Every Damn Thing

Phil and Jake feed the List of Every Damn Thing's never-ending hunger by ranking handkerchiefs, the 1984 sci-fi movie The Last Starfighter, and the rap duo Run the Jewels.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected] (or get at us on Twitter and Instagram).

SHOW NOTES:

• At the beginning of the episode we discuss the recent news that California Governor Gavin Newsom attended a party where the state’s COVID-19 guidelines were flouted. We get most of the details right.
• When Jake mentioned neckerchiefs Phil thought he meant ascots. Neckerchiefs are scary because you could hook them on some exposed pipes and be choked out.
• We talk about stories similar to The Last Starfighter. Futureman is a time-travel comedy on Hulu (this trailer for the show includes the scene where they acknowledge The Last Starfighter). We also mention the book & movie Ready Player One, as well as Star Wars. We forget to mention Ender's Game, which is probably the best example of a fantasy about video games being useful.
• We make passing reference to Joseph Campbell and the monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey. It's an age-old narrative template used in The Last Starfighter and all of the similarly-premised stories that we discuss.
• While The Last Starfighter has yet to be remade as a Hollywood movie, it was adapted into an off-Broadway musical.
• Killer Mike has a lot to say and is worth listening to. Here he is giving a speech for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Here's his Netflix show, Killer Mike’s Trigger Warning. Here's a solo song of his about Ronald Reagan (amongst other things).
• When recording the podcast, we weren’t sure how many Run the Jewels albums there are. Jake guessed that the newest one was their fourth record, and he was right.
• Jake is in love with the “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” video, which features Lakeith Stanfield (here he is reading questions about himself) and Shea Wigham. If you’re into seeing people joyfully burn money, check out the “Ooh La La” video.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Kleenex * pocket squares * nail clippers * bandanas * penis mutilation * Larry Baer * Watchmen movie * Jesus * Ice Cube * Spice 1 * Atlanta’s Clermont Lounge * Cheech & Chong * Antoni Gaudi

