Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak - The Reward is Transcendence

00:00:00.000 Two best friends, both alike in dignity.

00:00:05.000 Nurturing phantoms and courting the muse. 1.00

00:00:07.000 The hag divines when something must die. 1.00

00:00:09.000 Yes, that was Poogh. 0.96

00:00:10.000 But this is huge.

00:00:12.000 The ego loves to seek.

00:00:13.000 But never to find.

00:00:15.000 It was Berlant and Novak the whole time.

00:00:22.000 I'm starving.

00:00:23.000 Me too.

00:00:24.000 By the way, I'm absolutely ravenous.

00:00:25.000 We're here. We finally did it.

00:00:26.000 Oh, hi.

00:00:27.000 Yes, please.

00:00:28.000 We loved it.

00:00:29.000 I love it.

00:00:29.680 Kevin.

00:00:30.280 Good to see you.

00:00:31.000 Hi.

00:00:32.000 Are you Kevin?

00:00:32.740 I'm Kevin.

00:00:33.240 Yes, okay, we thought so.

00:00:34.240 We remember you.

00:00:35.080 I don't know if you remember us.

00:00:36.340 I do remember you.

00:00:37.480 Really?

00:00:38.020 Welcome back.

00:00:38.520 Are you serious?

00:00:38.840 Oh, my God, thank you.

00:00:39.640 Yes.

00:00:40.080 Have you noticed, you know, any people coming in related to the podcast?

00:00:44.620 What do they say?

00:00:45.120 Yes, um, lychee martini.

00:00:47.220 No, really?

00:00:48.060 Lychee martini.

00:00:49.620 They seriously, they want it.

00:00:51.060 It's great.

00:00:51.880 Yeah, they love it.

00:00:52.700 And poop, poop, poop.

00:00:53.820 No.

00:00:54.440 And did you know what it was?

00:00:56.140 Okay, that doesn't, that's right.

00:00:56.780 No.

00:00:57.320 Yeah.

00:00:57.780 Why would you?

00:00:58.260 Why would you, why would you?

00:00:59.460 I said that wrong.

00:01:00.480 I guess what I wanted to know is, how did they describe it?

00:01:04.060 Yeah.

00:01:04.780 Ooh, that's actually good.

00:01:05.780 I wanted to add that.

00:01:06.280 It's the podcast.

00:01:07.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:08.040 The podcast.

00:01:08.880 They were drawn to the podcast.

00:01:10.280 You guys talk about the Leech and Martini.

00:01:11.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:13.580 They just got to have it.

00:01:14.460 Oh, my God.

00:01:15.420 They want to know what you ate.

00:01:17.420 No.

00:01:18.060 Where you sat.

00:01:19.520 You're not serious.

00:01:20.740 You're playing us, right?

00:01:22.280 Not at all.

00:01:23.080 I think these two are.

00:01:24.840 Absolutely.

00:01:25.600 Yes.

00:01:26.300 Wait, you just.

00:01:26.660 See what?

00:01:27.000 They've actually asked...

00:01:30.560 No, no, I'm just...

00:01:31.260 I just got an extra question.

00:01:33.240 They've actually asked those questions. 1.00

00:01:34.480 I had one young lady who was just freaking out. 0.80

00:01:38.000 No.

00:01:38.660 And what did you tell her?

00:01:39.440 Did you say they sit wherever they're seated?

00:01:41.260 Like good girls?

00:01:42.380 We told them what you had, and they ordered exactly what you had.

00:01:46.040 You're teasing.

00:01:46.820 There's no way.

00:01:47.780 I'm not kidding.

00:01:49.740 Wow.

00:01:50.380 I mean, I like to think of myself as changing it up here, what I order, but I guess there's certain things.

00:01:54.260 I'm very filet, filet, filet.

00:01:56.020 And I did mention that you had several lychee martinis, and so...

00:01:59.460 Well, several, Kevin.

00:02:00.560 How dare you, Kevin.

00:02:01.540 Between two and three max, yeah.

00:02:03.320 They follow two.

00:02:04.960 Oh, my God.

00:02:06.660 Do they take picks?

00:02:08.320 No.

00:02:08.860 Do they tip well?

00:02:09.960 Tip well, yes.

00:02:11.020 Well or...

00:02:12.340 No, yeah, well.

00:02:13.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:14.020 Not offensive.

00:02:15.300 Not inoffensive.

00:02:16.460 Yeah.

00:02:16.920 No, wait, you know what I'm saying.

00:02:18.040 They tip as well as Michael Keaton.

00:02:19.220 I've seen him here.

00:02:21.100 I saw the Kingsley.

00:02:21.720 He's pretty good.

00:02:22.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:23.040 From, uh, favorite person you've served at JAR?

00:02:25.660 Favorite person, Jack Black.

00:02:27.900 Oh, he's an angel.

00:02:28.980 Of course.

00:02:29.900 We love him.

00:02:31.340 Yeah.

00:02:31.540 He would come here and enjoy it.

00:02:33.620 I've never had the opportunity.

00:02:34.500 He knows how to be famous.

00:02:35.720 Some people know how to do it.

00:02:37.260 He's just rubbing his stomach.

00:02:38.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:02:39.440 Pot roast.

00:02:40.700 Yeah, yeah.

00:02:41.140 Oh, my God.

00:02:41.840 He's a sweetheart.

00:02:42.440 That's in consideration for tonight, but not yet.

00:02:44.400 I'm considering going with the pot roast.

00:02:44.680 It's classic.

00:02:45.760 Speaking of least, can I start you off with a cocktail?

00:02:47.740 Um, yes.

00:02:49.020 I mean, I hate to be obvious.

00:02:50.220 And if I get something else later, that's okay, too.

00:02:52.480 That's true.

00:02:53.220 We have a cocktail.

00:02:53.820 It could go anywhere, but we must begin with a lychee martini.

00:02:56.440 I'm actually going to be bold, and let's actually not even need these,

00:02:59.160 because wine triggers a migraine, and I can't even do it.

00:03:01.620 Great.

00:03:02.300 Okay.

00:03:02.760 Okay.

00:03:03.100 Thanks, Kevin.

00:03:03.880 Okay, that's absolutely incredible.

00:03:05.180 All right, now.

00:03:06.040 Oh, my God, I want it.

00:03:06.800 Do you think we should lock in?

00:03:09.860 Where?

00:03:10.540 Candied garlic on the fries.

00:03:12.260 Honestly.

00:03:12.740 What? I've never seen that.

00:03:13.460 I know, I've never seen that.

00:03:14.600 I'm scared.

00:03:15.520 Okay.

00:03:16.780 Do you think we should lock this down?

00:03:18.920 Because there's a lot to talk about.

00:03:20.260 Yeah.

00:03:20.520 I think we should probably lock down the order.

00:03:22.160 Okay.

00:03:22.520 Okay.

00:03:23.160 I would love that.

00:03:23.820 All right, so I, as usual, I'm always drawn to the wedge.

00:03:27.080 I would love the wedge.

00:03:27.660 I have to be talked off the wedge.

00:03:28.980 Oh, I would love the wedge.

00:03:29.840 It's been a minute for me.

00:03:30.360 Now, they have Burrata from Puglia.

00:03:33.260 Or is it, it's Puglia.

00:03:34.800 Right.

00:03:36.060 Camille Paglia.

00:03:37.380 Yeah, Camille Puglia.

00:03:38.360 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:39.100 Paglia.

00:03:39.920 Right.

00:03:40.800 But what does she say?

00:03:43.280 You know, there was a great clip.

00:03:44.580 I've told you this.

00:03:45.140 I've told you this.

00:03:45.740 I love it.

00:03:46.140 There was a great clip of Susan Sontag, okay?

00:03:49.000 Oh, I'm not familiar with Camille Paglia.

00:03:51.360 She knows exactly who I am. 0.88

00:03:52.660 She doesn't listen to rock and roll.

00:03:53.880 Yeah.

00:03:54.160 So Susan's contact. 1.00

00:03:54.940 That's less than a rock and roll shit. 1.00

00:03:56.080 Oh, my God. 0.99

00:03:56.480 Thank you.

00:03:58.480 Beautiful.

00:04:00.080 Thank you, Kevin.

00:04:01.120 They are perfect.

00:04:02.220 Cheers.

00:04:03.360 Do you have any questions on the right hand?

00:04:04.400 Oh, okay.

00:04:05.660 No questions.

00:04:07.060 I mean, I might need one single more minute.

00:04:10.040 Just one.

00:04:10.540 But truly just one.

00:04:11.240 Yeah.

00:04:11.600 All right?

00:04:11.900 Because I need to be contained.

00:04:13.660 All right.

00:04:13.840 So let's lock it down.

00:04:15.360 This is shocking because at first.

