Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Podcasting Hall of Fame, with Ben Harrison

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

This week Ben Harrison (The Greatest Generation) is back on JJGO talking about winning awards, Jesse's induction into the podcast Hall of Fame, and Wario's love of pineapples.Try StitchFix today at and you’ll get 25% off when you keep everything in your Fix.Get yourself on the Jumbotron today by going to MaximumFun.org/jumbotronJordan has a new story in an issue of Archie Comics Chilling Adventures. It's called POP’S CHOCK’LIT SHOPPE OF HORRORS: FRESH MEAT and you can pre-order it here!

Give a little time for the child within you, don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you. It's Jordan, Jesse Goh, I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy, detective. Okay, so Jordan? Yes. Do you know the website reddit.com? I do. What a fun website. i'm just gonna go ahead think about

some of my favorite reddit posts okay well uh oh sorry i just wait no he didn't that's me reacting to a reddit he is the asshole he is the asshole yeah so i have i have a reddit post here that i wanted your insight into because I couldn't quite. This was, I subscribed to both. There's a podcast Reddit and a podcasting Reddit. I subscribed to both of them. They get a little mixed up. Is there a difference?

Are there different kinds of content on each of them? Your podcast's Reddit is a Reddit where you go most, not exclusively, but mostly to either say why you still listen to or no longer listen to the Joe Rogan experience. Okay. In this case, it doesn't have anything to do with Joe Rogan. Now, what are some reasons people would stop listening to Joe Rogan, like allergic to truth? Yeah, I think that's probably the main one. Truth gives me a rash. They wish they had to pay more taxes. That kind of thing.

Okay, so this was from the podcast's Reddit. It doesn't have anything to do with Rogan. Okay. Now, this is podcasts, not podcasting. Yeah, so this is mostly, I mean, I guess theoretically, one of them is for people who podcast. One of them is for people who listen to podcasts, it's it's a jumbled mess sure yeah you know mods clean it up okay yeah rockers you're doing great mods joe rogan is op nerf joe rogan okay so So the subject line of this was deviation from normality.

Okay. Now, needless to say, that showed up in my Reddit app. I tapped on that real quick. This is what it says here. It's from recentmatter3790. It's the name of the user. the user. Since I notice that podcasts are all about people sitting down to talk about something, are there any podcasts that are experimental or experiment with the concept of podcasts and try something new? Like instead of the usual format of talking into a microphone, it'll be something that isn't podcast anymore, but falls under the podcast category. I think my first instinct was this user is looking for audio of people pissing. Right. No, there's no question about that but that's that's r slash pissing podcast sure yeah that's a different subreddit so and a third subreddit is r slash pissing podcasting right is what sort of responses did this get i mean you know mostly people suggesting

audio fiction but okay what i'm thinking is this might be kind of inspirational for us yeah um because how long have we how long have we been podcasting jordan gosh forever uh yeah yeah and i think it's it's time to shake stuff up I mean, a lot of the time we are sitting down to talk about something. I mean, right now, for example, we're sitting down to talk about something. God, you're so right. Oh, God, you're so right. So what I'm wondering is what if we were experimental or we experiment with the concept of podcasts and try something new? Mm-hmm.

Like maybe instead of the usual format of talking into a microphone right you know these guys these guys right here that you're hearing those little tappies on maybe we could try do something that isn't podcast anymore but falls under the podcast category okay like karate would that be yeah sure so you would just get the audio of us grunting and boards breaking? No, I was thinking of just doing karate. Uh-huh. And then- I don't think the audio would be very interesting of that.

Sure. It would be amazing to see me do really cool karate moves. Right. And then, but you call it a podcast. How does this, how does this fit under what the user? Well,

I mean, it isn't podcast anymore. Once you stop recording, it isn't podcast anymore, but still falls under the category of podcasting. I'm thinking it still falls under the podcast category. Yeah. Right.

Cause what's podcasting that's, uh, entertainment, uh podcast category. Right. Because what's podcasting? That's entertainment, fitness, combat. Yeah, I guess so. So you wouldn't record it at all. You would just do karate. Yeah, but I'd be really good at it. Okay.

That's what I'm thinking. So all different styles of kicks, not just one. And then high and low punches. Okay. So maybe like instead of, and then I'm just brainstorming, because this karate thing sounds like it's going to work out great for you. Yeah. I would have a signature attack as well.

Maybe I'll like finally start severance. That would be really cool. Because people are like, I know know it's a little like old right now as people aren't really talking about it but let me now jordan then i could go to my friends and say like oh hey you know how you recommended severance to me i finally sat down and watched it and it was really good can i ask you this jordan yeah our producer matt is here matt lee can i ask you a quick question? Yeah. Yeah. What's up? So Matt,

you're a podcast producer, right? Uh, yeah, I'm pretty sure. So I put it together and stuff. Obviously Jordan watching severance. Yeah.

That isn't podcast anymore. Just watching it. You mean just him sitting down, watching and not recording himself, watching it and talking a lot of yeah a lot of people have recommended it to him well you should definitely watch it um yeah you liked it it's great i mean you know they're like uh i don't i'm not so i haven't seen it but i've read people who like it oh okay adam scott yeah yeah it's got adam scott and everything but that's that is not that's not podcasting are you looking for ideas

so here's my question matt if you if you recapped episodes of severance is that different enough from okay so ben harrison so that's our friend ben harrison from greatest generation and greatest truck he's the guest on the program he's a podcaster now matt just so you know because you guys haven't met each other uh in the past ben is a podcaster but he lacks the courage of his convictions this is a guy who's just sitting down to talk about something right um this guy is not experimental he doesn't experiment with the concept of podcasts yeah much less do something that isn't podcast anymore. So you're saying recapping an episode of a television show isn't experimental?

Because I think it's pretty weird, right? What I'm suggesting, Ben, is I wouldn't sit down with a friend and talk about severance and then go off on some pretty random tangents. I wouldn't be doing that. I would just be taking the time I would normally use for something like this and using it to finally watch Severance.

That doesn't sound possible. So if I could also emphasize something, just for your benefit, Ben, for your benefit, Matt, obviously I think we're pretty clear on this, Jordan. I would have a signature attack. Uh-huh. So it would be called like the Jesse's, the bald hook or something like that, you know?

Would it happen while he's watching Severance or is this not connected? No, he's kicking my ass while I watch Severance. Now this, now this falls under podcast category, I think. Wouldn't you say? Is it just like a format thing? Like if you go over to the podcast tab or whatever it is on Spotify, if then a book was there?

