Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Ep. 698: Bottom of the Emmy with Jason Concepcion

Episode Date: August 1, 2021

Jason Concepcion (Takeline pod, ALL CAPS NBA on YouTube) joins Jordan and Jesse to talk about what not to do when taking pictures with your Emmy, Jesse's son Oscar's first rush of caffeine, and the current state of Game of Thrones fandom. Plus, Jesse tries to stump Jason and Jordan with an Olympic quiz!Listen to Jason's new podcast Takeline with Renee Montgomery and watch his show ALL CAPS NBA!

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, making the big moves. Thank God. You know, you have always been, Jordan, I've known you, what, about 20 years? Yeah, give or take. Through that whole time, I've known you what about 20 years yeah give or take through that whole time i've known you to be an incrementalist not anymore man concerned why isn't this guy just rolling the

dice taking the old swings that's the old me you're talking about the old jordan he's fucking dead i shot him in his goddamn incremental head i buried him in a shallow grave and then I did a piss dance on that grave. I did a little pee pee dance on that motherfucker's shallow ass pauper's grave. Wow. Was there even a headstone or

a wooden headstone? No. There was a pile of shit that came out of my ass. Was the name inscribed in the shit that came out of your ass? Did you use a sticker? No, I'm not going to take the time to inscribe a name. What is that? This guy, he doesn't deserve that.

He got more than he deserves. You just put the dates and leave it at that. Well, and a Bible verse. His favorite Bible verse as well. Good. But you don't have favorite Bible verse as well. Good. But you don't have time for the fucking name. No. Yeah, I understand that.

So, yeah, so for many years you've been stepping up to the plate, facing the shift, and bunting down the third baseline. But now you're taking cuts. You're going to hit it into their teeth and make some big moves. That's me. What are the big moves that we're talking about, Jordan? Well, Jesse, I am next month attending a wedding. That's not the big move.

Okay. But, you know, I guess it's kind of a big move in that, you know, it's a big event. Yeah, it's a new time, you know. It's a dawning of a new era. Sure. And you're inaugurating it by drinking champagne with a bridesmaid. Yeah.

I mean, that's the goal. That's the plan. So this wedding is in the Cape Cod area. Oh. So we're talking about Cape Cod, islands. Orleans, Massachusetts? Sure. Do you know anything about that? Yeah, I think that's that thing where you eat the egg, but is that correct?

Mm-hmm, yeah. Yes, I think it's that thing where you eat the egg. I think it's about breakfast. That's Ortolan, Massachusetts. Oh, right. Yes. So anyway, so what's happening here is I'm flying into Boston. I'm going to stay in Boston for a little bit, enjoy some Boston vibes.

Yeah, throw some batteries at the Yankees. Throw some batteries at the Yankees. Ideally, go into restaurants that only play Dropkick Murphys. Right. We're real Bostonoston experts exactly i think you're three things since that since that time since that time that we played a show in boston a live show where there was a big picture window behind the audience that was out on the street and a guy in a tom brady wandered up, stared at us for a little while. Celtics jersey, Jesse.

Oh, Celtics jersey. Thank you. Sorry. Wandered up to the window, stared at us for a while, then flipped us off and left. Yeah. We've just decided that whatever we assume Boston to be is probably true. But the thing is, I need to get,

eventually I need to get from Boston to Orleans, Massachusetts in the Cape Cod area. I'm like, well, I'll just rent a car. Sure. But I don't know if you know this,

but rental cars are scarce these days. And the cars they do have, people are jacking up those prices. Gee whiz. Yeah. I mean, I would love it

if they were jacking up the cars that'd be fun off-roading or jacking off the car well i mean it's a rental car you got to use it yeah you have to you don't got to worry about your fucking lease you know that's a problem with my car you got to worry about returning it afterwards can't repaint the inside if you know what i'm talking about jordan i don't yeah um so okay so but here's my problems i need to get from from a to b but i don't i didn't i didn't account for this rental car shortage or these jacked up prices right so supply chain land-based transportation, vacationing at home, etc. So I emailed my friend who's, or I texted my friend who's getting married. I'm like, hey, I'm having this problem.

What do you suggest? And she's like, well, there's this app people are using. It is called Turo. It is Airbnb, but for cars. Their logo looks like a penis with a condom on it. Right. Which I love because, you know, there's nothing I'm more passionate about than safe sex. Yeah.

And so I go to Turo.com. You're known as the TLC of podcasting. Yes, exactly. And hey, this is a no scrub zone, right? We can all agree. No scrubs. No scrubs, please. We've had over 700 guests on this show not one of them

has been a scrub and i am fucking proud of that zero scrubs no love from me hanging at the passenger side you know the rest yeah so i go on churro.com and i have not used this service yet i've booked the car i haven't used it so i don't know how this is going to go so this isn't an official endorsement but as i'm going to i'm like these prices are great compared to the rental car prices i just saw these are amazing prices plus you can rent a six-year-old infinity in my experience well here's what here's what happened is that it immediately starts out teslas you get fucking two pages of teslas after the teslas bmws and like by page five you've gotten to the lambos so like they their thing is like hey

you're gonna fucking sit in somebody else's car sit in somebody else's you know fucking cool ass car right so but you're looking for something jacked up i mean you're looking for you are hoping to find a kia sorento on 26s so i mean but here's my thinking is like okay yeah like i'm rolling up to this wedding you know i'm not i don't know a ton of people there but i'm like you want to and you go if you roll up in something nice, you're going to turn heads. Yeah, you want to make an impact because otherwise, you know, you're going to end up sipping your champagne with a, you know. A dog. I was about to say a dog. I, too, was about to say a dog.

Jigs. I was trying to think of why the dog came to the wedding so I could explain. It's one of those things where it's the ring bearer, you know, like if they don't have kids. Thanks, Jordan. So I'm like, okay, two pages of Teslas, three pages of BMWs. I just went ahead and got my car but in gray. A Prius C. It's a couple years older than mine it's a by 2015 this is a 2013 so I just went ahead and got my car but in gray right and I think it's I think I'm gonna be a

whole new man in that gray slightly older Prius C yeah sure well I mean for one thing if it gets dirty you won't notice as much because it's a gray car. There you go. Yeah. Maybe ding it up a little bit. You know what? You're driving on a gray road. Maybe you're doing some chameleon shit.

