Katie, Nate, Andrea, and Dawn decide it's finally time. Time to launch Spill the Scenes. This inaugural episode's improv scenes feature shopping carts, tiny apartments, candy jewelry, and dildos from years lost. Prepare to be simultaneously confused and enlightened.
Katie, Nate, Andrea, and Dawn decide it's finally time. Time to launch Spill the Scenes. This inaugural episode's improv scenes feature shopping carts, tiny apartments, candy jewelry, and dildos from years lost. Prepare to be simultaneously confused and enlightened.
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Andrea McCloskey (00:01)
So I wanna see a secret. This is my hand on the
Nate Rufo (00:04)
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (00:06)
See
ya.
Andrea McCloskey (00:11)
If you do it right.
Dawn Rosenbaum (00:16)
Look, I wanna I wanna see a scene.
Katie DeFiore (00:21)
to spill the scenes, the improvised comedy podcast where we explain things to each other the best way we know how in obscure, confusing ways that sometimes sound like comedy. I'm Katie DiFiori.
Nate Rufo (00:32)
Narupo.
Andrea McCloskey (00:33)
Andrea McClotsky.
Dawn Rosenbaum (00:34)
Don Rosenbaum.
Katie DeFiore (00:35)
And we're all improvisers with Happy Valley Improv down in downtown State College, Pennsylvania. And what we'll do here on this podcast is take turns explaining something, a concept, an item, a movie, literally anything. And the twist with that is that the explanation should be vague, roundabout, and confusing. The rest of us will try to guess what it is while asking silly questions along the way. Once the answer is revealed, we'll use the conversation as inspiration for a short improv scene.
no, we'll get into it. We'll do some improv scenes. It'll be fun. Before we get started, how is everyone doing?
Dawn Rosenbaum (01:10)
Just ducky.
Andrea McCloskey (01:12)
Good. It's Friday. Fri.
Katie DeFiore (01:14)
Cry yay!
Nate Rufo (01:15)
Yeah. Should we be doxing our day of the week that we're recording this? Is that a bad idea? Is that a thing that people are gonna get a
Dawn Rosenbaum (01:25)
Nate's already playing this shit.
Nate Rufo (01:27)
It's
a weekend day. Weekend day when all of us are out of work. Excuse me. Thank you.
Katie DeFiore (01:28)
It's a weird.
No, it's Saturday morning. don't know what the fuck you're talking about, Andrea. I'm certainly not using work time to do this.
Nate Rufo (01:42)
No, absolutely not.
Andrea McCloskey (01:43)
So we can tell them where we are. Where we are. We can say state college. Okay. Or too much.
Katie DeFiore (01:47)
When we are correct
Dawn Rosenbaum (01:49)
Time is relative. It's non it's non fictional anyway. Right.
Nate Rufo (01:53)
Mm-hmm. That always confused me though. Fiction versus nonfiction. Like, why is the baseline fake? Mm-hmm.
Dawn Rosenbaum (01:54)
No.
I I genuinely had like a small meltdown with my librarian because they were like, So what we're doing here is nonfiction, which is of course. And I was like, wait, I'm sorry, what? What we're that's the main thing we're reading? They're like, Yeah, it's not not a false thing. And I'm like, What what? What? Why is the idea that we're lying first? Yeah. See.
Andrea McCloskey (02:18)
So non intuitive.
Katie DeFiore (02:22)
I
feel like that's a really unfortunate way to think about that because I want my baseline to be fiction because the reality that we live in is bad. So fiction should be the baseline that we are all listing in.
Dawn Rosenbaum (02:36)
The curious thing for me is ⁓ it took until Lewis Carroll made Alice in Wonderland for there to be a story that was published that had no like parable or like meaning behind it. Everything else was made up in order to teach a lesson. But before that, when you know, that's why of course it's all like known for being the thing that's like all about drugs because it was like no, we're just gonna play pretend and it doesn't it doesn't have a lesson. It doesn't mean don't eat food. It it just it's
Andrea McCloskey (03:03)
Now I have been taking that as a lesson this
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:06)
Right,
me too. That's kinda describes my whole life.
Nate Rufo (03:08)
Have you been taking from it? What'd you say?
Andrea McCloskey (03:11)
the importance of don't be late. You know, there's that rabbit who's like, Don't be late.
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:12)
sorry.
Do you celebrate every unbirthday?
Andrea McCloskey (03:19)
I celebrate on birthdays.
Nate Rufo (03:21)
Now
do you celebrate them with tiny little cakes that make you very small?
Andrea McCloskey (03:24)
Course I do.
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:25)
I do have a whimsical teapot tattooed on my arm because of this this thing, so yeah. I don't know if I've s yeah, this is well a teacup. It's this is this is in the style of Alice in Wonderland whimsy.
Katie DeFiore (03:29)
See you
Andrea McCloskey (03:35)
Listeners, we are looking at Don's beerful. ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:38)
thank you.
Sleeve and then
Andrea McCloskey (03:42)
There's
a hexagon pattern on it.
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:44)
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (03:46)
It's like honeycomb, yeah
Dawn Rosenbaum (03:48)
Anyway.
Nate Rufo (03:49)
I do have to say I have negative reactions to Alice in Wonderland because when I was a kid and we would go down to Florida for vacation, my dad, who is very ingenious in a lot of ways, this was before the times where D V D players were the in cars and all that sort of stuff. He rigged it up so we had an old CRT TV and a V C R and like a PlayStation hooked up in the back and all the seats were down, we were not buckled in, it was not safe. But
it helped with the 18 hour drive from Pennsylvania to Florida to have like entertainment for people in the back. And so my sister and I, we would have to switch off. So it's like I get it for two hours, she gets it for two hours. So I would like play a video game for two hours, and then maybe the next time I'd watch a movie or whatever, every one of her two hour things, she would watch Alice in Wonderland. Every single one, she would watch the exact same movie. It's like a TV movie version from the 90s of Alice in Wonderland. So, like that is stuck in my brain every time I see Alice in Wonderland.
Dawn Rosenbaum (04:45)
Okay, I have a question. So for people who don't know, a V CR is a a piece of machine that took something that was called a tape and it would play it from front to back. And if you wanted to watch your thing again, you either had to buy a fancy machine that would rewind it or you had to manually rewind it, which would be insane. Yeah. See? So
Katie DeFiore (05:07)
manually rewind
and yeah with my little hands
Nate Rufo (05:13)
wow.
Andrea McCloskey (05:15)
Katie.
Dawn Rosenbaum (05:16)
So
fancy your sister like while you're spending your two hours playing a video game, just very slowly reminding the entire film.
Katie DeFiore (05:25)
was
me! That's what happens when you're the youngest child. You just get handed tasks that you think are important but really aren't.
Andrea McCloskey (05:31)
That's a made up task.
Idle hands are the devil's both of those things. Can I ask one more follow up question today? What sort of vehicle were you in?
Nate Rufo (05:37)
Work.
Dawn Rosenbaum (05:38)
Yeah. What is it?
Nate Rufo (05:46)
⁓ this would have been roughly a two thousand and one, I wanna say Plymouth Voyager.
Andrea McCloskey (05:51)
yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (05:51)
Yeah,
the classic minif
Andrea McCloskey (05:54)
Now what I've been thinking of recently is I wish we still had conversion vans. yeah. Do you r do you remember those? Big vans, not not mini vans. Yes. Maxi vans. But inside it was converted into it had carpeting. It had two captain's chairs that turned around. Where did those go?
Nate Rufo (05:59)
⁓ and speak on that.
Dawn Rosenbaum (06:16)
So it really interesting you bring this up because the car that I want is ⁓ the VW Buzz, which is the VW bus. Those are gorgeous. Returned into electronic. But more importantly, the next like version of it that's coming out and it is currently in Europe but not in the US is the camper version of this. So they do have the captain's chairs. They do have the ability to convert it and move it. Yes. I'm like, just live into this. They just live this. So anyway.
Andrea McCloskey (06:38)
On indoor.
Nate Rufo (06:43)
Yeah. We could record this podcast there.
Dawn Rosenbaum (06:45)
We can here we are at the Grand Canyon.
Andrea McCloskey (06:46)
And the van. ⁓
Katie DeFiore (06:49)
Do we want to do the thing? Yeah. First explanation, I realize now that in our pre-talk, in our pre-conversation, we were like, we should decide who goes first. And then we all looked at each other and then moved on to a different topic.
Andrea McCloskey (06:51)
Well someone explained.
Who's
feeling it? I'm willing.
Dawn Rosenbaum (07:04)
I'm feeling it. Okay. I wanna I wanna see how ridiculous or bad this is. I mean I wasn't. This is my first time.
Nate Rufo (07:08)
Yeah, because you weren't at the test once. So
there we go. Just like your first time.
Katie DeFiore (07:13)
Same
time's gonna explain something.
