Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Mommy Thinn, with Aparna Nancherla

Episode Date: December 18, 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 sucks and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I am Jesse Thorin America's Radio Sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. I have been celebrating the holidays, Jordan. Amazing.

As you know, my daughter, Grace, my oldest child. Yes. We'll only watch Christmas things for the entire month of December. Okay. Now, I know she's got a similar kind of policy for how. Halloween, right? Now, when do these things start, the first of the month? So you would think, you would hope, if twere you I, twere I you, sure, then twits thou wishest that it would start on the first of the month? Yes, thou wouldst. But forsooth does start the day after Thanksgiving.

Oh, verily. That's one of those. This is the, like, yeah, I thought it was going to start on the first. I knew it was coming down the pipe. I thought it was going to start on the first of the month. Then maybe on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Grace casually mentioned it starts the day after Thanksgiving. So I got an extra four or five days or whatever. So you have, so there's a buffer between Halloween,

October 31st and the day after Thanksgiving to where entertainment from across the calendar is on the board. Exactly. I can just watch normal fucking episodes of 30 Rock with my child. Right. Which is what we do together. We watch 30 Rocker. That's nice.

Cheers. For a while we were watching Always Sunny in Philadelphia. You know, we watched things that are nice and good. She's like, well, look, she was on board in a little interregnum period. I was like, I'm going to take a swing at this. You want to watch Larry Sanders with me? Oh, how'd that go over?

She liked it. Okay. I probably have to explain who Dwight Yolkham is or whatever, but, you know, she liked it. It went pretty good. Yeah, look, Grace, they might be giants. Every kid's favorite experimental rock duo. Let me get into who Mimi Rogers is. Okay, so anyway, so after Thanksgiving, it's all holiday through the end of the year.

And she's not watching movies right now, so it's only TV shows. Wow. So we have seen all of the Christmas cheers and stuff in previous years. And I don't know. How long has this been going on year-wise? Three years or four? Because, yeah, I mean, even though there's a lot of Christmas entertainment, you're going to exhaust that supply pretty cool. quick.

Especially if you're not a rewatcher, which I am not. I know a lot of people get a lot of comfort out of rewatching things. I'm only like, I'm watching 30 Rock with Gracie. This is the first time I've watched it since it was on television. So, you know, I got a 15-year break to forget all the jokes. I'm not a like, I like to watch the Miracle on 34th Street every year type person. We did watch Miracle on 34th Street last year? It's a wonderful movie.

Is that the, like, little kid proves that Santa is real in court movie? That's one I've never seen. It's fucking great. Okay. It's so great. It is one of the best on the nose things ever. I'm not, like, I don't, I'm not even that into It's a Wonderful Life. Yeah.

I only saw it as an adult and was like, huh, that's weird. I'm not that into this. Miracle on 34th Street, I do really like it. Cool. But anyway, I, there's no movies this year. So I was just like, there's got to be something I can watch that's not just every Christmas episode of Frazier. Sure. No offense.

I will probably end up having to watch every Chris episode of Frazier. I'm fine. It'll be good. But I wanted just something. Yeah. So, yeah, where are you at now? Well, we're recording this on, we're kind of early into December now, first week of December. I had already watched a year ago that Bill Murray Christmas special, which...

I don't think I've heard of that. Maybe I don't know what that is. I'm going to say it was directed by Sophia Coppola. Okay. And it has Jason Schenberg. Schwartzman and maybe Joanna Newsom or something Jenny Lewis. So this is

a real genre of thing is the parody of the old time Christmas special, right? So I think there's like a, was a Colbert one, you know, in the 90s. This is more of it on Comedy Central. This is more of a tribute. Okay. Yeah, this is a

tribute one. And it's very nice. Yeah. You know, does it suffer somewhat from it's we're just a bunch of friends who are excited that we're friends with each other because we're all so cute and famous yes uh you know but Maya Rudolph can sing you know she's a great singer yeah uh so I watched that last year that wasn't available to me and I'm just like I can't bear to watch like the Christmas home improvements yeah or the stop motion

specials from the 60s that I have no nostalgia for those kinds of things right like I don't need to watch any of those. So I was like, uh-oh. So I just typed Christmas specials into my phone and just said, what are the best. That's a great place to start. Yeah. I, so I watched the 1963 Judy Garland Christmas show. Okay. I had never watched with the kids? With Grace. Yeah. I had never watched a Judy Garland as an adult thing. I think, I mean, I've seen Meet Me in St. Louis, which is great. Really great. Really funny, actually. And then, The Wizard of Oz, which is, you know, the Wizard of Oz. But I didn't have a full conception of Judy Gar, like.

Yeah, I think I know her from the jokes about her. That, you know, maybe she was like on pills and acting weird later in life. And anyway. I mean, my first impression of this was she is 40 when they made this. She looks like a hot 60-year-old. Okay. Like so hot. Like, she's a smoke show.

Sure. But she also has a near-death goolishness toward her. She is, she shares with Liza Minnelli, who as a 17-year-old, is in this, a quality where they look like they are always just about to, like, look out of frame because someone jangled some keys over there. Like, there's just sort of like a feeling of discovery to everything. that they're doing. And then there's also, and this is super true what Liza Minnelli is singing and dancing in this.

She's 17. And like Liza Minnelli is, I mean, I had never seen Liza with a Z until a couple years ago and thought, oh shit, this is what, this is why gay guys like Liza Minnelli so much. This is fucking amazing, right? She is amazing.

She is like, she is such an awkward teenager but also an incredible singer and dancer, right? So, I mean, she has like an awkward teenage quality to her now as a 75 year old or whatever. But it is like simultaneously watching someone who is the most seasoned professional singer and dancer who's ever existed, like a virtuoso. but also learned to walk 15 seconds ago. Like, just found out that singing exists. Sure. You know what I mean?

Incredible stuff. Plus, every once in a while, everything just gets interrupted by a home invasion of, like, 40 insanely manic Santa Claus showgirls. Okay. I don't know if they're men or women, Jordan. They have full Santa suits, but then, like, they just have tights below the jacket.

