Who Are These Podcasts? - Ep18 - Ask Me Another

Episode Date: June 12, 2016

This week Kevin and Karl review an NPR podcast called Ask Me Another, the episode is from May 27th, 2016.  This is a "game-show" style podcast featuring special guest Sir Patrick Stewart and some other people that we can't remember.  The guys would love to say that they had fun with the "games" on this one, but clearly no fun was had.  Kevin takes an immediate stance that the show audience is fake and therefore worthy of conspiracy theories about why.  Karl notices the sponsors of the podcast have a interesting theme.  Sir Patrick Stewart seems out of place and throws a couple of cringers out there that make the "crowd" uncomfortable (they aren't real).  Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another episode of Who Are These Podcasts I'm Kevin and I'm Carl and we listen to podcasts so you don't have to. We want to remind our listeners that you can check us out on WhoAreThese.com and on Facebook. We're always looking for podcast suggestions to send us an email, leave us a comment or post a death threat. On today's show, we'll be analyzing and reviewing a podcast called Ask Me Another. A episode is from May 27th, 2016. As always, we both listen to the show separately.

We have not discussed it with each other beforehand. So without further ado, let's find out once and for all, who are these podcasts? It's Showtime. W-A-T-P W-A-T-P everybody W-A-T-P! W-A-T-P, everybody. W-A-T-P! W-A-T-P! W-A-T-P! W-A-T-P!

Like me, Kevin! A-A-T-P! W-A-T-P! You're getting it, you got it, nailed it. So what's up? I listen to another NPR show. That's what I, I don't like NPR shows. I don't think they're very good. No, I don't know, it feels like they're trying to be edgy.

Yeah, they're trying to be something they're not. Yeah. Whatever that something is. But this is ask me another which is a game show or I guess they keep calling it a puzzle show or something. And it's taped in front of a live audience. Right. It's taped in a theater. Yeah. Did you notice anything about the live audience? Because there was something I was picking up on There's times Where I questioned whether or not the audience was real. Thank you. That's exactly

Exactly what I was thinking too. It didn't seem like they would actually be Laughing at certain things or applauding at certain times right and and the way they were mixed in there. Yeah Really fake yeah plotting it certain times. Right. And the way they were mixed in there. Yeah. It's really fake. Yeah. God. No, I have the same comment. There's some weird fade outs and fade ins of the crowd that were bugging me quite a bit.

So I'll give you a couple quick examples. Play Track 3. and you hear this abrupt crowd fade out. Sir Patrick Stewards. Our first game is called This is not... Yeah. And then real quick play track for us another one So what guilty apps do you have on your phone? That's not the way a crowd dies down Yeah, and that's the same clip I pulled number four. Yeah, cuz it's so noticeable It's like the person that was editing,

like they just discovered the fade in, fade out. Yeah, they do it so cheesy. It's like how I do it. Right. And I'm not good at this. Right. Last episode I've retended, I'm really good as a fully artist or something, but I'm not.

I'm terrible at this. That's how I do it. And this guy works, you know, for NPR. Right. Whoever's doing this, I can't remember what this is, but I have a track I'm here called. Is this really a real audience? Is that even possible?

Play track 8 on there. After the newspaper incorrectly announced his defeat of Harry Truman, a former New York governor, gave a politics and created a numerically based method for organizing his local library. Fuck, the Dewey Doss almost said that is correct. I love you guys, because no other crowd would laugh

at a clue like that. would laugh at a clue like that. It... It does sound like... can laughter. It does. It sounds like a laugh track. Yeah. I guess I didn't pay attention enough to it, but that clip really drives it home.