00:04:16.580 I just want to decide if I want to take a sip first.

00:04:17.780 Wait.

00:04:18.580 Wait.

00:04:19.140 Okay.

00:04:19.580 Wait, wait, wait.

00:04:20.180 I'm sorry to forget the cheers.

00:04:21.680 Okay.

00:04:21.780 I would never forget the cheers.

00:04:22.160 All right.

00:04:22.260 What are we choosing to?

00:04:23.640 Because I believe a toast is a spell.

00:04:25.200 No, no, no.

00:04:25.620 Okay.

00:04:26.200 So we need to make sure.

00:04:27.040 So this is, it's not just success.

00:04:28.560 It's got to be.

00:04:29.140 No, no, no.

00:04:29.700 No, God.

00:04:30.660 No, I mean, I want success.

00:04:33.280 I mean, I do want it to be like prosperity.

00:04:36.020 I think being a magnet for divine prosperity.

00:04:38.280 Yeah.

00:04:38.640 We are, you know, magnets for divine prosperity, but ultimately the friendship is the ultimate.

00:04:42.480 Health is wealth.

00:04:43.820 Sure.

00:04:43.980 But then also friendship is wealth.

00:04:45.360 So let's just like lock it down.

00:04:47.000 Let's sip from the nectar of life, right?

00:04:48.700 Okay.

00:04:49.020 Okay.

00:04:49.220 I like that.

00:04:50.760 It's a bit, this.

00:04:51.700 Mmm.

00:04:52.780 It's always shocking the way it hits.

00:04:54.120 Well, the first one I was so locked in the ceremony that I almost...

00:04:57.140 What is it about vodka?

00:04:58.220 It just...

00:04:59.260 Vodka feels like my friend.

00:05:00.280 This is the only vodka I drink.

00:05:01.460 I know.

00:05:02.320 I don't ever reach for it.

00:05:03.620 And not to be, you know, not to be like the person who talks about wine and says they're like dry or whatever.

00:05:08.840 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:09.140 It's like obvious or whatever.

00:05:10.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:10.640 But it's clean.

00:05:12.120 It does feel clean.

00:05:12.500 The vodka is clean.

00:05:13.680 What's the thing with vodka?

00:05:14.480 It doesn't smell, so that's the thing of like alcoholics like with their vodka.

00:05:18.280 They come home and it's like, because it's like, I can smell it on you.

00:05:20.500 I think it still smells because I've noticed, I've been told in my home, I was like.

00:05:25.460 Did you reek of booze?

00:05:26.640 Yes.

00:05:27.440 I was like, I had no clue. 0.90

00:05:28.160 Coming home stinky.

00:05:28.800 My little shop, my little shop before heading out.

00:05:31.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:05:31.400 Like to like a thing.

00:05:32.920 Yeah.

00:05:33.080 I don't want to be like clamoring for a cocktail.

00:05:35.360 Yeah.

00:05:35.760 Ooh.

00:05:35.920 Or whatever.

00:05:36.420 God, that's interesting.

00:05:37.080 Oh no, it was before a show.

00:05:38.020 It was before a show.

00:05:38.880 Yeah.

00:05:39.060 I mean, that's a classic.

00:05:40.020 Yeah.

00:05:40.480 All right, maybe I'll be able to enjoy the ride over.

00:05:43.120 Mmm.

00:05:43.880 And so I fixed myself a cocktail at home.

00:05:45.920 Yeah.

00:05:46.020 I'm like, then I don't have to be like, you know, some convenience.

00:05:48.180 You have to get that.

00:05:50.500 sober of course right exactly when's the last time you saw a comedian with a flask or anyone

00:05:54.600 with a flask a week ago you're kidding yeah who had it just tell me i'll tell you later okay

00:05:59.360 there's something about this when they turn the thing that reminds me it's like a small phallic

00:06:06.920 yeah like jerking a little twisting a little like there's something i just this is what i

00:06:12.680 saw man i'll say it okay well by the way twisting open a flask yeah i like wanted a flask when i

00:06:18.660 in high school as like a kind of like yeah cool like an indie like it's a very masculinized

00:06:24.460 thing the flask although actually it seems more feminine now that i'm thinking about it

00:06:29.220 having the little right little thing to nip yeah what is a flask what's the origin of the flask i

00:06:36.220 mean it's to carry your own booze right you're a cowboy yeah and you can't go into every saloon

00:06:41.340 because you might have an enemy there or something right yeah i mean it's it's a sense of

00:06:45.440 Self-responsibility, I mean.

00:06:46.900 I'm such a lightweight that even just two little sips.

00:06:49.560 Truly?

00:06:49.820 The alcohol is coursing through my body.

00:06:51.520 But I need, like, the food to break my fall.

00:06:53.660 Yeah.

00:06:53.960 See, I feel like I need to double you.

00:06:55.780 Like, I need to.

00:06:56.600 I wish I didn't have to.

00:06:57.560 I wish I could just drink on an empty stomach, but I'll just get an instant migraine.

00:07:00.600 Just feels great to me.

00:07:02.400 Oh, well, no.

00:07:03.880 The two sips, again.

00:07:06.280 And I'm not actually drunk, but it's amazing that it hits the bloodstream.

00:07:08.880 Does it enter your blood, alcohol?

00:07:10.280 Is that what it's doing?

00:07:11.040 It's in your blood?

00:07:11.800 It hits the digestion?

00:07:12.720 You know what I mean?

00:07:13.160 No, no, huge question.

00:07:14.040 What is getting drunk?

00:07:14.880 No one knows.

00:07:15.440 yeah yeah it hits your blood i mean i know it's a neurotoxin no i'm wondering if it's broken down

00:07:20.500 into anything and if so what sugar some people aren't like huh protein alcohol as an industry

00:07:28.600 protein alcohol this is huge protein alcohol bring it down bring it down okay no wait hold

00:07:33.460 on hold on imagine imagine this imagine this cocktail 15 grams of protein oh my god protein

00:07:39.640 alcohol wait so where does that exist no i mean like in a pre-made cocktail like wait like what

00:07:44.660 sources there has to be a way okay what's collagen collagen you do a flavorless collagen that's shaken

00:07:50.360 into a cocktail it sounds disgusting you'd have to get it really right you have to be a new product

00:07:54.440 that isn't launched yet protein alcohol oh no i don't think you're mixing it i think this is

00:07:59.460 you're not shaking it up well i think that's happening out there i mean i see talk of like

00:08:03.720 i put whatever you know this thing in my in my cocktail to yeah i mean i i've thrown a no

00:08:11.040 Colostrum in a...

00:08:11.760 No.

00:08:12.700 I have.

00:08:13.660 Okay.

00:08:14.300 I've tried things.

00:08:15.320 I've tried things.

00:08:16.280 Make a whatever spritz, you know?

00:08:18.160 Oh, my God.

00:08:18.840 Colostrum spritz?

00:08:19.720 Jesus Christ. 1.00

00:08:20.620 I know you like to take mother's milk down one nip all the time. 0.99

00:08:23.700 Guess what?

00:08:24.260 I fell off colostrum.

00:08:25.460 Yeah?

00:08:25.840 Back in yesterday.

00:08:27.440 Dry scoops in the mouth.

00:08:29.040 No.

00:08:29.260 Three times a day.

00:08:29.960 Got to get back.

00:08:30.620 Sublingual?

00:08:31.200 I do think...

00:08:31.740 Okay, I considered restarting tomorrow.

00:08:33.360 Be honest.

00:08:33.920 How's my skin look?

00:08:35.880 Same as it ever has. 1.00

00:08:37.280 Fantastic. 1.00

00:08:38.280 Bitch. 1.00

00:08:39.340 Okay? 1.00

00:08:39.620 I mean, truly.

00:08:40.720 No, but I have to say, I think the facials are doing something, but I swear to God.

00:08:44.820 Furious. 0.99

00:08:45.220 The way you get your ass out there. 1.00

00:08:47.140 What do you mean? 0.99

00:08:47.740 You book the appointments.

00:08:49.180 By the way, we've been like.

00:08:49.880 You have to book them.

00:08:50.640 Listen.

00:08:50.840 Wait, wait, wait.

00:08:51.160 We need to decide because, like, he's definitely.

00:08:52.720 Here's what you have to do.

00:08:53.440 Here's what you have to do.

00:08:53.940 He's actually betrayed us.

00:08:55.300 Facials booked months out, Jacqueline.

00:08:57.160 I know, but.

00:08:57.620 I have facials booked till June.

00:08:58.840 Wait, wait.

00:08:59.320 Will you remember to talk about this?

00:09:00.600 Because, like, I'm going to signal him because I feel we may have lost him forever.

00:09:04.000 But I actually want to lock it on the menu.

00:09:05.780 Okay.

00:09:06.700 So I'm just going to say I need one more minute.

