Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Doin’ McFine, with Brent Weinbach
Episode Date: May 22, 2025On this week’s episode, we welcome comedian, Brent Weinbach, to chat about Mother’s Day, McG updates, Rules 37, and more.Watch Brent’s new special, Popular Culture!Watch The Chicken Coop!And lis...ten to Brent’s video game podcast, Legacy Music Hour!Jordan will be at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, June 7th and 8th!Jordan’s new Spider-Man’s comic is out now!Pre-order Jordan’s new Godzilla comic! Be sure to get our new ‘Ack Tuah’ shirt in the Max Fun store.Or, grab an ‘Ack Tuah’ mug!The Maximum Fun Bookshop!Follow the podcast on Instagram and send us your dank memes!Check out Jesse’s thrifted clothing store, Put This On.Check out Producer Steven and Margaret Cho’s chat on See Jurassic Right about the “Movies That Made Us Queer.”Follow brand new producer, Steven Ray Morris, on Instagram.Listen to See Jurassic Right!
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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 am Jesse Thorn, America's radio sweetheart.
Jordan Morris, boy detective.
Jordan I would like to start this week's program with one of the most legendary segments on Jordan Jesse Goh, which is
sports news of the mid 1960s.
Mm-hmm.
As relayed in the early 1970s and
revealed to me Jesse in the past few days.
Great. Yeah, let's I mean the knows this. You could explain it more or you
could just do it. But I mean, the audiences, and again, this is our, you know, it's our
stupid pet tricks. It's our thank you notes. Exactly. It's our jaywalking, some say. Yeah.
In fact, play the theme music. Oh, we don't have it this week, Stephen. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.
We lost the theme music, Jordan. Sorry. I'll talk to Stephen about it afterwards.
So, you know who Mickey Mantle is, right? Yeah, famous baseball player from the early days of
baseball. Yeah, near the middle days. Do I need to know anything else? No, I think you got it.
Legendary New York Yankee outfielder, Mickey Mantle. So So in the early 1970s, Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built,
was going to have its 50th anniversary. And so the press secretary of the Yankees, the
PR vice president of the Yankees, whose name was Bob something or other, wrote this sort of form
letter to many, many, many living past Yankees players asking them what their experiences
were at Yankee Stadium.
Specifically, it said, you know, it's Yankee Stationary, it says, as you probably know,
1973 marks the 50th anniversary of Yankee Stadium.
We're going to have a season-long golden anniversary celebration.
We thought it would be interesting to learn from you what you consider your outstanding
event at Yankee Stadium.
In many cases, the answer is obvious, but because we're writing a large number of your
former teammates, we're asking you to answer this question for us.
Blah, blah, blah. Yours, very truly yours, Bob Fischl.
Bob Fischl, the name of this guy.
And then included is a second page of the letter that is two questions with lines for
the player to just write in the answer.
And they had just like a self-addressed stamped envelope in there.
So if you're, I mean, let's say that you're Yogi Berra.
You get this letter, you just write in, oh, it was, you know, it was when we won
the 1958 World Series or whatever.
And you put in the mail, you said, yeah, and these are good.
Are these do we know the use of these?
What was the intended use of these?
This is going to go in a memory book or a press notes.
Put them up on the scoreboard.
Okay.
There was gonna be, there was actually gonna be like a book publication, a book style publication.
I don't know if it was gonna be like sold in stores, but they were making a thing,
you know, like a yearbook type thing. So, the questions on this form letter were,
So the questions on this form letter were, I consider the following my outstanding experience at Yankee Stadium and this event occurred on or about give as much detail as you can.
Obviously, that presumably that's so that they can try and find pictures of it or
connect it with other people's answers or whatever, right?
So they sent it to Mickey Mantle and this letter exists.
This is a real letter that exists that someone owns. He paid roughly $240,000 for it.
Okay. This is like at an auction.
At an auction, just a little bit less than, you know, sports memorabilia is very valuable
for sure.
Yeah, yeah. Just under a quarter million dollars. So, it says in, you know, in typeface, it says, I consider the following my outstanding
experience at Yankee Stadium. And then in his own handwriting, and that always makes the letter
more valuable, Jordan, if it's in the, you know, if it's typed out and just signed at the bottom,
less valuable than if it's in their own handwriting. I consider the following my outstanding experience at Yankee Stadium and Mickey Mantle wrote,
I got a blowjob under the right field bleachers by the Yankee bullpen.
And then the second question, this event occurred on or about, give as much detail as you can. He wrote, it was about the third or fourth
inning, I had a pulled groin and couldn't fuck at the time. She was a very nice girl
and asked me what to do with the cum after I came in her mouth. I said, wow, don't ask me,
I'm no cocksucker.
I said, wow, don't ask me, I'm no cocksucker. I, you know, I wrote something very similar on a comic card that David Buster's.
And it says signed and he wrote in Mickey Mantle and then underneath he wrote, the all
American boy. Okay, so do you think is he doing this because he's a little stinker or was he just like
old and so far gone, he thought this was okay? Do you have any idea about what he was like
personally?
I thought you were gonna ask do I think this actually took place? He definitely, no. I don't think he was confused and wrote it in
because he thought this was what they wanted to hear. No, I don't, I think it would take, I mean,
look, Yogi Berra famously confused by things. But I don't think even Yogi would have mistaken the kind of thing they were looking for, which
is I participated in a triple play or maybe even I met my wife, right?
Maybe something like that.
Do you know, have any idea like how this made its way from...
Because, yeah, I mean, I understand you being the guy who gets it and wanting to save it
because you're like, this is amazing, oh my God.
You show it to people at parties.
Do you have any idea how it made its way from this guy to like an auction where someone
paid a quarter of a million dollars for it?
Yeah, I mean, I think Bob Fischl kept it for 40 years.
Showed it to everybody when he had a couple of drinks.
Yeah.
Then he died.
Mm-hmm.
Then someone found it and thought, I wonder if this is worth 250 pounds of dollars.
And it was.
And it turned out to be.
Wow.
It was absolutely, it is like a real thing that came from his files.
He had like, the Bob Fischl had talked about it being real.
Mickey Mantle acknowledged that it was real. Mickey Mantle in answer to your question was
a legendarily drunk asshole.
Okay.
But also, who kind of threw his life away and died not that long after this.
Mm-hmm. It's like he lived a rich life though, so you know. But I think that he really, I think that he probably really did this and you would think
that it was, that he would be the only person ever to have had this extraordinary experience
but you know, as he mentioned, he had a pulled groin at the time and couldn't fuck.
And couldn't fuck.
So that explains why he wouldn't be in the game. Mickey Mantle frequently injured.
You know, this guy had one of his greatest challenge. He could have been the greatest ever
rather than just an all-time great. Sure, but he had a trick grind. But he was often injured.
But you know, that explains he didn't have to be in the dugout.
No one would notice that he left and went under the bleachers and got his dick sucked
between the third and fourth inning
but it was recently revealed through the candor of the recovering addict that
Darrell strawberry said he did full-on intercourse while he was in the game
Wow, oh my gosh
while he was in the game. Wow, oh my gosh.
