Gilded Trash
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Gilded Trash
So Yinz Think Yinz Can Joke
Join us as we take a lively dive into the bustling comedy scene of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where we unpack a week of heartfelt performances and great laughs. From chaotic Valentine’s Day shows dubbed the “Valentine's Day Massacre” to local comedians honing their craft at The Comedy Farm, this episode paints a picture of a vibrant community fueled by laughter. Our hosts share personal anecdotes and experiences of performing in front of enthusiastic crowds, emphasizing how joyful audiences can elevate comedy shows to new heights.
We also reminisce about the great nostalgia of local pizza shops, linking these warm memories to the comfort and joy of good food and good friends. As we explore the complexities surrounding freedom of speech in comedy, we urge open dialogue on the nature of humor in today's ever-changing cultural landscape. The conversation culminates in excitement over upcoming charity shows, encouraging everyone to support local comedy.
Whether you're a die-hard comedy fan or just curious about our fun journey into Johnstown's entertainment landscape, this episode promises to entertain and inspire. Make sure to hit subscribe and join our joyous exploration of laughter, community, and good food!
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Well, we're live from Johnstown.
Speaker 2:Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean Johnstown. Pennsylvania is the only Johnstown that matters. I would say it takes the cake. It is. Maybe, I'm sure there's probably one in every state, but I mean Johnstown is the most famous. Pennsylvania is the most famous. I know it is, I'm sorry. No, probably one in every state, but I mean Johnstown is the most famous, pennsylvania is the most famous.
Speaker 2:I know it is, I'm sorry it's terrible, although Johnstown, maryland, which is close to California, maryland, is really nice. What?
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a Johnstown Maryland. Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2:Close to California Maryland.
Speaker 1:Hollywood, you mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah, hollywood, maryland.
Speaker 1:Why are you talking like that, like what you were?
Speaker 2:like better than Better than I don't know.
Speaker 1:But no, what have we been up to? Welcome back. We're in a new weather pattern up here. We've actually been thawed out for two days now.
Speaker 3:What's that going to mean to us here in the Three Rivers area? One of these big blue things, this cold, frigid Arctic air, this big mass coming out of the north. It's going to meet up with all of this moisture coming up out of the Gulf, going to mix together at high altitude and cause some snow going out on a limb now not going to hit us here in pittsburgh, going to push off and hit altuna.
Speaker 2:Close call folks so we've been some places, we've done some things um, yeah, I actually got out there and washed the window earlier because it was so nice out. Wow, the sun was shining.
Speaker 1:That's incredible. Yeah, in business, no. So we've had a wild week of comedy here starting last Friday. I mean, I say we. I have had a wild week of comedy here, although coming up you're going to be Maybe.
Speaker 2:We'll see.
Speaker 1:No, we're maybe going to try to get her to do stand-up for the second time, which will be a lot of fun, and next week open mic or the comedy tryouts, I should say, at the Comedy Farm in Altoona. Regardless of any of that, last Friday we did a show in a place called Chess Springs Valentine's Day Dude. We called it the Valentine's Day Massacre because it was murder.
Speaker 2:Oh my God.
Speaker 1:No, it was a great show, though. It was a really great show. It was a really great show.
Speaker 2:It was a great show and crowd matters. I'm going to say it over and, over and over again.
Speaker 1:It definitely does, and the fact that they had been they'd been there waiting for comedy to start. We got there an hour before the show started. These people had already been there for Richard like since six, and the show started at eight. So they were lubed up baby you know what I mean like they had drinks in them, food, they were ready to go, ready to laugh. They were a great time. Uh, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but not only that like but everybody ripped. I mean, the show was amazing. First of all, you have a new killer set that I've been leaking to the interwebs, so that was awesome. But the bartender, becky, she was hilarious, I love her so much. The food we got a sampler platter which is just like fried bar foods, so that was normal, but the salads looked amazing.
Speaker 1:The steaks looked really good. Yeah, everything looked really good. I mean, we'll go back up, we'll check it out sometime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, comedy or no comedy, the crowd was a hoot. I loved it. Everybody was so nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's my kind of place. It's very out know out the middle of nowhere. I love a good bar out in the middle I love a good dive bar a good bar out in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, good people at those bars yeah, for sure, um, but uh, yeah, no, it was just a great show. Like I said, everybody did really well. That was part of the. It's easy, it's. It's more fun for the comics too when the crowd's great because, like they're, it gets them in a better mood. They, they do better. It's like a reciprocal thing, like if the crowd is good and the comedian's good, they just. It elevates the comedian to a better level if the crowd is great, because then they feed off that energy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I mean gosh probably hands down one of the best crowds that I've seen at a non-national show, especially for being like a weird room dynamically, in terms of like you have two rooms and there's like a wall that splits the bar from the like dining room yeah but the stage you kind of can see over to the other side, so those people were still all interact. It's, it was a different dynamic, but it uh, it uh, it was.
Speaker 2:It was good yeah, the people at the end of the bar though that could see over into the stage they were, they were so much fun, yeah, they, but everybody was having a good time and um, no, I mean.
