Dead VCR with Demi Adejuyigbe

Summary

Episode Summary: "Dead VCR with Demi Adejuyigbe"

Release Date: October 29, 2024 | Podcast: The Neighborhood Listen

In this engaging episode of The Neighborhood Listen, host trio Burnt Millipede (Paul F. Tompkins), Joan Pedestrian (Nicole Parker), and Doug (Brett Morris) welcome special guest Demi Adejuyigbe. The episode delves into Demi's unique predicament with her malfunctioning VCR and explores broader themes of nostalgia, technological dependence, and the quest to avoid spoilers in film consumption.

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1. Introduction of the Pharmacist Parade

Before introducing Demi, the hosts discuss the upcoming Pharmacist Parade, a longstanding tradition in Dignity Falls celebrating the local pharmacy community.

• Paul F. Tompkins (Burnt Millipede) [02:11]: "Because we're getting ready for the Pharmacist parade."
• Nicole Parker (Joan Pedestrian) [03:07]: "It's our 30th year, so we have to really do it up."

They outline various parade activities, including the return of the Pharmacist Mummers and the Banjophone Quartet, highlighting the event's unique blend of whimsy and community spirit.

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2. Demi Adejuyigbe’s VCR Crisis

Demi Adejuyigbe joins the conversation to discuss her recent post about her dead VCR. Her struggle underscores a deeper reliance on outdated technology and a personal mission to consume media without encountering spoilers.

• Demi Adejuyigbe [24:32]: "My VCR died. Does anybody have one they no longer use?"

Demi elaborates on her methodology of watching every movie in chronological order using VHS tapes to prevent any accidental spoilers, a process that has significantly impacted her viewing habits and social interactions.

• Demi Adejuyigbe [27:00]: "I started before talkies. Started with the train one."

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3. Hosts React to Demi’s Approach

The hosts express both amusement and concern over Demi's commitment to her VHS-centric routine.

• Nicole Parker [33:18]: "I love that. It was such an easy solution too."

• Paul F. Tompkins [19:53]: "She's independently wealthy... But independent from a job."

They discuss the feasibility of Demi's approach in the modern digital age, contemplating the challenges she faces without access to contemporary streaming services or digital media.

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4. The Quest for Spoiler-Free Viewing

Demi shares her experiences with spoilers and the lengths she goes to avoid them, including her frustrations with modern film references and her meticulous planning to watch movies without prior knowledge that could ruin her experience.

• Demi Adejuyigbe [29:22]: "I realized... I couldn't enjoy the film because of it."

The conversation touches on the psychological effects of spoilers and the allure of controlling one's media consumption to preserve the integrity of the viewing experience.

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5. Technological Limitations and Modern Alternatives

The hosts suggest modern solutions to Demi's dilemma, such as streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon, which could offer her the flexibility to watch films without the constraints of VHS technology.

• Nicole Parker [38:56]: "You could rent it on something called Amazon, and you could cast it up onto your screen."

However, Demi remains steadfast in her preference for VHS, highlighting a generational gap and the emotional attachment to physical media.

• Demi Adejuyigbe [41:19]: "I could invent a device that allows me to watch films portably from the comfort of a small screen. But I'm not going to."

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6. Personal Backstory and Motivations

Demi reveals personal details about her life, including family dynamics and the tragic loss of her parents, which have influenced her attachment to controlling media consumption as a coping mechanism.

• Demi Adejuyigbe [54:30]: "I'm independently wealthy. Very dependently on the two demises of my parents."

Her narrative provides depth to her character, showcasing how personal history intertwines with her current challenges.

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7. The Hosts' Support and Humorous Interludes

Throughout the episode, the hosts offer Demi support while interjecting humorous anecdotes and banter, maintaining the podcast's lively and improvisational spirit.

• Paul F. Tompkins [57:14]: "Yeah, that wouldn't be the case here. It would 1000% be easier for you to watch things without a VCR."

• Nicole Parker [75:57]: "Do you ever sit in the back seat just to fully bring it and then falls asleep?"

These interactions highlight the camaraderie among the hosts and their ability to balance serious conversations with lighthearted humor.

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8. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

As the episode winds down, the hosts reflect on Demi's situation, expressing both concern and amusement. They reiterate the value of community support through the NeighborHap app and encourage listeners to engage with their neighborhood's stories and posts.

• Paul F. Tompkins [76:25]: "Your support keeps the..."

The episode concludes with the usual sign-off, maintaining the podcast's signature blend of entertainment and community-focused dialogue.

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Notable Quotes:

• Demi Adejuyigbe [29:22]: "I realized... I couldn't enjoy the film because of it."
• Paul F. Tompkins [02:11]: "Because we're getting ready for the Pharmacist parade."
• Nicole Parker [38:56]: "You could rent it on something called Amazon, and you could cast it up onto your screen."
• Demi Adejuyigbe [54:30]: "I'm independently wealthy. Very dependently on the two demises of my parents."

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Key Takeaways:

• Nostalgia vs. Modernity: Demi's reliance on a dead VCR symbolizes the tension between nostalgic attachments to outdated technology and the inevitable march of modern advancements.

• Spoiler Anxiety: The episode sheds light on the pervasive fear of spoilers and the extreme measures some individuals take to preserve their viewing experiences.

• Community Engagement: Through the NeighborHap app, the podcast emphasizes the importance of neighborhood connections and sharing personal stories to strengthen community bonds.

• Humor in Adversity: The hosts adeptly use humor to navigate serious topics, making the conversation both relatable and entertaining for listeners.

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This episode of The Neighborhood Listen offers a poignant yet humorous exploration of personal attachment to technology, the desire for spoiler-free media consumption, and the enduring value of community support. Demi Adejuyigbe's story serves as a lens through which broader societal themes are examined, all while maintaining the podcast’s characteristic charm and wit.

Transcript

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hi, I'm Paul F. Tompkins.

[Nicole Parker]

And I'm Nicole Parker.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

And now, please enjoy this episode of the Neighborhood.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Listen. Knock, knock.

[Nicole Parker]

Who's there?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Your neighbor Good.

[Nicole Parker]

In Dignity Fall, Never alone. You've got the neighbor half AV and us, Vern and Joan. From coyotes to male theft to weird things to sell.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We'll cover it all and meet new neighbors as well.

[Nicole Parker]

We'll chat about any posts you're missing, so just tune in to the Neighborhood Listen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Welcome once more to the Neighborhood Listen. This is the podcast that looks at the neighborhood of Diggity Falls. And who better than to look at it for you than us?

[Nicole Parker]

I love it when you. When you. When you go off the road and you look deep into my eyes and I just look right back, just waiting to see what comes out next.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's fun.

[Nicole Parker]

It is fun.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We have a good time.

[Nicole Parker]

We really do have fun here.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And who are we?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you might ask.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You might. One might ask. My name is Burnt Me Apede. I am the pharmacist. And what was a tough time? I'll explain why I'm.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm the pharmacist in chief at the Dignity Falls missy.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, that's a mouthful, to be fair.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It is.

[Nicole Parker]

It really is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's true. It's true.

[Nicole Parker]

And I'm Joan Pedestrian, and I'm the top realtor here in Dignity Falls.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. We are friends.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes. Why did that go up at the end? Was that a question mark?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I was thinking of adding more, and then I couldn't think of another thing. I was gonna say we're neighbors, but we don't really live next door to each other.

[Nicole Parker]

We don't. I mean, we live across from each other. Just right here in my kitchen, across the island from each other.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We are alive.

[Nicole Parker]

You really.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's true.

[Nicole Parker]

No, we're. We're in front of each other a lot. Almost like we are neighbors.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's true.

[Nicole Parker]

Anyways, what happened to you that you're talking like this?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. I'm a little frazzled. And that's why we're recording later than we usually do.

[Nicole Parker]

We are? Yes. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because we're getting ready for the Pharmacist parade.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes. Every fall. Because, you know, Halloween's coming up and there's a pharmacist parade. We talked about this before.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

On the show. And it really is very. Is one of those things that's specific to Dignity Falls.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And people care more about it than Halloween.

[Nicole Parker]

They really do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So the pressure' on.

[Nicole Parker]

And the pressure is on. Yeah. Weirdly, not much going on for Halloween in Dignity Falls. I mean, they tried to get the candy wrapper man going. You know, they built a gigantic 10.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Foot candy wrapper man from last year's Halloween candy.

[Nicole Parker]

And then burned it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, and then they burned it to the ground. And it's a way of keeping the crops thriving. But people just don't care this year. And I ask kids, you know, if they come in the pharmacy or whatever with their parents and I say, what are you going to dress up as for Halloween this year? And they say, I don't care.

[Nicole Parker]

Give a. Oh, no, that is really. Now, I didn't know it had gotten that bad.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Three different children have said that to me. And the mother.

[Nicole Parker]

What age are we talking a three. A three year old said to you. I don't give a. That is bleak. That's bleak. I'm saddened by that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then they, well, they, then they start asking me about the pharmacy and, and how.

[Nicole Parker]

And they just care about the parade.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How many pharmacists are going to be there, what pills we're giving out, you know, all that stuff.

[Nicole Parker]

What year is it for the parade?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is our 30th year.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So because it's kind of an anniversary.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We have to really do it up. And you know, we're bringing back a thing that we haven't had in quite some time, which is the mummers. The pharmacist mummers.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Where some of the guys and gals will put on these fanciful outfits with big feathers and they'll play banjos. And it's banjos and saxophones.

