Jordan, Jesse, GO! - 642: Send Noods with Baron Vaughn

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

Baron Vaughn (Call & Response with Open Mike Eagle, The Great Debate on Syfy) joins Jordan and Jesse for a discussion of the wild delivery-only pop up restaurants in Jordan's neighborhood, Baron's im...pressive rendition of Fagin from Oliver! the musical, and the ways we might be able to get a street named after the show. Plus, Baron tells us about his exciting new streaming show with Open Mike Eagle, Call & Response, which is streaming NOW. It's thoughtful, important, and hilarious – check it out.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Give a little time for the child within you, don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Goh, I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. I'm gonna be honest with you, Jordan. Aww, I hate that. It makes me uncomfortable. Give me some bullshit, baby! I hate that.
Starting point is 00:00:22 It makes me uncomfortable. Give me some bullshit, baby. Give me some fucking ironic, eye-rolling, goofing around. I don't want any feelings, any authenticity. That'll send me into a spiral. I pulled, this week, I pulled what I like to call some king shit. Oh, boy. I really flexed my muscles as a member of the American middle class and, frankly, as a father. I have been, as you know, Jordan, and listeners can probably guess since I was gone for a while,
Starting point is 00:01:01 things have been tough here around the house. We've had some real challenges going on uh and you guys are trying to beat battle toads yeah yeah and i can't find that goddamn issue of nintendo power oh man and you'll never finish the howard and nester comic a lot of a lot of reasons you need to find that nintendo power yeah i mean you know it's fucking it's manageable until you get to the speeder bike part and that just shit's just too hard you know so here's what here's what happened roughly speaking for me so i had to i had to spend a day in the middle of uh in the middle of dealing with all kinds of crazy stuff, I had to spend a day cleaning a broken table out of my
Starting point is 00:01:45 backyard. And I did this both to soothe myself, as our friend Dan Kennedy taught me once, move a muscle, change a feeling, but also just for dignity's sake, just to not have a broken table in my backyard. I had a broken table in my backyard. I took all the pieces up. I stacked them. I corded them. I put some in the trash can. I put some out for a collection called the 3-1-1. You know, you call the 3-1-1 to get them to come and pick it up. It's a useful number. I was pretty proud of myself. So it's really crazy. I put the trash cans out on the street on Monday night as I do here in my house, here in my neighborhood. It's Tuesday morning collection. I notice it's Tuesday at like four o'clock. I noticed that my trash is still out there. And I think, uh-oh. And
Starting point is 00:02:39 I look to my left and to my right to my neighbor's trash cans. They're out there, but they don't have any trash in them. So I go out to my trash can, and there's a flyer in my trash can that says, your trash extended too far above the top line of the trash can, so it was not collected. Oh, boy. This is the start of your falling down. I, Jordan, I-
Starting point is 00:03:05 And then you went into McDonald's and you wanted to get the breakfast biscuit, but they said they stopped serving it at 1030. It's 1032. Can I get the breakfast bit? I don't know. Okay, go ahead. My emotional bandwidth at that moment was so narrow that I nearly just started crying on the sidewalk.
Starting point is 00:03:23 Like, just, I was completely lost. I guess that's a better reaction than doing a falling down. Yeah. Look, I'm not murderous. No. This is one of the many things. And you're no Michael Douglas. No, I don't eat pussy either.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I do. So he famously said he got cancer from it. Not so often that you get face cancer from it, right? Yeah, exactly. So... I got an audience. I hope you know what we're referencing. He claimed...
Starting point is 00:03:53 For those, Michael Douglas had a weird excuse about getting lip cancer where he said it was from eating pussy too much. Yeah. It's the only thing people remember about Michael Douglas. Here's the things we know. It takes Sting a long time to come, and Michael Douglas said he got face cancer
Starting point is 00:04:11 from eating too much pussy. Yeah. That's all we know. So I was lost, because I did not even have, like, I thought, like, you know, I only have one neighbor on one side and then it's like three houses down it's people's backyards instead of the front of their house so like they're what
Starting point is 00:04:30 there's not any trash cans near me i don't have neighbors to ask to put the trash in and here's the thing if they don't take your trash how am i gonna have less trash the next time yeah so i'm i'm destroyed and my life was so crazy i can't even i like i can't even begin to think about how i would like figure out how you take your own trash to the dump in the city of los angeles i'm destroyed cut to the next day i'm doing the napping drive the one time i leave the house can we star wipe to the next day? Yeah, sure. Eh, let's Star Wars this thing.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Let's do a center out wipe. That's always classy. So I'm at the gas station. My wife's minivan is running out of gas, so I'm putting gas in the gas station. I see a truck that says trash hauling. I whip my mask onto my face. I go out there and I say, excuse me, sir.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Can you take the trash from my house? It's just my regular trash, but no one would take it. He said, I can't right now, but I'll come tomorrow morning. He came the next morning. I said, how much is this going to cost? He said, I'll tell you when I get there. He got there. He's like, how much do you want to pay?
Starting point is 00:05:44 I'm like, I have no idea what it costs to take trash away. I had had a conversation with my wife where I told her, I don't care how much money it takes for him to take this trash away. All I want is to not have to worry about what I'm going to do with this week's trash because of last week's trash. And he said, how about $100? I said, gosh, I thought maybe $50 or something. He said, how about $80? I said, fuck this. Here's $80.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Thank you for taking away my trash. And I felt like a king. Yeah. I felt like a king. And you haggled too. You successfully haggled. I mean, I semi-successfully haggled. I mean, I still think it was probably a $50 thing.
Starting point is 00:06:28 But you know what? On the other hand, this guy took the trash. You know what I mean? Like, he deserves the money. He took the trash. I was like, I thought to myself, there's no way I can take the trash. I can't leave the house. So my choices are find a different guy to take the trash,
Starting point is 00:06:48 which is possible, but stupid, or give this guy an extra 30 bucks in a time when everybody's hurting. I was like, you know what? $80. And I've never felt more proud of an action I've taken as a father, including being 50% of the conception of my three children. I mean, did you think about maybe getting some goats to eat it? Yes, of course I did. Sorry, I mean, listen, I'm Monday morning quarterbacking here, I realize. But, I mean, you know, goats are experiencing a tough time too. I mean, this pandemic has hit them a little harder than sheep. Well, I saw the goats at the gas station
Starting point is 00:07:32 as well. They told me they're not available for two weeks. Oh, they're booked. Yeah, and they don't take cash. It's Venmo only. Oh, well, yeah. That'd be cute if they had one of those little square swipers stuck on their horns. Let's introduce our guest on the program. I'd love to. He is, of course, a stand-up comic. You know him from Mystery Science Theater 3000. You know him from Grace and Frankie.
