What's That From?

Joined this ep by the outstanding Jason Gore! Comedian, actor, writer- from 108.9 The Hawk, The Best Show, Meet My Friends The Friends, Midlife Crisis, Dead Dads Club. 

Nice to see you!, 50 First Dates, Drew Barrymore, Drew's News Food Dude, Eric Cunningham, Music and Lyrics, ranch soda, McDonalds pizza, Trader Joes, Radford, VA, Terry Gross, Mike Birbiglia, UCB, alienating audiences, sketch teams, 108.9 The Hawk, southern accents, Sam Elliot, Yellowstone, national parks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tracy Letts, Carrie Coons, Ghostbusters Afterlife, True Blood, southern actors, Danny McBride, acting school, character types, Rust, insulting auditions, careers in show biz, This Is Us, Bosch, Jack Reacher, Friday the 13th the series, Dan Brown, David Cross, Live from New York audiobook, Tracy Morgan audiobook, Kids in the Hall reunion, Bob and David, Mr. Show, Party Down, Wings, Jackass, The Eagles, Joe Walsh, meeting celebrities, autographs, Dwight Yoakum, Sling Blade, Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives, Jaim Gertz, Tom Savini, Jeff Bezos, Mike Huckabee, SNL, comedy therapy, Kurt Vonnegut, ranch dressing, Family Guy, Charles Bronson, Globetrotters on Scooby Doo, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Sherry Lewis and Lamb Chop. 

Professor Blastoff, Comedy Bang Bang, podcasts, signs of the times, Farts and Procreation, Adam Scott, Scott Aukerman, U Talkin’ U2 To Me, REM, NPR, too much podcast content, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stepbrothers, The Vicious Kind, forgettable indie movies, The Greatest Event in Television History, John Glazer Loves Gear, Severance, The Freshman, Cynthia Rothrock, Marlon Brando, Penelope Ann Miller, BD Wong, Year of the Comet, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, The In-Laws, palm pilot, old man jokes, Dan Rather, Dana Carvey, Dom LeLuise, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Carson, Fly on The Wall podcast, Bruno Kirby, When Harry Met Sally, David Letterman, nipples could cut glass, rethinking toxic friendship in Ferris Bueller, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Abraham Benrubi, Corin Nemec, John Pinette, dated jokes, Police Academy, Revenge of the Nerds, unhinging our brains, Saturday Morning All Star Hits, Kyle Mooney, The Fucking Champs, Jackass Forever, dry heaving, Dune, shame books, karl ove knausgaard, waxing, aching for sincerity, Steve McQueen, Shame, fratellanza club, “friends are the greatest,” pastabilities, Prairie Home Companion, Capitol Steps, Mark Russell, funny names, The Jerk, Norm MacDonald, Andy Rooney. 

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Waiting for Impact – A Dave Holmes Passion Project, Monty Python: The Final Rip Off, success and failure, shame, self worth, show business, Sudden Impact, the internet preserves, what’s the point of what’s that from, of any podcast, connecting, talking to people, relating, rock journalism vs. podcasting, personal specificity, Vulture, My Favorite Murder, Scorpions, podcasting is the medium to go deep, corporate podcasts with celebrities, Once Upon a Time At Bennington College, Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo, mourning the possibility, expectations for ourselves, playing a role, I Melt With You, feelings and thinkings, introspection, cut your reaction time down, spiraling, Beautiful Girls, Autumn/Fall music, Buffalo Tom, Lush, Mother Love Bone, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s, grunge, Temple of the Dog, self-loathing, dopamine rush of relistening, rewatching over and over, Brian Ferry, Roxy Music, empathy, feeling feelings, “hate” for things, thinking in extremes, success vs. failure, reserved snark for celebrities, the shameful voices in our heads, UCB improv, grumps, needing to be cool all the time, pride, snark and cool, love and hate, binaries, Party of One, Kid Rock, Sebastian Bach, With Gourley and Rust, listening well, How Long Gone, earnest content, Tim Robinson, how real do you want to get, think about why you like it and why you don’t, what speaks to you, Come From Away, Interstellar, The Book of Henry, Metallica, that’s not for me, Genesis, dad sex talk, unforgettable commercials, Julian Clary, Pop Secret, Snoopy Sno Cone Machine, Northwell Health, Coventry, Rhode Island curtain lady, blind gay news, Wheel of Fortune, finding love in the work. 

