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0:53

I'm having a weird morning. Oh,

0:55

really? How's that? I have not

0:57

been able to get to the grocery

0:59

store. I

1:02

woke up this morning to find that

1:04

I am basically out of breakfast foods. I

1:07

have other foods. The worst

1:09

food, the worst problem in the world. This

1:13

morning, before we're doing this at

1:15

9.30 our time, I

1:17

had to have a turkey sandwich and a cup of

1:19

coffee. I feel like

1:23

I have left God's light. I feel like

1:25

I am now invisible to God. He

1:29

has left me. It

1:31

just felt so wrong and it's hard to put

1:33

my finger on why. Maybe it's just like maybe

1:35

I'm uptight and I'm

1:37

just a sheep

1:40

in the flock and I think you

1:42

have to have eggs in the morning

1:44

and turkey sandwiches for the afternoon or

1:46

whatever, but I felt shameful. I

1:49

feel kind of gross. I'll tell you

1:51

this, Jordan. I fall apart

1:53

completely. I have a main

1:56

breakfast. I

1:58

have a backup breakfast. Okay. But

2:01

if the backup breakfast isn't there,

2:03

I'm done. I'm

2:06

done though, Jordan. What's the ...

2:08

So what's an example of a main breakfast? Main

2:12

breakfast is going to be overnight oats with

2:15

peanut butter in there. And

2:18

I make those four or five at a time. At

2:20

night when I'm cleaning up after

2:22

dinner, I'll make

2:25

some overnight oats. And

2:28

I fill the jugs and I got a little immersion

2:30

blender, vrooo, vrooo, vrooo, you know, the whole nine yards.

2:34

But I'm lazy and that's a hassle. So

2:37

sometimes I have run out and I have not

2:40

anticipated it or not gotten my act together,

2:43

in which case, thank

2:45

goodness, I've got grape

2:47

nuts in the cabinet. Sure.

2:50

You know me and my passion for eating

2:53

a small bag of brown rocks. I'll

2:56

eat grape nuts any time. Are you getting

2:58

protein from grape nuts? Grape

3:02

nuts have a protein supplement

3:04

in them. Okay. I

3:07

think primarily

3:09

they're sort of like ...

3:13

Do you know what diaphanous earth is? No,

3:15

I don't. Sounds like a ... Is

3:18

this something you learned about on a QAnon website? Are

3:23

the elites of the world all

3:25

inside a diaphanous earth? It's

3:31

like a type of rock that you

3:33

spread around the corners of your house

3:35

to desiccate ants. I

3:38

think that's what's in grape nuts mostly. But

3:40

then there's also a little bit of wheat

3:43

and there's some kind of protein supplement in

3:45

there. But the main thing that it's

3:47

doing is just being indigestible. Like it

3:49

just takes up space. It's filling space.

3:52

It's tricking your body into thinking you've

3:54

eaten something. I don't

3:56

know. I have turned into such a protein monster.

3:58

I am just like ... Like,

4:01

if I don't get the right protein, I will

4:04

tell my mom who I love to fuck off, you

4:06

know? Like, it

4:08

is just, it affects me so hard now.

4:10

And I'm like, I guess

4:13

this turkey, I guess this deli

4:15

turkey is the best thing

4:17

to do right now. So.

4:20

When you said that you will tell your mom that

4:22

you love to fuck off, your

4:25

mom who you love to fuck off, I

4:27

immediately pictured you going up

4:30

to your mom and making a list of

4:32

who you love to fuck off. Oh.

4:37

You're like, well, of course,

4:39

there's this one woman I

4:41

met at the grocery store. So

4:44

if I don't have the

4:47

grape nuts, and the real problem is the

4:51

children will have drunk all the milk. That's

4:53

the real problem. Children

4:55

love milk. There's

4:58

a couple of little milk beans. Very

5:00

little milk beans. They're a lot

5:02

like cartoon kitty cats in that family. There's

5:05

two possible problems. One is the children have

5:07

drunk all the milk. One is that we're

5:10

out of grape nuts because not all grocery

5:12

stores carry grape nuts. You don't always

5:14

go to the grape nut grocery store.

