When Nothing Happens, Everybody Is Happy with Mitch Silpa

Summary

The Neighborhood Listen: "When Nothing Happens, Everybody Is Happy with Mitch Silpa"

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Introduction

In the season finale of "The Neighborhood Listen," hosts Burnt Millipede (Paul F. Tompkins) and Joan Pedestrian (Nicole Parker) delve into the intriguing dynamics of Dignity Falls through a captivating story submitted by a local resident. Joined by their engineer and Joan's husband, Doug (Brett Morris), the trio navigates through themes of neighborly relations, personal backstories, and the enigmatic Oracle Cave that adds a mystical layer to their hometown.

The Red Chevy Pickup Incident

The episode begins with the reading of a post from Duke, a neighbor in Dignity Falls, detailing an encounter with a red Chevy pickup truck and its owner, Chris. Duke recounts how around 4:45 PM, Chris pulled up to his yard to request running his dog on Duke's property. Duke explains his reluctance due to an unstable fence and concerns over legal liability.

Notable Quote:

Duke (00:39:30): "When nothing happens, everybody is happy."

This incident sets the stage for discussions about trust, community safety, and the complexities of neighborly interactions.

Guest Appearance: Mitch Silpa as Chris

Mitch Silpa guest stars as Chris, the charming yet enigmatic man with "crystal clear bluish green eyes." Through an improvisational dialogue, Chris's character reveals layers of his personality, including his love for movies like "Romancing the Stone" and his graceful demeanor reminiscent of classic actors like James Cagney and Fred Astaire.

Notable Quote:

Chris (00:54:10): "I'll put a star on your anus."

This humorous yet awkward interaction highlights the show's signature blend of wit and character-driven storytelling.

Duke's Family Backstory

As the conversation unfolds, Duke shares a deeply personal narrative about his strict upbringing. His father, named Flip (short for Flipper), was formal and distant, preferring handshakes over hugs, while his mother, Beautiful Corn (née Crueler), was affectionate and nurturing, sewing raggedy dolls for her children.

Notable Quote:

Duke (00:47:18): "We don't deserve things because he's... he came from the south so he had nothing."

This backstory provides insight into Duke's reserved nature and his guarded interactions with neighbors like Chris.

The Oracle Cave and Its Mystical Elements

A recurring motif in the episode is the Oracle Cave, a mystical pool transformed by Doug into the Oracle Pool. The cave serves as a place where beautiful Corn conducts her fortune-telling, offering predictions that have a significant impact on the community.

Notable Quote:

Doug (00:23:48): "She's always giving people fortunes and predictions. She has been right oftentimes."

The Oracle Cave symbolizes the intersection of the mundane and the magical in Dignity Falls, adding depth to the neighborhood's narrative.

Discussion on Reality vs. Perception

The hosts engage in a meta-conversation about their roles, blending their characters' realities with their own. They touch upon themes of memory, perception, and the blurred lines between fiction and reality within the podcast's universe.

Notable Quote:

Paul (00:83:00): "You have to look at it just for one second."

This segment emphasizes the show's playful exploration of storytelling and character development.

Community and Relationships

Throughout the episode, the importance of community ties and relationships is a central theme. Duke's desire to protect his property and his eventual softening towards Chris reflect broader conversations about trust, forgiveness, and the complexities of neighborly bonds.

Notable Quote:

Duke (00:76:06): "All things are constantly not going well."

This sentiment echoes the episode's title, suggesting that underlying tensions can disrupt apparent harmony within the community.

Conclusion

As the season wraps up, Burnt Millipede and Joan Pedestrian reflect on the diverse and colorful personalities that make up Dignity Falls. They express gratitude to their listeners and tease the upcoming bonus room episodes available through their Maximus membership at cbbworld.com.

Notable Quote:

Nicole (00:95:02): "We had a really lovely time. What a wonderful and diverse bunch of people."

The episode culminates in a blend of humor, heartfelt storytelling, and intriguing character interactions, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating the next season.

Key Takeaways:

• Neighborly Relations: The balance between trust and caution in community interactions.
• Personal Backstories: How upbringing and family dynamics shape individual behaviors.
• Mystical Elements: The Oracle Cave as a symbol of the magical undercurrents in everyday life.
• Humor and Wit: The use of humor to navigate complex social scenarios.
• Community Diversity: The richness brought by a variety of personalities within Dignity Falls.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Duke on Happiness: "[00:62:32] 'When nothing happens, everybody is happy.'
• Chris's Awkward Line: "[00:54:10] 'I'll put a star on your anus.'"
• Duke on Family: "[00:47:18] 'We don't deserve things because he's... he came from the south so he had nothing.'"
• Doug on the Oracle: "[00:23:48] 'She's always giving people fortunes and predictions. She has been right oftentimes.'"
• Paul on Perception: "[00:83:00] 'You have to look at it just for one second.'"
• Nicole on Community: "[00:95:02] 'We had a really lovely time. What a wonderful and diverse bunch of people.'"

This detailed summary captures the essence of the episode, highlighting key discussions, character developments, and the unique charm that "The Neighborhood Listen" brings to its portrayal of Dignity Falls.

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.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Listen. Knock, knock.

[Nicole Parker]

Who's there?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your neighbor.

[Nicole Parker]

Good in dignity fall. You've got the neighbor half AV and.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Us, Vern and Joan.

[Nicole Parker]

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.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Listen. Welcome once more. And for the final time this season.

[Nicole Parker]

Just this season, not final time. Don't get worried. It's not final. Final.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right. I. I did say this season.

[Nicole Parker]

I know you did.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Immediately.

[Nicole Parker]

I think I was saying, for me, I got really sad for a minute. I think I was like, oh, no, I can't imagine. I can't imagine. I can't imagine ever. I ever. What is it? What is it? The one. What? I know it's already not a movie podcast and we're already talking about a movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not a movie.

[Nicole Parker]

But, you know, famously, in Sound of Music, you know, when she goes to the Mother Abbess, you know, and she says, I. I can't, I can't. And she says, what is it? Oh, someone just turned the volume up really high and burns ears. And he made a face I've never seen him make before.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was like.

[Nicole Parker]

We are off to a quite a start.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I felt like I was at Gitmo and they were trying to get some information out of me.

[Nicole Parker]

But you've never been to Gitmo, right? Burnt.

[Duke]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't think. Not that I know of.

[Nicole Parker]

What I was going to say is, you know that famous line, mother Abbess? And she says, what is it? What is this? You can't face right now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm not familiar with this.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, you got to look it up. It's real funny. That's incredible because that's really what she says.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's incredible.

[Nicole Parker]

Definitely what she says. Sweet mother abductor.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you think the actors didn't like each other?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, absolutely. Everyone hated Julie Andrews.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Famous monster.

[Nicole Parker]

Famous monster. But yes. I can't imagine our final episode. So I got really sad and I. And I had to convince myself, no, it's Only for now. Only for now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes. I'm gonna. I'm gonna restart the introduction because we really didn't get that.

[Nicole Parker]

Can you. How are your ears? Can you. Are you okay?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I could do with a little less of my cans right now. That was helpful. Thank you very much, Doug. We'll meet our engineer in one second.

[Nicole Parker]

He will be our engineer in one second. Right now. He's not.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The engineer will reveal. You're on probation right now, so welcome to the Neighborhood Listen for the final time this season. Of course, we will be back next season, but this is our season finale. This is the Neighborhood Listen, the podcast that looks at the neighborhood of Dignity Falls. For through the eyes of its inhabitants, I am one of them. My name is Burt Miapede. I am the chief. Well, pharmacist in chief. I should. I could have said chief pharmacist has gotten away with it.

[Nicole Parker]

You totally could have. You totally could have.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's the same thing. It's just.

[Nicole Parker]

I know. It's a real hang up. The pharmacist in chief is a real hang up. It turns out it's just. It's a mouthful. It really is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like, you know who I feel like? Spider man from the 1960s cartoon.

[Nicole Parker]

Why is that?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wherever there's a hang up. Because they say. They say this was not for children. No, because the theme song ends by saying to him, life is a great big hang up. Wherever there's a hang up, you'll find the spider man.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That's bleak.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And there was something about that.

[Nicole Parker]

Sounds like the way someone's dad talks. Yeah. It's not for kids.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Life is a great big hang up.

[Nicole Parker]

Exactly, dude.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Don Draper. Who wrote this? Roger Sterling. It was a very bleak cartoon in the way that it looked.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm not familiar with.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It sounded. Oh, do yourself a disfavor and look up some clips on YouTube.

[Nicole Parker]

Sounds great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's a bummer.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Anyway, my name is Bert Miapede. I'm the pharmacist in chief of the Dignity Fallsbase.

[Nicole Parker]

And with me, as always, is Joan Pedestrian. I am the top realtor here in Dignity Falls. And local actress.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's correct. We couldn't be happier to be together.

[Nicole Parker]

It's so true.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Celebrating a wonderful season.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. And did we decided this was season. Season, Nate. Was that what this was? We never decided we after all that. But I think season Nate. I remember saying I liked that the best.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I like that.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I'm gonna say because it's season eight, but you go right into season Nate, Great.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm gonna say let's not bother at this point. It's the last episode of the season. This season went unnamed.

[Nicole Parker]

You can't take it away from me. You can't make me not think of it as season eight. Of course.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I cannot control your mind.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm reclaiming my season eight.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. Maxine Waters. And of course, we have Joan's husband, Doug, our engineer now.

[Nicole Parker]

Our engineer, yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Who is in another part of the home. He record remotely from not that far away. I don't quite understand why, but let's talk to him. Doug, how are you doing?

[Doug]

I'm good. How are you?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm okay. Doug, are you. Is there someone there with you? Are you okay?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. He's talking like. Like. Like he's. Yeah, like. Like he's in danger or something.

[Doug]

For some reason, I feel like I've never been on Mike before in this moment.

[Nicole Parker]

Really? Why do you think you feel like that?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why do you think you feel like that, Doug?

[Doug]

I don't know. I think there's something about this room I'm in.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh.

[Doug]

Oh, it just. It's the oracle cave.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Another cave.

[Nicole Parker]

I asked for him not to do another cave. I can't handle another cave.

[Doug]

Less about the cave and more about the oracle.

[Nicole Parker]

We now have three caves. It's less about the cave and more about the oracle. So is there anything cave like about the room? Oh, thank God.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not.

[Nicole Parker]

It doesn't look like a cave.

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay. What. What is that?

[Doug]

It's just stone. And I mean, you can't monopolize a cave.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is the absence of some rock, essentially.

[Doug]

But, I mean, some rock left over.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, but why is it a cave? What do you mean by oracle Cave? So what. What's freaking you out about it?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, let's get off the cave part and start talking about that oracle, because.

[Nicole Parker]

That'S what you want us to focus on. But you just said it's more about the oracle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Joan could talk about the cave all day, but you have your agenda.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right.

[Doug]

There's a little kind of a pool of water in the middle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Doug]

That's where the oracle will sit.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I know. He's thinking. I know I haven't been in there to see it, but I guarantee you it looks like romancy. The stone, if you remember that. Do you remember how? The very end?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Of course I don't. Have I seen it? Yes. Do I remember even one second of it?

[Nicole Parker]

You can't even give me a classic burnt. Here are the three Things I remember. For romantic.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, I remember nothing. Oh, wait.

[Nicole Parker]

Could you guess?

[Doug]

I remember one thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Go for it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

One thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. I'm so. I love it when we do these.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I believe it is Michael Douglas sliding down a hill into Kathleen Turner's crotch.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The one thing I remember.

[Nicole Parker]

You got that right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And of course. Sorry. Number two.

[Nicole Parker]

I knew it. I knew you had some.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The theme song sung by Eddie Grant of Electric Avenue Fame, and it went like. Of course. I can't sing more than one note.

[Doug]

That part I could almost sing.

[Nicole Parker]

Avenue.

[Doug]

Oh, very good.

[Nicole Parker]

That's another song you could do.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, excellent.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I can't do the beginning. I can't do.

[Nicole Parker]

We're gonna rock down. I think we have a B side now for you, Burton. I mean, we really have a lot of songs now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is gonna be an incredible medley.

[Doug]

You know what?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But he sings I'm Romance.

[Nicole Parker]

Yep, that was the chorus. That's right. I'm a meds in the stove Never.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Leaving your poor heart alone well, I.

