Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Ep. 732: Yakking Off with Matt Apodaca
Episode Date: April 3, 2022Matt Apodaca (Get Played podcast) joins Jordan and Jesse for a discussion of Jesse's two ice cream sundae epiphany, Matt's dalliance with an addictive Simpsons mobile game, and what it's like to watch... Jackass for the first time this year.Â
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Give a little time for the child within you, don't be afraid to be young and free.
Unto the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you.
It's Jordan Jesse Goh. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart.
Jordan Morris, boy detective.
Well, I've got great news, Jordan.
Finally. Fucking finally, man.
That's better than real. You've had it coming thank you i you deserve it whatever this is you deserve it because you work hard you're a father to three beautiful children
and of course taller than average so it's a it's it's about time. Let's hear this good news.
I'm going to get into a receptive posture.
I'm going to get ready to receive your news.
I think a lot of us are trying to figure shit out.
And especially...
Poof, tell me about it.
Especially with the way the world has been going lately.
Yeah, say no more.
It's been kind of dark times out there
and a lot of people have been taking
the opportunity to reconsider their priorities think about what really matters what doesn't
matter that kind of thing i'm not the only one who's been doing this okay some people are looking
to religion some people are looking to mindfulness some people are looking to mindfulness. Some people are looking to health practices.
Some people are looking
to family or loved ones.
Some people are just,
you know,
some people want to have
the perfect sourdough bread,
Jordan.
Yeah.
I hear a lot of people
are watching Bridgerton.
Yeah, a lot of people
watch Bridgerton.
I haven't tried it yet.
It's on my list, though.
I've got to try it.
Is that the sexy one
or is that the one with Christine Bransky? Well, anything with Christine Bransky's on my list, though. I've got to try it. Is that the sexy one or is that the one
with Christine?
Well, anything with
Christine Baranski is sexy.
Well, yeah, totally.
If you like sassy-tongued broads.
I do.
Yeah, I mean,
I fucking love Christine Baranski.
I want to be...
Hold on.
I know we're making
a comedy show here.
I just don't want anyone
to think that I don't love Christine Baranski.
No, Christine Baranski is great.
I got freaked out that people would think I don't love Christine Baranski.
She's fucking great.
She is great.
We were a big Sybil house growing up.
We watched a lot of Sybil.
They're so fucking good.
Yeah.
Sybil Shepard and Christine Baranski are so fucking good.
Right. I don't think
anybody's saying they're not i just there's not a hot take great not a hot they're so great yes
it's so you say it like it's a hot take no i'm just but i guess you know you're a broadcaster
and you have to well because some asshole came in here and kind of suggested that maybe there
was something wrong with liking christine baranski not i wasn't
me are you trying to pin this are you trying to say it's boy now i'm gonna get dragged online for
being anti-baransk so in fact i've been pro-baransk this whole time jordan you know you know since day
one we were a sybil house jordan you know that we have no choice this is not an optional thing
to stand this legend.
No choice but to stand.
People are trying to figure it out.
We Stansky Baransky.
Sorry, go ahead.
Should we stop doing the show?
Forever, yes.
Yeah.
Oh, were you doing a thing about what people turn to in hard times?
Yeah.
Then I just now started thinking about how much better jordan jesse go would be if it was instead of jordan and jesse it was sybil shepherd and
christine baranski yeah they were talking about so good and so fun interviewing a fun guest from
the world of comedy do you think they know enough about like like, just, like, booster gold? Yes.
I was going to say Wario, but yes, our usual cast of characters.
I guess if they wanted to take over the show, we could do, like, and again, I don't know what Christine Baranski's Nintendo and DC Comics fandom is like.
She probably had a dream cast.
She probably had a dream cast. Perhaps it's us.
Well, yeah.
Oh, so she's a Sega fan.
Yeah. So she'll probably do a lot of Space Channel 5 material
it's all Seaman stuff
I love Seaman, very innovative
but yeah so I mean
if there's some stuff they don't feel comfortable
with we can just give them a crash course
and yeah
they could probably be
in our chairs doing the show by the end of may i think that
sounds great to me so yeah so these are our final episodes keep it keep it locked here to this feed
for sybil 2 the podcast will be called sybil is a sitcom i don't think we've said that anyway go Go ahead, Jesse. I've been working very hard to figure out it all during this time.
Right.
Dedicated a lot of energy to my family, my beautiful children.
Dedicated a lot of energy to creating this art called podcasting.
Right.
I mean, from times of great struggle,
you get great art.
I bought a set of sex pillows,
which are great,
but don't turn out
they're not the
they're not it.
You know, they're not the answer.
But they're great. I definitely recommend, they're not the answer, but they're great.
I definitely recommend them get the good one.
It's great.
I mean,
that's why people like it and buy it.
Do you have a brand you want to shout out?
Uh,
liberator is the brand.
It's great.
I mean,
it's legitimately great.
I'm not fucking around,
but it's not the answer.
You know,
it's not the thing.
It's not,
it's not figuring answer. You know, it's not the thing. It's not, it's not figuring it out.
Um, but it's, you know, I mean, it's, it's great, but it's not the thing. Right. But yesterday,
um, my daughter had decided to stay up to watch Saturday Night Live,
which was a bad idea because she's 10 years old.
And what would happen probably is that the next day, today,
she would be insane.
And today she was insane all day long.
Because of something they said on Weekend Update?
Yeah.
I think Colin Jost got her pissed off.
Fucking Jost.
She's like, how the fuck is this guy married to Scarlett Johansson or whatever?
And also on this.
Yeah.
Sorry, my Jost opinions are coming out.
Yeah.
He's probably a good writer.
I don't know.
Maybe he's a good person.
Yeah.
Seems possible.
It's entirely possible. Didn't he buy a Staten Island ferry? I don't know maybe he's a good person yeah it seems possible it's entirely possible didn't he buy a staten island ferry i don't know i think colin jost bought his own
staten island ferry that might not be true but i've gone to great lengths not to learn about
jost yeah i don't really know i've been i actively myself in fact we've gotten to the bottom of my
jost knowledge you know jost go on jordan jesse go yeah or just go on shepherd
baranski go do you think he's the heir to the justin's fortune i think he is it takes class
pictures yeah i think he got i think he rode a wave of uh gold-plated class ring money to Saturday Night Live. So last night I had to stay up
because my daughter was up. And this is what happened. I eat dinner around six.
Usually my wife and I wait until the kids go to bed and then we have some ice cream.
In this case, my daughter wasn't going to go to bed and she had actually served herself and eaten some ice cream.
But she was pumped up about staying up late.
And my wife was putting the other kids to bed.
So I said to myself, you know what?
I'm going to make myself a sundae.
So I got chocolate chip ice cream, Tillamook brand.
The best in the grocery store as far as I'm concerned.
the best in the grocery store as far as I'm concerned.
I crumpled up those little Trader Joe's chocolate chip cookies,
the little tiny ones on top.
I put caramel sauce on top of that.
And then I put whipped cream on top of that.
I ate it and it was fucking tremendous.
Absolutely fucking tremendous.
Absolutely great.
But it wasn't it.
But it was great.
It didn't answer anything for me, but it was a fucking great Sunday.
You still were unclear as to what your life's purpose was.
Cut to... Thank you for using screenwriting language too, by the way.
