Did you see that Charles got arrested in Jacksonville?
Charles Entertainment Cheese? Charles Entertainment
Cheese. What did he get arrested for? Drug -related
charges. Welcome to the show, people. Welcome
to the show. So here is to conversation. Tranquility
Base here. Vehicle has landed. Alright, welcome
to the cash exchange. What's up? Not much. I
just got home from Dallas back to Austin. It's
actually a pretty peaceful drive. There was a
couple of interesting things that I wanted to
follow up with in Hillsboro. There's just a giant
Quonset Hut Caterpillar thing. A what? Quonset
Hut Caterpillar thing. I only know what a Quonset
Hut is. is because of Family Guy, so I might
be misusing that term. What is it? So a Quonset
hut is... I did get that right. Okay. It's basically
like a plain hangar. But it's shaped like a caterpillar.
It's very bizarre. Oh. Hillsborough just got
a Buc -ee's. Did you shop there? Actually. On
my way home. Nice. Got a new sticker for my water
bottle. Free advertising, right? I would love
to get sponsored by Buc -ee's someday. Do they?
I don't know if I've ever heard them advertised
anywhere except for the free advertisement they
get whenever someone says, someone told me I
have to try Buc -ee's. Honestly, I can't imagine
they have anything in their marketing budget
aside from 1 000 billboards on texas roadways
yeah that they do that they do i i didn't even
think about the billboards it's kind of ironic
but uh yeah i guess that is the only advertising
they do they're clean bathrooms but there's a
bathroom in 300 miles yeah Super clean bathrooms,
though the last time I went to a Buc -ee's was
on the way back from when we went to College
Station and was very disappointed. They did not
hold up to their marketing. Bad bathrooms. Yeah,
I asked to speak to the beaver, but... Buc -ee
wasn't in the office? I guess not. And then,
I mean, it's kind of ironic that their whole
marketing is about having the cleanest bathrooms,
and then it turns out that someone in, like,
ownership, I think, was caught putting cameras
in the bathrooms. So that was, from what I remember,
not actually how the story played out. How'd
it play out? I think it got connected when it
wasn't supposed to be. Because it was the son
of the founders of Buc -ee's, I think. And had
put cameras in the bathrooms of a lake house.
But it was like because Buc -ee's is synonymous
with bathrooms and this dude is a massive creep
who is putting cameras in bathrooms. He was clearly
putting them in the bathrooms at Buc -ee's. What
a rough thing to be... Oh. Faces 21 felony charges.
Mitchell Wasek. Wasek. Our Cash Exchanger of
the Week. No, I don't want... I don't want any
part of that. No? No? Okay. Okay, well, never
mind. So was it in the Bucky's bathrooms? Or
was it... Uh, no. House guests in bathroom. Travis
County. Your neck of the woods. Lake Jackson
I don't think is too far from me. No, Jackson's
on the coast. Oh, okay. Yeah. Make sure you read
the article, guys. Don't believe the clickbait.
I fell for it. Happens to us all. I fell for
it. But also, like, come on. How inundated with
bathrooms is this entire family? That they also,
they have to preach about how clean their bathrooms
are. but then also get caught setting up cameras
in bathrooms. You know, I would like to continue
going to Buc -ee's on my Texan road trips, so
I would like to not think about their weird fixation
on bathrooms. Actually, I'm in Miami right now,
and I have been to Buc -ee's here. Yeah? Yeah,
in St. Augustine. I believe there's one maybe
outside of Jacksonville. I love how much of your
time on the road is spent trying to find Texan
things in not Texas. Oh, it is. Yes. You find
Texas roadhouses everywhere. You're now looking
for Buc -ee's. Yes. Yes. Yes, I do. Because,
you know, I mean, what? To name something Arkansas
and... Raisedbacks? Arkansas and... Well, can
you name anything else? Are you going to go to
New York and find something for Arkansas? Yeah,
I think it is both. He was a governor, wasn't
he? I think so. Yeah. I don't know if we should
be bringing up the Clintons. We have dabbled
in conspiracies before. Everything is fair game
now. Also, I need you to get back to Dallas because
I need you to watch that episode. I wanted to
talk to Emily about it. I want to talk to you
about it. I can't. I know. I know. That's the
first thing we will do Friday when I get back
home is watch the new South Park episode. When
does the second one come out? Next week. There's
not. There was supposed to be one every Wednesday,
but not this week. I think they wanted the first
one to really resonate, marinate a little bit
more. Yeah. Yeah. I'll take a whack at it. Yeah,
I don't know if we mentioned yet, but I am in
a sunny, very sunny, very humid Miami, Florida,
in the Peach State. You're in the Peach State?
Isn't the Peach State Georgia? Uh, not the Peach
State. What am I thinking? The Sunshine State.
The land of a thousand lakes. No. Isn't that
New York? Cuba Junior. Cuba Junior. There are
so many Cubans here. Speaking of Cubans, so when
I'm in a hotel, most of the time when evening
rolls around, I'm too tired to go get food, go
get dinner. Especially if it's not summer, I'm
a lot. I'm here maybe like once or twice a year,
not very often. And I am a Uber One member. I
pay for an Uber membership. And so I get Uber
a lot. Uber Eats. And I ordered from this Brazilian
steakhouse, which if you've never been, it's
a completely different meal from if you're actually
going there to if you're getting it to go. They
don't send the gauchos to your home? No, they
don't. That's disappointing. They don't just
march up and down the hall and say, yeah, I'll
take that. No. But there was a crazy deal that
I got because I'm an Uber One member. And I was
like, yeah, I'll give it a try. And the whole
meal, I got the deal plus like two sides and
a drink. Whole deal, right, was like 80 -something
bucks. And so I ordered it, and I'm super hungry.
Like, I had planned on going out and getting,
like, going to a Texas roadhouse for dinner,
but I didn't end up being up for it. And so I
just figured next best thing is to have some
strangers travel with my steak to me. The wait
time was, I think it estimated like 70 minutes,
hour 10, which sucked, but it's the price you
pay for being lazy. And so I'm just sitting on
the couch. I started rewatching the office and
I had left instructions with the hotel, the address
of the hotel, come to my door, leave the food
there and the room number. All that was right
there. And so I get a notification, give them
a minute, they'll be there. And then I get a
picture. I'm like, sweet, my food's here. I can
finally eat. I open my door and there's no food.
