Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Ep. 671: Open-Minded NPC with Joel Kim Booster

Episode Date: January 15, 2021

Joel Kim Booster (Urgent Care podcast, History of Swear Words on Netflix) joins Jordan and Jesse for a discussion of Jordan's status as the bad boy of the Culver City Plunge, the cat-centric side quests in the new Final Fantasy remake, how it feels when your therapist gets a ring light, and the dubious, fever-dreamlike filmography of Burt Reynolds. Follow Joel Kim Booster on Twitter!Action Item: Call us with a response to a question we haven't asked! 206-984-4FUN!

Give a little time for the child within you, don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you. It's Jordan, Jesse Goh, I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, the bad boy of the municipal plunge. Oh, okay, thank you very much, Jordan Morris. Yeah, it's me, the bad boy of the culver city municipal plunge yeah uh jordan i obviously i already knew that you were a bad boy oh um you're pretty much the bad boy of everything you do you're the bad boy of the the burbank bob Big Boy. Mm-hmm.

Hey, big boy, you got something on your overalls. Flick in the nose. You're the bad boy of any footlocker you stop by. Mm-hmm, that's right. Lady footlocker included. I'm the bad boy of the lady footlocker. In fact, you're the bad boy of nearly every store in the Beverly Center, a mall here in Los Angeles. You're the bad boy of a number of kiosks, which I don't know if those count as stores.

Oh, yeah. But I'm going to be frank, Jordan. I don't know what a municipal plunge is. Well, it is a... yes, you know me. I like to, in addition to being a bad boy, I have other hobbies too. I'm not one dimensional. Sure, you have your train sets.

I'm very complex. Yes, I have my trains. I have being a bad boy and I have- Panini. My Panini press, which I love. Oh, I meant your a Bad Boy, and I have my Panini Press, which I love. Oh, I meant your Panini stickers, those stickers that you put in the albums that you buy at the checkout at the grocery store. I don't know what those are. Yeah, like the Masters of the Universe stickers, and you get an album.

You call those Paninis? You collect all the different stickers. Panini is the company that makes those. Well, I'm not interested in that. I'm only interested in a hot sandwich okay well either way grill marks yeah so you know me i i've i so let's go over my hobbies being a bad boy um hot sandwiches sticker albums sticker albums yes which i did not know about but i but let's still count them as one of my hobbies um and of course you know i love i love to swim for fun and fitness sure uh so a municipal plunge is not a private swim club but you know a city facility where one can swim so you couldn't

afford the entrance fee for the private swim club, or you just, you, the board rejected you? Well, I just like, and I like to support the parks department. So the board rejected you? So the board, yes, the board rejected me. They said I wasn't private club material. Apparently, I always had a ball hanging out of my swim trunks, and apparently that disqualified me. It's more of a municipal thing. You had to head down to the city pool for uh they don't care they don't senior free swim they don't care how many balls are hanging out water aerobics one two for occupational therapy they don't care

so here's what's going down at the culver city Municipal Plunge. Jesse, you know me. I like to swim for fun and fitness. Sure, and you love Culver City. You love bagels. You love art galleries. Mm-hmm. I can't think of anything else that's in Culver City. Oh, and in and out. Honey's Kettle Fried Chicken.

Oh, that sounds nice. Have you been to Honey's Kettle? No, it sounds good. I've been to the In-N-Out in Culver City. Next time you're in beautiful Culver City, stop by Honey's Kettle or the In-N-Out. Our friend Travis used to live in Culver City. Travis McElroy. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. I like the art galleries, the bagels, and of course that honey fried chicken. But there's also a very nice municipal plunge. Okay. So they got all these rules down there at the municipal plunge now they're like oh excuse me this is i'm this is my impression of the parks department sure uh excuse me um uh because of health issues we need you to reserve a lane they're saying to me hi i'm a park nerd you can't just show up you gotta reserve a lane i'm the kind of nerd who majored in physical education in college so what what do i do what does this bad boy do yeah that's right i log on

to the parks department website and i reserve a lane i'm not i'm not crazy i'm not crazy jesse these are unprecedented times were james dean alive today that's what he would be doing so and they got this they got got these other rules. They're like, you can only keep your showers to a brief rinse. No soap or shampoo. So you know what I do? I keep my shower to a brief rinse and I don't use soap or shampoo. I'm not insane.

These are unprecedented times. Sure. I mean, these are different times. Even Robert Downey Jr. has just taken a quick rinse to get the chlorine off his skin. Yeah. Listen, if you're talking famous bad boys, it's RDJ, me, and yes, James Dean, RIP. And they're like, oh, it's like if you got to rest, rest in the middle of your lane. Don't go to the edge of the lane so you're not near other people. Yeah. So what does this bad boy do? What'd you do, Jordan? I rest in the middle of the lane. I'm not crazy. These are unprecedented times. Sure. Yeah. You got that kickboard, you know? So I think you're probably asking, these don't sound like the actions of a bad boy.

Yeah. So far, Jordan, you've described a lot of different rules that you've followed. Here's what I, here's because I'm a bad, here's what I do. Here's what makes me a bad boy. This whole time. Jordan, how deep does your badness go in your body?

All the way down. Because you know what's happening? When I'm reserving my lane, when I'm showering, but keeping it to a brief rinse without using soap or shampoo, and when I'm resting in the middle of the lane as opposed to on the side of the lane. During all of this, I got a cigarette hanging out of my mouth.

Just one Marlboro Red dangling from my lips to let everybody know that I'm a bad boy. You don't fuck with me at this municipal plunge. Sounds like mama's bad little boy is taking a dip. That's right. King shit of the municipal plunge. That's me. Plunge this, assholes. Gonna head over to Honey's Kettle afterwards, but I'm gonna get curbside pickup because

as I mentioned, these are unprecedented times. Unprecedented times. Difficult, dangerous times. Well, at least you have your health. That's true. Except for, of course, the cancer. Oh, I don't like the cigarette. Oh, okay.

