The Sickos moan about guys who have fallen off. Some fear to do this. We have the courage to do what they won't.
[00:00:00] Butta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Queen Watch! Here it is, folks. It's the signature segment that you love so much that is redefined and revitalized Anime Sickos. We're bigger than ever. People can't stop talking about us.
[00:00:13] Every week there's new listeners. When we post a new episode, the people retweeting it are people we've never heard of before. And they all say the Queen Watch is worth plugging into. Yeah, they say that it's the reason they started listening and still listening.
[00:00:29] Which is why it's so sad that there's been some horrible news with the Queen that may force us to retire a beloved segment. This is so good of a segment that really all the episodes before we debuted Queen Watch seemed more like prologue.
[00:00:46] They're sort of like a dry run than real episodes. Someone on Blue Sky asked, where should I start? I didn't respond yet, but I will say just don't bother with anything that happened before Queen Watch. It's bullshit. Exactly. I feel that way as well.
[00:00:59] I've said in the past, Anime Sickos is my best work. It's like the first thing I've done that I feel really utilizes my full abilities. I've grown into myself as an artist.
[00:01:11] Well, that was a fucking lie because I wasn't doing Queen Watch, but we're going to have to retire Queen Watch because I don't know if you saw this in the news, but I'm so sorry to announce that cancer was found in our Queen. Queen Elizabeth.
[00:01:28] You know, cancer is not always a death sentence. There's ways to treat it, but you know, especially when it holds. It's not great news though. Even an optimistic look, we can agree. It's not a diagnosis you want to get. It's definitely bad news.
[00:01:47] I'm trying to think of a situation where I'd be really glad to get a cancer diagnosis. The only thing you can think of is there's a club for guys who have cancer where when you join, they give you a lot of money and also care for cancer.
[00:02:03] But aside from that, it's terrible news, devastating. You know what actually really sucks is because this is such like a very serious. This is not no joking matter. We would never joke about this. There's also a sign of the times.
[00:02:20] Yeah, because you'd think that you take this seriously. But media has been so undervalued and gutted with layoffs that like not even this can get the respect it deserves. They're using AI to write these news stories and they're making so many mistakes.
[00:02:36] They keep calling her Charles for one, which is just stupid. And the hand that... Okay, I said before, oh, they actually can do hands right. I saw the pictures of her that they AI generated for these articles where they call her Charles and her hands are ridiculous.
[00:02:54] They're like cartoon hands. You think that we're going to fall for that? The computer will never do hands. They're never going to get good. They're always going to just look like just a nightmare.
[00:03:07] She was wearing one of her royal rings and it looked like it was going to explode off and was bulging finger on both sides. The ring was too small. It was absurd.
[00:03:18] I feel really offended, especially as someone who's a journalist of the royals who takes this very seriously. And there's a really good track record of respect on this topic. And also of accuracy. We get it right. Queen watch is always on top of the news about the queen.
[00:03:39] We never joke. We never joke. I would never laugh. It's not funny.
[00:04:30] It's going to be you may waru. You may waru. Thank you for your real dollars because with the other dollars, although they're fun from like a collectathon standpoint, you immediately got to apply math to figure out like what are we doing here?
[00:04:48] Yeah, I'm not going to try to do that. That just won't work. As for what we do with the money, if you want to give us money at patreon.com. We use it to pay guests for one, but we have guests so infrequently.
[00:05:02] You might be thinking what is she doing with the rest? Well, there was like a year and a half we made an audio drama with it. The ROI was fucked. Yeah, that really was an experience. So obviously the plan is to save up and do it again.
[00:05:20] We'll see. The other thing is that it's sort of you get you get access to a Yu-Gi-Oh exclusive series that we don't do anymore. We fucking can't. It was so hard to like find time to do this shit before Joe had a living baby guy.
[00:05:38] Yeah, like it's definitely the best thing that's ever happened to me. But like he is a schedule exploder for sure. He's so cute. I love him. I was the best baby. I held the baby.
[00:05:50] Remember how I said in an earlier episode that I was too afraid to hold the baby without being allowed? It's like opening a new box of like crackers at someone else's house. Like Joe looks away and I'm holding the baby. It's like no, no, no, no.
[00:06:04] I gotta get told to hold the baby. Anyway, I held the baby. He was cute. He was good. Anyway, we're here today to talk about a phenomenon that's becoming more and more obvious as time goes by. And this is we're the first people to ever notice it.
[00:06:21] I was about to interject and say that this was us noticing this for the first time in the physical world. Yeah. It's never happened before. No one else has thought this. Guys who fell off. Sometimes guys fall off, you know? They were up high then they fell off.
[00:06:41] The first sort of genesis of this, the reason we thought of this and I've talked about this in the past. This isn't new but like I used to love John Hodgman. He wrote these fake Almanacs and it was like the pinnacle of 2004 core writing.
[00:06:57] I think it's still good. There's a lot of like, I know exactly what you mean when you're saying 2004 core. But there's plenty of shit in there that is just weirder and punching past that filter. Oh yeah. Still good.
[00:07:13] I know I totally agree. When I say the pinnacle, I mean he's like with every tired, you know, trope or genre or style.
