Who Are These Podcasts? - Ep149.5 - Step by Stapp (Rebroadcast) + bonus material

Episode Date: April 14, 2019

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It's showtime. Welcome to a bonus episode of who are these podcasts. I'm your host Carl. As I mentioned last week We're skipping this week because my band had a show last night and it's just too much. You know It's just too much. But the good news is last week We did not play a teaser. You didn't know what episode we were gonna do on our podcast not play a teaser. You didn't know what episode we were gonna do on our podcast. I'm happy to say that we have that segment now ready to go. It's everyone's favorites.

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That's right, we'll be back on Easter. We're putting on a brand new episode. And I'm very excited about the podcast that we'll be reviewing. I have a clip of that show, but this is different than any clip I've ever played before. This was actually a voicemail that was left on our voicemail line

while this show was recording. Hey, what's going on? This is Louis Shagom as Porter Conrados. I think you're live on the real estate podcast right now. Well, they're not live, you're live. show was recording. You're gonna make your beard girl, but yeah, you're the best. You guys got your fag? You're gonna get a fuck, cause you're gonna suck at each other's dick. You'd ignore me, you mother fucker. I'm gonna suck you the rest of your ass. Just a voice now, I'll get a hit. Whatever, some bangin' to the cops. How many fags are we gonna get to the cops?

That's the reality. Well, I was a kid I threatened to kill somebody over the phone as a joke, and they got the cops came to my house. I mean, is your hang up on them? No. Oh my god, don't call me. Take it under set, not a loss. You can sell somebody to get the girl.

Yeah, we're joking. Yeah, that's it. Right. I'm saying this. Come on, come on. Let me make a stop. Stop. It's not a joke. No! I want to move to bed. We're coming after your identities. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, That's why you fucking call us back. You do not ignore the Puerto Rico Rental think of the real ass podcast.

I'm sick of it. I see all the horseshit you guys fucking review. You comment and fucking review our show or there's gonna be fucking problems. Five, seven, eight, eight, eight, I find it's you guys wanna fucking talk to us. Switch, start. That's where it is, hang on.

So this is the first time that someone has threatened to rape my girlfriend and dox me. If I don't review their show, I've had other shows ask us to review their show. We've had a lot of people come on and, hey, you should do our show knowing that they're gonna get crushed, which is great because that's a humor. This is the very first time. Someone was going to rape my girlfriend

if I didn't review their show. So Lewis J Gomez, a guy that I'm a big fan of, he has a podcast called The Real Ass Podcast on the Gas Network Gaslight, something I don't know. Whatever it is, who cares? He's got some network. We're gonna review his show next week and I am very much looking forward to that.

For this week, we're going to play a rerun. This is a show that Kevin and I did. We released it back on January 1st of 2017. We recorded it on New Year's Eve of 2016. This was step by step. This was a podcast. I think this was the first time we heard these cornballers trying to do this improv thing that makes zero sense, and it's just stupid. It's not funny, no one's in on the joke. It's just nonsense. They're pretending that Scott Stapp of Creed

has something to do with Stapp by Stapp. It's so nonsensical and ridiculous. The show just sucks. And since I'm speaking of shows that suck with nonsens improv, I do want to address my friends up north who need my attention more than anyone could ever need my attention. I will address what you guys are doing

on our next show. Don't worry, I know you're very excited about this. I know you've been putting every minute of every day into getting my attention, you got it. All right, I'm gonna dress what you're up to. I think it's kind of interesting to be honest with you. I'm a little surprised you're still obsessed with me, but whatever, we're gonna check it out.

So I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna leave, wow, I'm done. I am done, so I already went to brunch. It's gonna be a long day. Didn't sleep a lot last night. I'm done, oh, I need a nappy poo. I'm gonna leave you guys with a great episode that I went back and re-listen to. It was a little bit different show format back

then, but this is Kevin and I talking about step by step. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of Who Are These Podcasts. I'm Kevin. And I'm Carl. And we listen to podcasts that you don't have to. We want to remind our listeners you can visit us on WhoAreThese.com or on our Facebook page. We're always looking for new podcast suggestions, so leave us a comment, post a death rat if you'd like. On today's show, we've been reviewing a show called Step-by-Step. As always, we have

listened to this show separately. We've not discussed it with each other beforehand, so without a further ado, let's find out once and for all who are these podcasts. It's show time. I'm gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one who's gonna be the one W-A-T-P! W-A-T-P! Those are my Scott's staff. You're intro keeps getting more and more ridiculous the way you're saying Who are these podcasts? Oh, yeah, it's out of control at this point. Yeah, well, you got to mix it up a little bit sometimes, you know, you got a I guess So how you doing it's new year's Eve

