Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Ep. 359: Live at the UCB with Emily Gordon
Episode Date: January 12, 2015Producer and podcaster Emily V. Gordon joins Jordan and Jesse live on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles for a discussion of dental dams, online dating and STD billboards. ...
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Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free.
Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you.
Hey, Jordan, Jesse Go listeners. It's me, Jesse.
This week's Jordan, Jesse Go was recorded live at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles.
Our special guest is Emily Gordon. It is a really fun show.
Let's go straight to the stage.
Very exciting to be here right now. Very exciting for you to be here right now.
Hello, Tuesday night, 1145!
Hey guys, thanks for missing your local news to be here.
I know you guys probably all have Powerball tickets.
Anyway, we want to kick things...
It is really exciting to be here.
It's been a long time since we've done a show here at the UCB.
We mostly do...
We'll do the occasional arena, but mostly stadiums.
Yeah, we have the guy who designs U2's videos.
We have him on staff these days.
3D Tupac.
Hologram Tupac.
We'll have all your favorite
hologram dead celebrities out here at some point.
We actually were. Including
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the newest addition to our show.
A lot of people said, there were
three different kinds of aws for that.
There was,
aw, come on, asshole.
There was, aw,
he was so talented. But there's a girl right here who said,
aw, like I was talking about a cat.
Like she was remembering a time
that Philip Seymour Hoffman
chased a laser pointer around the room.
Jordan, I don't know,
did you get a chance to look at our schedule
before we booked this show?
We were actually, tonight we were scheduled to be at Shea Stadium.
Yeah, I thought that was weird, because I told the driver to take me to the show,
and I expected us to go right to Shea Stadium, but we came here.
I actually, I got a personal call from my friend Billy, and he asked...
Oh, sorry, Billy Joel?
Yeah, Billy Joel.
Oh, okay.
And he asked if he could use Shea Stadium tonight.
I said, look, I know a cool underground venue we could hit up instead.
Go ahead and use Shea tonight, Billy, because you're the piano man.
I know him through my friend Christy.
Christy Brickley?
Yeah.
I dated her in the late 80s.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, when I was... Did she ditch you because of your Coke problem? Because I was late 80s. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, when I was...
Did she ditch you because of your Coke problem?
Because I was in fourth grade.
Oh, okay.
When you had your big Coke problem.
Right, yeah.
It was really affecting your cursive, I think.
Jesse, we need to talk about your Coke problem.
Can I tell you the honest...
It's affecting you.
Can I tell you the honest truth, Jordan?
I drank a 12-ounce Coke before we went on stage,
and I am seriously, like,
it takes everything in my power not to do
that thing where you touch all of your fingers
with your thumb right now. Someone get him a Bowie knife
so he can do the aliens thing.
Yeah, so
maybe for those of you who are not
familiar, Jesse, you're not
a man who likes alcohol,
who likes drugs, you don't usually stay up too late, so that
Coke, I mean, you're basically
rolling on E.
Exactly.
This is as high as I will be this
year. Was this some of the cane sugar shit, or
was this a... Oh, this was the real shit, yeah.
No doubt about it. None of that high fructose corn syrup.
That just gives you cancer or something, I don't know.
Jesse,
those are strong. You should have only drank half. Fair enough. Do you want to get into the don't know. Jesse, those are strong.
You should have only drank half.
Fair enough.
Do you want to get into the business?
Oh, yes.
Let's do.
I actually, so here's the thing.
We were looking at a website called The Daily Dot the other day.
And this is like, we like to open shows a lot of times with something that's fun, but
also informative and sort of helpful.
So you guys can, you know, you can feel like you laugh, but you can also, you know, learn something the next time you're at a, you know, fun party.
Exactly.
Sort of, I mean, the same kind of idea as Bunker Buddies,
like something that's useful for you, but also fun.
And so I ran across this article on the internet.
It was on the Daily Dot.
It was called The Biggest Lies You've Been Told About the Vagina.
And I thought probably a lot of people here
at this show tonight are going to have vaginas.
They've met vaginas.
They aspire to meet vaginas.
You've done research on
vaginas. Maybe you draw
them.
So I thought we could
take this time to just kind of
dispel a few of those myths about vaginas.
Yeah, and I think we all liked this list that we
saw, but there were only six things.
And we
thought, God, I mean, how many lies
have you heard about the vagina? So many lies.
Lots of lies. Jesus Christ.
The amount of
just deception
in the vaginal
subject matter area that I've experienced
is astonishing.
Alarming.
Listen, for the whole truth, just go on YouTube, type in loose change.
There's a lot of good information in there.
The vagina just doesn't add up.
So yeah, so there were six things on this list.
600 engineers have signed a petition regarding vaginas.
There were a lot of things on this list.
You know, that, like what was it?
It was stuff like, you know, the vagina stretches when you've had a lot of sex.
Oh, exactly.
Men prefer a shaved vagina.
I think these are all just lies that we've been told.
But we just kind of expanded it a little bit.
So just, you know, here's a little bit of information
and we'll just start the comedy show after this.
Yeah, so do you want to...
Oh, yeah, sure, absolutely.
Yeah, so there's men prefer shaved vaginas.
Oh, but here's one I think that we want to add to the list.
Here's a myth that the vagina is the subject of the Barry Manilow song Mandy.
That's actually not true.
It's about his dog.
No.
A lot of people think you should pair a vagina with a red wine.
The truth is that red and white wines are both equally suitable.