[Nicole Parker]

Loved this movie, and so I watched it several times back.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You changed the tune.

[Nicole Parker]

Did I? I see. Yeah. That's how I remembered in my head, you know, that you had no tune, though, right? You don't want. You only sang it on one note. I'm just saying.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't have to rub it in.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm just saying.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I know I can only sing one note.

[Nicole Parker]

It's just kind of funny for you to correct me on the melody when you just say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, I'm not correcting you on the melody. I'm saying that's a different song and I can't place it.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, well, I. But say it again. No, I feel like I'm wrong. I thought it was I'm Romancing the Stone, but that's probably wrong. That's probably wrong.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That is something else, though. That tune is something else.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, it is. Okay, well, it's not Romancing the Stone anyways. They're trying to find the stone, and when they finally find it, it's supposed to be different.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's romance.

[Nicole Parker]

They have this. They have this. It's in a cave, and it's supposed to be like. It's a Leche de Madre. It's like mother's milk. Because they're reading this. This. This map. This map they've been following. You don't even remember. Like, my little mule, Pepe. You know, the guy who, like, drives.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely not.

[Nicole Parker]

I can't wait for listeners to get back to us about this. But. No, actually, I Can't remember the character's name. But no, this was a man. And I'm not going to know exactly where he's from. But no, he's actually. I'm embarrassed. I can't remember his name right now because he actually went on to do many things. He's fant.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Good for him.

[Nicole Parker]

But yes, they end up in a cave, and then there's milk dripping down from a stalactite. Stalactite. Oh, right. It's not really milk. It just is white. And so that's probably why they need that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's not better. That's disgusting.

[Nicole Parker]

Anyways, Doug and I, we love Romancing the Stone. So is that what you made it look like, babe?

[Doug]

Yes, just like that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because you love this movie.

[Nicole Parker]

He loves this movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You both love it. Doug, that includes you.

[Nicole Parker]

We love it. It's one of those movies that, you know, you turn it on, and if it's like, turn on the TV and it's in the middle of the mov. Wherever it is, we're sitting, watch it.

[Doug]

I've never seen the beginning.

[Nicole Parker]

You what?

[Doug]

I've only started in the middle.

[Nicole Parker]

Is that true, man? So he loves the second half of Romancing the Stone.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you know, recently, I finally saw Greece in chronological order.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I had seen scenes from Greece, really? Over the years. This one, that one. Never saw them all in a row. And I finally, for the first time, and I realized, yes, I've seen this entire movie, just not in the way it was. Really? I saw a weird cut that was my own cut.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, your own cut?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. That took the. Took place over decades.

[Nicole Parker]

That's quite a way to watch a movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But now, Romancing the Stone. I have seen Hide nor Hair of this movie.

[Nicole Parker]

Danny DeVito's in it. He's very funny.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I remember that.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Does that count as a thing?

[Nicole Parker]

I remember. I think so.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. I remember the three leads. And then they did a sequel.

[Nicole Parker]

They did. It was called Jewel of the Nile.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Jewel of the Nile, yes.

[Nicole Parker]

And it didn't do as well. And then they tried to do War of the Roses years later.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Not the same characters.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, but it was kind of supposed to be like a threequel, but it was just getting the gang back together.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Danny was also in that one.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct. Not a movie podcast. I want to reiterate. This is about.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not a movie. It's about the neighborhood.

[Nicole Parker]

Can we go back to the Oracle? Why is it bothering you? So how does this work? Do you go in and you ask, oh, Doug sounds mad. There he got a little up in here. Okay, Doug, we had a little.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, we'll check in with the Oracle very quickly. And then you have to go back to talking about romance.

[Doug]

If I could talk about Greece for one second, please.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Please.

[Doug]

You know what's been giving me a chuckle lately?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's that, Doug? Oh, I like this new seg. It's time for Doug's Chuckle. Take it away, Doug.

[Doug]

All right. You know, I was listening to some old doo wop.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't like the first stuff? I like the first stuff.

[Doug]

And, you know, it's just great music and all the, you know, like the Ronettes and fantastic teenage love songs.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Doug]

And then I wrote. I completely had forgotten the association with, like, kind of New York. Greece. Like, like, kind of guys in New York who are in gang.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm imagining you imagining you, like, jerking your shoulders up.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you hear the shoulders going up and down?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like, I could hear his shoulders.

[Doug]

Like, tough guys and gangs who are listening to, like. It's really. It's just a funny.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Around Trash can full of fire.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Except for Where Were They? I know was shot in Los Angeles, but where is it supposed to take place? I can't remember. I know there's probably a town that they name. Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, it's Rydell High.

[Nicole Parker]

Right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't know.

[Doug]

But even.

[Nicole Parker]

But that's based on California. I don't know.

[Doug]

Maybe I'm based on a real culture of guys back then, though.

[Nicole Parker]

I see. And. And so. And that just struck you.

[Doug]

Yeah. Like, there's actual gangs who are getting into trouble.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And there was guys walking around that looked like Fonzie. Yeah. That were. Yeah.

[Doug]

Hitting each other with chains and doo.

[Nicole Parker]

Wop is like, that exists.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That would fire them up.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Doug]

This is a real thing.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

And by the way, that's been giving you a chuckle. That's what's been giving.

[Doug]

Imagine them walking down the street. These are guys. Well, I see that gave you two a chuckle.

[Nicole Parker]

It's time for Burton Jones chuckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, Doug's having a chuckle. Imagining greasers beating each other up listening to music.

[Doug]

These were tough guys you were. You were actually afraid of back then, you know?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, Yeah, I get that.

[Doug]

Troublemakers.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Doug]

Then they listen to the nicest music.

[Nicole Parker]

Button.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Pretty little.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Music that does not sound threatening or menacing in any way. That is true.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I didn't do pretty little in July.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, it was really good. You are getting two tones sometimes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No. Am I really?

[Nicole Parker]

Near the end of the season. Every time you seem to get a few tone extra wow. It's hap. It's happened before.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow, that's exciting.

[Nicole Parker]

We really need to track your musical journey. If we went back to the beginning.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I really do.

[Nicole Parker]

We'll get to it. But I really need to know about the oracle and why it's weirding you out, babe.

[Doug]

Well, my mother fancies herself an oracle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's her name again?

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's your mom's name again?

[Doug]

Beautiful.

[Nicole Parker]

Beautiful.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. I knew Beautiful Corn. That's What a lovely name.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I mean, that wasn't her maiden name, of course.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. What was her maiden name?

[Doug]

Crueler.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Crueler.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

C R U E L E R. Yeah.

[Doug]

Like the donut.

[Nicole Parker]

No. I knew he was gonna make that joke. He always does. Yes, she was. Really? Yeah. People were so rude that they would. They would actually call her by. They call her Crawler. And that was somehow more upsetting to her and being teased for being named Crueler.

[Doug]

Well, the name Beautiful Corn.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. So that's why, of course, she took Doug's dad's name. Of course. Beautiful Corn. And that's her name.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Beautiful Corn.

[Nicole Parker]

And. Sorry, why were we talking about your mom again?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And what's your dad's name again?

[Doug]

Flip.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Flip. Course. Flip.

[Doug]

And be short for Flipper. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, short for Flipper. Yeah. Okay.

[Doug]

We always call him Flip.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Really? Well, since you were kids, you didn't call him dad.

[Doug]

It was kind of interchangeable. You could say Papa Flip Or Popcorn. We never said that.

[Nicole Parker]

That was Jones Chuckle.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That was Jones Chuckle. All right.

[Doug]

He would get furious if you said that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Popcorn. Why?

[Doug]

You called him Popcorn.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, Popcorn. Yeah. That wasn't allowed. It was the only time. Somehow that was better.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Popcorn.

[Nicole Parker]

Sounds like that Chaka Khan.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Exactly.

[Nicole Parker]

Y. I love it when we're on the same page.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I do, too. But Oracle.

[Doug]

I've always wanted her an oracle.

[Nicole Parker]

Wait, why does she think she's an oracle?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is a long held desire of yours to give Beautiful Corn. And Oracle.

[Nicole Parker]

Don't let De Beers know. Everyone's going to be going for Oracle Cave now. They're going to be out of business.

[Doug]

She's always giving people fortunes and predictions.

[Nicole Parker]

Has she ever been right about them?

[Doug]

Yeah, oftentimes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's her hit? Really? What's her hit rate? And be honest.

[Doug]

I think over 50%.

[Nicole Parker]

What's one of the. What's one? An example. What's one? An example.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's one? An example. That's an expression here in Dignity Falls. What's one? An example.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. I'm calling a. Such as of a fortune she gave someone. And it came true.

[Doug]

She predicted that Carl's Jr. Or Hardee's would never come into this town.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Doug]

So far she's right.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Technically. Because Hardee's Jr. Did come to town.

[Nicole Parker]

It did. Yeah.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Which has nothing to do with either one of those.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Completely unaffiliated. It's Tom Hardy's restaurant.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. And everyone, no matter who works at the Drive Thru, their voice is like, order.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You have order. Take control of your order. Do you know, I hear that pain voice whenever I get something from FedEx. They send you an email. When you read the email, like the tracking email, and it will always say, take control of your order.

[Doug]

Babe, do you remember, you know what.

[Nicole Parker]

I have to say? Hang on just a second. I have to say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hold on a second.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm sorry. Was that too dismissive of you? Babe, I apologize.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, I, I, it's probably enough for me to say you started first.

[Nicole Parker]

I got excited saying there was a big response from your Forest Whitaker, a Rogue One character voice that you did last week. And now I feel like those two need to have a conversation between voice.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You come here, you try to tell me. I tell you, and thank you. You know, in the dig chord, somebody explained what his whole thing was.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, is that right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, he's.

[Nicole Parker]

Did you retain it?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did you retain it?

[Nicole Parker]

Were you able to remember information?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He was one of the good guys. He was a rebel, but he was an extremist.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And so the regular Rebel alliance was maybe a little leery of getting involved with him because he was ready to use all kinds of violence and methods to thwart the Empire.

[Nicole Parker]

And so. And that's why his vocal cords were shot?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, I remember why his vocal cords were shot.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, why?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because he was some kind of mechanic or something and he worked with these dangerous fumes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And so after a while, he stopped protecting himself from them and would just, like, breathe them in. And he got a young guy who was, you know, kind of, he was mentoring to do the same thing. It looked like a terrible idea. And because the guy, basically, he's saying, you get used to it. But then when you see him in Rogue One, which is after the events of Andor, he is, of course, using a Frank Boohoo style. The oxygen mask.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, how many movies have we talked about in just the Last Boy?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A few. More than a few. And a couple TV shows.

[Nicole Parker]

And a couple TV shows. We started to branch out. Okay, so. So you always wanted to build her an oracle cave. Why? Because can she get like a closer, like sense of an or of like, of what the fortune's gonna be. If there's a cave.

[Doug]

Yeah. She can take clients in there.

[Nicole Parker]

She's gonna take. Your mom is gonna do business out of our house.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Doug]

Remember, babe, she knew when you were pregnant before anyone else.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, yeah, but she said it was gonna be. She didn't predict the second one. She. What she predicted was I was pregnant with the twins, but she only said was going to be one. And we all know that the second boy was a surprise and came 24 hours later. Of course I'm talking about my twins, Matt and Matt and. Nope, nope. Which is what I said when he came out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, I never heard that story. And I always wondered.

[Nicole Parker]

Yep, it was. No, no, no, I'm not taking that one. I was told by my mother in law, Beautiful told me that I was having only one Beautiful Corn told me. Beautiful Corn told me. And she's never wrong. She's got a pretty good rate.

[Doug]

I call him nope squared sometimes.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, we do. Sometimes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's fun. It's fun.

[Doug]

It is fun.

[Nicole Parker]

It is fun. It is fun. I think sometimes he feels a little about it because, I mean, if there was ever the time when you felt like you were like the accident child, I mean, that the name would indicate.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That, you know, I've always wondered if I was because I, of course, I'm an only child of. Only children.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And I've often wondered if they. If they meant to have a child since they were only children themselves. Did they. Did they want. You could. You could see it going either way, that either they would say, well, we want to have a child because, you know, we don't want it to be just us. Or they could say, no, I did not grow up with any children, so why would I want that?

[Nicole Parker]

And you never talked to them about it?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, we didn't talk a lot, me and my grandmother.