Hell yeah. Eating bugs and whatnot. Sure. Turn in my eyes two different directions. What are we talking about? I don't remember. Should we introduce our guest on the show? Yeah, I'd love to.

Our guest on the program is an Emmy Award winner. He is one of the hosts of Take Line from Crooked Media. He has his own new, probably future Emmy Award winning YouTube show, All Caps NBA. He's a Twitter celebrity, and he apparently lived at our residential college briefly while we were RAs there while he was not a student at UC Santa Cruz. Jason Concepcion. Hi, Jason. It's delightful to be here, to see you both, especially Jesse, before you're consigned to that unmarked, except for Jordan's poop and maybe a date grave. It's absolutely a delight to be here. Hey, Jason, take care.

You may be the next one to end up in a shallow grave. Hopefully marked. Hopefully some sort of identifying markings on the top of that grave. Jordan, I beg you. Welcome to the program top of that grave. Jordan, I just- Welcome to the- I beg you. Welcome to the program, Jason. Welcome.

Thank you for having me. We already, look, I know what you're thinking, America. Is this show just going to be two hours of Jesse, Jordan, and Jason- Triple J. Listing the names of things they remember from Santa Cruz? Triple J. Listing the names of things they remember from Santa Cruz. And the good news is, no, because we already spent two hours listing the names of things from Santa Cruz.

And so now we can move on to a more universally relatable topic like things we go to sometimes in Pasadena. I went to Pie and Burger, by the way. It was great. I took Elliot Kalin. Jason, I know a little gauche to talk about. I know some people are watching this via live stream, most people ingesting this via audio, but I need to ask you about the sword behind you. Sure. There it is. Yeah. I'm glad. Jason, I want to set the context. Jason is a media professional, so he's got a backlight, a key light.

It's ready. This guy has full three-point lighting. He's got one of those special bookshelves set up behind him so that he can show off what books he likes. Sure. That's correct. And then right behind his head is a real Emmy that he really won and a sword. That's right. So it's an Emmy and a sword up there. That's right.

The sword is a replica sword, a Game of Thrones sword. It is Oathkeeper, the Valyrian steel sword that was melted down from the Stark family sword. Ice, one of the two swords that was melted down in that way, ended up in the possession of brienne of tarth for a while what now this is my main question about this sword i wasn't going to ask you about the whole fucking lineage of this fucking sword okay jason i like jason i liked hearing the lineage i listen to your podcast binge mode thank you which is all lineages so that's a so that's a 50 so that i you know i've got a 50 approval rating and i'll lineages. So that's a 50. So I've got a 50% approval rating, and I'll take that. I think that's pretty good.

Are we doing a comedy podcast, or are we doing Ancestry.com, Jason? I mean, is that a trick question? I think we are doing it. Because of the mics, I know that it's a podcast. Yeah, we are. I should say. He's got you there we are a production of we are a production of ancestry.com the pasadena office so this is my question jason it's not what the lineage of the sword is right it's it's that you that it's in what can only be

described as a sword mount it It is in a sword mount. On your wall. Yeah. So did you mount that sword yourself, Jason? I did. I really, I did. Yeah, it's quite a simple affair. I just got some drywall screws and some sword mounts that I got off Amazon.

Thank you, Jeff Bezos. Anything I can do in any small way to send you to space. I'm happy to do that. You're welcome, Jason. Thank you. I loved space. Jeff, it's great. Thank you.

Later, we're taping right now, but thank you. And then I hung it up there. Cool. Yeah. I mean, it's really an impressive display. And I'm grateful to have it. I will say Jordan's cat Bug is with Jordan. That's better than any sword.

Yeah, I mean, it's a living creature. I will say that I am. It's a sword. You can hug. Yeah. I am fascinated by the painting of what appears to be a snail descending from the sky onto red trees. Yeah. That's a fair description. Well, it's a sun snail.

The snail has the sun within it. And then there's another snail on the ground that has the night within it. There's a day snail and a night snail. Oh, I see. And that's a metaphor for, I guess, the day-night cycle or something. Or just like doing a lot of acid. Yeah. Jason.

The early 70s. Jesse's a Scientologist. Don't bring it up. This is the day snail and the night snail. It's some Scientology shit. Just don't. Hold on. The day snail and the night snail, it's some Scientology shit. Hold on. He's watching me right now, so I'm just going to pretend that my mic got muted or something,

and then I'm trying to figure out my audio. He doesn't look like he respects anything. Guys, I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Jason is pretending his mic got muted. I can't hear you. If you get him started on the day snail and the night snail, it's just going to turn into thetans and suppressive persons. And then we're going to lose all our listeners.

Guys, we cannot talk too much about the day snail and the night snail because our producer Brian is pregnant. What is the causality there that makes it so that we can't because it would imprint it would imprint bad what are they called jordan come on help me out here oh it's like baby einstein but bad like where yeah okay yes like baby einstein okay i got it when they pitched Baby Einstein, they pitched it as reverse Scientology. Right, okay. Now, Jason, you were nice enough to explain to us which swords were melted down to make your sword. So which weapons were melted down to make your Emmy?

Oh, wow. The hopes and dreams of many sports media professionals were melted down to create this delightful trophy that I, you know, relish looking at every day. No, it's, you know, they just, these things come off the back of a truck. You'd be surprised. I mean, it's like really, it's, it was a fantastic thing to win. And it's great because, you know, as a person trying to make my way in this industry, it makes people look at you like a real person now. Right. But at the same time, like legitimately, these just come off a truck like there's just a lot of them. You pay them like whatever the entrance fee is, two hundred fifty dollars to just to even have your name submitted to your work submitted as an Emmy. It's like a it's a factory.

Yeah. Did you get it? Was there like a ceremony? Did you? Jordan is shaken by this. Jordan is shaken by this. I didn't I I've encountered this before where people have deep emotional ties and they're kind of like emotional well-being and state is is dependent on not knowing the truth about how the Emmys are given out. And I didn't want this to happen like this.

I might snap. I might snap. I can see how. Jason, two words, shallow grave. Damn it. Oh, I am just kind of genuinely curious about the getting of this Emmy. Yes. It wasn't during like a televised ceremony.

So how did you get it? How did you figure, how did you learn that you won? So it was, it was streamed. It was streamed live. Um, and I'm sorry to interrupt you.