Well, because it's not a funny thing they're talking about, and it's highly uninteresting, they're talking about, and it's highly uninteresting, and these people are applauding and laughing and carrying on. Right. Maybe they all get them high or some of them, maybe they just start pumping out vapors in the room or something and get everybody stoned, and they're just giggling at everything. But I was thinking about this, Kevin, and a peek behind the curtain here. Kevin's the guy who after we do our show, puts all the finishing touches on

and makes sure that we have some technical issues last couple of weeks that hopefully we're taking care of, but you go in and clean things up and make sure that it's gonna sound good for people. And I don't want to challenge that. I appreciate that you take on that responsibility. But what if we did like this show ask me another and we pretended there was a live audience watching us do our show. I went back to an old episode of ours called Bronyville. I went back to an old episode of ours called Bronyville. And I kind of re-edited it based on the idea

that there's a live audience watching us play Bronyville Revisited. I always love in GI Joe when Cobra announces who has arrived and who has attacked him now. Is that they don't have logos on everything? There's logos on, they're airplanes, on their missiles, on their faces in a lot of cases? Yeah, they're... Oh, cobra!

Okay. They really want you to know who's attacking. It's... Cobra! Could you imagine if it was like... El-Kyda! No, no, no, no! That's not thinking.

It's like, you don't see ISIS screed. Well, maybe they do. I only think about that. You just got oil sold, bitch. You know what it is, is they spent so much money for a graphic designer to do that cobra logo. They're like, we're putting this shit on everything. Do you know how much I used to spend on this logo?

Now that we have this tin so we are using this everywhere. It's on letterhead, it's fucking everywhere. Everywhere there's anything cobra that is a fucking cobra logo on it. They could be a case study in branding if you were going to school for marketing. This is the way you make a brand. Watch how Copa Commander did it. If we're going to spell the name out, make sure you do it in all Noah case. That's how people do it this day.

We have a specific font. You didn't use the font. This is... Oh, my God. Oh Holy shit How awkward it was that just now you and I are just sitting here listening to ourselves I didn't plan that out real well. I'm so uncomfortable That was we just did that it was weird, but you know what? I think I like to show better.

Yeah, I know. Because I've said some jokes that weren't funny at all and then people responded like it was really funny. And I'm like, oh, maybe I am funny. All right, I like this. I like, there's one point in there where you say something about ISIL or whatever. And there's guys like

They should pick it up on that That's great So let's see I have a lot I feel like the same clips that you do but Here's so the guest on the show is Sir Patrick Stewart and he they introduce him and they ask him about what it's like to be a knighted and he answers with a really sad I don't, just let me play it. Yeah, yeah. I've never talked to a sir before, and I'm just wondering, it's an honor. Was this something that you, even as a kid, just dreamed of being knighted?

Being a sir? Yeah. I just dreamed of hoping there was some Being a sir? Yeah. I just dreamed of hoping there was some food for the next meal. That was all. God. Yeah. How is that funny? I think we're up in poverty. Yeah, it's like, uh,

WOOOOOOH FORWARDY! Yeah! So awkward. Yeah, it probably wasn't, he probably shouldn't have pulled that. He could have just said, no, it was beyond my expectations at that time. Right. Bad, bad reference.

Right. We're going to drag down the show, but fortunately, the audience is so dumb that they have no idea what he's talking about. And so they just laugh on a plot. Right. So, so the, you know, I started off our show saying I don't like NPR. And I do have an agenda here. There's specific things about NPR. I don't like and I'll reiterate it because we went through this when I made a system the last NPR show we did.

Which was wait, wait, don't tell me. If you want to go back to the archives on who are these.com you can check it out. The thing I don't like about NPR is people who listen to NPR feel like they're smarter than other people and they're not. They're actually dumb. And I have some examples of this that I'd love to play for you. So the way that this show is formatted, there's seven games that are played throughout this hour long show. And the first game is, it's not even being smart or not.

It's just they explain what a mobile app does and you have to decide whether that's a real mobile app, it's available or if it's something that they made up. So it's just kind of a 50-50 chance guessing game. But you got to listen to this one, played Track 5 and then we'll talk about how dumb this person is. Here we go. Fox News translator, this app listens to Bill O'Reilly or Megan Kelly, and then outputs calm, rational discussions about climate change, President Obama, and the war on Christmas. The Fox News Translator is fair and rebalanced. Casey.

Real. No, I'm sorry, that's false. Fred, you're home, you're home. Okay, could you imagine if there was an app that could actually understand the nuance context of what people were saying and then regurgitate that taking out bias in order to explain what the actual message is, how does this dummy think that that's possibly a real app?

