Jordan, Jesse, GO! - MaxFunDrive 2025 - Niche Subreddits Day TEN: r/Frasier_Sleepers

Episode Date: March 29, 2025

Jesse and Jordan read you comforting subreddits chosen by you! Every day during MaxFunDrive 2025 9:30am PST, March 17th - March 28th (except weekends). Dave Shumka (Stop Podcasting Yourself) joins us to chat r/Frasier_Sleepers.It's MaxFunDrive 2025, become a new or upgrading member today! Live Jordan, Jesse, Go! in Chicago at Sleeping Village on April 11th!MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join. MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

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 Jessigo. I am Jesse Thorne, America's Radio Sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. The final day of the Max Fun Drive is upon us and we are joined by perhaps our oldest Max Fun Pal from Stop Podcasting Yourself, Dave Schumka, our oldest friendship, David. Sure. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, of course. I'm only 19.

Yeah. That's why you have that tight bod, Dave. My tight bod, my... Just a lot of questions about what's going on with my bod Is this why I've been buying you beer constantly yeah, but I haven't been wanting to let on but I am 19 I But I am one of the oldest friendships in the podcast You met me when you were two or whatever. No was too wait what were you yeah we were we were there in the in the we were in the delivery room with your mom she pushed you out we brought you into the world yeah we'll take you out

of it in 2004 it was I was born the same year as Napoleon Dynamite. No wait, that's 2006 I'd be 19. Oh God, what came out that year? Swat with Colin Farrell. Yes, you're a Swat baby. Listen, a lot of couples went to see Swat. So many people had sex nine months before Swat in anticipation of Swat. And then gave birth at Swat. SWAT. SWAT in anticipation of SWAT. Oh. And then James Berth at SWAT.

Your premise is they got horny from seeing the trailer to SWAT. The teaser trailer, yeah, not even the full trailer. Wow, yeah, the teaser. Talk about a teaser, right? Yeah, they were like, ooh, honey, let's go home and do some special weapons and tactics. Sure. Are you boys having a fun, maximum fun drive? Oh, nothing but good times here. We've been having a great time doing these live streams. We've had a lot of great folks from the greater Max Fun world joining us to

share their favorite reddits with us. We've shared a few favorite reddits. We never even got Jordan to r slash dioramas. My God. Next year, I guess, we're gonna have to do r slash dioramas. Yeah. Maybe a spontaneous live stream sometime. But yeah, Dave, we've been having a fantastic time. We just heard from Steven that Jordan Jessie Go is up to 1,3 twenty new and upgrading members.

So thank you everybody out there who has joined Max Fun upgraded your membership, so on and so forth. If you haven't yet and you're listening to this or watching this on the live stream, this is the very end of the Max Fun Drive. So I am just going to straight up say I think you should join Max Fun. And I think you should do it now at maximumfun.org slash join. I think it will feel great, and you'll support our program, and we'll like you better. Dave, part of our pledge drive bonus content stuff

is accumulating episodes of Alex Inc. to watch. Right. Alex Inc. of course, the terrible, cancelled after a season's act, Raft sitcom. What are y'all doing over at Spy? And will it be unpleasant for you? No, we're not like torturing ourselves. We're just- Interesting, interesting, interesting.

So you like- Yeah. Okay. For us, you like, interesting. Are you like... Yeah. Okay. For us, you like to do stuff that you like? Well, for us, it's more of a grind. We put out bonus content. We put out two bonus episodes a month all year round. So that's how we punish ourselves.

I have really been enjoying your Rosie O'Donnell Show show. Yeah, that was fun. I mean shout out to all the many other weird stop podcasting yourself sub shows. The one where you open trading cards was one that I really enjoyed but on the new Rosie O'Donnell show, what Dave and Graham do Jordan, is they load up episodes of the Rosie O'Donnell show on YouTube. The Rosie O'Donnell show theme song features a couplet, a fresh couplet on every episode from Rosie O'Donnell singing a little rhyme about her guests on that day's show. And Dave and Graham do an, I'm going to call, I'm going to go ahead ahead and say it an alarmingly good job

At guessing what that couplet will be Yeah, so in the intro of every episode you see or there's like a An audience member who tells you who the guests are going to be and then they go through the themes on and if it was like You guys it would be like we're going to get messy with Jordan and Jesse. It's the Rosie O'Donnell show Uh, but uh, it's you know, my favorite was... It's usually Regis. Yeah. My favorite was the one that was, it was the Halloween episode and it had Felicia Rashad and Gary Marshall. Oh, and Phil Collins. But it was the Halloween episode. And we're like, oh, I bet they're going to rhyme scary with Gary, Gary Marshall. And we were right.

