Krafty Kids with Laurel Coppock

Summary

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The Neighborhood Listen – “Krafty Kids with Laurel Coppock”

Podcast: The Neighborhood Listen
Date: June 16, 2026
Hosts: Paul F. Tompkins (Burnt Millipede), Nicole Parker (Joan Pedestrian), Brett Morris (Doug)
Guest: Laurel Coppock (as Nathalie)

Episode Overview

This episode explores a Dignity Falls “crime and safety” mystery involving mysterious cheese-related pranks and neighborhood antics, all framed by the show’s classic blend of improv, banter, and character work. Guest Laurel Coppock joins as “Nathalie,” a resident who posts about finding Kraft cheese on her driveway—sparking a comedic investigation full of colorful sidebars on lactose intolerance, relationship dynamics, and why someone’s husband sleeps 18 hours a day.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Extended Opening Banter ([00:54]–[22:24])

• The opening is classic TNL, with the three hosts riffing on breathing, diction, and pluralizing “th” words (e.g., “breadth/breaths”).
• Humor around Doug being off-mic, “the human claw machine,” and improv tangents.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • “Whose breaths they are, I think I know.” – Burnt ([02:19])
  • “My listeners know and they understand it's about me, okay? But it should be about you, because you should remember that I'm going through perimenopause, which I'm rebranding as feminine overdrive.” – Joan ([04:18])
• Running gags: “I want to set a mood,” perimenopause, Doug’s various technical set-ups in another room, who participates in what absurd improv meta-exercise.

2. “Doug’s Chuckle” Segment ([13:02]–[21:33])

• Doug offers a long-winded “chuckle” about the invention date of the fax machine, ultimately revealing it was invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain.
• The delivery itself (full of stops, tangents, laughs) becomes the joke.
• Tangent on estrogen patches, fake Russian accents, and “just for the table” running gags.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • “The fax machine was invented in 1843.” – Doug, causing utter disbelief ([16:19])
  • “Can we get five estrogen patches for the table?” – Burnt ([17:39])

3. Main Neighborhood Post: The Kraft Cheese Caper ([28:52]–[68:02])

a. Post Reading & Initial Questions ([29:21]–[33:00])

• The post: Nathalie complains about someone/kids leaving (unwrapped) Kraft cheese on her driveway at 10 PM, and expresses concern about pranks.
• Nathalie corrects her name’s pronunciation (it’s “Nathalie” with a short “th”).
• Banter on cheese being an act of aggression due to Nathalie's lactose intolerance.

b. Deep-Dive: Conspiracy or Coincidence? ([33:00]–[44:43])

• Nathalie reveals the cheese was unwrapped—adding to the “malice.”
• She theorizes the act was pointed because “everyone” knows she’s lactose intolerant.
• Additional “prank” details: on following nights, bread and then a stick of butter appeared, prompting the group to theorize about a targeted grilled cheese “crime spree.”
• Notable Moment: “I believe this was a jab because I'm lactose intolerant.” ([32:33])

c. Questioning Nathalie & Her Life ([36:05]–[55:14])

• Discussion of how Nathalie observed the incident (“I live at the window”), her resistance to digital devices (“worried about wi-fi radio waves and the brain”).
• Nathalie’s husband, Daryl, “sleeps 18 hours a day,” contributing little to the household except for eating and sleeping.
• She works at the post office, but is paranoid about revealing her hours.
• The hosts probe whether the pranksters could be family, given their ongoing issues with her lactose intolerance.
• Deep comedic interrogation of why Nathalie is on high alert and what her family dynamic is like.

d. Unpacking Personal Issues and Group Therapy ([55:14]–[68:02])

• Nathalie describes childhood and family frustration with her food needs—leading to her constant vigilance.
• Burnt admits he “cannot eat square food” (another recurring absurdity).
• Suggestion to go to family therapy (recommendation: Joyce Van Pelt, “the psychic therapist who wears pelts”).
• Nathalie resists changing any behavior, prefers quote-embroidered towels as takeaway.

e. Quotes & Takeaways

• “I think the reason why you're looking outside is because you don't want to turn around and look inside. Do you know what I'm saying?” – Joan ([65:22])
• “Your husband sleeping 18 hours a day is a problem.” – Burnt ([66:00])
• “Leave here today, what do you think your next steps are going to be?” – Burnt, trying to wrap up the therapy ([68:12])

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4. Postscript Chitchat, Neighborhood Post, and Closing Bits ([68:02]–End)

• The hosts marvel at Nathalie's extreme domestic situation (“That husband’s a problem” – Burnt, [71:29]).
• Briefly discuss another neighborhood post (Irma: “What are these tiny bugs I have never seen before, they are in my kitchen and they fly?”), provide helpful guidance (“fungus gnats”), and riff on how anyone could just Google bugs nowadays ([76:34]–[79:03]).
• Further nonsense about food, marshmallows, Doug’s ongoing human claw machine, and the absurd idea of “vanilla chicken baked in a bedpan.”
• End with a call to check out the show’s Instagram, recommend the bonus feed, and a comedic closer about “spreading the word” for the podcast ([81:24]–[82:13]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• “You know, I'm a front pocket guy and I'm afraid I'm going to get thigh cancer.” – Burnt, expressing irrational wi-fi fears ([34:46])
• “I get a lot of personal freedom... I can do what I want, and that is sit in the window all day.” – Nathalie, on her husband's sleep schedule ([46:27])
• “Did it give him bad dreams?” – Burnt, on Daryl’s reaction to seeing a local play while mostly asleep ([45:40])
• “I can't eat square shaped food. It makes me sick.” – Burnt expressing his invented disorder ([49:41])
• “I'm going to pursue that theory to the death. I'm going to find out.” – Nathalie, regarding who’s behind the lactose-based pranks ([51:00])
• “You don't want to turn around and look inside.” – Joan (therapy mic drop, [65:22])
• “How likely am I getting the quotes? Is it for sure?” – Nathalie, more excited about embroidered advice than actual change ([69:06])

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Suggested Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:54–13:00: Opening banter, breathing/wordplay, perimenopause jokes, “the human claw machine”
• 13:02–21:33: Doug’s drawn-out “fax machine” joke and related sidebars
• 28:52–68:02: Main segment – Kraft cheese prank and the interview with “Nathalie”
• 36:15–39:00: Nathalie observes suspects, “living at the window”
• 41:54, 41:14, 51:00: Family dynamics and suspicion of relatives as cheese pranksters
• 55:14–68:02: Burnt and Joan attempt group therapy, discuss Daryl’s 18-hour sleep cycle, and urge Nathalie toward introspection
• 76:34–79:10: Irma’s “tiny bugs” post, reveal that “fungus gnats” are probably the culprit
• 80:34–End: Closing banter, vanilla chicken in a bedpan, podcast plugs, final self-aware appeals to listeners

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Tone & Language

The hosts and guest maintain the show’s signature warm, absurdist, and semi-chaotic improvisational style, with deadpan delivery punctuating moments of surreal neighborhood drama. Nathalie’s earnestness about cheese-based humiliation is played for both sympathy and laughs, while the hosts gently poke holes in her logic—all in the exaggerated, affectionate parody of small-town message board culture.

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Useful for:

• Catching the full arc of the absurd cheese mystery
• Enjoying the best bits of improv and guest character work
• Laughing at the show’s signature blend of neighborly concern, audio mayhem, and comic therapy attempts

Fans of TNL or newcomers alike will find this an excellent example of the podcast’s strengths.

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Transcript

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hi, I'm Paul F. Tompkins.

[Nicole Parker]

And I'm Nicole Parker.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

On this podcast, we improvise in character using real posts from a popular neighborhood networking website.

[Nicole Parker]

Occasionally, we change the names of some

[Paul F. Tompkins]

streets, and that's all you need to know. To support the show and unlock the ad free archive, as well as exclusive monthly episodes of the bonus room, go to cbbworld.com and sign up for a Maximus membership.

[Nicole Parker]

And now, please enjoy this episode of the Neighborhood. Listen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Knock, knock.

[Nicole Parker]

Who's there?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your neighbor.

[Nicole Parker]

Good in dignity fall. You're 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.

[Brett Morris]

Listen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, welcome. Welcome to the neighborhood. Listen, this is. I want to.

[Nicole Parker]

Are you okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I'm trying a new style.

[Nicole Parker]

What happened?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I'm trying new style.

[Nicole Parker]

Why? He's putting his lip. His mouth to my. I mean, he's putting his hand to my mouth to, like, cover it. Okay. I don't like it when men do that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But you like when women do it.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm fine with it. Women can touch me anywhere. Please. I'm not saying anything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What is.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you think our listeners enjoy this? They have no idea what's happening.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We cut all this out. I'm trying to set a mood. I need this.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, What's What? You need this. Are you okay? What's going on? Why'd you take those weird breaths?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have to breathe.

[Nicole Parker]

I know, but it was like. It was. You know what's crazy? This is what it was like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay?

[Nicole Parker]

It was like you were losing air and dying, but you were only taking air in.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was like drowning in ice.

[Nicole Parker]

Impossible to figure out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, I. I was taking some air in and I thought, probably need some more. And then I went back double dipped,

[Nicole Parker]

and then it looks like you almost choked on the air.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I didn't, though.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, so continue on with whatever mood

[Paul F. Tompkins]

makes all the difference.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Good for you. That's not. That's not how that quote goes. Okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's reference.

[Nicole Parker]

I know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Two breaths in the woods.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Whose breaths they are. I think I know.

[Nicole Parker]

We all know you're well read.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We should have done a long time ago about words ending in th and having to pluralize them because it's. It's a hassle every time.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I think you're right. Yes. Breadth. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you have to.

[Nicole Parker]

If. What would your Suggestion be.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If the sentence ends that way, you're fine.

[Nicole Parker]

I wouldn't say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But if you have to continue, it's a hassle.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Who.

[Nicole Parker]

You know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's why these are. That's probably why he rewrote that.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, it probably was breaths to begin with, for sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You never know.

[Nicole Parker]

You never will never know. Okay, continue with your intro.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. We have not done anything of value yet and we have been talking for at least five minutes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It doesn't matter.

[Nicole Parker]

It does matter. We never do, though. We never do. We always forget. And you don't listen to them. So it's going to be me at two in the morning trying to edit this and make it make sense.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you need me to listen to the podcast?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why?

[Nicole Parker]

Because I just like to know that someone else has an opinion.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's what the listeners are for.

[Nicole Parker]

It's too late after that. Well, we've gone from coding Robert Frost to Mad Men.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right. The American experience.

[Nicole Parker]

Remember that time the tractor ran over a guy?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Cut his foot off.

[Nicole Parker]

So random.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Spray blood on everybody.

[Nicole Parker]

Was that their jumps at the shark moment? Jump the tractor. Did they jump the tractor?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Tractor the foot. That was their tractor the foot moment.

[Nicole Parker]

Please tell everybody who you are. Go. Don't take a breath. Don't think. Don't breathe. This is an acting exercise that one of my favorite acting teachers always said. He goes, don't do it. Don't breathe. Right. And it just makes you. It just makes you have truthful reaction.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's terrible.

[Nicole Parker]

Try it. Don't breathe. Okay, but talk. Don't breathe. But talk. You just. You took a huge breath. Okay, never mind. I'm sorry. Do you know what?

[Laurel Coppock]

And I.

