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This is just a small taste of the show overall, the bits and bobs that I found interesting, funny, insightful and relevant. To hear everything that happened, check out the podcast of today's show. However, if you're looking for a quick read along with random self inserts and my personal thoughts, you've come to the right place.
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.)
Well, that was certainly a wild weekend and after everything that went down, I hope you're a bit sober because there is a lot to unpack today. FYI, I'm not sober but that's beyond the point, let's get into this steaming pile. So Angi was at the show event at Cork & Kerry on Friday when Southpaw came in and tried to knock Tommy Hawk out of her DM's and then she went to a Top 5 of All Time Metallica show (when pressed what was knocked out of her top 5, she didn't know because she barely knows what planet she's on most days.) This was followed by a trip to Serb Fest which got her thinking about culture and created a Daily Discussion Topic for us. Angi sought to hear about funny or weird things from people's cultures so we started with hers. Promaja, which is a superstition about leaving two windows open at the same time and them causing a health risk while also allowing for the devil to come in. However, if you tuck your shirt into your pants, it keeps the devil from being able to get to your kidneys. Right, so her people are nuts, let's get to something more grounded in reality from Marris. He explained to us why smoke alarms are always chirping in black peoples houses. Aside from the fact that they never get changed, it has to do with different ones going off at separate times and not knowing which is the one that is going bad so they all just get ignored. In fact, he has vivid memories of being at his grandma's house and playing in the basement while that familiar chirp was going. I also have vivid memories but they mostly come from playing video games online. Anig and Michael both explained that this is a no go in their respective houses because it makes their dogs go nuts. Speaking of Michael, his contribution as a Brit is how much they love to use the "c" word. I personally think I must have been British in a past life because that is my favorite word and I use it to pepper pretty much all of my sentences off air. As for his white American side, he offered the love of Ed Hardy and unseasoned white chicken. I'd offer up mine but I don't know anything interesting about being Lithuanian, Polish and Greek so let's just go right to the Request Line. Kristen is Armenian as they have the evil eye. This is used to ward off bad stuff but if you happen to not be wearing yours, her 98 year old grandmother will pinch your butt which also works as protection it seems. Erin was married to a Serb for 16 years and learned that sitting on concrete causes hemorrhoids and eating popsicles in the winter will give you a sore throat. Chris is Scottish and told us how the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. He assumed they picked it because they drank too much. Jeff called into discuss how Polack's are cheap and always trying to save money. Eric is Sicillian and he has to get out of bed right foot first or else! If you are looking for more roadie thoughts or have your own, hit up our Facebook group (Angi Taylor Show) and drop us a comment.
Other Stuff from Today's Show
Now, because this is Michael's first day, the next two note sections will be focused on him with the first being kind of a bio and the second being a game of Plead the Fifth wear he answers silly questions from Angi (and in turn, created our first piece of exploitable lore about him.) Right, so Michael Mason or Mike as the roadies have already taken to calling him for whatever reason, comes to us from Denver. He is "8 feet tall" (Angi's using her AARP guesstimator on this one,) "handsome," (I don't have enough experience to judge this yet,) and covered in tattoos. In fact, he even has a massive Larry David portrait tattoo as he loves Seinfeld and Larry David. He moved to Chicago two weeks ago and arrived on Saturday night for Lollapalooza. Apparently, his GPS took him down the depths that is Lower Wacker. Once inside the dead zone that is the infernal pit controlled by The Joker and Bane, everything shut down basically and since it is layered, the GPS essentially exploded. While finding it vaguely scary, he also found it to be fun. After all, he likes learning new things and as Angi explained, once you figure it out you're basically hot to go. This is essential since the upper portion of it is always packed and everyone is afraid of lower due to said DC villains and other such nonsense. Another first was his trip to Mariano's where he was shocked to find a bar, someone playing the piano and the fact that you could basically sit down and take in a game while you shop for groceries. See, he was a country boy and now he's a city boy so he is going to learn a hell of a lot pretty quick I'm assuming. One more thing before we go into a game where we learned about Michael, he got married on May 14th, the same as early onset Angi. This is relevant because even though she's been married for 15 years, she still somehow forgets when her anniversary is so at least someone can remind her aside from myself and Marris now.