Okay. So I don't know if they're supposed to be hot babes or like Peter Pan type dudes. But they just, a couple of times, they just break down the door. Mel Tourmet shows up. Okay. Young Mel Tourmet. Yeah, this category of thing is something that I only know from the parodies of. Right.

Who could that be? It's our celebrity friend. Like, I feel like that had not been a thing. Like, that was the thing before we were born. And then we saw all the parodies of that. What's incredible about it is, Judy Garland, who it's her home, right, is the premise of this. Right. Judy Garland is such a fucking crackling live wire.

Like she is so high or drunk or whatever, right? But she is like clearly like popping greenies. You know what I mean? It's not like a sleepy far away look in her eyes. the amount of present and casual that she is selling, you're like, is this Judy Garland's actual house? Like, are we going to see this fourth wall at some point and find out that we're actually in her home

because of like how fucking there she is? Right. Like her being four years from death and on her fifth husband only lends like immediacy to her performance. Also, there is she, Liza Minnelli comes in and out with her beau. She is 17. That's B-E-A-U-B-B-A-U-B-W. Right. Then... Not her beau-staff, the Kung-Fu weapon. No, Raphael comes in and out. Is that the

right Ninja Turtle? Sure. Who has the... Donatello? What are the weapons? Donatello Leonardo has the katana. Yes, yeah, yeah. Okay. So anyway, the other two children, her two children that aren't with Vincent Minelli are there. They're like little kids. They do adorable little kid things. And you're just looking at them and thinking like, you're not as talented as Liza Monelli. But then like, yeah, just it is so bananas. And then at the end, this is the thing,

at the end, the two little kids, Liza Monelli excuses herself with her bow, Mel Tourme goes home and brings all his friends home with him. He brought a lot of people. Okay. The guy who sings the theme. Did he bring the, fit Santas

of indeterminate gender? No, they break in. Okay, they just bust in one time when she's alone and it feels like a home security commercial. Sure. Or like an A-24 movie.

Yeah, exactly. It was really upsetting. The call's kind of coming from inside the house and it's a gender non-specific Santa Claus dancer. They dance so maniacally. Like the level of intensity

of their dancing. I think it's supposed to be a joke break? Okay. But it's not funny. It's scary. Like, it's really weird. Anyway, at the end, the two adorable little children who are, you know, eight and five or something like that, are talking to Judy Garland and they say, Mom, we can't be done now. Won't you do that thing you do every year? And she said, yeah, won't you do what thing you do every year? And then she just sings somewhere over the rainbow, and that's the end. Just every, that's the holiday tradition in the Judy Garland household as she sings.

A song that's not about Christmas. Yeah, she sings this non-Christmas song that's her standard. Maybe it just means that she sees the children once a year when they come to her stage show. Right. They're her fake house on a set in Burbank. Yeah, it was really, I, let's bring our guest in because I'm interested to hear about her holiday viewing habits. I am too. I'm interested to hear about your holiday viewing habits.

She is genuinely one of the funniest human beings that walks this earth, Jordan. One of the greatest stand-up comics in America. I'll tell you this, my same daughter and I went to see her perform on a show at the Dynasty typewriter a few months ago. I said to myself, as I was watching this, Aparna was already one of the best stand-up comics in the world when part of her schick was, kind of looking at her shoes a little bit while she performed the best written jokes that exist. Now, she's also a stage dynamo

who owns the stage in astonishing ways. Okay. And I was like, fuck you, Aparna. She has a brand new special. She has a brand new special called Hopeful Potato. That's right. Aparnana and Charla. Hi, what a kind intro.

I mean it. That is so nice. I feel like as someone who is generally bad at taking compliments, it really felt like some homework my therapist gave me. I kind of want to try, because I know what you mean to, especially when you're like doing like a show like this and you kind of get that nice intro from the host. Yeah.

Jesse, maybe let's just try this on for size. Jesse, do a nice intro of me and like list one or two of my credits. Yeah. Okay, great. And I just want you guys to know, like a big piece of this is going to be. be that no matter what I say, I sound a little insincy. Well, that is part of the charm. Thank you.

Of course, Jordan Morris is here. He is the author of the acclaimed graphic novels Youth Group and, of course, Bubble. He's got an upcoming run in the World of the Predator, Marvel Comics, and he's even written for Spider-Man and Godzilla. he's one of the funniest guys I know, and I've been lucky to work with him for the past 25 years, Jordan Morris. Wow.

Yum, yum. Okay, good. I like that. You want to try that, Parna? She's one of the funniest stand-up comics in the world. Oh, should I say, yeah? She really knows how to own this stage, and she's got a brand new comedy special called Hopeful Potato

coming out in just a moment from the folks at dropout, Aparna Nuncherlo. Oh, thank you so much. also, no, you're supposed to, no, sorry, you messed up your line. Yeah, just try it. I don't know. Okay, okay, no, I love the yum yum, but I didn't know if I could steal for that. No, you can, this is your own spin on.

We're giving you home where you, this is cognitive behavioral therapy. Oh, gotcha. Okay, okay. She's one of the funniest stand-up comics in the world of Parna Nunchurla. I love that. Now, I'm going to. You slurped it like a noodle. I'm going to have you, Jordan, take that one for when we're talking about Predator.

Sure. Ooh, I love that. That's what the predator says when he eats Carl Weathers. I'm sorry, Aparna. You were so nice. He president doesn't eat people. He takes their spines as trophies. Yeah, let's get it. Let's get it correct. Then why is he going? Well, he sometimes misses dinner.

And while he's collecting the spines, he also has. I just figure a lot of, like, comic book villains or monsters in general, they kind of feed on their, you know, prey in some way, whether it's like gaining power from their fear. So I figure maybe I should try to gain power from compliments by just consuming them. Yeah. Or keep the spines of your enemies as true. Yes, yes.

Anyone who compliments me, I take their spine. Yeah. A part of do you like, do you have certain holiday stuff you consume around? I was thinking about that while you guys were talking. And really quick sidebar, is popping greenies an expression? This is like greenies would be like old-timey amphetamines. Like Johnny Cash speed. Gotcha.

