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Forgot to mention this earlier, but if you listen closely Adomian slipped in a Cake Boss trance sound as a throw away line.

Only one Ghost Boy joke makes me sad, but the last 25ish minutes were insane. Have Shaggy back as a guest. I want to hear more about these sandwiches.

Man, Scott lobbed that meatball of a Dire Straits joke right in the strike zone and Tim missed it. I loved everybody sharing their favorite Stitches comic strips. I wish they'd put them out in a Calvin and Hobbes style collection, but unlike Calvin and Hobbes I'd buy it.

I'm not going to lie, I'm also weirdly drawn to the kid rapping stuff. About a year ago I went into some shitty hipster store where none of the music or books were alphabetized or categorized, and I heard this song on their radio where kids were rapping about going to the beach. It had to be around the same time as the 'Cars That Go Boom' song you guys talked about. My friend asked the name of the band, the guy haphazardly said the name, then my friend told me. As you'd expect, like a game of telephone the name was wrong and I've never found it. This just popped into my head again because of this topic. Kid rappers Kriss Kross (backwards clothes gimmick, obviously cool) did a rap about the Rugrats for some Nickelodeon tape:

June and Paul are both from/grew up on Long Island if I remember right... So, possibly a New York thing? Mantzoukas and Slate are from around Boston.

To me, this was definitely the funniest scene from last week. I'm surprised it was cut. That Chicago cop letting Walsh go and continuing to hassle the black guy is insane.

Or... The fact that NBC picked up more episodes of Go On, so Brett is working all the time. It's difficult to write a ton of podcast segments when you're on set 12 hours a day. Have faith in the process, and ye shall be rewarded with more Gelmania.

My opinion: Blackface is only racist if you're using it to mock black people. Robert Downey Junior in Tropic Thunder and Fred Armisen playing Obama is not racist. If you think it is, then by that logic you must think it's racist for Eddie Murphy, the Wayans Bros. or Dave Chappelle to play white characters; Or some white guy like Chris Lilley to play Polynesian and Japanese characters. It's all in the context... A white guy playing Michael Jordan could work equally well with or without makeup, depending on the writing and acting. Outside of the art world though, I'd say it's best to avoid it. You don't want to dress up like Omar makeup and all, and get the shit stomped out of you.

I'm assuming they mean it like: David Simon/Scripts - People speak that way, and if that's how you want your script to be read you have to write in slang. Academia - There are plenty of ebonics/vernacular/slang classes, and classes that study how language changes over time. Slang in a class like that is very important. In the case of a court stenographer, or an FBI intelligence conversation logger. They should write in proper English. It'd be a madhouse if you wrote in slang because there is no Webster's defined spelling for certain words, and 50 year old white cops/judges/etc. would have to read and understand what happened. Personally, I don't believe typing a certain way can be racist.

Here's the Nazi Party Ringtone as per your request. To get it on your phone: connect your phone to computer via bluetooth and send it to yourself. Then set it as a ringtone. Nazi Party Ringtone.mp3

Man, I used to live on MTV. I'm only 24 but I watched throughout the 90s. Shows like Liquid Television, The State, The Head, The Maxx, Aeon Flux, Beavis & Butthead, and later, Daria and Sifl & Olly were a huge part of growing up. MTV was amazing to me. Everything felt adult; like a window a world I hadn't seen before. They were a hub of creativity with all of the MTV Station Idents and shorts. You'll never see that kind of situation on tv again. A cheap network looking for material wherever they could get it, and playing it on tv. I ditched MTV pretty early in life because it just lost that feeling it once had. Videos became even more sparse, and it seemed like it became targeted to a demographic rather than a hodgepodge of cool stuff. I always hated Real World. TRL was garbage. And Woodstock '99? Excuse me while I vomit... They just went too commercial, which I get from a business standpoint. ---- I did happen to catch Liz's show one day around Thanksgiving a year or two ago. Not a huge fan, but it was enjoyable enough to make me wonder how it snuck onto the channel.

I don't think that Cracked Out is in any way racist. It's just a couple of comedians, playing characters that rap. Plus there are plenty of white people that act like that and talk like that... So it's not out of the realm of possibilities that two white rappers would talk like that. Basically, I always saw it as Brett and Jon simply mocking rappers (while actually enjoying getting a chance to rap). I never saw it as mocking black people or anything like that.

I could listen to Wompler drop some bon mots all day. A Who's Harry Crumb and a This Is How We Do It reference?! If anyone remembers the video for This Is How We Do It, it takes place at some house party. At the beginning some dude walks past the camera enjoying the music and his sandwich way too much. I made a gif of it a few years ago. By my quick count, which could very well be wrong: Wompler: 7 episodes (6 full shows, 1 stop in) Ice Tea: 7 episodes (at least 2 of those are call ins) ALW: 7 episodes (8 if you count a two parter as two, at least 1 is a call in) Cake Boss: 6 episodes (7 if you count a two parter as two) Jesse Ventura: 5 episodes Huell Howser: 5 episodes El Chupacabra: 8 episodes (at least 2 episodes are quick, a la XMas/Anniversary shows) Bobby Bottleservice: 5 episodes So, I'd say it's up to the individual to weight what counts in an appearance. Wompler is definitely a top 3 return guest.

Fucking great episode. Each guest killed it, and it was cool hearing the regular segments (Dusty Bubble/We Figured It Out) live. Plus I love Cracked Out, so it was awesome to hear a few freestyles. Hopefully a new EP drops in the future.

Hey Matt, what super secret thing are you plugging on your site? I've gone there the last two weeks and don't see any new updates. On the other hand, I might be stupid and just missed it... ----- About the episode: I love the fact that there was a Nightcrawler reference, only made better by the fact that Billy Merritt had already had the conversation about Banf vs. Bamf. Also, when Sean Conroy mentioned 'When the Saints Come Marching In' was specifically made for brass.

Instead of 13 being an issue for me on clocks, I have a problem with 11. I do a version of the same thing, including the 'look-aways'. Gelmania is fantasy, yet reality; positive, yet negative.

That would be good, but I'd much rather have a Dov Charney / Marissa Wompler episode.

That was my first thought when I heard the news yesterday. I did a joke about the find during my set tonight, but didn't go the Borat route with it. (Apologies if sentence #2 sounded a little douchey.)

It took me a few minutes but I found it. It's called Stand Up Apartment, and there are five of them. Here's number one: I get it, but definitely don't find it as funny as Jon Daly does.

You're being pretty harsh, considering Scott and Andy directly referred to him as Adam, and asked or mentioned things that only Adam Pally could comment on. It's funny, so that's what counts.

Ian Roberts is hilarious. Definitely check out the Upright Citizens Brigade tv show (3 seasons, 30 episodes total), and the movie Martin & Orloff (starring Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts). I wish I could find that skit about the Chef Improv they were talking about on youtube. It's episode 5 of season 2. UCB was a genius show.

'94 sounds right, at least I'm not insane. I lived in Crown Point, Indiana and my dad commuted to work in Chicago every day... Just google mapped Belvidere and you were on the opposite side of Chicago from me.

Matt did that Halloween story happen back in 1994 or 1995? I lived about 45 minutes away from Chicago and remember trick or treating in terrible rain one of those years. Three stand out things from this episode: - Lauren Lapkus' character in the 'fork cartel'. Straight holes fucking killed me. - Triple-party - The last scene breaking into 'reality' and connecting with the Serial Killer Tour.

Mike the Janitor's 'Pardon The Interruption' pull caught me off guard. "Forgive This Intrusion, also the name of my favorite sports television program."