This is something that I've run into, I mean,
relatively frequently. A lot of times it's still
like, I'll stay in like where there's a cluster
of hotels. And so they'll just deliver to the
wrong hotel, but the right room number. Uh, there's
some where they don't deliver it to the right
room number at all in the same hotel. And I have
to go track it down. There's some times where
they just leave it at reception. Usually I can
tell then because it'll be in the picture. Like
it's obviously at the front desk, but this one
had a picture of the door and I'm in a hotel
with seven floors, probably 60 rooms, each floor.
And that is one in 20. Nice. Blaze it. And every.
one of these 400 plus doors look exactly the
same. The picture was taken in such a manner
that they could not catch the sliver of the room
number on either the door or just outside the
door. And so I have my food sitting outside of
one of 420 doors. So I'm on the sixth floor.
I go up a floor, start on one end, work my way
to the next. And the whole time I'm trying to
call, I'm trying to message this driver saying
that, yeah, you took a picture, but like my food
isn't here. And come back down to my floor, go
from one end to the next, just serpentine all
the way down the building. You want to know where
my food was? First floor? I have no clue because
I never found it. And someone was like, hey,
free dinner. So one of two things happened. One,
they delivered the food to the wrong door. The
jackass in the room was like, I didn't order
food, but sweet. They took the food and then
I was just out of luck. Or, and I don't think
this is probably an epidemic. But I have seen
a lot of it on TikTok. So it has to be, there
has to be some truth behind it. People dropping
off the food, taking a picture, taking the food
and leaving. And either way it went down, I didn't
get my food. And then ended up trying to get
pizza from Papa John's delivered. And then for
whatever reason, my card didn't work. This was
the same night that I was editing our previous
episode, which was a bitch. to get edited because
we tried something new. What we tried didn't
work. And so I didn't get my Uber Eats. I didn't
get my Papa John's and I had to be up for like
three hours to edit this, the last week's episode
and then filling around with the video. The hangriness
through the episode. Oh, I was pissed. I was
pissed. And then whenever I ran into an issue
on the recording and I couldn't get it to edit
right, I got even more pissed. And yeah, so I
made it work. I got it posted on time. I haven't
listened to it. So if there's errors, oh well.
But I did get it done. And then a couple nights
later, I again did not feel like going out. I
didn't learn my lesson. That my laziness caused
all that, all those issues before. And so I ordered
again. I tried Papa John's again. Card didn't
work. It's like, well, stupid. And so I ordered
from Pizza Hut and put my food in, put the card
information in. Voila, your order will be delivered,
blah, blah, blah. And I had debated on whether
going to Uber Eats or... finding somewhere where
they hire the drivers because I figure you're
going to get a lot more care of service when
it's an employee versus a just a contractor.
And so I ordered from them and everything's fine.
And then my order is about, they say it's like
five minutes from being out of the oven and ready
to go. I'm like, awesome. I immediately get a
follow -up text. In order, To ensure your food
gets to you as quickly as possible, we've brought
in a third party to handle the delivery of your
food. Oh, I didn't know the pizza place did that.
Uh -huh. Yep. So I get a message from DoorDash
saying, hey, we're taking over your Pizza Hut
order. Blah, blah, blah will be on their way
in no time. So I was so smart this time. This
time I said, just leave it at reception. I'll
come down and get it. Just leave it at reception.
And so I get notification that the person is
on their way and I'm trying to make sure I've
crossed all my I's and dotted all my T's and
I reach out to the driver and I say, hey, just
so you know, this is, I gave him the name of
the hotel. I confirmed the address and I said,
just leave it at reception. And all I hear is,
hola. So I repeat myself, hola. Okay, okay, okay.
So maybe he still understood me. It should all
be there on his whatever to have all the instructions,
and I just need him to do that. So I said, so
you know where you're going, right? And then
I hear someone else in the background. And I
just hear delivery. I'm like, oh, shit. So I
go down there. And while I'm in the elevator,
I get a picture of my order in someone's hands.
So I don't know if it's the driver. It didn't
look like the hotel reception person. Just in
someone's hands. And so I get out of the elevator
and walk up. saw the person that was holding
my food, was looking over the receipt. She said,
yeah, I ordered food, but this says for 618.
I'm in 620. Why did you grab the food? I guess
she was also waiting for Pizza Hut and just took
the food from him. And so I said, yeah, that's
mine. And she said, oh. oh, here you go, and
just handed it to me. And she was like, don't
worry, don't worry. I didn't open any of it.
I was like, no, it's cool. It's cool. I mean,
at this point, I'm just glad it's in my possession.
And yeah, I ate the pizza and tried to focus
on the fact that this time I did get my food
and it didn't just end up out in the ether somewhere.
But one thing I will say about Uber Eats is that
they really don't care. They don't care. You
message them with, hey, yeah, I never got this.
Okay, here's a refund. Okay. Okay, but, like,
are we, can we do anything about this? Uh, I
mean, we refunded you, so we good? I recognize
that I am the exact wrong person to say this,
but it is genuinely baffling to me how we just
let, like, randos handle our food. after it's
been made. It is. And places have gotten better
about sealing stuff. I remember when I was serving
when COVID hit and they were so adamant that
all of our to -go food needed to have stickers
on it. That was the thing that was going to keep
your food from being contaminated. This is the
thing that will keep you healthy. Thanks for
eating with us. Sticker on the bag. Oh, geez
and crackers. All right. Well, that was my tirade
against delivery food and another COVID hangover
type issue. You ready for your three things?