Mm hmm. It was really beautiful. A really beautiful moment in the history of podcasting. It was a beautiful moment in the history of of paywall podcasting. How did Ali says start? Did you did you watch the Rosie O'Donnell show a bunch as a kid or? I mean, of course, you're just 19. So that doesn't make sense with the joke we were doing but Yeah, I did as a matter of fact and then I just occurred to us. Oh, maybe we go look up the old

Look up you know the intros that are available on YouTube unfortunately I don't know if we can ever do this episode again because I think we found every intro on YouTube You're gonna have to go to the Paley Center for radio and television. That's true. Have them go in there, their famous Rosie O'Donnell. Beta tapes. Yeah, the microfiche. A bunch of dat tapes with Rosie audio on them.

Before we see Dave's subreddit, which I'm fascinated to see, can I just share a quick update from one of the subreddits that I enjoy? I'll allow it. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. So I have been spending a lot of time on r slash Godzilla, a fun place to discuss Godzilla. And it's a really fun subreddit. Again, it's one of those where like the modern world never comes up. You can just enjoy Godzilla talk. Never gets too spicy. It is very like toy focused. It is very much like, you know, focused on action figures and their scale.

What is their scale What is there so like one sixth? One I mean the various various scales for various figures and there's opinions as to what the best scale is You know, of course the scales on Godzilla himself Good show anyway, so So there's a lot of discussion of toys, but also a lot of discussion of Godzilla's eras. Godzilla, of course, has many eras. That's the way in which he is most like Taylor Swift. So he-

With the second most way. You also used to date Harry Styles. He did, yeah. A lot of boyfriends. Godzilla loves to love him and leave him. There's a lot of discussions as to which era of Godzilla is best and which era of Godzilla could beat the other era in a fight. They're starting a bracket over on r slash Godzilla. It's like, oh, the original Godzilla or the, you know, the Godzilla from the new movies and stuff like that. I was really thrilled to see that over on r slash Godzilla

in this bracket, they are officially including, and Steven, can we ready the graphic, the Godzilla that played basketball against Charles Barkley in those Nike commercials. The Godzilla wearing sport goggles. James Worthy Godzilla. So head on over to arm slash Godzilla and cast your vote as to whether or not the Godzilla who played basketball against Charles Barkley

could beat the Godzilla from Fortnite, I guess? Anyway. Ali in the comments is saying that could beat the Godzilla from Fortnite I guess? Anyway. Allie in the comments is saying that there's a subreddit for women who want to date Godzilla and by date I presume she means something a little more blue but we would never work blue. Yeah there is some spicy Godzilla content online. I remember I used to listen to Tom Likus the Rivald Disc jockey and I remember he would tell people how to you have the most sex for the least money That was like this one

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had that guy and I just remember someone called it and said well I've been dating this woman and he goes when you say dating you mean porking All class. Hey, what's up? We've got weather on the 10s. It's Tom Likus, the Rybald Disc Jockey. Who wants to bone Hillary Clinton? to bone Hillary Clinton.

Dave, are you a, are you, are you typically a Reddit guy? What is your, what is your Reddit browsing? Yeah, I'm a Reddit, I don't post. Oh God, no. Why would I, why would you post anything on the internet? Only psychos post. Only pure psychos post on Reddit. I think the problem is I said my first signed up for reddit to do an AMA on this very network

and one of the first max fun drives and so my reddit name is my name and I'm not like I Don't want to post anything like an opinion anywhere with my name on it, God forbid. And I'm too lazy to have a second account. So I'm on Reddit, I'm lurking, I'm in a lot of the, you know, of course the Vancouver Canucks subreddit is a great place if you want a hockey analysis or also people being like, I just got this Pavel Bure jersey with an autograph on it. Did anyone know whose autograph this is?

Whose autograph is this is like an absolute signature of a sports subreddit. Literally. Nothing that sports fans love more than, oh yeah, that's left-handed reliever Craig Lefferts. That phenomenon exists in the world of the comic book subreddit. There's a lot of, I found this comic book with a signature on it. Who is it? And it's like, well, it's maybe either the person who wrote it or drew it. Maybe start there.