I just want the audience to know that what sounds like an ice cream truck passing by my window is indeed a ice cream truck passing by my window. I just didn't want people freaking out. You're on, Jason. It is 8.30 p.m. Like, what is going on? If you were in my neighborhood and you saw the number

of chunky little eight-year-olds wandering around at 9.45 at night, it is a miracle. Where is the ice cream? Where is it? I need something that looks like it's going to be Sonic the Hedgehog on the wrapper, but when you open it, it looks nothing like Sonic the Hedgehog.

Yeah, it looks like a melted SpongeBob. It's Sunday. It's Sunday, nearly nine o'clock. My child needs ice cream off a truck right now. I mean, this ice cream truck, I can see it out my window. It's trying to lock down. It's literally outside my house like, come get some fucking ice cream.

Do you need to leave? Jesse, do you need to leave? I mean, immediately outside my house. It's got lights on. It's playing the song. The window's open. It is like it pulled up in front of my house to deliver a package. Do you think it's like an Uncut Gems type situation where this guy, he's just got to make his nut tonight? Yeah.

Like he's got to sell this ice cream tonight. Yeah. I mean, I think it's probably more of a Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross situation where he finally got the fucking good leads. Right, right. Because he knows that in almost any situation if i hear that song i'm fucking buying an it's it like there's no in between for me i'm jumping out a window jumping through a window to get that it's it but hey jesse spongebob's with gum eyes are for closers sorry jason where did you get this emmy yeah how did you get this Emmy?

Yeah. How did you get this Emmy? Yeah. Okay. So the event was in New York City. I went with my co-creator of NBA Desktop, Jason Gallagher, who currently works with me on All Caps NBA. And we went to the event. We had an inkling that maybe we were in good shape because we fucked up the ticket-getting situation somehow.

So we went to check in. We actually didn't have tickets that we thought we had. But then there was some computer typing and some seriousness came over the person's face. And they said, we're going to figure out a way to get you guys seated. So then I started to think, ooh, maybe we're all right. Maybe we're in good shape. And that was the first kind of hint that maybe we could win it.

And then when we won it, it was amazing. Scott Van Pelt handed us the Emmy. We made a short speech walked off stage somebody immediately took it back because there's two emmys that just kind of recycle out on the stage and they just keep going like this really yeah that's interesting and uh and they give you yours backstage you get one to take home and then the other ones for like the core group they would get they mail to us so you you could have like you got an Emmy that like an hour earlier, Sandra Oh got. Yes. Yes. It was all everyone had touched that Emmy.

And then we went to go take pictures. DeAndre Hopkins was there. We went to go take pictures with this Emmy. And, you know, the photographer was like, has been through it with this Emmy. Like this guy has been in the trenches and so i go to hold up the emmy in this kind of like you know picture of triumph and he goes no no no put it down hold it chest level don't jason listen i haven't even won one and even i know not to show the bottom it was embarrassing come on fucking amateur i know that was like you know act like you've been there before and clearly we had not uh that was that was tough to live down

for a long time i looked at the bottom of the Emmy one time but I had already lashed myself to the mast of my ship so it was fine did he explain why or do you to this day not know why you should the madness that comes over a person apparently upon gazing at the bottom of the Emmy is powerful and perhaps irrevocable.

Now, Jesse luckily has returned to us, although his taste in art bespeaks perhaps a trace of the madness yet remains. I was forever changed. Yes. There's no doubt about that. All of a sudden he cares about snails, and there's this whole day-night snail thing that's going on.

No one comes all the way back from seeing the movie. But it is that. A powerful, powerful madness. I would say that the bottom of the Emmy is the salvia of award bottoms. Right. It's like looking into Cthulhu's eye. You get to...

Yeah. Jason, I have a Game of Thrones question question for you oh okay uh so yeah so you so you know a shit ton about game of thrones i do i'm out of practice right now but yes i i i'm a fan of it uh this is not going to be a trivia thing so where are we in the world of game of thrones fandom because i i you know i know that like the people felt very strongly about that finale it did uh do you think there can be successful game of thrones shit now or or are are are people is there too many just raw feelings around it like is it something that people are really excited about like the avatar sequels yeah or is it something that people are really excited about, like the Avatar sequels? Yeah. Or is it something that people are kind of over?

Well, I know that I wake up every day and it is, you know, and when I log on, it is a chore to kind of like dig past the fervor that Avatar fans have and that they put out on the Internet on a daily almost hourly basis saying you know james cameron where and when is am i going to find out i gotta see the fucking submarine and into my local movie hurry up what's going on with the navi where are we with that is jake's legs is that like you know is that okay now anyway which white guy was the star of your movie we can't quite remember who is the seed bear one of the mighty acron pepper is that right berry pepper jesse stop trying to shove your battlefield earth propaganda into this show this is not a scientology program as much as you want it to be um so where we are i think i think where we are are is I think fans will come back. But I do think it would have been a lot easier had they quote unquote stick the landing.

Sure. Because, you know, we live in an era of IP, of interconnected stories all told under this kind of vast corporate umbrella. And in order to keep people inside the amusement park, you kind of have to give them a little bit of what they want. And I think that, you know, the popular consensus is around that, the finale in that final season is people did not get what they want. They were confused, I think, by what they got. And it felt as if it was given short shrift.

And so I think, you know, it's fair to say there will be some trust that needs to be re-won. But I think fans will come back. When you say people did not get what they wanted, you don't necessarily mean narratively in terms of who who sat on the throne they wanted the show to continue to not suck and then all of a sudden it kind of sucked right they wanted not like totally just like kind of they were like wow this show is awesome for a long time and then towards the end they were like wait a, does it kind of suck now? Not totally. Not totally. The thing that got people hooked on Game of Thrones, right, was not the fantasy setting.

It was not necessarily the kind of like politicking and maneuvering for power. It was the shocks which came naturally up from the story. These kind of big Game of Thrones moments where you just can't, I didn't see that coming. I can't believe that happened. Wow. So when I say didn't get what they want, I think they didn't get that. They didn't get that. They didn't get some kind of real. They didn't get some kind of real like gut punch type of ending from that series. And they all ended up, I think, kind of moving from Game of Thrones to more like This Is Us. Right. Where you get those twists. Yeah.

