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December 5, 2025 • 57 mins

We discuss the first season of Tim Robinson's 'The Chair Company'

 

What do you think happens in season 2?  Are we dumb?  What was your favorite joke from the season?

 

 

Also - Mac's Spotify Wrap, Gu likes wraps, Frosty's secret families, the Robo-Cop statue &  MUCH MORE!

 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Everyone is
sharing the music the most wonderful time of the year.
Spotify Rap Season, Mac you like music?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I do. I enjoy music from time to time. By
time to time, I mean pretty much every day.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's on the old rap list?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
What do you want to know? Gil you want to have?
You want to have the overall thing? You want me
to break it down? What would you like to know?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm gonna put it like this. I don't have Spotify
explain it to me like I'm a child.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Okay. So Spotify Rapped essentially gives you like ten slides
at the end of the year, usually the beginning of December,
like right now, and it gives you your top artist,
your top song, your top album, minutes listened, and then
it gives you top fives for all that stuff. And
it does podcasts too. Go. My top five artists for

(00:54):
twenty twenty five was Noah Kan at number one, Paramore
at number two, Chris Stapleton three, Dua Lipa four, Tyler
Childers five. My top five songs were five Noah con
songs from the live album from Fenway Park. I listened
to how many minutes here goo. Let's see twenty two
thousand minutes, which honestly I thought might be a little

(01:14):
bit low. I've seen some crazy higher numbers, but pretty
good overall. In my listening age GOO, which is something
they introduced this year. That's a new mechanic they used.
I don't know how they calculated thirty six GOO my
actual age thirty six? About that, So I'm listening to
the music I should be listening to. I guess that
tells me. And then my top genre is pop rock,

(01:37):
as I think is evidenced by Paramore is a perfect
example of that. Anything else and the top podcast back
in Goo? About that?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Is that the only podcast? Though?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah? Pretty much. I mean I listened to fantasy baseball podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's why you're a champion, well every once in a.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
While, and then some other stuff you know here and there,
but nothing, nothing consistent. So I'm pretty pleased with my
I think it. I think it perfectly encapsulated what what
my listening habits are. Some people online claim that there's
doesn't I don't know exactly what Spotify uses it's it
seems like it under sells my top song. I think

(02:13):
my top song only had like forty or forty five listens.
I feel like I listened to that song an album
way more than that. But I don't know. Maybe you
gotta listen to it to full completion for it to count.
Maybe if you skip ahead with three seconds left, it
doesn't count. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Goo, what's up now?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
You don't have Spotify? You do have Apple Music?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
My wife does?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Okay, Okay, give give me a little bit of a summation,
a little rap, a little goo rapped.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't listen to music.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Okay, all right, nice.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
But if I did, If I had this, my assumption
would be whatever my son is listening to. Sure, my
son is five, so it would be six K pop,
demon Hunter songs.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
What do you listen to at the gym?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Podcasts?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Really?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I like four ground sound, not back around music.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
You like to have your mind focused on the conversation
sight of the background.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, especially so if I'm doing something like Cardio, I
really like to be distracted.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, sure, sure?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Also so my rap buffalo.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Chicken Okay, that's your preferred wrap.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Turkey Club as a rap chicken cut. Well, if I'm
thinking raps, something that's strong enough that it does not
need the bread. Oh, chicken Caesar, Greek.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I like to go chicken caesar, but only from places
that put croutons in the wraps. Oh you gotta don't,
which is insane.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think it depends on what you're wrapping it with.
If you're doing a thicker, more breadier wrap, you don't
necessarily need creutons. I do want the texture. I want crewtons.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You need it for the texture. It's a texture thing. Uh,
I go wheat wrap, you know, save a couple of cals.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's the same thing. It's the fucking same thing. Save
like fucking sixty calves. It's the same thing. Calories don't matter.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And if I am getting a little crazy, go you
know what I do? I add bacon to my chicken Caesar.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's a good move, So I like that. I also
like to add I'll do like copa cola. No, not
capa cola. Uh, preshoot though sometimes in my caesar rap
that's nice?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yea?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
What else do I love specifically in rap form? Because
I'm a I'm a sub guy. I'll tell you right now,
if I can, I'm gonna go sub every single time.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, I so I'm not really a sub guy really,
because it's not occasionally, but you know what, I like
hot subs. Goo, the best form of them is really
just a cow zone. Get a calzone of your favorite
hot sub. Now that's really bad.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, because I like myself a nice sub roll, a
nice uh French bread. So I would rather if I'm
having a buffalo chicken or something like that. I like
that little bit of chew that isn't just this hot
rap that's around it the hot dough.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I also do like a Buffalo chicken calzone.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I understand what you're saying. Now. If I'm just either
like a regular sandwich or a pressed sandwich, a panini,
if the bread comes into play more so. But I'm
more of a contents over bread guy. When it comes
to like a sub you know, sandwich. It's different because
with a sandwich, at least to me, the flavor profile
includes the bread and the type of bread. When I'm

(05:11):
getting a sub, I just care about the inerts.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
If I was like, if I owned Subway the sandwich shop,
I would think about hiring you to run some my subway.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
To run the eatery. Yeah, dude, I think one of
the more underrated breads and don't don't shoot me.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
I know it's a chains in blazing right now, better
be careful.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Panera Bread has a black bread. Yes, it's fucking delicious, dude, delicious.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Panera Bread is one of those places that I would
never be like, oh, I'm really in the mood, I'm
gonna go to Panera Bread. It's a place that when
you eat it, you are reminded, like, I really like
Panera Bread, black.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Pepper Fricatchia comes with their chipoli chicken panini and then
I get a side mac and cheese. It's a great meal.
It costs like twenty two bucks, but it's a great meal.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I was at a restaurant when we were in Arizona,
that's where we were, and they told me at the
time that the soup of the day was a broccoli cheddar.
Now Panera does suf a very nice broccoli cheddar, and
I sing him back to him, like, you know what,
I'm gonna get that soup of the day. I'm gonna
get that brocoli cheddar soup. I'm on vacation, Yeah, I
can enjoy your broncli jetter soup.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
He then, you know, didn't come back to us. Fast
enough maybe, But when he came back to some im like, hey,
used to go out that broccoli cheddar soup. He's like
the soup of the day, and now is now corn showder.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Oh it changed.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'm like, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
He either was mistaken or they ran out.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, they ran out, and what a disappointing alternative corn chowder.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
But I also feel like if you run on a
soup of the day, you don't have a second soup
of the day. The second soup of the day is
leftover soup from the day prior.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Or you're just always making soup by the pot now
and then.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
You got old soup. You got old soup.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
I didn't order this soup. I wasn't gonna order a
corn showder. I said, you can keep your soup. I
don't want your soup.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I do like a clam chowder. I don't know about
a corn chet.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Let me ask you this. I know that people around here,
we're from New England, we're from the Boston area, and
it's really a couple. But I feel like it's a
real polarizing thing now of like clam chowder, is it
really something that you need?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Not something that you need?

