Welcome to Rumble Strip and welcome to the second episode of Problems,

Starring Pam and Joel, old friends who support each other through their problems,

because no problem is too small to complain about.

We left off with Joel, who was in the midst of a pretty inconvenient

bathroom renovation in his house, and Pam,

who's been dealing with some issues with her daughter, River's been biting other kids at school. Here's Pam and

Joel.

Hey, hello? Hi. Do you think you can make it Friday to open mites?

For that, for the open mic?

Yeah, I think so.

I'm just, you know, the thing about it, I mean, I am a little nervous, but I think the reason I'm just you know the thing about it I mean I am a little nervous but I think the reason I'm

nervous is I think I have really good material but I just think that John is always

putting me kind of last in the lineup or maybe like three quarters of the way through the lineup.

I don't want to say anything because I'm really glad to be there and I want to support the

effort but I also would really this time this I would for this weekend I would really like to be a little bit higher up in the lineup.

So I don't, do you, how would I ask for that, do you think?

Well, no disrespect to John there, but it's not like a U2 concert. I mean, it's an open mic,

it should be, it's probably pretty easy to move stuff around, so it seems like a pretty reasonable request.

I mean.

I don't think that the, that my work is going to be hard for you.

I think you know it's a pretty much of a C. G. D situation probably but I'm gonna just

all do you I'll just run it through a cappella here for a second you can tell me if you are if you catch on to how it how it works does

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