Jordan, Jesse, GO! - Heard of Garchomp with Sam Riegel

Episode Date: February 23, 2023

Sam Riegel joins Jordan and Jesse to talk getting mead-domed at the RenFaire, how many Pokemon they can name and finding your parents' nastiness.Make sure to check out Sam on "Critical Role"!Don’t f...orget to pre-order the “Pop’s Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors” that Jordan wrote on using code JAN231229 at your local comic shop!Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use JJGO for 30% off + Free Shipping.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. It's Jordan Jesse Goh. I'm Jesse Thorne, America's radio sweetheart. Jordan Morris, boy detective. Well, I left the house, Jordan. Thank God. I finally left the house and did a thing. Let's hear about this thing. left the house and did a thing. Let's hear about this thing.
Starting point is 00:00:25 Well, I had been to, I had been to one thing other than my own tour. I had been to one show performance since the pandemic. I went to do a great concert about, I don't know, a year ago. Okay. And I was like, I gotta do,
Starting point is 00:00:44 I gotta do something. And you know how in Los Angeles, there are those rainbow gradient posters for concerts on telephone poles? Yes. This exists to some extent in other places. I remember there were go-go posters like this when I lived in Washington, D.C. It is like a color and then it's just text. It is not a picture of the artist. The text says who is at this concert and then like the address. Exactly. It doesn't even have like a website to get tickets at usually. It's just kind of like an address to go to. And the poster usually features a variety of artists one of them is pretty much always lisa lisa that's what i was about to say i was literally about to say
Starting point is 00:01:31 no matter what show it is latin freestyle legend lisa lisa is there she doesn't usually bring cult jam with her but she is on there Surprise drop-ins are bound to happen. There's also a group called La Sonora Dinamita, who I think we've discussed on this program because of their famous cover of the Cajun hit, My Toot Toot. Okay. They have a Smash Bonda cover of the Zydeco song, My Toot Toot. I have never been to one of these two-color poster shows, although many have been intriguing. The last one I really wanted to go to had Cameo. And I think I
Starting point is 00:02:13 revisited Cameo when we did a Cameo segment on this show. And I'm like, oh, I should have some Cameo pulls. And then I just kept on the best of Cameo playlist just from Apple Music. It was all great. Yeah. Cameo rule. Cameo are really great. I would love to see Cameo live. Yeah. One of only a few funk bands that really stayed great well into the 1980s. But anyway, yeah. Cameo will be on one of these. War will be on one of these yeah you'll have zap without the late roger troutman things like this are on these posters you went to a two-color poster show i saw a poster for a show that had brenton wood and barbara mason and those are like yeah i'm not familiar with these people yeah not household name acts.
Starting point is 00:03:05 60s soul acts. I mean, they've had long and fruitful careers. Brenton Wood, probably his biggest song is the Oogum Boogum song, which you might not know by that name, but probably you've heard it on all these. Oogum, Boogum, Boogum, Boogum, boogum, boogum, now baby. And then Barbara Mason's first and I think biggest hit was I'm Ready. I'm ready to learn. Which I think she wrote and recorded as a 17-year-old, 18-year-old, something like that.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Two classic jams. Two classic jams. Just incredible. The first of those songs, probably one of the great nonsense word spell incantation chorus songs. Right. The latter of those songs, one of the best horny teenager ready to lose their virginity songs. There was a time in music where there were a lot of pop songs about spells and potions. It really is true.
Starting point is 00:04:13 I think the idea of a witch doctor was very big in popular culture for some time, but didn't have a lot of cultural context, let's say. Not a lot of deeper understanding. So I was like, it was billed as the Catch You on the Rebound tour, which is one of Brenton Woods' smaller hits. Really great song. And they're both in their 80s, Barbara Mason and Brent Woods. So they're like headed for retirement. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:44 And this was theoretically going to be Brentwood's final tour. And so I bought tickets to this show. I bought four tickets. I brought our friend Ben Harrison from Greatest Trek. I bought our friend Noe Montez. And I brought our friend Dan Wally, who makes all the, he's a DJ, makes all the music for Bullseye. I'm like, if anybody I know is going to be excited to see Brenton Wood, it's going to be Dan Wally. And he immediately said he would catch me on, he texted me back, I'll catch you on the rebound. And I had no idea what this event was going to be. Yeah. First of all, the tickets were dramatically more expensive than I anticipated.
Starting point is 00:05:27 Okay. When I agreed to bring three of my friends to the show. Like, I truly thought this was going to be a $28 operation at a, let's say a large community center, small theater. You know what I mean? I would guess about that price wise. And I would guess the parking lot of another venue. Yeah, exactly. This is exactly what I anticipated. But when I bought the tickets that like, I think I had, again, I had already committed
Starting point is 00:06:00 to this with three of my best buds and I had offered to buy the tickets. Then I went to ticketmaster.com, everyone's favorite website, and went ahead and gave them like $375 or something. Just like, here, have all of my money forever so that I can see two 80-year- olds with some marginal hits this show did not have lisa lisa on it it did have frankie jay okay who is a little bit like lisa lisa in that same zone yeah a later sort of latin freestyle r&b zone guy it also had a woman who sings oh who's a young woman i'd guess late 20s who sings low and slow r&b hits right in covers on youtube and i had no idea who she was. And I typed her name into the internet and I don't think she has any hit songs, but her YouTube videos have like 12 million views. Okay. And it's just her basically looking into a camera, singing a song from low riderider oldies volume four okay and it was at the long beach arena which i thought must be
Starting point is 00:07:29 a grandiose name like i thought this can't be an arena yeah long beach doesn't have a sports team as far as i know no i don't think it does i I mean, I'm like, does Long Beach State University hockey play in the Long Beach? Sure. What is going on in this? And I also was wondering, what will the crowd for this event be? It's a great question. Last time I went to a show featuring an octogenarian soul singer, which, as you know, Jordan, octogenarian soul singer, one of you know, Jordan octogenarian soul singer, one of my favorite artists, you know what I mean? Groups of artists. I went to see
Starting point is 00:08:12 Mavis Staples. Oh yeah, sure. And she played a rock club in Silver Lake. There was maybe 300 people there. It was fucking great great she remembered my name from when i interviewed her so thrilling right that show a bunch of 33 year old guys that work at record stores okay mostly white guys that work at record stores i was like is this going to be like that? And I'm like, this is in Long Beach, right? Maybe it's going to be old black people in church clothes? Like gold rim eyeglasses? I was like, I don't know. I'm like, well, Frankie J's on the show.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Is it going to be a lot of like, you know, car culture, low rider, oldie types? I go to this show. First of all, Long Beach Arena absolutely is an arena. Okay. Did you have any idea of what goes on there when this show isn't there? I mean, I don't think there's a minor league hockey team, but that like high level minor league, like top tier college hockey, like it's possible that a college hockey team from the Boston area,
Starting point is 00:09:31 like the top college hockey team in the NCAA plays in this place of Long Beach. That's basic or a very large demolition Derby. Okay. There's maybe 5,000 people in this thing. It is packed and sold out. Oh my gosh. 100% sold out. Okay. There's maybe 5,000 people in this thing. It is packed and sold out. Oh my gosh. 100% sold out.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Okay. The concert was four and a half hours long. Wait, no, I lied. It was five hours long. Okay. It started at eight and it went till one. And there was not long stretches in between performers. Like it was one after another.
