Jordan, Jesse, GO! - God Chicken, with Riley Silverman

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

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Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you. It's Jordan Jessi Goh. I am Jessi Thorne, the greatest swimmer in Jordan Jessi Goh history. Jordan Morris, boy detective. Jessi, you've been busting some laps, bro. Oh, I'm talking about the crawl, the freestyle of course which is the same as the crawl.

Yes. The frog-like one. You talk the talk my friend, you talk the talk. Back floats and pommel horse. Yes right into the pool. Jordan I am taking you know I live not far And I am taking, you know, I live not far in the neighborhood of Lincoln Heights from Lincoln Park, not to be confused with Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park formerly known as East Lake here or West Lake here in Los Angeles. Where am I? West Lake or East Lake? East Lake. And there's a big ass pool there that that I think got built there from the 1984

Los Angeles Olympics. Okay. I'm going to say, I don't think it was built for the Olympians. I think it was built as like a, you know what I mean, like a home improvement project for the city of Los Angeles. Right. Like a kitchen renovation kind of thing. Sure, yeah. It's like a breakfast nook you can swim in.

Adam Ligman Anyway, I signed up for swim class there. Stan McLaughlin Okay. I'm glad to hear this. I mean, I'm a big advocate of the benefits of swimming. Love to do it. Have you had your first class yet? Adam Ligman I've had two classes. It's a weekend class. There's a Saturday and a Sunday class. And two different teachers for no apparent reason. You know, I'm gonna take a wild guess. The first teacher wasn't there on the second day

because he spaced. I think the first teacher wasn't there on the second day because he probably got intimidated by me on the first day. He's like, I don't know if I have anything to teach this guy. Yeah, exactly. He's just gonna show me up in front of the other kids. It's you and kids, right? Yeah. Thank goodness it's an adult class. Okay. I feel like the kids are probably better swimmers than my compatriots in the adult class. Here's

the thing Jordan, like I know how to swim. Yeah, I was gonna ask, can you take us through like pre-class, how would you describe your swimming? I mean, I passed the deep end test at Balboa Park Pool and gotta be 1989. That ain't nothing. I'm gonna put that at 1989 or so. Yeah, that's as deep as an end gets. Yeah, exactly. So, you know that I can tread water for 45 seconds or whatever. But you know, like, I don't know, like I can do a crawl, but like, I'll my, I never know exactly when to turn my head sideways. Yeah. Does that make sense? Yeah, I think when you need to take when you need air

Yeah, I was sure but I don't When you know what I mean? Like am I? What point in the stroke yeah went in the stroke and then it turns out and I learned this through the class I'm bad at floating on my back. Oh Which I didn't know you could be bad at. Yeah. You got those huge tits. Always flopping you over. Jordan, the problem is I don't have huge enough tits. If I was jugger, I'd be a lot more buoyant. That's just the reality of the situation. But yeah, it's me and just a few people who wear baseball hats in the pool.

Okay. I don't know if they've ever been in a pool. And so, I alternate between feeling really good about myself and feeling really bad about myself compared to them. Because I feel good about myself because I'm better at swimming than them. These two teachers you've had, are these 20-something burnouts or these 40-something burnouts? These are 20-year-olds, I'm gonna say. They're post-teens, but they're very young adults. I'm gonna say these guys are community college students.

Okay. It's a great way to save a little money before going to a four-year university. You got it. Great for transferring, especially here in the state of California where there are spots at the UC schools specifically for transfer students. I would say they got a lot of gel in their hair for swim teachers. They also... Does this seem right to you, Jordan? Don't get in the water? Jordan Hickman I mean, I think they can be outside the water to observe. Yeah, I think maybe it would be even harder to observe were they in the pool. Adam Lass Okay, because they want to see...

Jordan Hickman Maybe they could like go underwater and get a look at you that way. But I think... Adam Lass They could check out the X's and O's from above. Sure. Blocking and tackling. Yeah. I think out of the water is fine. I don't think you're, I think that's kosher.

Okay. I'm sort of on a journey probably within the six weeks of Saturday and Sunday classes that I've signed up for for my $30, I think I will probably be, probably not Michael Phelps, but probably like a Greg Louganis type range. More into diving then? That's the only two swimmers I have. Greg Louganis was a diver. Yeah, I'm sure a very good swimmer too.

Diving is a type of swimming, you know that. It's a type of swimming that I'm sure a very good swimmer too. Diving is a type of swimming, you know that. It's a type of swimming that happens in the sky. What is a dive but a swim in the sky? I'm sure Greg Luganis was a strong swimmer. Do you think they'll teach me any of the specialized swimming techniques? Like what? Like what are you? What do you hope the frog one? Oh So the strokes other than freestyle. Yeah, so like a brush stroke. I'm yeah, I'm better. It'll come up Yeah, I'm already pretty good at the breaststroke Jordan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've talked to your wife It's a weird thing to talk to her about but yeah, yeah, I mean she brought it up

I just asked if she was watching the bear. She's like, Jesse's always grabbing my tits. I was trying to make some pleasant chit chat. Well, you know. What prompted the wanting to get into swimming? Did you have a near drowning experience? Well, I have a love of lifelong learning. I think you know that. That's something that all Jordan Jessico fans know. I have a love of lifelong learning. I'm like, well, it's because I go to the pool sometimes with my kids and I always think how much I like being in the pool. Yeah, it's nice, isn't it? And as my body falls apart, particularly my joints and my range of motion, I think to

myself, well, the perfect thing for me to do to improve these things would be yoga, but I don't want to do yoga. So the second best thing would be swimming. I mean, I'm all for it. I am again, love the, I'm a big, big proponent of the healing power of swimming. I think you'll see it in your joints. I think you'll see it in your back. I think you'll maybe sleep a little better.

Although I don't know how your sleep is these days. I'm sorry, I haven't asked you how your sleep is these days, Jesse. I'm such a bad friend. My sleep is good. I'm hoping that I'll get a bigger dick. You know what? Is that anything? Do my wife mention anything about that to you Jordan? Yeah we talked for a while. I just kept trying to swing it back to TV. I'm like have you checked out Taskmaster? You know. the company covers YMCA membership. Oh, that's nice. For employees.

I've been thinking about joining the YMCA and going back to those old lady yoga classes I was taking some years ago. Yeah. But the old ladies really roasted me a lot. Yeah, I don't mean that. Because they were much better than me at yoga. Right.

Despite their advanced age. And these were active older women. And they were wiser too. I know, they were a lot. These ladies were wiz end. More flexible. Yeah. Wiz end. That's when you live a life.

