PopFury

MICHAELA PETRO and MALLORY NEES sweat through a hot, hot, hot episode of PopFury! They talk about animal attacks, Mallory's failing body, Tom Hiddleston, onstage nudity and the most romantic things they've done for a significant other!

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:00 Mallory is too cheap to use air conditioning. Michaela is too worried about Beijing to use air conditioning.

"Gurl...I wanna knock the bottom out of that."

4:20 They share the best and worst sex line a guy has tried to use on them.

6:30 A lemur attacked a child in Colorado. Mallory has had her own run-ins with a pigeon and mouse recently.

14:45 Mallory is an old lady who brings baked goods in for her coworkers and has a body that's falling apart.

20:45 Michaela is upset Tom Hiddleston is dating America's Sweetheart, Taylor Swift

23:35 Tinder now has a group date option.

"Sammy always keeps his bra on!"

25:30 Michaela's theater is currently itinerant. We discuss onstage nudity.

30:30 The Playboy model who posted a naked gym patron online has a retained a lawyer to deal with the fallout.

33:10 Mallory tied for the lead in her Bachelorette league. The ladies share the most romantic thing they've done or had done for them.

42:15 Outro

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DAN JESSUP and his freedom beard liberate the PopFury Podcast! Dan chats about his South America travels, leaving the corporate world to focus on the creative arts, the cool projects his friends are doing and Microsoft's "cool" e-mail to interns.

This episode's music is provided by Laurie Jane and the 45s.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 "Talking" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

1:00 Dan is sporting a "freedom beard." He took a leave of absence from Groupon and traveled South America for 6 weeks.

6:05 "The Leaving" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

6:50 He left Groupon and is focusing on his creative career for now.

12:00 "Voodoo Charm" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

12:30 Dan apparently only consumes media produced by friends and family...like his sister's blues album, "Laurie Jane and the 45s"; his childhood friend's book "Your Favorite Band is Killing Me" or his comedy pal's stand up album "For Amusement Only" 

21:45 "One Less Lonely Night" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

22:05 Sammy thinks Dan's friends recommended the book "What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding" so Dan would hook up on vacations 

26:55 Dan ruminates on being more calculated person in the creative arts, returning to performing, and voice work he's done.

31:50 Sammy learns about EQ vs IQ in the workplace.

35:35 "Buck" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

36:20 Microsoft sent a "cool" email to its interns. Sammy uses a very contemporary "cool" reference un-ironically.

41:15 Outro, "Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave" by Laurie Jane and the 45s

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ALEX HONNET and MICHAEL BRUNLIEB bring intelligence, humor and beards to the PopFury Podcast! They talk about weddings, travelling with significant others, avoiding confrontations, the Tetris movie trilogy and just the first 100 pages of a book on debt.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

"Whenever I'm vacation that's almost all I want to do is just go play frisbee outdoors."

1:15 Alex was just in Old Mexico for a wedding. Mike was just in New Mexico for a wedding. Sammy wonders if they travel well with their girlfriends.

8:40 Alex is going to a wedding in NYC, which is the second of the EIGHT weddings he's attending this year!

12:35 Alex and Mike describe how they cope with the "When are you getting married?" question. They describe their arguing techniques.

"I still have no graceful way of dealing with it besides looking distraught."

19:15 An Illinois gun shop holding a raffle for the survivors of the Orlando massacre...and the grand prize is an assault weapon.Mike and Alex are confrontation-averse. Mike got yelled at by an old hippie lady on a bike.

29:50 Tetris the game is being made into a trilogy of movies. Yes, a TRILOGY.

33 35 Alex recently forgot to re-sign his lease. No biggie. Also, Mike and Alex's healthcare is suspect at best.

37:45 Mike is reading a book about debt called DEBT. Well, at least the first 100 pages.

"I don't know why you guys are delighting in this...this is a major, personal shortcoming for me."

43:15 Parts of a body washed up near the site of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. We wonder if the world is falling apart.

47:30 Mike shares the tale of the Austrian exchange student.

51:15 Outro

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TIM DE LA MOTTE returns for one last go 'round before moving to the city of pretty, Los Angeles. We talk about his move, having roommates as a 30-year-old, making new friends, Ready Player One, comfort food and, naturally, woods porn.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

"The way I do things is I pile everything up at the top of a mountain until the top of the mountain can't hold it anymore and then everything falls down on me."