5:16

In fact, I sort of have to make a

5:18

special trip to the grocery store that carries grape

5:21

nuts. And I'll just hope

5:23

to find the big box of grape nuts, and

5:25

then I'll buy three of them so

5:27

that there's always a backup. It's

5:30

a sad scene. But if there's no

5:32

milk, I'm just out

5:34

of luck. I'll just fall apart

5:37

right then and there. I'll

5:42

just be in the cabinet

5:45

eating raw ramen noodles.

5:49

You know what I mean? Do you have a... Do

5:51

you have a close enough panic run

5:53

you can make? Is there

5:56

a close breakfast burrito? close

6:00

breakfast. Jordan. Sammy. I

6:03

lock, I lack the strength. Without

6:06

my Grape Nuts, I lack the strength to make it

6:08

to breakfast. I mean, you know about me. It's

6:11

the same reason I can't eat brunch. I'm

6:13

not going to sit there and wait to eat

6:15

breakfast. I need breakfast now. Otherwise,

6:18

I'm going to die. That's

6:21

how I feel about it. What did you... So

6:23

I had a turkey sandwich and coffee this morning. That sounds like

6:25

something with like an 80-year-old

6:28

orders. Like a weird old

6:30

guy diner order. Turkey sandwich and coffee.

6:33

That's your aspirational lifestyle, Jordan. I know.

6:36

I just didn't think I'd get there so soon. I

6:38

thought it was something I would settle into after a

6:40

couple of wives have died, you know? But

6:44

I'm there now. We

6:47

often don't have any bread in the house.

6:49

And I'll take an avocado with crab meat.

6:54

I'll take some

6:56

gelatin hot dogs and

7:00

coffee and turkey.

7:05

Anyway. I really admire those people who

7:07

just drink hot coffee for breakfast. I

7:11

just have my cup of joe and that's

7:14

who I want to be. That would be great.

7:16

I can't have the caffeine, but I love

7:18

the idea of just pouring myself a cup

7:20

of joe and that's it. That's

7:22

liquid breakfast. What did you have this morning? I

7:24

stopped you. I mean, I had

7:27

a regular ... I had my overnight

7:29

oats. Lately I have

7:31

this new dog and he needs to

7:33

go outside to poop. So

7:36

I have to take ... Even

7:38

just walking him around the block without having

7:41

eaten breakfast is very

7:44

dire for me. I

7:46

come back and it is as though

7:48

I've crossed the

7:50

desert. And

7:52

I just pour food into my mouth. But I

7:54

made it. For a while we were

7:56

out of overnight oats and out

7:58

of grape nuts. And I had to eat

8:01

my mother-in-law's puffins, peanut butter

8:04

puffins. Oh, okay. Thors?

8:07

Maybe less substantial than Grape Nuts, yeah.

8:10

But you know. It's not anything. I have

8:12

a Reddit. Say, speaking of something that's not

8:15

anything, you have a Reddit post. Yeah,

8:17

and it is food related.

8:21

If you're watching this live, by the

8:23

way, remember that it is the Max Fun Drive. That's

8:25

why we're doing these special live shows. We

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join us at maximumfun.org/join.

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Have you seen Maximum Bag, Jordan? I have seen

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Maximum Bag. This is something you get for the

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$35 a month level, I believe. It's

8:43

a very big bag. Unbelievable.

8:47

So big. Unbelievable.

8:49

I was at the office

8:53

yesterday and we

8:56

were doing, how many dogs can you put

8:58

in Maximum Bag? How many? Three

9:01

dogs. Whoa. Three

9:03

dog bag. It's

9:06

a three dog bag. It's a three

9:08

dog bag. Anyway, you can check

9:10

out all the stuff you can get at

9:12

maximumfun.org/join. But yeah, like

9:14

I said, real reason to feel good about yourself.