I was thinking about it the other day and like like i mean i i also was not super nuts about the ending or the last bit of it but i was like that show was pretty good for a while like that was a real good show like and i also understand like rule and i understand like it was incredible for for six and a half seasons and then very good for the seventh season. And then it kind of fell off from there. But it was an incredible show. Yeah. And I understand if you're like, oh, you know, the violence, you know, I didn't like the violence or some of the like politics of it like got to me or I didn't, you know, I didn't like how it treated certain characters.

I'm like, yeah, I like get that. But I think there's this feeling now that if you mention it, it's like, fuck that shitty show. I'm like, that show was real good for a while. It was totally awesome. I think that what we're talking about is really, in a sense,

a great problem to have in a weird way. Because again, there's so much fucking tv out there guys like there is so much tv and so many channels there's channels now that i've never heard of jason did you know that the game show network will just play four hours of family feud starting at 8 30 p.m i'm finding this out now but i'm not surprised by it the thing is you have to watch all of it or you can't go to sleep Jordan, aren't you tired aren't you tired of fucking prestige

television about male anti-heroes like four hours of family theater the ultimate a difficult man yeah cause he's always looking into the barrel of the camera, a difficult man. Yeah. Yeah.

A difficult. Because he's always looking into the barrel of the camera like, what are these people up to? You can't make this stuff up. Listen, don't look him in the eye backstage. That's all I know. That's true. That's all I know about Steve.

He's got to prepare. The dude gives a fucking amazing performance. Let him prepare how he wants to prepare. Thank you. Steve needs to comb out the stash and brush the choppers. Yeah. Make sure his purple shirt doesn't have lint on it. All of which is to say, the thing that Game of Thrones did, and what I mean by good problem to have is, that audience fucking cared.

They cared so much that they're every showrunner slash writer slash producer in hollywood would would absolutely kill someone bury them in a shallow unmarked grave and take a poop on top of it if at the end of that process they could create a show that people cared about that much you're right right i mean it's not like look the wire is the greatest television show of all time and i'm not going to sit here and tell you you that I was riveted by the part about the newspaper. There's a whole fucking part about the newspaper. The newspaper was rough. Game of Thrones, fucking owned for a long time, and it was fine. I didn't hate it.

Just not as good as it was before. Yeah. Jason, I have something for you here. Now, Jordan is not a big sports fan, but it's the Olympics right now. I've actually been watching a fair amount of Olympics. I've been having a good time with it. Oh. What's your top Olympics so far? I've been watching some swimming.

That's been a ton of fun. We got a gold in that. What is there? I mean, there's various strokes. So can we be a little, you know, can we be specific about it? Jason, can you be specific about what you mean when you say we? Are you referring to the Verdugo Aquatic Center? Yes.

Yeah. Me and the gang down at the Verdugo Aquatic Facility. Splashpad now open, by the way. If you don't want to come back to the splashpad. Ooh, that's nice. I mean, we isn't the American we. I consider myself part of the team because I live in their country.

I love a relay, but I love the elegance of the backstroke, especially watching the flip turn and the push off the wall from the backstroke is beautiful. And it's like, I like to swim for fitness. And I'm like, I wish I could be a 25th this elegant. It's amazing.

It's beautiful. When they jump into the water in the Olympics swimming, and they do that dolphin part. Yeah, that's amazing, right? Sometimes they'll go half the pool they can go half the pool like that it's a it's it's amazing to me that they can do regular swim yeah so good crawl you know like you did do down at the y yeah but then they can open with this fucking dolphin shit yeah and then just seamlessly you're like how do they switch into

ymca swimming um but yeah and i watched a little skateboarding i watched a little kayaking today And then just seamlessly, you're like, how did they switch into YMCA swimming? But yeah, and I watched a little skateboarding. I watched a little kayaking today. Kayaking was on. It was kind of cool. Anyway. Can you tell, Jordan, you as a former action sports journalist, can you tell the difference between a good skateboard trick and a not good skateboard trick? Kind of.

Sort of. To me, I watched the skateboarding for a while myself. And I like there was a part where Tony Hawk was sitting on a patio talking to Brian Gumbel or whatever. And I was just thinking, man, Tony Hawk sure seems like a good guy. He does.

But I was watching the one, the type of skateboarding where instead of doing a whole skateboard routine, they just do one skateboard trick on a stairway. And truly that just looks like, like to me, like if Chris Fairbanks was here, he could tell us all the different Ollie flip-flops.

But to me, they all just look like that one guy in a park on the stairs just falling over like you know how you just are going through a park and there's just one there's just one like 17 year old dude just over and over falling off the stairs yeah with a skateboard uh or without you know but in this case with. And you're just like, wow, skateboarding is a wild hobby because all you do is fall off these stairs. And then that's what the Olympic guys look like to me. Like they just look like a guy falling off the stairs.

Yeah, that's him. That guy you were seeing, he went to the Olympics. Oh, thank you. Jason, how much keeping up with it are you doing i i've been checking in with it i've got it up on the other screen right now i'm watching women's skateboarding at the moment and but you know the olympics it's it's a weird it's a strange thing number one uh it's wild that we're even having it it was pushed back a year and of course uh covet is an issue the delta variant uh exploding across the world uh 80 some 80 percent of japanese people polled don't want the olympics

to take place but of course you have to because contracts have been signed etc etc uh there are no fans in the in the place uh so it's and it's and for me on top of that, there's just too many events. There's too many events, folks. Why do we have skateboarding? I respect it. I love it. They've got the X Games. I don't know that we need to bring them in here.

And skateboarders are going to be mad at me. But isn't it supposed to be a countercultural thing anyway? Aren't you kind of selling out when you go to the Olympics? But I mean, Jason, other Olympic sports are countercultural. What about biathlon? Do you think mainstream boomer types are cross-country skiing and then shooting rifles at a target? Actually, yes. At this point in time, I think some of them, yes.

at this point in time, I think some of them, yes. If I had to really think about the fan base of it, maybe not mainstream boomer types, but like the boomer types who maybe made like one, two million on the stock market and then are like, I think that the world's gonna end. I'm gonna start stockpiling rice. I think those type of people maybe would be into it. But like equestrian dressage,

like shouldn't the horses get the metal thank you know what i mean like give a medal to the horse it'd be cute and you'd have to make an extra big ribbon to fit around their big old horse necks horses are the real heroes i like i'm i'm gonna disagree with you here jason okay i like while it is not fair and it diminishes the efforts of actual superstar athletes who have dedicated their lives to something. I do kind of like that. The Olympics still has some sports that are like dominated by billionaires from the United Arab Emirates who have nothing better to do. Right. Michael Bloomberg's daughter is like a top five athlete in this sport.

