The DOPPELGANGER Weekly BS Ep!

0:11 Good afternoon, good after work, good after three am getting up to go pee, and you just had a nightmare so egregious that you wouldn't even admit it to yourself. We are anxiety attics bedtime Stories. I'm Joe and I'm Morgan, and after some really obnoxious, frustrating and uncool technical difficulties, we are here for our weekly BS. And thank you for joining us. Joe. It hasn't been just the two of us in a long time. I know, which sounds sexual, but it's not. It's not. But I'm kind of happy. This is kind of nice Mark. So we had this idea.

0:52 So I will tell all of you listeners that I did something that sounds so superficial and so self involved and a slightly narcissistic, and maybe it is all of those things, and I should just own up to it. But I have a Google Alert out on myself to see if I got famous overnight. Why else would you have it? But I joke to Morgan because I get emails with my Google alert and it tells me what's going on in the universe of Joe Newman's Now they're usually like Mary Joe Newman or Betty Joe Newman or whatever. But they're usually obituaries. So I am here to bring you the news and celebrate the lives of all the dead.

1:32 Somebody Joe Newman's out there in the world, but not today. Today is about a playwright. What is your Google alert? Is it Joe Newman or is it Joanna Newman? It's Joe Newman. I don't. I don't think I've ever gone by Joanna Newman for anything. No, I know, but that's technically your name. And I just would like to say one thing that you should also put a Google allout for Google Alert out for Joanna Newman because there's a possibility that a lot of those went by Joe, and when you start reading the obituaries, they can say Joanna Newman and then in parentheses Joe Newman. Right, So I could be doubling my number of obituaries if I change the name. Yeah, or fun exciting things that Joe Slash didn't like their parents' name that they gave them Joanna or out there doing.

2:17 So here's what I've got for a Google alert. Okay, So you know how when you have anxiety you can find anxiety anywhere? Yes, like you can, you can you can make anything into anxiety. Like somebody could ask you to choose a paint color and they choose gray, and you go, oh, they think that that my personality is gray. Like you know, when you're when you're in that sort of anxiety spiral, you can you can make mountains out of molehills, but you can make anything out of nothing. Yes, all right, So I open this Google alert while I'm having anxiety just about like life in general. I think it'd probably spent too much time on the news, and you know, I have this very like deep fear of doing nothing with my life. Like I was having this conversation with my friend Dominique, and she goes, if somebody who's writing the book of my life, would this chapter be interesting? And I was like, ooh, yeah, that's a great way of looking at things. That's so articulate. I love you, dom And then at night, when I couldn't sleep, I was like, that's putting a lot of fucking pressure on the shit. So I'm already in this anxiety spiral and about the book of my life that no one's writing.

3:23 For the fucking record, like, no one's writing that book, And I get this Google alert for a play that is going up in Oh my god, where's it going up at the Perth Theater? So I assume that's in Australia and it's d. H. Lawrence is the Rainbow, which has been a staple of English literature for over a century, dissected in classrooms, praised for its lyrical depth, and at one point banned for its daring explorations of sexuality and gender identity. For all of its analysis, one theme has been overlooked. It's migrant narrative. So here where is this dramaturge in Perth named Joe Newman who is taking on a DH. Lawrence play that encapsulates every single issue that's being covered in the news that I'm already stressed as fuck about, and she's turning it into art and putting it on stage. So then I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night because I was so anxious about all the things that this other Joe Newman was accomplishing, and how interesting the story this chapter of her life would be.

4:25 Joe, do you know what I love about the two of us? Is a I don't. I've never thought about my life being written as a book, and whether I give a shit, whether somebody else finds my lazy days walking through the streets and like, I don't know admiring the spring buds that are forming on trees, because that would be boring asked to read. But it's something that I really really enjoy that you're looking at a playwright in Perth thinking they're so accomplished. Would you want to be doing that? Yeah, I guess you would.

5:07 I've just impressed by it and it feels so active and proactive and interesting and it's just impressive. Like it's just impressive. And I'm like, okay, male or female? Female? I like that, did you set that up on your Google alert? Or you're like just Joe Newman? Female? No, it's just Joe Newman, but it you know, I don't usually. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Although Riverside fun fact, every single time we do our transcripts, when we do it, it's always whenever I say your name, it's Joe. So in my Riverside is sexist. Exactly, Yeah, exactly. It's deep. The misogyny is deep, even in technology.