Starting point is 00:10:10 There were a couple little DJ sets, but the DJ sets were like 10 minutes. There was a hype man who got you hyped in between. He did not identify himself. No idea who this man was. Did not seem to be a local radio personality or anything. Just like a guy that they felt could keep everyone pumped. Sure. Maybe just the most high-energy churro salesman at the arena.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Exactly. There was... Every age was represented in this crowd from 21 through 90 years old. Okay. There was no children at this show, through 90 years old okay there was no children at this show but it was roughly equal parts of every like cool attractive young people legit elderly people and all the way through beautiful that's what you want again this is a 5 000 person show i saw no other white people that weren't in my party, which was stunning. There was no record store hipsters at all, zero. And almost no elderly black folks in church clothes.
Starting point is 00:11:17 This was a full on low rider oldie scene. And mason and brenton wood it was like billy joel was going on in long island it was fucking out of control people flipping the fuck out baby bash also the mexican american rapper baby bash from texas went on performed his two semi hits from 20 years ago. And people knew every single fucking word. It was awesome. It was so great. Brenton Wood was delightful. He came on in a zoot suit with a giant hat, you know, a hat, like a Cab Calloway hat with, you know, like a nine inch brim. Great look, looked fantastic. Sounded great. Sang his great songs. Interpolated, you know, You Send Me by Sam Cooke. I definitely Sam Cooke, his hero for sure, into one of his songs. It was great. Barbara Mason went on before him. And again, they're like in
Starting point is 00:12:19 their eighties. And she was a little bit, let's say, doddering. Okay. She showed her was a little bit let's say doddering okay she showed her age a little bit voice mixed when it showed up when it didn't a little bit coherency let's call it mostly. Okay. Not full, but significant coherency. And she had this career after her, like, 60s hits. She had, like, a 15-year career through the 70s into the 80s singing songs about stealing your man. Like, slow jams about how she can't be held within the bounds of marriage or like she can't be responsible for your man sleeping with her she's got a great one about her man and how she's not enough for him and he's dating another man there's a whole genre of that kind of songs she became the queen of that kind of songs
Starting point is 00:13:26 and they're all like slow jams great slow jams everybody sounded like themselves nobody was like oh and midnight star speaking of cameo midnight star was on the build they did no parking on the dance floor they did their other big hits. Like Midnight Star have six big hits from the early 80s. They did all of them. It was all the original members of Midnight Star. They did awesome choreography the entire time while doing No Parking on the Dance Floor and everything else. They all wore matching teal suits. It was great.
Starting point is 00:14:00 It got nothing like the response to Frankie J and Baby Bash. But it's a tremendous show. Barbara Mason in her act, she closes with, I'm ready. She says, I wrote this song 60 years ago. You know, you've given me the gift of loving it ever since. When she got introduced, thatc guy he goes folks if you're out there you've grown up with barbara mason's hit records your parents have grown up with barbara mason's hit records your grandparents have grown up with barbara mason's hit records and if you're
Starting point is 00:14:40 doing it right your children are growing up with Barbara Mason's hit records right now. Barbara Mason does I'm Ready, which again, is a song about being ready to fuck. It's a song from the early to mid 60s about being. She says, learn to love. But it's about fucking. Sure. There is a long sequence in this 12 minute version of the song where she's just talking. And this is a very sweet song from the perspective of a teen,
Starting point is 00:15:18 a late teen, hopefully a legal teen, but a teen. There's a long sort of conversational part where Barbara Mason, who again, 85% coherent, is talking to a guy in the front row about how after the show, she's going to bring him back stage and fuck him. And at various moments in the performance, she's up there on stage, 82 years old, I believe she is.
Starting point is 00:15:51 And to punctuate lines of the song, she does full scale pelvic thrusting. Amazing. Just full on, one hand behind the head boom boom moves in fuck fuck lines from the song songs about lines fucking lines it's not an abstract in case you didn't know to really drive it home sure and you know i had not been out of the house in a long time i was so happy to be there i was so happy to be there with people for whom this was a really special thing you know like seeing billy joel on long island right like only this is music that i personally enjoy but but just that feeling of like being this is like something that is people's whole lives, you know, to be there and to see this elderly woman in what might be her last concert tour of her incredible 65 year career as a performer.
Starting point is 00:17:02 about how she's going to fuck him after the show and doing these incredible, you know, Michael Jackson in the early 90s level pelvic thrusts. And I just thought, 2023, man. Pussy still good. Pussy still good. You know? For our guests and anyone tuning in to hear our guest, that is our slogan for the year.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Speaking of our guests, should we introduce him? Oh, this is one of our favorite guests of all time. Of course, he's best known as the voice of one of video games' top lawyers. Well, one of video games' ace attorneys. He is also among the cast and creators of Critical Role, one of the most popular podcasts on the Internet, which is also one of the most popular video shows on the Internet, which is also a hugely popular series on Amazon in animated form and is about to become another almost certainly monumentally popular series on Amazon. Sam Riegel of Critical Role. Hi, Sam. Hi, Jordan. Hi, Jesse. Pussy what? Pussy's still good. Pussy still... Can you summarize kind of how we landed on that as the slogan and why we're using it as the slogan for the new year?
