Jordan, Jesse, GO! - A Light Kiss, with Bridger Winegar
Episode Date: October 31, 2024On this week’s podcast, we welcome back writer and podcast host, Bridger Winegar (I Said No Gifts), to chat about game shows, loud music, different eras of Jessica Chastain, and so much more!Be sure... to get our new 'Ack Tuah' shirt in the Max Fun store.Or, grab an 'Ack Tuah' mug!Follow the podcast on Instagram and send us your dank memes!See a live Jordan, Jesse, Go! FOR FREE in Los Angeles at Revenge Of, on November 2nd as part of the Comic Creators Block Party. We go on at 3pm! Jordan Morris will be at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday, November 9th, signing copies of Youth Group!Come see Judge John Hodgman: Road Court  live in a town near you! Jesse and John will be all over the country so don't miss your change to see them. Check the events page to find out where!Follow brand new producer, Steven Ray Morris, on Instagram.Â
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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.
How are you doing, my friend?
I'm doing well.
I found myself, I was making some Halloween plans.
I know you've been looking for...
I'm so glad that you found the answers to the questions you've been asking.
Yes. Wait. Do you mean like a good like yogi or like a guru of some kind? How did you find yourself?
Just through hard work and sacrifice? I'm confused. What part of my sentence are you responding to?
Oh, the part where you said you found yourself? Oh
I see what you because I continued the set
I found myself wondering while I was looking for I was making halloween plans
Yeah, i'm Attending the haunted hayride this year. Um, our buddy alison becker the world's greatest organizing friend
Is organizing a crew
Thank God for her and her love of organizing Jordan
Are you talking about our friend Mensa member Allison Becker? Oh, I didn't know Becker was in Mensa. Yeah, she's in Mensa
I I buy it. I totally buy it. I don't need I do not need to see the certificate because that tracks
So yeah, also, you know, a genius in many ways.
One of those ways, organizing friend hangs.
Right.
And John Bon Jovi.
Right, yeah.
Interested in Bon Jovi too.
A real genius at liking Bon Jovi.
Making plans for the Haunted Hayride.
Looking forward to seeing my favorite Hayride mainstay, Monty Rivolta.
What's Monty Rivolta?
This is a Hayride original IP character.
He is a like zombie kind of like lounge singer Tony Clifton,
which by the way, if you're 16,
what is a lounge singer to you?
Like,
What is it to us to you? Like-
What is it to us, Jordan?
Yes, I know.
You don't know what lounge singers are.
We've been making fun of lounge singers as a culture for probably a hundred years now,
but to whom were they an issue?
To whom are people like, we got to stick, I'm sick of these guys, we got to take them
down a peg.
Like 60s, 70s, What was the height of lounge singing?
Do you think Jen Alpha also knows that disco clothes were embarrassing? What other things
came just before our awareness?
Right. Do they know that Gilligan's Island was bad? I don't know. I'm glad that lounge singers remain in our culture because it gives drag kings something
to dress up as.
Oh sure, there you go.
That's a valuable service that they're doing.
But yeah, Monty Rivolta, a lot of fun.
Will sing like, you know, psycho killer and thriller in a kind of a lounge singer way.
Right.
Always a hoot.
But I found myself wondering, what is the Thorne family doing for Halloween?
You've got some horror fans in the family.
You have some dress-up fanatics in the family.
So you guys are probably gonna go wild this All Hallows Eve.
So Jordan, my oldest daughter Grace loves horror movies.
And I thought I was going to hit a home run by offering to watch the movie The Witch with
her.
Seemed like a good idea because I liked the lighthouse so much, right? And I had
heard that it was scary but that wasn't like the main thing it being terrifying. It was like more
like moody. Unnerving. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And I thought this is a good movie. It's not Halloween
Five or whatever. So, I could probably tolerate watching it.
I'm going to offer to Grace that I'll watch this with her.
Because with Grace, like you could also get, you know, we're watching Sharknado five.
Right. 1000%. Yeah. And yeah, my whole movie watching life, I watch a lot of movies with
Grace because when my wife is putting the other two kids to bed, we tend to be here
in my office watching movies because I have a projector in here. I thought this
was an easy, I was like, this is going to be solid gold. I'm going to offer to watch
this real horror movie with my daughter that I'm willing to watch. I got a hard no, the
hardest of nos because it is not Halloween inside the universe of the movie The Witch.
Do we know that though?
I mean, this is like in Pilgrim times, right?
This is like a, I saw it, but it's been a while.
It's like a Pilgrim movie.
We checked, like literally,
we checked with the guy at the video store.
The one guy at the video store had not seen the movie,
but the other guy at the video store had.
He said, oh oh well he saw it
Is it halloween in the witch?
And uh, he goes no, I don't think so
So that was out wait, so that guy that guy fucked you he watched et instead
Apparently et is okay because it's halloween in the world of et. They dress him up like a ghost
is okay because it's Halloween in the world of ET. They dress him up like a ghost. Anyway, ET is a fucking good ass movie. Yeah, he's great. That's all I got to say about ET. I was crying.
I was sitting over here three feet from where I'm recording right now. There was like six inches of
water because of the tears that were flowing from my eyes when Elliot saved ET's life by telling him
that he loved him. Did you also, did it make you hungry for Reese's Pieces?
Did you go out and get some Reese's Pieces?
Reese's Pieces, dude.
Them shits is great.
And the candy of ET.
Shits fucking amazing.
Think about Jordan, let me tell you this.
Imagine a world where you can't eat chocolate.
Think about how great Reese's Pieces are.
I just imagined.
Oh, oh, Oh my God.
Free me from your trance.
Are you scared that someone will get hurt because no one gave you the chocolate?
No, I'm afraid someone will have to get hurt.
But I've since in all sincerity.
Jesse, this is the worst thing that happened until someone talked to me before I had had my coffee.
In a world where, in a world where you're not allowed to eat chocolate, Reese's Pieces immediately become
the most amazing candy on earth. Because it's the only peanut butter candy is the only,
peanut butter in general is the only thing that is chocolate like.
Right, that isn't a fruit candy.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, I got, look, I like Haribo Star Mix for sure, but not so much Twin Snakes.
I don't know.