9:18

Yeah. This is from, well,

9:21

I'm not even going to read this person's, I'm

9:24

not going to read the

9:26

subject or the username, but

9:29

this is again from TIFU. Today

9:32

I fucked up. Let

9:35

me tell you that I have made

9:38

a bad mistake this evening. Sounds

9:42

like you've spoken in the right

9:44

place. Yeah. I

9:47

feel like the fact that all of Reddit

9:49

is in English or almost all of Reddit

9:51

is in English, especially the giant Reddit, really

9:55

adds magic because

9:57

so many of the people are conversing

10:00

second or third language. And

10:04

just that little bit of second

10:06

language-y-ness really adds a lot of magic

10:09

to these things, I think. Let

10:12

me tell you that I have made a bad

10:14

mistake this evening. My girlfriend, who let me tell

10:16

you is only my second

10:18

girlfriend of all time, said I am

10:20

quote, invited to dinner, unquote, with her

10:23

and her parents. I

10:25

was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to

10:27

be invited to such a situation. But

10:29

I do it. Could use a

10:31

ghast there. Yeah, I

10:33

know. A bold choice

10:36

there with a ghast.

10:38

I think what we would have to do

10:40

is put it into Google Translate, reverse translate

10:42

it into a variety of animal languages,

10:45

and find out which one fits

10:47

best. I do think there's also

10:49

something going on where like a

10:51

lot of internet posts, people

10:54

try and like write them

10:56

literary. Like, have you ever

10:58

gotten an internet comment that is like, good

11:02

day, sir. I am just

11:04

stopping by to tell you that I am

11:06

enamored with the content that you provide us

11:08

on a day-to-day basis. And I doth my

11:11

cap to you, sir. Jordan's

11:14

like, yeah, that's great. Have I ever gotten

11:16

one? Have I ever gotten... Jordan, I host

11:18

an NPR show and Judge John Hodgman. Like,

11:23

I appreciate it, but like, hey,

11:25

funny episode is also great. It

11:28

doesn't have to be, doesn't

11:30

have to seem like a Kaufman and

11:32

Hart play from the 30s. Apparently

11:35

we got Daniel Butterwell into maximum

11:37

bag. Hey, he's a guy.

11:40

He's an entire human man.

11:43

Three dogs, one guy. Okay.

11:47

I met them nicely, I should tell you,

11:49

and started it off in a good way.

11:52

The idea slapped my mind that I should do a

11:54

comic bit to make a good impression and become known

11:57

to them as a person who's amusing. Good

11:59

call. When I saw that

12:01

baked potatoes were served, I

12:03

got the idea that it would be very

12:05

good if I pretended I did not know

12:07

what potatoes was. That would be funny. Well,

12:11

let me tell you, backfired on my face.

12:14

I'll tell you how. So,

12:18

first, when the potato became on my

12:20

plate, I acted very interesting. I

12:23

showed an expression on my face so as

12:25

to seem that I was confused, astounded, but

12:27

in a restrained way, curious and interested. They

12:31

did notice and seemed confused but did

12:33

not remark, so I asked, this

12:35

looks very interesting. What

12:37

is this? They

12:41

stared at me and the mother said, it's a

12:43

baked potato. And I was saying, oh,

12:47

interesting. Baked, what is it again? And

12:50

she was like, a potato. And

12:53

I was like, a potato? Oh, interesting.

12:56

Never heard of a potato. Looks pretty

12:58

good. And

13:00

then they didn't see I was clowning

13:02

but thought I really

13:04

did not know what is a potato.

13:06

So, I knew I would

13:08

be very shamed, humiliated, depressed and disgusted if

13:11

I admitted to making a bad joke. So,

13:14

what I did was

13:16

to act as if it was not a joke.

13:19

But I committed to the act of pretending

13:21

I didn't know what a potato is. So,

13:26

universally relatable, wouldn't you say?

13:28

Oh, yeah. We've all done one of these.