Starting point is 00:18:30 Yes. Two men with no pussies ourselves. That's true. First of all, on this program, we have always advocated for the use of pussy to refer to things that are strong because of how powerful pussies are. That's something we learned early on in the program. Pause for the audience to applaud for us. Yes, that's a brave. Pause.
Starting point is 00:18:51 That's a powerful comment. Pause for the audience to acknowledge our bravery. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what? Thank you. No, I don't do it.
Starting point is 00:18:59 I don't do it for that. No. How about one more pause for first responders and single mothers? But yes, we have always been all about the strength of the pussy. Over the past year, I have gained a sort of new personal lifestyle guru slash hero, a rapper named Glorilla. Okay. And she has a hit song called FNF, Let's Go.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Friday Night Football? Sure. No, it's fuck something that is not appropriate for me to say, free. It signifies that she doesn't have to deal with any more bullshit from dumb guys. Got it, got it, got it. From shitty guys. And it has an incredible video where she dances around on top of cars with her friend who's very pregnant and just all her homegirls. And it's just the most greatest celebration of
Starting point is 00:19:54 being alive that you could ever hope to witness. And one of the most important and powerful lines that she says in the song is pussy still good. It's sort of like a statement of purpose for her that she's been through a lot. She takes care of her children. She is great friend. She's works hard, great rapper. And to be clear, the pussy's still good. Is it like a, it's a status check on, on on herself or is it is it a vow for the future or is it a declaration it's a declaration of status and purpose yeah okay i would say so she doesn't need to check in on whether her pussy's she fucking knows trust me glorilla knows she does not 100 know whether foxes are real which is a different video clip. Oh, okay. But she- You know, come to think of it, I've never seen one.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah, it's a good point. Maybe I'm a Fox truther now. Oh, no. She doesn't deny that they're real. She just wasn't 100% on it when she heard a British person talking about Foxes. Sure, she's just, she's keeping an open mind. She's like, oh, okay. They might not be.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Cool. So anyway, yeah, it's really about we've all been through a lot. But pussy's still good. But you know what? Fucking the pussy's still good. All right. Let's do this. I love it.
Starting point is 00:21:16 We still have our strength. We're not ruined. We're not broken. We're powerful. We're brave. We're getting back out there. I like it. I will try my best to spread the gospel, to spread the word, and to try to get everyone to, you know, I have two kids in elementary school.
Starting point is 00:21:33 I could tell them, and then if they say it to enough of their friends, then it becomes like a cool thing that kids are saying again. Teach them. Start young, you know. They're impressionable. The minds are still malleable sure sure what's good about this i think also is possible side benefit they might start doing kegels in which case they're going to get a lot of pelvic floor strength which is going to help them throughout their life yeah it's a win-win sam can i take a minute to oh sure build your
Starting point is 00:22:02 brand a little bit uh i mean, yes, please. Lord knows someone should. Yes. So, you know, when you are involved in the nerd arts, as you are, is that a fair way to characterize? Yes. Yes. I am in geek society. I was once a visitor to this culture, a poseur, but I've now become an official member of nerddom. Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:31 Objection, Your Honor. The moment you were cast as Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney in the attorney simulator anime video game Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney, you had a golden lifetime pass. Is that true? All right. I'll take it. 100% true. And also, I think you were in an acapella group, but I understand you. You should tell your own story. Sure, sure, sure, sure. They did metal covers to him, so it was pretty badass.
Starting point is 00:23:12 I think what I'm getting at is, you know, I think in that world, there can be some, you know, some side-eye cast at people who the geek faithful think are poseurs, as you said. And thank you for using the French pronunciation of poser. C'est magnifique. But if anybody doubted Sam Riegel's bona fides, I ran into you at the Ren Faire. This is true. And it was so much fun. Tell me more. Is this something you do every year? Was this a flight of fancy? It is something. I think I can help you understand. The Ren Faire is sort of to geek culture, as the Brenton Wood, Barbara Mason concert is to Cholo culture. Sure. I do go every year.
Starting point is 00:23:50 In fact, I go twice every year. I go once with my family and we dress up and we love it. We love the activities. We love the fine foods of various handheld large foods that you can purchase. We love the performances. There's a joust at the one that we go to. We go to the Pleasure Fair, which I think is like one of the oldest Renaissance fairs in America. And there's a great joust and there's magicians and there's horny bards that are singing and there's the royal procession and people saying Gramercy and there's privies. And it's just wholesome fun. I go with the kids once and then I go a second time a couple weeks later usually.
Starting point is 00:24:36 For the fuck fest. Yes, with my band of nerd friends, my critical role friends and our extended friend family. And we get shit faced. Hell yeah. And just enjoy it as adults. And do you, so I saw you there. I must admit,
Starting point is 00:24:51 I was probably a little tipsy or something. Were you in Fuego? Were you in costume? Were you decked out? No, I, I go, but I go with that kind of like distant irony that I shouldn't go with.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I should just say, fuck fuck it and, you know, put on the corset and the crown. The bustier. Just so you know, Sam, Jordan is kind of too cool to wear all the doublets and corsets and feather hats and so forth. He kind of has to maintain a little bit of distance. He wears his Star Trek stuff and pretends he beamed down from a spaceship. There is one day every Runfair season where you see a lot of Trekkies because they've time traveled there. I was like you.