[Nicole Parker]

And I. And I refuse to be silent about it, okay? Even though I know I just talked about in the last episode, but my listeners know and they understand it's about me, okay? But it should be about you, because you should remember that I'm going through perimenopause, which I'm rebranding as feminine overdrive. And sometimes it makes me be. Not patient. Okay? Sometimes impatient, perhaps. And you know what? No, you're not going to police me. I wanted to say not patient. I wanted to say not patient. I meant what I said, damn it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I swear. I know, babe. I'm sorry. Honey, we're not going to get to you yet because we have barely started the intro. This is insane.

[Brett Morris]

I'm not asking.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Doug, we're going to need a minute here, okay? Go Go.

[Nicole Parker]

One, two, three, go.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Welcome to the neighborhood. Listen. This is the podcast that explores the neighborhood of Dignity Falls through the eyes of its many residents. I am one such resident and I am joined by another good friend of mine for many, many years. She is my co host. I'm proud to know her. Her name is Joan Pedestrian. And who am I? My name is Burnt Miape Day. I'm the pharmacist in chief here at Dignity Falls's Dignity fallsmassy Pharmacy.

[Nicole Parker]

There's an s. There's that s. Tripping me up again, like, breaths. Go on.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did you want me to do the intro?

[Nicole Parker]

I do, I do. I. I do. Please. I do. I want nothing more, Joan.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, she's the top realtor in Dignity Falls and also the top local actress.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you did me. I didn't know that. You. You started as if you were dying, and then you became a late night romantic disc jockey, and it was unbelievable. I wasn't expecting that Burnt. But I did like it. I just. It. I feel like that took too long. That's fair to say, right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What do you think took so long? All the interruptions.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct. No, all the. Too late.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You agreed.

[Nicole Parker]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Doug cut right after that. Doug cut right after that.

[Nicole Parker]

Doug is cut.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right?

[Nicole Parker]

Doug is my husband. He's recording a different room today. I don't know how this is working. He's. He's in the human claw machine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The human claw machine?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So we all know the claw machine.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, we. We.

[Laurel Coppock]

It is.

[Nicole Parker]

This is a new thing.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's the frustrating thing at rest stops and.

[Nicole Parker]

Rest stops.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, they have rest stops.

[Nicole Parker]

I have not seen a claw machine at a rest stop. Well, I guess I'm thinking picturing just bathrooms. I'm thinking of those other things going on at a rest. I'm not a claw machine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm thinking of those big. The. The really big rest stops where there's like restaurants in there and stuff like that. I mean, they're okay. Thank you for granting me that, Joan.

[Brett Morris]

Glass cases with knives and figures.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, exactly.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Brett Morris]

Skull.

[Nicole Parker]

Can I get Chuck E. Cheese?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The one with the eight ball?

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Pretty cool.

[Brett Morris]

We're talking pretty cool like Chuck E.

[Nicole Parker]

Cheese and Dave and Buster's. That's where they have them. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But they also have them at 7:11 sometimes and things like that.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I've never seen. But they're just for the hot dogs. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. The hot dog machine, the hot dog roller.

[Brett Morris]

That could be a human.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then the person behind the counter is the claw.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I want.

[Nicole Parker]

Babe, the way it is. I mean, how are you doing it? So usually like you're strapped to a harness and it lifts you up.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And then.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you are the claw.

[Nicole Parker]

You are the claw.

[Brett Morris]

I am the claws.

[Nicole Parker]

I am the one who claws.

[Brett Morris]

And I'm holding like two kind of almost like rakes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, really? I thought you used your arms. Why would you use rakes? That's gonna make it hard.

[Brett Morris]

Because that's more of a claw.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Almost rakes.

[Nicole Parker]

Could you explain the difference between a rake and an almost rake? Is it like. Is it like imitation crab?

[Brett Morris]

And almost rake only has, you know, rakes have many tongs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Tines.

[Brett Morris]

Yes. Spokes, if you will.

[Nicole Parker]

I think we've done. We've covered it. I think we know. So it has less of those. Whatever they are. It has less of them.

[Brett Morris]

All right, mental note, cut. When I said spokes.

[Nicole Parker]

And what are you filling it with, babe? Are you going to like do this for your friends? What kind of stuff is going to be?

[Brett Morris]

There's going to be stuffed animals, there's going to be coins, but they'd have to be coins.

[Nicole Parker]

You're. How are you going to get a coin with almost in the ball? In the ball, right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like one of those plastic balls.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah. You want that coin?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Let me ask you. You want that coin?

[Nicole Parker]

You want that coin? You need that coin.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you can't handle that coin.

[Nicole Parker]

You can't have a coin.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It could be rare. Are the. Are the. What?

[Nicole Parker]

It could be rare. But what is it gonna be, babe? It's not really gonna be rare. What is it gonna be? The coin you gonna fill with rare coins?

[Brett Morris]

It could be.

[Nicole Parker]

You could. You're the one who's doing it.

[Brett Morris]

That's when you're doing a claw machine. You don't know how rare.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's so true.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So I would think that if you are the claw, you're the human claw.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're bigger than the. The claw on the regular claw machine. Yes. So does that mean all the prizes are also oversized?

[Nicole Parker]

That's what I portion to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah. Not the coins, obviously. I don't know where to find those. But the ball is large, the ball is human size. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And so human sized ball with one little coin rattling around could be rare.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Just one coin in there.

[Nicole Parker]

You want that coin?

[Brett Morris]

Could be rare. You need.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can't be a big coin. Like if it's just one coin, that.

[Brett Morris]

That adds to the draw. If it's one, I guess, you know,

[Nicole Parker]

I Thought that you'd put special things in there that someone want, like a bottle of wine. That'd be fun.

[Brett Morris]

You could do that. Probably should.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Dropping.

[Nicole Parker]

That's gonna be a real headache.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me ask you.

[Nicole Parker]

What was that First?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Just clearing my throat.

[Nicole Parker]

Were you okay? You okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm great. Should be choppy. Should be choppy. Chappie. In here, I am Chappie. Does he say that in the movie?

[Nicole Parker]

Does who say it?

[Brett Morris]

I've never checked.

[Nicole Parker]

It's a movie.

[Brett Morris]

Of course.

[Nicole Parker]

Burnt. Not of course.

[Brett Morris]

I've never Chappied. But I've. I've. I know the movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I haven't chappied either.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

What is Chappie?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Chappie is a movie. It's a South African movie.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

About a robot. Is Hugh Jackman in that?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, is it the one with that guy who was also in the Alien movie? The guy with the very interesting South African name? You know, it was a movie about aliens. Okay, I'm going to look this up. I love how you said chapping the movie.

[Brett Morris]

District nine.

[Nicole Parker]

That's correct. District.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Same guy who did District nine.

[Nicole Parker]

He looked at me like I had nine heads.

[Brett Morris]

District nine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Something, please. Okay, okay. Doug, when you said that movie about aliens, the look you saw on my face was me trying to process absolutely every movie about aliens that I've ever

[Nicole Parker]

heard of, except for the fact you could have said, wait, think of who's in Chappie. Think of another movie I've seen that person. And that would have narrowed it down for you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Jackman was in Chappie. I don't think you think I remember the guy with the interesting name.

[Nicole Parker]

Although if I were to guess for one person to me in something called Chappie, it would be Hugh Jackman.

[Brett Morris]

Actually, he is in Chappie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, so he was in Chappie and Real Steel also. So he's in a lot of robot movies.

[Brett Morris]

There's an actress in this.

[Nicole Parker]

What?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you count Sutton Foster, he is. As a robot.

[Nicole Parker]

He is. He's so well rounded.

[Brett Morris]

Here's a movie quiz.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, great.

[Nicole Parker]

And it's not a movie podcast, but we're starting it off with a movie quiz.

[Brett Morris]

The actress in Chappie has been in, it seems like every Alien movie.

[Nicole Parker]

Every. He's burns gonna lose his mind now, because now he has to consider.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Doug, I'm glad you can't see me. You'd be furious at the expression on my face. Apparently.

[Brett Morris]

I doubt it.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you have. Okay, you have a couple guesses. Burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The actress who's In Chappie.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So far, I've been able to nail down that Hugh Jackman was in it.

[Nicole Parker]

Good job.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And even that, I had a question about.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I'm no help in this one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This actress has also been in every

[Brett Morris]

Alien movie you say seemingly.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you mean, like, it's gonna be, like, two? It's gonna be two. It's not Sigourney Weaver. It can't be. Right. Because that's the only person I can think of that's been in almost every. Is that my. Is that right?

[Brett Morris]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

I got it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sigourney Weavers in Chappie.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What?

[Brett Morris]

Can you believe it?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is how I find out.

[Nicole Parker]

What are we doing? What are we doing?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What are we doing?

[Nicole Parker]

What are we doing? This is the neighborhood. Listen, it's not. It's not Chappie trivia.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Here's who I know is in Chappie, Okay?

[Nicole Parker]

I'm carrying a bridge. Three things.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Now Sigourney Weaver.

[Nicole Parker]

Now Sigourney Weaver, which you just learned.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hugh Jackman.

[Nicole Parker]

Not with a question mark. No longer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And Diantward.

[Brett Morris]

Ninja.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What? Both of them.

[Brett Morris]

Ninja. From Diane Twerk.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Both of them are.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know. I don't even know what words you're

[Paul F. Tompkins]

saying now, because they're also in District 9.

[Nicole Parker]

I think I'm gonna talk about myself.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great.

[Brett Morris]

I have a Doug Chuckle, by the way.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you have a Doug Chuckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's been a long time since a Doug Chuckle. Since we've had a Doug Chuckle.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah. One a season, I guess.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Have we ever done this before?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, we have.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We have.

[Nicole Parker]

But we didn't have a theme song. Should we have a theme song?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We absolutely should.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, sit down and get yourself buckled. Here comes another Doug Chuckle.

[Brett Morris]

A loud theme song.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wish it was manic.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm so hot. I'm sweating. I'm so uncomfortable.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You are glowing to beat the band.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you. Okay. What's your chuckle, babe?

[Brett Morris]

The other day, I was looking at our fax machine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The other day, you were looking at your fast machine.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

And I was thinking, like, what is this doing here?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That guy shows up for babes. This belongs in a museum.

[Brett Morris]

Hear me out,

[Nicole Parker]

okay?

[Brett Morris]

And I was thinking, man, this thing had a short shelf life, didn't it?

[Nicole Parker]

To nobody.

[Brett Morris]

He said, that's not the chuckle yet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We're on our way.

[Nicole Parker]

Good to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We're on our way.

[Brett Morris]

It's like, short shelf life. The fax machine. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Are you.

[Brett Morris]

When do you Think the fax machine was invented?

[Nicole Parker]

This is a question. Are you asking us?

[Brett Morris]

Just really? If you just had to answer the facsimile. Don't overthink it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I would bet sometime in the 70s.

[Nicole Parker]

That sounds right. Maybe a early prototype in the 60s.

[Brett Morris]

Right. Okay, so I looked this up. The fax machine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We're getting close to the chuckle.

[Nicole Parker]

I kept waiting for it. He's already chuckling. He's pre chuckling.

[Brett Morris]

Because I'm thinking about the chuckling.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Pre chuckle. Red ball. We got a red ball. Pre chuckle.

[Brett Morris]

There's kind of an after chuckle, too.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh,

[Brett Morris]

The fact I looked it up.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I love duck chuckles, but they. They don't agree with me.