Dawn Rosenbaum (07:15)
All right, so this is a thing that some people are certified to make. Some people are certified to destroy. It is a process that if you are good at making it, it's like very it's both easy to do and very difficult to do. You either have this ability to make this thing or not. So the process of making this thing is you first acquire a bunch of materials. These materials have to be organic.
We don't want to be having any chemical processed or anything, ⁓ or materials for this. ⁓ and then you need to ⁓ process them in a way that makes them both chaotic and also structured. And that way this thing can can be ⁓ good at what it does. This thing performs a function, and then after that, there's like a little bit of magic and then it's it's awesome.
Nate Rufo (08:06)
Now, my question my first question is this if I were to lick this thing, would it be a generally positive experience for me or a generally negative experience?
Dawn Rosenbaum (08:15)
I would say a generally negative experience to lick this thing. You could you could lick it and you could lick it at different parts of its creation. And maybe, maybe the earlier parts would be enjoyable for you. But I would say all in all the product in its fullest capacity would would not be an enjoyable experience.
Katie DeFiore (08:33)
My first instinct when you started talking about building and creating and destroying was fire and I don't think it's fire anymore post you saying that maybe it's okay to lick at the beginning.
Andrea McCloskey (08:46)
I got hung up at the certification. So there's some regulation involved.
Katie DeFiore (08:52)
huh.
Nate Rufo (08:53)
Mm-hmm. Now, is this certification by a government entity or a private entity?
Dawn Rosenbaum (08:57)
I feel like this certification can be given both in the informal sense and the formal sense.
Katie DeFiore (09:05)
to like, is it like a specific building? No, I felt like that was a really good guess.
Nate Rufo (09:13)
They talk about it.
Katie DeFiore (09:15)
Thank
you. I want you to recognize it every time I guess. That would be great.
Nate Rufo (09:19)
they said it's a process and they talked a lot about at the beginning at the end and like you need to be certified to bring it up and certified to destroy it. So building is a great thought. ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (09:36)
I wanna for the record just say that Katie's guest was really good. Really good. Right.
Andrea McCloskey (09:39)
Yeah.
John, do you know how to are you able to build these? Is that the word they were using? Build create.
Nate Rufo (09:49)
Create. ⁓
Katie DeFiore (09:50)
Are
you certified?
Dawn Rosenbaum (09:51)
I I'm I am able to yes.
Katie DeFiore (09:54)
In both the building and destruction? Well, that doesn't narrow it down because Don does a lot of things.
Nate Rufo (10:02)
It is true. ⁓ is this medical in nature?
Dawn Rosenbaum (10:05)
It is not medical in nature. Okay. Not anymore.
Katie DeFiore (10:09)
Whoa. is it cutting hair?
Dawn Rosenbaum (10:15)
No.
Katie DeFiore (10:18)
Yeah. I don't know, I've been to some sketchy. Is it?
Nate Rufo (10:19)
Very regulated.
Andrea McCloskey (10:20)
Very regulated data.
Whatever the you build, could it fit in this room?
Katie DeFiore (10:29)
⁓ but like could it fit in my hands?
Is it a thimble?
Dawn Rosenbaum (10:36)
But once again, great guess. Great, great, great guess.
Katie DeFiore (10:43)
But in my hands, you have to be certified to organic.
Nate Rufo (10:49)
Organic. But then if you lick it, you'll have a bad experience. So is it food?
Katie DeFiore (10:54)
Is it poison? Are you a certified poison-eer?
Nate Rufo (10:59)
Used to be maybe used to be medical.
Katie DeFiore (11:02)
Medical well, that's why I went poison because you know most medical things started with
Andrea McCloskey (11:07)
Make
it in your kitchen.
Dawn Rosenbaum (11:08)
You can. ⁓ Used to but not people used to a lot, but they don't anymore.
Katie DeFiore (11:15)
He used to make it in their kitchen. Good vote. I still vote poison, but you've said no already.
Dawn Rosenbaum (11:21)
But once again, good guess. If Katie's guess could have been any better, I would have said yes.
Nate Rufo (11:25)
I I am I am stumped.
Andrea McCloskey (11:27)
Think I might be too
Katie DeFiore (11:28)
I'm
also a
Dawn Rosenbaum (11:29)
You guys are gonna be so mad. Okay, it is building a fire. You canceled it. You had I was gonna say fire, but now and so I was like Wow
Katie DeFiore (11:32)
Wait, but I said fire!
The first thing
that I
Nate Rufo (11:39)
First motherfucker thing.
Dawn Rosenbaum (11:41)
I mentioned that Katie's guesses were great. Mother Shearer, I like it. Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (11:43)
Mother shitter.
It was building a
Nate Rufo (11:50)
I wanna see a scene. Dawn, and Katie, you are you are building a fire, but ⁓ Dawn, you believe that before you start the fire you have to lick the wood.
Katie DeFiore (12:00)
All right.
Carlos, Carlos, need to stop looking. You're adding moisture and we need to, this is how we're going to survive.
Dawn Rosenbaum (12:13)
Nina, I need you to understand that this is a process, okay? Not everybody can do it. You need to respect
Katie DeFiore (12:20)
I know you got certified, but I really don't trust Bill over in cave 212. I really think he's trying to make us die so that there's more food for him.
Dawn Rosenbaum (12:33)
Make absolute sense because Bill has his tongue permanently burned because he is addicted to hot lattes, and so he can't taste anything. Just needs it
Katie DeFiore (12:45)
But he's the one who taught you to... And I don't think that we should be...
Dawn Rosenbaum (12:50)
Okay, but like do what you just did, but like just try it. It's birch, it's so nice.
Katie DeFiore (12:56)
⁓
that actually does something for our palate. Maybe we don't need meat. Maybe we just eat the bird.
Dawn Rosenbaum (13:00)
Ooh. Right?
We
Nina, I'm not worried about you dying too.
Katie DeFiore (13:13)
You
are? Or you are- Well that's nice, no one's been worried about me dying before.
Dawn Rosenbaum (13:16)
I am
Okay, listen, we're gonna sit down, we're gonna lick this wood together. Okay. And we're gonna talk about your feelings, okay? Okay. Because they're valid and you matter.
Katie DeFiore (13:28)
Your feelings are important, too, Carlos. Carlos.
Nate Rufo (13:36)
I wanted to come in as Bill, but I couldn't figure out a time to do it and I was gonna do like a
Katie DeFiore (13:41)
I
mean that would be a total bill, it would be to come in at a really romantic moment and ruin it.
Nate Rufo (13:47)
I also kinda wanted to be the couple's therapist. Yeah. Right? No, talk about your feeling.
⁓ the Ronati.
Katie DeFiore (13:57)
⁓ The road that we did take was beautiful.
Andrea McCloskey (13:59)
That was beautiful. True.
Dawn Rosenbaum (14:01)
Sorry.
So how'd you two meet? We liquid together. Castaways.
Katie DeFiore (14:05)
You
Nate Rufo (14:07)
Yeah.
Andrea McCloskey (14:09)
Okay, so I'm I can try my thing. Now I have a have my thing to explain. But I don't I'm gonna rely on your questions to draw because I don't I'm I don't have much to go on. I'm sorry, okay. Okay. This is a thing that people are doing, supposedly.
Katie DeFiore (14:27)
Sex.
Andrea McCloskey (14:31)
I think it it started as a thing maybe a year ago.
Katie DeFiore (14:37)
Not so nuts, though.
Dawn Rosenbaum (14:39)
Five sink.
Andrea McCloskey (14:40)
Maybe a year. And I'm not really clear are a lot of people doing this or is are they just talking about it more than they're actually doing it?
Katie DeFiore (14:48)
Minters.
Dawn Rosenbaum (14:49)
Is this a thing somebody would do daily?
Katie DeFiore (14:54)
⁓ like weekly?
Dawn Rosenbaum (14:57)
Routinely. Is this a thing you do routinely? No. You do it like one time.
Andrea McCloskey (15:00)
Yeah, it's a it's a big deal when you do
Katie DeFiore (15:02)
It's
like an investment, like it's a lot of money to do it.
Andrea McCloskey (15:06)
The thing itself doesn't cost money.
Nate Rufo (15:09)
Is this something that might be talked about on a podcast such as Say Joe Rogan?
Andrea McCloskey (15:15)
probably. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, this does
Katie DeFiore (15:17)
So it's not a thing that the people in this room would do.
Nate Rufo (15:21)
You don't know what to listen to.
Andrea McCloskey (15:23)
Guess I don't know. Maybe maybe you have some of you have done it, all of you have done it.
Nate Rufo (15:29)
Is it vaccines?
Katie DeFiore (15:34)
Thank
Andrea McCloskey (15:35)
No.
Dawn Rosenbaum (15:39)
Alright,
so this is a thing that when people do it they like do it once. Is this a thing that only a certain type of group can do? Or can anyone do it?
Andrea McCloskey (15:48)
I
think it it's available to anyone.
