Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Flipping Ropes, with Eddie Pepitone

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

On today’s episode, we welcome comedian Eddie Pepitone to the show to chat with us about outsmarting his inner sexy saboteur, his air fryer french-fried potato skills, doing sketch comedy in a sex d...ungeon, and much more.* Flip ropes with Eddie on Instagram.*Check out Eddie new stand-up special, The Collapse.*Pre-order Jordan’s new Web of Venom comic.*Catch Jesse and Judge John Hodgman LIVE for Night Court at the Bell House in NYC on March 6th and 7th!*See Jordan Morris at Collector's Paradise on February 22 where he'll be signing Predator comics!*Check out a Predator Double Feature with Jordan Morris at the Friday Cinema on February 26th!*Catch Jordan at Books with Pictures in Eugene, Oregon on February 28th where he'll be signing copies of Predator!*Join Jordan Morris and the Doughboys Live at The Aladdin Theater on February 28 or on March first at the Neptune Theatre.* Celebrate 25 years of Bullseye!* Order Jordan’s new Predator comic: Black, White & Blood!* Order Jordan’s new Venom comic!* Donate to Al Otro Lado.* Purchase signed copies of *Youth Group* and *Bubble* from Mission: Comics And Art! ~ NEW JJGo MERCH ~Get  Bronto Dino-Merch!Get our ‘Ack Tuah’ shirt in the Max Fun store.Grab an ‘Ack Tuah’ mug!The Maximum Fun Bookshop!Follow the podcast on Instagram and send us your dank memes!Check out Jesse’s thrifted clothing store, Put This On.Follow new producer, Jordan Kauwling, on Instagram.Thank you to Engineer Gabe Mara!Get 50% off your first Factor box!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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 sucks and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne America's Radio, sweetheart. Jordan Morris Boy Detective. How are you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing good. I think everybody's... Do you hear that banging at the gates, Jesse?
Starting point is 00:00:22 Oh, I thought that was just the Astros letting their teammates know a curveball was coming. Oh, boy. Sports humor. I'm sure that Zinged Astros fans. Know that banging at the gates, Jesse, is our fans. Are they mad about Amy Polar winning the Golden Globe? Yes, apparently Amy Polar won the Golden Globe for best podcast, probably, right? Yeah, I think that's correct.
Starting point is 00:00:46 And they're mad at us. Yeah, well, they're mad at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Well, what's leading them to bang this door? They think that there are some Russian entertainment journalists in here. Right, no, it's just us. Yeah. I don't govarying Oh, hold on.
Starting point is 00:01:02 Jesse, if you've been a mole this whole time, that'd be a great twist. Okay. That'd be a great twist. No, they're banging down the door because we're well into 2026. And we haven't announced the Jordan Jesse Go's slogan
Starting point is 00:01:15 for the top of the year. That's a great point. People set their watches by this thing. You know that... They need a guiding light. With each passing year, more in war, we have been holding our lives.
Starting point is 00:01:28 and the lives of our nation together with like paste out of a paste jar, like the kind of elementary school child date in the 1950s. Right. My mother specifically, I would guess. And then maybe like some twine, like some cooking twine. Hardy stuff. Yeah, the best stuff, maybe an old newspaper. Right.
Starting point is 00:01:51 These are the things that have been holding our lives together. And that's what I was thinking about as I was thinking about what could be this year's slogan. Grab the twine. Something like that. Grab the twine, something along those lines. And I also was thinking about the fact that at the end of the day, if there is any core principle of Jordan Jessica, it's not about, look, we don't do politics, okay? We don't do politics. I don't even know what that is. Uh, hello candidates. What are those? Sure. Checks, balances? Now you lost me. I'm still writing, I'm lost. I'm still writing balances on my.
Starting point is 00:02:28 checks. Sir. I think that if we stand for anything, we stand. And we don't, to be clear. We don't. But if we did. By no means, should you try to pin us down. We're on pinnival.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Sure. We're like slippery eels in the Thames. Yeah. I think that if we stand for anything, it's for celebrating people's varied sexual interests. Yes. Yes. That is definitely what we are all about. I think it's fair to say that as far as we're concerned, you know, whatever floats your boat.
Starting point is 00:03:05 Yeah, you're right. And I thought that since we're trying to hold together, our newspapers, paste, twine, ships on the river of history at this time. Yeah. Float the boat, 2026. Float the boat. So this has a dual meaning to you. This has a, it's staying afloat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:24 Just keeping your head above water. whatever you're doing to patch the holes in the hole. But also, if you want to be a furry, get a wolf suit with a hole in it. Exactly. That's exactly it. And you know what? If you're an asexual furry, that's also great. Sure.
Starting point is 00:03:43 But you know what? Get a wolf suit with no hole or one that has a hole for ventilation. Maybe suck somebody's, probably important. Maybe suck somebody's dick as a favor. Not if you don't, not if it makes you uncomfortable. No, but if you're fine with it. But if you're fine with it, like if you're willing to do it, just like I might be willing to, like, give somebody a back rub or something. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:01 You know, dude, you're at the furry convention. Suck a dick. You are. Things are stressful there. Float the boat. Float the boat. Okay, I like this. We're all floating our boats down the stream that is life.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Speaking of the stream that is life. Yes. Our guest on the program knows a little something about that stream. A stream-faring man. This guy is known for his stream. Wow. He is one of our favorite stand-up comics. He's the man with so much pep.
Starting point is 00:04:33 They named him once. His brand new special is called The Collapse. It's on YouTube right now. One of the funniest guys that there exists, Eddie Pepitone. Thank you, fellas. Yeah, no problem. It was nice hearing that opening. Really nice.
Starting point is 00:04:53 I learned a lot. And I love the Astros reference, the banging on the doors. That was actually garbage. It was a garbage. They had a garbage pail. What is this is a scandal? Yes, it was. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:09 What's this? Five years ago, maybe? It's a while ago. They had a guy in the, you know, there's a tube that goes from the dugout into the clubhouse. Like a baseball tube. This is a baseball tube. It's like, if you think of a flume. Think of a flume.
Starting point is 00:05:24 I often do. If I could put things... Speaking of whatever floats your boat, I'm usually thinking about a flume. If you don't mind me putting things in log terms. No, I don't. Thank you. Think of a flume.
Starting point is 00:05:34 There's a flume between the dugout and the clubhouse. The dugout, of course, is where you do your scratching and spitting. Right. The clubhouse is where you do your scratching and spitting, but you're not wearing any clothes. Okay. And on that tube, there's a video room. So, like, if you're in the middle of the game, you go over in the video room, you take a look at...
Starting point is 00:05:53 You take a look at... You learn that ugly can be beautiful. You learn to embrace yourself. You get back out there. You hit a goddamn home runner, at least a double extra basis, double or triple. They had a guy in the video room watching the game on television, or probably from a center field camera that they had special access to.