Starting point is 00:25:42 I was too cool for the dress ups the first time I went. And then I just realized it's way more fun if you just, if you just go with it, you just, you relent, you know, you, you just let it wash over you and become you. And it's real, it's real. You feel dumb in the best possible way. And it's great. And Jesse, did you go to this thing? Have you been? I went in high school. I had a high school history teacher who was really passionate about American history and Deep Space Nine being better than The next generation and the renaissance fair miss letterer and she took the whole class to the renaissance fair under the premise that it was a historical event oh i see it's it's educational i don't know if it's a perfect recreation of the renaissance
Starting point is 00:26:41 there's more funnel cakes i would say than the actual renaissance i would say fewer frescoes significantly more funnel cakes a lot more venmo well if you're worried whether or not you actually traveled back in time just scan the area for the presence of venmo qr codes if you see them you're fine sam how do you think the medicis supported the creation of the great arts of the renaissance zell they used zell i'll tell you what it's more secure yeah it came with their bank apps they don't want to sign up for a whole new thing yeah i understand that i love that place. It's great. Although in recent years, as my geek notoriety, my geek-oriety has grown, it's a little bit, it's a different thing because as I've explained to my extended family who don't really understand the things that I do, I, through no fault of my own, have become extremely famous for a very small group of people. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:46 And I think that really fits with the top of the show in that these, you know, these artists who, you know, you know, you know, one or two hits from K Earth 101, Oldies Radio are giant within a certain community. A Sam Riegel, you know, who could probably stroll into the Ralphs unaccosted. Oh, yeah. I did this morning. Way to go. But yes, at a Ren Faire, that is a place where a Sam Regal might get his clothes torn off. Yeah. Yeah. And it's made the event a little bit, it's different because part of what we loved,
Starting point is 00:28:23 me and my friends love about the event is that you can get blotto. There's a bar area where wenches, and I only call them wenches because they call themselves wenches, guys. I am not. They're taking back the term. Yes. Yes. They're reclaiming their pussy. Still good.
Starting point is 00:28:41 But yes, there are wenches who will pour beverages down your gullet and mock you as they do it. And you can get, you know, pretty uninhibited and wild there. But now I have to- Wait, Sam, this is not something I did in high school. This is some kind of mead or ale dom? Yes, there's mead, there's ale, there's various mixtures and concoctions and there's saucy, saucy wenches, busty wenches who will who will take said drinks and just and shove them in your down your throat and and yell at you if you don't chug fast enough. Whenever I'm getting loaded at the Buffalo Wild Wings, the bartenders never mock me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:19 That's why I am never going back there. So here's what I'm wondering, Sam. Yeah. Because like you, I am never going back there. So here's what I'm wondering, Sam. Yeah. Because like you, I am very narrowly successful, but I'm not on the same scale of success as you. I want to be clear. Your success has been extraordinary from the moment you were cast as Phoenix Wright, his attorney. Sure. But when I'm in one particular place, that place being Park Slope, Brooklyn. Sure. But when I'm in one particular place, that place being Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Sure. I am accosted on the street because in Park Slope, an NPR host is like unto a god. Totally. Totally. I get it. But for that reason, when I'm going to the bagel hole in Park Slope, I have to mind my P's and Q's. I have to take great care.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Sure. You got a tip. You don't know if a cell phone is on you? Yeah, sure. Somebody's going to compare me to Brooke Gladstone from on the media. Right. And I got to come out smelling like roses. Yeah. You know, I can't come out of this thing beat down like Bob Garfield. Yeah. I mean mean they'll be all i mean elvis mitchell tipped 20 percent right elvis mitchell as we have discussed on this program before elvis mitchell the sweetest smelling man with whom i've ever interacted there's no way i could ever
Starting point is 00:30:37 i could ever compete with the experience of meeting elvis mitchell but when you're at the renaissance fair and you're getting mead dumbed you know as someone is whatever it is pouring mead down your mouth and insulting you and crushing your balls with a falcon and all this stuff you're not going to be making good decisions. So what if you become an angry drunk accidentally and you insult someone? Yeah. Well, that's why you go incognito, right? You know, in recent visits, we have taken to starting to wear masks. Not full.
Starting point is 00:31:18 We're talking like Phantom of the Opera masks. We're talking like masquerade ball type masks. Yeah, like creative intercourse event masks. Yeah, Fidelio sort of. Yeah. You could still, let's be frank, suck a dick with these masks. Sure, sure. It's going to be fine.
Starting point is 00:31:41 It's not like a full coverage situation. It's just enough to add intrigue to the diddling. Yeah, this is Republican Congress orgy type mask. Yeah. You got the mask from your first visit to the basement of Yale. And now you've got to take it home with you and you can use it at various Renaissance fairs. Yes. It works to some extent, but but you know your most of your faces
Starting point is 00:32:06 is being seen i have a very broad smile people can still pick me out so distinct voice too so while you're you know screaming you know more mead mommy more mead mommy people recognize those dulcet tones they're like that's phoenix right ace attorney i think i should because i was talking with my my crew that goes to the rent fair and we were planning this year's trip and and i do want to go and i do want to like close that ironic distance i do want to like actually do it i do want to like say yes and you know i i do you know i have been a bad boy for wanting so much mead and I am a little mead piggy who needs to have my tiny little pig balls. get to that sort of it's a vulnerable place to be decked out in uncomfortable raw silk clothes and and and strapped leathers in the inland southern california heat sure in the bottom of a of an old dam with a pauldron by the time you get past pomona god right yeah you're wishing for a
Starting point is 00:33:21 contemporary wicking fabric past pomona that's where you're getting soggy leathers. How will you psych yourself up? Will you, I mean, is it just alcohol? Is it just a state of mind? Do you have to go to therapy for this? Is this something that you can take mushrooms? Like, how will you get there? Perhaps a micro dose. You know, you said alcohol. Yes, that's a great idea great place to start yeah getting a little drunk in the parking lot before we go in i think that's you know because yeah you can get drinks there but you know the the shame's gonna set in before i get that first meet so if i can get a little drunk in the parking lot that might actually help you know i think i think having the costume will do it yeah i wanted to ask you your costumes that you wear do you own them or is it something you rent
Starting point is 00:34:11 and after that is there a certain fantasy creature that you think i might look good as oh my god i mean i think because well so i'm rather tall, not as tall, I don't think, as Jesse. But Jordan, you're puckish to me. Not in terms of like you're not a tiny man or anything, but your personality. Right. I don't know. I feel like you're puckish. So maybe as a-
Starting point is 00:34:37 I think that's a fair characterization. You could go as like a satyr, a mischievous- Oh, a half goat man. Yes. I don't hate, you know, don't hate it. I've always said, Jordan, that you have goatish haunches. Yes, true. And I do love to eat cans,
Starting point is 00:34:54 not the tin ones. Thank you very much. No problem. You don't mind getting involved with a cloven hoof if you don't... No, I don't. No, I do not. I am not kosher in that way. I could see that.