Speaker 1:So then, uh, that was three Scots in a Ridge. And then Thursday I did two guest spots. Um, Christina Mariani, of course, was at the comedy farm, which her, I mean so good, I mean, she was phenomenal, as always, Better than ever. It's like that's part of the fun that you get to have seeing somebody so many times is you get to see them grow, especially when they're like somebody as good as she is. And Ridge too. I mean we were talking about that the other day.
Speaker 2:How much better Ridge like, not that Ridge like I'm not saying anything like that he was, but I'm just saying he's grown by grown so much better like which is crazy because he's been on sorry, he's been doing comedy now for like a while, yeah, he's been been doing comedy for a couple years. He's been on kill tony, so he's out there doing the thing, but he just, for whatever reason, I feel like he's just gotten stronger and stronger the last couple times.
Speaker 1:You can tell he's been working.
Speaker 2:Putting the work in.
Speaker 1:You can tell he's been working, because he's just when you watch somebody, if every time you see them they're getting better and better, especially when you know their stuff like you know, you see the progression, how much better it is.
Speaker 2:Right. And yeah, he's just that's the fun part for me is I'm an outside observer, so like there's no stake in the game for me right now, so like I just get to watch everybody grow. Um, right, so that's I mean, it's fun.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 2:Um, but where Ridge signs in my mind is promoting dude.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's a hustler he is a hustler, he gets it. He's like rise and grind man.
Speaker 2:He's always on it those are my people, what I've said it a million times like I don't care what you're doing in life if you're trying hard at it like you are my people. Unless you're trying hard at failing, and then maybe not. That's a different thing.
Speaker 1:Then you're not really trying, you're just doing it, but whatever I mean he's got the comedy farm.
Speaker 2:There's more shows coming up um. Earl david reed is going to be up there all week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'll be fun. So yeah, March 1st or whatever that he's up there. He's up there like the night after the Comedy Farm tryouts are like the 28th tryouts. It's an open mic. Come on out, all are welcome.
Speaker 2:It'll be a good time If you think you can.
Speaker 1:Or come out and watch if you don't want to do it.
Speaker 2:If you think you can joke, so you think you can joke, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Right, but even if you don't think, you do come out and watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's fun too. I mean it'll be fun. It's way more fun at open mics when there's observers, because even though, like everyone's out there just working their stuff out, there's still a lot of playback from the crowd when it's a good crowd.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially in places. The Comedy Farm always has a great crowd. Rich just does a good job of promoting. He's all over the place. You see him, dude, he's In Altoona. He's created a comedy club that does good like sells a lot of tickets.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like not just you know ever, but like all the time, like it's not just this, is not just one event that he's doing once in a while. I mean, it's like multiple things every month. And he's not just doing it there, he's doing state college, he's all over the place. He's in detroit this weekend well, he's just doing a show there, but yeah but still, that's what I'm saying I'm saying he's always doing something, he's a beast, he is a beast, but um, yeah then.
Speaker 1:So then, like, so then the two shows of christina. But then friday night we were at the um altuna railro Museum. I, yeah, scott Kelly, was the headliner, and then me and the other the three Scots, are performing together quite a lot and I think we're all going to be at the thing at in-state college on the 19th. The three Scots.
Speaker 2:Now Ridge wasn't there this week.
Speaker 1:It cory black and he's really good too shout out to general cory because that cracks me up. I love when he does that, the way that, like he, I even told him that the way he sets it up every time, because we've seen him do it multiple times now and it works every time. I've never seen a single person like. I'm not gonna explain it to you, but it's just yeah, we're not gonna throw the punch line but it's just something he does with the crowd and it works every single time.
Speaker 1:It's like a gem and, uh, it's just fun to watch, especially when you know it's coming and then it works. It's like it's fun, um, but yeah then, and then the show like it was cool because it was a weird room at the altuna altuna railroaders museum definitely a different, it's like a small, it's like it looks like the jurassic park when they're watching the dna video. It's like that size theater and they have 100 people crammed in there.
Speaker 2:It's like when you go to any museum and they have a little tiny theater to show you.
Speaker 1:Where normally there'd be four people listening to a person talk and all the other seats would be empty.
Speaker 2:Well, they show like a train history movie in there.
Speaker 1:Right, but yeah, no, I I mean I'm not knocking it, I'm just saying it was different than you know other things that you see, I mean it's nice yeah, it was very nice it's but we had, we had a great time there. Um, it was fun watching scott do a long um set. You know what I mean. He did a lot of stuff I hadn't heard, necessarily before, because with a couple of times we've seen him he hasn't done, like you know, that long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's got an Amazon Prime special coming out, so yeah, he's funny. Funny guy.
Speaker 1:I really like it.
Speaker 2:He's also great at giving advice. Yeah, he's well, he did like a comedy writers shop where he taught. I believe so.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's right. He taught some kind of workshop or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um. So the railroaders museum, that was a lot of fun, um. And then, like I said, we got the comedy farm trial. So that's the comedy update. Um, in that world, um. But speaking of comedians, though, I'm really excited. Next week, shane Gillis is hosting SNL um, which is always a good time, but we were just watching the SNL 50 thing. We've been talking about it a lot because it was, uh, pretty cool. I mean, we talked about it before it happened, um, but it was just cool to see everybody there. A lot of people have been talking about a lot of things. People are pissed at Tom Hanks boy, they are not having it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're pissed at Tom Hanks.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile. First off, tom Hanks didn't write that.