Thank God. I just let the unlit cigarette dangle. And it's not a real cigarette. It's an herbal cigarette, like when you have to smoke in a movie. Yeah, but I still even don't light it. I know that those are not said to be cancerous, but I'm not going to take the risk. Sure. Should we introduce our guest?

I would love to. Our guest on the program, one of our favorite stand-up comedians, and one of our favorite, Jordan, one of our favorite bon vivants. What did you call me? A bon vivant. Joel Kim Booster is our guest. Hi, JKB. How you doing, buddy?

Hello. I'm happy to be here. Not happy to be insulted right in the intro. Yeah, Jesse, what the fuck is a Bon Vivant? It's like our friend Joel Kim Booster. I don't like the sound of it. I don't either. It's somebody who tweets a lot about anal fissures.

Well, I don't tweet. I think I've tweeted maybe, I think I've only mentioned anal fissures as an insult to maybe called someone an anal fissure. Okay. You don't know my life story. Thank you for clarifying, Joel. mentioned anal fissures as an insult to maybe called someone an anal fissure. You don't know my life story. Thank you for clarifying, Joel. I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression that you're a bon vivant.

No, no, no, no. I don't bon or vivant. Do you ever bon mo? Nope. Nothing. None of it. Do you ever au bon pain? Oh, I love an au bon pain.

Sure. I can barely even say au bon pain oh i love an all-ball pun sure i can barely even say all-ball paul la paul quotidien how do you feel about that oh trash wow give me the all-ball paul give me death yeah guys let's let's rank the mall croissants i was just talking earlier today about how much i love Panera, though. I mean, let's be real. Okay. I noticed something about Panera recently, but want to hear about Panera from a Panera fan because it's... My friend, Lane Pichelle, says that Au Bon Pain is just a Panera that's studied abroad. Good line. It's a really, really good line.

I wish I'd thought of it. It's like a Panera that kind of accidentally slips into the accent every now and then. Oh, sorry. And they call, and they say, when I lived abroad,

they don't say study abroad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And when it, and when it comes back, it just like accidentally is like, Oh,

I, I would love to see your flat. I mean, apartment. I'm sorry. And they'll open their wallet and make a big deal about how they still have some foreign money in the wallet. Yeah.

That's the abalpaz. Okay, so tell me about Panera. What's your order and why do you like it? Bread bowl, baby. Nobody else is doing bread bowls these days. I don't know what's going on with these newfangled restaurants not doing bread bowls, but I want be able to eat the dish eat the dish what do you what do you fill in that bread bowl with broccoli cheese no broccoli cheese it looks the same going in as it does coming out it comes out in a bread bowl yeah um it's interesting because I have been cataloging on this show.

I have been cataloging places that have adopted the slogan, Welcome Home, which is, among other things, what they say to you when you're entering Burning Man. Welcome Home, they say. And they now say that at Carl's Jr. there's a Carl's Jr. Welcome Home. And then I recently passed a Panera that also had a Welcome Home sign. Oh, I don't like that. The other nice thing about the Panera is that like Burning Man, they have a taint blaster.

They'll blast that taint with broccoli cheese. Yeah. I really don't. I don't like this new trend. I don't like the welcome homes. I don't like the pandemic commercials where they're like, we care about you because you're our family. You're the most important people in our lives.

We love you. And that's why we're instituting curbside pickup. It's like, bitch, you're Kinko's. Exactly. It's like, you don't care about me. Stop it. I got a direct mail card today for WeWork, the shared office company. Oh, boy.

And I'm like, it's going to take more than a postcard, buddy. Yeah, I did too. Fucking read the room, WeWork. To get me into a WeWork. I used to work at a WeWork and it was miserable. It was really really really bad there's like there's um a person who works for we work on every floor that basically is their job is ra like we used to like it was I worked my last day job I worked for a company of four people

it was me including myself and we none of us were into the we work vibe um and they have all these like after work happy hours and activities and stuff like that and every day or every week our like ra basically would knock on our office door and be like hey guys didn't see you at wine hour last night is everything okay and it's just like get away from us we're to work. Because only a fucking psycho would not want to come to wine hour. Knock, knock, knock. Hey, guys, do you need any condoms? I also have female condoms. Just really.

But did you? So I had a WeWork pass for a while. I did a little bit of freelance work for a company that used WeWork. And I got one of their cars, and they just kept letting me in. And I was working from home at the time so I'm like, well, I'll just use this till they tell me to stop. And yeah, it was a pretty wild scene.

I definitely drank some free kombucha that I didn't want just because it was there. And it was really nice to work all day under a buzzing neon sign that said, work, bitch. This really helped my productivity. So I got one for the house. How would you know what to do otherwise?

I wouldn't. A buzzing neon sign needs to tell me. That's good. I have a really hard time getting anything done when I'm being reverent. And a little bit of irreverence makes a big difference. Joel, I wanted to ask you, speaking of your Twitter, where according to Jesse, all you tweet about is anal fissures. Slander. I didn't say only, I just said more than most. You had a tweet that seemed kind of genius to me. And I was, I was wondering if it was something you were actually doing or if it was just

a joke. You were tweeting that you, I think were stuck on one of the uncharted games and you were going to set up a Twitch account so that people could help you beat it. No, I'm not, I'm not stuck currently on it, but I will say it was just like an idea. I threw, I was like, like i was i was basically testing the waters to see if anyone would even be interested in watching my twitch stream of me playing uncharted and i i mentioned specifically the puzzles i'll be honest i'm not in uncharted for the puzzles that's not why i'm there um so what are you what are you there for can you

catalog why you were there if not for the puzzle killing terrorists that's all i'm there for just the abject murder of terrorists and extra judicial can you climb up walls like in lara cross because i love jumping on walls that's my definitely my favorite i'm not into the jumping either i fall a lot uh basically i'm really bad at video games but i love playing them and I want to humiliate myself by streaming them. Um, to the world. So this is, cause I said,