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. Prince - person
3. Cher - person
4. Donald Duck - fictional character
5. Hank Williams - person
6. air - substance
7. Watchmen - comic book
8. onions - food
9. “Midnight Train to Georgia” - music
10. sex - idea
11. The Three Stooges - comedy act
12. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
13. dilapidated shacks - structures
14. shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels - idea
15. plants - life form
16. handkerchiefs - accessory
17. nail clippers - tool
18. rye bread - food
19. cubed ice - substance
20. Antoni Gaudi - architect
21. Run the Jewels - music group
22. land - substance
23. Charmander - fictional character
24. A-shirts (aka “wifebeaters”) - clothing
25. “Dancing Queen” - music
26. Watchmen - TV series
27. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
28. Cheech and Chong - comedy act
29. “Tulsa Time” - music
30. cold brew shandy - beverage
31. Jersey Shore - location
32. crows - animal
33. sea - substance
34. coffee - beverage
35. Whoppers - food
36. national debt - idea 
37. band t-shirts - clothing
38. Ice Cube - person
39. moist - word
40. lightning rounds - idea
41. generation ships - idea
42. sardines - animal
43. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
44. man-bun - hairstyle
45. toe shoes - clothing
46. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” - song
47. Watchmen - movie
48. blood - substance
49. Oreos - food
50. The Last Starfighter - movie
51. crushed ice - substance
52. pigeons - animal
53. Daylight Saving Time - idea
54. sports team jerseys - clothing
55. Josta - beverage 
56. Gambit - fictional character
57. Surge - beverage
58. Double Stuf Oreos - food
59. Jenny McCarthy - person
60. Hank Williams, Jr - person
61. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Graphic design by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake add a few verses to the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Ice Cube, dilapidated shacks, crushed ice and cubed ice.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Rap acts that we discuss include NWA, The Bomb Squad, Too $hort, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre and Scarface.
• We talk about a lot of songs by (or featuring) Ice Cube. “Express Yourself” (especially the clean version) is positive and uplifting. “I Ain’t the 1”, “Givin Up the Nappy Dugout” and “Nothin’ But A Word” are songs you don’t want to play for your mom. “Natural Born Killaz” is a prime example of 90s horrorcore rap. “Black Korea” doesn’t really make you feel good about anyone.
• It’s crazy that the movie Friday is over 25 years old! The sequels aren’t as good, largely because they lack Chris Tucker. The original Friday was adapted into an animated series in 2007; Jake watched the first episode and it was pretty fun (if occasionally offensive).
• Ice Cube didn’t endorse Trump, but lots of people (including Saturday Night Live) implied that he did.
• Neither Phil nor Jake had read A Contract With Black America before recording this episode, but Jake read it after-the-fact, and agrees with like 95% of it. It’s a noble project that deserves attention.
• Here’s a Billboard article that summarizes the recent controversy that led to Ice Cube being accused of anti-Semitism. Cube appears to have made an effort to amend things with the Jewish community by establishing a relationship with the Zionist Organization of America.
• Phil refers to a quote about going broke, noting that it might be from Groucho Marx. The quote is actually from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
• Legend has it that Phil once rode a bicycle across the United States. This is when he (allegedly) came upon George Washington Carver’s birthplace.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
wart removal * Straight Outta Compton (movie) * Paul Giamatti * Jerry Heller * the 2020 election * racism * misogyny * Hank Williams * Hank Williams Jr. * Cheech & Chong * Jessica Rabbit * farms * historic preservation * time travel * “Back That Azz Up” by Juvenile * Antoni Gaudi * The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. Prince - person
3. Cher - person
4. Donald Duck - fictional character
5. Hank Williams - person
6. air - substance
7. Watchmen - comic book
8. onions - food
9. “Midnight Train to Georgia” - music
10. sex - idea
11. The Three Stooges - comedy act
12. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
13. dilapidated shacks - structures
14. shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels - idea
15. plants - life form
16. nail clippers - tool
17. rye bread - food
18. cubed ice - substance
19. Antoni Gaudi - architect
20. land - substance
21. Charmander - fictional character
22. A-shirts (aka “wifebeaters”) - clothing
23. “Dancing Queen” - music
24. Watchmen - TV series
25. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
26. Cheech and Chong - comedy act
27. “Tulsa Time” - music
28. cold brew shandy - beverage
29. Jersey Shore - location
30. crows - animal
31. sea - substance
32. coffee - beverage
33. Whoppers - food
34. national debt - idea 
35. band t-shirts - clothing
36. Ice Cube - person
37. moist - word
38. lightning rounds - idea
39. generation ships - idea
40. sardines - animal
41. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
42. man-bun - hairstyle
43. toe shoes - clothing
44. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” - song
45. Watchmen - movie
46. blood - substance
47. Oreos - food
48. crushed ice - substance
49. pigeons - animal
50. Daylight Saving Time - idea
51. sports team jerseys - clothing
52. Josta - beverage 
53. Gambit - fictional character
54. Surge - beverage
55. Double Stuf Oreos - food
56. Jenny McCarthy - person
57. Hank Williams, Jr - person
58. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Graphic design by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake further sculpt the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Daylight Saving Time, The Three Stooges, and the turn-of-the-century Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• In our conversation, Jake refers to it as “Daylight Savings Time” but apparently the "s" at the end of “Saving” is wrong (though a pretty common mistake). 
• We incorrectly guess that Hawai’i recognizes DST. It doesn’t, and neither does Arizona. Indiana does recognize DST, but it wasn’t implemented statewide until 2006. In related news, a small portion of Indiana near Chicago is in the Central Time Zone, while the rest of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone.
• Phil’s leap year solution is to move New Years Day to March 1st. It solves some problems.
• Gambit’s staff is a telescoping bo staff, it doesn’t have some kind of pitchfork element as Phil thought.
• Shemp is the brother of Curly and Moe. Curly is the “hot” Stooge.
• Phil mistakenly refers to the Stooges' short “Disorder in the Court” as “Odor in the Court”.
• Mantan Moreland wasn’t a slapstick guy like The Three Stooges but he could have done it. Here he is at the Apollo with with Nipsey Russell.
• We briefly mention Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar (for her role in Gone With the Wind), but not by name.
• Phil and Jake watched We Want our Mummy in Phil's New York City apartment in the early 2000s.
• Here's one of the Stooges' eye-poking gags, and here's Curly spinning around on the floor.
• The works of Antoni Gaudi we discuss include Casa Batlló, the Sagrada Família and Park Güell.
• The famous New York City “master builder” whose name we can’t remember is city planner Robert Moses.
• We cite Moebius (who drew fantastic cityscapes), H.R. Giger (who created creepy aliens) and Salvador Dalí (who

