People at the Core
People at the Core
Restaurants & Relationships, Loving Puppies & Pizza-Making: Day-Drinking with Jenny Olbrich
What happens when you mix the worlds of pizza and astrology, with a discussion of puppies and pigeons? Join us on this episode of People at the Core as Rita and Marisa kick things off with their latest adventures in town. We’re joined by the incredible Jenny Olbrich, who shares her fascinating journey from her Philly roots to nomadic pizza-making adventures in Rhode Island, the nuances of affluent clients as a personal chef to mastering pie-production in the tiny kitchen at her bar, The Esters
We shift gears to explore the intricacies of astrology and relationships, diving into zodiac signs and their influence on our romantic lives. You'll hear our candid thoughts on commitment, personal space, and the challenges of maintaining relationships in a fast-paced world. Plus, we reflect on our mutual love of animals, sharing stories of our pups as the definition of pure love. Jenny shares her heartwarming story of Jack, the foster dog from the Canary Islands who stole her heart, and how the loss of her beloved, Bunkie, stills hangs heavy on her heart.
But it’s not all serious talk; we bring humor to the forefront with amusing anecdotes from the hospitality industry, odd celebrity encounters, and even a playful game of "Fuck, Kill, Be" involving Tom Cruise and Scientology. Whether you're interested in solo travel, the subtle art of restaurant partnerships, or the quirks of boy dogs, this episode promises a rollercoaster of laughs, insights, and genuine moments. Don't miss out on this eclectic mix of stories that capture the essence of life, love, and pizza!
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- The Esters (Bar, Cheese, Pizza)
- Mike Tyson and Pigeons
- Duke Riley and Fly By Night
- Fresh Kills cocktail bar
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From the Greenpoint Palace Bar in Brooklyn, new York, writers and bartenders Rita and Marissa have intimate conversations with an eclectic mix of people from all walks of life about their passions, paranoia and perspectives. Featured guests could be artists or authors, exterminators or private investigators, or the person sitting next to you at the bar. This is People at the Core.
Speaker 2:Hey boo, hi Marissa, what's up? Rita? Oh, I'm good. How are you, I, I, I am good, are you? Yeah, I don't know if it's um, still a little drunk or just happy hungover or underslept or all of the above. I did have a starter tequila, just to make sure.
Speaker 3:Just to get the juices flowing.
Speaker 2:I mean, I haven't, you know, I haven't been drinking a lot. So I made up for it yesterday at a film opening festival. I was working and I missed the actual films, but I made it to food and beverage and the Q&A and then I was coerced. It was one of those accidental drunks. You know, like you do it on purpose. You're like today I'm drinking and then I was like, oh, it was open bar. And then they're like, hey, you're drinking some soju, let's do some soju shots because that's a great idea. Um, and I'm like it doesn't taste strong like tequila, so it just goes down very smooth.
Speaker 3:but apparently it builds.
Speaker 2:That's the problem but it was two blocks from my house and my husband was there and it was friends and, uh, the chef that was doing the food for the event. I love her and I love her assistant. We're hanging out and then she shares her secret bottle of bubbles with me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, that sounds like a good night. It was a really good night. What did I? My brother's in town, so we went to Fresh Kills to visit my friend, have some cocktails. Have some cocktails, I only drink wine.
Speaker 2:I'm not a cocktail person anymore the only cocktail I like is a milkmaid cocktail bar. Yeah, it's one of the best cocktail bars that exist like actually on lists, not just our opinion no, there was like a line to get in. It was pretty crazy, but isn't it cool when you walk right in like I don't order a glass of red wine, I don't flex.
Speaker 2:I don't flex with ice cubes, because that's what I did when my mom comes into town, we always take take her there Wine with ice cubes, red wine with ice cubes, of course, yes, well, I ordered the red wine and then I used my clean hand To finger some cubes.
Speaker 3:To finger my cubes and put it in, and it was delicious. So, yes, it was the best cocktail bar in all of Brooklyn. I couldn't agree more with that statement.
Speaker 1:We had a good time. Finger in some cubes, all of Brooklyn.
Speaker 3:I couldn't agree more with that statement. I was still home by 11 and watched like terrible Adam Sandler movies till four in the morning. So I'm not hung over, but I'm exhausted with you.
Speaker 2:Well, you know me, like my, my like, late night is 11 PM and that's on the couch and I probably napped and then woke up at 11 and then put myself to bed.
Speaker 3:so yeah, 1, 30 yeah, like a teenager, yo. Let's find out what jenny. Oh. So let's real quick bring in our. Let's bring in jenny, okay. So jenny is here with us today. Jenny ulbrich, right, and you'll tell us about the name in a minute, it's fine did I say it right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah great um among a of. I'm trying to do it without looking at the page okay, don't look at the page.
Speaker 2:The listicles, my listicles.
Speaker 3:You know my bullet points jenny is has many layers and I've known her for many years. I'm an onion, love her and she's an onion, but she is a neighbor, a friend, a dog, mom, a business owner and the best pizza maker I've ever met in my life. That is just the goddamn truth. Your pizza is. I know I mean to die for it really is. It's unlike anything I've ever had. It's so good yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4:I've been working on it for since 2009, 2009, 2010, shit right because you have a plate you.
Speaker 3:You still have a place upstate no where was that?
Speaker 4:no, so I had. I had um. So I started off in 2009 and I bought a wood-fired oven and started making pizza. And then 2010 is when I got the brick and mortar in rhode island, which I claim. Zero responsible for rhode Island, not my state. No shade on Rhode Island, but totally not my state it's gorgeous so right it's got like hands down. Have y'all been? Oh yeah hands down the most gorgeous beaches um Newport Beach.
Speaker 2:We took the pups. We were like, oh, we'll avoid 4th of July fireworks because our neighbors have their own World War.
Speaker 3:II show.
Speaker 2:No, we were going to Providence, we stayed in Providence and I was like of course people celebrate all over. Why would I think?
Speaker 4:that this place.
Speaker 3:I was like what they're on America. There You're like let's avoid the tornado and go straight into the eye of the storm. I didn't do research?
Speaker 2:Were you just hoping that we just thought I don't know each other out I don't know, dogs freaked out and then oh, and then we went to to one of the beaches and then we went to newport, but then we went to one of the beaches and it was in season so you couldn't have dogs there. But we took the dogs anyway and it came up with the back story. I was like ken, there's service dogs. We met while training the service dogs oh, wow that.
Speaker 2:That's why we have two and that started our love story, as we were both doing this training program, and that's why we that's how you met ken no, that we both.
Speaker 3:That was a story that we have both had epilepsy and we're in service dog training which is why our dogs we have two and yeah, yeah, that totally makes sense.
Speaker 2:I was like you have to own it, own the lie I'm a terrible liar.
Speaker 4:No, yeah, no one cares like it's like the most cowboy state is it?
Speaker 3:oh yeah, so how long were you there for like, because so.
Speaker 4:I would go there in the summertime. It was 2010 and then closed. 2017 was the last year, and then I took a couple years off because of things. Yeah, you know, stuff happens, yeah, anywho. Yeah, so I would go up in June. I basically had 10 weeks to make all my money and so we had. It was pretty cool. We had, um, the ovens inside, like the gas ovens, a big one, so we would do like New York style, 18 inch pizzas in style, like in there and then outside I had two wood-fired ovens, eventually had two wood-fired ovens, and so I did Neapolitan style outside there, so it's just like two kitchens. It was bananas it was awesome.
