The Dogg Zzone by 1900HOTDOG - Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 251, KOOL-AID Tape with Dimitri Simakis

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

The Dogg Zzone welcomes Dimitri Simakis from Everything Is Terrible for another Hot Dog origin story! Come learn how a pitcher of rapping sugar water led to the creation of the world's largest collect...ion of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

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Starting point is 00:00:55 Sean, baby, and my partner was called Also Entered in the 2017 Man Monthly's top 75, top bun fever. He's the great Robert Brockway! It's one of my proudest achievements. Here's a Brockway fact. The Kool-Aid man has put me in the hospital three separate times. No follow-up questions. I was there for four of those.
Starting point is 00:01:16 Our guest is a found footage pioneer, co-creator of Everything is terrible, and most importantly, history's leading collector of Jeremy McWire VHS copies, is Dimakas. Hello, thanks for you. for having me, gang. Of course. We met many years ago, I guess over the internet. You had me down for a Everything Is Terrible Festival in San Francisco and had an awesome time. We should tell the people what that is, though, if they're not familiar with, everything is terrible. Yeah. Everything is terrible is essentially kind of an found footage art collective. There's kind of a bunch of us
Starting point is 00:01:51 that have come in and out over the years, but it's still kind of a core team of a few folks. And we started off by, you know, collecting found footage, inspired by places like shonbaby.com. That level, you know, that first round of found footage clips you had was extremely inspirational back in the day. So thank you for that. Thank you. And we've just expanded from there. We do movies, live shows all around the world. Yes, we do collect. We're about 45,000 Jerry McGuire VHS is deep. It's ruining our lives. Holy shit. Do installations, all sorts. crazy stuff. So it's a wild time and please
Starting point is 00:02:30 stop sending us tapes, everybody. Please, for the love of God. How do you store them? Where do you store? Do you have to have a separate building just for them? We do. We have a truck bed, like an Atlas truck bed in a field, an Apple Valley surrounded by guard dogs, 24
Starting point is 00:02:46 7. You know, it's just like a kind of a hillbilly storage facility, but it works perfectly. And it is very boring. My partner and everything is terrible. Commodore Gugamash, he steals those bins from CVS. He's stolen thousands of them over the years. It's like that it's like what they get whatever in. And it's just very boring. They're just stacked to the ceiling in a truck bed just, you know, probably
Starting point is 00:03:11 at probably like 120 degree heat right now. So you don't you don't let somebody cruise by and just like grab a couple McGuire. We, no, we would let anyone grab them. What are you talking about? We're not going to let them take that from the collection. I feel like at this, it only sucks in Jeremy McWire. Like, if I saw 45,000 Jeremy McWire tapes, I would probably spend the rest of the year looking for Jerry McWire tapes to add to the pile. Like, there's no way I would take one from the pile.
Starting point is 00:03:36 That's the thing. Yeah. And our fans, I kid, our wonderful fans have been incredible. They've been sending us, I mean, that's 99% of that, if not more, are from the O box that people send. We have a drop box in East Los Angeles, you know,
Starting point is 00:03:52 just like a little 24-hour slot. People, I mean, At shows, of course, people bring them. Sometimes people bring like five, six hundred. That has definitely happened multiple times out once. It's a living nightmare. But no, we do want to do something with them. We want to bring them out again.
Starting point is 00:04:07 We did the video store and whatever, what was that, 2017 in L.A. We'd love to do something again with them. It's just where do you, it's like even then with 15,000, I think is what we had at the time. That was too many to put in that building. So we kind of had to like double triple stack. I don't know where we would put 45 plus thousand, but we're going to figure something out soon. I really want to do a book where I catalog every single copy somehow, you know, just like every 99th set covers, every like time somebody wrote their name. It's just, it's pathetic, you know, it's endless.
Starting point is 00:04:42 At some point, even if it's purely accidentally, you are going to wind up taking Jerry McGuire out of this world entirely. Like you're just going to have all of them. and nobody else will have it. That's what we keep thinking that's going to happen and like, you know, just drive up the price. Or my goal has been, why don't we sell? Because of course we want to build the pyramid, but of course that's also like hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to do properly. So I've been saying, why don't we just sell to some like Art Basel, whatever, some like, I don't know, somebody who like can't buy NFTs anymore or like doesn't know how to waste their money and just be like, okay, buy the collection. You can have it.
Starting point is 00:05:22 It's yours. You just have to let us build a temple in its honor where they can be stored. I feel like crazier things have happened, but I don't know. What is Kubal up to? Good question. I think he would love that. Yeah, I think something not cool. Didn't you get?
Starting point is 00:05:37 He just seems like an NFT guy. I don't know. I get that vibe. I feel Jay Moore seems more like an NFT guy, but I could be wrong. Yeah, there's a lot. Mm-hmm. What about that piece of shit guy that raised the price of the AIDS medicine that bought the Wu-Tang album? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:51 I mean, would you take blood money? I mean, at this point, isn't it all blood money? I don't know. That's an interesting point. This is going to sound crazy, but about a year after we launched our site, 1,900 hot dog, we saw you sometimes work with a bizarre video curation place called 1-800 hot duck. Oh, my God, I forgot about that. That's kind of weird, right?
Starting point is 00:06:13 Like, that's not a good sign that everybody's in the right dimension, right? She is based out of Philly. Highly recommend checking out her stuff. It's incredible. Like, I, it, she makes us do that thing that we hate doing that people do to us all the time, but it's like, where do you get all that footage? I don't understand where her, like, purview is or where it comes from or where she gets it, but it's all, like, incredible public access, Japanese game show stuff. Like, I mean, it's just so endless, but that is funny. I thought that, too, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Small world. Is she pissed at us? Does she know that we exist? Even if she did, I doubt she would care. She's very cool. wait hold on it was total accident is she pissed at us wait did she come first are we i think she might have come first i think we decided when we when we found that yeah i think we i think we're like we i think we stole this from her oh no um no i doubt she would mind and probably
Starting point is 00:07:10 be honored all the same all right well if the shoe was on the other foot i would be furious right i do like your guys's approach of uh and her approach of just putting all the footage together and kind of not giving context. We kind of go the opposite direction where we like do a lot of deep dive research. And so we're like, here's what the madman's up to now. I know it's just very different approaches. We want to do more of that in podcast form,
Starting point is 00:07:34 but it's just like even then we even started one, it's not really a podcast with Spectrevision Radio. We just started one where they're like, put your clips up. Just put them up like in any order. And we're like, don't you want sort of a deep dive? And they're like, well, yeah, but that would take too long. So just put your clips up. Yeah, no one is watching these.
Starting point is 00:07:51 I mean, our views are in the dozens. But I'm always desperate to, like, do deeper dives on this stuff. And because we've been meeting all these folks over the years, we would just do, like, a live show and then never recorded or just never do anything with it again. So, like, I bless your hearts for what you've been doing. We love it. It's the best. And your approach.
Starting point is 00:08:11 I love it. Yeah. Hey, another question. Do you know the Wiggles lady that, like, does the little stamps with the ink? And, like, she'll be like, look at. all of those wiggles. Oh, yes, I believe the found footage fest, a gang did a great compilation of that. Yeah, we never found that in the wild ourselves, but yeah, that's amazing.