Nate Rufo (15:50)
Is this primarily a real life phenomenon or primarily an online phenomenon, would you say?
Andrea McCloskey (15:56)
I learned about it online. Yeah, yeah. Like people are talking about how they're doing it. But when you're doing it, you don't need to be online.
Katie DeFiore (15:58)
Like TikTok?
Nate Rufo (16:06)
So people don't record themselves doing it to post for others.
Andrea McCloskey (16:09)
I mean ⁓ people.
Dawn Rosenbaum (16:10)
Yeah.
Okay. you said it doesn't take a monetary investment. What kind of investment does it take? Is it like time, effort? Okay. Do you need some level of coordination to be able to do this? Like a higher level of coordination, say being able to dance to a rhythm or to a choreography.
Andrea McCloskey (16:18)
Putting time in. Okay.
We do not need
Katie DeFiore (16:32)
So it's not a dance trend.
Andrea McCloskey (16:34)
Right.
Katie DeFiore (16:36)
I think I'm on the wrong TikTok. Like, I think we're on different TikToks, Andrew.
Andrea McCloskey (16:40)
I think I probably have a weird TikTok, but I think I think you all would have encountered this.
Nate Rufo (16:46)
⁓ is this also medical in nature? Like are people trying to get a a medical outcome out of this? Are they saying like if I do this thing, this cool thing will happen?
Andrea McCloskey (16:56)
think it's it is supposed to it is purported to have health and wellness outcomes.
Katie DeFiore (17:02)
Is it eating Tide Pods? Because if so, that's not the past year.
Dawn Rosenbaum (17:07)
Okay.
Andrea McCloskey (17:08)
It's not eating Tide P but you very well might say this thing has been around and I just learned about it a year ago.
Katie DeFiore (17:09)
Okay, okay.
See that changes the playing field something that came out a year ago versus something that Andrea found out about a year ago
Nate Rufo (17:22)
That's true. Is it the moon landing?
Andrea McCloskey (17:28)
You're like in nineteen sixties mindset, you're like we have a polio vaccine and we land it on the moon.
Dawn Rosenbaum (17:35)
Please let the audience know that Nate also has a comeover, is wearing a polo shirt and has a suitcase that is straight out from nineteen sixties here. ⁓
Katie DeFiore (17:42)
Briefcase,
Nate Rufo (17:44)
I work for NASA, Mr President. I'm the janitor, but I'm playing the moon.
Dawn Rosenbaum (17:49)
He's holding a thing in his pocket called a calculator. Now what a calculator is is way back then.
Katie DeFiore (17:56)
when I was twirling the...
Nate Rufo (17:56)
People know the cast act
on ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (17:59)
Right, they don't they
need to have a slide ruler app.
Katie DeFiore (18:03)
See,
this is either a commentary on how hip Andrea is or how not hip the rest of us are.
Nate Rufo (18:11)
Yeah. Don, what are some like pseudoscience medical things that you have heard in your field that are like people like if I take ivermectin, it'll you know, whatever, like what are some things?
Katie DeFiore (18:22)
She said it wasn't that
Nate Rufo (18:24)
No, she said that it purportedly has health and wellness benefits.
Katie DeFiore (18:27)
⁓
Andrea McCloskey (18:29)
Good for your mind and soul. ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (18:32)
Lot of trends that we have right now, keto, intermittent fasting. People are adamant that they want certain hormones checked because they're convinced that changes in their behavior, mental health, et cetera, are linked to things like either their thyroid or their estrogen or their testosterone levels. We have a lot of women that are asking for exogenous testosterone in order to help promote hair growth as opposed to just doing things like prenatal vitamins.
Katie DeFiore (18:57)
Those all sound like things that cost money.
Dawn Rosenbaum (19:00)
I know. As far as like time. I feel like if we're thinking time, I'm my first thought is some level of like fitness ⁓ activity, but then not physical, maybe diet. Might I don't know, I'm I'm thinking like maybe intermittent fasting type things. My guess is intermittent fasting. Okay.
Andrea McCloskey (19:18)
No.
I'm gonna give one last clue. This is a term that the term for doing this has been had a different connotation.
Nate Rufo (19:30)
Okay, alright. I know what it is. Should I say it? Is it raw dogging? Correct. Yeah, okay.
Dawn Rosenbaum (19:33)
I mean if you do.
Andrea McCloskey (19:37)
Do
you know what this is?
Dawn Rosenbaum (19:38)
I know.
Katie DeFiore (19:39)
It is in the other senses.
Nate Rufo (19:41)
Do you want to explain it, Andrea? Please explain it. No, well yes. You explain it in the sex sense and I'll explain it in the way that you meant.
Katie DeFiore (19:47)
in extreme detail.
Andrea McCloskey (19:49)
Explain raw dogging as you know it. No henceforth. Sex without a condo.
Katie DeFiore (19:52)
Sex with a condom, yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (19:57)
Although my my friend Kim loves to use the phrase raw dogging to mean like going in unprepared to just about anything. Yes.
Andrea McCloskey (20:04)
Yes, broadly it's I'm gonna raw dog this.
Dawn Rosenbaum (20:07)
So that's a new meaning. That's the current ⁓ Can you get S T Ds from doing it the second way? Right. Going.
Andrea McCloskey (20:13)
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (20:15)
As long as
Andrea McCloskey (20:18)
The wellness trend. Nate, why don't you explain that?
Nate Rufo (20:21)
You me to explain it? Well, it it's very popular, I think, among younger men ⁓ who like to say say that they're raw dogging things. So for example, an example might be, I'm gonna raw dog this 12 hour flight, which means you're just gonna sit there, no distractions, no movie, nothing to listen to, no books, nothing. You're just sitting there with nothing except you and your brain and the things around you.
Katie DeFiore (20:46)
I have seen this on TikTok now that you say that. And I remember thinking, that's dumb. That's just existing without your phone.
Andrea McCloskey (20:54)
Right.
Katie DeFiore (20:56)
I wanna
Dawn Rosenbaum (20:57)
I wanna see a scene where someone is trying to like explain to somebody something, but both of them are like confused about the meaning of the thing both of them are trying to like say. Does that make sense?
Katie DeFiore (21:12)
⁓ I think we just need to be confused.
Dawn Rosenbaum (21:14)
Yeah.
I'd like ⁓ Nate to be the describer and I'd like Katie to be the person he's trying to purchase something from.
Nate Rufo (21:24)
hi. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. ⁓ I'm looking for something to help me plate things.
Katie DeFiore (21:25)
Can I help?
Like a plate? Do you want plates? We're in a home good-
Nate Rufo (21:34)
Well no, no, that's not exactly what I mean. Like like to plate things, like like to to to present them to people in a way that's like appealing to them.
Katie DeFiore (21:42)
Like
a platter? We could give you a platter.
Nate Rufo (21:45)
Well,
I mean, sure, I guess like in a platter in the way that like maybe like you're a snack. sorry, was that too far? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean I didn't no, I didn't mean it to be you're just I've seen you around I mean that well makes me so Yeah, like, you know, I work at the Gabes across the across the mall and you're here at the home goods, so you know, I see you sometimes, but I just you know, I I I think you're like a you got a lot of fashion, so I was I was hoping you'd help me plate.
Katie DeFiore (21:50)
⁓
I'm so-
Dawn Rosenbaum (22:15)
We see that there is a a lady with a cart that is filled to the brim with just baubles and things who is trying to get between these two people, desperately trying to get to the tink the the the cat figurine that is between the two of them.
Andrea McCloskey (22:31)
Yeah, excuse me? Can you just work
Katie DeFiore (22:33)
⁓ yeah,
no, sorry. sorry. Actually, can I help you get something? Sorry, sir. I think this this woman needs this cat right?
Nate Rufo (22:36)
Actually no.
So I was here first, but okay, fine.
Andrea McCloskey (22:44)
I need I need that because I I don't want there's one left if as you can see.
Nate Rufo (22:49)
Actually, ma'am, you know what? You're plating right now. A great example of plating. ⁓ Look at this.
Katie DeFiore (22:51)
He's like, lady. Oh god.
I think this is for you cock blocking. think that's what she's No, I'm sorry ma'am. Please buy our goods at this home because I don't know why I care. I get paid $6.25 an hour.
Dawn Rosenbaum (23:08)
And seen.
Andrea McCloskey (23:10)
Yeah.
Nate Rufo (23:11)
The best thing about that scene is I didn't know what plating meant.
Katie DeFiore (23:15)
I knew I should be offended in some way. Yeah. ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (23:23)
That's I'm now rethinking the phrase cock blocking to be like so like in theater we block things out. Like it's like a farm. It's like the Oklahoma musical, do they cock block or are they just like and this rooster will go here? And then
Andrea McCloskey (23:35)
Absolutely.
Katie DeFiore (23:36)
I have 100 % cock-blocked friends before by accident. Accident? Yeah, well, not- I would never do that on purpose. I'm all for it.