Dressagist. I support that. And I also like the variety of sports. I mean, like my favorite sport is baseball. And because the games are in Japan, they have baseball in the Olympics this year. Japan's a big baseball country. in the Olympics this year. Japan's a big baseball country.

And what I like about that is there are some countries like Cuba and Japan that are sending most of their best professional players. But because the Major League Baseball season is in full swing right now, Major League Baseball is not sending any Major League Baseball players. any major league baseball players. Only guys who like got cut a month ago and like just bailed on getting re-signed. Like there's a guy called Scott Casimir who's like 38. And they were like,

do you want to be in the Olympics? And he was like, well, I just got cut. Sure, I guess I could. And I support that primarily for this reason, which is Canada has a team in the Olympics. And Canada does not have that many great baseball players. Joey Votto is from Canada.

Larry Walker was from Canada. There have been some, but not a ton. You can't put together a whole Canadian baseball team just a really like a good professional baseball what do you think it is is it the snow blindness yeah i think it's the snow blindness plus i mean when you're in when you're in a frozen state like canada most people are focused on biathlon. It's just it's very reasonable. But because of this, if you make it onto the sort of like how sometimes like the French basketball team will have like a 40 year old guy on it. Sure. Who's just been playing in the French professional league for the last 27 years since he was 13.

There will be those players on like the canadian or the dutch baseball team and this prolonged the competitive career of canadian second baseman stubby clap uh by like six years just there was a lot like he was on the cardinals for a little bit and then there was just a golden age of stubby clap playing second base for the Canadian national team thereafter. And anything that keeps stubby clap in our international conversation is something that I support. Look, if the Netherlands Antilles or whatever has a team and Sicknarf Loopstock plays on it, minor league baseball legend Sicknarf Loopstock, I'm all for it. I on it. Minor League Baseball legend, Sicknerf Loopstock. I'm all for it.

I love it. Just real quick, Jesse, I think you have something prepared here, but I just want to make another brief observation about the Olympic skateboarding. Did anybody notice the music? The music I would characterize as Tom Waits insanity circus music. It was like there was no Tom Waits singing, but it was just like. I was like, this is crazy. Listen, I'm not up on the latest music, but I, in my previous career as an action sports journalist, I went to hundreds of skateboarding events.

I know the soundtrack. You alternate between Ozo Motley and Operation Ivy. You don't. Yeah. That's just back and forth and back and forth. That is all they want to hear. That's fine with me. That's a fucking great night out.

Where did this music come from? It was so crazy. It is like what plays in a clown-themed haunted house. Like if you went to Not Scary Farm and there was a clown haunted house, it would just be do-do-do-do-do. It was so crazy. I like that in sports now, because I noticed this both in skateboarding and this was a big thing in major league baseball's all-star weekend during the uh home run derby pete alonzo who won the home

run derby was doing this i like that there will be music playing in the venue crowd cheering coaches exhorting blah blah blah blah blah But then the professional athlete just has his earbuds on and is kind of doing a little dance to his own music that only he can hear. And there was a lot of that in the skateboarding competition. Like all those guys, like this create, like the Tom Waits music is playing, but like they have their little earbuds on

and they're alternating between Ozo Motley and Op Ivy. I have something, I'm glad that you brought up the number of sports in the Olympics Op Ivy. I have something. I'm glad that you brought up the number of sports in the Olympics, Jason. That's too many. Because that's actually the subject of this quiz. So for many years in the Olympics, and this is no longer the case,

but for many years in the Olympics, there was what's called demonstration sports. So these are sports that were kind of auditioning to be in the Olympics. What do you think? Pretty good, right? Olympic level. Yeah.

What do you think about this Portuguese pelota that we're playing here or whatever? Right. And that is no longer the case. Now you're kind of in or out, although there is a separate sumo tournament at the Japan Olympics this year. But in general, you're in and out but but for many years many sports tried out to be in the olympics and so i have this quiz and i thought jason you might you might go first and since you're a sports fan sure uh this quiz is which of these is a real olympic demonstration sport which of these is a real so i've made up some and one is real brian play my theme music

Which of these is real? Games. Oh, Zomat. Lee. Okay. So. I'll put out a cigarette on a ghost. What?

How is this supposed to pump me up? So, Jason, this quiz is which of these is a real olympic demonstration sport roller derby okay fly fishing sack hacking swedish flirt goss Swedish Flortgoss, Mixed Korfball, Lego Ninjago, Sail Gliding, Trail Dancing, Women's Noodling, Boil Lansing, Salty Dogging, Curbside Recycling, Gumball Rally, Tasteful Combat, rally tasteful combat see so quibby fog dog cushing beef boys bean busters butter buddies wingdings yurt wrangling philly cheesesteak dwarf Dorf golfing, or ladies fancy farts. So if you want, I can read those for you again. I don't know if you caught all of them. They went by in a blur. Yeah, so the first one is roller derby,

then fly fishing, sack hacking, Swedish flirt goss, mixed corfball, Lego Ninjago, sail gliding, trail dancing. Is it sail gliding? Women's noodling, boil lancing, salty dogging, curbside recycling. I just want to get you all these options here. Tastful Combat, Seeso, Quibi, Fog Dog, Cushing, Beef Boys, Bean Busters, Butter Buddies, Wingdings, Yurt Wrangling, Philly Cheesesteak, Dorf Golfing, Ladies Fancy Farts. And just as a point of clarification when i say dwarf golfing that's

golfing from your knees right okay yes i thought that's what it was but i was uh i haven't seen it in a while um it's called dwarf yeah um i think i think it's going to be sail gliding but i'm not sure i think it also might be cushing wingdings i'm sure it's not because that's a right that's a font that's a typeface right and then uh and then just because you know like i you know through bullshitting through uh school tests you can always i can suss out a pattern so when it went when we went to the bb names i know that's at least a lot of those are fake. So I'm going to go with sail gliding. Is it sail gliding? Unfortunately,

you're incorrect and the game now passes to Jordan. Jordan, I'll let you know what the choices are. That's roller derby. Remember, the game is which of these is a real Olympic demonstration. Don't say sail gliding. Just take it out. I was going to actually. Don't say that gliding. Just take it out.