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What makes nostalgia worthwhile? That 70s Show, That 80s Show, That 90s Show, That 2000s Show, 60 Songs That Explain the 90s, Waiting for Impact, reboots, internet accessibility to everything, these kids today, South Park, Member berries, whitewashing memories, anniversaries, Some Kind of Wonderful, Raiders of the Lost Arc, nostalgia comforting, rewatching, Fitzcarraldo, Nelson, Simpsons, Chris Farley Show, Mr. Show law school sketch, Twin Peaks, this will change your life, Garden State, Bjork, vegan food, commoditizing nostalgia, Star Wars, Marvel, multiverses, Matthew Perry, Boys Will Be Boys, Gallagher, Fox TV affiliates, Freedom Rock, Time Life compilations, Death (the band), SNL, Fly on the Wall podcast, reflecting on history and feeling uncomfortable, Mandela effect, Girl Scout cookies, John Wilson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, mindfulness, self righteous assholes, “it’s not for me,” you gotta watch, social media, Who cares? Vs. We’ll See, Thought Terminating Cliché, Ripple, Grateful Dead, Bad Religion.   

Backstage at the theater, Luck’s got nothing to do with it, one person shows, Die Hard, high school teachers, transgressing in high school, Dazed and Confused, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, college, our new season, gratitude, Star Wars, A New Hope, Brad Pitt in True Romance, Adrien Brody SNL, Never Been Kissed, Drew Barrymore, Charlie’s Angels, Ice Pirates, space herpes, rewatching and destroying childhood memories, Gourley and Rust, allowing yourself to laugh, criticizing tv, “worst episode ever,” snobbery, Scary Movie, parodies, film school snobs, Without a Paddle, Up The Creek, Porky’s, watching things actively/critically or passively/just being entertained, a shared understanding, Seinfeld quote index, Michael Mann Heat sequel, The Insider, Al Pacino, comfort watching, abandoning judgment, Fergie’s national anthem, agreeing on what’s good and bad, not foisting opinions on others, thoughtfully judgmental, keeping an open mind, exhausted by mean snarky humor, thoughtful satire, Mike White, Jackass, self righteousness, Eastbound and Down, uncompromising, opinions as identity, The State (oh these clips are hard to find), Rob Huebel, Inconsiderate Cell Phone Guy, Mike Detective, Yellowstone.

Wrappin' up 2021 with one final special episode. A bummer of a year dudes. Mr. Show, Congee, Knight Rider, With Gourley and Rust (naturally), Waiting for Impact, social media, self righteousness, Die Hard, The Nice Guys, year end wrap ups, do we care?... One long existential sigh as we ride out 2021. Love to you all and thanks for listening. Let us know what we missed and what we ought to talk about in our next season. In any case, we’re with you. Keep on trucking everybody. Love to you all. See you next year. 

A special release of our (generally) Patreon-Only pod mini-series on the "10 to 1" (ten minutes to one am) sketches on SNL! Dropping this one in the free feed, since we loved the sketch and felt like sharing this one with everybody. Head over to our patreon to hear the complete series! 
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This week's sketch:

"Casino Proposal" with Jason Sudeikis, Heidi Gardner, and Kenan Thompson. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1yU3KFCPc

We couldn't stand the wait to talk more comedy, so we're launching a new Patreon only (for the most part) pod series called, "What's That From? 10 to 1!" 

In this series between seasons of our regular pod, we (Geoff and Nate) will be talking about every ten to one sketch from the current season of Saturday Night Live. This is the last sketch of the show, the "ten minutes before one AM" sketch. It tends to be the weird one, the one when the writers and the performers stretch out a little and take a bigger swing, a bigger risk than they might in the rest of the show. 

We'll run down every ten to one sketch of this season and drop them all in our patreon feed. We wanted to keep delivering content AND we just needed to be able to hang out and bullshit. We promise we're keeping the episodes tight, so expect only a few tangents. Maybe a dozen per episode. 

Check out this intro episode and the first episode of this current season of SNL- both dropping today, December 2nd. Then we'll drop new episodes all through the month of December. 

Head over to patreon.com/whatsthatfrom to subscribe. 
Love you all. Thank you as always for supporting our work. 

