2009 – Following Up with Annabelle Gurwitch
https://soundcloud.com/nevernotfunny/episode-2009-annabelle-gurwitch
In studio notes by Brad Gage
Editing and additional notes by Darryl Asher
A Note from Darryl:
Can we expect Brad Gage to be handsome, engaging, positive, and take good show notes? Would that be too much perfection squeezed into one human man? You be the judge.
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Talked About:
-Trying to get Neil Peart or Geddy Lee for episode 2112
-Brad looks like Boris Becker
-Matt wants Jimmy to watch the Simpsons episodes “Bart Sells His Soul” and “Lisa the Vegetarian”
-Jimmy hates dog stories
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Another Note from Darryl:
OK, I guess we have our answer. But no worries, my friends. I have gone back to my old ways, back before Garon Cockrell, back before Dan Katz, and did my own notes, because damn! Enjoy!
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@annabelgurwitch
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It’s crazy that episode 2112 will be this season; who would have ever guessed?
Jimmy is ignoring intern-for-a-day Brad Gage for now
Garon is in a job interview
The power of Brad compelled both Matt and Jimmy to invite him
Way too much talk about Gage-crush
Fascinating info: Brad sometimes wears glasses, sometimes contacts
5
Brad either joined Fight Club or got a mole removed
Brad is a young Boris Becker / Jim Courier
If there was a word cloud for all NNF episodes, “Brad Gage” would be in the biggest font
Talk about Rush and possible health issues of members
10
Ranking Drummers with Brad Gage, a new spinoff podcast
Jimmy is glad Matt never talks about his dog
Matt mixes up his dog and kid’s names
Buster (I think that’s the dog, not the kid) is quick to yap
15
Matt’s weekend: nothing happened but swim lessons
Jimmy did a show at the Shrine – 5,000 seats!
April Foolishness
If an old comic kills at a college show, he sucks (or is a Peter Pan)
Lots of voice actor deaths in The Simpsons
20
Jimmy doesn’t like the Simpsons because they are yellow
The Lego Movie is funny to some people
Jimmy isn’t invested in animation because the characters aren’t real
Oliver is obsessed with the Simpsons
Lisa the Vegetarian and Bart Sells his Soul are Matt’s favorite episodes
Jimmy asks Brad Gage to put that in the notes. But DID HE???? (Oh, yes, he did!)
S-Town Podcast talk – Jimmy and Matt are both into it
25
Hillbillies say “right quick,” “buddy” and the n-word
Jimmy may be anti-Simpsons due to seeing a bad Harry Shearer show
Annabelle enters, but Brad Gage totally did not follow Jimmy’s instructions
30
Annabelle thinks there’s an Alexa in the studio
Alexa has no opinion on The Resistance
Alexa probably voted for Trump
Jimmy says Annabelle is in the “get go position”
Lots of CB code talk
Brad’s microphone proactivity is a win (actual technique, maybe not)
35
Brad lives in Hollywood and does some voiceover work
Matt decides Jimmy can have Brad
Eliot: “Bros before Brads”
Pre-plug plugs
Players club hats are here!
Players club logistics, technically off-air talk
WE’LL BE BACK
Ads in the audio
45
WE’RE BACK
Brad drank at smelly bars in Hollywood over the weekend
Annabelle knows who Boris Becker is, but Brad looks like BRAD!!!
Brad confirms, but doesn’t want to talk about, being on the plane when Carrie Fischer died
50
Flying with famous people means if the plane crashes, no one will know you were on it
Flying vs. skydiving
iFly indoor skydiving
Annabelle broke her nose on a velcro wall
55
Annabelle is a gum-chewing-on-NNF pioneer
Brad, like a gentleman, doesn’t answer specific questions because he doesn’t want to make
himself part of her story, for any amount of money
Brad doesn’t want to be the next Kato Kaelin
Matt reminds Brad to “do the notes.”
Brad: “Doin’ it!” (Are you, Brad? ARE YOU???)
