February 28, 2025 • 55 mins
Join us as we take a lively dive into the bustling comedy scene of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where we unpack a week of heartfelt performances and great laughs. From chaotic Valentine’s Day shows dubbed the “Valentine's Day Massacre” to local comedians honing their craft at The Comedy Farm, this episode paints a picture of a vibrant community fueled by laughter. Our hosts share personal anecdotes and experiences of performing in front of enthusiastic crowds, emphasizing how joyful audiences can elevate comedy shows to new heights.
We also reminisce about the great nostalgia of local pizza shops, linking these warm memories to the comfort and joy of good food and good friends. As we explore the complexities surrounding freedom of speech in comedy, we urge open dialogue on the nature of humor in today's ever-changing cultural landscape. The conversation culminates in excitement over upcoming charity shows, encouraging everyone to support local comedy.
Whether you're a die-hard comedy fan or just curious about our fun journey into Johnstown's entertainment landscape, this episode promises to entertain and inspire. Make sure to hit subscribe and join our joyous exploration of laughter, community, and good food!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we're live from Johnstown.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I mean Johnstown.
Pennsylvania is the onlyJohnstown that matters.
I would say it takes the cake.
It is.
Maybe, I'm sure there'sprobably one in every state, but
I mean Johnstown is the mostfamous.
Pennsylvania is the most famous.
I know it is, I'm sorry.
No, probably one in every state, but I mean Johnstown is the
most famous, pennsylvania is themost famous.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I know it is, I'm sorry it's terrible, although
Johnstown, maryland, which isclose to California, maryland,
is really nice.
What?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, there's a Johnstown Maryland.
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Close to California Maryland.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Hollywood, you mean?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, hollywood, maryland.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why are you talking like that, like what you were?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
like better than Better than I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But no, what have we been up to?
Welcome back.
We're in a new weather patternup here.
We've actually been thawed outfor two days now.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What's that going to mean to us here in the Three
Rivers area?
One of these big blue things,this cold, frigid Arctic air,
this big mass coming out of thenorth.
It's going to meet up with allof this moisture coming up out
of the Gulf, going to mixtogether at high altitude and
cause some snow going out on alimb now not going to hit us
here in pittsburgh, going topush off and hit altuna.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Close call folks so we've been some places, we've
done some things um, yeah, Iactually got out there and
washed the window earlierbecause it was so nice out.
Wow, the sun was shining.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That's incredible.
Yeah, in business, no.
So we've had a wild week ofcomedy here starting last Friday
.
I mean, I say we.
I have had a wild week ofcomedy here, although coming up
(02:09):
you're going to be Maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, we're maybe going to try to get her to do
stand-up for the second time,which will be a lot of fun, and
next week open mic or the comedytryouts, I should say, at the
Comedy Farm in Altoona.
Regardless of any of that, lastFriday we did a show in a place
called Chess SpringsValentine's Day Dude.
(02:37):
We called it the Valentine'sDay Massacre because it was
murder.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, it was a great show, though.
It was a really great show.
It was a really great show.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was a great show and crowd matters.
I'm going to say it over and,over and over again.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It definitely does, and the fact that they had been
they'd been there waiting forcomedy to start.
We got there an hour before theshow started.
These people had already beenthere for Richard like since six
, and the show started at eight.
So they were lubed up baby youknow what I mean like they had
drinks in them, food, they wereready to go, ready to laugh.
(03:17):
They were a great time.
Uh, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, but not only that like but everybody ripped.
I mean, the show was amazing.
First of all, you have a newkiller set that I've been
leaking to the interwebs, sothat was awesome.
But the bartender, becky, shewas hilarious, I love her so
much.
The food we got a samplerplatter which is just like fried
(03:45):
bar foods, so that was normal,but the salads looked amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The steaks looked really good.
Yeah, everything looked reallygood.
I mean, we'll go back up, we'llcheck it out sometime.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, comedy or no comedy, the crowd was a hoot.
I loved it.
Everybody was so nice.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, it's my kind of place.
It's very out know out themiddle of nowhere.
I love a good bar out in themiddle I love a good dive bar a
good bar out in the middle ofnowhere.
Yeah, um, good people at thosebars yeah, for sure, um, but uh,
yeah, no, it was just a greatshow.
Like I said, everybody didreally well.
That was part of the.
It's easy, it's.
(04:22):
It's more fun for the comicstoo when the crowd's great
because, like they're, it getsthem in a better mood.
They, they do better.
It's like a reciprocal thing,like if the crowd is good and
the comedian's good, they just.
It elevates the comedian to abetter level if the crowd is
(04:42):
great, because then they feedoff that energy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I mean gosh probably hands down one of the
best crowds that I've seen at anon-national show, especially
for being like a weird roomdynamically, in terms of like
you have two rooms and there'slike a wall that splits the bar
from the like dining room yeahbut the stage you kind of can
(05:08):
see over to the other side, sothose people were still all
interact.
It's, it was a differentdynamic, but it uh, it uh, it
was.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It was good yeah, the people at the end of the bar
though that could see over intothe stage they were, they were
so much fun, yeah, they, buteverybody was having a good time
and um, no, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So then, uh, that was three Scots in a Ridge.
And then Thursday I did twoguest spots.
Um, Christina Mariani, ofcourse, was at the comedy farm,
which her, I mean so good, Imean, she was phenomenal, as
always, Better than ever.
(05:48):
It's like that's part of thefun that you get to have seeing
somebody so many times is youget to see them grow, especially
when they're like somebody asgood as she is.
And Ridge too.
I mean we were talking aboutthat the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
How much better Ridge like, not that Ridge like I'm
not saying anything like that hewas, but I'm just saying he's
grown by grown so much betterlike which is crazy because he's
been on sorry, he's been doingcomedy now for like a while,
yeah, he's been been doingcomedy for a couple years.
He's been on kill tony, so he'sout there doing the thing, but
(06:26):
he just, for whatever reason, Ifeel like he's just gotten
stronger and stronger the lastcouple times.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You can tell he's been working.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Putting the work in.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You can tell he's been working, because he's just
when you watch somebody, ifevery time you see them they're
getting better and better,especially when you know their
stuff like you know, you see theprogression, how much better it
is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Right.
And yeah, he's just that's thefun part for me is I'm an
outside observer, so likethere's no stake in the game for
me right now, so like I justget to watch everybody grow.
Um, right, so that's I mean,it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Um, but where Ridge signs in my mind is promoting
dude.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh, he's a hustler he is a hustler, he gets it.
He's like rise and grind man.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He's always on it those are my people, what I've
said it a million times like Idon't care what you're doing in
life if you're trying hard at itlike you are my people.
Unless you're trying hard atfailing, and then maybe not.
That's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Then you're not really trying, you're just doing
it, but whatever I mean he'sgot the comedy farm.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's more shows coming up um.
Earl david reed is going to beup there all week.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
So yeah, March 1st or whateverthat he's up there.
He's up there like the nightafter the Comedy Farm tryouts
are like the 28th tryouts.
It's an open mic.
Come on out, all are welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It'll be a good time If you think you can.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Or come out and watch if you don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you think you can joke, so you think you can joke,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right, but even if you don't think, you do come out
and watch.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, that's fun too.
I mean it'll be fun.
It's way more fun at open micswhen there's observers, because
even though, like everyone's outthere just working their stuff
out, there's still a lot ofplayback from the crowd when
it's a good crowd.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, especially in places.
The Comedy Farm always has agreat crowd.
Rich just does a good job ofpromoting.
He's all over the place.
You see him, dude, he's InAltoona.
He's created a comedy club thatdoes good like sells a lot of
(08:46):
tickets.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Like not just you know ever, but like all the time
, like it's not just this, isnot just one event that he's
doing once in a while.
I mean, it's like multiplethings every month.
And he's not just doing itthere, he's doing state college,
he's all over the place.
He's in detroit this weekendwell, he's just doing a show
there, but yeah but still,that's what I'm saying I'm
(09:09):
saying he's always doingsomething, he's a beast, he is a
beast, but um, yeah then.
So then, like, so then the twoshows of christina.
But then friday night we wereat the um altuna railro Museum.
I, yeah, scott Kelly, was theheadliner, and then me and the
(09:32):
other the three Scots, areperforming together quite a lot
and I think we're all going tobe at the thing at in-state
college on the 19th.
The three Scots.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now Ridge wasn't there this week.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It cory black and he's really good too shout out
to general cory because thatcracks me up.
I love when he does that, theway that, like he, I even told
him that the way he sets it upevery time, because we've seen
him do it multiple times now andit works every time.
I've never seen a single personlike.
I'm not gonna explain it to you, but it's just yeah, we're not
(10:10):
gonna throw the punch line butit's just something he does with
the crowd and it works everysingle time.
It's like a gem and, uh, it'sjust fun to watch, especially
when you know it's coming andthen it works.
It's like it's fun, um, butyeah then, and then the show
like it was cool because it wasa weird room at the altuna
(10:32):
altuna railroaders museumdefinitely a different, it's
like a small, it's like it lookslike the jurassic park when
they're watching the dna video.
It's like that size theater andthey have 100 people crammed in
there.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's like when you go to any museum and they have a
little tiny theater to show you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Where normally there'd be four people listening
to a person talk and all theother seats would be empty.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Well, they show like a train history movie in there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, but yeah, no, I I mean I'm not knocking it,
I'm just saying it was differentthan you know other things that
you see, I mean it's nice yeah,it was very nice it's but we
had, we had a great time there.
Um, it was fun watching scottdo a long um set.
(11:23):
You know what I mean.
He did a lot of stuff I hadn'theard, necessarily before,
because with a couple of timeswe've seen him he hasn't done,
like you know, that long.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, and he's got an Amazon Prime special coming out
, so yeah, he's funny.
Funny guy.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I really like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He's also great at giving advice.
Yeah, he's well, he did like acomedy writers shop where he
taught.
I believe so.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh yeah, that's right .
He taught some kind of workshopor something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, um.
So the railroaders museum, thatwas a lot of fun, um.
And then, like I said, we gotthe comedy farm trial.
So that's the comedy update.
Um, in that world, um.
But speaking of comedians,though, I'm really excited.
Next week, shane Gillis ishosting SNL um, which is always
a good time, but we were justwatching the SNL 50 thing.