What do you got? All right. Your three things
for today. Spiders. Okay. Clowns. Mm -hmm. And
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, what is the
through line? So I was looking at the Instagram
that you posted, and I saw that the hashtags
were... What post? Instagram. And where would
one find that at? At CashExchangePod. Also on
TikTok, YouTube. Probably not Facebook. I don't
think we're in the right age demo for that. Get
those out of the way early. Well, on the Instagram
post, there was hashtag for Aragog, which is
the spider from Harry Potter, and Danny DeVito,
which I assume was the clown. So I'm guessing
there's like a Greatest Showman tie -in, maybe?
Is there? Is there? No, there isn't. Because
ChatGBT just decided to make the clown look like
Danny DeVito. That's disappointing. For whatever
reason. So, spiders, clowns, two of... Arguably
the biggest phobias. Yes. And spelling tests?
Close. Close. Well, no. You're spot on with phobias.
Fear of spiders, fear of clowns, and one of the
most ridiculous fears that someone can claim
to have. The fear of long words. Oh, okay. And
whenever you find out what that fear is called,
then you'll realize that it's kind of like a
lisp situation. How much of a good move it is
to put an S in the word lisp? Yeah, an SP, yeah.
Sorry, what is your condition? I have a lisp.
Yeah, that's the same ballpark. But do you know
what supracalifragilisticexpialidocious means?
It actually has... Oxford Dictionary definition.
I didn't know that. What is it? It means extraordinarily
good or wonderful. Oh. Which I feel like you
could have just done with the first five letters.
Just super. Sure. That's super. But, I mean,
I guess the califragilistic expialidocious just
really hits the point home at how extraordinarily
good it is. I think it's good in, like, a whimsical
way. So like Mary Poppins -ish. Okay. Like could
be equated to a drug trip kind of super. Go into
the painting with the penguins kind of super.
The prompt I put in to chat GPT for the photo
was a spider and a clown that are terrified they're
spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wrong. And
I think it nailed it. I think it did a great
job. I don't know why the clown turned out looking
like Danny DeVito. I don't know why the spider
looked like Aragog, but it worked. It did also
spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wrong.
I know. So their fears were valid. Oh, their
fear. Okay. Do you know what a phobia is? Do
you know what the definition of a phobia is?
Because I feel like it's a term that gets thrown
around a lot, like all the ists now. So what
is the definition of a phobia? The fear of something.
It's an extreme or irrational fear or aversion
to something. So I think they really wanted to
emphasize the word irrational. Because I do think
that a lot of the fears that I was researching,
and at face value, they are ridiculous. Like,
it's just dumb things to be afraid of. But then,
as I got deeper into it, some people brought
up, like, things that these fears could be rooted
in. And they're not very fun things. I mean,
we went a decent ways into that with the Disney
adults and the psychological cause behind that.
So it wouldn't be surprising if we delve a little
bit more into that. So I'm going to go ahead
and put a blanket statement over this one. That
at face value, these phobias are silly. But if
you are afflicted by them, I'm not making fun
of you. or what you've been through. Okay. What
are some of your fears? What scares you? What
makes you shake in your boots? I don't know that
I have any big blanket fears, or at least none
come to mind at the moment. I'm not particularly
fond of heights, but I'm not scared of them necessarily.
I just don't often seek out tall things. That's
funny. Doesn't Nate like 6 '2"? Yeah. I only
had to seek him out four years ago. We've established
this. I mean, do you have any of the standard
ones? Spiders? Snakes? Not afraid of spiders
or snakes. Sharks? I'm not afraid of small spaces
or wide open spaces. I am. You love that song.
The Dixie Chicks terrify me. Yeah? No. No. I'll
bark, no bite. Sure. Isn't every country musician?
No. Johnny Paycheck killed a guy. Who? Johnny
Paycheck. Take this job and shove it guy. Oh.
Hank Williams Jr. fell off a mountain and survived.
I meant that more in a these days kind of country,
not the highwayman era. What are you trying to
say about Luke Bryan? Big green tractor? She
thinks my tractor's sexy? These men have never
been on a tractor. Yeah, Kenny, probably not.
Jason, I don't know. There's all kinds of videos
of Blake Shelton being on a tractor, though.
Taking care of his farm in Oklahoma. So. With
or without Gwen? She's never there. But speaking
of Blake, have you seen the new stuff that's
been coming out about Miranda Lambert? No. What's
going on with her? In her denim skirt, being
all caked up. Oh. Has she been doing the Carrie
Underwood routine? Oh, it's... Or the Laney Wilson
routine? That's something. Look it up. No, it's
like full -on cheeks. Oh, okay. People in the
pit are getting a view. I don't know, mid -40s.
Oh, it's a wardrobe malfunction. I thought this
was on purpose. No, it was on purpose. That was
on purpose. She knew what she was doing. I don't
blame her. Super would be losing her mind. She's
all about pointing out exposed butt cheeks. That
is a interesting fixation. You're raising teenagers.
Well, it's because I'm trying to raise a proper
lady. And I said, hey, maybe don't do that. Maybe,
uh, Maybe a little more modest. And so that evolved
into just yelling loudly when someone's ass cheeks
are out. You know what? Good for her. You take
the good, you take the bad. Maybe not so loudly.
That might be an indoor thought. Hey, come on,
man. Come on. Whisper it. We have a video. Because
we took the GoPro to Galveston. And Cooper was
making a video and she had it pointed to herself
because she's real into Good Luck Charlie right
now. Yeah. So she's making videos for Cooper.
Yeah. Or for Georgia. And there's a spot in one
of the videos where she catches two hams on the
beach and you get to see her instant reaction
to it. And it's hilarious. Oh. I googled a general
list of phobias. Couldn't think of anything.
For the record, I am going into this episode
blind. I have not done any research on it. This
is an off -the -cuff episode and a lot of these
names I will not remember. So the only one that
I know that I have is trypophobia. And I've never
really considered that one a full -on phobia
because I'm not... I think I think of phobias
as more of a like dramatic reaction when it really
just makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, it makes me
uncomfortable too. Trypophobia is just like a
fear of like clusters of holes. So if you think
of like, what is it, lotus roots? Yeah, I think
so. Lotus roots or like if you really zoom in
on someone's pores, which also dick move. But
like, it's just, it's gross. I don't like it.