Releasing another of our awesome guest episodes from Season Two of What's That From? This - like most of our guest eps - would only be available to our Patreon subscribers, but we LOVED this episode, so dropping it for free. Hope you enjoy as much as we do. And as always thanks for listening! 

“Turns Out I’m Stupid” – Hot Takes with Kelly Hudson and Dan Klein. 

Patreon only ep with Kelly Hudson, Host of the What Are You Into? podcast and Dan Klein, Host of the Bible Brothers podcast.

Podcast troubles, Turns Out I’m Stupid, Smart kids don’t make smart adults, SAT’s, analogies, The Tyranny of Merit, Operation Varsity Blues, college admission scandal, Mossimo, Full House, Jim Santangeli, Cameo, social media break from Venmo, Teen Wheels, a war against bad comedy, Pete Shultz, Weekend Update, SNL: the most fuckable fucked institution, what makes comedy good, working out material as a musician, judging comedy vs. judging music, alienating audiences, Tond, niche comedy, Garth Marenghi, online comments, fame seeking, self- confidence vs. self-love, Gerard Butler, Russell Crowe, Tom Hardy, celebrity height, Steve Nash, Cinco phone, Tim and Eric, Tim Heidecker in Bridesmaids, The Comedy, AP Bio, Office Hours, On Cinema, mainstream work vs. raw comedy, Dan as the weird guy, black metal t-shirt, UCB theater teaching, “game,” Charlie Sanders, Asssscat, standing in line, Tinkle, David Cross, Stella, David Wain, mainstream opinion, Ted Lasso, Hamilton, Beyonce, growing as an artist, hot takes, normies being friends with weridos, Sarah Squirm, English comics, RuPaul’s drag race, Terrace House, fame abroad vs. fame in the US, John Sayles, Terry Gilliam, Mike White, commercial success, dungeon synth, Rejected Pitches, editing, confident asshole bad people less fun now, petite feet, Will Ferrell, Anchorman, misogynist humor, male friendship, ManThinkers, diarrhea in the name of weight loss, Pixar Soul, Seinfeld: this is the meal, if not now when, community, expectations of success, the lesson is work harder? or be kinder to yourself. 

HEY GANG! As a special season two bonus episode, we are dropping the COMPLETE conversation we had with Brian Wecht and Leighton Gray of Leighton Night!!! 
This - like most of our guest eps - would only be available to our Patreon subscribers, but we LOVED this episode and this talk we had so much, we're dropping the whole ep to everybody for free. Enjoy! And thanks for listening. 

Oh podcasting, will, animation cells, Captain Crunch, inheritance, nerd stuff, collectibles, records, comics, antiques, valuing old stuff, Funko pop, Beanie Babies, ebay, Image comics, spiderman, the ‘Nam comic, Amazing Stories “Gather Ye Acorns,” 30 Rock, Apollo Apollo, how we know each other, UCB Theater, Kurt Braunohler, Ninja Sex Party, Neutrino improv, Leslie Meisel, horror, 30 rock lines, The Office renaissance, Brian Baumgartner, Kevin Malone, cameo, relationship sweet moments versus plain comedy, Jack Donaghy, Taxi, horror scores ambient sound, Infocom text adventure games, He-Man action figures, on card action figures, Bob the Goon, Dragon magazine, purging collections, collecting compulsion, commoditize everything- social media, podcasts, any free time, Masters of Horror, watching everything, reading everything, Fringe, starstruck, Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal, media diet, CSI, Manhunter, Criterion collection, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Cannon Canon, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, David Cronenberg, Crash, Phil Hale, Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard, The Sopranos, intervention episode, Parks and Rec, A Quiet Place, Alicia Wit, Dune, Stevie Van Zandt, Scorcese, therapy, Netflix, Lilyhammer, New Jersey, comforting accents, memories, Carolina, NYC pride, LA shame, LA film sites, David Lynch, Rough House, Halloween, Pig, Nicolas Cage, anxiety, being present, mindfulness, self worth, self love, breaking up with your phone, social media feelings, twitter, shame, 12 step for social media, Kenan Thompson, David Ortiz, depression, shame for feeling feelings, validation outside one’s self, self-loathing, reconsidering considering, criticism for taste, truth is not black or white, false humility, liberal shaming, chan online cruelty, movie reviews, critic journalist personalities, Pixar morals, fluidity of personal truth, online recipes, Hunter S Thompson, book adaptations, Altered States, Carlos Castaneda, Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown, What’s Poppin, binary thinking, tolerating complexity, cannot logic out of life, sleep, beanie baby divorce. 

