Jordan, Jesse, GO! - That's So Sebulba, with Greg Proops

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

On today’s episode, we welcome comedian Greg Proops to the show to chat with us about celebrity golf tournaments, California mastodons, being a part of the Star Wars Universe, and much more.*Check o...ut Greg's new album "Free State of California."*Find dates and grab tickets to Whose Live Anyway? with Greg Proops, Ryan Stiles, Joel Murray, Jeff B Davis, currently touring nationally.*Follow Greg Proops on Instagram. * Celebrate 25 years of Bullseye!* Order Jordan’s new Predator comic: Black, White & Blood!* Order Jordan’s new Venom comic!* Donate to Al Otro Lado.* Purchase signed copies of *Youth Group* and *Bubble* from Mission: Comics And Art!~ NEW JJGo MERCH ~Get  Bronto Dino-Merch!Get our ‘Ack Tuah’ shirt in the Max Fun store.Grab an ‘Ack Tuah’ mug!The Maximum Fun Bookshop!Follow the podcast on Instagram and send us your dank memes!Check out Jesse’s thrifted clothing store, Put This On.Follow producer, Jordan Kauwling, on Instagram.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. Unto the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sex and run you. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne America's Radio Sweetheart. Jordan Morris, Boy Detective. Well, I accidentally stole something at the flea market. Could I tell you how?
Starting point is 00:00:19 Oh, Jesse. This was this morning. This was like six hours ago. I was at the flea market. I'm just walking around doing my shopping. Sure. You know, just shopping for the put this on shop, just shopping for the holidays. In general, how was it going before you descended into a life of crime?
Starting point is 00:00:34 Well, it was the Rosewell flea market, which is a very large flea market here in Southern California. And it's the most dilettanteish of the flea market. So it gets progressively more annoying the later in the morning it is as people who are just sort of like looking around appear. And it was still relatively early in the morning, but I don't think I had actually successfully bought anything. So it was like a little frustrated. Nothing was coming to me. I was a little upset. I was in this booth owned by somebody
Starting point is 00:01:04 that I met before at the free market. You have this giant wad of cash. Who will take this from me? I mean, I'm literally not to make myself a mark, but I'm usually carrying at least $1,000. Are you? Do you go with $1,000? Yeah, because you've got to buy stuff with cash. So if stuff shows up, you've got to have the money in your pocket to buy it.
Starting point is 00:01:23 Have you ever spent $1,000 in one trip? Absolutely. I've got a store. I got a store to put shit into. But I'm walking around, and I'm wearing a baseball cap with a relatively long brim, which I'm wearing still now. And I was wearing sunglasses because it was a little bright out. And I leaned over and onto the table in front of me fell two miniature fur-trimmed mittens. Okay. And two miniature fur-trimmed mucklucks.
Starting point is 00:01:54 Were they dropped? They fell from the sky. Okay. They were on, you know, they were on like strands, like mittens would be. Right. You know what I mean? Like you'd throw them around your neck when you were, I guess, ice skating. And I said to the guy, oh, I'm sorry, I think I just knocked these down.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Because I assume that they, you know, people have tents, you know. Yeah. I figured they were hanging from the tent. You clip some stuff up there with one of those big clamps. I hit my head on things on these, on these tents four times every time I go to the fleet market. I got on a hat and I'm six foot four. So I apologize to this nice man for knocking over his mucklucks. He said, oh, those aren't mine.
Starting point is 00:02:39 And I said, really? And he said, yeah, did you think they were mine? I said, yeah. He said, oh, that explains why you were wearing those strange muckluffs. I just thought you were a weirdo. Okay. Is this the start of a scam? So, do you think, where you take the mucklucks and then.
Starting point is 00:02:57 he's like just give me change for a 20 like an old time flim flam yeah and then you say he's actually your dad bought you this Bible right before he died his name is in it I it turns out that somewhere in the flea market right I had walked into these mucklucks uh-huh hanging from something muckluck luck fun to say they had been hanging on draped over my shoulder like the like they're like golden rope that hangs from the shoulder epaulettes of a dictator for I don't know how long because I immediately said, okay, watch my cart for a second. I picked them up and I went to like the three or four booths in that row that I had already ducked into. And everything is so eclectic there. There's not like the muckluck booth or you can think, oh, you know, there's the person who has
Starting point is 00:03:51 fine silver and stamps. He also sells blubber. He also sells igloos. Right. I, uh, I like went to the three or four places that were further back. You know what I mean? And they all essentially gave me a version of, oh, I thought you were just a weird guy that wore mucklucks on your shoulder. So I never found it. I brought it back and I just said, look, if anyone comes down the aisle looking for mucklux. The top hat is mine. The cane is mine. The cape is mine. The mittens are not mine. I'm not, I'm not affected. Sure.
Starting point is 00:04:25 No affect here. Right. The fingerless gloves, these are mine. Yeah. So what happened to the, what happened to the Lux? I had to leave. I just said to the guy, I said, look, I can't find this person. I don't think these are valuable enough for me to go on a longer than one row or wild goose chase.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Like, I figured I'll go to all the places in this row that I went into. Yeah. If it's from another row, that's on them, and they're just out the $15 for these mini-traum. Oh, there was a price? There was no price on them, but I, price them in my head our guest on the program, a stand-up comedian, a stage improviser, a legend of the game. He has a brand new record called Free State of California, Mr. Gregory Prups. Hi, Greg. How are you? Hello, Jordan and Jesse. What would you, sir, pay for miniature mucklach.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Well, it depends on their condition, of course. My time with the Inuits, I learned, you know, a lot of value control and quality assurances. Also, for my, guess is if you were wearing them over your shoulder they were tiny. Yeah, these were you're probably a size 13 or something. I'm a 12. I would characterize these as American girl doll size. Does that mean something to you?
Starting point is 00:05:39 Sure, like a, yeah, these like for a child or a doll. Yeah, like a large doll. Yeah. Probably too small for any child. Okay. Too small for any human child. But American. But American. Yeah, not a lot the end girl doll or
Starting point is 00:05:54 Indonesia. I try. to pass off a Latvian girl doll to my children, and they were not having a counterfeit. It's American or nothing. Jesse's kids very jingoistic. Svetlana Gross Potatoes was the storybook that went along with it. Sometimes she doesn't have enough potatoes. And her family suffers. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Greg, this is a scam that Jesse is running on you. I should warn you. He invites people on a podcast. He tells a story about found gloves. You pay for the gloves, and then he steals your wallet on the way. At least the price was right. And now that we know that Jesse walks around with a pimp roll of $1,000 bucks on him. I don't have it with me right now.
Starting point is 00:06:34 I only have it on. Greg, hold him down. I'll pee on him. He's carrying 10 yards everywhere he knows. I'm not here for the money. You got to watch yourself in this neighborhood. You get the water sports. That's how it goes.