Like there are a lot of people with like honeycomb
tattoos. Not a fan. Do not enjoy it. I watched
a video one time early in my tenure on the internet
where it was a frog that just expelled things
gremlin style out of its back and it traumatized
me. I think that is where my trypophobia stems
from because if you have not seen this video,
which it looks like you might not have, I don't
recommend that you do, but I am going to find
it and send it to you anyway. Okay. I think I
have. Definitely have a fear of drowning. I think
that's all Greg's fault. I could see that. Our
uncle, he decided he was going to teach me how
to swim by just like, hey, look at that fish.
Look. And then just push me off a bridge. I survived.
So, I mean, he didn't kill me, but I maybe should
be sending some therapist bills his way. Alternatively,
what if this is a situation like every kid's
show has had? What if this was the only character
that was alive and the rest were just figments
of her imagination? What if you're secretly a
figment of someone's imagination? Probably not
mine, but you know. I would be the figment? Well,
yeah. Everyone else wouldn't be my figments?
You got pushed off a bridge. But then I would
think that I survived, but I didn't. So I would
be going through life thinking I survived that
ordeal. And everyone else would just be in my
head. He lost me. You were going through life.
This is this is the process of you. This is your
afterlife is. So you're telling me that I potentially
died when I was like eight and then had to go
on living at a normal pace the rest of my life
out in the afterlife. That's your implication.
Yes. That is your implication because you said
we were figments of your imagination. If you
were the figment of someone else's imagination,
then that would just be you've moved on to whatever
the next thing is. You seem to believe that this
is your afterlife. That you died and this is
the lovematic grandpa from The Simpsons. But
if I think that I'm sentient. Wouldn't that break
the reality of whoever's imagination I would
be in? Reality is a construct that makes less
and less sense every single day. The world is
bananas. I would believe that any one thing is
a figment of any one person's imagination. Everything
is nonsense. You got a point there. Yeah, it's
all made up and the points don't matter. Whose
line is it anyway in the sky? Another one I think
that I kind of had a phobia of, an aversion to.
It's not something that I have to deal with on
a daily basis, but suffocation. Because I think
it can happen so quick. Yeah. And you just, you
have, it's just like that. One wrong move. Like
Final Destination style. Okay, yeah. Or an aneurysm.
Aneurysms can hit whenever. Doesn't matter who
you are. At any point in your life, just pop
and then you're gone. See, the way that I see
things like that is that there's not necessarily
a reason to be fearful of them. Because if they
happen... A, you can't just like prevent an aneurysm.
It just happens, right? I don't know a whole
lot of the medical knowledge behind aneurysms,
but I'm pretty sure they just like happen spontaneously.
And if that's the case, like I can't be afraid
of something because as soon as I know that it's
happening to me, I'm gone. You don't. That's
fair. I mean, not so much with suffocation because
you do. I feel like that one would be a little
bit scarier just because you do experience all
of the time between like. whatever state you
were in before and the actual act. But, like,
even still, I mean, it's a pretty brief window,
I think. Yeah. Do you have a fear of dying? I
think it comes and goes. I don't think about
death very often. Yeah. So, like, if it were...
Whenever those kind of moments hit where it's
more real, so, like, if... family or friends
or someone has a health scare say then i do get
that kind of like bit of fear around it but other
than that like it's not too crazy what do you
think you're fearful of like what do you think
well what is the what is the underlying reason
for the fear underlying reason for the fear of
death fear of dying yeah i think the fear of
death is just fear of the unknown No one knows,
no matter how confident that they are in their
life, that this is what happens when you die.
No matter how devout you are in your religion
or faith, you're never really going to know what's
on the other side. Until that's a Long Island
medium. Checkmate. I believe that her hair is
her bridge to the underworld or the afterlife
or whatever you want to call it. And I'm honestly
not willing to tease my hair like that just to
tune in to that frequency. Yeah, no, I'm good.
Okay, well, if I could, I would. But I can't,
so I shan't. I think it'd work the same with
a wig. Yeah, but it's real fuzzy. She's like
the original design for Marge Simpson where she
had the bunny ears inside her hair. She's just
got an antenna up there. I do understand the
fear of drowning though. I don't know how to
swim. And so every time I get in water, there's
a little bit of that like anxiety. Realistically,
like I don't think that I would drown if dropped
in actual water. That said, I would probably
panic. So my odds are not ideal in that situation.
Yeah. Yeah. I can't swim either. So, but I also,
I, I'm not like overly cautious like in the pool
or in the ocean or anything. So I don't know.
But there have been like, I think one of them
recently was a drowning story. One of them, the
guy had a heart attack in water and died. Two
actors, one of them, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Cosby
Show, Theo. Yeah, he just drowned. He drowned?
In like some freak accident, yeah. Oh, I didn't
know that. Yeah. And then, uh, an actor from,
he was an older guy. I don't remember where he's
from, but, uh, yeah, he was in Tel Aviv and he
just collapsed in the water. And I think his
ultimate cause of death was a heart attack, not
drowning, but no, you just never know. And to
Matthew Perry. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, you want to hear
about some weird phobias? What do you got? Globophobia.
You know what that is? You should play the guessing
game. Fear of balloons. Especially them popping.
Emily has this fear. Really? Uh -huh. Crazy considering
every holiday comes with balloons at your house.
I know. I know. But I always have to go into
the garage to pop them all. That's a good fiance.
And then if... Like, I try to do it quietly.
The minute one pops by accident, it's just, she's
losing her mind. I had a psych teacher in high
school who was deathly, deathly afraid of balloons.
That's the only reason I know what globophobia
is. And she was in a friend's wedding one time.
As the story goes, she was in a friend's wedding.
This friend and her have known each other since
they were children. So, presumably for... most
of this time she has had a fear of balloons uh
she's in the wedding party and this woman is
getting married with a balloon archway which
seems like this friend maybe does not like my
psych teacher having met her i understand it
as she is like standing there one of the balloon
pops one of the balloons pop and she loses it
Which feels incredibly on purpose, if you ask
me. Yeah, like someone just sitting in the back
with a blow dart? Yes. If one of my best friends
who was in my wedding party is terrified of balloons,
I'm going to think of maybe not having them at
the altar. Maybe. Because I figure the odds of
one of them popping is decent, right? Like they're
not important enough to the theme. Also, who
puts a balloon arch at a wedding? At the altar.
