Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyor and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today, who are still quite obviously children, if I do say so myself. Welcome to how did we get weird? So, Jonah, I was trying to think of our story for today and I couldn't help but notice your cool GQ hat. Could you just give us some of the origins? Sure? So I'm rocking this GQ hat. It's official license by the magazine GQ. They had this new editor and so I subscribed and got it and like instantly, my wife Vickie was like, why are you wearing this GQ hat. I'm not really into like wearing suits and fancy stuff, so it's not totally my personality. Yeah, well you couldn't tell from your hat. Yeah. Well, I like it because it kind of puts out there that I kind of have like a good sense of style. And then i'm you know, well read and you know, up on fancy handkerchiefs or whatever. That's really cool. So yeah, and I also wear anything that's free that comes in the mail. Yes, yeah, you kind of cool. Same. Okay, Well I've gone through that, We've addressed the hat. Let's introduce our incredible guest today. She's an incredibly talented and brilliant actress, comedian, and writer who you may know from her film Obvious Child or a little film called Everything Everywhere, All at Once? Ever Heard of It, or from her book series and Oscar nominated film Marcela Shell with Shoes On. Please welcome my friend Jenny Slate. Hi, Hi Jenny, how's it going? Hey guys, I love that GQ hat. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I like it because it's like I'm in favor of this, you know what I mean, Like I support I like this magazine. I think that's nice. Yeah. Yeah, I'm wondering if people are going to think it's like ironic, you know, because I feel like now kids might not know what GQ is because it's not like an app. I don't know that puts you in the perfect zone, Like it's like, why would you have a GQ hot, you know, like you and I wouldn't put somehow you do, Whereas like if it were like Playboy, it's like oh okay, right, right, right, right, that's cool, cool man, But like GQ, it's just like that hat could say like playground or like supermarket or sure like it's fine GQ fine. Yeah. I also think GQ is such an elevated brand, right like, it's got a lot of cachet to it for me. For me, Gentleman's Quarterly, I mean, isn't how it means? Think it is of that? Yeah, it's a sports issue this month, so I don't know who anyone side of it is, but I'm gonna check it out. Jenny, how do you feel about like, I'm sure people send you free stuff, will you wear free clothes or what's your criteria? Sort of? Yeah? I love getting free things, but you know what, I don't like getting free like mugs right right right, No, I'm only specific about my mugs. I like take a lot of time to pick them out, and I don't like me that. But I really like getting a free like bluetooth speaker, Yeah incredible. Half the time those things don't work, yes, right one, so it's nice to get that. I feel like I get to like borrow clothes and I have to give them back. That's kind of what my lifestyle is, I know, is it so fun when you don't have to give them back though, that's the true dream. It's the best. And sometimes you don't. Sometimes you get to keep them. But mostly what I do is I just like steal underwear from work. Yes, that you can steal, and they'll they're never gonna come after you. Like, I'm not gonna go into a store or onto the internet. Let's get real, I'm not going to any stores anymore somehow that just like died in my life. But I'm not gonna like go onto the internet and be like I need a nude song, you know, right, can't do that, but yeah, like I don't want to do that. I want to do something more fun. So the network when they're like, and we have some underwear for you here right, Like by that you mean I take this home? Yeah, totally leaving this they don't want it back. This is no way. We were filming my show, I got into those really big water bottles, like the half gallon and the gallon water bottles. And I don't think I need to say why I was changing my underwear all the time. Oh yeah, man, because I was like lightly pissing my pants jonah, oh yeah. And and I think they were like keep these even though they were washing them. They were sort of like, we don't want these back. Oh yeah, it's not like it's like whoa, you know, at the end of the day with my underwear, but it's like just privacy, like I don't want I'm not going to leave these. If anything, I would. Yeah, not that I've ever done this. Yeah, I just strayed up steal them, but like I would rather take them home and run them through my own wash and then bring them back. Yeah right, right, right right. But like the wardrobe intern, I know, I feel so bad for I would apologize to them so much when I would get piss on my clothes. Oh well you have to, you have to apologize. Yeah, yeah, elephant in the room, there's piss all over everything. Jonah Strane change subject was literally anything else, of course, Jenny, I'm assuming you spent a lot of time in New York. I live in the Berkshires now, but when I lived in New York, I would drop off my laundry a lot, have them folded, do the whole deal. Did you ever ever do that drop off service? Oh yeah, I love that. That made me feel like I lived on sesame. Street that was just one block over. I had a little First, I had this huge bag that I had from camp. Yes, I had one of those meto Mine had my name printed on it. Yeah, me too. My mom did with like fabric markers and she made balloons and I had that and then I would like just lug it up the block. And then Angie, the lady that lived next door to me, who was like two hundred years old, was like, you need a car. And I was like what, And She's like, you need a car and I was like, oh, I'm fine. And then like three days later she like buzzed my buzzer and had gotten me one of those like metal carts that yeah, And so then I used the cart and I would bring it there and just wheel it on in. I love that. Yeah. You don't see a lot of people under sixty with those carts. Yeah, I know. It was rare. That's so nice. I never did the laundry like that when I lived in New York because I was always scared that they would shrink everything. Oh, because they dry everything, and I let almost all of my clothes air dry. Whoa, I know, because I'm worried they're gonna shrink. You can bring your own detergent and they will use it also, so that that was going to be my next thing was that I use fragrance free detergent because I get sort of allergic to fragrance. Yeah, I'm sure our listeners are loving getting all the deets. You know. What gave me like a real shock of like what are we gonna do here yesterday is that I used like a certain detergent that does have a nice smell when my daughter was born, because they were like, this is what you use for babies. This is like, yeah, the baby's clothing. And then now we could really use anything like she's two years old, we could just go back to like a sort of normal whatever, nice organic you know, something that's not gonna like melt your skin off. What do you call it? Detergent? But I can't stop using it because I feel like my daughter will stop being a baby, Like I know, I think it's wrong. Like I was like, I'm not gonna wash our clothes in this detergent forever, Jenny, are you? But I guess I just don't want to let it go. And I'm like, what's the harm? Do you wash everybody's clothes in it. Yeah, so you all smell like a little sweetie baby. Yeah, like sweet little babies. I think it's fine. I think keep it going. And maybe when she's ten, she'll say, why does the detergent have a picture of a newborn baby on it? And with that, I think we're gonna go to our first commercial break and we'll be right back. But Jenny Slate and we're back, Jenny. I wish I could smell how your clothes smell right now. It's all nice. It seems like they do. That's what I would think. We're really excited to talk about your topic today. Your topic is popples, and I just want to know to start, how are popples significant to you? Well, first of all, I haven't seen a popple in a really long time, and I just feel like a lot of people don't know what they are. Like they're just a little bit more obscure than let's say, like the pound puppies. Sure love pound puppies. And I had three popples a mom and two baby popples kind of and my mom was just like really, I don't know why, but like pretty anti pop culture. It wasn't like a religious thing. It was just like I think she just kind of thought maybe the way I think like a lot of that is crap. Like she was like, that's crap, you know, like it's crap, Like gushers are crap. We're not having gushers, it's crap. And like we're not getting popples, We're