Like in between running in from the outfield to the dugout, he then went to a back room,
fucked, came back to the dugout and batted.
This is, and now he's saying this in a making amends way, not a bragging way.
Yeah, exactly.
So Mickey Mantle, to be clear here, is, I mean, he's pretty generous. He
points out she was a very nice girl.
Do you think Kevin Costner will make a movie about this?
I think Kevin Costner has made a movie about this, but it's just for Kevin and Mrs. Costner.
Sure. Occasionally, they show it at their Christmas parties.
Once, once in a while they show it at a Christmas party.
Okay, our guest on the program, of course, known the world over as the world's number one sports dude.
Representing, come here from Barstool Sports probably.
No. One of our favorite stand standup comics in the world.
He has a brand new standup special just released called Popular Culture.
Jordan, I will tell you before I even say who our guest is,
I will tell you, I attended the taping of this special.
I attended not since you went to the taping of Cristela Alonso's special
with Eliza Skinner. Has this happened on Jordan Jesse Gill? But I attended-
Oh, I saw Sierra Cato's too.
Oh, okay. Well, okay. Well, then not since those two. I mean, I went to this one, did
you?
Listen, I was not trying to swing dicks with you here, I was just
pointing out another time. This is not- We both are show business insiders, Jordan.
You seem challenged by this. I think tickets were probably publicly available. I probably could have-
Yeah, I bought tickets. Oh yeah, yeah, so-
Because I wanted my friend to get the money. He deserved the money.
Listen, nobody's swinging dicks here, pal. I'm just-
I paid for the tickets and I went to the show.
Yeah. I bet it was great. I can't wait to watch it. I'll listen for you laughing. You'reicks here, pal. I paid for the tickets and I went to the show. Yeah.
I bet it was great.
I can't wait to watch it.
I'll listen for you laughing.
You're my friend.
Jordan.
I would never-
Jordan, get up on your face about something trivial.
Jordan, it was so fucking great.
I bet it was.
It was so fucking hilarious.
This dude's one of the funniest.
This is one of the funniest guys, one of the funniest stand-up comedians in the world as
far as I'm concerned, our friend Mr. Brent Weinbach. Hi Brent, how are you?
Okay, thank you, thank you. I wanted to chime in so many times, but I wanted to just wait for the
right time, wait for the intro, and thank you for the nice intro, and thank you for coming to the
special taping. I hope that it is captured on video in the way that you,
you know, experienced it in real life.
And just, sorry, Brent, just so you know, Jordan, when he says thank you for coming to the special,
obviously I'm the one that came to the special, but as far as I'm concerned,
like I was coming on behalf of you and Stephen as well.
Okay.
I felt you guys were there too. I did feel the presence of both Stephen and Jordan and I thank you all. Yeah. And I gave and I could make it and I was heartbroken to not have made it.
And I gave Jesse a little note and I hope you read it. I said read this during the special and
you know, in it, you know, it's an envelope and you opened it up and it said ha ha ha so I hope Jesse actually read that.
Yeah I did.
Did you?
Okay thank you.
Yeah so I opened the envelope.
I thought that the letter was gonna.
I opened the envelope and then I read the word ha ha ha during the special.
And then further in that envelope or on that letter it said that Kevin Kamiya who opened the show got his dick sucked
in the green room in between shows. Largo, maybe?
In between shows. We did two shows, yeah. Yeah, UCB theater, the green room, UCB theater, yeah.
Yeah.
So, more like the...
What a wonderful place to get your dick sucked, that awful green room. That sad, weird green room.
dick suck, that awful green room. That sad weird green room. And about the baseball thing, I just wanted to say that, I mean, you guys said it already,
would Kevin Costner make a movie about this? He did. I mean, there is a scene, he didn't
make it exactly, but he's in it. Bull Durham, there is a scene that is kind of similar,
one of the opening scenes is similar to what you were describing.
It's Kevin Costner getting his dick sucked?
It's been a minute since I've seen Bull Durham.
It's, it's, well, no, it's Tim, it's Tim Robbins and some broad, you know, no, I'm just kidding.
Some woman is-
A nice girl.
A nice girl.
A nice girl.
Very nice girl.
Yeah. There's, there's something happening. I want to say it's just after the game or it is maybe even still during the game that
he's in the locker room with a woman, Tim Robinson's character.
Okay, well, it's possible that Mickey Mantle just saw Bull Durham and then wrote this letter.
Yeah.
Yeah, what year did he write the letter?
So 1972, but Bull Durham came out in 68, right?
Wait.
Mickey, this is, so this is proof that Mickey Mantle traveled through time.
Yeah.
This is like that guy in the Charlie Chaplin movie that's holding a cell phone.
Yeah.
Oh, that's why he was kind of, you know, you said he was a bit of a drunk, right? Well, maybe he was actually
experiencing time travel trauma, you know, or you know how...
Right, yeah. It gives you, right, it gives you the bends, it can disorient you.
It disorient you, yeah. Maybe he was not really drunk, he was just under the influence of
sort of time displacement effects.
Sure. Can I suggest another possibility, Brent? And it's not to discredit what you said, which
may very well be the case. Is it possible that hard liquor, which I think is what Mickey
Mantle mostly drank, that hard liquor is sort of like time tunnel lube. Like the more you
drink, the less chafing you experience as you travel
between times.
So, you're suggesting that maybe he was drinking not to, you know, chase away personal demons
or whatever but to kind of prep himself for the rigors of time travel? Because it gives
you a lugubrious quality.
You know, and you know what? Another angle that is kind of in the same direction is that...
But that makes as much sense.
Getting blackout drunk is kind of like time travel into the future.
Sure.
That's a good point.
I mean, you're in whatever, 1978 and then you blackout drunk for 10 years and now you're
in 1988. I mean, it's a
little, you know, you're not being able to... Your options of time travel become
less, you know, but there is some sort of time travel element there of going to
the future.
Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely interested to hear about your experiences with
10-year blackouts.
I have never experienced time travel, let's put it that way.
I have never in the slightest.
In the slightest.
You know me, right?
I'm a, what is it, what was his, how did he sign his thing?
America's Good Boy or something like that?
The All American Boy.
I'm the All American Good Boy.
And you, I know you're a deeply religious man,
and your religion is against time travel, right?
You are... The church's bylaws say. Zoroaster would never, Jordan. Zoroaster would never.
There's three things we forbid in our practice. Right. We forbid onions, garlic, and time travel okay question is your religion being a
Dracula well I think that that is part it's an element Jordan you never want to
hear wow it's an oversimplification. We don't we don't like the association, but it is an app description. Yes
We stay up late
We you know we watch YouTube till 6 a.m. Uh-huh
I mean the algorithm just finds all sorts. It's like oh, this is of course. This is so me
Is this why Dracula's keep getting radicalized?
It's like, oh, of course, this is so me. Is this why Dracula's keep getting radicalized?