I understand them as like decor. Clowns. Balloon
artists. Yeah. Balloon cart vendors. Because
apparently that was a thing at one point. Okay.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who else would
have such an affinity for balloons. To have them
as a centerpiece of your wedding. Maybe I should
suggest that. You should. I support it. Balloon
archway. Roll the dice, man. And then just give
everyone a dart. So instead of throwing rice,
they just throw darts. Just pop them all at once.
You and your new wife? You want people to throw
darts at you? Yeah, it needs some tweaking, but
we'll get it figured out. You know what? I support
you guys in whatever you want to do. In the case
that Nate is still welcome in Dolly Parton drag
with the balloon chest. I'm sure he'd be willing
to pop one during the ceremony. Yeah. He's got
to save that for the reception, though. Okay.
What about pupophobia? Fear of insects? No, that's
a good guess. It's not a fear of pupa. I'm assuming
that's how this is pronounced. What if it was
pronounced puppophobia? Small dogs? Fear of puppets?
Fair. Which I can understand this one. Especially
like those like depression era puppets, like
where the family gathers around to just watch
a puppet show because you can't do anything else.
You know what? Adding that one to the list. I
am afraid of ventriloquist dummies. They freak
me out. Puppophobia? Yeah. They're the kind of
horror movies that I don't like. Didn't like
Annabelle. Don't care for Dead Silence. That
movie still haunts my dreams. That's a good one.
Growing up, I had a ventriloquist doll at the
top of my bookcase, and my bookcase was significantly
taller than me, so there was no getting it off
the bookshelf. It just stared at me for years.
Was it Mom's? Was it that one? It was. His name
is Charlie. Charlie, that's right. And I am convinced
that he is the devil. Yes. Looked exactly like
the puppet from Dead Silence. Did, yeah. Which
I think is why that movie really messed me up.
Yeah. Whenever we went to Casa Bonita and we
went to the puppet show, they had pictures of
the old puppets and they were truly terrifying.
Like just the pictures were creepy. I wouldn't
want to see them moving and talking So, I mean
maybe this one isn't as weird as some of these
other ones, but it's uh It's just definitely
just a strange thing to say. Hey It's nice to
meet you. By the way, I I have a deadly fear
of puppets. I have pupa phobia I always think
of like The kind of fear of puppets and things
to extend to like the stuffed animals in the
same way that you're talking like the old or
old marionettes and all that. Yeah. Have you
ever seen what Winnie the Pooh is based on? Not
the actual bear, but like the first doll. There
was an era of stuffed animals where their eyes
looked a little bit too real and they were just
like itty bitty. I hate them. I hate them so
much. Old school dolls and old school stuffed
animals creep me out. Yeah. I get it. I get it.
What about, uh, cow, cowlerophobia? C -O -U -L
-R -O -phobia. Cool, cool -rophobia? Fear of...
Fear of color? Fear of heat? Fear of what? Heat?
Feet? Heat. Like the hot. Heat. Heat. No, but
one of them I didn't put on this list that I
did see when I was looking these up was fridgeophobia,
which is fear of being cold. Which I don't think
that's something that you should be fearful of.
I think you should just get a jacket. Is it like
fear of being cold or fear of hypothermia? Are
you afraid of dying of this? It was just described
as fear of being cold. Oh, okay. I guess it could
extend to fear of getting hypothermia. I don't
know. But no, coulrophobia is the fear of clowns.
Oh. Which I think you can thank Stephen King
for that. And the original Bozo. And the original
Ronald McDonald. And just any clown prior to
2000. I mean, if you are afraid of clowns these
days, considering how few I would imagine there
still are, you're either blaming Ronald McDonald,
you're blaming Pennywise, you're blaming Gacy.
I forgot about Gacy. He really ruined clowns
as a profession. He did. He did. That and all
the animal cruelty. ruined it for all the circus
clowns. I've never been to a party that had a
birthday clown at it. But it's such a common
trope in movies and stuff. I've never once seen
a birthday clown. Do you think that it was just
before our time that there was a lot more birthday
clowns back in early 90s before you would have
a whole lot of memories of birthdays? 70s, 80s.
I'd be interested to ask older people if they
have actually seen a birthday clown. I don't
necessarily understand. This might be a tax bracket
issue, but I've never really understood people
with performers at birthday parties. Yeah. Because,
I mean, that whole thing is a big TV and movie
thing. I've never seen a magician outside of
like a... Gone to a show? A venue, yeah. Yeah.
I don't think they're just out in the wild. I
don't know. Let me do some on -the -fly research
real quick. Party clown. I run into TikToks every
once in a while where it's a girl that's getting
dressed up to be a party princess. I don't know
how you find those people. I've never seen a
person dressed as Elsa and Anna. Granted, I'm
not the kind of person who would ever have to
seek those out. It'd be really weird if I did.
That said, I don't know that those people exist.
These people aren't just cosplaying for Whole
Foods on a Thursday. You know who does exist?
Candy the Clown. She... Does face painting and
balloon twisting. And it's also just does clown
stuff, I would guess. Okay. Do you want a price
breakdown real quick? Absolutely. Face painting
or glitter tattoos, $250 for two hours, a two
-hour minimum. Additional time is $100 an hour.
Balloon twisting, which I think that's a weird
way to phrase that, is $150 an hour additional.
Time is $100 per hour. Man, this lady does it
all. Good for candy. Magic show and balloon twisting,
$200 for one hour. Additional time, $100 per
hour. Magic show and face painting, $300 for
two hours. So you pay $250 for the face painting,
pay an extra $50, you get a magic show on top
of it. And she also moonlights as Mrs. Claus
during the winter months. Okay. Is she local
to Miami or could I hire her? No, this is DFW.