I don't know. I just feel like I should do something with my life. You know what I mean? Why not swimming? Might as well swim. So, okay. So so you're two classes into six classes, right? I think it's six weeks of classes. I think I got 12 classes. Oh, hell yeah. Well, yeah, I'm sure I'm looking forward to checking in with you about your swim journey. I also love high value education.

Okay. I feel like I'm getting a lot for my 30 bucks. Yeah, $30 is a great price. Well, thank the Department of Recreation of the City of Los Angeles because they hooked my ass up. I always do. They hooked me up. All those vacant-eyed teenagers down there at the pool are getting minimal wages so that

I can pay $30. There were fewer more vacant teen employees than the ones who work at a public pool. I know. Those are some of the dead-idest teens. I mean, it is different from the people that worked at the public pool by my house when I was a child. I think I've probably described the public pool by my house

when I was a child, the mission pool. I mentioned I passed the deep end test at the bell Well a park pool That was because the mission pool which was close to my house every year would be open for three weeks Then someone would get stabbed and we closed the rest of the summer. Sure. So those teens had a more sort of Terrorized Employee look in their eyes. No, no, no, they just saw some shit. They just had seen some shit.

Yeah, I mean if they were 17, they'd probably been there two years. So they'd seen at least two stabbings. Depends on whether the stabbings were individual or reciprocal. You know, because they would shut it down after one incident, but an incident could include multiple stabbings. That's, you know what? That's a great point. Anyway, speaking of stabbings, our next guest on the program is all about knife violence. She's... We're going to learn about fashioning a shank from an everyday object. She's a standup comic and comedy writer and an old friend of ours, Riley Silverman.

Hi Riley, how are you? Well, I'm good, I'm good. I'm enjoying hearing your swimming journey. I will say I was a competitive swimmer as a kid up until sophomore year of high school and every stroke that Jesse mentioned is accurate and true to the actual, yeah, those are all official swimming strokes.

The horse one, I can't remember. I had it and then I lost it. So there's horse one, frog one, backwards frog. Crane style swimming, yeah. Yeah. Gentleman fog. Yeah, drunken master, all that kind of thing. Those are all pretty important parts of swimming.

Daddy's pride. You guys think Jackie Chan knows how to swim? Yeah. Daddy's pride. That was the one stunt that he failed was trying to change his track? Yeah, I mean, sure, the guy can hit a bunch of dudes with a ladder, but I don't think I've ever seen him in the pool. He would just punch his way out of the pool.

Think about the amount of time you have to spend learning how to do all those ladder hits. You don't have a lot of time for acquiring other skills. You don't. I mean, that guy's not much of a cook either. No, I've seen that. He's had like a frying pan. He's like tossing, he's all tossing them in the air and punches somebody, grabs a frying

pan. But how's the food that comes out of that process, you know? That's true. It's fine. It's like, you're not going to, you're not going to like write a Yelp review of it. Sure. It's Wednesday night, you need something for dinner, you know? You're paying a little bit more for the show than you are for the food.

It's kind of like going to a, like a Benihana. Right. No, Riley, I of course always had you like going to a like a Benihana. Right. No, Riley, I, of course, always had you pegged as a jock. Yeah, of course, accurately. So tell me. Tell me a little bit about your swimming career. I'm the only one here who didn't wasn't on the high school swim team. Yeah, I started as a kid.

It was kind of like a neighborhood pool kind of thing. And it was just I did not like most sports as a child. I was, I was famously, well, famously, it was my biography. I'm sure you've read it, but I was, I was on a soccer team as a child because my older brother was on a soccer team. And then my father came to one of the games and witnessed me not chasing the soccer ball up and down the field, but instead prancing around on one side of the field, chasing butterflies. And my father took me inside and said, you don't want to be here. Don't go chasing butterflies. He said. Yeah. Waterfalls? That's okay. He must check his hands around because he might fall in and then you're in trouble. So that was like, I didn't really like, so I didn't end up getting taken out of soccer

and baseball because I did not care for them. But then we had a pool, so I liked to swim. And so they'd think like, oh, well, let's put this kid in swimming and see how it goes. And I did it up until sophomore year of high school. And then it was very much the teenage melodrama thing of I chose theater over swimming as the thing I wanted to focus my time on. And I had some- Much like Jackie Chan chose ladder fighting. Yeah, exactly.

So I quit my cooking class, and I went right into theater. And look how it's paid off for me over time. So it's a shame, because I should have stuck with swimming. Because there's one thing America loves. It's trans women who swim. That has definitely been a thing that could have taken me right to the top of the culture. You should have switched to something easy like track. People love it.

Right. Oh, I tried to do cross country, like going into like I think junior high, I went out one day for cross country and my mom found me in a pile, like at like the entrance to the park where we were doing the cross country tryouts at. So that definitely did not take either. I was not an athletic kid, but I could swim fairly well for a period of my life. I think swimming is a good sport for a kid who likes to zone out. Because you can kind of like zone out when you swim, you know? Yeah, like you don't have to be like super

alert. I think there were many things that made me that. For the wall comes, then you have to take a flip. If you're not alert, you're going to hit that wall. You know what? There you go. Yeah, you gotta be, gotta be, gotta mind those walls. I'm honestly a little worried about that, Jordan. Not the walls, the zoning out. How so? I'm worried that I'm gonna have existential crisis.

Oh, yeah. I mean, Jesse, not, not to be, but to be honest with you, like, that was one of the things that like made me stop liking swimming as much because I didn't like being so alone with my thoughts for so long. Like I was like, I wish I could have music or something playing, but that was in an age before it was like easy to get waterproof headphones and things like that. So that was a thing that I think as I got older, my ADHD became more of a thing. I think swimming became a lot less of a fun sport for me for that reason.

I think, yeah, I think there are, and I've seen a couple people swimming with these. I think there are like waterproof earbuds that you can swim with. So you could, Jesse, you could swim and listen to your beloved Dax Shepard. Stan Look, I feel like he's just like me in that he doesn't know anything, but he's also a celebrity, so that's sort of like aspirational to me. Right, yes. So, it's really cool to have somebody who's both aspirational and just like me in his mediocrity. Right.

But no, you don't need to explain the appeal of Dax Shepard to me. Okay, I apologize. I don't mean to over explain the appeal of Dax Shepard to you. You want me to get into the office, ladies? They're great. They stayed friends after the show. I actually like them, so. Yeah, they're great. They stayed friends after the show.

