Jordan, Jesse, GO! - California Chewing, with PUP’s Steve Sladkowski

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

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Hey there, it's Jordan. Before we get started today, I wanted to let you know that if you're in the Southern California area, you can see us live for free at the Revenge of Comics Creators Block Party, November 8th at noon. We're going to be doing a live taping of Jordan Jesse Go with special guests, Patton Oswald and Jordan Blum. Find out more information at revengeof.com, revenge of.com, and we'll see you on November 8th at noon. A, on with the show. Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. On to the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sex and run you. It's Jordan, Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's Radio, sweetheart.

Jordan Morris, boy detective. I'm in the spirit of the season, Jordan. It's the beginning of October as we record this program. God only knows when it'll be released. God only knows. After our deaths. This will be our first posthumous episode. Did we discuss last year that my daughter, Grace, will only watch Halloween episodes of television shows through the entire month of October?

Yes. Is that continuing? It's back, baby. Wow. Last night, we're recorded. Look, I hate to break the illusion that this is like a fresh topical program because God knows again when this episode will come out. But last night was October 1st. And I sat down.

of all, I had been very excited. My daughter and I have been watching 30 Rock lately. Right. And she had vetoed us watching the episode with Werewolf Bar Mitzvah in it because she would only watch it in October. Gotcha. It's not really a Halloween episode. It just has a Halloween joke in it.

It has a Halloween joke in it. It's like eight seconds long, much shorter than I remembered. But I was excited because, you know, as we discussed when Tammy Sager was on the show years ago, who wrote the lyrics to Weirwolf Bar Mitzvah, most of them, it's the greatest thing that's ever been on television. It's up there. Yeah. And I was excited, so it's 7.30 or something.

Gracie and I often will watch a television show while my wife is putting the other kids to bed, and we watch Weirwolf Bar Mitzvah. I'm like, this is great. Everything's coming up, Jesse. Everything's working out. Like, this is gorgeous. And I'm like, you know, it's pretty. Pretty early, we could just watch another episode.

Grace is like, no. And I'm like, what's wrong? She's like, it's not a Halloween episode. I forgot the downside. Oh, yeah. Oh, now I'm fucked. So what other Halloween episodes have you done so far? Well, we watched a Halloween episode of Bob's Burgers.

God bless. You know, like, you think you know the utility of Bob's burgers to a family, which is that Bobsburgers is the funniest show that children get the jokes on television. Yes. Right. I think, you know, I think in the industry, it's a legend of co-viewing. Everybody's chasing that co-viewing. Yeah.

And it's, and you know what? God bless it because it's genuinely funny. Absolutely. And children get the jokes. This is why people come up to me and Hodgman in the line after a Judge John Hodgman show to tell us how much they like. like Bob's Berger's, a show from which I think Hodgman was recast at some point. I bet you have a lot of people in the audience of Judge John Hodgman's shows wearing the Louise ears.

Yes. I can see a lot of people coming to the show in the ears. A direct professional trauma for my friend John Hodgman. But anyway. I didn't know that. I didn't know that he was on it. I think he was on it in recast. I think that's what happened.

I think people often ask him. Anyway, I am thrilled that I got to watch Werewolf Farm It, I'm grateful to Bob's Burgers for having... Bob's Burgers has been on television for 32 years and they have a Halloween episode every year. Right. But I'm going to run out of them quick because there's 30 days,

has September, April, June, 31 days in October, given that the 31st is Halloween. So you're going to have to be, what are we talking? The Drew Carey show. Third Rock from the Sun. I'm going to be like,

how many times did Blair? Is that her name on the Golden Girls? Blanche? Blanche. How many times did Blanche dress up as Dan Quail? I don't know. I don't know. You know what?

You could say, you know, on Halloween, Blanche is Blanche. I wonder if they ever did that on the show. So probably. Probably. Hey, Stephen, you're over there at the research desk, right? What's out? Could you look up and see if Blanche can say Blanche's Blanche? Yes.

Okay. Why would she say that? For Halloween. Okay. Yeah, Blanche is Blanche. Oh, okay, okay. You didn't, I thought you were going some other direction. No, no, I'm just checking.

I'm just having Steven make sure. See if Blanche is Blanche. Yeah. I don't want to, I don't want to get this wrong, Jordan. Unfortunately, there was no Golden Girls' Halloween episode. Whoa. The fuck. So were they, were the Golden Girls all like Christian scientists and didn't celebrate Halloween?

The first. The first. Like the Jackson family, Jehovah's Witnesses. The first example is somebody on Reddit, R-slash the Golden Girls, saying, I really wish there would have been a Halloween episode. A Halloween episode would have been super fun. I could imagine Rose wearing an animal, cartoon, or fairy tale-themed costume. I can imagine it.

And I'm laughing. I'm cranking it right now. I'm so close to finishing. And, of course, in Blanche wearing a sexy nurse costume. I can imagine that too, and you know what? It's great. But it doesn't say... I believe I'll crank it later.

Did they leave Blanche's Blanche on the table? They leave that on the table? Yeah, I don't think so. See, that's why you can't trust Reditors. Yeah. I bet R-slash Golden Girls is a fun place to hang out. I know we're always kind of looking for, you know, soothing, niche, enthusiastic Reddits. Man, I listened to this podcast about collections.

Mm-hmm. And sorry, this is what I'm doing with my time. Sure. And they interviewed this guy who opened a Golden Girls restaurant in New York City because he was best friends with one of the Golden Girls. I'm going to say Blanche. Okay. And, like, inherited her archive in her apartment. Okay. She just kept everything forever. And he was just the sweetest fucking dorkwood.

Oh, I believe it. If you open a Golden Girls, you are a little honey. If you open a Golden Girls restaurant. You are a little honey. Just a little, just a guy who was friends with an old lady. Sure. He couldn't believe the whole time. He's just like, the whole time I couldn't believe I was friends with a golden girl.