And if you want, you can use a sparkling wine at a little OJ for a Sunday fun day.
Here's one.
A vagina won the 2011 Best Actress Oscar
for its portrayal of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
It's a myth, folks.
Incorrect.
That year's winner was Natalie Portman for Black Swan.
Yeah, vagina lost squarely.
You know, a lot of people believe this,
and this one's so complicated,
so it's amazing.
Sure.
It's a myth.
But, you know, a lot of people think
that historical evidence suggests
that in pre-Christian times,
it was believed that the vagina
served as a portal
to a nightmarish hell dimension
presided over by the goat god Demothodos.
That's actually false.
The hell dimension's portal
was the vulva.
The vulva. A lot of people confuse those two
things. And finally, the last
lie that we wanted to address was
that horse vaginas are
too big for a human penis.
Untrue.
If anything, they're too small.
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It stars Jay Baruchel of This Is The End
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So please do go check this out.
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It has the Jesse Thorne endorsement.
Obviously, Jordan's not on microphone right now or he would be endorsing it too.
I bet.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. endorsing it too. I bet.
We've actually got a great guest here tonight.
You might know her as the
executive producer of The Meltdown on Comedy Central
or as one of the co-hosts of
The Indoor Kids from the Nerdist Network.
How about a hand for Emily Gordon, everybody?
Emily Gordon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hello, hello.
So many vagina lies dispelled.
Yeah, well, you know, we're doing God's work.
I appreciate it.
Some of those were news to me, too.
Yeah.
I'm glad we waited to bring out our female guests.
We did that vagina list.
Couldn't look me in the eye during that, maybe.
So maybe for the best.
They also, vaginas cannot look up
That one is true
Also if you ask a vagina if it's a vagina
It has to tell you that it is
Otherwise
The deal is off
All the deals are off
Those are two true ones
You can take that to the bank
I actually ask that question
a lot when I get high. I'm like, are you a vagina?
You have to tell me.
You have to tell me.
I saw
a billboard on
San Fernando Boulevard
driving to the thrift store the other day
that said...
Which is the most Jesse Thorne thing you could do.
That said,
California
number two in
syphilis.
Yeah, where's your hometown pride,
people?
We really did it.
And I found myself thinking,
well, my first thought is,
is this a brag?
And I figured
it's probably not a brag. Number two in
syphilis, number one in your heart.
First in the American League.
And then the second
thought that I had was like,
I mean, California's the number one
biggest state, so number two in
syphilis ain't that bad. Not bad. I want to know
who is number one.
Oh, it's Florida.
Come on, there's no way it's not Florida. What if it was like
New Hampshire? What if that was
New Hampshire's secret?
What they don't want you to
know about New Hampshire.
It's all those fucking presidential candidates
getting in there early, spreading syphilis.
Just coming and going, spreading it around, yeah.
Bill Clinton, 92.
I mean, I think we're actually living
in a golden age of syphilis billboards.
Have you guys seen the one that...
Have you guys seen the one...
USA! USA!
We're in a golden age of dramatic television.
Sure.
The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. You know, in a golden age of dramatic television. Sure. The Wire,
Mad Men,
Breaking Bad.
You know,
in a lot of ways,
I think they're as good as movies.
The syphilis billboards,
I mean.
Yeah.
I would much rather
watch a syphilis billboard
than one of these
Hollywood comic book
blockbusters
they keep churning out.
I have syphilis.
And it's the same thing. Oh, you don't have syphilis? You haven't had syphilis yet? You haven't have syphilis. And it's the same thing.
Oh, you don't have syphilis?
You haven't had syphilis yet?
You haven't had syphilis?
You have to.
I mean, you have to have syphilis.
Oh, you have to.
So good.
Oh, it's so good.
I have to.
I can't even talk.
It's not going to make sense for the first three episodes.
I actually got this.
Watch it.
Get through the first three.
You're going to love syphilis.
It is going to burn.
I actually just got...
Love syphilis. I just got back from San Francisco.
I went to a restaurant that only serves toast and penicillin.
It's local penicillin, right?
It is.
It's artisanal penicillin.
Think globally, act locally.
I would say that I like that one.
Maybe my favorite syphilis billboard in the Hollywood area
is the one featuring the volcano.
The explosion.
The syphilis explosion is the best one.
It's called, yeah, the tagline is syphilis explosion.
Again, not sure if it's a brag.
But it's this, like, you know the cover of Dianetics?
It's just like the same volcano from Dianetics?
You're right.
That's exactly what it is.
Yeah.
Do you think that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation
just got a bunch of used Dianetics billboards
on half price and just slapped syphilis on top of them?
I think what they're trying to get across
is the little known fact that syphilis on top of him. I think what they're trying to get across is the little-known fact that syphilis killed the dinosaurs.
And sunk Atlantis.
It's also possible that they're trying to get across
that syphilis is caused by psychiatrists.
That could be true also.
Everybody protect yourself.
That's all we're trying to say here tonight.
Just protect yourself.
End of the day, news you can use on Jordan, Jesse, go.
No glove, no love.
Yeah, sure.
That's our slogan.
No glove, no love.
Guys, we're going to be passing out dental dams after this show.
Those things.
My God, those things.
Yeah, okay.
Jesse and I were both RAs in college.
Yeah. trying. Jesse and I were both RAs in college.
The RA staff,
the housing staff, really pushed the dental dam on us.
Why do they always describe it as the size of a piece of bread?