Starting point is 00:06:11 And he was using a computer to decode the signs, the catcher signs, and then relaying them to a guy who was in the shoot, who had a trash can. the guy was hitting a trash can with a baseball bat, and then the batter would know whether a fastball or a breaking pitch was coming. That's clever. I know probably, I mean, cheating, obviously. Yeah. But kind of clever.
Starting point is 00:06:34 No, I like it. And they get bonus points for being clever? People got really mad about it. I mean, not unreasonably. They were cheating. Yeah. They weren't the only team cheating like this, though. So it's a little unfair to only be mad at them.
Starting point is 00:06:46 But everyone was very mad at them, which I understand. However, I really think that the reason people were actually mad is like when a year later people figured out that they were doing this, there was like people who just ran television broadcasts of the game. And you can just hear the guy banging on the trash can. And I think everybody was just embarrassed that they didn't hear the trash can. Right, yeah. We come up with a slogan every year to kind of like guide our listeners. I like float your boat. Float the boat.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Yeah, too. Because we're all float. Yeah, we're all in trouble. Yeah, sure. Here come the rocks or the waterfall. Yeah, we're all just headed down that flume. Piranhas. Or the rotating blades.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Yeah. Who put them there? What are they here for? We don't know. The Garberator Corporation? Eddie, do you have any 2026 like resolutions or goals? You know, I want to get, and I'm not a real resolution or goal guy, but that's slowly changing. and I want to get healthier.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Okay. This is a good one. This is a perennial. Yeah. I'm on a roll right now. My life consists of rolls and then unraveling. Okay. Got it.
Starting point is 00:08:03 For your twine reference. Right. Thank you. I'm rolling right now. Like, I'm out there, and this is amazing for me, I'm out there jogging. Jogging. I go to the gym two to three times a week with the trainer. This is all new for me.
Starting point is 00:08:19 You know, and now I've been home for a while. I usually travel a lot, bringing, spreading, really, mirths all over. All over. I would say hosing murder, right. You're no for your state. This guy's no for a stream. Oh, yeah, I am a hoser. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Not Canadian way, but yes, I pressure hose. Sure. Yeah. By the way, we've lost a lot of good comics to pressurized hoses. Do you know that? Augustus Gloop. I don't know who that is with this. It's the kid from Willie Walker who got caught the...
Starting point is 00:08:57 Sucked into a pipe. And, you know, it was a shame to lose him, but he was one of those... I moved to Austin so I could say anything I want to guys. That is true, yeah. And you're like, okay, I get it. We get it. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:09:07 Free speech. Yeah. So, I mean, in his early days, he's only revolutionary. Yeah. Oh, boy, that whole scene is kind of already retro. Sure. charming even
Starting point is 00:09:19 like shag carpet just kind of cute and kitsy comics who want to say the R word on podcasts anyway I really have to do a dance with myself as far as goals because I'm one of the foremost self-sabotagers
Starting point is 00:09:36 in the United States and if I set a goal there's a little part of me that doesn't want to go toward that. I don't know if you have this because that voice or whatever it is
Starting point is 00:09:54 is like, come on, fucking relax. Come on, you're usually jerking off at this hour. And it's the sexiest voice possible. It's time to jerk off. So I purposely
Starting point is 00:10:14 kind of don't set goals because of that. But I slowly kind of, ooh, I'm like doing, I'm going toward the light. Jordan, do you set goals? I try and do a manageable one. It's like really reasonable.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Like, you know, lay down more. Jerk off at a specific time while someone was yelling at me. Like, this, this voice. Yeah, you know, I have some just like, hey, I'd like to, I had a nice running habit for a while that I absolutely just dropped because it got hot.
Starting point is 00:10:46 It got hot? It got hot, yeah. Global warming took you out then. Yeah, it's global warming's fault, not mine. Aerosol cans, Exxon Valdez. These are the reasons I'm not running. But yeah, I'd like to get back into that again. I've started making the playlist again.
Starting point is 00:11:04 I haven't gotten shoes or anything. Oh, for your... Yeah, for the running. So I'm like, oh, once I get the playlist right. I just listen to Tom Petty's Barry Treasure, where Petty put together all these playlists of music, and it's really nice. I bet they're good. They're real good.
Starting point is 00:11:22 They're very, yeah, real bluesy. Okay. You know, and I'm jogging around North Hollywood Park going, this isn't a goal. This is just you living. We still hate ourselves. Jesse, you're doing goals? You're doing Resolutions?
Starting point is 00:11:44 Jordan, goals? make me feel so upset. Oh, thank you. I hate goals. Get them out of here. To me, goals are only a harbinger of my failures. Like, any goal that I set will paralyze me. Yes.
Starting point is 00:12:00 I can, that I'm the same way. I can only approach achievement sideways and backwards. There's no, like. You're saying what I said except more articulately. Sometimes people say to me, like, you know, like, congratulations on your success. I don't know if you knew this. I'm in the podcasting Hall of Fame. You mentioned it. Are you really? I'm in the podcasting. I should have brought my trophy up here. But people say like, congratulations on your success or something like, you must be living your dream.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Right. Like, no, I had no dream. Like, what you are seeing here is just me living in terror of the next five seconds continuously forever and never quitting because I'm more scared of quitting than I am of not quitting. You know what I mean? I do. Like, I could probably just do the same thing I did yesterday, I think, to myself. I'm not starved. So you're not going to get into, like, air friars or something this year then. I should probably get into airfriars. I did get in air. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:12:55 You mentioned that I bought an air friar willy-nilly. Uh-huh. I was just- Because people were talking about it because you- No, this was really recently. I think the chatter has stopped about air friars, you know, when I- Have we moved? What's the next thing? What are people chatting about in the,
Starting point is 00:13:13 Oil fryers. Oil fryers. Industrial deep fryers. You find a rallies that's closing. You hand the guy a hundred bucks. Nuclear friars? Maybe, yeah, could be. That would be nice.
Starting point is 00:13:28 A little plutonium. Yeah. Ooh, it'll crisp those veggies up nice. What's so funny about me, though, is that I'm like, fuck, yes. I'm going to get an air friar, and I'm going to really use this this time. So I used it, I think, three days in a row. And of course, I just made French fries. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:50 What else are you going to use it for? What are people using it for that's so great that's not fresh fries? And they got burnt and they weren't as good, blah, blah, bah, than I thought. And so now the air fryer, I can't let it stand in that corner for too long. I'll never use it again. Right. I have to say, like, with the air friar thing specifically, I never bought. bought an air fryer because I got a countertop oven, you know, like a toaster oven that has a convection
Starting point is 00:14:18 mode. I think that's the same thing as air fry. Not 100% on that, but I also use a like air fry setting on one of those little countertop oven. Yeah, like mine is, it's not like an air fryer tonight and they turned out really good. Like mine is pre-air fry setting. Like I had it, I bought my countertop oven before air fry was the setting. But I think the convection setting on mine is basically the same as they. I feel like when I heard people talking about their air friars, what I took home from it was, wow, these people are eating a lot of frozen French fries. It's like, that's all everyone, everyone who just kept talking about how great the frozen French fries where I'm like, how many frozen French fries are you eating? Why frozen? Because making your own French fries is hard.