It is new year's Eve happy Year, whatever you're supposed to say. I'll tell you, man, we usually record on the weekends because of the holiday schedule. We recorded a couple of Wednesdays in a row. So this is like back-to-back episodes for us. We feel like we just recorded an episode. Yeah, yeah, it was just a very good. Yeah. So it's interesting because this show step-by-step is

terrible, but compared to crime and cocktails I was actually finding elements about it that I could compliment That I you know what I feel exactly what you're saying because I was listening to it. I'm like well There's a couple things that are all right, but overall it's fucking horrible, but there was a couple of things that weren't that bad, I guess. So maybe we should start with the premise of the show, I have a clip that we can play. The reason why this podcast is called Step by Step, play Track 3. What we're doing today is we're talking about episode 19 of Step by Step, and we're also talking about the Creed song Signs, which is from the album Weathered. We're going to talk

about those things, and you may not know, or you may know, but I'm going to tell you the way, the song is about the episode. Of course it is. Yeah, so for the audience, step by step is a 90s sitcom. If you're not familiar with it, it was part of the TGIF lineup. So they try to make a comparison between a creed song and an episode of step by step. Well, I guess this is the whole promise of the show. They do this every week. They have a different episode of Step by Step that they watch and then figure out which Creed song was written about it,

which is a terrible promise and a really shitty idea. But as I listen to the show, I realize that that's not what they're doing at all because the Creed song, the lyrics aren't even close to anything about it. These assholes just think that they're improv comedy gods and just needed some type of vehicle for them to have their witty, quote unquote, banter back and forth. That is very true, and I found a bit of a hidden surprise, if you will their on their website. Oh geez.

If you go to step by step, that's two P's and step.com. Yeah. I'm there now. I was looking at it. Okay. So I scroll to the bottom because I was dicking around a little bit, looking around, see what they had and there's a follow section, which has their, uh, their Facebook and Twitter feeds.

And if you hover over the Facebook icon, you'll see that it says Family Shatters. So that was the name of their Facebook page. So I'm wondering if it started out with we're gonna do do something with family matters, the show, another TIGIF show, and then they settled on step-by-step as the vehicle for their ridiculousness. Because they do not deliver, I mean, on the promise or premise of the show at all, they don't, it doesn't relate at all, like Carl said,

they're just trying to fucking, they're just trying to have a reason for them to act goofy. All right, well, let's get into this because I wanna play an example, there's numerous examples of them and what I would call their improv. I don't know. That seemed to be what they were all about.

Someone would say something and then they would just keep going on a premise that was dumb. Track 10. This one sums up the entire show for me. And then guess who comes to the door? Ding Dong. Yeah, exactly.

That's a great impression of a doorbell. I've been practicing. Have you? Yes. It's pain off. We don't have it in my house. So anytime someone of a doorbell. I've been practicing. Have you? Yes. It's pain off. We don't have it in my house. So every time someone knocks on the door, I go ding dong. You yell ding dong.

Yeah. At them? Yeah. I open the door and I yell ding dong. I'm like, oh, I didn't know you had a doorbell. We don't. I'm good, right? You've tricked people yourself.

Oh, tons of times. Every trick or treater. You get a lot of trick or treaters or no? What? Look at that. Tons of times. Wow every trick a trader. You get a lot of trick a trader's I know what Yeah, it's nothing entertaining about that banter. There's nothing interesting about it. Yeah I've got one of them doing what they call method acting which is essentially the whole fucking show So here we go. Yeah Guys, that was a really weird noise. You hear that?

Yeah, what was that? I don't know. It was like wind and like a time warp, but put together. It's like wind and a time warp. Yeah, I will agree with that. By the way, my name is Scott Step. Just thrown it out there.

Yeah, so they pretend that this is their episode that we reviewed was recorded the day, like on Black Friday, so the day after Thanksgiving, so they do this whole thing where the band creed sits down for Thanksgiving dinner. So that's what they're talking about there, so they have to introduce their characters. Yeah, yeah, I'm Scott Stapp. Like, they don't even try to like do a- like, you know, he should try to do some type of impression, you know exaggerated Scott's that shit or something, but they don't even do that they just You know just come up with these promises and they're like yeah, I'm Scott's tap and now I'm eating a Thanksgiving dinner

and And then they make a lot of noises like this All right, you want to eat let's eat okay. And scene. So I had that exact clip it's so irritating. Yeah. You guys are not fucking faulty. Yeah I mean there, there's a couple things that they said in there. There was a, I hate to admit that I actually kind of like this, but they do something where they repeat each other a lot. Like they did this thing about, I don't know if you have it. I think I do too.

It's about the van. Get in my van. You remember that section? I sure do. It's about the van. Get in my van. You remember that section? I sure do. Yeah, they do. They're reviewing. So they, they talk about the show, the episode of Step by Step. And one of the scenes was something about golf course and the daughter, one of the daughters from the show, liking one of the rich kids, kids, or something, not whatever. And so there's this whole thing on Get In The Van

and it's retarded because it just goes on for way too long. And they got Dan Van, Dan. Just get in the van. Dan, Dan, I get in my van. Dan, I just get in the van. Dan, your parents are looking. They want you to get in the van.

