This week’s theme: “Ambition.” A car dealer has trouble closing, a downtrodden fast-food worker gets some help from above, and a couple’s living situation depends on the whims of a hummingbird.
Special Guest Contributor Chelsea Pope is a writer, actress and a comedian. You may have seen her performing improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and the Pack Theater in LA. She is also a former member of The Groundlings Sunday Company.
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Portions of This American Laugh with Aristotle Atari and Andy Harris. The improvised documentary podcast are brought to you by listeners like yourself, are esteemed sponsors, and the all powerful, all knowing Random Sentence Generator, which inspires the stories you're about to hear. Yes, whenever you hear this sound, the next sentence you hear is a random sentence provided by our revered omnipotent Random Sentence Generator or more This American Laugh. Listened to more episodes of This American Laugh. I guess and now your first random sentence. Her daily goal was to improve on yesterday. You realized that yesterday was gone. It was all about today and tomorrow, today and tomorrow. He bill. First of all, good morning, good morning to you. I think on time today. You know, well, you know, I woke up at six and I wanted to say good morning then, and I was like, no, I'm not. So I went over my journal and I journal. Yeah. I said all my intentions. I said, I said what I was grateful for. It was a short list, but I finished it and then I just wrote and I wrote, and I just I just got all my little brain gunks out. Good and you know it's only eleven thirty, but good morning, Bill, Good morning to you. I'm ready to have a good day. Did you get that straightened out with the ticket you got in the middle of the street. Okay, well, okay, so that that's a work in progress. Okay, it's a lot of works in progress. And that was actually that was you know, it's easily a forty five minute portion of my journaling was just talking about you know, what is a work in progress? And like, aren't we all like works in progress? Bill? By the way, do you like your eggs overheard or scrambled? I gotta say yesterday with pretty runny, so so scrambled, scrambled harder than yesterday. Okay, so you want to scrambles a little bit hard. Thank you for being so patient about breakfast by the way, now my pleasure. Thank you for being here early. And I noticed that you're wearing shoes today. Yeah, thank you. You know, being brefit's a problem again, like it's a work in progress. Just sometimes, you know, I've got my brain just scattered all over the floor and I go out the door and I don't even realize that I have my shoes off. Things hurt. I'm having thoughts and I'm having feelings and then the next thing I know, oh, my toast bleeding. You know. Oh, speaking of which, I noticed the no toenails in the oatmeal this morning. You know. You know it's so funny how that happened. Because I was making oatmeal. I was like, I'm gonna make this oatmeal. I'm gonna make the gunk out of this oatmeal, which is you know it gets it comes out pretty gunky, right, And I felt a little like a little ting in my toesies. And that's when I bent down the other day and I was like, what is that. I'm going to fix that. You know, I'm not gonna put it off. I'm gonna fix it right now. And then I done. Yeah. Well, you know, unfortunately it added a little toenail in the oatmeal, and I just feel I'm a little embarrassed. But today it's okay when you strained it out in Today's a new day. Today day. So far, everything is fine. Can I get a refill on the ice tea? Oh yeah, yeah, you know what, Actually I'm a little low, but if if you give you a couple of minutes, I can stir some powder into some water. And we can have some fresh ice tea ready to go. Well, I gotta tell you I do have to get to work. God, yeah it is five already. It's crazy as you've been waiting for me lunchtime. It is. Yeah, yeah, I totally understand. Yeah, no, go ahead first. No, one of my intentions is to be a better listener. Okay, wait, no, go Ahey, you know I gotta tell you really can wait? Hey, what is it? Bill? Oh my god? Bill? One hour later? Okay? If you followed him to his car, listen, wait, like really like listen. I thought you we were going to min car and hour to leave your car and that's just crazy. It's like, I don't know, I forget what I was even going to say in the no, but like I want to know that. I want to be rude to you, like I'm a listener. You got into the passenger's heat of his car. Where we're going? I want to go. I want to know what you're gonna say. It's gonna botherly all day, and it's gonna bother you too. I can tell the child boxer and I don't like it. Are you calling me a child? Because I feel like a child and she forced her way into his house. You want tell them if I said high, but also at the same time, I wanted to know that you need nice tea well, but listen, no, but at the same time, we have to we gotta finish things. You love himself in the bathroom, she was on the other side of the door happening on it. I'm not like, I don't trying to like one one. It's not really okay, and it's not about what it is about us. It's about us. Listen, next morning, what were you even talking