Every Damn Thing

Phil and Jake rank the posthumously-released Bruce Lee film Game of Death, food poisoning and triangle pizza 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:

• Throughout the episode, Jake mistakenly refers to the movie production company Golden Harvest as “Golden Era” which is actually the name of a vegan Chinese restaurant in San Francisco which has been around since before veganism went mainstream.
• As Phil mentions, the recent Star Wars movie The Rise of Skywalker was produced after Carrie Fisher died. They spliced together various outtakes from the previous movies to make it look like she was in the movie. It didn't really work, how could it? Not much else in the movie did either although one exception was the chimpanzee with a welding torch.
• We mention Rudolph Valentino. Here's some details about his death & funeral. 
• Jake talks about the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey. Skip to timestamp 58:30 to watch the original Game of Death footage in full.
• Colleen Camp has had a full Hollywood career including roles in Clue, Apocalypse Now and a couple of Police Academy movies. She was also in Smokey & the Bandit 3, which like Game of Death involved extensive re-shooting for the final product. The original was meant to have Jackie Gleason in both the roles of Smokey and the Bandit, but after the promotional material elicited negative reactions, they re-shot the Bandit scenes with Jerry Reed.
• Phil started watching The Suicide Squad but it was too much gore for him. He's not prudish about that stuff but it's not fun for him anymore.
• The Seven Little Fortunes was a group of child performers who included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. Chan has said they'd get whipped if they didn't act right.
• Shreddies are similar to Wheat Chex (Phil said Triscuits). Their Diamond Shreddies campaign is very clever and is very similar to Oops! all Berries but with more world-building. 
• When Phil referred to “Oops! All Burnt Cheez-Its” of course he meant "extra-toasty Cheez-Its". They're the most requested flavor apparently. What we'd like is if they maintained some kind of fictional reason for why they were extra toasty like Oops! All Berries. Maybe something like "Dammit, we burned all the Cheez-Its!"
• Sector pizza is what most people (except Jake) probably are thinking of when they say triangle pizza. It's a circular pizza that's been cut through the center four times at different angles so that each slice is straight on two sides and curved along the edge.
• Circle pizza is a pizza that's just a circle with no cuts made into it or I guess if you took a pizza-cutter and cut circles out of a another shape of pizza.
• The above two notes were written by a malevolent artificial intelligence, and as such are not part of Every Damn Thing canon. The current entry was written by a benevolent artificial intelligence so it’s cool.
• Pizza in a Cup is from the best scene in The Jerk. It's pizza in a cup that Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin eat. It's sold at the carnival. At one time there were two competing Pizza in a Cup businesses at the carnival, until one drove the other out of business.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Greek & Roman mythology * Enter the Dragon * Chuck Norris * Way of the Dragon * Bowfinger * Hong Kong cinema * Police Story * metatextuality * Kareem Abdul Jabbar * basketball * video games * Brandon Lee * violence in movies * radio edits * “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz * Spaceballs * Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey * Prometheus * Sisyphus * Jessica Rabbit * broken glass * capitalism * daylight saving time * Josta * Cadbury Creme Eggs * Lincoln Logs * carpets * square pizza * geometry * Rod Laver shoes

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. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

180. Jenny McCarthy - person
181. Jon Voight - person
182. Hank Williams, Jr - person
183. British Royal Family - institution
184. Steven Seagal - person
185. McRib - food
186. war - idea
187. cigarettes - drug
188. QAnon - idea
189. transphobia - id...

Phil, Jake and Jason rank radio edits (of songs), and vinyl records (which usually contain songs) 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:

• Jason sings the praises of Kool-Aid pickles in the episode. Phil & Jake are sure Kool-Aid pickles are good but they look like sea slugs.
• Phil was right that Vincent Price’s spoken-word part on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” didn’t appear on the song’s 7” single. It did appear in the music video, though.
• Phil talks about a song by Pink that refers to satellite radio. He had the artist wrong; it was the Black Eyed Peas’ "Boom Boom Pow". Radio stations censored the word "satellite" and we think it was just them flexing.
• There are three versions of “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz: the original one with explicit lyrics, the clean radio edit, and the Bay Area Ballas Remix.  
•  "Get Low" by Lil Jon& The East Side Boyz got heavy radio play using an edit that had a lot of profanity taken out, but they got to say "skeet" (which is slang for ejaculation) many times. Lil' Jon also apparently ran a label called Skeet Skeet Records.
• Phil mentions that the radio edit of “Country Grammar” by Nelly really helped Nelly crossover cause it was built on a children's singalong although the song was talking about a drive-by shooting with an Armsel Striker "Street Sweeper" which is an automatic shotgun. In the episode, Phil doesn't know the full name of the weapon but he had the right idea.
• Phil talks about the end of the first act of Scarface which is his favorite part of the movie.
• We talk about “Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits. The guy from Dire Straits also wrote “Private Dancer” by Tina Turner.
• Can you play a gold record? Most gold or platinum records are colored vinyl and you can play them but, like Phil speculates, it's usually a random record that's been painted so if you buy Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch platinum record and play it, it might be Legs by ZZ Top.
• Taylor Swift’s album Evermore is the one Jake talks about but can’t remember the name.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
demolition derbies * “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell * “Truth Hurts” by Lizzo * “Night Moves” by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band * “MacArthur Park” by Donna Summer * “Every Little Step” by Bobby Brown * “Back that Thang Up” by Juvenile * intro to “Back that Azz Up” * “Dre Day” by Dr. Dre * “Let’s Get it Started In Here” by Black Eyed Peas * “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” by Geto Boys * metatextuality * “Dope Man” by NWA * “Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground * Showgirls * “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard * McRib * daylight saving time * “1999” by Prince * “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” by Dionne Warwick * speed limits * Cannonball Run * public humiliation * fast fashion * cassette tapes * compact discs * Spinderella * Crocs * books * Allman & Woman * podcasts * ducks * 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. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
5. Prince - person
6. It’s-It - food
7. Cher - person
8. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

177. Jenny McCarthy - person
178. Jon Voight - person
179. Hank Williams, Jr - person
180. British Royal Family - institution
181. Steven Seagal - person
182. McRib - food
183. war - idea
184. cigarettes - drug
185. QAnon - idea
186. 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]. 

Lightning (episode) strikes again as Phil and Jake rank movie theater popcorn, apple juice, speed limits, gas-powered leaf blowers and the internet 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:

• Razzle-dazzle camouflage is where you paint all sorts of strange confusing patterns on ships to make it harder to see what direction they're moving or facing.
• Phil made an effort, but couldn't figure out why The Great White Fleet was white.
• In the episode, Jake refers to the yeast that people put on movie theater popcorn as “brewers yeast”. Some might call this “nutritional yeast” which is technically different but often used in the same way. Nutritional yeast is probably more popular for popcorn these days.
• Martinelli’s uses the apple-shaped juice containers that Phil loves.
• The time where Ice-T drank apple juice in Evil E’s car is recounted in his song “Midnight”.
• Jackie Gleason played Buford T. Justice in Smokey & the Bandit. That movie and Cannonball Run both rely on speed limits for their plot.
• Here’s El Rocketeer from In Living Color. It’s not especially funny. 
• Phil brings up people that are sexually excited by Tony the Tiger, What's happened is more complicated than what Phil says. Kellogg's is constantly baiting furries by putting sexy Tony the Tiger content out in the world and then acting shocked when they get worked up about it. We think for a lot of furries, Tony the Tiger was their gateway into being a furry in the first place so it really resonates. Here's a summary by the journalists at Huffington Post.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
coconut oil * animal crackers * Taco Bell * rye bread * dippin’ sauce * apple cider * juices * cold brew shandy * coffee * Whoppers * Josta * laws * “I Can’t Drive 55” by Sammy Hagar * the Autobahn * middle school * capitalism * public humiliation * nail clippers * landlines * generation ships * crossbows * zipper jeans worn with no underwear * Monopoly * Cinderella * cultural divides * QAnon * Cheech & Chong * Bell Biv Devoe * Ice Cube * Spaceballs * wind chimes

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. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

175. Jenny McCarthy - person
176. Jon Voight - person
177. Hank Williams, Jr - person
178. British Royal Family - institution
179. Steven Seagal - person
180. McRib - food
181. war - idea
182. cigarettes - drug
183. QAnon - idea
184. 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 returning guest "Million Dollar" Matt Hock (from Space Cadet & The Explosion) to rank ice cream trucks and the New York City borough of Brooklyn on the List of Every Damn Thing.