[00:07:21] You know, there's someone who was so good that there was a, you know, that was the reason everyone tried to do it too and made it overexposed.
[00:07:29] Like that sort of comedy style where the joke is like I'm very erudite and I'm going on and on in such an elevated language about silly epic things. Like that makes you roll your eyes now but like his books are that but like good.
[00:07:47] They made me laugh big time. Still do. And I really like listening to his podcast Judge John Hodgman for a while where people have crazy disputes and he decides who's right. That was pretty fun. I listened to that when I was in commuting hell for a bit.
[00:08:04] What I felt about that podcast is that it's mostly just him like enabling the weirdest sort of dad behaviors.
[00:08:11] A lot of the episodes are like father and child being like, oh my dad refuses to get his air conditioning fixed when he drives for four hours across the desert for work. And like that sort of thing. Well, he's generally sides against the insane dad.
[00:08:29] You are correct that a big trend is an insane dad decides that a commonly agreed upon social convention is wrong. And actually illogical and I have invented a better version. And can you please force my family to agree that it's better?
[00:08:49] And then John Hodgman has to always explain to them that the commonly agreed upon is the logic. Like that's what makes it. It's like this convention doesn't make sense. So I'm going to do something else like no, no, no, no.
[00:09:04] The thing that makes it make sense is that it's a convention. Anyway, the point being it's kind of funny. But this MF for he'll heal Lib and he doesn't write his fucking books no more.
[00:09:14] He said, I don't know, I would describe it as like a Disney adult moment with sort of Star Wars. I don't know. It's just like I he feels like very much a specific point in time that has passed to be clear.
[00:09:32] I think he's his whole deal worked because he wasn't just like some random guy. He was like a former literary agent. So like his whole like, oh, I'm a smart matter of fact world writer works for that reason. But now I don't care.
[00:09:50] Yeah, he's just like a guy who's been around for a long time and it's just like, and I know why he fell off the passage of time. But like, yeah. And I say fell off like it's awful. Like he's still pretty good.
[00:10:02] It's just like, man, I used to think of him as my idol. I was like if only I could ever be as funny as John Hodgman. And now I see him post like I'm Pokemon going to the polls and I'm like, okay.
[00:10:16] The other person who has fallen off for me, the person who has fallen off the most in terms of cultural impact to what they are now is Michael Ian. I apologize, but it's time for a white boy to talk about the state.
[00:10:32] This is what podcasts are made for. This is fundamentals. This is like us doing bounce passes. Like this is how we stay sharp like many white boys. The state was a big influence.
[00:10:43] The state was a show which seems insane in retrospect, which was MTV gave a bunch of NYU students a sketch show and they were the state was an incredible show. Where the state was the name of the group and they had like shows they did live.
[00:11:00] So like the episodes were like live stuff, but also stuff they shot anyway. All these fucking people were like 19 and 20 when they did this. I cannot stress that they were just very funny children and we're given a television show.
[00:11:19] One of those people in there is Michael Ian Black who is also in Stella, a thing I will defend until I die. Not that people are coming for it a lot, but I really fucking love it.
[00:11:30] We got to make a sketch where like we have a straw man character who's like, ah, Stella sucks. And then you can say your piece. But he did have that sort of mainstream MSNBC type liberal turn. He did a book with Megan McCain.
[00:11:50] Was it America? I love you. You sexy bitch or something. There was definitely a swear word in it. It was like the subtle art of giving a fuck, you know how there's like those like cheeky books. Like can you believe we put a swear word in it?
[00:12:03] And it was all about how like you shouldn't be too extreme because that's not nice. But the issue is like my extreme is good. Like our extreme is like what if the doctor didn't cost a lot of money?
[00:12:18] He was also sort of the eye opening moment that I think a lot of people on Twitter have this sort of realization, or at least they did before it became just like an awful sight. I saw an ad that was just a pussy.
[00:12:30] It's an awful sight and not to be like, oh, that's because that's what you're looking for. It's like no other people were like, look at this fucking, what is this happening? Litten garbage. But you have this realization, especially like 2015,
[00:12:51] that like everyone who's like professionally a comedian by which I mean like they have a stand-up special and all this stuff maybe is not good at Twitter. Compare that to people who just have mental disorders. Dude, there's so much better at Twitter.
[00:13:06] Like this, and this is what I mean. I was like, I joined Twitter. I'm like, oh, Mike Lee and Black from Stella and the state. And Stella, in my opinion, I say this all the time has one of the best pilots ever.
[00:13:21] I was like, oh cool, I would look forward to seeing his thoughts and jokes. And he is getting lapped by people who don't know their bipolar. And it's like a lot of people have pointed out that the guy,
[00:13:37] the poster who got shot to death by the cops while he was waving a sword around was like a bad person and like racist. He did have a couple of bangers that were much funnier than he was to make Lee and Black ever did.
[00:13:50] A man was shot by the cops and there was tweets that were like, I will never be shot by the cops. It really feels like we made this guy up. Like this is a very like Tom and Jill person. Yes, yeah.
[00:14:03] Like when we say like, this thing happened and killed me instantly. No it didn't. Like this guy got shot by the Coswals holding the sword. No, he fucking was. The main thing is the parasite getting over your trauma cake. Yes, yes.