5:52 I mean even in Perth anyway. But that being said, then, because my anxiety was already so on high alert, which means that, like my trigger, I don't know if this happens stupid, Like my triggers so easy. So when I'm already on high alert, when I'm already feeling super anxious about one thing, it takes nothing to make me feel anxious about something else. Yeah, no, that's totally fair. Like if it's like when your skin is already having an allergic reaction, you touch, it goes nuts. Like so when I'm already I. Can't believe you just said that, because Alex was just at and just brought my son to allergy, and they basically were saying the same thing, like he's not allergic to mosquitos, it's just that his skin is so reactive anyways, that anything that touches him they pretend it's a reaction.

6:35 That Yeah, that makes you should write that in a chapter in your life. Or somebody else should write it, because I feel like it's just asking for more work for me. But so, so I'm already like in this super anxiety spiral, and then I'm anxious about this other Joe Newman out there who is doing much more with her life than I am, and taking on these huge societal and cultural issues and funneling them through art onto a stage. And then I see that she doesn't get very good reviews, and I'm offended. I've never met this woman. I've only been alerted to her existence as of like forty five seconds ago. And now I have this pit in my stomach that this play isn't good. More goan, I'm losing my fucking faith.

7:22 We have to mind tickets and go to Perth. My kids are fighting outside of the door, and I'm going to kill them. I know. Just just guys, I would like to add to my anxiety about being really bad at geography. This isn't the Birth theater in Scotland, and it's ended. It was only Thursday, February twenty seven. Is Saturday, March eighth. I could go on March. Yeah, so it ended. Oh ended? This is so funny. You're like Perth, I'm assuming it's an US. And then and then my additional anxiety and topic is that I have never read The Rainbow by DH Lawrence, and I'm like, oh, am I uneducated in my British literature, but I am I.

8:11 I would like to put a question out for the people who left bad comments. Are we sure it's Joe's fault, because could it be DH Lawrence's fault for a shitty play? Good point, good point, thank you. Because that seems unfair. Well, she also, yeah, I don't know she. I think she's credited as being the dramati on this, which is like a literary advisor, but in her on her website she's a director, so maybe she's just wearing too many hats and it's too much going on. Everyone. She gives Joe a fucking break. Guys, leave Joe alone, Leave Joe alone, all right. I hate to bring it to you, Joe, but I think I know that that really impresses you, and you are a little bit I don't know, not jealous, but like in awe of the Joe Newman from Perth, Scotland, because it's impressive how they feel. Sorry, not how they feel, but what they're doing and the amount of work it must take to put on a what's his name? DH Lawrence play. But because of this trend that Joe started, I also started this trend of looking up my name for other Morgan Walshes and wait, did you put on your Google alert? I put them on Google Alert.

9:31 Yeah. I haven't gotten anything yet, though, how often do you get stuff? People die all the fucking time. I haven't gotten anything yet. But I get it. I get a weekly obituary. We we did find a Morgan Walsh on Instagram and Joe I don't know who. I do not miss the life of Joe Newman from Perth, Scotland, but this girl, I would like you. We need to get this clip off of what we're filming right now because I would like to send this to her. I'm speaking directly to you, Morgan Walsh. This is her introduction. This is like her bioline.

10:13 I roller skate, drive a van and own a hot dog stand. And I, honest to God, from the bottom of my heart, don't know anybody else who's living the life that I should have been living other than this woman. Now, my life is extremely different. But this sounds like a shitload of fun. And she looks like a shitload of fun. Like more, she looks like so much fun fire. Yeah, like we're obsessed. We started following you. I don't know. I just have this feeling that we're living very different lives. But I just feel like you are living yours to the fullest of the full In I think the Valley, right, and so now where is it? I looked it up. Anyways, Joe, how would you pronounce her Instagram name Zenga Zanga? I said, Zinganga.