13:30

We've all done the old potato fakeout when

13:33

trying to impress somebody's parents. They

13:36

asked me very incredulous. Did I really

13:38

not know what a potato is that

13:41

I never heard of a potato? I

13:43

went with it and told them, yes, I did

13:46

not ever even hear of a potato. Not

13:48

only had I never eaten a potato, I

13:50

had never heard the word potato. This

13:54

went on for a bit. My girlfriend was

13:56

acting very confused and embarrassed by my, quote,

13:58

fucked up antics. quote, and

14:01

then the more insistent I was about

14:03

not knowing what a potato is when

14:06

them parents started thinking I

14:08

did know, I did know what

14:10

a potato was. Well, let

14:13

me tell you, favorite,

14:17

favorite little turn of phrase for this person, let me

14:19

tell you. Well let me

14:22

tell you, I had to commit 100% at this point. When

14:25

I would not admit to knowing what a potato

14:28

was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At

14:30

one point he said something like, enough's enough, you're

14:32

fucking with us, admit it. And I said, sir,

14:34

before today I had never heard of a potato.

14:36

I still don't know what a potato is other

14:38

than some kind of food. I don't know what

14:40

to tell you. Well,

14:43

the doubling and the tripling down is

14:45

really impressive. Yeah. This

14:48

is a person who's lost. Just

14:51

a real fucking lost soul. Well

14:54

let me tell you, he got, well

14:56

let me tell you, Jordan. He

14:59

got very annoyed. I decided to take a

15:01

bite of the potato and when I did

15:03

I made a high pitched noise and said,

15:06

oh, that's very strange. That

15:10

is when the father started yelling at me and

15:12

the mother kept saying, what are you doing? And

15:15

my girlfriend went to some other room. God

15:18

only knows what room. Could have been the mud room

15:20

for all he needs. I'm with her. These are fucked

15:22

up antics. Finally,

15:24

the father said I should get the fuck out of

15:26

his house and I said it was irrational to treat

15:29

me like this just because I never heard of a

15:31

potato before. Well

15:33

let me tell you, you didn't take

15:35

that kindly. Now

15:37

in text messages I've been telling my girlfriend that

15:39

I really don't know what a potato is. Wow.

15:44

The only way I can ever get out of this is

15:46

for them to buy that I don't know what a potato

15:48

is. I wish I never started it,

15:50

but I can't go back. I think she will break up

15:52

with me anyway. Yeah,

15:54

she's right. Just

15:57

use this as a learning experience. You're not

15:59

salvaging. this relationship, move on,

16:02

don't lie about potatoes in your next one. Another

16:05

spiff suggested, when confronted

16:08

about this horrible joke, insist it never

16:10

happened with the same level of commitment.

16:13

Maybe they will just think you have a brain disorder. Oh

16:16

yeah, sure. But

16:19

yeah, also it would be funny, I mean if

16:22

they wanted to continue this awful joke

16:24

that is tearing their relationship apart, just like

16:27

maybe like confess to loving sweet potatoes, like

16:30

being a big sweet potato fan but never

16:32

having any regular potatoes. Oh,

16:34

sweet potatoes, great. I

16:36

made sweet potatoes for everybody. It's

16:39

a side move. Yeah. Do

16:41

you know the difference between a sweet potato and a

16:43

yam? I

16:45

guess I thought they were kind of the same thing, but

16:48

maybe I'm wrong. There's some kind of

16:50

yam that's like this, like a football.

16:54

I think that's the kind they eat in

16:56

parts of Africa is like a staple food.

16:58

Okay. And I think a sweet

17:00

potato is a different item.

17:05

Okay. Yeah,

17:07

so yams, so what you're saying is

17:10

yams can be huge and sweet potatoes

17:12

cannot be huge. Yeah,

17:15

I mean you've seen these big fat yamies, right?

17:18

No, I never have. What's a yammy? You've

17:21

never seen a big fat yammy? Let

17:23

me tell you, I have never seen a yammy. What

17:25

is this? I'm talking about honking yammers.