Get Space Cadet’s record “Lion On A Leash” on Wiretap Records, listen to them on Spotify, and follow them on Instagram (@space_cadet_band). Maybe even see them play live.

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:

• Here’s the classic Eddie Murphy ice cream truck bit that taught us everything we know.
• Mister Softee is a soft-serve truck that drives around in the mid-Atlantic states. While trying to explain the business benefits of soft-serve, Phil refers to the movie The Founder, which is about McDonalds. One of the central issues in the movie is the original founders of McDonalds want to have real ice cream shakes but storing ice cream is very expensive due to the refrigeration. Soft serve ice cream is much cheaper because it doesn't need to be refrigerated while in transit or storage.
• A meager amount of research leads us to the stance that trucks (aka lorries) are different from vans.
• The racist version of “Turkey in the Straw” that Phil refers to was recorded in 1916, just a few years before Harry Burt created the first ice cream truck. So it follows that this version may be the one people knew in the early days of ice cream truckin’.
• Does sound travel further in warmer weather? There are scientists who will say it travels faster in the summer heat and humidity, but that it travels further in the winter. We think it's mostly due to having windows open in the summer.
• Does ice cream sell better on rainy days? This is some purely anecdotal BS that Phil heard in grade school from a guy who worked at an ice cream shop, and has accepted as the truth. He has no documented proof for this. He looked online but has found nothing that backs it up.
• When Jake talks about the melody from “Ice Cream Man” by Dru Down (featuring Luniz), he's talking about the main part of the song, not the intro featuring “Pop Goes the Weasel”. A few years after this song came out, Master P released a song by the same name (with a similar intro), but it’s not nearly as catchy. Another song by a Bay Area rapper apparently played by some ice cream trucks is “Ice Cream” by Andre Nikatina, which is pretty much just a “Turkey In the Straw” remix.
• Here’s the scene from Friday where the ice cream truck is used as a front for a drug dealer.
• Western Beef is a mid-Atlantic supermarket chain whose mascot is a cactus in a cowboy hat. Their old CEO had mafia ties. The location Phil was thinking about is at 44 Empire Blvd by the park.
• Fud is a brand of hot dogs from Mexico.
• Fuddhism is a restaurant with a goofy name in Truckee, CA.
• Junior’s Cheesecake is a place where Matt likes to urinate.
• Christie’s Jamaican Patties is now closed. It's described as beloved in the linked article so you know it wasn't just Phil that liked it.
• Taqueria Diana in Williamsburg is an outstanding place to get Mexican food (and mezcal). If you’re hungry and in Brooklyn, go there. In fact, if you’re anywhere in New York City, go there. The Williamsburg location is the best.
• Here’s the EDT episode featuring Efrem Schulz where he helped us rank “Weird Al” Yankovic over Bruce Springsteen.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
wheat germ * carob * quiescently frozen desserts * holy communion * In-N-Out Burger * “It’s Now or Never” by Elvis Presley * Glasgow Ice Cream Wars * It’s-It * peanut butter ice cream * interspecies animal friends * firefighters * Bill Paxton * rye bread * Christmas trees * pancakes * Coney Island * Hawaii * air conditioning * Jersey Shore * fast fashion * Mendocino County

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. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

170. Jenny McCarthy - person
171. Jon Voight - person
172. Hank Williams, Jr - person
173. British Royal Family - institution
174. Steven Seagal - person
175. McRib - food
176. war - idea
177. cigarettes - drug
178. QAnon - idea
179. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This epis...