I'm like, yeah, because you're a little honey. That's why. You're a little honey. Because you're a little honey. Oh, speaking of little honeies, we have one of punk rock's greatest honeies on our program. Amazing segue. God damn, we've been doing this thing for 15 years and I'm still blown away by your ability to segue. Stephen, look up professional broadcasters and see if there's a picture of me in the dictionary.

Our guest on the program. Charles Carralt. Our guest on the program plays the guitar in the rock band, Pop. Steve Slodowski. Hi, Steve. How are you? I'm good. You know, I like to be a little honey.

So I'm just trying to be my littlest honey. possible. I have an important question about your rock band pup. Okay. You got a show booked on October 31st. It's October 31st and there's a pub show book. This is hypothetical. I don't know if this is true. There has been in the past okay, yeah.

You guys wearing the little outfits? Yeah. Once we all dressed as Batman. Yeah. They're fucking rules. Different Batman? Nope, same Batman. Same Batman. Exactly. Same Batman. Four Batman is better

than one. That's kind of that was our thinking. Oh, sure, because there's a lot of bad guys. Yeah, I think there was a breakout at Arkham. I mean, Batman got his little buddy. Sure. Yeah. I think we were in Sudbury, Ontario, which is really a grim place to be on Halloween.

It's a grim place to be any time, but especially on Halloween. What's the vibe? We don't know what happens in Canada, where the places are. People just go into the doctor and... Yeah, just, you know, hanging out. there's like a weird like finish population there so there's like lots of

saunas and pancakes that's kind of the two yeah I mean it could be worse right one of each please yeah man just one of these finished pancakes fawnas you could put them over your eyes

like little cucumbers see wouldn't that be fun yeah you know I think once once we this was maybe in Florida.

Halloween, playing on Halloween is such a pain in the ass. Yeah. Because people aren't sure if they want to be there with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, I could be at home. Like, there'd be kids walking around dressed in, you know, whatever. Yeah, one year we did the thing where we went to, like, a Spirit Halloween and Stephan

dressed as a hot dog. He had the hot, like the pullover, hot dog, and then ketchup and mustard on either side of the stage. Okay. Right. And then a beer. That'd be funny if it was four catch-ups. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, see, we should have threaded that needle, but no, we didn't. I don't know, and again, we'll need to go to Stephen on the research desk for this. Is this our first guest who has played a tiny desk concert? Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. I've seen the desk. It doesn't look that tiny. What was your, what was your impression of the desk?

It's not that big, though. This is the thing. Tiny is maybe overselling-ish. Well, maybe the concert is tiny. Yeah, it was pretty tiny. I always thought Tiny referenced the desk. No, I think the concert is tiny. The concert!

I feel like a fucking idiot. Maybe, I thought it was the desk that was tiny. Not to pull back the curtain on National Public Radio, but now that we're in a death spiral, I feel like it's an appropriate time to kick them while they're down. Might as well. Yeah. I have been to the tiny desk. Have you been to The Tiny Desk? No, I've never been.

I don't know where it is. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. I thought maybe sometime you maybe had visited Linda Holmes or. No, I guess that would be great. So I have been to the Tiny Desk. The tiny desk was Bob Boylan's desk. So, like, originally it was Bob Boylan's desk.

Bob Boylan is not even in charge of Tiny Desk concerts anymore. He's retired, I believe. Yeah. And a beloved man at NPR. Everyone thinks Bob Boylan is a wonderful man. But what happened is at some point maybe like seven or eight years ago, they moved to a big beautiful building. They raised a shit ton of money and got a big beautiful building in Washington, D.C. And the problem with the old headquarters is it didn't have one of those LED screens where the headlines scroll across on the facade.

And they got one with the facade scroll, which was really important. And there's bumblebees. They got bumblebees to make honey on the roof. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Roof honey. You can really taste the roof. And they brought Bob's desk to the new office.

And it is the actual desk, but he stopped working there then. And they basically, it's basically a set now. But it is in the office, and it is his real desk. But at this point, they put it in like a little corner so they could have window, and they started filling the walls with all the different crap that people left behind. Some of which was ours. Really? What crap did you leave? We have a, for our second record, one of the things we made, it's called The Dream is Over.

We made an alarm clock that says the Dream is over, and they have one there. That's good merch. Yeah, it's pretty good. Did you do a Tiny Desk concert before or after they started like, like remember when Jay-Z played Unplugged and they played did it with the Roots? It's the most incredible roots band, yeah. And the question was, are the roots going to play, like, electric guitars and basses? Or are they going to have a jazz combo? Right.

And they went with electric guitars and bases and keyboards and stuff. So it was just, like, unplugged in the sense that it was a rapper rapping with a band rather than a track. At some point, Tiny Desk Concert, like, abandoned the idea that, like, it just has to be, like, a guy in an acoustic guitar, right? Like, did you plug in? I plugged in. Stefan did not So he had Or he had an electric acoustic

You know But like he was playing an acoustic guitar The whole time And I was playing My quiet little electric guitar You brought the quiet one Yeah I brought the quiet one Just like a little honey

Perfect little quiet guitar It's what I call it actually It's my little honey It's the little honey Who wants her Yeah So it was like We tried to make it more

That was like a fun challenge But it's really the most like special thing about it when you go to take a shit at NPR I've always wanted to know now I look you don't have to explain this to me this is my life baby but it's explain to me I've never now Jordan if you

I'm working commercial media if you have to take a shit at National Public Radio you've got too much roof honey I want to all I mean the roof honey clears you out we've got two honey jokes going once Steve is done I want to know what it's like to take a shit over there good mythical morning. Go ahead.

Oh, okay. You go at the facilities, very airy, very bright, and there's a private NPR feed that is being pumped into the restroom. So you're sitting there listening to NPR the whole time. You got fresh air. You got... Well, I mean,

not after you just find that. Yeah, well, there's not so fresh. I mean, the real, the secret of the NPR headquarters that everyone was fucking over the moon to tell me about is that they got Nina Totenberg to record the elevator announcements.

