Episode 22 – Softball, Writing, and Mike Leaves His Car Running
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Episode released 09/01/06
Show notes by Darryl Asher (09/15/15)
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Hello and indeed welcome
A member of Handheld comedy
Just south of movie star, north of dicey
Episode 22, Stone of Sysiphus in honor of the non-released Chicago album
Matt is the producer, and part of the gang of two
Former third baseman Mike Schmidt
Sports, Matt!
Matt is wearing a cycling shirt, which came with doped blood
Mike and Matt watched their wives play softball
Mike insists he was funny at the game
Mike wrote a recap of the game for the Disney office, and it didn’t go well
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Matt’s wife worked at Rough Draft Studios, and was catcher on the team
Matt’s not sure if he should give this much info about softball
Softball related anger
Mike shares a volleyball anger story
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Jimmy’s terrible show in Oklahoma in 1992
“You might want to think about smiling on stage”
Jimmy played racquetball with friend George Campbell, where he accidentally cut George’s eye during an anger-fueled ball-smash
Mike, Jimmy, and friend-of-the-show Pat Francis went to a show at the Verizon amphitheater
They went to see Def Leppard and Journey
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Jack FM added Billy Idol, Cheap Trick, Violent Femmes
Pat Francis is the biggest Cheap Trick fan, but calls the set a dud
Pat used his wiley ways to get a backstage meet and greet with Journey, yet didn’t get to meet or greet
Mike told Jeff Scott Soto he was proud of him
Pat was gone, having snuck further backstage
Jimmy’s character Cocktail Kenny sounds like Ken Sevara who sounds like Harry Carey
Ken Sevara makes everyone promise things to him
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Off-ramp to a different story: Jimmy meets Corey Hart
A friend wanted an autograph of Corey Hart
Jimmy looked like Corey Hart at the time
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Corey Hart refused to give the autograph, resulting in a shouting match
Another off-ramp: Jimmy has to share a mic with Billy Squier
Back to the Journey story
The Journey crowd was 30s and 40s and rough around the edges
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Pat returned from a food run to find people in their seats and he had to intimidate the occupant away
This reminds Jimmy of the movie Colors C-C-C-Colors
Lots of fondling and drugs going on
Matt saw Dave Matthews at that venue and also had a bad experience
“Dave wants you to sit down, man!”
Jimmy did not care for Def Leppard at all
They got there at 4, and finally got to Mike’s car about midnight
Mike had left his car running for 8 hours
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Mike’s smart key lets him walk away and lock the car with it running, and he didn’t hear the warning beep
Matt beat himself up for an entire weekend for something stupid he did
Matt accidentally threw away two checks and didn’t know for three days
The movie Cars was so bad it made Matt angry
Matt can’t buy into the logic of the Cars world
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Matt tried to deposit the non-existent checks in the ATM, leaving his ATM card there
Matt talks about a woman who “sits desk” at the bank
Mike and Jimmy have never heard the phrase “sit desk”
The woman who sits desk is the stupidest woman he ever met, but she rescued his ATM card
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Fan Keith Kelly emailed in a poster inthe style of The Illusionist called The Apologist in honor of Matt
When Jimmy was in Indiana, fan and comic Jeff Bodart brought Never Not Funny shirts for the gang
Lots of positive feedback on Never Not Funny
Mike works on Starface, and wrote on the Xbox game Saints Row
Giveaway time! A copy of Saint’s Row
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Voices on Saint’s Row: Mike, Danielle Koenig, and Chris Fairbanks
Winner will be randomly chosen from emails, live on next podcast
Oooonnnn the podcast!