Yeah, they're just going down these rabbit holes late in the night, early in the morning.
But yeah, no, we're in bed by sunrise easily.
We need to be.
We need to be.
You gotta be.
You gotta be in bed by sunrise.
You know, I'm the all-American boy and as such, I have a question for you guys, which
is how did your mother's Days go this year?
Okay, yeah. Well, okay, as I mentioned, this was, I mentioned before we started recording,
this was a hot Mother's Day.
Oh, yeah.
Okay? It was hot. Well, and what I mean by that, well, yes, the temperature was hot.
It was over 100, I think.
Yeah.
But these mothers were looking pretty dang good, I gotta say.
Yeah. Yeah.
I was out at the restaurant and I thought, wow, this is a hot Mother's Day in more ways
than one.
And hey, if you're gonna wanna scope some hot moms, you're gonna wanna go to the restaurant.
That's the number one place.
The hottest moms go to the restaurant.
If you wanna see tight, fit moms, you gotta hit up the restaurant. Wait, I went to see tight fit moms.
You gotta hit up the restaurant.
Wait, I went to the movie theater.
Let's see.
The hottest moms don't go to the movie theater.
No they don't.
They're at the restaurant my friend.
Well at least I got to enjoy that popcorn.
Don't get me wrong, the mothers look good there.
Oh yeah.
But they're not as hot as the restaurant moms though.
The restaurant moms.
Just great aid. Top choice. You know, a lot of people celebrate Mother's Day. They're not as hot as the restaurant moms the restaurant moms just great a top choice
You know a lot of people celebrate mother's day. I celebrate mother's night
Yeah, I mean I call my mom up I say I say oh yeah, what's up mama?
Hold on your you call your mom. I got a so I got a you know it's her. It's mother's day
Mother's mother's night. You know I got a mother call her up and's her, it's mother's day. I got to celebrate. It's mother's night,
you know, I got to call her up and say, she answers. She goes, hello. I say, that's how she
talks. Sure. I go, yeah. She goes, hello. Yeah. I say, uh, like she, like a Lionel Richie song.
Hello. Yeah. Is it you? I said, yeah, what's up? You know, it's me. What's up mama and she goes
Who is this? I say, you know who this is she goes quit playing I said
All right, it's it's a brand happy Mother's Day. She's the only happy mother's boy
All-american-go-boy happy Mother's night. She goes brand. Oh, you got the wrong number. I said, oh really and it turns out
I was actually I had called my dad. The thing is, is both my parents talk like that. So, it's hard.
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish which one I'm trying to call.
One number off to phone numbers or one number off. They probably got their phone plans on
the same day.
That's right. Yeah.
They're just like one number off.
Yeah. There's just like one number off. Yeah. Did you, Jordan, I mean, like I'll say I, uh, as we're recording this episode remotely, because I am recovering
from being violently ill. Oh, you were hot. Yeah, I was very hot. 102 to 103. And for
a number of days in a row and on Saturday night, the night before mother's day, uh,
I had, I was isolated from my wife and I just
texted her, sorry in advance for worst Mother's Day ever. And she just didn't get anything.
And she's like, I'll text you later. I'm at the restaurant.
Well, I mean, she would be there given how hot she is. I hate to think that I would be married to a fucking movie
Don't even mention movie theater Bob
So where'd you go with your mom Jordan?
Yeah, we had we did a we did an early Mother's Day. We did it on Saturday
And we went to a lovely barbecue spot in Garden Grove, and we had a good time.'re talking about a restaurant, it sounds like. Oh yeah, we were at a restaurant.
Don't get any ideas, fellas.
But yeah, we were at a restaurant.
Okay, I'm married.
Don't worry, I'm married.
Look but don't touch.
My sister is a mom now.
She's got two beautiful kids, so she brought the kids.
The restaurant was near a little play area, so they got to play.
We had a good time. The barbecue was great. It's not a super funny area, so they got to play and we had a good time.
The barbecue was great.
It's not a super funny story, but it is what happened and I hope people liked it.
Jordan, can I ask a question though?
Yeah.
I'm hearing about this barbecue restaurant in Garden Grove.
I'm hearing about this play area.
Yeah.
I'm wondering if you all just went and ate McRibs.
Yeah, a real Texas style barbecue spot.
They do the sauce, those thick sauces.
And I believe it started by, and it's like a Scottish fusion place, it's McSomethings.
Right.
McG's.
McG's, yeah.
When he ended up going into music videos.
Yeah, so it's like thick sauces and then like really frantic editing.
Do you think McG is mad that Guy Ritchie is still making movies? Like I feel like if
I was Mick G... Yeah, like two a year.
Come on, save some for Mick G. That's like the guy I would be fixated on. Like there's
a lot of guys that Mick G could blame for the relative failure of his honestly moderately successful
film career.
Michael Bay maybe probably hates Michael Bay.
Probably hates Michael Bay.
But he never came from somewhere.
He probably hates Boz Lerman.
Boz Lerman!
He might hate Boz!
He hates Boz!
He's like, I wanted to make an Elvis movie in 2024 or whatever.
I wanted to look really crazy now.
You seen this guy?
Oh, by the way, you know, about my restaurant experience, I was sitting with my mom and
you know, she was across, you know, it was just the two of us.
Just the two of you?
Your siblings weren't there?
No, my, one of my, yeah, no, they're all over the place.
Well, one is in Oakland, and she has a family now of her own,
and then my brothers are in New York.
So just me and my mom, and we were sitting.
Brett, how many siblings do you have, I guess?
I have three siblings, and I'm the oldest.
I'm the king.
Congratulations.
And thank you.
It was a lot of work.
Hey, are we all the oldest?
Are we three kings here?
Three kings, yeah.
Break out the frankincense.
Three kings, that's Mike frankincense. Three kings.
That's Mike Jones.
Maybe somebody else who, Mick G, is jealous of.
I bet Mick G probably hates him, too.
The, are you guys the oldest, really?
Yeah.
We are.
Oh, wow.
We are three kings.
Wow.
Three kings.
So we're sitting across from each other.
And then, the table next to us was this man and woman.
And I just, because I was there with
my mom, I thought they were a son and mother also.
And I was just thinking, oh, look at this, you know, I'm thinking in my mind, look at
this, we're just mother and son here, you know, we're just doing the whole son and mother
thing, just, you know, we're both doing that.
And the more I looked at this couple, the more I realized, actually, that mom doesn't
look, she doesn't look that old.
And I thought she must have had him when she was pretty young.
And then I thought about it more and I thought, I think they're the same age.
I think they're just a couple.
Yeah, you figured it out.
I just, I was just, I don't know.
It was funny that I just assumed it was a mother and son.
And the more I looked at him, I thought, wait, why did I, I guess because the thing, the
woman was wearing this dress that looked kind of older and I don't know, it just kind
of... That was just funny to me, I guess, that I realized this is not a mother and a
son. They're just probably husband and wife, you know.