King Missle, Real World LA, Phantasm, Jimmy the Cab Driver, Donal Logue, The Knights of Prosperity. 
Sync jokes, Patreon, What’s Happening, Re-Run, Shirley Hemphill, Star Search, Skippy from Family Ties, Marc Price, Kevin Hart, Jumanji, 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Mr. Show Hooray for America, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, HBO, UCB sketch show, spite watching, Assscat, UCB improv live, you fool, you’ll rue the day, RuPaul, illegal downloading, torrents, Wolverine, X Men, Vinegar Syndrome, Kanopy, Italian sword and sandle films, flip flops, onomatopoeia, SNL, references, Chris Farley, They Might Be Giants, swash laundry detergent, hipster marketing, hardcore logo, NKOTB, Italians, Larry Bird, directing Maude sketch teams at UCB, charm, improv, game, teaching comedy, self expression, comedy is subjective, Jack McBrayer, Andy Daly, Brian Stack, Conan, Will Hines/Kevin Hines, name checking on podcasts, seeking immortality, Docs Til Death, V, Coneheads, SNL movies, MacGruber, Night at the Roxbury, Waynes World, nerd jokes, The Office, Seinfeld, character acting, Dream On, comedy bit NFT’s, mistaken celebrity, how do you know me?, Nick Kroll, Red Dead Redemption, cool don’t pay the bills, Pup Detective, spontaneous drowning, Carmen San Diego, handling records, free association/the inside of our brains! Wonder Showzen, looking at deficiencies versus strengths, Carl Wallace Shawn movie stump, Karl Ove Knausgaard. 

Gourley and Rust, Whittier, food tourism, Jonathan Gold, the Chef show, Los Angeles culture, record stores, vegetarian, ninja restaurant, Grand Master, Golden era, 7th Day Adventist, movies in New York City, not giving advice, self-righteousness, best friends, how many people do you know, lacrosse, Nate Smith’s, Garlock family history, EPCOT genealogy, Dale Carnegie, forgetting names, not acting on thoughts, dog groomer, being present, escaping to memories when bored, cataloging and connecting present moments to things I’ve seen, Superman 3, Cobra, John Sartori, references from insecurity, Adam Grant, the comfort of conviction, frightened rabbit, not needing to know everything, do I need to have an opinion on everything?, high school quarterbacking, Married With Children, glory days, having fun, being funny, being genuine, being charming, manipulating, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Moulin Rouge, Larry David, Tracy Ullman, being present, self-analysis leads to presence and gratitude and joy, mellifluous, Luther Vandross, voice over, does the talent cream rise to the top?, Swingers, we all have stories, Phantasm, Barb and Star, caught in a lie, Godfather 3, drawing conclusions, just be present and fucking living your life, seven habits of how to destroy people. 

Patreon only ep with Kelly Hudson, Host of the What Are You Into? podcast and Dan Klein, Host of the Bible Brothers podcast.

Podcast troubles, Turns Out I’m Stupid, Smart kids don’t make smart adults, SAT’s, analogies, The Tyranny of Merit, Operation Varsity Blues, college admission scandal, Mossimo, Full House, Jim Santangeli, Cameo, social media break from Venmo, Teen Wheels, a war against bad comedy, Pete Shultz, Weekend Update, SNL: the most fuckable fucked institution, what makes comedy good, working out material as a musician, judging comedy vs. judging music, alienating audiences, Tond, niche comedy, Garth Marenghi, online comments, fame seeking, self- confidence vs. self-love, Gerard Butler, Russell Crowe, Tom Hardy, celebrity height, Steve Nash, Cinco phone, Tim and Eric, Tim Heidecker in Bridesmaids, The Comedy, AP Bio, Office Hours, On Cinema, mainstream work vs. raw comedy, Dan as the weird guy, black metal t-shirt, UCB theater teaching, “game,” Charlie Sanders, Asssscat, standing in line, Tinkle, David Cross, Stella, David Wain, mainstream opinion, Ted Lasso, Hamilton, Beyonce, growing as an artist, hot takes, normies being friends with weridos, Sarah Squirm, English comics, RuPaul’s drag race, Terrace House, fame abroad vs. fame in the US, John Sayles, Terry Gilliam, Mike White, commercial success, dungeon synth, Rejected Pitches, editing, confident asshole bad people less fun now, petite feet, Will Ferrell, Anchorman, misogynist humor, male friendship, ManThinkers, diarrhea in the name of weight loss, Pixar Soul, Seinfeld: this is the meal, if not now when, community, expectations of success, the lesson is work harder? or be kinder to yourself. 