I mean, I guess sometimes, you know, you get like the actor who played the character on TV to sign it, but yeah, no one seems to check as to whether or not it is the writer or the artist anyway. In the baseball subreddit specifically, a really sad phenomenon that bums me out is people will post a signed baseball, like a team signed baseball with a bunch of signatures on it, and they'll say, Oh, my grandma gave me this when I was a kid. Is this the, you know, 1927 Yankees or like, is this the, you know, 1987 Red Sox? And then people will be identifying the signatures and then someone will just say like, you know that that's like a stamped souvenir ball that you would like buy at the

concession stand, right? And then they didn't know and they're really sad because they feel like their grandma tricked them. They're the most deceptive family member I've always said it. I'm on that one a lot I'm on of course power washing porn where you just see people before and after they power wash something and then the Ikea subreddit is always good for what you know supply chain issues out on the IKEA subreddit okay it was like I think I followed it during the pandemic at the start of the pandemic and we were

trying to find this loft bed for my one of my children and it was it was out of print and they were gonna, I've seen it at this location. Oh, I've seen it on this continent. And then I just stuck with it and you know what? It's just a good community. Yeah. I feel the same way, Dave, about R slash Costco. Just plain good folks, you know, they're there to say that you should always put your That you should always put your cart into a cart corral after you're done shopping hmm

They're there to defend defend the hot dog, but bemoan the absence of the polish sure What are their thoughts on the Costco guys and the Rizzler? Can I tell you something they They have never come up. R slash Costco may be unaware of the existence of the Costco guys. It is mind blowing. There's no

Rizzling going on in R slash Costco. No booms? No one's ranking things on a scale of 1 to 5 booms? No one's like, hey, this guy calls it the double chunk chocolate cookie, but it's actually the double the Double double chocolate chunk cookie. Yeah, double chocolate chunk cookie. I Would love it if every time they open to Costco the Rizzler was there to Rizzle it But he did to the New York Mets in the playoffs. Yeah, what does that mean? He just does the face

Yeah, he does the face and then the ribbon cuts itself. Yeah. Whoa, he can cut a ribbon. Anyway. Dave, what subreddit have you brought for us to look at today? This is one I discovered while looking up... I forget. Anyway anyway I discovered it. It's r slash Frazier underscore sleepers and this is a subreddit for people who fall asleep

watching Frazier. Oh yeah. This is huge. I have a friend who does this. In fact, Adam Lisagor has been a guest on this program. Our friend Adam Lisagor from You Look Nice Today, among other things, Lonely Sandwich. His wife, Roxana, she grew up, I mean, this is not exactly a silly thing, uh, anecdote, but her family are refugees from Peru. She grew up in a long series of motels and they always had the motel TV on when they went to bed. And so she falls asleep to Frasier, specifically Frasier, like sometimes other sitcoms, but Frasier is her number one sitcom to fall asleep to.

I, Jesse, I've done it myself. There's a there's a there's a Pluto TV channel that just streams Cheers and Frazier. And you know, if I'm having a having a hard time getting to sleep, you throw that baby on, you can't cry it out. It works. So a lot of the posts on this subreddit seem to be about, oh, I thought I was the only one.

I can't believe there's so many of us who are falling asleep to Frasier. And then it varies from that to, don't you think Frasier's dad is too loud? Does he kind of wake you up sometimes? Anybody else having a lot of dreams about Roz? A lot of Roz nightmares. Anyway, do you want to pull up some posts? Is that what we do? Yeah, let's do it.

Let's take a look at a few of your favorite posts. I mean, I just mentioned the, I thought I was alone, but let's skip that one and go with the next post there what's called waking Frazier Uh-huh, and this is one Let me read this Do you guys watch Frazier when you're awake also? I have had been slash still try to but I have such a Pavlovian response to the theme song now It makes me sleepy right away

What did people answer? I mean Yes, I do but as background noise Mm-hmm. I have been wanting to awake watch some of the Wake watch I Like the person who just very sincerely just wrote by the way theater kid one Wrote yes, it's a fantastic farce They're in a production of Noises Off right now, right? I was in Noises Off in high school. Do you guys did you watch Frasier when it was on? Originally, I watched it a little bit, but I think I resented it for winning

every award every time when there were other good shows. And I think I also, it's a very good show, but I think I was always a little resentful of people talking about how smart it was. Because it just didn't, like it struck me as a good show, but like not smarter than other shows, just had pretentious characters. Like, and it wasn't a pretentious show particularly, but like the fact that the characters were always swirling wine glasses made it a smart show. Why, when did you realize you were a weird kid?