[Nicole Parker]

Banjos and saxophones. Oh, yeah. The Banjophone Quartet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Banjophone quartet. And we do a special dance, you know, or kind of parading up and down the street. Of course, we're building the floats as well.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, the floats are really the. They're the. What do you call it? The coup de resistance. Nope, the coup de resistance. It's the coup de grace or the piece de resistance. I just combined the two. It is later. But yes, that's really what. That's the big ticket item. I would say that. And there is a pet Costume parade. Yes, But. But you must dress them up as pharmacists.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. You have. That's the only rule. That's the only kind of pet.

[Nicole Parker]

Any kind of pet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Any kind of pet.

[Nicole Parker]

Any kind of pharmacist.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, any kind of pharmacist. But has to be a recognizable pharmacist. And. But you. Anything from, from a, From a dog to a fish.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure, if you can get, if you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can get a lab coat on a fish. Sure, sure.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what we say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, people don't dress up their fish that much, do they?

[Nicole Parker]

Just really don't like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I see, I see on Instagram all kinds of animals dressed up in all kind costumes. Cats, rabbits, guinea pigs. You know, I've never seen a fish in a costume.

[Nicole Parker]

Got to be really complicated. I mean, how are you going to get it to get still? You know, then it has to be waterproof and then you have to secure it somehow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's true. But I mean, there's got to be. You could just hold it under a. A faucet, you know what I mean? While you put the little jacket.

[Nicole Parker]

I think I know what you mean, a little jacket. Well, you put it back in.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Then he's swimming around a little. Jack.

[Nicole Parker]

Here's hoping. We got a lot of fish pharmacists out there for this fish. Mrs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'd love to see some fish. Mrs.

[Nicole Parker]

So now done. Almost everything in the parade. You've ridden the floats. You've ridden the miniature ponies for several years.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

And, and they, I mean, last year was crazy because your feet were just dragging. I mean, that was a very small pony.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was so small.

[Nicole Parker]

And I was very worried about him.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was so.

[Nicole Parker]

It was like, at this point, shouldn't you just get. Shouldn't you carry him?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I thought he was like a miniature miniature pony.

[Nicole Parker]

I think he was a mini. A mini mini.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He got reduced. Yeah. And my, and the, The, Yeah, the, The toes of my shoes were just wrecked.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I was.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The end of those sh.

[Nicole Parker]

Those definitely were.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And you know, but you know, he was the last one that finally. All dead.

[Nicole Parker]

That finally what?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All dead.

[Nicole Parker]

All dead?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

What does that mean, all dead? Oh, all dead. Oh, I thought you said he was the last one that all did.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, he was the last one. They're finally all dead.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I was hoping that you weren't saying the word dead because we talk about animals that die way too often on this podcast.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that's what they do.

[Nicole Parker]

Butterflies died in my house a couple of weeks ago due to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can't get upset about butterflies dying. How long do they live?

[Nicole Parker]

An hour. What kind of a thing is that to say to a lady?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What is. What is to a lady, what is a butterfly's life expectancy this afternoon?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know, but they deserve to live however long that span is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I agree, but I think most of them die by windshield, don't you?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, good Lord. Windshield. How many monarchs do you see splayed out in front of a Volvo?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Don't make me count them. Joan, I'm really tired.

[Nicole Parker]

This is very dark. I know you're tired. So what are you going to be doing in the parade this time?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I get to drive the last Ford foundation down the street.

[Nicole Parker]

Of course, the Ford foundation was the car that was only allowed to be driven. Driven by children.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. That's right. It was specially engineered to be driven by children and children alone.

[Nicole Parker]

And they got. It was a big. It's crazy, because it was a huge campaign. They got Helen Mirren to do the voiceover for the commercial. It only aired in Dignity Falls.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. It was a car that was only available in Dignity Falls. They tried it out here, and obviously when children started driving these things, it was a problem.

[Nicole Parker]

It was crazy. And the cartoon. The commercial was so. It was very dramatic. She's like, one, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four, slam the car door.

[Doug]

Five, six, learn to drive stick.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

That was unfortunate, that one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That, of course, is Doug, our engineer, who is. Where? Where?

[Nicole Parker]

My husband. Hey, babe.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What room are you in today, Doug?

[Doug]

I'm actually not in a room today. I'm outside.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh. Were you doing decorations?

[Doug]

No, I'm washing the windows.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I'm repelling down the windows.

[Nicole Parker]

What?

[Doug]

I'm in the window washing.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, he's got the whole thing. Even though we only have two stories from the outside, on the inside, we have so many rooms, but we only have those two stories. But he wanted to be on the what? What, babe?

[Doug]

We might have some more stories at this point.

[Nicole Parker]

What are you talking about? Since we started recording, I know you've dug so many tunnels down down below our house for the caves and the canals and all the different rooms we have. What are you talking about?

[Doug]

I thought it would be cool to have sort of a tower.

[Nicole Parker]

Sort of a tower?

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Let's argue with it.

[Nicole Parker]

I'd like to try. So. So can you explain to me where the tower is and how tall it is, babe?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great question, Joan.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you.

[Doug]

The tower. I tried to get dead center in the roof.

[Nicole Parker]

Dead center?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Doug]

It feels like a good starting point.

[Nicole Parker]

Is it. Does it surround the chimney? Because the chimney is pretty dead center. What's happening with the chimney?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your chimney is dead center.

[Nicole Parker]

It is dead center. That's not typical, but it was one of my dreams. I always grew up wanting a dead center chimney.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, because your. Your fireplace is the heart of the home. Exactly.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. It's the heart of the home.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But it's not even in a room that you spend that much time in.

[Nicole Parker]

No, no, it's not. It's in the laundry room.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you'll build a roaring fire between the washer and dryer.

[Nicole Parker]

It's a problem with all the lid, I bet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, it's a fire hazard.

[Nicole Parker]

It sure is.

[Doug]

What did you say, Doug? It's a beautiful big hearth.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Like you can walk into it. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

You got to be careful.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like from a medieval castle.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Yeah. So the tower is how many stories?

[Doug]

I guess it's not dead center. It's to the left.

[Nicole Parker]

Just wanted to make sure that you didn't knock down the chimney.

[Doug]

No, no, no. Didn't knock down the chimney. But I am just building up like a very thin tower, and it's starting to lean. So I'm going to call this the leaning tower.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no. It's starting to lean. Means you did it on purpose.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're going to call it the leaning tower of this household.

[Nicole Parker]

That fits on a T shirt.

[Doug]

I'm open to other ideas.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I'm glad to hear that, babe, because I do think we should workshop a few more.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, well, let's. Let's think about it, and then by the end of the show, we'll come.

[Nicole Parker]

Up, give up a few P for you, babe.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We'll pitch some. Yeah.

[Doug]

Sort of a. Is it mother goose sort of situation or.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I need more.

[Nicole Parker]

Me too.

[Doug]

You know those, like those houses in the storybooks that kind of have a crooked old, you know.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

You're thinking of like a, like a stove top pipe look on a chimney. Like you're talking about like old London, you know, stove top pipe.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Lincoln, of course, wore a stovetop pipe hat.

[Nicole Parker]

Love that stuffing.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I do love stuffed up stuffing.

[Nicole Parker]

I know you do. I know you do. It is very, very good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Well, here, that leads me to my question.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I need it because the, the, the. The, you know, the crouton gets soft, so it's not.

[Nicole Parker]

Can't eat square food.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

But once it's soft, it's sort of they're cubes anyway. They're cubes. Right. Not the same thing. It's not the same thing. Three dimensional makes a difference. So what are you and Gabby planning on doing for. Is she going to be a part, your girlfriend, Gabby, Is she going to be a part of the parade?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, she'll be on duty, of course, in case anything goes wrong.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, in case anything go. But you know what I thought is she really wants to get into the entertainment industry. She wants to be like maybe a presenter or a host. She could ask to host. You know, they have the, the, the, the local news team sit there at the table and they comment on everything. Yes. And she should probably try to get that job. That'd be kind of fun.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I, I, I, We've talked about it. She wishes she could, but of course those people are hanging on to those jobs.

[Nicole Parker]

I know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Grim death.

[Nicole Parker]

Like they know. Really. It's true.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They, I hate the way they carry themselves.

[Nicole Parker]

I know. They really do think they're really it. You know, I was gonna swear, but it's too early in the podcast and Doug doesn't like it when I do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What are you gonna say?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I was gonna add, you know, an S and an H at the beginning. You know what I mean?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They think they're the shit.

[Nicole Parker]

I love how a 3 year old can say it in a pharmacy, but I can't say it in my own.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Home.

[Nicole Parker]

Because it's, it's Colleen Kilpacky and she is just. And no one knows how old she is. She could be 40. She could be 80.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

She's been doing for as long as I can remember. She's been the anchor.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. And Patrick McPatrick.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Patrick McPatrick, yes.

[Nicole Parker]

And they have been doing it for, I don't know, for, I was going to say 50 years, but it's only been 30 years. But they really did the initial one. It's been nobody else.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's been decades.

[Nicole Parker]

It has been decades.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. And they're just smug.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, and to be honest, I don't think they bring anything new to it. So I would love to hear Gabby come in and hear her take on the, on the, on the floats and everything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think she would be great. I wish, you know, even if she were to replace what's his name, Sam Jort, the sports guy, because he doesn't add anything.

[Nicole Parker]

He doesn't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I honestly all says that's right.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. And he's really leaning hard on just the, on the, on the rhyme of Jordan sport. Because that's Mostly what he says.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. He manages to fit it into every sportscast. And he said he doesn't do it in an artful way. He just.

[Nicole Parker]

No, not at all.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And of course, my name, Jord, rhymes with the word sport.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. He literally will just say, hey, everybody, how are you doing tonight? Jord rhymes with sport. That's just what he says.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

It is crazy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He doesn't make it into a clever.

[Nicole Parker]

Not at all. Nope.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And at the parade, all he does is say, that's right. So they'll talk and talk and talk, and then they'll say, jort. And he'll go, that's right. And then they sort of shake their heads and continue talking.

