Hello everybody. Welcome to Shake it and Disturred little country today. I am,

Cowboy carp, if you will. Cowboy carp. Look out. That's right. Or a cowboy carpenter, as I once

called you. We've been reminiscing about our friendship on NMR. 10 years. Well, welcome to shake and disturbed. I am Darren Karp here with my lover, John Thrasher. Well, let's not go that far. We have sex every day. I think we can call it what it is. You know, it's just, we have sexual

related. I think it's with you. Yeah. I thought it was with you. I keep yelling at John. And nothing seems to matter. So yeah. No, all the lights are off. Everything's gross. You know. Well, we have to keep all the lights off because otherwise we would never be able to make sweet, sweet love every night. Okay. Interesting.

Welcome to shaken and stirp and happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. I heard this the other day. Someone said this to me the other day, but, you know, it's like when you have small talk with someone and you're talking like, oh, the weather, huh? It's kind of crazy. The small talk has now moved to, can you fucking believe it's May? And I know it's true.

And listen. Because I can't. Can you fucking believe it's May? I know, it's true.

And fair point, because I can't believe that the year is half done.

I can't either.

And I don't know how you feel.

This is your first half of the year in L.A.

And I want to hear what your thoughts are about that.

Because for me, as you know, I moved to Pittsburgh in December and it has been extremely cold. What? Just like you moving in December.

Oh, I know. You know, like I don't, like it feels like you just moved. I know. And I did in a lot of

ways. But like it has been so cold here all the way up through two weeks ago, you know, like the beginning of May, really. And it's like all winter long up here. I'm like, when will it stop snowing? When will it not be three degrees outside? And then it was just like immediately became hot. And all the, all the trees bloomed at the exact same time in less than three days i went to new york a couple weeks ago for the tony awards uh press junket which i've talked about on nmr and stuff and when i came back from it was like they didn't the trees didn't have leaves before i left and then when i came back they did and i'm not exaggerating it's the weirdest thing i mean two weeks can really change even out in the marina where I live it's been kind of chilly like it like in a nice way in a very pleasant way like it doesn't feel oppressive at all I mean it's sort of its own ecosystem around here just because it's on the water so you're really getting that sea breeze but yeah it's been I mean I can't believe I've been out in LA almost a year.

And do you feel the year? Because like, I always kind of gauge the year by the seasons in some

weird sense, like subconsciously. Do you feel that movement the same way?

You know, it's interesting because I, you know, certainly like in New York, you felt like you

earned the weather and out here

is not that same thing.

Right.

Like, I do notice a change.

It's funny, my friend Molly, when I was talking about it, I was like, yeah, it's been

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