Being a Good Audience Member

Welcome to the Drama, mama. Yay. I'm Kristen. I'm Angela. I'm Kathy. And that's the first time we've ever done that at the start of a show. I know, I know. I think we're getting the hint it girls. That's super weird. We're gonna fuck it up from every point on. Like Yeah. Just saying how it goes. Don't mess that up.

We don't need that out in the universe. Juju out in the universe. Yeah.

Aw. So shout out to Tyler Campbell because he does not get enough recognition for what he does. I know. I shouted out to him last night. I know you did. I'm pretty sure everybody heard me. I'm pretty sure they did too. Yeah. Hopefully he heard you because he deserves it. Well, he played every single piece for the solos, I think.

Yeah. And he created those medleys. Yes. Yeah. Like to tie everything together. Yes. He created these. Yes. I thought that was so neat. So last night, for anybody that's watching this kind of just back up a touch, but was the, uh, musical theater showcase. Mm-hmm. Which was for all of musical theater. Yes. Right. So all of the students were there.

Mm-hmm. And they performed in, um, kind of a hodgepodge of groups, like, or groupings mm-hmm. And put together a whole, like two act show mm-hmm. Where the first act was the underclassmen and the well juniors down anyway. Right? Mm-hmm. I, is that still underclassmen, is that still the right term, I think, or is, or is that junior and senior upper?

I feel like they're upper. I think you're probably right. Don't quote me on that. We're not sure because anyway, you know, freshman and sophomore? Sophomore and juniors were act one. Yes. Yeah. And they had, um, a medley of mm-hmm. Five chosen from their solo juries and then one solo and a group number. For each class.

For each class, yes. It was great. And this was at Harrison? Mm-hmm. School arts. And then the second act was all seniors. Oh my God. And I mean, they all really rocked the show. I got like a voicemail. Can I give you, oh, can you reply to this Chris? Amazon's trying to deliver us something apparently. So if you can just, uh, help 'em out.

Um, see I'm not recording on my phone, so I actually knew something happened. This is the problem. Yeah. But I like the camera better. Um, but yeah, like, I don't know what I was saying just then about the seniors. The seniors, yes. Yeah, the seniors. I mean, they just killed it last night and I, you know, it's gotta be hard for them cuz this is the last time they're gonna be doing a performance, uh, on Harrison stage.

Yeah, well, presumably anyway. I mean, maybe they get called back, like, right. Um, was it Darius? No. No. Something Quentin? No, no. That guy. Who came back and sang. Yeah. And who was amazed? The guy that came back and sang, come back and do Cameo as a guest. Yeah. Chris is, was trying to get him as a guest so he knows the name I think.

But yeah, I have him busy at the moment. So anyway, but yeah, the last time I was talking to, um, one of the moms mm-hmm. And she was like, we're just, we were game planning, like you just gotta hold it together. This is just another show, like any other show and you can lose it on the last song. Mm-hmm. Like just hold it together until you get to the last song.

And I thought, oh gosh, I don't know how you even make it that far. Yeah. Yeah. I was losing it start a second act because I knew what was coming, like their lash up. Well, and they did that second to last piece. Oh gosh, yes. That was an original, like, original piece by one of the seniors. Mm-hmm. Beautiful. And.

So talented. Yeah. She played the piano. She played the piano and it was gorgeous. Yeah. And I'm a huge fan of hers. Yeah. Oh, I know. Well she's so talented. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, I have loved watching her on the stage and then her putting that piece together for everybody and they all got to say, you know, stuff that was important to them mm-hmm.

That theyve pulled out of this mm-hmm. Experience at Harrison. And I just thought, oh my God. And I think there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Mm-hmm. Yeah. One of the lines that was really kind of hit me was when they were talking about how everybody has a chance to shine. Mm-hmm. Yes. You know? And I was like, oh.

And they different times, said a couple times. Yes. And I was like, ah, well last night was so nice cuz there's my heart kids. Probably 50% of the kids there I have worked with at either at the middle school or at L C T or at Theater Winter Haven. But you don't always get to hear them because they don't have a lead role.

They're ensemble. Right, right. And last night we got to hear so many kids that we don't normally get to hear singing solos. And I was blown away. Yeah, totally know. Yeah. I felt the same way. I kept telling myself, well, of course Kathy, they're here. Yeah. They're, they got into Harrison, so clearly they're talented.

Yeah. You know? Yeah. And was like, oh, they have that opportunity to just What an amazing gift that that school is to our community. Totally. And to the kids. Yeah. Yeah. But, and Stella's song was hilarious. I was laughing so hard. That is a funny song. It's such a cute song. Yes, yes. It is a cute song. And the way they pieced it together.

Yeah. How Tyler did. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. So that, that was the reason I wanted to shout out to Tyler, cuz they kind of gave him a little nod, but he played every piece flawlessly. And to make those medleys, you know, seem together like that. I, that's. He did a lot of work. So, because if you look at the songs, you'd be like, okay, they don't have anything to do with anybody, you know, like or each other.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. They're completely opposite. One's a valid one's fast, you know, this is about the Pirates of Penzance and this one's, I don't know, I don't even remember what else exactly. Like how do you even begin to put those together? But he did. He did. It was amazing. So good job. Did all work It all work.

Yep. And we got to go see, um, some of the little kids at their elementary. Oh, right. Uh, Sical kids. Oh yeah. I wanna hear about that. We weren't able to cook. So cute. It was absolutely adorable. Oh yeah. It was, it was great. Um, you know, some of the kids we knew. Yeah. So you kind of have an expectation. Mm-hmm.

You know how they're gonna do. And they did not, they did not miss on that at all. It was awesome. Yeah. Um, lots of energy, lots of laughs. It was just the good little show. I, I thought the interesting part was, so you have like iCal and then you have like a junior adaptation. I didn't realize they also did like kid adaptations, so it's even more slim down than a junior.

So they dropped some of the songs and they piece in dialogue where it's important to tie the story together. Mm-hmm. Okay. Missing. I don't think there's really any dialogue in that. It's, yeah, it's just music, music, music the whole way through. So, um, yeah, that was kind of interesting. Mm-hmm. And unexpected, I was like, mm-hmm.

Oh, interesting. So that's how they're gonna move this along. Yeah. And so you go from, you know, normal two, two and a half hour performance of mm-hmm. A main show. And then the juniors, it's like an hour and 15 probably. Yeah, a little over an hour usually for most of those. Mm-hmm. And then, this was probably 45 minutes, I think it was like 41.

Yeah. Somewhere around in there. I kind of was tracking it. Yeah. It, it went really fast. Weren't really left the entire time. Yeah. Oh, of course. Like laugh. It was, I'm laughing. It was so cute. The crazy part is that elementary school, Scott Lake Elementary has never done a theater perform before. This is their first one.

And they killed it. Yeah. They totally knocked it outta the park. Mm-hmm. Oh, that's great. Why? I thought they keep doing 'em. Yeah. Yeah. This, like, they, they had like the one fish, two fish, Redfish, bluefish come out. Yes, yes. And the kids that brought those out. And when they came out, I sat next to Laura, and you know how she is, she's very grabby when we, um, you know, are watching performances.

Mm-hmm. And she doesn't care who you are that's sitting beside her. You're getting, you're getting that, you're getting hit, you're getting grabbed and all of that. Um, which, you know, I don't mind. Yeah. It's part of the show. And I did it back to her. So when they came out, they, they, they were flawless. Like they looked exactly like, I don't know how they did it or how, who did their props and stuff.