I, I mentioned the puzzles as like an example of something I would want help on while I was Twitch streaming. And somebody was like, you need help on the puzzles. I'm uncharted. Whoa. And I was like,

okay, well that, that was just an idea. I don't really need the help because I could just look up the answers online that's what i mean i don't need help doing anything i have the internet um you have a subscription to nintendo power that is not a problem for you um because yeah i i think about streaming occasionally um And yeah, and the idea of like being stuck on a game and just doing it to get the help is kind of ingenious to me because I always kind of thought about it as like,

oh, I'm self-conscious to play this game in any kind of public way because don't people tune into this kind of thing to see someone who's really, really good? I think it's more about the person. I don't know. I mean, some people i'm sure want to see speed runs and whatnot but i think like especially during the pandemic people have really gotten into twitch streaming just about anything so i think yeah i i wouldn't i wouldn't make that a barrier to entry for yourself guys i think i'm

gonna start streaming my uh baseball mogul franchise oh now is that a visually dynamic game like i'm just imagining it being all in menus jordan how do you feel about tables because if you love tables you're gonna love the visual aesthetic of baseball mogul jesse i'll tell you what i fucking hate them i fucking hate tables how do you like games that don't even run in full screen? Yes, I want to see the desktop in the background. I would watch someone do like SimCity. I would honestly probably sit there. I have it as like ambient noise, you know,

just something to look at on my second monitor or something like that. Oh, like an ASMR kind of deal maybe. Yeah yeah that's what that the experience of those sims are do you think that you would prefer to watch someone with or without disaster mode oh with for sure what if they guess what if they get that godzilla that doesn't sound very relaxing jesse um i so i think about streaming i sometimes think that maybe i'm wasting my time you know with like writing and creativity and things like that and i should just say fuck it and get a ring light and just start streaming and see see where it goes yeah just work bitch yeah i think so yeah just right like the sign at my we work said. Fucking work, bitch. Play Sekiro, bitch.

Too hard. Too hard. Another game that's too hard. It's a very hard game, and I will say that I have jokingly called people cowards on the show for not playing it, but I don't actually believe that. It's hard to the point of being unpleasant,

and those kinds of games are kinks. I happen to have it, but not everyone does. Jordan, I have a hard time with the puzzles in Zelda, which I think is a game for nine-year-olds. The Breath of the Wild puzzles can be tough. I think it's one of the most

celebrated games in history, actually. Yeah. For nine-year-olds. By nine-year-olds, yeah. Among for nine-year-olds by nine-year-olds yeah i have a nine-year-old i forget what my different powers are you know that's a big problem for me oh yeah what the sheikah slate can do yeah i forget about round bomb and square bomb yeah i remember that i have bomb but i forget about rom bomb and square bomb round bomb rolls square square bomb stays put seems too solitary to be the best part about uncharted is that you have little friends that are there shooting with you yeah it makes me feel less lonely you do have a lot of friends and many of them are very sexy as

well yeah yeah yeah when i uh when i'm playing i haven't played Uncharted, but I have played Lara Croft. Similar game. I really enjoy my friendship with the giant Pacific Islander guy. He just seems like a solid dude. He seems pretty sexy. Oh, no doubt about that. Guy's beefcake. All beef.

Hell yeah. Okay. Hell yeah. I'm listening. I don't know. JKBb how do you feel about giant pacific islander guys because this guy he's got a winning attitude yeah i guess like i don't know why i'm not playing tomb raider it seems like very similar to uncharted only with a hunky pacific islander guy yeah this guy's a hunk uh he's got us he and he's a solid, like he's in it to win it with you, you know? You, Lara Croft, British-accented mass murderer, and this guy with the puka shell necklace, who's your buddy, you know? He'll do whatever.

He'll do whatever? Wow do whatever wow wow whatever huh yeah he sounds very open-minded he is i love an open-minded npc you know this dude's 420 friendly hell yeah it's on all my craigslist posts just looking for an open-minded npc with a puka shell necklace the p a puka shell. Joel, what are what, so you say you think you're not that good at Tomb Raider. Are there any games that you are, like, better at that you would feel more

comfortable streaming? Yeah. I mean, well, the thing is, is I'm not I'm not a completist. That's the thing. I'm very much like, um, like I just played the Final Fantasy VII remake. Oh, what'd you think? I love, I had a great time. I had a great time playing it. I love, like, um, like I just played the final fantasy seven remake. Oh, what'd you think? I love, I had a great time.

I had a great time playing it. I love like final fantasy seven was really what got me into video games in the first place, like back in the nineties, in the early two thousands. And so this was like, it was a real treat for me, but I'm not somebody who's really interested in side quests. I'm not somebody who wants to take all the detours.

I'm very much like, how fast can I beat this game? Because I want the satisfaction of having beat the game. And so that's sort of where I'm at. So I don't think it would be very entertaining because I think people would be frustrated that I'm not doing every puzzle. I am with you in not being a side quest guy. I also kind of just like want to beat the game.

But I have heard that there in that Final Fantasy remake, there is some sort of cat petting or cat feeding side quest. Can you confirm or deny? Yeah, there is. There are a couple of cat centric missions that you should solve, or you can solve that are options. And I solved at least one cat-related incident in my world. Tell me more. Oh, you just basically have to run around this dilapidated city and find the cats.

And it's a joy. If you've ever wanted the experience of running around your neighborhood chasing after cats, then this is the game for you. Joel, that is my fucking actual life right now. Oh, I'm jealous. Do I want to also do that in a video game with a sword as big as me? Hell yeah, I do. 30% of my Legend of Zelda energy is dedicated towards feeding

chicken drumsticks to the dog that hangs out at the stable and then trying to figure out what he does if you feed him enough chicken drumsticks. Oh, yeah. Don't you... Isn't there a thing where if you spin around, he spins around?