(12:12):
We've been talking about it alot because it was, uh, pretty
cool.
I mean, we talked about itbefore it happened, um, but it
was just cool to see everybodythere.
A lot of people have beentalking about a lot of things.
People are pissed at Tom Hanksboy, they are not having it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, they're pissed at Tom Hanks.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Meanwhile.
First off, tom Hanks didn'twrite that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, he didn't write it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And he did it before, and I don't remember anybody
being mad at it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So here's my thing You're my husband and I want you
to be able to say any funnything that you want to say on
camera whenever you want to.
But if you were out theretalking about being a member of
(13:12):
the triple k club and then youdid your bit on hit, people
(13:35):
might perceive it differently.
Well, obviously, and so that'skind of the thing.
Well, obviously, be out theretouting his political opinion
and he's given his politicalopinion, which is that he's way
too woke and he wants to leavethe country because he doesn't
like the president.
That's all well and good.
You're a rich man, you can dowhatever you want.
(13:56):
But then you can't say I wasjust doing a skit.
When you're making fun of MAGApeople because you've already
said you don't like them, it'sno longer a bit, it's just a
statement, so it's tasteless.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
See, I disagree and I'm going to tell you why.
Because you don't get tocomplain about comedy period.
You don't get to say, oh, Idon't think that you should be
able to.
You should say this, like onone side, which is what a lot of
people do oh, it's too.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
For anybody else, it would have been hilarious
because there was a good messagein there.
I still think it's funny, I mean, when he said that if there was
a white jeopardy that'spowerful, like he's right, like
you can't have a white jeopardy,so why could you have a black
jeopardy?
That's powerful, like he'sright, like you can't have a
white jeopardy, so why could youhave a black jeopardy?
(14:50):
That's funny, right, and itcovers a lot of it's.
You know there's thought behindit, but at the end of the day,
like if anybody else wasstanding in that MAGA hat, I
don't think it would have goneas poorly as it did because of
who it was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't think that it went poorly.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You're not on TikTok babe.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
But that's what I'm saying.
People went badly.
For whom?
Were those people that wereloving Tom Hanks before?
No, they're people that alreadydislike Tom Hanks.
Nobody changed their mind fromwatching Tom Hanks' video.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's exactly it, but I do think, I do believe
that people just need to relax.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes, there's no need to debate anything about
anything when it comes to Agree.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If you don't like, it don't watch.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's as easy as that.
I mean, that goes for anything,even things on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
People like bombing people in the name of religion.
It defiles religion.
So do you really want somebodylike him making the jokes?
Because it was clearly a joke.
Again, I think it's funny.
The reason why it's funny to meand I've made this statement
before is because I know thatnot all MAGA are racist.
(16:10):
I mean, there's Black MAGA,there's whatever, so all MAGA
can't be racist.
And I people that it'sbothering, I think, are the ones
who it hits a little too closehome, who wouldn't shake the
(16:32):
black person's hand.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, I mean, to me it's just, it's all in good fun,
that's.
I mean.
I don't.
You know me, you say whateverthe fuck you want to, I truly do
not care.
I believe in personal freedom.
You know me.
I don't believe in anythingwhen it comes to politics.
I believe in personal freedom,you know me.
I don't believe in anythingwhen it comes to politics.
I don't care, I don't believein.
You know me, I'm very extreme,like you know.
(16:55):
We don't want to get into it.
I'm an internet, whatever.
Anyway, but regardless, the onething that I do believe in, the
one fundamental principle thatI think, is freedom of speech.
Yeah, I agree, and I'll defendit to the utmost degree.
It is a zero-sum game.
You do not get to pick andchoose, you do not get to censor
(17:18):
, you do not get and thatincludes hate speech.
You're always going to havethat because you're always going
to have people in society whoare like that.
You try to suppress it, it justcreates, it allows itself to
fester.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Fester, that's the word that I want.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
If you let people say it, then everybody's like if
you let everybody bear theirtrue feelings, people are like,
oh, this guy's a whack job, I'mnot going to listen to him.
Yeah, are you going to have afew that are like, oh, whatever,
go with them.
Yeah, of course you're alwaysgoing to have fringe on the edge
of society that think weirdthings.
That's just the way societyworks.
100 million years ago Well, not100 million years ago, but
(17:56):
100,000 years ago, right, likethere was people that were
acting wild and shit.
And then there was the otherpeople that were like all right,
we're going to go hunt, you'regoing to gather berries, we're
going to survive.
And then there was you knowwackaloons out there living with
wolves.
Her parents were wolves.
(18:17):
I heard somebody.
Somebody was saying somethingto me about where was I
listening to a conversation.
It was something about thewhole thing back with the like
the cat litter things in theschool.
Oh my God, Parents were wolves.
Somebody told me that once theysaid that Her parents were
wolves she's a cat.
(18:38):
Her parents were wolves.
I was like things are reallygetting serious out there.
But I've seen werewolf movies.
I know teen wolf.
I know there's wolves out therein high school, especially teen
wolf there's a little bit oftruth in it all, yeah that's
exactly.
They've been trying to tell youabout it for 30 years now 30
years longer than that 100 teenwolf's been out.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But before that, how long has the wolf man itself
been around, since the 1800s orbefore?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
oh my god, people probably been believing in
werewolves for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
They have to be.
I mean, look, all those legendsare.
We haven't invented anythingnew really.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Nothing, even robots weren't invented.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I'm saying yeah, yeah .
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What was I going to tell you?
Oh no, so we were talkingabout's yeah, um.
What was I going to tell you?
Oh no, so we were talking aboutfreedom of speech.
So back when I was, back when Iidentified as a liberal I
fucking hate that, um, and Ibelieved that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I don't know why you would ever identify as anything
but continue.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And Confederate flags gave me anxiety, like I used to
love.
My favorite shirt of all timewas a black long sleeve Alabama
T-shirt and there wasConfederate flag on it.
It was my favorite shirt.
I loved it so much, but then Ithrew it away because of all
this hootenanny that was goingon a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hootenanny.
Do you know what, speaking, I'mglad you used that word.
Do you know what, speaking, I'mglad you used that word.
Do you know where a hoot nannycomes from?
You know?
Do you know what a hoot nannyis?
A hoot nanny and this iscreated.
So this came out of the 1960sfolk scene and, as this was the
definition as given by the firstterm, I forget the first show
(20:25):
that was used?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tell me, timothy Larry.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, but so the first show I forget who it was, some
whoever, some folk singer thatit was used.
But then it became popular andJoan Baez said a hoot nanny is
to folk music.
What a oh, what was it the?
What a jam session is to likejazz musicians.
(20:48):
So it's like oh, what was it?
What a jam session is to likejazz musicians.
So it's like just, it's like ajam set, it's just like a jam
out for folk singers.
A hoot nanny, interesting, Ilike that.
A hoot nanny, yeah, Hoot nanny.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But yeah.
So when Confederate flags wereallegedly the identification of
a kkk member which I now realizeis just bullshit, right um, I
was like let them keep, let themfly their flags, because then
I'll know who all the racistsare like I want to know show
your true colors.
But that was weird and stupidtoo, because I like, I like the
(21:29):
Dukes of Hazzard, god damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But the whole reason we got onto this was because of
SNL.
So let's talk about the JimBelushi skit, because that's
what we— John Belushi oh yeah,Jim Belushi's his brother.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
John Belushi is the best fucking SNL Like.
At seven years old I wanted tomarry him.
That's how much I loved him.
I was obsessed with JohnBelushi.
I was trying to get him to dieand I wasn't even probably old
enough to understand it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So they did a skit entitled Don't Look Back in
Anger, in which he mourned he'sat the graveyard and he's like
mourning all the cast members,deaths of the original cast and
he's like naming all thesethings.
It's eerie because he's thefirst one to go and in the skit
they're all dead, but they'reall dead of like things that
(22:22):
almost he could have been deadof Right.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Jane Curtin.
She married a stockbroker, hadtwo children, moved upstate New
York.
She died from complicationsduring cosmetic surgery.
This is Garrett Morris, nowGarrett.
(22:46):
Garrett left the show andworked in the black theater for
years and he died of an overdoseof heroin.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
One died of a heroin overdose.
One died of.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I have chills just talking about it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, that was spooky .
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It is called Don't Look Back in Anger.
So we looked, because Oasis isone of my hands down fucking
favorite.
I love them.
That's one of my hands downfucking favorite.
I love them.
That's one of my favorite songsof all time ever.
It probably makes my top 20list, and so if anybody knows,
if there's any correlation towhy they wrote that song we
couldn't find it, but I wouldlove to know or what the phrase
(23:23):
don't look back in anger Isthere an?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
origin.
Yeah, it's probably an oldphrase.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Is there an origin?
Yeah, I'm sure there probablyis.
But it's not connected, right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But I didn't find anything like that.
It doesn't appear that it'sjust a saying that people said
but yeah, let's check in, though.
We were talking last episodeabout Balboni Balboni.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Balboni, balboni.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Stop it, victor Balboni.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So yeah, there's a new thing in the case.
I don't know if it's a break,it's not really.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
A new break in the Justin Baldoni Blake Lively saga
.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But so Jenny Slade and Slate Slate, whatever, I
don't give a shit if I say hername, right Cause like I can't
even name one thing that she'sbeen.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
No, she's in a bunch of stuff.
She used to be funny back inthe day.
The only thing that I everreally found her funny in was
those.
They used to do those like yearend wrap ups on VH1 where
they'd be like taught and shewould like be on the commentator
where they'd be like talkingand she would like be on the.
That's about it.
We turned her stand-up specialoff because I just didn't really
think it was right, exactlylike I.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
She's just not that not my cup of tea not everybody
is funny in the same ways, whichis why I'm hesitant about doing
stand-up, because I'm funny inconversation.
I'm funny when I sit there andthink about something and like
do it on camera.
But to actually do it stand up,right.
But anyways, regardless, Idigress.
(24:55):
Jenny Slate, slate, however yousay her name, I don't care
because this I learned a newterm out of this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
There's a new term and where I heard it from was
First let's pause there becauselet's say we need to say what.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So she's friends with blake lively, yes, and he was
also in the movie with them withher and justin baldoni right
and go ahead now so she's in themovie.
It ends with us.
And so she put fifteen thousanddollars down on a condo or
whatever in New York to wherethey were going to film, and for
(25:33):
whatever reason, she didn'tfeel comfortable in this
apartment.