Was it when you were like, hey, I'm the kid who doesn't like Frasier because it's too, he wins too many Emmy awards. These should be going to Murphy Brown. I'm a kid who keeps track of Emmy wins. Dave, do you think I ever was under the impression that I was a normal child? Hmm. Dave, I grew up in the hood.

Can you imagine me in the inner city, walking the streets in my purple velvet cap? Yeah, yeah, that's true what else was like award nominated at those times I feel like Murphy brand had a great run. Maybe ER? Seinfeld? Sure of course but yeah, the stuff like I don't think Home Improvement was winning awards. That was the show of the people. Right. Exactly. Yeah, you're just a regular Joe. You're a real Joe Lunchpale, Dave. Right. It did win best grunts that one year, though. Yeah. And it's a fantastic farce. Dave, I have a question for you.

When did you realize you were an unusual child because you were hanging out watching Rosie O'Donnell? Well, look it was it was a daytime show and you can't be judged for what you watch in the daytime That's you know, you're homesick or at summer vacation. What are what are your options? I'm gonna watch Ghost Rider again I mean sure I will I want to see that ghost solve those crimes I'm gonna watch Ghostwriter again. I mean sure I will I want to see that ghost solve those crimes But they're really like weak there was very little TV For us at the time now everything's for kids That is even movies that are supposed to be for claim to be for adults

Yeah, have you seen I've watched the news lately? I mean it's all about opening slime. You watch the 11 o'clock news, they're just opening and making slime. The unboxing with Dave McElhatton. Right. Dave McElhatton with the anchor on channel 5. What else have you got Dave? Let's pull up the next one here. It's asking how do I listen to continuous Frazier episodes when traveling out of the country? Is there one long audio file of Frazier? Wow, I love this I don't care about pictures just the sound I found files of audio individual episodes How do I play them in a row? There are just people who need this.

There's just people who are like, I will be an insomniac if I don't have, like I'm, this is wild. I mean, this guy like, this guy needs the Frasier. Yeah, this is maybe a little troubling. Dave, I know you're a sports fan. I know you're a big hockey fan. Have you ever been a radio sports guy?

Either sports talk or listening to broadcasts of games? Yeah. In the, in the, in my Rosie O'Donnell years, sure. In my teens. I think that like, for me the equivalent of this is that I will fall asleep listening to the baseball game and I have, you know, an MLB subscription that allows me to listen to like yesterday's game. So if I'm going to take a nap and the game's not on, I will sometimes listen to yesterday's

game because it's just interesting enough to me. And I recently learned that there is a podcast that is just an entire fictional baseball world and the podcast is play-by-plays of games from that fictional baseball world that are designed specifically to be boring enough for you to fall asleep. Are the teams and players made up or are they using actual teams and players? The teams and players are made up but they're consistent. Like he's not like making them up on the spot. Like, it's a, you know, universal baseball association situation

where it is a full fictional, fully realized fictional world with storylines and whatever. But it's important to know, like it is specifically designed to be boring. Like even more so than. Baseball. Yeah. Designed to be boring like even more so than based on this yeah That well that sounds great jessie. I'm glad you found that yeah, thank you David Dave are there any other Leans back cool as a cucumber Dave are there any other?

Are there any other Frazier posts we should look at before you know? Drive I'll give you two more this is probably a pretty common complaint amongst people watching trying to fall asleep to Frazier This one is titled too many episodes with fire alarms Dave you're talking about the chess one Daphne smoking and Niles's date at Frazier's exactly right Yeah, I guess when you are when you when your show is Essentially a farce that's something I noticed coming from the theater. Really, it's essentially a farce. It's a fantastic farce. It's a fantastic farce. In the grand tradition of the meh meh meh,

I think it is like, there's only so many farce things that can happen, and you're probably going back to Fire Alarm, you know, at least a couple times in a show that goes on nine seasons. Well, yeah, and someone belittles this person saying, moi? I don't know if that's like a chef's kiss thing or if it is a wah wah wah. To be honest, in a series with more than 200 episodes, three is a laughable number. It's fucking pathetic if you ask me. They should have done it more. with more than 200 episodes, three is a laughable number. It's fucking pathetic. If you ask me, they should have done it more. They should have done more fire alarm plot lines. These fucking dillweeds.