17:27

I'm doing the guy. I'm being the guy. Oh,

17:29

okay. He's pretending to not know. So

17:31

I said, let me tell you. Hunter

17:35

Ellen Boss on the chat has informed

17:37

us. Thank God for Hunter

17:39

Ellen Boss. Where would we be

17:41

without Hunter, Jordan? Where would we

17:44

be without Hunter? We'd be doing the show to

17:46

nobody. He's the guy.

17:48

He's the guy who listens. Hunter

17:51

says it's a tough one because the word

17:53

yam refers to a lot of different, not

17:56

particularly closely related tubers.

18:00

It's a wide world of tubers. Gosh,

18:03

Jesse, I wish this wasn't a mini-sode.

18:05

I wish this was a maxi-sode so

18:07

we could get into it. Tuber

18:09

talk. Jordan,

18:14

I wish we were eating maxi-tubers right

18:16

now. Oh my God, wouldn't that be

18:18

great? They're these fucking mini-tubers I got

18:20

at the Pasadena High School. Yeah, no,

18:22

I've already had my protein. Time to

18:24

pile on the starches. Gimme.

18:28

Yeah. Anyway. Let me

18:30

tell you, Jesse, I'm so excited

18:33

for MaxFunDrive. I've loved everybody going

18:35

to maximumfun.org/join and I like hearing from people who listen

18:37

to the show. It's a great feeling. We

18:42

got the latest numbers this morning directly

18:46

from MaxFun HQ. Oh

18:49

my God. April over

18:52

there at MaxFun. Thank goodness for

18:54

April. She was nice enough

18:56

to send the info. We

18:59

are, as of this morning, up

19:01

to 383 new upgrading and boosting members

19:04

starting. Hey, pretty good.

19:06

Pretty good. We love to hear that.

19:09

For Jordan, Jesse Gogh specifically, specifically

19:11

for Jordan, Jesse Gogh. Now

19:13

Jordan, I heard a rumor when

19:15

we were live streaming with John

19:17

Hodgman, Jennifer and I

19:20

were live streaming with John. I

19:22

heard a rumor that there's been some talk of

19:26

tasting very spicy cheeses.

19:28

Yeah. John and I are talking

19:31

about finding a time

19:33

to do another edition of our

19:35

famous podcast that we said

19:37

we're only going to do once, but

19:39

we have ended up doing a bunch

19:41

of times shooting the breeze, B-R-I-E-S. John

19:43

and I get together during the MaxFunDrive

19:46

and we talk cheese. So

19:48

yeah, we're trying to line up the

19:50

schedules to taste some of Cheezdom's spiciest

19:53

bites. Yeah,

19:56

I'm excited about this. He

19:58

said there's ghost pepper cheeses. Oh,

20:01

wow, okay. Like a

20:03

ghost pepper jack, something like that. Oh

20:05

my God, I can't wait to have

20:07

that hurt me. Hey,

20:09

what are you guys doing, by the way? You have

20:11

a new show called Free With Ads. That's

20:15

true. With the great Emily

20:17

Fleming and our colleague Matt, the producer of Jordan

20:19

Jesse Go. That's right. Is the producer

20:21

of that program as well. This is a show where

20:23

you watch movies that

20:26

can be viewed for free on the internet.

20:28

That's true. Yes, diving into the internet's bargain

20:30

bin. That's what we like to say. And

20:33

I'm wondering what you guys

20:36

are doing for your bonus content. Thank

20:38

you for asking Jesse. We are

20:40

watching Free With Ads TV Pilots.