1:00 Tim finally has a set date for moving to L.A. As "mature" men, we have strong feelings about having roommates again. Tim has a romantic ideal of what living in California will be like. He breaks down the process of saying goodbye, packing for the move away and making new friends. Sammy wonders if he'd be embarrassed to come back if it doesn't work out.

28:40 Please listen to our podcast pals at Rabbit Hole and Remake.

"It's like the guys of Saved by the Bell were given the task of writing a book about nerd-dom. It's so friggin' bad!"

30:40  Tim hates, Hates, HATES READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline. 

37:35 Tim describes his perfect bar.

41:40 Burger King will be offering deep fried Mac N' Cheese sticks encrusted in Cheetos.

"My entire diet is comfort food"

45:30 The AspireAssist Device is pump and hose combo that drains food directly from your stomach after eating. Tim, apparently, will be liked by ladies in LA.

52:35 Men are less likely to use a condom the more beautiful their partner is. Tim buys condoms on the internet and is too uncomfortable to into a sex shop.

58:40 A elementary school graduation DVD accidentally had porn on it. We both first saw nudity from found "woods porn"

1:04:00 Tim gives parting advice to performers in Chicago.

1:05:00 Outro

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ABBY WISCOMB and PHOEBE PERRY bring bowl cuts and flip phones to the PopFury Podcast! They talk about their new digs, long distance relationships, old blogs Sammy found, getting in trouble and Abby's issues with Siri.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:00  Both Abby and Phoebe have moved into new places. Abby likes to be alone and Phoebe lives with 3 other people that she's never really talked to.

"We were also like, 'Let's be in an open relationship' -- but we were 21 and didn't know what that meant."

4:00  Phoebe has been dating her boyfriend for 3 years, most of which was long distance. Abby is both a relationship and party ghoster.

8:15 Everybody thinks Abby is Jewish. 

"Just be because I'm not Jewish doesn't mean I can't be Jew-ish."

11:15 Sammy found Abby's old blog, Letters to Me, which offered advice to to her past self. 

15:00 Phoebe was once featured in her (very small) college's fashion blog.   Abby's hair doesn't grow.

"This is all a humble brag. I remember writing this and being like, 'Oh, I'm so cool.'"

19:15 The ladies reflect on their college years. Abby belonged to an "upper-middle tier sorority" and got in trouble once.

24:10 An 11-year-old daughter threatened to kill her mother with a butcher knife over being grounded. Phoebe got a butt (B-U-T-T) in the yearbook.

26:20 Abby can't lie. Phoebe lies all the time. Abby grills Phoebe about her dates with Ian.

"No matter how hard I try, Siri will always be a better girl than me."

33:30 Abby has personal issues with iPhone's Siri. She also thinks her search history is psychopathic.

35:50 Google thanked a polite older woman for using their service. Sammy found a video of Abby as a kid recreating a commercial.

40:15 Abby and Phoebe talk about their performance goals. Abby wants to be famous...but not really.

47:30 Outro

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(Programming Note: Ryan Dolan wanted not only to guest on PopFury but to interview Sammy as well. In the spirit of Yes And, Sammy turned the entire podcast over to Ryan to do with as he wanted...and Ryan proudly presents, The GOAT Show)

 

 

The Greatest of All Time Podcast Hosts, RYAN DOLAN, interviews the Greatest of All Time Guests, SAMMY TAMIMI, on the Greatest of All Time Podcasts, The GOAT Show!

THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME PODCAST HOST QUOTES:

"Sammy, why did you waste your life on improv?"

"We are the tellers of secrets. So you told no secrets, is that why your life is a failure?"

"I've never cried on a Chicago bus before, let alone the 36 bus."

"Anyway, so back to your failure of an improv life..."

"We'll get to your career trajectory here in a little bit and see if you have a future or if maybe you need to move to a small town in Utah..."

"If you're not self-loathing and wondering about your existential place in this world...I don't think you have the depth to be an artist."

"It's a great book, it'll make you feel better about yourself reading about all these people who committed suicide."

"So when was the first time you were thrown off a team at iO?"

"A lot of big fat guys have succeeded in improv. What happened?"

"You have done 150 of these podcasts. Why PopFury, why pop culture and why Chicago improvisors? I mean, seriously, why the last one?"