about? Remember it crazy? So did your journal this morning? I'm not gonna lie, not yet. I actually don't have my journal at your house. Is so crazy, right, Oh my gosh. I hope today is better than yesterday. Though. You know what, it's so crazy. You know what's so funny. It's like, you know, you set intentions and then other things happen. Just life gets in the west, life totally gets in the way insane. It's like I had this whole like game plan for yesterday. I was gonna make the eggs just right, I was going to pour the iced tea. I was going to maybe go like bowling. I was going to maybe go for like a walk at my steps in and then can you sell it down place? Because I'm just that I'm writing down the places that you plan to go and just know no particular reason. I just isn't that what I'm trying to avoid these places? But that's the day because following me to these places, I just I get it. You're you want to know what the eye deal day, And I'm telling you what the ideal day is. Thinking of this me journaling on your behalf for you, and I never thought anything different. Yeah, Okay, that's it. That's the intro. This is this American laugh with their salatary and and yarest, I'm your host Ari alongside producer Andy Especially Guys. Contributor for this week is Chelsea Pope. As usual, this week, we will bring you a totally improvised story in three acts. This week's theme ambition It's what keeps you going if you have it, let stay with us. Act one. When she was little, she had a car door slam shut on her hand and she still remembers it quite vividly. Hi there, um, Hi sir. Yeah, So it's just been perusing your handle lot and I was thinking, you know, maybe I you know, I to I get behind the wheel. Okay, well, you know what, you come to the right place because this is the Hunded dealership. And if you're looking for a Honda quality hond you've come to the right place. Now let's want to say, you've got a really comforting voice. Oh good, you know what. I would lie and say the first person who said that to me, But I get that all you do daily, all the time, hourly. Oh my god, I was saying. It made me wonder if they're, you know, over conversating for their true feelings. They don't really find my voice to put that. I'm a painfully earnest person. I want to say that. I I really I appreciate it. You know there's something paternal about much bliged you. Now let's get started. Here. Are you looking for like a sedan? You're looking for some compact for us? Be awesome, you know, I'll be honest. You know the size is um really not important to me? Um? Or just the texture of the door the door, does that make sense? I want something stopped, let's say myself, or if I ever get involved with someone the horizon anyone shot shooting. But if we're having an altercation and someone says I'm getting in my car, and then I slammed the door, and I wanted to be just sort of like a you know, like and what kind of car do you have that does that? Well? A lot to unpack here, Why don't you you know what, why don't you go ahead and have your seat right here? Okay, right here, next next to my desk here, yeah, just just right next to the because you have chairs across from the you know, whats gonna make you feel more comfortable. Really, I'm really submissive. Do whatever you want a right one. I'm just I'm sitting beside you, looking away from you right now, okay, correct, alright, um, somebody who I want to get that out of the way of my clients. I don't want to get into all that because I really want a car because like the Weenishistle I work at is like really far away from my apartment, and so I really want this car. And trauma, you know, it's like is it a present tense thing or is it like a thing that happens that you just kind of like it? There? It is? There, it was Okay, Okay, I'm kind of getting with you. Okay, let me right now, not particularly. I'm just asking you, is this is merely salesman purchasurchasing potential purchasing purchaser. I'm not the one being purchased though, person, do you want to pray? So let me ask you a question real quick. Okay, we have four doors, we have two doors. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, you probably wanted two dogs, just fewer doors. Really, that's I like your thinking. I hadn't thought about the numbers, but realistically speaking, the fewer doors that could slam the better. And now, are you looking for something that has some zip to it? Or you want something where you can drive a long distance away from somebody who's waiting you with somebody. I'll be honest, this is gonna sound like wrong, but it was. It was my fault the slam. I was in an incident. And you know, you know what, you know what? This might be above my pay grade. I'm gonna get my my leasing agent in here, who also moonlights social worker Gregory, can you please come in here? Please? Nice? You're looking for carded Hey, wow, you you can really soft spoken. There's something very disarming about you that is entirely different. I get that a lot to get that off, you know, so wild all the time. That's so I hourly hourly people tell me that sometimes to wonder if people are overcompensating for their true feelings about my whispit things. No, I'll tell you one percent. I'm very I'm I'm a really bad liar. I've