Can't you see it? They're saying get in the van. Everyone's saying get in the van. Get in the van. Dan, if you do nothing else, get in the van. If you love me, you it again in the van. Can't you see it? They're saying get in the van everyone saying get in the van get in the van Then if you do nothing else get in the van if you love me You'll get in the van if you hate me. You'll get in the van if you love me and hate my father You'll get in the van if you love my father and hate me you'll get in the van so They do this one that's

On Ben Affleck. I don't know if you remember that one two or they kind of go back and forth That one wasn't- So you said, you're like, you're actually like, this was good. No, no, no, no. You thought this was funny? No, no, no, not this. The Ben Affleck thing, because it's the first time that they did that back and forth, was kind of entertaining, and then they went through this whole van like, Jesus, this is their thing,

they just go back and forth and say the fucking thing a million times like for a bent-affleck They're like they're talking about They're talking about how their method actors and they transform themselves into the characters Right the opposite what they actually did right. Yeah, so they're like so so kind of like bent-affleck and Superman Accept blah blah blah or kind of like bent-affleck and blah blah except blah blah blah blah, or kind of like Ben Affleck and blah blah. So like, they kind of, saying they were good actors and you wouldn't know it was them, you would think it was Scott Stapper, however, they were, they're not like Ben Affleck and

goodwill hunting. Or, you know, they're just, they're just making fun of Ben Affleck for being a shitty actor. Right. Right. So that part of it was mildly entertaining to me. The first time I heard it, you know, because it's the first time they went through this dumb bit, but then they went back to it with this van thing

or just repeating and talking over each other. And it just was, Well, the worst part about these assholes, is if they were to say something funny, they would certainly ruin it. And this is a gripe I have with bad morning shows too. Here in Rochester, we have Brother Reeves who's the big morning guy. And if someone tells a funny joke, he has to stop the show and repeat it and call it out as a funny joke. It's the dumbest thing you can do

that getting the van gag, you didn't have the whole thing on there because it went on for, I don't know, eight and a half minutes, but's a very young the guys like great. We could be 69 and all the way to a pizza parlor getting the van Right and instead of moving on if if that were a funny joke and it's not They would have ruined it play track 14 If you want a 69 All the way to the next pizza parlor, you think anyone's ever said those words before we've talked about this sometimes like like the fr- we started this episode with me asking to borrow your leaf blower and I said I don't think that's ever happened on

a podcast, but just the sentence and on a podcast it's a very isolated world of words that have been said right? We're talking all of humanity has anyone since yes vans existed Even care of vans in the old Egypt days. It would have to be since a vans existed to pizza parlors. Yep, and 369. Yeah So they're just pounding this into the ground. They're just beating this dead horse Could you imagine if I was like Kevin you know that wet hand jobs is by catchphrase? Oh

I can't did you hear what I just said? Do you think anyone's ever said that before? Yeah, not. What a yeah wet hand job. I wonder if if you could trace back wet hand jobs and if those two words are ever put together in the human language, we should talk about that for another 30 minutes to come. Yeah, it was so hilarious. We just got to keep talking about that. Yeah.

The subordinate comedy from Dane Cook is all I can figure out because you're all bunch lines. It's, to me, it's, they have a loose premise and I very loose premise that they're just using as a crutch to act like assholes or not really act like assholes, but to do this whatever. It's just a boring improv thing that they do. Right, right. And that they're straighted around, you know, this, this creed thing and all that they do. Right, right. And that they're structured around, you know, this, this

creed thing and all that other stuff. And I wouldn't be surprised. I didn't do the research on these two gentlemen, but if they're not improv people, like if they're not into actually doing improv on stage, because they kind of seem like the types. Well, I have another theory. I was listening to this show last night with my wife and she said it's really hard to tell these two guys apart their voices sound very similar Could this be one guy who has no friends who's pretending to do improv? Do you think maybe it gets that all over? And if that is the case, this is fucking genius. I've just turned my whole Thoughts around about it. That's the case of this guy's amazing. Yeah

I mean we know we know that they have no audience. So is it possible that they also have no fronts? I think so it could be just one guy I'm actually pissed off because they actually have a Good logo And they're yeah for the podcast like damn it But yeah, I mean shit. Maybe it is. Maybe it's one dude. You know what these guys? All right, let's go back to the promise that there's two separate people who are boring as shit. You know what they remind me of? Those two assholes in the Sonic commercials?