[Nicole Parker]

After buckle. There's also gonna be an after chuckle. See, I did it. Right. Give that seat another buckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Give that seat another buckle.

[Nicole Parker]

You come up with.

[Brett Morris]

Who are you, Ralph Nader?

[Nicole Parker]

You. Why don't you have a turnout? It's Sondheim. All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm like that little boy that was in Blue Moon.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I haven't seen that. Which is embarrassing because I'm a musical theater person.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

You have to get to the chuckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You simply have to see Ethan Hawke doing a monologue that's interrupted every once in a while by someone prompting him to talk more.

[Nicole Parker]

Is the movie just like a flashback? Is it like a cheesecake episode from Golden Girls?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm not very well versed in Golden Girls. Joan. I feared this day would come.

[Nicole Parker]

You have got to be kidding.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm just too straight, I guess.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my gosh. It has nothing to do with that. It's whether or not you appreciate the best comedy ever.

[Brett Morris]

Is Joan's hair getting big?

[Nicole Parker]

My hair gets very big when I get upset.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like a cat. Like.

[Nicole Parker]

Like I put my hand on one of those balls with the electricity in it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What were those for? Was that their purpose?

[Nicole Parker]

It was for rich kids to have for, like, exactly one year in the 90s. Babe, what is it?

[Brett Morris]

I'm worried about this chuckle.

[Nicole Parker]

I know. Well, the momentum has been interrupted. Keep going. So you looked it up.

[Brett Morris]

The fax machine was invented in 1843.

[Nicole Parker]

Get out of here.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, it was.

[Brett Morris]

And I was. Here's the chuckle. It was. But Alexander Bain.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I refuse to believe that. I refuse to believe that.

[Brett Morris]

I couldn't believe it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The only thing that gives a credence to me is the word facsimile. Does sound like it's from the 1800s.

[Brett Morris]

Fax machine.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I was trying to do Bane.

[Brett Morris]

That was not the chuckle for the symptoms.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that Bane. I. I was famous. I was thinking B A I N. Really?

[Brett Morris]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Fascinating.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I forgo about pain. Well, you forgot control of your fact.

[Brett Morris]

So I was just thinking about what

[Nicole Parker]

did it really look like though it wasn't an actual facts machine.

[Brett Morris]

Here's the chuckle.

[Nicole Parker]

I was just thinking we're finally to the chuckle. We've made it. We've made it. Thank you everybody for sticking with us.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Should we not have done cocaine before this? I know we said we tried for one episode.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I. I put on five estrogen patches. Maybe I shouldn't have done that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I did too. I thought they were for everyone. I thought they were for the table.

[Nicole Parker]

A party favor.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They were for the table.

[Nicole Parker]

Bert, that could seriously interrupt your system.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can we get five estrogen patches for the table?

[Nicole Parker]

For the table. For the table. We want to be bad tonight. Just a little bit.

[Brett Morris]

And for to drink.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. I don't know if you've done this before. To drink.

[Nicole Parker]

Who just learned English?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Very nice for you to come to restaurant and for to drink.

[Nicole Parker]

Estrogen patch for Hollander. Would you like a.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You Hollander? You can't wear estrogen patch.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry. I, I warned everybody I'd be doing. I would be doing Ilia from heated rivalry a lot because it's just. That's all they say to each other. And I think they're great actors. I just wish they had more stuff to say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's a miracle they got together because the one guy just insults the other.

[Nicole Parker]

They hate each other, but that was their chemistry, you know, I don't know

[Paul F. Tompkins]

if that would do it for me. I don't know if that would do. If somebody said I had terrible sense of style and.

[Nicole Parker]

But what about the Russian accent?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Would you care for the remicant of accent?

[Nicole Parker]

Your terrible taste in style? See, it's a little more heated. Okay.

[Brett Morris]

Just thinking about this guy in the 1800s inventing something.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Then he's.

[Brett Morris]

He's looking at. He just has no idea what it does. He's like, yeah, I invented this thing. And then hundreds of years later they're like, oh, this is a fast.

[Nicole Parker]

That's not a chuckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hey, look, it's imagine us too.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, I came up with this, but I have no idea. It doesn't even plug in.

[Nicole Parker]

Anyway, that is a silent smile. If it's anything. That's a false premise silent smile.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I heard burnt Chuck guy invented this. He didn't do what it was. It's a fax machine.

[Brett Morris]

How are you going to use a fax machine in the 1800s?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, what. Who you going to even fax?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know what's happening. Everybody. I am so sorry. I feel like we've also.

[Brett Morris]

Imagine how stupid it was.

[Nicole Parker]

We've done nothing for you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know what's happening. I. Are you. My question to you, babe, is have you been hanging from the claw this entire as. This entire time? I think all the blood has rushed to his head.

[Brett Morris]

I'm waiting for someone to, you know, you didn't have.

[Nicole Parker]

You should tell people you got yourself up there before anyone was there to sort of move you.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah. And then I realized I can't put my own token in.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God. Why would you even set it up

[Paul F. Tompkins]

to need a token? Because of ethics.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Brett Morris]

That'd be self serving.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. So I think you should. All right.

[Brett Morris]

I think that qualifies as a chuckle. And also I do think he's standing by it. I do think the. The chuckle was diluted a bit because it got, you know, interrupted so much.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't think that affected it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And where was the aftertou?

[Brett Morris]

Think?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, what's the after chuckle? Good, good. Give us the after.

[Brett Morris]

Just. Mainly just how dumb the thing must have looked. So just the fax machine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is there a thing?

[Brett Morris]

I bet somebody faxes, but I bet he tried to fax his butt.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what? I was actually going to suggest that. That someone fell in ink and then just somehow slipped it under someone's door and called it a fax. Facsimile. Somebody fell in ink when they were naked, when they were changing and they

[Paul F. Tompkins]

said, this is too good to throw away.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I gotta send it to someone else.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Or maybe they deserve to be seen.

[Nicole Parker]

Maybe they tried to copy by pressing it on another piece of paper and then giving that to them. I don't know why. But did they actually call it a facsimile machine in that moment?

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

This makes no sense. All right.

[Brett Morris]

It must have been like, I have a fax machine. I can't tell you what it does.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. This story made me angry and I have such a hard time with this premise. I'm offended by it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have a fax machine. I can't tell what it does.

[Brett Morris]

He would have. No idea.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why would he have.

[Nicole Parker]

I understand this.

[Brett Morris]

The world wasn't ready for.

[Nicole Parker]

We need to stop. We need to stop. We haven't done anything.

[Brett Morris]

We didn't use one till like at the break.

[Nicole Parker]

We're going to take a break. How long. How long have we been talking? Definitely long enough. Way Too long.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We didn't use one till the seventh.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm going to.

[Brett Morris]

Was just laying around.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm coming. How are you able to check?

[Brett Morris]

Actually, you can't check 22 minutes.

[Nicole Parker]

It's always 22 or 23. Even though that was pure nonsense. Yeah, we're gonna. I'm gonna come let you down, babe, because you can't just hang out there this entire time. It's not good for you. Okay.

[Brett Morris]

Okay. I would like to take a shot at this coin.

[Nicole Parker]

Fine. I will come in there. I will come.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are you gonna get up in the car, be the claw?

[Nicole Parker]

I'm. I won't do that until after our guest. I'll go. I'll go back later. And for our third segment. Okay, I'm just gonna go let him down right now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, what's Doug gonna do in the meantime?

[Nicole Parker]

He should be continuing to work on it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, no, I. Well, I think you should be recording.

[Nicole Parker]

Exactly.

[Brett Morris]

You do believe in the project?

[Nicole Parker]

I believe in you setting it up better for yourself. So you're not going to be hanging. Oh, my God. Why are we still talking? Let's go. Okay, we're going to take a break.

[Brett Morris]

Don't breathe.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And.

[Nicole Parker]

What, babe, why did you say anything? We had forgotten about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I feel like I'm being attacked by

[Nicole Parker]

no Doubt, the band.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We. Yeah. We are going to take a break. When we return, we'll have the neighborhood. Listen.

[Nicole Parker]

Hi, everybody. It's Nicole and Paul. Are you here?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I am here.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And I have a question for you, Nicole.

[Nicole Parker]

What is it?

[Brett Morris]

Number two.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, okay. Brett.

[Brett Morris]

Hi.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No one was doubting that.

[Nicole Parker]

We'll go around the room. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

First, I would like to talk about Summer. Is that okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. But I have a question for you that's related.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, great.

[Nicole Parker]

Good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What does summer always make you rethink?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay. It always makes me rethink what I'm reaching for every day. Meaning in my clothing. Lighter fabrics, better materials. Pieces that just feel good in the moment. You put them on and look effortless. And that's why I keep going back to quints, because they both.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

My second question.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, right. Okay. Go ahead, ask. Ask Brett the second question.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, my second question for you was. Is that why you keep coming back to quints?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh. And yes, it is.

[Brett Morris]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Because they focus on high quality essentials. Essentials.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I'm hungry. Now.

[Brett Morris]

Let's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Let's get through this ad, then we can all have some essentials.

[Nicole Parker]

Essentials for the table.

[Brett Morris]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Today. And we'll get essentials. For the table.

[Nicole Parker]

We'll get essentials for the table.

[Brett Morris]

I like combining all the essentials together.

[Nicole Parker]

So do I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Me too. An essential suicide. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And I also love breathable linen, soft, organic cotton, washable silk, but without the luxury markup. It is that rare balance where everything feels elevated but still easy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And here's the thing. Quints has beautiful everyday pieces like 100% European linen pants, dresses, and tops with style starting at 32 doll. That's low for clothes.

[Nicole Parker]

It's low for clothes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Their denim is soft and easy to wear, and their organic cotton sweaters are perfect for layering on cool summer nights.

[Laurel Coppock]

Ooh.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Everything at Quint's is priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands. That sounds good.

[Nicole Parker]

It does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And Quint's works directly with ethical factories and cuts out the middlemen, the most despised class of man. So you're paying for quality, not brand markup.

[Nicole Parker]

And it's not just clothing, Paul Quint has really become a destination for elevated essentials across home, kitchen, bedding, and beyond, making it easy to bring a more premium feel into everyday life.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Now, let me tell something, please. I went to Quint's recently because I'm going out on tour. I'm talking to you too.

[Nicole Parker]

He almost. He called you Doug.

[Brett Morris]

He didn't almost call you Doug.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was a close one. Yeah, because we're sitting in the same position.

[Nicole Parker]

We sure are. We sure sure are. They found us out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So I'm going out on tour. Brett and I are going out together. On tour. On tour and not steady. And I went to Quints and got myself a casual linen suit to wear for travel.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, cool.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So I can look stylish.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what I always admire people are attempted. They made an attempt to look stylish for travel.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know who else likes it is flight attendants.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Well, thanks to Quince, you're gonna get a compliment.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thanks, Quince.

[Nicole Parker]

Thanks, Quince. Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to Quince. Oh, wait, hang on. Doug. Brett, what did you want to say?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Doug?

[Brett Morris]

Brett, what did I want to say?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we interrupted you.

[Brett Morris]

I actually didn't say anything, but I will say that they have rugs. They have great rugs.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay, everybody. They have great rugs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There you go.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, I got a. I got like a white button down shirt recently from Quince as a rug. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're a strange guy.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, here, you just throw in the wash. Here's the deal.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Anything can be a rug.

