Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak - Pause for Blueberries

00:00:00.800 Hi, I'm Kate Berlant.

00:00:02.340 I'm Jacqueline Novak.

00:00:03.440 And this is POOG, an ongoing conversation about wellness between two obsessive friends.

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00:00:20.740 Greetings, Jacqueline here.

00:00:22.380 Going to contextualize this episode for you.

00:00:24.580 Kate was texting me.

00:00:25.640 she started to tell me about her hotel experience and i just shot her back a link so we were on the

00:00:31.740 go so to speak point is into a convoy you go and i'm sure you'll be able to find your footing

00:00:36.200 this is hysterical and this is an experiment because like it could add up and be huge 0.97

00:00:43.380 fuck it doesn't matter but anyway will you just catch me i can't wait to tell you live 0.98

00:00:47.460 yes okay so i'm gonna tell you live and i hope this reaches the ears so i was at the bowery 0.99

00:00:54.020 having a lovely time having an amazing time um shout out to dwight the front desk

00:01:01.060 calls me kb i love it no yeah you know about what me yeah your identity is kb yeah i don't know why

00:01:12.540 it's funny but it is no it's amazing he remembered me from last time i stayed there with my mom he's

00:01:16.960 like how's mom seven so so okay so then work is putting me up a beautiful fancy hotel whatever

00:01:23.220 so and i thank you and i had to check out the bowery at noon and i had an event today at three

00:01:31.160 o'clock so i was like i'm gonna call and see when the soonest they can get me in is so i can change

00:01:36.880 and whatever so i call the front desk and i'm like hi um you know this is my name i'm checking

00:01:43.840 in today i was wondering when the earliest you might be able to get me in is and he's like what

00:01:49.680 you know and i was like oh and i say it again he's like oh and then there was so much background

00:01:56.500 noise on his end it sounded like he was in like like it was crazy and i so i repeated myself and

00:02:01.640 i go oh sorry there's just a lot of background noise and he goes well it's a very busy day at

00:02:05.860 the hotel no no yeah and i actually no and i go i'm actually gonna call back because i was like

00:02:13.860 no sweetie no honey yeah um so i get there and it's like the little things right and by and by

00:02:22.500 the way i want to preface this by saying i don't expect or like a heavy hand a saccharine like i'm

00:02:29.500 not looking for anything crazy at all i don't need you to be like oh and roll out the red carpet like

00:02:35.400 i'm talking about just basic normal like hi like i'm talking about the bare you'd take a if anything

00:02:41.740 sometimes you know the over is like you don't like it New York don't waste my time kind of

00:02:46.260 friendliness yeah and just like a like for example I'll say at the Bowery there's like a warmth and

00:02:51.580 like they're cool and lovely they're not going again it's not like cloying do you know what I

00:02:56.100 mean anyway point is absolutely but here's like like to me this is a detail where I go it's just

00:03:01.220 weird so I'm at the front desk right I come in with my big suitcase my backpack my purse whatever

00:03:06.160 and neither of them look up to like acknowledge that I'm standing there I don't say like excuse

00:03:10.880 me, but it's like a little thing like that. Like, by the way, finish what you're doing. I don't need

00:03:14.360 you to fly to my goddamn side, but it's like kind of a classic with you in a minute, right? Or just 0.98

00:03:20.020 an acknowledgement. So I'm standing there. I completely agree. Yeah. Just like a be right

00:03:25.360 with you. Great. None of that. I'm standing, I'm standing. Eventually one of them looks at me

00:03:30.060 and flatly says, look, can I help you? And I was like, hi, yes, I'm checking in, blah, blah. Here's

00:03:35.140 my ID. Is there any way I could get into it? I'm just hoping to get into a room soon so I can like

00:03:39.480 take a shower or whatever and he's like at this point it's new he's like I could get you in at

00:03:43.940 1 30 or 2 but it would be on a lower floor and I was like that's okay yeah and then I looked and

00:03:49.960 I'm sitting there waiting waiting so at like 2 45 I walk up to the desk meanwhile no one's really

00:03:56.080 there except for me and them right I walk up he again not looking up from his screen goes in a

00:04:01.060 really saccharine kind of like can I help you my god I almost wanted to go oh do you remember me

00:04:07.400 It's like, you know what I'm here to ask.

