Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 834 - Joe Kwaczala

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

Comedian Joe Kwaczala joins us to talk referees, Madame Web, and dance clubs.

Hi, he's Dave Schumka and he's Graham Clark and together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 834 of Stop Park. As of yourself, my name is Graham Clark. And with me as always is a man who I know is as excited as I am about the Max Fun Drive that's coming up soon, Mr. Dave Schumka. Yeah, that's right. Next week, it's the first of our two week Max Fun Drive where we try to convince a lot of you to open up your wallets and support the show. And we're going to, guys, we're going to make you so proud in those next two weeks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to, you're going to really see our full potential of this. And then the following week after that, drop back up again. But those two weeks, oh, mama. Our guest today, first time guest here to the podcast. He has an album called Funny Songs and Sketches. It's Joe Quasala. Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Thank you for being here. This is going to be fun.

Looking forward to it. I really, I know I've done all my exchange rates mentally. So I think I'll be on on the same wavelength with you guys. Good. And you know, like you've cleared like what kind of stores we have that America has, all those type of things. Do you have? Yes, yes. I'm ready to talk about Tim Hortons. Yeah, there you go. All right, my information is correct. Nice. Do you want to get to know us? Yes. Nice. Do you want to get to know us? Yes.

Now, Joe, you're a funny man. You have an album of funny songs as sketches. I know you because I listen to Never Not Funny and you always go on there as an expert in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That is correct. Yeah, I do. And I appreciate you not leading with that. It is, it has almost just become my weird shame. But like, I think I didn't realize nobody else didn't pay attention to this. And so I just wound up becoming like one of the world's leading experts on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I have a podcast about it that has become like the premier source of news and information. But yes, the what is, well, I don't think I'm not going to dig into it.

Please. No, I mean, I'm here truly. I am the person most qualified to talk about it. So I remember when it opened, it was the museum in Cleveland. Well, like, yeah, because I know there were inducting members forever, and then they finally had a physical Hall of Fame. So there was kind of a Hall of Fame that existed in our hearts, starting with the inductees in 1986. And I think maybe even back then,

they knew they wanted to build a physical museum, but it took until, you know, the ribbon cutting ceremony wasn't until 1995. So there were many years where we were inducting artists into the Rock and Hall of Fame and they weren't exactly going anywhere. Right. Yeah. It took a while.

This is probably a very amateur question. Who was the first person inducted? So there were 10 artists in that first class, but I think literally in the ceremony, the first person they inducted was Chuck Berry. Oh, OK. Yeah, good. I was hoping it would be somebody, you know, not so many controversial. Yeah. Ted Nugent. I mean, you know, he ripped off his sound for Marty McFly, his cousin.

I guess cousin Marvin was was implicated in that. I watched the true crime documentary. I mean, it was really riveting. So have you ever been to an induction ceremony or? Yeah, I have, you know, I've been to, I think, four at this point. And I didn't plan it this think, four at this point. And I didn't plan it this way, but it's been like every other year since 2017. So it's like 2017, 2019, 2021, and then I went last year.

Is there like a rock and roll Hall of Fame season where they're like, or is it a 12 month campaign? I mean, we are in it right now. Okay. So the ballot just came out a few weeks ago and we have essentially now until the end of April. I don't think the ballots have not gone out to the larger voting body yet, but they will soon and they are due at the end of April. Then end of April, beginning of May, they will announce the inductees. And then there's a long kind of empty period until like early

November when they do the actual ceremony. Now are you have you become a voting member? I am as of last year, they they started sending me a ballot, which was crazy and made my stupid podcast all worth it. Because I'm like, okay, this, they were, I should have ended it, but you know, it was like, it felt like a moment of, oh, I didn't waste my entire life. Who's the like most controversial,

like how the hell did they get in there type of, cause I only know like maybe, like some bands that I thought would be in years and years ago, just get in like a couple of years ago. Mm hmm. Like, but is there anybody that was just like, man, this they really whiffed it on this. You know, I think the hall is pretty good at inducting artists that are,

I would say mostly you can under even if you don't like them personally, you can understand why they're in. I think, like you said, the more egregious issues that, especially the people have with the haul is the people who aren't in. But I would say, I mean, like, I don't love Bon Jovi, but like I get it, they were like, they were a massive... All right. Well, thanks for coming on the show, Joe. They were like, they were a massive. All right. Well, thanks for coming on the show, Joe. But, you know, it's like any of, yeah, I don't know.

Any, anyone who you might have an issue with, if you kind of take a step back objectively, I don't think there's, I'm trying to think the last time someone got in where I was like, I do not understand. Right. You know, there's enough, there's enough steps in the process. You know, one thing that can happen is you get everyone, so you get like an industry darling where you're like, like Lenny Kravitz is on the ballot this year and I'm kind of like,

I don't know that that guy had exactly a Hall of Fame or the career, but everyone loves him, like especially other artists, and like he's at every Grammy And like he's at every Grammys. He's at every he just seems to have like a publicist and manager team working over time to make him seem like he's. Yeah. Hall of Fame, Marvis.

Or when you look at the at the songs and the career, you're kind of like, it's not a ton of years. Like a guy who just shows up at every rock and roll thing. He's like, well, we talk about Travis Barker, how like anyone who's like, well, this song needs to be a rock song. Well, we got to get Travis Barker to play drums. Absolutely. No, that's totally it. And also Lenny like represents something that the industry would really like, which is like his dick falling out of his pants. Yeah, I was just going to say that the reason alone that he's getting? Leather pants that conveniently open at the bottom of a soap penis can unfurl when you squat.

It really unfurled, didn't it? It does. It dropped right down. It was like a fruit by the foot. It was like a free by the foot. Or the limber. That's, you know... It was like bubble tape.

Yeah. Is there anyone... What is the like... Every... Like, it's like 25 years after your first album comes out or something? Is that in fact right? That is in fact correct. So who's the new, who is now eligible this year?

So yes, so nobody who was newly eligible this year was nominated, but it was like Lil Wayne, 50 cent, I want to say. So my favorite rock band. Yes. John Mayer, who's someone who was there, like when we talk about industry players, that's somebody who like he shows up at the rock all the time. And like that would feel like controversial. I feel like if he was, if he gets in, don't you think?

I would say if he got in immediately, like if he was on the bout this year, people would kind of be like, what the hell are we doing? But maybe that's the other thing is like sometimes artists take 10 to 15 years and by the time that happens, like the legacy is so cemented that like it's not as controversial. But you know, when we start to, because it was, you know, 1999 would be 25 years ago. And it's interesting when you look at that group of artists, because the closer to rock you get, the less mainstream you get, you know, where it's like the rock bands that debuted in 99 were like the Shins and My Morning Jacket, who like are great bands, but they, because of the era they came up in, they couldn't be like a U2.

Yeah. It couldn't be a band. Who's left? When is the Imagine Dragons eligible? We are all waiting with Baited Breath, Baited Fire Breath for the for the dragons. We imagine them in the hall every day. I mean, they got to make a loophole for them. They don't have to wait though 25 years. I mean, yeah, how much can one man imagine? You know?

Okay, okay, okay. Do you think that if John Mayer was nominated that he would show up in his patented hoodie under blazer look? I was going to say when you wore that Borat that like you wore the borat swimsuit. I don't remember that. I mean, he is a cut up. John Mayer is a bit of a cut up. Remember when he was doing stand up?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a real, uh, real people. The thing that people have on their bucket list, I guess that, uh, hey, I'm famous. I can just stand up for a while. Yeah. And what's what's the crushing indictment of the stand up ecosystem is we let them.

We kind of just, we let them do it. We know it'll get people to come to shows. And we kind of, yeah, we put it on our resumes and our bios. We opened for John Mayer. Yeah, it's sad, but it's a reality. It's, it's one of the few disciplines that someone can just become a professional at by being famous. You know, we've all seen that at comedy clubs where you're like, huh, kind of thought that guy was just an actor.

Yeah, Jeremy Piven's doing three nights. Yeah, it just seems to be on a full weekend. I went and saw Dustin Diamond when he came to town many, many years ago. Yeah. What was his set like? Because I'm curious about when that happens, when it's like kind of an actor who just jumps in without having done the work. And when you say actor, Dustin Diamond is... One of our finest. Our foremost.

One of our finest. But he has to wait 25 years before he gets into the Academy Hall of Fame. Right, exactly. But his act, if I recall correctly, was fairly gross. I feel like it was a lot of just, it was like weird hearing him because he's Screech. Yeah. Talk about penises and whatnot. Sure.

Yeah, it was unsettling. Screech was kind of gross in a different way. He would have, you know, he was into bugs, I guess, in a way. They were really pretty inconsistent about what made him a nerd. Like he was good at making a robot. He got great grades, but he also like, you know, a weird kind of like, you know, spaghetti with

the tarantulas, I don't know. I wonder in that dynamic, don't let me get off on a save by the bell right here, but why were the two most popular guys in school, Zach and Slater, why did they hang out with Screech? Was that a carryover from when Zach was a kid or something? Why would they hang out with them? Everybody seemed to hate him in the group. He always had, and Joe, take a backseat for this.

He always had some kind of... I'm gonna work on my taxes for a little bit. Yeah. He could like help them with their schemes. Yeah, he would be in on the schemes. He was the brains of the operation. But he would usually, there would be some miscommunication where he ended up, you know, crapping his pants.

You have metaphor. And sometimes literal. I was gonna say, is it a holdover from Good Morning, Miss Bliss? Oh, yeah, totally. Maybe that's the origin of their friendship. Can you imagine being the like the shows named after your lead character? And then in the second season, where they're like, here's the thing, we're taking you out, We're keeping everybody else.

We're changing the name of the show. Yeah. Yeah. It was the girl from the parent trap, the original parent trap. Yeah. Hayley Mills, whose son is rock and roll, Hall of Fame eligible from his band, Coola Shaker. Oh, cool. Do they, 25 years?