Speaker 2:No, he didn't write it.
Speaker 1:And he did it before, and I don't remember anybody being mad at it.
Speaker 2:So here's my thing You're my husband and I want you to be able to say any funny thing that you want to say on camera whenever you want to. But if you were out there talking about being a member of the triple k club and then you did your bit on hit, people might perceive it differently. Well, obviously, and so that's kind of the thing. Well, obviously, be out there touting his political opinion and he's given his political opinion, which is that he's way too woke and he wants to leave the country because he doesn't like the president. That's all well and good. You're a rich man, you can do whatever you want. But then you can't say I was just doing a skit. When you're making fun of MAGA people because you've already said you don't like them, it's no longer a bit, it's just a statement, so it's tasteless.
Speaker 1:See, I disagree and I'm going to tell you why. Because you don't get to complain about comedy period. You don't get to say, oh, I don't think that you should be able to. You should say this, like on one side, which is what a lot of people do oh, it's too.
Speaker 2:For anybody else, it would have been hilarious because there was a good message in there.
Speaker 2:I still think it's funny, I mean, when he said that if there was a white jeopardy that's powerful, like he's right, like you can't have a white jeopardy, so why could you have a black jeopardy? That's powerful, like he's right, like you can't have a white jeopardy, so why could you have a black jeopardy? That's funny, right, and it covers a lot of it's. You know there's thought behind it, but at the end of the day, like if anybody else was standing in that MAGA hat, I don't think it would have gone as poorly as it did because of who it was.
Speaker 1:I don't think that it went poorly.
Speaker 2:You're not on TikTok babe.
Speaker 1:But that's what I'm saying. People went badly. For whom? Were those people that were loving Tom Hanks before? No, they're people that already dislike Tom Hanks. Nobody changed their mind from watching Tom Hanks' video.
Speaker 2:That's exactly it, but I do think, I do believe that people just need to relax.
Speaker 1:Yes, there's no need to debate anything about anything when it comes to Agree.
Speaker 2:If you don't like, it don't watch.
Speaker 1:That's as easy as that. I mean, that goes for anything, even things on Facebook.
Speaker 2:People like bombing people in the name of religion. It defiles religion. So do you really want somebody like him making the jokes? Because it was clearly a joke. Again, I think it's funny. The reason why it's funny to me and I've made this statement before is because I know that not all MAGA are racist. I mean, there's Black MAGA, there's whatever, so all MAGA can't be racist. And I people that it's bothering, I think, are the ones who it hits a little too close home, who wouldn't shake the black person's hand.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean, to me it's just, it's all in good fun, that's. I mean. I don't. You know me, you say whatever the fuck you want to, I truly do not care. I believe in personal freedom. You know me. I don't believe in anything when it comes to politics. I believe in personal freedom, you know me. I don't believe in anything when it comes to politics. I don't care, I don't believe in. You know me, I'm very extreme, like you know. We don't want to get into it. I'm an internet, whatever. Anyway, but regardless, the one thing that I do believe in, the one fundamental principle that I think, is freedom of speech. Yeah, I agree, and I'll defend it to the utmost degree. It is a zero-sum game. You do not get to pick and choose, you do not get to censor, you do not get and that includes hate speech. You're always going to have that because you're always going to have people in society who are like that.
Speaker 1:You try to suppress it, it just creates, it allows itself to fester.
Speaker 2:Fester, that's the word that I want.
Speaker 1:If you let people say it, then everybody's like if you let everybody bear their true feelings, people are like, oh, this guy's a whack job, I'm not going to listen to him. Yeah, are you going to have a few that are like, oh, whatever, go with them. Yeah, of course you're always going to have fringe on the edge of society that think weird things. That's just the way society works. 100 million years ago Well, not 100 million years ago, but 100,000 years ago, right, like there was people that were acting wild and shit. And then there was the other people that were like all right, we're going to go hunt, you're going to gather berries, we're going to survive. And then there was you know wackaloons out there living with wolves. Her parents were wolves.
Speaker 1:I heard somebody. Somebody was saying something to me about where was I listening to a conversation. It was something about the whole thing back with the like the cat litter things in the school. Oh my God, Parents were wolves. Somebody told me that once they said that Her parents were wolves she's a cat. Her parents were wolves. I was like things are really getting serious out there. But I've seen werewolf movies. I know teen wolf. I know there's wolves out there in high school, especially teen wolf there's a little bit of truth in it all, yeah that's exactly.
Speaker 1:They've been trying to tell you about it for 30 years now 30 years longer than that 100 teen wolf's been out.
Speaker 2:But before that, how long has the wolf man itself been around, since the 1800s or before?
Speaker 1:oh my god, people probably been believing in werewolves for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:They have to be. I mean, look, all those legends are. We haven't invented anything new really.