Nagra, film school, Martin Scorcese, Su Friedrich, Brett Ratner, you always grieve for the person you wish you were, working production, potential creates expectation, pessimism, faith, optimism versus positivity, binary thinking, obsessive, qualified happiness, what could have been, future tripping, failure, Mr. Show, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, SNL, heartbreak, Tara Brach, equating potential to fear, busy versus active, shame, self understanding, Clifford,  Charles Grodin, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, seeking the truth, compare and despair, cool kids table, Mean Girls, Running on Empty, Daphne Zuniga, Martha Plimpton, grown up thinking. 

Oh podcasting, will, animation cells, Captain Crunch, inheritance, nerd stuff, collectibles, records, comics, antiques, valuing old stuff, Funko pop, Beanie Babies, ebay, Image comics, spiderman, the ‘Nam comic, Amazing Stories “Gather Ye Acorns,” 30 Rock, Apollo Apollo, how we know each other, UCB Theater, Kurt Braunohler, Ninja Sex Party, Neutrino improv, Leslie Meisel, horror, 30 rock lines, The Office renaissance, Brian Baumgartner, Kevin Malone, cameo, relationship sweet moments versus plain comedy, Jack Donaghy, Taxi, horror scores ambient sound, Infocom text adventure games, He-Man action figures, on card action figures, Bob the Goon, Dragon magazine, purging collections, collecting compulsion, commoditize everything- social media, podcasts, any free time, Masters of Horror, watching everything, reading everything, Fringe, starstruck, Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal, media diet, CSI, Manhunter, Criterion collection, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Cannon Canon, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, David Cronenberg, Crash, Phil Hale, Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard, The Sopranos, intervention episode, Parks and Rec, A Quiet Place, Alicia Wit, Dune, Stevie Van Zandt, Scorcese, therapy, Netflix, Lilyhammer, New Jersey, comforting accents, memories, Carolina, NYC pride, LA shame, LA film sites, David Lynch, Rough House, Halloween, Pig, Nicolas Cage, anxiety, being present, mindfulness, self worth, self love, breaking up with your phone, social media feelings, twitter, shame, 12 step for social media, Kenan Thompson, David Ortiz, depression, shame for feeling feelings, validation outside one’s self, self-loathing, reconsidering considering, criticism for taste, truth is not black or white, false humility, liberal shaming, chan online cruelty, movie reviews, critic journalist personalities, Pixar morals, fluidity of personal truth, online recipes, Hunter S Thompson, book adaptations, Altered States, Carlos Castaneda, Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown, What’s Poppin, binary thinking, tolerating complexity, cannot logic out of life, sleep, beanie baby divorce. 

Tim Allen, Sandler, Billy Madison, Robert Loggia, SNL Standup and Win, Jerry Seinfeld, high school assemblies, Robin Williams impersonator, Up With People, Total Eclipse of the Heart, angle dust, Helen Hunt, I Know My Name Is Steven, afterschool specials, lazer face, did we dream this?, non stories, bending the truth, Chappelle baby bit, truth in comedy, credit where credit is due, quotes, memorizing material, Austin Powers, burn zinger snl, finding your voice, carpool karaoke, Pink, life in the arts, finding success, David Lynch, therapy stuff, accepting the truth, feelings about the career, knowing your audience, Robbie Robertson, Somewhere Down The Crazy River, accepting the pain of unpredictability that is involved in career and life allows for freedom from self-criticism, memory, karl ove knausgaard, considering the possibility to reflect on the pointlessness of life with love, failure, heart break, Troll 2, college tour, Mark Maron, Stella, extra farts.