[Nicole Parker]

And that is. It's so boring. And what's weird is they're telecasting it this year.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

On Peacock, I think.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. If you have the streaming platform, Peacock, you'll be able to see the Dignity Falls Pharmacist parade.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, they really scaled back on, you know, scripted shows this year, so I guess they just. They needed to. They needed to fill in content. They need content. That's why my twins, Matt and oh, Madam, bleep, bleep, bleep. Have a pilot on Chick Fil A.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How's that going, by the way?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, God. Well, they're in post right now.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Huh.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Grueling process.

[Nicole Parker]

It really is. They're in the. They're in the editing bay all the time, and they try to. They talk to me like I'm an idiot. They're like, mom, you don't understand. You know, this takes a really long time, and it. It's an art. There's an art to it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It. So rude.

[Nicole Parker]

It's so rude. And, you know, listen, I just. I'm just happy they're seeing something through that. That's all I can say, to be honest. It's the. It's the. It's the most work they've ever done in their entire lives.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

True. That's true, isn't it?

[Nicole Parker]

And so I just know the shoe's gonna drop at some point. The other one, I mean.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, the other one.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, the other shoe.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So one shoe is already dropped.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Both of them are gonna be gone.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. For a second, I thought you were anticipating two shoes dropping. You knew the first one was about to drop. Nobody ever talks about that.

[Nicole Parker]

No. No one ever does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

What about if one has already dropped? What if the other shoe notice is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

One shoe dropped last night? I don't. I don't know when the other shoe is Going to drop, but eventually it's.

[Nicole Parker]

Going to happen, you know. That is a good point.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh boy, what a weird expression.

[Nicole Parker]

It is. It sure is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why are people dropping their shoes? Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And I picture someone, you know, just from. From where. Why are they dropping them? And what. You know what I picture? I picture the Wicked witch of the Egg, you know, and her. Her ruby shoes disappearing. And then the. The black and white striped tights curling up in wizard of Oz.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why were they called slippers? They were clearly a logo.

[Nicole Parker]

It drove me crazy. I think Frank L Bomb called it that in the beginning. And that's probably why.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, okay.

[Nicole Parker]

But yes, slippers, I guess because you slip them on. But you know, slippers are. You know what I get every year from Doug?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Every year.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Doug.

[Nicole Parker]

Every single year for anniversary, birthday and Christmas.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You get three pairs of slippers a year every year.

[Nicole Parker]

So he had to build me a slipper room.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you. Wow, that makes sense.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, sure. I mean I thought. Of course I do. You know, there. I do think that he takes a careful time. You know, I've seen him actually I caught him one time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You do take a careful time.

[Nicole Parker]

He takes careful time. And you know what? I caught him once in a Marshalls and he was looking at a whole.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's the only way you could be found in a Marshalls.

[Nicole Parker]

Listen, don't dismay. They have fantastic deals Burns.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

Women my age love to go.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No one wants to be seen there Marshalls.

[Doug]

Even though they have a step and repeat in our Marshalls.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's wild. I don't know who they think they're gonna get to. Me Marshalls is almost like in the old days. The video store. The pornography section. That would be behind the swinging saloon doors with the beads. Yes, that of course you would hate if anyone that you knew saw you there.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, he wasn't. I didn't let him know that I was there. But he was looking at a bunch of. He was looking at. This was weird because it was a Christmas gift. Even though I could tell it was like a Thanksgiving. It was Thanksgiving time. And they were a tur. Turkey slippers was really strange. Was this a Black Friday surreal thing? Yes, I think it was.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So they must have. And they're turkey slippers. The price must have been through the floor.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean that must description that, that, that, that phrase either through the floor. Usually it's through the roof.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Black Friday turkey slippers.

[Doug]

And they look like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did they pay you to take.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, they had a little. Anyways. They had little eyes. They had Little faces, and I could see him lining all them up. What he does is he takes time to take careful time, each one. And get to know the personality. And I could see him sort of cock his head, talk to him a little bit. One made him laugh, chuckle at something. I don't know what it was.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I say that this is a terrifying tableau? I just picturing it in my mind. It's very.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I thought it was sweet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm glad that you think it's sweet. I guess I'm having a different picture in my mind of Doug with this murder of slippers.

[Nicole Parker]

And Is that when you call a group of slippers.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A parliament of slippers?

[Nicole Parker]

I thought it would be an unoriginal of slippers, you know, because it's. People think it's an unoriginal gift. But not with him, because he. He again, he takes careful time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He takes careful time. That's our dud.

[Nicole Parker]

That's our job.

[Doug]

Are they doing the. The big pill bottle at the. At the parade?

[Nicole Parker]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We absolutely will be doing.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you think there's a.

[Doug]

Is there a waiting list still to get on, or is there. No way.

[Nicole Parker]

Right, but babe. But are they.

[Doug]

Because I want to get in that.

[Nicole Parker]

Right. Well, so what it is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're gonna. They're gonn all night until the last person on the waiting list gets to get in there.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. It's a big pill bottle, and you get to get in it. It's motorized, and you scoot and you can go towards people that are waiting alongside and just shoot pills into their mouth or into the crowd. And it's very fun. But it's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We're gonna have another pill bottle, which is. It's a pill tornado. And what happens is you get in there. It's like the machine where it blows the doll.

[Doug]

That's the one I was thinking of.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is pills around.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, it blows pills around. Got it. I wasn't aware of that one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It does sting a bit, but you can end up walking away with thousands of dollars worth of.

[Doug]

I was thinking of the one that's more almost like a bouncy house where a bunch of people get in there and they shake the pill bottle all up and you're all flying around.

[Nicole Parker]

These all sound like good ideas. I'm sure that they love to hear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That that one was outlawed. Oh, they finally. The law finally caught up with us, and we can't do that one anymore.

[Nicole Parker]

And then, of course, they have a prescription handwriting contest. And if you can read the prescription.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. If you're bad.

[Nicole Parker]

You can jelly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Pharmacist.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, that's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You have to stump the pharmacist.

[Nicole Parker]

So that's how it goes. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The only rule is you have to write actual words and you have to.

[Doug]

Be honest about what you wrote.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Yeah. It's sort of an honor.

[Nicole Parker]

And. And the prize is pill bottle of your choice.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. And the labels removed.

[Nicole Parker]

No holds barred.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Labels removed. You have no idea what's in there.

[Nicole Parker]

There.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right. Well. How long we been going, Doug? The process begins.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Doug]

Let me repel down a little.

[Nicole Parker]

Cleared his throat for it. Oh, cuz outside the clock. Cuz he's outside. His equipment is down on the ground. Thank God.

[Doug]

1912.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

1912.

[Nicole Parker]

1912.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are you standing on one of those board things or are you.

[Doug]

Okay, you're not just outside of, you know, a corporate office tower.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

We're with you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We're with you outside of a corporate office.

[Doug]

Right. Except this one's leaning in all these different directions.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yeah. The house with the. It's the. What is it? It's the tower.

[Doug]

Leaning tower of this house.

[Nicole Parker]

Leaning tower of this household. That's the one to beat everybody. So we're gonna think about it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But wait, why are you on this thing again?

[Doug]

Watching the windows.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's. You're washing the windows.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, he's just. He's always.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The tower is a separate endeavor, correct?

[Nicole Parker]

I think so. Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Doug]

Because you mentioned we had two stories. I figured this might be a good time to let you know we have more stories.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right?

[Doug]

More stories coming?

[Nicole Parker]

No, I just. Well, that's for sure. And they'll be coming after this break.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

More stories. TK we will return with the Neighbor Listen when the Neighbor Listen returns.

[Nicole Parker]

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

Welcome back to the Neighborhood. Listen well, Joan, it's happened again. We have a guest.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm so happy to hear that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

As we do every episode, we bring on a guest from our neighborhood to talk to them about something that they have posted on the NeighborHap. This is the social networking application for Neighborhoods. And if you have seen an interesting post on the Neighborhap and you'd like us to maybe track down the person who posted it, why don't you screenshot it and send it to us? Screenshot?

[Nicole Parker]

I think my brain heard screenshot because I hear you say this all the time, but maybe when we play it back, it'll sound like screenshots.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

My brain heard it, but my mouth made a different sound and I could tell that it did.

[Doug]

Can I tell an observation, please?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, please.

[Doug]

I had this weird sense that you weren't making sense or that it was about to. Something was about to go wrong.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, you had a premonition.

[Doug]

Premonition. And then I. I was paying attention and everything you were saying was perfect.

[Nicole Parker]

I had a premonition that I was paying attention.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's spooky.

[Nicole Parker]

That's something.

[Doug]

I did pay attention. You were making sense. And then something did happen.

[Nicole Parker]

Then it came true. We did pay attention. And then you did say something. Something went awry.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's wild.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. It really is. All right, so we have.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What I was saying was if you. If you see an interesting post on the neighborhood screenshot, it send it to [e-mail] and this one comes to us from Diana.

[Nicole Parker]

Diana.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Diana posts in the In Search of Section VCR Needed. Good morning, Diana continues. My VCR died. Does anybody have one they no longer use? Thank you. Diana goes on. This may be a duplicate posting because I can't tell if my first one got posted.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That's not quite the energy I It was a bit more.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Would you like to read it?

[Nicole Parker]

You know, we've run into this a couple of times because I suppose it makes a lot of sense. Sense that we're bringing you on to help us understand it. So you might as well give us the reading.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's hard with text sometimes.

[Nicole Parker]

It sure is.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Very. And I. So it really. I guess it should read more like, good morning, my VCR died.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Does anybody have one they no longer use?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no. This was the state you were in when you posted it.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I was very dismayed. It was one of the worst days of my life, to be perfectly honest. Yeah. I just. Because what do I watch now?