Starting point is 00:06:47 We're going for horchadas right after this, for realsies. That sounds good. I support it. How are you, Greg? I'm real well. Thank you. How much money is the most money that you've carried around at one time? I was at a golf tournament, a charity one, and I don't really golf, and I don't even approve of golf, but my buddy Ryan, who's in our group, Ryan Stiles, he used to do this charity tournament for burn victims and whatnot, so they would spend on the money, you know, for people, blah.
Starting point is 00:07:18 And there would be celebrities, which meant like TV people, you know. I remember Gordie Klapp was there. Remember Gordy Klapp the actor? No, I don't. No idea that is. Do you ever see the movie Eight Men Out? Yeah. And the movie Eight Men Out, he's the catcher. He's the honest one, he's the catcher.
Starting point is 00:07:32 So, of course, I cornered him because I'm a huge baseball fan. And I went, Gordy, can I bother you for something? And he went, what is it? And I go, can we talk about Eight Men Out? And he went, yes. And that turns out, the character he played was the coach at Yale for maybe 50 years after he had, Ray Shock was his name. And he was on the 1919, Black Sox. And he did not take any money.
Starting point is 00:07:52 And he was quite angry at the other, you know, they lost that world. series and all that. So that was the kind of tournament it was, right? Oh, and what's his name? Christopher McDonald. Remember Christopher McDonald? The husband and Thelman Louise. Oh, sure, sure, yes. So it was these kind of TV stars. So I was loving, you know, flipper?
Starting point is 00:08:10 The flipper? The dolphin flipper? From the TV show flipper. Wow. Right. Yeah. Oh my God, we need a clutch cable and we're out of octane, high octane field. The motorcycle from chips is here. Greg just wanted to talk to him about the bingo along and his traveling all stars and motorists. Oh, I'll talk about that for a year.
Starting point is 00:08:27 So I went downstairs, and it was in it. We were put up in a casino. Okay. So I'm in the casino, and I went over to one of the videos. This is a fly-in tournament? Yeah, we flew to Bellingham. Ryan lives upstate, Washington. Are you there as whose lines, Greg?
Starting point is 00:08:44 Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Because, I'm in with Ryan, so we did a show after. Right. So we did an improv show with all the Huzon guys and blah, blah, you know. So it was one of those. And I was drinking then, so we don't go get drunk. and what now, which then I discovered
Starting point is 00:08:57 when you play a charity golf tournament, that's all people are doing. The golf is happening, but mostly there was drinking on every... In charity golf tournaments, the way it works is four rich guys pay to be in the tournament and they get added to a television celebrity? So, right, I was the celeb in my foursome.
Starting point is 00:09:19 So I went to play this video poker game and I drew a royal flush, and I won $5,000. Oh my gosh. the guy comes over you know how they do and they take your info and why not and i gave him i think 50 bucks or 100 bucks and he gave me a scowl and i thought did i not give you enough money from me winning you know i was tipping him for helping me you know i don't think you're required to but i'm yeah i wouldn't even know where to begin right so i gave him and he gave me this horrible look and i thought what did you really want like five hundred dollars you know like so anyway now and by the way
Starting point is 00:09:53 they took the tax out there. They said, do you want to report it? Of course, you have to report it. Do you want to take it? So they gave me like $3,700, whatever it was. So I had a giant wad. Yeah. And I went directly to the golf course with an enormous wad in my pocket. First hole, there's drinks. Second hole, there's a girl in a cart. Third hole, there's more drinks. Fourth hole, there's more drinks. You haven't even played one hole of golf. Right. And you got the wad before the tournament. And the first swing I took, I missed the ball by a good. good 18 inches and took an enormous divot and wrenched to my shoulder so badly that I had to go see my Israeli chiropractor afterward. And he's mortifying, right? He was in the Israeli army. He was
Starting point is 00:10:36 an officer. One time I said to him, torture doesn't work. And he went, Greg, torture works. Believe me. And so, which is a got thing we want to hear from a man who's going to take your hand. He take a breath. Right. He took my head in his hands and, you know. Yeah. So then fantastically, after four or five holes of absolute insane drinking. Right. Bloody Mary Spears, you know, vodka, jello, you know, the kind of shit people drink in events. Jello shots, what?
Starting point is 00:11:03 Why am I, I'm 11? I'm 11, and I've just been allowed to drink. This golf tournament was taking place at a frat house. It sounds, right? It was like animal. So then there's a, because it's the Northwest, a holistic health booth, and there's a woman who's taking your pulse. You know, you're not your blood pulse, but.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Yeah, yeah, that's true. Sure, sure, sure. So we get to her, and I'm completely fucked. I mean, I had breakfast, but now it's two or whatever. Right. And I have $3,800 in my pocket. Oh, did you ever figure out why the guy was mad at you? Do you usually, did that? I think I didn't give him enough money. I think he wanted a couple hundred. Christian, find out how much money Greg was supposed to give this guy. Yeah, Christian Duanyas running the board today. Please, yes, when you, when you hit it big at a casino, what are you supposed to tip the guy who gives you money? we'll come back. I would say 15 to 20. We'll come back to you later. 15 or 20 seems wild. Right? Well, anyway. He's just bringing you the money. You were playing video poker. Well, that was the thing. He didn't deal it to me. He wasn't the dealer. Maybe the dealer wants a little more, but yeah, in that case. You've seen, like, I don't usually play table games, but you've seen people play table games. Sure. And when they hit a big hand at a table. Toss the, toss the chip to the guy.
Starting point is 00:12:18 You know, if you want a giant pot, you're going to throw them a couple. Maybe even 500 if it's a giant pot. You know, because you want, you know, hello, they're helping. So they took our biopulse. And I was like, I believe technically dead at that point. You know, like there was, she went, oh my. And I went what? I'm detecting only bloody marriage. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:12:38 And I went, hey, I've been guzzling booze for the last like 40, you know. So then one of the guys in our group was, how do you, what's that word, doucheback? Yes. And he had. You're telling me one of. You're telling me one of the local businessmen in the celebrity golf tournament was a douche. And he had his Oakley's on his cap.
Starting point is 00:13:01 Of course, sure. Yes, that's how I was picturing him anyway. Shorts, yes. So now we've gotten to like the 17th or 18th ball. And everyone's, you know, I'm trying to hold it together at this point. I've mellowed out a little less. The businessman is now openly complaining he's not in flippers for him. Right?
Starting point is 00:13:19 And he's, yeah, where are the cetations? I signed up for celebrity cetations. I thought this was one of those kind of tournaments. I said Gutenberger better. Yeah, right? So that, right, and all I've gotten is this bullshit. So who's lying? And we get to the last hole and he's really, really high.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Oh, and we had to take a picture at every hole with him. That's how big a douche bag he was. And he had a potato chip bag in his mouth in almost every picture. Like he put the, and do this, the selfie, you know. Did you ever figure out what, I mean, not to like, I don't know if you want to say who this guy, but was he like the president of Hewlett Pack? or something like that? Well, I shouldn't think so.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Was it Hewler or Packard? Tell us. It was Mr. Pitney. And his partner, Mr. Bowes, was buried on the 18th green. Yeah. It was Otis from the elevator. Right. Mr. Otis.