Phil and Jake-- and guest panelist Jason-- expand the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Cher, Dolly Parton, and hair buns on men aka man-buns (aka top-knots).

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Allman And Woman was the name of the musical duo composed of Gregg Allman and Cher. The album they released was called Two The Hard Way.
• Cher wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Mask. She did, however, get nominated for both Silkwood (Best Supporting Actress) and Moonstruck (Best Actress, which she won). Mermaids didn’t make much of a splash.
• You can’t cover “Koko Joe” or any other song written by Sonny Bono (without paying his estate) until at least 2048, thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.  
• Songs / music videos by Cher that we discuss include “If I Could Turn Back Time” and “Half-Breed”.
• Phil brings up the common occurrence of white people saying they’re part Cherokee. Elizabeth Warren used to do this, and eventually apologized for it.
• Did 70's TV Wonder Woman have butt padding? It’s hotly debated.
• Cher apparently never appeared on The Muppet Show, but it looks like the Muppets made an appearance on The Cher Show (Kermit also appeared on The Dolly Show).
• We don’t discuss it in the podcast, but The Cher Show also featured this uplifting duet performance of Young Americans.
• Jake fails to recall the details during our conversation, but Cher had a goth-inspired product line in the 90s, which she sold through her mail-order catalogue, Sanctuary. Her current perfume is Eau De Couture.
• Steven Tyler’s feet. Google. It. You’ve been warned.
• We touch upon whether Hank Williams, Sr. won many awards. He died six years before the first Grammys, but still managed to win the 1989 Best Country Vocal Collaboration Grammy for “There’s A Tear In My Beer” (a posthumous team-up with Hank Jr.).
• Our information about Cher dancing with Prince comes from her Twitter feed.
• Dolly Parton's “Civil War restaurant” that we discuss was called the Dixie Stampede.
• Dolly songs talked about include “Dumb Blonde”, “Jolene”, “Coat of Many Colors”, “I Will Always Love You”, “9 to 5” and of course “Tassel Top”. Her movies discussed include Straight Talk and 9 to 5 (apparently the remake of the latter was canceled and we didn’t get the memo).
• Imagination Library is a great program that has contributed a lot to underserved communities. Unfortunately, it’s not available everywhere. 
• Dolly voiced her support for Black Lives Matter in an interview with Billboard, saying that while she didn't attended any marches, she supports the protest movement and its push for racial justice. "I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen," she told the magazine. "And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!"
• Here’s the Dolly pic that’s on Jason’s t-shirt.
• Man-buns discussed include those of Jason Mamoa, Chris Hemsworth, David Beckham and Bradley Cooper.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
ghosts * skeptical Scully on The X-Files *

Phil and Jake expand the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Cheech and Chong, the candy Whoppers, and shirtless men (wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts and furry cha-cha heels).