00:09:09.880 Okay, hold on.

00:09:10.300 I thought obviously.

00:09:11.680 Okay.

00:09:12.120 Sorry.

00:09:12.680 No.

00:09:13.000 I've seen them split the wedge.

00:09:14.820 I've experienced them splitting the wedge.

00:09:16.880 I mean, but I've seen them split it.

00:09:18.600 Oh, I know.

00:09:19.360 Okay.

00:09:20.260 Although one time they said, I think there was a confusion.

00:09:23.860 It doesn't matter.

00:09:24.660 The point is, obviously half a wedge is enough for you is enough for me.

00:09:27.680 I think we do.

00:09:28.280 All right, it's fine.

00:09:29.780 Okay.

00:09:30.240 All right, one wedge.

00:09:31.040 Here's where I start to spiral because I came in thinking filet, of course.

00:09:34.520 Ribet by for me as usual, yeah.

00:09:35.940 You're right, as usual for you.

00:09:37.660 I never get the play.

00:09:38.680 You've gotten skirt steak.

00:09:39.420 Oh, no, I get skirt steak probably most times, yeah.

00:09:42.080 I think, okay, here's what's absolutely shocking,

00:09:44.960 and I'm starting to feel this.

00:09:47.200 Pot roast.

00:09:48.740 You know, you're hysterical because you act like it's,

00:09:51.400 this is your mind.

00:09:52.980 You mentioned possibly getting the pot roast.

00:09:55.320 I know.

00:09:55.580 Earlier, and maybe even last week.

00:09:57.720 You needed it to spontaneously emerge.

00:09:59.920 I know, I know, I know.

00:10:00.920 Because I came in going, I'm not going to get the pot roast.

00:10:04.080 I'm not crazy.

00:10:04.660 Or like not, you know, a jar, I want a filet, I want a filet, I want a filet.

00:10:07.820 But then now that I'm sitting here, I go, I think I want the pot roast, like a classic Jars signature pot roast.

00:10:14.560 You know?

00:10:15.720 I do, I'm just scared, I'm scared.

00:10:17.360 Imagine it's tender meat.

00:10:19.140 But then I just go like, somebody at me goes, chicken schnitzel, I've never had the courage.

00:10:23.020 You know it's good.

00:10:23.800 I love schnitzel.

00:10:24.040 I'm not doing that, I know I'm not doing that.

00:10:25.440 I just think sometimes chicken, when you're ordering chicken out, it's always something about, it's a little sad.

00:10:30.520 I've heard that, like, you're going to the restaurant to get chicken?

00:10:33.200 And I'm like, yes.

00:10:36.100 By the way, a beautifully roasted chicken is one of the most masterful things that we have.

00:10:41.760 I think if you follow through on the pot roast, I have no option, and I don't mean that negatively, but to get it myself.

00:10:50.960 You know I'd love to have the same thing.

00:10:52.300 Sisters. 1.00

00:10:54.080 Matching, matching.

00:10:54.860 Matching.

00:10:55.600 Okay.

00:10:56.820 I much prefer that to me getting something, you having a bite, obviously.

00:11:00.020 I won't take the bite.

00:11:00.840 No, I know.

00:11:01.240 And then we'll get the recommendation on the side.

00:11:06.240 Okay, I love that.

00:11:07.240 And then that will be the gods will influence.

00:11:10.240 Okay, he sees us, thank God.

00:11:12.240 Okay, you gave us way too much time.

00:11:14.240 Maybe you saw, maybe you're better than I know,

00:11:17.240 because you knew what we needed.

00:11:19.240 Yeah, we needed a minute to actually sort it out among ourselves.

00:11:22.240 It's going to be very simple.

00:11:23.240 We're going to get the wedge split.

00:11:24.240 Okay.

00:11:25.240 Wait, wait.

00:11:26.240 What?

00:11:27.240 Oh yeah, okay.

00:11:28.240 Sorry, just a little bit presumptuous.

00:11:30.240 You can split it.

00:11:31.240 We've had it here.

00:11:32.240 You sure?

00:11:33.240 Oh, yeah.

00:11:34.240 Two plates.

00:11:35.240 I don't want to hold you to a previous principle.

00:11:36.240 We're going to get the wedge.

00:11:37.240 And then this is shocking.

00:11:38.240 Go for it.

00:11:39.240 You can say it.

00:11:40.240 We're going to both get the pot roast.

00:11:41.240 As in two.

00:11:42.240 Nice.

00:11:43.240 It's been a long time since I had it.

00:11:44.240 I want a classic.

00:11:45.240 Okay.

00:11:46.240 And then for a side, can you recommend a side that you think would be?

00:11:48.240 I mean mashed potatoes are a go-to for that.

00:11:49.240 Classic, yeah.

00:11:50.240 Creamed spinach looks nice.

00:11:52.240 I have to say.

00:11:53.240 Final.

00:11:54.240 Locked.

00:11:55.240 Creamed spinach.

00:11:56.240 Maybe some Brussels sprouts and kimchi.

00:11:58.240 Wait.

00:11:59.380 I don't know.

00:12:00.540 Do you think it would be too much to have both?

00:12:01.880 I think two sides would probably be enough.

00:12:03.960 Two sides?

00:12:04.800 But three, why not?

00:12:06.160 No.

00:12:06.460 No, no, no.

00:12:07.220 I mean, it's not the night.

00:12:08.580 Mashed potatoes, cream spinach.

00:12:09.460 Time to tap.

00:12:10.000 Okay.

00:12:10.160 Wait, wait, wait.

00:12:10.420 Let's get, um.

00:12:11.040 No, no, no.

00:12:11.440 I think, I think.

00:12:11.940 No, no, no.

00:12:12.940 I think it's brussel or pea tendril.

00:12:16.260 Oh, no.

00:12:16.560 No.

00:12:17.140 Cream, spinach.

00:12:17.980 Cream, spinach and brussel.

00:12:19.820 Okay.

00:12:20.140 Yeah, I love that.

00:12:20.920 That, I just, you understand.

00:12:22.820 You know why, right?

00:12:23.400 Great.

00:12:23.720 Thank you so much.

00:12:25.020 Do you, putting the napkin in.

00:12:26.240 I sometimes do it premature, and I actually prefer not to.

00:12:32.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:32.900 I don't love it when the cocktail hasn't appeared,

00:12:35.420 because then it's like...

00:12:36.300 Yeah, you feel like...

00:12:37.720 Yeah.

00:12:38.440 Yeah, yeah, I'm waiting for it.

00:12:40.080 Hold on, this is huge.

00:12:41.080 Let me just settle into our order.

00:12:42.380 Okay.

00:12:43.220 I think our order...

00:12:44.840 I think it's perfect.

00:12:45.560 ...was perfect, and I think it's important to say,

00:12:47.580 it's not that that has to be ordered every time.

00:12:49.640 Of course not.

00:12:50.540 It's...

00:12:50.980 It's just today.

00:12:51.840 It's sing one song at a time.

00:12:53.880 I think it's really cool that we're both getting the pot roast

00:12:55.800 so we can experience it together.

00:12:56.880 You look stunning, I gotta say.

00:12:57.760 You look beautiful.

00:12:58.500 Really?

00:12:58.900 Yeah.

00:12:59.860 I wonder if it's important now that sort of,

00:13:01.960 we're kind of these jar characters.

00:13:03.240 Oh no, we have to dress up for jar.

00:13:04.820 That's okay, we can't.

00:13:06.340 I put on Gautier.

00:13:07.880 I put on, you know, Rive Gauche, you know.

00:13:12.440 Rive Gauche.

00:13:13.120 Is that a phrase?

00:13:14.500 It's a French thing?

00:13:15.300 Well, yeah, but it's.

00:13:16.700 Oh, oh, oh, oh, Saint Laurent.

00:13:19.880 I saw the most devastating thing I've ever seen.

00:13:21.900 Oh no.

00:13:22.860 Is it gonna ruin Laurent?

00:13:23.680 Is it gonna ruin Laurent?

00:13:25.220 No.

00:13:25.380 You know the straps and dresses where you hang the hanger on?

00:13:28.700 No, okay.

00:13:30.280 No, no, it's worse than you thought.

00:13:31.620 It's worse than you think.

00:13:32.440 They're wearing it like that.

00:13:33.260 Okay, listen, no.

00:13:33.840 She's wearing it.

00:13:35.440 You know what I mean, right?

00:13:36.600 Got confused and wrapped it around.

00:13:38.080 No, that's not it.

00:13:39.120 No, no, no.

00:13:39.860 Literally, was it wearing them?

00:13:41.600 That's the most interesting thing I've ever heard.

00:13:43.240 Because it could almost...

00:13:44.740 Wait, does mine have that?

00:13:45.920 No, no, no.

