[00:00:20] Speaker A: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out to the Linbrook Town Hall Cafetorium. Cafegimatorium. Apologies. We appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to come here and exercise your rights as taxpayers to watch other people from town compete for. And you all know this. This is the big prize that we're all here for. A one week contract as the receptionist for the mayor. That's right. Public service.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Yes, and a bagel.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Yes, and one bagel.
Hold on, I'm getting word. The bagel.
Come on. Paul, did you eat the bagel?
[00:01:03] Speaker C: I'm sorry I ate the bagel. I was hungry.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: God damn it.
[00:01:08] Speaker C: Guys, I just. It was out. There was cream cheese.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: It was already cream cheese.
Who?
[00:01:15] Speaker C: Cream cheese?
[00:01:16] Speaker A: The bagel.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: You are lucky we're in the cafeterium.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Raise your hand if you cream cheese the bagel right now.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: I did it. It was me. It was Simon. I saw the cream cheese. I saw the bagel, and I was like, cream cheese goes on the bagel. And I did it myself.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Simon, this is unfortunately the last time that you are insubordinate to your fellow cafegematorium workers. You are the guy who hands out the milk.
We've had this conversation before because, as you know, I know. I'm in charge of the lunchline here at the cafegymatorium at Town Hall.
[00:01:54] Speaker C: Yeah. So the thing is, I get it. You're right. You're not wrong. But when I see a problem, I feel like you got to fix it. I feel like you should give me points for the go to itiveness.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: And I do give you points.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Not real points. Not real points in the competition. No, not at all. Not for sure.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Real points in our heart.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Real points in our heart.
[00:02:13] Speaker C: What I'd really like, beyond the points in your heart, I would really like a raise.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: No.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: I'm currently at minimum wage.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: No.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Alex, by the way, has been chiming in on this conversation from the side of the wings.
He's just shouting, yes. They got Buffalo.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: And this one.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: I am getting word that we have replaced the bagel with a special delivery from our partners at Buffalo Wild Wing. That's right. Another singular based establishment here in town.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: Buff wing. Buff wing.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Buff wing.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Buff wing. Once again, just, like, dunk this donut. It is one per year.
You come in, you get one, and that's it till next time.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: So, everyone give it up for the mayor for sacrificing his one wing for this competition. So, to recap, we are playing for today, and the rules of this are Town hall style. You may come up to the mic at any time and announce your intention of competing in the tournament. So that will determine how many rounds we play? Of course, at any.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Someone. If someone stands undefeated and there are no extra challengers, they are declared the winner right then and there.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Yep. So we are playing for a wing. What sauce did you get, Alex?
[00:03:44] Speaker B: It's medium. It's like a medium buffalo.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: Medium buffalo. Okay, that's good. We're playing for a medium buffalo wing. We're playing for a one week guaranteed contract as the receptionist in Town Hall. Mike, what are you going to throw in?
[00:03:57] Speaker C: What.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: Mike, what are you going to throw in for the competition?
[00:04:01] Speaker C: We need a.
I was just going to win the competition.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: What the fuck?
Let me send the microphone back up into the rafters and I'll be right back, folks. Mike, what are you. You're competing in the.
[00:04:19] Speaker C: I've been trying. I do it. I've been training so much. It's going to be great.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah, but, you know, you have to be the.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: I'm going to win this.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: Wait, Alex, you're in the competition, too?
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Of course.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Both of you are competing to be your own receptionist.
[00:04:34] Speaker C: I'm competing for the Buffalo Wing.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: Oh, you've already used yours?
[00:04:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I used mine January 1. That was an oversight on my part.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Twelve, 1. January 1.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: Listen, how can I.
Your four glasses of champagne. Deep. You need a little buff, but, yeah, I guess.
I got a $12 Boston market gift card. We could do that.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Okay.
And Alex, you're competing to get your own wing back.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Well, it's not just the wing.
I want to go a week without a receptionist fucking something up. So. Receptionists can't screw something up if there isn't one there.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:05:17] Speaker C: I really think that the receptionist is the only reliable worker that we have in Limbrook Town Hall.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: I think we won't know that until we don't have one.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: They're the only ones who have a predefined job from week to week, it seems.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: I mean, so there's a level of organizational instability that they're not affected by.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: Well, Alex ran on the position of drain the swamp, and so nobody can get comfortable.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: And once we did that, once we pulled the plug out of Lynbrook Swamp, there wasn't much else for us to do. So everyone sort of had the musical chairs around the old town hall.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: New weekly job. New weekly job. Yeah.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: There is another rule to this competition, by the way.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: When did that other mic come down from the ceiling?
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Do you just have one, like, on your person?
[00:06:05] Speaker A: How many?
[00:06:06] Speaker B: It just kept it in my jacket. And that is that you.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: Let's flash back real quick to when we were mid talking to each other. Alex was standing there with a long mic cable hanging down from the ceiling tucked into his jacket, and we didn't notice. Cut back. Give me.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: The rule of this competition is you not only have to win your game of table tennis, but you also must display your opinions on this week's episode, which is season three, Episode 13, Ping Pong, which is all about beginning to remember the days when Ray played against his father when they were young. When he was young. And Ray was so happy that he finally beat Frank at the game. However did Frank let him win? That's the big question. And it's the one that you're going to be forced to talk about while swinging your own paddle. An activity that is.
[00:06:59] Speaker C: Paddles.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Yeah, same.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Oh, good. The BDSM club is in tonight. Yes. Got the Flyers. I did a really direct mail campaign where I decided who exactly to invite. Who's.
[00:07:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, they're coming up to the mic. Here we go. Okay, so we got three dominatros and two dominatrices and of course, 52 gimps.
[00:07:23] Speaker C: We're the Bob Dylan, Sarah and Michelle Club, and we're here to represent all things in the dominatro community. We're just happy to be here. We can't wait to be the secretary. This is going to be great.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: That's Bob and Dylan. Not Bob dYlan.
[00:07:42] Speaker C: That's correct. Bob Comma Dylan.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: So sorry, what were those names? Bob Dylan, Sarah Michelle. Oh, is Geller. Geller sick?
[00:07:52] Speaker C: Geller is sick.
[00:07:52] Speaker A: That's okay.
Yeah, we see that. While Sarah was speaking into the microphone, she was standing on a human footstool.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: We got our own. You also see that they are holding comically large paddles.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: I'm going to pull my mic back down from the ceiling and finish introducing the competition.
[00:08:14] Speaker C: Oh, sorry. Yeah, we'll go. We're just excited.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: And by the way, everyone needs to use regulation paddles. We've got plenty of paddles up here.
[00:08:24] Speaker C: Oh, shit.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Yes. Cricket bat is going to need to go. Put it in the cricket bat. Check.
What else is what? Ors. I see. Kayak club. Put the oars away.
[00:08:38] Speaker C: This is targeting. This is rigged.
[00:08:41] Speaker B: And the tennis team. Wrong size, but we appreciate the initiative.
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Oh, my God. It's the Williams sisters. But they're leaving. That's unfortunate. Yes.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: Oh, well, you see that my chances.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: Just went up by a million.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: The Williams sisters came here to cheat at Ping Pong.
And then when they got called out, they left. Oh, look, King Richard with the shopping cart going by outside the window. Oh, wait. Shit. The slap will. Mr. Smith, you need to use a paddle.
[00:09:16] Speaker C: I was just going to use my hands. I was just going to use my.
Listen, I've been. I've been practicing all the time. I got the hand eye. I got the hand eye. I don't get the paddle eye, so I'll just be smacking the balls. That's it.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: We see Chris Rock get up from the back row and leave.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Can't blame him.
[00:09:33] Speaker C: Okay, we are hemorrhaging guests tonight.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: Everybody lost about 30% of the crowd there for calling out. You got to use regulation World Series of Ping pong paddles. Okay, folks, we've got plenty up here for all of. Oh, my God. We've got plenty up here for all of you. So we're going to take everyone one at a time. By the way, Alex, I don't know if you said this. This is everybody loves everybody loves Raymond. It is.
[00:10:01] Speaker B: This is a podcast where we talk about everybody loves Raymond. We're doing something special this week, bringing you Both our usual banter of episodic adventures with Ray and as well as a competition of a similar game in order to determine which of all of the people in town is the best at Ping Pong.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Succinct?
Yes, absolutely, Mr. Mayor. So just to recap our competitors, so far we've got Bob Dylan, Sarah Michelle, not Geller. We've got the mayor himself competing to be his own receptionist. And for a win, and Mike G. Who? What's your job again, Mike?
[00:10:44] Speaker C: Let's fucking go.
I'm the ping pong champion of Limbrook right here.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Taking another week off, I see.
[00:10:50] Speaker C: Yeah, this is a real job.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: I've been working hard.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: You haven't done anything for two weeks. Last week you were shopping for a hot tub, and this week you're just playing ping pong.
[00:11:04] Speaker C: That was two weeks ago that I was shopping for the hot tub.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Sorry.
[00:11:08] Speaker C: And now I will tell you what, you should pay attention. You should come by my house. You'll see. The only thing I've been doing all week has been hitting my ping pong against the wall off of my kitchen table, over and over and over.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: It's not news to me that you spent the weekend hitting your ping pong against the wall.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Yes, the very thin walls here, by the way.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: And no, I'm not coming over to you. I will never come over to your house. Stop inviting me.
[00:11:37] Speaker C: It's a great time. That's all I'm saying.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: It's not bad. I mean, he's got a couch.
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: You think it's cool, right, Bob? Bob gives the thumbs up in the audience.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Oh, you know, Bob, as a professional, from a. What am I trying to. He's a.
[00:11:55] Speaker C: We were. We were competitors for a while. And now. Now that I'm out of the Dom.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Business, you're going to be competitors again, though, because guess what, folks, our first round is decided. And by the way, just to recap, if you come up to the mic at any time, you may be a competitor in this tournament, but coming up to the mic right now, Mike G. That is, is Bob the Dominatro. Give it up for Bob, folks.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: Hello, everybody.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: The mayor is going to do the coin toss, and that will decide who serves. All right?
[00:12:29] Speaker B: Excellent. First of all, Bob, big fan. I really love Your dive into children's literature, Dominatro. Row, row your boat.
[00:12:40] Speaker C: You're a fan. That's great. Yeah, I worked hard on that one. Yeah.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: So for that. Sorry, Mike, but we'll call it for Bob. Heads or tails?
[00:12:53] Speaker C: For me, always tails.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: Great.
[00:12:58] Speaker C: You know, Bob, I'm going to be honest with you. Standing right here, you don't. Not as big a fan of you anymore. Well, you can fuck yourself.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: I flip that coin.
[00:13:09] Speaker A: As Alex flips the coin, Bob notices that Tails is facing towards him. And reflexively, he uses his paddle to slap it. And it goes.
Good contact. He slaps the coin and it bounces through the window. Gone.
Shit. Bob, it's tails.
Somebody outside who got completely brained. Wow.
Okay. Thank you, sir. You want to come in and be a competitor in the ping pong? Oh, shit. He is losing blood fast. Can we get the paramedics to go outside and take care of that?
[00:13:48] Speaker C: You see two medics just running off? Get it?
[00:13:52] Speaker A: They stand up from the back row and leave.