That would be ground breaking. That would be mind blowing. Google is working on that shit day and night. There's 30 years out from making that a reality. And she's like, oh yeah, that sounds like totally an app. Yeah, something that can figure out what Fox News is saying and tell you the real story. She, yeah, must think that like terminator is real.

Like that's what happens. Exactly. I love our robot overlords. Yeah. I just thought that was funny because all the other apps were just dumb. Yeah. Like, oh, this app can tell you what you ate by smelling your fart. Yeah.

It's like that. And it was pretty easy. Like, oh, that sounds fake. That sounds real. And then this one comes out, but it's like, oh, you dummy. Yeah. Yeah. It's, there was the game part of this was really bizarre to me. Um

there just didn't seem to be any well I guess you know what before I get into that let's I want to play this clip because it's right at the beginning of the show and I'm not a hundred percent sure why it's there. Okay here it is. 100% sure why it's there. So here it is. Warning, the following content has been deemed inappropriate for the radio. It may also be inappropriate for children, offices, or sensitive grandparents.

Please put on your headphones. So I grabbed the exact same clip and I was gonna ask you the exact same question. Yeah, because there is no, you know, it's not like there's, there drop in F-bombs or, you know, talking about fucking vaginas or whatever. Well, that was, that was trying to be funny, obviously. It's like, you know, grandparents are. But I think that was real. I think that they, that really is a disclaimer.

Right. Right. I'll definitely, there's a reason that they put it there. I mean, obviously they are trying to be funny, but did they get like as are they worried that whatever like a sir Sir Patrick Stewart said like shit two times or something like right. Right. Right. I just thought that was really weird that they would go to the length to put put that in there. I don't know. Well, here's how they describe their show on their website. It says, what you'll hear resembles the casual intimacy of a game night at a friend's house. One where scores are forgotten in favor of hilarious gaps. So I think what they think they're creating is, and like you were saying before, like edgy,

conversational, anything goes type of show, but it's boring people who, you know, probably have their PC radars cranked so far up that they would never say anything provocative or interesting anyway. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of fucking nerdy talk on this Oh, oh there is quite a bit of nerd talk. Oh my God. Starting with this terrible joke because Patrick's duarts on the show, they start off the show with this doozy. Play Track 2. Puzzles. The final frontier. Yeah. How is that a joke? Again, it sounds like the audience was just, that's got to be a laugh track or something. It was very cringey. And you know, now that you say the laugh track thing,

there's a time where at the end when she announces the winner the way it transitions from what the show part of it to her announcing it Sounds like it was recorded after the fact. There was some I remember hearing it and going Is she like recording the winner and like saying hey hey thanks for you know you won blah blah blah Not in front of the crowd and then all of a sudden the crowd comes in and it's it's weird, man I don't know I think I think you're on to something. I think this might be Completely done in a studio and Everything added Wow, it's some conspiracy we've clicked up. There's even there's even pictures of them doing this stuff live in front of an audience.

Or the whole world. Whatever it would be with that. So, what's that? This is like the 9-11 conspiracy. That's right, exactly. We're gonna have loose change. We're gonna have an documentary about asking another. Steal those milk, man. I'll ask me another steel dismal. Man.

Ah. Okay. Oh, all right. So real quick, I did want to talk through how they formatted the show. So the first game, they had two contestants. And you can become a contestant by emailing them or something. And then I guess they have you actually there physically at the show. They they record out of Brooklyn.

So the first game was that what I told you whether it was app is real or not. So it's just a guessing game. The second game, totally false epinems was just the easiest game. It was easy as shit. I grabbed two examples of these trivia questions. Play track seven. When Conan O'Brien's sidekick isn't sitting on the couch, he's out in the field measuring earthquakes

using this magnitude number system. BELL The bald-headed star of the fast and furious franchise really gets into his work, doing thermal efficiency experiments in his trailer and creating this type of fuel. BELL It's like they're trying to sound like they're smart questions, thermal efficiency experiments in his trailer and creating this type of fuel. It's like they're trying to sound like they're smart questions, but they're not smart questions. It's written scale and diesel fuel.

