like, what do you. Most people.
Heather
Don't preface it with that, though.
Jamie
Yeah. What do you despise about them?
Tanner
I just think they're losers, honestly. Like, I know a lot of people who have, like, hit rock bottom and you can bounce up. They just give up and they just ask. Like, I spend a lot of time downtown doing open mics and stuff. And every day, like, the same four homeless fucks ask me for. For, like, pocket change or for like a cigarette and shit. And it's like, dude, I didn't have it yesterday. I'm not going to have it today. You're never going to get it off. Go get a job, you bum. Like, I just. I don't know. I like, they're. I'm not a fan of homeless people for, like, really.
Robbie
I don't know. You sound mentally fit to me. I don't. I.
Tanner
Wait, do you agree?
Robbie
I don't know what that lady was talking.
Tanner
I'll be driving.
Robbie
Like, I stopped by the light and.
Tanner
They try to wash my.
Robbie
It's like, bro, what are you doing? Like, yeah, like, you're doing a job outside.
Tanner
Like, you could just do this at a place, you know, and actually get paid instead of people honk.
Robbie
I don't know.
Tanner
Yeah, homeless people just irk me. Wrong, man.
Robbie
Well, I. I think. I think I'll, like, listen. There's all different types of homeless people, right? There's people who have mental problems, people who are on drugs. There's all type of stuff. But I will say, when I was back in New York this last time, there were something that I hadn't seen in a really long time, which were there were homeless women who were sitting there with children. And you could tell this was not like a real homeless thing. It was like a fucking. Yeah, it was like a racket. Like, they were. It was like an organized fucking thing. Like, they probably drove, like, dropped them off in a bus in the morning to be like, sit here. Because if you sit. And here's the thing. If you sit in New York City, I would imagine as a homeless woman with a child, you'll probably make way more money than minimum wage.
Jamie
Wasn't there a story about a guy that worked. I don't know if he was in finance or something in New York. And for a year, he would leave his home in Connecticut, take the train into the city, sit on the streets and collect money to see, like, how much money he would make for the year. And he made, like, a decent living.
Robbie
Well, that's the other thing. Growing up in New York City is like, we knew homeless people. Homeless people who had apartments. Yeah. And they would just sit around all day. They would. They would get money. They would do shit. Whoa, what is this camera for?
Reporter
Chances are you've seen him try to.
Robbie
Date, to do restaurant Sympathized with his.
Reporter
Wheelchair, his drawn hands his story ripped.
Robbie
At your heart Damn. Give me money and to get some.
Reporter
Eat Lexington police say he's taken his act on tour of the city to places like the Lansdowne Shops, Hamburg, and the Zandale corridor of Nicholasville Road. We busted this bogus beggar right outside the police department just minutes after a press conference about it.
Homeless Actor
Invest in Lex. I appreciate you guys busting me. Yeah. I'm really good at it. Really good. I clear about $100,000 a year doing this.
Jamie
That's what that guy.
Homeless Actor
Yeah, about 60 to 100 be. Boy, I'm just playing. I got to go, y'.
Robbie
All.
Homeless Actor
I gotta make some money.
Reporter
He was back at it again.
Robbie
Can I tell you something? It's been a long time since I've given a homeless person money. If I saw him outside right now, I'd. I'd give him double what I would. This. This is a. This is better than. This is better than 90% of the shows on Netflix. This guy's acting. This is Incredible. And by the way, Tanner, I'm so with you right now because. Right.
Tanner
Like, doesn't that just piss you off?
Robbie
No, no, no, it doesn't piss me off. Actually. What it does is I go, you could be doing this on Netflix. Yeah. Like, this guy is a fucking incredible actor. Now that we know he's acting, can you go back to the beginning of this? I mean, by the way, fucking Austin News or whoever this is, get a new microphone. Jesus, why that camera?
Reporter
For Chances are you've seen him try.
Robbie
To date to the restaura Sympathized with.
Reporter
His wheelchair, his drawn hands, his story ripped at your heart.
Robbie
Damn. Give me money and to get some eat.