[00:13:55] Speaker C: Paramedics.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Okay, well, another two gone.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: So it was tails. So Bob is going to take the first serve. Alex, let's go over to the commentary booth where we will be giving the.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Play by five steps.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: But whatever.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: All right. I'm so excited to be here.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: The commentary booth. Sorry, is right flush with the ping pong table.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: We're just sitting here like, the microphones are on the ping pong table.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: And this is expensive equipment. Guys, these are Ramazan brand.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Try to play on the left and right side of the table, respectively.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: No promises. You see, Mike stands up. He's like an average sized dude. You see Bob walks by Bob, standing at a solid four foot ten and scrawny is all everything. Holding his paddle, which somehow looks like bigger than his head, regulation size, still, mind you, but he's just that tiny a dude.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Alex, that is a small man.
That's an advantage in this game. According to what I just googled, that is an advantage in this game.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah, no, like, you know what? His clients love it when he climbs them like a mountain.
[00:15:03] Speaker C: Quote.
Well, I didn't pay for the ad.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: But, hey, I'll take it. Was this CraigsList? Anyway, famously don't pay for ads on Craigslist.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: But remember, the rule is rhyme before you hit.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: The rule is rhyme before you hit. We didn't mention that at the top, but, folks, just remember, rhyme before you hit.
[00:15:22] Speaker C: Okay. All right. Zero serving zero.
I like it when my clients are Nero and he hits the ball.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: What a good one.
Chased sincere rhyme from him. Okay. And Mike completely whiffed that.
Totally missed. Ran the wrong direction.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: You were giggling.
So now that is one nil.
[00:15:49] Speaker C: All right, I'll do better. I'll do better. I got to, got to get my head in the game. I got to avoid his gorgeous blue eyes.
[00:15:56] Speaker A: Yeah, Mike, make like Efron. Get your head in the game. Get you. Get your head in the game. All right, high school Musical four, airing exclusively on Limbrook Public access, not licensed. Mike. Serving or. Sorry, Bob? Serving.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: No, it's still Bob.
[00:16:12] Speaker C: I won the point. I still got it. All right, get wrecked. Scrub.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: And remember, we're playing the seven like no one has ever done, ever.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: Ever. That is weird, and I don't like it, but you know that. That's just how it is.
[00:16:25] Speaker C: All right, one serving Nil.
I like my pickles dilt that one.
[00:16:35] Speaker B: Little less strong. Adam on that.
[00:16:38] Speaker C: That.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: That comment, while it did rhyme, it just did not feel very.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: You could really feel the self doubt coming through. Oh, we got a good Volley going. Good volley going back and forth.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Mike's really putting in the sweat. Remember, we must also discuss the episode as you hit.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: That's a new rule you're throwing at me for the first time.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: We weren't going to do it, like, alternating.
It's going to take forever if you don't play and discuss the episode, Mike, so we really.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah, Mike, we only have the Gym for 2 hours.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: The cafeteria kids are coming in for lunch after this.
Damn it.
[00:17:19] Speaker C: I hit the Table just like Ray did in that one Volley.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah, Ray didn't hit it with his crotch, though. Mike, I don't know how you did that. Exactly.
[00:17:30] Speaker C: I felt that he hit it with.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: The crotch right on the corner, I got to say.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
All right.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: You're doing very well for a man who just got Punctured in the ball.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
It's not the first time it's happened. Won't be the last, am I right?
[00:17:50] Speaker A: Okay, here we go. Bob is serving again because Mike punctured.
[00:17:55] Speaker C: I thought this would be a much more difficult competition.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: I guess three. I was incorrect to zero. And remember, you can use any word for zero you want. Whatever is easiest for you to rhyme, Bob.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: All right.
[00:18:12] Speaker C: Three serving, nada.
Frank's a bad father.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: That was fucking good. That was really good, Alex. Sorry. I was swearing, everybody. Oh, shit.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: That was from the episode, so I will only give him half credit.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: Oh, it was.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: Was that from the episode?
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Frank said, blank serving, nada.
I'm ashamed to be your father.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: Well, that's good.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: I mean, slightly different rhyme, but I guess I'll take.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: You know, it's like half points there, Adam, but he's definitely on fire. Definitely the favorite in this match.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: Asterisk there. Yeah, definitely. Completely crushing Mike right now. Mike running back and forth. It's interesting because Bob is such a small man. He really has to sprint from side to side on the table, and yet he is doing it so much more efficiently than Mike is, who only needs to take one or two.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: You know, it is that side step. Dude definitely knows how to spank two people at once. You could see the training has paid off. Mike is only used to spanking a single person, so running back and forth like this is something he has not been prepared for, Adam.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: Not at all. And it shows.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Go ahead.
[00:19:28] Speaker C: You got me. Once more. He got me. Got me.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Another point. Yep, there's another point right there.
[00:19:32] Speaker C: All right.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: We only do one game here.
No, two out of three. Bullshit. So, Mike, you're really letting us down here.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Robin is decidedly not round.
[00:19:48] Speaker C: All right, I'll do it this way. Hey, Bob. Yeah. If you let me serve this time, I'll make this one with seven points, so whoever gets this one gets the win.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: I don't know if that's allowed. Let me check the.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Why would Bob agree to that?
[00:20:02] Speaker C: I'll go for it. Yeah, I'll agree to that. Okay.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: He's going for it anyway.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: The rulebook. There's nothing in the rulebook that says that you can't arbitrarily decide that the next serve is worth seven points, so I guess it's fine.
[00:20:15] Speaker B: And also, just switching servers for no.
[00:20:17] Speaker A: Apparent reason, making a bargain to switch servers.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Not like this is regulation or anything. Sure. Here, Mike, have.
[00:20:25] Speaker C: The only thing that's regulation about this game is the paddles. To be 100% clear.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah. We are using, to be fair, wiffle balls and cafeteria tables.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: Yeah, this table is more long than it is wide.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: Yeah, we haven't called that out, but this table does span the width of the room and does have benches on either side of it.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Now, Adam and I are sitting.
[00:20:50] Speaker D: Actually.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Yes, we are sitting on the bench.
[00:20:53] Speaker C: All right.
Zero, serving five.
Ray called out Debra unfairly, even though she was trying to be a supportive wife.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: A little long. But you know what? For Mike's only whip of the entire match, I gotta say, it was pretty good.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: You wanted it to be relevant, Mike.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: It was relevant. And I appreciate that.
[00:21:12] Speaker A: I know you're working really hard, Mike. But can we go back to that scene for a second where Ray is practicing his ping pong? He's doing a real Forrest gump with the kitchen table and the wall. Then, Deborah, kind of like what you're doing right now. I thought that Deborah, they wrote Deborah is very bitter and miserable in this episode.
[00:21:34] Speaker C: Well, it was 03:00 a.m. To be clear, I think that's a fair thing.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah. But also in the cold open, she was like, fuck. What did she say?
[00:21:43] Speaker B: She said she was like something like resentment, right?
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Yeah, resentment. She brought up resentment. And then this one, she was like, I'm going to divorce you. It didn't feel as fun as they usually.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: It felt a little too sharp for her. I will say the one where Ray was like, at 03:00 a.m. I don't really mind that one as much, because again, it was three in the morning. And Ray, while practicing, he could have gone in the basement.
It could have been a little more considerate. The cold open.
[00:22:12] Speaker C: I agree. The noise is always better coming from the basement.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Thank you, Bob. I agree that in the cold open, Ray was just, like, excited to cover something that he was really excited about. And he might get to play on like a big.
[00:22:28] Speaker C: All the way back to that.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: They're thematically connected, Mike, so we might be talking about it for a while. You're doing great, by the way.
[00:22:36] Speaker C: I got him on the ropes. I know. I got him now.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Yeah, no, we got you, Mike.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: It's fascinating how all of Mike's volleys line up perfectly and in sequence with the YMCA dance. It's interesting.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: It's fun to play.
I mean, Deborah was in two scenes. And I feel like, the writers are trying to make her shine with the little time she had by making her a little more brutal.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: I did like that. Says she's got to make an appearance of a certain number of lines per time.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah, she's a series regular, I guess.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: Definitely.
I like that she ended up supporting Ray at the very counted. That was nice.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: I do think they were trying to write her as sarcastic.
[00:23:28] Speaker C: Take that, Bob.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Wow. Mike just threw his paddle across the table.
[00:23:34] Speaker C: Oh, shit. I got a block of my hands now. I didn't expect that. Oh, shit.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: He's going, King Richard, everybody.
This is exciting stuff, though. But, yeah, I was going to say, as he's continuing to do that, I was going to say, I think they were going for sarcastic with Deborah, which, yeah, it's pretty funny, but I feel like they need to cut it with a little bit of sincerity, which I think they did do after fashion, when she did end up helping Rey by sort of role playing as Frank.
So I feel know they weren't horrible to her. They didn't write her as, like, the stereotypical sitcom wife so much, but it's definitely closer to that than we sometimes get. I was a little disappointed in that just because we're team Debra on this.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: From what I do recall. I think as the series goes on, Deborah kind of falls into this trap a little bit more and more, but we'll see how bad it can, it gets when we come to it.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: Yes, indeed.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: I don't disagree, but I think she was funny, especially with the crybaby line.
[00:24:41] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Mike just spiked it into the Table and it bounced off and it's going up.
Wow.
[00:24:49] Speaker C: I see he's dead. I got him now.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: Oh, shit. It bounced off of my microphone up there. It's coming back down at such an.
Oh, it's way across the other side of the cafematorium. Bob is running towards it. Running towards it.
[00:25:03] Speaker C: You'll never get there, Shorty.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: As Bob is running, he passes a poster of the album born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen, where you see his ass and cannot help but get distracted.
[00:25:16] Speaker C: The only thing I.
You can see him turn and smack. He has to right as the.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we see the ball come down the table.
He swings his paddle, goes right past the ball and follows through to smack the boss right on the.
[00:25:45] Speaker C: Got me there. You got me there, Mike. I should not have wagered all seven points on that one volley.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: We are all shocked, but Mike just scored seven points.
[00:25:54] Speaker C: Fuck at me, Bob. There you go. What do you want?
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Damn.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: What do you want?
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Mike. It's over. Mike, calm down.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: I got to dance. I got a dance.
Don't you dare stop me. You see, Mike stretch break dancing.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Yeah, but to him, break dancing is the YMCA Wow.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Bust a move, Mike.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: Mike unfolds a cardboard on the floor.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: And.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: Get at me that's the winner of round one.
[00:26:29] Speaker C: Your mother can't achieve. That's me. That's me.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: YMCA your mother can't achieve that's it. That's Wilmer Valderama. Get up from the back row and walk out.
[00:26:45] Speaker C: I don't know who that was.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: The host of Yo Mama.
Okay, so Mike is the winner of Round one. That is an unexpected outcome. I don't think any of us saw that coming.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: I certainly didn't. I just lost $50.
[00:27:01] Speaker A: Shit. I just made $50. Thank you. Here you go, Alex.
So I don't have anyone else on my list, folks. If somebody wants to come up to the mic, obviously introduce yourself, and then you will be, I guess, playing Mike in round two. Is that how we're going to do?
[00:27:16] Speaker C: Yeah, that's how we do it. The people that play round one are at the most disadvantage because they have to win the most amount of times in a row in order to get to the victory.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: How are we supposed to do it, Mike? Explain tournaments to me.
[00:27:32] Speaker C: It doesn't matter.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Do we need two volunteers? Do we need.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: No, we'll do the one this way.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:27:38] Speaker C: This is how they do baseball competition in Japan. So we'll do it this way.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: I will volunteer.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Introduce yourself, please.