Yeah. Is that kind of what this person is getting after? Is it playing with it in that way? Or is it literally just like you click that tab and then Jesse is doing karate? I would love it if I tapped on Overcast in my iOS here. And instead of loading up a list of podcasts I subscribe to, what if there was just top-level category podcasts? And then it called my mom in Richmond, California, your new house. How's it going there? A phone call is a podcast,

but for one person. Wow, yeah, you're right. What is it for the other person? I think it's just a nice thing that happened. A nice excuse to chat with your son. A nice excuse to catch up with a son. I think a phone call technically has more listeners than most podcasts.

Yeah, it's true. I mean, if your mom is nice enough. Can I pitch something to you, Matt, just since you're giving the green lights and red lights here? Yeah. What if I call Sharon, Jordan's mom? Oh. She would love to hear from you.

Would you talk about severance? You'd probably talk about how things are going with Brad. How are things going with Brad? I mean, I could answer it for you right here. Great. He's a great guy. He's a really nice man. In my experience certainly i hope i hope mrs morris has the same experience oh yeah well i think we've cracked this one yeah i mean i mean i think this is

a good uh a good time to be talking about this exploring the genre exploring you know the limitations of what it is we do um ben welcome to the show by the way i don't know if we've officially walked thanks i kind of barged in no no no you can barge you're a friend i think i was just kind of like feeling a little bit strange that jesse brought your producer in before he brought me in and Dude, you're a bro. Bros can barge. I'm taking time out of my day, you know. No, it's fine. I think we've gotten what we need from Ben, right? Okay, so long. Let's wrap on Ben, everybody.

Series wrap on Ben. All right, stop recording, and just, we transfer me your audio real quick. Okay. Is it all right if I use Dropbox? Jesse's going to be working the heavy bag. I'm going to finally catch up on some prestige TV I've been meaning to get to. Hey, let me know what you thought of Severance.

I promise I won't record our phone call. Please don't. And if we go off on any random tangents, don't record that either. We would never. Yeah. This is a good time to be talking about, you know, the art form, the medium, limitations thereof. Jesse has been inducted into the Podcasting Hall of Fame. This is not a bit.

Sounds like it's a bit, but it's not. It's a real thing that exists and jesse is really in it i think the the question of whether it exists could be answered in a variety of ways it is a real thing i don't know where they're gonna put my plaque you know what i mean uh-huh like i don't know if they have the budget for a storefront like Like, there isn't an actual hall in the- Yeah. I think it's a metaphorical- It's a series of-

I think I get a lifetime free banquets at the podcasting conference. Well, where's the banquet held? The banquet was held in Orlando, Florida. Uh-huh. And it was held the night before my Judge John Hodgman show in San Francisco. And so for that reason, I did not attend the banquet, despite the fact that it was hosted by perhaps the greatest star in the history of podcasting, Dr. Drew. You could have seen Dr. Drew IRL and you're not canceling that Hodgman show? I know.

Where are your priorities, dude? He's a real looker too. That guy on stage in Florida, you really have to triple check that that's not a right-wing political rally that you're going to, right? You're really getting into dicey territory. Jesse, have you confirmed that the banquet in question is not just a Coors? Not a Bud Light, I can tell you that much. Dr. Drew wouldn't be cut dead in the same room. He would never.

He would never. Yeah, what was the menu like? Did you at least get to peruse the menu before you made your choice? Man, I really tried to think of how I could talk myself into an overnight or perhaps not even overnight. Because literally what I might have had to do, it was an afternoon judge, John Hodgman show in San Francisco. So I might've literally had to have like flown out the night of the banquet, like gone to the banquet and then taken a midnight flight to San Francisco or

something. I thought, I thought seriously about it. Gladys night song. I found out that grammar girl was not going to be there. And I said, I don't need to, you know, if Mignon Fogarty is not going to be there, I'm out. You're out. You know, I'm big time.

Was she also inducted this year? She was already inducted. I didn't know this thing had been. I maybe thought for a second this was like the inaugural year. You would think since I just got elected, but no. Apparently, they've been electing other people for literal years now. Oh, my gosh. Well, I'm glad they finally corrected their oversight.

Marin went in last year, and I looked. I said, well, Marin has an actual, unlike me, Marin has an actual career. He can't have shown up at the Podcasting Hall of Fame, right? He did. But you know why? Because last year it was in LA. So this is a traveling event. I think it travels with a podcasting conference.

I think one of the big podcasting conferences is where they have the banquet. Okay. the big podcasting conferences is where they have the banquet okay i tried to look into if i they because what they said to me was this is what they said they said you can come to the banquet for free um and you can bring someone for free and i said well i can't don't think i can come um and they said well would you like to send someone in your place? And I said, I don't think I know anyone in Orlando. I would have flown out. Thank you, Matt. I would have loved to go out.

I appreciate it. You should have sent me out there. Matt, you've got a baby to take care of, Matt. You can't just fly to Orlando. I am selfless enough to know when my friend needs someone to go to Orlando for him. Bam, how come you won't go to Orlando for me? I've gone to Florida for you many times, Jesse. And I think the third time I was like, all right, I think I have earned this friendship slash semi-obligation to show up when Jordan and Jesse go when somebody else cancels.

Aw, semi? That's so sweet okay so listen to this guy semi the old sweet it's a full obligation for me they said to me they said to me you can bring someone else send someone else in your place i said i don't know that i know like i i listed a few people who i know who like go to podcasting conferences i was like is roman mars gonna be there and they're like no to podcasting conferences. I was like, is Roman Mars going to be there? And they're like, no, there's no Roman Mars. I'm like, is Helen Zaltzman going to be there?

And they said, well, who would you like to induct you in? And they said, the guy who makes the podcast Lore is going to be there. He can do it. And I said, well, that's not a podcast I listen to, but he's got a a good reputation i bet that's a good guy it sounds fine to me but i don't know him personally and they said well for some reason that would be fell off the table so i presume that they offered it to him and he declined so then i said i made a list Grammar Girl was on it I was like here's some people that could be there who I would who I know

you know of all the Roman Mars and stuff and they said well they're not going to be there and I said well then you can really decide it's your judgment's going to be better than mine it's not somebody that's like my buddy I think you probably your judgment's going to be better than mine. It's not somebody that's like my buddy.