[Nicole Parker]

Right. Oh, and then. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Continue.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Right. And then I go, thank you. Then the rest is normal. This may be a duplicate posting because I can't tell if my first Got posted.

[Nicole Parker]

You calmed down.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You significantly recovered.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, there was. There's a bit of a line break there because at that point I've. I've gotten all the emotions out and I'm not as concerned about the duplicate posting. That is, I don't care if I made a mistake.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I ask.

[Doug]

You know what?

[Nicole Parker]

I love that. Oh, that. I love that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I love that.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Thank you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Diana, how long was it between the initial part of the post where you were very distraught and then. Well, okay, here's what I want to know is. Okay, so you were distraught. You send this out into the world.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It goes out to the world.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, well, you know, sure. I mean, anyone could if they. If that. Well, I suppose only people in their own zip code can actually see it now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can actually see other people.

[Nicole Parker]

You're kidding. Okay, fine. It goes out to the world.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you send it out there and then you have a feeling. Wait a minute. Did I. Did I post that or not?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, to be honest.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I see what you're saying, Bernd, because. Yes. Why did you. Did you have a memory that you posted it already?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So I type it. All right.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And then I finally. I hit the send button and the phone starts acting up and it does the little spinny thing and I'm confused at this point.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And so I ask my nephew to come over and help me, and he does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And what's his name?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

His name is also Diana.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, really?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay, Very confused.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then it is named for you?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I hope not. I don't care much for him, but he knows. He understands the technology.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I don't. Because it's confusing to me. I just Say, boy. And I say, boy, help me with this. And he does, and he says, I have to type it again. So I type it all again to the best of my recollection. There might be some differences. And I press send and it does the thing. And so I add, maybe a duplicate posting. I don't know if my first one got posted.

[Nicole Parker]

Can I ask, when you had to type it a second time, were you just as emotional in the beginning?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

More so.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, even more so.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You know, they say time heals all wounds. That is not sacrosanct. Sometimes time only makes the wound worse.

[Nicole Parker]

Good to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. And, you know, days had passed between these two postings.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Right. Well, so I typed the first one. About three hours pass before I finally managed to dictate everything I need to say. And I hit it. And I think, okay, well, now I wait. And what am I to do in the waiting period? I have no films that I can watch, just a growing shelf of the finest film on vhs.

[Nicole Parker]

Is this an okay time to ask, do you have cable? Do you have access to. Thank you.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm sorry, Cable? Like.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay, cable television.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're not familiar?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, so, okay, I think I'm vaguely familiar with the idea, but I don't like to. I work chronologically, so I intend to get through the movies, and then I'll start on the television.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, you're going to watch all existing movies first?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then you're gonna start watching television.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

From the beginning as. As I can.

[Nicole Parker]

Here's the thing, though. You can watch all the movies that you have on VHS now on television.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I can't because I lost my. My VHS player you were using.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no, no. What I'm saying is a lot of them would be on something called Netflix, or you could rent it on something called Amazon, and you could. You could cast it up onto your screen. I think maybe I'm going too fast. I know. Yeah, I. Yes, I realize that. So. So that, that's. That's the thing, is that the VCR really isn't used that often anymore.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, not so much. I guess that had to ask because.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, then how people watch films now, right?

[Nicole Parker]

Like I said.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, before you say this, I should clarify that the reason I'm doing this is because I received a spoiler in a film and I want to avoid that.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, how'd that happen? Can you explain?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, so there I am watching. You know, I decide, sure, I'll let Boy put on a movie this time, and he chooses a film I don't recall the title. I was very bored. I simply left the room. But I come back in and. And they say the phrase, here's looking at you, kid. And I ask, boy, what does that mean? And he tells me it's a reference to a film called Casablanca. And so I'm like, well, now, now, okay, there's a film called Casablanca that I will no longer be able to enjoy because I'm hearing another film reference it first. And he tells me, well, this happens all the time in films. Sometimes they reference films from the past.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's very true.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I think that is not okay because I have no control over what. You have no control over what films I've seen. What if I watch a movie today and then I watch the next movie tomorrow and you spoil. Spoiled it for me?

[Nicole Parker]

That's it. It's a good.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, you have no control over the film.

[Nicole Parker]

I think when you. I think you were just addressing the film industry. Right, exactly. Yes, yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm talking to the. The big wigs at rko, United Artists. Well, at mgm. And I'm telling them all, you don't know what I've watched, so stop. Stop writing things that are in reference to other films that I may not have seen.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I decided the only way that I can beat them at their own game is to watch it all from the very beginning.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So I went in chronological order.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Chronological, right.

[Nicole Parker]

So like, you mean the first talkie movies that there ever were.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I started before talkies.

[Nicole Parker]

You went to silent?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I went silent. Started with the train one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Terrifying.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Coming right at the screen.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. You know, worked my way through the classic A Trip to the Moon.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Wings happened in Dr. Caligari. Eventually saw Casablanca. Didn't care for it.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you. At any point in this, did they pronounce the name of the. Of the. Of the place in Casablanca?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Many times.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. It's Casablanca.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't want this to be shock to you, but, yes, it is generally pronounced Casablanca when they were referring to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Casablanca in the movie that also.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you thought it was something different. And you thought, what is this Casablanca?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I assumed it was a.

[Nicole Parker]

When are they going to talk about Casablanca?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yeah, I assumed it was a sort of sneeze, a sort of.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, Casablanca.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Perhaps a thing that they do in that part of the country. That I was just. Well, I don't want to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That part of the country.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

Like a cultural thing.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, yes, I was. I don't know. You know, everything's different in every time period.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Everything's different in every time period.

[Nicole Parker]

Everything is different in every time period.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So I simply said, that's not how we say it. And I moved on.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Diana, can I ask you this? You seem to not like all the movies.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, so. But do you watch them all to their completion or do you sometimes turn them off and say, I don't want to watch the rest of this?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I insist on finishing them all to avoid spoiling. But I will not lie. There are times where my attention drifts to something.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure. You said you got up and left boy to watch the last movie by himself.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sometimes I go into the yard and just watch the dog spin around.

[Nicole Parker]

Really? Now what. What is that? Why are they spinning around?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I never ask.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What? Could you describe it?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You know, sometimes you go into the yard and you see the dog and the dog is tethered to a pole in the ground and just start running around chasing a. Chasing a fly or a squirrel or some sort of thing.

[Nicole Parker]

I see.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And you know, they've managed to entertain themselves just by running around. And I go and I watch and I think every day, maybe he'll catch that dastardly butterfly today. And he never does.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, is this your dog that you're talking about?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Some say, oh, interesting.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know how to respond to that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't either.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't have a follow up question.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

A dog enters your yard, some would say it's yours at that point, legally. Some fight me on that. My neighbors are not happy, but I insist that it is my dog.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So this dog showed up in your yard, you immediately chained it to a post.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Correct.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

In the middle of the yard?

[Doug]

Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Already had.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, fine. I'm not. Interesting question.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are your neighbors upset because perhaps they believe it to be their dog?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

My neighbors are upset for a bevy of reasons. But I think what they in, you know, they yell Alfred, Alfred at the dog. And I believe that they're mad because I call the dog dog. Okay. And they're thinking, perhaps that's not. I'm simply not naming the dog properly. Correct. But I sure.

[Nicole Parker]

If they're calling the dog Alfred, it probably is their dog.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thing. Does the dog seem to acknowledge the name Alfred when they call him Alfred?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Alfred often, yes. The dog. Upon hearing the name Alfred, the dog tends to try and dart towards the sound of the name.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh dear. This is.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

But he cannot make an account of the chain.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, wow. I really don't want to leave that hanging. I would really like to resolve that until. For a later time, because I'm not comfortable with it, but can I ask.

[Doug]

You if I could get that butterfly?

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry, what'd you say?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think we know what's going on.

[Nicole Parker]

Wait, what, babe?

[Doug]

Oh, I was just wondering if I could get that butterfly. The dog was chasing a butterfly.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Are you saying you are trying to acquire the butterfly?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That voice is our engineer.

[Nicole Parker]

Sorry. Yes, I know you can't see him. He's out there.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sometimes I hear a voice, and I don't question it. I stop asking questions of the universe.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, well, now I definitely want to ask about that.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, again, I don't enjoy spoilers, so I figured the less questions I ask, the more of a chance I have of not being spoiled in any scenario. Do you live alone, Diana, when boy is not there? Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. And how old, may I ask? How old are you?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well. Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

There's really no easy answer with anything.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

There are no easy. You're asking a lot of questions.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Big sigh, and then.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay, I am. And I know I don't look it. 27.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm aware every time people talk to me and they say, you couldn't possibly be a day over 15, but I'm not. I'm 27.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay. I was gonna say you looked a little older than 27, but sure.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

My family members insist that I. You know, the years of smoking have made me 84 years of smoking. Years.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

When did you start smoking?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Hmm? When was.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, now you have to go back by whichever movie.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I almost asked a question. Yes, I believe I began smoking around the time of Giant, starring James Dean.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You mean the time you saw that movie.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Which was in theaters.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, but I don't think you could have seen it in a theater since it was in the 50s.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, it was a rap script screening.

[Nicole Parker]

There was a what?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

A repertory screening.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I don't know. You should.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It is when they show a film from the past in theaters currently.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, sure.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, we have the old. We have the old movie theater.

[Doug]

Yes, the old mill.

[Nicole Parker]

The. Yes, the old. The old.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The old mill.

[Nicole Parker]

The old mill. Yes, the old cinema mill.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it's a converted steel mill.

[Nicole Parker]

It is, yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Barely converted. They're just like a screen in there.