I was going to, actually. Okay, yeah, don't say that. I'm going to leave it in just in case you decide to go with it, Jordan. Your choices are roller derby, fly fishing, sack hacking, Swedish flortgas, mixed corfball, Lego Ninjago, sail gliding, Trail Dancing, Women's Noodling, Boil Lansing, Salty Dogging, Curbside Recycling, Gumball Rally, Tasteful Combat, Seesaw, Quibi, Fog Dog, Cushing, Beef Boys, Bean Busters, Butter Buddies, Wingdings, Yurt Wrangling, Philly Cheesesteak, Dorf Golfing, or Ladies Fancy Farts? Sack Hacking? Incorrect. Unfortunately, you both lose.

Unfortunately, you both lose, but thanks for playing the game. I'll be staring down the camera and making a face that says, where do they get these people? Thanks for playing, Jason and Jordan. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jesse go. It's Jordan, Jesse la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. It's Jordan Jessico. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective.

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But I made a joke about lady volleyball players in the Olympics being attractive. And then I said, you know, that's the kind of thing I would never say on Jordan Jesse. It would be a sensitive subject for our audience. Yeah. And then I said, we try and focus on things that are sort of universally relatable, like how if a restaurant has a sauce called Wario sauce, that means it's Wario's. And I did an ejaculation movement because my daughter was in the room, but she was facing away from us. So I did a, a spurting gesture.

Right. And then I said, because of course, sauce is a blank word. Now, Jason, just so you know, sauce is a cum word. Um, everyone knows that. Right. So sauce. Just so I want to just be 100% clear about what we're saying. Thanks, Jason.

Sauce. Sauce is a synonym for ejaculate. It's a cum word. Yes. Wow. Yeah. I don't think that's a come word, yes. Wow. Yeah. I don't think that's a universal thing. I mean, everybody over about 16, like maybe 14 if you learn about it at summer camp.

Right. Like, oh. 13, 14 in there. I'm going to sauce. Yeah. Sure. Right. Oh, this rental car is amazing. I don't have a lease. What oh this rental car is amazing i don't have a lease what a great rental

car oh it's like my carpet gray helping me make sauce so i said i didn't want to say look my kid is nine years old i'm not going to say come in front of her no so i just said blank because my dad is dad of the year jesse thorne there you go thank you my wife's been around the world she she knows what what kind of word sauce is i don't have to spell it out right she's she's yeah come on she went to summer camp right my daughter's kind of half paying attention she turns around and she says what kind of word is what kind of word is sauce and i said don't worry about it and she accepted it and she started to walk away then she stopped she turned she said sauce is a tasty word i think everyone we can all agree with

that that's a i 100 agree yeah yeah from the from the mouths of babes you know what i mean like who doesn't love a tasty sauce let's not yeah sit around talking about how it's come you're gonna ruin sauce for everybody it is a come word i it's not ruined maybe it's not i mean maybe i'm maybe i'm maybe i'm kink shaming and which is a mistake on my part. So I'm sorry. I think it is. I'll tell you this. I mentioned earlier that I went to Pie and Burger with our friend Elliot Kalin this past weekend. This guy went to Pie and Burger. He asked for no Thousand Island on his cheeseburger.

What the hell kind of burger are you buying? Look, everybody knows about Pie and Burger. What are you doing not getting Thousand Island on your pie and burger? Anyway. Just for those that don't know about pie and burger, it's a restaurant that sells pies and burgers. It is right there in the name.

Thanks, Jason. We've actually never explained that on the show, so it's good that someone finally did. It's important to give people context. I just wanted to make sure everybody who's not located in the Southern California area, they might be so just utterly confused. They might be confused. Or if they're just not in Pasadena, like if they're in Glendale, for example, a neighboring town to Pasadena.

Or if they're in South Pass. Right. So when something momentous happens to you, like you get a chance to go to Pie and Burger with the great Elliot Kalin from the Flump House, give us a call, 206-984-4FUN, or send us a voice memo at jjgoatmaximumfun.org for our segment Momentous Occasions. Here is one such occasion, as relayed by our ever-capable producer, Brian Sonny D. Fernandez. Hi, Jordan and Jesse and guests. I don't know, Michael Keaton. Anyway, I'm calling in with a momentous occasion. Can you pause that? One time I was watching Letterman and Letterman was talking about how Michael Keaton, and I think it was Dan Rather, like to go fly fishing together, and how Letterman doesn't get invited,

and he's mad he doesn't get invited. Oh, and Huey Lewis also. Wow. I would take up fly fishing. I would move to Montana and take up fly fishing. Fucking Michael Keaton, Dan Rather, and Huey Lewis. Has there ever been a more high quality group of 60-year year old white dudes

in the history of that is that's amazing that's one of the most current fly fishing sessions that's ever happened so that's four of the biggest names ever i bet that shit was live as fuck and just a crackling i bet they caught so many fucking steelhead holy shit and you know those dudes tie their own flies you know they're not just buying fucking commercial flies come on yeah come on okay brian anyway go ahead in the press play yeah i just found 30 that i lost almost 20 years ago um i guess i knew i had 30 it. It was in my childhood bedroom, and I couldn't find it. And I've looked several times over the last few years, as recently as two years ago, and I just found it in a random book that I've been moving around from place to place for,

I don't know, years now. So that was fun, and I don't know what to spend it on. So if you have any suggestions, let me know. All right. Anyway, happy Anal August. Bye. It is Anal August. Thank you for mentioning that. We're finally passing into Anal August right now. And we just want to remind all of our listeners,

remember to lube up. And more than that just remember without a base without a trace um safety first so our friend jimmy pardo says 10 and 2 10 two hands on the wheel um i mean i think the obvious answer here is you have to spend it on what you would have spent it on when you lost it. Great call. I love that, Jordan. So, I mean. So, amyl nitrate poppers. Yeah. Did we get an age on this, Brian?

Maybe I missed this. Did they say their age? Yeah, I think we can assume 13 or 14. I think that's where $30 really is going to make an impact. That's where you got to hide your $30 in a Sweet Valley High book. $30 really moves the needle at like 12, 13. I remember I saved up $50 when I was about that age. And I felt like Bill Gates just walking around with this huge wad of money. I'll say this.

