Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - QQ ep 96 - For Sale, Puppy Shoes, Somewhat Worn

Episode Date: July 2, 2021

In this episode the guys talk about their NextDoor obsession, and Dan (kinda) helps a community find an adventurous puppy. And as always big thanks to our sponsor this week, Hello Tushy.  10% off + free shipping HelloTushy.com/qq

So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers separated by 3,000 miles ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, author of How to Fight Presidents, staff writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and former recovering biker Daniel O'Brien, joined as always by my co-host Mr. Soren Bui. Soren, say what up. Hey, what up, crew? This is Soren Bui. I am a writer for American Dad, a writer of an article on trying to get people to come to a Bennegan's where I would fight a turkey out in the parking lot. A number of other articles, too. Thanks to HelloTushy for supporting Quick Question.

Keep your sweaty crack clean all summer long with the latest in butt cleaning technology, water. Clean your butthole with a bidet. Get 10% off plus free shipping and get your butt clean at HelloTushy.com slash QQ. Hi. I have a quick question for you to start off, Daniel. Oh, wow. All right. I was going to plug something for you, start off daniel oh wow all right recovering i was gonna plug

something for you but uh recovering biker oh yeah so we mentioned we talked about um my uh i was gonna say in our last episode we talked about my my wrist surgery when like 90 of the episode was about your surgery with me every once in a while. Anytime I notice like, hmm, it's been a while since I've heard my voice, I would jump in with my less relevant, less scary surgery. But if this is your first episode,

I broke my wrist several years ago and had surgery on it and I broke my wrist. I was riding my bike in Los Angeles. It couldn't be any more wholesome riding my bike to church and a driver uh pulled an illegal u-turn in the middle of the street ahead of me and i was going downhill it's a part of uh it's coming right up on santa monica boulevard intersection of santa monica boulevard and westwood there's a very steep hill by the sprouts and a car did an illegal U-turn in the road by the sprouts and then was sort of hovering in the bike lane.

And it wasn't clear if he or she was going to get out of the bike lane or go into the sprouts. Like it was an indecisive driver making sudden moves ahead of me. And in all of that panic, shot forward forward off my bike broke my wrist uh and then went to the emergency room eventually got surgery fully healed everything's great um but something occurred to me that uh i have not been on a bike since it's because uh i was talking to someone who's going to hawaii soon and I told her she should do this very specific trip where

you take a bus in the middle of the night to the top of a volcano called Haleakala and then you watch the sunrise and then you take a bike ride down the volcano it's very fun and she said do you bike a lot and that's when I realized no

I used to, I used to bike like 35 miles a week. And then I had this accident. And like, of course, wasn't going to continue biking that day. And didn't bike with all of the surgery and recovery. And I don't feel like I have been avoiding bikes. Like I don't have nightmares of bikes or anything like that. I imagine I could get on one right now. But it's still one of those things where it's like, yeah, I guess the last time I was on a bike, something terrible happened.

And I don't know if that's a thing that I need to reckon with or not. Right. I wonder what it's going to be like. I know, because now it seems like there's pressure on it. Yeah. Well, once you acknowledge that that's the last time, it becomes a whole thing. But you're actually right. In my life, I go through whole decades where I don't ride a bike.

It just doesn't come up for whatever reason. Until my son got to a certain age, I hadn't ridden a bike since I had just begun at Cracked, and I could ride my bike to work. So it'd been like four years since I had ridden a bike. And then I started carrying him around in a little carrier on the back. But that was the only reason I ride a bike. And you don't have that reason. And you live in a city where, gosh, I mean, you don't, you never even had a license.

You've never driven a car. God damn it. There's just no reason for you to ride a bike, I don't think. I just, I certainly used to like it, but now that I'm doing mental inventory, I remember my bike in college was stolen on another very wholesome day. I had ridden my bike to my friend's house. We were going to make a cake together, my friend Nancy. And we spent like a Sunday afternoon baking a cake. And then I got out of cake baking and someone had gone into her backyard

and stolen my bike. I almost always chain it up everywhere, but I didn't think anyone was going to wander into a backyard and steal a bike in broad daylight on a Sunday during prime cake time. So that bike was stolen and then my first bike in Los Angeles

broke while I was riding it. It was like a shitty bike, so it was destined for failure but i'm i'm i'm piecing some things together i've had some bad luck with bikes yeah i wonder if all those events are you were just like headed towards a serious injury on a bike at some point and at each turn there was some some benevolent act of nature was like not today let's not let's steal his bike instead. It was bound to happen.