Speaker 2:Nothing, even robots weren't invented.
Speaker 1:I'm saying yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:What was I going to tell you? Oh no, so we were talking about's yeah, um. What was I going to tell you? Oh no, so we were talking about freedom of speech. So back when I was, back when I identified as a liberal I fucking hate that, um, and I believed that.
Speaker 1:I don't know why you would ever identify as anything but continue.
Speaker 2:And Confederate flags gave me anxiety, like I used to love. My favorite shirt of all time was a black long sleeve Alabama T-shirt and there was Confederate flag on it. It was my favorite shirt. I loved it so much, but then I threw it away because of all this hootenanny that was going on a couple of years.
Speaker 1:Hootenanny. Do you know what, speaking, I'm glad you used that word. Do you know what, speaking, I'm glad you used that word. Do you know where a hoot nanny comes from? You know? Do you know what a hoot nanny is? A hoot nanny and this is created. So this came out of the 1960s folk scene and, as this was the definition as given by the first term, I forget the first show that was used?
Speaker 2:Tell me, timothy Larry.
Speaker 1:No, but so the first show I forget who it was, some whoever, some folk singer that it was used. But then it became popular and Joan Baez said a hoot nanny is to folk music. What a oh, what was it the? What a jam session is to like jazz musicians. So it's like oh, what was it? What a jam session is to like jazz musicians. So it's like just, it's like a jam set, it's just like a jam out for folk singers. A hoot nanny, interesting, I like that. A hoot nanny, yeah, Hoot nanny.
Speaker 2:But yeah. So when Confederate flags were allegedly the identification of a kkk member which I now realize is just bullshit, right um, I was like let them keep, let them fly their flags, because then I'll know who all the racists are like I want to know show your true colors. But that was weird and stupid too, because I like, I like the Dukes of Hazzard, god damn it.
Speaker 1:But the whole reason we got onto this was because of SNL. So let's talk about the Jim Belushi skit, because that's what we— John Belushi oh yeah, Jim Belushi's his brother.
Speaker 2:John Belushi is the best fucking SNL Like. At seven years old I wanted to marry him. That's how much I loved him. I was obsessed with John Belushi. I was trying to get him to die and I wasn't even probably old enough to understand it.
Speaker 1:So they did a skit entitled Don't Look Back in Anger, in which he mourned he's at the graveyard and he's like mourning all the cast members, deaths of the original cast and he's like naming all these things. It's eerie because he's the first one to go and in the skit they're all dead, but they're all dead of like things that almost he could have been dead of Right.
Speaker 4:Jane Curtin. She married a stockbroker, had two children, moved upstate New York. She died from complications during cosmetic surgery. This is Garrett Morris, now Garrett. Garrett left the show and worked in the black theater for years and he died of an overdose of heroin.
Speaker 1:One died of a heroin overdose. One died of.
Speaker 2:I have chills just talking about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was spooky.
Speaker 2:It is called Don't Look Back in Anger. So we looked, because Oasis is one of my hands down fucking favorite. I love them. That's one of my hands down fucking favorite. I love them. That's one of my favorite songs of all time ever. It probably makes my top 20 list, and so if anybody knows, if there's any correlation to why they wrote that song we couldn't find it, but I would love to know or what the phrase don't look back in anger Is there an?
Speaker 1:origin. Yeah, it's probably an old phrase.
Speaker 2:Is there an origin? Yeah, I'm sure there probably is. But it's not connected, right.
Speaker 1:But I didn't find anything like that. It doesn't appear that it's just a saying that people said but yeah, let's check in, though. We were talking last episode about Balboni Balboni.
Speaker 2:Balboni, balboni.
Speaker 1:Stop it, victor Balboni.
Speaker 2:So yeah, there's a new thing in the case. I don't know if it's a break, it's not really.
Speaker 1:A new break in the Justin Baldoni Blake Lively saga.
Speaker 2:But so Jenny Slade and Slate Slate, whatever, I don't give a shit if I say her name, right Cause like I can't even name one thing that she's been.
Speaker 1:No, she's in a bunch of stuff. She used to be funny back in the day. The only thing that I ever really found her funny in was those. They used to do those like year end wrap ups on VH1 where they'd be like taught and she would like be on the commentator where they'd be like talking and she would like be on the. That's about it. We turned her stand-up special off because I just didn't really think it was right, exactly like I.
Speaker 2:She's just not that not my cup of tea not everybody is funny in the same ways, which is why I'm hesitant about doing stand-up, because I'm funny in conversation. I'm funny when I sit there and think about something and like do it on camera. But to actually do it stand up, right. But anyways, regardless, I digress. Jenny Slate, slate, however you say her name, I don't care because this I learned a new term out of this.
Speaker 1:There's a new term and where I heard it from was First let's pause there because let's say we need to say what.
Speaker 2:So she's friends with blake lively, yes, and he was also in the movie with them with her and justin baldoni right and go ahead now so she's in the movie. It ends with us. And so she put fifteen thousand dollars down on a condo or whatever in New York to where they were going to film, and for whatever reason, she didn't feel comfortable in this apartment. She was there for a day or two, I don't know how long.
