19I – Reading Cards with Karen Rontowski
Karen “Wheels” Rontowski
In studio notes by Garon Cockrell
Editing and additional notes by Darryl Asher
@Rontowski
Website
00 – 19 I…I of the tiger!
Jimmy insists that Matt can play Eye of the Tiger on recorder. He almost nails it!
Jimmy doesn’t understand why Matt didn’t go into recorder playing professionally.
Matt plays more and we do some naming of the tunes.
Same Dumb Awful Joke – Alternate name of the podcast.
Talking backhanded compliments.
Jimmy goes through some tweets.
Record player talk. Was Jimmy ever anti-turntable?
05 – Jimmy gives us his record player history.
Jimmy doesn’t understand a tweet with a #zerotochola hhashtag.
Jimmy talks about booking shows! We got it guys!
Eliot tries to open an envelope quietly. FAILURE.
Jimmy continues his rant on guests and is back in a good mood!
10 – Back to Eliot’s mail. His power bill.
Talking power bills and heat. Jimmy’s mom’s apartment doesn’t have AC.
Jimmy’s doing something today. I missed what it was.
Oh it’s Cat Stevens!
Jimmy talks to Karen. She talks about the coffee shop next door and everyone seeming unhappy inside. The ladies behind the counter were really nice though!
20 – Jimmy talks to Karen about her bike! He guesses that it is indeed a 21-speed bike.
Apparently she keeps it in 21 all the time.
The hills are alive with the sound of music.
Karen thinks she has a Kent bike outside tied to the sign.
Bike talk continues! I get some photos.
25 – Matt thinks that Karen wants a fixie bike. Like a one speed cruiser.
Jimmy compares hurricane fleers to refugees.
Katrina and the Waves talk.
Is Katrina and the Waves over?
Jimmy talks about his Miata bike. He planned to race bikes after he watched Breaking Away. He took the gears and breaks off his bike and ended up crashing because he was going to fast on a turn and had to go up someone’s lawn and flipped over their drive-way.
30 – Karen also loves Breaking Away. She talks about a loose link to the film.
Jimmy used to relate to everyone in the film except Mike (Dennis Quaid).
Karen saw The Witch and enjoyed it but doesn’t watch many movies anymore.
She fell asleep watching Broadchurch and woke up just in time for the reveal of the killer.
Karen endorses Vikings. Jimmy has had no one else ever mention this show.
Jimmy couldn’t find Marco Polo.
Jimmy tells Karen how he came in to the show and saw her killing.
35 – Jimmy talks Flappers rooms and Jeff Ahern.
Blame the lighting!
Karen Rontowski is here! Usually with dogs!
40 – Karen talks about her dog communicator friend calling her the day after a show where she asked someone to “hold the dog,” her friend told her that Courage (her dog) doesn’t want to be called The Dog anymore.
They talk more about the dog, including how he only likes the triangle food.
We’re gonna take a break after Jimmy tells a story about doing a show with Caeser Milan before he was the dog whisperer. He would tell them in the break that he was going to be huge soon and that he was going to start calling himself The Dog Whisperer. America’s Top Dog!
We’ll be back!
45 – We’re back!
Welcome back to 19I! Players club!
Jimmy saw The Magnificent Seven this week. Found it fun! He also took the family to see Young Frankenstein with an intro live from Mel Brooks. It was a blast to see with such a big audience.
Jimmy talks about the people in front of him saving seats. Apparently it was the cast of Young Frankenstein the musical and the lady made sure that someone asking about seats knew it. “You’re sitting amongst the cast of Young Frankenstein the musical.” The guy says, “ok.”
50 – Eliot asks if Jimmy watched the original movie that Mel Brooks based it on.
My word is Inception!
We talk about the movie and the cast.
55 – Talking about Brooklyn and The (Big) Short. Karen’s moved her money into a credit union.
Apparently you can’t take pictures of bridges in NY anymore since 9/11.
https://www.esbnyc.com – Empire State Building observation deck.
Karen likes Trumps secret plan for Isis. She has one for Liam Neeson.
Eliot’s here and talks about his game. Information coming soon.
60 – Eliot’s word is Irreconcilable Differences –
Talking bugs! Karen not a fan of crickets.
1 horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses.
Talking horse attacks.
Jimmy talks about a comedian losing a crowd after talking about horse suicide.
70 – Matt’s I-word is Innerspace. Karen talks about Interstellar.
Talking more TV!
75 – Talking jokes and shows with Karen.
Her I word is…Insidious!
Indecent Proposal! No winner!
80 – Karen says, big teeth are the key to success.
Talking socks with sandals. Apparently it’s a thing now to wear socks with wedged sandals.
Jimmy asks Karen about paranormal stuff. She does ghost hunting and talks about her shows.
85 – Jimmy asks why she doesn’t do a podcast. She has basically two full time jobs. Comedy and doing tarot readings.
Jimmy wants to know about the Queen Mary since he took a tour. She confirms it is very haunted.
She talks to us about Ghost Hunting.
90 – Karen tells the story about someone getting taken over during a ghost hunt. She says it’s the scariest thing she’s ever seen.
Jackie –
http://www.queenmaryshadows.com/spirits.html
95 – Jimmy asks about dowsing rods.
Karen is doing a reading for us.
I’m first!
That was pretty fantastic.
Eliot wants to know about his board games.
Jimmy wants to know what to do about television!
Matt wants to know about the podcast.
We’re done!
My pleasure,
Garon/The Beast/Mush Mouth Shy Guy/The Notekeeper/Lazy Queen/Sloth