Starting point is 00:07:59 You know him from Comedy Central's The New Negroes with our pal Mike Eagle. from Comedy Central's The New Negroes with our pal Mike Eagle and a new project with our friend Mike Eagle called Call and Response. His name is Baron Vaughn. Welcome to the program, Baron. Speaking of
Starting point is 00:08:16 taking out the trash, lot of problems with your story. P-U. Plot holes. Plot holes. Plot holes. Oh baron punch up jesse's story all right first you forgot the talking llama no um yeah that's mistake number one not punch up the robert downey jr movie dr doolittle no no no that movie he has the ability to talk to every animal in your movie you specifically only have a talking llama only you can see i'm saying let's remake harvey rabbits
Starting point is 00:08:56 are out llamas are in jesse let's go okay um yeah so you had some you had some issues with the story not just the you you're are you are you calling bullshit on something is there a dialogue punch up are you david or is this a structure thing i was like yeah you need more self interruptions you're trying to add a ticking clock or yeah yeah that's exactly what i'm gonna do um this now this is now the nick of time or whatever that movie is called. Thinking of falling down. almost no neighbors. So less embarrassing when my trash is overflowing. As embarrassing to my wife, me, I'm like, let it sit. But also if that was me, I would have taken out as much trash as I needed to have before I placed the trash out. I would have been like, this is too full.
Starting point is 00:10:03 I'm going to have to live with a little trash, which is exactly how my personality works. Just so you're safe, just so you know where I'm coming from. You're cool living with some trash. Living with some trash, psychological trash. But that in and of itself was sort of the difference between me and you. I guess that like, you know, you actually problem solved. I would have just decided to live with trash for another week. And you're like, no, this cannot stand. And I, I aspire to have that much self-confidence is what I'm trying to say. You know, what happened though, is in the night in between when I stopped the guy at the gas station and when he came to my house the next morning a raccoon or something got into the trash they love it oh they do love it they love it you know what you know they're fucking horny they're horny for trash those little motherfuckers
Starting point is 00:10:59 exactly get some harder and wetter club 54 has nothing on a trash bin with a raccoon in it. Go on. Oh, yeah. I helped clean it up. Me and the guy teamed up on it. I'm like, you know, I'm here. Let's do this. It wasn't that much, you know.
Starting point is 00:11:20 I don't want to be too premature in bestowing the title humanitarian on you, but yes, you're going to get an email. Certainly a commendation. Certainly a medal of a medal of commendation is appropriate. I think in this situation, I'm sorry. Also you had 80 bucks in your pocket. That's another difference between,
Starting point is 00:11:39 it's just like, you're like, here you go. 80 bucks. I didn't hear anything about a PayPal, a Venmo square. Can I give you some now? I've had the same money in my pocket for three months.
Starting point is 00:11:54 I was thrilled to have the opportunity to use human money. Baron, you said you barely have any neighbors what is your living situation in la where you don't have a lot of neighbors please say houseboat please say houseboat please say houseboat zeppelin perhaps zeppelin boat um i i know it's like that beer commercial where they went how about both um you got your boat in my Zeppelin. You got your Zeppelin in my boat. Yeah, guys, guys, it's a Zeppelin boat. I live in a house in a neighborhood called El Sereno. And across the street is a large hill that goes up. And that's my neighbor is a grassy hill that I sometimes see packs of coyotes on.
Starting point is 00:12:46 And that's how I know that no one lives there because John and Kelly coyote. Yes. Right. The coyote sins do not live there because there are actual coyotes. So I have that across the street. I have I have a neighbor to my east, a neighbor to my west. And that's it, basically. So it's a pretty secluded block. Are you into that? Because I imagine when you moved to L.A., you probably, like most people who moved to L.A., lived in an apartment on top of 30 other people. Do you like the seclusion, or do you the like, you know, city apartment stuff?
Starting point is 00:13:32 Yeah, well, that is a question I've been asking myself a lot, actually, Jordan, because I thought I would miss the hustle and the bustle. But hustle and bustle has not come up in my mind since right now. So I actually enjoy it. I'm actually like, hey, this is kind of quiet. I didn't know this existed. I've always lived in cities and apartments and, you know, just everybody jumping and humping, doing whatever they're doing. Yeah, jumping and humping. Yes. I know that they're jumping because they're upstairs. You know what I'm saying? Upstairs neighbors is now in the past for me. And I'm saying that is a good life.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Plus, Baron, living in El Sereno i mean i don't not to flex my el sereno knowledge but you got easy access to the now defunct forever 21 factory yes exactly um which was actually start a sweatshop baby oh my goodness that was one of the things i asked when we moved in here is how far is this from the defunct Forever 21 factory? It's up for lease right now. I say you can swing it. You got that Grace and Frankie money burning a hole through your pocket. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 00:14:35 You know, they say the old Forever 21 factory is haunted by unwanted crop tops of the early 2000s. Some will say that if you listen very closely, you can still hear the rattling of chunky jewelry. Is that what you buy there? My Forever 21 polls are limited.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Your Forever 21 polls? Is that what you said? Chunky jewelry sounded right to me, but it might not be. Maybe you don't buy chunky jewelry at Forever 21.? Is that what you said? Yeah, chunky jewelry sounded right to me, but it might not be. Maybe you don't buy chunky jewelry at Forever 21. I don't know. Did the joke make sense? Did anyone like it? Why do anything? What we're all subconsciously saying is none of us have been into a Forever 21. I heard that they sell men's clothes, but I never went in there.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Oh, well, I guess we'll never find out. We'll never find out. It'll be a mystery. We'll go to our graves. Good night, sweet princess. We'll go to our graves. I wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, the kind of quarantine practice of food delivery,
Starting point is 00:15:42 getting food delivered from restaurants. Yes. Is that something, Baron, is that something you did a lot of pre-quarantine or is and are you doing a lot of it now like because maybe even i'm i'm imagining it's hard for like places to get to you well luckily we're not that far from highland park um we're we're essentially equidistant from highland park or south pasadena you know know, so there's options. Oh, you could get takeout from that really nice BJ's that's in a building that used to be a bank. Still is a bank. I'm pretty sure it still is.
Starting point is 00:16:21 I think you can get a pizookie in there. A pizookie? What get a pizook i think you can get a pizooki in there a pizooki what is a pizooki so i if i'm if i'm remembering this correctly there's a really nice there's a really beautiful building in pasadena that used to be a bank or that is now a bj's like deep dish pizza place and their signature thing is the pizooki it's a like umookie. It's like a chocolate chip cookie that comes out in like an iron skillet and it has a scoop of ice cream on top. And it is really good. It is one of the finest chain restaurant things ever created, I think. So you've had it. I have had it, yes.