Speaker 1 (07:16):
But specifically on a hot summer day.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
If anything in a bread bowl, clam chowder in a
bread bowl is pretty great, It's pretty great.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
That is what is the best bread bowl soup? You
definitely need something creamy.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, because it's gotta it's it's.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Broadly, it's gonna seep right through there too much.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, although, oh but you know what I like in
a fucking bread bowl Caesar salad.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's no, there's still removing parts with that. I don't
like that at all.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
One good three yeah, jobs three King of Queen Mill
Street and I'm Max and we are the Mac and
Goo Program. The other movie was called Friendship. Yes, this

(08:18):
is called The Chair Company.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
We bring you the creators of Friendship today, both Goo
and I and Tim Robinson and Zach Caanan and uh Goo,
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
When we saw the news that Tim Robinson had a
HBO show greenlit, I don't know, a year ago, year
and a half ago, obviously we're excited. I had no
idea in which form this show was going to play out.
You know, we learned it's gonna be called The Chair Company,
and you're like, all right, this is gonna be high jinks. Involved.

(08:49):
This ended up being way more serious and dark of
a show than I anticipated, not unlike.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Friendship, because I also want to say that the first episode,
if you just want it's the pilot, you would have
thought this was just a straight comedy and there's nothing
really behind the like the different levels of the mystery
of the show, because as it went forward, there were
less jokes and it was more like, really, who did this?

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, there was a legit mystery here, still is a
legit mystery here.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
The finale, you thought that you had the answer in
the penultimate episode, right right, and the finale added three
to four more wrinkles, and then it just says, fuck you,
we'll see you later.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
We got Sparta kicked off Sunday night at ten thirty,
and I I'm I didn't really have many questions going
to the finale. I had like one question, and now
coming out of the finale, I got like seven.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
After the episode seven, I said, how are they going
to extend what they're doing here into a season two?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Exactly, yeah, And now I'm like, what the hell.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
The show? Goo? I don't know if you ever heard
about this, It's like an onion fucking layer.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
You know, what put that on the DVD cover? This
show is an onion.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
The Chair Company was on HBO Sunday nights at ten pm.
It was following Task for about half its run Watch Task.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Kevin Smith movie Tusk Justin Long Becomes a Walrus.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
This show was renewed for a season two a few
weeks ago, I think before the sixth episode, and at
that point, like Goo just said, like, what are we
gonna do?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
For a second, I thought they were gonna do an
anthology series. I'm like, we're gonna do a new mystery
every year, same people, new characters, new mystery. Now it's like, okay, no,
we're gonna keep on going with this and we're gonna
have no idea what the hell is going on.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I think we have at least a season left of
the show. The story that we just got from there,
I don't know what's gonna happen. The Chair Company is
rated TVMA GOO. We got eight episodes, totaling roughly two
hundred and forty five minutes. Un let's I said thirty
minutes an episode.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
The pilot episode I think has the most jokes per minute,
But after that, each episode had at least one thing
like at least one joke, one comedic situation that really
sits with you.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
It felt like they took, you know, sketches that didn't
make it into their prior works and found their way
to work them in. There were also episodes.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Like fold over old ideas that have that we've seen
in sketches or like themes or characters, like we've seen
stuff with Scrooge. He likes Scrooge, he likes the idea
of a Christmas Carol. I mean, got a bunch of
that here.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Old guys getting ripped off common theme here.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And like hyper focused on like what it is and
complaining about it. Yes, yeah, and U scams Oh my god,
the beginning of episode eight.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, there's a cold open episode eight which results in
a death, and I'm like, what the fuck is going
on here? That's what I'm like.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't know what's gonna happen in.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
This iCal, so fucking confused.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's right in your C zone.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Go on, Roddy. T's one hundred percent from the critics,
seventy percent from the audience.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's fine. Yeah, it's a comedy.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
They don't typically score very high, and it's Tim.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Robinson, so people love him. Or hate him, and I
understand people that don't care for his comedy. Maybe they're
a little squirmish around it. Maybe they they don't find
his particular you know, I Think you should leave, which
is what the name of the show is, like, like
you're weird. I think you should leave type of stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, it's it's it's intentionally very awkward.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
They don't like to feel awkward. Yes, my wife anxiety
very specific to this year because she would watch episodes
of I Think you Should Leave, but she would take
it as like one episode at a time, eighteen minutes,
three sketches. As we got into feature length Tim Robinson,
she's more like, I'd like to take a paw or

(13:00):
take a break and maybe come back to this later.
I don't want full Tim Robinson. Or then when we're
watching the episodes, as we're going just like, I'm really
not enjoying what I'm watching now. It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's interesting to think about that, and it seems juxtaposed
to that is the critics who also on Medicare to
Crew in eighty two. I can't tell if they've come
around to it, they finally get it, or they're just
like trying to seem hip, and.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Like the I'm trying to seem hip because it.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Felt like initial and Detroitier's is a good example of this.
Detroiters didn't do well, didn't really find its audience in
part because critics didn't love it, and so I'm curious
now if critics are like kind of playing makeup, I
think they should. The show is well made, well shot,
like it's legit.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Television, it's HBO, it's Netflix.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
The show, of course written and created by Tim Robinson
and Zach Kanan. We would know them from I think
you should leave. They work together on SNL for nearly
a decade writers and then they were also the writer
creators of Detroiter, so they've been working together for almost
fifteen years now. They obviously have a fantastic working relationship.
I think it's great because when we see Zach Kanaan