They stayed friends after the show. It's a delight, you know? They were all in that show and now we're talking about that show. It's great. Riley, have you taken like a class as an adult? Have you like tried to pick up a new skill in adulthood? I mean, not counting like improv and stuff like that. I don't know if I have. I'm basically teaching one now, but for kids, but I'm doing, I'm in my current day job is running D and D in

a camp for kids. I am the 40 something burnout that is running, that is teaching people to do stuff right now. But yeah, I'm trying to think of any like adult education classes that I've taken. I like the idea of it. I think for a long time when I was still doing standup, I think I was like, no, I never have time for classes. I have to go sit for three hours in a room to do five minutes of material that I don't like. And so, of course, I don't have time to take classes.

But I like the idea of it. So I probably should take like a cooking class or something like that at some point. But I would need a job that pays me money before I could afford to do something like that again. So. What it's like teaching D&D to kids? Oh, it's so fun. It is wild. It because the kids will go in like the craziest,

like most bizarre tangents that you don't expect. So it's very much like having to keep on your toes all the time. I, especially when I was with the younger tables, cause like now like our youngest tend to be around like eight years old. When we go up to, I've had as old as 17 and my camp, but I tend to be now more in like the like 11 to 15 year old range tends to be the spot that I'm in but when I had the other kids I had lots of first of all they all love to have jobs in the game they all love to

like start a business they all want to like they all want to create like barbecue restaurants and breweries and things that exist in this fantasy world start a brewery as a child. What eight-year-old doesn't want to start a brewery? They also all want to join the Hold Steady. What other things that 45-year-old men like do they want to do? Yeah, they're going to sit me down with their records and tell me how much better things sound on vinyl,

and that's going to be it. Fucking kids, fucking snobby-ass kids. How does D&D camp work? I mean, I will grant you, Riley, is one of my children signed up for that D&D camp? Yes. But what they... But my wife is the one that knows what's going on there. Yeah. Basically, we start in the morning, we get... They come in, like I've already got...

We have tables set up. My boss owns a lot of really good minis and stuff like that. We've already picked the campaign that we're running this summer, so he's picked out a bunch of minis that coincide with that campaign. We're usually there about five hours a day. Part of that includes an hour-ish or 45 minutes of lunch. And we also try to get the kids outside for at least a half hour during that time. I don't know if you know this, Jesse, as a parent of children, they have a lot of energy. And if you try to keep them sitting at the same table for five hours, they don't tend to do it. And they don't tend to be great if you do make them do it. We have built in some outdoor games that tie into D&D. But yeah, I would say like at least three and a half of the hours, we're usually just playing a campaign.

And so every Monday we're kind of doing an ongoing campaign, but each week a new group of kids, like some stay over the course of the camp. It's like it's never been the same table exactly from week to week during the summer. So every Monday we kind of do a soft reset of where we are in the campaign and we welcome on new players. And then we kind of move from there there and I just run a couple of adventures for the few days that I have them. So it's just like a full, it's all the same, like they're just doing straight up 30 straight

hours of the same Dungeons and Dragons campaign? Basically, yeah. That's kind of amazing. It's wild. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of different like, like turns and changes that the campaigns go through. So it's just like, and a lot of it is just me, like listening to whatever crazy pitch the kids have for what they want to do.

And then I go, yeah, let's do that. And then I follow through with it. I have, we have like an outline of a campaign, but I tend to not try to force like the solutions on them. I tend to like let them do what they want to do. What are the pitches? Sorry, Riley, what pitches have you heard from these children? Well, the one, genuinely, they did start a barbecue restaurant.

They genuinely did. At the end of one of the camp, we did one over during the school year on Sundays where part of this adventure was just supposed to find this ancient magical forge that creates magic weapons and things like that. They got into this forge and then they immediately pitched to this magical being called a spectator. It's a giant eye with all these stalks and stuff like that to turn the forge into the brewery for their magical drink called Rainbow Cat.

They convinced this guy to, instead of making magic weapons for them, to become the main base of operations for their business so they could then go into town and like set up a stall and sell rainbow cat and they've like convinced armies of Like thug bugbear characters to sell their drinks for them I recently had one where there was a fight scene that was going on and they convinced two of the characters They were supposed to be fighting to fight each other to the death instead of fighting the kids that were currently fighting Them so shit these these kids are gonna be playing the Hollywood ball in five years aren't they? And I'm gonna be all oh, I should have fucking done that

When they do that or they're gonna be doing I mean I can I get show I taught you like can I be on the show? Oh, yeah, sure Mad when that happens. Jordan, are you suggesting that these children are our friend Sam Riegel? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Man, can you imagine if we got Sam to go to your summer camp, kids would be crying. Like if Michael Jordan visited your basketball camp.

I would love it. Jesse, are your kids going to Riley's camp? One of my, my youngest kid, Frankie is signed up. We'll see if he makes it. Yeah. I'm not sure if he could be at my table, but I, as I have the older kids, but I do remember talking to both Teresa and Jesse about this. Yeah. Frankie has been running a D and D campaign in my living room, which is challenging given

that he does not know the rules of Dungeons and Dragons and does not read particularly. So that leaves him essentially with just telling us stuff. Like it's basic and, and having battle maps. He saved some allowance to buy a big book of battle maps and also a scroll of battle maps. Cool. And, and also our, our friend Stuart Wellington was kind enough to jump on zoom and give Frankie some tips for painting miniatures. give Frankie some tips for painting miniatures. Oh cool. So Frankie does have some painted miniatures that represent us and also like Riley you described the thing where like the the players make a choice that diverges from the dungeon

masters plan. Yeah. Frankie's strategy if if me or my wife Teresa or my father-in-law Steve, the three players in this game, if any of the three of us make a choice that diverges from the plan, Frankie just says, no, you don't, you do this. Good. Not a bad plan. Maybe I should try that at the camp because sometimes the kids do fall out of line, so I need to crack them in there. I did have, I ran a game over spring break that ended with a chicken becoming a god.

That might be one of my favorite things I've ever done with these kids at the camp. And it was just because the very first day of the camp, this kid saw, there was just, we had a map set out with a bunch of villagers on it and one of the minis just happened to be a chicken. And this kid was like spending the entire combat making sure this chicken was safe. And then, like, then he cast Speak with Animals on the chicken later to see if he could talk to the chicken and adopt her. And she became this chicken named Helga. And he was like, I'm going to try to convince her that she is a god. So then he, which then I have to

now roleplay this chicken that he's talking to. And so he asked the chicken if she is all powerful. And my response was, I create life. And so the kid goes, well, now I think she's a god. So over the course of the rest of the week, he kept talking about the chicken being a god and making it part of a subplot for him. And so then they were on this asteroid city area talking about this god chicken. And so I started talking about people in asteroid city area talking about this God chicken. And so I started talking about people in the city, like he rolled a bunch of persuasion checks and people started believing him. The chicken was a God and praying in this God chicken.

