Mission To Zyxx - Mission to Gygs

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

The first and final episode of the long-running TV game show Mission to Gygs, in which cast members of Mission to Zyxx compete to tell the best stories about their past jobs and side hustles. Featurin...g contestants Allie Kokesh, Jeremy Bent and Winston Noel. Hosted by Seth Lind.This is one of our monthly episodes leading up to the release of The Young Old Derf Chronicles later this year. Support us on Maximum Fun!Oh and here's the Zyxx character personality quiz mentioned in the episode, made by kbear19.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody, Alden here with the second in our monthly series of one-off podcasts submitted by listeners like you over on our Mission to Zyx Discord. This month's episode is from listener Potato Pete. He suggested an episode where crew members talk about jobs they've had in the past. That's a great idea. As freelancers and comedians, we have had more than our fair share of ridiculous side hustles. Also, if you would like to submit your own ideas for these one-off episodes, you can do it over on our Mission to Zyck Discord server, which you get access to when you're
Starting point is 00:00:35 a supporter of the show on Maximum Fun. If you're not already and you'd like to support the show and help make young ol' Durv Chronicles possible, go over to MaximumFun.org slash join. Join that Discord, say hello to all of us, and submit your ideas. So without further ado, here is Mission 2 Gigs. Enjoy. Well, hello America. Thanks for tuning in tonight to Mission 2 Gigs. As you know, every weeknight on Mission 2 Gigs at 6pm Central, 3pm Pacific, three lucky
Starting point is 00:01:09 contestants will compete to give the best answers to questions about their past jobs, side hustles, the weirder and more humiliating the better. I'm your host Seth Lind, and let's meet today's contestants. First up, Ali Kokesh Hi, happy to be here Well now that we've gotten to know you I'm sorry you wanted more Tell you think that a game show contestant would just offer the information to you. Oh, sorry
Starting point is 00:01:41 I have this here on my card. I understand you're one of the creators of the hit podcast mission to Zix. I am, and proud to be. Is there anything else you'd like America to know about you before we jump into this cutthroat game of job stories? I play Dar, but I got Plek Decksetter in the personality quiz. Oh, wow, excellent. Our next contestant, Jeremy Bent.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Hello. I understand you are one of the creators of the hit podcast mission to Zix. Oh, wow. Excellent. Our next contestant, Jeremy Bent. Hello. I understand you are one of the creators of the hit podcast Mission to Zyx. Wouldn't you know it? It's true, yeah. Great. I play C53, but interestingly enough,
Starting point is 00:02:13 on the Mission to Zyx personality quiz, I got bargy. Wow. And third, our guest, Winston Knoll. Our guest, Winston, with the two contestants, Ally and Jeremy. This is tightly scripted. Yeah I've see here. You're one of the creators of Turns page hi Seth glad to be here. Yes. I am one of the co-creators of the podcast mission to Zix I actually got on the mission to Zix personality quiz. I got AJ. Oh
Starting point is 00:02:43 Wow, wow. Wow. Your actual character. I suppose we should link to that quiz. We got it. In the episode notes. We should. Which every television game show has episode notes. All right.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Well, let's bring up the scoreboard here. We see zeros all around on the scoreboard. Oh, you made this? Jeez. Yeah, that's a tag board and glitter glue nice. That's some puff paint Yeah, spackle. How long did this take you? I started this in? 2002 whoa three Wow and I've you know work on it a bit each day And the reason we have a scoreboard is that this is not only a game show
Starting point is 00:03:21 It's a competitive game show and what's going to happen is after each question Are you Winston you're giving a skeptical look at? Game show yeah, but with Jeremy. It's a game show. It's competitive. There are they're all Amazing race is a collaborative Competitive wait that's really means you have a scheme right not to not to argue against myself splitting hairs. Okay fine So as you are contestants and of course our millions of viewers know mission to gigs Consists of a series of questions which you will answer Competitively to be the most interesting entertaining surprising which will be determined by your own votes at the end of each question
Starting point is 00:04:01 You will hold up a card with the name of one of your competitors You may not choose yourself. Thank you Jeremy bent holding up Oh everyone's holding up their cards and then you will get points for receiving two votes If it's a three-way tie you each get one point, which is the same as getting no points, but feels a little better I'm sure this will all work out just fine. I mean, listen, this show wouldn't have been on the air for 30 years if it weren't an airtight premise.