Do they fit that? Oh, yeah. Yes. You remember when Tatva came out and I think they had a song on the I know what you did last summer soundtrack. Oh, that was a banger. I have I went from Haley Mills's Wikipedia to Chris will a shaker Crispian Crispin Mills. Yeah Yeah, and then take hula shaker because I can't say that I this is they had a cover

I've ever by a deep purple. Yeah, okay. Oh Yeah, I know that one was it used in a couple different movies, maybe or it was used in the Trailer for the crow Okay, I'm back in yeah, I'm back Pretty cool. What is a celebrity like that you wouldn't mind seeing do stand up? Hmm. Who's somebody that you're like, Gwyneth Paltrow?

I mean, do we do we want to stay outside the comedy realm? Oh, yeah. To have an interesting, because it's like there are funny people who like could do, I'm like, if Tim Robinson did stand up, I would be like, that would be very interesting. Right. But he's obviously a comedy writer and performer.

Yeah, of celebrities that I, now again, I have to keep asking follow up questions. Is this because it would be legitimately interesting? Or it would be like? I think legitimately good. I want that. I think that's a better direction. We know that Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman

have what it takes. James Frank though. My first thought was Gary Busey. Cause he has a lot of stuff he wants to say, but at the same rate, it's like this feels like it would be dangerous for the people watching. But good comedy is always dangerous. And that's what this woke media won't let you get away with anymore.

You just don't understand. Yeah, Gary Busey is good. What do you guys think about Crispin Mills? Crispin Mills. Am I the only one who remembers Tata by Gula Shaker? Is it only Americans that are allowed to be in the Hall of Fame? No, no, no, no. Canadians can be in it. Of course. Canadians can be in it.

And obviously, you know, there's plenty of British artists that are in the Hall of Fame as well. No, that doesn't seem right to me. You guys fought for your independence from them. You didn't have to honor their rockers. It would be good at stand. I would want somebody who just tells stories. You know what I mean? Like that's why like you'll go see a wrestler or something like that. I'll tell you just wrestling stories from back in the day.

It would stay do. I think Mick Foley sometimes does stand updates and it basically just does that like a story Q&A kind of thing. Yeah, I think Jake the Snake also would get it. Yeah, I think maybe Ryan Seacrest would be good because he's got so much personality under there and it's just it's dying to get out but he's married to that script. Yeah, you can tell he really wants to extemporaneously just go off to to really hammer home some of these controversial opinions. Yeah, we can hold him back. And it's it's sad, you know, you see you see a dynamic Bill Hicks like performer just screaming to get out.

Sad. Yeah, it's sad. It's sad. Someday. Yeah, I mean, we can all. Yeah, it's sad. It's sad. Someday. Yeah. I mean, we can all hope and pray. Right. Now, Joe, where are you from? Yeah, I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. OK. So you must have shed a tear yesterday when Yara Mariagra had his jersey retired.

You know, I certainly saw someone post a picture of him on Twitter and I did not realize why. But I did see him play. You know, I went to a hockey game when I was a kid that like my dad made sure to be like, because they were playing whatever team Gretzky was on at the time. And it was like Lemieux and Jagger and Gretzky and my dad was like, these are three very good players and you're getting to watch them perform. And I was like, I was Lemieux, Jagger, Gretzky and my dad was like, these are three very good players and you're getting to watch them perform.

And I was like, it was a little you, Yager Gretzky and your dad. And my dad suited up. He was like, no, watch this. When I say suit, when I say suited up, I mean, you know, he he put on a the penguin mascot. He was the oh, yeah. They pay the penguin. Now I'm just picturing somebody in a suit watching a hockey game.

That's not like management. So the endless. I think the only thing I remember about I'm not I'm not really a hockey guy. And I was I've never really been much of a sports guy. But I the one thing I remember from that game is at one point. And I don't I imagine this guy does this at a bunch of games. There was a guy in a referee costume

who went up and down the steps of the seats with sunglasses and like a stick like he was blind. And I was like, hey, that's pretty funny. You know, I was like, that guy should I or whatever. Yeah, there's a celebrity to get on stage. Yeah, I remember being a kid and seeing people with shirts like that, like, you know, saying the ref sucks and like at a kid, I didn't even know. I didn't know what the hell they were talking about.

I was like, not the referees. They know what they're doing. We trust them with our life. Yeah. It's very weird. It's a very weird job. Being a ref. You were a ref. Oh, yeah. My first job when I was a kid.

But like going through the ranks and becoming a professional. Yeah. And like once you're once you're in, are you in for life? You're able to be a referee until... Unless you get caught in some kind of gambling scandal. Yes. Is this a specific referee? Oh yeah, there was an NBA guy.

Oh yeah, sure. I believe Billy Crystal played a referee in Forget Paris. That's an interesting romcom level job. Yeah. Well, it's also, yeah, like all romcoms have to have somebody who has an insane job that somebody who's writing it just like looked at TV and was like, well, there'll be a referee or they'll own a hang lighting business, I mean, architects popular, but... And if it was Forget Paris, then that screenwriter would be Billy Crystal.

Oh, yeah. Well, he does go to a lot of basketball games. Probably chats with them. Hey, what city do you want to go to? Because it's tough being a referee. You're like 10 months a year, you're traveling. And if a basketball referee river you're calling traveling. Oh man, the thing you love. Yeah. That must be really conflicting. Are you... I never even thought about this as a ref.

Are you moving from team to team or do you always travel with one team? You're a good team to team. Or are you just in the city and people go through and you're in the city? You just... They come up like the logistical... just, they come up with like the logistical, I don't, I don't know exactly, but like the idea would be that you're,

you know, uh, referring every team equally. So you don't get familiar with anyone. Yeah. And sometimes you, yeah, cause you do see like who's, who's referring you see. I don't know. I'm bowing out. I'm not going to say I was like, it's refereeing you see. I don't know. I'm bowing out. I'm not going to say. You see who's refereeing this game.

And you go, oh, they do tell you. And they're like, oh, not this guy. Yeah. He's got to go. He's wearing sunglasses. Jesus Christ. Of course, we all remember in Wayne's world, they named Officer Koharski after famous hockey referee Don Koharski. Is I always like the facts today, guys. There you get like when you collected the card,

sometimes there'd be a ref card in the mix. Brutal. So best. Absolutely brutal. I also like it seems like it'd be a cool job if you just like left hockey in general or the sport, whatever. But like other people who's like, I always wanted'd be a cool job if you just like left hockey in general or the sport, whatever. But like, are there people who's like, I've always wanted to be a ref. Like from when I was a kid, it was that straight up. But I think so.

Yeah, it's got to be. You know, I have a friend who's a documentary filmmaker who was exploring the idea of doing a documentary about referees. And it seemed interesting. And like, though like one of the angles was going to be female referees, which there aren't that many of. But he said they hit a lot of resistance with the leagues, you know, because like famously the NFL, among other leagues, don't want anybody besides their own people filming stuff and then getting the rights to. And so like if you follow referees, but then you don't get to like be show footage from the games, it like kind of takes the majority of the suspense and

interesting part of it out of it. You're just saying the meeting chicken fingers for the game. Talking about what happened, what they think is going to happen. And later you catch up with them about what happened. It's an incredible, incredible movie. Looking at going to the zoo and identifying with the zebras. They're stripy too. Yeah, one of them in a foot locker, surely. Just that bad visual.

Being like, so when you, all right. So when someone's putting on a shoe, that's kind of like when I'm, you know. There was a hockey referee, I believe, in the last couple of years who had a microphone on and got in trouble because they caught him telling one of the teams, like, all right, so they got a penalty, so you guys will get the next penalty. Oh, shit.

Yeah, or it was like, yeah, I called a bad penalty. You guys will, I'll even it up later, which is something that happens, but you're not supposed to admit to it. Yeah. Yeah. I can't say that out loud. You think they travel with the team or do they show up separately? Oh, separately.

Yeah. Okay. And we also can't have them fraternizing. We can't have them building bonds. What if they fall in love with one of the players? Oh, yeah. That's a wrong comment. Then forget Paris, man. I have my TikTok has found out that I like to watch

like football referees get rocked. Like hit? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like get caught in the fray. Also, it knows it's a similar genre of like big, big fat baseball managers getting into heated fights with the ump with the umps. Yeah, that's good.

And I do enjoy those as well, especially because like when you get those miked, which some of some of them are, it gets heated. Very fun. I also I like to watch again, I'm not like a sports guy, but like to figure out which avenue of sports I'll be into and compilations of pitchers bulking. Hmm. Because the umpires get really excited. Like they like jump up and they like go forward and they scream bulk.

Now, right. But that as something as someone who watches sports, I fail to understand what blocking is 90% of the time. Well, having what is it? Yeah, having watched compilations of just that and nothing else Bucking is like when the pitcher you can't like wind up to throw the pitch and then not do it Like almost like a fake out. But like what constitutes a wind up, what constitutes the beginning of the process of a pitch is maybe a little more subtle than you think. But like you can't even like take, you can't even like really move your leg and then decide to stop the motions. There, I feel like there's probably someone who's done a good old McDonald's spoof about

chickens and pitchers who both balk. I'm sure somebody has that in the I mean probably many people. It's it comes to mind so quickly. Are there any like morning show DJs who do spoof songs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's a whole separate wing. That's a separate wing. And it's a glorious one for their work in the twisted tunes category. glorious one for their work in the twisted tunes category.

Is it blocking is this term I've never heard before? Is there any other rough terms I should be in on going into the going into the whatever season starting next blocky is the tough one. Yeah. Blocking. So I got blocking down. I don't need point. There's nothing else I'm missing out on. I mean, there's there's unnecessary roughness and then there's necessary roughness, which I believe is a football movie. But you know those words already. Those aren't new words to you, I hope. Yeah. Can you use the game? Try spell Bach.

Oh, B.A.W.K. Hmm. Is it? Is it? W.K. That's like, it's like chalkboard. It's like, yeah. Oh, oh, yeah. OK. Yeah. Well, I've never had the pleasure of having

having done it or having it done to me. You might like, honestly, you might have balked and not known it. Yeah, that's true. Ever trying to check out a guy. If you think you're you you're even to just you if you're just here alone in your house and you're about to do something, you're like, wait, hold it. Yeah.

That's, that's a balk. That's a bad on me. That was a balk. That was a balk. Um, I could see folding that into everyday routine. That sounds fun. I'm going to add that in. I'm going to add that in.

