Is It Safe?

WE'RE STILL HERE! A thousand apologies for being absent for 6 weeks. It's definitely Govier's fault. The good news is did not pod fade. Our overdue return includes an awesome special guest. You may know him from his occasional emails to this very talk show. It's the sexy man himself: Sean! Govier apologizes for our disappearing act. Sean has a surreal moment. Mike has a lot of experience with laundry, including making a mess in Luke's suit pants. Sean reminisces about the old days when him and Govier lived in Colorado together playing racquetball. This show includes THE ultimate Luke hates Radiohead story. Steve joins in at the 10 minute mark after completing his Cinema 9 podcast appearance. Govier started a tackle football league during his senior year of high school and everybody on this episode played in that league which featured representation from multiple areas across metro Detroit. We have your emails! Finn Gerr is back and is claiming he was hacked by his cousin. Mr. Pink wrote an email which is a follow-up from our last episode about the Israeli brutality towards the Palestinians. Did Jimmy Carter get a raw deal? Luke says no. Steve's William Faulkner impression will have you in stitches! Dave writes the show with passion as he is dedicating his life to raising awareness about the wonderful magic that is Aesop Rock. Steve is not having this. How about those New Year's resolutions?! The emailers want to know. Govier did something at his last job that he has never done before in his entire life. Govier also made a huge mistake at a Big Boy back in 2001. Sid sent in an email feeling uneasy about the possibility that fantasy sports dollars could be going to alt-right causes. Sid also has questions for Luke about Cornel West and movies we've seen lately. Did you know that Malta has become the Delaware of the sea? Sid also has some great tidbits about the state of Wisconsin and Petey (Paul) Ryan. Nancy Reagan apparently made a very specific noise when she gave head, but she didn't do drugs while doing so. Each of the fellas shares a streaming movie or TV show they've seen recently and whether or not the creation sucked or not. Finally, Govier laiughs himself into a stupor with a legendary whiskey laugh meltdown that will at a minimum make you smile. We love you all! This talk show is not the same without you listening and emailing us your highly entertaining thoughts. We close the show with Only Entertainment by Bad Religion. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our Discord:

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I gotta get to bed! So just listen for now. The one email that came in was from Finn Gurrer who has a Star Wars tale to tell plus other random trash. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show is not the same without you listening and emailing us your highly entertaining thoughts. We close the show with So Long And Thanks For All The Fish by A Perfect Circle. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our Discord:

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Once again I'm short on time to write detailed show notes. One day we will return to the old ways of creating show notes around here. For now this is what you get. Devil's Night is no longer a thing in Detroit thanks to the legend in his own time Mayor Mike Duggan. Govier wanted to share a story about Israel and a tragic crime that took place while he was visiting there in 2014. What are your top three all-time best concerts? Govier and Steve reminisce about a classic NYE show in Chicago back in 2008 to see he band Hum. We got some Giimme A Break flashbacks. Shoutout Nell Carter! Matthew Perry is dead. We have to weigh in if we want to make it big. One thing is clear: if you drown in your own tub you're probably a former or current heavy drug user. We got your emails! Two thoughtful and hilarious emails from Finn Gurr & David. Thank you for the messages! Is Sly Stallone trying to compete with Arnold still with the release of his new documentary? Did you know that Markie Post was not just a hot looking working mom type on Night Court? She was a stellar beauty who we all miss greatly. There's more where this came from so dive in al the way to the end! Jeremy Irons and Tom Green reference await you! We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show is not the same without you listening and emailing us your highly entertaining thoughts. We close the show with Long Way Back From Hell by Danzig. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our Discord:

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I don't have enough time to write my usual full complement of show notes. This will have to do for now. It's a great show though! This episode is jamming! We got kink shaming, oil pipeline nightmares in the Baltic, random people from our adolescence, your awesome emails, In Living Color, songs with parenthetic inclusions, Golden Tee infatuation, foot fetishes, why Succession isn't a farce, powerful people can be morons, Luke tries to explain simulations, Govier's news feed reality, Israel talk, a gross sexual story involving some guy named Norm from our hometown, Govier's pills timeline and Texas Is The Reason. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little energy to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with The Magic Bullet Theory by Texas Is The Reason. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our new

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The Writer's Strike is over! We got a biting new email from Finn Gurrer who has Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes on the brain. Luke's down with the sickness. The Amazon FTC lawsuit has been kept hush hush. Lauren Boebert and Taylor Swift have successfully distracted the nation. Luke isn't impressed by Hunter Biden. There is some Russell Brand banter mixed in here too. Plus we have so much more! These notes are brief today because I gotta get to bed. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with Poor People by Alan Price. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our new

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The UAW is going on strike in metro Detroit! Bernie Sander's right hand woman Sadie is spreading the word about Bernie's appearance Friday in Detroit. Jordan Chariton from Status Coup News has been on the scene with the UAW as well. Is it an exciting time for change or is it just propaganda? Check out the latest episode of the American Prestige podcast featuring Spencer Ackerman from The Nation. The fellas break down the true reality of how the U.S. government has little interest in collaborating with China when it comes to climate change. It's Cold War II: The Sequel! Of course we have your emails to read! We got some good ones too! One from Dave focuses on having kids. He wants make the argument for the pros of creating humans. I'd like to write more, but I have to get back to work. This new job is quite time consuming. So just dive into this enjoyable episode and get your roll on. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with In A Big Country by Big Country. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our new