Reporter
Lexington police say he's taken his act on tour of the city to places like the Lansdowne Shops, Hamburg, and the Zandale corridor of Nicholasville Road.
Robbie
It's got a hamburger.
Reporter
We busted this bogus beggar right outside the police department just minutes after a press conference about it.
Homeless Actor
You best. And Lex, I appreciate you guys busting me. Yeah. I'm really good at it. Really good. I clear about a hundred thousand dollars a year doing this. Yeah, about 60 to 100.
Robbie
I love this guy. You don't like this guy, Jay?
Jamie
I don't. I don't. I'm in. I'm in shock right now.
Robbie
I still kind of think in some weird way, without this, he might be homeless. I think he's just a homeless guy who makes 100 grand a year, which is kind of what we all are.
Chris
You just really leaned in.
Robbie
Yeah.
Chris
That's all it was.
Robbie
Right. He's just good at being homeless. Right. If you're really good at being homeless, you end up with a crib. Right. I think like, he's like, I'm out here begging and Now I'm making 100 grand a year. Expert level homeless.
Jamie
The people I've known in my life that have like, talked about periods of their life where they've been homeless or like, living out of a car. Like, they spent every waking hour trying to make money. Right. Like, I. So I understand what Tanner's saying, but I. I can't help but ever just feel compassion for anybody who's living on the streets or begging for money, because it's just that's.
Robbie
Is his money taxed definitely now? No, it's going to be now.
Jamie
There's no way to keep track of it.
Robbie
Damn.
Chris
Who they going to mail the IRS to?
Robbie
True. Yeah. He's got a nice place. I bet. All that's playing over in my head.
Jamie
Right now is probably looks just like yours. It probably just has a couch and a bed and one TV and one bowl.
Robbie
Or it looks like how mine looked when I was 20, which is like mega hoarder, right? You know what I mean? Wow. I don't know. I'm kind of. I don't know. That guy kind of does it for me. Can we check memory lane, maybe?
Jamie
Oh, wow. Where is. Oh, the nut, obviously.
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
I told you I used to sing the anthem a lot.
Robbie
What are we talking here, Aim? What is this?
Jamie
Oh, God.
Robbie
Oh, wait, wait. Is that. Yeah, I thought it might be two different times. Yeah, I thought you were wearing, like, a dress on the left and then. Okay, well, that's Jason Kidd right there with his head down. He's playing still.
Jamie
That's a little 2003 or four.
Heather
Yep, 2003. Do you remember the occasion, though, what game this was?
Robbie
Oh, is the first game of the year. Yam.
Jamie
I don't know.
Robbie
Opening night.
Heather
It was game three of the 2003 NBA Finals. Nets versus Spurs.
Jamie
Wow.
Robbie
Damn, Jamie. Yeah. That's a big. That's a big deal.
Jamie
Well, the biggest. The biggest deal I thought I ever did was the jets game. I did Game 7 of the AFC or NFC? AFC. What are the Jets.
Robbie
There's only one game. I mean, game seven in football.
Jamie
I meant the playoff game of the. Which is the jets are in afc?
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
Yeah, the playoff game. The AFC Championship game.
Robbie
Way to go.
Jamie
But I didn't know I did another one now I can tell my kids.
Robbie
Yeah. I'm really proud of you guys.
Jamie
Thank you. Thank you.
Robbie
So I. I was friends with Richard Jefferson for a while who played on the Nets. And he gave us courtside tickets one night when they were playing when Jordan was on Charlotte. So we got to watch Michael Jordan play courtside. And then, you know, like, at halftime, they're like, hey, you. Could we have, like, an area for you in the back to hang out. It's not like now where it's like filet mignon and like lobsters and like crazy out of Yankee games. It was just like a little area where you would chill. And I'm walking back there and, like, somebody walks in front of me and it's Jay Z. And he's like. He's like eating, like, something out of his hand or whatever. And they're. And it was a Sunday night, and he's like, we. I gotta leave here to go watch. To go what? Before, like, you know, 9pm Because I gotta watch Sopranos tonight. And I was like, yo, and he turned around and I was there. And he's like, yo. Like. And we just started talking, and I was like, that was pretty. Pretty, pretty crazy. 10 minutes to be like, I'm sitting courtside watching Michael Jordan play and talking to Jay Z in the back. Yeah. Good times.