It's always described as the
size of a piece of bread. That's what they tell you
right after they put the condom on the banana.
It's a balanced
breakfast, really. It's a balanced breakfast, really.
It's a balanced sexual breakfast.
Gross item.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I feel...
Is it not...
Am I doing the wrong thing
by making fun of the dental dam?
I don't think so.
I feel like everybody makes fun of it.
It's the same as the male condom thing
that you could put...
Or the female condom, sorry.
The female condom we all know about.
It's just not realistic, folks.
Come on, guys. Glove
love.
Put a glove on your erect
penis.
I once chaperoned a
gay and lesbian prom in Chicago
for teenagers who weren't allowed to
be with their significant others at their own prom.
Okay, we get it. You're a wonderful person.
I volunteer, guys.
Congratulations.
I once hosted a prom for homeless cats and dogs.
Oh, so cute!
They had little tuxedos on.
Little babies.
Did I mention they were all gay?
Gay, homeless cats and dogs?
They got kicked out because they were gay.
I only have one question about that, Jordan.
When it comes down to it, who rescued who?
Am I right? Who rescued
who? They rescued me.
Who rescued who?
Gay, homeless cats and dogs.
They're little boutonnieres. They're so cute.
They're chewing on them, probably.
But I had to give away a prize pack that had dental dams and female condoms and male condoms,
depending on who the couples were.
And everyone was like, what the fuck are you trying to do right here?
But maybe if there were some hors d'oeuvres at the prom, you could put them in the dental dam, wrap them up, save them for later.
Nice little sack.
Yeah, that would have worked out.
Basically.
I feel like in my sex ed class,
they also pitched using saran wrap in a pinch.
No way.
Yeah, like you can just use a square.
It's like, I don't know how realistic just a dental dam,
like a dental dam is,
it's just a piece of rubber that someone hands you
and you put in the trash, right?
Are you referring to the vagina as a piece of trash?
I just
feel like, do you feel like
even like
super safety
oriented, sex positive
lesbians on some
sort of lesbian AIDS ward?
I feel like even they are not using dental dams.
I can't imagine, right?
Has anyone, okay, there's like a hundred people here. Has anyone ever are not using dental dams. I can't imagine, right? I mean, that's enough. Has anyone, okay, there's like 100 people here.
Has anyone ever actually used a dental dam?
Seriously?
For eating pussy, specifically.
Yeah, this dude's, what's up?
Do you want to talk about it on a podcast?
I was a little nervous.
Can you come up?
Yeah, come up.
Hey, give this pussy eater a hand.
Yeah.
Should this mic?
Go to that mic.
I mean, stay away from us.
Don't come near.
Oh, yeah.
Don't come.
And definitely, yeah.
Yeah, let's make this six foot nine guy hunch over.
Sir, if you could get in pussy eating position.
Here we go.
Take a seat.
Take a seat. For the listener at home, this man is huge.
And he just bent over to talk into the world's tiniest mic stand.
Like it was a clitoris.
Can I tell you a secret about this dude?
One look at him and I trust him to eat my pussy.
Thank you, sir.
I look at you and I think, this guy might have mouth sores.
I can't see your mouth from here, but...
Damn it up, you know? Damn it up.
Damn it up.
Beaver style, right? Damn it up.
Oh, gross.
Gross. No.
Gross. Shut up.
Shut the fuck up.
That's good stuff.
It's not, and you know it. It's not good stuff.
If you knew,
if this guy wasn't too humble to tell you about his work
with gay cats and dogs,
teenage cats and dogs.
They had nowhere else to go, you guys.
They're not allowed to go to the heterosexual dog prom.
Oh, hold on.
We have to talk to this giant about eating pussy.
Your giant pussy eating service.
What size was the pussy?
Was it also nine feet tall?
It was not.
It was actually proportionally way off of what I am typically encounter as far as size.
Sorry, what's your name, sir?
Mike.
Mike.
It might be a fake name.
I'm sorry about that. So Mike, what's your name, sir? Mike. Mike, great. It might be a fake name. I'm sorry about that.
So Mike, what, okay, so the dental dam,
was this a first time you were hooking up with someone,
or was this like a long-term?
No, this was an adventure.
This was something adventurous.
Oh, wow, okay.
I was given sort of like a prize pack
from my college health center, right?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, so exactly.
So you were just a hodgepodge of things.
And the dental dam
came in this little square
that I had to unfold
like several times over.
Unfurl, really?
Yeah, exactly.
Like a proclamation
from the king.
Exactly.
I was thinking
maybe the parachute
attached to one
of those parachute men.
The same size
as the square
that you get
in the new Cracker Jack boxes
where it's just a sticker.
It used to be a prize but but it's like yay tiny,
and I had to, like, unfurl it.
You know, just like Ikea, you know, instructions,
something like that, right?
You know what?
I actually, this thing is, after Saran Wrap,
they said, if you've got one of those parachute men around.
That's fun for everybody.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, you know, we just said, do we want to try this?
You know, and it was just one of those things where it wasn't a good time for me to be down there at that time.
She was on her period.
Yes, thank you for clarifying.
This was a menstruation issue.
Exactly.
You guys, she was on her period.
It was even more adventurous than we wanted to go at that point, but we gave it a shot.
I'm sorry, what was the problem?
I'm sorry, what was the problem?
George and Jesse go after dark today.
Oh yeah, this episode's only airing on Showtime.
After it all, dude. How did it feel for you compared to other experiences?