Oh, you're gonna hear it in the comments for that one.
Oh boy.
From the Twin Snakes stands.
You know what I really like, Jordan?
Let me ask you this question, then we'll introduce our guest and find out how he feels about
this candy.
I like those weird raspberries, raspberries and blackberries,
those Haribo raspberries and blackberries that have little pebbles on them.
Oh, yeah, I've had those.
Hey, it's a texture nut.
I'm I'm I'm loving those.
You're not bothered by their weird medicinal quality.
No, I'm just slight bitterness.
I'm just I'm just here for the fun on the tongue.
Every time I put one in my mouth, I'm like, that tastes weird. I'm gonna eat some more.
Okay. Anyway, moral of the story is- Nice texture.
Nice texture. Moral of the story is for Halloween, we have a like a 12-foot high spider web on my
house that I did not participate in. I'm the first dad ever to live in a Halloween house who did not decorate the Halloween house. It was a project of my wife and
children. I am a cowboy for Halloween. That's a classic costume, right?
Yeah, it's a classic and I got all the pieces. I got cowboy boots.
Cowboy, astronaut. Ghost.
Ghost with sheet. Witch. Witch. Yeah. Pointy hat witch. These are the classic
Halloween costumes. Pilgrim. Pilgrim's good if you got buckle shoes. And the Haq Tua girl.
Of course, the Haq Tua girl. These are the classic Halloween costumes. Coming soon to
MaxFunStore.com, ourcom our new actua t-shirts
Yes, we were just approving some designs for the actua t-shirt. Yes
Featuring me and Jordan as Kathy from the comic strip Kathy saying actua
We don't know what it means finally a shirt to confuse and upset
Our guests on the program is a comedy writer and actor and of course the host of the smash
hit podcast, I Said No Gifts, Bridger Winninger. Bridger, welcome back to Jordan Jessi Goh.
It's great to have you here. How do you feel about Pebbly Little Gummies?
I'm so glad you went back to that because it felt like the conversation did get away
from the raspberries and I've been waiting to talk about them. I think they're horrible.
Really? Just because they taste gross?
Because it's a bad tasting candy?
It is one of the rare candies that is, I mean like, why are you not just eating a berry?
Like everything about it is the same shape, it's the same size, everything about it except
for it's horrible.
It's like it takes the that texture of non-perils and then puts it with like what is obviously
dated fruit flavoring, you know. It's like a fruit flavoring from like 1924.
Right, when they first started making these gummies.
It's like they took the flavors from Turkish delight and put it in there.
Yeah, I think they're, it's a shame because I really do like how they look.
I mean, they're really a beautiful candy, but just buy a carton of raspberries.
I think it's the same part of me that loves Dr. Pepper and always enjoyed the taste of
medicine. Like, I think when people would say like,
oh, I can't stand the taste of medicine,
I would think like, I don't know, it's great.
Like the way it sort of burns your throat
and tastes like a poisoned grape juice.
Like that's how I feel about those.
Like I'll eat one, I'll be like,
that is weird and almost unpleasant.
And then I truly will eat the entire bag of them.
And be happy that I did.
Because you're trying to solve the problem.
Because you're like, well, maybe this will eventually
become good to me.
This will help my lymph nodes probably.
It's probably good for my lymph nodes.
But I love some medicine.
I love children's Tylenol. That grape.
Oh yeah. Fantastic flavor. Diamond tap.
I don't like a cherry medicine. Similar product.
You don't like cherry medicine. Oh, that really is the taste of medicine to me is cherry.
But grape Tylenol tastes like grape Kool-Aid, tastes like grape candy,
and none of it tastes like grapes. It's amazing.
Bridger, have you ever had a Luxardo cherry?
BD Why do I know what that is?
RG This is like a premium maraschino cherry.
BD Oh, well, I can't get on board with the maraschino cherry.
RG Well, this is a premium product, Bridger.
BD What element of it is premium?
RG The flavor, the texture, the syrup.
Is your problem with the maraschino cherry
that it's too pedestrian?
Well...
Yeah.
This is like a, it's like if you are getting
a like $20 craft cocktail, this is the cherry.
If like, this is, if you're getting like a
schmancy old fashioned from a man in a giant hat.
This is the cherry he's dropping in there.
They're great. I love them.
A giant hat or a tiny hat.
That's true. Yeah.
Just not a normal hat.
No, not a normal hat. No, this guy's not wearing a normal hat.
Maybe if Genji Kohan is serving your cocktails.
Bridger, these cherries are so good.
I love a cherry off a tree, but once we get it,
we're putting more sweetness into them.
I have a difficult time with sweetness.
My tolerance is pretty low at this point.
Really?
I need an edge.
Was that something that developed over time?
Yeah, I think so.
I think that something's happened.
Something has just kind of broken and it's slowly deteriorating.
Sweet things for me are very low on the list.
I do like a treat.
I love a treat, but at this point it's like it should just be bitter and salty.
So it's a mouthful of seawater.
A mouthful of seawater and medicine.
I was good this week, so.
Time to make the cocktail.
I'm going to crush up some Advil in some seawater.
Bridger, how do you feel about like an oyster?
Does that count as a treat?
No, but I do like an oyster.
I actually think an oyster is a waste of ever.
Whenever they're like, let's order oysters for the table, I just, it's such a waste of
money.
They just vanish down your throat.
That's what makes it so exciting, Bridger.
I need to be able to chew and savor and that's the last thing I want to chew or savor.
It's like, I don't know, not for me. But people are obsessed
and I'll never understand it. It doesn't feel like something you can be obsessed with.
Adam Fossum I was maybe 30 years old when I ate my first oyster.
And I don't really like fish. I don't eat fish particularly, but I'll eat a scallop or something.
I don't eat fish particularly, but I'll eat a scallop or something. And our friend Benjamin Harrison, close friend of mine in Jordan's and the host of The Greatest
Generation on Maximum Fun, Ben said we should get oysters and I was like, I don't even know
if I like oysters.
It seems like you're just opening your mouth in the ocean.
And Ben said, that's the point. And it clicked in
for me. All of a sudden, it made sense. I don't want to open my mouth in the ocean, like to be
clear. But it all added up. And then that plus the fact that you're ordering six of something that
costs $24 or $32. Like, I bargain, yeah, I was going to say.