So on the very last day of the camp, I just went ahead and had the chicken ascend because of all these prayers that are being fed into it by all these, this cult that he had created for the chicken. And it was like our big epic finale at the camp was the God chicken saved the day. Isn't that the dream? Yeah, it is. And it was like our big epic finale at the camp was the God chicken saved the day. Isn't that the dream? Yeah, it is. Lately, the tougher life in America has gotten the more I found myself wishing for a God chicken to save the day. Yeah.

We all wish we could ask one God chicken to give us one wish and that's what happened that day at that camp. Hey guys. Yes. You know, Jordan, you and I are going to be performing Jordan Jesse Goh in San Francisco, California. That's right. We are.

I'm very excited about it. That's going to be, when is that? August 22nd? Does that sound right to you? I believe it is. Yes. Yes. Yes.

August 22nd. Thank you. August 22nd. Thank you. August 22nd. That's going to be August 22nd at a little theater called the Eclectic Box there in San Francisco. We already booked our favorite San Francisco rapper, Ashkan Davar on the Persian Jay-Z. But you may know and Jordan Jesse Goh listeners may know that I have another favorite San Francisco rapper. That is the rapper Larry June. Larry June, of course, is a rapper who is famous for his enthusiasm for smoothies and passive income and mountain biking and occasionally playing tennis with venture

capital guys as well as of course hose he does love that sure so I have in the past created a game called which of these is a real Larry June lyric or good job Jesse, an allusion to his famous catchphrase, good job Larry. And because we're going to San Francisco and Larry June has a brand new record called Until Night Comes with the producer Cardo Got Wings, I went through the lyrics on the new record and I've got a quiz game for you guys. Are you guys ready to play? Let's do it. I love to play. Yeah, into it. So, I'll be giving you three sets of lyrics. One of them will be a real Larry June lyric,

two of them will be lyrics that I have made up. Now Riley, because you're our resident rap enthusiast and of course, Jock and our guest, I'm going to give you the chance to go first. Does that sound good? Yeah. So, I'm going to give you three lyrics, you tell me which of them is the real Larry June lyrics. Here are your choices.

Going through these documents, shooting like Stoyakovic. That would be Paja Stoyakovic, a NBA legend. As a doc, of course I know that. Thank you. Yeah, no, I'm explaining it to Jordan. Okay, fair. This next lyric is about Dark Souls, so I'll have to explain this one to you, Riley. Real slow in the Rari down Van Ness Ave, Prada driving shoes, what kind of kicks you have. And finally, and I'll be sort of eliding some of

the more vulgar language in these lyrics. Take a bee to lunch, veggie sandwich, avocado, San Francisco light opera. Yeah, we watching the micado. So, the micado of course is the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, the very model of a modern major general. Yeah, of course I am. I have information, mineral, animal, and vegetable. I think I messed them up, but whatever. I'm gonna go with the first one. That's my guess. That's the first one's the real one. The correct answer is from the song, Seven Mile Bike Ride. Let's take a listen. There you go, congratulations. That's one point for you, Riley. I got one.

Are you ready for yours, Jordan? It is. I can feel the heat. I gotta get this right because this is important. Yeah, exactly. Thank you, Jordan. Drink a green juice, always use a metal straw, get my micronutrients, Bayview or Crenshaw. Bayview of course is in San Francisco, Crenshaw down here in Los Angeles. I might Tokyo, I might break a ho, I might put a flip screen in my stereo. Okay. And finally, I like to go swimming, I like to wear hats, I like passive income and making little raps. I think it's two.

I want to know what a flip screen on a stereo is, but it sounds like, that sounds like something, you know? Doesn't sound made up. The correct answer is from the song You Feel Me featuring E-40. Let's take a listen. Okay. I might talk you, I might break up, I might put a flip screen in my stereo. Hey! Congratulations, Jordan. You're absolutely correct. In a car stereo, if you have a vintage car that has a single or double din stereo bay, you know, the kind that you imagine, if you think of your Nissan Sentra from college, it probably had a single din stereo, the kind that slides

in and out or could theoretically slide in and out. And there are flip screens that slide out of there horizontally like, you know, like an airplane trayback table, but then turn up so that you get a screen out of that little small area. Does that make sense? It does. Thank you. It was a real market in that era for those kind of like aftermarket car stereos. Is that still a thing now that like most cars have these weirdly integrated stereos? Well, one of Larry June's hobbies is buying vintage cars on eBay, driving them for a while

and then selling them for more than he bought them for. That's something he talks about sometimes in his rap songs. So I think in that case, yes, because he's buying a 1989 Mercedes SL or whatever. I wasn't judging Larry June's income spending at all. I was just curious if that was a real thing. In real life, has that market dwindled off a little bit? Because I recall working at Best Buy in high school and it was a real thing. In real life, has that market kind of dwindled off a little bit? Because I recall working at Best Buy in high school and it was a big deal. I mean, I want to be clear, Riley, you might not be judging Larry Jun's income. He's definitely

judging yours. He has some concerns that you're not invested in property. I'm not. I admit, I wish I was. I wish I had the money to invest in property right now I run D&D for kids. So well Riley will see what I'm first of all, can I recommend that you get into drugs and ramping? We work for Larry. How do we do one of those two things? Yes. Okay, great Sell the drugs to the kids So they get better at D&D. Well, I just got fired what the hell what just happened? My phone just rang? It's one to one, Riley, and this one's back to you. Here are your choices.

One of these is real. Got rental properties, Airbnbs. She looking for a paid one. She looking for me. It's Friday morning. I went and got me a coffee. Yeah, the sun is out and these hoses calling. Or finally, stay peaceful, meditate, recreate in the park, hike in two small boots, then

these dogs go and bark. I think it's the first one. You think it's the first one got rental properties, Airbnbs, she looking for a paid one, she looking for me? Yeah. The correct answer is from the song, Meet Me on Harbor. It's Friday morning, I went and got me a coffee, yeah the sun is out and he's calling, got money to make, got the break, give a fuck about a show, I got a home on the way. I heard the siren song of an Airbnb.