 

GREATEST OF ALL TIME SHOW NOTES, IMAGES AND LINKS:

Greatest of All Time Hosts, Ryan Dolan

Full quote from Ray Carney, a Boston University film teacher, in an article in MOVIEMAKER magazine called "The Path of the Artist." He wrote:

"Never forget that to be an artist, above everything else, to be a truth-teller, one of the few left in a culture seized in a death grip by media-induced fictions and journalistic clichés. You speak secrets no one else dares to whisper. You exist to share your most private feelings and personal observations with others. They are where truth lies. Don't be afraid of being too personal, too private. Your most secret fears, your private doubts and uncertainties are everyone's … My teachers told me that filmmaking was about telling gripping stories. It took me years to realize that that's not an ambitious enough goal. You can do much more than that. You can give viewers new eyes and ears. You can change their states of awareness so that they see, hear, care, and feel differently. Your work exists to express things too delicate, too fluttering, too multivalent to be said in any other way. You're doing something much more radical than telling a story. You're rewiring people's nervous systems. You're doing brain surgery. Art gives us more than new facts and ideas; it gives us new powers of perception. … You speak the most subtle language ever created—the language of art—a form of expression more nuanced than verbal language, more complex than a theorem in physics, truer than anything in the newspaper."

 

Website for the mercilessly maligned Chicago City Limits in NYC

 

Second City Detroit (Downtown)

 

iO Harold schedule from July 2000 iO Harold roster from July 2000...you found out if you made a team or were cut when you got a physical copy of the schedule.

 

A chintzy poster for the Garbage Hounds Harold team

Ryan recommended Kay Redfield Jamison's book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

Archived Second City interview with the improv ensemble KOKO 

Sammy refers to Abby Sher's book Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things)

Please check the podcasts of Mark Colomb. You can find the archive of Poor Choices Podcasts HERE and his most recent show, An Hour With Your Ex, HERE.

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Second City's DANIEL STRAUSS (@DanielStrauss) returns for the seventh, and perhaps final, time to the PopFury Podcast. He talks about his decision to leave Second City, moving to Los Angeles, his time as a Pothole Dummy, commercials he wouldn't do, the Passion of the Christ sequel and gives some parting advice to Chicago performers!

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro, with a recap of Daniel's previous PopFury appearances

2:05 Daniel is leaving Second City and moving to Los Angeles

7:45 He was the Pothole Dummy. Daniel shares his experiences with ride-along celebs Michelle Williams and Zach Miller. 

13:00 Sammy wonders if Sophie will do commercials.

14:20 Daniel has a Twitter account that explains gifs named, appropriately, @gifsexplained

15:30 Daniel's pledge breaks for PBS' Jewish Journey still airs. Sammy brings up his Chef Boyardee gig. Daniel details what commercial gigs he would turn down.

"I wish him nothing but the absolute worst. He's a complete piece of shit...and he can kiss my fat fucking ass."

20:40 Mel Gibson is working the sequel to Passion of the Christ 2

23:40 A bar fight started over a fart. Daniel immediately backs down to avoid fights (unlike Chelsea Devantez)

26:50 Police in Jeff Murdoch's home town held an 11-hour standoff...with an empty home. Daniel knows he'd be a horrible hostage negotiator.

30:10 A cowboy roped a bike thief. Daniel explains the considerations when moving with a kid. He slings unfounded allegations that this is his last PopFury podcast.

"Having a kid is the best thing I've ever did"

34:00 Daniel shares his parting advice for performers. Sammy decides SPLIT is the show that got Daniel into Second City.

36:40 Outro

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LISA BURTON (@LisaBurton) on brings her head shot and resume to her PopFury callback as we talk about getting engaged, getting engaged again, getting engaged yet again, getting married, and getting divorced. We also chatter about a Trump-supporter dating website, Adult Breastfeeding Relationships and dealing with other people's loud sex.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

0:40 Lisa has a callback audition for the musical improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy immediately after the podcast. Sammy reads her blog post from her last audition for BWC… from 7 years ago. 

7:45 Sammy found Lisa's old wedding website. She is an open book about her marriage and divorce.

"We had laughs, we bought coffees, and took a selfie being like, 'It's our last day together!'"

11:45 Lisa details the process of getting amicably divorced. She recommends Judge Aunt Renee Goldfarb and 27th floor of the Daley Center for a pleasant divorce.

19:00 She has been engaged 3 times by age 29. A surprised Sammy has so many questions about her previous engagements.

25:30 Lisa's boyfriend, Tim Dunn, just moved in with her. She explains what you should talk about before moving in together.