Like the kind of pills that Willie Mays would take in September as the season gets longer and longer. Got it, got it, got it. Because for some reason, I mean, not that I'm so innocent or like gylist, but I automatically thought of green M&Ms because there. Oh, yeah. Well, in that case. Because isn't that... Because isn't that that thing about some band they insisted on only having green Eminemes?

Yeah, like maybe Def Leppard it is. I think, here's my memory of it. It's Led Zeppelin and it was brown M&Ms, but it was like a cover because they wanted to see if people were paying attention to their writer. Oh, that means, I think. Okay. That could all be wrong or a little bit off. I hope people yell at me. for it.

Ooh, I can't wait for classic rock guys to tell me what was wrong about that. That should be your superpower. When people correct you after something you said on the show, you go, I love that. I should be gracious about kind of annoying online corrections. Oh, thank you. I think that story is like Van Halen or something of that era. Jordan Cowling is nodding about Van Halen. I think the rider for Led Zeppelin was that they needed seven underage girls

dressed as Santa Dancers In tights And they had to bust in Kool-Aid style Yeah And harmonized Oh yeah They were doing that like

Charles Stimmy kind of Yeah Yeah Do you guys miss The light brown Eminem I think about the light brown Eminem Probably more than the average person It looks the most like chocolate

It does and why did it I don't know. What did they replace it with something? Blue, I think, or red? Blue is more fuckable. Well, look. On white grounds. I feel like blue and red, I was like, oh, absolutely they're giving you cancer.

Oh, I see what you mean. Brown's a nice natural. Yes, yes, yeah. It's like this could all just be natural. Yes, yes, earth tones. Yeah, little natties. Yeah. That's what I call M&M.

Only the brown ones. The little nanny. Parna, what holiday celebrations do you partake? Okay, well, one of my favorite movies is Home Alone. Okay, sure. I think I watched it at a pivotal time in my life. I'm the same age as McCauley Cokin, so I think I may be imprinted onto him as a child when I saw the movie.

But I'm not a major rewatcher, but that is a movie I will rewatch. How many times do you think you've watched? Since I'm not a big rewatch person, maybe a handful of times, I would like to say four or five total. I think when I was an adult and I rewatched that movie, yeah, maybe I've seen it three times. Yeah. But I watched it a few years ago with my kids and I did enjoy it.

Yes. I was worried that I would just think it was boring. Like it seemed like, looking back at it in my mind, I was like, I might just think this is boring if I'm not a child. But I did enjoy it. I think I was not prepared for, as an adult, how hilarious I would find and how horny I would be for Catherine O'Hara. Oh.

Like, the level of, like, obviously, we're all horny for Catherine O'Hara at all times, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. One time she was on bull's eye was uncomfortably horny then. Yeah. But, like, watching the movie, I'm like, oh, right. Catherine O'Hara is, like, when I was a kid, she was just the mom in the movie. Yes.

I didn't even understand why the camera spent so much time with her, you know what I mean? Now I'm like, oh, she's fucking wall-to-wall hilarious and she's so, such a smoke show. Yes, oh my God. She's like the, yeah, she's like as big a star as Kevin, I would say. And that was my first exposure to her, I think, like before I knew of all of her Christopher guest stuff. You didn't watch SCTV as an eight-year-old? He didn't. I was really sheltered.

You didn't go to any advanced greetings of waiting for God. Oh my gosh, she's so good in all of those. Yes, she is. Yeah. But I actually did a show recently where I did do a deep dive on Home Alone in advance to prep for the show. And I learned that Joe Pesci was like cranky the whole time they were filming the movie. Like he was mad. He couldn't swear on set, which tracks.

But then also. But then also I think because, you know, they were filming with children and they had like very specific hours they could shoot. He was mad because he always like. like to golf in the morning before he got to set and he was like mad he couldn't get his golfing in. God, that's amazing. Oh, I love that. I thought you were going to say because they were shooting with children, he had to teach them algebra. Oh, no, no.

It seems like kids, yeah, I bet like obviously now home alone is like this like beloved thing, especially for people kind of around our age and it, you know, whatever, still plays on TV around the clock. But I think at the time he was probably like, oh, I was in Martin Scorsese movies. And now I'm like getting hit in the crotch. with baseball bats. And I'm not allowed to curse. You have to figure everyone there was just like, oh, John Hughes is sad now. Yeah.

Like, remember when he made, like, cool things that everyone liked? You know, he just make on a fucking kids movie with whoever Christopher Columbus is. Sure, yeah, yeah. That is wild that his name is Christopher Columbus. It is. Big time. Big time. Like, he didn't even think to add a B or something.

I know. Or, yeah, sure. You know what the B and Michael B. Jordan's? stands for? Christopher Columbus. Isn't that weird? Bristifer Belumbus. He could go by Chrissy.

Chrissy Columbus. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you're imprinted upon Home Alone. Yes, but then I will just watch any old holiday movie that pops up like on Netflix. That's like whatever their newest

contribution to the genre. Sure, it's like Lindsay Lohan and like a Matthew Lillard needs to save a puppy from a cranky town. It's not great quality control, but, I mean, it's right there. They're spoon-feeding them to you. Sure.

I mean, I got to say, this Christmas, directed by Paul Feig, starring The Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones. Yes. It's fucking great. That's a really good one. She's really funny. Why didn't that movie catapult her into every light comedy? She's fucking great in it. Oh, yeah, good question.

That's a rom-com? That's a rom-com. And there's a part of it that is based on the song, this Christmas by Wham. That part. Oh, we're getting a correction from Jordan Cowan. So the movie is actually last Christmas. This Christmas is the Chris Brown movie. Okay.

Let's not watch any Chris Brown movie. I do not want to support any Chris Brown movies. Maybe that's why he didn't go by Chris B. Columbus because it was Brown. Chris Brown Columbus. Last Christmas is based on the Wham song. Okay. And there's some parts

in it that are very divisive that are based on the Wham song. The plot parts. Plot parts towards the end that are based on the wham song. I understand why people would object to them if they do. However, I just want to say it's genuinely very funny and romantic. All right. I mean, I'm in. You had me at Paul Feig.