[Doug]

That's where I used to.

[Nicole Parker]

There's a screen there, but people are still working actively.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

During a lunch break, they were like, let's show a film.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. Only.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And it just so happened to line up.

[Nicole Parker]

It is very loud. It is very Hard to hear the movie.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Doug]

I used to work the Buttermill there for the popcorn.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

The Buttermill?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Doug]

It's just a tiny little.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All the construction.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That wasn't a question, it was an exclamation. I don't. Again, questions. I don't. I don't do that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I remember July, we worked the Milk Dud mill.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, she did. There's many a mill in the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're all mills.

[Nicole Parker]

They're all mills.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I love a mill.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, who doesn't?

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, who doesn't? But, but. So, okay, so you saw it there. But what I want to know. And I know what first movie you saw. It was the one with the train. I knew you. When did you start? What? Do you remember what age you were when you started this movie Journey?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Let's see, I'm 27 now. I must have been. I must have been about eight.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, so then I am going to do what I normally don't do, which is make an assumption that you were living not on your own when you were 8. Okay, thank you. Who were you living with when this journey began?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I was living with my mom, my mom, my papa, my brother, my two sisters and our daughter.

[Nicole Parker]

Big family.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, big family.

[Nicole Parker]

You did have a dog. What was the dog's name?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That dog's name? Well, the family like to call him Bebo, but I insisted on calling him Dog.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, of course you did.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It used to be a pastor of your mo.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

With dog, there's only so much space for people.

[Nicole Parker]

As in boy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sometimes you forget a name and you can ask a question.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

True.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

But then perhaps, what if they say, oh, my name is Hal, you know, like from 2001 A Space Odyssey. And then I. Well, then I've lost. I've lost more information that could be gained from a film.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, so the reason for your lack of social interaction with people is the fear of constant film spoilers.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Correct.

[Nicole Parker]

That is tragic.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But have you seen 2001 a space officer?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I have now. Yes. Well, I saw. I want to say it was about two and. Two and a half, three years ago. I finally saw the show.

[Nicole Parker]

So what decade or what year are you on right now for films? Before you lost the VCR or before it stopped working?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Simply stopped working. That's the most tragic part of it. So I was right in the middle of the first VHS of Titanic.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Now, I hate to say it, but of course, this is a spoiler you should already know about, right? Given history.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What. What do you mean? Don't don't what? What's a true story? Titanic.

[Nicole Parker]

Not the movie, but what actually happened to the boat, to the ship?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay. Well, I. I will learn when the film concludes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You've never heard anything about the ship, The Titanic? No. Before now. Before seeing the first vhs.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct. Hit.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No. Why would I have? Well, I mean, why would I have?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's kind of famous. I mean, the reason the movie was.

[Nicole Parker]

A hit, you know what that means, is she has not made it to the Sixth Sense yet either.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No, I only have five senses. You're telling me there's a film that I watch where I acquire a sixth sense?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, Sixth Sense came out before Titanic.

[Nicole Parker]

I was sure because I remembered the Sixth Sense.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Nicole Parker]

Pretty sure it was around. We could have.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Doug, I thought that was 96 and Titanic was 96.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm pretty sure Titanic was around. There you go.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Titanic, December 19, 1997. The next film I will be watching is Tomorrow Never Dies, the James Bond film. Again, once I complete this film, when I get to the second vhs. But so far, you know, they've boarded the boat. Oh, dear. You know, and.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Where does the first VHS end?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That's the good question. I didn't even get to the end of the first voice. Vhs. They've boarded the boat.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure. It takes a long time. A lot of setup.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

And again, this is the part I really want to tell you about. While I know that there are some people who are purists who love watching something. You know, they love a vinyl or they love watching something on vhs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Correct.

[Nicole Parker]

You truly can. Right now. If you signed up for something called cable, they would come and install a box in your home. And then there would be many different. Well, what would you call them? Streaming.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't even need cable.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you. You don't even really need cable.

[Doug]

I have a guy.

[Nicole Parker]

And you could rent. Okay, well, not. Not Doug's guy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is one of Doug's famous I.

[Doug]

Have a guy situations to just get Combo over there. He'll install it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Not Combo.

[Doug]

He can get you free anything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He'll do it. It's not worth it.

[Nicole Parker]

Combo cuts corners, and that's what I Cuts corner, triple.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm intrigued by the prospect of.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't want to get. I don't want to get down the combo path right now. I don't want to get lost in the weeds with combo. What I want you to know is that at this very moment, you could go home, order these services and you could watch Titanic without a vhs. Isn't that incredible?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Without interruption.

[Nicole Parker]

I feel like she hasn't really sort of made. I understand it might be too much, but isn't that incredible? You don't need a VHS anymore.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm having recollections of this concept you talk about now. I remembering about two weeks ago, I watched a film called the Cable Guy.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Is that similar to what's going on here? Because in that film, that man was very brusque. He was very rude. I don't want to.

[Nicole Parker]

Crazy.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yeah. Very, very crazy.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. So I don't wish to he's, like.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Engage with anyone like that.

[Doug]

Combo says he's not crazy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't, of course.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't have to.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, then that settles it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't have to deal with. With any sort of crazy gentleman at all because. Do you have a. Do you have a computer. Computer at home?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, there you go.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No. Oh, my. Sometimes boy brings over his computer. But I. I simply.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you have a typewriter?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Would you. Why do you insist on not looking at the screen? For fear of spoilers?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. Okay, let's say I'm. I'm walking to the bathroom and I glimpse at the screen and he's watching Tomorrow Never Dies Right now. Now I've ruined.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you know that it is possible to watch these films another way.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what is this?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Perhaps he has hooked up a second VCR player to his screen to watch Tomorrow Never Dies two hours ahead of me.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He is shunting Tomorrow Never Dies from a hidden VCR to his computer.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Perhaps. I don't know. I've seen him watching things before, and I. I just. I. I ask no questions.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. Here's the thing. If you were to invest in a computer.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Much like we can't even get into, like, Apple TV or Roku, because I think it's too hard to explain.

[Nicole Parker]

Too much stars tv. I know it's. And it's not what you think. You don't know what I think. You are right. I do not know what you think.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I believe to be a screen that simply showcases the various varieties of apples.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you were right about a screen.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You were right about a screen.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So maybe let's not assume what I believe.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry. You are. You are.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Diana.

[Nicole Parker]

I am sorry, Diana.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Thank you very much.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you were to invest in a computer.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You could watch films directly from the computer. No VCR involved.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sounds good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You never have to switch over if it's a long Film, you don't have to switch over to another computer. It all stays in the same place. You can watch it all the way.

[Nicole Parker]

Through, and you don't even have to rewind. You know what you do? You hit one button that says, restart from the beginning.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So what do I return to the blockbuster?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't know.

[Nicole Parker]

Now, here's another question. Where have you been getting all of these VHS tapes?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Great question, Joe. Well, every couple of days, I give Boy a check for it, about $10,000.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And I tell them, well, every couple.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Of days, and I tell him to go out and procure a specific list of films for me.

[Nicole Parker]

So you're paying him just to get a list, not even the films?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No, but it's to procure the actual. Okay, parts and labor all included.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Here's $10,000. Find me a list of movies.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, I have completed the list.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, got it. Got it.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I tell him, all right, here are the films that I wish to procure for this week. And, you know, I sent him away, and the next day he returns with the films.

[Nicole Parker]

And in what form? VHS somehow. Okay. I guess he's just. Boy is just tracking them down, probably on ebay or something. Boy is. Is running. Is making a pile of money.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I don't.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't think this is a good setup for you.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I don't believe he's making any money. I know.

[Nicole Parker]

How much would that be possible?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I know the film is. It's very expensive.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes, but to rent or back in the day, to rent a video was only a couple of bucks, right? I mean, and. And now you don't even have to rent a video. And at the same time, if you rent something on, say, Amazon, it is again, only about four or five bucks. I know. And you know what I'm realizing? How strangely named these companies are from the forest.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And you think my guess of Apple.

[Nicole Parker]

Television is I do appear the fool. I do appear the fool in this scenario.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What's next? Is there another. Is there another one of these services named after Like a bird, Like a peacock? Is that. Huh?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes. Actually, my sons are going to be appearing on. That is strange. How about Netflix? Now that makes sense because it's through the Internet and it's a. It's a flick. You know, you call a film a.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So a man comes to my house, hits me on the forehead from the.

[Nicole Parker]

Internet like a movie. Diana, have you ever heard him called.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Flick Hats me on the forehead from the Internet? Yes. Now, Diana, how are you compiling your film list?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm looking through television guides, TV Guide.

[Nicole Parker]

Magazines, and that wasn't a giveaway. When you were realized you didn't make the connection. Oh, if they're in the TV Guide, that means they're on the tv.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You know, I, I, you know, I assume the TV of TV Guide is here's a guide of things that you can see on your tv.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I think Diana also considers anything that's on TV to be tv.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, right. And what we're trying to tell you is that a movie can be put up on your tv, but then the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

VCR is connected to your tv. Is that not correct?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I understand the VCR connection to the television. I'm saying anything else that appears on the TV that's not from the vhr.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The thing that's coming from the television itself.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That you didn't put up there.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That counts as television, not a movie.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I understand the distinction between television and films, of course, and miniseries and short form content.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, look at you. Wait a minute.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What do you mean?

[Nicole Parker]

How do you know these terms?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Like perhaps if someone makes a short film and puts it on a vhs. But I understand that a feature film, it has, is a, is a film that has a minimum length of 40 minutes. And anything else.

[Nicole Parker]

I didn't even know that anything.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I'm going by film festival rules.