Starting point is 00:15:07 I mean, I understand why people... Except if you have an air friar. If you want French, French fries. I understand why you're eating frozen French fries because making French fries is a fucking big assail. Sure. That's why you buy them at a hamburger restaurant. Right. They got in a giant industrial friar. Maybe you're making like an oven. Is that what you're making like an oven fry? Like a more of a roasted potato way? I think so. Yeah. I think I think you're right. Were you starting with frozen or were you starting with fresh potatoes? Fresh. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean Eddie's been a big potato peeler guy. I was in the Navy for many years on... Did you see the movie Master and Commander? Oh, yeah, sure. Far side of the world, or...?
Starting point is 00:15:50 Yes, thank you. You know a lot. Anyway, I was in the galley in that movie. And the reason being, not for acting skills or anything, I was actually peeling potatoes. Because you have that, the actors have that resume, and it's like if you've done stage combat, you put that on there,
Starting point is 00:16:08 juggling, potato people. potatoes convincingly. Special skills, they call them. You know, Eddie's resume, actually. It used to have like a list of all his appearances on Conan and the different independent films he's been in and so forth. Now it just says Eddie Pepitone, Los Angeles, California. And then in big letters, taters.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Taters, yeah, the tater guy. Eddie, do you have that resume with special skills on it? Do you have? No. You know, resumes, do they even exist anymore in the entertainment? I don't know. I've never auditioned for anything. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, at least since I was 20. Yeah. Well, I remember when they did accept recipes, I was always the worst when you actually had to bring a headshot, a hard copy with you. And every time I brought one in, it was crunkled. You know, it was kind of crunkled. And the casting agent would say to me, you need an updated headshot.
Starting point is 00:17:10 because it was just a picture of me on a beach. You know what I mean? Sure. As a kid. Like in a bikini. As a child. Uh-huh. I give the entertainment business exactly what it deserves.
Starting point is 00:17:26 No, I'm serious. I, when I get auditions. You're like, listen up, entertainment industry. You get what you get. That's the part of me that. A Xeroxed family photo. from my childhood. I'm sort of like that.
Starting point is 00:17:43 Yeah. I get a bunch of voiceover auditions because I've done now some animated shows lately. And if I get a voiceover audition and I look at the fucking thing, especially if it's for young kids. And I just, it's very rare that I like a script. Yeah. Right. Like I read them and I'm like, this is going to get what it does. deserves. And I do, I do one take on an iPhone. I don't care if the fans, sometimes I'll turn off
Starting point is 00:18:20 the fans in the room. But you don't, you don't set up in your home studio with the, with the Ashure SM7 and, right. No. You just yell, you just grab the phone, you say, a triangle has three sides. I just grab it, I'm Bob the Snake. And I'm like, oh, little boy. boy, come here. And that's it. What's the most prominent animated thing you've done a voice for? I guess Bob's Burgers. Oh, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Oh, yeah, that's it. Yeah. Do you get like Bob's, because the Bob's Burgers fans are serious. Do you get them like coming out to shows? Some of them, and I haven't been on now in years. You know, I was on there as a regular Reggie the deli guy. But I, you know, they moved on. Bring back the deli guy.
Starting point is 00:19:09 Bring back Reggie. I've been saying, bring back Reggie. We get Bob's burgers people coming up to me and Hodgman after Judge John Hodgman shows. Just because purely the like aligned demographics, right? It's like super precocious young, older children, you know, 12 year olds. And they're like Gen X parents. They love Judge John Hodgman. They love Bob's burgers, right?
Starting point is 00:19:35 So they come to the Judge John Hodgman show together. The kid is wearing a shirt with the. favorite Bob's Berger's character on it. And they talk to us about Bob's burgers. And we are the only people we know who've never been on Bob's burgers. We're going to have to field this many Bob's burgers questions. Could we please? But they really, we had a Judge John Hodgman case once that was a father and daughter.
Starting point is 00:20:04 The daughter was like 12. And they had seen Eugene Merman in a grocery store. And the dad wanted the daughter to go up and say something about how much she loves Bob's burgers, but she was scared and didn't want to, and they didn't. And the dad took his daughter to court, and the case was, if we ever see another person from Bob's burgers, she has to go up to him and say something, right? And it was very sweet. They were both so sweet.
Starting point is 00:20:33 And we got Merman to hang on the phone line. and then at like two thirds of the way through we said like we're gonna have we have a special guest on the program it was Merman and the girl just started bawling just like water pouring from her face and I'm like oh right
Starting point is 00:20:53 like people are really connected to Bobbzburgers is great yeah well it's been on now for many years so it's like a marriage you know if you've been with this person and even if there's animosity, you still are very connected to them. Is that the thing you have the most super fans from Eddie?
Starting point is 00:21:15 No. Like, oh, what is it? I would say that it's this show I did for adult swim called Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. Have I told the story when you've been on the show about me auditioning for it? No. I don't think I know the story. I auditioned for a hot second.
Starting point is 00:21:37 It's not something I've done in a long, long time. But I went in for that show reading for a part that was called Eddie Pettone Demon. And I'm like, I don't think I'm going to get this. Oh, my God. I think Eddie Pettone should get this. That's another knife in my gut. I didn't even know that they were auditioning. Yeah, me.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Other people. Might have been just me. For a part that was specifically. Yeah. Sometimes I worry that during that period where you were an actor, Jordan, they were sending you out exclusively for things where they had to bring in some people in addition to the person they already knew they wanted to cast. Because that's a thing.
Starting point is 00:22:18 And I definitely had the room. That is a thing. That is a thing. I'm like, oh, I think this is explicitly for somebody else. Yeah. To the point where there's even the actor's name in the stage directions. That's, yeah, yeah. And I remember auditioning.
Starting point is 00:22:31 I had a audition for something that was called the Eddie Pettitone Demon. And I remember auditioning for it going, like this business. Are there still, like, super fans of that that come to shows and come up to you in grocery stores and stuff? Not so much grocery stores, but at shows, that my stand-up shows. But that show was, I'm trying to remember, that show was, like, partly, like a little bit animated, but mostly live action. We were surrounded by a blue screen. Right. And so, yeah, there was a bunch of animation, but it was...