Wow. Nina Totenberg is the one who says, first floor, doors opening or whatever. That rips. Yeah. So the shit was wonderful. Any other memories from the tiny desk? Oh, they are using

unpaid labor, which was really scary for me. There was this intern badge. There was this, do you know about this big bird guy? Yeah, sure, yes, beloved American bird. He was an intern. They didn't even... Hold on. Unpaid labor from the big bird.

The yellow guy? The big yellow guy. Well, he's getting college credit, though, right? He's getting... I don't know. I hope so. Can I just say being an intern at NPR pays better than being a star on PBS. Thank you.

NPR interns are paid. Go ahead. Do you... When you're... I don't want to get emails, Stephen. I don't want to get emails. No, I do appreciate that. Thank you.

even work for NPR, but I don't want NPR to get emails. They pay their interns. So we assume they paid Big Bird. Yeah. I mean, it all went right up his nose, too. Honestly, they paid Big Bird, but not for interning, for sex

stuff. Oh, different. Big Bird. We're definitely getting no letters about this. When you book the tiny desk, you're like, okay, this is like a particular audience. Did you like, did you like sit and really mull over what the set list was going to be?

Or did you just, like, here are the pup songs we know everyone loves? There was a, it's like a little bit of both. Like they, they're very, they're like adamant about it trying to be career spanning. Okay. And we were like, but what if it wasn't? Like, and so we did, I think we did, like, songs from like three records. But yeah, when you, like, I've, like, this band has been very loud for a lot of years. And trying to not be loud, like, all.

of a sudden for something very, like, high pressure? I mean, you have songs. Like, in some loud bands are mostly loud, right? Like, the texture of the loudness is the essential component. Pup has songs with melodies and shit. Like, it's like, you can play it on an electric acoustic. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

So we just tried to, like, kind of find those ones. I'll tell you who goes to the Tiny Desk concert. I know this because there was a Tiny Desk concert one time when I was at NPR. I probably spent a total, by the way, of 12 hours at NPRHQ in my life. But one time... How many shits did you take? Twelve. He said I had to go across the street to CNN.

Wolf Blitzer's been in there for hours. What's he doing in there? You should see that guy's diet, Jordan. Oh, yeah. I was there when a Tiny Desk concert happened. They sent out an all-staff email, and then somebody just, literally like goes on the phone intercom and says, hey, if anybody wants to come to the tiny desk concert, it's happening right now. Like that's who is, it's just people that work in the building

and they just, you know, press the button and say, hey, tiny desk concert, it's going to be a Colombian folk legend, blah, blah, blah, and then everybody just goes. Wow. There were a bunch of Australians there when we did it. I guess they, there was like some sort of public radio exchange or something. Like, they were all from the ABC, I think, and they just were, like, there. And it was just like, oh, okay. I didn't expect to hear accents today. Their main news anchor there on the ABC is, of course, Yahoo!

Serious star of Young Einstein's answer. Yes, yes. Jesse gestured to me like I was going to finish the sentence. You remember. Yes. And to be fair, I should have. I dropped the ball by not saying Yahoo Sirius, someone we vaguely remember. I mean, Jordan, it's as though whales had come up, and I had said, what kind of whales?

And you had said, Balene, I know, I know to say Baylene. Baylene versus toothed whales. Stephen, you also mentioned that you, you're coming here on a bus. You're living that bus life. Oh, yeah. How is it? It's dry. How long, okay, so how long have you been, I want to hear about the dryness.

Lord knows I get enough of that at home. Uh-huh. Yeah. Whatever. You need a humidifier. I do need a humidifier. That's exactly what I'm talking about. I need a humidifier.

How long have you been busing relative to when you were, I would assume, Vanon? Yes. Vannin for still most of my life in this band. But we have been kind of fortunate enough to be on a bus probably for the last five or six years, like just before the pandemic. And it is, it is. a pretty big change, but it is like very, very nice. You sleep more. Okay. Which on the road

is like kind of a really just like as much sleep as you can get. Sure. It's sort of the name of the game. And it actually allows for like more exploration of a city. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. Matthew Barnhart, the tour engineer of Judge John Hodgman,

tours when he's not touring with us, he tours with the Mountain Goats and Destroyer. They're both bus acts and he broke down the bus lifestyle to me it sounds incredible but also horrible oh yeah let me explain so the difference is like with the hodgeman show we get off stage at 10 we do an hour of meeting greeting or an hour and a half of meeting and greeting and then we go back to a hotel room we sleep until eight and then we get up in the morning and uh drive somewhere right like we drive from

whatever, from Washington, D.C. to Richmond or whatever. And then as soon as we get there, it's sound check. Like, it's just a continuous cycle. There's no break in the cycle. And when you have a bus, what happens is, when you get offstage, you do your meet and greets or whatever, you pack up your, in your case, you're a little guitar. My little honey. A little honey.

Put it right in the jar. The quiet one. I mean, maybe you, do you bring the quiet one in the loud one? Oh, I bring all the loud ones. Okay, do you say the quiet part last? Yeah, that's right. So you pack up your shit, you get on the bus, and then you sleep on the bus. Oh, yeah.

But here's the crazy part that, so that much had occurred to me. I was like, wouldn't it be great to be able to sleep as long as I want on the bus? Because the bus gets there, you can stay asleep if you want to. Sure. I almost did today, but I'm here. Thank you. Thank you. We're recording this at 7 p.m. by the way. You're on.

This is the earliest I've been awake in months. I found out that if you have the bus lifestyle, what happens is you get to the place, right? But you live on the bus. So if you're going to take a shower, you have to take it at the fucking theater. The shower is at the theater. There's some of these theaters, they've got a shower backstage. And then you have to maybe sometimes there's towels, sometimes there's not. So there's like one of those, you know how like you might like rent like a like a lakehouse on Airbnb or verbo or something?

And you get there and there's just this washer and dryer that that's from 1978. Right. They have that. They have that backstage often. But yeah, you got to like all of your most intimate parts of your life take place in the weird cinder block backstage of a shitty theater. Oh, yeah. Is that what you meant when you? you said that it is dry, is that you can't shower?