Couldn't think of a show on Showtime.
Dexter?
Shut up.
Shameless.
Shameless, there you go.
You are.
Just look at a list of comedies nominated for an award and name the ones that aren't funny.
The ones that are on Showtime.
It was like trying to push my face through a shopping bag, like a plastic shopping bag.
Because, I mean, it almost felt like you were going to break through it at some point.
Stretches.
It almost felt like you were going to break through it at some point.
Stretches.
I think of the dream chest from Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4 where faces are just going to pop and move, right?
Little faces.
There's a silhouette that just kind of comes through, right?
And that painted a more erotic picture than I was prepared for it to.
Brian, you're here, could you write that down
so that we can share it with sex educators later?
Thanks.
And how was the experience for her?
Wildly unresponsive.
Okay.
Yeah, it was just a deadness and a fear on her face.
You just looked up and she was reading a Hunger Games book?
Exactly.
Oh, are you still down there?
Right.
I mean, no, she probably was very aware of it
because the idea of having someone go through a shopping bag
to get to that does not seem appealing at all.
What's weird is that it was that kind of shiny silver mylar,
like the blanket they give you after a marathon.
That's right.
Or you've been through some sort of trauma.
You're sitting in the back of the ambulance.
Firemen have it to give to people who have been in a burning building.
I didn't even see the guy.
I don't know who he was.
A giant is performing
cuddling kiss on you.
Sorry, Mike.
Hey, Mike,
thank you for being so open.
Mike, ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for Mike.
Thank you. Love you, love you, love you.
Love you, love you, love you.
Love you, love you, love you.
Love you, love you, love you.
Love you, love you, love you.
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Question for you.
Shoot it at me.
You going to eat that?
Totally.
Totally.
Oh yeah, speaking of
issues
of the genitalia,
I had something I wanted to...
My dick keeps getting bigger and bigger than normal.
Yeah, I mean, it started when I was 12.
Doesn't seem to have stopped.
I am having a hard time going through certain doors.
Is there a penis pituitary gland?
Because I believe mine might have some sort of problem.
I wanted to talk about
the issue of online
dating. Oh, sure.
It's something I kind of
wanted to try out a while back.
I've been told
the kids on the internet
like to date online.
And I've been
kind of against it just because of a bad Craigslist experience.
Casual encounter?
No, just getting a roommate
who I thought was 420 friendly,
but then was not.
That sounds really traumatic.
Yeah, it was.
They were not as chill as they led me to believe.
In their ads.
They said they were totally chill.
Just turned out to be a broken Ikea armoire.
So it's something I've really wanted to try,
and I've been at it a while,
and I've actually had a really nice time doing it,
and I've had a blast and a half so far,
but it was slow going.
Okay.
The initial making of the profile was very difficult
because there were two things.
One, I have no pictures
of myself where I look handsome.
It's either like
pictures of me goofing around at
UCB or
Brian, I have the one picture
of myself that I think is pretty
good but I'm a little bit younger in it.
Can you put it up there for us, Brian?
I think that's normal to...
Quite a stud.
I mean... So this is... Quite a stud. I mean...
So this is a picture of...
Swipe right or whatever.
Right?
So maybe you can describe
for the home listener.
When you say younger,
I mean, you're 32 now, right?
32, yeah, yeah.
So this is about 26 years ago.
And I guess at the time
you were roping doggies?
Yeah, this is a picture, a black and white picture of me as a five-year-old in cowboy shit.
Your pants are very high-waisted.
I'm actually distracted by that more than your face or age or anything.
Is this really you?
This is absolutely me.
And yes, I have high-waisted jeans.
Like I'm a woman with a pixie haircut
who works in a Silver Lake coffee shop.
And yeah, and I have a lasso and a cowboy hat.
You're roping in some girl's heart, is what you're doing.
No, no, I was actually in the rodeo.
This is me mid-rodeo.
No, I'm not.
This is a goofy picture my parents took of me.
I know, but I'm saying that would be the caption for your profile
if you use this for your picture.
Oh, yeah.
Roping in your heart.
Or possibly just your vag.
I'll stay on your heart for six seconds.
You won't be able to buck me off.
Wait, no, you don't want that at all.
Emily, roping in your vulva.
Vulva.
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
I apologize.
So that's an issue.
I mean, you know what?
I'm just kind of worried about the message that this sends. Not only am I too young here, but also I think it might attract people from the bondage community.
Sure.
Because there's a lasso involved.
But also there's the issue of just kind of like what's typically in these profiles.
I think the three things, if you've ever done this before, the three things that appear constantly, loves animals, loves hikes, loves brunch.
Really?
That's so sad.
That's the classic Troika.
Here's the thing.
I recognize that just everybody puts that.
I genuinely love that shit.
I genuinely love pets and hikes and brunch. I'm love that shit. I genuinely love pets
and hikes and brunch.
What do I do?
I feel like I'm the only one who really likes them.
Everybody else is just
fucking...
They just don't want to put I love UFC
into their dating profile.
Yeah, everybody loves UFC
and the Big Bang Theory. That's all anyone likes.
I'm the only one who truly appreciates
pets and hikes and brunch.
So I don't know.
Maybe you guys can help me
either come up with some new interests
or find some way to stake my claim
to pets and hikes and brunch.
Yeah, I think it's maybe about reframing a little.
Okay.
Like, I like a late breakfast.
Eating pets.
Okay, there's two different ways.