Starting point is 00:23:08 It's like takes place in hell, right? It's like an adult swim show, and it's about what goes on in hell. Yes. Giant spiders. It was... Giant spiders. That's the hell stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Yeah. It was fun. It was also a little harrowing because I, as an actor, I hate... You know who I'm a big fan of lately? retroactively Laurel and Hardy and one I think we all
Starting point is 00:23:35 expected him to say Laurel and Hardy but one thing that's amazing to me is how Clara Bow
Starting point is 00:23:42 is how they get covered in garbage and refuse and goo and
Starting point is 00:23:55 yeah and so this show you're pretty fast going to hell had that element to it. And whenever they said, Eddie, we're, we're going to bury you in dirt and then maybe
Starting point is 00:24:07 put some honey on you. And I would always, I would always, we're thinking about it. We're thinking about, I'd always, I'd always be mad and they knew I was mad. Right. I wasn't like, you know, a real trooper with them, you know, whereas the lead, a guy named Henry Zabroski. Uh-huh. Amazing. What they did to him should have, police reports should have been filed. It's really a, it's a question of endurance. Right. Yeah, yeah. It's sort of, I mean, Jordan, I know you only acted for a little while.
Starting point is 00:24:39 I went to theater school. Yes. Acting really is about different goos, liquids, sprays. Like a lot of times, viscera is a great point. A lot of times acting, like, if you're good at it, like if you're really good, like, I'll give you an example. Sean Penn.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Okay. Okay. Sean Penn, known for his acting, and specifically in, did you see one battle after another? I did, yes. I didn't see that. They took that spray, that expanding spray insulation foam and shot it up his nose. Wow. I mean.
Starting point is 00:25:14 So that's why he's so good in that. Yeah. It chose. You know the kind of pink foam I'm talking about. And then it expands. Yeah. Yeah. To fill cracks.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Hey, I want to be a little more dynamic on this podcast. Yeah. I want to make more baffling choices. Should we take a break, shoot some insulation up our nose, and then come back for a little bit more? Well, I'm going to put in your butt hole. All right. Hey, man. Whatever floats your boat.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Thank you, Eddie. Whatever floats your boat. 2026. We're going to float the boat. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan. Jesse go. Hey, gang. Jordan here.
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Starting point is 00:28:44 On 226, I am going to be hosting a Predator double feature at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, a beautiful independent movie theater. We're going to be showing two Predator movies. I'm going to be signing books. It's going to be a good old time that starts a movie. at 7 p.m. and you can get the tickets on the Frida Cinema website. And on 228, I am going to be at Books with Pictures in Eugene, Oregon. That's right, the Eugene Oregon location. Don't go to the Portland one. I won't be there. I'm going to be in Eugene Oregon at Books with Pictures, sign in Predator, and whatever else they got, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Speaking of the Pacific
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Starting point is 00:30:03 It's going to be a funny, funny, fun, fun, fun, good time. Okay, back to the show. La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La It's The Radio Sweetheart. Jordan Morris, Boy Detective. Eddie Pepitone, the Bitter Buddha. See, he already had a real nickname. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:30 That's really what he's called. It's a good nickname. It's apt. It's the name of a documentary film about him. Yes. Made an entire documentary film about him. These chumps coming on the show, just making up nicknames off the dome. Eddie, this is something you would know about.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Because I watched your Instagram. Your Instagram is roughly 50% comedy clips, 50% clips of you doing that thing with ropes that people do at CrossFit. Or you're sort of flipping them like at the... You flip the ropes, Eddie? You know what I've done since I have a trainer is film my like a little part of my gym session. My trainer films it. And I started putting them up.
Starting point is 00:31:10 And it is incredible how many people, and I mean this, I'm not joking, are inspired by the fact that I am working out. And they're like, if this fucking guy could do it. And it's this time of day, I'm going to get it out and take care of business. They say. Anyway, my point here is, we have a clock here in the studio to tell us how much time we've been recording. Yes. And it's a little confusing because it is four gymnasiums. Yes.
Starting point is 00:31:43 This is a clock that's four gymnasiums. It seems to be constantly resetting. So we started the clock. Yeah. But now we're in rest. We just went from rest mode to work mode. We've been working for 12 seconds. Right.
Starting point is 00:31:56 At some point, once we finish lap five here, we're going to go back into rest mode. That's for track meets? I think this is for... So did you buy this at a flea market, Olympic flea market? You would think. You would think that's where we obtained it. You know, speaking of flea markets, Eddie, you know, since the last time you were a guest on this program, did you know that I have made friends with no less than three appraisers on the Antiques Road Show?
Starting point is 00:32:25 Are you serious? Oh, I'm dead serious. Oh, my God. Dead serious. Serious is a heart attack. Is that show, because I kind of left that show after the kinos got arrested? Oh, wow. No, I haven't seen it in a bit.
Starting point is 00:32:45 Is it still running regularly? Oh, yeah. It still is nominated for an Emmy every year. No. It's been nominated for an Emmy every year for like 40 straight years. Eddie, you were an Antiques Road Show fan for a, of time, maybe sounds like not too much anymore, but you had a moment with the show. Yeah, I loved it.
Starting point is 00:33:00 Okay. I loved the historical element. You know, it's like, it's educational kind of. And then the different types of people, you're like, oh, they're in Phoenix and you're looking at all these leather-skinned people. And then they're in New England, you know, and there's a certain anger in the air in that one. A little cold air. A little cold edge to it.
Starting point is 00:33:26 A little cold edge. I like to look at the people and think to myself like, you came here wanting to get on television. Like your goal in coming to this event was to try and get on television. 100%. All these people, they wanted to get on television. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:41 I hosted a television show. When I went, I wanted to get on television. I was pretty sure I was not allowed to go on the television because they had to, like, not know me or something. And I still wanted to get on television, right? All these people want to get on television. And I'm just like, For half the people, I'm like, you're doing great.
Starting point is 00:33:57 For half the people, I'm like, you wore that to try and get on television? Oh, unreal what they wear. Yeah, so that's fun to watch the different people. And some of them bring, I mean, it's, and it's always a real fun thing when an item that's, someone usually says, I don't know, we've had it in the closet for 20 years. I never knew what it was. And I figured, oh, let me bring this in. And it's worth, you know, $100,000.
Starting point is 00:34:24 When somebody says that thing about like, I just always had it in my closet and I knew I needed to bring in something. Yeah. I'm always like, you just picked some shit from your house at random? Yes. A lot of them do it looks like because a lot of them have crap. Like you entered a lottery to get a ticket to come to the thing, then just pick something at random from your closet? It's real laziness that pervades this country. real laziness. Can I give a pro tip to all the people out there who are hoping to get picked for a
Starting point is 00:35:00 ticket to the Antiques Road Show? Not going to get you on television, but if you live near a major city, every big auction house in that city has a free appraisal day. You don't have to get a ticket to the Antiques Road Show to get your shit appraised. Just go in on the first Sunday of the month or whenever it is that they have their day, wait in line for a little bit. I didn't know that. Because they're trying to drum up business. If you have a painting that's worth $25,000 and they're the ones that tell it to you, you might sell it with them. And then they get 25%. Eddie, do you have something that you think might be worth money? Talent. Bob's Berger's crew gift. Oh, God, I don't think so. Okay. I don't think so. I'm not a big collector. I mean, I could rob Dana Gould's house.
