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Well, it's hump day and with the holiday closing in, this week just feels too long. You can also tell it's midweek when everything goes wrong on the show. Broken headphones, broken computers and Abe being distracted by The Grinch being arrested that accidentally sent the show into a spiral while Angi put on lip gloss. God, is it Friday yet?
Legendary rocker and Eagles member Joe Walsh called in to promote an upcoming virtual event. On Saturday, Vet Aid 2020 will occur and feature 30 artists including Bon Jovi, Brad Paisley, Jason Isbell and a ton of others. He's doing this virtual show to celebrate veterans, especially his father. His father had been in the air force (before it was called the air force) and his step dad was a serviceman as well. There is a sadness in his life because he never really knew his father and to him, he is his hero. He feels compelled to help out vets for the overall loss he feels. Angi chimed in with an interesting question, was he going to sell his catalogue like Stevie Nicks and Bob Dylan have recently? His response was what you'd imagine, it is definitely food for thought. The world has changed and the way that music is consumed has followed and so living off royalties is no longer viable. A question of how many times he's smoked weed with Willie Nelson was posed. There was no need to smoke he explained, just getting on the bus was going to knock you stoned silly. Finally, he concluded with saying that everyone should wear their masks whether they want to or not and to stay six feet apart from yourself.
As if covid hasn't done enough this year, it's now taking away everyone's favorite holiday tradition, the company Christmas party. That magical night where you eat too much, drink too much, say things you'll regret until you start work in the new year if you haven't been fired. So, to make up for it, Angi and Abe wanted to know, have you ever said anything ridiculous at the office Christmas party. One better, is there anything you would want to or were going to say this year that you can't? Angi told a story about the big boss of the radio station who got wasted at a prior party, used his tie as a bandana and then took his shirt off while dancing to "Big Papa." At Abe's old company, the same guy pooped himself at back to back Christmas parties. Angi told tales of what could have been, cases of Jack flowing, food piled high to oppose the gods. Still though, we're here for the tea, so let's spill the dirt on what would have been said had this actually occurred. Abe wanted to know "Where's my money, I want my money, you mfer, when are you gonna pay me my money!" Angi was a bit more tame. "Hey, big papa, you look hot tonight. Wanna go out back and smoke some weed? No...okay, well where's Abe's money!" As for the listeners, they had a variety of interesting bits to share as well. Marianne told a story about how her boss got wasted and was trying to throw things into her clevage in front of his wife last year. Kelly would tell her boss to stop staring at her rack every meeting. Troy would tell his boss that he got his job and that he should enjoy his last Christmas party. Head Roadie of BBW wanted to tell his boss "Oh you got a fat ass." Brian would tell his boss that everyone knows he's hooking up with his assistant. Trishia would have revealed she was quitting because she got a new job at a competitor that starts on the 4th. Marie would finally stick it to her boss who spelled the word "virus" wrong all year. What about you, what would you tell or do at your Christmas party? Hit Angi and Abe up on their socials and let them know.
Finally, speaking of listener curiosity, in celebration of all the musician interviews they've done so far, they wanted to know who the listeners wanted to hear be interviewed. Abe's choice was Axl Rose because of course. Angi wanted to talk to Tommy Lee...'s big dong. Listener suggestions included Ted Nugent, Ace Frehley and literally hundreds wanted to hear from James Hetfield. I'll leave it at that, is there a musician you'd want to hear from? Hit Angi and Abe up on Twitter and tell them.
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In a bit I'd like to call "Don't Say You Don't Learn Anything on The Angi Taylor Show," today the listeners were informed that we consume a credit card worth of plastic in a week. In one year, we eat a dinner plate worth. After ten years, we've consumed a floatation ring. As for a lifetime, we have almost two dumpsters worth of plastic settle in and pass through us. In order words, would you please stop throwing your plastic around and in lakes. Speaking of learning, yesterday we learned Abe hates sea food and he felt vindicated in doing such today when he learned seafood has a ton of plastic. On the other hand, Angi loves seafood and eats it all the time, plastic be damned. Abe went on to confuse the listeners by explaining he likes sushi but only if it's covered in everything and he can't tell that it's sushi. The final part of this learning lesson, Angi found out that lobster used to be considered garbage back in the day and that it was commonly fed to prisoners.
Another piece of dropped insight was into the life of Mr. Kanan as Abe explained he falls into a Youtube vortex every night. As someone who has known him for years, I've heard about everything from music videos to animals to fight videos. Last night was once again fight videos, It always seems to be rednecks fighting as well, calling each other the n word because you know, trash. Speaking of trash, Abe called out people who headbutt. Angi, who also falls into Youtube vortexes at night but not to Abe's degree, agreed and said people just need to grow up. In fact, she used to do a show with a european guy who had a lump on his head because he had gotten into a fight and was head butted on his head. Abe's secondary point went back after guys who take your shirt off to fight. Another long sticking point of Abe's, I think the whole point of this deep dive was for Abe to tell people to stop headbutting and taking their shirts off when they fight. Did that register after reading me essentially saying that 15 times?
Lastly, in today's Drunk Ninja news, a Connecticut woman (this show is all about equal opportunity after all) who was drunk crashed her 2012 Lexus. She proceeded to fail her field sobriety test and was charged with a DUI and possession of painkillers. Well, this treasure was arrested once more six hours later at the same exact liquor store that she was arrested at prior. These people are the worst but it also shows how far we have started to fall from not being complete messes.
Head Roadie: A quick congrats to Jim from Detroit btw who was dubbed Head Roadie of Detroit.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
"If you're listening and you headbutt when you fight, you're a scumbag"
"The rich have it all, the rich know what they're doing!" - Abe
"I'm a bear!" - Abe