[Nicole Parker]

Every time I hear about your childhood. Did you ever explain where Burnt came from and how they decided to name you?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That it was something to do with our Corsican heritage.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, yes, I know that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But my mom used to call me Berndti.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's sort of cute.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And my dad used to call me Mr. Burnt.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, that seems so formal. When did he start doing that? How young did that start?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

As far back as I can remember.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah. He would do it in front of.

[Nicole Parker]

Other people, look at a toddler and say, Mr. Burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Mr. Burns. A little Mr. Burns. Yeah, he was. My dad was very formal.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, we shook hands a lot.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We shook hands. I would go to bed, we would shake hands. You say, Goodnight, Mr. Burns.

[Nicole Parker]

I have never heard of a good night handshake.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I would say, goodnight, sir.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, de.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He would say, would you like me to turn off this light? And I would say, I would appreciate it.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow. Oh my goodness. But this, really, every time I get a little window into your childhood, it explains a whole lot. So can you tell me, babe, when your mom is going to be coming and doing this and how often what her hours are going to be? Oh yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What are her oracle hours?

[Nicole Parker]

What? Her oracle is for anyone who wants to listen. I mean, who is listening and wants to come in. Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you want to have your fortune.

[Doug]

Told in the dead of night.

[Nicole Parker]

No, that's not. Are you kidding me? We can't do that. I can't immediately.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What do you consider the dead of night?

[Doug]

Darkest before dawn.

[Nicole Parker]

That's not true. Not. That's a. That's another sentence that doesn't have anything to do with what he just asked.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's also. I guess it is. That's one of those. That's one of those expressions where it's like.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, exactly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Fine.

[Doug]

Yeah, I would say probably three to four.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't want people coming into our house.

[Doug]

Never had a real career of her own and she's really inspired right now.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, she is. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why?

[Nicole Parker]

By what, like, are like the oracles really, like really hitting really hard right now or something? Is it like the season or.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oracle's popping off currently.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what I was looking for.

[Doug]

Well, she sucks. There's a company.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I thought you really. She sucks.

[Doug]

No, no, I don't. I think she's just being more reflective and she's just. Just thinks, you know, she always should have done this.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Doug]

And I said as.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

As a job instead of just.

[Nicole Parker]

What does she charge for a reading?

[Doug]

It's usually kind of a barter system.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that makes sense. That makes sense.

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Doug]

Items of value.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A chicken.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh boy. Yeah, I feel like this would be very disruptive to our sleep and to our home. Babe, I have to say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh yeah. Where is the oracle cave in relation to say, like your bedroom room?

[Doug]

You got to go down to the left. It's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't. Come on down to the left of what? You can't just say down to the.

[Nicole Parker]

Left of the fire pole. Cuz of course you put a fire pole in the corner of the. That's a powerful fire pole in the corner of the bedroom. So that's what he means. You have to go down to the left.

[Doug]

I kind of converted the mud room into the Oracle.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Because we're not really allowed to have mudrooms in Dignity Falls. Everyone sort of has to disguise them as other things, you know, We've discussed that. But we.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, we've discussed.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we've discussed.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There's no need to get into it again. Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

But I also want to tell you that you know that the boys are going to do weird shit down there because, like, they'll hide in the reflective pool. I know, it's the lat. Listen, I have not swore at Harley at all this season, okay? And I get.

[Doug]

I'm not coming at you.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, you are. You gave me a bit, you know. I can feel your shoulders. You were doing one of those Grease Savage Dug impressions. One of those. One of those. One of those Grease guys, you know, like, do up.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He tagged it with a doo wop. Did you ever see Video? I saw video of Shanana. This is around the time when they would have been, you know, opening Woodstock and so forth. But when they. They were.

[Nicole Parker]

This is the guy with like, Bowser, right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes, John Bowser.

[Nicole Parker]

Balance correct. Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

With the Big Mouth. Not to be confused with Martha Ray the Big Mouth.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Who did Polygen commercials or fixed event. I can't remember which.

[Nicole Parker]

It doesn't matter.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And this video, I'm gonna try to find it for you.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay? Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because they are doing the Get A Job song.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it's a bunch of them crowded around a mic and they look like. They look like street guys. Like they are.

[Nicole Parker]

They actually look scary.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're not. They don't look like they're in 50s costumes. They look like dudes that would literally rumble.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And they are singing the fastest, most urgent version of Get A Job you've ever heard.

[Nicole Parker]

Is that one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Doug]

What's the song? That's like a Ding Dong. What's that one?

[Nicole Parker]

That sounds like Blue Moon to me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It is blue. I can't do Blue Moon.

[Nicole Parker]

It sets your pocket, man. I gotta tell you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right in my sweet spot.

[Nicole Parker]

Your sweet spot? Yeah. Well, okay. I would love to see that because that would pro. It sounds. Sounds like it would be another chuckle for me, but I have to tell you, I really don't want Madden. Nope, nope. Down there.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can't have Madden. Nope, nope. Going down.

[Doug]

Now, you're not supposed to look into the reflective pool on your own without an oracle to guide you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wait, so she. So is the idea that Beautiful will sit at the edge of the reflective pool and gaze into it and then say, here's what I see. Great question, Joe.

[Nicole Parker]

I was picturing romancing this st. Which is tiny.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have no frame of reference. Wait, tiny?

[Nicole Parker]

It's like the size of a cocktail table top. You know what exactly would. Now that immediately. I know. It lets you know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely. Like a three top.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure. Exactly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah. The high stools.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what I thought it was. Is it bigger than that, babe?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's like table tent advertising the specials.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Is it? What, babe?

[Doug]

Kiddie pool.

[Nicole Parker]

It's kiddie pool size.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's a pretty big oracle pool.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. They're definitely gonna hide in it. And they're gonna scare her and it's gonna be a problem.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They're gonna hide it. What, like they're gonna bre.

[Nicole Parker]

You're talking about boys that hid themselves in the walls of my house.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Behind a wall. You can't breathe underwater.

[Nicole Parker]

They'll find a way.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah, they probably will. I know, man. Nope, nope.

[Nicole Parker]

Tell us about you, Burn. We haven't talked about you at all right now. So what's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm fine. You know that Billy exceptionally tall pharmacist?

[Doug]

Yes, Billy Wood snatch.

[Nicole Parker]

A Billy Wood.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A Billy Wood Snatch. The smarmist, I started calling him.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I love that. That's good.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He passed away, you know. He was. He was so tall. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

[Nicole Parker]

So tall. This had to do with his death. His height.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

His height had to do with his.

[Doug]

The blood was all spread around.

[Nicole Parker]

Sorry, babe. What's that?

[Doug]

The blood was all spread around in his body. It was feared that tall, all. It's not getting it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think that's the standard thing for blood to do.

[Doug]

It's just swishing around in there.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Swishing around.

[Nicole Parker]

Quite mean by that. What would be the death.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What do you quite mean?

[Doug]

Oh, the blood's got to go to the feet. Then it's like, oh, we gotta get over.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, you think it's the same.

[Doug]

Blood.

[Nicole Parker]

And the blood swears all the time. Now we gotta go.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, Doug's allowed to swear.

[Nicole Parker]

Exactly. But not me. The blood cells are.

[Doug]

Yeah, it's the blood cells saying that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A puddle of blood that's traversing the human body.

[Doug]

He's doing a crossword puzzle. Oh, we got to get back to the brain.

[Nicole Parker]

Billy would never do. Billy would snatch, but would never do a crossword puzzle.

[Doug]

No, he certainly would now be the mini.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I'm. I don't now. I feel weird asking, but I feel weird not asking. What did he die of? You said he was so tall.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because he was so tall. And his. His height played a factor in his death. He had this. He. He had a birthday party and he rented, you know, stretch Hummer.

[Nicole Parker]

Of course he did.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And he's only got two friends.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's terrible.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Stretch limit for three people.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And so they're in there, and they're just. From what I heard from one of the guys, Gary, it was a pretty grim affair and people were not having fun.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, gosh. That was before the death and. Yeah, okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Before the death. And Billy said, what do I have to do, guys? And he opened up the sunroof, meaning.

[Nicole Parker]

Just, what do I get to do to just make this party great?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

To make this fun? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Doug]

Oh, so he just knew it was going poorly.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, there was. According to Gary, it was obvious to everyone. They were sitting in silence. Fully stocked bar, no glasses.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That is grim.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was grim. The limo driver said, I'm so sorry, my satellite radio isn't working. I'm just gonna sing some songs for you.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And so he just did some top 40 hits that he could remember.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And didn't have the best voice. Couldn' an entire song.

[Nicole Parker]

It's very sad.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know, It. It was bad. And he kept repeating. He kept repeating, dress you up in my love. Because that was what he the most of.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. But then you said, he. Billy opened the sunroof. Is that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Billy said, what? What is it going to take, fellas?

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And he opened the sunroof. He said, how about this? This is a thing people do. He opens up the sunroof. They were going under an underpass.

[Nicole Parker]

Come on. Well, he hereditary himself.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He hereditary himself.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Nicole Parker]

That is terrible.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was really. It was. It. I mean, it didn't improve things. The party didn't get better after that, I'll tell you that much.

[Doug]

I hope the limo driver wasn't continuing to sing.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, my God. Of course he was. At top volume.

[Doug]

Because he probably didn't notice at first.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, he didn't.

[Nicole Parker]

Because he put up the window. Is that why? I'm just saying, Doug's very fascinated with, like, you know, whether the limbo driver decides to put up that window. He loves that window.

[Doug]

That. The window, window.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The limo window.

[Nicole Parker]

Love limo window.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Love limo window. It was cracked down a little bit, obviously, so they could hear him singing.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And when he heard the. The head hit.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, come on. This is terrible. For our final episode, he thought they.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Were stomping their feet in the back. And so he went into we will rock you.

[Nicole Parker]

This is quite a taste.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The guys, they started that perked them up. And they started singing.

[Nicole Parker]

Give me a break. Admitted to that. Strange that he would be telling you the story. Was ashamed because the body tells that part of the story.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The body was.

[Nicole Parker]

And he died.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

His shoulders were up there keeping place. No, he's tall. He's tall.

[Nicole Parker]

Like we have been very clear about the fact that he was tall. And now I feel like we probably should go to a break, even though we really want to leave everybody with that. But we've been talking for too long. And now we just mentioned a terrible death. I think that's a first.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mean, all deaths are terrible if you think about it. But they're also all wonderful because we all die.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no. Who are you? Jody Ernst?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, we'll be back with more of the neighbor Listen. When the neighbor Listen returns.

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

And welcome back to the neighborhood. Listen and we have a guest. Joan we do as we always do. We scour the neighborhap, the social networking application for neighborhoods and we look for interesting people in dignity falls with which to speak. With which to speak. With whom to speak, with whom to speak. And this week is no different. And listen, if you see a post that you think we should talk about, maybe we've overlooked it. Why don't you screenshot and send it to [e-mail] as this listener did. This comes to us from Monica Thomas. Thank you Monica for sending this in. This is in the Crime and Safety section and it is submitted. It is posted by Duke Duke says okay. This afternoon at about 4:45pm, a red pickup pulled up in my front yard. I went out to ask him if he wanted to run his dog in my yard. He said yes. I explained to him that it is not that I am mean or being an asshole, but I don't want that kind of legal liability. The fence is not in good condition. His dog can get loose and attack other people and he and his dog can get injured on my property. When nothing happens, everybody is happy. But if something happens, I don't want to be held responsible. He said he understood and wouldn't do it again. I feel bad because I might have disappointed him, but I have to protect myself because it is a red Chevy pickup. I couldn't help wondering if he was the one who let a dog poop in my backyard a few days ago, but I didn't ask. He is a very handsome guy with crystal clear bluish green eyes and he talked like a gentleman. I wasn't mad at that guy who let his dog fertilize my lawn either, but it will be better if he led his dog close to the woods. I don't want my lawnmower to run over dog poop. I am Upset when I can't tell who is a thief and who is not. But I know this gentleman is a decent person only wanting to run his dog a little again. My building was vandalized by thieves last year, and I suffered an enormous loss, for which I still haven't recovered. I am here to operate a business, not to offend anyone.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And then there's a brief addendum.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He says, I am licensed to practice law. I am. I'm a licensed attorney registered to practice law here. All right.

[Nicole Parker]

Wow. And we. And here he is, here to tell us his story.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If there's any left is Duke.

[Duke]

No, there's Duke.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, hi, Duke.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hello. Welcome to the show.