I love Paul Feig. We, for Aparna, I have a movie podcast called Free With Ads. Yes. And we have been doing Christmas movies all month. And I don't usually watch a ton of Christmas movies. I like Home Alone a lot. And we've got to get into this. Is Diehard?

Okay. We've got to get into this. Let's crack this egg open. Let's be the first people to address this. Weird about me. I'm kind of crazy and I think about weird things. Like, what if Die Hart? Sorry.

I know I need to not complain about it. You got to understand that Jordan is kind of twisted apart. I'm kind of fucking twisted. Well, my twisted thing is I haven't seen most movies. Okay. So I haven't seen Die Hart. That's pretty. twisted apart.

Wait, you're watching random Netflix movies instead? That's what really upsets people. Yeah. Because I haven't watched movies that are canon for a lot of people and like inform their whole view of the world. And then I'm watching like champagne problems. Okay. So let's talk about those movies. I want to know what is the most enjoyable of those movies.

What is the one that like caught you by surprise? Oh. I mean, I did like the Lindsay Lohan one. There was one that I tried to watch on Hulu. I think it was like, here's a Jewish offering to the holiday canon. And that one was hard to watch. Yeah. A very Jewish Christmas.

No, it was called like Minora in the middle or, I don't know. Is that a put on Malcolm in the middle? Yeah, they were pushing it really hard. Sure, yeah. He did have Frankie Munis in the lead role, which seems weird in retrospect. What has happened to him? He races cars and maybe is crazy. Okay.

I think Malcolm in the middle is coming back. Is it really? Yeah. Really? With Brian Cranston? I think with Brian Cranston. Whoa. Holy cow.

Oh, no, it's coming back with Van Halen. Sorry, I got that wrong and I know these classic rock guys are going to yell at me. Jane Casmerican Van Halen. I love that. They're playing one guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that wasn't your question. You said my favorite.

I mean, yeah, well, which one really got you? Which one got you? There was one I saw recently that I really loved that was kind of a queer Christmas movie. And now I'm blanking on the name, but it was like Kristen Stewart was one of the leads in Dakota Johnson, maybe. Oh, all right. Talk about live wires. Dakota Johnson will just say some stuff. Yeah, and it was like a sort of, you know, coming out movie in that she like brought Kristen Stewart home with her and was like, this is my roommate because she hadn't come out yet.

And then by the end, everyone's like, we love you, love is love. That sounds nice. Yeah. You made the poll champagne problems for one. Is that an actual title of one? Yes, that's one that just dropped hot on Netflix. It's about a champagne executive who goes to France. You know, you're run-of-the-mill champagne executives.

There's the rom-com jobs that every kid is like works at a magazine, interior decorator, champagne executive. Vice President of Bubbles. Yeah, exactly. So she goes to Paris to, you know, seal the deal on this big account. And, you know, her first night there, she meets this handsome Frenchman at a bookstore. She meets a handsome bunch of grapes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can never be together.

He's actually a bunch of grapes. You're just too small. In a trench coat. And his dream is to open a bookstore. and here's the big twist on this bookstore. It also sells wine. It's a bookstore with a wine bar. If you could imagine.

You know what? Jordan, can I just say this? I'm kind of twisted, obviously. Yeah. Obviously. I thought I was twisted because I watched Diartic Christmas, but you're what? I know. I just feel like if that bookstore sold chocolate, I'm moving in.

Yeah, I know. If that bookstore also sold chocolate, Jordan Cowling? I'm moving in there. You'd have to bring the recording equipment to me because I'm there with chocolate smeared over my face like Augustus Gloop, drunk on my ass, barfing on piles of books. Don't talk to me until I've had my bookstore

that also sells champagne and chocolate. You have your tote bag. It's fiber chalk somewhere. Jordan, what have you watched on Free With Ads? So we watched a Dolly Parton TV. movie from the 80s called Unlikely Angel. And this is from Dolly Parton's line of branded TV movies, not a movie with Dolly Parton in it? You know, I've only been recently made aware that Dolly Parton has a whole, like, Christmas averse around her.

This was from, like, 1986, and it aired on CBS. So I think this is maybe before she launched the brand. This is maybe before 9 to 5, too. Wow. But it is a ton of fun. I know the most boring thing in the world is to say how great Dolly Parton is. It's like saying, I love bacon, but she's really terrific in it. Well, two points to that.

One, I really miss TV movies because I feel like that genre doesn't exist. I mean, obviously streaming you could argue as a form of TV movie, but I don't know. I feel like TV movies were their own thing. This is a real TV movie-ass TV movie for sure. You're clearly watching basically that instead of The Godfather. whatever. No, I am. Battleship Potempton.

But my second point was that Dolly Parton has had a wild career because the most recent thing I tracked on the Dolly radar was that she is now on Substack. Oh. And I'm like, imagine just like having, I don't know how she makes her decisions, but you know, her career advisor just be like, okay, your next move is. I literally heard this on the radio on the way over. is that a new Dolly Parton Venture is branded rest stops. What?

Yeah, I guess there's one in Nashville. Like, when you're on a road trip, you can pull over and shit, question mark, at a Dolly Parton branded rest stops. I mean, I have to say rest stops can, you can only go up at a rest stop. So it's like, if you're putting Dolly on it, I'm like, I ought to already feel better. Yeah. I also think she probably has a really well-formed movements. Oh, yeah. Oh, tightly coiled turds on that legend.

That legend's got some time. We have no choice but to stand. I have no choice. You feel like when you're that famous, someone is pooping for you. Somebody just graduated from college. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Goes from Dolly to an intern.

Yes, yeah. It's like the opposite of when you get a young person's blood, you outsource your shit. To a younger, healthier person. Got it. But that's a balance of the humor. You have to. You have to. That's where we're at.

It's like millionaires who think they have too much black bile. Yes, yes. I maybe wouldn't be that surprised if that was some new thing that came out of the 2025 FDA is like, people have too much phlegm. Leeches are back. Yeah. Robert F. Kennedy, I don't want to talk about people who are excessively phlegmatic. We have to bleed ourselves strategically, strategic bleak. Pleading.