She was there for a day or two,I don't know how long.
And it was something about shedidn't feel safe there with her
child because she had her childthere with her Right Cool.
So Wayfair, which is thecompany that Justin Baldoni has,
is part owner and said thatthey would cover the $15,000
(25:58):
deposit that she put on thisapartment and move her to a more
comfortable apartment.
So the business partner ofJustin Baldoni his name is Jamie
Heath and Jamie wrote thisreally nice email to Jenny
saying Wayfair is going to coverthe $15,000.
We'll get you into anotherplace.
And in that statement he saidsomething about the sanctity of
(26:24):
motherhood and it was notfacetious.
Um, sanctity of motherhood, andit was not facetious.
And so what I learned later wasthat justin baldoni, jamie
heath, grew up in this religioncalled the high and I don't know
if I'm saying it right, I thinkI am, because I watched a
tiktok on it earlier um, I thinkit's the high I mean, if you
watch the tiktok, it's official.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I mean, let's be honest, well, it came from
somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It came from a creator who actually grew up in
the bahai faith and um.
So the way that she explainedit is that they do believe in
women's equality but they don'tlook at it the same way.
It's like I'm gonna, I'mrephrasing here.
I'm saying they don't.
It's not the same as like thewoke feminism per se.
In bahai, they believe that ifyou could only afford to educate
(27:10):
one of two of your children onebeing a man, a male and one
being a female that you educatethe female, because the female
is the educator in the home, themother is the one who spends
the time with the children andteaches them how to read and
write.
So you make sure the mother iseducated or the woman's educated
.
So that's kind of how it's, ablended kind of it's.
(27:30):
It's woke but it's very.
It's there.
I mean, every vibe that I'veever gotten from Justin Bell
with Jenny is that he's justkind.
So anyways, long story short,that is why Jenny Slate feels
like she was harassed is becauseof the way that Jamie Heath
said the sanctity of motherhoodor whatever sanctity of
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motherhood.
He said it weird and it madeher uncomfortable in an email.
You, fucking victim.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, again, it just feels like they're nitpicking,
which is what you brought up theterm oppression, appreciation
no, no, that's not it.
Again, it just feels likethey're nitpicking, which is
what you brought up the termoppression appreciation.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, no, that's not it .
So I'm going to give credit tothe grumpy gay on TikTok,
because I don't know where heheard it from.
I can't find the origins of it,but it's called oppression
appropriation.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It's a little different than appreciation.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's the fucking victim mentality.
That's all it is.
I'm a victim.
You, Blake Lively, are a nepobaby who grew up very
comfortable.
You are not oppressed in anyway, shape or form.
You're gorgeous.
Well, on the outside you were.
The inside is making you uglyand hard to look at and hard to
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listen to, but at the end of theday, you're not oppressed.
Go to a country where women areoppressed and live there for a
month without any contact tothis world and come back and
tell me that you are stilloppressed.
Please, please, please, I'llpay for it.
I can't stand her.
I can't stand her.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Ran over.
Okay, we want to get thosevibes out of here.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But this is an ongoing case.
No, I know it is funny.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, we're going to keep talking about it, but
that's this week's update.
This week's update fuck JennySlate.
Fuck Jenny Slate.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Speaking of comics, who, I believe everybody has a
voice.
Fuck Jenny Slate Right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But no, to talk about something lighter, a show that
we've been watching lately here,I'm sure a lot of other people
have.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That's not light at all.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, not Reacher.
Reacher's so good.
If you're not watching Reacher,go out there and watch it,
because season three just cameout and it's the best.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
It's like so right out of the gate think that they
could get better, becausethey're gonna run out of and
right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's like, I mean, it's 100 mile an hour and but
regardless of that, we've beenwatching a lot of other people.
You might have seen a new gameshow the floor on fox yes, we
have the host.
We love watching this everybody.
But the thing like it's fun toobecause it's like you have to
be, you have to know things.
(30:13):
But even if you know a lot, itdoesn't necessarily mean that
you're going to be like goodBecause you have to be quick.
It's more about they just showyou pictures and then you have
to name it and you're likefacing off against other people.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And like I it, I fill in the blanks too.
Like they're trying to mix itup a little bit and bring in new
kind of ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, but for the most part it's just I think I'd
be good at it, I think I could,I think that I could I do
believe that you would be goodat it, but it's pretty rapid
fire no, I know it is and, likeyou said, so what I?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I don't want to give the show away, if you're
watching or not watching, butlike twice this week, we saw
people pass on their picture andforget that it was still their
turn.
Right, when you pass, you'renot passing to the other.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'd say you get put under pressure.
But yeah, like I said, I stillthink that I would be.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
How good do you think you are?
I think I would be really good.
I think I could do it.
I want to try to get on it.
I've never wanted to get on agame.
I mean I guess I wanted to, butthis is one that I would really
want to do.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, lucky for you.
I've put together a little testcase to see how good you are.
Okay, Give me one second.
I'm going to step away from thecamera and set us up for the
floor.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yep, let's go, taco.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Bell.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Burger King, mcdonald's, chili's, wendy's.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Domino's.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Subway.
Dunkinin Donuts, pizza Hut,chipotle, sonic, arby's, little
(32:31):
Caesars, dairy Queen,chick-fil-a.
Ooh Pass, ooh.
Panda Express, popeyes A Sbarro, saxby's Five Guys, krispy
(33:14):
Kreme, panera Bread, in-n-out,baskin Robbins, mmm pass.
(33:38):
Papa John's Pass, papa John's,white Castle, hardee's, carl's
Jr, church's Chicken Wow, okay,I don't know.
(34:01):
Tim Hortons, annie Anse, longJohn Silvers, no idea, pass, I
(34:28):
mean, I think I won, I think Iwon.
Hey, come on back to the studio.
How did I do?
I did good, you did good.
They wouldn't have been able tothe studio.
How did I do?
I did good, you did good.
They wouldn't have been able tobeat me.
No, because you see too, if Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
You pass immediately, pass immediately yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
If you don't know, don't stand there and think
about it.
These people, this is floor,basic, floor strategy.
I can coach you.
Give me a call 1-800-COACH.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
If it's anything food-related, I think you'd be
good, except for the onecategory that tripped us up last
season was fucking beans.
Do you know how many beansthere are?
And they all look alike, theyall look alike.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But no, another little game show thing, though
that I do have a beef to pickwith a game show where we're
talking about it, pressure luckLike can you release some new
episodes please?
We get one episode every threeweeks, months they do.
Every holiday they do one.
It's not even like a season.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Elizabeth, thanks.
You're the producer.
We know that you are abeautiful, busy, powerful woman.
Get your shit together.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
It's our favorite game show.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's great, and she's great, she's so good, it's so
good, it's so good, so good.
One thing, while I'm thinkingabout it A little while back you
know that I talk about pizza.
While we're talking about food,you know that I talk about
pizza.
You know I've given severalshout outs to great pizza places
, named several places that Ilove to frequent.
(36:10):
Well, we have a new category.
It's best New York style pizzain Johnstown, and that is
Salvatore's Pizza.
I've been there before and Idid like it, but this time I got
the full experience.
I got to go into the shop.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
New shop.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, I go in there.
There's a guy talking to thecounter.
He's talking like this.
He said I don't care about thepepperoni, whatever, blah, blah,
blah.
Friend of mine, one of myfavorite guys, talks like that
and yeah, and it just smelledgreat.
And it and uh, yeah, and itjust smelled great and it's a
new shop.
It's not always been a pizzashop, but it smelled like a
pizza shop that's been there for100 years.
(36:47):
So I came to wonder is ititalians?
And they speak italian.
They're all speaking, but alittle little little.
When you walk in there, they'regoing nuts.
That's how you know it's good.
They got a family in the back.
There's a little kid with asoccer ball, because he's
italian, he loves soccer, andthey're like talking what can I
get you?
A pepperoni, a piece of lasagna?
And they're like they're justdoing great things and I forget
(37:10):
where I'm even going with allthat.
But the point of this is thatit smelled like a pizza shop
that had been there for 100years, but it's like brand new,
the location.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
They've been there for, they've been around for the
building used to be the meadows, so it smelled like ice cream
for years.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And um, but yeah, so now it just had.
So I came to the conclusionthat Italians must just emanate
smells of tomatoes and pizza andItalians oregano, and it just
smells great.
And then when they gather, likethat man, it just it emanates
from them.
Greasy cheese and pepperonisand prosciutto is coming out of
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their pores, man, and it's great, I love it.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I got myself a bomb stroly.
It was the best bomb stroly.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
But that pizza buddy yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
So yeah, now there's two categories.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Well, there's multiple categories.
We'll add more in the future,but this week's category is Best
New York Style Pizza inJohnstown, salvatore's, no doubt
about it.
Gilded Trash Hall of Fame.
Gilded Trash Hall of Famebecause it's a great pizza shop.
It's got that 1980s vibebecause they're Italian and you
just, oh man, if they put apinball machine in there, buddy,
or with a bouncy ball, I'd bein my youth.
(38:21):
A bouncy ball machine.
Are you kidding me?
I'd throw that thing.
How are they ricocheting?
It'd look like that scene inMen in Black where that thing
gets out.
I loved Pizza Shop Dude.
I loved that about the 1980s.
Like the Pizza Shop vibe, likea pinball machine, a jukebox
slices 1980s, like the pizzashop, vibe, like a pinball
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machine, a jukebox slices andthe 1980s version of pizza high
is just what I wouldn't give.
They have ones that were it likelooks like a 19, but unless
they figure out how to makepizza hot pizza, how it was made
1989 it's, I don't care howmuch nostalgia you put in the to
the decorations, it's not goingto add up to the beautifulness.
That was my personal pepperonibucket, pizza bucket, bucket
(39:11):
bucket.
I loved it, though I, oh Iloved it.
And that was like the one time.
And if we got book there was acouple of times even if so, like
, say, growing up, like, say, Igot book at that month and Matt
didn't get it, mom would stillbuy pizza.
That was one of the splurges.
(39:32):
It was like $2 for like a pizza, like a little pizza bag.
But yeah I, that's my favorite.
Oh, buddy man, do I love apizza shop like that?
For some reason I always liketo play.
Alice Cooper had a song Poison.