[Duke]

Well, it's so nice to have. And that was beautifully read. Oh, I think.

[Nicole Parker]

Well done, Bernd. He loves how you read his post.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thank you so much. I tried to read it in a reasonable and fair manner.

[Duke]

See, you were very reasonable. And I wrote that I was very careful with my word choices because I am a lawyer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

And as it says.

[Duke]

Yes, as it said very much at the end, it's called a reveal.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Very much at the end. It was a reveal.

[Nicole Parker]

Burn.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It was quite a reveal.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Duke]

Well, I didn't want someone just starting at the beginning and thinking, oh, this is a lawyer talking.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, smart. Why didn't you want that?

[Duke]

Because people have a. They have attitudes.

[Nicole Parker]

They have a preconceived notion.

[Duke]

They think, this man's going to tell me what's what, and I wasn't. I just wanted you to know about this red pickup truck in my lawn. In the dog.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I ask you one thing? I'm sorry. So sorry.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, I have so many. But you go first.

[Duke]

You ask me more than one thing.

[Nicole Parker]

We will. We will.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Thank you for that. Leave.

[Nicole Parker]

I almost kind of want to start doing his accent. We will.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's hard not to. I'm fighting every fiber of my. I understand.

[Duke]

That's all right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I tell you, I almost stopped myself when I was reading.

[Duke]

Did you?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because I thought. Thought. As I was going on, I thought I must have said something wrong.

[Duke]

No, you said it right. I was very careful with my word.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Choice of the red pickup pulled up in front of yard. You went out to ask him if he wanted to run his dog, which I, I, I, I thought like, oh, he's offering.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But then he said yes. And Duke explained to him that he doesn't want him to.

[Duke]

I don't. Yeah, Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I was confused.

[Duke]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

But here's the deal. Here's the Deal.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Here's the deal.

[Duke]

Here's the deal.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Here's the veal.

[Duke]

Here's the veal.

[Nicole Parker]

My. My tongue and te. Do the d. Sorry about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Dentures.

[Nicole Parker]

No, not dentures. Don't you worry. Not yet, anyhow.

[Duke]

No, if you. If you are having problems with dentures. Yes, I. I am a lawyer.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, good.

[Duke]

So I can. I can take you to court and sue somebody.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow, that would be quite a case if you were able to sue someone, Right? Because you have problems with your dentures.

[Nicole Parker]

Accident.

[Duke]

There's. There's accidentures. Hi, I'm Duke. I'm an accidenture lawyer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Dos, Dos, dos, dos, dos, dos, dos.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, are you. Are you really? Oh, okay. I've seen you on the back of buses.

[Duke]

Accidentures.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Accidentures, dude. Oh, yeah, of course. With your signature mustache. Yes. Holding the sign.

[Nicole Parker]

I've never seen such a blonde mustache before.

[Duke]

Oh, thank you. It's all natural.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I do a double take every time I see it.

[Nicole Parker]

Same, but it's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, it is a mustache. It is there.

[Duke]

When I walk into court, often the judges go, is that real? I said judge. We have this conversation every time. Of course, I already have an objection. I'm objecting to the judge.

[Nicole Parker]

That's fun.

[Duke]

Talked about.

[Nicole Parker]

I love that. That is fun.

[Duke]

Accident.

[Nicole Parker]

Accident.

[Duke]

Problems with your tooth or your teeth? I'm Duke, your accident lawyer.

[Nicole Parker]

So my question for you, Duke, is why in the world when someone Is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That dude, is that how you want to speak?

[Nicole Parker]

I didn't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why in the world.

[Nicole Parker]

But it was so surprising to me, if someone drove into my driveway, I would not immediately think, oh, they want to run their dog in my lawn.

[Duke]

No, you wouldn't.

[Nicole Parker]

I would think, who are you? And a little scared. But it sounds like you actually were very accommodating to him. What did you. What made you think he wanted. Let's start with what made you think he wanted to run his dog?

[Duke]

Can I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And, dude, can I take a crack at answering?

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Duke]

Oh, oh, wait a minute.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Thank you for saving me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Here's what I think, because it took me a while to put it together.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because there was a previous incident.

[Duke]

That's it.

[Nicole Parker]

With this car, with this guy.

[Duke]

There was. There was some dog poop in my backyard.

[Nicole Parker]

I understand that.

[Duke]

No, you should understand.

[Nicole Parker]

So you weren't asking this in a. A nice way. You were kind of like, are you here to do.

[Duke]

No, I did ask it in a.

[Nicole Parker]

Nice way, but you were trying to get information.

[Duke]

Are you here to run your dog?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, like a lawyer. Like a lawyer.

[Duke]

Excuse me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You never ask your questions.

[Duke]

I was leading him. I was leading. He said, excuse me. I was looking into his luscious eyes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes. We will get to the eyes. I have many questions about the eyes.

[Duke]

Blue is green.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. And such a beautiful, illustrative description. I really appreciated that. I am a lawyer, but here's my other question. You said building, which makes me think you're in an apartment. So how do you have such a big yard?

[Duke]

Well, no, see, this is what's. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

The yard was in front of my house.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

But I did have. I do also have a building in that. Where I'm a lawyer in my office.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, your lawyer building.

[Duke]

I was.

[Nicole Parker]

Because I said this was your lawyer building.

[Duke]

I don't like thieves is what I said. That's right, because someone broke into my building building. This was not where the dog pooped.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You say you suffered an enormous loss.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Can you describe the enormous loss?

[Duke]

It was so emotional.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, so it was more of an emotional loss than a literal sort of tangible loss.

[Duke]

Something was taken from my office. It was my. I have a. I have. Excuse me. I have a raggedy. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy chess set. I've had to childhood and are the pieces.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm so sorry.

[Duke]

I'm here to answer any of you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't remember a ton about the Raggedy Ann and Andy extended characters, but it's just the two of them, is it not?

[Duke]

It is.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't think there's a bigger universe than the two.

[Duke]

There was no Raggedy Anthony.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So it's one side.

[Duke]

No. Raggedy.

[Nicole Parker]

No.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Raggedy Angie.

[Duke]

No.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No.

[Duke]

So.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So it is. It is just one side is raggedy and the other side, Raggedy.

[Duke]

One'S a queen dressed up. There's a raggedy heir. But they're not as a bishop in her bishop.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

As a horse at rooks and now.

[Nicole Parker]

But it must be confusing because. Yeah, if they. If they fall over, they're going to fall over into another square. It's got to be infuriating to play with. With pieces that, like, slump over.

[Duke]

Well, one person's inferior.

[Nicole Parker]

He confirmed that. They are. Are limp.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They are. They are little rag doll chest pieces.

[Nicole Parker]

Not hardened chess pieces playing with beanbags.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I also say this exactly? Like, if you take Raggedy Ann and Andy out of their signature wardrobe and put them in costumes or chess pieces, how can you tell the difference between them?

[Nicole Parker]

Good question.

[Duke]

Raggedy Andy. That's just the beginning of facial stubble.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So this is. Is there slightly in the future what.

[Nicole Parker]

A subtle game this is. You really have to be detail orient.

[Duke]

I don't know if you've ever noticed on a raggedy anti dog Scott Peace subtle cuz it is a child.

[Nicole Parker]

You do forget. You do forget.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You do forget that they're children.

[Duke]

Yes, he did. But he was advanced. I think his hair hair was advanced Hair rag. Raggedy's hobos.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't think so. I think they were just made out of rags was the thing.

[Duke]

Are they orphans?

[Nicole Parker]

They do seem like it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think they're four orphans.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't like thinking about them much. If I'm being honest. I never have liked to think about them much. But I want to be careful here because clearly they mean a lot to you. What is it about Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy that you love?

[Duke]

Had them since I was a child. I loved anything raggedy. Raggedy. I just love rags.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Anything rag.

[Nicole Parker]

Anything raggedy.

[Duke]

A rag?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure. Number one with a bullet.

[Duke]

A shirt that just lasted too long on your body should have been thrown away.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh boy. Did you. This maybe sounds a little. This makes me ask a lot more questions. Did you grow up here? Are you born and raised in dignity?

[Duke]

I did get raised in dignified.

[Nicole Parker]

You did get raised.

[Duke]

I did get raised.

[Nicole Parker]

Even the way he says that makes it sound like this was an aggressive childhood. What was your.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It didn't make that connection.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, if he only had. If he only had a raggedy shirt to play with. What was your home life life like?

[Duke]

Oh, my daddy was very strict.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Duke]

Always telling us that we.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We.

[Duke]

We don't deserve things. We were lucky to have anything.

[Nicole Parker]

Just in general, you don't deserve things.

[Duke]

Yeah, we don't deserve things because he's. He came from the south so he had nothing. We were doing a little better. But he just wanted us to know to be grateful.

[Nicole Parker]

He came from the south, so of course he came. He came from nothing.

[Duke]

Came from nothing.

[Nicole Parker]

Association so. And then what about your mom?

[Duke]

Oh, my dear mom. She was. She would sew my little raggedy dolls. Sew my little raggedy shirts. Because I never like to throw out. Look, I just like little things that are broken and I don't like to throw them out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Is that why you became a lawyer, do you think?

[Duke]

Exactly. I wanted to help poor people with bad teeth situations.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can I ask you this?

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Duke. You. You say yes, it is. Duke. Duke.

[Nicole Parker]

Duke. Thank you for that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Duke trying to throw in the liquid.

[Nicole Parker]

You, Duke. Liquid you for sure. Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You said. Because it is a red Chevy pickup. I couldn't help wondering if he was the one who let a dog.

[Nicole Parker]

The next conversation I wanted to have. What is the correlation between Chevy, red, Chevy pickups and.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank.

[Duke]

These are all very great questions.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you.

[Duke]

So I. As I said, I went.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Nice to hear somebody else say, isn't it though?

[Nicole Parker]

What a treat.

[Duke]

Oh, you're wonderful.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you, Duke.

[Duke]

I went.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wonderful.

[Duke]

I went into my backyard just to have a relaxing time. It's where I like to do my yoga and.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

And I've discovered there was dog poop.

[Nicole Parker]

Back there in the backyard.

[Duke]

In the backyard.

[Nicole Parker]

Whoa.

[Duke]

Yes. And I'm saying that's what I said.

[Nicole Parker]

How did someone get back there?

[Duke]

That's what I wanted to know. Okay, So I asked my neighbor.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sense is not in good condition.

[Duke]

Not in good condition.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I forgot about that.

[Duke]

You know what happened to my broken things?

[Nicole Parker]

What did happen? That's right. That's my. You can only hear him. That's my husband, Doug. He's in another room.

[Duke]

Oh, where did he. What did he say?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He said you like broken things.

[Nicole Parker]

He was recalling that you said that.

[Duke]

I do like broken things. But I did break things. My fence. No, I did. I fell into my fence one time that happened. I was dancing in my front yard.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, sure.

[Duke]

I was dancing to some Commodore's music.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Brick house.

[Duke]

Lady. Oh, lady, how can you not move? Anyway, I misstepped and I fell into a f. My fence and it just all went down like dominoes.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear. I never like domino. So that's how your fence is built? Well, if it's. If it's side to side, that's not a very good fence. Because then all sorts of things can.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I would say also for the way you're describing it, it's not a fence anymore.

[Duke]

No, it's not a fence. It's a bad fan. But also my ex boyfriend put it up.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

What he was doing, but you know, he lied about a lot of things.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And who was your ex boyfriend?

[Duke]

Oh, do you know Harvey?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I think you need a little.

[Duke]

Bit more information, Harvey Billings. Harving Billings.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That name is familiar.

[Duke]

He's always causing trouble in town.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did he have eczema of the ears? Yes, yes. I rem this guy and he only had it on his mask.

[Nicole Parker]

He sells matchboxes. We have one. We have one in our home. That's how I know the name.

[Duke]

I have. We used to. House was just filled. Max Boxes. And you know what? He got upset with me many times because I couldn't help him with his ear problem because I said, I'm a tooth lawyer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Duke]

I can't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, he wanted to go to court.

[Duke]

Oh. Oh, he's. Oh, sue this person.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, who did he want to sue for his Xbox generally? That's genetically. Did he want to sue a family member?

[Duke]

He said, sue some doctors that he had. That just took too long to solve the problem.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, did you see a lot of those cases burnt? People coming in with eczema of the ears in the pharmacy? What do you recommend?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There was a real outbreak of it for a while where people. It was localized. Just the ears.