EDT is one year old! Phil and Jake celebrate by ranking podcasts, ranked lists and metatextuality 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 don’t talk about it in the episode, but we both watched Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, a noteworthy film dealing with metatextuality (though you could get a lot of the same effect from watching YouTube reaction videos or the Bo Burnham video where he reacts to himself). One thing that we enjoyed we enjoyed from Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was when a film crew member says that every husband and wife from the moment of birth are destined to say poorly written cliched banalities at each other and all they want to say is "you're cutting my balls off" and "you're not a real man".
• Phil mentioned a podcast where you can listen to old Knicks games along with commentary. He has no proof that such a podcast exists, maybe he dreamed it. He's listened to commentary of old games on Knicks Film School but not the actual audio broadcast. He's sure such a thing could exist though.
• Other podcasts mentioned include This American Life, Planet Money, Radiolab and WTF with Marc Maron.
• In one scene in Luca, the characters watch Big Deal on Madonna Street. BD on MS is a really influential crime/caper movie. Heist type movies seem like they're all either remakes of this movie or Rififi (which BD on MS itself seems like a response to).
• TV shows discussed include The Office, Fleabag, Moonlighting, Saturday Night Live, Frasier, Batman: The Animated Series and Watchmen.
• Songs discussed include “Something to Ride To” & “Freaky Tales” by Too $hort, “We Got the Beat” by The Go-Gos, “1999” by Prince, “The Ghost of Tom Joad” & “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen, “Tulsa Time” by Don Williams, “Hips Don’t Lie” by Shakira, “Jackin’ for Beats” by Ice Cube, “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)” by Cinderella, “Whiskey Bent and Hellbound” by Hank Williams, Jr. and “Ramblin’ Man” by Hank Williams.
• We talk a bit about the Grant Morrison run on the comic series Animal Man, Phil remembers issue #5 (“The Coyote Gospel”) where Wile E. Coyote is reimagined as a Christ figure who dies over and over again in our world to redeem his own. Bonkers shit. Jake mentions issue #26 (“Deus Ex Machina”), where Morrison himself appears in the comic. Jake also talks about Morrison’s The Invisibles, which he hasn’t read, but has heard about it containing some magic where the author trades places with one of the characters.
• for the record, Phil says that Morrison uses a non-gender binary pronoun but the author’s own website uses he / him / his so Jake probably isn’t guilty of misgendering.
• Jorge Luis Borges also dealt extensively with himself as a character. Here's the short piece we mentioned. He's maybe the most meta writer.
• The idea of Countryman and the Cinematograph seems to be "country people don't know that movies aren't real". The idea of people not knowing movies aren’t real is fun, which is probably why so many people-- including your humble hosts-- repeat the probably-urban-legend of people running for cover during early screenings of Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.
• In the back of Las Meninas you can see the painter, Diego Velázquez.
• Phil was trying to remember the Hal Hartley movie Flirt in which the same dialogue is used three different times. He tries to remember the name of this movie a couple times a year but It's kind of boring so it's difficult.
• Other movies discussed include The Princess Bride, The Truman Show, Deadpool, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Caddyshack, Watchmen, the Star Wars movies, The Matrix, Trading Places,

Shalon joins the EDT family to help Phil and Jake rank the 1980s comedy classic Caddyshack and the concept of families 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:

• There’s some confusion during our conversation as to how the characters in The Blue Lagoon are related. While researching the matter, Jake was relieved to discover that they aren’t siblings, but unsettled upon learning that they’re cousins.
• We of course talk quite a bit about the sublime performance of  Rodney Dangerfield, especially his facial expressions (such as this hat reaction) and his dancing.
• Phil speculates that maybe Caddyshack was autobiographical. It was, but mostly pulled from Brian Doyle-Murray's experiences. From one of the better Caddyshack "things you didn't know" pages out there: "To write their screenplay, Ramis, Kenney, and Doyle-Murray locked themselves in a room and tried to recall everything they knew about or experienced at golf courses and country clubs growing up—most of which came from Doyle-Murray, who caddied at Indian Hill Country Club in the suburbs of Chicago as a kid."
• When talking about Mad Magazine, Phil couldn't remember the name of cartoonist Mort Drucker. Chevy Chase  looks like if his own Mort Drucker caricature came to life.
• In the Marx Brothers movies, the role of Margaret Dumont was to sell the Marx Brothers by reacting to their bullshit. 
• Phil says "empty pool" when he means to say "drained pool" politics while talking about The Sum of Us by Heather Mcgee.
• Here’s the scene from Natural Born Killers that features Rodney. It’s disturbing, but it’s also the best part of the movie.
• We mention “Weird Al” Yankovic. There’s none of this in the podcast, but we think you should know that Phil's wife Beth continues to talk about her new character, a terrifying vision from the future Weird AI. He's a song parody writing artificial intelligence at the end of time.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
step-sibling porn * the Marvel Cinematic Universe * Black Widow * Ted Knight * Bill Murray * Michael O’Keefe * Doug Kenney * slobs vs. snobs * cock-blocking * Donald Trump * New Age bullshit * Star Wars * Flashdance * class struggle * Pacific Rim * Mystery Men * Trading Places * Ghostbusters * cloning * The Matrix * Step Brothers * burritos  * Fast & Furious * the X-Men * siblings * community * brief * the sea * jorts * crows