Starting point is 00:35:11 I mean, puckish, yes. You could be bottomish and go as a donkey man. Oh, yes, sure. Bottom of Shakespeare fame, the bard himself. Yes. Yeah, donkey man might be good. I mean, you could just go as a human. I mean, a lot of people, there's so many different kinds of human people.
Starting point is 00:35:31 I sort of have purchased, I own now, these sort of peasant clothes. I got them on Amazon. They're the cheapest ones you could buy. You could just type in Renaissance Fair Clothes. But then I have a few- Amazon, it's a great place to get renaissance clothes and a great place for adult animation that's true but i have friends now who they they have all sorts of stuff that they buy they buy shit at the renfair i've never purchased anything there it's so expensive
Starting point is 00:35:57 yeah you can get like a strappy leather thing to put your wallet in for like 280 dollars it's handmade it's gorgeous dan regal% of the people listening to this right now make Renaissance fair garb and sell it on Etsy. Like I want you to know ahead of time that there are thousands of people listening right now who have a selection of velvets available to them at any time. Sure, sure, sure. And I do too, because I'm friends with folks who buy all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:36:30 They have dagger holsters and they have over the shoulder, different sort of- Boulder holders. Yes, exactly. That's what they're called. So I borrow, I have my sort of peasant underlayment and then I get some fancier things to sort of put on top. Your feathered caps. Oh, that's smart. Your belts.
Starting point is 00:36:48 That's smart. Your bootstraps, that kind of stuff. You accessorize. Wait, so when you say a peasant underlayment, are you talking about wicking base layers? I'm talking about a big, poofy Seinfeld-type shirt. Oh, got it. A very tight pair of pants. Sam, you would make an excellent Dread Pirate Roberts.
Starting point is 00:37:07 Oh. It occurs to me as I look at you right now. You'd make a hell of a Dread Pirate Roberts. I take that as a compliment, and maybe I'll plan that for next year. You don't have to be named Robert to be. I mean, Wesley was. That's right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:24 So just a suggestion. Okay, I'll i'll take it you know what do as you wish i will but jordan you could be you could be a magic user you could be a druid you could be you could just have a book and a cloak and be a wizard okay so this is a sincere question because i only have very very vague memories from having gone in high school. To what extent is it Renaissance-y stuff? To what extent is it Middle Ages-y stuff? And to what extent is it like fantasy novel stuff? I mean, there's a little of all of it, but Jordan, your observations first, please.
Starting point is 00:38:03 No, sure. of it but jordan your observations first please no you're sure uh you it has become a mishmash and i'm sure that there is a certain type of renfair goer to whom that drives them nuts like it's the renaissance fair and you're and there's vikings and they're can't wear a fucking digital watch right i'm sure there are purists what did you come from colonial williamsburg they say right but yeah you'll see vikings you'll see ninjas wait ninjas sure yeah they're olden times there's also steampunk people who aren't from any particular time period is there spider-mans i mean i think at this point sam you're a spider-man let us know there must have been a spider-man at some point there's got to be ye olde spider-man
Starting point is 00:38:53 well you know a ye olde like an old-fashioned styled spider-man might be kind of cool you know what i think did you see that sam did you see that into the spider-verse film i did i know i didn't want to presume because maybe you had Spider-Man envy as a past Spider-Man. Yeah, I was boiling inside watching it, just stewing with hatred for the new actor. They had, you know, Spider-Ham. They had Japanese girl anime Spider-Man. They had all these different Spider-Mans. I think you could have a Ren Faire Spider-Man,
Starting point is 00:39:29 and I'm going to go ahead and suggest Wallace Shawn for the role. Ooh. Good in everything. Yeah. Wow. Nick Cage. You got your Nick Cage noir Spider-Man. You got Wallace Shawn.
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Starting point is 00:44:49 WTF is the official podcast of the Super Bowl. Marin spent the money. Right. He can say Super Bowl. Oh, wait. My whole family is downstairs just loving, loving the game. I'm upstairs on my brother-in-law's computer, enjoying my time with you and not,
Starting point is 00:45:09 not regretting missing the Superbowl at all. Honestly, there's no place I'd rather be. You got a little cocktail, right? You brought a little, you brought a little refreshment with you. This is one of those pre-made came in a bottle, pre-made type of a cocktail.
Starting point is 00:45:19 For the listener at home, Sam is showing off a Tumblr, which is full of seven layer dip. Who needs chips? Just drink it straight, right? That's right. One cube. So Sam, on this program, occasionally our listeners will stumble into a dark place.
Starting point is 00:45:40 We'll do something they're not proud of. We'll show up at the Renaissance Fair in colonial Williamsburg garb. Good boy. Heathens. Run out of that place on a rail. Yeah, it's called a moment of shame. Someone has called in a moment of shame. Let's take a listen.
Starting point is 00:45:58 Hey, how's it going, boys? That's right. I'm still calling on the telephone. This is Ben here from Rochester, New York, with a moment of shame. I was on my way to Los Angeles, actually, the other week and got on the airplane. Me and my wife sit down in our row, and I look over at the probably 30-some-year-old guy sitting next to us in the row, and I see that he's got a Pokemon backpack slid under the seat in front of him. So I say, hey, man, cool Pokemon backpack. And he says,
Starting point is 00:46:26 thanks, it's old school. And I take out of my bag, my Pokemon AirPods case, it looks like a Pokeball, and I say, check out my AirPods case. And he goes, cool. And that is the end of our conversation. We fly six hours to Los Angeles, and as we're getting off the plane, I look out into the aisle and I see that he's standing there with a regular old adult man backpack on and next to him is a three-year-old child wearing a Pokemon backpack.
Starting point is 00:46:56 I've discovered I'm a child. Thanks so much. Love you guys. Talk to you later. Oh, love you too. Just talk that guy's ear off for 45 minutes about lick a tongue is that a real pokemon i think that is a real pokemon yes my pokemon polls are few but one of them is lick a tongue and i think that it is an actual pokemon and i think it's a funny one to say all i got snorlax that's he's like a fat bear that takes
Starting point is 00:47:26 a nap we don't need any more than that no need to learn more about pokemon than we need to do you know two pokemon sam i i've heard of garchomp yeah there you go we're all set this is fine we don't need to learn more pokemon sam knows knows Garchomp. Jesse knows Snorlax. I know Lickitung. Elder millennials, not prime millennials. It's fine. Elder millennials. It's okay for us to know this many Pokemons.