[Nicole Parker]

That is terrible.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it turns out they were all related.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, see, this is what I'm saying.

[Duke]

Well, my ex person.

[Nicole Parker]

Your ex person?

[Duke]

My ex person.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Has he passed on?

[Duke]

Well, I hope so. I haven't spoken to him in a while. In my mind and in my heart, I heard.

[Nicole Parker]

Hear that he has.

[Duke]

He had large ears. So that.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that must have been terrible.

[Duke]

Dumbo ears.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, dear.

[Duke]

Oh, I wish he'd fly away.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. That's okay.

[Duke]

He promised me he knew how to.

[Nicole Parker]

Do a fence and he knew how to do offense. I would have said that. The very first red flag would have been that he said, do offense.

[Duke]

Yeah, you know what? I don't know what I. I just listen. I'm very gold.

[Nicole Parker]

Does he wolver his eyes?

[Duke]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Beautiful.

[Nicole Parker]

And he was broken, I imagine.

[Duke]

Very broken. His soul was broken. And his leg. He was breaking his leg, like, every few months.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's almost impossible. Months.

[Duke]

He would break his leg, something. But I'm like, oh, gotta go to the hospital again.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, this guy sounded like he had real problems.

[Duke]

I had so many problems. It didn't work out.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Anyway, so, yeah, we're still back to the Chevy and the dog poop.

[Duke]

So I was like, where did this dog poop come from?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

So my neighbor. Do you know. You know, Large? You know, Large? You know, Large? Large. He works. He works at Hardee's junior.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

He's basically always employee of the month.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He does the drive through, and his voice is crystal clear.

[Nicole Parker]

He's the one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He doesn't use the microphone.

[Duke]

You can hear him around the.

[Nicole Parker]

He just yelled. What's your. That's surface.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What would you like today?

[Nicole Parker]

That's very good. Yeah, that's very him. I've been trying to get him. I've been trying to get him for our shows at the gym playoffs Because I think he could do. He could do Carousel.

[Duke]

He could do.

[Nicole Parker]

Absolutely. Says he's got. He's literally just absolutely frightened. Stage fright like crazy, though.

[Duke]

Cheeseburger.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What else?

[Doug]

He takes his job so seriously.

[Nicole Parker]

And also cheeseburger. What else? Is one of the orders that you have. You can order the cheeseburger. What else? They basically throw in whatever they want.

[Duke]

And, you know, he dresses.

[Nicole Parker]

Sometimes it's not fun food, sometimes it's not food.

[Duke]

He dresses differently than the other Tom Hardy outfits. He dresses like him in the Revenant. Yeah, because it's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right. He's very easy to spot.

[Duke]

He's wonderful.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

He's my next door neighbor.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, fantastic.

[Duke]

So he's always sticking.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

His bane guy is so mad he doesn't get to do the drive through.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

[Duke]

Anyway, he was sticks. He's always sticking his head out the window, noticing this, noticing that. And so I went up at large. I have some dog poop in my backyard. And he said, well, I've been meaning to tell you, this red pickup truck come by, took a dog in the backyard.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So you had a witness. He was an eyewitness.

[Duke]

Eyewitness.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay. Did he say Chevy? Did he say that?

[Duke]

He said. He said.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Okay.

[Duke]

So I've been waiting for red Chevy to come up and. And do it again.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Then he pulled up and he had the dog. And so I think I'll run this. You gonna run this dog in my yard?

[Nicole Parker]

I see. Yes. You said it all. All me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He must have been floored that somebody guessed what he was going to do.

[Duke]

Do you know who was floored, though? Me. And I saw how handsome he was.

[Nicole Parker]

You weren't ready for that.

[Duke]

Nah.

[Nicole Parker]

You were not ready for that.

[Duke]

We didn't see that coming. His face. His face looked like a young Paul Newman. His body looked like a young Burt Lancaster. And he had the grace of dancing. James Cagney.

[Nicole Parker]

He danced. He danced in that.

[Duke]

He had the grace.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, the grace. How did he demonstrate that? What was graceful about him?

[Duke]

He got out of that truck and it was the way he stepped down.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Duke]

You ever see James Cagney dance down those steps? Well, Yankee Doodle Dandy.

[Doug]

Did he have steps?

[Nicole Parker]

Sure.

[Duke]

Yeah. He had steps like a bus.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How high was the.

[Duke]

Very high.

[Nicole Parker]

Very high.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you have those gigantic tires? Huge tires.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I hate those.

[Duke]

Like, really? His truck made an announcement.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, sure did.

[Duke]

So the stairs come down. He just walked down, but he walked down just like James. Ken.

[Nicole Parker]

I get it. I get it. I'm More of a Gene Kelly gal, but I get it. Absolutely.

[Duke]

Well, maybe. Yes. Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

So that was it. And then all of a sudden, those eyes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You have that little Paul Newman head. And then the big broad shoulders.

[Nicole Parker]

Can you read the description again? The body of Paul Newman. A young Paul Newman.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The head of Paul Newman.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I thought it was the body of Paul Newman.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Body of Bert Lancaster.

[Duke]

Young.

[Nicole Parker]

Really? Okay, got it, got it, got it. I'm not familiar with the young body of. Of Burt Lancaster.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He was. He was a strapping young man.

[Nicole Parker]

I get it, I get it. That's right. I guess if I'm thinking about it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Was an acrobat, wasn't he, when he was younger?

[Duke]

Sure, why not?

[Nicole Parker]

Sounds right.

[Duke]

He was an acrobat to me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If you want to see him on full display, you can watch a movie called the Swimmer.

[Duke]

Oh, yes.

[Nicole Parker]

He's in bathing display. Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He's in bathing trunks for the entire film.

[Duke]

Strange movie.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Very strange.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I kind of do want to see him on full display.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

It can't be based.

[Duke]

You know what I'd like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's based on a book.

[Duke]

I want. I want to yell come back a little Sheba at him.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I get it. That's a Lancaster reference. But I haven't seen it.

[Duke]

It's. He's not good in that. Lancaster was the most overrated.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you remember him in Great.

[Nicole Parker]

I only remember him in Field of Dreams.

[Duke]

That's the only thing.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Duke]

I made one. Not even Elmer Gantry.

[Nicole Parker]

He says, I better get home before Felicia thinks I have a girlfriend.

[Duke]

That's a really good Bert Lancaster.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You don't remember. Was it. Does he say it or does. Does Tony Curtis say it in. In.

[Duke]

What's that movie with trapeze?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, he's.

[Duke]

Is that called.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Burt Lancaster? Is a Walter Winchell type type guy. Sweet smell of Success.

[Duke]

Yes. Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

Not a movie podcast.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There's not a movie podcast. But somebody does have the align. You're a cookie full of arsenic, and I'd hate to take a bite out of you.

[Duke]

Oh, good line.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what I don't like about what? Weird.

[Duke]

I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna say it to Richard.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's one of those lines that kind of sounds cool at first, and then you're like, was that good?

[Nicole Parker]

What reads me about that?

[Duke]

It goes, ooh. And then you go, huh? Because it said with such confidence.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Like it's. What's the scenario? Someone's offering me a cookie full of arsenic. I would hate to take a bite out of that.

[Duke]

Yeah, you're right.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, it's. And I know this isn't a movie. What's that, babe? What's that sound? What's happening? Oh, okay. Yes. If I can trust my eyes, and.

[Duke]

I think I can. Susie knows all about your dirty work. That's Bert Lancaster.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Yeah, can't hurt. By the way, he had big teeth.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I had to get that boy's job back.

[Duke]

Look, Jim, J.J. we can tie this off in a one Nate bundle. So you're not a movie podcast.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, no, we're doing great. But please, we occasionally show Waiting for the Line.

[Nicole Parker]

Is the big line coming?

[Doug]

It's coming.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He's full of juice and vinegar.

[Duke]

Just waiting for. Is this from Romancing this Town? You got the boy's job back.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This from Sweet Smell, but he's not.

[Duke]

Going to accept your favor. The Smell.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And yes, we do occasionally play full clips from movies. We're Not a Movie podcast.

[Duke]

It feels like I'm at the cemetery movie.

[Nicole Parker]

I feel like I'm waiting too long. Okay, we can't even see it. I don't think we're gonna get to it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I probably was. I would have skipped ahead to 10 seconds before the end of the game.

[Nicole Parker]

That's generally how it works.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

If that's how you discovered.

[Nicole Parker]

To tell you the truth, if you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Found the video by searching that line, I would bet you any amount of money it's gonna be 10 seconds before you're certainly not.

[Doug]

I said you missed it.

[Duke]

He just said it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But I was right, wasn't I? Was it the very last thing said.

[Doug]

In the middle of your dog? Pile on.

[Nicole Parker]

Don't you mean Doug pile?

[Doug]

Doug Pile. Listen, wait, I'm sorry.

[Duke]

Match. This better be.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, it's a new wrinkle.

[Duke]

To tell you the truth, I never.

[Nicole Parker]

Thought I'd make a killing on some guy's integrity.

[Duke]

Who's that? Wait, that's a vampire.

[Nicole Parker]

To take a bite of. Of you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, you're a cookie full of. Oh, well, that makes more sense.

[Doug]

Different.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That makes more sense.

[Duke]

And then Lord Cave. And then the Lord Cave.

[Nicole Parker]

I thought maybe the oracle had happened.

[Duke]

Sweet Smell.

[Nicole Parker]

Now, wait. It's very funny that you would. It was made into a Broadway musical.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Of course it was.

[Nicole Parker]

Which is the only reason I know about it. But it's interesting you say romancing the stone because. Burnt. Could you read the description?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's interesting that you say that.

[Nicole Parker]

Could you read the description of the eyes again?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes. He's a very handsome guy with crystal clear, bluish green eyes. And he talked like A gentleman.

[Nicole Parker]

It just almost makes me think of how the stone, Romancing the Stone just glimmers in the light. It's very blue.

[Duke]

Green, just like this man's eyes.

[Nicole Parker]

Do you like that movie Romancing the Stone?

[Duke]

I love that movie.

[Nicole Parker]

I could talk about it for years, but we already talked about it so much. We're not a movie podcaster.

[Duke]

No, we're not.

[Nicole Parker]

What are your top three favorite moments?

[Duke]

Romancing the Stone. I love at the end, when she sees the ship on Madison Avenue.

[Nicole Parker]

There's a yacht driving down Madison Avenue. Like it's normal.

[Duke]

Is it parked or driving?

[Nicole Parker]

It starts driving once the credits start rolling. They kiss on the back and it starts being driven.

[Duke]

I love when Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas are dancing. She's wearing that skirt with her legs sticking out of it. Like, all of a sudden, they're both.

[Nicole Parker]

So gorgeous, so beautiful.

[Duke]

Oh, my God. And I love anything with Holland Taylor.

[Nicole Parker]

Holland Taylor again. I forgot to mention Holland Taylor, that movie.

[Duke]

Ever been. Has she ever been young? Has she ever been young? She's like Angela.

[Nicole Parker]

She always gave that. She was.

[Duke]

Or Glenn Close. Were they ever young?

[Doug]

Or Bob Seager.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Bob Seager.

[Nicole Parker]

So now, before we were talking about Bert Lancaster, you were talking. We were talking about what? This guy. Look what he looked like.

[Duke]

He talks like a chip.

[Doug]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What do you.

[Nicole Parker]

What? Sorry, did we get his name?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, yeah. Did you get his name?

[Duke]

I did get his name.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what was it?

[Duke]

It's Chris.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, okay.

[Duke]

Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris. Isn't that enough? Yes, exactly. Like it's spelled C, H, R U I S Cru. No, it's pronounced. I got prius pronoun Chris. I don't know where he's from or what, where that name comes from, but he said he came out of the truck, stepping down, like James, took off his hat.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Duke]

And said, what kind of hat was you wearing? A cowboy.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

He said, pickup truck. I said. He said, hi, my name is Chris. And he says it's spelled C H, R U I S. Just so there's no problems.

[Nicole Parker]

So there's no problems.

[Duke]

So lovely to meet you. He said, thank you. Lovely. I was like, melted.

[Nicole Parker]

Very gentlemanly, I know.

[Duke]

And I said, are you. Are you going to have your dog run?

[Nicole Parker]

Right, that line. Yeah, that line.

