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.)
Let me start by making a quick point, as I tend to find myself doing now every time I call in. I just wanted to announce that I am not laying on my stomach right now while doing this call in. I assumed this is important knowledge worth obtaining as Abe seems to think that everyone who is at home and listening is laying on their stomach (and he probably assumes we're eating Doritos too!)
To begin, as always, with a question. When you were really young, did your parents make you get a job? Like you had to be 16 to work at a McDonald's so we're looking earlier down the line here. This question was inspired by former iCarly actress Jennette McCurdy, who announced recently that she has quit acting for good and only got into it to help her family with money. Young Angi had several jobs as a kid/teen, including flyering houses for her father's friend, working hella underage at a gas station and of course, the bait shop which comes up every few weeks. There was no fun behind these jobs, this was a basically direct point of telling her that she was going to get a job if she wanted new school clothes. When Abe was 13, he worked at the Southwest News Herald delivering newspapers. He needed the money to buy trading cards (and probably Doritos and like Hellmann's mayo I'm assuming.) It's funny how when looking back on it now, getting all this stuff seemed worth it and yet I couldn't tell you where half of this junk ended up. Turning to the roadies, it started with Chad who was a bit smarter with his earned cash. He used to cut grass in the summer and shovel snow in the winter. The little entrepreneur decided one summer to save the grass cutting money and used it to buy a snowblower, which in turn made his winter job easier and brought in even more money. Evelyn used to carry groceries from shopping carts to cars. When he was 13, Eric was a corn detasseler, a job which he might have shared with another listener who unfortunately hung up before we found out. Then there was the best of all, Head Roadie Kevin who would settle up beer vendors and they in turn would slide him excess beer for free.
Next on the line, influencers, who I personally and I'm sure Angi and Abe agree, absolutely hate. No one cares what you are peddling and just because you think you're amazing doesn't mean that you are so get over yourself. Anyway, these idiot influencers were trying to get a restaurant to give them free stuff by offering to give the place exposure. The restaurant in turn gave them direction only; it didn't lead to their waiting open doors but to a local police station. When the influencers became confused, the restaurant basically told them to f off and go get their exposure at the police station. Might I add I actually applaud this place and I personally think better of them for what they did. That said, this then turned into a pitch from Abe to Hellmann's, his favorite mayo company. He is their literal poster boy, a person who had a mini fridge installed at work so he could always have his beloved mayo at his side. Abe is all about doing stuff for Hellmann's, he wants them to sponsor "mayo bombs," he probably (definitely) loves them more than his girlfriend. So, the question is, what would your endorser item be, what is the thing you want to talk up and sponsor. Roadie Jake would be all in on Red Bull, it wakes him up and keeps him chugging along. Dan loves his Lifeproof phone case, enough to tell a story that was a bit long in the tooth.
Finally, did somebody do something ridiculous at your wedding that it almost ruined it? In turn, did you do something at a wedding that almost ruined it? This final point of discussion was spawned by a Reddit thread where a woman discussed how a mother in law that looked similar to her bride dress. This is trashy in every way and just showcases what an absolute narcissist this woman is. At Angi's wedding, a guest attempted to sell cocaine to the guests at her wedding. I think she was more offended that it wasn't her that it was being sold to honestly. Roadie Justin was the one that ruined a wedding. After getting remarried twice, he decided to turn his toast into a roast. This triggered Angi because she said it should be an actual toast and not a stupid roast. This is a wedding, not your audition for Def Comedy Jam. Sylvia was enraged when someone ordered a belly dancer for her wedding because she demanded that there shouldn't be one there and yet. Matty had a guest decide that the perfect time to have sex at his wedding was during the first dance and underneath one of the tables. It literally turned into a big to do and everyone was talking about it, it left a real mark. I called in because I had a story about this, being I was the mess who caused an issue. I got super drunk at a wedding, was dancing to "Welcome to the Jungle," and ended up falling head first into the DJ booth. Angi was confused by this because apparently this is how she is at every party.
Request Wars:
Current Champion: Gary (1x)
Challenger Song Choice: "Painkiller"
Champion Song Choice: "Tears Don't Fall"
Observation: It's hard to toot my own horn (not really but let's pretend I'm humble.)I was brought in as a ringer since we lost a player and I brought the rock. In my mind, there was no contest here.
Winner: Jay the Gay
Other Topics:
Guess what, something that no one wanted or needs is returning because people are stupid! That's right, we are in the middle of a cassette tape resurgence and we couldn't care less about it. So Nirvana is releasing a blue cassette version of "Bleach" to balance out a red one they had put out prior. People however assume this is really cool and in turn, Nirvana (or in this case Francis Bean) will be getting some cash at least. This is more important than ever especially because streaming gives artists less money than radio play. Nowadays, everything is merchandised and good on them. However, some people would not want this. Beloved deceased legend and Angi's favorite Prince would be against all of this. Of course, before he was barely even cold, the family was throwing out Prince trash left and right to get free cash. These money grubbing pigs could not help themselves, they wanted and needed that money so badly. Like, if Prince was alive and Justin Timberlake had tried his tribute to him at the Super Bowl, he would have probably beat him with a cane since he hated Justin.
Continuing onward, let's talk about work (I mean just because it makes sense since this is a real job right.) So 76% of people working from home feel that their relationship with their co-workers has only gotten stronger. 50% of people have said that working remotely has made them more productive. 3 out of 4 people have said that they are better when they are working from home. If anything good has come from this whole pandemic, it would be that all this has made people so happy it seems. Abe though, he is kind of feeling the opposite. Since he started working at the station in October, he has barely met anyone and doesn't know anyone. After all, there are 100's of people who work there and he has seen like 4 of them. This then led into one of Abe' obsession, discussing people lying on their stomachs while working from home. Since this is something he would love to do if he had an office job and was working from home, he assumed all other people were as well. Angi had to say that her assumption is that not a lot of people are doing this but Abe is strongly convicted and I'm sure nothing is going to change his mind.
Lastly, Abe hates Zoom with a passion and will only indulge in that mess for work. Angi had to ask his feelings on it because a lot of guys have found themselves wearing makeup on Zoom because they hate how they look. Abe offered that if he's having a bad hair day, he will offer up wearing a hat but nothing further. The grievance of Angi continued as she yelled at men for stealing makeup from the ladies. They could even get a ring light, that will help them cover up all their flaws. The point of this all was that vanity is pointless and it doesn't matter how you look on these calls because honestly, no one cares.
10 o' Clock Toast:
Window Washers. Abe hopes they make $70 an hour. This is a crazy job, sometimes they'll wear Spiderman outfits and basically they put their lives on the line to keep the station squeaky clean.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
Quote: "If you have money you have to write out a very detailed will." - Abe
Quote: "I wanna do an experiment, no matter what neighborhood you're from, Abe can call out a restaurant or sub place around there." - Angi
Quote: "If you wanna do Request Wars and your work says eh, maybe it's time to look for another job." - Angi
Quote: "I like sausage!" - Abe