3519 – Leaving your mark with Rich Sommer
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In studio notes by Garon Cockrell
Editing and additional notes by Darryl Asher
IG: @RichSommer
00 Hello! We’re back! 3519! A new year! 2025 Jan 6!
We’re seconds into the episode!
Gorgeous beautiful day outside!
Jimmy had a doc appt in the morning and has a dentist appt after the show. He needs 3 crowns.
Jimmy talks insurance!
He’s got a hole in his mouth because he’s waiting on the crown.
Jimmy is going to (try) give up popcorn.
Pumped For Popcorn! – Matt’s new show?
Microwave better than theater popcorn? Apparently, it is in the Pardo-Koenig house!
Talking street parks and sleepers!
Travel with Shims – Eliot’s new show?
Movies Jimmy saw!
Jimmy talks Gone With The Wind and talks about the intro and the trigger warning the speaker at the beginning gave about the language.
10 – The Poseidon Adventure (Holds up!),
Nosferatu! Jimmy hated it. 0/10.
He went right into The Fire Inside after Nosferatu.
He also enjoyed A Complete Unknown.
15 – Matt’s mom met Bob Dylan?! He taught her to crack a whip?!
September 5 – Jimmy’s favorite movie of the year!
20 – Conclave!
We’re back to The Bear! Eliot’s behind on the it’s not a comedy anger.
Eliot text tier?!
25 – Take a break Eliot we’re on vacation!
Eliot texted Jimmy re something nice he was doing but Jimmy was in a movie.
It’s my turn!
We talk golden globes! Nikki did great!
35 – Comedy awards show talk!
40 – We can’t boycott everything!
Jimmy should boycott amazon because he is at Target every day and they price match.
Rich Sommer is here!!
Matt went to NY, I went to Michigan, and we didn’t hear anything about it but we did get Nog talk!
Jimmy did a rare bar set.
https://www.instagram.com/clubteegee/?hl=en
We’ll be right back!
46m2s – We’re back! 35Hardcastle!
Rich Sommer is here with his daughter, Bea!
Rich is wearing a Tim Waltz related t-shirt.
Give him a chance!
Get rid of the pricks!
50 – Bea got the birthday joke so Jimmy’s glad Rich brought her.
Talking Tank Tops and my buffness?
Rich is a Vikings fan and was…frustrated…by the gave vs the Lions.
55 – Rich talks about knowing Colton Dunn since he was 16 and being a part of SkitSOS.
60 – We’re talking high school squares! Matt drove to the Mall of America for jeans.
1h5m – Mall of America opened in August 1992!
Level by Level at the Mall of America.
Jimmy was forced to ride the flume ride with another comedian in the same section.
https://www.valleyfair.com/
Coaster talk!
1h10m – Craig Higgins, out of the business – https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0383363/bio/?ref_=nm_ql_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_Mountain
Why do we all cough on powdered sugar from beignets.
1h15m – Lake effect is cold!
Talking shows in Alaska.
1h20m – Jimmy talks the great audience he and Todd had at the Aleutian Islands.
Normalize tipping in comedy?
1h25m – To Rich, Eliot is an unscratched itch.
Brief Discord talk.
Rich hates drones!
1h30m – Rich talks moving around town and what precipitated one of their moves: a friend sold the house they were staying in.
Trivia time! Full results at the end!
We’ll be right back!
1h38m33s – We’re back!
The hardcastle!
Jimmy rereads the question and suddenly it seems much clearer to everyone! We’re gonna go around the horn!
We’re starting with Bea! She goes back to school on the 13th!
Rich talks about his school years and how he was a square but not a good student. He had a .924 GPA once.
He got into an acting school but the college itself said no. They had to fight for him to go.
1h45m – Rich talks about skipping school a lot and hanging out with friends who smoked pot out of an apple.
Kennedy Todd hoodie!
1h50m – Round the horn!
I talk dad and trips and movies
Rich talks about Al Pacino’s book which is a slog he says.
2h – Rich now realizing we’re almost 20 years in!
Eliot went to the Citadel Outlets!
He went to Macy’s and just used a register to check a price!
Jimmy and Rich recall the time they ran into each other at a Toys R Us in Van Nuys.
Rich was geocaching.
Trivia answer below!
Better Man talk!
2h15m – Bea and Rich talk about her coming to the studio. She’s currently reading a Sondheim book!
She and Jimmy debate Company.
Into The Woods is Bea’s favorite! Falsettos and Spring Awakening are up there.
2h20m – Hamilton talk!
Bea didn’t get too far into The Warriors album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_(Lin-Manuel_Miranda_and_Eisa_Davis_album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film)
2h25m – NNF Presents The Warriors?!
We’re done!
Thanks Rich!!
See ya’ll next time!
Trivia Results:
Category: Literature
Question: Up until 2020 this company’s catalog was the most printed book in the world, at its peak printing over 200 million copies a year.
Bea: Bible
Garon: Ikea (19 pts)
Eliot: Ikea (4 pts)
Matt: Miriam Webster (2 pts)
Rich Sommer: Sears (18 pts)
Jimmy: Sears (1 pts)
Answer: Ikea
My pleasure,
Garon/The Beast/Mush Mouth Shy Guy/The Notekeeper/Lazy Queen/Sloth/Little Asshole