Starting point is 00:04:31 What could go wrong? So you see the scoreboard has lots of zeros. Let me spray paint those zeros on tighter. OK, so let us begin. Wow. Classic Sethlund Panache. I can see why this guy got the host gig. In that prime 3 p.m.
Starting point is 00:04:52 spot. 6 p.m. Central. No Eastern time slot. Didn't I say 6 p.m. Eastern or did I say 6 p.m. Central? You started Central time.
Starting point is 00:05:03 It's three hours earlier in the West Coast, which means they delay it. Yeah. All right, let's begin with this question, which we call the $64 million question. What is the most absurdly high amount of money you've been paid relative to the amount of labor for a gig? Yeah, so I got hired once with some other comedy folks. We were making reaction videos to people's
Starting point is 00:05:32 complaint tweets about the iPhone. We had been hired by Samsung to like troll Twitter. We were at a studio with cameras and we were gonna make improvised comedic responses to people's hate tweets about the iPhone I think it was coinciding with the release of a new iPhone There was gonna be like a three-day gig We came in We improvised a couple of things that I thought were like, you know
Starting point is 00:06:00 reasonably funny for branded content about cell phone hate tweets and Then some extremely serious Korean men from Samsung came into the room reasonably funny for branded content about cell phone hate tweets and then some extremely serious Korean men from Samsung came into the room they watched what we did for about 20 minutes they left the room and then about an hour later we were all told they have decided to cancel the project and then the producer immediately went don't worry we're all still getting paid. And we were like, sounds like a deal, my friend. Oh. You got paid for a three day project
Starting point is 00:06:29 for being there for an hour? For being there for about two hours. And ruining the project. Not a single thing we did ever was seen anywhere ever. Really the dream. Wow. Yeah, honestly, if I could get one of those every month, I'd be delighted.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Yeah. Okay, wait, I challenged Yeah. Okay, wait. I challenged Jeremy. Okay. Excellent. Is this how the game goes? I had mostly very low paying jobs on my resume, but there was one that felt high paying by comparison.
Starting point is 00:06:59 So I was working at a temp agency and I was getting $30 an hour. Not bad. Amazing. This is amazing. But the job was I had to, three days a week, leave my apartment in Queens, travel by myself all the way to Connecticut.
Starting point is 00:07:19 I don't even remember which town it was in because whatever station I got to, I then had to transfer to a cab and that cab would drop me at this estate. And at this place where they had a house manager, a nanny, and a personal trainer, they had me, I was the fourth person, and my only job. And I had to spend like a full working day in this person's home three days a week I Was putting together her ancestry calm
Starting point is 00:07:55 That's the stuff Yeah, and I had to go in person I was gonna say why did you have to be on the premises Was not allowed to do this from home Had to be there had to go all the way out to, I wish I could remember where in Connecticut. And I never saw the couple that I was employed by. A huge perk, however, was that they kept the pantry stocked. Snacks, baby.
Starting point is 00:08:23 So many snacks. What I remember is they had the little diamond-flavored almonds. Oh, yes. Wasabi-flavored. Wasabi almonds? Yes. Those are good. I literally thought you meant diamond-flavored almonds. Like, wow, these people are rich.
Starting point is 00:08:42 Winston, the heat is on. These are two very solid stories. I think Jeremy might have done this with me a couple of times. Oh, okay. Oh, my. There was a random person who wanted musical improv shows performed, and it in like the basement of a church oh I don't know that we did it together but I did do it yeah and so you go down into this I'm sensing a collaborative competition right now I know how does this work sort of Jeremy yeah this is we've gifted into amazing race no So we would go
Starting point is 00:09:25 Perform and like it was never advertised but I think we got paid like a hundred dollars To do an hour-long show and nobody was there. I think I performed literally for five people Yes, a hundred dollars per cast member for the cast member and the accompanist. Yeah. So someone's paying like around a thousand dollars to have a private musical improv show. Yeah. Yeah and five was usually like a generous crowd. Yeah. So I performed basically for nobody. I did it several times. So like I must have made maybe a thousand bucks and again like nobody Nobody saw it
Starting point is 00:10:10 Amazing. Yeah. Well, let us have our first reckoning Thinking your minds about the stories you just heard to look closely at your cards Everyone made your mental selection. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jeremy has voted Ally. I said it was both Jeremy and Winston, because Winston submitted both of them. Oh, wow. I voted Jeremy. OK.