I feel like you asked at some point who did their props. No, no. Wasn't me. Okay. Maybe it was Laura, maybe so, yeah. So, um, I think they already sought them from somebody. Yes. Yes. I was there when it happened. The question was asked, but it's not me. But, but, uh, I mean, they were really, really good. They were really well done.

They looked spot on. Yeah. And uh, they came out and then out comes the shark with them. And the shark was like, it didn't match at all. It was completely different artwork style. And it came out and that's when I hit Laura. I was like, oh my God, the shark. She's like, what? And I was like, watch for the shark.

Cuz they had disappeared at that point. Right. And then they brought him back out again. And I was like, look at the shark. He's dying. I didn't even notice it. Really. I was too busy watching the kid whose fish had like a little broken arm or something and he was like trying to hold that at fish name open.

Yeah. And they, they had a kid that came out with his para and I love that. Inclusion. That's amazing. Yeah. And they used the court, it was at their course department. Right. Thinking so yeah. To, to help kind of be ensemble singers as well to help kind of bolster everything. Like there was a lot of kids able to be included in that.

Mm-hmm. Because you know, they found a way and it just really made a really good show. And I know that's a lot of work for those teachers, but they did a great job. They really did. That was, yeah. And the cos students were great. All above and beyond, I'm sure. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. You got, Aw, I'm sorry.

Busy weeks coming up. We have frozen, I know. This week and out of the box right outta the box. And next week is Mary. The week after is Mary Poppins. Yes. Yes. Gabby's got Tech week coming up. This next little bit's gonna be pretty busy. A little bumpy. We are, we are. Yeah. Peach and I were doing our calendar today cuz he's doing Orson, so he's right.

Gonna be in there. Also. That too, too. Yeah. We got, yeah, we all got that too. And I'm like, okay, so the dogs are gonna the groomers tomorrow. How are we making that happen? Drop off and pickup. You need a mobile and just give them a passcode into the house. Like good luck. Exactly. And good luck. I know the dogs would be like, ah.

But anyway, I don't know. They don't bark like that. They do not. No. They're big bark. A little bit louder than that. Like every goes in there now. Sit, stay here. Oh, that's the dogs. Yeah. They tell them, they're like, don't you go anywhere? Don't move. Just right at their height. So they're like, we're gonna bust you around.

I know. Gosh, they're wacko those boys. We through. Yeah. Mm-hmm. We love 'em. So yeah. You know, part of the jam. Oh, before we, uh, leave today? Yeah. Let me show you the dress in person. Oh yeah. Because you're up here. Oh, yes, yes. Do you think you can try it on for us? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe if I ask her. Nice.

Maybe, yeah. Maybe. Mm-hmm. But, uh, it just depends. I don't know if she's really up and, you know. Yeah, I hear you, Adam today. Right? Okay. She's very particular about that. Yes. Okay. Yeah. No problem. Yeah, she's a teenager. We'll see how it goes. At the very least. We'll get to see it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But it's really cool.

And there's Cape, so like, there's Cape and there's the, oh, is it Coronation dress? Mm-hmm. And then there's the, you know, let it go Dress. Oh, I you're talking about that dress. I was talking about that. Oh, then there's that dress. Then there's that dress. Oh, she's not gonna try that one on for you. Oh, yeah.

You, you might, you might get the el, the one's not about the Elsa dress. Yeah. Yeah. That's okay. No, I wanna see that one too. You're talking about the eighth grade? Yes. Yes. The eighth grade dress. Yes. Yeah. It's a pretty dress. Yes. When I saw it on the hangar, I was like, oh my gosh, this is so pretty. And I thought she wouldn't even try it on.

Go for it. Right. Yeah. But she surprised me. She kind of made a motion that she might like it. Yeah. So then I was like, that's the first might like it that we had had in the whole mall. And we had been all over at that point looking for an eighth grade dance dress. Dear gosh, they all looked like a grandma's curtain.

Like it was not good. Grandma's curtain, grandma's dress, it's a so boho style and floral is like really in huge right now, style right now. And Flor didn't want that. Ashley Floral, you probably don't even know what that is. I don't really know what that is. Laura Floral? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Or like curtain floral, like she's saying.

Well, I don't know that they were cur and bad, but yeah, they were probably closer to that than anything else. Big flowers, right? We're not talking Lily Pulitzer. It's not flowers like this. Even like it was just lots and yeah. Mm-hmm. And the bejo bes everywhere sort of, yeah. Yeah. But like, you know, lots of ruffles jeans or really poofy like long, but see-through sleeves and that kind of thing.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Its like the eighties might be coming back. It does feel well, I feel like it's like late seventies. It's eighties and nineties, like right now. That's kind what you see everywhere. Eighties and nineties. Yeah, it's weird. Eighties wasn't a good, I mean, she got a record. We did break down. I don't know if I told you, we didn't get the record player.

Okay. Yeah, we did kind of talk about that. Yeah. I don't know. A little while ago. Couple podcasts and I was, I'm not doing it. I'm such a sucker. Yeah. So what record did you get? Albums she has two or three. You have three? Three. Three. Now what ones are they? I can write them. Yeah, bring 'em. Yeah. So let's see.

Let's see. Two artists. Mm-hmm. Three records. Okay. But one of them just came out and that was what started all of this. Got it. And she just had to have this one. And then I guess it's like a whole thing now. So they release records, but like, you know, like the vinyl records. Mm-hmm. And then they'll, they'll do like themes.

So some of the, like you can only get this one at Target and you can only get this one at Walmart. Wow. And they're like different colors or one is see through or whatever. It's the same music. Right. They're making it like a whole different marketing thing. Don't break 'em. See, now you gotta worry about breaking them melting.

You know what's so funny? She's like, oh, Billy Eilish. And it's whatever curtain. And then now she's got the to coming back. Show that to the camera. So the camera. See. Oh, that is so cool. Isn't it neat? Yeah, that is, it's like tied is cute. Yeah. And which one is that? So that, that was like Blood something or whatever.

Bloodshot. That's the bloodshot version of this album. Oh wow. That's cool. Of portals. Is that, I don't know the name of the artist or is that the name of the album? So it's the name of this edition of the album. The album is portals. Bloodshot is the addition like the special edition? Oh, this is all Billy Eilish?

No, this one is Billy Eilish. Oh, okay. This is, what is her name? Melanie Martinez. Melanie Martinez. Martinez, okay. Never heard of her. I don't know her. Yeah. Yeah. So we have two Melanie Martinez's. Oh my gosh. This is an older one. Gosh, after school. Ep. Wow. Okay. There's not anything special with this one. I don't think it's just an album.

Why is it? I remember getting records. Look at the back though. Like, is that creepy? That is. Oh yeah. Look at her. That's creepy. That was maybe my eyes and I couldn't see it at all. I feel like that looks creepy. It's her eyes. Her eyes are weird on that. I know. Like weird teeth. And then, um, this was like the first one she bought.

This is Billy Eilish. Nice. Gotcha. See I was right. Little collection. Maybe these are coming back. Yeah. I guess that's more like the full force way before the eighties. But yeah, I feel like it's like a seventies vibe going on right now. Mm-hmm. With the, yeah. Teens and the, well, and I, I, I've seen now, uh, cassette players like Walkmans, like, oh gosh.