Dawn Rosenbaum (23:45)
Job
was to do it on purpose. ⁓ Yeah. No, I was I was the wing person that everybody took out with all of the girl pals because I was always designated driver and I'm also like a guy, so I don't I don't do the girl thing. So they all do the girl thing. And then I get to be the guy that like hangs out with them. And then when people come over that are like skeezy or weird, I'm either immediately their their partner or I'm like see the person who then becomes ⁓
Katie DeFiore (24:10)
I call that being a good human.
Nate Rufo (24:11)
Yeah,
cockbacking to me ⁓ implies that there are two consenting parties that would otherwise like to and something comes between them.
Dawn Rosenbaum (24:19)
That's interesting because it's made into the context of the cock, not not it doesn't actually take consideration.
Nate Rufo (24:26)
Version Twat swatting.
Andrea McCloskey (24:29)
I've heard it all.
Nate Rufo (24:31)
Now this was popular about a year ago on TikTok.
Dawn Rosenbaum (24:35)
It's actually a mental thing where you take on percussing your vagina and vulva in order to create blood flow in order to have more intense orgasm.
Nate Rufo (24:44)
Okay,
Gwyneth Paltro.
Andrea McCloskey (24:45)
Ooh.
Nate Rufo (24:48)
Okay, should I go?
Katie DeFiore (24:51)
Yeah, you should go.
Dawn Rosenbaum (24:52)
I don't want to cock block you. Go ahead.
Nate Rufo (24:54)
No.
Katie DeFiore (24:55)
I think we should use that word for everything now and that's just our term.
Dawn Rosenbaum (24:59)
Yeah, we're just kinda bracking and cop blocking. Okay.
Nate Rufo (25:01)
Okay.
⁓ so this is a thing that gave and gives a lot of people ⁓ a lot of joy. It's something that some people not so much anymore, but but probably, you know, twenty to thirty years ago made like a giant part of their personality. Yeah, it's something that a lot of people laughed at, something that some people cried at. What?
Andrea McCloskey (25:23)
think I know. ⁓
at birthday parties we used to ⁓ spank people.
Nate Rufo (25:30)
⁓ wow.
Andrea McCloskey (25:33)
Do you guys remember that? I'm turning seven, so you get seven spangs and we don't do that anymore. Right. It brought some people joy and other people cry.
Katie DeFiore (25:33)
I thought you were gonna say- No!
Nate Rufo (25:44)
Well, metaphorically this thing could be viewed as spanking in that way.
Katie DeFiore (25:48)
So
unhinged, I have not heard of this. As someone who grew up being spanked as like a punishment. sounds terrible.
Andrea McCloskey (25:56)
We used to say N one degrees.
Nate Rufo (25:58)
⁓ huh. Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (26:00)
Did you do this to your friend? I have so many questions. Sorry, Nate. We're going to drop your thing and now I need to hear about Andrews.
Dawn Rosenbaum (26:05)
You
mean
Nate Rufo (26:06)
It's very trauma.
Andrea McCloskey (26:09)
What did you just say, Katie?
Katie DeFiore (26:10)
I just, I need to know what, were you doing this at your friend's birthday parties or was it just family birthday parties? Was this for people who were younger? Usually it was.
Dawn Rosenbaum (26:19)
It was kiddos and then ⁓ they would obviously have the party that would have the friends and the family over at the same time and then it was like presumed that No Yeah and throughout Well throughout the well the friends wouldn't hit for some reason, but like the siblings absolutely it was family. Family would. They also we we did pinching was another one. And so you'd you'd get pinched. And it would be one for every year. Uh-huh. No, it wasn't like a punishment swap.
Katie DeFiore (26:27)
Listen for the good friend.
more? wait would you do it hard? pants
Andrea McCloskey (26:42)
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (26:46)
down? was
Andrea McCloskey (26:47)
No.
Dawn Rosenbaum (26:48)
Yeah. No no no. I think Okay I think we're thinking of I think what Katie's thinking of is that we take a small child whose birthday is that day and then we take them and we drape them across our thighs and we pull down their pants and then we beat the crap out of them. No no no. That's not what it is. It's more like ⁓ it's like a yeah, well I mean we also describe those differently. Sure, that's fine. But like yeah, it's like when someone's like being silly and you're like, stop and then you would Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (27:15)
I'm
Nate Rufo (27:19)
No.
Katie DeFiore (27:22)
I can't
Dawn Rosenbaum (27:23)
Bring some people joy. You used to be part of their whole personality.
Nate Rufo (27:26)
Yeah,
su sometimes. This is something that was very popular during a specific decade. Like ex like wildly popular during a specific decade.
Dawn Rosenbaum (27:34)
Personality. Was it everybody's personality or just like a certain type of person?
Nate Rufo (27:37)
I mean it it was widespread but it was a a certain I would say everybody during that time, at least in the US, knew of this thing, but a a certain subsect of people were like real
Katie DeFiore (27:47)
So my thought before Andrea's unhinged answer
Andrea McCloskey (27:51)
Yeah,
I I I took this down at dark dark.
Katie DeFiore (27:53)
It's
okay, it's okay. I'm stronger for it. Was being like a Disney kid. that, cause I was a Disney kid.
Nate Rufo (28:01)
You're
closer to the to that area than open. You're closer to that area, but not quite.
Dawn Rosenbaum (28:04)
The spanking, yeah.
Andrea McCloskey (28:09)
Is it movie and pop culture related?
Nate Rufo (28:11)
Yes,
it's pop culture related. Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (28:13)
Is it a specific Disney movie?
Nate Rufo (28:15)
No, it's it's that doesn't have to do with Disney that I'm aware of, although Disney owns everything, so it could be at this point. I really don't. ⁓ there is music in it and the I would say the music that is related to it is also pretty iconic.
Andrea McCloskey (28:22)
Is it music related?
Yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (28:32)
But it was what really, really big in or
Katie DeFiore (28:33)
Okay, was it?
Nate Rufo (28:34)
⁓ I would say nine maybe nineties to early two thousands.
Andrea McCloskey (28:38)
I don't want you to s you said it's too iconic, so the music will be very identifying. Yes. But could you just hum two notes without saying too much? Mm-hmm.
Katie DeFiore (28:49)
Mmm
Could you do maybe a couple more notes?
Nate Rufo (28:55)
How dare you? How dare you?
Andrea McCloskey (28:57)
No, I feel like that was
Katie DeFiore (29:01)
It was the happy birthday.
Andrea McCloskey (29:05)
I won't.
Dawn Rosenbaum (29:06)
We're not. Enjoying these questions. Yeah. Can you lick it?
Nate Rufo (29:10)
Mm.
Katie DeFiore (29:11)
Would it be enjoyable if I liked it?
Nate Rufo (29:14)
Concept of it, no, but certain physical manifestations of it, sure. Okay.
Andrea McCloskey (29:19)
Is there a dress associated with it, a certain attire? ⁓
Nate Rufo (29:22)
⁓ just I would just say whatever was going on in the nineties probably.
Dawn Rosenbaum (29:26)
Was there like a kid's toy made of this that maybe could have mistaken for like sexual innuendos and things like that?
Nate Rufo (29:32)
I don't think there would be kids choice me.
Andrea McCloskey (29:34)
Where you going care?
Dawn Rosenbaum (29:34)
I was going Harry Potter.
Katie DeFiore (29:36)
I was going like McDonald's toy.
Dawn Rosenbaum (29:38)
Mm.
Andrea McCloskey (29:39)
So is it a movie franchise?
Katie DeFiore (29:42)
you
Andrea McCloskey (29:42)
So we know it's the nineties. Were you into this, Nate?
Nate Rufo (29:45)
No, I never got into this. which is well, I guess maybe not surprising, but it wouldn't be surprising if I was into it.
Katie DeFiore (29:52)
Hmm. I'm struggling. I'm at a loss. I'm trying to think what else we did in that era.
Nate Rufo (29:59)
⁓ there were the out of out of this thing came the people associated with this thing had great success after this thing as well.
Andrea McCloskey (30:08)
The Jackson five.
Dawn Rosenbaum (30:10)
like a boy band?
Katie DeFiore (30:11)
Like the Jonas Brothers?
Nate Rufo (30:12)
It's
it's not a boy band, but you're onto something with the number of people involved, sort of. You're one off of the number of people involved.
Katie DeFiore (30:19)
with
Andrea McCloskey (30:20)
So either four or
Dawn Rosenbaum (30:22)
Yeah, yeah. But it's not a boy band? No. Okay. So it's not ninety eight degrees. Band infamously known for having only four members.
Katie DeFiore (30:29)
Is it a girl band? it? Okay. But there's four people associated with it. Four or six. And did something even more incredible.
Nate Rufo (30:30)
It's not no, it's not a band.
Four or six.
Andrea McCloskey (30:36)
And then they went off.