Starting point is 00:08:31 It's a classic. I own a copy of that, and she actually, I talked about this in the podcast a month or so ago. She actually got my first YouTube channel taken down, the one I used to just post videos for cracked embedding. And yeah, she like went crazy, did like three copyright strikes in one day about me making fun of her little Wiggles video and so I just thought maybe you'd had a run in with her because normally you do this found footage and you never hear from the crazy people and this lady was like on it like that morning early days was this like the first let's say three years or
Starting point is 00:09:02 two years of of YouTube give or take it was probably 2010 2011 even then that kind of makes sense we had yeah like around that time we I mean we've had our channels taken down so many times and it's always like one person to blame or the third strike was whatever we had a strike on our biggest most you know longest lasting channel from it was like a coordinated effort from some christian movie studio it was like clearly all done in one day so we've been there yeah i know that feeling yes yep not fun i love a vindictive madman yeah oh i've had people call my house before because like they found my number through like the old blogger page it's it's incredible yeah like but like they're calling like my parents house where i grew up it's just
Starting point is 00:09:48 very yeah but to get mad that you to get mad and talk something over about the rights because they think that money is made on oh of course but more often than not we have been great pals with so many creators i mean Andy Holmes aka Gerbert I was just talking to this afternoon cat massage lady uh oh yeah I have her stuff you know be action star all that kind of stuff it's way more fun when once you like octaic there are a couple people that have been like pissed at us at first and once we explain what we do again i think it was a special in the early days before like youtube kind of made any sense to people over the age of like 30 it was harder to explain now it matters a lot less i feel like everyone just kind of gets it hip hop this is hip hop lady
Starting point is 00:10:36 was a big one that she was like went into like a dark depression that we didn't know about for like a decade and has come out of the woodwork now and we become friends with her again it's a whole thing We're trying to do something with her, but yeah, it's wild. Now, is that how each of them are saved in your phone? Is it cat massage lady? No, I just figured it'd be the easiest way to explain. Mary Jean Balner, please, show some respect. God.
Starting point is 00:11:01 Like I wouldn't be. Oh, of course, cat massage lady. Yeah, exactly. Oh, Alex Jude, the immortality guy. Of course, of course, yes, good friends. Oh, Brockway, we better do your plug before. before you take down the site I'm so weary
Starting point is 00:11:20 I'm so wary of it already but I'm gonna be doing it until the day I die I of course am legally obligated to plug my new book it's called I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 It comes out January 27th
Starting point is 00:11:31 2026 Long story short I fucked up I'm an asshole I fucked up I thought it'd be I thought it'd be cute if I refused to promote the book and they're suing me now
Starting point is 00:11:41 so here's the promotion I don't want to go to I don't want to go to prison I don't really want to go to pressing for it. Yeah, it was, see, my legal defense given to me by my AI lawyer is that if I double down and convince everyone that it was a bit that I was not promoting my book, that that counts as promotion for my book. So that's the direction we're going. If anybody, if anybody that looks like official, if anybody sketchy asks you, that's what's happening. you have to buy the book
Starting point is 00:12:16 because if I go down I take everyone with me I take everyone involved with this site with me I have all the passwords I have the passwords to this podcast it's going down
Starting point is 00:12:25 it's coming right down with me you do not have to like my book to buy it you just have to like this podcast or the website and save them from me
Starting point is 00:12:36 did the AI lawyer say anything else she told me to kill myself but that's like our inside joke okay Like I Is it weird that it's getting like Certainly get a little tempting
Starting point is 00:12:48 Like at first I was like that's weird Like I don't know But now it's like I don't know It just sounds like it It sounds like a good idea The more she says it to me As the legal fees add up and stuff Yeah I can see yeah
Starting point is 00:12:58 Yeah exactly It's just getting a little less funny You said it's not coming out until January Yeah man You've got time That's still plenty of time to promote That's what I'm hoping Look we're hoping
Starting point is 00:13:10 I don't go to prison But like we're not planning on it. We're not planning on me staying a free man. There were plans for if I go to prison rightfully, deservedly. So, Dimitri, we have a great crew of contributors. We've been known a series of origin stories, the weird shit. We saw at young ages that made us pursue these lives of nonsense archaeology. And as a leading member of that community, I was interested in what yours was and why you picked it. Mine is the Gool-Aid. wacky, zany video from 1991.
Starting point is 00:13:46 When you first asked me, I was thinking more in terms of, like, first media, you know, something that, like, you know, really fucked me up or something that just, like, really disturbed me or whatever. And I was like, I don't really have anything there. But no, it took about five extra seconds to be like, it's 100 percent the wacky zany kid man tape from 1991. And this had, like, a positive effect on you? Or did you see this and think, like, this is fucking stupid?
Starting point is 00:14:12 no i absolutely loved it and even when rewatching it for this uh show i was like i can't believe how much like cadence i'm still remembering the you know just like the way everybody speaks the songs whatever it is i'm just like wow that is that is just permanently etched into my brain and there's nothing i can do about it you know and and it involves so much it has like found footage elements, you know, like public domain stuff, kind of remixing in a very primitive, but like, you know, late 80s, early 90s kind of way. Labor intensive. Much more than it needed to be, I feel like, for a KV Toys promotional item,
Starting point is 00:14:56 selling sugar water. I kind of hated the commercials because it, I always thought like the Kool-Aid stuff was like youth group counselor with a rubber chicken type of like, like comedic intent, but, or like no comedic intent behind this. silliness. Other than just being, like, wacky, you know. Yes, like the sort of background noise of wackiness. And I always thought that the footage they found was sort of, like sort of vague
Starting point is 00:15:23 tropes, but also, I think they pulled from the same old footage that every video production house had in the 90s. So it's like chimps and cartoons and fat guy getting hit by cannonball and, you know, silent film double-takes. The plane going into the roof that, like, you know, that footage, all that stuff. Yes. They used that in this Kool-A video. use that. Yes, there was something
Starting point is 00:15:41 about it even then that there was like a separation because it's like, okay, I'm not a, I wasn't a kid in the 50s and 60s raised on like black and white TV or whatever. Not that they were raised on that, but you know what I mean. It's like clearly referencing
Starting point is 00:15:57 an era that I didn't understand and was sort of annoyed by it, but still the part that won me over was the like, hey, you're a cool kid, aren't you? And it's like, yeah, obviously. 1991. I'm not years old. I'm listening. Go on. Excuse me. Would an uncool kid be watching and owning the Kool-Aid Waggy Zainty video? Which, by the way, you needed to, you could only acquire, there were, I looked it up to be like, wait, how did this happen?