[00:27:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: You see a man approach the stand. He gets close and he's got, like, a big trench coat on and a hat. He removes the trench coat to reveal that he is, in fact, a big fish.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: No, I recognize this motherfucker.
[00:28:07] Speaker C: Kingfish, we haven't seen you in forever.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: It's been a long time, Kingfish. What have you been up to?
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Swimming.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: Okay. Typical forthcoming kingfish. Always willing to open up to personal questions.
[00:28:23] Speaker C: Can you tell us more about yourself or your personhood? Like, are you like, Aquaman? Like, what's going on here?
[00:28:30] Speaker B: King fish.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Typical. Okay, Mike, it's. What? King Kong?
[00:28:37] Speaker B: No, Ping Pong.
[00:28:38] Speaker A: Oh, ping pong.
[00:28:39] Speaker C: Ping pong. Got it.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Okay, Mike. I wouldn't. I mean, we spent, like, 35 minutes trying to get anything out of him several weeks ago. I don't know if this is worth the time.
[00:28:49] Speaker C: I do now. See, now that he's out of the isn't. It's not more of an Aquaman thing. I'm starting to answer my own question. It does look like just a big.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: Who is this guy? Was.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: I thought you had to go out and do something.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Okay. He helped us with the barometer once.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Well, I guess I got to start listening to our own episodes.
[00:29:11] Speaker A: And otherwise, we've never met him.
[00:29:15] Speaker D: Kingfish.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: Kingfish.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: We got that.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: Would you like to take on Mike in Ping Pong for round two?
[00:29:23] Speaker C: I'll fry this fish.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Mike, that's delicious. Come on.
[00:29:27] Speaker C: What?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: That's a little violent. I mean, trash talk one thing, but.
[00:29:32] Speaker C: I'm going to get it to the. I'll do the bait and switch. I'll do the bait and switch.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Okay, that's better.
[00:29:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Where you see Mike pantomimes putting something on a hook and kind of casting it towards kingfish.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Kingfish completely non plused about paddle.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Kingfish, like, reaches into his mouth and pulls out a regulation paddle.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Wait.
[00:29:58] Speaker C: Oh, kingfish came to play. Oh, God.
[00:30:00] Speaker A: Mike, isn't that the paddle that you threw into the Lynbrook river out of frustration last week while you were preparing for this?
[00:30:08] Speaker C: Yeah, that's correct. I went into the woods to do, like, a karate kid style, like, meditation. Like, you go in.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: That's right. Because we built that fence in the woods and I asked you to wax it for me.
[00:30:19] Speaker C: Yeah. And then my idea was, I'm going to get so good after this meditation in the woods. And then I tried to hit a fly with it and I missed, and I got so upset that I chucked it in the river.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Wow. So, kingfish, you're from the river.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: Fresh water.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: So now we're getting some details. We just got to build him up a little bit.
[00:30:38] Speaker C: Can we get this guy?
[00:30:40] Speaker A: Sorry, we're in Aquafina.
[00:30:42] Speaker D: Fiji.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: Fiji. Okay. Well, Alex, why don't you go run out and grab Kingfish of Fiji?
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: It's not like a giant fish is about to trounce Mike at Ping Pong. Why would I want to stay and watch this? All right. Good thing we have the audio for it.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: I'll be right back.
[00:31:02] Speaker C: That is true. We should probably have a camera or three in here, but that's okay.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know how it is with the price of Gopros these days.
[00:31:11] Speaker C: Yeah. No, we spent all the money for the camera on the buffalo wild wing.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: That's true. We paid Alex all of our camera budget for his wing.
Okay, so I guess I'm flying solo on this one. Announcer style, folks. Finally, my moment in the sun.
[00:31:30] Speaker C: Going down.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: I will do the coin flip. And I think, Kingfish, if you're all right, I think I'm going to sign you tails, given the fact that you do fish have tails or are they fins?
[00:31:44] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Okay, so I'm going to sign you tails. I'm going to sign Mike heads, of course, because of his proclivities towards.
Wait, that's not the sound of a coin. And it's heads. So, Mike, it is your serve. Don't fuck.
[00:32:01] Speaker C: Let's go, baby. Let's go, baby.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: Please don't call me that. I've asked you not to call me that in the workplace. Okay?
[00:32:07] Speaker C: Absolutely. I'm sorry. I'm getting into it, babe. I can't stop.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: All right.
[00:32:13] Speaker C: Zero serving zilch.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: Okay, I'm just going to sit back down at the table here on the bench and.
[00:32:20] Speaker C: Zero serving zilch.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Begin.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: You're a fish.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: No rhyme. No rhyme.
[00:32:26] Speaker D: King fish.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: Oh, good return, Mike.
[00:32:32] Speaker C: Stop.
What?
[00:32:35] Speaker D: I don'T like that.
[00:32:38] Speaker C: I'm just following the vibe, man.
[00:32:39] Speaker B: I'm just helping, okay?
[00:32:43] Speaker C: You're very easy to calm down, Mr. Fish.
[00:32:47] Speaker D: King.
[00:32:50] Speaker A: Fish.
[00:32:51] Speaker D: King fish.
Fuck you, Mike.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: Whoa.
[00:32:59] Speaker C: Hell, yeah.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I'm not saying a lot, folks. It's just I'm completely engrossed by whatever is happening here.
It seems like a real connection is forming between. I don't know if it's a rivalry or a romance, folks. I don't know what's going on, but it's entrancing.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: Bunk, you have fish lips.
[00:33:22] Speaker C: You really think that? And the ball goes off the field.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: And that is one nothing to kingfish.
[00:33:31] Speaker C: Ah, you got me, King.
[00:33:33] Speaker A: Okay, Mike calling Kingfish King like he's Elvis. And by the way, Kingfish is wearing an Elvis. His trench coat that we mentioned earlier. It's Elvis. Elvis.
[00:33:42] Speaker C: Yeah. I like the popped collar.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: Popped collar, big gold sequins.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: I got to be honest here.
The trash talk of this episode left a bit to be desired.
I'll just call it like it is. I didn't really think it was that impressive.
[00:33:59] Speaker B: Ours better.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: Yes.
You have something going on here. It's electric.
I do think that Frank's little couplets were not maybe as clever as obviously Frank thought they were, but I think his delivery of it did sell like this. Is him just being an asshole. Just being annoying.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: Probably hurt more when Ray was twelve.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: Yeah, you're more sensitive to now when you're young.
[00:34:34] Speaker C: Ray couldn't even get hard.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Did you just say Ray couldn't even get hard?
[00:34:38] Speaker B: I heard two.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Raise your hand if you heard, Mike.
[00:34:44] Speaker C: I serve. No. Oh, shit. Okay, you go. Sorry about that.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Okay, I win. I serve.
[00:34:52] Speaker A: He's got a grasp zero.
[00:34:54] Speaker B: King fish is hero.
[00:34:57] Speaker C: Damn. That's the best drive so far. Really good crap. That's a good rhyme.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: Okay. Back and forth, back and forth, folks, this is the match of the century right here. This is a real Billie Jean King versus the other guy.
[00:35:17] Speaker C: You notice that as this is going on, it starts out with just the normal ping pong like, back and forth swings. Eventually, they start to get into it, and Mike starts doing like, kick flips. And the back spins. Kingfish, nonplussed, just keeps every single time not missIng. Despite no matter what crazy thing, he just smacks it. Mike's doing backflips and all this crazy crap.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: Mike, did you bring your moon shoes?
[00:35:46] Speaker C: You know it.
[00:35:47] Speaker A: Fuck.
[00:35:47] Speaker C: You know it.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: There's nothing in the rulebook that says you can't wear moon shoes to the ping pong.
[00:35:51] Speaker C: There's nothing in the rulebook that says you can't wear Moon.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: God, this rulebook is thin. There's like three pages in this thing.
[00:35:59] Speaker C: I think the rule says hit ball with paddle optional.
[00:36:03] Speaker A: Hit ball, paddle. Play to seven. Yeah. Pretty, pretty light.
Billie Jean Kingfish, I was going to say. Oh, I'm sorry, I interrupted your Billy Jean Kingfish. Would you guys. Folks, if you'd buy a shirt with that on it, raise your hands. Okay, we got one in.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: Kingfish raises his fin.
[00:36:25] Speaker A: Okay, so that's.
[00:36:26] Speaker C: Raises his fin. Mike uses the opportunity to smash a strike. That scores the point. Whoa.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: That was cold. I swear I had nothing to do with that.
[00:36:36] Speaker C: Distracted by merch. Can't get distracted by the merch. Hey, yo. There we go.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Okay. One to one evaluation, Mike.
[00:36:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: King Fish will throw game if you give him your moon shoes.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Wow. Kingfish would be unstoppable with moon shoes.
[00:36:58] Speaker C: I was going to say this is kind of a one of the kind thing. You really want to give up the competition for the moonshoes?
[00:37:05] Speaker A: We don't know what Kingfish's motives are, folks. They're as opaque as the deep blue sea itself.
He is refusing to open up. But we do know one thing. He wants moonshoes. And he's willing to throw the game for.
[00:37:19] Speaker C: Ah. Mike tosses the moonshoes over to Kingfish.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:37:25] Speaker D: You fool.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: And he puts one on his head and then one on his fin, and then he bounces out like a slinky.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Wow.
That was incredible. Mike, with no pride, just immediately taking the easy win.
Alex, I'm so sorry. Alex is back, folks. Hello.
[00:37:46] Speaker C: You missed the fuck.
[00:37:47] Speaker A: I'm so sorry. No, don't give him the Fiji until he wins. Make him earn it.
[00:37:52] Speaker C: Oh, that's going to.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah, that's part of the prize package. Just to recap folks, prize package, one week contract as the receptionist, a wing, a $12 Boston market gift card and a bottle of Fiji small.
This was the biggest one they had. Alex, this is like a two ounce. This is like one of those mini ones that you get at the know.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: I was going to buy like three of them and pour them into a bigger bottle, but then it wouldn't be Fiji water anymore because the only thing special about it is the bottle.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: That's true. That's a really cutting commentary about Fiji.
[00:38:27] Speaker C: Damn.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:38:28] Speaker C: We are not sponsored by Fiji apparently.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: And we never will be.
[00:38:33] Speaker A: Twelve people in the back row get up. They're all holding like file folders that say Fiji on it. It's the board of the Fiji Corporation.
[00:38:42] Speaker C: The Board of Fiege.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Oh shit. We lost another. God, the crowd is really thin yet. We shouldn't have made the back row so wide. It's making it easy for people to sneak out.
[00:38:53] Speaker C: That's on us.
[00:38:54] Speaker A: Whatever. Can we get another competitor to come up to the mic and mention the episode?
[00:39:00] Speaker C: Bring it on.
You couldn't be brought down by Bob the Dominatro. I couldn't be brought down by the Kingfish himself. Who's gonna.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: Mike, can you encourage people by giving them a prompt to discuss the episode when they come up to the mic?
[00:39:15] Speaker C: Ladies and gentlemen, if you think that.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: You'Re good enough getting right in their faces.
[00:39:21] Speaker C: If you think you're good enough to beat me.
[00:39:23] Speaker A: He's walking up and down the front row pointing his finger at a real like menacing version of Jay Leno.
[00:39:30] Speaker C: I want you to come up and I want you to tell me.
[00:39:33] Speaker A: And the chin, by the way, is not real. It's an implant on Mike. Mike got Jay Leno Chin elected.