Oh, killing and eating pets?
Well, I mean, that would be so hypocritical of me
because I like to work with homeless gay ones.
But you can't tell me that you've never eaten any of them.
No, I've eaten some of them.
I have eaten some of them in a pinch.
Okay, well, then that, I would definitely mention that, but mention that you're doing that
late morning so that they're aware.
And you do it with friends and you all stand around
and wait in line to go to a restaurant
when there are five other restaurants close by that have
no line whatsoever. Because that's a very important
part of the brunching.
What else can you reframe?
Hikes? You really like to hike?
I do. I genuinely like to hike. I will
fucking hike and I'll enjoy it. I didn't think anybody
liked to hike. This is me on a hike.
Whole time? I'm loving it. Save that energy.
You can't shut me up when I'm on a hike.
Justin, do you like to hike? No.
Yeah.
It clears my head.
The whole time I'm taking a hike,
this is the question in my head. Where am I going?
To a relaxation town.
To a better you.
To clarity.
My wife's family, my in-laws, love hiking.
And they will literally hike for, I don't know, three hours.
And, like, at the end of it, you know what you have?
Fucking peanut butter sandwiches and a view of a lake.
What a great view, though, right?
You know what?
I can just fucking sit on my computer,
type lake into Google Images.
Eat as many goddamn peanut butter sandwiches
as I want.
My husband went on a hike on Saturday
and is still limping today.
He's in great shape.
It's rough.
Hiking's rough.
I feel like I thought that everybody who said they liked hiking was lying.
No, not lying.
We'll hike now.
It's fucking 1230 at night.
Let's hike up to the Hollywood sign.
Let's do it.
Yeah, let's do it.
Then we'll do drugs.
Let's take it down.
Let's take the whole thing down.
Just so you know, Jordan, this dude over here who's wearing this American flag costume,
that guy's fucking on board to go hiking with you right now.
Oh yeah, this guy looks juiced.
You went hiking today? You hiked today? Where did you hike?
To the Hollywood sign, because they just reopened it.
That's right, yeah. Topical, you guys.
Was the Hollywood sign closed
before? They closed down the
path because the neighborhood was like
mad or something? Yeah, I don't know.
There was a whole thing where the neighbors, and I'm not going to
be saying this, the people, one of the ways
that you can get to the Hollywood sign, the neighbors had started
rerouting and changing
the actual, like, where it was
on Google Maps so that people wouldn't go through their
neighborhood to get to the Hollywood sign.
Which is a separate issue than them closing down
the thing and reopening it, but they're, uh,
people don't like people going to that Hollywood sign.
Same thing happened to me when I used to live on the observation
deck of the Empire State Building.
There was always all these fucking tourists up there.
What are you doing here?
Get out of here, assholes.
What are you, proposing?
Get out of here.
Hey, I'm walking here, is what I would say, because I was a classic New Yorker at the time.
You know, the pizza's better because of the tap water.
Yeah, you got it.
Bagels, whatever. Okay, so you know what? pizza's better because of the tap water. Yeah, you got it. Bagels, whatever.
Okay, so you know what?
Here's the thing.
Maybe it'll be this big surprise when I'm into pets and hikes and brunch.
Maybe as far as just, like, the profile goes, I'll go, like, I'm into sloth.
Yeah.
Gluttony.
Gluttony.
Medical marijuana.
Medical marijuana.
Well, that's true.
Oh, the other ones weren't true?
I thought we were just coming up with alternate hobbies of yours.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I mean, I could just talk about my love of, you know, dank nugs.
Dank nugs.
I'm sure that, yeah, I'm sure a lot of people do that on their profiles, right?
I mean, I think the way to find chicks is just be like, I'm into dank nugs, Japanese import fighting games.
Dental dams.
Yep, and dental dams.
Yeah, someone yelled out dental dams.
And Quentin Tarantino movies.
I guess I could just leave those three hobbies off.
I have a lot of other appealing hobbies.
Like dank nugs.
Japanese import fighting games.
Pussy Mythbuster.
Someone just yelled out Pussy Mythbuster.
Pussy McBuster.
What are you talking about?
Part of me wants to invite this guy down,
but part of me thinks this is just a fucking guy on TV.
Can I just say, I want to say something to this guy.
Number one,
just because they're on Mythbusters
doesn't mean their last name is Mythbuster.
Number two,
I'm pretty sure Pussy is from The Sopranos, right?
Yeah, I think so too.
You're thinking of Adam Savage, sir.
And then like arguing about what went wrong
with the Predator franchise.
That's a good hobby. Yeah, it's a great
hobby. I think we've cracked the code. Yeah, that's what
you list and then let it,
when you get there, surprise her with
the fact that you like to do things that all white people
like to do.
Jordan, have you ever heard of the show
Breaking Bad?
It's really great.
Have you ever read the book The Game?
Yeah. Sure, yeah, this is about
techniques. To meet chicks and stuff
and get them into bed and everything.
You remember, it's 12
chapters, and they're all
about the Predator franchise.
I think it's
weird, too, that on dating profiles there's not a place to put how many sword runes you've collected in Shadow of Mordor.
I mean, we're going to start that dating site, right?
I'll just put it under About Me.
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When something momentous happens to those of you in our live studio audience,
we ask you to write it on this notepad that Sonny D gave it to you,
this notecard that Sonny D gave it to you earlier,
so that we can bring you up to this microphone.
Somebody just visited the Hoover Dam.