Yeah, I'm just so dry. No, just like this bus in particular, but most buses are like just like the air is dry. The whole, like you need a humidifier. Because the air conditioner is running the whole time. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. But yeah, no, like you can, this is a little inside baseball, but you can tell a lot about a venue from their washing machine. Okay.

You'd think it'd be like practical stuff like the sound. system or like the seating no no no so like if you go into a theater and you see like an old industrial you know washing machine like from the 70s you're like hmm the towels are going to smell like mildew it doesn't matter how clean they are so that's going to be filthy yeah exactly so putting the minute doesn't get it clean and so that that's going to be my night I'm going to shower after the show and I'll feel dirtier than when I went into the shower right the the flip side of that now you guys all shower together uh yeah It's sort of a group's shower situation.

In the bat, yeah, yeah, I mean, all for one, one for all, right? That's the classic Batman. Yeah, Batman's always saying that. I mean, we're conserving water at the end of the day, right? Sure, yes, book your own life. We're on a bus, but we can't get soap on the rider. We have to share. Right.

So, but we're playing some of these, like, newer theaters now. And so, like, we were in Atlanta, and I had laundry to do. And I was like, whoa, they've got the LG wash tower. Oh, an L-G! Fuck, yeah. L-G, let's go! Yeah, I was like, you know, this is... L-G-L-F-G.

This is that, yeah, L-G-L-F-G. L-G-L-F-G. This is sort of the, this is like the, you know, the charmed life now. It's like, L-G wash-towers and roof honey kind of, that's like our... Oh, that's sweet. I mean, that's what you want. Jordan and I, when we tour, tend to play theaters. We'll play little theaters, like sit-down venues.

And Hodgeman and I have toured bigger theaters, not huge ones, but bigger ones. Again, like sit-down stuff and rock clubs. And the thing that I didn't anticipate learning about the touring life when I started making a living in part by touring in my 30s is because, I mean, Jordan and I used to do road shows, but like it was we rented a black box, you know, that's our. And the thing that struck me is how shitty all backstages are. Like, it doesn't matter. Like, Mariah Carey is in a shitty cinderblock room right now waiting to go on somewhere. Well, for one of her famous noon shows. Yeah, it is, it's truly like, if you think too much about a backstage couch.

Yeah. you'll just not, you'll stand for the rest of the day. Right. Because you're like, well, I don't know who's come is on it. Warrants come. Yeah. Warrant's come is still there. And, you know, you mentioned when you're busing it, you can, you know, you get in a little sooner, you can explore the city.

I'm just so flattered you would be here with us instead of at Universal Studios where you can ride the movies. Yeah, I mean, hey, you know, I do what's important for the culture. Yes. For the culture. Yes. Uh-huh. We do this all for the culture. When you see, George?

Oh, yeah. Well, we get paid in yogurt. So, yes. Anyway. Greek? What are we talking about here? Oh, nothing but Greek. I only eat Icelandic, guys.

Oh. You're a skier guy. Yeah, I'm all skeer. Skear. Listen, I think we could all use some yogurt. Do you want to take a little break? Let's take a break. Eat some yogurt and come back for some more.

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He has not, nor has Christel. Alonzo or Judy Greer. I thought maybe the Putter Boss sisters maybe have, but they haven't. Okay. I think Pup is the only one. Wow. Wow. I once, they asked me to pitch a comedy version of the tiny desk to them, put together

like a budget and stuff. This was 10 years ago. And I did. And I was like, this is going to be great. We'll shoot it at our office. We have a beautiful office. And I'll get Maria Bamford to come. You know what I mean?

And I put together this whole budget. And I think it was like, I can't remember, it was like $2,000 an episode or something. It was something absurdly small where I was not going to make any money and stuff. And they were like, this is way too much money. Like, this is way too much money. And I'm like, really? Because I feel like everybody is paying like, I'm paying everybody like the least amount of money you could pay anyone and have them still be a professional and stuff. And they're like, well, the tiny desk concert is much less expensive.

And that's how I learned that the budgets for the tiny desk. concert, everyone that works on them is on staff. Yes. They bought all the equipment and the desk is in their office and they don't count any of that as an expense for the tiny desk concerts. You got to get Big Bird to work on it.

I got to get Big Bird working on this thing. Or the count. I don't know. You know, if you've got to work on a budget. Did you know why? That guy loves making a budget. This is where I thrive. One line producer. Blanche.

I was right there with you I was right there with you You just say stuff from the last segment Did you do you guys know why the count is a vampire Is it because vampires There's a like a lesser known vampire lore thing Where if you like throw down sand or rice They have to count it

Yeah what is that about It's just an old time vampire thing That maybe hasn't made its way through You know other vampires It's that vampire OCD It's like a specific Right yes exactly specific thing.

People are making all these prestige horror movies, you know, like they made that old fashioned nosferatu, you know what I mean? No counting in that as far as I remember. Yeah, how come there? No, nobody's making a square aspect ratio-ass fucking horror movie where the premise is is Dracula's got to count things. We're digging in on the deepest part of Bram Stokers. And the most dramatic.

Sure, I think we all want to just see the vampire count. We all want that Yeah, we need to know Dissolve 725,411 Right And then score by Trent Resner and Atticus Ross When something momentous happens to you Give us a call at 206-9844 Fun

Or how about this Jordan Just send us a voice memo At J-JGOGO at maximum fun.org Just send us a voice memo You got a mobile studio in your pocket You have a mobile studio. You could film a Hollywood movie with that thing. You might as well send us a voicemail.

Thank you very much. Hey, Siri, send Jordan and Jesse great content so they don't have to do their work. That's what you say. Yeah. Okay. Here's an example. Hey, Jordan, Jesse, and guest. This is Terry, calling with a momentous occasion.

I'm walking out of the courthouse right now and getting confused looks from my wife and family. because we just adopted the foster son that we've had for two years. So I've got my son now. Jordan, falls in your court. Jordan, Eric. Hold on. Hold on. Jordan, sounds like you do something selfless.