Speaker 4:And then at first I lived in a chicken coop and then I got a Shasta 13 inch 13 inch.
Speaker 3:Speaking of Freud.
Speaker 1:Hello old overhaul.
Speaker 2:Already drinking why?
Speaker 1:I left yeah.
Speaker 2:The reason why I left 13 inches 13 inches.
Speaker 4:After that it's Chuck in a hot dog kind of hallway Exactly Never going to recover from that one, I digress. But yeah so then I lived in a trailer behind the shop, which was super cool, but then, yeah, it just got much too much and it was about to fall into the ocean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wait, wait. So were you from Rhode Island.
Speaker 4:God, no, okay, I mean again, rhode Island's lovely, but I'm from Philly originally. Oh, okay, I'm from Philly, and then I've lived all over the place.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Philly, and then I've lived all over the place. Okay, new York has been my primary home. This is where I've lived the longest, by choice by choice, your chosen I wasn't shackled to New York right. I mean yeah, I mean that's a whole other yeah exactly that's all but anyway.
Speaker 3:So what they?
Speaker 4:let's go back just for a minute like what got you into pizza, and you know what I mean so I'm pretty ADD, I'm all over the place, uh, and at that point in time I was working as a creative director and like I had a moment, so I was super nomadic, I wrote, I used to row, I used to race bikes, I was all over the place. And then I was like I'm gonna make some money because I had never made money before, so let me try.
Speaker 4:That know the feeling, let me try this, I'm gonna try this, and then, uh, cyworks is a creative director and, um, I hated it yeah, like it's the worst, like it's like it's like fluorescent lighting. It's like it's just it's terrible. It's like it's just cubicles are not for human beings like like straight up bullshit you can curse right after.
Speaker 2:Oh, 100% Okay, fuck it oh.
Speaker 3:Mary, it's all the truth.
Speaker 4:So yeah. So basically, I woke up one day and I was like so I like I've always been like, love life, do my thing, enjoy it. And then, like, when I started working there, I realized like I would wake up in the morning. I'm like god, I can't wait to drink later on. It was just like it was bad. So then, um, my partner at the time, my boyfriend at the time, uh, he comes from a long line of nick, he comes from a long line of pizza makers. And then he's like let's do this, let's like let's get a wood fire oven. I was just like, fuck, yeah, let's do it. And then I quit and then just started and I also got a dog at that time. I got funky at that at that time and I was like don't want to be in fluorescent lighting, can't work for the man anymore. I want to hang out with my dog.
Speaker 2:Build your life around the dog and things that make you happy. Basically, yeah.
Speaker 4:I was just like I just want to hang out with my dog Super cool, so yeah, so we did that. We opened on and the reason why we were in Rhode Island was we had it was before the chicken coop. It was a whole other weird place, but I could put the trailer there, Like there was space, because I didn't have any room here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4:So like we're just like, oh, we'll just do it up there. And then, yeah, we did just like nomad pizza, like we would post up on the side of the road. We have people looking out for us for cops, and then just like make pizza.
Speaker 3:That is amazing.
Speaker 4:And then in 2010, in that same little town, Matunik, which was, honestly, it was a magical little town, Like my customers were just awesome.
Speaker 4:Like it was just like it was huge, like they were, just like it was cute. It was like amazing being a part of like people's lives, like their summer, because you know summer especially like you're just like you have all these memories. Yeah, it was really cool to be a part of people's memories and, um, yeah, it was just fucking awesome, man I love that, and you just never look back after that no, no, and I just kept doing that and then like do I would come back?
Speaker 4:you know, I come back home to brooklyn and then do like design and do stuff, and then eventually I became a personal chef for that's a whole other thing, um, but like, yeah, it was awesome. I mean, I was making pizza, um, for rich people or famous people probably both right.
Speaker 3:Well, it was so.
Speaker 2:Alexis, I've been re-binging Schitt's Creek and you're just at it.
Speaker 4:Well, just because that's how they all are Right, yeah, exactly. They're all just. They're like rich people are just different. Yeah, Like they're just so insanely out of touch and they're just completely different. Like I had a, I had this one. I will not name him different. Like I had a, I this one, I I will not name him, but, um, I had this one client who is his birthday and his wife bought him a Porsche like a, like a.
Speaker 2:Like a like a legit Porsche like there's like yeah, like, not like, I mean, they're all not a model, not a model, not a photo yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I drive a 2007 Yaris that my friend gave me, so I feel super lucky for that.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:But yeah, so he like I was putting together, his like putting together, because he would do this like big blowout birthday party at their house and they have like a four or five-story like townhouse and Gramercy and it was just like a great, it was awesome, it was super fun to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But he came in and he was all bam. I was like, hey, what's going on, buddy? And uh, he's like, oh, you know, I got the porsche, but you know, um, and it was whatever the top of the line is. He's like, but you know, they have to put that like fin on it on the back. And I was like, yeah, it's to hold it like on the ground because it's it's real fast. He's like, yeah, that's what they said. And he's like so the engineers are gonna like rework it, but it's gonna take like another three months for them to do that and then the paint color I wanted isn't like stock paint color, so they have to create it and it's just gonna be like at least like three, four months before you know I get, I get my Porsche and I was like well, that's why I don't work with Porsche man, like their engineers are so slow, he's.
Speaker 4:And I was like well, that's why I don't work with Porsche man, like their engineers are so slow. He's like right, I'm like yeah, totally, and then I left and I got on my fixed gear. That was a trash find in 1987.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, and then rode back to Brooklyn, and just rode back to Brooklyn, exactly, I wonder how many people you could feed with a Porsche. Oh, feed with a pork, oh my god, probably a lot, right, a lot. But you know what?
Speaker 2:secretly like. I would love to be rich for like, but rich a week or a month maybe I would die.
Speaker 4:I would just die of a cocaine overdose no I mean, you know, I would die by probably getting eaten by, like all sorts of animals that I would just like rescue way too many and then they all turn on me and like new money.
Speaker 3:Same, totally like I would but I'd be like I'd be having a good time tripping my that I would just like rescue way too many, and then they'd all turn on me and like kill me. Same totally.
Speaker 4:But I'd be like I'd be having a good time. I'd be tripping my balls off.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just like. Yeah, that's what I mean. Just like partying with your animals, but like Mike Tyson style, with your tigers. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like I sleep with my tigers now he's really into pigeons.
Speaker 4:I would buy all the animals. He's a pigeon guy, he is.
Speaker 2:There are specials it is. I went down to Mike Tyson pigeon loving rabbit hole watching his videos.
Speaker 4:He's amazing, there's. Was it? Duke Riley did this thing? Do you? Do you know, duke, I don't know, he's like an awesome artist. He's like he's super cool. He owns. I don't know if he owns it anymore. I haven't know. Pre-pandemic everything is pre or post yeah, right before times, and but he had a whole thing where, um um it was called ah fuck, uh, fly by night, and so he got all different kind of homing pigeons cool like different kinds like like an african swallow, like I don't know yeah, I love it, just freestyle pigeons.