Starting point is 00:16:27 Because there was, I thought I remember saving up a certain amount of points, but not as many as it originally set. I think there were a couple ways. It was like 150 Kool-Aid man points. originally you could send in get it back for for which is such a funny concept to be like you would have to pay money in order to get a for a commercial tape that's a commercial for the thing you've been you know drinking and buying whatever yeah uh but i think this was like a version after that that was like far less points and like 10 15 bucks at ab toys and kb for those who don't know how do we explain it it's like it was a shit kind of mall toy store i did i take it you grew up with them sure yeah it was like yeah it was
Starting point is 00:17:15 like toys a rust but much much smaller and they didn't have bikes it was just yeah a toy store you'd see in a mall that was i know i mean you're a kid toy store fucking rules yeah but it was still a toy store and it was still like even then you could tell the prices were higher i the the the commercial plays at the beginning of this vid and i forgot that there's that their tagline their slogan was KB Toys, the toy store in the mall. Was that really the slogan? That's what I said in one of the ads. And I was like, yeah, well, that's present.
Starting point is 00:17:46 They kept trying other things, but that's what everyone called it. That's where we are. I love the now mostly gone system of these videos that you had to unlock, like, their video game challenges. Yes, exactly. So that you probably didn't know anybody. else that had this video and so you would go over to a friend's house be like what the fuck is this and they would have to tell you like oh yeah i collected box tops for like a year to get that i don't why would you do that why do you have that what is it it was just this whole like
Starting point is 00:18:20 because it gave us power it was something it was something to own it felt like a cheat code you know it felt like a life hack before that was coined where it's like i can't believe what we have unlocked like this is something that not just anybody can get you can't just go into the store and get this you need to get at least 15 Kool-Aid points. They're the achievement badges of childhood. Yes. I think it happened more often than you think
Starting point is 00:18:44 I've seen this in Goodwill multiple times. I think I've been given two copies from like just people I know and I had one already. So I have three floating around. That's funny. And it was part of like, I don't know when you when you guys were born but I was born in 82 and one of the first
Starting point is 00:19:01 like whatever version, whatever you want to call this, that I can remember, just like a very early memory, was the Where's the Caton from Caton Crunch campaign? Or it's like the caton is the same director. And then, yes, and then looking this up just like a couple of days ago, it was the same producer director writers, which is insane. Yeah, this has a firm aesthetic of like late 80s, 90s where it's just everything's like kind of a hip-hop remix of public domain. silent footage yes and again there's something slightly annoying to it but enough of the humor
Starting point is 00:19:37 and the rest of the tape won me over which i'm sure but that was cool it was cool to be annoying as shit in like that too yeah that's true good point did you ever play uh criss cross make my video on Sega CD no but I remember being very into the concept of it being like oh my god Sega CD that rules yeah yeah for sure it was it was a lot like that's the same footage and And so when I go through, I'm like, oh, I, I wrecked, yeah. Oh, that's amazing. So much crossover. That's incredible.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Yeah, I'd love to know the like public domain because there are, it's like AV Geeks is a company that's like, that's like a guy who figured out where like he's been collecting 8mm educational stuff just like by the thousands for decades. And as far as I understand it, he uploads it all like daily to YouTube, but also has a company that like licensed that stuff. That makes sense now. I wonder how limited that stuff was then. If it was literally just like one or two companies that own that stuff,
Starting point is 00:20:38 or in like Illinois, whatever, and just everybody who needed just content would call them up. I guess that's how it worked. It had to have been like one guy who just pulled all the whatever interesting stuff he found and put it onto a collection and that sort of made the rounds. What do you need? Chimp fighting an airplane? I got chimp fighting an airplane. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:58 I must have seen that chimp fighting an airplane so many times as a child. Local ads would do them. Of course, like, later on, you know, it was like a more, I guess, refined version of it was like that dumb show Dream on on HBO. A little different and similar. I know what I was trying to think of specifically what else did this, but I think it was just so much, just like, would have been like bubble tape ads, whatever, just something in the in between interstitial stuff was just like go back and forth reverse the footage which again
Starting point is 00:21:34 as a nine year old still kind of felt mind but still feels mind blowing to be honest like whoa they went back and forth with it like a turntable not that I knew what that was either really but still yeah it's like pretty tim and eric like like zany like DJ Doug pound joke at it stuff and it's it's so high effort like you look at this and like every word in this Kool-Aid rap. Oh, I should have mentioned by now that Kool-Aid is black as fuck. He comes in and he starts rapping and every word he hits in the rap song has old-timey footage. So like if he says rug, somebody's getting a toupee yank off when he says.
Starting point is 00:22:17 So like you could just feel the effort of the millions of clips these people must have gone through to find out. first like every last known yeah there's there's like a college radio sort of like fireside theater kind of mad magazine sort of like aspect to it like lazy not lazy like raw like a little bit just like rough around the edges I think like even like the mics kind of pop a lot in this like you know like it's not that professional and I think that resonated with us in a way with my brother and I think we were just like we get it there's something kind of inside joky about this I also think just anyone breaking the fourth wall, you know, like, I don't know what it was for you guys that did it, but it's like, you know, Simpsons, Beavis and Budhead, mystery science theater. It's funny how revolutionary that felt looking back on it of just like, oh, it was kind of not really the first time ever, but definitely like the most polished or whatever you want to call it version of that where it was like ironic kind of Gen X, winking at the camera, breaking the fourth wall enough that it was just.
Starting point is 00:23:25 just like, holy shit, they get it. They're talking to me specifically. How did, you know, how is this happening? This is incredible. All again, I'm not going to say it's like the greatest work of art ever, but it's, you know, it sticks with you. That's true. It's true. I should play the intro just to sort of let people know what I'm talking about with Kool-A being black.
Starting point is 00:23:52 T-minus 10 seconds, nine. y'all this is the Kool-Aid man come a little closer we're about to bug out on a fun tip just you me and the TV I'm on it
Starting point is 00:24:06 I watch you want let's die oh yeah I looked it up that that's a guy named Boogie Jay I think and I could not find him
Starting point is 00:24:20 there's a lot of Jay boogies I also find him either but he doesn't sound really familiar He does He does kind of sound familiar I was just so worried That's a white guy Doing the voice
Starting point is 00:24:31 That's what I wonder To do I just wanted to verify I just wanted to verify That was That he was allowed To talk like that I did cut it off
Starting point is 00:24:40 Before the rap Let me play some in the rap Yeah please Let's die Oh yeah Check it out While you're laying back Backin and relaxing
Starting point is 00:24:50 To my slamming track Well I'm the K to the old To the old to the L A ID man. Can't you tell? Stick out your tongue up. The bell's runger. Listen to my songer. You can't go wronger, cause Kool-Aid is lounging and lounging is chilling. I'm the Kool-Aid man. You know, top billy. See what I'm saying, G. It doesn't make sense to me. Exert any energy when I can be playing B. You got to take time off to just bug and sweet responsibility up under a rug. Up under the rug. That's a toupee. Yeah, so every single word has a little video clip. I made this reference already, but it is like a world record.
Starting point is 00:25:24 speed run of Marky Mark make my video. I have a controversial statement for the time period, for what, 1991, right? For the time period, for a corporate like send away, send packages, get Kool-Aid points by kind of video, that rap is probably way better than I expected. Right? I can't, you never meet someone who disagrees with that. That's 100% true. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:56 I felt like that was going to be coming. The number one rap song for that year definitely was Ice Ice Baby. Like for 1991 corporate, corporate rap, like, you expect something real dire. And that was like a legitimate rap. It just went harder than it needed to. And it listening to it again, not that I'm an expert in any way, but it doesn't sound like a white guy. But I do love the line that he says in a couple, he says that I think deeper into the song, Skibiddley-diddly D, Fee, Fy, Fof, Fum.