Starting point is 00:17:01 And I thought it was great. Anyway, and the building is beautiful in Pasadena. Anyways. Well, I'm surprised by how deep you went right there, actually. Yeah. That Pazuki really meant something to you. Yeah, it's my happy place. When life seems complicated and everything seems overwhelming, I just close my eyes and I go to the nice BJ's in Pasadena.
Starting point is 00:17:28 It's called Havening. Yeah. I just, I just go to the Arco on Figueroa Boulevard and imagine seeing a truck that says trash hauling on the side, right when I need trash hauling. And he's like, have you ever had a chocolate chip cookie in a cast iron skillet?
Starting point is 00:17:50 I have one in my car. But to your question, Jordan. Please, yes, Baron. Luckily, my wife and I had kind of started to find a groove in cooking for ourselves right before the pandemic started. And we were so paranoid to get takeout since we, you know, at that time, we didn't know much about the disease and how it was spread. So we basically like, what did we do? I think we got delivery back in the early days of Instacart, you know, and then we would spray it down. We wiped it.
Starting point is 00:18:28 We sprayed it down. We were both so paranoid. We're wearing masks. We're wearing stuff. My wife has asthma, so she is high risk. And I have a condition called blackness, which also apparently makes me high risk. called blackness, which also apparently makes me high risk. So both of us have been quite strict with what we are doing.
Starting point is 00:18:58 So what has been the best practice for us has been doing like a big, giant shop. Because we also have two children. So we're cooking for a whole family here. How old are the kids? The youngest just turned one a couple days ago. That's a fun age. Yes, it is. Jordan, your commitment to that bit has extended decades now.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Yeah. That's a fun age. I don't know anything about kids or what age they do things. And so now anytime someone tells me the age of a child, I just say that's a fun age. That is so funny. So I hate how consistently clever and funny you guys are. If I can gush for five seconds. Ah, shucks. Disgusts me.
Starting point is 00:19:43 We're lucky to have you. And just so you know, i i was just talking to open mike eagle before i got on this uh this call and he he wanted to say hi i was like yeah i gotta go talk to jordan and jesse's like ah those are the homies so he says hello um eagles are peach yeah what the heck are we talking about groceries oh yeah groceries oh wait no jordan's bit i'm sorry let me i just remembered oh i asked you how old your kids are. That's a fun age. Go ahead. So we do get takeout every now and then because we need a break, right? But we've done a lot of research, and it seems like with takeout food, it's pretty basic what you have to do to get it prepped. I know a lot of people who don't really cook that much, you know, because
Starting point is 00:20:25 they're single or, you know, lazy or hideous, you know, weren't raised right. Morally repugnant. Right. Yes. Maybe orphans. Succubi. Dirty orphans. Sheriffs. The ones that look like the circles. Yeah, maybe they're in one of those pickpocketing gangs like in Oliver. Oh, right. Sure. I'm sorry, Jesse. Oliver?
Starting point is 00:20:58 Did you say Oliver? You mean my crowning achievement in high school musical theater, Oliver? Whoa, what? In which I fully, I repeat, fully inhabited the character of Fagin in Oliver. Oh, wow. Jesse, is this what you bring up? I see Baron Vaughn. I think Victorian England.
Starting point is 00:21:22 You know. Hey, Baron, can we talk to Fagin now? Is Fagin with you? Could we talk to him? Bumblebee, bumblebee, bumblebee, bumblebee gives me the gift of a cheap chop chop. Hello? Oh, Simon's Fagin?
Starting point is 00:21:51 Oh, no. He really came here. hello who summons fagin oh no he really yes i i summoned you fagin so how you doing why did you do this to us jordan you have some business to discuss with me lad uh oh boy i don't know anything about oliver Jesse, do you have some questions for Fagin? I know you have to pick a pocket or two What do you know about my little gang? You twerp Come here, you Speak up Speak true
Starting point is 00:22:17 And scene, thank you very much Wow, wow Very beautiful The spirit of Dickens Come to life I did forget to say One last thing though Say one last thing
Starting point is 00:22:30 In this life One thing counts In the bank Large amounts I'm afraid These don't grow On trees You've got to pick
Starting point is 00:22:39 A pocket or two You've got to pick A pocket or two Mois pocket or two. You've got to pick a pocket or two boys. You've got to pick a pocket or two. Wow. And I just wanted to add that.
Starting point is 00:22:57 No, thank you for adding that. What a beautiful coda. That was lovely. 525,600 men. Okay. But basically with takeout, all you have to kind of do is take out. You know what I mean? You got to take out.
Starting point is 00:23:16 You get it. Don't bring it in your house. Take it out of the bags, right? Yeah. The longer it sits in the packaging, the the the worse it's gonna be is that what you've heard i i just i think so so i i actually don't i uh before pre-pandemic had never used like a food delivery app before like i feel like i always get food delivered and i'm always just a little bummed with it like you know i've ordered a pizza you know i've done 60 bucks worth of Indian food when I'm hungover, and I just eat that all weekend.
Starting point is 00:23:48 I've gotten food delivered, but I don't love it. I would much rather go to a restaurant. And I think that, yeah, the packaging to me, that's my little superstition is that the packaging is fucking up the food somehow. So you mean the actual flavor and quality of the food? Yes. Oh, well, yeah, of course. Takeout sucks. That's just a given.
Starting point is 00:24:12 Who's had takeout and been like, this is better? Oh, I'm so glad. There was less distance between me and the chef. No. I think a stew, I think a stewed food, that's your top pick. Hell yeah. Yeah, sure. I mean, you mentioned it, you mentioned Indian, a curry I think a stew, I think a stewed food. That's your top pick. That should be your top pick. A nice stewed food.
Starting point is 00:24:26 Yeah, sure. I mean, you mentioned it. You mentioned Indian. A curry travels pretty well. It does. Absolutely. And I think, yeah, and there definitely are the like the takeout cuisines that, you know, have a history of being takeout cuisines.