It helps me follow along as a creative. We pan up and see the clock as the minute hand sweeps past the 12.
And then you look at the camera and say, wait, how did I get here?
Let's rewind.
You're such a Deadpool.
Let's cut to about 10 p.m.
Like a hard cut or a dissolve.
I went into the kitchen, opened up my freezer.
I took out some mint chip ice cream.
I put that in a bowl.
I put some chocolate chips on top of that.
I put some whipped cream on top of that, and I ate ice cream a second time in the same night.
I ate two Sundays in one night, two different sundays in one night about two hours apart and
that's it i solved it i've solved it two sundays it's the second sunday it's you ate a sunday
already you wait a while and then eat another fucking sunday it's great. Congratulations. It's great, Jordan. It's great and it is it.
So you're like fully self-actualized now?
I'm a fucking vibrating god.
Man.
So kind of like Dr. Manhattan style, you're going to ascend to a fortress on Mars and just watch all of humanity pass by?
I can levitate like David Lynch.
Cool. Lynch levitates? I can levitate like David Lynch. Cool.
Lynch levitates? Lynch can levitate. If he and his buddies
are working on it together.
His TM buddies. Congratulations
on the two Sundays thing, man. That's really great.
A lot of people wouldn't have the
balls.
A lot of people wouldn't have
the know-how. True. But you did it.
And you know what?
You deserve it.
If there's anybody who deserves more than one Sunday, it's you, buddy.
Congratulations.
Our guest on this week's Jordan Jesse Go is a talented podcaster from the Get Played podcast, among many other podcast projects.
He's a comic and writer as well.
A really, really cool, funny dude.
Matt Apodaca.
Hi, Matt.
Hi.
First of all, this is king behavior is what I'm hearing.
It's true.
This is...
I don't know if Babar eats ice cream, but if he does, this is how he would do it.
Yeah.
I'm just like, I'm blown away by this because I love ice cream.
I'm just gonna go ahead and put that out there.
That's, I mean, one, everyone who looks at me is like,
this guy loves a cone in his hand.
He loves a cone.
I don't have the constitution in my tum
to have two sundaes,
lest I want to be sitting on a dang toilet all night.
That's true.
Yeah, so Jesse, tell us about
what's the toilet situation been?
The toilet situation is...
Jordan, are you still making your famous
perfectly coiled turds?
My movements have been pure, firm, and smooth.
Wow, that's honestly shocking to hear.
Well, you know, you wouldn't think that David Lynch could levitate, but he can.
You know what?
Yeah, you're right.
And I'm just glad you got to the bottom of this, because I don't keep ice cream in my
home, because I love it, because I'll just eat it nonstop.
And when I do have it, my little hit of serotonin is I'll just go to my freezer and get a spoonful of ice cream and walk away.
That's it.
That's my little trick.
I also have a no-house cream policy.
Yeah.
I can't do it because I'll just eat it all.
I save it for when I'm out and about.
Because then it's nice.
I eat ice cream every day.
Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
But in this case, I ate ice cream two different times on one day, which is what really sealed the deal.
How many flavors do you keep in the freezer at once?
I've had as many as five or six flavors.
Okay.
My wife subscribed me to an ice cream service.
These are words I didn't need to hear.
Ice cream service.
This is incredible.
It delivers ice cream to my home.
Yeah.
On a monthly basis, it'll deliver three or four flavors.
But I do tend to supplement those flavors.
You're saying enough with the Netflix.
Just give me the chill.
Yeah.
That's what you said.
So you have an ice cream person coming to your house, not unlike a drug dealer in the 90s with different ice creams.
Yeah, Jesse has to call his beeper.
He's like, hey, look, we got salted caramel this month.
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
That Colombian shit.
That Colombian salted caramel.
I paged the ice cream guy 911.
It's an emergency.
And he said, I love you too.
Because he doesn't understand pager codes.
Did you guys have pagers growing up?
I didn't have a pager.
I'm going off pager knowledge from the time, from pager people that I knew.
Well, you're going off here from
when you were a psychiatrist right yeah when i was in residency i had a pager uh i've never i i've
never had one i my mom had one and i remember like wanting to play with it and then being like
this doesn't even have any fucking buttons on it this is boring this got nothing did you snooze
did your mother work in the medical field
or did you just like to be available i i don't even know why she had it yeah because like
i don't remember the phone ringing a ton or like somebody else paging her i never heard her say
i got a crazy page like you know like yeah it wasn't like i never yeah i was never paged i don't think she
was ever paged urgently i think it was just like a thing that like you had sort of like how um
like the first wave self cell phones are different now right like like cell phones
are a sort of modern thanks jordan i'm curious i'm not a big tech guy. How are they different?
I just feel like it was like a novelty to have a cell phone, right?
It was sort of like, oh, you have a cell phone?
That's really crazy.
And now people's entire livelihoods can be done, can be handled on a cell phone.
Sure.
And if you had one, you maybe answered it, you took it in the car, and you left it in the car and just went about your business.
You didn't have it on you at all times. They're with this i'm can't be the first person to make this
observation we have we're trapped by our phones you guys yeah uh thank you uh thank you bezos
for my dopamine hit you say yeah thank you for hypnotizing me there's sort of like a black mirror
you know it's funny cell phones have changed a lot lot. You could, a lot of people don't know this, you could actually look at porn on a beeper,
but it was very rudimentary.
It was just a six and a nine just going to fucking town on each other.
Oh, don't say those numbers so close together.
Are you afraid it'll be too nice?
Smoke starts coming out of my ears.
Oh, Matt steamed.
We were screwing around too much.
I definitely had a pager and sent a lot of pager codes back and forth with my high school girlfriends.
So this was like early sexting?
Yeah, 100%.
It was all 143, which was I Love You.
I don't remember.
The only pager codes I can remember right now are 911 and 143.
Yeah, the biggies.
This is just kind of interesting.
Just kind of thinking about what it would have been like to page code with a girlfriend back in the day.
143, it just seems like a big step.
Is there something in between like, I like you a lot and my feelings are growing?
Like, what's the pager code for I'm enjoying this and I want to see where it goes?
Because I like you would also be 143.
Right. So not a lot of room for nuance. It love or nothing huh yeah i guess so did you guys ever play games in on your math
class calculator yeah i remember seeing kids have like mario on like a ti 85 and being like this is
i want yours and then like just this is, I want yours.
And then like just never knew how to, I didn't know how to do that.
I just didn't, I didn't know.
I was, I guess, graphing.
I did mostly graphing.
I'm using this for its intended purpose, you said.
And poorly.
I was very bad at math.
Enjoy your Mario's.
I'll be over here graphing, sir.
Yeah, I didn't either.
I don't think I ever had one of those.
And I definitely know what it was like of getting to play Mario on somebody's, getting to play Drug Wars on somebody's.
And Snake, of course.
Snake rocks.
Yeah, Snake's still pretty fun.
Yeah, you can get...
If I had Snake on my phone right now which i
easily could i could probably sink 20 minutes into that and feel good about it and be like wow that
was actually a lot of fun that was great i'm well spent yeah yeah yeah no regrets and then put it
down and walk away from it and then not think about it for months and then it gets up and then
it d like deletes from my phone and then i'll think about it again. Hey, I got to re-download Snake and then play Snake again. Do you? Fishes Cycle.