Speaker 2:And it was something about she didn't feel safe there with her child because she had her child there with her Right Cool. So Wayfair, which is the company that Justin Baldoni has, is part owner and said that they would cover the $15,000 deposit that she put on this apartment and move her to a more comfortable apartment. So the business partner of Justin Baldoni his name is Jamie Heath and Jamie wrote this really nice email to Jenny saying Wayfair is going to cover the $15,000. We'll get you into another place. And in that statement he said something about the sanctity of motherhood and it was not facetious. Um, sanctity of motherhood, and it was not facetious. And so what I learned later was that justin baldoni, jamie heath, grew up in this religion called the high and I don't know if I'm saying it right, I think I am, because I watched a tiktok on it earlier um, I think it's the high I mean, if you watch the tiktok, it's official.
Speaker 1:I mean, let's be honest, well, it came from somebody.
Speaker 2:It came from a creator who actually grew up in the bahai faith and um. So the way that she explained it is that they do believe in women's equality but they don't look at it the same way. It's like I'm gonna, I'm rephrasing here. I'm saying they don't. It's not the same as like the woke feminism per se.
Speaker 2:In bahai, they believe that if you could only afford to educate one of two of your children one being a man, a male and one being a female that you educate the female, because the female is the educator in the home, the mother is the one who spends the time with the children and teaches them how to read and write. So you make sure the mother is educated or the woman's educated. So that's kind of how it's, a blended kind of it's. It's woke but it's very. It's there. I mean, every vibe that I've ever gotten from Justin Bell with Jenny is that he's just kind. So anyways, long story short, that is why Jenny Slate feels like she was harassed is because of the way that Jamie Heath said the sanctity of motherhood or whatever sanctity of motherhood. He said it weird and it made her uncomfortable in an email. You, fucking victim.
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, it just feels like they're nitpicking, which is what you brought up the term oppression, appreciation no, no, that's not it. Again, it just feels like they're nitpicking, which is what you brought up the term oppression appreciation.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's not it. So I'm going to give credit to the grumpy gay on TikTok, because I don't know where he heard it from. I can't find the origins of it, but it's called oppression appropriation.
Speaker 1:It's a little different than appreciation.
Speaker 2:It's the fucking victim mentality. That's all it is. I'm a victim. You, Blake Lively, are a nepo baby who grew up very comfortable. You are not oppressed in any way, shape or form. You're gorgeous. Well, on the outside you were. The inside is making you ugly and hard to look at and hard to listen to, but at the end of the day, you're not oppressed. Go to a country where women are oppressed and live there for a month without any contact to this world and come back and tell me that you are still oppressed. Please, please, please, I'll pay for it. I can't stand her. I can't stand her.
Speaker 1:Ran over. Okay, we want to get those vibes out of here. Who am I?
Speaker 2:But this is an ongoing case. No, I know it is funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to keep talking about it, but that's this week's update. This week's update fuck Jenny Slate. Fuck Jenny Slate.
Speaker 2:Speaking of comics, who, I believe everybody has a voice. Fuck Jenny Slate Right.
Speaker 1:But no, to talk about something lighter, a show that we've been watching lately here, I'm sure a lot of other people have.
Speaker 2:That's not light at all.
Speaker 1:No, not Reacher. Reacher's so good. If you're not watching Reacher, go out there and watch it, because season three just came out and it's the best.
Speaker 2:It's like so right out of the gate think that they could get better, because they're gonna run out of and right out of the gate.
Speaker 1:It's like, I mean, it's 100 mile an hour and but regardless of that, we've been watching a lot of other people. You might have seen a new game show the floor on fox yes, we have the host.
Speaker 1:We love watching this everybody. But the thing like it's fun too because it's like you have to be, you have to know things. But even if you know a lot, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be like good Because you have to be quick. It's more about they just show you pictures and then you have to name it and you're like facing off against other people.
Speaker 2:And like I it, I fill in the blanks too. Like they're trying to mix it up a little bit and bring in new kind of ways to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but for the most part it's just I think I'd be good at it, I think I could, I think that I could I do believe that you would be good at it, but it's pretty rapid fire no, I know it is and, like you said, so what I?
Speaker 2:I don't want to give the show away, if you're watching or not watching, but like twice this week, we saw people pass on their picture and forget that it was still their turn. Right, when you pass, you're not passing to the other.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'd say you get put under pressure. But yeah, like I said, I still think that I would be.
Speaker 1:How good do you think you are? I think I would be really good. I think I could do it. I want to try to get on it. I've never wanted to get on a game. I mean I guess I wanted to, but this is one that I would really want to do.
Speaker 2:Well, lucky for you. I've put together a little test case to see how good you are. Okay, Give me one second. I'm going to step away from the camera and set us up for the floor.
Speaker 1:Yep, let's go, taco.
Speaker 4:Bell.
Speaker 1:Burger King, mcdonald's, chili's, wendy's.
Speaker 4:Domino's.