Starting point is 00:24:40 And yeah, and I think those are great. But as far as just like a restaurant that you like, you know. Jordan, for safety sakes, when it comes to the disease, a.k.a. the Rona, a.k.a. my Corona, you know, a.k.a. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, you know, dug aa dugga dugga we tank forever what you really have to do is you have to microwave your food how did the last one that wasn't even a song parody that's just a thing that you wanted to sing what are you talking about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious no that one was you know that one was a song parody because you said you changed the words from the famous mary poppins song to reflect the scourge of our times. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Topical. Very topical. Then you just said Wu-Tang Forever. I'm sorry, did I? Okay. Well, look, maybe it's my fault. Maybe I just had a classic Jesse Thorne Wu-Tang Forever auditory hallucination. You did LSD one time in college yeah yeah yeah now
Starting point is 00:25:48 whenever whenever i'm walking down the boardwalk in santa monica all i can hear is killa killa bees jesse are you guys doing are you are you guys doing like a lot of takeout and stuff like that we are not um i think just like uh the the thing about a takeout app. So there was no restaurants essentially that delivered to our house before the app revolution. Now with the app revolution, restaurants do deliver to our house just because of our location is weird or something. I don't know. But now they do. And it is great, except that it seems like no matter what you order through one
Starting point is 00:26:27 of those apps in the end it costs 70 dollars yeah it's so expensive this somehow i ordered two entrees that cost 10 49 and at the end of it the bill is 70 and uh so it is a very it is a rare indulgence at my house and i think also like my kids my kids are just the most profoundly picky eaters they won't eat anything so they are eight six and three those fun ages Those are fun ages. And they just, you know, they're just that, they're just in that place in their lives and they're just that kind of kids, you know, they got some sensory sensitivities. They're weird about food.
Starting point is 00:27:14 And so I can't, like, there's, we will occasionally order a pizza because everyone will eat a pizza. But besides that, rarely. And since stuff has gone down, almost never. I tend to cook a vat of something in the slow cooker and then freeze it up. And then on the days when I otherwise would have ordered dinner, because I don't feel like it. I just pull a chili, a block of chili or a block of, you know, curry or whatever out of the freezer. So yes, so I've been doing it a little bit. I've been doing a little bit of like app delivery,
Starting point is 00:28:04 you know, just so I don't go crazy from eating the same 10 things over and over again uh you know it it's fine it's kind of like I said you get it and it's like this is like a it's a more expensive worse version of I'm like yeah but this actually tastes good at the restaurant um but I've had a couple of good things um but I've noticed something weird on uh on DoorDash which is so you know and I feel like I've lived in in area for a while, and I kind of like know the restaurants that are around, but I'll open the DoorDash app, and there will just be these crazily named restaurants, usually kind of like a meme name or some kind of like trendy like allusion to something, and I'll be like, what's this thing? And I'll look, and it's like
Starting point is 00:28:42 0.2 miles away, and I'm like, where's this thing with this crazy name? And I've never seen it before. And I think what's kind of something that's happening is that like little delivery only restaurants are like setting up in other people's kitchens. So it'll be like an app that delivers like one specific kind of food and they give it a crazy name and they just like operate out of the back of another restaurant yeah wow so i've been seeing a lot a lot of these things and they all have insane names and i wanted to see if you guys wanted to take a door dash mini quiz yes i do okay my honor unless unless i'm just going to throw this out there for you, Jordan. It's not a requirement.
Starting point is 00:29:29 I'm just an offer. Unless you have a DoorDash maxi quiz, in which case I'll choose the maxi quiz. I do not. Okay. Then let's go with the mini quiz. There's only a mini quiz's worth of entertaining options. Got it. It's okay. I'm'm gonna read you uh three
Starting point is 00:29:47 restaurant names one of them is a crazy doordash thing that is not a real restaurant okay and so your your goal is to guess which one is the real doordash restaurant okay baron you're the guest you want to go first or do you want to go second? I will go second. I need to witness this. So, Jesse, I'm going to read you three restaurants. One is a real DoorDash restaurant. You have to guess which one it is. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Okay. Okay. I'm ready. Chris's Drippin' Chicken. Wow. Okay. That sounds like, I'm going to be honest honest that sounds like a guy on guy porn video wendell's sticky steak also the same thing are these all just
Starting point is 00:30:39 okay go ahead go ahead crystals wet wet blts do you want to hear the options again yeah one more time jordan one more time help me out chris's dripping chicken uh-huh wendell's sticky steak crystals wet wet blts i've handled wendell's steak and i happen to know that it is smooth as a baby's bottom uh just as soft uh your hands just glide right off it like a like a bowling lane so i don't think Wendell's Sticky Steak is it. I do love a wet BLT. Who doesn't? Sure.
Starting point is 00:31:31 Give it to me wet, is what you say. I'm going to say Drippin' Chicken. Jesse, you're right. Chris's Drippin' Chicken. Such a gross image. And here's the thing about Chris's Drippin' Chicken. Such a gross image. And here's the thing about Chris's Drippin' Chicken. You would think, based on the name, that it would be like saucy, like buffalo wings
Starting point is 00:31:51 or like Nashville hot chicken or something like that. It's just chicken strips. They don't drip anything. He just picked Drippin' for no reason. It's just called Chris's Drippin' Chicken. And it's just chicken strips. It's just chicken fingers. Do you think that the chicken strips are well-dressed in the contemporary streetwear style?
Starting point is 00:32:11 Do you think they have drip? Drip. Drip. That's trap. Yeah. That's very trap. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it.
Starting point is 00:32:18 And this is also a very trap way of getting food to people. Yeah. I mean, I guess I am close to the famous Fairfax neighborhood where all the hypebeasts wait for the latest Yeezys, so maybe this is speaking to them. Yeah, it's possible. It seems likely to me that
Starting point is 00:32:35 Chris is a hypebeast who's waiting for Yeezys. While he was waiting for the Yeezys, he decided to add some drip to some strips. some strips. Some strips. Okay. It's 1-0.
Starting point is 00:32:49 Breran, this one's for you. One of these is real. Oof. So Chris's dripping chicken is real. Is real. Okay. Okay. You can recognize them because they're the only chicken strips that come with the shoes that look like socks. Okay. That's what Lil baby told me to expect okay baren your options are these yes in indian food that slaps fire ass tie italian like a motherfucker oh italian like a motherfucker is so absurd um that it has to be a concoction of jordan morris
Starting point is 00:33:38 and then what were the other two again the first one indian food that slaps okay and fire ass tie okay which one of those is real fire ass tie baron i feel like fire ass tie has a i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure it is fire ass tie i'm pretty sure it is because i need some tie that the only way you can describe it is that was some fire ass tie. It's come out involuntary. That left me with a fiery ass. Again,
Starting point is 00:34:15 opposite personalities. But we picked the same thing. Again. So I'm going to go with fire ass tie. That's got to be real. Baron, you're right. Fire Ass Thai. A real Thai delivery only restaurant. Yes, I think like
Starting point is 00:34:31 Jesse, I have a, well I don't know, I won't speak for your tummy, Jesse, but I will say that my tummy is a delicate white man's tummy. And I love Thai food. I love getting Thai food. But sometimes it will it will cause an ass fire within me and it's worth it because it is so fucking good but um but yes i
Starting point is 00:34:55 uh it's a concern with me so uh so fire ass thai was automatically unappetizing when it came up on the app i'm so sorry guys you guys can't see me so you have no idea how hard i'm doing a celebratory dance over here for getting this question right and singing a song in my head the song that i'm pretty sure is in my is in my child's head when he breastfeeds a song that goes we milk this teddy that's what i'm pretty sure he's thinking you know seems likely uh the great boston starship you're right you're right it's starship was jefferson starship come on babies don't like boston yeah you're right babies love starship yeah they. Babies love Starship. Yeah, they hate airplanes. They love Starship. And they love America.