Faking out your wife. Yeah. Yeah. Scream at your wife if you see her do it like an umpire. Just be like, oh, I start like pointing and running around. Bring out my whistle. Um, yeah. I guess baseball refs, umps. There are the ropes. Who's are the reps?

Who are the reps? What? Refs is basketball. Basketball. They're. Raffy. And I think in football, they have refs, umps, and linemen. Yeah. Yeah.

And like they all have whistles, and I feel like in baseball, there's no whistles. That's true. That's correct. Yeah. That's what I know about baseball, you guys. All right. That's cool. Are you Joe, are you a big baseball guy? No, you know, he's not. He just said he thought of sports. I mean, I like bulking. I think bulking is pretty cool.

Here's the thing though, is I did grow. I growing up in Pittsburgh is a very sports-oriented town, but the baseball team, the pirates have never been good. At least pretty much the entirety of my life. But they renovated or they knocked down what used to be the football and baseball stadium Three Rivers, and then they built new baseball baseball park and a football stadium. Both are very nice. And the baseball park in particular is like a very beautiful park, PNC park. And I've been there a number of times, not even a baseball fan, but I really like going to the game, whether it's here in Los Angeles or wherever, baseball fan, but I really like going to the game, whether it's here in Los Angeles or wherever. I like the vibe of going to a baseball game.

Do you like root, root, root for the home team? Is that something you do? Well, you know, I've always said like, if, you know, if they don't win, it's a shame. And, but I still root. I still root, root, root. They do one, two, three strikes, you're out, but they didn't mention blocking. Well, like... Yeah, what happens? Yeah, we should add a new verse about what happens if the pitcher throws the rubber. Why did the Pittsburgh Pirates get a new stadium for that's rewarding bad behavior? They suck.

Well, I mean... Why did they get a new stadium? bad behavior. They suck. Well, I mean, I mean, it was it was it was a balancing act because the football team is a very has always been very good. And so it was almost just to separate them, keep them out of like that. We'll put the good one over here and the bad one over here. But no, I mean, like maybe they thought if they gave the pirates their own designated beautiful park, it would turn things around. It did not. Oh, you know what I like about Pittsburgh is the three teams have the same colors. It is nice. And those were also the colors of my high school. And so growing up, I was, you know, I was always like, yep, you, whoever you are, you get to have one color. It was,

but it is, I mean, like more teams should one color. It was but it is. I mean, like more teams should do that. It's a little too late to do that, but it just seems like you have your city. Like coordinate across. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. Um, do you in high school, do you have a mascot for your teams? Uh, yeah, we were we were the Tigers.

So, you know, black and gold, it made made sense. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, orange is a little better. Black and yellow, as Wiz Khalifa said about our fine city. Is he from there? Yeah. And so when the Steelers won the Super Bowl, I think in like 2009 or something, was when that was popping off. Oh, shit. I think something like that. He's like a hometown hero, Mr. Wiz. Mr. Wiz, as he's think something like that. Yeah, he's like he's a hometown hero, Mr.

Wiz. Mr. Wiz, as he's known in, yeah, sir. Sir Khalifa. Yeah, I remember my high school mascot. Somebody stole the head. That was the big ongoing thing is whoever whoever stole the head to return it. No questions asked, but there were questions.

What was your, what was your, yeah, ahead of what? He was, I think he was a bear. I think he was a gray colored bear. You think? Were you the bears? No, we were the lords, but it wasn't a night. It wasn't a, I think it was a bear with like a night's helmet. It was Lord Beaverbrook.

Was your high school? Yeah. And not the beavers. Yeah. Not the beavers. And, and the cot, like the guy wasn't a beaver. It was Lord Beaverbrook was your high school. Yeah. And then not the beavers. Yeah. Not the beavers and and the cut like the guy wasn't a beaver. It was a bear. No, he wasn't a beaver. No. He was a bear. Somebody stole the head and it was the it was all the talk. And then it did get returned. And I think the person had got away with it. I don't think that anybody ended up getting suspended or whatever.

But it seems really difficult to like inconspicuously return a gigantic thing like a mascot head. Like how can you can't just like slip that out of the trunk of your car and like put it underneath your coat and just like kind of slide it under the door. It feels like there would be a lot of witnesses, but yeah, no, they delivered it back in a box like in seven. They delivered it back in a box like in Seven and then. I mean, we all remember when Valley kidnapped Screech when he was the Bayside Tiger. I always thought that episode was pretty scary because they kidnapped Screech and put him in a cage.

Wasn't he in a cage? No, that was Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Well, no, excuse me. So, they kidnapped Screech. And they returned him, but they returned it was like... That's Grand Theft stealing a diamond? Yes, absolutely. They returned the costume with someone else in it who was silent pretending to be Screech. And then they figured out that it was Screech,

that it wasn't Screech. So they put some ants down the back of the costume so the guy did a funny dance. Clever, pretty clever. It worked. So what's your save by the bell knowledge? Strong, weak? I don't think I've seen a single episode,

but I could tell you everybody who's in the cast and I've seen, there was a weird karaoke bar that has since been demolished that Mr. Belding was there all the time. And so I've seen him. Did you have a show that you watched after school every day that was garbage? There was a garbage. You know, I'm, I'm trying trying to because I watched a lot of lot of cartoons. Certainly many of them bad. I watched. I used to watch a lot of them before school and after school,

but I did like the, I mean, listen, I don't mean to, I know people have a lot of nostalgic love for some of this shit and it is shit. I use that. And it is shit. I use that word. It's just like, there's no way if I watch like the old duck tails that like it's not going to be fucking nonsense. Yeah, that's why you got to watch the new one. You know, I threw I threw on an episode of the new one just out of curiosity

because people had people who I trusted were like, it's pretty good. And you know what? They were right. I would say it was pretty good. Oh, OK. Yeah. Good to know. But I'm trying to remember, like, you know, I watched I watched a lot of Nickelodeon and like Cartoon Network. But it was like, you didn't have either of those.

So we had to. Yeah. You had to scrape by with same. Disgrace. Yeah. And Full House was in there along. Definitely. Definitely watched a good amount of full house. And I would definitively say that was garbage. Yeah.

I'm curious. You know, I weirdly enough between my girlfriend and I, we talk about Urkel kind of a lot to this day. He's your safe word. Yes. You understand what I'm saying. Urkel comes up a lot to this day. He's your safe word. Yeah, yes. You understand what I'm saying. Urkel comes up a lot. A lot of, did I do that?

But I am fascinated by the evolution of Urkel and like, we'll sometimes like, try to, if we've flipping around, we find an episode or like, I'll just find a way to watch, you know, on streaming or whatever it is. But like towards the end of family matters, every episode, Erkl is like cloning himself and turning himself gold and like he's doing and then fighting like ninjas. Like it's it started out so, you know, grounded. And then by the end, he's like drinking, drinking juice that makes him jump to the moon. Well, that's another show like Good Morning, Miss Bliss, where the conceit of it was abandoned

pretty soon after Erkel showed up. Certainly the focus was stolen. You know, in this one, it wasn't quite like we're going to get, get rid of Carl. But we are going to make the mad scientist. They did have a sister. Yeah, there was a sister who went upstairs, never came back. Yeah. One of those, which was, you know, it's funny, there's a lot of parallels between happy days and family matters,

which was like the same thing. Like there was a neighbor who came by occasionally, who then would take over the show. And, you know, one was cool and then one was a nerd. And I believe it's like the same people who created both shows. Makes me think. I know. I don't believe that.

Yeah. I mean, I think wasn't it Gary Marshall who did happy days? But I want to say Miller Boyette. Productions. Yeah, Miller Boyette. Yeah. I want to say we're involved with with happy days and family matters Oh, I did I just looked it up and you know what? Right again

Okay, well, I'll never doubt you again when it comes to family matters and that only anything else, please Is didn't the funds have to battle more in, uh, like more was a alien, right? No, but that made sense. That was just the sixties, man. It was a wait. Did more more came from happy days? So I believe these show. Yeah, I believe it.

That's another like Gary Marshall. Yeah, boy, yeah, show that I think I want to say they set up more. On an episode of happy days to like backdoor his character. So people knew about him than they I think might technically spent be a spin off. But yeah, because I think like Laverne and Shirley is a spin-off and Joni loves Josh. And a show called Blanski's Beauties that didn't take off, but that is one of them as well. Did Mork and Mindy take place in the same time period or was Mork also a time traveler?

I think he was also a time traveler because that's the issue with when you spin off a show that takes place 20 years before it's It's airing is like all these things have to take place in the 50s But I'm pretty sure Mark and Mindy takes place in the 70s in the early 80s Yeah, my favorite little bit of trivia about all this is the favorite little bit of trivia about all this is the the producers went down to watch Jay Leno. That's who they wanted for the show was Jay Leno. And then Robin Williams happened to be on the show that evening. They're like, that guy, but can you imagine if Jay Leno was more that would have been something like this. Hey, yeah, I'm busy. So, do you hear about this one, Mindy?

He's got it's all denim, but with the rainbows as vendors. I like the idea of setting a TV show 20 years in the past and like from today, like set a TV show in 2004 and have people be like, wow, I can't believe John Mayer's first album came out five years ago. Wow, what a great five years of ludicrous we've had. It's been amazing. Yeah, there's hot streaks and then there's hot streaks.

Right. Holy cow. Luda's still around, right? He's he was just at the Super Bowl. He did the he did the half. Oh, yeah. You know, because he and Usher had. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. They'll always have. Yeah. Is what they say to. And we will. And we will always have. He did the, he did the half time. So, you know, cause he and Usher had, yeah. Yeah.

That's right. They'll always have, yeah. Is what they say to them. And we will always have, yeah. We're lucky that way. We're lucky as a people. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm just curious in the background of your shot, is that a stack of VHS tapes or are those books? Those are books. My girlfriend has a book kind of shelf device where it makes it look like they're all stacked on top of each other, but they're secured. Oh, okay. Okay.

Cool. That's not to say I don't have a bunch of VHS tapes somewhere. Just not in this room. I was a big record stuff off of TV kid. I have converted a lot of it to DVD and converted, recently started converting some of it digitally. But that is one of my favorite things in the world is to watch old commercials. Oh yeah. And I will take so I'll take some of my old tapes fast forward through whatever, you know, the Bill and Ted cartoon or whatever.