[00:14:17] The cake that nothing bad will happen to because that would be awful. Anyway, time for it to not have anything bad happened to it. I'm very agree with you on this. You start on Twitter, you join the site and you're like,
[00:14:33] I can't believe that I'm on the same social network as my favorite comedy writers and performers. There's someone who's made me laugh time and time again. That's my man, MIB, Michael Lee and Black, incredible breakout star of the state. Breakout star. Love him.
[00:14:50] And star of I love the 90s. He was a common talking head on that. Yeah, yeah. He made up lots of good riffs off the dome on that one.
[00:15:00] And then you see, I wonder what he has to say and it's all like anyone who is not voting for Joe Biden. He's just like your dentist neighbor now. It sucks. Good morning for Joe Biden. You hate America and you love Trump.
[00:15:12] Don't you understand that if you don't support Biden, you're basically dooming all women. And it's just like, okay, man. And then meanwhile, fucking our homie Dylan just shooting out posts at an incredible level
[00:15:29] at like 11 p.m. on the bus to 10 likes that are the funniest shit I've ever read in my life. Correct. I think he does it in between shadow boxing to practice fighting games. Yes, that's true.
[00:15:45] The next person who fell off the guy who came up with the rule of threes. How about you come up with a new number asshole? Yeah, what if I want to write four jokes? Huh? What am I supposed to do? When's the silly one happen?
[00:16:02] Another person who fell off in a big way. That's our boy Bernie Sanders. He got laughed by Dick Durbin on Stop the Murdering. Like I was a gawg. So, you know, in the primary for 2020, there was Iowa and that was famously the one
[00:16:25] where Pete had a commanding performance where he won handily or so he told me. He came out and said, I crushed it. I won. So, Winnie and I got on the bus and knocked on doors that day in Iowa.
[00:16:44] So when he did that, it was just like, oh, fuck, that's way easier. But yeah, Dick Durbin has called for ceasefire talk more than Bernie has at this point, which I got to say, I know the machine's going to give blood, but like, okay, yeah,
[00:17:01] I guess it's really got to get blood from everyone. Yeah, yeah, like when Dick Durbin is on the left of you on any topic, you really got to like, oh no, what, what did I do? Did I ever tell you this?
[00:17:18] I was once at a live lit event with a guy who was this is when Obama was still cool. We didn't know about Obama yet. And he was talking about how he was working as staff at some Democratic convention, at some Democratic party get together as a party.
[00:17:35] What have you? I don't know. Gala. He was like one of the servers and Obama was a rising star and he was going to give a speech and he like talked to Obama when he was working and Obama mentioned him in the speech
[00:17:48] and he was like, I knew then like, oh, this motherfucker is going to be president someday. He wasn't even a senator yet. He's like, oh, this guy is the president in a big. He's got the juice.
[00:17:57] Anyway, the thing I always remember is that Dick, you know, they had he had worked a number of these gallows and he has seen Dick Durbin, you know, Senator from Illinois a number of times and he said Dick Durbin always came with two women on his arms.
[00:18:13] They were always different women, but they were always the same woman, which I thought was an incredible line. I just talk about economy of language. You get it completely. That's a poet anyway. I forget who that fucking guy was. I wish I could credit him. Oh, no.
[00:18:32] Another person who fell off is our dad, Yacoub. Does he call you anymore? No, like he doesn't even fucking text. Never. I used to have him over. He hasn't been around. No call. He doesn't answer my text. He left me on red.
[00:18:45] Although in his defense, I haven't been to Patmos in a while. It costs a lot of money to get that airfare because I mean, you got to get the connect. You don't direct to Patmos.
[00:18:55] You got to go to fucking, you got to go to Heathrow and then you go to Athens and you got to get the ferry to Patmos. Anyway, Yacoub. Anyway, Jesus Christ. You know what's insane to think of?
[00:19:07] Like it's not only insane to think of but it's insane to think that like this wasn't like a, like there was a niche opinion that some people had that has been proven wrong because the guy's fallen off. It was like, no, this was mainstream.
[00:19:20] Like everyone and cross, you know, like from nerds to normies, everyone thought this and it was actually, if you look at it correct at the time, we once all thought Dave Chappelle was like the guy whose comedy could not be impugned
[00:19:37] and who when he was around, you felt really good and you knew that you knew you were going to have a good time. Wow! That's changed obviously the, because views on trans people are clear at this point.
[00:19:53] He's also spoken to stop affordable housing happening in near his house in Ohio, which is, I just feel like if you're going to be a housing hitler and be like my mansion can't go down in value, like that's what LA is for.
[00:20:09] Like we have a place for that. Yes. Like that's where the mansions live. It's really insane. Like I haven't been fucking following him for a long time obviously because he's a freak. He's just kind of like hate.
[00:20:24] He loves, he loves, I mean, so yeah, he's a big time like bigot. He is a big time landlord. Even if he doesn't own property that he rents out, this is landlord behavior what he's doing. He's lording over land. Exactly, yes. Good, well said.
[00:20:40] And also he's like buddies with Elon, which like considering who Elon is, well that tells you a lot. Elon getting on stage and saying I'm rich bitch incorrectly seems like 100 years ago, but it in fact was... 200 years ago. 200, I don't fucking know. Yeah, yeah, twice as long.