(14:11):
on screen, he pops up here briefly, and I think
you should leave. I always am impressed with the people
that are able to write for other people and just
take a back seat. I think that's a hard thing
to do, and clearly he's great at it. Four other
writers here that contributed to the season, Gary Richardson Sarah Schneider,
John Solomon, and Marika Sawyer. I don't know those names,

(14:32):
but maybe you do. The season was directed by Andrew
DeYoung Goo. He did five of the eight episodes. He
was the director on Friendship Andrew Schimberg Skimberg he did
three episodes. He directed a different man, Goo, And if
you don't know what that movie is, that was the
twenty twenty four movie starring Sebastians Stan where he got
a new face.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Well to Tim Robinson's family. In this show, he was
a different man.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
And then I made the connection Goo, and I believe
Schimberg directed the finale. We see a very interesting face
in the closing minutes of this finale, and I wonder
if that's in any way related to the Stand movie
where there was a lot of prosthetics shit going on
with face or stuff there. So that was just a
line in my brain.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
This is also weird because Tim Robinson usually just finds
odd looking people.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, yep, So I did look up the guy that
played that, and he he has like the upper half
he could tell it's the same guys eyes, but then
obviously the lower half was prosthetics. Goust synopsis of the
Chair company. After an embarrassing incident at work, William Ronald
Trosper finds himself investigating a far reaching conspiracy. This, of course,

(15:41):
stars Tim Robinson as ron Trosper. Lake Bell plays his wife,
Barb Trosper. And I think she's perfectly cast. She's fantastic
at being like the straight man but showing emotion and
also being funny in her own right.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yep, and almost like she expects all of this from.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Her Yeah yeah, and still love it.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
She's not taken aback by anything. She's just like, come on.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Their kids are played by Sophia Lillis and Will Price.
Sophia Lillis is Natalie, the older daughter who's engaged hit. Yeah,
we saw her in it chapter one and two. Will Price,
I've never seen anywhere. He's the son. I think he's
about seventeen here. The daughter's like maybe twenty two to
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
The son does some stuff in this show, and it's
really it's Tim Robinson reacting to him. But the son
like the little hat. The hat or also stop motion
animation like Rudolph. It's not all Christmas. The ones I've
seen Santa can't do it.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
He wants to go to Risdey for Risney Animation. Good.
The other primary character we get in here in all
eight episodes is Joseph Todisco as Mike Santini.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Who I couldn't remember his name in any of the
I remember Mike.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Okay, what a rollercoaster of a ride we go on
with Mike, and I'm still on the ride at the
end of the season.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
And we'll talk about that in spoilers because that is
a really good reveal. Yeah, but I feel like when
they were casting him, they said, we want Joe Pashi,
but we don't want Joe Pashi budget Joe Peschi, budget
Joe Paschi. Him just constantly listening to porn.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah, not watching, but listen.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Or when he does take in things on the television,
it is as well him bringing in his friend who
can help, or he puts them like in the closet. Yeah,
lt the little guy, I need help.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
There's also the moment when I think it's episode two
or three, where he picks up Tim and he's listening
to like a shock jock radio show. One of the
voices is Connor O'Malley it fucking killed me. I wrote
out the name Wayzy Wayne's He's like, you know, have
you never heard these guys? They're fucking hilarious at Tim's

(18:02):
like are they yelling at each other? They? What is
this like us?

Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's us?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Also the season, Go Glow Tavars is Jamie. She's like
Ron's assistant slash secretary.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
She's the one who gets trapped on the highway.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yes. Yeah, Zulima Zelima Guivara is Brenda. That's Brenda. That's
Ron's immediate boss. You have Lou Diamond Phillips as Jeff.
He's like the CEO of the company. What's the name
of the company? Fisher Robe.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
He didn't overpower me.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Shannon Shane Marie is alexis one of the other office people.
James Downey is Douglas. What a character this guy is.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
So Jim Downe, I'm gonna tell you right now, when
we do our Cinemac and Goovie Awards, I'm not gonna
give him the MVP, but there is gonna be award
an award that goes to Jim Downey. He is both
in chair company. He is in one battle after another
and what was he in one battle after another? He

(19:04):
was the Christmas fella. Look up, Jim Downey right now,
Jim Downey of course Internet famous.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Oh that's right, the Christmas Adventurers. Yeah, never the hell
they're called? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein, the Financier. That's Jim Downey as well.
That's not this year but just leading up to right now.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Also the same guy, he looks different than that.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
He has his own special on Peacock called Downey wrote
it and it's all the jokes and sketches that he
wrote for.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Snl okay pretty good.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, he wrote all of Norm's jokes or him and
Norm wrote all of those jokes for Weekend Update.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
His delivery in this show is so glacially slow and
perfect for his character, like it makes you hate him,
but he's a perfect character. And I also I did.
I haven't been able to watch back when we first
see him in the wheelchair and like episode six, I'm
pretty sure he upgrades his wheelchair probably episode like like

(19:59):
Iron or something, and that fucking killed me. When he
rolls around an episode eight.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
He's not saying we should fire Ron, but like maybe
take him down a tier or two?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, demote um three or four PAGs.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Like five tiers maybe?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Fuck?