Starting point is 00:35:47 Yeah. Dana's got, I was just looking at Dana's Instagram. That guy's got, I was just looking at Dana's Instagram. That guy's got spaceships from Plan 9 from outer space. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. He has the corpse of Tor Johnson. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's got to have a horse in there.
Starting point is 00:36:05 One of those guys. He actually has a machine that keeps it alive. Wow. It begs for death. It's amazing what you can do if you get in early enough on the Simpsons. Right. Yeah. Listen, you write a handful of Simpsons.
Starting point is 00:36:17 You get a supervising producer credit. Residuals do not dry up. 30 years later. those underground jockeys, that city of underground jockeys that Dana put on the Simpsons is still keeping him in all the Tor Johnson's he can eat. Okay, when something momentous happens to you, give us a call at 206-9844-5 or just send a voice memo, JJGo at maximum fun.org. Here's an example of such a call, Jordan, Edward.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Hi, Jordan and Jesse Go. I just wanted to let you guys know about a momentous occasion. It is Saturday, January 3rd, 2026, and I was listening to NPR, and all of a sudden the president came on and started an aptly biting sound. So I decided to turn that garbage off and turn on some maximum fun bonus content. I was just letting it play and stop podcasting yourself came on. And they actually said something funny, and I laughed out loud. Boom, momentous occasion right there. Okay, love the show. Happy New Year. And don't forget that the left lane is for passing. The right lane is for traveling. So stay out of the left lane unless you're trying to pass somebody. Let's have some peace and harmony in 2026. First of all, that's different in California.
Starting point is 00:37:38 Yeah. I learned that on Judge John Hodgman. Oh, boy. What do you mean? Left lane fast cars. Yeah, well, that's the thing. In California, left lane fast cars, right lane slow traffic, left lane fast traffic, right? right lane, slow traffic. Right. In other states, not every other state, but most other states, right lane, driving lane, left lane, passing lane. So, uh, oh, I know what you're saying. Yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:38:04 In California, if you're driving, if you're driving fast, you can, you can stay in the left-hand lane. Uh, whereas if you're in New York or whatever, uh, they want you to stay in the right lane, but then pass in the left lane. Yeah, I understand that. Yeah. Yeah, let's take a minute to critique this call. A lot of pros, a lot of cons.
Starting point is 00:38:24 Yeah, we're in a lot of different directions. Yeah, I mean, what was the podcast you referenced? Yes, I mean, he talked, I think, stop podcasting yourself, which we all like, but, you know, I don't love, you know, people calling into our show talking about how another show is better. Here's my question. That's the, that way.
Starting point is 00:38:39 No, I think he meant it sarcastic. I mean, it sounded like a shot. My other concern here is what if he didn't mean that? It sounded a little bit like he was like, well, actually, believe it or not. Yeah. They show me, yeah, I listen to stop podcasting yourself every week. It's fucking hilarious.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Those guys are hilarious. But I do like, I do like the practice of dating your calls, like you said the date. Yeah. I like that. That's nice. So we can get a sense of like, you know, where it lies in history. Yeah. And whether Jordan Cowling is actually just pulling from 17-year-old calls that Brian Fernandez screened.
Starting point is 00:39:15 Sure. Many years ago. Right. Yeah. I like this call a lot. First of all, Jordan, I want to give you some credit for introducing call critique. Yeah. As an on the program.
Starting point is 00:39:28 Oh, you don't do call critique? We do now. Now I do it. Yeah, we're going to like, I mean, like, this is kind of like our Antiques Road Show. Or Siskel and Iber. Or Ciskely, yeah, absolutely. I thought this call had a round, oaky mouth feel. Sure.
Starting point is 00:39:41 I found this call derivative. I, okay, fair enough. I like the positive vibe on the call, even though I was wondering, how surprised he was that he enjoyed our friend's podcast. And also why he wasn't complimenting us, knowing that he was calling us. If he was calling Dave and Graham, by all means, compliment them.
Starting point is 00:40:00 Right. But the fact that he was, this is from an outsider, right? The fact that he was calling you. Yeah. Means he's a fan. Obviously. It means that we're close.
Starting point is 00:40:09 It means that we've been through some shit. You know, like who is the, who do you, can I just say? Who are you going to call? Right. Jordan and Jesse. Jordan and Jesse. As the song goes. As the famous Ray Parker Jr. once sang.
Starting point is 00:40:23 Can I say this? Caston makes me feel good. This is not a place for satire. No. I don't want to hear anything about the president of the United States on our program. I don't want, even if you're calling in and you're calling in to talk about the orange Cheeto, even if you're calling in, you're saying you're talking about the orange Cheeto, okay?
Starting point is 00:40:44 Even if it's all guns blazing, right? Even if it's no quarter given and you're calling him the orange Cheeto, even if you've got the kind of free speech courage, the undaunted in the face of tyranny bravery that it takes to call the president the orange Cheeto, I still don't want to hear about the president on my program. Yeah, thank you. As far as we're concerned, we live in a different system of government, kind of like a rotating kind of thing, you know, like everybody gets to be president for a couple weeks. I mean, I'll tell you how I think we live. How do you think we live? Well, you say rotating thing. I think a rotarian thing.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Me too. Now, I think that. Jordan and I and Eddie, you're welcome to join. We'll recommend you for at your application. We're in a rotary club. Right. We do good deeds. We maybe buy eyeglasses for poor people, though that might be the Lions Club.
Starting point is 00:41:40 Clean up highways. We might clean. No, that's Jenny Garth. Handcake breakfast. Jenny Garth. It cleats up what specific highway in Pasadena? Have you ever been driving down the freeway in Pasadena? And you look up at that sign that says a highway cleanup sponsored by and it says
Starting point is 00:41:58 Jenny Garth. Who the hell is she? From 902102. Oh, 902. And you're like Luke Perry could never. Luke Perry. Yeah. What are you cleaning up?
Starting point is 00:42:08 Luke Perry. Did we lose Luke Perry? I think we might have. RIP. RIP. Should have cleaned up more highways. Should have cleaned up more highways. I never.
Starting point is 00:42:15 see people cleaning up highways, like in orange jumpers or whatever they're supposed to be. I'd love to see a chain gang cleaning up a highway. That'd be nice. I'm with you, Eddie. I'm glad you brought up how much you love chain gangs, Eddie. Because I am so pro-prison industrial complex. I said, I mean, when I... I love the sound of the man working on them.