Oh, yeah. It's also a cat type of banter where they're like, oh, I got a hot dog. Yeah, me too. Sweet. Let's eat her hot. And by the way, does anything would eat a hot dog a car? Have you ever eaten a hot dog in your car before? I have never eaten a hot dog in my car before. I'm talking to us that. Those are some commercials. If you just look at the premise of it, these two guys are buddies and they just get hot dog and tater tots and just sit in their car and eat that It's a raging when you think about it. I guess it is. I never really thought much about the sonic commercials

So how poor are we can we just go to a restaurant that has a table or sit there and eat food like Or do we have to sit directly next to each other is that that's the point? Oh my god it makes zero sets if someone was eating a hot dog in my car, I'd be offended. I don't like that premise at all. It seems terrible. Oh shit. All right, getting back to these assholes, there was this one part where they started discussing,

the one guy was discussing having an Asian visitor or Asian visitors come over to his house and I thought I thought that this was a Little bit insensitive play track 11 Now when they come to the door I your dang dong Wow, I mean that's that's not nice, you know just because Chinese people have funny names That's that's too bad that they had they had to stoop to that level. Yeah. We don't do that here on WATP. All right. So the show gets started really terribly. I have on here track number one called

Terrible Show Intro. It's not, it's, it's bad because it has a creed song. But then listen to the execution of this guy starting a show. Step by step, day by day. Can you take me higher with your arms wide open? Welcome to Step by Step, podcast. I am your host Wow makes me makes me feel like I do an awesome job at At least you don't crack yourself up with your going You might be having a chocolate. So this is Chris McCarthy and his buddy Rob Hadden are the two show hosts. I don't know what their deal is other than that. They're probably gay lovers.

And on their website, it says, it says the Chris and Rob literally take you in a time machine back to the 1990s. Does anyone know what the word literally means? Well, these two don't. I don't know. Stupid. I hate that. They're biggest pet peeve now. I think we talked about it a couple of weeks ago. It's literally like going into a time machine. Well, let me tell you, I never at all felt like this podcast was cohesive. If it was trying to reach the premise that they had slayed out, it just very much two of them fucking beating off on their microphones, slapping their bags on a couch, basically

for 40 minutes. Thank God this was only a 40 minute podcast but they never I don't know they just doesn't seem like they ever try to tie it together. They're just like oh here's the episode of Stubbi Stubbi and here's this fucking ridiculous Creed song that no one has ever heard of some fucking B side. Well it was Creed album. A 2001 album. Creed was already a joke by that, right? Right, right. So it's some... So yeah, how do these guys even know this song?

Well, unfortunately, they've pigeoned all themselves with this ridiculous premise because now they have to have a band that had what, four or five hit songs. Well, there's four or five episodes that you've... That you can do. So now you have to pick all the fucking dumb, you know, songs out of their their ridiculous albums, which well, all of them are, but yes, it's not the masterpiece album. Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like the first episode was

probably the most alright. Yeah, here we go. So yeah, so this episode of Step by Step was they get into a hot air balloon and this relates to Can you take me higher? See that's like that works. That would work because the same can you take me higher? They're in a hot air balloon. So here's the thing. This is a show where they can't put the name before they decided how they're going to execute it.

Right. And you see this with movies a lot, you know, movies will come out and they're like, this would be an awesome movie title. Now it's right a script. I'm trying to think of an example, but there's a lot of them. So, man versus Superman. Oh, no, but I haven't seen that movie. Have you seen it? I have not. I've only heard it shitty. But yeah, it's really bad But step by step is obviously they're like, oh, okay. Yeah, that would be funny because staff sounds like step It's they didn't think that this was gonna be an interesting premise and then come up with a name

Right, which is what I was saying with the family chatters thing. Like if that's actually what I think it was, because that Facebook page doesn't exist. If you try to hit that link, it goes nowhere. I think that that's probably was their first thing. Like, well, we're gonna do, we're gonna whatever, talk about family matters TV show. And that was gonna be their podcast and then they came up with this step-by-step bullshit. So yeah you're

probably right, they probably came up with the title first like oh that would be so funny and now they're unfortunately pigeonholed into doing a show where they have to you know, crud bar these things together every time. They seem to enjoy it and it probably turns most people off so most people will never have to, you know, crud bar these things together every time. They seem to enjoy it. And it probably turns most people off. So most people will never have to hear it. So that's a good thing. Right. It's fine.

But they do talk about another show idea that is retarded. Play Track 2. Anyway, welcome to Can I borrow your shit? Can I borrow your shit with Bob featuring my neighbors? So Bill, I've been meeting to talk to you about that snowblower you got there. Yeah, I got to last winter. It's a great snowblower. It is great. I can't help but notice it's snowing right now. Yep. And my driveways piloted up so as my though and I kind of bought that leaf blower so I could do my drive one

Well, it's good. I don't need the leaf blower. I need the snow blower of the snow blower. Can I borrow your shit? Then at that panel now Yeah, seriously Holy shit. These guys crack each other up. That's the sad part about it. I get the feeling that after they do these shows, they get a big man hug and get a little bit tight in the pants.

They dock. They're docking. It's so important celebrate another great show. Google it. I have a few more tracks that I want to play here. I have boring Thanksgiving banter. Oh, it's so much yesterday. Oh my god, you kid me.

I took stuffing and I stuffed it inside the turkey Young man, what are you doing here laughing at jerks? I got old Nelson these guys are so boring. Yeah, it's You know what I mean what can you say it the premise is fucking dumb So I knew that we were heading into you know a dumb show Obviously when we were reviewing it, but I didn't know they were gonna think that they were such Improv pros that they could just go off on all these different premises and and have these hilarious banter back and forth

They might want to write shit down Maybe script some things because they are not funny off the cuff. Yeah, you know who else is a cobra commander? When he, when he pops in, because he's essentially doing the same goddamn thing. But when he comes on, it's just, you know, a shit show, as we know. But cobra commander isn't supposed to be hilarious.