[00:39:41] Speaker C: That is a just like I have a wig I put on that was.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Not on the.
[00:39:51] Speaker C: Ipad.
[00:39:52] Speaker A: Okay, Mike just revealing that he wears a wig. I think we all could have guessed that. I mean, long, long dreadlocks.
[00:39:59] Speaker D: I will defeat you.
[00:40:01] Speaker A: Oh, who's this fellow?
[00:40:03] Speaker D: Michael, the boy who ponged.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: Were you, sir, introduce yourself.
[00:40:11] Speaker D: I am known by many names.
I've lost my nose and I came here looking for it. But now I'm gonna kick this ass, kick this dick's ass at Ping Pong.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: Is that Nathan Voldemort?
[00:40:26] Speaker D: Yes, my name is Nathan.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: The guy who got run over seven times by Harry Potter?
[00:40:32] Speaker D: Yeah, it hurt.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Wow. I thought you were dead. I meAn, I don't know how I would have known that, but so did I. I heard you were dead.
[00:40:39] Speaker D: Yeah. What's Harry Potter?
[00:40:42] Speaker A: Is this thing that JK Simmons wrote?
[00:40:45] Speaker C: I'm just standing here looking. I'm just like, dude, you're straight up Lord Voldemort. How do you not know what Harry Potter is?
This is insane.
[00:40:53] Speaker B: He pulls out a wand.
[00:40:55] Speaker D: I'm ready.
[00:40:57] Speaker C: That's not regulation.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: That is not regulation, my guy.
[00:41:00] Speaker C: Sorry.
[00:41:01] Speaker D: Hang on.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: Do we have some. You want to come up here and get.
[00:41:06] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: Okay. But first, Mike, what is the prompt?
[00:41:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's right. I was going to say, I want you to tell me exactly what you think about Frank letting Ray win or Vice. Well, actually, I guess it was just a lot of lying about letting people win. What's your feelings on allowing people, parents.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: Allowing their kids to win in competition and in general? And there's no ulterior motive behind this? What's your feelings about allowing people to win at things? Would you be willing to do that? Is I think, what he's asking.
[00:41:41] Speaker D: I am fine with allowing other people to win, so long as those other people are me.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: Twist.
[00:41:50] Speaker C: Stop getting up your paddle. Oh, man. And you see, Nathan Voldemort just flicks his wrist and his wand turns into a paddle.
[00:41:58] Speaker A: That is good close up magic for the folks in the pretty.
[00:42:02] Speaker C: That's pretty incredible.
[00:42:04] Speaker D: A paddle cadaver, am I right?
[00:42:07] Speaker A: That's actually a very good pun for somebody who doesn't know what Harry Potter is.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: One guy in the front row just falls over, say.
[00:42:17] Speaker D: I'd say, like father, like son. They both fucked with each other in the same way, but for different reasons. I respect Frank, but kind of. Also kind of fuck ray at the same time.
[00:42:30] Speaker A: I personally felt like Ray was gaslighting Frank until he stormed out of the room in a rage. So I was not a fan of Ray in that moment. That's a pretty sore loser thing. Like, even the worst sore loser to go around and psychologically torture your father. Seems like a stretch. No, a bridge too far.
[00:42:51] Speaker D: I'm a big fan of psychological torture. Unless it's your father.
[00:42:57] Speaker A: Are you a real patrimonial kind of guy? I don't know if that's a word.
[00:43:03] Speaker D: Because as Mike's elder, he must allow me to win.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: Wait, are you. What, the father?
[00:43:10] Speaker D: No, just. I'm older than him.
[00:43:12] Speaker C: Oh, thank God.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: For a second there, Maury stands up from the back row. Actually, Nathan, I did just get the results back.
[00:43:21] Speaker C: No, you'll get to do this to me again.
[00:43:24] Speaker D: Maury bottle Cadavera.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: Hi, Mike. Oh, shit. Missed hit Will Smith. That's a shame.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: Well, we can't canonically use him ever again.
[00:43:34] Speaker C: Yeah, he's dead in our universe. All right, that's it.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: I got the results. Nathan. Mike. Mike, how you doing?
[00:43:43] Speaker C: Not as good as I was a second ago.
We're about to play ping Pong over here.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: Sorry. I pick my moments. You know how it is. Ever since they took the show off the air, I've sort of had to take it to the streets. And it's kind of a different. Yeah. Just walking around, handing out the results, telling people if they're the father, watching them do the dance. You know how it is.
[00:44:04] Speaker C: I've never met this man before in my life. When did I do a paternity test?
[00:44:09] Speaker A: I think you're going to be pleased with these results.
[00:44:12] Speaker C: Oh, God.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: Nathan Voldemort, you are not the father. And he's doing the dance. This is good. Get this. Filming this on my.
[00:44:22] Speaker C: Oh, thank God.
[00:44:23] Speaker A: Motorola Razor here, doing the cabbage patch. Indeed. Nathan Voldemort, doing the cabbage patch. Okay, that's it.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: He flips his hands, and you turn into a ping pong.
Let's use that.
[00:44:39] Speaker C: We'll just use that.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: That's that. Maury didn't even say hi to me. That was fucked up. We had a.
[00:44:45] Speaker C: What an asshole.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: It looks like we won't be getting any Maury of him. Am I right?
[00:44:49] Speaker A: All right, let's chime in. After five minutes of silence. What were you doing over here?
[00:44:54] Speaker B: I'm playing with these beans.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: Oh, shit. You got beans?
[00:44:58] Speaker B: Yeah, look, I got, like, four beans right here, just sitting on the table playing with them.
[00:45:03] Speaker A: This must have been from yesterday when they did only beans for lunch in here.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: Yes, I'm a subscriber to that.
[00:45:11] Speaker A: Your only beans is so worth the 1299 a month. Yeah.
[00:45:17] Speaker B: Mike, honestly, with that puncture wound, you'd probably do really well on holy beans.
[00:45:22] Speaker C: I kind of believe it, actually. I've seen some of the stuff that you put up there. It's pretty saucy stuff.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: You're very stringent about who qualifies to appear on your only beans. You get out the calipers and everything. Like, if you have heft at all down there, you're out. That's obviously why I can't do it, folks, you all know I've got huge balls. Okay?
[00:45:47] Speaker D: They weigh him down.
[00:45:49] Speaker A: ACDC wrote that song about me. Of course.
Highway to hell.
[00:45:53] Speaker C: I've got big balls.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: I hit them on the highway.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: Well, I've got the coin here, Mike. Do you want to call it this?
[00:46:04] Speaker C: Give me. Give me. Heads again. We've been grooving with heads. I'll be grooving with heads again.
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Sure. We all know that you like to groove with heads, Mike.
[00:46:11] Speaker C: You know it.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: I've seen what you subscribe to on old.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: Well, it's just not your day, bro. It's tails.
[00:46:21] Speaker A: All right. Nathan Baltimore serving to Mike here in the Limbrook Cafetorium.
That Mike completely ducking.
Slide on the floor. Big, like, 80s hair metal slide, too. Are you all right, Mike? Did you pull a quad?
[00:46:46] Speaker C: I'm good.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: Okay, you better win this point so we can't use that rhyme again.
[00:46:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll surrender that point. That's fine. That's fine. One. You got one. I'll do it this way. I'll do this one.
[00:47:00] Speaker A: Yes.
One nothing to Nathan Voldemort.
[00:47:06] Speaker D: You have zero. I have one.
I'm having fun.
[00:47:10] Speaker A: Good.
[00:47:11] Speaker C: That was so much nicer compared to the last one when you tried to kill me.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: He really tried to cut this off short so that he could continue in the tournament. But it looks like Mike is putting up quite the fight, wouldn't you say, Alex? He's really.
[00:47:27] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: He really knows how to swing that thing, Adam and I would know. I've seen him play this game once before. A mere half an hour ago.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: Really?
[00:47:37] Speaker C: I will say that, going back to the original question, I think that fathers should never just let their kids win. You got to make them earn it. And I think that Frank was a good model of that in the thing.
[00:47:53] Speaker D: Yeah, I think Frank might have taken it a bit too far at points.
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I agree with.
[00:47:59] Speaker D: It's important to be supportive, but it's also important to not let your child just have everything easily.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: But Letting them know that that's your.
[00:48:11] Speaker D: Intention, instead of just kind of being a huge dick to them and hoping.
[00:48:15] Speaker B: They'Ll figure it out.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: I do.
[00:48:17] Speaker C: How was he supposed to dance if not to making Ray feel bad?
[00:48:24] Speaker A: Have we considered that maybe Frank just needed to be encouraged to explore the art form of dance in a positive way and this was the only outlet that he had?
[00:48:35] Speaker C: Yeah, that's exactly it. Veterans need to go tick salsa classes. Actually, I'd be in support of that charity. Now that I say that out loud.
[00:48:43] Speaker A: Well, and that's great that you say that, because I did just get a confirmation that we are playing. The loser will have to donate money to vets for salsa classes or, sorry, salsa classes for vets here in Lynbrook, which is a 501 Z. I didn't know that was one of them.
A charity, maybe. Not a good one.
So whoever is the loser tonight, tonight's big loser, to borrow a phrase from the Joker, is going to have to get out their checkbook and not their fake one. Or their other fake one.
[00:49:21] Speaker D: How do you know?
[00:49:23] Speaker A: I've seen a couple episodes of everybody Loves Raymond, my friend.
[00:49:27] Speaker C: Hey, Nathan.
[00:49:29] Speaker D: What?
[00:49:30] Speaker C: Look over there. It's Harry Potter.
[00:49:32] Speaker D: Who's that?
[00:49:33] Speaker C: Got him. Yeah, there we go.
[00:49:35] Speaker D: You hit me in my bald head.
[00:49:38] Speaker C: Gotcha. Gotcha, buddy.
[00:49:40] Speaker A: Okay, one.
[00:49:41] Speaker B: I don't know who that is, but you got me.
[00:49:44] Speaker D: Ow.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: Can I say Frank? Yeah, I agree with Nathan Voldemort that Frank took it a little far. Frank? Like, claiming to. He was showing Ray that life is hard by bullying him for his entire life. Like, maybe not the best parenting.
Like, shouldn't you. And again, not a parent, but that is to say, this isn't obvious, but also, I don't have any children.
Shouldn't you give your children a safe foundation from which to go out and explore the world so they have something supportive to come back to instead of completely hammering them down at all times?
[00:50:28] Speaker B: I completely agree.
[00:50:30] Speaker C: Absolutely not.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: I like you, Nathan Voldemort.
[00:50:33] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:50:34] Speaker B: I'm hopelessly evil.
[00:50:36] Speaker C: You like magic? Hitler, the embodiment of evil? I don't know about that. I think that.
[00:50:41] Speaker A: Mike, you've been reading too much J. K. Simmons. This guy, he seems fine.
[00:50:46] Speaker C: JK, I don't know about that. I mean, hey, what's your opinion on Muggles fan?
[00:50:53] Speaker D: I plead the fifth.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: He pleads.
[00:50:55] Speaker C: That's what? That's, uh. That's a pretty suspicious thing to plead the fifth on. That's all I'm saying.
[00:51:01] Speaker A: It's part of the Constitution. Mike, you hate the Constitution.
[00:51:04] Speaker C: I did. I got mixed feelings. I got mixed feelings. That's all I got to say. I like number two.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Of course you do. Well, that's why you're wearing the tank top. Of course.