(39:55):
Do you remember?
She's poison.
But I remember playing that atthe jukebox repeatedly, at
Romeo's one time playing thepinball machine.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But yeah, we had a great game room here in
Johnstown back in the late 80s.
I was way too young to be there.
It was called the Pit.
They had a jukebox upstairs.
They had a deli with food, likeyou get up and go up and order
a sub and then bring itdownstairs and eat.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
The Holy tree.
So Wayne Heights mall had themute.
Like the music store Phillipsmusic land or whatever Frank's
pizza and the arcade.
And I mean you talk about a funday, and like the music store
phillips music land or whatever,frank's pizza and the arcade.
And I mean you talk about a funday and grandma well, she'd
always take us down if we werewith grandma reed this is back
when she drove.
So it was like you know, youhad fun when you're.
(40:52):
She'd give you five dollars atthe arcade and, um, sometimes
more, but then you get pizza andfranks, you buy something.
It was a good time.
One time on my birthday, I beatthe Simpsons game and it took
like 15, 20 bucks and I justremember thinking that was crazy
(41:14):
.
To spend $20 at the arcade forme was like I mean my parents At
the most we got $5 to spend,and then, once that was up I
mean my parents at the most wegot $5 to spend, and then, once
that was up, that was it.
But yeah, I love getting prizes, going home with a little bag
full of candy and wax plasticthings, oh, it was good stuff.
(41:37):
Oh my gosh, you would rentmovies because Phil's was there
so we would rent movies.
So you'd be going home like Imean you talk about a great day
pizza, rent movies in arcade.
I mean for as a kid, that's it,yeah, in a daddy, a boy in 1989
, that's it, man, that is it.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
My whole world was rocket it's morphed into Netflix
until now.
Where we do we make?
We try to bring back nostalgiawhen we have our movie nights
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
It's not a lot different.
The only game, the only thingis it's I switched the games
that I'm playing.
Now it's FanDuel, a movie andpizza, and, uh, the prizes are a
little bit different than when.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
a little bit different I've traded in jelly
bracelets for dollars, yeah yeah, yeah, no, so it's still doing
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
That still makes a great day for me, buddy.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Um, it really does and because it's winter, I mean
we're just doing nothing butwatching movies, right?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Which brings us to a perfect category to wrap this
thing up, which is no, we gottwo things to talk about.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
The season premiere of my favorite TV shows coming
out.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Oh, the Righteous Gemstone.
Yeah, let's do that, and thenwe'll go into the movie thing
and end on that, just becauseit's you know.
But yeah, the RighteousGemstone is coming back out and
boy, if you're not watching that.
Danny McBride is a genius man.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
That is the level of writing that I want to get to.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Right, because we've watched him get progressively
better.
Like Eastbound and Down isawesome, but it's raw.
But now it's like everything ishitting on the Righteous
Gemstone Great acting, greatwriting, great great
storytelling, greatcinematography probably the best
comic ensemble cast in the TVshow.
(43:29):
The music, the shots,everything about music is so
well written, it's so welldirected, it's so well produced.
It is my favorite show ontelevision the righteous
gemstones.
Judy gemstone is probably thegreatest television characters
that there's ever been that'sjudy gemstone, is how my brain
(43:50):
works.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
I probably don't say half this shit that she says out
loud, but that's how my brain'sworking.
She said nah, son.
To her dad and I about fuckingbeat my pants.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Nah, son I run the motherfucking show what she said
she's just her mouth.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
She's a nut shit yeah shit, yeah, oh my god, I love
it yeah, she's just great.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
just go check it out, man, it's so worth a watch.
If yeah know we talk about alot of things, we give a lot of
recommendations for things, gowatch the Gemstones because it's
great.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, you have what there's two or three seasons out
there.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
There's three seasons already out there.
The fourth and final season iscoming out.
Yeah, max, hbo, whateverwhatever which brings us to we
what we were talking about,which is expert filmmaking, and
that's why we're talking about.
We're just revisiting quentintarantino here recently, uh,
re-watched jackie brown anddjango and we still have
(44:51):
inglorious bastards to watch,which maybe we'll get into that
later, because that's good.
Yes, it's good stuff, but yeah,we were just talking about, you
know, like it's I mean so I waslike, I mean, I obvious.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
I was like in my late teens, early 20s, when
tarantino movies started comingout.
One of my first favorite moviesof his was from till.
From dust till dawn.
Um, what was the other one?
Um, not or not.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Reservoir dogs, reservoir dogs, yeah and like
that's the other one, um not ornot.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Reservoir dogs.
Reservoir dogs, yeah, and likethat's the other thing is like
so being and I talk about thisall the time, but I'm proud of
it being a Gen Xer.
Um, we had like Anthem movies,right.
We had like totem movies thatbrought us up and brought us
into adulthood, and you can'teven mention any of them without
(45:43):
mentioning at least onetarantino movie, right, right, I
mean you talk about thedialogue.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Do you know how many times I say that is a tasty
burger in my lifetime?
Like I wasn't asking you agoddamn thing.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break yourconcentration?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
and that's all from the same speech right, like,
look at the brains on brand,check out the brains on brand.
I see that if I'm if anybodysays anything smart, that's my
line.
Um, like for tiktok I've beenthinking about, I want to bring
it back up so, like they'realways doing dance videos,
obviously on there, my one ofthe hands down the best fucking
(46:23):
dance scene ever is from pulpfiction.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
She was a teen it was a teenage wedding and the old
folks wished them well.
You could see that the air didtruly love the mademoiselle.
And now the young monsieur andmadame have rung the chapel bell
(46:48):
.
C'est la vie, c'est l'eau,c'est gold, to show you never
can tell.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
So let's talk about it, though.
What's your favorite Tarantinomovie?
That's what I want to know Name, if you could.
Only if they came to you andthey said, hey, you can watch
one Tarantino movie and thenyou're going to die.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Four Rooms.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Which he only directs .
One part of that, though, right.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
No, not Four Rooms.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
That's the one with Tim Roth and stuff.
He directs one part of that,robert Rodriguez directs one,
tarantino directs one, and Iforget how.
But yeah, that's why it'scalled Four Rooms, because it's
four vignettes, four.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Rooms.
Well, because my other favoriteone that I would have to say
like that, is the Death Proofone.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Oh, that's, interesting I can't name just
one my well, if I'm, if I'mdying and I only get to watch
one, I I mean, I think, for medjango.
As much as I love django, Ithink it has to be pulp fiction
I just can't get past if I'monly watching one because I
(48:00):
gotta hear samuel jackson sayit's the one that says bad
motherfucker because he is inthat movie.
That's the movie that madesamuel jackson a bad
motherfucker.
It made that is samuel jackson.
Everything that you think aboutsamuel jackson is samuel
jackson in that movie, rightlike it's.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
That's.
We're talking about him as aentity, it's the or the as a
persona, we're talking about thepulp fiction character you're
right and it's, it's.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
It's just a great movie, john travolta's.
I mean the whole, the way thestorylines put together, the way
it tells it in this jumbled upmess that you're not you.
You're like what the hell iseven really going on here?
And then you like it all makessense and not really, but sort
of, and you're like, oh, I kindof get it and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
No, it is.
It is We've talked about thatbefore the best drug scene in a
movie ever, yeah, ever yeah.
I mean there's so many bests inthat movie.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
There's so many bests with Tarantino and I think
that's.
It's just fitting that Gen X islike making a comeback right
now because he's like the Gen Xdirector of directors all the
movies and then you forget thethings that he wrote, that he
didn't even direct natural bornkillers.
I mean, even though OliverStone like overhauled the script
, the idea is still his Right,it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
He's my favorite he is, but there's one other Gen X
writer, slash producer, that'smaking a comeback soon and we'll
be talking about it coming.
So, oh, how did I not know thatscenes from probably my top
(49:49):
three favorite films ever, dogma, were filmed in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 4 (49:56):
This highly recognizable yet wholly
depressing image of our Lordcrucified.
Christ didn't come to earth togive us the willies.
He came to help us out.
He was a booster, and it's withthat take on our Lord in mind
that we come up with a new, moreinspiring sigil.
So it is with great pleasurethat I present you with the
(50:16):
first of many revamps theCatholicism Wild campaign will
unveil over the next year.
I give you the Buddy Christ.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Right and Dogma.
They're going to bere-releasing here, which is?
You talk about great movies,buddy.
It's my favorite movie, maybebecause especially because you
can't see it, you can't everwatch it.
It's so good.
George Carlin's in it, man, Imean that alone.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
I can recite every line of that movie.
I've seen it.
I know I've seen it a thousandtimes.
I would sleep with it on repeatbecause it just spoke to me so
much.
I mean, and I mean we're not,we'll get into the Kevin Smith
catalog another day because it'swhen that's coming out, we'll
(51:11):
deep dive into his stuff.
But all I'm saying is it is agreat time to be Gen X.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Not, but I'm right on the cusp.
I'm a cusper Cash Patel withthe FBI.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
I'm not, but I'm right on the cusp, I'm a cusper.
Cash Patel with the FBI I loveit.
We're in power.
Now we're in power.
The president might be old asfuck, but Cash Patel, elon Musk,
all them guys, gen X, tulsiGabbard who else?
Pam Bondi?
(51:42):
I love it.
So happy.
Oh, she didn't, she was behindyou the whole time.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
The last time she pulled up.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
But all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, let's wrap it up Speaking of upcoming shows
and who you ran into in thepizza shop.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Oh yeah, april 26th at the Masonic Temple.
No, april 26th, masonic Templehere in Johnstown is a charity
show.
There's going to be lots offunny comedians coming in from
all over the place, hosted byFrank George.
I myself will be performingthere.
We'll have tickets going onsale next week.
I'll have them.
(52:22):
You can get in touch with us,reach out to us, and we'll have
some other ways to do it too.
So be on the lookout for that.
That's the big one, that's the.
Yeah, that's the big one.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
I'll cut it out.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
This show is called All the Wrong Moves because All
the Right Moves was filmed herein Georgetown which we talked
about.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
We have Go back and watch the episode.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
I don't know which one it was.
Hi, Real quick here.
Scott's thoughts.
Why does the Wendy's Baconatorhave a son Like?
Does he have other kids?
What's the relationship likebetween Baconator and son of
Baconator?