Speaker 4:No one quote me on any of this, but uh, but it was like different kinds of pigeons and so they all have like different like flight patterns, and so he put little lights on all their little feet and he trained them and like we actually took a couple of his pigeons up to rhode island to see if they would make it back to Brooklyn and they did, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that is amazing pigeons like those things are badass yeah but, um but. I forget how Mike Tyson fit into this, because now that animals, but anyway yes. I think he worked with Mike Tyson or got pigeons from my he was in contact and hung out with Mikeyson right because, he's, that's what he does like yeah, he's like a pigeon yes, he's a pigeon.
Speaker 2:He's a pigeon whisperer. Yes, trainer right something oh, this started as I don't know money. If we were rich, and I think we would be good new rich people. Yes, because we've been poor, we have hustled and we all have worked in fucking hospitality.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and we see the dickhead. Rich people yeah, that's true, and we know what not to be. I would just like party with like my friends Like. I would just be like here you are Like even now I'm just like I got an extra $5.
Speaker 3:Can I got you? I always say money to me is like I'm on fire. You know what I mean when I have money. I'm like get it away, get it away, get it away. What do you need? What do you need Exactly? I'm the exact same way. Oh, I'll buy all your drinks, I'll buy all your food. Can't handle it, I'm not and I'm not good with money either you know what I mean when I get it I just want to give it away or like or support my friend or you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:So that's probably why it's the only way to be like I'm a big fan of. Like I get smoothies for everyone when I like. Oh, I get brooklyn standard I'm like I've got 20 in my account. Oh, I got five dollars off at brooklyn standard. Yeah, who you want one?
Speaker 3:yeah, exactly, I'm the exact same way. I'm the exact same way. When's your?
Speaker 4:birthday june 19th. I'm a gemini, gemini oh, I love gemini's. I love gemini's brother is a gemini amanda, my friend you either love us or you, yeah same that's a sad thing too, like I'm a particular flavor um it's intense.
Speaker 2:It's either like part of your profile or palette and or not or not?
Speaker 3:yeah, same, I'm an aries. Yeah, my friend steph did my chart once and she was like ew and I said why what? I don't even know what that fucking means when someone does it and she goes you're a triple aries and I. I was like what does that mean? She's like it's not good.
Speaker 4:Well, I think it's a lovely thing I love you.
Speaker 3:I love you too Well, I love you guys as well.
Speaker 1:But I don't know what any of it means we're peaking.
Speaker 4:Geminis, though Geminis are nuts, so if you're a Scorpio, you can't date me, because all Scorpios hate me.
Speaker 3:I mean, there's a lot of people my dad's a Scorpio, but he would love you but as friends we're, we're like we're thick as we're fucking on point.
Speaker 4:We're awesome, but um, to date me is actually. I kind of feel like a lot of people who date me are not fond of me, but that's just my I would totally date you, and I have so many friends that have crushes on you, by the way, oh no.
Speaker 3:I swear to God, every time you come in here, there's at least one man that goes, who was that I swear.
Speaker 1:I'm not even making that up. Yes, like male friends, I just got goosebumps, I know, but male friends are all like your energy and your vibe is so beautiful and perfect.
Speaker 3:But like there you, there you are definitely like high up there on the neighborhood crush vibe. Just so you know. So you know.
Speaker 4:I don't know that also again it's probably seriously better off.
Speaker 3:I get into a relationship good for all of them.
Speaker 4:But I get into a relationship and I'm like well, I got a clusterfuck, but I was married, same, I was married once and, honestly, what killed my marriage was getting married. It killed the relationship. All of a sudden I was like, oh my God, claustrophobic, I can't do this. What am I doing? I got married at the Philadelphia Zoo. It was super cool and awesome, but I was just like best wedding I've ever been to worst marriage I've ever been in.
Speaker 3:How long were you married for?
Speaker 4:A year.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Something like that. I just I couldn't. It's just it was too much, it just was all too much, it was too much yeah, I, you know it's just not my steez, like I just um. I think that a committed relation no, I'm lying, I was gonna say a committed relationship is a great thing, but like I don't even know if it is yeah.
Speaker 3:It's so funny that you bring all that up, because I literally just last night thinking about the same thing. So I've been engaged three times, never been married.
Speaker 4:I was engaged twice.
Speaker 2:Wait, while you were watching Grown Ups 1 or 2. Well, I'm always thinking. I mean, I'm always very high when I'm watching Grown Ups 1 or 2.
Speaker 3:But same sort of thing. Like you know, I keep trying to figure out like why, why do I make the decisions that I make? Like, did I call these relationships off? Did they call it off? And I think that I just like have a huge fear of commitment yeah, it's weird you pick some people that are not the best fit or that aren't always kind to you.
Speaker 1:And you're one of the kindest people.
Speaker 2:I just at least in like hangout, some relationships like or like distant.
Speaker 3:I love my partners and I still like get along with them and I have great relationships with them, and I just think it was a thing Maybe the non-relationship hangs. You know, for me, I think what I do is I go like I panic and go straight into um friend mode oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm one of those people in relationships where I die off like all of a sudden like oh my god, we haven't had sex in a year and I'm like really it's so weird. Can you hand me a gummy bear, like you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4:I get. I get. I'm like, oh my god, why are they texting me? They're like I don't know, are you get? I get. I'm like, oh my God, why are they texting me? And they're like I don't know, are you in a relationship? I'm like, oh God, please leave me alone. Like I get.
Speaker 4:I'm a busy person, I get a lot going on and like you know, I don't always like I don't even have a whole lot of time for my friends and like this is where I'm gonna have time, it's gonna be with my friends, and I think that whenever, like it's always like one of those things where you, you, you hang out with someone and they're like, yeah, yeah, totally, I'm completely on board with you, yeah, and then all of a sudden they're like why are you not hanging out with me?
Speaker 4:I'm like we we already discussed this- yeah come on, it's all good, but, yeah, I uh and I think, like my last relationship, my long relationship, I think the reason why it lasted as long as it did was because we had such separate lives and it worked out nicely, because then I could feel like all right, cool, I love that we just went into this whole relationship.
Speaker 3:I know we really did it always it always. Wow. I know I didn't see it going this way, but I'm not mad at it. No, I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 4:It's like what is it Madonna's Truth or Dare where all of a sudden the truth comes out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Playing drinking games with the kids I couldn't agree more with you. But it's like I think a partner would be nice, but it's just hard to find somebody who's on board with what, like I got a new dog, jack who's like on board with what like I got a new dog, jack, who's absolutely positively freaking, amazing and adorable.
Speaker 3:How old is jack, by the way, baby?
Speaker 4:right. So they think they said it's like a year and a half, but I'm thinking he might be a little bit younger because he's like, he's his energy?
Speaker 2:that I've seen. Definitely yeah, and he's.
Speaker 4:But he just all of a sudden like blossomed into this fucking rascal, like, like just a raging he's like. He's like a cross between a 12-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy.
Speaker 3:Like he's just fucking just yeah.
Speaker 4:Like he's got a high-pitched like I mean, he's a Pitbull Rottweiler Black Lab situation.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, those are all my favorite dogs.
