Call in Point:
(This is the broadstroke canvas on which I base my call, obviously these notes are going to be longer and more detailed.)
So, as you should know quite well by now, Angi loves herself a good challenge. Always scrolling TikTok and the like to find all those new trends, she always tends to be on the ball when announcing and discussing fun (and usually stupid/dangerous) things idiots are doing. With that established, it would only make sense that we finally got around to discussing the red flag challenge thing. If you're not familiar, people have been all over social media picking out something that when you consider it would be a total red flag. I would give an example of what these could be but luckily Angi and Abe laid out plenty of examples (which I'm going to rearrange for these notes vs the segment for cohesion purposes) and then tackle theirs as well as the roadies. If you're lucky, perhaps I'll include a few of my own that didn't make the initial on air cut. So take dating as the first example, a red flag when dating someone for example would be if they own two phones or when you guys go out, you never go back to their place. As I'm jumping around here, other exampled red flags included "I don't like dogs," putting ketchup on your hotdog (I don't care about the Chicago way, I'm doing it,) that Karen haircut and the moment she wants to speak to the manager, people who refer to themselves in third person, people who say "I f'ing love Wrigleyville!" With all those examples opened and presented, let's check into what Angi and Abe had to add to the list. Abe is anyone who takes too many selfies (especially guys.) Along with that, add in and essentially in the same vein on his list are models on Instagram, people who refer to themselves as an influencer and people who have more pics of their ass than their face. Also there was a detoured point about Abe's feeling that fat people should be running restaurants. Moving on to Angi, her list are all things we've heard her discuss before. Like a person who's car interior is disgusting. Her car centric add-on involved ones with too many bumper stickers on them. With their grievances aired, we took to the phones to see what triggered the roadies alerts. Sandy, who was on her Cricket Wireless phone didn't get a chance to really make her point but it had something to do with a tongue ring. They both agreed that a guy with a tongue ring is weird but Abe went further talking about guys with belly button tattoos. Story time followed about the guy Angi dated who had a belly button ring with a charm on it. No, it was not Batista but she did bang him because he was a hot, skinny model type. Tony's red flags fly whenever he goes to a girl's house and she has multiple kinds of condoms (gee, I hope he never goes by Angi.) Phil said those people who self diagnosis should be flagged. Yet another Angi took issue with this point as she is 100% that person. In fact, one time she called her mother and made her cry after convincing herself that she has Lupus. You see, for Angi, going to the doctor is way too much work. Adam finds a total fault in tattoo artists who have no tattoos. As for Santiago, he is running out the door at the sign of too many filters on an Instagram pic. Now, I felt that a few of them were left off this list so I'm including them below. If you are the host of the morning show on Rock 95.5 (seriously, these people are monsters,) when you get a text saying "your couch will be delivered today," anyone who says that they're "sober," and of course, when a guy comes in and says "Hello, my name is Eric Ferguson." Oh and before I go, the biggest red flag of all is anyone that doesn't listen to Rock 95.5.
All the Rest:
Now, we here at The Angi Taylor Show take pride in not only providing morning commentary and comedy but also helpful tips. For that reason, I felt that I should make a point of not one but two tips that Abe and thn Angi supplied for the roadies this morning. It began with Abe's best friend Hollywood who has gotten close with Angi which means he's selling out Abe all the time now. While texting, Hollywood told Angi that he needs to get Angi to have him explain how to get extra orange chicken when you go to Panda Express. You see, the way he explains it is that he hypnotizes the people who are working behind the counter. Now his interpretation of hypnotization is to make a disgusting sounding noise (listen to the podcast to hear it) and then lock eyes with them. Once they are thoroughly weirded out, they'll just keep scooping because they'll be so distracted (and probably trying not to vomit.) Angi chimed in that if she happened to be there and saw a man moaning, she would straight up call the cops (smart girl.) It should be noted that this trick does not work at Chipotle because there's actually a ton of people there usually and Abe would be embarrassed to do this nonsense in front of them. I should also add that when Abe does it at Panda Express, he's also the only person there. Trust me, you have to hear this moan and honestly, if Angi was working there and this occurred, this would be the day she quit. As for the second food tip, this is more of a hack and brought to us by Angi this morning. This one involves going to 5 Guys Burgers and Fries (of which she has never been to mind you) and turning one burger into two. Learned from TikTok, what you need to do is order a normal burger, ask for the toppings on the side and get an extra bun (which they offer for free.) So you split the normal burger apart and create two, therefore filling yourself more with all the extra bread. When Angi mentioned that she had never been to 5 Guys, Abe was absolutely shocked and made a point about how Angi hates food. This isn't true (though honestly she'd probably rather have Jack then food) and she tends to eat all the time and eat everything to boot. For example, last night she had spaghetti and meatballs from The Pasta Bowl. Unlike Abe though, she doesn't go nuts about eating or gets excited about it. She also doesn't have a food based podcast so it would make sense that she's not so into rambling on about things she consumed (outside of booze) daily.