Starting point is 00:10:35 And so that was one vote Ally, one vote Winston, one and a half votes Jeremy. Oh, this won't be complicated. Two votes. Two votes. This isn't getting complicated. Just two. Half votes, yeah. We're off to a great start. Well, the first person on the scoreboard is none other than Jeremy Bent.
Starting point is 00:10:49 Yeah. I have to say, Ali, in the 30 years this game show has been on the air, no one has been bold enough to vote for two people at once. And you just broke the mold. And that's an amazing step forward in the history of Mission to Gigs. Someone's already updated the Wikipedia entry. Wonderful. You're looking at Wikipedia while you're hosting the show? No, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:11:10 I'm here on stage in Burbank. Right. Wait, so it records in Burbank. Burbank, Connecticut. Okay. Wait, but you're still in Central? Time zone? I can set my clock for Central if I,
Starting point is 00:11:22 my heart is always in Missouri. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm proud to announce that I found the emails from the Samsung event. And? I was paid $2,000. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:11:36 Nice. Amazing. Bow bow bow bow. Thousand an hour, not bad. Yeah. Yeah, basically. Paid for my whole apartment. months amazing. Do that was like three months, right? Let's see who has something for this next question a little question
Starting point is 00:11:54 We call wheels of fortune tell us an entertaining story about a job that involved a vehicle or driving wheels of fortune or driving. Wheels of Fortune. OK, so I don't drive. This is a point of contention in my marriage, actually. But I don't drive. I don't drive. But when we lived in the Netherlands, obviously, the only way to get around is by bicycle.
Starting point is 00:12:21 You got a bicycle. I applied to so many jobs when we first moved to Amsterdam and I got no bites. Nobody wanted to hire me. I finally got a job. Folding towels and checking in guests to a hit type workout studio. I had to upsell people on smoothies and then when everybody left I had to mop and vacuum and close it out and get back on my bike
Starting point is 00:12:52 and leave and I'd go there at five in the morning and I my shift ended at one and at a certain point I said to my husband why am I doing this job I hate it and he agreed he's like I have no idea why am I doing this job? I hate it. And he agreed. He was like, I have no idea why you're doing this job. And when I quit, I never got paid. Never? Whoa. They never paid me. And I used to get up at five in the morning.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Oh my God. Bike out to this neighborhood nowhere near me and open the gym. That's a trade deficit. That's wild. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I've got one. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Mine is, I worked at a mortgage company for summer and it was like my lovely neighbor of of mine you know took pity on me and hired me and she had me one of i was doing kind of all kinds of odd jobs i wasn't actually doing mortgage stuff so one of the things i ended up doing was her her son who i knew i ended up driving him and his girlfriend to a pizza place for them to go on a date and I like went on the date with them and drove them back to their houses so like I like during the workday she's like can you do this I was like yeah sure so I like picked her up, picked him up, drove them to Pero's Pizza, sat with them in the booth as they went on a date and then
Starting point is 00:14:37 Took them home both to their houses. It's the sitting in the booth with them. I guess I should have sat in another booth, but I was like, I'm in the car. Wait for them in the car. I think I was like, I'm- We're in the car. Wait for them in the car. I think I was also tasked with facilitating the meal. I don't know, or like- Oh, cutting up their meat. Yeah, right. Feeding them. Yeah. I drove him around a couple other times that summer too.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Wait, how old were they? I mean, he was maybe like 12 or 13. So like old enough to not want to be driven by anybody. So yes, that was a that was a driving gig. I love it. Yeah two and a half years. I booked a gig to be a host on a bus tour of New York City. But the trick with the bus was that they had stripped out all the seats and put them back in sideways so that there was three rows of stadium seating
Starting point is 00:15:40 inside the bus facing one wall that was all windows. It was called The Ride and I was a host on The Ride, and we went around a specific route of Midtown Manhattan, and you saw the Chrysler Building and Columbus Circle and Carnegie Hall and all these Midtown landmarks. And we had sort of a routine, and I was on there with another female improviser and we would be doing sort of patter
Starting point is 00:16:09 and we could play music and we could blast sound out to the street and there were performers on the street who were part of the show. It was truly one of the most, that's probably the biggest expenditure of money I've ever been involved in. They spent so much money trying to make this work, but they did not hire anyone who had experience
Starting point is 00:16:30 selling tickets to tourists. Oh wow. So for the first six months, we were doing so many rides to like 10 people. Also the first month that we did it, we were hit with huge blizzards. And so the rides were taking, at one point, up to three hours.
