Appendix R.1

## Date

Monday, 11/23/2020, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 2:50:58

## Title

**The Day Chloe Jr. Got A Promotion (And Wasted No Time In Using It), While Josh Simultaneously Celebrated Weddings And Advocated For Sidecar Entities, Geeked Out About Music With Jay Gonzalez And Granted A Billy Joel Request**

## Link

Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/182713253401808

## Noteworthy Details

Special Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Jay Gonzalez (Musician in the Drive-by Truckers)

## Quotes and Taglines:

* “A lot of times people, they send me these (wedding/anniversary) requests and they never tell me the partner’s name. I shouldn’t say never; sometimes they don’t. Whatever, maybe it’s a — like, if I was Mrs. (insert name), would I be wanting to be brag about that to a group of weirdos on the Internet? Maybe not. Maybe it’s a confidentiality thing… We’ve talked on this show before about how we have fans and then we have the partners of fans who are grudgingly supportive, perhaps.”
* “This is just a tip for you all: Include your partner’s name when you send the request, unless there’s, like, a reason why not. But personally I like to know and when I’m celebrating somebody I like to know what their name is and who they are, as opposed to just, like, the sidecar entity of the person who I do know who they are. So I’m not giving you what for … but it’s just a recommendation in the future. I personally have a preference for when I know the name of the person being honored or (the names) of both the people being honored. And if it’s one of those things where you’re like, ‘Hey, can you send this out to my 17 children, yeah, then I don’t need to know all 17 names.’ I mean, you can send them if you want, but I can’t promise I’m gonna incorporate all (of them into the dedication). What if I did a Hocus Pocus for all 17 kids?”
* (to Mary) “You’ve got a lot of requests up here and I meant to tell you before we started…I was, like ‘Man, I just want to plow through.’ Guess what, we’re not plowing through…”
* “You guys just keep arguing about it. I don’t really care what the answer is. I just like to ask the question, you know, so that you guys have something to talk about, right? It’s like an icebreaker. ‘Cause otherwise you guys would have nothing to talk about while you’re all hanging out together having a grand old time.” (on whether harbingers have an exclusively negative connotation)
* Conversation:
	+ “Should we do a request here or what?”
	+ (then several minutes later, jokingly to Mary): “Can I please play a request? You’ve been stalling for 21 minutes not letting me play any requests. It’s all your fault that I keep talking to people.“
	+ (then, after playing a song): “Do you want to stall for a second, Mary?”
* Memo from the Network Executives:
	+ “This is the exact text of the memo: ‘Chloe Junior’s title on the show is no longer Resident Hippopotamus. Effective immediately, Chloe Junior’s title shall be: 7th-Inning Stretch Resident Hippopotamus and Senior Associate Manager of Synergistic and Scalable Actioning, Robust Leveraging of Best Practices, Value-Added Vertical Solutioneering and Impactful Resource-Intensive Ideation of Interactivity for Moving the Needle on Core Competency Initiatives Within Disruptive Paradigm Shifts.’ That’s a hell of a business card is what that is.”
* “He wrote me back and he was like, ‘Oh, we should have a podcast where we just dork out about our guilty pleasure pop tunes,’ and I was like, ‘I kind of already have the infrastructure set up for that if you want to just swing by on Monday…” (on how chat/interview with SSSG Jay Gonzalez came about)
* “Apparently Chloe Jr. is taking her new responsibilities very seriously. I don’t even know what they are. I don’t even understand her title. It just sounded like a bunch of corporate gobbledy-speak to me. But then again what do I know, guys? I’m just a musician. I can’t function in an actual workplace.” (on announcement of special upcoming Friday Thanksgiving “Leftovers” episode, Appendix R.2)
* “Let’s plow ahead here on this (show) because…there’s so many things on this list I still haven’t done. I’ve played one request in 104 minutes of a 22-minute episode.”
* “Imagine if I actually knew how to play that song, how much fun that would be.” (on Tom Sawyer by Rush)
* “(Moving Pictures), to me, is the one record where Geddy (Lee’s) vocals don’t sound like a dying rodent. And I like some of their other stuff, too. I like some of the stuff where his vocals do sound like a dying rodent. But for whatever reason on that one record, he had figured out some kind of vocal thing where the dying rodent sound was not getting in the way of all the other good stuff. Good on you, Geddy. Think we can get him to guest on this show? After I just said that most of his vocals sound like a dying rodent? He does love baseball and he does love to talk about music and he loves Negro League history … but it’s a little tacky to be like, ‘Your singing sucks. Will you please come on my show?’” (on Rush)
* “We’re gonna slow dance to that song after the show’s over. That’s not for you guys to see; that’s just for us to do.” (on Can’t Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon)
* “One of you dorks will know…” (on comparing Jay Gonzalez succeeding Spooner Oldham and Booker T. with Drive-By Truckers to Red Sox outfielder Mike Greenwell, and also Jim Rice, having to succeed legends like Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski; Greenwell had a runner-up AL MVP season one year and Josh couldn’t remember exactly what year)
* (on isolating for upcoming Thanksgiving)
	+ **Josh:** This is how desperate I am (for human contact), eight-plus months into this pandemic: I will hug any one of you weirdos if I ever meet you in person and you ask me to give you a hug. How’s that? Am I gonna regret saying that?
	+ **Mary:** No, but guys he would probably do that anyways. Josh can be a hugger. But the extending of the invitation, that’s a thing.
* “Is anybody still watching? Oh my God, this a paltry crowd, you guys. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you’re here. But I can’t say I blame the people who aren’t.”
* “I don’t know if we’re gonna close on it. I’m gonna try to close on it. I’m not thrilled about it, but Bill G. said he would make a generous donation to a food bank if I did this. And I’ve talked about this before; I don’t love that whole slippery slope of, like, ‘Hey, you have to play this song and then I’ll donate. But it’s all right, it’s all good. He threw it out there. I know he wants to make a donation and I know that he knows I don’t want to play this song, so it’ll be fun, right? For some of us.” (on request for Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel)
* Various stall tactics before playing Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel:
	+ “I do not know this song. What am I thinking? I’m gonna try my very best, OK?”
	+ “Do you guys know the Root Beer Rag? Do you like the Root Beer Rag? Is it a good song? I don’t even know.”
	+ “I’ve said this before: My feelings for Billy Joel could be charitably characterized as indifferent, but that’s all right. He’s a popular guy. He’s contributed a lot to the popular songbook…”
	+ “I don’t know how this goes. (hums to himself) What if I just scat sing it like this out of key the whole time, does that count?”
	+ “Think, man, think….”

## Baseball Card of the Week

* 1. Mike Easler, 1982 Pittsburgh Pirates with Luis Tiant in background; 2. Luis Tiant, 1982 Topps Pittsburgh Pirates

## Album of the Week

* 1. Eyelids – Maybe More; 2. Drive-By Truckers – Live In Studio-New York, NY, 07/12/16

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* No Hatter

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