Fucking asshole. Motherfucker. Yeah, so it sounds like Terry. Yeah. Terry went out and got himself a son. Listen, I'm working. Here we go! Yes, he said it.

He said the thing. He said the fan. Sand the line, Jordan. I'm working on it. I'm going to be... I'm going to be honest, Jordan. Yeah. I was kind of disappointed with Terry.

Oh, no. Yeah. It's such a wonderful thing, adopting a foster kid. Too sweet a Southern Drell? Yeah. I just kind of wanted him to have just gotten sentenced for a bar fighter. It's like, oh, boy, I talked to the baby, yeah. Well, y'all, I'm going up the river.

If you told me, when he started the call, if you told me that's the guy who opened the Golden Girls restaurant, I totally would have believed you. That's absolutely the voice of the guy who opens the Golden Grove. Hey, Jordan, hey, Jesse, it's Terry. Just on the steps of the courthouse, just walked out my Golden Girls restaurant's in receivership. And I'm working on some ideas for.

what blanche could be for Halloween. Let me know if y'all think anything. We're having fun, huh? We are. Just a couple of fog-corn lay-corns everywhere here. I do declare. I do declare. Mercy.

Oh, my, I'm making the world a better place by adopting children. I definitely was like, oh, man, did they break the breathalizer in their car? Like, what are we talking about the courthouse here? going. I know. I think our audience is more the adopted the foster child type rather than the I broke the breath of leisure type. But I think we got some out there. We got some dirty

troublemakers listening to this. There's one right here. Yeah. Oh no. He's killing us. As soon as I started doing that last adoption voice, I found myself wondering what it would be like if you were the adopted child of Fuelhouser. You'd just be like, God, I can't

go to any more missions. Oh, I got school today, Dad. I can't go to a fucking mission. Can't tour any more tortilla factories. These are great. Heelhauser was a real guy. Just for folks who didn't know that Heelhouser was a real guy, I just saw a thread on R-slash podcasting of people who didn't know Hewielhouser was a real guy.

Yeah, I mean, with Hewelhouser's popularity amongst podcasters. Yeah, James Adomian, Dana Gould. Yeah, a lot of great Heelhouser impressions out there. It is amazing that he was a local PBS guy. Yeah. I mean, I didn't even get him in San Francisco. Yeah. His show was called California's gold, but it really only extended to central California. There was a line that he dare not cross.

Los Banos. Right, yeah, that's the line. Oh, I'm not crossing Los Bios. He probably went to that nice barbecue restaurant in Los Bajon. A good barbecue restaurant in Los Bajos. Stephen, do you, when you are in California and not recording a podcast, do you have, like, band day off stuff that you like? to do?

Yeah, I mean, usually not a lot of days off, honestly. Or if they are in the past, like, it's been driving. But yeah, I mean, I do, I love to eat. It's fun to eat, isn't it? It's pretty good to eat, you know? Numb, num, num, yeah. Put the food in the mouth? Yeah, oh, you got it.

You got it, dude. You know what I like to do? You know what I like to do, Jordan? What? I like to put the food in the mouth and then I give it one of these. Oh, a little chew? Yeah, you got to chew. Yeah, you got to chew.

Yeah, you got to chew. You got to use saliva And it is all this. So I do a lot of California chewing. You guys... Not the old California chew. You guys have acid in your stomachs? Yeah.

It's too much sometimes. Yeah. Billius. You know, yeah, that's one of those tour diets. You know, you're eating a lot of takeout. Yeah, sure. You never know what's going to happen.

Never, no. You know, Mama Cass never would have died if she'd done more California chewing. That's right. Too much California dreaming. Yeah, sure. Too much dreaming. Not enough.

you. Just in case anybody didn't get the joke. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I did, the last time I was here, I did get to go to the cinema in L.A.

for the first time. I've actually, I'd actually never been. This is the home of cinema. Yeah. We love it. We love the movies. The pictures. The lights, the glamour.

That was cool. I went to, I went to the Vista. Was Nicole Kidman there? No. Aw. Yeah, I have not been to the, the Vista is an old, old one-scremen. movie palace that, you know, was here

forever and then, you know, was in danger of shutting down, got bought by Quentin Tarantino, refurbished. I have not been since the refurb. Yeah, it was really cool. And you don't have to wear shoes, right? That's right. Yeah, yeah. It's Quentin's rule. You can't wear shoes. Yeah, it's sort of a

reverse no shirt, no shoes. Yeah, and you have to do your own stunts. Yeah. It's a cinema palace and foot fetish Emporium. Kind of, you know, it's like, you've got to have two things now. You have to feel like. You have to have two things or no one will write about you on Instagram.

You know how like when you go on Star Tours there's that whole part where like the different droids are talking to in the line before you get on the Star Tours? They have that at the Vista but it's just Quentin Tarantino telling you about records. You know, one of those droids now, Patrick Warburton.

Oh, really? Yeah, I don't know if he's been on to Star Tours recently. I haven't been on it recently. Do they still have Peewee? No, Peeway has been replaced by C3PO, but the Peeway droid is now... Who what's the C3Pio?

Yeah. No one. From the movie Star Wars. Nobody likes that movie. Fuck that character from the movie. We want original park IP. The Peewee droid is now in... There's like a Star Wars bar in Star Wars Land, and he's the DJ there. Oh, our friends Stefan Lawrence designed a drinking glass for that bar. It's really fucking cool.

Not to geek out here. Yeah. You know what? I feel like I'm like kind of a geek. I love Marvel movies. I love geeking out. I love Marvel movies and geeking out.

It's fun. The geek culture. Have you seen Game of Thrones? No, but I want to. I want you so bad. We got some Funko pop boys here. Oh, yeah. Well, you know we're lighting up for funcos.

I love funcos. I love lining up. Oh, man. When you see Game of Thrones, Jordan, you're going to be geeking out. You're going to be going to want to get so many funcos of it. I have been to that Vista Theater. What I like about the Vista Theater is that there are some genuine movie palaces in Los Angeles.