Fucking dillweeds. Honestly, I think they're lazy. Frasier was lazy. Yeah lazy for not having enough fire alarms. We did a bit a little while ago on the show, where because we had Emily Heller on, Emily Heller noted Frasier's super fan, we did a quiz of like which of these descriptions is a real Frasier episode.

And looking at the Frasier Wiki, just kind of looking for these descriptions, most of them start with, a dinner party goes awry when, like that is how many Frasier episodes. Like they do fire alarm a lot, they do a dinner party goes awry when two or three times a season. It's like their tree house of horror. It just has to happen There were in the comments there on that post about the fire alarm someone identified at least three more Episodes that had fire alarms in them. So that's a total of six fire alarm episodes for folks who?

Would prefer me to do the arithmetic for them And then I I have one more post, just to round it out, this last post. It's just the title. Anyone tried Cheers? Fuck no! And you'd think that would be better for sleeping because it's so, I mean, Frasier, they're drinking coffee. They're so stimulated. Right. Yeah. You're hearing, you're hearing about coffee and even hearing about coffee will keep you up. Yeah. Cheers. You're drinking beer. The bar is so dark. Yeah.

I've been, I've been in season three or so, two and three of cheers with my daughter who like cheers a lot. And Norm is so sad. I mean, obviously like, if you take the like meta of his character and you're like oh, he's just a sad alcoholic, yes he is. But like, in the earlier seasons of the show, like, shit is all, like, bad shit is always happening to him and he like struggles to come back from it. Like later on, he's just like a charming guy that's a house painter and complains about his wife. But like in the early seasons, he's constantly like losing his job

and like alienating his friends. I just feel like I would have social anxiety nightmares if I fell asleep to cheers. Yeah, I've never watched it. I'm more of a Frasier guy. Got it. Okay. Well, you know how you can tell somebody's a Frasier sleeper? If when like they're sleeping, they're tossing and turning going toss saladsoss salads, scrambled eggs, toss salads, scrambled eggs. Ah, ah, ah, ah, Eddie, get off the couch! Anyway, the Max Fun Drive. Well, Dave, thank you so much for coming on the subdoms. You really domed some subs with us.

We really appreciate it. They call me Jersey Mike the way I dom these subs. Dave Jersey Mike Schumke. This is the last time we are going to ask you to join Maximum Fun. If you're listening on the feed, that means that like you are literally listening on Sunday, the last grace period day of the Max Fund Drive. If you're watching right now live and streaming, this is the final day of the drive. Every show on Maximum Fund, including ours, is supported by your memberships. It is an incredible honor to work for you. We are so grateful to

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is that you'll be a part of this and join us at MaximumFun.org slash join. You all really rule. It's really great. You guys have anything to add? No. Yeah, Dave doesn't. I will add something briefly. Thank you, Dave. Yeah, you know, I have been a part of a lot of entertainment products that appeal to a enthusiastic, small but enthusiastic group of weirdos that are entertainment products that are important to a small group of enthusiastic weirdos. And those things usually go away very quickly because, you know, in the world of media,

a small group of enthusiastic weirdos does not pay the bills, so the things have to go away. I am just so pleasantly baffled that we are still doing Jordan Jessico after all these years. Because yeah, it is not a giant blockbuster. We're not doing Kristen Bell's husband numbers. We would need Kristen Bell's husband on this show to do those numbers. Yeah. He was in Without a Paddle. We would need Kristen Bell's husband on this show to do those numbers. He was in Without a Paddle. Sure, he was, and he's married to Kristen Bell, and he has a podcast where he goes there, he goes deep.

It's not a normal interview show. So we don't have that, but we have a loyal group of enthusiastic weirdos, and because people join up, because people go to maximumfund.org slash join, we get to keep doing the show and it's so cool. And yeah, I think of all my friends who do podcasts for giant mega corporations and oftentimes their podcasts go away because they are not getting millions of listeners and it's a shame. That's happened to a lot of friends of mine and I feel bummed for them and very happy for us that we still get to do our weirdo little show for Freaks. So yeah, thank you very much to everybody who joins up. It's really, really cool and we

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all the subdoms and all the time of first sincerity that we have. David, thank you for joining us. Thanks. And I just wanted to say, I just want to say one thing. Daphne, if you're out there, please don't smoke. It's waking everyone up. You're going to set out the fire alarm. It's going to make Eddie bark and that's going to, you know, that's going to wake people up even more. Daphne is a listener. Daphne is a listener. We'll talk to everybody next time. Bye. Bye. I'll hug you and kiss you and love you.

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