[Duke]

And he said, yeah. And then I said, well, I don't want to be mean, but you can't do this here because everyone's happy when things are going well, that's when they don't go well. That's when people.

[Nicole Parker]

So has that happened to You a lot in life that things have just not gone well. Because it sounds like you said it almost as a mantra of your life.

[Duke]

Yeah, things are constantly not going well.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You said the direct was, when nothing happens, everybody is happy. Everybody's happy.

[Duke]

That's me.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, that kind of makes sense, given your upbringing. You know, that sounds like something your dad would say.

[Duke]

It's. I actually have a pillow in my living room.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Me too.

[Duke]

Oh, there's mine. Says this. It's always best when nothing happens.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, it's always best when nothing sad. Talk a little bit more about your.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why do you like that?

[Doug]

It reminds me of no news is good news.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, sure.

[Nicole Parker]

Fair enough.

[Duke]

Something happens that's bad.

[Nicole Parker]

Because it could be bad.

[Duke]

It could be bad. And it often is.

[Nicole Parker]

But is. Is that. How long. When did you first sort of adopt that view of life?

[Duke]

Oh, you said it was from my father. My father was interesting because he was so tough, so cruel, but he.

[Nicole Parker]

And why was that interesting?

[Duke]

Well, I haven't gotten to the interesting point because I have an. Oh. Objection.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sustained.

[Duke]

Sust.

[Nicole Parker]

I'll watch myself, counselor.

[Duke]

What was interesting about it is that I have four brothers and sisters.

[Nicole Parker]

You do? I was just about to ask.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And what are their names?

[Duke]

Well, that's it. My father named us all nicknames of famous actors. Like, I'm named after John Wayne.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Duke]

Right. My brother was named Coop after Gary Cooper. My sister's name is Betty, named after Lauren Bacall.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that's her real name. Betty Bacall.

[Duke]

That's right. Other brother's named Archibald, named after Gary Grant.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yes.

[Duke]

And my. My youngest sister just called Red Shoes. Judy Garland. Red Shoes.

[Nicole Parker]

And her name is Red Shoes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Her legal name is Red Shoes.

[Duke]

Red Shoes. He could have just called her Jude. But he called her.

[Nicole Parker]

I guess.

[Duke]

Or Francis was.

[Nicole Parker]

Francis Gunn. That's her initial take on her. Red Shoes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Frankie would have been a nice name.

[Nicole Parker]

That would have been. Okay.

[Duke]

Cranky. No. Red Shoes.

[Nicole Parker]

What does Red Shoes do?

[Duke]

Oh, Red. Oh, Red Shoes is in Congress.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Really?

[Duke]

My sister.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We've talked to a lot of people related to Congress.

[Nicole Parker]

Recently had another person with a congresswoman.

[Duke]

Well, yeah. Well, I'm very proud of my sister.

[Nicole Parker]

You should be. I'm glad. She's kind of done so well for herself.

[Duke]

Yes, she has.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. And how about the other.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Does she say, go buy Red Shoes?

[Duke]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Duke]

You haven't heard.

[Nicole Parker]

Congresswoman.

[Duke]

Congresswoman Red Shoes.

[Nicole Parker]

I have to say I haven't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I haven't either.

[Duke]

You should look at her up.

[Nicole Parker]

She's from Delaware So she's not called. I thought her first name was Red. And then she. So it's. It's not Congressman Shoes. It's Congressman Red Shoes.

[Duke]

Her name is Red Shoes. It's her first name. But they. And. And our last name.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, what is your last name?

[Duke]

Herenites. My name is Duke Heredities.

[Nicole Parker]

And my sister Heredites.

[Duke]

Yes. And my sister's name is Contra. Congresswoman Red Shoes. Heredities. But people just call her Congresswoman Red. Sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why wouldn't.

[Nicole Parker]

That makes sense.

[Duke]

And she's still running on the. The wizard of Oz stuff.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Click your heels three times and I'll do whatever you need.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, boy. That's such an open promise. Yeah. Wow.

[Duke]

That's how you get elected.

[Nicole Parker]

It's true. It really is true. And then everyone else is doing okay. Are they just everyone else? Literally.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

How's the rest of the gang?

[Nicole Parker]

How's Cooper?

[Duke]

Coop is the private detective.

[Nicole Parker]

That checks out.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Coop, sure. Cooper editing.

[Nicole Parker]

Fascinating family.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You really do.

[Duke]

But it's interesting. And you want to know who Betty is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Betty is a detective. She's a crime solver.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So she says. She's a public detective.

[Nicole Parker]

She's a little different. She's a detective and a crime solver.

[Duke]

She's a detective and a crime.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Does she work for the police? Is that what that means?

[Duke]

That's what that means.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, okay, okay. An easier word for crime solver.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Private detective.

[Duke]

Being in court, where I have to use larger words.

[Doug]

Oh, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The legal terms.

[Nicole Parker]

Are you.

[Duke]

I can't just say, are you a police officer? I say, are you? I heard you were a detective and you were involved in crimes.

[Nicole Parker]

Just for the listeners. He's really gesturing in a very lovely, almost balletic way towards me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know what it feels?

[Nicole Parker]

You have beautiful arms.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It feels like he. It's this thing he does in court to sort of lull you into.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. It was almost hypnotic, to be honest. To admit to murder.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Exactly.

[Duke]

Ask Crus the crime question.

[Nicole Parker]

I mean, it's also just. It's also a sweeping motion of the two fingers, so there's also something about. It's a bit off putting.

[Duke]

Thank you. It's all of it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's a little clinical.

[Doug]

Yeah, it's a little clinical.

[Duke]

Very Gynecologist.

[Nicole Parker]

I have to make my appointment.

[Duke]

That's really true.

[Nicole Parker]

Thanks for the reminder.

[Duke]

Which sibling have we not talked about yet?

[Nicole Parker]

Well, we had Coop, we had Betty, we had Red Shoes.

[Duke]

Archibald.

[Nicole Parker]

That's Archibald.

[Duke]

He is a gynecologist.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's what. That's what reminded You.

[Duke]

That's what reminded me. That's why he taught me that gesture.

[Nicole Parker]

Of course he did.

[Duke]

It works in the courtroom all the time.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Duke]

People just follow it like it's a magic two fingers.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Just like it's a magic.

[Nicole Parker]

Just like it's a magic two fingers. So now this kind of sounds like you had. Now this makes me think you were surrounded by sort of very interesting siblings. So while I was thinking it was dark in your household. Did. Did you just all band together and sort of make things we happen for yourself?

[Duke]

We just had terrific fantasy lives. We put on shows for my mother. My father had no interest in the shows, though. He. So strange that he wanted to name us after Nick's name is really weird.

[Nicole Parker]

It almost seems as if maybe there was a secret that he had or something.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe he just liked the movies. He didn't like live performance. Impossible. I understand that some people don't like the theater.

[Duke]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I don't understand them.

[Duke]

No. Who? Oh, I love theater. I haven't seen a movie in decades.

[Nicole Parker]

Really?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's the last movie you saw?

[Nicole Parker]

Do you remember Romancing the St. No.

[Duke]

Mannequin. Mannequin.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, mannequin.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, Mannequin.

[Duke]

Know what happened? That movie is so clever. Do you know what it's about?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, I'm familiar.

[Duke]

About a mannequin that comes to life. Who thought of that?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And it's this white, white woman from ancient Egypt.

[Duke]

Oh, it's so clever. Isn't that clever? Because that's not.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's very clever. No, I wouldn't have come up with that.

[Duke]

Expect a white woman from ancient Egypt. You would not expect that. Oh, after that movie, I'm like, this.

[Nicole Parker]

It can't get better than this.

[Duke]

It can't get better than this.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Andrew McCarthy, sure. He just. His acting. He's just smirked and popped his eyes open to show emotion. Do you know what I mean? He just smirked like that.

[Nicole Parker]

He's really doing crazy things with his eyes right now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What's his name?

[Nicole Parker]

But I actually know exactly what you're talking about.

[Duke]

Do you know what I'm talking about? Like when he'd show that. And then he made a documentary. Then he made a documentary.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I can't think of the guy's name who was on Designing Win, played Hollywood Taylor. Okay.

[Duke]

Hollywood was his Hollywood.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And did Andrew McCarthy have a friend in that movie or. No, he was just by himself with this secret.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, I don't remember much. You know, all I remember was.

[Duke]

I don't remember either.

[Nicole Parker]

I just remember Starship Sex and Hammock. That's all I remember.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sex and a hammock.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, because they were in a hammock. And then she lifted her leg. She goes, oh, Jonathan. And I was like.

[Duke]

And there was a.

[Nicole Parker]

It always grossed me out.

[Duke]

Wasn't there a song? Starship.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes. We'll build this dream together.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. Nothing's gonna stop now. It's a good one. It's a really good.

[Duke]

Isn't that a great way to.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

In the video, Grace Slick pretends to be a mannequin.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that's fun.

[Duke]

Isn't that fun?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Who's more fun than Grace Slick?

[Duke]

She went from White rabbit.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Duke]

To We Built this City on rock and roll.

[Nicole Parker]

Now, this is a musical podcast.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Jefferson Airplane. They kept doing permutations till they ran out of words, Then just starship, then ship.

[Duke]

We're on the same page. We're on the same page. I have their last album up Sh. And it's a librarian with a finger in front of her mouth telling you to be quiet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It sounds like they knew this was going to be our last album. We'll do the librarian.

[Nicole Parker]

They're out of layers.

[Duke]

Literally said librarian finger. And the title of the album is it's time to Go.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, that makes sense. Okay. Can I go back to this chess set?

[Duke]

Of course.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. I want to. Absolutely. Was this something. That's very rare. Was this, like, a limited edition situation?

[Duke]

As far as I know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Can't have been mass produced.

[Nicole Parker]

Never heard of it.

[Duke]

My mother. My mother sewed each raggedy, and one.

[Nicole Parker]

Was one she bought.

[Duke]

She bought a Raggedy Ann doll and a Raggedy Andy doll, and then she.

[Nicole Parker]

Made duplicates, Ripped him apart and made them, all of them.

[Duke]

For a chess set.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And what. And what was your mother's name?

[Duke]

My mother's name? Yeah. Carol.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, Lovely.

[Duke]

With an e at the end.

[Nicole Parker]

And is it okay to ask, are your parents with us?

[Duke]

No, they're gone. They went away.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They went away?

[Duke]

No, they're dead. Okay. Sorry.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wasn't sure I hadn't heard that term before.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, me neither. Went away. Right. And was that sad for you, or did you sort of feel freed once your dad passed away? Maybe it sounds sort of the person.

[Duke]

A little bit of both.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Duke]

I feel like I have a lot of unanswered questions.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure.

[Nicole Parker]

What's one of them?

[Duke]

Why did you name us nicknames?

[Nicole Parker]

Sure. That's a good one.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right?

[Duke]

Why didn't you. Why didn't you hug me more?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, sure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Great question.

[Nicole Parker]

You know, Burn had a very Similar childhood. He shook hands with his.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

My father was very formal. Yes. We never hugged.

[Duke]

You shook hands?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yes.

[Duke]

Oh, my. When you.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Every time we saw each other, we shook hands.

[Duke]

Oh, my father just. You know, when. You know, when someone pushes out their hands about as far as they can go, I guess, like against your chest, like you're walking. Just to keep an arm's distance.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Duke]

That's how he greeted us.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Wow.

[Duke]

It's like a push.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

So he didn't show favoritism?

[Duke]

Oh, not at all.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Treated you all the same.

[Duke]

No arm's distance.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I'm so sorry about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Was your mother affectionate?

[Duke]

Oh, very. My mother was the same.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, you can.

[Duke]

She would hug you from the second you got up to the second you went to bed.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my.

[Duke]

Come home, you'd be in her arms. That apron would be wrapped around you.

[Nicole Parker]

That's very sweet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

A little smothering. Let me ask you.

[Duke]

Maybe that's one way to listen.

[Doug]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did. How did they end up together?

[Duke]

Oh, that is a great question. It was an arranged marriage.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Duke]

Yes. Both of their family. My mother came from money and my dad, as I said, did not. Was in the South.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right.

[Duke]

So there's.

[Nicole Parker]

We know how that.

[Duke]

When you're from the South.

[Nicole Parker]

That's it. That's it. That's it.

[Doug]

South Dignity Falls, right? Yes.