The million dollar mile or whatever it's called on Broadway downtown is full of some actual movie palaces. And because downtown Los Angeles is, you can have some rough stuff. streets. Those movie palaces are not generally open except for like once in a while, but they're true gorgeous, incredible movie palaces. One of them has been converted into a music venue, etc. But what I like about the vista theater is that while it is a one-screen theater, it's pretty well short of movie palace. And they didn't put in like those kind of like fancy recliner seats just they just took out every other row and like at the end of the day what I want is just a place to put my legs yeah like I want to not bother people when I'm going

back to my seat after I went to get refreshments and that the vista theater delivers in spades yes like great great great they're playing the PT Anderson movie and Vista vision et cetera I adopted a baby. But what I want is every other row. Every other row is the greatest innovation in the history of film, as far as I'm concerned. Sorry, stadium seating. Do you think the converted theater

that is the music venue has a shitty backstage? Oh, unquestionably. It's worse. I bet it's worse. I'm sure you've played the Neptune Theater in Seattle at some point. Many times, yes. Yeah, so I love the Neptune theater because there is a guy at the flea market who owns the Neptune

theater who just sell stuff at the flea market but he inherited it from his parents or something he doesn't run it but like no baby Neptune baby occasionally I'll just be like buying some world's fair drinking glasses from him and he'll be like played the Neptune lately I own that and I'll be like yeah I know he's very nice man but the Neptune theater is a former movie theater

And to get to the green room in that theater, you have to go up essentially one of those, like, terrifying steel spiral staircases, but, like, four stories. Like, it is, it's like one of those movies where someone is climbing stairs on the side of a mountain side and they're going to go do something at the, like, do a space ritual at the top, like an ancient space ritual. Yeah, sure. I'm imagining a sequence from Andor, I think. pulled from Zardos? Yeah, a giant head floats up and shoots guns out of the mouth. Yeah, we all know these. But like once you climb this mountain, once you go up a terrifying staircase like four floors,

you get to like essentially the offices of a real estate company. And that's how you know you're a star. You're, uh, y'all are here because you're playing the palladium tonight. Yes. It used to be a roller rink. Uh, have you played? this venue and do you know what the backstage is like? No, we haven't.

We have played the Fonda, which is like just around the corner. Yes. And done a bunch of different venues in L.A. The Fonda had kind of a funky little basement backstage situation. At the Palladium, are you guys going to be wearing quads or inlines? I was hoping to do inline, you know, just like.

Because you guys are a pretty radical band. Yeah, it's a little more contemporary. If I need to shred some gnar, that's the easiest way to do it. And that goes great with the Batman outfit. Yeah, exactly. And it's like not just

guitar shredding, really. Right. Like we said, we have to have two things. You have to have two things. If you're going to shred, you know. Because the alternative is outdated tax records.

That's right. That's not something. Yeah, I don't want to, when I shred, I'm not talking about financial crime, of course. But, uh, I'd love to see a little odd stage crime, financial, some embezzling maybe. I don't know.

Yeah, it's not enough white collar crime on stages across this great name. Does anybody here work for the SEC before we get into this next bit? Okay, good, all right. I'm going to take your word for it. Oh, man, you work for the Southeastern Conference. No, I meant the security. Roll Tides.

My wife's going to be very mad at me for saying Rol Tide. I'm sorry, baby. Oh, wow. Is your wife all about Bama? No. Hookham Horn? No, she actually, there's no SEC at all. That's why she's going to be mad.

Okay. Oh, she's from Kentucky. She went to the University of Louis. And what a conference are they in? The Big Ten. ACC, is that something? The Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke?

Where's the North Carolina? They're in the Duke. Duke just started its own conference. They're like, get with it or get out. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so anyway. I think conferences, college sports conferences, when they started paying players from

I guess the pooled money of whatever car dealership owners went to that university. That's my understanding of how college athletes are being paid now. Just all the car dealership owners get together at an annual meeting and decide how much to pay a running back. Right. But like when that happened, all the conferences went insane. Yeah. Like college sports was already pretty insane given that like these poor. people were supposed to be in college.

Speaking of financial crime. They were like in college and they're like, yes, you're in college, but also four days a week, you have to fly to the other coast. But now they like every conference, like the like the PAC 10, the conference that like Cal was in, is just like Eastern Michigan and Drexel and Southern Louisiana. and San Diego State, and that's it. It's four teams. The Pacific is anywhere for those with eyes to see it.

Exactly. That's a really good point. They send, they mail out postcards. All right, you're in. You looked at the card. We got a segment in there? Oh, yeah, we should mention this to Steve. Steve, I mean, you're in a band, so you know a little something about creative work.

I try. Here on Jordan Jesse Go, we do a lot of creative work. And an example of that is coming up with segments for people to call in for. So if it seems like somebody just called in and said whatever the fuck they wanted to say to us, but then right beforehand they said, oh, this is for your segment, whatever the fuck I wanted to say to you. That's not how it goes. This is something we thought of because we work really hard on the show. Okay.

Not true. Hi, Jordan. Hi, Jesse. Hi, hi guest. I'm going to say baseball hall of famer Randy Johnson. This is Henry from Chicago. I'm calling in for your famous segment. bike lane encounters

I was walking around the park pushing my son in his stroller and I heard someone honked their horn and I looked over and there was a lady in an Audi in the bike lane presumably trying to make a right turn and a guy in a moped

pulled up next to her and he said what what are you honking at lay off the horn lady and she didn't respond and the light turned green and he rode away not flipping her off but giving her a thumbs down and she made a right turn and presumably felt the shame for the rest of the day love you guys love the show bye when you call into our show Can I just give everybody a piece of advice? Take your time.