[00:51:16] Speaker C: Like number two. I like number seven. I like number.
[00:51:19] Speaker A: Not sure what seven is. Not sure what four is.
Four is the one where the soldiers can't come into your house. Right?
[00:51:26] Speaker C: Yeah, that's that one. I like that one a lot.
I like that one. I like number seven. Which seven is the one that says that any case that has more than $25 can go to federal court.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: I like that one a lot.
[00:51:42] Speaker D: It is your serve, boy.
[00:51:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: Small claims, indeed. So Mike is winding up.
He's getting ready. He's getting ready.
[00:51:56] Speaker C: Uno serving Uno.
No, hold on, I'm going to read that one. Please do one serving. One.
Griffin. Done.
[00:52:11] Speaker D: Boom.
[00:52:15] Speaker A: Good volley, good volley, good volley.
They're really going very fast this time, Alex. It feels like the last point that Ray and Frank were doing. We're like. They're actually getting a good volley going.
[00:52:31] Speaker B: They were getting a good volley very close to the net without actually hitting it, which is the idea behind table tennis, to hit it quickly and low in order to get it past your opponent. Not many people know that. Let's continue watching this match while we talk about it.
[00:52:47] Speaker C: Yes, I will say that I was very impressed with the deeply dramatic shots of that ping pong match.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: They got the different angles going.
[00:52:55] Speaker D: It felt weird for that show, but.
[00:52:57] Speaker B: I really appreciated it.
[00:52:59] Speaker D: It's like a breath of fresh air.
[00:53:01] Speaker A: I like when a show like a multicam show like this does something unusual with their camera work.
It's surprising in a good way.
[00:53:11] Speaker D: It's nice.
[00:53:12] Speaker A: Very nice, Mike. Really getting up there, leaping. I didn't know he had that much.
[00:53:20] Speaker C: Can't make the ball levitate. That's not fair.
[00:53:25] Speaker A: Nothing in the rulebook, Mike. Sorry, hold on. Let me.
[00:53:29] Speaker D: Regulation, aren't I?
[00:53:30] Speaker A: There's something on the back. What does this say? Made you look. Oh, sorry, Mike.
[00:53:36] Speaker C: All right, I'm just going to let that one go up there. I can't jump that high anymore. Okay, two to one, that's a point for you.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: Okay. And Voldemort. Nathan, Voldemort winding up. Hold on.
What did you think, Nathan, about in the cold open? I feel like the golf bag falling down the stairs was Ray's fault. Why would he put the golf bag at the top of the stairs instead of putting it at the bottom of the stairs? So they wouldn't fall over. What do you think about that?
[00:54:06] Speaker D: I did want to add to that. I agree. No, fuck Ray.
[00:54:11] Speaker B: He did not like you.
[00:54:12] Speaker A: Do you want to be. Do you think we should replace Mike with this guy on the podcast?
[00:54:17] Speaker B: He seems very evil, but he's saying a lot of cool stuff. This is just an audio show anyway. Sorry, continue, Nathan.
[00:54:29] Speaker D: I thought it was going to be a type of joke where the things fall down the stairs and Raymond's yelling at them like they're kids. And then the shock was going to be that it was Robert and Frank that walked down.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: I thought so, too. It did seem like it was setting up for that.
[00:54:45] Speaker D: That's what I was hoping for. And I was a little bummed that it wasn't as smart as I. I.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: Do think it was funny, though, the twins. And I feel like this is the first time we've seen them in the foreground of a scene for a while. Like they've sort of been background dressing for the last couple of episodes. Absolutely. Rey asking them all these rhetorical questions, do you even know what titanium is? And them just being like, yeah, I thought that was funny.
[00:55:16] Speaker C: It was indeed very cute. But at the same time, my thought was genuinely like, yeah, sure, maybe he shouldn't have left the things up there. But also like, hey, when I was a kid, I was absolutely terrified to go anywhere near my dad's stuff.
I thought that he went super light on them in this moment.
[00:55:33] Speaker A: Would you be terrified of Ray if he was your father? I feel like their reaction was appropriate.
[00:55:41] Speaker C: It's a very good cOunterpoint.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: It didn't seem like a constructive parenting move to just yell rhetorical questions at them, maybe explain why you're upset.
[00:55:52] Speaker C: That's just it was making sure they knew what they were talking about and they clearly indicated that they did. Meaning this was a premeditated move and they should be in timeout for a century.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: Before I punish you, I need to know if you know what titanium is. Otherwise you have to read this first. Titanium magazine.
[00:56:11] Speaker C: Of course. You guys know how to read, right?
[00:56:15] Speaker A: Well, hold on, we got to start there.
[00:56:17] Speaker D: Two serving one in five points. I will have one.
[00:56:23] Speaker A: Good math.
[00:56:24] Speaker C: Fuck you, math.
[00:56:24] Speaker A: He's better at Math than Mike is.
[00:56:26] Speaker D: Fuck me. Fuck me.
[00:56:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:56:32] Speaker A: Sounds like somebody's going on a date later tonight.
We'll pay for it, don't worry.
[00:56:38] Speaker C: That's a much better price than anything.
[00:56:41] Speaker A: That'S currently of a private add that we get a date with Mike.
[00:56:45] Speaker C: Oh, shit. That's great. I love this idea.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: It wouldn't be the first time a receptionist of ours has gone on a date with you. To be fair, it's not a requirement for the job. Don't want to give that impression at all. It just happens to be that way sometimes.
[00:57:00] Speaker C: You're allowed to deny. It just would hurt my feelings.
[00:57:05] Speaker A: You're allowed to deny, but you will be asked.
And he and Nathan Voldemort's the evil one. Jesus.
[00:57:18] Speaker C: I mean, he is. He clearly is. Look at this. Look. He's bald, he's white.
[00:57:23] Speaker A: He's got no to Mike describing himself looking in the reflective surface of the cafeteria tray.
He's white, he's bald, he's got Jay Leno Chin.
[00:57:38] Speaker C: I have not murdered two other people.
[00:57:40] Speaker A: In this establishment tonight alone, maybe, but.
[00:57:45] Speaker C: He killed Will Smith. He killed that other guy in the front row and he tried to kill me. He's a bad dude.
[00:57:51] Speaker D: That I did.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Well, fuck. While you were doing that long rant, he did just score three more points. Mike, come on.
You're really swinging at nothing. For a while there, I didn't have the heart to tell.
[00:58:08] Speaker C: Hey, hey, listen, Nathan. Nathan, come here for a second.
[00:58:11] Speaker D: Yes?
[00:58:13] Speaker C: Listen, if you let me suck your dick.
[00:58:23] Speaker A: What do you think they're talking about, Alex?
[00:58:26] Speaker B: I don't know, but it appears that Nathan is just standing up and walking away.
[00:58:31] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Doing a robber.
[00:58:33] Speaker B: No idea what Mike could have said. He probably was really intimidating, scared literal, like the most evil man in the world.
I don't know. I'm going to ask him what he said later. He definitely said something horrendously terrifying.
What an absolute champ.
[00:58:51] Speaker A: Pulled a real Robert, put the paddle down complete about face, walked away, didn't even shout back that it was just a rumor. So I don't know what he could have told.
[00:59:00] Speaker C: Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. That's better than the terrible final scene of the cemetery. Potter. When he did the dispel arms thing, it was bad.
[00:59:10] Speaker A: Mike foaming at the mouth.
[00:59:11] Speaker C: Beat him.
[00:59:12] Speaker A: It looks like Mike won that one by forfeit. So I guess that is the.
[00:59:18] Speaker B: I suppose that counts.
[00:59:20] Speaker A: Third win in a row.
[00:59:23] Speaker C: I win by default. It's the best way to win.
[00:59:26] Speaker A: Mike showing no competitive sportsmanship spirit at all.
Oh shit. Alex, it's third period. The kids are going to be coming in here like any second now. We're going to have to shit.
[00:59:40] Speaker B: All right.
[00:59:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:59:41] Speaker B: Looks like we have time for one more match against Mike. The championship.
Who will be competing if no one step.
[00:59:53] Speaker A: Umbrella my way over? Hey, fellas, it's me, Gerald.
[00:59:57] Speaker B: Gerald.
[00:59:58] Speaker A: Yes. Oh, I'm going to have to bring my ball bearers up if you're all right with that.
[01:00:03] Speaker C: No.
[01:00:08] Speaker A: Okay, Juan, remember to lift with the legs.
Okay, here we go.
Hi, Mike. Good to see you. Alex.
[01:00:17] Speaker B: Remind me where I know you from.
[01:00:19] Speaker D: Gerald.
[01:00:20] Speaker B: Who the fuck are you?
[01:00:23] Speaker A: Second Halloween.
[01:00:25] Speaker C: Gerald's the man from second Halloween that we had to save from the.
[01:00:29] Speaker A: He saved us with know I saved this building by beating it, if I recall correctly.
[01:00:36] Speaker C: Yeah, that is correct. I thought.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: I try to block that memory.
[01:00:44] Speaker C: Hey, regulators, I got a question.
[01:00:48] Speaker A: You're asking me, Gerald?
[01:00:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Does Gerald's ball bearers also get to play?
[01:00:55] Speaker A: There is nothing in the rulebook that says six men standing on either side of the world's largest penis cannot assist the man with the world's largest penis in competing in Ping Pong.
[01:01:09] Speaker C: I feel like you're looking for way too specific rules.
[01:01:13] Speaker A: The rules are as follows. Play Ping Pong. Hit it with the paddle. That's one and one B.
[01:01:20] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:01:21] Speaker A: Two, trash talk is allowed.
Three, blank.
[01:01:29] Speaker C: That's it.
[01:01:30] Speaker A: Three is blank. It feels unfinished.
[01:01:33] Speaker C: I feel like we need more clarification on rule number one, because play Ping Pong is kind of the only thing I want rules on in this scenario.
[01:01:42] Speaker A: To be fair, there did seem to be something wrong with the Epson when I was printing this out. So I don't know if this is the complete rulebook. I could check the PDF. Do you want me to check the PDF?
[01:01:55] Speaker C: I would love you to check the PDF.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:57] Speaker C: And just see if there's something a little bit more specific.
[01:01:59] Speaker A: All right. Let me get out my phone.
[01:02:01] Speaker C: By the way, Gerald, not taking anything away from you. You're a great guy. I hope that we can actually have a good competition here, because I'd love to destroy you.
[01:02:10] Speaker A: I know you would love to destroy me, Mike.
I actually read on Paolo's blog that you were hopelessly in love with me and my giant member. But I'm married to Veronica.
[01:02:22] Speaker C: Every single person that has come up to play this game has been weirdly flirtatious with me.
[01:02:28] Speaker A: I just date with you, Mike.
[01:02:32] Speaker C: I keep forgetting that. That is like. It's like a tertiary thing.
It's not even a priority. It's like, number one is you get the wing, and number two is you get the secretary.
All right?
[01:02:44] Speaker A: All the prizes go together. You get a date with Mike. You get $12 to take him to Boston Market. You get a wing to bring yourself to supplement what you can to be near him. Yes. You get a job to come home to every day. That's not what a job is. You get a job to go to every day.
And, Mike, the reason I'm okay with. Look, you know, I'm married to Veronica now, but we are looking to open it up. And we've been swinging with this great couple, Ray Fael and Chelsea. And of course, their lover, by extension, whose name is.
I don't know if you know this. He finally made a Herald team.
[01:03:27] Speaker C: Good for Larry.