Whoa, whoa. Now you should be watching that. And then just watching these commercials that seem like they're from, you know, speaking of Mork and Mindy, from an alien planet because advertising changes so quickly. Yeah. It's always a lot of fun. That's often a fun and popular party event. We do a bonus episode here every so often where we get listeners to call in with their favorite childhood jingles,

or not necessarily childhood, but like local jingles from the past. Was there one in Pittsburgh that stands out? Oh man, one I found out, so I'll do it first, but it was a car dealership. And it was long running, famous. It was Century 3, Chevrolet, Lebanon, Church, Rupitz, Berg, minutes from the mall.

And... I love the little in the den of this, that's great. And sometimes I will look up, because as we've established, I like to watch old commercials. Sometimes I will just look up random cities, random times. I was watching one from someplace in Texas and it was for their Chevrolet dealer. And it was the same tune with different words and a different little addendum at the end. And it blew my mind and I no longer felt

safe. Yeah, when that happens, it's a bummer because you're like, wow, they really made this huge campaign for our TV channel and then you realize every TV channel on that network around the country has the same. Yeah. The one from my childhood, wasn't it in this American life? Yeah, they did. This American life about, was it two and seven?

Two and seven was, uh, you know, Hello Calgary was the song. And it was not just a jingle. It was like a full song with like a montage of videos from Calgary. And then yeah, they just shopped it from market to market. So it was Hello Atlanta and hello Boston And it's also such a bummer when you find out like how we have Jack FM And they play what they want and I got a respect there for that and it's like this local Yeah, well they say like Jack kind of Jack kind of grew up around here. He knows what's going on

Yeah, and you're like, yeah, I like Jack. And then you find out in some markets, they don't, like in Pittsburgh, it's Bob. Hmm. Yeah. Like there are, there's different, like some city, it's like Dennis, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what you know is like market research, like they've,

so actually Pittsburgh, they don't trust Jacks, but they do trust Bob's, but in LA, there is more of a Jack City. Yeah, apparently that's where Ernest came from of Ernest fame. Local commercials. Local commercials. Yeah. They would shoot them from.

Kind of a very savvy move of like, we will do local commercials for different markets and then everyone across the country will feel like they have a personal connection to Ernest because he will feel local. Yeah. And then they spun it off into 19 movies. And a television show. Yeah, right. I mean, Ernest was one of the biggest things going. Yeah, he ruled.

A lot of his movies probably don't hold up now. Ernest Goats Camp probably does. That's probably still enjoyable. What wouldn't hold up about them? The the. Where were they like? Oh, you can't talk like Ernest anymore. That's, you know, you can't say anything to camera pretending it's your friend anymore.

You can't pretend the camera's Vern. Yeah, these days, the woke police were not. You can't pretend the camera's Vern. Yeah, these days the woke police want to. Now, Ernest did go to Africa. That one might be a little. OK, yeah. 1997, I'm not so sure. We'll see.

Jury's out. I haven't I haven't seen that one. Yeah. What year did Krippendorf's tribe come out? It was probably around the same time. I feel I was like jungle to jungle and Krippendorf's tribe. There was something going on. They're fascination with tribal culture. Was that Richard Dreyfus?

Yeah. Krippendorf was Dreyfus. And Janet. John L. D. Jungle was Tamalan. Yeah. Krippendorf was 98. John L. D. Jungle was 97. And Ernest goes to Africa was 97.

So it was really it was. And when was was Operation Dumbo drop around that time as well? Was that a little bit earlier, but not by it couldn't be by much. Dumb drop was 95. Yeah. 1998, the year of Krippendorf's drive. If anybody doesn't know what the premise of is that

it feel like and this is just off the time I had. So tell me if I'm wrong. Dr. Dreyfus is a professor. Professor Krippendorf? Yep. Yep. That's the one. He like goes and does...

What's the one where he writes his opus? You're thinking of Mr. Holland. Now, fun fact, the director of Krippendorf's tribe, Todd Holland. Oh, nice. So there was a Mr. Holland involved with Kermidorstribe, so can't take off any points for that one. He was a professor that was supposed to like document like a hidden tribe in the Amazon or something like that.

And then maybe the footage got destroyed. So I'm looking up the premise here. I guess. His family and him have to recreate the tribe in their backyard, I wanted to say? Because it was the misuse of grant money that he then had to... I think he had been saying that he'd been documenting this tribe in New Guinea or whatever and then had to create a fictitious tribe the poster You know all these posters obviously not great

Not very subtle But you got you got my man Krippendorf in a colorful head-to-toe Painted on his skin tribal Art and he's holding up a spear and then you got Jenna Elfin painted on his skin tribal art. And he's holding up a spear. And then you got Jenna Elfin lying down on it. It is that is a blockbuster. The big blockbuster memory for me. Just seeing that case, never renting it.

Why would I rent it? I already owned it. And then we've we've also got we've got, you know, there's a spear in Kribbendorf, but you go to jungle to jungle, it's an arrow through his teeth. And then he's got a head, a headdress. So that's good. That one is a little more subtle. The tagline is he's discovered the wildest tribe in his own backyard.

Kribbendorf. What is jungle to jungle is about he brings someone to the city, which is some kind of jungle as well. It's like the urban jungle. Is it that it was his, his like long lost son or something? Yeah, it seems to be a little white boy. Yeah. Yeah. Who I right recognize. Why do I recognize him? Because he grew up to be Jay Leno. Timelines all screwed up on that. But yeah, I I never saw Cremador's tribe. But remember when you used to get this is a nostalgia attack, but like on VHS or DVD, there would be trailers.

Yes, absolutely. That was just part of you couldn't play the tape or DVD without it. Just I feel like that one was on a lot of comedy blockbuster movies that I rented that trailer. Never saw it. I'm not going to say never will. Has a memorable name. I mean, and it's certainly a funny reference to pull out. I've definitely been I've thrown Krippendorf's tribe. I just feel it's funny coming, you know, funny.

Off the lips. I'm trying to think of there's any other like movie characters with names like that. Hrip and Dorf? Yeah, or just like when they tried to like, you know, put the character's name in the title of the movie and you're like, but I don't know who that is. Christmas with the cranks. I didn't see Leonard's one part one through five.

Do you ever hear the movie, uh, Rima Williams? Yeah. That it was like, oh yeah. Yeah. And the movie was called Rima Williams. The adventure begins. Fred Ward. Yeah.

And he was supposed to be, I guess, like an American James Bond-esque. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I supposed to be, I guess, like an American James Bond-esque. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, I was thinking of Pluto Nash. I think of Pluto Nash often. That's where he's in. He's on Mars, is it? Or Pluto, perhaps? Yeah. What was the Robert Townsend one where he's like meteor man, meteor man. Oh, yeah, meteor man.

That was. There was a theme song of me meteor man that my brothers and I was saying Constantly because we thought it was so stupid and will you sing it for us today? It goes ain't nobody better ain't nobody better than the meteor man. So we would Sing that a lot. I mean, it's undeniable. Go off, King. I'm loving it. Joe, tell us about your album. Yeah. Speaking of funny songs, maybe that's almost, excuse me,

that song was serious. But yeah, no, I put out an album called Funny Songs and Sketches. And,ches. And the idea was to be like a throwback to that lost art form. You think of Adam Sandler, Tenacious Dear, whatever, putting out albums that had audio sketches on them, along with funny little songs. And that was like a bit of a new frontier for me. You know, I've been lucky to do with some degree of success, you know,

sketch videos online and had a good time doing that. But it was just like, oh, this is fun. And you know, I'm not, it's easier recording an audio sketch. You don't have to get a location and shit. And so, yeah, I put together this album and there's a lot of very funny people on it. easier recording an audio sketch. You don't have to get a location and shit. And so, yeah, I put together this album and there's a lot of very funny people on it. You know, David Cross, Iowa Debris, Pat Nozwald, Al Madrigal, Rachel True from The Craft. And then Half Baked.

Yeah. So there's a lot of a lot of fun, funny people on it. Andy Richter. Are you in a lot of the sketches or do you just write the sketches? So it's primarily, you know, I would call it a me focused album. Okay. Okay. There is, yeah. Yeah.

So, you know, and I sing the songs and some of the sketches are based around a character that I'm doing and then some are more premise-based, but I am on each track. I like, I used to listen to all of those, like the Adam Sandler ones especially. And I was, it was such a like a secret thing that my parents didn't know about was like, these are the filthiest things in the world.

Truly vulgar. And like in a way that is so satisfying for a child. Oh yeah. Learning swears or having somebody that you know, like has some insider information from their older brother. Exactly. Yeah. Has gone through the looking glass

and can tell you some of these new words. Yeah, I don't know what they're talking about. I don't know what he's doing at a medium pace, but it's... But I'm laughing. It's insane, guys. What other, like, did you listen to a lot of these? I'm trying to think of other ones that were like that combination of sketches and songs.

So it's funny, we think of Tenacious D as being music, but that album, that first album was a lot of sketches. No arms pushups, which is a sketch about getting a boner so hard it lifts you up. It lifts you up. And a few other ones, you know, they go through the drive-through or whatever. As a child, I listened to Cheech and Chong records. Oh, sure.

And they would have music tracks and sketches. I know that like, there are a lot of, there are a few stand-up N-song albums. Like I know that, like Dennis Leary and Jimmy Fallon. Yeah, Dennis Leary did an MTV unplugged. That's right. It's, it is wild. How did I not know that? That is, that's, that's irresponsible for MTV to do. Well, he would do, well, like, there was a thing, we were talking about how local things would happen. He would take over much music, which was Canada's version of MTV. And Weird Al would do the same thing.

Like there would just be an hour of LTV every year. Yes, we got that as an MTV thing. Yeah, I discovered later that it wasn't exclusive to Canada. But it was like, oh, he would do the interviews where he would replace the questions. So, again, another thing that specifically feels like it's built for a 13-year-old. Yes. Like, man, I was just... That's one thing that I 100% have on the VHS tapes is

when they would do LTV. Really? Yeah, totally. Is that, yeah, it only exists in my mind, I feel like. I wouldn't be shocked if you could find it on YouTube or parts of it, but man, that made me laugh so much. And have you guys ever seen Weird Allen concert? Yeah. He does.

