Every Damn Thing

It's another lightning wife-ening episode as Phil & Jake's better halves Beth & Ali return to rank Bob Saget (R.I.P.), oysters, being a know-it-all, marriage, toilet humor, expresso with an “X”, and chest hair on the List of Every Damn Thing.

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). We also have a subreddit!

SHOW NOTES:

• As they brag about in the episode, Jake & Ali recently held one-day-old lambs at Toluma Farms in Sonoma County.
• If you only watch the show's opening credits, Full House really just seems like a tourism ad for San Francisco.
• Danny Tanner was America’s Dad for Beth & Ali, whereas Phil & Jake’s America was raised by Bill Cosby.
• Phil & Jake talk about a Bob Saget scene in the movie Dirty Work, but they really mean the movie Half-Baked.
• Here's the Saget bit that Beth watched where he talks about his dad's dirty jokes.
• Saget gets extra consideration for his work with the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
• Here’s Saget’s part in The Aristocrats, and here’s the Gilbert Gottfried part. We apologize in advance.
• Ali mentions that a few hours before recording this episode, she and Jake enjoyed some oysters at The Marshall Store (on California’s Tomales Bay). Jake mentions that a few years ago, they shucked their own oysters at Buck Bay Oyster Farm (on Washington State’s Orcas Island). They've indulged in oysters in many places, but not yet at The Shuckery (in Beth & Phil’s home town of Petaluma, CA).
• It’s an ongoing debate as to whether vegans should justify eating oysters.
• Amy Schneider was Jeopardy! champion until we jinxed her by talking about it on the podcast (which was recorded two days before she lost). She’s the most successful woman ever to compete on the game show. She’s the good kind of know-it-all.
• Jake tried to look up the German "scheisse" song that Beth mentions, but all he could find was this Lady Gaga song.
• Here’s Los Punkitos performing “Caca Culo Pedo Pis”.
• Phil & Beth are targeted by this Fabreze ad with miniature toilets.
• Phil talks about Eddie Murphy doing toilet humor in his early act, which is recounted in “Eddie Murphy Raw”.
• We’re still the first full page of search results when you Google shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels.
• We bring up saxophone in rock music, inciting Beth to vocalize the sax riff from “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty (which is, contrary to Phil's opinion, rock music).
• This episode is the second time that Jake has given a free plug to Fort Point’s Sfizio Italian Style Pilsner.
• The X-Men come up a couple of times in this episode, including when Jake speculates that– in light of Beth’s pubic hair definitions– Beast is covered in pubic hair, because mutant powers manifest at puberty. Of course, Beast’s full-body fur was part of a post-puberty secondary mutation, so Jake’s wrong on this one.
• Chest hair-y men discussed include Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot. Here’s a bonus pic of young Sam Elliot from the Mission: Impossible TV show.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
America’s Funniest Home Videos * Lente Loco *  Cheech & Chong * “Weird Al” Yankovic * Dan Aykroyd * Jessica Rabbit * the Watchmen TV series * Sir Topham Hatt * pearls * food poisoning * shucking * Popeyes chicken * dippin’ sauce * experts * feeding cats like babies * Daylight Saving Time * Jenny McCarthy * middle school * kids in restaurants * “Dancing Queen” by ABBA * A-shirts aka “wifebeaters” * scatting * farts * diarrhea * whoopie cushions * skorts * The Three Stooges *

Phil & Jake rank pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX, supervillain Doctor Doom, and the science of mycology on the List of Every Damn Thing.

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). We also have a subreddit!