00:04:09.440 Yes.

00:04:09.920 Like, again, it was the bare minimum kind of just like, and I was like, oh, I just wanted

00:04:14.140 to say since it's 2.45, I'll just wait for the higher floor room.

00:04:18.840 And he's like, I've already changed you to the other room.

00:04:21.960 And I was like, okay.

00:04:24.080 And then at 2.50, at 2.53 to be exact, he's like, your room is ready.

00:04:30.100 And I'm so sorry, but I'm just going to say it.

00:04:32.160 Never in this time was sorry about that offer.

00:04:34.960 Would you like some water?

00:04:36.060 just kind of basic stuff for rooms that are i don't know 800 they start at um and seriously i

00:04:43.580 800 absolutely oh my god again i'm not paying the point is i go up to the room they have me

00:04:50.920 in a room that's directly opposite the maintenance closet which i'm actually going to switch out of

00:04:58.180 because the last time i did that yeah it's like bang bang bang 7 a.m wakes me like sleeper yeah

00:05:02.760 and um it just sucked and it really was like rudeness at the front desk it really like it

00:05:09.500 really marked the day rudeness at the front desk is it cannot be overstated okay now and i'm talking 0.92

00:05:17.180 about active rudeness so are you okay no i'm talking about active i would take military skin

00:05:22.940 i'd take military okay i'd take respectful militaristic service agreed agreed agreed like

00:05:29.160 because there's been a couple places i've gone to where it's like clear that they um i'm just

00:05:34.680 bringing my voice down because i realize chris is recording his podcast okay upstairs in the room

00:05:39.660 and i tend to bellow when i'm on the phone especially downstairs um like i've been because

00:05:47.860 there was somewhere i went recently you know a bunch of hotels in in a row right and i went to

00:05:52.880 one it might have been a four seasons and oh mailbox mail coming in the door um the mailman

00:06:01.900 like it's mr rogers so amazing so fresh cilantro okay so i go in and it was like

00:06:10.240 it was clear that the training was how quickly can you get someone through the check-in process

00:06:15.860 okay got it you know graciously yeah and i was like hell yeah right but it was calm

00:06:22.160 yeah it was like who was it was a new movie or a tv show recently oh it was company retreat it was

00:06:29.520 like um it was almost like slow is calm and calm is fast you know so it was like slow down to be 0.95

00:06:34.660 fast kind of vibe something like that but point is it was almost like that and i go damn you know

00:06:40.000 it was like we are through so it was militaristic but smooth and i loved it it's it's the opposite

00:06:46.740 of the saccharine waste your time where you're exhausted and you're like and they're like telling

00:06:52.340 you about like a feature you're not interested in you know what i mean totally they're like

00:06:56.420 we're roasting a cow on the roof yeah tomorrow yeah we're screening my fair lady at dawn yeah

00:07:03.980 and god you know it's just and i know there are different it's the one tough thing about

00:07:14.300 all products and services right it's like there are different styles and sometimes the very thing

00:07:19.820 about one style you know oh it's kind of casual here it's like this it's like that you know

00:07:25.060 informs the experiences someone has to have a vision of what you're offering right yes because

00:07:30.060 like sometimes there's a different vibe and you go but it's great there i love when i'm at the

00:07:34.280 blah blah boutique hotel and it's like such and such you know over here i want a different thing

00:07:39.500 it's like it's just like there is no one there is no one way yeah but there are certain things

00:07:45.820 like I was talking to someone I was like what's most important to you you know in a hotel you're 0.98

00:07:50.860 like they're like controllable climate like easily controllable climate like fucking thing on the 0.85