been told that many times in my life. And I'll tell you right now, I mean it. I mean it. You have a really soft, likable voice about you. So I have a few questions about your car. You wish I really want a car. I just want to say, I really I have to get to the winter snittle um walking us hard, and my legs really hurt when I get to the winer cell and and it makes my whole body really tired when I'm pouring like the brisket on the dogs and stuff. So just like before we go into the questions, I just wanted really like preface that by saying that despite my complicated history, I think a car would be good for me. And if the doors are soft, all the better. Okay, you know it's rude of me. I didn't introduce myself yet. My name is My name is Timberly. We managed to check down footage of Timberly working at the Uniel looking at these six dog you Nike, Yeah, Boris, it's Mr Boris to you. I'm sorry, Mr Boris. I don't know your first name, so I just say Boris. Boris is the very first name, last name. Do you call these? Sleep? Proper amount of briskets to put on to dogs? Sorry? On my little arms ces are tired, my legs, sees are tired because I walked here. I walked three miles and I'm tuckered. I'm real tuckered out, and I scooped the best I could. And I'm sorry. I know the lady was only half fool, Mr Boris, Um, but I put it. I put it on some of the dogs and then otherwise could just be But like talks, Mr Boret listen, Timberly, Yeah, Mr Boreth, if you feel me one more time, briskit on dog Wise there will be troubles. I do not want troubles. I want pleasures. I don't want troubles. I want good. I know that doesn't know what I meant. That came out wrong. Mr Bars timber you're trembling. You're trembling. I have fear. Yes, I understand, but I can see how my demeanor would frighten dol. But you have like a scary quality about I get told voices, Yeah, a little bit daily. People tell me that that hourly. Oh my gosh, I think that sometimes they may be overcompensating and not telling me they're true feelings. That they actually find my voice to be quite pleasant. But they do say that it's very very anerving. You know. Well, um, I'm a very earnest person and timberly is someone hurting you? Oh no, you know what. We're going to get the hush poppy cooking here the social worker. Oh no, girls coming here. They look in literally, I just want to see few question. I'm so so. First of all, you're doing great job with a hush puppies with me, you know, because we now just suddenly started serving because I was really thrown. It was really thrown because they're not weaners, hush puppies. Somebody had the meal just I walk really for and my AirPods don't work, so I you know, it's just just my thoughts and my memories, and there's a lot of um, there's a lot of like bam bam, bam, but not like guns, more like slamming, just that like I don't know if is this being recorded? Oh no, listen, I just want to say I walk really far because I care about this job and I do don't want to go to school and so I just I don't want any problems. I want to just keep working with my six shifts. Is that okay? Is it Gross or Mr? Grouse? Because I thought Boris was Boris, but it's Mr Boris, which is the first name, last name, but the last name Mr Grouse was my father's name. You can call me Grosse. Is it gross? My first name is also Grouse, cross Grouse. Can I call you gi? No? I'm so sorry. Guys returned to the car dealership. So I'm a piece all this together, I as well. Um, maybe you just have a skitnesh demeanor. I'm sorry for assuming that the reason you behave like this is because someone's wing you. No. No, no, no, no, that I didn't you know, I really I have no there's no I I it was. The slamming just was honestly the like the wind. I feel like the wind and maybe God had something to do with it and managed to get out hands on some archive footage of God. I honestly don't know why. She's like someone hurting you, timber God, God, Yes it's me. Hey God, the car door you remember when that happened? That really hurt? Actually an accident though, well no, But like does the wind have anything to say for itself? Because I'm really kind of still upset about it, and people think that like I've been abused, but like the wind is what hurt me, and it's like you made the wind, you know what, we're going to get The wind in here also happens to be a social worker. I'm the wind. I gotta say, I'm real sorry. I just want to say, you're kind of a fuck. Yeah, she's right, you kind of yeah, you're You didn't warn me, and my hands and the whole psychological well being are fucked because of you. Thank you so much for saying what I did not have the balls to say to the wind. I don't know, Like maybe it's because you're a social worker. You think you're like a you're a good entity or something, but just like when you slam doors without warning, you traumatize people, and it's like, are you just doing that to justify your position? I don't know, but like that's fun that she's right. Wind, Sorry, Wind, that is never easy. We're gonna have to let you go actually before the wind gets like, like, yo, can the wind like I don't know. I don't want the wind to like lose its job or whatever, but like I don't know if the wind could just like apologize or whatever, Like can you