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Luke, Steve & I are all back together for this episode. However, I have too much going on at the moment so I don't have to time to write up a lovely synopsis about this week's episode. I guess you're just going to have to find out on your own. I've given you a hint with Fred Gwynne on the cover. I wish you the best of course. We all do. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with California Dreamer by Wolf Parade. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected] or check out our new Discord:

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Luke is up north so we got our friend Travis from 93-94 A Music Podcast & Cinema 9 to sub in with Steve & Govier. Steve is fighting through that hurricane that rolled through the Carolinas. He's doing fine as you will hear. Travis is fascinated by the celebrity death culture commonly referenced on the show. That reminds Govier to say farewell to Paul Ruebens. Govier was out on the west side of the state of Michigan and he loved it. He met a person named Ram. A non-binary person who educated Govier & his wife. Travis doesn't want to talk about politics or Mitch McConnell staring off into space. Why do people in Kentucky continuously vote for him? Travis teaches us that expressing to others that he dodged a bullet when it comes to having kids may be offensive to some. The kid chatter leads to a discovery that Chazz Palminteri is alive, but unfortunately resembles Skeletor. Find out which movie was hands down the selection for best performance by Chazz. Govier is interested in a Monster's Ball/Hurly Burly mashup of I don't feel loved and I want to feel good. We got emails! Travis wishes he had emailed the show so he could answer his own fare. Mr. Pink emails us about his challenges with his boss along with a curiosity about the illusion of choice. Steve has an offering from a conservative figure that has the Jacobin stamp of approval! His name is Sohrab Ahmari. Steve gets exposed to Old Town Road for the first time ever and he is not pleased about it. The fellas end up talking about frontin' and Govier is immediately drawn to MC Breed's Ain't No Future In Your Frontin'. Travis tests his baseball knowledge by trying to figure out who Camilo Doval is. Get pissed Dave! Bob Barker died and we have to get on the record on this one. Travis had already mourned him apparently. Our friend Jamie's restaurant is alive and well, which is no easy task. Govier ponders what would have happened if Lawrence Tierney took on the role of Joe Pistone in Donnie Brasco. Al Pacino face to face with Lawrence Tierney. Govier stumbles into doo doo and then Doo Doo Brown is unleashed upon the world! What is Doo Doo Brown and what is a Doo Doo Brown espresso? Find out! We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with The Biz by The Sea And Cake. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected]

One more Lawrence Tierney for you all to start the show. Then it's a tribute to 112's Peaches & Cream because it's our 112th episode. Get it!? Our Discord is now live! Email us for the link or just look up Is It Safe? Talk Show on Discord. Oliver Anthony's anthem about the sorry states of affairs in the USA has elicited a ton of intense feedback. Luke wonders if the reaction videos to the song are genuine or not. Luke makes a good point about Anthony being a the type of person who should be welcomed into the progressive, reform movement. Govier ponders the path of media scrutiny from the days of Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent to the current right-wing media distrust. How did we get here and how do we objectively identify authentic mainstream messaging for what it is? The unnatural disaster as Steve puts in in Hawaii has roots in settler colonialism masked by tourism. We got emails! Sean wants to know what happened to Steve when he was expelled from high school. Plus Sean wants to know about the biggest mistakes each of the fellas made during their high school days. Luke has no bad-ass stories about his rebellion outside of a tennis racquet issue, but Govier has a doozy from the final semester of his senior year. Joe emails with curiosity about the weirdest or most hilarious names any of the dudes have run into over the years. Steve has a couple of Only Fans accounts he wants to share with you all. Check out Sidewinder Ansible on SoundCloud! We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing us your thoughts. We close the show with 3rd Planet covered by Sidewinder Ansible. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected]

Steve has a new mic this time! For real! Check out his smooth up close vocals peppered throughout the show. Mike reminds Luke of a particular method of hygiene he relied on about 20 years ago. Luke was not pleased. There's also an It's Always Sunny-esque poop mystery that is unsolved to this day. That reminds Luke of the other time some friend of ours ran up a $1200 900 numbers phone bill in Govier's name. Do you remember the kids who were super athletes at the age of 13? They are lost to the ether now, but they existed. Any Sound Of Freedom fans here?! Learn the truth behind the ticket sales for this film and why churches love it. We have your emails as always! Mr. Pink leads us off and this unearths a ton of Lawrence Tierney bits from Reservoir Dogs that somehow we never tapped into despite Mr. Pink emailing the show for a long time now. We got a Duke Lion sighting this week too! Govier wonders how many Shipt or Insta-Cart workers are in your local grocery store at any moment of any random day. Travis emails about the AI talk and what weapons we would use to defend ourselves to the death. Christian pops in with an email and he is not pleased about the ASMR issues going down with our mics. Of course that's no longer a problem now. Where do you all stand on the coarse or offensive language used by fictional characters in movies? Is it authentic to the character or an opportunity for a screenwriter to use offensive language just because? We have some more alien and UAP talk at the end too thanks to Mr. Pink. We love you all! We are very pleased with our little world that we have formed together thanks to this show. This talk show has little substance to it without you listening and emailing. We close the show with Little Green Bag by the George Baker Selection. If any of our nonsense provokes your thoughts, please share them with us at [email protected]