[Nicole Parker]

Everything that they make can be used as many different things. So Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to quince.com TNL for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. You guys, congrats. Q-U-I-N-C-E.com T L for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quinns.com TNL hi, I'm Beck Bennett.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I thought I was Beck Bennett. No, no, no, no. I'm Kyle Mooney. Yes, sorry about that.

[Brett Morris]

Exactly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, all good.

[Brett Morris]

All good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thanks, buddy.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

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I don't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I like that I don't have to go around, you know, like different stores or something. It's just all, well, it's like, oh, do I need to go to like a. Do I need another type of website to, like, find the right pictures or like another type of website to upload? You know, it's all in one place. The video or the audio or like.

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[Nicole Parker]

Let's see.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

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[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, it really has. I am sorry for that, everybody. I don't know. It went off the rails immediately.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And I think we're all a little bit. We're all bit more ready for our guest.

[Brett Morris]

All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We do have a guest in studio with. In studio here at the kitchen island. And what we do every week is we scour the neighborhap, the social networking application for neighborhoods, and we look for interesting neighbors to talk to. Maybe somebody's got something to say. Maybe they've got something to answer for. Who knows? It runs the whole gamut. And this week is no different. And if you see a post that you think we should talk about, why don't you screenshot it and send it to us as this listener, Matt Moore did. Matt Moore submitted this. Thank you very much.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you, Matt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Matt. This is in the crime and safety section, and it was posted by Natalie. Natalie writes Last night around 10 ish PM someone or some people, slash kids, mostly kids, I'm assuming, came to ring on our doorbell. We didn't open the door, but today, in the morning, there was a Kraft cheese on the driveway. I'm not okay with people trying to pull a joke on someone, especially that late at night. If you know your kid was out there doing that, please make sure they know of the consequences. This was on Polk and Palm. And here to talk more about it is Natalie. Natalie, welcome.

[Laurel Coppock]

Thank you so much. I hate to start a conversation with a confrontation, but I actually pronounce my name Nathalie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Nathalie.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah.

[Brett Morris]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. And Nath for short. And I know you've expressed a frustration with ths, so it could.

[Nicole Parker]

Right, so it's Nath for short travels. It sure does.

[Laurel Coppock]

Nath.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, Nath.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, Nath.

[Nicole Parker]

Is that what you prefer or do you want Nathaly?

[Laurel Coppock]

I prefer the full length.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We've only just met.

[Nicole Parker]

The full length.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, we've only just met, and now we have a confrontation. This is a part of the challenge with my name.

[Nicole Parker]

No, no, it's fine. I don't feel confronted. Do you? Burnt a little bit, but okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think it's fine.

[Laurel Coppock]

But your name is burnt, right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, it is.

[Laurel Coppock]

With a U or an E?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

With a U.

[Laurel Coppock]

Interesting. Like so after something that burned, Correct?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, exactly.

[Laurel Coppock]

Fascinating.

[Nicole Parker]

Isn't it, though?

[Laurel Coppock]

You might run into this kind of confrontation. Like, I do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I do, but I don't. I don't know. Usually I just say burnt. If people say Burt.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I see.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Burnt.

[Nicole Parker]

But what if you say, like, the toast, then what do you say?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I just sort of nod.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not my favorite thing to hear.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, that's. That's what I figured.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Burnt toast was my favorite snack as a child, though. I love it.

[Nicole Parker]

That really, truly burnt to a black crisp.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, my mom.

[Nicole Parker]

Just so that it just was pure carbon.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, I loved it.

[Nicole Parker]

So, Nathalie. Incredible. This is. This is an interesting post because I, to be honest, don't know. This is just me speaking. I don't know if one single slice of Kraft cheese on my driveway. I don't know if I would think that was a prank.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Let me ask you this, okay? Was it wrapped or unwrapped?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, good question.

[Laurel Coppock]

I appreciate that question, and I'd like to get into it. It was unwrapped. So you can feel that this is something more than a mistake.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know what I mean?

[Nicole Parker]

I was picturing it wrapped up. I don't know why I was. Okay, so it was just naked there on.

[Laurel Coppock]

Thank you for that language. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Because that offended you, I'm assuming.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I ask, how did you know it was craft?

[Laurel Coppock]

Great question.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I thought you left your questions. It didn't.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah. Thank you. Great comment. It didn't melt at all. And craft has a very specific texture.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, it does.

[Nicole Parker]

It does.

[Laurel Coppock]

So I knew. I knew.

[Nicole Parker]

So you touched it, like, when you were cleaning it. How did you. You know, how did you dispose.

[Laurel Coppock]

No, I didn't touch it.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you didn't touch it.

[Laurel Coppock]

I didn't touch it.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

I got a paper towel, and I kept that between me and it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

That's smart.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, that's really smart.

[Laurel Coppock]

I believe this was a jab because I'm lactose intolerant.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, no. So you feel it was pointed? It was.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. It was personal.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow. And who does everyone in the neighborhood know this?

[Laurel Coppock]

Know that I'm lactose intolerant?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Laurel Coppock]

I hope so.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh. Oh, you hope so, but yeah, I mean, what are they gonna.

[Laurel Coppock]

Then they're gonna serve me. I know you left me this hot milk. I can't drink it.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I'm sorry. That was left over. We needed hot milk to calm down and I. I will remove this. Here, let me get it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I asked because I'm trying to narrow down the pool of suspects.

[Laurel Coppock]

Me too.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So if only certain people know, then you have a smaller target area.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. To be fair, it seems like you had a hard. Can you read the beginning again? Burnt. Sorry. Absolutely.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'd love to. Last night, around 10 ish p.m. someone or some people, slash kids. Mostly kids, I'm assuming.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, let's pause there. How are you viewing them? Was this on a ring camera? Was this through the window?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great question, Joe.

[Nicole Parker]

And what was it that was so tricky about discerning children from adult people? Yeah, how do you. What does that mean?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And mostly so also, they're a mixture.

[Nicole Parker]

So mostly kids, some hybrids. Can you just talk about that for a minute?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, we don't have a ring camera because I am worried about that kind of a digital nature with my brain and things like that, so we don't do that stuff.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But what's the brain concern?

[Nicole Parker]

Thanks.

[Laurel Coppock]

It's. You know, how the radio waves might get into your brain?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Laurel Coppock]

When you have something that works through the WI fi, you know. So we're not gonna have a ring camera out front. I'm too worried about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right. You don't want it to penetrate your brain.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

You've read about it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I haven't. This is a new problem to me.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. Where would I go to read about this?

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, God, the Internet source.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, link, please.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, yeah, I can see if I can find a link, but I'm probably not gonna use WI fi.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Do you have a phone? Do you use a phone like a. Like a. Like a cell phone? Like a.

[Laurel Coppock]

There's where the whole thing falls apart. I do.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Because I feel like there's been a lot more research that's come out about that. That seems pretty. It checks out.

[Laurel Coppock]

Could you send me some of those links?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I don't want to because I have to use my phone again to do that, you know?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, I'm a front pocket guy and I'm afraid I'm gonna get thigh cancer.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no.

[Laurel Coppock]

Will you let me know if you do?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Of course I will.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. All right.

[Laurel Coppock]

That is a scary thought.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's terrifying. So I don't have a New form of cancer.

[Laurel Coppock]

I've never been kind of pocket pockets. Do you have that? You can squeeze that in there.

[Nicole Parker]

Men.

[Laurel Coppock]

I. Yeah, I mean, men pockets. That's.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I guess.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Nicole Parker]

They can carry their whole life just in one pocket.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I like to wear athletic fit trousers.

[Laurel Coppock]

I respect that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, they're very roomy pockets.

[Nicole Parker]

Flare at the bottom, fur on the top. That's nice. So how are you viewing them? You look into the window. When you go to the window, what do you hear?

[Laurel Coppock]

I. I live at the window.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you live at the wedding.

[Laurel Coppock]

I'm at the window often.

[Brett Morris]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

So I saw the whole thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. And describe to us what you saw in a little bit more detail than this. You know, why is it that you thought, oh, here's a kid, here's a person, here's a combination of both.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, it was a band. It was a group of rowdy, okay, difficult people.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Were they making noise and hooting and hollering?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes, hooting and hollering. They were coming and I don't know what they were talking about. It was loud. Different heights.

[Nicole Parker]

Different heights.

[Laurel Coppock]

So then I'm thinking there's definitely going to be some kids in there.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

And.

[Nicole Parker]

But how young are we talking? Were there some little kids?

[Laurel Coppock]

I'm not the best at identifying ages, but I'm gonna say 8 and up.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow. 8 and young. I have to be out at 10. Ish.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But if you're with older kids, I guess they're looking out for you as you're doing a prank.

[Nicole Parker]

I guess that's true. Do you have kids yourself?

[Laurel Coppock]

No.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

That was a good question. No, but she didn't thank you for it. So I wonder if she didn't care for that question. Did that question upset you?

[Laurel Coppock]

Didn't upset me, but I don't think it's a great question.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, That's a fair answer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's fair. I've asked better questions.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what you have earlier. You've had better. Better moments earlier. You did.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm dropping off.

[Nicole Parker]

Have some. Have some of her warm milk, please. So then how close did they get? You? You're looking out the window and you saw. You said they were going to ring the bell, but they didn't, Is that right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They came to ring on our doorbell.

[Nicole Parker]

On the doorbell.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We didn't open the door.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

And now who's we? Can you say who you're with?

[Laurel Coppock]

My husband.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. What's his name?

[Laurel Coppock]

Daryl.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And is. Did you wake up Daryl to tell him about this. Or was he awake at the time with you?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, that's interesting. He does sleep a lot.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

He was awake for this.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

But he was in the kitchen eating.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, because I don't like to eat outside of the kitchen. That's disgusting. So he's got to be in there to eat, but I'm in the living room watching.

[Brett Morris]

Okay, Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So nobody's allowed to eat outside the kitchen.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. So he's in the kitchen eating, and at 10pm so it's a little late night snack kind of thing or.

[Nicole Parker]

Unless that's no normal dinner time that you guys have.

[Laurel Coppock]

No, we usually eat around 4:30 or 5.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. Why was he eating so late for dinner?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, he needs a sort of second round.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, that is hours and hours go. Go by.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Second dinner.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

So you. Did you call him in? Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. And then what did he think?

[Laurel Coppock]

I gave a healthy scream. I was so angry. And. And he thought the same thing I did, which is, you know, we're under attack.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, really? Just from them going to ring at your doorbell response. I'll ring on your doorbell. My apologies.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your response was to not open the door.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then just. Just go to sleep. Because the next day in the morning, is when you discovered the cheese.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. I was exhausted from the amount of adrenaline from the entire moment. Just a dump of it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure. Wow.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes. So I slept like a log.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

I couldn't function.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my word.

[Laurel Coppock]

But I knew I'd go out and find something.

[Nicole Parker]

You did. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I backtrack a little bit? When you say your husband Darrell sleeps a lot. Yeah. How much sleep does he get in a night?

[Laurel Coppock]

Thanks for that question. I'm gonna say a solid, healthy 18 hours.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's a lot of the day.

[Nicole Parker]

Yep. It's almost completely opposite of what you're supposed to do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm gonna say it's the lion's share of the day.

[Nicole Parker]

It sure is. It sure is. May I ask what he does for a living, if anything?