Speaker 1:Subway. Dunkinin Donuts, pizza Hut, chipotle, sonic, arby's, little Caesars, dairy Queen, chick-fil-a. Ooh Pass, ooh. Panda Express, popeyes A Sbarro, saxby's Five Guys, krispy Kreme, panera Bread, in-n-out, baskin Robbins, mmm pass. Papa John's Pass, papa John's, white Castle, hardee's, carl's Jr, church's Chicken Wow, okay, I don't know. Tim Hortons, annie Anse, long John Silvers, no idea, pass, I mean, I think I won, I think I won. Hey, come on back to the studio. How did I do? I did good, you did good. They wouldn't have been able to the studio. How did I do? I did good, you did good. They wouldn't have been able to beat me. No, because you see too, if I don't know.
Speaker 2:You pass immediately, pass immediately yeah.
Speaker 1:If you don't know, don't stand there and think about it. These people, this is floor, basic, floor strategy. I can coach you. Give me a call 1-800-COACH.
Speaker 2:If it's anything food-related, I think you'd be good, except for the one category that tripped us up last season was fucking beans. Do you know how many beans there are? And they all look alike, they all look alike.
Speaker 1:But no, another little game show thing, though that I do have a beef to pick with a game show where we're talking about it, pressure luck Like can you release some new episodes please? We get one episode every three weeks, months they do. Every holiday they do one. It's not even like a season.
Speaker 2:Elizabeth, thanks. You're the producer. We know that you are a beautiful, busy, powerful woman. Get your shit together.
Speaker 1:Come on.
Speaker 2:It's our favorite game show.
Speaker 1:It's great, and she's great, she's so good, it's so good, it's so good, so good. One thing, while I'm thinking about it A little while back you know that I talk about pizza. While we're talking about food, you know that I talk about pizza. You know I've given several shout outs to great pizza places, named several places that I love to frequent. Well, we have a new category. It's best New York style pizza in Johnstown, and that is Salvatore's Pizza. I've been there before and I did like it, but this time I got the full experience. I got to go into the shop.
Speaker 2:New shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I go in there. There's a guy talking to the counter. He's talking like this. He said I don't care about the pepperoni, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Friend of mine, one of my favorite guys, talks like that and yeah, and it just smelled great. And it and uh, yeah, and it just smelled great and it's a new shop. It's not always been a pizza shop, but it smelled like a pizza shop that's been there for 100 years. So I came to wonder is it italians? And they speak italian. They're all speaking, but a little little little. When you walk in there, they're going nuts. That's how you know it's good. They got a family in the back. There's a little kid with a soccer ball, because he's italian, he loves soccer, and they're like talking what can I get you? A pepperoni, a piece of lasagna? And they're like they're just doing great things and I forget where I'm even going with all that. But the point of this is that it smelled like a pizza shop that had been there for 100 years, but it's like brand new, the location.
Speaker 2:They've been there for, they've been around for the building used to be the meadows, so it smelled like ice cream for years.
Speaker 1:And um, but yeah, so now it just had. So I came to the conclusion that Italians must just emanate smells of tomatoes and pizza and Italians oregano, and it just smells great. And then when they gather, like that man, it just it emanates from them. Greasy cheese and pepperonis and prosciutto is coming out of their pores, man, and it's great, I love it.
Speaker 2:I got myself a bomb stroly. It was the best bomb stroly.
Speaker 1:But that pizza buddy yeah.
Speaker 2:So yeah, now there's two categories.
Speaker 1:Well, there's multiple categories. We'll add more in the future, but this week's category is Best New York Style Pizza in Johnstown, salvatore's, no doubt about it. Gilded Trash Hall of Fame. Gilded Trash Hall of Fame because it's a great pizza shop. It's got that 1980s vibe because they're Italian and you just, oh man, if they put a pinball machine in there, buddy, or with a bouncy ball, I'd be in my youth. A bouncy ball machine. Are you kidding me? I'd throw that thing. How are they ricocheting? It'd look like that scene in Men in Black where that thing gets out. I loved Pizza Shop Dude. I loved that about the 1980s. Like the Pizza Shop vibe, like a pinball machine, a jukebox slices 1980s, like the pizza shop, vibe, like a pinball machine, a jukebox slices and the 1980s version of pizza high is just what I wouldn't give.
Speaker 1:They have ones that were it like looks like a 19, but unless they figure out how to make pizza hot pizza, how it was made 1989 it's, I don't care how much nostalgia you put in the to the decorations, it's not going to add up to the beautifulness. That was my personal pepperoni bucket, pizza bucket, bucket bucket. I loved it, though I, oh I loved it. And that was like the one time. And if we got book there was a couple of times even if so, like, say, growing up, like, say, I got book at that month and Matt didn't get it, mom would still buy pizza. That was one of the splurges. It was like $2 for like a pizza, like a little pizza bag. But yeah I, that's my favorite. Oh, buddy man, do I love a pizza shop like that? For some reason I always like to play. Alice Cooper had a song Poison. Do you remember? She's poison. But I remember playing that at the jukebox repeatedly, at Romeo's one time playing the pinball machine.