But maybe they have a mommy-son dynamic, you know?
Maybe. That's what it probably was. I think...
She was burping him.
Did he have a binky?
She spanked him at one point because he was being a bad boy. No, no, you don't mean I was America's good boy
I was doing I was trying to do something nice for my mother. Yeah, you know Jordan, you know, Judy
Oh, yeah, I think you met my mom at some point. Did you I think you met my mom? I think so
Yeah, I think Brent Weinbach has met my mom maybe my wedding But I feel like you met my mom maybe at a different time as well. I think
you may have met my mom more than once. Anyway. I would say that, yeah. At some event, yeah.
Yeah. So, I was trying to do something nice for her. So, I was trying to get my children
to just, like trying to get anyone to, like when it was Mother's Day and I was a kid, like
my dad would call up his mom in Mission Viejo and wish her a Happy Mother's Day which was
hard for him because he hated her and then he would have us all wish her Happy Mother's
Day, even my stepmother who disliked her even more than
he did. I liked her. I liked her fine. Never had a problem. And that's what I would like
to do for my mother, have my three beautiful children wish her a happy birthday, you know,
just call and FaceTime, whatever. But it doesn't work. So, then I was like, what I'm going
to do is rather than trying to herd these autistic cats,
I'm instead just going to say, hey, could you just make, I have my phone here, could you just say a
little video and I'll just text message it to my mom. That way, less pressure, whatever, right?
I got one child to do that. Although, initially, she called her meemaw, which is my mother-in-law.
Then the second time, she wished my mom a happy birthday.
It did take the third time to do it.
But that was my first success.
I texted that to my mom.
How old was that one?
That one is 11.
Okay.
Yeah. My teen, my young teen, Gracie, she said, it's too early, I can't do it right now.
This was at 1130. And so, that one still hasn't happened. But you know, I'm glad she used her
words. Violet, my youngest, this is, I'm hoping that you'll be able to hear this because I didn't
want to misquote them. At first, they were like, I don't know if'll be able to hear this because I didn't want to misquote
them. At first they were like, I don't know if I want to do that. And I was like,
I think you could do it for Nana. We love Nana. It's Mother's Day. We want her to
feel good and like we love her. I don't even... She said Nana you exist. Baba booey. Baba booey. Wow.
Oh, so they're a Stern fan.
Apparently, my eight-year-old is into Stern and all they're willing to do to offer my
mother, their grandmother, is Nana you exist, Baba Booey.
Now, I could see that like I think that's about the you exist thing. I think like on
paper seems a little harsh, but it could be like you know, like with the right delivery.
I mean, I think you can you know, think of like the crunchiest, you know, most crystal-y person you know, right? Then like giving you a big
hug going, mm, and then say just looking you right in the eyes and saying you exist. You
know, maybe it's that, maybe it's like that's the most beautiful thing, you know?
You know what? Maybe your youngest is a, you know, a spiritual crystal ball seer in the making could know is yeah a sort of
you know a
Woods person
Wolves who eat grandma's mm-hmm. Yeah sure yeah
Yeah, Brent you don't know this about the show necessarily.
Maybe you do.
Maybe you listen every week and you already know this.
But on Jordan Jesse Go, you might think, I'll contextualize it.
You might think that the real heroes are firefighters or nurses.
We think the real heroes are single mothers.
Single mothers, yes.
Single mothers. My mom, of course, a single mother. And I think you're right, it might
have just been that Violet wanted my mom to feel seen.
Seen, yes.
It's so easy to look past the work.
The most important thing for a person to feel.
It's so easy to look past the work that our nation's single mothers do when they text
their children that their dentist retired.
When they, I think that's the main thing, it's just they text their children, they keep
me posted about Dr. Wagnold.
Well, I just, I hope she didn't mean, I mean, I hope they didn't mean that it was just simply
still here, huh?
Yeah, Violet was looking at their watch and tapping it to make sure it was still going.
All right, I guess you're still here.
2025. okay. I know we need probably we're coming up on the time when we need to take a little bit
of a break, but can I give you a Mick G update? I would love an update on-
Our second most popular segment on the show, Mick G updates.
Mick G, of course, the legendary film and music video director, director of Charlie's Angels the movie and
possibly Charlie's Angels 2 but I don't remember. You know we're talking Mick G
big in the early 2000s maybe you know has been eclipsed by your
Guy Richies and your Baes and your other guys from that era. And your Baes.
Your Baes, yes your Baes. Let's not forget Baes. And your Bozzes. Your Bozzes, yes, your Bozzes. Let's not forget Bozz. And your spikes.
Spike, Bozz.
I'm hanging out on-
By the way, Jordan, if you Google Mcgee and click on the images tab, because you're wondering
what Mcgee looks like, you will primarily get photographs of the Melbourne cricket ground,
although you will also get some pictures of Mick G. Just sort of like three Melbourne cricket grounds, one Mick G.
Three Melbourne cricket grounds, one Mick G.
That basic kind of thing.
Anyway, it looks like Mick G has directed at least one movie a year since the year 2000.
Like he still can.
Really?
Yes. Yeah. One last year, one the year 2000. Like he still could really? Yes. Yeah, look one last year,
one the year before that. This looks like it looks like a lot of like direct to Netflix stuff.
Oh, he has a family, some sort of body switch family comedy. I think and I think these are
the types of movies where you like drive by a billboard of it and you're like, what is that?
Mark Wahlberg is in this and you've never like heard of it.
But like, you think there's even billboards though?
I do. I think these, I think these things that Mick G are direct is directing
are like secretly the most popular movies in the world.
You know how like everybody, you know, talks about the bear all the time,
but basically no one has seen the bear.
And the only thing people have seen is like a show on the Paramount Network called Oil Dudes.
He directed a movie.
I think these are the movie versions of Oil Dudes.
These are kind of like Tyler Perry joints in a way.
Yeah, I think so.
That thing of like secretly very popular.
Those movies, those Tyler Perry movies do really well.
They will be in the top five box office, right?
and you don't even you wouldn't think that because I don't know it seems like
Those movies don't get talked about a lot
But sure top five those are top five this is what normal people watch
I think these Mcgee joints I think this is is just my gut from looking at his IMDB.
Anyway, that was-
Rim of the weight, hold on.
The babysitter, colon, killer queen, the sequel to his first film, The Babysitter, I mean,
his first of the babysitter films.
Yeah.
That was what The Babysitter was just a bee. Yeah, just a regular worker bee. Sure.
She became the killer queen. She became the killer queen. These are also sequels to Jerry
Seinfeld's Bee movie, we should mention. And then he directed a movie called Family Switch
with Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner. Sure. Oh, look, they're both very talented.
I can't be mad at them. When did that come out? Like last year. That came out in 2023.
Okay, yeah, about maybe, I don't know, 25.
Make cheese, crank it out.
25 years, no, 35 years late, or something like that, 25 years late.
It seemed, why were body switch movies so popular in the sort of late 80s, you know,
or mid to late 80s, you know?
Wait.