Dawn Rosenbaum (30:40)
Now the other question is is Nate a chaos demon who's like, they're thinking four. That's too close. I to add six to help make it more hard, or is he telling us this show? Or is he trying to help us out by being like, Don't forget six. There's
Nate Rufo (30:53)
There it's six. There's
six in the core group of what this thing is.
Dawn Rosenbaum (30:57)
So is it S Club Seven?
Katie DeFiore (31:00)
No, it's in the wiggle.
Nate Rufo (31:02)
No, it is not the wiggles. It's not it's not a child related thing.
Dawn Rosenbaum (31:06)
God, okay.
Katie DeFiore (31:07)
Are there six wiggles?
Nate Rufo (31:09)
Do we wanna do we wanna have any final guesses here? I feel like we're getting to the end of our time.
Katie DeFiore (31:13)
No, but I feel like I can't mention the wiggles without doing a shout out to my fiance, Matt, and saying he wants to be a wiggle really bad. So if anyone who's listening is capable of giving him that job, please, please do. Thank you.
Andrea McCloskey (31:27)
Okay, that's a different line of questions.
Nate Rufo (31:28)
I'm gonna give you one last
Dawn Rosenbaum (31:31)
What's the clue that gives it away?
Katie DeFiore (31:33)
friends. ⁓
Andrea McCloskey (31:34)
of course.
Nate Rufo (31:36)
Friends. TV
show friends. There were six main ones. The iconic music was the intro music. A lot of them went over on to great success. Janet Fernandeson, huge movie store. Yeah. Huge show, yes.
Andrea McCloskey (31:48)
Huge show.
Katie DeFiore (31:49)
Yeah
Andrea McCloskey (31:51)
Okay. So I wanna see a scene of Don and Nate. Sure. You are two people who are it's your weekly ritual to watch friends together. Okay. So you're settling into that.
Nate Rufo (32:04)
I got the popcorn.
Dawn Rosenbaum (32:05)
Uhhuh. How you doing?
Nate Rufo (32:10)
Wow. You know, right? ⁓
Dawn Rosenbaum (32:13)
I just need to come over in here, I gotta pivot, you know what I mean?
Nate Rufo (32:18)
Wow, it's almost like there's a laugh track in our lives. Would it be we'd be so great on friends? Like just the wacky stuff we get into.
Dawn Rosenbaum (32:21)
God, that'd be so cool. It would be so great.
It would be so amazing. Like, I just want to be able to afford their apartment. Like, can we just
Nate Rufo (32:34)
I mean, look at this. We're like basically in a closet here in New York. We watch this show every week, but like we're never really apart because there's not enough space to be.
Dawn Rosenbaum (32:38)
my
my god, right? It's like we are literally on top of each other.
Nate Rufo (32:47)
How it's like you're sitting on me right now.
Katie DeFiore (32:51)
Hey guys, I forgot my key, can you let me in? It's your roommate Dave.
Nate Rufo (32:55)
Alright, hang on. Here, can you move can you get get a f can you Okay wait, what's where's the popcorn? Hang on, dude. I gotta reach my arm over my joke.
Katie DeFiore (33:03)
Okay, cool. Okay, I'm just gonna- have a giant pizza. It's-
Nate Rufo (33:07)
Why Dave, the pizza's not even gonna fit in this apartment, dude.
Katie DeFiore (33:11)
There's a new pizza place in town, and it gives giant pizzas, and I just needed to try it, okay? But I didn't want to it in person, and you guys are my best friends, so I to try it with my best-
Nate Rufo (33:19)
If
your social anxiety is out of control and you haven't paid rent in three months and you're gonna buy $40 pizza, come on, man. You're such a Joey.
Katie DeFiore (33:25)
Well, okay, so it's-
Alright, I really need you guys to support me in this journey of being Pizza Dave.
Dawn Rosenbaum (33:35)
We really need you to support us in the idea of being fed.
Nate Rufo (33:39)
Yeah. So are you gonna share that pizza or what? Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (33:42)
Yeah,
okay, me just try and open- Oh god, I'm sorry. Oh god, okay.
Nate Rufo (33:45)
Okay. They're gonna sit on my lap, you sit on their lap, and then we just you know
Katie DeFiore (33:49)
Alright, I think this is good. I'm on top of you, you're on top of them, and we're eating pizza together. We should do a sitcom, right? That's what you guys were talking about before I got here, when I was listening through the door.
Nate Rufo (34:02)
Yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (34:08)
Pizza Dave. Pizza Dave.
Katie DeFiore (34:11)
Everyone's got one of those people. She's a Dave.
Nate Rufo (34:12)
That would be a great sitcom character. Pizza
Dave.
Andrea McCloskey (34:16)
So that makes me think of and I just wanna put a button on this so we learn.
Katie DeFiore (34:23)
Now what does that phrase mean? Put a button on this?
Andrea McCloskey (34:25)
I'm
not sure. Okay. That that's I haven't used that a lot.
Katie DeFiore (34:28)
Okay, I like it. It's
Dawn Rosenbaum (34:31)
In the olden days before we had pins to put in things, we had buttons and we fixed them to walls that just had random slits in them because the walls were so thin that you could just poke holes in it. We lived in huts. That's what we did in the nineties.
Andrea McCloskey (34:43)
The huts had buttons.
Katie DeFiore (34:45)
That's how
Nate Rufo (34:46)
Huts had pizza. And they were
Katie DeFiore (34:50)
And you got a personal pan pizza for reading.
Nate Rufo (34:52)
Yes, you did. I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the nineties, but I am.
Katie DeFiore (34:55)
I read so much more
Dawn Rosenbaum (35:00)
I didn't realize that Friends is on Nick at Night. ⁓ the The time of I Love Lucy and Zorro and the Addams Family and the Monsters. I used to like Laverne and Shirley Three's Company. That's when I would watch Nick at Night. Yeah. And now it's Friends.
Katie DeFiore (35:03)
That's good they still do Nick at night.
Nate Rufo (35:13)
If that seventies show came out today, it would be that two thousand five show. Yeah. Like yeah. That don't you don't we don't wanna think about like
Andrea McCloskey (35:21)
Mm-hmm.
Dawn Rosenbaum (35:22)
you were talking about a button.
Andrea McCloskey (35:24)
Button well that someone was making the argument and I found it very convincing that rom-coms are really movies are really a form of class fantasy. That what we're really drawn to is like looking at people who can afford these extravagant lifestyles. And really I'm wondering if friends, what we loved about it is like the class the fantasy of being able to live like that and having leisure time.
Katie DeFiore (35:46)
See
Nate Rufo (35:50)
With
five of your closest friends and a huge apartment in New York.
Andrea McCloskey (35:52)
What
it's not it wasn't realistic then, but it's even less realistic now. And I just want to sort of think about that.
Katie DeFiore (35:53)
When did any of them-
Dawn Rosenbaum (36:00)
Yeah, I know, like ⁓ Carrie Bradshaw and ⁓ can't afford her apartment if you actually were to like live in
Andrea McCloskey (36:07)
Ridiculous.
Nate Rufo (36:08)
But he's a blogger.
Katie DeFiore (36:10)
Yeah.
Nate Rufo (36:12)
Now, I wanna talk about something different, Andrea, and it's because it's distracting me. And it's that your necklace looks like nerds. And it's making me really want nerds right now.
Andrea McCloskey (36:23)
Dare you.
Dawn Rosenbaum (36:24)
Andrea's necklace is made up of semi precious stones, a ton of them, they'll all measuring in different sizes, approximately like five millimeters by six millimeters by four millimeters. All read in individual like it's like almost like a a beaded bracelet, but it's a necklace and there's three strands that are then braided to be like this delightfully bulky.
Katie DeFiore (36:34)
That's so specific.
Nate Rufo (36:48)
I need to see a scene. I need to see a scene. I have to see a scene. Don, you are like you're like a person who's like introducing things at like a jewelry like judging competition, but it's all like candy jewelry. It's like candy necklaces and stuff, but you have to describe it in the way that you describe that.
Dawn Rosenbaum (37:05)
Everybody, we have lot 44567. It is a milk dud bracelet. as you can see here, we have milk chocolate, approximately 24% cacao, ⁓ a mixture of cocoa butter and ⁓ organic milk chocolate from the teeth of cows from Western Highlands of Ireland. We have here a supple and ⁓ delicate.
Katie DeFiore (37:31)
for
Dawn Rosenbaum (37:32)
Duds, if you will, that are encompassing of a caramel that is specifically indigenous to the Antarctic. And
Katie DeFiore (37:41)
You
Andrea McCloskey (37:42)
I want that.
Katie DeFiore (37:50)
I'll bid on it for you, honey.
Andrea McCloskey (37:51)
Honey
you must.
Dawn Rosenbaum (37:55)
And also it has ⁓ a knot that is made in the general naval fashion of nineteen twenty seven.