Speaker 4:And he's got like the highest pitch, like when he's like I want to go. He's like meow, meow. I'm like, oh my God, stop, but he's. I think he's starting to feel like he's at home now, because it's been five weeks and now he's all like, oh wait, you're not getting rid of me. Okay, he's all like, oh wait, you're not getting rid of me.
Speaker 3:Okay, here goes yeah, I am a rusko, yeah, I'm totally here for it. So was he fostered a lot before, or?
Speaker 4:what's his background? He was so he was fostered for, I think, three or four months okay and, from what it sounds like, it's two people who are constantly fostering, so one of his fosters lives in the neighborhood. He's super cool, like. He's awesome, this dude steven um, and he's super lovely like, and he still is just like. Send me pictures of jack like he's like. That's great and I kind of feel like the only reason why this dude didn't keep jack was because he travels so much for work and like so he's like super cool.
Speaker 4:so like, yeah, so he's originally from a street dog from the Canary Islands. Oh, how exotic. He's, so exotic, I mean do you think I'd be?
Speaker 3:with anything Well-traveled. Do you think I'd be with anything less? He's plenty snorted. No, that's amazing. I mean, he's so beautiful too he's gorgeous, he's gorgeous. Did you just know, when you saw him, that this was the?
Speaker 4:I was. So I was over, it was a Saturday and it was five. It was five. No, six weeks ago. Yesterday, um, I was at Esther's and I was doing inventory in the back and everyone's like, oh my god, there's some dogs in the front, you need to go see them. And I was like, yes, I do.
Speaker 2:And then um, because they, didn't see all the dogs um, so yeah.
Speaker 4:So I went up front and there was like there was like this really cutie patootie, like little girl pity, and she's like you could tell that she was like the star of the show so she's all like love me, love me, love me. So I'm like oh, you're so cute, I'm so pretty, I'm so pretty and then uh, and then she kind of backed off to go do something else, and then he instantly, and he's, he's a shy guy but he instantly just came up to me and just like put his head under my arm and then just stayed there no and I was like done, and I go to the guy.
Speaker 4:I was like it was this dude steven. I was just like oh, my god, you're so lucky, this dog is so amazing. He's like well, I'm actually the foster.
Speaker 3:I was just like so serendipitous, I was like I was like what's his name?
Speaker 4:And he's like it's Blackbeard. I'm like that's the fucking dumbest name ever.
Speaker 1:He's like yeah, I've been calling him Jack.
Speaker 4:I'm like I'm going to keep it Jack, so cause he's going to be mine. Blackbeard, that's the dumbest name ever. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1:So yeah.
Speaker 4:I like, picked him up a week later and now he's my little buddy and he's just a raging rascal and I love him, but he's so good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's so good.
Speaker 4:I'm like he wants to be good. He's getting over all of his fears, like he's just I've taken him to the woods now and he like loves the woods, Like he's just oh my God, woods, like he's just oh my god. So I'm going up upstate, uh, wednesday and thursday and I'm gonna bring him with me and he's just gonna be like straight up upstate and in the woods that's awesome doggie stuff. Ah, doing the doggie stuff, I mean like like actual dog, yeah, yeah, I mean, it is like you.
Speaker 3:You know, just to go full circle a little bit, it is like, as you know, both being business owners and marissa, you own business for a very long time, you know, um, it's a great way to be able to spend time with your dogs.
Speaker 4:You've got wilbur, and wilbur is a sweet gem, yeah but it's just, it's nice that I mean.
Speaker 3:I just I guess I mean I'm sorry I'm stuttering a little, um, I'm a little high but, it's okay, I'm drunk.
Speaker 4:okay, perfect, it's okay, I'm drunk, okay, perfect, and she's hungover or drunk, or drunk, we don't know.
Speaker 2:We don't know.
Speaker 3:To be able to have the time to sort of. You know, you've worked so hard with us and it's got to be so nice to be able to take time off to go Like. We wouldn't be able to do this if we were in creative director jobs.
Speaker 4:Well, totally Well, and also I've been so this is the first time I've had off since March.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Because it's just been so crazy and like I'm super lucky because we've been super busy between, like, esters and Teffit and it's really really great.
Speaker 4:And I'm like a very hands-on human being as you are, are like you get it like, yeah, you need to make sure everything is cool and everything's super awesome. So this is like my first time off and I just love but one of the things I love about having a dog and you guys know you get super, super busy, but you know that you have to take care of your dog exactly, and you know that that is your joyful excuse.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, um oh, it's a, perfect, it's a perfect excuse, do my med meditative walks I
Speaker 2:have to oh, I'm sorry, I can't. I have to go take her out to pee, I have to feed her. It's the best excuse and the greatest reward.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, that's a really good way to say it. I mean it truly is.
Speaker 4:It's just as much for them as it is for you.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 4:It's like a whole like give and take situation and I think it's the greatest form of pure, actual love.
Speaker 2:I was, I think it was like ricky gervais, I think I was watching a thing I love ricky gervais.
Speaker 3:He loves dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like you can love people, but you can never have true love like you do with an animal. There's no ego, there's no judgment. Our only objective is love. Yeah, the only objective. They show love, they want love, that's, it's all that like there's nothing. I love my husband and I say that my two favorite creatures living um, but there is nothing she could do that would ever anger me.
Speaker 2:That would ever hurt me. That it's yeah, I'm like. My love for her is the most pure, beautiful thing in the world. No, I know everyone's getting that, although.
Speaker 3:I mean same, and you know we go back to dating. Yeah, because both of us are, like you know, single women. We've been single women in Brooklyn for a while now and have these dogs and I just remember dating and being like dog the person I'm dating. And if I prefer to spend time with my dog, it it's probably not. Unless this person wants to come over and hang out with me and my dog. It's probably not going to work out it's so true and even so.
Speaker 4:So, bunkie yeah our, our love bunkie had her for 15 years.
Speaker 4:Most gorgeous human, human yeah, yeah, um, it's your partner Totally and like so the last, like the last year of her life she was doing, she was doing well, but like like I hit a point where I'm just like I don't know if I'm going to have a whole lot of time with her and I'm like I don't want to share a bed with somebody else, like I just want my dog like like snuggling with me and I just, you know, and I'm so glad that I did because like the last like six months of her life I got to like it was just her, like all my time was just with her and it was like the most. Like I look back on it and I'm just like I might get a little teary-eyed because he seems to love my baby so much.
Speaker 4:I'm so glad I did it because she was an amazing, amazing little dog and she gave me so much and she like, like she, literally, and if you're not a dog person, yeah, you don't get it that's fine. I just gave fingers um, but like, if you're not a dog, like she literally was, like the thing that snapped me out of, like, like okay why don't I change my life?
Speaker 4:like I'm not happy, like I'm and I was, like I just want to hang out with you. And also she made me softer and nicer yeah, isn't that crazy how that works.
Speaker 4:I've always been like a kind of just like pull yourself up with bootstraps, like, like not really like, I'm just like, suck it up and like she was such a sensitive creature that she made me like softer and nicer and slowed my my add brain down and like, like because I had to and I just and I wanted to like and she was just like the most fucking awesome creature like I still cry about I'm just crying now, but I still cry about her like I've got jack and he's amazing, but I'm still like she was just like she was like the fucking, like most perfect little animal and I feel very, very lucky that I had her in just like she was like the fucking, like most perfect little animal and I feel, very, very lucky that I had her in my life.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:She was like my little ride or die bitch.