And then at each one of those turns, those terrible things that happened to your bicycles were just something looking out for you so that you wouldn't break your wrist. And then eventually you just forced it. You forced their hand. So now if we are to believe that there was an omnipotent otherworldly presence that is trying to get me off a bike to avoid an accident, what are we supposed to learn from the fact that the accident happened on my way to church? Where's the lesson? Where's the lesson? I think when you told me,

for some reason we were at a bar the night after you did it, or the night you had done it, and then like, didn't we see you for your birthday? No, it wasn't your birthday. It would have been the wrong time of year. But for some reason, I feel like I saw you right after you did it, and I asked you, or I told you that I think God doesn't want you there. That sounds right well um the show we should get into the show yeah i did want to plug something because you said

you mentioned as you always do up top that you're a writer for american dad and according to my calendar the thing i set my life to when this episode comes out will be a week before your episode of American Dad comes out. This is going to be the last episode before July 7th. That's right. Yeah. So it's very exciting for me. July 5th is my episode that I wrote last year, and it's so exciting because Scotty Pippen is in it who he's like a childhood hero of mine scotty pippen is in it playing himself and he's so funny that's so exciting um why do i have in my calendar that it comes out july 7th i think did you ever tell me july 7th i think i probably did and I think our show

comes out on a Monday I don't know I don't watch it um I think our show comes out on Mondays so I think the 5th is actually my episode well this is still the right time to plug it so I get

good guy points for remembering. Can that be right? Let's get into our show. We have a little bit of a different kind of show this week, as if there's ever been any kind of consistency week to week. This is a segment I'm going to call Dispatches from Next Door. Cool. If you'll indulge me. Yeah.

Next Door, as everyone knows, it's my current favorite website. I guess it's also an app, but it's a neighborhood-based social networking platform where people can talk about what they're selling or they can plan meetups or give away furniture. Or if you're me, you treat it as a delightful little reality show. Purely in text form. So you can see how bonkers all of your neighbors are. I love it. I visited several times today to see what's going on.

And I had one of my favorite kind of wacky uh adventures recently that i just absorbed from watching it and this will serve as as a i guess spoiler alert companion to the story soren told a while ago about that fucking dog that definitely died so a person on next door posted about their dog missing dog had only been in the city for three months and went missing had like escaped from the dog walker and immediately this is you're not getting that dog back three months in the city that dog doesn't know where it is ran away from the dog walker it's gone it's gone forever and the wild thing about it was the person kept posting every day update still missing and then other people who are not the dog owner kept getting involved and like no one no one had any additional leads on this dog but strangers now were posting hey anyone who's who's uh looking for flower here are some updates

still no idea where she is still missing three days on yeah but uh this is where i looked today and everyone is just like it's it's a a great bit of community coming together to uh support other strangers in the community but also like i think you people are just bored right because no one no one is like doing anything that um can provably be linked to actually finding flower and one of my favorite entries in this saga was a a woman who is not the dog owner who was talking about the dog owner who will call britney and he's like britney's at work today from nine to six or whatever she while she's at work at and then she like included britney's place of business oh stockster i'm next door yeah she's like while

she's at work here here are some things that we can do to help find this dog and she had like a bullet point list of things it was like go to craigslist go to different shelters ask for the lost and found on shelters walk around with this picture point number four last night i talked to a retired detective and the detective said we need to get a drone and i thought okay good so this woman is occupied so we don't have to worry about her causing any trouble. Yeah, she's dedicating her powers to something good. Yeah, she's very focused and that's good. Now that she's out of the way,

let's the rest of us put our heads down and look for this dog who is definitely missing forever or dead. Yes. But Sorin, they found her. What? Flower came home. How long?