It's these are the like anyone can answer these questions. Well, I think you pulled the same one I did, but this one just made me fucking furious. Okay. one just made me fucking furious. Yeah. So let me. Yeah, how is this a how is this a trivia show? It's not a it you know what it reminded me of these questions when I San Al used to do the Jeopardy things. Yeah. Oh, I was like, I'm doing like just a number. Just any number will do. Just say your name. What is your name? Exactly.

Jesus Christ, how is this entertaining to listen to it? It's so obvious. Yeah, well, to set it up, I guess, for the listeners there. That last clip we played, the reason the guy is singing it is that that game that they're doing is they're describing a movie To the tune of I heard it through the grapevine so he does like three Of the same basically the same verse of that song

describing a movie and that was five. It's just over and over and over again. It's like that's so boring and obnoxious, but I mean, can you get any easier than, you know, the name of the film is Ghostbusters. I want you to say the word ghost of ghostbusters. They Howard Stern played this game with Beetlejuice recently that was called the name of the game was the answer is five and the answer to every question was five it was just so funny he's like all right now beetle if you want to get this right the answer is going to be five and then you like ask the question what's three plus two and be a big seven maybe maybe for beetle juice this would be you know a tough game but

for Beetlejuice this would be a tough game, but for anyone who's not retarded, you would think that this would be a really boring type of trivia show. So who am I? Me? Me? There's some Ghostbusters. I'm way 250 pounds. Two out of 50 pounds. Ghostbusters.

I'm way about pounds. So as I said, the second game was really dumb. And then the third game was, and this is really stupid too, but Patrick Stewart would just read lyrics to a song and then you had a name with the song was. But it wasn't one of those things where you you buzzed in as soon as you knew it, because the whole joke is that this British guy is, you know, reciting the lyrics to a British Spear song right now, right? It's hilarious. So that that was obviously easy. And then the fourth game is like impossible. So you have all these games are just dumb and anyone could do it. And then listen to how they set up the fourth game, Track 11. Yes, this game is called Scientific Rhymerific. In this game a scientific concept will be described in each clue as well as some other considerably less scientific term that rhymes with it. You will have to give us the two word rhyming answer.

that rhymes with it. You will have to give us the two word rhyming answer. A little complicated puzzle-goo-r-art chunk, can you give us an example? The physicist thought they had achieved a reaction in which atomic nuclei form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy, but it was just a mirage or trick. So the answer to that clue is fusion illusion. A cutie is fucking crazy. He just blew some minds with that one. I lost it like he's reading what the game is about and I lost focus.

Like, it's so funny, cause all these other games are so easy. So then the fifth game after that one is what you were talking about with the guy singing the same verse I've heard it through the grapevine, but with just explaining movies so obviously, there's like Titanic's in there and it's like, your love will still go on.

It's like, oh, really? It couldn't be any easier. And then the sixth game is Sir Patrick Stewart is actually being quizzed. And they quizzed him on Shakespeare, which he has a vast knowledge of because he's been a Shakespearean actor since 1966. So that was boring. It's like, yeah, he knows everything about Shakespeare, neat, whatever. And then the seventh game is the final round. And everyone who won their games earlier

get to play in this final round. And this was a dumb premise. So the answer to the question contained a vowel in it. But the vowel could only appear one time. And the first answer would have to be an A. The second one had to have an E. So it went in order. It didn't even make sense. Yeah. And then the game ends with a third. Play track 14 and listen to how this game, this whole hour long game show ends. Pat, food so delicious it literally makes you salivate can be described as this.

I don't know. Yeah, you have no idea. All right, let's move to Fred. Delicious it literally makes you salivate can be described as this I don't know yeah, you'd have no idea or let's move to Fred Fred. Do you know? Ambrosial now Sorry, that's not right. Let's go to Steffi She's looking at Ali Three seconds. No Ali do you know? No shaking your head. Tom, if you know the answer, you're our grand prize winner.

