Rats. They’ve got a terrible reputation. Maybe they deserve it. Between eating your pizza and giving you Hantavirus, they’re real troublemakers. And speaking of troublemakers, Myq and Tiffany are both doing shows, but they’re not at the same time so there’s no bad blood.
Topics:
Hantavirus cruise getting worse
Rats
Gas prices
Presidential assassination attempts
Tom’s dentist
Bobcat Goldthwaite
Comedy’s broad audience
Cynthia Schumacher is 97 years old and has been writing poetry since high school. For those less math-minded among you, that adds up to a very long time. She’s still at it, too, having just put out a book of short stories called Prose Pizza. Where’s Tom, you ask? Probably performing amateur dentistry on himself.
Topics:
Tom’s broken tooth
Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni resolution
No more alcohol on Delta flights under 350 miles
Hantavirus cruise
Sanitary traveling
Ted Turner dies
AI data centers
Hasselhoff vs. the burger
Cynthia Schumacher
Teaching Hamlet to 9th graders
Florida in the early 20th century
Colin defends Ethan
The Met Gala happened again, and apparently it was a less ostentatious affair this year. That doesn’t mean it was free of dumb stuff. Far from it. It does mean that we spend more time talking about festering skin lesions than what the celebrities were wearing. But who doesn’t, really?
Topics:
Movie production coming back to America
Met Gala
Capitol Records days
Dr. Pimple Popper
3000th episode party
Bob/Tom interview
Spoiler alert if you care about Song Sung Blue. If not, perhaps you care about Michael? A lot of people seem to. Personally I think it sounds like a bit of a downer. And speaking of downers, have you ever had a BAC in the upper teens and still managed to walk around? That can’t be easy.
Topics:
Glyphosate in wheat
Tom and Kathryn saw Song Sung Blue and Michael
Kristyn in Salt Lake City for Dancing With the Stars
Spirit Airlines defunct
Britney Spears DUI
Monkey outbreak in Fort Lauderdale
Minnesota sports
Earthquake in Mexico
Crested and non-crested geckos
Kristyn’s talking about it. Tim’s talking about it. Even Craig Gass is interested once he learned who’s in it. We’re talking about Devil Wears Prada 2, a movie about how magazines and newspapers are floundering. And also fashion, probably.
Topics:
Grandparents’ day
Nicknames for grandparents
Kristyn’s late night flight
Devil Wears Prada 2
Anne Hathaway hall pass
Craig’s Mat Becker intuition
Rodney Dangerfield meets Eddie Murphy
Will Smith’s slap and its effects on comedy
Hecklers
Our 3000th episode is a celebration not just of the show, but the people who’ve been part of it. Whether they were only there for a while or have been here the whole time, we’ve got more people on the show today than we could possibly fit into the studio at any given time. We still remember when we made a big deal about 500. I wonder how far we can take this thing?
Guest list:
Kristyn Burtt
Melissa Barnard
Mike Gelfand
Mike Rasmussen
Mike Molina (yes, we had three mikes on in a row)
Don Shelby
Jimmy Francis
Timmy Lammers
Michael Bryant, Bradshaw and Bryant
Bob Sansevere
Paul “Meatsauce” Lambert
Winnie Schrader (AKA Cassie)
Tevin Pittman
After nearly 14 years as a podcast regular, Kristyn finally meets us in person for the first time. She’ll be there for episode 3000 as well, but it felt kind of dumb to have her fly all the way here for a 20 minute segment on a special, so she gets a bonus episode. She’s here for the whole time, too. Also with us are Ralph, all the way from LA, and Dave. We’re certainly not having any shortage of well-wishes today.
The internet is back! Kind of! We might not have five nines uptime, but we do have the ability to hold an only slightly disastrous conversation about these politicians. You know the ones.
Topics:
Truck ramping off a Lamborghini
Appreciating where you came from
Dance schedules are crazy
Running Point season 2
Oprah makes another trillion dollars
These politicians
Anthony Edwards’ baby mamas
The internet went down just before showtime, so instead we did what we could with what we had. The result? Pretty similar, but certainly different. This is just the most recent bad thing that’s happened over the past few days.
Topics:
Correspondents’ dinner shooting
Ethan gets sick
Pinning
All this hatred
There are certain movies they really shouldn’t show on a plane. Nudity is, you’d think, a given. Marley and Me is also a given, but for a very different reason. Nobody wants a stuffy nose while at 10,000 feet. How about Michael? A little child abuse and psychological torment won’t cause any problems for the audience.
Topics:
Song Sung Blue was sad
Smoking is coming back
Michael is polarizing
I Swear is also polarizing