Katie DeFiore (38:01)
10.99
Dawn Rosenbaum (38:03)
Sorry, I'm not I'm not done yet, so
Andrea McCloskey (38:05)
That's your tax that's your tax form.
Nate Rufo (38:07)
We've been here for thirty minutes already.
Katie DeFiore (38:11)
I play 1099 for that.
Nate Rufo (38:13)
Don't start over again, please don't start over again. I must-
Dawn Rosenbaum (38:16)
What we have here.
Katie DeFiore (38:19)
I tried really hard to get that for you.
Andrea McCloskey (38:24)
Honey.
Nate Rufo (38:25)
Anyway, Andrea, did you have things to say in defense of your necklace?
Dawn Rosenbaum (38:29)
It's delicious.
Andrea McCloskey (38:30)
Okay. Assertion one. Nerd technology has come so far that you're not incorrect in saying th I mean they have literal nerd ropes. So this necklace would very well
Dawn Rosenbaum (38:42)
It would have to be like a nerd rope that is only the color red though. 'Cause like nerds are known for being multicolored. True.
Katie DeFiore (38:47)
Right. Yeah. So that just makes you one of those people who those people, know how like, like celebrities, they're like, oh, I M &Ms, but only the green ones. You're like, oh, I want my jewelry to be the nerds, but only the red ones.
Dawn Rosenbaum (38:53)
What do you mean those people?
Nate Rufo (39:03)
Now I did I did hear an interesting story on that. And can I share? Please. ⁓ I did hear that they only put that in really to make sure that people were reading their writer. Mm-hmm. Like they put it in so like they don't obviously they don't actually care about the green, but like they did it to make sure that, they read this and they're like all the other stuff's gonna be taken care of.
Katie DeFiore (39:07)
Yeah.
Andrea McCloskey (39:23)
It's like when teachers put in a surprise problem that's like, draw a star by your name.
Katie DeFiore (39:29)
Oh, see, I was going to do the opposite of that because in, I remember very few things from high school, I blocked it out. in, oh, I to say 10th grade history class, we had a teacher that we were all convinced were not, was not reading our essays. And so one student started out their essay, like wrote like a serious paragraph about whatever history thing we were learning about. And then just wrote like dicks and bananas, dicks and bananas, dicks and bananas. And then like wrote a concluding paragraph.
And then the next day, ⁓ our teacher was like, now one of you wrote what I would say a really, really great essay and I want you to just read it in front of the whole class. Tony, come up to the front of the class, please. And Tony went up and he was like, can you please just read this for everybody? He was like, I don't think I should. And he's like, no, I think you should.
Andrea McCloskey (40:21)
Well done all around. Everyone's a winner in that story.
Katie DeFiore (40:25)
Yeah, really all of us were winners.
Dawn Rosenbaum (40:26)
Yeah.
I was part of my student programming association in college and one of our jobs was to get big named like comedians and performers and their writers were always really interesting to me. Some of them were we were like, Why do they need a pack of underwear? And it's like, because they're on the road. So they just want clean clothes. You also then have to write a letter back to them that is like we need to renegotiate your writer because many times it was like we're a dry campus, we can't provide you with obscene amounts of alcohol.
So you'd have to be like, I'm sorry, Stephen Lynch, we cannot provide you with your ⁓ six pack of hineys. I still remember being in charge of the group that had to make a brownie tray which was as tall as humanly possible, which was part of the writer of a well known comedian who is still very popular. I don't wanna like I don't know if that's like I don't want to skip a suit or anything. But anyway, yeah, like that was a that was a thing. I think it had to also, it was like jokingly pibby
put in the shape of something, but I can't remember what that was.
Katie DeFiore (41:26)
Brownie.
Dawn Rosenbaum (41:27)
Yeah, right.
Nate Rufo (41:30)
Katie, do you have a
Katie DeFiore (41:31)
I am the last one. I do have a thing to explain. So to do this thing, you must first watch a very specific movie. And this movie was very popular in the 90s. It was a movie that wasn't instructional in nature, but kind of was in spirit. And in this movie, you learn how to do this thing or
Andrea McCloskey (41:35)
Ha ha ha.
Katie DeFiore (42:01)
You learn really why this thing matters to people. And it's a movie that was shown a lot, at least for me, in like school when they didn't want to teach us. So they showed us this instead. They like rolled in the, you when they roll in the thing. Roll in the cart. They roll in the cart, they the VHS in, and then they sit back and they're like, this is what we're doing today. Or if you're on like a long bus ride to like a field trip, they'd pop that in on the bus. So it's this movie that,
That's not what I'm explaining to you. I'm not explaining the movie. I'm explaining the thing that's explained in the movie. To be very clear. So, yes, that's the thing. Then, once you've watched this movie at least 10 times in your youth, you will then do this thing as an adult to reminisce about the good old days when life was simpler.
Nate Rufo (42:57)
say this 'cause it's not gonna leave my brain if I don't. Is the movie Freddy Got Fingered?
Katie DeFiore (43:02)
It is not, it is not that.
Dawn Rosenbaum (43:05)
seen that movie, but something tells me based on its ⁓ based on its title alone, it's not something that we're gonna watch in school.
Nate Rufo (43:11)
It is not aged well, no. It is a Tom Green movie. if you know Tom Green, yes.
Katie DeFiore (43:16)
Interesting. No, it is not that movie. I will say this movie holds a special place in my heart, but it's not it didn't age the best.
Dawn Rosenbaum (43:26)
Is this movie a cartoon or is this movie live action?
Katie DeFiore (43:28)
It is a live action movie. And if I were to give you more clues about the thing that's being done in this movie, I would say it's something generally done with friends.
Dawn Rosenbaum (43:41)
Is it a dance number of some kind?
Katie DeFiore (43:43)
It is not.
Nate Rufo (43:44)
Is this ⁓ i in general, is this something that would be tended to be more like gravitated towards by ⁓ by women or men, or is it kinda equal across or gender doesn't matter?
Katie DeFiore (43:57)
across I will say that this movie does not pass the Bechtel test in any shape or form.
Nate Rufo (44:02)
Sure as many of the nineties don't. And today don't.
Andrea McCloskey (44:05)
So when you are you reenacting part of the movie with your friends?
Katie DeFiore (44:10)
I will say you can do this thing without ever having seen the movie. I tend to reenact it and people tend to roll their eyes.
Nate Rufo (44:19)
Does the thing being reenacted have to do with food or lack thereof?
Katie DeFiore (44:23)
It does have to do with food.
Nate Rufo (44:25)
Okay, I'm I'm having a thought, but I don't know that it makes sense. My thought is hook. Is that the movie? Okay, so it's not the kids pretending to eat.
Katie DeFiore (44:32)
does not hurt.
Dawn Rosenbaum (44:35)
Was what was a live action film that was shown in Substitute Places in the nineties?
Nate Rufo (44:41)
Was it was it Matilda? Eating the big old chocolate cake.
Katie DeFiore (44:43)
It was not Matilda.
Ooh, that's a really good guess though. Ooh, that's honestly, I would almost take that as a right answer because everything that I've said to you is totally accurate for that. do fully put my face in chocolate cake.
Andrea McCloskey (44:58)
I love it.
Nate Rufo (44:58)
So
I'll tell
Andrea McCloskey (45:02)
These were you guys shown at school when there was a substitute.
Dawn Rosenbaum (45:14)
That's what you get for living so close to Gettysburg.
Nate Rufo (45:16)
Correct.
Katie DeFiore (45:17)
Is
that how you say it's not a Kettysburg?
Andrea McCloskey (45:21)
Like saying get used
Nate Rufo (45:22)
Bird.
Katie DeFiore (45:23)
Is that like the local way to say it?
Dawn Rosenbaum (45:25)
say how do people from how do people from the G Berg?
Nate Rufo (45:27)
You s well, I'm from York, so I'm I'm a little I'm not quite from Gettysburg, but I'm there, but I say Gettysburg. The the that one's you could say Gettysburg or Gettysburg, that's not gonna get me. It's the Lancaster Lancaster one that gets me. Like it's Lancaster, right?
Katie DeFiore (45:39)
Yeah. Yeah.
My mom's is Lancaster and we're from like right next door to it. And my mom's just like Lancaster and I'm like, mom. ⁓
Nate Rufo (45:48)
Makes me
Andrea McCloskey (45:49)
No Jason's grandfather says Gettysburg. That's what I want to say.
Katie DeFiore (45:53)
Is Jason's grandfather cool?
Andrea McCloskey (45:56)
Dare y'all. Six feet in the ground.
Nate Rufo (45:57)
Yes.
Dawn Rosenbaum (46:00)
Jason's grandfather fought in the Civil War.
Nate Rufo (46:03)
Kind of. Jason comes from a long line of deserters.
Andrea McCloskey (46:03)
I mean
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (46:08)
Did you not just say that's how Jason's grandfather says it? ⁓ but he died.