Starting point is 00:42:41 That's a great point. When I said, I don't see... people cleaning up in orange jumpers didn't mean I want to see people. Eddie. You brought leg irons for me in Jordan. You tried to teach us a song. Why did you bring these big rocks and ask for small rocks by the end of the program? Eddie's got a cowboy hat on.
Starting point is 00:43:08 He's chewing on a toothpick. Yeah. I remember a scene in Breaking Bad where, Jesse was in court-ordered cleanup duty, and he had to get out to make a deal, and it was very exciting. And it was in New Mexico, obviously. And I was like, you know, where are these people? Where are the cleanup? I bet that shit happens to New Mexico all the time. Probably. Yeah. That's why it's so tidy. It is a tidy place. It's because of Jenny Garth. I cannot over-emphasize the great work Jenny Garth is doing on Southern Garth. That highway's clean. That stretch of highway,
Starting point is 00:43:47 fucking spotless, whatever Garth's doing. What do you think it costs to pay for highway clean up for a stretch of highway? Wonderful, wonderful question. Nothing. Do you think it's an annual fee? Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if like you've stopped paying the fee, they take the sign down. Like if Garth stops ponying up. It's got to be $10,000. I wonder. Let's do this. Let's do this. Gabe, let's hear the next call. Look into how much it costs to adopt a highway in Southern California. Oh, ask Jenny Garth. She knows.
Starting point is 00:44:16 DM Garth. If you can't get Jenny Garth, get somebody from Melrose Placer. Or Garth, Brooks. That's a great point. Good, Garth. Ask Brooks and done. Brooks and done. Yeah, so let's play the next call, and then we'll come back to Gabe to talk about our options,
Starting point is 00:44:33 vis-a-vis highway adoption. Gabe's going to put in a call to Florida, Georgia Line. We're going to take a call. Okay. Hey, Jordan, Jesse, and gas. This is Nick in Columbus, Ohio. calling in for your long-running segment overhards that are more on brand for JJ Go than Graham and Dave.
Starting point is 00:44:50 This is from a couple years ago. I was sitting, studying in a hip coffee shop that was making its nightly transition into a sort of hip, Americana, Alt Country kind of venue. As I'm sitting there, the band arrived, started bringing their equipment in. They were a bunch of 40-somethings, dressed like they just stepped out of a basement
Starting point is 00:45:13 folk punk show in 2002. As they're setting up their equipment, the bartender walks in to set up for his shift. He sees the band and shouts, hey, it's America's number one Skiffle band. So that's it. Love you guys. Thanks. You think Dave Shumpka doesn't want to,
Starting point is 00:45:30 wouldn't jump in right now with a bunch of stuff about skiffle? Probably would. The genre of music that inspired the Beatles to try rock and roll. Eddie, for your, for your information, this is another call referencing stop podcasting yourself. Oh, no way. It is. So good screening from Jordan Cowling. I mean,
Starting point is 00:45:49 we're mad. Canadian Comedy Award winning podcast. Stop podcast. It's a wonderful program. I really do listen every week. Dave and Graham know I love them. I'll text them a thing that I really enjoyed on that week's program once in a while. But this is bullshit. They know this is bullshit. If somehow they accidentally listened to an episode of Jordan Jesse Goh, and it's this episode, I want them to know, this is bullshit. And if you're out there and you're listening to, if you listen to both shows, call them with some shit about us. Yeah, that's a great point. We need the promotion.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Yeah, call in an overheard that's more on brand for Jordan Jesse. Wait, that's what he called into us. Yeah. Call that in, but to do the other thing. Yeah, call in a momentous occasion to Dave and Graham. Do the other thing. But it's about a boring dream that somebody ever listened to that segment on the show where Dave just had a boring dream. Sounds funny.
Starting point is 00:46:38 One time he had a dream that is his travel agent. tire. Sounds good. My dreams are never boring. Is it two good ones? A lot of excitement in there? Not good ones. Too many oven fries?
Starting point is 00:46:52 Help. They're just, you know, I'm threatened in a large majority of those. Wow. What sort of threat? Sabretoothed tiger? Sex. No, not Sabretoo tiger. My dad,
Starting point is 00:47:06 uh, different kind of sex club scenarios. that could go wrong. I mean, a lot can go wrong. It sure can, Jordan. If it's not well ventilated. I think you should have a... That's a great point.
Starting point is 00:47:24 They aren't well ventilate. And there's somebody's using an industrial adhesive. Right. Yeah. Ooh, can I tell a quick story? Please. We're obviously... We're not doing anything. Yeah, we're just yelling at the caller.
Starting point is 00:47:38 I was in a sketch group that me... and a friend started. There were three of us. And we got invited to do sketches in a place called paddles. And we were like, what the fuck? So we walk into this place. They were paying us decent money.
Starting point is 00:47:57 And it was just like, ping pong club. It's got to be, right? We didn't know. Table tennis, Jordan. We walk into this place. And it's just all black. Like every the floors are black, the walls are black, the ceilings are black,
Starting point is 00:48:15 and there's people walking around weird, everybody's kind of like, eyeing each other up. And we just, oh, fuck it, you know. Let's just do our sketches. Would there a stage? They make shift stage. Okay. So during this sketch, we just heard this.
Starting point is 00:48:42 So you're like, someone's trying to start a slow clap or... We finally realized someone was getting paddled and we... Oh, my goodness. We figured out the whole thing. But was there, was there an audience there watching sketches who wasn't doing anything sexual to each other? I think my friend, another guy that was part of this troupe. He couldn't call it a troop. A troop is a big word for what we had.
Starting point is 00:49:09 But he knew somebody who ran this. this club somehow and they said oh it might be fun. I mean, I would imagine ran this club sternly. Sure. You got a clock in, you got a clock out. Tight ship. Take your, take your food out of the fridge. Don't leave Tupperware in there.
Starting point is 00:49:28 They got no shortage of twine there keeping that ship tight. Right. But I believe this woman who he knew saw our show and she liked one of the sketches. It was a sexual thing. Okay, so you had some, maybe they're like, oh, they're all like this. They, these guys do S&M themed comedy. Yeah, she thought we were an S&M themed comedy group. And it wasn't like that.
Starting point is 00:49:55 We were not like that, but we did have one sketched. A kind of. Had you ever been in a situation like that before? No. Did you stay after? That is a great question. Thanks. I'm in the podcasting Hall of Fame.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Yeah, I wanted to. That was the funny thing. Because once you're in there, the thing that's keeping... You might as well stay in there for a little bit. The thing that's keeping me from being in a sex club is not opposition to the idea of sex clubs. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:30 And I know also that even if I were in a sex club, I wouldn't have to do sex stuff in there. You know what I mean? Like, I don't have to... You're not obliged to... You could just watch. I could do whatever. I could just see what the fuck is it's all about.