He is, you know, the leader of a terrorist organization That's true. I mean, you know, I guess that's uh that's his furt. That's if you were looking in his resume that would be listed first But why I think for improvgenius Yeah, I thought I figured like humorist is probably like the second thing. It's like comma Yeah, a terrorist leader comma humorist and Then you know the comma improv genius I don't know Is that on his LinkedIn page? I'll have to look that up. It sure is

What you see I come to Canada. Can we connect on LinkedIn? Yes, I want to you need to recommend me for Joe Killer. That's my special skill. I will endorse you. Hold on a second, I don't think I will, because I've never actually seen you kill any of the GI Joe's. What? Wait a minute.

They always just jump out of the plate. I told you, just jump out of the plate. Well, I've been executed my new plan as I I talked about a few Weeks ago on your goddamn show. Well, I'm shooting their parachutes So they can't I believe it when I see it you're all talk Well, I am all talk. That's very true. That's the only I have you can't see my goddamn face so you can't see any emotions All right I love Then this guy does this fucking

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So let's take you back to their apartment and just see. Let's check in on them. What are they up to? Yeah, and we actually, we found some, some transcripts. We did. From the first family dinner they had together. Mm-hmm. We'd like to take you back to that right now. Come on. Kevin, don't you have a better sound effect for going back in time? Do I? You mean this one? sound effect for going back in time. Do I? You mean this one?

You hear that stuff by staff? Stop it with your mouth noises that you guys fucking make. I'll show. Yeah, you guys can you can clip that out of here if you want. Get some production. So here's an example of this hilarious play, play track six. When we see all of it right now by ourselves. All of it? Yeah, all of it. The frozen turkey, the box of stuffing, unbox. So we think the box back out, pour on the table. Yeah. All right. So they go through this whole premise of the Thanksgiving,

Kreets first Thanksgiving, and they say that they find they found transcripts from it, which is stupid. And then they come back and this is a clip that I call no shit. So you mentioned earlier that we found a transcript of that account. Of course, yeah. Well, that's not true. We made it up on the spot. Wow. Obviously, because terrible. So then they go into this whole thing about having someone transcribed their podcast. Right. Which I think they actually did. Which they did on their website. The entire episode is transcribed on their website. You can go and read it. I don't know why you would.

I mean, if you, I sure should wouldn't. Yeah, if you're looking to, you know, if you're, I guess the only time that you would want to listen to this is if you were in the midst of making a news and it was taken a long time and you were kind of like you needed something to keep your mind off of the rope. Yeah, like if you started cheering up a little bit and you're like maybe I shouldn't end it all.

You know, maybe life is worth living. This would be a good thing to read. Yeah, yeah, I think that this would just would take your mind off of what your hands are doing, tying the news. That might be good. You know, it's funny, as we're listening to this, I'm going to take you guys back a little bit, not just because I want to play this sound effect, but we're going to take you back. So when I was little, and this is

actually true, way before the internet and everything else that we the creature comforts that we all have right now. A friend of mine across the street he was my neighbor who was my best friend. We used to do these things called which we called humor tapes and it was a cassette tape and we put it in there and hit record and it was a chance for me to do all of my really dumb impressions even way back then and I'm talking like at 10 or 11 years old, this is when this was going on. This podcast sounds a lot like the tapes that I used to do with my buddy when I was 11 years old these humor fucking tapes Tell me you have an example of this. I wish to Christ. I had

I know but Tony like this we were like we were pioneers not known was listening Just like this one no one was listening to these tapes except us But we would do these, you know, just hit record and then do these stupid premises and talk. Like we had an audience or something and it's literally exactly the same. I don't even hate the words literally, but it sounds very, very similar to step-by-step everybody. So if I could do a reverse sound of this, I would, because now we're back up to the present. We're back. We're back, everyone. This is as people off the six dude. I figured out the reason why these guys do step by step because that show is actually edgier than these assholes. Patrick Duffy was known to be very edgy for his time. Yeah, TGIF was known to be pretty racy on Friday night on ABC.

It was just a sand for a thank god I'm fucking, that's what TGIF stood for I think. Whoa, hey now! Thank god I'm fucking, Kevin there might be children listening. Oh, man. I'm sorry kids, sorry out there. Patrick Duffy was a known coup sound. These guys were so cheesy in their banter as you've heard all the examples. And then this gem sneaks out. Play track 9. I thought it was probably her vagina juices. That was like, wait, what? That's where you perked up.