You, sir, come down to this microphone.
Give him a hand, everybody.
Great news.
It's another huge dude.
We all still have a two-foot-tall microphone stand.
Yeah, I don't know how to lift it.
Sir, what's your name?
I'm Daniel.
Hi, Daniel. Nice to meet you.
Nice to see you.
We're not going to talk about your thing.
We're just going to casually chit-chat.
Daniel, did we meet on the telephone earlier?
Is that what you said? Nice to see you.
I don't know.
Okay, so tell us a little bit about your momentous occasion. What happened? Is that what you said? Nice to see you. I don't know. Okay.
So tell us a little bit about your momentous occasion.
What happened?
So went to the Hoover Dam with the in-laws and my sister-in-law's shitty boyfriend.
But the thing that really...
Tell me about this boyfriend.
Let's get into it.
What are we talking?
What are we talking?
Ear gauges, white dreadlocks.
Predator franchise.
Predator franchise.
Has opinions about it.
Sweatshirt with don't tread on me on it and told me lots about guns and all sorts of lovely stuff like that.
He's from Reno, so.
I don't know what that means, but that sounds rough.
It's white trash.
So he likes guns and buffets.
Pretty much, yeah.
Went into the gift shop at the Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam, nice, whatever.
It's a wall that there's water on the side of it.
It's a modern marvel, sir.
I don't like you being so flip about this thing.
It's one of the goddamn wonders of the world.
Is it really?
I don't think it is.
I mean, I think they just make up this list now.
I think Hello Giggles has their own list. You can just call just anything a wonder of the world. Is it really? I don't think it is. I mean, I think they just make up this list now. I think Hello Giggles has their own list.
You can just call just anything a wonder of the world.
It is one of the engineering
wonders of the world. We learned that before we met.
A nice woman in the audience
has pointed out that it's one of the
engineering wonders of the world.
Thank you very much, ma'am. Daniel's wife.
Yes.
However, I'm with
Jordan. Calling it a wall with water on the other side is bullshit,
and now I'm against you.
I suppose you think the syphilis volcano billboard
is just a billboard.
It's not.
You know, maybe you shouldn't tread on...
Thank you.
Some of the greatest civil engineering works
in American history.
The dead will damn you up.
You know what?
The pieces just don't add up.
700 architects
have signed a petition.
Go to you, Daniel.
Daniel is dead wrong about the Hoover Dam.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is still alive.
Would that it were true.
So, gift shop.
Sorry, what are you talking, who are you?
Some guy.
There's a damn.
You're here to talk about your pussy?
Same guy.
I'm back on your team, Daniel.
Yeah, you're great.
I'm with you now.
So, okay.
Same guy.
So you're at the Hoover Dam, you're not impressed, you're over it.
It's fine.
You know, I'm turned around, I love it.
It's great, You know, I'm turned over. I love it. It's great. Damn.
But in the gift shop,
lots of Navajo
junk and, like, biker
jackets and stuff. You know what?
Give respect to the Navajos and the bikers.
They built the Hoover Dam.
Now they want to sell their wares.
Yeah.
So, the three songs in a row
that come on... Wait, so it's like Dreamcatchers and shivs?
Yeah, and magnets that were made out of bullets for your refrigerator.
Okay, that's pretty cool, actually.
And stuff about the dam, I guess.
And so the music that comes on is...
I walk in there and Take On Me is playing very, very loudly.
The music is very loud in there.
Take on me.
Take on me.
Take me on.
Okay.
Good work, everybody.
Drowning out any conversation.
Way to kind of know that song.
Drowns out all conversation. That kinda know that song. Drowns out
all conversation. That's sort of a weird
song for the gift shop, whatever. Next song that
comes on. You think it should all
be songs about dams? Clearly.
Well, it shouldn't be
the Phantom of the Opera,
which is the next song that comes on.
And can you sing a little bit of that for us?
Um, no.
Okay. Okay, great.
Good fake out.
And then my sister-in-law and her shitty boyfriend were singing it along with it.
And then comes on Coldplay.
Hold up.
This dude loved the Marines and Andrew Lloyd Webber?
This man contains multitudes.
Do not underestimate him.
Good point.
And then
Coldplay song came on.
Probably like Reed's cuniform or something.
That's my prediction.
And then the final song was
Coldplay. Yeah, Speed of Sound.
And it just was so... This is a hell of a Pandora station.
I know, right?
And that's just what...
That's what you get when you type in damn into Pandora.
Every day they're doing that when they get to work.
Daniel, thank you very much.
Yeah, thank you very much.
This has been...
Daniel, ladies and gentlemen.
Didn't quite make it to the crowd.
Okay.
Somebody's writing a comic book right now.
Writing a comic book.
You, sir.
Come on up.
Convenient in the front.
Number one, you writing a comic book.
I'm not buying it.
For the listener at home,
this guy looks exactly like someone who would be writing a comic book, I'm not buying it. For the listener at home, this guy looks exactly
like someone who would be writing a comic book.
What's your name, sir?
Brandon. Hi, Brandon. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Where would you put
Captain America, the guy
whose thingy's on your t-shirt,
in your top
super dudes? I've literally been
waiting years for this question.
I would say probably Hawkeye, Iron Man, and then Captain America.
Wow.
And then what's the rest of the ranking?
Go to 40.
Number 40 is Booster Gold.
Well done.
He is pretty lame.
Okay, so...
Tell us what your momentous occasion is, sir.