[00:21:02] I can't believe he can't land. I'm rich. He said you roll the tape bag. He says I'm rubber. Like what? What? His physical comedy is pretty good too. Like it's not funny for the right reason obviously, but there's a very conical male,
[00:21:21] like energy and stumbliness that when he gets up on stage as he says I'm rubber. Rubber. Jesus Christ. But like yeah, yeah. I heard about his like most recent hour and it's like he definitely, like he can't, he's definitely not still doing trans material.
[00:21:45] I'm like oh buddy he is. It's the only thing you think about. It's a terminal end state. It's like when you get here like this is all you can do. Yeah, it's like you were talking about sludge in the previous episode.
[00:21:58] Once you become sludgy and surrender to the sludge, like you can't change your mind and get out. Like you're in it and yeah that's where he's in. Another person that fell off is Rivers Weezer. I heard of Rivers Weezer, the lead man from Weezer.
[00:22:16] His name is Rivers Weezer. When's the last time you listened to Weezer? Honestly. You're gonna say he fell off and I have a feeling you have not been even collecting data. Well, I mean Joe you're on the right track but not as right as you think
[00:22:32] because I will cop to, I like don't, I hardly ever listen to Weezer. I haven't listened to Weezer in years with a big S, capital S on years. And so if I were to tell you that Rivers Weezer fell off because his music ain't no good no more,
[00:22:46] you would be right to say, poser how do you know? But that's not why Rivers Weezer fell off. So one of the two albums that everyone says is good, I think it's out pretty good, is their second album Pinkerton which is notable
[00:23:02] because it takes like a really honest and like uncomfortable look at all of Rivers Weezer's weird sexual hang-ups. And they're not normal! But it's honest. Yeah, and like it is compelling because it's very, you know it's stuff that you don't hear sung about by mainstream rock bands
[00:23:24] and like you kind of feel like am I supposed to be here in this? And it makes it unique. He's tired of sex. He's tired of too much. And yet at the same time he's so horny and one of the big things,
[00:23:38] the themes that goes throughout this entire album is he's got like this sort of like unthinkable lust obsession with a woman that is, in his words on the quote Rivers Weezer, a half Japanese girl who does it to him every time. Joe would you read? So this is,
[00:24:06] I don't know what platform this is because it's not Twitter but it's a screenshot of Rivers Cuomo posting, Rivers Weezer and it's just, she turned out to be half Korean is the message. Oh! That was like the main factor in the song. You read her diary didn't you?
[00:24:33] Yes, yes, yes. And like, oh! Oh my God, this is a plot twist in a Yakuza game. This is exact, oh my God, it definitely is. Isn't this like, the guy from Yakuza Zero, he's like, I'm Korean, I'm from Korea, that's my big,
[00:24:55] I was trafficked by the Yakuza from Korea. That's my twist, that's why I hate the Yakuza so much. To go ahead and be like, I know that this obsession of mine is weird and I'm gonna sort of exercise my demons by putting them out there
[00:25:14] warts and all, this is how creepy I am. This is who I really am, do you understand? That's like a real bold artistic move but to not fact check like, who is this bitch today? Who's this lady? God! And why would he say it?
[00:25:36] Why would you say it? You should just keep that under your hat, even if it is true. Just shut up about that one. I'm Korean. Shit, Joe, it just occurred to me. I hadn't thought of this before because the idea of a,
[00:25:56] I was gonna say a rivers kind, the idea of a Weezer concert is so, I would never think of that. But they're like putting on concerts which means that they're probably singing Elsecore Show, which has the half Japanese. There's no way they are not
[00:26:15] getting yelled at to play that. I'm yelling at them to play that. It's a good song. Unfortunately we now know it's inaccurate. It is, it is not census quality. Yes. This is also a good opportunity to pull up one of the great Weezer tweets of all time.
[00:26:36] Oh I love this fucking picture. You got an old timey, frankly beautiful flintlock pistol that has four stupid barrels that are spaced evenly. The original poster said when you need to shoot exactly four evenly spaced dudes. Say your prayers Weezer. When I searched to find this picture
[00:26:58] I found a Reddit post people complaining about this meme. They're like, I'm fucking sick of this. It's not good. Yeah it's funny. It's the Weezer gun. It's like no it is, it's good. Joe I had two horrible things happen to me in my brain quick succession.
[00:27:13] So I wanted to credit the original poster Hormaya, I don't know what that means. Hormaya and while I was looking at sort of like the details I realized like again, the way you were describing it I'm so sick of the Weezer meme.
[00:27:30] This feels like it's been around forever. When I think about a gun with four barrels I think about this tweet all the time. It feels like it's elemental and I'm looking at it and like oh my god this was posted in April of 2021.
[00:27:42] This was posted like this year and then I realized oh that's three years ago that's actually long. That's Clinton's second term. Yeah, Jesus Christ. You know what I hate? The passage of time. You know what else I hate is that the next person
[00:27:56] who's falling off is the train, the choo choo. Live from Chicago I'm sad about the trains. So cities that have trains famously also have people that drive them. Chicago is currently just got the train part. They are in desperate need of additional train operators.