Starting point is 00:35:49 All right, Jesse, this next one's for you. Okay, this is very exciting for me. Okay. B.O.B., Burgers Over Burbank. Is that what B.O.B. is up to these days? Burgers Over Burbank. That's B.O.B. is up to these days? Burgers over burgers. That's hilarious. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:08 My neck, my back, my munchies, and my snacks. I don't care what the rest are. I want that one. Bitch, don't grill my cheese. Wow. bitch don't grill my cheese wow I like that that each of these bring a sophisticated understanding of hip hop culture thank you
Starting point is 00:36:35 and a sophisticated understanding of Instagram slash Yelp era food culture I'm gonna go with the Kia one my neck my back Instagram slash Yelp era food culture. I'm going to go with the Kia one. My neck, my back. My what was it in my snacks?
Starting point is 00:36:56 My neck, my back, my munchies, and my snacks. I'm going with my neck, my back, my munchies, and my snack. I'm sorry, Jesse. It's bitch don't grill my cheese. Oh my good God. And I went on bitch. Here's the thing about bitch don't grill my snack. I'm sorry, Jesse. It's Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese. Oh my good God. And I went on Bitch... Here's the thing about Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese is that there's a selection on DoorDash where you can go Popular Items
Starting point is 00:37:13 and I'm like, I might order from this place. I might try Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese. And I clicked on Popular Items. There's only one thing in there and it's onion rings. There's only one thing in there, and it's onion rings. The score is one to one. All tied up. Baron, this one's for you.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Wow. Okay. Wow. D-T-F-F, delicious tantalizing french fries. Send nudes, spelled N-o-o-d-s show me your pudding hole wow um first of all appetizing each and every one of course they all sound great my mouth is so wet right now um i want to ask you an important question before i make my decision, which I'm pretty sure I have. Are all of these titles up for grabs?
Starting point is 00:38:12 Like if people out there want a Jordan Morris original, are you willing to donate these to the citizens of the United States as ways? to the citizens of the United States as ways. Did you write all these down on a piece of yellow legal paper, fold it up, put it in an envelope, and mail it to yourself so you would have the post date? No. You know what? I am considering these in the public domain. And I bet we have some food professionals in the audience,
Starting point is 00:38:41 and I bet we have some entrepreneurial people as well. So if you are looking for a name for your like pop-up delivery only restaurant feel free to use these i'm willing to put 80 into the first person's business who does my neck my back my what was it in my snacks my munchies munchies in my snacks so that's really open you could serve a lot of different things. Yeah. For $80, you could get all kind of shit. That's very true.
Starting point is 00:39:10 What a monumentous callback, by the way. I do want to put that challenge to your audience as well. These are fantastic business ideas. Opportunities. This is what Jordan is giving you. Yeah. Now, what were the options again, Jordan? DTFF
Starting point is 00:39:28 Delicious Tantalizing French Fries. No, not real. Who wants delivery french fries? That's the worst delivery food. Yeah, I said it. No. Okay. French fries? No. Yeah, because it's soggy. Oh.
Starting point is 00:39:43 French fries do have, I think, are more likely to get fucked up via delivery. I think if you're going for a side. If you're going for oily ass fries, definitely. Yeah, that could also be a fortunate side effect is that if done right, it could be a nice bag of little oilies for you. And Jordan, let me suggest to you and you too, Jesse, if neither of you have this fantastic new device that everyone loves so much. I feel like I'm on HGTV right now. Everyone's talking about it. Fax machines.
Starting point is 00:40:23 It was trending because of Mindy Kaling. No big. Yes, the Mindy Kaling, not the. An air fryer. An air fryer, y'all. I suggest you get an air fryer and that you get frozen fries from a grocery store. Okay. Like, oh, right.
Starting point is 00:40:47 Is. Oh, right. Is. I actually prefer, above all things, Sprouts brand shoestring fries. I have tasted nothing better. Okay. Wow. You know.
Starting point is 00:40:59 Sprouts in the air fryer, huh? Heed the brand of air fryer you get. But I'm telling you you if you want to put a little butter on those bad boys you get to decide how much oil and how cooked they are and they're right there in front of you and i guarantee you the expense of an air fryer is nothing compared to what you have already spent on delivery fries my friend okay no this is a great tip i want to i want to hack your lives right now. That's what I came on here to do.
Starting point is 00:41:28 I'm not even into fries right now. I'm, I'm into roasties, but the real business is send nudes. Baron. You're right. Send nudes is a noodle restaurant. And honestly, that's pretty good, right?
Starting point is 00:41:47 Like, that's pretty good. Yes. Yeah. I think I actually saw it on DoorDash, and I didn't even think about it. Yeah. Send Nudes. And I was like, huh? And I just thought, oh, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:42:00 That's the business. That's really the business. Yeah. All right, Jesse. You can tie it up. I forget who's winning. I think Barron's winning. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:09 Everything's riding on this. Okay. Barron, let's bet on who wins. I got $80. $80. I got five on it. No, I will not bet with you. I'm from Las Vegas, and I know how to read the odds.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Jesse, here are your options. Keto AF. Wow. This is a subreddit. Keto AF. Right. Fuck carbs. I'd rather slam my dick in a car door than eat refined sugar.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Oh my God. So the last one, I think that's just a page from your diary. It's my back tattoo. Your tramp stamp. Just in like weirdly pointy letters right above your butt. Keto AF. Fuck carbs.
Starting point is 00:43:22 I'm going to go with keto AF. I'm sorry, Jesse. It was fuck carbs. Fuck carbs. I'm going to go with keto AF. I'm sorry, Jesse. It was fuck carbs. What? Fuck carbs. What? Fuck carbs. I know fuck is the name of their restaurant.
Starting point is 00:43:34 How do you search for it? Hilarious. Yeah. Baron Vaughn, you're the winner of the DoorDash mini quiz. Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray. I want a quiz on another pretty day. Is
Starting point is 00:43:49 Fagan excited that you won? Oh, I can't bring Fagan back right now. The time machine needs to recharge. Yeah, no, I understand. Well, while the time machine is recharging, should we take a break and come back with some calls?