[Duke]

South Dignity Falls. My. My. My mother came from money in Dignity Falls and it was ARR. Because my grandfather.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Take your time.

[Duke]

I'm sorry.

[Nicole Parker]

It's very.

[Duke]

My grandfather saved my grandfather's on my mother's side life.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm trying so hard to keep the same.

[Duke]

My grandfather on the nothing side. On the nothing side, saved my grandfather on the something side.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This feels like we're choosing who's going to be it.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Anyway, so my grandfather.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, yes. Or just. But this is incredibly hardboard.

[Duke]

Saved his life. He was. He was. A street car was coming towards him and my grandfather, my nothing grandfather pushed him out of the way and got hit by the street car and survived. But yeah, good. And something grandfather father just said, you say my life. Anything you ever want. He's like, well, I'd like to have some money. And he said, well, it seems like you have nothing. And he said, no, I don't have. No, I have nothing. He said, my daughter needs of maring in age and no one wants to marrying her.

[Nicole Parker]

So you marrying her? What did that mean? Back is this. That just was how we said old time maring her. Okay.

[Duke]

Marrying her.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The words weren't finished yet.

[Nicole Parker]

No, they weren't done yet.

[Duke]

Called cooking.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Yeah. Words were still cooking for a while.

[Duke]

You know what though?

[Nicole Parker]

I was going to say marinating, babe.

[Duke]

I feel like you might like 50 years from now they might say words would we say go. That word's not finished yet.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I wouldn't be surprised.

[Duke]

It could be interesting that humans that language moves on, changes. Anyway, so he says my daughter is the mar. Time. Time. It's time for her to marry. No one's was asking. He said, well, I have a son. He said, well, you know what? Let's arrange this. And so then they had.

[Nicole Parker]

And they did that because they just really wanted to make sure they would each have somebody because they were just worried that no one was going to marry them.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well because the something grandfather owed his.

[Duke]

Life to the nothing and he needed money. So my daughter. It was a different time.

[Nicole Parker]

It sure was.

[Duke]

But it worked out. I mean they, they, they seem to get along in their way.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Not a lot of conversation. Lot of grunts.

[Nicole Parker]

Ah, that's what it sounds like.

[Duke]

They grunted at each other.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Five children.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. That is a lot.

[Duke]

They at least five times. Well that your point was that what your point is?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, I, I not, not. I, I wouldn't boil it down to just that.

[Duke]

No. Can I say they didn't talk much, but they all the time.

[Nicole Parker]

You can't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I.

[Nicole Parker]

Because Doug doesn't like it when. I swear we've already had some choice four letter words on the podcast.

[Duke]

I'm so sorry. And here I was praising someone from their gentleman talking and I talk like sewer.

[Nicole Parker]

And let's get back to Chris because do we think that there's a future here? Because at first you were kind of. I know that you were trying to sort of make sure he wasn't going to be on your property. You don't want poop in your lawnmower. Never heard of that really being a thing. But I guess it must be annoying to get it out. I suppose.

[Duke]

Terrible.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Got it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Because you, you leave us with that. You weren't mad at him?

[Duke]

No.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Duke]

And he was a gentleman.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He was a gentleman. You say? I know this gentleman is a decent person.

[Duke]

I know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Only want him to run his dog a little.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. And well, who was the dog? Nice. What kind?

[Duke]

The dog was so sweet.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

It was a. Just a mixture of, of muttoness. It was like. It seemed like it had German shepherd, Doberman. A lot of different stuff.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Duke]

Maybe a terrier or two.

[Nicole Parker]

Why not?

[Duke]

He's so cute. Very friendly. Waggy, waggy. Waggy.

[Nicole Parker]

Was that his name?

[Duke]

That's the name. Waggy, Waggy Waggy.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, that's cute.

[Duke]

Why name him twice when you can name him thrice? That's another pillow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I have another pillow.

[Duke]

Why name him?

[Nicole Parker]

Hey, I name my child.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You can name him, right?

[Nicole Parker]

One of my children is named. Nope. Nope. So listen, I hear you there. I hear you there.

[Duke]

That makes sense. If I had a child, I'll be naming them. Nope, don't.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, so you don't want. What. What has your experience been with partners or you don't want a family? Have you had a lot of romantic partners?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your last. Your last boyfriend was terrible.

[Duke]

Terrible. Did not end well.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay? That's right.

[Duke]

Didn't start well. Didn't have medium well. I don't want to have children, Okay. I just wanna. You know what I'd love? The situation I would love in my fantasy world would be something like with Chris, okay? And Waggy, Waggy waggy. Like a dog. I'd love to have dogs.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did you exchange information with Chris?

[Duke]

Well, this is what I said to him, okay. I said, you know, I don't. I didn't want to be mean and I wanted. He was so nice. I said, well, what. Why don't you give me a week to think about this. Come back in a week and bring Waggy, Waggy Waggy. I'll make some lemonade and I make some wonderful.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, I don't know. Doubt it.

[Duke]

Oh, wonderful. Just a little bit. Little bit of raspberry.

[Nicole Parker]

Doug loves lemonade.

[Duke]

Don't you? Love it? Loves lemonade with some raspberry in it.

[Nicole Parker]

Ooh, I love that. Now, burnt will only have just straight squeezed lemon.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Virgin lemonade.

[Duke]

No, pure lemonade.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Love it.

[Duke]

Just my. You and my father, both of you have pure lemonade. Just pure lemonade. My dad used to say.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Excuse me one second.

[Duke]

Oh, sure.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no, I've done something wrong.

[Duke]

Oh, dear.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Father Cleo a monster. Then you said, oh, I'm not surprised. He's like.

[Nicole Parker]

I thought. Oh, I thought you said, oh, for whatever reason, I thought that it was you that was saying your father would. Would love. I thought, okay, no, he's.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Duke is saying his father, the monster I see also loved virgin lemonade.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, right.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay. So when you said, I'm not surprised that that made me feel a little.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, I'm sorry about that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I was monstrous.

[Nicole Parker]

I. Oh, you were not monstrous at all. I think that maybe you were raised by a monstrous man because he only shook hands with you. That's what I don't Like, I mean.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It'S better than just giving a stiff arm.

[Nicole Parker]

It's definitely better than that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm so sorry.

[Duke]

That's all right. I was just posting some Commodores. I was humming some Commodores in my head.

[Nicole Parker]

I want to know. Then do. Could I ask you. Is it. Then what is your purpose in making this post? What was your aim?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, why did you do this?

[Nicole Parker]

I'm just wondering, because. How does it end? What's the last sentence?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I am a licensed attorney registered to practice.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay, wait a minute. Let's go to the top. What's the first sentence?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay, the first sentence is. He describes what happened this afternoon about 4:45pm Red pickup. This is the most we've ever had to refer back to.

[Nicole Parker]

This makes me think that. Did you post this immediately after because you were hoping to see if. If Chris was reading it? Because now I'm thinking that's what this was.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because you're making it clear you don't blame Chris for anything.

[Duke]

I'm telling you, the blood was just so hot underneath my skin.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my goodness.

[Duke]

After this conversation, Chris.

[Nicole Parker]

It was going all over. Right? Right. It was kind of slushing all over, as it likes to. The blood was going, oh, we got to go over. Over here now?

[Duke]

Yeah, it was just moving. It's like, I guess I'm in my house. Great. Now I gotta move over. But real hot blood.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, sure, Hot blood. Check it and see. Absolutely. Foreigner.

[Duke]

Foreigners.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do you think that guy ever got. Lou Graham ever got off stage and.

[Duke]

Went, oh, my head.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Because the way he sang, it always hurt me to listen to.

[Duke]

Maybe we should ask him.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He sang like he was. He. I love it like the songs were written for some. Someone else. And he was doing. He was at the absolute top of.

[Duke]

His R. But you know what I'm waiting for?

[Doug]

Cold as ice.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You know what I'm waiting for. Can we take this down a little? They said, no can do. We've already done the arrangements.

[Duke]

I'm waiting for a Broadway musical that's all done to the songs of Foreigner.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Jukebox Hero. Jukebox Hero, the jukebox musical. Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Absolutely. In the realm of possibility.

[Duke]

I think so, too. Seems like I'm putting that out there.

[Nicole Parker]

I'd go see it if there was a Jimmy Buffett musical. There can be a Foreigner musical.

[Duke]

Foreigner.

[Doug]

Have you heard the live version of Hot Blooded?

[Duke]

The live version? No.

[Doug]

There's a line at the end. This is real.

[Nicole Parker]

As opposed to some of the other things we've said.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is the second one called Doug's Truth.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, this is the same. Called Doug's Truth.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We haven't done this in a while.

[Nicole Parker]

Long time.

[Doug]

Yeah, it's one. He's kind of riffing, you know, he's got these, like, one liners and he goes. I'll make you, you famous. Put a star on Uranus.

[Nicole Parker]

No.

[Doug]

And it's in the live. The live version of Hot Blooded.

[Duke]

I'll make you famous. I'll put a star on your anus.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. I can't process this.

[Nicole Parker]

What? Me neither.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I don't know what to do with that information.

[Duke]

I'll make you famous.

[Nicole Parker]

We've rendered Burn speechless.

[Duke]

Put a star on your.

[Nicole Parker]

On your. On your anus.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Meaning it doesn't work as a double.

[Nicole Parker]

It definitely doesn't.

[Duke]

It rhymes, though.

[Nicole Parker]

Sure does. Sometimes that's all that matters.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It's not a great rhyme.

[Duke]

No, I didn't say that. But it does scan.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It does scan.

[Duke]

But he was improvising, right? He was just kind of scattered.

[Doug]

Yeah, he did it over and over again.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Duke]

Oh, he was happy with that rhyme.

[Doug]

Yeah, he.

[Duke]

He was happy with it.

[Nicole Parker]

Make someone famous.

[Duke]

I'll put a star on your.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Aim to make them famous. And then he will do that. Oh, I don't think that's the means by which.

[Nicole Parker]

That's what I was thinking.

[Duke]

Okay, so how.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But it's open to interpretation.

[Duke]

I'm gonna give you a career.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah.

[Duke]

And then as an added plus, I will put.

[Nicole Parker]

Instead of the whole song, instead of on the walk of fame, it's gonna be.

[Duke]

Oh, I thought it was like, you know, when a teacher puts a star.

[Nicole Parker]

I was picturing a gold star at one moment as well.

[Duke]

That would fit more on your anus. I would say, like a gold star, but it wouldn't stay on long.

[Nicole Parker]

This is really big. Quite the punch. It's off you go. There you go. Duke. That's absolutely true.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Duke, I honestly. I think we can talk to you.

[Nicole Parker]

Forever, but I really hope that. Have you heard anything from K?

[Duke]

What's the latest? I'm just waiting to hear if he's gonna show. You haven't heard anything I said. You take a week to think about it.

[Nicole Parker]

I know, but. So how long ago was this?

[Duke]

This was. I posted this, like five days ago.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. We're almost to the end of the week. Oh, dear.

[Duke]

It's like you. You. If you. He shows up with Waggy waggy Waggy and he comes, then I know something's going on. I feel like he's going to. Maybe he. Maybe he knows how to Put up a fence.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Maybe he does.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

He does.

[Doug]

I think all you got to do is turn the. Fit the fence like the other way.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes. Because clearly the guy who made it into dominoes, there was. There were just slats turned the wrong way and anyone could. Any critter, anyone could have gotten through that was an. That was a penetrable fence.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Now I'm trying to picture. This is it.

[Doug]

I'm picturing section as a fence turned.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm picturing just all the slats lined up like dominoes.

[Duke]

That's more.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Nicole Parker]

But.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But down. Laying down now.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, well, now. Laying down. Yes, absolutely. I need like a bunch of popsicle sticks.

[Duke]

I need a.

[Nicole Parker]

They weren't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They weren't connected to each other. They were just in a line.

[Duke]

I need a strong fence that when I dance in my front yard and accidentally trip and fall into it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Right.

[Duke]

It stays up for me.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Well, Chris sounds like he's strong enough and graceful enough to. To dance with you and to build you the fence.

[Duke]

Driving dances like James Cagney.

[Nicole Parker]

Wouldn't that be.

[Duke]

Or Gene Kelly. Or even Fred Astaire.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Sure, even Fred Astaire.

[Duke]

Even Fred Astaire. Or Joseph Gordon Levitt in 500 Days of Summer. I'll take that, too.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Did he dance in that?