I think you probably know who's going to be there best. And the guy I was emailing with said, well, I'll do it. And I said, great. If that, if that makes sense to you, that makes sense to me. Um, go for it. And, uh, he emailed me back. Can you send me some information about your career you're like just riff

just sent him marin's bio i would have gone for you jesse if you were being inducted next year when universal opens up its uh Universe theme park in Orlando. Because I'm really excited to visit the Dark Universe. Wait, is this a Frankenstein, Wolfman, Mummy theme park? Yeah, it's a whole theme park. It's a monster-based theme park. And they're using the name of their aborted shared universe that was supposed to start with tom cruise's the mummy and the mummy was so unsuccessful that they just scrapped the

whole thing but then they took the name dark universe and just grafted it onto a theme park and it's probably gonna fucking rule there's some guy working at that company that was like oh we gotta scrap it but i just love that name. It's too good. I want to use it on something. Cruise is looking for a summer job, they said. You think Cruise is slinging churros at the dark universe? Yeah, I think that's exactly what's happening. He's battering something. Right.

Dropping it in the deep fryer. Anyway, I did get elected to the Podcasting Hall of Fame. It was very neat that I did. They took my address to send me the prize. We'll find out what it looks like when it gets here. Or it might just be a fishing thing. Yeah, why do they need your routing number? I'm just kind of curious.

I don't know if this is something you like submit to be in but if it was which episode of this show did you send the one where we wondered what wario's cum tastes like or the one where i talked about what it's like to be in a local weather commercial i didn't think it was appropriate to send the one where we wondered what Wario's cum tastes like. So I sent one of the other ones where we wonder what Wario's cum tastes like. Good call. Good call. It's come up more than a few times.

The one the first time. Very tasteful, Jesse. Well, Wario's cum? Yeah, I think so. You see how much pineapple this dude eats. It'd be awesome. you see how much pineapple this dude eats awesome if one of the things about wario is just like when you see his little guy dancing around waiting for you to choose him in mario kart or whatever oh yeah he's just fucking got a pineapple in his hand he's just taking a fat bite out of it i'm gonna eat around the other stuff in the fruit salad it's to alter my cum wow

it's to alter my cum i truly like i didn't um i didn't But I didn't put my name in a hat or anything. I hate entering awards because I'll tell you why. I don't know if you guys have ever entered yourself for an award for anything. I once got an email from the people at the Peabody Awards, which is like a very prestigious media awards thing. Right. Now, is that where they pick a boy and take him back in time? Yeah, exactly. You find a boy and you take him throughout time and you teach him stuff? That's to the Back to the Future Awards.

Okay. teach him stuff let's do the back to the future awards okay um i uh i i got so i got this email from mr peabody did you know what i was doing i knew i didn't know you were talking yes from bullwinkle yeah um i i've for some reason seen the 3D animated movie version. Oh, yeah? How is it? Yeah. Not that bad, honestly. I loved those cartoons as a kid.

I was a big Bullwinkle head. Yeah, because it's really funny. It is really funny. Yeah. Good gags. Great gags, Bullwinkle. Fractured fairy tales, Dudley Do-Right. I mean, come on.

These guys are some of the best. Some of the of the best Legends we have no choice but to stand So I got an email This may be like 10 years ago I don't know I got an email that said We're from the Peabody Awards Please send routing number Yeah

We're Mr. Peabody Is a Nigerian prince Please send routing number. Yeah. Mr. Peabody is a Nigerian prince. We're opening the awards to podcasts. We would like for you to apply for the Peabody Awards. And I'm like, oh, this is fucking great. This is the best award you can win. And they would not have sent me this email if I didn't have it in the bag. Right.

Like and applying for the Peabody Awards is like applying for college. Like you have to not only do you have to send them like four hundred dollars or something. Oh, boy. You also have to write an essay, like put together a portfolio, like all these different steps. Recommendation letter from your AP US history teacher. Like it was when, it was when Bullseye was still called the sound of young America, I think. And it was just being produced by me and our friends, Nick and Julia. And Nick didn't even work for him. He was just freelancing.

So Julia was working on the show three days a week or something. We had to take a week off to work on this packet. But I'm like, but this is going to be worth it when these public radio fucks see my Peabody award. And like I said, it costs like $500 to apply for this thing. We sent it in. And that was the last I ever heard of the Peabody awards. And I have felt bad about it ever since. Yeah, you're down $500.

I'm down $500. And you don't like, it would be one thing if I had gotten a note that said, thanks for applying for the Peabody Awards maybe next year. We're going in another direction. I mean, the really fucked up thing is your father won a Peabody and like that used to mean something to those people, you know? You were a legacy. You should have gotten it. I know.

I was a legacy. I should have gotten a Peabody. Ben, what's the highest honor you've ever received? I have a Webby Award for my work on the Engadget show. And I think we got the 2013 Webby for best video web series, mostly because we could just put something up on engadget.com that got everybody to go there and and click the vote button yeah it's just a matter of of wielding the audience that already existed for the website um so that's how that's how we got a webby for judge john

hodgman yeah it's um i'm sitting here with two webby winners matt do you have a webby no i don't but uh you know what award i do have what i have an award uh from the society of professional journalists really yeah i do why do you steal it why well they leave their van unlocked it was uh because uh i worked at al jazeera plus and they they submitted uh one of our videos to it and and we we won one so um i'm pretty important guys i just want to say yeah cool that's the thing you guys have these things in the frame jesse i don't see the web thing. Why don't you guys have these things in the frame? Jesse, I don't see the Webby. Ben, I don't see.

Where's your fucking journalist award, Matt? You have that in the Zoom. I'm sorry. Ben's got the Webby. You've impaled a Pee Wee Herman doll upon it? Yeah, I use it to keep my Pee Wee Herman up. Oh, cool. Yeah, that's what a Webby is good for.

It's heavier than it looks. Keeping the old Pee Wee up. Yeah, I'll just leave him right here. Webby is good for. It's heavier than it looks. Keeping the old peewee up. Yeah. I'll just leave him right here. Don't drink too much. You'll be fine. The other award I have is in college I submitted a screenplay that I'd written for class, like a short comedic screenplay to a competition that was like,

if you win this competition, we will produce your film, and then you'll be a writer that has produced work, which was a big deal at the time. I don't know if it still is. I don't know if that matters in the writing world these days, but it was very exciting because I won the competition, and they sent me money money and like a bunch of stuff like i think they sent me 500 bucks but then they never made the movie and like every

couple years i used to like send them an email and be like hey are you guys still planning on doing it and they're like yes yeah we're working on it and uh and they ran this award was this a nigerian prince of some kind? No, they made the other movies. They kept running. They did it annually. They made all of the other ones. They just left mine out.