Riley, you fucked up. I know. You fucked up bad. I know, Jordan. I know. Now you'll never have a home with acres like Larry June has. Okay, it's back to you, Jordan. You can break this tie here with this one.

I'll have to break the tie. You ready? Yes, I'm excited. Okay, here are your choices. I'd be biking and shit. I'd be macking a bitch. Like a Mexican, I'd be stacking the chips.

Hose from the marina, now they walk in the stroll. Get money, stack paper, eat a tofu bowl. Whip from eBay, Cartier my jewels, never keep it in cash, always buying some flues. Well, I think it helps you Jordan. Yeah, no thank you. Any clues you can give me will be much appreciated.

Flues is a sort of alternate internet currency designed to make purchases on the worldwide web better in the mid 1990s, mid to late 1990s. They're famous primarily for their ads featuring Whoopi Goldberg. Is it like a pre-crypto? Yeah, pre-crypto. Pre-crypto, okay. I think it was the first one. I think the stack and chips thing is maybe like a little more lightly racist than you

would make up, Jesse. And if you did make it up, I'm sorry for big-timing you or whatever. No problem. Let's take a listen. This one also from You Feel Me, featuring F40. There you go. Congratulations Jordan. That gives you a two to one lead over Riley. Amazing.

Now Riley, there's only one question left, but I have some good news for you. This question is worth two points. Okay. Great news. So that means if you get this question right, you're our winner. Pretty soon, you'll have a house with acres. Okay. He means collections of the comic strip US acres. Oh, then actually now this stakes are hot. Two steps ahead of you. Yeah, I didn't really tell I had Garfield and friends up in here. All right, let's do this. OK, here are your choices.

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I go to Dairy Queen and order a bunch of blizzards for me and all my rap friends. That's the life. Well, it's obviously that one. That's the life. Well, it's obviously that one. That's the life. I think it could be the first or second one, but as a noted sapphic myself, I have to go with the pussy pussy pussy pussy pussy pussy pussy. Let's take a listen. Go get your G. Check it, check it, check it, check it, check it, check it, check it, check it, check it,

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chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, That might be the real one because I don't again for the same reason you did the previous round But my heart of hearts I still had to go with pussy. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I understand I wait I ran into I ran into Riley the other day at Dyke Day here in Los Angeles very nice event Yeah, you know what is great about a Dyke Day in the park near my house. Tell me everything first of all everything It's great about it's tremendous. It's one of the most delightful events that you could possibly go to when it comes to novelty t-shirts. It's one of the best events with both free face painting and like craft projects for kids and a mud wrestling area. Wow. And people with paint on their tits. Yeah. Yeah. And people with paint on their tits. Exactly. It was a great time, but I feel like the best part of it, Riley, and tell me if this makes sense to you, is that there's no parking. There's a

small, the park that it's held at is a decent size park, but it only has maybe like a 15 car parking lot. Yeah. And there is some parking on that street, but like ultimately there are hundreds of lesbians at this event. So they end up parking many blocks away. Lesbians famously anti-carpool too. Well, most of us show up in the same U-Haul and we just open the back door and come out like a bunch of clowns.

One thing lesbians are known for is not being utility of having utility for anything whatsoever. The most wonderful experience is that this event is walking distance from my house. That's great. You don't have to worry about the parking. So my daughter Scarlett and I made the walk, you know, maybe 10, 15 minute walk. And just the closer you get, the more lesbians are on the sidewalk. They're just coming from like... That is also my favorite thing about the event. Yes. The closer you get, the more lesbians are on the sidewalk. Yes. It's like, it's like you feel like you're, you're, you're at the Hajj or something like that.

Like it is, or it's like a David Attenborough overhead shot of the migration of the wildo beasts or something. Like as more and more people are funneled, funneled onto this sidewalk, you go from like no lesbians around, then suddenly you're like, oh, here's some nice lesbians. And then all of a sudden you're just in a sea of lesbians. You're like being born. Lesbian in Los Angeles. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. It is like all of a sudden you're on a, you're on a whitewater rafting trip, but you're riding on a, on a river of lesbians. Yeah. Equal amount of carabiner clips to be found in both locations So many carabiners. Yeah, I I have been coming to this event now This was my like 11th year that I've come to it obviously we didn't do it in 2020 because there was a scheduling issue, but otherwise I

I've been coming to 2014 I've seen it move around to various parks over that period of time. The year they held it at Dave and Buster's was fun. Yeah, it was great. I won Skee-Ball that year. It was really good. I got lots of ass that day because I won that Skee-Ball. I don't know how good that was. You're not a sex worker if you're having sex for tickets. Exactly. That's how we get around it for Johnny Law. I am a noted jock, so I just crush it at Skee Ball.

The first one I went to was in Barnesdale Art Park in Los Villas. Then the next year, it was Deb's Park, which is on top of a mountain, and had the same parking issue, which meant everybody was walking up a mountain to get there. And the best thing in the world when you're going to a park full of lesbians that you might or might not be attracted to is to be covered in sweat by the time you get there. It's just the best feeling is to get up there and just have a shirt that is just drenched in your own juices as you've walked up this hill. So that was great. That's a gnarly hike. Like that's a hike I do with my dog sometimes. And yeah, by the time you get by the time your dog gets up there, they're jumping in that lake. Yeah, it was not great. Then they for a few years, they had an Elysian park at like the whatever the park is with a big like statue is.

And I know that Justin Willman filmed Magic for Humans there where he made the man invisible. That's what I recognize it from mostly. But then last, I think since 2021, it's been held at this same Sycamore Park in Highland Park area. And it is a good park for it. Yeah. The parking is not great, but there's room for people, which has been the problem over and over. I have now gotten to the habit of either getting there so early I know a good place to park that I can walk over to it from, or just parking at the train station that is one stop away from where this thing is and just walk right in the train there because it is, yeah, it is a nightmare to park there and it's wild to me that so many people show

up there with tents and like full like gears worth of food and I'm like, where did you come from that you have this much stuff and you were able to sure put it here from wherever you were carrying it from. So... Lesbians have solutions. Yeah. It's probably the concern. It's probably the concern. We'll stop and drop it off and drive away in park, but yeah. I used to go as a kid in San Francisco with my aunt. I'm a gay aunt who I continue to have a gay aunt who's now in her 80s and no less ridiculous now than she was then. Hell yeah.