[Nicole Parker]

40 minutes festivals.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. What do you believe to be a.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Feature film length, like at least over an hour.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That would be foolish. There are films under an hour that simply. You must see.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I didn't realize you could release a 40 minute film and it's a feature film.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You can do anything you want in this beautiful world.

[Doug]

Well, I like that.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what we're trying to tell you, Diane.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Exactly. That's what we're trying to tell you.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm aware that I can do anything in this beautiful world. I've simply chosen what I wish to do.

[Nicole Parker]

So you are aware then? I'm so confused.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I am too. Okay, what do you mean?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you are aware then that you could have, this entire time you could have been watching your film content in.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A different way that does not depend on a VHS vcr.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, I, I'm aware that other people do things other ways. I just, I, I've asked people not to tell me anything of the ways under.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. Why, that's a spoiler.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It might be, let's say. Oh, I'm talking to a friend of which I have none.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh dear, I was going to ask that.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Now, let's say I'M talking to a friend and I tell them, how do you watch? And they tell me something like, oh, I was just watching a movie on. Let's just make up a name on Fridge Box. You know, Fridge Box.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I. And I started asking about Fridge Box. And in the conversation, they say, oh, Fridge Box is wonderful. The. The moment. The moment in Scooby Doo on Hawaii island. Where.

[Nicole Parker]

Where Scooby Doo on Hawaii island where.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Scooby Doo finally makes peace with the native population is. Is in a beautiful definition on fridgebox. And now I've ruined an entire host of films, an entire medium of film animation for myself simply because I had to ask questions about the next medium.

[Nicole Parker]

Diana, I have two questions. I have so many questions about Scooby Doo.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Let's write them all down.

[Nicole Parker]

All right. Go ahead. Ask your question about Scooby Doo, because I'm going to be on something else.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What was the source of the. The. The issue between the native population and Scooby Doo?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I've simply made up a few.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, you made this up.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right. That's good.

[Nicole Parker]

It's really good. Burn. It got you hooked.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wanted to know more.

[Nicole Parker]

You're on the edge of your seat.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What was the source of the conflict?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Had to take a guess. Knowing his proclivity for eating foods that he is not to eat, I imagine he perhaps went to a luau and ate some food before it was time for the people to consume.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, sure.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sounds like fun in any scenario. But while they happen to be on Hawaii Island.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So Scoobs, too. He's on Hawaii Island. Shells with luau. He eats the pig before everyone else.

[Nicole Parker]

Does that satisfy your question?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It does, but it brings up another question for me. Have you ever thought about writing films?

[Nicole Parker]

True. Because you. I mean, that was.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You just came up with that off the cuff.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, you did.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Now I, you know, so about. Let's say this time, it must have been five weeks ago, I would say I watched a film called the Player. And, you know, there's a lot of talk of writing in that film.

[Nicole Parker]

Absolutely.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I thought, interesting. I maybe could do that.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

But I would like to get through more films before I start doing that, because what if I create a film and someone else has done it, you know? Well, like, I do have an idea for a film, if I may.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, of course. Sure. Go on. So little nervous.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So it's the year. Let's not settle on the year.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

In the future. That was close.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was almost the most direct thing that I ever said. So at the very last minute.

[Nicole Parker]

At the very last minute in the.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Future, a man wakes up in his workplace and suddenly realizes that maybe the world he's in is not truly the world he's in, but simply the world he's been convinced to believe in. And then he wakes up in a pod and realizes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm sorry, would you hold on one second?

[Doug]

Sorry. That was last for me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What was that noise?

[Nicole Parker]

Did you fall, babe?

[Doug]

No, that description took me out. I'm sorry. That was that.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Just a wordless cry of, so you're intrigued, babe.

[Nicole Parker]

But. But you know, I'm intrigued.

[Doug]

Horrified.

[Nicole Parker]

You know that this is similar to an existing movie, right, Babe? I mean, you recognize it?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It is.

[Nicole Parker]

Sorry, I'm wondering.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have an idea.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I do, too. Could you continue?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

Doug, brace yourself.

[Doug]

She said it was in the future. Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It is in the future. Yes. So the man wakes up in a pod and. My entire life I've believed that I was in sort of a one reality. And now I learn that I'm actually in a larger world. And he unhooks himself from the machine and he meets a host of characters all dressed in, like, you know, dark clothes, leather clad. And they reveal to him that what he's in is what he believed he was in, is a world known as the spreadsheet. And they say, you can either take this little pill and return to the world of the spreadsheet, or you can take this other pill and I'll show you just how far the rabbit hole goes.

[Nicole Parker]

Interesting how everything is the same except for the title.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Same as what?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, sorry, spoilers. It's just that. But how. How in the world would Diana have come up with that without having seen. There's a movie called the Matrix. There's a movie called the Matrix. There is Diana. Yes. And.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, why is that? Why are you so angry about that?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Because I don't know what films come out past the year. I.

[Nicole Parker]

But that's not a spoiler, just a title, right?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, it's a bit of a spoiler to me. I like the surprise of seeing a title going, I wonder what story lies within.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But, I mean, you'll see that on the box.

[Nicole Parker]

You see it on the poster. Yes, you see it on the box. Do you get unboxing?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I received the boxes, yet I'm still in 1997.

[Nicole Parker]

I know, but when you compile a list, then you're already seeing the names. Those are the names.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I compile the list by year. So I'm stuck in 1997 and there's no film called the Matrix.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Matrix.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

There's no film called the Matrix within this list that I've created. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

She just said it the right way. But then she.

[Nicole Parker]

I know she said she did. Now, here's my. See, this is my time finally to ask my question. It's my time reclaiming your time. Yeah, I will. Everything about your conflict with movies has to do with spoilers. And I am just wondering, was there one film, one seminal film that stands out to you that was spoiled for you? And when you were a child living with your family, who got you on this kick of watching these movies? Was it your father, was it your mother that. That sort of had this love and you bonded over it? I don't want to, you know, now I don't want to pitch an idea, but. But where does this fear of spoilers come from? It has to come from somewhere, as I told Jones. What? What?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great question.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, for me or for her?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was a great question.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, thank you.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I. As I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What did you think I said?

[Nicole Parker]

I literally thought you said one question. I thought you said. I didn't even hear the word.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Just an affirmation. Just.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you. Okay. I'm so sorry. Dan, could you answer the great question?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

As I previously explained, it was watching the film Casablanca in which I. I realized as I neared the end, oh, here's looking at you, kid, is going to be said at some point in this film. Now, I know, and I couldn't enjoy the film because of it.

[Nicole Parker]

But you were watching that with. I thought.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

With boy.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I thought so.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No, well, no, I was watching a different film. And then they said he was looking at you, kid.

[Doug]

Boy said.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was a reference. Reference to. It's hard to.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Casablanca.

[Doug]

I always say White House.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. Well, I mean, it's right there. So. Hang on. Okay, well, now I'm confused. Could you still. Okay, so you're saying that that was the moment.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That was it from that point on.

[Nicole Parker]

That was a recent moment.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I thought that was a recent moment as well.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, no, I was. I was eight when that occurred. And then since then, that's when I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How old your nephew.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Oh, let's see. He must have been at, I presume, 27 at that point. He's an older nephew.

[Nicole Parker]

But you're 27, so he's a much older nephew.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. Oh, well, my brother. My brother, you know, we don't know.

[Nicole Parker]

We don't know. So we need you to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We don't. We can't imagine so.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, Brother was born. There's a large age difference between me and brother.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

There'd have to be, as I would.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Hope so I was a child born, you know, through an affair.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Father's side.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And so I guess some call him half brother, but that's too many words to remember. So I simply call him brother. Sure. And now brother was carry the one. Brother was 44.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

At the time that he had a child, which then, of course is boy. And boy was about 19 when my father had his affair. And so my father must have been 74. And then I.

[Nicole Parker]

Of math.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And eight years pass.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And the rest.

[Nicole Parker]

And this moment happened.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

This moment happened.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

That's. I'm. My. I. It's a little. Because of this later show, my brain's having a hard time following all the math.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

But now you understand why. I don't like to overload the brain with information of the future, I guess.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But which you designate spoilers.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Could I. Could I. Could I. The future. Could I just step outside of the world of movies and ask if you have a job?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. I mean, I was thinking it was going to be that. So then how would you support your lifestyle of staying at home and watching.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Every few days giving out $10,000?

[Nicole Parker]

That is the question.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, when the accident occurred.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, boy.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Father. Father's will stipulated that I was to receive a lot of money. And then when the. The second accident occurred, mother's will also stipulated I would be receiving quite a bit of money.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you're sort of independently wealthy.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I'm independently wealthy. Very dependently on the two demises of my parents. But independent from a job. Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Can I ask what the accident is or is that too bleak?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I haven't found out yet. I. Oh, no. This happened.

[Nicole Parker]

So wait, you're treating those as spoilers too?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

But when do you plan to find out?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Whenever I get to.

[Nicole Parker]

This happened in the past. Diana. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wait, are you saying that first you're going to watch all the movies, then all the television, and then find out.

[Doug]

How your parents died, then all the news?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, after. At the end of every year.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That doesn't count as television.

[Doug]

The local news.

[Nicole Parker]

I think that Doug means he'll. She'll watch the local news channel. Maybe there's VHS tapes of the news channels covering the accidents combo a bunch.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you. Of course he does. Do you plan on watching everything via vhs?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, unless there's a better technology.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There's Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

To you. Several times.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So many to hear it.

[Nicole Parker]

T. That's not exactly one, baby.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I mean, TiVo.

[Doug]

TiVo is a magical device that combo can solve for.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, he's still installing TiVo in people's houses.

[Doug]

Oh, yeah, it's the best.

[Nicole Parker]

He says, it's like I told you.