That's what I woke up again. I'm like, I'm gonna try to listen to this podcast. And then the only other clip that I wanted to play from this show is they do play a little bit of the creed song that they're saying is about this episode of Step by Step. Yep. And I have a clip of that because I know Creed as well as most people do. I know the couple of hit songs that they had and everyone thought they were kind of a Pearl Jam rip off

and Scott Stapp just over saying, but listen to this, this is Scott's tap doing an over the top Scott's tap in Prussian from what I can tell. This is not about it. I'm sad, I don't need her. I'm sad, I don't need you. Oh yeah. I'm sad.

I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm sad. I'm sad. I Think if you were trying to do Scott stab your homework He does all of this shitty Scott stab things and just that one segment of the verse This is Yeah, it's pretty pretty horrible. It's funny to me like I love the trends of because people are way more cynical now than they were. I feel like when we were growing up, at least, all right, maybe because I'm an adult now it's different, but it just seems like you mentioned a Dane Cook before So that was a time I was famous for being a comedian. Yeah, but here's the thing like I

I owned a Dane Cook CD when he first came out Yeah, and everybody kind of thought you know, he was entertaining. And then it became popular to dump on Dane Cook. It was like, well, fuck this guy. If you go back and listen to those albums though, there isn't a punchline to be found. It's crazy that he was famous. Right. Well, so then that that started

The dang cook fall from grace. So now, you know, the dude is you know, I probably still perform. I think he does Who knows you know what type of crowds he gets. I'm sure it's nowhere fucking near Where I had it at the height of his popularity, but it's the same thing is happening to Amy Schumer right now so Amy Schumer went through this this big boom and everybody was paying attention to Amy Schumer And she had a movie and but now everyone's like fuck Amy Schumer. She's not funny And then there's a stick back I think it's because she got a little preachy. Well probably Or maybe a little political and preachy. And it was like, okay, Amy, I calm down. But then, so what I'm, I guess my point I'm driving at

is Creed kind of went through. Now, by no means have I ever thought that Creed was a good band, but it does sound a lot like some of the shit music that was out at the time. So they were kind of a lot like every other thing that was out and people they were famous. Fucking people really liked Creed. Kevin, that's a great revelation. Creed was famous. They were famous. So and then all of a sudden it became, you know, they suck and we should you know, fuck them and then they fell

from grids. You know what? The same things happen. They're in the nickel back. Exactly. I was just about to say, nickel back is in the same thing. It was like, nickel back was huge and that fucking hits on the radio all the time and people seem to like them. And then all of a sudden, like, I don't know who, but somebody said, you know what? Nickelback blows and everyone was like, yeah, you're right. And then everybody hates Nickelback. That guy, I was doing the guy, but like, just got on my blog one day and just said,

you know, I started dissecting this Nickelback song. This sucks, these lyrics are ridiculous. But what I'm saying is like, it happens, it doesn't take much nowadays for people to to jump on a bandwagon of hating somebody because Whatever there was an SNL sketch about it or something. It's like they just need it a little bit of a push And people are like, you know what? Fuck this. You're right. This person sucks. This is horrible or whatever and It's it's interesting to watch because it's you know

I could say to the people who are like fucked in cook I'm like, oh, yeah, well you probably had one of their CD one of his CDs at the time where you probably repeated one of his jokes or whatever and it's like It's just funny to me. So I understand and I have been goofing on Dan Cook I know you're talking directly to me because I do own albums of his but When you said repeated one of his jokes, can you give me an example of a Dan Cook joke? Oh boy. If I asked you for a Mitch Hentberg joke,

I bet you'd probably have a few. David Talley would have a few. But is there a Dan Cook joke? I think. Yeah, I mean, I can't think of it. Well, I mean, it's exactly. You're right. I mean, it doesn't. It's. Well, I mean, it's exactly right. I mean, it doesn't your noise is that he's got a lot of energy.

Like his jokes are just the energy he brings. Yeah, and, you know, he was popular at a time where that was enough to get you through. I think there was a combination of things going on for day. I don't want to turn it into a dang cook podcast, but there's a combination of things going out for dang cook He was a good-looking guy and he was funny and he had all this energy and I think that's why a lot of people Flawed suckers dick, but I don't like it's not but I mean it's it's true and I think that that

combination of all those things is what makes or what made him Popular now. I don't know I I Wish that I could, you know, no definitively what it was that made people turn the corner. But I do remember a mad TV, this has gone back a long ways, but mad TV did a sketch where I think Ike Baronholz, which was on the show at the time, did an impression of Dan Cook. And it was like basically pointing out like that he had no jokes.

And this is just ridiculous. He's being an asshole on stage and you know, walk around like a raptor and like whatever dumb bullshit that he used to do. And everybody, you know, the five people he used to watch, Matt TV, must have taken notice of that. And then all of a sudden it was like,

oh yeah, yeah, Dan Cook is a shitty. It's like it takes one person to point it out to other people and they're like yeah, you know, that is kind of well All right, I didn't do my Dane Cook research But you're right no one watched mad TV so that wasn't it But all the other comedians hated Dane Cook, because he got so famous so quickly, and he was doing Madison Square Garden, and the other comedians were watching him going, what is funny about this?