Well, I'm really, really hoping it's mouthwatering. That's right! I love how the guy made sure that he enunciated. I really, I'm hoping that it is mouth watering. Yeah, he didn't phrase it as a question, so. What is mouth watering? Yeah, it's pretty funny that these adults, these duds up on stage, none of them could figure out this easy answer.

And meanwhile, you got fusion illusion or whatever the fuck that other game was. It seemed to not fit in with the rest of this show at all. No, that I don't understand the reasoning for any of the games, really. But there's so many of them them I think they're just trying to justify the fact that this is a game show podcast. It's like let's just cram a shit ton of of games in here that really don't relate all that much to each other. They're just sort of I don't know like bar games like shit you would do like if you went to the bar and

did like, keep trivia over the fuck that thing is called. Well, I agree. Yeah, I get, yeah, right, geeks you drink. I agree, except for their, their worst, their convoluted in a way that they don't need to be. It doesn't make it more interesting. And this is amazing to me. You would think that coming up with these games would be pretty easy, but oh no, it's not easy for NPR. Play Track 15. Additional puzzle writing by Greg Lightman, Josiah Madigan, Jake Heath Van Stratton, and senior writers Kyle Beakley, and Karen Lurie. There's five people who write these puzzle games for this show. Two of that being senior writers. Right. Well, yeah, I've been around for a while, man. I'm a

senior writer now for NPR podcast. Oh, maybe you've heard of totally false epitoms. Yeah, that's me. Yeah. Uh, uh, do you remember a little thing called uh, Ghostbusters song? That's great. Yeah, I was, uh, completely the games on here. I really thought that NPR, you know, being a major, you know, player for radio and broadcasting would bring, I don't know, just more substance to the games themselves, but it's really just a clever excuse to have a celebrity on, you know. clever excuse to have celebrity on, you know. Right. So I mentioned I don't like NPR because I think that people who listen to it think they're smart, but it's actually really dumb. It's not, it's not quality entertaining. You know, when you listen to NPR and you listen to the newscasts, it couldn't be more boring. They don't have broadcasting down at all. They just read very quietly and with no emotion or you know what I mean? They just they're just not professionals.

And the other thing I hate about NPR is it's publicly funded. It's taxpayer dollars go towards NPR to you know to fund it. PR to, you know, to fund it. And yet for some reason over the last few years, it's transitioned to now they just blatantly play commercials. They used to say others underwriting and they would maybe mention the name of a company, but they wouldn't go through the tag lines and everything else. Play a, put a couple of the commercials in here, play the NPR commercials. Support for Ask Me Another comes from the Lagoonita's Brewing Company. Leave no questions unasked, because life is uncertain. Don't sip. More at Lagoonitas.com.

Support for this podcast and the following message comes from Fifth Generation, Maker of Tito's Handmade Vodka. Tito Beverage. Yeah, that's his real name. Incorporates the concepts of artist and craftsmanship found in boutique wineries into the spirits industry to create Tito's Hanmaid vodka. Yeah. So not only are they taking advertising dollars, but guess who they're whatever,

you know, whenever they decide who the target audience is, who's actually listening to this. Oh, it's alcoholics. Apparently, as he was listening to this shit, don't think you're so smart at VR listener. Apparently based on all the calculations they've done, you're an alcoholic. Right. I loved listening to those goddamn songs. Oh, I heard it through the grapevine, this is hilarious! I think that's a Ghostbusters 2! No, it's the first one. Oh, cow. And then, so they're getting taxpayer dollars, they're also supplementing that with this revenue from advertisers, And yet, these are the prices that give away play track 13. Not only is Hillary Ann Kotler gonna get an ass mean

other anagram t-shirt, but you Sir Patrick Stewart are also going to get an ass mean other anagram t-shirt. Thank you so much. You know how celebrities usually will donate their game show winnings to charity? Yeah. Do you think he's going to donate that t-shirt to charity? That's the worst prize I've ever heard of and it's embarrassing to give it to a celebrity. I'm, I'm some Patrick Stewart. I'm going to give my t-shirt to a sick kid with cancer. You're a hero, Mr. Stewart. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