Right, onto Plead the Fifth, the game show where we use questions to learn about our new morning friend. Obviously, there will be a lot to unpack as we go along since this is day one but throwing Michael in the hot seat made sense. The way it was structured was he was given three questions and could plead the fifth to get out of one of them but he was a trooper and answered all of them. 1) Who is the most overrated band or musician? A: Lady Gaga, he is bothered by her shocking wacky clothing like the meat dress and he just does not think she is a good artist. 2) Have you ever secretly read your wifes texts? A: No, he's never thought about it because he's in a good relationship (this seems like accidental shade and I am here for it.) Ironically (cough,) Angi read one of Jay the Straight's texts when they were in their first year of dating because she saw her name and it wasn't good. Needless to say, she stopped snooping after that but she still uses the incident 15 years later when she feels like yelling at him. 3) Did he really have the chance to smash Avril Lavigne and chickened out. A: He sure did (loser.) This was when "complicated" came out and after interviewing her, his boss got a voicemail asking for him to go on tour with her for a few days. They did three shows together and would skateboard in arenas among other things (like going to dinner.) On the end of the 3rd night, he was going to get picked up in Portland when she gave him bedroom eyes and asked if he was going home or staying with her tonight. He said "someones coming to get me" and that was that. Angi and Marris though would have smashed (same fr.) Michael was just overwhelmed and it was too much. He also let us know that she had blackbelts rollerblading behind her as security and Angi, being the amazing host she is, may try to get Avril into the studio at some point for some awkward hilarity.
Finally, Angi was mad last week about AARP sending her much needed magazines and pamphlets so it's kind of funny that she "allegedly" didn't get an email from them about 19 Things You Didn't Know Your Smartphone Could Do. Things on the list included:
Your phone could be used a flashlight!
Your phone can download a weather app!
Your phone has a built in calculator!
Your phone can give your directions!
Your phone has an egg timer!
Your phone can read QR codes!
Your phone has a built-in video camera!
While we pondered what these people do with their phones, Angi saw this list as a reason why she doesn't need AARP yet. She feels like there needs to be two versions of AARP like "Senior Senior AARP" (aka Angi's age) and "About to Die AARP." This led to a discussion of more things a phone can do like be used to measure without a ruler. Angi doesn't trust that though (because old people are afraid of technology.) It can translate foreign languages. It can listen to the radio! (free Rock 95.5 on the iHeart app plug.) Marris added that us Samsung people can add or subtract time to our snooze buttons in the morning. Michael mentioned he personally has 4 alarms in order just to make sure he is up on time (welcome to never sleeping anymore.) Angi doesn't know anything that her iPhone does (even though she never shuts up about it.) Michael offered that he can silence unknown callers and Angi explained how she gets them nonstop. This led to her discussing being texted by fake hot spammers and how she sometimes thinks she wants to get with them. We ended with talking about the Jitterbug and its three buttons which, you know, Angi will probably need soon.
Request Wars 4.0
Theme: Pearl Jam Clam Jam
Current Champion: N/A
Marris' Song Choice: "Even Flow" by Pearl Jam
Michael's Song Choice: "Glorified G" by Pearl Jam
Winner: Marris
10 O' Clock Toast:
Toastee: Michael Mason
Our amazing new morning friend had a great first day and we reviewed some of what he has done while being in Chicago so far. He went to Lower Wacker, he was at Cork & Kerry, he saw Blink 182 at Lolla, took the architectural boat tour where his cocktail was overpoured and rented a pontoon for the Air & Water Show. We all know that change is never easy so be open and let Michael inside you like he is going to let Angi in with a strap on apparently.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
"Are you (Marris) telling me black people don't change the batteries in smoke alarms?" - Angi
"It hurts to go in slow, you just gotta dive in." - Michael