just say, like why you did what you did when you did it? Will not only do I apologize, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna take out that winer Schnitzel, I move it closer to your house so you don't have to buy a car. Wait, you don't have to walk to That's really not That saves me like tens of thousands of dollars. Wind, Like, I'm untraumatized because you saved me so much money. You know what, it's my pleasure, Wind Blue, then to their house. Nobody's to buy a car. I'm so sorry. Mr. Honda Dealer. Please. Mr Hounded Dealer was my father's name. You can call me Honda Dealer, Hounded Dealer, Haunted Dealer, dealer of the Honda Dealers, thank you very much. Of house, Honda Dealer of House hunted dealer. Yeah, I just I kind of like don't need you anymore. Actually, um, you see, I had kind of a beef with the wind, and I thought God, but actually God apparently had very little to do with it wind. The wind was just doing its own thing. And anyway, long story short, I've had closure in my life and I don't need this purchase anymore. I can just like step outside and I'm literally in wiener schnitha foiled bottle wind. Coming up. Back to the first word from my esteemed sponsors, stay with us, back to the interview. Let's get to know I especially guests contributed for this week. Chelsea Pope, Welcome to the show. Hi, thank you, thank you for being here, Thanks for having me. So how long have you been listening to the show? At least a good forty five minutes or so. Um, No, I I think you and are sat all very very funny improvisers and and uh, you know the guests you have on are are very gifted as well. And um, I'm a fan. I feel I feel very excited to be here. I feel very uh, I feel very unworthy, but like in a good way. No, No, I don't know, very worthy. I can tell by the look on your face that you've been listening for years. You've probably been listening for at least five years or so. How long is how long has your show been on? Tell me I can't even remem longer. So long decades, decades since you were a baby, right, yes, So, so if you had to choose an episode early on to be your favorite episode, what what do you recall from that episode? Um, you know what, Taking way back into the archives, I gotta say it's the first thing that pops into first, you know, the first thing that pops in my head. I listened to the episode that you did with Christine Bowland, who was that face? Earlier, earlier, earlier, five years okay, five or ten years before that, there was this interview that you guys did um with some guy. He was this dude, he was like this guy you got. You guys just kept talking about how he was bald, and I remember thinking, like, he's more than his hair or lock thereof you know remember that episode. Yeah, it was a good episode. His name was like Jeff Jeff B. Jeff B. You know what, You're not gonna believe this what I have that episode? Don't with f No, you don't, because I tried looking for it and it didn't go that far bad. Let's hear a clip from that. So I'm I'm more than just my hair or my lack of hair. I am. I'm me the combination of several attributes, not just my head. My wife agrees, Yeah, I don't. You know. There's something about you know when you U, I see my reflection and your scalp, and I just think to myself, like, oh that's let's your reflection of me and other than the hair, literally anything other than the hair, any other you know, there's uh, your there's something about the way you spend your parents money is really thoughtful, and um, you know, I gotta be honest. I think we need to start talking about a marriage counselor a little bit. Is that I'm sorry to I don't want to do my hair. No, I promise it's not about the hair, honey, I promise you it is not about that rephrase. Is it because of my lack of hair? No? I want to say, you know, honey, can you just can you swallow your gum or spit it out before we continue talking. There's like just like I think there's just a small issues like that, and this sort of issueing of of the way we function as a couple that is is um, I don't know, a little hard for me to kind of live with. Chewing keeps my mind off of my follical disposition, will be. Well, I'm you know, I think it's perfectly natural. And I don't you know a lot of other grown adult men experience a disadvantage of follically speaking, and they don't have to chew gum for that. That's not really that's kind of just the thing that you invented, babe. And I I gotta be honest. I feel like I'm walking on you know, a bunch of shine uh spelty hat. Yeah, no, you know what, that's not my fault or not. It's not my fault that you look like an egg. Shall I want to talk to my marriage counselor and I want to tell her we need to cancel our sessions the way I'm spending my parents money on hats. Thank you very much. Can I just say something now, Yeah, I don't like your cowboy hat. That was really something. It was a memorable episode. Because it was a really memorable episode. I really did for him. It was. Honestly, I'm really surprised that more people don't talk about that. We want awards for that one. Yeah, what do you do for a living? Well, honestly, for a living to pay my bills, I'm a waitress, but I do also improv, sketch, stand up, I write, I make little online videos. If