Speaker 2:She and Zelda both had matching sweaters.
Speaker 4:They did they did.
Speaker 3:Little foxy sweaters. Little fox sweaters, that was beautiful by the way. Yeah.
Speaker 4:But yeah, she was my little ride, or die bitch Jack is also going to end up being my ride or die bitch?
Speaker 3:Oh for sure, but boy dogs are so different though. Oh my God, I'm so glad he's so incredibly different.
Speaker 1:Like I can't.
Speaker 4:I can't figure out if he's smart or not. I don't know if he necessarily is. I think he's more beautiful, like I think he really relies on his looks, I think he's more beautiful, like I think he really relies on his looks. I think he's that dog.
Speaker 3:That's Wilbur that's totally Wilbur. For a long time I was like is he smart, or?
Speaker 2:he's just real cute. He's just real handsome.
Speaker 3:He's my lab max he's not the smartest boy in the world.
Speaker 4:I come home Bunky's like working in Abacus, studying multiple languages, knitting a sweater, working out some algorithms.
Speaker 2:Learning German.
Speaker 4:And I come home and Jack's like, hey, and that's it when you been, mom.
Speaker 3:What are you doing, Mom? Come on, Mom. Dinner Did we eat.
Speaker 1:Are we going out? Did we eat, did I eat, did I eat Are?
Speaker 2:we going out. What's happening? What's happening.
Speaker 3:My problem with Wilbur is that he still has his balls because he was so sick as a kid they wouldn't put him under.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was going to be like $25,000 or something crazy.
Speaker 3:I talked to three different vets and they're like just ride it out, it's just not worth it. He's not going to survive. Yeah, Don't do it, but this motherfucker once a month once he gets a whiff he gets humpy man and it is so crazy.
Speaker 4:Like you guys, I have to drag him down the street.
Speaker 2:Like does he go after like he humps her?
Speaker 3:leg. So he's 54 pounds, so do you know how many like? Once a month I'll walk him outside and he'll pee and he'll poop like a good boy and then, as we're walking back, he'll get a whiff through my sweat pants or whatever and just latch onto my leg and people laugh. I mean people are like pointing and I'm and he's too heavy to carry anymore because he's like, he's a compact and he's compact exactly which makes a huge difference yeah, exactly, he's like a bowling ball
Speaker 3:pot belly pigs, yeah like a pot belly pig and he, he will just grab onto my leg and I just drag him. I have to drag him all the way home. I've you've seen me pick him up and carry him and she she'll be like, is he okay? And I'm like he just won't stop humping.
Speaker 2:And the fun part is she has a tattoo of him on her calf, which?
Speaker 4:he's humping With his balls, he's like damn, I'm hot, it's meta.
Speaker 2:There's so many layers, it's just, it's so gross.
Speaker 3:It's the only time I get mad. I'm just like I go into this like satanic voice, yeah, cause people are like pointing and laughing, cause I just have to drag them home, I bet you you are on so many people's Instagram stories.
Speaker 4:Oh, 100%, and it's so embarrassing. You've got your own Reddit page.
Speaker 3:Oh God. Well, you know, and then it's like as business owners too. It's like people know you. They're like oh, that's the owner of the palace, that's her fucking dog. That's on the t-shirt humping her leg right now. You know what?
Speaker 4:I mean, what would be amazing is if you have the t-shirt and the tattoo and he's humping and like, oh my God, should we set up that photo?
Speaker 2:moment. And then she's wearing the t-shirt and he's humping her in the photo with the thing and the tote bag oh yeah, so much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wait, there's a tote oh yeah, I'll get you one. Do you want one of those? Yeah, they're so cute. I've got like eight at home. Actually they don't have any downstairs.
Speaker 4:I wore the palace wilbur t-shirt when I went to go pick up jack.
Speaker 3:Oh you did, I do cute I love that yes, um well, you guys, we, we like, we just cruise, we kind of cruise. I know that's wild, um, I do want to let. Can we just talk before we do questions? Just a little bit about esters oh yeah um, just because it's one of my favorite restaurants in the neighborhood, I want everyone to know about it thank you um and you've worked so hard on it. If we could just you know, like how long have you been open?
Speaker 4:oh, yeah, all the things um, so yeah so um my business partner alicia, who's like a fucking kick-ass babe, love her um. You know like how long have you been open? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the things. Yeah, so, yeah, so my business partner.
Speaker 1:Alicia, who's like a?
Speaker 4:fucking kick-ass babe, love her. She secured the space like right before the pandemic. And then pandemic happened, craziness, and then so she was like so at that point, a bunch of people. So I started doing pizza. I started doing pizza delivery, pizza all over all of the boroughs except for Staten Island. But I was riding my bike everywhere. People were like, hey, I want to partner up with you, start a restaurant, I want to do this, I want to do that. And I was like fucking hell, no. And then Alicia's like so, do you want to partner up? We'll do a bar with your pizza, charcuterie and whatever the hell else you want. And I was just like fuck, yeah. Plus, she's amazing and awesome and one of my best friends. And so, yeah, so, um, we opened it up and, uh, we opened in March 7th, 2022.
Speaker 4:And when we opened, I originally thought I'd be doing, um, doing like four or five pizzas a night, and I was just like I'm gonna work the kitchen myself, like it's totally gonna be cool for a couple months and then all of a sudden, I had like a line of tickets that went up into a stack of tickets and then on weekends it's like a hundred pizzas a night and I have a teeny, teeny, teeny tiny kitchen and but it's been amazing. It's awesome. So we're a wine bar, we have full cocktails, we do charcuterie, we do snacks, we've got pizza and it's just been amazing. And I feel really, really lucky to have partnered up with her, because she's just like. She's like a hot babe. Like just so good Like yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh great and.
Speaker 4:I let dogs in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so do we, so do we.
Speaker 4:I know that's why we go back and like, and one of my favorite things about opening the space was like I'm around my friends like you like the fact that, like palace, I was just like. Yes, like I'm among friends I'm among my people like it, just like. Everything about it was just right, it was just perfect.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. Yeah, and it became such a staple in the neighborhood so quickly. You know what I mean. Like it feels like it's been here forever.
Speaker 4:Well, also, I've lived here forever and then I've known, like you know, what I mean. So it was like it was pretty it was, and then you like you know, just like the whole, like yeah, and like it's such a great neighborhood space anyway, and like everybody supports each other, which is like huge, like agree, my entire staff comes here. I mean, I come yeah, right like you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Like everybody like goes back and forth and it's just like I think it just it's going to be a part of the neighborhood, because we are a neighborhood and we all support each other and like this is like one of the like, seriously like this. Couldn't have been like the more perfect spot like yeah, I agree, I've wanted anything else.
Speaker 2:Special community it is, I mean it just fits perfect and it is.
Speaker 3:I mean all of our businesses. We take care of each other. You know if we need a, a plumber, I mean you're one of the first people I text or vice versa or like ice machine I got my daddy walter.