How long? From June 8th until June 13th. Oh, my God. I'm not going to ask either of us to do that math because it's very tricky because it wraps around the 10. And that's difficult. It's around. Wow. That's in the middle of the city

a dog missing for over a week maybe it went it went through it ended up from uh the upper west side where it started it ended up in long island city which is you're going through a tunnel at that point. This dog ran away and went through a tunnel. And it was, no exaggeration, one of the most exciting moments of my life. Okay. When you see the next door post that, all caps, FLOWER HAS BEEN FOUND. And we, like, fucking lost it. Me and all the other strangers, even that lunatic who posted who doxxed

our our woman uh she was flipping out we were all flipping out and they like uh um a meetup was held in central park to meet the owner and this now arbitrarily assigned hero dog whose whose act of heroism was just like staying alive and being found um and it was such a a wacky and fun uplifting story of like a neighborhood coming together like every every bored lunatic with time on their hands getting together to try to find this dog until it was eventually found in a warehouse in long island city what it made it made the news oh man that's so cool it was and and like i didn't know i didn't know from next door that it was going to be on the news i was watching jeopardy which

is the only thing that i watch on like regular tv that is not like an on-demand streaming thing. A, regular TV. And B, the only thing that I watch with commercials, because I just want to like see what's going on with commercials. And that's when I see like the 30 second commercial for the evening news is on Jeopardy. And as soon as the guy cuts in, the newsman cuts in and he's like we're gonna talk about this we're gonna talk about this the second the remarkable story of a community and

this one dog and as soon as I saw the picture of the dog I was like that's fucking flower and I went to next door to tell the rest of next door the flower is gonna be on the news and everyone's like no I know I see it we're excited I need so much so i have a lot of questions about this uh okay number one did we did the private detective did anybody get

any sort of a sense of how this dog ended up down there we so on the news you could see footage of the dog running through a tunnel what and you could see like there there are oh they have the cctv yeah and there are there are there are cops who like stopped traffic because they tried to get the dog and they failed getting the dog but like they stopped enough traffic that the dog had like free reign through that tunnel and then no one none of the cops followed the dog afterwards into long island city because forget about it it's chinatown yeah and they just let the dog run free in there and then it just ended up like the it's just somebody else on next door posting about noise in a warehouse in long island city that led enough of these other next door sleuths to put a few together

to connect the warehouse with uh the dog owner so next door did find the dog it was somebody else yes oh my god that is that's a pixar movie uh no okay do you know what the that was it just like an abandoned warehouse the dog ended up in uh i don't have that information oh okay sorry now did you go to the meetup i didn't go to the meetup because the day of the meetup was the day that i was driving to my jersey beach town okay so i couldn't go i think it would be very funny if the dog tried to run away at the meetup uh or a really good bit would have been for you to go there meet people and in the mid conversation grab the dog and pretend to run away with it.

Yeah. But my favorite detail still remains the one that I pulled out about this woman who doesn't own the dog, but knows all this information, who knew of a retired detective, and the detective's only advice was, you need to get a drone. That's the thing where I was like, ah, I have no plausible reason to ask this woman for more information, but I really want to. I cannot fucking believe that this dog was alive. Well, I can believe it was alive, but that it didn't belong to somebody else at this point. Because that seems to happen quite a bit in Los Angeles

is people's dogs go missing all the time. But that's because somebody owns that dog now. Somebody has found that dog or kidnapped that dog and been like, I want this dog now. Yeah. That's a great story, Dan. Thanks, buddy. I was really hoping I could fill more time. No, it's okay.

Because I do have a lot of questions about this dog. Can you, did you already tell me what kind of dog it was? No. okay because i do have a lot of questions about this dog can you did you already tell me what kind of dog it was um no and actually i i changed the name of the dog because yeah to protect i don't know someone's privacy yeah well all you know is if it's a big dog or a little dog it's a biggish dog it looked like kind of a greyhound but a little bit heavier than a greyhound and like definitely not a pure greyhound yeah but like that long kind of skinny face and a bigger dog okay so that makes you it's it's i don't know i don't know why but that's less impressive in my mind than like a little like uh chihuahua or something that's that's scampered along in the big city by itself and found its way and where the fuck was that dog going so did escape from an apartment