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
We have Grace Ryter as Tara that is Natalie's fiance.
She's the one working on the Wendy's carvers.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Whoa, whoa, don't say that too loudly. It's a great idea.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
He's shooting hands.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Stinks in here like hands.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Ro Rod's love for the idea of Wendy's.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Whenever it's mentioned, He's like, good idea.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Amelia Campbell as Amanda, who will get into in a.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Few Also, I think it's episode seven when the guy
mentions to Tim Robinson about the sandwich place that stacks
the turkey. I'm like, when is he gonna end up
at the sandwich place? And he does yeah, like fifteen
minutes later.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Michael W.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Gaines is Lewis Turkey.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Lewis had a couple of great lines throughout the season. Uh.
Catherine Misel as Alice Quintana. We see we see her
in uh the Tanguay episode where she's his wife. She's like,
you know, reveals.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Something controversial podcast guest Gary Tangway.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
And then gou Uh. The masked Jason Fella that we
see in the finale is played by Jeffrey Bean So.
I don't know if anyone knows him, but he obviously
does a great job in the two minutes. Uh. The
premise of this season beyond the synopsis for anyone listening
that hasn't watched in his on the fence, I mean
to me this show. You made a decision weeks ago

(21:38):
whether you're gonna watch her.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're either gonna watch it or not. You're not gonna
dip out.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah if you're if you want to be a little
bit sold on it. The premise is Ron, played by Tim,
works for a commercial real estate company called Fisher Robe,
who ends up winning this big bid to develop a
new site in Canton, Ohio. Ron is the project lead
on Do you mean there's no football involved?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
As a player crying online, yep, maybe you could put
a little bit of football in there.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
One of the guys said he was gonna fuck you
with the football. Ron is the project lead on this
Canton marketplace at Bear Run, which is like a perfect
I think you should lead, Like you know, there's gonna
be a Dan flashes in here.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
They're fucking toys off a hair.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Ron's bought or the CEO of the company Jeff, played
by Uh the hell is his name lou Diamond Phillips.
He ends up playing a part sporadically throughout the season.
You don't know if he's good, you know if he's bad,
you know ifull he's just a fucking I still don't know.
And then about eight minutes into the first episode, when
they're announcing that fisherobe and Ron is doing this project.

(22:43):
That's when Ron finishes his speech, sits back down, his
chair breaks, he sees up Amanda's skirt, and that's sort
of the impetus for what happens in the season.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, I want to do mostly spoilers. Can we just
quickly do the gauntlet?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
All right? Fun factor, funny, lots of new Tim Robinson
stuff add to our boring lives.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, it fits in perfect. If you like Tim Robinson,
you're gonna like what you see in this Satisfactor.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
It's hard to gauge the Satisfactor. It was satisfying to
watch every week because you're getting Tim Robertson acting weird.
But I don't You're right, I don't really know how
satisfying the show was Borometer.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think it does lack the constant jokes at times,
but also it fills you with like a little bit
of intrigue, a little bit of mystery of like is
what he's following real or is it all in his head?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Contributing to both the mystery and intrigue, but also a
little bit to the bore is how confusing it gets,
especially in the finale, So you're you're interested, you're watching,
but you're so confused that you're like, I don't really
know what I'm supposed to like here or want here.
So it does lead to a lit.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Are I supposed to like this? Halloween? Will this wane
over time?

Speaker 2 (23:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think it'll get better.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Actually, I've rewatched multiple episodes and the second watch was
better than the first watch. Every time.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Plembinade. When life gives you Jesse Plemons, you know you'll
take that little bit screen time and he'll squeeze it
and he'll make something real, real nice. Who made plemonade
on this show?

Speaker 2 (24:14):
I guess Jim Downey is Douglas right, he'd be the
only real candidate here.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Right, because he's in a lot of the first episode
and then he just kind of pops up every once
in a while after that.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, that's that's everyone else is in it too much?
You could say, maybe LT the little guy that Mike hires,
like when they cut to him laying on the couch
in that episode too, that fucking killing I.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Was able to reach into the freezer, and.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
That lt kicking the jeep tour stuff in the garage
also killed. So he's we'll call him the runner.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Up Max credit Union.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I don't know who to attribute it to. You know what,
whoever green with this at HBO gets the credit, because.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, because they're taking a chance on this.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
For sure, Like it works in Netflix, it works on
SNL type stuff. Detroit's is different than this to have
like a half hour scripted show on HBO Sunday nights
with no real idea of what it was gonna be. Like,
credit to that person who greenlit this show.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
I saw on Instagram the other day. I got a
nice reel of someone talking about like how like no
one really sells out comedically for performances anymore, like a
Jim Carrey, a Will Ferrell. And then most of the
comments are like, no, Tim Robinson does this, Yeah, and
that's absolutely color O'Malley Connor. O'Malley is more of like
a niche star like from this World. Yeah, but what

(25:33):
I'm saying th was like Tim Robinson is a pretty
big star now and he for all of his roles,
commits to exactly how like like the lunacy of what
the show is or the movie is.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I would say, And it's not a good comparison, but
the only thing I can really compare it to is
it only is so funny because of how crazy he is,
a little similar to the way Jim Carrey's well leak was.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Okay, so no one yells like Tim Robinson, no one
swears like Tim Robinson, no one acts confused like Tim Robinson,
like there's this things that he does well, like he'll
be serious like out of nowhere. I also want to
give my son credit. I know this has nothing to
do with the show, but I just mentioned Jim Carrey.

(26:20):
He has never seen a spinter a pet detective and
the other day he started talking with his butt.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
As let me be doing a little kickflip christ air
off of that. So, my youngest nephew is maybe like
six months younger than Raffi. Raffi's what four or five five, Okay,
so he's like a year younger than Raffi, maybe year
and a half. He my cousin caught him in his iPad.
You know, kids always have their little tablets. Now, trying

(26:53):
to take a picture of his own butthole once ago. Okay,
he was just curious as to what his own butthole
looks like. He was trying to take a picture.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
And then also my son, who has never seen most
of the Adam Sandler movie. So I'm just I'm telling you,
my son is a comedic genius. Yes, so keep this
in mind. I was playing for him Jingle Bells, Batman
Smells the Other Day Robin, and the middle of the song,
he just he's start to die. It's like, oh, this
is the greater song ever he had, like Sandler. Yeah,

(27:24):
it's like the Sandler response. Yeah, that's just the best
thing ever. So keep an eye out for him in
the comedic field moving forward.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, about what fifteen years.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Maybe he's thinking of things that other people have already
thought of but he hasn't seen yet.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yes, it's of his own doing his own creation.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
All right, what are we doing now, let's get the
hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
I have a hard time there's this is one of
the most unique shows I've ever seen, so I have
a really hard time comparing it to anything I've ever seen.
I think it's a step below I think you should leave,
because I think you should leave is just hitting you
with heavy hitters.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's also quick in get out. It's like, here's a joke,
here's something that you maybe have never thought about it.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Right. The only thing that remotely compares to this, at
least in my mind, is this is like a demented
version of Curb Your Enthusiasm, like where it's like, you know,
there's a lot of probably improv going on. It's really
bizarre comedy, not comedy that everyone loves. But it's not
like that, you know, it's I don't know, I don't