We used to have when we were, well, when I was kid. Eighties. Yeah. Yeah. Those in the, and the cassette tapes too. Come back boombox. It's so strange. You gotta carry it down the street. Uhhuh, it weighs like 30 pounds. Uhhuh. Yeah. But it'll be Bluetooth. Yeah, exactly. You're right. I'm just saying. Oh my God.

That's what that one is too. So this, it has a speaker built into it. It's kind of crappy. Right. But she, she bought that because it had like a very particular vibe, like appearance wise. Like aesthetically? Yes. Okay. Aesthetically. Okay. Okay. That makes, so she got the player that she got for that, but it's not got a good speaker in it, but it's Bluetooth so you can hook up a good speaker to it.

Mm-hmm. Gotcha. So she has another shitty speaker that she bluetooths to that. But she's just compound this slightly better. Slightly better. Yeah. Slightly less shitty. Yeah. It's okay. Yeah. Well anyway. And it makes her happy. Yeah. She's always playing her music in there. Oh yeah. There you go. She's got a whole thing going.

She we're getting new desks, so, um, that desk that you see over there is gonna go into her room. Mm-hmm. So, and she's already rearranged. She did that last weekend. Okay. Rearranged her whole bedroom. She's ready to accept the desk. Okay. When ours coming, come in coming. But we wanted to do the sit up stand or sitting in standing desks.

Yeah, those are great. We're gonna put one in our bedroom for Chris, and then one in here. Nice. Okay. Yeah, I was like, I was gonna order those, um, treadmills that you can like walk on while you work. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Did you see that? But down to the gym in the morning and walking on the treadmill down there to just kinda get the day going.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Get our metabolism going for the day. And, um, I can't like listen to my audiobook and walk on that and not like bounce back and forth between the thing, the arm thing. That's a problem. Yeah. So, and the, the ones that you put underneath the desk don't have anything. They're just, they're just, yeah.

The foot part. I've never even seen that. It's just a platform. Oh really? I'll send you a link to one just so you can see it. But yeah, I, I was like, well, this would be really cool, but I can't, there's no way I can do this and work. They're like, I'm gonna die. They're like this long. They're not very long.

Yeah. They're just long enough. Really walk on Have to off the bat. Yeah, you have to keep up with it. Oh, wow. It's like a conveyor belt. Well, most of 'em, most of 'em, they, they, they're powered by your movement. Okay. So you that make it move. Okay. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Why? But that also means you're getting some resistance when you walk on it too, but, right, yeah.

True, true. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Listen, I was, I was rethinking it like recently cause I was like, if I can't even, like, I'm walking on it and I'm doing nothing but listening to an audiobook and, and just walking on the treadmill and I just, I ping pong back of, I can't seem to walk in a straight fucking line.

I don't know what's wrong with me. When I used to run inside on treadmill, I would get the large print edition books from the library and stick it on there and run and read my book. How, I don't know, like you're, that's why I got the large print and I used to have good vision, so yeah, you didn't need to strap on that regardless.

Treadmill or not, I don't know. I think walking and working is just a little too much. Standing and working is kind of my limit anyway. Yeah, yeah. You know. Well, I was looking at these like my foot massager, like special stools that are like, they're called active seating uhhuh, so you're not meant to sit at your desk all day and then so you, you, but you do sit some, you'll wanna sit some when you're working.

Right. And instead of having like a chair, you actually get like more of an active seating. So when people sit on the exercise ball mm-hmm. And try to work, that's an active seat because you're having to kind of balance and move and stuff. Good for your core, there's actually like a stool that's like that.

Mm-hmm. Huh. But they like jack the price of these things up. So they're obscene. It's, it's a stool that's like a, got a spring to it and it, and it moves, it pivots uhhuh some, so it kind of articulates this way and you can kind of move around on it, you know? Yeah. It's like generates $800. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

It's freaking ridiculous. Ridiculous. That's just, go buy a yoga ball at Marshalls. Yeah. Max has lemon. I need an ano one, cuz I'm gonna pop one of those. If I get on one of those, I'm gonna sit my fat ass on it and it's just gonna pop. And I'm gonna hit before and my tailbones gonna break. Yeah. And then we're gonna have a whole nother issue.

Maybe I don't need to break my butt.

Oh, I never can't cast this for like, you know, eight. It's important not to break it. Yeah, you can't. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, and that's painful. You're sitting on a damn donut for two weeks.

Yeah.

You know what I'm talking about? Yes. We had, we had a plan. Yes, we have a plan. I know we've deviated a lot. That's okay. That's all right. We scrolled. It's okay. It happened. Yeah. So I told you my story at MJ with Sylvia and her friends behind me talking. Oh my gosh. Time. Oh, how about that lady last night with the phone.

This is what I'm talking about. There is nobody has etiquette when they go to the theater. Any performance at all? I mean, like, it's literally not exclusive to theater. No. We went to the dance concert at the middle school that Lily Kate was in and. Behind me was a mom who talked to her four kids the entire time.

And a good portion of it was criticizing the dancers on the stage and telling the kids what they were doing wrong. Awesome. Seriously lovely. Like, yeah, because you're gonna get up there and do it, right? Right. No, she was mom doing any dancing. And then in front of us were four teenagers who clearly had friends in the show who were so loud and obnoxious.

I had to move at halftime. Mm mm Because I like, I can't. Halftime pressure. I love that. We've all adopted my halftime thing now, like I'm an athlete. It's always gonna be halftime. Yes. Yeah. Time. So we moved, and guess who came and sat down right behind us, the four teenagers. No, seriously. So at one point Stella turned around and went, sh.

And the girl goes, oh, I know you didn't just turn around and shush me. And they were so rude. It was unbelievable. Seriously. Yeah. Like, girl, how did, did you keep it together as a mom? I don't know. I should not be like, yeah. Um, and like try to make it about lily cake. Let me her try to focus on her. This is not, you know, stop listening to the, the chat.

It's hard. It's hard. Tune that shit out though. Yeah. Once you hear it, it's hard to un unhear it. Yeah. And you just, especially when it keeps going. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like we need to do a little theater etiquette lesson because Yeah. Unfortunately the people that need the etiquette are not the people listening to this podcast.

No. But if you know someone. That does not know this etiquette. Just share. We'll make a little clip. Yeah, we'll make a little clip of like, yes. Some of these most common ones. Yes. And just share it with them because mm-hmm. I'm super over it too. Well, and I think it's important for, it's disrespectful the kids who are in doing theater to hear it.

Because like we're experiencing now, we're going to all these different shows of all our different friends and we're part of the audience, so all, everyone needs to learn it. Mm-hmm. And unfortunately, you, it used to be, you thought it was the kids who were gonna misbehave. No. There is no age discrimination on rudeness.

No, there isn't. Unfortunately, there's no expiration date on it either. I'm just shocked by it. And so I'm like, we gotta do something. But then as I'm researching, I realize there's a whole, there's a difference between theater, like attending the theater etiquette, and then there's a whole lot of stuff on when you're an actor, here's the etiquette.

That you should be doing right during rehearsals and during shows. So I thought we could split into two different parts. Okay, perfect. Let's start with this, because I have several shows to go to this weekend. I'm gonna be teed off if my kid is up there singing and somebody's talking behind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. For real. So where should, so what's the even important one? Well, what do you think, what do you think is, turn your fucking phone off. Turn right. Fine. I'll give a verbal person. Yes. Tell about the person last night. Well, I'll give us a, a better sound bite for that. So the very first, most important one is turn off your phone Right.