That's news to me, but I'm glad to hear it because I've poured a lot of chicken drumsticks down that particular hole, my friend. I think the next time you see the dog start spinning around, I think he also starts to spin around. Don't quote me on that. It's been a while since I've played it, but I seem to remember that the dog will mimic your spinning around, and it's really funny. I don't know if it powers you up or gives you any um you know boosts but um yeah i think it's funny so i think you should do it i'd love to get some of those yellow hearts out of it yeah that's always nice they're kind of extras you know when i think about streaming something that keeps me from doing it i mean one i don't have a ring light um

so that's that's preventing me that's gonna be... You got to get a ring light in the pandemic. Yeah, I know. It's a pandemic must-have is a ring light. I think you need three-point lighting. You're going to need a backlight, a main light, and a fill light. I distinctly remember the week that I realized that my therapist had gotten a ring light. therapist had gotten a ring light i'm like sarah howard is really uh glowing today i'm like oh she got her i could kind of see the reflection of it so i'm like oh yeah she got a ring light i wish my fucking therapist would get a ring light so shrouded in darkness i look like I'm talking to the villain from Inspector Gadget.

My wife and I have a therapist who I think she's working from home. And I think that she has a small home and a young child. And she will just be in a different part of her home every time that she checks in with us. So, you know, sometimes like the background will just be, you know, unicorn tents. And then sometimes she'll just be like hiding in the corner of a laundry room. And I just want to know what's going on in there. Is it like a Jumanji situation? You think she's having her own personal Jumanji? I think there's a Jumanji. You think it's the Robin Williams one or the Jack Black one? I think it's the Robin Williams one where it's just where it's like, you know, the living room is off limits because you know why? Jordan full of fucking monkeys, man.

Oh, man. Orangutans or something. Get those monkeys out of there. You know, I really liked the Rock one, the new one. And I went and saw it in theaters. And this was during MoviePass, mind you. So it was a different time. I was seeing all kinds of movies. You could see any old rock movie you wanted to. Yeah, exactly. MoviePass was made for the rock movies. Do you think COVID is some kind of like karmic punishment for MoviePass? Like God was like, they've gone too far. They can go to any movie at any time no movies ever no jesse i don't think that god does not exist okay thank you i'm sorry to be the one to break

it to you joel don't ruin his fun sorry guys i was just thinking about the most high. Joel, I do want to wait. So let's hear about your experience with MoviePass. What are some of the B- Sunday afternoon movies that you maybe wouldn't have seen otherwise? Oh, God. It's such a blur at this point. I mean, Jumanji was definitely the big, the one of the bigger ones that I did. I think I saw like, what was that movie?

It was like a steampunk adventure movie where all of the kingdoms were sort of on like machines. Oh, mortal engines, mortal engines, temple of bones. Oh yeah. I,

I saw that on my, I saw that on my version of Movie Pass which was something that is playing on Sunday afternoon at the at the Guild Theater anyway oh yeah now you're talking I love those I love those kinds of movies

man I will watch absolute dog shit if it has some sort of like YA novel component to it. Yeah, this had a- A chosen one? If I'm remembering that movie correctly, does a teen girl falls in love with a robot that was sent to kill her?

You know what? You're really putting me on the spot about a movie that I have claimed to have seen. I also claim to have seen it, but don't really remember. Yeah, I don't think she falls in love with the robot, but I do believe there's a father-daughter sort of relationship to this. There are people who are huge mortal instrument or mortal cities. What is it? Oh, it's mortal instruments.

I was saying mortal engines. No, it is. No, mortal instruments, City city of bones is the one about vampires or no demons demon hunters where the main romance is incesty oh boy yeah but this recent one with the robots is mortal engines this you're right you're right mortal engines no mortal engines is the one about the the teenage wolf man that plays basketball chesty don't try and confuse us we're trying to have a serious conversation we're trying to half remember a movie we think we saw in 2018 people are at home screaming at

their phones is final fantasy 7 am i remembering correctly, is that the one about the two buddies that fly airplanes off of an aircraft carrier? How dare you? I think you're thinking of the Michael Bay Pearl Harbor movie? Okay, thank you. No, he's thinking of, wait, are you thinking of Top Gun? Kingdom Hearts is what I'm thinking of. Kingdom Hearts. gun uh kingdom hearts is what i'm thinking of kingdom hearts hearts um oh yeah oh so i want to back up to why what what prevents me from streaming it is it is lack of a ring light um but also

sometimes when i'm you know i don't play a lot of social video games for me like it is quiet time it is like quiet turn off my brain yeah you know stop thinking about doom you know uh like that's that's kind of the space video games have occupied for me and sometimes while i'm playing i take note of how my face looks i'm like i wonder what my face looks like right now and i think while i am playing video games i am as slack-jawed and triple-chinned as I have ever looked in my life. While I am playing video games, I think the only noise I look like I can make is...

Like, that's what I look like all the time. So I'm like, oh boy, how will I manage to remember to close my fucking mouth while I'm doing this? Anyway, it seems like an impossible task. Joel, do you think that you would be able to maintain a monologue while also playing a video game? Because I do not think I could. Yeah, because I'm monologuing the entire time anyways. I'm talking to myself constantly while I'm playing these games.

Oh, like my seven-year-old. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, what are some examples of your inter-game chatter? Because I definitely don't do that, but I'm curious to hear what it would be. I do a lot of like, why did you do that?

This doesn't seem right. None of this seems right to me. Oh, we fucked up again. You know, like lots of that. It's a lot of down talk, honestly. But it's a lot of like, oh, maybe we should try over here. I literally speak as though there is another person in the room, but there's nobody here. And they're completely isolated.

isolated. You know, our friend Dave Holmes does his therapy with his therapist out on a surfboard on the waves out in the ocean. Really? Maybe. No, he does not. He does. This sounds like another one of your made up stories. 100% for sure. Yes. And he's talked about it publicly. I'm not speaking out of school. In fact, I would go so far as to say he's bragged about it is how I would characterize it. I think, Joel, you should get a video game therapist, a therapist who keeps you from down-talking yourself while you're playing video games. That would be an amazing simulator to play. Therapy. What a great way to trick people into going to therapy. Yeah. Gamify it. I love it. Just have

like, you know, kind of a sensitive understanding type there kind of next to you. I thought you were going to say Dave Holmes' Twitch streams his therapy sessions. Which is another great idea. I honestly, like, I say

so much cool shit that nobody else gets to hear that it really feels like I should start putting it out on Twitch. Yeah, I feel like those insights are being wasted without an audience. Yeah. Yeah, and then you can get, what do you get on Twitch? Emotes? Anyway, I don't quite know how it works. I don't know. I kind of checked out once President Trump got banned.