[Laurel Coppock]

He doesn't do anything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. I had a feeling.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

You have an instinct about it.

[Nicole Parker]

I think it'd be a little bit hard to. To actually do something.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't know. Who's gonna allow you those hours?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know of anyone. Then what do you do for a living? Because you must. You must work.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, I'm pretty private about it, but I will share with you guys. I noticed that you're a pharmacist. I know you. I'm familiar with you. Obviously.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you've seen me at the falls, miss.

[Nicole Parker]

You sure?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes, yes. I work across the street at the post office.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That is a very. Now, you've seen the post office across from the falls, Missy?

[Nicole Parker]

I have.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's very impressive.

[Nicole Parker]

It is very impressive.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like a cathedral, kind of.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

There's marble, like, you see.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You see people of all faiths going in there thinking.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That it's a place of worship.

[Nicole Parker]

It looks like one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It looks like all of them.

[Nicole Parker]

It does. It has crescents, it has crosses, it has gargoyles.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

These are a few of my favorite things. And. But it's. It's just. It's their stained glass.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. They're gorgeous. Yes. And they have an organ in there, which I do appreciate.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, it's beautiful.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Just playing all songs that have any. Anything to do with male.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, that's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So the Letter by the Box Tops, It'll be. Please, Mr. Postman.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah, A third one.

[Nicole Parker]

Return to Sender.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Return to Sender.

[Nicole Parker]

But, you know, it's sort of a minor key.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Everything sounds very Gothic now.

[Nicole Parker]

Why are you private about it?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, I don't want people to get to know what I do and learn my hours and things like that, because

[Nicole Parker]

what would happen then? Who? Are you afraid of it?

[Laurel Coppock]

That's a great question.

[Nicole Parker]

Right. Which I would think you'd have an answer to if you're so afraid of it.

[Laurel Coppock]

Mm. I mean, I already feel people know I'm lactose intolerant. They're leaving cheese on my driveway.

[Nicole Parker]

Now, you say that as if it's happened a lot, but has this happened only one time?

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay, I'm gonna tell you a little postscript.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow.

[Laurel Coppock]

The next night, someone left a piece of bread, and the night after that, butter.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

What do you think they're trying to say?

[Nicole Parker]

Yep.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Make a sandwich.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yep.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right.

[Nicole Parker]

All right. But how is that not. How is that just specifically a lactose? A prank?

[Laurel Coppock]

Feels pointed to me, but, I mean,

[Paul F. Tompkins]

you can eat bread.

[Nicole Parker]

You can eat bread.

[Laurel Coppock]

I don't like gluten, though.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. Do you think we didn't know that? Is that widely known?

[Laurel Coppock]

I hope so.

[Nicole Parker]

What? How?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't know.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, I feel like it's something that you don't have to hope for. You can always just let people know. Only if they're going to. You keep on mentioning them bringing you food or feeding you food. Do you guys have a lot of potlucks in your community, or do people bring food over Often. I don't know why the concern is there.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, we do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm gonna pause you one second. Math.

[Nicole Parker]

Math. Oh, math.

[Laurel Coppock]

Math.

[Nicole Parker]

Nath. Sorry.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think the concern is not that they're bringing her food, but that they're leaving single items of food in the driveway.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, if that's it.

[Laurel Coppock]

You narrowed it down. Yeah, that's right.

[Nicole Parker]

But is that all that has happened? You've had a piece of cheese, a bread, and some butter.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How much butter?

[Laurel Coppock]

A pat. No, a full eight tablespoons, a stick.

[Nicole Parker]

A stick. Stick of butter, a stick of bread,

[Paul F. Tompkins]

a container of milk, and a stick of butter.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, it's wasteful. Also, you said, is that all that's happened? And I just want to say that sounds like you're blaming the victim.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Laurel Coppock]

That's a lot of different items on my driveway.

[Nicole Parker]

I did not know about the three.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We never want to do that here.

[Nicole Parker]

Don't want to do that. And so, okay, after that, though, what happened? Did it stop? How long ago was this whole ordeal?

[Laurel Coppock]

Three weeks ago.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. And has anything happened since?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, I can't be sure. I haven't found anything. Have they tried? Maybe.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, so that's a no. And then can I also ask, did you receive any comments underneath this post?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, that's a very good question.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

I haven't checked.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, how come? Because it would seem that if you ask on. On a. A post on a platform like the neighborhap you are inviting. Because you are.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, no matter what you say online, you're inviting comments.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, because. Was there no question this.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There was no question. This was just. This was an announcement. This happened, and you should tell your kids not to do this.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, but still, someone might have commented, but you didn't check. You were not curious.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, I'm. I hope that they're gonna read it and stop doing what they're doing, and there will be consequences.

[Nicole Parker]

Have you thought about maybe, you know, instead, no soliciting, just putting no lactose outside, you know, by your doorbell, and that way. It's a way. It's a way to let them know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And maybe no lactose, no carbs.

[Laurel Coppock]

That's a really interesting idea. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

I mean, I guess I could get the sign made. It sounds like an expense to me for something people ought to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I feel like we've buried the lead here. What will the consequences be?

[Laurel Coppock]

I thought you might ask me that. Well, okay, I. I did call the police. I called the police thinking there could be an arrest.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

That might be tricky. But okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Apparently so. That's what they told.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, again, the police here did he falls. They are terrible. They're lazy. They sigh really hard when you come in. And so it's hard to get them to do things. But there's a lot of.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like, when they come to investigate something, there's a lot of.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And when they ask you what happened here, just pretend that you're someone who had something happen. And I'm the cop.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

And so tell me what happened, man.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, a man

[Nicole Parker]

came up to you and do what? It's like that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like that.

[Laurel Coppock]

It's very rude. Yeah, it looked real.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, thank you. I am a local actress. I'm the top local actress.

[Laurel Coppock]

I've seen all your plays.

[Nicole Parker]

You have? Really?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

You saw the All Male Steel Magnolias where it was men playing women. But then I played the Tom Skerritt role.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Nicole Parker]

In a beard.

[Laurel Coppock]

Beautiful performance.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you so much.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, it was. It was so surprising. That's what I loved about it.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what we were going for. That's what we were going for. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You saw all my son.

[Laurel Coppock]

I did, yep.

[Nicole Parker]

We always like to just put things on, turn them on their ear just a little bit here. Yeah, that's how we like to do it.

[Laurel Coppock]

I don't want to tell you what Daryl thought of it, but it wasn't positive, but I. Oh, you're kidding.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow. So he managed to get up and come out for that?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have to ask. I mean, the theater is a place where literally anyone can fall asleep. So did he manage to see any of the show or was he out like a light as soon as the lights went down?

[Laurel Coppock]

He was asleep. Yeah, he was asleep, but he had a strong review and it wasn't good.

[Nicole Parker]

Really.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did it give him bad dreams?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, something. Yeah, he must have taken in some of it.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, Lord. Okay. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Better luck next time, I guess.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Let's just do a special, I don't know, 6am Matinee for. When does he get up? Like, what's the time when he's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What are his waking hours?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, yeah. 10 to 4.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. So he wakes up, he eats dinner.

[Laurel Coppock]

Wait, no. It's 11 in the morning. 5.

[Nicole Parker]

11pm yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

No, no, no.

[Nicole Parker]

A.m. to 5. Okay, great. Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

11am 5. 11am To 5pm yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So this. So the 10pm Snack was. This was like a midnight snack for him.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. He dressed up in the middle of

[Nicole Parker]

the night, had dinner.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

In the kitchen. So it has to happen.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

This is a bizarre. Does this. Does this dynamic work for you?

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

What's great about it?

[Laurel Coppock]

It's great. Well, I get a lot of personal freedom.

[Nicole Parker]

I can do what I want when

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I want to, and that is sit in the window all day in the window.

[Laurel Coppock]

And I work at the post office. Please don't mention that.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, this is going out to a lot of people who listen. It is a podcast, just so you know. Are you okay with that?

[Laurel Coppock]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, well.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, that's.

[Nicole Parker]

It might be too late, but I

[Paul F. Tompkins]

don't know what Doug is putting that email that he sends to people when he won't book guests.

[Nicole Parker]

He keeps on changing the email. It used to be that they could only come contingent on them reading his pilot, evidently. Obviously about the man whose name Lee and sees evidence this time.

[Brett Morris]

I put a lot of stuff about how sometimes you guys have trouble with the th.

[Nicole Parker]

You did?

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, that's how she knew that.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, good. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, I read that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why would you put that in there?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, why? These emails are getting weird and weird, but all they need is the address and just, you know, the information of like.

[Brett Morris]

I don't want to give our address

[Nicole Parker]

to come hungry because I like to feed them.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You should always put in come having hungry.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And you should give the address because that's where we record.

[Brett Morris]

Address is the final exchange.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's all you need. Exchange. There's a back and forth.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They have to pass like a certain.

[Brett Morris]

They call me. And then I give them turn by turn directions.

[Nicole Parker]

Naf. I'm sorry. The voice you're hearing is my husband Doug, who sent you that email. But he's in another room. He's in the human claw machine room. Oh, there's no need to get into it, but sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Or to bring it up.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Sorry I did. Sorry I did that. I guess I'm wondering what made you the type of person that is constantly sitting at the window waiting for someone to attack you or to prank you. Has this always been your nature?

[Laurel Coppock]

Boy, those are big questions therapist would ask.

[Nicole Parker]

I know. I do tend to ask those questions and I am sorry, but I always. Probably because I'm an actress. I want to get to the. To the human inside. I want to find out if there's a pattern.

[Laurel Coppock]

I was a witness to that kind of vulnerability when you were on the stage dressed as a man.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, thank you so much.

[Laurel Coppock]

I really appreciate that.

[Nicole Parker]

I only had five lines, so small parts. That's correct. Only small beards. So I want to Know, I don't know. Did something happen to you as a kid where, you know, you were pranked and then this has made you on your guard always?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, probably. I'm trying to think.

[Nicole Parker]

You'd have to come up with one. I don't want to.

[Laurel Coppock]

I can. I could. Give me a picture, few minutes I could come up with.

[Nicole Parker]

Come to mind. I don't want to put you on the spot. Or maybe it's back to the lactose thing. When did you find out that you were lactose intolerant and how.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well I was informed of that. Very, very young. I think it was to do with my bowel movements.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Usually that's right.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think that's the sign number one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't think there's any other way to find out, is there?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I just meant, you know, was it was. Did it change your life in a way that was. Was bad or was it just. Oh, you just have to take some lactate. Did your family make you feel weird about it? I'm just trying to get to the bottom of why she's so on guard.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Laurel Coppock]

Pretty big probing. Yeah. I think my family didn't like this about me, so it's made me feel defensive about it.

[Nicole Parker]

There you go. That makes sense. That's so rude.

[Laurel Coppock]

Why?

[Nicole Parker]

Why didn't they like it about you? What? How did that manifest?

[Laurel Coppock]

It was inconvenient.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, I could see that.

[Laurel Coppock]

You know, making a meal and then you have to make a separate meal. It's a dry feel.

[Nicole Parker]

It's like a fairly easy thing to work around once you know how to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Speaking of someone who has food issues of his own.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Burnt. Cannot eat square food. I can't eat square shaped food.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. It makes me sick.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, God.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I know that sometimes that's difficult for my partner and I when we. If we go out to eat somewhere and sometimes you don't know what things are going to be square.

[Nicole Parker]

That is true.