You were playing when Sir Patrick Stewart first came on. They had an interview session. And that was awkward too, because it was him promoting the new TV show that he's doing. Yeah. Which didn't fit the format at all of this game show. They introduced him in the beginning, but they didn't bring him out. And then they played a game and then they did bring him out. And then they did an interview. And I was wondering going back to the show we did last week, We're Alive,

which was all about post-apocalyptic zombie, pre-scripted serial show. What if we combined the two? I wanna hear what it would sound like if Sir Patrick Stewart were being interviewed in We're Alive. I'm Ophira Eisenberg, and with me right now is our very important puzzler, Sir Patrick Stewart. I know this is not what you've commute for you, because you're now a neighborhood

But now the last I still have my You know you have to keep up with Maybe that maybe that doesn't work. Maybe it doesn't fit. No, especially the fart at the end, I think, throws it off. I can't see that much. That was actually my surprise. Stuart, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for that. Just a Mexican food around here is delicious. Speaking of farting, did you know there's an application you could lose to figure out what you've eaten when you're farted? Do you have any other clips you wanted to go through?

Let's see. Oh, there's this one where they interview one of the contestants and I I just thought her a voice was annoying Now Robin I know that you were a part-time pirate and I'm just gonna let you elaborate I Am a pirate I'm Baltimore. My name is Scurvy Sal I get to sneeze on children for a living. They find it utterly delightful. By which I mean they run away screaming and that's exactly what I want them to do. That's incredible. All right. It's not easy being green. Oh my god. I get to sneeze. Yeah, what was she talking about?

So she's a pirate and she sneezes on children. She's scurvy Sally. And yeah, she gets to sneeze on kids. I don't know. That's a problem. Yeah. They should look into that. I feel like someone should do something.

Yeah. At the end, Sir Patrick Stewart tells, I don't know, I guess his favorite like part of a Shakespeare play and it just brings the whole fucking room down. It's just so depressing. So introduce to a statue that was made of his wife, and someone says to him, if you believe she will come back to life, and the statue steps down off her plent and gives her ex-husband her hand, and he says, oh, she's warm.

That is creepy. Oh, she's warm. Never stated. That is creepy. Yeah. What? What? The audience had no idea how to respond to that. Yeah. He goes, brings them down this whole, you know,

he was so, there was a statue and he gets off of it and he holds his hat and like all this whole thing and they're like ready to laugh. You're right. They're like, oh, oh, he's serious. It's, yeah, very uncomfortable. Yes, it was. It's a weird format for a show. I, Patrick Sears usually very funny on shows, but when you put somebody in a situation like this,

it makes it very difficult for the guest. Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, I, I, I seem like he kind of knew what to expect with the show, but then again, I don't, I don't know. Like he, if he was like, oh, I'm going to be playing, I'm going to be playing games. Oh, I'm trying to do my surpatrix to it. It's not bad.

It's actually not bad. I think you're on point. You're good enough that it's discouraging me from trying. So I have a clip on here. I will just pull this out randomly. Don't remember what it is, but I call it apparently, this is hilarious. Surpatrix, take it away.

She was a fast machine. She kept her motor clean. She was the best damn woman that I ever seen. She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies, knocking me out with those American thighs. As someone who loves ACDZ, that was amusing to me, but... Oh, it was? Yeah. See, I... Okay.

This is where I maybe didn't appreciate it when I was new at the first time through, because, as I mentioned, that was the third game where he reads the lyrics and you have to say what the name of it is. And as soon as he said the very first thing, she was a fast machine. I'm like, oh, it's, you shook me all night long. Right. And then he just keeps going through it. I'm like, oh, why are we, what are we doing here? Why are we still going down this road? What, what, what is everyone waiting for? This is so easy. Yeah, no, I feel like they were like let you know, you got them go through it a little. Let them get his his great thighs, uh, you know,

delivery out there. It was so amazing. Let me put my love into you, babe. I'm just trying the other easy, easy song. What if what if it said he was doing, uh, lick it up? What if what if it said he was doing uh lick it up lick it up I wish I knew the lyrics Oh I think the lyrics go lick it up lick it up Yeah yeah yeah it's only right No the best lyric from lick it up is you got to live like your on vacation. I'm guessing that Jeanne Simmons dated a chick once he would only swallow when she was on vacation or something special occasion. So he just threw that lyric in there. Yes, that's a