or just got loose from a dog walker okay and just got scared that's one of the other things that that's one of the other things that that makes next door the perfect reality show is the amount of recurring characters and recurring side threads that are going to happen anywhere. Because you would think the main narrative is there's a dog missing, and it's my dog, and let's all focus on it. And that's certainly a big part of it. But if you click through the comments on a thread,

you'll get some, like, the the basic information this is my dog's name this is what she looks like she is missing she got away from a dog walker and you got all these people like oh i'm so sorry i'll help you look and then you'll get people who are like that's why you can never fucking trust a dog walker that's why i don't ever do that i'm like well wait what where who how's this helping well who's this new character and then and one of the details we learned about the dog is that the woman rescued the dog from india when she was traveling in india wow and then somebody in the comments was like oh well india well that dog's long gone i'm like well that one even that's a that's a type of stereotype that I'm not even familiar with. It's an amazing...

Go back to India and missed home? Yeah. Every next door adventure is Game of Thrones in its sprawl. In the amount of like side characters, fully realized, full developed characters just existing in this world where like my point of view is you can't trust dog walkers well my point of view is you just shouldn't have dogs let the dogs be free like all right okay my point of view is india's got the worst dogs their dogs are bad we're gonna this is we're setting up a whole lot of plot threads and i don't think we can tie them all together by the end of this saga i that's one thing that i do really enjoy about next door and i still what keeps me on it i don't even have next door for my new neighborhood

i only have next door for my old neighborhood and i still go and visit it because there are you're absolutely right you basically start with these archetypes like they're these people who continuously post no matter what they're going to be in other people's replies and everything and they also start their own threads constantly. And these characters emerge. And then you get to watch, like you just get to throw them at each other. Like you know that if somebody's gonna talk about, they saw a coyote, man, I know the coyote guy.

I know who's on this shit. And I know I wanna see his replies because he's got a lot of advice for how you should interact with a coyote. And guaranteed at every single turn, these people are going to interact with each other. And it's so indulgent to watch it happen. And you know when things are going to get bad,

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I looked at it and there was a woman who was saying that she, I think it was a woman, she was telling a woman. She had was telling a story about how she was putting up posters of her dog everywhere, her missing dog. And it was a $3,000 reward she was offering. Only this post was not about that. This post was about, uh, please, if you see these posters lying on the ground, or if you see someone tearing them down, please let me know so that I can go repost there i was posting on and then she gave an intersection the other day and a woman with her child came up

and watched me and scowled and i said have you seen this dog and she said that dog's already been eaten at the chinese food restaurant jesus and i told that woman that she was racist and then that started an altercation. So like, she's just sort of like, we're just getting this like glossy details of this very intricate fight that probably took place. And then this woman is the one who's then been tearing them down.

So it comes out in the replies. Somebody's like, well, can you post a picture of the dog? And so she posts a picture of the flyer. And it is a big, I don't mean to laugh about this one missing dog it's a big poster board that you would do use for like a science project or something neon green and she's posted these all over this neighborhood so they're at these giant neon green posters dangling off of lights and things like that all over this neighborhood

on the sides of apartment complexes and stuff and then there's this other old woman who's wandering around tearing them down because she doesn't like them in the neighborhood she it turns out is also on next door and so she starts replying in the same thread about how these things are an eyesore and like if you want your dog back there's better ways to do it but like not offering any obviously but so then everyone's then it makes these factions start forming where people are like i see these everywhere they drive me crazy and other people like you don't understand what it's like to lose a dog and they just fight with each other and i just it's a shame it's real honestly because i enjoy it so much i just i just enjoy watching it unfold and uh that dog has not been found that is a terrible bummer yeah but uh the posters are i'll send you a picture of the posters they're really pretty great it really makes me wonder

i can't imagine that next door created these people right no they exist they were they've always existed but just like what did they do are they just all the people who show up at like town hall meetings that i don't go to i don't know i i like i'm trying to think if if like my neighborhood growing up seemed so boring and or or just so average i guess that uh statistically however it seems like there must have been people in their homes just like sitting there being crazy all the time yeah i think that's way way more common than we think. It's like you've just got these rear window people, these people who are immobilized for whatever reason.