Starting point is 00:50:40 You know what I mean? If they have Wi-Fi, you can answer some emails. They usually have a buffet, even though it's not appeasing. Yeah. The thing that is keeping me from being in a sex club is going to and gaining entrance to the sex sheriff. So if that had already been done, I would stay and see what it's all about. You're 100% correct. And the only reason I didn't was out of embarrassment because the other two gentlemen I was with were like,
Starting point is 00:51:11 okay, let's get out of here. And I was like, I don't know why I didn't stick to my guns and just get paddled until the early hours. What kind of money did you take home 500? Yeah, something like that. But access to the buffet, though, right? You mentioned a buffet. So, you know, all the four niblets you can eat.
Starting point is 00:51:31 All Ahi tuna rolls. It was niblets, huh? I mean, Eddie's saying it's Ahi. So, I mean, that. Ahy and niblets is a nice combo. Ahi and niblets. It's called molecular gastronomy. It's when you combine Ahi and Niblets.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Gabe, do we have any information on what it costs to adopt a highway in the Southern California area? And just so you know, we're on Melrose Place. We're not on 90210.10. So don't give us the 90210.0 rate. I did have a little arc on models, ink. That's true. He was on Models Inc. No, I didn't.
Starting point is 00:52:02 I was on Dynasty. Dynasty. For similar shows. I shot J.R. Uh, any, yeah, any information, Gabe? I looked into the Reddit because I did not want to use the AI answer. But the California sponsor of Highway Science are $275 a month or $370 a month depending on the highway. It is also a one-time fee of $200 to design.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Okay. The $200 is the, that's your SAG-A-A-A-FRA initiation fee. Right, right, right. There was a Robin Williams one south of San Francisco. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Why don't we sponsor a highway? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:41 It sounds, is that, is that more than our budget allows? Yeah, it's probably more than our budget allows. You can do it for a month? We can do it for a month. Let's, what can we, find out what you can adopt for cheap. What's the cheapest thing we can adopt? An Estonian. Somewhere where, or a whale.
Starting point is 00:53:02 For a while, Mike, do the name of star thing. One year I got, one year I adopted a whale for my birthday gift from my godfather. That's nice. And that, was that a piece of paper saying you... I adopted a whale, and then they would send me a picture of its fluke. Our generation very into saving the whales. That kind of like went out of vogue. I'm saving pigs.
Starting point is 00:53:23 Oh, nice. I'm saving turkeys. I'm saving everything. Oh, great. Like 20 bucks a month? What are we looking at? No, like seasonally. Like the orange Cheeto, right before Thanksgiving, he saves a turkey.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Does he? That's some of it? What did I save? Oh, jackasses I'm into, or donkeys. Donkeys. I think on jackasses is because the fear factor is back with Johnny Knox. Oh, yeah, sure. Johnny Knoxville is the host of the Fear Factor.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Oh, yeah. And I just look at that. There's billboards with Knoxville covered in bees, and he's like buried to his neck or something in his head. And I just think, we get what we deserve in this country. Mm-hmm. just like the Hollywood business with their additions. Johnny Knoxville did pranks on Eric Andre.
Starting point is 00:54:13 Now he's covered in fucking bees. Hold it. Did he do pranks on Eric Andre? He did. They hosted a show together with Gabernet Sidape. Gabernet Sita Bay. And Gabbernet Sidape and Eric Andre got mad afterwards at Johnny Knoxville for pulling pranks on them.
Starting point is 00:54:31 And apparently everyone was just like, well, if you're going to be on a show with Johnny Knoxville, he's going to fucking hit you with a cattle prod or whatever. Like, I'm using pranks real broad here. Like, these were not like, uh, farts baby powder in your face. Yeah. Oh, nasty stuff. I don't know. I wouldn't fuck with Eric Andre.
Starting point is 00:54:48 He looks. No, that guy, he's all kind of shit. But he's a sweet guy. He's a sweet guy. For a guy that spends 15 minutes at the beginning of every one of his programs, throwing himself through walls, he's a genuine sweetheart. Nice fella. I did a sketch with him once where we had a run up to me, Amy Schroke.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Schumer before she was big, me, Amy Schumer, a couple of other comics, and people would come at it. This was Eric's idea or his writers, whatever. People would be coming out of Trader Chosen. We ran up to them like we were newspaper reporters, these poor people, like not poor financially, but these unsuspecting average. Were these middle class people? Trader Jones. I would think Trader Joe's. Middle.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Homeowners? Yeah. Looked like it. And we'd run up and go, what are you going to do about the sex tape? Do you know what you're going to? I didn't like it. I committed to it because I was getting. I've had to do some of those things before.
Starting point is 00:55:47 And they're not fun. They're like messing with the person on the street. I don't have that gene. Yeah. I don't have that gene either. I had to do that for, what was that, Nintendo Dogs or something. Yeah. Jesse was in a commercial where that was the premise.
Starting point is 00:55:58 You had to run around and like, yell at people. Look at Nintendo. Look for what? And I think my tits were out. He just tells we're out. Okay, I want to take a break. I do have, I have something else for Gabe to research. Okay, great.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Gabe, while we're having a break, go on incognito browsing mode. Yeah. Look up paddles. See if it's still there. What's it cost to go to paddles? What are we dropping on a trip to paddles? What city was? Manhattan.
Starting point is 00:56:29 And when is there a sketch comedy night? There's no way that can be still going on. It was so low rent. Yes. That would be hilarious. Well, that's why they're still open. Right. It's rent control.
Starting point is 00:56:43 That's how you inherit the lease from your grandma. That's how people live in here. It would have had to get an infusion of money, a big investor for that thing to keep going. The comedy night took off after you guys played. Carl I can maybe. That's what I would say. probably infused the cash. Let's, yeah, we'll take a break.
Starting point is 00:57:06 We'll come back. We'll hear about the, what happened to paddles. Michael Milken. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan Jesse. He'll be famous investors. La, la, la, la, la, la. The flop house is a podcast where we watch a bad movie and then we talk about it. Guys, how does he te poop?
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Starting point is 00:58:34 Find us at maximum fun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. La, la, la, la, la, la. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I am Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris Boy, Detective. Eddie Pepitone, the bitter Buddha. I got to tell you this, Edward. I watched the new Eddie Pepitone special.
Starting point is 00:58:58 I used a website called YouTube. It's the tube for you, not for me. And Jordan, I'm not afraid to say this because we're in Austin, Texas, not back in communist California. Oh, boy. I'm not afraid to say this. I busted a gut. I listen.
Starting point is 00:59:18 I get it. Eddie is one of the funniest guys out there. Hilarious. I have busted many a guts at his stand-up over the years. I cannot wait to watch the new special. You want a guy to yell at you a little bit? But then you realize he's yelling at himself. And then he gets real quiet.
Starting point is 00:59:33 Eddie's your man. The collapse, folks, on YouTube, produced by blonde medicine. I think you have to go to blonde medicine's website. See, this is me being... You just go to YouTube. You can just go to YouTube. Eddie Pepitone collapsed?