very, very true story. We were on vacation in the Philippines with my wife at the time. She was not my wife. Her name was Shannon. And when we went on this vacation trip, she would swallow my semen. And that's the only time that she would do so. Make sure you buy the kiss coffin when it comes out on market. Yes, you can be buried in a kiss, Carlin. I was waiting for you to transition to promotional. He's never, Gene Simmons has never answered a question without transitioning to selling

something. So, sometime merchandise or something, he's got coming up. He's the worst. He's the worst interviewee ever. I just want you to know, Carl Carl that this entire episode of the podcast is brought to you by the new Kiss Pes dispensers. Kiss now dispenses candy from our necks and you can get this candy anywhere you can find Pes. I just wanted to let you know that Kiss is always at the forefront

the kiss army. Just a shout out to our sponsors. Kiss is awesome. The greatest band ever. We love Kiss. Alright, I just have a couple more random ones to play just to get through the rest of this. There's one I call terrible anecdote and this is one of the contestants, and this is a terrible anecdote. So my sister used to have this little ceramic owl that was in a pot, like on a spring, and you would like push it down and it would bounce back up. There's a certain species of owl

that in Russian is called feedin. So my sister would say, have a feeling I can't hide Totally worth it that was totally worth it Yeah, that was not totally worth it and they must have Lapsides and applause signs. They're lighting them up all over the place Yeah, what was working in those sciences not making enough money? And another example of what we've been talking about, a seemingly fake audience, play Track 9 on there. Well, everyone knows if you want something to sound smart and high-brow,

is you have to get a British person to say it. And since we have the smartest classiest Brit with us. Is that how you would react to those sentences? Yeah, I don't know. I know audience reactions always are fucking weird to me. Yeah. Like, one of the things that I hate the most is when people... And I think I mentioned it last podcast too, when people are put on mic that are asked something, if they're in a crowd or they're asked something, usually on TV, they always woo after they say something.

So they'll be like, oh yeah, you want to shout out to somebody and they're like, oh yeah, I wanted to shout out to my mother and my brother Wooo! Like everybody feels like that they need to woo when they talk on a microphone. I don't understand. So you're talking specifically about prices right with through carry when he lets them do their shout out. And they can't just say, yeah, hey, I just want to say to Elizabeth back home, you know, thanks for watching. It has to be my mom and Elizabeth. Yeah, exactly. Or like any, and I blame TRL because that's always that was like the cliche with that TRL show. If you remember, they would say, you know, could just shout out to can shout out to blah blah blah and then they would whatever the fucking girl would be because it's always

Chicks on that show Like I want to shout out to my my mother and my father who sent me here on their time TRL how old is that that's some pull you just grabbed there Yeah, I was What does that show I the air? Well, all right, here's a more content. Oh, it's I like it. It's it's right But I'm just thinking what percentage of the people let's say do us to give them that with the fuck TRL It's I hope a lot, but

How about What's the New Year's rock and Eve? That's another one. Oh, that' Eve? That's an awkward show, holy shit. That's hard to get through. Yeah, they always have to say, who do you, what's your resolution? Or who do you wanna say hello to? And they're like, my cousin and DC, and my woo! Like they haven't even finished.

Shaft the time. They can't get the woo out fast enough. Right, yeah. Let's skip to the woo pot. Woo. So Kevin, NPR has really bad shows as we've proven with these two. Guess how many podcasts NPR is currently putting out

on the market? Well, I don't know the exact number, but I know it's a shitton. There's 34 different podcasts. Oh my god. I know. It's like, why don't you guys just get one of these right and then move on to number two. Right, right. Holy shit. That's way more than I thought it would be. Holy shit, that's way more than I thought it would be. Yeah, it's pretty bad. So I think I'm going to put this to, uh, to Ross. I'm not going to, I'm not going to rail on NPR anymore. I'm moving on.