Jamie
This is why he doesn't do regular jobs.
Robbie
Yeah, no, this is actually why I don't do anything anymore. I'm. I'm maxed out all of my peaked. Yeah. I've had. I've had too many experiences. I'm done with all of it. Who. The. The crazy test. The YMH crazy test. You don't think it affected anybody? Huh? Like, nobody really gave a.
Jamie
Nobody took a note?
Heather
I don't think so.
Robbie
I think about it. Yeah.
Tanner
I think about it a lot.
Robbie
Yeah.
Tanner
My girlfriend, when she watched it, she, like, questioned me afterwards and was, like, concerned. My mom said it made sense, but, like, I. Yeah, I think about it quite a bit.
Robbie
So did. Could your girlfriend tell a difference from you when you got off your meds from when you were on them?
Tanner
I wasn't with her when I was home. I wasn't with her when I got off meds. That's when I started getting really.
Robbie
Yeah, yeah, that's.
Jamie
That's what happens.
Robbie
Yeah, I feel you.
Heather
We didn't even acknowledge that. Most normal in the whole studio, right here. Your boy.
Jamie
I could guess that. Zolo. I could.
Robbie
Of course. Thank you right away.
Chris
Best liar in the studio.
Jamie
You won.
Robbie
No, no, he's. You.
Jamie
You.
Robbie
You think. You think people are more normal than. So obviously. No. Insane.
Chris
No. I won't lie. I'm very surprised that Chris wasn't way, way up top, like, normal. It surprised me that he was, like, number four or something. Number five. Like, how are people more normal than Chris? Chris is the most normal person I ever fucking met in my life.
Tanner
Garrett's pretty normal, too.
Robbie
Oh, really? I think Zola's more normal than Chris.
Heather
I think Tom and Christina were both, like, top three or four. Like, they were, like, right there with me, which was also surprising.
Robbie
Normal.
Heather
Yeah, according to her.
Robbie
Well, also, they're. They're older. They've been through it. They know how to, like, they know how to handle. Yeah. If you really. I don't know.
Heather
That's what they said. They're like, we've been in therapy for decades.
Jamie
Yeah. Yeah.
Heather
We wouldn't have been this way a while ago.
Robbie
Also, what they say about a lot of people is, like, there's people who have these tendencies, and if. If they don't get to kind of let it out or work in a way of like. Like, let's say if you're somebody who needs admiration and then you become a celebrity, you're actually less like trouble than somebody who doesn't because they're. They're constantly thinking, like, I should be. That why am I not? Which leads to like, anger and problems. If you do get it, it actually makes you a. It's like, oh, thank God this person got it. Cuz if they didn't, they might be real crazy, right?
Jamie
Yeah. Or it might make them crazier.
Robbie
Yeah, no, you never know. There's definitely. There's all, there's all the things. All right, so there's one, One thing I wanted to tell you about is when I was young, I got to take my phone out for this to show you the photo. So when I was young.
Jamie
Are you about to propose to me?
Robbie
Yeah. When I was young, my. I was at a pool with people in my family. And basically it's like one of my cousins was like, we were all hanging out for like, it was. We were there for like four days. And the first day everyone's hanging out. And the second day, like, it's kind of different. By the third day, like, these kids, I noticed, did not want to hang out with me. Like, we. I. You jump in the pool, they all go to the other side, like this kind of thing. And I was like, I was like 10 or 11 and I was like, what the fuck is this? Because even when I was like fat and like everything, I. I never had problems making friends because, like, my family was so young and we all lived in like a little apartment and you just, you knew how to. You know, I was never like, I don't then. I wasn't socially awkward. I am now because I've distanced myself so much. But I. I was never like, socially awkward. Them. And I never experienced that. And I was like, what the is this? And like, they didn't want to be near me. So then my cousin was like, yo, come over here. Like, blah, blah, with all of them. I was like, what? They were like, they thought you had some kind of disease because I had so many mosquito bites on my legs. And I forgot about this for like 30 years. But then when I went to New York, we got a house upstate with my family. And one night like, me and my brothers had a fire, like, late night, and it happened to me again. And I was like, this is because if you describe it to somebody, I think somebody would be like, yeah, sure, like Whatever. So I was like, I'm gonna take pictures of this and show it to Jamie. I'm not even going to put the pictures up because I think it would make people sick if I showed it to them. Jamie, this is what happens to me when I'm around mosquitoes.