[00:28:19] To do that you have to be a flagger which is by like their own admission, like the worst job ever. For like a year you got to do it. By which I mean like at events about potentially becoming a flagger they're like you got to tell your family
[00:28:35] that you're checking into the John Wick hotel now. Yeah. And it sucks. There's a thread by a local Chicago guy named Nick Hunder who went to because they were having it as Joe describes like an orientation event for the flaggers.
[00:28:54] Like I think like a job fair of flaggers. And again this is square one for getting more operators because you have to be a flagger. I'm going to quote Nick directly. They emphasize that a strong support system was needed to excel in this role
[00:29:10] because CTA's needs fluctuate with construction needs. That has created a system where employees find out the day ahead by calling to find out which eight hour shift, 12 in overtime they'll be working. Rail Ops for red, purple and yellow line said if your support system isn't strong
[00:29:28] now is a good time to start increasing it. Prepare your families for it. Well the yellow line fucking fell off and exploded so they didn't do a good job. This is inconsiderate and also unrealistic. How can anyone plan on working 12am to 8am one day
[00:29:44] and then 3pm to 11pm to another and 8pm to 4am on a third day? What if you had children? The calling thing is jury duty. They're like every day for work you have to call to see if you come in. That is insane. Oh my god. It is.
[00:29:58] Fuck, okay I don't want to read the whole thread. You can look it up. But this one is the one that like made me fucking bookmark it and be like we gotta talk about this shit. The rail applicant asked if there was any additional training for rail operators
[00:30:13] which is valid because it's not advertised. The red, yellow, purple line manager just laughed before answering the question what's going on over there? Why would you laugh? The train is falling off. It's falling off big time. You know what else is falling off is a
[00:30:31] water park slash fuck hotel Siviris? Yeah, Tom and I had our sort of common cultural moment which is like hey as a kid do you remember these commercials for Siviris which was a fuck hotel that had like a water slide? Yeah an erotic hotel
[00:30:51] where you can get, I believe in their words because I looked this up, is it called a pool suite? You get an erotic pool suite? Yes. Now I've seen this commercial so many times and Tom has as well and the thing we were trying to figure out
[00:31:06] is like why was it getting beamed into our eyes? Why were they advertising to children? Because I told my wife about I made a joke to my wife where I said Siviris and like Siviris was the punchline she's like what's that? I'm like I guess you wouldn't know
[00:31:20] it's this sensual pool hotel where you have sex in it and I know about this because when I was a little kid I saw TV ads for it wait a minute this doesn't fucking make sense and so I'm like did I, like Siviris exists
[00:31:37] so I didn't make it up but I'm just like I must be remembering it wrong how I know about Siviris and then I was going to ask you but I always forgot to and today I finally remembered I'm like Joe and I didn't fucking set you up
[00:31:51] I'm like did you see commercials for Siviris when you were a little kid and I didn't tell you what Siviris was and you were like oh the fuck hotel Yeah it was the fuck hotel correct and I was like I don't know what Siviris was
[00:32:03] I wonder what regional like we have Siviris I wonder if there's like regional versions of it What do you have sex in nasty water in a fucking little I assumed the variations were still like clean I thought the theme would be dirty isn't a good theme Tom
[00:32:25] well I mean how okay well what's the alternative how do you keep a pool sweet clean as you use nonsense amounts of fucking chlorine which makes the room absolutely stink every time I saw those commercials I could smell a public pool yes yes um I did not
[00:32:45] understand as a child it was a fuck thing so I thought it was just a hotel that you went to at home you're not on vacation you just go to this hotel and there's a hot tub and a water slide
[00:32:57] in your room and you just kind of kiss and hold a rose and I'm like that seems great that's a good night so like they so what was I fucking watching when I was a kid I was watching Nickelodeon in the Cartoon Network no fucking
[00:33:11] chance it was on those right I just believe they probably bought a lot of daytime garbage TV ad space and just good were you do you like flip through channels right like obviously you wanted to watch cartoons but were you churning through things yeah yeah
[00:33:29] yeah it wasn't like I was turning on like lifetime or A&E or like fucking shows for adults I would look at like what you know there's a local station that had upn had cartoons WGN had cartoons they were the one who broadcast Pokemon so yeah I guess
[00:33:47] so but that isn't like it made an impression strong enough that it was like one of those commercials you've seen a million times like the Sears ad about air conditioning I'll call now yeah exactly so like you had to have seen it a lot and I don't see
[00:34:03] you don't see something a lot by like flipping through you know when you're sick and watching the prices right and catching this was worn into our head like there's a groove in our skull from this and I would love to know who's responsible like which advertiser
[00:34:21] and I guess the reason they've fallen off is that which is you know what I'm about to say isn't necessarily a bad thing but I don't think as many children know that's as serious as they used to yeah well if we're talking about commercials
[00:34:39] I think it's safe to say that Eagleman has fallen off as well I haven't heard about Eagleman in years where'd he go uh Eagleman is a fucking Chicago land insurance commercial right auto insurance uh yeah because he would always lay his egg on cars
[00:35:01] and this is like this is uh Detroiters commercial you know like the Detroiters characters have an ad agency where they make terrible commercials because they're idiots like this is this is like the real text that they based their purity off of yes uh he's
