Now that we have dozens and dozens of listeners we take a look back at our journey from beginning to well… still beginning
Welcome back. This is Austerity Jones. C Thomas is out today. And I’m here with G Spot. We are going to do a retrospective look back on what we learned at the C Thomas Printer Cooperative (CTPC).
Today’s lesson will focus on getting to know Austerity and G spot a little better. As they exchange questions, diving deep into the psyches and eating habits of our contributors. In addition, at the end of the broadcast, we will be playing rapid-fire where Austerity and G Spot exchange quiz questions on prior episodes testing the knowledge and remembering abilities of each other.
G Spot: Austerity Jones, now that we have dozens and dozens of listeners here at the C Thomas Printer Cooperative, what have you learned in your time as part of the cooperative?
Austerity: I very much enjoy the trivia sections we have G spot, on history, and also the section where we name – also born on this date – I find it fascinating, all those people.
G Spot: So tell us what your favorite food Austerity? And how do you pronounce it in your country?
Austerity: It is dolma; it is how it is pronounced, dolma. It is food, basically, meat stuffed in paprika or also aubergine and a few other vegetables.
G spot: I will have to look it up and see what it is that you are eating on the regular. Austerity, tell me how have more grace challenge has affected you.
Austerity: I think, recently, I’ve been trying to have more empathy towards my loved ones. I have been trying to resolve our conflicts with more grace and that’s been really helpful. I wanted to ask you, what have you learned at the C Thomas Printer Cooperative?
G Spot: What I learned at the C Thomas Printer Cooperative, I have learned that even though C Thomas and I are quite different, it is interesting how we can go and we can learn new things at our own pace, in our own ways. He often teaches a lesson and I get to apply it, in my way, on the golf course, in the pub, and in my daily life. And I can still take those lessons and they might be different than his hardcore puritanical ass to my let’s go have a drink in the pub but we can still learn different things.
I also learned a lot about history which I, as you know, am a fan of. I do love history, which is why I wanted us to get involved with the C Thomas Printer Cooperative. Because we often get stuck thinking that we and what we are going through is the only time this has ever happened to anybody in the World. Well, this is just not so. Everybody, that is eighty years old, was once twenty-one. And they were thirty-one. And they were forty-one. So we can learn from the experiences of our elders because they already went through something similar. It might not be the exact same, people say history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes which I don’t really like that saying but they say it. But I do think that we can learn from it.
Austerity: My next question would be what is G Spot’s favorite food?
G Spot: I like all kinds of food. I really like Thai food but probably my go-to is bacon and eggs.
Austerity: Thank you very much for sharing your favorite food. It’s quite simple and I think we will all remember your favorite food. So my next question would be what you have done so far for our Have More Grace Challenge.
G Spot: What I found is to give is better than to receive. And by that, I have been buying more drinks for people and I find that it brings great joy to them. And it doesn’t really cost you anything because they often buy you a drink back. So that the net spend, if you will Ms. Finance Austerity Jones, is the same. But it is the goodwill generated by being the preemptive buyer of the first drink that shows more grace, as Ronald Reagan might say, that has really opened up good conversations, it has created goodwill and it has made my time at the pub much more enjoyable.
Austerity: G Spot, what comes up to your mind when I say, Voltaire?
G Spot: Voltaire? When I think of the word Voltaire, I actually think of the joke from the movie Swingers that John Favreau makes where he orders “pancakes in the age of enlightenment” in a Las Vegas bar and he doesn’t think that the waitress gets the joke and then she comes back and he tries to interrupt her, and she tells him “Hold on, Voltaire”. If you don’t get the joke, go to YouTube and search Swingers – Pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment. It’s a great joke, it’s also a great movie with Vince Vaughn, John Favreau…It’s just fascinating, it’s great. But that’s what I think of when I think of Voltaire.
Here you can find the link to the Pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment joke in the movie Swingers.
My first question for you is Mr. Faith Hill. Please explain who Mr. Faith Hill is.
Austerity: –
G Spot: So the reason that we do the Mr. Faith Hill is that the birthday is actually of her husband. Who is…as you Google…tell us Austerity.
Austerity: Daniel Hill.