00:13:46.300 Yours has that.

00:13:46.900 That's why I just noticed.

00:13:48.320 I was at a wedding.

00:13:50.020 They're hanging out?

00:13:50.680 And the bride.

00:13:51.060 No! 0.94

00:13:51.460 The bride. 1.00

00:13:51.780 The brides?

00:13:52.740 Here's his moment.

00:13:53.920 Oh, God, I feel so bad.

00:13:55.380 wait hold on hold on okay wait wait by the way i want to say something i want to say something

00:13:59.900 screaming okay but at a wedding yeah and i could see myself having a wedding i don't want

00:14:06.420 the first dance first dance what we've talked about first dance with the father or just first 1.00

00:14:11.180 no first dance with the partner oh first dance as a virgin being like i wonder how they fuck 0.98

00:14:16.660 well now we get to see not well like that whole thing is weird but then but i saw you know my 0.99

00:14:22.540 My least favorite thing.

00:14:23.540 What? 0.99

00:14:23.820 Little girl standing on dad's feet.

00:14:25.880 Oh, God. 0.87

00:14:26.760 You know, I'm talking about that dancing move.

00:14:28.600 Well, you know what's even sadder. 0.99

00:14:29.280 Face to cock. 0.98

00:14:34.080 You're not going to be doing the joke. 0.99

00:14:36.080 No, no, no, I know.

00:14:37.300 Oh.

00:14:38.140 Dancing with daughter.

00:14:39.300 No, daddy's a little girl. 1.00

00:14:40.700 Disgusting. 1.00

00:14:41.760 But she had. 0.98

00:14:42.840 I never danced with my father and I never will.

00:14:44.340 I've never danced with my father.

00:14:45.920 But her wedding, first dance, visible, the straps.

00:14:49.880 Straps are visible.

00:14:50.940 No one on the team, tucked.

00:14:52.900 Imagine this.

00:14:53.500 You're planning your wedding for a year.

00:14:54.620 Yeah.

00:14:54.920 Everything.

00:14:55.420 And all your photos strings out.

00:14:58.320 That's hard.

00:14:58.900 What are you going to do?

00:14:59.440 Photoshop them out?

00:15:00.280 I'm not kidding.

00:15:01.020 What do you do?

00:15:01.700 I mean.

00:15:02.220 You do nothing.

00:15:02.960 You just follow it.

00:15:03.480 Or you beg for it to be photoshopped out.

00:15:06.820 Or you write a one-woman show about it.

00:15:10.080 I mean, you know, like take the pain.

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00:17:18.420 i'm just thinking about how this is going to pace out so wait

00:17:28.120 okay we have a lot to accomplish during this dinner i gotta admit this is my favorite part

00:17:32.880 i remember my dad said this thing about some people perk up when the food comes some people

00:17:36.880 perk up when the cocktail comes like at a dinner party or at a dinner with people like some people

00:17:41.280 or like they relax almost like yeah yeah the order's in the cocktails on the way i relax

00:17:45.060 some do not relax until the food is on the way okay okay by the way thank god we got the pot roast

00:17:50.640 it was huge i know and it's because of you because i came in in fear yeah i came in in a spirit of

00:17:55.940 like i'm afraid not to get the steak i'm afraid you know what i mean yeah i was i was terrified

00:18:00.360 not to get the steak you're kidding me i meant to ask about those candied whatever candied garlic

00:18:04.880 on the fries what could that candy of garlic on the fries I mean what is that I mean is that just

00:18:09.600 is that just caramelized I think it's I think it pretty oh thank you my mother's ring I know

00:18:15.700 sapphire my birthstone so pretty sapphire yeah that's me what are you ruby garnet oh ruby or

00:18:23.000 emerald I think I have two really they both but then they told me wear opal my numerologist said

00:18:28.320 wear opal wait that's very interesting because you know one of those things and I thought it was

00:18:31.840 opal it's cursed if it's not your yes yeah if it's not what your birthstone don't think like

00:18:36.420 that yeah it's like opal you can only wear if it's your birthstone but my numerologist said

00:18:39.460 that i should always have opal on me what else did your numeral is is your numerologist the one

00:18:44.440 who told you that you're not coming back yep you're on your last if i integrate in this life

00:18:49.640 i'm not coming back it's just weird that the reward is transcendence when i like it down here

00:18:54.700 the reward is to become an angel or a guide wait it is that's what she said that i'm i'll become

00:19:00.360 a guide or an angel oh I mean you know I what no it's just I mean I'd love it if we could be 0.90

00:19:07.800 be them together angels together okay more guides guide versus angel is that gendered

00:19:13.520 no no no they're not angels oh absolutely of course no Michael yeah well I got that

00:19:18.860 you know you know I watch Michael constantly as child we talked about that Travolta haven't we

00:19:23.900 yeah Travolta I was obsessed with Michael well that was doing your Christian um mysticism

00:19:29.140 you know, your period of praying

00:19:32.600 at a Christian camp or whatever.

00:19:34.120 I know.

00:19:34.540 But wait, wait, wait, Michael.

00:19:36.060 No, but you know what I heard about angels?

00:19:37.660 What?

00:19:37.840 Because I've gone through periods

00:19:38.700 where I read these sort of new age,

00:19:40.040 modern books about

00:19:41.100 connect your angels, whatever. 0.94

00:19:43.080 Genderless. 0.95

00:19:44.160 Really? 0.96

00:19:44.700 Yeah, even Michael.

00:19:45.580 I had a girl doll.

00:19:47.760 I had a long-haired girl doll

00:19:48.880 named Michael when I was a child.

00:19:50.680 Exactly.

00:19:51.260 Isn't that weird?

00:19:52.060 It's like to Mikalina it,

00:19:55.080 or Mikayla,

00:19:55.640 is almost building the lily.

00:19:58.360 Yeah, yeah, totally.

00:19:59.760 Dare I say? 1.00

00:20:01.160 Angels are genderless.

00:20:03.380 Supposedly, no, supposedly they appear in a form that, you know, makes you most comfortable.

00:20:07.700 So that could be all sorts of things.

00:20:09.560 And guides?

00:20:11.060 Guides can be anything.

00:20:12.580 Guides can have lived before.

00:20:14.700 Yeah, but I think those are often brought in almost by, like, I feel like they don't just,

00:20:19.240 maybe they must roam in on their own, but I feel like, I don't know,

00:20:22.820 I feel like in situations where I've talked to, you know, someone who's tuned in,

00:20:28.080 it'll be, like, almost like your guide is bringing in

00:20:31.940 or bringing forward elephant energy, okay?

00:20:36.320 Ooh.

00:20:37.140 And it's not, like, some elephant that's been tagging along the whole time.

00:20:41.340 It's a little more, like, calling in an energy.

00:20:44.640 That's cool.

00:20:45.520 I think if you have a loved animal that passed.

00:20:48.460 Yeah, okay.

00:20:49.420 They definitely, I mean, PETA has a thing, you know, like,

00:20:53.920 they were upset with a dog's purpose, I think,

00:20:55.660 because they're like, a dog doesn't live for you.

00:20:58.540 Wait, what was the dog's purpose?

00:21:00.080 I don't actually remember, but this idea that, you know,

00:21:02.860 we like to tell these stories of the dog saved me,

00:21:05.660 and then they're like, they have their own lives.

00:21:07.360 Like, dogs aren't here as angels to save human beings.

00:21:09.540 Oh, sure, yeah, totally.

00:21:10.340 Which is what people say.

00:21:11.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:12.380 Yeah, yeah.

00:21:13.840 I'm, as usual, dominating.

00:21:14.480 I didn't rescue her, so you rescued me.

00:21:16.400 Yeah.

00:21:17.180 I'm just wondering if, like, there's a way that I protect my single lychee

00:21:22.460 Because I don't want to be drinking it with that gone.

00:21:25.740 I always want to have it visual.

00:21:27.420 At the very end, you pop the lychee.

00:21:29.280 But then I'm suffering the whole way.

00:21:30.980 To eat the anticipation of the lychee.

00:21:33.100 Which is why, technically, I should probably get two.

00:21:35.800 Oh, absolutely.

00:21:36.240 I should probably become a two girl.

00:21:37.320 Because at that point, you know what's interesting?

00:21:39.900 Yeah.

00:21:40.360 One lychee, because what's the thing with olives?

00:21:42.360 You know this, with an olive and a martini?

00:21:43.860 Yeah.

00:21:44.220 Two means is bad luck.

00:21:45.520 Three is good luck.

00:21:46.500 Oh, really?

00:21:46.980 So a serious cocktail place, they're going to give you three olives.

00:21:50.980 Or one.

00:21:51.840 Two, wait, wait, wait, I'm remembering this now.

00:21:54.120 Someone's coming to me.