Starting point is 00:47:54 Yeah. We know one Pokemon and we care about kids in the hall. Yep. Oh my God. I love fucking kids in the hall. Yeah, I know. Me too. They're great.
Starting point is 00:48:03 But you know what though? If I saw somebody with a kids in the hall backpack on the plane, I know, me too. They're great. But you know what though? If I saw somebody with a kids in the hall backpack on the plane, I would chat their fucking ear off. I would be right in their grill. You know, I just went on a flight with my son Oscar. Someone talked to me
Starting point is 00:48:17 about my kids in the hall backpack, but it belonged to Oscar. Oh, yes. He loves the chicken lady. Loves the chicken lady. I just introduced my son to the head crusher yeah he thought it was the funniest thing in the world yeah sam do you i was gonna ask when you were talking about taking the kids to the renaissance fair if they enjoyed it as much as you and then also what what of your stuff do you share with your kids that they like oh well they well, they do like the Renaissance Fair.
Starting point is 00:48:48 Actually, when we go as a family, they do dress up a little bit, but not to the extent as when I go with my buds. What does that mean? They just wear a Pokemon backpack or what? They just wear a shirt. And sometimes they carry a wooden sword. That's it. Yeah, all right. I mean, that's not nothing. I don't want to get them yeah they don't need they don't need armor it's good because
Starting point is 00:49:10 then they can just go straight to seinfeld con after no they love they love a lot of what i of what i do i tell them you know i play i play this critical role game we play dungeons dragons and stuff i i tell them like a bedtime story. I'll tell them what happened in our latest Dungeons & Dragons game. I'm sure many of your listeners and you too have probably heard other people talk about their Dungeons & Dragons
Starting point is 00:49:35 game. It's very much like listening to someone explain their dream that they had last night. It doesn't make any sense. It's not very interesting at all. But my kids are just wrapped and they love it they love hearing about our dnd game i'm shocked my son watched the live stream of my judge john hodgman show at san francisco sketch fest with my wife and the other day i took him to dinner, little father-son bonding time at La Beja,
Starting point is 00:50:08 and I said, oh, you watched the stream of the Hodgman show with mommy? And he says, yeah. I said, what did you think? And he said, it was the same as when you make those boring jokes at our house. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Jesse, you're doing your house material on stage now? Come on, man.
Starting point is 00:50:36 House jokes are for the house. Yeah, you got to save it for the house. All I got is house jokes. Got to work up some Jeeves and Worcester jokes. Am I right? Hugh Laurie is what I'm talking about here. You know, keep that one in the house, Jesse. Keep that one in the house.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Sam, were your kids in the kids in the hall when you showed them? I showed my son. He's 10. Actually, I didn't even intend to show him. He came into the kitchen and I was watching the whole clips on my phone and he was like, what's that? And I was like, I guess you can see this. And I showed him just praying, praying that he would like it because I just love it so
Starting point is 00:51:15 much. And I was so pleased that he loved it. I had to curate the clips that I was showing a bit, not because of language, but just because I think some of those, some of those gags are just not going to be funny to a kid. They're funny to me, but I don't think, I don't, I don't think buddy is funny to a kid. Maybe. Sam, think about how universally relatable to people of all ages, two fur trappers paddling a canoe through an office in the late 1980s and early 1990s is. That's something that we all understand, the buttoned down go-getter office culture of 1992-ish. And we all relate to the idea of the great canadian fur trapper yep yeah his french accent and funny hat
Starting point is 00:52:06 yep yep yeah he wasn't uh he wasn't thrilled with kathy and kathy uh gossiping at work but he loved the daves i know all the daves i know yeah yeah kids in the hall to me is always one of those things that that seems like a thing that is supremely important to like comedy goobers our age. Yeah. But like didn't make it, you know, too far in the other direction. And every time I talk to somebody of like a slightly younger generation
Starting point is 00:52:36 who's in the kids in the hall, it always is like a relief to me. I'm like, oh good. Okay. I was right. This is great. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:43 I like the clash too, you say. This is great. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah. I like the Clash too, you say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So speaking of the early 1990s, Sam, we have been asking our listeners to write into the email address, jordanjessegoataol.com to tell us about their earliest internet memories. What were your earliest internet memories? Did you ever embarrass yourself in a chat room? Oh my God, yes. All the time. I mean, I remember being in AOL chat rooms
Starting point is 00:53:15 and people would say, what did they say? Like age sex check or something like that. And you had to put your age and your gender. And I think I probably, I don't remember embarrassing myself in any chat rooms, but I probably spent way too much time in them. What kind of chat rooms are we talking about here? General interest, cool teens, teen Bible. Definitely teen Bible.
Starting point is 00:53:43 Sound off. What's your favorite praise song oh god no probably just general interest i i think the my earliest memory is just getting close to downloading something or getting close to doing something actually cool on the internet and then my mom picking up the phone yeah and being and being disconnected and that. And that's just classic. Probably got to talk to your aunt, you know? Yeah. What are moms doing on the phone? Calling your aunt?
Starting point is 00:54:11 Always talking to fucking aunts. We got this one from a listener. These are anonymous, Sam. Okay. When I was a senior in high school in the year 1999, my shout out to all geriatric millennials, class of 99, That's me, baby. Eradicator, right? Yes. You guys know what I'm talking about. When I was a senior in high school in the year 1999, my parents went out of town for two whole weeks, leaving me home alone for the duration. I did not drink or do drugs, so the only real
Starting point is 00:54:48 bad thing I did was use our 28.8 modem. You gotta get... That's twice as fast as 14.4. 56k at that point. The only bad thing I did was use our 28.8 modem to slowly download Pamela Anderson booby pictures. I don't remember if I printed them or not, but I probably did. Anyway, two weeks later, my parents returned home, and for some reason, my stepdad immediately went into the internet history, which at this point in time, I did not know existed. So I deny, deny, deny as he is pulling up each page asking if I went to these sites. Then we get to one that I actually did not visit. And I can see in his eyes that he also knows this was not one of mine.
Starting point is 00:55:42 But clearly a page he had gone to we look at each other in silence he cleared the history closed the browser and said i think we're done here and we never talked about it again amazing do the two of you have memories of finding your parents nastiness? RIP to my beloved father. I once logged onto his computer in the basement and found strip club reviews. Wow. Like that he had written? Yeah, it was, he was working on a book.