Did he get banned from Twitch too? He did. I also checked out from Shopify. I used to be a real nut about Shopify. You know what? Listen, I don't agree with a lot of what the guy did in office. He was great at Uncharted though. The speed runs were extraordinary.

Oh my God. Yeah, yeah. What he did was he utilizes glitches in the game to skip levels. Yeah, it was incredible. Just brilliant. He knows every sewer pipe that goes down into a room full of coins.

Man, that'd be great if that was part of Uncharted, was just going into a sewer. Although, you know what? Maybe it kind of is. Yeah, it's not not. He's in sewers quite a bit, actually, I want to say. And I guess you're collecting, like, ingots. He's in the sewers, and he is collecting

like, trinkets, yeah. Some of them are coins. Some of those trinkets are coins in fact which number game were you having the hard time with joel i'm i'm on three i'm not having a hard time necessarily with three i had a harder time with two but three i i'm sort of breezing through and then i'm about to i'm gonna i'm excited to start four soon. When I was playing one of those games, when I was playing the Tomb Raider game, the thing that struck me the most was it's a very story-centric game.

And it's very much, you know, one thing follows from the other. There are sort of side quests, but they're horrible. They're so bad. They're so stupid. Just want to jump up the walls and get to the next thing. Like there's no cats involved? Zero, zero. You don't even have drumsticks in your inventory, much less dogs to feed them to. So when, but when I was playing

that game, like there's this really complicated involved story, which is my worst nightmare when it comes to video games. And but it's all about what a good person Lara Croft is and her and her big Pacific Islander buddy with the puka shells. And then like every like 90 seconds, she murders 24 people. And there's not like another way to do it. It's not like you can do it without murdering 24 people every 30 seconds. And it's a very dissonant experience for me to be getting like a, a serial comic, um, you know, adventure, uh, about archeology, but also mass murder intermittently. Yeah, that's Jesse.

You're describing ludonarrative dissonance. Ah, thank you. Wow. Yeah, that is the eternal take with the Uncharted games, too, is that, like, you have this roguish protagonist who's kind of quipping through this game and, you know, you are invested in their relationships and their family stuff. And then, yeah, just because a video game is a video game, you just have to blow away a bunch of random dudes every couple of minutes. Yeah, so much murdering. But, you know, I'll murder pretty much anybody in a video game if I can do it with a bow and arrow. Oh yeah, that is fun. The bow and arrow mechanics are always good. That's kind of where I draw the line. I'll do any act of violence if I

can do it with a bow and arrow, because it makes me feel closer to my greatest hero, Bo Jackson. Right? Jail. Jail. Yeah. But I mean, I feel like this goes you know i mean obviously games are more realistic now and like the murder is you know more shocking but i think this phenomenon goes all the way back to you know like 8-bit games when it's like well you wouldn't eat a chicken you found on the ground right but you have to do it in this game because it's the only way to power up you know yeah that's a really good point. Thank you. I make a lot of good points. I would eat a chicken that I found on the ground, but I accept the rest of it.

I just don't want to waste a good chicken, you know what I mean? Yeah, I hear you. Hard to come by. Plus, I don't even know where you get chickens otherwise. That's hard to say. I mean, my first thought is Culver City, but I wouldn't know where to go in Culver City. I know a certain kettle, Jesse. It belongs to my friend, Honey.

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I invented cronuts, and I have a little bakery in New York City. Really? And I haven't seen free Cronut One. We've hosted this show together for years, and I have yet to receive even a discounted cronut i'm doing full price on all my cronuts this kind of seems like bullshit you gotta wait in line baby cronuts are the new big thing in new york oh man the year is 2016 i'll show you i'll invent the cruffin and that'll be even bigger by the end of 2016 but not going into 2017 it's gonna be ice cream after that artisanal small batch ice cream rose water and shit jordan i uh i used to make all the

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What does your kitty do other than pee? Jesse, you know she loves to pee. Yeah. You know my little Sweetums loves to tinkle. Yeah, sure. But not only does she love to tinkle, but yeah, she also

likes to take huge shits listen having a cat is great i love it i yeah talk about it too much to the point where it makes me seem like a real weirdo but there's one thing about having a cat that is not ideal and that's the litter box yeah that's right the place where they tinky and take huge shits um it can get smelly it's hard to clean but the kitty poo club has an all-in-one convenient litter box solution jesse i use kitty poo club myself i mean i don't use the box myself I use the human toilet like a man. But my kitty

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Love you both very much. And full short. Well, that's a very sweet message. That's sense again. Love you both very much, and full chore. Well, that's a very sweet message. That's really nice. What Andrea doesn't know is Kevin and Laura are locked in one of those Mad Max situations. Oh, man, that's tough. Yeah, they got their own shit going on in Australia. Yeah, they're dealing with how to find water.

They got all these masks. There's a guitar that shoots flames. It's amazing. It fucking rules, to be honest with you. Well, not to mention the Thunderdome. Oh, that's a big problem. Yeah. You know, we have our own Tina Turner here in the United States, but their Tina Turner

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I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. And Joel Kim Booster, king of anal fissures. Ha ha ha! Ah! So your father died. He finally succumbed. From some poison wine, I hear. Yeah.