There's two tragedies built into this. One, of course, is that she missed out on the magic of compound interest. Right. I don't want to lecture anyone, but it's not about how much you save. It's about how early you save. Start saving now and benefit from the magic of compound interest. Okay, that's number one. Number two is just the fundamental problem that when you are living in your childhood bedroom, $30 is an infinite amount of money. And now there's only two possibilities. One is that $30 is an almost inconsequential amount of

money. And one is that you need $30 right now. Both of those suck compared to when you were completely taken care of and had 30 that you could use to buy bugs bunny's crazy castle for the game boy oh yeah that's pretty good i was gonna yeah i was gonna say go down to the pizza place you put 30 bucks in the change machine you get really good at mortal combat 3 yeah really you get really. You find a character and you drill down. God. There was a place in Santa Cruz, a pizza place in Santa Cruz, where you could get two pizzas and an unlimited soda pitcher for like $20 or something. I can't remember what it was, $20 or $25.

God. I'd love to just have an unlimited pitcher of root beer right now. Just chug a lug down the hatch. You know what I mean? Fucking great. Nothing better than being at a pizza place having an unlimited pitcher of root beer. Pizza My Heart. Was it Pizza My Heart?

It was not Pizza My Heart. That is the most famous of Santa Cruz pizzerias. It's the mystery spot of Santa Cruz pizzerias known the world over for its T-shirts and bumper stickers. Yeah, Jason, the good pizza place was one you haven't heard of. Yeah. Thanks. You were probably getting all your pizza at the mystery spot, Jason. Yeah.

And it was not good, I'll tell you. Jesse, I think we got a Santa Cruz casual over here. Yeah. Who listened to this? Well, I mean, the thing about the pizza from the mystery spot is you get there and you realize that it's just all the perspectives. Yeah. It's much smaller than you. That's why the pizza looks so weird.

You think that it's going to be this magical, incredible thing. And it's just because the landscape slopes up strangely toward the horizon. And that's the only reason. But they can roll you that RC Cola uphill. RC Cola, that's a classic pizzeria beverage. It sure is. My pizzeria pitcher growing up was at Lamp Post Pizza. It was our post-tea ball game place.

And yeah, that was their soda that they carried. We would get pitchers of RC. it was the happiest time of my life playing a little adam's family pinball on that pine burger trip uh i ordered my son a coke uh my son oscar likes soda my my daughter gracie she's always hated soda because of the bubbles. Wow, this princess over here? Jesus Christ. I know, right? And she hates, this is, I mean, the most, the shittiest part, Jason, is she hates having peas under her mattress. Unbelievable. Here we go again.

Hates it. Hates it. But I ordered, I won, it was like a special lunch you know it was like me and oscar and elliot and and elliot's two sons it was like it was boys day out you know and so i was like i'm gonna order i'm gonna order him a coke they're at the pine burger they mix up the syrup with the soda with a little spoon and they give it to you it's great it's a whole experience and so i ordered my son a coke and i forgot that he has never had caffeine in his life oh my gosh it was a fucking thrill ride it was a rocket to the moon for this seven-year-old the number of ideas business ideas

that he had immediately he's, help me pitch this fucking screen. Dad, what if we move to Bermuda and open a bar? Dad. Bitcoin, NASCAR. What? Dad, what would you, if you sold Maximum Fun tomorrow, what do you think you could net? Just

like ballpark, Dad. I'm not saying do it. Not gross. Net. I got a pitch for a movie it's uncut gems but an ice cream truck dad are you getting this get me brian grazer instead of this is how i win he says this is how i cream yeah which by the way a come word no it's not yeah it's not that's a come word it's just a word people say no it's a come word. It's just a word people say. No, it's a come word. Let's take one more call. Hi, Jordan, Jesse, and guest.

This is Daniel outside Denver, Colorado. After two long years, I finally got the P-51 that we ordered two years ago. It's where it crashed outside on the beaches of France right after D-Day. And now I'm going to spend the next five years rebuilding it and get to go fly. And super excited about it. It's going to be a long and drawn-out process. Thanks. Love you. Can I tell you something?

I do have, I also have a B-51. It's a P-51. I got an Amazon Prime. Two day shipping, baby. Two day shipping. Get you a World War II bomber. So this is a P-51 Mustang fighter plane that crashed on the beaches of France. And that is, and it was I guess

just there in France and then he has acquired it now and is having it shipped over. He made a deal with Emmanuel Macron Is that his name? Emmanuel Macron We must get rid of these fighters Jesus Christ where did

Jason go? How did Emmanuel Macron get in here? Oui, oui, bonjour. Merci. It's wonderful to be here with you today. Am I a good president or am I a bad one? It's hard to tell. I am pretty handsome when I am in the newspaper,

but that is about all I know about me. Our number one problem that is facing France right now is the absolute wreckage of all these fighter planes that are everywhere on the beaches. And if we could just somehow get rid of those, that would really help. Thank you so much. By the way, I immigrated to France from Germany. From the Alsace for a reason. I actually ordered a B-52 and had it delivered right to my own private Idaho.

Wow. Sure. It's good that I said that. Yeah. Jordan punctuated that by taking a big drink from his orange mug. I won this at dave and

busters that could be wow you really did that could be your thing jordan like you know how johnny carson uh did that like little golf move yeah you know after he tells a joke you could just take a big sip from your dave and busters mug i could but i won that big dick contest yeah pulled out just enough to win. Thanks. Milton, I did the old Milton Berle. Don't give him all of it. Never give him the whole thing. Just enough to win an orange mug and three sweet

tarts. I'll have you know it was a thick dick contest, Mr. Smart Guy. Okay. It wasn't late. It was three individual sweet tarts? Do they have a roll of sweet tarts? No. Three wasn't linked. It was whipped. Three individual sweet tarts? Like, do they have a roll of sweet tarts? No, three rolls, Jesse. Three rolls.

Somebody's never won a big dick contest at Dave & Buster's. Jesus Christ. Just outed yourself. Yeah. Jordan, to be clear, I have won a big dick contest at Dave & Buster's. I have never won a thick dick contest at Dave and Buster's. I have never won a thick dick contest at Dave and Buster's. So, I've got one of those long

skinny pencil dicks. And so, you know, I win the one, but I don't even bother entering the other. Yeah. Well, we've had a lot of fun. Speak for yourself. Working together these past 20 years.