Starting point is 00:56:23 He was sort of the Jonathan Gold of strip clubs. He liked the high-end stuff, but also the little strip mall places. Sure, sure. All along Pico. Technically, any mall with a strip club in it is... Oh, yeah. That's funny. Jesse, use that in your act. That's not a house joke. That's for the road. My father had his, proudly displayed his Playboy collection. Oh, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:56:51 At my grandma's house. What? Yes. So we would go to the family house, the family farm house in Southern Virginia, Lexington, Virginia. In Southern Virginia, Lexington, Virginia. And I think my father and all of his siblings, mostly brothers, would rather than throwing away their old playboys and penthouses, they decided to put them all together and put them in the upstairs bathroom. My gosh. On a bookshelf. And not just that, they put a sign on it.
Starting point is 00:57:23 And it said, the Regal Family Lending Library. Wow. The Regals were sex positive. They were sex positive. Wow. And I remember there was a bit of a scandal because some of my aunts were like, why are we doing this? There's children in the house. Are these aunts by marriage or?
Starting point is 00:57:44 By marriage. 100% by marriage. A hundred percent by marriage. So this is their wives. Yeah. They came into the family or they were like his brother and his brother's kids, spouses, you know, because there's a multi-generational people would visit this,
Starting point is 00:57:58 this farm homestead. What about Nana? Was Nana on board for this? She never made it to the. What about Gammy? She never made it. She never made it to the... What about Gammy? She never made it. Grandma never made it to the second floor. Grandma... Mobility impairment. Yeah, they stayed down on the first floor. So she never saw that any of this was going on,
Starting point is 00:58:14 but there was a bit of a scandal. Now, why was the fuck machine on the first floor then? Yes, the fuck swing was definitely front and center in the kitchen. But yeah, there was a big brouhaha in the family about whether to remove these things. And the traditionalists won, meaning my father, and they stayed. They kept the nudie mags. To me, the remarkable thing about this, we have all known in our time an older person who had a playboy collection playboy is a magazine of plausible deniability this is territory that was a house joke by 1988
Starting point is 00:58:58 okay i read it for the article i read it for the articles right I read it for the articles, right? You might need to refer back to the Hi-Fi reviews. Right. Penthouse is just garbage. Yeah. That's just a jack-off rag, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think I've ever actually looked at a penthouse but i think that's a jor is it not my dad was also a playboy collector playboy hoarder now maybe now that i think about it okay yeah you know so i would i would sneak a peek thinking back like those are all pretty
Starting point is 00:59:41 tame it's just you know like a topless woman sitting on some hay. Pretty tame. Yeah. But I did find the one penthouse. Oh. And was so shocked thumbing through it. It was like if the Playboys were a joint, it felt like injecting heroin between my toes it was so shocking what happened in this penthouse i relate to this so directly because my father in his office had like a soft cover art book of the greatest playboy centerfolds of all time
Starting point is 01:00:31 that had like Marilyn Monroe on the cover was like a fancy. It was like when you go to the grocery store and you buy a commemorative life magazine about the life and times of loretta but for naked ladies sitting on hay bales and that was what i would sneak peeks at this was just this was out i'm sure my father was aware that it was accessible and it was really just here's something that i speaking in the first person as my father i'm allowed to have as a married man and this is something that if my son finds it and surprises me by being heterosexual, then it will be okay. It will not warp his mind. But I had a similar situation
Starting point is 01:01:29 where my father and stepmother were out of town for some reason. I think my stepmother had been out of town a little bit before that. And I found an actual pornography magazine. It was a big butt magazine and i was genuinely terrified by it and had to like block it out of my mind i mean jesse if there's one thing i remember about your dad is that he cannot lie he could not lie yeah it was a genuinely like upsetting and distressing
Starting point is 01:02:04 experience that i remember very and i think i was like 13 or 14 like i wasn't like nine i think i was the penthouse that my dad had had peepee stuff in it oh wow it had peepee stuff yeah that is that to me it was that's traumatic sam what was the crown jewel in the Regal lending library? Well, I mean, yeah. There was a Life magazine retrospective about Princess Di that was pretty nasty. Angel. I grew up looking at these Playboys, mostly Playboys that were from the 70s. Yeah. And so they were very tame and very soft focus and lots of diffusion and lots of very, very hairy pussies.
Starting point is 01:02:49 Yeah. Look, a 70s Playboy centerfold is going to be a foxy babe. Fantastic. Amazing. I think the aesthetics of the 1980s and 90s with regard to nudity were pretty intense. Like it really became an intense operation, a real Pamela Anderson-y situation, real hard and fast there in 1984 or whatever. But yeah, those 70s playboy lady, this is going to be a total babe. Yeah, of course. But yeah, I think there was a few penthouses mixed in. And I think I remember one in particular, it didn't scar me like the ones that you're talking about, but it was, it was definitely one that was different from the pile. And it was,
Starting point is 01:03:30 they had a, you know, like a, they did a photo shoot with a theme to it. They had a, they built a set. They, they hired a stylist for the day to get some props and stuff. Stan Winston did the makeup effects. day to get some props and stuff. Stan Winston did the makeup effects. Yeah. And it was a prison scenario. It was, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:53 And that one was, that was different from the rest. And I remember, I vividly remember some imagery from that, that I was not disturbed by, but just sort of intrigued by why, why do adults find this? Why, why do I find this so interesting? You know? Next thing you know, a wench is criticizing you while pouring meat in your face. Yep. Hey, you guys want to listen. We should all take some time to read some articles. You guys want to read some short fiction by Philip Roth and then come back and wrap up the show? I get this John Updike to finish off. Email us your voice memos at jjgoeatmaximumfun.org.
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Starting point is 01:06:40 Any box. You just need the top. Sam, at this point, point is critical role some kind of expanding franchise brand like you had one television show yeah then you just sold another television show right there's gonna be a new television show yeah we're making a a television show version of our second D&D campaign, the Mighty Nein campaign. We're hard at work on it, writing it. So yeah, things are expanding. And I guess you could call us a brand if you want to be douchey about it.