They made the ones after yours too? It was so galling. That's a real kick in the nuts. Yours was like a Star Wars sequel though, right? So maybe like a little unwieldy to make, maybe like there were some rights issues. There was, well,

the main character was Charlie Kaufman who wrote like adaptation and stuff. And so I think maybe they were worried about either, you know, getting a no, if they approached him about appearing it or getting sued if they didn't. And just releasing something with his name. I mean, they probably had good reasons. Fucking suits, man.

It's fucking suits. Jordan, what's the last award you won? Oh, gosh. I don't know that I've won an award recently. I've been nominated for some awards. I was nominated. Now, I see your webby and I raise you a streamy nomination. That's for most prolific urinator uh-huh it is i record my urinations and put them up on reddit one year never yellow

a streamy award is the first step to getting a swigot, which is Streamy, Webby, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar? I was nominated for the Streamy for a really, really bad YouTube series that I hope has been taken down and no one ever sees. That's how the internet works. I think it had the, yes, the internet, hard to find stuff. I think it had the, yes, the internet, hard to find stuff. Yeah, it was, and I think it was, it made the streamies just based on the fact that it had a, like, popular YouTube personality at the center. So, yeah, so I think that's why, but I did get to go to the Streamys and Vanilla Ice performed.

How far down the list of people who say no and they had to cross their name off of a big whiteboard until you get to Vanilla Ice, do you think? That's a great question, especially something that is aimed at young. Because who watches YouTube? It's teenagers right i mean maybe that's changed now but i think certainly at the time like teenagers and magnet fishing enthusiasts sure yeah um yeah maybe there's a lot more q anon moms on there these days or something but yeah i don't know yeah i don't know the book of vanilla ice was definitely a weird one um and i think uh that was his most prestigious gig recently until this year when he played the Mar-a-Lago New Year's Party.

Yeah. And he had a Ninja Turtle with him. Oh, he did, right, yeah. Did he have the Ninja Turtle at the streamies or could they not afford the tack-on? Oh, I don't remember. I will say by the time Vanilla Ice i was drunk oh boy i think i showed up to that drunk um uh but i do remember like him oh i thought you were talking about the mar-a-lago

new year's party yeah you're stone cold sober at that oh yeah you want to just you want to be there to take it all in you don't want to miss anything. Well, and the big band is famously a teetotaler, so you wouldn't want to like, I mean, that'd be embarrassing to be drinking from a bad band. And, you know, me and the big man, we're going to chop it up and I want him to smell alcohol in my breath. Oh, boy. I want him to think I'm a class act. So, yeah. So Vanilla Ice, I remember he didn't just do one song he did a little mini

set dude opens with ice ice baby i'm like well where do you go from here this is a mistake no you do a couple deeper cuts and then you close with the ninja rap and everybody has a really great time oh i have a question yeah do you think you think that Vanilla Ice tours with a Ninja Turtle? Or do you think he checks an extra bag with the Ninja Turtle suit in it? And then there's a local hire on the other end. I mean, I think you could probably get a new Ninja Turtle suit in each town you're going to, right? There's a spirit Halloween everywhere these days, right? So do you think that he's just...

When you say that he performs with a Ninja Turtle, you mean just like the kind with like a plastic mask and a vinyl smock? The one in the Mar-a-Lago video looked really good. It looked like the ones in the movies from, you know, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the motion picture kind of era. I think they smuggled that out of the Henson Creature Workshop. Yeah. Like, it looked like it might even have, like, animatronic stuff in the face. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I didn't watch the video for that long, mostly because I was there in person and i didn't need to watch

the video yeah i'm like put your phone down live in the world moment there's a ninja turtle here this isn't content there's a ninja turtle here there's a secret room in one of the bedrooms with a bunch of bankers boxes in it you're not gonna notice that if you're just looking at your phone the whole time we're at the golf club where the president lives uh it looked i mean i yeah upon a cursory glance it looked more impressive than what you buy at the halloween store but yeah like does Vanilla Ice own that, or does he hire a guy that owns it? It's just Jesse Waters in there. And the rest of the time, he's down at the Grauman's Chinese Theater trying to hustle five bucks for photos. Trying to get five bucks from a tourist to take a photo.

Yeah. Do you think it's possible that Vanilla Ice impersonator is a better paying job than Vanilla Ice? It's possible that Vanilla Ice Impersonator is a better paying job than Vanilla Ice. I mean, it seems less toxic, right? Yeah, it does. It does. Who would you be most excited? If you had a Vanilla Ice sized budget to book entertainment at your president's golf club.

Oh, interesting. entertainment at your president's golf club oh interesting whether that may be jimmy carter's golf club franklin roosevelt presidents have golf clubs yeah uh what or even hubert h humphries golf club a vice presidential golf club what uh a wal Mondale golf club, whatever it may be. Who are you booking for that slot? Do you think? You can't afford Hammer. Just so you know, you can't afford Hammer. Okay.

The shit is way too good. Hammer's more than the slots. Hammer costs way more and it's way better hammer had a lot of hits right like hammer had a number of hits and he's fucking actually pretty good had a cartoon too where he had magic shoes you guys remember that i do remember that magic talking shoes everything you can get like a cartoon when we were kids could you get like warren g for vanilla ice money or is warren g too big no i bet you could get warren g i like you can't get obviously nate dog has passed away but like you're not gonna get even if when he was

alive you couldn't afford to get him right but but i think you could get Warren G, and I think that is the lane that we're in. I don't think you could afford all of the bone thugs, but you could get a bone thug, right? How many bone thugs are there? Well, you got crazy bone. There's five. There's five bone thugs. Thanks, Matt. Yeah, crazy bone, lazy bone, busy, Flesh and Bone, and Wish Bone.

Did you have that just off the top of the dome, or did you Google that really fast? No, I'm the world's foremost Bone Thugs-N-Harmony one-man acoustic cover band. Oh. Or at least I was. How much would it cost to get you to play Mar-a-Lago? I mean, you know, a pretty penny. It's a lot of words, Jordan. It's a lot of words, Jordan. It's a lot of words to remember.