Do you play, Matt, look, you're the co-host of a gaming podcast.
That's right.
Do you play the kind of games that live on your phone and mesmerize your mind?
You know, I tried Apple Arcade for a little bit because I thought it was going to be like,
I just thought I'd like it more i have
a controller for my phone uh that you snap onto your phone and it turns it basically into like
basically into like a nintendo switch it's called a backbone yeah and i i love it but i don't i
don't really play a lot of the phone games i played angry birds when angry birds was new i
loved flappy bird the flappy bird story is is wild wow let's talk about this story let's talk about the
story of flappy bird is this the in-game lore yeah so the reason there are pipes coming from
the ground and the sky is is haunting uh no but the guy i mean because flappy bird for those of you that are not familiar with it
it's like a game where it's just a bird and there are pipe obstacles that you have to navigate the
bird through you navigate the bird by pressing on the on the phone for a certain amount of time
it's sort of like uh it's sensitive to it so if you hold uh on the screen the bird goes up you
let go the bird goes down it's a balancing act sort of thing. And the assets look like they were all stolen from other games, right?
Yeah, the pipes are Mario, the bird, I think the bird is like...
The bird is Larry Bird from Jordan vs. Bird on the NES.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's a very tall white man, a guy.
And you are, yeah, it's a game of endurance also.
So you're trying to see how far you can go on this map.
This game became a, like, runaway success.
It was, like, the number one game on the, I think it was called the iStore.
I didn't know maybe it was the iStore, the App Store.
And everybody was loving it at Flappy Bird.
People were downloading it constantly.
The guy who made it, which I wish I knew his name.
John Flappy.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, John Flappy.
Larry Bird also would have been funny to say.
You know what?
Just pick whichever one you want.
That's a choose your own adventure joke.
You can have whichever one and then laugh at which one you like the best.
Right, exactly.
If you pick Larry Bird, you'll have to fight the Yeti later.
John Flappy, you'll discover the pirate's gold.
Can I throw in a C option?
Please.
Yeah, Flappy Bird.
It's Larry Bird's brother.
See, that's a good one, too, because we missed it because we were too close to it.
Larry, Flappy, and Curly are the bird brothers.
Yeah, this is why you called script doctor Jesse Thorne. We missed it because we were too close to it. Larry, Flabby, and Curly. We're saying Flappy Bird. That's good. Yeah.
This is why you called script doctor Jesse Thorne to come in.
That's right.
That's good.
Guys, what do you think?
Yeah.
You get a bird's eye view.
Sorry for the shirt.
See, look.
You're like the Sean Parker of what we just did.
You took the the out, and you just gave us the best option.
Disruptor.
parker of what we just did you took the the out and you just gave us the best option disruptor uh i so the guy who who made flappy bird was having to update it all this all you know so much and
like just didn't want to it was a it was a thing of stress for him uh and he wrote this like blog
post that i i i sort of remember being upsetting like uh was just like, this is too much. I can't handle the stress of this stuff.
It was kind of a dark blog post.
And then he just took it down completely.
And then, so if you had it on your phone still, you were good.
You could keep it.
And it was like, it's just on your phone.
But if you deleted it, you can't re-download it.
So then, phones with Flappy Bird on it were going for thousands of dollars on eBay and stuff.
No way.
Yes.
And so it was just like this whole thing.
And the guy was just like, I'm out.
Look, I just made a fun little thing to play while I was taking a shit or something.
This was just for shitting.
And I heard people are playing it not shitting.
Yeah, and y'all ruined it.
I've seen some of your coils, and I'm very disappointed.
They are imperfect coils.
Somebody's been having multiple Sundays per night.
Why can't you all poop like Jesse?
Hashtag poop like Jesse.
I got the poop like Jesse.
My favorite Maroon 2 song. Jesse.
My favorite Maroon 2 song.
Maroon 5.
If your twos are maroon, see you, doctor.
I just had a lot of beats.
Joke had a lot of beats.
Way too many beats.
And I'm not talking about with an A. But that's, as i remember it the story of flappy bird it was a tumultuous uh turn of events
uh but but interesting nonetheless matt what's the story of echo the dolphin
you know what i don't know those are this dolphin man that guy makes me shit
dolphin when he sings his beautiful song
um jesse to answer your question i uh you know i love a video game but i like i i can't really
play them in any way other than sitting quietly alone in the dark in front of my tv there's been
a couple of phone games that that have got. I was a big Fruit Ninja guy back in
the day. I did a lot of Fruit Ninja. And then when I saw the big, there's like a giant Fruit Ninja
you can play in Dave and Buster's. And to get to like swipe at the fruit with my whole arm was a
thrill. And I think I've probably, the gap between how cool I felt and how cool I looked was probably never greater than when I was playing the giant fruit ninja at Dave & Buster's.
Was it like that video of – there's like a dog who was like – their favorite toy was like a Pluto, like a Disney's Pluto.
And then they took the dog to Disneyland and saw Pluto and it like freaked out.
Like it was so excited.
Were you like that when you saw the big ninja?
I looked as dorky as that dumb fucking chump dog.
What an idiot.
It's not your toy.
What a dumb dog.
This is a man with a job.
How'd that dog go to Disneyland?
I don't know.
Service dog maybe.
Yeah.
Maybe Pluto invited it.
Oh, yeah.
Sort of like Biden inviting other people to the White House.
This famous dog invites other dogs.
Yeah, like how Biden invites famous dogs to the White House.
Like that.
Not you, Garfield.
It's okay.
It was a Monday anyway.
You can come, Rin Tin Tin.
So Big Fruit Ninja Guy
and then
Big, the most, I also
tried Apple Arcade, this is Apple's
kind of like unlimited game service
and I liked the selection, I thought the selection was really great
and I got really into this
kind of color matching game called
Grindstone and it is
a kind of, it's
you match these little gobliny guys and then if you match
the colors a barbarian guy with a big sword kind of chops through them all uh so it's you know like
a like a tetris or a columns type thing but it has this kind of cartoony fun but kind of cartoonishly
gross overlay i got real into that in a way that you know when you
get into one of those puzzle games you like see it when you close your eyes yeah yeah yeah yeah
i had that i had the i had the grindstone fever pretty hard for that but um but yeah kind of once
and it but thank god that game had a campaign so you could like beat it and then put it away i'm
pretty good at beating a game and then
leaving it alone so the fact that it had something to beat is the reason that i'm not still playing
yeah and seeing it in my dreams i get too distracted with phone games because it's my phone
and i'm like i can look at anything i want on this like i can look at a six and a nine fucking
going to town oh man well yeah unless I want my screen to fog up.
Yeah.
From how heavy I'm breathing at the heart of the action.
But I played Simpsons Tapped Out, which is not a game you play.
It's like a game that you assign things to have happen.
Like you give the various members of Springfield.
You build a Springfield.
That's part of what it is.
And then you can assign tasks for the citizens of Springfield. You build a Springfield, that's part of what it is, and then you can assign tasks
for the citizens of Springfield
to do. But you
could also buy things
in the game through microtransactions.
So if you want, like, Lard Lad's
donut, you know,
store, or whatever
it's called. I do want that. Yeah, you want that.