I don't buy an expensive glass of wine or an expensive cocktail at dinner because I
don't drink.
So, that's like, and other things, like if you're having a fancy dinner, it would be
easy to order a $150 steak, but then it's really making a big dent.
You know what I mean? That's causing a problem with your mortgage payment that month
This is like the smallest thing on a menu that still makes you feel like a fucking
Profligate king, you know what I mean? Like you're just throwing money around
Wearing diamond shoes, right? It's the like most affordable
Unnecessary item you can. That makes sense to me and
it is refreshing.
I just like to say, bring me the super napkin.
No, but yeah, it's just I guess if I, the thing with oysters is if I were alone, I would
never order them. Would you, if you were just on a business trip,
you wouldn't order them for yourself, right?
Wow, what if I did though?
It's a lot of, six feels like a lot of oysters to eat to me.
Right.
I had a heavily dressed up oyster recently
with like the, you know, the hot sauce
and that kind of like onion marinade.
And I kind of liked it.
Mignonette, there you go.
So yeah, I think that like,
I'm pretty grossed out by them.
I'm pretty grossed out by their slimy little bods
and the, you know, sea water taste and stuff.
Slimy little bods.
Yeah, and you know, it's not something I would like.
It was the first time when it had been like
very thoroughly dressed up with the hot sauce
and lemon and mignonette.
I almost said marionette.
Can you imagine putting a little puppet in your oyster?
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
How random.
What?
A puppet with strings in your oyster?
How random.
Oh my God.
A dancing puppet?
Wow.
Puppets shouldn't dance.
That would be so random.
But dressing it up was the first time I was ever like, all right, Jordan. I get it. I get it.
I'm sorry to interrupt. I just, Bridger, just so you know, sometimes this show gets totally random.
Well, I'm trying to figure out how you guys think of this.
Yeah, we're a little twisted.
Two guys have got way too much time on their hands.
Guilty. Yeah, we're a little twisted. Two guys have got way too much time on their hands.
Guilty.
Yeah, we go there.
That's a thing.
That's a...
So that happened.
I'll tell you this.
I do not like clams or mussels.
That is like too far for me.
Even fried.
Too far down the... But this is the thing. So your mention of the mignonette, Jordan,
reminded me that at the end of the day, you can pretty much fry anything.
Sure.
Especially if you're on Cape Cod. Like I went to Cape Cod one time. I was visiting public radio legend Jay Allison and Jay Allison lives there and he has a boat
that he made himself and shit.
So it was a whole lifestyle.
I was wearing a red, white and blue plaid shirt.
It was a whole thing.
And you go to a shack and they fry them for you and at that point it's an onion ring.
You know what I mean?
It's like a too juicy onion ring. And that's fine. I'll eat anything that's, you know what I mean? It's like a too juicy onion ring
and that's fine. I'll eat anything that's, you know, I'll eat fish and chips and as I said, I don't like fish. Yeah, I feel like with the fried clam or oyster, it is almost entirely the
fried thing. Like the middle of it almost means nothing. It's not like a chicken finger, where
you're like this is chicken. It's just like this is a slightly tough or chewy or juicy.
This is something for the batter to cling to.
Yeah, or to even consume.
Could just be an old pea.
Fried pea.
Bridger, will you get up to Halloween shit this year?
I don't know. I feel like I don't have any costume picked out. There's a party, but it's like,
I have a ketchup costume that's been sitting
in the back of my car for about three years
that I borrowed from a friend.
Like a bottle of ketchup?
Yeah, bottle of ketchup.
But I should probably put some thought,
usually I'll just try to think of a famous redheaded person
and then slightly dress up and say I'm that person.
I could be Jessica uh, I could be
Jessica Chastain this year.
Bridger, pick a great Jessica Chastain.
Maybe that's who I'm supposed to be.
You could be Jessica Rabbit.
Oh, I would love to be Jessica Rabbit. I'm voluptuous and sexy.
Bridger, my strong recommendation is that you go with that one guy from Game of Thrones
that does the lawn care commercials as a Scottish
person even though he's Danish and can't do a Scottish accent.
Oh, I forgot about that. Also, can you hear the fireworks going off?
No.
I mean, it sounds like just...
I think the Dodgers might be going to the World Series.
Yeah, that makes sense. But no, I forgot about that guy in the lawn care commercials. Yeah. And then the other one, other kind of premium cable person I was
shocked to see in it, I think was also like fertilizer was Ted from Breaking Bad.
Oh, in a fertilizer.
He's the guy that Skyler kind of has an affair with, right?
Oh, right. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, he was in one of the I guess that's where you go after you've been kind of a
side character on one of these
You know
Giant shows you have nothing else to do, but you're like you kind of look like a dad. Yeah
You're yeah
I guess if you're I guess if you are the main character on like a big premium show that maybe like has more
Critical love than it does, you know viewers
like has more critical love than it does, you know, viewers.
Then it's like, okay, I'm going to CBS, I'm gonna be on a procedural, it will run for 15 years
and your mom will recommend it.
But yeah, I guess if you are a beloved side character,
maybe you don't necessarily make the CBS jump that easily
and then you gotta do a little,
you gotta do some commercials, you know, until until the next thing.
I mean, I think that I mean, this is slightly different. But
I think that a bit of the pioneer of this was what's his
name? Richard Karn? Oh, yeah. He was advertising garage doors
for a long time. And that made perfect sense. It really did.
Yeah, very slick move on his I mean, the wand finds the wizard, right?
Did Richard Karn host Family Feud for a time?
Yes.
He did.
I think he was right before Steve Harvey.
And Steve Harvey, maybe, yeah, so this was maybe 15 years ago.
We had Louis Anderson, Richard Karn, and I believe at some point, Jay Peterman from Seinfeld.
Oh, yeah
Not Jay Peterman from the Jay Peterman catalog in real life. Who's a real man. Yeah
But that funny talking guy who played him on television. I saw him in I saw him in spam a lot in Vegas
What hotel was that playing at or what casino was Spamalot at?
Probably the Python, probably.
The almighty Python themed Vegas hotel.