[Doug]

Yet to be topped.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

He's starting to sound more and more like the man in the film, the cable guy.

[Nicole Parker]

You're not wrong. You're not wrong there.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah. I would avoid him at all costs.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, so wait. I'm sorry, you are literally. Wait, Is that what's happening? You're waiting to see all.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I like.

[Nicole Parker]

How do you plan to find out about how their accidents happen?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Every time I get to the end of a year, when I finish a chronological year of film, I ask nephew to fill me in on the year's major events with, you know.

[Nicole Parker]

You called him nephew that time. That's interesting. Boy or nephew?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Nephew's a different person. I'm sorry.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that makes sense.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes. Nephew is a second nephew.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And so nephew comes. Comes over and I say, nephew, please can you inform me as to what happened in the year of 1996? And then, you know, as soon as Titanic finishes and Tomorrow Never Dies and all the adjoining films the remaining two weeks of the year, I intend to ask him, well, what occurred in 1997? And I believe it is. I will be finding out what occurred, the event in which killed my parents at the end of. I believe it's 2001.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. All right.

[Nicole Parker]

What's that response? What's our. Do we make our time? Is that enough time?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, I don't. Diana, I don't know what to tell you because we're trying to make things easier for you.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I don't think you want that.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what an interesting observation.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I guess you don't know what's easy for you until things occur. And then you realize sometimes in the past that maybe going a different way might have been the easiest route to all along. But sometimes if you stick to the road that you've traveled, you find that you end up in the same destination. So it doesn't matter at all.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, that wouldn't be the case here. It would 1000% be easier for you to watch things without a VCR. That's just a fact. That's just a stone cold fact.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Why did they do it for so long?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, it was just technology developed. You know, they used to. They used to just go see live plays. There was not even film at all back in the day and used to.

[Doug]

Still love those, Joan.

[Nicole Parker]

And I know I'm gonna. I, I do still love those. I do still love those.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

So how do you make time for films?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, what I'm gonna blow your mind now, too, is that they have something called AI and films are just being made with no people, which is really terrible.

[Doug]

Yes, you'll get to that movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You will.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You see, Wait.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, here's, here's a little spoiler.

[Nicole Parker]

Something about him.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you drop me, I will break.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What could that possibly.

[Nicole Parker]

Not a great film, Diana. You know, you can skip that one.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That sounds like a quote from the movie feel Free of Dreams.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what did you get? Did you like that? Well, sure. It was a 90s movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that's right.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

It was fine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I didn't really relate to the whole enjoying baseball thing or the, There's a lot of parent stuff.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I was just like, not for me.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I find that whenever parents are introduced in a film, I go, this is no longer a film I can relate to.

[Nicole Parker]

That's, that's so sad.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's huge.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I, I hope to one day uncover the mystery of the, the fatal accident that killed my parents.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I, I, I mean, well, and then.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Maybe I'll find peace.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You could go to the library.

[Nicole Parker]

You. Yeah, I don't know if you're putting off finding now, Diana.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know what a library is.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sorry, I misheard you. I'm aware of what a library is.

[Nicole Parker]

All right. Thank you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You could go look up the news, you know, obituaries.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I could do a lot of things. I could invent a device that allows me to watch films on a sort of a flat surface. You know, I could invent a device that allows me to watch films portably from the comfort of a small screen. But I'm not going to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, you don't have to, Diana.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm now realizing that because I'm thinking, well, but she reached out to us through email. She wanted to come on the show, but it was boynephugemail was the address.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So they share email address. Isn't that weird when couples do that?

[Nicole Parker]

Are they a couple?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, no, but I mean, I mean.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

There are a couple of dumb.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I mean, sometimes you, you, you get. There's a couple that have.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear. Is that a thing? Oh, I prepare for that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I've encountered a few times.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Very strange.

[Nicole Parker]

Diana.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I, I, I, I, we, we really have tried. I, I wish you the best of luck. I hope someone has a VCR they're no longer using that they can give.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, because it sounds like you're not going to take our suggestion.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It sure does sound like that way.

[Nicole Parker]

These modern day tools that you can.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Use that have been around for decades.

[Nicole Parker]

They actually now have. Yes.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, if they've been around for decades, then I'm sure I'll get to learning about them soon as they are introduced in the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you won't take it from us, but if they do come up in a movie that you're watching, well, then I'll be curious.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Okay. Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

I just have a very particular person. I really don't want to get into the Back to the Future of it all. But when you watch the Back to the Future movie.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you almost turn it off because you were worried that if they. I'm talking about Back to the Future too, because I know you've seen that one too. I know you've seen all three.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Seen all three?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. In Back to the Future 2, were you concerned when they went to the future? Did you skip those parts so that there wouldn't be spoilers?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great question, Joe.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Now I did not. But I am very curious to reach the year, I believe 2015 and see how much of it was correct. See if they really did get to Jaws 19.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But you've lived through the year 2015.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

So don't you remember? Did you get outside?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

With the time I was having, there was no time to go outside.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I don't think she's got. Is this the first time you've been outside of your home in. In like a while?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, not entirely. Again, you know, every couple of days I go and check on dog and.

[Nicole Parker]

You go to the rep. And you go to the rep scre.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

And I went to the rep screening that one time. It lined up with the schedule.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank goodness.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And so now you refuse to see new movies in theaters because there might be spoilers.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Spoilers.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're a very curious person.

[Nicole Parker]

You really are.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Let me. I have one final question.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You know what I. My husband loves my sense of humor.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're married?

[Nicole Parker]

You dropped this at the last moment. You said you live alone.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I do. He doesn't live with me.

[Nicole Parker]

Where does he live?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I don't know. I don't ask him questions about his life.

[Nicole Parker]

I can't. I mean, we don't have time to get into this. What a bombshell.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Diana, my final question. Is your movie, the spreadsheet.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Does it contain in it a character who talks like this?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Well, I haven't fleshed out the details past an outline yet, so I can.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Does that sound sort of of familiar?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

No. What? What is it? Mr. Moviefone? What is that?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is a guy who has a secret knowledge of things.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

You sound like Max Headroom. Who is this? I don't understand.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, I do not sound like Max Headroom.

[Nicole Parker]

I take umbrella sometimes Burn struggles with certain impressions. Forgive me, but I do think I know who you're doing. Well, we're just talking about Santa.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know exactly who I'm doing.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I know who you're doing, but I can't say it. I can't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wasn't doing Santa something.

[Nicole Parker]

So you know how Santa is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The trees move.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

That's not the Santa I know.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are you going to listen to Diana?

[Nicole Parker]

No. I would tell you who he's doing.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

But I would spoil.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It is a spoiler.

[Nicole Parker]

It was. Try saying Mr. Anderson.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Mr. Anderson.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you have anything like that? No.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How do you know who Wes Anderson is?

[Nicole Parker]

Because of all the 80s movies. That was bottle of. I was thinking Wes Craven.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I also know Wes Craven. Of course.

[Nicole Parker]

But wouldn't that be amazing Mashup. I'd love to see Wes Craven and Anderson joined.

[Doug]

And of course, you know. You only know Max Headroom from the film max headroom 20 minutes into the future.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Correct.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. Good job, Doug.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

The what?

[Doug]

Not from tv. Max Headroom.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

I didn't know he crossed over.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He got a TV show. Is that a spoiler?

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Yes, but I don't care.

[Nicole Parker]

She knocked by there. Diana? She just snuck by there with that one. Wow. Well, anyways, she tried to sneak her husband by us and we don't have time to get into it. So Diana out foxed us. You sure have.

[Doug]

If you want a VCR and you want to call Combo, you just hold down the star key.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Sorry. Time.

[Nicole Parker]

The star Combo has been able to.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Get me a vcr.

[Doug]

That's what I've been trying to say. Everyone shuts me down.

[Nicole Parker]

But we've been trying to bring her into the modern times. You don't want Combo to Charlie Chaplin enable her. Of course.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A movie. You've seen movie? I've seen Freedom, 1996.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Don't ask me any questions about it, though. Been a while.

[Nicole Parker]

It's okay. I haven't seen it, so I don't want spoilers. How about that, Diana?

[Demi Adejuwibe]

All right. You don't spoil me on the feature. I don't spoil you on the film Modern.

[Nicole Parker]

On the classic. All right. Well, we should wrap it up because otherwise we're going to be here all night. And it is Already very late.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Well, Diana, you have the information from Doug about combo. If you want to get that, you have the knowledge.

[Nicole Parker]

Knowledge is powerful. It can get you what you need.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

Star. There's no star in my rotary phone.

[Doug]

Hold down at the same time for three seconds.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What do you mean? Hold down? In what way?

[Nicole Parker]

All right, all right. You know, we'll explain this to Diana, but we're gonna go to a break, okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We'll be back with the neighborhood listen when the neighborhood listen is back. This is Robin, and for free. A bunch of airsoft pellets. Maybe a thousand. All used about once. Lol. These were never shot at anyone. I tried to make a pillow, and I put a thousand airsoft pellets in a bag. Laid my head on it. It didn't feel good. I learned something about myself that day. I don't know how to make pillows, and I don't know why. What a pillow has inside of it. I thought maybe it had pellets, but I think I'm wrong. Anyway, these are gentle air soft pellets. Never have they been used in anger. You can use them in anger if you wish. I'm a different kind of guy. And welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen. Boy, what a frustrating person.

[Nicole Parker]

So frustrating. And, babe, I just got a K. Can we revisit that strange sound you made?

[Doug]

No, just get out this spot.

[Nicole Parker]

That is nothing short of horrifying. I don't care for it. Please stop that. Babe. What?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What? What implement are you using? Is that a squeegee or you just a. A cloth.

[Doug]

It's a very dry cloth.