Starting point is 00:16:51 The show was supposed to take 70 minutes. And there is no amount of improv comedy that will fill 110 additional minutes of a show. So those got pretty rough, is what I'll say. And customers were not happy about it. Damn. Yeah, but the buses, they were also like really finicky. Like the tech on them was like,
Starting point is 00:17:14 it broke down all the time. The air conditioning broke down all the time which was brutal in the summer. It was rough. Wow. But I used to know a lot of facts about Midtown Manhattan because I had them. Give us one right now.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Oh, okay, here's one. We were driving by the New York Public Library on 42nd Street. Do you know the name of the two lions outside the front of the New York Public Library? Me? I know. Winston? Patience and Fortitude. And do you know why they have that name? No, those were characteristics that mayor Fiorillo LaGuardia thought that New Yorkers would need to survive the Great Depression
Starting point is 00:17:53 There's a New York fact for you. Wow Wow well, it's funny because the ride was like in use a lot of our friends everybody and so I was I applied and got trained. I was gonna say, I thought you did it. And then it folded. I don't think I ever actually did one. Yeah, because like,
Starting point is 00:18:16 Alden was a host with me as well, as was Justin Tyler, AKA Durf. Lydia Hensler, who's squirreled in season one, was one of the hosts. She and I used to work together all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's come time to vote.
Starting point is 00:18:31 Now, as a recap, we began with Ali a story about bicycling to a gym where you upsold smoothies where you were never paid. Winston Knoll, chauffeur and chaperone to a wealthy 13 year old boy. Jeremy on a failed multimedia bus tour of New York City. Okay. And Winston. Winston. Winston is on the board. Yes. I mean, the ride was bizarre, but at least it was a job.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Whereas Winston's was like, I don't know that someone should be doing honest days work sweat on my brow This next question is something we like to call let's make a dawdle the biggest snoozer slack channel What is the easiest job you ever had the longest you went without working the most epic bout of slacking? When I first got to New York, I was a temp for a long time. And some of those temp gigs were not hard. And you sort of, you know, it's like big, especially big corporations in New York, they're not paying attention to what people are,
Starting point is 00:19:41 they're too big to have that level of oversight. And so I worked for Ralph Lauren, the fashion company, but specifically I worked for a division that like prepared these Excel documents that would tell stores, it's like, this is how many of a store of this size is going to order of each of these garments from these collections. I did not make the decisions about that stuff. I just updated the Excel files. That happened maybe once a day. And it would take me like a little bit to do that once they handed me the updated file.