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. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

165. Jenny McCarthy - person
166. Jon Voight - person
167. Hank Williams, Jr - person
168. British Royal Family - institution
169. Steven Seagal - person
170. McRib - food
171. war - idea
172. cigarettes - drug
173. QAnon - idea
174. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was 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 rank the 80s blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Reese’s Ultimate Peanut Butter Lovers Cup 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:

• Here’s the Eddie Murphy bit that Phil talks about at the beginning of the episode.
• Steven Spielberg projects mentioned include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Night Skies, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark and his remake of War of the Worlds. 
• Other movies talked about include Never Been Kissed (which Phil's mother really enjoyed on an airplane), The Goonies, Star Wars, Howard the Duck, Back to the Future, The Last Starfighter, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Trading Places, The Truman Show, Flashdance and Enter the Dragon.
• Melissa Mathison is not related to Richard Matheson, whose work Spielberg had adapted. Their last names are homonyms, that's why Phil was confused. Melissa Mathison also wrote Kundun, The BFG and Indian in the Cupboard.
• Phil wasn't trying to steal autism valor but his point got mangled. There's a kind of boy that started showing up in movies around this time. The other example Phil could think of was the kid from D.A.R.Y.L. and the kid from Cloak and Dagger (played by the same kid who played Elliot in E.T.). In the past child actors were usually more anglo-looking. Maybe it boils down to Spielberg having enough pull to cast someone who looks like his own kids.
• For the record, we don't want to disparage New Age bullshit.
• C. Thomas Howell has a small role in E.T. We like when someone's name is also a sentence. It's not such a big deal though since it's a stage name.
• E.T. was produced by "Amblin Productions" and of course they didn't have the logo of the bike in front of the moon at the time, since it comes from E.T.
• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman is the book Phil talks about.
• Erika Eleniak played Eliott's classmate and, as an adult, jumps out of a cake in Under Siege (but Phil forgets her name in the episode).
• Oops! All Berries is a foundational concept that we never tire of discussing.
• Here’s the Chris Gaines VH1 Behind the Music that we failed to consider in last week’s episode.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Mad Magazine * Drew Barrymore * Stranger Things * Peter Coyote * John Williams * Reese’s Pieces * product placement * Coors aka Colorado Kool-Aid * Charmander * objectivity * Double Stuf Oreos * boiled peanuts * Whoppers * peanut butter ice cream * Cadbury Creme Eggs

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. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

163. Jenny McCarthy - person
164. Jon Voight - person
165. Hank Williams, Jr - person
166. British Royal Family - institution
167. Steven Seagal - person
168. McRib - food
169. war - idea
170. cigarettes - drug
171. QAnon - idea
172. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was 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 joined by returning champion singer-songwriter Dave Hause to rank the questionable experiment Chris Gaines on the List of Every Damn Thing. Plus we re-rank sex!

Follow Dave on Instagram (@davehause), Twitter (@hausedave) and Facebook (DaveHauseMusic). You can find his songs on Spotify & Apple Music. If you’re in Europe, here's the info on Dave’s upcoming Germany / Austria shows. Most dates are sold out, so get on it for the ones that aren’t! 