Speaker 2:But yeah, we had a great game room here in Johnstown back in the late 80s. I was way too young to be there. It was called the Pit. They had a jukebox upstairs. They had a deli with food, like you get up and go up and order a sub and then bring it downstairs and eat. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:The Holy tree. So Wayne Heights mall had the mute. Like the music store Phillips music land or whatever Frank's pizza and the arcade. And I mean you talk about a fun day, and like the music store phillips music land or whatever, frank's pizza and the arcade. And I mean you talk about a fun day and grandma well, she'd always take us down if we were with grandma reed this is back when she drove. So it was like you know, you had fun when you're. She'd give you five dollars at the arcade and, um, sometimes more, but then you get pizza and franks, you buy something. It was a good time.
Speaker 1:One time on my birthday, I beat the Simpsons game and it took like 15, 20 bucks and I just remember thinking that was crazy. To spend $20 at the arcade for me was like I mean my parents At the most we got $5 to spend, and then, once that was up I mean my parents at the most we got $5 to spend, and then, once that was up, that was it. But yeah, I love getting prizes, going home with a little bag full of candy and wax plastic things, oh, it was good stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, you would rent movies because Phil's was there so we would rent movies. So you'd be going home like I mean you talk about a great day pizza, rent movies in arcade. I mean for as a kid, that's it, yeah, in a daddy, a boy in 1989, that's it, man, that is it.
Speaker 2:My whole world was rocket it's morphed into Netflix until now. Where we do we make? We try to bring back nostalgia when we have our movie nights and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's not a lot different. The only game, the only thing is it's I switched the games that I'm playing. Now it's FanDuel, a movie and pizza, and, uh, the prizes are a little bit different than when.
Speaker 2:a little bit different I've traded in jelly bracelets for dollars, yeah yeah, yeah, no, so it's still doing the same thing.
Speaker 1:That still makes a great day for me, buddy.
Speaker 2:Um, it really does and because it's winter, I mean we're just doing nothing but watching movies, right?
Speaker 1:Which brings us to a perfect category to wrap this thing up, which is no, we got two things to talk about.
Speaker 2:The season premiere of my favorite TV shows coming out.
Speaker 1:Oh, the Righteous Gemstone. Yeah, let's do that, and then we'll go into the movie thing and end on that, just because it's you know. But yeah, the Righteous Gemstone is coming back out and boy, if you're not watching that. Danny McBride is a genius man.
Speaker 2:That is the level of writing that I want to get to.
Speaker 1:Right, because we've watched him get progressively better. Like Eastbound and Down is awesome, but it's raw. But now it's like everything is hitting on the Righteous Gemstone Great acting, great writing, great great storytelling, great cinematography probably the best comic ensemble cast in the TV show. The music, the shots, everything about music is so well written, it's so well directed, it's so well produced. It is my favorite show on television the righteous gemstones. Judy gemstone is probably the greatest television characters that there's ever been that's judy gemstone, is how my brain works.
Speaker 2:I probably don't say half this shit that she says out loud, but that's how my brain's working. She said nah, son. To her dad and I about fucking beat my pants.
Speaker 1:Nah, son I run the motherfucking show what she said she's just her mouth.
Speaker 2:She's a nut shit yeah shit, yeah, oh my god, I love it yeah, she's just great.
Speaker 1:just go check it out, man, it's so worth a watch. If yeah know we talk about a lot of things, we give a lot of recommendations for things, go watch the Gemstones because it's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have what there's two or three seasons out there.
Speaker 1:There's three seasons already out there. The fourth and final season is coming out. Yeah, max, hbo, whatever whatever which brings us to we what we were talking about, which is expert filmmaking, and that's why we're talking about. We're just revisiting quentin tarantino here recently, uh, re-watched jackie brown and django and we still have inglorious bastards to watch, which maybe we'll get into that later, because that's good. Yes, it's good stuff, but yeah, we were just talking about, you know, like it's I mean so I was like, I mean, I obvious.
Speaker 2:I was like in my late teens, early 20s, when tarantino movies started coming out. One of my first favorite movies of his was from till. From dust till dawn. Um, what was the other one? Um, not or not.
Speaker 1:Reservoir dogs, reservoir dogs, yeah and like that's the other one, um not or not.
Speaker 2:Reservoir dogs. Reservoir dogs, yeah, and like that's the other thing is like so being and I talk about this all the time, but I'm proud of it being a Gen Xer. Um, we had like Anthem movies, right. We had like totem movies that brought us up and brought us into adulthood, and you can't even mention any of them without mentioning at least one tarantino movie, right, right, I mean you talk about the dialogue.
Speaker 1:Do you know how many times I say that is a tasty burger in my lifetime? Like I wasn't asking you a goddamn thing. Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
Speaker 2:and that's all from the same speech right, like, look at the brains on brand, check out the brains on brand. I see that if I'm if anybody says anything smart, that's my line. Um, like for tiktok I've been thinking about, I want to bring it back up so, like they're always doing dance videos, obviously on there, my one of the hands down the best fucking dance scene ever is from pulp fiction.