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Hey, enjoyer of rock music and rock 95.5, there's probably a good chance that you are old. In a topic which I assume was a gentle nudge toward Angi's birthday tomorrow as well, Angi gave us a list of things that will indicate that you are a geriatric. Remember rewinding your cassette tapes so you could write down the lyrics to a song? Do you remember having to get up to turn the TV channels? Do you remember having to remove the car stereo to keep it from being stolen? This led to a small example of Angi realizing that Abe was pretty rich when he was young. Have you ever had a push pop? Again, we pause to remind everyone that if you ever had a Flinstones push pop, you would end up having green poop. Green obviously was Abe's color of choice, Angi apparently eats a lot of the new formula because her poop is orange all the time. Have you ever caused a wreck looking for a CD in your car? Did you have all your CD's stuffed inside one of those giant album books in the car? Did you have to set your TV to Channel 3 in order to actually watch a movie? Have you ever been yelled at to get off the internet so a person who lives in the house could use the phone? Have you ever had to wait days for your disposable camera pics to develop only to realize it was all pictures of thumbs? Abe explained that he once met Dave Gahan and he was so worried that the pic was not amazing since he had to wait to see it. They did get to take plenty though after they spooned the rest of the time they were together. Angi too had a picture story but hers involved Justin Timberlake whose bodyguard took the pic and purposely thumbed it. Have you ever slammed a house phone down during an argument? Have you ever listened in on a house line? That was a staple in the Kanan house as Abe and Sam were always listening in on calls with Danny Gaga and Joe Gaska. Angi's mom was her stealth listener but she was absolutely terrible at it. Have you ever had to wait for hours for a single song to download? Have you ever sat by the radio and had to wait so you could record your favorite song to a tape? All of these examples are things that mean that you are old as dirt and if you felt seen like I did while reading this list, blame grandma Taylor over there. Roadie Mark chimed in for a moment to discuss the overabundance that used to be having a ton of tapes in the car. This led to Angi discussing have to wind tapes back up and me wanting to kill myself because I'm a fossil.
Finally, there was a quick dip into essential worker angst this morning. After receiving an email that she probably shouldn't have read on air, Angi got upset about the lack of staff at the Rock 95.5 offices. By lack I mean there is literally no one there. In accordance with this email, it was mentioned that this empty trend is going to continue for some time. However, even though the sales department is not there, they are still at least selling like bandits. Though the idea here is that it must be nice to work from home and not have to come in every morning, Abe found himself feeling bad for these workers. No, not because they are not reacclimated and can't leave the house but because these young sales folk are missing their chance to get laid. You see, in his mind the sales office creates love stories like Jim and Pam fromThe Office. This of course triggered the proper response of hooking up in the workplace gives you an Eric Ferguson problem, which also makes sense. Here's the thing, these two are both living in different ideal worlds and so as this devolves and becomes a mess, it only gets sillier. Abe decided to counter Angi's whole sexual assault boss concept by explaining how she was once the pursuer who tried to make out with her gay promotions director. Then again, Abe met his girlfriend of 6 years now at work. However, if you date at work you can be introduced to all the hot friends of your paramore. This is not an option when working from home and you're doing all your jobbing on Zoom. Factor in though that again you can have Jim and Pam's, Eric Ferguson's and then the places that do not want this happening at all. None of this applies to radio though because everyone meets everyone in radio through some type of media and they all date each other. This includes Angi who has gotten with artists, stage hands and other people. I'm not entirely sure what the whole point of this mess was aside from Angi throwing people under the bus and Abe pointing out that she's the Eric Ferguson of Rock 95.5.
Request Wars 2.0:
Champion: Angi (Streak: 4)
Angi's (repping Renee) Song Choice: "Paralyzer"
Abe's (repping Mandy) Song Choice: "Foolin'"
Observation:
Angi absolutely hates her song and basically spent her time trashing it. Abe took advantage of this by basically stroking off Renee and then falling all over Mandy. Renee the nun really loves "Paralyzer" but Angi refused to fight for her. Also, there was a big back and forth about Handy Manny and Handy Andy, which was a (stupid) treat. I think this is a given for Abe.
Winner: Angi
10 o'Clock Toast:
Reba McIntyre. People who want to dress up as her for Halloween gotta wear a red dress and red hair.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
Quote: "Just know I hate you if you talk about inheritance all the time." - Abe
PSAbe: Hey Bears, don't let this happen.
PSAngi: She didn't mean to align Abe with Eric Ferguson.