There were three. I have a much more important question, Brent, because I can't answer that one.
What made it?
I'm not a culture critic, just because I am a culture critic.
My real question is, did you know that there was a Turner and Hooch TV show that Mick G
was the director of?
I did not know that, but probably it has five times the viewership of
Severance, a show no one will shut up about. But there's probably just a Turner and Hoot show
with a hundred episodes. It's on Pluto TV only, and it's more culturally relevant than Severance.
I think. He was also the executive producer of Pussycat Dolls Present, the search for the next doll.
And of course, and of course, its follow up series, Pussycat Dolls Present, Girlicious.
See, so listen, we're we're here talking about Mick G lamenting he's Mick G's doing Mick fine.
Is he doing is is Hooch played by the same actor who was in the movie?
Yeah, probably. Brent, I hate to break it to you, but the Turner and Hooch movies have
gone woke. It's a girl dog this time. Okay.
She's a real girl boss. He produced Tall Girl 2. Turner, if it's a female dog now, it could be Turner and Hoochie.
Well, Brent, that's a wonderful idea.
And actually Turner could be Kathleen Turner now.
Oh yeah.
Kathleen Turner and Hoochie.
It's the new modern version of Turner and Hoochie.
I was mad originally that it sounded too woke, but now I'm in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
I think that's right.
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It explains why we keep getting these fucking customs bills.
Sure.
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Well, I want to test this.
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That's a great address.
Right there on Carlton Street?
Oh, it's right there on Carlton.
What's the cross street?
I don't know.
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Yeah, that sounds right.
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No, it's something embarrassing.
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It's Aubrey I think.
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Isn't it Aubrey?
That's close. Okay, look, I'm looking up. No, think it's Aubrey. Isn't it Aubrey? That's close.
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So, I have another little McG update here.
Oh good, yeah. We love these.
I know you were wondering Jordan why McG didn't direct the movie Superman Flyby.
I was wondering that, yes.
It's because-
It keeps me up at night. I toss and turn. Why?
Now some people know that it's because he wouldn't get on an airplane.
Okay.
And they might think it's because he's afraid of flying.
No, it's because he's agoraphobic, but that makes him not want to get on airplanes and
he just wants to be clear about that. He just says it's his fear of flying because that seems less weak than agoraphobia.
Oh, okay. Good to know. So, this prevented him from directing a Superman movie but not
other movies?
Yeah. So, here's-
One or two a year?
Here's the story from The Hollywood Reporter.
Okay, good. I tried to tell the Warner Brothers execs at the time, hey guys, I'm really afraid to
fly, McG says.
And they were like, come on, you're McG, you'll be fine.
Which I think-
You're McG, that means something.
That has meaning.
We all know what it is.
We all know what it means to be McG.
Everyone knows. If people know one thing about McG, it's probably that he directed Charlie's Angels.
If they know two things about McG, directed Charlie's Angels, loves flying in airplanes.
Those are the two. I mean, he's McG. He'll be fine.
A real sky freak.
Anyway, he couldn't get on the airplane to Australia to direct Superman flyby, which
apparently was a 2002 Superman movie that JJ Abrams had written.
Okay.
Okay, here we go.
It was very humiliating and I got thrown off the movie that day says Mcgee
It just sort of resulted in me going to see two ladies who specialize in this sort of thing at UCLA
presumably specialize in treating people who are have
Phobias rather than specializing in throwing Mcgee off of movies one of one of them treated him
The other one just said he existed
Just a nice throwing McG off of movies. One of them treated him, the other one just said he existed. Exactly. Right.
Just a nice...
And he says, I slowly put one foot in front of the other, I've now been around the world
many, many times.
Congratulations to McG.
Yeah.
And fly all over the place and try to never go two weeks without getting on a plane, which naturally
follows from the rest of the things he said. Well, that's that thank you, Jesse. Thank you
for telling because I was I mean, I was like, Oh my God, we could have had a J.J. Abrams written
Superman movie. Why? Why? Yeah. And a lot of people and a lot of people had actually written
me letters over the years that we've been doing Jordan Jordan Jesse, go, how frequently does JJ Abrams
try to go on a plane? Is JJ Abrams letting a Fortnite pass without his feet stepping
upon the tarmac?
Mike G., I think, I don't know if I'm going to correct you in the middle of your riff
though.
Wait, what did I say?
You were saying JJ Abrams. Because I had said JJ Abrams. So, you know, people, you know.
Just fuse them together and make it Mick JJ Abrams or something like that. There you go. Or Mick JJ Abrams. Because I had said JJ Abrams. So, you know, people, you know. Just fuse them together and make it Mick JJ Abrams or something like that.
There you go. What about Mick JJ Abrams?
The perfect filmmaker.
I had one of those the other day at Jordan's Mother's Day brunch.
The movies would be too perfect.
It was incredible. Mick JJ. But I was thinking why they should, if he, well, it's not a
fear flying. Well, if he's agoraphobic, why don't they just make the plane look like his house?
You know, the interior.
You know, just make it feel like he's in his bedroom or something like that.
I think they've got the budget for that, you know?
If they've got the budget to fucking fly Superman by, yeah, absolutely.
They can make the interior of the plane just feel like he's in his home.
Right, and then like send, you know, send a stealth crew in the middle of the night transfer him to his real house
From his real house to his flying false house. Yeah
Wait, it's FFH actually, why don't they just use?
virtual reality goggles and
Where he is always seeing everything around him as his house, you know, I mean, it doesn't matter where he is
He's in his house. Yeah, and I mean? It doesn't matter where he is.
He's in his house.
Yeah.
And people show up in the house that are people and he can direct the actors.
It's all to him the set looks like it's his house, but he has the goggles on.
Yeah.
It's simple as that.
It explains his distinctive aesthetic sense where everything in all the movies that he
directs from the babysitter to
The other movies to babysitter killer queen to that one episode to the episode of Turner and Hooch the television show
It all looks like it's taking place inside McGee's house
McGee's house that sounds like a that does actually sound like a sort of alternate McDonald's in a way, you know?
Yeah, how in all those movies you periodically will hear a woman in the background very faintly
just yell, Mcgee, come to dinner.
Dinner's ready.
All right, when something momentous happens to you like Mcgee invites you over to his
house, give us a call at 206-9844-FUN or just record a quick voice memo and send it to us at jjgoatmaximumfun.org
such as this person has done.
Hey sweetheart, Detective Goh.
This is Todd in the Chicago Burbs calling with a momentous occasion.
I recently got a job as a math teacher and one of the requirements was to go get a physical
so I go to the clinic and the nurse lady asked me, what do I teach? Pause this for a second, Steven.
I don't know how you guys would describe your math teachers.
Was this physical to make sure that they were like that?
Like what?
What do you mean?
So like, what do you mean? What do you mean?
I just feel like if you sent my math teachers to go get a physical, it must be a physical
that grades them on how much their physicality resembles that of a math teacher, rather than
how fit they are.
Sure.
