Welcome, listeners, to Very Fine Friends.
Sinus.
We've got a very special treat for you today.
We've got a little bit of bonus improv.
Joe can we get a suggestion
your suggestion is
financial
that makes me think
my brother Jake and I
when we were little kids
we used to like play
like we had a business
we used to pretend
like we had a bank
and
I
the
the only like i was probably eight and he might have been five um and i didn't know very many
bank words but i knew the word financial so i my go-to thing as the boss of the bank would be like
jake where are kathy's financials
kathy's financials is still lore and my family that's cute yeah i like that a lot
I have great memories of the bank
like being a kid
the times my dad didn't leave me in the car
and I would come in
the smell of the bank is like etched into my memory
like all the triplicate paper and stuff
I loved it I love going inside the bank
and um
the PO box
he had like a PO box
I loved being at the post office because that's where it was
little keys
did the teller have like a little glass jar
of lollipops
I have no memory of treats
I don't either actually
That was a haircut thing for me
The great clips that
Parents would take me to when I was a kid They would always give me a A lollipop shut you up probably No it was at the end if I was good Oh if you were good Okay It was a reward
So it was still to shut you up, but you were to work for it.
It was a carrot and stick type great clips, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, when you mentioned that you were the boss of the bank when I was a kid, I mentioned
before we had a really big property, and there was all this crap and just scrap stuff all
over our property so it was just my dad would just dump it there and me and like some other kids would
like go in the backyard and see what we could find to play with and there was like full arcadia doors
like the glass doors and so we'd like set it up and like balance it and to make like cubes for
like cubicles so like we could like work and so everyone set up a little cubicle for me and then
like they're like help us with this other one and i was like i can't i'm working now that my cubicle
is established oh sorry yeah i'm on the clock oh grindstone nose to the grindstone but looking
back how dangerous is that like any minute that thing could have just dropped and killed us
yeah that's dangerous it's life baby in the early 90s and mid 90s
the 2020s arcadia doors anywhere you could get your hands on them oh yeah they were like rice
and now improv
Welcome to the bank.
Christopher, you're going to be a great addition here.
Okay.
Thank you.
Sit down. Here's your cubicle. You like it?
Oh, I love it. It's a space to call my own.
Yeah, look, you get a mouse, you get a keyboard, you get a computer. Wow.
Great.
Wow, I feel so bank-like.
You are.
If you just go ahead and look up, this is really cool.
is what we call a performance enhancer.
Oh.
See, it's a bunch of dangling blades.
Yeah, no, they look precarious.
They're very sharp.
They will kill you Christopher Oh I sorry Can I get a new cube No no we put it there on purpose Yeah Why would you do that When you perform well the blades go up
If you make an oopsie, they come down.
But it's okay.
Because they come down slow.
This is...
Well, I didn't...
They didn't teach me about this in business school, but...
I guess this is my first real job if this is how it's done in the real world.
Is this scaring you?
Well, yeah, a little bit.
I'm worried, Mr. Johnson.
I mean, Mr. Jordan.
I'm sorry.
Careful.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh, no, no.
Shoot, I didn't know it was starting already.
Try not to make a mistake with me in here.
What if you're not here and I make a mistake?
I've explained the stakes.
So it's going to happen no matter what?
All right.
Follow me.
Clearly, you're not ready.
I'm going to put you into a safer...
Oh, thank God.
Okay, come on in here.
Go ahead and take your shoes off.
Oh, okay.
Your socks, too.
Roll your pants up.
Hey, pale feet.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry.
Pickleball tan.
Great.
Go ahead and put those tootsies in that bowl of water right there.
Oh, this is kind of nice, actually.
See that plug?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
If you mess up, the GFCI outlet will turn on,
You will be electrocuted.
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, whoa.
Low volt, low volt.
This is still pretty high stakes.
You never been buzzed?
What?
I have a pacemaker.
Oh, say no more.
Say no more.
Come with me.
Okay.
Come with me.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead and pop in this cube.
Nice, huh?
Oh, this one's nice.
See this guy behind you?
Yeah.
He's got a gun.
Oh, my God.
What?
This can't be what work is.
I think that maybe you just did not understand and he has a suppressor on it.
No one else will hear a thing I not worried about people hearing it In fact if he shoots me I want people to hear it I want people to know what happened to me
I don't want to die anonymously in this bank.
All right.
I'm listening.
Mr. Jordan?
Oh, good.
Yes, you got it right.
See, you learned.
I think the threat of those things happening.
Yeah, well, I'm not going to make that mistake twice.
Mr. Jordan, can I ask?
Yeah.
Why is there a lion pacing back and forth behind you?
I was just like you once.
Scared.
Till I came to work here.
I used to have a wife.
Oh no, what happened?
When I joined the firm, they said, of course you can work together.
And I was thrilled.
I cried tears of joy.
Then I made my first mistake.
she was mauled to death by the beast you see behind me what the beast i now call a friend
what wait wait so you actually you learned from this and you oh first i was it was devastated
hurt crying all the time i kept her head for two weeks that's weird well don't judge how i grieve
oh sorry it's all right anyway oh shoot uh oh i just heard the the blades they got a little bit
lower. I'm sorry. I now know to
not judge how people grieve.
But that line taught me
that I don't have to make mistakes.
I can be perfect.
And you can be perfect too.
Okay.
I mean, if it
gives me half the confidence and swagger
that you have.
Quick question, though.
Can I bring my
girlfriend to work?
Uh, Dean.
We'll see you next time.