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 make some references to ASMR, which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (sometimes Auto Sensory Meridian Response). It’s not always, or maybe not even usually, a sex thing.
• Kink-shaming is something Phil's always trying not to do.
• “Asparagus Tarzan”(Spargeltarzan) is a German slang term of endearment / insult equivalent to “stringbean” or “beanpole” in English. Here's some etymology. The name comes from a description of famous skinny German footballer, Hans Bongartz.
• “Friends in Low Places” was written by Dewayne Blackwell and Earl Bud Lee. As expected, there’s nothing on the internet saying that either of them didn’t spend all their songwriting proceeds on taking their family to the movies. 
• We discuss a few male celebrities with “can I speak to the manager” haircuts, including The Goo-Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik, Country singer Keith Urban and Criss Angel. 
• We go into some detail about the CD booklet pics from the album Garth Brooks in… The Life of Chris Gaines, including the one featuring his creamy hammies.
• The similarity between Gaines and Zoolander is uncanny but we think they're both going for the same thing. It's like how calculus was invented by Newton and Leibniz at the same time.
• We talk about how the rapper Spice 1 sometimes switches mid-song into a dancehall influenced persona named Reggaengsta. A good example is from Clip & the Trigga.
• Luke the Drifter was an alter-ego that Hank Williams used for more explicitly religious material. Here's a little poem/sermon that's maybe a little ahead of its time, "Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals".
• Hank Williams, Jr. was apparently given the nickname Bocephus by his father, as he rocked in the cradle. 
• We talk a bit about Eminem’s alter-ego Slim Shady. Here’s a link to Feminem, who may or may not be related.
• Here's Chris Tucker in a recent standup special talking about Blade himself.
• We mention George Clooney, whose friends (aka Jason) know him as the “Cloontang”.
• Here’s the Childish Gambino cover of Chris Gaines’  “Lost in You”.
• We talk about the Greg Album / Cher project Allman & Woman. Greg Allman has yet to be ranked on the List of Everything but his ex-wife Cher can currently be found at #7. 
• The Jay-Z / R. Kelly album is called Best of Both Worlds.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
YouTube * Tiktok * flossing * Crocs * Germans * asparagus pee * Zak Baggans * Garth Brooks * Trisha Yearwood * Saturday Night Live * Bret Michaels * Pee-Wee Herman * air * Paris Hilton * “Free Your Mind” by En Vogue * Paul Westerberg / Grandpaboy * Bad Religion * Cinderella (the princess) * bricks * Cheech & Chong * Spaceballs * Barry Bonds * The Last Starfighter * crushed ice * Prince * Dolly Parton * anticipation * volcels * masturbation * It’s-It * Donald Duck * Clement Street in San Francisco * interspecies animal friends * coffee

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

Phil, Jake and Beth are joined by writer, model and friend Eirinie Carson to rank the TV sitcom Frasier, the British Royal Family, and fast fashion on the List of Every Damn Thing.

Follow Eirinie on Instagram (@eirinieeee) and Twitter (@Eirineee). Her articles (including the one Jake mentions in this episode) and other projects can be found here.

Beth is raising money through Rise Up Against Racism to build little free anti-racist libraries throughout the Bay Area. Her fundraising page can be found here. You can follow her progress on Instagram (@little.free.antiracist.library).

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 talk briefly about kid’s shows, including We Bare Bears, Apple & Onion and Hey Duggee. 
• In Apple & Onion, Richard Ayoade plays Onion. He and his best friend Apple live in an apartment and deal with various problems. Everyone they know is food. It's strange because their friend Falafel has ground onions inside of him and they never mention it. It's like Pixar's Cars where it's best not to think about it too much. Here's some examples of the rules of anthropomorphic food on the show.
• Sitcoms discussed in this episode include Cheers, 30 Rock, Seinfeld, The IT Crowd and Peepshow. Phil also brings up That Mitchell & Webb Look, which isn’t sit but is com.
• We were right in assuming Kelsey Grammer hung out with Robin Williams. It turns out they were roommates at Julliard. It's possible they may have used cocaine together.
• Here’s the article Beth mentions about Grammer’s problematic politics putting the Frasier reboot at risk.
• When Jake says the character of Daphne Moon reminds him of Cathy, this is what he's talking about.
• There's some talk of how Julia-Louis Dreyfus / Elaine changed throughout the course of Seinfeld. It's possible when Phil said this what really was happening was that he himself was growing into manhood and began to look at JLD differently.
• Here’s some fish-throwing at Pike Place Market.
• Our Black Frasier discussion includes the one on 30 Rock as well as Phoebe Robinson podcast.
• Eirinie doesn’t think Choppin’ Broccoli is funny but Jake still does.
• Here’s Monica Bellucci in a latex dress from The Matrix movies. She wears more than one so here's a video of all Monica Bellucci content from those films, compiled by someone operating with one hand.
• Most of Jake & Beth’s research on the royal family was done by watching The Crown on Netflix. Jake also listened to the Prince Harry interview on Dax Sheppard’s podcast.
• Fast fashion retailers discussed include H&M, UNIQLO, Target and Old Navy. They’re all doing okay so we didn’t provide links.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Sideshow Bob * laugh tracks * the male gaze * David Hyde-Pierce * Seattle * Lilith Sternin * Batman: The Animated Series * Saturday Night Live * The Three Stooges * Shakira * air * Bruce Springsteen * Wigan kebab * The Truman Show * Double Stuf Oreos * capitalism * colonialism * war * Hank Williams, Jr. * consumer waste * Warner Bros large-graphic cartoon t-shirts * band t-shirts * Grocery Outlet * commandos * Tommy Bahama shirts