At this point. Not in silent. You're there to enjoy the performance and so is everybody else around you? Yes. Just turn it off. Yeah. Mm-hmm. They're doing, most of the time they're doing a recording anyway and they're gonna have pictures anyway. Mm-hmm. So like just sit back and enjoy. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Be the, nobody wants to watch the performance through your phone.

Yeah. Nobody wants to hear your ringtone or light up. That's very distracting when start. Also that you're very right on that. Oh yeah. And then same thing with an Apple watch right now as we're recording. Yeah. Turn that thing off, Kathy. Geez. So rude. Well, I'm, I'm feeling on silent. Sorry. I can feel it.

Here's an example of what you shouldn't do in teaching. You give examples a non-example. Yeah. This, that was a non example of this is what you don't want. Y'all probably wouldn't know. I could just feel it going. Oh, I heard it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like I can feel it vibrating on my butt. But imagine. Okay, so everybody who lives in Florida experienced this last week at 4 47.

Oh my God. The alert? Yes. Am am at the butt crack. Before dawn, an alert went off. Yes. Sounded like an amber alert, but it was a emergency broadcast system test. Yes, just a test. When I looked at my phone and I read just a test test, I saw the word test. Yeah. I was, I was lid. Yeah. Yeah. I was not fully awake, but I was cussing.

Oh. I think my heart chest, like I can't go back to sleep if you don't shut up. I was so mad though. But imagine if that had happened Yeah. During a performance. Yeah. Every single phone in that room would've gone off. Yeah. Because my phone was on silent. I keep it on silent when I sleep, but it the alarm.

Mm-hmm. The alert still goes through, so turn your phone all the way off, because at some theaters, even it will interfere with their sound system. Well, that's smaller. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I think, um, it was right after that had happened. It was like the next day we had Mikayla's or orchestra concert. Mm-hmm.

And, um, the principal comes out and does his spiel about turn your phone off and all of that. Mm-hmm. And, um, it wa he mentioned that he was like, if we get another test, you will interrupt. And the thing is, at that rec, at that performance, they actually record it. They have professional mics up there to capture all of that orchestral beautiful music.

And then we purchase that as parents or grandparents or whatever, you know, you can purchase a recording of that. And I always do that. That's so cool. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You don't want somebody's cell phone in the background. Right? Yeah. And there was a guy that let his phone ring fully out. Oh. That kills him fully out.

And then last night at, at last night's performance, that lady kept getting text messages and she had it. It on, like it was just full blast ding. Every time a text would come in and it would light up and she would look at it like, really? Where she sitting? And then it rang at one point she was right in front of me.

Okay. And it rang at one point and she just kind of looked at it and let it keep ringing. And she's looking at him like, bitch, turn it off. Turn it off. It's common sense. I don't understand it, but clearly it's not, as a society, we're not getting this concept. And, you know, to the age point, I mean, she was probably in her seventies or eighties, she was older.

And you know, she's just not a care in the world. I, I know there's an age, which you, it's the, I don't give a fuck about anybody else's age. I'm it, I'm gonna do what I wanna do. Yeah. Pretty much. And, and we see that a lot right there. Yeah. I mean, there's plenty of older people that I know reach that age, and they're just, Take care of it.

Yeah. Yeah. And maybe that's her. I don't really know this lady, but yeah, like seriously, it's not like not everything is about you or what's convenient to you, like have a little courtesy for those around you. Mm-hmm. We all paid for this performance. Mm-hmm. And it didn't include your cell phone. Yeah.

Surprisingly enough. Surprisingly, exactly. Oh, it's unbelievable. Yeah. Really. I'm texting, you know, back and forth. It's just, please. Well, and another thing that I saw as I was researching is don't use your phone flashlight to look in the program in the middle of the show. So all of a sudden, you know, somebody did that.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. I almost did it. And then I remember, oh wait, don't do that. Oh yeah. No, don't I read about that? Wait until like the lights come up and then I'm like, oh, okay. You know, like when they switch scenes or something. Well, and I know when we've worked backstage, the kids get really upset when they come.

You know back when they've been on the stage. Mm-hmm. And they come back in the wings and they're like, they have their phone out, they're on their phone. They notice that stuff and it's distracting to them. Yeah. Cause they can see it. Right. You know, it's kind of interesting cuz like having been on the stage, right?

Mm-hmm. When you look out in the audience, well you guys did this with bumbled, would you, when you looked out in the audience, could you really tell what you were looking at out there and you really can't. Mm-hmm. But you do see this, your phone, weird phone reflection mm-hmm. Off of, I, I guess it's like this part, so you can always tell Yeah.

When somebody's out there recording because you can see that it, everything else is kind of just like a black blob almost. You know, that you see heads, but like, you're not seeing like features, but that stands out. Mm-hmm. Surprisingly. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it does. That's why they know when people are doing inappropriate things with their phone.

Yeah. When they're recording or when they're taking pictures, like Right. Yeah, you can, and I hate having to be the bad guy. Mm-hmm. You know, to go out there in the audience after the end of the show and be like, Hey, I'm sorry. Mm-hmm. But the reality is a lot of these productions, not all of them, but a lot of these productions only give a certain type of Right.

For that kind of thing. Mm-hmm. Like for instance, when we went and saw iCal over at Scott Lake, they said, Hey, at the beginning of the performance, same kind of rigamarole we are us usually hearing, which is don't use your phones. Right. Well, no pictures, no videos. They don't have the rights for that. They purchase rights enough to do their own version of it, which they are allowed to share to parents.

And, you know, whatever that have kids in the show, that's what they're allowed to do. They're not allowed to put it out for the public. Mm-hmm. Right. They're not, they're not allowed for you to put it out for the public. Mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm. Um, but everybody has like different rights when they purchase that and a violation of those rights.

Can be very costly for the theater. Oh, I'm talking a quarter of a million dollars. I've heard that. Mm-hmm. I've missed it. Um, I don't know if that's always the case. It can be up to Yeah. Right. You know, but it's, that can shut a little community theater, for example, down. Mm-hmm. Right. Like they're not, they're not rolling in the dough.

They are a nonprofit organization. Yeah. Yeah. They're not sitting there ready to accept a 250 million, you know, lawsuit for violation of their rights and, you know, whatever show it was that you filmed. Exactly. You felt like you didn't need to follow the rules. Right. Yeah. Well, yeah. That's, that's a whole nother Yeah.

I mean, that kind of goes right into the next iteration of tech because it's not just your phones now. Mm-hmm. You can get the smart glasses. Right. Um, and like Ray Band stories mm-hmm. It automatically, um, will take whatever you've recorded and it, it posted immediately to Facebook. Oh, wow. Like it'll handle that.

Oh geez. That's so dangerous. And yeah. And so not only did you record it illegally Yeah. But you went ahead and edit it, auto posted it, shared to it. Yeah. And a lot of people don't understand, like they'll buy this tech because it's cool or it's, you know, kitchy or whatever, but they don't fully understand what, how it works.

Mm-hmm. And by default, that's how it works, because it's Ray Band paired with Facebook. Mm-hmm. And so Facebook was like, have it automatically post their stuff over here. Wow. That's crazy. Well, okay, cool. So by default people buy this, they record something fun, and now it's up and it's on the internet.