Yeah, but he did those garage doors and we were, I guess we were buying garage doors
from him for a while. The Family Feud as a show really took a hard turn into guy with the appropriate talent
to host the Family Feud when they hired Steve Harvey.
He's so synonymous with it now.
Like you can't imagine anybody else being in that role.
It seems like he's been doing it forever. Like Louis Anderson, brilliant standup comic was wonderful on baskets.
So good.
Hosted that show for years, utterly baffling choice to me.
So ill-suited to that job.
You should not have hosted any game show.
Just when you're hosting someone to host a game show, you should not be casting someone
whose main quality is always seeming uncomfortable. Right. Never at ease. Gary Shandling and
Louis Anderson are not the right choices. And I'll say, the last time I was on, I said no
gifts, which is a wonderful podcast. Being on it is very fun. Listening to it is very fun.
I love it.
We did talk about Family Feud for a little bit,
so I don't wanna have-
We did, I forgot about this.
I don't wanna have an exact duplicate.
It's haunting us.
I do talk about it a lot.
I wonder if it started with talk of Richard Karn.
Maybe it did.
You're always bringing up Richard Karn.
I'm always bringing up Steve Harvey.
We're very predictable.
Bridger, would you like to host a game show, given the opportunity?
Would that be a career goal for you?
I would love to.
I would absolutely love to.
Somebody a few months ago said I should be, and I thought, yes, I would love nothing more
than to host a game show in the 70s. Yeah.
Like, I don't know what it would be now.
It feels like it's hard to be like a game show host star.
Now you're just kind of garbage.
Sure.
Like Rob Lowe.
Yeah.
Is he hosting a game show?
Yeah, he has a game show on network television.
And here's what is it?
It's something where people fall through holes in the floor maybe?
I can't be sure.
I think that might be true.
I would love to experience that feeling that cartoon door opening and you're just falling
into a void.
That would be incredible.
And then at the bottom there's sharpened bamboo poles with human feces on them like the Viet
Kong.
Yeah, I mean, I understand kind of wanting that cartoon falling sensation because like
who lived a richer life than Wile E. Coyote, you know?
Of course.
Can you imagine the thrill he felt daily?
He was hooked.
Yeah.
I feel like to me, the appeal of hosting a game show is the idea that there is like so much stuff to do and
in my mind, it would feel so good to be good at that.
Oh, to have full control over every element of this machine.
It's like a happy version of, you know, air traffic controller or something.
Like you know how air traffic controllers are always drinking coffee
and pulling their hair out and sweating and everything?
It's like the fun version of that.
But to have like a price is right control.
What Drew Carey is doing over there.
Amazing.
Richard, I think you're you were onto something by mentioning that you you
would want to do it in the 70s, Because, yeah, I think as you mentioned, like the game show host,
it's a, you know, more respected character back then.
But also you could give the contestants a little kiss.
Now, you can't.
That's what I miss.
Give it up. You could give whoever you wanted a little kiss.
I need to find a TV show where I can give a pet. Sure.
You're not jamming your tongue in sure Anybody's mouth just a little kiss
Yeah
You shouldn't touch their butt
No, no, no, it's not appropriate. Just give a little kiss a kiss to show you care
Mm-hmm. That's a nice way to meet a person if you could host any show Bridger
What game show would you like to host a game show? I, you know, I would be a big classic.
Price is Right, Jeopardy, Wheel. I would not mind being at Wheel.
Jeopardy is not fun though. I mean, like, I'll grant you, Jeopardy is the only game show on television hosted by a
past Jordan Jesse co-guest. However, and he's very fun and very funny, but it's one where you have
to act serious the whole time. But you can have a little bit of fun. Oh, yeah, you could totally
have a little bit of fun. You get that feeling of superiority even if you don't know the answers. These people making fools of themselves
and you can act like you knew what the answer was. Right. I think if you get in a little
zinger during the contestant interview, you're a comedy hero. Like the little laugh you get when someone says, well, right now I'm a high school administrator, but I've
always wanted to be a librarian.
And if you, the host, say, well, we'll have to check it out sometime.
You'd be booed out of the studio.
No, I think you're a hero. I think that little joke in that context is turns you into a god
Yeah, and I feel like Trebek had a really good control of that
I there's like a famous one that's been all over the internet where the woman describes what she does or what she's into and
He just says so you're a loser. Oh, I think the I think it is I've seen this clip too
this is very good the woman says she is into,
she's either a performer or just into nerdcore rapping. And he like asks like, what's nerdcore?
And she says something like, oh, it's people who like rap about, you know, fantasy and
pop culture. And he's like, so losers then. And for Trebek to take that shot knowing who his audience is, is like the confidence, the
fucking wild no one can touch me confidence.
Meanwhile, at home, 500 nerdcore rappers start writing bars.
Yeah.
I wonder if there are like nerdcore Alex Trebek diss tracks out there.
There's gotta be.
Fucking Not Like Us was actually a remix by Kendrick Lamar.
The original was a nerdcore diss of Alex Trebek by MC Frontalot.
What would you guys host?
That's a great question.
I mean, for me, it's not a game show.
The answer is The Antiques Roadshow, up, down and all around.
Oh, incredible.
But in terms, and that is a show that until recently was hosted by a game show host in
Mark L. Wahlberg, the world's worst Mark Wahlberg.
Not personally.
Mark Wahlberg, regular Mark Wahlberg.
You know what?
I'm revising that joke because the regular Mark Wahlberg is such a bad person.
And I bet Mark L. Wahlberg is a good person. Or he wouldn't be working on that PBS show.
They wouldn't have hired him if he wasn't a nice guy.
He really had to overcome a lot being named Mark Wahlberg to get onto a PBS show.
It's true.
That's a good point.
What a challenge.
I think I would love to host that. I would also love to host, there's a show, the British version of which has run forever
called Antiques Road Trip.
Oh, what's this?
This is where two antiques experts get in a classic car and drive the weird tiny hedged lined rows of the United Kingdom and go to
like antique smalls, buy things and then at the end of every episode, they sell them at
auction and it's like a contest for charity who can make the most money doing this.
And that is fine.
That sounds like it could be any of a thousand American games, reality
TV shows, you know.
They haven't tried to do an American version?