00:21:54.820 This is like their cigarette first

00:21:56.500 because the second person is the one who gets shot

00:21:59.160 by the sniper.

00:21:59.800 See, this is something about that.

00:22:00.940 I love this.

00:22:01.600 It's like a mob thing with like when you have like your, 0.99

00:22:03.760 what's that fucking called, the Sambuca. 0.98

00:22:06.660 Yeah. 0.99

00:22:07.020 It's supposed to have three coffee beans in it.

00:22:09.640 And if you have two, like they would send out to the guy,

00:22:12.020 like here's your Sambuca at the end of the meal.

00:22:13.820 If there were two beans, it meant you were about to get killed. 0.98

00:22:16.080 It's a rat. 0.84

00:22:16.520 And it was enjoy your last drink.

00:22:18.000 And if you had three, you could live again. 0.91

00:22:19.840 You're going to die.

00:22:20.940 So this is your last drink. 0.68

00:22:22.200 Three means you live again.

00:22:23.440 But two means it's your last.

00:22:24.220 Live again?

00:22:25.140 Three means that you're not going to be murdered.

00:22:26.560 Oh, okay.

00:22:27.020 But imagine this. 0.99

00:22:27.740 You're a mobster. 0.97

00:22:28.280 You get the Sambuca with two beans. 0.99

00:22:30.660 And then at the end of the...

00:22:31.620 So you drink it knowing it's your last drink.

00:22:33.300 It's considered like a mercy thing. 0.97

00:22:34.760 At the end of the meal, they come and kill you.

00:22:36.360 And if you have three beans, then it means that you're not going to get murdered.

00:22:38.820 Now, are the restauranteurs in this, are they...

00:22:43.180 In bed with the mobsters? 0.96

00:22:44.640 With the ones who want to kill you? 0.99

00:22:46.960 Or are they just reporting on what they've seen?

00:22:49.440 You see what I'm saying?

00:22:50.300 Are they on your side or are they literally? 0.81

00:22:52.460 The guy who's going to kill you goes, give him two beans. 0.54

00:22:55.000 No. 0.99

00:22:55.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:22:55.900 It's like a mercy thing.

00:22:57.300 It's like we do it right here.

00:22:58.720 Oh, so that you have dignity.

00:22:59.860 So you can enjoy your last drink.

00:23:01.440 This obsession with enjoying your last drink versus like how are you enjoying it more knowing you're dying?

00:23:07.200 I mean, yes, of course, in an obvious way.

00:23:08.900 But my true mercy would be three beans.

00:23:11.420 Oh, my God.

00:23:13.900 I'm thinking maybe if I do the next one.

00:23:14.980 By the way, I'm sorry.

00:23:15.580 I'm gripped.

00:23:16.160 I'm gripped.

00:23:16.680 We have to do this dinner constantly.

00:23:18.260 I know.

00:23:18.560 It's unbelievable.

00:23:19.300 We should be recording.

00:23:19.920 I feel restored.

00:23:20.800 Yeah.

00:23:22.400 Thank God our relationship with Jars seems to be building.

00:23:25.300 Absolutely. 0.95

00:23:26.180 I'm feeling ready.

00:23:27.800 Like, I'm excited for the salad soup here.

00:23:29.240 I'm so excited for pot roast.

00:23:30.440 But I'm afraid that, like, I'm afraid that then, like, the main's going to come and it's going to be over.

00:23:36.700 I'm scared.

00:23:37.560 I know, and the sides.

00:23:38.600 I'm scared.

00:23:39.340 It won't be over.

00:23:40.280 We have plenty of time.

00:23:41.200 We haven't, look, the Fooza hasn't even dropped yet.

00:23:42.640 I know.

00:23:43.080 I know what you mean, though.

00:23:43.720 It's always over too soon.

00:23:45.480 But if we commit to weekly.

00:23:47.240 This is where I get scared.

00:23:48.300 Committing to weekly.

00:23:48.820 I think committing to weekly is the dream, but ultimately I think it's...

00:23:54.640 Oh my God, it's here.

00:23:56.100 Okay, this is huge.

00:23:57.180 Thank you.

00:23:57.780 Beautiful.

00:23:58.400 Beautiful, beautiful.

00:23:59.080 Classic.

00:24:00.980 Thank you.

00:24:02.000 I have to be careful with pepper.

00:24:03.160 Always.

00:24:03.560 Yes.

00:24:06.600 Sorry, I always... 0.92

00:24:08.360 Allowed.

00:24:09.080 I love it.

00:24:09.660 I've picked that up from you.

00:24:11.860 Enjoy that.

00:24:12.520 Thank you.

00:24:13.000 Thank you.

00:24:15.160 Look at that.

00:24:16.000 I want to say, I want to take a moment to alert that in some restaurants, this would be the full-size wedge.

00:24:23.120 You are completely correct.

00:24:24.120 So the fact that this is the split now, I don't know, maybe that's, are they doing that for us?

00:24:27.540 No, this is the split.

00:24:28.140 They secretly gave us a... 1.00

00:24:29.180 Oh, it gave us extra because of poog? 1.00

00:24:31.080 I don't think so. 1.00

00:24:31.800 That scares me though then, because what if next time we order the split again and it's truly halved.

00:24:37.020 But it's not Kevin?

00:24:37.620 This is what you can't, this is what you got to know.

00:24:39.800 You know what's an interesting technique?

00:24:41.560 Still bad about ruining the napkin?

00:24:43.680 Steal the napkin.

00:24:44.800 Don't you compulsively steal napkins from restaurants?

00:24:47.060 Or not steal, but you put them in your bag?

00:24:48.740 I have a tendency to absent-mindedly grab things around me

00:24:53.380 because I'm used to forgetting things and leaving me behind.

00:24:55.460 So I go into an auto mode of just putting things.

00:24:58.720 Yeah.

00:24:59.740 And then I come home with napkins.

00:25:01.720 Or sometimes it's just gripped in the hand.

00:25:03.460 Yeah, on the way out.

00:25:04.620 Yeah, like it's still there.

00:25:05.500 Yeah.

00:25:07.100 I love a wedge.

00:25:08.580 You know my story about a good wedge?

00:25:10.840 No.

00:25:11.720 It's not a story, but, you know.

00:25:13.180 My friend was late to dinner.

00:25:14.820 It was a different restaurant.

00:25:15.740 I won't name it.

00:25:16.540 She was like, give me a wedge.

00:25:18.980 She was that like where I had to start ordering. 1.00

00:25:22.160 And like, what do you want, a wedge? 0.98

00:25:23.780 I was like, you want a wedge?

00:25:24.620 I'm getting a wedge.

00:25:25.240 And she was like, is it a good wedge?

00:25:26.860 Yeah.

00:25:27.660 And I was like, I don't know what that means to you.

00:25:31.580 I'm ordering it.

00:25:32.860 Like, it's good enough for me, I guess.

00:25:34.960 You know what I mean?

00:25:36.140 Even a bad wedge.

00:25:38.020 Even a bad wedge.

00:25:39.600 I think the reason a wedge is always good.

00:25:41.300 Yeah.

00:25:41.580 is because the flavor combination of blue cheese and iceberg is so profound that the effect is there.

00:25:53.900 Red onion, the confidence of the red onion on top.

00:25:55.920 Red onion, as you know, my favorite onion.

00:25:58.080 Oh, me too.

00:25:59.900 And raw, I'll say it.

00:26:02.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:26:02.980 I mean, it's one of the only things that you can have almonds, you can have peanuts.

00:26:07.320 Yeah.

00:26:07.820 And you can't have anything else. 1.00

00:26:09.320 They're a damn bean. 1.00

00:26:10.140 It's crazy. 1.00

00:26:10.560 that way peanuts toxic right well i don't know a little can't you know better than me why because

00:26:17.080 you you know things about nuts no about like poison which you know you know things about like

00:26:23.420 protein i'm coming to know more as we know you're the one that knows stuff about protein i got

00:26:28.740 confused you thought i was the one that knew about protein was actually you the one who knows

00:26:32.280 protein yeah i got distracted or something this is like my theory that if you ask people

00:26:37.320 I'll have to trust it'll come back.

00:26:39.040 It'll come back.

00:26:40.300 Can you trust?

00:26:41.680 Never.

00:26:42.180 Isn't that scary?

00:26:42.820 You think, oh, I'll remember it.

00:26:45.380 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:45.620 If you don't, penis, allergies, protein, 0.99

00:26:49.780 me identifying toxins in foods. 0.99

00:26:52.140 I don't know.

00:26:52.540 It's gone.

00:26:53.200 Yeah.

00:26:53.660 It's gone.

00:26:54.440 Maybe it needed to go.

00:26:56.040 One of my, well, my energy healer, you know.

00:26:59.800 Oh, I know.