Yeah, I've been writing this comic book
for the last month or so
about a kid who moves to a weird combination
of Portland, Brooklyn, and Austin
to be, like, an indie rocker. How do you have to combine those? So he moves to a weird combination of Portland, Brooklyn, and Austin to be like an indie rocker.
How do you have to combine?
So he moves to one of those places?
Yeah, well...
So just slight weather changes.
It's like a kind of heightened reality thing.
And I, while writing today,
managed to work in an obscure
reference to the band Phish
that would appeal only to me.
That's a good... somebody's gonna notice that
years down the line.
I hope so.
Can you tell us
what the reference is
so we can either
look out for it
or make fun of you?
What I like about this,
I do want to hear
the reference.
I'm just impressed
that you're like,
I'm a comic book writer.
What can I do
to further alienate
potential objects of my
romantic affections?
My girlfriend is weirdly
on board with it. Oh, excellent.
Not just on board, but weirdly.
Yeah, no. She's like, yeah,
the dorkier I get, the more turned on she is.
Honestly, the weird thing is that his
girlfriend is Booster Gold.
She is. She's been trapped in time for the last several years, his girlfriend is Booster Gold. She is.
She's been trapped in time for the last several years, but is now back.
Okay, that got the response it deserved.
I got two claps.
Hold on.
I know what you're talking about.
I'm aware that he's discovered the pre-New 52 DC continuity.
I know that.
I'm just not going to fucking give you the applause that you want.
That's fair. No, that's fair.
That is perfectly fair.
Did you guys know that there was a thing called Alpha Flight and it was sort of like the Canadian
X-Men? Yeah.
That's all I got.
Wolverine was on it for a minute,
I think. He went to Canada?
Okay, who's Canadian? Shut this down!
So what was, tell us
what the reference was. What's the fish reference?
There's a fish song called Fluffhead,
which is one of their 20-minute long...
I know.
Like 20-minute long, you know, odysseys.
So one of their songs.
Yeah, one of their songs.
This isn't one of their other, like,
two-minute and 25-second Phil Spector tight as a drum.
Their radio demo.
They have a few of those.
And there's a lyric in there.
Take on me is actually a fish song.
A lot of people don't know that.
It is.
There's a line in there about, the line is like,
soon your luscious honey sugar mellifluous life is going to end.
Hold on.
Yeah.
It's a terrible song.
So what you're telling me is you didn't just name a guy in your comic book Fluff on. Yeah. It's a terrible song. So what you're telling me
is you didn't just name
a guy in your comic book
Fluffhead.
No.
No, I did not.
That wasn't enough for you.
No, it wasn't.
Did you say his lyrics?
Well,
one of the subplots
is that this town
is sort of ruled by
essentially the Decembrists.
Jesus Christ.
I know.
This is such a comic book.
Yeah.
And so that guy
always speaks in very heightened prose,
and that's one of his lines.
Wow.
Do you know what I just learned?
That fish songs have lyrics.
I think I'm looking at the...
I didn't know that fish songs had lyrics at all.
I thought when you said, like,
oh, I included a reference to fish in my comic book,
I thought you just meant you were going to have
20 pages of a bass solo.
There is a page that's sort of... Or 20 pages of a bass solo. There is a page that's sort of...
Or 20 pages of a bass solo.
Fish.
Fish.
What?
What are you talking about?
I'm talking about fish, Jordan.
Oh, you know what?
Wow.
Thanks, folks.
I'm Jesse Thorne from National Public Radio.
You guys are really floundering over there.
Thank you, thank you.
I guess I have gills.
Fuck you.
That was a roughy one.
I could do this all night.
Well, congratulations.
That's quite an accomplishment.
Do you have another kind of niche interest
that you hope to work into your comic book
at a later date?
Chip Dipson and Dip Dobson.
Actually, I wrote a play in college
and there were two characters named Chip Dipson and Dip Dobson.
And you're cool with me.
Yeah, fair enough.
Way to go.
Hey, give him a hand, everybody.
I think we've got one more before we get out of here.
Let's see.
I can't read this handwriting.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Is anyone in here?
Oh, you're from Wisconsin.
Somebody came from Wisconsin.
Oh, yeah, Wisconsin.
Somebody tweeted at me from Wisconsin.
That was you?
Come on up.
Ladies and gentlemen, the American flag.
This guy is dressed as an outcast album cover.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
That's right.
What's your name, sir?
David.
Hi, David.
Welcome.
You came all the way from Wisconsin just to see us, huh?
Yeah.
There you go.
You got that question right.
A lot of people would say no for work
Or to do great things in Los Angeles
Or whatever, don't say that to us
It's the second time
I came here once before, like six months ago
And there was a meetup that happened
And I was able to attend
And then the next time I come in, you had another live performance
That's pretty cool
That's kismet, super cool
Nice to be, please don't murder us
You will not gain our powers You might gain their powers Pretty cool. That's gizmo. Super cool. So... Nice to meet you. Please don't murder us.
You will not gain our powers.
You might gain their powers.
You might gain their powers. We have no powers.
I just want to put that out there.
Jordan, I'm in a little outfit called Alpha Flight.
It's sort of like the Canadian X-Men.
Do you know Wendigo?
That's probably someone from Alpha Flight.
He's a shaman.
Anyway.
What are you talking about?
You're talking about eating pussy?
There's a shaman in Alpha Flight?
Windego's a shaman, right?