11:11 But she doesn't just roller skate. She roller skates like during La Fashion Week in a bathing suit, like she's beyond rad. I'm very impressed with her. I mean, could you imagine what she would do on stage in Perth, Scotland with the dh Laurence play She shit out of the water? Wait? Two things? Number one she also works at she's third generation owner of this hot dog stand. Wait her tell us about this hot dog stand? Mark, did you do a deep dive? I did, because, like, seriously, my life stream would be to open up some sort of like food truck. So I was like, ugh, this sounds amazing. But also she works with her sister, which basically seems like she's working with her best friend. And yeah, she's fucking fabulous. I mean, I don't know what else to say.

12:03 Oh my god, I'm looking at her videos and she got married with this like great kind of high sixties ponytail and this short, little, very like twiggy sixties dress, and I'm just blown away because i don't think I've ever seen a cuter bride. Oh my god, one of her brides bridesmaids is wearing head to toe leopard. Okay, she's the cutest. She's hands down the cutest. To get her on. She's got a high, high slick ponytail with this long blonde hair, and she pulled that thing off where you like wrap the hair around the ponytail so you can't see the hairband. Yeah. Yeah, and she's in this little mini dress. She's she's the second cutest Morgan Walsh I've ever met.

12:51 That was sweet, Joe. I know you don't mean it, but that was really sweet. She's way cuter than me. Oh my god, Morgan, you were stunning at your wedding. I was pretty cute rerunning too. Yeah. Cupids hot Dogs has been around for seventy five years. They've been in the valley since nineteen forty six, and it was originally by assuming her grandparents, Richard and Bernice Walsh. Oh. I love Richard and Bernice. I love those old I love those old names that couldn't exist in any other time. It's like people now want to name their kids after their their grandparents, which is what I did. But my grandmother's name was Carol, and I couldn't have.

13:36 No, you couldn't be like the name Carol. Yeah, it's beautiful for a sophisticated older woman who like puts peanuts out on her coffee table for cocktail hour. But you can't be like, oh, hear, meet baby Carol, like you'd expect the baby to be born knowing how to shake a martini and nit nafghan. Like grandma Carol. Yeah, but you couldn't be like, oh, meet baby Bernice, like baby Donna, like they're all I've actually always. Thought about that with my husband's name. My husband's name's Umberto, which in Italian it's a very adult name. It's like it's not like Luca or Leo, Leonardo whatever it's it's it's a very adult name. And I go, what did people call you when you were like a little bitty baby where they were like Hi Umberto. By the way, the English translation is Hubert.

14:29 I would imagine that like baby Hubert. Oh my god, I find it so funny. I'm gonna put something up on his Anyways, I'm ordering merch cupids hot dogs. Do you guys ship to Europe? Ship it to your parents' house. So you guys, check out Morgan Walsh on Instagram. Not this Morgan Zanga Zanga, Zanga Zanga. Her name is Morgan Walsh, but it's like at Zanga Zinga is her uh name? And her handa, yeah, her handle, Go check her out. I feel like she's my what what do you call it when you are the opposite from somebody? But like attracted? Is it like twin flame or something? No? No, not in a sexual way. I mean like in like a oh my god, I can't believe this is another Morgan.

15:15 I feel I feel like a kindred spirit with her. Oh, a kindred Spirit's a good one, marks because I feel like if you looked like it would be doppelganger. But I don't know what it means to have the same name, but they. Had no doppelgangers if we looked alike. No, no, I just mean same name. And also like I'm very enthralled with her life. I do check out her Instagram, like I don't know, once once. A week, and it does. I love it. And it does look like online that her grandparents who are standing there and you know, suits or it's a dad and maybe it's a business partner and like buller hats and clearly like an old La Valley that the Cupid's hot Dogs was a brick and mortar location totally, and maybe she turned it into a food truck. We're gonna just have to find a way to have her on because now.

16:07 No, no, I think it's still I think they have a few locations at a deep time, they have a few locations, and it's still like an actual it's more of like I don't mean a I didn't mean a food truck. It's more of like a truck stop, like a Tom's two of Hadley or weatly I should say. But now I'm craving hot dogs and I love a chili cheese hot dog. I was pregnant on my wedding and I made my mom stopping at me a Chilichi's hot dog before I got married. That is both impressive and disgusting. Oh my god, I'm so impressed by that. And I'm also you would. Be so disgusting because you see what these look like. Yeah, yeah, but they're guilty.