Starting point is 00:26:26 I don't remember what it rhymes with. Probably something fun or whatever. Yeah. I mean, again, he didn't have to go that hard. It's some Buster Rhyme shit. I just, I feel like I know who it is. It's like in the back of my brain somewhere, like, oh, I've heard that before. If you know who it is, somebody tell us, because I could not find him.
Starting point is 00:26:48 I went looking, too. Okay, so he is the K to the O to the O. to the L-Aid man and all this stuff is just happening there's car crashes and three stoogs and then they cut to a commercial break for too many hedgehogs in your kitchen and i know you love this video but this was like really annoying to me because it highlighted the writing and i think the writing is where this gets so much worse than like the editing yeah because this was just someone found a funny old movie of you know seemingly talented for the time like comedic filmmakers making this video about a guy chasing a big old beaver monster around and uh it's silly
Starting point is 00:27:28 and then the whole thing was like do you have too many hedgehogs we'll we'll get rid of your hedgehogs and it's it's like god it doesn't that does not pass the test of time no that one i was like oh god this sucks harry's hedgehog hideaway yeah yeah here's what bugged me about harry's hedgehog hideaway like i i don't know the timeline how the timeline syncs up with this video i think I have a feeling maybe this is kind of the cutting edge of this aesthetic that permeated so much I like the early 90s. But how it's supposed to go is that when you do the little voiceover thing, you subvert or change the tone of the film. Like you don't do a comedy bit about a guy trying to catch like something, like an animal, like a hedgehog or something, when the actual video is just that. It's a comedy sketch about a guy trying to catch somebody dressed up in a big rodent cop.
Starting point is 00:28:23 costume. Like, you're, the voiceover you're doing, the wacky comedy voiceover you're doing is literally just what's happening on screen. Right. You're stepping on a joke. It's foundationally wrong. Yeah. But, I mean, okay, it's not the strongest first sketch to go on. I won't lie. But, oh, okay, then there's an interesting thing. Both versions on YouTube are edited down. You've got to go to the internet archive version to see the full unedited, which is interesting because it's like, the one bit one of the ones that got cut off on YouTube is because this
Starting point is 00:28:57 very much holds up. I don't remember the exact order, but it holds up so well the Deo sketch. Oh yeah. Okay. Okay, we'll have a gift if you have the original tape. Yeah, of course. It's cut off on a lot of the YouTube one. That one I will stand by. It is still so funny to me. That one
Starting point is 00:29:13 is still kind of everything that it needed to be in more where it's like, I can't tell if that was also bought from This has nothing to do. We really divert heavily from Kool-Aid in all of these kind of sketches. It keeps coming back to Kool-Aid. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Right? I'll give them this one. I'll give them this one because at the very least, it's got punch in there. I think that's what they were, that was it. Like, that's enough. That's true. I guess you're right. Kool-Aid punch.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Yeah, you're right. That's it. This is, it feels like a, like a 70s Sesame Street cartoon. 100% that's what it's. I think that's why it resonates because I think it's super lovable. Just lovable and weird. funny again like playing with audio that's familiar i was a huge like that was like a an essential cassette as a kid like the best of harry velvante volume one or something
Starting point is 00:30:01 and so it was like extra funny that it's like oh my god they're remixing it or whatever they're turning it into a sketch that felt very i think it had to have been animated literally like with markers it looks like and it's beautiful like it really does kind of hold up it's really stylish and that i think that's the one that like really stuck out the most aside from that, and the interactive game show, which is still incredible, of just like how interact, like, how do we explore, I don't know if I'm jumping too far ahead, right? That's like somewhat in order, right? Oh, that's fine. Yeah. Oh, no, there was that great one of the crosswalk explode. Yeah, of course. The press button to cross the street, press button to explode building.
Starting point is 00:30:43 Come on, that's genius. Yeah, no, that was fun. There's a 50 sci-fi movie thing that was frustrating for me because they redub it and here they're doing what Brockway said. They're taking something that was one thing at one point and now it's a different thing, but they just keep lip shading it over and over. It's like, hi, we are redubbing lips, meaning I am saying a thing that I wasn't originally saying. It comes from the planet lip sing. I'm glad you're on board. I'm glad you're on board with the fucking concept you're doing. As if they need to keep explaining it to a to again nine-year-olds, but still, it was, you're talking, yeah, that, that, what was it called, I can't remember, but the interactive game show was just like a kind of genius idea again when you're watching
Starting point is 00:31:30 a VHS and thinking, how does it be able to read my mind? It's one of those tricks, I don't know what you call it, but it's like pick, you know, pick one of these nine blocks, now move to two to the left, one up, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you basically end up on Kool-Aid every time, big, big surprise, right? I do think that could have been, I don't know, 20 minutes shorter. Yeah, that would have been nice. Okay. Yeah, I don't agree with you on this one.
Starting point is 00:31:53 As an adult, I feel like it started magical. I think the idea of it is magical, but it took so long that eventually you're like, I don't know, you're tricking me somehow. Like, I'm not, I don't get it yet, but I know, I know this has, you know. Yeah. It just lingers so long you feel the deception. You feel it a lot this time. Again, I think that's like a attention spent thing I didn't have as a kid where it was like, well it's this and i'm going to watch this so many times so like clearly i'm not that word
Starting point is 00:32:24 because it might be months until the next vhs tape enters my house who knows somebody called it online somebody on one of the youtube come uh one of the youtube uploads described it per so well as analog brain rot and it's like yeah that's exactly what this whole thing and it's just this mismatch mismatch of whatever that just like it doesn't really work it even is kind of annoying as a kid, but I think that's part of it. I also once made with another dude from Everything is Terrible,
Starting point is 00:32:54 a bound footage corporate rap mega mix in kind of a girl talk style. Everything is terrible, does the hip hop volume one, getting a bad rap. And I can't believe I didn't use this. I think I just forgot, which is insane. But it was too sacred to you. You knew that it was.
Starting point is 00:33:10 Now I'm making it seem that way. Yeah, that kind of is. But yes, some of this does, and I remembered at the time being kind of annoying but like you said that kind of annoying thing was part of being a kid of like yeah you don't get it we're here to annoy you it's like
Starting point is 00:33:26 punk rock especially the 90s was all about just like we're a bunch of little shits and that rules yeah and that rules and that was enough but what else there was the the
Starting point is 00:33:41 the Dom de Louise newspaper dispenser sketch that they stretch out into three parts, which I forgot about. We have to talk about that one. Yeah, this was not a three-parter. Not a three-parter, no. This was grand total a two-minute-long sketch
Starting point is 00:33:58 and it's like a throwback to silent comedy, right? Like, it's not silent, like the soundtrack to it is recorded, you know, on the... Yeah, they even talk a little, yeah. They even talk a little, but it feels a little Sesame Street in that same way, but it's really, you know, bust, you know, whatever, like a Charlie
Starting point is 00:34:14 Chaplin kind of thing with him trying to to get a newspaper he can't open it a kid comes up does like a kind of secret move hits it a few times walks away he comes back then he starts fighting with it it starts biting him it does the classic he gets taken away by the cops at the end uh in this police state universe that we're in they arrest dom delis and then he does that classic with the as the like puppet newspaper dispenser you know, kind of like goes back and forth on a string. Classic comedy. I think the giggling creature at the end will always make me laugh.