00:07:56.460 window I mean thing on the wall right yeah yeah heat on off so true that was a big one because 0.96

00:08:03.400 for me it's almost become the way that i'm turning towards hardwood floor i know it's so nice i'm

00:08:10.880 like what's the big deal guys like i don't because i don't care if it's scuffed it's chic let it be 0.55

00:08:15.520 scuffed like it's we don't need it and the the thing that really fucked me up in some of the 0.86

00:08:20.160 hotels i was staying in was sticky laminate okay or kind of a stickiness to the laminate under your 0.78

00:08:26.580 shoe it feels it doesn't feel good under the foot it doesn't feel good under the shoe yeah right so

00:08:31.360 then I was going like I'm gonna need something I'm gonna need a slipper but it's gross because

00:08:36.740 I was like I need a slipper for the hotel rooms but what is that slipper I struggled at the so

00:08:45.960 wait we never talked about oh my god that's right that you also stayed at yeah so did you visit the

00:08:52.780 underworld yeah once okay so you visit that pool the underworld the whole thing yes did you go

00:08:59.220 outside no it's really worth discussing right but this is amazing yeah because i was like

00:09:04.560 first of all i was like i can't wait to like taco's place i'm like with kate and i was like

00:09:09.140 i wonder like okay if kate and i did like a christmas pook show i was like would we stay

00:09:13.400 here like would i recommend would i have kate would i first got there i'm like maybe like this

00:09:17.180 is very interesting because you know i like because i've had some troubles in portland

00:09:20.120 including asking fred armison for a wreck okay like once and him giving me like a wreck and then

00:09:26.040 me finding it like way too rock and roll or whatever like yeah that was the place I left

00:09:30.040 where I got like the I got like this like a trumpet leaning in the corner

00:09:33.380 it was a round honeymoon suite yeah

00:09:38.300 oh no no like I got like woken up from a nap right at another hotel by someone like you know

00:09:49.120 sorry do you mind if I come in and put this cactus down small cactus right a small potted

00:09:54.540 cactus that was supposed to be on the shelf right it's like yeah you know it's losing the um the 0.99

00:10:00.660 plot you know what I mean yeah like hotel I mean I at some point we just want to say fuck it you 0.68

00:10:07.380 know season five is called hotel and that's all we talk about okay because it's a it's a worthy 0.55

00:10:13.200 topic I mean well by the way that's where I go you better be careful and again I'm hesitant I

00:10:19.460 even said i was like do i want to take this to the pod but and the answer is yes because it's just

00:10:25.800 like because here's the thing because it's like i would never like you know what i'm not going to do

00:10:31.820 try to get someone fired or something like i'm never going to do that right okay look oh my god

00:10:38.220 yes calm tear arrived the frozen can you believe i got that for us so i didn't realize i can't i

00:10:45.520 didn't realize because chris so he opened the package you know you know they didn't go in the

00:10:50.000 freezer no no no no it's the story is merely like the spoils of poog upon the partner okay

00:10:56.120 i've never heard of this stuff i didn't even think to tell chris about it he's like this

00:10:59.620 thing he's like oh like he had heard of it already okay i was very excited yeah okay and so he was

00:11:05.360 explaining to me i didn't even understand i thought it was coffee brand and then this morning i tried

00:11:08.960 one i actually took one out last night i didn't realize it's different brands and then the

00:11:13.980 comment here is like this is says go get them tiger oh i don't think i realized that either

00:11:19.580 and then this is let's see what this says proud mary coffee roasters okay oh yeah okay so it's

00:11:27.360 kind of different roasters and there's three others there's different roasters and i mean

00:11:32.300 maybe we're getting a sample pack because you know figure out what you like so i took this one 0.99

00:11:37.600 let's go get them tiger with notes of pear jasmine papaya okay and it's fucking you know 0.98

00:11:43.780 it's just do you see you see the steam or not yeah yeah and then out of the freezer and then 0.97

00:11:50.100 last night last night so i placed it in the fridge so it would sort of melt overnight this

00:11:54.700 morning i poured it and i even did my full routine well soy milk okay i foamed it up a little thing

00:12:00.140 it was absolutely i think i'm actually gonna have one now it was delicious and i literally was like

00:12:04.720 Oh, it's so weird when things are, I was like, it literally tastes like you're at the coffee shop.