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Comedy bits by Cheech and Chong that we discuss include “Dave’s Not Here”, “Santa Claus & His Old Lady”, “Earache My Eye” (which is performed in a scene in Up In Smoke) and “Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces”.
• We mention some pretty offensive R. Crumb comics but don’t want to link to them.
• Phil references The Pirates of Penzance while confusing The Corsican Brothers for Yellowbeard. The Corsican Brothers is very loosely based on Alexander Dumas’ 1844 novella of the same name.
• The “Born In East LA” music video is fun, and is as relevant today as it was 35 years ago. It has a cameo by Elvira.
• Cheech Marin is, in fact, in Spy Kids.
• Phil thought that Cheech Marin had a Celebrity Jeopardy! record of some kind. It turns out he won a Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament in the 90s but later was beaten by Michael McKean. Mark McGrath never appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy!, but he is a three-time champion on VH1’s Rock & Roll Jeopardy!
• Tommy Chong was convicted in 2003 for drug paraphernalia distribution, and there’s a documentary film about it.
• We discuss the movies Friday and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, which owe a lot to the films of Cheech and Chong.
• Is there a malted milk coffee drink? Yes here’s one, it’s some kind of iced malted mocha. We’ll try it and let you know.
• The angel from Barbarella, Pygar, is played by the guy who starred in Danger: Diabolik.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Lovecraft Country TV show * Lovecraft Country Radio podcast * “Back That Azz Up” by Juvenile * “Tulsa Time” by Don Williams * Charmander (pictured here chasing his tail) * Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers * malted milkshakes * Take 5 candy bar * Jessica Rabbit as a drag queen * Angel from the X-Men

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince - person
2. Donald Duck - fictional character
3. Hank Williams, Sr - person
4. air - substance
5. Watchmen - comic book
6. onions - food
7. “Midnight Train to Georgia” - music
8. sex - idea
9. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
10. shirtless men wearing elaborate angel wings, gold lamé shorts & furry cha-cha heels - idea
11. plants - life form
12. nail clippers - tool
13. rye bread - food
14. land - substance
15. Charmander - fictional character
16. A-shirts (aka “wifebeaters”) - clothing
17. “Dancing Queen” - music
18. Watchmen - TV series
19. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
20. Cheech and Chong - comedy act
21. “Tulsa Time” - music
22. cold brew shandy - beverage
23. Jersey Shore - location
24. crows - animal
25. sea - substance
26. coffee - beverage
27. Whoppers - food
28. national debt - idea 
29. band t-shirts - clothing
30. moist - word
31. lightning rounds - idea
32. generation ships - idea
33. sardines - animal
34. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
35. toe shoes - clothing
36. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” - song
37. Watchmen - movie
38. blood - substance
39. Oreos - food
40. pigeons - animal
41. sports team jerseys - clothing
42. Josta - beverage 
43. Gambit - fictional character
44. Surge - beverage
45. Double Stuf Oreos - food
46. Jenny McCarthy - person
47. Hank Williams, Jr - person
48. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Graphic design by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake continue construction on the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking pigeons, A-shirts aka "wifebeaters", and the cold brew shandy (it's coffee and lemonade).

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Jake paid a kid in Sumatra to demonstrate water draining in opposite directions on either side of the equator, but it was a trick.
• Are pigeons and doves the same thing? Yes.
• Here’s a 2010 article about the kidnapping of New York City pigeons for sport killing in Pennsylvania.
• Phil mistakenly refers to the cartoon Dastadly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines as “Catch that Pigeon,” which is a common mistake.
• In the 18th & 19th Centuries, the passenger pigeon was the most common bird in North America, and there were flocks so big that they would black out the skies. We made them extinct by the beginning of the 20th Century.
• We discuss examples in popular culture of people wearing A-shirts, including Danny Aiello, Dennis Franz in Blow-Out, O-Dog (Larenz Tate) from Menace II Society, Marlon Brando from Streetcar Named Desire and Edward Norton from American History X. It looks like Doug from The State didn’t wear an A-shirt, but you can see how people might conflate the two things.
• Cotton’s slogan is “The touch, the feel of cotton, the fabric of our lives”.
• Jon from Time & Tide Coffee’s recipe for the cold brew shandy is: 70% Cold Brew + 30% Fresh Lemonade ( 25% lemon juice / 25% simple syrup / 50% water). For the record, Jake didn’t realize that Phil wasn’t CC’d in the email containing Jon’s recipe, which is why Phil had to resort to an online recipe.
• There are a lot of different names for the drink that combines espresso and sparkling water. Andytown Coffee Roasters in San Francisco makes an amazing version (called the Snowy Plover) that adds homemade whipped cream.
• The tea with cheese topping that Phil refers to is from Happy Lemon.
• Phil’s ex-landlord grew up in Hong Kong and used to drink coffee & tea mixed together.
• Why hasn’t someone made a movie about the partnership of Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin? You know Jim Carrey has considered it.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
rusty pigeons * Pixar’s Ratatouille * pigeons eating chicken at Popeye’s * homing pigeons * shooting buffalo from trains * crows * Nike pigeon shoes * Charmander * peanut butter & mustard sandwiches * peanut butter & pickle sandwiches * coffee * Jessica Rabbit * “Tulsa Time” by Don Williams