He made a deal with a trickster god
and he turned into the Windego
who's like a Canadian werewolf, right?
Windego is a flesh eater, right?
Isn't that what Wendigo is?
Yeah.
He's like a...
I'm looking at your beard, guy. Am I right?
I've seen Ravenous.
Fucking Ravenous.
I like the idea of this
guy being a shaman just in the
sense that when Alpha Flight's really
not sure what to do, like Wolverine's not
around or whatever,
the shaman just busts out the
ayahuasca.
And they really get to
know themselves.
Let's ask God what to do
after we throw up for four hours.
Try to put it back in our body.
If it needs to get back in there.
So you came here from Wisconsin.
How's Wisconsin this time of year?
It was minus 30 degrees wind chill when we left.
Cool wind chill, dude.
Yeah, no, it sucks.
Yeah, yeah.
So we came here, and then we were hiking up the trail to see the Hollywood sign,
and we were going to film a couple episodes of our TV show.
We filmed a yoga TV show, and we had the hiking,
and it all tied together.
And it came here,
and then you guys were performing live.
You host a yoga television show?
No, no.
My wife.
I film it.
Oh.
Is your wife here?
No, she's not.
She's with our kids.
That makes sense.
I get that.
I get that.
Fuck them, right?
Yeah, but bring the kids.
There's a lot they can learn here.
Yeah, a lot of vagina facts.
Vagina facts?
It just came on
PBS and ION TV.
They just bought it. And it airs, I think,
on Hollywood.
In Hollywood PBS.
We want to make fun of your show, not get
an exhaustive rundown of where viewers
can check it out.
What happens on this show? It's just you
pointing a camera at your wife who's doing yoga
in various tourist locations?
They're kind of
abstracted. They're just beautiful locations.
Scenic in nature, and on PBS, it's
just seated. The yoga's not
abstracted.
It's very concrete, right?
Yeah, on a chair in nature. The yoga's not abstract. It's very concrete, right?
On a chair in nature.
Beautiful.
Yeah, but it was a simple... Wait, on a chair?
Seated yoga.
Seated yoga for the...
The same chair every week.
Interesting.
Okay.
But we need a chair actually for here.
Is this for nature-loving shut-ins?
Sure.
Why not?
Isn't that what PBS is for?
There used to be a workout...
That's actually a good point. That's actually a great point. There used to be a workout... That's a really good point.
There used to be a workout show on PBS called
Fit, Feeling, and Tune that was all just
chair workouts. Does anybody remember this?
Does anybody else get stoned?
It's just a series of chair workouts
for people who don't have the mobility
to get out of a chair.
It's a great idea.
And you sit watching TV.
And now you're doing that yoga style. Can I ask you
a question? Sure. Can you
introduce me to Slim Goodbody?
Does this take place in the same universe as
Downton Abbey?
What about Charlie Rose?
No, no, we're specifically
not affiliated with PBS. We're just
aired on there. We can't put that on our website.
I mistakenly put the logo on
and they didn't ask.
But you're allowed to get hammered with Charlie
Rose though, right?
He's very flexible.
Gwen Ifill's filling in next time.
I would love to see that.
On the new year we were released
on that and that was momentous.
It seems like
you didn't have permits for this. You just fucking
gorilla shot an episode of your yoga show.
Yes, that's where we started.
Doing that in Milwaukee. Please seize this man.
This has all been an elaborate sting
to catch the permitless
yoga show guy.
Sir, I don't mean to put you in the spot
but you happen to be sitting in a chair right now.
Maybe we
can see some moves.
Chair yoga, chair yoga, chair yoga.
This will be great for our audio podcast.
David is leaning over.
Yeah, we'll describe what's happening.
Okay, so just, ladies and gentlemen, if you would.
He's centering himself.
Imagine a giant man in red pants and loafers.
I guess, yeah,
probably these people
aren't giant at all.
They're only giant relative
to how tiny
the microphone stand is.
It's like a forced
perspective thing.
Yeah, it's like how
they always have to
put Tom Cruise
in a small doorway.
He's wearing red pants
and a black and white
American all over print
American flag t-shirt
with a v-neck.
Now right now he's focusing on his breathing.
He's very
broad chested. He's doing some yogic
breathing, I imagine. You gotta warm
the breath. This is oddly very
fun to watch. I don't know why.
I'm having a good time. It's like an ASMR video.
A lot of people just say
they like just watching
the show and going along, but that's Vloma breath.
That's what you start with.
Right.
You do belly breathing.
Okay, so I want you to do a headstand or something.
Maybe I wasn't clear.
Yeah, I don't want to watch you breathe, dude.
Fucking do some flips.
Look, right now I can literally watch
a hundred people sit in a chair and breathe.
Okay, he's going to do it.
He's going to do it.
Holy shit.
Ladies and gentlemen, David, Emily Gordon, Jordan Morris, Brian Fernandez.
Thanks to the Upright Citizens Brigade.
We've been Jordan and Jesse Goh.
Thank you for coming.
This week's Jordan and Jesse Goh recorded live on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles,
where, believe it or not, Jordan found a Prank the Dean poster somewhere in the dressing room on the wall from, God, 2005?
That's our old sketch group, if you're not keeping track.
Anyway, it was really a blast.
Thank you for listening.
Our producer is Sonny D. Brian Fernandez.
Our thanks to Colin Anderson
and the whole staff of the UCB.
And, of course, to
the gentleman who designed our
poster, Charles Palk.
Charles, thank you very much.
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