I actually spend all my time writing jokes. This asshole gets up and acts like a raptured at the cell and out, fucking MSG. So I think that's really where the backlash started from was just the other comedians who thought he sucked. Yeah, I guess overall, not just I didn't cook, but I always find it very fascinating where where someone is they have to hide other popularity and then within the blink of an eye can be told or influenced by the masses that they suck and that you know I'm trying to

think of an example like current day like it's almost like if everybody how about how about Ben Affleck that might be a good example yeah that's true I mean yeah there I guess there was a time where he was kinda looked at as an up and comeer, and stuff, and then whatever. It was gilly or whatever it was that people were like, well, fuck this guy. Well, he's a shitty actor. What's not?

I mean, I haven't seen Batman versus Superman, but I do know that he's a shitty actor. So I've seen him in a couple. I don't want to get too far removed from step by step. Can you just real quick play? I pulled an ISO of this asshole laughing. Can you just play that so we can get back to this real quick? Yeah, yeah.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh my god. Right. No. That one I will keep for future shows. That one and this other ISO I have on here. Dang dong! Oh, so racist.

Yes, seriously. It's not cool. It's not cool. There's probably third generation. They're probably named Bill and Karen. Come on. Bill and Karen Dong. Yeah.

That's right. Uh, boy. Don yeah Boy so yeah, that was step-by-step. I don't think I have anymore I have one called horrible Joe. Let's hear that one All right, there was a whole scene where Dana blew up at Frank's because she the whole see were Dana wait what? All see were Dana blue Frank who up at Frank. Oh, yeah, they had a falling out. They had a fight. He's a blue off guy. Oh, it's funny. I would rather listen to Creed did in this podcast. I'd rather hear the sounds of gunshots from my parents bedroom.

Then listen to the spot. Oh my god. Jesus. That's like terrible. Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bad one. This was a listener suggestion and they were spot out with how they were spot out.

Thanks, Jackie. Here's the one compliment I could give them. Audio quality was great. I don't know. It was fantastic. They had the levels perfect. Right. It was very easy to clip because in a lot of these podcasts,

we listen to there's so much noise going on. You can't tell when people are talking, whether or not this one. If you just looked at the wave forms in whatever software you're using, it's very pretty. We're going off the rails here now. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know if they use a noise gate or what they use, but yeah, there was literally no noise between voices as they were talking, which is impressive. That is about the only thing that I would give them for their little shit fest. There was no there were no noises and no laughs. Yeah, both. They nailed that. Right, right. So it's kind of like a Carlos Mensea show. Hey, oh,

that's another guy Carlos Mensea stole some jokes people hate him now, but he was he had a fucking show. stole some jokes people hate him now, but he was he had a fucking show Joe yeah, Joe Rogan that's right by the way we're at the 45 oh eight mark So my Skype should be shooting the bed any second now Yeah, it's true, but it has not yet, but it has yeah, all right good well in that case Kevin I want to say we had a lot of fun this week. Yeah. We did two shows. And next week, we're actually going to take a week off, right? Because you're going to Disneyland. I am going to Disneyland. That is true. So I will not be here. And I don't think you want to do the podcast by yourself. So I don't. And I'm going to go and

see a Buffalo Sabers game. So it's kind of like going to Disneyland. Yeah much a lot like it. I think yeah Just like that people people are dressed up as furry animals. Yeah, we're not gonna do that's true You say we're too so we're not going to do a show next weekend But we will do one the weekend after that and And Kevin, I'm excited about the show that we'll be reviewing. I have what I call a teaser clip. So that people who are listening to this show can get excited about listening to our next podcast.

Please play next week's teaser. Where do we begin? Let's start by removing the eyeball. Here, take these. Now, just squeeze the four steps on the eyeball and pull. Make sure not to pull too hard. We need to keep the optic nerve intact. He's a cake. And got it. Very good. What now? Grab the syringe and withdraw blood from the optic nerve Done now see the hole on the right side of that little black cube Slip the needle in there and deposit the sample

deposited Yeah What is this all right? So this this show is called darkest night It is one of these podcast dramas where I love these shows because they have to explain everything they're doing in order for it to make sense. And then they have these sound effects. She's pulling blood out with a syringe. It's like, that makes zero sense.

That sounds like a ball. So this is the first episode called The Will Reading. It's from October 31st of 2016. And there's a lot of famous people involved in this. Really? The narrator? Yeah, yeah. The narrator's a guy named Lee Pace.

I don't know if you know that. Oh, yeah, I do. That's great. OK. He was in Guardians of the Galaxy and the Hobbit. He's been a lot of yeah, he's in Halton catch fire, which is a TV show I watch and I am see oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. He's It's also they also have RuPaul is one of the actors. There's people from American horror story There's actually an actor from We're Alive, which is a podcast that we review.

No. So I don't know if I would use that as a credit, but it's also produced by the No Sleep podcast people, which is another podcast that we review. Right, right. That was garbage. So, you know, we haven't done one of these in a while, where we've had a lot of ban acting and fully work.