SHOW NOTES:

• Phil said that Ludacris signed Justin Bieber but in reality Ludacris was just featured on Bieber’s first single. Phil had Bieber confused with Chingy again.
• As Jake notes, Charli XCX is probably most known from songs where she’s a featured guest. We discuss many of these, including “I Love It” by Icona Pop (feat. Charli XCX), “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea (feat. Charli XCX) and “Drop That Kitty” by Ty Dolla $ign (feat. Charli XCX & Tinashe). That last song is relevant to Phil because he lives with a cat now.
• Of course we also talk about some songs with Charli XCX as the main artist, including “Boom Clap”, “Break the Rules”, “Vroom Vroom”, “pink diamond”, “After the Afterparty” (feat. Lil Yachty), “1999” (with Troye Sivan) and “New Shapes” (feat. Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek). Jake thinks that last song sounds like the end of “Shock to Your System” by Tegan & Sara. 
• “Same Old Love” by Selena Gomez was written by Charli XCX, and as Phil notes sounds like “You Showed Me” by the Turtles.
• SOPHIE (RIP) was a producer who worked with Charli XCX.
• Jake and Phil agree that “Waterfalls” by TLC is one of the worst songs.
• WebMD says synesthesia is real.
• Here’s a pretty good Doctor Doom reading list. It includes the following stories that we mention in this episode: Secret Wars (1984), Emperor Doom, Dr. Strange & Dr. Doom: Triumph and Torment and Secret Wars (2015).
• It’s hard to talk about Doctor Doom without talking about the Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, the title characters of “"The World's Greatest Comic Magazine!"
• Jake knew that a lame Doctor Doom was feature in the first two Fantastic Four movies from 20th Century Fox, but wasn’t sure about the 2015 reboot. Research shows that Doom is, in fact, in it (but with the “Doctor” part of his name removed).
• Here’s the pic of Doctor Doom with Sub-Mariner’s horn that Phil refers to.
• Here’s a bias-confirming article about Darth Vader borrowing from Doctor Doom.
• Voice of Latveria is a great podcast dedicated to all things Doom.
• Phil's not a Family Guy fan but he found this relevant clip while looking for Wile E. Coyote videos to show his dad.
• Phil ponders “Has there ever been a female Doom?” There seem to be women who dress up as Doom but without the mask which defeats the point.
• Watch Fantastic Fungi for a fun primer on mycology.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
imagination * Santa Claus * Britney Spears * PC Music * Lady Gaga * Harry Styles * Bon Jovi * Run the Jewels * Dan Aykroyd * Blade * the Romani * Doombots * Latveria * Bond films * Stan Lee & Jack Kirby * Large Marge * Magneto * Punisher skulls * Reed Richards * Cher * cats * Mendocino County * psilocybin * Quorn * mold * blue cheese * penicillin * metatextuality * The Matrix * firefighters

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. bicycles - tool
5. coffee - beverage
6. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
7. Prince - person
8. It’s-It - food
9. Doctor Doom - fictional character
10. Cher - person

BOTTOM TEN:

226. Jon Voight - person
227. Hank Williams, Jr - person
228. British Royal Family - institution
229. Steven Seagal - person
230. McRib - food
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Phil, Jake and Jason are reunited with bud-of-the-pod Dave Hause to rank pickles and Sir Topham Hatt (from Thomas & Friends) on the List of Every Damn Thing. Plus coffee gets re-ranked!

Follow Dave on Instagram (@davehause), Twitter (@hausedave) and Facebook (DaveHauseMusic). We love his critically-acclaimed new album Blood Harmony, and so will you (it's on Spotify & Apple Music). Hopefully you can see him play live near you!

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). We also have a subreddit!

SHOW NOTES:

• Here’s Dave’s USA Today piece about Taylor Swift being “infinitely more punk rock” than him.
• Jason and Jake praise the song “Gary” from Dave’s new record, because it’s an incredible song.
• We note that our last episode featured Dave’s brother Tim Hause. The two brothers collaborated on Blood Harmony, as well as on Tim Hause's recently-recorded album (coming out later this year).
• We successfully deduce that sauerkraut is both a pickled and fermented food (the same goes for kimchi).
• Here’s a Southern Living article about how Texans– and only Texans– eat pickles at the movie theater.
• We discuss different types of pickles, such as cornichons and bread-and-butter pickles (the latter of which apparently got their name because they were good for bartering for staple food items).
• Here’s Hannibal Buress' pickle juice bit wherein he confesses "I have a surplus of pickle juice in my apartment".
• We talk about Dave being a transplant from Philadelphia. Did you know that the city's name literally means "Brother Love" in Greek? Why doesn't this get mentioned more?
• Guy Fieri is the prime minister of Sonoma County, where Phil lives. Phil says that all businesses in the county have a picture of Fieri on the wall, and he eats and drinks for free by law.
• Jason uses “onion murder” as an argument for ranking pickles higher than onions. Research shows that a guy in India was once killed for onions, but it's not fair to blame the onions for this. Maybe the guy who died in a tragic accident while harvesting onions could be blamed on the onions.
• Phil ponders on the nature of Thomas' sentience, and whether his consciousness is a gestalt of the train itself and the humans that operate it. Jake compares it to Voltron.
• Sir Tophamm Hatt is originally from The Railway Series books by Wilbert & Christopher Awdry, but our frame of reference is mostly the Thomas & Friends TV show (featuring, of course, the titular star Thomas the Tank Engine).
• Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patrick Stewart and Brian Cox are our nominees for portraying a live-action Topham Hatt.
• We shout-out some of our favorite coffee companies: Time & Tide Coffee (Biddeford, ME), Timeless Coffee (Oakland, CA) and Black Oak Coffee (Ukiah, CA). We also give praise to the Blue Danube Coffee House on Clement Street in San Francisco.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
having COVID * escabeche * Grillo’s pickles * Christmas ornaments * cucumbers * onions * Dolly Parton * Watchmen (comic) * the Golden Gate Bridge * Pompeii * It’s-It * volcanoes * Popeye * Blade * The British Royal Family * capitalism * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial * Charmander * goats * VW Bugs * Carthage * cold brew shandy * Star Wars * coffee enemas * Mendocino County * bicycles * The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. bicycles - tool
5. coffee - beverage
6. Clement Street in San Francisco - loca...

Phil and Jake are joined by singer-songwriter Tim Hause to rank volcanoes and the song “American Pie” by Don McLean on the List of Every Damn Thing.

Follow Tim on Instagram (@timbillhause) and Twitter (@timBILLhause). Check out his collaboration with brother Dave Hause on the fantastic new record “Blood Harmony” (which you can also find on Spotify & Apple Music). And see them play live near you!

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). We also have a subreddit!

SHOW NOTES:

• Phil looked up people pronouncing “human” like “yu-man” and apparently it's how people in NYC, Philadelphia and some places in Ireland say it. Phil is from rural California and although he used to live in NYC, he moved there as an adult.
• This clip features a scientific explanation of how Paul Bunyan and Babe the Big Blue Ox created the Grand Teton mountain range by roughhousing.
• We discuss a number of volcanic-relevant geographical locations including Mount St. Helens, The Road to Hana, Mount Shasta, Panum Crater, Pompeii, Arenal Volcano and Long Valley Caldera.
• Dr. Pimple Popper is a dermatologist who makes videos of pimples being popped. Look, the world isn't always that great, this sort of stuff is out there.
• We briefly discuss a volcano that erupted in the 19th Century, affecting global weather patterns and creating a year without a summer. The eruption in question was that of Mount Tambora in 1815 (the Year Without a Summer was the following year). It’s also hypothesized that a similar thing happened in the 6th Century.
• Joe Vs. the Volcano is a 1990 film by John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck) starring Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan (in multiple roles). It's a fun movie that lost a lot of money.
• Phil talks about underwater animals that survive from “geothermal” heat, but the real term is "hydrothermal vent". These animals have a whole little ecosystem that doesn't need sunlight. They live in one of the few truly alien environments on Earth.
• Jake mentions the use of McLean’s song in Black Widow, but we can’t remember the name of the character Yelena Belova.
• “The Day the Music Died” is a reference to Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & Big Bopper died in a plane crash. 
• Jake mentions the 1969 Altamont Free Concert, which is considered one of the end-markers of the 1960s. He incorrectly refers to the killing of a woman at the concert, when in fact it was an eighteen-year-old man (named Meredith) who was stabbed to death. Three other people also died at the concert.
• Songs we compare “American Pie” to include “Black Betty” by Ram Jam, “Turn! Turn! Turn!” by The Byrds, “Cats In the Cradle” by Harry Chapin, “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon, “The First Cut is the Deepest” by Rod Stewart, “Night Moves” by Bob Seager, “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon & Garfunkel, “The Saga Begins” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Cherry Pie” by Warrant, “Sweet Potato Pie” by Domino, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” by Dionne Warwick and “Roly Poly” by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
• We compare it to a few Billy Joel songs (“We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Piano Man” and “Only the Good Die Young”). There's been an ongoing reassessment of Billy Joel (since about 2009 when this LA times blog defended him). Here's a Vice defense, and here’s Jon Gabrus’ "High and Mighty" Billy Joel episode.
• We also discuss Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” and the “American Pie” cover by Madonna.
• Don McLean's twenty-seven year-old girlfriend is Paris Dylan. She and former NBA player Chris "Birdman" Andersen were both victims of a catfishing scheme a few years ago that's too weird to even explain but here's an honest attempt.
• Here’s the Cocaine & Rhinestones episode on the Louvin Brothers (which talks about blood harmonies).
• We never say the name of their band, but when we talk about Matt Hock & Dave Walsh we’re of course talking about Space Cadet.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Hawaii * lava * wolves * hot springs * lava insurance * Bruce Springsteen * Shakira

Phil and Jake rank the action-comedy 48 Hrs., the act of sleeping naked, and the phenomenon of mockingbirds mimicking car alarms on the List of Every Damn Thing.

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).

SHOW NOTES:

• Mountain Dew: Southern Shock is a tropical punch variant of Mountain Dew that's available only at Bojangles, a Southeastern fried-chicken chain.
• Here’s a supercut of  Eddie Murphy laughing. We love him.
• Walter Hill, the director of 48 Hrs., also made The Warriors.
• The Lady from Shanghai is set in San Francisco and the climactic scene is in a hall of mirrors (come on it wasn't a cliche in 1947!) at Playland.
• Phil was trying to remember 16 Blocks starring Mos Def & Bruce Willis.
• Other movies discussed include Dirty Harry, Trading Places, The Truman Show, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, Drumline and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Nick Nolte * “Lonesome Fugitive” by Merle Haggard * Gary Busey * Clint Eastwood * kids in restaurants * feeding cats like babies * Bill Paxton

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. bicycles - tool
5. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
6. Prince - person
7. It’s-It - food
8. Cher - person
9. dogs - animal
10. cats - animal

BOTTOM TEN:

219. Jon Voight - person
220. Hank Williams, Jr - person
221. British Royal Family - institution
222. Steven Seagal - person
223. McRib - food
224. death - idea
225. war - idea
226. cigarettes - drug
227. QAnon - idea
228. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Email us at [email protected]. 

Phil and Jake are joined by their friend Joe Martin to rank death and "Dong Bongs" (which is apparently a drinking game) on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).

SHOW NOTES:

• We get a bit dark so just putting it out there that the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's number is 1-800-273-8255
• Phil brags about having an air-fryer. It takes up a lot of counter space but it's good at making certain things such asparagus or chicken.
• “Gangster’s Paradise” by Coolio (with the Stevie Wonder sample) was a big hit. Have you seen the video where MIchelle Pfeiffer stares down the kids?
• Jake speculates that the Marvel Comics character Death first appeared in an issue of Silver Surfer, but he’s wrong. She was introduced in Captain Marvel #26 (the cover of which features Ben Grimm aka The Thing saying his famous catchphrase).
• Joe imagines that Phil's dad looked like Richard Dreyfuss. Phil says he was more like Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws, but he liked to think of himself as like Roy Scheider or Robert Shaw from Jaws.
• It's hard to understand from the lyrics of “The Crossroads” by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony what the Crossroads is. Is it Purgatory?
• Joe & Jake have both had pretty severe brain injuries and they brag about it and lord it over Phil all the time.
• Vietnam uses the dong for it's currency.
• Phil looked into whether there’s a clean version of the song about the place in France (you know the one). It’s built on an old melody ("the Arabian Riff") that was brought to America for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. This melody is often used whenever there is belly dancing or snake charming going on. Phil had assumed that the song was about the Folies Bergere. Kesha used it in 2010.
• Jake heard legendary comics writer Chris Claremont discuss the characters Mister Sinister & Gambit on this episode of Screw It, We’re Just Gonna Talk About Comics. 
• Surge was a real soda in the 90s. Jooky was a fictional soda that Sprite invented in the 90s so they could contrast their own brutal honesty against Jooky's lies. The problem was that the fake ads for Jooky made us want it. 
• Phil's wife Beth is from Stockton, CA (aka “The 209”), well-known for having the deepest inland seaport on the West Coast and having the second-oldest symphony in California.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
job interviews * Ukiah High * Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey * immortality * ghosts * war * McRib * Mendocino County * Haight Street * 

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. bicycles - tool
5. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
6. Prince - person
7. It’s-It - food
8. Cher - person
9. dogs - animal
10. cats - animal

BOTTOM TEN:

216. Jon Voight - person
217. Hank Williams, Jr - person
218. British Royal Family - institution
219. Steven Seagal - person
220. McRib - food
221. death - idea
222. war - idea
223. cigarettes - drug
224. QAnon - idea
225. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Email us at [email protected]. 

Phil, Jake and Jason are reunited with Natalie H. to rank Harry Styles and clowns on the List of Every Damn Thing.

VOTE HERE to help choose which item on the List of Every Damn Thing should be re-ranked in an upcoming episode (you can vote every day, and for multiple items).

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).

SHOW NOTES:

• Harry Styles has a role in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. It's not a major role, but it's bigger than the role of Guy Looking at Camera.
• Charli XCX is a pop star and songwriter from the UK. You know her voice from the hooks on "I Love It" and "Fancy". Phil appreciates her but doesn't know the name for what her fans call themselves (a la Harry Styles' “Stylers”) so he's kind of noncommittal in his fandom.
• Harry Styles’ fingernail polish line is called Pleasing and the pre-sale is already sold out.
• We make the obvious comparison of Harry Styles to Prince, and express doubts as to whether Styles is a songwriter on the level of Prince. Jake looked into it, and found that Harry Styles is in fact a songwriter (including songs for other artists), but unlike Prince he doesn’t appear to have sole credit on any songs. Also, he’s nowhere near as prolific a songwriter as Prince (at least so far).
• Natalie is right when she says Billy Porter wore the Christian Siriano tux dress design to the Oscars in 2019. 
• Here’s the Vogue Magazine Harry Styles story that we discuss.
• “Hungry Heart” was written by Bruce Springsteen for the Ramones. If you listen to the song, you can hear how he sings it sort of like Joey Ramone and you can also imagine how Joey Ramone would have sung it. People have tried to recreate it. Phil likes to imagine it would have sounded like a song on End of the Century. It's not clear why they never recorded the song.
• According to Andrew Dice Clay, My Cousin Vinny was developed as a vehicle for him, but when The Adventures of Ford Fairlane flopped, they made it with Joe Pesci instead. In an impressive feat of inference and detective work, Phil and his wife figured this out by themselves. She said that it seemed like the part was written for someone younger and they just wracked their brains thinking of Italian-American comedic actors from the early 90s until they figured it out.
• Pee-Wee Herman maybe could have worked playing the title role in My Cousin Vinny but probably he shouldn't have done Italian-Face.
• We briefly discuss the Insane Clown Posse and how our podcast is pro-Juggalo.
• Bill Irwin is the king of clowns.
• Oscar-winner Julianne Moore plays a sexy clown in The Ladies’ Man.
• “Tears of a Clown” by Smokey Robinson is one of the greatest pop songs to ever be recorded.
• Here’s the Cecily Strong clown bit that was on Saturday Night Live.
• Bianca del Rio is the winner of Season 6 of Rupaul’s Drag Race and is often referred to as the “Clown in a Gown”.
• Jake refers to “Wavy Gravy’s Clown College” but it’s actually a Clown Camp called Camp Winnarainbow. It’s still in operation. Talk about glamping!
• Pickle Family Circus was a troupe in San Francisco in the ‘70’s and is said to have brought back the circus trend. 
• The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 German film. Conrad Veidt's look in the title role is where the look of the Joker from Batman was pulled from in 1940. 
• None of us could say for sure what the capital city of Tennessee is. It’s Nashville. 
• Jake was wrong when he said San Francisco was never the capital of California. It was temporarily made the capitol in 1862 while Sacramento suffered from flooding. There was naver a capital building in San Francisco, though; the state legislature was held at the Merchants’ Exchange Building during the brief tenure in S.F.
• The I Love Lucy episode featuring Pepito the Clown that Jason refers to was actually a pilot episode that never aired during the original run of the show, and was apparently lost for decades.
• We ponder whether the term “hobo” is offensive, and decide that it isn’t. But we might be wrong.
• Violator from Spawn is a pretty sucky character.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
As Good As It Gets * Castaway * One Direction * Orville Peck * masturbation * Madison Square Garden * “Watermelon Sugar” * David Bowie * Madonna * Eternals * Olivia Wilde * Jason Sudeikis * Jenny Lewis * Dolly Parton * Steven Seagal * Hank Williams * John Wayne Gacy * Baskets (tv show) * circuses * firefighters * The M...