[Duke]

Yes, he did. There was a fantasy. There's a sequence where he.

[Nicole Parker]

And he did all of Make Them make them laugh and learned how to flip upside down off the wall. Snl.

[Duke]

He dances. He dances to the Hollow song. Vaguely familiar to Holland Oats song. In five.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You make my dreams come true.

[Duke]

That's it. He's so happy.

[Nicole Parker]

I think that this might be a record for the number of movies discussed. It's perfect for our season. It really is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Happy songs. That's true.

[Nicole Parker]

And songs which we've now added.

[Duke]

Well, I'm honored to be here for.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It all this couldn't happen without you.

[Duke]

Rap package.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm going to follow Congresswoman Red Shoes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely.

[Nicole Parker]

Much closer now.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are you in the market for new gynecologists?

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know that I want to go to.

[Duke]

And if there's any sort of a crime, Betty will help you.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. We know that. And I really, really hope that Kris reaches out to you in some way or just shows up on your doorstep.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Before we let you go, would you like to say. Would you like send out a message to Chri.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yeah.

[Duke]

Oh, God. All of a sudden, I feel.

[Nicole Parker]

Pretend you're looking into those beautiful Romancing the Stone eyes.

[Duke]

Chris, if you choose to show up. And I hope you do. Just know, not only will I have my raspberry lemonade right ready for you, but I'll have a star right on my anus.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's beautiful. I'm sure you're gonna hear from him very soon.

[Duke]

I think so too.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, Duke. Thank you so much.

[Duke]

My pleasure.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We'll be back with the Neighborhood Listen when the Neighborhood Listen returns.

[Nicole Parker]

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[Paul F. Tompkins]

Free item full length mirror with texture and frame.

[Duke]

Free.

[Doug]

This is tj.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I am offering an elegant full length mirror with a textured frame. Perfect for any room. There are two mirrors of this size. 66 inches by 31.5 inches. Both are included and are free. You will notice in the photograph accompanying this listing that I have scribble scrabbled myself out of the image in the mirror. That is because no one must look at me.

[Duke]

I'm hideous to behold. Do not gaze upon my mutilated visage.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why has God cursed me to look.

[Nicole Parker]

Like such a freak?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Avert your eyes, lest nightmares follow you.

[Nicole Parker]

To the end of your days.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You pick up.

[Doug]

Wow.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, that was something else. Duke. What a fascinating person.

[Nicole Parker]

I forgot my headphones. Burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

I. I.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Mean, you could have just put them on. You didn't need to really.

[Doug]

You can hear him talking though, right?

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. We're sitting right next to each other.

[Nicole Parker]

Sorry. I ran down to see the oracle cave because I wanted to see what it looked like.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What does it look like?

[Nicole Parker]

It is a lot bigger. And he's right. It is not about the cave. It's not about the cave. I really think it's all about the oracle pool. All about the oracle pool. He did a nice job, baby. Did a nice job. I want to let you. I want to let you know that.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And I'm sure Beautiful's gonna love it.

[Doug]

I appreciate that.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Yeah. Beautiful's gonna love it.

[Doug]

She's gonna love it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

She's gonna.

[Doug]

I made a mistake of looking at my face in the reflection pool, though.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, no.

[Doug]

And.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh.

[Doug]

It totally disorientated me as the.

[Nicole Parker]

Disorientated you, as the British would say. Do they say. Is that what they say? Yes, the British say that they do. Okay.

[Doug]

I lost my sense of place and time.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Why?

[Doug]

Just seeing yourself, reflecting yourself in that oracle water.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

But did you see something that you maybe should not have seen? Was there some mystical, hideous.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my God.

[Doug]

Well, I put some oil in the water, so it gives it a kind of reflective, iridescent kind of.

[Nicole Parker]

I think water does that all on its own. I mean, it's reflective.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Famously is.

[Doug]

Yeah. But you know that look, when the oil. The oil's in the water.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

There's, like, a number of stories about that.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah. There's a dog with a bone, and he literally sees another dog with a bone.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Exactly.

[Doug]

This is oral water.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Dumb dog.

[Nicole Parker]

Oracle water. I know.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, maybe you should drop some dawn in there. So you don't have any of these war disassociative states.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, all right. Well, we have a final post here, and I just. Sometimes people post the craziest things. But isn't that the truth? It really is.

[Doug]

That should be the tagline of the show.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Yeah. Sometimes people post the crazy.

[Nicole Parker]

I'm just gonna show it to you really quickly because, to be honest, I'm now realizing that. I'm now realizing that if you look at it too long, then actually, you know what. What happens?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, the abyss gazes back.

[Nicole Parker]

That's right. Well, no, it actually is. You just find out what it is and it's not so mysterious.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, okay. Because if I did say you had. No.

[Nicole Parker]

What was going on? I didn't.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Nicole Parker]

I don't know if it's because my contacts are tired. It could be because my contacts are tired and sometimes I just can't focus. But let me see if you. If I just show this to you for as quickly as I looked at it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Okay.

[Doug]

Nothing happens.

[Nicole Parker]

Marilyn. Marilyn just says. Anyone know what these are? Okay.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

What?

[Nicole Parker]

You see.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I saw a clump of something.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That could have been some kind of insect.

[Nicole Parker]

Yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Could have been a ton of bats. Could have been part of a sweater.

[Nicole Parker]

Thank you. This is validating.

[Doug]

Wait, I'm coming in. I'm coming in.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. Doug wants to see it. I'm going to show you. For the exact amount of nanoseconds.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Do I look Normal Billy will snatch. Yes.

[Nicole Parker]

You look fine, babe. You're fine. Whatever.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Same as you always do.

[Nicole Parker]

Whatever you saw in the oil. Don't. Don't pay attention. Okay? Your pupils are fine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Your pupils.

[Nicole Parker]

What? Your pupils. What? What did he say?

[Doug]

I don't know what word I just said.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Nopen. Are my pupils.

[Nicole Parker]

Nopen.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Hey. Worried about this guy?

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, my gosh. That's what? That's a sign that Nope. Nope would hide. Would put. He'd hide it on his door.

[Doug]

Let me see this thing.

[Nicole Parker]

All right. What are these? That's all you get. See that? Got it from him.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, but you have.

[Nicole Parker]

So now, having looked at it further, it's so clear. So now just take a minute. Does now take longer?

[Doug]

Take a longer.

[Nicole Parker]

Now you see it, right?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm taking a longer. And yes. And I see these. They're delightful little.

[Nicole Parker]

You know what? Let Doug see it. Let Doug see it.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

All right, let's see it.

[Doug]

Let Doug first, before I open my eyes.

[Nicole Parker]

Open your eyes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Open.

[Doug]

Some sort of, like, collection of acorns or something. Or I had a pine.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And you know what? For the listener, let's not say what it is.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, yeah, let's not say what it is.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We will post it.

[Nicole Parker]

Okay. That's fun.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

And you got to promise it's going to be the last in the slideshow. And you have to look at it just for one second.

[Nicole Parker]

One second. You have to try one second and look away. And then you have to look at it for a longer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

You have to look at it for a longer.

[Doug]

Let me take it longer.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Take a longer.

[Nicole Parker]

But don't say anything, babe.

[Doug]

What the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

See, it.

[Duke]

It.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This is the dictionary definition of a what the. Oh.

[Duke]

Oh.

[Nicole Parker]

There has to be a word for that. It really does. There really has to be a word for this because it was so shocking to me at first. It looks horrifying.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

It looks horrible.

[Nicole Parker]

It looks like a terrifying movie. It's awful.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

1000.

[Nicole Parker]

And then it ends up being the most Innocuous. I was gonna say innocuous. And then I don't know why I said unthreatening. That wasn't as smart.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Well, that wasn't a smart.

[Nicole Parker]

That wasn't a smart.

[Doug]

But now what I'm thinking is, Marilyn here has had a lot longer.

[Nicole Parker]

She sure is. Had a lot of.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

She was the one who took the picture.

[Doug]

She still doesn't know what these are.

[Nicole Parker]

Which means she stared at it for a while trying to figure it out. Right. So something's up with Marilyn and the.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Fact that he just Says what these are. There's no more descriptive term than that. Because you almost. Because she says what these are.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Makes you think you're not. She hasn't told you what you're supposed to focus on.

[Nicole Parker]

Correct. That's so true. Because I'm going to. I'm going to say I focused on the bottom part of the picture. Bottom part of the stuff. Which is more upsetting.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Absolutely. It's a poorly composed photograph.

[Nicole Parker]

It's a terrible photograph. It's terrifying.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I'm going to say this. Marilyn, shame on you.

[Doug]

Do better.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Quit. You have to quit, neighborhap.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, no, Burton. You always go too far.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Delete your account. Mar.

[Nicole Parker]

Always go too far. Always go too far.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I go as far as I think I need to go.

[Nicole Parker]

And we've gone as far as we should go for season eight.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That's right.

[Nicole Parker]

I am calling it that. I don't care what you think, Burns. That's fine, but. Oh. You okay, babe?

[Doug]

No, I'm just. That's sad.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh. Why is it. Oh, it's the end. Yeah, I know. But just for a little bit. We want to thank all.

[Doug]

My mom.

[Nicole Parker]

You're all the best.

[Doug]

Predicted this.

[Nicole Parker]

Oh, wait. Predicted what?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

That the season would end.

[Doug]

Season would end.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, we all did.

[Nicole Parker]

Yeah, we had it scheduled. Yeah, I've had it in my calendar for months.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We would like to thank all of you for listening to this season. And we had a really lovely time. What a wonderful and diverse bunch of people.

[Nicole Parker]

Bunch of wacky people we met this time around. They were really wacky. But we're not totally gone. Because every month. What can they listen to, Burns?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

They can listen to the bonus room episodes. See, here's the thing. Go to cbbworld.com sign up on their Maximus tier, and there you will get access to our bonus room episodes, which is sometimes us just talking about dignity falls amongst ourselves, the three of us. Sometimes we. We do Q&As with people with the listeners. Sometimes we have some sort of pirate versions of our feed from other podcasts. Don't know how this happened.

[Nicole Parker]

Still don't know.

[Doug]

Gone on double dates.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

We've gone on double dates. That's right. With. With Gabby, my girlfriend. And. And we watched movies. Yeah, it's. It's a lot of different stuff. We have a really good time and we think you'll enjoy those episodes as well.

[Doug]

And there's all these unrelated shows.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I mentioned that.

[Doug]

Oh, you did?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Oh, you mean in addition to our.

[Doug]

Show in a dsd?

[Nicole Parker]

Yes, yes.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Y. There's other shows that you can enjoy that are not in our feed.

[Nicole Parker]

Don't freak him out. He's so. I can hear you. B. I know you're still sort of weirded out by whatever you saw on there.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, I'm so sorry, Doug. It's a terrible thing. But yeah, you can. You can hear. You know, hey, Randy. Or Scott hasn't seen, which I still.

[Nicole Parker]

We did that one burnt.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I. Yeah, I keep forgetting. I keep forgetting. Something about the title is just.

[Doug]

Is it. He hasn't seen anything.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

No, it turns out it's about movies. He hasn't. Oh, and again, who cares if you.

[Nicole Parker]

I think it's fun.

[Doug]

I mean, I haven't seen most things.

[Nicole Parker]

Wait, what do you mean? Wait?

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Are we. Are we just all going to make podcasts of things we haven't seen?

[Nicole Parker]

Don't give everybody the idea.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Who cares? You can make a podcast about anything, obviously.

[Nicole Parker]

Obviously. And then you can have your own mobile service.

[Doug]

Places haven't been.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

Not enough having a podcast. Have your own phone company.

[Doug]

That's smart.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

I think it's less than that. All right, well, thank you so much for listening. We really. We really do love our listeners, if not fans. And we will be back for a ninth season. And until then, goodbye and bye.

[Nicole Parker]

All of the posts used in this episode were real. Only some geographical specifics have been changed.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

The Neighborhood Listeners hosted and produced by.

[Nicole Parker]

Me, Paul F. Tompkins and me Nicole.

[Doug]

Parker and me Brett Morris.

[Paul F. Tompkins]

This episode's guest was played by Mitch Silpug. The Neighborhood Listen. As a production of Comedy Bang Bang world.

[Nicole Parker]

Go to cpbworld.com to unlock the entire history of the show ad free as well as brand new full length bonus room episodes exclusive to Maxima subscribers. Your support keeps the show.