Starting point is 00:20:24 But like when I say a little bit, I mean like an hour. And I worked there eight hours a day. Wow. Mm-hmm. Wow. This is, okay, so that same temp agency that placed me with the Ancestry.com person, placed me with another person the other two days a week and this
Starting point is 00:20:48 actually I think is the best job I've ever had. So I worked for this woman on the Upper East Side but I was hired by her live-in Dutch boyfriend who told his girlfriend I'm hiring you a personal assistant. And so I showed up to their apartment and the Dutch boyfriend like pulls me inside and says, okay, now here's the deal. You're not actually here to be her personal assistant. She thinks you're here to be her personal assistant. You're actually here
Starting point is 00:21:22 because I need you to help convince her to throw things away. Wow. And the apartment was immaculate. Like it felt so minimalist and wealthy. And then you go into her office, which is in the back, and it is chaos. And every day I would show up. I would sit there. She would talk to me. Occasionally I would point out like, hey, that lamp is broken. Should we get rid of it? And she'd
Starting point is 00:21:56 say, no, it's very expensive. I might get it fixed. Or like if you opened her closet, just stacked full of papers. Oh, this calendar's from 1977. Sure is. But I might show the pictures to my grandson one day. So I worked for this woman for months. I showed up two days a week. I never once got her to throw anything away. Got paid $35 an hour.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Not even one time? Not one time. And I'm telling you, I would be like, you gotta throw away. Got paid $35 an hour. Not even one time? Not one time. And I'm telling you, I would be like, you gotta throw away, like, you gotta throw this away. This is garbage. And then all of a sudden, me saying that, she'd be like, it's certainly not garbage. I gotta keep it.
Starting point is 00:22:35 We gotta use it for something. And I did not have the heart to fight her on any of this because she didn't know I was there to make that happen. What happened with the boyfriend? What did the boyfriend do? He was very cross with me. He was like, you're making no progress. I'm like, no, I'm not.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Yeah, and he opened a gym outside of Amsterdam years later. Oh! Oh my God. Oh boy. Winston, Winston's up. Yes, so my um my first job was also a temp job and I was I was working at an investment bank where I made power points for them from 5 30 in the evening until 2 30 in the morning. What? And then on weekends I would do it
Starting point is 00:23:26 from noon until 10.30 at night. And it was like, I would pick up like four gigs a week, you know, something like that. So my early years in New York, I had like very little social life because I was like working these weird hours. And it was either that I was like working these weird hours. And it was either that I was like working all night on a big project or there was like nothing to do.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I'd get like a sign to a banker and they would be like, yeah, I'm still waiting on it from my boss. And then you might just sit there the entire day and do absolutely nothing. And so streaming had just kind of started and it was like, oh, oh six. And like, I remember watching like all of heroes, the show heroes and like 30 rock, like NBC.com.
Starting point is 00:24:15 I was just like watching all the shows on NBC.com. Just watching television. It was Feast or Famine, but the famine, it was just like, there's nothing to do. And it's also, you're in an empty office building. Until two in the morning? Yeah. Oof.
Starting point is 00:24:33 And on the weekends? And sometimes I would say goodnight to them. I'd be like, well, see you later at like two in the morning. And then one guy, I saw him on Thursday night or Friday night, and I saw him on Thursday night or Friday night and I saw him again on Sunday and I'm like hey how's it going man he's like I haven't left the building he just has like gone down showered and like slept somewhere in the building and it was just like that kind of stuff so anyway I didn't do much then I had another job where I fell asleep
Starting point is 00:24:59 in the stock room but I worked most of the time on that but stockroom but I worked most of the time on that but Well we uh we would normally have a commercial break here but we have no sponsors so um this is the point where the host gets to throw in a little story of his own don't worry this one's not for competition can't get any votes Wait in lieu of ads you tell stories? Gotta fill that time live show live to tape for the West Coast. No editing. Again, I'm just baffled by the logistics. So many questions. My senior year of college, we rented an apartment,
Starting point is 00:25:35 like the floor of a house, and there was another unit that wasn't rented, and the landlord lived in the suburbs and didn't want to have to come in to show it. So he said, he said, I'll pay you ten bucks every time you show this apartment, but he had it Dramatically overpriced so people would come look at it and say no No, like so they it literally was like every single one was like a one-minute tops interaction And I showed this apartment 55 times Wow in like a few weeks.
Starting point is 00:26:07 Spit take. 55 times. So and I told and I wrote down the names of every person. And I remember telling him like, you owe me five hundred fifty dollars. My rent, I shared one of the bedrooms. My rent was two hundred thirty dollars in this apartment in in St. Paul, Minnesota. And then we were like, what should we do?