Is it as good as Whopper,Whopper Jr?
You tell me these are just mythoughts.
(53:10):
Say bye, Sal.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Bye, sal, bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
It looks like you're strangling her.
She's fine, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
She loves it.
She's just looking for moretuna.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yep, alright, anyway, we'll see you guys.
Stay trashy.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, if nobody's told you, this week, stay trashy
.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
See you everybody.
Well, we're live from Johnstown.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I mean Johnstown.
Pennsylvania is the onlyJohnstown that matters.
I would say it takes the cake.
It is.
Maybe, I'm sure there'sprobably one in every state, but
I mean Johnstown is the mostfamous.
Pennsylvania is the most famous.
I know it is, I'm sorry.
No, probably one in every state, but I mean Johnstown is the
most famous, pennsylvania is themost famous.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I know it is, I'm sorry it's terrible, although
Johnstown, maryland, which isclose to California, maryland,
is really nice.
What?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, there's a Johnstown Maryland.
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Close to California Maryland.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Hollywood, you mean?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, hollywood, maryland.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Why are you talking like that, like what you were?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
like better than Better than I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But no, what have we been up to?
Welcome back.
We're in a new weather patternup here.
We've actually been thawed outfor two days now.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What's that going to mean to us here in the Three
Rivers area?
One of these big blue things,this cold, frigid Arctic air,
this big mass coming out of thenorth.
It's going to meet up with allof this moisture coming up out
of the Gulf, going to mixtogether at high altitude and
cause some snow going out on alimb now not going to hit us
here in pittsburgh, going topush off and hit altuna.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Close call folks so we've been some places, we've
done some things um, yeah, Iactually got out there and
washed the window earlierbecause it was so nice out.
Wow, the sun was shining.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That's incredible.
Yeah, in business, no.
So we've had a wild week ofcomedy here starting last Friday
.
I mean, I say we.
I have had a wild week ofcomedy here, although coming up
(02:09):
you're going to be Maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, we're maybe going to try to get her to do
stand-up for the second time,which will be a lot of fun, and
next week open mic or the comedytryouts, I should say, at the
Comedy Farm in Altoona.
Regardless of any of that, lastFriday we did a show in a place
called Chess SpringsValentine's Day Dude.
(02:37):
We called it the Valentine'sDay Massacre because it was
murder.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, it was a great show, though.
It was a really great show.
It was a really great show.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It was a great show and crowd matters.
I'm going to say it over and,over and over again.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
It definitely does, and the fact that they had been
they'd been there waiting forcomedy to start.
We got there an hour before theshow started.
These people had already beenthere for Richard like since six
, and the show started at eight.
So they were lubed up baby youknow what I mean like they had
drinks in them, food, they wereready to go, ready to laugh.
(03:17):
They were a great time.
Uh, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, but not only that like but everybody ripped.
I mean, the show was amazing.
First of all, you have a newkiller set that I've been
leaking to the interwebs, sothat was awesome.
But the bartender, becky, shewas hilarious, I love her so
much.
The food we got a samplerplatter which is just like fried
(03:45):
bar foods, so that was normal,but the salads looked amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The steaks looked really good.
Yeah, everything looked reallygood.
I mean, we'll go back up, we'llcheck it out sometime.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, comedy or no comedy, the crowd was a hoot.
I loved it.
Everybody was so nice.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, it's my kind of place.
It's very out know out themiddle of nowhere.
I love a good bar out in themiddle I love a good dive bar a
good bar out in the middle ofnowhere.
Yeah, um, good people at thosebars yeah, for sure, um, but uh,
yeah, no, it was just a greatshow.
Like I said, everybody didreally well.
That was part of the.
It's easy, it's.
(04:22):
It's more fun for the comicstoo when the crowd's great
because, like they're, it getsthem in a better mood.
They, they do better.
It's like a reciprocal thing,like if the crowd is good and
the comedian's good, they just.
It elevates the comedian to abetter level if the crowd is
(04:42):
great, because then they feedoff that energy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And I mean gosh probably hands down one of the
best crowds that I've seen at anon-national show, especially
for being like a weird roomdynamically, in terms of like
you have two rooms and there'slike a wall that splits the bar
from the like dining room yeahbut the stage you kind of can
(05:08):
see over to the other side, sothose people were still all
interact.
It's, it was a differentdynamic, but it uh, it uh, it
was.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It was good yeah, the people at the end of the bar
though that could see over intothe stage they were, they were
so much fun, yeah, they, buteverybody was having a good time
and um, no, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So then, uh, that was three Scots in a Ridge.
And then Thursday I did twoguest spots.
Um, Christina Mariani, ofcourse, was at the comedy farm,
which her, I mean so good, Imean, she was phenomenal, as
always, Better than ever.
(05:48):
It's like that's part of thefun that you get to have seeing
somebody so many times is youget to see them grow, especially
when they're like somebody asgood as she is.
And Ridge too.
I mean we were talking aboutthat the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
How much better Ridge like, not that Ridge like I'm
not saying anything like that hewas, but I'm just saying he's
grown by grown so much betterlike which is crazy because he's
been on sorry, he's been doingcomedy now for like a while,
yeah, he's been been doingcomedy for a couple years.
He's been on kill tony, so he'sout there doing the thing, but
(06:26):
he just, for whatever reason, Ifeel like he's just gotten
stronger and stronger the lastcouple times.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You can tell he's been working.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Putting the work in.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You can tell he's been working, because he's just
when you watch somebody, ifevery time you see them they're
getting better and better,especially when you know their
stuff like you know, you see theprogression, how much better it
is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Right.
And yeah, he's just that's thefun part for me is I'm an
outside observer, so likethere's no stake in the game for
me right now, so like I justget to watch everybody grow.
Um, right, so that's I mean,it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Um, but where Ridge signs in my mind is promoting
dude.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh, he's a hustler he is a hustler, he gets it.
He's like rise and grind man.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
He's always on it those are my people, what I've
said it a million times like Idon't care what you're doing in
life if you're trying hard at itlike you are my people.
Unless you're trying hard atfailing, and then maybe not.
That's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Then you're not really trying, you're just doing
it, but whatever I mean he'sgot the comedy farm.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
There's more shows coming up um.
Earl david reed is going to beup there all week.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, that'll be fun.
So yeah, March 1st or whateverthat he's up there.
He's up there like the nightafter the Comedy Farm tryouts
are like the 28th tryouts.
It's an open mic.
Come on out, all are welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It'll be a good time If you think you can.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Or come out and watch if you don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you think you can joke, so you think you can joke,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Right, but even if you don't think, you do come out
and watch.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, that's fun too.
I mean it'll be fun.
It's way more fun at open micswhen there's observers, because
even though, like everyone's outthere just working their stuff
out, there's still a lot ofplayback from the crowd when
it's a good crowd.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, especially in places.
The Comedy Farm always has agreat crowd.
Rich just does a good job ofpromoting.
He's all over the place.
You see him, dude, he's InAltoona.
He's created a comedy club thatdoes good like sells a lot of
(08:46):
tickets.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Like not just you know ever, but like all the time
, like it's not just this, isnot just one event that he's
doing once in a while.
I mean, it's like multiplethings every month.
And he's not just doing itthere, he's doing state college,
he's all over the place.
He's in detroit this weekendwell, he's just doing a show
there, but yeah but still,that's what I'm saying I'm
(09:09):
saying he's always doingsomething, he's a beast, he is a
beast, but um, yeah then.
So then, like, so then the twoshows of christina.
But then friday night we wereat the um altuna railro Museum.
I, yeah, scott Kelly, was theheadliner, and then me and the
(09:32):
other the three Scots, areperforming together quite a lot
and I think we're all going tobe at the thing at in-state
college on the 19th.
The three Scots.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now Ridge wasn't there this week.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It cory black and he's really good too shout out
to general cory because thatcracks me up.
I love when he does that, theway that, like he, I even told
him that the way he sets it upevery time, because we've seen
him do it multiple times now andit works every time.
I've never seen a single personlike.
I'm not gonna explain it to you, but it's just yeah, we're not
(10:10):
gonna throw the punch line butit's just something he does with
the crowd and it works everysingle time.
It's like a gem and, uh, it'sjust fun to watch, especially
when you know it's coming andthen it works.
It's like it's fun, um, butyeah then, and then the show
like it was cool because it wasa weird room at the altuna
(10:32):
altuna railroaders museumdefinitely a different, it's
like a small, it's like it lookslike the jurassic park when
they're watching the dna video.
It's like that size theater andthey have 100 people crammed in
there.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's like when you go to any museum and they have a
little tiny theater to show you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Where normally there'd be four people listening
to a person talk and all theother seats would be empty.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Well, they show like a train history movie in there.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, but yeah, no, I I mean I'm not knocking it,
I'm just saying it was differentthan you know other things that
you see, I mean it's nice yeah,it was very nice it's but we
had, we had a great time there.
Um, it was fun watching scottdo a long um set.
(11:23):
You know what I mean.
He did a lot of stuff I hadn'theard, necessarily before,
because with a couple of timeswe've seen him he hasn't done,
like you know, that long.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, and he's got an Amazon Prime special coming out
, so yeah, he's funny.
Funny guy.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I really like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He's also great at giving advice.
Yeah, he's well, he did like acomedy writers shop where he
taught.
I believe so.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh yeah, that's right .
He taught some kind of workshopor something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, um.
So the railroaders museum, thatwas a lot of fun, um.
And then, like I said, we gotthe comedy farm trial.
So that's the comedy update.
Um, in that world, um.
But speaking of comedians,though, I'm really excited.
Next week, shane Gillis ishosting SNL um, which is always
a good time, but we were justwatching the SNL 50 thing.
(12:12):
We've been talking about it alot because it was, uh, pretty
cool.
I mean, we talked about itbefore it happened, um, but it
was just cool to see everybodythere.
A lot of people have beentalking about a lot of things.
People are pissed at Tom Hanksboy, they are not having it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, they're pissed at Tom Hanks.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Meanwhile.
First off, tom Hanks didn'twrite that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No, he didn't write it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And he did it before, and I don't remember anybody
being mad at it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So here's my thing You're my husband and I want you
to be able to say any funnything that you want to say on
camera whenever you want to.
But if you were out theretalking about being a member of
(13:12):
the triple k club and then youdid your bit on hit, people
(13:35):
might perceive it differently.