G Spot: That is incorrect. She is not married to Daniel Hill no; she is married to Tim McGraw who is also a famous country singer in America. They actually met while they were on tour together. So they were two separate country music singers on tour together and then, evidently, somebody went to somebody other’s tour bus and marriage, kids, all of that happened. I’ll explain that to you one of these days Austerity.
Austerity: I’d like to ask you, I think this will be a bit easy for G Spot, Francis Ouimet.
G Spot: Francis Ouimet was a young amateur golfer; he also went on to the 1913 US open as a young amateur golfer. I’m going to do a little foreshadowing on something I’ve been writing, we will see in a future episode, Annie Laurie, his caddy. And how he makes us circle back into the C Thomas Printer Cooperative.
Austerity: I’ll be looking forward to this.
G Spot: Question number two for Austerity Jones. Who was Casimir Pulaski?
Austerity: Hmm… I don’t know.
G Spot: Someone needs to study their history… Somebody needs to study their history… So let me tell you who Casimir Pulaski was. Casimir Pulaski is the most important person in the history of the United States of America.
Austerity: Noo, really?!
G Spot: Yes, but it is also probably, possibly true. He is a polish historical figure. Yet, on the battle of Brandywine, the continental army was in a very bad situation, and our father of our country, here in America, George Washington was in a very bad way to make a hasty retreat and it was the charge of Casimir Pulaski that allowed him enough time to escape. So he saved the life of George Washington, in the revolutionary war in 1777. Without that charge in him saving George Washington, the United States of America might not be here. We might not have had our first president, we might not have had the president that led us to victory over the English and we might not have the United States of America. So, Casimir Pulaski might very well be the most important person in the history of the United States of America.
Austerity: Wow, this is very interesting. This time I’m not going to forget that. Noted, thank you G Spot.
G Spot: I’m here to inform, I’m here to inform. Next. Ask me.
Austerity: I could ask Glenn Ford.
G Spot: Glenn Ford was an actor in Hollywood. He had a very long and extensive career. Glenn Ford might be most well-known for a movie that he was not the star in. If you recognize the movie Gilda with Rita Hayworth, it was Glenn Ford who was her person of interest, shall we say. You might be wondering, why, why G Spot are you referencing a movie from the 1940s, in which Glenn Ford isn’t even the star? And I say to you, you must learn your history. Most of you have seen part of this movie and do not even realize it. That’s right, the movie Gilda is playing at the Shawshank prison in the movie Shawshank Redemption. On the prison movie screen, when red and all the prisoners swoon when Rita Hayworth froze(?) back her hair, that is Gilda. And her love interest is not other than Glenn Ford. So he was very prominent in the middle 1900s as an actor. One of the most famous actors in Hollywood. That’s who Glenn Ford is. But now it is my turn, it is my turn to ask.
Who is Kathy Ireland?
Austerity: Kathy Ireland…I suppose she is an author, right? But I think she first started with modeling.
G Spot: That is correct.
Austerity: Yeah and then probably she went on parallel careers like writing and maybe started a few businesses in the design industry.
G Spot: You have no idea who she is, right?
Austerity: Hahaha I played well, no?
G Spot: You were caught Austerity. So the most famous thing about Kathy Ireland is she was on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue which for many years in the United States was the most popular magazine of the year. And I believe she was on multiple covers in addition to, yes, becoming an author and designer and she started her own business but she is probably most famous for being on the Sports Illustrated covers. I’m here for you. I’m G Spot. I inform. When it comes to pretty ladies, I do know a few.
Austerity: A few?! Oh, I see! You are doing the Have More Grace Challenge.
G Spot: Correct. I live the Have More Grace Challenge, Austerity.
G Spot: We’d like to thank you for listening to C Thomas Printer Cooperative as we explored the rich and short history of the cooperative through the lens of Austerity Jones and G Spot Johnson. We would also like to thank you for helping us become one of the fastest-growing social media enterprises on the internet today. In fact, we are growing at such a fast pace, that a social media platform reached out and asked if I was interested in buying them. Not Twitter, which was already purchased this week by Elon Musk. But another one, called TikTok asked if I was interested in purchasing them for an all-stock deal. I said I would have to think about it and they said the clock is ticking. Tik Tok, Tik Tok…
Austerity: Oh boy…
Also born on this date: Jane Seymour, Ray Lewis, Emmitt Smith, Tenzig Norgay, Pierre Curie, and Ryan Leaf.