So they did. So there's also, there's this one other essential element, which is there
is a comedian, a British comedian whose name I do not know, who hosts that show. But he does not appear on camera. He just narrates it.
And he is, as I understand it, our friend Sarah Morgan, who's a Briton, tried to explain it to
me once, like what kind of guy he is. But like, I think he basically is like a music hall comedian. Like I feel like they had Vaudeville in England
until 1993 and that's who this guy is. And so everything he says, he goes like,
huh huh? Or like hmm. Like everything is like a corny joke told with a little bit of contempt
for the people on screen. But it's also a little silly
and goofy. Like he brings it off and he's incredible at it. And the American version
of it, they did what I thought would make a ton of sense. If you had seen the British
version, you'd get a feeling for why this would be a good American version of it. But
Fred Willard was the voice.
Oh, sure. Really? Good casting. But this show came on immediately as Fred Willard got
caught jacking off in an adult. Like they were simultaneous events. So not only did Fred Willard
get cut out of the show, but that was the end of the American version
of that show.
What a shame.
Yeah.
What an absolute shame.
Yeah, absolutely.
And me, I think if I could host anything, well, other than Jordan Jessico, of course,
which I love.
If there's one thing I love more than the show, it's the fans.
Yeah.
It's a good show.
Everyone agrees on it.
Everyone agrees.
Good show. Important content.
Worth listening to. Not a waste of time. Not at all. But I think I'd host a TV show. Gotta
be Fuckboy Island, right? Oh, Fuckboy Island. Nikki Glaser's got a target on her back. Sorry,
Glaser. Sorry, you're very nice and funny, but.
I think I could get the fuckboys to open up
because they're like, this guy's one of us.
This guy.
You think you could connect with them
on a fuckboy to fuckboy level.
Yeah, I'm always fucking and sucking, you know?
Yeah, that's a good point.
They're like, this guy, he's fucking.
Sometimes. He's out there fucking and sucking
Honestly Jordan. I'm grateful every time we step in the studio together
I'm grateful that you've seen fit to take time out of your busy schedule to record Jordan. Jesse go with me. Yeah, you're welcome
Cuz you know if you weren't making the show I'd be fucking it's okay
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That's true. Then you would, yeah, that's a good excuse to hold somebody's hand.
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Here's the thing, Jordan. What are we doing? Here's the thing Jordan? What are we doing?
Who are we even is anyone listening to this Jordan? Can I say something? Yeah
We have listeners that don't live in Berkeley. Huh, they live right there in El Cerrito. Sure
Like a five-minute drive. Come on out from the lay. Oh
Yeah, come on out from valjo. Are you listening to E40?
Come see us.
Yeah, listen, if there's not a bunch of Jordan Jessi Goh people at this thing, it's going
to be fucking wild and I'll probably quit the show.
Berkeley Public Library Comic Con November 9th.
I don't think E40 is going to make the drive, but I think his son Droopy is.
Oh, I'd love to see him.
Yeah.
Catch up.
I'd love to see him.
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Jordan Morris, boy.
Detective.
Bridger Weineger, future host of the game show of my choice.
You looked into the middle distance as though you were about to announce a game show.
No, I was just getting lost in the possibilities.
In the reveries of thinking about it.
So we've already got a floor with holes in it. What about a wall?
What if you were shoving people through holes and walls?
A light kiss and then pushing them through a wall.
Yeah, a little kiss. Just a little pick and then right through the hole.
They are sort of running out of ways to make a game show network television worthy.
Right.
Like-
Is it possible?
I don't know.
I mean, they haven't, I haven't seen a show where they like hose people.
You know, like a racist southern sheriff.
Like a big fire hose type thing.
Blasting people.
Yeah, just really blasting people with the hose.
Okay, you want to see, like hose blasters.
You want to see a show called Hose Blasters.
Yeah, or hose them.
They would be called something like all wet.
Sure. It wouldn't be called hose blasters, I don't think.
Face full of hose.
Face full of hose. It's directly to the face Oh, yeah
Blinded. Yeah, their whole list. They're they're in a box. They're in like, uh, you know
With an old-time steam cabinet and they're just head sticking up. That's when they're getting the hose
Right in the face
I want I just want to direct traffic, you know
Yeah, I just want to be like and what about you you?
And you correct, you know what I mean? Call somebody a loser once a season, get a standing ovation, be a
Be a gift suit. Be a gift for the rest of your life.
Unbelievable. Yeah, it does feel impossible to make a future classic game show. We've got the ones that will be classics forever.
Future classic game show. We've got the ones that will be classics forever
Mm-hmm, and I think when Merv Griffin died It was like now these will just be kind of tacky things that last a couple seasons. Yeah, I mean I
Think what happened is they made who wants to be a millionaire. Oh
That changed everything
it both rescued and destroyed the game show. And what they
missed in making future game shows was that they should be hosted by Regis. Like the absence,
like if you just put Michael Strahan or whatever in there, you're losing the Regis Philbin
magic of a guy who seems like he's completely in control of everything that's happening at that moment and also doesn't know where he is.
Like he's the funniest human being on earth and also doesn't know what is and isn't a joke.
Like just the magic of the late Regis Philbin.
Well, and it seemed like Regis wanted to be part of the show and like Michael Strahan is like
someone who shows up and does the job. Yeah, exactly.
Somebody woven into the DNA of the show essentially.
I feel like maybe there is a game show hosted by Travis Kelce that was advertised me to on a streaming service.
I just, I don't know.
I think there's three of us here dreaming about hosting a show and there's nothing we can do.
Somehow Jimmy Pardo isn't hosting any of it.
Oh, he would be so good.
I feel like I am out here fucking and sucking for nothing.
For Jordan.
Nothing. I don't enjoy it.
We see you putting in the
work thank you Jordan glad thank you for acknowledging that what about the love
of the game I'm sorry what happened to that that that died a long time ago
haven't you ever seen field of dreams yes we're fucking and sucking to impress our dad ghost right
no you're right perhaps when my father passes away my my love of this we'll
come Bridger is gonna leave behind his career as a country doctor to play one
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Hi Jordan and Jesse, this is Aaron from Massachusetts calling in with a momentous occasion.
