Jammin’ on the One

[00:00:00 ] Introduction and Birthday Celebrations

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[00:00:03 ] Brett: Hey, happy birthday. It’s my birthday. It’s Overtired. Um, we’re all here this week. It’s Jeff Severance Gunsel, Christina Warren, and myself, Brett Terpstra. Uh, how are you guys?

[00:00:16 ] Christina: Not too bad. Go on, go on, Jeff. Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say pretty birth I was gonna say happy birthday. I was like, not as good as you, birthday boy, but you know,

[00:00:24 ] Brett: I’m 46 today

[00:00:26 ] Jeff: Forty six.

[00:00:28 ] Brett: I’m not lying about my age like some people do. Um,

[00:00:33 ] Christina: It might be, it might be your birthday, but I’ll still tell you to fuck off. I can lie about my age as long as I want.

[00:00:37 ] Brett: I wasn’t singling you out. I just said some people.

[00:00:41 ] Jeff: Some people.

[00:00:43 ] Christina: Some

[00:00:43 ] Gifts and Subscriptions

[00:00:43 ] Brett: Um, yeah, I, uh, I’ve had a really good birthday. Elle, Elle knows how much I love getting gifts and I’m too old for most people to give me so they take it upon themselves to shower me. With gifts every year. [00:01:00 ] Um, and this year they got me a bunch of cool stuff, including a subscription to Cooks Illustrated and, uh, the book Vegetables Illustrated from Cooks Illustrated, which I’m very excited.

[00:01:11 ] Jeff: Print subscription? What a beautiful is this still beautiful? It’s been a long time. I don’t know if it got eaten by okay,

[00:01:17 ] Brett: I was picking them up at the co-op and just like, well actually, uh, one of the, one of the families that EL was house sitting for had them laying out. And I had forgotten how much I loved that magazine. Even like, even as a pescatarian who can’t eat half the recipes in there, they’re still so beautifully illustrated and beautifully written.

[00:01:39 ] Brett: And it’s just, it’s a fun read. It’s food, it’s food porn.

[00:01:43 ] Jeff: in an era yeah, but with line art. But in a in an era of like, um, the horrible, awful, terrible, evil, fascist food blog, where it’s like, let me just push all this shit away to get to a very simple recipe.

[00:01:59 ] Brett: [00:02:00 ] huh.

[00:02:00 ] Jeff: How amazing that all of the extra verbiage in Cook’s Illustrated is just towards you learning.

[00:02:07 ] Jeff: Uh, I think it’s amazing. It was like in the day, maybe it sounds like it’s the same, it was like McSweeney’s level design attention, but like even beyond that somehow. Yeah. That’s awesome.

[00:02:18 ] Brett: That’s exciting. Um, yeah, she also got me the book, um, Hip Hop is History by Questlove,

[00:02:26 ] Jeff: Oh, nice.

[00:02:27 ] Brett: cause they heard a, an interview and they’re like, Oh, this is all Brett. This is great. So they got me the book. So anyway, it’s been a great birthday.

[00:02:37 ] Home Improvement and Plumbing Stories

[00:02:37 ] Brett: My parents got me a flood sensor, which at first blush is ridiculous because we live high on a hill.

[00:02:45 ] Brett: Uh, on a bluff or like on next to a bluff, but like, there’s no chance of our house flooding, but I have done things like missing, poorly install a bidet and not [00:03:00 ] realize that I’m flooding the basement

[00:03:02 ] Jeff: Yeah, those are great for the basements.

[00:03:04 ] Brett: Yeah. So, so having some, some, uh, moisture sensors around the house could be. Could be truly valuable.

[00:03:13 ] Brett: My dad got it for me because he had recently discovered that a 30 year old toilet had begun slowly leaking into the foundation.

[00:03:23 ] Jeff: Oh man.

[00:03:24 ] Brett: so he’s like, everybody gets flood detectors now.

[00:03:28 ] Jeff: That’s amazing. I bet it wasn’t the toilets fault though.

[00:03:32 ] Brett: Well,

[00:03:32 ] Jeff: just like a seal or something? Cause the amazing thing about toilets is they can go forever. There’s such simple machines.

[00:03:37 ] Brett: just solid pieces of porcelain. Yeah. It would have been like a seal or something. Um,

[00:03:44 ] Jeff: Fascinating content. Hey

[00:03:46 ] Brett: Yeah, yeah, subscribe, subscribe for more home improvement. Um,

[00:03:50 ] Christina: Okay. Speaking of

[00:03:51 ] Jeff: about it all day.

[00:03:53 ] The Best Toilet Seat Ever

[00:03:53 ] Christina: of toilets, someone showed me, no, no, genuinely, somebody showed me the best toilet seat I’ve ever seen the other day. [00:04:00 ] Um, it’s, it’s, it’s from like this, this, um, LA based artist who’s pr