And Dolly Parton is, like, totally great in this. It's a, like, angel that needs to get her wings story. So she's a country singer who, her name is Ruby Diamond, some great naming there. She gets in a car accident and, like, goes to, you know, heaven at the pearly gates. This is a great, like, 80s cameo. Roddy McDowell is St. Peter. Now we're talking.

And, you know, like. He's in the ape makeup. Yeah, he is. He's like, surprise, apes are gods. And Dolly Parton is so good in movies and is great in this, but also, like, her acting range doesn't go very far. Okay. Like, I don't think I've ever seen her, like, breakdown in anything, you know? Right.

She's always just kind of, like, charming and unflappable. Yes. And when she gets to heaven, she's like, I'm dead. Shoot. Oh, shoot. And the thing hanging over her head in this is she would go to hell. if she doesn't, you know, get this family together at Christmas. And they, you know, they're pretty blunt about it.

She will go to hell. And she's like, oh, well, if I don't do this, I'm going to hell. Shoot. It's just like, I stubbed my toe tone and it's very funny. I'll pop a few more greenies. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. She's popping greenies, no question.

I feel like that, yeah, not that she will ever pass from this earth, but that just feels real that that's how she would react when she gets up. It kind of does, doesn't it? Yeah. Do you think her famous husband that nobody's met, do you think he calls her D.P? I hope so. I hope that they're intimate enough. I love that.

It's a real sweethearts term. You want to take a quick break? Yeah, I need to pop some greenies. I'm getting a little low energy. So can we pop some G's? Pop some G's. Come back for some more tea. That's talking.

Abarn, if you prefer, we have diet pills. Oh, yeah. We'll be back. D.P.s. Diet pills on Dolly Parton's. We'll be back in just a second. Jesse Go. It is Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne. America's Radio sweetheart.

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Of course. Bad television program, a failure. This movie that we watched about a Christmas podcaster is the worst movie I've ever seen. Yes. It is called the Christmas Challenge, not technically a Hallmark movie, but in the Hallmark

style. Yeah, made for Up TV. Up TV. A channel everyone's definitely heard of. Sure, we're all talking about Up. We've got to make it home in time to watch Up tonight, you say, to your loved ones. I feel like Up TV is the channel that's playing on the television in the hospital when you wake up from anesthesia, but you can't move.

You're like trapped, and it's the only thing in your eyeline. Tell me up TV, what year is it? Yeah. So, yeah, this is a very bad, very ridiculous Christmas rom-com, and we watched it because it has podcasting in it. I guess I will say this for the movie. It has a lot of podcasting in it. Yeah, and they use their microphones correctly.

They use the microphones correctly. They look to be professional real microphones. So in that way, it's the best movie we've watched for this series, but in all the other ways, it's the worst. Yeah, I think we had a great time talking about it with our friend Arnie Neacamp. We did. Hello from The Magic Tavern. And he also has a brand new Christmas show called No Skip Christmas.

We had a great time hanging out with Arnie. I had a great time hanging out with you, Jordan. Thank you. Dramatically less great time sitting by myself trying to keep my eyes on this unwatchably dull film. But yeah, don't worry. I played Instagram clips of this star producer, writer's stand-up comedy into the microphone from my phone speaker. So the production values are high. You got to listen.

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Great. You know what? If you click that little star, Yeah. Dunzo. You did it. You did your part. That just means, you know what?

I acknowledge you tried to communicate with me, and that's all I can do at this time. And what's important is that acknowledgement? It lives right there in that star. It doesn't have to go to the other person. You're right. I start everything and I snooze everything. Do you guys, are you? No, I don't know about the snooze function.

Oh my gosh. What does this do? It says, you know what? I don't have time to think about this, but I'm going to move you to show up later. and guess what? Future you also can't handle it. Jesse, during the break, our producer Jordan Cowling pointed out

that maybe she had a take on the intro. I mean, I'm going with Yum Yum. Aparna's going with... That's a good. What was yours? More of that, please? I forgot what I said. I liked that, I think.

Okay. Yeah. Do you want to intro Jordan Cowling? And of course, our producer on the program is Jordan Cowling. She's not just an exceptionally competent producer, but whenever she turns on the television show Frasier, she gets the one where Daphne finds out, Jordan Cowling.

Frick, fracka, fricker, fricker, fricker, frick. That's what Joe Pesci does in Home Alone. That's just making a noise. Wait, is that a noise he makes when, when, like, he gets hit in the balls? Yeah, he doesn't want to curse. So he goes, fricker, flicker, fricker, fric. Yeah, it's like Yosemite Sam being at, huh? It's like, gotcha, got you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or it's like Joe Pesci when he can't do his morning golfing, but he also can't swear on set. Yeah. Do you think he actually on set was going like, fuck shit, little motherfucker? And they had to like pipe in. I think so. I mean, I can't imagine him trying to curb his impulses. Maybe there's a Pesci. I feel like he swore as a baby.

And smoked a big cigar and played golf probably. Yeah. Probably had to get up to play golf. I wonder, I wonder if. there's like floating around a like pesci cut where he was like saying cunt a lot oh i'm sure there is he's like what it means friend in england when i go to england they say it all the time when a kid hits him in the balls they say it apart have you ever golfed before no i've mini golfed which i really enjoy but i've i have friends who golf and they say it's really fun but i've never done it and i think

I think I'm a little biased against the environmental impact? Oh, I thought you were going to say biased against the kind of like businessman vibes. Oh, well, yeah, that too, that too. Like, that's why I don't think I could bring myself. Yeah, I meant the environmental impact of businessmen. Like if business is bad for the environment. If I like separate the cultural vibes from it, I can actually imagine enjoying it a lot. Yeah, because the people recommended to me are not.

that vibe at all yeah right yeah uh noteworthy jordan jessigo regular chris fairbanks like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah and like is there a more opposite than a businessman by exactly yeah exactly yeah i feel like chris fairbanks would be in like a buddy comedy where it's like his straight-laced brother right like old chris is coming to town and needs a place to crash yeah yeah exactly but no i i mean i could see why it's fun because i do always always always want to spend more time outdoors and it feels like a very pleasant way to like spend time with another person. I love social outings where you don't have to make eye contact the whole time. That is kind of nice. Go to a museum with me. It's all I want with everybody. Just let's just

go to a museum together. Yes. Yes. Something where you can kind of walk and talk. I went to New York for like two days. Went to like 17 museums. Okay. Everybody just got come to a museum with me. You and me were going to the museum. I saw our friend Mario Reyes. Mariel, I was like, what museum did you go to? Yeah. We went to the mocha.

