James Orr & Reform UK: The B-Side (PREVIEW)

Josh Boerman (0:00)

Another week, another B-side.

June Sternbach (0:02)

Aw, I love that.

Josh Boerman (0:03)

In this week, the B in B-side stands for Britain.

June Sternbach (0:09)

It was foreshadowing this whole time.

Josh Boerman (0:10)

That's right.

June Sternbach (0:11)

Yeah, it was all coming up to this moment. No one knew.

Josh Boerman (0:14)

I feel like, I can't remember, have you been to the UK?

June Sternbach (0:18)

I've never been, I've never left the Western Hemisphere.

I've only ever been to Canada, like when I was much younger. Otherwise, I've never left the States.

Josh Boerman (0:29)

So you are true North American scum, top to bottom.

June Sternbach (0:33)

I am, yeah.

You know, I'm just very lazy when it comes to doing like administrative stuff. So I've been meaning to get my passport for years at this point, and I'm just like, eh, I'll get around to it. And I've just been getting around to it for like four years, essentially.

Josh Boerman (0:46)

That's actually where I've been with my driver's license for like, cause it expired in May. Oh no. And so I've been meaning to get it renewed for the past five months, but I don't drive and also I have my passport. So like if I ever need ID, I have ID.

June Sternbach (1:04)

Yeah, no, that's sort of like the best one, frankly, from how I understand a passport, you can just kind of use that for everything an ID already is for. But no, it is, it is.

Josh Boerman (1:14)

You have to take much better care of it than a driver's license is the thing, because replacing a passport is not fun.

June Sternbach (1:20)

True.

Josh Boerman (1:21)

And it costs like 150 bucks.

June Sternbach (1:22)

And I guess the downside of it is the one thing it doesn't let you do is drive. If that's what you want to do, it does not do that. But now, speaking of like being really lazy at administrative stuff, I was sort of forced into having to.

So I moved to Chicago a little over two years ago now, and I had been neglecting getting my new plates on my car. So I still had Wisconsin plates. I didn't have like a sticker for parking in like neighborhood streets where there is like, you need a sticker to park here or whatever. I just sort of mostly been getting by on parking on streets that don't have that, like main streets, bigger streets.

Josh Boerman (2:00)

Yeah, but if you want to do like the way I know the way residential parking is on residential streets, those are permitted spaces that require that they require a Chicago residency, right? And you have to have an Illinois plate, I think.

June Sternbach (2:13)

You do. Yeah. To get that residency sticker, you have to have that plate. So I didn't have either. And I was putting them out for two years. I seriously got to a point where I think these contractor ticketing services knew my car was a hotspot for them to ticket me. I swear to God, there was one week where I got three different tickets in one week. In that month, I got five fucking tickets. And I was like, I need to take care of this. So there was like two months ago now, there was this day where I was like, okay, going to the DMV, getting this done, getting my sticker, getting all of this done.

And it was, I don't know, it's like, I wish that shit was easier. Because for someone who's lazy and doesn't take time off during the week very much, because I like to work and I don't like taking time off.

Josh Boerman (2:57)

Wait, you just said you were lazy. How are you working?

These two things, let's be honest, what's going on here is it's a lack of executive function. And I know because I also suffer from this exact issue.

June Sternbach (3:08)

Yeah, that might be more what it is. You know, whenever I've taken, I don't have a prescription for Adderall, but whenever I take Adderall, whenever I've been able to get my hands on some of my friends or whatever, I thrive.

Josh Boerman (3:18)

I know it's kind of crazy, right? It's always like, I can tell after I've taken Adderall whether I am actually just being lazy because otherwise, like if it's something that I actually do want to do, I'll do it.

June Sternbach (3:31)

It's incredible.

Yeah, my friend, like about a year ago, while she was still living down in Chicago, she went out to Europe for like a trip for her grad school for like two weeks. And she was like, yeah, if you could just like check on the place, if you can like do this, if you can, if I have a package coming in, if I let you know, can you pick it up, this, this, that? And I was like, oh yeah, great. And she was also like, yeah, you can take like anything from my medicine cabinet too. And I was like, even the Adderall? And she was like, yeah.