Well, obviously, and so that'skind of the thing.
Well, obviously, be out theretouting his political opinion
and he's given his politicalopinion, which is that he's way
too woke and he wants to leavethe country because he doesn't
like the president.
That's all well and good.
You're a rich man, you can dowhatever you want.
(13:56):
But then you can't say I wasjust doing a skit.
When you're making fun of MAGApeople because you've already
said you don't like them, it'sno longer a bit, it's just a
statement, so it's tasteless.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
See, I disagree and I'm going to tell you why.
Because you don't get tocomplain about comedy period.
You don't get to say, oh, Idon't think that you should be
able to.
You should say this, like onone side, which is what a lot of
people do oh, it's too.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
For anybody else, it would have been hilarious
because there was a good messagein there.
I still think it's funny, I mean, when he said that if there was
a white jeopardy that'spowerful, like he's right, like
you can't have a white jeopardy,so why could you have a black
jeopardy?
That's powerful, like he'sright, like you can't have a
white jeopardy, so why could youhave a black jeopardy?
(14:50):
That's funny, right, and itcovers a lot of it's.
You know there's thought behindit, but at the end of the day,
like if anybody else wasstanding in that MAGA hat, I
don't think it would have goneas poorly as it did because of
who it was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I don't think that it went poorly.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You're not on TikTok babe.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
But that's what I'm saying.
People went badly.
For whom?
Were those people that wereloving Tom Hanks before?
No, they're people that alreadydislike Tom Hanks.
Nobody changed their mind fromwatching Tom Hanks' video.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's exactly it, but I do think, I do believe
that people just need to relax.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yes, there's no need to debate anything about
anything when it comes to Agree.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
If you don't like, it don't watch.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's as easy as that.
I mean, that goes for anything,even things on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
People like bombing people in the name of religion.
It defiles religion.
So do you really want somebodylike him making the jokes?
Because it was clearly a joke.
Again, I think it's funny.
The reason why it's funny to meand I've made this statement
before is because I know thatnot all MAGA are racist.
(16:10):
I mean, there's Black MAGA,there's whatever, so all MAGA
can't be racist.
And I people that it'sbothering, I think, are the ones
who it hits a little too closehome, who wouldn't shake the
(16:32):
black person's hand.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, I mean, to me it's just, it's all in good fun,
that's.
I mean.
I don't.
You know me, you say whateverthe fuck you want to, I truly do
not care.
I believe in personal freedom.
You know me.
I don't believe in anythingwhen it comes to politics.
I believe in personal freedom,you know me.
I don't believe in anythingwhen it comes to politics.
I don't care, I don't believein.
You know me, I'm very extreme,like you know.
(16:55):
We don't want to get into it.
I'm an internet, whatever.
Anyway, but regardless, the onething that I do believe in, the
one fundamental principle thatI think, is freedom of speech.
Yeah, I agree, and I'll defendit to the utmost degree.
It is a zero-sum game.
You do not get to pick andchoose, you do not get to censor
(17:18):
, you do not get and thatincludes hate speech.
You're always going to havethat because you're always going
to have people in society whoare like that.
You try to suppress it, it justcreates, it allows itself to
fester.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Fester, that's the word that I want.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
If you let people say it, then everybody's like if
you let everybody bear theirtrue feelings, people are like,
oh, this guy's a whack job, I'mnot going to listen to him.
Yeah, are you going to have afew that are like, oh, whatever,
go with them.
Yeah, of course you're alwaysgoing to have fringe on the edge
of society that think weirdthings.
That's just the way societyworks.
100 million years ago Well, not100 million years ago, but
(17:56):
100,000 years ago, right, likethere was people that were
acting wild and shit.
And then there was the otherpeople that were like all right,
we're going to go hunt, you'regoing to gather berries, we're
going to survive.
And then there was you knowwackaloons out there living with
wolves.
Her parents were wolves.
(18:17):
I heard somebody.
Somebody was saying somethingto me about where was I
listening to a conversation.
It was something about thewhole thing back with the like
the cat litter things in theschool.
Oh my God, Parents were wolves.
Somebody told me that once theysaid that Her parents were
wolves she's a cat.
(18:38):
Her parents were wolves.
I was like things are reallygetting serious out there.
But I've seen werewolf movies.
I know teen wolf.
I know there's wolves out therein high school, especially teen
wolf there's a little bit oftruth in it all, yeah that's
exactly.
They've been trying to tell youabout it for 30 years now 30
years longer than that 100 teenwolf's been out.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
But before that, how long has the wolf man itself
been around, since the 1800s orbefore?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
oh my god, people probably been believing in
werewolves for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
They have to be.
I mean, look, all those legendsare.
We haven't invented anythingnew really.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Nothing, even robots weren't invented.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I'm saying yeah, yeah .
Speaker 2 (19:24):
What was I going to tell you?
Oh no, so we were talkingabout's yeah, um.
What was I going to tell you?
Oh no, so we were talking aboutfreedom of speech.
So back when I was, back when Iidentified as a liberal I
fucking hate that, um, and Ibelieved that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I don't know why you would ever identify as anything
but continue.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And Confederate flags gave me anxiety, like I used to
love.
My favorite shirt of all timewas a black long sleeve Alabama
T-shirt and there wasConfederate flag on it.
It was my favorite shirt.
I loved it so much, but then Ithrew it away because of all
this hootenanny that was goingon a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hootenanny.
Do you know what, speaking, I'mglad you used that word.
Do you know what, speaking, I'mglad you used that word.
Do you know where a hoot nannycomes from?
You know?
Do you know what a hoot nannyis?
A hoot nanny and this iscreated.
So this came out of the 1960sfolk scene and, as this was the
definition as given by the firstterm, I forget the first show
(20:25):
that was used?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Tell me, timothy Larry.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
No, but so the first show I forget who it was, some
whoever, some folk singer thatit was used.
But then it became popular andJoan Baez said a hoot nanny is
to folk music.
What a oh, what was it the?
What a jam session is to likejazz musicians.
(20:48):
So it's like oh, what was it?
What a jam session is to likejazz musicians.
So it's like just, it's like ajam set, it's just like a jam
out for folk singers.
A hoot nanny, interesting, Ilike that.
A hoot nanny, yeah, Hoot nanny.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But yeah.
So when Confederate flags wereallegedly the identification of
a kkk member which I now realizeis just bullshit, right um, I
was like let them keep, let themfly their flags, because then
I'll know who all the racistsare like I want to know show
your true colors.
But that was weird and stupidtoo, because I like, I like the
(21:29):
Dukes of Hazzard, god damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But the whole reason we got onto this was because of
SNL.
So let's talk about the JimBelushi skit, because that's
what we— John Belushi oh yeah,Jim Belushi's his brother.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
John Belushi is the best fucking SNL Like.
At seven years old I wanted tomarry him.
That's how much I loved him.
I was obsessed with JohnBelushi.
I was trying to get him to dieand I wasn't even probably old
enough to understand it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So they did a skit entitled Don't Look Back in
Anger, in which he mourned he'sat the graveyard and he's like
mourning all the cast members,deaths of the original cast and
he's like naming all thesethings.
It's eerie because he's thefirst one to go and in the skit
they're all dead, but they'reall dead of like things that
(22:22):
almost he could have been deadof Right.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Jane Curtin.
She married a stockbroker, hadtwo children, moved upstate New
York.
She died from complicationsduring cosmetic surgery.
This is Garrett Morris, nowGarrett.
(22:46):
Garrett left the show andworked in the black theater for
years and he died of an overdoseof heroin.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
One died of a heroin overdose.
One died of.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I have chills just talking about it.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, that was spooky .
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It is called Don't Look Back in Anger.
So we looked, because Oasis isone of my hands down fucking
favorite.
I love them.
That's one of my hands downfucking favorite.
I love them.
That's one of my favorite songsof all time ever.
It probably makes my top 20list, and so if anybody knows,
if there's any correlation towhy they wrote that song we
couldn't find it, but I wouldlove to know or what the phrase
(23:23):
don't look back in anger Isthere an?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
origin.
Yeah, it's probably an oldphrase.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Is there an origin?
Yeah, I'm sure there probablyis.
But it's not connected, right.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But I didn't find anything like that.
It doesn't appear that it'sjust a saying that people said
but yeah, let's check in, though.
We were talking last episodeabout Balboni Balboni.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Balboni, balboni.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Stop it, victor Balboni.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So yeah, there's a new thing in the case.
I don't know if it's a break,it's not really.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
A new break in the Justin Baldoni Blake Lively saga
.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But so Jenny Slade and Slate Slate, whatever, I
don't give a shit if I say hername, right Cause like I can't
even name one thing that she'sbeen.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
No, she's in a bunch of stuff.
She used to be funny back inthe day.
The only thing that I everreally found her funny in was
those.
They used to do those like yearend wrap ups on VH1 where
they'd be like taught and shewould like be on the commentator
where they'd be like talkingand she would like be on the.
That's about it.
We turned her stand-up specialoff because I just didn't really
think it was right, exactlylike I.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
She's just not that not my cup of tea not everybody
is funny in the same ways, whichis why I'm hesitant about doing
stand-up, because I'm funny inconversation.
I'm funny when I sit there andthink about something and like
do it on camera.
But to actually do it stand up,right.
But anyways, regardless, Idigress.
(24:55):
Jenny Slate, slate, however yousay her name, I don't care
because this I learned a newterm out of this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
There's a new term and where I heard it from was
First let's pause there becauselet's say we need to say what.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So she's friends with blake lively, yes, and he was
also in the movie with them withher and justin baldoni right
and go ahead now so she's in themovie.
It ends with us.
And so she put fifteen thousanddollars down on a condo or
whatever in New York to wherethey were going to film, and for
(25:33):
whatever reason, she didn'tfeel comfortable in this
apartment.
She was there for a day or two,I don't know how long.
And it was something about shedidn't feel safe there with her
child because she had her childthere with her Right Cool.
So Wayfair, which is thecompany that Justin Baldoni has,
is part owner and said thatthey would cover the $15,000
(25:58):
deposit that she put on thisapartment and move her to a more
comfortable apartment.
So the business partner ofJustin Baldoni his name is Jamie
Heath and Jamie wrote thisreally nice email to Jenny
saying Wayfair is going to coverthe $15,000.