The mocha. We went to the mocha. Wait, no, I went to the MoMA with Mario. Mario and I went to the MoMA, and then I went to Mario to the MoMA and Mommy to the Mocha. You know with Mommy? Did you see Mommy while you were there? I did see Mommy. She's thick.

That's about Judy. Yeah, I guess probably so, which is weirder if I'm talking about Judy or Gail. I don't know. That's my mom and Jordan's mom. What's your mom's name? Sichitra. Sachitra. Yeah.

Is Mommy thick? No. Mommy thin. Okay, well, never mind then. Who cares? Mommy thin with two ends? Is that my second? Yeah, that's right.

Like I'm thin. Nin-nan-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n. then with two ends. Should we go to the telephones? I would love to. Okay, if you want to call us, 2069844 Fun or email us at JJGo at maximum fund.org, you can just send us a voice.

A part of inside every telephone lives two voices. No, there's a microphone right here, and you can just press a record button. Then you can just email us a high fidelity recording. You do it in a nice, do it in your closet for maximum audio fidelity. And what kind of things are people sending in? Well, so there's two main categories. One is momentous occasions.

So that's when something momentous happens to you. No matter what it is, you know. And then the other one is a whole broad variety of segments that we definitely thought of. It's not just people calling in and saying a thing that they want to talk to us about. Okay. It is. Front loading it with a segment that they made up to fit in the thing that they wanted to tell us about. So any basically Q&A after like a screening?

No, because this is something that we came up with. Oh, okay, so you have to take some more accountability. You know what? Maybe we should... I like where you're going to this apart. Should we open up the phone lines to things that are more of a comment? This could go poorly, but if you're out, let's test this. Yeah.

206-984 for fun. Call us up with something that's more of a comment. Yeah, you're going to start, just so Jordan Cowling can recognize it. You're going to start with... This is more of a comment. More of a comment. Anyway. So we'll hear that.

This is a two-part comment. Let's take a call. Hey, Jordan, Jesse, guest. This is Dave from Indiana, and I'm calling for your recurrent segment. Celebrities whom I've looked straight in the eye for more than five seconds. It was James Corden, and he was sitting on a city bike. It was weird. That's a long time to look straight into James Corden's eyes.

I don't want to get to know. No, that's all. And I have follow-up questions. Like, why was he on a city bike? Was this person on a city bike? You know what? I once our Richard Kind on a city bike. Whoa.

That's a dream. That's like a, that's like Richard Kind is like everything that you wish James Corden would be. I mean, I guess he doesn't have a funny accent. Well, he's got a little bit of a funny accent. He is a very distinct way of speaking. Yeah. But, you know, singing and dancing, being charming and hilarious, being great on talk shows.

These are the things that we would like James Corden to be that he's not. And these are things that Richard Cynne delivers 12 out of 10 every time. Yeah. Well, do you think the collar was implicitly bagging on James Corden? The collar might. Look, Dave might like James Corden. Okay, yeah, I felt like it was very diplomatic. Maybe he liked him in Into the Woods.

Yeah. I didn't. I thought he kind of stunk. I envisioned when they were saying that, I envisioned them at, like, a traffic intersection or something where they, like, could not avoid the extended eye contact, but. What would that? You think Dave from Indiana is a traveling traffic cop? I guess. I don't know. Maybe he's a traffic light. Oh, you might be a traffic light. It could be, yeah, a human who was turned to do a traffic light because of some witch's curse.

Yeah, it seems like probably Dave from Indiana is a human who's been turned by a. witch's curse into a traffic line and therefore has to make high contact with celebrities whenever they're stopped at him yeah yeah because celebrities are less likely to obey the social contract as we all know you know what tell me about it Dave is probably a little guy that's holding a bicycle in the little cutout that's on a traffic light that's just for the bike lane that's right sometimes there's a traffic lane every time every time we see that every time there's a guy in the light Instead of just a light. Oh, I was going to say, is that a human who's been cursed by a witch?

Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why they had witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Really? Because they just put it in bike lanes. Huh. Okay, so they just needed human souls to go into the lights. To go into the lights.

Yep, yep, yep, yeah. But then people were like, this has gone a few steps too far. Don't get on our ass, classic rock guys. We're just joking around. We're just joking around. We're just having fun. We're just having fun. We're just having fun.

Mm-hmm. Wow, though, that's a long time to make eye contact with someone. One, two, three, four, five. Now imagine Gordon's looking right at you. I know. I feel like that's an acting class exercise. Yeah, look at James Gordon. He's probably just trying to figure out if you're Adele or not.

Sure, yeah. If you're Adele, he's interested. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. It feels like 2025 great year to be cursed by a witch. Like if you're wanting to get into a traffic light right now.

If you just need to tap out, that's, I feel like there's, I feel like witches would be cleaning up. Sure. Like, their version of cameo is offering curses of people. If you get cursed by a witch and turned into a traffic light, like the health insurance is great. I think you can, you can buy a witch curse on like Etsy. Yeah, that's, I'm sure you can. I'm sure it's in the fine print. I'm just saying there's a lot of witches out there right now.

Like, if you need to, I think curses are probably at an all-time high, or at least at a high since, like, you know, 1350. Can we do this? Because I think this is an interesting theory. J.K., can we, while we're playing the next call, can you look on Etsy and see what a witch's curse sets us back? Great. So, yeah, why don't we play this other call?

We'll, you know, do our thing where we talk about the call, and then let's price some curses. Great, thank you, Jordan. Thank you. Hello, Jordan, Jesse, and guest. I am assuming it is Diwali Sai Kautau. So I'm calling in for your long-running segment. Things you do that get validation from strangers in public.