they loop, that's cool, If not, whatevs. Uh And and I tweet and I and I try not to go on Twitter as much as I do, but you know, we're all creatures of habit, so it's very tempting. It's unfortunately, you know, it's it's just right there, you know, it's like it's always open, always ready. Where did you study improv and sketch? I was at a lot of places, you know. I was at the Groundlings for quite a period of time, and quite a long period of time. I was also at the US tob Theater intermittently, the Pack Theater as well. And I briefly worked and took a class and did some stand up at the Flappers and Burbank and you know, I just kind of like I've been around. When did you say that this was what you wanted to do for a living. It's an excellent question. I want to say it was always something that was a bit of a pipe dream for me. I came to l A as a transfer student from Ranchekukamanga. I was going to community college at Chiefee College, and I was originally actually just going to probably just become a teacher. I didn't have the strongest sense of direction or ambition. I always enjoyed acting in comedy. I didn't have a lot of um, I guess confidence or that that are sort of lit under my ass to go for it. And then I came to I transferred to u C l A and I was on campus. I felt a little bit. I don't know, maybe I was romanticizing, feeling out of place or something, but there was a part of me that was just like, I'm out here, I want to just see what the scenes like. And I knew that I was in close approximation to the Groundlings. So that's when I just decided I'm gonna sign up for my first Groundlings class. And I did. And I want to say sometime around the point where I graduated us l A, somewhere between that and maybe a year or so later, was when I thought, what if I don't know, got some head shots and started applying myself a little bit more like like like why not you know I was seeing I at that point had seen you know, other folks in classes i'd taken or peripherally in that sort of scene that were you know, they were working, they were auditioning, they were they were doing the grind. And I had been so reluctant and afraid of that or thinking, I guess that I wasn't skilled enough or worthy enough to do that. And I don't know, there was something that switched for me, maybe around like fifteen or sixteen, where I decided like why not me? Why don't I? Why don't I try to navigate that or figure that out? And there's a lot of trial and error, and I honestly want to say it wasn't until around the pandemic that I started to sort of figure out a little more of a comedic voice that I had to have a bit more of, like I guess, not a mission statement around what I do per se. It's like it's not that serious, but it's it's having an idea of like what I enjoy doing or what about comedy attracts me to it and why I want to perform it, and so I've been just trying to swim my way through that and also paying my bills. You know, it's interesting. You will not believe this. Why I don't believe you already. We actually have in our archives footage from the alternate universe in which you were a teacher instead of doing what you do now. That must be crazy. We actually, you guys have some some some superior technology around here. That's insane. We have footage of you with your what do you what do you call that employee review with the principal. Oh my goodness, so let me let me go ahead, and I'm excited to just do this pulp. Sorry, yeah, yeah, mr Mr Kendall, thank you. A couple of questions. It's a day to day what you're teaching these children, these fourth graders right there, you know, they're nine. Yeah, sorry, I just felt like I needed to remind myself that summer time sure depends on their birthdays. Summertime, sum are eight. Some are really really smart, smart kids. Yeah, hodgepodge of children ages age wise, smattering if you supposed to teach them, you know, mass sting of algebra kind of kind of getting into that. Yeah, you want to tell me why you're spending the first thirty minutes teaching them zips happens up. First of all, what is that? Okay? Well, first off, when I came to the school Central Elementary, it happened to be convenient to the location where in which I wanted to live. And so you know, I remember reaching out to the dean of the district superintendent, the superintendent, right, yes, m that's how the hierarchy works naturally. I know these things. I know, and you know what, I apologize for correcting you. That's like, no, no, don't don't apologize. I deserve it. Nobody deserves that. Really, nobody deserves that. You're a guest here in my office, correct you. You listen. All of this is to say that zips ups up is about reacting in the moment and being agreeable. And I want my students to be agreeable and adaptable and to think quickly and and and also my time with the students is on an average about thirty to forty five minutes. And I am not a math person. I actually I studied English literature at U C. L A. I'm not saying that's a brag. That's just what I did, um, so thank you, you know I did. Actually I put it at the top, in the middle of the bottom. It's exactly well. The thing is, you know, I just I was really trying to avoid being placed in a position where I was going to have to use