Or, yeah. And that's not to say that can you yeah
Are you able to wear a short-sleeve shirt with a tie? Yeah, it's not like a
it's not about like
thick or thin it's a matter of a certain kind of
Way of moving through the world Does that make sense to you?
Yeah, I know what you're getting at.
What's the perfect-
A way of slicing through the air.
What's the perfect body type for a math teacher? Angles? A lot of just hard angles in their
body.
It's gonna be hard angles?
That can help you teach geometry.
Yeah.
And it's gonna be surprising protuberances. I'm not talking about hard-ons here. We're talking about weird boils, growths. Math teachers covered in growths.
I'm just talking about your math teacher is wearing, of course, a polo shirt with a chest
pocket. And then there are points, there are angles in that shirt that surprise. Mm-hmm.
You know, I'm not mounds, not boo-boils, not boils.
But it maybe suggests that he swallowed a protractor at one point.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Okay, Stephen, go ahead and press play.
I recently got a job as a math teacher and one of the requirements was to go get a physical.
So I go to the clinic and the nurse lady asked me, what do I teach?
I tell her I teach math, which she gives me disgusted face with a wrinkled nose and a
shiver and everything, which is fine.
I get it.
Math, not for everyone.
I get it. Math, not for everyone, I get it. But then right after that, she handles my urine sample without a problem.
So I guess, uh, handling someone else's piss is better than the idea of math?
I dunno.
Alright, uh, Five Forks, thanks.
That's the right podcast, you got it.
Sure.
Here's-
Remind us that our podcast is less popular than those of our friends.
Thanks a lot.
I think-
You'll lock the gates the next time you had calls.
Geez, Luis.
That's the last thing I need.
My concern here, most of all, is that you need to do a shit ton of math to become a
nurse, right?
Like, don't you have to do like organic chemistry and shit?
Maybe it's just the idea of like a math teacher not the idea of like
numbers you know like she thought maybe he was gonna creep on her I don't know I
don't know I don't know maybe you know they're not in a fucking restaurant let
me put it that way yeah I just tell you this if I was that nurse I would have
had the opposite reaction I think I think you man I think math is cool and I
just want to tell this to his camera news right isn't it I I think math is cool. And I just want to tell this to his camera and his name. I think math is fun and cool and I like crunching numbers.
And if he said, oh yeah, I'm a math teacher, I would have said, oh, that's cool. Now I got to deal with this urine.
I would have just, it would have been the opposite. You know, I don't want to deal with the urine. I want to talk about math.
You're not a, yeah, you're more of a math guy. I'm a math guy, I'm not a urine guy.
I'm not any kind of body fluid guy, I'm a math guy.
Me, personally, Brent, that's how we're different.
I'm saying, give me that piss.
You like the piss, okay.
Give me that cup of piss.
I don't want your remainders and your, you know, 180 degrees.
Actually, the piss is kind of their remainders in a way.
I mean, that is his remainders.
You know what?
Oh, wait.
I get it now.
That's what a great teacher does.
I get math.
That's why they're known as the second tier real heroes.
Right, yes.
Brent, you know, I'm kind of in between you and Jordan.
I don't love crunching numbers.
I love crunching fall leaves under my feet.
And I just piss right in my pants.
Interesting. You know, this is a tough one for us to like pick a side on. As you know,
Jesse, I think you mentioned this earlier, we love celebrating heroes. So yeah, which
hero do we come down on the side of? The public school teacher or the nurse?
This is the one I mean.
Well, I mean, if he's making math fun for kids and, you know, making them as excited about it as I am,
well, that's a hero.
I guess maybe like, is either of them a single mom? Because I think that would help us decide which one.
Hold on. I have a counterpoint to Brent. So, Brent said if he's helping kids
Hold on, I have a counterpoint to Brent. So Brent said if he's helping kids love math,
making math as exciting to kids as it is to you, Brent, then he's a hero. I don't disagree, but I would say if she's handling other people's piss for a living, then she's a hero.
Are heroes allowed to diss other people's stuff?
Oh, that's a good question.
That's a great question.
You know, I don't have a philosophy degree, so I never took philosophy 204, which was
our heroes allowed to diss other people's stuff.
But I'm going to be honest with you, I've never heard a single mother diss other people's stuff. But I'm gonna be honest with you, I've never heard a single mother
diss other people's stuff.
That's right. Mothers are supportive.
Yeah, mothers are supportive.
That's true.
She probably, that nurse might-
She's one of the things that makes them heroes.
She might not have been a mother is the thing, you know?
Maybe not.
She might have been a hero, but she might not have been a mother.
A lot of single mothers out there do diss single dads, specifically the single dads
of their children.
Sure, who ran out on them and don't pay child support.
That's what I think about it.
My mom did more than her fair share of dissing my dad's stuff.
You know, I think we figured it out.
Single moms diss away.
And you know, hey, I want to open up the, can I open up the phone lines, Jesse?
Yeah, fuck with those dads like ether.
I'm gonna say if you're out there and you're a single mom, you're allowed to roast us. 206-9844-fun.
Only single moms.
Only single moms.
206-9844-fun.
Jordan, sorry.
Roast us and we'd prefer if you do it from a restaurant.
Jordan, I'm gonna, I don't wanna extend this out too far.
Single non-binary parents as well.
You know what?
That sounds great.
Yes, there you go.
Single NB parents and single moms, give us a call.
Send us a voice memo at jjgoatmaximumfun.org.
Do try and record it from a restaurant.
Yes.
Roast away.
Roast our asses.
Not to extend it too far, but let's throw in single dads in there while you're at it,
you know?
And also non-single moms and dads and others.
Wait, Brett, you're just creating a world where everyone calls and disses us.
There's too many disses.
Not to extend it too far, but you don't even need to be a parent, you know?
Just go ahead and see what happens.
Yeah, you could be a parrot.
Yeah, you could be a parrot.
A parrot that can talk and talk shit.
Exactly, yeah.
I will say, look, I'll say this.
If you're a battle rapper, give us a call and diss us.
I'm talking specific.
If you're Papoose or Remy Ma, those are the rappers I'm going to allow to call us and
diss us.
Anyone on the professional battle rap circuit, no nerd core rappers that do raps dissing
Macbeth but they like a winter's tale.
I thought you were going to say Mcgee. They like Macbeth,
but they don't like Macgee. Boy, that's bad luck.
We should have been saying the Scottish director.
Oh, you know, we open the show with one of our classic
segments. Brent, you probably don't know this, but we think of new segments
for the show all the time because we're so creative. Brent, you probably don't know this, but we think of new segments for the show all the time
because we're so creative. So when people call in for those segments, it's because we thought,
because of our creativity, prompted it. They're not just calling in to say some shit they wanted
to say to us and then saying that it's for a segment that never existed before. It's all
segments that we created and existed. Okay. Well'll thank the English teachers for that probably. Yeah. So here's an example.
Hey, Jordan. Hey, Jesse. Hey, guest. I'm going to guess Randy Sklar.