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince - person
2. Donald Duck - fictional character
3. Hank Williams, Sr - person
4. air - substance
5. Watchmen - comic book
6. onions - food
7. “Midnight Train to Georgia” - music
8. sex - idea
9. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
10. plants - life form
11. nail clippers - tool
12. rye bread - food
13. land - substance
14. Charmander - fictional character
15. A-shirts (aka “wifebeaters”) - clothing
16. “Dancing Queen” - music
17. Watchmen - TV series
18. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
19. “Tulsa Time” - music
20. cold brew shandy - beverage
21. Jersey Shore - location
22. crows - animal
23. sea - substance
24. coffee - beverage
25. national debt - idea
26. band t-shirts - clothing
27. moist - word
28. lightning rounds - idea
29. generation ships - idea
30. sardines - animal
31. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
32. toe shoes - clothing
33. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” - song
34. Watchmen - movie
35. blood - substance
36. Oreos - food
37. pigeons - animal
38. sports team jerseys - clothing
39. Josta - beverage 
40. Gambit - fictional character
41. Surge - beverage
42. Double Stuf Oreos - food
43. Jenny McCarthy - person
44. Hank Williams, Jr - person
45. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Graphic design by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake sell out with a special PG-rated episode to expand the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking plants, the Pokemon character Charmander (a cute orange lizard with a tail that’s on fire), and sex.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

ADVISORY: Contrary to claims made during our conversation, we decided to mark this episode with the "explicit content" flag because we discuss some things that might be inappropriate (or at least boring) for children.

SHOW NOTES:

• Jake mentions using an apple to make something that resembles a flute. It turns out you can’t use that to play music, but we did find this example of instruments made from veggies.
• The tea tree oil that's used in the toothpicks that Phil mentions is from Australia, but it’s not from the eucalyptus tree. He’s right, though, that the eucalyptus is a wildfire-fueling invasive species to California.
• We discuss the relationship between crows & scarecrows some more. Plus, Phil's fear of coat racks.
• There’s some controversy in the episode over whether yeast is a plant or an animal. It turns out it’s part of the fungus kingdom, which makes it neither plant nor animal. The same goes for mushrooms, which Jake mistakenly classifies as plants.
• We both love radio edits, and “Back That Thang Up” is right up there with the Geto Boys’ “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” radio edit.
• Phil’s son Teddy had a Pokemon novelization where the dialogue of the Pokemon is written out like: “Charmander” said Charmander. “Squirtle,” replied Squirtle, “squirtle squirtle”.
• Jessica Rabbit gets mentioned again. Phil almost convinced his wife that Jessica Rabbit was a cyclops.
• An email from a listener gets us talking about the Jersey Shore (not the MTV show) some more.
• While looking for examples of old fashioned one-piece bathing suits, the Keystone Cops, and old cartoons that use a dotted line from the eye to show where someone is looking, we found this spectacular picture of Coney Island by Gluyas Williams.
• Lazy googling by Phil revealed that Bob’s Burgers seems to be set in Ocean City, New Jersey.
• It looks like the “palace” (beyond which hemi-powered drones scream) in Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” is Palace Amusements, an indoor amusement center on the Asbury Park waterfront that operated for a century from 1888 to 1988. The famous mural of Tillie was on this building. Jake remembers seeing the decrepit Palace-- which had been shuttered for over a decade-- when he first visited Asbury Park in 2000. It was torn down by developers in 2004.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
the food chain * uses of wood * paper * bamboo * onions * Puritan shame * boardwalks 