Starting point is 00:14:06 He drove his golf cart into the bunker, right? So now fantastically like a Chevy Chase movie. I've never seen a Chevy Chase movie. But were I to see one that was about... That's something. Fletch is funny. Right. Oh, I love Fletch.
Starting point is 00:14:19 Fletch is good. The golf cart is precariously, precipitously. half in half out of the yeah yeah yeah and him and his other member are attempting to extricate themselves and i'm with two other fellows there was a five-sum by the way and um the two other guys i'm with look back up at him and look back at me and go fuck him he's been acting like a dick all day and i'm like so we're not to go help him as he and he by the way couldn't he was so hammered couldn't get out of the cart. His partner had to get out and try to make the cart get out of dirt. That rips. Yeah. So it was quite a day. But everyone agreed with you that that guy was a
Starting point is 00:15:02 douchebag and we shouldn't help him when he's... Again, like you guys were saying, in a crowd of douchebags, you can so get lost. You know what I mean? This was like that movie where like, oh my God, where's my friend, you know? And I mean, what's important here, I think, is that like, obviously Greg knows this guy's a douchebag, but he has to rely on the other people to not help this guy. Because Greg's on television. It can't be his idea not to help. Oh, no, I was striding manfully. Yeah. I hadn't torn my shirt
Starting point is 00:15:28 open, but I was striding manfully toward the golf cart. You're sure to turn itself open, thinks of your pectoral muscles. Exactly. Like William Shatner in the Rath of Khan, or William Kahn and Rath of Shatner. And he goes, that's when they arrested my, you know, my movement
Starting point is 00:15:44 and went, like, leave him. So we did. Arrest that man's movement, they said. I have a question about events you've attended, Greg, but first I do want to go to Christian and see if there's an answer on how much you're supposed to tip the guy at the casino who gives you money when you win. What is it, dude?
Starting point is 00:16:03 According to, let's see, according to Ban Casino Rentals, it is 5 to 10% of your total. Five to 10. Well, as I recall, I think I gave him 50 or 100 out of a 5 grand, which, by the way, like I said, they took 1,800 or whatever. He wanted $2.50. That's 5%, right? I think he did. Because I went, thank you very much, gave him the money in cash, cash, cash, cash. And he went, and gave me this terrible look, you know. But I didn't say anything. If I'd been younger, I would have. In my 30s, I was pretty obstreptorous. But now I'm way more, like, choose your battles. I don't have time to fight every goddamn battle. I always said, worry before Greg came, wasn't I just saying to you, Jordan, you know, Greg's a lot less obstreperous these days.
Starting point is 00:16:50 right we've all noticed I was way more aggressive I don't know the words aggressive but like if you were an asshole I would for instance years ago we were in Edinburgh at the festival
Starting point is 00:16:59 and Paul Provenza was there the Edinburgh yes that's the one in Edinburgh and he had been doing that show on cable this is the 90s called comics
Starting point is 00:17:09 for comics only or whatever it was called he had a talk show like on Ha channel or whatever the fuck it was and he hadn't put me on it was a good decade for Provenza we had a lot of
Starting point is 00:17:18 Prevenza in the 90s So Prevanza had that chat show, and we're in a bar drinking. And he goes, hey, we tried to get you on the show. You know, the kind of casual bullshit you say when you're in a bar. Right. And because I was 35 or whatever went, no, you fucking didn't. And he went, what? And I'm available and I was available to do it.
Starting point is 00:17:39 And you never fucking ask me, how's that? And he, hey, Greg, you know, we're kind of in Edinburgh. And I'm like, yeah, well, you didn't ask me. This is just something you say to someone. Right. And, of course, now, what was the point of that? Yeah. Did I win?
Starting point is 00:17:56 It was to take nice guy comedian Paul Provenza down and not. I was going to say, who's the least awful. And it's been completely generous with me, my whole. Did you ever get on that show? Oh, no. But I was in his book. You know, he made a book about satirists called The Satiristas. And then he did a, um, that show on, uh, was it on Showtime, The Green Room?
Starting point is 00:18:18 And the reason I got on that, fantastically was Lisa Lampinelli's plane got caught in New York in a snowstorm. And at the very last minute. That's how I got this podcast. We're like, bring in West Coast Lampinelli. Exactly. And fantastically, and this is why. Who's obstreperous? Who's going to make jokes about sleeping with black guys? So, fantastically, and this is what I love about show business, and you guys will appreciate this.
Starting point is 00:18:42 So I was asked to do it. I knew that I was substituting for someone, but who gives a shit. No, it's great. So I go. And we had a great time. me, Dana Gould, Kathy Griffin, and Franklin Ajai, right? A lot of funny. There's some comedy legends there. Insane generational, you know. So, I get the swag box,
Starting point is 00:18:59 the T-shirt, the candy, whatever. And it's Lisa's shirt and the card says thank you, Lisa, which I kept for ages. Yeah. Because it said Lisa, thanks so much for doing the phone numbers of several black guys. Yeah, right? And the
Starting point is 00:19:15 T-shirt was yay big. Like, I couldn't have put it on my arm. you know and that I loved that they made no effort to go get a shirt that would fit me to rewrite the card anything they just went oh well this is what goes in that room put it in that room yeah so i like took a picture sent it to my wife i'm like i've got leased his fucking stuff you know Jordan did you ever have to put together a package to thank a guest when you were a production assistant on the ellen degenerous program oh i want to hear about the island degenerous program oh sure Despite what you may have heard, not a great working environment.
Starting point is 00:19:53 Oh, really? That's weird. No. Because I've heard so many good things. You know, none of them true. Those people are all. No, I was a PA on Ellen and Karen Kilgareff, the head writer, and was always... A woman I know quite well from San Francisco. It was always lovely to me.
Starting point is 00:20:07 The guys on the show then, too? No. Oh, gosh. Liz Feldman, you know, Liz Feldman? Liz Feldman on the show, and it was lovely to me. I built her an IKEA desk once that fell apart. after two days. So I did a bad job putting it together.
Starting point is 00:20:22 So, wait a minute, built, built? They would bring in, so the P.A. Because built means like it stays together after. Yeah, yeah. Built, I tried. I attempted. Yeah, assembled, seems like. I stacked some IKEA pieces on each other.
Starting point is 00:20:35 I see. It looked like a desk briefly and then fell over, probably more accurate. It refilled itself to be a lumpy floor. One of the things I had to do as a PA on Ellen was the week she got into the secret. it, I had to stay after everyone had left and put up, we're number one signs all over the office so that everyone would come in the next day and be able to visualize that we were number one. She wanted to beat Oprah. That was like the big thing. It was like she always wanted to beat Oprah. Number one in your afternoon time slot? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Or for syndicated shows entirely.