You can buy it with,
you buy donuts in the thing, that's their premium currency want that you you can buy it with uh you buy donuts in
the thing that's their premium currency and then you can spend you know 25 donuts on certain things
and a friend of mine hacked my game and gave me like i don't know like 9 000 donuts or something
so i was like i was i was living the dream it was i was i was going crazy in this thing and then i
ran out of those.
And so I had all these premium items, but then I kept playing,
and new premium items came out.
And I was like, okay, well, I'll just, you know, got me this far.
I'll start putting my own money into this.
And it hurts me to think about how much real money I spent on this game
that I don't even have anymore.
This was NFTs before that.
Wow.
I feel like I scammed myself because i was
like so addicted to it and then one day it was just like i'm done with this after several hundred
dollars into this game probably so what what was your biggest expense in simpsons tapped out
what it sounds like to me from what i understand yeah is world-building Simpsons-based
MMA game?
It's sort of like
MMA is mixed martial arts.
Brock Lesnar's in the game.
Simpsons is tapped out.
Yeah, you're
tapping out because you're in an arm bar you're cooler than us i would have
gotten that if i was cool you know that's that's just sort of a lot of the coolest people are into
the coolest you should see these guys they're so cool yeah um their tattoos match their shirts
it's great um but it's sort of yeah it's it's sort of like sim city kind of with the simpsons okay uh and
are the things you're buying like specific simpsons references they can be you can buy that
or what i was i feel like what i was buying the most was they had these like um uh at the quickie
mart they had um like scratcher tickets and you could buy a scratcher ticket they're like a dollar
99 or something uh and they're always a win so ticket. They're like $1.99 or something.
And they're always a win. So this is how I've learned that I'm probably a gambler. I probably love gambling. And so you buy a scratcher and you scratch it off on your phone and then you usually
you get something. Yeah, it's oh man, it's a blast. It's great. It's as good as gambling.
It's so fun. When I saw that that game existed and that you could spend real money on it, as a Simpsons obsessive, I said to myself, if I get this, there's a world where I get drunk, take out my phone, and then I wake up the next day and I can't make rent.
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
It's probably why I deleted it, honestly.
I was like, wait a minute.
I can't keep spending money on this.
I don't have groceries.
What do I do?
Wait.
So when you're building your city, you buy stuff from the Simpsons to put in the city?
Like you buy...
Yes.
The story of the game is sort of like, think god came down and like destroyed springfield with his
finger and sort of wiped out the wiped out springfield and it's up to you to rebuild it
uh and so you so you start with the simpsons home you start with like yeah then other buildings you
would recognize and you can make like you can make it however you want you can make it crazy
like you could you're not boring like the regular scripts you wouldn't do it like yeah boring regular you're not a regular city planner
you're kind of maybe having a little fun right i'm a little twisted so i'd probably start throwing
in shit from south park i think there was a futurama crossover oh yeah now i want it more
than ever sorry i'm gonna leave and play the game now. I wonder if it still exists.
I wonder, because those types of games are, I think, a net bad.
I think they're not.
Probably hurting the world.
Yeah, I don't think that's good.
I can't believe, I'm just sitting here thinking I spent so much money.
Jesse, is your fantasy baseball game that you play phone-based?
No.
If my fantasy baseball game was phone-based, it would be over for me.
Absolutely over.
Because I will sit here and play baseball mogul at this very desk where we're recording this program, where I'm recording my element of this program.
I will sit here and
play baseball mogul for three hours straight during the work day uh and i'm saying that
with two of my employees present on this call valerie and brian both work for me uh and i don't have any time i want to be clear like that's time that i'm not that my
family will not have food because i didn't go to the grocery store if there were micro transactions
in baseball mogul 2018 which is the version of it that I play for whatever reason, just haven't upgraded,
I would be penniless right now.
Do you think you play the 2018 version because it's existing in a world where COVID hasn't
happened yet?
Yes.
And everything else was good then too, right?
Yeah, everything else was good.
Everything was great.
Those good times. Yeah. Everybody, right? Yeah, everything else was great. Those were good times.
Yeah.
Everybody loved 2018.
Yeah, 2018.
My whole thing is just like within the context of Baseball Mogul,
how can I make America great again?
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
Right.
Yes.
I'm glad somebody's trying.
Yeah.
Do you think if you fix it then
It'll sort of like
Butterfly effect and change things
How they are here now
Yeah I think so
This is the premise for the baseball mogul movie
It's mine
I'm writing it it's mine
No I'm writing it I'm writing it first
I'm writing it better
I'll race you
Ready right
I have been playing that same game since
we were in college i started playing baseball mogul in college it has not changed it has not
improved it is the same they like the three or four years in they were still adding stuff
but that was 15 years ago if you're feeling a little twisted,
can you throw Cartman in there?
Yeah, sure.
You can throw Cartman in there,
but only if you're feeling twisted.
Yeah.
And they ask you.
You have to sort of put your thumb on the phone
and they sort of read it.
Are you twisted for real?
And they can say, they can decline it.
They can tell via a fingerprint.
Yeah, if you're twisted or not.
Because your fingerprint will be all, I don't know, crazy.
Am I twisted enough for you, Papa Bezos, for my little dopamine hit that I need from my tweets?
I feel like I'm going through a black mirror.
Yeah.
I should be clear.
When I'm doing that, I'm being like a Luddite Gen X guy.
Oh, okay.
I should be clear.
When I'm doing that, I'm being like a Luddite Gen X guy.
Oh, okay.
Maybe people thought that's how actually I was trying to approach comedy, but I'm kind of making fun of a kind of dude.
Got it.
Also, this guy also hates the Kardashians.
He's really too mad at the Kardashians.
What do you think about-
So you got Seamus on a sex tape?
Yeah.
What do you think about Christine Baranski?
Here's the thing about this guy.
Yeah?
Loves her. Stansky. This guy's a Stans about Christine Baranski? Here's the thing about this guy. Yeah? Loves her.
Stansky.
This guy's a Stansky for Baranski.
I can't, I don't think I've ever seen something that she's in.
That's probably not true.
I'm sure she must have popped up in something I've seen before.
And I'm going to go ahead and say I love her.
Have you seen The Grinch?
I have seen The Grinch.
Great and The Grinch.
Didn't realize under all that Who makeup it was Baranski.
Okay, I'm in.
Yeah.
She transforms.
That's what that's.
See, that's why you call Baranski.
She disappears into the role.
Yeah.
Because everybody else, like, look, I know who else is in there.
I know Molly Shannon's in there.
I know Molly Shannon's in there.
Tambor, I see.
OJ Simpson.
All the crews.
But Baranski slipped by me. Very good. A great performance. And, you know, that's what you'd expect from her. all the crews but Bransky
slipped by me
very good
a great performance
and you know
that's what you'd expect
from her
Jesse I know
your kids
were into the
Cat in the Hat movie
were there ever
Grinch heads
my daughter
my daughter
so
you guys Grinch
you guys Grinching
it over there
so Matt
for your benefit
you Grinch it
you Grinch it year round don't
you there was a long period where my daughter's it may still be where my daughter's favorite movie
was uh the cat in the hat with the mike myers cat in the hat okay which is truly awful yes it's
truly really really bad i think i saw it in the theater. Yeah.
How did you feel about it at the time?
God, what year did it come out?
I was certainly too old to see it.