00:12:09.260 And it's just been brewed.

00:12:09.720 No, stop. This is amazing.

00:12:11.100 This is amazing. This is amazing.

00:12:13.900 And I want listeners to know we've not been paid for this.

00:12:16.560 I was like, okay. Oh, and I forgot because I haven't melted this one. So this one's going

00:12:24.000 to be different.

00:12:24.480 That's incredible.

00:12:25.080 How do I approach it? Anyway, I'm pretty excited about it. Something about these frozen little

00:12:29.640 things.

00:12:29.980 So fun.

00:12:31.040 My cousin raved about it like a year ago.

00:12:33.380 Really?

00:12:33.620 yeah big coffee snob i do and um this this beautiful um so fun i can't wait they gave

00:12:39.700 us anyway so i was excited about that i can't wait to to rush home to do it um so here so here's my

00:12:45.180 question to you because here's the thing yeah it's like what do you do because i don't want to

00:12:49.520 get into a thing of like oh because you know what it is it's like well it's like if you give me if

00:12:56.100 you're being like that and you're giving me nothing like yeah you're you the tone is like

00:13:02.200 I bummed a cigarette off of you and then I come back and I go can I bum another and I'm being

00:13:06.480 rude yeah do you know what I mean like that's the way you're talking to me that's why I left

00:13:10.480 one of these places I left um one of the hotels because of the most insane front desk behavior 1.00

00:13:17.380 I've ever experienced in my life where it was like I was kissing motherfucking ass like I wonder if 0.99

00:13:22.880 people think like that I do not charm oh I literally by the way I go harder it's really 0.99

00:13:28.480 sad actually what I do because with this guy I go I'm gonna make him love me and I go yeah and I'm

00:13:33.840 like trying to like joke or trying to be a little it's like at no point do I like I'm being I'll say

00:13:40.760 it fucking perfect do you know what I mean yeah like I'm sorry yeah but then by the end of the

00:13:46.360 interaction you know what I was doing I'm like fine I'll have my head down too you don't want 0.90

00:13:50.500 to acknowledge me then I'm not gonna like do you know what I mean like after a point it's like

00:13:54.140 fine then I'll just like quietly get my bag you haven't said anything you haven't said sorry for

00:13:57.740 any inconvenience sorry about that nothing then it's like I'll just take my bags and leave like

00:14:02.120 I don't I'm not trying to talk to you and by the way I want to be clear lobby's empty if this is

00:14:07.000 the thing where oh my god there's 20 people here trying to check in at the same time this is like

00:14:11.740 you I'm talking about this like no it's you know what I mean it's just yes it's um I think it must

00:14:19.520 be oh and I have an announcement yeah I mentioned this to my friend and he goes oh yeah my wife and

00:14:25.820 i stayed there on our wedding night as a treat no and they were rude at the front desk

00:14:31.080 no so there are you can run into people being really upset and pissed and having a bad day 0.95

00:14:43.920 and going fuck these people that are that you know can spend 800 on a hotel room now you're being 0.90

00:14:49.160 put up there by work yeah so you're not technically the um the offender you're not technically the 1.00

00:14:54.380 bastard exactly right that you seem to be and i don't know it's um oh my god you're not gonna 0.63

00:15:02.180 believe it i've been trying to endeared myself to him no no jacqueline you're not gonna believe it

00:15:06.000 so the guy the guy in front of me checked in and they do amex hotel fine resorts right and i go

00:15:12.820 oh my god i can't believe you guys no no i said oh my god you guys do a hotel i go that's amazing

00:15:18.980 I go, I didn't. A job booked me here. Right. You let them to try to be like, it's not coming out of my pockets.