Nate Rufo (46:13)
Six.
Dawn Rosenbaum (46:14)
Talk
before he got to Katie.
Andrea McCloskey (46:16)
It was it was his last word. Get us er the movie that I think of that wasn't shown to me but that I showed to kids at the end of the school year. The Sand Lot.
Nate Rufo (46:18)
He's haunting Andrea still.
Katie DeFiore (46:30)
huh.
Nate Rufo (46:33)
Mm-hmm. Good ones. James L. Jones.
Andrea McCloskey (46:35)
So like sports movies?
Dawn Rosenbaum (46:37)
Trying to
Andrea McCloskey (46:38)
I can't remember the
Katie DeFiore (46:39)
You're the right track.
Nate Rufo (46:42)
⁓ so it's like a sandlot little giant s
Katie DeFiore (46:47)
Now you have to
Nate Rufo (46:49)
No, there's no playing in baseball one. Yeah, League of Their Own.
Dawn Rosenbaum (46:51)
That's the league of their own.
Katie DeFiore (46:53)
Now, I don't want to lead you astray, like Don maybe did with the first one where I was right and then no one said anything. What? It might, well, so the sandlot's not the thing you're guessing, it's the thing they do in the sandlot.
Andrea McCloskey (47:02)
Is it the same one?
Nate Rufo (47:06)
S'mores. Yeah?
Dawn Rosenbaum (47:07)
I don't know 'cause I've never
Andrea McCloskey (47:11)
Is that it? Making smart.
Katie DeFiore (47:13)
not gonna
have s'mores, I haven't had anything yet.
Nate Rufo (47:15)
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it.
Andrea McCloskey (47:17)
We did it.
Dawn Rosenbaum (47:18)
I never seen the Sandlot. Really? Is that the one that's also you're killin' me, Smalls? Yes. I know a lot of my context clues are like the references of the movies without ever actually seeing the movies in a lot of cases.
Katie DeFiore (47:29)
And that's from that scene. You're killing me, Smalls, because he doesn't know what a s'mores is, because he's never had friends to eat s'mores with before, and I felt that.
Dawn Rosenbaum (47:38)
You grew up most of your life thinking that s'mores was a thing you had to have friends in order to be able to make. Correct. And okay, so for readers and I listeners. For readers reading the transcript. S'mores you can make any time. You can make them in your microwave. Okay? It's okay. You
Katie DeFiore (47:46)
People are reading the
That's ludicrous.
And he believes that.
Nate Rufo (47:59)
Okay, I wanna see a scene. I wanna see it's it's Katie and Andrea. Andrea, ⁓ you you were you were both out like at dinner. ⁓ and there's there's something that Andrea does that she thinks could not be done in any other context other than with a friend, ⁓ that Katie's like, No, you can absolutely do that on your own.
Andrea McCloskey (48:20)
Yeah, so tomorrow I'm not sure that I'll be able to go to the grocery store or not. I have like no food.
Katie DeFiore (48:29)
Oh, well, I mean, do you need a ride? could drive you. Oh, what's the hold up?
Andrea McCloskey (48:37)
Well, can you can you push the cart cart with with me?
Katie DeFiore (48:41)
Oh.
You want me to... I mean... Time? Support a friend here, but like... We've only known each other for... Like a couple days, and you want me to go grocery shopping with you? That seems really intimate.
Andrea McCloskey (48:47)
I mean like do you have to
No, no.
It's just like my weekly grocery trip, but just a couple hours.
Katie DeFiore (49:05)
You don't buy... This
might be a personal... You don't buy like... pads and condoms weekly.
Cause I do.
Andrea McCloskey (49:16)
well I mean you're welcome to get some. Put them in the cart.
Katie DeFiore (49:20)
If I can put this in the cart, then I think you can do this.
Andrea McCloskey (49:22)
In the cart,
yeah. Yeah. So I mean like tomorrow morning? Could you do it tomorrow?
Katie DeFiore (49:26)
Morning. you want to clarify, you want me to push the cart with you? Like we're both hand in hand. Please. Hand in hand in hand on cart. Hand on cart.
Andrea McCloskey (49:32)
Yes.
Yeah, how d how do you do it?
Nate Rufo (49:37)
Can
we cut to the grocery store the next day, ⁓ where Katie is trying to show Andrea how she does it?
Katie DeFiore (49:45)
Okay, so this is Aldi, so we need to put a quarter in first.
Andrea McCloskey (49:51)
What, you need a quarter? ⁓
Katie DeFiore (49:53)
Yeah. Well,
it's okay. I have you. I got quarters. Okay, so I'm gonna... You put your hand in my pocket to get the quarter out.
Andrea McCloskey (50:01)
Yeah.
Nate Rufo (50:02)
Excuse me ladies, gotta get through, gotta buy my condoms here at Aldi ⁓ just walking through, having a great day.
Andrea McCloskey (50:09)
⁓ real.
Katie DeFiore (50:10)
We don't talk about buying condoms out loud at the Aldi. Just when we're eating dinner. Okay. All right. So hold my hand. Yeah. And we put the quarter in together. Cool. And now hold my other hand. Yeah. And then put your right hand.
Andrea McCloskey (50:17)
Exactly.
Why am I facing this way? The cart is back there.
Nate Rufo (50:36)
Cut to forty five minutes later.
Andrea McCloskey (50:38)
No, if you could just if you could just move your move your left foot. I I feel like if you move your left foot I'm stuck on this
Nate Rufo (50:46)
Kitty's walking through with these extra small condoms, just gotta sneak by you here, thank you.
Katie DeFiore (50:52)
It took you 45 minutes to decide what size you needed, sir?
Nate Rufo (50:56)
Well, I was afraid they wouldn't have one small enough for me.
Andrea McCloskey (50:59)
⁓
my god, it is disgusting. He's clearly dying.
Katie DeFiore (51:04)
literally on his deathbed.
Nate Rufo (51:05)
I'm just trying to get my rocks off before I get off the earth, you know what I'm talking about?
Katie DeFiore (51:11)
my god, okay, so my left foot Okay, what about the child seat you should get out
Andrea McCloskey (51:13)
Keep your left foot out of the
I feel like
Okay, okay. I'm gonna step out.
Nate Rufo (51:25)
We come to them at dinner d at dinner that night at like a really fancy high end restaurant and they're trying to figure out how to sit down.
Katie DeFiore (51:33)
No, I think you're-
Andrea McCloskey (51:34)
Here's the Matre D. Let's ask let's ask her.
Katie DeFiore (51:37)
Ma'am, ma'am. We sit with both our feet on the chairs but our butts in the water glasses.
Dawn Rosenbaum (51:38)
Yeah, yes. How can I help you?
Andrea McCloskey (51:48)
I
Dawn Rosenbaum (51:49)
I'm s I'm sorry to tell you this, but we have a no grocery cart policy inside the restaurant. So you'll first need to get out of the child's seat.
Katie DeFiore (51:50)
I'm
It's
just from the Aldi
Andrea McCloskey (52:01)
It's
not a problem for us. We can we'll be able to do just fine.
Katie DeFiore (52:05)
It's okay, we just need to the Yorushika on top of the table. Right.
Andrea McCloskey (52:08)
And we're gonna get our quarterback. So don't worry about
Katie DeFiore (52:11)
Don't
worry about that.
Dawn Rosenbaum (52:13)
I'm so sorry. yes, I I'll need you to get out of the cart first and ⁓ in fact there's actually space over here by this gentleman here, the one holding the box
Nate Rufo (52:22)
You can sit right here next to me and be the guy.
Katie DeFiore (52:28)
I'm doing that, I don't know why.
Dawn Rosenbaum (52:31)
For the listeners back home, Katie is physically trying to get in and out of a cart in order to that space work is on point.
Andrea McCloskey (52:36)
Thanks for it.
Katie DeFiore (52:37)
Yeah, I was doing the space work and I didn't need to be. I'm like...
Dawn Rosenbaum (52:40)
Your arms were up and everything.
Andrea McCloskey (52:42)
It Katie.
Katie DeFiore (52:43)
I, yeah, we should try this in real life. Yeah.
Andrea McCloskey (52:46)
Yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (52:47)
Next next podcast being filmed at Aldi.
Do they even sell condoms at all?
Nate Rufo (52:54)
That's a that was my joke.
Andrea McCloskey (52:56)
That's not it.
Katie DeFiore (52:57)
can't imagine that they do. It's not something they should do just yet.
Nate Rufo (53:00)
Right.
Dawn Rosenbaum (53:01)
I
wonder do they make generic or store brand condoms like those like
Andrea McCloskey (53:06)
Trojana
Trojana At that point you're raw dogging. Right? Shh.
Nate Rufo (53:09)
Nature's promise conduct.
Katie DeFiore (53:15)
Right?
Dawn Rosenbaum (53:16)
I
I just use the compost bags, they're reusable.