It's like a full multimedia onslaught, like using the video like screen and like air. I remember the first time is I didn't I could it wasn't allowed to watch MTV when I was a kid, but I saw Weird Al when I was probably nine and he would. I remember he aired the Paul McCartney interview. And I was laughing so hard, but I didn't fully get that it was fake. I was just a little too young, but I was just having an absolute blast. I remember one of the funniest gags was he was interviewing Sting. Yes.

And Sting like scrunches nose and then put his hand in his hair. Weirdo. I was like, hey, can you do me a favor? Can you just pick your nose and rub it through your hair? Yeah. 100 percent of the thing I remember. Oh, man. If you have a chance to see Weird Al,

must it's a must see. It's so so entertaining. Like he really does put on a show. And as like someone who was a big fan of his growing up twice, I have been to the like stripped down, like I think he calls it like the indulgent, like self-indulgent, whatever tour where he doesn't do any parodies. It's not a big production. It's just him and his band doing originals like deep cuts from the albums And I've enjoyed that for and in a different way that I enjoy like the full production tours, right?

Yeah, and I liked the last time I went it was a lot of dead and sun Combos that's really sweet. Yeah Cuz he appeals everybody. Yeah, you will see every boy Yeah. Because he appeals to everybody. We're really, yeah, you will see every kind of boy. Every kind of boy. You will see all ages, though, at those shows. And it's pretty cool.

Because, like, you know, it's it's for 12 year olds, but then, like, it you want to reconnect with the 12 year old in your heart when you go to the show. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly, exactly. Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? Okay, well, we were talking, I brought up the idea of something set 20 years ago. Well, I just took my daughter to a movie

that was set 20 years ago. So I take my, Joe, I have a seven year old and a nine year old daughter, and we go to pretty much every kids movie. But the nine year old's getting a little older and the seven year old didn't want to go to this one and we went to see Madam Webb. Oh, I was literally gonna say Madam Webb as a joke and then, wow. Man, I was really hoping it was gonna be turning red, which I think is set 20 years

ago, which is back in theaters, or was never in theaters, but is in theaters now. Right. And takes place in Canada. Right. Yeah, no, it seems really like it was all set up for you to take your child to the perfect movie. You blew it. Well, she's seen that a thousand times already.

Oh, is that right? Yeah. I had never seen it and I was excited to see it for the first time in a theater and it was, I had a great time. Nice. And I'm going to Madam Web tonight. Really? Because it has made it back to, my, I have a friend group, we're on like the AMC Stubbs playlist, which you can, you know, it's a membership fee where you pay 20 bucks a month. Can see like three movies a week. And so we're much less discerning about what we see. At least we were at first, but then it got to a point where it was like, life is short. We need to stop going to see like Father stew. The like Catholic Mark Wahlberg movie.

Like it's starting to like affect us. Father Crippendorf. Yeah. All the Crippendorfs, you know, that come out each year. In the KCU. But it has kind of come back around with Madame Web where it's like, I mean, you could maybe shed some light on this, but it was like, we think it might be, we might be able to have like a stupid fun time

or something that is this bad. I had heard that it is so bad that it's not even fun. I don't like Marvel movies. Well, don't judge them based on this one. So actually, this is an MCU? So this is when Sony made a deal with... Okay, well, I... So actually...

Well, okay, then I do like Marvel movies, it turns out, because I loved this. But only my nine year old wanted to go, so I was like, hey, this is gonna suck. But hey, since it's just the two of us, I'll spring for the vibrating chairs. Ooh. Fun.

Wow. That is fun. Did they call that 4D, or is that something else? Yeah, they call them D-boxes Oh, wow. It's fun. Call that for D. Is that something else? Yeah, they call them D boxes at the. That's the older year. Yeah, D box. Yeah, it sounds like an insult.

Yeah, I hear you fucking D box. It's short for douche box for sure. But yeah, so we went and. Yeah, I've I mean, it's less than two hours. That's good. Point in their favor. Dakota Johnson jumps off the screen. She almost cracks a smile.

No, there's really nothing going on in her face the whole time. Um, there may have been some spider paralysis. But and Sydney Sweeney is like a secondary character. And it feels like she signed up for this movie one day before she became super famous. Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah, she isn't. I mean, it's funny, like she this rom-com that she did is kind of like the sleeper hit of the season. The Anyone But You, I think is.

Yeah. It like, it didn't like come out great, but it hasn't like fallen off. That's because she's dating an NBA referee played by Billy Crystal in it. The reviews of this say that it's the second only to Morbius is the other movie that I compared to Jared Leto film, Morbius is the other movie. I think a parent Jared Leto film Morbius. Is that a Sony one as well? Yes, they're cut from the same cloth in that like they are not allowed. Sony is not allowed to make MCU movies,

but they still have their rights to tertiary Spider-Man characters. So yeah, this is but they can't mention certain things. And so you're like, is Spider-Man here? And like off screen. Oh, let me tell you. I don't know. Yeah, I know his presence. If you know, you know. Yeah.

There's a few Parkers in this movie. Parker Posey's in the... She would be a good villain, I think. Like a... Yeah, Lex Luthor's right hand woman in one of the Superman. All right then. Superman returns probably. And she was great.

She was great. Yeah, there's a, there's the bad guy in this one. There seems like there are scenes where his voice is dubbed. It's a lot of like. You're hyping me up and I'm not kidding. Like I'm very, I want to see a train wreck. Like I want to see some. I do too.

I almost am in the same boat. Like do I want to go see in the theater or do I want it to be at home where I can full throttle make fun of it as it goes along. I think you could full throttle make fun of it as it goes along. There were four other tickets bought before like when we did the when we bought the tickets online, there were four other people who had bought tickets. I think ultimately 15 people showed up. So not bad for a Sunday afternoon. Yeah, it's one of these movies where like, there was some silly thing going on with the

press tour. Like there was some meme and all the people that were interviewing Dakota Johnson were like, what about this meme? And she couldn't wrap her head around why it was funny, whatever it was that she said a certain line a certain way. Yeah, she said she said something about like, you know, that oh, she this guy met my mom when she was studying spiders in the Amazon. Or, you know, it was with the Dr. Kripendorf. Yes. No, there is, yeah, there are, there's quite a bit of unnecessary exposition in the first hour of the movie. Apparently that line from the trailer isn't even in the movie. Oh, really?

That's what everyone's saying. It makes me think that they put that in there because it has the word spiders in it. They're just trying to get people in the marketing to be like, Spider-Man, you can show up. You're allowed to mention spiders two times in the home. Mentioned man as many times as you want. But, um, yeah, no, it is, it's not like I gotta say, it wasn't as bad as Captain Marvel, which was my as bad as Captain Marvel.

Which was- I haven't seen Captain Marvel. Yeah, well- Captain Marvel or the Marvels? Captain Marvel. I didn't see the Marvels. I only saw Captain Marvel because it was playing in my neighborhood.

But it's, and that one was set in the 90s and suffered from like everything had to be very 90s in that movie like everyone. It's written a 90s nail shirt. Yeah, it's written in that. Pretty cool. But like there's very 90s in that movie. Like every one. Just wearing a 90s nail shirt. Yeah, sure. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. There's only 90s music, there's only 90s cars,

there's only 90s phones. Like if you were in the 90s, you remember there was still old stuff around. That's where you're wrong. That's where Captain Marvel taught us all. But this one. It's all last ago playing all the time. I don't know why, well, or a cool, a shaker.

I don't know why this one was set in 2003 or whatever. Is it? Oh, I know why, because a little a little boy has to be born. Oh, sure. It has the blossom into Spider-Man allegedly, but we can't say that. Yeah. Yeah, like that's supposed to be a big thing for the fans. Like Uncle Ben is in this one. Yeah, there is a lot of like...

And his sister. Ben Parker, are you ready to be an uncle? To whom will I be an uncle? And there's a scene at the baby shower, they're like, the women are going around guessing the name of the baby. I know, I know, Spider-Man is going to be his name. Well, an angel foretold that this baby would be born and wrapped in swaddling bands. Was it so bad it's good or was it just so bad it was not very fun? I don't know.

I had to I know that 45 minutes in I had to turn off my vibrating chair because I was going to bar. It also it seems like you can't revel. I don't know. Maybe maybe you can correct me, but I think you couldn't revel in the badness as much if you're with your child. Oh, for sure. And she loved it. Okay, cool. Did she?

Yeah. She had like a lot of fun. Yeah, she said it was the best movie she saw. She, well, it's tied for best movie she saw all weekend. We also watched Legally Blonde. Oh, nice. That's a good one for, that's a fun one. Yeah.

What I can say is it's not as good as Legally Blonde. Okay. That's fair. That helps me to categorize it going into it. Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, it's quite a bit of explaining stuff you don't need to explain. Right. Like we figured it out.

She can, you know, redo stuff. She's got like mini Groundhog Day disease. Disease. And it is a disease. And it should be treated as such. I'm sorry to have to inform you, but you have many groundhog day disease. So I guess the groundhog mini is that or is it the day's mini? She was bitten by a radioactive groundhog.

The, um, yeah, somebody said that, like that trick where she, you see that all the action happened and you think it's happening in real time that cuts back to her. They said that they use that so many times. Well, that's what she has. That's all that's what it is. Grand, that's all she has. That's her power.

I also heard that like people are like, I kind of want to see that movie. Like it's constantly cutting to stuff that's more interesting. Uh, and yet she's just like stopping all of it. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Um, so I would say check it out. Oh, you can tell, you can tell it's 2003 because they're, uh, driving a, a, um, uh, an ambulance through Manhattan and the yeah, yeah, yeah, as they're playing.

Oh, baby. Here we go. Nice. And you're like, Hey, is this new? Is this from one of their EPs before their album came out? That's the talk while they're driving. Yeah. I'm trying not to let this guy die in the back.