00:15:26.120 Yeah.

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00:17:39.300 now oh but i do want to talk a little bit about the

00:17:47.040 so so the headline is did you like it oh no no no i i it's complex it's complex i did okay

00:17:56.840 and i'm thinking now i'd have to look like if i was going back again look perform portland

00:18:02.920 it gets five brooms let me think about that when i went it was five yeah it was five brooms really

00:18:10.740 clean here i i hate to do this i really hate to be negative are you ready what it was five rooms

00:18:16.660 in the hotel rooms oh spa is a different thing when you go down there it's like a free-for-all

00:18:21.800 spa so it's it's like you know it's like a it's different pools and baths and saunas and whatever

00:18:28.340 right and then they've got a pool area above the subterranean thing and it was a sunday and people

00:18:35.780 were clearly like kind of partying like you know maybe they'd stayed there for the no weekend so

00:18:41.860 there's a lot of like bachelorettes and stuff there it's tough yeah and it was like in that

00:18:46.120 regard and just like a lot of whatever and so i come down you know and i'm like i'm gonna spend

00:18:51.440 a little time there at a sunday night show i'm like so i'm envisioning kind of something different

00:18:56.540 than what happens normally and I was sort of weird to move among them but I got a little grossed out

00:19:02.160 by the kind of like used sloppy poolside like it's like this thing where it's like because it's kind

00:19:09.120 of indoors which when the sun is not baking down it's like kind of like feeling like it's purifying

00:19:14.720 and drying things quickly and it's just sort of wet and there's these loungers yeah and it's like

00:19:19.740 there's these loungers and they're like take a you know like a blanket to cover your lounger you

00:19:24.400 know and discard you know discard after in the hamper and so you take it and you go you lay it

00:19:28.780 down on like a wrinkly like someone's just laid there and there's a wet spot on the on the lounger

00:19:34.880 it's just like when it's outside it feels completely less gross to me when you're inside

00:19:40.800 like a solarium and it's like you're sitting on the wetness yeah and then i feel really bad saying

00:19:46.340 this but i went outside and i was really into like the grounds i'm like they got this fire pit that

00:19:50.060 you descend into the concrete to sit around this fire to dry off after you go through let's say the

00:19:54.520 cold rain shower thing so i'm like that's cool the the sauna was pristine but i'm like sort of

00:20:00.740 freezing and wet from walking through this rain shower go down into the pit and i'm like okay

00:20:07.460 to like sort of dry and then heat the flames and then they glance down and there's like a giant

00:20:11.360 tumbleweed of every hair that has ever crossed through this place right and so i have to like

00:20:16.480 dart out before like the wind of the fire causes it to hit me on the ankle okay and i just was like

00:20:22.560 i just was sort of like grossed out and but i was like i get it we're at the end of the weekend

00:20:28.040 here people been partying here all weekend so i was just thinking you know i was like it would

00:20:32.820 be worth trying again that aspect of it middle of the week okay we're doing a wednesday night show

00:20:39.480 we roll in early okay midweek i bet and you get their first thing in the morning

00:20:46.000 exactly it's like when you watch it get wet and gross across the course of the day but you're

00:20:50.400 there for that whole experience it's like less gross to you because you've seen it unfold yeah

00:20:55.720 so i was really impressed by a lot of things about the hotel and they've got here's what i like

00:21:01.600 yeah like small but really well designed economical kitchen loved coffee shop downstairs

00:21:09.060 like built in washer dryer not yeah washer dryer not depressing like nice dark bathroom like pretty

00:21:17.540 kind of spotlighting like dark tile or something i was into it no when i was in there that was some

00:21:22.940 of the first things i said was was wow like they've thought of everything you know like i was

00:21:28.380 like it's crazy well areas where they didn't have to yeah they did and so it's like when you're

00:21:33.640 approaching you know perfection and a new model and all this kind of stuff I'm very excited and

00:21:39.060 then I'm very like wait but something's getting in the way in my experience that that could be