Phil and Jake are joined by friend-of-the-pod and fandom specialist Melissa B. to rank Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the mixed drink known as the Harvey Wallbanger on the List of Every Damn Thing.

Check out Melissa’s reviews on the Comic News Insider podcast, find her on Instagram, and follow her work on Can the Replicator Make This? and Outside ComicCon.

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).

SHOW NOTES:

• Melissa is also on the Board of Directors of the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame, and we talk a bit about racing at the beginning of the episode. 
• Pixar’s Cars remains the thing Phil is most prepared to talk about. Why are there military vehicles in this world? Why are there ambulances for that matter? Why school buses? 
• Phil mentions a scene in the Brave Little Toaster where appliances at a junkyard sing a sad song. This page from Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel also makes him sad.
• We discuss a number of other Star Trek properties, including the movies, as well as Star Trek: The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, Lower Decks and Picard.
• Of course we talk about the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball game, which comes in second place on the Internet Pinball Database list of Top 300 Electronic Pinball Machines.
• “Darmok” is Phil's favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (although he's only seen a few). It's about understanding people and learning how to listen. It's kind of like the thinking man's version of the episode from Star Trek: The Original Series where Kirk fights a lizard man (and you can see cars on the highway in the background). 
• The SF Chronicle’s little man dates all the way back to the 1940s!
• Sir Patrick Stewart is the true star of Star Trek: the Next Generation. When he's not on screen Phil & Jake immediately lose interest.
• Phil’s feelings towards Data probably aren’t going to date well. 
• In related news, Sophia the android (who, of course, you can follow on twitter) probably wouldn’t enjoy our episode on the uncanny valley effect very much (because she’s a robot and can’t experience enjoyment).
• Because the episode wouldn’t be complete without it, we do mention both the Borg and the character of Q (no relation to QAnon).
• There are channels on YouTube of just ambient starship background noise. Here's one of the ship from Star Trek: the Next Generation.
• In Star Trek: TNG the crew of the ship sometimes go into a virtual reality type room for training or recreation, called the Holodeck. They solve mysteries as Sherlock Holmes, etc… whatever they have wardrobe and sets for at Paramount. Phil doesn't like it because the whole point of watching a TV show about travelling through space would presumably be to see people traveling through space. If he wanted to see a Sherlock Holmes-based TV show he'd watch one of those.
• Melissa has some real issues with the TNG episode “Sub Rosa” in which Dr. Crusher falls in love with her dead grandmother’s candle ghost lover.
• We mention the character Geordi La Forge, who was born without sight but futuristic technology allows him to see.
• Phil's wonderful wife Beth mentioned that Deanna Troi's hair is not her real hair. This is the latest in a series of outrages along the lines of when she told him that Kiefer Sutherland is wearing a wig in the Lost Boys (which is partially true) and that Lynda Carter's butt was padded in Wonder Woman.
• Jake tried out the Harvey Wallbanger at Whitechapel, a London-themed steampunk-adjacent gin-centric cocktail bar in San Francisco.
• One of us claims that Galliano-- the liquor most known for its use in the Harvey Wallbanger-- is also used to make a Sex On the Beach, but afterwords we couldn’t find any recipes supporting that claim.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Free Guy * Star Wars * The Matrix * Batman: The Animated Series * The Three Stooges * The Golden Girls * Sambuca * cold brew shandy *