Jamie
You're allergic to them?
Robbie
No. It's like a hundred bites. This is.
Jamie
But they're. Is that from scratching?
Robbie
No, this is just. This is what happens.
Jamie
But they're scabbed up.
Robbie
Yeah. This is what ends up. It's so crazy.
Jamie
What type of blood are you?
Robbie
I don't know. I have to look into that. But whatever it is, it's what they like.
Jamie
They love. Oh, positive. And that's what I am.
Robbie
I'm probably. Oh, positive.
Jamie
Gotta be.
Robbie
If I ever need blood, I can get some from you.
Jamie
Well, yeah.
Robbie
That's always.
Jamie
No matter what you got.
Robbie
Yeah. That's good.
Jamie
Oh, that's no bueno. That was just your ankles.
Robbie
That's my. And now those are. Yeah. My calves.
Jamie
They were like this big.
Robbie
Could you imagine when I was, like, like, 10.
Jamie
No.
Robbie
And running around like that? And kids were, like, horrified. I'm like, hey, guys, you know, like, you want to play?
Jamie
No one wanted to play with you.
Robbie
I wouldn't want to play. Yeah. Like, they were like, oh, they thought you had, like, some kind of disease, like, which I totally understand now, seeing this.
Jamie
Wow.
Robbie
Yeah. Brought me back. Brought me back to my child. Shout out to our childhood traumas. Tanner.
Jamie
Shout out to mosquitoes.
Robbie
Yeah, it brought me back. What. Another thing I want to ask you. So I asked you, like, about singing classes, and have you ever taken singing class and acting classes? I want to know what was more awkward, like, because if. And did when you took singing classes. You take singing classes with other people?
Jamie
No.
Robbie
You never did.
Jamie
Well, I would take, like, a musical theater class. I never had any problem singing in front of people. Dancing. I didn't. Dance class was awkward for me, like, when they would make me. Yeah. Because I was in a very serious dance school where there were, like, girls that, like, went, like, six days a week. And I just went because I knew it was important to have, like, some sort of skill. And I was decent, but I wasn't, like, great. And when the teacher would have you go up and, like, you know, demonstrate what she just taught, and everybody had to do a turn and it was never. I would. I would die. I hated it. I hated. I hated it. I had no friends. No friends in the class. They were very snobby and clicky.
Robbie
You basically danced like you had mosquito bites all over your legs.
Jamie
Something like.
Robbie
They would see you dance and be like, we don't want to be around her.
Jamie
Correct. Oh, yeah. I was just not that good.
Robbie
God, got feel bad for us guys. Mosquitoes dancing. We had a really good question.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
Really tough.
Jamie
I'm all right.
Robbie
Kidding. Obviously. So. But how would you feel when you would see other people suck? Like, that's got.
Jamie
Because, you know, I still to this day, and I've always felt this way, like anybody that goes up and try something in front of people, like, I'm. I. They will always get a round of applause for me because I think that's like, a brave thing to do and really hard, even if people suck.
Robbie
And you felt that way even when you were a kid. That's crazy. See, that's. That's such a. Like, that. That's like, you must have been, what? Like you're, like, reincarnated from somebody else. Because when I was a kid and you see people do something dumb, you're like, you idiot.
Jamie
No.
Robbie
You know, to be like, oh, to be like, oh, you're trying, like, as a kid.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
Oh, no. When I was a kid, it's like, you, like, zero, you know? Yeah. You know, listen, it's. It's amazing.