You hear you could get this off of Napster. I'm going to download this off of Napster. I can't pronounce this woman's last name. She should abbreviate it. This was in the early days when they had the full names. Anyway, so that's what I've been up to. What's been going on with you, Graham? So this past week, we're recording many episodes in advance, but in in our time in real time. We're sort of like mad and wet. We can see you the episodes that are coming out and redo the bad ones. On Valentine's Day, I was I did a comedy show on Valentine's Day. And which is a fun way to spend Valentine's Day. It's fun to get something nice for my wife, but it's also fun to just go and hang out

with a bunch of people who are on dates. Was it mostly dates? Yeah. I think it was almost entirely couples. It was held, and this won't mean anything to anything to Joe, but it was at a Vancouver Club Notorious Club the Roxy. Hmm those held of the Roxy which is big Meat market kind of place has been around since what the 70s the 80s. Yes, and like it's the Friday night the 70s, the 80s. I guess.

And like it's the Friday night. Bridgetunnel, huge, huge line up out front. Sometimes live music, sometimes DJ, but just like it's just been there. It's like it's shorthand for I'm going to the kind of CD. Yeah, I'm going to hook up. Yeah, like saying, you know, like, you know, if you did it, it said in a comedy bit, if you said, well, what are you guys going to hook up. Yeah, like saying, you know, like, you know, if you did it, it said in a comedy bit, if you said,

well, what are you guys going to do tonight? Go over to the Roxy and everybody would laugh. Because it's, I'm sure they're similar. So was this event, a Valentine's show, Yes. was, who put it on? And like, was it, Valentine's was a Wednesday, correct? Yeah.

And so it was there also like. It did they also do a dance club night later? Yeah, I think there was a it was a band coming in because they had a drum set on stage surrounded by a plastic box, which I guess is for tempering the level of drums. I don't know what that's for. I just know that when Lenny Kravitz went on Letterman once, his drummer was in one of those plastic boxes.

And I think Letterman said she was in a hyperbaric chamber. I think it's to protect the drummer. Right. From mini groundhog disease. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's airborne. Oh shit. Yeah. Be careful. We all thought we were all washing our hands, hoping to not to get it. But then yeah, gotta wear a mask. But I'm sure there is there a bar when you grew up in Pittsburgh that was like that bar? The dance club. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, I probably think of it more like my time in Chicago when I was in my twenties, because when I was like, you know, I mean, I probably think of it more like my time in Chicago when I was in my 20s,

because when I was like, you know, when I was growing up in Pittsburgh and I was like 16, I was too nerdy to know like the, I mean, I guess there was like club zoo, the juice bar, where everyone went to grind on each other's genitals. That's very much the Roxy vibe. This is a zoo vibe. Yeah. Was there one in Chicago that you were like? Well, I think in Chicago, I think of a whole neighborhood called Wrigleyville, which is right by Wrigley Field, which was just kind of Baca Nalian, almost apocalyptic. Like people from the suburbs would come in. But on Wrigley Field, we were Baca Nalian. Exactly.

Thank you. Thank you for clarifying. Yeah. Once you get in the stadium, it's Bach and Allian. But no, yeah, it was just like a bunch of bars with people who are, you know, you would go if you happen to like, because there was a there was a comedy theater around there, I.O. Right. And so if you were like doing a show there and you got out at midnight, you'd have to walk by like bros, uh, puking and then, you know, women holding their high heels, screaming at a guy.

Um, it was, it was always like, oh Jesus Christ, this is, this is bad. Yeah. That's this, this place is also in a district that is the same as that. It's like the Friday, Saturday night, everybody's puking, everybody's fighting. It's a puke district. It is a puke district. They hose it down, you know, at the hourly so that they can, you know, everybody can enjoy a new surface to puke. Yeah. So nice. But yeah, I hadn't been I went to it once, like 20 years ago when I like first made it to town. And even then I was going as like as a curiosity more than

I'm going to go enjoy myself at this club. And it has not changed a stitch. It is frozen in time. It is exactly as I remember it, but also like also faded. So it was it's got all the same stuff, but it's all gotten worse. It's wear and tear of time. The sun has done its toll. For some reason, the floor is carpeted, which is disgusting.

Because it's terrible. Yeah, especially if you'reed, which is disgusting because this time. Yeah. Especially if you're dancing, you rub your feet on the ground and then you shock someone. No, but that's sexy. That is pretty electric. Yeah. That is a fun little thing to do. That reminds me of a bit from the evening at the improv episode I was watching.

There was a guy who blew up a balloon and did the static cling thing on his head. They put the balloon on the wall and it just fell down and but his head got sucked to the wall. That was a pretty good Gary Larson. Ask and a joke. Who was this Howie Mandel? No, it was but ask, ask.

Yeah, I think I would like someone's rubbing something on their head. It's got to be how we. But yeah, there's carpet floor covered in gum. So many like black spots everywhere just covered covered in chewing gum. And there's like so the front, there's a stage, there's a bar like dance floor. There's a bar kind of area as you enter. And then there's a back room that has a pool table. And I guess that must be the off, you know, outside of the like dance club part, I guess you could go and have a rock and time in the pool ballroom. But there's like, it's like bench seating that had like stab holes in the

most straight, giant parts of it just ripped off, which is an obvious chunk of it. Well, I remember last year or two years ago, uh, the comedy bang bang was here and Paul F. Tompkins invited us backstage and some of the other performers were saying, Hey, we're thinking of going to the Roxy later. And I was like, oh yeah, there was a, it was closed for a couple of days because of a machete attack. Yeah, that was a weird thing because it was a Wednesday and it was only a comedy show. It

wasn't like anybody, nobody was there not for the comedy show. Sure. He wouldn't be let in until like 10 or whatever. So it was good and the crowd was great and there were couples there on a date night. But so I was seeing it and it's not natural. Mm hmm. Horsing for him. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Like that's kind of it. But yeah, I remember going to it when I was a but a kid and thinking even back then like this place needs a redo. It needs a coat of paint or something. What was the show was like? What was the crowd like? Were they like make fun of our relationships? Yeah. There was a guy on the show. They did a lot of relationship material and he destroyed. He had the set of the night, like far and away. I was closing the show and I didn't come even close to how much the crowd.

Like, it's one of those things where the comic says, well, I got to get out of here. People in the audience were, you know, could hear their disappointment. Yeah, that's really sweet. Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. That's really sweet. Oh, no. Have you guys ever noticed? I guess you can tell more from the crowd than from the stage. But one thing I always thought was funny, when couples go to stand up shows together

and like the guy kind of has his arm around the woman, you know, and this is for a kind of a heteronormative example. But the comedian set will say something about relationships that like indicates, you know, it's saying something like a guys, you know, we always want to, you know, it could be something stupid like a woman's in the bathroom, we want to fuck on killer's else. And then, and then the guy, as an example example example off the dome as like a great code that a stand up community would say. But then like the guy clearly out of insecurity, the guy like then kisses his

girlfriend on the cheek. Like it's something I've always noticed that shows when relationship humor comes up and there's kind of like an insecure guy who feels like he needs to reassure his girlfriend like, Hey, but that's not me. But hey, I'm one of the good ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if you've ever seen anything like that where there's or like there's just like too much touching where it's it's it's as though to say like, uh, no, no, no, uh, I'm, I'm, he's making fun of it. Sometimes it is directly like the community is making fun of me, but I'm, I'm still cool. And I'm still the boyfriend you like.

There is also like the one member of the relationship who laughed way too hard at the thing. Hmm. Yeah. Which is kind of spawned a conversation later on. Like, why are you laughing so hard at that particular joke? I remember there being a guy exactly like you described. Front row, arm around his girl, big guy. So I thought, oh, you know, this will be fun.

I'm a little guy. He's a big guy. Let's create a fun dynamic. And I said, how's it going with you, sir? And he just had move on. And I was like, oh, OK, Okay. This guy is not interested in participating and good power to him for letting me know. Yeah, like he may have decided to kill me after the show.

Or during. Yeah, right. That's true. Oh, then make good tape. Yeah, that would be your final tape. I went to a, you mentioned the gum on the floor. I went to a concert last week at the Commodore and for the first time, I've never heard this before, but as I was walking in, the bouncers were like, okay, no gum, no gum, no gum. Yeah.

I could see it. Huh. Because it's- Open your mouth. Let me see under there. You have enough to share. No gum unless you brought enough for the whole guy. Or no, is he like, people are allowed to spit it in his hand as they walk?

Is post COVID. We're back to normal spit. Government normal. Yeah. Thank God we can spit into a bouncer's hand. Like normal. But yeah, I it's couples are usually fun for crowd work stuff. A guy that's sitting by himself is a lot of fun. But now I don't like I don't even know if crowd work is it's like expected now

because of TikTok and Instagram. Like if you don't do crowd work, I think the audience is a little disappointed. Do you think that's true? I don't know. I mean, like I've because I've I've definitely thought that, but I don't I don't know if I mean, like, I've, because I've, I've definitely thought that, but I don't, I don't know if it's all like, we're in a bubble a little bit of like, we see a lot of other comedians posting, is it, how much of it has it truly permeated the general audience? You know, like, do they expect it? I think some might, but I'm curious if we've hit that point yet, or if we ever will, if there's ever people.

Because like the sample size I get when I go on my Instagram, it's like, well, yeah, I'm friends with like hundreds of comedians. That is all I'm seeing. Yeah. But oh, yeah. Are we just in a like a chamber? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, you might be right. I haven't felt like I've noticed it, but I also haven't like played a club club in a while. So I don't know. Well, it's just like now people,

which I guess they would do somewhat, but there's a lot of specials with crowd work in it, which I feel like wasn't the case, you know, five or 10 years ago. I think that's I remember Aziz Ansari like closing on crowd work out of like a stadium show or whatever giant, you know, whatever he was playing like. What I can't remember was Madison Square Gardens or something like that. Jay Leno when I saw him closed on a crowd work. Did he? Yeah, he did. He went he picked a row and went through everyone and asked them where they were from and what they did for a living. And that was it. That was good.