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince - person
2. Donald Duck - fictional character
3. Hank Williams, Sr - person
4. air - element
5. Watchmen - comic book
6. onions - food
7. "Midnight Train to Georgia" - music
8. sex - idea
9. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
10. plants - life form
11. nail clippers - tool
12. rye bread - food
13. land - element
14. Charmander - fictional character
15. "Dancing Queen" - music
16. Watchmen - TV series
17. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
18. "Tulsa Time" - music
19. Jersey Shore - location
20. crows - animal
21. sea - element
22. coffee - beverage
23. national debt - idea 
24. band t-shirts - clothing
25. moist - word
26. lightning rounds - idea
27. generation ships - idea
28. sardines - animal
29. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
30. toe shoes - clothing
31. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" - music
32. Watchmen - movie
33. blood - substance
34. Oreos - food
35. sports team jerseys - clothing
36. Josta - beverage 
37. Gambit - fictional character
38. Surge - beverage
39. Double Stuf Oreos - food
40. Jenny McCarthy - person
41. Hank Williams, Jr - person
42. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Graphic design by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake add a little rhythm to the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking four songs: “Dancing Queen” by ABBA, “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight & the Pips, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” by Dionne Warwick, and “Tulsa Time” by Don Williams.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, let us know by sending an email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Cardi B is America’s current sweetheart, having taken the crown from Baby Yoda. America’s sweetheart should get a belt to wear around like a heavyweight champ.
• Other ABBA songs discussed include “Super Trouper” (which is about a type of spotlight), “Waterloo”, “Gimme Gimme Gimme” and “Lay All Your Love On Me”.
• Phil compares "Dancing Queen" to contemporary American Disco songs such as “Hot Stuff” by Diana Ross, “Funky Town” by Lips Inc., “Le Freak” by Chic, and “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer.
• It's hard to find the Blender Magazine article in which John McCain cited "Dancing Queen" as his favorite song, but here's an NPR story that refers to it.
• We discuss Country / Soul crossovers, including Whitney Houston's version of Dolly Parton's “I Will Always Love You”, as well as Ray Charles' Country recordings and the Williie Nelson cover of “Georgia On My Mind”.
• "I've Been Everywhere" was written by Geoff Mack and was originally about Australian places. There are many recordings of this song, including a version about places in England & Scotland, and of course Johnny Cash's 1996 U.S. version.
• Phil & Jake got the relationship between Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick wrong. Dionne was Whitney's cousin, not godmother. Whitney's actual godmother was none other than the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin. It's Aretha-- not Dionne-- who appears in the totally awesome, totally 80s “How Will I Know” video.
• Hal David-- the guy who wrote the lyrics to "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"-- was stationed near San Jose during World War II.
• We discuss some sports teams with questionable names, including the San Jose Earthquakes, the Colorado Avalanche (Jake mistakenly calls them a soccer team, but they play hockey), the Chicago Fire FC, the Miami Heat and the Houston Colt .45s (now the Astros).