Starting point is 00:34:52 That's all fine. My problem comes, my problem comes is that it stops and says to be continued. Yeah, what the fuck. Twice. Well, first time it's like a kid comes up and smacks the machine and then Dom Lois looks at it. And it's like, oh, to be continued, you're going to have to wait to find out if he gets a newspaper. I don't give a shit. What?
Starting point is 00:35:17 Why would they split this? No, I can't, again, as we're going through it, combing through, look, I can't say, I guess it is cursed in that way, in that it is not anything to be like, the choices they made with the choices they gave, right, right, yeah, that's what makes it feel. Because it's a timing, is like, it's not, they do get the vibe right, this, like, aesthetic of these skits and stuff. They did get it right in other ones. This is the only one that split up.
Starting point is 00:35:44 and says to be continued. So why did you do it with this one? If you know how to do it right, it's wild that you know how to do it right and wrong, and you're doing both. And it's not like you're stretching for time by like looping it. You could have just stretched it out in one
Starting point is 00:36:00 and it would have been totally fine. No one would have questioned. Wait, they did stretch for time because they have it to be continued. And then after the second one, they have a recap of like the four seconds of this thing that you watched. Which in a case.
Starting point is 00:36:12 I would defend and be like, that was part of the humor. to be like, remember that thing from five minutes ago. Yeah, it's, it's kind of funny. You don't know the intent. You're like, did you guys, do you guys know this is stupid? I can't tell where you are in on the bit. Because it's such an insane decision to break this up already.
Starting point is 00:36:36 Like, it's such a timing gag. And like, here's the punchline. And they're like, what if we broke this setup into four parts and separated them by like magic tricks and chimpanzees fighting planes. Nick, I don't think that helps at all. In fact, I think that's fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Yeah, yeah. Saying it out loud does sound kind of insane. Because it added maybe 30 seconds extra to it or whatever. And again, they could figure it out. And it's a half hour long, like nobody's struggling for time. Like this is, you got
Starting point is 00:37:09 what you got with these things. Sometimes you got these things and they were like 17 minutes long. And you're like, that was, I spent my whole summer for this. Right. Right. Well, the next one was worth it, because it was a story they Frankenstein together of chimpanzee footage from what seems to be an old movie where a chimpanzee is climbing onto a flying plane.
Starting point is 00:37:31 I'm 90% sure they filmed this by just having a chimpanzee clean to a real flying plane. Yeah, it's for dear life. It does not look faked in any way. It looks like just a brave, drugged up whatever chimp was. was just shut down that plane and was just held on for dear life. But again, this is, okay, this, this makes that first one with a Harry's hedgehog hideaway.
Starting point is 00:37:53 This is what makes Harry's hedgehog hideaway crazy is because this is what I was talking about. They actually spliced together like three or four silent footage movies to tell this little story, this little gag story about a chimpanzee that climbs on the plane and gets in a fight with a pilot. And then there's a lady on the ground that's like, she lies to her parents and says,
Starting point is 00:38:11 if I'm lying, may a monkey in a plane crash on my head, and then the monkey in the plane crashes on the head. Like, they made their own little thing. You're like, okay, so they get it. So why didn't they get it that started? Are we watching them learn live? Yeah, I think we're watching the first cut as they just got better. Maybe they spent months trying to find a second, like,
Starting point is 00:38:32 video about a guy in a giant beaver costume. We just couldn't. They're like, God, what are we going to do? We wrote ourselves into a corner with this hedgehog thing. Whereas chimpanzee, they're like, we got fucking 16. thousand chimpanzee movies. We can chop together whatever we want. Also, that pilot really looked like he was fighting that chimp.
Starting point is 00:38:51 I'm going to say that part was authentic too. Yeah. I think at that point, the chimp, like the chimp drugs wore off and the chimp was like, I don't want to be out on the wing of this fucking plane anymore. And the pilot was legitimately like, oh my God, now I have to fight a chimp while flying a plane. You've of course seen the dogville shorts from the 30s. It sort of is reminiscent of that. It was these shorts that were sort of, you know, similar to like an argang, whatever kind of thing in terms of length and humor and style.
Starting point is 00:39:20 But it all starred dogs dressed up as people. And most of it's fine. No, I'd say about half of it is like, oh, they're torturing those dogs. They're definitely torturing those dogs. God. Yeah, those. I feel like that's an important part of these redubbbing's, not just changing the context, but I think something that makes this type of comedy really good is when you're reading it
Starting point is 00:39:47 and there's this whole other meta level if you're trying to figure out what the fuck was happening in the original. Because, like, what was this movie about a guy fighting a chimp on a plane? Like, who made it? Why haven't I heard of it? And, like, that's, and you have to do that while you're also, you know, whatever. And then you realize, whatever story they're building. You realize, oh, I haven't heard of it because that chimp and possibly pilot died.
Starting point is 00:40:11 making this the national tragedy that no one wants to talk about yeah lost footage of a real cursed production faces of death yeah so then we come back to the second part of Dom Delo he's trying to get a newspaper
Starting point is 00:40:27 this one I think was funny because it opens and he's like okay cool he's getting a newspaper and then it says to be continued as if like wait no that's what he wanted that fucking the end he's got his no I could not I was Lord, when they did it again. No, you're not to be continued again. It's so, yeah, that's the part that even as a kid, not that exactly, but just in general,
Starting point is 00:40:54 back to the chimp thing or whatever with the dubbing, like, I don't know how to describe it where it's them parroting, it's like, again, like, not even Gen Xers because it was 91, whatever it is. them doing the like parody of the 50s that like hello boys and girls like that type of thing that's kind of annoying no matter what age you are but there's still
Starting point is 00:41:17 like the irony I guess comes through and that alone kind of works I guess I'm trying to figure out why I wasn't just so annoyed by it I never watched it again but something about it stuck with me to be like no there's there's there's they get it they understand something
Starting point is 00:41:36 there's something here in like a found footage kind of avalanche since I avalanches since I left you kind of album kind of way DJ Shadow introducing kind of way there's an art to this right the next one
Starting point is 00:41:50 is maybe not their strongest either it's a workout but it's not like I was when I saw there's a workout I was picturing you know a guy in a Kool-Aid man suit leading a workout routine which was you know of the era but no It's just another rap song, kind of about aerobics with, you know,
Starting point is 00:42:09 random footage of people falling down in 1930. It's just, it's not a workout. It is important to say, that's right, if we haven't made it very clear already, they shot nothing originally for this. It was all, there's a few graphic cards that they, you know, that they, you know, they kind of splice in between stuff, but not a single original frame was shot, right? No.