What's the most prestigious award you've received for performing acapella bone thug stuff? I got to shake Flesh and Bone's hand. He came and watched me perform. Yeah. I did a private show for Flesh and Bone. Wow.

Wait, like a house concert for him? It was at a weed club in San Jose. Sure. Well, that's where flesh and bone lives. Yeah, right. No, he was in town. That's the Mar-a-Lago of the bone thugs. He was in town for one night,

and I had just done stand-up at this very same weed club, and I got a call from the owner. And he said, Flesh and Bone is here. And we played him your video of you doing Bone Thugs. And he wants you to perform. And I said, I don't have a car. And he said, you better get a car if you want to make a dream come true. I think he meant mine.

And I performed for him, and then we dropped him off in a party bus at the La Quinta Inn that he was staying in. Yeah, La Quinta is a solid. That's going to be a solid. It was a nice La Quinta. Oh, yeah, great. It might smell a little bit like disinfectant is my experience. But you'd rather it smell like that as opposed to not like that. You want to know it's disinfected.

And you can have a dog there. They're dog-friendly. I didn't know that. I want to point out I no longer do Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's covers. It was a rough time in my life, and so I have since grown up, and I don't do the Bone Thugs anymore, but I still very much respect them. Did you stop because he asked you to stop? and I don't do the bone thugs anymore, but I still very much respect them. Did you stop because he asked you to stop?

Find a video of me online singing bone thugs. Don't share it and just pretend it doesn't exist. That web series I worked for, don't share that. Matt's bone thugs, don't share that. Just a lot of stuff to not share or look for. Our past is our past. I will say I am 14 years sober now. We're different men matt you said the bone thugs crazy bone lazy bone lazy bone flesh and bone flesh and bone

busy bone busy wishbone wishbone is a dog that travels through tales of classic literature that's why he had to be at the la quinta yeah all right guys fuck mary kill which mode mr peabody or beethoven we'll be back in just a second i'm jordan jesse go no let's not answer it 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. Jordan, I'm looking at the calendar and we're only maybe six weeks out from the MaxFun drive. So if you're not already a member of Maximum Fun, get ready to join at

MaximumFun.org slash join. That's how we keep the lights on here at Maximum Fun. That's how Matt's baby gets little baby food. You can't just feed babies regular food. You got to crush it up into a sort of paste. I no idea yeah so matt uses the money that people give when they go to maximumfund.org join to buy some sort of crushing device uh no he he just buys that he just buys the paste so you go and they got an extruder there at the store i mean i i mean i don't want to tell Matt how to parent his kid, but it seems like you could maybe save money by buying your own crusher and just doing

home crushing, right? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Jordan, what do you think he is, a fucking pigeon? I think he's a mommy pigeon crushing the, what do you think he is, a mommy wolf crushing the food for the baby at home? No, we're people.

We have the dignity to go to a store where there's an extruder. Okay. I would like you to tell me how to parent, though, because no one has. Oh, I think just like, you know, love the kid and realize that you're going to make some mistakes, but you're doing your best and it's all anyone can do. Okay, I'm going to write that down. Thank you. Jordan, you would make a great parent.

Thank you. Have you ever thought about becoming a dad? Yeah, I mean, I think, well, first I got to get a home crusher. Right. And then I got to get a son I'm working on. Okay, great. I got to get a son I'm working on.

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chilling adventures is the comic line for you uh our new one's called pop's chocolate shop of horrors fresh meat uh three more spooky stories set in the riverdale diner if you're a regular comics person i know we have a few of those in our audience. Have your local comics people throw it on your pull list. But if you're not, if you're not someone who has a local shop they patronize, you can get the book on the Archie Comics website. I'm going to have our boy Matt Lieb throw it in the description of this episode so you can pre-order it there and it'll come right to your house as soon as it's available. I was talking about these things a couple weeks ago on the show.

Not only do these issues sell out, but they get slabbed up and put on eBay. So this is an investment, people. $4.99. It'll get shipped right to you, and in a couple years, it'll pay for your kid's college. I'd recommend buy three. Oh, yeah. One to to read one to slab one for emergencies there you go yeah if you can use it you can use it to make a tourniquet exactly we'll be back in just a second on jordan jesse go La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,. Nothing could be more terrifying than the awful noise your phone makes to say, you live in Los Angeles, it's dangerous for you to drive when it's raining outside.

And fucking idiot. Fucking LA dipshit. Do you think bare naked ladies show up for the same price as vanilla ice there's a lot of bear nakes i think they got like a cruise don't they oh i don't know i mean yeah maybe uh i think also bare naked ladies they got that can con money if you want to book a canadian at the vanilla ice price, you got to book Snow. Yeah, Snow's probably the answer. Yeah.

Or Remy Shand. Who's that? Another Canadian rapper. There's a white Canadian neo-soul singer. Oh. Yeah. Cardinal Official? He's probably pretty affordable.

I don't think you can afford Cardinal Official. Oh, really? If you want somebody to come kick that Cardi slang, you can't afford it. The guy that used to host Q probably comes pretty cheap these days. Oh, man. I bet he does on account of being a horrible person. Yeah. Needing a job.

Okay. We'll have momentous occasions in just a moment, but I have a second instance here of I read it on social media, which is this new signature segment that we have here. I read it on social media. If you read something on social media, send it to us at jjgoatmaximumfund.org. Jesse? Yeah. Great branding. Thank you.

This is from r slash ask Los Angeles. Mm-hmm. This is from r slash ask Los Angeles. My building manager has banned me from moving my instrument in the elevator of my building. Do I have any recourse? That's the subject line. Now, I'm not a lawyer. Are you a lawyer, Jordan? Not anymore.

Ben, are you a lawyer? No, no, I have not passed the bar. Great. But I know passed the bar. Great. So. But I know a little bit. Oh, man, I was hoping to illegally search your shit. Okay. We'll see how smart I am when the canine comes. Okay.

You talking about wishbone? Okay. Here's the body of this one i'm a harpist and i moved into my building almost four years ago explicitly for the elevator to make it simple to transport my instrument for gigs i wanted to live in the elevator it seemed like a nice room i enjoy buttons. I don't like too much space. Over the years, the elevator breaks down every now and then, with the longest stint being the last month, where it hasn't worked at all, with no updates on when repairs are happening. The residents are at our last straw. I got an aggressive phone call from my building manager,

blaming me for the elevator being broken, and that I'm not allowed to move my harp in it anymore. I've only moved it maybe less than ten times throughout these years. I was planning on going full freelance this year, so this is a significant problem. My harp weighs 83 pounds, too, so it's highly unlikely it's me, yet she won't hear reason. If I don't have the elevator, I'm forced to carry my harp down flights of spheres to get to the street, which is a risk to my instrument, and I will require help anytime I gig, which is ridiculous. When I responded to her comments, she just said, if you don't like it, move out and hung up on me. Is this illegal?