Shout out to Aunt Gail. Keep it real, Gail. But we used to go into Loris Park. I don't think there is a better vibe at any event on earth than there is at Dite Day. Like speaking as someone who was walking around as a straight cis man, the vibe was nonetheless, like I think I might have been the only cis man I saw. But like the vibe is impeccable. Just everyone is so happy to be there and so like supportive of everyone else.

It's great. It's great. It is great, yeah. It's my absolute favorite Pride event every single year. I could miss every other Pride event and be fine, but if I miss Dyke Day, I am sad about it. In fact, I did a comedy show recently in that area that with Steven actually, and it was just down the road from the park

where Dyke Day is, it was a video tech. And as I drove by the park, I felt like wistful that I wasn't in the park with my ladies and my thems and hanging out and the trans men as well. But like, I was like, I wanna be in that Sapphaco Oasis. But it's weird to go by the park at any other time

when it's not Dyke Day. And you're like, there's just people playing frisbee and stuff. And you're like, what are you doing here? This is our space. I mean, there's jumpers. If the main other thing that's going on 364 days of the year in that park is jumpers, the number of jumpers that get erected on any given day in that park is three to six. Like it is an almost exclusively inflatable venue. All the other days.

It took me until then to realize what you meant by jumpers. I was very much like, is there a really horrible suicide rate at that park that I'm not aware of? Like that's- No. Yeah, there's a lot of British people in sweaters. A lot of British people in sweaters. A lot of people covering third eye blinds, greatest hit.

The like intensity of the competition at that park for real estate for birthday parties is off the scales. I can see that. People will be having birthday parties at two o'clock in the afternoon on a weekend and they have been there since 6 30 a.m. like taping shit to picnic tables to claim it and like running, you know, police scene tape around the area where they're going to be erecting their party equipment. It's great. The only thing that is almost as good that I've been to a few times at that same park is there's like Los Angeles Deaf Day is there. Not Los Angeles Deaf Day, although that is a very

happy day. But Deaf is in Hard of Hearing Day, because it is this giant jam. And it's not quite as like on Dite Day, it's chock-a-block. It's wall to wall. I mean, there's hundreds there. I would say there's probably 250 at the Deaf Day, but everyone is talking to each other in ASL. And then there is like a, there is like a, one disappointment about Dyke Day, I would say is no low riders. There are low riders at Deaf Day. Most events at that park on that scale will have at least- I wonder if I believe it, no lesbians have low riders. Yeah, I was going to say. That feels untrue to me. Yeah.

I know quite a few. I mean, well, let's at least get the motorcycles in there. You know what I mean? The nice thing is both events have a fair amount of fingering, so that's good. Exactly. Let's guess what we would. I'm not normally this raunchy, but you've

set me up so many times for it that I was like right into it. You guys want to take a little break and make a list of some of our other favorite fingering events Yeah, we'll be back in just a second on Jordan Jesse go It's Jordan Jesse go I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. Every episode of Jordan Jesse Goh is supported by the members of Maximum Fund. Thank you for going to MaximumFund.org slash join and becoming a member.

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We all love her. I didn't write a book with her. Well, why don't, well. Anyway. Anyway. She was wearing an Elvira t-shirt. Yeah, Sarah Morgan, one of our favorites. So we, on this show, we are talking about TV and movies that feature podcasting in them.

We've done a lot of great episodes. We did the one that people have been requesting the most, at least to me, when I tell people we're doing the show, they say, oh my God, are you going to talk about the Sex and the City reboot? Yeah, we watched it. We watched the pilot episode where I forgot the name of the, I almost called her Sarah Michelle Geller. Sarah Jessica Parker.

There you go, Sarah Jessica Parker. Sarah Jessica Parker, she's back and she's doing a podcast. What if they had rebooted Sex and the City, but they replaced Sarah Jessica Parker with Sarah Michelle Gellar? Right, and replaced all the hunky guys with vampires! What? Anyway, yeah, this was a wild, insane episode of TV. Sarah is a fan, not just of Sex and the City,

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We're having a lot of fun. I really enjoyed watching that Sex and the City reboot. It was a blast. Would I call it good? Well, you'll have to listen to find out. You gotta listen! It was very watchable, I will say that. It was easy to watch.

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Yeah. We're having fun. We have a show coming up in San Francisco, which I mentioned to taunt people who have not yet bought their tickets, because as of this recording, there's one ticket left. And I bet by the time you're hearing this, there's none that gets sold.

Are you the one who's going to get it? But I will say that show will now feature Scott Simpson, Nato Green, Natasha Muse. And we got some buddies from the world of comics. We have Breonna Lowenson and Tin Fam, Eisner Winner Tin Fam. And how about this? Fucking Ashcon's gonna be there.

And Ashcon, musical guest Ashcon. So all these cool buds together in one place. You probably can't see it live, but you'll be able to listen to it later. Maybe if you're lucky, if the recording comes out. Maybe it won't. It's just gonna be us and Steven there. It might shit the bed.

And my half-brothers, John and Brendan. Neither of whom's an audio engineer, so. If you do not get tickets to that show, but you're also in the Bay Area, I will be at Cape and CowlCon. That is a wonderful free comics event. Brianna and Ten will also be attending this, so you can get books from me and get books from them. All kinds of cool folks. Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Cape and Cowl Con. So, so much fun.

It's in Alameda at a beautiful brewery. Grab some beers, grab some comics. Have yourself the best fucking time of your life. What about San Diego Comic-Con, Jordan? Oh, Jesse, it's coming up. If you're listening to this the day it comes out, this is probably, it's probably happening right now. I got panels and signings Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with all kinds of great folks. You can go to bit.ly slash JordanCon to get that information or just check out my social

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It's Jordan Jesse Goh. I am Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morse, boy detective. Robbie Silverman, Jedi archivist. What I found myself wondering at Dike Day was if the mud wrestling is going on outside the kink tent, what's going on inside the kink tent? What antis are being upped within those flaps? I didn't go in it. Not appropriate.

I think even I don't go in the kink to Dyke Day. I think even I'm, that's a bridge too far for me to cross. Yeah, you're focused on the arts and crafts tent? Yeah, of course. I think Deck Day is very similar to the jumpers thing, where everyone's scouting out their location at six in the morning and setting things up. So it's very hard to move around if you haven't already

skated your location in the King tent. Well, and have you been in that funnel cake line? Jesus Christ, that thing doesn't move. You're not lying. There is a whole stretch of food trucks there, Jordan. And last year, I went to town's fan misubi. I was very excited they had it there. Oh, no.