Jamie
Nice.
Robbie
You were nice. So do you. Do you ever remember any, like, super embarrassing moments on Broadway for you or somebody else? Like.
Jamie
Well, one time I was doing Beauty and the Beast, and, you know, like, in the Be our guest number or in the show in general, you, like, people are like utensils and, like, items. Right. Somebody's a clock, somebody's a fork, somebody's a teapot. And, you know, on the stage, there's tracks. So it's like, you know, there's grooves in the stage where this. The set pieces can move. And, you know, like, the castle will come in, the castle move out. So there's grooves and there's places where they meet. So there'll be like a T, right?
Robbie
Yeah.
Jamie
During. Be Our Guest, the woman that was the sugar bowl, maybe, like, they were doing this thing. I was bell. And they were like, do you have one lump or two? And I was like, two. And I turn, and then when I turn back, she's always gone. And that's when the guy. This sounds so crazy. The guy that's the rug, like, does a bunch of cartwheels. So when I turn to see her, she's still there, and she's looking at me with, like, the most panicked look in her face. Her boot Got stuck in the tee and she couldn't get out. And so I like went to go do something that I had to do. And then when I came back, she was gone. But the boot was in the middle of the stage. Just like sitting there, like in the, like a large boot. And I went and I was like trying to get it out because I knew the guy was gonna start tumbling and like, I couldn't. And so then I ran and he did tumbles around it and have the stage manager being like, jamie, you gotta go get the fucking boot. And I'm like, I tried. She's like, you gotta go again. So like every time there was like an opening where people are dancing, I would just like run to the mill. And now by this point, the audience is like laughing and like in on like seeing me struggling to get this fucking boot out of the stage. And finally, like Excalibur, I just somehow was able to like get it out. And like, everybody was like applauding. It was very funny.
Robbie
See, this is a fun moment. This is Jamie. Like Jamie's most embarrassing moment ended with applause from an audience full of. You know, it's like, you're the correct.
Jamie
Maybe I'm thinking of being embarrassing. It was just like a miss. Yeah, yeah, yeah, embarrassing. I told the story about when my top fell down in high school.
Robbie
I think so. Yeah.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
Perverts out there love that story. We're not going to tell it again.
Jamie
No, you don't get it for free again.
Robbie
Bus driver creeps.
Jamie
Do you have any embarrassing acting?
Robbie
I mean, the problem is the reason I don't act, I find it all embarrassing.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
I find everything about acting embarrassing and horrible. Like, like you said, like the lady who played the sugar pot. Like if I was a. As a 40 year old, if I was like, I'm the sugar pot today. It's like I want to blow my brains out. You know what I mean? Like you.
Jamie
Some people, they're on Broadway, of course their dream, they're making that money. Honey.
Robbie
No. God bless, do your thing. But it's again, it's even like when I said like I loved like Tom Show, I'm like, this is so great. But also I was like, I hate this.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
You know, there's just a part of me that always hates acting. I don't know. I think it's all kind of lame.
Jamie
Maybe we need to talk to the psych lady to figure it out.
Robbie
Yeah, maybe.
Jamie
Or maybe Rob needs to take that test. I actually would really like your.
Robbie
Maybe I just am Robbie Regular jobs. Maybe I'm meant for regular jobs. Maybe I'm not supposed to be. I wasn't supposed to be an actor, you know, we gotta make one way to find out. Yeah. What do you, what do you think I would be good at, Robbie? Regular jobs or you guys too, maybe?
Tanner
Think about that Best Buy employee. I'd be hard of the month at Best Buy.
Robbie
No, I don't know anything about to.
Jamie
Come and do it with you.
Robbie
Oh, no.
Tanner
One of those ticket dudes at like a parking garage where you just sit in that chair.
Robbie
Oh, you know what?
Jamie
I think you'd kill that.