Starting point is 00:26:30 Like we shouldn't just split this money. So we're like, we're gonna go out to eat at the nicest restaurant in Minneapolis with like the four of us who. We went to Goodfellow's restaurant and I remember I ordered rabbit. Anyway, awesome, awesome night out. I remember one of my friends. He said cheers to Internet millionaires. This was the year 2000 right and they were happening that long may they live yeah
Starting point is 00:26:54 And um and then fast forward several months later we move out He takes that exact amount off of our security deposit No He takes that exact amount off of our security deposit. No. Anyway, but it was easy gig while I had it. And so I went to the restaurant. Well, that's the end of our commercial break. It's time to vote. And we've got excelling at Excel, failing to declutter,
Starting point is 00:27:19 and streaming in the bank. Well done. Okay. Okay. Well done. Okay. Okay. And vote. I voted for Seth because I thought that was really good. Wow. Breaking the mold once again,
Starting point is 00:27:34 but we had two votes for Ally from the other two, so Ally is on the board. I honestly think if you had even got her to throw one thing away. The fact that you That you threw nothing away for months. It's like that's the best Well folks, we are tied at one point each and what does that mean? That means we go into a lightning round where it's the first person to answer with something legitimate for the question They will get get a point. And here's a question.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Get your hands over your buzzers. Question we like to call dress your luck. A fashion emergency at work. Oh, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Look, so when I started, this is such a dirt bag thing I used to do. Pre-COVID, pre-COVID dirt bag thing I used to do. Pre-COVID, pre-COVID.
Starting point is 00:28:27 I did this a couple times. Tough, tough start. When you have to categorize it as pre-COVID. I have to be like, okay, hold on, hold on. I would never do this now. Okay, I, when I started dating my now husband. Sure. I sometimes, unbeknownst to me, me after a date I would stay over at his
Starting point is 00:28:49 place but then I'd have to get up and go to work in the morning. Of course I had nothing with me. So the scumbag dirtbag thing I used to do, I used to go into the anthropology that was nearby. I would find a shirt on sale. I would wear said shirt with the tag on. I'd go into work and then at the end of the day, I'd change back into my clothes and then I would return the shirt. It's also funny that you chose one on sale.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Is that just in case you couldn't return it? Yes. Because there was this one time where I did this. But like the tech. Okay. Again, pre-COVID, scumbag, but pre-COVID. I was so sweaty at work that the tag like stuck to my body. And when I went to take off the shirt The tag removed itself from the shirt and stuck Oh, yeah, baby, you couldn't return it. I mean I had to keep it Yeah, all right, Ali Kokesh up on the board with with the first lightning round answer The next lightning question is question. We call the $100,000 pyramid scheme.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Have you ever participated in an MLM? Also known as multi-level marketing, also often accused of being pyramid schemes. You mean other than UCB? Other than UCB? Wow. No, see, you take the classes and then you teach the classes.
Starting point is 00:30:22 That's how you win. Point, next question. Yeah. Wow. All right, Jeremy Bent on the board for the next one. Nice. Let's check in with the scoreboard. Let's see, I'm spray painting. We've got some glitter glue peeling off.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Here's some numbers that are normally used to put on mailboxes. And this, of course, is a bit of an original Basquiat Oh This is a high-budget game show we have Winston Noel with one point from the original round We have Ali Kokesh with two points one in the original round one lightning round Jeremy bent Also with two points heading into the end for our final question our final lightning round question here in mission to gigs streaming live into the bank, the out of stating game. What is the strangest gig that you needed to cross state lines for?