00:27:01.060 She's like, oh, they took it away.

00:27:02.880 What?

00:27:03.200 like when there's a piece of information that they're like showing her and then like it's like

00:27:09.320 it's a kind of like no they took it away like it's gone like it's not like oh I lost it you

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00:29:20.640 Can you believe I saw a ghost?

00:29:27.720 I've already somehow forgotten where it happened.

00:29:30.000 Oh, I remember.

00:29:30.740 Grand Canyon.

00:29:31.480 Yeah.

00:29:32.500 Motel.

00:29:33.220 Yeah.

00:29:34.160 Oh, right.

00:29:34.740 Wait. 0.90

00:29:34.980 Saw her, saw her, woman. 1.00

00:29:36.240 Oh, right. 1.00

00:29:36.680 A woman, classic. 1.00

00:29:37.940 Feet kind of blurred out, right? 1.00

00:29:39.380 No, bust only.

00:29:40.160 Oh, right.

00:29:40.720 I saw bust only ghost. 1.00

00:29:41.940 Like a Grecian. 1.00

00:29:42.660 Now, what?

00:29:43.060 Now, did it move or could it have been

00:29:44.620 She was smiling.

00:29:45.300 a manifestation of an actual, like, Grecian bust or something?

00:29:48.180 No.

00:29:48.660 It wasn't a woman. 1.00

00:29:49.520 Object. 1.00

00:29:49.880 She was a woman. 0.91

00:29:51.140 Early 50s, blonde. 1.00

00:29:52.100 I have to remember, I can order another. 0.97

00:29:53.500 Of course.

00:29:53.780 So why am I savoring this?

00:29:55.620 Exactly.

00:29:56.220 Have it.

00:29:56.700 Enjoy it.

00:29:57.860 This jar.

00:29:58.540 Enjoy it.

00:29:59.400 Oh, that's an interesting technique.

00:30:00.760 Lychee and then the last sip with the lychee.

00:30:03.840 Strained through the lychee.

00:30:06.060 It'll be really fun.

00:30:07.120 What?

00:30:07.220 Kind of a nod to us.

00:30:08.780 They brought out our lychee chinis with two lychees.

00:30:11.540 I plan on asking for two on my next one.

00:30:14.300 Wait, you seemed really shocked.

00:30:16.320 Does that seem extravagant?

00:30:17.400 No, I think it's cool.

00:30:18.680 I guess I would be too ashamed to ask for two.

00:30:20.840 Because it's like, I want another sweet treat?

00:30:23.080 Yeah, or just like, well, okay.

00:30:24.880 I don't have to force that.

00:30:26.140 You know what I've been thinking about?

00:30:27.300 I'm looking at jewelry.

00:30:28.040 I've been thinking we might want to do a jewelry line.

00:30:29.880 Maybe not a line.

00:30:31.360 An item.

00:30:32.040 A single item.

00:30:32.660 Friendship bracelet.

00:30:33.260 That's it.

00:30:33.600 Friendship necklace.

00:30:34.220 No, we had this idea and forgot.

00:30:35.560 We did have this idea.

00:30:36.300 We've had this idea and forgot.

00:30:37.380 Who friendship necklaces.

00:30:38.040 Yeah, that's got to be the right.

00:30:40.080 That's nice.

00:30:40.880 That's really good.

00:30:41.180 Because that's a nice gift.

00:30:42.340 It has to be quality.

00:30:43.580 I mean, obviously.

00:30:44.160 But the price has to be right.

00:30:45.740 Yeah, the right spot.

00:30:47.100 Maybe you do a friendship.

00:30:48.100 I'm going to finish this off.

00:30:49.320 Friendship bracelet and a friendship necklace

00:30:50.700 or just a friendship bracelet?

00:30:52.080 Or just a friendship necklace?

00:30:53.440 The charm, what would the charm be?

00:30:55.600 Aren't friendship,

00:30:56.300 friendship necklace is the heart that's broken, right?

00:30:58.640 Yes.

00:30:59.700 Or, you know,

00:31:00.960 well, yeah, I mean, it's kind of a problem.

00:31:03.280 Right?

00:31:03.520 I mean, it's not.

00:31:04.580 It's 80s and it's,

00:31:06.020 it's like I have a heart and I cut it in two.

00:31:08.080 We each have a half of it.

00:31:09.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:31:09.560 And together we make a whole heart.

00:31:10.940 Yeah.

00:31:11.940 And I like the classic.

00:31:14.140 I don't look now,

00:31:15.840 but I think we might be getting a visit.

00:31:18.400 Suzanne?

00:31:18.840 I think so.

00:31:20.120 I don't even dare ask.

00:31:20.320 I mean, if she's here at this point, she might say hi.

00:31:22.460 Do you think it's obvious when I talk through my taste?

00:31:24.520 Yes.

00:31:25.240 I should just go for it instead.

00:31:26.940 Yeah.

00:31:27.760 Talking like this?

00:31:28.840 I don't know, but I get a little nervous when a chef appears.

00:31:35.220 I know.

00:31:35.960 Well, chef appearing, first of all, are they judging the order?

00:31:38.820 Have they seen the order?

00:31:40.260 Oh, they've seen the order.

00:31:41.340 I picked up a to-go order recently.

00:31:44.260 Chef came out.

00:31:45.380 No.

00:31:45.600 Looked at my ticket.

00:31:47.440 Really looked at it.

00:31:48.520 No.

00:31:49.260 And I go, is she checking if I tipped?

00:31:50.720 Of course I tipped on a pickup order.

00:31:52.260 Of course you tipped.

00:31:53.780 But did I tip enough?

00:31:55.440 Yeah.

00:31:56.220 Thank you, Kristen.

00:31:56.920 Beautiful.

00:31:57.400 Thank you.

00:31:58.140 Look, it has its own little plate.

00:31:59.660 So cute.

00:32:00.540 Thank you.

00:32:01.360 Oh, I love that.

00:32:01.820 Gotta hydrate.

00:32:03.620 In theory, I've heard that.

00:32:04.540 I've been dehydrated for probably four days.

00:32:06.120 I've been dehydrated for 19 years.

00:32:07.560 Waking up in the night choking.

00:32:09.160 Waking up in the night.

00:32:09.940 I woke up like this.

00:32:11.140 Oh, my God.

00:32:11.400 I just remember two nights ago.

00:32:12.220 Like this.

00:32:12.720 Middle of the night.

00:32:14.200 No.

00:32:14.740 Like.

00:32:15.080 Oh, I've had that happen.

00:32:15.960 Choking on the spit.

00:32:16.420 The true tickle. 1.00

00:32:17.260 The true tickle.

00:32:17.780 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:18.760 Oh, it's cold.

00:32:20.200 I mean, of course it is, but you know what I mean?

00:32:21.620 The first moment of, God, the bowl is so beautiful.

00:32:24.620 I mean, I know.

00:32:25.200 That's beautiful.

00:32:25.580 I know we originated.

00:32:27.520 The coop fits in the hand.

00:32:28.260 Yeah, the coop fits in the hand, but I know we originated with the triangle, but I have

00:32:32.400 to say.

00:32:32.960 It's elegant.

00:32:33.660 I'm not losing any to the cuff.

00:32:36.180 Oh.

00:32:37.260 Still, it still's a risk.

00:32:39.820 Do you think. 1.00

00:32:40.840 Oh, yours is cold, damn. 0.99

00:32:41.680 We should, like, talk to Suzanne about, I don't know, like. 0.99

00:32:44.200 opportunities. Partnering in the rest of the world.

00:32:46.260 She's coming. Suzanne, we're literally talking about you.

00:32:49.060 Nice to see you.

00:32:50.140 Nice to see you. How's everything?

00:32:52.700 Fantastic. We're starstruck.

00:32:54.280 We can do it. Yeah, we really are.

00:32:56.380 How's business? Good, not bad.

00:32:58.780 Yeah. Thank you to you both.

00:33:00.540 Are you serious? Oh, please.

00:33:01.460 Everybody listens to you.

00:33:03.380 Oh, my God. You're walking away. You know why we're here.

00:33:05.920 No. I'm like, what?

00:33:07.300 I can't believe it. And you said they're good

00:33:09.760 customers. They're good people, right? They're very good people.

00:33:11.920 Yeah. You know, when you did

00:33:13.840 The show in Pasadena, people actually,

00:33:15.940 customers actually got off the plane LAX

00:33:18.280 and came right here.

00:33:19.360 That is so beautiful.

00:33:20.060 Because they were going to your show in Pasadena.

00:33:21.460 That is so...

00:33:23.020 I mean, to not be crying.

00:33:24.420 To be so proud.

00:33:25.160 To be so proud.

00:33:26.280 Other cities, this is what we need.

00:33:27.680 We need you in a restaurant in every city.