(28:31):
know how to compare it.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's very timinerici.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh yeah, but it's not as like this is so
much more scripted.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
You know, they developed that formula so early on that
now we have guys like Tim Robinson, right that you know,
are able to bring it to an HBO.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I have a hard time, So
I have a hard time comparing it to other things,
which is just the way I end up rating things.
It's really unique, it's very funny. It's still intriguing. I
think I have it like thirty six hot dogs. Okay,
I think it has room to improve for sure.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Game that's my big thing.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, but it's also week to week. I was looking
forward to watching it.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
It's like when Bobby Hill gave Troy Aikman a B
in the training camp report cards that H'd have an
opportunity to grow during the season. Yeah, Hank didn't appreciate
that because Troy Aikman deserves more. Even though Trade Raikman
is a little don't let Hank here that.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
One of the most overrated players of all time.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I'd say, but I'm gonna say this. I think the
show is a B to A B plus thirty five
thirty four to thirty five.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I think it's like B plus A by.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
But I would also say that if I'm looking at
it compared to his other stuff, if you want to
compare it to stuff, I think you should leave still
at the top, I think friendship. I would take friendship
over this too.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, this is so, that's a good comparison to make friendship.
I'll do the fucking subway thing.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
The subway No, there is like there's it's funnier.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's a little more intriguing, baby than this is. So
I'd probably have friendship a little bit above this.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, because I think that friendship Paul is so great.
Wally keeps you guessing. You kind of know where it's
gonna end up, because like you hope, you hope that
he's gonna figure things out.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
And there's also like a little bit of a ping
pong between him and Rudd, wherein this it's just him.
Want to spoil Yeah, let's get the spoiler spoilers. Spiler's spoilers.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
So first off, the Scrooge thing is hilarious, and then
after we get that screw going into the mouth, they
actually show it going into the mouth, which is crazy.
So before we see that, and then the episodes after
Mike talking about and just bringing up random parts of
a Christmas Carol without telling him that he's talking about

(30:43):
a Christmas Carol, as if Tim Robinson should just know
what he's talking about. They were dancing on his grave.
What Yeah, that was singing what Scrooge? It has me thinking,
But I also love that leading into what it's him
talking about, Like I saw this movie, which first off,
it's a movie everyone's seen, right, right, but then you

(31:05):
see the version that he has seen, which is the
porn version.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I wonder like I don't know what tvma encompasses, but
I wonder if they can get away with it because
it was a character watching it and not one of
the characters doing it.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
But I also no, because someone's still doing it.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, but it's a character watching it on show.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
It's also it's it's from a beloved story. Now. When
they first showed it, I'm like, Okay, you can show that,
especially if it's a prosthetic. But then once they showed
it going into the mouth, I'm like, oh, you can
do that. Well, if you can, I wasn't sure if
you could.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Uh go sold me and maybe we could have talked
about this in the spoiler free What sold me on
this show is two minutes into the show, Ron gets
in an argument with a server about what defines a mall.
It fought. I was howling two minutes.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
The best thing, like the thing that sold me and
you understand old to me was there was a ten
second scene after that where it just cuts to Ron
sleeping and he like starts to kick and flip. He's like,
I got the worst pillow in town, and then it
cuts away.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Has made a goddamn medal.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
There's nothing else to it. It's just that he doesn't
like his pillow medal. But it's just that he doesn't
like his pillow. It's fifteen seconds throwaway, see you later.
I wish there were a couple more of those in
the show.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I mean, this is kind of am all. This is
a restaurant, how because it is because there's shops around
it and the way the parking wraps around. And then
Seth afterward is like, is this the mall? He's like,
I don't know, kind of, and then the daughter is
like she was like fifteen, she's fifteen, she's like one

(32:50):
hundred years old.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Between that and then Jeff the boss that we saw
more and more as the show went on. But when
he went to the son's birthday and like Ron told
him ahead of time, well it's more of a family thing.
It's a kid's party. I was expecting more from this.
This is just a kid's party.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, I'm gonna get out of here.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I want to get into some shit other ship.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
For the first episode, by the way, that really ropes
she in uh. After after he gets up from the
broken chair, he goes, I guess I shouldn't have had
that last cheese it this morning, Like two people left,
and then he catches the custodian with his inside wheelbarrow.
That little bit, he barely showed up again after that.

(33:33):
That was a perfect little bit.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
And at the end of episode one, when Mike is
running away and he grabs the shirt and then Mike
starts running faster because he has no shirt on the
was weighing him down. And then he brings that shirt
to the store. This has been.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Worn Trumblaze, our tam Blaze shirts. And then we find
that running bit was fucking great.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
And then we find out later because he gets it,
he's on the email chain and when he gets a
new phone, he's now on the text chain again. And
it's the guy that he returned his shirt because it
was short sleeve.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, he really wanted long sleep.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
And then they added sleeves and he realized that it
was the same shirt. And they just put diamonds over
the stains on the back of the toothpaste stick.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, they made him think he could wish things into
the world, which then I'm also drying connection in my head,
is that at all connected to the reveal where Amanda
telekinetically makes the chair break Like they're operating in this
weird fucking world that I'm like, I don't know what's real.
Ron's an unreliable narrator. We don't know what he's actually seen.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
And that's the whole thing too, is like the whole time,
like this might just all be nothing.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, yeah, so and it still might be. Who knows
that cold open in the foul Let's run through the
finale real quick.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, So in the penultimate we find out at the
end of the episode that the investor in his wife's company, Alice,
she is the one behind all this share and oh
my god, she admit it. I'm like, okay, so let's
see where that almost doesn't fucking matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
But that adds to the confusion because you're like, well,
she admitted it. But now all of a sudden, a man,
his boyfriend is saying that Amanda did it? Are they connected?
Is it? Two sets? Like, it's so fucking I don't
know what the hell is going on. So the cold
open in episode eight is the guy the father has
ten cigars at the wedding and then couldn't dance, and