16:49 But but I'm impressed by you. I'm impressed by you. Thank you. I was also the one that helped you. I know, I'm marking was pregnant, very pregnant, orders this insane wedding dress, and Morgan is very clear on how she wants things to go, and she's like, just zip it. And I'm standing behind in this wedding dress is probably this most expensive zipper I've ever touched in my life, and I'm like, I don't know, and she's like, just zip it, and I'm like, oh my god, this brings me back to high school with Abercrombie jeans, with this stretch. I hope this dress was stitched with the integrity that the price tag reflected. It was. By the way, for our listeners, Joe's not fat shaming me, It's that I purchased the Oh no, I knew. I purchased this dress before I knew I was pregnant, and I had already had it altered. And I was like, I have to wear this dress because I spent a fucking shitload of money on it. And somehow, some way, my kid waited like till the following week after five months, to like for me to blun out, like up until then, I had a little bit of a belly, but I wasn't.

17:56 It was one of those bellies where in the morning you can probably get away. I could get the dress. Yeah, like as it went on. This has nothing to do with anything, and Morgan does have to go. But I have such a funny story from your wedding, so we are. You have to tell it fast. We are out in Tuscany and it is probably one of the most beautiful old churches I've ever stepped foot into my life. Like this was a place that if you'd gone on vacation, you would take two hundred pictures because it was just so beautiful. And this is where Morgan's getting married. It's August. There's no air conditioning, and I I speak a little bit of French, but that's really the extent of my bilingual capabilities. And this in my memory, this entire service in this church is first of all, it's a full mass, so it's like four and a half hours. And it's not like it was one hundred bazillion percent not forty guarantee you. I knew you were going to say you could guarantee it. You can't guarantee it. There's no way of guaranteeing it. I'm telling you. It was long. So there's no air conditioning, and in my head also, they're not even speaking Italian.

19:04 It's like in Latin. It was not in Latin. This is how I remember it. And I was and our friend Melissa was, for whatever reason, given the camquorder. That's how long ago this was. And she was meant to be the videographer. And we're sitting up front because we're her testimonies, which means we have to sign and say that. I don't know why we had any legal standing there, but apparently we did in the country of Italy. And Melissa's sitting there and it's hot and it's beautiful, but we don't understand a word. She's holding this like crappy camcorder and she looks at me and she goes hold this, and she hands me the camquorder, folds her arms across her chest and falls.

19:54 I was wondering why no one ever sent me the video. I don't even know where that camquorder went recorded as best I could from there, but I thought there was a reason that she'd been given it. I don't know, Oh my god, that's so funny. But she just pat and I don't know if Melissa has always had that talent, but she's just like fell asleep. That is, so I can't by the way, plane it was forty five minutes. It was. There's first of all, it was not Nobody stays in church for longer than an hour in Italy, and forty five minutes is like long like in the US. I my even my husband hates going to masks. He goes, why don't Americans have to make this thing an hour long? Like bit of baymit, go in, go out, like make it sweet for the people, like don't try.

20:40 You have your memories that I have mine. And there's a video camera some there recording every minute of it, so somewhere out there we could figure out. How I guarantee it's not my dad my dad. I guarantee it was my dad's and my dad does it, and then we don't know where they go. So I'm gonna I'll figure it out when I go home this summer. We're gonna have to find the Bob Walsh hard drive. So any way, thank you guys so much for listening. Thank you for listening to us explore the other Joe Newman's and Morgan Walsh's of the world. We will be back next week with either more of these or some fabulous guests that will snag in the meantime. That being said, you guys, this is so stupid. We feel like idiots asking this. This is really stupid. It's so dumb. We need freakin reviews. And if I don't feel.

21:26 Dumb, please give us reviews, stars. Anything, anything, give us anything, send us at what if I said this, I said, Or send me one hundred dollars, or go write a review? Which one would you pick? And the review can be like super simple and not. It doesn't even have to be over the top. You can just write this is the greatest thing my ears have ever been blessed with encountering in the history of my existence on this planet. Like, it doesn't have to be a big deal. Good one, Joe, good one, Joe. Seriously, we would super appreciate it. A little star, a little review would mean so much. And if we haven't told you today, we love you, guys, We love you. And sweet dreams