the left side of my brain because that's all rotted from cigarettes, alcohol, poor choices. You know, there's a lot of regrettable things. And so when these these nine eight, nine to ten year old children, you know, they come into my classroom expecting me to teach them timestables, division, what have you, I am just at see it is overwhelming, and uh, you know, so we do the sip steps up partly just to bring me into the present. Well, I'm not I'm not trying to be that the typical millennial here, Proposter Candle, I know you're gen X, but listen, I didn't expect to become a poetry teacher at the elementary level or whatever. You know, but I uh, I am struggling with numbers I always have. That's gonna, I gotta tell you, that's gonna. It's gonna come back and bite you poventually unless something miraculous happens where this district completely changes the curriculum. You gotta no numbers, I'm sure, no, no, no, no, I have them. They're all I write them down, you know. I write them down with a sharpie on my arm every day. Uh, I have them here right now. See one to those are numbers. Smudge, smudge, five, six, seven to work on that smudge sideways in sideways. Um, it looks like a double. It looks like a three kissing another three is what that is actually, and then it's like a part in a mirror, like a hardened Yeah, that's kind of cute cut cute. Um no, but I know that it's an eight. And um yeah, I think right, I know, I know what maybe you should Hey listen, hey, Mr Kendall, Zip zap. A few months later we can be in for a second semester employee review. All right, problem, Yes, Mr Kendall, you are Congratulations to you. You're out of the box, thinking God, the district could completely change their curriculum and they're moving more towards the improv way of teaching. Center those antiquated numbers and however, your class numbers, um yeah, let's look here at the sounded movement opening performance of them are starting off just acting like the cold ditches. That's a very bush league way to begin to found a movement. Opening. Listen, you know what, I can always just be cold. That's just how we're gonna start. We're all cold. Okay, Well, like I have, I have to be straight up. Okay, Listen. I had an improv teacher when I was at the ground Links Theater. Dropped something definite. You dropped a name there, I dropped, I dropped a name. I dropped a groundling here like a real groundling as a whole. Listen. When I studied intermediate improv, he said, he genuinely said that we can't do improv in a hot room. Okay, And it's true. It's true because when you're hot, you get slow. And it's listen, it's not an excuse, it's real. And we could not touch the A C in the ground Links classroom digging. Then explain what they'll start with digging, with digging miraculously, there are you one mind. Everyone knows how to dig. Everyone knows how to dig. We don't all know how to make a sandwich or cut a cucumber, but we all know how to dig. Okay, everyone sat in a pile of sand, Mr Kendall, have you not sat in a pile of sand in the cold players? Mr Kendall was my father's name, Kendall Kendall. My name is Carl Kendall. Carl Kendall. Oh my god. Wow, that was really something. It could have been so different. Yeah, it could have been so different. I'm not gonna lie. I kind of I'm kind of glad I'm not living in that all time universe with Carl Kendall sucked. What are you working on now? Anything we should be looking for? Yeah, I mean you know you can. You can check me out on on the socials. I'm always making new videos, new content. I'll be uh working on longer form content as as as things move forward. I guess the short answer is, actually, no, that sounds terrible. That sounded terrible. That's not that's not technically what I meant. But just still writing. I'm still figuring things out. I guess it's it's it's I'm in a little bit of a creative fox right now. With Yeah, Chelsea Pope, thanks so much for joining us, and thank you so much for for having me coming up. Act three. The first the word from our sponsors who make this high quality program possible. Stay with US Act three. The hummingbird swings blurred while it equally sipped the sugar water from the feeder. Laura, you've got to get a job. I'm dying here drowning. Hey, Thomas, why are you get yours? You get always get on the back about getting a job. Blah blah blah blah blah. It's like, what's your pousemus Second, look at the humming birds? Like what the ming birds? With the hummingbirds? Again? Look in you're not like, Oh, you're so lazy blah blah blastic Thomas. Look at the hummingbirds. Yes, the hummingbirds are gorgeous, But do you also see this slip that was left on the door by the landlord. We're gonna get kicked out if you don't get a job. There's gonna be nowhere for the hummingbirds to flutter around it. What what what is that? Laura? What what are you doing? This is the first time I've stop the well, look at the hummingbirds you're looking at good for you? Beautiful? Look at that? Look at that? Look at the wing? Look at that's all blurry in it. It's blurry wing. No no, no, no, listen, no, we gotta we gotta get it together. It we gotta get gotta get out there it man, haven't has passed? What has passed? We've got look at he's look at you. You stripe on