The Complete Disaster Podcast

The Met Gala happened again, and apparently it was a less ostentatious affair this year. That doesn't mean it was free of dumb stuff. Far from it. It does mean that we spend more time talking about festering skin lesions than what the celebrities were wearing. But who doesn't, really?

Topics:

Movie production coming back to America

Met Gala

Capitol Records days

Dr. Pimple Popper

3000th episode party

Bob/Tom interview

Spoiler alert if you care about Song Sung Blue. If not, perhaps you care about Michael? A lot of people seem to. Personally I think it sounds like a bit of a downer. And speaking of downers, have you ever had a BAC in the upper teens and still managed to walk around? That can't be easy.

Topics:

Glyphosate in wheat

Tom and Kathryn saw Song Sung Blue and Michael

Kristyn in Salt Lake City for Dancing With the Stars

Spirit Airlines defunct

Britney Spears DUI

Monkey outbreak in Fort Lauderdale

Minnesota sports

Earthquake in Mexico

Crested and non-crested geckos

Kristyn's talking about it. Tim's talking about it. Even Craig Gass is interested once he learned who's in it. We're talking about Devil Wears Prada 2, a movie about how magazines and newspapers are floundering. And also fashion, probably.

Topics:

Grandparents' day

Nicknames for grandparents

Kristyn's late night flight

Devil Wears Prada 2

Anne Hathaway hall pass

Craig's Mat Becker intuition

Rodney Dangerfield meets Eddie Murphy

Will Smith's slap and its effects on comedy

Hecklers

Our 3000th episode is a celebration not just of the show, but the people who've been part of it. Whether they were only there for a while or have been here the whole time, we've got more people on the show today than we could possibly fit into the studio at any given time. We still remember when we made a big deal about 500. I wonder how far we can take this thing?

Guest list:

Kristyn Burtt

Melissa Barnard

Mike Gelfand

Mike Rasmussen

Mike Molina (yes, we had three mikes on in a row)

Don Shelby

Jimmy Francis

Timmy Lammers

Michael Bryant, Bradshaw and Bryant

Bob Sansevere

Paul "Meatsauce" Lambert

Winnie Schrader (AKA Cassie)

Tevin Pittman

After nearly 14 years as a podcast regular, Kristyn finally meets us in person for the first time. She'll be there for episode 3000 as well, but it felt kind of dumb to have her fly all the way here for a 20 minute segment on a special, so she gets a bonus episode. She's here for the whole time, too. Also with us are Ralph, all the way from LA, and Dave. We're certainly not having any shortage of well-wishes today.

The internet is back! Kind of! We might not have five nines uptime, but we do have the ability to hold an only slightly disastrous conversation about these politicians. You know the ones.

Topics:

Truck ramping off a Lamborghini

Appreciating where you came from

Dance schedules are crazy

Running Point season 2

Oprah makes another trillion dollars

These politicians

Anthony Edwards' baby mamas

The internet went down just before showtime, so instead we did what we could with what we had. The result? Pretty similar, but certainly different. This is just the most recent bad thing that's happened over the past few days.

Topics:

Correspondents' dinner shooting

Ethan gets sick

Pinning

All this hatred

There are certain movies they really shouldn't show on a plane. Nudity is, you'd think, a given. Marley and Me is also a given, but for a very different reason. Nobody wants a stuffy nose while at 10,000 feet. How about Michael? A little child abuse and psychological torment won't cause any problems for the audience.

Topics:

Song Sung Blue was sad

Smoking is coming back

Michael is polarizing

I Swear is also polarizing

Tom and Kathryn are gone. That means today's show is just Andy and Kristyn, right? Nope, Kristyn is gone too. Good thing she's got a husband who's no stranger to a microphone. It's also a good thing that Bob and Mike Bryant were there, because Raphael is a sports oddsmaker - among other things. Have you ever bet on how many people John Wick would kill? You might have used his odds.

Topics:

Nostalgia in entertainment

Running Point renewed

Darrell Sheets apparent suicide

Bill as Ricky Ricardo

Sports betting

Movie prop bets

What's it like to be a celebrity? Lots of money. Not a lot of peace. Everyone knowing you can be, ironically, very isolating. But one thing unites us all: we all get old. We also all pay lots of money for our license tabs. Except for Jesse. He gets two years' worth for $200.

Topics:

Dave Mason dies

Michael Jackson

The isolation of fame

Netflix might be buying Radford Studios

Aging fast vs slow

SPLC indictment

Tribalism

Ethan's car adventure