We'll get you into anotherplace.
And in that statement he saidsomething about the sanctity of
(26:24):
motherhood and it was notfacetious.
Um, sanctity of motherhood, andit was not facetious.
And so what I learned later wasthat justin baldoni, jamie
heath, grew up in this religioncalled the high and I don't know
if I'm saying it right, I thinkI am, because I watched a
tiktok on it earlier um, I thinkit's the high I mean, if you
watch the tiktok, it's official.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I mean, let's be honest, well, it came from
somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
It came from a creator who actually grew up in
the bahai faith and um.
So the way that she explainedit is that they do believe in
women's equality but they don'tlook at it the same way.
It's like I'm gonna, I'mrephrasing here.
I'm saying they don't.
It's not the same as like thewoke feminism per se.
In bahai, they believe that ifyou could only afford to educate
(27:10):
one of two of your children onebeing a man, a male and one
being a female that you educatethe female, because the female
is the educator in the home, themother is the one who spends
the time with the children andteaches them how to read and
write.
So you make sure the mother iseducated or the woman's educated
.
So that's kind of how it's, ablended kind of it's.
(27:30):
It's woke but it's very.
It's there.
I mean, every vibe that I'veever gotten from Justin Bell
with Jenny is that he's justkind.
So anyways, long story short,that is why Jenny Slate feels
like she was harassed is becauseof the way that Jamie Heath
said the sanctity of motherhoodor whatever sanctity of
(27:53):
motherhood.
He said it weird and it madeher uncomfortable in an email.
You, fucking victim.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, again, it just feels like they're nitpicking,
which is what you brought up theterm oppression, appreciation
no, no, that's not it.
Again, it just feels likethey're nitpicking, which is
what you brought up the termoppression appreciation.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No, no, that's not it .
So I'm going to give credit tothe grumpy gay on TikTok,
because I don't know where heheard it from.
I can't find the origins of it,but it's called oppression
appropriation.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
It's a little different than appreciation.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It's the fucking victim mentality.
That's all it is.
I'm a victim.
You, Blake Lively, are a nepobaby who grew up very
comfortable.
You are not oppressed in anyway, shape or form.
You're gorgeous.
Well, on the outside you were.
The inside is making you uglyand hard to look at and hard to
(28:48):
listen to, but at the end of theday, you're not oppressed.
Go to a country where women areoppressed and live there for a
month without any contact tothis world and come back and
tell me that you are stilloppressed.
Please, please, please, I'llpay for it.
I can't stand her.
I can't stand her.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Ran over.
Okay, we want to get thosevibes out of here.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But this is an ongoing case.
No, I know it is funny.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, we're going to keep talking about it, but
that's this week's update.
This week's update fuck JennySlate.
Fuck Jenny Slate.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Speaking of comics, who, I believe everybody has a
voice.
Fuck Jenny Slate Right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But no, to talk about something lighter, a show that
we've been watching lately here,I'm sure a lot of other people
have.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That's not light at all.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
No, not Reacher.
Reacher's so good.
If you're not watching Reacher,go out there and watch it,
because season three just cameout and it's the best.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
It's like so right out of the gate think that they
could get better, becausethey're gonna run out of and
right out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's like, I mean, it's 100 mile an hour and but
regardless of that, we've beenwatching a lot of other people.
You might have seen a new gameshow the floor on fox yes, we
have the host.
We love watching this everybody.
But the thing like it's fun toobecause it's like you have to
be, you have to know things.
(30:13):
But even if you know a lot, itdoesn't necessarily mean that
you're going to be like goodBecause you have to be quick.
It's more about they just showyou pictures and then you have
to name it and you're likefacing off against other people.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And like I it, I fill in the blanks too.
Like they're trying to mix itup a little bit and bring in new
kind of ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, but for the most part it's just I think I'd
be good at it, I think I could,I think that I could I do
believe that you would be goodat it, but it's pretty rapid
fire no, I know it is and, likeyou said, so what I?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I don't want to give the show away, if you're
watching or not watching, butlike twice this week, we saw
people pass on their picture andforget that it was still their
turn.
Right, when you pass, you'renot passing to the other.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'd say you get put under pressure.
But yeah, like I said, I stillthink that I would be.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
How good do you think you are?
I think I would be really good.
I think I could do it.
I want to try to get on it.
I've never wanted to get on agame.
I mean I guess I wanted to, butthis is one that I would really
want to do.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, lucky for you.
I've put together a little testcase to see how good you are.
Okay, Give me one second.
I'm going to step away from thecamera and set us up for the
floor.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yep, let's go, taco.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Bell.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Burger King, mcdonald's, chili's, wendy's.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Domino's.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Subway.
Dunkinin Donuts, pizza Hut,chipotle, sonic, arby's, little
(32:31):
Caesars, dairy Queen,chick-fil-a.
Ooh Pass, ooh.
Panda Express, popeyes A Sbarro, saxby's Five Guys, krispy
(33:14):
Kreme, panera Bread, in-n-out,baskin Robbins, mmm pass.
(33:38):
Papa John's Pass, papa John's,white Castle, hardee's, carl's
Jr, church's Chicken Wow, okay,I don't know.
(34:01):
Tim Hortons, annie Anse, longJohn Silvers, no idea, pass, I
(34:28):
mean, I think I won, I think Iwon.
Hey, come on back to the studio.
How did I do?
I did good, you did good.
They wouldn't have been able tothe studio.
How did I do?
I did good, you did good.
They wouldn't have been able tobeat me.
No, because you see too, if Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
You pass immediately, pass immediately yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
If you don't know, don't stand there and think
about it.
These people, this is floor,basic, floor strategy.
I can coach you.
Give me a call 1-800-COACH.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
If it's anything food-related, I think you'd be
good, except for the onecategory that tripped us up last
season was fucking beans.
Do you know how many beansthere are?
And they all look alike, theyall look alike.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But no, another little game show thing, though
that I do have a beef to pickwith a game show where we're
talking about it, pressure luckLike can you release some new
episodes please?
We get one episode every threeweeks, months they do.
Every holiday they do one.
It's not even like a season.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Elizabeth, thanks.
You're the producer.
We know that you are abeautiful, busy, powerful woman.
Get your shit together.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
It's our favorite game show.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
It's great, and she's great, she's so good, it's so
good, it's so good, so good.
One thing, while I'm thinkingabout it A little while back you
know that I talk about pizza.
While we're talking about food,you know that I talk about
pizza.
You know I've given severalshout outs to great pizza places
, named several places that Ilove to frequent.
(36:10):
Well, we have a new category.
It's best New York style pizzain Johnstown, and that is
Salvatore's Pizza.
I've been there before and Idid like it, but this time I got
the full experience.
I got to go into the shop.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
New shop.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, I go in there.
There's a guy talking to thecounter.
He's talking like this.
He said I don't care about thepepperoni, whatever, blah, blah,
blah.
Friend of mine, one of myfavorite guys, talks like that
and yeah, and it just smelledgreat.
And it and uh, yeah, and itjust smelled great and it's a
new shop.
It's not always been a pizzashop, but it smelled like a
pizza shop that's been there for100 years.
(36:47):
So I came to wonder is ititalians?
And they speak italian.
They're all speaking, but alittle little little.
When you walk in there, they'regoing nuts.
That's how you know it's good.
They got a family in the back.
There's a little kid with asoccer ball, because he's
italian, he loves soccer, andthey're like talking what can I
get you?
A pepperoni, a piece of lasagna?
And they're like they're justdoing great things and I forget
(37:10):
where I'm even going with allthat.
But the point of this is thatit smelled like a pizza shop
that had been there for 100years, but it's like brand new,
the location.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
They've been there for, they've been around for the
building used to be the meadows, so it smelled like ice cream
for years.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And um, but yeah, so now it just had.
So I came to the conclusionthat Italians must just emanate
smells of tomatoes and pizza andItalians oregano, and it just
smells great.
And then when they gather, likethat man, it just it emanates
from them.
Greasy cheese and pepperonisand prosciutto is coming out of
(37:47):
their pores, man, and it's great, I love it.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I got myself a bomb stroly.
It was the best bomb stroly.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
But that pizza buddy yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
So yeah, now there's two categories.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Well, there's multiple categories.
We'll add more in the future,but this week's category is Best
New York Style Pizza inJohnstown, salvatore's, no doubt
about it.
Gilded Trash Hall of Fame.
Gilded Trash Hall of Famebecause it's a great pizza shop.
It's got that 1980s vibebecause they're Italian and you
just, oh man, if they put apinball machine in there, buddy,
or with a bouncy ball, I'd bein my youth.
(38:21):
A bouncy ball machine.
Are you kidding me?
I'd throw that thing.
How are they ricocheting?
It'd look like that scene inMen in Black where that thing
gets out.
I loved Pizza Shop Dude.
I loved that about the 1980s.
Like the Pizza Shop vibe, likea pinball machine, a jukebox
slices 1980s, like the pizzashop, vibe, like a pinball
(38:45):
machine, a jukebox slices andthe 1980s version of pizza high
is just what I wouldn't give.
They have ones that were it likelooks like a 19, but unless
they figure out how to makepizza hot pizza, how it was made
1989 it's, I don't care howmuch nostalgia you put in the to
the decorations, it's not goingto add up to the beautifulness.
That was my personal pepperonibucket, pizza bucket, bucket
(39:11):
bucket.
I loved it, though I, oh Iloved it.
And that was like the one time.
And if we got book there was acouple of times even if so, like
, say, growing up, like, say, Igot book at that month and Matt
didn't get it, mom would stillbuy pizza.
That was one of the splurges.
(39:32):
It was like $2 for like a pizza, like a little pizza bag.
But yeah I, that's my favorite.
Oh, buddy man, do I love apizza shop like that?
For some reason I always liketo play.
Alice Cooper had a song Poison.
(39:55):
Do you remember?
She's poison.
But I remember playing that atthe jukebox repeatedly, at
Romeo's one time playing thepinball machine.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But yeah, we had a great game room here in
Johnstown back in the late 80s.
I was way too young to be there.
It was called the Pit.
They had a jukebox upstairs.
They had a deli with food, likeyou get up and go up and order
a sub and then bring itdownstairs and eat.
Oh my God.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
The Holy tree.
So Wayne Heights mall had themute.