Yeah. Let the big dog eat. And a beautiful background noise. I mean, it does, it seems like what I was imagining was right as you leave Pirates of the Caribbean. Uh-huh. You know, and you're on the-you're cruising on out. It reminded me a little bit of like a letter from someone in like the Spanish-American War. Yes.

being read in a television documentary. Like, I know that, I know Ken Burns like to put those fiddles behind things, so it wouldn't be a Ken Burns one. It would be a different one. I think I heard a croaking bullfrog. Maybe I was just kind of, like, lost in the ambiance. I had no idea that's what Chicago was like. Yeah.

Now, did that person say that Randy Johnson was the guest? He guessed that Randy Johnson was the guest. Baseball Hall of Famer, Randy Johnson, now know. primarily for his golf photography. Golf photographer, Randy Johnson. Yeah, oftentimes. The big unit. The big unit.

Oftentimes people will call in and kind of try and guess who the guest is. Sometimes it's a legitimate guest. Sometimes it's, you know, kind of a joke guest. Although maybe we could get this guy. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, as Canada's foremost, Randy Johnson impersonator. Right.

Yes. I actually, it's amazing. Yeah. Is Randy here? Can we talk to Randy? I'll kill a seagull if you're not careful. Ah, that's him. It's like he's here.

Steve, what are you? 6-4? Yeah, 6-3. 6-3, 6-4. Like, Steve is the closest thing to a 6-10 guy they have in Canada. That's how we got the job. It's not a vocal impression. It's just he's the tallest guy in Canada.

Yeah, you're too busy shivering. Yeah. Can't grow tall. You know, Randy Johnson went on my friend Ben Lindbergh's podcast, effectively wild, recommended if you're a baseball nerd out there. And he just talked about Weber Barbecue Grills the entire time. God bless.

They could not get him off the topic of Weber Barbecue, no matter what they asked him. He liked them. He likes the grills. I believe he was paid to endorse them, yes. I believe he was cashing those Weber checks. Hell yeah. That bracket money. Oh, I'd love to get some briquette money.

That's why I talk about it. money. LG Stackwash. If anyone from the little green egg is listening, I'll take that briquette money. Is that your grill of choice?

Well, I live in a condo, of course, so I couldn't have any of that. Oh, okay. That's why you only aspire to a little green egg, not even an aspirational green egg. I got a big green egg, Jordan. I smoke bacon in there.

Make my own bacon. You were saying that in a way to where I thought it was sexual india. I'm like, I got a big green egg. In my pants. Jordan, you're out there smoking bacon? Yes.

I don't know. Big words bacon. I've never had sex. Fine. I admit it. I don't know what any of this is. Oh, man. Jordan,

you're going to love it. When you get a crack at this thing, you're going to love it. Oh, man, I bet. Oh, it's going to be great. Oh, I see some pictures. And I think I'm going to like it.

Oh, wow. Were you calling in from Chicago, Jordan? Yeah. I love tomatoes I'm a hot dog Well I'm looking at pictures of sex No ketchup though No ketchup

Oh no ketchup Or I'll be a weird dick about it Oh man you know what I bet I bet Randy Johnson is taking pictures of sex I bet Randy Johnson's taking pictures With the big unit Yay You gotta

Don't you think I think that's how that guy got into sports photography As he started photographing A certain sportsman He's like well I already have the nickname. Time to lean in. I just want to say, for folks who are listening at home and can't see what's going on here in our office,

we have not just Stephen Ray Morris, but our brand new Jordan Jesse Go producer, Jordan Cowling, here. Welcome aboard, Jordan. We're thrilled to have you here. And thank you for your service, Stephen. We'll have a few more episodes, I think, with Stephen. But Jordan and Steve's... We'll work out the name confusion later. Jordan and Stephen are out there.

Stephen is pointing to what I can only presume is a rare bird in the sky. They are having an animated discussion about something that is above our studio in the air. Well, you know we are birders. Oh, okay. Jordan I bonded over our love of songbirds. Really? What's your favorite songbird? A cardinal.

All right, check's out. All right, you talk to talk. I've got nailed it, dude. Are you, like, top 1% Merlin users? Got to be. Totally. Got it. Totally.

Sounds like you know what that is. I do know what that is. Listen, let's give Stephen a minute to figure out what that is. And then we'll come back for more. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jessica. Jackie Cashin, hi, and welcome to the maximum fun.org podcast, the Jackie and Lori show where we talk about stand-up comedy and how much we love. of it and how much it enrages us.

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Steve Slodkowski, Kentucky Colonel. Are you a Kentucky Colonel? I am. Whoa. We had some Jordan Jesse Go listeners who said they were going to make me a Kentucky Colonel and then didn't. See, not, that's dishonorable behavior. You can't be a Kentucky Colonel if you're being dishonorable. Can you make me a Kentucky Colonel?

I think technically I would have to nominate you, yes. Isn't this like, it's like being a freemate. to be one, ask one. Yeah, I think, yeah. But I think, like, less, like, I think less influence on the world, you know, mostly just, like, I could have a cool license plate. I don't, that sounds cool, though. I don't know, Steve.

How's the fucking Freemason's restaurant? Yeah, I mean, I think that I'm at the level of Colonel, though I only know nine of the herbs and spices. It's good, but is it finger-like? On your deathbed, they whisper the last one to you. Yeah, that's right. I went to a mutual friend's birthday party at the Moose Lodge in Burbank.

Three guesses as to whose birthday party was. I bet you can get it. Okay, Chris Fairbanks. Nope. Close. That's my only friend. Oh, wow. I was Blaine Capatch.

The great Blankapatch. I had such a fucking great time at this Moose Lodge. And it's like 70 bucks a year and you can just be a moose and you can go hang out at that bar and play poker after hours, I guess, and sometimes there's wrestling. I think I'm going to do it. Yeah, that sounds really good.

It's a deal. Yeah, I know, right? 70 bucks. I think 70 bucks, someone told me. I was drunk. You and Blank, I had to have you can have your own little Lodge 29 or whatever. What's that show called? Yes. Lodge 49.