Mm-hmm. And you know, we, there's a whole rabbit hole of stuff that that goes with, but in regards to the theater mm-hmm. And those rights, that's very scary. Yeah. That's, and you don't, they're not easily recognizable as that kind of device. Some of them have a little light Yes. But not all of them. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Most of them probably have a light. Geez. What All it takes is a little bit of black gaff tape. Right. And now the light is gone. Bye-bye. It just looks like a pair of glasses. Like the, looks like a pair. Yeah. Yeah. Just looks like a pair of glasses. Nobody would know. Goodness gracious. Yeah. All right.

So you guys could just turn your phones off. That would be great. Yeah. Don't text. Don't take a call in the middle of it. Yeah. Don't, don't record, don't record, blah, blah, blah. That's a good deal. Yep. All right. Let's talk about what to do during the show. Uh, don't wear a hat or have your hair up on top of your head.

I think I sat behind Marge Simpson the other night because Marge hair about a foot up. People can't see over that. Right. Just think about it. Before you leave the house, just take your hair down outta your bun. Take your hat off. I notice in New York a lot of people had hats on cuz it's cold outside. Hmm.

Yeah. But that affects. People being able to see if you're super tall, like we have a friend who's six seven and he always gets a seat on the aisle so that he can kind of lean out and not be in the way. So just, you know, be mindful, be mindful night of your body. Right? Yeah. I try to, I try to slouch. Mm-hmm.

So I'm down a little bit. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well one of the things I read said, don't lean forward because it creates this domino effect. Cuz then the person behind you has to lean forward to see over you. And I think this was more like the Broadway theaters that have kind of the steep slope. Yeah. They they're really steep.

Yeah. That, um, it's then everybody's trying to lean forward to see over you. So just, well that's kind of interesting too, if you think about perspective, people lean forward, they think they're actually getting out of the way, but you're getting more in the way. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah. Into the visual.

Yeah. Yeah. Just not something they think about. Wear deodorant, but don't wear strong perfume or cologne. Oh gosh. I sat next or behind somebody, I think it was Mulan Rouge. His cologne was so strong. It was, I it was having a hard time breathing. I was like, oh my gosh. And you know how you think, okay, I'll get used to it in a minute.

Sensory. We adaptation. I'll not notice it anymore. No, I kept noticing it. The whole show. So it was there just, yeah. Used the deodorant. That's good. Just don't, I reached out. I'm like, yeah. Oh gosh. I can smell it on you. Like, that's just bad. Yeah. When you can smell it. Yeah. You know the, the whole rule, if you can smell it on yourself, it's too much.

Oh, it's bad news. Yeah. You're not supposed to be able to smell it on yourself. Yeah. So yeah. Personal hygiene is a must. Definitely change underwear. Put your daughter not Yeah. Bathe, occasionally bathe, wash your hair, do all those things. I feel like I'm for the world there. I know. It's really not. Make it like a night out at the theater is a, is a fancy thing.

Yeah. Yes. At least get dressed. Yep. I have one to throw in the mix. Okay. Um, cuz it bothers me as a musician, but every time we go to a musical concert where there is a conductor mm-hmm. If their arms are still up, that piece is not done. There may be movements. Oh yeah. There may be separation. People may have to turn their page if his arms are still up.

You do not fucking clap. Do not clap. I didn't know that. I'm glad you said that. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even know that. I wish. Yeah. Like when, when you start going to band concerts for your kid in sixth grade. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. They usually cover it then. But they never cover it again. And I've been to a lot of orchestra concerts.

Yeah. They covered, well maybe they don't do it in orchestra cuz you did strings and maybe band is different and they, but they do cover it still. Mm-hmm. Um, they did with Mikayla anyway, and they did when I was in school. It's, you know, but it's early in, they expect you as a parent to have learned that in sixth grade with your sixth grader.

Right. So they don't usually cover it again. I wish they did before every performance. Yeah. They probably need to. But it, it's refresh that. Yeah. It's irritating. And of course, you know, that's in the recording now. Yeah. Well, people clap em and that happened last night. Somebody had a song and then it had a pause.

I can't remember now, which one it was. And we all started clapping and all of a sudden they started singing again. So it, sometimes it's hard to tell Yeah. When they're not done. But with the conductor, that's pretty obvious. Yeah. That's a good, yeah. Yeah. With the conductor you can always come. Yeah. Arms are up.

That's it. Mm-hmm. Wait for it. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I don't know how you tell if there's not one like. Yeah, like what your example is? I don't know. Just give it a second, I guess. Maybe like, let it rest. Yeah, just let, let it rest. Let it ruminate for a second. Yeah. It's like a fine wine. It is Just, just breathe though, because you're like, I want them to know I loved what they did.

I know. Like, I know That's gotta feel weird, like, well that's kind of, you know, theater. Like when I first started going to like theatrical productions mm-hmm. I was surprised at how vocal people were because in my experience up until that point, it was, you go in and you sit and you wait and you clap. The end period, like the rest of that show you are quiet.

And we've done all of this stuff with the community theater and that isn't, that isn't how it's supposed to be. Mm-hmm. I think there's interactive within reason. Yeah. Right. They don't want you to go like crazy, but they do. There's feed off that energy. The actors feed off that energy. Yeah. Absolutely on the stage.

Did you have that one on your list? Well, yeah. About when to applaud. Yeah. So with Broadway, our bigger shows like tours, when a high profile actor comes on stage the first time, it's appropriate to applaud. Like I think we in Mullan Rouge we did that. Yeah. Um, in a musical, when the number, when a musical number is over applaud at the end of a scene when there's a blackout, that's when you applaud.

I think that's sometimes where it gets a little like, yeah, maybe you stand there with your hands are like, do I, what do I do? Yeah. So it's a blackout, you know, you applaud the scene is over. Let's move on to the next one. Sometimes though, there are like powerful moments and you hear that excitement. It, you can feel it.

The energy in the audience even. Yeah. Especially with comedy, right? Yes. Definitely. ORIC timing, you're like, or the music, you're laughing. Mm-hmm. Someone is hitting that like crazy note or whatever. You're like, yes. That happened a few times last night. You did? Yeah. I'm pretty sure I did that myself and that's okay.

Oh, for sure. Yeah. It's not appropriate to call your friend's name out, though, in that instance. Yes. That was one of the things that was happening at the dance concert. They were like, and the instructor at the beginning even said, please don't, if you see your friend up here, please don't call out their name.

That's distracting to them and everybody else. Mm-hmm. They didn't care. They were screaming it out over and over again. And there's been times at, at Lakeland Community Theater at Winterhaven, where friends are in the audience and they up a little too enthusiastically, you know, they get a little overboard.

I've probably fall into that group a little bit, but yeah. When Chris came out as Bumble, right? Yeah. Yeah. That table. Hey, you know. All right. Standing ovation. This is a very controversial subject, apparently. Really, I wanted to stand last night a couple times. Yeah. And I was like, do I do it? Do I not do it like after a, after like a scene or whatever?

Yeah. Because it was so good. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. Well the, the idea behind it is you're highly moved by something felt it was extraordinary. Standing ovation is appropriate. Yeah. It was funny cuz I've reading all these different websites and the Brits think Americans, um, oh, they think we're to, we get medals for everything we get.

Oh. So we're just too giving with the standing novation doesn't mean anything because we just give 'em out to anybody. Oh, okay. I disagree because I learned somewhere. So I think it was Debbie Morgan was teaching the kids and she said, If you like something and you appreciate it and you want to appreciate the actors Yeah.