00:21:43.560 solved pretty easily you know um bring back to your room so one thing I want to add about

00:21:49.680 is I want to give props to when I called back a second time because I was so horrified by how rude 0.98

00:21:54.760 the person was on the phone the first time so amazing um I spoke to a perfectly friendly woman

00:22:02.120 oh my god so i just want to say that there's one guy who's the main one that's brutal and then

00:22:09.540 there's a slightly less brutal guy but i did speak to a woman who is perfectly lovely and that's all

00:22:17.240 i want to say i mean the spirit might be like he might be like ready to leave the job okay yeah

00:22:23.320 he's not going to do it himself no no it's a weird thing no no he's going to make someone else fire

00:22:26.800 him you know what i mean jacqueline there was literally a thing where i go if i talk to him

00:22:30.800 again and he's being like that i i was like in out loud in my room being like what do i say like 0.93

00:22:35.640 hey like are you okay like that's obviously you can't say that it's like really starting shit 0.98

00:22:40.500 sorry did i fuck your wife or whatever no no no like it makes me want to go like sorry sorry 0.99

00:22:44.400 like i was like almost wanting to like pass it off be like hey like i know you hate me but 0.99

00:22:49.920 like blah blah it's like like keep it playful because it's like it's just like this is outrageous

00:22:55.340 What really sucks is when it's like this, when it's like, um, when you give them the, like me, your nightmare, the person who's come down twice because of the thing. Like, but it's a problem. Like, so, so I had a thing where I was staying at a one hotel in Nashville or something. And I get in, they upgrade me. I go up to the room, I open the door and you know, the one hotel smells very good. And like a specific, you know, they have like a signature scent going on in there.

00:23:23.620 i opened the door and it hit in the face with sort of a dead mouse kind of smell right oh no

00:23:31.640 and i'm like i'm like the worst i'm like this is real because i didn't smell it in the hall i

00:23:38.160 smell it in the room and it's just you know it's that thing where you're like am i really going to

00:23:43.100 like it's the fear because something like that is they could come up with you

00:23:46.480 smell and go i don't smell anything or that's just what a room smells like i like that's just 0.99

00:23:49.960 what life right right you bitch you know but i was like it's kind of a chimney sweep who said 1.00

00:23:55.440 maybe your house is dirty yes okay so you fear you fear the you fear that you go down so i go 0.98

00:24:02.800 down i go hi sorry like i mean it was really late at night they had to like i was like i just think

00:24:09.620 i was like i stay in one hotels all the time i was like something's not weird in the room i just

00:24:14.660 pause for blueberries okay i'm doing where's the title of the episode okay i'm doing blueberry

00:24:22.480 i'm doing steel cut oats i'm gonna do a splash soy let's see because this is a fun break for 0.62

00:24:30.300 everyone i'm gonna do now i'll do um flaxseed why am i doing all this random shit it's not

00:24:38.780 random it's all because if things dr gregor has told me to do okay um it's not just like oh that 0.66

00:24:45.260 seems like a healthy thing i'm starving and i have dinner at odeon tonight exciting um hold on

00:24:52.000 what else do i put in my uh my oats normally armra i mean not armra what's it called

00:24:57.560 right here ready like a huge a huge jar that i keep it in and then i keep a tiny spoon in the jar

00:25:05.620 okay so it's just ready no excuses and then i think i'm gonna want some hot strawberry today

00:25:14.980 yum so oh my god strawberry oh by the way i've like completely graduated with like tofu

00:25:22.560 i'm like a tofu i'm i'm learning a lot oh wait i want to hear what you said the one hotel about

00:25:30.500 the rat oh yeah so so i come down and i i say it this late there's no way i'm like trying to be

00:25:38.760 annoying i'm tired you know what i mean um and they're they're really nice they get me they say

00:25:44.160 we'll put you in a room and in fact you know i think they upgrade me or something i can't remember