Starting point is 00:21:09 Good question. I don't know what Ellen was number one. Or even just for King World or whatever. And then, yeah. Yes, take that family feud. run. Yeah. So we, and so I had to like, I just had to like hang around till like 10.30 p.m. until the last person that left so I could hang up were number one stuff. So that no one would see you do it so that in the morning they would be complete surprise. Oh, we just manifested this with our with our firstness.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Did it work? Has she moved back by the way? I mean, not that you would know, but she moved to Ireland. I think I did see a news blurb that her and Porsche are headed back. That's the little long to the good old U.S. of A. She moved to, I thought Rosie O'Donnell did. Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland And Ellen moved to England.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Rosio O'Donnell has a non-binary kid, I think, is why I know about Rosie O'Donnell moving, which good reason to get the fuck out of there. Also, she's named O'Donnell, so I presume her grandmother was Irish or whatever. Why did Portia and Ellen, who I know on a first name basis? They're rich and privileged and they wanted to go to another country
Starting point is 00:22:04 to escape the fascism. Not enough castles here. Don't know. Couldn't tell you. But I do know that they are heading back. I mean, they got the festival over there in Scotland. I know that. In Edinburgh.
Starting point is 00:22:13 So here's something that rich people like for instance her I was going to say like her but for instance her will go to England and then go oh we're going to buy a house in the country there in Richmond or whatever, Surrey whatever and no
Starting point is 00:22:29 like okay like for instance if I said oh hey Jesse you need to move to L.A. and you went oh great what I'm going to do is by a cabin near Big Bear and that's my L.A. experience so you're not in London like, you know, if you want to live in England,
Starting point is 00:22:48 there's really only one place you want to live, and that's London. And maybe Richmond or somewhere kind of the outskirts. I mean, I want to live in the Yorkshire Nails, but it's because I want to take care of farm animals. Well, that's what I mean. So now you, okay, imagine you're with your significant other, and now you're in the country.
Starting point is 00:23:10 So, okay, now it's 10 o'clock at night. Your phone rings, and you've got to, go help it's lambing season and where are my shears yeah where's my shears and then you're Porsche and then Porsche's in the other room you know like on Mrs. Pumpfrey calls there's trouble with tricky woo right she's playing Tetris or whatever and you can't get her off of it yeah you can't take Porsche off for Tetris Greg have you as a guy who's been in Star Wars do you ever do Star Wars events I did one a couple years ago a really good one in Chicago and um it was really fun and I showed
Starting point is 00:23:42 I had to leave a gig in the middle of the night and fly to another gig and then flat and then fantastically it was in Chicago which was snowed in so I swear to you they flew me to Milwaukee and then someone picked me up in Milwaukee and drove me to Chicago just to do this buddy Star Wars thing and I was in
Starting point is 00:23:59 Phantom Menace which is as as you know the greatest of all of the Star Wars we all agree we all agree yeah and there was a show a couple years ago called the Resistance that was um what civilians call a cartoon what we in the business call an animated show sure and um i was a couple voices in that i'm in public radio but i think i follow yeah no close enough so i was there for that
Starting point is 00:24:22 and then of course i was in night remember before christmas so i was in enough star wars stuff including every pod race game right like there's 10 000 pod race games and i'm in all of them because i was the announcer do you go record new podrace thing that's what i was going to ask if i don't mean to speak for my friend jordan but i've got a question for you. Was this the same question you were about to ask? When there's a new
Starting point is 00:24:44 pod race thing, do you record new pod race stuff or do they use the old stuff? I record the new podres stuff. Oh, yeah. And I'm in a secret thing
Starting point is 00:24:52 that I can't tell you about that'll come out. But guess what? And then... Are you a baby Yoda grows up? Right? And then there's
Starting point is 00:25:02 like all the podres games, there was a baby, like a children's one. And then there was a, they're not as popular as things. They were because they've moved on.
Starting point is 00:25:12 But yeah, there was a real era where the most popular video game was Star Wars pod racing. Right. And yes. And you've got to reprise your character and all of those. And then fantastically, and you might enjoy this since I can tell you're a Star Wars fan. Sure. Is when the 10th or 20th anniversary, whatever it was, came around, they remastered it, as they do. And so I was sent from here, and I point to the, I know that you're on video here, this is Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:25:38 well, east of Hollywood, but we're near Hollywood. And I was flown, and as I indicate, to San Diego, flown from Los Angeles to San Diego. I don't know if you've ever... Fifteen whole minutes. Right. I mean, like, I didn't, one, I didn't know that you could fly to San Diego. It's like flying from San Francisco to San Jose.
Starting point is 00:25:59 Are you flying an airplane? Yes? No, a dirigible. Well, I don't know. I mean, I can kind of imagine some sort of one of those... The Millennium Falcon. One of those helicopters with two propellers. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:26:10 That's about the length of the Kessel Run from L.A. to San Diego. We were in such a small plane that I remember I had, you know, a handbag or whatever with me, a man bag. And they stopped me on the tarmac. Yes, because the plane was so small, we were on the tarmac, not a jetway. And they went, you, that's too big. And I relinquished my bag, and I took my book out of my bag. And the pilot had the door open. was those days
Starting point is 00:26:38 and he went like this everybody ready and then turned back to the wheel so we flew to San Diego a car met me and I was driven to Tijuana that book is a little too big can we give you this novella
Starting point is 00:26:51 right who else is on the plane you're reading all of Dune I'm afraid you're going to have to read like wrinkle in time or whatever sure so we were driven to Fock what they called Fox Baja it was where they'd shot Titanic
Starting point is 00:27:03 and James Cameron had sort of taken what was a empty studio and made it into a studio because I think that half-shell of the Titanic, that enormous thing, was there, and that's why they shot there. But Star Wars always recorded outside of the United States, anything to do with the movies, the games we recorded in the States. But any time I worked on any of the future, it was England, Mexico, there was no shooting here, no shooting here, no recording.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Why does Star Wars hate America? Well, it was a union thing. It was not a union. They just don't have the budget for it. Right. So when I got to this... We're strapped. We just want this little thing to happen.
Starting point is 00:27:45 I got to the studio in San Diego and it was an Apple computer with a microphone plugged into it on a stand and a bunch of people sitting at a table. And they did, well, you do all your lines over from the movie? That's so funny. So I did them all over. And then they went, well, you do one for Dave in accounting. Will you do one for Karen in the animation department? Well, you do one for Stan and the thing. So I did all those.
Starting point is 00:28:09 I don't care who you are. Jordan. Oh, no. Right? This is the best birthday ever. Exactly. So I had to do all those. I love working in accounting.
Starting point is 00:28:20 And then we had fish tacos for lunch. Wow. And then that's nice. San Diego, baby. They put me back in the car. They put some French fries in your burrito. Yeah. And I drove back across the border.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Got in a plane at San Diego. I flew back to Los Angeles. And that was the recording of the. Okay. Did you fly from, I'm sorry, I'm still hung up on this flying from Los Angeles to San Diego element of this story. I mean, it's like, okay, we're traveling at, okay, everybody. Did you fly from Los Angeles International Airport? LAX to San Diego Airport, for real.