Starting point is 00:44:07 We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jesse, go. Hey, guys, this is Jordan. Just breaking in to deliver a Jumbotron message. That's right, one of our listeners went to MaximumFun.org slash Jumbotron, and for a very reasonable price, they got the following message. This message is for Ian from Brian. The message is this. Since you seem to buy yourself everything, The message is this.
Starting point is 00:44:52 Since you seem to buy yourself everything, I have decided instead to spend the money I would have used for a birthday present on this dumb podcast we love so very much. Happy birthday to the best brother I could have ever asked for. Stay safe, and hopefully we can hang out together soon. I love you, buddy. Hey, that's really nice. And, you know, I'll even look past the fact that they called the podcast Dumb in the Message. I know it's dumb, but, you know, listen. They went to MaximumFun.org slash Jumbotron and got themselves that message.
Starting point is 00:45:19 So I'm going to go ahead and cut them some slack. So I'm going to go ahead and cut them some slack. Yeah, if you want to get a message for yourself, MaximumFun.org slash Jumbotron. And thanks to everybody who does that. It's always a blast to share messages, both personal and professional, with our audience. And it helps to keep the lights on over here.
Starting point is 00:45:44 So yeah, thanks a bunch to everybody who does that. Back to the show. It's Jordan, Jesse Goh. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's Radio Sweetheart. Jordan you, love you. It's Jordan, Jesse Goh. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. And I'm Baron Vaughn. Watch out. Here he goes. Really stretched into that.
Starting point is 00:46:18 Yeah. You know, sometimes you just have to tap in and become a vessel. You have to. You have to become a vessel it's more important than ever these days yeah i mean we've already heard you be a vessel for fagin from oliver so that is true what other spirits might you conjure sir well it just depends on which powers you have and who you call. The unused answers for the quiz, by the way, if you guys want to take over. Great takeover.
Starting point is 00:46:56 I do want to hear this. The unused answers were Daddy Wants Nachos, Choke Me With Your Sub, and ranch on my face. Okay. What's the first one again? Daddy wants nachos. Okay. Well, those are nachos that have to have a lot of cheese and a lot of jalapenos.
Starting point is 00:47:14 The second one. Choke me with your sub. Oh yeah. It's got to have like double meat. Third one. Ranch on my face. Hot wings. Make sure to wash your hands before you touch yourself.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Those are all fake. Yeah, I know. I'm telling everybody what to do with those ideas. You got to do. Yeah, please. Someone do something with these ideas. Do a food truck. A few weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:47:38 That's easy, right? A few weeks ago on our program, we were talking about, we had Dave and Graham from Stop Podcasting Yourself, which obviously, look, if you listened to that episode, you know you should already be listening to Stop Podcasting Yourself. For God's sake, do yourself a favor and subscribe to Stop Podcasting Yourself. We were talking to Dave and Graham, and they revealed that the attorney general of their province, British Columbia, listens to Stop Podcasting Yourself. Whoa. I'm not going to lie. We were pretty jealous about this. So we put out a call for what public officials listen to Jordan Jesse Goh. And this is also, I think I revealed in that episode of Jordan Jesse Goh, that I had emailed with a woman who was a Judge John Hodgman listener, who had just been appointed to the Supreme Court of the state of Washington.
Starting point is 00:48:40 So the standards are pretty high here. These are both non-elected positions. Um, well, the district attorney of this, of the, uh, of, of British Columbia might be elected, but, uh, these are, they're not executive positions, let's say. So we asked if you have, if you're a public official who listens to Jordan Jesse Goh to call us so that we could prevent you from being reelected. Basically, that was implied. That part was implied. But apparently we've gotten a couple of calls. Brian, why don't you play the first one? Hi, Jordan Jesse Goh. This is Kristen from Mount Pleasant, Michigan calling as an elected official
Starting point is 00:49:27 who listens to your show. I am a city commissioner in my town. I was elected in 2017 and this is the only position, office I will ever take ever again.
Starting point is 00:49:48 A lot of people are mad at you a lot of times. You have to make a lot of hard decisions. You do learn a lot, so that's nice. But I can't say I would recommend this to anybody, but I love your podcast. Thank you. Goodbye. podcast. Thank you. Goodbye.
Starting point is 00:50:05 One time my mom's favorite bank teller ran for the school board. Who's a really nice man. I mean, a really nice bank teller. You've got to be a really nice bank teller to be somebody's favorite bank teller. You know what I mean? To pull yourself
Starting point is 00:50:22 above the fray. My mom voted for him you know and they got involved in a some kind of bribery scandal bank teller come on that's the people put their trust in you his name was keith come on keith judy put her trust in you judy judy really believed in you judy. Judy really believed in you. Judy Thorne really believed in Keith. Fucking bullshit. Come on, Keith. It was garbage. It was garbage. Some corruption in San Francisco. Had that whole shrimp
Starting point is 00:50:54 boy situation a couple years ago. It sounds like a DoorDash restaurant. Or a minor neighborhood superhero. Yeah, yeah. You know, a movie that came out that was buried under the weight of blank man right just blank man stole shrimp boy there was no way for shrimp boy to perform it was like what happened with uh capote and infamous where right yes you know it is an armageddon deep impact yes it was the year that i have a question
Starting point is 00:51:26 about our city commissioner who just i'm sorry it's a dante's peak volcano i'm sorry that's another great example jordan what else you got what else you got no i'm sorry jesse oh no yeah has here's my question has being a civil as being a city commissioner driven her to drink and she called in drunk or is that just how people from Michigan talk? Both seemed possible as I listened to it. Yeah. Yeah, was that a regional Michigan accent we were hearing? Ooh, that's a good question.
Starting point is 00:51:59 Or just someone who had a couple too many hurricanes down at the BJ's. Can I give you a weird theory? Yes, please. What is your weird theory, Baron? About your drunk slurred speech. Yeah. Comment. Maybe, I wonder, because we live in a city.
Starting point is 00:52:18 We live in a major city. Look how fast I'm talking. This is just how fast I talk all the time. We're city folk. We got to talk fast. Go, go, go. We talk fast. We walk fast. We talk on a fast. Go, go, go. We talk fast. We walk fast.
Starting point is 00:52:26 We talk on a giant cell phone while we drive around in a convertible. That's right. And we all have heart attacks when we least expect it. And the only song we listen to is Panama by Van Halen. Guys, I've been cheating on Panama with Separate Ways by Journey. Well, it's good that you came clean about it. I just wanted to be honest. Unburden yourself.
Starting point is 00:52:50 I only listen to Starship. Okay, here's my theory. So we live in a city. We talk quickly, right? But when we get drunk, we slow down. But in other places, cities that aren't as big, they talk slower than we do in general because of the pace of the city. So when they get drunk, it's even slower. No scientific evidence to back us up.