Do I have options? This is significantly distressing. First of all, where are their harp gigs in LA? I let me know. She or she is going full-time freelance. Yeah. Just really give this harp thing a go. You only get one ride on this crazy blue marble.

In the heart of the entertainment industry, every time somebody has a flashback, this lady could potentially be getting that back. Right. I think the real thing here, Jordan, is if you go to harp college, they fucking pound it into your head over and over and over and over. You only get one ride on this blue marble right to get as many harp gigs as you can because once this thing is done everybody knows how to play the fucking harp it's not a valuable skill anymore because of angels is why jordan those dudes love fucking plucking those harps flapping and plucking that's what they do all day. Do you think that angels ever

go to the subreddit r slash no flap? I don't know. Yeah, sure. It makes me more focused when I'm not flapping. I get more done. I'm brewing my own beer. I can arpeggiate faster. I'm flapping. I get more done. I'm brewing my own beer. I can arpeggiate faster.

I'm singing more praises unto the Lord, for I am more focused when I am not flapping. Man, if I was an angel, all I'd do is be flapping wings and plucking strings. Hell yeah, baby. Jamming with Hendrix. fucking strings. Hell yeah, baby. Jamming with Hendrix. Man,

can you imagine if your landlord called you up and said that it was your fault? The elevator was broken because of your fucking harp. Fucking harp. You fucking harp. People are all the fucking same. Pluck, pluck, pluck,

flap, flap, flap. I know what you're doing. My beautiful elevator, my beautiful hand motions. Pluck, pluck, pluck, flap, flap, flap. I know what you're doing. In that fucking elevator. Look at my beautiful hand motions. Look how I move my hands. Anytime a friend of mine has considered investing in real estate, I always warn them, you don't really want to become a landlord.

It seems like easy money, but it's a job. You don't realize how many harpists are out there. Yeah, exactly. Harpo Marx used to think that he couldn't get an apartment because he was Jewish. But actually. Right. Any good responses? Just people with legal resources.

Okay. Well, that's helpful i would love it if there was a if there was a harpist's legal defense fund have you been injured by a bassoonist uh i feel like i on like the first answer on a a Reddit question is always the least helpful fucking shittiest comment you can make. I remember I subscribed to the Pasadena subreddit, which is generally very nice. It's generally very nice. It's like a pretty wholesome place. No like weird. Why are there guys in hoodies walking around after midnight? There's like none of that. Do you ever share the latest from the

Pasadena Public Library's IG? Oh, I should. Yes, Pasadena Public Library, great IG, fucking amazing memes. The memes are off the hook. I recommend it. It's a great follow, even if you don't live in the area. But yeah, I should start sharing the memes there. But yeah, it's a lot of restaurant recommendation stuff, which I love. There was this just very nice, clear, short post that says, I just moved to the area and I'm crazy about Chinese food. Where can you get good Chinese food in the Pasadena area?

And the first comment is, depends on what region of China you mean. Now, I don't know the race of the person commenting, but it has big white person who studied abroad energy yeah that's very fair i also like the uh i also like the r slash punk subreddit generally pretty nice place like uh some like weird bullshit not really like yeah maybe like there's some like weird anti-vax people will pop up and which i'm sure there's a little overlap with i think it shouted down pretty quick um but they that feels like more of a jello biafra crowd to me yeah yeah there's there's a little bit of that there's a little bit of that in punk rock um but you know generally pretty nice place r slash punk but

there's this one one very just nice question someone's like um i was born and raised in la and i think we've got some of the best punk bands in the world what are you some of your favorite bands from the la area first comment depends on what you mean by la i don't know man like the county uh if you got some ventura band you like that might count yeah this one's from fucking fullerton you asshole nard's probably fine yeah just you're counting the nard seriously come on jordan i mean you know okay you know nard nard core is its own thing i know to lump it in with la bands is probably doing it a disservice. I'm sorry. You know what?

I'm the asshole. I'm the asshole. Do you think Mike Watt wants Pedro lumped in with the city of Los Angeles? I do think that fight was literally in that thread. Literally a Minutemen San Pedro thing. literally a Minutemen San Pedro thing. When something momentous happens to you, give us a call at 206-984-4FUN or send us an email at jjgoe at maximumfun.org.

Here's someone to whom something momentous has happened. Hey, Jordan. Hey, Jesse. Hey, guest who I'm going to guess is Virginia Jones. This is Connor from San Diego calling in with a momentous occasion. I was in the parking lot of the post office mailing off some holiday gifts the other day and I saw somebody driving what looked like a Model T or some other Mr. Burns style car. And when they honked the horn at a pedestrian that was walking in front of the car the horn for it was definitely the stereotypical horn that you would imagine a car like that and it definitely

made an auga noise and i thought it was really awesome to see somebody try to experience road rage and try to like angrily honk at somebody crossing the street while making a cartoonish horn noise at them over and over again anyway i love the show love you guys happy new year i feel like if someone if i was crossing in front of a Model T Ford and it honked at me it would take no other input or evidence

for me to turn to that Model T Ford and say fuck you Jay Leno what you did to Conan was disgraceful to that Model T Ford and say, fuck you, Jay Leno. What you did to Conan was disgraceful. Yes, I'm still mad about it. It's the worst thing that's happened in my lifetime.

But this was too far afield for Leno, right? He wouldn't have one of his cars up in did that guy say san jose san diego san diego i think leno probably gets down there to san diego yeah i think leno leno wants to go take a that that tour of the aircraft carrier you know yeah or that submarine from the russian military you know nuclear standoff that they got there? Oh, yeah. He's crazy about that shit.