Stand up and clap for them. Right, right. So I generally clap starting with the first group of people that come out because I know how much work it takes to put in to put on a show. Mm-hmm. And those kids deserve a standing o just as much as the person who had the solo. Right. So, so standing os but at the end of the show.

Right, right, right. Not during the show. Right. For bows. And I'm probably overdoing it and I don't care. Yeah, no, because that's very true. Because usually the first couple round of bows come out and everyone just claps. Right. And then like the principal leaves, you know, they all come out and then it's like, okay, that's when everybody stands up and gets the the Oh.

But yeah, I mean, you're right. Like they, they deserve it from, from big, you know, and without, without them this does show doesn't work. Yeah. Without the ensemble. Yeah, that's so true. So, yeah. But as people disagree with you, sorry, Brits, we're just gonna keep standing for everybody that we No, I mean not, I'm definitely, I, I hear where they're coming from on the whole, yeah, I understand.

Everybody gets a metal bullshit, but. They were very, some of the ones I read were very snobby, like, you know, it's a dumpy little theater. How could you possibly think they deserve a standing ovation? And I was like, wow. Well, they're free to give. Right? Right. So, and one guy said, uh, some people are just more easily entertained than others.

Like, I mean, I definitely AM's, that's kind jerky's, right? That's not, not a bad thing. Yeah. No, I mean, hey, enjoy life. Yeah. Lord forbid you shouldn't enjoy something. They're super stuffy. Yeah, exactly. Well, relax a little bit. Um, if you're bringing food, are you having concessions? Oh, sweet. Jesus. Those rappers Exactly.

The whole time. Open your package before the show begins. Open your, or if you go ahead and unwrap 'em, get 'em ready. Yes. Because that is highly distracting. I, I, I don't, I, this is a problem for me. Like, I don't, I don't need these, these little bruises. Yeah. But like, I really like them. And you know how sometimes when you're like watching a performance and you get like the, you just get like a little tickle.

This, I never have a problem because I start to feel that coming. Mm-hmm. And I'll just have one of these. So I have one in my, I usually take three or four in my pocket to a show, and I wait until there's an applause, right? And then I pull one apple quick and I'm like, I'm wrapping. How quickly can I do this?

It's not like, right. Yeah. The idea is that you unwrap it before the show or open whatever it is, right. And then don't smack. Oh my God. I've butt in front of people there and you know, oh, it's like a cav SMR next to you. Yeah. Yeah. And then that repetitive noise problem. I know. Revealing myself here. Um, clean up your trash when you're done.

Like, don't leave. Oh, we know. Yeah. People do, do not do that. They don't. It's ridiculous. It's so annoying. Or they have like little kids with them and there's like Cheetos all over the floor. Like baby puff things. Yes. Just clean up after yourself. Just grab your trash. I do it at the movie theater. Do it at any theater.

Yes. And if you put your drink by your feet, bye. Please. God. Oh my. You do not kick it because it's just gonna go, went all way down the theater and everyone's gonna have Sprite. We went and saw Mean Girls, right? Mm-hmm. At that, at the Van Wezel Theater and Sarasota. And in the backs of the chairs in between each chair was a, like a cup holder thingy.

Okay. Slid down in the crack. Okay. And it was in there in such a way that it didn't bother the people in front and you could put your seat, your cup in there. And I thought everybody needs that. Yeah. Everybody needs that. That's amazing. You know how much mess we would save in our, I know. Our theaters if the seats have those.

Yeah. Like I'm, I'm ready to start 3D printing those and just. I'm gonna sell them to the theaters and be like, here they are. They're like a buck of pop. Mm-hmm. You know, cover the supply itself. Yeah. And just like, put these in bolt. Put 'em in. Yeah. Like they don't, I don't even know that you have to bolt it.

Most of those seats, they just slide it in there to the crack and like let it be. Yeah. We definitely need those. Yeah. For real. Because they do. There's always, and especially the rake on. Yes. The audience just causes to go all the way down. You see a thing and you're like, all right, where'd it start? And you gotta go walking up the aisle to see where the origination point, especially when it's sticky stuff like soda or if it's a beer, a wine, someone have like a glass beer.

Oh yeah. And of course, five time it gets down to the bottom too. It's really just gross. Oh yeah. Everything is, and the poor people that complain are the one all the way at the bottom who are like, where's this coming from? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And there's nobody up there like, Hey, that was me. And it was all the way up in Rom.

And they're sitting there like, I don't know what you're talking about. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It wasn't, wasn't me, wasn't me. Well, and that's part of that problem is. When people come in late or they choose to leave in the middle of a scene to go use the potty, like that's a no-no. You need to be on time. If you're not on time, the theaters will often make you wait, make you wait until sometimes some theaters will make you wait until the second act, or Yeah.

You know, a break in a scene or something. Yeah. Um, but if you drives me crazy when people in the middle of the, uh, the show decide I'm gonna go to the bathroom and, you know, everybody Bright light. Bright light. Yeah. And just to get out. Then everybody's gotta like, scoot their stuff out of the way. Yeah.

Cause there's not enough room. Stand up and look, if you know you are a frequent peer, sit in the back and sit on an aisle. Sit on an aisle. Exactly. Exactly. You go right before the show, get prepared for that. Well, that's, I always go, even if I'm like, I don't really have to go, I, I always go before act one.

Always. Mm-hmm. I go at halftime because I'm like, I don't wanna, I wanna enjoy that. I don't wanna be sitting there thinking I have to go to the bathroom the whole time. I have to pee. I have to pee. I have to pee. Is this done? Done? I did learn because I, I peed at almost all the intermissions of the shows that we went to.

And the lines would be out. The wa Well, that, yeah, there was like one bathroom and the whole theater. It was horrible. But they, it would move pretty quickly. But they will tell you, even if it goes over, like, don't worry, we will not start the show until everybody gets back in their seat. Yeah. So that was kind of nice to hear that, hear that.

Yeah. You know, you're like, okay. Well, there was one, I don't remember which one it was. Oh, it was Hades Town. It was the first one we did. Mm-hmm. And that bathroom line went all the way out past the front door. Oh my gosh. Like went down three stories or whatever to the theater and out past the front door.

And I, I got all the way down to the front door and I was like, this is bullshit, so I'm just gonna hold it. I went back upstairs and went back to the seat. I was like, there's no way. Yeah. Well, you may have noticed I did it in that line. It, it was long. And I was mad because I did wanna get some concessions, but by the time I got back from the restroom, the concessions was like, yeah, you had to, to choose.

We're done. Yeah. You had to choose. Choose your way. We plan out my family concessions. We always get aisle seats. Yeah. We look in the program to see what is the song right before intermission, so that when that song is over, we're gonna hightail it out and be the first in line. It works every time. There you go.

Because I hate lines. Yeah. I absolutely hate lines. Well, yes, seriously. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What else? Let's see. Don't kick the seat. Obviously, you would think you wouldn't have to say that, but you know, you do. Oh, that happened. Put the seat up on the thing and you're looking over in her someone's shoe, like right on your shoulder.

Like, what is that? Put your grippers away. Yeah. Nobody wants to. Yeah. That happened at the Con Mikayla's concert as well. This guy had his two kids. Mm-hmm. And I understand their kids. That's usually kids that are kicking the back seat. Yeah. But you can see what your kid is doing when you're sitting right next to them.