[00:35:19] I mean you have a guy in a full eagle suit he says just an insane the line is I've got something for you and he says it in like the most deranged way and lays the egg something for you you know why he's talking like that because
[00:35:35] that's the first time he has tried human speech and uh the huge egg comes out of his ass eventually they retconned it to eagle woman and they did that by he's holding a purse and has like a bonnet on because he's lays an egg
[00:35:55] Eagleman lays an egg and the egg has like taped to it a bunch of car insurance rates yeah great rates just awesome uh I haven't seen him too much uh I don't really watch TV but it's also possible the empire carpet guy uh hunted him for sport
[00:36:13] and he might just be gone in like a dead sense yeah the empire carpet man if you don't know is an incredible man who knows all about carpet and telling you what his phone number is he is transcended death by becoming one with the computer like
[00:36:29] tour client uh he's still around as a cartoon man he won't die he will live on forever I have a bobble head of him right behind V.S. I speak I'm looking at it now I don't remember how I got it he's just in Chicago he's
[00:36:45] around he's like Peter you know who else fell off Peter Francis I don't hear about info tapes no more there was a Peter Francis office near me it was a small one that was not formally a Taco Bell and Tom I
[00:36:59] this kind of made me think the county was in the shitter we're fucking fucked was that it closed and I was like if the bankruptcy guy from TV is closing his office that means dollars are fake this is funny money now if you know about Peter
[00:37:17] Francis to racy again this was a man who advertised to children with a product that no child could ever want or even understand the strategy was so clearly just if there's a TV on during the day you're gonna get hit with it and for that
[00:37:35] it was a good strategy he's a lawyer a bankruptcy attorney whose face always looks like he's kind of scared and like it feels it looks like he not sure if it's a ghost he's getting pinched really hard and he doesn't know who's doing it but he can't turn
[00:37:55] around right now because he's giving a speech for his commercial and also he has no charisma he kind of talks like Eagle man and he says I'm Peter Francis to racy and he always wants you to buy his info tapes that's his special that's his
[00:38:11] unique selling point is that he's got info tapes info tapes have fallen off yeah you don't have for one removable media in general that's gone I mean that's fucking hard drives now you don't have like a tape tapes especially magnetic tape is trash no one uses it
[00:38:33] quiz nos is falling off in retrospect when your value add is like we will toast the bread which no one else can do like the technology is not available to other chains quiz nos has fallen off one of my favorite little quiz nos anecdotes is
[00:38:55] on north broadway in Chicago unlike north edgip boys town by windy city heroes there was somewhere along that stretch at one point a quiz nose I don't know where what happened clearly is the quiz nose went out of business and there was like a liquidation
[00:39:13] sale because there are restaurants or there were when I was living over there of that look like like everyone just looted a quiz nose so we all got different parts yes some of our seats have cues on them don't think about it like Wrigleyville barbecue which is
[00:39:29] it went under because of covid but they had cue on their like seats which you know works for barbecue the pizza place near there had toasty in that neon like light font a pizza place so yeah that was fun but the other thing that's fallen off
[00:39:49] maybe even more than quiz nose himself who is a guy yeah mr. quiz nose is the sponge monkey do you remember the sponge monkey the little monsters who screech about the pepper bar I would love to see like the focus testing information
[00:40:05] everything they got out of an audience after showing them the little freaks I mean on one hand you could say that it was actually a really smart marketing move because here we are decades later talking about the quiz nose monsters you know we see that
[00:40:24] and it's always like the quiz nose monsters horrible little things with disgusting eyes and mouths that shriek in the most horrible way imaginable it's there it's lodged but on the other hand quid nose out of business it didn't work people figured out toast at home yeah once
[00:40:46] it's like when another company figured out how to make a radio it's like oh no what do we do you know what else has fallen off and well actually I'm not gonna say this guy's fallen off I'm gonna say this guy is in in danger of falling off
[00:41:04] this is sort of our transition to the guys who figured it out which is our final segment this is sort of the bridge one of my favorite guys favorite musicians is Ted Leo from Ted Leo and the pharmacists he made a bunch of records
[00:41:20] with the pharmacists that are insanely good you go and listen to the tyranny of distance you go and listen to shake the sheets you go and listen to hearts of oak you go and listen to living with the living you go and listen to the brutalist Bricks
[00:41:32] you're gonna have a great time you're gonna say these records are are all bangers all singles no filler I loved Ted Leo you're gonna say well I say that as well thing is after the brutalist Bricks came out and I think he decided to become a full-time
[00:41:52] podcasters friend he was like exclusively the guy who fills in on maxfun podcasts when one of the hosts is out that's probably easier than making music though so here's the thing here's why I can't get mad is because like to make music the way Ted Leo does
[00:42:12] which is to say like he puts out like solid like power pop punk records that are like low-key and very like stripped down like back to basics just good songwriting good rhythm section, good guitar you know solid this is a thing which it is impossible
[00:42:36] to make a single dollar bill from doing like it just now more than ever I can't imagine why you like him so much hahahaha what are you talking about just the what an incredible thing there's no way you can make money off this