not spending money on that. You guys already get barbies. We're not buying more like synthetic you know, crap. Yeah, so it was like a big get to get them, and we got them for Hankkah. And also that like somebody made up the pople is really funny to me. Yeah. Yeah, they still exist. In fact, they're kind of really thriving. They were originally invented around nineteen eighty six and then I don't really remember this, but then there was also a TV show, like an animated show that came out about them, and then they kept over the years kind of bringing them back. But we'll get into that. But just to say, last night I watched some of the new Netflix show twenty fifteen. Netflix rebooted Popples. Yeah, yeah, and it's really they live in a popple pod. They use the word popples so much in it in different iterations. I think their town is called Popolopolas, And if I'm making that up, that's so insane, but I think that that's really what it's called. Basically, the way that you know their popples is that when they move, they kind of jump up and turn into balls. Yeah, And just to explain to people what a popple is, do you want to explain what they are for anyone who's kind of been, I don't know, living in a cave. Sure, A popple is a stuffed animal. Its body is like a sphere. They have different colors, are all like kind of sherberty colors, like orange and like raspberry in purple. And they have a face, they have ears, they have like kind of little like pause and then on their back they're like a reverse marsupial, so like their back is like what would be like almost like a kangaroo pouch kind of. Oh. They have a long tail with a pom pom at the end that from what I remember is two colors. Could be two colors, maybe not, maybe it's just one color, but anyway, the tail is like on their butt. But then they have this like pocket in the back, and basically what you can do is turn the popple into a full ball by turning them inside out into their own pocket. Yes, yes, now I looked up what pople I had growing up, and I had fuzzball, which was the white popple O, the big white popple with like blue ears and stuff like that. It was an amazing popple. But I don't know if you remember this from being a kid, but they work quite hard to stuff into the ball, Like it was almost impossible, and that was a real design fly. I think, yeah, you had to be like sorry, sorry, sorry. And then when they were in the ball, it wasn't smooth like, but I kind of liked that like that they was kind of lumpy. I remember I had to have my mom, I think, put it into the ball because I just couldn't. I didn't have like the fine motor skills or the strength. Well, stuffing stuff into a ball is tough, even if like if you've ever gotten like a sleeping bag or a tent or something, it's tough. That action is difficult in general. I think you're absolutely right. I hate putting an air mattress into a bag. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I don't just into a terrible mood or a sleeping bag is also so hard. And you know what, now that I'm in California, I've got a foldable chair kind of like a camping chair in the trunk of my car. And if you think I can get that thing back into the bag, you know what you can do is think again. That's right, you go ahead and think twice. And the idea that folding that stuff up and putting it into a bag is so hard, and that they would make a toy kind of based around that idea and that it would be successful is so well. I also think there's something kind of satisfying about getting the popple back in the ball, right totally. I loved it, I mean, and there are kind of these moments where I would like go into my room and see the popple and be like, huh, I put that thing into a ball in a while. Yeah, really, well, I'll change it up. Like my room will be so different when I have like these balls in it. Yeah, that's a cheeth, that am I Right? Come on, guys, come on, you can't miss that one. Another thing to note is that the original pople line from nineteen eighty six had thirteen inch eleven inch I guess this is their diameter, and eight inch so I think I had a little eight inch one two. But the one I remember most is puffball and eleven inch female popple with white fur, yellow hair, orange cheeks, and contrasting blue and magenta ears. Yeah. I had the orange one, and I thought it was ugly, but and then it was I had baby ones too. Did you name them? I can't remember. I don't think so you had. I'm trying to see which one you had. Which one had orange fur, pretty cool head, blue fur, party head, pink fur. You had puzzle puzzle that seems with orange fur, green hair, pink cheeks, and contrasting blue and red ears. Yeah, and then I had a baby one that had purple blue ears and the pink on the top. Yeah, you had pretty bit an eight inch female popple with lavender fur, hot pink hair, pink cheeks, and contrasting pink and blue ears. Yeah, Jenny, are you familiar with the celebrity popal line in two thousand and one? No, I'm not, Jenny. This is odd odd odd. We weren't either. We weren't either, but I just want to say, before that came out, they did rockstar popples and baby popples pufflings, which look like little popple pets. The rocks are Popple's self explanatory. They looked like little rock stars. Sports popples that turned into like sports big kick a basketball, football, etc. Flower popples, pillow popples, fruit popples, et cetera. And then two thousand and one is Jonah just referenced they did this weird thing where they came out with celebrity popples. So is it like a popple version of a celebrity. Yeah, according to our research, it's popples that just have their name based on celebrities. Yeah. So if you look at them, and I did, they don't look like the celebrities at all. But the thing that is the most funny to me about these celebrity popples is how obscure the celebrities are. Thousand and one. I would love to guess, Yes, please guess, Please guess. If you can guess one of them, I'll be so impressed. Ricky Martin, Nope, that is a good guess. That's a great guess. Two thousand and one like it's actually all women. They're all women. Oprah, No, that would be incredible. You would never allow it. Way too classy. I'm trying to think of like who he had. I can only think of Britney Spears. That's close. I don't know some of who some of these people are. I think I know who all of them are, but I had to look some of them up. So the first one is Tiffany, which seems that's eighties though I know, I know it's odd. Rachel Lee Cook interesting, Okay, we'll take it. Alissa Donovan, who is the redhead woman on Clueless, like the Redheads kind of making a comeback now in those Racketan commercials. But this is no burn to Elisa Donovan. If she ever wants to do the podcast, we'd love to have her. But I don't think people are ever like, oh my god, and Elisa Donovan, Papa, look, yeah, I just okay. Nicole Oliver. Actually, that's the one that I don't know who Nicole Oliver is. Neither Melissa Joan Hart. That makes sense, that makes sense. Sure. Ananda Lewis. So, Ananda Lewis was an MTVVJ Oh yeah, I remember her? Who then went on to like have maybe a separate news career, talk show career or something. But odd Shoshanna Lonstein who has the clothing line, Shoshanna who used to date Jerry Seinfel totally, I remember that. Yes, so that's Jessica Beale, that makes sense. And Christina Ricci. So the ones that were odd to me. Again, I'm not sure who Nicole Oliver is. I should have looked. I looked her up. She is best known for her roles in My Little Pony and The Littlest Pet Shops, So maybe she's kind of in the Popple My Little Pony universe, got it? And so she's a voiceover actor? Not sure? Yeah, okay, but the Shoshana one Ananda leuis even a Lisa Donovan. I go, what what do these people do to they make deals with Popples people so that they could use their name. That's my question, Jenny, I'm wondering, Like twenty twenty three, Popples come to you, they say, we're rebooting again. We're interested in Jenny Slate, Popple, what do you say, you say, talk to my agent or what do you do? Yeah? I mean for me, it's going to be a pass just because I don't popples to be more than what they ever were. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's not about me being like a snob about it or whatever. Like I'm very open to an endorsement, you know, like I would like to have a swimming pool one day. As I keep saying, sure, I don't think that popples need to be more than popples. Yeah. Yeah. Well the other thing that I think would be tough about having a popple named after you is, again, if you look at these quote unquote celebrity popples, Yeah, they just look like popples, and so it's hard to have something named after you that looks like just a little furry thing with that rolls into a popple. Totally like you know what I would like named after me? What's that? Like? Pretty obvious, but like a Ben and Jerry's Yes, ye, yeah, I think that's pretty cool. What do you think it would be? Like? What would be your dream flavor that would be named after you? The thing is I think it. I actually think it already exists. Oh man, that's the thing is, Like I'm a real chair y Garcia. Okay, okay, so my favorite flavor but it also best represents me. I feel like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. But maybe they would do some year especial Cherry Garcia, Jenny Slate. Yeah, you know, I mean back to the Papel Sherbert thing, but like, and I never know if it's Sherbet or Sherbert. I don't either Sherbet. We used to say Sherbet growing up, but some people say, sure, Sherbet. I'm from Massachusetts and people put rs where they're not supposed to go, Like my mom says, put on your Parker and sit on the sober. Wait, put on your Parker. Oh yeah, So I'm not sure, but all I'll say is if they were to make like an orange Sherbet Sherbet, I think it's Sherbert. I think that could be. You know, that could be for you. That's really nice. Yeah. I think for me, I would want something that has chocolate in it, because that's just kind of but actually one of my favorite ice cream flavor versus. A little known fact about me that you two are going to hear right now is I love Rocky Road. Oh yeah, I never have that one. Yeah, let's forget about that. I never have it. It almost feels like it's gone the way of the papal in that although I guess Popples are back, that it doesn't really exist as much anymore. It doesn't it feel so like eighties and nineties right, because everyone's like, it's Moose tracks right, right, right, they're doing Moose tracks. I can't get into. You know, I live in Massachusetts also, and I feel like I go to the local ice cream place and I cannot stand when they have all these names of ice creams that aren't the flavors, because you've got to ask what they all are. And I felt I'm just like asking, So I'm like, what's this? Totally what's Whale's tail? And then they're like it's like a teenager like looking for a print out. Okay, so one thing I know is that the ice cream is blue. Oh hold on, I've got it, and you're just like, oh, forget it. Yeah. I live most of the year, as you know, Vanessa, in a small town in Massachusetts, and we have an ice cream in place called doc Side, which is an ice cream place by a dock. And my move now after deeply embarrassing myself there because they had an ad for one of the people who worked there also put up an ad for that they would like, scrub the decks of your ship, like it was like a deck cleaning, okay, okay, okay, And I was like, can I get a small deck cleaning? And like everyone there was like, what, like we hate. I was with Gabe lead Men and his husband and they were both like, you just bombed so hard in one of those teenagers and I hated it so much, and so the next time I came back to sort of try to be like, actually, I am like an adult and I can I'm like free and your teenagers and like, you know, like I can do whatever I want. You should watch me now. I ordered an ice cream Sunday and I just sort of did it out of spite or like yeah. I was like, I get an ice cream Sunday whenever I wants. I'm an adult, Okay, I don't actually bomb in front of you. I'm a professional comedian. And then I got a Sunday and I was like why did I do this? But then it was just a plain vanilla with whipped cream, a cherry and chocolate hot fudge, and I was like, oh, I'm getting this every time. And now I go there, and I'm not the person who made the stupid joke, but I'm like the lady who always gets a Sunday. Yeah. So anyway, so wait when you so wait with the deck cleaning order, you were making a joke. See I can see it also bombed. Yeah. I thought maybe you really thought that was a flavor because the flavors had such wild names. Well that's the thing. It was right next to the flavor yeah place. So I was like, can I get a small deck cleaning and they were like what, oh no nothing. I like that you had the attitude like to prove you're an adult and be like I can stampolize I want. I can eat whatever I want, Like I don't have a curfew, you know, Like, who are you to laugh at me? Exactly? Yeah, go home and live with your parents, you idiots. Yeah bye, I could come here five times a day. I can't have it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Ice cream. And I dare you to challenge me because guess what, I'm an adult. Yeah, I think that's really cool. Well, just to wrap things up on popples, I just want to say you can buy them now. They look a lot more sleek than they used to look on Man, which you know, and the Netflix show it's like twelvesh minute episodes and they put two together. They look pretty sleek in that too, just to kind of they don't really resemble the Popples that you remember. Now. I'll also say, if you do ever decide to watch maybe with your daughter. I do think it's a show for pretty young kids. It was below my comprehension level, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back with Jenny Slitt. And we're back, Jenny. We're going to play a fun little game with you called Legitman or Unnecessary Groan, Legit Moannecessary Groan. And basically this was inspired by this now defunct column in our local paper growing up, the Cleveland Plane Dealer, where on Mondays they used to have this Monday Moaning section where people would write in with their extremely petty complaints and we would find them really funny as kids. And they don't do it anymore. It's about ten years ago they stopped doing it, but we still find them really funny. And we found the archives, and so we're going to read a few of them to you and then get your take on whether you think it's a legit moan that this person has or an unnecessary grown Now, Jonah, do you want to introduce the battle zone element of this? Yeah, so we're going to actually do a game inside a game. This is a battle zone. So this is actually one person posting a complaint one week and then I found the next week's paper and someone replies to it. Okay, first of all, so we'll get what side you're on at this argument, I can kick us off. The initial one these are is from Parma. My moan is about people cutting grass. I don't know who's lazier, people who have their grass cut or people cutting the grass with equipment worth over ten thousand dollars for a postage side stamp lot. Okay, So this person's upset about people buying expensive equipment or hiring someone to cut their or hiring someone for their time. So that's not giving them a lot of options, I guess, unless doing it themselves with cheap equipment. Okay. So someone writes back the next week from a dine and says to the person complaining about people having their lawns mode for them, it takes a lawn service barely twenty minutes to cut, trim and blow a lawn, and a person with a quote unquote real mower more than two hours. Think about the disabled people, people's heart problems, or the elderly. They can't mow their lawns. None is knocking down their doors to help out. Jenny, what do you think? Who side are you on with this lawnmowing kind of debate battle zone. I'm on the side of the person who responded, Yeah, yeah, you know, I kind of just feel like, none of your beeswax. Like if somebody wants to apparently spend ten thousand dollars or something on the lawnmower, like let them, like right. And the other thing I'll add is that my husband loves mowing the lawn. He chills out. Yeah, you know, it's like a flow state thing. He likes it. But sometimes he doesn't have time sure, and so someone comes and does it. And I think that experience is a cool either way. And yeah, I think it's a what is it an unnecessary growth? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I agree with Jenny. I think the first person is kind of complaining about nothing, and I think that the person responding is correct. And also even if the person doesn't have a heart problem or is elderly or disabled, I also think like that they still have a right to call and have someone do it for them if that's their preference. Yeah, I agree with both of you. I cut my lawn. Yeah, I don't mind doing it with an electric glow mower, charge it up do it doesn't take that long. Not to brag, but also yeah, I get the sense of person writing the first letter. Probably a lot of things make them mad that don't affect them at all. Yes, Like they probably drive down the street and like, oh, that guy's long moo is too expensive, that guy's cars a wrong color, like this is probably a very hard person to please. If this is if they're actually going to trouble to write a letter to the local newspaper about this. Jonnah, that was a good impression of that person. Thank you, Thank you. I think there's a little bit of that inside me, and I think that's maybe something I try to really work on. Yeah, Okay, well I'm going to read we have a new one, Jenny. This is a new one. I'm going to read. Okay. This person is from Westlake, Ohio, and they wrote I can't believe the rudeness of some of the kids who ride their bikes to the subway restaurant in Bay Village. I have been there many times lately where I have seen a good number of bikes just thrown onto the sidewalk, blocking the way for patrons to come inside the restaurant. My mother, who uses a cane, had a difficult time making it to the doorway the other day because there were five or more bikes just thrown on the sidewalk leading to the doorway. Whatever happened to good manners? Oh wow, is there a response or this is just this one doesn't have a red doesn't have a response, So I think that's what? Is it? A moan lean legit? Yeah? I think everything about this person the subway restaurant. That's so nice. You know, a bike. Not everyone gets a bike? Yeah you know you throw that on the ground, you yeah, stand up? Yeah, use the rack. Come on, guys. I think everybody needs to mind their manners. I like that their mom wants to get a subway sandwich. Oh that's so nice. I wish those kids would pick up their darn bikes. I know I bought a bike when I still lived in New York, and I remember them being like, do you want to kickstand on it? Most people like they made it sound like most serious bikers don't want to kickstand because it adds weight, And I was like, yes, I want to kickstand, like I don't want to always have to be leaning this thing against stuff like see it's yeah, but maybe these kids are anti kickstand and they think I'll just throw it on the subway restaurant when I go in to get my meatbells up and that's just not cool. And I totally agree. That's so funny about kickstands or kickstands looked down upon, like you're not a real I mean now they're like fixed gear bikes. I don't even like them having breaks gear. I mean you want to make them as light as possible. Sort of, so how are you supposed to stop if you don't have any great? Yeah, yeah, I think there's a sort of a technique to it. Again, I gotta kickstand on my bike, I was getting all the so, but yeah, I think there's a way you sort of if anyone drives fixed gear bikes, they wouldn't you turn maybe or something. I don't know. It seems dangerous. Right, I'm so scared of bikes. I'll never get on. I was just going to put it out there. I'm not into bikes. I don't like, I'm not going to be riding a bike around a city. That's absolutely a no for me. And actually when I see people riding bikes, I go get out of here. Oh my god, so mad about it, Like I love riding fights on the driveway as a kid. But like, yes, I have a long needs to be cut down even story that will go in my next stand up special about how my husband been on one of like our first kind of like dates assumed that's like, never asked, assumed that I would ride a bike. It was like, oh, that would have made it. I can't believe you're still together. But I know, I mean that's kind of like the center of the joke. I mean it really was, like, how what is so like messed up? It's so bringing a horse into the front yard and being like, come on, exactly, do you ever think maybe absolutely not? You know that's a good idea for a date. We'll go risk our lives in the middle of the road. I'd love to just get like flopped by a car door and have like a broken clavicle and like a weird abrasion on my face. That's absolutely I really do like your husband, but this is going to take me a minute, if that makes sense. He's really outdoorsy and even though he's American, he kind of sometimes seems like European and like about bikes. You know, I'm so glad that we fall in the same place on bikes, I just go, you know, walk or get a car. Yeah, I hope we don't fall in the same place when as I mean exactly so, Vanessa, you're an agreement about this, I assume with the subway rest, I'm so like, I think this person has a really great point. I think this is such a legit moan. And these kids are lucky enough to have bikes take care of them. And by the way, I know that goes in opposition of what I just said, because I hate bikes, so why would you be lucky to have one? But I just mean, these little punks probably didn't even have to pay for their bikes. Okay, So this is a final one. This is a short one from Lakewood, Ohio, where I used to live. It's please stop cutting articles and coupons. Out of library magazines. They do not belong to you. This is stealing and ruining the magazine for the next person. Okay, it's a legit, moan. I don't love other people who are like reminding people of stuff like that. Yeahah, like I get that. It's a bummer. If I were reading The New Yorker in you know, a library, which I you know that's not happening, but like birth and I was like, can't wait to find out, you know what this guy said about this other thing, and then flip the page and it was like, yeah, cut out, angle, I'd be pissed. But they don't belong to you. It's like, okay, yeah, I think it's legit, but I'm also those coupons aren't going to get used otherwise. But I understand, like sometimes the coupon and then on the other side of the page is the continuation of the story, so it can be kind of a tough thing. But I also go, if you care so much, buy the magazine. If someone needs a coupon, yeah, yeah, let them have it. I mean, I guess the thing that was cool. I mean, this really is feels so outdated to be getting magazines from the library. But the thing that's cool about it is that you can see back issues, and so I could see how they're sort of archival materials and you're cutting stuff out of something that's going to become part of history. Some might say, but it depends to me. I mean, like when I'm reading my new issue a GQ, Yeah, I'm trying to really you know, full circle jonah, I don't want to interrupt it. But I also feel like it depends what's on the other side of the coupon. Like, if it's an AD or something, yeah, I think you should be able to cut it out. If it's you know, a great feature and in the middle of it, then maybe have some tech. But I think it depends what's on the other side. I think you're right. I think can that person who's cutting the coupon take a moment to kind of look into the other side and have the forethought to think, maybe, if this is a story on the other side, I should think twice about cutting this coupon. You know, it's also a lesson I'll say in making a quest, and like, I don't think there's anything wrong with like saying what you need, but you're less likely to get it when you sprinkle a little shame on there. Just yeah, people, how urgent this is for you. It's like if the person had just been like, I feel so upset that I like to go to the library and have like my quiet time and read magazines, and that people have clipped out coupons. I wish people would think about the readers. Yeah, yeah, I agree. The tone they don't belong to you. Yeah, the tone is yeah, pretty pretty tall. Yeah. The other thing that's just a general Monday moaning note is that I think this person if they just went to their library and said, hey, do you guys mind putting up a sign just reminding people not to cut coupons and stuff out of the magazines because sometimes they're cutting out parts of the stories in the magazines. That's like, to me, the most direct way as opposed to writing this letter anonymously to all of Cleveland. Wow. Yeah, it's a huge move. It's a huge move. Jenny. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Where can people find out more about you? You have anything to promote anything like that. I just came on because I wanted to be here and talk to you guys. I don't really feel like I have anything to promote right now except being an absolute rock star. Jenny, Hey, yeah, man, I mean I guess you could just go ahead and still watch the Marcel the Show movie if you yes, yes, watch yea for the rest of your life. I think it's I wrote a book. It's called Little Weirds that's still there. Yes, that's right, Yes like that. Maybe you'll like it too. But mostly I was just here because I just to talk to you guys, because your show is cool and so are you. So that's how we think about you and just love you so in here, love you too well. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you to everyone for listening. If you enjoyed this, please subscribe to the podcast and keep an eye out for next week's episode of How Did We Get Weird, where we will discuss more stories from our childhood and cultural touchstones like popples. Yeah,

Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyor and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today, who are still quite obviously children, if I do say so myself. Welcome to how did we get weird? So, Jonah, I was trying to think of our story for today and I couldn't help but notice your cool GQ hat. Could you just give us some of the origins? Sure? So I'm rocking this GQ hat. It's official license by the magazine GQ. They had this new editor and so I subscribed and got it and like instantly, my wife Vickie was like, why are you wearing this GQ hat. I'm not really into like wearing suits and fancy stuff, so it's not totally my personality. Yeah, well you couldn't tell from your hat. Yeah. Well, I like it because it kind of puts out there that I kind of have like a good sense of style. And then i'm you know, well read and you know, up on fancy handkerchiefs or whatever. That's really cool. So yeah, and I also wear anything that's free that comes in the mail. Yes, yeah, you kind of cool. Same. Okay, Well I've gone through that, We've addressed the hat. Let's introduce our incredible guest today. She's an incredibly talented and brilliant actress, comedian, and writer who you may know from her film Obvious Child or a little film called Everything Everywhere, All at Once? Ever Heard of It, or from her book series and Oscar nominated film Marcela Shell with Shoes On. Please welcome my friend Jenny Slate. Hi, Hi Jenny, how's it going? Hey guys, I love that GQ hat. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I like it because it's like I'm in favor of this, you know what I mean, Like I support I like this magazine. I think that's nice. Yeah. Yeah, I'm wondering if people are going to think it's like ironic, you know, because I feel like now kids might not know what GQ is because it's not like an app. I don't know that puts you in the perfect zone, Like it's like, why would you have a GQ hot, you know, like you and I wouldn't put somehow you do, Whereas like if it were like Playboy, it's like oh okay, right, right, right, right, that's cool, cool man, But like GQ, it's just like that hat could say like playground or like supermarket or sure like it's fine GQ fine. Yeah. I also think GQ is such an elevated brand, right like, it's got a lot of cachet to it for me. For me, Gentleman's Quarterly, I mean, isn't how it means? Think it is of that? Yeah, it's a sports issue this month, so I don't know who anyone side of it is, but I'm gonna check it out. Jenny, how do you feel about like, I'm sure people send you free stuff, will you wear free clothes or what's your criteria? Sort of? Yeah? I love getting free things, but you know what, I don't like getting free like mugs right right right, No, I'm only specific about my mugs. I like take a lot of time to pick them out, and I don't like me that. But I really like getting a free like bluetooth speaker, Yeah incredible. Half the time those things don't work, yes, right one, so it's nice to get that. I feel like I get to like borrow clothes and I have to give them back. That's kind of what my lifestyle is, I know, is it so fun when you don't have to give them back though, that's the true dream. It's the best. And sometimes you don't. Sometimes you get to keep them. But mostly what I do is I just like steal underwear from work. Yes, that you can steal, and they'll they're never gonna come after you. Like, I'm not gonna go into a store or onto the internet. Let's get real, I'm not going to any stores anymore somehow that just like died in my life. But I'm not gonna like go onto the internet and be like I need a nude song, you know, right, can't do that, but yeah, like I don't want to do that. I want to do something more fun. So the network when they're like, and we have some underwear for you here right, Like by that you mean I take this home? Yeah, totally leaving this they don't want it back. This is no way. We were filming my show, I got into those really big water bottles, like the half gallon and the gallon water bottles. And I don't think I need to say why I was changing my underwear all the time. Oh yeah, man, because I was like lightly pissing my pants jonah, oh yeah. And and I think they were like keep these even though they were washing them. They were sort of like, we don't want these back. Oh yeah, it's not like it's like whoa, you know, at the end of the day with my underwear, but it's like just privacy, like I don't want I'm not going to leave these. If anything, I would. Yeah, not that I've ever done this. Yeah, I just strayed up steal them, but like I would rather take them home and run them through my own wash and then bring them back. Yeah right, right, right right. But like the wardrobe intern, I know, I feel so bad for I would apologize to them so much when I would get piss on my clothes. Oh well you have to, you have to apologize. Yeah, yeah, elephant in the room, there's piss all over everything. Jonah Strane change subject was literally anything else, of course, Jenny, I'm assuming you spent a lot of time in New York. I live in the Berkshires now, but when I lived in New York, I would drop off my laundry a lot, have them folded, do the whole deal. Did you ever ever do that drop off service? Oh yeah, I love that. That made me feel like I lived on sesame. Street that was just one block over. I had a little First, I had this huge bag that I had from camp. Yes, I had one of those meto Mine had my name printed on it. Yeah, me too. My mom did with like fabric markers and she made balloons and I had that and then I would like just lug it up the block. And then Angie, the lady that lived next door to me, who was like two hundred years old, was like, you need a car. And I was like what, And She's like, you need a car and I was like, oh, I'm fine. And then like three days later she like buzzed my buzzer and had gotten me one of those like metal carts that yeah, And so then I used the cart and I would bring it there and just wheel it on in. I love that. Yeah. You don't see a lot of people under sixty with those carts. Yeah, I know. It was rare. That's so nice. I never did the laundry like that when I lived in New York because I was always scared that they would shrink everything. Oh, because they dry everything, and I let almost all of my clothes air dry. Whoa, I know, because I'm worried they're gonna shrink. You can bring your own detergent and they will use it also, so that that was going to be my next thing was that I use fragrance free detergent because I get sort of allergic to fragrance. Yeah, I'm sure our listeners are loving getting all the deets. You know. What gave me like a real shock of like what are we gonna do here yesterday is that I used like a certain detergent that does have a nice smell when my daughter was born, because they were like, this is what you use for babies. This is like, yeah, the baby's clothing. And then now we could really use anything like she's two years old, we could just go back to like a sort of normal whatever, nice organic you know, something that's not gonna like melt your skin off. What do you call it? Detergent? But I can't stop using it because I feel like my daughter will stop being a baby, Like I know, I think it's wrong. Like I was like, I'm not gonna wash our clothes in this detergent forever, Jenny, are you? But I guess I just don't want to let it go. And I'm like, what's the harm? Do you wash everybody's clothes in it. Yeah, so you all smell like a little sweetie baby. Yeah, like sweet little babies. I think it's fine. I think keep it going. And maybe when she's ten, she'll say, why does the detergent have a picture of a newborn baby on it? And with that, I think we're gonna go to our first commercial break and we'll be right back. But Jenny Slate and we're back, Jenny. I wish I could smell how your clothes smell right now. It's all nice. It seems like they do. That's what I would think. We're really excited to talk about your topic today. Your topic is popples, and I just want to know to start, how are popples significant to you? Well, first of all, I haven't seen a popple in a really long time, and I just feel like a lot of people don't know what they are. Like they're just a little bit more obscure than let's say, like the pound puppies. Sure love pound puppies. And I had three popples a mom and two baby popples kind of and my mom was just like really, I don't know why, but like pretty anti pop culture. It wasn't like a religious thing. It was just like I think she just kind of thought maybe the way I think like a lot of that is crap. Like she was like, that's crap, you know, like it's crap, Like gushers are crap. We're not having gushers, it's crap. And like we're not getting popples, We're not