20:43

So we're going to watch five of them over the course of

20:45

the year. All for folks

20:47

who go to maximumfund.org/join. Our first episode,

20:49

which I believe is up now, is

20:52

the Alf Pilots. Now

20:54

Alf. I've seen the Alf pilot, Jordan. I

20:58

don't doubt that. I do not doubt that

21:00

you and the fam have watched the Alf

21:02

pilot recently. Alf very

21:04

important show to me growing up. A

21:07

Morris family favorite. We

21:11

even named our cat Lucky after the

21:13

cat from Alf that he was always trying

21:15

to eat. That's how much we

21:17

fucking love this little puppet. I

21:20

regret to inform you that the Alf pilot

21:22

fucking sucks. We were

21:24

really bummed to watch it. Well,

21:26

it's really plot heavy. I mean, I

21:28

think the issue with the Alf pilot

21:31

is they just got a lot of

21:33

shit to set up in that pilot.

21:35

I don't know. Do they?

21:37

He's got to crash into the

21:39

workshop. They've got to have special

21:42

effects. That's true. They've got to...

21:44

I'll tell you this. Gracie

21:47

loves Alf, my 12-year-old. She

21:49

loves Alf. And I've watched a fair amount of Alf

21:51

with her. And I

21:54

would choose... If you said

21:56

to me, Jesse, would you like to watch Alf or

21:58

News Radio or would you like to watch... much, Alf

22:00

or Taxi, I

22:02

would choose Taxi, right? Or I would choose News

22:05

Radio. But when

22:07

I watch Alf, I

22:11

get good real laughs out

22:13

of it. Okay. Like, I genuinely

22:15

laugh at... First of all, Alf

22:18

is funny. He's got

22:20

a great voice. Like,

22:23

the performance is genuinely

22:25

great. You

22:27

can see why a guy who

22:29

was like an ad executive or something,

22:31

who did this at parties or something,

22:33

I can't remember exactly what the story

22:36

was, but it's something

22:38

along those lines, got offered

22:40

a television show. Yeah. But

22:44

like, it's not like he was not

22:46

like Jim Henson and he was

22:48

like a master puppeteer or something like that. It was

22:50

just like a guy that did a voice. But

22:54

like, the

22:57

dad is so weird. He's

23:00

great. It's a great sitcom performance

23:03

for sure. And everyone

23:05

else on the show is... I mean, the

23:07

mom, it does a perfectly good job, but

23:10

she's not very memorable in the way that...

23:12

Yeah. That'll seem to give her a lot to do. I

23:14

think she just has to be like, Alf,

23:17

no soda. Yeah.

23:19

No soda. But she's

23:21

warm and pleasant. Yeah. She's

23:24

warm and pleasant for sure. But just...

23:27

I have genuinely come to enjoy

23:29

Alf as an adult. Okay. Alf

23:32

was never a big part of my childhood. Like,

23:34

I don't know why. I just missed

23:36

it. It was

23:38

much more my friend Evan Larson's thing.

23:42

But I'm going to

23:44

speak up on behalf of Alf in general. Okay.