Oh, okay. She also has a section on being afraid
of clowns. Candy the Clown can also be a friendly
non -clown person. What does Candy look like
in her non -clown persona? I don't know. The
thing just went away. Did you know that you can
trademark your makeup as a clown? See, I think
I would accept a female clown. Female clowns
are way less. Oh, okay. Oh, all right. Female
clowns are way less murdery, I think. They look
less questionable. She has a five -star rating
out of six reviews. Yeah. Let's get back to this.
So a woman can be a clown and it's just fine,
but a man can't just because of one murderous
clown from the 70s? I'm absolutely not saying
that only women can be clowns. I'm just saying
I personally would prefer and would feel more
comfortable around female clowns than male clowns.
So if like Snappy the Happy Clown, La Piacita
Feliz. Um, so this, this is, this is snappy,
right? Uh, she has a name tag that says clown
playing close division, which is kind of funny.
Uh, and then she also has a name, a little tag
under that that says I collect hugs. Are you
saying that a man can't walk around a child's
birthday party wearing a tag that says I collect
hugs? I'm not saying that whatsoever. I'm saying
I personally would feel more comfortable around
a female clown than a male one. That is only
specific to me. I'm not speaking for the general
public, the general profession of tomfoolery
and shenanigans. Oh, fair enough. I'm sure there
are plenty of professionals. Oh, God. I am going
to have to post these on Instagram because you'll
get a clearer picture when I post them. But there
is a photo here of Snappy the Happy Clown with
a dollar store Elsa and SpongeBob. Okay. And
if you can look at SpongeBob's right eye right
here, there's an entire face in it. Oh. Peeking
out. And then this is also what looks to be a
black man dressed as Elsa. I don't think you
can post that on Instagram. But I do need you
to send that to me. Okay. I can't post it? I
don't think so. It says maybe subject to copyright.
Maybe. This is just a random Yelp review. Sure.
But I will send it to you. Are you afraid of
clowns? What if I report the photo and then they're
forced to take it down and then their ownership
is scrubbed from the internet and then I just
say, no, I just have this picture of Spongebob,
Elsa, and this clown. Am I afraid of clowns?
No. Was there to be afraid of? No. I mean, do
I think they're funny? No, not really. But maybe
that's just an instance of it's not for me. Maybe
that's just a situation where it's just not for
me. I don't know. Okay. At the end of this episode,
I need to go on one more tirade. One more about
hotel living. Why can't I just get the URL? I'll
tell you what. You just search this thing. I'll
Google Snappy the Clown in DFW. There you go.
I just sent you it to Google. Anyways. No, I'm
not afraid of clowns. I don't know. It's just
not my bag. The kids are missed out because the
circus left town pretty much before they were
born. Fortunately. Fortunately? That's good.
Um, so yeah, I don't know if they would ever
experience one. I'd be interested to see how
they would feel about it. Uh, you know how at,
uh, at SeaWorld before the shows, they have like
a performer, like to warm up the crowd, like
an opener. Uh, they like those. So maybe they
would like clowns, the clown adjacent. There's
a guy that was juggling and was like, uh, wrote
a unicycle. A lot of pratfall stuff. I don't
know. Maybe they would like clowns. I don't know.
I do like the harlequins that are at the Renaissance
Fair, so maybe I am a clown person. Maybe you
are. What do they do? The ones that were at the
Renaissance Fair that I went to last year or
the year before, they had a really tall unicycle.
It was a couple of performers, so they were more
like the acrobatic kind of side. They did the
juggling thing. They did the balancing on a yoga
ball kind of thing. It was really cool. Were
there any juggalos? Or just juggalers? I typically
try to avoid all situations in which I would
interact with juggalos. But you know, every once
in a while you'll find them in the wild against
your will. Not a party until the juggalos show
up. I mean, on the bright side, as long as I
wear something magnetic, I'll scare them off.
How do they work? I don't know how those work.
All right. Electrophobia. Fear of electricity?
No. Starts with an A. A -L -E -K -T -O -R -O
-phobia. Use it in a sentence. Yes. I have always
had electrophobia. See? So it's a thing that
can affect you from birth. I mean, I guess technically,
yeah. There's a... Okay. One of your nieces may
suffer from electrophobia. Which niece? The older
one. I don't know if you've seen this video,
actually. It's a video of us. Several times.
It's awesome. She is afraid of chicken. She is.
To be fair, she tried to fight that chicken.
And then the chicken fought back. What did she
expect was going to happen? She was openly. to
its face, mocking this chicken. And then was
completely gobsmacked when it turned around and
started chasing her and pecking at her. Yes,
it is the fear of chickens. And for whatever
reason, there are chickens everywhere here. There's
a chicken outside the hotel that I see when I
get off work and I come back. Just hanging out.
My restaurant is a resident chicken. Yeah? That
was Ricky. Are there... Is it a chicken? Is it
a hen? Or is it a cock? Oh, so it's a cock.
I don't know why you're whispering that. It'll
pass the censors. Are there any chicks? Do you
have any hot chicks? Does Ricky have any hot
chicks? What's up? No. No, he does not. He's
a lone chicken. He does cross the road pretty
frequently. I haven't had the time to ask why
just yet, no. It is my mission before I leave
that job, though. Oh, you better watch out. You're
getting dangerously close to my level of humor.
It's a natural progression of things. What about
ephebophobia? E -P -H -E -B -I -phobia. Ephebophobia.
That's what I'm going with. Ephebophobia. Ephebophobia.
Fear of skin. No. But I do have a hint for this
one. Oh, what do you got? I even put it in parentheses
so I'd remember it. This is Gerard Way's phobia.
And it's not the fear of witnessing 9 -11 and
then having to create a band to cope with it.
Real quick. You said Gerard Way, and I for sure
was thinking Gerard Butler. And I was real confused
as to what band Gerard Butler was in post -9
-11. My brain ain't working today. Phobia of
the lead singer of My Chemical Romance. Yes.
In closed spaces. No. But he has famously stated
that they scare the living shit out of him. Oh.
Teenagers. Yep. An extreme fear of adolescents
or teenagers. And I think that's fair. I think
that's valid. They're mean to you in a real way.