"They have to love me...but they don't have to like me--that's 100% how families work."

34:40 Sammy wonders how Lisa's friends & family will react if she gets engaged again. She gives advice on how to talk to acquaintances about their divorce.

45:20 Please listen to our podcast friends at Rabbit Hole and Talking Games.

46:20 Lisa is very excited about the armor females (don't) wear in video games, new Trump-supporter dating site and Adult Breastfeeding Relationships

52:55 A man started because his neighbors were having loud sex. Lisa and Sammy have opposite reactions on hearing other people having sex.

58:30 Being upfront about a woman's divorce may be sexy.

1:00.15 Outro

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Sarpy County People's Choice Award nominees for "Best Podcast Guests Who Are Getting Married" EDDIE MUJICA (@mooheekah) and BEX MARSH (@MissBexMarsh) walk down the aisle and into Sammy's heart as we talk about Bex's resting bitch face, the Sarpy County People's Choice Awards, bridal showers, artistic creativity and who will teach their child the jump shot.

Eddie and Bex previously appeared on Episode 92.

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intros. LEGIT intros. SUCH LEGIT INTROS. (Well, at least for Bex.)

1:20 Sammy thinks Bex was cast in a web series because of her resting bitch face. We compare the feedback styles we respond to. Bex has problems hiding emotion on her face.

"Bex, we can see everything on your face...Get it to neutral!"

7:35 Eddie and Bex, who live in Los Angeles, are getting married in Chicago. Using the 2015 Sarpy County's People's Choice Awards, Sammy argues they should have got married in Bellevue, Nebraska.

14:50 Bex explains what a Bridal Shower is. They played "fun games" and she received lingerie that basically was for Eddie's enjoyment. The fellas ponder what a Groom Shower would be like.

"They thought about my body sooo much for this moment."

24:05 Eddie and Bex didn't get to use the scanning gun for their wedding registry.

26:25 They both are fans of the book BIG MAGIC which about the creative process.

31:35 Bex now has an iPhone, which is a boon as she technologically incompetent. Eddie is now lactose intolerant, which is a bane because he likes ice cream and pizza. He's getting old you guys.

"Guys in their 20s are carrying condoms. Eddie's got Lactaid."

39:30 They're already thinking about how to raise a kid...specifically who will teach them the jump shot. Sammy wonders how their kid would rebel against them.

44:35 Bex and Eddie share how different the L.A. vibe is and their frightening/confusing near-car-accident experience.

51:25 Outro

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STEPHEN WINCHELL and ERICA REID rock n' roll and shimmy n' shake their way onto the PopFury podcast. They talk about the top 20 wedding reception songs, all the other Erica Reids in the world, Stephen's love of Motern Media, a chicken named Strawberry, the Ruth Bader Ginsberg Preying Mantis and Erica's surgery for hyperhidrosis (AKA "the Reid")!

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:05 Erica is celebrating her 10-year wedding anniversary this summer. She insists she never fights with her husband. They spent a previous anniversary walking around Windsor, Canada. Stephen recalls his own romantic gestures.

"Oh you walked here? Do you want me to give you a ride back to your Bed & Breakfast?"

7:35 Sammy runs down the top 20 wedding reception dance songs. Erica is the Eddie Haskell of wedding officiants. Stephen shares what songs he'd play at his wedding.

13:50 We discuss music that doesn't age well. Erica talks about her experiences with She's Crafty, a Beastie Boys cover band.

17:45 The business model of Motern Media incenses Sammy.

"I know a lot about the other Erica Reids in the world because I get all of their e-mail…"

22:30 Sammy found the wrong Erica Reid online. Erica often gets all the other Ericas' e-mails!

27:15 Give a listen to our friends at Remake the Podcast and Rabbit Hole the podcast.

28:35 A chicken named Strawberry watched animal videos while in recovery from surgery. Erica's neighbor makes Catnip videos. We share what gets us through our own recovery own process.

"OH. MY. GOD. That is the best thing I've ever heard. A chicken?! Watching TV?!?! COME ON!"

33:00 Ruth Bader Ginsburg preying mantis. What bugs would be named after us?

36:40  A Gravedigger competition leads Erica to talk about a Monster Truck competition. Sammy thinks Erica incepts her husband's romantic gestures.

44:45 Erica had a surgery to help with her hyperhidrosis. In the olden days, they would have used a big book to fix Stephen's condition.

55:20 Outro

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