That was the end of the show. Yeah. It's why he's a pro. It's why he's a pro. That was good. That was the end of the show. Yeah. It's why I'm a pro. It's why I'm a pro. Bob Saget, he would do over the course of the evening, he would do little bits of crowd work between jokes. And then at the end of the show, he would sing a song and did all callbacks to every crowd interaction he had. So far, that's the most impressive use of

the art form of crowd work that I've heard of. That's pretty cool. It was like a... It was like fun that he's won the air of the art form of crowd that I've heard of. That's pretty cool. It was like it was like from the heaps from the era of the big closer, which I feel like it doesn't exist anymore. Just a lot of people. Well, that's the end of my time and good night. We hit 45 and contractually I will be leaving. But do you do you remember that like the era of like, OK, you the music,

here it comes, big last bit. Well, I like Don Rickles would do a song that like the air of like, okay, cue the music. Here it comes. Big last bit. Well, I like Don Rickles would do a song that was like not funny. A sincere, like standard thing. Yeah. Thanks for the memories. Yeah. What? What?

I think you would make fun of you right now. You can see what's happening. You're acting like an absolute hockey puck. You can see what's happening. You're acting like an absolute hockey puck. But yeah, it's it was nice to play in front of that kind of crowd. But the yeah, the backdrop couldn't have been any more incongruent things. When I was a kid and I saw Penn and Teller, they ended in a, like it was a bit where they were naked, basically, because they were like, we're not hiding anything.

And then it was, I had so much fake blood in it, like they ended up wearing like, I don't know, some kind of undergarment, but it was definitely a showstopper. There was a comedian in Canada who I think lives in LA now that would he would rile the crowd up so much he was like a kind of a gross out shock comedian. And the crowd would be so riled up and then he would leave the stage and inevitably he would either get a standing ovation or the crowd wouldn't stop clapping and then he would come out and stage naked. Everybody lost their minds. So, you know, Penneteller, they're not the only ones who can do some some naked. Yeah.

I think anything with a costume change is a good showstopper. Yeah. Or something where you put on sunglasses, you know, also on that A&E's evening of improv. Woo, Billy Crystal really does some pretty questionable work on that. Oh boy. Yeah. I mean, I have definitely seen Billy do his jazz man. Yeah, he did the jazz man. Yeah. That's definitely not okay. And why?

He did Sammy Davis, Jr. as recently as the last time he hosted the Oscars in 2012 or something. Full blackface. Yeah, with, like Justin Bieber was famous at this point. Yeah, no, it was. They were in the scene. You should not, there's no world where Justin Bieber and blackface you would assume would intersect and yet here we were, you know, in the, yeah, 2000s, 2010s.

Yeah, he did the Jasmine character and I was like, whoa. Jasmine, he did the Jasmine. Last time I think he did it was at a Katrina benefit. Because like where is it more appropriate to honor jazz? Well, he was wondering if they could dig that and he knew that they could. He knew that they could. Man. Yeah. Different. Different time.

It's as, as like offensive and bad as it is. It does, it like does make me laugh and how misguided it is and like how he's going for it in a way that's like man he has no idea. He thinks he is like embodying this old black jasmine in a way that's respectful and like the disparity between his intentions and the result really does make me laugh quite a bit. I believe in this same bit he plays maybe a Chinese man from the neighborhood. So it wasn't, you know, he wasn't honoring that guy. Yeah, how it's what a beautiful thing. And he did a lot of blackface when he was on SNL

and he was on only on SNL for one year, but he did like he was like Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis, Jr. And like, he really. Wow. Wow. Excellent. Excellent stuff, Mr. Crystal. Forget Paris, man. Should we move on to some overheards? Yeah. All right. All right. Oh, it's actually a big, a big fat lie. I just told it's not time for overheard. It's time to do a little bit of business. And this one is a jumbotron.

This was sent to us, oh, let's say six months ago in advance of today's date. And we as as near as we piece together, we think this is the right time to be saying it. And Graham, say it. I think it's the right time to say something that's beautiful. It's for Cameron. It's from Aaron. And it says happy 25th anniversary, my husband Cameron.

From the first Idaho drag show on your 18th through those early Long Beach years and our Boston settling in to enduring lockdown in Jersey City, you're still the only person I always want to be around. Here's to our next adventure in Philly from your loving husband, Aaron. And that was Philly exclamation point. Yeah. And they are, they seem to be always on the run. Always on the run, seem to be in, yeah, moving a lot of locations. Probably getting their mail from like a, you know, UPS or something like that.

Oh, you're too good to get your mail from UPS, Graham? No, no, I'm not. I love it. I love the little box and it's supposed to, it's listed like it's an apartment in a building. Oh yeah, like a little PO box. Yeah. Oh yeah, a little key.

Yeah. Like if I forget my key, I just, I tell the guy, you remember me and he goes, man. Yeah, sure, whatever. Here you go, sir. Anyway, happy anniversary, Cameron and Aaron. We hope we got the details right and the date. We said it at the right time. But you know what they say, no refunds. No refunds exactly. Should we move back to the podcast? Let's do it. Yes.

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do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot of things that you want to do. You can do a lot where if you're out there in the world, boy, are people saying all sorts of crazy stuff. And if you hear something, we would like to have it here on the podcast and you can send

that to sbyatmaximofun.org. And we always like to start with a guess. Joe, do you have an overheard? I do. And you know, at first I was like, Oh, what did I overheard recently? But I was like, let's go to one of my favorite ones that I've heard in my lifetime, which this was probably 15 years ago or

something. I was in Chicago, was walking around with a friend. And it's really great when you overhear something with a friend, because then you get that inside joke for the for the rest of your life with them. And you get someone to laugh with it together. There were these teenagers who were doing what I would call a teenage walk, like kind of like stomping around a little bit. And they seemed kind of, they had attitude, that teenage attitude that we know. And the thing I overheard that I'll never forget was one of the teens said to the other ones,

when we're 18, we're going to run this town. It's just beautiful. In Chicago. And that boy? Fair Spieler. Yeah. When we're 18, we're going to run this town. It was like, what do you think that means?

Well, I'm constantly getting bossed around by 18 and 19 year old. Yeah, I'm not I'm not brave enough to stand up to them. Are you kidding me? Sir, yes, sir. OK, anything you say. You run this town now. Oh, I heard the decree. Dave, anything you say. You run this town now. I heard the decree.

Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah, I was at the grocery store. It was the same way. Go on. Nice. And there was a group of three women, one of whom was pregnant, maybe the other two were pregnant, but one was definitely pregnant.

And they were talking and I just overheard one of them say, you freeze, dry it, pack it up, sell it to a bodybuilder. Nice. So I don't know if she was talking about her placenta. Placenta, yeah. Rest milk. Yeah, some kind of super human thing you get as a pregnant woman. Yeah, anything that gives you a competitive edge in the body

of the world. Well, when we're pregnant, we're going to run this. Mine is courtesy of a grocery store as well. And this is from a woman that I could tell was from the heyday of grocery checkout lines, that it was a whole different world than what it is now. And so the cashier was scanning products and they were just kind of going down a counter and there was no bagged person. And so the woman just like

kind of in disbelief said, I do this now. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Surely I don't do this. This is, this is, that was, you know, that is the golden era, the bag boy. I, when I buy groceries, I put my bags with my groceries. So they go down the conveyor belt, just as like a little hint of like, if you're, you got time to lean, you got time to bag. I always go out of my way to bag them myself.

I used to, I think maybe it's because I used to work as a cashier at a grocery store. And so I'm like, I feel so bad for this person who has to stand for hours on end with some of the most impatient people alive. And it's just like, no, I will do it. Please, please relax. Yeah. I just feel like can't do it fast enough for, no, I will do it. Please. Please relax. Yeah. I just feel like can't do it fast enough for the next person. Like, yeah. Well, I've got the

hands on experience. So yeah, that's true. I must be able to, you know, keep it, keep it tight. Yeah. I was gonna say, it's something about a bag bag bags that like, I think some people back in the day, if they got help out to their car, would offer a tip. I feel like every store had a no, you can't accept tips policy. Do you ever get tipped as a... Never, no, never got tipped. I mean...

I tried to tip as a... When I was ordering groceries online and they do all the shopping for you and bring them out to your car, I tried to tip the guy once and he was like, no, are you crazy? It was my job. I got tipped once when I was working as a parking garage attendant, which was very strange. And I was just, was this in Chicago as well? This was in Pittsburgh.

Okay. And I was, because I know two guys in Chicago who did that. I slowly am just dropping hints that my life is Ferris Bueller. But no, I was just sitting in the booth. It wasn't even like I was letting people in or like valeting or anything. I was just sitting in the booth.

I think there was a guy who was trying to impress his date and he just like slipped me a 20. And I was just sitting in the booth. I think there was a guy who's trying to impress his date and he just like slipped me a 20 and I was like, okay. Thanks dude. I accept. Yeah. I'm like reading a book. I'm like truly doing nothing except sitting in this booth. But the grocery store thing reminds me, it's not exactly an overheard because it was said to me, but it was kind of like said, this guy said it to himself, which was someone had bought like, I don't know, Luna bars or like some sort of like maybe healthy higher end granola bar or something. And you know, people I found,

you know, I was a cashier at this place. I didn't, I don't know how the operation is run. I don't know what's going on at corporate, uh, but people always like to confide in me or like yell at me or just about like the prices or whatever it's going on. Things that are obviously are not in my control, but he was like, these things, you're charging a lot for these things now. And I, and I was like, like, you know, you just, anytime I was talking to someone in this job, I would essentially just repeat back to them

what they said in a different phrasing, you know, which is crazy that tactic somehow makes people mad. But all I said was, I was like, yeah, I mean, they're pretty expensive. And he went a little bit to me, a little bit to himself. He went expensive. Madonna tickets pretty expensive. And he went a little bit to me, a little bit to himself. He went expensive. Madonna tickets are expensive. I remember being like, what?

You started this. And also, why is that your frame of reference? I mean, you're charging more of it. I wouldn't say they're expensive. A little pricey, maybe. Yeah, you brought this up. It's like, I kind of think you brought this up just because you wanted to brag, you're charging more of it. I wouldn't say they're expensive. A little pricey maybe. Yeah, you brought this up. It's like, I kind of think you brought this up just because you wanted to brag that you're going to see Madonna.