Nate Rufo (53:19)
Sheepskins.
Dawn Rosenbaum (53:21)
Two and a half gallons, baby.
Nate Rufo (53:23)
What's your fun story?
Katie DeFiore (53:24)
My
fun story about condoms. I recently found a condom from the year 2015 that I had in my possession. So the reason why I have a condom from the year 2015 is because my friend from high school who was a year ahead of me, she gifted me a basket for like a going to college basket and she gifted it to me in front of my mother and I opened it in front of my mother and there was just a whole, you know,
Nate Rufo (53:32)
Okay.
Katie DeFiore (53:53)
strip of sleeve, thank you, sleeve of condoms that I just took out and went like, you know, that motion where you like, in front of my mom at this Panera where I was at with my mom and my friend from high school. And I was like, and my mom was like, you don't need them. And I was like, I will keep these for later in life.
Andrea McCloskey (54:02)
What?
Dawn Rosenbaum (54:03)
As one does.
Nate Rufo (54:22)
And you did!
Andrea McCloskey (54:23)
Did
Katie DeFiore (54:25)
And they've been in the basket that I've just been tra- that's been traveling with me through phases of my life.
Nate Rufo (54:31)
I wanna say a scene. I have to see a scene. ⁓ Andrea and Dawn, you are going through your grandmother's possessions who have just passed away, ⁓ and you come across a a basket that's very similar to the one that Katie has described.
Dawn Rosenbaum (54:46)
Thank you for doing this.
Andrea McCloskey (54:48)
No, I'm glad you invited me. That's good. I'm hoping to find grandma's ⁓ you know, some of the letters she wrote to Grandma. Can you imagine?
Dawn Rosenbaum (54:56)
They were so touching.
Andrea McCloskey (54:58)
She saved them. look looking
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:02)
This is when
she first met him.
Andrea McCloskey (55:05)
I think they look like mom. Don't you don't you see it? I totally see it.
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:10)
Yes, I totally see it.
Nate Rufo (55:12)
They they turn the photo over and on the back it says it has a message that says, Can't wait to get it on with you later.
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:20)
What a touching note, like mm.
Andrea McCloskey (55:22)
I guess I didn't know that phrase was around.
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:25)
Right. It must have meant something different back then. For sure.
Andrea McCloskey (55:26)
Maybe yeah. ⁓
Cute.
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:34)
look, there's these little letters, all these cute little photos.
Andrea McCloskey (55:37)
⁓ what is that?
Katie DeFiore (55:39)
You see a giant dildo?
Andrea McCloskey (55:42)
What is that like a do you think that's a cooking implement?
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:46)
Hold on, I have to take off this little cute crocheted cover off of it. It's like a large sleeve. Good call.
Andrea McCloskey (55:50)
it's heavy. Is
that iron? Well maybe. Is it lead? It's so heavy.
Dawn Rosenbaum (55:55)
So shiny.
Nate Rufo (55:57)
They accidentally hit a button it starts vibrating.
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:00)
my god. Okay, okay, okay. We gotta try god, just try
Andrea McCloskey (56:02)
Discussion
distribution is a
Katie DeFiore (56:03)
different
button
Nate Rufo (56:06)
Okay.
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:06)
Okay, ready? Okay.
Andrea McCloskey (56:08)
What what the hell? Do you you
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:12)
you think maybe grandma and ⁓ grandpa were ⁓ like you know, don't like
Andrea McCloskey (56:19)
No, I just
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:21)
I don't think that can fit in certain I just it it could only be used for things that have capacity.
Andrea McCloskey (56:33)
But they were nice cath.
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:35)
Right, but she had a short torso. So
Andrea McCloskey (56:40)
Orso was average length. Okay.
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:44)
We had the classic Mc McHenry hor torso that we all
Katie DeFiore (56:44)
Get it?
Andrea McCloskey (56:47)
We're
also proud of our sows. ⁓ are you saying
Dawn Rosenbaum (56:53)
I mean
Nate Rufo (56:54)
We cut to a torso judging competition where Dawn is describing a torso in great detail.
Dawn Rosenbaum (57:00)
Distant number seven has exactly 73 and a half centimeters by 42 centimeters by 70.
Andrea McCloskey (57:08)
I
want that I want that. Honey.
Dawn Rosenbaum (57:11)
can tell that proportional to the natural length, ⁓ according to ⁓ Hispanic cultures of the n eighteen twenties European descent, where there is a robust curvature to the chest and then also it tapers down into what most people traditionally consider to be an hourglass shape. Now the the hips on ⁓ this individual are in fact what one would consider robust.
Katie DeFiore (57:12)
They are.
1099 I'll give you 1099 for
Andrea McCloskey (57:42)
Thank you, Honey.
Nate Rufo (57:44)
Give me $12 and a box of Aldi condos.
Katie DeFiore (57:47)
Let's go to the sky.
Yeah. Now I need to go to audience use. I really can get all of my necessities there.
Dawn Rosenbaum (57:57)
I like that when you're scene you had mentioned fitting them in the cart. And I was what kind of
Nate Rufo (58:02)
What the s
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:04)
You
you see people like Sam's Club and you're like, Okay, big cart, two boxes. Like that's that's all you can fit.
Katie DeFiore (58:12)
kind of wish, I don't know, Sam's Club feels like such an adult thing to me that I will never achieve. No.
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:19)
I don't know why, Sam's Club seems droll to me. Costco seems like a wonderland. I don't Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (58:23)
yeah, like all of them, I kind of put them all in the same category.
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:26)
I don't know why I don't when I'm just like, Okay, I gotta get the big things, mah mah, ma, and the cost go I'm like, Wee
Nate Rufo (58:33)
Costco and Sam's Club, once you get a membership, that's when you're an adult. That's the true coming of age.
Katie DeFiore (58:38)
I don't have to
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:39)
Me neither. I don't
Andrea McCloskey (58:39)
Neither.
Katie DeFiore (58:42)
Wait, so you have it? Yo, wait, so when do you go to Costco?
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:44)
I don't have it.
I've been in
Andrea McCloskey (58:47)
So you must get to eat
some more.
Nate Rufo (58:51)
And go to Aldi.
Katie DeFiore (58:52)
⁓
And buy condoms ⁓
Andrea McCloskey (58:56)
Dream.
Dawn Rosenbaum (58:57)
What
does Aldi do now? Like who has a quarter nowadays? Or do people like how do you
Katie DeFiore (59:04)
You never step foot in an Aldi? A lot of you leave quarters there.
Dawn Rosenbaum (59:06)
Okay. They
Andrea McCloskey (59:08)
They leave it behind.
Dawn Rosenbaum (59:09)
have a line of carts and it's the thing that they're chained to one another and so you have to put a quarter in to get your your cart and then when you put it back in, it pops out your quarter.
Nate Rufo (59:17)
What if they do Apple Pay?
Katie DeFiore (59:18)
I really don't think they do.
Dawn Rosenbaum (59:21)
I there's a reason there's no Aldi cards that are like like halfway across down people. Yeah, it's really
Katie DeFiore (59:27)
I'm
interested that we got that Aldi cart to that fancy restaurant.
Nate Rufo (59:30)
You really work together very well.
Dawn Rosenbaum (59:32)
That was an investment.
Katie DeFiore (59:34)
Yeah. Well, thank you, listeners. I'm sure there's at least one of you for tuning in to Spill the Scenes. This is our first episode. Yay! And we look forward to seeing you in the future. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Yeah.
Andrea McCloskey (59:39)
Mm-hmm.
Nate Rufo (59:51)
Probably.
And if you're in State College, come check us out. Blueberri Theater. We have shows every Friday at seven.
Katie DeFiore (59:59)
Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything else anyone would like to plug at the end of this episode?
Nate Rufo (1:00:04)
Yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (1:00:05)
Yeah, right. We need to have lessons from our stuff, like all the things.
Katie DeFiore (1:00:05)
Yeah.
Nate Rufo (1:00:08)
I like that. What are yeah, what's one lesson we each learned from today? Takeaway we have from today.
Andrea McCloskey (1:00:12)
Yeah.
Katie DeFiore (1:00:13)
⁓
My takeaway is that I don't need to have friends to eat s'mores, but I still will feel very self-conscious if I eat s'mores by myself. I'm so sorry.
Nate Rufo (1:00:24)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. My takeaway is asking the question, can I lick it is a a a way to dichotomize the world.
Katie DeFiore (1:00:31)
Mmm.
Dawn Rosenbaum (1:00:33)
I learned that jewellery can be really complex.
Andrea McCloskey (1:00:36)
Yeah. I learned that ⁓ fire is something I can hold in my hand and I'm gonna try that.
Nate Rufo (1:00:43)
It's
Katie DeFiore (1:00:44)
Maybe with friends around a campfire.
Nate Rufo (1:00:46)
Only with friends. Yeah.
Dawn Rosenbaum (1:00:51)
He's filling.