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    What's That From?

    Geoff Garlock and Nate Smith, two comedy professionals with more credentials than some, but less credentials than most, catalog the history of comedy from the last forty years... as they remember it.
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    Episodes (61)

    2022 Year Ender Show Ender & The What’s That From Retirement Party

    2022 Year Ender Show Ender & The What’s That From Retirement Party

    We're calling it for the indefinite future gang. Thanks for tuning in and thanks for the support. Lots of love from Geoff and Nate... 

    Magnolia, Hard Eight, Philip Baker Hall, Seinfeld, Deliverance, Ned Beatty, Paul Dooley, ADHD podcast, Garlock “but”, Geoff’s good skin, Waxwork, Waxworks, House of Wax, Gremlins 3, storytelling, Modoc, David Warner, Julian Sands, Warlock, Arachnaphobia, House 2, John Ratzenberger, Kate Berlant, William DeVane, Cheers, Rolling Thunder, dialogue on a soundtrack, 90s movie soundtracks, Reality Bites, Singles, Trainspotting, Natural Born Killers, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Judgment Night, Can’t Hardly Wait, Sherri Shepherd, The Real Bowl, retiring, what have we learned… 

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    Every Open Tab

    Every Open Tab

    Season three finale, early Macintosh computers, Boys Life coding games, With Gourley and Rust, tabs in my brain, fake company names, improv references, hats, MTV2, M2, access to all things at all times, ADHD, dentist, Beyonce, Squarepusher, sugar break-away glass, don’t eat it, Instagram feed, Billie Eilish, Elton John, Sound of Music, Romper Room. 
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    Less “Drama” More “Edy”

    Less “Drama” More “Edy”

    Radio ads, morning zoo crews, Nardwar, StanleyWS, This Way Up, endless tv recommendations, Sandman, so much content, You’re Wrong About, 1970s porn, cultural phenomenon of Deepthroat, Shudder, Licorice Pizza, movie criticism, Into The Woods, Reddit, Dailymotion, EMF, Crumbelievable, tell me how to sell out more, Siobhan Thompson, Graham Norton, John Irving, Lorne Michaels, Dr. Evil, When Did I Get So Old, They Might Be Giants, Will Hines, Germans, Gotcha, paintball, Freud/Jung, A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg, Starz, the freedom of deleting your entire DVR, Ong Bak, William Lustig, William Friedkin. 

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    Mo Money, Mo Rocca

    Mo Money, Mo Rocca

    Mo Rocca, CNN, Fox News, Daily News, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, Tucker Carlson, footnotes, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Janice from the Muppet Show, Singles, Campbell Scott, Tom Skerritt, Beats by Dre, Patrick Warburton, David Spade, Veggie Tales, boring church, Wedding Crashers, porn, kink.com, new York stories, Criterion collection, Amoeba whats in your bag, V8 commercial. 

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    Patreon Roundup!

    Patreon Roundup!

    All topics for discussion offered by our patreons.  

    Agenda, Short Round, Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Hollywood overlaps, clickbait, why now?, why ever?, kid questions, Macaulay Culkin, SNL, William Shatner, staying up late, The Standups, Seinfeld, Tom Hanks, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, Melanie Hutsell, NYC street sound bites, PAing on set, Blankman, Damon Wayans, Handiman, Ishtar, The Cable Guy, Waterworld, things that are better than expected, showing love, The Bear, hugs, Cancelled Too Soon, Bakersfield PD, neural control, hard drive in our brain, TikTok.

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    1500 Unread Emails

    1500 Unread Emails

    Data hoarders, Phil Hartman, What’s the Best Way, SNL, Tom Haverford, Parks and Rec, up early, capitalism, make believe playing, Key & Peele awkward, Jordan Peele, Donald Glover, chapters of a career, Mystery Team, Childish Gambino, Nathan Fielder, Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Ayoade, dealing with discomfort, cd’s giving away old music, case logic, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, five disc changers, Phish tapes, buy sell trade music stores, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Chill Winston, The Simpsons, the mastery, the comfort, SNL, Zagats, spaghetti westerns, obsessive collecting, feeling unique in an un-unique world. 