00:33:30.840 Yeah, there you go.

00:33:31.380 Because that would just, I don't know,

00:33:32.500 then everyone...

00:33:32.920 Spread the love.

00:33:33.240 Every place we go.

00:33:35.180 But you've got to be your neighborhood joint.

00:33:36.540 You're an LA institution.

00:33:37.260 No, right, I know.

00:33:37.840 That's a horrible idea.

00:33:38.740 I don't mean chain, obviously.

00:33:40.080 I just mean, I don't know what I want.

00:33:43.060 You know what I want to know?

00:33:43.840 where do you like to eat oh wow that's scary i eat a lot when when i am uh traveling yeah yeah

00:33:50.400 that's great you talk about a new york restaurant what's like a new york spot you're loving i haven't

00:33:54.180 been in new york okay so long oh yeah i've been you know to italy and rome what i have to but

00:33:59.560 okay tell us new york is great actually um the new hotel that just opened up fifth avenue hotel

00:34:04.840 oh okay i ate there that bar what's the bar called it's oh oh sure um oh wait there's there's a bar

00:34:11.600 and there's a big restaurant.

00:34:13.040 Yes.

00:34:13.280 You know, it's a big restaurant.

00:34:14.680 I actually had a...

00:34:15.840 Wait, what?

00:34:16.800 ...in that hotel.

00:34:17.880 They just opened the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

00:34:19.060 Because I tried to go...

00:34:19.740 Yes, because I tried to go to the more bar one,

00:34:21.700 the more, like, loungy one.

00:34:22.940 My son is the bartender.

00:34:24.160 So cool.

00:34:24.840 I couldn't get in.

00:34:25.560 I couldn't get in.

00:34:26.160 They were packed.

00:34:27.100 And so then I went downstairs to the big restaurant,

00:34:29.420 underdressed, got a table all to myself.

00:34:32.000 Oh, heaven.

00:34:32.640 Like I was a working woman on tour, you know?

00:34:35.140 Nice.

00:34:36.100 And I ordered an extravagant meal alone.

00:34:39.020 Heaven.

00:34:39.820 Oh, my gosh.

00:34:40.400 The ultimate luxury.

00:34:41.180 Well, you know what to do now.

00:34:42.600 Yeah.

00:34:43.100 Yeah, now we have an inn.

00:34:44.680 That's fabulous.

00:34:45.700 Bespoke cocktails.

00:34:47.180 I'm so glad the listeners have been good.

00:34:50.220 And the customers, you know.

00:34:51.820 Well, thank you.

00:34:52.260 And you're in town for a while?

00:34:53.480 Yeah, in here.

00:34:54.440 So you're going to be seeing a lot of us.

00:34:55.380 Oh, yeah, we're thinking.

00:34:56.740 Oh, yes, you're going to be down the street.

00:34:58.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:34:59.940 I'm so excited.

00:35:00.660 And we're thinking monthly.

00:35:02.480 Monthly dinner, a jar, half fill.

00:35:04.380 Do you have any monthly regulars?

00:35:06.100 Like people who have it on the books?

00:35:07.720 We have daily regulars.

00:35:09.720 mean regulars yeah oh hardcore regulars yeah okay so yeah so and some of them are just some of them

00:35:16.340 you see them all the time but it's like yeah rolling but are any like tuesday nights like

00:35:20.600 every wednesday that guy's here yeah you know what after the pandemic we closed monday and tuesday

00:35:25.220 yeah but we always had our tuesday nights now we have our wednesday night but the bar would be

00:35:29.940 so packed and people would walk in and say who's in my seat oh i love that i love that who's in my

00:35:37.020 seat. Who's in my goddamn boot. They take ownership. Territorial. Yeah. Oh, they take 0.99

00:35:42.020 ownership, which I like. And maybe the front of the house doesn't like it as much. I like

00:35:46.260 it. Where was I recently? And some kind of hip person was like, well, I love jar. And

00:35:50.220 I was like, I love jar. Yeah. You know, I felt the possession. Yeah. I had a similar

00:35:53.540 thing. I was like, you don't know? I was like, who do you think you're talking to? You love

00:35:56.640 jar. I love jar. Yeah. You love jar. It's special. And people have been coming for years.

00:36:01.180 They sit at the bar. They have full meals at the bar, not just a cocktail. Love that.

00:36:05.040 the hardest part is

00:36:07.800 if somebody has moved away

00:36:10.300 or people have passed on

00:36:12.360 and that's the hardest thing

00:36:14.440 for myself and my staff

00:36:16.360 you get so close to people

00:36:19.360 but that's the dream

00:36:20.840 that's all restaurants and theater

00:36:22.880 and we know they're still here

00:36:24.600 even if they passed on

00:36:25.680 their families still come in

00:36:27.220 it's a legacy

00:36:29.660 many find this question crass

00:36:32.900 but building

00:36:34.240 any hauntings and i mean that positively of course oh yeah have you has there been any really any

00:36:40.420 experiences i just mean no clanging in the kitchen that's yeah you know what i i've had um

00:36:46.400 i had someone i worked with three restaurants didn't speak a bit of english eduardo and he

00:36:53.860 was my monos like he yeah we could look he understood exactly what i'm saying and he passed

00:36:58.520 about eight, nine years ago.

00:37:01.760 But sometimes you hear something just drop in the kitchen.

00:37:05.600 Hell yeah.

00:37:06.240 Or you're going to the bathroom

00:37:07.220 and there's a reflection in the glass over here.

00:37:10.900 So it's, you know, we know he's here.

00:37:13.260 Yeah.

00:37:13.640 We know he's still here.

00:37:14.880 And you or others have felt it too?

00:37:16.920 Yes.

00:37:17.540 That's incredible.

00:37:18.440 But also, this is a very historical space.

00:37:20.420 It was in the 60s, late 60s,

00:37:22.640 it was a place called the carriage trade.

00:37:25.440 And the gentleman who owned it, 0.63

00:37:28.120 It was one of the first where it was a gay restaurant.

00:37:31.880 At night, they would come.

00:37:33.340 Yes.

00:37:33.880 And there was a secret door.

00:37:35.820 Okay.

00:37:37.240 I can't believe we've never thought to ask the history of the living room.

00:37:39.720 I know.

00:37:40.100 It's huge for us.

00:37:43.100 He's passed on.

00:37:44.020 The carriage room.

00:37:45.080 The carriage trade.

00:37:46.120 But the people that he would tell me would come in here.

00:37:49.020 There was a bathhouse.

00:37:49.800 Yes.

00:37:50.740 There's a secret door in the wine room.

00:37:53.320 If you take off the paneling, there is a door.

00:37:56.620 How cool.

00:37:58.120 in and out what an incredible jar rich history oh rich yeah all of them they came there

00:38:03.540 so cool a few of them there's layers yeah i can't wait to come with my mom i got it she's

00:38:09.800 insane monica incredible i can't wait for summer when the heirloom tomatoes are here

00:38:13.260 i know a few more weeks it takes a little while when officially when is ramp season i thought it

00:38:18.460 was yeah we wonder about that when i went somewhere the other day they're serving ramps

00:38:21.560 Brant Simpson is right this minute, and I have some ramps.

00:38:24.060 Oh, really?

00:38:24.520 I'm going to give you some.

00:38:25.420 I love a good ramp.

00:38:27.140 They are gorgeous. 0.99

00:38:28.140 Blister, a ramp.

00:38:29.040 Because it's pretty brief, right?

00:38:30.580 The ramp, like two weeks.

00:38:31.780 One of the fewest.

00:38:32.760 And is it because they're uncurling?

00:38:34.820 It's a fern uncurling?

00:38:36.580 Yeah, I'll show you.

00:38:37.840 Is that what a ramp is?

00:38:38.060 No, it's more like a baby onion.

00:38:40.400 It's in the garlic family as well.

00:38:43.360 Oh, wait, I'm thinking of the duck egg.

00:38:45.780 It's so, like, that is my favorite.

00:38:48.860 When I get those ramps, the first ramps.

00:38:50.820 And then I get the Columbia River salmon, you know, it's springtime.

00:38:53.800 Oh, my God.

00:38:54.740 Oh, I'm thinking of fiddlehead ferns.

00:38:56.380 Yes, you are.

00:38:57.180 Also an interesting item.

00:38:58.480 Are they short-term or are they always there?

00:39:00.280 They are, too.

00:39:01.040 They're more in the winter.

00:39:01.960 Okay, maybe that's why.

00:39:03.160 Moist months.

00:39:04.540 But these are really special.

00:39:06.220 And they're usually from, like, Minnesota, like, way up there.

00:39:10.120 Like, Canada.

00:39:10.860 Where are you from originally?

00:39:13.180 I've been here for almost 40 years originally.