Or he's going to Comic-Con because he wants to see the alias panel. Yeah. That guy fucking loves alias. Dude, he's crazy about alias. That guy loves that. What's this show that's like an hour-long show but it's about fairy tales oh uh once upon a time maybe yeah that's what leno's into sure he watches it with his wife leno big uh big sequest guy stargate sg1 these are all jay leno's favorite shows i read the late long genre programming

I read the late shift hour long genre programming I so I interviewed Jay Leno once on Bullseye and he is I kind of sounded like Jay Leno when I said oh he couldn't be more genial or more opaque I would say just as you would expect like

he really was a pleasant experience talking to him I could not get him to answer anything but the thing that I think of most when I think of Leno is, you know, I read that book, The Late Shift. Remember that book about Leno and Letterman? And there's just this part in there that Leno's wife, her greatest passion is travel. But Leno wants to do stand-up gigs, so he doesn't go. She just travels the world all year long, and he just goes to Albuquerque.

Without Jay Leno. Albuquerque. Comedy and Magic Club. Headline to Albuquerque Civic Center or whatever. Wait, is it possible that she's the one spending his NBC money? Yeah. He never touches it. He never touches it, but she's traveling the world with it.

She does because she wants to go to Mallorca. She puts it in a duffel bag and brings it to Ibiza. Maybe that's the secret. Gives it to a beautiful Spanish DJ. I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. I'm not a married guy. Y'all are all married guys, but maybe that's the secret.

You have, you know, you have separate interests and you, you know, one of you is heading down to Hermosa Beach every weekend to, you know, make the people laugh and the other one ones, you know, going to see, going to see, you know, a place where you can do some zip lining. I, my wife kills in her boat. And then you, and then you come together and then you come together at the end and you compare. Rachel absolutely fucking, you know,

Rachel destroys at the ice house in Pasadena too. Oh yeah. Rachel is just a straight up master of her craft when this is the thing she can open for anyone you know yeah yeah absolutely she can work like gaffigan's if she has to open for gaffigan she's got clean stuff yeah yeah she's got stuff about food fits in perfectly but you know she can also go a little wild when she has to open for Cat Williams. Yeah, she's got transphobic stuff if she wants to open for Dave Chappelle. Sure.

But it's kind of a double-edged thing because when she does a late night spot, it's really hard to compact the scope of her talent into five, four and a half minutes. scope of her talent into five four and a half minutes you know ben if she's she's with uh laurie kill martin this week at rooster tea feathers in sunnyvale right yeah she's opening and middling oh both yeah so does she introduce herself or yeah she comes out does you know and then you know brings on the next act goes backstage changes jackets comes back out works super blue to get everybody ready for what laurie kill martin's about to do right that's the dream that's a dream you know the more i think about it i think you i think you're right about this thing about marriages jordan because ben and i are both very happily married i know in my case my wife goes on a ton of business trips

she's always going on business trips and she's a she's a stay-at-home mother and now that i think there's a lot of like conferences or you know what are these she always just says business trips okay and you know he says i'm going on a business trip you don't ask her more about it or well you don't talk about it when she gets back, like what happened. Boss babes don't tell their husbands stuff like that, Jordan. Like when you're married to a boss babe, you don't get to ask those kinds of. Yeah. I just signed the checks, Jordan.

I got to find a boss babe. Wait. I paid a boss baby my copy of Boss Baby on DVD. Oh, there it is. You don't have it on Blu-ray, Jordan? You don't have the 4K? I can't afford it. Ben and I have the steelbook of Boss Baby.

I just got the used one at the Friends of the Library sale. It's two bucks, but I can watch Boss Baby whenever I want. When something momentous happens to you, give us a call. Oh, have we still not done that? Oh, wait, we did. We did. I'm just giving out the phone number again. 206-9844-FUN.

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He'll share it with us. Great branding. I'll read it out loud on the show. I'll credit you. Also, I want to take one more run at this because I called this in 15 years ago on the show. And I thought it was going to be great. I called in this idea of like call in ideas for pranks that you can play on your roommates. And nobody ever called in with anything.

So I'm still feeling a little bit disappointed in that. If people could call in with ideas for pranks. Okay. If you have a prank idea, give us a call. 206-9844-FUN or send us an email at jjgoat. Don't do the prank. It's just ideas for pranks. We don't want to get involved in the liability.

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I have a prank you can play on a dentist. What's that? You put a sign on his back and it says, like a kick me sign, but it says, I think it's okay to eat taffy. Oh, okay. What about this, Jordan? make an appointment in the morning, you know, 10 o'clock in the morning or whatever, and then you show up literally

hours later, and they're like, well, where were you? And you're like, I'm here. It's 2.30. Solid. Jesse. Jesse.

That is so good. Oh my God. This is why you'll never have a boss, babe. Jordan. I'll never, I'll never get a boss, babe.

I'll never get into the podcasting hall of fame. They probably listened to an episode and they're like, okay, we're going to take one of these guys. Yeah. And the one, the one that throws the hottest heat yeah he's the one that gets that's getting the invite to orlando right he's the one that's getting to go on all

the dark universe rides for free is it possible you're saying jesse's gonna get inducted again next year they're still gonna leave you out george yes did you hear that tooth hurty thing did you hear it i'm embarrassed i didn't say it honestly let me ask you a question the same zoom yeah i think that's a reasonable working guess as to what happened but can i posit some other another possibility what if they listen to a jordan jesse go they thought well this is hall of fame worthy. Right. But then they saw you hosting the pre-show for the Nickelodeon kids choice awards with our friend, Robin Thede.

Right. And they said, well, we're just going to have to give it to Jesse because they saw me hosting the nominating special for the independent spirit awards. Yes. I have seen, I said some fucked up shit to the kids from Glee.

I'll go ahead and admit it. I thought it was funny. Again, I showed up drunk. Yeah, well, you know. That's why I gave out my address to someone who hopefully will send me something appropriate and useful. And you didn't. Yeah.

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Like, if you had a cupboard in your lower back, what would you keep in it? So I'm going to say mugs. A little yoghurt and a spoon. A small handkerchief that was given to me by my grandmother on her deathbed. Maybe some spare honey? I'd keep batteries in it. I'd pretend to be a toy. If I had a cupboard in my lower back, I'd probably fill it with spines.

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I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. Ben Harrison, I have the same effect on the ladies that eight inches of rain has on Los Angeles. Flash flood warning. Wow, what a complicated setup. Worth it, though. Worth it. Really got out over my skis on that.

