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This is just a small taste of the show overall, the bits and bobs that I found interesting, funny, insightful and relevant. To hear everything that happened, check out the podcast of today's show. However, if you're looking for a quick read along with random self inserts and my personal thoughts, you've come to the right place.
Call in Point:
(This is the broadstroke canvas on which I base my call, obviously these notes are going to be longer and more detailed)
Another day, another exploration of the life of Angi Taylor and what it takes for her to get from the couch to the station (more on the couch stuff in a moment.) As usual, 4 A.M. rolled around this morning and Angi found herself in a situation. No, it wasn't the usual issue of glass/nails/used syringes littering her alley but the garage that almost held her back. Trying to escape the flop house that she calls a home, Angi found that the garage door opener was unresponsive. A solution to a dead battery is a new battery and luckily Angi had the discs to compensate but things couldn't be that easy, because then what would I have to talk about. She trudged back in the house, popped open the junk drawer, got the batteries and that was the end of it right? Nope, turns out that the garage door opener was so hard to open, she had to crack the thing open and then the motherboard (sure Angi) fell out and such. Either way, she was able to get to work on time but what an ordeal. Abe explained that everything is done hard to keep them from being stolen and that he wanted to make hard to open packaging his jobber of the day. The thing is, Abe got confused somewhere along the way (can't blame him) and he was talking about batteries still whereas Angi explained that she essentially smashed her garage remote. Right then, so let's rewind back to the couch point, which was made because Angi basically lives on hers. So yesterday she was watching Dark Side of Comedy. That's the show that tackles, well, the dark side of comedy (duh.) The episode she was on involved dead celebrity Dustin Diamond. She actually ended up feeling bad for him after the episode because the dude apparently had a hard life. For example, the time he stabbed someone in Wisconsin involved his girlfriend getting punched. More shocking to Abe than the stabbing was that he had a girlfriend. He was also bullied due to his Screech role, both on the set and on the streets (which is wild.) Remember that disgusting porn he did, that came from a lack of money. Abe lamented that he had missed the OnlyFans boat because honestly he probably could have made a killing on that. He also had tried standup which he failed at and so he was desperate to make any cash. It also showcased that he went on Celebrity Fit Club, part of VH1's zany programming block (see incredible) and took on the villian role because it paid an extra $50,000. Of course, the problem there was doing this backfired and people hated him even more because of it. Next on the watch docket was the Greg Giraldo episode (who is also dead but was also incredibly funny) but Angi had to go to bed to deal with the trauma of the morning.
Other Stuff from Today's Show
Onward and forward we go to our daily discussion topic which is all about people getting fired. I'm sure this news has nothing to do with the fact that people are finally being forced to come back to work at iHeart, nope, not at all. This supposedly came from a social scroll that revealed a woman got her co-worker fired for smoking weed in the bathroom and now everyone else hates her. It turns out the woman was the other worker's drug dealer and goody two shoes ruined the fun for everyone. So this (and probably other factors) inspired her to ask if the roadies have ever gotten anyone fired. Oddly enough, Angi did not contribute to this topic (probably because she's working on creating content for it as we speak) but Abe did have something to add. When he was a young wage slave twink at Walmart, Abe had been tasked to put some stuff on the shelves. Not feeling it that day because uh YOLO, Abe threw it all in a cart instead. A snitch decided to rat Abe out but then in the realization that Abe could be fired for not doing his job, the rat threw himself in front of the bullet. He said that if Abe was going to be fired, he would quit so it negated the whole point of him snitching. When pressed as to why he snitched, he didn't assume Abe would get fired over it (God, we were dumb as teens.) Jordan rightfully got a co-worker fired when she worked at Victoria Secret because people were returning crusty underwear and the like and the coworker kept putting them back on the shelves (vile.) Head Roadie Keith called to discuss how he got a co-worker who was huffing brake cleaner fired (this doesn't shock me for some reason.) Steve got a co-worker who was always late canned and good on him for doing that. Dan caught a co-worker falsifying documents and he did not intend to go to jail for this jobber. He caught him when he finished a job that should have taken two weeks in an hour. When Dan gave the co-worker the chance to fix his "error," the co-worker told him to go fluff himself. Colin was running a job site and he found a guy smoking meth. He let him finish out the day before canning him. Funny enough, his two jobs prior also had people smoking meth. Clearly, meth is a hot new thing to do, who knew? Matt actually got fired because of his stupid best friend. His friend went into the break room and sprayed the walls with ketchup and mustard (it was probably Hot Dog Wednesday or something) and since Matt would not rat out who did the deed, he got the boot. If you are looking for more roadie comments or have your own, hit up our socials (FB group, Twitter, Instagram) and read up or drop us a comment.
Now, as a kid, McDonald's Happy Meals were amazing and guess what, now as an adult you can experience that joy once again. Abe was apparently the king of Happy Meals and he had almost all the toys. I too know the joy of Happy Meals and toys, it was a great part of growing up. Poor Angi though did not have the same experience as even though she lived across the street from McDonald's, she was lucky to get one once a year. Most of the time she was getting home made burgers on Wonder Bread. Another treat she was denied was ice cream cones because her trick of using a bike to trigger the sensor to alert a customer never seemed to work. Continuing the trip down memory lane reminded us of that Grimace slide, those cool glasses they used to have and of course, the collective of mascots. There was Grimace, who Abe thought was a tongue and Angi thought was a dinosaur. Then they assumed it was a purple marshmallow or a giant gummy bear. There was Hamburglar, Birdie the Bird and Mayor McCheese. This all was inspired by the upcoming adult Happy Meals that are a collaboration with some kind of art brand. The meals will come in limited edition boxes and offer a Big Mac or 10 piece nugget along with a fry and drink. It also will come with some kind of art toy based on either Grimace, Hamburglar, Birdie or Cactus Buddy (the mascot for the art company.) So while this is all cool and we were living on the high of nostalgia, they also remembered that all this stuff was technically horrifying as a kid. Santa, The Easter Bunny, Chuck E Cheese, all of them were murderous people and animitronics (again, Trixie Mattel knew!)
Finally, a woman on TikTok decided to pull out an old magazine from the 50's that showcased how a woman could snag a husband. The list is...dated to say the least:
- Be nice to ugly men because handsome is as handsome does.
- Go to all high school reunions, there could be widowers there.
- Learn to paint and set up and easel outside of an engineers school.
- Go back to your hometown, the wild boy next door is probably an eligible bachelor.
- Drop a handkerchief.
- Wear a bandaid so he can ask what's wrong.
- Stand in the corner and cry softly and they'll ask what's wrong.
We also learned that if this was the 50's, Abe would not pay for her drink. He would take her to a soda shop and buy her a soda and burger so he could get her to go to "Look Out Point" to neck with him.
Request Wars 2.0
Champion: Angi (Streak: 2)
Angi's (repping John) Song Choice: "Breaking the Chains" by Dokken
Abe's (repping Nancy) Song Choice: "Fame" by David Bowie
Smack Talk Recap:
Abe saw the David Bowie movie over the weekend and specifically went through the Request Wars list to find a Bowie song. When Abe was a kid, Labyrinth was his favorite movie and without Bowie, it wouldn't exist. It also is the greatest soundtrack ever (Purple Rain) and so Angi fought him over it for Purple Rain. I mean Dokken, well Angi made out with a ton of guys listening to them so....
Winner: Abe
10 O'Clock Toast:
Abe.
Angi almost choked to death on a Jolly Rancher in the studio and Abe saved her life. We're doomed to hear about this for the rest of our lives.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
"If I walked in with a miniskirt on, you wouldn't stop laughing for the rest of your life." - Abe