Hello Everyone. This is the second attempt at a podcast today. The First one got all screwed up. Just Rodan and I tonight, but fret not, because the lovely Taffy will be joining me later this week, to talk of current events and....America's Next Top Model, which I partook in for the first time last week. But I digress. Rodan and I talk about our favorite cocktails, and tell some of our favorite stories about our friendship. Somehow, all the stories tonight have a theme of anger, alcohol or psychosis. Oh, and we have theme music to close OUT the show - we're all fancy and stuff! Check out our myspace page - myspace.com/podismycopilot, or check out our blog oksopodcast.blogspot.com, or email us at podismycopilot at gmail.com. MUSIC: Brain Bukit - Run Rabbit/The Chase. Just like Charlie's Angels, only less sexy, we are...Pod Is My Copilot.
Pod Is My Copilot
PiMC: Episode 2 - Letter Games and Psycho Roomates
(upbeat music) You're listening to "Pod Is My Co-Pilot" with Taylor the Latte Boy, Tappy Carlisle Huffington, and Rodan. (upbeat music) Hi, this is Taylor the Latte Boy, and you're listening to "Pod Is My Co-Pilot." Welcome to our second episode, or as I like to call it, "Second Episode Version 2.0." Rodan is with me, say hi, Rodan. - Hello, Rodan. - And I am hanging out with him tonight. We actually recorded an episode earlier today with Tappy, but we had some technical difficulties where I was using too many resources. - User error, user error, user error. - So I was using too many resources on my computer, so we are trying to take a couple of many episodes, one with Rodan and one. I'll try and get one with Tappy a little bit later on. And we will see if we can combine them and give you two episodes for the price of one, the price being free, but hey, you know, whatever. So I wanted to do a couple of shout outs and a couple of office notes, as it were, before. First of all, I wanted to thank everybody who downloaded our first episode. We had about 35 downloads, which I consider to be quite a success for our first episode ever. And I know I don't have 35 friends, which means some of you guys are people that I've never met before, but I hope to get to know a little bit better. Also, I wanted to give a shout out to Mika Ann, our first person who has ever posted a review on iTunes. She actually posted her first review before we had our first main episode out. She just posted something saying that she had listened to the little mini introduction episode and she was looking forward to hearing our first episode. After she listened to the first episode, she posted a new review, giving us five stars and saying that she had a really good time and listened with some of her office mates and everybody seemed to enjoy it. Rodan, what do you think about that? People that we don't know listening to our voices somewhere out in the middle of the world. I don't know if they could actually hear everything you just said really, really fast. Did I talk really fast? Oh my gosh. I am really nervous about this not working. So, and I am from South Jersey and I'm gay and I'm Italian. So, it is sort of the triumvirant of evil. So, what is it, the axis of evil? The axis of evil. So, and the beauty of podcasts is that you can slow down or speed up on the iPod. So, if I am talking way too fast, just mess around with you. Then she can slow you down. She can slow me down if she wants. So, well, first of all, I guess I should say that ask you how you're doing. What's going on? Not much, just chilling out for the weekend, trying to relax before I go back to work on Monday. Happy day after St. Patrick Day. Yes, no hangover or anything to report, which is nice. What is your favorite drink? That was actually going to be one of my questions that I was going to ask both you and Taffy when we did our question episode last week. And I may ask her that this week when I talked to her, but if you could only have one drink, say, for like the next year, what drink do you think that would be? What cocktail would you be, partake? Pretty much the same cocktail I've had for the last year, maybe two, which is normally Diet Coke or Pepsi, preferably Pepsi, Diet Pepsi with Bacardi superior. Okay, sounds pretty good. And you? Well, mine would probably not involve rum just because when I was in college, before you actually came to college, I got really sick on Captain Morgan's spice drum and was pretty wasted. And I remember puking pretty bad. So just the smell of Captain Morgan's makes me sick. But I would have to say one of my favorite drinks would probably be something called a Raspberry lifesaver, which I have no idea what's in it. I could probably research that online and look, but it was something that I had the night I turned 21. Another night that I actually got sick and threw up. In my boyfriend at the time's brand new car, I remember puking in the Wendy's cup and pouring out the window while we were going over to Franklin Bridge. And I remember him trying to be supportive, but saying as he had his hand gently resting on my shoulder, saying in my ear, if you puke in my new car, I'm gonna have to kill you. So, but yeah, I just remember them being really good and really fruity and really sweet and making me really, really sick while listening to depression mode strange love on the video screens at Trax. So from back in the day. So did you ever make it to Trax or was Trax gone by the time you got to our school? - No, Trax is definitely around when I came to college. I was still there. It was still there for a couple of years before it became the pleasure dome. - Oh, okay. - And I was not all about the pleasure dome. - You are not all about the pleasure dome, okay? I have a funny story relating to the phrase pleasure dome, but that's something with Tappy, so I may have to have her share it. And I do my half with her. So I thought it might be fun. Maybe if we let people know a little bit about you and I and let each other know a little bit more about the type of relationship you and I have, the type of friendship you and I have. So what I was thinking of, and you didn't know I was gonna ask you this, but I would like for you to share one of your favorite stories about me and I will do the same about a time that I spent with you as well. Does that sound like that could