[00:42:54] well I mean there's so many people who I like that can't make money off of the things they do case and point fucking me Joe yeah, the government should give us a stipend to be delightful I say it all the time it's always true
[00:43:10] we're so right the point be so I was like ah it's so sad that Ted Leo has just has stopped doing music on account of it's an insane thing that makes you no money that's a young man's game I understand then he
[00:43:26] after a couple years of no new music he put out a crowdfunding campaign for a new record and I was so excited I was like hell yeah and I fucking obviously I pledged I got the vinyl record tier and I was so excited for to come out
[00:43:44] and I don't know if it was advertised like this at the beginning but eventually became clear that this was actually not a Ted Leo in the pharmacist record this was a Ted Leo record what's the difference the difference is on this one he played all the instruments himself
[00:44:00] and produced it himself and let me just say you can tell oh no turns out a good rhythm section of a specialized drum and bass players is more better than you just doing the parts in your home studio and also man just the production like I
[00:44:24] I'm not an audiophile I'm not gonna say I can fucking tell like oh it's so warm and deep I can't tell the fucking difference you listen to the hanged man by Ted Leo and compare it to any of his pharmacist records you like oh this one
[00:44:36] was made on a laptop mic like he recorded this on the laptop mic it's like shocking ah it made me so disappointed I'm just like this is not the Ted Leo in the pharmacist record I wanted I don't know if he's ever gonna make one again
[00:44:50] you know what if he's retired from music full time that's fine I totally respect it but what would make him fall off if he put out another one of these fucking half measures I tell ya so we're warming up he hasn't fallen off
[00:45:08] he's like I don't know kind of cooking yeah yeah yeah he's he's got a track record of bangers and he's made one big misstep and then it's sort of like in a limbo where he could go either way ah so you know overall positive I like him
[00:45:26] record scratch update update uh Ted Leo recently just announced that he's gonna be doing a fucking tour with the pharmacists for the 20th anniversary of their classic record shake the seats classic he is officially not a fallen off guy and so now we've transitioned entirely into people who
[00:45:46] figured it out guys who have figured it out well I don't need to remind you of this Tom cause you already know this but listener as you know the point of life is to make people listen to you do sketches correct yes that's the entire
[00:46:02] reason to be on this earth that's why the state people were the luckiest children ever lived correct this is why the fish left the ocean and walked on land the people who have figured it out with this goal in mind definitively rappers rappers because rappers
[00:46:20] they would put sketches on the album and then you would have to get like tricked into listening to a sketch but it happened you would listen yeah yeah smartest people of all time you realize oh wow this new genre music a uniquely American genre
[00:46:42] less than a century old incredible so fresh and so popular as well selling big numbers of records the rapper is the most famous people in the country I love this and I'm a rapper wow what am I gonna do am I gonna make a
[00:46:58] series of classic songs well that that goes without saying but what else am I gonna do I got a joke I haven't quite worked out with my buddy we're gonna just kind of see where it doesn't go so Joe which of these two do you like more
[00:47:18] when there is just there is just a track that is skit or when they fucking like stick the skit at the end of a real song the latter is disgusting it is it is offensive to humanity a playlist annihilator it is the playlist annihilator it yeah
[00:47:44] that's not okay it's not okay and yet I sort of respect how like astonishingly anti-human it is it's like I you know how much you're gonna listen to my skit you know how far I'm gonna go to make sure you hear my little gag I'm acting man
[00:48:06] yes I do like it there's some I think the second Day La Soul album cause like they like last year I think at some point some legal shit they kept them they were not on Spotify or any streaming services and finally all of Day La Soul's records
[00:48:24] are on streaming you can listen to them again yay it was a big deal everyone was going nuts for Day La Soul I think it's their second album which is like like it's almost half skits like by run time like not by like song skit song skit
[00:48:42] I mean it is that but like I remember the first time I listened to it in high school and like you know I'm a pro skit guy like I'm predisposed to like skits I was going this pie chart to them so this part
[00:48:58] the smaller part is the music I couldn't believe I'm just like like there's no way you're put another skit here oh my I love it so on that same I'd say motif motif another pair of guys who figured it out were the two guys who were on
[00:49:26] the Super Mario Super show because they would do five minute stupid sketches that like would book and a Mario cartoon that is so fucking smart because their sketches were mostly them walking around the apartment while Mario sound effects were played like Roddy Roddy Piper showed up one time
[00:49:48] because I think there was like spaghetti stuck in the pipes it's also clear that like they lived in Brooklyn that was like an aspect of it but yeah dude listen if you're ever in sort of like a showrunner capacity listener and you're like I have this wonderful cartoon
[00:50:04] but it's not enough for a time slot motherfucker it's time to just put on some costumes and just do some dog shit because because the minute it like this isn't going so well it's over and Mario has started it doesn't matter you don't have to write
[00:50:26] oh it's so hard to write an ending to a sketch don't the ending is anyway here's the cartoon yeah it's very itchy and scratchy like Krusty being like oh we can't show that again well that's another thing that has fallen off
[00:50:44] and is the reason that these guys have figured it out you never see shows where like a cartoon isn't the show the cartoon is like something that we just got a hold of and like do you want me to show you this