Phil and Jake rank bicycles, scatting (aka scat singing), and feeding cats like babies on the List of Every Damn Thing.

If you have something to add to the list, email it to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).

SHOW NOTES:

• We briefly discuss ventriloquism, including mention of Candice Bergen’s father Edgar Bergen, who was an actor, comedian and Vaudeville and radio ventriloquist. He was a big star, bigger than it's possible to imagine someone being when his main thing is throwing his voice through a dummy that sits on his lap ON THE RADIO. Even on TV or movies it doesn't really make sense because all the sound comes from the same speaker so throwing his voice doesn't seem that impressive and editing can be done anyways. It just seems like the kind of thing that only would work in live performances but here we are! His show was on the radio for 20 years!
• Phil rode a bicycle across the USA from Yorktown, VA to Vallejo CA. He's a very private person and doesn't like to talk about it much unless you mention bikes, the USA, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California or any of the geographical features therein.
• Jake rode a bike around the island of Losinj, Croatia.
• Jake refers to wearing a “turtle shell brace” after his bike accident, but it’s maybe more commonly called a clamshell brace.
• Madison Square Garden is the World's Most Famous Arena. It sits on top of Penn Station between 7th and 8th Ave in Manhattan. It's sort of ugly and it replaced the old Penn Station which was an architectural marvel. We mention it because Phil notes that the original MSG was the site of many indoor bicycle races (and was actually on Madison Avenue which made a lot more sense). 
• Notable scatters discussed include Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith), David Lee Roth, Cab Calloway and Ella Fitzgerald. 
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are Cleveland rappers who were signed and promoted by the late Eazy-E before his death. They were really influential in their sing-songy delivery (which you could hear in Crucial Conflict, Three Six Mafia & Nelly)  and their post Geto Boys "horrorcore" angle (similar to Gravediggaz). Their biggest successes were probably Crossroads, a meditation on death and First of the Month, a celebration of plenty. They once filmed a video of their trip to Switzerland which was made to get Phil Collins to agree to let them sample him for their song Home.
• Here's the Bone Thugs sketch on Saturday Night Live that Jake mentions.
• MC Skat Cat was an animated cat that would rap in the early 90s. Most famously with Paula Abdul. Phil just listened to "Skat Strut" for the first time and enjoyed the Earth, Wind & Fire sample.
• “Scatman (ski-ba-bob-ba-dop-bop)” by Scatman John is not to be confused with Scatman Crothers.
• The Fu-Schnickens were a hip-hop trio that were very difficult to understand but nonetheless quite impressive because they rapped at double (maybe triple?) speed. Chip-Fu in particular was just incredible even if the speed of the words made you dizzy. Phil follows him on twitter but he just tweets at regular speed, sadly. As a white kid from rural California with zero cultural context, Phil didn't understand that he was hearing a Caribbean thing. Their Ring the Alarm samples the Tenor Saw classic. They're mostly remembered now for making Can We Rock with Shaquille O'Neal.
• Phil might have taken it too far to say Doo Wop music was scatting. The second half of "Sh-Booom" is a good example of what he was referring to though.
• “Heebie Jeebies” by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five is, as of 2021, in the public domain. Phil’s thinking we should make this our show's theme song.
• Both New Orleans and Queens can claim Louis Armstrong. He was from New Orleans but he moved to Corona, Queens (very close to where the Mets play) and lived there from 1943 until his death in 1971. 
• The Harder They Fall on Netflix features “Broader Than Broadway” by Barrington Levy, which is a fantastic song.
• We discuss “Panama” by Van Halen. Phil says that the lyrics to this song don't matter at all and they might as well be scatting.
• Here’s that twitter thread of old paintings with people feeding cats like babies.
• How many shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels are really just actual angels?