Look at that man over there. He got feminine
hips. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'd call
it a fear more than you just, they're assholes
and you just don't like assholes. Sure. But yeah,
they are mean and I'm not looking forward to
those days. I think with the oldest, I think
he'll be fine. I think me and him. The middle
one's the one that scares me. I don't know, man.
I don't know. The baby, she's already got a lot
of those teenage -like tendencies. I feel like
the problem with the middle one is that she's
going to get your sense of humor, and so it'll
be both mean and funny to everyone but you. Oh,
that is very possible. That is. Okay, so I saved
the best for last. And this is what's going to
bring it all back around to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
And you remember what I told you about the title
of this fear? supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
or long words? First of all, I feel like they
should have called it supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
phobia. Because I think it would have been fitting.
But I imagine it's a somehow even longer word.
This is going to take me some tries. I checked
multiple sources to make sure I wasn't getting
punked. Because it sounds like a punking situation,
but it is. Hippopotamonstrocesquipedaliaophobia.
Hippopotamonstrocesquipedaliaophobia. Hippopotamonstrocesquipedaliaophobia.
The fear of long words. Hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
And just why? Why? I just, I don't get it. Is
it exposure therapy? Is this like the time that
your therapist left you on red? Wow, okay. I
did not come here to be attacked. I didn't go
to therapy to be attacked. You just laughed through
the pain. You laughed through the pain. There
is a... picture somewhere in my old phone that's
just the little me in the corner and just this
waiting screen because I took it because I didn't
want to get charged for the session that I didn't
get to have but also I'm just like in the middle
of an existential crisis just in this little
bubble while it's doing the little you know the
Microsoft like Teams or like Skype noise where
it's like definitely ringing someone It's the
FaceTime noise. It's basically the FaceTime noise.
So you're just sitting there dissociating to...
So that was you in the corner? That was me in
the spotlight. Losing my sanity. Did you feel
like you were losing your religion? Okay. That's
all I had on phobias. I'm so curious what the...
Etymology? Entomology? I don't remember which
one is the study of bugs. I think it's ent, because
I always think it's like ent and ant. So entomology
is bugs, etymology is words. I think, or maybe
sometimes I think that ent sounds like ant, but
it's not that one. The entirety of my guesses
for this phobia challenge was just, this sounds
like this thing. But I'm curious what the etymology
is of hippopotamus phobia. I'm going to send
you this word, and you tell me how to... Let's
see how many tries it takes you. I had to break
it up in my notes to be able to even attempt
to say it right. They're going to come close.
Hippopotamonstrosis quipidelophobia. That's what
I'm going with. I don't think it's hippopotamonstrosis.
There is a video on YouTube, though, that will
walk you through how to explain it. So I think
we should... I think it's hippopotamonstrosis.
I really lose some steam mid -word. You get that
hippo out. The hippopot. You get that part. You
nail that, and then it just goes to shit the
rest of the way through. As it should. This word
is ridiculous. Here, let's try it in Google Translate.
Actually, what's the iPhone one? What? iPhone
Translate. Alright. We ready? Hippopotamonster
sesquipedalophobia? I don't know why I said that
like a question, but... I'm not convinced that
anyone will be able to pronounce this for me
where it makes it sound like a real word. Hippopotamonster
sesquipedaliophobia? See, he added like three
more syllables in that. Hippopotamonster sesquipedaliophobia?
I don't know. Reject the premise. Huh. Well,
either way, it's a mean trick to play on people
that have a quote -unquote fear of long words.
I mean... Goofy fear? Goofy name. There is probably
also a psychological component behind a fear
of long words. Maybe you're afraid of public
speaking, and that just manifests as you having
had to pronounce one really long word out loud
and realizing that you were incredibly wrong.
Maybe the trick is just to put it to a song.
I got crapped on. For my pronunciation of...
Do you know the skin condition where you have
like different pigments, but it's like a stark
difference? You have like super, super pale and
super, super dark. And it's just like kind of
like patches of each color. Yeah, I think. So
the actual condition, it's spelled V -I -T -I
-L -I -G -O. I had only ever heard it. Huh? It's
Vitiligo, but I had only ever read it, and I
said it out loud one time in class. It wasn't
even, like, to the group. It was just to a person
and someone overheard and was just giving me
endless shit for it. How'd you pronounce it?
Vitiligo? I don't feel like that was that off
-base. That's not that bad, no. She sucks. This
is why. Teenagers are the worst. That's why Gerard
Way is scared of them. He's on the right. There's
a word that I see every time that when I read
it, I know what it means, but when someone says
it, it just doesn't seem right. I can't think
of what the word is. Does it not seem right because
it's like it just shouldn't be said out loud?
Or does it not seem right because the person
is using it in a way that sounds like it doesn't
fit in the sentence? Like they're just trying
to use their SAT words. I used Quonset Hut without
any kind of conviction that that was the right
thing I was trying to say. It did end up being
the right thing. I think one of them is facade.
Okay. Like, when I see it, like, I know what
that is. I know the word just makes sense. But
when I hear it out loud, it just, it's, I don't
know. It just doesn't seem right. Do you feel
like it should be facade? I do feel like it should
be facade. And... I mean, it's a pretty common
one, so I'm sure I could find the word. To be
fair, a lot of times when people use the word
facade, if they're like writing it, it should
be facade because they don't put the little C
with the accent mark. If you type it like that,
then it is facade. No one will convince me otherwise.
Yeah. Gotta have the little five under it. Cash.
Or cache? It's cache, right? Maybe. Okay, so
I think of cache and cache as two different things.
Cache is like the queue of things that are in
my internet browser. Because I've only ever heard
that one pronounced cache. I've literally never
heard it pronounced cache. But I think cachet
is like reputation. It's like a value. I'm pretty
sure they're different words if you pronounce
them differently. I can't even spell it right
the first time. C -A -C -H -E. A collection of
items of the same type stored in hidden or inaccessible
places. An auxiliary memory from which high -speed
retrieval is possible. Today I learned that cachet
is in the reputation kind is spelled with a T.