Speaker 2:I got my apartment because of regulars at my restaurant yeah that's why I live where I live. And yeah, it's just great, it's great.
Speaker 3:It's a great area where people aren't competing against each other we really want to support and work with each because, at the end of the day, you know, the more popular your restaurant is or the bar is, the more likely they're going to come to all the places.
Speaker 4:Well, then it makes it like it makes it a destination so now like if you go to an area that just has like one bar, like that's the only thing you're going to and that's the only draw like you now have, like all these other options and choices. Now you're like yeah, let's go here, and then we can go here, and then, like, you can do like spend a day.
Speaker 2:You have your lunch, you go for drinks you hear in the park then you do dinner and then after, oh yeah, of course, and and I love how each bar and restaurant represents something different.
Speaker 3:We're not even manufacturing the same thing. You know what I mean, like right exactly like late nights is. Goldies is perfect for late nights. They they're open until 4.
Speaker 4:I want nothing to do with late nights.
Speaker 3:Same girl but you know Diamond Little for your cocktail.
Speaker 2:Esther's for your pizza and wine. When my mom comes into town we'll do a little happy hour.
Speaker 3:Minnow's for your chicken fingers, you know what I mean. Like Palace for our burger. Whatever, you know, it's just fun.
Speaker 4:Burgers out here. Mmm it. I know West, this is my burger spot the burger spot. I love it. Burger and a beer, yeah, and a shot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, burger and a beer. But I mean, oh God, I worked yesterday and it's just so bad. I just want to so desperately be like read the room, we're a beer and burger place. I just got in this conversation with someone yesterday.
Speaker 4:She's like, yeah, so I went into this. It was a friend's birthday. And she's like, yeah, so I went and like I went to this dive bar and I ordered a martini. I'm like, why, why?
Speaker 3:why, why, did you?
Speaker 4:why did you do that? And then criticize the martini like they're like, and then they had to go get the olives I'm like, because they're a dive bar, jesus christ yeah, where I work we serve our drinks because we're outdoors, we serve our stuff in plastic cups.
Speaker 1:As you should Right.
Speaker 2:And someone's like do you have those like big ice cubes? I was like, no, I have really crappy ice that melts very quickly. Would you like a lot or a little?
Speaker 4:Totally Like. Just like Mama, look around the bar that you're in.
Speaker 2:Babe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like Exactly.
Speaker 2:Probably like just like mama look around the bar that you're in Babe, babe, yeah, like, exactly there's pigeon poop on the wall.
Speaker 3:You're getting it in a plastic cup. No.
Speaker 2:I don't have sexy eyes, do you have? Okay, can I have like half salt, half sugar?
Speaker 3:No, no, you may not. I don't have salt or sugar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can have a straw.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Like ooh yeah, yesterday.
Speaker 3:I'll never forget. This guy was like we're like four people deep on a Saturday afternoon and this guy's like hey babe, can I just have?
Speaker 2:We can't keep doing this on Sundays because you're always like hungover of humans from Saturdays.
Speaker 3:He's like I'll just have like three extra dirty vodka martinis and under my breath.
Speaker 4:I mean mean, I said it out loud and I regret it, but I just said you get to rats you're a monster oh my god, she has this turrets on saturdays by the time.
Speaker 2:So she opens it three and then by 5 30 the turrets is like uncontrollable.
Speaker 4:I get like so I got this like, so my bad reviews I kind of love because they're always amazing yeah um, so this one guy goes, even though they're visibly very busy service took a long time, even though they're visibly very busy and then like people would be like, yeah, I want to make a reservation. I'm like I'm sorry, we're a bar, like we're a pretty bar, but we're a bar and like, but I want to make a reservation.
Speaker 1:You're a gorgeous bar.
Speaker 2:I'm just like I'd be, able to do reservations, but he's like but no, no, you didn't walk 15 minutes from the train, you took your Uber here.
Speaker 4:You took your Uber here and it's the same thing like on a Friday night. You come in on a 7 o'clock at night. My kitchen is like the size Of a bathroom Of a bathroom. Well, actually hilariously, that was originally supposed to be the handicap bathroom.
Speaker 3:But now it's a kitchen. Now it's a kitchen, exactly, it's like our kitchen.
Speaker 4:It's so teeny. Yeah, you have a teeny, teeny kitchen.
Speaker 2:Could you even lay down flat on the floor and extend out?
Speaker 4:I could. Devin couldn't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah okay, devin is very tall, I'm picturing it perfectly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is like five. Five could lay down flat like a dead body. I'm I'm, I'm five, nine I can lay down, okay, so devon is six three and he cannot yeah, so that just gives you an idea of the size of the kitchen like the width of a human.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and like all my equipment is very much like, measured out to the, so I could, I can fit it in, and so I have this teeny, teeny tiny oven and the amount of of of pizza we kick out of there is bananas, but like you see that there's and you can also, and it sucks, so it messes with hiring people, so you have to be a certain height to work in my kitchen because you have to oven yeah, so I have to, because everything has to be stacked up.
Speaker 4:Um, so my oven is stacked up on top of a refrigerator, and so it's really high up. So if you're not at least five, nine, you're gonna I couldn't work because, like the door was like and I still like, I still have scars and stuff like that but right um, but you'll burn the shit out of yourself.
Speaker 4:So you have to be. And you also have to be because it's so small. You can't be a big person like like, there was this guy who came in. You have to 360 yeah, you have to be able to 360. So there is this guy who came in to go fix my oven and he was like this jacked like six, four dude, and he's like working on the oven. I was like, yeah, you totally couldn't work here and he's like what I'm like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're like you couldn't like it, just wouldn't work yeah, he's like well, um, but he does so you have to be, you have to be tall, and this oven I had this one woman who came in and she was super sweet and Granville sent her in and she walks in and she's like god.
Speaker 4:She may have been like maybe 5'1 so she came in and she's like hi, granville sent me like for the pizza making thing and I was just like I looked at her. I was like oh girl, you. And I was just like I looked at her. I was like, oh girl, you're not going to, you can't reach my ovens. And I pointed to them.
Speaker 3:She's like oh yeah, yeah, I'm good, I'll do it later and she's like let me know if you need any prep help.
Speaker 4:I'm like I'll get it yeah.
Speaker 3:I love it. That's wild.
Speaker 4:But yeah, so it's been an amazing thing and it's people we're a bar. Be patient. I've got a tiny kitchen, I can only do so much.
Speaker 3:I think that's the biggest thing. I would also like to end on that note People, please be patient. And you can see what's happening. Yeah, exactly, you see everybody rushing around.
Speaker 2:But obvious is not obvious. Common sense is not common, but that's why we're here.
Speaker 3:This is our PSA.
Speaker 4:And this is why everyone should work in retail and or the service this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, any, every human should work in hospitality for at least a week. Anyone who owns anything in hospitality should work oh yeah every fucking position oh, you should work every position.
Speaker 3:You should work every position, every single I agree.
Speaker 2:Dishwashers exactly your porters. Oh, my god, this is gonna work. I love him so much. He always sings and he's fucking washing dishes. And then if somebody blasts the bathroom, baby is up there with the mop and he's still singing. Oh my God, I love his face and like yes.