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Annie (1982 film) * Bernadette Peters * stolen bikes * the Golden Gate Bridge * the Marin Headlands * bike crashes * E-bikes * anti-diarrhea medicine * Dolly Parton * cats * beatboxing * Hank Williams’ yodeling * saxophone in rock music * snare drums * glitter * Drumline * swaddling * Charm...

Phil and Jake are joined by EDT second-timer Dave Walsh (from Space Cadet, The Loved Ones & The Explosion) to rank dogs, cats and capybaras on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

• We mention Dave’s previous band The Explosion, which he was in with friends-and-guests-of-the-pod and guests Matt Hock and Andrew Black. But we somehow fail to mention The Loved Ones, which he was in with other friend-and-guest-of-the-pod (and other Dave) Dave Hause.
• We couldn’t find an image of Jake’s monkey-on-a-skateboard The Explosion t-shirt, but you should check out the other incredible artwork of Linas Garsys.
• Phil has a bestiary, which is a book about all animals, translated from Latin by T.H. White (who wrote The Sword in the Stone and a lot of other things). You can read the bestiary here.
• If you like dogs, Dave recommends the TV show Lucky Dog.
• Poochie from The Simpsons is a dog who rocks the telly. He’s half Joe Camel and the third Fonzerelli. He’s a kung-fu hippie from the Gangster City. He’s a rapping surfer. You’re the fool he pities.
• Here’s the scene from Snatch that Jake refers to.
• Cats' eyes emit light rays. We don’t know if this is because of science or because of magic. Probably both. 
• The CDC’s FAQ on toxoplasmosis doesn’t mention attraction to cats as a symptom, but it doesn’t refute it either. Jake suspects the Batman Returns version of Selena Kyle aka Catwoman has toxoplasmosis.
• We talk about the 1980s cartoon Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, which Phil only ever saw the second segment of growing up, because of the scheduling. The first segment was about Heathcliff doing the kind of things he does in the newspaper comic strip. The second segment was about a group of cats who lived in a junkyard, led by Riff Raff, an orange cat who wears a big white hat.
• In South America, guinea pigs are frequently eaten, and are called cuy, probably named after the sound they make. Phil mentions seeing them in the frozen food section at Trade Fair supermarket in Astoria Queens, NY.
• There was an escaped capybara in California, and friend-of-the-pod Victor made twitter for it.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Boston Terriers * dog training * Boxer dogs * cops * Cher * burritos * Pee-Wee Herman * Donald Duck * cat scratch fever * dog dicks * Maus by Art Spiegelman * EMTs * rats * goats * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial * Charmander

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
5. Prince - person
6. It’s-It - food
7. Cher - person
8. dogs - animal
9. cats - animal
10. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character

BOTTOM TEN:

207. Jenny McCarthy - person
208. Jon Voight - person
209. Hank Williams, Jr - person
210. British Royal Family - institution
211. Steven Seagal - person
212. McRib - food
213. war - idea
214. cigarettes - drug
215. QAnon - idea
216. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

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