This is Jonathan in Missouri. I'm just calling in for your long-running segment,
Awkward Moments Created by Podcast T-Shirts. I was wearing your Actua shirt in the mall recently. And when we got up to the
cash register, the lady said, I love the comic strip that your shirt is based on. And I said,
oh, cool. And she said, you know, when that strip first came out, the characters were buck naked.
And I said, really?
The characters in Kathy were naked?
And she said, yep.
And I didn't know what to say to that.
So I just walked away.
Anyway, love you guys.
Bye. I didn't know what to say to that, so I just walked away.
Anyway, love you guys.
Bye.
Stephen, did you look this up?
It's a misopera- No, I think this person was thinking of Love Is.
I think this person thought that we were the little angel couple from Love Is, who I think
they're naked.
Yes, they are.
We're the Lockhorns, though.
Oh, boy. is who I think they're naked yes they are. We're the Lockhorns though. Oh boy we
should say we should mention the shirt to people who may have forgotten the
shirt here's what's here's what's happening on the shirt we were talking
on the show and we said something about how this was in the do we have to
explain Haqchua now how much information do people need to understand this call?
Okay so first here's a little grounding in cryptocurrency.
Yeah.
And cryptocurrency corruption.
So, the president created his own cryptocurrency.
Yeah.
Go ahead, Jordan.
Take it from there.
Remember Haqchua.
That was fun.
And we said, actua on the show, and said that's what Kathy says.
She's, you know know under the bleachers. Yeah
and
Then we made a shirt and it's us in the style of Kathy saying actua
Yeah, I'm sure it didn't make a ton of sense then now makes absolutely no sense. That's what fun about it
You should buy one max fun. Yes.. So yeah, I think what the confusion was, I think this person thought we were the little
angels from Love Is, who I think have been naked. I don't know that Cathy has ever been naked.
Believe me, I've loved. Believe me.
Talk about deviant art, Jordan.
Yeah. Rule 37.
I feel like it was-
Cathy.
The missed opportunity, though. I think that's a good end to have a fun conversation about what really they're naked and get into more detail
And they could have a fun conversation. I'm surprised you walk away from that when stuff like that happens
I really embrace it, you know, cuz I want to know more, you know
Yeah, Jordan just so you know rule 37 is that on the internet, all conversations will eventually
compare Cathy to Hitler.
Sure.
I did Google, just Google rule 34 Cathy and there's a lot.
Thanks, Jordan.
There's a lot.
Good work.
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Boy Detective. Brent Weinbach. I guess America's a good boy.
Best boy.
I'm upgrading to best boy.
Okay, well I don't know if you're a good boy anymore because you apparently typed Cathy
rule 34.
Actually, I have been a little bad actually.
I didn't know what it was.
You guys said Cathy rule 34.
I thought, oh, is that a Cathy thing I don't know about from the comic?
And I typed it in and I saw things I didn't expect to see and I yeah
Maybe I'm not such a good boy anymore
Yes, this is a yeah, you've entered your bad boy
Rule rule rule 34 is is like the you know
the Internet's law that if it if a character exists, there's
There's like porn of it Really?
I think it is now like a website and it's where people catalog this porn and I think if you type in, you know rule 34
You know fry future Rama, you know rule rule 34 stimpy
You know, you're finding all the all the good stuff
What is?
I'm sorry. What how is that the 34th rule?
What are the first 33 rules?
And are they related to pornography?
Wonderful question.
I think rule 34, I think that the idea is,
I don't know that there are other rules.
If there are, I don't know them.
OK, because I thought.
Don't type this.
Don't type this into the internet.
I thought when rule 34, I started to think when stuff came up and I didn't know okay, cuz I thought don't type this don't type this into the I thought when rule 34
I thought I started to think what stuff came up, and I didn't expect it
I thought oh does rule 34 spell something out in a way that I'd not seeing you know is it you know what I mean?
Oh, right like it's a when you turn a cow something like that. Yeah, like did the
Did the e from rule?
Kind of combined with the three becomes a B or an eight or something
like that or yeah.
Yeah, you're overthinking it.
No, okay.
But I'm now I'm wondering.
That would be interesting.
I'm wondering about these other rules.
Fucking Garfield is pounding her.
Oh my gosh.
So there's a whole, I imagine, yeah, I imagine like you probably, you know, if you're somebody who's into this
stuff, you can go pretty quick to like, what if Cathy was getting it on with another comic
strip character?
And yeah, probably.
Mostly.
Especially Hagar, the horrible stuff in there.
Hagar, the horrible, surprisingly tender lover.
Mostly she's saying Ack because her absurdly and obscenely huge gazangas have somehow slipped
out of her office guard.
Sure.
That's why Kathy hates swimsuit season.
So hard to find one.
There seems to be...
Gazangas.
There seems to be someone who has created their own pornography magazine, imagined pornography
magazine called Yoinks Magazine that features a shy little picture of Kathy nude. And I
want to say like, the drawing of Kathy is basically in the style of the comic strip Kathy.
Yeah, they've done a really good job of like approximating it.
Except for photo realistic nipples.
Sure.
It's so distressing, but honestly, in a different issue of Yoinks magazine about Sally Forth,
nipples are not unappealing to me.
So is this Yoinks an ongoing?
I think Yoinks must be an ongoing because before I knew to type in rule 34, I just thankfully
in a private window, I don't want the algo to learn anything about this.
I typed in comic strip Cathy nude, because I figured if I typed in Kathy
nude, I'd just get a bunch of pictures of Kathy. People named Kathy that are nude. And the first
result was Yoinks magazine, but then like the seventh or eighth was a Yoinks magazine with
Sally Forth on it. So, I guess it's a big honor for a comic strip character is when you get your yoinks cover,
you know, like, oh, finally, you know, paid my dues and I'm on the cover of yoinks.
Here goes one with Josie and the Pussycats.
Here's one with Blondie.
Here's one with Wanda McPherson.
What's Wanda McPherson from? Yeah. Jesse, wake me up when they get to Mallard Fillmore.
Or what about what?
Can't wait to see that conservative duck's ass.
This is someone's life work. There's so many of these.
What's the rule 34 for Bizarro or the far side? They're just like random.
There's no kind of staple kind of character, you know. The far side one is just a cow with its udders out, am I right guys?
Right.
So we should, we're kind of coming up on the end of the show. Brent, you're here to plug,
you're the editor in chief at Yoinks.
How do we subscribe to Yoinks?
What is Yoinks? Who says Yoinks?
I think, well Shaggy from Scooby-Doo says Zoinks.
Oh, he says Zoinks, yeah.
And I think Yoink is a Simpsons thing, you know, when somebody, you take something.
Okay, okay.
So maybe this is a portmanteau of the two? I don't know, I don't know where Yoink's come from.
Well, look it up guys, it'll correct you, you know, I mean, Google will, Mcg, McGoogle will correct you. I think this one is the mom from the family circus.
Okay. I've seen her in a restaurant or two. I bet there's some high and low stuff in there.