All right, good. I feel like I have closure now with NPR, but I did want to do another show that obviously has a pretty good size audience and is garbage. So I'm glad we let's do it. Do you have anything else you wanted to play from asking me another before we put it to bed? No, I think I'm good. Awesome. All right. Well, with that, now we move on to the part of our show where we tease the show. We're going to make fun of next week. This is, yeah, this is show. We're going to make fun of next week. This is, yeah, this is a crowd favorite. Why don't you play next week's teaser? Sometimes I pull out clips of a show and you have no idea what it is to explain it to you. This one, I pulled a clip that exactly explains what the show has. Hello, this is Minute 42 of As If, the podcast about clueless, where we talk about clueless

minute by minute. I am Joel Taurus, your host, and with me today is Ben Sunday and Lindsey Busco. This Minute 42 starts with Elton saying fine in one of those voices and ends with Elton speeding off like an asshole. Yeah. I mean, at that point, I mean, yeah, he is an asshole for just totally ditching her insects, but she also should not be getting back in that car. Wow. Kevin, this is a, so it's a daily podcast and every podcast they put out each day is looking

at 60 seconds worth of the movie, Clueless, and analyzing that 60 seconds worth of Clueless. Oh my god. So the one that I pulled is minute number 42. It's called Cl liquor. It's an 18 18 minute long podcast about the minute 42 of the movie Clueless. What? I have the premise I've heard the premise before of like, you know, dissecting a movie or whatever. Well, I limit yourself to one minute. I mean, how much can happen in one minute? Oh, it clue list is pretty new after the layered, my friend.

Apparently there's a lot going out there. Wow, holy shit. This is, I cannot wait to listen to this. I know, I'm actually excited about it. This is gonna be fun. I might listen to a bunch of these shaffis outs. Yeah, yeah. I want to see what these uh, what these dumb-dums come up with. Because if you told me to talk about a single minute of time in the movie Clueless,

the show would be less than a minute long. I could sum it up pretty quickly on that. What, uh, what would be a movie that you would want to do this like if we were gonna Do a podcast about all movie do we do Peewee's big adventure. I thank you so What did that have that rule? Jesus I was Totally I would love to do that. I think I could do that. Definitely. All right. So

um who are these guys talking about Pee Wies big adventure? Is that a box of podcasts? Yes. What does that break down to? W-A-A? I gotta I gotta run it out. Does it spell a word? Because that would make it easier? I'm trying to drive me crazy. Oh, Jesus. What would be your choice for a movie? Honestly, I was hoping you said that because I love Peabies Big Adventures, my favorite movie. But I really enjoy Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin.

That's another movie I really like dumb and dumb or and Kingpin. That's another movie I really like a lot. Big Lebowski, I think would you? You know, be an interesting one to analyze. For me anyway, is the original Willy Wonka. Oh yeah, yeah. The beginning of it is a fucking bore fast and there are songs that just drag on.

But as soon as Willy Wonka's introduced, it, there's actually a lot of, there's a lot of reading between the lines. I feel like that might be an interesting one to do. Yeah, I know that's like, yeah, that's one of your favorite movies, right? It is. Yeah, it is.

Why, why do embarrass me in front of everybody? Oh, Jesus. There's way more embarrassing movies than that. All right, so we're gonna listen to this Clueless podcast and I think based on what they do wrong, we can figure out how we can make our P.W. Big Adventure podcast way better. Exactly.

We'll just do the opposite of whatever they do and we'll have an awesome podcast about P.E.W.E's Big Adventure podcast way better. Exactly. We'll just do the opposite of whatever they do. And we'll have an awesome podcast about P.E.W.E's Big Adventure. So this minute is where he's preparing breakfast at the beginning of the movie. And he says, uh, come on, Mr. Breakfast. Now, you'll notice it is bunny slippers, the left slipper is a little bit larger than the right slipper and I don't know if they weren't able to get a matching pair before production started or... Oh God.

So please, people, join us again next week because it might be the show where we find out once and for all. Who are these podcasts? Sleep well every pony. I'm gonna go back to the place where I was born I'm gonna go back to the place where I was born I'm gonna go back to the place where I was born I'm gonna go back to the

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