Starting point is 00:31:14 Winston Ohl. I performed at a mattress convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. I performed with the group Improv Everywhere, Charlie Todd and Cody Lindquist. They were the hologram hosts in season five of Mission to the Zyck. Femme and the holograms. Femme and the holograms. And so they would do this thing
Starting point is 00:31:37 where they had an interrupting musical. So somebody would be speaking and then there would be musical interruptions. Like somebody would just start singing and it was like a keynote speech that turns into a musical number. So this was for Serda's Salesperson Mattress Convention. So it was like mattress salesmen from the Midwest, like all wanted to eat steak and play golf and they're watching the keynote and I start singing
Starting point is 00:32:05 different lyrics to tomorrow from Annie and that's the first song and we did five others that weekend we kept coming up over and over again and the funniest one of the hardest I've ever laughed in my life was they were like debuting a brand new mattress and it's called the perfect life was they were like debuting a brand new mattress and It's called the perfect day and they're like and this truly happened they said ladies and gentlemen the perfect day and This mattress is unveiled Hoisted 40 feet into the air. I'm none of this is a lie
Starting point is 00:32:42 pyrotechnics flames like 20 feet high, like fireworks inside went off, confetti cannings went off and it's like an inert mattress being just like lifted up into the heavens. All the mattress salesmen are on their feet clapping for this mattress that they're going to sell. And then a scrim falls down and it's like six of us
Starting point is 00:33:08 and we're all clapping our hands above our heads and we start singing a changed version of Cool and the Gang Celebration called Celebrate the Perfect Day. And Eugene Cordero, who is a great performer, was on The Good Place. He's just, if you've seen him, you're like, yes, he's the best.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Yeah, and he was leading it, this one, and he had an inflatable saxophone, and he was like, nobody look into my eyes. Let's just do this and get it over with. And so we all did it, and it was just like, we were all laughing, because it was just like we were all laughing Because it was just so crazy We were it was a three-day gig and we were in Las Vegas and that is me traveling for state lines Wow
Starting point is 00:33:54 And that dear viewers dear contestants means we have the first ever three-way tie in the history Really mission the first ever three-way first ever three-way tie 30 years in 30 years years on the air you'd have no reason to know this because it's the first time in the history the shows has ever happened but when we do have a three-way tie you each get a chunk of this scoreboard be careful if you get the piece with the Basquiat in it you don't seem excited about the prize. I mean, I mean, I guess if it was a whole boss, yeah, I
Starting point is 00:34:27 could do something with it. But yeah, like never work again. And that's not even a whole scoreboard. It's true. I can't score my own things at home.
Starting point is 00:34:36 You guys, these are such great stories. Thank you for enduring this amazingly rickety game show premise. And we loved it. Here's the thing. I didn't even tell one of my weirdest things.
Starting point is 00:34:48 I know, I was like, I still got a couple in the back pocket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Yeah. I didn't even get to talk about how I used to write the weather forecasts as a sassy cat. Yeah. I didn't talk about how I got to be a digital 3D face
Starting point is 00:35:02 at an ad convention and I got a girl's number. Oh, holy yes. I didn't talk about how I was a substitute gym teacher at the Nightingale School on the Upper West Side. I didn't talk about getting paid to fake propose to someone. That's a good one. Ah! I didn't talk about how the startup I worked at
Starting point is 00:35:20 was shut down by the Supreme Court. Whoa! I didn't get to talk about how I worked for Jay Leno. Just polishing cars at the garage? Well, I mean, those would be amazing stories if Mission to Giggs hadn't, and I just got this news, just been canceled. Oh no. Wow.
Starting point is 00:35:41 It's awkward since this episode is still- Wait, in every time zone or just Central or? So far it's. Just the live show or the live show and the tape? Right. So far it's canceled and Central, it's tape delayed. I suppose they could change their mind before the tape delayed.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Yeah, before it hits the West Coast. Before the decision makers. There's a window. Yeah, yeah, it's awkward that they're canceling it mid-Broadway. Was it cause of the tie? Was it cause of the tie? Was that too much?
Starting point is 00:36:06 It's because Jay Leno is the executive producer. That was not the right response. Yeah, I remember, Ali. Have you heard about this? Hey, Ali. You heard about this? Well, a big thank you to Potato Pete on the Mission to Zix Discord for suggesting this idea for our episode
Starting point is 00:36:25 We'll be back next month with another out of character episode leading up to the young old derf chronicles Premiering later this year. We'll of course have new Episodes for supporters that'll come out on the maximum fun bonus feed So please if you haven't supported yet go over to maximumorg slash join. You will get all sorts of amazing things. Thank you listeners. Thank you. See you soon. Bye.
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