Starting point is 00:53:18 Well, at least you admit it. It's an interesting theory. I assumed you gonna go you were gonna flip it reverse it and you were gonna say that when people from places where they talk slow get drunk they start talking faster no no i that's that's hilarious but no i wouldn't i would if i was gonna flip it in reverse i would put my thing down first you simply must thank you it must. Thank you. Is your attention to the friend yet? Hey, if you're out there, if you're a small towner and you're listening to this show,
Starting point is 00:53:49 how do you talk when you get drunk? Give us a call. 206-984-4FUN. How do you talk? And hey. Asterisk. Be drunk.
Starting point is 00:53:57 Also be drunk. Be super fucked up. If you're out there and you're Missy Elliot or Timbaland, give us a call. Sure. You're the new highest elected official who listens to Jordan Jesse go.
Starting point is 00:54:09 Brian, do we got another one in there? Hey, I'm calling in as an elected official. I am a small town city councilman in a college town in the south. And I'll use this opportunity to also put in a moment of shame, momentous occasion from my very first city council meeting. I was so excited. I was, uh, I just settled down, uh, to my very first meeting and I looked to my left and the councilman beside me was cutting his fingernails into the carpet below the podium. So that was a really good introduction to the way government works. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Man, I used to go to, when I was in high school, I had a family friend who worked in the mayor's office in San Francisco. And so I had like a high school unpaid internship in the mayor's office. And honestly, it was really fun. And one of the most fun parts about it was because we weren't getting paid they couldn't really boss us around we had to be there a certain amount of the time but they would when there was a city council meeting where they called the board of supervisors in san francisco they would just be like go down to the board of supervisors meeting
Starting point is 00:55:20 and the shit that goes down at a board of supervisors meeting is extraordinary just the like the breadth of humanity that steps up to that microphone to address their elected officials is unparalleled in any other like you think you see a lot of different kinds of people at disneyland or when you go to the beach or whatever. But like every kind of person from the absolute most responsible civic leader, unelected civic leader, to just a man with a hat made out of balloons, all of them show up. It is a great time. Do you think either of these people could name a street after us i think i think the drunk lady would do it oh yeah like i don't know if she sure mail her a couple of hurricanes she's already she's already made it clear that she's not she doesn't intend to run for re-election. Yeah, do some shit on your way out.
Starting point is 00:56:26 Well, if I may interject. You may, please. I would really love to hear your pitch to this official about why you deserve to have a street named after you. Sure, yeah. Also, do you want a street or a lane or a way or a boulevard? You want an avenue? You want a court do you want a street or a lane or a way or a boulevard? You want an avenue? You want a court?
Starting point is 00:56:48 You want a place? So many options. There's so many great streets. I'm going boulevard because my street is inspired by Gay Paris. Mmm, boulevard. And it's also perfect for strolling. Yeah. Yeah, I think my pitch would be, why is any street named anything?
Starting point is 00:57:08 Big fucking deal. They're just names for, oh, you're driving around? What's so great about trees? That's my pitch. What's so fucking great about trees? Oh, elm, pine. Oh, maple. No one knows why a street's called anything.
Starting point is 00:57:25 Yeah. Just call it Jordan Jesse Go. Make a right on Jordan Jesse Go. There's probably a lot of Jordan streets already. Aren't there already a lot of Jordan streets between the region and country and the popularity of the name as a both first and last name? Yeah, I was going to say the country of Jordan. Oh, yeah. That's a great question. Oh, you know what? I think I do know. No, never mind.. Oh, yeah. That's a great question. Oh, you know what?
Starting point is 00:57:46 I think I do know. No, never mind. I don't know whether it's a Jordan street. I think I'm thinking of Jordan almonds. Oh, yeah. A bad type of almond. Well, Jordan, do you identify? Also, do you claim as also a variation of your name Jordash in any sort of way?
Starting point is 00:58:04 Because that would increase the chances of street being named after you already. Thank you. And it's interesting. Cause I, so I, I, you know,
Starting point is 00:58:10 so I was in, I was at like, you know, in school at like a prime teasing age when Jordache jeans were like a thing. And it was something that, you know, people would,
Starting point is 00:58:22 would, would kind of tease, tease me with. Um, but in hindsight, I was probably being a little bit too sensitive. Like, Jordache is a pretty cool thing to call, like, an eight-year-old, you know? Yeah. Baron. Yes.
Starting point is 00:58:34 I know you didn't address that question to me, but I do want to make it clear that I identify as a bugle boy. So, yeah, I think as a kid kid i did not like being called jordash but i think i'm going to i'm i'm gonna get right with it so yes i am fine being called jordash and if there's a street called jordash i'm fine saying that that street is named after me empowerment you witnessed it yeah i'd be willing to accept if one of these city council people wanted to name one of the streets Jesse Street and just say that they're naming it after a different Jesse, but under the table, they're crossing their fingers.
Starting point is 00:59:16 Yeah. Jesse Owens, Jesse Jackson, longtime relief pitcher Jesse Orozco, whatever. Jesse the body ventura any of the many jesse's that's jesse from saved by the bell but spelled sure uh i would be willing to accept that how can i find a street like that but i mean i you know this is just gonna end up like when those people said they were gonna make me a kentucky colonel and then i didn't become one yeah i'm sorry that happened or it didn't i guess yeah well hey if you're out there and you're an elected official listening to our show name some shit after us talk is cheap start naming what kind of genes What kind of jeans would you say you identify as, Baron?
Starting point is 01:00:05 Zeke Averici? Yeah, somewhere in between there and diesels. Yeah. Is it real? And of course, what are they called? Janko jeans? Jankos. Jankos.
Starting point is 01:00:19 Yeah. I'm somewhere in there. And also, I would wear them like crisscross wore them. Of course. If you're a public official and you can beat city council person or you are a city council person in a bigger city, 206-9844-FUN or JJGoAtMaximumFun.org. I'm interested to hear about this and i think there are probably sub-mayoral executive positions that might edge out city council person depending on the size of the city what do you think about that i think didis kucinich listens i think jerry springer listens yeah okay uh we'll be back in just a second on jordan jesse go
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Starting point is 01:02:42 And I would encourage you not to. La, la, la, Jordan, Jesse Goh. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. Now, Barron, I mentioned that you have just announced a new project with our friend Open Mike Eagle. What can you tell us about it? Well, it is an ambitious project to say the least. I mean, well, I don't know if Jordan, Jesse, I don't know if you guys are, let's start again, alive,
Starting point is 01:03:20 but we are in a very strange unique chaotic but somehow beautiful time right something is shifting something is changing now i'm not saying that to be necessarily overly optimistic there is a weird part of me that's optimistic but it's strange so to tell you about the show though um mike and i made new negros with comedy central our studio our producers on that was funny or die and so um mike farah who is one of the uh big big wigs over there at funny or die reached out to open mike eagle to see if me and him would be interested in taking on this very quick, very ambitious project. And so what Call and Response is, which is a title that Open Mic Eagle picked, by the way, we are doing a live stream on all of Funny or Die's various platforms, as well as those of Blavity, which is a Internet conglomerate, if you're unfamiliar, that pretty much focuses on black centric, Afro centric news.