Speaker 4:But you have to and also it's just like them. People also respect you Like I will do. I mean, I've had some dark days where I used to clean toilets. And like I'm not afraid to like again, I'll work Like I do everything. It's like they're like oh my God, there's a bug in the bathroom. I'm like got it there's a there's a flood, Got it, Like everything. I'm like got it Like outside, Like I was just outside, like just like drilling hole, Like yeah, I think it's really important as and like.
Speaker 2:But your business doesn't exist without people.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and if you don't understand, empathize, respect and support your people, then you have nothing, or for a fleeting time, exactly I mean, we've all worked places where like someone's just like go do that, I'm like you would never fucking do that and like why am I going to go do that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4:Like, and so now, like you know, if I'm not there, people are like oh yeah, I'll do it, I'll take care of it, don't worry about it. But it's just like also just understand your business.
Speaker 4:But yeah, I think the most important thing for like people people out there, as you said, read the room, look and see how busy things are, like if a place is busy, like understand those people behind the bar, those people who are like on the server, like they're, they're working their fucking asses off, fucking just no one looked at you and said I'm going to ignore you.
Speaker 4:I want you exactly, it's not a personal thing you're pretty patient, yeah, and if you're and like for us, if your pizza is going to take 45 minutes because we have a fucking stack of pizzas and we've got a tiny kitchen, get another fucking drink exactly Like it's such a good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, get the cheese plate, get a, you know.
Speaker 4:Even then like just relax, yeah, just relax, just enjoy the vibe, like hang out with your people, like just chill out, exactly, and it's an amazing vibe. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3:I'm going there tonight. Yeah, so we're. We're gonna meet eric and lauren over there. Well, no, my date. We're going to sunny side, my friend dave is going to take us on a food tour and then we're going to do a late night at esther. So, yeah, we'll late night when the kids get off at eight or whatever cute oh, let me know, and then I'll put some pizzas, oh okay, yeah, well, that's so cute, but you don't have to do that, I'll eat any.
Speaker 3:I mean, I like the cheese and nut platter is also my favorite Because you know my friend Lourdes and I, that's our date night as Esther. It's like we're just like if either one of us are stressed out. We're like me and Esther's. Okay, I would like to be invited. Oh, you can come, sorry, and also let me know because I'll come by. Yeah, okay, perfect, that's great. Well, I'm there every day. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:But in the kitchen I'm Tuesday and Friday nights because I love working in the kitchen. It's just like my happy space.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love like that's great.
Speaker 4:It's like also, you know, it's really cool. No-transcript I did that yeah. Like sick, like everybody's super psyched. That vibes me. Yeah, You're just like and that makes me so fucking happy.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That fucking happy. That's amazing I love that I love you guys. Mutual admiration society.
Speaker 3:Alright, let's crush a question. Oh, I want to do the thing. We'll do the thing. We'll do the thing, but now I'm starting to second guess my.
Speaker 2:I trust your instincts.
Speaker 4:Go with it. I trust you, Rita.
Speaker 3:Alright, we'll do our question.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have two questions you have to pick, because I pulled your hand okay, this is you know we're really um this is something I know the answer to, but these are things. Have you ever traveled on your own? Yeah, I mostly travel on my own.
Speaker 1:I pretty much only travel on my own. Yes, I like exclusively.
Speaker 2:I prefer to travel on my own Me too, yes, and I think everyone should.
Speaker 2:So this is part of my tag-along PSA, of course, like you do, I think everyone, yes, besides working in hospitality, should travel, be alone somewhere uncomfortable, foreign. My, I've been. I'm not single. I've been with my partner for 17 years, which is blows my mind. Um, when we he had moved in and when I told him I was like, if you move in, this has to work because you were the last person who will ever be a roommate of mine, and it worked out. But the other thing was he had never lived alone and he had never traveled alone. So when he moved in, I left the next, I think, and was gone for a few months and I was traveling with a Swedish friend and then on my own. So the only time he actually got to be alone, live alone, was in moving into my apartment for a couple months and then, as a gift to him for his birthday, I was like I will buy you a plane ticket. You have to go somewhere by yourself.
Speaker 2:It's amazing, somewhere in a different country, self-sufficiency yeah, and he picked costa rica and yeah, he went for, like I don't know, 10 days or something. Cute kid by himself can't travel around to experience that last name is hell and like do that for themselves.
Speaker 3:Shut up, that's cute. So no, I think.
Speaker 4:I think it's important I mean it is it's self-sufficiency. I'm like I'm self-sufficient to a fault. I feel like yeah same um, but yeah, I think it's, and you just experience more things when you're like this is what I want to do. I'm going to do this because, like, when you travel with another person, you're like on their schedule as well and there's compromises, and I think that, like to be quite honest, when you travel alone, you well, for me, I get myself into way more trouble and that's kind of fun, yeah, and then people figure out how to get out of like the fucking stupid situation I just got myself into totally, yeah, totally, it's definitely
Speaker 1:more exciting.
Speaker 3:Why?
Speaker 2:am I comfortable at three in the morning, drunk, walking around beijing. Why did I know that?
Speaker 4:yeah, it is. Yeah, very. Was this a stupid idea? Yes, it was, but I'm going through with it oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:I mean, I think like oh, one of my favorite moments was a prague waking up and like some dudes flat because they were drinking so much absent and just being like where am I, what am I doing and how do I get out of here?
Speaker 2:What year was that?
Speaker 1:But what a?
Speaker 3:great time. It was my 30th birthday, so 15 years ago.
Speaker 4:I love that you could still do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Now it's a little different.
Speaker 1:Whenever?
Speaker 4:I've traveled by myself. They're like you can't, because I used to rely on I would go to a city, a town, whatever, and then I would go to, like the local pub bar and you know, you always meet people who are like you.
Speaker 1:Like you get kind of drunk and then be like, hey, I'm looking for a place to stay.
Speaker 4:And then you find a place to stay Like you don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3:No, I went to Italy.
Speaker 4:I, you don't do that anymore. No, oh no, I would never. I went to italy and they're like. I was like I guess I'm just gonna airbnb because, like I was, like I guess that's not a thing anymore yeah, no, you're totally right about that I agree completely.
Speaker 2:There's an app. Yeah, there's an app for that, yeah I agree.
Speaker 3:Um, okay, are we ready? Let's do this I'm very excited.
Speaker 2:No, but I feel like okay, I lost my third okay, rita, rita will come up with our Fuck Kill Be. She came in with inspiration, then doubted herself, but I want to Don't doubt it I want to like, I know, but I just forgot my third. Give you the confidence.
Speaker 3:Oh, I remember my third one. Okay, this is going to be a really weird one, okay, but it's going to be.
Speaker 4:Let me clutch my pearls.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's going to be Because I've been doing a lot of women, so I'm going to do I'm going to go back to men for a minute.
Speaker 2:Well, because Ken told us that we were fucking too many men, so we're going to do. Or animals.
Speaker 3:Or cartoon characters, blockbuster action movie guys. Okay, oh, I hope I heard that right.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, you ready.
Speaker 3:Fuck, kill. Be Tom Cruise, no, I'd kill him. Bruce Willis, Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2:We got an old one, a middle one and a new one. I hate two. See, this is very hard for Tom Cruise, ryan Reynolds and Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis.