And I just remember being like, this ain't the Grinch.
Where's Baranski, you said?
Yeah, I was like, where is she?
Where's OJ?
Yeah, I was like, who is this? OJ's not in it.
I was like, Alec Baldwin, pass.
And then I was eating crow a couple
years later when 30 Rock came on.
Alec Baldwin, frankly, did a good job.
Everyone, look,
everyone does a good job. That's why
it's so horrible.
Everything about it is wrong.
There's a part
where he does
there's a part where
he just does coffee talk
from Saturday Night Live.
Mm-hmm.
In...
Kids love that.
Cat in the Hat outfit,
as the Cat in the Hat.
You're like, what the fuck?
Yeah.
Does he say, like, I'm getting verklempt?
He does the voice.
I don't remember him using...
I mean, I imagine that belongs to lauren michaels
probably catnip talk yeah yeah catnip talk that's funny hey thanks
so um so she was she was completely obsessed with this movie and she's you know she's she's that kind of person she's she's she's into what she's into and um
you know i had to see it it's horrible uh i i hope she's asleep and is not hearing this i love her
very much um but sledgehammer comes through the door right now what'd you say about my favorite movie daddy something
something about the the jim carrey grinch movie was upsetting to her something ineffable
i mean it's the fact that someone would want to steal christmas
and i think it's the idea let alone a man with a heart condition His heart was too small
I think it was mostly like
Just you know
Jim Carrey
It's a little more sinister
Jim Carrey is fucking creepy as fuck
Jim Carrey is
Deeply upsetting
Jim Carrey
My brother my younger brother um would be mad if i said this
you'd be embarrassed if i said this but it's okay um he would he was so afraid of the grinch
when it was when it was coming out he was probably he's two years younger than me
i think that we came out what in year 2000 something, 2001. So he was probably about eight, maybe.
And I remember there was a big cutout in the newspaper.
It was like a full page ad of The Grinch in black and white in the newspaper, as it would be.
And I cut it out and taped it to my face and went into his room with it on his face.
And he thought he was going
to die he thought the grinch was gonna kill him and that this was it and i was like the grinch
doesn't kill in the movie i don't know what he was thinking but he was like screaming for like
bloody murder my like my mom thought that i was like hurting him and i was just standing there
with the grinch mask on being like it's me's me, the Grinch, in my voice.
It's very clearly me.
It's me.
Yeah, wearing my Space Jam pajamas, probably.
I mean, it was your voice, but you were doing the Grinch's catchphrase.
It's me, the Grinch.
Yep.
Give me your Christmas.
Yeah.
Give me all the Christmas.
I eat it.
I eat Christmas. My daughter hated Jim Carrey Grinch so much that she couldn't say its full name.
Like, you know how there's certain kinds of observant Jews who can't refer directly to the name of God?
Yeah.
She says G hyphen hyphen inch.
Yeah.
She would say JCG.
She would say JCG for Jim Carrey Grinch.
This is not a humorous thing that she really hated it so much that.
Say his name three times, he appears.
Yeah, exactly.
So don't.
And I'm also on board with that.
They're both horrible.
To me, they both are truly the worst.
Like, what a nightmare i i revisited the
grinch this past holiday season and was like oh it's not good like i hadn't seen it probably since
i was a kid and i remember liking it uh they keep trying with the grinch it's one of those things
that i'm like just let it go who cares yeah? Yeah, there's more Grinches than there are Batman at this point. Yeah.
And here's the thing.
We got to see his mom die every time.
Where's the team-up film?
I'll get three Grinches in a movie.
Grinch v. Cat in the Hat, Dawn of Justice.
Their moms are both named Martha.
Can I suggest ballistics colon Grinch v. Cat in hat vx v sever i remember a single line from the jim carrey grinch yeah i think i saw it sorry jcg
jcg i remember a single line from jcg and it is the grinch, sorry, the G.
He's making a list of random evil stuff he wants to do,
and one of them is cure cancer, tell no one.
I stand by that being really funny,
and I assume the rest of the movie is that funny.
Yeah.
That's the only thing I remember,
and I still think about that.
I'm like, pretty good joke. Yeah. I mean, I'm hearing that and just wondering what got left on the cutting room floor you know he was going off oh jim yeah he's gonna riff yeah he was he was probably going off
like a little bit go you let the guy go yeah he became the grinch
just like the grinch and andy kaufman. He would not break character, act kind of like a dick.
He actually stole Christmas that year.
Yeah, if you remember Christmas 2000, none.
It didn't happen.
Look it up.
Can I pitch a movie to you guys?
Please.
In your capacity as movie executives?
Only if I can make it.
JCG v. JCVD.
We're on the same page I was thinking about
JCVD and how good he would be as the Grinch
Yeah
The Grinch is doing the splits a lot for no reason
Yeah
The Grinch in this one he's kicking everyone's ass
That's exactly what that guy does
Dude just fucking whips ass.
Yeah.
I'm just like, give us a new take on the Grinch if you're going to do another Grinch.
I don't need to see him steal Christmas again.
Let's watch him fuck people up.
Like, let's give him something else to do.
There is a Halloween Grinch.
I've seen it.
What?
Does he steal Halloween or does he like Halloween?
It's a little...
That's confusing.
It's called Grinch Night.
And it's like not Halloween necessarily, but it's like a spooky night for the Grinch. And there's other little that's confusing it's a it's called grinch night and it's like not halloween
necessarily but it's like a spooky night for the grinch and there's other things that happen and i
can't i haven't seen it since i was probably like it's not halloween i don't think it's halloween
but we it was on at halloween it's are they is it one of those things where they don't talk about
halloween because that's for the devil so they're bad bad. They're against the devil, but they're cool with Grinches.
Yeah, I think it might be something like that.
I haven't seen it in, God, probably like 25 years now.
But I had a tape of it called Grinch Night.
And I remember it being like,
this is not as fun as Christmas.
This is actually kind of scary.
Is it like Vincent Price?
Is it the whole thing?
Boris Karloff, I think. Yeah.
Oh, Boris Karloff. Thank you. I think there is a song
in it from the guy
who did the How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, like
Jesse, I'm sorry that back there I Grinch
explained to you. It's okay.
Stop being such a Grinch.
Yeah. I mean, there's gatekeepers and
then there's grinch keepers i'm sorry that i'm grinch keeping as an adult who you know has to
watch a lot of children's entertainment and as you know like i've i've talked shit about dr seuss on
this show uh i think a lot of the dr Seuss oeuvre is just actual garbage,
just total trash.
Um,
because you're a pop and you don't want to be hopped on.
Don't say that like a joke,
man,
because,
you know,
first of all,
representation matters.
That's true. Yeah, you're right. That one's for you. Yeah. I, you know first of all representation matters that's true yeah you're right that one's for you yeah i you know i have i have not but contempt for two-thirds of dr seuss's work which are just
obviously some shit he shat out just fucking garbage trash that's just like doop-de-doop-de-doop-de-do bullshit.
But, that having been said,
regular Grinch,
original Grinch, is really good. Like, it's really great.
The songs are great.
It's a good
Christmas story.
It's fucking, Boris Karloff is
great. It's a winner.
Chuck Jones directed it. Looks awesome, too. Yeah, it's so cool. It's really great. It's fucking Boris Karloff is great. It's a winner. Chuck Jones directed it.