They're stuck in their house, whether it's because of a handicap of some reason or they just don't have anything going on in their life. And they're the people who are constantly looking out their window and wondering what everybody else is doing out there what could they possibly be doing because i stay home all day what is why is that guy walking up and down the street and you know a dog and then those are the people that you meet on next door those are the people who are like this neighborhood is in danger of crumbling and i am the only one holding it up

danger of crumbling and i am the only one holding it up man how big is your quadrant do you know that area that your next door covers um i'm looking at it now how would i find that out does it say on you just know by like people people are always talking about like i had a break-in on this street okay yeah i would say um maybe 20 blocks it's it's is oh that's big like the the farthest out i've seen any news i figured it would be much smaller in new york because everybody's kind of packed on top of each other you you can afford to have you have a lot more people in one particular little area in la that's about how big they are too but that's because you know it doesn't cover that's not that many that's like one little neighborhood uh wow so that's just a ton of people that were all looking for flour yeah

that's such a nice heartwarming story i'm not surprised the news pounced on that i love that the police too were they saw the dog they're like we got to get this dog home and then the minute it crossed the border into the lawlessness of long island they were like oh was it long island long island city yeah yeah they were like oh fuck yeah, we got no jurisdiction there. That dog's free. The only other next door thing that came to mind unrelated to dogs that I was just trying to track down but I can't find it right now

is a woman it was the most like transparently weird situation I'd come across where a woman uh was talking about how she needed um an in-home not not physical therapist not doctor an in-home strong young man had to be a man and had to be young she was in her 60s and was a former Broadway dancer. And this person needed to be a strong young man who could stretch her out and like carry her from her bed to other parts of the house.

And just like massage her muscles and do things for her. Sex was never mentioned, but it seemed heavily implied that that's what this was about. But the only reason that I'm not willing to pull the trigger on it definitely being a sex thing is that it seemed like a pretty rotten deal otherwise, because he was just like, the pay is not good. And it's not going to be good. You should only do this if you're really gonna love the work uh that's i've always assumed that's what next door was gonna be when i got on it i was like

there's gonna be some weird craigslisty yeah uh requests for sex on here there's gotta be um and that was really disappointing for me to see i'm so pleased that you got something like that what did she delete this no here it is i'm gonna send you the picture of this this neon picture of this dog oh it's good the thread has continued i've got so much to read so that's like a uh uh three foot by three foot poster board that then somebody else is talking about how they keep running into it when they're skating down the street and stuff like that jesus christ this this poster is so green i think there might be some magenta ones too because there's some other i'm just gonna send the whole thread to you because i think you'd really enjoy it um but they're just

these big big giant posters which i get like you i i if i'm gonna be walking around my neighborhood the stuff that's stapled to lampposts and stuff or taped around a lamppost i pretty much ignore because i it's like an ad on a website i just know that that's not something that i am gonna look at it's it's also such like uh it's such an old-fashioned way of uh asking for help and spreading information that anytime i see any sign taped to a street light or a tree my brain tells me that it's been there for years so like when i see uh uh no matter how fresh the paper looks i'm like ah that bird's fucking dead forget it yeah yeah yeah yeah here's a here's a question that i have for this missing dog sign so i'm going to describe this

this sign for our listeners it's uh an impossibly green inescapably neon green sign. Missing dog, possibly stolen. There's three pictures of the dog, which I think is a very smart thing to do. And they're all labeled. Long hair, groomed, messy. So you see different versions of this dog because you don't know what state you're going to find it in.

Yeah, it could be a kidnapped dog. Here's what's wild to me. The photoshopping, like putting the label long hair and messy on the dog uh is as basic as you could expect like no disrespect to the person who made this you don't no one is born knowing how to photoshop this is fine this is if uh assuming your parents are around my parents age this is their first attempt at photoshopping. That's the level of skill we're going to assume here.

Except the picture of the dog that's groomed is... Like every other... Is it taken on a white site? It's on a white site. Every other picture is like, this is a picture of the dog in the street, this is a picture of the dog in the house. This is a picture...