Is Tuali-Cowtow a national figure? She's an NPR reporter. But she's a national NPR reporter. Oh, I don't know. Maybe she was a local. I thought she was maybe a local, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she's a national reporter. One of the great names of NPR.

Go ahead, Jordan. Sorry. Warehouse members-only shopping store doing some shopping. I got there at 9 o'clock, which was 30 minutes before they let the regular people in. And I managed to get a bunch of groceries, no electronics, nothing that was super spendy, other than food, which is spendy, and racked up $300, a bunch of items in my cart, and did it all in 20 minutes. I got to the door where a gentleman was checking.

my receipt to make sure I wasn't smuggling something out of the store that I didn't pay for. And he looked at my cart, looked at me, and said, wow, you did that in 20 minutes? You should feel a sense of accomplishment for the rest of the day. And I did. All right, go punch a blimp. You know, it just occurred to me that when they said that Trump insulted Gold Star families, do you think they were talking about Gold Star Costco members? I think so, yeah.

And their families? Yeah. Why do you need that many paper? towels who needs that many paper towels where are you going to put them all where are you going to put them all where you're going to do a great trump a lot of people say that about me yeah i said that jordan does a great trump thank you i were i admired donald Trump he does a great Trump he does a great Trump he doesn't really he's a funny take on it I would say Trump does a maybe top 10 Trump sure it goes Alec Baldwin yeah yeah yeah I think some other people are doing a better Trump a lot of good

partner you a prize club Costco No I was growing up Like my parents were diehard Costco Diehard the movie Costco members But yeah

No have not Partaken as an adult Though I remember I had a friend recently Who had a birthday And one of the best gifts She got with someone Got her a Costco membership

And I was like that is a nice gift That's a very nice gift Can you go I mean you've been a New Yorker for a long time. Are you living in L.A. now? Yes. You were a New Yorker for ever.

I was. I don't even know if there's a Costco. Yeah, I was going to say, do you have to, like, go to a weird part of Queens or Long Island or something to go to Costco? I think it's like multiple trains and maybe a bus and a ferry. They don't have, like, city Costco, like they do a Target. No. But, yeah, Costco, I remember being a hallowed place as a kid. It's like, oh, we're going to Costco. We're going to make a whole day of this.

So I was impressed that this caller was saying 20 minutes because I was like, minimum, I'm spending three days in there. I love Costco. Of course, our listeners know, but you probably don't. Maybe you do. Maybe my reputation precedes me. I'm a Costco Connection Magazine celebrity. I've been featured in Costco Connection Magazine. Dang.

I went on our friends, the doughboys podcast, to talk about Costco. And one of the things that I said is like, Costco is a treasured place. for me because when I was a teenager, my dad got his disability. Like he had a service-related disability, but it had never been fully certified to where he got like real money. Okay. And when he finally got it certified, it meant that like he was getting $28,000 a year from it or something.

Okay. And that meant that we were middle class. Gotcha. And the first thing my dad did was join Costco. Of course. And we didn't go that much, we didn't buy that much there. But, like, just having that flat of ramen noodles symbolizes, like, success and stability to me so, like, the way that owning a white picket fenced house in the suburbs does to others, to me, it's the ability to go to Costco whenever you want. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I had immigrant parents, and I think it's, like, something about what Costco is is just, like, really scratch. a first-generation immigrants. Like, it's like your dream of what America is. It's like a big warehouse where you can just buy 50 lotions in one swoop. Well, I think it's that for Americans, too. I mean, like, there are, I'm in some of these, like, Facebook groups for expats living in Mexico. Oh.

And they got Walmart in Mexico. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got Walmart all over Mexico. Those expats want to talk about Costco. Like, there's like eight Costco's or whatever in Mexico, and the expats are in love with the Costco. Because you go to Costco, it's like going to that little store that sells Irish sweaters and like marmalade.

Yeah. Only in 75 packs of protein powder or whatever. Yes. I remember when we would go to Costco as a kid, when I was a kid, my parents would drop my sibling and I off in the books. section and we're like we'll be back and then I was like this is wild that they're like we're first generation immigrant parents we are bringing you to Costco and you will be in the book section you'll be in the math tutoring area but then this is even wilder I grew up in the era where magic eye was really having a moment and one time we went my sibling did too many magic eyes and fainted

Because I think they were maybe dehydrated or something I don't know what happened But did they ever wake up Well they fainted in the book section at Costco And I remember like some grown up nearby was like Is this your you know sibling or whatever in that moment? And then I just I went full lassie and I just started running I'm in trouble

Well I was looking for my parents but it was I like My brother's in the well I couldn't handle like staying there In that moment, I was like, I must find help. Yeah, it was wild. What was your favorite item that came from the Costco? Ooh, I mean, I was also at that age in a very big campaign to convince my parents to let us have a dog. So I would buy like all those books that were like 500 dog breeds.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was certain you were going to say a giant box of milk bones and just make white parents. Well, we got all these milk bones. Yeah. What are we going to? Oh, no, I thought these were for a huge. Are we going to get 30s?

But yeah, I think probably a book at that age. I was so excited about a giant box of frozen corn dogs. Ooh. Because I could cook them myself. Like, all I really know how to cook was pasta, but then I can cook it. You can cook a corn dog. Oh, for sure. I could put a corn dog in an oven for 15 minutes or whatever.

I mean, we were buying, you know, I don't know, like a small corporation's worth of bagel bites at the time. Yeah, yeah. When you're in the Costco subreddit, which of course I am, like there's a really big community of people who want to talk to each other about the alcohol available at Costco. Oh. Like whether it's like beer guys or people who want to talk about the liquor, the, not a ton of wine people, interestingly.

It seems like it's mostly liquor people and beer people. Okay. But like sometimes Costco will get a special beer or whatever. Oh, okay. But they'll talk about that. Right now, you can buy like a flat or a 36 pack of buds at a certain Costco for $4.79 or something. That's a good deal. That's a great deal.