I'm sorry. Matt, do you think that was better than the Tooth Hurty thing? Listen, Tooth Hurty, first of all, that was the first time I've ever heard that joke. Right. Second of all, it's a thinker. I probably wrote it. Yeah. No no you definitely wrote it i mean no one else has done it probably so i don't think i think it was close though because i imagined uh

women being wet like a flash flood so yeah that was pretty sick do you mean you imagine women being wet like a flash flood when they heard my tooth hurdy thing yeah well both i mean first when ben said it and then once ben said i started thinking about tooth hurdy and then i was like i bet that would also get women wet like a flash flood yeah i mean my guess is that women would be as dry as a parched desert after they heard ben's thing because they had already expended all their moisture because I said my thing earlier. But what if they had like a Gatorade in between the two things?

They would need to get one of those IV drinks. You can have a bite of my pineapple. Wah! Should we be making t-shirts that have a picture of Wario with a whole pineapple in his hand? I mean, I don't know that Nintendo is litigious, right? Famously chill Nintendo. You could say underneath, not the real Wario. A parody.

Yeah. Wario would never, we're commenting on Wario. Yeah. We'd have to think of something to have him do that the real Wario wouldn't do, though. Right. Like eat melon. Like eat a honeydew. Yeah, like eat a honeydew.

So if he was eating the pineapple and the honeydew. Yeah, like eat a honeydew. So if he was eating the pineapple and the honeydew, we would know that's not the real Wario because the real Wario would be worried about how the interaction would affect the taste of his semen. Right. Yes, we all know that. Honeydew cancels out pineapple, unfortunately. Ben Harrison, we sure are grateful to you for having taken the time to travel

through the pouring rain here in Los Angeles from your house to the garage building behind your house to record this program yeah it was harrowing but I made it and

I appreciate the invite it's always a pleasure to talk to you guys always nice to see you too friend It was harrowing, but I made it and I appreciate the invite. It's always a pleasure to talk to you guys. Always nice to see you too, friend. And you're, of course, welcome at my dad's club anytime. Jordan, just so you know, I'm starting a dad's club. We'll talk about that on a future episode of the program. I want to give you a chance to join the club with a daughter or some kind of son, maybe.

Yeah, maybe a son. I got to get a son. You got to, Jordan. You doing anything about that? No, I'm working on it. Okay. I'm working on it. I'm working on it.

There it is. I'm working on it. There it is. Ben Harrison, of course, is, as we mentioned, the host of Greatest Track and The Greatest Generation. Yeah, we're actually over on Greatest Track right now doing something that I think a certain car enthusiast of the L. the LA area is going to be very interested in one Jay Leno. A full Tonight Show rewatch? We know that dude loves Sequest. We know that dude loves Stargate SG-1. And on Greatest Trek, we are doing a thing called pilot season right now, where we're watching the pilots of all these old 90s sci-fi shows uh because there's no new star trek happening right now and we have a lot of time to kill and uh so we've actually already watched the the pilot of sea quest and babylon 5 and okay so jordan and i had never seen 90210 before oh yeah until we watched the burt reynolds episode

of 90210 with our friend linda holmes for our show stash rules everything around me by the way become a member of maximum fun so you can hear that because it was great um but we had never seen 90210 had you watched babylon 5 and seququest and stuff I hadn't I really wanted to but I grew up in a very strict household where I was only allowed one hour of television per day and and nothing where dolphins talked right yeah and I could not I could not not spend that hour on Star Trek the next generation that was just the only thing I really wanted to do with that hour on Star Trek The Next Generation. That was just the only thing I really wanted to do with that hour. So yeah, it's like the only show I know anything about. And watching these pilots has been very interesting to see where some shows succeeded in ways that Star Trek failed,

and where some shows completely stepped on the rake where Star Trek, uh, made, made something good. So, um, it's been, it's been a ton of fun. I'll tell you this, Ben, we were just at San Francisco sketch fest and I was lucky enough to see my high school buddy, John King, John King, one of the all timetime good guys, told me, I got to watch Babylon 5. I said to him, maybe I'll watch season two of The Mandalorian and see how that goes. Yeah. I accidentally bought, I think, the first season of Babylon 5 because I was trying to buy the first episode of it. And I, like, clicked the wrong thing.

So if you want to take your buddy John up on that recommendation, you can come over and do it at my house. But I probably won't be there for it. One of the all-time good guys. You know, John King. He's a great guy. Is that the guy I met at the hotel lobby? He seemed nice. Yeah.

He's the best. Yeah. He's a great guy. Yeah. You met my friend at the hotel lobby? He seemed nice. Yeah, he's the best. Yeah, he's a great guy. Yeah. You met my friend John King at the hotel lobby. You know this guy. It's my friend John from high school. Yeah. High school buddies.

Anyway. It's good times. You guys going to do Young Indiana Jones Chronicles? Oh, that's a good pitch. We haven't announced every single thing we're doing so and partly so that we can fiddle with it and add stuff uh as it comes up i think i did watch the first episode of young indiana jones when it came out and uh i don't know how that happened but um that's a that's a great pitch that's that's right in the uh right in in the numbers for the types of shows we're watching.

So I'll put it on our extended list. I say watch Dream On or Go Home. That's science fiction. That's my kind of science fiction. Where a guy has horny dreams about classic television programs. D-O or F-O, right? Dream On or

Fuck Off. Do-fo! No flap. No flap off. Dofo. No flap. No flap, dofo. So this is an angel that doesn't fly but loves dream on? Yeah, he loves the idea of watching a sitcom, but it's got naughty parts in it. Right, yes. And it recycles classics from the Warner Brothers vault or whatever it was. And then your friend at school who has HBO tells you that it has nudity in it when they play it on HBO.

Yeah. Yeah, the devil just loves It's Gary Shandling's show. Sure. Or Arliss. Does the devil like Arliss or It's Gary Shandling's show? I think Arliss is a funnier pull, maybe. Yeah, Arliss. Ballers? Ballandling's show. I think Arliss is a funnier poll, maybe. Yeah, Arliss. Ballers? Ballers is good.

Ballers is good. Let's sit here for another 20 minutes and talk about what the funniest B-tier HBO show would be. Taxi Cab Confessions? Taxi Cab Confessions. Oh, you know Satan's loving that, huh? Showing human

behavior at its most devious. Well, I thought you just meant because he doesn't have a driver's license. He just loves seeing driving? He loves taxi cabs because it's like one of his best ways to get around. Oh, yeah, sure. It means he's not on the bus or he's taking the cab. That's right. They must be so galling for the devil with those little tiny wings

to surf around online and see the no flap movement. Yeah. As he works so hard. Yeah. So fucking hard with those little tiny wings on his big giant shoulders. It's so hard for him

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