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.)
Middle of the week and the heat is finally letting up as we barrel toward the end of June and into the summer sun fun madness (aka burning blazing hot as hell end of times.) This has absolutely nothing to do with the Daily Discussion Topic but it felt like a proper way to open the notes this morning. It was an exploration of things that we can do better than others because a list was put up with people offering what they believe they can do better than 80% of others. Marris, for example, thinks he is better at video games (I wonder if he beat Elden Ring, hmm?) Apparently the time and effort he puts forth as a 37 year old gives him great hand/eye coordination and or he has years of experience. His go to atm is EA Sports FC 24 which for those unfamiliar, is a soccer game. I'm going to mix it up and squeeze in Angi and my answers before I get to the list though because sometimes it flows better to have all our answers as opposed to one answer, a list, another answer and then my input. Angi's amazing at parallel parking and can park a semi between two frogs (because that's clearly a thing ... idiot.) As for me, I'm clearly great at reading and roasting a bitch (see: my segment every morning) but I'm also good at writing. Give me a prompt and I can fire up a few pages on it usually with relative ease. As for others, there was picking the slowest line in a store, chess, looking someone directly in the face while they talk and catching none of it. One person has an amazing internal clock and Angi said she too has the ability to guess a time within 15 minutes (same.) Handwriting was there too and Angi explained that she got a handwriting student of the month award in 6th grade and Marris got the chicken scratch writing award. Back to the list, minding their own business, finding misplaced commas (the temptation I had to put a bunch of wrong ones into this I had was there) and untangling things. Angi is also good at that as well if you give her an Adderall prior. The final three from the list was throwing a frisbee, complaining and judging the volume of a liquid pour (what a useless skill.) Now that we've gotten through that jumbled mess, let's see what the Request Line had to offer. Jessica is amazing at returning stuff, even outside of the return policy. Apparently, you have to go Karen and get a manager and just be nice while making up a ridiculous story. Angi added that kindness is key and acting rude to a manager is going to get you nowhere. Head Roadie Bob is the king of helping people do stuff, taking them to the airport or helping if a car breaks down. Head Roadie Keith knows he is a better mechanic. Michael knows what time of day it is without effort. Mike is great at remembering TV shows and can bring up quotes in proper situations. Tilly is amazing at rolling doobies which means she'll be working on this show soon. Emily can pick out the dog breeds in a mix, she just has a sense for it. 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
So yesterday, Angi gave Marris a homework assignment after The Goonies had been discussed a ton on the show yesterday. You see, the iconic map from the movie was tossed away by Sean Astin's mom when he moved out and this led Marris to reveal he had never seen The Goonies. Because Angi just assumed that he belonged in the movie, she made him watch it last night. His overall thoughts were this. For an 80's movie, it was pretty well done and he liked it more than he assumed that he would. He said the direction felt very Spielberg and he immediately fell in love with Chunk because who wouldn't. Angi was a Data lover for the record. Marris found Sloth to be interesting but spent a lot of time trying to figure out his origin. Sure, his mom dropped him on his head but he wondered how she did and how hard it was to create the misshapen mess. Angi suggested that he was perhaps dropped from the Grand Canyon (makes sense if you consider it) and that the flapping ears were probably the inspiration for Shrek. After all Dreamworks = Spielberg, Angi has cracked another case (let's go with that.) Marris also found some parallels to Home Alone in the movie but his biggest issue came with the ending. See, everyone goes on this grand adventure, they find the treasure and then all they grab is some rubies. How could they let the boat sail away, they could have literally had it all (rolling in the deeeeeeep.) Overall Marris liked it and before we closed out ragging on Marris for not having Netflix, Angi had to point out how hot young Josh Brolin was.
Hey, do you own a garbage Apple Vision Pro Headset (you know I will dunk on Apple any chance I get.) It turns out that if you like to game on it, there's a good chance you might get hit with a spider and bat infestation in any of your games. It seems hackers have found a way to make this happen and can unleash a flood of spiders to crawl all over you and make bats fly above you. Marris gave it a moment of consideration and then understood how all this could lead to sensory overload when you really consider it. Marris feels like he would hit the floor and Angi figured she would most likely have a heart attack. Hell, yesterday Angi saw a spider on WGN on the TV and almost fell over. Marris took a moment to spin, maybe making a game called Scary Season with all these jump scares as you progressed through (missed opportunity to brand it Spooky Season dummy.) Angi has an Oculus and was once playing a game where you jump across buildings and walk the plank between Sears Tower and another building. While she did that, Jay the Straight pushed her and she fell to the floor so hard, she bruised her leg. The falling too was awful because you're falling 90 stories so it takes time and knowing you're going to crash and then you see the birds and heaven above when you hit the floor is awful. She's only picking the headset back up if the game is VR being naked with Brad Pitt.
Finally, The Notebook is a sad movie about Alzheimer's and in a sad twist of fate, life is now imitating art. Geena Rowlands, who played the elderly dementia patient in the movie, now has the disease in real life. The news was broken by the movie's director, her son, Nick Cassavetes. She is 94 and after having acted it, they are now living it. Nick was also known for leaking that Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling hated each other on the set when he was having a bad day. Angi found this to be wild that she did the iconic role and then this occurred. It's weirder though when others have movies bleed into their reality. For example, the kid from A Bronx Tale thought he was a real gangster after it and got arrested a bunch. Someone from The Amityville Horror died in a weird way. I could go down a rabbit hole of cursed movies with that comment but it looks like we're out of time folks.
Request Wars 3.5
Theme: Songs About Humping
Current Champion: Marris (5x)
Angi's Song Choice: “Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots
Marris' Song Choice: "The Bad Touch" by Bloodhound Gang
Winner: Marris
10 O' Clock Toast:
Toastee: Jeremy Allen White
The Bear is back today and Angi is excited for the "3 foot 9" actor and Calvin Klein model. He is also part of the Rat Face Pack which includes a bunch of actors with rat-like features to their face, including Challengers hottie Josh O'Connor.
Show Quotes and Tidbits:
"If I die on the toilet, don't let anybody know." - Angi