00:25:48.920 how this went oh no i so then i go up to the upgraded room and it is that issue where it's

00:25:56.320 like they upgrade me but i don't want the upgrade because i'd rather have two queen beds than as

00:26:01.980 i've discussed a king bed and a couch because like the couch doesn't have fresh linen on it

00:26:07.580 so i'd rather like make a second queen be my space to hang out so whatever then i go down i go back

00:26:15.680 up key doesn't work oh no so i go back down this is all just to say that i go back down and i go

00:26:21.380 like me again you know but it's like it's like a lot of work because like the whole way down the

00:26:27.220 elevator i'm i'm thinking about how i'm gonna like basically like cut off at the past them

00:26:33.200 thinking i'm about to just complain about something about the new room yes and so it's like i i like

00:26:38.080 it's like you know entering the stage in character yeah and leaving the stage in character like you're

00:26:43.840 like key you know scream key yeah yeah yeah i'm like issue key issues yeah

00:26:49.200 it's so real it's just crazy and then get a little fat in with this almond butter okay

00:27:00.240 um and then you know get the new roommates it's fine it's whatever um point is we're doing a lot 0.65

00:27:06.840 of work you know to not be a dick and i think some of these people might be trying to get fired

00:27:12.060 like they're trying to know they're they're like that's what's so crazy i'm like this is like 0.99

00:27:17.380 like they're like fuck i'm just gonna live until i get fired like i'm just gonna be free 0.97

00:27:21.680 and like i guess i can kind of like get into that i'm like yeah all right right till dawn 0.99

00:27:25.940 ride to the rails come off totally

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00:28:52.700 So I'm following this Wendy food scientist on Instagram. So she teaches like all these different 0.94

00:28:59.120 tofu strategies based on being a food scientist and she like boiled the tofu for three minutes 0.99

00:29:07.300 you know my paper towels are being delivered boil the tofu for three minutes in salt water

00:29:12.980 oh yeah i've heard about that you get the flavor you do whatever the hell you want to do it yeah 0.87

00:29:16.520 i think then it soaks up flavor in a whole different way she's got all these different 0.83

00:29:20.000 things and then another strategy and this is to make this like i forget what she calls it

00:29:25.960 this other two of tofu it's like thank you oh um you soak it in water that has some baking soda in

00:29:35.920 it and that does something else texturally that's a whole other thing so last night for the first

00:29:42.760 time all i had i had tapioca starch lying around and i read that that was acceptable and tapioca

00:29:48.860 starch and a little baking powder sprinkled over tofu cubes that i had you know let sit in this

00:29:55.960 um aminos marinade threw them in the old little air fryer in the you know our oven thing that we

00:30:02.480 have you and we both have from our place it was delicious and it was just my first attempt

00:30:08.360 so it wasn't even I didn't even do it very well and it was delicious and you know I'm off to the

00:30:12.920 races I want to do that for sure and I put in my oatmeal um I also want to shout out the Bowery

00:30:18.340 because I had last night I want to hear about that but I just want to say quickly last night

00:30:22.540 yeah friday night at the bower you would find me in the back lobby area having seltzer soup and

00:30:28.820 salad it was heaven having ribolata and this fabulous um the best salad i've had there which

00:30:36.700 is like this one i've never ordered it's like fava beans artichokes yeah pellegrino okay no

00:30:43.660 having a pellegrino like a seltzer it's like fava beans artichoke lettuce celery some amazing

00:30:53.660 shaved cheese it was it was really great i mean again i'm missing the bowery i'm like

00:30:58.540 take me back to where there's joy and not oppressive luxury take me back

00:31:04.600 yeah take me back and not oppressive luxury never seen it yeah i uh i actually don't know

00:31:12.700 if i've seen it oh no i saw a production once i was like i've acted it me and chris realized we

00:31:17.900 both i think neither seen it but we've both done scene studies from it i'm sure but never never

00:31:24.120 never seen it um i watched a terrifying movie called hallow hallow road must watch oh that