[01:03:28] Speaker D: Good for Larry.
[01:03:29] Speaker A: It's a lot of details from the last couple of episodes.
[01:03:32] Speaker C: Yeah, we got skits on characters we never thought we'd see.
[01:03:37] Speaker B: We're learning A lot here at the end. This is where legends come to die at the Limbrook Ping Pong Championship.
[01:03:46] Speaker A: Indeed.
[01:03:47] Speaker B: This is our final match of the evening. Is it dark out?
[01:03:52] Speaker D: I don't even.
[01:03:52] Speaker B: It's third period.
[01:03:54] Speaker A: It's like 08:00 yeah, but it's third period for night.
[01:03:57] Speaker C: I want a half bag.
[01:03:58] Speaker B: No, you have to wait.
[01:04:01] Speaker A: Joey Chess.
[01:04:02] Speaker B: Okay.
[01:04:03] Speaker A: Oh, shit. I don't know if they're ready for that.
Hold on, let me go over. Oh, shit. Who was it that I just fired? Oh, shit. You know who we need? Alex. If Joey Chestnut's here, we're not going to have enough hot dogs. Unless the only person who knows the combination of the hot dog vault is Simon and we just fired him.
We'll figure it out.
[01:04:25] Speaker B: I have a hammer.
[01:04:26] Speaker C: Simon is.
I believe Simon is the guy that's bleeding out from when we first threw the. Oh, he's outside the coin through the window when we sent the pair of medics up there. Yeah, we haven't heard from them since.
[01:04:39] Speaker B: So we assume he's fine.
[01:04:41] Speaker A: All right, wait. Okay, Alex, you color commentate this one. I'm going to run to St. Raymond's Hospital and try to get the combination from Simon. OK.
All right, I gotta go. And I'll bring you. Don't worry. Oh, great.
[01:04:57] Speaker B: Who wants to call the coin toss?
[01:05:00] Speaker A: I'll call it.
[01:05:01] Speaker C: You go for it. You're the challenger.
[01:05:03] Speaker A: I mean, obviously everyone expects it, so I kind of have to do it. It's on my T shirt. Heads.
[01:05:09] Speaker B: All right. Flipping a coin.
It's landing.
[01:05:12] Speaker A: Thanks, Juan.
It lands on Gerald's penis.
[01:05:18] Speaker C: Here we go. Here we go.
[01:05:20] Speaker A: It lands on Gerald's penis. And it is tails. But the recoil bounces it back up in the air. And then it lands on heads.
[01:05:31] Speaker B: Well, shit. Looks like a head on the head.
[01:05:34] Speaker A: Mike, you look absolutely bastard by that image.
I can't put it away.
[01:05:43] Speaker C: I don't love that you can't put it away.
[01:05:45] Speaker A: Thankfully, this table is long enough that I can just rest it so the ball bearers can sort of take a little break.
We will have to play around it.
[01:05:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like I got to play around it.
[01:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I feel like it's an advantage, Mike. If you hit him, it counts as a point for you. Any part of him.
[01:06:04] Speaker C: Is that it? Because I was going to say that.
[01:06:06] Speaker B: Is an official rule that I'm adding to the book right now.
[01:06:10] Speaker C: It's taking about 70% of the table right now. I feel like that's all right.
[01:06:14] Speaker B: Should be an easy win for you then. Just as long as you don't get distracted, which is a real way of fighting.
[01:06:20] Speaker C: All right, let's go. Gerald and you tell me about. We'll talk about the episode later, but you tell me your.
[01:06:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:06:25] Speaker C: Just go.
[01:06:27] Speaker A: Zero. Serving zero.
Mike, I'm going to burn you down like Nero.
[01:06:34] Speaker C: Oh, shit.
[01:06:35] Speaker B: That was pretty good. Holy shit. That's a fast serve. But Mike just barely manages to hold on.
It goes up in the air, and.
[01:06:44] Speaker D: Then Gerald hits it.
[01:06:45] Speaker B: And then Mike hits it back. Wow. I'm so good at commentating, guys.
[01:06:49] Speaker C: You suck. Alex, this is actually quite terrible.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: He's a good guy. He introduced me to my wife.
[01:06:55] Speaker B: It's so good.
[01:06:57] Speaker D: Wow.
[01:06:57] Speaker B: I introduce a lot of people to a lot of their partners on this show. I got to say, I'm a pretty magical matchmaker. If anyone else out there wants some loving, you should come to me and we'll find you someone to love.
[01:07:08] Speaker C: Oh, shit.
[01:07:09] Speaker B: They're still hitting the ball. That's pretty crazy.
[01:07:13] Speaker A: I think this is.
[01:07:13] Speaker B: Now is a good time to talk about the Barone Sonus as well. If you want to give us a little extra love on this podcast, you can always go to postfund.org and donate.
[01:07:23] Speaker A: To get some extra.
[01:07:27] Speaker C: Piece of shit. You hit me in the eye with the ball.
[01:07:30] Speaker A: I'm so sorry, Mike. I had to do it to you. Is that a point for me, Alex?
[01:07:36] Speaker B: That is a point for Gerald. And that is, again, Porschefund.org for your Barone onus. This next episode every month, plus some cool merch is there as well. If you want to buy some stuff based on some of our favorite jokes, like I'm a grandson and others. Well, Mike, can you see?
[01:07:53] Speaker C: No.
[01:07:54] Speaker B: Good.
[01:07:55] Speaker A: The second point here, Mike. Mike, I'll let you choose one of my ball bearers to assist you to be your second eye. It's only fair.
[01:08:05] Speaker C: Give me one.
[01:08:08] Speaker B: Well, he said you could have one, not so.
[01:08:14] Speaker A: Go ahead, Juan.
[01:08:16] Speaker C: That was stupid.
[01:08:17] Speaker B: Okay, here, I'm going.
[01:08:20] Speaker C: All right, Juan. All right, Juan, you take the.
[01:08:22] Speaker B: That's me, Juan. There's always something funny going on with.
[01:08:25] Speaker A: My name, Luther, I guess I'm going to have to call you up to shaft if you're all right with that midshaft shaft.
[01:08:35] Speaker B: Let's go, Gerald.
[01:08:36] Speaker C: It's your serve.
[01:08:38] Speaker B: It's one nil.
[01:08:40] Speaker C: You take right front, I'll take left back. Okay.
[01:08:43] Speaker A: Okay, here we go. Serving zero to one.
It's not a gun, but I do have.
I do have a gun. Yeah. And I did just shoot a dangerous game.
[01:08:56] Speaker C: One. Are you okay? I think.
[01:08:58] Speaker A: Wait.
[01:08:58] Speaker C: Shoot.
[01:09:01] Speaker B: Juan is dead.
[01:09:03] Speaker C: No.
[01:09:05] Speaker A: Quick, boys, lift me. Lift me. Take me over to Juan.
[01:09:09] Speaker B: I think I'm going to give that point. Yeah, that's that point. Mike.
[01:09:18] Speaker A: This game is not as important to me as my dear Juan. Juan? Juan, are you with me?
[01:09:25] Speaker D: No.
[01:09:26] Speaker B: He's very clearly dead. Like, he's so dead. Wow, look at how much dead that man is.
[01:09:32] Speaker A: Oh, God. Juan.
All right, boys, code black. Lift him on.
Okay, Luther, I know you've been practicing singing taps. Now's your moment. Okay, let's fold the flag. Draping the flag over the penis. Four ballbearers pulling it up this way. Making the triangle. Of course, military funeral. Because he did serve in Korea.
[01:09:59] Speaker D: Mary had a little tap. Little tap.
One, please rest in peace.
[01:10:10] Speaker A: It's beautiful. Just like we rehearsed it.
[01:10:13] Speaker B: The whole community starts singing.
[01:10:16] Speaker A: Mary had a little tap.
[01:10:19] Speaker C: Little tap, little tap.
[01:10:24] Speaker B: Well, folks, that is just another day in the grand sport of Ping pong. Two points were played, and a man is dead.
[01:10:33] Speaker A: Hey, ball bearers, what do you guys think about competing in duop nationals? It's coming up.
[01:10:42] Speaker C: We got to do it, man.
[01:10:43] Speaker A: Okay, let's go bury Juan, and then we'll go rehearse around a trash can on fire.
So long, everybody. Mike, it's been pleasure doing business with you, but unfortunately, I'm not going to have the pleasure of doing pleasure with you. So long. May we meet again. And I do mean.
[01:11:03] Speaker C: Know. I'm. I'm okay with not exploring that. I'm good with that.
[01:11:07] Speaker A: We cut to St. Raymond's Hospital, where I'm on Simon's deathbed.
Oh, God, Simon, I don't know if you can hear me. I know you're in a coma, but if you're in there, just type the hot dog vault code on this calculator. It's ten digits.
It's where we keep all the hot dogs because we won Oscar Meyer's wiener for Life competition. It's a Pun on winner for Life, which isn't really a phrase, but that's why they fired that ad exec. Same guy who came up with the peanut brittle that shoots into your ass.
[01:11:52] Speaker C: You see Simon still in a coma, still clearly bleeding out at the thought of the peanut brittle.
[01:12:04] Speaker A: In the enema.
[01:12:08] Speaker C: His hand starts moving, slaps down on the keypad and draws a specific shape. And it's ten numbers, but they're made in the shape of a hot dog.
[01:12:21] Speaker A: Wow, Simon. Thank you. I don't know if you can hear me, but thank you. And I hope, can I have that raise now? You know what? I'll do you one better. I'll give you your job back at the same rate of pay if you live.
[01:12:41] Speaker C: That's not much. I want more.
[01:12:45] Speaker A: Oh, fuck. I can't be here. I gotta go. Guys, guys, I got that. I got the hot dog.
Everybody's gone. Mike is singing to himself in the center of the cafeteria. Big line outside the door.
[01:13:02] Speaker C: Stop.
[01:13:04] Speaker B: Kids are getting their lunches.
[01:13:05] Speaker A: The kids are out there, and by kids, obviously, because it's night school. I've been talking about people in their mid to late twenty s the whole time. But they're outside, they're getting restless. They want hot dogs. They heard Joey chestnuts here and they all want to take him on.
[01:13:18] Speaker C: I did hear that too.
[01:13:20] Speaker A: We should go.
[01:13:20] Speaker C: Is that a bloody handprint on your chest?
[01:13:23] Speaker A: No, this is a T shirt. You can buy it at Postfundshop. Postfund.org. Yeah, it's just a new direction we're going.
[01:13:32] Speaker B: Hang on, let me grab a Sharpie.
It's just a part of the T shirt. There you go.
[01:13:39] Speaker A: Thank you.
[01:13:40] Speaker B: Just written right below so no one asks questions.
[01:13:43] Speaker A: Exactly.
[01:13:44] Speaker B: It's not blood.
[01:13:46] Speaker A: Can you write on the back? Seriously? It's screen printed. It's not a real bloody hand. Just for total coverage, just in case. Because I know people hate to see me leave but love to watch me walk away. So just want to make sure that I'm communicating that to them the whole time.
[01:14:02] Speaker B: You got it.
[01:14:03] Speaker A: Look, completely unrelated to this shirt. I got the code to the hot dog vault so we can get back there and we can start whipping up these hot dogs and satiate this hungry mob.
[01:14:14] Speaker C: Let's get Joey satiated. Let's go.
[01:14:16] Speaker A: Let's go.