That's the one. Yes. We can do all kinds of one season AMC shows in there. But first of all, there was, I think, three seasons of that show. Second of all, it ripped. It was a great show. We can do a real halt and catch fire. For some reason, I thought you guys were going to go like niche,

Canadian, like the red green show. Okay, so here's my question for you. The red green show came up recently on the program. Can you tell me more about today's special? The children's television show that took place in the mall? Yeah, see, there we go. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A beloved.

It was, had already kind of had its run, but was like in syndication on like public broadcasting in Canada. Right. And yeah, Sam is like the, you know, the guy with the mustache, the puppet with the mustache. That's the one who loves peanut

jelly bean sandwiches yeah so essentially it was like in a mall the whole

like show took place in a shopping mall 100% here Jordan I want you to know

we could look up this information we could but it would be unreliable we need a

Canadian person that's right this is what we are doing here essentially is that

that play about the post apocalyptic world where people reenack Simpsons episodes to each tell us

more about today's And after dark, that's when all good stuff happens, as we know. Jordan doesn't. Yeah. You know, one of the mannequins would come alive, and he was sort of like a jaunty. Like, he was kind of like an adult newsy. Right.

You know? And there just would be various hijinks that would happen. And there was a woman named Jody. Yeah, yeah, Jody. I remember Jody because my child's best friend's name was Jody. is Jody remains Jody hasn't changed it And I thought it was amazing that there was a character on TV Someone else that shared his name but was a lady

Yeah Yeah and I'm trying to remember some of the other character names This is like a I'm like this is a deep cut Yeah you've brought up here Very very 80s like a lot all the graphics all the like kind of like strange like screen wipes when You know when the like puppets would come alive or or or Pardon me, they're not puppets, they're mannequins. It has both, it had the quality both of public television generally and Canadian television in particular,

which is that it was both contemporary and slightly janky. Yes. Like, it's fully professional, and they're doing a good job. Yep. But also everything is a little janky. Yeah. This is how we brought you kids in the hall, okay? So if you like kids in the hall, you have to take your weird.

Thank you. Yeah, and by the way, thank you for Ben Affleck and the Voyage of the Mimi. Oh, yeah. She's going to sit around thanking him for Canadian things. Yeah. Celine Dion, I don't know, whatever you were. Oh, Celine, yes.

You brought us the queen. Celine, more the banter than the songs. Yeah, of course. When I go to her shows for the banter. God, her banter is incredible. It's amazing. There's got to be middle-aged homosexual nerds who make super cuts of Celine Dion banter, right?

I didn't know. Is Celine, famous for her banter? Selene Dion banter is amazing. Really? I had no idea. She's a nut. Yeah.

But in the most delight. Like, I truly, like, if you said to me, what music do you, what popular music do you least want to listen to, it would probably be Celine. Mm-hmm. But watching her talk is so delightful. Okay.

She is a fucking kook of 12 out of 10 kook. plus she's French-Canadian, so she has a funny manner of speech. Plus, she's a legendary diva, so she'll, like, go from being a weird cuckus who's saying something that doesn't quite make sense into, you know, the most extraordinary instrument that you've ever heard in your life come out of a human being, right? Even though, again, I find it unpleasant. The music is unpleasant, but it's still remarkable.

It's objectionable, but it's still remarkable, of course. Yeah. I think there's got to be Celine Dion's super, saying funny things super cuts and i think she might be funny on purpose as well like she's the kind of funny on purpose where she knows that she's a kook and thinks it's fun but isn't like playing it up she's crazy eye funny yeah like but she like knows it and she knows that it's fun and she's having fun but she's not doing a bit where she's kooky does that make sense check out this banter Stephen, I feel like I don't mean to

speak, I don't mean to paint with a broad brush You feel like someone who would know about this You know, I actually don't That's not, you know, I'm more of a Mia Jovovich You know, a fair era That's my era Hey, this is fun, we got two Stevens and two Jordans in here now This is fun

Wait, does that mean we have to fight? I want another Jesse You know, fun It can be only one, it's like the Highlander Yeah, sorry, fucking left-handed relief pitcher Jesse Orozco Stephen in Pup Who's the who's the banter guy?

I'll do it sometimes Stefan will do it sometimes You know Mostly it's like a matter of Kind of saying Sincere things And then trying to make The absolute dumbest jokes possible

Amazing Stefan is a small man who's full of energy That's right He's a ball of action And I'm tall and very sleepy A classic comedy pair Yeah that's right And it's a two person band

The other two guys don't exist so that works well it has been a joy to have you on the program Steve is there a song that we should go out on from the new record I was like it's all coming back to me now probably no

there's a song on the record called Concrete that I think is a really cool lyrical it's written from the perspective of like Stefan's like teenage years he's sort of like looking back on that And there's just like a fun sort of like, there's a little bit of droney kind of stuff going on. And there's a hokey little guitar line that I improvised like the first time I played the song.

And it's one of the few things that like stayed complete, you know? I don't spoiler alert, but it goes, da-na-da-da-da-da-da-na-na-na-na-a. That's right. No-n-n-da-d-d-d-all. It sounds just like that. Yeah, I don't know. That's a fun one. Well, Steve, oh, go ahead.

I was just going to say, new records, great. Oh, thank you. I've been bumping it in the car for a month. Recorded here in Los Angeles. Wow. Just like this podcast. The home of the silver screen? That's right.

Where movies were invented. Steve is from the band Pup. The album is called Who Will Look After the Dogs? That's the new record. Who Will Look After the Dogs? One of many wonderful recordings by the band Pup, Jordan. That's spelled P. U

P capital P capital U capital P that stands for pathetic use of potential That's what somebody's grandma said That's very good That's what somebody's grandma said

That's right Stephens Stephens grandma said it was a pathetic use of potential So they named the band Pop Stephen Ray Morris is the producer of our program Incoming producer Inseat number two

I bet next time they'll switch seats Incoming producer in seat number two in seat number two is the great Jordan Cowling. Our theme music is Love You by the Free Design, courtesy of the free design and Light in the Attic Records. Our thanks to the free design, our thanks to Light in the Attic Records, for the wonderful work that they do

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