That's a good choice. Cool. I like one of the things that was fun about the food trucks that were lined up on the street at the edge of the park were that they all had whiteboards and stuff outside that had information about how gay they were. Either you would be like, women-owned, and you'd be like, oh, but straight women, huh? And then

it would be like lesbian owned and then it would be like non-binary lesbian owned. And then it was like, uh, like the auntie was always being upped on, on those whiteboards outside those trucks. Didn't know I was gay until TikTok during the pandemic, but now I run this food truck. Are you tired of heteronormative Bialis? Do you think there's kids in Highland Park though that are going to grow up to be like lesbophobic specifically because their birthday always falls the same weekend as Dyke Day every year? They never get to have a cool jumper party on their birthday.

It's like me with Christmas. My birthday is like three days before Christmas or Christmas is always overshadowing all of my delight and joy. I saw some At the food truck village. I did see some lumpy. I wanted to get but the whiteboard just said have seen but I'm a cheerleader I would be in that line It's like I've never actually dated a girl but I would if I met one that I thought was pretty. That's on that one. Yeah. I thought you were going to say, I've never actually dated a girl, but if her lumpia was

good enough. If something momentous happens to you, give us a call at 206-9844-FUN or just record a voice memo and email it to us, jjgo at maximumfun.org. Here is a momentous occasion. Hey Jordan, hey Jesse, hey guests. This is David in Chicago calling in with a momentous occasion. So I just recently moved in with my girlfriend and we went from each occupying our own one bedroom apartments to sharing sharing one bedroom apartment.

So we both have had to get rid of a good amount of stuff. Like a lot of people, I used to have two shelves of mugs. I got that down to just three. Now, one of those three is my 20 ounce Actua mug, which my girlfriend doesn't seem to mind too much. Love the show. Love you guys. I feel like we could all stand to get it down to three mugs. Yeah. I moved recently and also took note of the thousands and thousands of mugs that I have. I mean, listen, yeah, anybody out there, you got to keep your act to a mug, maxfunstore.com,

the greatest mug we've ever created. So I threw out a lot of mugs and I also, I purged a huge number of my like single issue comics, my floppies. I like having them, I liked holding onto them, I flip through them occasionally. I do not take care of them. These are not bagged and boarded. These are just like crammed in a wicker trunk that I got with a cost plus gift card once.

And you know. You didn't buy Stroopwaffle? Yeah, they were out of Stroopwafel. So I'm like, yeah, give me this. What else are you gonna get then? Yeah. And so I'm just like, what am I doing with these? Right? I, you know, if I want to reread some of this stuff, there's trades I can get.

I don't need to be like, you know, lugging these floppy comics from, you know, the late 90s to now into another fucking apartment. You know, what am I doing? But I was like, okay, I don't want to just junk these. And there's like a lot of them. And I like, you know, my strategy with the floppy comics in the past when I needed to purge was you give them to the like friends of the library store and they put them out for a buck. I'm like, there's just far too many here to do that to the friends of the library store. Like, a little stack, fine, but this is like, this is like duffel bags full. So the like too complicated solution that I came up with was I'm just gonna like throw these duffel bags in my car and I will pull over every time I see a little free library and stick a stack in there. It's been a very

fun project and it's like I think it's I think it's been working pretty well because I will go by the same couple little free libraries and the comics are always gone. So someone is taking these things and hopefully hopefully enjoying them. Jordan comic seeds we got here. Drive around Los Angeles deliver in comic books to all the little libraries. Yeah exactly hey if you've listen if you've pulled some mystery comics out of a little free library in the Los Angeles area recently let us know 206-984-4fun but it's been a very fun and you know and I

can kind of like as I'm shoving them in the little free library I can kind of like remember them you know like oh yeah oh yeah remember when the flash did that? Oh boy, that guy he's fast. I can't believe his wife finally agreed to it. I can't believe his wife finally agreed to it Well, it was his birthday of course I don't get these references so yeah, you know I'm sticking these things in the little free library and I found one I found a like a the first comic in like a Justice League run that I really loved I went oh man This one was great

And I go to stick it in the free little free library And then I decided I shouldn't do it because it had jelly on it. Like 10 year old grape jelly on it. Oh God. It's probably just eating jelly and reading comics and living my dream. Anyway. Did you decide that from now on that comic would be your jelly spoon?

Right, yeah. So I brought that one home and anytime I need to spread jelly, I just use that particular Justice League red note. But it's been a fun project. I actually got rid of the last stack not too long ago and I'm feeling very light. I'm feeling very light. Congratulations on that. Thank you. I think it's so important to support those little free libraries. It's such a wonderful community service. I've been doing that with my porno mags. Yes, yeah.

You know my Jack mags? Yeah, sure. Perfect 10, Swank. We. Yeah. Juggs. I have both We, O-U-I, and Wee, W-E-E. So, there you go.

Yeah, very different content in both those magazines. And W-I-I, which is all Nintendo porn. All the me's people create, but they're dick-sirrup. That's just jacking it to the Wee Fit woman. Oh yeah. Grab that Joy-Con. Sure, grab the Joy-Con. Riley, you're famously an actual Jordan, Jesse Goh listener, so I don't need to explain to

you that we're very creative and think of ideas for segments all the time. Sure. So, when we play this next call, just understand this is a segment that we thought of. It's not just someone that wanted to tell us about something and then they just called in and said, oh, it's for the segment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, just to retroactively justify why they called and told us this. This is our... Yeah, it's our hard work that generated this call and creativity.

Yeah, I believe it. Hello, Jordan, Jesse and guests. I'm going to say utility infielder, River Butcher, just calling in for your long running segment, the most Portland-y shit in Portland. I was driving home from work and saw a guy riding a unicycle while wearing a kilt and a Darth Vader mask playing the Star Wars theme on bagpipes that shot flames out of them. So yeah, that was Wednesday. Bye guys, love you. Wow, you saw the mayor. Cool. How often do you get to see the mayor? That was all in the produce aisle at the Piggly Wiggly.

It Piggly Wigglies in Portland? No, I don't think they have Piggly Wigglies in Portland. It was just an example. They have Fred Meyer. Yeah, maybe they got Portland. No, I don't think they have Piggly Wiggly's in Portland. It was just an example. They have Fred Meyer. Yeah, maybe they got Harris Teeters. I don't know. What do they got? Maybe Harris Teeters?

Yeah, what are the? Yeah, I mean, yeah, they probably got Trader Joe's. They got Whole Foods. But yeah, what's the, what's just the, you know, regular ass? It is Fred Meyer. That's not the name I'm pulling out of my ass. That's like the Kroger chain up there. Thank you, thank you, Riley.