Starting point is 00:28:52 I mean, it takes longer to get to your airplane at LAX than it takes to take Amtrak to San Diego. Yes. Right? Like, it takes like two hours to get. How long does it take to drive in San Diego? They're two and a half. Yeah, that sounds about right. That's two and a three if it's shitty.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. It was a 15 minute flight. When we recorded in London, because I know you want to know this. I do want to know, Greg. I want to know. When we were finishing the picture out.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Yes. This is the original, this is Phantom Man. This is 1996. The original Star Wars movie. The best. The one with the best plot. Star Wars number one. The one with the best plot.
Starting point is 00:29:30 Yeah. That has the exciting line when the fish is chasing him. Oh my God, there's a giant fish. And Liam is he goes. there's always a bigger because they wanted that propulsive seat of your pants
Starting point is 00:29:42 what's going to happen next and then there was the Asian characters the African characters the Jewish Arab characters these were all sensitive thoughtful characters very colorful a lot of characters in that movie
Starting point is 00:29:56 and there were the bad guys that went with great sensitivity yeah oh we must get a Jedi very good very beautifully written And so... Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Did they hire... I heard that they hired William Faulkner to ghost write that. Is that correct? He wasn't alive, but yes. Okay. That explains it. They summoned him at the Ouija board. He said, what would Liam Neeson say?
Starting point is 00:30:19 Well, they wanted to... Lucas wrote the first track, and they brought in dead William Faulker for the second draft. Yeah. And then they just said, printed it another take on it. And they wanted it to meet... They wanted it to have that feeling of like a Tarzan Fu Manchu movie from the search. Yeah. He's always been inspired by the...
Starting point is 00:30:35 the cereals. Complete respect for the other. So we were wrapping it, we shot I always said, can I say that, I'm sorry to interrupt, I always said that the problem with those Fumanchu serials from the 30s was that not everything had an unearthly sheen to it.
Starting point is 00:30:51 Right? Yeah. But if it had, it would have it. You know, weird or more unsettling sheen. Yeah. So we we shot the picture at Levesden and we were on it for day and Scott Caparro. You're talking about scene of comedian Scott Capo? Yep. best known for coming to Alice FM when I worked there and hitting on me?
Starting point is 00:31:09 Yep, that's the one. Go ahead. Well, he's married now and lives in love. He was always very nice. He was always very nice. So we worked together on, we knew each other, of course, from the city. And the city, for those of you watching out there, never mind. I don't have to explain.
Starting point is 00:31:22 And so we shot at Leavesdon at the end of the day. Scott grabbed the second AD. And he goes, is there any swag? And the guy said, hello no minute. He fucked off. He came back. So I have a polar fleece that says episode one. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Yeah. Not the name of the movie, episode one. And. They hadn't named the movie yet. And Scott got Chubacca's pants. Whoa. And an enormous, uh, jar jar binks. Have you ever noticed he doesn't wear pants in the movie?
Starting point is 00:31:51 Because Scott's got them. We can't, we have to shoot Chubbacca from the waist up. So when we, now it's the months later and they're rapping. And we went into a studio in Soho in London. And, uh, so I'm in the studio. and this gives you an idea of the kind of awesome tech of the 90s. There's a phone in a cradle, and the cradle, the phone goes to ILM and Marin, right? So I'm in a booth.
Starting point is 00:32:16 You're talking about one of those cradles that just fits exactly the hands of the phone? Not a computer, a phone and a cradle. What we used to call down the line. So I'm in the booth, and I go, it sounds like I was making a Flash Gordon in the 30s. Now the camera turns to the world of entertainment. and his quake proofs. I like Flash Gordon. Not enough unearthly sheen.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Well, you need more unearthly she. So we're recording the lines, and I noticed, I couldn't help but notice, that every line I did, the person on the other end of the line from Marin went great, you know, well done, keep going. So after the fourth or fifth home run... You say to yourself, whoever's on the other end of this line is a real actor's director. Yeah, exactly. They get me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:03 They get me. So I'm like, no one's this good. And I go, finally, do I have a second to ask a question? And I go, sure, Greg. And I go, when does the picture open? And from the other end of the line in Marin, 10 days. Wow. So every pass was a miracle.
Starting point is 00:33:21 Okay. And the picture opened 10 days later around the world in how many theaters? All. Right, every theater on Earth. When Lucas would open those movies, they would open what? And in the movie days when movies were... Sure. All movie theaters.
Starting point is 00:33:35 In the United States? 3,000, something like that. I found it exciting that they were literally taking it down to... You or I, if we were making a movie, we would do that. Not unlike the pod race in the film, as narrated by Mr. Gregory Proops. Guys, I need to use the restroom. I'm going to do it at the San Diego airport. Do we have time for me to catch a flight while we take a break?
Starting point is 00:33:58 Jordan, Greg will hold me down. Okay. I'll fly to San Diego We'll be back in just a second on Jordan Jesse Go It's hard to explain what Jordan Jesse Goh So I had my kids take a stab at it Probably weird stuff You talk about
Starting point is 00:34:28 Jobs that are annoying Mm, business. I think you probably learned your lesson after talking about business a couple of times. Grown-up jokes that I don't understand and there's no pudding making any. All the podcasts are away. Subscribe to Jordan Jesse Go, a comedy show for grownups. It's Jordan Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's Radio Sweetheart.
Starting point is 00:35:09 Jordan Morris Boy, Detective. Greg Proop's K-pop zombie hunter. You know what just occurred to me, Jordan? Hmm. I bet Greg's met Dexter Jetster. Oh, yes. What other prequel characters do you hang out with? Dexter Jeter, Waddo.
Starting point is 00:35:27 What's Waddo life? Wadda was the one that was in. He's the one that was in. don't come to me that's a good waddo critical juncture in the movie where their spacecraft
Starting point is 00:35:38 is inoperable and rather than use their Jedi magic powers to fix it they go to a sleazy garage and try to force what appears to be a flying Semitic person. Don't try and find plot holes in the phantom menace
Starting point is 00:35:55 Greg, do you think it's a waste of all our time? What would you say are the parameters of Jedi power? Well, clearly fixing the goddamn carburetor wasn't going to... Do they apply to applied mechanics? Is that one of them? What about the moral decision of like, okay, so we need money to get off the planet? Well, let's not use our Jedi powers to fake everybody to, like, just let us go.
Starting point is 00:36:18 Let's enlist a five-year-old in a death-defying gambling race. That's the easiest way to do this. Against gangsters, literally murderous gangsters from all over the galaxy. Sub-Bulba and whatnot. Sub-Bulba. I've had to say Sub-Bulba more times in my life. I think you could possibly imagine. I mean, say what you want to
Starting point is 00:36:35 about the Star Wars prequels, but the names. The names are the stuff. Sabooba. And then Scott does the, he has to do all those lines in Hadiz. Oh, yeah. So he had not seen that,
Starting point is 00:36:47 he has to read all those lines like that. And then when I went in to do the resistance, I actually auditioned. And I was like, what the fuck is this? I have to audition for this? Like, I've been doing this, I'm the star of the fucking movie. Well, I mean, no, but I mean, I'm certainly the voice of that.