be something we could do? - Sure, of course, I'm not very good at telling stories, but go right on ahead. - Okay, well, I would have to say actually one of the times that was probably one of my favorite times that you and I have made reference to would be a time when you and I were living together. When you told everybody last week that we were responsible for each other's nervous breakdowns, which, thank you for that, by the way. You and I were actually fighting, which I know is shocking, but fighting over something stupid and we hadn't talked for a couple of days and I decided that we needed to spend a little bit of time together and maybe get to talking. So, you were working a job where you were pretty much coming home, I wanna say like after nine o'clock at night, so I thought, what would be a good idea is for us to maybe go grab a couple of our favorite treats from the time, do you remember what their treats were? - I'm pretty sure that's something to do with the ice and the cream. - Yes, it would be the ice cream, the Ben and the Jerry's, and I thought maybe we'd go grab a couple of ice creams and maybe head down to the beach and just sort of talk things out, as I've said before, we look pretty close to the beach. But I didn't wanna tell you what that was because I was afraid it would have started something where you would have said, no, I don't wanna go and it would have started a big fight. So, you came home and we were being extra nice to each other, you were probably in a place where you were ready to sort of get over whatever it was we were fighting about, which I didn't even remember what it was. - I'm sure something about either orange dishwater or something like that. - Oh, from that, God, that chef boy or dick crap you used to eat. Okay, but I just sort of came home and I said, you know what, why don't we go out for a little while? And you said, okay, well, where are we going? And I said, well, let's a surprise. So, and this was while we were in the house that we were running at the time. So, we walk out to our cars and there's, this was in the, I guess it must have been in the spring, so a lot of people's windows were open. And I remember you asking pretty loudly, well, where is it that we're going? And I just turned to you and I said, do you remember what I said? - You just said shh. - Yes, I went shh, like that, just trying to make a joke. But what I didn't know is that you thought that I was actually going crazy at the time and I was going to take you someplace to murder you. (laughing) - So, I did not know whether you had like, when you're, 'cause you know, there's a bunch of rustling around in the kitchen and you know, silverware clang in and everything, I was convinced that you'd grabbed a knife. - Oh, because I went to grab spoon so that we had something that we could eat. Okay, I totally forgot about that part. It's my favorite story and I totally forgot. - I was absolutely convinced that you were going in there to grab a knife and that you were taking me somewhere to bury me. I was a long day. I was tired, I was cranky, you wanted to talk and I was talked out, I didn't want to talk anymore and I'm sure it had something to do with my ex-boyfriend and oh, it was, yeah. I was pretty scared the whole time that what we were driving. And so I realized where we were going. - But I remember that we went down to Passacro Beach and we had a good talk and we sort of saw a little bit more from the other ones' point of view and I think it's part of the reason why we're still friends today. That and the fact that I didn't cut your head off and buried in the sand dunes someplace. - Yeah, thanks. - So that is probably one of my favorite stories about you. Or favorite stories about you and I friendship. So how about you? What is one of your favorite memories of you and I together? - Well, actually, well, first off, let me say that I always really enjoyed our trips down to the beach and walking along the beach and being able to talk and be able to do that down Passacrille. There's no only Passacrille or St. Pete Beach that we'd go along down by. - I was really only Passacrille just because that was the only one where we could get parking. - Right, and that's down where you'd go. It was really easy to walk there. Well, not even walk there, but to drive there from college. Even though someone I know in college actually did the walk between the school and the Passacrille Beach and it took them like three, four hours. - I know somebody who did that. Actually, my roommate, freshman year, he was he had issues, I'll just leave it at that. And he wanted me to drop him off when I said he could sleep on the beach. And I just remember saying, okay, 'cause I had a car, so I drove down there and I dropped him off the beach. - The Lumina. - No, this was before the Lumina. This was the Somerset. You never saw the Buick Somerset. My candy cane car was white with a red ragtop and red interior, it was very 1986. So I remember going down there and dropping him off and just saying, you know, because I was a little enabler. So I was very like, are you sure you're gonna be okay? Is there anything I could do for you? If you need anything, call me, blah, blah, blah. And he was like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. He went to lay on a bench, one of the benches down there and the cops showed up and told him he had to leave and he had no place to go and he had no money to run a motel. So we ended up walking back, which scared the shit out of me because I think I've got the room out of myself. So I'm sleeping at three o'clock in the morning, I wake up and he's standing over me. So you can, obviously, because I am, again, the epitome of masculinity, you can imagine how well that went over. So when he just sort of told me, oh, they wouldn't let me sleep there and he wouldn't sleep. That was a fascinating story for our listeners, I'm sure, but the days of me and my psycho college roommate. But everybody's got a crazy roommate from college. Or just in general. Or if you didn't shut up. Or if you didn't have one, chances are you were one, which probably in many regards, I was also the crazy roommate in college, so. Okay, but I'm digressing, I'm sorry. So you enjoyed our walks along the beach or is that your answer? Oh, okay, so