It looks awesome, too.
Yeah, it's so cool.
It's really great.
It's got that great Looney Tunes animation.
Yeah.
Well, we settled that.
Yeah.
I have nothing more to say about The Grinch.
A beloved Christmas special is pretty good.
I mean, to be fair, a lot of them are terrible.
They all seem longer as I get older.
They used to fly by.
I rewatched a bunch of these.
I watched the Charlie Brown thing, and I was like,
these kids are the most fucking boring kids on earth.
These kids suck.
There's like six lines in a given Charlie Brown special.
And half of that thing is just Linus reading the Bible.
Yeah.
Like Revelations. He's reading Revelations. It's not a Christmas story at all. special and half of that thing it's just linus reading the bible yeah like revelations and
jordan revelations jordan the christmas story at all the other half is characters crossing the
screen yeah yes people are just impressed to see something happening snoopy funny i'll give it up
for snoopy snoopy rocks snoopy funny you gotta call it like you see it. Snoopy's funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, you guys want to take a little break and laugh at Snoopy for a while?
Yeah.
Snoopy Stanny.
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Okay, here's what I made.
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I'm going to do a live show with our
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it's a live Doughboys show it's going to be
a ton of fun so if you're in the Portland area
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And you can get those tickets at RevolutionHall.com.
That's May 1st at Revolution Hall in Portland.
Honestly, I can't think of a fucking better fucking thing to do in Portland, Oregon than go see that shit.
That's going to be fucking hilarious.
It's going to be fun.
We're going to have a blast.
Those are the funniest guys in history.
And I'm thrilled to be doing their show.
Yeah.
I want to say, if you live in Portland and you're not a Doughboys fan, I'm going to say
you never heard the Doughboys before.
I guarantee you, without ever having heard the Doughboys before, you're a Jordan Jesse
Go listener.
Go to that fucking show.
You're going to have a tremendous time.
That is 100% sincere.
You're going to have a fucking blast. I is 100% sincere. You're going to have a fucking blast.
I don't care if you've never heard of it. I know it's
weird to go to a podcast
show for a podcast you've never heard before.
I am promising you you're going to have a great
fucking time. Yeah. Because those guys are
so funny and
your friend Jordan is going to be there. That's one of the
funniest human beings on Earth.
It's going to be a great time. Yes. Yeah. So
we'll see you out there
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pretty varied business maybe they still do i don't know if Topps is still around.
I also sell 1995 Fleer Fox Kids Network cards.
Okay.
So you got some Eek the Cat cards in there?
Probably an Eek the Cat in there.
And some Nasty Tricks trading cards.
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It's Jordan, Jesse Go. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective.
Matt Apodaca, the Grinch.
There you go.
I don't think you're the real Grinch.
No.
I don't think you're the real Grinch.
I'm the Grinch at the end of the story.
Wait, what's that behind Matt in his closet?
Is that Christmas?
Don't look in there.
He's got it.
He stole it.
This is my Christmas.
Actually, I'm actually watching this Christmas for somebody.
It belongs to all Christians. What's that head? this is my christmas uh actually i'm actually watching this christmas for somebody it belongs
to all christians what's that head what's that head rolling along matt's floor is that
cindy lu who oh no um let me just turn my camera off real quick
uh look matt when something momentous happens like you get caught murdering cindy lou who
we ask not more than two she was not more than two oh god she's kind of a busy body for a two-year-old
like she was she had her nose in his grinch's business. Yeah. Why, who, God? Why?
Cruel who, God? You can send us a voice memo at jjgoatmaximumfun.org or you can give us a call at 206-9844-FUN.
It's called Momentous Occasions.
One occasion is this occasion that someone called us with on the phone or by voice memo.
Hi, Jordan.
Hi, Jesse.
This is Emily from Louisiana calling with Moments Occasion.
I just woke up from an interesting sleep paralysis situation.
Instead of the normal demon or alien abduction kind of sleep paralysis,
my sleep paralysis situation was that I was listening to an episode of your podcast.
sleep paralysis situation was that i was listening to an episode of your podcast so while i couldn't move or really open my eyes or wake up i was just hearing you guys yak off in my ears
there was even a guess though i'm not sure who she was if she said a name i don't remember what it was
and i don't really remember much of what you guys talked about but i know jesse mentioned
something about the ever-increasing prices of gravy and he said it in a tone that suggested
it was both a hot button issue and something that you were supposed to be clear he was doing
sarcastically and the other thing i remember you guys talking about was that the mysterious guest mentioned another woman who someone said should
be a guest on the show but she couldn't because she was very pregnant and having too many babies
i'm not sure what any of this means but my guess for who the guest is on this episode
is the woman who was in my sleep paralysis dream that only I heard a minute ago in my nightmares. Thanks.
Love you guys.
Bye.
Love you too.
I mean, that's a pretty regular demon one, right?
So I think let's get into this, but I don't think we should run past the fact that I think
she kind of maybe inadvertently came up with the perfect name for what we do on the show,
which is yakking off.
Yeah.
I was going to ask if that's
a regional phrase, because I've never heard that
before.
She's from Louisiana. I think I've
heard celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme say
yacking off.
I think I heard Cajun Boy say it once, too.
Master P is famous
for the lady
from the Popeyes commercials.
I like...
You know she's yacking off.
Gambit.
Gambit, yes.
The X-Man Gambit.
Who else?
Who else?
No one.
I think that's it.
The late Alan Toussaint.
What physical action would prevent us from yacking off?
What physical action would prevent us from yakking off?
Like, what is the paralysis standing between?
It's that she starts, she hit play, but she can't hit pause?
Yeah, I'm a little bit confused as to whether she was manifesting a fake episode in her brain or she was having sleep paralysis, but the podcast was playing. and because she was sleep paralyzed, she couldn't turn it off.
Mm-hmm.
I'm wondering, in her sleep paralysis dream state, did she believe herself to be listening to an episode of Jordan Jesse Go?
Or did she believe Jordan, me, and a guest to be menacing her by making an episode of jordan jesse go
over her bed right demon like from the from the corner slender man style am i supposed to
start saying who i think is having too many babies yeah yeah well let's start let's get a baseline
first how many babies would you say is too many babies to be having to come on Jordan, Jessica?
I feel like three is a lot.
Yeah.
Three is exactly what I was thinking because I thought one baby.
No, that's fine.
We've almost certainly had people who were bearing children on Jordan, Jessica.
Two babies.
Certainly there are complications that would prevent people from coming on Jordan and Jesse Go. Two babies, certainly there are complications
that would prevent people
from coming on Jordan and Jesse Go,
but they would be above and beyond
the mere fact of them having gestating twins.
Yes.
Yeah.
But at the point where you're gestating triplets,
where you know you have three human lives
being born within the vessel that is your body,
you cannot, cannot morally, defensively prioritize appearing on Jordan and Jessica.
No.
That is a broken priority.
Yeah, yeah.
You should actually be focused on having your triplets.
Right. We actually should stop allowing people with pets to come on the show. Yeah, yeah. You should actually be focused on having your triplets.
Right.
We should stop allowing people with pets to come on the show.
Because actually, they should be looking after the pets.
Now that we've established the number of babies, Matt,
I'm going to say probably the guest,
if we're talking about triplets,
guest's probably Belleville.