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
QAnon * the 1970s * Max Martin * “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears * Lindsey Graham * Burt Bacharach * "Back That Azz Up" by Juvenile * the Watchmen movie * Oakies leaving the Dustbowl

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince - person
2. Donald Duck - fictional character
3. Hank Williams, Sr - person
4. air - element
5. Watchmen - comic book
6. onions - food
7. "Midnight Train to Georgia" - music
8. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
9. nail clippers - tool
10. rye bread - food
11. land - element
12. "Dancing Queen" - music
13. Watchmen - TV series
14. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
15. "Tulsa Time" - music
16. Jersey Shore - location
17. crows - animal
18. sea - element
19. coffee - beverage
20. national debt - idea 
21. band t-shirts - clothing
22. moist - word
23. lightning rounds - idea
24. generation ships - idea
25. sardines - animal
26. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
27. toe shoes - clothing
28. "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" - music
29. Watchmen - movie
30. blood - substance
31. Oreos - food
32. sports team jerseys - clothing
33. Josta - beverage 
34. Gambit - fictional character
35. Surge - beverage
36. Double Stuf Oreos - food
37. Jenny McCarthy - person
38. Hank Williams, Jr - person
39. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Podcast cover art by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

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Phil and Jake expand the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking the Jersey Shore (the geographic location, not the MTV show), toe shoes aka ergonomic minimalist footwear, and the word "moist". 

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, submit it by email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• We discuss Atlantic City, but we don't talk about Brian de Palma’s underrated Nicolas Cage / Gary Sinise thriller Snake Eyes at all! 
• Amity Island-- the fictional town from Jaws-- is in New York, not the Jersey Shore.
• Jon Bon Jovi is at least Jersey Shore-adjacent, and he cut his teeth performing in Shore bars.
• Bruce Springsteen is bona-fide Jersey Shore, and it runs throughout his body of work. Songs like "Atlantic City" and "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" have Shore locations there in the name. "Born to Run" references Asbury Park less overtly. While the Jersey shore does seem to have refineries (as well as nearby penitentiaries), "Born in the USA" could be about of lot of different places.
• We refer to the iconic Coney Island Steeplechase Funny Face character as just "Steeplechase". The character of Tillie, who appeared later in Asbury Park, is derived from the Steeplechase Funny Face.
• The forest where Phil thought he would die was the Pine Barrens, which is at least near the Jersey Shore.
• The Blair Witch Project takes place in Maryland, not New Jersey. Get Out takes place in Upstate New York, also not New Jersey.
• Jake first noticed the New Jersey ankle socks phenomenon while working Vans Warped Tour 2000 at The Stone Pony.
• People who go to the beach in NJ but are Phillies fans, according to a map of baseball fandom.
• Here's the classic ergonomic chair that we talk about. And here's the sunglasses that connect in the middle.
• Frederick Funston served for the U.S. Army during the Philippine-American war, and took over San Francisco under martial law after the 1906 earthquake and fire. He was a bad guy.
• Jake got his info about research studies regarding why people hate the word "moist" from this Mental Floss article.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
cigarettes * Steel Pier * Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk * “Under the Boardwalk” by The Drifters * Monopoly * New Jersey and Pennsylvania geography * Hurricane Sandy * Ocean Grove, NJ * Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash * Kevin Smith New Jersey movies * Jessica Rabbit * Vibram toe socks * Split toe Jika-tabi * Tommy Bahamas shirts * Soft Batch cookies * WAP

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince - person
2. Donald Duck - fictional character
3. Hank Williams, Sr - person
4. air - element
5. Watchmen - comic book
6. onions - food
7. intro to “Back That Azz Up” - music
8. nail clippers - tool
9. rye bread - food
10. land - element
11. Watchmen - TV series
12. Jessica Rabbit - fictional character
13. Jersey Shore - location
14. crows - animal
15. sea - element
16. coffee - beverage
17. national debt - idea 
18. band t-shirts - clothing
19. moist - word
20. lightning rounds - idea
21. generation ships - idea
22. sardines - animal
23. Tommy Bahama shirts - clothing
24. toe shoes - clothing
25. Watchmen - movie
26. blood - substance
27. Oreos - food
28. sports team jerseys - clothing
29. Josta - beverage 
30. Gambit - fictional character
31. Surge - beverage
32. Double Stuf Oreos - food
33. Jenny McCarthy - person
34. Hank Williams, Jr - person
35. QAnon - idea

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Podcast cover art by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]

Phil and Jake press forward on the march to complete the List of Every Damn Thing by ranking Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book Watchmen, the 2009 film adaptation of Watchmen directed by Zac Snyder, and the 2019 HBO Watchmen miniseries created by Damon Lindelof.