(35:26):
then he.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Sits down dance he's a ten cigars.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
He sits down disappointed at the bar, meets Stacy Crystals,
who buys him a whiskey, and one minute later, Stacy
Crystals gets shot by the kid with a three D printed.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Geese scamming adults.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
You're like, what the fuck is this? That's Eventually during
the episode.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
You find out that Jeff also had a deal with
Stacy for his.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Jeff and Stacy are in Kohu.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
But what I love is him listening to the music
on the phone. He's like, this is really good and
then he hears like that little bit of like an
elevator song. He's like, it's the same stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah, connects to all the same ship. So we know
that that there is a real conspiracy that tims Onto,
but we don't know really what it is now, because yes,
it does seem like Teca and Red Red Ball Market
Global is something they're replacing the parts or whatever. But
now you're like, well, what is going on with Amanda
and Amanda's boyfriend?

Speaker 1 (36:26):
What the hell is when he follows that first lead
into the bar and he punches the guy with the
hole in the head, gotta watch your sleeve.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
This just dug.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
So we get the revealed that Amanda's weird boyfriend Jason
was the one that was like.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
We don't even know if they're really boyfriend or girlfriends
anything on this show.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
True, he stalks her on the whole, He's the one
texting calling uh. And we find out that there was
an instant in high school where Ron was trying to
be funny. He's spitting gummies up into the air and
catch them in his mouth, but one accidentally fell in
Amanda's cleavage.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Cleavage the word cleavage also.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Funny, so he claims Amanda broke the chair with telekinesis.
I don't know what to believe. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Also in this episode, we find out Mike's backstory. Yeah,
so Mike got a heart transplant.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, saved his life and.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
The donor that gave it to him who passed away.
His daughter was getting married, so the mother of the
daughter asked Mike to walk the daughter down the aisle
so that her father's heart is still walking her down the.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Aisle, right gesture.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
But then Mike wants a hug, but he had already
gotten a hug, so they were like, we don't want
to give you too many hugs, and then everyone was
being so mean to Mike, so the daughter stood up
for him, and then he tried to kiss the daughter.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Because she was prettier than the mother.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Just an insane little twist.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Of Bike's character and you're like, well, what the fuck
is going on?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Also, the delivery by that actress was so funny because
it's just it's Tim's face reacting to it, and it
says her as like one long run on sentence of
like what he kept on doing?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah? Yeah? And then so I believe this was episode
seven and not the finale, but it opens Ron bringing
Baby the dog into the house.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
And it turns over comes say hi to baby, are
the Are you gonna find out who stole baby and
sold it to Ron?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Right? Yeah, right, maybe that was my question.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I'm like who? I was also like, okay, is Baby's
owner gonna think that Ron stole baby because he just
accepted the fact that Ron had bought baby from someone
else who had stolen it from.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Or did he because he's like, let me show you something,
and he goes and shows him the new shape in
the shed.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
But that also led to nothing.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Well, he he turns and he's got like vampire face.
What the fuck was that?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Ron has a concussion?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
That's why like, we don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
We don't know what Ron is seeing or believing.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
It's all over the map.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I was like, this is gonna make a real turn
right now, but then it didn't.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
And then you also had in the middle of the scenes,
you think.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
A picture of me and baby and put it on
Facebook and say that I found your dog.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
You had the whole bit with the bug crawling into
Ron's phone and then getting into the house of the
exterminator comes in. He wanted to take credit if it
was going to be a new bug which killed me,
but that ended up just being like some brand. There
was all these little things in there that are like
red herrings or they're leading to something, and maybe in
season two, I don't know. I have no idea. The
whole Teresa Bonovan Shura thing. I thought it was like

(39:42):
true Detective. I didn't know what the hell was gonna
go on when he stepped into that house, like the
Jeep Tours stuff. When we finally got the Jeep Tours
reveal when he really did just build the one rope
bridge that fucking killed me, and listening if you guys
haven't listened to Dork's episode on this, it was really
more an interview with Gary Tangue, who's in a show.

(40:02):
He he first he was auditioning to be the guy
in the passenger sheet for the Cheap Tours.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh that great, It's so good.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
But because of that is how we ended up in
the other role. Yeah, so at the end, we're left
with this thing where Alice is admitted to it. You
have Amanda's weird maybe stocker boyfriend. You also had the
weird scene with Amanda like trying to come on to
Ron with hr there, like I don't know what's going
on there. You have red Ball Market Global with Jeff

(40:36):
being attached to Stacy Crystal's. So now there's like so
many fractured elements of the story that haven't been pieced
together yet. So now there's like a.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Legitimate I also think that season two might just open
with none of this matters, Like they might just start
a whole new adventure and just wipe their hands with
this entire season and not answer any question.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Also, the way he finds Mike in the first place,
find that empty container from Jan's cafe, the takeout container
in the bush that was, and then Jan's cafe is
so chaotic, it's like people were like fighting in the cafe.
There's flames just fired. The fact that Mike needed to
be security for cafe was funny in and of it.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Every time that Ron followed a clue and was actually
able to figure something out with it, I would just say, huh.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Oh, you know what now that I'm thinking about it.
Plemonade the shirt guy, the shirt salesman at the store.
Oh yeah, he was unbelievable that his delivery of lines
was so bizarre, but it worked so well.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
There was the big fight in the apartment. A lot
of those guys made Plemonade.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, stole the iPad mm hmm. Also, I think it's
episode two or three where Ron buys the detective or
spy kit and it ends up just being like a
toy kit and he's so fucking ear.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
His assistant seems like she's going to be a bigger
role on this show, and after episode three or so
kind of disappears.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah. And and but with the development in the finale,
should we be looking more at his co workers now,
like what the hell is going on there?