So I'm excited, you know? It's, it'll be a nice change of pace for us. Yeah, it's not, you know, people talking, getting drunk and talking about a subject or. Oh, thank God. That was, Kevin, can we just talk real quick about crime and cocktails again? If people will ask me if you didn't listen to our show from last week, you should, That was Kevin, can we just talk real quick about crime and cocktails again if people

will say if you didn't listen to our show from last week you should because holy shit that sucked. Yeah, you know, it's the trend for a lot of shows like on the last day of the year, which it is today, is we're recording this to do like a top 10 or a top five. We don't have all the time for that shit, but I'm going to say the top the worst podcast we reviewed in the year of 2016 was was crime and cocktails in my opinion. That was by far the worst one we've done. We're just saying a lot. Right, because we're this is episode 44. So, yeah, it's it's a lot of bullshit we've we've dealt with over the

weeks here and yeah it's I just because there was just nothing redeemable about it at all it would there was nothing that I could have said okay I'll give them that or anything this was just literally a bunch of drunk people turning out a fucking cassette recorder and recording. Well, worse than that, it was drunk hillbillies. And they apparently did not understand the subject matter at all. They were talking about Jack the Ripper

and they had to go to Wikipedia the first sentence in because they were disputes over facts in the case. That was just terrible. Yeah, it's like people don't understand what it is to produce a show or to have something. I mean, whatever, I'm not gonna sit here and say that we have all the answers, but at least we know that there's a beginning, middle, and end to a show. We have most of the answers. Let's talk it ourselves.

You know what's interesting? You talked about a lot of podcasts to either top 10 or top five, or you know what's interesting you talked about a lot of podcasts do their top 10 or top five or you know what would be interesting to do we launched our first show on March 2nd of this year maybe when we hit March of 2017 we can do a retrospective and maybe give out some awards, the WATP awards for the worst podcast, the most poorly produced podcast, the surprisingly terrible, whatever the categories are. This one sucks for this reason and this one sucks for that reason. Yeah, I mean, we could do that certainly.

What you want to do, it's been a while since we went back and talked about snatch that weave or what you're talking about. Yeah. Oh, and you know what we should mention, since we've been on the air, some of the podcasts that we reviewed are canceled, I guess you could say or no longer putting out new episodes like cocktails and centires, right? Those, those ladies hung it up. And then we had another one that just we just found out about Stuff your mom never told you about right right, which I think was our first episode

Um, I'm looking at our page totally married was our first one. Okay. It was pretty early on I think was it was episode two was stuff your mom never told you about and those women were insufferable, so I'm so glad So they don't have a show anymore. Yeah, they tweeted they were like well it took us 800 and something epic I'm like holy fuck 800 episodes. I don't know I think they have well They did they have a network they went ahead and network or something Oh god, I can't imagine. Let's have it. I'm looking at our iTunes page right now. Go to who are these podcasts on iTunes and give us a rating and write a review. We'll be sure to read it. But it's funny at the bottom. It says listeners also subscribe to

and man cow is down there. Oh, yeah, I see. I see that sometimes, man cow. Like a few of the ones that we've reviewed have been listed there, as, you know, alternate things that you could listen to or whatever. Yeah, I always find that pretty funny. That is funny. If people who listen to our show are also man cow fans, and that's not a good thing,

we're not doing that. I should also say too I don't plug it in the beginning I should probably change that but we also have a Twitter which is who are these pod so it's at who are these pod and if you're you know looking to get a feed essentially of what we're posting on the Facebook page, those auto feed to the Twitter and then we also obviously tweet from there as well. So if you need to everyone ask us a question, if you don't want to dick around with the contact form on the website, you can also tweet us at where are the who are these pod Jesus, I can't even fucking say it. Who are these pod? Is the Twitter handle if you want to get us that way?

Anyway, okay, so I have a hopefully everyone out of happy new year at the end of 2016. A pretty shit year for most people. Myself included, so I'm glad that it's over with and looking forward to. Bill Burr was talking about this on this podcast, and I agree with him. You know, this is like the meme as 2016 was a shitty year. And 2016 is just a year, like every other year. You can't blame the year for being shitty. Yeah, I just, I had, well, I had some really positive

things happen this year. When I moved down here, I started I had well I had some really positive things happen this year when I moved Down here. I've started dating my girlfriend and I moved down to Tucson and so I've definitely had some some positive things happen here But it's like you know, no one's ever included moved to Tucson and there was some positive things That's probably true but Oh shit, that's probably true. But hey, I like it down here. It's good. It's warm. And it's also where my girlfriend lives.

So there's that part of it. So 2017 is going to have to be better than 2016, because we didn't start 2016 with podcast. We're going to have more episodes coming out in 2017 than you could put a hat on That's not a same So please join us again next week because it might be the episode we find out once and for all who are these podcasts? Sleep well every pony morning radio. You know, who are these podcasts? I don't know. I don't know. I don't get it.

Makes no sense.