Johnny: No, I kind of figured the guy would have gold teeth.
Jay: Oh, okay, so this was your idea....
Johnny: Yeah.
Jay: So, how does that work; do you show up one day with gold teeth? Do you just say to the director "Hey, I want to have gold teeth." How does that work?
Johnny: No, I pretty much just showed up with gold teeth.
Jay: Well, nothing you can do if you have gold teeth.
Johnny: Yeah. I actually had a couple more, then took them off for political reasons within the company.
Jay: Now, what would the political reasons be that you got rid of some of the gold teeth?
Johnny: What I did, I went to the dentist and I got the teeth put on, and I said "You know what? Give me more, give me a couple more," because I had a sneaky suspicion that some of the executives might freak out over them, so then I would have something to barter with.
Jay: Oh, I see, so you would drop like three teeth...
Johnny: "I'll take two...all right, I'll take two out, there's my compromise."
Jay: Now, that makes sense.
Johnny: It worked.
Jay: And you just had a birthday, right?
Johnny: Yeah, I did.
Jay: This month, the big 4 O ?
Johnny: Yeah.
Jay: Now, how was that one? Quite a big deal for you?
Johnny: I felt pretty normal, you know?
Jay: Did you expect something to happen?
Johnny: No, everybody sort of says, you know, "Forty, forty, forty." That really happens when you're thirty, I think. As soon as you turn thirty you go "(gasp)Forty, forty's next," you know, and by the time you reach your late thirties, forty - you welcome it.
Jay: That makes no sense, but yeah, okay. So forty really happens when you're thirty, so you're really fifty now...
Johnny: Yeah, that sounds right. I could be sixty, you know...
Jay: Boy, time flies!
Johnny: It really does.
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