This is a small taste of the show overall, the bits and bobs that I found interesting and funny, insightful and relevant. To hear everything that happened, check out the podcast version of the show. If you want a quick read along with random self inserts and my personal thoughts, you've come to the right place.
Call in Points:
(This is the broadstroke canvas on which I base my call, obviously these notes are going to be longer and more detailed and may contain things that were cut for time.)
Ugh, it's Monday and that alone should be bad. However, throw in the fact that we might get 8 inches (hmmmmm) of snow (booo!) and it makes for a recipe of just not wanting to do anything today. So strap on in, try not to swear on air and let's dive on in.
Let's start with the Worst Bet of the Week, which is my favorite shading segment when it goes south. If you were stupid enough to cash out all your money, well I'm not sure exactly how you're reading this now since you're probably homeless. This was an amazing bet, a great bet, a wonderful bet. Yeah, so what excuse is Abe giving all the newly poor people out there. He mushed the bet on purpose to make sure Green Bay lost as a favor to Chicago. Keep this in mind when you're eating a shoe for dinner, Abe did this for you! Also, he lost money on the McGregor fight as well so his weekend in gambling was a complete wash.
In a segment that went a bit better than the time Angi asked the gayest thing listeners have done, today she wondered what movies have made them cry? This is one of those things where no matter how many times you've seen it, you still tear up. Abe definitely "tears up" watchingRudybecause you know. He also probably cried watchingThe GooniesandNever Ending Story, he can't seem to remember. Angi said she cried while watchingThe Notebook,Titanic,E.T.andArmageddon. Other movies of the original list includedThe Green Mile,Saving Private Ryan,Cast Away,Fried Green Tomatoes,Steel Magnolias,The Fault in Our Stars,League of Their Own,Avengers: Infinity WarandAvengers: Endgame. The roadies chimed in with some of their picks. Matthew saidSecretariatmade him cry. Dave said the movieTaking Chance. Another Dave saidMajor Leaguedid it for him. As for me, I'm a bit more obscure but mine would beThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button,Never Let Me Go,Spirited AwayandThe Opposite of Sex. We also learned from this that Abe has never seenTitanicin full.
Finally, we convenied another edition of the Roadie Roundtable. That's right, a roadie has a problem that they can't solve on their own, so they offer it up to the other roadies on a bronze platter. Deliberation ensues and an answer is given. In a proper world, this would work out well but let's be realistic, none of this ever tends to work out as expected. Today's dilemma began as an email that turned into a call in from roadie Heather. Her poor cat is suffering from liver failure and though he is getting better, his medical bill ballooned to an insane $10,000. As a sign of being a good friend, a friend started a GoFundMe for her and it has reached $2,000. Her soon to be ex husband's aunt, who is well aware of the impending divorce, donated $70 to the GoFundMe. After considering it for a moment, she decided she wanted to rescind the charity offering. Heather is unaware of how or if she could give the money back from/through the GoFundMe. The aunt then suggested that Heather Venmo her $70 dollars. The question raised to the roadies, should she give the money back or keep it? The collective spoke up and offered their opinions, each which basically said don't give the money back. After the discussion and consideration of what was said, Heather decided she will not give the money back.
Request Wars:
Current Champion: Mark (1x)
Challenger Song Choice: "Buddy Holly"
Champion Song Choice: "Indians"
The song choices were a bit blah imo and the smack talk was essentially one side as Mark went all much mouth. This wasn't a contest at all, more like a smothering with a pillow imo.
Winner: Erin
Other Topics:
During a long weekend of lounging and I'm assuming drinking wine, Angi shared two interesting tidbits about her life outside of the show. For starters, this weekend she signed up for Discovery+ because our lives are now going to move away from cable and into needing 9 streaming services for all the content we desire. Anyway, she spent the entire weekend watching Discovery+ and the no commercials version of it to boot! Abe went on to say he has access to 2 Netflix accounts and is stealing Disney+ from his brother. He also mentioned Netflix apparently is going up to 19.99 starting in February, which if true, is nuts. The one thing that Abe does pay for is ESPN+, which also got an extra $75 of Abe's money for the McGregor fight this weekend (as did Jay the Straight's service stream.) Angi would go on to explain that she can't watchHoardersandMy Secret Addictionbecause it makes her crazy. To cap off all this streaming talk, Abe broke the news that the WWE Network is being rolled into god awful streaming app Peacock, which means Angi will have to get yet another service now.
The other Angi news was a point about how her iPhone alerte her to how much time it was used yesterday. It came as a shock that she hit six hours on it though after the above explanation and explaining of what she did all weekend, there is no shock there. Abe too is apparently a phone junkie but was too embarrassed to announce his overall given numbers. Interestingly enough, Angi's hours dumped into the phone aren't spent taking headless naked selfies but instead, playing games. She loves her phone games, enough to where she'll sometimes make in-app purchases as well (poor thing.) Abe also plays on his phone but his game is chess, which he used to also play with Nick Hexum of 311 for a time.
Lastly, Angi posed a question, would you buy a house if someone was murdered in it. Abe began by offering up that it depended on the price. Angi apparently was not having it and said no. This came up because a couple was house shopping and as they looked around, they found a fresh dead body in a drainage ditch on the property. This revelation made Abe slightly change his mind. You see, if there's a body on the scene then Abe doesn't want the house. However, if 9 months had passed, then he wouldn't mind buying it. Somehow the topic (I'm saying somehow, we know things are all over always on this show,) turned to sex with ghosts. For Angi, this was okay and she would totally not mind living in a haunted house.
10 o' Clock Toast:
Dustin Poirier. For knocking out McGregor (which made Angi laugh) and in turn, he got rid of all the overused Bernie memes.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
Quote: "You wouldn't expect me to play chess, I look like a checkers guy to you?" - Abe
Quote: "I know that my reputation means everything in Chicago..." - Abe
Quote: "If this ghost doesn't put out, I'm not buying this house." - Angi