A picture of a dog was taken and then expertly cut out of its background and placed on a transparent background that is like a pure white void and i don't know how that happened yeah it does it looks like either the photo was taken uh in the fog or like on a white psych stage or somebody meticulously cut that dog out of something else like it was a in a yard or something they cut away all the grass they just let the dog and then they slapped it on a poster with other pictures where they couldn't be bothered to cut it out yeah um but anyway it's uh those are like the next door the stuff the stuff where no one's really in danger because there is sometimes on next door there's like a pit bull in the street attacked my son today and you're like

fuck yeah um i don't know how we can help with that um just keep an eye out for the dog i guess but though there are so many of them on there that are completely innocuous but the person is so upset by it and the stakes are so high for them for this little tiny innocuous problem that i just adore it like it's my favorite thing to just sit there and read i i devour all of it this was when i was in north carolina uh my dad was reading out next door complaints to me and one of them was about it was like this this person's dog attacked my dog when i was walking the dog and then a person commented on there was like i know your dog you never clean up your dog's shit like great now there's more conflict in this story i love it

this time of year is particularly good for next door too, because you get everybody who has never even, they have no idea about the concept of fireworks in general. So you just get a lot of, I heard a loud explosion. Did anyone else hear that? Eight explosions in a row. Did anyone hear that? Gunshots, gunshots in my neighborhood. Is there anybody else?

Anybody have eyes on what's going on? I read around the 4th of July. It's like people go crazy on there. And it's always the exact same post. You could copy and paste from the year before and they'd be identical. Yeah. There's so many times I want to go into next door. Just be like someone will make a post.

Very often people have a thing they want to say, which in New York, if you assume that Nextdoor is predominantly made up of people who are of a generation above mine, older folks, you can probably piece together that there's going to be a lot of calls to refund the police like that's that's a big talking point among upper west side next door users uh that's their platform that's what they want to say because everyone likes to think that their city is always

going to hell and we need more police but they'll they know they can't just say that so they'll do a story that is like i was in central park today on a tuesday morning in broad daylight and a gang of teens on bikes circled me and beat me and took my shoes and i called out to the police and they said the police aren't gonna help you lady and they knocked me down and they rode away laughing and no one came to help me. And I really want to comment on that and be like, I think you're lying. Yeah. I think that's impossible. Yeah.

I don't think your shoes are that good. Yeah. Like, I agree. I understand that you feel unsafe right now. And I don't know where that comes from, but I believe that's the core of what you're feeling, but I don't think you were surrounded by biking teens in Central Park. Yeah.

There's a weird tick in some people's brains where if they think it could have happened, that's as bad as it having had happened absolutely that's well put you see it on twitter a lot where like somebody falls for some some fake shit like something they they don't somebody doctored a photo or it could be it is not this is not like politically divided either this happens on both sides where uh somebody just falls for some shit and then they post it and they're like i can't believe he's doing this i can't believe she's making this happen and then somebody else will come along and say no this is false like this snopes has already

debunked this this is just somebody created this to be silly and the person will go yeah but it's it could have happened i mean what's crazy is that it's so believable and you're like stop right there those are very different things it's just because you can believe it doesn't mean that that's as as high stakes as you think it is um anyway those those people drive me crazy but boy liars on next door don't i would love to read some more liars on Nextdoor. Yeah, I'd like... This will be one of our many recurring segments, Dispatches from Nextdoor. What are our other recurring segments?

That very fun music game that we never came up with a name for. Yeah, I also have one cooking up, but I have to pre-record something for it, but it's going to be a nice big surprise for you when I do it. Oh, that's really fun. Is this at all tied to my my uh birthday slash christmas slash going away present no everything in my life i like to keep very close to my chest away from you until it's absolutely ready well i like that i like the idea

of us coming back i'm gonna keep my eye out on next door for some really good stories that we can bring to one another um but for now let's end the show love it okay well you can follow daniel on twitter at dob underscore inc you can follow me soren at soren underscore ltd and you can follow quick question at qq underscore soren and dan you can also follow our cfo uh bacon our CFO, Bacon, at MakeMeBaconPleased with a PLS, and just ask him about his upcoming legal thing that Dan and I will both be attending in Los Angeles and see if you can get some answers out of him because we can't. Unfortunately, we're not privy to talk about it.

He asked us very specifically not to mention it. You can email us at QQ with Soornanddaniel at gmail.com and you can maybe hire at some point. You can at least see the website that he's starting to create. I don't know how you would even follow him, just to check in on it every once in a while, but he's our sound engineer, our editor

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