[Nicole Parker]

You really do. If you want to clean it, at least Water. You're just spreading dirt around.

[Doug]

Spreading water all around.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

What?

[Doug]

I don't want to get the. The windows wet. I'm trying to clean them.

[Nicole Parker]

How.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How do you take a shower.

[Nicole Parker]

Now? I'm concerned. It sounded like you were winding a tape, and that's what I was concerned about. He was. Dug out an old vcr. Babe, I really want to revisit that sound you made when Diana was describing what was basically the Matrix. It was wild.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What was that noise?

[Nicole Parker]

Do you know what that. It was? It was crazy.

[Doug]

It was just primal fear.

[Nicole Parker]

Fear. But what do you mean fear? Does. The storyline was scaring you, describing a very scary movie, and you didn't recognize it as the Matrix.

[Doug]

Scary.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Have you seen the Matrix?

[Nicole Parker]

He loves the Matrix.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Matrix.

[Doug]

This was the spreadsheet, though. The Matrix.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear. Well, things are really getting giddy over here. We're just kind of losing the plot.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They really are. But I don't say this about guests alone lot, but I hope. I hope Diana never finds another vcr. What a challenging, frustrating person, just refusing to. To take help.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I know, I know. I. It was such an easy solution too. If the solution is right, is right in front of her literal life.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So much better.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Also, what a weird undertaking to watch every movie that's ever.

[Nicole Parker]

You can't do it. It's impossible. You're going to think about this all the way home. You're not going to get sleep tonight. I know you are.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, that's probably true. Okay.

[Demi Adejuwibe]

All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, all right.

[Nicole Parker]

Let's get home. Let's get you home then.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We have time for one final post. And this one comes to us from one of Burn's.

[Nicole Parker]

Rubbing his eyes like a little toddler.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I'm not pretending.

[Nicole Parker]

The on his eyes with his fists burnt.

[Doug]

Would he like to sleep over?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I might take up on that.

[Nicole Parker]

It would be fun. You know, you play plenty of rooms.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's true.

[Nicole Parker]

Which one do you want?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do any of them have beds?

[Nicole Parker]

Weirdly, the bat cave does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I. I'd sleep in a bat cave.

[Nicole Parker]

You would?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, that's right.

[Nicole Parker]

It's fake bats.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I don't want to sleep in that one.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, real bats.

[Doug]

If you're in the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have sleep upside down if you're in the back. It's healthy.

[Doug]

Well, the bats might get.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Reminds me of my broken Murphy bed.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Had that dream where I was swimming in my own blood.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, we have time for one last post. This comes to us from a neighbor named J.T. grant 3.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow.

[Doug]

Cool name.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It is a cool name. This is JT Grant 3. What a.

[Nicole Parker]

Sounds like a great character actor. Oh, okay. That too.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, this is posted by someone named Christy. This is in the In Search of section. Christy writes, looking for a special gardener. No punctuation, no further information.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Wow, that could mean anything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It sounds like solicitation to me. Right?

[Nicole Parker]

A little bit.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It does sound like a lady.

[Nicole Parker]

I think she meant to say a special tea gardener. Right. Like specializing in ferns or jade bushes or Japanese gardens. Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can think that, but that's not what I think.

[Nicole Parker]

You think she's looking for some gardener? Strange. Was that not what you meant?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's not the phrase that I had in my mind, but yes, that's what it boils down to.

[Nicole Parker]

It wasn't the phrase I had yet either.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It got there.

[Nicole Parker]

It's just the one that came out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think she's looking. She wants to get with a gardener.

[Nicole Parker]

She wants to get with a gardener. You know, we had this a coup maybe one season ago when someone wanted an architect was very specific. A Christian. No, sorry, a Christian. That's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Christian architect. I'm. I'm building a church and I wanted to be a Christian. I don't want an atheist building my church.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh my goodness. Yeah, I suppose it was a Christian chiropractor.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think this Christy is looking to.

[Nicole Parker]

For a special gardener. She's looking for that special someone. It needs to be a gardener.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Everyone's got their thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, they sure do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Everyone's got their.

[Nicole Parker]

Absolutely. We welcome that. Oh, well. What I really. Well, this is so personal. What do you mean? What are we talking about? Burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Honestly, John, I just threw it out there. I just wanted to see if you'd answer it or not. It was, I. It was interesting to me how long you thought about before you realized that it was a personal question that you shouldn't be answering on a microphone.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, good. So I didn't fall for the trick.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, you didn't. You eventually wormed your way out of the trap.

[Nicole Parker]

Close.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. You chewed your own leg off and got out. I do want to know what Doug's is though, for real.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, do you? Do you want to tell him babe, or do. Do you want me to tell him?

[Doug]

You can tell stewardesses.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Stewardesses? Not flight attendants, but old fashioned Pan Am stewardesses.

[Nicole Parker]

And the weird part is he just wants me to walk past him with trash bag and collect trash.

[Doug]

I think it's really kind, it's compassionate, it's on time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He wants you to walk past him with a plastic bag?

[Nicole Parker]

He loves it when I get the gloves on. He loves to find some trash ladies it around.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That explains all those little plastic cups I've seen around.

[Nicole Parker]

He always goes, that's for you. And he winks.

[Doug]

Little something extra.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you even have to wear like an outfit or. It's just.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I definitely do. Well, listen, in a pinch I've just grabbed the bag, you know, like to get out of a fight or whatever and it just instantly is a reset.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you ever do like.

[Nicole Parker]

I do have an outfit. Oh, for sure. I have a neck scarf. Yes, I do. I have several neck scarfs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I do find the next scarf very attractive.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, there you go. See, there's something about. Why is that? Because I don't understand it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you know what it is? It's. There's something about it that's. It seems both sophisticated but also sort of adventurous.

[Doug]

It's wild.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes. There's something that.

[Nicole Parker]

See, I just see it as someone being too buttoned up or restricted.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No scarf, Just around the throat. Yes, I think that's very, very. I think it's attractive.

[Doug]

Have you ever seen it in the wind?

[Nicole Parker]

Just blows.

[Doug]

Blows everywhere.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, like if somebody kicks out the emergency exit door. You ever see a scarf almost sucked.

[Doug]

Out of a plate like a hat?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I suppose that's why they don't tie it in a knot. Because otherwise they go out with it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. I never even thought about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, now for male flight attendants. Do you like the little vest or do you like when they're just in the shirt sleeves?

[Nicole Parker]

Do you know what? I love the Deadheads. I'm attracted to the pilot who's here. I'm just here. But I'm like, secretly, you could save us all. You know what I mean? They're like silent heroes just waiting to be activated.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It sounds to me like you see one of these guys and you immediately go into a scenario in your mind.

[Nicole Parker]

It's like. It's like being able to have, like, infrared and know that, like, a marshal is on board. But you wouldn't know it. A plainclothes marshall, like predator vision where.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You could see, oh, that guy's got a gun.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you know, just some sort of vision.

[Doug]

That's why Joan likes to drive, and she loves when I'm in the passenger seat.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, because you're the. You're the secret hero.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, that's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If something goes wrong with the car, you could take over it anymore.

[Nicole Parker]

Just trying to get to Omaha and. Yeah, yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You ever sit in the back seat just to fully bring it and then falls asleep?

[Nicole Parker]

You know, that's how they get it. Deadhead, sleeping. They're not in charge. They do have to be in uniform. That's what I thought. Cuz, you know, their heads just kind of bob. God, I sure hope any other description would be way too dark.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So. So they would have to fall asleep so reliably.

[Nicole Parker]

Doesn't it make sense that they would? Because they're on a crazy scale. Magical. Okay, what would. What would your explanation be as to why they're called Deadheads?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I figure because they follow the Grateful Dead all over the country.

[Doug]

That's what I thought.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And that's what they're doing on the plane.

[Doug]

I thought they're falling.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're going to the next Grateful Dead show.

[Nicole Parker]

No, these are pilots who are just right. Oh, well, they're not all pilots.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're not working because. But I think a. I think a flight attendant can also be a deadhead.

[Nicole Parker]

That's true. Not into that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Fair enough.

[Doug]

To the scarf.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hey, I'm not. I'm not gonna yuck your y.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. We have to do more of these late night shows. They're kind of fun.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We do have to wrap it up. Thank you everyone, for listening. Of course.

[Nicole Parker]

Two in the morning, if you go.

[Doug]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

You'Re sleeping over in the Batcave. Sorry, burn. You are.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'll sleep in the bath.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm not letting you go home.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is it okay if I don't sleep upside down?

[Doug]

I don't think the bats will like it.

[Nicole Parker]

You should just remember they're fake. Fake bats in the bat cave?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's just a recording.

[Doug]

They still get angry.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you have them.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You have them programmed.

[Nicole Parker]

Programmed to get angry.

[Doug]

Program to recognize motion.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, can't you just switch that off?

[Nicole Parker]

Come on.

[Doug]

How about you take the yarn closet?

[Nicole Parker]

That is a good one. It's very soft.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It actually does sound kind of fun.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, Take the yarn closet anywhere. Anywhere.

[Doug]

Anywhere. Just jump in. Don't even look.

[Nicole Parker]

Make sure you do that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are there needles in there?

[Nicole Parker]

No. Hopefully not. What?

[Doug]

Well, it's yarn.

[Nicole Parker]

I know, but babe, usually you use like gigantic. There's not like small needles. There might be one or two crochets.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I want to jump in there and then be Dracula by a knitting needle.

[Doug]

Take the metal that's detector in the closet next to it. Use it real quick, find the needles, then jump.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'll probably just. I'll probably just lay down slowly.

[Doug]

That works too.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

We can figure this on our. On our own time, not on our listeners time. We'll do it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I guess so.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Doug]

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

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