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. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
4. Prince - person
5. It’s-It - food
6. Cher - person
7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
8. Donald Duck - fictional character
9. Hank Williams - person
10. air - substance

BOTTOM TEN:

160. Jenny McCarthy - person
161. Jon Voight - person
162. Hank Williams, Jr - person
163. British Royal Family - institution
164. Steven Seagal - person
165. McR...

Phil & Jake are joined by old friend (and fellow Pomolita Junior High School survivor) Sarah Walsh to rank the 1983 movie Flashdance, middle school, and sandwiches 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 chat briefly about the 90s sitcom Sister, Sister, which leads to Phil wonder if there was a TV adaptation of the movie Sister Act, but he was probably thinking of Sister Kate. Nuns used to be much more common in popular culture; there are fewer than one-third as many in America now than there were in the 1960s.
• We discuss depictions of breakdancing in popular culture, including the 1984 movie Breakin’, which is perhaps what Phil was thinking of when talking about the theme of street dance vs. classical dance. We also mention the sequel Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, which came out later in the same year. Micheal Jackson moonwalking at the Grammys happened in 1983 (the year Flashdance came out).
• The song “What a Feeling” by Irene Cara was  produced by Father of Disco Giorgio Moroder. The music video for the song perfectly demonstrates the marriage of MTV and Hollywood in the 80s; see also “When Doves Cry” by Prince (from Purple Rain), “Footloose”, and pretty much any movie from the era produced by Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer.
• Phil wonders if no-nudity strip clubs were really a common thing in the 80s, or if they only existed in movies like Flashdance and Tango & Cash.  In Queens in the early 2000s there was a place like that  under the N Train in Astoria. 
• Dames is a 1934 movie that has some really amazing dance sequences but it's mostly done with editing.
• Phil notes that the music video for “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna is similar in imagery and overall style style to Flashdance. Could Madonna have played the lead in the film?
• In the climax of the movie Akeela and the Bee you don't see her spell out the final word “pulchritude" but you see the people in her life, including Angela Basset, Curtis Armstrong and Laurence Fishburne spell the word out. It's great. Phil wanted something like that at the end of Flashdance.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Soul II Soul * Beverly Hills Cop * Jennifer Beals * Adrian Lyne * 9½ Weeks * feminism * Jennifer Grey * Batman * Lee Ving * Pittsburgh * class struggle * Bruce Springsteen * Enter the Dragon * Trading Places * Jamie Lee Curtis * The Truman Show * Bon Jovi * shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts and furry cha-cha heels * the intro to “Back That Azz Up” * Jim Carrey * Pokemon * teenagers * pantsing * Jersey Shore * Monopoly * The Last Starfighter * capitalism * Daylight Saving Time * ice cream sandwiches * burritos * nail clippers * It’s-It * smell

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. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
4. Prince - person
5. It’s-It - food
6. Cher - person
7. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
8. Donald Duck - fictional character
9. Hank Williams - person
10. air - substance

BOTTOM TEN:

157. broken glass - substance
158. Jenny McCarthy - person
159. Jon Voight - person
160. Hank Williams, Jr - person
161. Steven Seagal - person
162. McRib - food
163. war - idea
164. cigarettes - drug
165. QAnon - idea
166. transphobia - idea

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

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