00:39:15.100 I'm from Arizona.

00:39:16.000 Oh, my God.

00:39:16.380 Oh. 1.00

00:39:17.860 You're an L.A. woman. 1.00

00:39:19.240 Yeah.

00:39:19.460 I am.

00:39:20.020 Yeah.

00:39:20.400 I am.

00:39:21.400 The best kind.

00:39:22.480 God.

00:39:23.100 Well, enjoy the rest of your evening.

00:39:24.600 Thank you.

00:39:24.960 Thank you.

00:39:25.280 It's heaven.

00:39:25.720 As always.

00:39:26.220 We love you.

00:39:26.800 Thank you for saying hello.

00:39:28.100 I'm so proud of you.

00:39:28.860 We want to.

00:39:29.740 Thank you.

00:39:30.280 Everybody here is so proud of you.

00:39:31.140 That's so kind.

00:39:31.800 We love you.

00:39:32.480 We love you.

00:39:32.980 We couldn't be more thrilled to represent her.

00:39:35.180 And I'm getting you some ramps to take home.

00:39:36.620 Oh, thank you.

00:39:37.280 They're good for you.

00:39:38.240 Oh, I love ramps.

00:39:39.840 Even if you get them wrong, just, you know.

00:39:41.720 Thank you.

00:39:42.340 I can take that.

00:39:43.140 I hope my enthusiasm for ramps was included in hers, and that was clear.

00:39:46.320 Yeah.

00:39:46.760 I love it.

00:39:47.100 That I'll be taking that home half of her portion. 0.89

00:39:50.820 trickle ramps too. I'm going to give you a take on that. What? I would die. I'll eat them instantly.

00:39:54.640 Oh my God, that's so special. They're good for salad dressings or if you're making fish or

00:39:58.520 anything. Are you serious? Thank you so much. That's

00:40:02.720 very special. Thank you. Enjoy. Thank you so much.

00:40:06.100 Thank you for saying hi. Oh my God. Are you kidding?

00:40:09.720 Do you think she understood that I also want the ramps? Yes. I'm scared.

00:40:13.620 And look, if I didn't make that clear enough, then you deserve to take home the full portion.

00:40:17.720 You think I'm not going to split the ramps with you? Of course I'm splitting the ramps with you.

00:40:20.620 I'm scared.

00:40:22.100 But I have to just...

00:40:23.020 Can you absolutely...

00:40:24.280 Just take a second to really feel the fact that we're in.

00:40:27.520 That we're in HR.

00:40:28.520 We're in with Suzanne.

00:40:29.240 We are anything?

00:40:29.780 She's here.

00:40:30.520 I'm proud of you.

00:40:31.260 You heard her say that, right?

00:40:31.960 Yes.

00:40:32.480 I'm proud of you.

00:40:33.080 We're proud of you.

00:40:33.700 The restaurant's proud of us.

00:40:34.400 Do you think the restaurant's proud of us?

00:40:35.500 The restaurant's proud of us?

00:40:35.900 For real?

00:40:36.640 She gestures.

00:40:37.320 She goes, we're proud of you.

00:40:38.140 The restaurant's proud of you.

00:40:39.060 Oh, my God.

00:40:39.960 We have to come back in three weeks.

00:40:42.240 Maximum.

00:40:42.700 Can't let time pass.

00:40:44.140 This is what you do.

00:40:44.880 You seal it in.

00:40:46.940 That's why I think...

00:40:47.400 You wouldn't let 10 days pass before we're back.

00:40:49.180 You seal it in off the high of this, and then you're back, and then you're in for life.

00:40:52.620 But how do you, if it's not, okay, every 10 days is not a unit that I can process.

00:40:57.040 No, no, no, I don't mean we always come in every 10 days.

00:40:58.900 I just mean we have to come in within two weeks to seal the connection.

00:41:03.220 Oh, okay.

00:41:04.020 You know what I mean?

00:41:04.320 Well, did your heart, in a way, sink at the fact that there are daily customers?

00:41:09.880 Daily.

00:41:10.820 Like.

00:41:11.480 Well, that's the dream. 0.99

00:41:12.100 Like, we're fools. 0.99

00:41:12.720 Yeah. 0.99

00:41:13.120 Yeah.

00:41:13.500 I guess, though, yeah, we'll ride.

00:41:15.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:15.820 We'll get there.

00:41:16.600 Us, 20 years from now.

00:41:18.340 Yeah.

00:41:19.160 Every other day. 1.00

00:41:20.700 Chins on the table, just posture-wise. 1.00

00:41:22.480 Yeah.

00:41:23.200 Our chin is across the table.

00:41:24.800 I wonder if anyone's had their last meal at JAR.

00:41:27.680 Someone must have.

00:41:28.660 If you're in a restaurant, you must acknowledge some people are serving people their last meal.

00:41:33.080 Well, that's what I would tell my staff.

00:41:35.780 Oh, my God.

00:41:36.720 Right?

00:41:37.140 You get them pumped up for dinner service.

00:41:38.620 You go, some of these people, you're about to serve them their last meal on earth.

00:41:42.080 Okay, this is actually...

00:41:43.000 Oh, my God.

00:41:43.440 By the way, we opening, that's too much.

00:41:46.900 We're not opening a business.

00:41:47.760 I mean, we're not opening that kind of business.

00:41:49.280 No, I just went down the path.

00:41:50.140 Oh, God, it's happening.

00:41:51.140 Okay.

00:41:51.400 Oh, my God.

00:41:51.940 It's happening.

00:41:53.500 Oh, pretty.

00:41:54.860 So excited.

00:41:58.380 Is the bowl bigger?

00:42:00.860 Oh, no, no.

00:42:01.360 I thought the bowl was...

00:42:02.940 Sloped?

00:42:03.540 Yes.

00:42:03.880 Yeah, I think it's slightly sloped down.

00:42:05.280 But I think it might just be the table.

00:42:06.780 Yeah, the bowl's not sloped.

00:42:07.360 I think it might just be the gentle...

00:42:08.180 Okay.

00:42:08.640 By the way, I'm going to write it.

00:42:10.060 No, it is.

00:42:11.240 Forgot about the sides.

00:42:12.080 Can it be?

00:42:12.760 Oh, my God, I'm forever the size also.

00:42:14.560 Look, I can't even wait.

00:42:15.420 I can't even wait.

00:42:16.100 And I forgot to say that I have not an allergy.

00:42:18.020 Did I even say it?

00:42:18.960 You did.

00:42:19.360 But I'm fine on all this, right?

00:42:21.220 You'll do a double check?

00:42:22.200 Or you know.

00:42:23.000 What's the allergy?

00:42:24.020 Oh, right.

00:42:24.560 Good.

00:42:25.120 Interesting.

00:42:25.700 Yeah.

00:42:26.700 Tree nuts.

00:42:28.020 You're fine.

00:42:28.880 No nuts are nice.

00:42:29.560 All right, thank you.

00:42:30.440 Oh, my God.

00:42:31.100 I'm a huge fan.

00:42:31.780 Thank you.

00:42:32.080 Enjoy this.

00:42:32.300 Oh, my God.

00:42:32.880 Incredible.

00:42:33.400 Okay, wait, you started out me.

00:42:35.380 I'm moaning and humming.

00:42:36.940 If I may.

00:42:37.340 As you know. 1.00

00:42:37.960 Fuck. 1.00

00:42:38.460 Just say. 1.00

00:42:38.980 me and my belief

00:42:40.220 about saying

00:42:40.700 mmm

00:42:41.180 makes you taste it more

00:42:42.660 yeah you're vibrating

00:42:43.480 it against the

00:42:44.220 mmm

00:42:44.900 oh my god

00:42:46.060 by the way

00:42:46.480 truly

00:42:47.380 congrats again

00:42:48.140 I love you

00:42:48.240 Puga's

00:42:48.660 Puga's

00:42:49.100 Puga's

00:42:49.900 absolutely huge

00:42:50.620 we're in that jar

00:42:51.260 we're in

00:42:51.600 I mean we're in

00:42:52.440 you know

00:42:53.000 I know that we're in

00:42:54.300 but also

00:42:55.020 taking Puga to the next level

00:42:56.720 launching

00:42:57.220 business 0.53

00:42:58.620 the hags are ready 0.85

00:42:59.360 cheers again

00:43:00.600 love you

00:43:01.020 to us

00:43:01.280 prosperity

00:43:01.600 to us

00:43:01.920 prosperity

00:43:02.480 sipping the divine fruit

00:43:03.320 last meal

00:43:03.760 yeah yeah yeah

00:43:04.180 magnet for divine prosperity

00:43:05.180 might not be coming back

00:43:05.880 it could be the last meal

00:43:06.360 yeah

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Poog with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak - September 02, 2025

The Reward is Transcendence

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