Starting point is 00:37:06 Yeah. Right. I'm in the, you know, I had enough ego to be like, well, sure. This is the pod race announcement, right? You're like, hey, guys, remember when you made a hand solo movie without me? How'd that work out? Yeah, right? Exactly.
Starting point is 00:37:19 You used the other guy. You wouldn't, you wouldn't make Dexter Jester audition to run the diner, would you? Right. So I read all these different voices and I did, speaking of voices, no one will know, Jackie Stewart. Uh-huh. the great Scottish road race announcer from the 70s who was at fever pitch almost every moment of his life
Starting point is 00:37:36 You know, like I did that And then I came home and I had a big old bitch out with my wife And I was like, can you imagine them fucking making me read this shit? And then of course they gave it to me And I was like, why didn't you just tell me That you were just going to give it to me and not make me And I was in another one where I was a bad guy named Tal Merrick And I tried to kill a prince of someone
Starting point is 00:38:00 dollar and that one I really enjoyed because it was like oh there was some line about oh you and you know a rebel league you want justice for people like you know he was really really like stephen miller you know it's just a horrible Nazi and he pulls a gun on the princess and goes well you can see your friends in another dimension you know and then I get blown away how did they write them I mean I'm interested in how Conrad works And so I was deaded at the end of that one. And then I got a call a couple months later and they go... Spoiler alert, but go ahead.
Starting point is 00:38:40 Yeah, they go, oh, we want you to come back in Utah Merrick. And I said to the producer, I mean, I don't mean to be a stickleback living in a small lake as an endangered fish species in Nevada, but isn't my character dead? And they went, Craig, Star Wars, it's a prequel. Oh, so that's how they got around everything. They brought my character back. I wasn't dead. And I did another episode of that character.
Starting point is 00:39:08 So when you ask, when I went to the Star Wars convention, I also had the Talmeric character. So you got to sign the Talmeric headshots and the announcer. I don't remember which one that was. Phil Lamar was on it. A lot of great people. They have so many good people. It's crazy. Yeah, rebels maybe.
Starting point is 00:39:23 Maybe rebels. Anyway. Jesse does make me re-audition for this show every couple weeks. So I know what you mean. I have to come. I'm like, I have to read for Jordan. That was what's weird because I have a podcast and I've had to make myself audition for it like four different times. And I'm so angry about it.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Can I be clear? I don't go to the auditions. Christian runs the audition. Oh, so you just watch it on. Yeah, I just pick up a phone. It's in a little cradle. It's the side of the phone. And Jesse just says good.
Starting point is 00:39:50 So you're sitting at home. I'm down the line from my desert home in Morocco. Right. Can I ask if when you're in your desert home in Morocco, is there a long tail? where you're only lit from above and you're in gigantic black swivel chairs. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's it.
Starting point is 00:40:04 Well, when I'm on the voice, when I'm a judge on the voice, is when I'm sitting the gigantic black swivel chair. Yeah, the lit from above, long table, yes. Should we take some calls? Yeah, sure, why not? Now, here's the thing. Christians filling in, we haven't listened
Starting point is 00:40:23 to these calls ahead of time. Sometimes they're momentous occasion calls. Sometimes there's something else. We're going to find out where we press the way. Hey, Jordan, Jesse, eminent guest. I'm just calling in for your beloved segment, parasites on the interstate. I was driving around the Albany Beltway Road and saw a, I don't know, some kind of station wagon with the license plate, C-L-I-C-L-E, which I guess is some kind of station wagon with the license plate, C-L-L-I-C-E, which I guess is some kind of. kind of crustacean that parasitizes fish.
Starting point is 00:41:04 So, you know, that seemed worth reporting. Love you. Bye. Love you, too. First of all, that wasn't a guess. You looked that up. Don't bullshit a bullshitter. You looked up what sea lice are.
Starting point is 00:41:15 You looked up what sea lice are. Sea life or sea lice? Sea lice, I believe. Oh, I thought he said sea life. I was like, isn't that kind of general? Today I went shopping for stocking stuffers. I like to go to the DICEO for my That's a good place for that.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Get some leachy gummies or whatever. One of my children really loves those fuzzy polyester socks. You know those little thick socks? Oh, yeah. What about mittens? They did not have any. Although I found some in my car after I went. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Hold on. okay um i was uh i was in downtown los angeles or a little tokyo technically and there was how big's your wad when you're rolling into dizo how thick's the wad i mean that's just two dollars and fifty cents you think it's going to be cheaper when you could go out of then it ends up being i got to carry fifteen hundred bucks in there yes oh you have to it's not twenty five hundred like when i go to costco right uh it's all cash with me i understand it's all i run a street level business. I was going to say, have you ever filed your taxes? I can't pay for anything without removing a rubber band first. I understand. Is it blue or red? I quantify all of my
Starting point is 00:42:35 income in racks. Sure. How many racks do I have? Okay. So I was, uh, I was in Little Tokyo. I parked my car getting into an AMG Mercedes, uh, the boxy kind, the boxy trucks. These are like 250,000. cars or something, getting into them, a man and a lady, man getting in the driver's seat, lady getting in the side seat, I'm like, this guy looks pretty extreme. I look at his license plate, it says, Stoked. Yeah. And then I realized it's spelled S-T-O-A-K-E-D. Wait a minute. And I'm just like, this guy wrote down Stoked on the thing, sent it in, realized he misspelled stoked, then was like, uh, oh, fuck it, fuck it. Yeah, or, I mean, or stoked is taken, and this guy is just like, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:43:32 Maybe this guy's, maybe this guy wanted to combine stoked and stote. Maybe it was s-tokes. Uh-huh. Could have been s-tokes. It could have been S-tokes. I would, yeah, right. It's like, there's A-tier tokes, B-tier tokes, but then the really good ones. Those are S-tokes.