spending money on that. You guys already get barbies. We're not buying more like synthetic you know, crap. Yeah, so it was like a big get to get them, and we got them for Hankkah. And also that like somebody made up the pople is really funny to me. Yeah. Yeah, they still exist. In fact, they're kind of really thriving. They were originally invented around nineteen eighty six and then I don't really remember this, but then there was also a TV show, like an animated show that came out about them, and then they kept over the years kind of bringing them back. But we'll get into that. But just to say, last night I watched some of the new Netflix show twenty fifteen. Netflix rebooted Popples. Yeah, yeah, and it's really they live in a popple pod. They use the word popples so much in it in different iterations. I think their town is called Popolopolas, And if I'm making that up, that's so insane, but I think that that's really what it's called. Basically, the way that you know their popples is that when they move, they kind of jump up and turn into balls. Yeah, And just to explain to people what a popple is, do you want to explain what they are for anyone who's kind of been, I don't know, living in a cave. Sure, A popple is a stuffed animal. Its body is like a sphere. They have different colors, are all like kind of sherberty colors, like orange and like raspberry in purple. And they have a face, they have ears, they have like kind of little like pause and then on their back they're like a reverse marsupial, so like their back is like what would be like almost like a kangaroo pouch kind of. Oh. They have a long tail with a pom pom at the end that from what I remember is two colors. Could be two colors, maybe not, maybe it's just one color, but anyway, the tail is like on their butt. But then they have this like pocket in the back, and basically what you can do is turn the popple into a full ball by turning them inside out into their own pocket. Yes, yes, now I looked up what pople I had growing up, and I had fuzzball, which was the white popple O, the big white popple with like blue ears and stuff like that. It was an amazing popple. But I don't know if you remember this from being a kid, but they work quite hard to stuff into the ball, Like it was almost impossible, and that was a real design fly. I think, yeah, you had to be like sorry, sorry, sorry. And then when they were in the ball, it wasn't smooth like, but I kind of liked that like that they was kind of lumpy. I remember I had to have my mom, I think, put it into the ball because I just couldn't. I didn't have like the fine motor skills or the strength. Well, stuffing stuff into a ball is tough, even if like if you've ever gotten like a sleeping bag or a tent or something, it's tough. That action is difficult in general. I think you're absolutely right. I hate putting an air mattress into a bag. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I don't just into a terrible mood or a sleeping bag is also so hard. And you know what, now that I'm in California, I've got a foldable chair kind of like a camping chair in the trunk of my car. And if you think I can get that thing back into the bag, you know what you can do is think again. That's right, you go ahead and think twice. And the idea that folding that stuff up and putting it into a bag is so hard, and that they would make a toy kind of based around that idea and that it would be successful is so well. I also think there's something kind of satisfying about getting the popple back in the ball, right totally. I loved it, I mean, and there are kind of these moments where I would like go into my room and see the popple and be like, huh, I put that thing into a ball in a while. Yeah, really, well, I'll change it up. Like my room will be so different when I have like these balls in it. Yeah, that's a cheeth, that am I Right? Come on, guys, come on, you can't miss that one. Another thing to note is that the original pople line from nineteen eighty six had thirteen inch eleven inch I guess this is their diameter, and eight inch so I think I had a little eight inch one two. But the one I remember most is puffball and eleven inch female popple with white fur, yellow hair, orange cheeks, and contrasting blue and magenta ears. Yeah. I had the orange one, and I thought it was ugly, but and then it was I had baby ones too. Did you name them? I can't remember. I don't think so you had. I'm trying to see which one you had. Which one had orange fur, pretty cool head, blue fur, party head, pink fur. You had puzzle puzzle that seems with orange fur, green hair, pink cheeks, and contrasting blue and red ears. Yeah, and then I had a baby one that had purple blue ears and the pink on the top. Yeah, you had pretty bit an eight inch female popple with lavender fur, hot pink hair, pink cheeks, and contrasting pink and blue ears. Yeah, Jenny, are you familiar with the celebrity popal line in two thousand and one? No, I'm not, Jenny. This is odd odd odd. We weren't either. We weren't either, but I just want to say, before that came out, they did rockstar popples and baby popples pufflings, which look like little popple pets. The rocks are Popple's self explanatory. They looked like little rock stars. Sports popples that turned into like sports big kick a basketball, football, etc. Flower popples, pillow popples, fruit popples, et cetera. And then two thousand and one is Jonah just referenced they did this weird thing where they came out with celebrity popples. So is it like a popple version of a celebrity. Yeah, according to our research, it's popples that just have their name based on celebrities. Yeah. So if you look at them, and I did, they don't look like the celebrities at all. But the thing that is the most funny to me about these celebrity popples is how obscure the celebrities are. Thousand and one. I would love to guess, Yes, please guess, Please guess. If you can guess one of them, I'll be so impressed. Ricky Martin, Nope, that is a good guess. That's a great guess. Two thousand and one like it's actually all women. They're all women. Oprah, No, that would be incredible. You would never allow it. Way too classy. I'm trying to think of like who he had. I can only think of Britney Spears. That's close. I don't know some of who some of these people are. I think I know who all of them are, but I had to look some of them up. So the first one is Tiffany, which seems that's eighties though I know, I know it's odd. Rachel Lee Cook interesting, Okay, we'll take it. Alissa Donovan, who is the redhead woman on Clueless, like the Redheads kind of making a comeback now in those Racketan commercials. But this is no burn to Elisa Donovan. If she ever wants to do the podcast, we'd love to have her. But I don't think people are ever like, oh my god, and Elisa Donovan, Papa, look, yeah, I just okay. Nicole Oliver. Actually, that's the one that I don't know who Nicole Oliver is. Neither Melissa Joan Hart. That makes sense, that makes sense. Sure. Ananda Lewis. So, Ananda Lewis was an MTVVJ Oh yeah, I remember her? Who then went on to like have maybe a separate news career, talk show career or something. But odd Shoshanna Lonstein who has the clothing line, Shoshanna who used to date Jerry Seinfel totally, I remember that. Yes, so that's Jessica Beale, that makes sense. And Christina Ricci. So the ones that were odd to me. Again, I'm not sure who Nicole Oliver is. I should have looked. I looked her up. She is best known for her roles in My Little Pony and The Littlest Pet Shops, So maybe she's kind of in the Popple My Little Pony universe, got it? And so she's a voiceover actor? Not sure? Yeah, okay, but the Shoshana one Ananda leuis even a Lisa Donovan. I go, what what do these people do to they make deals with Popples people so that they could use their name. That's my question, Jenny, I'm wondering, Like twenty twenty three, Popples come to you, they say, we're rebooting again. We're interested in Jenny Slate, Popple, what do you say, you say, talk to my agent or what do you do? Yeah? I mean for me, it's going to be a pass just because I don't popples to be more than what they ever were. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's not about me being like a snob about it or whatever. Like I'm very open to an endorsement, you know, like I would like to have a swimming pool one day. As I keep saying, sure, I don't think that popples need to be more than popples. Yeah. Yeah. Well the other thing that I think would be tough about having a popple named after you is, again, if you look at these quote unquote celebrity popples, Yeah, they just look like popples, and so it's hard to have something named after you that looks like just a little furry thing with that rolls into a popple. Totally like you know what I would like named after me? What's that? Like? Pretty obvious, but like a Ben and Jerry's Yes, ye, yeah, I think that's pretty cool. What do you think it would be? Like? What would be your dream flavor that would be named after you? The thing is I think it. I actually think it already exists. Oh man, that's the thing is, Like I'm a real chair y Garcia. Okay, okay, so my favorite flavor but it also best represents me. I feel like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. But maybe they would do some year especial Cherry Garcia, Jenny Slate. Yeah, you know, I mean back to the Papel Sherbert thing, but like, and I never know if it's Sherbet or Sherbert. I don't either Sherbet. We used to say Sherbet growing up, but some people say, sure, Sherbet. I'm from Massachusetts and people put rs where they're not supposed to go, Like my mom says, put on your Parker and sit on the sober. Wait, put on your Parker. Oh yeah, So I'm not sure, but all I'll say is if they were to make like an orange Sherbet Sherbet, I think it's Sherbert. I think that could be. You know, that could be for you. That's really nice. Yeah. I think for me, I would want something that has chocolate in it, because that's just kind of but actually one of my favorite ice cream flavor versus. A little known fact about me that you two are going to hear right now is I love Rocky Road. Oh yeah, I never have that one. Yeah, let's forget about that. I never have it. It almost feels like it's gone the way of the papal in that although I guess Popples are back, that it doesn't really exist as much anymore. It doesn't it feel so like eighties and nineties right, because everyone's like, it's Moose tracks right, right, right, they're doing Moose tracks. I can't get into. You know, I live in Massachusetts also, and I feel like I go to the local ice cream place and I cannot stand when they have all these names of ice creams that aren't the flavors, because you've got to ask what they all are. And I felt I'm just like asking, So I'm like, what's this? Totally what's Whale's tail? And then they're like it's like a teenager like looking for a print out. Okay, so one thing I know is that the ice cream is blue. Oh hold on, I've got it, and you're just like, oh, forget it. Yeah. I live most of the year, as you know, Vanessa, in a small town in Massachusetts, and we have an ice cream in place called doc Side, which is an ice cream place by a dock. And my move now after deeply embarrassing myself there because they had an ad for one of the people who worked there also put up an ad for that they would like, scrub the decks of your ship, like it was like a deck cleaning, okay, okay, okay, And I was like, can I get a small deck cleaning? And like everyone there was like, what, like we hate. I was with Gabe lead Men and his husband and they were both like, you just bombed so hard in one of those teenagers and I hated it so much, and so the next time I came back to sort of try to be like, actually, I am like an adult and I can I'm like free and your teenagers and like, you know, like I can do whatever I want. You should watch me now. I ordered an ice cream Sunday and I just sort of did it out of spite or like yeah. I was like, I get an ice cream Sunday whenever I wants. I'm an adult, Okay, I don't actually bomb in front of you. I'm a professional comedian. And then I got a Sunday and I was like why did I do this? But then it was just a plain vanilla with whipped cream, a cherry and chocolate hot fudge, and I was like, oh, I'm getting this every time. And now I go there, and I'm not the person who made the stupid joke, but I'm like the lady who always gets a Sunday. Yeah. So anyway, so wait when you so wait with the deck cleaning order, you were making a joke. See I can see it also bombed. Yeah. I thought maybe you really thought that was a flavor because the flavors had such wild names. Well that's the thing. It was right next to the flavor yeah place. So I was like, can I get a small deck cleaning and they were like what, oh no nothing. I like that you had the attitude like to prove you're an adult and be like I can stampolize I want. I can eat whatever I want, Like I don't have a curfew, you know, Like, who are you to laugh at me? Exactly? Yeah, go home and live with your parents, you idiots. Yeah bye, I could come here five times a day. I can't have it breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Ice cream. And I dare you to challenge me because guess what, I'm an adult. Yeah, I think that's really cool. Well, just to wrap things up on popples, I just want to say you can buy them now. They look a lot more sleek than they used to look on Man, which you know, and the Netflix show it's like twelvesh minute episodes and they put two together. They look pretty sleek in that too, just to kind of they don't really resemble the Popples that you remember. Now. I'll also say, if you do ever decide to watch maybe with your daughter. I do think it's a show for pretty young kids. It was below my comprehension level, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back with Jenny Slitt. And we're back, Jenny. We're going to play a fun little game with you called Legitman or Unnecessary Groan, Legit Moannecessary Groan. And basically this was inspired by this now defunct column in our local paper growing up, the Cleveland Plane Dealer, where on Mondays they used to have this Monday Moaning section where people would write in with their extremely petty complaints and we would find them really funny as kids. And they don't do it anymore. It's about ten years ago they stopped doing it, but we still find them really funny. And we found the archives, and so we're going to read a few of them to you and then get your take on whether you think it's a legit moan that this person has or an unnecessary grown Now, Jonah, do you want to introduce the battle zone element of this? Yeah, so we're going to actually do a game inside a game. This is a battle zone. So this is actually one person posting a complaint one week and then I found the next week's paper and someone replies to it. Okay, first of all, so we'll get what side you're on at this argument, I can kick us off. The initial one these are is from Parma. My moan is about people cutting grass. I don't know who's lazier, people who have their grass cut or people cutting the grass with equipment worth over ten thousand dollars for a postage side stamp lot. Okay, So this person's upset about people buying expensive equipment or hiring someone to cut their or hiring someone for their time. So that's not giving them a lot of options, I guess, unless doing it themselves with cheap equipment. Okay. So someone writes back the next week from a dine and says to the person complaining about people having their lawns mode for them, it takes a lawn service barely twenty minutes to cut, trim and blow a lawn, and a person with a quote unquote real mower more than two hours. Think about the disabled people, people's heart problems, or the elderly. They can't mow their lawns. None is knocking down their doors to help out. Jenny, what do you think? Who side are you on with this lawnmowing kind of debate battle zone. I'm on the side of the person who responded, Yeah, yeah, you know, I kind of just feel like, none of your beeswax. Like if somebody wants to apparently spend ten thousand dollars or something on the lawnmower, like let them, like right. And the other thing I'll add is that my husband loves mowing the lawn. He chills out. Yeah, you know, it's like a flow state thing. He likes it. But sometimes he doesn't have time sure, and so someone comes and does it. And I think that experience is a cool either way. And yeah, I think it's a what is it an unnecessary growth? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I agree with Jenny. I think the first person is kind of complaining about nothing, and I think that the person responding is correct. And also even if the person doesn't have a heart problem or is elderly or disabled, I also think like that they still have a right to call and have someone do it for them if that's their preference. Yeah, I agree with both of you. I cut my lawn. Yeah, I don't mind doing it with an electric glow mower, charge it up do it doesn't take that long. Not to brag, but also yeah, I get the sense of person writing the first letter. Probably a lot of things make them mad that don't affect them at all. Yes, Like they probably drive down the street and like, oh, that guy's long moo is too expensive, that guy's cars a wrong color, like this is probably a very hard person to please. If this is if they're actually going to trouble to write a letter to the local newspaper about this. Jonnah, that was a good impression of that person. Thank you, Thank you. I think there's a little bit of that inside me, and I think that's maybe something I try to really work on. Yeah, Okay, well I'm going to read we have a new one, Jenny. This is a new one. I'm going to read. Okay. This person is from Westlake, Ohio, and they wrote I can't believe the rudeness of some of the kids who ride their bikes to the subway restaurant in Bay Village. I have been there many times lately where I have seen a good number of bikes just thrown onto the sidewalk, blocking the way for patrons to come inside the restaurant. My mother, who uses a cane, had a difficult time making it to the doorway the other day because there were five or more bikes just thrown on the sidewalk leading to the doorway. Whatever happened to good manners? Oh wow, is there a response or this is just this one doesn't have a red doesn't have a response, So I think that's what? Is it? A moan lean legit? Yeah? I think everything about this person the subway restaurant. That's so nice. You know, a bike. Not everyone gets a bike? Yeah you know you throw that on the ground, you yeah, stand up? Yeah, use the rack. Come on, guys. I think everybody needs to mind their manners. I like that their mom wants to get a subway sandwich. Oh that's so nice. I wish those kids would pick up their darn bikes. I know I bought a bike when I still lived in New York, and I remember them being like, do you want to kickstand on it? Most people like they made it sound like most serious bikers don't want to kickstand because it adds weight, And I was like, yes, I want to kickstand, like I don't want to always have to be leaning this thing against stuff like see it's yeah, but maybe these kids are anti kickstand and they think I'll just throw it on the subway restaurant when I go in to get my meatbells up and that's just not cool. And I totally agree. That's so funny about kickstands or kickstands looked down upon, like you're not a real I mean now they're like fixed gear bikes. I don't even like them having breaks gear. I mean you want to make them as light as possible. Sort of, so how are you supposed to stop if you don't have any great? Yeah, yeah, I think there's a sort of a technique to it. Again, I gotta kickstand on my bike, I was getting all the so, but yeah, I think there's a way you sort of if anyone drives fixed gear bikes, they wouldn't you turn maybe or something. I don't know. It seems dangerous. Right, I'm so scared of bikes. I'll never get on. I was just going to put it out there. I'm not into bikes. I don't like, I'm not going to be riding a bike around a city. That's absolutely a no for me. And actually when I see people riding bikes, I go get out of here. Oh my god, so mad about it, Like I love riding fights on the driveway as a kid. But like, yes, I have a long needs to be cut down even story that will go in my next stand up special about how my husband been on one of like our first kind of like dates assumed that's like, never asked, assumed that I would ride a bike. It was like, oh, that would have made it. I can't believe you're still together. But I know, I mean that's kind of like the center of the joke. I mean it really was, like, how what is so like messed up? It's so bringing a horse into the front yard and being like, come on, exactly, do you ever think maybe absolutely not? You know that's a good idea for a date. We'll go risk our lives in the middle of the road. I'd love to just get like flopped by a car door and have like a broken clavicle and like a weird abrasion on my face. That's absolutely I really do like your husband, but this is going to take me a minute, if that makes sense. He's really outdoorsy and even though he's American, he kind of sometimes seems like European and like about bikes. You know, I'm so glad that we fall in the same place on bikes, I just go, you know, walk or get a car. Yeah, I hope we don't fall in the same place when as I mean exactly so, Vanessa, you're an agreement about this, I assume with the subway rest, I'm so like, I think this person has a really great point. I think this is such a legit moan. And these kids are lucky enough to have bikes take care of them. And by the way, I know that goes in opposition of what I just said, because I hate bikes, so why would you be lucky to have one? But I just mean, these little punks probably didn't even have to pay for their bikes. Okay, So this is a final one. This is a short one from Lakewood, Ohio, where I used to live. It's please stop cutting articles and coupons. Out of library magazines. They do not belong to you. This is stealing and ruining the magazine for the next person. Okay, it's a legit, moan. I don't love other people who are like reminding people of stuff like that. Yeahah, like I get that. It's a bummer. If I were reading The New Yorker in you know, a library, which I you know that's not happening, but like birth and I was like, can't wait to find out, you know what this guy said about this other thing, and then flip the page and it was like, yeah, cut out, angle, I'd be pissed. But they don't belong to you. It's like, okay, yeah, I think it's legit, but I'm also those coupons aren't going to get used otherwise. But I understand, like sometimes the coupon and then on the other side of the page is the continuation of the story, so it can be kind of a tough thing. But I also go, if you care so much, buy the magazine. If someone needs a coupon, yeah, yeah, let them have it. I mean, I guess the thing that was cool. I mean, this really is feels so outdated to be getting magazines from the library. But the thing that's cool about it is that you can see back issues, and so I could see how they're sort of archival materials and you're cutting stuff out of something that's going to become part of history. Some might say, but it depends to me. I mean, like when I'm reading my new issue a GQ, Yeah, I'm trying to really you know, full circle jonah, I don't want to interrupt it. But I also feel like it depends what's on the other side of the coupon. Like, if it's an AD or something, yeah, I think you should be able to cut it out. If it's you know, a great feature and in the middle of it, then maybe have some tech. But I think it depends what's on the other side. I think you're right. I think can that person who's cutting the coupon take a moment to kind of look into the other side and have the forethought to think, maybe, if this is a story on the other side, I should think twice about cutting this coupon. You know, it's also a lesson I'll say in making a quest, and like, I don't think there's anything wrong with like saying what you need, but you're less likely to get it when you sprinkle a little shame on there. Just yeah, people, how urgent this is for you. It's like if the person had just been like, I feel so upset that I like to go to the library and have like my quiet time and read magazines, and that people have clipped out coupons. I wish people would think about the readers. Yeah, yeah, I agree. The tone they don't belong to you. Yeah, the tone is yeah, pretty pretty tall. Yeah. The other thing that's just a general Monday moaning note is that I think this person if they just went to their library and said, hey, do you guys mind putting up a sign just reminding people not to cut coupons and stuff out of the magazines because sometimes they're cutting out parts of the stories in the magazines. That's like, to me, the most direct way as opposed to writing this letter anonymously to all of Cleveland. Wow. Yeah, it's a huge move. It's a huge move. Jenny. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Where can people find out more about you? You have anything to promote anything like that. I just came on because I wanted to be here and talk to you guys. I don't really feel like I have anything to promote right now except being an absolute rock star. Jenny, Hey, yeah, man, I mean I guess you could just go ahead and still watch the Marcel the Show movie if you yes, yes, watch yea for the rest of your life. I think it's I wrote a book. It's called Little Weirds that's still there. Yes, that's right, Yes like that. Maybe you'll like it too. But mostly I was just here because I just to talk to you guys, because your show is cool and so are you. So that's how we think about you and just love you so in here, love you too well. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you to everyone for listening. If you enjoyed this, please subscribe to the podcast and keep an eye out for next week's episode of How Did We Get Weird, where we will discuss more stories from our childhood and cultural touchstones like popples. Yeah,