I was just at the gas station and while I was filling up my tank this little neon blue Honda Fit came tearing into the parking lot with
this music blasting that the whole car was vibrating from the music and it was
pulling into the air pump and the guy gets out to put air in his tires and it's
this big muscle-bound weightlifting guy and he's wearing a pink wrestling singlet
and he's just really, really getting amped up.
He's like really into the music and he's singing along and he's bobbing his head and he's strutting
around and like really, really into it as he's putting air in his tires.
And the song he was listening to was You've got a friend in me from the Toy Story soundtrack
Which may be this generation's eye of the tiger
Anyway, he filled up his
Tires and then got back in his car
But before he left another Randy Newman song came on so maybe it was the best of I don't know
But I thought you should know thanks of the show. Bye. I love it. I love what a dream
First of all, I think the three of us should go in together and be pitching huge guy tiny car
That's a game show. I don't know what the mechanics of the game are. Yeah, we'll switch off hosting
I'll host it Mondays and Wednesdays. Uh-huh
the car just keeps getting smaller.
The guy stays the same size.
He has to keep getting in it.
And the you've got a friend in me just gets louder and louder drowning out any other noise
in the studio.
I think that's the game show.
And at the end you get a beautiful vacation to let's say Palm Springs.
I'd love it if the if the Randy Newman's like I'm sure the Randy Newman song that came on
was like I Love LA the Randy Newman song that came on was like
I love LA or something like that, but I'd love it if it was like, you know, I think it's gonna rain
today. One of the more bittersweet. Yeah, bittersweet one or one of the ones with like a a really intensely ironic narrator. Sure.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I think that the fact that another
Randy Newman song came on at the end
is really the key to this call.
Because like, I know, I think some people
probably do get pumped up to like Disney music, you know?
If you're a Disney adult and you're looking to get jacked, you wanna, you know, if you're a Disney adult and you're looking
to get jacked, you want to do the I'll make a man out of you from Mulan, you know.
Maybe I'm, you know, maybe even Under the Sea.
I could, you know.
I mean, we've brought this up on the show.
I could flip a tire to Under the Sea.
We've brought this up on the show, but you know, Dan Deacon, electronic musician, Dan
Deacon used to DJ at Max Funcon and he really knows how to pump up a party.
Like truly, I've never seen wilder parties.
And the wildest moment of any one of those Max Fun Cons that Dan Deacon DJed was Dan dropping
under the sea.
At like, everybody's pretty drunk, the curfew's in like 10 minutes, he drops under the sea,
people were loose, like fucking jumping so high their head got stuck in the plaster of
the ceiling.
Just people going ape shit for under the sea.
That makes sense to me. Yeah. So, but the fact a friend and me,
it's a little, it doesn't go anywhere. Yeah, it's pretty gentle.
It's a nice mid tempo sort of Fats Domino style number.
Maybe this guy's going to Kansas City. Who knows?
Yeah. But yeah, I like that this guy seemed to be getting pumped up to an all Randy Newman playlist
or maybe like Randy Newman radio or something on Spotify.
I'll say this.
There was a time when I was listening to Randy Newman song a lot because I was singing it
in the Judge John Hodgman live show. And so, I would like listen to it a
few times in the car by telling my phone to play it, you know. And I will say that if
you listen to a Randy Newman song in Apple Music and you are hoping that the artificial
intelligence will deliver you another Randy Newman song
or even a Warren Zvon song or something. You are in for a world of pain because it is delivering you directly to like Vanessa Carlton singing songs from the Emperor's New Groove.
from the Emperor's New Groove. Just do not pass go, do not collect $200. Just straight to Lee Ann Rimes, sings the rescuers down under.
So it just assumes you want Disney music.
100%. And not just Disney music, like it doesn't send you to, I guess maybe it thinks or people's behavior suggests that people
who listen to you've got a friend in me want to listen to Disney music as
performed by actual musical artists because it never goes straight to like
the Josh Gad song from Frozen.
That's a pretty straight like you've got a friend in me to the one where he's gonna melt,
you know, and he's trying to come to terms with death.
Sure.
The funny one where he's dancing around in the snow.
It always goes to, yeah, it's always Lee Ann Rimes or something.
What do Randy Newman fans, how do they feel about the Toy Story?
Is that part or are they like, ah, that's lesser Newman?
Well, I think it was at the Randy Newman concert that Jordan and I went to 20 some years ago
that he played You've Got a Friend in Me and then at the end of it, he shrugged and said,
of course, it's all bullshit.
I think, I mean, I think a Randy Newman fan, I'm a Randy Newman fan, big Randy Newman
fan, I think certainly prides themselves on understanding the most complex, unreliable, narrator, cynical, Randy Newman song. But I don't think that a Randy
Newman fan has a problem with You've Got a Friend in Me or the theme from The Natural.
Like I think that we have the sense to understand that You've Got a Friend in Me is a very nice
song. Even though it's not an indictment of racism in
America being sung from the point of view of a racist or whatever is going on in a Randy Newman
real Randy Newmany Randy Newman song. It's just kind of bonus content.
Richard, do you have pump up music that you prefer if you need to get pumped for,
you know, workout or to come on your favorite podcast.
I wish there was any situation in my life
where I needed to be pumped up.
I would love to have something
where I need to have my heart racing.
There's just simply nothing in my life
that I want to be excited.
You gotta get ready for that Halloween party.
Something's gotta get that ketchup costume on you.
There's a lot of music I'll listen to at a very high volume, but I think, I don't know,
I think it's more self-inflicted something or other, just damaging myself or something.
Let me ask you two, I feel like I listen to music very loud in the car and I feel like
most people should. I feel like that's why you listen to music in the car, but then
Most of the people I'm surrounded with I listen to it at a pretty low volume And it doesn't make any sense to me
I feel like you should you should probably hear the music in everyone's car from outside the car if they actually listening to the songs
Yeah, oh, yeah, I'm allowed music in the car car fan. So yes, I'm with you
It's sure it's like a little concert that you're in while you're going to the thing. You don't want to go to right
But I feel like there's a large amount of people who don't listen to music like that and the idea of just turning on your favorite
Music at a moderate volume just make makes no sense whatsoever
I want to turn my music up loud at my house and cannot
Because right children live at my house all the
time. Like the thing that I will do when if for some reason there is no one in my house
but me, which is a almost like once a year situation, is I will go and like put something really heavy like gap
band four or something something like that type bass.