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    We Are As God Made Us – Nerds Who Remember Everything They Ever Watched

    We Are As God Made Us – Nerds Who Remember Everything They Ever Watched

    There’s Something About Mary, dentists, when to share and when not to share, Let It Ride, rewatching, Tim Robinson, Richard Dreyfuss comedies, Henry Czerny, Clear and Present Danger, Revenge, sHenry Cavill, James Carville, JT Walsh, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hugo Weaving character actors, With Gourley and Rust, Child’s Play, film school nerds, bomb pop, remembering things bigger than they are, Tom Poppa, pursuing your passions, conscientious consuming vs. binging, Passolini, obsessive paths, teen sex comedies, Mimi Rogers, George Kareman, Acting Reel Master Database, Dan Opsal, Rob Michael Hugel, Nicholas Roeg, Rob Hubel, old person high school teachers, Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet, what is and what isn’t, Red Shoe Diaries, USA Up All Night, The Hitchhiker, M.A.S.K., Wild Orchid. 

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    Postmodern Humorism & Tom Cruise’s Fitness Routine

    Postmodern Humorism & Tom Cruise’s Fitness Routine

    Plane movies, Uncharted, Tom Cruise, Dave Eggers, Time Travel Mart, Superhero Supply Store, Timecop, unlazy screenwriting, biology understanding, time travel, bootstrap parodox, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Time traveling toaster, Heat Vision and Jack, living poor, double features at the movie theater, Blue Steel, Ron Silver, Mark Wahlberg, first movies as kids, Jennifer Aniston prestige movies, transformative performances, Michelle Pfeifer, film snobs, Christopher Walken, McSweeney’s, NPR, This American Life, New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs, puns on movie titles. 

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    What's That From?
    enJuly 13, 2022

    Season Three Returns! "Embroidered Life Lessons" with Catya McMullen

    Season Three Returns! "Embroidered Life Lessons" with Catya McMullen

    Special Guest Catya McMullen (aka MC Chihuahua Fancy)- Y, The Last Man, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Locked Up Bitches, Georgia Mertching Is Dead, We Pray to Elephants. 

    Baby’s Day Out, Baby Geniuses, Labyrinth, baby urning, 1800 collect, Geico, Wehadababyitsaboy, Wales, The Wicker Man, sexual publicist, theater heart break, “they’re gonna suck your dick then throw you in the garbage,” believing that things will work out, relentlessness, working on our terms, career and creativity intertwined, untwined, twined, desert witch advice, healers, ashrams and synagogues, fixing the thing that hurts doesn’t necessarily heal it, looking for the other issues/pains/blockages in life can bring rewards elsewhere, Andy Daly, Gallagher, high school parties, Mephiskapheles, punk rock hip hop sad girls with guitars adolescence, Carnegie Melon, college selection, Phish karaoke, Marie’s Crisis, community choir, What is the story that’s the most obvious one to tell- and that has the thing that we may be afraid to say, use humor to access vulnerability, “can she do it again?” the delusion that the time will come when we fail, it’s just television, balancing ambition and not taking things too seriously, doing the best we can, Defending Your Life. 

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    What's That From? 10 to 1! SPECIAL SNL Season 1, Ep 16 Anthony Perkins SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SPECIAL SNL Season 1, Ep 16 Anthony Perkins SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    A SPECIAL RELEASE of our PATREON ONLY series, What's That From? 10 to 1!
    We review the last episode of the night on SNL. This is from our past season of episodes. When SNL was on hiatus we'd dip into older seasons of SNL and pick out really bizarro special 10 to 1 sketches. This is one of those specials!
    Making this free for all listeners to check out! For more content like this head over to patreon.com/whatsthatfrom and sign up. 
    Enjoy! 

    Butt County Dance Party


    Couldn't find this one on YouTube, so check for the episodes on Peacock if you want to check it out! It's rul weird. 




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    What's That From? 10 to 1! SPECIAL SNL Season 35, Ep 8 Blake Lively SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SPECIAL SNL Season 35, Ep 8 Blake Lively SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    A SPECIAL RELEASE of our PATREON ONLY series, What's That From? 10 to 1!
    We review the last episode of the night on SNL. This is from our past season of episodes. When SNL was on hiatus we'd dip into older seasons of SNL and pick out really bizarro special 10 to 1 sketches. This is one of those specials!
    Making this free for all listeners to check out! For more content like this head over to patreon.com/whatsthatfrom and sign up. 
    Enjoy! 

    The Potato Chip sketch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4asQ1-vUugA&t=228s

    The reporting ON The Potato Chip sketch: 

    https://uproxx.com/tv/snl-potato-chip/

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    enJune 22, 2022

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SNL Season 40, Ep 9 Martin Freeman SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SNL Season 40, Ep 9 Martin Freeman SPECIAL WTFrom RELEASE!