Luck, found money, subway, NYC, name dropping, UCB, Ellie Kemper, Lennon Parham, esoteric bits and references, Fantastic Planet, Demolition Man VR sex, Rob Schneider, Sylvester Stallone’s ass, personal associations, Tim Robinson, Jim Santangeli, High on Fire, Ricky Gervais, mythology, celebrity friends, appreciating work versus appreciating a person, art and personality, Paul F Tompkins, Tom Cruise, Magnolia, This Thing Is Fucking Short, Geoff’s esoteric references, The What’s That From lazy philosophy, Fast and the Furious, Fast Five, meeting celebrities, Hugh Fink, show biz baby, Worst Gig Ever, artificial pride/humility, Teen Wheels, Name droppin’, Hollywood mythology, cool kids table, Monty Python, high school, shirtless bible salesmen, comedy Hellraiser, Shame, Jam, Pamela Stephenson, Superman Three, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, The Trip, Howard Hesseman, Head of the Class, Spinal Tap, Assscat, Jon Glazer, UCB green room.

Intro: Special billing, patreon, Starstories, Timetrumpet, WPA, The State, VCRs.

Led Zeppelin songs about Lord of the Rings, Nickel Creek, Leonard Nimoy, Tolkein, The Beatles, L. Ron Hubbard, Michael Myers, They Might Be Giants, Indigo Girls fans, Brooklyn, green room jokes, alienating people, doing it for us, comforting podcasts, Genesis, I Think You Should Leave, iconoclast, bad moods, the impact on our taste, Game of Thrones, twitter, living in hyperbole, twitter, social media, opinions, identity, self righteousness, etc., Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar, Waynes World, ownership of our loves/opinions, Tom Greene, Sifl and Olly, White Lotus, Cabin in the Woods, comfort of conviction, transgression in comedy, Mr. Show, Tim and Eric, punk, Frank Zappa, Trump on SNL, cultural relevance, Bee Gees, indignation, Jack Kerouac, improv class, Cardi B, UCB, Anthony Atamanuik, Jean Shepherd, Christmas Story, Jackass, Wrecked, Chris Kula, Tim Robinson, Netflix The Characters, Detroiters, Bo Burnham, TikTok, monetizing social, CONTENT, cultivate curiosity, YouTube, Billy Eilish, why we like the things we like, why we don’t, and when we need to not know, Hot Ones, Ted Lasso, question your assumptions, UCB memories. WTF, Will Forte, Groundlings. 

Inside Llewyn Davis, The Equalizer, morally justified heroes, Inside Conan, Cannon films, Bourne, Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise, Joe Namath, Bill Pullman/Paxton, low vibration entertainment, Top Secret, parody humor, smart dumb, Airplane!, Joe Izuzu, Stephanie Courtney, Flo, MST3K, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon, Scary Movie, net positive on good jokes, parody movies and sketch comedy parallels, know your audience, if you think it’s funny… but no one is laughing… your bit isn’t working, comedy subjectivity/objectivity, snobs, reevaluating how to “like” things, Jojo Siwa, Youtubers, Japanese comedy, Johnny Mnemonic, pop culture, how nice it feels to ignore cultural touchstones, Kentucky Fried Movie, Naked Gun, Galaxy Quest, Joe Reed, “What’s Funny” class, Norm Macdonald Letterman, Cleveland, Meet the Spartans, Wayans Brothers, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, comedy economics, artistic success, Party Down, Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Show, success after your time, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker, Inside Conan, Matt Gourley, Superego, hidden gems, Uncut Gems, Screen Gems.

Embarrassing movies we have not seen, Monster Squad, Whiting Wongs, Rick and Morty, Apple 2C, travelling with your partner on work trips, She Hulk, conference calls, zoom birthday parties, zoom shows, Host, Cam, Room 104, fax machines, land lines, The League, Growing Pains, therapy in the 80s, probably Jewish, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Far Side, Playboy magazine cartoons, porn in the woods, Bud Ice, landshark, Mac the Knife, Late Night, John Michael Higgins, Garfield minus Garfield, Spin Doctors, Single soundtrack, Alice in Chains, Cameron Crowe, Say Anything, John Hughes, storytelling, screenwriting, math, Hollywood magic mythology, immediate mute (Instagram), customizing social media, merch, “Kate Bush is my Garfield,” movies on tv all the time, Airheads, Wild Orchid, As Good As Dead, Judge Reinhold, Larry Cohen, VHS, SNL reels.