Oh, what a feeling.
And turn it way the fuck up.
Yeah, like, like upsetting the neighbors loud.
I mean, it'd be like two o'clock in the afternoon to be clear.
They're at work.
But yeah, that and in the car, it's always, I mean,
I think maybe everyone does it this way, Bridger, but maybe when you're in the car with them,
observing their behavior, they want to talk to you because you're a charming conversationalist.
to you because you're a charming conversationalist. Well, everyone knows that.
But, yeah.
No, but yeah, I understand that, but I feel like, I mean, there's, I guess I have no proof
of people listening to their music in a moderate volume, but I just feel like I never, most
of my friends will pull up and I can't hear the music in their car.
I want to hear what you're listening to.
Nosey. I want to hear what you're listening to. You know what I'm saying? My wife gets physically ill from cars with subwoofers that are not her car.
Wow.
Like when a car pulls up next to you, you know how sometimes their car pulls up next
to you and you can only hear the sub in their trunk so it's sort of going...
That like makes my wife nauseous.
Wow.
Like physically nauseous. Yeah. Like physically nauseous.
Yeah.
Oh, that's terrible.
Richard, what are you cranking though in the house?
What's the, what's, what are you taking to 10?
In the house, that's a great question.
I think in the house, the things I'm cranking are more like dance, like pop or R&B, things
that you can move around to.
Whereas in the car, I'll listen to more, the loud stuff is more guitar based.
Oh.
Because I don't need to move as much.
Sure.
It's more about the thrill of the open road.
Right, right.
To get the top down.
Pedal to the metal.
Yeah.
What sort of music do I listen to really loud in the car?
Stuff I'll really, about once a year, this,
do you know the band McClusky? They have an album called Do Dallas from 2002 maybe. That's one that
about, for about three weeks of every year, I'll listen to it. It's so loud and nasty and
it's just such a feeling, just incredible feeling. There's a when I'm in a really horrible mood or I need to release some tension,
there's one song I always go to by a band called Pissed Jeans called False
Jessie 2. And it's just it's a very cathartic piece of music to listen to.
Bridger, how does it feel to be here with the OG, the original false Jesse one
and with a guy who's just pissed his jeans.
That's me.
I'm always pissing.
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Oh, I've got to do another. Bridger Weinegger.
You can use the same one. We're using the same one from before, Bridger.
This is your show, you can do whatever you want. I feel like I have to bring a new one.
Not at all. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, you're fucking it all up, Weininger argumentative podcast guest yeah there
you go no you're not see yes I am I pissed my jeans right now
this and comfort in my own piss everybody should listen to piss jeans
yeah I'm swimming in my ET tears.
Oh, I forgot about that.
A lot of great fluids to swim in.
She agreed to watch
Meet Me in St. Louis.
Because it had a Halloween
scene?
I admitted to her that Meet Me in St. Louis
involves multiple
holidays and she
crosses it off the list.
Is there any movies where it's Halloween but it's not a scary movie?
Yeah, E.T. Well, you know, E.T. is pretty scary. E.T. is kind of scary actually, honestly.
I guess you have like your hocus pocuses,
stuff like something that's more of a, you know, comedy.
Right, but there's never just like Halloween's the background and it's a wedding.
Right, there's not a Halloween rom-com. Right. Mean Girls. Oh, Halloween Girls. That's fine.
Yeah, that's a Halloween movie. Son of the Mask. Of course. No way you guys haven't seen Son of
the Mask already though, right? I have seen Son of the Mask with my daughter. I figured, I figured. 100% I have. God, what a nightmare that movie is.
Mimi in St. Louis is also, man, a horror and thriller is a long list.
About Last Night, how about that?
About Last Night, which one is that?
That sounds like no strings attached.
Fried green tomatoes?
Oh.
But these ones are like seasons, you know, right? No strings attached fried green tomatoes. Oh
But these ones are like seasons, you know, we're right it sure I probably like it's probably like a portrait of a life and then we see them in all their holidays
But this that Steve Martin movie parenthood probably has a Halloween scene. I make sense
Bridger on your fantastic podcast. I said no gifts. Here's what happens.
You invite a guest over, you explicitly tell them no gifts.
But these fucking assholes always bring a gift.
The amount of fucking assholes I've had on this podcast is never-ending.
You were a recent one.
I was a recent one.
I had a lot of fun.
My gift was kind of a fiasco.
It was a huge fiasco. Yeah, what do you say? That was the biggest fiasco that's ever
Yeah, I mean my producer had to
Fill fill up a giant pineapple at air inflated pineapple while we were talking I bought
You know
I had the brainstorm on the way in that a hilarious and delightful
gift would be an inflatable pineapple pool toy.
We're in the, you know, this, we're taping this in the middle of summer.
I'm like, this will be great.
This will make a great photo for social media.
I did not anticipate how difficult these things are to blow up.
I bought an apparatus at a big five to blow up the thing that I had bought at Target. And your brilliant producer, Annalise, had to
blow it up while we were talking. Because we both tried and I think failed and
then Annalise got on there and was like... Just started pumping away. And what kind
of apparatus are we talking about? Like a foot pedal? No, just like a hand pump.
The kind that you go up and down on,
like you're driving one of those railroad carts?
Right, or blowing up dynamite.
Have I talked about this on the show when I was buying that?
I had a really fun little piece of small talk
with the cashier at the Big Five.
No.
It's the only item I'm getting.
I probably look insane, because I
have to be at Bridger's house in 10 minutes.
So I'm like paying for this thing and while we're waiting for my credit card to go through,
the cashier just says to me, so you going to pump something up?
I forgot about that.
Beautiful. Don't they say that if you have a giant inflatable pineapple in your card at target, that means
you're a giant inflatable swinger?
Yes.
Can't wait to meet the giant inflatable couple of my dreams.
I hope it's the Garfield balloon from the Macy's Fair. The Macy's Parade.
Anyway, you guys know what I'm talking about.
Macy's Fair, whatever.
