Episode 5 – Vegas, Baseball, and a Sketchy Wal-Mart
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“Hello everybody indeed, welcome to Never Not Funny, I am Jimmy Pardo.”
Weather: gloomy
Jimmy is tired of the bullshit and reveals they are recording in his dining room
Matt Belknap and Michael Glenn Schmidt, the third baseman, are here
Baseball talk
Wide World of Sports
A lot has gone down since last episode: NNF is in the top 100 comedy podcasts on iTunes
New podcast name: Three Channels of Matt Belknap
700 subscribers so far, based on Jimmy obsessively checking stats every 30 minutes
There’s nothing to do in Vegas
Danny Gans with a sign around his neck (RIP, but probably too early to be called a death curse)
Smoking in Vegas
Golfer John Daley’s $60,000,000 gambling losses
Slot machines: you may as well be playing “guess which hand?”
Jimmy’s gambling days
How to gamble and have fun
Every idiot in the world thinks they are poker pros
Triple-K is not a good nickname for Mike’s wife
Matt: “I don’t listen, I just talk.”
Jimmy: “Doesn’t apply, Jim!”
David Blaine sits in an aquarium and sucks off a castle!
Jimmy does a good Hal Linden and a good David Blaine
Crying ball player Mike Schmidt
Mike went to Cooperstown with his crew / boys / friends
Jimmy and Doug Benson get kicked out of a casino in Vegas
Walking the strip in Vegas
Gilmartin wears sandals on the plane
Jimmy gets overly literal about the phrase “were you born in a barn?”
Josh Grayson in concertzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Mike’s video game coming soon: Saint’s Row
Jimmy’s (lack of) elevator etiquette
Jimmy is a nice guy in life; but maybe not in the moment
Jimmy is Frances McDormand in Friends with Money
Matt seems easy-going, but he sometimes screams and punches things
Matt’s wife gets her hubcaps stolen
Matt visits a sketchy Wal-Mart for replacement hubcaps, and philosophizes about poverty and regret
(Matt’s not wrong. Click to check the reviews.)
My favorite review: DON’T EVER GO HERE They will give you an EYE INFECTION. By “Jimmy.” Hmmmm…
Mike says parking is a racket
There’s a Staple Center parking spot that’s worth driving across the country for
An abrupt ending to a wonderful episode
Plugs for the websites you already know about
See ya next time on Never Not Funny
Running time: 43:34