[Laurel Coppock]

You'd be surprised.

[Brett Morris]

Wendy's burger,

[Paul F. Tompkins]

that was. I wish somebody had told me that.

[Nicole Parker]

That was a tough. I know.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

But what did they say to you to let you know that they didn't like it?

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, you know. Oh, that's right. You're lactose intolerant.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no. They say this in front of people, like in front of company.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, sure.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's terrible then. Nathalie, that's awful.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. No, I mean, well, yeah, it's a big inconvenience to my parents, to my siblings.

[Nicole Parker]

I shouldn't have Been made to feel that way.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you have nieces, nephews? Okay, I hate to say this.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is it possible that it's people in your own family who are doing this? Oh, because who else would care if you're lactose?

[Nicole Parker]

And that would sort of account for some adults, some people, some kids that would be in that group. Is that what you're saying? You think they left?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It covers the three groups because they

[Nicole Parker]

are on record as kind of taunting her about it or at least just making it very clear that they're engaged

[Paul F. Tompkins]

to be interpreted that way.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, this is an interesting question.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thank you.

[Laurel Coppock]

I'm going to pursue that theory to the death. I'm going to find out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I hope it doesn't come to that.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we'll see.

[Laurel Coppock]

We'll see. But I need to find out because I think you might be onto something that hadn't occurred to me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, if it's, you know, they seem to be the only people who have a problem with it and you.

[Nicole Parker]

Unless. Let's follow up on that. Have you gotten any pushback from anyone else in your life about your, like, co workers or.

[Laurel Coppock]

Most people are annoyed by it.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no. I'm so sorry. I. I can't even imagine being annoyed by that, you know?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, I can't imagine it affecting other people all that much.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, that's probably because you're not lactose intolerant, but you do have an issue.

[Nicole Parker]

That's a fair point. Well, that. Yes, that's.

[Laurel Coppock]

You know, and if I were around you a lot, I'd be annoyed with you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Laurel Coppock]

That whole square thing, I can see it as problematic, but it would come to annoy me eventually.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right. It just means that we can't share ravioli. That's all it means.

[Laurel Coppock]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know what I mean? So if that's important to you.

[Nicole Parker]

Some ravioli is circular. You could always.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wish more was.

[Laurel Coppock]

But I can sort of picture the interaction with the waiter and I'd be like. Big eye roll.

[Nicole Parker]

Really? I would think like, no electro. So that there's such an inconvenience.

[Laurel Coppock]

Look at that accent work.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, thank you.

[Laurel Coppock]

That's beautiful.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I would think, Nathalie. Excuse me? That you would be more empathetic because of your own condition rather than.

[Nicole Parker]

You're welcome.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, that's nice. No, no, hard.

[Nicole Parker]

No, hard. No, just a hard flat.

[Laurel Coppock]

No, no.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I ask you, how did you meet your sleepy husband?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what a great question.

[Laurel Coppock]

That is a great question. Okay. We met when I was in college. He was Working nights. And I went to the 711 and he was there working.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I see.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. And we really hit it off.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

What would you say? What caused the spark?

[Laurel Coppock]

How he really understood the lactose stuff.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, we did. That came up when you went through the 7 11.

[Laurel Coppock]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What would be your regular, sort of of shop at the 7 11? What would you get? College kid, you know, you're up late at night. What would you go to treat yourself?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, okay. I would get Twizzlers.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure. Oh, no milk.

[Laurel Coppock]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

No milk.

[Laurel Coppock]

No milk. A lot of Twizzlers.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

What are they called? The cinnamon ones that are chewy?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Red Cigarettes.

[Brett Morris]

Big Red.

[Nicole Parker]

There we go.

[Laurel Coppock]

Big Red.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, Big Red's a gum.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, it is.

[Laurel Coppock]

Red Hot.

[Nicole Parker]

Red Hots. That's it. That's it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Gum is chewy, though.

[Nicole Parker]

I'll give you that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Good.

[Brett Morris]

Chewy checks all the boxes.

[Laurel Coppock]

Red Hots.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

And a big glug of coke.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A big glug.

[Nicole Parker]

It's so crazy because when I eat spicy things, I do want milk, you know, Shockingly enough to tamp down the

[Brett Morris]

spice a little bit.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say that. That's just me. That's just me. Yeah. And so then you brought those things to the cash register and what did he say? What's the line he drops on you?

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, he said, you know, nothing with dairy in it. And then we really got into it

[Nicole Parker]

and he really understood it. That was the perfect pickup line for you, probably, that he'd caught onto that right away.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like a Sherlock Holmes of 7 11.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

So then what point did he decide to quit that job and only sleep

[Laurel Coppock]

within a week or two of that interaction? Actually, he quit and moved into my college dorm.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Was he. Oh, wow. Was that allowed? Did you have to kind of keep it secret?

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, we.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, we definitely kept it secret, probably.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is that when he started sleeping so much?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, actually.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So probably easy to keep it a secret if he's.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, he sleeps out cold most of the time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And did you ask him about it, why this is. And did he sleep normally before?

[Laurel Coppock]

Gosh, I haven't asked too many questions about it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You really haven't?

[Nicole Parker]

No, not really to you, I assume this is your norm, but could you appreciate that that's actually not how most people live their day? Unless they have a graveyard shift, which it sound like you used to have?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. No, I can tell that that's not normal. You're right.

[Nicole Parker]

Like, I Said, unless you work at

[Laurel Coppock]

Mitch, you know, I don't make a big thing about it.

[Nicole Parker]

Right.

[Laurel Coppock]

But there's not a health concern.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, there's a few health concerns. Oh, yeah. On his end.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. What are those? Well, what are.

[Laurel Coppock]

If you're sleeping this much, is something else going on?

[Nicole Parker]

Like, I'm not a doctor. Okay, maybe.

[Laurel Coppock]

Maybe a ticker heart.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe a ticker heart, yeah. You don't want a ticker heart.

[Laurel Coppock]

Nope.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A ticker heart is where it's a condition unique to people indignant.

[Brett Morris]

It is.

[Nicole Parker]

It is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it's. Your blood in your heart can sometimes congeal into a sort of a thin, flat. You know, just. Well, it looks like a little ticker tape, and it starts just spewing out of your heart. Eventually, it can work its way up to come out of your mouth.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, God, I'm dreading that. If this is what's going on, I

[Paul F. Tompkins]

hope it doesn't happen. I hope it doesn't happen now.

[Laurel Coppock]

Why sometimes you become a doctor, it sounds like you know so much.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, I. I like. I like being a pharmacist because I. I like knowing some things, but not thinking that I know everything, which is what I think doctors are like.

[Nicole Parker]

Whoa.

[Laurel Coppock]

You should write that down.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I have.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, but you wouldn't be able to read it. No, that's just kidding. I always make that wrong choice. I always like to joke about you can't read prescription slips and try to have it as a fun joke on Burton. Then he reminds me. No, it's the doctors that write them. But I still make that mistake a lot.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Still do.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm really sorry about it. It.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. But. Yeah. So you think it might be ticker heart? Has anything come out of his mouth? Because we also call it fortune cookie disease.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, God, that's good. No, I haven't seen anything yet.

[Brett Morris]

I'm dreading that you have to say in bed after.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. Thanks, babe. Good chime in, Doug.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But you have to say it. Sadly. Have you thought about.

[Nicole Parker]

Wait, there were other health concerns. I wanted to hear what else she's worried about. About okay with Daryl. Is that okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, of course it is.

[Nicole Parker]

All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I was just gonna say, why don't you go to a doctor? But go ahead.

[Nicole Parker]

I just want to know what else is going on with him.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, could it be sleep apnea?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, usually you don't get that. Well, I mean, I guess it makes

[Paul F. Tompkins]

you less sleep, I think.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, you get less sleep or you just have more rest. Less sleep. So maybe he Is.

[Laurel Coppock]

It's about quality.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, look at you, too. Now you can call her Nas. Now you can call her Nas.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You made that connection.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. That's pretty good. I was want to kind of get a copy of that quote.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, sure. I have it on a card. I'll be happy to.

[Nicole Parker]

What? What? So. So you think because he snores. He's snoring.

[Laurel Coppock]

He snores.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, that should be looked at.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah, he does. He does. He talks into sleep.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What does he. I'm fascinated by that. What does he say?

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, yeah, me too. Me too. I do like to kind of creep up on him.

[Nicole Parker]

And listen, you can also put an app on your phone. I mean, this would be involving WI fi, but it records what you say at night. What? Yes, it does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Have you ever done that?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Only one time.

[Laurel Coppock]

Is that legal?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

To record yourself?

[Nicole Parker]

Myself? Yes. It's fine. I don't think anyone else is listening to it. I mean.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can't plant a phone in someone else's.

[Nicole Parker]

All I did was recite the entire librett of Sunny park with George.

[Brett Morris]

What?

[Nicole Parker]

And it was. I sounded amazing.

[Laurel Coppock]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

In order.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow.

[Nicole Parker]

Weird thing is, I can't do it awake. I always get. I get a little bit lost in the middle of it, but I can do it. I did it at night.

[Laurel Coppock]

God, if only you could sleep while you perform.

[Nicole Parker]

Wouldn't that be great?

[Laurel Coppock]

That would be incredible.

[Nicole Parker]

Maybe your husband would like it better.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

He would.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe meet up in the dream world like Inception.

[Laurel Coppock]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. I'm interested.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Brett Morris]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

I just don't know if we can make it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's not something we can arrange.

[Nicole Parker]

We can't promise.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, it is interesting.

[Nicole Parker]

It sure is.

[Laurel Coppock]

Hang it. Okay. Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

I. I feel like I don't know how to help you because I. I know that you're a private person, and I feel like you feel like you've been probed too much by me. So I don't want to do any more probing.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I would say one thing. The issue that you came here for, the cheese in the driveway and the other foodstuffs in the driveway, the sandwich

[Nicole Parker]

ingredients in the driveway.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I totally understand that. It's annoying. It's not. Nobody wants that.

[Nicole Parker]

Although. Can I stop for a minute? What kind of sandwich would that be? It's going to be a half sandwich, and it's just butter and one piece of cheese.

[Laurel Coppock]

It's a grilled cheese.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh. I knew that because there would be. I would Assume a second piece of bread, Doug. At some point.

[Nicole Parker]

But there wasn't, was there?

[Laurel Coppock]

No, not yet.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. I just find that it's ongoing. It's not a complete. Yeah, but how long has it been?

[Laurel Coppock]

It's an open face.

[Nicole Parker]

It's an open face.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I love an open face. Grilled cheese

[Laurel Coppock]

sounds amazing.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no, just picture a circular one. I. I think that you're thinking of the square shape. Okay, just calm down. Bert is gonna be fine. All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

On an English muffin.

[Nicole Parker]

There you go. Grilled cheese on an English muffin. All right, well, I thought I was on to something, but I guess I wasn't. I guess I just. I. What I want you to do is to try not living next to your window. Just go home. That's interesting. Maybe go in and have a chat

[Paul F. Tompkins]

with your husband for being in the window so much.

[Laurel Coppock]

You know, I mean, I hate to admit. Admit that you might be right, but it's true.

[Nicole Parker]

What is it? That was from the famous. What's her name is Kravitz. What's that from?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Mrs. Kravitz from Bewitched.

[Nicole Parker]

Bewitched. Who just sits and looks out the window all the time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, she's a little busy.