Robbie
Guys doing that at night. I literally, in my head, I'm like, you lucky. Like, you're making. And by the way, there's been times where, like, when I was in la, I lived in this doorman building. And I'd be, I'd walk through my lobby and I would see the door guy sitting on his phone in the lobby. And then I would go upstairs and I'd be sitting on my phone on my couch and I'd be like, he's making money.
Jamie
Yeah, a doorman. You'd be good at being a doorman.
Robbie
I'd be a fucking great doorman.
Jamie
Like, talk to people coming in and out.
Robbie
I'd be a night shift guy. Less than, less, less, less, less traffic. Less talk. I, you know, I don't know if I've ever talked about this, but see.
Jamie
The good at night.
Robbie
Yeah. When I, When I, of course. But when I lived in New York, I used to do coke with my nighttime doorman. Yeah. Like, I would come in all up at 3am and then like, either I would have or they would have. And we would go in the back by the lockers and we would just be, chop it up. And, and you would be, yeah. And then all of a sudden the sun would come through the lobby and you were like. And then, like, he would, he would be like, all. And then one time I was like, boys with my, like, two of my doormen who are like fucking party animals. Like, and this one dude who's, I love this guy, he had the fucking tattoo on his neck, like, was crazy. And one time I came in and he was like, yo, what's up online? Like, I just went upstairs and then he buzzed me and he's like, yo. He's like, you took my phone? And I was like, what? I was like, no, I didn't take your phone. And we got into, like, we got into it because I, I, we were both probably coked up and he's like, you. You took my phone. Like going in at 3:00am Like, I didn't take your phone. And he just had like, like lost his phone somewhere and didn't. And then like a half hour later he's like, oh, my bad. Like, I found my phone. But yeah, it was like a. We were like really going at it. Like, it didn't get physical, but it was like. It got to a point where I was like, I didn't like, I went downstairs, I was like, yeah, take your phone.
Jamie
Yeah.
Robbie
Wild.
Jamie
Wild.
Chris
Yeah, I think it'd be a good carney.
Robbie
I think I'd be a good carney.
Chris
Be that guy in the. With the, with the games with the prizes.
Robbie
I'd be the only one who had like a clean setup up though. Like, you know, because they're all so dirty and like filthy and these stuffed animals are disgusting and like, I would need. I the. I think the germ factor would kind of freak me out at that job.
Chris
Yeah, you'd have fun being an. To everybody that like, sucks though.
Jamie
Everyone that loses.
Chris
Yeah, tough guy. Maybe the girl have a better chance.
Robbie
Yeah, they're all. I should just be the person who sits in the dunk tank. Yeah, there you go. Like you noodle army. All right. Yeah, we'll see you guys next week.
Jamie
Bye.
Robbie
River at New Jersey Battery. Not today.
Hosts: Jamie-Lynn Sigler & Robert Iler
Guest Panelists: Chris, Heather, Tanner
Date: October 2, 2025
Producer: YMH Studios
This episode of "Not Today, Pal" brings Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler together for another hilarious and candid look at life, jobs, mental health, and the everyday things that irk or delight them. Mixing in their signature blend of warmth and curmudgeonly humor, the conversation centers on unconventional jobs (with a highlight on school bus drivers and strippers), the ethics and economics of homelessness, and a deep dive into psychological testing—along with some classic self-deprecating showbiz tales.
The hosts keep a relaxed, conversational, and irreverent vibe—frequently busting each other's chops while exploring personal and social issues. Jamie blends sweetness and optimism, counterbalancing Rob’s “Oscar the Grouch” skepticism. The supporting cast (Tanner, Chris, Heather) contribute with moments of both raw honesty and comedic absurdity, giving the episode a layered comic depth while not shying from heavier themes like mental health and societal judgment.
“Tanner Vs The Homeless” is a classic Not Today, Pal episode: meandering, sharp-witted, and full of compassionate (and not-so-compassionate) reflections about modern life’s absurdities, as seen through the lens of two best friends who could not be more different. Whether talking about school bus drivers at strip clubs, scamming panhandlers, or humiliating stage moments, Jamie and Robbie—and their rotating YMH crew—continue to find humor, empathy, and a little existential dread in the everyday.