It was time. We had to force him to step down, but he didn't go willingly. Yeah. When something momentous happens to you, like you finally ascend to the throne, we ask you to give us a call at 206-984-4FUN or send a voice memo to jjgoe at maximumfun.org. Many people have six, eight,

and Brian has listened to them all. Here's the first. Hi, guys. I've got a retroactive momentous occasion. About 25 years ago, I was visiting my then girlfriend, and she introduced me to a guy whose name was Gator. And I asked him if that was his birth name. He said yes. And then I asked him, if you don't mind, where's it come from? He responded that it was a reference to a Burt Reynolds movie called Gator.

I asked him if he'd ever seen that movie, and he said no. I thought Jordan might appreciate this and maybe Blaine, too. Bye-bye. Oh, no. I thought Jordan might appreciate this and maybe blame too. Bye. Oh, no. Shit. Shut it down. Shut down the segment.

Jordan, have you ever met my brother, The Longest Yard? No. Please introduce us. Yeah. These are the twins, Smokey and the bandit he's never seen never seen it wouldn't you that'd be the first movie i would pick out yeah to watch i mean even if it's not your namesake pretty good movie. Yeah. I mean, listen, it has some dark shit that you don't expect, given how funny the first half is. But, you know, it was the 70s.

You got to have some dark shit, I guess. I bet Burt Reynolds chews some gum in that motherfucker. Sure does. And drives a big fan boat as well. Oh, hell yes. Should we, Jordan, should we quit doing, you know, for years we've been complaining about the fact that not having a format or a premise or really any reason to listen has held back our careers. Do you think we should have a Gator starring Burt Reynolds recap podcast?

Huge. There's those guys who do Star Wars minute by minute. We should ask them for a blessing to take their format away from... I'm sure they're having their own success in their little niche world doing that sci-fi movie that I guess people like talking about at Comic-Con or whatever. that I guess people like talking about at Comic-Con or whatever. And I think we should really blow up the format by applying it to a movie people really care about or real people really care about, Gator starring Burt Reynolds. Yeah, the legendary Burt Reynolds vehicle, Gator.

What is that movie about? Well, let me tell you, it is not about Burt Reynolds fighting. Jordan, Joel, if you were just at first blush hearing the name, would you think in this movie that Burt Reynolds fights a gator? No, I think it'd be about golf. Well, first, yeah, sure. That's Sharky's Machine is about golf, yeah. It is about Burt Reynolds is a fan boat driving uh criminal drug dealer he's some

sort of he's some sort of bad well then i don't want to watch it yeah i don't want i don't watch movies like that yeah it has a lot of swearing you probably wouldn't like it illegal activities and he's the hero of the piece he is i know it know. I mean, it was the 70s, you know. I know that it was just a darker time. Carter-era malaise, gas shortage, all that, you know. Oh, well, if there's a gas shortage. Guys, I'm looking at the IMDb for Burt Reynolds here. Did you guys know that he starred in a movie called

WW and the Dixie Dance Kings? Yes, of course, we all knew that. Yeah, Jesse, we all knew that. We always know that. Everyone knows that in the world. Jordan, Joel, back in 1957, sweet-talking WW lived in a 55 Olds, loved bubblegum, Errol Flynn, country music, fried chicken, robbing filling stations, and a Named Dixie. Not

necessarily in that order. It sounds like you just had a stroke midway through reading the synopsis for that movie because it stopped making a lot of sense, I have to say. It's got Ned Beatty, too, wearing one of those riverboat gambler hats. Man, yeah, I don't know. I think this is our last. This is officially our last fuck around chat show. As of next week, this is all a Burt Reynolds recap podcast.

So if you were here for the fucking around or the hilarious guests from the worlds of comedy and entertainment, you can fuck off because it's all burt reynolds all the time from here on out yeah we're doing hooper now yeah here comes hooper minute by minute the man who loved cat dancing two Two women loved him. One died for him. One killed for him. You are just making these up. Yeah. Stop lying.

This one has George Hamilton. Stop lying about fake Burt Reynolds movie, Jesse. I'm not a liar. I didn't come on this podcast to hear your lies. You're afraid to hear the truth. You guys are afraid of the truth. That's what's going on here. No way, dude. We're all about truth. Dol. You guys are afraid of the truth. That's what's going on here. No way,

dude. We're all about truth. Dolphin in Pursuit, parts one and two. That's on Flipper. Joel, do you have an opinion about Burt Reynolds one way or the other? Good mustache. Yeah. Fine mustache. That's about it. Yeah. I mean, you basically summed it up. Brian,

we have another call in there. Hi, Jordan, Jesse, and guest. I mean, you basically summed it up. Brian, we have another call in there. Hi, Jordan, Jesse, and guest. I'm going to guess it is Helen Hong. Okay, wow. This is John from New Jersey. Close. On this momentous occasion, I was out taking my government-mandated walk today, and I was coming upon the home of a famous actor who lives in our town.

And for the life of me, I couldn't remember his name. I could picture him. I could remember some roles that he was in. But I couldn't remember it. And I was bemoaning my lack of memory as I get older. And as I passed the home, I was listening to Jordan Jesse Go at the time, of course. And as I passed the home on Jordan Jesse Go, you mentioned the actor's name, Andre Brower. And I felt a kinship like I'd never felt before.

God, that's a dream to just live in the same town as Andre Brower. Just to bask. Who as Andre Brouwer. Yeah. Just to bask. Who's Andre Brouwer? Andre Brouwer, the star of Homicide, Life on the Streets, and of course, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Oh, I know who Andre Brouwer is. Yes, yes, yes. Just to relax and enjoy his reflected gravitas and charisma. Great in The Mist, too, Andre Brouwer.

That's another good Brouwer role. The Mist. You know, Burt Reynolds was on the new WKRP in Cincinnati. I don't believe any of this, Jesse. I could cross-check it with IMDB, but I'm not gonna. I'm so convinced you're fucking lying. I'm sorry. I didn't hear you.

I was watching Stroker Ace. Stop it. Stop it, Jesse. You're just digging yourself deeper into this hole of deception. He's hot on the track and off. Both the title and the description of it makes it sound like a gay porn, I have to say. Stroker Ace, come on. And, I mean, it's got Ned Beatty, so who wouldn't get horny?