Starting point is 00:42:34 And then any archival footage from Kool-Aid is just old commercials that they, again, reverse, forward, kind of turn-taped, you know, whatever. It's just kind of like remix over and over and over again. Yeah. That is, which makes it extra hilarious to me. A few of these cases, like the, like the Deo song that we were talking about earlier, like those were existing skits from an actual, that was from an actual record that had nothing to do with Kool-Aid man. And so they just, like, bought the right, maybe they didn't buy the rights. Maybe they didn't buy? Or, I know, it's interesting to think about where stuff like that lived back then.
Starting point is 00:43:12 Yeah, like, where was that from? Where was that from? Was it from the same, it's a totally different era from the, you know, public domain stuff. So is there some, was that a short film that someone made that got into like some acquiring, you know, somebody acquired it from like an animation festival? It's like, this is pre-Spike and Mike, pre, like, any of that stuff. stuff, so it's hard to understand. I did track one down. We haven't got to it yet, but I, like, I, just to, just to see if there was, if there
Starting point is 00:43:40 was, if I could find one, where one came from, then it would sort of unlock the rest. Yeah. And yes, basically, it was, it was exactly what you're saying. They would just find people that had made a short film or something, and then we're like, well, I don't know what else to do with that. I guess that was it. It was like, there's not really a venue for those sorts of things anymore. So I imagine they could get them very cheap after, after they were made and used for
Starting point is 00:44:02 whatever their original purpose was. Yeah. And there's just... Or just get away with it. Or just get away with it. Nobody's saying they paid these people for it. That's true. The credits go by and I think there's one card and it just has the writer-producers of everything
Starting point is 00:44:16 done in post. They do. No, they do list where they got them from, but like... Oh, yeah, that's... Does it? I forget already. Okay. Do you pay them?
Starting point is 00:44:24 With like a single credit to each one. Is that it? Yeah. Whatever their director or producer, whatever, whatever they decided is the one credit each of those short films kids. God, what's next? Dog News Tonight. Come on that holds up. That's so good. Dog news tonight. Yeah, it's all right. There's a dog on a hang glider in this. Yeah, there is. And then a dog doing, like just a bunch of old silent film footage. One dog does a back loop, I swear to God, that dog gets fucking six feet off the ground. Yeah, for sure. Like,
Starting point is 00:44:53 did they film that on the moon? That dog is super dog. This all makes sense. Like, kids love dogs. You're putting in like a new edgy context. You're making a bunch of terrible puns. Which fulfills the annoying factor. So, like, it's hitting on all the bases. What I found interesting was the nature of the puns. Like, we had California, huh? And bass and cheese sits. And they're like, okay, those are for the kids.
Starting point is 00:45:16 And then one of them was this dog's name is Beowulf. That one's so good. That's good. It's not for the kids. That presupposes, like, that's one for the adults watching. The, there's never been an adult. We're the first adults that have ever seen this. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:45:33 But everyone loves Beowulf. Yeah, that's like, that's timeless. You knew Beowulf when you were like nine in the 90s? I was kind of a Dungeons and Dragons nerd at that age. I probably knew Beowulf. Yeah, maybe the name possibly. That would have, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:49 At least it wasn't like so over our heads, you know. Just kind of barely. Oh, it wouldn't have been from school. I would have been from a time life book on spooks and ghosts or whatever. Right. or ancient fables of... I just like that
Starting point is 00:46:03 they're throwing one in for the adults but like this by its very nature it's like an adult would just be no I'm not watching this like but they didn't vet
Starting point is 00:46:11 our media in the 90s they were these this could have been a nonstop video of those chimps like attacking and killing those dogs
Starting point is 00:46:19 I would probably to be honest definitely happened the one guy's voice it's like I was going back on and I was like is this racist I can't tell
Starting point is 00:46:29 the guy who keeps doing the like kind of uh it's kind of the uh like ricky ricardo kind of voice i can't explain it oh right but it's clearly like a one guy i don't know it's just kind of foreign i think it's maybe him just doing like lanka just sort of like random foreign guy voice um yeah but he for 1991 it was nowhere close to racist it wouldn't even occur to him it was racist yeah that's probably true you're right but he really uh leans into it a lot during this whole tape yeah it just kind of keeps coming in and out in character it's probably just a rickie ricardo thing he's just a i love lucy guy i think so i would think i think so probably yeah but yeah dog news tonight is great then what
Starting point is 00:47:09 else wait and then there's there's thirst patrol right so again this might have been in one of the extended cuts but thirst patrol was the bit that it was uh like an america's most wanted parody right oh i love this one and that was a great premise i think this is one that like really kind of like solidified it for me was because it's you know that parody that style where it's like wanted who laid man alias blah blah blah alias blah blah blah he's known for breaking through
Starting point is 00:47:38 you know for causing a property damage all around the country bob then it's like interviewing blurred faces again just stock footage of news of people being like who laid man ruined my life or whatever right that's like there's something again to that is a nine year old brain brain That's good. That's great today. I don't know. It's so good. Revisiting the Kool-Aid every time the Kool-Aid man birthed through a wall and they're having somebody be like, my business is ruined. Like, I don't know what we're going to do. Especially now, have you seen the recent, like, as of this year, the Kool-Aid Man Challenge, a local news footage that's been going on, it's hilarious. It's hilarious. I don't know if it's real. It's one of those things where it's like, is this a real phenomenon or is local news?
Starting point is 00:48:26 news believing a bunch of kids on TikTok who made up a fake fake problem called the Kool-Aid Man Challenge where but there is there is footage of it so it had to have happened at least a few times where kids will see a fence and just slam into it and then like walk away it's so like intentionally yes for sure like their whole thing is like we're doing the Kool-Aid man which is amazing that it's now it's like Gen Alpha or Gen Z at the oldest which is kind of of a beautiful thing and so local news coverage now sounds like this where they're like they call it the Kool-Aid man challenge or your kids can't get enough of it or whatever it is. So that makes
Starting point is 00:49:08 it especially. I do think it's a solid comedic concept. Like it feels like a better, an above-average Jerry Seinfeld bit to be like, how do we let this Kool-Aid Man walk among us after destroying everyone's walls? That's exactly it. Yeah. They do another like elimination number pickings. trick. And then they come back to it, which I forgot about it. It's like worse. It's like this, the first one was like, pick between burgers and pizza and Kool-Aid. And this one's just like, pick between one and nine. And I'm like, yeah, I feel the walls closing it on this trap. I've seen this before. It's like the same guy inviting you into the same van. Like, I know what you're up to. But it's also less tempting. It's like the guy's run out of candy. And he's like,
Starting point is 00:49:53 do you want to just take a spin for old time's sake? Like, no, man, at least have the candy but i do remember completely forgot about this that my brother for like a uh what do you call a talent show used this exact technique for it to do like a magic trick for the audience so it did go into the real world and yeah we we we we hopefully did people clock it did someone scream that's just the fucking kool-aid man trick not even not even not even amazing absolutely not i'm sure we got away with it kind of i'm sure there's footage of that somewhere i should find that but yeah that's um so again this really stuck with this just completely stuck with us for years and it's funny how even years later like a few years ago i was working over at super deluxe a now twice defunct internet company
Starting point is 00:50:41 and we had a guy come in one day i have no idea who he was i don't remember why he was there but we were meeting with him and he was like i just met with and this was like when you know digital video was kind of in its heyday 2016 that era kind of thing of like BuzzFee advice, all that stuff. And he was like, I was just like a couple days ago working over at Pepsi.