Starting point is 00:43:50 Yeah. Yeah. Let's take another call. God-tiered toks. 2069844 Fun. J.J.G.O. at maximum fun.org. Hello, Jordan and Jesse Go. This is Jonathan from New Hampshire, calling from Japan,
Starting point is 00:44:03 where I'm at a capybara cafe, petting some capybaras, feeding some capybaras. They have very rough skin, like strong. Not skin, fur, you know. Anyway, they're enormous bigger than I thought they would be. there also happened to be lots of very cute sleepy cats around but Fletcher enjoyed the capybara's
Starting point is 00:44:27 so you should you know when you get the chance come to Japan there's actually a surprising number of capi bar cafes Have a good one All that atmospheric sound That looks nice Archer turned into this American life for a minute there It did
Starting point is 00:44:43 Yeah quick what lesson did we learn from that What lesson did we learn Everybody is the same Everybody is the same Everyone's different The same The same But some people are the same
Starting point is 00:44:53 Yes Yeah I learned that Cappy bears With her together Sound like they're having A cocktail party Yeah
Starting point is 00:44:59 Oh yeah They can get kind of catty I mean I don't know Why Jonathan's so fucking Surprised that Cappy bars are big This is the world's largest
Starting point is 00:45:07 rodent That's their claim to fame That's funny I thought my agent Was the world's largest rod Wow Wow Yes
Starting point is 00:45:15 Greg Proop Standing up, doing the, put your fist together and shake them on either sides of your head motion. What is this? I don't know. There's a flag down the field. And, you know, in Japan, there is a cafe for everything, including you can drink a bunch of coffee around Greg's agent. Yes. He's just in a little schoolgirl outfit.
Starting point is 00:45:39 Years ago, I was at the, or the Blabria Tar Pits. There's a museum next to it. I can't remember the name of it. Yeah, the Libreia Tar Pits Museum. Yeah. That's the one. unless you're referring to Lackmo which is also next story
Starting point is 00:45:50 Right no not Lachma It was the natural history Whatever it was Anyway they had dug up A California Mastodon And his name was Zev They named him Zev So he was a Jewish
Starting point is 00:46:01 Mastodon which I appreciate it And there was a postcard And it said Zev on Wilshire The Mastodon was dug up on Wilts Right Yeah La Brea Tarpet's not on LeBrea Right
Starting point is 00:46:12 Not nowhere near Libraia And down the road Was where my managers office was on Walsh. And I said, it was literally five minutes down the road from where Zev, the master arm was found. And I said, the difference
Starting point is 00:46:26 is, even though Zev died 15,000 years ago, I recently had a call from Zev about my career. And that was the difference between my agent, my manager being on Wilshire and Zev. Greg, you've traveled the world, performing stand-up
Starting point is 00:46:44 comedy. That's correct. Performing with your castmates from whose line is in any way? Yes. What are some of the most unusual animals you've met in your travels? Well, thank you for that question. It's exactly the kind of thing I hoped to get when I came here to know. Comics Unleashed is back! Comics Unleashed.
Starting point is 00:47:01 Isn't that still on? It's back. It's back. Because I saw a clip from it the other day with Byron. I did one years ago with him and he's so great. But we're sitting just like this. Yeah. He says some joke or whatever and it doesn't get a reaction.
Starting point is 00:47:14 And he says to the crowd, fantastically, He's the producer, and he's the host. All right, I need a big laugh here, okay? So I'm going to do it again. We need a laugh here and then applause, and we're going to go back into it. Here we go. So, Jesse, blah, blah, blah, the crowd laughs.
Starting point is 00:47:30 And I was like, this is awesome. Yeah. I had no idea you could manhandle the crowd. He's like, I'm a billionaire with a bee. From syndicated television. And we're back. We're back on the network. bought he owns the weather channel he owns a lot of things yeah that's so funny
Starting point is 00:47:49 what are the animals you've met well most of them were uh of course in were producers yep no i've been a baby kangaroo before yeah what you never done it you never met like a baby kangaroo i have i met a wombat a baby kangaroo a fruit bat those are all in australia and the fruit bat tried to try to well you weren't you weren't having it make our escape sure we saw them though Because fruit bats don't live in like a cave. They live in a tree. And they're the size of a dog. They're called flying foxes.
Starting point is 00:48:23 Yeah. You've been to Australia. You've seen them right? No, I never have. They're big. I've heard a lot about Tim Tams, but I've never been. Oh my God, Tim Tams are so good. And they have enormous snouts, unlike a little.
Starting point is 00:48:34 So they don't have the pug. Yeah. I'm doing that for the audience's benefit. Yeah. The pug. Yeah. Bat nose. They have the snouty.
Starting point is 00:48:41 Yeah. Like a dog. That's a cutter nose to me. Way cutter. To me. and to me that's a cute or nice we were on a we were at a marsupial concentration camp or whatever they call it you know
Starting point is 00:48:50 and where you're supposed to go enjoy them in their captivity they say it with an Australian accent sure yeah well in case they don't mind yeah they're all that yeah and um I saw them angling
Starting point is 00:49:04 nosies you know I saw the bats angling yeah so we ran and um fruit bats you saw them take their dicks out yeah not unusually they eat a lot of fruit So their urine, when it finally did urinate, which it did. The bat said, Greg, hold them down. Yeah, yeah. Look at all that money in his webbing.
Starting point is 00:49:25 Are those mucklucks? Who's the one? We don't have mucklux here, Mike. They're doing it. I wrote a joke. That was in 1997 or something like, the guy giving the tour wore a hat and it had balls hanging down. I'm not kidding. And the joke I did in Australia was.
Starting point is 00:49:42 You shake, because it's like, it's like corks, and then you shake your hat, and it gets the bugs to go away. That's it. And I said, The Ball and the Bat, Mortal Enemies. In Australia, an enormous laugh, show-stopping laugh. Yeah. For the joke, the ball and the bat, mortal enemies. And in England, I did it, and got a, okay. So you just stopped the show.
Starting point is 00:50:03 We're going to need a big laugh. A big laugh. Yeah, and then I yelled at the crowd. And then you bought the Weather Channel. Going back into the Segway, I have death tear. Yeah. Yeah, and then I remember doing it in America, and it received less than no laugh. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:19 A deficit laugh, where I actually had to pay money during the show to the audience. They retroactively said some of the stuff we liked earlier, we now think is less fun. Right, we don't even, what you did before is erased from our memory. They took the weather channel from you and you didn't even realize you had owned it. Yeah, exactly. And so I thought that was very funny, like how a pun can live in one country. And then in other countries, people. I bet they love you in Australia, Greg.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Do you do well in Australia? That makes sense to me. I've done. Yeah. The last time I paid their week. I believe Greg Barron to be Australia's number one American Greg. Am I mistaken? Do you think you are Australia's number one American Greg?
Starting point is 00:51:00 Oh, I haven't been in Australia since 2018. So, yeah, I'm certain that Greg has gazumped me, as they say. The king of Tim Tams. The Tim Tamsers. What you're supposed to do is put them in milk and then you eat them. That's Dunkeroo. Is that DunkerRiss? A Tim Tam is a cookie?
Starting point is 00:51:15 Yeah. It's a chocolate. It's a chocolate coated cookie. A chocolate cutt a cookie? You can get them at Gelson. National Wendham of Australia. You don't even have to go to Bristol Farm to that horrible row where they have the Violet Crumble and... Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Bristol Farms has a British row. Oh, do they? Everything awful, you know, that you don't want. Wait, is Violet Crumble is like a, is that that, like, honeycomb candy? Oh, I like that. Oh, I like that. Oh, I like that. Oh, I like that.