I'll start crushing buds. You gave me an idea for my holiday movie, though. I'm going to, my hero is going to want to start Costco with a wine bar. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'd never leave. I know. If they had chocolate, I would, Jordan Cowling, write this down. If a Costco with a wine bar had chocolate, I would move in there.

You'd have to bring the equipment there. Can we, before we take a break, can we price some curses? JK, did you come up with anything? I sure did. So it looks like a lot of the Etsy witches are currently adhering to the Cyber Monday special. So you can get a bunch of custom curses. and spells for $6.66. That's fun.

Are they specific? Can I get like a, you know, dad gets diarrhea or something, or is it just like, is it just like create your own curse? So these are for custom spells, but if you won a spell, for example, there's a powerful revenge spell on sale right now for $7.80, you can get a remove their power curse for $550.

These prices are kind of all over the place. I know. What does it cost to remove someone's spine and save it as a trophy? I'm not seeing that priced out on Etsy, but I do see a get apology and regret spell. That's $149.99. That's pretty good. I mean, you know, considering how much those things, you know, if someone's wronged you, it can really weigh on you. Do they send you like a video of them doing the curse or do they send you like a hand-tooled leather belt?

So I actually know this from firsthand experience. In 2023, I had a downstairs neighbor put a curse on me, and I did purchase an Etsy curse, a reversal curse for them. It cost me 1749, and they didn't send me anything. So pretty much I just gave them $17. Did you feel like the curse had been lifted? Do you think that it worked? I don't think that it worked. I think your results may vary.

You're probably not going to enjoy this. Do you think that your downstairs neighbor had particularly powerful magic? That's what I think. I think her curse superseded my curse, so my powers were not powerful enough. Was it because your downstairs neighbor said that she didn't want to live downstairs from another fucking podcast producer? So tired of these podcast producers and their lifestyles, in their lifestyles, always bumping episodes of cereal shortly before they're released.

You guys want to take a break? and get a little revenge and then come back for some more. Yeah, I'm going to try the lobster mac and cheese at Costco. Ooh. We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jesse. Hello, La, La, La, La, La, La, La. Greetings, I am John Hodgman, co-host and co-creator of the Judge John Hodgman podcast,

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I think it's dropout. Dot TV. Oh, that's perfect. That's the new way to watch TV. And they're merging with Netflix. Is that correct? I think they're in talks. Great.

Yeah. They're merging with Venmo, actually. Oh. Yeah, they're merging with Venmo and the weather app. It's a one-stop shop Jordan, you get hilarious comedy specials and improv game shows

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Thank you Oh were you congratulating a parna on her hilarious comedy special. I'm congratulating everyone on everything. Just a general. The listeners, congratulations. I bet you can buy a congrats from a witch on Etsy. Can we price to congrats?

Google witch, heartfelt congratulations. Google that on Etsy.com. This is kind of a fun. We should curse somebody, right? Oh. Oh, yeah. Let's buy a curse and put it on, I don't know, Dave and Graham and see if.

Yeah, is there like a fun curse you could do? What would be a cute slash fun curse? Type in cute slash fun curse. A high helium voice? Oh, yeah, just for a day or something. This is a fun connection. Your special was directed by beloved Jordan Jesse Go recurring guest. Maybe the most beloved Jordan Jessica recurring guests.

Very possible. Very possible. Sorry, Nick Adams. Yeah. I believe it. Yeah, Eliza is a good pal of mine. And I was so excited that she was down to direct because she, you know, had expressed interest and then we, it all worked out. But she was a joy to work with, joy to be friends with, didn't ruin our friendship.

That's nice. Was she just out there holding a clipboard? And then when she weighs it in the air like this, that means. Yeah, like an air traffic control. That means be more funny. Let's burning in the punchline. Yeah, yeah. She was like a stage mom.

She was like, don't forget to smile. She's handed you a handful of greenies before you went out on stage. It was like, here are you greenies. You do have a little bit of conceit in this special. There's a little bit of Aparna enjoying Aparna's comedy show. Oh, yeah. I mean, I did that just because I feel like whenever I perform, there is a part of me that's sort of dissociating and like watching myself do the show.

So it was less like me like, ooh, delicious. I get to watch myself and more that part of me that's always like, What is, how did this, how are you doing this? Yeah, there's a little bit of, Gashiga, there's an Aparna in the audience in addition to the Aparna that's on stage. That's a lot of fun. I'm going to keep an eye out for that

when I'm watching the special on Dropout. Yeah, just dropout.tv. No crowd reactions unless it's more me. Uh-huh. And you were saying that you're, you've been kind of dropping in to some of the other dropout shows. I have, I've been dropping in to drop out.

Is that the, when you talked about preparing the presentation on Home Alone. Was that, that was for a dropout show? That was for a different show. Yeah, that was for one of, you know, many, one of L.A.'s Bountious Independent Comedy shows. Okay. Yeah.

That's at homealone.com. Yeah, it's at homealone. Dot TV. Dot biz. I think it's probably a podcast that's just about Home Alone. I mean, that podcast. That exists. And it's more popular than this.

What about Home Alone? They can probably play the Greek, whoever that is. Home Alone 2 and 3? Yeah, that's the thing. I haven't, I think I watched two. I never watched three. I think I was just like, you know what, I'm good. I was good with the first one.

I actually didn't need more. What about Rob Delaney one? Was it Rob Delaney and a new Home Alone? Home Alone is one of those movies where there are like a weird amount of sequels that you wouldn't have, you maybe wouldn't guess that have, you know, either been to DVD or streaming or something like that. So yeah, no, I don't know a lot about the Home Alone universe. And in these other Home Alone movies, I imagine it's not McCauley Culkin. anymore but did that home alone are people like reading a paper and it's like you know this

happened to a kid in the 90s i don't know we got to watch them i'd like to see a home alone movie that stars macaulay calkin as the same character in the same context oh that would be a lot of fun you know somebody's writing it yeah somebody who wrote on rick and morty is writing that right now yeah hey hether ann campbell and nick wiger it might be it might be that'd be a good gig for them that do a great job. Aparna, I hope folks will rush over to drop out and watch a new special. It's so funny.

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