    A SPECIAL RELEASE of our PATREON ONLY series, What's That From? 10 to 1!
    We review the last episode of the night on SNL. This is from our past season of episodes. When SNL was on hiatus we'd dip into older seasons of SNL and pick out really bizarro special 10 to 1 sketches. This is one of those specials!
    Making this free for all listeners to check out! For more content like this head over to patreon.com/whatsthatfrom and sign up. 
    Enjoy! 

    Waterbed Warehouse - this sketch is the BEEEEEESSSSST. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AetO5HdMCUE&t=145s



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    enJune 15, 2022

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SNL S47E21 Natasha Lyonne SPECIAL RELEASE!!!

    What's That From? 10 to 1! SNL S47E21 Natasha Lyonne SPECIAL RELEASE!!!

    A SPECIAL RELEASE of our PATREON ONLY series, What's That From? 10 to 1!
    We review the last episode of the night on SNL. This is from our past season of episodes, and it happens to be the last episode of the SNL season. Making this free for all listeners to check out! For more content like this head over to patreon.com/whatsthatfrom and sign up. 
    Enjoy! 

    Women's Commercial/Gray Pigtails:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnOGSFV7154


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    What's That From?
    enJune 08, 2022

    Pocket Academics

    Pocket Academics

    FUN watches, Dennis Chambers Tool video, react to something for the first time, Baked, John Flynn, content & clicking, punk rock mba, tik tok, dick pic, Pornhub the social media platform, childrens’ music of grown up songs, Billie Eilish, Van Halen, New York Post, wary but curious, vinyl, vhs, The State, The Kids in the Hall, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, MST3K, Z Magnificent Obsession, Bob and David, ayahuasca, Death Wish, youtube algorithm, Willow, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, David Carradine, Martha Plympton, Choose Me, Leslie Ann Warren, Needful Things, Bonnie Bedelia, Hollywood families, Mad Mike’s video in Waterbury, CT, M Night Shyamalan Old, Zen Diaries, Gary Shandling, Marc Maron, life is chaos, Bo Burnham, Bruce McCullough, Maggie Estep, King Missle, Whoopi Goldberg, Hannah Gadsby, Milla Jovovich, Star Wars at Disney, character animals, Yoni Lotan, new free association what’s that from game, Usual Suspects, Dinner and a Movie, Jere Burns, Angie Tribeca. 

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    Sex, Drugs, and Alternative Comedy, and Podcasting and Life and Love and Friendship Forever with John Flynn

    Sex, Drugs, and Alternative Comedy, and Podcasting and Life and Love and Friendship Forever with John Flynn

    With John Flynn- Author of Baked: Sex, Drugs and Alternative Comedy & Co-Host of Two Old Queens, Professional Podcast People, UCB, Listen-a-long, documentary editing, long coffee breaks, Katie Dippold, Mad TV, Bill Pullman, straight edge, pot cookies, buying weed, smoking hash, day jobs, Eddie Dunn, digging graves, Rick Moranis, Exile, Enya, LA Story, John’s one person shows, Bad Sex with Jason Manzoukas, Cold as Ice, Key West, Irish it up, talking to waiters, accepting the unpredictability of a career in the arts, failure, self worth, Different Strokes, Sleep No More, Jeff Hiller, Two Old Queens, You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth, Karen Kilgariff, what’s next, footnotes, saying yes to life. Natural ambition, Toni Braxton. 

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    A Forever Conversation (about art and stuff) with Andrew Ti

    A Forever Conversation (about art and stuff) with Andrew Ti

    Covid orgy weddings, pandemics, Dave Attell, Insomniac, Dinner for Five, Peter Falk, Dom Deluise,  El Guapo, Alfonso Arau, Insomnia, McMenamins, Did I live this or did I dream it?, The State, speeding up dialogue, music rights, Mixed-Ish, attachments to comedy, Yo Is This Racist, exhaustion, passion deficiency, diminished enthusiasm, diminished hatred, stand up comedy, the club is more important than the belief, the story is more important than the art, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, staying in one lane, knowing our limits, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica, jettisoning culture, culture/art as a stream, there’s not a “product,” there’s always more to create, to say, to do, growth mindset, no one thing matters, Stereolab, narrow focused passions, art school, liking the thing vs. the way it was made, dread, synth, talking about art, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rex Reed, Flinstones, The Art of the Craft with Andrew Ti, Lookwell, Heatvision and Jack, some things matter, some things don’t, we can talk about it, we can not. 