Speaker 4:She was a teen it was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well. You could see that the air did truly love the mademoiselle. And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell. C'est la vie, c'est l'eau, c'est gold, to show you never can tell.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about it, though. What's your favorite Tarantino movie? That's what I want to know Name, if you could. Only if they came to you and they said, hey, you can watch one Tarantino movie and then you're going to die.
Speaker 2:Four Rooms.
Speaker 1:Which he only directs. One part of that, though, right.
Speaker 2:No, not Four Rooms.
Speaker 1:That's the one with Tim Roth and stuff. He directs one part of that, robert Rodriguez directs one, tarantino directs one, and I forget how. But yeah, that's why it's called Four Rooms, because it's four vignettes, four.
Speaker 2:Rooms. Well, because my other favorite one that I would have to say like that, is the Death Proof one.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's, interesting I can't name just one my well, if I'm, if I'm dying and I only get to watch one, I I mean, I think, for me django. As much as I love django, I think it has to be pulp fiction I just can't get past if I'm only watching one because I gotta hear samuel jackson say it's the one that says bad motherfucker because he is in that movie. That's the movie that made samuel jackson a bad motherfucker. It made that is samuel jackson. Everything that you think about samuel jackson is samuel jackson in that movie, right like it's.
Speaker 2:That's. We're talking about him as a entity, it's the or the as a persona, we're talking about the pulp fiction character you're right and it's, it's.
Speaker 1:It's just a great movie, john travolta's. I mean the whole, the way the storylines put together, the way it tells it in this jumbled up mess that you're not you. You're like what the hell is even really going on here? And then you like it all makes sense and not really, but sort of, and you're like, oh, I kind of get it and it's awesome.
Speaker 2:No, it is. It is We've talked about that before the best drug scene in a movie ever, yeah, ever yeah. I mean there's so many bests in that movie.
Speaker 1:There's so many bests with Tarantino and I think that's. It's just fitting that Gen X is like making a comeback right now because he's like the Gen X director of directors all the movies and then you forget the things that he wrote, that he didn't even direct natural born killers. I mean, even though Oliver Stone like overhauled the script, the idea is still his Right, it's amazing stuff.
Speaker 2:He's my favorite he is, but there's one other Gen X writer, slash producer, that's making a comeback soon and we'll be talking about it coming. So, oh, how did I not know that scenes from probably my top three favorite films ever, dogma, were filmed in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 4:This highly recognizable yet wholly depressing image of our Lord crucified. Christ didn't come to earth to give us the willies. He came to help us out. He was a booster, and it's with that take on our Lord in mind that we come up with a new, more inspiring sigil. So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the Catholicism Wild campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you the Buddy Christ.
Speaker 1:Right and Dogma. They're going to be re-releasing here, which is? You talk about great movies, buddy. It's my favorite movie, maybe because especially because you can't see it, you can't ever watch it. It's so good. George Carlin's in it, man, I mean that alone.
Speaker 2:I can recite every line of that movie. I've seen it. I know I've seen it a thousand times. I would sleep with it on repeat because it just spoke to me so much. I mean, and I mean we're not, we'll get into the Kevin Smith catalog another day because it's when that's coming out, we'll deep dive into his stuff. But all I'm saying is it is a great time to be Gen X.
Speaker 1:Not, but I'm right on the cusp. I'm a cusper Cash Patel with the FBI.
Speaker 2:I'm not, but I'm right on the cusp, I'm a cusper. Cash Patel with the FBI I love it. We're in power. Now we're in power. The president might be old as fuck, but Cash Patel, elon Musk, all them guys, gen X, tulsi Gabbard who else? Pam Bondi? I love it. So happy. Oh, she didn't, she was behind you the whole time.
Speaker 4:The last time she pulled up.
Speaker 1:But all right, let's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's wrap it up Speaking of upcoming shows and who you ran into in the pizza shop.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, april 26th at the Masonic Temple. No, april 26th, masonic Temple here in Johnstown is a charity show. There's going to be lots of funny comedians coming in from all over the place, hosted by Frank George. I myself will be performing there. We'll have tickets going on sale next week. I'll have them. You can get in touch with us, reach out to us, and we'll have some other ways to do it too. So be on the lookout for that. That's the big one, that's the. Yeah, that's the big one.
Speaker 2:I'll cut it out.
Speaker 1:This show is called All the Wrong Moves because All the Right Moves was filmed here in Georgetown which we talked about.
Speaker 2:We have Go back and watch the episode.
Speaker 1:I don't know which one it was. Hi, Real quick here. Scott's thoughts. Why does the Wendy's Baconator have a son Like? Does he have other kids? What's the relationship like between Baconator and son of Baconator? Is it as good as Whopper, Whopper Jr? You tell me these are just my thoughts. Say bye, Sal.
Speaker 2:Bye, sal, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:It looks like you're strangling her. She's fine, she loves it.
Speaker 2:She loves it. She's just looking for more tuna.
Speaker 1:Yep, alright, anyway, we'll see you guys. Stay trashy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if nobody's told you, this week, stay trashy.
Speaker 1:See you everybody.