Starting point is 01:07:19 We do. We're huge douchebags. We're embracing it. Jesse and I call each other babe in public. Sam, let's talk about passive income. Oh yeah, let's do it. No, it's great. It sounds like I'm being corny and approved PR marketing messagey, but I genuinely, I just like working with my friends. We just have fun together because we're just friends and it's really fun. Yes. We love the stuff that we're making. Yes.
Starting point is 01:07:54 We want to make it really great. And yes, we want to, you know, make it commercially successful and make sure Amazon is commercially happy and that our company is thriving and all that commercial, commercial stuff. But honestly, I'm old enough at this point where I just want to go hang out with my friends and talk about stuff that we all love together. And that's what we get to do. Sam Riegel, I do want to clarify one thing. You're in it to hang out with your friends. You're in it to make a living. You're also locked into a bitter blood feud with the McElroy brothers. Is that correct? You hate them
Starting point is 01:08:32 and they hate you and your successes are their failures and vice versa. But unlike every other sort of Hollywood feud, this one is only private. It's we can't, we keep it completely private. Don't talk about it in public at all. You get together once a year in the basement of Yale. Yes. Put on your little masks. Yes. The Legend of Vox Machina
Starting point is 01:08:55 on Amazon Prime is such a fucking great show. It is hilarious. Oh, thank you, Jordan. The action rules. Fun fights. It's really shocking and gory sometimes in a way that's like a fucking blast especially this new season we got some dragons wrecking shit it's great i
Starting point is 01:09:15 love it and i think that like no matter how up on the critical role of verse you are this is a show you can and should enjoy if you listen to jordan jesse go you're probably a fan of horny regal and you're gonna get a lot of great horny regal yeah in the legend of vox machina great that's the good news for you so there's a lot of there's a lot of horny regal in there there's a lot of there's a lot of regals little songs if you love his little songbird voice yeah well this this dude's house that i'm in right now my brother-in-law peter where i'm a lot of Regal's little songs. If you love his little songbird voice. Yeah. Well, this dude's house that I'm in right now, my brother-in-law, Peter,
Starting point is 01:09:50 where I'm watching the Super Bowl, he and I write all the music together. We write the music that I sing in the show. There's another fellow, Neil Aikry, who does the score. Incredible talent. But me and my brother-in-law, Peter. I don't care for his work. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:10:03 Yeah. I'm more of a Peter guy. But me and Peter brother-in-law, Peter. I don't care for his work. Thank you. Yeah. I'm more of a Peter guy. But me and Peter write all the songs that I end up singing in the show together. And he and I, Jordan, we were in a college acapella group together. Yep. Wait, did you meet your wife because she was the sister of your acapella group friend? Oh, it goes deeper. So me and my best bud, Peter, we were in an acapella group.
Starting point is 01:10:28 He was dating this girl in another acapella group called the Silhuettes. It's a pun because the unofficial mascot of the University of Virginia is the Wahoo. It's the Wahoo fish. So they were the Silhuettes. Wahoo. Silwah they were the Sil-who-ets. Wahoo. Sil-wahoo? Sil-who-h-o-o. So a hoo is short for Wahoo, which is a type of fish, which is the unofficial mascot.
Starting point is 01:10:56 Of the University of Virginia. This is all very clear. I don't know why you're having a problem with Jesse. Anyway, he was dating a girl in the Silhouettes. Aren't they all just supposed to be called shirts and giggles or whatever and her sister was also a member of her acapella group the silhouettes and i started dating her after she had dated another guy in my acapella sam regal first of all don't bullshit a bullshitter we know this is something you read in penthouse
Starting point is 01:11:27 I never thought it would happen to me dear penthouse forum two sisters singing in harmony I'm just a baritone what would you want with me that's pretty much it chicks love baritones Jordan we all know that
Starting point is 01:11:44 I guess so don't talk back the show is great definitely there's a lot of critical role material out there you can ingest oh yeah endless but yeah big recommendation from yours surely for the legend of vox machina and i'm gonna take this opportunity to say if you're looking for an anime lawyer simulator video game you could do a lot worse than phoenix right ace attorney he's now sam is not in the television version only in the video game version i believe is that correct that is that is correct yes okay it's a different small subset of the ace attorney media but yeah you're right it is top 10 lawyer anime video games i think it's time jordan i think if we have the power to do anything in show business it's to get sam one of these new spider-mans that
Starting point is 01:12:31 they got in these movies with a bunch of spider-mans i mean we i think collectively came up with a great new character for the next spider-verse film horny red fair spider-man if they cast spider-verse film horny red fair spider-man if they cast anyone else in that role there should be rioting in the streets yeah i think that's a really good point wallace sean obviously at this point is almost certainly offer only he's focused on writing socialist plays and so i i think regal's got to be your choice and regal's not above doing a whatever the spider-man voiceover equivalent of a screen test is he'll do a chemistry test with nicholas cage see how it sounds yeah yeah i'll do a i'll do a producer's callback why not sure yeah i'll be i'll let them direct me and and just push the voice around see where it lands sam's not afraid to take notes jordan bro he's a pro a real
Starting point is 01:13:23 working actor an actor's actor a fucking pro regal shows up he's not a to take notes jordan bro he's a pro a real working actor an actor's actor a fucking pro regal shows up he's not a prima donna this guy takes notes just ask his wife am i right because hold on they're acapella backgrounds yes again these are home jokes they're acapella backgrounds our producer is daniel zafran producer meredith brian sunny d fernandez our theme music love you by Free Design, courtesy of The Free Design and Light in the Attic Records. You can find us all over the social medias at JordanJesseGo on Twitter, facebook.com slash JordanJesseGo. We're on Instagram at JordanDavidMorrison at put.this.on. Coming out with us on Reddit,umfun.reddit.com.
Starting point is 01:14:05 There's a lot of good vibes over there on the Reddit. You know what I mean, Jordan? Just a lot of positive good vibes. I'm not saying it's dogs on cars level good vibes. No. As far as Reddit goes, pretty good vibes. Yeah, pretty good vibes.
Starting point is 01:14:21 No, data is beautiful. No. R slash marbles. We'll talk to you. No, data is beautiful. No. R slash marbles. We'll talk to you next time on Jordan, Jessica. I'll hug you and kiss you and love you. Love you. Love you. Love you.
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