Starting point is 00:59:49 That's an easy search. That's an easy search. I bought my television for $200 at Costco. It's got YouTube in there. I pointed my phone at the QR code. I connected my account. I watched the special. I busted a gut.
Starting point is 01:00:04 I went to the hospital, got stitched up, came back here, doing the podcast. Eddie Pepitone has been our guest on the program. Doctor, this looks like another man who watched the Pepitone special. That's an epa-a-old. All the guts that are busted in here. Yeah. You know what the doctor said to me, Jordan?
Starting point is 01:00:23 He said, what is this guy on? Your pretty face is going to hell with this much viscera? Right. What an incredible actor. He said, The prestige. The prestige. Yes.
Starting point is 01:00:34 Mention a thing from earlier in the show. Gabe, do we have any information on paddles? Can we still go to paddles? What happened to paddles? Well, let's see. Paddles cost anywhere between $11 on Amazon. Okay. Depending on the material.
Starting point is 01:00:51 No, no, no. Paddles the sex club. Paddles the sex club. Paddles the sex club. Let me go back to Incognito mode. Okay. Get back in that mode, Gabriel. Get back in that mode.
Starting point is 01:01:06 Just Google. You're laid on a board on an angle and you're paddled by a semi-attractive person. Yeah. Put in semi-attractive and see what comes out. While there's comedy sketches going on in the next room. There's the paddles New York City Club. Is that the one? Yeah, sounds like it.
Starting point is 01:01:30 It's not there, right? Nope, it's still there. Still there? Paddles. Come on. Okay, call us if you've been to paddles. I'm sorry. The most recent Yelp review says it is closed permanently.
Starting point is 01:01:41 Oh. How wet. But it stayed around long enough to go on Yelp. That's pretty good. When did it close? I went to paddles once. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I ran at a boat and rode around Central Park.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Nice. Another kind of paddle. That's good. That's very good. Jesse. That's very good. Fill the space. You hear that day?
Starting point is 01:02:02 Shumka, coming for you, fucker. Why are you yelling at Dave Shumky? I'm sure he would have liked it. He's the one sending these people onto our show to embarrass us. Oh, are they doing that? Are they sicking their listeners? You've met Graham, that slimy fuck. You've met Graham Clark.
Starting point is 01:02:18 You can tell his duplicitous asses. Something he would do. Just fucking guy up there in Vancouver. Yeah. It looks like paddles closed in 2020. Bull. Oh, no, I'm sorry. June 20.
Starting point is 01:02:32 22. Oh, made it through the And I'm talking about I was there in the 90s. Wow. That was a great time.
Starting point is 01:02:42 Early enough. Paddles had a good run. You know, that was when Paddles really was Paddles, you know what I mean? And now, hey,
Starting point is 01:02:51 listen, now it's just a sweet green, huh, where a guy will go nuts on your sack. It will go insane on your sack with a sweet green.
Starting point is 01:02:59 With a cashew. Yeah, sure. with cashew-based dressings, vegan cashew-based dressing. Gabe Mara over there on the boards this week, Jordan Cowling, the producer of the program. Our theme music is Love You by the Free Design. Our thanks to the free design,
Starting point is 01:03:17 our thanks to Light in the Attic Records for letting us use that music. Find us on social media, Jordan. You know, I'm on TikTok now. Yeah, I'm anxious to hear about your experience there, perhaps in a future episode. I'll give you a quick sort of... Yeah, please.
Starting point is 01:03:36 A little cashew shell version. Right in the sack. People like to share their thoughts. Okay. TikTok is it looking... Finally! Finally! If you're looking for a video platform where 60% of the people who watch the video
Starting point is 01:03:51 will share a few sentences of their thoughts about the program. Awesome. TikTok is the way to... And you know, Jordan, you know me. There's one thing I love. It's constructive feed. back. Oh, you love getting in there.
Starting point is 01:04:03 I can't get enough. Yeah. Is it a little nasty? So what happens is on TikTok, look, we're going to save this for a future episode. Oh, yeah. On TikTok, the things go in these, you know, these sort of like slip streams of virality, right? So like. Right. And the TikTok knows exactly who you are and what you like, right? So like, if I make videos about, oh, I have transgender children. Right. And I post them on YouTube. People are going to come in there. and be like, oh, you know, you're a fucking child abuser or whatever, right? On TikTok, no, no, none, none. Just all people with really transgender community specific feedback thoughts.
Starting point is 01:04:44 Oh, my God. Like, well, actually, I'm like, okay. Yeah, no, it's fine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, we're on, I'm on TikTok, Jesse Thorne, very famous. We're on Instagram, Jordan David Morris. Jesse Thorne, very famous there.
Starting point is 01:04:57 Jordan Jesse Go on Instagram as well. Jordan Jesse Go Pod on Instagram. On Blue Sky, Jesse Thorne on Blue Sky. Jordan is, do you remember this time? Jordan Morris on Blue Sky. Jordan Morris, Jesse Thorne, Jordan Jesse Go. Dot social.biz.tv. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:16 Whatever their thing is over there. Yeah. There's suffix. Fogdog. Jesse Thorne fogdog.com. And I can be found, Eddie Pepitone still up. on MySpace. A lot of people out there.
Starting point is 01:05:29 Put it in your top eight? A lot of people out there. They've been DMing us, they say, it's that time of day. Where can I find a video of Eddie Pepitone working some ropes? The answer is right there on Instagram. Find Eddie on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:05:44 You're going to get some of his affirmations. You know what? Can I tell you something, Annie? Once in a while, I'll text one of your affirmations to my therapist. Is that right? Yeah, Dr. Munson gets those in her text messages once in a while. She?
Starting point is 01:05:55 She? Does she like him? Yeah, she loves him. It's got a great taste. You text with your therapist? Well, just once in a while. Okay. Just like if we talked about something, I'm going to send it over there.
Starting point is 01:06:04 You know, that kind of fun. That's good of you to be inquisitive about that. Look, I don't want to. I would never text with Sarah Howard LMFT. Really? No. What about it's Sarah Howard LMFAO? Well, yeah, just like shots, shot, shots.
Starting point is 01:06:18 Okay, great. My only, the only person I text with in my mental health team is the Electra Shock people. Right. I got to get the dial in. You got to dial it in. Have you seen Avatar yet? Thanks for last week. Seven's a little high.
Starting point is 01:06:37 Love the new bite block. Is it normal to just have steam coming out of your hands? You got a job as a stage hand, though. That's good. On the Alice Cooper program. I don't know. We're done with the show, right? It's over.
Starting point is 01:06:55 Yeah, okay. Thanks for having me. We'll talk to you next time. on Jordan, Jessica. Go watch Eddie's special. I'll hug you and kiss you and love you. Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows. Supported directly by you.

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