Speaker 1 (42:11):
That was one of the big theories is that Ron,
not Ron, Jim Downey was behind the whole thing, right.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
But that was he was like too obvious, you know,
So now I don't know. I don't know what to think.
I am more intrigued for season two, as much as
excited as I was to watch They yeah, the Yellow
You're not so sure if you want to be involved,
I'm like, actually invested in the story. Now. I was

(42:38):
excited to watch this season, and now I got so
fucking confused. I'm actually invested in the story. So in
that respect, they did a great job.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I love stop motion animation. What allf.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Oh god, it's such a hard show to like sell
to people too.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
I didn't even sell it.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, It's it would just be like, Okay, did you
watch it? I think you should leave? Did you like it?
Did you watch Theatrories? Did you like it? Maybe? Watch?

Speaker 1 (43:05):
I think people know though, like anyone that follows him
knows what he has coming out. Yeah, And I usually
recommend first if someone hasn't gotten into his stuff, I'm like, watch,
I think you should leave, and then if they like that,
I'll say, go and check out an episode of the Detroiters.
He's definitely he has a longer leash to get weirder.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
So do you think you would recommend I think you
should leave over Detroiters as like the first one.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Yeah, because it's quick, punchy stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Yeah, but Detroiter's like a like a lesser version of that,
so it might be more palatable.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
You're selling them on like a sitcom. It's a little
bit different. It's a Comedy Central sitcom.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
But I think that's easier to digest for some people.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Though, anything else on this television show.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
No, No, I'm sure I'll think about something that we
forgot to bring up. But I'm just so confused that
I think that takes the precedent into Ma Sack.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
And Mac Sak. Could be anything. It could be about,
and Mac talk about being confused. I saw a headline. Now,
first off, this is a bit of a shmorgs Borg
of a Max Sack. I could not put a finger
on what I wanted to talk about. Okay, and this
first one really intrigued me until I read into it,
And now I'm fucking depressed.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
I thought, I thought your through line here was Mike's
secret family.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
So about Frosty, No so the actor the voice actor
that played Frosty the Snowman.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
In the stop motion movie.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
No, not the stop motion in the animated movie. Okay,
so he had and this was all over social media.
Three secret families, and I'm like, fuck, dude, I can
barely keep track of my own family. I have one kid,
I have one wife. How is this man doing it?
Would he go home to his second family and be like, oh,
someone took the head off my head? Nine froze, it's

(44:59):
a f reference. Turns out no, No, he wasn't pulling
a Fred Flintstone trying to be in two places at once.
Sure he would start a family and ditch them.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
So he just like the fucking and then the birth
of children, and then he would move.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
On and to start a new family.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
I'm also curious like that if someone that notable, not
that he was that notable, but if someone that is
somewhat notable can bounce around and have crazy families like this,
that must have happened more than we know. Because before
the Internet, people could do whatever the fuck they wanted.
I mean, they weren't even soloign murders until the eighties
with DNA, so I mean, you could do anything you wanted.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
I thought it was a silly little story about someone
back in the nineteen sixties being able to support three
to four families with their voiceover work being able to
pay for that. I'm like, look at this economy. Now, No,
it's not that. No, he did not support the other families.
He just said it going on for a pack of six.

(46:03):
Also reading here because his son did an interview on
I Want to give the I don't know. It was
some fucking am nine seventy. The show's called Nostalgia Tonight
with Joe Sabilia. I didn't I could do a show
like that. That's not bad, but the son was on there.
He also said his dad loved queludes. That makes sense,

(46:25):
the dude love ludes. He also joked his father would
always say, I guess all the other fat guys were
out of town when they were casting Frosty, so at
least he had a good sense of humor about them.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Right right right, I was picturing I.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Was having so much fun with the headline that anytime
that he would create a new child, he would yell
happy birthday. But no, yeah, not a nice holiday. Just
a bad guy. And he died in nineteen eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah smoked him.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
And now they're dancing on his grave. They're sick.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Mack.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
You see this, You hear about this Travis Kelcey and
Taylor Swift. Travis Kelcey said they've never argued.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
I believe it.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
You want to know why I believe it? If billions
of dollars.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Yeah, I like whatever Taylor Swift goes or whereever Taylor
Swift says goes in that relationship, he makes millions, she
makes billions. He's also speaking as someone also in his
mid thirties. You kinda if you want to have a family,
you gotta start, you know now. So I think he's
realizing that as well. I also think that it's possible

(47:37):
they just are a match.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
That's possible, kind of like the Chappelle Show sketch. You
just gonna knock her up and then you get to
live in Oprah's house. Here you go. Would you rather
be Travis Kelcey or Jackie Vernon.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I'll go with the billions of dollars that Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
You don't want to be the guy who's dead and
abandoned three families.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Maybe for a short time, you know, and maybe in
the Kuelud era, maybe I'll go Jackie Vernon. But overall
I'll take.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Must have been some magic and that old silk Hattie
found and then finally in this Max sac Oh Jesus,
did you say this? You hear about this?

Speaker 2 (48:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:15):
What a statue of RoboCop has been built in Detroit?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Okay? Sure?

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Back in twenty eleven, then Mayor Dave Bing was tweeted
that Detroit should have a statue of the part man,
part machine cop because Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky
and RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
The first thing I thought of when you said RoboCop
statue was the Rocky statue.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, and RoboCop would kick Rocky's butt. He's part machine,
I you agree, and has guns? All right? So now
more than sixty thousand dollars in crowdfunding later, in almost
fifteen years, a bronze eleven foot two and a half
ton work of art is on patrol.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Is it just outside of like Detroit PD.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Headquarters, outside of like a like a market.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Now, I think it would be cool if Detroit PD
changed there like logo logo logo to some sort of
RoboCop type thing. Now, that would be.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Cool, and maybe they offered to three to a handful
of cops. We can do this procedure.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
We can try it out.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
You'll be impenetrable. You can do whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
You won't be able to penetrate anyone. No, it'sble I'm
gonna ask you this, Mac.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
You're from the Boston area. I'm from the Boston area.
Which fictional character movies or television should get their own
statue in the great City of Boston.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
That's a great question.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
I was asked this yesterday. Can you guess what I had? No?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
What is it Norm from Cheers?

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Okay? I would say, what's the what's Fred the Baker?