Oh, it's gotta be. Holy cow. Holy cow. So, Brent, where can people watch your brand new comedy? YouTube.com and
just look for popular culture Brent Weibach or
Go to my youtube channel Brent Weibach. It'll be on the home page or home tab of it or whatever
just Brent Weibach it's youtube.com slash Brent Weibach and
when people when people ask me
Brent Weibach and... When people ask me, people the kind of, you know, the kind of person that is your friend
Jordan or an acquaintance and they like saw Maria Bamford on the new seasons of Arrested
Development and then watched a Maria Bamford special and realized
that stand-up comedy could be good, interesting and funny?
Yes.
And then they're like, oh, my friend Jordan is a comedy guy, he'll probably know some
comedians I could check out.
So this is not the person that you say you might like, Jim Gaffigan.
Everyone might like Jim Gaffigan, This is a great comedian, of course.
Probably appealing.
This is somebody who's coming to you because they want to see something that is good to their
discerning palate, right? Again, Jim Gaffigan, good to people's discerning palates. This is not
an anti-Jim Gaffigan situation. I want to make that very clear because he's a nice man and very funny.
It's purely a pro Brent Weinbachs.
You know what I'm going to tell him? They say, oh, I checked out Mark Mayer,
I checked out Maria Bamford, what should I check out next? I heard about Kristen
Shaw on Bob's Burgers, what should I check out next? Say Brent fucking Weinbach.
Brent Weinbach is the guy you want to check out. Brent Weinbach,
truly one of the funniest stand-ups in the world. One of the most distinctive voices
in all of stand-up. I mean, he has a literal distinctive voice, but I mean in terms of
his voice as a comic. And we have been lucky to know him for lo these many decades, Jordan.
We have known Brent Weinbach more than 20 years now.
It's true. Over 20 years. Isn't that something?
Wow. Wow.
You know, I'll just share this thought with you about time. I thought about this. I talked
about this on one of my podcasts already, but when I was... I started comedy in the
early 2000s and, you know, at that time I thought of even the people who weren't that well known,
but comedians from the 80s, I thought of them as kind of legendary, you know, even if they
weren't well known, but say maybe they were kind of local legends or whatever, but whatever.
The 80s just seemed like, oh, there was, that was a legendary time or whatever. Now, it's 2025.
legendary time or whatever. Now, it's 2025. And okay, it's been over 20 years. You know, I'm getting close to 25 years in and I'm thinking to myself, wait a second, am I a legend now?
You know what I mean?
I was just thinking that myself. I was thinking, is Brent Weinbach a legend now? And then I
was like, why am I even asking that question? Yes, of course he is. You don't have to be well known to be a legend. But if somebody started
comedy right now and they thought about what was going on in the 2000s, they would think,
and they kind of delved into it a little bit, they would think, oh yeah, these guys are legends or
whatever. Well, okay. So go check out a legendary standup special from a legendary comedian.
Yeah. And you heard the endorsement by Jesse Thorne himself, America's sweetheart.
And when we look, when we used to go out to stand-up shows in the San Francisco Bay area,
when we were college age and immediately thereafter when we were our sketch comedy group,
we saw a lot of great stand-up comics. Our old friend Jasper Redd, W. Kamau Bell, Moshe Kasher, Alex Cole, Al Madrigal, Ali
Wong, so many of these.
Who is Jesse's favorite?
Brent Weinbach.
You ask Jesse, who's Jesse's favorite right now, 2025?
Brent Weinbach.
I love all those other comics.
That's a lot of heavy hitters there. Jesse's favorite? Brent Weinbach. I love all those other comics. That's a lot of heavy hitters there.
Jesse's favorite, Brent Weinbach.
I mean, you got to see Jesse.
True story.
You know what? That should be my new title. You guys say your thing, Boy Detective, all
that. I go, and I'm Brent Weinbach, Jesse's favorite.
It's true. I mean, Arj Barker moved to Australia. I can't speak to Arj Barker.
He is one of my favorites, actually. mean he's probably... He's very famous in Australia.
You know, this special is...
It's a lot of my...
I feel my best bits from the mid to late 2010s and one bit that was a newer bit that I closed
with, I won't get into what it is, but you saw Jesse, but my closing bit is from the
last couple of years.
That's a newer bit. But you know, let's try to get this thing seen,
you know? It wasn't bought by any streamers, so let's show them what they missed out on,
you know?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, let's sock it to Peacock.
Sock the cock, that's what we say.
Boom, right in the Peacock.
Hi, I'm Anthony Keas for Suck the Cock.
Stick it to Peacock by watching Brent Winebox's new special on YouTube.
And I cover all the hot pop culture topics, you know, Michael Jackson, Matt Damon, you
name it, you know?
All the hot ones.
Jackson to Damon.
You know, there's truly, you know, there's these comedians out there claiming that they're
stretching what stand-up comedy can possibly be.
Brent Weinbach has spent the last 25 years doing that very thing for real.
What constitutes stand-up comedy?
Asked Brent Weinbach.
Well, if there's a man in a stage, then Brent Weinbach is there
performing stand-up comedy and that's what stand-up comedy is. Didn't quite
make sense, didn't all come together in the end, but the point here is that you
should go watch Brent Weinbach's new special, Popular Culture, on YouTube.
Thank you, Brent. It's always good to see you and of course you also host the
monthly Video Game Music podcast, Legacy Music Hour. Legacy Music music our video game music from the third and fourth generation
That means Nintendo Super Nintendo Genesis that era and you know
My friend Rob and I pick tracks and Emma now my friend Gabe is involved too. We pick tracks and we share them
Oh you got you brought gave in on the action now, too
And there's a there's a And then there's a weekly live stream I do with my sister called The Chicken Coop,
which is on my YouTube channel also. So you can watch the special and come for the special
and stay for The Chicken Coop, which is on. Your sister is a well-known and accomplished
musician who's been a member of many famous indie rock bands playing
the harp, correct? I mean...
I'm not remembering that right.
Not exactly harp, but she plays guitar, which is a string. I mean, there's strings involved.
I mean, there's a string connection.
I thought she played harp. Why did I think that Laura played harp?
Maybe because the strings of a guitar are kind of, you know...
She has been in a lot of famous... She's been in a lot of popular indie rock acts in various
forms over the years.
I don't know if I would say that either, but she is an accomplished musician and she is
very talented and she's also hilarious.
She's one of, I mean, she's the funniest person I know.
And that's saying a lot.
I know a lot of funny people.
That excludes your other two brothers who also perform comedy. They are also very funny and but... They've been performing at the Elysian a lot of funny people. That excludes your other two brothers who also perform comedy.
They are also very funny and but...
They've been performing at the Elysian a lot lately.
Yeah, they've been doing some shows.
Max and Nicky.
Yeah.
Look, it's a comedy family.
It's a funny family.
It's a talented family.
It's a funny family.
It sounds like a comic strip.
And they're better not...
It's the original...
Better not be...
Do not Google funny family rule 34.
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