They throw a fair once a year too.
Why not?
They throw a fair.
That's why they're going out of business.
All the presidential candidates visit and eat something deep fried.
Sure, yeah.
Bridger, what other gifts have you gotten as part of the show?
Let's see. I, um, what did I, I recently, we did a live show in New York and I got a life
size porcelain bulldog, um, which I could not bring home because I just had a carry
on so it's in my boyfriend's apartment now.
I tried to give it to the venue almost immediately.
Then my boyfriend was furious.
He actually wanted it. So it's still part of my life.
Oh!
What else have I gotten?
When you're at Max Funcon, Bridger, a listener who was a prop master, believe he was a prop
master, made an exact replica of a pig toy, a German pig toy that I was obsessed with that had appeared on
the Antiques Roadshow.
It's been going around on Instagram lately.
I know because several people sent it to me on Instagram, but Chompers, the power pig.
And it was a perfect replica of Chompers.
I mean, I had expressed how much I wanted this pig, which I did.
It was a perfect replica of Chompers and it was such an extraordinary act of generosity
and expression of skill.
Like it was a remarkable simulacrum of this antique pull toy. You know, I mean, I'm talking about two and a half feet long.
This is not a little desk thing.
Right.
But as soon as it was given to me, I was forced to reckon with what the fuck am I supposed
to do with this thing?
Of course.
Because it's someone's extraordinary art project.
But I want the real chompers.
That's that's the dilemma that you faced with this porcelain bulldog.
Yeah. It's just what what is this object?
What's the purpose other than out of the corner of my eye thinking,
oh, there's an animal in the apartment.
Right. To scare you once a month.
Once every hour.
You know this apartment is flora only.
Wait, yeah, flora.
Yes, flora.
And Macy's throws a parade.
Yes, there you go.
What else have you gotten, Bridger?
Let's see.
There are things I've gotten where I'm like, wow, I can't believe I've got, like Weird
Al gave me a
Trophy he got in high school Wow, there are things like that where it feels like oh, thank God. I do have this podcast because
Often it's a garbage that is just filling up my home
But I've gotten useful things. I got a car garbage can that completely changed my life. Wait a minute
How does a car garbage can work completely changed my life. Wait a minute, how does a car garbage can work?
It hangs in the back of the car off of the passenger side seat.
I can't recommend this thing enough.
It's like that's where all of your receipts end up.
From like the bag or the pocket on the back of the seat or from the headrest?
From the headrest.
So you can kind of reach back and put your straw wrappers, your paper, not your wet goods.
That's what I was about to say.
Are you tempted to put wet goods in there?
Fortunately, I'm not doing a lot of wet things in the car.
You should try.
I save that for special occasions.
You should try that.
Jordan knows a little something about that.
Yeah. You should try that. Jordan knows a little something about that. Oh yeah. Yeah, well you'd hear more about it if they would let me host Fuckboy Island.
Glacier, she's done her time on the island.
Or if they'd let me host All Wet.
Sure, the All Well Rides.
The O's Base Game Show.
We're saying things that we said earlier in the episode.
It's a good show.
They do love it.
They're going nuts.
They're all wet in their cars.
People are literally, Bridger, you don't know this
because you can't see the audience,
but we know what they're up to.
Right now, they're writing their senators
to ask them to offer us commendations.
There's calligraphers right now, senators to ask them to offer us commendations.
There's calligraphers right now, calligraphing different great stuff we said on this good show.
No, I've heard stories. I've heard stories.
Word gets around.
But yeah, the garbage can, but you can't put a banana in there.
You can't put a banana peel, you know? Right. Yeah. So forget snacking.
You know, I do eat a fair amount of car bananas.
It's a great snack in the car.
Oh man, yeah.
I mean, it's ready to go.
You gotta get all-weather mats. Then you eat that banana, you just toss it right down there
on the fucking passenger side floor. Who gives a shit? Start a compost pile in there. You
can just hose it down later.
I do think a banana peel is one thing that you can kind of guilt free, throw out the window.
I don't know if you're going to throw something out.
I mean, if you're a professional comedy writer, I mean, you're essentially
creating future comedy.
Great stuff.
Well, Bridger, it's been a joy to have you back on Jordan.
Jesse, go. It's always lovely to see you.
It's so nice seeing you, too.
Just wonderful.
We're going to be looking forward to finding out what you decide to go as for
Halloween. Oh, Chastain, which is going to figure out which era.
Zero Dark Thirty.
That's everybody's favorite Chastain.
Everybody wants to see Zero Dark Thirty. That's everybody's favorite Chastain.
Everybody wants to see Zero Dark Thirty on Halloween.
You get to a party, somebody says, are you Zero Dark Thirty?
And you say, yes I am, yes I am.
And just in time.
Most popular, it's one of those costumes that never goes out of style.
And imagine, so you're there, you're Zero Dark Thirty 30 Chastain and who's coming out of the bathroom, but Molly's game Chastain
Fight ensues yes
I mean it's brutal fistfight
bitch
What if sitting on the sofa is?
Jessica Chastain from a third film that I can't name.
A third?
Jessie? That's random.
What if that's there?
Interstellar, It, the grown up kids in It movies.
Those are good polls. I could not think of a third film.
Yeah. Great in everything.
She's so good. She's great.
One of our best.
And that's why people will love my Halloween costume.
They're gonna love it.
You're gonna be the hit of Halloween.
I think you should stick with condiments.
Just get the ketchup costume.
Dijonais, that's what I think.
Dijonais is my recommendation to you.
Fine.
Or maybe In-N-Out special sauce.
That's kind of peach.
Oh, that would be a real specific one. Bridger, it's been a joy. Jordan Jesse Goh-
Thank you for having me. Of course. Bridger is the host of I Said No Gifts,
which you can enjoy on your favorite podcast app. Why not go listen to one of Jordan's episodes
on the program? You'll have a lot of fun. Oh yeah, we had a blast.
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We're going to be doing a live Lil JJ Goh at 3 p.m.
free for everybody. Come on down and yeah, get some signed comics. I'll be signing books as well.
All of the comics, greats. All of them. Every single fucking one.
I think that's it. We'll talk to you next time on Jordan and Jessi Go.