Speaker 1 (49:52):
But duga, don you are to do Fred the Baker?
He's real?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Yeah, but he was also a character.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
So you want to put an eleven foot tall Fred
the Baker, Fred the Baker on the common sure? Sure, okay,
that's not a bad one.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Or maybe you have him standing with his arms out
with some tire swings that look like donuts there so
kids can swing on Fred the Baker.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
And he's also eating one, so if a kid wants
to climb up there, he can shift up into front.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Or maybe he's hold on Maybe that's a basketball hoop.
His face is the backboard.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Go in the comments section below and tell us who
you think fictional characters should get a statue in Boston
or Massachusetts? A fictional so don't say Matt Damon. Matt,
I would be cool too if they just built a
statue of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon arms over each
other's shoulders, just going like we're number one. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, Casey Affleck poking his head and all.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
We have to do is raise sixty thousand dollars and
we get this.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
You know somehow Wahlberg would it would get involved with this.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
See the issue is that most Boston movies are based
off of real mobsters. Want to put those statues up?
Those are bad guys. Those are as bad as fucking
Jackie Vernon. Where is Jackie Vernon from?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Maybe worse guy? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Would you rather? Would you rather be Jackie Vernon or
the character that Jack Nicholson plays in the Pad?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Oh? I don't want to know. I'll be Jackie Vernon.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
What if they just put all of the departed out
there in Boston and statue for him, because like el
Wood is not from the area. She goes to Harvard,
but she's not from What if you just put Tom Green,
Jason Lee, Megan stealing Harvard.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
You could do that in Cambridge.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
At Harvard, I think they should use some of their
fat cat money and build statues to all of the
characters who have gone to Harvard in movies. Do you
I think that man a red Man?

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Do you think that Harvard holds that stake of property
in Lower Altin just to say they're at Boston University.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Gotta do it, you gotta be doing it. And you
know what I was, I would help crowdfund a method
man in Redman smoking the ashes of their best friend
to ace the SATs to get into Harvard.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Maybe you put that smack dab on the bridge to
divide Cambridge and Boston.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
And like put it right in the middle of the
streets so that you have to drive around it. Sure,
because we don't have enough traffic around here.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Yeah, And now that I'm thinking about it, what's the uh,
what's the Mit movie? Damon? Goodwill Hunting Goodwill hunting Cambridge? Also,
we can't do that.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
So you can put up a statue it's Matt Damon
holding a musket and at the bottom it just says
hunting season. Any other ones?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
No, I still think Fred the Baker's are the leading candidate.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Oh you know who we could do. You know, it's
a great Boston character, doctor Fraser Crane. No, get the
fuck out of here, doctor Fraser.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
And also Seattle would be pissed about that.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Now, what if we started a war? What if a
civil war broke out because of people fighting over where
Phraser friends resides.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I mean, that's what That's what I just realized. Okay,
so this is why Philly gets the ship for it.
First of all, because Philly is one of the most
historical cities in the country. You know, it's not quite
on Boston's level, but it's pretty close. Maybe some people
would have it above Boston. I don't know, but they're
putting up statues of fake characters when they could put
up statues of actual patriots, which which Boston has.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
What I appreciate what Detroit did is they're like, you
guys are dumb. We're gonna put RoboCop up.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
We could do JFK.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Well, he's in the Oliver Stone movie. JFK.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
I looked up famous Boston characters and it's just Boston
actors air rights.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Not what I can do for you, your cousin from Boston.
What era you could do for me, right, that's a
that's a quote.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Oh God, we're not gonna put a man on the
moon because we can, but because it's had all right.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Twenty fourteen, Thrillist came out with the ten best fictional
Bostonians of all time. No On number ten, Frank Galvin
from the Verdict, that's old, No one would do it.
Thomas Crown from The Thomas.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
I think they have to Buias fuke on there.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Right, Lieutenant Jimmy Dove from Blown Away Ted. We could
do Ted.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Oh that's who I That's who I threw out yesterday.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
We could do Ted.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
You get a nice Ted. You put him right on
the mother duckling and we're all set.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Now we're cooking. Yeah, it's got your boy. Frank Costello
from The Departed Will Hunting. I mean, I guess he
did live in Boston. Oh, here's a good one. Here's
a good one. Sergeant Donnie Donowitz from and Glorious Bastard's
the Bear One.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
But it's also not Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Well, brad Pitt's Lieutenant Aldo Rain from the South.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
I'm just telling you it's not Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
The Beard you would be.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
But I'm telling you though, it's not Brad Pitt.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
What do you think about this one? Good? You would
have loved this one fifteen years ago Connor and Murphy
McManus from the Boondock Saints.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
I don't think I ever liked the Boondocks never.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
No, they got that Spencer character whatever. And that number
one is Norm all right Norm?

Speaker 1 (55:04):
But like I said, so, is that the list that
has Tobias Fumeke on there? No, so Tobias Fumeke could
be it.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I think my newke leader in the clubhouse is Ted.
Number two, Fred the Baker.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
What's on your Mountain Rushmore? Would you put Norm on
the mount Rushmore?

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah? Man, I don't really like Cheers.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Though, and then doctor Fraser Crane, we have it. That's
our Mountain rush.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Not doing two Cheers characters.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Well, you can put them on opposite ends, you don't
have to put them together.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
I'll just do a Wallberger Burger for my fourth.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
It's all Mark Wahlberg characters.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Or maybe the rat from the end of the Departed.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Okay, so there we go. It is Norm, it is Ted,
it is Fred the Baker, Fred the Baker, and then
it's a rat.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
You know that's not bad.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
We did it out.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
That is our Mount Rushmore. Okay, that's our statue. Build
a Mount Rushmore in Boston.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Into Blue Hills with those characters on it. It's this.
We're going to carve it to the side of Blue Hills,
those four characters.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
And then at the bottom on a Plaquet says while
Lenny Clark speaks for all of us, these are the
characters that best represent us.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
And then Bill Simmons is going to have a twenty
five thousand word article as to why he would have
chose four other people.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
And a five part thirty for thirty. All right, where
can the people find us?

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Who knows we're done.

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Oh we should. I should talk to Billy, maybe make
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You get toys to pay for.

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I got ship to pay for. Also, if you are
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Speaker 1 (57:35):
And that's a promise. Tuesdays or goosdays. I abuse Kangaroos
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Bye.

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