Sure, horny for Beat's got Ned Beatty, so who wouldn't get horny? Sure, horny for Beatty. Ned Beatty, specifically. Specifically Ned Beatty. Yeah, Ned Beatty. The horniest of all the Beatty's. Yeah, no one here's horny for Warren Beatty. Not after that Dick Tracy fiasco. Shampoo.

Ugh. Yuck-a-ola. Give me Ned. Yeah, no sexier uh name than ned seamus he played mccoy and seamus i don't believe any of this seamus is a pro he never misses written by barry beckerman directed by buzz kulik do you think we can conjure, just based on this call, do you think that we can conjure certain actors for our listeners just by mentioning them? I mean, obviously,

Burt Reynolds is dead, so that probably won't come up, but like, do you think if we mentioned, gosh, I don't know, Wallace Shawn, maybe one of our listeners walking would maybe bump into Wallace Shawn

or, you know know try and grab for the same subway handle as wallace sean i don't know i just i just judy greer joe yeah judy greer we want that for you right at that moment uh can i can i tell you one more burt reynolds movie oh my goodness can we stop you it's a it's it's a squatch, appears to be a jungle Sasquatch movie called Skullduggery. The Tropy. Was it human, animal, or the living descendant of the missing link? A band of adventurers matches raw courage against the terrors of the New Guinea jungle to bring back the creature that has haunted science for centuries. The Tropy in Skullduggery. Jesse, these descriptions aren't even in English anymore.

This is just some- Costine Paul Hubschmidt and Chips Rafferty. What are you- No, none of these are real. Is this some sort of dead language you're speaking are you trying to con are you reading from the necronomicon jesse don't read from the fucking necronomicon on this show i swear i love reading from the you now you know for a fact you know how much i love the necronomicon and you can't take that away from me buddy yeah but i have asked you not to bring it onto the show because i fear the world of evil

i do what i do when i do it don't mix with sam whiskey it's risky was that is that another burt reddell's imdb yeah he's he's smoking a cheroot and he's sitting on top of a pile of gold man this is this turn off turn off this if you're listening to this podcast turn it off unless you want demons summoned to your house wait hold up i have important news on the on the poster for sam whiskey he's smoking a cheroot underwater what is what is a cheroot that's like what uh john wayne smokes on a movie poster like a semi cigar okay underwater he is jesse you're unwell i'm gonna have theresa uh yeah i'm gonna tell theresa to have you committed and then fill in for you on the show jordan jesse go to the hospital thank you yes but not me i'm fine oh my god this one called

fuzz here comes the fuzz he's lying just a towel over his business i think he's got some jizz on his nipple and then behind that there's just a picture of him in a nun's habit shooting a gun. Okay, I have seen this one. Okay. I can confirm. Look at this. There's a dog with his own stick of dynamite. This is really something.

Podcasting famously a visual media. Yeah. People tune into this for descriptions of movie posters from movies they haven't seen. That are probably made up. Yeah, and are probably fake. Yeah, it does seem like everything you've mentioned is just the product of Mad Libs. I mean, look, I'm not here to get involved in his uncredited role in the movie Six Pack as man walking in front of Brewster and Leela. I'm really focusing on the serious important stuff, like his role as Stick in the movie Stick.

What do you think is the most beloved Burt Reynolds character, Gator or Stick? Definitely Stick, for sure. Yeah. I'll tell you this about Stick. The only thing he couldn't? Definitely stick, for sure. Yeah. I'll tell you this about stick. The only thing he couldn't do was stick to the rules. Oh, brother. You guys know stick. I mean, you guys know stick's gonna stick.

I can't imagine in any of these, Burt Reynolds changed his voice or demeanor at all. I don't know. He did some interesting stuff in his role as Malone from the movie Malone. Yeah, all of these are just a guy's name. Ex-cop,

ex-CIA, explosive. Okay, that's pretty good. Yeah. That's what Malone is. Okay, let's take another call. Hello, Jordan, just to go. This is Lance in Cleveland.

I'm not sure if you're still doing the things toddlers say, but I was just getting beat of. This is Lance in Cleveland. I'm not sure if you're still doing the things toddlers say, but I was just getting beat in a popular mobile game and I said, damn it. My five-year-old son says,

you're going to be more damn it because I'm drinking your water. I thought that was hilarious. Wait, what did he say? You're going to be even more damn it? Yeah, you're going to be even more damn it yeah you're gonna be even more damn it because i'm drinking your water i love that oh what a smart kid chug a lug buddy down the hatch were we ever doing a this guy started out with are you still doing things toddlers say

do we ever have we ever done that i's one way to get on the show just make up a segment make up a segment call in actually i think that's what all of your listeners should start doing immediately is when they call they have to preface it by what segment they're calling it to be on and it's all made up in the spirit of all of these movies that jesse's been making up i think it's only fair that your listeners make up segments. Joel, I fucking love this. I'm instigating this now. This will officially be called the Joel Kim booster rule.

Great. Yes. If you call in and say this is for a segment we have never done. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, guys, are you guys still doing where in the world is Dick Cheney? Because I was thinking... Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland.

I have a sexy dinosaur call. It's about a Diplodocus. Yeah, they're long and thick. It's true. Diplodocus hits the back wall, if you know what I'm saying. That is true. No, Iocus hits the back wall, if you know what I'm saying. That is true. No, I don't. Oh, man.

Guys, do you guys know about the Judd Nelson Burt Reynolds vehicle shattered if your kid's on drugs? No, we don't know about it. It's because it's not real. Maybe you're hallucinating these. You're in some sort of fugue state. Shattered if your kid's on drugs. What a boring fugue state. This one if your kid's on drugs. A boring fugue state. This one also has got Dermot Mulroney.

Jesse, have you ingested shrooms or another hallucinogen? Are you seeing Burt Reynolds movies that have never existed? There's nothing hallucinogenic about the great Dermot Mulroney. Jesse, have a banana. Go to the chill-out tent. You're having a bad trip. Semi-tough. It's the world's greatest game, and it sure ain't football.