Yeah. Do you have a, what's your life's ambition here at the grocery store? Because one ambition is quite a show to see if you got the money. You know, was this in Chicago? This was in Chicago. Oh, you know, she shot a league of their own in this, you know. Right near the Wrigley district, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are you called the Rockford features?

Maybe he worked on the set and he wanted me to like say like, you know, she's been around here, well, actually, it was the best boy on when you were a cashier. What was the like big sort of impulse buy people would get in line where it was gum the most popular or did people like an Archie comic? Oh, you're you're assuming I was paying attention even a little bit. I was so I that is truly that is the job where I learned that it's OK to mentally check out. Because it's like that's obviously not my career.

It was a summer job and I had gone into it my whole life being like pretty afraid of authority and like doing whatever an authority figure would tell me to do. And it was that job where I had the into it my whole life being pretty afraid of authority and doing whatever an authority figure would tell me to do. It was that job where I had the revelation like, oh, I will have way less anxiety and I will feel 100 times better if I act like I don't care if I get fired. I let that go and if I get fired, it's okay. I'll be fine. And so what it reflected in like, I would just sometimes if I didn't ring something up, like it didn't get scanned on the thing,

I just let it go. Just let them or if they'd be like, if it didn't ring up right or they're like, there's no price tag on this, I'd be like, you got it. It's all yours. Take it for free. I love it. I wish. like, you got it. It's, it's all yours. Take it for free. Oh, like, I love it. I wish. Also, I would never card anybody. I didn't give a shit, but once there was a, there was a kid, I could tell he was not 21 and he gave me his fake ID, like in that kind of nervous way of like, if he had just confidently went through it, I wouldn't have carded him, but he like,

felt like he had to show his, his fake ID to me. And the name on the ID was Morgan Spurlock. I was just like, what is like your older brother pranking you with his fake ID? He's got a hamburger in the photo. He's got the hamburger in the photo. He's got the fries in his mouth. But it was it was so funny because it was still it's like kind of obscure at the time it was, you know, it was a little more relevant. But I was just like, it made me laugh.

And, you know, I was like, all right, sure, man, I was I wasn't going to stop him by by your hard root beer or whatever the fuck you're getting. Now, we also have overheard sent in to us by people from all over the map. buy your hard root beer or whatever the fuck you're getting. Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people from all over the map. If you want to send one in, send it to sby at maximumfun.org. This first one comes from Sam in Texas. This is a bumper sticker one, a bumper sticker overseen on the highway. It appeared to be one of those weird, don't even think about dating my daughter, bumper stickers. But someone, maybe the car owner had cheekily ripped off the first part. So just said think about dating my daughter

That's funny. I like that Yeah, you know what she's good Freer consideration. Yeah She's you know, she's no spring chicken anymore, but she's got some good years left in her. Yeah. Yeah Those hips think of the child she could bear the child's. This next one that comes from Greg S. in Nashville, Tennessee. My wife was listening to two coworkers discuss cats and the mischief they can get into.

One said I had a cat that destroyed the back of a six hundred dollar chair and people acted like it was my fault. Was it your six hundred dollar chair? I brought my cat to Ikea. She likes to roam. Yeah, she lives in an Eames chair. She can get her claws on that. I don't know.

That's probably more expensive than 600 bucks. Do you guys remember Ikea Monkey? I think about Ikea Monkey all the time. What a little gentleman. What a good monkey. Yeah. That was Canada's top monkey for quite a few years. I don't know if it's been unthrown. Yeah, I was going to say who would take the throne.

None that I can think of. But I'll keep you posted. We can I can send you a message on Twitter and let you know. Thank you. Are the monkeys in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? They are not. And that, you know, they're the only group that I can think of that has their own subheading on the Wikipedia page for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has its own subheading on the Monkeys page. It's a point of contention. I am of the, and I didn't think it'd be controversial, but I am of the opinion that the Monkeys absolutely should not be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It should not be. Oh. No, I don't. Just because it's like, they didn't do anything. Mickey Dolan's sang on the songs for sure. And I guess David Jones sang on some of them as well. But it's like, they didn't play on the hit records. They didn't write them.

They really, it's like, what are you giving? What are you inducting Peter Tork for? Like being an actor in a TV show, it's like. Well, he also did a guest spot on Boy Meets World. That's true. That's true. There was that era where the monkeys would be on Boy Meets World and the Beach Boys were on a lot of Full House episodes,

like Donna Summer and on the Middle Ages. Who knows which of those two is more musically talented, the monkeys or the Beach Boys? It's impossible to know. I don't dare even try to think of it. This last one comes from Brian V, parts unknown. And this requires knowledge that there's a band called Real Big Fish from the back of the.

Yeah. Are they in the Scall Hall of Fame? They're there. They're the Rock Scall of Fame. Scall of Fame. I was at an open house for the local elementary school for my soon to be four year old daughter. We were in the gym when several clubs were set up and one of them was for a band, which was led by the music teacher who must have been in his mid 30s. The music teacher started to explain what the music curriculum was for four

year old kids. I asked him if he had any plans to start a scob and for pre-k kids, you know, like real little fish. He laughed. But when he turned around to leave, I heard him say under his breath, real little fish. That's a good one. Going to reuse that. So that's well known enough to. This is good. That was a good.

People are going to like that one. Well, the fact that you could connect with somebody who really knew exactly what your joke was when you said real little fish. Must feel amazing. Special. Yeah. Well, in addition to the overhards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh. Spipod, one like these people have.

Hi, Dave Graham and lovely guest. This is Julie from Woodbridge, Virginia with an overheard. My family and I were out on a walk and we saw another family coming up that had two dogs. So we stopped to ask if we could pet their dogs. And one of the dogs came right up and was so happy to see us. We were petting it. And my son who really loves dogs noticed the other one was kind of like standing back a little bit. And he asked the man who was holding the leash if he could pet that dog. And the man said, no, he's weird. Anyways, off I go.

I've been advised against it. He's weird. Yeah. He's a weird dog. I wonder what he would do. What kind of weirdness would we... Well, she did call back. So let's have a look. Hi guys, it's Julie again. I forgot to add that the dog indeed did look very weird. Okay, bye. Oh, looked weird.

Yeah. Lookin' dog, okay. Oh yeah, yeah. Tail in the front, head in the back. Yeah, real cat dog situation. I would imagine it's gotta be a violent weirdness. Yeah, unpredictable. Yeah, otherwise, like, it's like, yeah, my dog barks a little weird.

Yeah. He'd still pet him. It's fine, but like... My dog wants to pet you. That's weird. Well, he's from Russia. He's from Soviet Russia, yeah. All right.

Next phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and amazing guest. This is Christina from St. Paul, calling in with an overhoard. I'm a great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, If you get kidnapped, it's on you. Thanks. I don't know if we're in upper ransom.

That's you figuring out if you get kidnapped. Have either of you guys ever been kidnapped? I don't like to talk about it, but one time when I was dressed up as the Bayside Tiger, our rival school Valley. Do you have to mean? I feel like there was also an episode where Carlton from Fresh Prince was a mascot that got abducted and put in a giant bird cage or something like that. We're talking Alfonso?

Alfonso, yeah, Alfonso. He was a peacock and it was, I feel like it was the same thing. Somebody had to dress up as the peacock and... You sound like you, you're saying a lot of, I feel like it was the same thing. Somebody had to dress up as the peacock and you sound like you. You you're saying a lot of I feel like, but you have a lot of details. I think you know definitively, you do know. OK, yeah, OK. I was just, yeah, I feel like Carlton maybe did a funny dance

and wore pastel colors. I don't know. Yeah. All right, here's your final phone call. Hey, fellas. Sitting on a patio having a happy hour beer. Oh, this is Chris from Virginia. And the woman in this couple, very, very annoyed, says to her partner, whatever, I don't know, roommate maybe. so stupid. And then they walk for like three to five seconds in silence and she says,

after they have just passed me, six options, multiple choice. All right, off I go. That is insane. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a four option, not six. That's crazy. That's got to be a b c d. All of the above none of the above all the above. Yeah. Yeah. That would be my guess. Oh yeah. When you say like that, it sounds normal. Sounds like a normal amount. So this person's just I think you wanted the fourth one to be all of the above. Right.

Like that's what I want when I'm taking my citizenship test or whatever. Ooh, what about one of the above, two of the above? We could really, we could both have a satisfied. Yeah, they do sometimes have like A, B and not C. Yeah, yeah, that's always great. Makes you feel good. Well, that brings us to the end of this podcast episode.

Joe, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me, guys. This was a lot of fun. I appreciate it. And I now I feel like I can finally apply for my Canadian citizenship. Absolutely. That's all it takes. Yeah. Ikea monkey. What else do we teach him about?

I mean, I saw turning red on my own, but you know, turning red, sure. That's the only going to help me. I think that's about it. That's all we covered really. Yeah, the Haley Mills's son was not Canadian, oddly, but now it's British. No, too much about whatever that was. Coolest shaker. Yeah, the shaker.

Do you where can people get your album to listen to? Pretty much anywhere you can buy or listen to stuff on Spotify and Apple Music, you know, but the kind of hub of all that stuff is if you follow me on social media, you'll, you'll find my link tree and all that. So I'm at Joe Qua, J-O-E-K-W-A on Instagram and TikTok, Jo K. Jo K on Twitter. Yeah. And you can find all the stuff about my album and you can watch my video sketches. And you know, we are in peak rock hall season. So my podcast, Who Cares About The Rock Hall is back. And you know, check that out if you want to

take a taste, a little sampling of the weird world of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I did not know that you hosted this podcast and I will be listening to every episode going back to episode number one because I want to be this is something I'm very interested in listening to. You know, it's like the reason I did it was like I feel like no one knows anything about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame except that they're mad at it. Like there's both like this like ambivalence and then like a hundred opinions. And I feel like nobody really knows how it works. Who's in who's not.

So it's like we're clarifying we're demystifying. We are evaluating right now. We're evaluating like the artists on the ballot if they'll be in this year. If not when who would induct them all that kind of stuff. That all sounds fantastic. Thank you so much for being our guest and listeners out there. If you have any strong opinions about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, you can reach Joe on social media. Come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. Maximum Fun, a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows, supported, directly, by you.