[01:14:16] Speaker C: SatisFy your man, Joey.
[01:14:18] Speaker A: Okay, 1010 Ben. Ten. Oh, he's a grandson. Okay, big, big vault. Big vault. Big open.
[01:14:34] Speaker C: All right, guys, we got to get moving right now. You know what we got to do, everybody. You see all the competitors line up, get whack in, and they all just start whacking the hot dogs. Because technically, anytime you make contact, you technically slightly raise the temperature of the thing that you're smacking. So they're just smacking it over and over again until it's cooked, become grilled and cooked.
[01:14:58] Speaker A: Yes. A whole know, you know, a lunch line. A whole line of everyone we've met today standing there in, of course, apron, hair net. Mike, big long dreadlock, naked Jay Leno, chin wearing a hair net, smacking a hot dog against a counter. And. Okay, here they come, folks.
[01:15:18] Speaker C: Here they come.
As is kingfish.
[01:15:21] Speaker A: Kingfish.
[01:15:21] Speaker C: As is Nathan Voldemort.
[01:15:24] Speaker A: Voldemort. Bob Dylan. Sarah Michelle. Not Geller.
[01:15:27] Speaker C: Yep, correct.
[01:15:28] Speaker A: Gerald. Five of the ball bearers. Juan, rest in peace.
[01:15:32] Speaker C: Juan, rest in peace. We're just going at it. The kids arrive.
[01:15:37] Speaker A: Gerald's a little confused, by the way. And he is not thwacking a hot dog. But the spirit's there.
[01:15:43] Speaker B: It's so beautiful.
[01:15:46] Speaker C: Everybody's thwacking. It's not working.
[01:15:51] Speaker A: But none of us realize, of course. And we're just all smiles. Here you go, kids. Here you go.
[01:15:58] Speaker C: Stop calling.
[01:15:59] Speaker A: Hey, stop calling us kids, man. I'm 35 years old and I'm a widower. Here you go, little buddy. Here you go. Go. Run along.
[01:16:08] Speaker B: You're a little baby.
[01:16:09] Speaker A: One loose hot dog for you.
[01:16:13] Speaker C: There weren't any buns in the vault. Just the actual.
[01:16:16] Speaker A: Well, you know how you buy eight hot dogs but only six buns? It might be the other way around. So it wasn't bun for life.
We cut to the end of this. Everyone's fully satiated. Kind of. I mean, we gave them raw, uncooked dogs.
Hey, they're fully cooked. They're just cold. All right, everyone. Way to go, team. You know, I kind of really like this team dynamic. Gerald, five of the ball bears. Kingfish. Bob Dylan. Sarah Michelle. Not Geller.
[01:16:50] Speaker B: It's nice having people around.
[01:16:52] Speaker A: Nathan Baltimore. Of course. How would you guys. Mike, I don't know. If you're willing to do this. You are, after all, the rightful winner. Would you be willing to give up the one week contract to be our receptionist to all of these people? Right. Huh?
[01:17:09] Speaker C: So I could give up a week of having a real job for once in my life? To split it amongst all these people?
[01:17:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:17:17] Speaker C: Yeah, screw it. Why not? Let's do it.
[01:17:18] Speaker A: Yes. I think.
[01:17:19] Speaker D: Excellent.
[01:17:20] Speaker A: All of you are going to stick around. What did you say? Kingfish.
[01:17:24] Speaker D: Fish.
[01:17:26] Speaker A: Should have guessed. Hey, Kingfish, I wanted to ask you something.
[01:17:32] Speaker D: Okay.
[01:17:34] Speaker A: What did you think of Frank's hoodie?
[01:17:37] Speaker C: Good fish.
Excellent.
[01:17:43] Speaker A: Excellent. No follow ups. Okay. Wow. Great fish. Well, folks, anything that any of us want to bring up about this episode of Everybody Loves Raymond that we didn't hit on. I know. For me, who knows what a fluffer nutter is? Because I certainly don't.
[01:18:01] Speaker C: Oh, no. Isn't that the thing with the peanut butter and the marshmallow?
[01:18:05] Speaker A: I don't know. Is that the thing with the peanut butter?
[01:18:08] Speaker B: It sounds right.
[01:18:09] Speaker A: I thought it was the order of operations for filming a porn film. Fluffer, not her.
I'm glad that.
[01:18:18] Speaker C: No.
[01:18:18] Speaker A: Big laugh from Bob. Bob knows what's up. Thank you.
[01:18:22] Speaker C: Yeah, I like it. No, Fluffer Nutter is the sandwich.
It's like PB and J, but instead of the J. It's Marshmallow Fluff.
[01:18:31] Speaker A: Do you know that according to Wikipedia, which I'm looking at on my phone, Fluffer Nutter sandwich is alternatively known as a Liberty sandwich, which.
[01:18:41] Speaker C: Oh, is it because it's so aggressively American?
[01:18:43] Speaker A: Maybe. Or maybe it was like a Freedom Fries post 911.
[01:18:47] Speaker C: I don't know. But that's a fun little fact there. I wanted to talk about how much Crossfire Marie was caught in throughout the episode. I felt terrible. I also will give credit where credit is due. When Ray lashed out and insulted Marie, you could feel the entire audience go.
[01:19:11] Speaker B: You don't fuck it.
[01:19:13] Speaker A: He told her to shut up, right?
[01:19:15] Speaker C: Yeah, that was it. It wasn't even that bad, but she just was just, like, so disappointed. She went to the other side.
[01:19:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that was.
[01:19:22] Speaker C: Frank was an absolute piece of shit.
[01:19:24] Speaker B: And then she just went right back.
[01:19:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I liked that a lot. Was really giving. She got a lot of fuck. What is it? She got a lot of friendly fire, I guess, from Frank Shrapnel.
Although Robert didn't get that bad. But yeah, he had a line where she was like, oh, I'm like a cheerleader. Him, like, warn me before you do a split. But then she gave him a look that was kind of like, I don't know, sexy, don't you think? Like, she was like, oh, yeah, I'll warn you before I do a split.
[01:20:01] Speaker B: Well, they do have sex a lot.
[01:20:03] Speaker A: They do.
[01:20:04] Speaker B: I wanted to mention that that whole scene where Ray and Robert were carrying fabric down to the basement was amazing.
I love that. Once Marie left, they just threw the fabric. And then Ray was just like, Robert fell not on the fabric.
[01:20:19] Speaker C: Fabric's fine.
[01:20:20] Speaker B: Ray was totally fine. I thought that was beautiful. Kind of reminded me of something I would do, so I appreciated that.
[01:20:26] Speaker A: What did you guys think of the autumnal fabric bolt that would you like curtains made out of?
[01:20:37] Speaker C: Like, Murray's got to have better taste than that.
[01:20:41] Speaker A: And also it seems like a highly seasonal theme for something like curtains, which are usually. You don't change out.
[01:20:51] Speaker B: It also was the 90s. Patterns were a little more in.
[01:20:57] Speaker A: Patterns are out.
Patterns as a whole.
[01:21:01] Speaker C: It's almost like a crucial evolutionary recognition ability of our.
[01:21:06] Speaker B: As far as, like, curtains and wallpaper go, patterns are out.
[01:21:11] Speaker A: Okay? We're all solids these days.
[01:21:14] Speaker B: When's the last time you guys have had a room with patterns in it? Like, on the wall? Your kitchen has aside from your kitchen, Mike.
[01:21:22] Speaker C: My living room.
[01:21:24] Speaker B: Okay, bad example.
[01:21:26] Speaker A: Well, Mike, to be fair, your apartment was built in the refuse to.
[01:21:32] Speaker C: I do refuse to change anything.
[01:21:33] Speaker A: The friends came here and did a habitat for Humanity. And that's what your apartment is.
Obviously, it's going to be reminiscent of that.
Yeah, I guess all of my walls are the same color, but I don't have any patterns on my walls. I guess you're right, Alex.
[01:21:52] Speaker B: I just don't like it. I don't like this specific design that much.
[01:21:55] Speaker A: No, it's very ugly.
[01:21:56] Speaker B: Not for curtains.
[01:21:57] Speaker A: Maybe for like, a tablecloth for ThanksgiviNg time, but something else I wanted to call out. Speaking of good, I'm just going to read all the good jokes that I wrote down. So when Ray confronts Frank about letting him win the first time when he was a kid, and Ray was like, but I saw it all over your face. You were so sad. And Frank being like, you mean this face? I'm so sad and weak and old. I thought that was very funny. I thought Peter Boyle did a lot of great. He showed his range there very well.
[01:22:29] Speaker B: I agree.
[01:22:30] Speaker A: In that same scene, they challenge each other to a rematch. Frank says, you got the balls. And Ray, don't worry about me, pal. Oh, wait. Yeah, I'll buy some balls. I thought that was a good joke. I delivered it very poorly just there. But you all saw it.
[01:22:48] Speaker B: You saw it coming, but still, you had to do it.
[01:22:51] Speaker C: My favorite subtle joke of the episode was, when was the conclusion of the Ray and Deborah at 03:00 a.m. Scene when Ray is like, no, this is good. You can sit here and trash talk me. And she sits there and she's like, you're a Nancy, you're a Sally, you're a cry baby. And then he just stops just like, hey, come on, just take it easy.
That made me chuckle.
[01:23:13] Speaker A: Ray very sensitive about crying.
The thing that breaks him with Frank is when Frank is like, you're going to cry.
[01:23:22] Speaker B: Well, look at who his parents are.
[01:23:24] Speaker A: That's true. You probably don't want to show vulnerability in that house.
Frank giving Ray a nice try for his trash talk, I thought was very funny.
Frank, Marie coming over and saying, talk dirty to your father. Say ass. That's a good joke.
And Marie saying, this is not a good joke. This is like a trope of sitcom joke construction that I saw where Ray roasts Frank for being bald and Marie being like, that's a good one, Raymond, get it? Because you're like that. I feel like is a very easy sitcom joke.
[01:24:09] Speaker C: It is, but it works with Marie.
[01:24:10] Speaker A: It does work with.
Not a great, I mean, a fine joke, but the hot close of the episode, zero serving Zero. You experimented at camp. I liked it for dropping the rhyme scheme. The gay panic, not so much.
[01:24:30] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. So of course when you stop and think about it, sure, it's like, it's problematic and not good, and blah, blah, blah. I deeply loved it because of just.
[01:24:42] Speaker A: How out of fucking I did. Yeah. The randomness of it is just completely.
[01:24:47] Speaker B: Like, there's never been mean, unless mistaken. Like, there's never really been any Robert's gay jokes in the show.
[01:24:57] Speaker C: There's one episode in the future where Ray and Robert have a heart to heart about are they gay? And it turns into this whole thing of like. Yeah, I mean, like when I was in the locker room once, I noticed Nick something or like, something like. But. And then I think eventually we get Marie asking Robert breaks up with Amy and we get Marie asking Robert, Robert, are you gay? Are you a homosexual? Which is a great scene, but I don't know if we've gotten it yet.
[01:25:26] Speaker A: I don't think we have.
[01:25:27] Speaker B: Doesn't ring a bell.
[01:25:29] Speaker A: I know there's the scene or the line in one of the early episodes that we saw where Deborah, Ray comes down complaining about something or like saying that he wants to talk about something. And Debra, exasperated, being like, you're not gay, Ray.
I remember that. Hold on, I'm just going to do a quick command. F gay.
[01:25:56] Speaker B: Let's see how many come up.