Like the music store Phillipsmusic land or whatever Frank's
pizza and the arcade.
And I mean you talk about a funday, and like the music store
phillips music land or whatever,frank's pizza and the arcade.
And I mean you talk about a funday and grandma well, she'd
always take us down if we werewith grandma reed this is back
when she drove.
So it was like you know, youhad fun when you're.
(40:52):
She'd give you five dollars atthe arcade and, um, sometimes
more, but then you get pizza andfranks, you buy something.
It was a good time.
One time on my birthday, I beatthe Simpsons game and it took
like 15, 20 bucks and I justremember thinking that was crazy
(41:14):
.
To spend $20 at the arcade forme was like I mean my parents At
the most we got $5 to spend,and then, once that was up I
mean my parents at the most wegot $5 to spend, and then, once
that was up, that was it.
But yeah, I love getting prizes, going home with a little bag
full of candy and wax plasticthings, oh, it was good stuff.
(41:37):
Oh my gosh, you would rentmovies because Phil's was there
so we would rent movies.
So you'd be going home like Imean you talk about a great day
pizza, rent movies in arcade.
I mean for as a kid, that's it,yeah, in a daddy, a boy in 1989
, that's it, man, that is it.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
My whole world was rocket it's morphed into Netflix
until now.
Where we do we make?
We try to bring back nostalgiawhen we have our movie nights
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
It's not a lot different.
The only game, the only thingis it's I switched the games
that I'm playing.
Now it's FanDuel, a movie andpizza, and, uh, the prizes are a
little bit different than when.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
a little bit different I've traded in jelly
bracelets for dollars, yeah yeah, yeah, no, so it's still doing
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
That still makes a great day for me, buddy.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Um, it really does and because it's winter, I mean
we're just doing nothing butwatching movies, right?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Which brings us to a perfect category to wrap this
thing up, which is no, we gottwo things to talk about.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
The season premiere of my favorite TV shows coming
out.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Oh, the Righteous Gemstone.
Yeah, let's do that, and thenwe'll go into the movie thing
and end on that, just becauseit's you know.
But yeah, the RighteousGemstone is coming back out and
boy, if you're not watching that.
Danny McBride is a genius man.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
That is the level of writing that I want to get to.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Right, because we've watched him get progressively
better.
Like Eastbound and Down isawesome, but it's raw.
But now it's like everything ishitting on the Righteous
Gemstone Great acting, greatwriting, great great
storytelling, greatcinematography probably the best
comic ensemble cast in the TVshow.
(43:29):
The music, the shots,everything about music is so
well written, it's so welldirected, it's so well produced.
It is my favorite show ontelevision the righteous
gemstones.
Judy gemstone is probably thegreatest television characters
that there's ever been that'sjudy gemstone, is how my brain
(43:50):
works.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
I probably don't say half this shit that she says out
loud, but that's how my brain'sworking.
She said nah, son.
To her dad and I about fuckingbeat my pants.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Nah, son I run the motherfucking show what she said
she's just her mouth.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
She's a nut shit yeah shit, yeah, oh my god, I love
it yeah, she's just great.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
just go check it out, man, it's so worth a watch.
If yeah know we talk about alot of things, we give a lot of
recommendations for things, gowatch the Gemstones because it's
great.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, you have what there's two or three seasons out
there.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
There's three seasons already out there.
The fourth and final season iscoming out.
Yeah, max, hbo, whateverwhatever which brings us to we
what we were talking about,which is expert filmmaking, and
that's why we're talking about.
We're just revisiting quentintarantino here recently, uh,
re-watched jackie brown anddjango and we still have
(44:51):
inglorious bastards to watch,which maybe we'll get into that
later, because that's good.
Yes, it's good stuff, but yeah,we were just talking about, you
know, like it's I mean so I waslike, I mean, I obvious.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
I was like in my late teens, early 20s, when
tarantino movies started comingout.
One of my first favorite moviesof his was from till.
From dust till dawn.
Um, what was the other one?
Um, not or not.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Reservoir dogs, reservoir dogs, yeah and like
that's the other one, um not ornot.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Reservoir dogs.
Reservoir dogs, yeah, and likethat's the other thing is like
so being and I talk about thisall the time, but I'm proud of
it being a Gen Xer.
Um, we had like Anthem movies,right.
We had like totem movies thatbrought us up and brought us
into adulthood, and you can'teven mention any of them without
(45:43):
mentioning at least onetarantino movie, right, right, I
mean you talk about thedialogue.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Do you know how many times I say that is a tasty
burger in my lifetime?
Like I wasn't asking you agoddamn thing.
Oh, I'm sorry, did I break yourconcentration?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
and that's all from the same speech right, like,
look at the brains on brand,check out the brains on brand.
I see that if I'm if anybodysays anything smart, that's my
line.
Um, like for tiktok I've beenthinking about, I want to bring
it back up so, like they'realways doing dance videos,
obviously on there, my one ofthe hands down the best fucking
(46:23):
dance scene ever is from pulpfiction.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
She was a teen it was a teenage wedding and the old
folks wished them well.
You could see that the air didtruly love the mademoiselle.
And now the young monsieur andmadame have rung the chapel bell
(46:48):
.
C'est la vie, c'est l'eau,c'est gold, to show you never
can tell.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
So let's talk about it, though.
What's your favorite Tarantinomovie?
That's what I want to know Name, if you could.
Only if they came to you andthey said, hey, you can watch
one Tarantino movie and thenyou're going to die.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Four Rooms.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Which he only directs .
One part of that, though, right.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
No, not Four Rooms.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
That's the one with Tim Roth and stuff.
He directs one part of that,robert Rodriguez directs one,
tarantino directs one, and Iforget how.
But yeah, that's why it'scalled Four Rooms, because it's
four vignettes, four.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Rooms.
Well, because my other favoriteone that I would have to say
like that, is the Death Proofone.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Oh, that's, interesting I can't name just
one my well, if I'm, if I'mdying and I only get to watch
one, I I mean, I think, for medjango.
As much as I love django, Ithink it has to be pulp fiction
I just can't get past if I'monly watching one because I
(48:00):
gotta hear samuel jackson sayit's the one that says bad
motherfucker because he is inthat movie.
That's the movie that madesamuel jackson a bad
motherfucker.
It made that is samuel jackson.
Everything that you think aboutsamuel jackson is samuel
jackson in that movie, rightlike it's.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
That's.
We're talking about him as aentity, it's the or the as a
persona, we're talking about thepulp fiction character you're
right and it's, it's.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
It's just a great movie, john travolta's.
I mean the whole, the way thestorylines put together, the way
it tells it in this jumbled upmess that you're not you.
You're like what the hell iseven really going on here?
And then you like it all makessense and not really, but sort
of, and you're like, oh, I kindof get it and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
No, it is.
It is We've talked about thatbefore the best drug scene in a
movie ever, yeah, ever yeah.
I mean there's so many bests inthat movie.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
There's so many bests with Tarantino and I think
that's.
It's just fitting that Gen X islike making a comeback right
now because he's like the Gen Xdirector of directors all the
movies and then you forget thethings that he wrote, that he
didn't even direct natural bornkillers.
I mean, even though OliverStone like overhauled the script
, the idea is still his Right,it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
He's my favorite he is, but there's one other Gen X
writer, slash producer, that'smaking a comeback soon and we'll
be talking about it coming.
So, oh, how did I not know thatscenes from probably my top
(49:49):
three favorite films ever, dogma, were filmed in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 4 (49:56):
This highly recognizable yet wholly
depressing image of our Lordcrucified.
Christ didn't come to earth togive us the willies.
He came to help us out.
He was a booster, and it's withthat take on our Lord in mind
that we come up with a new, moreinspiring sigil.
So it is with great pleasurethat I present you with the
(50:16):
first of many revamps theCatholicism Wild campaign will
unveil over the next year.
I give you the Buddy Christ.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Right and Dogma.
They're going to bere-releasing here, which is?
You talk about great movies,buddy.
It's my favorite movie, maybebecause especially because you
can't see it, you can't everwatch it.
It's so good.
George Carlin's in it, man, Imean that alone.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
I can recite every line of that movie.
I've seen it.
I know I've seen it a thousandtimes.
I would sleep with it on repeatbecause it just spoke to me so
much.
I mean, and I mean we're not,we'll get into the Kevin Smith
catalog another day because it'swhen that's coming out, we'll
(51:11):
deep dive into his stuff.
But all I'm saying is it is agreat time to be Gen X.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Not, but I'm right on the cusp.
I'm a cusper Cash Patel withthe FBI.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
I'm not, but I'm right on the cusp, I'm a cusper.
Cash Patel with the FBI I loveit.
We're in power.
Now we're in power.
The president might be old asfuck, but Cash Patel, elon Musk,
all them guys, gen X, tulsiGabbard who else?
Pam Bondi?
(51:42):
I love it.
So happy.
Oh, she didn't, she was behindyou the whole time.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
The last time she pulled up.
Speaker 1 (51:51):
But all right, let's.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Yeah, let's wrap it up Speaking of upcoming shows
and who you ran into in thepizza shop.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Oh yeah, april 26th at the Masonic Temple.
No, april 26th, masonic Templehere in Johnstown is a charity
show.
There's going to be lots offunny comedians coming in from
all over the place, hosted byFrank George.
I myself will be performingthere.
We'll have tickets going onsale next week.
I'll have them.
(52:22):
You can get in touch with us,reach out to us, and we'll have
some other ways to do it too.
So be on the lookout for that.
That's the big one, that's the.
Yeah, that's the big one.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
I'll cut it out.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
This show is called All the Wrong Moves because All
the Right Moves was filmed herein Georgetown which we talked
about.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
We have Go back and watch the episode.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
I don't know which one it was.
Hi, Real quick here.
Scott's thoughts.
Why does the Wendy's Baconatorhave a son Like?
Does he have other kids?
What's the relationship likebetween Baconator and son of
Baconator?
Is it as good as Whopper,Whopper Jr?
You tell me these are just mythoughts.
(53:10):
Say bye, Sal.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Bye, sal, bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
It looks like you're strangling her.
She's fine, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
She loves it.
She's just looking for moretuna.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yep, alright, anyway, we'll see you guys.
Stay trashy.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, if nobody's told you, this week, stay trashy
.
Speaker 1 (53:35):
See you everybody.
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