Who's that?
From the hit film, The Triplets of Belleville.
Yes.
Maybe the guests could have been the Octomom, but then, oops, there was more.
You just didn't know.
Now she's really not allowed on the show.
Yeah.
This is the only reason Jim Gaffigan hasn't been back on the show.
Sorry, Gaffigan hasn't been back on the show. Sorry, Gaffigan.
I kind of feel like it's gimmicky, but I honestly, every time they're in grocery stores, I do get, oops, more Octomom.
Sure.
I like once a year they'll put out Chocdomom.
Yeah.
It's a special chocolate flavor.
So this hasn't come up, because why would it have?
I am a twin.
I have a twin brother.
Congratulations.
And thank you very much.
It was a lot of hard work on my part.
To share a womb.
Yep.
My mom loved it. It was very easy for her, she tells us.
Very easy and normal.
Sounds like it. Yeah, and the doctor who delivered us also delivered Nadia Solman's octobabies.
Wow.
Yes.
So to him, it wasn't just routine, your mother's birth.
It's his specialty.
No, it was garbage.
Yeah. What a snooze. When like he's like it was multiple garbage yeah
what a snooze when you were born it was horse shit it wasn't like why did i even show up today
fucking trash day yeah you gotta take out the trash fucking sleep matt and his brother are
yeah coming on out there's only two of them, like some fucking assholes. Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. Congrats, Mom.
Yeah.
Congrats.
Good for you.
Matt, is your twin a creative person as well?
I guess he is in a different way.
He works – I'm going to dox my brother.
Yeah, dox him.
I mean, he has a very different job than me.
He works in PR.
So yeah, I would imagine you have to be creative in a different way, sort of in a more business-y kind of way.
Where in that way, I am not.
I would fail in that area.
Is that just –
Public relations. or are those paths upon which you embarked that you could say like, you know, nine years old,
I realized my brother was going to be the business one. And I was going to be the one
that spends my money inside a Simpsons video game. Yeah. No, honestly, it does line up. It does.
But like, it is like, you could sort of point point to i wouldn't say we always knew that like
he was gonna be like a pr person like working pr um but like he's definitely more um like he's like
this the the more of the straight and narrow kind of guy i was kind of like i was a brat i was a
loose cannon i was a wild kid loose brat yeah i was a real loose brat i was not a stool of uh
of jesse thorne i was uh not tightly wound no yeah wow yeah do you like this running do you
like this running joke that you have you have impeccable stool i don't i didn't know poop stuff
in general i don't think is that good and funny okay well you're wrong which is weird
given my enthusiasm for jack off stuff which is half of what i say yeah that i'm that i like draw
the line at scat so is jack so you so when you watch like jackass or something you're sort of like no no no i actually i had never seen jackass
until a few days ago wow and what did you think uh it was about what i thought it was you've never
seen any jackass i think i mean i think i had seen like my i had never seen any of the movies
and my memory of the tv show is that one time it came on and I was surprised at how much boring stuff there was before they did anything.
And I don't remember what they did.
I just remember being like watching it thinking that they were going to, you know, jump off a diving board onto a bed of nails or whatever.
And like actually they were just kind of wandering around for a long time yeah the movie
the movie i was not like i didn't watch a whole jackass movie but i i watched 20 minutes of it
because my child was obsessed with watching it and um it was not like that it was it was very
lively but there was i i will say that like as much as I enjoyed when they climbed into monster truck tires and then pushed them down a hill, which I did think was pretty fun, there was one where somebody was farting into a tube that was connected to a space helmet and pooped.
And that was really gross to me, and I didn't like it at all i was like yeah oh that's
fucking gross that's a poop yeah yeah and see i as somebody who like i i would say probably with
my full heart loves jackass i think jackass is like some of the funniest like some of the funniest
art we have i mean it's genuinely amazing like there's There's no question that like – there's no – I am not here to put it down.
No.
Because it is like they have demonstrated that they are the most extraordinary – like one of the most extraordinary things you could do and certainly the most extraordinary version of that thing.
Yes.
No doubt about it.
Except for that one thing where Eric Andre on the Eric Andre show went to a
Civil War reenactment as a runaway slave.
Yeah.
That's the best of those things.
But besides that, the jackass guy is getting in that tire and everything.
I just showed the new movie to my girlfriend who hadn't seen it because it's
on Paramount Plus right now.
And I have Paramount Plus. It's braggy, braggy but okay have fun watching picard you fucking asshole
yeah yeah yeah you know i have it enjoy halo hi it's me matt apodaca i'm best friends with michael
chabon now is he in jackass i think he doesn't he write picard oh i don't know i think michael chabon
writes picard i really only was watching uh survivor uh reruns i'd never seen survivor
before we burned through like 10 seasons of survivor in the like early pandemic and i just
kept it um there's survivor there's survivor heads out there so you were watching you were
watching the new jackass so you were watching the new
jackass so we were watching it and
my girlfriend had never seen it before had never seen any of it
and I
was just like I think
she likes pranks and she likes things
like sort of that are adjacent to that
and there's certainly enough of that in there
and I was like maybe
you would like this I don't know we watched it
and it got to a point where she was like,
so how many more dicks are there in this thing?
She was kind of like, how many more are we going to see?
I need a dick count.
Yeah.
And she does not do well with throw-up at all.
So we did fast forward.
Sure.
And I don't do great with throw-up,
so there's not like a Kinsey scale for that.
It's just like I've seen it and like i was like i can
i can anticipate it it's fine um but she's like i can't see even a little bit of a like burp like
that um and her review at the end of the movie was i liked some of it and i'm really glad you
showed it to me but i never need to see it again and i was like that's fair that's i would never
make you watch it but i'm glad that you at least you know that's love she tried the thing
that the thing that i took away from it um besides my mother-in-law also watched some of it and she's
much more gentle than i she's an extraordinarily gentle uh person of faith and she did it for my
daughter who needed to see it.
And my mother-in-law wanted to be there to help her through the experience.
Yeah.
Her review afterwards was, she said, I don't understand so many penises.
And no one was like worried.
I don't care if my children see penises.
That's fine. They can see care if my children see penises. It's fine. They have penises, so it's not a big deal.
just like i think there are like two sort of generational media products that i can see for roughly my or our generation that i can see that they're good and i and i like this like like i
said there were things in the jackass that i watched i thought were really funny and there
are things in this other thing that i think are really funny and good uh but that there's part
of it is that part of what's implied in it is that you relate to it and i couldn't relate to it less
and they are jackass and girls like those two things are things where like people were like
it's the worst of us but like or like it's the
craziest of us but like we we see it like we recognize what it is about it and like with when
i was watching jackass i was like i truly have never had the instinct to do something like this
like it's not that i've been suppressing it and i like have
to let it loose like there's never been i've never felt like an intense bond with my male friends
that makes us want to punch each other in the dick like it just is not part of my experience
at all and it's the same with girls where i'm like i don't know in my 20s i worked 70
hours a week yes yeah i for some reason when i was watching this new one it has never occurred
to me before i was watching it and i was like i could do this one and i was like going like
stunt by stunt and being like i could do this one this one's was going stunt by stunt and being like, I could do this one. This one's easy.
But anything that's too gross or I wouldn't do any of the gross stuff,
that's not, I wouldn't think that's funny.