[01:25:58] Speaker A: That line was from a lot of.
[01:26:00] Speaker C: Frank making fun of the gays, I'm sure.
[01:26:02] Speaker A: Yes, the gays.
Mike, you were in that when you had your sketch show that got canceled and you ripped off the bears from SNL and you did.
That was rough. I feel like not a good look for you.
I feel like that was Mike C though, right? Because that was Mike. Comedian.
[01:26:25] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[01:26:27] Speaker B: Different person.
[01:26:28] Speaker C: I'm a different person. Literally and legally.
[01:26:33] Speaker A: The joke that I just said was from season two, episode five, golf.
The episode Driving Frank.
Frank calls a cup holder gay.
Mel, of course, telling everyone that he's not gay.
That's what a lot of Ray in season two, episode 22, talking about. Opening a bed and breakfast and tucking in a gay couple from Cleveland.
There's Mel again. Seven out of twelve.
Mel again.
Yeah. The only other thing was, Ray, you're not gay. But I do know the episode that yOu're talking about, Mike, where I think both of them start to question a little bit, which honestly, I mean, we're all for it. Make the show a lot more interesting.
[01:27:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree.
[01:27:26] Speaker A: It'd be great. And this know, I know there's not going to be a reboot or whatever, Phil Rosenthal. But if you're looking for ideas, have know. Leave Deborah and come.
[01:27:41] Speaker B: And everybody loves Gaiman.
[01:27:45] Speaker C: Anyway, that's our show, everybody. Thank you all so much for listening. This was everybody loves everybody loves Raymond. We are never making a joke anywhere near that good for the rest of our lives. So we're going to call it a podcast. Yes.
[01:27:56] Speaker B: We're done here.
[01:27:57] Speaker A: Well, we do. We do have one more thing to do.
[01:28:01] Speaker B: The barometer, folks.
[01:28:02] Speaker C: Oh, that's right.
[01:28:04] Speaker A: Let's see, we've got like 22 people here. Thank you all for just letting us do that. I really appreciate you preventing bleed on the mics, but do you all want to stick around? We could do like a 22 person Barone. No. Okay, I've got to go kiss my sweetie. Oh, Gerald, I don't think I've met Fish.
[01:28:27] Speaker C: I got a hot date with that Bruce Springsteen Post.
[01:28:32] Speaker D: Fuck off, bitch.
[01:28:33] Speaker A: Oh good, Nathan, you chimed in. I was waiting for that. Okay, bye everyone. Thanks.
We'll see you tomorrow for work. I guess we're going to need more desks. All right. I guess it's just the three of us, right?
[01:28:46] Speaker C: We can do that. Why not?
[01:28:47] Speaker A: I feel like the three of us haven't done the barometer together in a while. That's weird.
[01:28:51] Speaker B: Very long time in at least twelve episodes.
[01:28:54] Speaker A: Okay, so we are going to do our classic barometer. That's the scale from one to ten on which we rate race performance as a husband, brother, son, father, athlete, trash talker, with ten being the great dads of sitcom history. Your Uncle Phil's Danny Tanner's Carl Winslow. Alex. Give me another one.
[01:29:15] Speaker B: King Fish.
[01:29:17] Speaker A: Oh, that's interesting. That's a new kernel of information about kingfish. He's a father. Okay, sure, fine, I'll take it. This is kind of a sitcom, and one being the bad Men of television history, which you're Walter White's Don Draper's Mike.
[01:29:35] Speaker C: We're going to go today with. There Are a lot of bad ones. We're going to go with the dad on Dexter's laboratory.
[01:29:44] Speaker A: Okay. Or alternatively, Dexter.
[01:29:47] Speaker C: Dexter was.
[01:29:48] Speaker A: Was he a dad, I'm assuming.
I famously stopped watching Dexter once he cheated on his girlfriend.
[01:29:55] Speaker B: Yes, everyone knows that about you, Adam. That's a famous fact.
[01:30:00] Speaker C: That is true.
[01:30:00] Speaker A: That was the line for me with Dexter.
[01:30:04] Speaker B: I had a different line with Dexter, but it's a huge spoiler, so I'm not going to say, but I do love that.
[01:30:09] Speaker A: But he's back.
Watch out.
[01:30:12] Speaker B: Back again.
[01:30:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:30:14] Speaker C: He made up with his girlfriend and they agreed to open the relationship.
[01:30:20] Speaker A: So good. So I can watch forever and ever now. Okay. All right, we'll take Dexter and Mr. Laboratory.
So for me, Ray is coming in not so hot this episode. I don't like his conflict with. I feel like it did not get resolved super well at the end.
Frank. Although I did like the gesture of Rey revealing that he was legitimately beaten. Frank getting to jump up and do his dance. I thought that was nice.
But throughout, not great. Not great to Deborah, yelling at the kids, making Robert feel ashamed for exploring his sexuality at camp. Camp is supposed to be a safe place for that one time at band camp. But on the other. Know, what did he do that was so bad?
Nothing really was just a bad sport. I'm going to give him a five.
Alex.
[01:31:21] Speaker B: Kind of right there with you. Adam. I think he was just overall kind of had that Dick energy this episode.
[01:31:30] Speaker A: De.
[01:31:32] Speaker B: Kind of just inconsiderate and really focusing on himself.
It shows a lot about Frank and Marie's parenting style that the fact that Ray didn't actually beat his dad at Ping Pong or so he thinks when he was twelve means the world to him.
Which just shows kind of how much of a hold they have on him.
But just an excuse how he was acting basically this entire episode. Kind of just a huge asshole to Robert, to Deborah, to his know. He took kind of that way out of like oh, he lost and he's not going to let his dad enjoy it by kind of like claiming oh, I let you win.
Yeah, I'm giving him a four and a half.
[01:32:20] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:32:21] Speaker C: Mike, I think you guys are being too hard on him. Yeah, he wasn't good actively, but this felt very relatable to me. I don't know, the competition between man and father and this is the thing that was like Ha, I finally.
[01:32:40] Speaker A: You have hinted that you were terrified of your father. You did just do that.
[01:32:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Specifically his golf clubs. Yeah.
[01:32:46] Speaker A: I'm so sorry.
[01:32:48] Speaker C: Yeah man, it was great.
[01:32:50] Speaker A: Titanium.
[01:32:53] Speaker C: Listen, if there's one thing I know about titanium, it's what it is, but. Yeah, exactly. And there are often times in not like I don't think this is anything serious, but there are times when as a son you're trying to be like, yeah, I'm better than you dad. And most of the time it's stupid things. But those moments matter when you're 1011 years old and you're like Ha, I struck out my dad or I beat my dad in a race or ha, he doesn't know what a Mario Kart is, I'm going to beat him this way.
Those moments stand out in your mind, and I think that it was, like, the idea for Frank to be like, oh, yeah, I learned about Ping Pong in Korea. There's no way you could possibly beat me. The Koreans taught me, took something away from Raymond, and I understand him, like, beat him.
I get that instinct. And it was almost kind of compared to a lot of the motivations that Raymond has had over time. This one felt wholesome because it was like, oh, he's trying to do something I don't like. He was awful to his mom and his dad later when he was. Didn't really. He didn't really beat me.
But I also think that Frank took that way too seriously.
I'm giving him a six.
[01:34:18] Speaker A: I think you're right. I think Frank, if we were rating Frank on this, I would give him a much lower score. Frank was like a two for me in this.
[01:34:26] Speaker C: That's kind of my thing, is it feels like, comparatively, that Frank was the one that did the most wrong this episode far and away, because he could have just easily kept the lie going. Well, we learned later it wasn't actually a lie, but he could have just kept it going and, yeah, yeah, Ray, you beat me. Shut up. I want to watch the like. That would have been very in character for him and stuff.
[01:34:50] Speaker A: So, by the way, when you got your second sketch show and you did Da Jets, I shouldn't have gone back to that.
[01:34:57] Speaker C: Well, the Jets. Listen, it went well. I think it went solid. I think it would have gone great.
[01:35:04] Speaker A: What hurt it was that you were the only one in the.
[01:35:08] Speaker C: That kind of broke the reality a little bit. I will say I just didn't have.
[01:35:12] Speaker A: But no one would work with you then. You were still Mike C. Yeah, exactly.
[01:35:16] Speaker C: Mike G. Now everybody's, everybody's lining up.
[01:35:19] Speaker A: Now you got Comedy Central.
They're bringing UPN back for you.
[01:35:24] Speaker C: That's it. That's the one.
[01:35:26] Speaker A: The only other TV network I could think of.
[01:35:30] Speaker C: Hey, you've heard of the eras tour?
[01:35:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:35:37] Speaker C: Move over, Tay Tay.
This is the Mike G Tour. This is going to be.
[01:35:42] Speaker A: Oh, no pun.
[01:35:43] Speaker C: Really puts. What?
[01:35:44] Speaker A: No pun, then?
[01:35:46] Speaker C: Hold on.
I wasn't planning on a pun, but let me think. But yeah, this is the Mike G Tour, and it's coming to a house near you tomorrow because it's on the boob tube and it's coming right into your screen.
[01:35:58] Speaker A: Okay. You're not doing, like, a house tour like a singer songwriter might.
[01:36:02] Speaker C: No, no, I do weddings but no.
[01:36:05] Speaker A: What do you do at weddings?
[01:36:08] Speaker C: I go up there and I roast the bride and groom.
[01:36:14] Speaker B: He's the man. Not the best man. He's just the man.
[01:36:17] Speaker C: I'm just the man. I walk in, I'm like, hey, what's up, guys? Oh, she really went with that dress. And then they get pissed at me.
[01:36:24] Speaker A: And it's true that you've got Guinness for least invited guest ever?
[01:36:30] Speaker C: That is correct. I've specifically received invitations that say, don't come to this wedding.
[01:36:37] Speaker A: Well, what's the average of five? 4.5 and six?
[01:36:43] Speaker B: Probably a little over five if I had to guess.
[01:36:45] Speaker C: Five plus 4.5, right?
[01:36:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:36:50] Speaker C: That is indeed 5.2 for this episode.
[01:36:53] Speaker A: Okay, that seems all right to me.
[01:36:55] Speaker B: I'm fine with that.
[01:36:57] Speaker A: Okay, so Ray, coming in at a 5.2 on the barometer, I guess we're good to just wrap it up then, right, fellas?
[01:37:05] Speaker C: I think we are.
[01:37:06] Speaker B: I think so.
[01:37:07] Speaker A: Thanks. Oh, the ping pong instructions. The rules. They just loaded on my phone. Finally. It's a big PDF. Oh, yeah, I can tell. Oh, fuck yeah.
[01:37:19] Speaker C: We were breaking a lot of rules, weren't we?
[01:37:20] Speaker A: Well, the thing is, we were kind of playing ping pong for dogs. Like only dogs should have been playing.
The rule says that only a dog can play ping pong, so that's close enough. Null and void, right? So I guess that makes you tonight's big loser. Mike, we're going to have to work out your punishment later, but in the meantime, you can follow us on Instagram and threads at Barone Zone. Facebook.com Slash Barone. Email us at
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[01:38:06] Speaker C: We'll just close it out. Thank you guys so much for listening. Remember to rate and review and say nice things about us, please.
[01:38:14] Speaker B: It makes us happy, gives us a little ego boost, which is what we need to stay alive.
And until next time, how about a good old fashioned classic sign off?
[01:38:25] Speaker A: Everybody love Rice Monk, and we love.