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This man's got a fucking Emmy Award. Yeah. This guy's got an interactive sports Emmy. And a sword. That's right. You know who won the first interactive sports Emmy? Bill Veck when he had Browns fans vote on managerial decisions. That's who won the first interactive sports Emmy.

All right. Cool it, Jesse. You're getting a little heated over there. Cool down. Take a lap. Oh, God. God, I wish the fucking ice cream truck was here right now i could go for a bomb pop jesus christ i want a bomb pop i mean he wants to sell it to you

believe me that guy is like on the edge jason is that sort the only replica weapon that you own um no i have the um the cat's ball blade that aria love you. Spoiler for anybody who hasn't seen the final season of Game of Thrones. Sorry about that. Well, you said that after you gave the spoiler. I know, because as it tumbled out of my mouth, I heard it, and then I realized I've just spoiled the final season of Game of Thrones for

unborn millions to come who will undoubtedly find this podcast and the wreckage of humanity as the millennia march on and they will listen to it and they will say god damn it yeah i just don't just please don't spoil fraser same ending eddie's love you oh i have a i have a real quick sword question for you jason can i ask you a real quick sword question sure you you ever cut anything with those bad boys you ever give something a chop

no never it's a little scary honestly uh my my co-host at binge mode uh mallory rubin there's a picture out there on the internet somewhere she legitimately almost cut my throat with the with the cat's ball blade uh just by messing around as we were just like, you know, doing some video stuff for YouTube at TheRinger.com. And by the way, just so you know, Frasier never actually finds out what to do with those tossed salad and scrambled eggs. It never, it kind of never resolves. Yeah. Spoiler. It's not of the,

it's not a spoiler because nothing, you never find that out. It's kind of like Lost where you never get the numbers. You never find out what the numbers mean. It just kind of goes on like that.

Yeah. They wrap it up in some canonical comics that they released afterwards. Yeah, but like that's cheating though, right? That's cheating

if five years later, like Boom Comics releases a, you know, a Frasier comic that tells you what happened. I don't know if that, I guess canonically you can say, because the owners of the IP say this is what happened, but it's not satisfying. Jason, it's real to me, okay? It's real to me.

Anyway. The Frasier spoiler. Sorry, Gen Z. Anyway. The Frasier spoiler. Sorry, Gen Z. Niles isn't gay, but David Hyde Pierce is. That's the spoiler there.

Somebody's read the canonical comics. From the good folks at Boom Boom Studios. That's a good poll, Jason, by the way. That's exactly who would publish those. Yeah, 100%. Boom. It would be Boom. Or Top Cow. Yeah, 100%. Boom. It would be boom. Or Top Cow. Yeah.

You're right. Dynamite, maybe. Dynamite comics. Yeah, I don't know. Dark Horse? Is that something? They might do it. Dark Horse might do it.

Thanks, Jordan. They would take it in a gritty direction, maybe, if they did it. It would be Frasier versus Predator. They're just like, which? Now that I say it yeah not a terrible idea i i said it as a joke i kind of like it now now that you're a now that you're a best-selling comics author take that pitch out you know what i mean i think you get all you got all you got to do is license the ip i say do that out of your pocket and then bring it as a complete package to the comic book publishers because that's where the money is.

I just got to find out who owns Frasier and who owns Predator. You know, I got to say I listen to the podcast pretty regularly. This is the most financial advice you've ever given, Jesse. I mean, so far we've learned about compound interest. Now we discover how Jordan should go out with his comics IP and how maybe he can kind of fold that up into movies and film and different things, maybe a companion pod right here on the network. I don't know.

That's just soft pitch on that one but it's it's i've learned a lot yeah well this is i mean i consider this ultimately i'm in the industry you know certainly has jordan written for television shows yes has he appeared on screen uh as an action sports journalist yes certainly uh did tyrese once say hello to him in public uh yes of course uh called him my man i believe yeah looking good my man yeah um damn uh all of these things are true is is jordan uh is jordan a published comics author with the new book bubble in stores now. Yeah, sure. Is, is he working on a, a, a film project?

Yes. Of course he is. All these things are true, but ultimately I'm the entertainment insider because not only do I have a podcast, but I appeared in history channels Christmas through the decades, which Jordan did not. That's right.

So I think I'm pretty well qualified to offer entertainment business advice to Jordan. And if I may, you had the question, you have to find out who owns Frasier and who owns Predator. And that's true because you're going to have to license those properties. Here's something interesting that I know. Frasier owns Predator. Oh, well, this is like I cut the amount of phone calls I have to make in half. um here's something interesting that i know frazier owns predator oh well this it's like i just cut the amount of phone calls i have to make in half so that's good so that's something jason concepcion yes podcasting celebrity uh

emmy award winner um all caps nba on youtube uh Take Line podcast with the Rene Montgomery, WNBA legend Rene Montgomery. Of course, he's got the two Game of Thrones swords, so that's great for him as well. One is technically a dagger. The other one is a sword, but yes. Did you make – what kind of mount did you – It's an important clarification. What kind of mount did you – It's an important clarification. What kind of mount did you make for that dagger? Are you self-tapping drywall screws?

The dagger comes on a plaque with its own plaque. Right. And so then I just had to mount that. But I haven't mounted it. I have it in storage right now. The plaque says Jason Kitsap's team spirit. now the plaque says jason kids fco team spirit so this one is actually like a very it's like you know like plastic the uh the aria cat's ball blade is is metal like you can you can commit murders like the one that jordan intends to commit against you jesse uh before burying you in a in a

shallow i would never i would never topped with hisve. I would never. I would never. Topped with his feces. I would never. I would only murder the part of myself that I hate the most. Yeah. That's your incrementalism? That's the one. You know, incrementalism isn't all bad, Jason.

Think about the magic of compound interest. That's true. There's very little that I've been able to think about ever since you mentioned compound interest some minutes ago. You can't get that interest if you stick your check in a super fudge. Right. Here's the thing about compound interest, right? There's regular interest and you're getting that interest. Right.

But with the compound interest, it's compounded. Right. Exactly. Thank you, Jason. Very important. And that's the whole thing. You know who knows this? Frazier.

That's why he bought Predator. All right. Brian Sonny D. Fernandez is our producer on the program. Our theme music is Love You by The Free Design, courtesy of The Free Design and Light in the attic records

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