Starting point is 00:51:03 He was like a freelance director, editor guy. And he was like, I was over talking with Pepsi. And I was in this office and I was confused on what they wanted for me. And they were like, well, look, here's the thing. Everybody knows Pepsi's poison.
Starting point is 00:51:19 That's not like a secret anymore. So I don't know. We're just going to make content now. That was the guy's entire thing It's like we're just we have money Do you want to make money? Just Megan, I don't know Just something, just something online
Starting point is 00:51:33 Something something Pepsi And it's amazing how like That has not changed since probably the 40s But it's incredible how it's like That's what this was This was clearly a line item on some like synergy Pulating KB toys should merge Because of some reason
Starting point is 00:51:49 There was some like sponsorship thing I've like seen enough of that In my adult life of like the advertising world and how that works. It's just like, sure, sell it as a package. And then you just got to wonder, who is the production company that took it on? What else did they do again? We saw a little bit of it, but just endlessly fascinating to me.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Why didn't we give them a camera? Make us a video. Sure. What do you want me to film? Oh, no, no. You do not get a camera. Or we could get a camera, but that'll eat into our budget. So let's just spend as little as humanly possible and get some stock footage that maybe they owned the rights to.
Starting point is 00:52:23 Who knows? or like you said didn't even get permission for we will never really know I guess I know a guy hear me out here who's got footage of just thousands of chimps dying in really funny ways let's see
Starting point is 00:52:41 we finally wrap up the dumb deloies we talked about that and then we get it goes at that very moment on the other side of town and we get so it's alarmingly strange of stop motion footage of guys squatting down the highway on Invisible motorcycles.
Starting point is 00:52:58 This is probably the one you found, right, Brockway? Yeah, this is one I found too. Yeah. Oh, you found the original creators of it? Yeah. Yes. Incredible. Yeah, and they're awesome.
Starting point is 00:53:08 You'll love them. They're Len Jansen and Chuck Menville who wrote and produced the real Ghostbusters cartoon. What? Really? Yeah. That's so cool. This one in particular,
Starting point is 00:53:19 so this whole thing is, they're pretending to be on Invisible Motorcycles using like stop motion to you know just squat along the road over and over again so this just blew out the quads of of dozens of men but it's like it's extremely high effort which is why i had to go like okay i got to look this one up this is for something else because it's got nothing to deal with goulade it's the least it doesn't even say lunch in it no no and it feels really 70s right like it just everything about it and it was but yeah you can just kind of tell Like a shot on.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Like, 1967. 1967. Yeah, I'm looking them up now. And it's like, well, this was the sequel. Hong Kong Fooey, Fat Albert. Oh, but this was a sequel. Wow. So there's,
Starting point is 00:54:01 this was a sequel to their, they originally did a short film where two men pretended to do this with cars. It was, they pretended to be in cars and drove around the street like this. And then they, they actually got nominated for an Academy Award for it. Holy shit. For the,
Starting point is 00:54:18 rightfully so. Sure. For the original one where they, which was exactly this, but they were pretending to be in cars instead. And they were like, oh, awesome. And that's what got them. They're huge. They broke them out huge. They got jobs doing this kind of stop motion all over the place. Like this was what they did.
Starting point is 00:54:35 And then they tried to come back. And it's like, this is one of my favorite things is when people find sort of an accidental success at something. And they have no idea why, but they're like, okay, we got to replicate that. So it came back and we're like, okay, exact same thing, but this time with motorcycles. And then it wound up here at the end of a KB Toys promotional video. So they went with the same. I think that's a sidestep from the Academy Award. The same concept, they went from the Academy Awards, the very next iteration,
Starting point is 00:55:04 the end of a Kool-Aid promotional video. It's the most, it's the most hubris has ever cost anybody. It's incredible. That's really funny. But it seemed like it worked out for them. They worked on so many things. Yeah, no, no. It didn't grow it.
Starting point is 00:55:19 It didn't grow it. than the real Ghostbusters, which I loved as a kid. The dumb and dumber cartoons, Sonic Underground, wow, it just keeps going. So they had a great career. But, yeah, again, that's just, like, an incredible thing of when you make something like that, even an Academy Award nominated short, where is that going to go, yes, into some cliphouse? It's just, it's wild. This is, it's just endlessly fascinating me of how the, like, economics of that worked, you know?
Starting point is 00:55:46 And if either of them are still alive, I'm going to send them this video, and they're going to sue the shit out of cooling. Yeah, please. It's fun. Great video. A lot of it cursed. A lot of it is just silent film actors making funny faces or just very talented filmmakers from a long time ago doing visual gags or just guys killing monkeys.
Starting point is 00:56:09 Just footage of dogs and men killing monkeys. But it just seems like something that shouldn't exist, right? I think that's what it really comes down to is that when you look at it all, it's this weird hodgepodge of all these things we've been talking about. None of it makes any sense. And once again, this was all for the purpose of advertising powdered sugar, flavored powdered sugar, cannot stress how funny that is. Two people, two children who had already consumed hundreds of packets of that powder sugar.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Already on board. You had to be on board. We had to be to get this far. You were literally already drinking the Kool-Aid. Einstein, No, you know, yeah. Einstein, Hundred, Frankford! Einstein, Hundred, Frankford! Einstein, Hundred, Frankford.
Starting point is 00:57:25 Einstein, no, you know, you knew, yeah. Yeah, 9,000! Please welcome once again 1,900 hot dogs, very own in-house comic, the overly specific insult comedian who makes things too real. It's Mr. Jimmy! Hey, thank you, thank you. It's lousy to be here. Got a lot of Supremes in the audience tonight.
Starting point is 00:57:59 Look at Aaron Crosston here. Hey, you look like you don't get enough colonoscopies. Like you're gonna die of ass cancer at 54 just when you start really getting comfortable with who you are. What's a matter? A little too real for you? Yeah, I know. I'm working on that. Hey, I see Adrian Hesbrook. Hey, I see Alex Nolenberg. Look at this. It's Alpha Scientist Javo. Hey, and Andy, I see you back there. I once went on safari with this guy and I watched him kill a white rhino. So he could powder and snort its horn. He was so sad when it did not give him an erection. I wasn't supposed to to tell nobody that. Oh, it's a very serious crime. Oh, oh. Hey, it's Armando Nava. I see Autumn Armstrong Berg. I see Bim Talser. Oh, Brandon Garlock, I know you ain't got enough in your retirement fun. You're blowing it all on funco pops of obscure movie monsters and your elderly self is gonna curse you for it. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. that one's a sprinkler it was supposed to be a sprinkler it's summer i'm trying something brian sailor i see you
Starting point is 00:59:23 there brockway famously loves the meat millie hey sarah i'd see chloe here she got a face only a mother could love could but did not oh oh keep seeking that validation from cam girls and escorts babe that's you that's what you do that's not me why would you think that's me that's you I only say true stuff about you. Like, uh, like, uh, like a common sense here. He looked like he got one of those ironic names. Like calling Common Sense's mother, Mrs. Had a Positive Influence on Common Sense's body dysmorphia. Whoa!