[Nicole Parker]

Is that bad?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, she did see Supernatural goings on. Oh, and she was dismissed as a crank. Okay, but they were happening. She did see them.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, never mind. Maybe that's not.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And nobody listened to her. She was a Cassandra.

[Brett Morris]

There's the mother from Psycho.

[Nicole Parker]

The mother from Psycho. How is that thing?

[Brett Morris]

Is she in the window?

[Nicole Parker]

She's dead. So that she can't be looking. Yeah, I think you're thinking of Rear Window, Babe, because that's another Alfred Hitchcock movie where Jimmy Stewart is at.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Jimmy Stewart.

[Nicole Parker]

He thinks he sees a murder across the street.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think there is an image, though, of a silhouette.

[Nicole Parker]

There is, but she's not watching anybody.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But he also is. Sorry, this is a big spoiler for this moldy old movie. He does dress up as her.

[Nicole Parker]

He does. He does. He does. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Then he lovingly puts the wig on the skeleton.

[Nicole Parker]

And he inspired so many horror movies. And then they had to make An American Horror Story about it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Never thought about that before. What, puts the wig on the skeleton?

[Nicole Parker]

Yep, he does. He sure does.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then also.

[Nicole Parker]

And it's also insulting, I think it's ageist. To just think all you need to do to make a skeleton look like an old lady is just put the hair on her, because otherwise they look exactly the same. I'm sensitive about aging. I'm sensitive about aging.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I take your point. I also like when. When the skeleton spins around in the chair and then it gives a last.

[Brett Morris]

Like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like, get a load of me. Like we see it's a skeleton. Like it's turning around slowly, slowly.

[Nicole Parker]

We knew it was going to be such a joke. Jump scare. They had to give a little extra.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry, Nathalie. To take time away.

[Laurel Coppock]

In fact, if you guys want to have some kind of movie group, I've joined.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we pretty much sometimes are almost accused of being a movie podcast because it comes up all the time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It does.

[Nicole Parker]

But I do think that Burnt has a point. And that you might want to move away from the window, move into your life.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you know what I mean?

[Nicole Parker]

Your life is inside. It's not outside that window. It's inside with your husband who sleeps a lot. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe do something about the sleeping so much. Maybe try to address that.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Because I think, even though I think you are so used to it that you might not realize it isn't the norm. And nor my gosh, Bird. What's great is happening.

[Brett Morris]

It's great.

[Nicole Parker]

She thought it was great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Joan, I have to tell you, I tried so hard not to do that.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you really? Wow. You didn't try hard enough.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I really did. And then I collapsed.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, that's something.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Babe, you're way too late. I can't believe that you. That is such a Doug move.

[Laurel Coppock]

What does it look like when you try.

[Nicole Parker]

Why are you sleeping on that?

[Brett Morris]

I've been upside down. The blood is all.

[Nicole Parker]

You put yourself back up. I went to let you down at the break. You put yourself back up there.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, I had to.

[Nicole Parker]

God, you don't learn anything.

[Brett Morris]

That's not the nicest thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I'm sorry. Let me rephrase. Let me clarify. You don't learn anything when you're working on these rooms sometimes and you put yourself in a compromising position.

[Brett Morris]

I appreciate that wording.

[Laurel Coppock]

It's a nice way to work together. I don't have too many interactions. Cause he sleeps.

[Nicole Parker]

Only this is what I'm saying. You need to have more interactions. Play a board game, watch a movie. Watch Psycho. And that'll keep him awake.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You're supporting both of you. He's not contributing to the household, is he?

[Laurel Coppock]

No.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's a problem.

[Brett Morris]

Smelling salts.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, that's an interesting idea.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, I don't know that that's a long term fix. I don't think it is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What if it works just once?

[Nicole Parker]

I guess so. To keep him up. You have to. You have to switch a circadian rhythm. Do you know what I mean? Because he used to be on, like, a graveyard shift sort of situation, but now he's actually sleeping through, I don't know, two shifts at this point.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

When he slipped around, when you talk to him about it, because you must have. When he was in the dorm and he. The first time he slept for 18 hours.

[Laurel Coppock]

Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What was the conversation?

[Laurel Coppock]

You know, you slept a long time. And he said, I don't know. And I said, oh, okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's a very unsettling conversation.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It is. And then you never spoke of it again. Have we.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. I think that's our answer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you have to ask.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. Not much. If we have. It doesn't ring a bell.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, Nathalie, I don't like this for you. I want you to have some better companionship, so I would recommend that you go home. No, I don't. It's not a judgment. I. I think that you deserve that. You do, and I do, because you're obviously a hard worker, and I think that you're fixated on people on the outside that are trying to get at you. But what. I think the reason why you're looking outside is because you don't want to turn around and look inside. Do you know what I'm saying?

[Laurel Coppock]

You should write that down.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I will. I will. We'll send you home with our quotes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We should do that for everybody from now on.

[Nicole Parker]

Send them home. If you put it on a towel, too.

[Laurel Coppock]

I would put it in my kitchen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that's nice.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Okay, What I'm gonna do is put it on your window. So when you approach it to look outside, then you'll be reminded.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Write it backwards on the window.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, wow. And then I'll get a mirror and I'll read it.

[Nicole Parker]

There you go.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Then it will be right the right way to you.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, the things are always confusing.

[Laurel Coppock]

I can't follow all the backwards and forwards, but hopefully I can read it.

[Nicole Parker]

I hope it's gonna do just fine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Now, I'm gonna say this with some judgment. I. I think that your. Your husband sleeping 18 hours a day is a problem.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think it's a problem that it.

[Brett Morris]

For so long.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How. How long have we been together?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, about 20 years.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. That's a long time to be sleeping. 18 hours.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And I think you need to do something about that. Or maybe just, you know, also, does

[Nicole Parker]

he even move his body? Because there's got to be some atrophy

[Paul F. Tompkins]

there's way too much sores. Ooh.

[Laurel Coppock]

What a good question. I. I should look into it further, but I don't want to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, I get.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what? You might have to. And I think in sort of the discovery of that, you'll realize, oh, hang on a second. This isn't normal. This is a problem. And maybe you guys take a walk together, then you're outside, you're with your neighbors, they become less of a stranger to you. You can start to identify them between person and kid. And I think that that would be really great. So only go outside when you're with him. Take walks outside, talk with them inside. Yeah, maybe I'll write that down.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe go to family therapy with your family, who have such an issue with you.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, yeah, that's a pretty good idea. How much is that? Do you have a name?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do I have a name of a family therapist?

[Nicole Parker]

You know, Joyce Van Pelt is very good.

[Laurel Coppock]

I've seen her ads.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, she has the bus stop bench ads. Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

She's a psychic therapist, so it can be tricky because she'll just be like, I know, right? But she wears animal pelts.

[Brett Morris]

What did you say on the ad? She's wearing animal pelts.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's like her gimmick on the ads.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, she is Dutch, but. But, yeah. Yes, that. That's. She leans into it. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

She's holding a big club, saying, me fix family.

[Nicole Parker]

She has a hut with a thatched roof, but it gets you. It gets you connected to the earth and to sort of what it is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Mastodons on a couch

[Nicole Parker]

and a dinosaur for a dishwasher. Anyways,

[Paul F. Tompkins]

it's a living. So, I mean, do you. Do you feel like we've helped you at all today?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, maybe not with that last bit, but, yeah. Any help? Did you feel like you got any help?

[Laurel Coppock]

Actually, yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, good.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, we really like to try to do that here. That's all we're trying to do. Ever.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So. So. Leaving here today, what. What do you think your next steps are going to be?

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay, I've got to run by the post office. I left a check.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. Yeah, I have to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I guess I wasn't thinking.

[Laurel Coppock]

That's okay. I have to do it. And if I don't, I can't schedule, so I can't not go.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

That was in the immediate. How about for the next month? What are your goals going to be?

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, I'll be working. I have that steady gig.

[Nicole Parker]

Right.

[Laurel Coppock]

Am I going to talk to Daryl? Probably not.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I Think you should.

[Nicole Parker]

After all that, we're sending you home with quotes.

[Laurel Coppock]

No, I do hope to get those quotes. That'll be. That'll be the number one. One thing I hope to take away from this is two physical versions of the quotes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, we. We will do that for you.

[Nicole Parker]

But.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But we. We want. I guess we want, like, a little promise that you're going to try.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

To address some of these concerns.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah. How likely am I getting the quotes? Is it for sure?

[Nicole Parker]

It's 100%. I will. Yes.

[Laurel Coppock]

And what are they going to look like? Are they on paper or something better.

[Nicole Parker]

I will embroider it for you today. Yeah, I'm pretty fast.

[Laurel Coppock]

Oh, all right. Well, if I walk out with the embroidered quotes on towels.

[Nicole Parker]

Towels, kitchen towels, and Doug can fax it to you if you want.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He's got a facsimile machine.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay. I could receive that at the post office. I could receive it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can you embroider my quote? Because if not, I'm gonna have to hit up zazzle.

[Laurel Coppock]

That's fine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. But that's gonna take some time.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I can't have it sent directly to your address.

[Laurel Coppock]

Well, I'm not gonna give you that. But you can send it to the post office.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I can send it to the post office?

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Laurel Coppock]

Or walk it over.

[Brett Morris]

I have to go to the post office anyway. I have to have a confession.

[Laurel Coppock]

Nice. Good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They do hear confessions.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Brett Morris]

I put helium in some of the packages we sent out to lower the weight.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You get into a big envelope, and the contents of the envelope are private.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we wish you the best of. Luckily, we always do. And.

[Laurel Coppock]

And thank you.

[Nicole Parker]

Maybe you'll see at the post office here and there, and I'll check in on you.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah, you might.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, you might. All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right. Nathalie, you're one slippery customer. We'll be back with the neighborhood.

[Brett Morris]

Listen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

When the neighbor. Listen. Returns.

[Nicole Parker]

Hi, this is Laura. Free.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Free.

[Nicole Parker]

Assorted clothes hangers.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Free.

[Nicole Parker]

Various colors and types of clothes hangers free. Porch pickup only. Listen, y'.

[Brett Morris]

All.

[Nicole Parker]

If you can y' all untangle this absolute rat's nest of hangers, then you know what? You get them for free. I. I could not do it. I have. I have wrestled with these. I. It broke up my marriage because it kept me up day and night, okay? So listen, don't let this happen to you. I need to see you untangle it in my porch pickup only. I need to see you when you're coming here. I need to see that you can do it, because otherwise this will just follow you and it'll drag you to hell. Come and get it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen.

[Brett Morris]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow, Nathalie. That husband's a problem.

[Nicole Parker]

It's bizarre, isn't it? I mean, it is really. I never want to. You never know what people are going through, and you never want to cast judgment. I mean, look at. My husband. Builds hundreds of home. Hundreds of rooms in my home. And that's. That's crazy. That's also crazy, by the way.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, it's.

[Nicole Parker]

Sorry, but it's. It's crazy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's deranged. But. But it's the sleeping thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, that's just hard. There's no way that guy's doing well.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why does he bother waking up for the floor?

[Nicole Parker]

Just going to cryo sleep, for God's sake. At that point, you might as well.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Speaking of Sigourney Weaver, I can't believe

[Nicole Parker]

she's in that movie. That is crazy. I think that's kind of cool. What a cool person to just be associated with the world of sci fi, basically be the queen of it. It's so cool.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

I love her.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think she's wonderful. She's my favorite. Sigourney.