But I could fall off a ramp and land on the ground.
That seems like I could do that one.
Or get hit by a big hand.
I don't know.
That seems like I would just do that.
Yeah, how much are you taking home to get hit by a big hand?
Yeah, I do it for free.
What do you think the jackasses make for a jackass?
You know, I heard that the guys, like the main guys, I think all get paid pretty decently well.
They own the property also, and it's through their production companies.
It's a co-pro with their production company and Paramount.
So they make a lot of money when the movie makes a lot of money.
And I heard that the new guys, though, didn't make that much money.
And that kind of made me a little sad.
That's interesting.
Yes.
I'll say this.
So I know one of the jackass directors guys is Lance Bangs.
And he is married to Corinin tucker rockstar corin tucker and they
are like two of the nicest people i've ever met like they're spectacularly nice and i like have
had lunch with them and their children in a like barbecue restaurant in portland or
whatever and talking to them like even lance being the sweetest man on earth like thinking of him
yes of him and how normal it is to him to bring a video camera to videotape someone
stapling their balls to something or whatever
it's like i'm looking at a spaceman like it's as though i and a hundred percent not like
and someone's farting into the helmet yeah like i just want to be clear yeah that like it's not
like it's like a three percent thing that for him is 100%. To me, I can't see across the chasm.
I do not understand it at all.
That does seem wild to comprehend.
Because, yeah, the thing about...
I guess with all of them, too, all these guys, they go to the bank and stuff.
They go do normal things.
It's very strange.
It would be weird to see one of them do something normal and being like, I've seen your asshole.
This is weird.
Yeah.
That should be, maybe that would make the jackass stunts more shocking.
If instead of the movie being like 90 minutes, you extend it.
So maybe twice the length.
So you make this, this is a three hour movie.
This is Batman length.
Yeah.
And then just what you're padding it out with is going to the store, going to the post office,
standing in line at the bank, you know, getting a key made.
You got to go out of town.
You got to give your neighbor a key.
You got to go to that little kiosk to get a key made.
And then when the shit hits the space helmet, it's all the more shocking because you've just watched this guy get his dry cleaning.
Yeah, we just watched this guy make dinner for his family.
Yeah.
It's a little something called establishing stakes.
Yeah, yeah.
You get like-
You got to set the stakes, start the clock ticking, and then shit the space helmet.
And then you got to shit in the space helmet.
You keep the same guys that do that stuff on that stuff.
And then you get like Link later to come in and do the slice of life stuff.
And so it really hits too.
And film it over the course of 20 years.
Yes.
I agree.
Terrence Malick comes in.
You got to boyhood this.
Here's the thing.
One of the incredible things, of course course about jackass is how they think of
these premises,
right?
They think of these amazing things that they do.
Well,
Jordan and I do that all the time.
We have lots of segments on the show that have amazing premises that we've
thought of.
Um,
it's not just people call in because they want to say something into our
voicemail or whatever.
And then they claim that that's a segment on our show
uh that's actually what happens man sort of retroactively or happens to justify the fact
that they wanted to leave this message it's not just that it's it's it's stuff we've thought of
because yeah no that yeah i know that so here's so we're basically the lie just as Jackass turned shitting into a tube into an art.
So have we done the same with similar success to repeatable segments on a comedy podcast?
Go ahead and press play on one of these, Brian.
Hi, Jordan and Jesse and Brian and your guest.
This is Debra calling with your beloved segment, Can I Make This Nickname Work?
I just am driving home from helping my big sister.
She just had a baby less than a week ago.
So I let them get some shut-eye and some sleep while I held the baby.
Pause it for a second.
Only one?
Yeah, I hate to see it, unfortunately.
I thought, you know.
Garbage.
Trash bag.
Where's the rise and grind mentality for having a baby, you know?
One.
Why isn't she podcasting right now?
Come on.
Okay.
Press play button.
She podcasting right now.
Come on.
Okay.
Press play, Brad.
My sister comes out and she goes, oh, look at you with your auntie.
And then she realizes, oh, we need an auntie nickname for you.
Because her auntie nickname with my daughter is Tia, you know.
Like Tia Carrere.
And so she goes, what should we call you?
And I said, how about Tuffy?
And my sister just said, without batting an eyelash, yeah, it's going to be Tuffy.
Yeah.
Bye.
I love you guys.
First of all, Tuffy, we love you too.
Tuffy? Second of all, that's a fucking great anti-nickname, Tuppy.
Matt, our fans love to be called Tuppies.
It's something you can call Tupperware.
Yeah, this is something that Jordan accidentally called the Tupperware that he had left in the cabinet at work.
He called it that at work. and then that was the rest of
history it's so discomfited him yeah no i i think you're i maybe i the way i remember the story is
that i liked it and uh ally gertz was so grossed out she couldn't look at me okay i'm like left
the room thanks jordan um well either way is that why you have a tattoo on your back that says,
One Sick Tuppy?
You know, it's not actually.
The reason for that is that Jordan's a little twisted.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're a little bit of a Grinch.
That's why Cartman said that.
I was trying to say One Sick Guppy.
I used to be a huge gupphead.
But I slurred my speech at the tattoo parlor.
Yeah.
Well, you can't go in like that.
No, you're right.
You're right.
It serves me right.
I think she can pull off Tuppy as an anti-nickname.
Yeah.
I mean, I think it just depends on how fresh she keeps food.
Yeah.
Like how long, you know, like a pork chop will stay.
She'll burp it.
She's got to burp it.
Stay good inside her.
Yeah.
I think that a lot of listener, podcast listener nicknames could make a good aunt or uncle name.
I mean, I'm thinking Bumper.
A Bumper is somebody that listens to Stop Podcasting Yourself, our sister show here on the network.
Oh, okay.
Matt, do the Get Played fans have a moniker that they go by?
Dorks?
Losers? Noorks, losers.
No.
Loser says what?
Yeah.
Butt munch.
Classic.
No,
I don't,
I don't think,
I don't think they do.
Or at least we don't,
we don't address them as such.
But if they came up with one,
maybe we'll steal Tuppy.
Yeah,
you can have it yeah it's
fine we're not using it we don't have listeners so we should uh if there's like yeah we should
make a we should give ourselves a name based on our our favorite podcast i'll be jordan
somebody's name isn't jordan just starts going by jordan call me jordan i'm a fan of jordan jesse go so i go by jordan
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Well, hey, they gotta
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There's a lot to talk about with it. It's funny.
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I never yak off.
I've never yakked off before.
I leave Christmas where it belongs.
I am not stealing it.
Yeah.
I like the running joke.
Let's include the running joke that we're trying to steal Christmas.
Yeah.
Let's take that and put it into future episodes.
Yeah.
Matt's a hilarious guy.
He does a bunch of podcast stuff.
Thank you.
It is a special show, and it's really fun.
I've been on it a couple of times, and I always have a blast yeah what and there's one uh i don't
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Yeah.
You can just ride your horse around.
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Yeah, so it's fun.
So we talked about Elden Ring recently,
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Yeah, yeah.
Whatever flavor you like.
The word horny and the word Sonic the Hedgehog, a little bit redundant there, Jordan.
Sorry.
If Sonic's involved.
You know what's going on.
You know people are hard and wet.
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