I've never seen that one written. I've only ever
heard it. So C -A -C -H -E -T? That one is social
status and reputation. So it's cash. My final
answer is that it is cash if you're talking about
a queue of things or like the memory bank. And
cache is reputation. Okay, well, there we go.
And if you're curious about the... Etymology.
Let's clear that up for our listeners. Etymology
is the study of word origins and history. Okay,
so entomology, when you think ent, think ant.
Ent, ant, entomology, entomology, bugs. But cachet,
cash, sorry, cash, comes from... The French word
cacher, which means to hide. Okay. Its current
iteration comes from the late 18th century. Similar
words, stockpile, collection, hoard. Most widely
used for weapons or ammunition. Like a weapons
cache. Interesting. There's just tons of facts
in this episode. Last bit I have for this episode
is going back to a little bit of a food rage,
food gripe. I have every day gotten flyers. for
restaurants. Every day they'll come by. They
just came by about 20 minutes ago. So about six
o 'clock they come by and slide a flyer under
the door. This time it's two. But the conspiracy
that I want to lay out there is that there are
some perhaps money laundering, perhaps a mafioso
type situation going on in Miami because every
single flyer is for an Italian restaurant. I'm
pretty sure it's the same restaurant, but they
just go by different names because I've gotten
four different flyers, or I've gotten four flyers
from different places. A lot of them are open
until like 5 in the morning. I don't know who
needs a stromboli at 5 in the morning. In Miami.
But also, there's no way that these flyers are
profitable enough to drop them off every single
night. And why is it all Italian food? Why do
all the flyers supposedly from different places
look exactly the same? And I mean, when you go
to Miami, do you ever think Italian food? Or
are you thinking Cuban food? I'm sure they have
to get their name out there, too. Because no
one goes to Miami for Italian food. I think Cuban
food, but I don't ever get Cuban food. It's all
just different variations of ham. This is true.
All right. Fast pizza. Okay. The Italian Factory.
Okay. New York Pizza Kitchen Inc. I looked up
this one. 2 .2 stars on Google. Yeah, it tracks.
Miami Pizza and Pasta. Okay. The Italian Factory
again. Italian Factory again. Oh, good Lord.
Okay. Miami Pizza and Pasta again. How long have
you been here now? New York Pizza Kitchening
again. At least them, they got color variations.
They got yellow paper and Miami Pizza and Pasta
has green lettering. So that's something. I've
been here eight days. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight. Yeah. Maybe it's all
the same parent company. It's just one chain
of value restaurants. It's like a Mr. Beast,
Mr. Beast Burger or whatever it was. Turned out
to be a huge bait and switch type thing. Or yeah,
like Chuck E. Cheese. how during COVID to keep
the lights on in that rat casino, they started
rebranding as Pasquale's Pizza. Pasquale's. It
still looks like one of the pieces was missing.
Did you see that Charles got arrested in Jacksonville?
Charles Entertainment Cheese? Charles Entertainment
Cheese. What did he get arrested for? Drug -related
charges. Yeah. Jacksonville, Florida. Like last
week sometime. Definitely worth checking out.
Oh my God, you're not kidding. I'm not. You got
hauled away. I was waiting for the punchline
on that. What do you mean Chuck E. Cheese got
arrested? Hauled away in handcuffs. Those poor
children. Full costume. oh my god imagine you're
just there for your eighth birthday you are living
high on life right now you've got seven two liters
of dr thunder on the table you've done the the
little like lottery thing we're in the wind tunnel
with all the tickets uh the ticket with chucky
and he gets taken away in handcuffs yeah i need
you to step away from the rat please step away
sir you are under arrest Witnesses describe harrowing
Chuck E. Cheese arrest is an amazing headline.
Children's post -incident questions. Oh my god,
Chuck E. could end up in a cheddar -colored jumpsuit.
Awesome. Just awesome. The man behind the mask
of the bad pizza and skee -ball peddling chain.
Okay. These people have beef with Chuck E. Cheese.
Don't disparage the house of rat like that. What
could Chuck E. Cheese be? Can't be the house
of mouse. What's a rat rhyming dwelling? I don't,
I got nothing. I'll have to think about it. Well,
you got anything to, uh, to leave the, leave
the listener slash viewers with, uh, hopefully
since, uh, we're doing it this way. Again, for
right now, we'll be able to have shorts coming
out with all this. So if you've got something
clippable, words of wisdom that people flying
through our reels, our shorts, our TikToks can
just grasp onto real quick and then move on about
their day. Now's the time to let it fly. We are
pronouncing this wrong, and you know the actual
etymology of... God, I'm going to try this again.
Hippopotamonstrosis equipidaleophobia? Close
enough. Good enough. Please let us know in the
comments. Honestly, don't be a dick about it.
You can be a dick about it. I don't care. I would
like to know what the actual background of this
is from the word nerds. Yeah. On Instagram, TikTok,
Snapchat, probably. Not yet. If you want to roll
out our Snapchat. I'm not 15. Hey, I don't know
what that's supposed to mean. I currently have
a 1532 day street going. That is impressive.
With the only person I communicate with on Snapchat.
I couldn't tell you the last time I used Snapchat.
Well, I can tell you. It's going to be next week
when you're running our Snapchat account. I've
shot myself in the foot. Fortunate. Share your
weird phobias with us. If there's a thing that
really just gets you, let us know. I would love
to discuss your phobia and maybe where it comes
from if you feel like sharing. Hey, we're like
Planet Fitness. We're a judgment -free zone.
Oh, I was going to say you give us your money
and don't nearly get as much value out of it
as you should. That's for later once we get our
Patreon. Come on. All right. Well, like I said
before, if you have... quote -unquote ridiculous
phobia because of some trauma that you've experienced
during your life, that sucks. But that's life,
man. That's life. You just gotta laugh with it.
Unless you're afraid of violence. Maybe don't.
I think we got all the murdering ones. It doesn't
exist. John Wayne Gacy is dead. Killer Clowns
from Outer Space. I don't know. That one's still
a possibility. That one is still a possibility.
But the rest of them, don't worry about it. All
right. Well, we'll see ya. South Girl Scouts.