[00:50:58] yes there's a little bit of that in Yu-Gi-Oh! because there's the deranged funny bunny comic slash cartoon oh yeah yeah I'm not really into I love that he's like even in the original this isn't just the dub in the manga Funny Bunny the comic book
[00:51:20] that the guy reads is specifically said like the American comic funny bunny with a thousand issues everyone the great Americans like motherfucker are you not a professional comics artist do you not know that there has like never been like kids humor comic published in America
[00:51:40] in issues at least like I know there's dogman but those are books oh shit you're gonna have to learn about dogman sooner than later I don't know what dogman is oh it's just one of the most popular it's like more popular than like
[00:51:54] manga it's like it's daft pylki who made Captain Underpants he made a fucking series of comic books that are sort of like chapter book length called dogman and like all kids would do jihad for dogman that's fine it seems like I'd rather have my son
[00:52:14] being locked in on that than paw patrol so I will take that Tom read to my son it was very cute we have a book called the ABCs of gaming that's like it's cute it's very cute aphis for framerate you know some say 60's enough
[00:52:33] I know you won't believe that stuff I told him 60's fine Ivan you can't tell the difference it doesn't matter he's my son and he will learn and understand that 144 hertz monitor makes even regular windows look like shit if it's at 60 hertz anyway yeah whatever you say
[00:52:57] so on that gaming topic you know who's a guy who figured it out and this is like in any video game where this occurs guys who do critical hits it makes normal hits look like utter shit folks why would you even do a regular one I think evil
[00:53:17] a bad soul a diseased mind we've been positive for like what three of these that's too much we need to go back to someone who's fallen off we're a complaining show we're about moaning and bitching that's our fucking bread and butter man the street sharks have fallen off
[00:53:33] there has been like four TMNT reboots they're getting laps no one gives a shit about the street sharks this should be an easy sell to kids because sharks with jeans what else they destroy infrastructure on their way to fight crime wonderful this is so people will share
[00:53:51] that video where Vin Diesel wasn't famous yet and he got hired for like a toy fair to hype up the street sharks and the way he's like reading the copy about like Mr. Chomps is a real party dude he has a radical time
[00:54:09] and uses his special kung fu actions like it's that's Vin Diesel but that's only shared because of the Vin Diesel it's not people it's not street sharks you know that's not what's cause if it was a normal guy doing the fucking toy demo
[00:54:23] wouldn't get shared around and not only street sharks because it's clear that they've fallen off SWAT cats biker mice from Mars all disgusting huge animals with attitude they're nothing they've completely gone to gone to dust another thing that's fallen off magazines about ska
[00:54:47] you don't see those as much they call them just zines now I want one that's glossy I want it delivered to my house by the mail I don't want to have to pick it up at the show from someone with a patch on their vest yo yo okay
[00:55:05] this is quite the plunge as far as falling off so bear with me in terms of the emotional plunge here but bubsy this raises a very interesting conundrum can someone have fallen off if they were never up I think so because bubsy
[00:55:27] you're not aware bubsy is a 90s battitude mascot for was it thq it wasn't one of the big ones but the point is he was supposed to be this flagship character that would carry the brand everyone would love bubsy he looked like eek the cat without it just
[00:55:49] very much like who cares 90s remnant he had a white t-shirt with a red exclamation point which looks like nothing so much as placeholder shirt tk replace this when design finalized and when I see it I actually like it parses as like a weird chipmunk
[00:56:09] shirt to me initially it's like hey no yeah yeah yeah I know he had a reboot I don't know why they made a bubsy game in this decade but they did despite that and not having played it I'm casting the judgment down from heaven
[00:56:27] that bubsy has fallen off this was also a remnant of a time when it was thought that something that every character had to do to become popular was constantly be making like bruce valanche one liners about how they felt about riptorn yep absolutely
[00:56:47] oh yeah just it's the robot in the family move where it's like oh he could never stop talking like if there's silence we have failed they must always be chatting yes and he's any moment where there is not a gag or equip is uh
[00:57:01] that's fucking burning daylight we could have filled that with a gag equip why are we wasting time or gag less moments we could have filled it with a joke or gag or in the case of robot in the family public domain nursery rhymes do you think
[00:57:17] that when Joe Panteliano was on the Sopranos for like two seasons as a major character winning awards and rightly so for his uh incredible acting I hope he talked about it do you think that everyone else on the cast knew about the robot movie where he said
[00:57:37] gold digger you are life you'll be protector and gold detector and if you ever get in trouble you call police right away do you think they ever talk about that on say James Gandolfini no I said that as my alarm for wake up and I did it
[00:58:01] exactly once and I was like I cannot do this that's just a dave destroyer that would be the first thing you heard oh god yeah you know what you do you call in sick you're like I'm sick it's not my body but it counts justice much
[00:58:24] so I can I can hear my kid getting ready for bedtime so can we kindly wrap it up yes because we're out of fucking people who have fallen off so uh that's all for anime sickos this week I've been Tom and anime sicko
[00:58:42] I've been Joe and anime sicko don't fall off we'll never fall off either and we'll never get cancelled and we'll never stop being funny I will live forever I will never be gunned down by the police uh yeah yeah anyway bye bye thank you for listening
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