You can see your kid is talking to you. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. At full volume, the entire concert and kicking the seat, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump. I look back nothing. Hey,

like, you gonna fucking do something about that? Yeah. It was really irritating. I at little Shep of horrors in New York, um, a kid was behind me kicking constantly and I never say anything, but I was like, I just turned like, you know, sweetie, you're kicking my chair. Do you think you can stop? And she was like, you know, her eyes got this thick.

Like I'm in trouble. A Karen very nicely. But I, like I, those seats were, you know, you had no room whatsoever at all. She didn't turn around and be like, you know, this is about a nasty, nasty plant that's gonna eat you in. Well, it wasn't the same girl that was like, terrified by the end of it. Cause it was, it's pretty scary.

Oh God. At the end all have mercy. Um, don't fall asleep. No. How many times do the kids come off the stage and they're like, the guy in the second row saw your husband during six? No, it was before. Oh, okay. He woke up before the show. Oh, okay. Alex. Like a little sneezer. We did when I was in college, my family, my grandparents, my parents and I went to this little, um, historic theater in Virginia called the Barter Theater.

And we went to see Shakespeare. I don't know why. That was not our thing, but okay. My grandmother decided we need to go see some Shakespeare. You need a little art in your life. Yeah. You need some culture. I think it was as you like it. I don't completely remember people were dressed as trees. To me, they all feel very much the same.

Yeah. So the whole time, I'm very uncultured though, so, well, I am too. My grandfather was sitting next to me. Man could fall asleep anywhere. So he kept falling asleep in the show and I'm elbowing him and was he a snorer like grandpa? He was, but he wasn't snoring. He was just asleep and like, you know, falling over on me and I'm like, Nana, papa's sleeping.

She's like, oh, not my problem. Still with the whole show sleeping on you. Better you than me girl. It's not bothering me. Whole show. I'm, you know, elbowing. I'm trying to get him wake up. I finally gave up. So at the end a person comes out and does, um, an epilogue. And it actually addresses the audience. So they break the fourth wall and addresses the audience and the actors up there and to you.

And they like said something to this person and then they kind of moved over to the middle and, and to you and their face. Totally went my down asleep with this mouth wide open. Oh my god. Totally catch ketchup. Your flies. And the actor totally broke character cuz it was like she, they brought it back. Is he alive?

But he's got the outside. Oh my gosh. I was so embarrassed. That's so It does, it can be distracting to the actors. Oh yeah. Yeah. When there's dead person in the audience. Yeah. Kids will tell you all the time, so and so is asleep. Uhhuh like, they'll, you know, the guy first row fourth on the whatever. Yep. I know.

Did you see that person sleeping after the show? When you're leaving, keep your comments to yourself if they're negative because you never know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Around you. It could be, you don't have anything nice to say. Right? Yes. You can dissect it later, but when you're coming out, just be positive. Yeah.

Save that for the car ride home. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. You don't need to be All right. Um, dress code. I don't really feel like we have a dress code. It used to be that you got really dressed up. Yeah, I know. To go to theater. Well, that kind of goes back to that old school, like, you know, we wait and hold our applause for the very end.

Mm-hmm. We don't Yeah. You know, make a fuss or anything like that. It feels very old fashioned. Yeah. Yeah. It used to be a more common No, I think people could dress up a little bit. I mean Yeah. But you know, the, the attire notifications when I bought our Broadway tickets mm-hmm. Like there was a whole section about like what you should wear mm-hmm.

For the Broadway show. And they were like, just be comfortable. Right. Yeah. And I think, you know, it's within reason. I think they're saying, and you know, they know. You're coming to New York and you're gonna be walking around all day and then going, you've been out all day show. So like they probably understand but like Yeah, it's within reasons.

Yeah. Like you're not going, they're not really wanting you to come in there and sweatpants. Mm-hmm. And a ripped shirt and all of that. I feel like it's like church. Mm-hmm. So if you're going to church, you're gonna wear something a little bit nicer, a little bit more respectful, but yet you can go in shorts and a nice top and be totally fine.

You can wear your flip flops in shirt. Like I feel like you know, Jesus doesn't necessarily mind, it's just happy you're there. Exactly. So I feel like it's kind of like that way at Broadway, but I feel like back in the day, you see you got dressed up, I dressed up, I had to put the helmet on. It was a Sunday, your Sunday best, you know?

Yeah. So maybe it's kind of the same, like it's kind of made its way and yeah. Now just be casual. Have all your parts covered and be right. Don't worry. Predominant like profanity. Have all your parts covered. Hey, you have to specify that. I know it's, it's crazy that that should be a warning label, but apparently it is.

It, it is. It is. Or hike your pants up man. There was some people in New York and like how are they keeping their pants cracks up? Yeah, I really, I'm, that's a serious question. Like because they were low, the drawers were like, be below. They had the boxers on and the pants are down below their bed. I've never understood that style.

I don't understand, but I don't understand how they keep it up. I don't either. Is it Because it's all around when you're walking, but this guy was not holding this. Oh, he was just walking and I just was fascinated. Did I, was he walking like a penguin? Because how do you keep that? I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure.

There like invisible suspenders. I don't know. I don't know either. Interesting. Anyway, he probably didn't care if they, I guess we just have to stop somebody next time. We'll see you. Yeah, like listen buddy. I need a full breakdown of how this works. It has been 20 years. I have been watching this style and I do not understand.

No, here's something else I don't use. It's one of many things. I'm sure completely unrelated, but I feel like you might have the answer to this C. Oh really? No. Okay. Okay. You know the big trucks and they have the male part thing hanging off the back of it truck balls, but why? Why do I know this answer?

Because you know things, you're the knower. Um, so I don't, I don't know the answer to this one, but if I was taking it, if I was taking a guess at it, a lot of men refer to their cars as women, but not trucks. I think trucks for a lot of men are boys. Boys really? And then they give them nuts back there.

They're not neutered. Boy, I, it's so strange. Guess flapping around back there. I, I'm open to being wrong on this one, but like, it's this one, it's like on the Taylor, on the, yeah, it's on the to hitch. Yeah, on the, yeah. Always put 'em there. Like these shiny silver balls hanging there. I'm like, why? I don't know.

That's a very unrelated one. I know. But yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know where I went with that, but I've thought I need to ask. I'm gonna find out. I don't know. I mean, it's the same, it's probably the same reason that that that stuffed cat for New Year's, for the New Year's party that we had, it didn't need 'em, but it had 'em anyway.

And it's funny, but I'm not looking, and I think people think that's entertaining. I think it's a little obscene because it's a little, little gross. They're really graphic. Usually. Yes. And yeah, hang. Yeah. And I don't know, they're not up there nice and tight, you know what I'm saying? No, they're hot and saggy.

Yeah. Trailer hits, falls swinging around. Yeah. Anyway, okay. I don't know. Kathy's, are you Googling it? Is that you're doing, oh my gosh. Why did the trucks have balls? What? So, I mean, so the hitch. The round part on it is called the ball. Right. So like when on your actual trailer there's a piece that sticks up and then that's what's gonna like fit into the Yeah.

Thing. It's like a red ball. So that's a ball in itself. Yes. But I'm talking about, so what does the ball need? Balls? I don't know the this Or are they saying that is like the phallic part and it needed balls? It could be, I don't know. I haven't gotten there for, this is a very slippery slope. We're headed down a long way.