Brad makes a Garon-Threesome joke
Jimmy informs Annabelle that Garon has threesomes “on the reg”
Annabelle had an Uber threesome dream
1:00
Lyft / Uber
Jimmy likes Uber, doesn’t like the Lyft mustache coming at him, or their app
Annabelle’s Uber dream ended, but she wanted to get back into it to find out what the
“configuration” was going to be
Annabelle is more sensitive about sex now that she is grown up
1:05
Eliot has a dog story, and Annabelle has a book called Wherever You Go, There They Are
Annabelle hips us to the “Rainbow Bridge” which is where your dead pets await you
People trying to get their dogs to talk
Alexander Pushkin is Annabelle’s cat
Cats see humans as giant can openers
Jimmy insists there are no allergy-free pets
1:10
Annabelle was at restaurant at a community table and had a conversation with a woodworking woman
Someone was at the table with a comfort dog
Annabelle and Jimmy are skeptical of comfort dogs
Loving animals does not make you “good people” (see: Hitler)
Jimmy tells Annabelle the name of his high school band: Rainbow Bridge
Jimmy wanted to call the band “Some Mountains” (I think this is new information)
1:15
Annabelle’s high school band did a lot of Bee Gees becasuse they donated stuff
Annabelle lived near the Bee Gees in Miami Beach, Florida
Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson
Annabelle did a lot of drugs growing up
The Gibbs were EVERYWHERE!
Andy Gibbs’ son is a good guitarist
Brad: “Does he play a Gibson?”
If Eliot said that, he would be iced
Eliot does a good (?) impression of Jimmy’s fake laugh
Annabelle wants to know how interns get discovered
1:20
It’s like being discovered at Schwab’s Pharmacy in Hollywood
Brad got the Pardo bump
Annabelle helped a friend’s kid get a job, and he fired her
Eliot gets to his dog story, only 20 minutes after first being asked about it – Wait! Nope!
Guessing La Familiare rent
Before the dog story, lots of Familiare details
1:25
Back to the dog story but not really
A break before Eliot’s dog story, but really, right after the break, the dog story
Plugs
Ads in the audio
1:30
We’re back! (So let’s get right to Eliot’s dog story! Um, no.)
Jimmy has known Annabelle since 1997 when he did characters on Dinner and a Movie
(Note: co-hosted with Paul Gilmartin, see episode 20)
Jimmy’s character choice: wide stance, hands on hips, pants too high
Annabelle was on Dream On
1:35
Annabelle was nominated for an award for best actress in a straight to DVD release
Annabelle lost to Jessica Alba, as her husband predicted
That award, like Rooftop Comedy Best Podcast, never was given again
Someone’s at the door! Maybe it’s next week’s intern!
“This asshole’s coming right in!”
It’s Garon! His thing fell through. This is awkward! Brad Gage this, Brad Gage that!
Garon’s an award winning screenwriter and best selling author
Garon is here to protect his turf (Based on note-taking, Garon’s job is safe)
Eliot’s (now sandbagged) dog story
Someone came to a Familliare open house with a dog, even though no pets are allowed
(In fairness to Eliot, any story that’s been sandbagged for almost an hour is not going to rise above a “C”)
1:45
Annabelle’s parents had to get rid of their dog, and “explained” it by having the dog write
her a letter
Annabelle told her only-child son that their cat was his sister
Annabelle had to change the story when the cat died, somehow making it worse
1:50
Annabelle’s son is now in college and may still believe he has a sister
“Something between imagination and terror”
Freakanomics: 90% of Americans are second cousins according to DNA
1:55
Malcolm Gladwell’s theory of school age and success
The Crooked Ladder of Success
Annabelle reads her own reviews
“Kitchen Tips from a Mafia Kitchen” (I can’t find this book anywhere online)
Annabelle had a passive-aggressive stalker fan on Dinner and a Movie
2:00
Jimmy has questions about book-stealing via dust jacket switching
Authors move their books to the front table; there’s a name for this but she can’t remember what it is
Matt guesses “end-capping”
Annabelle is going anywhere they have books
Neither Brad nor Garon can find the phrase Annabelle is thinking of (Neither can I)
Jimmy makes things more awkward by reminding Annabelle about Garon’s threesomes
2:05
Plugging Annabelle’s book
Thanks Brad, you’re fired
See you Thursday, Garon
Ak-47 gone, not forgotten
-By Darryl Asher, Podcast Show Notes Pioneer, Official Curator of Never Not Funny Show Notes, Former Magician, Shout-out Recipient
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