903 – Russ McGarry

 

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1:00 Jimmy starts with a weird British NPR voice

2:00 Little known director Alfred Hitchcock used very on-the-nose movie titles

4:00 Jimmy’s new character: Virgil

4:30 NNF curse almost worked on Bumblefoot; and Clarence Clemmons had a stroke [but had not yet died by the time of taping]

5:00 Shoeless Eliot

5:45 Blossom talk, featuring Joey Lawerence and his hair

6:45 Precocious Joey on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

7:25 Hitchcock’s last movie [It was actually Family Plot; The Short Night was never made. Sadly, I knew this without looking it up.]

9:00 Eliot has new equipment

9:30 Jimmy is NOT SICK and he’s glad

9:50 Jimmy has no clue why he is on radio shows

10:30 Jimmy doesn’t need listeners who listen to early morning radio

10:55 Brad Burlingame is back as Temp Dan Katz

11:10 Dan should pay for his own NNF subscription

11:55 We’ll see how that affects play

12:10 Is Hacksaw Hamilton still on the radio?

14:30 The guest is a friend of Jimmy’s

14:50 Is Hitchcock overrated?

16:00 Jimmy and Russ met 20 years ago

17:10 Russ is top 5 funniest people, according to Mike Schmidt

18:00 Russ’s Oscar parties

19:00 Russ and Jimmy do Crack Me Up at college campuses

22:40 Angry-faced Crack Me Up contestants

23:00 Matt proves how easy it is not to laugh

25:00 The complicated personnel changes in Crack Me Up

27:00 Russ is a story producer for Ice Road Truckers

27:30 Russ yelling out the car window

28:00 “Pricks” is the perfect shout-out insult

29:15 The Pips: a classic go-to reference

30:00 Matt cleverly chooses 5 foot 2 inches as the height that defines a “pip-squeak,” thereby saving his job by 2 inches

30:40 How The History Channel squeezes “history” into its shows

31:50 What is Ice Road Truckers?

32:30 Building tension on IRT

33:20 Ice Road Crack Me Up

33:50 Jimmy was dared to walk across a frozen pond. And he did. Until he fell in. [No, I don’t think it was told on the show before]

37:00 Ink-talk with Russ

37:45 Herve Villachez

38:30 Fantasy Island talk

40:00 The inside story of Jimmy’s tattoo

42:00 Matt offends the Tattoo Brotherhood

44:45 When Danielle felt like white trash

46:10 Taj’s tattoo and business

46:40 Davenport

47:40 Playing The Funny Bone

48:15 Jesse Thorn’s barber should be Jimmy’s barber

49:50 Reaction to Russ’s headshaving

53:45 Headshots by Jade

55:10 Foghat’s greatest hits.

56:40 Don Henley and The Eagles

59:30 All She Wants to do is Dance

60:00 Don Henley’s Greatest Hits

61:30 Huck Flynn and Todd Sawyer

62:45 Close-mic talking by Jimmy and Matt

63:30 Can Jimmy replicate his Vergil voice?

64:00 BREAK

64:20 The new color of NNF/KISS shirt is the way Jimmy really wants it

65:20 TweakedAudio.com/never has watches; use promo code “idiot”

66:40 Kindergarten nicknames

68:10 The 7 year old answering machine tape with drunk Jimmy on it

77:50 Jimmy wants to make sure his AIDS delivery went through

74:15 Fleetwood MacBeth (ad nauseum)

75:50 Garry Marshall movies: strong

76:30 Plugging NNF live in Denver at the Gothic Theatre [I’ll be there! Be sure to say hi!]

77:20 Matt’s Legoland-induced virus delayed recording

79:30 Russ can’t nap

80:00 Hundred-mile runner Russ is an outspoken opponent of the Vibram shoes

82:00 They Shoot Horses Don’t They? Yes.

83:00 New York Times Vibram symposium

84:30 Russ’s comedy/running podcast Three Non-Joggers

85:35 Jimmy runs a couple miles a day, but has gone back to eating like an asshole

87:00 Running with Russ; evolution of a podcast

89:50 Every podcast has a Matt

90:00 Advocating milkless cereal

91:40 We don’t talk about AIDS enough

92:00 Summer School

94:00 Russ really knows Jimmy! For real! Proven by shout-outs!

95:40 Max Funkahn: Nazi

96:15 Dick Van Dyke’s book

97:00 Tim Cavenaugh; What’s the matter with Van?

94:10 Using, unfunny, back-stabbing asshole, but turned out to be a nice guy

98:40 Re-plugging NNF in Denver

100:00 Making fun at hats

101:15 The Ice Road Trucker cast

101:40 SilentTreatmentProductions.com, Brad’s website

103:00 Jimmy might just buy a Hyundai. This time for real! Seriously!

104:20 This episode: Other People’s Jokes

105:00 Deconstructing Pawn Stars

106:00 Jimmy did a great job on Acme Saturday Night

AK-47 gone, not forgotten