Looks like it's Burt Reynolds and Chris Christopherson horning on some hot babes. Calm down, have some Gatorade. I'm going to go fuck this Diplodocus. 206-984-4FUN or JJGO at MaximumFun.org. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan Jesse Go. Hi, I'm Jackie Cation. Hi, I'm Lori Kilmartin. And we have a podcast called The Jackie and Lori Show. Who are you, Lori Kilmartin? Oh my God, so much pressure. I'm a stand-up. I've been doing stand-up since 1987. I'm a writer for Conan. I've written a couple books, have a couple CDs out, have a special out.

Who are you, Jackie? Well, I too am a stand-up comic since 1984. And I do the road like a maniac and don't have a cool writing job, but I have four albums out working on a new album. We talk about stand-up. We talk about all the different parts of stand-up comedy. So that's the Jackie and Lori show and you should subscribe on Maximum Fun if you want to hear that. And I would encourage you not to. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Congratulations.

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Sorry. But at least you're still part of the court. Yeah. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Guys, can I tell you, you know, our country is so divided right now. I don't know if you know about this. Everybody's in their own bubble.

Everything is so divided. Oh, my God. Is this your first episode back since the coup? It is. I mean, everyone is very divided, from Joel Kim Booster to Jordan, of course, our nation's president, whoever that may be,

the vice president, Sally Field. Right. Everybody, very divided. There's very little that we all agree on, but I think that we can agree on this. Ain't nobody can fly a car like Hooper. Oh, shut up. They're fake.

They're all fake. Oh, come on. Motherfucker. The greatest stuntman alive. Ain't nobody can fly a car like Hooper. Co-starring Robert Klein. This is not helping the country heal, okay? It's hurting things. Ain't nobody can fly a car like Hooper co-starring Robert Klein. This is not helping the country heal, okay? It's hurting things.

Ain't nobody can fly a car like Hooper. Stop. You lured us in with sincerity, and then you just dropped another one of your phony Reynolds on us. Yeah. Motherfucker. She's the call girl. He's the cop.

They both take their job seriously. Oh, bro. Okay. Jolgen Booster, we've established that you're not yet twitch streaming i think everybody listening probably wants you to okay great um but until you get that ring light set up um what are you doing that people should check out um i'm on netflix's history of swear words oh cool um which just came out um I'm a little talky chatty head on that show. And I wrote for the newest season of Big Mouth.

That's also out on Netflix. I'm the king. Oh, king. Of Netflix. Wow. Yeah, I'm a couple episodes into that new season of Big Mouth. It is really funny. Great job.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it's a blast. Very funny television program. And you can listen to my podcast too, called Urgent Care, where we also take calls, but, you know, we don't make up Burt Reynolds movies. Sounds like a much better podcast, honestly. I haven't made up any of these. I would not make up, you know, this Liza Minnelli Burt Reynolds vehicle called Rent-A-Cop.

Now, come on. Don't bring Liza into this. Don't you dare. Don't bring Liza into this. Don't you dare. Don't touch Liza, Jesse. Liza's brought herself into this. You know, there's a killer on the loose and the lady is the target. This actually sounds interesting to me. Keep going.

There's a killer on the loose and he's trying to kill Liza Minnelli? The killer's trying to kill Liza Minnelli, but Burt Reynolds, he is her last line of defense. Huh. The killer has what looks like a shotgun and a motorcycle helmet. So this guy is bad news. Well, then

she sounds doomed. Can I tell you something? Not that long ago. I don't know about recently, but not that long ago. There was this article in the New York Times about how everyone should watch this Liza Minnelli television special that was up on YouTube. Somebody had posted it. Liza with a Z.

Yes. I think that's right. And I was like, all right. I mean, I don't have anything against Liza Minnelli, but I've never exactly understood what Liza Minnelli is. I watched this television special. Holy shit. Liza Minnelli is. I watched this television special. Holy shit, Liza Minnelli is amazing. This is one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my entire life. I've never seen someone be so talented, so brilliantly talented, so completely bonkers, and so funny, both on purpose and not on purpose at the same time uh it was it was

fucking amazing uh she is so great i was like this is this is truly spectacular liza minnelli folks you heard it here first it is a shame though i do think people need reminding because i feel like a lot of people especially in my age cohort only know her from the latter years of like her being goofy on on larry king you know and they don't understand the everything that came before that like made her that kind of icon that she is like she really she delivers so fucking clearly on being an icon like the sheer force of her doing her thing is like a it is like a uh it's like one of those cannons that uh shoots sonic booms at you uh and and you collapse and vomit but in a nice way in a fun way it's like fun of that liza with a z okay liza with a z man this shit is so great i honestly cannot i absolutely cannot recommend it enough it is everything that is

good with the world and you know she can sing her fucking ass off she's hoofing her legs off every part of her body's falling off as this thing is unfolding and it is tremendous anyway uh joel uh joel kim booster you can see him in the uh television special liza with a z is this thing is unfolding and it is tremendous. Anyway, Joel Kim Booster, you can see him in the television special, Liza with a Z. Oh God, I wish. That's on Netflix, of course. Joel, it's been a joy.

It's always a joy to get to talk to you. Yeah. And I will say, I joke about Joel tweeting about anal fissures. Joel Kim Booster's Twitter feed is 12 out of 10 good. I mean, one of the best in the business on social media. I really hope that by the time this comes out, I've tweeted something better than what's on my timeline currently.

Because my tweets today were pretty bad. I'm sorry, Joel. One is just a picture of Corey stolen a bath. And my most recent tweet is just j'adore guys grocery games and that's it not a joke to be found just feelings okay well you know uh joel kim booster has been our guest he truly is one of the best once there are stand-up comedy shows i insist that you go see him one of the most fun shows you'll you'll He truly is one of the best. Once there are stand-up comedy shows, I insist that you go see him. One of the most fun shows you'll ever go see. One of the funniest

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