If you have something to add to the List of Every Damn Thing, submit it by email to [email protected]

SHOW NOTES:

• Here's a local article with some pictures of the day that smoke from wildfires blocked out the sun in Northern California.
• We don't really like the term "graphic novel" because we think it comes from a deep well of insecurity. This brief article outlines the history of the term, and agrees with us.
• The Watchmen comic is extremely popular and has never gone out of print (which keeps the intellectual property rights in the hands of DC / Warner Bros). It’s in some ways "The Comic" in that it’s the first comic many people read, which is probably not how it should be.
• There are lots of comics similar to Watchmen. As kids, we preferred Marvel's Squadron Supreme, which came out around the same time but was much more straightforward. In recent years Grant Morrison’s Pax Americana and Kieron Gillen’s Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt both grappled with Watchmen in fun ways.
• Alan Moore is a writer and magician. He’s had some losses but mostly wins (including an appearance on The Simpsons).
• The 2020 Emmys air on Sunday, September 20th. The HBO Watchmen series was nominated for 26 awards. Red carpet! Best dressed! Worst drurssed! Snubs! Flubs!
• Even the trailer for Citizen Kane was totally unconventional for its time.
• Speaking of TIME, their List of 100 Best Novels and Top Ten Graphic Novels are lesser authorities than the List of Every Damn Thing.
• Phil & Jake don’t get into it in the podcast, but both The Incredibles and the Watchmen movie are much more sympathetic to the Ayn Rand bullshit that Alan Moore was commenting on in the Watchmen comic.
• Jackie Earle Haley, who plays Rorschach in the Watchmen movie, was also very good in Little Children. We wish they’d made Watchmen in the 80s so that Stacey Keach could have played Eddie Blake. 
• Jake mentions the animated adaptation of the pirate comic-within-the-Watchmen comic, Tales of the Black Freighter, which was released in coordination with the Watchmen movie. The original Nite Owl's autobiography-- excerpts of which appear as back matter inthe comic-- was also adapted in the form of an old TV interview.
• The 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street massacre was covered beautifully recently on On the Media. Its resurgence in our collective memory is perhaps best credited to The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nahesi Coates.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
 2000 AD * Zap! Comix * Savage Sword of Conan * Ghost World by Daniel Clowes * Unforgiven * Charlie Brown * Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi * the Aquaman movie being about biracial identity * Jessica Rabbit

Below is the List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the most up-to-date list, go here):

1. Prince (person)
2. Donald Duck (fictional character)
3. Hank Williams (person)
4. air (element)
5. Watchmen (comic book)
6. onions (food)
7. intro to Back That Azz Up (music)
8. nail clippers (tool)
9. rye bread (food)
10. land (element)
11. Watchmen (TV show)
12. Jessica Rabbit (fictional character)
13. crows (animal)
14. sea (element)
15. coffee (beverage)
16. national debt (idea)
17. band t-shirts (clothing)
18. lightning rounds (idea)
19. generation ships (idea)
20. sardines (food)
21. Tommy Bahama shirts (clothing)
22. Watchmen (movie)
23. blood (substance)
24. Oreos (food)
25. sports team jerseys (clothing)
26. Josta (beverage)
27. Gambit (fictional character)
28. Surge (beverage)
29. Double Stuf Oreos (food)
30. Jenny McCarthy (person)
31. Hank Williams Jr. (person)
32. QAnon (idea)

The theme song for this episode is by Jade Puget.

Podcast cover art by Jason Mann.

Our website is everydamnthing.net

Email us at [email protected]