Starting point is 01:00:04 Hey, come on, it's just a joke. There's no truth to it. It don't mean nothing about neither of us. All right, I don't wish I was a small, frail, pale man, racked by consumption? Like, that's, I'm happy being big and healthy. That's what I like. That's what I like. Don't question it.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Here's Craig Lemoyne. Let's move on. Here's Craig Lemoyne. I see Dan B. I see David Scholl. I see Dean Costello. I love this guy. Dean Costello, he once watched someone.
Starting point is 01:00:34 He loved Drown, and he was too scared to help him. So he sold the song rights to Phil Collins. You guys got to stop trusting me with your secrets. Oh. Sorry, I hiccoped. Well, doing that one. And it came out weird. That won't happen again.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Delta, Fox Trot, Devin the Rogue Supreme, Doug Redmond, Dusty's rad title, Edgar Matthias, you look like you find comfort at night by telling yourself nobody remembers the embarrassing stuff you did. But I've heard it. It's all anybody talks about. Oh! Back to normal O's.
Starting point is 01:01:10 Oh! It was a one-time fluke. Just like all your exes say about you, Elizabeth Shope. Oh, all right, I see Elliot Watson here. He's all right. I'm all right, too. I'm glad I got my normal O's back.
Starting point is 01:01:25 I was not just testing the waters for a new and scary change that I desperately want to make in my life. Not like Eric Christianberg. Look at that ball cap. They call this the receding hairline special. Oh! I got fancy shark. I got Garrett.
Starting point is 01:01:45 I got Jellahoe. I got good Satan and all his hot witches over here. Oh, look at this. It's Greg Cunningham. Greg Cunningham, you work so much. Your kids are going to have trouble remembering your face after they leave for college. Oh! That one's about you.
Starting point is 01:02:03 That's not about something haunting my kids said to me. All this stuff's about you guys. Hey, Haraka. A Harvey Pinguini. Oh, I'd love to see you here, honk. Hey, Jabberal Aiden, James Boyd. I got Jared Clack, I got Jared Mountain Man. Oh, I got Jared Ruiz.
Starting point is 01:02:20 Hold on. Jared Ruiz here. He's going to wait until everyone's gone for the night, and then he's going to go around and lick all the seats of the people who didn't laugh at my jokes. That's what he's going to do. Oh, he likes the taste of failure. This guy does. Not me.
Starting point is 01:02:36 Jeff O'Raskey, John McCam, and I got John Minkoff. Hey, you smell like extramarital sex, my man. Everyone can smell it. your wife there next to you. She just don't have the courage to disrupt her whole life because she don't know, she's worth 10 of you, because she's too fucking stupid. Oh, I got you both. Oh, I'm sorry there was again. That's, uh, that's weird. I don't know what's going on with that. Okay, I got, I got, I got Joseph Searle's here, I got Josh S, I got Joshua Graves, I got Justin B, I got Ken Paisley, I got K&M, hey K&M, your AI girlfriend called.
Starting point is 01:03:19 Just kidding. No, she didn't. Oh, there we go, that's the normal one. That's okay, everything's normal. I'm not learning nothing about myself up here. Okay, okay, we got Kmootas, we got KVH, we got Lane Haygood, we got Lisa. Lisa worries she's the weird girl at work because she never gets invited to nothing. Don't worry, Lisa. They don't think you're weird
Starting point is 01:03:42 They don't think about you at all Oh Normal one again All right, we got it, we got it Amjahi Chappelle Mark Mahoney Matt Riley Max Barroy
Starting point is 01:03:53 Mercenary Sissadman Michael Lair A Mojou You carry yourself Like you're not the hero In your own story Oh That one seems gentle at first
Starting point is 01:04:04 But it will haunt you Some things They just They just haunt you Um more I got Mort here. I got Mr. Bob Gray. I got N.D. What does N.D. stand for? Non-descript? Oh, that one's on purpose. It's a callback to that thing I did earlier. I'm owning it, okay? I'm owning it. It's just a joke. Neil Bailey? Neal Bailey liked that O. Right? Right? Neil Bailey liked it. He likes that pop stuff. Am I right?
Starting point is 01:04:31 Ha ha ha. I hate that stuff. He loves it, though. Neil Schaefer. I got Neku 104. I got Nick Levino. I got obsolete over here. Now, Obsolite. He's like Neil Bailey. This is someone who wants to prance about in a powdered wig. I can see it. I can see it obsolete. Oh, that's me doing an impression. That's an impression of obsolete.
Starting point is 01:04:51 That's not me. Ornry Weevil. I got Ozzy Olin. I got Patrick Herbst. I got Pee Wee's uncle. I got rebrandrew. I got Red Wine Time. Red Wine Time probably got a secret storage unit
Starting point is 01:05:04 full of ruffled shirts and tights. Sometimes they sleep in there just to be physically closer to the person they think they are inside oh that's what you do that's what you do red wine time hey rhea i got russle bowman i got sam copnik i got sarkovsky look at sean chase i got seed over here hey space jam fan space jam fan now this is a guy who sees an old timey fop or dandy put on his white face makeup and paint the little molon and he's like oh that's me that's the way i wish i was oh i got you I know that's how you are.
Starting point is 01:05:39 Hey, spotty reception. A supernaut. Tater's Tales. Thomas Cavatzos. Oh, who do we got here? You know how sometimes you can see a man? You take one look at him and you just know. You just know.
Starting point is 01:05:51 This guy, this guy likes to titter. I got you, Thomas. I got your tittering ass. Timmy Leahy, Toastegad, Tommy G., Velo, Victor Malavakin, Booster. Oh, don't sink down in your seat. Now, Booster, I see you. I got you. know you you think you're some strong independent woman but I know you're tight I know
Starting point is 01:06:12 you're tight you live your whole life just hoping oh you're just praying some big strong man comes along and calls one of your quips ribald that's you that's what you hope happens that has nothing to do with me I can just see it on your face wail and Russell Yvonne clapham Zach and Ava I'm looking at John Dean here I and I just know this guy sees old-timey fops and dandies in movies and he don't know he don't know are they a german thing are they french or english or something are they just kind of all europe rolled together into like one stereotype that maybe never existed at all but that don't matter to john dene because every time he sees them boys minson and pranson he thinks that's me that's not the me i am but is the me i should be
Starting point is 01:07:03 and he goes and he becomes an insult comic because that's what they say the men do. That's what they say the modern-day man equivalent is of that. But it just unfulfilled, you know, it doesn't, it's not enough for John Dean. He thinks he's like, I'm Oscar Wilde up here, you know, telling it like it is, and everybody, everybody laughs and joins in and calls me pretty. And it never quite happens that way, does it John Dean? It's not the same thing being an insult comic as it is being a real, being a fop with a savage wit. I see you, John Dean. All over your face, man. It's all over your face that you wish that that was what you were. That's you. That's what that's what you are. It's a joke. It's all a joke. It's just there's no truth to it. There's no truth to it, man. Oh.

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