his it's got a little stripe. So happy. I'm just sugar. You know, we saw the hunky he's on this side of it. It's on the other side of it. And don't should bring in a bathe well, not a little baby. Did you go on to the to the mansa dot com? Did you try to find any so you go on glass door? You're not you? You didn't you link? No, listen, I went, I looked and there's no shut up. Okay, oh look it's a little feet a room. I just want to make a more sugar. We gotta make a more sugar. Water. We have sugar, get some sugar. But we we could go down the streets like the Starbucks or something of money and get the money for we just steal some of the sugars from the caddy. He should you're steal some sugars from the caddy and we put him with some water. We put him on the fasten. Laura, listen, you're gonna kick us out. And my brother is not going to help us move again. He's already helped us move a couple of times. His back is big. We're not gonna shut up. Shut up, shut up, look at it, Look at it ready. You know what I want to be doing. You know I want to get or put some sugar water in my hand and have it coming. Didn't they be when I got some honey? I think maybe you don't got honey honey stick on me just to put in your hand right now, use all of it those because I'm stop a little bit, no st and you cannot the other half because we don't eat. Don't eat because because you got no job. Okay, well maybe you could get a job. But here, why don't we feed the hummingbirds? I'll put it in my study. You think he's gonna come over, honkysar, don't you. I'll pull yourself together. If we don't get to act together a way, they're gonna kick us out. My brother is gonna head bla blah, gonna be out on a fragging street. I'm gonna get god, I'm gonna have my insurance ran out. I'm not gonna see you that therapace. Okay it look look, look quiet, stop everybody this everyone freeze. It's a beautiful there's more. It's this tours a green one and a red one. I didn't know they came in red. They look at dance of honey bird love so pretty. Put your hand out, Thomas, put your hand down with the honey. Oh God, crying Christ, what a ship all we leave in? I know they did. I didn't know that they bid. Okay, I did not do that. Okay, I gave you the honey list this, Thomas. What We've had a wonderful five years together. Okay, I don't think, okay that we've been on the brink of bankruptcy every waking second. But I can't support this whole family on this last food by families two people, I know, but that's a lot of people. That's more than one person. That's maybe, I don't know what, maybe his families three people. I can't stay mad at the bird, fly straight with the bird? Yeah, okay, well you know what? Are you mad at the bird? Are you mad at me? What? Really? What about it? Boat? Okay? Well you know what I say. Why don't we just wait to see till the Landlord actually comes in here and does something about it, because the way I see it, you're coming at me complained, Oh we're gonna get kicked out. Blah blah blah blah blah. Ain't nobody coming in here? Okay, we'll just enjoying ourselves with the hunting birds and then and then nobody nobody be coming and kicking us out. A lug. Landlord finally came by both of you. What is this? You're still here? I gave you three days, not a still vacate. Why are you still here? You'll see anything in boxes? Okay, how hold on? When't you Why did you shut up for a second? I want you to look out the wind till Mr Landlord, I am skip the goal? Is the weather or not that I should look out the window? I think first I should continue tearing you both in. No one but no. Look at the little birdie, humble right, Look at that little birdie you in the honey? Yeah, look a little half of half a stick. Honey, I'm gonna put it on your hand. Okay. If I'm not resting, I'm giving Come on, get yourself. Why do you get a job? Go to school? Give me your honey, right now. I'm no, no, no, I'm squeezing. I'm squeezing on your hand right now. Okay, here we go, we go down and down. Come in, little buddy, come buddy. Do we do it? Birdie? So help you? If this birdie doesn't, oh no, better falls out of here either, you'll pay me the rent. This bird eats out of my hand? What do you get the funk out? Okay? So like this, okay, so like if the birdie's out of your hand, we're fine. Okay, So hey, little birdie, come in here, you sleep skid dish, she's not coming. You know. It's tough because it's like they don't usually respond to English language. But I'm trying. You know, a little barn getting here, don't fly away, a little bark getting in here. I got an idea. You know how the wind owes me a favorite? Oh why? I think I might pray to God and the wind to see if the wind will blow the body house. I think that's a great idea. I've had a sun but dear Lord, blow Lord Lord, Yeah, it's the wind. Can I speak to the wind? Speaking wind? Would you mind terribly? This is I've got my hand hold on humming coming right until they oh, what did this dee? You'll know what what your kids stay? I was wonderful. We appreciate that. Foiled again by the wind for the producer Andy and especial guest contributor to Chelsea Pope. I'm your sorry. And this was This American Laugh with Ari Stalatari and Andy Harris. 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