00:31:31.260 sounds scary wait i have i have an urgent question which is i'm considering buying disclosure day

00:31:37.260 tickets now i saw it commercially yesterday and it'd be really fun to go the four of us i know

00:31:42.380 i assumed we were all going okay great i want to see it on 70 millimeter at the vista okay great

00:31:48.560 okay great i was like i already said this i was like i think we're seeing it at the vista i don't

00:31:55.920 remember why i just remember something about oh that's amazing so you know i'm well i think i'm

00:32:01.940 gonna i'm gonna text you but i want to buy the tickets today because they're gonna fly sweetheart

00:32:05.540 um so what was i gonna say uh it wasn't about tau fell

00:32:12.780 um oh i did i can't remember if i recorded like this yet but i've gone through all of my

00:32:24.760 papers almost all of them in my room which is me reckoning with with time with my mind with

00:32:31.780 everything it's very intense but once i'm in it it's it's like there's a strange piece yeah and

00:32:37.780 you know i'm in artistic agony as usual but i intend to see it through um i gotta get to work

00:32:44.740 now i ran into by the way hag husband wife hag husband wife couple of dimes today really sweet

00:32:53.700 i love that yeah shout out is that a reference to dimes square yeah but i was at dimes restaurant

00:33:01.760 on dimes today i was at the restaurant is the name yes so do you know that our dimes came before

00:33:09.500 dime square no i thought it was a new restaurant not that new okay well well matt because we can

00:33:16.940 fact check this but steven phillips horse came up to dime square he started it no stop yeah what a

00:33:23.720 legend i love him he's so smart so funny he did he did um one of the only journalists we have left

00:33:29.920 time square for the first time it's unbelievable his work is unbelievable um and he's done other

00:33:35.540 things like that there's one of the best twitters of all time and you know he's gonna put his show

00:33:42.780 up in edinburgh i say edinburgh when i'm here i say edinburgh when i'm there anyway it doesn't

00:33:48.540 matter point is yeah steven philip tours he started time square and i just think people

00:33:53.720 should know that um because there's been some other things that's crazy i think i knew that

00:33:57.820 and used commercially there's been some things used like still like a video of his that was then

00:34:02.480 just blatantly like taken and recast as like a major ad campaign it's like shocking whoa but

00:34:09.220 that's you know that's the way it goes anyway just like people should know i want to hear the

00:34:13.040 details on that i should know that so cool modern day cultural theorist he rules his like yeah his

00:34:21.640 cultural commentary on social scenes in new york and all that kind of stuff unmatched i know it's

00:34:28.440 so funny it really is he worked in advertising as did i and our early um sorry i'm turned around

00:34:36.020 trying to figure out where i am um i can just get out here yeah it's not a deal thanks you too um

00:34:44.820 oh my god also well here i am walking in dime square and by the way once again was sent into

00:34:51.800 the van with a random man oh my god this is this is the first walking poog i'm walking poog in

00:34:58.860 i know i know so yeah walking poog is coming and just don't freak out guys the tech will arrive

00:35:05.780 okay we're the tech we'll figure out later we're moving fast and breaking things but steven phil 0.79

00:35:11.480 source that i both worked at advertising and laughed our asses off talking about the things

00:35:15.820 we wrote as advertisers because okay this is interesting because now a lot of there's

00:35:21.800 background noise but it's vocal oh my god hi how are you so i'm literally in the middle of video

00:35:28.680 call right it's so rude but so nice to see you and that's dime square for you who was it or you

00:35:35.120 can't say a very nice actor i was in a film with years ago um okay you know what though

00:35:41.400 I should go because it is too much.

00:35:44.140 And I'm about to go into the hotel.

00:35:45.940 I think it's time.

00:35:46.560 And I'm going to see.

00:35:47.680 Well, wait, wait. 1.00

00:35:49.000 I'm going to report back on my next interactions with the bastard. 1.00

00:35:54.420 Okay, great. 1.00

00:35:55.620 Okay.

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