[Nicole Parker]

Where did that name come from?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you know? One time I heard somebody pronounce it Sigourney.

[Nicole Parker]

Nope, that's not okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think they intimated that was the correct way to pronounce it, but I can't believe that.

[Nicole Parker]

There's no way. There's no way.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It shouldn't.

[Nicole Parker]

Nope. It shouldn't be pronounced that way. Better not be, babe. Did you end up getting the coin?

[Brett Morris]

Didn't get the coin. Okay. But I was able to grab some food.

[Nicole Parker]

What food did you put in there? And what is it cased in?

[Brett Morris]

There's like marshmallows.

[Nicole Parker]

There's just marshmallows.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's a good food.

[Nicole Parker]

No. And someone's like, well, I don't want

[Brett Morris]

to eat too much.

[Nicole Parker]

I had a nice lunch. I don't picture you just had a marshmallow. Are they big or small? They jumbo big. Big, big, big, big.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hey, can I get your sandwich or anything? No, thanks. I just had a bunch of.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm good.

[Brett Morris]

I don't want to fill up, though, cuz. Can't wait for dinner, which is going

[Paul F. Tompkins]

to be circus peanuts.

[Brett Morris]

I don't know. I thought we were having vanilla chicken tonight.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, God, he wants my vanilla chicken.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Everyone loves your vanilla chicken.

[Nicole Parker]

Everyone loves my vanilla chicken. I know, but it shouldn't work. Labor Intensive. It shouldn't work.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It shouldn't work.

[Nicole Parker]

It shouldn't work. I ring out the beans.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yourself. Yourself.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I do. I stuff the chicken with the beans. But I also use the stock. I use the stock.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I like it because it has the flex in it. So you get a real vanilla.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. But then I do pour vanilla extract all over the outside.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All over the outside.

[Nicole Parker]

It's a. It's a. It's a soy and vanilla glaze.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it's baked in, like a puddle of vanilla.

[Nicole Parker]

It's baked in a puddle. It's baked in a puddle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And it's baked. What. What it's baked in is actually a gigantic. Well, how do I describe it? It's like it looks like a bedpan, but it's not. But everyone calls it that.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wish you hadn't put that image.

[Brett Morris]

Everyone calls it a bedpan.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What is it if it's not a bedpan?

[Nicole Parker]

Fine. Okay. It's a bedpan.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

But not used as such.

[Nicole Parker]

No, never, never, never, never.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It just works perfectly.

[Nicole Parker]

I went to. I went to a medical supply store once because I looked up this recipe and people were just going mad for it and they were like, but it has to be baked in a bed pan. There's actually a book that is non

[Paul F. Tompkins]

negotiable if you want it to turn out right.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, there's a book called Bed Pan Bakes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

And. And there's only four recipes in there, but they're all pretty brief book.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Big, big font.

[Brett Morris]

There's the pan pizza.

[Nicole Parker]

There's a bread pudding, bed pan pizza. Bed pan, bed pan, bread pudding, bed

[Paul F. Tompkins]

bread, pud the chicken. And then what's the fourth one?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, a kind of wine you can do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. It's not toilet wine.

[Nicole Parker]

Nope.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because that's for prison. They don't have access to an oven.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. But it is no bake. It's actually the no bake.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No bake wine. It's an ice box one.

[Nicole Parker]

So there's only three. Yeah, there's three recipes and the extra at the back. So, yeah, it's. It's a it. I'll make it, babe. Because, you know, I really love it when people that. Or did you just get another marshmallow?

[Brett Morris]

That's for that. That's for the vanilla chicken.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's for that.

[Brett Morris]

That's. You want to stay for dinner? Burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, I wouldn't mind.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

All right, well, I'll. All right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Gabby's having celebratory drinks. With the rest of the smoke jumpers.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And the Rotary Club was instrumental in.

[Nicole Parker]

Were they?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. You want to elaborate on that or. Just wanted to say that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I just remember there were a lot of guys saying, finally, it's our time.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because I've never been really sure. I just thought the Rotary Club was some sort of.

[Nicole Parker]

I have no idea what they do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Pseudo charitable organization, you know, whatever club. But they. Apparently they had some purpose that we did not know about.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And most of them came back.

[Nicole Parker]

No. Okay. I'm not going to get into that right now. We have one final post here and I seem to always find posts like this. And. And you know what I always say, this is not what this app is for.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

So this is from Irma. Irma. Yep.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How many Irmas are still walking the earth, do you think?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are we almost out of them?

[Nicole Parker]

We might be in short supply. Now, here's the picture. It is a picture of just, you know, sort of like a window sill or something with a bunch of tiny black dots. And she says, what are these tiny bugs I have never seen before? They are in my kitchen and they fly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How many question marks on there?

[Nicole Parker]

There is actually just one. But I think it still deserved a read like that because it's insane.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That. That is what threw her for a loop.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Because that's not a shocking thing with a bug.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

Generally, most insects. I don't want to get myself in trouble here, but a lot of them fly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You've seen a flying insect.

[Nicole Parker]

Many of them fly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

So that should not be.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not a breakthrough in bug.

[Nicole Parker]

Not bewilder her. And. And again, all you have to do is take a picture of this. Google can now show you what it is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

In fact, you know, maybe I could that right now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. I would have taken a closer picture of the bugs rather than a master shot.

[Nicole Parker]

Truly just looks like mold.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Which I think it. But that mole doesn't fly. So that's how we.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I thought it was mouse droppings.

[Nicole Parker]

Ew. Yes, perhaps. Sorry, but they wouldn't fly. What do you think they look like, babe? I think they're fruit flies. Don't they look like fruit flies?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Probably just fruit flies.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, I think it's probably just fruit flies.

[Brett Morris]

It could be like, you know, peppercorn.

[Nicole Parker]

You think there's a bunch of peppercorns scattered on our windowsill?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It might be too small for peppercorns.

[Nicole Parker]

I do think it is too small, babe. For peppercorns.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You Gotta grind a peppercorn.

[Brett Morris]

You know what I mean?

[Nicole Parker]

Sure do. You really gotta put some elbow grease into it.

[Brett Morris]

Grind set.

[Nicole Parker]

It's sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's what the grind set is all about. Fresh. Fresh ground pepper. Distance yourself from people. Don't have friends. You want pepper, this is what you got to do.

[Brett Morris]

Grind it yourself.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Only. Only have people in your life who are helping you grind pepper.

[Laurel Coppock]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, it says they're likely fungus gnats. That's close to a mold. I was not.

[Laurel Coppock]

You were.

[Nicole Parker]

I wasn't wrong with it looking like mold.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, you weren't.

[Nicole Parker]

But I'm sorry to know now that there's a thing called fungus.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I would have been okay without that knowledge.

[Nicole Parker]

They're only. They're tiny black or dark brown insects often found in large numbers near windows or house plants. Plants.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Black or dark brown.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, I know. And the adults are weak flyers, which is interesting to know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's a little sad. Gets harder to. Well, look, a lot of things get harder to do as you get older.

[Nicole Parker]

And to control them. Allow house plant soil to dry out between waterings. And consider using yellow sticky traps, which are one of the most horrifying, upsetting things ever.

[Brett Morris]

Oh, 100 yellow sticky traps.

[Nicole Parker]

Yellow sticky traps. I hate them.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah, I can grab one. One if you need one out of the sky.

[Nicole Parker]

Why do you.

[Brett Morris]

No, there's. That's one of the prizes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I thought you meant one of the books.

[Nicole Parker]

Why would you make that one of the prizes?

[Brett Morris]

I needed to fill some space. We didn't. We don't have a lot of prizes.

[Nicole Parker]

You can't tell me that you. In the house, you just grab stuff from our home.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Prizes in the house.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you put things of mine in plastic balls?

[Brett Morris]

Maybe. You have plenty.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God. What did you put in there? My jewelry. What?

[Brett Morris]

No more feminine products. Project products.

[Nicole Parker]

So what does that mean? Did you put. Did you put tampons in a plastic ball?

[Brett Morris]

Well, yeah. Because you can. Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That's not a prize.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because you can.

[Brett Morris]

What?

[Nicole Parker]

Because you can. Yeah.

[Brett Morris]

Well, they have a little string. I could. I thought I could grab that.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God, babe, I don't even know what to say. This is so upsetting.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So they're not even in a ball, they're just loose.

[Nicole Parker]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just wish you had put my jewelry in there. Okay, I think that's all for us, right, Burns? I mean, this has been a daffy episode.

[Brett Morris]

I won't be upset.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It has been daffy. Down to the down.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. I think we got to get out of here. Thank you so much.

[Nicole Parker]

We're gonna get out of here and we're gonna eat vanilla chicken.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Thank you so much for listening and if you'd like to get ad free versions of the show or gang NASA.

[Brett Morris]

Oh, what?

[Nicole Parker]

What Gang NASA.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You gotta. You gotta take over.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I just collapsed. I just collapsed inwardly.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Brett Morris]

Or listen to bonus rooms.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, look at you, babe. Good for you.

[Brett Morris]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

On cbb world.com.

[Laurel Coppock]

right.

[Nicole Parker]

We still don't know what that is.

[Brett Morris]

No idea. But it's a whole world.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, you can get.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Don't you dare shut your eyes.

[Brett Morris]

There's tons of other shows to.

[Nicole Parker]

There's other shows.

[Brett Morris]

Nothing to do with.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We have nothing to do with the other shows on CBB World. Yes. And. Oh, you're back in.

[Nicole Parker]

Welcome back.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thank you for having me. Yeah. We have a lot of fun stuff in the bonus feed. Some of the stuff is beyond our control.

[Nicole Parker]

It is.

[Laurel Coppock]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But do check that out. And of course, follow us on Instagram at the Neighborhood Listen, where you can see the posts that we use. So some of these have visual components that you can see. We're not trying to hide anything from you.

[Nicole Parker]

No, we are. We want to be upfront about everything. We're trying. We're a very transparent podcast, Mr. Policeman.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We give you all the clues.

[Brett Morris]

Tell a friend.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Tell a friend. Spread the word about the show.

[Brett Morris]

I don't think we've ever said that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, we haven't, but you know we haven't. Spread the word.

[Nicole Parker]

Spread the word.

[Brett Morris]

Say you've been listening.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Turn people on to this. So are you tired of listening to celebrities talk about the TV show they used to be on? Why don't you listen to these three people talk about a neighborhood you don't live in?

[Nicole Parker]

All right, goodbye and bye. All of the posts used in this episode were real. Only some geographical specifics have been changed.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Neighborhood Listen is hosted and produced by me, Paul F. Tompkins, and me,

[Brett Morris]

Nicole Parker, and me, Brett Morris.

[Nicole Parker]

Today's guest was played by Laurel Coppock.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Neighborhood Listen is a production of Comedy Bang Bang world.

[Nicole Parker]

Go to cbbworld.com to unlock the entire history of the show. Ad Free, as well as brand new full length bonus room episodes exclusive to Maximus subscribers. Your support keeps the show going. Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sterling K. Brown. And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that was us now on Head Coach.

[Nicole Parker]

Each episode we're gonna go into a deep dive from our show. This is us that's right. We're gonna go episode by episode. We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are we gonna cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we gonna laugh a lot?

[Laurel Coppock]

A whole lot.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's what I'm hoping, man. Listen to that was us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.