Speaker 4:So can we do Bruce Willis with.
Speaker 3:Unfortunately, unfortunately where he is now we can do?
Speaker 2:can we do die hard bruce or fifth element bruce? Honestly, you can do it every day sense bruce, yeah, he's got it.
Speaker 3:He's in a pretty bad oh yeah, I know he's in a bad state now yeah he's like dying right. Well, he's, he's lost, like he's recognition.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, that's so sad people yeah, so let's not do that part of bruce let's do the other part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll do prime time.
Speaker 4:Prime time because you know what I'd like to be prime time bruce, because he did some moonlighting come on moonlighting, yeah, I love moonlighting, are you?
Speaker 3:I love Moonlighting? Are you kidding? I love Moonlighting. Such a great series and he just put it on.
Speaker 4:I think it was on Hulu just recently.
Speaker 3:It was him and Cybill Shepherd, right, cybill Shepherd, yes, awesome.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, he was sassy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he really was Okay.
Speaker 2:So what do you guys?
Speaker 3:what are you can't yeah most?
Speaker 2:people hate him. I'm obsessed with him. I love him.
Speaker 4:I don't know, contempt not risky business, but now he's so like cringy, I don't I love it, I love it I know, I can't, I don't know, I just I'm obsessed with him even when he was in the outsiders and he was young and I didn't know any better, I was just like fuck that guy.
Speaker 2:Like I was just like you know matt dylan all the way had a situation. He was never my panty wetter no, exactly you guys.
Speaker 3:I'm so creepy. I didn't start like you, I said panty wetter.
Speaker 2:I know something, something I've never said before.
Speaker 4:I know I love it. I was trying it out. Somebody still drunk.
Speaker 3:I didn't start getting obsessed with him until he's like older Until he's older Really Like Magnolia.
Speaker 2:Oh, the jumping on the Oprah couch shit.
Speaker 4:Don't care, fucking weirdo, yeah, no, he can just go fuck himself. I'd himself, I'd kill him. All right, so jenny is gonna fucking kill tom. Yeah, totally understand. Okay, if something happens to tom cruise, it's not me, no, it's not your fault, though nothing will happen to him.
Speaker 3:He's an alien, that's true. He's not even a human being. That's why I love him okay so you're gonna kill tom cruise.
Speaker 4:I want to be bruce willis, because he's done some really awesome shows and ryan reynolds is fine to look at, so I guess I'll fuck him. Yeah, like he's not, he hasn't done a whole lot that I'm just like I don't want to do that yeah, um, yeah he's funny yeah, um two guys
Speaker 2:I like a funny person yeah, two guys in a pizza, two guys, a girl in a pizza place. That was the last likable, ryan reynolds no, deadpool is amazing because it leans into his cocky obnoxiousness.
Speaker 3:Deadpool is amazing. I just saw the new one in the theater and it was amazing.
Speaker 4:I want to go see that one.
Speaker 3:I will totally go see it with you again. It was so good.
Speaker 4:So I just started going to movies again. Cocaine Bear brought me out of my head. Nice I had an abnormal fear of bedbugs. Yeah, a really abnormal fear of bedbugs. Oh, I used to play in bands and my bass player had bedbugs and it scared me so much and that was like a million fucking years ago, yeah, and I just got out of my fear.
Speaker 2:An entire room of Nighthawk COVID. We were there at the beginning of that and she was coughing and I was like oh, I was like can I have a separate bowl for the? Popcorn. Yeah, wait me, no, a different friend that will not name names, um, but she definitely passed on some covet. I didn't get it, but I'm sure she's real cozy.
Speaker 3:Oh, but the bed bugs here I was obsessed with it I was like anything. I was like literally anything. I was like I can literally stop going to movies. Yeah.
Speaker 4:And like I was, just like I would see anything soft on the street. I'm just like, oh, but like her whole life turned upside down.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Anything soft. You know there's soft shit in the streets, yeah.
Speaker 3:There's like a poem there. No, it's like weird pile of like I mean soft things. Listen, I still see a mattress on the street and I'm like Wilbur no, yeah but soft things. It is, but it's soft things, but wooden things. All things on the street scare me. So all of my poet friends? Oh yeah, because they hide.
Speaker 4:They're just like tiny.
Speaker 3:So gross.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:All right, Marissa.
Speaker 2:I'm copping Jen, yeah. Yeah, I think Ryan might be like selfish, but I'm sure he's fucked a lot of people and picked up some tricks.
Speaker 3:I feel like he could boss him around. He's with Blake Lively right and they have like eight children or four children or something. She's boring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but she's also boring she's boring.
Speaker 4:She's got great hair though I feel like he could boss Ryan Reynolds around.
Speaker 2:She's got really good hair. Yeah, I feel like she could too, she's got really good hair and I think she made like four babies, though that movie with All that hair is extensions. Ken doesn't understand hair extensions. He thinks everyone naturally has thick, full hair. I was like babe, fake, fake boobs, fake hair, Fake boobs, fake hair, fake face. Do you see that lip? Anyway, oh, Ken, yes, lip anyway um, yes, I know, uh, so cute and innocent, I know, but um, it's adorable.
Speaker 3:But yeah, back to ryan, that two, two girls, a guy in a pizza place waiting.
Speaker 2:No, it was a show, I don't know what it might have been like. No, it's fucking. I'm gonna google this shit, um. So then, yes, uh, bruce, definitely in his heyday. Yeah, um, because he was doing cool, all right, so you're gonna be bruce, I'm gonna be bruce before he got sick.
Speaker 3:Sorry dem, sorry bruce oh all right well, I'm gonna be wild here I am.
Speaker 1:You're fucking tom cruise, aren't you no?
Speaker 3:I'm gonna I'm gonna fuck ryan reynolds. I going to kill Bruce Willis and I'm going to motherfucking beat John Cruz. I will run Scientology and I'll have us worship puppies.
Speaker 4:Only if you can run it into the ground. That's what I mean. That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3:I'm going to run it into the ground, will you?
Speaker 2:find what's-her-face the wife.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then I'll look for the wife that went missing, the science ron hubbard's wife.
Speaker 2:No, it wasn't ron hubbard's wife. Ron hubbard died, yeah okay it was, it was the
Speaker 3:guy like the ceo of scientology's wife disappeared because she started to like talk badly about those. Yeah, question it, and then they've never found her wait, how do you guys and a girl documentary two guys, a girl and a pizza place talking two girls in a cup, two guys a girl.
Speaker 2:And a pizza place. You're talking two girls in a cup, two guys a girl. Oh no, stop. No, don't give me images, wait.
Speaker 4:So um 1998 did they pee in it? Did they? What did they do?
Speaker 3:in the cup. They poop in it and they eat it, they eat it.
Speaker 2:They can't, you can't, you can't, don't I go, I'm so brissa's about to throw up right now.
Speaker 3:All right, this is probably a good way to end it. Okay, we're going to end it right now and, on that note, marissa's going to throw up. I'm going to kill Rita. Okay, can you kill?
Speaker 2:me.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be Jenny. If I had a nickel, honey, I'm going to fuck myself. I'm going to fuck myself.
Speaker 1:All right.