Thank you, Fred. I have been to the city of Portland to do a comedy show or two. Written a book set there. I I fell off a scooter myself there and banged up my knee really badly Oh, yeah, I was last time I rode one of those scooters turns out. They're not house me going It's it's still got a scar from that incident Yeah, turns out when you stop on those they don't they stop but you're still moving forward because of the way physics work Yeah, go right over the head the handlebars and hit the road. My wife as a mid teenager, as like a 14 year old or 15 year old,

got knocked over by a bike on a bike and walking trail in Marin County. A rock went into her leg and it came out seven years later. Oh my god. Geez. It just one day, it emerged. Did it have jelly on it? It did. Well, jammed technically. Mm-hmm.

I know what it is. Now when it came out, did you throw a party for it and celebrate its identity and stuff? No, we actually disowned it. Oh no. Yeah. Cruel. Well, you know, it's not what God would want, you know what I mean? What can I say? God hates rocks.

It's good that the rock, you know, took some time to create a found family though. That's true. And you know what? I'm glad the rock created a found family though. That's true. And you know what? I'm glad The Rock created a found family too because otherwise we wouldn't have had those later Fast and the Furious. Right. He really juiced the franchise when it was getting a little bit stale. Yeah.

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it's been a few years since we've been to San Francisco. A lot of times we'll go for SketchFest. Jordan, you're going to be there for Cape and CowlCon in Oakland. Yeah, that's right. If you come see us on Friday and then come see me and all of your comic book making favorites at Cape and CowlCon at Faction Brewing on August 24th, that's in Alameda. It is free and man, the fucking guests line up on this thing. Jesus Christ, it's so cool. Yeah, this is- Patton's going toameda. It is free and man, the fucking guests line up on this thing. Jesus Christ. It's so cool. Yeah, this is- Patton's gonna be there. Uh-oh. Brian Posein's gonna be there. Yeah,

Brian Posein's gonna be there. Yeah, if someone has made a cool comic in the past couple years, there'll be a Cape and Cal Con. Again, it's free. There's beer. It's the most fun con there is. And you can buy tickets right now. Go to maximumfun.org slash events for our show. Because look, we're doing this, we're fucking out here booking our own shows like we were. What's an example of a rock band that books their own shows? Jordan, help me out here. Jordan Hickman Oh, Fugazi, famously. Adam Ligato Thank you, Fugazi. Jordan Hickman Minor threat, I'd say.

Adam Ligato If you don'tugazi. Minor threat, I would say. If you don't buy tickets to this show, I'll have to pay for my plane ticket out of my pocket. No! The ultimate humiliation. I may end up having to visit slash stay with my mom. That'll be nice. It'll be nice to see Judy. She doesn't have a guest bedroom. But now come, we're gonna have some cool guests. Ashconn, we mentioned.

Ashconn. We're, look, we've got some cool people that we're sending out emails to. Did I email Boots Riley yesterday? Yeah. Will he come? Probably not. But I mean, I emailed him. Sure. Maybe he will. Jesse, you should read the email at the show. You know what? I'll email Kamala Harris and see if she wants to come. Oh yeah. How about that?

All right, Kamala Harris, which one of these is a real subreddit? Riley, you have some literary fiction available to our listeners. Yeah, I've made a big shift away from doing standup and I do mostly writing these days, but I have a short story coming out later this year in a horror anthology. There is this publishing group called Stars and Sabers. They're kind of the fugazi of publishing because they're doing it all themselves. But each of these little anthologies is like a different genre of thing. So they've done like a magic genre book and they've done just a general speculative fiction. And this one's going to be their horror one, which is coming out in October.

It's called Of Dread Decay and Doom. And I have a speaking of our favorite topics, a lesbian vampire story that is in this book that I'm very excited about. It's a story that I've had in my head for several years now and I've been working on it and I finally got a version I was really happy with and I submitted it. They really like it. But yeah, the company is Stars and Sabers and they have a Indiegogo going for it right now

for this particular anthology. It's stacked full of just really good horror writers but it's edited by Jandia Gammon and Gareth Powell and there's an Indiegogo for this book. And right now it still could use a little bit of Lovin'. So I definitely want to kick some attention that way. If you go to my Blue Sky, I have some posts there for it. Or if you go to starsandsabers.com, there's a post for it.

But it's of dread decay. Let's throw a little link in the description here. Yeah, perfect. I'll send that along. Because yeah, I like to see this book get published. It's a story that means a lot to me. And I'd like to see it get out there. It's this kind of dark lesbian vampire romance that I will spoil.

It's a tragic story, but you can kind of tell from the first section of the story that it doesn't end super happy. But I'm very excited about it. And then also this year I published an official Doctor Who audio short story that got published by Big Finish Productions, which is the official licensed audio company for Doctor Who fiction stuff. And that was part of a box set that was Short Trips, Volume 13, Tales from the Vortex. And I took a little bit of San Francisco history. I took a bit of 1966's Compton Cafeteria riot, and I put that into a Doctor Who story.

Well, it's a character that had experienced the riot and is now that into a Doctor Who story. Well, it's a character that experienced the riot and is now dealing with it about a month or so later. But she meets up with the 12th Doctor and his companion Bill Potts and I'm very proud of it. And that story is called Dark Watchers of California, if you're interested. What's the 12th Doctor's deal? They all have a sort of different deal, right? Yeah, this is Peter Capaldi. I mean, they all, of course, love TARDISes. I know a lot about Doctor Who.

Yeah. It's cool. Obviously, you do. Yeah. And this is Peter Capaldi's doctor, so he is kind of the punk rock grandpa doctor. And then Bill Potts is his openly lesbian companion. It's like one of the first queer companions that was like a regular recurring character on the show. And so it was big deal

so and it fit really well for the story and I was excited to take a real but often overlooked part of queer history and weave it into a doctor who plot and the 12th doctor for me is particularly special because One of his first episodes of one of the things that really kind of spurned me to go To actually make the appointments to get my hormones and stuff like that when I was still kind of living Halfway in and halfway out. So. Oh, that's really sweet. Plus, that guy was on the thick of it too. So that's great. That's a different good thing about that doctor is the same guy from the thick of it. Jordan rocks. Yeah. He's in the suicide squad as well. Yeah. There you go. Riley, it's always great to talk to you. Thank you for joining us on Jordan, Jesse Goh. Jordan, Jesse Goh, of course, always produced by the great

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