23:46

I mean, yeah. I really enjoy Alf. Maybe

23:48

Alf gets better. But

23:51

yes, we had

23:54

a pretty hilariously bad time watching the

23:56

pilot. Yes, we're going to do a couple other

23:58

pilots over the course of the year. maximumfund.org

24:00

join Jesse. He's got

24:02

a couple other pods. What are you guys doing over

24:05

there at Hodgman and Bullseye? Oh

24:07

on Bullseye we made a we made I

24:09

think what is our coolest? bonus

24:12

content ever like in the past it's always

24:14

been like what what are we gonna

24:16

do because It's an interview

24:18

show when the celebrities that we interview You

24:21

know They're agreeing to share their time with us

24:23

so that it can be exposed to as many

24:26

people as possible So we can't just be like

24:28

oh and we're gonna you know, it's only gonna

24:30

be for members Sure, unless it's somebody that's like

24:32

my friend. Alright, get in here and

24:34

we're gonna eat ghost pepper cheese Yeah,

24:36

and we've done, you know, we've

24:38

done into Linda Holmes has interviewed me

24:40

but During the

24:42

pandemic. I was doing this Twitter spaces thing

24:44

called. Hey, what's your job? Which

24:47

is I would just go on Twitter spaces and you

24:49

know People would gather and then I'd say raise your

24:52

hand in here if you have an interesting job and

24:54

I'll talk to you about it hmm and

24:58

What we did is we went out to the audience of bullseye

25:04

And said if you have an interesting job send us

25:06

an email at this email address Kevin

25:09

the senior producer of bullseye and Richard and

25:11

Jesus the producers Collated them

25:14

talk to the people did

25:16

not Tell me

25:18

what they were and they

25:20

just set up a video conference where one after

25:23

another they just appeared on my screen and I

25:25

said Hey, what's your job? Okay,

25:27

hot damn and we

25:29

got it was totally fascinating

25:31

for me I think it came out great

25:33

as well, but it was there was a

25:35

guy who works deep under the earth trying

25:37

to discover dark matter Great.

25:40

Okay Shouldn't be

25:42

doing it. Yeah, is this gonna some

25:45

sort of Apocalypse. I don't know

25:47

maybe yeah I mean there were a lot of

25:49

glowing test tubes behind him on the video conference

25:51

We'll be able to see those on the podcast

25:55

A person who made who

25:57

makes the labels for records. Mm-hmm Makes

26:00

and affixes the labels for records like his company

26:02

that he works for so a

26:04

two-person company. That's all they do Oh

26:07

my god, so cool a Woman

26:10

who is a retired Buddhist priest,

26:12

but she mostly retired Buddhist priest,

26:14

but she makes her living making

26:17

Japanese Buddhist priest investments

26:21

which are like these really huge

26:23

elaborate giant sleeved kimonos with special

26:25

under clothes and Quilting

26:28

and all these amazing shit. So

26:30

cool and a guy who's

26:32

in a band Called

26:35

American Football, which is oh,

26:37

yeah, like a huge

26:40

a huge deal in in emo world Yeah,

26:42

like a proto emo band like a little

26:44

bit of Yeah,

26:47

and and they Basically

26:49

they their buddies from college. Mm-hmm.

26:52

They started the band in college

26:54

played like local

26:56

college shows Got

26:58

an indie label record deal recorded an

27:00

album literally the week after they graduated

27:03

from college but

27:05

then Went and

27:07

did other shit like never played shows

27:09

after that never promoted the record whatever

27:12

it ended up becoming this like

27:14

iconic proto emo record

27:17

and so like 10 years later They

27:20

got an offer to play Webster Hall in New

27:22

York, which is like a 12 1500

27:25

seat theater They

27:28

sold they sold it out Wow, then they put

27:30

up another one They sold that one out then

27:32

they put up another one and they sold that

27:34

one out And so they

27:36

were like, I guess we should be a band again

27:39

That's like having never performed as a band

27:42

since they were 21 years

27:44

old before they made their first record and

27:47

Yeah, it was it was

27:50

really cool like he just kept his job like

27:52

he he was you know 12

27:56

15 years into his career in his like

27:58

mid to late 30s was not in any other

28:00

bands and just was

28:02

like, he's just like, yeah, I use all

28:04

my paid time off to

28:07

tour and like I

28:10

will often, we will have like

28:12

two gigs in Brazil and on

28:15

Friday I will leave work at three,

28:18

go to the airport, fly to Brazil, do

28:20

two shows in Brazil, then on Sunday night

28:22

fly home, sleep on the plane and go

28:24

to work on Monday. I

28:28

know we're approaching maxi episode length here, it's

28:30

supposed to be a mini but you and

28:32

Hadrin doing anything fun for BOCO? Yeah,

28:35

we got, we did it this way. We

28:38

just brought back Kinding Them With Kindness, the

28:40

only Richard Kind podcast where Richard Kind tells

28:42

you what to do with your life. Love

28:45

it, love it. It's Kinding Them With

28:47

Kindness 2, look who's kinding now, it's

28:49

still Richard Kind. Richard

28:52

Kind just like came and just told

28:55

funny stories about Steven Sondheim. He

28:58

said, he talked about why he got fired from

29:00

this production in Paris that he was plugging relentlessly

29:03

when he made videos for our

29:05

last Judge John Hodgman live show.