for my story, one of my favorite stories or one of my favorite memories, which wasn't so great at the time that you, me, and your roommate, Steven, this is before I moved in, we were gonna go out to dinner. Or we were just going out for a drive and we said we were gonna go out for dinner. We're wandering around like we would do several times. And I had a long day at work, again. I was tired, I was cranky, I was miserable. And you and Steven decided to start talking in letters. That was your thing at the time, is talking in letters, just saying the first initial of whatever word you were saying. So for example, if I saw a woman who was a lesbian, who was dressed in an odd manner, I would look at Steven and I would say, look at the CL. And then we would try and figure out what we meant. And then eventually it'd be like, oh, crazy lesbian. - Exactly. - Or F-B-I-G-S for fat boy and green shorts, or we would do stuff like that. Okay, so go ahead. - Right, so I'm tired, I'm cranky, I'm like my blood sugar is low and I'm just kind of zombing out at this point. And you guys are sitting in the front seat just talking about talking in letters in front of me, knowing that I have no idea what you're talking about, knowing that I have absolutely no idea. And so I'm like, you know, let's just go to Burger King, I don't care where we go, let's just anywhere, just let's eat now. And we start driving around, then you guys are know we don't want to go to M, we don't want to go to BK, we don't want to go to A. And just like, I don't care. And so that we end up, I don't care where the F we go. Just T-F-M-S, take me fucking somewhere. - So I'm just sitting in the back seat, just kind of getting more and more miserable. And so we're already probably in the road for 20 minutes. And then we decide we're gonna start heading towards the beach 'cause we didn't want Benagan's or I'm sorry, we didn't want bees and we didn't want like, you know, seas for chilies or anything like that. So we start heading towards the beach and we stop at a restaurant on the beach. And we start to go in and it's like mobbed and there's like a 45 minute wait. So we're like, no, no, we don't want to stay here. And so they pack me back up into the car, continue talking in letters, take me to another restaurant where we sit down, order drinks, and something happens where Taylor gets all upset or someone says something and he's like, nope, we can't eat here. So they drag me back out and I'm just like, just to say, let's just say, stay. And so they drag me back out and we end up at, is it hurricanes on the beach? - Yeah, the hurricane. - So we end up at the hurricane and it's like a 45 minute wait. And so we wait the 45 freaking minutes. And I just want to have Burger King an hour and a half ago. And they're talking in letters and I'm confused and I'm tired and I just want to go home. And so we finally get upstairs to eat and, you know, we have a server, it takes forever, ever, ever, ever to get our food. And finally eat, finally to feel better. And then I'm like, what the hell is up with the letters thing? And then you guys won't tell me. (laughing) So it was fun 'cause you didn't know. I actually remember trying to leave the hurricane. I think I remember saying something like, oh, you know what, maybe we don't have enough money to get here. And you, if I remember correctly, backed me into a corner and said, I don't care if we have to dine into ash, we're eating in this fucking place because I can't take not eating anymore and I can't take the fucking letter thing. (laughing) Which then told me that you didn't know about the letter thing, which meant, okay, this means we have to have fun with this. I think it was a while before we explained you what the letter thing was. - I don't think you guys ever really explained to me what the letter thing was. I think when I was in Massachusetts with Stephen that he finally told me what the letter thing was. - Okay. - But by that point, everyone had graduated into doing the whole six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing. So he'd be sitting in a car with his friends from Boston or from Massachusetts and being like, okay, so how does Grace Kelly fit in with Fred Astaire? You know, it'd be like six degrees of Kevin Bacon. - Okay. - So, yeah, and so I was just confused. They could've just been talking in letters because I like movies and I'm a huge lover of popcorn movies and TV shows, but heaven forbid, I remember a single musician or actor's name to save my life. - Because who did this song before? - Anita Baker. - That's right. Pretty much any time that I ask, if either there's a song on the radio and I know the lyrics or I know who sang it and I ask, who is this that's singing the song? His stock answer is always, I need a baker. - And why is that? - Because four or five songs in a row, I'd say, do you know who this is? And he would say no, and I would say I need a baker because it just so happened to be a need a baker. So now he just figures that the process of elimination or the probability is on his side that if he just keeps answering a need a baker, eventually he will be right. - I will be right. And that's what just told me to say. So I am always gonna say need a baker, period. - Okay. - There you go. - Exclamation point. - Exclamation point, all right. Well, thank you very much for listening. This is Taylor the Latte boy. - And Rodin. - If you wanna get in contact with us, you can email us at podasmycopilot@gmail.com or you can also send us a comment on our blogs. If you're listening to us through iTunes, please, please, please leave us a comment or a review rather and give us five stars. We would really appreciate that. Also, we have a MySpace page now and the MySpace page is? - MySpace.com/podismycopilot. - That's right. We don't have any friends yet. We did have one request for a friend, but as I said in the previous podcast, it was just some who are trying to guess what kind of webcam. So we opted to decline, you know, Tiffany or Summer or whatever her name was. - Or Ambien or something. It's the one I just got today. - Yeah, Ambien. So this is Taylor the Latte boy. - And Rodin. - Thank you very much for listening and we'll see you next week. Bye-bye. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)