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    Made For TV Memories

    Made For TV Memories

    Shmee is my Bee, SNL, Chris Rock, Chris Farley, Made for TV movies: I Know My Name is Steven, David, emotional scarring, Mr. Boogedy, Ask Max, The B.R.A.T. Patrol, The Wizard, faulty memory, photographic memory, Garlock family confidence, sense memory, 1 900 numbers, nightmare summer vacations, concussions, hiding report cards, teacher secrets, childhood stress/trauma, teenage photos of ourselves, complex ptsd, shame books, clunky crossovers, sitcoms, Drew Carrey, Garlock tangents, Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, Marathon, Brian Haley, Airheads, flea markets, Mobsters, Mr. Sparkle, The Simpsons, Friday the 13th The Series, John Wilkes Booth is evil?, Timothy McVeigh, Nazis and Hitler are evil, Jersey Mikes, Subway, strips of mayonnaise, diner menus, Brooklyn real estate, Kellogg’s diner, Kenny Rogers, Putin, Rick and Morty, Todd Hanson, nihilism, feeling feelings, Venture Bros., Order of the Triad, James Urbaniak, Hal Hartley, Henry Fool, indie cinema, inside jokes, how much space in your mind, VHS, Twin Peaks, Canon Films, Screen Gems, The S From Hell, Hook, Peter Pan, Bob Hoskins, Tom Waits, Bruce Willis.

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    Namin’ Names! with Michael Hartney

    Namin’ Names! with Michael Hartney

    Isaac Asimov, Michael Caine, pub trivia, Scientology school of comedy, UCB sketch comedy classes, Bad Vegan, Nick Ross, east village vegan hippie restaurants, Jub’s Longevity, Lulu’s Apothecary, cheap NYC eats, UCB/Mosaic/private capital shit goes down, Kids in the Hall, cabbage head, Mississippi Gary, Studio 60, twitter, iconoclastic refusing to watch, Abbott Elementary, get comedy talk out of our system, community theater, cast parties, post show complaints, The Squirrel Theater, cheerleading, Terry Gross, Under St. Marks theater, Planet Hollywood, Logo network, Magnolia, Frank TJ Mackey, Tom Cruise, actors acting, bad sketch comedy names, Man of 1000 voices, breathing life into art, make it sexy, can’t teach charisma, directing, Mary Grill, comedy names, Gil Ozeri, Oh Hello!, fresh takes, Mr. Hollands Opus, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, SNL, Inside Conan, Robert Smigel, female talent, Morning Latte, Will Ferrell, snl auditions, Half Hour Comedy Hour, Christian Slater, super fire hot wing, love on top, Mike Myers, Philip the hyper, The Edge, Big Gay Sketch Show, As Good As It Gets, It’s Complicated, Jason Biggs. 

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    Adult Watchin’ Comedies of Youth

    Adult Watchin’ Comedies of Youth

    Richard Pryor Moving, Teri Weigel, Traci Lords, John Waters, Serial Mom, Deep Purple, Blackmore’s Night, classic rock, Black Sabbath, Kansas, Queensrÿche, Geoff Tate, Jenny McCarthy, Cancelled Too Soon, TruTV, FreeForm, CourtTV, ABC Family, billboard, Oliver Tree, Zach Broussard 1000 Comedians of the Year, Brian Regan, Ron Livingston, Loudermilk, Drunks, Wes Anderson, French Dispatch, Drew Carey, Larry Miller, Night Shift, The Wrong Guys, The Dream Team, Crazy People, Michael Keaton, Roger Corman, New World Pictures, 80s Comedy Store comedian soft comedies, John Murray, Jack Reacher, Westerns, film school, Police Academy, Richard Pryor Gene Wilder, Comedy Central roasts, Friar’s Club, Dean Martin roasts, Jimmy Stewart poems, Norm MacDonald Bob Saget roast, faith, improv movies, Teri Garr, Shelley Long, Money Pit, Beverly D’Angelo, ensemble movies, Dudley Moore, Richard Lewis, Anything But Love, Louie Anderson, Baskets, Goldie Hawn, Mary Gross, Julie Brown, Earth Girls are Easy, John Waters. 

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