Very slippery. A long, if you think about the trailer hitch ball in itself, it's like your hip joint, right? Like that's why you have that. That's like a ball at the end of your, your ass table. Yeah. But anyway, so where are you going with that? Yeah, that, that, because they're talking about a ball I, because it's talking about how it has to move and be free like with the trailer.

So maybe that's why it has to have another pH i situation to go with it. It doesn't move on the back of a truck that is stationary. Yeah. Well I think because of the way it is, it has to be able to like No, no, those are, those are, those are. They are mounted to the, the frame of your car, your, your truck. Mm.

And so the, the, there's like a, a hole and your mm-hmm. Your actual hitch slides into that with the ball on it. Okay. And you, you, it says it pivots, put pins in. Yeah. It holds it in place. It says it pivots the trailer and provides a smooth turning while you're towing. Right? Well, the trailer can pivot. Yeah, it pivot around.

It pivots around on it. The ball doesn't move. Gotcha. Both items are stationary, but where they adjoin can twist. Yes. Okay, gotcha. You don't want this motion though? No. Like it's locked in place. Yeah. So it's literally just a pivot. That's it. You gotta back your boat up and get in on the road. Yeah. Like, so we had, um, we had kayaks for a while and we had bought a trailer to get them around and we would put like, it was like, it would hold four kayaks, so it had like tees and you could put four kayaks on there.

And we had the hardest time with that trailer. Mm-hmm. Because like a bigger trailer's actually easier to drive, but this tiny little trailer for, for kayaks was like a bitch. And we would get in places and the more you try to fix it, the worse it gets. I know. And it just gets around and now all of a sudden the trailer's like this recognized.

Yeah. You know, we had, in North Carolina, my grandfather had a tractor with a trailer. Mm-hmm. And uh, he would make me back it into the shed from an angle. Did he think it was a life skill you needed to learn? He'd like to teach me things and I, I wasn't allowed to finish until I got it just right. So I'd be pulling back out and trying to, oh my God.

It is hard to back up a trailer. It, it is. Oh. It's a real skill. Yeah. It is hard. It's my least favorite thing to do. Mm-hmm. And I'm not very skilled at, I can do a lot of things, but I can't with them. I can't find out like why people purchase them, except for the fact that they're just covers for it. It's just decoration.

But they're not up on why I, I, I don't know. Yeah. I, well, we'll, we'll research that and let let everybody know. Yeah. I think it's just Cause it's a burning question. I know. I think it's just people, we're here to educate, aren't we? Yeah. Usually about theater, but you know, I mean, I'm on my way to the theater.

I saw it there. You go there in Florida and it's like everywhere. Oh my God. Especially Polk County. Yeah. Everybody owns a truck. We're just about Yeah. A lot of trucks. Yeah. I have no more etiquette for you. That was it. Okay. So why do some people put those fake balls on their trailer hitches? That's an excellent Google item.

All right.

Okay. All right. Verdict is I'm, it's coming.

This is funny. Okay. This person says it's a warning system. It lets the other drivers immediately know that there's an idiot amongst the messages. That's like those Trump stickers. Yeah. I'm always reminded when I see stuff like that, that I, especially when I'm like, not in the same camp as whatever that item is mm-hmm.

Of the bill. An engal sketch. That comedy sketch, you remember the, the four comedy guys? Oh, he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. It was like Jeff Foxworthy, bill Engal. Mm-hmm. Cable guy, the crash, whatever. Yeah. And he had a thing, bill did, he had a thing called, here's your sign. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Do you remember that comedy sketch?

Here's your, your sign. Like stupid people doing stupid stuff. Wouldn't it be nice if, you know everybody was, had some kind of warning. Yeah. A sign you would know what you were dealing would let you know that they were. Touched, wouldn't it be great? Special quote? It was a whole bit. This answer kind of goes on what you were saying before.

It says it translate into quote, my truck has balls. So in the US this is slang for a strong, powerful, fearless, and you often hear references to people saying So-and-so has big balls, or as ballsy. So automobiles or trucks are saying, Hey, I got balls. It means it's got a lot of horsepower. So there you go.

All right. Yeah. It's a sign. Like my dad had a 69 Camaro. He, it was, it was a girl. It was always she, I gotta put down, you know, and we would go, he would go do all these car shows and stuff. Mm-hmm. I always had to go with him. I hated it. Mm-hmm. But all of the guys would like get around and see this and see that.

And it was always, yes, girls, always very girls, female girls. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. But you don't hear that with trucks. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, I've, these trucks are powerful. Yeah. This, this person says, because they're downright stupid. I think every one of those should come with a mandatory sticker that comes attached to the car.

These are the only ones I have. Oh, that's what I read. That's funny. When, um, when you started your story and I started giggling. Okay. I was like, that's kind of funny. Geez. Yeah. All right. So that's, so that's common etiquette. I, I can't think of any other ones, like, yeah. Yeah. Just be kind. Be a good human. Be respectful, be mindful.

I mean, don't talk. We say that at the, at the end of a lot of our podcasts. It's the truth because in the end, like, that's it. A lot of this kind of boils down to that. Yeah. Like just mm-hmm. Stop being self-centered. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Think for one hot second that maybe somebody else paid a ticket too. Mm-hmm.

And that, you know, they want to also enjoy this thing that you guys have purchased tickets for. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just try to be mildly considerate of another human on this planet. Be better. And as a parent. Keep your kids. Yeah. Under control, you know? Right. If they're having an issue, they're having a problem.

Get up, walk 'em out. Mm-hmm. You know, don't. I mean, we used to always say when our kids were little, like, you always need to be prepared that you might be leaving in five minutes. Mm-hmm. Or even two minutes or one minute you could go to Target and have an issue and be like, all right, come on, we're going home.

You always have to be prepared to leave wherever you're at because you don't want your kids as a parent. Yes. Yes. Because you don't want your kids to, well, I mean, we handle, we had to handle that situation a lot with Mikayla. Mm-hmm. Being autistic. Oh, I bet. Especially when she was younger. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Um, as an older child, we still run into scenarios where we really just can't be there.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, but it's not because she's throwing a fit anymore, it's because, you know, the stimulus is too much and she tells us and we just leave. Mm-hmm. Right. Um, but when kids are little like that, they can't communicate that over stimulation, and so they're just overwhelmed and. Like we used to have lots of meltdowns.

We, I think that when she was in her terrible twos, which is like actually two and three. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, for every kid. Yeah. Um, but when we were in that phase, it was definitely its height and there was not a time where we would a, be able to actually finish dinner at a restaurant. Mm. We were never able to Because you were considerate and you removed yourself so that other people could enjoy their meal.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris almost always was the one that would get up and take her out. Mm-hmm. And then we would swap. Yeah. I always tell my kids, you don't have the right to take away somebody else's enjoyment. Yeah. Whether it's a restaurant or a theater mm-hmm. Like you, that's no. Mm-hmm. You're not doing that.

Yeah. You're right to do whatever ends at their right. Mm-hmm. To also, yeah. So like, you know, in a public space. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Anyway, so our theme always is Do better, be good. Be kind. Yeah, don't be a dick. Don't be a jerk. No, seriously. Be respectful. Mm-hmm. Oh, Laura's sending us wig pictures. Oh gosh. Oh, that's exciting.

Yeah, I know. Did she put it on or just maybe. Do you guys have a All right, so a text. Bye for now. And uh, yeah. Now we'll start, we'll take a little break and then start the next recording. Yep. We'll see you next time. Bye.