29:09

He said it's because he tried to explain

29:11

to the people that he's a fierce character

29:13

actor who happens to be funny, but

29:15

they wanted him to be a clown. Oh

29:18

boy. Man,

29:21

Richard, Richard Kind is so fucking cool

29:23

and fun. It's just

29:25

the greatest thing ever. And

29:28

hey, I imagine if you're watching

29:30

this or listening, I hope you're already a

29:32

Max Fun member. If you're not, we'll

29:34

sweeten the pot. Not only do you

29:36

get all that BOCO we just mentioned,

29:38

but Jesse and I are doing Grace's

29:40

Game Gauntlet, a trip through

29:42

Jesse's Kids Weirdo retro video game collection.

29:45

We're playing bad video games. Our first

29:47

one is up now. It is the

29:49

Wayne's World NES game, and we're going

29:52

to be playing Shaq Fu and the

29:54

Cool World tie-in game and a lot

29:56

of other crap over the course of the year. So

29:58

that... And there's

30:01

also the Jordan Jesse go stop

30:03

podcasting yourself crossover app. That's

30:06

called Jordan stop

30:08

Jesse podcasting go yourself.

30:13

Yes. And that is what it's called. It

30:15

rolls off the tongue. It's an easy, it's

30:17

easy to say and even easier to listen

30:20

to. Um, man, that's in the bonus feed.

30:22

I hope folks are enjoying it. Yeah.

30:24

Thank you everybody who's been watching live. Uh,

30:27

I see you Ben, I see you Ben

30:29

Harrison, Ben Harrison's been checking in. Ben, next

30:31

time you're joining us next time we're going to make you,

30:33

Oh yeah. Yeah. Let's throw a better one of these. Uh,

30:37

and thanks to everybody else who's been watching live.

30:39

I see a lot of names that I recognize

30:41

thanks to everybody who's listening at home. Uh, remember

30:43

it's the max fund drive. This is the only

30:46

time we do this and uh, we're

30:48

asking you to join us at

30:50

maximumfund.org/join. I saw, I

30:53

was at LAist our local NPR

30:55

station helping them with their drive.

30:58

And I heard a promo

31:01

that Ira Glass made with Seth who

31:04

used to be a max fund producer

31:06

actually, who produces his, uh,

31:10

his pledge clips for this American life. And

31:14

apparently Seth just became a

31:17

public radio supporter. Like he'd

31:19

been doing this for like 10 years, but

31:21

just became for the first time this

31:24

year, a public radio supporter. And what

31:26

he said was he's like, yeah,

31:28

I always kind of thought that was

31:30

other people's thing. And

31:34

then he said that the thing

31:36

that he didn't expect was

31:39

how actual it was

31:41

that it was different

31:43

listening when he

31:45

was a supporter, like how

31:47

that was a real thing. And

31:50

I know I'm an LAist

31:52

member myself. And

31:55

I'm a supporter of maximum fund. And

31:57

I know that I feel different. when

32:00

I listen to something that I know I am

32:02

part of. And so

32:05

I hope that you

32:07

folks out there will know that we're

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talking to you and that you have

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access to that just by going to

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maximumfund.org/join. All

32:15

right. Well thanks to Matt Lieb for producing this and

32:17

we'll be back tomorrow. We're going to

32:20

be here Tuesday through Sunday. Monday

32:22

there will be a brand new full episode of

32:24

Jordan and Jesse Go with Jordan. Should we plug

32:26

who that guest is going to be? Let's

32:29

do it. Come. Tignacharo baby,

32:31

the legend. The greatest

32:33

of all time. She's

32:36

back and we talk about her awkward

32:38

first appearance. It was a ton

32:40

of fun. Tig is one of the funniest people ever. Of

32:42

course you probably know that. But yeah,

32:44

we had a blast with Tig and we're excited

32:46

to drop that on Monday. We'll

32:49

talk to everybody next time. Bye. Bye.

32:52

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