Starting point is 01:04:35 Right. And media. So Blavity and Funny or Die are partnering to give me and Mike their platforms for an hour to an hour and a half, almost every day for two weeks in which we are going to interview a lot of friends, associates of ours. Um, also people who we are genuinely interested in and who are, we are fans of. Um, so we've been trying to reach out to all kinds of people. We're doing it in, let me give you the key words, community meeting, church basement, revolution meeting, Dick Cavett, you know, variety, stuff like that, where it's like, we're going to have a really honest, candid.
Starting point is 01:05:28 Conversation about the state of the world from our perspectives with people like Patrice Concolors, who was a founding member of Black Lives Matter, like Melina Abdullah, who is a leader in the L.A. chapter of Black Lives Matter, also a professor. Also, Garcetti wants to punch her. You know, people like people like that. We're also going to be talking to people like Clayton English, you know, and Dulce Sloan, comedians that we love, Roy Wood Jr., people who are really close personal friends of ours who happen to also be interesting people like Uzo Aduba or Phoebe Robinson, you know, just all this, all these different kinds of people who some are in media, some are entertainment, some are philosophers, some are, you know, scholars, some are authors, some are dancers, know, scholars. Some are authors. Some are dancers.
Starting point is 01:06:25 Some are whatever. We're just talking to to black people, not all black people. There is an episode that we're going to talk about the whites. I don't know if you guys know who I mean when I say that. Not familiar. Not familiar. But let me tell you who we have booked on that episode. All right.
Starting point is 01:06:46 Number one, Nato Green. If you're unfamiliar with Nato Green. Oh, yeah. Sure. Friend of Jordan Jesse Goh. A friend of Jordan Jesse Goh. Have him on as much as possible. He's a fantastic comedian out of San Francisco who actually has a comedy album called The Whiteness, which is very funny.
Starting point is 01:07:01 I highly recommend it. He's a very interesting political satirist thinker. He's a labor union organizer in San Francisco. He taught an organizing class at MaxFunCon. Hey, see, there you go. And he's going to be on. We're also going to have this fantastic philosopher. Her name is Linda Martine Alcoff. She's a philosophy professor at Hunter College. And she actually has a book out called The Future of Whiteness. She is a philosopher on what whiteness is, is a philosophical concept and the way that it spreads in our culture, right? And influences our way of thinking.
Starting point is 01:07:47 Yeah, no, she's actually – she shouts out this podcast in her book. Exactly. And then I just happened to work with a woman who has been a political activist her entire life and has been – I don't want to say a prime white ally, but it definitely has been. If you watch any documentary about Black Panthers, you will see this woman in it. I happen to be on a TV show with her and her name is Jane Fonda. Wow. This is who it is we're going to have in one episode, mofos.
Starting point is 01:08:21 I'm very excited about this, right? It's funny that I, you know i i like went i went off about the white people i feel like there's like so many great whites on this show who we're gonna have you know it's kind of like i'm like i gotta make a pitch for jordan and jesse like also we're gonna talk about white stuff all right i'm listening talk about how thai food is too hot. Exactly. White is too hot. Yes. But I think it's a – the thing for me is it's a very strange time. Obviously, I see myself as a very caring, feeling person.
Starting point is 01:08:59 You know what I mean? And obviously, everybody has been like, we have to have a conversation. Well, the conversation has forced itself upon us, you know, to to quote one of my favorite white people. Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them. Ronald Reagan. Yes. Ronald Reagan. Great actor. Fantastic actor. Nuclear. fantastic actor, nuclear, re. And so that's the thing. I'm saying that like, we're going to have an interesting ass conversation,
Starting point is 01:09:31 you know, and that's what the show is. And it's going to be exciting. It's going to be very, very exciting. And that's what the show is. And it sounds like you, you can watch this. If you follow Blavity or Funny or Die on a social media platform,
Starting point is 01:09:44 it'll be out there. Yes. I think we're still firming up exactly who that's going to be, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be like Funny or Die and Blavity's channels on Twitch, on YouTube, Facebook, stuff like that.
Starting point is 01:10:00 That's where you'll be able to see it, to access it. Now, if there's one thing I know about having Baron Vaughn on your podcast, I know two things. One, you're going to have a great time. You're going to have a blast. Two, there's always going to be more than one plug. Baron, this is a little bit of a fluffier project,
Starting point is 01:10:22 but I think still worth mentioning. A lot of MaxFun pals are involved in the great debate. Yeah. The great debate, you know, you know, fluff is valuable.
Starting point is 01:10:34 Can we all agree? Can we all agree? No serious discourse only because obviously, yes, this is very, these are very serious times, you know? And it obviously was very serious stuff that has to happen in very serious conversations that have to happen but the
Starting point is 01:10:50 thing is literally none of it means anything if we do not connect with just joy connect with being able to laugh and enjoy yourself that's the kind of life that everyone is fighting for is to be able to just chill. Yes. Just chill. That's what black people want. Can I chill in my home without someone literally kicking down my door and shooting me in my own home?
Starting point is 01:11:19 Okay. This is what black trans women want. You know, can I just chill? And so being able to chill is valuable. You know what I'm saying? So please, everybody, come chill with us on The Great Debate, because it is a beautiful piece of spluff about nerdy, nerdy nerd shit. And I love nerd shit.
Starting point is 01:11:41 We all love nerd shit. And I love nerd shit. We all love nerd shit. Okay? So we're just going to have a good old-fashioned time where it's a panel show where we invite friends to just debate all the silly different debates that nerds like to have about different, you know, nerd culture things in the universe. All those kind of – I want to call them nerd signifiers because nothing defines a nerd more than what they disagree with you about am i right yeah this uh this show has a lot of a lot of max fun pals working for it uh if you wadi way from uh who shot you was a writer on this uh daniel radford a writer on this andy wood uh yeah just just great great folks and uh it sounds like such a fun premise. Oh, it's going to be great. You know, it's going to be fun. June 18th, I want to say, on SyFy.
Starting point is 01:12:28 Yeah. Sweet. Well, Baron, always enjoy. I just sang myself off. Thank you. Always a joy to have you here. Always a joy, of course, to have Fagan here as well. Two guests for the price of one.
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