Starting point is 00:51:41 Yeah. I do like that. See? Well, then I've just hipped you. If you go to Bristol Farms, they've got a whole row of English shit. I didn't say I like other English shit. You can get everything jellied. You like Marmite and that kind of shit.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Yeah, you want some... I like gentlemen's relish. I like gentlemen's relish, too. We were having some Major Grey's Chutney last night, so... What's that? Chutney. Okay. But for some reason, Major Gray in charge of it, I guess.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Right. Yeah. He went a colonel, but I believe he was broken down. I'd love to have my own chutney. right yeah i'll get there someday jesse's jordan's jordan's what are you a boy detective yes i'll call it boys chutney
Starting point is 00:52:19 Jordan's Jordan's Jordan's chutney the mystery is where did it come from why is it so delicious you can really taste the boy yeah you know gentlemen's relish really goes good with boys chutney um should we should we uh should we
Starting point is 00:52:34 should we take a little break while i uh dance and give away some hundies because that's what comedy is Greg It's dancing and giving away Hyundai's. You know what I hate? Comics who don't give away Hyundai. I know. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:52:46 We'll be back in just a second on Jordan, Jessica. La La La. I'm Jordan Cruciola, host of Feeling Scene, where every week I have a different actor, director, or writer as my co-host. And whoever that co-host may be, it is a sure bet that we are digging deep and having a great time doing it. I love that you just did that. Yeah, I mean, if I were going to join a cult, I think this might be it.
Starting point is 00:53:16 A fresh look at your favorite film and a peek behind the curtain at how movies get made. Oh, okay, I'm going to tell you this whole story. Okay, I almost got fired from that movie. You should be listening to Feeling Seen. I had so much fun. I love what you're doing. I hope I did okay. New episodes every week on Maximum Fun.
Starting point is 00:53:36 On Judge John Hodgman, the courtroom is fake. But the disputes are real. Brian would say, I'm the Gumby of this family. He's just not. Claiming to be Gumby is an ungambi-like claim. No, it's just Gumby and I being are authentic selves. So what's your complaint? Too many sauces? There are no foods on which to put the sauces.
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Starting point is 00:54:21 La, la, la, la, la. It's Jordan, Jesse Go. I am Jesse Thorne America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morse boy detective. Greg Proop's second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. Oh, really? I just got it. I thought you were, I thought it was Brandon Donnelly.
Starting point is 00:54:38 Congratulations. That was Brandon Donnelly. I'm really happy for you. Thank you. I'm just learning now that I didn't get it, but I'm really happy for you. Part of it is I have to live in the Midwest for like six months a year. They can get pretty sticky in St. Louis in July. Unbelievable humanity.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Pretty sticky. But then there's the arch. So you can always go into the arch and watch at the apex children are dying in boredom and whatnot. Honestly, I went to the St. Louis arch as a child. You want to know what my impression was? This is a fucking amazing arch, I said to myself. Did you say that to your mother? I hold that in my...
Starting point is 00:55:12 Well, I was with my father at the time. And he was comfortable with salty language. Your mother was the one I used to abandon you in Guatemala, was it? Broadly. Yeah, I mean, it was southern Mexico. Oh, there we are, yeah. She was there, but we were sort of abandoned. We had abandoned ourselves.
Starting point is 00:55:30 I've never forgotten that story. In the cell of lung control. I still wake up screaming, you know. One time my therapist said, you know, some people would characterize that as neglectful. And I said, but not you? Right. What a gentleman way to put that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Thank you for, I appreciate that. Honey, go over to that man over there, the one with the eye patch, and see if he'll drive us to the next village. Oh, you're talking about Raymondo? Yeah. El re de la Silva? Yeah, yeah. He did. Donde estes de my mother.
Starting point is 00:55:59 At some point, we were drinking jello. Right. I don't remember why that was. You know, because you can't drink the water straight. Yeah. Then I think my mom thought we might as well put jello in there. put jello in there if we're going to boil it. Jellow's a disinfectant, right? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:56:14 That's science. If you get stuck right, if you get stung by a jellyfish, shrub gelo in it. Yeah. That's why they called. Ellen had to have raspberry jello, right? She did have to, yeah. Yeah, I think that's correct. True fact about Ellen DeGeneres.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Greg Proops. I don't have New Year's plans. What do I do? Jesse, I'm so glad you lost. When you're done, detecting, boys. Found them. I'm at the punchline of San Francisco with Daya Luxemian and Jackie Cation. Hey.
Starting point is 00:56:44 And I was putting the show together and I always want women to be on the show so that's not three guys. I'm three white guys. And I got in touch with Jackie and I said, Jacks, you and Lori know every woman comic in the universe because that's what they do. That's their thing. I don't know if I should be divulging this, but there's a text chain. Yeah. Okay. So you're on that chain.
Starting point is 00:57:08 I've had this text ain't read to me Right, I said Jack's I need, I'm looking for a woman And she went, I'll do it So it took that wrong to find one And I was pretty excited about it Because I love Jackie and so One of the best
Starting point is 00:57:22 Yeah, so it's me and Jackie and Daya And we're doing the 30th, 331st at Punchline San Francisco It's great fun I'm going to make another album there To go as a companion piece To this album, Free State of California Which I did last year
Starting point is 00:57:34 At the Punchline in San Francisco What more fun could you have than to be at the punchline, a beautiful club in San Francisco's Embarcadero. Yes. And to see the great Greg Proops, San Francisco's own. This guy's from San Mateo, California, if I'm not mistaken. San Carlos. San Carlos.
Starting point is 00:57:53 San Carlos. This guy's from San Carlos. I did matriculate at the College of San Mateo. He went to CSM. None more fun. That's what I see. You asked me how much more fun, none more. None more fun.
Starting point is 00:58:07 None more. No, it's going to be fun, I think. I think it'll be very fun. And then, yeah, the album, Free State's out. I improvised that last year. And then I'm going to improvise this album, too. I haven't been writing the material as much as thinking of ideas, and then I go out and go on stage and have a bash.
Starting point is 00:58:23 I have four shows to get it right. Can I give you an idea? Yeah. Do a little Dexter Jetster stuff. Not, who was the other one? Always aware. Subalba, Wado. Yeah, a lot, doll.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Dexter. Let's not forget, General Grievous. Is subalba, is that something from the Popul Voo? I think that's something from the Popul Vue, Subalba. It's like the underworld is, the king of the underworld? Is that Subalba from the Populvoo? I don't remember. Okay, J.J. Go at Maximumfund.org, 206.984 Fun.
Starting point is 00:58:58 Christian Dwayne, yes, filling in for J.K. this week. Christian, did you already look that up? You look like you're ready to talk into the microphone. Maybe you're checking that. I was just looking at what Siboba looks like. What is Siboba? He looks cool. How would you characterize him?
Starting point is 00:59:11 He looks like kind of like a skinny catfish, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, like a skin. Here comes Siboba. Yeah, there it is. I don't care what universe you from, that's got to hurt. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Nobody announced the Sibulba like Greg Proops.
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